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VICE CREWS SWOOP DOWN, SPEED 110 BEHIND JAIL BARS 75 Are Arrested Here by Raiders on Gambling Charges as Squads Pop Up in Every Conceivable Spot. 22 PINCHED ON LIQUOR COUNTS Headquarters Seems to Be Busiest Place in Indianapolis During Week-End; Turnkeys Work in Mild Hysteria. Chief Mike Morrissey’s newly created vice squad, assisted in some instances by others on the force, swept vigorously through the city over the week-end and arrested 110 persons for all manner of alleged violations of morals code laws. The score: Gambling, 75; liquor, 22; prostitution, 9; immoral conduct, 2; keeping house ox" ill fame, 1; operating still, 1. Like a many-eyed Comstock, the squad, circulated throughout the city, kibitzing on craps games and then arresting the players; leaning against illegally open bars, and

then calling for the police patrol ; sniffing into milk bottles and finding corn whisky instead of milk; holding their Are until poker game pots were large and then taking both pot and players to the crowded bull pen at police station. The Police Station, where all of the alleged violators eventually wound up, for a moment or for keeps, depending on whether bail was forthcoming, was the busiest place in the city. Telephones were in great demand and turnkeys, accustomed to a certain amount of leisure on Sundays, spent the day in a sort of mild hysteria as they recorded N the charges, possessions, names, addresses and status of all the prisoners. Only Three Found Guilty In Municipal Court today, however, there was a disappointing anticlimax for the state. Only three of nearly a score were found guilty as charged, and two were found to be on parole from traffic violation convictions and iheir paroles were revoked. Betty Ferguson was fined S3O and sent to the Womans Prison for 30 days on conviction of prostitution, and Royce A. Kelly was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail for visiting. Robert Johnson, Negro, 955 Ma-ple-st, was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail for keeping a gambling house, and the paroles of Mike Lain, 1079 Ritter-av, and Charles Roberts, 825 N. East-st, were revoked. Raid Every Conceivable Place From almost every conceivable place the vice squad and plain clothes men recruited their prisoners. At 888 Fowler-st they found Clyde Sevire, and Walter Bland, Negroes, and in the basement, they report, they found a trunk containing three full five-gallon cans of alcohol and one five-gallon jug. In the grip of Jewel Sargent, 1213 E. 13th-st, they found, they reported, two quarts of alcohol. A night watchman, they reported, at the Homestead Tavern, IBth-st and Gent-av, loaded a case of beer into a waiting car and was arrested on a charge of petit larceny. At 3 yesterday morning the tobacco smoke haze did not obscure the operation of the bar in the St. Denis Hotel. 136 W. Market-st, police charged, so the place was raided. John Partlow was charged with operating a nuisance and failing to observe the Sunday closing law. and 10 persons, several of them women, were taken in a police patrol wagon and charged with drunkenness. Pocket flasks were confiscated in true prohibition era style. Six Arrested in One Haul A member of the police force reached for the pot of a domino poker game in progress at a poolroom operated by Burley Rozelle, at *147 N. Noble-st. But the players beat him to it. Rozelle was charged with keeping a gaming house and six were arrested on charges of visiting. Nine Negroes were arrested at the home of Mrs. Eva Tucker, Negro, 707 N. California-st, after they seized a gallon of alcohol, a pair of dice, 70 cents and a blanket to make those dice behave like they should. Leo Doss. 24. of 1416 E. 16th-st. police charge, failed to stop at a traffic signal and then broke a jug of whisky in the car. police claimed, and so is charged with vagrancy. Badges flashed and there was a wild scramble in a basement downtown poolroom where 17 men were reported playing poker. Police got but $3.30 from the pots, but they got their men, and took them to headquarters. Seise 100-Gailnn Still A 100-gallon still and three smaller ones were taken in a raid on the home of Clifford Hughes. Negro, 41. at 918 B. 14th-st. Police destroyed 750 gallons of working mash and seized 26 gallons of whisky. At a restaurant at 908 E. Marketst, police arrested Joe Krenzer on charges of selling beer on Sunday and of failure to have a license. And so through the stormy weekend it went. Apparently omniscient, the police turned up at the click of the dice, the flzs of an opening beer bottle, the slap of a poker hand on the table. Prohibition stealth was the order I* the day. No bookie was arrested. I

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy to cloudy with temperatures near freezing tonight and frost if sky clears; tomorrow fair and somewhat warmer by afternoon.

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SI 095 LOOT OF SAFECRACKERS Yeggs Batter Strongbox at Supper Club on North Side. A group of expert yeggmen battered open the combination of a safe and looted two cash registers at Silver’s Supper Club, 2451 N. Meridian-st, early today, to escape with $1095 in bills and change and three diamond rings valued at SBOO, Leo Silver, 2444 N. Meridian-st, the owner, reported to police today. Several jimmy marks on the rear door led police to believe that the burglars had forced open the rear door. The safe was concealed in the women's rest room. The loss was not covered by insurance, police said. The burglars took $75 from the cash registers and the remainder from the sale at the North Side supper club.

CITY WOMAN SEEKS RACERJS REPORT Mrs. Fairbanks Negotiates for Bluebeard, Paper Says. By Times Special LOUISVILLE, Ky., April B—Negotiations for the purchase of Bluebeard, of the W. R. Coe Stable, have been opened by Mrs. Richard Fairbanks, Indianapolis, as an entrant in the Kentucky Derby on May 4. Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice president of the Indianapolis News, owns a small stable t rained by Arthur Goldblatt. The Louisville Herald-Post today says that the deal under consideration also includes the transfer of Ladysman, winner of numerous prominent stakes. Denied by Mrs. Fairbanks Mrs. Richard Fairbanks denied today at her home. 5850 Sunset-av, that she has entered into negotiations for the purchase of a Kentucky Derby entrant. “My trainer visited the Coe stable through curiosity,” said Mrs. Fairbanks, “and I recently received a letter from Mr. Coe's manager offering the stable for sale. Such a purchase is quite beyond my means. I have made no reply and can not understand why such a report should be published,” Mrs. Fairbanks said. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 37 7a. m 35 11 a. m..... 38 Ba. m 35 12 (Noon).. 38 9 a. m 36 1 p. m 38 Tomorrow's sunrise, 5:16 a. m.; sunset. 6:17 p. m.

Rubber Unions to Carry Their Story to Roosevelt

By United Prett AKRON. 0., April B.—Organized labor prepared this afternoon to lay directly before President Roosevelt its side of the controversy which threatens an immediate strike in the tire and rubber industry. Plans to present the •'true picture” of the rubber labor situation were made after thousands of union rubber workers cast strike votes. Either Coleman C. Claherty. president of the United Rubber Workers' Council, or William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will go before the President, it was said. Mr. Claherty made it plain, how-

Fear m * * Girl Pilot Fights Off Hysterical Passenger, Saves His Life.

By United Press VJEW YORK, April B.—Pilot IN Annette Gipson took a boy friend up for a spin. The plane was a two-seater with controls in each cockpit. They flew over New York, enjoyed the scenery. Miss Gipson nosed the plane down for a landing. In a flash, it went into a f kid and earth and sky spun before her eyes in dizzy whirl. “Curtains,” thought Miss Gipson, exercising hysterical strength on the frozen stick. It gave. She righted the ship, looked up into the white face of the man whose lips twitched, whose cheeks burned with small patches of color. She gesticulated expressively, meaning: “You fool! don’t freeze onto those controls The roar of the propeller precluded any possibility of talk. She flew in circles on an even keel, trying to reassure him and steady his nerves. n n n AGAIN she came over the airfield, nosed the plane down. The earth came rising rapidly to meet them. She looked at the passenger in the front cockpit. She saw beads of perspiration on his neck, saw his shoulders hunch. She threw all her strength against her control stick an instant before he froze to his. The ship shivered, sideslipped, keeled over on its tail. “Can I?” Misr Gipson asked herself. “Or is this really curtains?” For sickening seconds she jerked at a stick that seemed embedded in concrete. She saw the blurred earth advancing toward her with the speed of a projectile. Then, inch by inch, her strength proved superior to that of the hysterical man in the other cockpit. A scant 100 feet from death, she righted the plane and zoomed upward. She saw that her passenger was breathing in gasps, slumped deep in his 6eat. He turned around and tried to toil her in gestures of his humiliation. He knew it was suicide, but when he saw the earth rising to meet him, he lost control over himself. MISS Gipson smiled to rea*=sure him, gesticulated th t it was nothing. She was too upset to try landing again and for 20 minutes they flew on even keel in great easy circles. Dusk was gathering. Her gasoline gauge gave her another half hour of ■flying. “Well,” she thought, “maybe this will be curtains!” She tapped her passenger on the shoulder, signaled that he was to look at her, not' at the ground. Gently she tilted her flippers. She was conscious of a mild sinking sensation which at any other time she wouldn't have noticed. An expression of dismay flitted across the man’s face. She smiled. It’s all right, all right. Look at me! Don’t think about it! But even as she tried to express these reassurances, his eyes rolled, his nostrils distended, his mouth opened, and although she couldn’t hear, she knew he was screaming. Suddenly a fist shot out, struck her nose. She felt blood on her lips and chin. Another hand came out, seized her hair, held on with mad strength. * 'T'HE plane now was out of control, spinning and twisting leaf-like. She jerked back, freed her head, but left some of her hair in his hand. Her right hand reached out, grabbed the first object it touched—a fire extinguisher. Her aim was sure. It hit him behind the ear and he fell back into the cockpit, unconscious. Grabbing the stick, she righted the ship and locked down at Roosevelt Feld less than 100 feet away. A few seconds later the plane landed. She revived her passenger by slapping his cheeks, took him in her car to the sta- J tion, accepting his profuse apologies. “The next time I fly with you,” she said, “you’ll be strapped down and hand-cuffed.” Miss Gipson’s nose was swollen, but that, she said, could be made invisible with a little face ponder. SEEK ROOSEVELT AID ON SOCIAL SECURITY House Leaders Hope President Can Settle Controversy. By United Press WASHINGTON, April B.—House leaders decided this afternoon to ask President Roosevelt to intervene and help settle the fight now disorganizing House party ranks over the question of a gag rule for consideration of the social security bill.

ever, that the unions will not ask the President to intervene to prevent the walkout. “We merely want the President's opinion on several things,” he said. Informed opinion was that nothing. not even Federal intervention, could prevent the walkout now. Union rubber workers have voted almost unanimously to strike in protest against rejection of their demands for recognition. The ‘‘Big Three” tire and rubber companies—Firestone. Goodyear and Goodrich—are equally adamant in their refusal to recognize the American Federation of Labor as the bargaining agency/or their employes.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1935

NAZIS SUFFER REVERSAL IN DANZIG VOTE Hitlerites Given Severe Setback in Election at Free City. RESULT IS HUMILIATING Fail to Attain Two-Thirds Majority Set as the Minimum. By United Press DANZIG, April 8. German Nazilsm suffered a severe moral setback in Danzig’s Die; election, final returns showed tonight. The Nazi party’s leading orators had come here to reinforce the highpressure propaganda for which Naziism is noted. The Diet election of yesterday was to be an unofficial plebiscite in which the Germans of Danzig would tell the world they wanted to rejoin Germany. The Nazis shot a two-thirds majority in the Diet as a minimum, but actually hoped for a larger one. Instead they polled 139,200 of a total of 230,000 votes, on the basis of provisional final returns. Their percentage of votes was 80.52. They elected, it wus indicated, 44 of the total of 72 members in the Diet. It was estimated that Socialists would have 12 seats, Centrists 9, Nationalists 3 and Poles and Communists 2 each. Wanted Total of 48 The Nazis’ apparent victory was a defeat. They had 38 seats in the previous Diet, and in addition three members of other parties turned Nazi, to make their actual total 41. Hence they gained but three seats. They wanted a total of at least 48, and believed they would get more. In addition, there were charges of Nazi irregular voting and of terrorism to prevent opponents from voting. The failure of Nazis to win a twothirds majority for complete control in the Diet, and in the Senate, whose members are elected by the Diet, was the more serious because of the invasion of Nazi orators. Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels and others were sent here. Their keynote was sounded by Goebbels in the climactic speech Saturday night: “The election will have the same result as did those in Gprmany and the Saar.” Protest To Be Made Official final returns, gave the following result: Nazis 139,043 Socialists 38,015 Centristsl 31,525 Nationalists 9691 Poles 8310 Communists 7990 Pietsch 382 Opposition parties announced they would make a joint protest to the Senate today against alleged election frauds, and talked of carrying their protest to tfie League of Nations which has control of this Free City, taken from Germany by the Versailles Treaty. iDr. Kasimir Papee, the Polish diplomatic representative here, charged that there had been cases of double and even triple voting in the Nazis’ favor, and that in country districts and other members of non-Nazi parties were prevented from voting. He protested to the Senate, which authorized a reply that his charges were exaggerated and that there was no real basis for complaint. Attacks were reported on two Poles attached to the local Polish commissioner’s office, who possess a measure of diplomatic status. Vanderlip Urge* Commodity Dollar By United Prest WASHINGTON, April B.—Frank A. Vanderlip, noted monetary authority, today urged establishment of a “commodity” dollar as a means of curing many of the nation’s economic ills.

i With Spring # in full swing Indianapolis prepares to take its 1935 position as one of the most beautiful cities of the Midwest.' On every side nature’s artistry and man’s genius has coupled to make Indianapolis outstanding in scenery and architecture. The Indianapolis Times, using buildings and scenic spots as subjects, is preparing to announce anew, Interesting type of photography to its readers— TIMES PORTRAIT-PHOTOS * Rough stone becomes shaded in soft tones; brook paths 0 seem to live and, although no human element is introduced, the Portrait-Photos will offer Your Time * you art that is vital. Wedße,d| f The Times Portrait-Photos wiU brin * - Ton will be introduced to the the fln,t of reading public Wednesday these pleasant when a full page of photos surprises. Don’t will bring you some of the forget to look most architectural forward to The subjects in the city. The full Times Po rpage will be followed by a 4r * tt " Photos * series of single Portrait-Pho- ** John T * toe that will make simple Hawkins, staff spots glow with beauty. photographer. ■

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By United Prest JACKSON, Miss., April B.—The Mississippi Supreme Court today affirmed the life sentence imposed upon Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, comely Greenwood specialist in children’s diseases, wno was convicted of the “poison highball” murder of Dr. John Preston Kennedy, Greenwood surgeon, in 1933. Dr. Dean was convicted of giving Dr. Kennedy a poisoned drink at a “farewell party” in Greenwood the night of July 27, 1933. The state charged that she poisoned him to keep him from remarrying his wife, who divorced him because of his affair with Dr. Dean.

MACDONALD TO STRESAPARLEY Premier to Accompany Simon at Momentous Session With Allies. By United Press LONDON, April B.—The scope and importance of the coming threepower conference at Stresa, Italy, was indicated tonight when it was announced in the House of Commons that both Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon would attend. The cabinet met and decided on the outlines of Britain’s policy, which will be to make Britain the mediator among all European nations to prevent war. The cabinet was understood to have given MacDonald and Simon wide powers. Sir John declined to give Parliament “any undertaking concerning Stresa” when Sir William Davison asked whether the conference would consider the possibility of linking an economic settlement in the Danubian states with a guarantee of Austria's independence. MURDER OFGIRLJ, ADMITTED BY YOUTH Body of Missing Child Is Found on Farm. By United Press DRUMRIGHT, Okla., April B. Gabe Williams, a farm youth who directed a search for Kathryn Kline, missing 7-year-old daughter of an oil field worker, confessed that he killed the child, Luster Cook, assistant county attorney, said this afternoon. The child's body was found today in a shed on the farm belonging to the youth’s father. She had been beaten to death with a sandstone rock weighing about 10 pounds. Robert Snodgrass, justice of the peace, began an inquest as Williams was led away to the jail. There a crowd had gathered and feeling was running high. Officers took special precautions against violence.

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32 ARE KILLED AND 100 INJURED WHEN TORNADO STRIKES IN DEEP SOUTH

21 mm muwhesh TRAFFIC WAR Police Fire on One Alleged Offender Who Fails to Halt Car. With Municipal Judge Dewey Myers holding court on all traffic violators, 21 convictions and no dismissals were netted in the morning court session today as police continued their drive on erring motorists. The convictions were for failure to stop for preferential street, seven; speeding, four; no lights, one; no driver’s license, one; driving through a traffic signal, five; driving on the left side of a street car, one; turning in the middle of the block, one, and faulty brakes, one. Capt. Lewis Johnson, traffic department chief, made his first arrest yesterday when he apprehended Roy A. Davis, 1620 Central-av, as Mr. Davis is alleged to have passed a street car on the left side. Mr. Davis was fined Sl'and costs, although he told Judge Myers that passing street cars on either side was good form in the East. Andrew Barter, 2327 Indianap-olis-av, pleaded innocence in court too ardently. When he told Judge Myers that he had not failed to stop at 16th-st and Capitol-av, State Police officers said that Mr. Barter had failed also to stop at several other streets. He was fined $5 and costs. Leo Doss, 1416 E. 16th-st, was fined $lO and costs on charges of running through a traffic signal at--30 miles an hour. The arresting officers claimed that Mr. Doss had thrown away a bottle filled with alcohol when he was arrested. Charged with five counts, Sam Cooch, 38, Negro, 1321 Comell-av, who was arrested Saturday night only after police were forced to fire upon him, was to appear in Municipal Court this afternoon. He is one of the 39 alleged traffic violators arrested during the week-end. Police charge that Cooch failed to stop for Massachusetts-av, ran through an automatic traffic signal at East and Michigan-sts, and continued at a high rate of speed on East-st. Sergeant Charles Burkett stopped the fleeting car with a well-aimed shotgun charge. Cooch was charged with vagrancy, failing to stop at a preferential street, speeding, reckless driving and disobeying an auto(Tnm to Page Two)

TIRED FLIER BORROWS ‘BED’ IN PARKED AUTO Bloomington Man Given Suspended Fine by Court. Melvin Garvin, * Bloomington (Ind.) aviator, was sleepy last night, so he conveniently curled up in the first auto he saw and went to sleep. Durbin Reeves, 903 College-av, owner of the auto, did not welcome the guest and held Mr. Garvin at the point of a revolver until police arrived. Mr. Garvin was placed under a suspended fine on intoxication charges today in Municipal Court. Mr. Garvin said he was tired out after flying all the way from Bloomington here in an airplane. Times Index Page. Bridge 4 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 8 GEN. HUGH JOHNSON 14 Hickman—Theaters 11 Junior Aviation 9 Pegler 7 Radio 9 Simms 7 Sports 10, 11 Stamps 5

Congress Revolt Dooms Social Reform , Is Fear

By United Prent WASHINGTON, April 8— Important parts of the Roosevelt legislative program may have to be dropped because of a rebellious, unmanageable Congress, it was Indicated today. Congressional leaders will ask President Roosevelt when he returns to the Capital tomorrow to trim his program to bare essentials. They will advise him of a gloomy situation in both House and Senate and ask that some of the New Deal reforms be permitted to go over until the next session of Congress. The President’s reception of such tidings will not be a happy one. Some of his particular favorites such as social security and holding company legislation may have to be surrendered because of the troubled situation in Congress.

Property Damage and Crop Losses Are Estimated at Millions of Dollars; National Guardsmen Are Called Out. ALL AVAILABLE HOSPITALS JAMMED

Nine Are Drowned When House Boat Is Blown Over in Mississippi; Prominent Timberman Among Victims. The lower Mississippi Valley this afternoon counted at least 32 dead and nearly 100 seriously injured amid the ruins left by the devastating tornado which struck Saturday night. Property damage and crop losses were estimated at millions of dollars. The trail of destruction extended 100 miles across southwestern Mississippi and into eastern Louisiana.

PRESIDENT ON WAYTO N, Y. Mr. Roosevelt Will Attend Cousin’s Funeral, He Makes Known. By United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. April B. President Roosevelt boarded his special train here at 12:30 p. m. this afternoon and gave orders to proceed directly to New York, where tomorrow he will attend the funeral of Warren Delano Robbins, minister to Canada. Mr. Robbins, a first cousin of the President, died after an illness of pneumonia. Mr. Roosevelt’s decision to go to New York was made as soon as he stepped ashore from the destroyer Farragut which brought him into this port from the British Bahamaes where for two weeks he has been fishing. Also awaiting his attention Was the $4,883,000,000 works relief bill. It was not determined Immediately whether th 6 measure would be signed here or while he was en route north. The Presidential Special departed at 1 p. m. Almost as soon as Mr. Roosevelt was settled comfortably in the drawing room of his private car, he called for the portfolio with the works relief bill and the appended recommendations from the various governmental agencies that studied it. Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre explained that Mr. Roosevelt wanted first of all an opportunity to the highlights of the bill before putting his signature upon it.

2 BANDITS HOLD UP GROCERY; GET $35 Force Employes, Customer Into Basement. Two shabbily dressed men today stopped at the meat counter at the Kroger Grocery, 1705 E. Michiganst, ordered steaks and when the attendant's back was turned drew revolvers. After taking $35 from cash registers, the thugs drove Richard G. Kormer, manager; J. D. DeMars, butcher, and Mrs. Hazel M. Boggs, 460 N. State-st, a customer, into the basement. The bandits flea through r, rear door. SEVERE FROST LIKELY, WEATHER MAN WARNS More Unpleasant Temperatures Are Predicted Here. Rain, snow and freezing temperatures invaded Indiana over the week-end with even more unpleasant weather promised for tonight, J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said today. Should the sky clear by tonight a heavy, damaging frost will imperil plant life in Indianapolis. Temperatures are expected to drop near freezing. The cold wave is expected to abate tomorrow afternoon with gradually warmer temperatures.

The long struggle over the workrelief bill has left the Senate, particularly, In a difficult position. In order to get that measure through leaders promised that bonus and silver legislation would be considered. They now are faced with the necessity of making good those promises. Four measures are essential to carrying on the administration: 1. The routine appropriations. 2. NRA legislation. 3. Addition*’ : unds for the HOLC. 4. New taxation. Leaders will suggest to the President that he concentrate on that program and sandwich In only what he can get in addition without too much controversy. Banking, transportation, ship subsidy, war profits and food and drug legislation aiay be caught In the jam also,-it ut feared.

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Nine persons were drowned when a house boat was blown over in the Mississippi River near Lake Providence, La. National Guardsmen patrolled Gloster, Miss., a sawmill town of 1200 persons where the winds reached their greatest fury. Seven were killed outright there and about 40 injured. An estimated 7505 were left homeless in the town. Only one telephone was in operation. 13 Dead in Gillsburg Gillsburg. 12 miles away, had 13 der.d, but escaped with less property damage. Farther eastward, the storm ripped out rows of homes and stores at Woodville, Miss., and blew down the postoffice at Dolorosa, killing three unidentified Negroes who were in the building. The postmaster, Soloman Schwartz, was seriously hurt. The greatest single tragedy was the destruction of the houseboat, owned by W. B. Hogues, prominent Natchez timberman. Those drowned, along with the owner, were his brother. John Hogue; Happie Sparks of Oklahoma; A. A. Abernathy of Lake Providence, and five Negroes who worked on the boat. Crews of a government boat and another craft dragged the river today searching for the bodies. It was believed all nine were trapped inside the houseboat. Two other Negroes aboard the boat made their way ashore but were too badly injured to summon help and the tragedy was not discovered until yesterday morning. Death Toll May Rise The storm struck Gloster at 10:30 p. m. when most persons had retired. A severe electrical storm drowned out the noise of approaching winds. A family named Caston near Gillsburg was virtually annihilated. Rescuers found the body of the mother clutching the body of the 10-year-old daughter in the ruins. Hospitals at Gillsburg, Centreville and McComb, were crowded, doctors and nurses worked in the streets of Centreville. It was feared the death toll would increase when a search of remote farms was completed. Typhoon Kills 33 By United Brest MANILA, P. 1., April B.—Known fatalities in a freak typhoon which lashed southern provinces of the Philippine Islands increased to 33 this afternoon as relief workers sought additional victims and assisted in repairing widespread storm damage. The heaviest death toll was reported by Red cross workers from Borongan, on the east coat of Samar Province, where 25 bodies were recovered. Eight persons were reported dead in the vicinity of Catbalogan, Samar Province. Eleven others were injured. The Red Cross reported 90 per cent of the houses in Borongan were destroyed and crops a complete loss. Food and building materials were needed badly, relief directors reported. Samar and Albay Province, where the wind tore roofs from 1000 houses in Legaspi, appeared to have borne the brunt of the storm. ' Motorists Are Marooned By United Press PITTSBURGH, April B.—A belated winter storm which swept Pennsylvania last midnight marooned hundreds of motorists returning from week-end pleasure trips to view Washington’s cherry blossoms. Driven by a high wind, wet, sticky snow, which began falling in the early afternoon, drifted and froze on arterial highways and made motoring impossible in some sections. In the mountainous sections near Ligonier and Grandview Point, Bedford County, the storm reached it* peak between 1 a. m. and 5 a. m. today.

IS GAS WASTED? Natural gas is being pepped off into the air with reckless abandon in the Texas Panhandle field. The waste amounts to approximately 1,000,000,000 cubic feet daily. Is anything being done to arrest this wanton dissipation? Read the series of six articles which start tomorrow in The Times. The stories have been written by Vincent Lyons, Times Financial Editor, who has just returned from a tour of the Texas Panhandle, largest gas field in the world.