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BANK EMPLOYE SEEKS PARDON FOR DILLINGER Mooresville Youth Working Here Started Petition, Times Learns. HUNDREDS SIGN PLEA Outlaw's Admirers to Give Document to McNutt, Is Report. A petition for pardon of John Dillinger, public enemy No. 1 and avowed foe of banks, is being circulated. The petition was originated. The Times learned today, by a young Indianapolis bank clerk and a companion. The bank clerk, an adding" machine operator in a downtown institution, is Donald Roe, 25. who drives daily from Mooresville to his work here. His companion, according to Roe, is Clvde Whitney, Camby, R. R. 1. Neither of them, Roe said, knows Dillinger, but newspaper accounts of the desperado's activities have stirred their admiration and sympathy. A discussion in Edwards’ restaurant in Mooresville, home town of the gang leader, gave birth to the idea of a pardon petition, Roe said. School Teacher Heads List. Whitney drew it up, according to Roe, and the lat ter was put in charge of getting signatures. Already the petition, supposed to contain hundreds of names, has gone into the mining districts around frazil, into Newcastle, among state highway employes and into Indianapolis. A school teacher was among the first to sign, according to Roe. A nervous young man who speaks with a slight drawl, Roe talks sincerely of his desire to make Indiana a sanrtuary for the man hunted in every state in the nation. The document will be presented to Governor Paul V. McNutt upon his return from New York. The desperado's father, John Dillinger Sr., revealed the circulation of the petition to pardon his son when he admitted that the younger Dillinger, wanted for a score of bank robberies, the murder of Detective Pat O'Malley of East Chicago and two tail breaks, had spent a quiet week-end at the old homestead, April 7-8, while a nationwide hunt for him was in progress.

Conditional Pardon Asked. The document asks that John Dillingor bo given a conditional pardon by the Governor “exercising the emergency powers in him vested to the following effect,:'' “That John Dillingor will surrender to the nearest legal authority in Indiana and agree to faithfully abide by the state laws and discontinue all association and connection with law violators: any violation of this agreement to constitute an automatic cancellation of said pardon and make him answerable to the law as if same had never been granted.” . Among the reasons set forth in the petition are that “John Dillinger never manifested a vicious, revengeful or bloodthirsty disposition, there being considerable doubt a* to whether he ever committed a murder. "It is our belief that Dillinger fell into the wrong channel of life in his youth, from which escape is almost impossible, and that if given the above opportunity, he would gladly avail himself of it and live up to it. “It is our opinion that many of the financial institutions of the state have robbed our citizens just as criminally without any effort being made to punish the perpetrators.” The petition went on to state, that while the signers “do not in any ease condone crime, we feel that the new deal can manifest itself in no better way than to remove from the execution of the law, the vindictive spirit of the barbaric past and let it stand for wholesome protection imbued with the humanity and consideration of anew and better day.” Harassed by reporters and policemen him about his son's visit to his Mooresville farm, where he ate a chicken dinner Sunday night, John Dillinger Sr., his aged body bent with toil, stood on Ins scrubby acreage yesterday beJnnd a team of horses and frankly admitted that "Johnny had spent a quiet week-end with his folks on the farm.” Proposes He Be Cop News of the pardon petition greatly pleased the 69-vear-old man. He said he had not signed the document. but avered that “lots of people in Mooresville like Johnny first rate.** When a reporter asked his father what Johnny could do if he were pardoned, and allowed the freedom of a law-abiding citizen, the farmer reflectively scratched his chin and thoughtfully regarded his team of bays. “Well.” he answered. “I think Johnny might make a good policeman, for one thing. He's smart. Smarter than the cops. I think. While the farmer was telling about the family reunion yesterday four bandits robbed a bank in Pana, 111 . of $27,629. Some authorities believed the robbery bore the stamp of a typical Dillinger "job" because of its finished technique and the fact that one of the bandits was reported to have a “game leg'' and Resembled Dillinger. From Columbus. 0., came word 'that postal authorities were seeking the sender of a death threat to Governor White in which it was stated that the Governor would never live his term out if he did not pardon Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, Dillinger gangsters, awaiting execution in the Ohio penitentiary.

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CITY INSURANCE LEADER IS DEAD Ward Hackleman, 43, Passes Suddenly at North Side Residence. Ward H. Hackleman, 43, died last night at his home, 1314 West Thirty-sixth street, Golden Hill, of heart disease. Mr. Hackleman had been ill since the last of January, though he had been in his office at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company during the last two weeks. He had been connected with the insurance company since 1912, becoming general agent in 1916. He was a member of the Columoia Club, the University Club, the Woodstock Club, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Dramatic Ckib and had served as president of the Indianapolis Country Club. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Second Presbyterian church, and a Beta Theta Pi. Mr. Hackleman was a former president of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters, a member of the National Association of Life Underwriters and of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hackleman was born in Rushville and educated in the schools there. He attended Wabash college, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Catherine Hibben Hackleman; two sons, Peter H. and Ward H. Hackleman, and a brother, Ralph W. Hackleman, Rushville. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

PARIS MOBS RENEW RIOT; SCORES HURT Police Battle Communists With Bare Fists. By I nited Pratt PARIS, April 20.—Violent fighting broke out late today between police and Communist demonstrators. The first outbreak occurred at 5:40 p. m.. when police charged Communists with their fists. The lesson of bloody Feb. 6 having been learned, the authorities dispensed with clubs and firearms. Scores emerged from the conflict with blood streaming from their faces. Another serious clash occurred when 500 Communist war veterans, led by three one-legged war heroes tried to smash through the police cordon in the Rue de Rivoli. The streets were slippery from a driving rain and many went down in the struggle. COMMITTEE MAY CALL ON ASTOR. ROOSEVELT Senate Probe Head Says He Will Satisfy Republicans. fill 1 it it al Prrtt WASHINGTON. April 20.—Chairman Hugo L. Black of the special senate committee investigating ocean and air mail contracts said in the spnate today that he would call Vincent Astor and Kermit Roosevelt as witnesses if Republican senators wanted to question them about shipping subsidies. CHARGES UTILITY PAID EXCESSIVE COAL PRICE Examiner Says Insull Firm Bought Fuel From Subsidiary. By 1 nit erf Prrtt WASHINGTON. April 20.—Testimony that Insull-controlled utilities in 1930-32 purchased coal from the Pealiotiy Coal Company, which they allegedly dominated, at higher prices than those prevailing on open markets was given to the federal trade commission today. "Undoubtedly.'’ said John H. Bass. Chicago. commission examiner, "these rates reflected in consumers' prices for electric energy.”

‘Japan Perils World,’ Kaiser’s ‘Lost Interview’ of 1908 Reveals

By l nited Press BOSTON. April 20 —An alliance Between Germany and the United States to fight the growth of Japanese power in Asia was urged by former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1908 in the famous “Lost Interview” with an American journalist. William Harlan Hale disclosed today in the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Hale, son of William B Hale, first journalist ever granted an audience with the emperor, revealed the amazingly indiscrete text of the interview which first

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GROSS INCOME TAX ATTACKED BY RETAILERS Sales Levy ‘Vicious,’ State Leader Declares at Mass Meeting. $1.50 LAW IS FAVORED Bonded Indebtedness Ban Urged for Subordinate Government Units. Full text of the address of Fred G. Wiedman at the retailers mass meeting yesterday will be found on Page 3. A concerted movement for repeal of the Indiana gross income and sales tax was under way today following a mass meeting attended by several hundred members of the Associated Retailers of Indiana yesterday at the state fairground. The group, in addition to demanding repeal of this law, adopted resolutions favoring support of a program of government that will make the $1.50 tax law “a reality,” and asked correction of the "dislocation of the tax load.” The attendance at the meeting, [ estimated by some at between 700 and 800, was somewhat disappointing, as a crowd of about 5,000 had been anticipated. In view of the expected attendance, the protest meeting was held in the unheated coliseum at the fairground, enthusiasm of the audience being chilled somewhat by the arctic temperature. Claims Law Confiscatory Principal speaker was G. Fred Wiedman, South Bend, association president, who attacked the gross income tax law, in its present form, as "the most vicious tax law ever legislated.” He charged that the law is confiscatory, and increases the retailer’s burden to a point never reached before. Attacking bonded indebtedness as the "curse of the state governmental units,” Mr. Wiedman proposed a law banning the incurring bonded indebtedness by subordinate state governmental units. George V. Sheridan, Columbus, 0., of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who was to have spoken, was unable to attend, and his address was read by Mr. Wiedman. Hoke Asks Code Support Indiana merchants werewarned to be on the alert to prevent increase in the sales tax rate, in an address by A. T. McFayden. secretary of the | Grand Rapids (Mich.) Association of Commerce. , Plea that the retailers abide by their respective codes was made by I Fred Hoke, national emergency : council director. Mr. Hoke said reemployment is the only way out of the economic slump, adding that a state-wide organization of women soon will be formed to conduct surveys regarding code compliances, and to urge support of firms living up to codes. S. B. Walker of the William H. Block Company, explained the association's finances. The afternoon session was presided over by L. F. Shuttleworth, association executive secretary, while Dr. Edward C. Elliott, Purdue uni- ! versify president, was toastmaster | at a banquet held in the Manufac- ! turers’ building.

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ARMY LACKS STRENGTH. SAYS GEN, MACARTHUR “Dangerously Inadequate” Is Warning of C'bief-of-Staff. Fit United Frets WASHINGTON. April 20.—Douglas MacArthur, chief-of-staff, warned a house military affairs subcommittee today that existing military strength of the army is “dangerously inadequate.” MacArthur testified for the Thompson bill providing an increase of 50.000 men for the regular army to be recruiteS from federal relief rolls. He said the increase was essential or the United States would be “relatively helpless to defend itself in event of invasion.” Times Index Page. Bridge 16 Broun 19 Classified 32, 33 Comics 35 Crossword Puzzle ... 35 Curious World 35 Editorial 20 Financial 34 Food Section 27, 28. 29 Germany—A Series 19 Hickman—Theaters 22 Let's Go Fishing 11 Lippmann 19 Pegler 19 Radio .. 36 Sports 30. 31 State News 10 Vital Statistics 32 Woman's Pages 16, 17

was censored vigorously by the German foreign office and later withdrawn from publication in the Century magazine. Wilhelm, in a scathing denunciation of Great Britian's attitude toward the Japanese question, predicted the “Dismemberment” of the British Empire, and termed the Asiatic problem “the gravest crisis in the destiny of the earth's population.” Four years before the advent of the World war and but three scant years after the Russo-Jap-anese conflict, the Kaiser, aboard

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Johnson ‘Spanks’ Press for Cry of Censorship and Engages Editors in Toe-to-Toe Argument Over Speech

By United Prrag WASHINGTON, April 20.—General Hugh S. Johnson today publicly reprimanded newspapers of this country for printing the charge that the natoinal recovery administration has imposed a press censorship of any kind. General Johnson undertook to spank the press in a speech before the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

DAN KIDNEY ON CAPITAL STAFF Widely Known Times Writer to Join Scripps-Howard in Washington. Daniel M. Kidney, statehouse reporter and widely-known political writer for The Indianapolis Times for the last several years, will leave tomorrow to join the Washington staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. He will succeed Walker Stone as Washington correspondent for The Times, Mr. Stone becoming national editorial writer for the ScrippsHoward newspapers. Mr. Kidney joined The Times staff in the fall of 1926 and took his first statehouse assignment covering the senate in the 1927 legislative session. He has spent the interim between sessions of the legislature covering the state government and writing of politics and politicians, among whom he has developed a wide personal acquaintance throughout the state. Mr. Kidney is married and is the father of three children, two girls and a boy. 12 CCC YOUTHS HURT IN RIOT WITH REDS Battle Young Communists When Speaker Attacks Government. By United Pres* ORANGE. N. J., April 20.—Fifty CCC youths early today rioted at a meeting of the Junior Communistic Legion. A dozen conservation corps members went to the hospital with cuts and bruises. All were lodged in jail except one with a badly cut hand. Police were told the CCC youths, attending the meeting of young Communists, commanded one of the speakers to retract “derogatory remarks about the United States government.” The speaker refused. A chair sailed toward the platform. General rioting resulted. Windows Were smashed and the room virtually wrecked. Captain Julius Penn, United States army, said he would not condemn misconduct, but that he "admired the boys for their loyalty."

WORLD WILL END NEXT FALL. ASSERTS VOLIVA •Divine Warning’ Prompts Zion Leader; Recruits Defenders. Fit United Press ZION. 111., April 20.—Satan and his imps will seek to bring about the end of the world some time in September, Wilbur Glenn Voliva warned today as he set about recruiting a host of followers to fight the peril. Voliva admitted that he had learned of impending doom by divine warning. His recruiting plans call for building up an organization “like Hitler's.” As leaders in his host. Voliva will have the pupils of his parochial school, who must now take an oath of allegiance to him. No mention is made in the pledge of the earth being flat, which is one of Voliva s. beliefs. OFFICER' KIDNAPED BY DESPERADOES, IS SAFE 2 of Abductors Captured by Police in Missouri. Fit United Press BOONVILLE, Mo., April 20. Chester Oliver, state highway patrolman, was alive and safe today after he was kidnaped and held by three desperadoes, one of whom posed as Clyde Barrow. Oliver, who said he expected to be murdered, was released at a country church near here last night. B. T. McCullough, Lake of the Ozarks filling station attendant, who was kidnaped by the bandits after they bought gasoline from him, was released with Oliver. Two of the abductors, Virgil Marks. Springfield, and James E. Clark. Joplin, were captured as they fled from Boonville. The third kidnaper, who had the letters Larr tatooed on his arm, escaped a police line. Officers said they were certain the two men held were not connected with' any of the major southwestern outlaw bands. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 40 10 a. m 43 7 a. m 40 11 a. m 42 8 a. m 39 12 <noon)... 43 9 a. m. 40 1p.m...... 43

the imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, said to Mr. Hale: “The first battle has been fought. Unfortunately it has not been won. Russia was fighting the white man’s battle. The Russians were not fit to fight this fight.. What a pity it should have fallen to them to do it.” Then. Mr. Hale reported, "the emperor's face flushed .... Between set teeth, his face close to mine, he exclaimed: “ ‘My God. I wish my battalions could have had a chancy at ’em.

into a confessional, described his problems frankly and, finally, stood toe-to-toe in argument with a succession of editors who took exception to his speech. General Johnson told the editors he would not have lasted a month at NRA if he had been as incompetent as some newspapers alleged or "were I the blustering jackass of some verbal and pictorial cartoons.” "Don’t Pull Your Punches” The general invited questions and told the editors not to pull their punches. Arthur J. Sinnott of the Newark, N. J.. venings News, told General Johnson he was shocked to learn he felt the press had dealt unfairly with him. General Johnson denied news suppression. but said he had been compelled. to bar writers of “gossip columns” from his press conferences. Mr. Johnson said that he was not a politician, did not know the politics of his associates within NRA, but suspected some times that most of them are Republicans. "We have been accused of a diabolical desire to impose a censorship of the press and the radio,” he said. “Considering the articles and speeches in opposition to the President’s program, we certainly have made the poorest kind of mess if ccontrol of the agencies of publicity was one of our objects.” General Johnson added, however, that had it not been for the newspapers, the NRA could not have been a success. Press “Put Over” NRA Mr. Sinnott said he “was a little shocked that you think you didn't get a square deal from the press.” “I didn’t say that at all,” Johnson replied. “I have no kick, except that some columnists have to write a column every day even when they they have nothing to write about. "But we’re talking about newsmen not columnists,” Mr. Sinnot retorted. General Johnson said be believed that columnists were also newspapermen men. Mr. Sinnott then said he didn't know that newspapers were the “sweatshops” that President Roosevelt intimated some of them were in a statement during the newspaper code negotiations. "The President said it,” General Johnson replied, “but I drafted that statement and I am sorry for it. It was an unfortunate expression.” Mr. Sinnott said he did not believe that the reporters in the better newspaper plants needed a code. “That's part of your grouch,” Mr. Sinnott said. “Repurters all act differently. The good ones get the breaks and the poor ones don’t.”

POLICE TOLD TO KEEP CHILDREN OFF STREETS Morrissey Announces He Will Hold Officers Responsible. Numerous narrow escapes from death or injury, reported to police headquarters, caused Chief Mike Morrissey today to issue an order to all patrolman to exert more stringent efforts to keep children from playing in the streets. Hereafter patrolmen will take the names and addresses of children who leave the sidewalks to play games in the roadway. Chief Morrissey announced that he will hold the patrolmen responsible for the lives and safety of the children. The chief urged that children make more use of the public parks and playgrounds. DR. WIRT INVOLVED IN NEW RADICAL DISPUTE Gary Educator. Back From Capitol Probe, Finds Trouble. By l nited Press GARY, Ind., April 20. —Back from his famed “brain trust” hearing in Washington, Dr. William A. Wirt, Gary superintendent of schools, today found himself involved in another controversy over radicalism. Upon his return he discovered that the Gary school board had banned use cf an auditorium for an address by Dr. F. L. Schuman of the University of Chicago, on ground that the proposed speaker has “communistic leanings.” The school board acted on protest of the Gary D. A. R. chapter. The speech is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Freighter Runs Aground By T niti and Press WINDSOR. N. S., April 20.—The Danish freighter Lalia today ran aground on mud flats of the St. Croix river. She was bound for Windsor from Baltimore. Captain Johannessen said that attempts woual be made to float her when the tide rises.

We’d have made short work of it.’ ” The kaiser revealed himself as a devout Christian when, during the interview, he criticised the Japanese for their lack of Christianity and charged that “the Bible is full of fighting—it was a mistaken idea that Christianity has no countenance for war.” “The trouble with the Japanese,” he added, “is. they don't w ant any religiou. They are constitutionally incapable of religion.” The interview, the elder Mr. Hale noted, was interspersed with

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J, K. LILLY'S WIFE IS DEAD Private Funeral Will Be Held Tomorow for Family Members. Mrs. Josiah K. Lilly of Crows Nest, died last night in the Methodest hospital. Private funeral services will be held for members of the family tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Lilly was born in Lexington, Ky„ March 7, 1862. She was Lilly Marie Ridgeley before her marriage to M. Lilly in 1882. Since her marriage, she had lived continuously in Indianapolis. She had been a member of Christ Episcopal church for more than fifty years. Surviving her are the widower, who is chairman of the board of the Eli Lilly & Cos.; two sons. Eli Lilly and J. K. Lilly Jr., and three grandchildren, Evelyn Lilly, Ruth Lilly and J. K. Lilly 111.

PYROMAMIAC THRICE FOILED BY WOMAN IN EFFORT TO BURN CAR

A persistent firebug gave Mrs. Phresa Smith, 6563 Ferguson street, a busy time last night. Early last night, Mrs. Ferguson found a pile of cardboard boxes piled in a car, owned by John Walk, 6607 Ferguson street, parked in her garage. Mrs. Smith removed the boxes. Later, she heard a noise and found the same boxes in the car, blazing this time. She extinguished the fire, reported to police, removed the boxes, and parked the car in front of her home. Looking out the front window three hours later, Mrs. Smith found the car afire again, blazing merrily. Firemen were called and extinguished the flaming boxes. Upholstery and floor were damaged. EDUCATOR. OUSTED BY HITLER, HONORED HERE Distinguished Jew Gets Astronomy Post at Chicago University. By United Press CHICAGO, April 20.—A German astronomer ousted by Hitler from the University of Tubingen because he is a Jew has been appointed visiting professor of astronomy at the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago. The scientist, Dr. Hans Rosenberg. will participate in the design of instruments for the new eightyinch telescope of McDonald observatory, joint enterprise of the universities of Texas and Chicago. Dr. Rosenberg was first to use the photo-electric cell to measure the brightness of stars. Appointment of Dr. Rosenberg was made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller foundation and the emergency committee in aid of displaced German scholars. AGENTS SEEK WOMAN IN LINDBERGH CASE Companion of Prison Inmate Is Latest Suspect. By United Press BOSTON, April 20. Federal agents in Chicago were asked today to locate and question a woman acquaintance of William Lardner, 37, Leavenworth penitentiary inmate and latest suspect in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping.

great praise for the then President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. * At this stage of the game, we must not allow China and Japan to get together, either fraternally or one inside the other. The particular duty which the white man owes himself at this moment is to prevent Japan's swallowing China,” the kaiser was quoted as saying. Os the British. Wilhelm said: “It's no good talking about Great Britain. England is a traitor to the white man's cause.”

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VIOLENCE IN MILL STRIKE SUBSIDES; MRS. PINCHOT DUE Pennsylvania Governor’s Wife, Militant Labor Leader, to Join Picket Lines, Address Mass Meeting. NINE MEN ARE PUT UNDER ARREST Imported Company Guards Are Attacked by Strikers, Police Are Told; Firm Denies Hiring Strikebreakers. Striking hosiery mill workers this afternoon were awaiting arrival here of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, who is to address a public mass meeting at 7:30 tonight in the national guard armory. In the meantime, a lull was noted in violence between strikers and imported guards employed by the Real Silk mills, which kept police busy last night. Nine arrests were made by police during the night.

Officials of the hosiery workers’ union were uncertain what time Mrs. Pinchot would arrive. It was planned for a large group of feminine hosiery mill strikers to meet the noted labor sympathizer at the train. Mrs. Pinchot was expected to proceed directly to the hosiery mills and participate in the picketing, if she arrived early enough. She is an honorary member of the American Federation of Fashioned Hosiery Workers, local members of which went on strike two weeks ago to force recognition of their union by the mill officials. Officials of the Real Silk hosiery

ACTION IS DEFERRED IN BUTLER DISPUTE North Central to Pass on Athearn Charges Later. Butler university, in difficulties with the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, today was given a period of grace by the recommendation of the North Central board of review meeting in Chicago. Charges against Butler have been filed with the North Central by Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, ousted president of the university, who lodged accusations of “dual control,” and interference by the Butler board of trustees with the university’s administration. No action will be taken now on Butler, according to the review board's recommendation, pending a reinspection which probably will be conducted in June by North Central investigators.

FIRST LADY ADVOCATES NEW TYPE PATRIOTISM Makes Plan for World Peace Before D. A. R. Group. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 20.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon the D. A. R. today to lead the way in preparing for world peace. Mrs. Roosevelt urged a kind of education which would “work out a civilization where patriotism will mean working for your country and for peace the world over and not just preparing to die for your country.” There was applause for this sentiment, but it was scattered and brief in the large assemblage in the auditorium of Constitution hall. The congress unanimously had adopted a military preparedness resolution just before Mrs. Roosevelt arrived. FLETCHER BILL GETS BANK COMMITTEE 0. K. Vote Favors Government Regulation of Exchanges. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 20.—The senate banking committee, by a vote of 11 to 8. today voted to report favorably the Fletcher bill to place the nation's securities exchanges under government regulation. R. K. MELLON NAMED DIRECTOR ON PENNSY Banker to Succeed Father Without Interference of I. C. C. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 20.—Richard K. Mellon, Pittsburgh banker, will serve as a director of the Pennsylvania railroad, succeeding his father, the late R. B. Mellon, without interference from the Interstate Commerce Commission, it was learned today. CARLOADINGS CONTINUE TO SHOW HUGE GAIN Gain for Week of April 14 Is 20,950 Over Prior Period. By United Prtss WASHINGTON. April 20—The American Railway Association today announced carioadings of revenue freight for the week ended April 14 totaled 578,837 cars, an increase of 20,950 cars over the preceding week and 80,655 cars over the corresponding week in 1933.

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mill today denied that their company had employed strike breakers, as indicated by police reports. “Foliowing an attack on one mill worker about three days after the. strike began, the company promised employes who refused to strike that it would protect them to the fullest extent,” one Real Silk official said. “Guards" Are Employed “Police were unable to escort workers to their homes, and the company did employ a number of out-of-town men, quartered in a downtown hotel, to protect workers, who asked for aid, on their way to and fflom work. Employment of these guards, or company police, has been no secret.” First report of disorder investigated by police was early last night. Officers met Ed Hall, 53, Linden hotel, one of the guards, who reported he and another guard,. Yova Davis, were forced from the road, just north of the city, by a carload of men they said were strikers. Davis fled, but Hall was beaten by the men, he told police. A short time later, police were called to R. R. 16. Box 38. where Mrs. Richard McCullough said a man broke in her door and demanded a revolver, saying he and another man were being held up. ‘Strike Breakers.’ Police Told Police reported they learned the men were Floyd Yarba and John Gallagher, Linden hotel. The men, fwho awaited arrival of police, said they were employed as guards by the Real Silk mill and that on Road 31, north of Board Ripple, several men stopped them and beat them. While police were there, about fourteen men in two cars, who told police they were “strike breakers,” drove up to get Gallagher and Yarba, and were permitted by police to take the two to the Linden. Police reported each of the men in the two cars carried hammer handles or gas pipes. Police arrested six strikers said to have attempted to drive away from Walnut and Spring streets when the officers approached. In their car, officers said, were a number of rocks. Those arrested were Cline Allen, 417 South Oakland avenue; Paul Stevenson, 5144 Schofield avenue; Roy Roark, 2030 East Washington street; James Fleming. 705 East North street; Ernest Hines, 844 North Chester street, and Guy Belcher, 140 North Pine street.

Band to Be On Hand Trial of Bertram Gerdt, 22. of 1214 Hoyt avenue. Real Silk employe, accused of chasing a striker, George Knauss, 1028 Colorado avenue. into the home of patrolman Edward Griffin, 420 South Oakland street, and hurling a chair at him, was continued until May J 6 by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers. Gerdt testified he chased Knaus into the officer’s house to “protect himself.” He said the chase started following an auto collision in which strikers and mill employes were involved. The officer testified that before entering the house, Gerdt threw a missile through the window, barely missing the officer's head. Cases of others arrested were to be by Judge Myers this afternoon. Two other men, Harry C. Martin. 22, of 1903 East Maryland street, and Charles Centers, both reported to be strikers, were arrested on charges of attacking two Real Silk employes. The public mass meeting at the Armory tonight will be enlivened by presence of a twenty-five-picce band, which has been donated by the Indianapolis Musicians’ union. Mrs Pinchot's address will be broadcast from radio station WKBF at 10 p m.

52 PAGES Today's Times breaks all records for number of pages published and volume of ad advertising carried, bringing you the up-to-the-minute store news of the day. In addition to the thirty-six pages in the first two sections you will find sixteen full pages cf offerings from the Wm. H. Block Company of Block Day values in the third section. No matter what your needs may be you will find them offered in today's Times. Make up a list of your wants tonight and plan to be downtown early tomorrow to take advantage of the offerings of your local merchants.