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FORECAST: Snow and possibly freezing rain tonight and tomorrows; continued cold.

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SIDERS BILLIONS, SHAKE

~. NATIONAL AFFAIRS ROOSEVELT considers spending for recovery.

REORGANIZATION BILL

wins House test vote.

TVA PROBE Committee still incomplete. "NEW WAGE-HOUR Bill gives edge to South. FARMERS reported doing “pretty well.”

PLANE FACTORIES in U.

50-Year Loans to

Local Units Considered

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P)— President Roosevelt had under con-

. sideration today plans to attack de- ' pression with a recovery and relief

program estimated to range from $2,500,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. The program was understood to

“ ‘include both direct spending and

long-term loans with and without interest. The White House acknowledged that a new plan was on Mr. Roosevelt's desk for possible submission to Congress. Details were not immediately forthcoming. The minimum $2,500,000,000 figure represents the sum shortly to be made available for loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. plus one billion dollars or more which the Administration will request Congress to appropriate for direct relief in the fiscal year starting July 1. Senator Glass estimated today that $1,250,000 would be requested as a “starter” for the 1939 relief budget. Disclosure that Mr. Roosevelt had additional plans for noninterest bearing loans, repayable over a term of 50 years, to states, municipalities and political subdivisions indicated that the immediate program would extend considerably beyond the $2,500,000,000 minimum. Noninterest bearing loans would be made from a $1,500,000,000 fund raised by bond issue, according to information first published and later acknowledged by the White House to. be accurate. There was no clarification, however, of the relationship of that~$1:600,000,000 fund and the $1,500,000,000 which the RFC soon will be advancing fo public and private borrowers. J Best information appeared to be

“% that the noninterest bearing loans

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separate from the RFC lending operations which now. are being authorized in a bill shortly to sent {to Mr. Roosevelt for his

signature. - If information is correct the immediate New Deal effort against depression contemplates a lending and spending program approximat-

"ing $4,000,000,000 to be underway

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| Er Wallace Fears New

Farm Surpluses WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P.).— Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said today that farmers are “weathering the recession in pretty good shape,” but foresaw danger of farm surpluses again this year. Farm income during the last six months has declined less than that of factory workers, but more than salaried and professional workers, he said. es in prices of factory products partially have offset lower farm income. THe “danger spot” in the farm situation, Secretary Wallace said, is the threat of another bumper wheat crop, possibly close to a billion bushels.

Admiral Says Plane

Factories Are Inadequate

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P.).— Admiral ur B. Cook, Naval Aeronautics chief, told the Senate Naval Affairs. Committee considering the Vinson Naval Expansion Bill today that present Government and private factories could manufacture hardly 50 per cent of the naval planes needed in war time. Chairman Walsh (D. Mass.) revealed Admiral Cook told the secret hearing that the Government’s naval plane factory at Philadelphia now produces only 10 per cent of peacetime needs.

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FARMERS TRUST PAYS

ANOTHER DIVIDEND

A dividend of 10 per cent, amount-’ ing to $64,000, today was ordered paid to 1250 depositors of the defunct Farmers’ Trust Co. by Judge Clarence E. ‘Weir of Superior Court. ' The dividend, payable April 20, will make a total of 75 per cent distributed to creditors. It is the sixth dividend paid by Boyd M. Ralston, Mr. Ralston said he expected to pay a further dividend when the bank building, owned by the company, is sold.

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Reorganization, 191-169 WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. PJ). —The House, under full pressure from President Roosevelt's Congressional leaders, today defeated

partment reorganization bill, voting 191 to 169 to continue consideration of the measure. The motion to strike the bill's enacting clause and kill the measure was entered by Rep. John J. O'Connor (D. N. Y)). Quickly reforming Administration lines, shattered during 22 hours of explosive debate over five days, Administration leaders forced the bill into reading of amendments, hopeful for quick action after their triumph in the first clear-cut test of strength. The teller vote came on motion of Rep. Lindsay Warren (D. N. C), a leader in the Administration fight for! passage of the bill. Warren demanded the teller vote after a previous voice vote on the motion to strike the enacting clause resulted in a vocal blast from opponents and proponents which was indecisive. Embattled opponents of the measure, undismayed by their clear-cut defeat in the showdown, were expected to make new assaults on the measure as debate continued. Encouraged by|a last-minute telegram from Governor Townsend asking them to support the reorganization bill, Indiana Congressmen divided six to five jagainst the O'Connor motion to kill it. Voting for the motion were Reps. Ludlow, Boehne,| Gray and Pettengill (D.) and Halleck (R.). Voting against it were | Reps. Greenwood,

and Crowe (D.). Mrs. Virginia Jenckes (D.) wag absent. The Governor's message said: “Opposition in Indiana to the reorganization bill is led by enemies of the President, who are a small minority in this state. We hope you will stay with [the President and vote for the bill”

Garner Still Seeking TVA Committee P (Photo, Page 15)

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. PJ). —Vice “President John N. Garner will try again today to complete the Senate personnel of a committee to investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was reported that he will appoint Senator Davis (R. Pa.), to replace Senator Capper (R. Kas.), who declined to serve because of lack of time. Vice President Garner named Senators Capper and Frazier (R. N. D)), to the 10-man joint Senate and House Committee after his first choices, Republican Senators McNary (Ore.), and ‘Borah (Ida.), had refused to serve. :

cated that he would not serve, but is reconsidering. 2 Senator Donzhey (D. O) announced iis acceptance of appointment as a member of the Committee. |The other Senate Democrats on the committeé are Senators Brown (N H) and H. H. Schwartz (Wyo.).

WPA Needs May Help Broaden Tax Base

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer | WASHINGTON, April 7.—The growing recognition that WPA musi have more money next year has enhanced the ghances of Senate approval of the La Follette proposal to broaden the income-tax base and increase Frases | Several Senators hitherto opposed to the La Follette plan cating that if more money is needed for relief then Congress should levy ore taxes. Also, some Senators subscribe to the theory that if more citizens had to pay income taxes they would be more interested in keeping Government expenditures down, and would provide a .counter-pressure to the constant demands for more spending. The program of Senator La Follette, which is to reduce exemptions from ‘$2500 to $2000 for married persons and from $1000 to $800 for single persons, and raise surtaxes on a graduated scale starting with taxable income above $3000, already has shown ‘much ‘strength in the

Senate. . | The relief issue is expected to be dramatized tomorrow when Hadrry L. Hopkins, WPA Administrator,

employment Investigating Commite. He will be pressed to disclose what: amount he will request for the year beginning July 1. The budget calls for a billion dollars, at it is known that this must be increased because of the drain of

ubling the amount has been mentioned as likely, The Senate began consideration of

|/the tax bill today

It probably will

New Deal Trend To Dictatorship Seen by Hoover

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (U. P). —Former President Herbert Hoover said today that the direction of the

‘Hotel shortly after he arrived in

a motion to kill the executive de- |

Griswold, Larrabee, Schulte, Farley |

Senator Frazier also had indi-

appears before the Byrnes Un-

employment due to the recession.

New Deal was the "same as every state in Europe that has lost its

democracy.” “The danger in the New Deal is in the direction of it,” he said. “Europe’s democracies were lost as the result of economic misery and the actions antecedent to that are a mixture of Government interferences, socialism, fascism and various . tendencies that demoralize a free economic system.” : Mr. Hoover made his statement at a press conference at the Palace

San Francisco en route to his home,

Palo Alto, from his recent trip to Europe.

JAPANESE SPIES HELD U, S. PERIL

Federal Agencies Unable to ' Cope With Problem, Says New York Paper.

(Other Foreign News, Page 3)

NEW YORK, April 7 (U. P.).—The New York World-Telegram, in a copyrighted article leading its front page today, said that Japanese espionage had placed the United States “wide open to overt, sudden violence in the event of hostilities.” “The United States,” the newspaper said, “is the unwary object of a tremendously effective peacetime espionage. . . . it already has undergone bold and barefaced raids upon immensely valuable economic resources.” The World-Telegram said it drew its conclusions “from a survey which has disclosed a great break in the dike of our natignal defense.” The break, the newspaper added, “is in the Pacific and along its shores, home of our fleet and our front toward the troubled Far East.”

Evidence Listed

The evidence, which the newspaper said it had gathered from sources which it had “every reason t6 believe reliable,” was listed on the front page under the following seven points: ~ 1. Japanese fishing fleets maintain surveillance in coastal waters from the Aleutians and Alaska to California and the Mexican border. . . . Their espionage extends throughout the whole of that “Pacific triangle” . . . which constitutes our outer wall of defense. 2. Japanese fishing vessels have been so designed that they are easily convertible into mine layers or torpedo boats. _ 3. Fishing vessels manned by Japanese reservists lie in San Pedro harbor with the United States fleet and spy upon it during maneuvers at sea. 4. Vessels manned by Japanese but under American registry have hoisted the Japanese flag when lying in Mexican waters. 5. Japanese encroachment upon Alaskan fisheries (the territory’s greatest single source of revenue) threatened an international crisis, but found American governmental agencies “unaccountably reluctant to act”? .,. "6. Japanese have gathered detailed information concerning coast lines, harbors, anchorages, and channels from the Aleutians to the Gulf of Mexico. 7. Existing agencies, including the naval intelligence, are completely inadequate to cope with a largescale espionage system.

YOUTH HURT IN FALL FROM ROOF IS DEAD

Arthur Silverman, 17, of 1521 Kennington St, who fell from the roof of a three-story building Tuesday while hunting pigeons, died at City Hospital today. He was hurt when he fell fron a building in the 1400 block Madison Ave. and struck an iron fence below. : The youth is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Silverman; a brother, Alvin, and three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Barker, Dorothy and Marie. : : He formerly attended Manual High School and has been a member of the U. 8. Marine Reserve

THURSDAY, APRIL

STRIKERS DEFY DETROIT ORDER N RAL TIEUP

Early Vote Indicates Union Will Reject ‘Return to Work’. Edict. :

1200 POLICE ON GUARD

Opposition to Seniority Plan Causes Walkout; Bus Service May Stop.

DETROIT, April 7 (U. P.).—De-,

fiance of a city ultimatum to strik- |.

ing streetcar operators to restore Detroit’s paralyzed rail transporiation by 1 p. m. (Indianapolis Time)

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forecast today by first returns in a referendum vote by the strikers. Meanwhile, Edward A. McInerney, president of the striking Amalgamated Association of Electric Street

Railway and Motor Coach Oper-}|

ators Employees, an A. F. of L. affiljate, reversed his earlier position and urged the operators to “keep the streetcars tied up” until the Supreme Court dissolves an injunction against inauguration of a new seniority system. While the operators marched from their meeting, Mayor Richard W. Reading and two city attorneys obtained a Circuit Court injunctioi: restraining strikers from molesting operators of busses or streetcars. The order was a precaution against possible violence should streetcar men attempt by members of a rival union. Threaten to Fire Strikers

Denouncing the streetcar men’s walkout as a “strike against the people and the State Supreme Court,” the department of street railways announced in full-page advertisements in all Detroit newspapers the strikers would be fired unless they returned to work by the

deadline. Final results of the streetcar

| men’s vote, which would transform

the strike from a “wildcat” derhonstration to an authorized walkout, were expected to be available this afternoon. In a rising vote on the question of taking the referendum less than half a dozen men dissented out of 3000 who meeting. : Busses moved on regular schedule, driven by members of a rival union. A handful of platform men defied the strike order and took their cars from the barns, but mass transportation in Detroit, the nation's fourth largest city, was crippled vitally. ; Union members voted the strike in a riotous session last night in which they revolted against their leaders. The strike was a protest against delays in putting a new system-wide seniority plan into effect. > 1200 Police on Duty Twelve hundred extra police were rushed to eight car barns and switching centers. The strike took 1800 conductors and operators from their jobs on the city-owned system. Bus operators have blocked the seniority system through court action because, setting up uniform seniority rules for the entire transportation system, it would give old--er streetcar men the privilege of taking many coach drivers’ jobs. The dispute now is before the Michigan Supreme Court which. yester=day granted another 10-day delay, precipitating last night's strike vote.

Connersville Shop Closed by Strikers

CONNERSVILLE, April 7 (U. P.).

—A strike by the-United Automo-

bile Workers’ Uni today closed

the Rex Manufacturing Co., throwing several hundred employees out of work. X William Peremper, president of Local 152. of the U. A. W. U, accused the company of discriminating against union members and violating seniority rights. : Picket lines surrounded the plant this morning as nonunion employees went to work. They wer: denied entrance. No violence was

reported. : Arthur Viat, State Labor Depart-

trouble.

Corps since last August.

. Pive years ago today, Hoosiers flocked to restaurants and “soft drink” parlors for their first taste of legalized 3.2 per cent beer since the beginning of prohibition in 1918. And on the fifth anniversary af beer’s return the subject in dian is as controversial as ever, | A threatened “beer war” with Michigan has been averted, at least until the 1939 Indiana Legislature | meets, but no final settlement has been made with Ohio authorities who have placed s $1500 annual fee against their distributors handling Indiana brews. ' At home, the port-of-entry tem is the target of attacks. ponents charge it with making sible “an alliance of liquor politics.” In answer, Governor To nd has informed Democratic: County chairmen that they must ch

Oppos-

ment ember, left Indianapolis Sa ee to investigate the

vestigating the system. Despite threats of embargoes by neighboring states, the Indiana Brewers Association reported that the 16 Indiana breweries now sell their product in 33 states and that 60 per cent of their total output is sold elsewhere. 3 In February, Federal Government statistics; showed that Indiana breweries stood 11th in point of total production and ranked eighth in bottle beer production, surpassed only by Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Michigan. ; : : The yearly average production for 1934-35-36-37 was 1,527,298 barrels, a,figure slightly lower than

the yearly ‘average of 1,580,195 for the pre-prohibition years of 1914}

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4 AUTO DEATHS LIFT TOLLTO 35

Five Women and: Man ‘Hurt In :New- ‘Accidents; 28 Drivers Arrested.

Marion County's traffic death toll today stood at 35 for the year and Indianapolis ‘at 21. Forty-nine had been killed .in tne De

ago this time. = ~~ PEL | “Two additional deaths brought the traffic toll -for yesterday to four in the county while poiice investigated five accidents in which five women and one man were injured. Among 28 motorists held for Traffic Court today, five were accused of drunken driving. Two are charged with failing to stop after ‘an ‘accident. Threé were arrested after their cars were in accidents. Municipal Court Judge John MecNelis today fined five traffic law violators $13 and: suspended fines amounting to $51. | . Injuries Fatal John Shaw, 55, of 1520 Fletcher Ave. died late yesterday at City Hospital of injuries received last Saturday when he was struck by a truck in Fletcher Ave. near his home. ‘Police said Robert Davidson, 21, of 2015 Singleton St., was driver of the truck. = George: Elkins, 4546 Allisonville Road, injured in a collision in front of his home yesterday, later died in City Hospital. He was 63. 2. Mr. Elkins, a coal dealer, was turning his car ‘into the driveway

machine driven by Charles Kaiser, 35, Lafayette. | : Mr. Kaiser and a passenger in his car,’ Mrs. Gertrude Bouchert, 30, of Noblesville, his aunt, received cuts and bruises. Both were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. = = = Two men lost their lives -earlier yesterday when their auto. crashed into an’ abutment of the “death trap” underpass on W, Washington St. at ‘the City limit. They were Scott R. Hardin, 40, of 1402 N. Alabama St., Apt, 110, and Charles A. Stevens, 41, of 71 N. Brookville Ave. : | x | Mn _ Funeral services for Mr. Shaw are to be held at Scottsyille tomorrow, with burial there. He was born in

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since coming | years ago. 2 : Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Cenia Shaw; two sons, Herman and Arves Shaw; three daughters, Mrs. Eva Holland, ‘Mrs. Ruby Roller and Miss Kathleen Shaw, all of Indianapolis; three sisters, Susan (Turn to Page Three)

Arguments Are Still ‘Foaming’ on 5th Anniversary of State’s 3.2 Beer

primary. He also said he was in-

A 31-gallon barrel of beer now is taxed $6 by the Federal Government and $1.03 by the State, whereas the total tax in pre-prohibition days was only $1 a barrel. The n : was a major threat to Indiana’s out-state beer markets. To meet the threatened ° Michigan ex 0, the Indiana Alcoholic Be . Commis- | sion threatencd a ban against any alcoholic ls 3 y . face. RY Michigan. . Both bo Ss to have gone ‘into effect March 14, but a settle‘ment was reached. Indiana authorities. have made no attempt to retalinte against the Ohio Tax Commission ruling. |= = | __ Figures prepared by the Brewers Association show that Indiana beer since repeal has paid $40,000,000

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trees drooping to the ground under the weight of | April snowfall

cipal .Court this afternoon for ar-

tition was filed in Superior Court

of his home when it collided with a |

Kentucky and had ‘been employed

t | chine Busters that:

2 Men Indicted On Libel Count For Pamphlet

day were indicted by the Marion County Grand Jury on two counts

charging criminal libel and viola-|.

tion of the Corrupt Practices Act. Judge Frank P. Baker of Criminal Court set bonds at $500 on each count, or $1000 for each defendant. The men were to appear in Muni-

raignment on the same charges-filed earlier as the result of affidavits signed by Chief Morrissey. The police charges are scheduled fo be dismissed and the defendants rearrestted on the mew Grand Jury charges. ; : Prosecutor Herbert Spencer said the indictment of the two men was in connection with the publication of a political pamphlet called “Eye and Ear.” No charges were placed against the men after their arrest early yesterday until a habeas corpus pe-

yesterday afternoon. The Chief then signed the affidavits and Municipal Judge Karabell set bond at $5000 for each man. Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams, who is a candidate for renomination with the Prosecutor as his Primary opponent, disqualified himself in the habeas corpus hearing and named Erve Hanford to hear the case. Rh dna Judge Pro Tem. Hanford ruled the bond was excessive, set new bond at $100 each and remanded

the men to the. custody of Sheriff |

Ray. : They provided .bond a few hours later ‘and were released. .

DRY LEAGUE TO QUIZ PRIMARY CANDIDATES

Labor Groups Also to Sub‘mit Questionnaires.

The more than 300 candidates whose names will appear on the May 3 primary ballot today pre=pared to face a barrage of questionnaires as various groups laid plans to sound out. the aspirants’ views and check their records. The Indiana Anti-Saloon League's questionnaires will be mailed probably tomorrow, Superintendent L. E! York announced today. The League's list of questions was being compiled: today. ‘The Workers Nonpartisan Political Action League, Inc., A. F. of L. group, has named committees to present questionnaires to candidates. Similar action is expected by the Labor - Nonpartisan League, the C. I. O.s labor-political group, tax reduction organization and others. The Indianapolis Bar Association will not. question candidates, ‘but is preparing to conduct a “primary” among its members to determine their choice for various judgeships and for prosecuting attorney. : The “straw vote” ballots are to be mailed Friday and will be tabulated in the association rooms April 15, President Thomas D. Stevenson said today. i Other political developments were: : 1. Officials of Machine Busters Inc. announced that more than 8000 persons have registered with the organization... A meeting of Democratic candidates for precinct committeemen will be held in the organization's headquarters at 7:30 tonight. Sheriff Ray (D.), candidate for Mayor and an organizer of Machine Busters Inc., will speak. 2. Andrew + Jacobs (D), candidate for Prosecutor, told the MaHine “The reign of beer barons and vice lords in this county will be ended if I am

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wet snow after the city was blanketed with a record of 9.1 inches. &

STORMS SWEEP 2000-MILE AREA

Three Are Known Dead as ~ Mercury Drops; Damage To Crops Mounts.

By United Press Heavy snow or freezing rain was predicted for snowbound Midwestern states today as cities and towns from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic : d their way. out of a midspring blizzard and. counted three known dead. The new disturbance will extend eastward to the Lake Erie region from Iowa, where communication and transportation systems already are crippled, Government forecasters said. . It will be caused by a recurrence of the same low pressure.area which swept out of the Mackenzie River Basin in Canada, left the heaviest snowfall of the year in North Central States and swooped as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.

The disturbance has swung around and is moving northeastward.

Sleet Adds Hazard |

Forecasters ; said ‘ heavy winds would whip the area where heavy precipitation is predicted. Snow was falling along the eastern seaboard and in scattered sections of the Rocky Mountain ‘region, while the storm still raged in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, where sleet added to: ‘already ‘hazardous conditions, and in’ Oklahoma and northern -Texas. thie Heavy ‘snow or heavy freezing rain that would begin this afternoon and last through part of tomorrow. was predicted -for northern Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Michigan. ‘Snow was forecast for extreme southern and eastern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. i " Forecasters at Chicago said freezing temperatures extended to central Texas and that eastern Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi would be jolted by a cold wave tonight. U. S. Weather forecasters said the snows expected in the Midwest would not be heavy enough to cause great inconvenience in urban areas ‘but probably would cause additional losses to fruit growers in southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

Crops Suffer Heavily *

The crops, which. budded weeks ahead of schedule because of the early spring, already have suffered heavy damage from the cold wave. However, farmers in the drought areas, where subsoil moisture has been below normal, said the snow and rains which accompanied it would do more good than harm. It was a boon to winter wheat particularly, they said. The blizzard covered a strip about 400 miles wide and stretched from

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ward to the Atlantic. Generally fair; weather bordered the northern edge. Rain and sub-normal temperatures were reported in Southern states. - ' The North Central states suffered most. Chicago and its suburbs were under 9.1 inches of snow—an alltime April record. A four and onehalf inch fall was recorded in New York City. It still was snowing there at 8 a. m. Transportation sérvices were re-

| stored to normal on the principal

trafic arteries in Chicago today.

They had been disrupted since the storm struck suddenly early Wednes-

day. More snow was expected.

At least three deaths were attributed to the storm. A motorist was

machine skidded and collided with a truck. In Chicago an elderly man 2d dead while shoveling snow in front of his store. In Hammond,

8 truck driver was electroctited

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Bluffton Without Phone Service.

ROADS PERILOUS

Barking Dog Saves La Porte Farmer From Drift.

BULLETIN LAFAYETTE, April 7 (U. P.).—Carl J. Zipp, ' 25 was killed today when “an automobile in which he was riding with two companions skidded on an ice-covered bridge on U. S. 52, went out of control and hurdled a grade barrier. His companions, Harold Hubertz, 23; and Bernard Deerr, 20, escaped injuries. The car was traveling 70 miles an hour Hubertz, the driver, told police.

Indianapolis and other Central Indiana cities this afternoon await ed the invasion of snow and ice, that has crippled the northern part of the state.

The Weather Bureau predicted below freezing temperatures, snow and probably freezing rains for toe night and tomorrow. p

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There will be more snow and ice in the already blanketed north ern section, and heavy rains buf probably not freezing temperatures, in the southern section, the Bureau predicted. ‘The Indianapolis minimum tems perature last night was exactly freezing, while temperatures rangne fro 26 at Angola to 42 at Evansville were reported. ~~ Ice glazes. were reported ‘at Rochester and Marion, where mini mum temperatures were 28; and Laisyetle, where the minimum was

Driver Electrocuted .

due to the storm. Edward Utesch, 35, Hammond truck driver, died after he had touched a live wire lying across the Cedar Lake-Crown Point Road. The wire had broken under the weight of ice. A police dog probably saved the life of another man. Louis Radke, 46, farmer near La Porte, was trapped in a deep snow drift. The dog barked and attracted attention of persons who freed Mr.- Radke. In spite of several hours exposure, he is expected to recover. Municipal Airport reported that all airlines are flying regular schedules but late in some instances. : The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. reported wires down in a number of places in northern Indiana, but said they: hoped to restore all service some time today. The company said that Culver, Marion, Hartford City and Bluffton all were without service today, but that some service will have been restored by night. Light and power had been restored today to many Fulton County residents, after heavy glazing yesterSay broke wires and disrupted servce.

Fruit Damaged

A heavy crust of ice virtually isolated A Rochester and caused heavy damage to fruit. Some large trees were reported to have fallen under the weight of the ice. Interurban and bus lines cone tinued to run behind schedules toe day as highways remained danger=ous with snow and ice. A locomotive and four freight cars were derailed at the Broadway crossing of Michigan Central's Joliet division in Gary because ice clogged the crossing. | All state roads were opened to traffic which was slow in the north-

feeder roads were impassable. Farmers reported that the snow and ice will not harm winter wheat, but may harm fruit crops in the north. i

TRUST CO. GRANTED RAIL EMPIRE RULE

NEW YORK, April 7 (U. P).— Virtual control of the one-time Van Sweringen railroad empire passed into the hands of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City today when Federal Court upheld the bank’s right to vote Chesapeake Corp. stock which it holds as collateral. :

Coxe, sitting in U. 8. District Court here, denied in all respects a suit instituted by the Alleghany Corp.— one-time top holding company of the railway empire—through Robert R. Young, its chairman. . Mr. Young's attorneys studied the decision to determine whether to

At least one death was reported .

ern part, but many county cross and-.

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