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- for effective action to halt it.

- seen by many as risking the em-

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SCRIPPS — HOWARD

VICTORIES

Force: of 75.000 ‘Basques Advances On Rebels.

CRISIS HELD NEAR

Pressure on Madrid

Eased as Battle Scene Shifts.

By United Press LONDON, April 2—Belief is growing in London that the Spanish Rebels face ultimate after a further unless they obtain fresh supplies of manpower and war material | from Italy and Germany.

The belief is based not on mo- |

mentary developments but a long

view of the resources of the com- |

batants. Loyalists shifted the scene heaviest fighting today to Basque -country-in the north. The Rebel siege at Madrid was lessened temporarily, if not lifted. The insurgents apparently withdrew | there tc meet Loyalist troops on offensives they are pressing on other fronts. In the north, co-operated jue (Loyalist) land 75.000 men on a drive along a 109mile front to protect Bilbao anc

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smash the Rebels in three provinces |

there. Rebels Claim .Gains The insurgents reported their northern soldiers were tiene the - fighting in an attack on or

Bilbao. They reported Gen. led his men

Emilio Mola in an advance. tha

defeat | prolonged struggle |

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a fleet of Loyalist |

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER

HEARTEN ~ SPANISH LOYALISTS; TALK HINTED

Ww orld Sugar pares]

May Serve as Vehicle.

DAVIS ON HAND MacDonald Is chet Sponsor of Peace Maneuver.

By United Press { LONDON, April 2—The Interna- | tional] Sugar Conference here nex:

a stepping Anglo-American

| week may be used as

| stone toward an

Indianapolis Times

sli ghtly warmer tonight.

RECAST—Mostly cloudy

‘NEAL IS SANE, SAY ON STAND

‘Doctors Tell rary Alleged,

Bright Slayer Is Below Normal Intelligence.

MARSHALS TO TESTIFY

Father and Son Expected to Be Called This / Afternoon.

Times ‘Special SHELBYVILLE, April 2. — Two members of a Court-appointed sanity commission testified .today that Vurtis Neal, 22-year-old confessed slayer of William Bright, Indianapolis druggist, is sane. They were Dr. John A, Davis aid Dr. W. W. Tyndall. They testified that Neal was below normal intelligence. Neal and Hugh Marshall, 19, the other defendant, have entered

! move to promote world peace, it was

“force. on | fated meeting here in 1933.

The economic conference, | resurrected, the also inert World Arms Confer~i (Turn to Page Three)

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took them to within 25 miles of the |

northern port. Loyalists were confident after vic. tories on the Guadalajara and Cordoba fronts in the last 10 days. Madrid authorities claimed the north- | ern offensive would be their third smashing defeat of the Rebels and possibly decide the war. For the present, indications are that the next important development will be in the outcome of the critical period of the policy of Mussolini and Hitler toward the “Spar - ish war. If they loosed another stream of assistance to the Rebels there would be an acutely dangerous situation with Great Britain constrained to support a French-Russian demard

British May Act

“Alien Faroes Siok Seek Atirioan | Aid for Financing of

Next War. "4

Influences working today for and against United States participation in another world conflict are analyzed by Rodney Dutcher in three stories, of which this is the first, on the 20th anniversary of America's entry into the World War. The first article compares today’s foreign propaganda in the United States with that of 1914-1918.

(“Remember 20 Years Ago To- | : day?” Page 22.)

By-RODNEY DUTCHER

If Mussolini from reinforcing the Rebels they are

ritish Government — as a

eg of a Loyalist triumph. spokesman put ‘it today

“perhaps

and Hitler refrain

NEA Staff. Correspondent

| WASHINGTON, April 2 —Twenty years ago an army of propagandists was celebrating the climax | of ‘a three-year effort to bring the United States into the World Wer

prematurely’—has now that there is a sporting chance that Italy and Germany will ‘abstain from increasing their considerable stake in Spain. So far as Germany is concerned,

concludad |

on the side of the Allies. | Today a much smaller, subtler | group of propagandists is working | through Washington embassies and | foreign offices abroad American financial

impartial observers are convinced |

that Hitler in the last two months | actually has kept his. help to the | insurgents to a minimum. The reconciliation between Hitler and Gen. Erich von: Ludendorf: considered significant. LudendorfT | ‘has been a bitter critic of German | activity in Spain.

CLUES STILL LACKING IN SEARCH F( FOR PARIS

State police today rechecked the life of Lawrence L. Paris, 22-year-cld missing salesman, seeking a clue | to his disappearance. Mr, Paris was |

seen last on March 24. State Police Captain Matt Leach in-

dicated investigation had failed to!

reveal a trail. Two theories, one! that he was kidnaped and possibly |

slain, and another that. he merely |

left home, have failed to develop. It was believed at first Mr. aris |

might have been kidnaped by the |

bandits who killed Clayton L. during a holdup.

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the next European war. When and if that war comes, we may expect another deluge of prop- | | aganda designed to enlist sympathy | for one side or the other. Perhaps if never can happen | jagain. But in the 1914-17 period, |

| this country was about as fertile a |

| field: for propaganda as had ever {been sown.. Allied propaganda was | practically all that counted—partly | | because it was more efficient, partly because it w as what most Americans | wanted. : Widespread lant little

sympathy for “galBelgium.” and “poor [little Serbia,” appeared at the outset. Most Americans quickly came | to believe that Germany was militaristic. autocratic, cruel and en- | tirely to blame. Ties of blood and | language with England figured in public reaction along with sentii mental feeling for La Belle France | land Lafayette. : Two of the most important | | categories of foreign propaganda | |are found in the efforts of foreign (Turn to Page 12) -

DR. BUTLER 75 TODAY By United Press NEW “YORK, April 2.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, celebrated his 75th birthday today.

to use the. routine sugar parley for | | pected to testify.

the United |

Mac- | | Donald was chairman of that ill- |

would be merged with |

: { to obtain | assistance for]

Neal, under TETRA today, said he had told Deputy | Sheriff A. B. Brown before the trial (that he dreaded more than the elec- | tric chair having to face in court |, Mrs. Lois Cherry Bright, IndianapoI lis schoolteacher, widow of the slain | | druggist. Sees Chair in Cards He said | cards with the wife of the Shelby | County Coroner during the inquest. land that he remarked to her: “The cards don't lie. They say | the electric chair for me.

3. And he testified that after he shot

| Mr. Bright, Marshall remonstrated | with. him. saying that Mr. Bright | has - ‘been “a good guy” who radn't | gen fhe any trouble. his Neal replied, he testified: , what's the use are) with him?” Neal told the jury he had Bot | | made up his mind whether or not | he wag insane. During the morning session Marshall seemed nervous, and repeatedly asked Deputy Sheriff Brown to see what the time was. Near the usual recess time he asked for a match and had a cigaret out for smoking several minuies before the recess was taken. Yesterday Neal told the jury of 11 farmers and a rstired railroader that he shot Mr. Bright. “Did you intend to shoot him?” hi. counsel asketl. “I did not.” “Did you have any reason for shooting him?” “No reason at all.” ~ After Neal repeatedly had said he didn’t remember in answer to ques(Turn to Page Three)

POLE VAULT INJURY KILLS MANUAL BOY

Peritonitis E Diviond After

Stick Punctures Groin.

William E. Lex, 15, Manual Training High School sophomore, died tolday of peritonitis in St. Vincent's | Hospital. He was injured Monday {in a vacant lot near his home, 1917 | S. Meridian St. | Young Lex, his brother, Joseph. 110, and his cousin, John Lex, 12, were | playing in the lot, and the younger boys were holding a parallel stick that william was vaulting over. He lw as using a makeshift vaulting poie. | After clearing the bar successfully | several times. he was caught by: it, |and it broke with his weight. A | piece of it punctured his groin. | He was sent to the hospital. | Peritonitis developed. Young Lex is | the son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. | Lex. His father said pole vaulting jand fishing had been his hobbies.

COUNTY MILK CHIEF SETS MARCH PRICES

| Leon C. Coller, Ma Marion County Milk ' Administrator, today announced the following prices to be paid for the. period March 16 to 31, inclusive, by distributors: Class 1, $254 a hundredweight; Class 11-A, $2; Class 11-B, $1.85, and Class 111, $1.64.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937

Relief Policy Shift to Slow Boom Planned

(Stocks Reaction, Page 30)

By Uniled 'ress . WASHINGTON, April 2.— President Roosevelt today announced a basic shift in New Deal recovery and relief spending in an effort to slow down a boom in heavy industries such as steel and: copper which he fears threatens the future of the nation’s economic wellbeing. Instead of spending huge sums on massive construction projects. Mr. Roosevelt said the emphasis would now be placed on expenditures in lighter “consumer’s goods” industries where the bulk of the money goes! into wages. ; The. changed policy, Mr. Roosevelt made plain, means an end of the type of monumental work specially encouraged by the Public Works Administration. The ' compelling reason for the change, said the President, is the fact that heavy industry activity has outstripped that of light industry. This phenomenon, he declared, in the past: has resulted in economic depressions because in this situation prices rise faster than the income of consumers who must purchase goods.

MAIN APPROVED

he had been. playing |

FOR WARFLEIGH

‘Works Board Figures Water | Project Will Cost $161,298.

The Works Board today approved

| plans for the construction of a water

| main to Warfleigh at a cost of $161,-

| 398.05. It is proposed that the line extend from the Indianapolis Water ' Co. pumping station, Meridian St. and Westfield Road, to College Ave. and Westfield Road.

| Henry B. Steeg, city engineer, has

been working on the plans for six months. He said it will be the most difficult water main construction job in the city's history and said it would serve 618 lots. Sanitary Board bonds will be issued to pay for the improvement. There will be a public hearing, at a time to be set later, and work probably will not begin before June. The work will require about four months, Mr. Steeg said.

the permanent improvement of Alabama St. from Louisiana to South Sts. The Board accepted a high bid of a Chicago company for the grease by-product of the City’s sanitary plant. The bid called for $7.35 a hundredweight, which is- the highest in history. Previous high was $6.75 in 1928. The board approved plans to extend the water main on Ralston Ave. from 59th to 60th Sts. This was requested by W. C. Mabee, water company engineer.

FREDDIE’S AUNT FILES

Buy United Press LOS ANGELES, April 2—The aunt who reared Freddie Bartholo- | mew, child movie star who earns | $1250 a week, said today that the i boy's parents had agreed to let her adept him. A petition for adoption was filed in court yesterday by the aunt, Miss Millicent Bartholomew.

TABERNACLE AT ZION "DESTROYED BY FIRE

| By United Press | ZION, Ill, April 2.—The Shiloh | Tabernacle, in which Wilbur Glenn | Voliva, preached that the world is | flat, was destroyed today by fire which Mr. Voliva charged was set by enemies of the Zion passion play.

BUDGET ALTERATIONS PLANNED BY F. D. R.

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 2.—A recasting of the Government's 1938 fiscal year budget.when he sends his annual relief appropriation message to Congress the week of April 14, was planned today by President Roosevelt.

1 ities,

The Board received a petition for

ADOPTION PETITION

DEBTOR'S PLEA TOREORGANIZE FILED BY STUTZ

| Assets Listed at $1 179,000

And Liabilities at $732,892.

MAKES PAC - AGE - CARS

Bankes’ to Provide Funds if Plan Is Approved, Petition Says.

A petition of debtors to reorganize the Stutz Movor Corp. of America, with plant and headquarters at 10th St. and Capitol Ave. here, was filed in Federal Court today.

The firm, which manufacturers

the Pac-Age-Car, used by dairy, laundry and other firms, listed its assets at $1,179,077.31 and its liabilincluding reserves, at $732,892.75. : If the reorganization plea is granted, according to the petition, a group of investment bankers have indicated they will provide working capital to continue operations profitably. Included in the assets listed in the petition were the plant, containing 280,000 square feet of space and valued at $946,024.81, and materials. The petition also said the Stutz firm holds 'a license with another ‘motor car company for the right to build cars, which it valued at. $1,000,000, but did not list among assets. The top liabilities were $266,000 | still ‘unpaid on a $1,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan, and $156,000 in 15-year sinking bonds, bearing 72 per cent interest.

Unable to Meet Matured Debts

“We are unable to meet debts as they mature and desire to effect a reorganization under the Federal Bankrutpcy Act,” the petition, signed by M. E. Hamilton, Indianapodis, Stutz president, stated. The petition said the ‘debtor makes 'a special type of car which has “little or no competition” and that if the firm. could maintain normal working conditions, it could be operated at a profit. Lack of working capital... however, prevented normal working conditions, it continued, The firm now has 400 cars on hand, the petition stated. Charles O. Roemler, attorney representing the firm, indicated a hearing on the petition probably would be set by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell by April 12. At that time, bondholders and stockholders may have the reorganization plan completed, Mr. Roemler said. It will be submitted to Judge Baltzell and must have his approval, he added. Mr. Roemler said there are about 30 bondholders and 1767 stockholders. There are 400,000 shares of

common stock, he said, listed on the |

New York Curb Exchange, of which 254,000 shares are outstanding. The decision to petition for reorganization was reached at a board of directors meeting March 31, Mr. Roemler said.

POISON PLOT STORY DOUBTED BY POLIGE

Worker Tells of Threats; Tonic May Be Cause.

Hamer C. Wiles, 21, former foundry worker, is in Methodist Hospita with arsenic poisoning. Although Wiles has, told police he believes

| himself to be the victim of a poi- | son! plot,; police, after weeks of in-

vestigation, have found no evidence to support the theory, they said. Police said they have discovered. however, that he took overdoses of a tonic that contained arsenic and was prescribed by a family physician. Although Wiles said he had received several threatening letters, neither police nor postal inspectors have been allowed to examine them. Police have satisfied themselves, they say, that one letter, which arrived Christmas Day. and contained a threat, was a practical joke by a friend and had nothing to do with the poison case. Physicians at Methodist Hospital said that Wiles has made a remarkable improvement since he was admitted there for treatment last October.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Philanthropist Stops Work on Nurses’ Home

By United Press GREENCASTLE, April 2. — Construction was abandoned today on a $20,000 nurses’ home for Putnam County Hospital after Dr. W. R. Hutcheson, ;philanthropic physician who was financing the structure, said he had received threats from three men claiming to be labor union agents. Dr. Hutcheson had bought the land for the home and started to erect it with workmen from needy families in the community. The

+ worken were to be paid 50 cents an

hour and teams were to get $5 a day. Shortly after the work started yesterday, Dr. Hutcheson said three men claiming to be from Terre Haute and to represent carpenters’ and common labor unions demanded that nothing but union labor be used in the construction. Otherwise they declared they would force nonunion workmen away, Hutcheson said. : He failed to obtain the names of

‘the men because he was “too mad,”

he said. Consequently, Dr. Hutcheson ordered construction halted.

GEDEON QUIZZED AGAIN BY POLICE!

Unhalsterer Sua Subjected Physical Violence, Says Lawyer.

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By Uniled Press NEW YORK, April 2-—Joseph Gedeon, - refreshed by his {first night's sleep since police began questioning him Wednesday concerning the triple murder in which his wife, daughter and their lodger were victims, was subjected today to the further ordeal of inquisition under the glare of lights in the police lineup. - The wiry little man, shaven for the first time in more than 36 hours; readily admitted - possession of a gun, found by detectives in his upholsterer’s shop, and answered other questions briskly. Police planned to hold him on the gun charge until they solve the Easter slaying of Mrs. Mary Gedeon, 54, her beautiful artist's model daughter, 20-year-old Veronica, and Frank Byrnes, the lodger, in their- Beekman Hill apartment. Gedeon stood erect under the lights, squared his shoulders in military fashion and faced the, fire of questions firmly. He wore the same rumpled gray -suit he has worn since the murder investigation started. Only once did he exhibit any sign of emotion. That was when a detective asked if he was married. Gedeon bent his head a moment, sighed deeply and almost whispered, “Yes.” From the lineup Gedeon was taken to court for arraignment on the gun charge. Peter IL. Sabbatino, an attorney retained for him yesterday, charged that the elderly upholsterer had been subjected to “terrible physical violence” by police questioners. The attorney said he would make an effort today to have a physician examine Gedeon for ‘injuries and would ask that photographs be taken of any found. Police denied that they had “laid a hand” on Gedeon.

Electric Trains Collide Near Victoria Station.

By United Press - LONDON, April 2. — Seven persons, including one woman, were killed today in a collision of electric passenger trains near Victoria Station in central London, an official railway announcement said. Earlier estimates reported killed and 30 injured.

By United Press CHICAGO, April 2—Sudden illness of a small boy passenger was believed today to have led to collision of two electric elevated trains in which 25 persons were injured.

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HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

500,000 Doreons Are) Idle as Pacts Are Debated.

AUTO WORK HIT

Coal Contract May Be Signed Late Today.

By United Press | More than 500,000 workers waited in idleness today pend-

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ing settlement of labor controversies. Principal disputes centered ‘in the automobile and: soft coal industries. ‘More than 400,000 soft coal ‘miners stood by in technical | strike, hopeful that settle-

ment of contract negotiations

between the United Mine Workers’ Union and coal operators might be achieved shortly. The soft coal contract expired at midnight March 31. “Mines have been idle since that hour. Yesterday was a national holiday—"John L. Lewis Day” in the coal fields. But today's stoppage of work was | directly attributable to the failure to agree on a new contract.

One Issue Remains

Contract negotiators said they had narrowed disagreement to a single point—a union demand for time and a half pay for overtime work. The strife-torn automobile indus{try was again today the center of critical disturbances which threw 100,000 men out of work. Sit-downs and walkouts afflicted General Motors, Chrysler, Hudson and Reo auto plants. Union and management officials sought to iron out difficulties which halted General Motors production despite provisions against sit-downs ‘in the agreement which ended the General Motors strike several weeks ago.

Hotel Strike Scene

New troubles in Detroit broke out in the hotel industry Wher re a strike occurred at the huge Book-Cadillac hostelry. Union officials attributed the strike to delay in arbitrating a similar hotel dispute which occurred in March. . In Washington,

Senate debate centered on i

SIT-DOWN CRISIS STATE PROBLEM, BORAH CLAIMS

U S. Is Powerless to Intervene, Senate Is Told.

STUDY IS ASKED

Johnson Calls Upon Senate to Vote as “Americans.”

By United Press WASHINGTON, Ap 2 2. — Senator Borah (R. Ida.), today challenged the authority of the Federal Government to deal with sit-down strikes and opposed amendment of the Guffey Coal Control Act to include an anti-sitdown pro vision. :

that the Government had no nower to intervene in a sit-down - “at this responsibility was tk — state where the sit-down occurred. Senator Borah addressed the Sene ate as Senate Majority Leader Robinson sought to refer to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee the antisit-down amendment proposed by Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.). The veteran..gray-haired Hiram Johnson of California opposed Senator Borah's views. He called upon the Senate in fervent terms to vote “as American citizens” in going on record against sit-downs. The debate came while Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex. | predicted the House Rules Commitice would approve his resolution providing for a House ‘investigation into the site down strike situation. The Rules Committee was to meet at 2 p. m, (Indianapolis Time) to consider the Dies resolution.

“Men Are in Plants”

Senator Robinson’s proposal that the sit-down amendment be referred to committee came shortly after the Senate convened. He pointed out that Senator Byrnes’ amendment had been offered without any warning and that it had not been cone sidered by any standing committee. Senator Borah pointed out that although sit-downs had been universally condemned as illegal “the fact still remains that the men are in the plants and you can't get them out unless you use force.” “There are only two alternatives,” he said. “As for myself, I prefer that every possible effort to settle the matter peaceably be exhausted be-

Bill introduced by Senajor Byrnes (D. S. C.). The Byrnes a ent (Turn to Page Three)

PEACE IS FORECAST IN RAILV/AY STRIKE

Settlement Due in Few Days, | Hutson Says.

Settlément of the strike of In-| diana Railroad employees on lines running out of Anderson “will be effected in a few days,” Thomas Hutson, State Labor Commissioner, predicted today. Mr. Hutson said he had called a conference with officials of the Amalgamated Association of Railway and Motor Bus Employees at, the State House tomorrow. “We are making rapid progress toward settlement of the strike,” Mr. Hutson said, following a conference at Anderson yesterday with Mayor Harry R. Baldwin - and Thomas R. Hyland, Federal Labor Conciliator. Two hundred Anderson employees of the Indiana Railroad have been idle two weeks. Traffic on city bus

urban routes oul of Anderson has

been tied up.

BOB BURNS Says: GE

think everybody should keep some kind of a pet. Not only for the pleasure you| get out of ’em; but there’s something about the 'influence of the little dumb animals that

the hardest heart and tends to make a person Jnore considerate. I used to visit a friend’s house pretty often, but I quit goin there because it

" used to embar-

rass me to hear his wife holler

at him every time he turned a. ound.

Finally the other night, I dropped

in on him agin and everything was |

quiet and peaceful around the house. My curiosity got the best of me

* and I took him over to one side and

I says “How come your wife don’t holler at you anymore?” He said, “Well, she finally found out it was makin’ her little dog, Fifi,

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Rebel troops advance into a village occupied by thrown back when the Government staged one of i Rebel squad is pitied making, a house. te

FRANCO: s FORCES IN FUTILE THRUST AGAINST MADRID . . .

Loyalist forces on the outskirts of Madrid only to be its sirrngest offensivés since the war hegan.. A heavily : cleanup in a street already brutally yavaged

. . FATHER QUESTIONED IN TRIPLE MURDER

The slight, gesturing man on the right, father of Veroncia Gedeon and husband of Mrs. Mary Gedeon, was held on a technical charge of possessing a pistol .as police announced they were near a solution and confession in the triple murder of the beautiful New York model, her mother and a boarder, bo William Dodge.

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and streetcar lines and two inter-|.

| its resultant tragedy. “Until Governor Murphy advises the Federal Government that he is unable to deal with the situation and desires help of the Federal Gove carnment I do not desire to embarrass him by any action we may take here.”

WEALTH LOST, MAN SHOOTS WIFE, SELF,

Br United Press LA GRANGE, III. April 2-—A proud Austrian engineer, who refused to lower his standard of living and showered his wife with diamonds after he had lost his job, solved his emotional and economic conflict today by killing his wife and himself. Today, after shuffling through a pile of large bills, several letters and a paper marked “My last will and testament,” Darwin Hanauer, 50, took a revolver from his bureau and shot his wife in the head. Then he walked to another| bedroom and tried the gun at his own temple. It missed fire and he obtained another pistol. This one worked. He died with a bullet in his head. ®

RAIN AND WARMER IS

PREDICTION OF BUREAU

Local, TEMPERATURES 33 10 a. m 35 11 a. m.... m... 383 12 a. m.... 39 1p m...

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6 a. >. 8 a. Sam.

morrow, the Weather Bureau préedicted today, and will bring with it slightly warmer temperatures. A fairly steady rain fell yesterday on Indianapolis, with a total fall of 20 inch. Last night, However, was air.

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