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BANK REFORM IDEAS CLASH; BILL DELAYED Sweeping Revision Certain: Glass Measure Hit by Strong Objections. INSURANCE IS ONE SNAG Safeguarding of Deposits Feature Opposed Until Further Study. BY RAY TUCKER Timr* Special Writer WASHINGTON. April 12.—Indefinite delay and drastic revision of the banking reform bill framed by the senate banking and currency committee was foreseen today, as a result of apparent difference of opinion between the Roosevelt administration and congress on major provisions. Although neither President Roosevelt nor his senatorial conferees would discuss details, it is understood that the White House and Secretary Woodin have numerous objections to the bill drawn up by Senator Carter Glass <Dem., Va.), the senate's financial expert. Following a conference of the senator, Woodin and the President, the plan for immediate introduction and pasage of the measure was dropped. Whereas Glass had drawn a bill containing deposits insurance provisions, senators understood the President and Woodin are opposed to this feature, pending further study. Bankers Make Protest Reports that a $2,000,000,000 liquidating corporation would be formed are said to have disturbed bankers and they have protested. Another administration fear is said to center on the proposal for severance of banks and their investment affiliates. Although this is one of the keystones of the administration's permanent program, it has been suggested that this would do away with agencies needed for floating the tremendous bond issues contemplated by the White House. The tentative bill calls for severance in two years, whereas, it is said. Woodin thinks more leeway should be given. The President has given the impression that he prefers to take two or three bites at the banking problem by means of several related bills. The committee, however, has prepared a measure almost as revoluntionary as the federal reserve act of the Wilson administration. Inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt intends to retain emergency control of the nation's banks for some time, he is said to believe that haste should be made slowly. Glass Is Nettled Both Democratic and Republican members of the committee concede that no bill can pass without administration support. They expect to meet in a day or two, when Glass is expected to set forth the changes desired by the White House. Woodin also may appear to describe the banking program which the administration wants. It is obvious that these new developments have nettled Glass, who refuses to discuss the differences. Meanwhile, a demand for quick action has shown itself in the senate. Several speakers, including Democrats, insist that the treasury display greater speed in reopening closed banks in which, it is claimed, $9,000,000,000 of purchasing power is locked up. They insist the deflationary process can not be stopped until this money is brought back into the market. CHORAL SECTION TO GIVE SPRING CONTEST Selections From Gilbert and Sullivan Operas to Be Presented. -Selections from the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan will comprise the first spring concert of the choral section of the Matinee Musicale which will be presented at the Herron art institute Friday night, April 21. The section, composed of fiftyfive women's voices, is under the direction of Elmer Ander Steffen. Lecture on the careers of Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will bo given by Mrs. Demarches C. Brown. Numbers to be presented include excerpts from "The Martyrs of Antioch,” "The Mikado. - ’ “lolanthe," "Patience" and 'The Gondoliers.” Mrs. Cecil Stalnaker is chairman of the section, which is near the close of its fourth season. Usually concerts by the section are open only to Matinee Musicale members, but the April 21 concert will be open to the public. REWARD TO FIREMEN SIOO Checks Given Each Department by Grateful Crawfordsvillc. With oratory, a banquet and the presentation of SIOO checks to each department, firemen of Lafayette, Indianapolis, Frankfort, Greencastle and Danville. 111., were honored on Tuesday night at Crawfordsville for helping prevent destruction of the town during the $750,000 blaze on Jan. 10. BLIND WOMAN ROBBED Aids Two Negro Girls Who Ask for Food; S2OO in Clothing Taken. Mrs. Helen Carver, 3340 Balsam avenue, who Tuesday aided two Negro girls who asked for food, reported they stole clothing valued at approximately S2OO. Mrs. Carver is Wind. La Porte Doctor Is Honored By United Pi its LA PORTE, Ind., April 12.—Dr. G. O. Larson, Pa Porte, was named president of the Northern Tristate Medical Association at conclusion of the annual convention here Tuesday.

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Miss Ishbel MacDonald LONDON, April 12.—Miss Ishbel MacDonald will accompany her father, Premier Ramsay MacDonald, when he leaves Saturday for Washington to confer with President Roosevelt on the world economic situation. The official mistress of No. 10 Downing street will make the trip to look after the health of her parent and aid him, as she has for years, in a variety of w r ays. She is eager to make the acquaintance of the Roosevelt family.

M'NUTT SEEKS LOAN CONTROL Urges House to Restore Poor Relief Provision in Federal Bill. Restoration of the clause making the Governor of each state responsible for federrJ poor relief funds given local communities was asked of the house committee on banking and currency in a telegram from the office of Governor Paul V. McNutt. The clause was not in the Wagner bill as it passed the senate, according to Wayne Coy, secretary to McNutt, who is also secretary of the state unemployment relief commission. The law now in force requires the Governor to pass on all loans to local communities. Cey said that in Indiana this has worked satisfactorily and the requirement should be retained. Coy also announced that the unemployment relief commission will get monthly reports from all trustees administering poor relief, for the first time, a centralized current check on such expenditures.

Action Is Near to End Chinese Japanese Clash BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, April 12.—There is strong reason to believe that the beginnings of a Chinese-Japanese settlement of the Manchurian imbroglio are under way. From confidential and entirely independent sources—Japanese, Chi-

nese and neutral—the writer learns; The Chinese in authority keenly a. aware of China's utter helplessness to cope alone with the ultramodern Japanese army’. Chinese believe military assistance is not to be expected from the League of Nations or associated powers. Russia is determined not to be imb, - oiled in a war with Japan at any ccst—unless there is actual invasion of Siberia. China can do nothing about the occupation of Manchuria and Jehol, without foreign aid. Marshal Chiar.g Kai-Shek of the Nanking national government is said to be desirous of an understanding with the Japanese. Some face-saving compromise, probably based upon the recommendations of the Lytton report, eventually may be worked out. To predispose the Japanese to some such solution, the Chinese are continuing to harass the invaders along the Great Wall to make occupation as expensive as possible.

BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer EASTER Sunday, the most sacred date in the calendar of the Christian church, also has played an important part in the world's history. The story of centuries is dotted with major events that have occurred on this day—events far removed from those of a religious nature. It was on Easter Sunday in the year 1513 that Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer, discovered Florida while searching for the fabled "fountain of eternal youth.” He named this balmy and flowering area from the Spanish. Pascua florida, or "Easter flower.” Easter Island, one of the quaint Polynesian group in the far off South Seas, gets its name from the fact that it was discovered by the Dutch Admiral Rogerveen on Easter Sunday in 1722. This island has aroused the wonder of the scientific world because of the finding there of traces of an ancient race that erected huge stone monuments towers, remote from quarries, io a manner that never has been explained.

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German Movie Star Arrives for Conquest By Times SpecialCHICAGO, April 12—Bent on conquering Hollywood and winning the hearts of American cinema fans, Fraulcin Dorothea

Wieck left Chicago today for the coast film capital. She arrived Tuesday, bearing a huge armful of yellow roses, and gave a demonstration of the knowledge she has acquired from thirty-two lessons in English. With a record of thea tr i cal triumphs in her native land to

back her claims for fame here, she is confident that she will be a success, she intimated. She visited the world fair grounds, attired in oxford gray traveling coat, black hat, black and red bag, and black shoes with red heels. To complete the picture, she wore a fox scarf.

Here’s to You, Stranger! Yep, Podner, This Indianapolis Beer’s 0. K., Say Transients at Terminals. STRANGERS within our gates like the new Indianapolis beer, too. More than 1.800 of the 2.000 transients dining at the Terminal lunch rooms in the Union and Terminal stations during the week-end. took the new brew with their meals, according to Andrew A. Fendrick. proprietor.

A rangy cattleman from Houston, Tex, at the Union station opined he'd have some 3.2 before he got to the “beerless belt.” He stayed in the lunch room for three hours. Then there was the elderly lady from Chicago at the Terminal who drank two bottles and said to the cashier: “Anybody who says this beer aint’ got a kick is all wrong.” Three blades from Bedford, Ind., arrived by bus on Saturday and departed today—still sober. A salesman from Cincinnati said

Many Easter Dates Are Important in World’s History

THE fall of Napoleon dates from Easter Sunday of 1814. i Returning from his disastrous in- . vasion of Russia, the emperor ! found his empire crumbling about i him. England. Prussia, Russia | and Austria joined in a great efj fort against his rule.

On Easter Sunday, April 10, Wellington defeated the last French army under Marshal Soult. The next day the fallen master of Europe formally abdicated at Fontainebleau and went into his first exile on the Island of Elba. Almost the last action of the Civil war—several days after j Lee surrendered to Grant at Applace on Easter I Sunday in 1865.

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DEPRESSION IS JOKE TO HIGH PAIDOFFICERS Insurance Company Chiefs Receive Substantial Increases in Salary. 3 OF 27 ARE SLASHED Nine Executives Get Same Amount in 1932 As in 1929. BY WALKER STONE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 12.—Since the depression set in, assets of financial institutions, such as insurance companies, have shrunk alarmingly, so much so that congress and state legislatures have passed numerous laws to keep the companies from going on the rocks. Yet the high-paid executives of large mutual insurance companies have found the depression “not so bad.” Senator Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.), has provided for the congressional Record an interesting tabulation, showing that salary reductions, comparing 1929 to 1932, had been made in the case of only three of twenty-seven executives of five leading companies. Fifteen managed to get substantial salary increases, and the remaining nine were drawing the same salaries in 1932 that they were in 1929. Salaries Are Increased Salary boosts were given all five principal officers of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which company, incidentally, since has announced a 15 per cent reduction. The 1929 to 1932 salary increases for Equitable officers follow: T. I. Parkinson, president, $75,000 to $100,000; L. M. Fisher, vice-president, $34,375 to $40,000; W. J. Graham, vicepresident, $34,375 to $40,000; R. D. Murphy, vice-president, $20,000 to $30,000; and D. A. Walker, vicepresident, $17,187 to $20,000. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company also raised the pay of its five leading officers, as follows; F. H. Ecker, president, $175,000 to $200,000; L. A. Lincoln, vice-president, $66,875 to $125,000; A. C. Campbell, vice-president, $35,000 to $40,000; H. E. North, vice-president, $30,000 to $35,000, and F. W. Ecker, treasurer, $27,500 to $32,000. President Gets Raise The Mutual Life Insurance Company increased the salary of its president. D. F. Houston, from SIOO.000 to $125,000; maintained the salary of two vice-presidents, F. L. Allen and G. K. Sargent, at $40,000; maintained another vice-president, i P. M. Foshay, at $30,000. and inI creased another, W. Shields, from i $31,250 to $40,000. j The New York Life Insurance | Company boosted the salaries of | President T. A. Buckner from SIOO.400 to $125,400; of vice-president W. Buckner from $55,360 to $55,400; of Assistant Secretary T. A. Buckner Jr., from $8,604 to $10,000; maintained the pay of vice-president A. L. Aiken at $45,000, and reduced the salaries of vice-president L. H. McCall, secretary L. H. McCall, and treasurer H. Palagano, respectively, from $56,200 to $55,000, $18,892 to SIB,OOO, $46,400 to $45,000. The Prudential Life Insurance Company made no changes in salaries of four officers. Those salaries were F. H. Duffield. president, $125,000; F. D'Olier, vice-president, $75,000; J. W. Stedman, vice-president, $43,000. and J. K. Gore, $43,000. But G. W. Munsick. another vicepresident, managed to get a raise from $48,000 to $50,000.

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that while there was draught beer in Ohio he'd rather imbib in Indianapolis because the drinking here was "more dignified.” Visitors from Greencastle, Veedersburg and other towns in the southern part of the state came to town for the express purpose of trying the new brew. They could find none at home, they said. Fendrick declared the women are just as partial to beer as men. Several women told him they were glad not to have to go to speakeasies.

The city of Columbus, Ga„ an important Confederate supply base and surpassed only by Richmond as a manufacturing center for the Confederate army, was occupied b’-’ federal troops on that day. n n a IT was on Easter Sunday, 1916, that the revolt against British i rule began in Ireland, amid much bloodshed and the burning of | many public buildings in Dublin. The execution of Sir Roger j Casement, numerous Irish pa- ! triots, and the proclaiming of an j Irish republic were sequels to this I uprising. Eamonn de Valera, then a young Irish school teacher and now president of the Irish Free State, took a leading part in the street fighting of that day and thereafter rose steadily in importance as a leader of the cause for Ireland's freedom. On March 31, 1918, which was Easter Sunday, the ninety-seven victims who were killed in the Church of St. Gervais when Paris was bombarded by a German longrange gun on Good .Friday, March 29, were buried.

Western Front Ace Is Bested by U. S. Flier in Liquor Chase

Startling Air Maneuvers Fail to Effect Escape for. Booze Ship. Into the clouds across mountains, Vncle Sam's flying customs men pursue the smugglers of contraband liquor. In this story, fifth of*a series, is told how an ex-barnstormer twice ran to earth and to capture a war ace who tried his wings in the liquor trade. BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 12.—Bobby Deuel. ex-Ft. Worth barnstormer, won his wings in the customs air fleet when he “took” a war ace—West Front rival of Eddie Rickenbacker for premier American honors—in fair chase.

And then did it again, a little while later. Deuel can look forward to plenty more work in the customs Escairille. The invasion of contraband by air over the American border show's no sign of ending or getting easier to handle, authorities here

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say. And—take it from the customs service—the flying patrol along the Texas-Mexico line is no parlor game. Squatting on improvised tarmac atop sun-cracked mesas, or in sage brush that wears your prop down to the size of an electric fan, is vastly different from making three-point landings at Kelly field or Bolling. nan BUT it’s all in the game, and Deuel seems to like it. Here is how he won his first big fight: ‘‘He’s tough, kid, but stick with him.” Deuel obeyed. The Falcon plane, which he was chasing, a big, handsome job, was ahead and above. “He don’t see us,” Deuel shouted. "We’re in his blind spot.” “Stay there,” the inspector ordered. There was good reason for the inspector to believe the Falcon was carrying contraband drinkables from Mexico. The man at the controls was a seasoned, hard, audacious, skilful flier. “He’s going down,” Deuel shouted, watching the Falcon. The field of San Angelo was 5,000 feet below'. Presently: "He sees us,” he yelled. The Falcon swept round in a big circle, losing altitude. But she straightened suddenly, trickily. Her motor roared again. She was off on a long, up-piercing tangent. Trying a getaway. No good. Deuel stuck. Five minutes of maneuvering of West Front acrobatics, followed. Then the Falcon circled again for landing. n n n BUT. once more, close to earth, she changed course, viciously. The strong gale of her prop grazed and jostled the trailing ship.

CONGRESS TO GET BUDGET ESTIMATES Commissions’ Fate to Hinge on Roosevelt Decision. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. April 12.—Congressional suspense over the President's reorganization plan as It affects independent bureaus of the government will end Thursday, if present plans for submitting budget etsimates at that' time are carried out. Since no independent offices appropriation bill was enacted last session, President Roosevelt is free to budget anew, providing only the amounts necessary to continue the bureaus he wishes continued. The budget recommendations will determine the truth of rumors that the interstate commerce commission is to be transferred from the status of a bipartisan, judicial body to a division of the department of commerce, and other rumors that the federal power commission, radio commission, and other independent agencies will be transferred to political control. Two Bound to Grand Jury Two women charged with illegal possession and sale of narcotics were bound to the federal grand jury under $2,000 bonds each Monday afternoon by Fae W. Patrick, United States commission. They are Miss Margaret Morrison and Mrs. Catherin Murphy, both of Terre Haute.

Fifty-four of those killed were women, five being Americans. A shell from the German gun, seventy miles away, struck the church in such a way as to cause a portion of it to collapse and fall upon the worshipers. nan T7'ASTER of the following year was chosen by the Irish for anew uprising against British rule.

There was an organized series of incendiary fires lighted by masked men in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and other places. More than 200 police barracks were burned. On Easter Sunday* -1924, three of the four United States army

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“Finally finding himself outmaneuvered at every point, he surrendered, but not until he was covered with a pistol and disarmed.”

A Colt .45 cracked. It was the inspector of custom's warning shot. He waved the gun again. The Falcon sullenly cut motor, touched ground. Deuel promptly whipped his monoplane bumpily a crass the Falcon's nose. It was a clean trap. The Falcon was stymied. The pilot of the Falcon “tried to maneuver his plane to give us the backwash of his propeller which was bound to wreck the customs plane, and in all probability kill those aboard. Finally finding himself outmaneuvered ;it every point, he surrendered, but not until he was covered with a pistol and disarmed.” So the inspector’s report in customs headquarters here reads. There were 627 cases of Carta Blanca beer in the plane, DEUEL went up against the same ex-war ace only recent-

Breweries Observe Law; Job Easy, Doran Finds By Scrtpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON,, April 12.—All's quiet on the beer front, so far as the federal government’s supervision of breweries is concerned. Dr. J. M. Doran, head of the bureau of industrial alcohol, said today that his men had experienced no trouble whatever supervising the breweries and computing the tax.

m all, 267 breweries are brewing and bottling beer and paying taxes on it. One hundred thirty of these are selling beer. The other 137 either are in states where the sale has not yet become legal or have not yet worked out distribution plans. In these breweries, the beer is tested regularly by one of Dr. Doran’s agents, who uses an instrument called an ebulliometer, a device for determining the boiling point of the beer. By gauging the boiling point of the brew and checking it against the barometric pressure, it is possible to arrive at a fairly accurate determination of the alcoholic content. Thus far. Dr. Doran said, no brewery has attempted to place on sale beer of an alcoholic content greater than the 3.2 per cent legal limit. Nor has there been an instance of a brewery attempting to evade full payment of the tax. Safety Meeting Planned Tonight. Safety meeting sponsored by the accident prevention bureau of the police department will be held tonight at 7:45 at School 49. A meeting will be held at 7:30 Friday night at School 37. i

airplanes that were making the first airplane flight around the world arrived at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, after a flight from Chignik. History affecting both politics and the Catholic church was made on Easter Sunday in 1927 when Governor A1 Smith of New York, then a potential candidate for president, made public his lengthy reply to an open letter by Charles C. Marshall, who had demanded whether, in an issue, Smith would stand by the Catholic church or the Constitution. Smith replied: “I recognize no power in the institution of my church to interfere with the operations of the Constitution of the United States or the enforcement pf the iaw of the land.” nan IT was on Easter Sunday in 1929 March 31—that the airplane Southern Cross, carrying Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and three companions, left Australia for England on the voyage in which they week forced down in the Australian desert where they were

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Daring Aviator Is Trapped Twice in Running Beer and Hooch. ly, and again pulled a plane out of the air to add to the customs escadrille. This time it was a Com-mand-Aire. And this time, according to the inspector's report to Washington, the evolution proved conclusively that a policing plane can chase another, pull alongside it, and make it surrender while still in air. This job resulted from carefully organized investigation and planning on the part of the customs unit. The ex-ace—we'll call him Warrior—again was suspected of seeking to run liquor over the border after his first arrest brought to light a load of beer. Customs men presenily heard that Warrior had landed a plane at Winburn Field. San Antonio, and registered there under an assumed name, being still under a cloud because of his former adventure. In town it then was reported that he was "associating with a convicted smuggler.” A few days later he flew’ to El Paso and there cleared for Chihuahua City, Mexico. From days afterward he turned up in San Antonio, by way of Presidio, Tex. In Mexico, sixty miles over the border, customs investigators learned that Warrior had landed a plane a saw days before in the near vicinity of a "sotol,” or alcohol, distillery. ana WITH these facts on record, the officials laid their trap. They sent Deuel in his plane, with Mounted Inspector R. B. Oden, to a customs landing field on the banks of the Rio Grande at Apache ranch. They stationed other customs men secretly near Cotulla, Tex., and kept track of Warrior’s movements by means of a third group. Cotulla is about fifty-four miles north of the international boundary, close to a line W’hich investigators expected Warrior would follow. Telephones linked the three groups. Presently came news that Warrior had taken off, presumably for Mexico. After a long wait the Cotulla force heard a motor high in the air. They made out a plane, flying at 5,000 feet. By means of binoculars they recognized it as the same type and color as Warrior’s. He apparently w r as back from over the border. At once Deuel got in the air, summoned by telephone, on Warrior’s trail. The chase led 200 miles over rugged country. Deuel caught up with Warrior as the latter was preparing to come down on an improvised landing at Poteet. Again the w’est front acrobatics occurred, and again Deuel stuck. It would have thrilled any air gallery. Then, having lost a lot of altitude. Warrior went to earth. There were eighty gallons of “sotol” in the ship. Next—The armies of liquor invaders that threaten three United States borders.

GAMBLING LAID TO 14 Fourteen Negroes Face Charges as Result of Raid on Poolroom. Fourteen Negroes face gambling charges today as a result of a police raid Tuesday on a pooolroom at 2104 Boulevard place, where officers reported they seized books of baseball pool tickets. James Mitchell, said to be the operator of the poolroom, faces charges of operating a lottery and keeping a room for pool selling. BANDIT BELIEVED SHOT Falls as Grocery Manager Fires, but Regains Feet and Escapes. A masked Negro gunman was believed wounded this morning when a grocery manager fired three shots at him after being robbed of between $lO and sls. John Callahan, manager of the Standard grocery at" 791-93 Indiana avenue, fired three shots at the fleeing man, who fell, but regained his feet and escaped.

lost, amid hardships, until April 12. Two other aviators, forced down in the search, perished. More aviation history was written on Easter Sunday of 1930 when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh set a new speed record for a flight

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across the United States, breakfasting in Los Angeles and having dinner in New York. Their flying time was 14 hours and 23 minutes, or an average of 180 miles an hour. On Easter Sunday two years later—March 27—the search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, stolen on the night oD March 1, 1932, was at its height.

COURT TO ACT IN ANDERSON ' MAYOR FIGHT Mellett Supporters and Baldwin Both Demand Injunctions. PARADE FEATURES ‘WAR’ Incumbents’ Backers March to Uphold His Claim to Office. By Time* Special ANDERSON. Ind., April 12.—City politics was in turmoil here today, as Mayor Harry Baldwin fought the attempts of Jesse H. Mellett to regain his post, as mayor. First court action in the situation. which has caused sufficient feeling to result in a downtown parade by Baldwin supporters Tuesday night, has been set for April 23. The court battle will be based on injunction suits filed by both parties. Baldwin seeks an injunction to prevent Mellett and the latiers henchmen from interfering with administration of city affairs, while Mellett's suit seeks to halt Baldwin from carrying out his duties pmdnig Mellett’s demand for reinstatement for the office. Mellett's Daughter Ousted Baldwin, named mayor by the city council Jan. 3 on receipt of the resignation of Mellett, due to illness, took the offensive Tuesday when he ousted Mrs. Margaret. Mellett Cole, daughter of the former mayor, as city controller. Mellett retaliated with an order to Francis Hernan, city clerk, to notify J. J. Nctterville, who Baldwin named as Mrs. Cole's successor, that he was dismissed and that John T. Rock, backer of Mellett, had been appointed city controller. Baldwin, in his suit, claims his right to the office is based on three facts. He said these are that the office actually was vacant fourteen months during Mellett's illness; that Mellett resigned; and that the council elevated him to the mayoralty post. Relatives Also Defendants He also charges several Mellett followers have entered into a conspiracy to prevent administration of office by threats and intimidation. Baldwin names Mrs. Cole; Mellett’s brother, Lloyd; Charles J. Neill, former police chief, and Homer Duke, discharged building commissioner. as defendants. Baldwin charges that, as a result the controversy, Neill threatened bodily harm to Police Chief Joseph Carney, Tuesday. Anderson affairs apparently were operating smoothly until Monday night, when Mellett appeared at city hall in a wheel chair and left a written demand for Baldwin to vacate the office. With the demand for office, Mellett also repudiated his resignation presented the council by Mrs. Cole. Indictment Can Be Revived Mellett was under indictment in Indianapolis on charges of conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law. These were dismissed because of his illness. The charges, however, can be filed again by the district attorney. William Marine, city councilman, named as one of the Mellett supporters, denied today any connection with the former mayor's move to regain office. Marine said he was attending to business affairs at the city hall when Mellett appeared and was not one of the group with Mellett. FOUR ARE INJURED 7n AUTOMOBILE CRACKUP Machines Collide; Two Women ,\r# Most Seriously Hurt. Four persons were injurrd. two sever ly, when two automobiles collided Tuesday night at Michigan and Spring streets. Mrs. Hazel Henson, 27. of 1319 South East street, incurred severe cuts on her face and throat, ana Mrs. Alice Heiny, 28. of 859 Oxford street, suffered injury to her ankles. Carl Henson, 31, husband nf one of the injured women, and Merrill Cox, 508 East New York street, were hurt less seriously. Henson, driver of one of the cars, was arrested on a charge of failure to stop at a preferential street. He told police brakes on his car failed to operate. Cox was the other driver. GERMAN CONSUL - FIRED Plans to Work in U. S.; Denounces Actions of Hitler Government. By United Pros NEW YORK, April i2— Dr Paul Schwarz, German consul-general here for the last four years, has resigned in response to a Hitler order, and plans to find a professional position for himself in this country’. Schwarz denounced the German dictatorship. Although a strong supporter of the German republic, his dismissal was unexpected. TEACHERS ARE LAUDED Praised by Borinstein for Agreeing to Work Without Pay. Letter commending Indianapolis teachers for their action in agreeing to teach a full school term although salaries may not be paid, has been received from Louis J. Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president, by Miss Sara C. Ewing, teachers’ federation president. Birthday Parties Monotonous By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 12Birthday parties are rather monotonous, at least to Charles W. Higbee, who recently celebrated his 101st anniversary by remaining in his room and. smoking a pipe. ’