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EMPLOYMENT IN INDIANA UP 1.5 PER DENT Pay Roll Increase Is Set at 6.7 Per Cent by State Service. MAN HOURS SHOW RISE Greatest Advance Made in Quarrying, Non-Metallic Groups, Report. Employment, in Indiana increased 1.5 per cent in March over February, according to the Indiana State Employment Service. Pay rolls increased 6.7 per cent and man hours worked advanced 5.6 per cent during the same period. In Indianapolis, employment increased 2.2 per cent in March, and pay rolls gained 5.7 per cent. The state industry showing the greatest increase in employment was the quarrying and nonmetallic group, which jumped 50.3 per cent. The pay roh of that industry likewise showed the greatest gain, 89.4 per cent. The average plant employe in manufacturing industries today is working longer hours a week but is being paid more a week and an hour than during any period since December, 1934, the first period for which information is available, the report shows. Average hours worked a week in manufacturing plants increased from 38 6 hours in February to 40.4 hours in March. This gain brought the average work week 9.8 per cent above the average of 36.8 hours in March, 1935. ThP average weekly earnings in manufacturing industries increased during March 6.2 per cent to $23.71, or 13.2 per cent above the $20.95 average, a year ago. A record of average hourly earnings in manufacturing industries is available for Indiana only from April, 1935, During this period hourly earnings have increased 2.9 per cent from $0,577 to $0,594. WILLIAM RUSSELL, 64, ; DIES IN CITY HOSPITAL Native of Ireland. Had Lived Here 36 Years. William Russell, 2337 N. Dela-ware-st, a resident of this city since 1900, died early today at City Hospital where he had been a patient since Thursday. Mr. Russell was born in Ireland. Mr. Russel, who was 64, had been employed in the construction department of the Bell Telephone Cos. for the last 25 years. He previously was employed at the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. Survivors are the widow. Eleanor, two daughters. Mrs. Eleanor Monroe, and Miss Elizabeth Russell, and one son. Henry William Russell, all residing here: and another daughter. Mrs. Georgina Hull, of Miami. Fla., and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. WILLIAM E. MILENDER, LOCAL FIREMAN, DIES Pumper Company 30 Chief Dead After Illness With Pneumonia. Capt. William Earl Milender of Pumper Company 30. and a nephew of Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy, died early today at City Hospital of pneumonia, after a short illness. He resided at 510 W. 30th-st. Capt. Milender was born here Sept. 19, 1890. and had been a member of the Fire Department since 1913. He was a brother of Capt. Charles Milender of Headquarters Company 7. His father, Lieut. Charles W. Milender, who died 10 years ago, had been a member of the fire department for 29 years. Survivors, in addition to the brother. are his mother. Mrs. Josephine Milender: the widow. Ethel, and nine children. Darlene. William Jr., Fae Donna. Bonnie Joe. Maxine. Keiweth and Harold, all residing here: Mrs. Geraldine Paschall of Washington, D. C.. and a sister. Mrs. Edna Faux, Fanfrael. Cal. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. FIRE HITS DES MOINES Three Manufacturing Plants Destroyed in lowa Blaze. By United Press DES MOINES, la., April 18.— Fire swept through a block of the Des Moines industrial district today. burning out three manufacturing establishments and damaging others at an estimated loss of $50,000. Two huge gasoline and fuel oil storage tanks of the Cities Service Oil Cos. were saved. The tanks were within two inches of one building that was destroyed. Times Index Page Page Auto 16 Merry-Go-R’d 9 Births 12 Movies 14 Books 9 Mrs. Ferguson 10 Bridge 5 Music 8 Broun 9 Pegler 9 Churches ... 2 Pyle 10 Clapper 9 Questions ... 10 Comics 15 Radio 8 Crossword .. 16 Scherrer 10 Editorials ... 10 Science. Dietz 9 Fashions .... 5 Short Story.. 15 Financial ... 11 Side Glances. 10 Flynn 11 j Society 4 Grin, Bearit. 9 Sports 6 Johnson .... 9j State Deaths. 3

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EDUCATION DAY HELD AT SHOW State, City Schoolmen Are Honored 'at Home Exposition Here. Indiana Education Day, with city and state educators as honored guests, was held today at the fifteenth annual Home Complete Exposition in the Manufacturers Building at the Fairground. School children, accompanied by their parents, visited the displays. Salesmen at the show reported numerous prospects for refrigerators and other household appliances. The, Manufacturers’ Housing Display Council, composed of 144 of the nation’s leading builders and supply firms, is holding sessions during the exposition. Opportunities Outlined Yesterday, Frank H. Watson. Purdue University housing research project director, outlined the field available for the construction of new homes for the council. The nation is “under-built," he told the group. Mayor Kern issued a proclamation today urging citizens to attend the show, which will be open daily through April 26. U. S. AGENTS NAB 3 IN HAMM KIDNAPING SIOO,OOO Ransom Case Is Now Solved, Hoover Says. By United Penis WASHINGTON, April 18.—Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover today announced solution of the kidnaping of William A. Hamm Jr., in St. Paul in June, 1933. and said three arrests had been made. Hoover said three other individuals, now in prison, were involved in the case, as well as Alvin Karpis, sought as Public EnemyNo. 1. Hamm, wealthy brewer, was released after payment of SIOO,OOO ransom. Arrested yesterday by Federal agents were Charles J. Fitzgerald, apprehended in Los Angeles: Jack Pfeiffer, arrested in St. Paul, and Edward C. Bartholmey, postmaster at Bensenville, 111., arrested at Bensenville. Persons in prison serving sentences in connection with the Bremer kidnaping case were definitely linked with the Hamm abduction and listed as “Doc" Barker, in Alcatraz; Byron Bolton, in jail in St. Paul, and Elmer Farmer, in Leavenworth. Fred Barker, killed in Florida last year, also was connected with the Hamm kidnaping, Hoover said. ROAD WORK HALTED AGAIN BY PAY FIGHT Terre Haute Pickets Persuade 75 to Abandon Work. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., April 18.—Construction work on state road 58, near Ashbore was halted again today after pickets from Terre Haute induced about 75 workers to leave their jobs yesterday. The pickets demanded that the U. R. Price. Construction Cos.. Bloomington, pay the workers 50 cents an hour, although the work was contracted with the Indiana State Highway Commission for 37. cents pi hour for common labor.

FORECAST: Fair tonight with frost; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer.

GOLF TOGS IN ORDER, WEATHER BUREAU SAYS Clear Skies, Warmer, Is Prediction Made for Week-End. J. H. Armngton, United States meteorologist who plays a little golf himself, predicted that it would be warm enough tomorrow for the city’s links fans to enjoy themselves. He said a light frost is expected tonight, but tomorow should be fair and slightly warmer. The temperature is expected to climb over the week-end.

HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER BLAMED FOR DEATH County’s 41st Traffic Victim Is Unidentified Negro. A middle-aged Negro, unidentified, believed to have been the victim of a hit-and-run driver, died in City Hospital today. His is the forty-first Marion County traffic death this year. / Police found him lying near the intersection of Walnut and New Jer-sey-sts early today. Skid marks on the pavement showed that a car had stopped suddenly. Adam Reid McClintock. 22, of 21? N. Warman-av, lone survivor of an automobile crash that brought death to six April 3, gained consciousness today for the first time since the accident. City Hospital physicians reported he still was in a serious condition. The accident occurred in the 4300 block on W. Washington-st. A man believed to be Jack Messner, 50. of 32 W. 26th-st, was in a critical condition at City Hospital, suffering from injuries received when he was struck last night by an automobile at Highlan-pl and 24th-st. Sam Britt,- Negro, 49, of 821 Fay-ette-st, driver of the car, said the man was walking with his head down and apparently did not see the automobile. Britt was not held. BANGS’ RIGHT TO HIRE AND FIRE THREATENED Mayor Expected to Kill Measure Passed. 5-*, by Council. By United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind.. April 18.— Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs today was expected to “pocket veto” a measure passed by the City Council last night which prohibits him from appointing and discharging city employes. The council passed the measure by a 5 to 2 vote, indicating it could be passed again over the mayor's veto. The council’s action was taken after Bangs had discharged James P. Adkins, waterworks superintendent. Adkins was succeeded by S. Perry Hull of Lawrenceville. HI. Bangs recently was named defendant in a slander suit filed by Adkins. HUNTS TORTURE HOUSE IN BROOKLYN DISTRICT Paul Wendel Says He Was Held in Sheepshead Bay Area. By United Press NEW YORK. April 18.—Paul H. Wendel, disbarred New Jersey attorney. began a search of the Sheepshead Bay district of Brooklyn today for a house in which he says four men burned and beat him for 10 days to obtain a confession that he murdered the Lindbergh baby. Wendel arrived from Trenton, N. J.. last night. He conferred at once with District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan. directing a grand jury inquiry into Wendel’s story. Geoghan predicted that the investigation would involve New Jersey state officials.

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TAX BILL READY TO GOTOHOUSE Committee Democrats Vote to Sponsor BillionDollar Measure. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—The new $1,127,000,000 tax bill, revised materially from President Roosevelt’s suggestions, was ready today for the House action next week Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted at a secret meeting last night to sponsor it as drafted by a sub-com-mittee. Democratic approval was tantamount to final full committee endorsement, expected formally Monday. The bill will not include new processing taxes spread over about 30 commodities, as recommended by Mr. Roosevelt, but otherwise cleaves to his main, proposals for balancing the ordinary budget. Committee Democrats admitted that, on paper at least, the measure would fall at least $345,000,000 short of the revenue over a three-year period sought by the President. What It Calls For The measure calls for: . 1. A graduated tax on undistributed corporate profits. 2. A 90 per cent tax on income from processing taxes which processors can not prove were paid by them and not passed on. 3. Retention of the capital stock tax until June 30 at half rate and continuance of the excess profits tax for the preesnt taxable year. 4. A $35,000,000 refund from taxes imposed on floor stocks under the AAA and refunds in the case of where proces,sed commodities were sold to charitable institutions or exported. 5. A flat 15 per cent tax on earnings of banks and insurance companies, which would be exempt from the new corporate profits rates. 6. A 22% per cent rate instead of the graduated profits tax on corporation earnings used to pay off in- ; curred debts. 7. A 10 per cent tax on income | received by non-resident aliens from j domestic corporations. PROBERSBAREFIGHT OR WELFARE CLAUSE Sentinels of Republic May Seek Repeal, Is Claim. By Bcripps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 18.—The Sentinels of the Republic are considering a campaign to repeal the general welfare clause of the Constitution, Senate Lobby Committee records disclosed today. They have already consulted with Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R„ N. Y.) and Senator Jesse Metcalf (R., R. I.), according to letters in the organization’s files. The plan was first proposed by Prof. W. A. Wilson or Yale in a j letter to Alexander Lincoln, presi- ! dent of the Sentinels. Mr. Lincoln replied that he would like to see ; it done, and later instructed the I Sentinel’s Washington representai tive to “look into the situation.” He got a report that it probably would be better to wait. To another suggestion, from W. Cleveland Runyan, Plainfield. N. J., that the Sentinels concentrate their energies on anti-Semitism. Mr. Lincoln answered that “I am doing what I can. 1 think as you say that the Jewish threat is a real one.” Mr. Runyan wrote that .“the old line Americans—want a Hitler.”

TURKS TAKE OVER DARDANELLES, EXPECT BRITISH, SOVIET SUPPORT; WAR VICTORY NEAR, DUCE HOLDS

Learns Selassie Is Reported Ready to Seek Peace, Quit Throne. SEES LEAGUE DEFEATED Expects Triumph Exceeding His Wildest Dreams, Is Report in Rome. (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) ROME, April 18.—Premier Benito Mussolini, jubilant, awaited confidently today what he expects to be the greatest triumph of his dramatic career. He visualized the collapse of Ethiopia, the abdication of Emperor Haile Selassie, the virtual annexation of a country nearly three times as big as Italy, the humiliation of Great Britain and the disastrous defeat of a League of Nations he has ■always hated. It was understood that he had sent to Marshal Pietro Badoglio. commander-in-chief in East Africa, detailed instructions on his terms for an armistice and the abdication of the Emperor. Believes Peace Is Near Unofficial but reliable sources said that he had received assurances that the Ethiopian Crown Prince, Afsa Wosen, was ready to negotiate peace unconditionally and to assume the nominal sovereignty of the country as a puppet emperor under Italian domination. It wds even insisted that the Emperor himself was ready to abdicate in wosen’s favor, and had communicated this offer to Italian representatives. But regardless of immediate developments, Mussolini saw himself today as in the final stage of winning a victory greater than even he had dreamed. Envisions Control of Sea He was beginning already, it was understood, to lay his plans for Europe, to restore Italy’s position as the protector of Austria and to take his full place as a chieftain in discussions for a general European scheme of political consolidation. Furthermore, he foresaw the rise of Italy as the great Mediterranean power—in a vital section of the British line of communication to the Near East, India and Australia. Today, with the beginning of the sixth month, all agencies of government sought to impress the public with the imminence of complete military and diplomatic victory. Campaign to Be Continued Italy's plans to continue its military campaign in Ethiopia without relaxing its efforts due to League activities were emphasized in government circles where it was said that the Italian offensive- would continue at the present pace. It also was stated that Italy’s envoys would attend the Monday League session “in a sense of perfect calm and security.” The foreign office spokesmen had “nothing to say” concerning the reports of Haile Selassie’s possible abdication and Ethiopian requests for an armistice. OIL SHARES GUN IN IRREGULAR OPENING Stock Trading Falls Off to Light Pace. By United Press NEW YORK. April 18.—Oils con - tinued to advance at an irregular opening on the Stock Exchange today. Trading was fairly active at the outset, later falling off to the recent light pace. Bonds eased and the dollar was steady while commodities continued to advance. Wheat rose into new high ground with gains ranging to more than a cent a bushel. Cotton futures gained 2 to 4 points. (By Thomson <fe McKinnont 10:30 A M. Prev. N. Y, close. Atchison 81 80% N Y Cent 39 38% Pennsylvania 33% 33 % Gen Elec *4O 40 Westinghouse Elec 118’ 2 118% U S Rubber 32% 32% Chrysler 99 % 99% Gen Motors 67% 67% Nash 20 19% Borg Warner 74% 75*4 Elec Auto 38% 39 Houdaile 26 26% Stewart Warner 23% 23% Bendix . 30f* 30% Douglas Air 64 % 64% United Air 24% 25% Anaconda 38;-. 38% Int Nicfcel . 48% 48% Kennecott 41% 41% Du Pont 146% 147% Union Carbide 84% 85 Cons Oil 14 13% Phillips 47% 46% SO of Ind 38% 48 SOof N J 64% 64% Beth Steel 58% 59% Rep Iron & Steel 23% 23% U S Steel 6 68% 68% AT&T 165% 165 Cons Gas 32*. 32 Nor Am Cos 27% 28 Western Union 86% 85 s * Conti Baking A" 16 s * 16% Natl Dairy 23 23% Stand Brands 15% 15 s . Com Solvents 19% 19 j Celanese 28% 26% Am Radiator 22*2 22% Mont Ward 43, 43% Madrid General Strike Ended | By United Press MADRID, April 18.—A 24-hour general strike against Fascist violence ended this morning. Workers in all lines of activity returned to their jobs as if nothing had happened,

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NAVY MAY ASK 2 BATTLESHIPS High Officials to Confer With Roosevelt, It Is Indicated. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 13.—An effort to convince President Roosevelt that the United States Navy should lay the keels of two battleships this year will be made soon by high naval officials, it was indicated today. This revelation followed an informal statement by the President at a White House conference that he did not think he would ask the Raymond Clapper discusses the naval situation today on Page One, second section. present Congress to authorize the two sea monsters on which the Navy has set its heart. He added, however, that he had not yet heard the Navy’s views. He will hear these just as soon as he has time for an extended conference with Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations, who recently returned from the London Naval Conference. Standley is convinced that the present session of Congress should authorize the two ships and appropriate about $10,000,000 to lay their keels. Support for the Navy’s program was indicated by Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. He said the United States would build two new battleships “as soon as the funds can be obtained.” MAGDA LUPESGUIS SAVED FROM PLOT Carol’s Favorite, Others Marked by Terrorists. By United Press VIENNA. April 18.—Several members of the suppressed “Iron Guard” have been arrested for alleged implication in an assassination plot directed against Magda Lupescu, favorite of King Carol of Roumaniaand officials of the present regime, reports from reliable sources in Bucharest said today. Details of the reported plot said that Iron Guard students had formed 11 terrorist groups, each composed of five members. Each group was said to have been assigned to the duty of killing one official. Passenger Vessel Aground By United Pres* BALTIMORE. Md.. April 18. - The passenger steamship Dorothy Bradford, bound for Philadelphia from Virginia, ran aground off Tolchester Light in Chesapeake Bay tonight and hoisted distress signals.

Promise to Aid England in Case Italy Attacks Is Recalled. GAVE WARNING FIRST Asked League to Study Its Plea to Rearm Zone Due to Crisis. BY FREDERICK KUH (Copyright, 1936. by United Press) LONDON, April 18.—Turkey’s promise that it would support Great Britain in event of an attack by Italy was expected today to make certain that there would be no real opposition to its reoccupation of the Dardanelles in emulation of Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland. Officials were understood to have been astonished at news that Turkish soldiers had occupied the straits. The Turkist note of April 11. notifying Lausanne Treaty Powers of the country’s intention of reclaiming full sovereignty over the straits —including their defense—clearly indicated readiness to negotiate before acting. Turkey had even asked the League of Nations to put the problem on the agenda for the League Council meeting in May. Only yesterday Great Britain offiically notified Turkey that it appreciated the method in which it raised the question. Praised by Press All week newspapers have showered praised on Turkey for abstaining from direct action in occupying the zone and its willingness to seek legal revision of the Lausanne Treaty. News of the occupation was even more surprising because several powers had taken similar sympathetic views. Increasing tension in the Mediterranean was believed the factor which caused the change in President Mustapha Kemal Ataturk’s plans to seek consent of the treaty signatories. His action might be calculated to retard British assent—but it was remembered at once that Turkey in November, among other Mediterranean powers, pledged armed aid to Britain in case of a “mad dog” act by Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy. Italy, Japan Willing That gesture left a decidedly favorable impression, probably sufficient to counteract annoyance at the treaty scrapping. Bureaut SHRDLU Turkeys’ relations with Britain, France and Russia are excellent. Russia was believed to have urged Turkey to seek permission for reoccupation. Rumania was willing and Greece and Yugoslavia were expected to follow the example of Britain and France. Italy, also, was said to be ready to accede because it desires Turkey’s good will. I Japan was said to be entirely i willing. LEAGUE TO ADMIT FAILURE IN CRISIS British Urge More Penalties; Others Confess Defeat. By United Preen GENEVA, April 18.—League leaders assembled today to confess their ! failure to stop the Italian war on 1 Ethiopia, their impotence to enforce new penalties against Italy and their inability to make good their pledges under the League covenant ! to protect each other from attack. A meeting of the Committee of 13 | —the Council without Italy—was | called for this afternoon. Its chief ; business was to adopt formally a report by Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, its chairman, admitting the fact that peace efforts had failed. On the surface Premier Mussolini of Italy was triumphant in his defiance of the League and particulari ly of Great Britain, leader in the demand that Italy be punished. But Anthony Eden of Great Britain continued his fight. He obtained agreement that a committee of experts ! should meet Monday to examine the I application of penalties now in effect, with a view to making them | more effective. SELASSIE APPEALS TO LEAGUE FOR AID Message Discounts Italian Report of Approaching Abdication. GENEVA, April 18.—Emperor I Haile Selassie telegraphed personally to the League of Nations today, again appealing lor aid in his country's extremity. The Emperor's appeal would serve to discount measurably Italian asi sertions that he had agreed to abdicate.

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Kemal’s Troops Patrol Zone, Marking End of Another War Treaty. STRAIT PACT IS DEFIED Ottoman Empire Regains Control Over Area Lost in Great Conflict. By United Preen ANKARA (Angora), Turkey, April 18.—Turkish soldiers stood watch along the Dardanelles today, in token that another World War treaty was dead. President. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk decided upon the occupation of the zone, it was learned, because of the dangerous international situation. The cabinet approved the move Thursday night at a meeting which Marshal Fevzi attended. Troops moved into position along the 47-mile-long zone, the ancient Hellespont, yesterday. By the occupation, and the expected fortification, Turkey again takes control of the strait—only three to four miles wide—between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. in defiance of the straits convention of the Lausanne Treaty which provided for the internationalization of the zone and of the Bosporus Strait to the east. No real opposition was expected from the signatories of the Lausanne Treaty. OCCUPATION JUSTIFIED. SOVIET OFFICIAL SAYS Turkish Move Approved by Russia, Litvinov Declares. j By United Press MOSCOW, April 18.—Maxim | Litvinov, commissar for foreign af* fairs, informed the Turkish ambas* sador today that Russia consider* Turkey’s occupation of the DardaI nelles justified in view of the danger of war and that Russia was ready to participate in negotiation* to make the occupation legal, GIANT LINER IS GIVEN SECRET SPEED TESTS All Shipping Warned to Stay Off Course of Queen Mary, By United Press GOUROCK. Scotland, April 18.— The Queen Mary, great new Cunard White star liner, left her anchorage today for secret speed trials and was reported to be “full out’’ over a measured mile. The trial was perhaps the most, secretive ever conducted in the case of a merchant ship. Shipping was warned off the liner's course, all members of the crew and workmen aboard except a handful of high officials were kept off the top decks, and communication as to the ship’s progress was made by means of paper tape code. 4 On its 48-hour voyage from Southampton to Gourock, the Queen Mary averaged 29.2 knots, it was learned—almost breaking the record —with plenty of power in reserve. FREDDIE’S FOLKS FIX SECRET PEACE PARLEY Juvenile Star Mav See Mother. Attorneys Auree. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, April 13.—The battling Bartholomews, whose fight centers around the bewildered head of little Freddie Bartholomew j of the films, were to hold a secret ! peace conference somewhere in the | movie colony today. After protracted legal negotiations, attorneys representing Mis* Millicent Bartholomew, aunt and guardian of the 12-yer-old star, agreed that he be allowed to see his mother, Mrs. Lillian MMae Bar- ! tholomew of London, whom he ha* 1 not seen for several years. Should they arrive in time, the boy's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Bartholomew, may sit 1 in on the meeting. They are due here today on their leisurely journey from England. BRAZIL BOARD DISPUTE STALEMATED BY MOVE Democrats Powerless as G. O. P, Vacancy Is Created. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., April 18.—Resignation of William P. Tilley, Republican, from the Water Works Board today stalemated attempts of the Democratic majority of the city to gain control of tne water work* plant. Withdrawal of the minority member leaves the board incomplete and the majority members of the council will be unable to seek jurisdiction from Clay Circuit Court for its appointees, as planned. Meanwhile, the board appointed by Mayor Levi Louderba jk, Republican, functioned as administrator of the plant. New York Gets More Snow MALONE. N. Y., April 18 —Snow plows were returned to duty today in this northern New York region Snow from four to 12 inches covered the Adirondacks.