Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1938 — Page 2

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‘No Intimidation,” Clauer Tells Democrat G. O.P. Veterans to Hear Wolff and Henry; Teckemeyer Cri |

County Chairman Pleads for ‘Clean’ Primary Election; Bradshaw Stresses Importance of Human - Side of Juvenile Court. =

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man relations—the court that determines whether a boy or girl, floundering in the confusion that comes with adolescence, shall become a humiliated, warped, hunted animal, or a developing personality in which the qualities essential to good citizenship are brought out to submerge the destructive impulses. Judge Must Be “Free” “The term ‘judge’ as applied to the man who presides over the Juvenile Court is the term that was used in the ancient sense. It symbolizes a man who is sympathetic but not maudlin, who is dignified but not austere, who is a student but not a book worm who has shut himself off from the realities of the world, who understands psychology not only as it has been revealed By the scientists but through a deep personal insight that is in-

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“The judge of the Juvenile Court must be free and willing to surround himself with aids who are trained and as deeply conscious of their responsibilities as the judge himself, who is nat interested in building a personal political machine, but determined to reflect credit upon himself, his court and—most important of all—to aid those unfortunates whose lives are affected by his conduct in office.”

Myers Record Lauded

In commenting on the importance of selecting a worthy candidate for Criminal Court judge, Mr. Johnson said: r “Cther judicial posts are of extreme importance, but. the Criminal Court judge creates the publi¢’s expression of the quality of the party in power. : “If a judge permits himself to be drawn into unsavory associations rendering him unfit for service in some of the cases coming before him, a justifiable suspicion arises in the public mind. : “We. younger men in the Democratic. Party want to continue in politics and in publie service. We want our party to continue in power and we want to point to that party with pride. We respect the old-time leaders as long as they demonstrate that they are able to win with clean tactics. When they fail in that, we no longer owe them allegiance.” He traced the rise of Mr. Myers as an attorney and former judge of Municipal Court, Room 3, and contended that “we can offer him as our candidate in the fall election confidence in the knowledge that his record needs no explaining.” “His reputation as an attorney and as a citizen will continue to grow as he sits on the Criminal Court bench,” Mr. Johnson said, “and the strength of our party will grow -with him. That is something for young Democrats to keep in mind as they look down the ballot and down the years.”

Snethen Recalls Drive

Mr. Snethen, in discussing the City Manager Plan, recalled that a few years ago when the city manager campaign was being conducted here, he was secretary of the movement. He added he would help promote the necessary changes in law fio make the plan possible here. He charged that the other candidates for Mayor had taken up the “cry that they were for the plan” but that “when the fight was on a few years ago for this plan, these same candidates had done little or nothing to help.” Mr. Snefhen said a City Manager, acting in the same capacity as a manager of a private corporation, would hold office so long as he was efficient, and the employees under him would hold their jobs because . of their particular fitness. Mr, Snethen added that he stands for a reduction in utility rates.

Kortepeter Speaks

W. Herman Kortepeter, chairman of the Snethen-for-Mayor Clubs speakers’ bureau, spoke at the same meeting, urging nomination of Mr. Snethen. . “Here is the kind of a man we have always hoped would be. a candidate,” he said, “and it is a privilege for the citizens of Indianapolis to be able to vote for as high type a man and a man with as high ideals as Mr. Snethen. If nominated and elected, he will administer the affairs of our City honestly, efficiently, economically and free from political interference.”

Attacks Dishonesty

Andrew Jacobs, candidate for Prosecutor, - attacked dishonesty in public office, in an address last night at 775 Indiana Ave. He said,

in part: “1 wish it to be understood that I. do not have -any personal grievance against my opponent, nor those who are backing him. This is not a battle of personalities, nor atest of careers. “Regardless of whether I am victorious at the polls, I will be amply compensated for the effort I have made because the principles which I have advocated will eventually triumph, and should I be defeated, my satisfaction in having served them, even in defeat, will compensate me a hundredfold. “My opponent has made no public utterance about the issues the voters are interested in and refuses to pledge himself to the people. «He remains silent in confidence the machine will secure his nomination. If nominated he will owe his allegiance to those who are responsible for his political fortunes.” Ray Gives Three Talks Sheriff Ray gave three talks last night, addressing a group of workat headquarters of Machine Busters, Inc., 127 E. Washington St., and meetings at 548 N. Lynn St. and at the Silver Leaf Industrial Club, 807 Indiana Ave. “Machine bosses, to bolster the failing morale of their henchmen, are saying they will get out a restraining order to keep me from using my deputies on primary day,” he said. “My reply is that I will use them pecause the law gives me the power to use special deputies in any emergency, and I consider this a

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grade men, carefully: trained, who helped him cut crime in the County more than 50 per cent. - “Their work ‘in reducing crime and stopping theft is important,” he said, “but I regard the work of protecting the sacred right of Americans to vote as even more important.” Pledges to “Keep Faith”

He charged that the morale of the regular Democratic organization workers rapidly is falling, adding that precinct and ward personnel of the “machine are calling me and writing me daily in an effort to make a deal.” “But I am not going to break faith with you people who are helping me,” he said. “I am opposed to this machine and I want no support from any of them. I ‘have been opposed to machines all my life and I will be against them until I die. *I am making this fight as a matter of principle. I am spending my own money and we are going to win.” “Several other candidates also spoke at the two neighborhood meetings. Myrtle Buehl, candidate for Center Township Trustee, pledged fair administration of relief, without faveritism. Chalmer Schlosser, candidate for judge of Superior Court 3, illustrated his talk on “machine rule and bossism,” with a ventriloquist’s dummy.

Decries Boss Tactics

“The Democratic committee,” Mr. Schlosser said, “is composed of precinct. committeemen and women; ward chairmen and women, and the county chairman. ; “The purpose of this committee, as provided by the primary law, is to help elect the Democratic ticket in the November election. Whenever this committee permits certain bosses to force them to support favored candidates to the exclusion of others, they are acting contrary to the spirit of the primary law and their conduct is illegal. “The American people resent dictatorship in any form. The Republican Party learned the lesson and the Republicans have declared in favor of an open primary. :

Favors Open Primary

“The Democrats, even at this late day, would do well to make the same declaration. If they fail to do so, the defeat of the Democratic party this fall will be charged to the Democratic committee and the bosses.” L. William Curry, candidate for judge of Superior Court §, said “the bosses must go,” and “there never was a time when the voters were so united against boss control as now. He said he had not seen or heard his opponent in the campaign, adding that his silence indicated his opponent expected the organization slate to carry him to victory. ; Mr. Curry said he_ felt that ther should be a Superior Court occupied by a Negro judge, bailiff, clerk and court reporter to handle all cases where both the plaintiff and defendant are Negroes. - Other speakers included John Cochran, candidate for Center Township Constable; Robert Carter, candidate for Center Township Jus= tice of the Peace, and Perry Easton, candidate for State Representative. A West Side Democratic rally wili be conducted at 4451 W. Washington St. at 7:30 p. m. Monday. Speakers are. to include Superior Court Judges Joseph R. Williams and Clarence E. Weir; Mr. Schlosser and Al Feeney, candidate for sheriff. :

STERN PENALTY FOR MATRICIDE ASKED

Killed Mother on Impulse, Youth Tells Judge.

" CHICAGO, April 23 (U. P.).—The State today demanded stern punishment for Teddy Danielsen, 16-year-old school boy who killed the mother he said he loved. The frail piano student sobbed as State’s Attorney Morris G. Meyers branded “false” his story of the “irresistible impulse” which prompted him to kill. Mr, Meyers demanded that he be sentenced to a penal institution, Teddy had related how an overwhelming impulse seized him when his mother shook and slapped him after he confessed extended truancy from school. He told how he grabbed up a kitchen knife and plunged it into Mrs. Eleanor Danielsen’s throat. He said his senses were so moved by his blind impulse that he could not recall the circumstances of the act or offer a reasonable explanation. State’s Attorney Myers told Chief Justice: Cornelius T. Harrington, who must decide the youth’s fate, that he was convinced Teddy strangled his mother, hurled her to the floor and plunged the knife fatally into her throat as she lay helpless. “He must be punished,” Mr. Meyers demanded. “Unless the defendant is compelled to serve in a penal institution this case may have terrific implications. : “Punishment of this defendant is absolutely necessary to impress the youth of the land with the fact that courts of law will deal with them as with their elders.” Teddy’s sobs punctuated the prosecutor's remarks, His: father, Theodore Danielsen Sr., grasped his Son's hand in an effort to console ‘him.

DOG GETS TRUST FUND

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23 (U. P.).—Brownie, a 9-year-old airedale, will receive “full benefit” of the income of a $20,000 trust fund, established under the will of its mistress, Mrs. Marion B. Springer of Woburn, The will, probated yesterday, provided that the money be turned over to the Angell Memorial Hos-

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E. W. Harris has charge of arrangements. : Mr. Wolff, in his address last night, promised Police and Fire Department chiefs would be named from within the ranks if' he becomes Mayor. : «pirst of all,” he said, “one thing

‘may be clearly understood. If I}

am nominated and elected there will be no outsiders brought in as heads of the Police and Fire Departments. Outsiders would have to spend a long time learning the details "of the -work and would never, in my opinion, become as well-qualified for the jobs as would men promoted from the ranks. . “The jobs of Chief of Police and Chief of the Fire Department will be filled from within the ranks on the basis of a considered and careful judgment as to the men best fitted for these important positions.

Promotions on ‘Ability’

“Theré is only one way io encourage merit in any of our city departments. That is by enabling those within the departments to see something ahead of them in the way of reward for ability if they put forth their best efforts. } “Promotion, if I become Mayor, will be gauged on a basis of ability, integrity and efficiency. I don’t know how to run any kind of business on a different basis, and that is most certainly the way I'd run the business of the City of Indianapolis, “Another thing I want to make clear at this time is that I do Rot believe in making a long list of rash promises or pre-election statements. A man must finally be judged by performance and not by promise. “At this time I am more interested in the measure of service that a united Republican Party can give to the citizens of Indianapolis than in anything else. = ~~ : “Y have been increasingly proud of the fact that men and women in all walks of life are assisting me in this campaign; men and women who are hoping for a Republican victory in the. fall election.- I am. doing everything in my power to justify their faith by conducting my campaign in such a manner that there will be no repercussions after the primary. “This is being done so that all of us may be able to extend the hand of fellowship, not ‘only to the friends of successful candidates but also to those of unsuccessful candidates, to the end that we may present a united front for victory next November. “I am unalterably opposed to mud-slinging tactics. I have never used such tactics in my business, personal or public life and I never intend to start using them.”

Teckemeyer Hits Taxes

Discussing tax reduction, Teckemeyer said: “Fully 90 per cent of our present worries and problems in private and public business can be traced directly or indirectly to the ruinous, overwhelming and ridiculous peak to which taxes have risen. The very life blood of our industries is being drained, away into the trough of the tax-gatherer, year after year, month after month. “It is a never ending stream, strangling the energy of business, destroying the happiness of our home life and casting a pall of gloom and discouragement over every effort which any business or individual dares make to toward security for the future and a decent, wholesome existence for the present. We have been long suffering, but the pain and punishment have been too great. We must fight for release. “We hear constant talk of solving our labor troubles by boards or com=mittees or groups who will arbitrate differences. That is locking the barn door after the animal has sauntered away. . “If business could find relea from the staggering burden of taxes there would be more funds available for expansion, raising of wages, hiring of more and more men and, with the fear of constantly rising taxes removed, all business would gladly lend a helping hand in eliminating labor problems by eliminating the cause of those problems. * That would be a real solution— not a method of | solving a row between business and employes after it started.

Feels Economies Needed

“This city of ours can be operated on one-third less than is now being spent and nothing deserving of attention overlooked. Economy in governmental management is a simple thing after all. “It works the same as the economical management of your home and mine, We buy what we actually need and pay a price that things are worth. We do not have the house painted two or three times a year just to spend some money or help out a pal. We do not have five boys come to trim the lawn just in order to keep our money in circulation. “We do not buy every frill and fancy that is devised for the.home unless it is actually worthwhile and we can afford it. But, our City’s business is operated in just the opposite manner. We buy everything, hire everyone and do everything imaginable to engage the greatest number and use the largest amount of money possible to keep the old machine intact for the next election. “If I am elected Mayor and that sort of nonsense isn't stopped within a period of 60 days after election I'll resign immediately. I am honest and sincere in all of these promises and pledges and if elected can carry them out because I will have no one to whom I must render an accounting except the ‘citizens who are working and laboring to bring about the kind of house-cleaning that Indianapolis needs.” Men selected, for the judiciary should have had a part in the every day business affairs of their community, David F. Smith, Republican candidate for Superior Court 4 said

today, . : He said it would be well {o follow

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high court judges to be businessmen and not lawyers in order to bring every day business point of view into their deliberations.

_- Haerle Pledges Efficiency Mr. Haerle pledged honesty, ef-

“If nominated and elected Prosecutor of Marion County,” he said, “I promise you that the Prosecutor’s office will be open to your inspection at all times. I will appoint

deputies whose integrity and ability are unquestioned. I will endeavor to reduce the cost of operation of the Prosecutor's office, which reduction will result in a saving to the taxpayers of Marion County. “1 as my first principle, honesty. There will not be any undercover or shady transactions or dealings with any person, group or organization. I will prosecute those

use the powers of my office to get even with or get revenge upon anyone, The office of Prosecutor should be far above petty misunderstandings and personal grudges, and I assure you that I will not participate in any such misdirected activities.” 4 “My second principle is that of efficiency. If I am nominated and elected, I intend to conduct the office as a business, keep regular hours and fixed duties. Incompetency will not be permitted. I will search for the most capable lawyers in Indianapolis to act as my deputies. Investigation and prosecution of cases will be thoroughly and ably carried on. I will not tolerate loafers, bums, or ‘leeches’ to become attached to my office or that of any deputy therein.

Pleads for Economy

“My third principle in this campaign is economy. I fully realize that every penny spent in this office comes from the taxpayers’ pockets, and being conscious of this fact, I will endeavor to keep down expenses and give the taxpayer his money’s worth. “The Prosecutor can do great good in the community, and it is my desire to have the opportunity to demonstrate constructive, sound, legal principles combined with economy to better the conditions in Marion County and to carry forward a vigorous campaign to achieve this end.” In urging nomination of Mr. Royse, Mr. Turrell said: “Wilbur A. Royse will render impartial and fair justice to all citizens,- regardless of their political convictions. It is important that we have qualified judges, that realize that courts are for this type of justice, and in Mr. Royse, we have - the logical candidate, both from training, knowledge and general experience.”

Stresses Labor Sympathy

Mr. Richardson said he always has mantained a deep and genuine sympathy for the man who labors “since it was necessary for me to acquire my education by laboring.

He said he was born on a farm and “learned to work long and hard,” later was employed as a carpenter and cabinet maker, and then as an electrical meter man. He said he feels that because of this he knows the “problems and attitudes of those still compelled to work long and hard for their living and the support of families.”

“The Prosecutor must know the background of the underprivileged,” he said, “to fully understand the many problems of juvenile or near juvenile delinquency and its connection with crime. “In that connection, IT should hope to get at the truth rather than to get a conviction which was based upon prejudice or weakness in the defense of an innocent man or child. “Also, my experience as a lawyer for working men who have been injured and diseased in their employment convinces me that there is much to be done in the stricter enforcement of the safety laws among factory workers.”

Backs. Track Elevation

Speaking before the Fountain Square Henry-for-Mayor Club, Mr, Henry pledged he would push a city-wide track elevation program and voiced opposition to abandonJers of the Minnesota 7 streetcar ne. He said that track elevation is of vital concern not only to the South Side, but to all sections of Indian~ apolis. Commenting on his labor views, Mr. Henry said: “I believe that employers owe a

and paironizes them in the purchase of their products to employ Indianapolis people, “There are hundreds of our citizens walking the streets unemployed, and yet there are hundreds of out-of-town citizens working in our shops, stores and industries, If I am elected I promise I shall do everything in my power to correct this evil, and it is definitely an evil, Favors Union Scale “It is fair for the people of Indianapolis, for the laboring man, and for capital to ask what I mean by a fair living wage, I shall answer that question which I know is in your minds, “I believe that the union scale represents a fair standard of living wage. A number.of the unions are composed ‘of labor which can work only part of the year. They must live, eat and clothe themselves and their families 12 months of the year, just like the rest of us. The members of these unions know. their own problems and needs better. than any other group of people with whom they may come in contact.” ; | Mr. Henry declared the present City administration has handicapped traffic in the southeastern part of the city by needlessly delaying completion of the 70-foot span across Pleasant Run at Shelby St. which has been in the process of construction for the past two years.

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tempting to extort $1000 from the parents of 12-year-old Peter Levine, New Rochelle, N. Y., kidnap victim. :

FLINT UAW. VOTES STRIKE

Martin Says He Hopes for Peaceful Settlement of . Grievances.

FLINT, Mich., April 23 (U.P.)— Union workers in Buick and Chevrolet divisions of General Motors Corp. today voted overwhelmingly to. strike, subject to approval by their international officers. Despite the strike vote, President Homer Martin in Detroit gave assurance there would be no walkout at least until every attempt has been made to settle grievances through machinery contained in a contract with the corporation. As announced by James Fortier, recording secretary of Local 156, the strike was approved. by the following vote: nae Buick—9500 yes, 2080 no. Chevrolet—6500 yes, 2015 no. Jack Little, executive secretary

‘of the Flint local; charged General

Motors with carrying out “indiscriminate wage cuts,” replacing union members with ex-foremen, intimidating U. A. W. members and ignoring seniority clauses in the company-unjon contract. : General Motors officials recently denied categorically union charges that a general wage-slashing campaign was-in progress.

A. F. of L. May Raid C. I. 0. Unions

(Copyright, 1938, by United Press) WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P). —American Federation of Labor leaders, convinced that there can be no peace now in labor's civil war, were believed ready today to finance

raiding parties among “dissatisfied” Committee for Industrial Organization unionists. One A. F. of L. executive council member said today that he was convinced that there never would be peace between the federation and the C. I. O. “as long as John L. Lewis wields the power he now has.” The council gathers here Monday for its annual spring meeting and may expel at least two more C. I, O. unions, the steel and clothing workers. It also may broaden the charter of the Progressive Miners of America so that it can raid Mr, Lewis’ own United Mine Workers of America.

FARM INGOME RISES ‘WITH GROP OUTLOOK

Widespread Rains Increase Wheat Estimates.

WASHINGTON, April 23 (U. P,). —The Department of Agriculture today reported an upturn in farm income and spring crop prospects promising another year of bumper production. : Cash farm incomein March totaled 572 million doliars compared with 487 million in February, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported. The increase of approximately 15 per cent was greater than seasonal, the Bureau said. Good rains over almost the entire United States have placed the soil in better than usual shape for spring plantings, the Weather Bureau reported. Favorable weather reports from the Midwest led agriculture department officials to believe the April 1 forecast of winter wheat production will bg at least 25 million bushels above the March 1 estimate of 725 million bushels. Added ‘to an expected spring wheat crop of 200 million bushels

this would make a total wheat crop.

of 950 million bushels, the ‘highest

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trict, outlined his program in speeches at West neil,” he said,i “I- shall be in favor of continuing the track elevation and eliminating hazardous conditions existing in our streets that are causing sa many of our traffic deaths, I shall be in favor of the building of sewers and survey of all sewers when they are inadequate to fulfill their p Xi) “I am to the City of Indianapolis constructing buildings such as fire engine houses and other City buildings with unskilled project workers where skilled labor is needed. The using of unskilled project labor has proven that it costs

that Josef Stalin's “most cruel dictatorship in the world” is a bulwark

‘|of peace and democracy. So de-

clared Alexander Kerensky, head of the Russian Provisional Government of 1917, in an interview here. He added: “Without the restoration of normal order in Russia's economic might, and. of her political liberty,

‘| there can be no hope of restoring

equilibrium in Europe and in the Pacific or of bringing mankind back to the road of peace and general weltare.” : Mr. Kerensky is paying a brief visit to the United States and plans to return to Europe early in May. Since his Government was overthrown by the Bolshevists in 1917 he has lived in Paris and London. Much of the world’s present turmoil, he said, can be attributed to the reaction. against Communist extremism. Thus, he contends, “the restoration of a normal order in Russia will be the beginning of the end of all totalitarian dictatorships in Europe.” : :

Sees Liberty Struggle

Behind the Russian “terror,” with its trials and its executions,” Mr. Kerensky discerns the struggle of 170 milion people triyng to find a way out—their liberation. Therefore they are performing “a duty: not only to themselves but to the whole of mankind.” So world democracy, he ‘declared, should lend them its moral support and help “end the Stalin dictatorship—the chief source of world reaction.” , “While sympathizing with the desire of Western democracy,” he continued, “to obtain Russia’s co-opera-tion in the defense of peace and liberty we have for many years warned our foreign friends against being misled by illusions. : “Do not mistake Stalin’s dictatorship for Russia. “For many years world democracy has fed upon fairy tales about ‘the most democratic country in the world’ and the ‘remarkable achievements of the proletariat that has become complete master of a great empire.’ “But suddenly there came an end to all these illusions. In 1936 a group of Lenin’s closest collaborators were executed. Since then one after another of the outstanding leaders of Lenin's proletarian revolution has taken his place in the dock, confessed and been compelled to face the firing squad as a German agent or a Japanese spy.”

Doubts Confessions

In Mr. Kerensky’s opinion, it is too much to believe that these Leninists, after 20 years, turned out to be secret supporters of capitalism, or that they deliberately set, about destroying the very “socialist industry” which they, themselves, had created. Or that they wrecked thouds of trains annually, as charged. sabotaged crops and “poisoned workers, soldiers and even children” wholesale. “But, of course,” he added, “Tuchachevsky was nota Hitler spy. Nor did Bukharin ‘betray the Russian people to Japan.” What happened, he indicated, was that Mr. Stalin's own “war against the peasants” almost wrecked the eountry. “By means of utterly unprecedented terror,” he said, “Stalin expropriated from the whole peasantry—not merely the kulaks who constituted 1 or 2 per cent of their number—not only the land but also the cattle, fowl, farm implements and livestock.” This brought nation-wide resentment bordering on revolt. “Millions of peasants found themselves in concentration camps. Thousands perished of executions and epidemics. A new wave of abandoned children swept Russia. Fighting

the peasants destroyed, in the first few months of collectivization, more than half the country’s horses and cattle, two-thirds of the sheep and goats, and innumerable pigs. About 4,000,000 human beings died in the famine of 1933 alone.” i “Never will the Russian peasantry and the population as a whole become reconciled to the Stalin dictatorship,” Mr. Kerensky said. “They

given a three-day truce with absoutely free speech and free press, it would be overwhelmingly overthrown in favor of a liberal, bourgeois democracy.

France Expels

Russian Emigres

PARIS, April 23 (U. P.).—A purge of “undesirable” foreigners was started by the Government today with the signing of expulsion orders

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FIRST HUSBAND OF ~ WALLIS TO RETIRE

SAN. FRANCISCO, April 23 (U. P.)—Comm. Earl Winfield Spencer, first husband of the present Duchess of Windsor, will retire from ac-

| tive service on April 30, according

to an announcement made today by the U. S. Navy. : Friends said that after his retirement and his release from the Mare Island Hospital he probably would move to Detroit. = He suffered a broken vertebrae and two broken ribs in a fall. ;

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THE FOREIGN SITUATION

WASHINGTON—Kerensky says Russian peasants are bitter against Stalin,

SHANGHAI—Chinese form new defense line against Japanese mass attack. :

_HENDAYE — Spanish Loyalists counter-attack on two fronts.

ROME-Italy seeks to reconcile Nazi Germany and Vatican.

RIO DE JANEIRO—Police accuse prominent author of Communist activity.

BERLIN—Berlin bitter at loss of helium and U. S. plane sale

LONG LOYALIST LINES HOLDING

Ciano and French Charge Open Negotiations For Treaty.

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, April 23 (U.P.)—The Spanish Loyalists have started a series of strong counter attacks at the two most important points on the Catalonian battle front, dispatches said today. . South of the Ebro River, where the Rebels had established a line on the Mediterranean Sea - coast, the Loyalists seemed to have lost hardly any ground in several days. In the Balaguer sector at the center of the Catalonian front the Loyalists thought their position so strong that they began to entertain hope of driving the Rebels back to the west bank of the Serge River. Rebel communiques spoke of continued progress south of the Ebro, but reference to battle maps showed that = successive communiques for two days put the insurgents in about the same general positions. Along the coast, their men had been stopped; a few miles inland, they seemed now, instead of attacking, to be . defending themselves against counter-attacks which were growing stronger. The Loyalists claimed a slight advance in the Balaguer sector.

Italian Cabinet Hears Of Changed Outlook

ROME, April 23 (U. P.) —Premier Benito Mussolini presided today at a Cabinet meeting, first of the spring season and first since the important change in the European situation caused by Germany's absorption of Austria and the subsequent initialing of an Italian-Brit-ish friendship treaty. Various decrees were approved, one of them making bachelors ineligible for mayoralty posts, At the meeting, Count Galeazzo Cano, Foreign Minister, and Sig. Mussolini's son-in-law, was able to report that he had started the actual negotiations with Jules F. Blondel, French charge d’affaires, of an Italian-French treaty similar to that concluded with Britain. It was regarded as likely also that Count Ciano mentioned his efforts to establish good relations between the Vatican and the German Nazi Government,

Vargas Warns

Foreigners in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, April 23 (U. P.) —President Getulio Vargas, in an important general newspaper interview at Sao Lourenco last night, said that Brazil would not folerate foreign interference and added emphatically that he sought to intensify good relations with other American republics. Stoutly defending a ban against political activities of foreign groups in Brazil he invited foreigners who

country’s laws to go home. Police announced today that they had . arrested several persons suspected of having formed a Communist organization in defiance of a Government ban. Included among those arrested was the well’ known woman author, Patricia Galvao Andrade.

Nazis See ‘Democratic’

Armament Combine BERLIN, April-23 (U, P.).—Germans showed increasing interest— in which a growing resentment seemed manifest—at the coincident possibilities today that Great Brit ain and France would be permitted to buy military-type airplanes in the United States and that Germany would be denied helium gas for its dirigible balloons,

controlled newspapers. The Berliner Tagblatt pub! today a dispatch from Paris alleging that Great Britain, France and the armaments programs, and commented: . The Goverhment today notified U, S. Interior Secretary Ickes that Dr. Hugo Eckener is en route to America to reopen negotiations for shipment of helium to Germany.

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40 Million Might Be Periled in Yellow River Flood.

* SHANGHAI, April 23 (U. P).— Chinese troops, after retreating before a strong Japanese offensive on the central front, stood fast today to form a new battle line in the hills between Linyi and Yihsien, Dispatches from the front made it plain that the Japanese had started one of the most determined drives of the war in an effort to retrieve their losses and wipe out the humiliation of a series of defeats. © Some military experts here, hearing reports that tens of thousands of Japanese reinforcements® had been landed at Tsingtao, predicted that th® Chinese might soon have to abandon Hsuchow, junction city of the north-south Tientsin-Nan-king railroad and the east-west Sunghai railroad which extends in-

land. : Attempt Flank Maneuver

Dispatches indicated that the Jap anese, though they refused to discuss strategy or tactics, were drive ing southward from Linyi in an efe fort to outflank the Chinese at the eastern end of their line. This estimate of the situation caused some military observers to foresee a severe Chinese setback after weeks of proud victory against an army which had never been defeated seriously in its history. It caused fears also that the Chinese, if a disaster threatened them after the victories which . have roused the whole country to rejoicing, might carry out an often made threat to blast the dikes of the Yellow River. If they did, on the scale which threats implied, they would precipi= tate one of the most terrible dissasters in the history of mankind, according to engineers.

Result in Doubt

They would flood an area of many bthousands of square miles, inhabited by upward of 40 million people and it was said here that escape would be impossible for millions. Some engineers thought that if sufficient dikes were destroyed the Yellow River would change its course. . So far the Japanese drive had not developed sufficiently to permit accurate speculation on its ultimate result. The Japanese said that they had taken Linyi and that the Chinese were in a “general” retreat southward toward Kiangsu Province, They asserted also that the Japanese who took Linyi had succeeded in effecting contact with the Japanese at Yihsien, 50 miles to the southwest, after driving along the modern military highways through the mountains between the towns. Chinese admitted heavy fighting south of Yihsien after the arrival of nine divisions of Japanese reinforcements—a total of perhaps 135,000 men. It was evident that the

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