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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938

Hopkins Sees Relief

Needs at

3 Billion;

Minton Seeks Fund

Wage-Hour Filibuster in Senate Held Less Likely Now.

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from Monday. Twenty-two Republicans also signed, along with 161 Northern Democrats and 13 Progressives and Farmer-Laborites. The Louisiana members explained that they wanted to support President Roosevelt, Congress seven times for passage of wage-hour legislation at this session. Discourages Amendments Rep. Sam Rayburn <(D. Tex), House Majority leader predicted today that “a bill” would pass, thus indicating that the Southerners may seek a differential on wages to recognize lower living costs and standards in their area. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J.). of the Labor Committee, said she would accept no amendments. The Southerners had already started a campaign to strike out the bill's wage provisions or to lower them for Southern industries. Rep. Sam D. McReynolds (D. Tenn.) announced today he would offer an amendment to eliminate wage provisions entirely, making the bill one to hold hours to 44 a week the first year, 42 the second and 40 thereafter. The wage provisions he would remove provide a minimum of 25 cents an hour the first year, 30 the second, 35 the third and 40 thereafter.

Seek 40-40’ Standards

Ren. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga.), ranking Labor Committee member, said he would offer his bill, rejected by the Committee, providing for relaxation of the standards when a board decides they are not justified by living costs and value of services rendered. Annther group, led by Rep. Richard J. Welch (D. Cal.) probably will

seek to amend the bill to inauguratte |

“40-40” standards immediately. The combination of Administration and united labor pressure was believed today not only to insure House passage, but also to reduce the possibility of a successful Senate filibuster. The bill will be subject to filibuster as soon as it reaches the Senate, which probably will be about May 25 or 26. Most members will be pressing for an adjournment early in June.

Filibuster Held Unlikely

Congressional advocates of the Wage-Hour Bill from New England, Michigan and other nothern states are working up a counter-offensive in the form of a rledge to vote against adjournment until a wagehour bill is enacted. Southern Senators, most of whom oppose a wage-hour bill even with a provision for lower southern wrges, have been considering another talkfest such as the fourweek filibuster with which they killed the Wagner-VanNuys Antilynching Bill early in isthe session. In that filibuster Senator Barkley, the majority leader, did not force them to talk through night sessions; they delivered polemics and statistics only for the Senate's usual five hours a day, which is duck soup for filibusters. Senator Barkiey, porter of the wage-hour bill could and undoubtedly would force long sessions, probably even all-night sessions if necessary. Furthermore, there was doubt today whether as many as 10 Southerners would fight through on such an issue with the primaries coming up. Under present -circumstances, the Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and probably the Texas Senators would be unlikely to join any such attempt to kill the bill by

who had asked |

{ a strong sup-

delay. Minority Leader McNary (R. Ore.) said today he does not | expect a filibuster,

‘Minton Attacked for

“Terrorizing’ Press

plans after Dr. Glenn Frank, Republican Party program committee chairman, had charged the committee with attempts to curb a free press. Senator Minton, committee head, would not reveal what organizations or individuals would come within the purview of possible future inquiries. He said that Dr. Frank would not be given an opportunity to testify before the committee. Dr. Frank 1s editor of Rural Progress, a Chicago publication on which the committee neard evidence yesterday. Appropriations totaling $90,000 have been made for the Lobby Committee since June 6, 1936.

Quotes Supreme Court

Dr. Frank had not been subpoenaed, but accompanied M. V. Reynolds, chairman of the magazine’s board of management, who was questioned about the publication’s alleged lobby activities and its financial support. In his formal statement Dr. Frank said that the hearing was “a part of a carefully laid campaign of terror and intimidation against the newspapers and magazines of this country which dare to criticize, or even to discuss objectively, the policies and activties of the New Deal.” “The American people had better awaken,” he said, “for as the Su- | preme Court said two years ago: ‘A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the Govern[ment and the people,’ adding: ‘To | allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.’ “We have nothing whatever to hide. The books of the company were spread before the Committee. I voluntarily came to Washington in order to be available to supply the Committee with all facts about the. magazine, “I volunteered information at the hea:ing which would have given a clear picture of the subject under inquiry, but I was ruled out of order, “It is difficult to resist any conclusion that the Minton Comfittee is primarily interested in a smear campaign against any publication that dares to be independent of official propaganda.” Senator Minton, commenting on Dr. Frank’s statement, said that

| the Committee was ‘not frightening [or fighting anybody.”

“We're only trying to let the peo-

| ple know where this propaganda is

coming from,” he said. “Mr. Glenn Frank would do well to take care of the Republican Party and not try to champion the Chicago Tribune.”

President Heads

Homeward, Pleased

CHARLESTON, S. C.,, May 7 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt neared the end of his sea-going holiday today as his vacation ship, ‘the cruiser Philadelphia, sped northward from the British Bahamas. The Chief Executive returned wellsatisfied with the Philadelphia’s performance and the fishing near Caicos Island. The cruiser was expected to dock in Charleston tomorrow after the slack ebb water begins about 3 p. m.

(Indianapolis Time).

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

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| Running Preferential Street. 25

(To Date) 1938 193%

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May 8

Accidents ...., 8 | Drunken

4 | Driving

a. Arrests ...... ¥8| Others

MEETINGS TODAY

Postoffice Clerks and Auxiliary, meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:30 Alliance Francaise, Hotel Washington, noon Gideons’ Association, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p. m, Indiana Business Executives Club, meeting, Claypool Hotel, 9 a. m. Marion County Democratic Central Committee, meeting, Claypool Hotel, 1 p. m. Marion County Republican Central Committee, meeting, K of P. Building, 1 p. m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Brethren Association, meeting, Severin Hotel, 9 a. n Indiana Association Educational Committee, Hotel, all day, Eli Lilly & Co, 6 p. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records fn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)

hp. m, luncheon, meeting,

of meeting,

Optometrists, Severin

dinner, Severin Hotel,

Adelbert H. Krueger Jr., 23, of 6554 College Ave.: Emma Lou Poth, 21, of €225

Haverford. William Robert Wolf 1. of 904 1 of 338 8.

Jr., 2 Olive St.; Ester Alice Noe, 18, Emerson St Ernest Ralph Neese, 23, of 1749 W. New York St.; Lucille Florence Hines, 20, of 2110 W. Michigan St

Andrew Weaver, 21, of 430% Fall Creek Blvd.; Elizabeth Irwin, 18, of 1309 W. 31st

St. P of 2417 Colege Ave., Holly 1221 W, 35th

t Leo William Miles, 25 of 1021 St. Pau Isabelle Beryle Boggs, 23, of 1257 W. st St James Johnson, 23, of 1212 W, New York Anna Thomas, 28, of 2931 Highland

ce, tanlev A, Michaelson. 29. of Hotel RiMuriel Taylor, 26, of 1540 N. Me-

St Dinkens, 21, of 1725 Calvin 8t.: Noel, 18. of 1745 8S. Kevstone Ave Victor LaMar Rensberger, 26, of 412 N Alabama St.; Ethel Lough, 24, of 412 N. Alabama St,

aul Bernard Dunlop, 25, 20

I Ryan, 20, of

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BIRTHS Boys Robert, Nancy Jones, at City Ee uso, Madalynne McGaw, at Methodist Guy. Helen Ellis, at St. Vincent's, Fred, Ruth Hohl, at St. Vincent's, Keith, Elizabeth Payne, at Coleman. Girls Charles, Laura Wolford, at City. George, Mabel Sulgrove, at City. Harry, Marrian Brink, at Methodist.

Fred, Doris Weyreter, at Methodist, Charles, Mary Irene Spence, at Coleman. Kenneth, Gladys Findlay, at Coleman. at 427 N.

Robert, Ham-

ilton.

Marie Maxwell,

DEATHS

Patti Gale Bish, lobar pneumonia. Edward Gillespie, 42, monary oedema. Little Crawford, 54, pneumonia. Peter J. Schlechter, 73, at St. Vincent's, carcinoma. Rose Ann Miller, 62, 717 'B. "19th, arteriosclerosis. 42,

Albin L. Blade, carditis. Porter Judson Gullefer, 75, at Methodist, | pernicious enemia. Sidney H. Spencer, 69, at Veterans, carcinoma. Cynthia Anna Applewhite, 84, at Methodist, chronic myocraditis. Elsie May Ewing. 30, at St. Hospital, general peritonitis.

Riley, at Methodist,

3 months, at pulat City, bronchoat

at Veterans, mvo-

Vincent's

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST Mostly cloudy with rain and cooler tonight and tomorrow,

4:38 | Sunset «8:43

TEMPERATURE ~—May 1937 — 1 PD. Mines Tf

BAROMETER 30.02

a.m ...

Precipitation 24 hrs, ending 7 a. Total precipitation since Jan, 1, Excess since Jan. 1, 1938 ...

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Rain and cooler tonight and tomorrow.

INlinois—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow: rain probable; cooler tonight and in south portion tomorrow,

Lower Michigan—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; rain probable in south portion, possibly rain or snow in central portion; slightly colder tonight, near freezing in north portion; colder tomorrow in south portion,

Ohio—Showers cooler tomorrow.

Kentucky—Showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow and in extreme west portion tonight.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT % Station Weather Amarillo, Bismarck, Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver ' "e's Dodge City. Kas. Helena, Mont, .. Jacksonville, Fla. ... Kansas City, Mo, ... Little Rock, Los Angeles Miami, Fla. Apls,-St.,

tonight and tomorrow;

A. M,

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Nurse Ruth Kuhnert holding

Times-Acme Photo. Helaine Judith Colan, 5-week-old

daughter of Dr. Herman Colan, a dentist, and Mrs. Colan, of Chicago.

The baby is suffering from glioma,

a malignant tumor, in the left eye.

It was at first believed that the condition could be cured by removal of the eye, but it is now feared that the tumor has grown toward the

brain.

G. O. P. Reported in Harmony; Democrats Push Haymaker

Vandivier, Gregg Believed Slated for Key Posts In New Shuffle.

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leadership. Mr. Gregg was my candidate twice for County Chairman against the Coffin group, but he was beaten both times.” Mr. Lemcke said that the lineup was ‘“‘all right and very good.”

“It brings new faces into the pic- |

ture. It is representative of the entire Republican Party. The other situation’ was not so bad.” Mr. Vandivier is a former deputy prosecutor. Mr: Lemcke said he did not know him so well and that he could be termed a “newcomer” as far as leadership in party ranks was concerred, adding that new leaders were needed. Mr. Vandivier is a law partner of John Niblack, also an active Republican. Mr. Gregg is judge advocate of the 12th District American Legion. He served as precinct committeeman for six years.

Committee to Meet

The G. O. P. Advisory Committee: named by Mr. Bobbitt is to meet here and draft suggestions to be made to the Resolutions Committee of the State convention, scheduled for June 28 and 29. The committee includes five members from each of the 12 congressional districts and 14 members-at-large. District representatives are: First—Fred Crumpacker, Hammond; Nick Stepanovich, East Chicago, Fred Schutz, Gary; John J. Wargo, Whiting, and Al Bibbler, Crown Point. Second—Ernest Hawkins, Fowler; Russell Dilts, Winamac; Joe Andrews, Lafayette; Ira Dixon, Kentland, and Walter Brubaker, Warsaw. Third—Guy W. Dausman, Goshen; Frank W. Smith, Elkhart; I. E. Levine, La Porte, Thomas Jeffers, South Bend and Howard Emmons, South Bend. Fourth—Arthur Remmel, Ft Wayne; James O. Gordon, Liberty Center; Mrs. Alma Miller, Topeka; Alton P. Hess, Ft. Wayne, and Ernest Reichelderfer, Geneva. Fifth—Dr, G. E. Botkin, Marion; Earl Merry, Hartford City; Victor Simmons, Hartford City; Pete Thompson, Wabash, and William Robinson, Frankfort. Sixth—Elza Rogers, Lebanon; Chase Harding, Crawfordsville; Edgar Blessing, Danville; Miller Davis, Terre Haute, and Mark Nebeker, Clinton, Seventh—Mrs. Howard Johnson, Mooresville; Frank Martin, Spencer, William Kelly, Greenwood; Dr. W. Gladish, Princeton, and Blaine Bradfute, Bloomington. Eighth—Guy Wilkins, Petersburg; Elmer Noelting, Evansville; French Clement, Evansville; Albert J. Wedeking, Dale, and James Montgomery, New Albany, Ninth—Uncompleted. Tenth—Dr., William CC. Dennis, Richmond; Mrs. Minnie Doles, Greenshurg; Clarence Benadum, Muncie; Mrs. Leora Teetor, Hagerstown, and Ernest B, Thomas, Rushville. Eleventh—ILowell McDaniel, Wilkinson; Dale Spencer, Greenfield; Mrs, E. C. Toner, Anderson; John K. Rickles, Indianapolis, and Scott Ging, Indianapolis, Twelfth—Sol K. Munter, Maurice Mendenhall, Albert E. Uhl, Albert Ward and Charles J. Lynn, all of Indianapolis. Members-at-Large Members-at-large from Indianapolis are John Niblack, attorney and former State Senator; Miss Genevieve Brown, former Supreme and Appellate Courts reporter; William Sparks, attorney; John A. Royse, former customs collector; Wilbur Grant, Negro representative, Joseph O. Carson II and Mrs. James L. Murray. Other members are Mrs. Beryl Holland, Bloomington, former State vice chairman; William H. Ball, Muncie; Robert H. Wyatt, Ft. Wayne, State Teachers’ Federation president; Judge Howard Mount, Tipton; John Hastings, Washington; Lambert Johnson, Evansville, and Bruce Peters, Cambridge City.

$13,510 WPA SCHOOL FUND IS APPROVED

WASHINGTON, May 7.—-An additional $13.510 WPA allotment for the new public school in Indianapolis at Riley Ave. and 21st St. has been approved hy President Roosevelt, Rep. Larrabee announced today.

DEMANDS $200,000 BALM HOLLYWOOD, May 7 (U. P.).— Gaye Melton, young film actress, today filed a $200, damage suit against William Koenig, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu-

dios, charging betrayal under promise of marriage.

| ‘Expected to Be Named as County Chairman to Succeed Clauer.

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| Marion County section of the 11th | District are to select two delegates {to that district's convention here | Wednesday. The 12th District convention also is to be held here the same day. Mark Gray, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Thelma Koesters, Cumberland, are said to be the choices for 11th District convention delegates. Mr. Haymaker was a member of the Safety Board before his election as Recorder in 1930. He was re-elected in 1934. He was a supporter of E. Kirk McKinney for the nomination for Governor at the 1936 convention.

Ferguson Announces

For State Treasurer

Madison County Clerk Ralph R. Ferguson has anonunced through representatives here that he will seek the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer at the party convention in July. His announcement was made hy Madison County Circuit Court Judge Charles E, Smith and State Representtiave William J. Black who reported that Mr. Ferguson had the indorsement of all the Anderson and Madison County Democratic candidates. A county clerk for the last eight years, Mr, Ferguson formerly was president of the Indiana County Clerks Association. He has been active in Madison County Democratic politics for several years. Born in Madison County, Mr. Ferguson is 39, married and has two children. He lives in Anderson.

Socialists to Hold Convention Tomorrow

The Socialist Party of Indiana is to hold its State convention tomorrow at headquarters, 308 Holliday Building. The convention is to mark the 37th anniversary of the founding of the party at a national meeting here, The division in the ranks of labor is to be among the major topics of discussion, Emma Henry, State secretary said today. Possibility of the formation of an American Labor Party similar to the Labor Party in England and the merits of the National Progressive Party recently formed in Wisconsin also are to be discussed, she said.

EAT LADY’ AUTOPSY

MIAMI, Fla, May 7 (U. P.).-—The body of Doris Bleu, 38-year-old circus “fat 1zdy” who once weighed 714 pounds, was en ‘route to Grand Isle, Vt, today for burial after authorities said an autopsy performed at the request of relatives showed no evidence of poison.

The state attorney's office ordered the autopsy performed when relatives of Miss Bleau expresed a belief she might have been poisoned. Physicians said her death, however, was due to a heart ailment,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ‘Death-or-Blindness’ Baby

REVEALS NO POISON

TRACK FAST, FOX 1S 8-10-5 CHOICE T0 TAKE DERBY

85,000 Expected to Watch 5 itish and French Urge Ex- Premier Dies

Classic, to Start at 4:30 Indianapolis Time.

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ly possible that any horse that could beat the Fox might come banging down to the wire with a new track | record. The present mark for the

mile and a quarter is 2:01 4-5, established by Twenty Grand in 1931. No one was brash or rash enough, however, to concede Fighting Fox the race before the race is run. Even his own stable concurred with the general belief that the field, while a compact one, included more solid and capable 3-year-olds than ever answered the call to battle since Aristides won in 1875, and that was the first one.

Bull Lea Sets Records

Do you think he's got a breeze? If you do give a look at the qualifications of some of his rivals: BULL LEA-—Second in the betting at 5 to 2. Winner of his last two races and in each of them he set a new track record. Probably would be the favorite if his sire was not Bulldog, who never liked to go more than a mile and a sixteenth, The Derby is a mile and a quarter. MENOW-—-Third in the betting at 6 to 1. Juvenile champion of 1937 and far and away the fastest horse from the starting gate, is almost certain to cut out the early pace. Proved he wasn't a quitter by running a smashing second to Bull Lea in the Blue Grass stakes. Must overcome the jinx, however, that has

ever winning the Derby. THE CHIEF—Will go to the post magnificently trained by Earl Sande, who knows a thing or two about derbies, having booted home the winners of three of them. Proved his fitness by winning the Derby trial of a mile on Tuesday in the second-equaling time of 1:354-5 Another mile like that today and he could stagger the last quarter mile and still win. Will be the sentimental favorite because he was to run as an entry with Stagehand,

was withdrawn because of

in the Lost

Will have the best jockey country, Eddie Arcaro, aboard. to the Chief

plates to

He will |

he was running in bar protect his tender hooves. be lightly shod today, which will give him added speed, just as switch from brogans to track shoes

Winner of the Flamingo Stake in Florida, and superbly conditioned.

DAUBER—Runner of a smashing

Anita Derby. The most stretch-runner in the field. Slow to start, Dauber turns it on full force in the run for home and is capable of taking it all unless left too far behind in the first mile. Should it suddenly come up mud, Dauber will be an odds on favorite He revels in the goo. CAN'T WAIT—Second to Fighting Fox in the Wood Memorial, when he closed like a whirlwind to pick up six lengths on the Fox in the last half mile. The only worry of his stable concerns his ability

pounds, a heavier impost than he has ever carried.

Three Outsiders

CO-SPORT, ELOOTO, MOUNTAIN RIDGE-—-The three outsiders in the field. Derby caliber, but will get a backing from those fans who recall that

and paid 91 to 1, the longest price in the history of the race. All 10 horses named yesterday are expected to go, but the conditions

time,

three long shots. For the first time in many a year not an owner or trainer was dissatisfied with the post positions

the result of the small field. The Derby is started out of a chute at the head of the stretch and each jockey will have ample racing room and time to straighten out his mount before the first turn, well over a quarter of a mile from the starting stalls. No city ever had a gayer or better natured crowd. Even the colonels and their ladies who had i0oked on the julep too long and too often were troublesome only in that the majority of them couldn't reach the higher notes in “Sweet Adeline,” “Down bv the Old Mill Stream” and “Show Me the Way to Go Home.”

prevented any Futurity winner form | tions.

Sande’s mighty stretch runner which | is Czechoslovakia’s best customer, illness. | but the United States comes next

Too, a victory for The Chief would | —and as regards actual cash, is the LAWRIN—Tremendous early foot. | Pest customer. Hence, the Govern-

| |

ih the Derby stakes | creased exports if the German mar-

only by a head, despite the fact that

| would benefit a human sprinter | Buerckel, Nazi leader for Austria,

second to Stagehand in the Santa | brutal |

Not believed to be of | that

| | | |

of the race allow owners to declare | up until 45 minutes before post [YeAr at least four years, If there are any scratches - _— they are certain to come from the |

which were made in a blind draw. | The lack of beefing probably was |

PAGE 38

Chinese Near Peiping on 3 Sides; Duce May Aid Nazi Colony Plea;

U. S. Neutralit

Conciliation on Czech Sudeten Dispute.

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offices of Great Britain, and that | Herr Hitler had expressed approval of the Italian friendship with Britain and the proposed friendship treaty with France, The most important feature of the entire visit was regarded as the negative one that they did not con- | clude a military alliance.

U.S. Figures in Czech Trade Plans

PRAHA, May 7 (U, P.).—British and French ministers to Czechoslovakia were expected to confer with Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta today in an effort to effect a peaceful settlement of the demands of the German minority for a greater measure of self government. It was understood that the Cab-

inet at a meeting yesterday approved the draft of a new minority statute and this would be submitted to the envoys. The Government is ready to rush the statute through Parliament at once, it was reported, if it offers a real hope for solution. The Government also approved the make-up of a Czech economic delegation which will leave for Berlin tomorrow for a conference which is designed to review Ger-man-Czechoslovak economic relaThis meeting, ostensibly a routine one, may give the first sign whether Germany is preparing to exert economic pressure against Czechoslovakia in an effort to force sweeping concessions to the German minority. Believing that such pressure fis| certain, the Government already has started a study of its position as regards foreign trade. Alternative transportation routes and alternative markets have been considered. In these discussions the United States plays a big part. Germany

ment would look to the United States as the best field for in-

ket were closed to it. Nazis Oust Austrian

Supreme Court Justices VIENNA, May 7 (U, P.).—Joseph

dismissed nine members of the | Austrian Supreme Court today on | the grounds that they were unsuit- | able in a Nazi state, The nine justices had approved | as constitutional the elimination of | Parliament and establishment of a | dictatorship by the late Engelbert | Dolifuss, assassinated by Nazis in | an abortive 1934 putsch. Dr, Stefan von Mueller, until the | Nazi accession editor-in-chief o the newspaper Neue Freie Presse, | committed suicide by shooting him- | self with a revolver at his desk, it was announced. A baptized Jew, he was most depressed at losing his, post, as only recently he had | brought the paper, after a slump |

of years’ duration, back to its previ-

to pick up the Derby weight of 126 | ous position as one of the most

important in Austria. Under his editorship the newspaper inclined | toward friendliness with Germany | rather than with Italy, Usually reliable sources reported the Jewish community had | reached an agreement with Nazi authorities under which it would

in 1913 Donerail won the Derby (P¢ Biven semiautonomy in admin-

istration of the Jewish community's purely religious and charitable affairs in return for an undertaking to do all it could to expedite the emigration of at least 25,000 Jews a

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South Shore electric train,

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Octavian Goga

BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 7 U. P.).—Former Premier Octavian Goga, anti-Semitic leader who was ousted by King Carol, died today. He was 56. He died at his Castle, near Cluj. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy several days ago. The King was reported to have asked repeatedly by telephone about his condition. Until his comparatively recent rise in politics, he was better known as a poet than a statesman. He was also distinguished as a journalist, King Carol made him and broke him.

home, Ciucea

'REP. JENCKES STARTS

HOME FROM CAPITAL

Times Special

WASHINGTON, May 7 Rep Virginia Jenckes (D. Ind.) was on her wav back to Terre Haute today after what proved to be a needless plane trip from Indianapolis to the capital. She rushed here to sign the petition to discharge the Wages Hours Bill from committee, but five minutes before she reached the House floor, the required 218 signatures had been obtained. Rep. Arthur H. Greenwood, dean nf the Indiana Congressional delegation, expressed approval that the House Rules Committee, of which he is one of the ranking members had been “dishonorably discharged” from further stalemating the bill He was one of the six Hoosiers who signed the discharge The other signers were Reps. LudJow, Larrabee, Gray, Crowe and Griswold. The latter is a member of the House Labor Committee which reported the bill favorably, only to have its action checkmated by the Rules Committee

CROPS SUFFER LACK

OF RAIN AN LA PORTE

LA PORTE, May 7 (U. P) Porte County farmers today are confronted with a serious crop =ituation since they have received no rainfall since April 6. Oran Mansfield, county agricultural agent, said that dry weather coupled with high winds, have

| hardened topsoil and made plowing |

almost impossible, He raid that the wheat and oats crops are suffering from lack of moisture,

EX-COUNCILMAN KILLED HAMMOND, May 7.— Fred 8. Cotton, 76-year-old former Hammond councilman, was killed instantly today when he xtepped in front of a

and |

petition, |

Lal

y Act Under Fire

nish Arms Embargo Lifting Sought by Senator Nye.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, May 7. = The Neutrality Act, as now written, apparently is on its way to the scrape heap | Conceived as a sure-cure panacea to keep tne United States from be ing sucked into a foreign war, it (has turned out to be a boomerang | with an amazing propensity for | causing us embarrassment Such terrific pressure has been brought to bear on Congress. ‘he State Department and the White | House that the coming week may | see a move to repeal the embargo on arms to Loyalist Spain. Next week, most likely, a resol tion by Senator Gerald Nye (R. N. D.) calling for repeal of the ems bargo will be taken up by the Bene ate Foreign Relations Committes, IT it is reported favorably, Congress may be pressed to vote on it at an early date No Help in China

the is doing all

Spa

Indirectly, | here the

Spanish Embassy it can to obtain | repeal. Bocleties, committesn, | groups and individuals, in an ale | most endless stream, are calling [upon members of Congress, the | Becretary of State and White House | officials, all with the same objective. | Senator Nye was one of the chief | sponsors of the Neutrality Act | The measure has been equally (awkward in connection with the | Bino.Japanese conflict, To have applied it would have pitted the United States against China, the [ victim, and given immense aid to Japan, the aggressor Failure of | the President to apply the law to China and Japan has been bitterly criticized. His position, however, is technically unassailable because neither nation has yet declared | war | Thus, after

being in force little more than a year, the Neutrality Act ratisfies no one The basie | trouble, perhaps, is that the American people, at heart, can never be neutral. In anv conflict, in Europe, Asia or Africa, they { choose sides. If the Neutrality Act hits their side, they don't like it

Spanish Consul Denies Seeking Mediation

| GENEVA, May 7 (U. P) —Capriano Rivas Cherif, Spanish Lovalist {Consul General, denied reports cir | culated by usually reliable sources today that he had been sounding out League of Nations delegates privately on the possibility are ranging mediation to end the Bpanish Civil War League delegates asserted | that Benor Rivas Cherif had approached them. They said he su gested the possibility that Latin American nations might start mediation Senor Rivas Cherif is a brother-in-law of President Manuel | Azana of Loyalist Spain and the | delegates said that he asserted he | spoke for President Azana. However, Senor Rivas Cherif, while admitting that he had dizsthe Spanish situation gen. with League delegates, said that his talks were purely routine consultations in preparation for a League Council meeting Monday

Two

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Rebels Land Troops

To Storm Tartosa

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frone tier, May 7 (U. P.).—8panish Rebels have landed 5000 troops from the Balearics Islands on the east coast of Spain preparatory to an attack on Tortosa, key city the Ebro Delta, where Lovalists have held | out for weeks, dispatches from Rebel tervitory said today Rebels said that they now almost I encircled Tortosa

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