Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1938 — Page 1

CHILD, 2, LIVES AFTER 6-STORY FALL AT HOTEL

Badly Hurt in Plunge Through Window Screen As Mother Shops.

COUSIN, 12, IS WITNESS

Details Accident to Police; Victim Is Treated at Methodist Hospital.

Two-year-old Constance Marie Cowan of New York fell six floors from a window at the Severin Hotel this afternoon and was alive, although badly injured, when picked up. The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stafford Cowan, was rushed to Methodist Hospital. Mrs. Cowan was shopping downtown, at the time of the accident. The child plunged through a window screen from a room on the ninth floor and dropped to a roof opposite the third floor. Mrs. Cowan B cousin, Billie Norwine, 12, also of New York, while she was away. Billie told police the child playfully ran across the hotel room and threw her body against the screen, plunging through. He notified hotel employees. Mr. Cowan, a& hosiery salesman

left Constance with |

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Coast Guard Fliers Rescue Five After Plane Plunges Into Bay

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BUREAU DRAFTS

TAX PROGRAM

Property Levy for Welfare Work.

The Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.

did not accompany his family here. | Mrs. Cowan and Mrs. Marie Nor- | 8TOSS income tax law and eliminawine, mother of Billie, were en roule | tion of property tax rates support-

to Missouri to visit relatives.

Norwine accompanied Mrs. Cowan |

on the shopping trip.

Three Are Killed in Indiana Traffic

Three persons were killed in Indiana traffic while police here investigated nine other overnight accidents which resulted in injury

to four persons. Eleven speeders were fined $57 by Judge Charles Karabell in Municipal Court today. They were among 24 motorists who were fined $145 on traffic charges. Mrs. Neva Jones, 40, of Richmond, died in Methodist Hospital an hour after she was brought here from an accident six miles east of Greenfield on Highway 40. James Hanna, 56, was hurt fatally when his automobile was struck by a train at Straughn. Grace Bradburn, 17, Rockvilla, died today of injuries received when struck near Clinton. Mrs. Jones and four other persons were injured when their auto and a truck crashed headon. The accident occurred as the truck, driven by John Watkins, Cleveland,

swerved to avoid striking a girl who had fallen from her bicycle in the | highway. The others injured were Deskin | Jones, 41, Richmond undertaker, driver of the car and husband of Mrs. Jones, taken to Methodist Hospital in a serious condition with head injuries; Mrs. Lillian Warner, | 59, Lynn, mother of Mrs. Jones, at Methodist Hospital with a hip injury; Mrs. Ida Jones, mother of Mr. Jones, and Mrs. Minnie Gibbs, both | of Whitewater, who were taken to a Richmond hospital. Mrs. Jones’ body was to be returned to Richmond for services and burial. Besides the husband and mother, she is survived by her father, two brothers, Vernon | and Patrick Warner. Robert W. Lind, 29, of Conners-

ville, received severe scalp lacera- |

| promises which | We were told if we would do our | part {would result in the discontinuance

tions when his machine struck a|

signal at the Pennsylvania Railroad |

crossing in Southeastern Ave.

He | farmers’ was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. | size on tt

Henry County Man, 56, |

Killed at Crossing

NEWCASTLE, May 19 (U. P.).— Funeral arrangements were being completed today for James M. Hanna, 56-year-old elevator operator at Willowbranch, who was killed at Straughn, near here, yesterday, when his automobile was struck by “The American,” west-bound Pennsvlvania Railroad flyer.

CLINTON, May 19 (U. P).— Grace Bradburn, 17, of Rockville, died today of injuries received when struck by a car here Saturday night,

U. S. COURT DENIES DALHOVER APPEAL

CHICAGO, May 19 (U. P.).—The U. S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals today denied petition of James Dalhover, condemned former Indiana gangster, for rehearing his appeal from a death sentence. Dalhover is scheduled to die in the Indiana State Prison electric chair June 10 for the shying of Paul Minneman, Indiana State policeman.

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Broun tek Circling City. Clapper Comics Crossword .. Curious World Editorials Financial Flynn Forum In Indpls.... Jane Jordan. Johnson

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Mrs. Roosevelt 13 that the Pe

22 | people would be 10, 11 of Federal and state machines, has 16, 17 | announced himself as an independhs 15 | ent candidate for re-election this ooo 14 | Wiggam .... 14 fall,

will fight for the retention of the

Mrs. | ing county welfare departments at

the 1939 session of the State Legis-

| lature, Hassil E. Schenck, president,

announced today. Other major points in the Bureau’s legislative program includes modification of the truck weight tax as it applies to farmers; retention of the tax limitation law, retention of the moratorium on county road bond issues and continuation of the present method of state payments on teacher salaries. Mr. Schenck said: “Our first step will be to present our plans to the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic Parties this summer. “We have made a thorough investigation of the gross income tax law and have concluded that it is not unfair, as its critics contend. It was claimed that the law would drive industry from Indiana. We have found that to be untrue. “It was claimed that it would put small retailers out of business. Indiana’s record of business failures is not as bad as other states with sales taxes.” Mr, Schenck criticized the use of property taxes for the support of county welfare on the grounds that “any part of the welfare program carried by property is too large.”

Upholds Limitation Law

“The interests received

were not fulfilled.

farm

in carrying relief loads, it ol county poor farms. “It has turned out that we have the additional burden of the welfare ta:: and not a single infirmary has been discontinued.” Mr. Schenck said the Farm Bureau is opposed to the movement

which would abolish the tax limi-

funeral | tation law.

“There has been considerable agitation to change the statute as it was revised by the 1937 Legislature. We are satisfied with it the way it is and will fight any change at this time.” The weight tax law is unfair, Mr. Schenck said, because it taxes the trucks according to tire he same basis as commercial freight lines which use the highways 24 hours a dav. “We also are going to trv to retain the moratorium on county road bond issues established by the special session of the Legislature in 1932 and renewed last year. We have heard that there is a movement to do away with it next year.” Mr. Schenck also said the Bureau will fight reported attempts by urban centers to change the distribution of teachers funds to the disadvantage of the smaller communities.

TWO BOND ISSUES ARE SOLD BY CITY

The City today sold a $225,000 College Ave. sewer bond issue to the First National Bank of Chicago at an interest rate of 2 per cent with a premium of $2880. Fourteen bids were received. The City also sold a $70,000 radio aircraft experimental station issue to Brown, Harriman & Co., Chicago, at 11; per cent with a $322 premium. Fifteen bids were received on this issue, Proceeds will pay the City’s share of the new $800,000 Federal xperimental station at the Municipa; Airport.

VANNUYS TO OPPOSE CONVENTION SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P). —Senator VanNuys (D. Ind.) today pledged himself to a vigorous fight

15 | tO return the Gubernatorial and 3 | Senatorial nominations in Indiana

to a direct primary instead of the convention system now in use. Senator VanNuys, contending nnsylvania primary results showed that the will of the followed in spite

State Farm Group to Fight

FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow

House Plan

Backed bv Mayor Boetcher's declaration that the City needs 20 more community houses, the Park Board today approved National Youth Administration plans for a $9198 community house at the Greer St. playground on the South Side. The Mayor said: “If Indianapolis had 20 more we could educate our children, we could keep them off the streets and make better citizens of them.” Ten NYA is to furnish all labor and materials. The City is to furnish utilities and maintain the building.

SLASH IN ELEVATION

Takes Action,

City and County representatives were in Chicago today to bid for a PWA grant for the proposed $3.500,000 railroad track elevation project as the Fountain Square Civic Association protested against any curtailment of the program. Those who were to present the local request for Federal grant of 45 per cent of the City and County shares of the cost of the project were Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president; Clarence 1. Wheatley, Marion County Board of Commissioners president, and Henry B. Steeg, City engineer. Under the proposed financing

community houses like this where |

[ing primary.

Fountain Square Association

Above is pictured the dramatic rescue of the pilot and four passengers of a monoplane forced down in Jamaica Bay, N. Y, after taking off from Newark Airport. A Coast Guard plane, taking off from the new air base at Floyd Bennett Field,

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{coincided with Republican PROJECT PROTESTED | ments that Pennsylvania and pos-

| sibly other states are pointing back toward Republican control.

| well might prove a determining fac[tor in the critical struggle of 1940.

| plan, the railroads are to pay 50 per | | cent of the elevation cost. Revised |

| plans taken to Chicago provided for | elevation of tracks at the S. East St, and Madison Ave. crossings. Mayor Boetcher had explained the $3,500,000 limit would not permit complete elevation of the tracks from a point near S. Meridian St. to Keystone Ave. In its protest, the Fountain Square Association contended the amount was sufficient for the entire project and particularly criticized elimination of the Shelby St. crossing. E. H. Wischmeyer, chairman of the association's track elevation (committee, spoke against the re- | vised project at an association meet - ing last night at which Joseph B. Wade was elected president. Other | officers chosen were T. E. Barker, | first vice president; second vice president, and Ben Sagalowsky, secretary-treasurer,

Y-RAY TREATMENT PLANNED FOR BABY

Cancerous Growth Continues Spread in Right Eye.

CHICAGO, May 19 (U.P). — Helaine Judith Colan, the baby afflicted with retinal glioma, dread cancerous malady, will be treatéd today with supervoltage X-ray in a final, desperate attempt to save at least part of her vision. She is now 8 weeks old. She underwent an operation May 9 for removal of her left eye which had been rendered sightless by the disease. The operation was performed after a jury of specialists had agreed it was the only chance of saving her life. Six of the specialists conferred again yeste: day, after having studied the left eye, and decided.to subject

They will be administered daily for three weeks.

"HOPKINS TO MARRY

Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins refused today to discuss reports from New York that he will marry Mrs, Dorothy Hale, a former actress, in July. Mr. Hopkins’ second wife died last fall.

FORMER MAYOR DEAD LA PORTE, May 19 (U. P.).—A. J. Miller, 72, Mayor of La Porte from 1930 to 1934 and a prominent figure in state Democratic politics, died today after a ge illness,

the baby to the X-ray treatments.

| ability and that of National Chair-

| House consent | gubernatorial primary. Elmer Roell, |

ACTRESS, IS REPORT

WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P.).— |

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1958

| Claims Pennsylvania Vote

Indicates Swing Away From New Deal.

(Editorial, Raymond Clapper, Page 14.)

WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P). —The New Deal's hold on politically strategic Pennsylvania appeared today to be slipping and jubilant Republicans said that this foreshadowed a sharp November upturn in G. O. P. fortunes. No Democratic chieftain publicly | conceded that any fatal weakness | had been exposed by the rip-snort-But private expressions of some party Congressmen judg-

BOSTON, May 19 (U. P.).~ Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican Presidential nominee, said in an interview today that the Republicans may gain control of the House in the fall elections “if this reaction keeps on.” He referred to the defeat of the C. I. O.-Administration candidate in the Pennsylvania primary. He interpreted the Pennsylvania results as a repudiations of the C. I, O. and the New Deal.

Loss of Pennsylvania, won by Democrats in 1934 for the first time since the Civil War, would be a serious blow to the New Deal and

The “if” in that judgment centered on President Roosevelt, on his

man James A. Farley to heal party wounds. It depended even more, possibly, on reaction of November voters to candidacies based on and backed by the President's personal leadership.

C. I. 0. Choice Repudiated

Mr. Roosevelt was not the issue in Tuesday's Democratic primary. The issue there, in large part, was the C. I. O. and John L. Lewis. And to that issue the voters gave answer by repudiating the chief C. I. O. candidate, Thomas A. Kennedy. Tomorrow, political eyes turn to Oregon. There lines have been | drawn with tacit, if not open, White

in the Democratic |

Governor Martin opposes Henry Hess, state legislator, and others for renomination. This will test on a new battleground the divison of Democratic forces which, in the South, brought victories to New Deal Senators Lister Hill of Alabama and Claude Pepper of Florida. In some respects the Oregon contest is a more direct barometer of White House influence. Mr. Roosevelt has reiterated that he is not participating in party primaries. Prior to that reiteration, however, White House Secretary Stephen T. Barly formally had repudiated an alleged remark to the President by Governor Martin that “you and I make a good pair.” Shortly thereafter, Elton Watkins, emissary of Mr. Hess, emerged from the President's office in company of Secretary of Interior Ickes. Mr. Watkins said that, from his talk with the President, he was certain Mr. Hess is the man New Dealers should nominate and Mr. Ickes released a letter attacking Mr. Mar(Turn to Page Four)

seen in the water. sengers was also hurt,

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{noon today, only two degrees below

Near-Cloudburst at

La Porte Wrecks Train

LA PORTE, May 19 (U. P.).-A | near-cloudburst in La Porte County | today wrecked a Pere Marquette | freight train and caused thousands | of dollars of damage. Herbert Link, the weather ob- | server, said that nearly two and a | half inches of rain fell in two hours. The locomotive and nine cars of the freight train tipped over sn a branch line north of here due to washed out tracks. Two countyy roads were closed because of washed out bridges.

PARLEY HERE SEEKS PEACE IN BEER WAR

Is Urged by Officials.

| Members of the Indiana nee holic Beverages Commission and the Ohio Tax Commission today | discussed with beer interests in |

their respective states methods of | adjusting a three-months-old im- | portation dispute. Preliminary peace overtures were made at a meeting of representatives of the two commissions here yesterday. A second meeting is expected to be held in the future to | discuss compromise proposals, Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise Di- | rector, said.

Conference Urged

“Both commissions agreed,” he | reported, ‘‘that a conference of liquor administrators in various | Midwestern states should be called | to discuss differences in liquor con- | trol systems.” The Ohio-Indiana dispute began when the Ohio Tax Commission, protesting against the Indiana! “port-of-entry” system, increased | the annual license fee on Ohio dis- | tributors handling Indiana beer by $1500. Indiana brewers claimed this ruling “dried up” their wholesale outlets. Possible legislative changes which might be made in the liquor systems in both states were discussed at yesterday's conference. Mr, Barnhart said no offers were made by either side and no definite conclusions were reached. He said that 18 Ohio distributors have paid the additional fee and are importing Indiana beer. Ohio representatives attending the conference were Walter W. Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio Tax Commissioner; Lewis W. Chester, Columbus, Wholesale Beer Association of Ohio executive secretary, and Dan W. Duffy, Cleveland, Ohio (Turn to Page Three)

riding. She sneezed.

and exhausted.

Out for a Breezer! Ends Up a Sneezer!

HAT started out to be an automobile ride to cool off last night ended in two and a half hours of violent sneezing and a trip to City Hospital for Miss Thelma Sutton, 23, of 1635 Bellefontaine St. | | And a rumble seat was the cause of it all. | Miss Sutton clambered into the rumble seat of a car, but forgot to duck when a companion struggled in beside her. slight bump on the nose from the friend's elbow, Right then Miss Sutton forgot all about the pleasures of auto

She sneezed again, then kept it up. When she couldn't stop after half an hour and was gasping for breath, her | alarmed friends rushed her to City Hospital. There Miss Sutton was put to bed and drugs were administered, but for two hours more she was racked by the continual sneezing. Under the effect of the drugs, After her nose was treated, she felt better and was taken home—hot

She received a

the sneezing gradually subsided.

Second -Class Matter

Indianapolis,

Tntered ax at Postoffice,

Times-Acme Photo.

three-quarters of a mile away, Is shown rescuing the five, some of whom can be The pilot, Ken Porter, was seriously injured,

One of the pas-

City Gives O.K.[G, 0,P, HOPES FOR Mercury Just 2 PRISON MERIT To Community 1940 MOUNTING

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Degrees Under SYSTEM URGED

Women Voters to Present Resolution for Plan To Governor.

(Editorial, Page 14)

By VIRGINIA M. MANNON

Ind.

fr HOME

FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

JAPAN'S P UP

SHANGHAI-Suchow falls ROME-—Duce demands Fra

France Gets Demand

She Close Pyrenees ROME, May 19 (U. P.) Political | circles reported today that Premier | Benito Mussolini, gravely perturbed by alleged intensification of French supplies to Loyalist Spain, demanded that France reintroduce control |of the Pyrenees border as a condi[tion for resumption of the FrenchItalian talks. Italian circles said the latest information reaching the Italian Government estimated that at least 50 truckloads of war material arrive at Cerbere daily for the Spanish

bere is x0 congested that French trains are now allowed to proceed

The Indiana League of Women Voters today voted to urge the extension of the merit system to

guards at penal institutions and state hospitals as the 17th state convention of the organization drew to a close. The passage of the resolution follows the recent shakeup in the high command of the State Prison at Michigan City, after the escape of four long-term convicts, and the investigation into the death of a state hospital inmate, allegedly at the hands of attendants. Mrs. Clarence F. Merrell of Indianapolis, who this morning was elected new president of the state league, and Mrs. Charles E, Cory of Lafayette, who was elected sec-

ond vice president, were named as!

a committee to present the league resolution to Governor Townsend, At a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, where all sessions have been held, Mrs. Quincy Wright, of Chicago, urged ‘reconsideration of U.S. neutrality policy and candid consideration of the precarious position of our nonrecognition policy.” Also adopted by the League in Its program for the coming year was a resolution to appoint a committee to study the position of the league on the nonpartisan selection of

| judges.

Work Program Adopted

A shortened and undepartmentalized program of work for the coming two years was adopted yesterday afternoon. For the first time in the state league’s history no program {items were specifically assigned to the organization's six departments. Authorized for support on the state program were extension of the merit system in the. state service short, ballot, reorganization of the state board of education, improved

| marriage license law, the manager

plan for local units of government, those recommendations of the Children's Code Commission consistent with League policy and those recommendations of the Indiana State Committee on Governmental Economy which may be chosen by the board of directors of the state league. “Support” items are authorized with a view to legislative action, the department chairmen explained. In line with the “short ballot” item is a pending League-sponsored amendment to the Indiana constitution which would remove the state

| superintendent of public instruction

from the constitution as an elective office, Other officers elected today were: Mrs. 8. N. Campbell, Indianapolis, first vice president; Mrs. Thomas Kimball, Hammond, third vice president; Mrs, Rex Van Tilbury, Logansport, secretary, and Mrs, William Snethen, Indianapolis, treasurer. The 12 directors elected were Mrs. William Louden, Bloomington; Mrs. David Russell, Elkhart; Mrs. Milford Miller, Evansville; Mrs. Leon Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Charles N, Teetor, Hagerstown; Mrs. Frank Pennell, Kokomo; Miss Dorothy Misener, Michigan City; Mrs. Joseph Shirk, Peru; Mrs. William C. Dennis, Richmond; Mrs. Charles Q. Erisman, Lafayette; Mrs. Arthur Bierhaus, (Turn to Page 11)

MEASLES EPIDEMIC REPORTED ABATED

Although 1060 cases of measles were reported in Indianapolis last month, the epidemic has abated slightly this month, Dr. Herman G, Morgan, Health Board secretary, sald today. Three deaths were recorded last month from the disease, he said.

EXAMINER 18S NAMED James D. Collins, 2834 Ruckle St, an attorney, today was named examiner fn the Indiana Public Service Commission motor vehicle department.

SENATOR IN HOSPITAL

WASHINGTON, May 19 (U.P). ~ Senator Ashurst (PD. Ariz) was in

| Emergency Hospital today suffering from a severe ca shingles.

as far as Port Bou, in Spain proper. Lord Perth, British Ambasador here, received instructions to try to smooth out the differences between | the French and Italians. Feeling in | London was that Premier Mussolini Was disappointed at the failure of the Spanish Rebels to win a quick victory and blamed France and Russia,

French Reiterate

Nonintervention

PARIS, May 18 (U, P).—=The Foreign Office announced today that France intends to maintain Spanish nonintervention and to refuse permit transshipment of arms through her territory to Spain, even if any nation makes such a demand. No such demand has been made, the statement sald, despite reports circulated here and abroad that Russia had threatened to get together with Berlin if France refused to enable Russia to arm Catalonia, Premier Edouard Daladier also issued a formal statement, declaring that France is capable of defending her frontiers and colonial empire unassisted. He expressed indigna-

of recent days, apparently aimed at causing the French Government trouble in relations with London, Rome and Moscow. He promised punishment for the offenders.

CHARTER ASKED BY POLITICAL GROUP

‘Organizing of Unorganized,’ Cited as Objective.

Articles of incorporation for a new political organization with the self-styled purpose of “organizing the unorganized and helping the dissatisfied fellow” were filed today

Mueller, | Designated as the Union Party | Consumers League, Inc, the organ- | {zation lists among its purpores the | re-establishment of local “home rule” and the organization of a system to prevent mortgage fore. closures, J. D. Johnson, 5547 Carrollton Ave. listed as a director, said the new organization would work with the Union Party which was incorporated here in 1936, the year it sponsored William Lemke, North Dakota Congressman, for President, Pointing out that labor groups are organized in unions and business executives in Chambers of Commerce and other groups, Mr, Johnson said the average man was nol organized and is a “pretty dissatisfied fellow.” Particular emphasis, he said, will be placed on the plan to abolish foreclosure, Other directors listed in the incorporation papers are John J Martin, 220 E. 13th St, and Perry H. Easton, 5248 Brookville Road,

SINDLINGER NAMED TO SUCCEED QUINN

William P. 8indlinger, former wholesale meat dealer, today had been appointed to the County liquor controi board, Fees from the office usually bring the position's income to between $2000 and $2500 annually, Mr. Sindlinger, whose appointment was announced by Mayor Boetcher, succeeds Thomas Quinn, who resigned te run on the Democratic ticket for the Center Township trustee nomination, Mr. Sindlinger, who lives at 3142 N. Capitol Ave, has been employed

in the automobile license depart- |

ment at the State House,

MAX BAER'S SON ILL

OAKLAND, Cal, May 19 (U, P) —Max Baer Jr, 5-month-old son of the one-time heavyweight boxing champion, was seriously ill of pneumonia today. He was placed under an oxygen tent at the am Hospital,

Government, and the traffic at Cer |

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tion over the “whispering campaign” |

with Secretary of State August G. |

TROOPS | SUCHOW:

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THE FOREIGN SITUATION

to Japanese in fierce fight. nce halt Loyalist aid.

PARIS<<French restate faith in nonintervention, SAN LUIS POTOSI-Cardenas risks life among foes, WASHINGTON<<Naval program may not be finished. MOSCOW-<Stalin calls Lenin a great scientist, HENDAYE<Spanish Loyalists retake three towns, LONDON=<Anglo-Irish trade war ended. BERLIN—<Anti-American agitation renewed. ANKARA-Britain to lend Turkey 80 million dollars.

Japanese Expected To Attack Mankow

SHANGHAI, May 28 (Friday) (U, P.) Japanese troops completed occupation of Suchow early today, Japanese sources announced, after street to street fighting through tha smoke of many fires which spread over the city from exploding munis tions dumps, | The remnants of the Chinese rear guard were driven from the souths ern section of the city by a Japas nese bayonet attack after Japanose airplanes skimed over the southern “wall” and dumped tons of ex- [ plosives Over the stone and sandbag fors | tifications which the Chinese con- | structed on the site of the original wall the Japanese charged with | bayonets and big swords, dispersing [the defenders who were protecting [the Chinese main coiumns in res [treat to the south and west,

Aim at Hankow

Although capture of the Suchow railroad junction gives the Japanese | opportunity te consolidate their | Nanking and Peiping provisional re gimes, the Imperial forces were ex» pected to drive on toward Hankow, Chinese provisional capital,

Their decision to proceed to Hane kow was reported to have been partly the result of the escape from Suchow of the bulk of the beste equipped Chinese troops, which the Japanese leaders believe must have been wiped out, The Japanese announced the fall of Suchow, the heart of Central China's communication system, in a radio broadeast at 10 p. m. last night (8 a, m. Thursday, Indian« apolis Time), The announcer claimed that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had fled by airplane after personally directing the defense of the city, Ferocity Unmatched

The Japanese reportedly fought their way into the city foot by foot in the face of stubborn Chinese | resistance Systematically they | wiped out machine gun nests and drove into the heart of Suchow which they claimed to be mopping up tonight They attacked the city from the west side and, gaining a foothold, advanced with bayonet and hand grenade to take the North Railroad Station, a Japanese army spokes man said Dispatches indicated that the battle was one unmatched for ferocity in more than 10 months of warfare, Infantrymen fought hand to hand without quarter in the rain from shortly after dawn this morning until nightfall, trampling the bodies of their dead and wounded. Jap= | anese artillery shells rained inte | oe eastern part of the city. Airs planes dropped bombs on the | Chinese munitions dumps and (he | roar of terrific explosions added to the pandemonium as flames shot up from burning buildings. The | East Station was reported destroyed,

200,000 Chinese Retreat

Gen. Juichi Terauchi, Jaganess supreme commander and a former War Minister, flew daringly over thas city, observing what seemed the final phase of a fight during which the Chinese had held his men back for months and inflicted on them the most humiliating defeats of their military history, Japanese estimated that Chinese were retreating from the area or joining in the defense of th~ city, and they hoped to trap some of them with the ald of a column that, taking the city of Suh« sien to the south, was marching rapidly northward. Chinese regulars, retreating from the Talerhchwang wsector to the northeast, poured into Suchow, They had orders to continue their | retreat toward the southwest, but (thousands of them disregarded orders and remained to reinforce the rear guard provincial divisions, The resistance of the Chinese was {a desperate one, particularly bes [cause the provincial {roops knew [they were protecting the retreat of [their main Taterhchwang army, | which was pouring steadily into ths |eity and out through the southern gates,

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‘Cardenas Says Aliens Backed Cedillo Plot

SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, May 19 (U. P.) President Lazaro Carde« nas took personal command of San Luis Potosi State today after pubs | Hely accusing Gen. Saturnine Cedf- [ lo, ousted military commander, of subversive activities against the | Federal Government,

The President, told by a number of his supporters in this state thas they feared attempts against his life, demanded that Gen. Cedillo sure [render all arms in his possession, The General, retired from the Army by President Cardenas, reportedly has more than 1000 armed followers, While accusing Gen. Cedillo of acts against the State, Senor Oarde(Turn to Page Three) y