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CHARLIE JOHNSON, STAR'S SPORTS EDITOR, TOURS BIG TEN CAMPS BY PLANE Turn to the sports section of this paper today to see Boilermakers in action. And then Charlie jumped in I dispatch will-be about the Illinois team. Johnson I STAR the real lowdown on the football outlook. Fol-what Charlie has to say about Purdue after seeing the I his plane and was off to Urbana, 111. His next will visit fvery Big Ten camp to.

give readers of THE low Charlie and his plane. Exclusive in THL blAK. StAm The Mi COOLER TONIGHTS UNSETTLED FRIDAY Temperatures Midnight to Noon H.12 II 21- 31 41 5 6 71 81 9101112 Highest year ago, 72; lowest, 55. nneapol In Minnepoll, Il Th 6lr livjiviii THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 42, 1935 '-international news bervicb price Two Cents in Minneapolis Vol. 29, NO.

22 (f (U.R-UNITED PRESS association p) m1 LbLn I my flflir Aimed at Latimer Attack Two 32 Dead, Injured; Martial Law illionaire Held as Local Threat Again Good Evening! Don't You Like Our New Face? EVELYN HOEY SHOT IN OIL KING'S HOME Hangs on City The Minneapolis Star presents a new face to the world this evening. It's fresh from the "Regal" beau Adjutant-General Walsh Dispatched to Scene to ty shop and this newspaper trusts it will be noted and appreciated. Prepare for Militia Mobilization Grand Jury The new type dress which you Summoned in Extra Session to Start Inquiry are now reading is the result of experiments which have been car rfrr Yv-'r- Yi 3 Injured in Critical Condition. ried on for more than three years. This new "Regal" type is differ LATIMER DEMANDS ARREST OF TETZLAFF, ent from and we believe superior PLANT OWNER, AS INCITER OF RIOT to that in use by any other news paper, excepting The Chicago Trl bune.

Chicago Tribune adopt' ed it Aug. 12, 1935. The "Regal" type was the choice Two pages of pictures inside on strike riot. Other details of disturbance also on the inside. of a majority vote of a special committee tf Star employes who were assigned the task of finding for Milit.fl.nr Vv Gnvprnor Flovd B.

Olson! readers of THE STAR the most easy to read type available, Ex loomed again in Minneapolis today after death of two bystanders and injury of more than 32 men and wo periments have shown it is easy for young and old to read. men in a midnight, riot at the Flour City Ornamental The following paragraph, print Iron Works plant. Meanwhile Governor Olson declared the iron works! ed in both the old and new type styles, will provide a concrete showing and will demonstrate what has been accomplished in the way "closed and sealed" by executive order and rushed Adjutant General, Ellard A. Walsh to the scene of last night's guerilla warfare to study necessity for declaration of easier reading-matter: In the New Type "The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent com panions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the seasons of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of hap pier days and cheer us with that true friendship which never de ceived hone nor deserted sorrow." In the Old Type, i if'v y. fr 4 -r: "4 a Jit v5 i "The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become In the seasons of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain EVELYN HOEY Sift ct'de their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility of martial law. Developments were: 1 Mayor Thomas E.

Latimer asked County Attorney Ed J. Goff to Immediately Issue a complaint charging Walter Tetzlaff, president of the- Flour City company with Inciting a riot. 2 He also asked that incitement charges be brought against four union leaders whose names were not divulged. 3 The Hennepin county grand jury was summoned In special session for 2 p.m., to launch immediate investigation Into deaths and Injuries at the plant last night 4 Adj. Gen.

Walsh, commander of Minnesota National guard was In Minneapolis at the strike scene to study militia tactics If the city Is placed under military rule. 5 Governor Olson was In private conference with his secre tary, Vlnce Day, drafting a proclamation of martial law for the city. Mayor Latimer went Into conference with City Attorney ney R. S. Wlggln to determine the applications of city ordinances and state laws which may be used In special manner to clear up present tenseness.

7 Farmer-Labor aldermen Informally caucused at the city hall with predominant opinion hostile toward Mayor Latimer and Superintendent of Police Frank P. Forestal. Half an hour after police fired upon the crowd at the, Flour City plant a heavy Iron bolt was hurled through the bedroom window of the home of Robert MacTavish, 4816 Bryant avenue next door to the residence of Mayor Thomas E. Latimer. Police believed the attack was aimed at 1 the Latimer residence.

Three Hennepin county Farmer-Labor groups announced! a mass meeting for 8 p.m. today at the Eagles hall, avenue S. and Eighth street, at which demands will be made that all Industrial plants refusing to arbitrate labor difficulties -be closed, and that such plants be refused police protection. I A In his statement explaining his action in removing guards from the Flour City plant Mayor Latimer stated that pickets opened fire on police and that officers did not fire until after they had been fired upon. 11 A statement Issued by the strike committee of local com- mlttee No.

1313 declared that unless Chief Forestal is re- moved and replaced by a "trade unionist" a general strike will be asked of the Central Labor Union executive committee. and commonplace, these only con ed, said that finally Rogers told Miss Hoey to packi her bags and tinue the unaltered countenance of happier days and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived Continued on Page Two- hope nor deserted sorrow." Bridal Shower Ends in Musical Comedy Star Found Dead in Bed By United Press West Chester, Sept 12. Police today arrested Henry Hud-dleston Rogers, 34, son of a late New York oil millionaire and William J. Kelley, Union City, N. for questioning in connection with the slaying of Evelyn Hoey, Death at Strike Battle young musical comedy star who Not ten seconds before this picture was flashed by a Star cameraman, the man "'at, the left was'struck in the back by a bullet.

His companion caught him before he fell to the pavement. Fear and pain mark these faces. formerly lived in Minneapolis. Release of both men under $1,000 bail pending a coroner's inquest tonight was authorized by Deputy Coroner Harvey Cox. VICTIM OF BULLETS Jlllillil tiiaiiiii illKif Miss Hoey was snot to death early today at the Rogers farm at Lyndell, north of Downingtown.

Authorities discovered her body on a bed In one of the rooms. She had been shot through the right Guards at the Flour Cit.v nlant were remrwpd shArtW temple. An autopsy will be performed to determine whether she before noon in five police cars dispatched to the plant COOLER WEATHER FORECAST TONIGHT The mercury again climbed above the 70 mark for the third consecutive day, and promises to reach into the 80's, as the weather bureau forecast unsettled weather tonight and Friday with cooler weather tonight At noon the temperature here was 73. Minneapolis enjoyed its second balmy, late summer day Wednesday when the temperature reached a high of 81. Tuesday it had touched 84.

Temperatures of 90 were re I had been drinking before she met Riot Continued on Page Two death. County Detective Francis Grubb, who made the arrests, said Rogers was too intoxicated to talk. He planned to question him later in SOUTH DAKOTA CITY IS SWEPT BY BLAZE out on a All were lowered) to the ground uninjured. Damage was estimated at several thousands of dollars. 0My' the day.

Followed Boisterous Party Fort Pierre, S. Sept 12. (U.R) mm Fire swept the business district Kelley was one of three other ported maximums ranging from the low 80's to 88, the latter at New Ulm. guests at Indian-Run farm, the Rogers estate. The other guests here early today, demolishing five store buildings and endangering the lives of several men and women MELVIX BJORKLUND Death Follows Church Party LORRAINE SWANSON Bjorklund Saw Her Home REICHSTAG CALLED TO MEET SUNDAY Nueremberg, Germany, Sept IX (INS) Chancellor Adolf Hitler today burst a bomb-shell at the Nazi party congress by summoning the were questioned but were not ar rested.

QUAKE IN MEXICO who were rescued from perilous positions on a ledge of one build at the Flour City Ornamental Iron Grubb said a- boisterous party Mexico City, Sept, 12. U.R Light earth tremors were felt today in the states of Mexico and ing. How a party in honor of a ended in tragedy was told by friends of Melvin Bjorklund, company, 2637 Twenty-seventh ave preceded the shooting which ap parently resulted from an argu nue S. Young Bjorklund. the son of Mr.

Guerrero. 21-year-old Sunday school teacher reichstag to meet here Sunday night thus calling a sabbath ses The fire department struggled with the blaze from midnight until early morning. Firemen spotted the persons isolated in an upper story ment when Miss Hoey attempted to leave the farm and return to, fatally wounded when he and a companion went to view the clash Several persons were trampled when they rushed from, their sion for the first time In its hit New York. Bridal Shower Continued on Page Two EUGENE CASPER (Photo taken yean ago) Couldn't Out-run-Death one building when they crawled tory, houses into the street. between police and strike pickets One of the guests, police report.

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