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PROBE OF POLITICS

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FORECAST: Fair tonight, followed by increasing cloudiness tomorrow, probably unsettled ‘by night; somewhat warmer,

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 76

RELIEF BACKED;

G. 0. P. GETS ISSUE

Tydings Leads Move Of Democrats for 3-Man Study.

MINTON CRITICAL

Quiz Would Be Held After Congress Ends Its Session.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

RELIEF PROBE asked by 10 Democratic senators.

PRESS JOINS G. O. P. in attacking Administration for “interference” in Yowa. WAGE-HOUR BILL compromise reached. (Story Page Three.)

RAILROAD-AID bills pushed by President. (Page Three.)

“The Relief - in - Politics Racket,” Page Nine.

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.).— Chairman Byrnes (D. S. C.) of the Senate Audit and Control Committee said today his Committee will consider before adjournment the Tydings resolution for investigation of alleged political use of work relief funds. Senator Byrnes said he would call a Committee meeting before adjournment, at which time the group will consider the WPA resolution. Senator Tydings (D. Md.), sponsor of the resolution, had obtained unanimous Senate consent to refer it to the Audit and Control Committee from the Appropriations Committee Senator Tydings was joined by nine other Senators in backing the resolution. Passage of Senator Tydings' resolution if the Committee reports it favorably appeared likely on the basis of indicated support. Senator Minton (D. Ind), Administration stalwart, commented however that he regarded such an investigation as useless as a “fifth wheel” in view of the fact the Senate already has appointed a committee to investigate campaign expenditures, ed by Senator Sheppard (D. Tex.). The proposed committee would sit after Congress adjourns to hear complaints of politics in relief, to subpena witnesses and documentary evidence, and to recommend legislation to the next Congress. Senator Tydings' cosigners, representing many viewpoints in the New Deal-Democratic Party, were Senators McAdoo (Cal), George (Ga.), Burke (Neb), King (Utah), Adams (Colo.), Bulkley (0O.), Wagner (N. Y)), Hatch (N. M.) and Gerry (R. 1.). Garner Would Choose Trio The resolution was an aftermath of unsuccessful attempts in Senate last week to write into the pending $3,723,000,000 recovery bill a statutory restriction against the use of relief funds for any political purposes. Three of the Senators who signed the resolution—Tydings, Adams and McAdoo—voted against one or more of such proposals when they were offered. The committee would be empowered to investigate any complaints that funds appropriated for relief or work relief have been used for political purposes, or that any person paid from these funds “is using or has used his official position to intimidate, coerce, or influence any recipient of relief or work relief, or any applicant for relief or work relief, in a manner designed to affect the results of any primary, political convention or election held during the calendar year 1938.” Vice President Garner would appoint the three committee members and the costs, limited to $10,000, would be paid out of the Senate contingent fund. Although some of the Senators who signed the resolution are bitter critics of New Deal policies, Wagney, McAdoo and Adams are considered Administration supporters.

YACHT REPORTED ADRIFT

BALTIMORE, Md, June 8 (U. P.) —The Coast x cutter Calypso toady searched the rough waters of Chesapeake Bay for a small vacht, Memory, adrift without a rudder with six persons aboard.

"The Dark and Bloody Ground"

That's what Kentucky was called in the days when Indians were still challenging the progress of the frontier. Whether Kentucky will be a “dark and bloody ground” for the New Deal is one of the major questions to be answered in this year's primaries. For President Roosevelt’s Senate leader, Senator Barkley, is up for renomination against an able votegetter, Governor Chandler. Hence The Times commends to your thoughtful attention the current dispatches on the Kentucky situation by Thomas L. Stokes, who is giving attention to the use by both sides of ‘governmental employees for partisan purposes. Mr. Stokes story is on Page

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TEACHERS TO LET

‘Republicans Are Given November Weapon, Says Clapper.

POLICY CENSURED

President’s Defense Of Hopkins’ Action Is Deplored.

By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 8.—Republicans have been unable to develop a real issue that will bite into President Roosevelt but they are hoping—and apparently not in vain —that the Administration will be big-hearted and hand them their issue on a silver platter. The one that the Republicans

would like, and the one that the Administration apparently is about to give them, is the issue of politics in relief. Sagacious politicians in the Administration—and there are some, only they are not always listened to—groaned when they discovered that Harry Hopkins, WPA head, had rushed headlong into the Iowa senatorial primary by declaring for Wearin. There was a good deal of repressed satisfaction among some of these Administration politicians when this favorite of the New Deal left-wingers was thoroughly licked. However, Mr. Roosevelt came to Hopkins’ defense after the primary results were known, and declared that had he been born and educated in Towa he would have felt perfectly free to express his opinion, as Mr. Hopkins did.

Gives G. 0. P. a Point

Yet Civil Service employees have no such right. They are liable to dismissal for political activity. Mr. Hopkins and WPA are not under Civil Service. They ought to be. But not being, they have a legal right to play about in politics. Apparently Mr. Roosevelt thinks they have a moral right also. His statement defending Mr. Hopkins makes the whole situation so much the worse. Because he has by inference given every state WPA director Presidential license to do in his own state what Mr. Hopkins did in Towa. Instead of trying to close the door against politics in relief—a heroic task at best—the Administration seems to be opening it wider. All of which gives Chairman John Hamilton something at which to point the finger | when he charges that the Administration is engaged in a “shameless attempt to play politics with relief.”

PUPILS OFF EARLY

Classes Are Suspended as

Vacation Nears.

DeWitt 8. Morgan, City Schools Superintendent, today promised Indianapolis’ 42,000 elementary school pupils a head-start on their summer vacation. He announced that their classes will be dismissed at noon tomorrow and at 10 a. m, Friday. The original schedule called for regular classes through Friday afternoon when the vacation was to begin. He said the reason for the change of plans was to enable teachers to record grades and arrange classes for next fall.

A resolution to sell temporary loan warrants totaling $300,000 to meet cash deficits was adopted today by the School Board. The Board also announced it will consider the 1938-39 School budget at a public hearing June 21. The budget, as presented to the Board yesterday, provides a tax levy cut of 3 cents to 97 cents.

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T. ahiti Cruise

Jon Hall

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938

Is Honeymoon

Frances Langford

HOLLYWOOD, June 8 (U. P.).—A honeymoon cruise to Tahiti, was ahead today for Jon Hall, husky star of the picture “Hurricane,” and his actress bride, Frances Langford. They are going in a 52-foot

ketch. Mr. Hall has spent most of

his life there.

Their elopement last Saturday to Prescott, Ariz., was not known in

the film colony until last night. them there.

A Justice of the Peace married

Woman Dies Five Hurt,

One fatal traffic accident and 1

in Car Crash; 31 Arrested

3 others in which five persons were

hurt occurred in Marion County overnight, while police arrests for traffic

violations dropped to 31.

The death at City Hospital early today of Miss Bernice Stroud, 24,

of 108 W. North St., increased the

City traffic death toll for the year

to 31, compared with 46 for the cor-®

PRESS, REPUBLICANS

responding 1937 period. In Municipal Court this morning 15 drivers were convicted by Judge John McNelis of traffic law violations and fined $59. He suspended $137. Miss Stroud was injured fatally shortly after 10 p. m. last night in a craStat 25th $t.'and Hillside Ave.

She was ridifg in a car driven north on Hillside by Leonard V. Webb, same address, when it collided with another driven east on 25th ‘St. by Charles C. Pocely, 38, of 2536 Eastern Ave. She was crushed when the front end of the car was wrecked, and died about two hours later. Mr. . Webb also was injured. Pocely was arrested for failure to have a driver's license. Bobby Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carrell Parker, 6631 Massachusetts Ave. was reported in a serious condition at the Ft. Harrison Hospital today of injuries received when struck by an automobile late yesterday on Highway 67 near Kitley Ave. The child was walking along the road with his mother and aunt and suddenly started to ran across the road. A car driven by Otto T. Law of 1311 N. Kealing Ave, State Health Board representative, approached. In a futile attempt to avoid hitting the boy Mr. Law swerved his car and it plunged into a ditch. He and BEd Story, also of the State Health Department, who was with him, were uninjured. Mrs. Bessie Aldrich, 49, of 1525 E. Market St., and her daughter, Paula Jane, 7, were injured in a collision at 49th St. and Capitol Ave. The mother was sent to City Hospital and the child was given first aid for cut fingers.

Driver’s Licenses Sales Increase

Sale of driver's licenses to June 1 showed an increase of 80,646 over the corresponding period last year, while auto license plates showed a decrease of 32,441, Mark Rodenbeck, Motor Vehicle Bureau assistant commissioner, announced today. To date 879,196 auto plates have been sold as compared with the 1937 figure for the same period of 911.637. A total of 994,501 drivers’ licenses have been sold as compared with 914,855 for the same period in 1937.

HAIL RESULT IN IOWA

Administration Condemned For ‘Interference.’

DES MOINES, Towa, June 8 (U, P.) ~The polling of almost twice as many Republican as Democratic votes in the Towa primary presaged a G. O. P. victory in the November election, Republican leaders claimed today. The Republicans, by an unexpected display of voting strength, shared honors with Senator Gillette, who won the Democratic renomination to the U. 8. Senate despite New Deal opposition. He defeated, nearly two to one, Rep. Otha D. Wearin, indorsed by New Deal leaders. Lester J. Dickinson, won the Republican Senatorial nomination form Rep. Lloyd Thurston by more than 30,000 votes. “The results of the primary show,” Mr. Dickinson said, “that Towa citizens are now alert to protect their political and economic freedom.” Senator Gillette said he did not consider the results as a personal victory. “I consider them to be a rebuke administered by the people of the state to a group of outsiders who attempted to say to the voters of Towa whom they should send to the United States Congress to represent them,” he said. Complete, unofficial returns from the state's 2447 precincts, gave Mr. Gillette 81,520; Wearin, 41901, and Dickinson, 142845, Thurston, 109, - 535. The total vote of the three

| Democratic minority candidates was

34.961.

Hint La Follettes May

Move Into lowa

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Snecial Writer

WASHINGTON, June 8-The results of Towa's primary flung a challenge today at the new La Follette

party, the “National Progressives of America,” to make a first bid for

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Beavers Prepare for Summer Drought,

But Spring Rains Work Them Overtime

| By JOE COLLIER

There's every reason to believe that the current rains have the Jasper-Pulaski beavers dippy, the | State Conservation Department | learned today.

Probably nofte of the state's animals has been so thoroughly erossed by the weather this year as the | beavers, and probably none is less or to do anything effective about | it. The normal beaver, beaving at | only half speed, will build a passable | dam on his own time while he's just | tinkering. And when there's lots ot water around, that's what they 0. Thus, because their production is {ecut, they keep the water at about the right level to protect their homes, curious little underground apartments, and to build canals to float small logs from the surroundings woods to their homes for eat-

ing purposes.

Beavers, even though they live in neighborhoods that might be described as colonies, have no central authority. Each beaver reaches . independent decision as to what's

best for him to do and then does it. During the dry spell this spring, great beaver minds in the 'JasperPulaski swamps ran in the same channel and almost as one beaver they began working full time constructing dams. They built them early and late and added, in a few short weeks, about 50 linear feet to the system. All the dams they built this spring seemed to have been planned as auxiliary dams, strategically placed to impound every stray drop of water in case of a drought. They built so industriously and so cannily that it was freely predicted by those who watched the beaver network grow and grow that the beavers already had advance in-

summer, and were protecting themselvés against it like master conservationists. When beavers are reasonably sure that an adequate water supply is going to remain constant, they build their dams so that the normal stream can slip through, keeping the water level where they want it. But when they are afraid of a drought they build the dams watertight, as they did early this spring. With water now going higher and higher, the beavers are working their tails to the bone slapping on addition after addition to the tops of their water-tight dams, so that they are not overflowed. The Department said that at least one beaver couple already has tired of the race against water and has moved to Pinkmink Ditech in Jasper County where it built an unwanted dam, heard the land owner tall the Departmnet's beaver police,

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VOTE THEFTS IN DEMOCRATIC RACE CHARGED

Recount Official Alleges Fraud, but Precinct Aids Issue Denial.

BALLOT TALLIES VARY

Special Grand Jury May Be Called for Probe of City Election.

(Editorial, Page 10)

Charges of “vote stealing” in the Democratic primary election were made and denied today as the recount of the sheriff's race continued to reach totals at variance with those

announced on primary day. Republican Recount Commissioner Elbert R. Gilliom charged that “there was some vote stealing” in at least one precinct, but added that he believed the vote for sheriff should not be invalidated because of it. He said the vote stealing was for candidates other than sheriff in that precinct. . Election workers in that precinc? denied the charge. Meanwhile, Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker, defeated candidate for nomination to succeed himself, said he will ask the County Auditor to call a special meeting of the County Council to appropriate funds for a special Grand Jury investigation into the alleged fraud.

Special Jury Seen

“It probably is too late for the present Grand Jury which will be discharged on July 1 to begin an investigation of alleged irregularities in the voting,’ Judge Baker said. “A special Grand Jury would have to be impaneled and a special prosecutor named to conduct the inquiry.” Several ballots which appeared to have been voted by the same person caused his statement, Mr. Gilliom said. A member of the precinct election board and a watcher advanced the theory that the similar markings could have been made by one of the clerks who went into the poll. booth to assist voters requesting help. Both men said “quite a few” such ballots were cast. The questionable votes were in races other than the sheriff. Ballots cast in this race are being recounted on the request of Al Feeney, who lost by 2255 votes to Charley Lutz. Feeney Total Gains

Meanwhile, in the recount of 48 precincts in the Democratic race for sheriff, the original total of Al Feeney was increased and the original total of Charley Lutz was decreased. Mr. Feeney’s total in the 48 precincts was increased 92 to 3241. Mr. Lutz total was reduced 531 to 2404. The original totals in 56 precincts in the Democratic mayoralty race of both Reginald Sullivan and Otto Ray were reduced. Mr, Sullivan's Election Board total was cut 188 to 6490 and Mr. Ray's total was reduced 36 to 3506, Sheriff Ray asked for the recount. Witnesses for Sheriff Ray declared that only in a few instances have the total number of ballots returned from the polls been the same as the number sent out for the election. The witnesses said that in some instances the difference was high, citing as an example one precinct where, they said, 400 Democratic ballots were sent to the polls, but that 499 were returned,

Vote Under Protest

Mr. Lutz contested two entire precinots in which Mr. Feeney was the victor. They were the 4th and 11th precincts of Ward 4, challenged because they had been initialed by elections officials in blue pencil instead of ink as required. In the fourth precinct, Mr. Feeney was given 118 votes on the recount, compared to Mr. Lutz’ 51. In the 11th precinct Mr. Feeney was given 83 votes on the recount, and Mr. Lutz 68. Canvassing Board totals for the

| fourth precinct were five higher in

each case. In the 11th precinct, Mr. Feeney's Canvassing Board total was 90 and Mr. Lutz’ 76. Of the approximately 50 county ballots which had been set aside for further study and which brought Mr. Gilliom's allegation, 18 were listed by the Board as mutilated.

MAYOR SETS JUNE 20 AS BUDGET DEADLINE

All department heads must sub- |

mit tentative budget requests to City Controller H. Nathan Swaim by June 20, Mayor Boetcher said today. The Mayor said he and Mr, Swaim will study the proposals before referring them to the City Council for approval. The Marion County Tax Adjustment Board and the State Tax Board also must pass upon the proposed items.

WARMER WEATHER DUE

TEMPERATURES

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Warmer and unsettled weather late tomorrow will follow increasing cloudiness beginning tomorrow morning, the Weather Bureau predicted today.

LA PORTE, June 8 (U. P).Farm buildings and trees were blown down in the northern parts of Noble and Clinton Counties yesterday by a tornaflic wind,

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As Ball Player, As Motorist, He Bats .000

Donald Black, 2836 Boyd Ave, claimed in Municipal Court today that the sun was in his eyes and he couldn't see the traffic signal he allegedly violated. “Did you ever play baseball?” Judge John McNelis asked,

“Yes.” “Ever play in the sun field?” “Yes.” “What happened?” “1 got hit.” “Well, you're hit

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PLANK HINTED

Court Upholds Law, Says Repeal Is Question for Legislature.

Possibility of a Republican party campaign platform plank calling fox repeal of the auto windshield title-

holder law was forecast today by Carl Vandivier, G. O. P. county chairman, His prediction followed a decision handed down yesterday by the Indiana Supreme Court which held the law was constitutional but suggested that “if the Act is ill-advised or undesirable the public should look to the General Assembly for its repeal.” Mr, Vandivier said: “It seems to be an unpopular law. I have heard many sound objections raised to it. 1 believe several Republican candidates for the General Assembly have expressed themselves as favoring repeal. “IT think it possible that our convention may adopt a platform plank calling for repeal.”

Motor Club May Lead

The Hoosier Motor Club will lead the fight to have the next Legislature repeal the law, or ally itself with other groups that may enter the fight, Todd Stoops, director, said | today. “We certainly will fight it out,” he said, “and I believe it is unpopular enough that the Legislators will have to do something about it.” C. O. Warnock, president of the Indianapolis Automobile Dealers’ Association, said that the association directors will take up at the next meeting the possibility of leadership in the legislative fight to repeal the gadget law. A three-judge Federal court previously held the act valid. The test case through the State court appeal channels was brought by Charles H. Kryder, South Bend, who was fined $26 in St. Joseph County. Mr. Kryder charged the act was class legislation, that it delegated legislative powers to administrative officials and that it did not deal with one subject matter,

Court Upholds Law

The Supreme Court yesterday, In an opinion written by Judge Curtis

Shake said: “We have earefully considered the legislation before us in the light of every constitutional objection urged against it. We do not find that it is defective on the grounds that it is class legislation, that the title is insufficient to embrace the subject matter thereof . . or that it infringes upon the due process clause of the Federal Canstitution, “The act is clearly an attempt to exercise the police power of the State. Tts main objective appears to be to provide a convenient and practical means of identifying motor vehicles and owners thereof so as to facilitate inspection by police officers. “If the act is ill advised or undesirable, the public should look to the General Assembly for its repeal. If this act should be stricken down for reasons that are unwarranted or unsound, the precedent might be used in the future to invalidate legality of legislation of a highly desirable character.” The unsuccessful attack on the act in Federal Court was made by T. Ernest Maholm, Indianapolis at-

Danger of Explosion

Centered in Europe

By United Press The swiftly mounting tempo of war today threatened a chaotic collapse in China, while international friction in Spain once again im-

periled Europe's peace. Although devastation was spreading to frightful proportions, the greatest immediate danger of a new explosion centered in Europe. There was the possibility that the Spanish civil war

guaranteeing peace by deals with Europe's dictatorial powers. The British plan was based on quick completion of the victory which Rebel Gen. Franco appeared to have within his grasp in Spain. It involved an Italian pledge to send no more volunteers to aid ¥ranco and a British attempt to “isolate” the Spanish war by closure of the frontiers and gradual withdrawal of foreign forces.

Loyalists Change Picture

A sudden stiffening of Spanish Loyalist resistance, including re-

ceipt of fresh materials, now threatens to change the picture by an indefinite prolongation of the war. Persistent, reports of fighting between the Spanish Rebels and their Italian allies indicate a basis for Loyalist claims that the insurgents are threatened with “disintegration.” Franco reportedly has appealed to Italy and Germany for additional troops=knowing the dictatorial powers cannot now afford to permit a Loyalist triumph. Then graver developments created danger that the Ttalo-British agreement—foundation stone in the peace structure=would be shaken. Bombing planes from Spain raided French border towns. Others=known to be Rebel craft —pegan hitting British interests where it hurt the most by sinking ships in Loyalist waters. France prepared to shoot down any further raiding planes but the British Government was in the embarrassing position of wrecking its own peace policy by any retaliatory action and today was still hesitating. The Vatican is to protest recent Rebel bombings, it was announced.

Duce's Paper Hits France

Meanwhile, Ttalian Premier Mussolini, who has kept himself in the most favorable trading position throughout the recent months of diplomatic shadow poxing, took full advantage of the situation. Virginio

torial in the Giornale D'Ttalia at Rome that Italy might have to send more troops to Spain if France does not curb the “growing arrogance of Communists.” In effect, the editorial charged that France was taking advantage of the Italo-British pact to bolster the position of the Spanish Loyalists and that, as a result, Italy might have to act regardless of (Continued on Page Three)

'GUMBERT AND FRENCH

IN CUBS-GIANTS GAME

(First Game)

(Other Details, Page 6)

CHICAGO, June 8.-Harry Gumpert started for New York and Larry French was in the pitcher's box for Chicago as the National League rivals clashed here this afternoon in

torney.

the first game of a double-header.

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Pioneer ‘Atom-Smasher’ Named to Chair at I. U.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, June 8.-—Indi-| ana University next year will embark on a wide scale experimentation in nuclear physics, or atom smashing, under the direction of Dr, Allan C. G. Mitchell, who was named by President Herman B. Wells as new head of the physics department. For Dr. Mitchell, who is widely known for his research into the fundamental nature of energy and matter, the university will build a

000 volts of electricity, and to be used in the atom smashing experiments, President Wells said. Dr. Mitchell, who is 36 and now is chairman of the New York University physics department, was chosen, Dr. Wells said, after a year's survey of the available field. Prof. Mitchell is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Philosophical Society, and holds a membership in the American Chemicoal Society. He has done much research work with two famous

Nobel prize winers in physics, Dr. Robert Millikan of the Cali- |

fornia Institute of Technology and |

Dr. James Franck of Germany. President Wells said that the research into the fundamental nature of energy and matter would be made from two angles, the atom smashing being one. The other, he said, would be with radium, 200 miligrams of which Dr. Mitchell will transfer from New York University to Indiana University. He possesses the radium under a research grant from a national foundation, Working with this supply, Dr. Mitchell during the last two years has discovered and reported a number of new radioactive elements. Dr. Mitchell succeeds Prof. R. R. Ramsey, who has been serving as acting department head since the resighation of Prof. A. L. Foley last year. Dr. Ramsey will continue as professor of physics, Astronomy also has claimed Dr. Mitchell's attention, He has served on three expeditions to observe total eclipses of the sun, to California in 1923, Norway in 1927, and Canada in 1932, Dr. Mitchell's book, “Resonance Radiation and Excited Atoms,” was in 1034,

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U. S. SCHOOL IN

BOMBED; IS TENSE

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

CANTON=-U. S. directed university bombed. SHANGHAI-U. S. protests Japanese bombing. SWATOW=-City bombed hy Nipponese Planes.

embarrass Government,

HENDAYE~Franco continues coastal air raids,

protest Rebel bombings.

PRAHA—Army term increased to three years,

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200 Killed When Planes Raid Campus

BULLETIN

CANTON, China, June 8 | (U, P.)~Japanese war planes showered incendiary bombs on Canton tonight and set fire to the wrecked city,

| CANTON, China, June 8 (U. P), «Japanese planes bombed the | American-directed Lingnam Uni« versity eampus today, killing an estimated 200 persons and bringing the death toll to more than 3000 in 12 consecutive days of bombardment, Thirty-two Americans reside on the university property. The raiders flew in formation of three over the campus at 10,000 feet. Three bombs fell at the outset, heralding the raid. They missed the college buildings, but dug two huge craters at the edge of adjoining fields, killing a Chinese woman agricultural worker. Two Chinese workers were wounded. One of the bombs was a dud.

Smoke Spreads Over City

The raiders returned and exe plosive and incendiary bombs struck within 400 yards of Shameen Island, | the International Settlement, Clouds of black smoke spread over the city and fires raged beyond cone

trol. Handicapped by lack of water, the fire fighters were unable to stem the flames which consumed house after house in some sections. The Lingnan University, which was American founded, is one of China's outstanding cultural centers. Although governed under Chie nese laws it is still mainly supported and directed by American interests. Great fires burned in the Wong sha area in the western suburbs. Bodies lay in the streets and in the ruins of buildings from which came the cries of buried men, women and children. The sickening stench of death was spreading over the city, For five hours during the night, Japanese planes in relays methodically bombed the city by moonlight and the flares which they parachuted down to ald them. The city's antiaircraft guns re { mained silent so the flashes from their muzzles would not provide an additional target for the raiders. Tens of thousands stood cn the waterfront, facing the little foreign island of Shameen in the river, and watched silently as the bombs dropped.

u. S. Protests Attack On Leased Property

SHANGHAI, June 8 (U, P) «=U, 135, consular authorities at Canton \have asked the consulate at Hong

[Kong to protest to the Japanese | consulate against the bombing of American-directed Lingnam Univer | sity at Canton, it was reported toe day. | It was said here there was ne military objective at the university, which has been leased to China A Japanese spokesman here, dis cussing the bombing of the universe sity, said he believed there was an antiaireraft battery near it. He ade mitted he did not know how near, The incident came as Japan exe« tended its war zone to include all Southern China, As the war entered 12th month, Nipponeze war planes dropped leaflets over the Swatow area, warning foreigners and Chinese civilians to evacuate. The planes hardly had ended dise tribution of leaflets when Japanese bombing planes circled over the city and bombed the coastal forts, The Japanese drive was reaching its crescendo. Canton was become (Continued on Page Three)

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‘FOUR GET $15,000 IN BANK ROBBERY

MINDEN, La, June 8 (U, P) ww Four men robbed the Minden Bank of an estimated $15000 today. They entered the bank before daylight and two of the robbers hid until employees arrived. The ems ployees were tied as they arrived,

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