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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 62

EMPLOYMENT AND PAYROLLS KEEP SLIPPING

Drop Here From Mid-March To Mid-April Amounts To 2 Per Cent.

STATE'S TREND SIMILAR

Retail Trade 8 to 15 Per Cent Below 1937, Reports Research Bureau.

Employment and payrolls in n- |

dianapolis dropped about 2 per cent from mid-March to mid-April &s the index for all Indiana declined for the eighth consecutive month, the Indiana University Business Research Bureau reported today. Trade and

most reports failed to reflect usual seasonal gain, the bureau's report stated. April retail trade, slightly higher than last month's, failed to react to

the stimuli usually associated with ! Easter and stood 8 to 15 per cent |

below 1937 levels. Department store

sales during April declined 4 per |

industrial indices for | the state did not show upturns and | the |

Twas Bail, Not Hangover Cure, "That He Needed

| Rov Rogers, 1010 N. West St. is | a cautious drinking man, a choir | leader and at the present mo- | ment—due to a slipup in his Sat- | urday plans—a jailbird. In Municipal Court today it was found that early Saturday morning he took a quart of whisky from the Crawford Harbison Drug Store in the 1700 block of E. 10th St. Also he stole a botuie of medi- | cine widely advertised as a remedy for hangover, which is what people who drink a quart of whisky Saturday generally have Sunday. Rogers was picked up shortly | after the theft, and was in jail | over the week-end. The pastor of | the church where Rogers leads | the choir asked after him Sunday and assigned an attorney member of the congregation to defend him, But Judge Charles Karabell fined Rogers $10 and costs and sentenced him to 30 days in jail.

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RABB CHOSEN AS RECOUNT JUDGE

cent to a point 9 per cent below the |

level last year.

“Automobile sales, usually =a

strong supporter of spring business, | were unusually discouraging, being | March and |

29 per cent less than

Picked for Ray Suit After Cox Withdraws: Feeney's Arbiter Unnamed.

51 per cent less than in April, 1937." |

he review said.

spring expansion, but was 13 per cent under April, 1937. Bank debits were down 2 per cent under March this year and 21 per cent below March,

Farm Income Gains Present beneficial rains came too late to help during April, when “weather and crop conditions dur-

ing the latter part of the month |

indicated a distinct need for sub-

“Newspaper adver- | tising partially reacted to the usual |

1937.”

Albert I. Rabb, Republican | torney, today was named judge to preside at the recount of ballots cast in the Democratic race | for Mavor at the May 3 primary.

at-

cuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox had disqualified himself. Judge Cox also | withdrew from the suit filed by Al | Feeney, defeated Democratic can | didate for Sheriff. Sheriff Ray, defeated Democratic | candidate for Mayor, who asked for the recount, underwent a appen=

special |

Mr. Rabb was selected after Cir- |

stantial rains, particularly in the southern third of Indiana.” | dicitis operation today at St. Vine Farm income gained 9 per cent in | cent’'s Hospital. His condition was March, but the total was 29 per cent | reported as ‘‘satisfactory.” less than last year’s. Allowing for | “Because I have friends on all seasonal variation, farm prices de- | sides, I am going to disqualify myclined 3 per cent in April and were | self in these cases,” Judge Cox said. 24 per cent below 1937 levels. April| James Gavin, chosen to serve as livestock receipts jumped 6 per cent, special judge in the Feeney suit, but still were 9 per cent below those | disqualified himself after being of a year ago. | selected. A judge to serve in that At Indianapolis, companies en- case is to be named later today. gaged in manufacturing reported a | Rabb Sworn In 6 per cent drop in employment and Mr. Rabb was one of the three at-

a 5 per cent decrease in weekly ’ payrolls. | torneys nominated by Judge Cox. : ( Paul Rochford, attorney for Sheriff

In contrast, honmanufacturing | struck tk firms showed a 4 per cent increase | oy Stuck the name of John Mec- | Nutt. James Deery, attorney for

in the number of employees and | X Eo buh a 5 per cent payrool increase. Robina a o> livan, SucmessiY Significant employment increases |; ei Fe 0 UE TE re HOM | in the nonmanufacturing class! Fane yO ame were: Apparel group, 13 per cent: of Clarence F. Merrell. Mr. Rabb | lumber and building materials, 8 yon mediately OY] a a fe Charles R. Ettinger, chief deputy | per cent; general merchandising. | county Clerk. 8 per cent, and automotive, 3 per | Attorneys agreed that the recount | cent. is to be conducted in Room 84 of Employment changes reported by (he Courthouse and that they shall

manufacturing concerns were: Non- | Name as many witnesses as they de= ferrous metals, 4 per cent increase: | Ore but that only two of the wit-|

: : nesses shall watch the recount at textiles, 3 per cent increase; chem= anv one time. | icals and petroleum refining, 1 per Each side also was to name one cent increase; machinery, 5 per | deputy clerk, who will tally against cent decline; iron and steel, 6 per the other during the recount. | cent decline, and railroad repair Judge Rabb said that he would | shops, 18 per cent decline. name by Wednesday the recount! | commissioners, two of whom are to be from different political parties, by Wednesday. In the Feeney case, Mr. Feeney | struck the name of Thomas D. Stev- | enson, Charley Lutz, Democratic | nominee for Sheriff, struck the name | of Charles B. Clarke. | Mr. Gavin, in disqualifying hime | self said that he felt he was too close | to Mr, Feeney and that he had | worked for him in the campaign. |

Indianapolis Report

“Indianapolis retail sales on the whole, however, proved disappointing to merchants,” the review stated. “Department store sales were moderately under those of last year. Wholesale drug and grocery sales also were slightly une der 1937 levels. “New and used car sales were 48 and 3 per cent, respectively, under those of one year ago. Livestock | receipts fell off 12 per cent and | were 17 per cent under one year ago. In spite of a sharp decline in the value of building permits issued in April, the cumulative tota! ror the first four months of this year | was 1 per cent greater than that of the same period of 1937.” In Indiana, steel mill operations (Turn to Page Two)

VanNuys Assailed For Primary Stand

By United Press State Scnator E. Curtis White to- ! | day said that Senator Fredrick Vane Nuys is directly responsible for the fact that Indiana does not nominate | Senators by primary.

REFUSES TO REOPEN | Senator VanNuys recently said he | would ash the next Legislature to enact a direct primary law. LIGHT CO. RATE CASE | “The only we do not have ns |a direct primary now is due to the The Indiana Public Service Com- | failure of Senator VanNuys to make mission today denied the petition | °D® single move to help in putting of the Columbia School Furniture OVE Such a bill” Senator White Corp. which sought to reopen the a

| Geraghty was riding.

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with probably rain tonight, becoming fair tomorrow; cooler.

MONDAY, MAY 23

STATE TRAFFIC DEADPUTATS; 37 ACCIDENTS

‘New Albany Girl, 15, Victim | Of Hit-and-Run Driver; Man, Wife Killed.

27 ARE HURT IN CRASHES

‘Precious Mary Geraghty Is Injured in 3-Car Mixup; 26 Fined $160.

Nine persons died in Indiana | traffic, including two here, and 27 persons were injured in 37 weekend crashes. The dead were: Bernard Toenneman, 57,

Louis, Mo., and his wife, Julia, 64, | | who died at Methodist Hospital. | Gilbert Best, 60, Dana, struck by | an auto near Montezuma. Carl S. Carey, 56, Muncie, struck near Daleville, William Wallace, | killed when his car was struck by a | | train near Stillwell. | [| Glen Johnson, 41, Columbia City, | injured in a truck-auto crash west | of Ft. Wayne. | George H. Blakely, Marshall, killed in a two-car collison north of | Greenfield. | Ruth Sisson, 15, New killed by a hit-run driver. | Mrs. Jessie E, Sprang, 53, South | Bend. injured fatally when struck by a street car. Meanwhile, Indianapolis police | and deputy sheriffs arrested 83 motorists, three for drunken operating | { eight for reckless driving, two for | leaving scenes of accidents and 11 | | for speeding.

26 Are Fined S160

. | tive and probably would not even him, 1 Umes bumpeq She tu) SH om, | be attempted by an invading enemy, consin' 8t ne : | Capt. Clinton Wasson, Muncie, U.

Arrested after his auto crashed |S: Army Reserves officer, said here

: bly of th Indiana University School sentenced to 30 days in jail on a | drunken driving charge, fined $11

| Before and after Capt. Wasson's | | address, physicians attended clinic Mr. Toenneman died at Methodist Hospital at 4:45 a. m. today,

[and laboratory demonstrations at the Medical Center. Tonight Col. | BY Sele a rv te ¥ io eight hours after the death of hig | ee oT uiner - 0 address wife, both injured when their auto High School Shad > ug was struck by an Indiana Railroad Paco : " : interurban at Plainfield las | CAaPl. Wasson assured his audiWednesday. ence that so far as he knows no Among those injured here during army here or in Europe has adapted | the week-end was Precious Mary Geraghty, 21.

any instantaneously fatal gas to war use and that none is likely to Four persons were injured in three-car crash in which Miss |

soon, | He said, however, that in spite of | Geraghty received face cuts. Frank | Yuresco, 37, Terre Haute, one of the

poison gas being outlawed by the League of Nations and signatory | drivers, was arrested by deputy nations it probably will be used by | sheriffs on charges of intoxication, drunken driving, no driver's license,

all nations participating in the next | general conflict and that it probe | no registration card, reckless driv= ing and vagrancy.

ably won't be as effective as it was | Yuresco's car, deputies said, was

in the World War because gas masks are more effective now than headed west in W. Washington St. | near Lyndhurst Drive. Swerving to!

| then. [ “Although the League of Natiohs the wrong side of the road, they reported, it struck the eastbound ma-

outlawed poison gas on the ground it was inhumane, actually gas is chine of William Jackson. 21. of 1245 N. Tibbs Ave. with whom Miss

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is this village

Peaceful indeed

nestling like a toy Albany, . .

AGAINST GAS

‘Chemical Warfare Defenses Greatly Improved, State Doctors Told.

(Photo, Page Seven)

| the most humane weapon known in warfare,” Capt. Wasson said. “Twenty-five per cent of American soldiers wounded by gunshot in [the World War died. while only | four per cent of those gassed died. Damage to Morale “Of the T83 American soldiers to | lose one or both eyes in the World | War, gas accounted for only 34, Gas | puts men out of action, but general- |

¢ The Jackson car was jammed into a machine in which six persons were riding, driven by Clarence All, 62. of 644 Parker Ave. | Mr. All received cuts on his face | and leg: his daughter, Mrs. Odetta Ault. 37, same address, and Mrs. | Ault’s daughter, Norma Jean Ault, | 12, received head injuries, All, ex- ly speaking, they recover from its! cept the child which was taken to | effects. St. Vincent's Hospital, were treated | “Gas as an implement of war is by a private physician. almost as old as war itself. Long Mrs. Eva J. Stohl, 51, passenger | before Christ the Greeks burned a in a car driven by her husband, | mixture of pitch and sulphur as a Carl Stohl, quartermaster at Ft. | weapon against enemies. Gas was Benjamin Hairison, was injured used to some extent in the Civil Seriously in a collision with a car | war, too. riven by Roy E. Meyer, 921 E. 44th | “But gas as an effective weapon St., at 38th St. and Sherman Drive. against the civilian populations ion Mrs. Catherine Meyer, 20, wife of | city would be effective only for the Mr. Meyer, and another passenger | effect it might have on morale. in the Meyer car, Mrs. Edna Huse,| “Suppose 500 planes, laden with 926 E. 44th St, were cut and|gas bombs, flew over Indianapolis (Turn to Page Three) and dumped them. Probably no

Indianapolis Power and Light Co. ! rate case. The Commission entered a final! order in the light company case on | April 28. In its request for a re- | hearing the furniture company | asked for a modification of rates! for manufacturing concerns and | the simplification of rate schedules. |

IR Ss The Works Board today adopted FIRE HOUSE APPROVED a primary roll of damages which The Safety Board today was called for the payment of $254,469 granted a building permit to con- | to property owners effected by the struct an $11495 structure at 1145 | proposed improvement of S. East St. W. Michigan St. to house Fire Sta-| The Board also received bids on tion 1. four other improvement projects and heard a discussion by citizens | of the proposal to establish a track- | less trolley line on E. Minnesota St. | between East and Harlan Sts, The Board is to advertise the S. | Past St. damage roll and is to hold |a public hearing in about 10 days. 13, About 25 South Side residents 8 appeared before the Board. for and 10 | against the proposed trackless trol9 | ley on Minnesota St. 9 Roy Perry, 1833 E. Minnesota St. .. 13] said he represented 1800 residents Flynn 10 | Mrs, Roosevelt 9 | who have signed a petition urging Forum 10 | Scherrer 9 | the line on Minnesota St. between In Indpls. . 3 | Serial Story. . 14 Shelby and Bast Sts. Jane Jordan, 9 Society ... 4, 5| Paul CGC. Wetter and William Johnson .. 10 | Sports .... 6, 7 |Frohliger, chairmen of the Lincoln, Movies 11 | State Deaths. &|Iowa and Minnesota Street Civic Mrs. Ferguson 10( Wiggam .,... 10 League, spoke in opposition.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

£ | Music 14 | Obituaries Crossword ... 11 | Pegler Curious World 14 Pyle Editorials 10 || Questions Financial .... 13| Radio ..

\ TS EE TRE spans

$254,469 Approved for S. East St. Land Owners

more than 4 per cent would land in streets and thus be effective. The others would land on tops of buildings and the gases almost certainly would be carried away in the wind. “The four per cent that did land [in the streets would be ineffective |against a trained populace because, veitiy heavier than air, the gas | would stay in the streets while t Lincoln and Iowa Sts. are alter- | neople could step to the Hie ¥he nate routes to Minnesota St. be- | (Turn to Page Three)

"Si Weer red he sort 10 ANNUAL BELL PROFITS PUT AT 5.82 PER CENT

withhold permission to use the latter streets for the proposed line on ih The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. had an average annual earning of

the ground that they are too nar 582 per cent on the undepreciated

row. Mr, Frohliger opposed the probook cost of its property from April 1, 1926, to Dec. 31, 1937, evidence

posed project because, he said, it presented at an Indiana Public

would be necessary to use Pleasant Run Parkway in the proposed Service Commission hearing showed today.

route, « The Public Service Commission is

Mr. Frohliger and Mr. Wetter urged the establishment of a trolley investigating charges and property valuations of the utility on a state-

line down Shelby St, then east on Minnesota St. to Harlan, thus rewide basis preparatory to entering a new rate order.

placing the present feeder bus lines. W. J. McWilliams, telephone com-

The Board took bids on the removal of street car tracks and resurfacing of E. 10th St. between | pany auditor, introduced an exhibit Keystone Ave. and Olney St. showing that the average net earnings during the period were $2,606,403.77 annually, and the average

Robert Bowen submitted the low bid, Estimated cost of the project book cost of the property was $44.710,661.92, PIUpersy was su,

was $34,941. The City is to pay three-fourths, y mm

makes a breach in the protective mountains along the Czechoslovakian-Saxony border. But extra troops under the hammer of German invasion,

, 1938

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

of Bodenbach, the River Elbe the direct

it would

on Praha,

CITY HELD SAFE | Pa y-Hour Debate Opens:

Taxing Power Broadened

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

WAGE-HOUR BILL debate limited to four hours, SUPREME COURT broadens tax power, upholds NLRB, RECOVERY BILL restriction on PWA fought by New Deal. TAX EXEMPTION investigation backed by Committee.

are guarding it now, for. with its exposed position railway

| Saturnino Cedillo,

NE | |

route between

the first to shudder

Berlin and | be one of |

NLRB rules against two Indiana factories.

Remington-Rand Appeal Refused

WASHINGTON, May 23 (U. P).

=The Supreme Court, in two deci- |

importance, of the

sions of far-reaching broadened the authority Federal Government to impose taxes upon instrumentalities of state governments and their employes. At the same time the Supreme Court, by refusing to review lower court decisions, affirmed National

Rand, Inc, which has been ordered to offer reinstatement to 4000 employes who went on strike in 1936. The tax decisions, reached by a sharp split of the court, were held to be of transcendent importance in narrowing exemptions against Federal tax levies. tices said today's decisions over=turned principles which the Court had followed for 100 years.

Deny NLRB Appeals

Supreme Court action today: Affirmed the right of the Federal

| Government to impose income taxes

upon employees of the Port of New York Authority, an instrumentality of the states of New York and New Jersey. Affirmed the right of the Federal Government to tax admissions to football games and athletic contests sponsored by state universities, Denied requests for review of National Labor Relations Board orders against Remington-Rand, Black Diamond Steamship Co, and the Carlisle Lumber Co. Failed to act upon the plea of Thomas J. Mooney for a review of the life sentence imposed for convietion of participating in San

| Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day

bombing. Injunction Vacated

Ordered that an injunction by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals limiting an inquiry by the Federal Power Commission into six Penne sylvania affiliates of the Associated Gas & Electric system be vacated. Declined to review a challenge to application of the Wisconsin State income tax to income of Wisconsin residents derived from other states. Refused to hear the challenge of three South Carolina power companies to validity of the large Public Works Administration-financed Santee-Cooper power project in South Carolinia.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

ENGINEER IS NAMED

W. F. Bookwalter has been named State Highway Commission chief construction engineer to succeed Sultan G. Cohen, who has resigned, Commission Chairman T. A. Dicus announced today. Mr, Cohen is to re-enter private business on June 1, the effective date of Mr. Bookwalter's appointment. For the last several years Mr. Bookwalter has served as assistant construction engineer,

RUBINOFF RALLIES: DOCTORS HOPEFUL

BATTLE CREEK, Mich., May 23 (U. P.).—Doctors were more hopeful today for the recovery of Dave Rubinoft, radio and concert violinist, following a second operation and blood transfusion. Dr. Walter F. Martin said Rubinoff “rallied very well” but that his condition still was serious.

"Wage-Hour

Dissenting juss |

Debate

Limited to Three Hours | WASHINGTON, May 23 (U, P). «~The House voted overwhelmingly today to discharge the Rules Committee and take up the explosive | wage-hours bili. The vote—first but not conclusive test of wage-hour strength—was 322 to 13. The vote followed brief debate on | the motion of Chairman Mary T.

| Labor Relations Board orders against | Norton (D. N. J.) of the House La[three firms, including Remington= | yor Committee.

The House immediately accepted a ruling providing four hours of general debate divided equally between majority and minority members. There was no record vote. The procedure was identical that followed last December the House completed a previous pe= tition to discharge the Rules Coinmittee on a wage-hodr bill which later was recommitted. The bill which comes up today provides a 25-cent minimum wage, increasing in three years to 40 cents, and a 44-hour maximum work week, decreasing in two years to 40. It applies to all workers in interstate industry except farm labor, c=alespeople, executives and professional

people.

New Dealers Fight PWA Restriction

WASHINGTON, May 23 (U. P), Senate Majority Leader Barkley (D. Ky.) announced today that he will offer an amendment to the $3.247,025,000 recovery bili, modifying restrictions on Public Works Administration grants and loans for power plants. Senator Barkley made the announcement on his return from a Congressional leaders’ conference with President Roosevelt. As reported to the Senate for immediate debate, the bill prohibits (Turn to Page Three)

Tomorrow,

TEMPERATURES

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. 69 75 2 70

10 a. m... 1 a. m..... 12 (Noon) .. 1p Mm...

An end to the 10-day rainy period, which has brought more than three inches of rain and heavy storm damage to much of central and southern Indiana, is expected tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted today. In the north and along the State's extreme southern border the rainfall has been approximately two inches during this period, the Bureau said. Predictions that today would remain cloudy and that there would be some rain tonight also were made by the Bureau. Meanwhile the west-central section of Indiana was recovering from week-end wind and rain storms which caused damage estimated fb more than $200,000. High winds ripped through Green, Sullivan, Owen, Daviess, Martin, Knox and Monroe Counties, crip- < 8

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THREE CENTS

FUEHRER PLEDGES CZECH PEACE; REPORT MEXICAN REVOLT SPREADS

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

BERLIN—Germans report new border incidents, PRAHA—Czech Premier confers with Sudeten leader. LONDON-—Chamberlain claims British forced talks. PARIS—French leave initiative to Britain. ROME~Mussolini advises Hitler to be cautious. WASHINGTON-—Hull gives Roosevelt full report.

CARLSBAD-Czech soldiers

dig trenches at frontier.

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SAN LUIS POTOSI—Cedillo flees with army into hills. SHANGHAI—British may use warship for open door. HENDAYE~—Spanish Loyalists advance with new arms.

Cedillo Flees To Mountains

(Photos, Page Three)

(Copyright, 1938, by United Press)

SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, May |

23 (By Telephone to New York) The “pocket” rebellion of Gen. ousted military commander of San Luis Potosi state, was reported spreading today. Soon after a strong force of Federal troops took over Gen. Cedillo’s ranch at Las Palomas, reports reached here that the town of Guadalcazar, about 60 miles to the northeast on the important railroad line running to Tampico on the coast, had been taken over by revolutionists. According to reports of the newspaper Universal, crack-shot peasant

| followers of the former army gen-

eral led the rebellion there Reinforcements for Federal troops, “mopping up” while advancing in the direction of Tampico, were dispatched immediately following the reports from Guadalcazar which is in the vicinity of Las Palomas, the nearest town to Gen. Cedillo’s ranch. Hide in Hills | Gen. Cedillo and | estimated to number between 1500 and 3000 men, were believed to have taken to the hills and the Government, with approximately 20,000 men and a squadron of war planes at hand, was confident that his “war” would be short-lived, In Mexico City, a War Ministry spokesman asserted that some sections of Gen. Cedillo’s army were demoralized and had started negotiations to surrender through the wife of one of the “peasants misled by the Cedillistas.” President Cardenas, in sole command of the state since Governor Mateo Hernandez Netro abandoned his post presumably to join the Cedillistas, conferred day and night with his advisers and actively directed troop movements despite attemps to kill him. A Cedillista airplane pilot bombed President Cardenas’ headquarters | Saturday, but was chased off by | Government pursuit ships without | causing material damage. One of | four bombs fell only 200 yards from [the home of United States Consul | Edmond Montgomery,

U. S. Planes Reported

his followers,

Late last night President Car- | denas’ headquarters began issuing {official press bulletins. The latest | said: [ “A Federal air squadron located (one of Cedillo’s landing fields near | the Hacienda Vil Custodio at which there were two American airplanes with the trade mark ‘Howard. They were planes which had been brought from the United States last September by the Aviator Cliff Clevenger, These planes were under a camouflage of tree branches. They were bombed but the result was unknown, hud his headquarters at this hacienda. “It was officially confirmed that Cedillo’s home at Las Palomas was captured at midday Sunday. “The War Department announced that a battle was fought last Friday at a place called Lagumita in the southeastern part A Federal column of 50 men defeated a Rebel group of about 50 headed by a nephew of Cedillo’s, Hipolito Cedillo. It was reported that this man was killed but this could not be confirmed. The Rebels left 12 dead on the field. One Federal lieutenant was wounded.”

10-Day Rainy Spell to End

Bureau Says

pling communication systems and leaving many cities in darkness for more than 48 hours, Water, coming in near cloudbursts, added to the damage. Basements were flooded, roads were undermined and washed out and several highways were closed.

Bloomington suffered the worst damage. Insurance officials estimated damage there and through Monroe County at more than $100,000. Greene County was hit almost

school and gymnasium at $20,000.

Blown down telephone poles and uprooted trees halted traffic on many Bloomington streets. Indiana University buildings were damaged slightly. Hundreds of acres of corn and other crops were washed out near Petersburg, where four inches of rain fell in less than two hours. The crops were valued at thousands of dollars. Loss of livestock was reported heavy from lightning, caved-in barns and fallen trees.

It was believed that Cedillo |

of the state, |

as hard. At Bloomfield school of-| ficials estimated damage to the high |

Three New Incidents At Frontier Reported

(Another Story, Page 9)

By WEBB MILLER (Copyright, 1038, by United Press) BERLIN, May 23.-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has assured Great Britain that Germany has not the slightest intension of marching into Czechoslovakia, it was learned today. After press reports from London that Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, Herr Hitler's personal adjutant, had made a secret visit to London, it became { kown that the Fuehrer sent one of | his cloest collaborators to London to | make the assurance, This personal emissary spoke to | Herbert von Dircksen, the German | Ambassador and to several leading | British statesmen. He expressed

by Germany of Czech violations of her frontiers. Three grave incidents were ported by DNB, the semiofficial | German news agency. The latest, (the agency said, occurred today | when Czech soldiers covered with straw the international bridges at Ulrichsburg and Hohenfurth, north of Linz, soaked the straw with gaso« | line and prepared to iginte it. | When German frontier guards approached, the dispatch said, the soldiers, who had entered German territory during their activities, ree turned to Czechoslovakia, Another incident, DNB charged, was the flight of a Czech military airplane over German territory, The dispatch said the plane, with a crew of two and a machine gun, flew over the frontier near Baerenstein, cruising so low that it grazed a chimney stack. Then it turned back and crashed in Czech territory, apparently kill{ing the crew, it was stated.

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Invading Party Reported

The other incident involved a re- | port that 10 Czech soldiers entered Germany on Saturday and tried to blow up a bridge over the Thaya | River, | Despite the reports, there was still [no threat of German military re[prisals. The reports would be cal | culated to justify to the world Gere (many’s grievances, but the Reich appeared content to await the oute come of negotiations for a settle | ment in Praha, instigated by Brie | tain and France, | Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was the only (man in Germany who could say | what the Nazi regime intended to do. On the Nazi regime, in turn, dee pend the choice of the alternatives, peace or war,

Hitler Leaves Munich

Herr Hitler left Munich yestere day by motor car after opening the [construction of a new subway, and announcement of his arrival at Bere [Un or another destination was exe pected today. | The week-end was the most tense, in several European capitals, since | German troops reoccupied the Gere | man Rhineland in March, 1936. Here, strangely, there was no tene | sion, and this was regarded, by per sons who have felt the electric ate mosphere on previous occasions when Germany was at the center of a crisis, as a sign that there was distinct hope for peace There was always the possibility of an outbreak of violence in Cecho= slovakia between now and the last of the municipal elections June 12. Barring such an outbreak, the crisis seemed about to enter the negotiations phase. Factors which aided in relaxing the tension were: 1. The orderliness of the elections in Cechoslovakia yesterday and the absence of any violence against the German minority. 2. Persistent, vigorous pressure by

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,| the British upon Germany for ree

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20 REPORTED HURT IN STRIKE'DISORDER

KEWANEE, Ill, May 23 (U. P.) — A score of men was injured, six severely, today in a clash between 2000 C. I. O. pickets and 200 members of a local union who smashed the line to enter the Walworth Co. plant, pipe fitting manufacturers. Baseball bats, bricks and hammers were used as members of the Valve and Fitting Workers local, under protection of a sheriff and 50 deputies, marched on the picket line. One picket was arrested. A strike at the plant was voted Saturday by a unit of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, C. I. O. affiliate, in protest against an agreement reached between the Valve and Fitting Workers Local

and the management,

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