Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1936 — Page 1
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19 TURF STARS IN ! DERBY TOMORROW; 1 BREVITY FAVORITE
Field for Big Race • By Vnttt't Peru '.-VILI.E. May I.—The field for tomorrows sixty-second . g of the Kentucky Derby: r . r < n r *? . W ‘- fntbey Owner p. odd* l<a)R*nl*tcr 12* j. Rfnirk E. R. Bradley JO-1 2 (e)Merrr Pete PM T. Mailer Belalr Stud -l 3 Indian Bronnt US G . B nrn* A c Ttvlor .y,., J - "'’ n, I ' l C- Knrtainger Mr*. S. B. Mason 15-1 s—(e)Dnleper J 2 E. Arearn Mr*. P. A. B. Widener fi-5 d— (e)Cranrllle I2fl j. stnnt Belalr Stnd -t 7-Bnld Venture 12 Halford M , Sehwarta B-l A—(a) Blen .101 l I2 L. Balaakl E. R. Rradley 10-1 o—(d)The Fighter 120 A. Robertson Milky Way Stable 12-1 10—<e)Teutel 120 E. Mtzenberger Wheatley Stable 0-1 11 - Seventh Heaven m No Boy W. C. Goodlne fitl-l 12- Forest Play 120 11. Brammer Bomar Stable io-l 13— (b)Grand Slam 120 R. Workman Bomar Stable 10-1 ’ -"’Brevity 120 W. Wright J. E. Widener -5 I f d i Sangreal I2fi M. Garner Milky Way Stable jo-l I* Gold Seeker 121 M. Peters Foxeateher Farm* 20-1 - ' "Watream 120 N. Wall Coldstream Stud 15-1 l—Moll Image 120 No Boy Superior Stable 50-1 mU * W. Garner Mrs. B. Franzheim 50-1 '* —F. F. Bradley entry; < b> —Bomar Stable entry; (e) Belalr Stud and Wheatley Stable entry: (d>—Milky Way Stable entry; (e>—Widener entry. . Weather, showers late in afternoon; probable track, slow. “ Probable post time 4:40, Indianapolis time.
Sloppy Track Is Expected, With 14 Likely to Go to Post. By United Pre** LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 1. —Nineteen 3-year-old thoroughbreds, headed by Joseph |E. Widener’s heavy favorite i Brevity, today were nominated for the sixty-second running of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow at Churchill Downs. That number was not expected to go to the post, however, because a muddy track was forecast. James L. Kendall, meteorologist, predicted there will be showers tomorrow with today and tonight cloudy with possible rains. This would prevent the already soggy track from drying out. There were only two surprise entries—Mrs. P. B. Widener’s Dnieper, which will run coupled with Brevity, and Seventh Heaven, an unknown filly owned by W. C. Goodloe. Seventh Heaven, which, with Foxcatcher Farm's Gold Seeker, brings the number of fillies to two, was nominated one minute before the entries closed. If the track is heavy, it’s likely that only about 14 will start. Brevity continued to rule a 6-5 favorite today with the entry of Granville, Teufel and Merry Pete next at 6-1, Holl Image, owned by the Superior’ Stable, was the thirteenth horse placed in the nomination box. Jack Carter, trainer, complained that his rider, H. W. Fisher, quit him last night and that he still was looking for a jockey. Carter dropped his entry into the box after Darrel Cannon, trainer of Maj. Austin C. Taylor’s Indian Broom, had waited eight minutes for some other stable to make the thirteenth entry. Indian Broom, Western speedster, was the fourteenth nominee. QUIET CELEBRATIONS MARK U. S. MAY DAY Police Alert in Europe as Labor Takes Holiday. By United Press Labor organizations in virtually all large cities of the country celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of May Day with parades and speeches today. Socialists and Communists took charge of the ceremonies in some communities but police nowhere expected a disturbance. The traditional holiday of the organized workers of Europe, the day was celebrated all over the continent with police on the alert for disorders. The celebrations in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia were official. Spain was the chief potential trouble center, but in Poland authorities took extraordinary precautions. A united labor May Day committee in which American Federation of Labor unions and Socialists and Communists of all hues co-oper-ated. expected 200.000 - marchers to participate in a seven-hour parade past a reviewing stand in New York’s Union Square. A plan to have Tom Mooney lead the march failed because Gov. Frank Morriam of California refused to release him from San Quentin prison under $1,000,000 bail. Communist Russia held a gigantic display of its military might in the Red Square of Moscow before the Kremlin. MERCURY HITS RECORD $ • Soars to 80 at Noon; Showers Forecast Tomorrow. A new temperature mark for this year was reached at noon today When the mercury recorded 80 degrees. The temperature was 78 on April 20, Thundershowers are expected tonight and tomorrow’, with cooler weather tomorrow’, the United States Weather Bureau said. ASK POLES REMOVED BlUtr-av Property Owners Request Underground Utility Wiring. property owners living ym N. Rltter-av from WashingtonaV. to Pleasant Run-blvd today asked Works Board to have utility flplM removed and the wires run underground. The street is to be Widened from 20 u> 36 feet in that weetion. The board said it would
The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Unsettled with thunder showers tonight and probably tom morrow morning, followed by fair; cooler late tonight and tomorrow.
VOLUME 48—NUMBER 44
Our Joe Williams Tries Four Systems, Produces Four Different Winners. BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky., May I.—This department will now proceed to the business of picking the winner of the Derby. It will proceed with its customary thoroughness, and, it is to be hoped, with its customary success, which in the past has been nothing short of appalling. First, the department will employ the form system. Like Hungarian goulash, this consists of many things. It involves a close study of breeding, training, relative time, track conditions and the feasibility of the Townsend Plan. It also involves a studied attitude and a profound mood, befitting the impressive expert. All these factors have received the careful consideration of your correspondent and while he felt it distasteful peering intimately into the family lines of the thoroughbreds—l mean how would you like to have some snoopy stranger checking up on your forfears?—it was so’^-'thing that just had to be done. The result of this consideration, which is thp basis of the aforementioned form, leads the department to forecast the result of the Derby will be Brevity, Bervity and Brevity, in the order named. On form, supported by proved ability, the Joe E. Widener colt really stands out like a tarpon in a goldfish bowl. But this department does not rely wholly on the form system, or the Rockne system either, for that matter. Form can be misleading. Now you take a lady in a ballroom gown, and then take her (Turn to Page Three)
m WORKER UNDER FIRE AS POLL CLERK Ouster Is Demanded by Greenlee Forces. Thfc Marion County Board of Election Commissioners this afternoon was considering a demand of Greenlee supporters for the removal of Harry H. Ferguson, 26 E. 14th-st, as inspector in the Eleventh precinct of the Eighth Ward, because he is a WPA employe. They claim that Federal job holders are barred from holding election board positions. John Harness, 324 E. 12th-st, a former employe of the. state gross income tax division and one of the Greenlee delegates, signed the petition. Mr. Ferguson is a supervisor of surplus commodities for the state Works Progress Administration. He could not be reached for comment. Election board members said they would hold a hearing on the pretest. DEFEAT OF INFLATION MEASURE PREDICTED Speaker Byrns Says Frazier-Lemke Bill Is to Come Up May 11. By United Pre* WASHINGTON, May I.—Speaker Joseph W. Byrns today predicted the $3,000,000,000 Frazier-Lemke inflationary bill to refinance farm mortgages would be defeated in the House. Byrns said he opposed any “short cuts” to prevent its consideration because he feels the measure has no chance of passage. He said the bill would come up May 11 unless the House recesses “unexpectedly.” FOUR ARE KILLEdTn TWO AUTO ACCIDENTS Sisters Die at Evansville; Illinois Youths at Terre Haute. By United Pm* EVANSVILLE, Ind., May I.—Mrs. Sadie Conners, 59. and Mrs. Ella McCoy, 50, were killed today when their automobile was demolished by a C. & E. I. passenger trai nat a city crossing. They were en route to Princeton to attend the funeral of a brother-in-law. By United Pre** TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May I. Joseph Stanfield. 20, and Wilford Stephens. 19, were killed and Charles Stahl. 20. was injured critically toISO. All were from Paris tu,
FARM HAND IS CHARGED WITH rivers™ Al Barton Brought Here for Questioning by Detectives. WOUNDED PAL HUNTED Confederate Is Believed to Be Hiding Somewhere in Indianapolis. Preliminary hearing for Al Barton 25-year-old farm hand, charged with the slaying of Sergt Richard Riv A-s, was to be this afternoon in Municipal Court. The detective department was expected to ask for a continuance of the case, pending further investigation. Police hope definitely to establish the right name of the suspect who apparently has gone under innumerable aliases, among them Brady. Brought from Chicago, where he was captured, Barton was questioned by relays of detectives seeking to find the hideout of a wounded confederate believed to be hiding in Indianapolis. Twelve deputy sheriffs were planted at a former gang headquarters, and police were checking underworld haunts throughout the city.
Brunet Also Held Held with him on a vagrancy charge was Mrs. Margaret Barry, 21-year-old brunet, who, police •said, left her hilsband at the New Orleans Mardi Gras to join the desperado. She was held under $25,000 bond, and is to appear in court with Barton. An Indianapolis garage owner, Chester Hart, 26, confessed today, according to detectives, that - he stored bandit automobiles at 3927 W. Washington-st, and helped them in their getaways. His wife was said to have had in her possession some of the loot stolen by the bandits at a Lima (O.) robbery. Police slated both as accessories to the murder. In a raid at Hart’s home, 27 S. Lyndhurst-dr, today, police claimed they found remnants of jewelry boxes which had been burned. These, they said, apparently weia taken in the Lima robbery. Detectives also found a gold watch and a shotgun at the Hart home. Following a preliminary in Municipal Court 3 this morning, the cases of Mr. and Mrs. Hart were continued until May 12 on motion of the state. Barton is reported to have said his three accomplices were James Marvin and Lee Jackson, who he said still might be in Chicago, and Elmer Martin, confined to an Indianapolis hideout with gufi wounds. Bandits Seek Aid Martin received the wounds either in the Lima robbery or during the battle in front of Dr. E. E. Rose’s home, 2153 Barth-a v, it was thought. It was during the latter melee that Sergt. Rivers was killed. The bandits had gone to the physician’s residence to seek treatment for a wounded confederate. In reconstructing the crime this morning, Chief Morrissey said Barton apparently was the actual slayer. “There is every indication that the bullets which killed Rivers came from inside the porch,” he said. “Barton was the only one inside, I believe. Holes left by the bullets showed the mesh was forced out. This indicates that they were not made by slugs fired at the house.” James E. JVatson, deputy prosecuting attorney, returned from Chicago early this morning with the stolen automobile in which Barton escaped to that city. Watson said (Turn to Page Three)
34 GARS ENTERED IN 500-MILE RAGE List Incomplete; Midnight Is Deadline. An incomplete entry list of 34 cars was announced today for the twen-ty-fourth running of the 500-mfie Memorial Day race at the Speedway. The entry deadline falls at midnight tonight. Three former winners are among the speed pilots nominated, and the entry of a fourth, Fred Frame, is expected before the bar drops. Kelly Petillo, daring little Italian-Ameri-can who captured 1935 laurels has returned. Bill Cummings, local favorite, first in 1934, and Louis Meyer, hoping to be the first threetime winner after victories in *2B and *33, are other champions preparing for qualifying trials. The incomplete entry roster is on Page 31. FEDERAL INQUIRY OF STATE WPA RUMORED Alleged Political Abuses Reported Under Investigation. A Federal Investigator from Washington is reported to be in Indianapolis to investigate alleged political abuses in the Indiana Works Progress Administration. Senator Frederick VanN uy s charged last week* that WPA jobs were being used to insure the Democratic gubernatorial nomination for Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. The Senator took the charges before Harry Hopkins. WPA head. Gov. McNutt has joined Senator VanNuys in a demand that the charges be in-
FRIDAY, MAY 1,1936
BURIED ALIVE 10 DAYS * * H XXX MMX Dr. Robertson Begins Gripping Story
E4it*r'i Note: This li the first installment of an epie story of three men who were burled alive in the Moose River mine collapse. It is written by Dr. D. E. Robertson, one of the survivors. It is told In his own words, a narrative which by its very simplicity of language, and authentic detail, etches a stark picture of this amazing subterranean drama. BY DR. D. E. ROBERTSON JJALIFAX, N. S., May. 1. —The Moose River mine had been running for a month or more, and Magill was anxious that I should go down to Nova Scotia to see the mine and the pouring of the brick. It was Saturday that we left. We proceeded to Shubenacadie, where we were met by Alfred Scadding, who had been employed by Magill as a timekeeper and bookkeeper at the mine. With him was “Shorty” Henderson. We drove the 16 or 20 miles to the mine that night, arriving just before midnight. Magill and I changed ifilo oilskins and decent leather boots, and with Scadding and “Shorty” Henderson went over to the mine and proceeded below. The mine was empty of miners. We looked around the workings that night and came above ground Sunday morning about 3 o'clock. The day was spent in loafing about, and about half past 9 in the evening Magill thought it would be necessary to go below ground again to demonstrate some of the points he had been making during our conversation. We had a good supper about 8:30. When we were ready to leave for the mine Magill was dressed in heavy underwear, riding breeches, heavy long leather boots, with two pairs of heavy socks, which were laced tight. He wore a heavy plaid shirt, covered with sweatshirt, over which he wore a grenfell jacket, on top of this again a rubber coat, and a fedora hat. I was dressed in light underwear, with two pairs of heavy socks, flannel trousers which held inside the socks, and the boots laced up outside to the knee, which left me a fair amount of foot room and ankle room. I wore an ordinary cricket shirt and a camel’s-hair sweater covered by a grenfell jacket. I also wore rubber pants and sou’wester rubber hat. x * * SCADDING was dressed in heavy clothing; his boots were long leather ones, laced up to the knee; he had a leather jacket on in place of a rubber one. He wore a round leather hat, parts of which could be pulled down over his ears. He carried a miner’s acetylene lamp, a kerosene pressure lamp, two small pencil torches, and one large hand torch. There was no one around in the various buildings. We went into the hoist house and Magill and I dropped down to the 370-foot level. On arrival Magill and I walked out the west cross-cut to its face. We were joined there by Scadding, who had come down or. a subsequent trip of the skip. Magill knocked some specimens from the wall. Scadding commented that there was more noise in the mine than usual. Personally I took no notice of that. After a few moments more, Scadding again suggested that there was an unusual amount of noise, and his voice held the slightest suggestion of alarm. Magill immediately sensed the danger and we listened intently. Magill said, “Let’s get out of hers,” and we immediately wjnt to the skip. Magill and I went in, Scadding was instructed to signal to take us up to the next level, and we were taken up there. * * ' ■ SCADDING waited for a second trip of the skip, as we thought. We walked through on the 140foot level to the west cross-cut, and on passing the stopes (excavations made in steps) we heard rock falling in a quantity that was abnormal. We crossed back to the shaft, stepped over the skip and went into the east cross-cut. On looking up the stope from here we saw a big timber split. We dashed back to the Skip just as Scadding came up the ladder from the lower level. Magill said, "Pull the signal, Alf. and ride the skip with us!” Scadding grasped the signal cord in his two hands and tugged on it. At once It seemed as If his pulling the cord had released the whole rock slide. There was a dreadful downdraft of air, fol(Tum to Page Three) Times Index Births 36 Merry-Go-R’d. 19 Books 19 Movies 24 Bridge 18 Mrs. Ferguson 20 Broun 19 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Clapper 19 Music 25 Comics 35 Pegler /l 9 Crossword ... 4 Pyle 20 Editorials 20 Questions 20 Fashions .... 17 Radio 25 Financial .... 22 Scberrer 20 Rshbein 20 Science Flynn 22 Serial Story.. 14 rwa •••**• oiKjrTi cHory.. so
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Rescue near, miners from all sections of Nova Scotia gathered at the entrance of the Moose River gold mine, ready to relieve the men digging at the last barrier to the men entombed 141 feet below the surface. A picture taken during the last hours of the rescue work is shown here.
The Story Behind the Story Dr. D. E. Robertson’s own story of the dreadful 242 hours’ entombment in the Moose River gold mine is absolutely verbatim, as it was taken down by a stenographer in his room in Halifax General Hospital. The world-renowned surgeon donated this story to the Red Cross of Canada for sale to the publishing world. The writing of this story, in which are combined the experiences of Alfred Scadding, Herman Magill, who perished, and the doctor, is in itself a simple drama. Anxiously guarded by physicians, Dr. Robertson was determined to fulfill,his obligation to Hie Red Cross. The best newspaper men in Canada were placed at his disposal. But physicians feared to admit any outsiders to his room, lest reaction set in. The expedient of a dictaphone was tried. The doctor, speaking into the microphone, filled four discs. These w’ere rushed outside, but to the transcribers’ dismay they were found to be utterly unintelligible. The doctor’s voice had been too weak, apparently. The transcribers, making a disc themselves, explained their predicament to the doctor. But he was unable to raise his voice and the experiment was dropped. Then the physicians finally agreed it might not tax him if an expert stenographer were admitted to the patient’s room. Discretely situated, she was in a position to take down eysry word that came from the doctors lips, whenever he felt strong enough to speak. Nearly a day of this passed/ while newspaper presses throughout the world paused. It worked. And now we are able to publish this, the first chapter'of the story of two gallant gentlemen who lived in the dark for 10 days and 10 nights, while a brave band Os miners clawed from the surface 140 feet above, often with their bare hands, to reach them.
C. of C. Assails Pay Raise Disappointing to Teachers
Flat Increase to Embrace Larger Number, Is Stand Taken by Board. The Federation of Public School Teachers today expressed disappointment at the SIOO flat salary increase voted yesterday by the School Board to all teachers not affected by the minimum salary law. President Wilbur S. Barnhart said, however, that the federation had the highest confidence in the judgment and ability of the board. The flat restoration plan, the board said, insures a larger amount of restoration to lower-salaried group than a percentage plan would have. “While we had hoped that the board would be able to make a larger step toward restoring our salaries this year than last year, we have the highest confidence in the judgment and ability of the board,” Mr. Barnhart said. Still Below 1931 Level “When it is understood that this restoration leaves salaries still below the 1931 level, and that no automatic increases have been granted to higher salary levels since 1931, we believe the citizens* will heartily approve the action of the board. “The method of apportioning the raises meets with the approval of the federation.” Elementary teachers, according to the state minimum salary law passed by the 1935 session of the Legislature, are to receive salaries ranging from SIOOO to SI2OO. All elementary teachers who receive less than SI2OO and who have served one year, are to receive SI2OO in 1936-37. Law Forces Adjustment The law also requires that minimum salaries paid high school teachers, up to and including the fourth year of experience, shall be from $1250 to $1350 a year. The 1936-37 schedule makes the adjustment required by this law. In effect, this restoration still leaves a reduction of from six to nine and nine-tenths per cent on banc salaries of SI9OO or more. More than two-thirds of Indianapolis teachers are included in this group. On salaries of SISOO to SIBOO, reductions of 3.6 per cent to 5.4 per cent are still in effect. The average salary cut in effect now is 1314 per cent. The estimated cost of this restoration is $205,780 as against a restor(Turn to Page itfx> 3 ARE HURT IN WRECK Taxicab, Auto Collide at North and Meridian-sis. Three persons were injured’ today when,* taxicab overturned at North and Meridian.au after striking an
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Warns Taxpayers May Face Highest Tax Rate in History Next Year. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today released a statement claiming that “property taxpayers are likely to be confronted with demands for the highest tax rate in the history of the city” in 1937. The increase in teachers’ salaries granted by the School Board yesterday “is only one of a coasiderable number of demands that will be made for larger expenditures and higher taxes next year by local units of government,” the chamber said. The statement follows: “The action of the Board of School Commissioners in voting to spend $205,000 more in the next fiscal year for a further restoration of salary reduction will mean an addition of 8 cents on each SIOO of taxables in the property tax rate next year if all the needed revenue is raised within the fiscal year. “Unfortunately for the property taxpayer, this‘is only one of a considerable number of demands that will be made for larger expenditures and higher taxes next yeas by thi§ and other local units of government. A summary of the factors now beginning to appear in(Tura to Page Six) IRREGULAR ADVANCE IS MADE ON STOCK MARKET List Steadies Before Noon, Rises to Moderate Gains. By United Pre** NEW YORK, May 1. —Prices made an irregular advance in light trading on the Stock Exchange in the first three hours of today’s session after a series of swings back and forth.
America once again watches the stock market. What is behind all this activity? John T. Flynn, one of this country’s best known writers on economics, tells you the whole story in his series of articles starting today on Second Setion, Page One.
The list ran into moderate selling just before noon, but quickly steadied and rose to moderate gains. Later the dealings fell off sharply to a rate of less than a million shares for a full session. BUFFALO MAYOR FACES 3 JURY INDICTMENTS N. Y. Official Accused of Alleged Patronage Deals. By United Pre* BUFFALO, N. Y., M#y I.—The Erie County Grand Jury today returned three indictments against that he entered
HAILE TO FIGHT TO END, DEFIES FOEIAT GATES
Duce’s Motorized Columns Press Steadily Forward Over Bad Roads. RAIN SLOWS PROGRESS Rome, Ready to Celebrate, Anxiously Awaits News From Front. BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY (VIA WIRELESS, MAKFUD), May I.—Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, is expected to be in Italian hands by the week-end. The motorized columns formed by Marshal Pietro Badogiio for the final phase of the campaign were approaching the capital steadily and irresistibly over bad roads. It was a triumphal procession. It had rained for two days. The columns halted only to receive the occasional submissions of warrior chieftains. The motor-army was plowing its way through sections, miles long, tohere the rain had turned roads into bogs. 'Planes Deliver Reports Occasionally an airplane swept down near the column and dropped carefully packed packages of spare parts for the trucks. Entire rivers flowed across the roads. At each river, soldiers poured out of the column and constructed fords with roots and branches. Details of 50 men or so were left at each river. They waded into the water, got in front of the cars, on each side of them and behind them and the cars almost were thrown across. Every hour an airplane dropped •a message, enclosed in a red cloth sack, to inform the column of the state of.the road ahead. “No enemy concentrations,” was the usual report. Final Curtain Near When there w°s time, the men fell out at a river and plunged in for a quick bath, a luxury. There was every indication that, on this northern front, the curtain will drop on the final act of th# drama this week-end. The heavy rains will be the greatest obstacle to the Italian conquerors. But they have till June before the mud halts them. By then, it seems certain that all military objectives, in all of Ethiopia, will have been reached.
ITALY AWAITS FLASH OF CAPITAL'S FALL Frequent Reports Made of City’s Capture. By United Pre*n ROME, May I.—ltaly’s motorized columns, rumbling over mountain trails and through torrents swelled by rains, advanced ever nearer to Addis Ababa today, while over every mile of Italy from the Alps to Sicily men, women- and children waited for the flash that the capital had fallen. Frequent reports spread that the city had been entered. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, however, in his bulletin today, told of calculated progress of a great military force moving along roughly parallel mountain roads and trails toward the capita’. One column occupied Debra Sina, 77Vi miles from Ababa, on the Des-sye-Ankober-Addis Ababa road, and continued on to take the dominating peak of Ternaber, 10,824 feet high, five miles farther on. M. E, CONVENTION IS CALLED TO ORDER General Conference Opens at Columbus, 0. By United Perm COLUMBUS, 0., May I.—Bishop John L. NueLson of Zurich, Switzerland, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, today called to order 614 delegates to the church’s thirty-second quardennial general conference, supreme legislative body of a membership of more than 4.000,000 throughout the world. The sesions are expected to last three Weeks. Bishop Nuelson was to conduct a solemn communion service formally opening the general conference. Business organization was to follow, with first meetings of the 12 standing committees later in the day. First of pending major issues to come before the general conference is expected to be the proposal for unification of three branches of Methodist Protestant Church, is expected to reach the floor early next week. The controversy over the position to be taken by the church on economic and social questions, which has developed between left and right wing factions, was not expected to come before the conference tnr tiro irfrlM,
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Peace Negotiations With Italians Are Barred by Emperor. ADDIS’ FALL IMMINENT New Capital Will Be Established in South, Ruler Says. By United Prrx* ADDIS ABABA, May I. Emperor Haile Selassie, with the Italian forces at the gates of his capital, proclaimed late today that he would resist the Italian invaders to the last, although forced to abandon Addis Ababa. The Emperor said direct peace negotiations with the Italians are out of the question and that he would negotiate only through the League of Nations. Receiving the press just before departure of 5000 men of the Imperial Guard for the hills, Haile Selassie said his abandonment of Addis Ababa under pressure is not significant and that anew seat of government would be established farther to the south. “1 will never negotiate peace directly with the Italians,” he said. “This country will negotiate only through the League. I will never leave my country of my own free will—never. “Will the outside world abandon us to our fate?” Continues League Reliance The Emperor said that although he is abandoning the capital and leaving it without defense against the Italian occupation to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, he would be in communication with the outside world from his new seat of government and would continue to urge League action to enforce a settlement. “Ethiopia is not suing for peace,’* he said. Such of the population as remained in the capital looked to the Emperor for advice as to whether they should remain or flee, Haile Selassie conferred continually with his ministers prior to departure. Shows Results of Strain He had lost his debonair look of a few months ago and seemed worn and haggard. His beard was streaked with gray. His hands were bandaged, allegedly because of burns from Italian gas. The Emperor nevertheless expressed emphatically his fighting spirit. “I shall reorganize and fight again,” he told the press, “The war is not over by a long way.”
ADDIS ABABA RADIO IS ORDERED CLOSED Plan for Further Resistance Indicated, Is Belief. By United Prt ** ADDIS ABABA, May I.—The Addis Ababa radio station is about to close, it was announced today. The closure was taken possibly to mean the Emperor and government are evacuating, and that the struggle against the invaders has not been entirely abandoned. ITALIANS IN CAPITAL, LONDON IS INFORMED Report Not Confirmed From Other Sources, However. By United Prr LONDON, May I.—The Exchange Telegraph Addis Ababa correspon--dent flashed today that the Italian troops had entered the city. The report was not confirmed from other sources. YOUTHS GET $25,000 FROM DETROIT BANK Customer Injured When Marble la Chipped by Bullet. By United Prr*n DETROIT, May I.—Five youthful bandits, one armed with a submachine gun, today escaped after robbing the Woodland-Oakland branch of the Detroit Savings Bank of an estimated $25,000 in the first bank holdup in this city in nearly six years. A shot fired by one of the robbers, richocheted against the marble trimming of the lobby. Miss Inva Hershey, 31, a customer, was cut on the arm by a piece of chipped marble. OPPOSITION TO PROFIT TAX GAINS STRENGTH Measure Denounced Before Sena to Committee by Experts. By United Prrn WASHINGTON, May I—Opposition to the Administration's tax bill gathered strength before the Senate Finance Committee today when the measure was assailed as a -penalty” on corporations and a “gamble” in which $1,132,000,000 of assured revenue was staked on the chalßfe of getting $620,000,000 more. After Treasury experts defended the bill, the committee heard Franklin Spencer Edmonds. Philadelphia tax expert. He denounced the meas-