| Show 4 - Thursday Morning Dcatli Claims Succumbs Creator Of Philo Vance Looms In Furniture Industry Agencies of U S Prepare to Conserve Supply nia and attended St Vincent's college the University of Southern California and Pomona college He became literary editor of the Los Angeles Times— he was home with a headache when the newspaper building was bombed in 1910 —and at various times was literary critic of Town Topics editor of the Smart Set magazine art critic of the Forum and of the International Studio literary editor of the New York Evening Mail music critic and art editor of the San Francisco Bulletin and art critic of Hearts’s International magazine Heavy Subjects In those days he enjoyed an esoteric reputation writing books on painting Nietzsche literary subjects as well as Introductions to standard literary works And then the breakdown came in For three years he was confined to his home with heavy readHe turned to light ing forbidden reading especially to detective fiction and somewhere along the line came the glimmer of a challenge to write better detective tales Illness had left him heavily in debt but"’ by the time he was ready to leave his bed he had created Philo Vance the superb cosmopolite and had plotted a 30000-worsynopsis of three murder mysteries- - 1923 d WASHINGTON April 12 UP) — tNevada and The labor department's public SAN FRANCISCO April 12 Federation officers announced Wednesday that the crew of 35 on the Swedish freighter was engaged ln a strike here demanding a bonus before taking the ship being loaded with dynamite to the Orient Z R Brown secretary of the district federation jaid the men were refusing to take the ship now at "powder anchorage" In the hay off Alameda because of the hazard of sailing her with the explosive cargo and her destination which they believed to be Shanghai in the war zone” Agents said the dynaSyd-lan- the District of Co- - con-urnb- is bd LC bituminous operators continued here their month-lonnegotiations for a new labor contract that would put 338000 Appalachian area miners back to work The United States Military academy at West Point rationed its coal under an order by Brigadier General Jay L Benedict the superintendent for the "strictest conservag SlrikcViolcnce Costs Life Dynamite SliipjU S A gents Smash Dope Ring Crew Strikes InNcw Attack on K C Vice d n NEW YORK April 12 UP)— government agencies took precautions Wednesday against a coal shortage affecting their own buildings as union representatives and Willard Huntington Wright Known to readers of detective fiction as 8 8 Van Dine dies April Labor Department Recommends Rates To Re Made on U S Contracts Fed-er- Sudden Collapse in good healthin Apparently Tuesday night collapsed Wright his home 241 Central Park West His and died of heart disease body will be cremated Thursday and the ashes later dispersed Va A native of Charlottesville Wright spent his youth in Califor- its - Base Pay Urged Thirty-Ccu- t Scholar Took NEW YORK April' 32 UP)— S S Van Dine the man who set the ance eminently clever Philo of 11 sleuthing through the pages first-rat- e murder mysteries is dead Huntington He was Willard he Wright 61 and by that name ediwas known as scholar critic tor and aesthetician until a nervous turned his thoughts breakdown away from Nietsche modern paintto the less ing Rnd anthropology subponderous but more engaging ject of who killed whom and why Salt £akc tribune- Coal Shortage Walkout Holds To Fiction During illness iTljc wto-:orTh- day that the wood furniture Y man-ijer3e- y be required toiLesg ln pay wages of 30 to 60 cents an hour ufaeturing industry in smth Thirty cents an hour or performing tracts The recommendations were pre- pared for Secretary of Labor Perkins who is authorized by the Walsh-Healpublic contracts act to determine the prevailing minimum rates employers must pay to conform to government labor standards Grouped By States The board's recommendations were grouped by states as follows: Thirty-fiv- e cents an hour or $14 y $12 a week of 40 hours in Virginia KenNorth Carolina Georgia tucky South Carolina Florida Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Tennessee Oklahoma Texas and Mississippi Fifty cents an hour or $20 a week of 40 hours in California and Washington Sixty cents an hour or $24 a week of 40 hours in Oregon The industry was given 34 days in which to file briefs and make ob- jjections to the findings a week of 40 hours in Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachution" Rhode Island In Washington the treasury de- setts Connecticut Ohio Indiana Illipartment directed that a quick sur- Pennsylvania nois Wisconsin Minnevey be made to determine whether sota Michigan Iowa Missouri Maryland the- - public health service's marine West Virginia Delaware Kansas hospitals had enough coal Nebraska South Dakota North DaEight-Dakota Montana Wyoming Colorado Supply New Mexico Arizona Utah Idaho The treasury estimated that the central heating plant for governsupment buildings had a ply and the capitol plant enough for five days By apportioning the available fuel officials said all government buildings could be healed for eight days Mayor LaGuardia of New York telephoned John L Lewis president of the CIO and head of the United Mine Workers’ delegation of conferees asking assurances said a mayoral secretary that ‘‘no essential city service would suffer In the event of emergency" Lewis announced the committee had agreed to hear Mayor LaGuardia Thursday y Colorado House Sees April 21 Adjournment DENVER April 32 (Ah — The Colorado house of representatives voted Wednesday in a roar of "ayes’’ in favor of sine die adjournmthe general assembly at ent-of noon April 24 mite was destined for Philippine mines Brown said the ship's skipper offered a bonus of $50 to each man which was refused since the men are asking $250 The federation official declared some of the crew are paid as little as $8 a month and that the average pay is $25 C E Wallerstedt Swedish consul general here said he was informed by agents of the shippers that neither the dynamite nor the destination was the real cause of the strike but that the men whose contracts will be ended in year-lona few days did not want them to expire while they are at sea on the way to the Orient and had demanded a bonus to continue g Nab 13 Including Policeman In Major Midwest Drive CITY April 12 Anslinger said their undercover confiscated or bought about agents smashed a major jmen 500000 grains of narcotics valued in Wedmidwestern narcotics ring illicit trade at more than $1000000 nesday and opened a new front ln Wednesday’s disclosure sharpened war on Kansas interest in "the police bill" before the KANSAS the legislature by which Governor Lloyd C Stark would put the KanH J Anslinger U S commission- sas City police department under er of' narcotics who came from state control Washington to supervise the round- Important Victory up announced the arrest of 13 perThe bill would give Stark an Imsons from New York to Oklahoma and called Kansas City “the capital portant victory over his Democratic in the intra-partof narcotics' distribution enemy Thomas J midwest" seasoned boss of the KanOne of the 13 was a member of sas City organization indicted by a the Kansas City police force Only federal ofgrand jury last week acTuesday night another federal ficial told a legislative committee cused of evading the income tax at Jefferson City the department U S Commissioner Charles H here made no effort to resist the Thompson set bonds ranging up to for eight narcotic sus$30000 narcotics traffic The before him pects arraigned Six Others Nabbed In K C policeman Ottis H (Jack) Colbur Six others were arrested here 40 was held under $20000 bond one at Warsaw Mo two in New charged with purchasing possessing and selling 2081 grains of narcotics York City and three in Oklahoma Treasury agent3 have been work- The police department promptly ing on this case 18 months and suspended him City vice st y 10-d- CHICAGO April 12 (Pi man was killed and several were beaten as violence Wednesday broke out in a strike of truck drivers and helpers at the four Wei boldt department stores — James Lawrence 4o a helper was shot to death when four men in a sedan riddled a Weiboldt truck in which four men were riding The others escaped the bullets but the driver Rov Rodgers was beaten Lawrence became an employe of the company only a few hours before he was slain The Weiboldt company then obtained a temporary injunction in superior court restraining two locals of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from masn picketing or interfering with business operations of the stores Thirty minutes later shots were fired at two other company trucks but neither driver was wounded Other Messages Ho added additional messages from cities and institutions running short of coal were received Wednesday and Charles O'Neill New York spokesman for the operators had this to say: "We admit shortages of coal or possible shortages at public institutions and plants of other conC of C to Hoar Hopkins We are not prepared to sumers WASHINGTON April 12 UP)— say how serious this situation may The operators Secretary of Commerce Hopkins be as a whole 'will address the annual meeting of are trying to bring this strike to a the United States chamber of com- close so all who want coal may — merce May 2 get it" M mrVVr4oL '£?! 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