Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1938 — Page 3
' MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1938
Highlights
George V. Coffin in his uniform as Police Chief under Mayor Jewett.
HISTORICAL UNIT T0 HOLD REGION
MEETING IN CITY
Mississippi Valley Group To Convene April 28 At Claypool.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Association, largest regional historical association in the country, will hold its 31st annual meeting April 28, 29 and 30 at the Claypool Hotel. In joint session will be the Teachers’ Section of the American Society of Church History. Hosts will be the Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana Historical Bureau, Butler University and the Society of Indiana Pioneers. Many leaders in the historical field will take part in the sessions which will be open to nonmembers.
Coleman Heads Committee
Clarence E. Carter, Miami University professor, and editor of U. S. territorial papers under the Secretary of State. is association president, and Mrs. Clarence S. Paine, Lincoln, Neb., secretary-treasurer. | Christopher B. Coleman, Indiana
State Librarian, is chairman of the"
committee on local arrangements. Committee members are Nellie C. Armstrong, A. D. Beeler, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Arthur V. Brown, Lee Burns, Donald F. Carmony, Ludwell Denny, The Very Rev. Henry F. Dugan, Dr. M. M. Feuerlicht, The Rev. George Arthur Frantz. = * James W. Fesler, Charles N. Fultz, J. I. Holcomb, Eli Lilly, Esther U. McNitt, Stephen C. Noland, Wilbur D.- Peat, John G. Rauch, Peter C. Reilly, Paul Seehausen, James A. Stuart and Evans Wollen Sr. Maps and manuscripts from the collection of Arthur C. Mitten; Goodland, Inc., will be on display at the State Library, and the State Library and the William Henry Smith Memorial Library of the Indiana Historical Society will be open to visitors.
Notables Among Visitors Among notable persons who will take part in the first day’s sessions are Paul M. Angle, Illinois State Historical Library, who will be chairman of the sessions on government aid to historical research; Dwight L. Dumond, University of Michigan, who will preside at a luncheon on the same subject. Beverlet W. Bond Jr., University of Cincinnati, will be chairman of the section on the beginnings of the American regime in the old Northwest, and L. C. Helderman, Washington and Lee University; John D. Barnhart, Louisiana State University, and Milo M. Quaife, De-
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leaders retired to West Baden for a rest. to right) John Castor, Mr. Jewett, C. O. Dodson an d Mr. Coffin.
Following the strenuous political campaign of Mayor Jewett, he, Mr. Coffin and other Republican Shown here on the lawn in front of the resort hotel are (left
Ray to Launch Campaign T OMOTrow; Teckemeyer Urges ‘Constructive Plan’
Wolff Plans to Meet Voters Personally; Henry Opens Headquarters.
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tices have crept in which can be eliminated upon close examination. Many departmental functions can be consolidat and I dare say many now on the payroll would fast be eliminated under any plan which aimed at true economy." *“We need not propose to eliminate necessities in order to cut expenses. That is not the point. We can have all the good things and all the improvements that are necessary and
still be sane and careful about the
cost of those things. “I would favor an immediate completion of the track elevation program; immediate steps toward elimination of the smoke nuisance; immediate action toward the elimination of glaring traffic hazards but above all a prompt and exacting - probing into every nook and crany of our local governmental structure in an effort to get at the real sources of our all too costly present method of spending the taxpayers money. “We cannot win without organized effort. No candidate who exe pects to win can do so without the concerted effort of his friends and followers. And the only reward to which such followers are entitled is good government—not jobs on the ever crowded payroll. That can be our contribution to the City of Indianapolis and the citizens will, in the end, thank us for it.” Mr. Wolff said he wishes to meet the voters of Indianapolis personally. “My belief is that when people are considering a man for the office of Mayor they have a right to ses him, talk to him and find out first-
troit Public Library, will read papers. Howard K. Beale, University. of North Carolina, will be chairman of the section on problems of the South in relation to other sections and Paul W. Gates, Cornell University; William A. Russ Jr. Susquehanna University, and Francis B. Simkins, Virginia State Teachers’ College, will read papers. President Carter will deliver the presidential address Thursday night. on “The United States and Documentary Historical Publication.” Some of the topics for discussion on the second and third days will be “Education and Reform,” “Modern Political Leaders,” - “Western Folkways and Speech,” and “American International Relations.”
Land whether or not they think he is qualified for the job. “For that reason I am going to spend as much time as possible at our street floor headquarters where all who wish to do so may come in and get acquainted.” James W. Ingles, secretary of the clubs said several thousand Wolff-for-Mayor . pledge cards had been distributed at the headquarters since it was opened last Wednesday, and others are being printed.
Chamberlin Backs Wolff
Harry O. Chamberlin for 12 years Circuit Court judge here, affiliated himself with Wolff-for-Mayor clubs over the week-end. Stating his reasons for supporting Mr. Wolff, he said: “The most acceptable public servant is one who combines intelligence and honesty with courage. Indeed the efficient and honest minded official would completely waste his talents unless he had courage to enforce his views. Much of our past municipal impotence has been due, not to lack of ability and honesty on the part of our public servants,
but rather to their lack of courage |.
in putting info effect policies they knew to be right. “No one need fear that Herman Wolff lacks this all important quality, for he has it in outstanding measure. He has been trained for many years in the science of joie problems..
“Having known Mr. Wolff somewhat intimately for several years, I am certain that the Republicans of Indianapolis will do well to nominate
him as their candidate for Mayor.
His name and character will add strength and confidence to the Republican cause in this community.” Gause Answers Funk Fred G. Gause, State Republican Election Commissioner and president of the Wolff-for-Mayor Clubs, said today his state election duties do not conflict with the Wolff club activities. “The city primary is conducted solely by the Marion County Board of [Election Commissioners. As minority member of the State Board of Election Commissioners, I certainly have nothing to do with the city primary,” Mr. Gause said. The reply was made to a statement of Glen W. Funk, campaign manager for George A. Henry, another Republican candidate for Mayor, who suggested Mr. Gause should resign from one of his posts. Mr. Gilliom’s address, over WIRE Saturday night, was in the form of an | interview by John K. Ruckelshaus, Republican State Executive Committee chairman. Discussing the prospects of electing a Republican Senator, as well as Republican Congressman, Mr. Gilliom said: “A platform overburdened with
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record Speeding ....
Reckless Driving .
County Deaths
Running Preferential Street . 14
Running Red
(April 9 and 10) Accidents .....16 Injured 5 Dead ......... 1 Arrests . 88
Drunken Driving
MEETINGS TODAY
National Association of Women, eon, Hotel Washington, noon. Indiana University Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, no Monday Giub, ‘luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon; meetin, ye mn vuneil, Indianapolis Athletic Ciub, noon Indianapolis Press Club, dinner, Press Club, 6 p. m. Service Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, noon Cervus Club, ‘luncheon, Hotel Washing-
ton, noon. Relenteen Club, luncheon, Board of
de, . indianap mapolis Dental Society, dinner, Hotel Ln meeting, Hotel Washing= Hub Féub, luncheon, Columbia Clb,
Ste: ton, 5 p ivin g on. Eepublic an Club, meeting, ashington Se Or and ‘Managers, luncheon, Columbia Cluk, noo ta Gamma, Pi Oran, meeting, Ho-
Lincoln, 8 p. m. te} a polis Cartage Club, meeting, Ho-
Indiana maton an Army, Rincheon, Columbia
Club, noon Indiana Milk and Cream Improvement - Association, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, noon,
willie Safety Jeague, luncheon, Hotel Niunte” Glan. 1 luncheon, Columbia Club, 4 Phi Chi Epsilon, meeting, Hotel Lincoln, i Se a Rotary Club, lunclieon, Columbia Club, re Dells on Up Ton. Board Indian ana Motor Rate and Tariff Bureau, Jneeting, Hotel Lincoln 10 a. m.; ‘uncheon, Steel Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, indianapolis Athletic Club, board of directors’ Junicheon meet ing, - “Athletic Club, diana Ul University Women ® Sa luncheon. Cans Sout Ing dlanapolis ‘Ath Corumbia Club 6 diana Hird d Cosmetolo- : og Association, meeting, Hotel Lincoln,
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MEETINGS TOMORROW
Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis Lawyers’ Association, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noo Indianapolis Council emi Teachers’ Cr meeting, Hotel Washington,
m, Mario on County Democratic luncheon, Hotel Washinmton: noo; Alpha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Trade,
Indianapolis Hunting and Fishing AssoJiativn, meeting, Hote: Washington, 7:30
Panis of Lolamuus, wncheon, ‘Hotel
Washington, - Gyre "Club, oO chieon, Spink-Arms Ho-
tel, Hercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
on. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
Women,
University of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon Ss ‘Purchasing Agents’ heon., Athenaeum, noo: is Home Builders’ Association, ier Athietio Club, 6:30 Bu Indiana Bakers’ Association, state convention, Claypool Hotel .all day.
Asso-
BIRTHS
Boys
George, Gladys Bradshaw, at City. Herschel E., Katherine Runner, at Meth-
ist | Victor, Helen Williams, at Methodist. Ora D., Fern Barnes, at Methndist. | Jack, Janet Brown, at Methodist. | Dale, Alberta Lucas, at Methodist. K., Edith Cullen, at Methodist. | Doster, Ivalou Kercheval, Fob Methodist. s an
Jackson, at Coleman. Aldrick, at St. Vincent's. ffin, at St. Vincent's. teinberger, at St. Vin-
Girls
Donald, Lillian Boles, at Methodist. Arthur, Lea Cassell, at Methodist. - H. R., Iris Potts. at Methodist. Delmar, Helen Fisher, at Methodist. Dennie, Ruby Nelson, at Coleman. Robert, Jacqueline Wade, at Coleman Frank, Emma_Harkins, at St. Vincent's. emerson, abeth' Soland, at St. Vin-
“Richard, Marie Bromert, S36 t. Vincent's. Joseph. Pauline Reidy. t. Vincent's Edward, Olga Tarugott. "at St. Francis. William, Catherine Smith, at St. Francis. Thomas, Lima Lake tam” girls), at St. Francis. Carl, Ruth Schwier, at St. Fran PI aneth, Marie Moore, at To5s" "Halk
Henry. Thelma Thoms. at 4608. E. 21st. Charles, Alma Timbrook, at 1814 W. New
Boney, Bessie Hughes, at 530 Chadwick, Harry, Florence Russel, at 512° N. East..
DEATHS
Thelma Penny, 39, at 3246 N. Talbott, | busting
I Berane Reynolds: 76. at Metiodis range n Bre Esl. rior Methodist, Neff, 65, a at 314 N,
Emma M. Eger, 74, at S140 Central, angina pectoris. John F. Lavery. a at 5360 Broadway, chronic myocarditi ps Tingle, 64, Bt 1524 E. 17th, carci-
Middle Ellen Glascock, 75, at 5158 KenBI Boas, 78, ohn Schneiders. at City. perit Morris Stiles, 19, at 20 E Datonitis, pulonary fsbo falosts 37 owar at 53 chrotiic bronchitis. . N. California, ert Johnson, 37, - cagdifl. at, City, acute myo James. 68, at 2115 - stitial nephritis. N, Rural, wmter
QFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS. FORECAST — Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight.
Sunrise ...... 5:13 | Sunset
ke une 6:19
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 Total pracibitation since Jan. Ti Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Partly cloudy ton ight ‘and tomorrow; not so cool east and south portions tonight, cooler north and west central portions tomorrow. Jjinois—Bartly Slondy donight and tomorrow; $0 cool central and south portions tonIght, cooler central and north
portions tomorrow.
Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy, not cool south eas Portion Jonight; Yaron
* | partly cloudy and coole:
Ohio—Partly cloudy ad warmer _tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy, slightly warmer in south io lowed by colder in extreme north port Kentucky—Partly pH tonight and tomorrow: warmer Sonlight and in east portions tomorrow,
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station Wea ar. T
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negative criticism, or one replete with pussy-footing and straddling generalities, or one utopian objectives, but quibbling only over details of administration, would be worse than useless. “A straight-thinking platform, free from hokum, should commit the party to a program to restore genuine representative government in actual practice and, through it, reopen, widen, maintain, protect and properly police the way of free and competitive private enterprise. “That alternative is radically different from the New Deal personal government and its stifling ways, and would afford a real choice between two violently opposed courses in government. “The alternative I suggest relies for recovery and prosperity on the co-operative spirit and initiative of a free people under protection and
regulation ‘of a representative gov- |:
ernment that is responsive to the free will of the people, and it believes in a prosperity based on the doctrine of plenitude of production and distribution of goods at reasonable prices to the consumer. “On the other hand, the New Deal relies on economic planning, regimentation, heavy borrowing, taxation and spending, and coercion by a personal government possessing centralized authority akin to the powers of a dictatorship, and it believes in limited production and distribution of goods at high prices to the consumer.”
Schlott Backers to Meet
Headquarters for the Jack Schlott-for-Sheriff Club was opened today at 250 N. Capitol Ave. An organization meeting for volunteer workers will be held at the Washington Hotel tomorrow night. The East Indianapolis Young Democrats Club today was on record as backing the candidacy of L. Ert Slack for Superior Court 3. The Anti-Saloon League questionnaire suggests three points: 1. Local option — provide that voters in communities, townships and countries may say by ballot whether alcoholic beverages may or may not be sold in such communities and subdivisions of the state. . 2. Prohibit minors—provide that no alcoholic beverage licensee may employ in his or her place of busimes any person under 21 years of
2: Rehabilitation fund — provide that persons sustaining injury, loss or damage on account of immediate or resultant effects of the sale of legalized alcoholic liquors, be reimbursed from a tax imposed from the sale of such liquors so long as the State of Indiana permits the sale thereof.
EX-JUDGE ANDERSON, 81, IL IN HOSPITAL
McNamara Case Jurist Is Stricken in Florida.
Former Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson, 81, was reported in “fair condition” today at St. Vincent's Hospital where he was brought yesterday from his winter home in Winter Park, Fla. He became ill in Florida several days ago. He was accompanied by his wife, who is staying at the Marott Hotel. Judge Anderson retired in June, 1929, from the U. 8S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. He had been, gppointed to :that bench in 1925, after having served 23 years as judge of the Indiana Federal district here. He was appointed to the local post in 1902 by Theodore Roosevelt. : He heard the McNamara case, which involved dynamiting of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Times, the Terre Haute election fraud case, and the trial of former Governor Warren McCray. Born Near Zionsville
In the McNamara case 38 members of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Iron Workers were convicted of con-
spiracy and violation of the U. S. p
Iw prohibiting transportation of losives. The union’s headquarters . re here, and Judge Anderson heard testimony from 744 witnesses during 75 court days." Judge Anderson, a Republican, was born near Zionsville, Ind., and attended Wabash College. In 1886 he became Montgomery County Prosecutor, serving four years. Judge Robert C. Baltzell, present U. S. Judge here, succeeded Judge Anderson.
40 HURT ON QUEEN MARY
PLYMOUTH, England, ril 11 (U. P.).—The liner Queen Mary ar-
rived four hours late from the Unit-
ed States today. Forty of her passengers were injured during a gale Friday. During the storm, the ship’s| cei
: SE ,onashod, other Tarilurejm
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
in the Career of George V. Coffin, Republican Leader
parroting |
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The political leader as a U. S. soldier on duty at Manila, Philip-
pine Islands. > ”
RITES SET FOR GEORGE COFFIN, G. 0. P. LEADER
Former Police Chief Will Be Buried Wednesday After Funeral at 10 A. M.
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dercover man to procure evidence of cock fighting at the Bert Battley farm.
Patrolman Coffin was told to go to the Traction Terminal and mingle with a group of men and boys there. He boarded an interurban car with the group and proceeded to the farm, where the barn was rigged up for cock fights. He made a note of the windows, doors and. other strategic points, and then slipped outside to meet John Mullin, now police inspector. Within a few moments, a squad of 25 police had raided the barn and arrested 100 persons. Patrolman Coffin made his first arrest that night.
Aided Flood Rescues
As acting superintendent of police in 1913, Mr. Coffin added another spectacular chapter to his career during the flood when West Indianapolis and Haughville were stricken. ’ With a small detail of men, he rescued about 500 persons and led them to safety in a school house at Bloomington and Washington Sts.
The water continued to rise, how-"
ever, and Mr. Coffin moved the en-
tire group a half mile farther to.
higher ground. He accomplished the rescue in three hours, using only one power boat. With his charges safe, Mr. Coffin turned his attention to their health. With a detail of men, he halted a freight train on a bridge over White River and told the engineer to take his locomotive back to the barns. He and his men then ripped open the sealed box cars, and carried the meat being shipped from a local packing plant to the 500 homele:® persons. men ripped open other box cars and took food from them for the refugees. : These activities were both attacked and defended for many months after the flood had receded.
Elected Sheriff Twice
In the same year he was credited with having organized the policecitizens’ committee to cope with a threatened teamsters’ strike. Mr. Coffin resigned from the force
land twice successfully ran for
sheriff, leading the Republican ticket each time. In 1918, Mayor Charles W. Jewett appointed him chief ‘of police, and in 1920 he resigned the position to enter business. In November of that year he married Miss Grace Collins, Indianapolis, who then was secretary to Mayor Jewett. Subsequently he was elected County Clerk. Organization workers twice elected him County Chairman, and later he became City and County Republican Chairman. Gavin L. Payne, Republican 12th
district chairman, today related a story that gave an insight into how Mr. Coffin built and maintained the Republican organization. “One cold winter day,” he said, “George Coffin dropped into my office at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and sank into a chair, He was suffering from stomach trouble and seemed all in. “<I am unhappy,’ he said. ‘I have been from plant to plant in this town all day trying to get one of the managers to give a colored man —a precinct committeeman out in Brightwood—a job at $1.25 a day as fireman. I have done some big things for those corporations without seeking a favor from them, and everywhere I have been turned down on this request.
‘Must Be Slipping’
“ “That colored man is too proud to ask for relief. Somebody is going to give him.a job if I have to spend the rest of the month hunting for it. I feel I must be slipMr. Payne also said that Mr. Coffin bore a lifelong hatred of liquor, but at all times was tolerant. Mr. Coffin was a member of the Friends Church, Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & A. M., a life member of the Shrine, a member of the Scottish Rite, Spanish-American War Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is survived by his wife, a son, George William, and two daughters, Jean and Martha, all of sdianap0
BOY SHOT ACCIDENTALLY NEWCASTLE, April 11 (U. P.).— Five-year-old Holly Browning Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Holly Browning, Newcastle, was believed recovering Yodlay from-a gunshot wound re-
in a tence an pp Sains gun Sanghi :
Subsequently he and hs
‘and a great
| known since
Two years after Mr. Coffin was appointed to the Police Department, this photograph of the officers’ baseball team was taken in 1908. Mr. Coffin is shown second from the Hight in the front row, standing , next to Robert Metzger, in civilian clothes, who was Poiice Chief.
102,000 French Workers Strike:
Chinese Driving Toward Tsinan; Big Maj J ority Delights Hitler
Rebels Say ‘Loyalists Aro) |
‘Almost Split Into Three Armies.
PARIS, April 11 (U. P.).—Premier
Edouard Daladier’s new “moderate”
‘Cabinet was confronted by the gravest industrial crisis in months today as it took office in an effort to save France from her economic and financial difficulties.
The strike of industrial workers !
assumed major proportions when || 35,000 Renault workers joined the |
current strike movement, making a total of 95,000 workers in 35 plants out. Approximately half of the heavy industries in Paris were paralyzed. The Renault is the largest single plant in France, manufacturing automobiles, airplanes, motors, || shells, armor plate and tanks. The total of strikers was brought to 102,000 when three more airplane factories followed the example of | the Renault workers. The new
strikes were in plants making en- |
gines, seaplanes and combat planes. These strikes virtually completed the tie-up of arms and airplane production. Socialists Oppose
M. Daladier thus was confronted
with a major problem ‘even before || he could conclude the first meeting ||
of his Cabinet. M. Daladier formulated policies for Cabinet approval today and will take them before Parliament this week, possibly tomorrow. In the
Chamber, he faced strong opposi- ||
tion from the Socialists, led by former Premier Leon Blum, and the Communists. In the Senate, however, he was assured of full support. M. Daladier’s cabinet was not the compact National Union Government of “strong men” which he had planned and which most of France ardently hoped for. If was Radical Socialist with a sprinkling of Union Socialists and Centrist Liberals
PARTY LEADERS VOICE TRIBUTE
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fine sympathy for people in distress. His generosity and loyalty to his associates made for him a multitude of close, devoted friends. In politics he was an unrelenting, re
sourceful fighter, who made strong
friends ana strong enemies, but
seldom did anyone ever hear him
make detrimental criticisms about his opponents.
IVAN C. MORGAN, Former State Republican Chairman—I am deeply shocked to hear of the death of George Coffin. I regarded him as one of the best men our party had. Too much cannot be said in his tribute. Although his passing will be felt. keenly, it should not result in any great changes in Republican leadership. Frederick Schortemeier probably will carry on. RALPH A. LEMCKE—I was great-
ly shocked at the news of Mr. Cof-
fin’s death. Although we did not agree at all times politically, I had the greatest respect for him. He rendered a. great service to the City in 1913 when he was a member of the Indianapolis Police Department ce to the country when he saw service during the Boxer Rebellion in China. JAMES E. WATSON, former U. S. Senator—I regarded George V. Coffin as singularly Dobie on in political organization. He always was true and candid iin dealing with his fellows and in his political statements. One of the outstanding elements in his character was the fact that he told people the truth. He has been against me and for me in various campaigns, and I never had any trouble understanding what he intended to do and where he stood in relation to my candidacies. I Jkeenly regret learning of his passing.” MAYOR WALTER C. BOETCHER—I met Mr. Coffin only once. I feel, however, that Indianapolis has lost an able political leader. ‘TAYLOR E. GRONINGER, former Republican City Corporation Counsel—Mr. ffin, whom I have 1906, was charitable, loyal to his friends and a man of strong will power. I have been opposed for years to his policies in the handling of Republican politics and his political tase, WILLIAM C. CLAUER, ‘Marion
THE FORGE SITUATION PARIS—New Cabinet in office as 102,000 workers strike.
SHANGHAI — Chinese follow up “greatest victory.”
CANTON—S800 die_in air raid. BERLIN—Hitler proud of 99.08 per cent vote.
HENDAYE — Spanish Rebels claim Loyalist split is imminent. GENEVA—Britain seeks League discussion of Ethiopia. ROME — Anglo-Italian accord reported.
which gave it a touch of a Liberal (Union cabinet. Georges Bonnet, Radical Socialist, was new Foreign Minister. The Popular Front thus was dead 122 months after it came into power in the June, 1936 elections.
Hitler Delighted At Plebiscite Vote
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BERLIN, April 11 11 (U. P.).—Adolf [Hitler received a “go ahead” signal for his policies from nearly 49,000,000 qualified voters of Greater Germany in what proved today to be the greatest plebiscite triumph of is five years in office. :
Final figures showed that 813 deputies had been elected to the Reicnsas and that the vote in avor of Herr Hitler's policies was 99.08 per cent. ‘Final returns gave the following figures: Previous Reich territory, as well as Germans voting in Austria or abroad—45,073,303 ' qualified voters; actually voted, 44,872,702 or 99.5 iper cent; 44,362,667 voted yes, or 99.02 per cent of the valid votes; 440,429 voted no, and 69,606 votes were invalid. ' Former Austian territory, as well las Austrians voting in Germany— 4474138 qualified voters; 4,460,778 or. 997 actually voted; 4,443,208 voted yes, or 99.73 per cent of the valid votes; 11,807 voted no, and 15763 votes were invalid. | Total of the entire Greater Reich |—49,493,028 qualified voters; 49,279,104 actually voted, or 99.757 per ‘cent; 48,751,587 voted yes, or 99.08 per cent of the valid votes; 452,170 voted no and 75,347 votes were invalid. “This is the proudest hour of my life,” Herr Hitler ‘said when informed of the vote—a vote which surpassed the expectations of Nazis
themselves in size and Percentage
of approval for union.
Rebels Seek to Divide
Three Loyalist Armies
HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, April 11 (U. P.).—Gen. Francisco Franco’s Rebels have virtually completed a movement to split the Loyalist armies into three parts on the Catalonian front, Rebel dispatches said today. Coincidentally a brief dispatch from Barcelona indicated that the Loyalist divisional offensives in the Guadalajara and Talavera de la Reina zones, the first northeast of Madrid and the second west of Toledo, had ended without effective gains. Reports from Rebel commanders showed that the Navarre troops operating near the French frontier had completed the encirclement of the thousands of Loyalist troops who retreated northward from the Huesca front, and ‘had finally separated them from the main Catalonian armies. ; On the Morella front at the Rebel southern wing, was said, the Loyalist coastal roads were ‘under such heavy fire that the armies of the Catalonian and Valencia areas were virtually separated and it was a question of time alone before the Rebels reached the coast.
Britain Asks League to Consider Italian Ethiopia.
SHANGHAI, April 11 (U. P).— Chinese troops, driving with all their power to consolidate the greatest military victory in their history, asserted today that the fall of Yihsien, on the central front, was imminent and that Japanese troops were withdrawing from their great base at Tsinan 170 miles to the north.
Chinese field commanders reporte ed that Japanese fleeing from Taierhchow, just to the south, had joired the Yihsien garrison and had barricaded themselves in the walled town for a death fight, despairing of escape or rescue because their lines of communication to the north were hopelessly cut and they were without artillery because wheeled transport was impossible on the road, which Chinese guerrillas had wrecked.
Following their capiute of Tai= - erhchwang, the Chinese had gone on northward to take several vile lages in their path and it was indicated that the downfall of Yihsien would mean the confirmation of a great victory for the Chinese—a victory that threatened the entire" Japanese Army south of Tsinan. Though newspapermen and fore eign military observers were actual« ly with the Chinese Army at Taie erhchwang, Japanese spokesmen here persisted in their assertions that Chinese claims to the town were “ridiculous lies.” Chinese planes, in intervals of machine gunning and bombing the Japanese troops, were dropping “surrender passes” to the retreating infantrymen, it was reported. The passes promised any Japanese who surrendered friendly treatment, medical aid, traveling expenses home after the war or a job in China if they stayed, and a cash bonus for surrendered arms. There was new evidence that from somewhere China had received important material aid from abroad. At Hankow, the emergency capital, newspapers advertised, for the first time, for aviation cadets and for recruits for the new armored car corps. : Capt. E. F. Carlsen, U. S. Marine Corps, declared that the desolation around Taierhchwang after weeks of fighting approximated the ruins on the Western Europe front in the World War,
CANTON, China, A April 11 (U. P.. —Chinese soldiers and civilians dug through the ruins of the Powah Theater today for the bodies of additional victims of yesterday's aire plane bombing by the Japanese which took an estimated toll of 800 dead and wounded. Rows of rough coffins, left open tc reveal burned and mangled bodies, were placed in a prominent position in the center of the city. On them were signs, reading: “After looking at this, what do you think of the Japanese?”
Britain Brings Up Question of Ethiopia
GENEVA, April 11 (U. P.).—Great Britain today requested Joseph OC, Avenol, League of Nations secretary, to put the question of recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia on the agenda of the May 9 Council meeting.
ROME, April 11 (U. P.) —A drafte ing committee of experts was expected to begin today the work of drawing ‘up an Italian-British friendship agreement with the hope that it could be signed before Adolf Hitler visits Premier Benito Mussolini during the first week of May. It was understood that final details of the agreement were fixed yesterday by Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister, and Lord Perth,
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British Ambassador.
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