Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1936 — Page 1

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JOB INSURANCE BATTLE BRINGS SENATE RECESS Proposal to Alter Bill to Include Employers of Four Stirs Fight. LABOR LEADERS ANGRY •Double Cross/ They Claim, When Adjournment Motion ‘Carries/ The Senate session of the Indiana General Assembly broke up in a wrangle shortly before noon today when a roll call was demanded on an unemployment insurance bill proposal to fix employe benefits at employers of four or more instead of at eight or more. Senator Prrry H. Inman (D.. Winslow i had demanded a roll call on his amendment lowering the! number of employes. Senator Jacob Weiss (D„ Indianapolis), majority floor leader, immediately demanded adjournment to 2 p. m. and that motion carried on a voice vote. Observers said the Republican minority, voting with rebellious Democratic Senators, carried the day against adjournment, but Lieut. Gov. M Clifford Townsend, presiding, gaveled in favor of Senator Weiss. Labor Leaders Dissatisfied Labor leaders were dissatisfied with the maneuvering and muttered “double crass.” Observers said administration leaders were afraid ihe vote on the amendment chiefly would have been along party lines, with the Democrats voting against the more liberal provision proposed by Senator Inman. Hearing the unemployment insurance bill in its present form termed “better than any enacted thus far by any state,” the Senate late this morning started considering amendments. The upper House opened 40 minutes late and then had to recess for almost a half hour while proposed amendments were being drafted. The lower House was not scheduled to meet until this afternoon when a fight is expected on a Senate amendment specifically barring the state welfare board from interference in administration of poor re- j lief by township trustees. Job Aid Bill Praised This amendment to the Public Welfare Act, it is reported, is distasteful to the McNutt forces who will attempt to delete it either on the floor or in conference. Commendation of the job insurance bill in the form it has come from the House of Representatives was voiced in the Senate by Frank B. Cliffe. Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric Cos. assistant controller, who has served as an adviser to both houses in committee of the whole and to the joint legislative committee which prepared the special session bills. His remarks wer° construed by some Senators as an attempt to keep from being stricken from the bill the provision calling for employe contribution to benefits. Such an amendment is scheduled to be presented this afternoon. Terms Bill “Model” In a formal address to the Senate today Mr. Cliffe said a model bill has been prepared with three objectives in view. These objectives he listed as: 1. Adequate benefits. 2. Stabilization of employment. 2. Simplicity of administration. Provisions of the bill on the first two points speak for themselves, he said, and estimated a s2.ooo,ooosaving lias been effected in caring for the third objective. He and Clarence Jackson, gross income tax division director, have computed the bill’s administrative expense as contrasted to that of other states’ legislation and estimated the saving at $1,000,000. according to Mr. Cliffe. Another $1,000,000 probably has been saved Indiana employers by clarification of the clerical and bookkeeping system. Mr. Cliffe said. Opposes Amendments Emphasizing the bill’s outstanding qualities as it comes from the House. Mr. Cliffe said his approval of the measure is not to be considered as extending to amendments which may be made in the Senate. He referred to the prospective elimination of the employe contribution clause and insisted such an action would damage the bill irretrievably. “I have hec r d,’’ he said “that the employe contribution clause may be stricken out ‘now and reinserted at the earliest opportunity after the November election. What is done in the future, he said, will not be used as a standard for judging Indiana's social security program: it is what is done now that will classify it." Concluding his talk. Mr. Cliffe remained in the Senate chamber as an adviser while the upper house members laboriously proceeded with amendments, section by section. Confer With U. S. Officials Most of those proposed before noon were clarifying amendments to correct pharseology of the measure and were prepared by the joint legislative committee after a week-end of conference with Federal authorities from Washington. None of the proposed amendments (Turn to Page Three) Plymouth Youth Crash Victim JSy United Press PLYMOUTH, tad* March 16 David Knott, 20. was killed and five other persons in the same car were injured slightly when the auto crashed head-on with a truck here yesterday.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Unsettled with probable rain tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 35.

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LOCKOUT LAID TO REALTORS Union Charges Violation of New Agreement Ending New York Strike. By t'nited Press NEW YORK. March 16—A charge that “wholesale lockouts” were taking place was made today as thousands of building service employes returned to work under an arbitration agreement ending their 15-day strike. David Rickey, organizer of the Building Service Employes International Union, telegraphed a strong protest to Mayor F. H. La Guardia under whose offices the agreement to arbitrate was reached yesterday. Union sources estimated more than 1500 men had been refused reinstatement. A picket line of 250 stretched in front of London Terrace, largest apartment development in the world, after 20 employes had been denied their former jobs, according to union men, and a number of buildings in the Wall Street district also were being picketed. James J. Bambrick, union president, wrote to the Mayor, asserting there were thousands of violations of the agreement. Ohio Vigilantes Organized By t nitrd Press AKRON, 0.. March 16.—Former Mayor C. Nelson Sparks intensified his drive today to purge this industrial city of 250,000 of "out-of-town radical leaders” so that the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. can reopen its strike-besieged plants. From his headquarters in Akron’s main hotel, Sparks, physically slight but known as a “fighter,” directed his campaign to recruit “50,000 vigilantes by tonight.” Sworn in as a specia, deputy sheriff, he launched his “vigilante” organization after union rubber workers, on strike for four weeks because 70 veteran employes were dismissed, shouted down a Goodyear peace proposal at a mass meeting.

HAIN IS FORECAST HERE FOR TONIGHT Overcast Skies Predicted Tomorrow. It probably will rain tonight and tomorrow and the skies are to be overcast, the Weather Bureau predicted today, but there is to be little change in temperature. The lowest tonight is expected to be about 35. Yesterday crowds took advantage of the beautiful morning weather to prominade. but it turned chilly in the afternoon. HEALTH ASSOCIATION AT ECONOMY ELECTS J. M. Manning Chosen President of Co-operative Group. Times Special ECONOMY. Ind., March 16.-J. M. Manning today was president of the Economy Mutual Health Association, a co-operative organized by residents of this town who wish to put doctor bills on a share-the-cost basis. Other association officers, elected at a first meeting Saturday night, are Mrs. Newman Mendenhall, vice president, and Miss Daisy Osborne, secretary • treasurer. Memberships are available to families of this community paying a monthly assessment of $1.30 each for complete medical attention. Dr. J. R. King, formerly of Liberty. has been designated as the association's physician. 5 ITALIAN FLIERS KILLED Bombing Plane Crashes After Raid on Ethiopians. By United Press ROME, March 16.—An Italian bombing plane returning to the lines after an engagement in Ethiopia crashed and the crew of five was killed. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italian commander-in-chief, reported today. Otherwise, he said, there is nothing to report on either front.

So absorbed was Edward P. Griffin (left above) in the complex problem of filing a Federal income tax return today that he didn’t even notice the photographer. John W. Lyons, deputy collector, is explaining to Mr. Griffin that it’s really very simple and won’t hurt, at all. Cigarets clutched in his hand, Mr. Griffin looks as though he believes a. smoke would clear up a lot of things. Although the deadline for filing returns is midnight tonight, there were no large crowds in the Federal Building revenue offices today. Room 309 Federal Building Is to remain open until midnight to accommodate late filers. Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector, said. Tabulation of returns is expected to be completed in several weeks.

SCARLET FEVER AND INFLUENZA INCREASE Former Reaches Highest Point in U. S. History. By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 16.—Influenza and scarlet fever are still on the rampage throughout the nation, out meningitis has fallen off a bit, temporarily at least, reports from state health officers to the United States Public Health Service showy This is the season for scarlet fever cases to reach the years peak, but the increase this year is higher than ever before, with 8807 cases reported for the week of March 7. The influenza picture is about what it has been for the last three weeks. For the week ending March 7 there were 11.240 cases reported. This is nearly double the number of cases for the corresponding week last year and nearly three times the average number of cases reported in the first week of March for the last eight years. Meningitis cases dropped from 307 cases the week of Feb. 29 to 256 cases the week of March 7. Health authorities are not sure whether the disease will continue its downward trend or rise again. Here is the action of the week’s chief diseases: Srarlpt Infliirn/a. Fever. Meningitis Week nf March 1, 1936 .11.340 8801 25 Corresponding Week 1933 6190 1691 111 Average of first Week in Mareh for last 8 years 1917 6318 163

F. D. R. IS ANXIOUS TO START FLORIDA TRIP Prepares Recommendation for Work-Relief Appropriations. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16.—President Roosevelt speeded up his official work today, anxious to be off on his two weeks’ fishing vacation in Florida waters by the end oi the week. The principal official business was preparation of his recommendation to Congress for work-relief app-op-riations for the 1937 fiscal year beginning July 1. On his “unofficial" calendar, carefully marked against forgetting, was his and Mrs. Roosevelt’s thirtyfirst wedding anniversary tomorrow. The occasion is expected to be a quiet family affair, with perhaps a few friends dropping in to congratulate them. HOLDING COMPANY ACT ■ BEFORE HIGHEST COURT Constitutionality Ruling Sought; Justices Start Recess. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16.—The Supreme Court was asked to rule on the constitutionality of the New Deal's public utility holding company act in a petition filed today by Eurco. Inc., one of the litigants in the Maryland test case brought immediately after enactment of the law. Filmg of the Burco petition was the principal business of a brief noon-day session of the Supreme Court after which a two-weeks recess was taken. At the end of the recess the justices may be prepared to rule on validity of the Guffey Coal Control Act and the Truth-in-Securities Act of 1933. both cases already argued before the court.

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936

$75,000 CHURCH TO BE ERECTED Scientists to Build New Structure; Work to Begin Monday. The construction of a $75,000 church at 5201 Pleasant Run-pkwy was announced today by the directors of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. Work is to begin next Monday. The building is to be of Georgian Colonial style with furniture and appointments in early American mode. The exterior is to be Indiana limestone with a blue-black slate roof and a copper spire. An auditorium seating 500, a reading room, rest room, checking room and foyer are to be on the first floor, with the Sunday School on the second floor. There are to be three entrances from the street and two from a parking lot in the rear of the church. The church is to have air conditioning and indirect lighting. Completion of the structure is expected late this summer. The church directors, as the general contractor, are to award contracts for the work. Members of the church are to be given work on the construction as much as possible. Organized in 1922, the church has been holding services in the Irvington Masonic Temple. Foster Engineering Cos., Ltd.. Indiana Pythian Building, has been named to design and supervise the construction under the direction of Oscar Walter Erickson, firm associate. The City Zoning Board was to consider the petition for construction of the church this afternoon.

VOTE ON PICKETING BILL IS DEMANDED Floor Fight Expected at Council Meeting. The question of peaceful picketing, before City Council off and on since the middle of last summer, probably will develop into a floor fight tonight at council meeting, with labor arrayed against merchants and business menFor days. City Hall offices have been flooded with requests of merchants and business organizations that the ordinance introduced by Councilman Adolph Fritz, Indiana Federation of Labor secretary, be defeated Mr- Fritz announced today that he will demand action on the proposed measure tonight. NATIONAL BANK GALL IS ISSUEDBY U. S. Report Ordered for Condition as of March 4. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16.—The Controller of the Currency today issued a call for the condition of national banks as of the close of business on March 4. The Federal Reserve Board of Governors simultaneously issued a call report for approximately 1000 state member banks. No report was asked by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which issues only two a year. Burglars Get 534 in Apartment Burglars last night looted the apartment of Mrs. H. C. Stute, 530 Sutherland-av, of 434.57 in cash and a cigaret case valued at $5.

Wedding Bells By United Press SINGAPORE. March 16. Charlie Chaplin, screen comedian. will marry Paulette Goddard. his companion on a round-the-world trip, when they arrive here next Wednesday. the Malaya Tribune reported today. The newspaper said it understood a special license would be issued for the ceremony.

TWO INJURED SERIOUSLY IN CAR ACCIDENT Auto Skids 150 Feet Near Speedway, Strikes Utility Pole. MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH Crash on 16th-st Saturday Brings 1936 Traffic Toll to 19. i Two men were seriously injured today when their car skidded on Georgetown-rd near Gray-st, on the west side of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and broke a utility pole. They are Timothy Dugan, 39. of 1324 W. Washington-st, and Earl Chandler, 36, whose car registration bore the address of 2130 Lin-den-st. Mr. Chandler was not able to be questioned, but Mr. Dugan said their car got out of control and skidded 100 feet on the pavement, 50 more feet on loose gravel. Man Crushed to Death Traffic deaths in Marion County since Jan. 1 stood at 19 today with the death last night of Louis Cowherd, Negro, 1615 N. Capitol-av. Cowherd was standing on the run-ning-board of an auto which failed to make a turn between Sugar Grove-av and Harding-st while traveling at high speed on 16th-st. The car tore down 120 feet of guard rail before coming to a stop in a field. Cowherd was crushed between the rail and the auto. The driver, Addison Davis, Negro, 915 Fayette-st, was ordered held for manslaughter by Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner. Three Others Arrested Three other Negroes, a man and two women, who had fled the scene of the accident, were arrested later for questioning. According to a statement made to police by James Price, Negro, 132213 N. Senate-av, who was a passenger in a taxicab hired by Cowherd, they had gone to Eagle Creek and had found the car parked off the side of the road. As Cowherd reached the side of the auto it started rapidly away and he jumped on to the running board. The 8 -i gave chase, but was outdistanced, Price said. Left Leg Broken T. A. Fitzpatrick, 137 E. Raymondst, today is in City Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg as the result of being struck by an auto as he attempted to cross Shelby-st in the 2000 block Saturday night. The car was driven by Mrs. Nellie Smith, 903 Wrightst. Three children today are recovering from injuries received in traffic accidents Saturday. They are Margaret Miskoweic, 6, of 1612 Wileoxst, who was struck by an auto driven by William E. Drake, 3423 E. 26th-st. as she stepped from the curb at Richland and New Yorksts; Lester Breeden, 16, of 1037 St. Peter-st, knocked from his bicycle as he was riding in the 2300-block of Woodilawn-av, by a car driven by Mrs. Anna Uhlman. Springfield, 0., and Richard Ragan, 2, of 33 W. 42d-st, who, police say, ran into the path of a truck driven by Curtis Weakley, 52i8 Wayne-av.

OPEN RIOS FOR WPA REPAVING CONTRACT City Will Spend SIOO,OOO to Fix Streets. Henry B. Steeg. city engineer, today opened bids on SIOO,OOO worth of materials and machinery with which to carry on the largest street improvement project of the last seven years. The work will be done with WPA arrangements. Projects are: Keystone-av. between 30th and 38th-sts, widening, resurfacing and curbing; Ritter-av, between Pleasant Run-blvd and Brookville-rd. widening resurfacing and curbing: Belmont-av, from Oliver to Wyo-ming-sts, new paving and curbing: Prospect-st from Keystone-av to Vandeman-st, widening, resurfacing and curbing; and Noble-st from Michigan-st to Massachusetts-av, widening, resurfacing and curbing. ROOSEVELT ASKED TO CUT RELIEF REQUEST Byrns Suggests He ask Provision for Only Seven-Month Period. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns told reporters today that he had suggested to Pi esident Roosevelt that it would be A'ise” to confine his new relief requests to the seven-months period beginning July 1. Byrns said he expected the President’s relief message any time between now and Thursday and predicted that it would not be as “large as suspected,” possibly below $1,000,000,000. “I still think we may adjourn by May 1," Byrns said. "But it all depends on the relief appropriation." Steal Safe, Sl4l in Cash Times special FORT WAYNE. Ind.. March 16. Police today were seeking thieves who looted two filling stations here yesterday, escaping with a safe containing $141.87 in cash, two boxes ci cigars and 14 cartons of cigarets.

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Optimistic By United Press WASHINGTON. March 15. —lndiana is safe for the Democrats in November. Gov. Paul V. McNutt told President Roosevelt today. “We were just talking a little polities and things are all right with us,” McNutt said as he left the White House. “There isn’t any doubt about Indiana going Democratic.” He said that, for one thing, business was improving through the Middle West. Asked concerning reports that he might succeed Postmaster James A. Farley when he steps out of the Cabinet to run the national campaign, McNutt, said: “I am going to finish my term as Governor and that term does not expire until Jan. 11, next.” The Governor said he was leaving Washington early tonight for his home.

URGES ARMED FORCE MERGER Senator King Would Combine All U. S. Units Under One Head. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16.—A move began in the Senate today to co-ordinate the three branches of United States armed forces— Army, Navy and air force—under one head to be known as a Secretary of National Defense. Senator William King (D., Utah) said he would seek early consideration of his bill setting up a co-ordi-nator for America’s fighting forces. King said under his plan the existing departments would be run by assistant secretaries under head of the secretary. There would be added a Department of Air, which would have complete control over all aviation activities of the Federal government. “I think the government is at fault in having so many organizations engaged in the acquisition and operation of airplanes,” Senator King said. “If we should pursue a wise course, we would have one organization. We can not develop a scientific and properly co-ordinated .system with half a dozen organizations engaged in the manufacture or purchase of airplanes, either for peace or for war.” He pointed out that Great Britain is bringing under one organization all the forces which deal with national defense.

HOUSE HUNTS MEANS TO RAISE AAA FUNDS $517,000,000 Is Needed to Repay Treasury. By United Press WASHINGTON.. March 16.—The House tax subcommittee today began consideration of the second phase of its budget-balancing tax problem—that of raising $517,000,000 to recompense the Treasury for losses incurred when the Supreme Court invalidated the AAA. House leaders, urging speed to head off increasing Republican opposition, hoped to have President Roosevelt’s $792,000,000 tax proposal before the House Ways and Means Committee late this week for start of public hearings. The subcommittee'tentatively disposed of the President’s $620,000,000 surplus corporation tax proposal to finance the bonus and farm relief with an agreement for revision to provide so-called “cushion” allowances through which businesses might build up reserves for expansion and possible future depressions. Congressmen of both parties have indicated their reluctance to impose new taxes in an election year, but leaders were confident of passage of a program in substantially the form recommended by Mr. Roosevelt. They hoped for adjournment of Congress by early May.

STOCKS STEADY AFTER STEELS LEAD DECLINE 60 Per Cent Operation Announcement Starts Rally in Market. By United Press NEW YORK, March IS—Stocks steadied early this afternoon after a decline led by steel issues. Steels came back when the American Iron and Steel Institute announced the rate of steel operations at 60 per cent of capacity, a gain of 7U per cent over the previous week and anew high since Sept. 30, 1930. U. S. Steel rose a point from its low to 63Li, which was M point above the previous close. Utilities rallied and around the end of the third hour had gains of fractions to a point. The motor section generally came back from early lows. Goshen Police Chief Dead By United Press GOSHEN, Ind.. March 16—Gerald Rohn, 44, Goshen police chief, died suddenly of heart disease yesterday. Times Index Births 13 ; Movies 4 Books 9 Mrs. Roosevelt. 6 Bridge 9 Music 8 Broun 9 Pegler 9 Clapper 9 : Pyle 10 Comics 15 Radio..’. 8 Editorials ..... 10 Serial Story ... 7 Fashions .*..... 7 Short Story .. 15 Financial 11 Society 6 Hoosier Editor 10 j Sports 12 Johnson 9 State Deaths.. 5 Merry-Go-R'd Ads 13

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Flandin Lines Up Allies for Rejection of Fuehrer's Offers. 2000 TROOPS ON MOVE Warning Sent to Italy by Berlin Government, Says Newspaper. 3y United Press LONDON, March 16. France drafted a plan today under which Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland would be submitted to the World Court at The Hague for decision. At the same time, Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin lined up Russia, Spain and the Little Entente—Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia—to defeat the council’s acceptance of Hitler's demand that his proposals for anew European peace agreement be discussed. French sources said one of the conditions to be specified in the plan which France will submit to the council will be that Germany and France both be required to agree in advance to abide by The Hague court s decision. For instance, if the court decides the Franco-Soviet pact of mutual assistance does not conflict with the Locarno Treaty—which is the reason Germany advanced for denouncing the treaty—then Germany will be obliged to evacuate the Rhineland. If the court decides the pact violates the Locarno Treaty. France would be obliged to change the pact. More Troops to Border By United. Press PARIS. March 16. —Confident in her military strength and that of her allies and convinced of her rightness under international law, France stood fast today in her demand for imposition of penalties against Germany. At Strasbourg on the frontiers, Gen. Maurice Gamelin of the French army assured Alsatians that the army was ready for any emergency. “We are conscious of our force,” Gen. Gamelin said in a speech yesterday. “and we know a fatherland like ours is great preicsely through the sum of its virtues, that is to say, the common efforts and sacrifices which constitute its foundations. I am revealing no state secret in saying that the present hour is full of eventualities.” Two thousand army reservists left Paris today for garrisons in eastern France, in the German frontier areas. Nazis Warn Italy LONDON, March 16.—Germany has sent a stern warning to Italy that if her attitude is unfriendly in the Rhineland crisis Germany will halt exports which have helped her during the imposition of League of Nations penalities, the usually well informed diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph said today.

U. S. IS URGED TO FIX STATE HARBOR Indiana Delegation Asks Report Be Reversed. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16.—An Indiana delegation, headed by Chairman John w. Wheeler of the State Development Board, today urged the Army Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to reverse the unfavorable report of the district engineer on improvement of Burns Ditch Harbor, near Valpariso. ind. The district engineer's report rejected the project on the grounds that ‘‘the prospective general public benefits are insufficient to justify the cost of the improvement by the United States so long as the production of steel is well below the capacity of existing plants.” The Indiana delegation submitted data to controvert this point of view. Following the hearings, the board took under consideration new evidence submitted and is expected shortly to decide whether it will reject or support the district engineer’s original report. Other members of the delegation were Gov. McNutt and the following members of the Indiana delegation in Congress: Senator Sherman Minton and Reps. William T. Schulte. Virginia E. Jenckes. Louis Ludlow and Charles A. Halieck.

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League Rejects Nazi Demand That Peace Proposals Be Considered. COUNCIL MOVES WARILY Acts to Make Germany Shoulder Responsibility for Breakdown. By United Press LONDON, March 16.—Tha council of the League of Nations, in secret session today, rejected Fuehrer Adolf Hitler’s demand that his proposals for anew European peace agreement be considered if Germany attends tha council's consideration of his reoccupation of the Rhineland. The council agreed that Germany could attend on the same basis as the other parties to the dispute, but, like France and Belgium, who convoked the council, she can not vote. Hitler's first condition in his conditional acceptance of the invitation was that Germany be on equal terms with the representatives of other powers, which was regarded as implying the right to vote. Responsibility on Hitler The council, avoiding the onus of burning its bridges, partially accepted the first condition, but denied Hitler the right to vote, which would have enabled Germany to block all the council’s decisions. By rejecting his second condition, the council left Hitler the choice of backing down or assuming the responsibility for a break between Germany and the League. The council’s decisions were in the form of two resolutions. The resolutions were embodied in a telegram to Berlin, consisting of a curt reply to Germany. The reply apparently cleared the way for an early decision regarding Germany’s alleged violation of the Locarno and Versailles Treaties, on which France’s demands for sanctions were basedBased on Locarno Provision The first resolution dealt with Hitler’s voting rights. The second declared the council is not competent to discuss Hitler's demand for ! consideration of his peace proposals. The council’s attitude was that Hitler's peace proposals concern only the Locarno powers—Germany. France, Belgium, Italy and Great Britain, and not the full council. The decision that Germany can not vote if she sits with the council was based on the Locarno provision that the guaranteed powers, France, Belgium and Germany, can not vote, whereas the guarantor powers, Britain and Italy, can. France and the Little Entente— Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia—were reported satisfied with the council’s decision because they felt it avoids the trap Hitler had laid for them. They believed Hitler’s second condition was designed to provoke a flat rejection, which would give the impression that France and her allies had made the council slam the door in Hitler's face. Flandin Given Support Pierre Etienne Flandin, French foreign minister, was reported to have told the secret session that it was the council’s duty to proceed : with recognition of the fact that | the treaties had been violated, which would open the way to sanctions. Flandin's statement that the council should now proceed to recognize the treaty violation formally, it was reported, drew the support of Russia. Rumania, Turkey, Poland and Spain, the last on behalf of the six neutral powers. Spain. Portugal, Denmark, Argentina, Chile and 1 Ecuador. The neutrals were understood to have met secretly before the coun- ; cil session and to have decided that Germany had violated the Locarno Treaty, although they did not attempt any decision on sanctions. Ready to Proceed, Belief The council seemed ready to proceed without awaiting Germany’s reply to today’s decisions. It was not believed likely Hitler could agree to sit on the council’s terms, because it would entail backing down from his previous conditions. The council immediately called a public session and at 6 p. m. the lights were turned on and the doors opened in Queen Anne’s room, where the public sessions are held. Prior to the public session, another secret session was held, opening at 6:23 p. m. HELD AFTER ALLEGED THREAT ON BAB’S BABY Molyneux Charged by English With Kidnap Plot. By United Press MANCHESTER. England. March 16.—Alfred Molyneux was held today, charged with sending a threat to Countess Barbara von HaugwitzReventlow, Woolworth heiress, that her newly bom son was about to be kidnaped.