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| | | MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1988 ~ -...-Japan’s War Minister : Worried by Defeats; ~ Chamberlain Defiant

THE FOREIG

N SITUATION

SHANGHAI—Japanese division of 20,000 wiped out. LONDON—Chamberlain refuses to call British election. HENDAYE—Spanish Rebels press near vital road. PEIPING—Jap sentries block U. S. Marine messengers. PARIS—Finance bills seen as doom of Blum Cabinet. SANTIAGO—Chilean police arrest “international spies.”

CAIRO—Government wins

Parliamentary election.

BUDAPEST—Hungarian Nazis hear threat of purge.

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Japanese Halt

Chinese Advance BULLETIN

SHANGHAI, April 2 (U. P.). —Hundreds of Chinese bodies were piled in the streets of the walled city of Taierchwang today as 100,000 Chinese troops began a general retreat from southern Shantung Province, official Japanese sources said.

SHANGHAI, April 4 (U. P).— Gen. Gen Sugiyama, Japanese Minister of War, has made a flying visit to Peiping to bolster the morale

‘of Japanese forces weakening be-

fore fierce Chinese counter-attacks in Shantung Province, semiofficial reports said today. Both Japanese and Chinese semi-

“official sources asserted that Sugi-

yama flew to Peiping from Tok and conferred with Gen. Coun Juithi Terauchi, Japanese ' North China commander. After the visit, Japanese reports said, the Chnese counter-offensive in Shantung Province was halted. Heavy reinforcements were rushed to the front: Both Claim Taierchwang Foreign military sources asserted they had received private reports that almost an entire Japanese division had been wiped out in the battles of Taierchwang and Linyi,

a few miles north of the main

Chinese defense lines along the Lunghai railroad. Chinese reports that 20,000 Japanese troops were killed in the 10-day

"battle for Taierchwang. It was the

greatest battle of the war. Both sides claimed Taierchwang. In Peiping, a Japanese spokesman erted that the invading forces

. occupied the town at 7 p. m. Sun-

day. Two hours later official Chinese reports claimed that the Chinese were in possession after driving out the Japanese who at one time. held two-thirds of the town. The official Chinese reports also said that Chinese units crossed the Grand Canal and occupied Hanchwang, a few miles northwest of Taierchwang, in a surprise attack. Chinese authorities said that the recapture of Taierchwang indicated the effectiveness of new mechanized units superior to the “old-fashioned Japanese tanks. : At Peiping United States officials sought diplomatically today to avoid an “incident” with the . Japanese armed forces in control here. Col. John Marston, American Embassy guard commandant, reported that he was having increasing difficulty communicating with the Japanese Embassy Guard commandant because Japanese sentries refused

to admit American Marine messen-

gers. : The American commandant said that a uniformed marine orderly, carrying Col. Marston’s personal letter to the Japanese commandant,

* had been forced to leave the Japa-

nese Embassy compound at the point of a bayonet. The letter was not delivered. | : : The letter, together with a request for an exp anation, then was sent in Col. Marston's official car which carried an American flag. Sentries refused to admit the car.

Rebels Take Lerida,

- Bomb Madrid

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron-|

tier, April 4 (U. P.).—The Spanish

Civil War flamed toward what appeared an early end today as the Rebels took Lerida, left Madrid's

streets littered with casualties after

a nierciless bombardment, and hammered a path toward the East Coast to cut the road between Catalonia and the rest of Spain. . Desperate Loyalist rear guard units fought with the ferocity of doomed men at Lerida and other ‘points along the Catalonian front, but their fight seemed hopeless. Italians, Moors and Spaniards of

the Rebel Army smashed into them

in sector after sector, broke through, and kept on. Reports indicated that Loyalist prisoners were being taken by the Rebels faster than they could be handled. Entire brigades, it appeared, had been wiped out. In the Caspe-Alcaiz sector on their fight (southern) wing, the Rebels were within seven miles of Tortosa, on the Barcelona-Valencia road, last artery of communication between Catalonia and the rest of Loyalist Spain. They were in position to drive through not only to Tortosa, at the mouth of the Ebro, but to each side of the Ebro delta and the Mediteranean. ; A few: Loyalists held out in the southwestern part of Lerida. The Loyalists spoke of an occasional counter-attack and they kept up their diversional offensive in the

° Guadalajara area northeast of

Madrid. Frontier authorities at Perpignan received reports today that 3000 more Spanish Loyalists were due to cross the frontier. Forty-five hundred Loyalists who had been concentrated on the fron-

tier were sent back to Spain by spe-’

cial train early yesterday. They were offered their choice of going to Loyalist or Rebel territory. All but 185 elected to go to Loyalist Catalonia. The 185 who wanted to go to Rebel Spain were sent, to here.

. PRESIDENT’S MOTHER

GETS EINSTEIN PRIZE

NEW YORK, April 4 (U. P).—

Mrs, James Roosevelt, mother of the

Presillent; held today the Albert Einstein medal for humanitarianism in recognition of a lifetime of “devoted service to every communal cause in the country.” : She received it “quite humbly” and with “great gratitude” at a

de Chamberlain Refuses

To Call New Election LONDON, April 5 (U. P.).—Great Britain must not be disturbed by

the “throes of rearmament,” Premier Neville Chamberlain said today during foreign policy debate in the House of Commons. : Replying to a Laborite motion of censure, Chamberlain said no Government “with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition and this is not the time to disturb the country which is in the throes of rearmament.” : . Earlier the House was thrown into

Laborite, slapped Comm. Robert T. Bower, Unionist. °

Insult Charged

Mr. Chamberlain accused the Laborites of trying to make party capital of the international situation, adding that “the statement of Government policy met with approval not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia.” . - The slapping incident originated when Comm. Bower was alleged to have remarked that Mr. Shinwell should “go back to Poland.” After slapping Comm. Bower, Shinwell said he was born in Great Britain and took the only action he thought possible. He said, however, that he acted in a fit of temper and apologized. Mr. Shinwell left the house after which Comm. Bower admitted that his remark was “provocative.”

Financial Bills

Threaten Blum Cabinet

PARIS, April 4 (U. P.).—The fall of the Government of Leon Blum and the end of the Popular Front, was forecast today when the Cab-| inet approved a series of drastic finance bills, similar to President Roosevelt's “pump - priming’’ methods. Dissension within the Cabinet itself was reported, even before the measure went to Parliament, and it was understood that radical Socialist ministers had decided to leave the task of ousting the Blum Cabinet to the Chamber and Senate. They strongly opposed the sweeping financial measure which would permit the Treasury to obtain $1,.136,782,500, particularly a 4 to 17 per cent capital levy which they branded confiscatory. They said the entire bill was contrary to the liberal system of economy.

Horthy Warns

Hungary’s Nazis

BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 4 (U. P).—Hungary realized for the first time today that subversive elements were tampering with the Army and that Regent Nicholas Horthy was prepared to repeat his bloody purge of 1919 that wiped out the Communist regime of Bela Kun. The Regent last night made a na-tion-wide broadcast in which he warned rightist extremists they would not be tolerated. Admiral Horthy’s warning ‘appeared to be aimed at Count Szalsy Festeticz, leader of a semi-Nazi organization which has made inroads among Hungary’s German minority. The Regent admitted that trouble was brewing in the Army, but assured the nation that he“intends to maintain order.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Resigns

CAIRO, Egypt, April 4 (U. P.).— Foreign Minister Abdel Fattah Yehia resigned today, reportedly because he had been disappointed with the results of the week-end slection which was an outstanding victory for the Government. Final results gave the Government 96 seats in Parliament, the Saadists 79, Independents 59 and Wafdists 12. 3 To

Chile Uncovers

‘International Spies’

SANTIAGO, Chile, April 4 (U. PJ). —Government officials revealed today that police had arrested several members of an “international spy ring.” They had paid an ‘enormous” sum for several Chilean military documents, it was said. The police raided an apartment and found 30 rolls of film and sev‘eral - photographs of military subjects. ; 2

elections at a time when she is in|

an uproar when Emanuel Shinwell,

heaviest rainfall this year, choking dust clouds blotted out the sun,

eclipse-like, as shown above in the

striking picture taken at Wichita.

Descending while twisters ripped through other parts of Kansas, and four other states, the dust clouds were mistaken for tornado formations and some residents ran to shelter in nearest cellars. :

Anti-Coffin Republicans Plan

Fight on ‘Machine Politics’

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jammed the County Commissioners’ office Saturday night, making it dif ficult for candidates to enter to file declarations. . The rush of candidates filing continued up to the deadline at midnight. \ 5 . Criminal Court’ Judge Frank P. Baker, Democrat, is: opposed for renomination by Dewey E. Myers, former Municipal Court judge, and James D. Ermston. The Republican candidate, Walter O. Pritchard, is unopposed. Juvenile Court Judge John ‘F. Geckler has ‘three opponents, Municipal Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, supported by the Juvenile Court Committee; Elmer J. Sandusky ‘and Edward C. Eikman., William H. Remy, former Prosecutor, supported by the Juvenile Court Committee, and Harrison White are in the race for the Republican nomination. Earl R.‘ Cox, incumbent, Democrat, and William D. Bain, Republican, are unopposed for the Circuit Court nominations. Among those filing for major posts were: Democrats — Everett Harting, John J. Broden and Albert H. Goepper, County Assessor; Claude Shover, Sheriff; Carrell C. Walton, County Surveyor; Dr. John F. Wyttenbach, Coroner; John N. Hughes, ‘William O. Horn, George Sadlier, William M. Harding Jr, William M. Grady, John H. Lohss, Carl F. Brandt and John E. Byland, for County Council; John W. Freeman, City Council; James F. Cunningham, Cerniter Township Assessor; Albert F. Walsman and Edward C. Fox, Center Trustee, and Roberta West Nicholson, former State Representative, Washington Trustee. Republicans—Austin F. Eickhoff, Treasurer; Harold R. Holtam, Recorded; Duke E. Hanna, William M. Gruner, Ernest Ambuhl and John F. Gaeth, for City Council; G. H. Furniss, Harvey Arnold, Joseph J. Schmid, C. F. Schmidt and William F. Rathert, for County Council. Filing for - State Representative from Marion County shortly before the deadline were: Democrats—Thomas J. Dobson Jr., Jerome J. Wachfer, Guy A. Braughton; Gideon W. Blain, Robert M. Stith, Mrs. L, Carl Berry and William A. Taylor. i Republicans. — Albert Meranda, Walter J. Mercer, William A. Boyce Jr., James J. Stewart. ; Elmon M. Williams, Republican, filed for State Representative from Marion and Johnson Counties, Jefferson Davis Clinton, Democrat, filed for State Senator from Marion ‘County. Samuel Blum, Republican, withdrew as a candidate for Criminal Court judge. Judgeship candidates filing in the final hours included: Mark H. Miller and Henry B. Krug, Republicans, Superior Court 4: Homer J. Sandusky, Juvenile

$225,000

City Council Expected to Pass Sewer Bonds Tonight

The City Council tonight is expected to pass a resolution for $225,000 bond issue to finance proposed new North Side sewers and receive a reso- | lution asking a $70,000 bond issue to pay the City’s share of the Federal

An ordinance introduced by Edward R. Kealing, in Council's last meeting, requesting repeal of the pawnshop thumbprint ordinance, will be up for passage. Another ordinance authorizing purchase of sand and cement for the Shelby St. bridge over Pleasant Run also is due to be introduced. Dr. Theodore Cable, Council member said he did not anticipate any action of the housing authority ordinance. The measure, introduced 10 months ago by the City Controller, would empower Mayor Boetcher to appoint a committee of five as the Indianapolis housing authority with power to order bond issues for slum clearance. Main objection to. the ordinance by Council members is the amount of power the housing authority

radio station at Municipal Airport. ®—

Council member, has said the authority would be unsound financially. Objection to the authority's right to take over management of Lockefield Gardens also has been expressed by Council members. An ordinance intended to prohibit the coloring of rabbits, dogs, cats, baby chicks, ducks or any living créature in the city is to be introduced by John A. Schumacher, Council member, tonight. ~ Mr. Schumacher said the ordinance will stop the practice of coloring animals and fowl so that they can be sold more readily. The Indianapolis Humane Society has indorsed the proposed ordinance and. similar societies in other cities are. conducting campaigns against

would have, William A. Oren,

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the . practice, ‘Councilmen Schumacher said, Lo ro»

Court; Joseph M. Milner, Harry D. Hatfield, Robert I. Marsh, all Republicans, and Joseph T. Markey, Democrat, all for Superior Court 1; L. William Curry, Democrat, Superior Court 5. : Another filing as the deadline neared was Thomas M. Quinn, White Furniture Co. secretary-treas-urer, seeking Democratic nomination as Center Township Trustee. Mr. Quinn never before has sought office. He was born in Indianapolis, has been an official of the White Furniture Co. 18 years and was with the National Furniture Co. the previous 14 years. In his earlier years, he was employed on Indianapolis newspapers, and was the first president ofthe Mailers Union local. He is president of the Indianapolis Soft Ball Association and the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association. Teckemeyer's Statement - Mr. Teckemeyer, realtor and attorney, who filed Saturday as a Republican candidate for Mayor, issued a statement today: explaining his views. He : “Persons of business experience know that it is impossible to atfain anything worth while without organized effort. However, in politics, the organizations which we have are far too costly. The price paid by the taxpayers for support of political organizations, known better as. ‘machines,’ hidden in increasing budgets from year to year. “Workers are rewarded with jobs, many of which jobs could pe eliminated were it not for the spoils system upon which that type of organization lives. Another type of organization could be made up of citizens interested in attaining better government merely for the sake of better government, and not for what they could get out of it personally. “That type of organization could support a candidate and send him in to office with no strings attached and he would be free to effect economies and adopt business methods of operation without the hampering influence of a machine tugging at the municipal purse strings. . . .

Cites Way to Cut Costs : “Eneciig economy in. governmental affairs does not necessarily mean slashing salaries and eliminating needed improvements. In fact, if waste could be abolished, some ofcials and employees who are really entitled to greater renumeration would be able to get it. Governmental costs and the tax rate could be Er reduced .merely by applying business management principles instead of frying to use as much money as possible in giving jobs to party workers. We need party Workers but not at that price. “There. are many things in Indianapolis | that need attention— street improvement, elimination of traffic hazards, efficient adminisiration of the Police Department, track elevation, the housing problem, labor problems and many others.” Mr. Miller said the Republican Party must again defeat “Coffinism” in the primary election or suffer ‘the consequences in November. : “To defeat Coffin’s candidates,” he said, “the voters will be informed just who are the Coffin candidates, the Coffin ward chairmen and precinct committeemen. Should Coffin candidates be nominated, there are at least 25,000 Republicans who will refuse to go to the polls and support that ticket. The slogan will be: ‘Coffin must go.’” Lawyer for 13 Years | Mr. Hatfield, Republican, who filed for Superior Court 1, has engaged in the practice of law 13 years. He has been active in Republican politics since 1916, but has never held office. William F. Donahue, 520 N. Rural St., Democrat, who filed for City Clerk, is a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and has followed Democratic’ Party politics since his first year in high school. His petition bore more than 4000 signatures. J. Otto Lee, Republican, who filed for State Representative, was clerk of the State Board of Public Printing and the State Election Commissioners from 1925 to 1933. He has been active ‘in Ninth Ward Republican organization 20 years, and at present is First Precinct committeeman in the ward. He is recording

said, in part:

Kansas Dust Storm ‘Eclipses’ Sun

NAVY DEMANDS SUPER-WARSHIP CLAUSE IN BILL

Shakeup Pledge; Rail Subsidy Asked.

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House Democratic-Republican-In-surgent coalition fighting the reorganization bill, urged the President to “put first things first” and put legislation to end business recession ahead of action on the reorganiza-

tion measure. el Speaker William B. Bankhead renewed his predictions that the reor-

| ganization measure, modified by two

amendments acquiesced in by the Administration, would win House approval. He said that full debate on the bill probably would not be resumed before Thursday. : Today’s session was given to the Glass Bill extending RFC lending powers to business loans, the conference report on farm bill amendments and a resolution to provide 50 dollars more for the CCC in the 1939 fiscal year. All three were expected to be adopted without roll call.

Bitterness in Congress May Doom Wage Bill By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 4—Advocates of wage-hour legislation feared today that bitterness over the

| Byrnes Government Reorganization

Bill has jeopardized their measure. The danger is two-fold. One peril is that the bitterness engendered in the reorganization fight, plus the fact that House leaders were forced to accept a compromise, will encourage Southern opponents of wage-hour legislation to make a last-ditch stand. The second peril lies in the split between Chairman John O’Connor (D. N. Y.) of the House Rules Commttee and the other House leaders on the reorganization issue. The

the path of the wage-hour bill, and if Bob O’Connor opposed the bill he might prevent its ever reaching ths House floor. Continued rebellion is made more likely by the well-known Administration disapproval of conservative Democrats on the Rules Committee. Unofficial but strong New Deal pressure is being brought to defeat Mr. O'Connor for re-election in his New York City district. There is New Deal opposition to Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.) and to Rep. Howard W. Smith (D. Va.), who joined in the Republican effort to block the wage-hour bill in the Rules Committee last year.

Railroads Ask Federal Subsidy

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P).

laid before President Roosevelt today a proposal for a Federal guarantee of rail income in an effort to revive business and save the 26 million dollar rail industry from collapse. The plan was submitted to the White House by President George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association and Presi-

of American Railroads. They proposed that the Government guarantee the railroads a fair net income over a trial period, making up any. deficiency in actual earnings by a Federal subsidy.

secretary of Indianapolis. Typographical Union No. 1, and is employed in the International Typographical Union headquarters. favors repeal of the State Reorganization Act and the Gross In-

pleasure autos, gas tax reduction, repeal of the Windshield Title Holder Law, opposes gas tax diversion and favors drastic changes in the liquor and milk control laws.

John F. Gaeth, Republican, who filed for City Councilman, Sixth District, never has held office but has made a study of the City’s laws and their enforcement. He lives at 245 N, Capitol Ave., is president of Rupp's Pleasure Club Inc, and former treasurer of the Indianapolis Amusement Co.

Claude E. Shover, Democrat, who filed Saturday for Sheriff, announced he will be an independent candidate not -affiliated with any organization or clique. He is yardmaster of the New York Central Railroad and is a former City Street Commissioner. He was a member of the Police Department several years. In the last election, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Sheriff.- : Mr, Ambuhl, who filed for City Council, First District, is a poultry dealer and financial secretary of the Indianapolis Swiss Society.

Veterans’ Chairman

Joseph McLafferty, Democrat, who filed for Center Township Justice of the Peace Saturday night, is employed in the County Recorders office as a photostat operator. He has been an active worker in the party many years. He served overseas 18 months during the World War, and is, chairman of the 15th and 16th ward Veteraps’ organization. He has been active in obtain-

George A. Henry, Republican canpaign at 8 tonight with an address

Rules Committee stands athwart|

—Railway labor and management |

dent J. J. Pelley of the Association |

He |

come Tax Act! a flat license for |

ing South Side civic improvements. | cidate for Mayor, will open his cam- |

Pete Abella, 229 E. 10th St.,, was arraigned before Judge John MecNelis in Municipal Court today on a charge of assault and battery on Francis Albar, 227 E. 10th St. Both are Filipinos. Abella said he had a job in a tavern at $15 a week and that Albar got the same job because he offered to work for $10. Albar said his figure wasn't $10 but $12 and that

| Abella hit him while he was playing

, guitar. He said he could whip im in a fair fight. Judge McNelis suggested that

| they take off their coats and see

who was the better man. Abella was willing, but Albar objected. Judge McNelis withheld judgment, and the pair promised there would be no further trouble between Floyd Sample, 17, was recovering today from burns received when he attempted to beat out a fire which started in the attic of his home, 827 W. 29th St. The youth attempted to get clothes and other articles out of the attic. He was taken to City Hospital. The Fire Department extinguished the blaze

$800. :

The Fifty Club’s annual Easter Ball is to be held Saturday night, April 16, at the Severin Hotel, Frank W. Spooner, president, announced today. The arrangements committee includes: Courtland C. Cohee, entertainment chairman; Dr. C. E. Morgan, Wendell V. DeWitt, Thomas J. Farrell and Joseph A. Freihage.

A “Learn to Swim Campaign” for boys from 9 to 18 years of age is to be conducted by the Central Y. M. C. A. beginning Thursday and continuing until the end of the month. Classes are to be limited so each boy may receive personal instruction during three 30-minute periods on consecutive afternoons.

Monopoly prices and the absence of competition in many fields caused ithe present drop in industrial ac‘tivity, Prof. Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago, declared at the closing lecture of the Indianapolis Open Forum series at Kirshbaum Community Center last night. Prof. Douglas said g reduction in the general price level by simultaneous action of most industries was necessary for recovery.

Indiana teachers of commercial subjects are to convene at the first annual commercial teachers’ clinic at Indiana State Teachers’ College Saturday. Dr. Benjamin R. Haynes, University of Tennessee; Allen T. Hamilton, state supervisor of industrial and distributive education, and Miss Frances R. Botsford of Ball State Teachers’ College, will speak.

More than 7500 delegates and visitors are scheduled to attend 25 meetings to be held here this month, Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau, said today. Largest of the conventions is expected to be the Indiana Grand Chapter, O. E. S., with an estimated attendance of 1500. Second in at‘tendance will be the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers with an attendance of 1000.

Indiana produced 255,000 tons of coal during the week ended March 18, a decrease of 45,000 tons from ‘the preceding week, the U. S. Bu'reau of Mines reported today. State production in the corresponding pe-

National bituminous output in the recent period totaled 5,860,000 tons, compared with 6,500,000 tons a week ago, and 11,228,000 tons a year ago.

The Indianapolis Medical Society is to meet at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow ‘at Methodist Hospital. Speakers are ito include Dr. W. D. Gatch, Dr. ‘John E. Owen, Dr. H. M. Banks, Dr. H. C. Ochsner and Dr. G. W. Gustafson.

before the Irvington Republican Club at 54461; E. Washington St. Sheriff Ray today denied reports that he had filed a “slate” of precinct committeemen. He pointed out that in many precincts only one candidate is filed for Democratic committeeman. “The fact is,” he said, “that so many people believe in the principles of the Machine Busters Inc. that it is only natural there are a lot of new candidates for Democratic precinct committeemen. This is only good citizenship. It is a healthy sign that city government is going to be restored to the people. “But we leave slates to the machine and tend strictly to our business, which is to give every Indianapolis citizen a chance to vote against machine rule in the primary.”

Young Democrats’ New Head Takes Office

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 4 (U. P.).—Robert Tilton of Fowler, Ind, today assumed his new duties as president of the Indiana Young Democratic Clubs following his election at the closing business session of the group’s two-day meeting here Saturday. 1 Miss Sylvira Flanagan Koons of Newcastle was chosen vice president; Miss Wreath Fields, Princeton, secretary; Steve Gersack, Gary, treasurer; Clarence Donavan, Bedford,

national committeeman and Kathryn Coleman of Indianapolis, national committeewoman. All will serve two years. . Evansville was awarded the 1940 convention. i. Tilton succeeds Alvin Johnson, Indianapolis attorney, as president.

GET THERE ON TIME!

RIDE THE TROLLEYS AND MOTOR COACHES

INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAYS

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riod a year ago was 502,000 tons.,

|COLORED ORPHANAGE

George J. Smith, Indiana State Employment Service district manager, is to speak before the Brookside Civic League meeting at 7:30 o’cloci® tonight at the Brookside

Community House on “The Employment Service and Civic Groups.”

Will H. Smith, U. S. Internal Renveue Collector, today advised employers that [Federal .Social Security tax returns are due April 30. Payments will cover the first quarter of 1938. Returns formerly were filed monthly. Blank returns have been mailed to 48,000 employers, Mr. Smith said.

Applications now can be made for several Federal positions to be filled through civil service requirements, C. P. Bernhart, United States Civil Service Board of Examiners, local secretary, said today. Salaries range from $1800 to $5600, and positions include marketing specialist and senior, associate, principal and assistant marketing specialists in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; junior veterinarian, Bureau of Animal Husbandy; associate agronomist and superintendent, and assistant agromomist and assistant plant physiologist.

Publication of three books containing stories of bird life for children was announced today. The authors of the.series are Mrs. Ray C. Friesner, School 3 special education department member, and Dr. John Potzger of the Butler University Botany Department. Mrs. Fries ner is the wife of Dr. R. C. Friesner, Butler University Botany De-= partment head.

T. A. Dicus, Indiana Highway Commission chairman, today said that Federal funds, available July 1, might enable the State to increase its 1938 road building program. Federal-aid funds are used to build roads, bridges and grade separations and to install flasher signals at railroads.

" Helen Johnson, 10, of 1312 W. 25th St., was dead today of a bullet wound in her head, inflicted accidentally Saturday by her cousin, Mrs. Rosemary Williams, 423 W. 28th St. - The gun was discharged

while Mrs. Williams was cleaning |

out a dresser drawer, she said.

Ella Reeve Bloor, known as “Mother Bloor,” told an audience of 250 here that she found the organized workers of England opposed “to Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy toward fascism.” The 175-year-old labor leader spoke of her recent European tour at the Athenaeum last night under the auspices’ of the Mother Bloor Committee. Passing through London at a time when Oswald Mosley and his Black Shirts were demonstrating in the streets, she said “people turned out en masse to protest. They want their Government to take a positive, active stand against fascism.”

_The St. Roch’s Church Altar Society is to serve a penny supper from 5 to 7 p. m. tomorrow at the church hall, 3600 S. Meridian St. Mrs. James McGinley is to be in charge.

Indiana Casualty Adjusters’ Assosiation members were told by James L. Murray, attorney, today “it behooves the representative of an insurance company to show sincerity in damage suites, with both the client ‘and claimant.” Mr. Murray spoke at-the association’s luncheon at the Hotel Washington.

A jury was expected to be drawn today in the case against Donald Nye, charged with second-degree burglary and with being an habitual criminal. The State charges that Nye participated in burglary of a S. Illinois St. tire shop.

Governor Townsend today issued a proclamation designating April as cancer control month. He urged Indiana residents to co-operate with the American Society for the Control of Cancer, now conducting a nationwide . educational campaign. The society has organized a woman'’s field army and is being assisted, the Governor said, by state and local medical organizations.

TO BE INVESTIGATED

Alleged undesirable conditions at the Colored Orphans’ Home will be investigated this week, County Commissioners promised today, following charges presented verbally by a delegation from the Fletcher's

Oak Hill Civic Club. Mrs. Susie A. Millikin, Home superintendent, said she did not “wish to make a statement regarding the charges.”

12 KILLED AT AUTO RACE BOLOGNA, lialy, April 4 (U. P.). —The death toll in crashes of two

cars participating yesterday in Italy’s annual 1000-mile auto race mounted to 12 today when three of

the 26 injured died. One accident

took place here and the -other at Ferrara.

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HUSBAND DIES UNDER TRAIN AFTER SLAYING

Body Found on Tracks Fol lowing Fatal Shooting of Ex-Wife in Drug Store.

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him threaten to kill his estranged wife. : John Harris, 3941 Park Ave. the alleged killer’s fagher, said his son had fold him he was going to kill his wife and child and then come

mit suicide if the divorce was granted. Mrs. Harris body was taken to the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, khere funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday, with burial at Crown Hill. She was born in Indianapolis, ate tended Shortridge and Broad Ripe ple High Schools. Harris also was born in Indiane apolis and lived his entire life here. In another shooting over domestic difficulties, George Washburn, 26, of 921 Carrollton Ave. was wound ed in the right shoulder by his wife, Berna, 27, police reported. Mrs. Washburn said her husband had been choking her when she reached for the weapon. Washburn was taken to City Hospital and Mrs. Washburn lodged in City Prison. Both were charged with assault and battery with ine tent to kill.

2 WOMEN SLAIN AFTER TORTURE

Burned Bodies of Touring Mother and Daughter Found in Desert.

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VAN HORN, Tex., April 4 (U. P.). —Authorities said today that evie dence at|the scene of the murders of a society matron and her beautiful daughter indicated that a woman stood by and watched while her male companion, tortured, attacked and i the victims.

After the brutal attack on Mrs. Weston C. Frome, 46, and her daughter, Nancy, 22, one or both of the assailants fired pistol bullets into the heads of both women as they lay writhing on the ground. Governor Allred today ordered a reward, of $1000 posted for the slayers. 7 | District Attorney Roy Jackson of El Pao said, after an inspection of the lonely patch of mesquite-stud-ded wasteland six miles east of here, that the murderers were a man and a woman and that it was his theory that they intercepted Mrs. Frome and her daughter when their tire biew out.

Going fo Carolina

The Frome women were on a leisurely automobile trip from their home at Berkeley, Cal, to South Carolina. oe Jackson’s theory was based on stories told by persons who saw a black coupe following the Frome car Wednesday afternoon and of subsequent movements of these two automobiles. The women’s bodies were found last night. Their abanedoned car was found Saturday. One of the witnesses, James Milam, a truck-driver, said that a man and a woman were seen, first together in the black coupe, then separated in the coupe and the Frome car. The assault was vicious almost beyond imagination, Prosecutor Jackson said. Bits of flesh found beneath Miss Frome’s fingernails, a lock of man’s hair which she clutched in her seared hand and a _ man’s handkerchief which she held in the other hand were studied at Austin, | Knuckles Burned

Knuckles of both women had been burned by a cigaret or cigar. Mrs. Frome’s right hand had been burned off. Flesh had been bitten from her! forearm. Virtually all of their clothes had been ripped off. Mrs. Frome and her daughter, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and a graduate of the Univere sity of California, were en route to visit another of Mrs. Frome’s daughters, Mrs. Mada McMakin of Parris Island, S. C. They stopped at El Paso to visit friends and started for the East Wednesday morning. Mr. Fronie, assistant sales manager of the Atlas Powder Co. cama

here Saturday by plane. .

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