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WORK-RELIEF BILL IS NEAR SENATE VOTE Administration Leaders Are Confident of Early Passage. NO CHANGES EXPECTED New Dealers Beat Down All Efforts to Alter Proposal. By Untt'4 Prrtt WASHINGTON. March 20—Administration leaders, encouraged by three victories on as many roll calls, pushed ahead with the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill today, confident that all further efforts to alter it would be suppressed. Attempts to broaden the measure into a $lO 000.000.000 public works program and to give it an inflation twist remained to be acted upon before final Senate vote on the bill. Senator Robert M. LaPollette. Prog , Wls.i. is sponsoring the public works drive while Senator Elmer Thomas. <D, Okla *, seeks to add an inflation amendment. "My proposal would expand the currency so that it would become easier for American taxpayers to pav the taxes which will be necessary to meet this staggering debt burden/' Senator Thomas said. l.aFollette Urges Increase He would have the government purchase 50.000 000 ounces of silver each month, issue silver certificates against the purchases and keep the certificates in circulation. Senator LaPollette proposes an increase to embark the government nfl a large-scale public works program designed to stimulate recovery. The Administration expected both proposals would be defeated. There was some doubt whether Senator Burton K. Wheeler. <D., Mont.i, who has been ill. would offer hi* amendment to issue greenbacks to cover cost of the work-re-lief program. Considerable Work Completed Senator John G. Townsend Jr. R. Del.! has an amendment requiring taxation to finance the works plan. The Senate spent a long day on the work-relief bill yesterday and wound up in some confusion, but, with a considerable amount of work completed The debate became so involved that Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson, exasperated at the tactics of Senator Thomas D. Schall iR.. Minn.), announced he would * make a point of order against the bill/' He meant, of course, a point of order against Senator Schalls amendment. Senator Robinson's forces, however. defeated proposals of insurgent members of their own party to*reduce the amount of the appropriation and to limit the bill to one year instead of two Huey long Is Absent Conservative Democrats leading this movement were Senators Alva B Adams iD.. Colo.i. Harry F. Byrd tD. Va and Millard E. Tydings D.. Md). Adams wanted the appropriation cut to $2,880,000,000 and Senator Byrd wanted it reduced to $1,880.000 000. Both were defeated by large majorities, despite pleas the $4,880.coo 000 appropriation would endanger government credit. Senator Huey P. Long •D.. La.), who has been employing obstructionist .actics against the bill, is absent this week. The bill probably will be passed by the Senate before his return. MISS PERKINS LOSES TEMPER IN HECKLING Delivers Sarcastic Verbal Spanking to Chicago Audience. By Umted Prett CHICAGO. March 20—Secretary Frances Perkins lost her temper before 1200 persons last night over heckling during a banquet address about the recent arrest of Evelyn John Sirachey. British radical and former Parliament member. Before she had done with the subject she delivered a sarcastic verbal spanking to 468 students, professors and alumni of Northwestern University and turned a chill shoulder to queries from the floor signed by Clarence Darrow. Rabbi Felix Levy and four University of Chicago faculty members. DRIrIKS -SLIPPED UP' ON DRIVER: SO DOES JUDGE Motorist's Unfortunate Skid Brings Term on Farm. The few drinks that yesterday * slipped up" on him today cost John C Clausen. 47. of 110 E. North-st, sls and costs and 60 days on the Indiana State Farm. Clausen, whose auto nearly ran down Traffic Officer Albert Slate and then careened on to the sidewalk at Kentucky-av and Mary-land-si. told Municipal Judge Dewey Myers: “I took a few drinks and they slipped up on me.” Sfhnnnw Sinks: 116 Saved By rmited Prrtt TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras. March 30 —The British schooner Laura was reported destroyed today, aground nortL of Utila. after its 116 passengers and crew were saved.

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Blinding, Choking Dust Storms Fill Air With Tons of Dirt, Blotting Out Sun, Halting Traffic; Even Chickens Fooled

Bt Cnited Pre ONE of the worst dust storms I in Midwest history rolled across Kansas and Nebraska this afternoon, blotting out the sun, halting traffic and forcing people to stay with.n their homes. Thousands of tons of dirt, in the form of fine particles, swept through the air. When the wind slackened it settled to a depth of half an inch or less. It sifted into hous .s, office buildings and shops. It crunched underfoot and settled gently upon the clothing and in the hair of those on the streets. In the homes it was almost as bad. Wet sheets packed about door jams and window casings did little to keep it out. m m u Kansans, to whom the dust storms have become commonplace in the last two weeks, go to bed with the dirt, shake it off the covers in the morning and find it at the breakfast table. It is impossible to clean houses. Wet cloths leave a muddy trail. The mere washing of the hands is followed by that earthy odor that comes with a spring shower on a dusty road. In many Kansas and Nebraska towns street lights burned throughout the day. and shops and homes were lighted artificially. as though it were night. The great clouds of dust settled over cities and towns like a fog, and traffir moved at a slow pace. Headlights afforded motorists little aid. for the beams could penetrate the murkiness but a few feet. a a a SCORES of towns in the two states were affected as the winds from the south and west bore the dirt along. In A Manhattan. Kan., the skies were clear at 9 45. but a few moments later the great cloud could be seen blowing in from the southwest. Within 10 minutes semi-darkness followed. It was the same in other localities. At Hutchinson visibility was reduced to 100 feet, and pedestrians tied handkerchiefs over their faces in order to breathe. At McCook, Neb., a reporter said, the dust lifted now and then, so that “it

NOTRE DAME'S CAPTAIN DEAD Joseph Sullivan, Grid Star at University, Succumbs to Pneumonia. I By l nitfd Press NEW YORK. March 20—Joseph Sullivan, captain-elect of the Notre Dame football team, died in New York Hospital today. He was 22. Direct cause of death was pneumonia which developed after two operations last Friday for infected mastoids and a heart ailment. Numerous blood transfusions failed to save the young athlete who had played two years with Notre Dame as tackle and was. one of the country's outstanding linemen. Young Sullivan was the son of Timothy Sullivan, New York, a police lieutenant. He was brought to New York from South Bend March 8 in a serious condition. 51,000,000 KIDNAP PLOTJS REVEALED Barker-Karpis Gang Laid Plans, Is Report. • Copvneht. 1935. bv United Press* ST. PAUL. March 20—A plot to kidnap two St. Paul men for a million-dollar ransom—the greatest !in the nation's history—was discussed by the Barker-Karpis gang while Edward G. Bremer was held captive in Bensenville. 111., early last year, the United Press learned this afternoon. The victims were to be Louis W. Hill Sr., son of the famous empire builder, and Richard C. Lilly, president of the First National Bank of St. Paul, the largest financial institution in the Northwest. POWER STRIKE AVERTED X. Y. Utility Union Claims Victory on all Its Demands. By United Press NEW YORK. March 20— Organized power workers claimed victory j today in a settlement that averted a strike designed to darken New York City. The regional labor board conducted negotiations resulting in an agreament sign-xl by both sides. | James E. Toher. representative of the Brotherhood of Utility Employes, said the union won a t l demands. Sleeping Sickness Is Fatal WARSAW. Ind.. March 20.—Mrs Peter Blye died from sleeping sickness today at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodman. near Tippecanoe. She was 23 and had been ill three months. S*o in Cigarets Stolen Cigarets valued at S7O were taken by burglars who smashed a door glass in the Cohen pharmacy, 2802 j Central-av, early today

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Blinding, choking clouds of dust that left the sun only a pale spot in the sky were billowing over Wichita Kan., when this remarkable picture was snapped, a striking view of the worst dust storm in the citv’s history 7. The second calamity of its kind in two weeks, the 12-hour storm took four lives in the state, a boy'being lost and suffocated and three persons killed in accidents when they were blinded. Rainfall through the dust clouds brought ‘‘mud storms” to many localities. ,

was passible to see across the street.” Chickens went to roost on hundreds of farms as the premature twilight came on. No total eclipse of the sun ever fooled the fowls more than today’s dust. a a a MANY schools held short sessions. and hundreds of parents did not permit their children to venture out of doors. One boy died in such a storm in Kansas last week, suffocated and ex-

POTATO CHIP THIEF ROBS HOME, LOADS UP ON PET DELICACY

Unable to restrain a mad passion for pots to chips, a burglar last night unlocked a back door and entered the home of Thomas B. Rosseter, 5050 E. New Yorkst, and helped himself to two five-gallon cans of the chips that made Saratoga famous. Other items of a well-stocked larder were ignored and nothing else in the house was taken.

2 ARKANSAS TOWNS MENACED BY FLOOD Mother, a Refugee, Bears Twins in Box Car. Bv l/nitrd Press St. Francis River floodwaters backed into the towns of Monette and Lake City, in eastern Craighead County, Ark., this afternoon while tension lessened in danger areas on the White River, in east central Arkansas. A mother near Monette gave birth to twins, without medical aid, while housed as a refugee in a box car, the Red Cross reported today. She was removed to better quarters. Maj. W. M. Hoge. Memphis district engineer, was not prepared to say whether the rising St. Francis would completely inundate Monette and Lake City. The crest is expected tomorrow. No danger was felt as plenty of boats were available to carry persons to safety in case the water did submerge the towns. Merchants and residents prepared to board up their stores and homes. Meantime, Red Cross officials warned of dangers from sickness in the affected areas. Several cases of pneumonia were reported. PIONEER EXPLORER IS HONORED BY CONGRESS Leader of America’s First Polar Expedition to Get Medal. By United Prest WASHINGTON. March 20—Gen. Adolphus Washington Greeley was grateful today to Congress for voting him the Congressional Medal of Honor in reward for his leadership of America’s first polar expedition 54 years ago. The medal is to be presented on Gen. Greeley's ninety-first birthday. March 27. FIREMEN GIVEN REST Only One Run Made During Day By City Department. City firemen remained in the engine houses yesterday polishing up their equipment and their pinochle games with only one fire reported during the entire 24 hours. The single run was outside the city limits, at 902 Bazil-st, where hot ashes in the basement ol the home of Earl Everett caused no damage.

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hausted in a futile search for his home. A Kansas farmer, lost in his own field, also died as he fought his way along a fence line in a desperate effort to regain shelter. His heart was overtaxed and he collapsed in the swirling clouds. There have been numerous highway traffic accidents accountable to impossible driving conditions in such storms, with several fatal injuries resulting. In Wichita, skies were bright ,

FIERCE HARLEM RIOTS RENEWED Injured List Reaches 100 as Police Army Patrols Strife-Torn Area. By United Press NEW YORK, March 20. — I The streets of Harlem —the nation’s largest Negro district —resembled a battlefield today as one Negro was critically wounded and a tnird plunged from 'a roof top in the most vicious race rioting here in a quarter of a century. The entire section was in the hands of hundreds of police, many of them armed with riot guns to prevent a recurrence of savage street fighting and looting that folllowed an erroneous report that a Puerto Rican youth had been beaten to death for a petty theft. About 100 persons were wounded —three of whom may die—and 120 others were arrested last night and today. Alter several hours of peace along debris-littered sidewalks and roadways, a group of snipers was discovered today on the housetops, trying to pick off a lone policeman at 138th-st and Lenox-av. Police raided the building and one of the snipers fell to the street. It was believed he would die. A few minutes later a detective shot down another Negro as he looted a store. Five men, described as Communist agitators, were arrested on charges of having fomented the riot. Police raided the headquarters of the Young Liberators, a recial white and Negro organization alleged to have distributed fals? leaflets that led to the rioting. WARM WEATHER WILL GREET SPRING HERE Downcast Skies Also Forecast by Weather Man for Tomorrow. A downcast sky and warm weather will welcome spring to Indianapolis at exactly 7:18 tomorrow morning, according to the United States Weather Bureau’s local report today. With spring only a few hours old the temperatures will decline tomorrow afternoon or night, J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said. HOOSIER ATHLETE ASKS THIRD MURDER HEARING Petersburg Youth Convicted Second Time in Slaying. By United Press PETERSBURG, Ind., March 20 Twice convicted of slaying his school-girl sweetheart, Ward Davis, 20, former high school athlete, had a motion for a third trial before Pike Circuit Court today. Davis’ second trial ended yesterday with a verdict of guilty. Special Judge Roscoe Kiper deferred sentence until April 22 when he will hear arguments on the motion for a new trial. The verdict carries a penalty of death or life imprisonment.

early today and wives hurriedly got delayed washings on the line. A half hour later the dust descended, coating the wet garments. Farmers can not estimate the damage their wheat crops, already reduced by drought, have suffered. At Smith Center, Kan., farmers have virtually abandoned hope for a crop, for the wind has swept away the top soil, leaving the wheat roots uncovered and dying Temperatures were high today but weather bureaus predicted precipitate drops by tomorrow.

IVAN MORGAN LAUDS M’NUTT, NEW LAWS: SEES BUSINESS GAIN

By Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20. Ivan Morgan, canning company magnate from Austin. Ind., who refused to adopt the Blue Eagle, is here today watching the Democrats perform on Capitol Hill. Lunching in the Senate restaurant. the former Indiana Republican chairman, expressed the view that NRA will finally come around to his views and abandon the Blue Eagle entirely. On the whole, he had high praise for the Democrats, particularly for the stale administration under Gov. Paul V. McNutt. ‘‘The Legislature in Indiana did a good job and business will be better because of their actions,” Mr. Morgan commented. ‘‘There was some adverse legislation, such as impossible trucking laws, suggested, but none passed. OAVEY’S AIDS DENY SHAKEDOWN CHARGE Three Sensational Affidavits in Ohio Feud Bared. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., March 20.—Three sensational affidavits charging a systematic “shakedown” at the direction of men in the inner circles of the Democratic party in Ohio, today brought denials of any wrongdoing from the principals. Francis W. Poulson, chairman of the Democratic state executive committee, disclosed that about $20,000 has been raised by the committee since the November election, but he declared that he had never made any promises or representations of business favors in connection with the solicitation of contributions. Mr. Poulson and two asssistants, John McCombe and Jack North, were summoned to appear before the Franklin County Grand Jury tomorrow. Those who made the affidavits, William McNamara, Tom Jones, relief commission employes, and Kenneth Aller, a truckink contractor, were summoned, as was Probate Judge George Nye, Pike County, member of the executive committee. WEALTHY WOMAN SLAIN 60-Year-Old Philanthropist Found Brutally Murdered. By United Press LOS ANGELES. March 20.—Murder of Mrs. Louise Appier, 60-year-old philanthropist, baffled police today as they sought a motive for the the grewsome slaying. The woman's body was found in an apartment of a building she owned, her skull crushed by a blow from a club. Valuable rings found on the woman's fingers precluded a possibility that robbery was the motive.

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FRENCH PREMIER SOUNDS CALL TO ARMS AS ALLIES AGREE TO CONFERENCE

MI AM MEN HE puwismciiv Markey Summons C. of C. and Receivers for Talk on Re-Appraisal. BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer Superior Judge Joseph T. Markey, in whose court there now are pending receiverships on eight large industrial properties that once employed hundreds of men, but now are idle, today announced a plan to get those properties back into production. Within the next 60 days. Judge Markey told The Indianapolis Times, he hopes to have those properties sold for what they w r ill bring at the present market to industries with sufficient capital and the business to put them to work once more and take them off the delinquent tax lists. ‘They won’t bring what they’re worth,” Judge Markey conceded, ‘‘but they’ll have to be reappraised at what they’ll sell for to responsible firms who will assure the employment of many of our Indianapolis workmen who are now unemployed. C. of C. Group Invited ‘ We must, within the next 60 days, get these properties sold and to work and back on the tax duplicates, or they will lie idle for another year.” To this end, Judge Markey has invited representatives of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and ordered the receivers of the properties into court tomorrow at 2 to discuss the details of reappraisment. He will ask, he said, whether the Chamber Industrial Bureau has any industries, in or out of the city, that could afford to buy and would agree to put these properties to work. Included in the eight are five manufacturing plants and three lumber companies. His letter to the chamber said in part: Present Is Time for Action ‘‘The court is anxious to close these receiverships as soon as possible. dispose of them to reputable and progressive people, who would use and occupy them for the benefit of this community in employing men, etc. It occurs to me that the present is the*proper time to make these efforts. ‘‘Prior to the time these plants ‘collapsed,’ and became hopelessly insolvent, and it became the duty of this court to appoint receivers to preserve and protect their assets and property, they gave employment to a large number of our citizens and assisted in no small way in the upkeep of our government, and with your assistance I am trying to devise some means to re-establish them.” Chamber officials said they would attend and do all in their power to assist Judge Markey in his campaign. STATE SHARE OF BONUS PUT AT $50,730,624 Hoosier Veterans Would Receive Sum Under Patman Bill. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20.—Indiana veterans would receive $50,730,624.28 under the Patman bonus payment plan, according to figures submitted today by the bill’s author, Rep. Wright Pavman (D., Texas). This sum would go to 97,587 bonus certificate holders. Marion County’s share would be $6,957,505. Workman Fatally Stricken While digging out a tree at 1732 E. 12th-st this morning, Paul H. Hynes, of 1527 E. 12th-st, died of heart disease. He was working with Clarence Butler, 1222 Sterling-st. Mr. Hynes was 58.

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Army Must be Strengthened Without Delay, Flandin Tells Senate; Peace of Europe Menaced, He Says. STRONG PROTEST SENT TO GERMANY Great Britain and Italy to Meet in Paris on Saturday to Discuss Nazi Rearmament Crisis. By United Press PARIS, March 20.—The French army must be strengthened without delay, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin told the Senate today as a result of the European arms crisis. His speech came shortly after the cabinet had drafted a strong note of protest to Germany, had decided to make representations to the League of Nations about it, and had accepted an invitation to confer with Great Britain and Italy in Paris on Saturday.

HOWE STEADILY LOSINGGROUND All White House Engagements Canceled: Death Is Feared Near. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 20—All White House social engagements were canceled until further notice this afternoon as the condition of Secretary Louis McHenry Howe grew steadily worse. Mrs. Roosevelt canceled a tea for this afternoon when attending physicians informed her that Col. Howe’s condition had reached the critical stage. Col. Howe is suffering a heart ailment and has been growing steadily weaker in the last 48 hours. Hartley Howe, the senior White House secretary’s son, was summoned from Boston. He was due to arrive late this afternoon.

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 52 10 a. m 58 7a. m 52 11 a. m 60 Ba. m 54 12 (noon).. 60 9 a. m 55 1 p. m 61 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 5:47 a. m.; sunset, 5:58 p. m. DARROW BITTERLY ATTACKS NEW DEAL NRA IS All Wrong, Famous Lawyer Declares. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 20.—Clarence Darrow, unyielding foe of NRA, weighed the Administration’s economic theories, including the industrial recovery act, before the Senate Finance Committee today and found nothing good in them. The famous 77-year-old lawyer denounced the economic theory of scarcity in smartly-turned phrases. He denounced NRA as playing mto the hands of big business to the destruction of the “little fellow.” The author of the famous report which denounced the NRA more than a year ago, argued that the NRA attacked the problem from the wrong angle, and that the real trouble lay in the failure of distribution machinery. Some sort of socialism alone, he said, would remedy it—and he wasn’t absolutely sure about that. FAMED NEWSPAPER MAN IS DEAD IN NEW YORK Louis Wiley, Business Chief, Ro9c to Fame With Times. By United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York ' T imes and one of the country's most widely known newspapermen, died today at Medical Center. He had been ill two weeks. Mr. Wiley was 65 and for 39 years had been associated with the New York Times, with which he rose to become one of the most noted business managers in the nation. TALK PROVES COSTLY Woman Driver Pays 55 Fin* for Traffic Violation. The error, often referred to as a failing of the fair sex, of driving an auto ana talking at the same time, was costly to Mrs. Cora Duncan, 102 N. Bosart-av, today. Municipal Judge Charles Karabell levied a $5 fine on Mrs. Duncan for crossing a preferential street without stopping. Mrs. Duncan explained that she had been talking with a friend about relief work.

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Speaking in the Senate on the pending extension ofi French military service, Premier Flandin energetically defended the measure, declaring there is no time to lose. He said that in addition to increasing the term, the government is also trying to promote more reenlistments. Premier Flandin said the law Is being made temporary, as he does not want any country to claim that France is definitely increasing her military service permanently. “The 12 army corps and 36 divisions which Germany created on March 16,” he said, “were not suddenly created, but existed for a long time, as is shown by our figures in our declaration on Germany’s rearmament. “We want to show the world that by keeping the framework of our one-year military service (the bill increases it for the next four years to two years) France remains ready to continue her efforts for disarmament within the limits of security. We still remember our 1,500,000 war dead.” “Germany’s action,” he added, “amounts to a conception which, if accepted, would mean the destruction of the entire peace structure built by the League of Nations.” “France can not accept a unilateral denunciation of the Versalles Treaty on the basis that other countries have not disarmed,” Premier Flandin said. He gave figures to show France's armed force is 50 per cent less than in 1914, but added: “France Is strong enough to maintain her security if the era of might makes right returns.” Second Parley Set By United Frees ROME, March 20.—French and British officials will confer with Premier Benito Mussolini in Rome about the German situation, reliable sources said today after disclosure of a preliminary conference called for Saturday at Paris. It was indicated Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon of Great Britain; Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France would come here after the British visits to Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow. Air ‘Raids’ Staged By United Press BERLIN. March 20.—The horror* of aerial bombing and gas warfare were vividly portrayed by Berliner* today as the government proceeded with organization of its new conscript army. In the Kreuzberg section, an aerial defense show was staaged with all the mastery usually displayed by the hand of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda. For four hours after a theoretical attack with explosive and gas bomb 6, a force of several thousand emergency workers, organized into all types of technical squads, labored in rubber and asbestos suits, gas masks and other protective devices under an unseasonably hot sun, combating the effects of the “attacks ” Activity centered in the Kreuzberg district. Residents were required to remain in their houses, away from windows, or in stuffy bomb-proof cellars the entire time, until emergency squads arrived to “rescue” tsem. It was the first chance the rescue squads, long-organized, have had to ETum to Page Three) Times Index Page Auto News 10 Bridge 6 Broun 13 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 19 Dionne Babies 3 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Hickman —Theaters 17 I Cover the World 13 Junior Aviation 12 Radio 20 Shooting School 2 Sports 16-17 State News 20 Woman’s Pages