Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1935 — Page 1

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TWO KILLED IN CRASHES; AUTO TOLL NOW 36 Young Woman Is Struck by Car While Crossing Washington-st. FATHER OF EIGHT DIES Relief Worker Is Fatally Injured by Police Machine. The Marion County traffic death toll for this year stood at 36 today with the deaths yesterday of Dan coffins, 44. of 824 Coffey-st, a relief worker, and Mrs. Maryellen Bryant Massey. 24, of 536 E New York-st. Witnesses said that Collins was staggering drunkenly across the

street irt the 1100 block. W. Washington-st. early yesterday when he was struck by a police .squad car driven bv Patrolman Dennis Reilly. Collins

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died of a fractured skull before City Hospital ambulance arrived. Collias. a Federal Emergency Relief Administration laborer, is survived by ihe widow, Mrs. Nanny Collins. 39. an expectant mother, and eight children. Mrs. Massey died yesterday in City Hospital of injuries suffered Friday when she was struck by an auto at washmgton-st and Belle Vieu-pl. Surviving are the widower. Law'rence Massey; a son. Birchard Arlen Mas-ey. and her mother. Mrs Fannie Brvant. Funeral services will tv held a 3 tomorrow in Shirlev Bros chapel- 912 N. Illmots-st. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Millard Lowery. 21. a soldier at F Benjamin Harrison, is in a critical condition at the post hospital from injuries suffered late Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a truck at Meridian and Ray-sts. The truck was driven by Kenneth Crockett. 31, of 3452 N. Gladstone-av. Dr. F E Gifford. 2714 N. Penn-sylvania-st. was injured seriously late yesterday when his car crashed into a cement bridge at 75th-st and Allisnnville-rd to avoid hitting a pony which had bolted into the car's path.

HEAVY RAIN PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT IN CITY Thundrrstorm Arrompanifs f>own - pour Here During Night, Heavy spring rams such as Indianapolis experienced early today are forecast for tonight by J. H. Armtngton. Federal meteorologist, who said that the rainfall for March is already .26 of an inch above average Brilliant flashes of lightning, followed bv explosive thunderclaps ranged over the North Side carlv today, awakening many startled sleepers. No damage was repotted from the storm Rain fell from 12 48 until 4 40 to the extent of 9 of an inch at Municipal Airport and 61 in the city. This typ** of rain will sink deep into the soil. Mr. Armmgton said. BANDIT SUSPECT TO BE RETURNED TO CITY Alleged Finger Man" In Robberies Here Held In Denver. Detective-Sergeant Louis Possati was en route to Denier. Colo., rodav to return Donald Nve. 23. described bv police as the finger man" In several local robberies Statements attributed bv police to Frnest Tait and James Flaherty, awaiting trial here, are alleged to have implicated Nve in the robberies of the Rov Wilmeth Auto Cos . and the Evans Milling Cos. Tait and Nye also are wanted in Florida for a bank robbery there, according to Fr*d Simon, chief of detectives. DOROTHY GISH SEEKS DIVORCE FROM ACTOR Broadway Amazed: Artists Married for 15 Years. By Press NEW YORK. March 25—James Renme. actor, was informed today that his wife, the winsome Dorothy Gish of stage and screen, had filed suit for divorce. -Wen." he said. "Maybe it's spring." He would say no more. Broadway was amazed. The Rennies had been regarded as a truly happily married couple. They married 15 years ago SLAYER OF GIRL. 10. GETS DEATH PENALTY 65- Year-Old New York Killer to Pay With Life. ft-, I n-’*4 /V#.. WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. March 25—Albert H Fish. 65-year-old confessed slayer of Grace Budd. 10. must die in the electric chair at Sing Sine prison during the week of April 29. Supreme Court Justice Frederick P Close ruled today. SLAYER'S PLEA DENIED “American Tragedv" Killer of sweetheart Must Die. By rutted PITTSBURGH. March 25—The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld today the conviction of Bobby Edwards. on charges of first degree murder in the “American Tragedy" (laying of hi* sweetheart.

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Promise of a movie career lured Mrs. Claire Burman Borin, above. Chicago beauty contest winner, from her husband. Nathan Borin, rich manufacturer. Mr Borin charges in a $500,000 suit against E. M. Asher, Hollvwood film producer. Mr. Asher denies that he lavished costly gifts on Mrs. Borin and made glowing promises, as her husband alleges. Such suits as the one filed by Mr Borin are prohibited under Indiana’s new Nicholson law.

Driven to Life of Sin by Brother , Murderess Says Sent to Reformatory, Driven From Home by Minister, Her Own Kin, 23-Year-old Girl Tells Police. B* Lnitrii Press NEW ORLEANS. La , March 25.—A1l unusual story of alleged religious intolerance which drove her from home and into a life of sin was told today by Marian King, 23-year-old slayer of Johnny Irving Pierce, her play-boy sweetheart, member of a wealthy Jackson (Miss.) family.

The petite young murderess placed the major blame for her predicament upon a pastor brother, w r ho. she asserted, drove her from home on her return from a two-year term in a reformatory. “Maybe he’ll help me now,” she said. "I want to begin life again clean.” The slaying occurred in the Nut Club here Friday morning, culminating a lovers' quarrel. The girl said she felt Pierce had insulted her. but that she "only ..anted to scare him" and she lur.gcd at him with a knife he nonchalantly had produced. "My real name is Bonnie Hill, and I was born in Johnson County. Arkansas.” the girl told authorities. She said her father died when she was 11 and that the family moved to Houston. Tex., where her brother is a Baptist preacher. A story of how her affection for boys was thwarted by her brother until he finally hao her placed in a reform school was related by the strl. She said that the family in the meantime had moved to Detroit, and that she went to them ■Mv brother drove me from the house." she said "A member of his congregation gave me shelter and promised to help me get a job. I learned that I had to either live with him—or else.” The woman said she came *o New Orleans with a Harvard medical student who gave her narcotics. After a tumultuous life with him she met the boy she later murdered. "Johnny was a nice kid.” she said, "and I was happy with him. He cured me of the dope but we both liked liquor and drank a lot ! of it." She sits alone and friendless In the parish prison, facing a firstdegree murder charge.

$250 IS LOOT IN 10 ROBBERIES IN CITY Fish Scaling Knives, Cash Are Included. Thieves, who took loot ranging from fish sealing knives to cash, netted a little more than 5250 in a series of 10 burglaries and robberies over the week-end A store at 1237 \V. 32nd-st was entered and fishing knives and reels worth 56 were taken. Robert W. Baker. 305 N. Mount-st. reported the loss of 534 in jewelry and cash and a 525 German pistol. Thomas M. Kail. 2445 Fifth-sr. Beech Grove, had his pockets picked of 526 Mrs Mary E Kraft. 2310 N Alabama-st. reported 535 stolen from a dresser drawer. Groceries were taken from the Kroger grocery, at 2134 W. Morris-st. by a burglar who broke in a rear door. C A. Hurst, 3428 W. Washing-ton-st said two men had taken 520 from him after brandishing a revolver. Esta Emnck. 1523 South-eastem-av, lost 535 while in a cab with two girls. A cigaret-vending machine was broken open in The Breakfast Shop. 1333 E. Market-st. from which 53 worth of whisky also was taken.

WKBFCALL LETTERS CHANCED; WIRE NOW Special Program Given to Mark Shift. Radio station WIRE began its first day today under its new call letters, approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The call letters formerly were WKBF. , These were changed during a spe- | cial program last night because of similarity with radio station WFBM. MISSIONARIES SAFE, THEY TELL SHANGHAI Frencham and Wife Unharmed. They Report by Telegraph. R\J t tiitrd Prfk* SHANGHAI. March 25.—The Rev. •and Mrs. S. O. Frencham. British missionaries, today notified the China Inland Mission by telegraph ,that they were safe and unharmed. The message dispelled fears for j the safety of the missionaries, who previously had been reported kidI naped and slain by bandits.

Arrange Last Rites for Beauty and Sportsman Wealthy Race Car Owner and Pretty Divorcee Lose Lives in Auto Crash at Fowler. Funeral services were being arranged today for Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Decker Harvey, beautiful young Indianapolis divorcee, and Henry W. Maley, wealthy local sportsman, killed instantly tvhen their speeding auto crashed into a telephone pole on U. S. Road 52 near Fowler Saturday.

Rites for Mrs. Harvey will be conducted at 10 tomorrow morning at Flanner &: Buchanan Mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill. Sendees for Mr. Maley were to be held this afternoon at the home of an aunt, Mrs. P. R. Brodbeck. Edinburg. Coroner H. H Comly. Fowler, said he could attribute no cause for the accident except excessive speed. The speedometer of Mr. Maley's sporty racer was locked at 80 miles an hour when the wreckage was found by Indiana state police. Mrs. Harvey, 23. and the mother of two children, and Mr Maley. race car owner and scion of a wealthy Evansville lumber family, were in love, according to Mrs. Han-ey's mother. Mrs. J. A. Moeslein. 817 E. 17th-st. Mrs. Haney was to receive her final decree thus week from Lieut. Dwight Han'ev. Salt Lake City, with whom she eloped while a pupil at Tudor Hall. In a divorce complaint filed last summer in Hendricks County Circuit Court, the lieutenant charged that his commanding officer had asked Mrs. Haney to leave the Army post in Panama Canal Zone, where he was stationed, because of

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935

SHOWDOWN IN CITY ‘BOOKIE’ CLOSING NEAR Morrissey Returns to Find All Horse Betting ‘Joints’ Locked. MANY TRY TO REOPEN Motive for Order Still Is Mystery; *Shake-Down’ Rumor Persists. Chief Mike Morrissey’s return to Indianapolis today was scheduled to precipitate a showdown on the horse betting handbook situation in which the city's 21 books find themselves closed without explanation. The chief has been in Syracuse, N. Y„ attending the American Bowling Congress tournament. During his absence, the books were ordered by police to close last Tuesday. Later, the order was modified to permit operations through Friday, then, all of the books were closed Saturday. Today, however, it was reported several books would attempt to operate and it was said they would be able to obtain wire service if they wanted to take the chance. No one would take the responsibility for having issued the closing order and the motive back of it was somewhat obscure.

However, some, bookmakers displayed no hesitancy in charging that the shutdown is preliminary to a “shake out” of some of the smaller books for the benefit of a few large operators. Rumor has placed this eventual number of books at one dozen, but it was reported reliably today that only eight will be permitted to reopen after the short closing period. Observers placed no credence in published reports that the 21 would be reduced to two. For one reason, the price now charged for the daily result service, without which it is difficult to satisfy bettors, would have to be raised to a prohibitive figure. In order to charge any reasonable price for the race results, the wire service needs a volume of clients as well as the handbook does. Brazen touting by agents of some handbooks is reported to be one reason for the drive. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer said he had conferred with Chief Morrissey before the latter left for the bowling tournament and that they had decided the closing was necessary because of the complaints of a number of business men. Handbook touts have been approaching employes in some business houses, according to the prosecutor, and regaling the prospects with stories of how much “so-and-so” won yesterday and about the “sure thing that’s going today.” Believers in the theory that the entire campaign is a "shaking out” process point out that now is an opportune time for such a move because winter racing practically is ended and the big handbook business will start when the Chicago, Maryland and Kentucky tracks open early in April. Some of the smaller operators promise plenty of political squawks if they are kept closed and one of the bigger bookies wasn’t backward aoout voicing his indignation. Jokingly told that he'd probably wind up as a “messenger boy” for -Poor Blank,” he asserted that, if he is not one of the favored few allowed to operate, he'd “raise so much heat that nobody would go.”

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alleged immoral conduct with fellow officers. The papers in the suit also charged that when Lieut. Harvey brought his children to Danville, Ind , while on a furlough last summer. Mrs. Harvey had kidnaped the children and brought them back to Indianapolis. The children. Joan. 2. and Jean. 4, are now living in Danville with a brother of the lieutenant. Mr. Maley had entered cars in the Indianapolis Speedway races since 1930. Lou Moore drove a Maley entry’ to third place in 1933. In 1930. Deacon Litz was driving one of them in the famous six-car crash on the north turn. Mr. Maley is survived by two children living with a divorced wife. Coroner Comly said the car left the road suddenly, flew 20 feet through the air. bounced once and then, with cyclonic force, struck the steel utility pole. The road was straight at this point. Pallbearers at Mr. Maley's funeral were to be M. S. Blish. Seymour; Meredith Nicholson Jr.. Indianapolis; B. A. Roth, R. C. Mayhall Jr., and Dewey Robinson. Edinburg, and Robert Fowler, Los Angeles.

Pact Violation to Be Target of Pope Pius

iCooyright. 1335. bv United Press! VATICAN CITY. March 25.—Pope Pius’ encyclical of April 28 will be a denunciation of violation of international agreement and an earnest plea foi world peace, it was said on most reliable authority today. The encyclical was characterized as the most important document of the present pontificate. It is to be issued in connection with the end of the jubilee year. It was understood that the encyclical would be a strong condemnation of violation of treaties and a warning that another war would be tantamount to the destruction of civilization. There are too many indications, Pope Pius is expected to assert, that there is danger of a war more disastrous even than the last, and that humanity might return to barbarism. He is understood to intend to say that his plea is prompted by his duty in the Roman Catholic Church as Christ’s vicar, to tell people that divine laws can not be violated with impunity.

HOUSE DEMANDS RELIEF PARLEY Conference With Senate on Measure ‘Essential,’ Byrns Asserts. By X nited Press WASHINGTON. March 25.Speaker Joseph W. B.vrns said today after conferring with President Roosevelt that it was ‘'absolutely essential’’ to send the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill to conference with the Senate. Representative Byrns said that there were various administrative provisions in the Senate bill which were “absolutely unworkable." He declined to indicate whether the President was opposed to retention of the billion dollar Thomas inflation amendment. Despite the President’s evident desire to have the bill revised in conference before it is sent to the White House, the House silver bloc seeks to force a vote on accepting Senate changes in the bill so that it could be disposed of immediately. While plans for spending the money were only partially made when the huge appropriation bill was placed before Congress, they have now been developed to a point where action can be started as soon as the bill becomes law. Approximately half the money is to be spent for materials. It will go for steel, cement, lumber and other basic requisites for the works program. With $2,000,000,000 poured into private industry in that way the Administration hopes for a marked pickup all along the line of business endeavor. The huge majority by which the Senate finally passed the works bill —6B to 16—caused some surprise because the fighting over it gave the public the general impression of a formidable opposition.

JACKSON PREDICTS ’ STATE SALES TAX Levy Needed for Security Funds, He Says. By 7'nnrs Special WASHINGTON. March 25.—Indiana is in for a 2 or 3 per cent retail sales tax. it was indicated here today by Clarence A. Jackson, State Grass Income Tax Director. Mr. Jackson is on a study tour as chairman of the research committee charged with submitting a tax program to the special session of the Legislature to be called by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. “It looks now as though joint Federal and state social security program will call for about $7,000,000 as Indiana's contribution,” Mr. Jackson explained. “That can be raised by decreasing the gross income tax, which now produces around $13,000,000. A rate on all sales and per cent on all income is suggested. “It still would be necessary to raise the money for the state school program. now supported from the gross income tax. “If there are no exemptions allowed, a 2 per cent sales tax would produce the $13,000,000, which could be earmarked as the 'consumers’ school tax.' Should numerous exemptions be insisted upon, it would be necessary to have at least a 3 per cent rate." MAY 1 IS DESIGNATED AS CHILD HEALTH DAY M'Nutt Issues Proclamation Asking Appropriate Programs. May 1 has been designated as Child Health Day in a proclamation issued from the office of Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Appropriate programs, “which will result in a deeper realization by the people of the necessity for the protection and promotion of the health of children." were urged in the proclamation. Times Index Broun 7 Comics 13 Editorial 6 Financial 9 Let's Go Fishing 10 Radio 8 Simms 7 Sports .. 10-11 Womans Pages ... -5

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HITLER ASKS RETURN OF LOST TERRITORY, BELIEF OF PARLEY OBSERVERS

FIERCE lU2E IN NIGHT (EDS TIKES 6 LIVES Score of Others Are Burned; Possibility of Arson Is Investigated. By Vlifted Press CHICAGO, March 25.—State police and county authorities today investigated a possibility that a fire which killed six persons and burned a score of others yesterday in a Morton Grove night club may have been the result of arson. Eighty persons, most of them college and high schbol students, were trapped in the. tiny, one-room club rendezvous when flames leaped through its crepe paper decorations with explosive rapidity. Hysterical young merry-makers who escaped from the resort said all probably would have gained safety if a panic stricken mob had not jammed against the exit door, holding it shut for fatal minutes. The dead are: Fred R. Anderson, 20. Eau Claire, Wis., Northwestern University student; Jack Cooker, 21, Cedar Rapids, la., Northwestern senior; Arlene Harvey, 22. hat check girl; James Hronek, 32, Chicago; Robert Wolfe. 21, Chicago, and Miss Helen Johnson. Milwaukee. Twenty-two others were treated for burfls in hospitals. Four were in critical condition, George Fredericks, Morton Grove policeman, was the tragedy’s hero. He entered the club 12 times, carrying out victims until he himself succumbed and was in turn rescued. Robert Wolfe, 23, of 1304 Belle-fontaine-st, a night club entertainer and former Northwestern University student, was not the Robert Wolfe burned to death in the Chicago fire.

HOWE MAY RECOVER, DOCTORS NOW SAY President Decides to Leave for Florida Cruise. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 25.—Assured by medical experts that the crisis in Secretary Louis McHenry Howe's illness had passed, President Roosevelt, this afternoon decided to leave late tonight for a cruise in Florida waters. Col. Howe, who waged a valiant fight against heart and bronchial disorders that amazed physicians, was so much better this morning that he called for a cigaret. Encouraged by the favorable turn of the last 24 hours. Commander Ross T. Mclntire, who has been attending Col. Howe, summoned a consultation of doctors and they reached the opinion that while the ultimate prognosis was not so good, there was indication of steady improvement to come for a month or more. Former Chicago Professor Dead By United Press BERKELEY, Cal., March 25. Dr. Thomas Atkinson Jenkins, 66. former philology professor of the University of Chicago, died yesterday after an operation.

Gang Roundup Follows Attempt to Kill Official Scattered Remnants of Capone, Touhy Mobs Hunted After Effort to Assassinate State’s Attorney. By United Press CHICAGO, March 25 State’s Attorney Thomas J. Courtney and Mayor Edward J. Kelly today announced plans to round up every remnant of the scattered Capone and Touhy gangs in a search for three men who attempted yesterday to assassinate Mr. Courtney and Aiderman Harry E. Perry.

The drive promised to be the most spectacular attack on Chicago’s underworld since the fine-combing of gang resorts which followed the St Valentine's Day massacre of six years ago. Mr. Courtney revealed that he obtained "a good look” at the gunmen who fired eight shots into his automobile early yesterday as he drove home from a political meeting with Alderman Perry. “I'd know every one of them,” he said. The six-foot. 39-year-old prosecutor was within a few blocks of his South Side home when the attack was made. He and Mr. Perry were in his car's rear seat. Two detectives—James Mclnerney. Mr. Courtney's bodyguard, and John Cronin, his chauffeur —were in front. A stab of flame and the thud of a bullet striking the metal edging of i window ventilator at Mr. Courtney's ear were the first warnings of danger. As Mr. Courtney and Mr. Perry ducked to the floor of their large car a small sedan whirled alongside from the rear and seven more shots crashed in the quiet residential street. None penetrated the steel body of Mr. Courtney’s car, Mr. Courtney’s term of office has

Memel Zone May Be Injected Into Discussions With Sir John Simon. Is Opinion of Well-Informed Germans. CRUCIAL CONFERENCE UNDER WAY Question of African Colonies, Given Great Britain by Versailles Treaty, Also May Be Bargaining Point. BERLIN, March 25.—The return to Germany of her lost territory of Memel arose as a possible issue tonight when Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon of Great Britain started their momentous conversations on peace and security in Europe. An issue such as Memel might well prove to be the key point of the entire negotiations leading to an agreement which would bring Germany back into the family of nations. The Memel territory has an area of 943 square miles and a population of 150,000. It lies on the Baltic between

HOME IS RAZED BY SBOOO FIRE Firemen Are Handicapped in Battle With Flames on East Side. Fire started by a defective flue caused an estimated damage of between SBOOO and S9OOO to the home of William Roepke, florist, Post-rd and E. lOth-st, yesterday morning. Firemen, hampered by a lack of available water, fought vainly to keep the flames in the upper part of the house. The fire was discovered by Elmer Wimsett, brother of Mrs. Roepke, who with the caretaker, Ed Alsop, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived. Much of the household furniture was saved. Mr. and Mrs. Roepke were away at the time. They said this morning that the loss was covered by insurance. There were no mains in the neighborhood from which the firemen could draw water. They fought the blaze with a tank of water they carried on the truck. SWITZ AND WIFE GO ON TRIAL IN PARIS Testifies He Joined Ring to Aid France, Is Report. By 1 piled Press PARIS, March 25 —Robert Gordon Switz of New York, on trial with his wife and 21 others on espionage charges, was understood to have testified tonight that he joined the huge spy ring only in order to expose its secrets to France. The long-awaited trial of the spies opened in the Thirteenth Correctional Court and was secret. Strong guards were posted at the court room. It was expected that Switz and his wife. Marjorie, would be freed and deported after the trial. Ex-Governor of Kansas Dies By United Press EDMONTON. Alberta. March 25 John Whitnan Leedv, 86, Governor of Kansas from 1897 to 1899, died yesterday. Mr. Leedy. who also served Kansas a state senator, moved to Alaska in 1901 and to Edmonton in 1910.

been notable for prosecution of kidnaping and labor racketeering gangs, activities which vitally affected surviving remnants of the mobs once headed by Alphonse iScarface Al Capone and Roger Touhy, the "tough guy” who told Capone in his hey-day that he wasn't big enough to run northwestern Cook County. Tommy Touhy. Roger's tubercular little brother, who was reputed the most fearless and vindictive participant in the “beer wars,” often has been rumored to be on Mr. Courtney's trail. It was Mr. Courtney that sent Roger Touhy and three of his associates to prison for 99 years for kidnaping John 'Jake the Barber) Factor. Under Mr. Courtney's orders, Ralph Capone, Al's brother, has been arrested perhaps two dozen times since his release from a Federal prison last year. Capone was reported interested in gaining control of the Chicago Motion Picture Operators’ Union at the time Thomas Maloy, long its czar, was murdered “on the spot” two months ago. He has not been seen in his usual haunts since.

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East Prussia and Lithuania. It was taken from Germany; by the Treaty of Versailles, was first made League territory, then turned over to Lithuania. Quarters close to the German foreign office speculated on the possibility that Hitler might be offered a plebiscite in Memel in return for his concessions on other points touching rearmament and security. A plebiscite probably would result just as the Saar plebiscite did, in an overwhelming vote for Germany. Issue Open to Question It was open to question, however, whether Hitler would consider the return of Memel a sufficient inducement to accept the Eastern European security pact so much desired by France. Observers believed the question of the. lost African colonies, notably German East Africa, now held by Great Britain, might be injected as a bargaining point—not in the actual hope of regaining the territory, but to abandon the claim in return for other concessions. Regarding German rearmament, Hitler was expected to tell Simon that he plans six motorized divisiohs in the new German army. That would be another bargaining point and it was believed Hitler would concede a smaller number, especially as the creation of a motorized division would require many months. Discuss Return to League Fiance at present, it is believed, has only four motorized divisions and Italy three. These mobile units are regarded as of extreme strategic importance in the event of an outbreak of war. enabling the power possessing them into strike swiftly and hard. Germany's return to the League of Nations was understood to have been included in today’s discussions before the conferees adjo-.rned for luncheon, but Germany insisted it could be taken up only after the solution of other problems. Rearming Is Challenged By United Press LONDON. March 25.—Germany has no right to denounce the Versailles Treaty. Prime Minister J, Ramsay MacDonald, told Gordon Hall-Caine, conservative, in reply to a question today in the House of Commons. The treaty contains no provision for denunciation by its signatories, Premier MacDonald explained. “It is a misapprehension,” he said, “to suppose that any action taken unilaterally by the German government or any other government could effect the denunciation of the treaty. “The German decision of March 16 on conscription and the constitution of a standing army undoubtedly an intention not to observe certain military clauses of the treaty, on which the views of the British government are already known.” Naval Building Charged Bg United Press PARIS, March 25.—The semi-of-ficial newspaper Le Temps said today that Germany, in violation of the Versailles Treaty, is building pocket battleships of the Deutschland class superior to the authorized 10.000-ton ships. The German naval ministry has decided to create a fleet of 400.000 tons, Le Temps said. Vienna Police Arrest 80 By T ni,trd Press VIENNA. March 25.—The newspaper Weltblatt said today police had arrested 30 Socialists and 50 Nazis in a conspiracy against the government. Navy Bill Passed By United Press PARIS, March 25.—The Chamber of Deputies, heeding the government's demand for speedy strengthening of defenses, today passed the 1935 naval construction bill.