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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 281

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1937

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STATE TROOP: ZONE

Sand Boils Appear in Turn Many Problems| Back to Care of Local Workers.

CLEANUP BEGINS

Levee; Geysers Spout Up In Streets.

BREAKS PLUGGED

President's Commit- | tee in Area to Direct Relief Work.

Bu I'nited Press

CAIRO, Ill. Feb. 2—Sand boils in the 63-foot seawall protecting Cairo burst today, threatening to under- | mine the bulwark that is holding | back flood waters. Miniature geysers spouted from the streets. Emergency squads | dumped thousands of sandbags into the holes. Officials feared the seawall would | break at the bottom. instead of at | the top, where an additional three- | foot barrier had been built. | Cairo was the focal point as the Father of Waters rose steadily. The crest here is not expected for another 24 hours. North of Cairo the flood has left a trail of terror and disease. A test of the Governments billion-dollar levee southward to New Orleans is vet to come. : Throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys there were more | than 400 dead. 1.000.000 homeless, and $500.000,000 worth of property damage Gauge Stands at 59.5

At Cairo able-bodied men were ordered to remain in the city for any emergency. The water gauge stood at 39.7 The Cairo sandboils were fright-

the walled city but Army engineers said this menace would be conquered. At Memphis, Tenn. Capt. T. J. Wilson of the U. S. Army Engineers, said sandboils always occur at Cairo | during high water. “We have had a much smaller number this time than before,” he aid. “We always watch for them and toss in sandbags until the pres- | sure is enough to stop the flow of | earth. When the water becomes clear we know there is no danger. “We have had no reports of danger due to sandboils there yet.” The situation at Mellwood, Ark. became so serious today that the National Guard conscripted 1000 men from refugee camps at Helena to aid in defense of the dikes. Engineers estimated 150,000 men now man the dikes from Cairo to New Orleans. The refugee reinforcements were the last line of defense at Mellwood.

Cold Adds to Misery

A cold wave swept into the flooded area adding hardships to the laborers. who stood waist deep in mud and water to hold the line. The freezing temperature, however. strengthened the earthen pulwarks and stiffened sandbags. Engineers said the coating of ice | along the levee was a “big help.” Up and down the Mississippi, eves turned northward to Cairo to see (Tum to Page Three)

TOTALS $11,000,000

United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 —Presjdent Roosevelt issued a proclamation today authorizing acceptance of gifts from foreign sources to the Red Cross fund for flood refugees. | At the White House it was explained that Canada and other countries were offering donations and that the proclamation would | authorize the Treasury t waive such duties as would be imposed | under normal circumstances. i The Red Cross meanwhile an- | nounced that it has received a total | of $11.453.725 but still needs more. |

COMMISSION TO HEAR POWER PLANT DATA

The hearing on the Indianapolis | Power & Light Co. rate case was to be continued today with plant superintendents and other employees scheduled to testify on the

operation of White River power |

units. awrence Carter, special utility accountant, testified before Public Service Commission yesterday that the cost of the case so far has been $716,388.50.

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New Albany Downtown District Is Above Water.

area soon to be designated,

Governor Townsend today said the National Guard is turning over normal functions of local government to local authorities as rapidly as possible. Meanwhile, Adj. Gen. Eimer Straub mapped the itinerary of the Governor's tour through the flood

zone, scheduled to start tomorrow afternoon. In a conference today, Adj. Gen. Straub and Mr. Townsend worked on plans for co-ordinating more

closely the activities of military and | the military |

civil authorities in area.

Other developments today were:

1. Mopping up work gets under

way in several Hoosier towns as Ohio continues slow ebbding.

2. Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall,

National Guard commander in flood |

zone, Savs new martial law zone south of present line, to be announced soon. 3. Medical activities transferred from State Health Board to American Red Cross, with Health Board concentrating on sanitation work. 4 Gen. Tyndall makes inspection tour of Madison-Lawrenceburg area, indicates his staff at West Baden may be skeletonized and other officers sent home as soon as Evansville situation is in hand. 5. Contributions to Red Cross reach $209.20790. Mile of Dimes total is $2656.

6. Red Cross estimates 26,650 In- |

diana families homeless, To Describe Trip

Governor Townsend is to return Friday or Saturday and describe his trip over WIRE Saturday night. Members of the official party are to include Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker, Howard Atcheson, Highway Commission member; Wayne Coy, WPA director; Adj. Gen. Straub and Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director. Gen. Tyndall said the new military boundary would be closer to

the river, below Road 62. The pres- |

ent line generally follows Road 64. Meanwhile, authorities at New Albany said most of the water had left the downtown area, but that the East Side residential section still was covered. Lawrenceburg residents and business men are being permitted to start their (Turn to Page Three)

You Can Help

Disaster often brings out the best in people. Out of the great flood have come stories of warm-hearted aid which other more fortunate persons and communities have given the victims. A man in North Dakota sent his Jast dollar, wished he could send more. A fur trapper, living 500 miles north of the United States, heard of families being trapped in their homes. He left at once by boat, with three Indian companions, to help in the rescue work. Multiplied examples of unselfish giving have lightened the burdens of flood sufferers. Indianapolis has given most generously. It can—and will— do still more.

Give to the Red Cross. (List of donors, Pages 6, 8 and 9).

Give © The Times Mile-of-Dimes.

Mile-of -Dimes contributions for Red Cross aid totaled $2656.20 today.

Spain Will Become Totalitarian State When Rebels Win, Sign

tain in Reply to

In an effor: to obtain from the opposing leaders their first-hand expression of the objectives and intentions of the forces contending for ward of the Scripps-Howard Newsmost identic questionnaires to both

the mastery of Spain, Roy W. papers cabled on the same day sides.

(Copyright, 1937,

Republic Failed Because It Did Not Make Good Its Promises, Declares Fascist Chief-

Relow are given the questions cabled to Gen. Francisco Franco, commander in chief of the Insurgents, and his replies. No reply yet has been received from Premier Largo Caballero of the Loyalists,

Scripps-Howard Newspapers) NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Spain will become a totalitarian | ‘state on the order of Italy, sign a new Concordat with the | Roman Church, institute popular reforms, remedy ancient

Roy W. Howard.

" ‘abuses and safeguard the interests of all classes when the | With a smaller martial law | Rebels achieve the victory that they expect.

chieftain, in a frankly worded dispatch replying to an equally | outspoken questionnaire cabled by Roy W. Howard of the

| Seripps-Howard Newspapers. sion received in this country.

This is the first such expres- |

The republic failed, he said, because it did not make good its promises to the people. Not only were the February elec-

tions stolen by the Popular Front, he charged, but workers

‘criminally were exploited by their leaders and a reign of tyr-

ITALIAN FLIERS FORGED DOWN

~anny and terror was institut‘ed; wholesale murder, arson, | ‘bombings and property de‘struction followed. | | His program, Gen. Franco stated, |

MAY BE CUT AGAIN, mre rae ta

So declared Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Insurgent | |

Gen Francisco France

COMMON LAW HELD

CHILD WEDDING BAR

(Photo, Story, Page 22)

By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 2.—Action under old English common law,

TWO DIEAFTER AUTO CRASHES; TOLLNOWIS16

Injuries Are Fatal to Men

Hurt Saturday Night on County Road.

DEATHS OCCUR HERE

Driver Arrested After His Car Figures in ThreeWay Collision.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL TO DATE

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS February 1

TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Preferential street ... Running red light No driver's license .. Reckless driving .. Improper parking ...

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Marion County's 1937 traffic death toll went to 16 today with the death of John Miller, 83, of 443 Virginia Ave. from injuries he received last Saturday when struck by a taxicab

is to restore order within the coun= | ,,on which the Constitution of |

at New Jersey St. and Virginia Ave. It was the second traffic death

| try—including the now autonomous | pennessee is based. seemed today to | recorded here today. Arthur Conal-

Catalonia—with justice to all, in-|

be the only method of preventing

Aviators Land in Loyalist cluding those now in arms against | hig marriages in this state.

Area; General Issues Threat.

By United Press GIBRALTAR, Feb. 2.—Gen. Gonzalo Queipo De Llano, Spanish Rebel army spokesman, announcing over | the radio that a number of Italian fliers, serving with the Rebels, had | made forced landings in govern- | ment territory, threatened destruc tion today to any town which harmed them. He said that while the fliers | were Italians, they were not members of the Italian army. They were serving with the Spanish Foreign Legion, he said. The Legion is fighting with the Rebels. Gen. Queipo de Llano denied a reported fight between German and Spanish officers with the Rebel forces. | Uncensored reports from Rebel | territory today predicted the weekend would see a big offensive | launched against Malaga, second | largest Spanish seaport. | Military activities in the neighborhood of Gibraltar indicated, | military observers said, that the

| attack would begin simultaneously | {on all fronts by land sea and air. |

ELAINE BARRIE WINS

PREMIERE SUCCESS

‘Steals Show in Her West

Coast Debut.

| By United Press | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—Darkeyed Elaine Barrie apparently had won success today on the embarkation of a stage career which cost her her husband, temperamental | John Barrymore. She stole the show last night in | her west coast debut in “The Return of Hannibal” A combination of timing in her appearance and publicity which attended her break with her actor-husband to go on the stage was credited with at least part of the favorable reception.

voice was excellent, deep and dis-

her announced case of “jitters” prior to curtain time. Scores crowded backstage to congratulate the estranged wife No. 4 | of the aging actor. “How do you feel that over?” she was asked. “Just say,” she said, “that I feel is it that prize fighters say Hello Mom, it was a tough fight but I won.”

it's all

Consensus was that her stage |

tinct. She appeared at ease despite |

| him. There will be no postwar re- | | taliation, he said; the new Spanish | system must be based on government for the people instead of the people existing for the state. | “American public interest in the tragic civil war in Spain is general among all classes,” Mr. Howard cabled Gen. Franco. “Sympathy for | the Spanish people, especially all | noncombatants, is very great. However, partisan feeling favorable to | either belligerent is generally negli- | gible because of the popular belief {in the United States, whether cor- , rect or incorrect, that a Loyalist | victory will mean that Spain has | definitely become communistic, | while an THSUTEent victory will coms | mit the Spanish nation to fascism. ! To the average American citizen, | with faith strong in democracy, | there is little choice as between | either of these systems. “In an effort to clarify public | (Tum to Page Two)

COLD WAVE TOBE BRIEF, IS FORECAST

‘Rise in Mercury Due to Begin Tonight.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

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| The cold wave that struck Indian- | apolis and most of Indiana last night, sending the mercury to 13 above, is to be short lived, the United States Weather Bureau said today. Rising temperatures and fair skies are predicted for tonight with lowest temperatures around 25. Believers in the prognostications of Mr. Groundhog will be “digging in” for another six weeks of winter weather. The hibernating weather prophet came out of his hole today,

saw his shadow and scampered back for six more weeks.

COUNTY JUDGES AND AIDS GET $82,924

|aids were wearing wide smiles today. And they were $82.924 grins, too. In 1931, the pay of judges, bailiffs, court reporters, deputy prosecutors (and others were cut by the County Council. Suits were brought. Court | judgments last year were in favor | of judges and attaches. > As a result, John Beatty, County | Clerk's office cashier, was passing out $82,924 in checks to 77 persons Ray.

| Ttaly,

Marion County judges and their

(ly, 39, of Waldron, died in City Hos-

| pital from injuries received Satur- { day night in an accident on Road

This was disclosed by Assistant 29 in New Bethel which also claimed Attorney General W. H. Eagle after | the life of Harold Peck, 39, of 24

studying the marriage of Funice |

Winstead, a 9-year-old child, to Charlie Johns, 22, six-foot mountaineer, It was pointed out that under English common law the “age of consent” is given as 12. Some authorities said that provision, under certain circumstances, could be used to annul the marriage of a girl under 12.

LINDBERGHS LAND AT ROME AIRPORT

Flying Couple Put Ship in Hangar on Arrival.

Br Uhitea Press ROME, Feb. 2—Col. and Mus, Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Littorio Airport here at 11:05 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today from Pisa, where they had spent last night after flying from England. Col. Lindbergh and his wife, fly-

ing the his new monoplane, a Miles Mohawk, made the 170-mile flight |

south along the west coast of Ttaly to Rome in 2 hours and 5 minutes from Pisa without incident. The flying couple left Lympne Airdrome in southern England yesterday, giving no details of their destination or route. Officials believed they were bound for Egypt on a holiday jaunt. On landing at Littorio, Lindbergh taxied twice around the field to avoid a crowd of journalists, He then stopped quickly, left the machine and was greeted by Capt. Thomas White, United States air attache, and Capt. T. A. Thompson, naval attache. Lindbergh shook his head and said “No, no. no,” when newspapermen hurled questions at him. He and Mrs. Lindbergh entered Capt. White's automobile and left for Rome after giving instructions about putting his plane in a hangar.

SENTENCE COMMUTED FOR HOLDUP SLAYER

The life sentence of Dan Trkula, sentenced in 1920 for murder during a bank holdup in Porter County, was commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment by the State Clemency Commission vestebday. A parole was denied Alton Turner, sentenced in Marion County Criminal Court

in 1936 to serve one to 10 years for | | higher,

grand larceny.

| McClain St. | They were riding in a truck | driven by Connally when it collided with another truck parked along the highway.

Arrest Follows Crash

Leon Curtis, 16, of 746 N. California St, today was held on charges of vehicle taking, failure to have a driver's license, reckless driving, vagrancy and failure to stop at a preferential street after an accident last night at 11th and West Sts. Curtis was driving east on 11th St., police said, when his automobile collided with another driven on West St. by James McQueen, 31, of 215 W. North St. McQueen's automobile was knocked into the path of an ambulance driven by John Heyob, 29, of 321 W. Morris St. No one was injured. Police said Curtis was employed

was driving a car owned by Roy Goodwine, 3515 N. Pennsylvania St.

GOVERNOR PROMISES T0 GUARD LIBERTIES

Makes Pledge to Group of South Bend Workers.

Governor Townsend today assured a delegation of South Bend automobile workers that “the civil liberties

of the people of Indiana will continue to be safeguarded and protected.” The group, representing United Automobile Workers of America locals at the Studebaker and Bendix factories, conferred with the Governor today in regard to treatment of union men at the Anderson, Ind. plant. “The union officials at South Bend ‘had heard rumors that the rights of the Anderson workers were being abridged,” the Governor said. told them that the situation at Anderson is quiet and that the workers were not being prevented from

| attending their meetings or directing their policies.”

' MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press Stocks strong and moderately active; rail equipment shares in demand. Bonds irregularly higher; U. S. Government issues firm. Curb stocks irregular; after early strength. Chicago stocks irregularly higher. Foreign exchange irregularly

oils ease

GUARDS

SMASH

PICKET SHANTIES AT FLINT PLANT

National Guardsmen Circling G. M. Factories

Bar All Contact With 1200 Sit-Downers

C. I. 0. CHIE

By United Press

Chevrolet Plant No. 4. The

hauled it away.

yesterday.

By United Press

hour today as John L. Lewis,

FEAR NEW RIOTS AT ANDERSON

Men Have Been Recalled Creates Stir.

at a car-washing establishment and | 77% Sect]

ANDERSON, Ind, Feb, 2--Re-ports that the Guide Lamp Co, a

General Motors subsidiary, may be | reopened caused fear of fresh out- | breaks between union and non-

union workers here today. Meanwhile, Robert H. Cowdrill, Regional Labor Relations Board director. continued his investigation | for the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee of a series of disorders, Jan, 25. The Delco-Remy plants’ 8600 workers were called back to work today by F. C. Kroeger, general manager, it was reported. Delco-Remy workers have been on a part-time basis since Jan. 18, when the company resumed manufac ture of generator systems for customers other than General Motors, “We are attempting to get a complete picture and find all the angles in this story,” Mr. Cowdrill said. “Because some employees said they were afraid they would lose their jobs if they told their stories to us, I took the matter up with Washington.” Robert Wahoforth, Senate subcommittee chairman, replied in a telegram: “All information, statements and affidavits given to representatives of this committee are confidential documents of the United States Senate and are not disclosed to anyone at any time prior to public hearings of this committee and not then, without insuring complete protection to all involved.” The Guide Lamp Co. plant, closed by a union sit-down strike Dec. 28, is being picketed by nonunion workers who have driven off the union pickets, it was reported. This is believed to be a precedent in labor disputes. Purpose of this picket, it was said, is to keep union workers from entering the plant and starting another sit-down

strike.

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LOUISVILLE FINDS WHAT WAS UNDER THE WATER

91 Feit by receding waters at Seventh 21 and Jefferson Sts. in downtown Louisville, gives gn

farmer came by with a canoe,

finally came

and the others borrowed that in order to travel to a farm house where they could find a horse. After a row through the darkness, and a three-mile walk, Mr. Pegler and the others to a squalid farm house, which, however, was inhabited by some very fine folks.

Hip Boots Stymie

RS. WESTBROOK PEGLER called the office to explain why there would be no column by her husband in today's Times. Mr. Pegler caned her from somewhere near French Lick ana blamed it all on riding a mule while wearing rubber boots, and on the temptation to take a bath—the first since last Tuesday. His call came to her New York apartment, she said, about 1:40 a. m. and he told her that the boat in which he and a Coast Guard crew were “doing” the flood areas hit a submerged chimney or the roof of a house near Alton, Ind.

Mr. Pegler distinctly does not want to be made out a hero and he left the impression with his wife that the boat was not disabled. Anyway a

and Mr. Pegler

again will try

The people there had no horse, but they offered the services of a ”

INCE the columnist, according to his wife, had ridden a horse only once before in his life, his three-mile ride on the back of a mule (which finally was borrowed from another farmer vo spare the lame pony) left him fairly limp. He blamed much of his fatigue on the rubber boots he rode in. Finally a man with a car was found, Since it was only 50 miles to French Lick and a bath, Mr. Pegler succumbed to the temptation. He had left ail his clothes here in Indianapolis six days before. He hadnt shaved since then and he was wearing corrugated, corduroy pants, a heavy shirt—and the rubber boots. “I hate to beg off,” Mr. Pegler told his wife, “put my experiences were too much.” Mr. Pegler was in Tell City yesterday and

but before that he probably will file a story from French Lick, Mrs. Pegler said. That's why on Page 14 today William Philip Simms writes in Mr. Pegler’s spot.

Pegler

lame pony. ” LJ

to get to Louisville Ww,

Report That Delco-Remy |

Besieged in Chevrolet Building. FTAIN DUE TOMORROW,

Office of Governor Murphy Indicates No Arrangements Have Been Made for Conference With Union Leader.

BULLETIN

FLINT, Mich., Feb. 2.—Several companies of National Guardsmen entered the strike-torn area patrolled by pickets today and swung axes on shanties used by the pickets at

guardsmen then seized the

sound car used by the United Automobile Workers and

Robert Travis, Flint organizer for the union, rushed to the office of Col. Joseph Lewis, in charge of the guardsmen, to check a report that the soldiers intended entering the plant to eject 1200 sit-down strikers who occupied the plant

FLINT, Mich., Feb. 2.—Hungry sit-down strikers in the Chevrolet Motor Co.'s No. 4 plant went foodless at the lunch

head of the Committee for In=

dustrial Organization, prepared to leave Washington to fight their battle in this striketorn area. Mr. Lewis’ office announced at noon that the militant C. I. O. leader would entrain for Detroit this afternoon, arriving early tomorrow morning. At that hour, 1200 or more sit-down strikers here were denied their second meal through the vigilance of the Michigan National Guard which

permitted none save accredited newspapermen to enter the widespread strike area over which they maintain con-

stant guard.

Almost simultaneuosly, officials of General Motors Corp. and the | United Automobile Workers of America issued statements exe pressing their respective view of yes« terday’s disturbances here—a riot in which 15 persons were injured, and the forcible occupation of the No. 4 plant by sit-down strikers.

Disorders Are Assailed

Whether Mr, Lewis planned to confer with Goevrnor Frank | Murphy or proceed immediately to | this strike area, 60 miles northwest of Detroit, was not learned. Gove ernor Murphy has devoted prace tically every moment since his ine {auguration New Year's Day to bring | Settlement of the critical strike in | G. M. plants. | The office of the Governor indie cated no conference with Mr, Lewis had been arranged. Marvin E. Coyle, president and general manager of Chevrolet, charged in a statement that yester= day’s disturbances were “maliciously and obviously planned by a minority faction without any consideration for the best interest of the people of Flint, and against the professed position of union leaders last week, that they welcomed the resumption of work in plants not on strike.”

Martin Replies

Homer Martin, youthful interna= tional president of the United Aue tomobile Workers of America, in his statement, charged that three face tors — disrimination, resentiment of workers against the alleged active ities of the company, and public dis approval over the huge profits of the organization and its low wages —were responsible for the disturbe ances which brought the strike area under military rule. Mr. Coyle disclosed in his statee ment that sit-down activities Mone day had extended also to Plant No. 6 of his company. There, he said, 75 demonstrators had been ejected by police and nonstrikers when they attempted to sit down. “The various charges of discrime ination made by the union are wholly without foundation.” his statement said. “We cannot, of course, think of meeting all the flimsy charges directed at us by ire responsible leaders who do not hesitate openly to flout the courts and the forces of law enforcement.”

Martin Lists Factors

‘Mr. Martin listed the factors be hind the uprisings as: “l. The discriminatory disch of union workers by the Chevrolet management. “2. The growing resentment of workers against the corporation for what they feel to be its responsibility in the attack by gun thugs last week in Anderson, Ind. and Saginaw, and for the deliberate wrecking in Flint of a car in which four organizers were riding. 3. The swelling tide of public disapproval at the huge profits of the corporation and the large return to the few individuals who control it, and the comparatively insignificant and wholly inadequate wages of the workers.” Court Ruling Awaited Disputants in the wides strike awaited the d Spread cuit Judge Paul V. Gadola this afte eérnoon on an injunction petition filed by General Motors to force evacuation of two Fisher Body plants occupied by sit-down s . Granting of the injunction ul

empower county officials to evacu=