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"FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938 _

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CHINESE CHECK JAPANESE DRIVE FOR FOUR DAYS

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

~ HENDAYE — Spanish Loyalists win victories, -encourage their deserters, girls recruited. i SHANGHAI — Military experts : praise Chinese stand against $ superior forces. VATICAN CITY — Newspaper denies church supports Nazi policy in Austria. :

-SANTIAGO—Chile accepts Hull ¥ refugee plan. BERLIN—Goering’s newspaper asks partition of Czechoslovakia,

French Cabinet * Studies Soldiers’ Plea

HENDAYE, Francho - Spanish ~Frontier, April 1 (U. P.).—Spanish Loyalist soldiers, safe in Southern France after a flight from the Catalonian fropt, clamored today to be returned to their Army and the Civil War. Between 3000 and.4000 of them, from the Loyalist 31st Infantry Division, had reached the Luchon area along with a large number of civilians. They had started from the Huesca front across the Pyrenees , & week ago when the Loyalist cause seemed hopelessly lost. Today they discovered that the Rebel drive on Lerida had been checked although it was not stopped and that the Loyalists had won victories jon the long inactive front northeast of Madrid. The refugees had been fed, for the first time in many days, they had slept after a week of fighting and flight and now asked to be sent back o Barcelona. Gen. Juan Gallol, 35-year-old commander of thc 10th Royalist Army, one of the refugees, led the men who asked to be repatriated. “It was massacre Or flight at Huesca,” Gen. Gallol said. French Cabinet Ministers, in a special meeting at the Paris Foreign Office, had their request under consideration. The Loyalist Government offered to pay for their transportation and for the expense they had brought to the French Government. The Rebels began a new drive on the Mediterranean seacoast in the Morella sector and at Lerida drove down the Monzon-Lerida road in a new threat to the besieged city. Loyalists announced what had possibilities of tremendous importance in an offensive on the Guadalajara front, the key to Madrid from its northeast side. The Loyalists asserted also that at Lerida they had inflicted a severe setback on the Rebels by luring their infantry into the city and then throwing them back with heavy losses. * At Barcelona, boys under the :draft and girls were reported to be .forming volunteer brigades and ! pledging their lives. “in defense of your | country.”

‘Chinese Hold Out

:At Taierchwang

+ SHANGHAI, April 1 (U. P.).—The battle for Taierhchwang, in south.ern! Shantung Province, entered its ‘fourth day today with the Chinese : tenaciously holding out against . superior Japanese forces. * The Chinese stand in southern -Shantung drew praise from foreign .military experts here who marveled .at the Chinese ability to resist - Japanese vastly superior in num--bers and fighting equipment. ; ! The Japanese drive in Central China appeaged to have been halted.

‘Vatican Denies ‘Supporting Nazis

{ VATICAN CITY, April 1 (U. P). ‘—The Vatican tonight disclaimed authorization for the Austrian epis-

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copate’s declaration asking Catho- , ‘lics ta vote for the uni

on of Austria -and . Germany, in a communique published by Osservatore Romano, :official Vatican organ At Vienna His Eminence Alex‘ander Cardinal Innitzer reiterated the sdesire of Catholic bishops of

.Austria to co-operate in the Nazi |

regime. His letter | | ended “Heil Hitler.” . The Osservatore Rohanealso dis‘puted assertions by Field Marshal +Hérman Goering to the effect that .the German Government was not ‘guilty of charges of eligions per-

-secution.

‘Chile Accepts | ‘U. S. Refugee Plan SANTIAGO, Chile, April 1 (U.P). —Chile agreed today to co-operate with the Uaited States plan to aid German and Austrian political refugees, but stressed that her contribution would be limited by measures recently adopted to prevent an excessive influx of immigrants.

‘Goering’s Paper Asks .Czech Partition | * BERLIN, April 1 (u. P.).—The ‘National Zeitung of Essen, organ of .Field Marshal He nn Goering, ‘hinted today that Czechoslovakia *should cease to exist 4 state and -should be partitioned |between Germany, Poland and Hungary.

2 MORE WHO TOOK CANCER SERUM DIE

ORLANDO, Fla., April 1 (U. P.).— “Fatalities which followed treatment sof cancer by a new bacterio-filtrate

_ _ireached nine today with deaths of

‘two more persons. : - Mrs. Lydia Morrison, 49, and C.F. ‘Pore, 62, died with apparent sympSeven other persons, who had been subjected to the new tréatment previously, and suc‘cumbed with Simla symptoms—six of them within ew hours after receiving injections of the filtrate. Three other persons who had re«ceived injections of the drug remain in Orlando hospitals.

: DICUS ASSUMES DUTIES - Thomas A. Dicus, Marion, former State Highway Commission memder, today assumed his duties as Commission chairman, succeeding Earl R. Crawford, who resigned. Clifford W. Siniff, Ft. - Wayne, Yormer maintenance engineer, aspumed his position as commission

member to succeed Mr. Dicus. |

Registration jon Ends Monday; Nearly 2000 Fill Out Cards in Day.

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City Clerk, and John M. Caylor, Republican, for Judge of Superior Court 1. Among those filing for major City and County offices were Edward O. Snethen, Democrat, for Mayor; Coroner Ethelbert R. Wilson, Democrat, for renomination; Paul Russe, Democrat, for County Clerk; John A. Schumachet, Républican, for County Assessox} Mable L. Lowe, Republican, for [County Recorder; Pliny H. Wolford, Republican, for County Council, First District; Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, City Council, Second District, and James C. Smock, Republican, City Council, Fifth District; Virgil H. Fox,Democrat, City Council, Sixth District; William McCarthy, Democrat, City Council, First District; John C. Ryan, Democrat, County Surveyor, Andrew Jacobs, Democrat, prosecutor; Jacob S. Steinmetz, Democrat, Probate Court judge; Charles. Mendenhall, Republican, Superior Court 1 judge. Candidates who filed for Township office included: Republicans — Ennis A. Myers, Franklin Advisory Board; Harry A. Wright, Lawrence Trustee; Harold V. Dietz, Perry Justice of the Peace; Mrs. Maude Moudy, Center Trustee; George C. Gerth and Edgar A. Poe, both for Wayne Advisory Board; Carl E. Smock, Perry Assessor; Earl Hoffman, Wayne Trustee; will T. Ayres, Franklin Trustee; Nell B. Matzke, Warren Advisory Board; John T. Taylor, Perry Assessor; Sherman Willougaby, Warren Constable. Democrats — Robert G. Carter, Center Justice of the Peace; Matthew J. Wogle, Pike Advisory Board; Thomag-M. Hamilton, Lawrence Advisory Board; Omer Brewer, Perry Advisory Board. | Eight candidates filed for Congress: Paul B. Sturm, Dana, Democrat, Sixth District; | Fred O. Jeflries, Terre Haute, Republican, Sixth District; James A. Bell, Elkhart, Democrat, Third ‘District; Richard T. James, Portland, Republican, Fifth District, and Keith Canan, 115 S. Gladstone Ave., Indianapolis, Republican, 11th District.

Lawyer for 30 Years

Mr. Miller has practiced law here 30 years. He was born in Franklin, Ind. and is a graduate of Franklin College and the Columbia University Law School. At Columbia, he was a classmate of President Roosevelt and also of William J. Donovan, first assistant attorney general under Coolidge. He was a law student under Harlan Fisk Stone, now a U. S. Supreme Court justice. Mr. Miller first was admitted fo the practice of law in New York City, where he was sponsored by John G. Milburn, at whose home President McKinley died. He was Works Board president in the Jewett administration, but never held elective office except that of precinct committeeman. He began practice here in the

| office of the old firm of Pickens,

Moores, Davidson & Pickens, later was admitted to a partnership with John PF. Carson and Charles N. Thompson. He has practiced alone for many years. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and Indianapolis Bar Association. . Marion County candidates who filed for the State Legislature included ya H: Wischmeyer, 2125 E. Raymond St. Republican: Louis W. Carnefix, 3337 N. Pennsylvania St., Republican; Adolph G. Emhardt Jr., 3721 N. Delaware St.; Democrat; Joseph O.Carson II, of 3440 Winthrop Ave. Republican; David Klapper, 3516 Balsam Ave., Democrat; Alexander Baker, 1116 N. Pennsylvania St., Democrat; John : M. Noe, 605 N. "Gladstone Ave.,, Demo‘crat; James C.| McCaslin, 253 N. Arsenal Ave. Democrat; Robert L. Carrico, 1310 Wade St., Democrat, and Charles P. Ehlers, 2238 E. Michigan St., Republican. T. Ernest Maholm, Indianapolis attorney, Republican, filed for Joint Representative from Marion dnd

nounced Wednesday he would make the race to seek repeal of the Wind-

shield Title Holder Law, which he

unsuccessfully fought in a Federal Court injunction suit. . Candidates from other counties

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Fire that nearly destroyed the unoccupied factory |! building at 339 Division St. yesterday may have been started by vandals, L. D. Reed, president of Simmons Co., the structure’s last occupant, said today. Fire Department officials today were investigating. The two-alarm fire caused injury to three firemen and resulted in property damage estimated at

Dewey Myers and Mark H. Miller Enter Primary Races for J udgeships

Johnson Counties. Mr. Maholman- [i

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filing for State Representative include: Democrats—ILeo J. Wissell, Batesville, Franklin and Fayette Counties; Alois R. Knoebel, Madison; Jefferson and Scott Counties; Julius G. Schwing, Greendale, Dearborn and Ohio Counties; William J. Black, Anderson, Madison County; C. J. Tucker, Eckerty, Crawford and Harrison Counties; Edward L. Chubinski, East Chicago, Lake County; Balthasar Hoffman, Valparaiso, Lake and Porter Counties; Howard T. Batman, Terre Haute, Vigo County; Samuel P. Schorr, Gary, Lake County; Victor W. Kneir, Oakland City, Gibson County; Dr. Edward J. Willis, Terre Haute, Vigo County. Republicans—Wilfred W. Wingate, Muncie; Delaware County; George W. Henley, Bloomington, Morroe County; Ralph E. Hunter, Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County; Clarence KE. Niederhaus, Evansville, Vanderburgh County; Walter Sablack, Gary, Lake County; Garth H. Vernor, Ft. Wayne, Allen County; James E. Kingery, Twelve Mile, Cass County; Edward C. N. Filipiak, East Chicago, Lake County.

For State Senator

Filing for State Senator were Robert Loring Davis, Gary, Republican, Lake County; William H. O'Brien. Jr., Greendale, Democrat, Dearborn, Jennings and. Ripley Counties; John H. Bartee, South Bend, Democrat, St. Joseph County; Glenn Van Auken, Carmel, Republican, ‘Boone, Hamilton and Tipton Counties. Mr. Carnefix was a retail druggist 30 years at 1001 River Ave. served as City Councilman in the Jewett Administration. He is past president of Indianapolis Toastmasters International. Mr. Mendenhall has practiced law here 25 years, served as a field investigator of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during the World War. He never held an elective office. He lives at 3150 N. Pennsylvania St.

In Court Post Since 1931

Judge Curtis has served in the court post since 1931. Born in Argos, Jan. 21, 1876, he received. his law degree from the University of Michigan in -1903, served as city attorney for Walkerton from 1904 to 1907, and for Gary from 1909 to 1913.

‘He is a member of the Gary, Indiana and American Bar Associations, the Episcopal Church, Gary University Club, Elks and Masons. Mr. Caylor served three years as State judge advocate of the American Legion, and is past State president of the Rainbow Division Veterans Association. He served with the 150th Field Artillery, 42d Divisiorr, in the World War. He was born in Noblesville, attended the University of Tllinois and Indiana University Law School. He has practiced law here since 1922. Mr. Glass is a member of a pioneer: South Side family, and has lived at his present address, 1143 Hoyt Ave., 44 years. He was graduated from Manual Training High School and Indiana Law School, served as Center Township Justice of the Peace from 1922 to 1926, and was a. Republican nominee for Site Representative in 1934 and Registered Surveyor

Mr. Ryan, a registered surveyor and former manager of the American . Engineering Co., is a member of the City engineer’s staff. He attended - Butler and Purdue Universities, has lived in Indianapolis 12 years and 4s married. He is 30. Mr. Jatobs Pledged himself to ex-

$10,000. Lieut. Clyde Martin and Lieut. Jack Stanley, both of the headquarters squad, were hurd by falling bricks when a steel support, weakened by fire and: water, caved in. Fireman Bernard Boren, Company .13, was overcome by smoke. The one-story brick building containing 36,000 square feet of floor space.

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been threatened by “known gamblers” because of investigations he had undertaken in the underworld. A direct descendant of an English officer. who came to America with Lafayette’s army, Mr. Jacobs is a native of Perry County, Indiana, was graduated from Benjamin Harrison Law School and began his practice here in 1927. He is married and lives at 3146 Broadway, and said he is backed by no faction or group. Mr. Hosier is a former Butler football star. He was graduated from Butler in 1930 after a career as a three-letter athlete. .- Mr. Boyce, attorney and former City Clerk, said his chief purpose in entering the State Senate race is to reintroduce a “workable” city manager law. He added that ‘he favors a constitutional amendment giving cities above third class the right to adopt home rule charters. A native of Indiana, he has lived in Indianapolis since 1913.. His business experience includes five years with the Big Four Railroad, five years as factory manager of the Cole Motor Car Co. and three years

branch advertising department. As

"STREAMS START

FALL, FAMILIES | ‘BEGIN CLEANUP

Ravenswood Still Harassed; Big Eagle Drops; Milk- - men Deliver in Boats.

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cluded 10 children, from their homes near the 79th St. and Keystone Ave. district. As Happy Hollow families returned to their soaked homes, Carl K. Kortepeter, Marion County WPA co-ordinator, said that plans have been drawn for construction of a new ‘levee along the creek to control high waters. a . . Riverfront amusement centers and taverns in Ravenswood were’ closed by water, but one grocery, although surrounded by water, .continued to serve customers who arrived by boat or ventured through water wearing high boots. Only route open into Ravenswood was Ruth Drive. Both 71st and 73d Sts. were blocked. Water was pouring into a low-

land corn field at the edge of Rocky |.

Ripple, on White River northwest of Butler University, but a recently Sonstructed levee held back most of e

Troops Patrol Stricken linois Town (Photos, Page 30)

SOUTE PEKIN, Ill, April 1 (U. P.).—National Guardsmen patroled stricken South Pekin as a precaution against looting today in the wake of tornadoes which killed 12 persons and caused estimated damage of $12,000,000 in the state. Troops arrived last night: They were ordered into the area by Gov. Horner at the request of Sheriff. Ralpn Goar. The tornado, which ripped through five states Wednesday, killed eight in South Pekin alone. J. M. Power, assistant Midwest manager of the Red Cross, said 273 homes in seven Illinois counties were destroyed and 272 others dam-’ aged. Forty-nine persons still were in hospitals after being crushed in the wreckage of falling homes or struck by flying glass.

: which resulted in a vote of 5 to 1

for the proposal. In filing for Mayor, Mr. Snethen said he would co-operate with all civic organizations in bringing new industries to the city. He added that industries can be attracted here only if they are assured of efficient government, with reasonable taxes and comparatively low utility rates. He said he advocates continuance of the South Side track elevation program and the traffic safety campaign, adequate smoke control program, improvement of the police and firemen merit system, and amending State laws to permit adoption of the city manager form of government here. The Court House registration office will remain. open until 10 tonight and tomorrow night. It will be open from 8 a. m. until 10 p. m. Sunday and from 8 a. m. until midnight Monday. Branch offices, open until 8 tonight, are at 13th and Missouri Sts., Lockefield Gardens, 4715 E. 10th St. and 4700 English Ave. Branches will be open the same hours tomorrow at Market and Bloomington Sts., 30th and Station Sts. and at Lockefield Gardens. Anyone who has never registered previously, who has moved, or who has failed to vote in two successive elections, should register. More than 22,000 have registered or reregistered thus far. Bids on printing of primary election ballots are to be received Thursday by the County Election Commission, Charles Ettinger, chief deputy, county clerk, said today. Specifications are to be available

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25 Per Cent Phone Rate

Cut Demanded by FCC Commissioner’ S Report

| Gifford Says Charges ‘Unfair’, Requests “Absurd” Sr

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Asks’ Power From Congress

. The report urged that .Congress establish “national policy for the purpose. of . athievihg efficient telephone service at. “reasonable” ‘cost.

This policy, ‘it said, should be: “De- | P

velopment of a . progressively. increasing volume and constantly improving quality of national ‘wire communications “service at a. progressively decreasing unit cost.” It recommended adoption. of President Roosevelt's. “prudent investment” theory of property valuation as a basis for determining rates. The powers requested of ‘Congress are: 1 To ‘review, approve or- disapprove all Bell -System policies and practices. i 2. To. regulate the costs and prices of telephone apparatus and equipment. 3. To review, approve or -disapprove all intercompany transactions. 4, To regulate the financing movements of the entire corporation including the purchase, sale or issuance of stocks and bonds. 5. To limit the scape of Bell System activities: to the communications ' field, “ including authority to restrict . the acquisition of patents

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als. 6. Jurisdiction over the division of charges of joint. interstate rates. 7. Specific authority to fix temporary telephone rates when it is found the income from such rates is excessive.

Western Electric Hit

Investigating the company’s transactions with Western Electric Co, a wholly owned subsidiary, the report said A. T. & T. buys nearly all its equipment from the latter firm. It charged that Western Electric’s prices are “artificially controlled,” and A. T. & T. bases its rates on the cost of the equipment thus purchased. 4 - “It is significant of the éompany’s policy that the Western Electric Co. is perhaps the only large manufacturer which keeps no record of the true costs of any of its products, keeps no direct record of the cost of sales, and maintains such a voluminous, intricate and unreliable mass of records and estimates as a substitute for a cost accounting system that the determination of true and actual costs therefrom is an impossibility,” the report said. Telephone subscribers have also been required to bear a “top-heavy” burden through the concern’s patent policies which are “directed toward securing a monopoly in service and manufacturing in the telephone field,” the report said.

Reserve. Called Exclusive

The Commission found that at the end of 1936 the systém had amassed reserves for depreciation of property amounting to approximately 28 per cent of the original cost of the property or $1,145,214,088. These reserves, it was ‘asserted are “éxcessive” and provide the company with a source of money “free from the burden of interest or dividend requirements.” Standardization of manufacturing and operating methods has resulted in “suppression of invention” in the industry, failure to replace outmoded+ equipment with superior types, and ‘costly mistakes in judgment resulting in large investments in less efficient and more expensive types of equipment,” the report said. The report found that “no state

or Federal authority exists today

to pass upon the merits of security issues of the interstate telephone utilities represented by the Bell

'| System, to the end that capital may

be obtained under the most equitable conditions. . , .”

Accused of Propaganda

In its public relations, the organization has utilized “every business and social contact” in a “na-tion-wide and unceasing campaign of public education of Bell System ideals,” the report said. It accused the company of “propaganda” activities through schools and colleges, motion pictures, newspapers, club memberships, “economic contacts” and “political ressure.”’ : Mr. Walker said the investigation already has saved the American public $29,530,000. He estimated the company’s reduction in long distance rates meant $24,000,000, the discontinuance or reduction of extra charges for hand set telephones, $5,000,000, and a revision of wire service charges to radio stations, $530,000. In addition to all its findings and

gested to Congress that a law be enacted requiring the telephone in-

dustry to hear the cost of its own regulation by the Government,

HOOVER ‘HINTS’ FOR 1940 SEEN

Criticism of F.D. R.’s Policy On War Quarantine Is Cause; of Speculation.

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policy.” Mr. Roosevelt's “quarantine” speech, he said, . inferred a combination of democratic nations against Fascist dictatorships. Mr. Hoover deplored the rise of Fascism in Europe, but gsserted that ¢the forms of government which other peoples pass through in working out their destinies is not our business.” “You will recollect we were once animated by a desire to saye the world for democracy,” he said. “The only result that time was to sow dragons’ teeth which sprang up into dictatorships. ' “We can never herd the world into the paths of righteousness with the dogs of war.” He denounced proposals that democracies combine to enforce peace. Mr. Hoover visited 14 European nations found 370 million persons rulled by dictatorships who once lived under democracy, and encountered forces which he said threatened civilization, this country’s as well as Europe's. These forces he listed as the rise of dictatorships, the international “race to arms,” increased governmental debts carrying the threat of inflation, the struggle of all nations toward economic self-suf-ficiency; universal fear, and an increase in brutality, terrorism and disregard for life and justice.

Strauss Says:

recommendations, the report sug- [mit

NEW DEALERS DELAY TEST OF EXECUTIVE BILL

Senate Passes Glass Bill: Higher Surtaxes Seen In Tax Bill.

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promised today to. support the Finance Committee’s revised tax bill. “I think the Senate bill is a great improvement over the House version,” he said. “I am in favor of speeding its: Passage to help vusiness.” . Majority Leader Barkley (D. Ky.) plans to call-up the bill for consideration next Wednesday. The Sen ate probably will recess today until Tuesday, when ‘Committee Chairman Harrison (D. Miss) will file his report. Only the reluctance of Senators in a campaign year to add to the burden on low-bracket incomes pre vented the surtax proposal from being Jaceepted by the Finance Coms= e One barrel of Mr. La Follette’s plan would “broaden the base” of income taxation by reducing exemptions to $800 for single persons and $2000 for married couples. (Present exemptions are $1000 and $2500.) This plan, which would practically double. the number of | income-tax payers, was. rejected by the commite

‘| tee 10 to 7.

The other barrel is the increase in surtax rates, which the committee had accepted earlier by 10 to 7. After the exemption proposal had been turned down, Senator Harrison obtained a reconsideration of the surtax rate plan. It too was defeated, 9 to 7. Senator La Follette put the two amendments together and offered them again, and the combined proposal was rejected by 9to8.: { 9 ————.

Court Asks of Gross Tax in Other States

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P). —Supreme Court Justices today had under consideration the constitutionality of Indiana's gross income tax as applied to interstate come merce and municipal bonds. Questions put by the Justices to Obpesing counsel indicated that the cision would hinge upon the question of whether the tax might come cumulative or burdenson on interstate commerce if other states . should levy similar impositions. % . The State’s case was presented yesterday upon completion of the arguments against ‘it by Frederick E. Matson, Indianapolis attorney, representing the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. First Assistant Attorney General asserted the levy was a “privilege tax, a tax upon the privilege of receiving gross income within the state and measured by the amount thereof.” He denied that the tax is, in itself a burden on interstate commerce. .

Roosevelt to Return

To Capital Tomorrow

WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 1 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt leaves tomorrow afternoon for Washiing-

ton after a 10-day holiday.

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