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UCE FORCES CRISIS "BY SPURNING PLEAS TO END REBEL AID

Defies British-French Note on Troop Withdrawal.

PARIS IS ANGERED

Loyalists May Get Help; Fear Italian Reign of Terror. Vv LONDON-—Italy

rejects British-

French note for direct negotiations, for withdrawal of foreign volun-| teers from Spain, heading Europe | crisis over Spanish!

toward new war. France reporied ready to open frontier to Loyalists. Admiralty denies “attack” was made on destrover, Basilisk,

‘ALENCIA—Grave charges against Italy that she intended to send more aid to Rebels and embark on

a “reign of terror” were voiced by! the Loyalist Government in a note!

to Britain made public in London. PARIS—Italy’s reply on withdrawal of volunteers from Spain is definitely unfavorable, convoked to consider note.

HENDAYE—Rebels claim major advances on Asturian front,

LONDON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Europe headed for a new, grave crisis over the Spanish civil war today.

Italy, in a note to Great Britain. | rejected, in fact if not in principle. |

a British-French demand for direct negotiations on withdrawal for foreign volunteers from Spain. Coincidently. the Spanish Lovalist Government. in a note to Great Britain, charged that Italy was em-

barking imminentiv on a fresh cam- |

paign of aggression and terror in aid of the Rebels. Tension approached stage here and in Paris. Britain and France. awaiting receipt of coded dispatches containing the text of Italy's note. arranged to start Monday on consultations concerning their action.

May Open Frontier

It was reported here not only that France would open her frontier to permit arms and men to go to the Loyalists through French territory, but that she even might, if Italy persisted in her course, “permit” men of her own crack army, Europe's most powerful, to “volunteer” for service with the Loyalists. ‘ There was plain evidence that all the skill and coolness of statesmen might be needed to head a new drift toward war.

The Italian note was expected.

But the Spanish Loyalist note was!

a completely new, surprising development that put at once in the open the charges circulated privatelv throughout European capitals of planned new help to the Insurgents. The Loyalist said that they were gravely concerned over the “very great” assistance in material which Italy was even now giving the Rebels. Further. the note said, thie Loovalist Government was seriously perturbed by the latest information received. This Information — perhaps the most startling allegation made since the civil war started was in substance: “That Italy according to latest information was about to embark (Turn to Page Three)

HOOSIER WHO WON

BIG PRIZE MARRIES

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Oct. 9 (U.P). —Aviation Cadet William R. Staggas of Valparaiso, Ind., who won a $100,000 first prize in a cigaret puzzle contest, was married here today. Grace Kathryn Glasser, Los Angeles, was the bride of the Navy flier she met when both were students at the University of Illinois. TEMPERATURES m 45 10 a m Mm... 11am Mh. 12 (Noon) m 1 pm,

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the Foreign Office said as the Cabinet was

the electric

men and war]

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Tokyo Gets Backing Of Mussolini War Conduct.

CHINESE BLAMED

Mild Reply Is Made To Attacks of U. S. And League.

TOKYO—Italy comes to aid of Japan in “self-defense” war as Foreign Office issues statement calling China treaty breaker, Japanese news agency reports,

WASHINGTON—British and U. S. officials draft plans for Far Eastern parley despite expected Fascist boycott. | GENEVA—China protests to League of Nations charging Japan with using poison gas; agrees to paiticipate in any Far Eastern parley that may be called. NANKING—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek calls for last-ditch fight against Japan on eve of 26ik national anniversary of republican China and warns nation to | prepare for a “long” war.

000 men being concentrated on Soviet border in Manchuria, it is

reported.

(Editorial, Gen. Johnson and Pegler, Page 10)

TOYKO, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Fascist Italy today came to the aid of Japan which had been condemned by the World Assembly of the league of Nations and the United States for her war on China, it was , reported on reliable authority. Giacinto Auriti, Italian Ambassador, held a half hour conference with Kansuke Horinouchi. vice foreign minister, and afterward the Domei News Agency, whose reports are regarded as authoritative concerning Government matters, as- | sarted that Ambassador Auriti assured Japan of Italy's sympathy and support in Japan's “self-de-fense” campaign in China. Minister Horinouchi. the agency asserted, thanked Premier Mussolini, through the ambassador, for his support, especially at a time when other western powers were against Japan. The reported Italian assurances, | first to be received, came soon after increasing anxiety over strong stand caused the Cabinet to withhold a formal Government reply to foreign condemnations of Japanese policy. The Government statement was to tell the world of Japanese aims and determinations. Instead there | was a tempered statement of Foreign Office policy which did not | bind the Cabinet and was in itself nothing more than a repetition of previous Government official and semi-official statements except for { the following brief comment on League and United States action: “The League has declared that the actions now being taken by Japan in China are in violation of the Nine-Power Treaty and the Briand-Kelloge Peace Pact. “The Department of State of the United States has issued a state- | ment of the same purport. “However, these steps must he attributed to an unfortunate lack of | understanding of the real circum- | stances as well as the true intentions {of Japan, a state of affairs which the Japanese Government considers verv regrettable.” The statement argued Japan's (Turn to Page Three)

America’s |

' Whitehead

0,000 WATCH YANKS, GIANTS IN FOURTH TLT

Day Overcast and Chilly as Game Opens at Polo Grounds.

SERIES MAY END TODAY

Hubbell Opposes Hadley on Mound: Terry Shifts Lineup.

Yanks .. 101 0

Giants ( Photos, Page Eight)

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—Carl Hubbell his second chance at the New York Yankees here this afternoon, as he took the mound against Bump Hadley in the fourth World Series game. Most fans believed the Yanks would win and end

got

the series. The weather, which was perfect

when the teams came out for early | The

practice, became worse later. sky was overcast heavily as the game started, and topcoats again were necessary. Bill Terry, Giants’ manager, switched his lineup, putting Hank Lieber in Lou Chiozza's order. Manager

5 in the batting

| Joe McCarthy of the Yanks also did | PEIPING—Japanese Army of 200,-

some shifting. He moved Myril Hoag. right handed hitter, to seventh place in the batting order. Nearly 50.000 were in the stands, a substantial increase over yesterday's attendance,

First Inning

YANKS -Crosetti popped to Whitehead. Rolfe tripled to center. DiMaggio flied to Ripple. Rolfe scoring after the cateh. Gehrig fouled to McCarthy. ONE RUN. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. GIANTS—Moore flied to Hoag Bartell popped to Dickey. Ott singled. Ripple grounded out, Crosetti to Gehrig. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS.

Second Inning

YANKS—Dickey flied to Leiber. Hoag singled. Selkirk walked. Lazzeri lined to Whitehead and Hoag was doubled at second. Whitehead to Bartell. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. GIANTS—Leiber singled. Carthy singled, Leiber stopping at second. Danning singled, scoring Leib>r and sending McCarthy to third. Whitehead singled between

first and second. The ball hit Dan- |

ning on the jeg, who was automatically out. Hubbell grounded to Lazzeri, and McCarthy beat Lazzerl’s thrwo to the plate. Moore singled, scoring Whitehead and

sending Hubbell to second. Andrews |

replaced Hadley for the Yankees. Bartell singled, scoring Hubbell and

sending Moore to second. Ott was |

Ripple walked, filling the bases. Leiber singled, scoring Moore and Bartell. Ripple pulled up at third. McCarthy grounded out, Lazzeri to Gehrig. SIX RUNS, SEVEN HITS. NO ERRORS.

Third Inning

YANKS—Andrews singled. setti grounded to Whitehead, tossed to Bartell, at second. Bartell threw wild past McCarthy and Crosetti ran to sec-

called out.

Cro-

ond. Rolfe lined to Moore. DiMaggio | grounded

who threw Crosetti scoring.

to Oty,

past MeCarthy,

DiMaggio pulled up at second. Gehrig |

grounded ont to McCarthy unassist-

ed. ONE RUN. NO HITS. THREE |

ERRORS.

GIANTS-—Danning bunted down |

the third base line and beat it out for a single. Whitehead forced Danning at second, Lazzeri to Crosetti. Whitehead stole second. Hubbell grounded out. Andrews to Gehrig, taking third. Moore popped to Crosetti. HITS. NO ERRORS.

Ann Cooper Hewitt Weds Oil Firm Worker in West

GRANTS PASS. Ore, Oct. 9 (U. | P.).—Ann Cooper Jewitt, heiress to a 10-million-dollar estate, who

charged her often-married mother, | Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, denied ‘her the right to companionship of {other children and then caused her sterilization without her knowledge, | today was on her honeymoon. Miss Hewitt and Ronald Gay, 30-year-old oil company employee of Oakland, Cal, were married here last night by Judge G. W. Mathews. Miss Hewitt, 23, came here from her San Francisco home in advance of the bridegroom. Mrs. Josephine Gay, the brideroom's mother, and Pauline Rodriquez, witnessed the marriage. The couple was registered at the Readwoods Hotel as “R. Gay and party.” Dr. Pedar Brugiere, San Francisco, one of Mrs. Hewitt's former ‘bands, announced there that couple would make their home in Oakland after a short wedding trip. Miss Hewitt is the daughter of

Jane Jordan... 9 (State Deaths. . 7 Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York in-

hus- | the

ventor and grandson of Peter Cooper, America’s “Nrsi millionaire” and

New York. Her mother,

Mrs.

pital.

and Drs. Samuel G. Boyd and Tilton E. Tillman, charging she was denied the right of motherhood in the sterilization operation. A state psychiatrist, Mrs, Scally, also was named in the suit. The action against her and the doctors later was dismissed but the suit against Mrs. Hewitt is pending. Criminal charges also have been dropped. Miss Hewitt she

charged was

sterilized in a San Francisco hos- |

vital when she believed she was undergoing an operation for appendicitis. ed her mother as guardian of her estate has mi Miss Hewitt $150,000.

place in | center field. Lieber was placed No. |

Me- |

who | forcing Andrews |

wild |

NO RUNS. NO |

| She went East atter her daughter | filed suit for $500,000 against her

Mary

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Times Photos. Hundreds of bottles. like the ones shown above, | curtailment of milk deliveries to Indianapolis’ front were empty in city dairies today because of the | door steps and grocers’ refrigerators.

KILLED HERE, [ON SEVEN AT GARY [ESE

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Rain Blamed for Deaths That Bring Country Toll to 115.

| Slippery streets and poor visibility caused by rain added three more | lives to Marion County's 1937 traf- |

fic toll today. Seven persons were killed and another seriously injured last night in | Gary when two cars collided near a | railroad track and bounced into the path of a speeding passenger train. | Fifteen of 20 drivers arrested overnight were convicted of traffic law violations before Judge Dewey Myers in Municipal Court todav and were ordered to pay a total | of $107. The judge suspended $101. | John Sullivan, 37, of 438 W. New | York St. was fined $10 and costs, | | (Turn to Page Seven)

WEATHER MAY MAR

FOOTBALL GAMES

State's ‘Big Three’ Clash With Strong Foes. |

These men came home from work last night and then had to walk to the dairies befcre dinner could be prepared. Rain that blanketed the Middle | bis pps — — —— fl West threatened to mar today's col- | lege football program, as Notre | Dame met [Illinois and Indiana | Wi A May Dredge Islands | tackled Minnesota in feature gaines | e

involving Indiana schools. But Not for 38th St. Plan

The Weather Bureau predicted in- | termittent rains all day at Lafayette, | where Carnegie Tech was Purdue's | | home-coming opponent, and continued rain in Indianapolis, where| Marion County WPA" will not Butler opened its Indiana Coafer- | dredge out two islands in White ence schedule against Valparaiso. River near 38th St. “as a part of]

Mr. Kortepeter said “WPA does not want to enter any controversial project and will stick to flood control work on the river.”

ed the Governor's ' member of his proposed conci now striking three of 24 city dairies, agreed to conciliate.

| KOKOMO—Thomas Hutson, to talk be-| “why all but the struck companies

| In the East, Cornell battled |gany bridge or highway construction | | Princeton, Columbia met the Army, project,” Carl Kortepeter, County | | Yale took on Pennsylvania, and | wpa director, said today. ’ | Harvard and Brown renewed their | “However. we will get to the ancient rivalry. dredging there sometime but strictOhio State In West {ly in connection with flood control | Topping the intersectional sched- | work under direction of Army Engi- | ule, the Ohjo State Buckeyes tried | peers.” he said. “We have plenty | conclusions with Southern Cali- | of work for the dredging crews else-

fornia on the West Coast. where in the river to keep them Elsewhere in the Midwest, Big | busy for at least one ry Seek Emergency Powers to Deal With Situation.

FARM HEADS DISCUSS! US, COTTON CRISIS

Start Now in The Times ‘1lm Silhouette Contest

NOW is the time to enter the Silhouette Contest!

WASHINGTON. Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Farm Administration leaders conferred today on “emergency measures” for the cotton crisis resulting from a forecast of a 17,573,000-bale erop, the second largest in American history. the, A spokesman for Secretary of | Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said | "We are canvassing the entire situa- | tion” with a view to bolstering the | market and revising the 1938 agricultural adjustment program. | Most prominently discussed was | Mr. Wallace's desire for a special session of Congress to enact new farm legislation giving him increased power to control production. Nov. 15 was mentioned as the probable date of a special session. Mr. Wallace discussed the “farm | situation generally” with President

| to open

Only silhouettes of two movie stars have been printed in The Times before today. They may be obtained by calling at The Times office, 214 W. Maryland St., on Monday any time before 9 pom. The third silhouette is printed today on Page Six. Can you identify the star whose silhouette is printed? There will be 28. Pictures of

| Roosevelt yesterday. Aids said that | | he repeated his plea for a special | session.

RUTH ROLAND’S WILL | ATTACKED BY FATHER,

{ HOLLWOOD, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— | The father of Ruth Roland, silent films queen, charged today that she was mentally incompetent when she signed her will shortly before her

stars also are printed each day. Prizes include: 1st, Airplane trip to Hollywood; 2d, $100; 3d, $50; 4th, plane trip to Chicago for a vacation; 5th, $25; 6th, $10; 10 next best, $5 each; 10 next best, $3 each, and a large | Miss Roland to undue influence and number of theater tickets. | Shane She Sighed Lie will 2 fhe me (See pictures of the Hollywood trip, Page Nine.) illness that caused her death last

Sept. 22. /

STATE ACCUSES

COMPANIES OF

‘CLOUDING ISSUE”

Firms’ Spokesman Denies Charge and Says

Council Has Ace

epted Arbitration

Proposal Submitted by Governor.

DELIVERY ORDER

MAY BE IGNORED

Administrator Declares He May Seek Court Order; Meetings Seeking Settlement Proceed at State House.

BULLETIN

State Labor Commissioner branded as a “lockout of employ

Thomas Hutson this afternoon ees” the cancelling of milk deliv-

eries from all but the three struck Indianapolis dairies.

(Editorial, Page 10)

The State Labor Department this afternoon charged that C. Winfield Hunt, Indianapolis Milk Council secretary

and dairy owners’ spokesman

, was ‘‘clouding the issue and

| misinterpreting conciliatory proposals,” thus delaying sete

tlement of the local milk delivery tieup. Mr. Hunt denied this and said the distributors accept-

conciliation

proposal and would appoint a liation board when the union,

Union officials and the State Labor Department said

the union already had agreed | Governor's proposal and was tributors,

500 ARE OUT IN

OTHER STRIKE

‘Teamster Officials Attempt.

To Bring Truck Drivers Together. |

| |

to conciliate according to the awaiting action by the dis-

® Mr. Hunt earlier had said

| that unless “all threats of | violence’ are removed and the | union agrees to conciliate, the | dairies will not comply with a ' State order to begin milk de liveries to homes at 7 p. m, today. Leon C. Coller, Marion County Area Milk Administrator for the State under the 1935 Milk Control

Law, who last night issued the order to resume deliveries, said that if

| it is not obeyed he will seek a court

CITY—In addition to the milk dis-/ pute, attempts were made to settle

order. If that fails, he said, he | would look into the legal possibilities

the furniture truck drivers’ strike | of calling on State troops to enforce

here while negotiations to end the

Beech Grove bus strike failed. An- |

other strike was threatened tomorrow on Greyhound bus lines here,

| SHELBY VILLE—Factory union of-|

ficials file charges accusing company of interfering with union officials. State

Labor Commissioner, fore carpenters convention.

Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union officials this afternoon were

tempting to bring together striking |

| his order. Struck Firms Not Included

| Governor Townsend said this afte | ernoon that the State order to ree | sume deliveries by tonight does not | affect the three struck companies, | which are the Weber Milk Co., the Furnas Ice Cream Co. and Capitol Dairies. | “There is no reason,” he said, | should not be delivering milk. This order does not, of course, affect those three. Those are cases for

at- | collective bargaining.”

Leslie Dobbs, secretary of the Milk

furniture truck drivers as the day- (and Ice Cream Drivers, Salesmen

| old walkout continued.

Joseph Williams, union president, and Leo M. Rappaport, attorney representing the companies, conferred briefly this morning but ac-

| and Employees Union, Local 774, previously had said that the union | is represented in “19 or 20 plants” | and that “there is a definite possie | bility of more strikes.”

tual negotiations were not attempt- | Denies General Strike Planned

ed, it was said. { “It is doubtful that we will be able |

He said strike decisions would be left to the drivers in each plant and

to get the strikers together today, | that no general strike would be ore

but we are trving,” Harry Peats,

| union secretary, said. {

Willing to Negotiate | sioner

Mr. Rappaport sald he was willing | negotiations but had not been approached by the union. Mr. Williams said the union will | continue to hold out for a closed | shop, a 48-hour week and a 621,-

| cent hourly wage scale.

He estimated 500 men strike but said the walkout probabl would not spread further.

Meanwhile, an attempt to negotiate |

| the Beech Grove bus strike failed |

today, according to Mr. Peats. Busses were running on schedule

| noon,

| Governor

dered by the union. Meanwhile, it was reported that | Mr. Coller, State Laber Commise Hutson and the Governor would continue to attempt to negotiate a settlement. Shortly after a committee of distributors met with Mr. Coller in his office, after he had conferred with the and Mr. Hutson in the | State House. The Governor said he

ate on | would meet this afternoon with the y |

| dairy operators,

Meanwhile, City and State offie | cials deplored the stoppage of the milk supply which began yesterday { when the Milk Council canceled des | liveries “because of threats of vioe

despite the refusal of eight of the | lence.”

12 drivers to return to work, G. E.|

McFarland, manager, said. ,Also transportation officials

awaited word from the national] ported

headquarters of the Brotherhood of |

Railroad Trainmen in Cleveland re- | Said he would provide protection as

garding the progress of negotiations | with the Greyhound Bus Co. A na-| tional strike of the drivers has heen | called for 5 a. m. tomorrow. Mr. Rappaport said negotiations | between the firms and the union | are still pending. He said that ces- | sation of the strike is “entirely up | to union.” ‘Asked Men to Return’ “Late Thursday afternoon I learned that a strike had been | called for 11 a. m. Friday and this | was confirmed by the president of the union when he talked to me. I spent three hours in conference with him and his committee at which some progress was made and in the course of which I asked the rien to

| return to work,” he said.

Mr. Rappaport said the companies | were willing to recognize the unions, | give a 48-hour week, and that some | of the companies were paying the driver wage scale demanded by the | union. Mr, Peats sald the principal issues | in the Beech Grove bus dispute are the reinstatement of two men released by the company two weeks ago, and union recognition. Wages (Turn to Page Th

No Threats, Say Police Police said yesterday and repeated | today that there had been no reviolence and no reported

threats of violence. Chief Morrissey

soon as deliveries are started. ay Mr. Hunt said that 90 per cent of the normal flow of milk yester= day had reached homes through groceries which hauled their own supplies and individuals who called at the dairies for it. Mr. Coller said that the flow of milk from the producers was off three-fourths yesterday.

Commissioner Hutson last night~= _

requested the Milk Council to ape point a three-or-five man arbitrae tion committee. 1 He said today that he called Mr, Hunt on the telephone and asked him to make the appointment but did not receive a definite answer. The Governor's proposal included three points. They were: 1. State Milk Board auditors to examine books of the distributors and make known to the State Labor Board information necessary to dee

termine an equitable minimum wage °

scale. 2. While negotiations were in progress, milk deliveries to be ree sumed. . 3. After a fair minimum wage had been agreed on, the board (Turn to Page Three)