Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1938 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JUNE 9,

Safety Plays Planned For Vacation Period; School Crowding Cut

WPA Men to Patrol Unsafe Swimming Sites.

(Editorial, Page 14)

A summer vacation program featuring both safety and entertainment was completed today for Indianapolis’ 70,000 public and parochial school children who finish classroom work tomorrow. Children thoughout the city are to participate in a series of safety contests, safety talks and band concerts at Indianapolis parks and playgrounds. Sponsored by the City Recreation Department and the Marion County WPA Recreation Department, children under the age of 16 will be eligible to compete. School officials today asked pupils to report to playground and park supervisors for information on the program. Children from each playground will be invited to produce a 15minute safety play. Plays may be original or may be obtained from playground directors.

Plays Set for Wednesday

Plays are to be presented at 7:45 p. m. on Wednesdays, beginning June 29. Concerts by the WPA Concert Band will precede presentation of the plays. Police Accident Prevention Bureau officers are to deliver safety talks. At the same time, William A. Evans, schools safety director, announced he had received assurances from state WPA recreation department offices that men “will be provided to patrol the County's unguarded streams and pits.” The patrol will augment guard of dangerous bodies of water by police cruisers. Meanwhile, the Red Cross erected warning signs at unprotected pits and streams.

Play Dates Listed Dates and locations for summer plays programs are: June 29—Children from the George Washington, 49th and Arsenal, 61st and Broadway, and the Fall Creek playgrounds will present their safety plays at the George Washington Park. July 6—Children from the Rhodius, Riley, Hawthorne and Indianapolis playgrounds will present their safety plays at Rhodius Park. July 13—Children from the Little Eagle, 10th and Ketcham, Lentz and Camp Sullivan (white) playgrounds will present their plays at the Coleman Park. July 20—Children from the Garfield, Greer Street, Kansas and Meridian, and Ringgold playgrounds will present their plays at Garfield Park. July 27—Children from the Brookside, Morris Square, Oak Hill and Brightwood playgrounds will present their safety plays at Brookside Park. Aug. 3—Children from the Christian, Finch, Ellenberger and Michigan and LaSalle playgrounds will present their safety plays at Christian Park. Aug. 10—Children from the Belmont, Northwestern, Camp Sullivan (Negro) and Meikei and Wyoming playgrounds will present their plays at Belmont Park. Aug. 17—Children from the Riverside, Golden Hill, and Rader and Udell playgrounds will present their safety plays at Riverside Park. Aug. 24—Chiidren from the Willard, Highland, Spring St and 13th and Carrollton playgrounds will present their plays at Willard Park. Aug. 31—Children from the Douglas, J. T. V. Hill, Minnesota and Bethel, Norwood and Cornelius playgrounds will present their plays at Douglas Park. Two Commencements Tonight Commencement exercises are to be held at 8 o'clock tonight for graduates of Washington and Cathedral High Schools. The Rt. Rev. Msgr, Raymond R. ‘Noll, rector of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral is to address a class of 117 in the Cathedral High School auditorium. A record class of 300 at Washington is to hear an address by Dr. L.. A. Pittenger, Ball State Teachers’ College president, at the Butler Fieldhouse. Dr. Pittenger is to speak on “Ready Adjustment Necessary to Success.” Earl Buchanan, School Board member, is to present diplomas. Summer school instruction is to

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Tech and Broad Ripple Additions Needed, Wilde Says.

Completion of the School Board's projected high school building program will nearly end overcrowded classroom conditions in Indianapolis, Carl Wilde, president, declared today as the Board awaited a public hearing June 21 on its 1938-39 budget. “It is of the utmost importance that the construction of buildings at Tech and Broad Ripple High Schools be completed in the immediate present,” Mr. Wilde said.

Tentatively adopted by the Board Tuesday, the new budget includes appropriations of $465,000 for the two projects. Application has been made to the PWA for grants which would provide 45 per cent of the funds for the proposed Broad Ripple. auditorium and Milo Stuart Memorial classroom building at Tech. Number Reduced

He pointed out that the number of elementary pupils housed in portable structures has been reduced from 3000 to less than 500 since 1930. Mr. Wilde said plans to remedy the remaining congestion are being considered. “While there are grade school conditions which must be ameliorated,” he said, “the supplying of adequate grade school facilities will not impose as great a burden on future budgets as high school construction has imposed in recent years. Cites Budget

“During the past three and onehalf years, our budget has been under the greatest stress on account of the need of more adequate housing facilities. To meet these needs we have practically completed the Howe High School in Irvington, the* Washington High School addition, the John Hope Junior High School and the addition at Crispus Attucks High School. “The need for increased high school building facilities has been a constantly increasing one, and further deferment of the building program would require inordinately high outlays in future years. “With the completion of the building program for high schools as projected by the Board, it is probable that in the near future, no large levies for high school building facilities will be required.”

$680,000 PROJECT AT FORT APPROVED

Ludlow Says Building Work Will Start Soon.

Rep. Louis Ludlow today informed Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce directors that “work on an $880,000 improvement at Ft. Harrison will get under way shortly.” C. D. Alexander, Chamber president, told the board of directors, at their noon meeting today, that Mr. Ludlow had assured him the project was on the preferred list of the War Department. Brig. Gen. William XK. Naylor, post commander, said the improvement would make Ft. Harrison one of the most important military posts in the nation. He was a guest at the directors’ meeting. Mr. Alexander said Mr. Ludlow explained the project would be financed by funds to be raised unSe the Emergency Appropriations 111, The project calls for construction of new barracks, new nurses’ quarters and new homes for noncommissioned officers. Mr. Ludlow was quoted as saying that material for construction, to cost about $500,000 would be financed by WPA, and that labor, estimated to cost approximately $380,000, would be part of the WPA program.

begin Monday. High school courses are to be offered at Shortridge, Manual, Tech, and Crispus Attucks. Elementary pupils are to study at School 2 and Orispus Attucks, School officials predicted this year's enrollment will exceed the 1937

record of 868.

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Youth Admits Writing Notes For Ransom but Denies Actual Crime.

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Press “It is my opinion that this was a one-man job.” In prosecuting the case, Mr. Worley will be utilizing a State kidnaping law which closely parallels the Federal Lindbergh Law, providing the death penalty for conviction of kidnaping or aiding a kidnaper, unless a majority of the trial jury recommends mercy. The slain boy's body was discovered in a palmetto clump one mile from his home near Princeton. All scenes involved in the crime, except the FBI headquarters, were enclosed within a two-mile area of the home of J. B. Cash, whose only child was the victim. He was snatched from his bed while his parents were away from the home for an hour. Concerning McCall, the evidence was: On the night of May 30, he appeared at the home and filling station of W. P. Cash, brother of the boy's father. The Cash brothers live next door and both have filling stations. McCall rapped on the door and asked W. P. Cash to open his office to sell him three gallons of gasoline. Mr. Cash opened the door for him. As he stepped into the doorway, McCall stooped, seemed to pick up a piece of paper. He handed it to Mr. Cash, saying: “Look here, what's this?” It was the ransom note instructing the boy's father the second time to bring $10,000 to a designated place on a highway near town. McCall said somebody must have shoved the note under the door. Mr. Cash said later he was suspicious because the paper was crumpled, and not in a condition to have been shoved under a door. Woman Is Suspicious

Mrs. W. P. Cash’s suspicions were aroused. She recalled McCall had been idling near her house one day after the kidnaping, along with other members of the searching party, when she had exclaimed that she was “glad the windows of her apartment ‘were strong.” “I feel well protected,” Mrs. Cash had said. She remembered McCall had replied: “Why, Mrs. Cash, I could get into your house in three minutes.” W. P. Cash and his wife told Sheriff Coleman of their suspicions. Last Tuesday, when McCall returned from a searching trip, the sheriff took him into custody. He brought him to Miami and questioned him. What information he obtained he did not say. He turned the prisoner over to G-Men on Wednesday. It was apparent that Mr. Hoover and his men had been ready to “break” the case for some time.

When they summoned newspaper-

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— Adolph _Seretny, 27, of Roosevelt Hotel; rs. G. Burnaman, 32, of Roosevelt Hotel. Elmo Kilgo, 37, of 916 N. Salifornin St.; Sarah Fragor, 36, of 915 Blake . Broglin, 28, or hy E. Mich- ; Jeannette Weav 28, of 2538 wrooksige a. arvin nsco 23, of Sunman; M. Gooden. 22, of 242 N. Tremont

t. Clarence V. West, 26, of 33 E. 16th St. Lillian E. Monschke, 27, of 33 E. 16th Si Martin 'W. Doty, 43, of 1210 Spann Ave.. die E. Porkhurst, 41. of 1510 Spann

Gillard E. Thompson, 3 of 3 i Viola I. Perry, > of i i at.

.; _ Margaret Marlowe aye hn B osep urgess, 28, of ltd ; Lois: : Elizaneth Burgess 78 18, of 1130 30 N.

Bi “Gi de Spilman, 48, of 1322 Finley Ave.; ary izabeth ‘Hollingsworth, 4“ of 8 Ay oe Cl Schlenker. 40, of 1425 S. Randolph ; Elsie Dillman, 45, of 1122 E. 9th St. on C. Rigler, 28, Eva Helen Cloud, 33. f offee St. Robert P. Tindall, 19. of 3610 Rockville i Betty Jean Peelle, 17, of 2113 Neon Moftati. 19. ‘of 215 on Moffatt. of 2151 N. Olney St.; St Jane Davidson, 17, of 26168 Sta-

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BIRTHS Girls

George, Gertrude Hommel, i City Bruce, Dorothy Ruark., a Edward, Thelma Staub, at St. Francis, Marion, Carolyn Turner, at 2861 Shriver. Boys Sidney, Anna Marie Cropper. at Cit Charles, Ethel Hesson, 1g St. Fra - nots. Harry, Emma Maring, at Coleman.

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Occasional thunder showers ‘tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

Sunrise 4:16 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE ~—June 9, 1937—

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending Bt 3 a.m, otal precipnaton since Jan. Excess since Jan, 1, 1938

Indiana—Occasional thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in ge

Minois—Occasional thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in i.

Lower Michigau—Increasing cloudiness, ern Ho probable in central and west portions tonight and tomorrow, nad in extreme east portion late tonight or tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight except tomorrow; slightly warmer in east and in lent northeast portion. Ohio—Occasional showers tonight tomorrow; slightly warmer in east extreme south portions tonight. Kentucky—Occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; warmer in east and south portions tonight.

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In a highly emotional finale to the state convention of the “Holy Rollers,” at Hammond, La.

moccasin from hand to hand in literal demonstra“He that believeth and is

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Faith Struggles Against Snake Bite

Mrs. Joe Rushing, 56, delegate from Crystal Springs, Miss., seventh to hold the snake, wrapped it about her arm, and.soon shrieked “He bit me!” She is pictured ebove, in bed, with her arm greatly swollen, as “Saints” of the Holy Rollers, pray for her recovery. Refusing medical aid, she vowed to “wrestle with the devil” on faith alone.

G-Men Continue. Kidnapping Search; Suspect Grilled as Body Is Found

men and announced the arrest, recovery of the body and ransom money at 1:30 a. m. today, they had a life's story of McCall typewritten and four pictures of him available for each reporter. It was believed that they may have been withholding the information, possibly for days, while they pursued the investigation to learn if others were involved.

Another Prisoner Held

Throughout the morning, G-Men worked at their same swift, secretive pace. A new prisoner was brought into FBI headquarters later, shackled and accompanied by five of the Federal agents. The body of Jimmy, seventh child victim of kidnapers since 1932 when Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., was abducted and slain, was found above ground, Mr. Hoover said. It had been tossed into a palmetto clump and from its condition, the boy apparently died soon after he disappeared. It lay half a mile from the Cocoanut Palm road, one of the only two highways traversing this wilderness called the everglades.

Son of Minister

McCall, it was learned, was both the son and brother of ministers. His father had been pastor of the Nazarene Church at Princeton until two years ago, when he moved to High Springs, Fla., and was pastor of the Nazarene Church there until he died last February. McCall's brother later became pastor of the Nazarene Church at Princeton. A brother-in-law of the prisoner, J. A. Williams, said: “It's a great shock to us all.” It was 9 o'clock (Indianapolis Time) last night when G-men gathered in the Miami office for the climax. They set out with extreme secrecy and a false show of casualness to elude the curious. In groups of two and three, a dozen Federal agents left the office and sauntered away in different directions. Three blocks away, at a garage, they reassembled. Three automobiles were waiting for them and they climbed in. They wore khaki shirts and trousers and in the automobiles were several shovels and spades. Next, Mr. Hoover, FBI director, and Clyde Tolson, his chief assistant, stepped from the office. They too, walked as if they were going for a casual stroll. But when they reached a waiting automobile, they were speeded away at 50 miles an hour down the road to Princeton, 25 miles south. Newspapermen knew none of the developments until later when GMen began calling them at their homes and offices, summoning them to the Miami headquarters. Mr. Hoover had returned. He sat

TRACKLESS TROLLEY PETITION IS DELAYED

State - Minnesota Street Club Holds Up Plea.

The State-Minnesota Street Community Civic Club will delay action “for a week or two” on its petition filed with the Works Board asking a cross-town E. Minnesota Street trackless trolley line, Roy Perry, Club president, said today. « At a meeting at the Bethany Christian Church last night, club members voted to stand by their petition. They decided not to de-

mand a public hearing on it until “all the residents get in line,” Mr.

07 8 [rears said.

A group living west of Shelby St. in the Minnesota St. area has opposed the plan, as has the South Side Civic Club. Mr. Perry declared that “The South Side Civic Club has no busines sin this dispute. Its members do not live in the affected area.” Works Board members explained they will take no action on the proposal until residents of the area agree on what they want.

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at a desk, his face drawn in hard, grim lines. Three G-Men were with him. The 15 reporters were admitted in a body. There was nothing yet to reveal the startling events of the two previous hours. Mr. Hoover began talking: “We have been able to recover the body of the little Cash boy,” he said. “The body will be brought here for an autopsy.” The reporters squirmed, eyed the door nervously. Mr. Hoover detained them. He pointed to a map of the Princeton area which lay on the desk and pointed to the site at which the body and the ransom money were found. He recited the full story of the crime, most of the details of which were already familiar. Then he gave each reporter four pictures of McCall and a typewritten statement of McCall's life history. A few reporters recognized McCall when he was brought into FBI headquarters, handcuffed to a burly G-Man.

12 G-Men Make Trip

It was evident, however, that the officers had gone directly to the scene with some forehand knowledge of what they might expect to find. McCall accompanied them, Those who made the midnight sortie into the swamps, on the fringe of the everglades, were Mr. Hoover, 12 G-Men, Dr. Thomas Otto, a Miami surgeon, and Mr. Worley, the state attorney, who, Mr. Hoover said, would conduct the prosecution of McCall. The typewritten statement on McCall that Hoover handed out read: “pranklin Pierce McCall was born in Jasper, Fla., March 31, 1917. “His parents were the late Franklin Pierce and Linnie Taylor McCall. Mrs. McCall is now residing at Jasper. McCall graduated from high school at Jasper in June, 1934. He came to Princeton to live with his parents. His brother was pastor of the Nazarene Church there. “Since that time he has been employed by various farmers in driving trucks, grading, packing and selling tomatoes. “He married Claudine Evelyn Hilliard at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Jan. 9, 1936. From July 1937 until October 1937 McCall was employed in the State Highway Department at Dania, Fla., as a road man., During the past two tomato seasons in the vicinity of Princeton, McCall and his wife had occupied an apartment in the home of James B. Cash, father of the victim. (The tomato season is from January to April.) “On or about April 11, 1938, McCall and his wife moved to the home of ‘Red’ Lambert, located at the intersection of Tallahassee Road and Sunset Ave., where the ransom payoff was effected.”

THOMAS EJECTION IS HELD JUSTIFIABLE

NEWARK, N. J., June 9 (U. P.) — The ejection of Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for President, and Rep. Jerry O'Connell (D. Mont.), from Jersey City was justified, according to Mayor Frank Hague’s Public Safety Director, Daniel J. Casey. Testifying at a Federal hearing Mr. Casey defended Mayor Hague and said police had “a perfect right to escort anybody from the seat of danger.” Morris Ernst, C. I. O. counsel, announced he planned to call Hague as a witness either late today or tomorrow.

SCOTTSBORO PLEAS DENIED MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 9 (U. P.).—The Alabama Supreme Court today denied appeals from longterm prison sentences of Charlie Weems and Andy Wright, Negroes convicted in the Scottsboro attack

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THIS WEEK?

SOUTHERN BLOC THREATENS PAY BILL FILIBUSTER

Hopes for Adjournment This Week Abandoned by Senate Leader.

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day as the most likely date for the end of the session. The Senate leader discussed the whole legislative situation with Mr. Roosevelt. Meanwhile Senate and House conferees on President Roosevelt's $3,723,000,000 Recovery Bill began deliberations to reconcile differences on appropriations for relief and farm parity payments. Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to Speaker William B. Bankhead, has requested that the $1,425,000,000 for relief voted by the Senate be accepted in place of the $1,250,000,000 House item. He said the unemployment situation “has not improved” since he recommended the smaller sum, The House voted its total to continue work relief for the first seven months of 1939. In adding $175,000,000, the Senate specified the fund be stretched over eight months. Probably the most controversial item to be debated in addition to relief funds is a $212,000,000 appropriation for farm parity price payments. House conferees have announced they would vigorously oppose this Senate addition.

Amendment Eliminated

Another point of difference, however, is the Senate's elimination of the Woodrum amendment under which the WPA would be required to allot its funds so they would cover the entire period appropriated for. Meanwhile, the House will consider the election contest of the seat held by Rep. Arthur B. Jenks (R. N. H). It will decide, now that Rep. Jenks has served for a year and a half, whether to replace him for the remaining week of Congres swith a Democrat, Alphonse Roy. Rep. Jenks was announced the winner in 1936 by 55 votes. A recount demanded by Mr. Roy showed a tie. The commission examined the ballots and awarded the election to Mr. Roy by 17 votes. Then it was discovered that there had been 34 more ballots passed out than voles accounted for. All of the missing ballots were said to be Republican. Rep. Jenks was thereupon cerfified, but the committee recently ruled that it could not count votes it could not see and recommended that the House unseat Rep. Jenks.

Text of Roosevelt

Letter on Relief

WASHINGTON, June 9 (U, P).— The text of President Roosevelt's letter to Speaker William B. Bankhead on relief: Sir:

In my message of April 14, 1938, I recommended that $1,250,000,000 be provided for the Works Progress Administration for the first seven months of the fiscal year 1939. The unemployment outlook has not improved since that time, and I feel impelled, in view of the present situation, to recommend that there be provided in the pending relief measure, an aditional amount of $175,000,000, to make a total appropriation of $1,425,000000, for expenditure on projects of the Works Progress Administration, including administrative expenses for that agency. This amount should prove sufficient to meet our elief needs until Congress has t¥ opportunity to resurvey the sity on at the beginning of its nex’ _ssion and make the necessary a, .opriation for the balance of the iiscal year. Respectfully, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

Minton May Lose

On Request for Funds

WASHINGTON, June 9 -(U, P.).— Democratic and Republican opposition and a Congressional adjournment drive threatened today to block Senate approval of a $25,000 appropriation to continue a lobby investigation by Senator Minton (D. Ind). “I think there will be a lot of debate if the Senate is asked to upprove that appropriation,” Senator R. Burke (D. Neb.) said. “It will come from Democrats as well as Republicans. A lot of Demo-

crats have gone along with the com-|.

mittee but don’t believe in furnishing money to investigate newspapers.”

Government Rail

Operation Plan Rejected

WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P)).— A proposal of railroad labor for Government operation of the roads in event the proposed 15 per cent wage cut July 1 causes a strike, was rejected today by House leaders. It was learned that responsible leaders in the House had discouraged a move by labor to secure passage of a resolution providing for ent operation of the carriers. “That is dynamite,” one leader

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On University Raid; 3 More Ships Sunk

Twelve of Crew Feared Dead After Attack On One Boat.

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planes in Spanish Loyalist ports to | fire on air raiders.

The Rebel offensive against the

Spanish Loyalist arfnies defending Valencia continued to gain ground. They occupied the village of Adzaneta, bombed Fillafames and reported they were driving Loyalists through the hills northwest of Castellon de la Plana. Bombardment of Loyalist cities continued despite foreign protests, including a new message from the Vatican said to deplore the aerial bombing of civilians by Franco's

foreign volunteers. About 60 Amer- |

ican volunteers in the Loyalist International Brigade were nearby and feared to be among 300 casualties at Pigueras, near the French frontier, where Rebel bombs struck a hospital, a school and an old folks home.

American Sokols

Parade in Praha PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, June 9 (U, P.).—A group of 410 American members of the Sokol organization arrived last night and paraded through the streets to the cheering

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American Residents in

Canton Also Deplore Japanese Action .

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Flames flashed up from many fires, and great billows of black smoke moved over the city as the fires spread from house to house. Anticipating a bombing campaign against Hankow, the emergency Chinese capital, as terrible as that against Canton, Government authorities sent policemen from house to house today, urging residents to flee. Authorities hoped to evacuate 300,000 people from Hankow. But the people were reluctant. Business men feared ruin; the poor feared starvation.

Japanese to Returrf

American University TOKYO, June 9 (U. P). = The Foreign Office announced today that Japanese military authorities are preparing to return the Amere ican Baptist-owned Shanghai Unie versity to its owners early in July. It was explained that the Chinese used the university for military pure poses until the Japanese captured Shanghai, after which the Japanese converted it into a supply base bee cause of the necessity of garrisoning Shanghai.

of crowds. John Benes, of Milwaukee, a brother of President Eduard Benes, was a member of the delegation, here for a two-month international Sokol program. The Sokol gymnastic organization was the basis, before the World War, for the Czech national movement.

Briton, 3 Frenchmen Killed in Ship Raids

HENDAYE, June 9% (U, P).— Spanish Rebel planes sank a British merchantman and a French merchantman in raids last night, with the loss of one British and three French lives, Loyalist dispatches said today. A Madrid dispatch reported a British officer of the international nonintervention patrol named Edward Jones, and three French seamen were killed aboard the Bris bane, French vessel, at Denia, on the Mediterranean coast between Valencia and Alicante, The ship blazed furiously off the port, the dispatch said, as the bombs set fire to it. The British steamship Isidora was reported bombed and sunk by Rebel planes, but without casualties, at Castellon de la Plana, above Valencia. Despite mounting evidence of Britain's anger at the bombing of her ships, and growing international anxiety over casualties to civilians, the Reds continued their attacks on Loyalist coastal towns. Nine planes, described as Italian Savoias, dropped more than 100 explosives and incendiary bombs yesterday on Figueras, 12 miles from the French frontier. Thirty were known killed, Loyalist dispatches said, and 25 buildings, including a school, an old folks’ home and a hospital, were destroyed. It was feared that American wounded of the Loyalist International Brigade were among the victims.

French Planes

Patrol Border PERPIGNAN, France, June 9 (U, P.).—Three squadrons of air force planes, 30 in all, began a 24hour day relay patrol of the fronttier today, to fight off any planes that might invade French territory

from Spain. Other planes were ready to take to the air if invading planes flew over France,

said. “We can't bring in anything like that in this House.” Railway labor representatives presented a draft bill yesterday to Senator Wagner (D. N. Y) and Rep. Robert Crosser (D. O.). Senator Wagner, however, left town without introducing the measure. Rep. Crosser made no move to sponsor it, although he discussed it with House leaders.

Franco Rejects British Protest

LONDON, June 9 (U. P.).—Gen, Francisco Franco, Spanish Rebel chief, rejected the British protest against the bombings of Alicante toe day, declaring the town to be a military objective. The international nonintervention subcommittee meeting scheduled for tomorrow was postponed indefe initely, The postponement was to enable Lord Plymouth, chairman, to negotiate for a compromise on the | Soviet demand for observers at all | Spanish ports.

Boy Completes

Purdue Course

In Two Years

T'imes Special LAFAYETTE, June 9-—Edward Novitski, 19, will be graduated from Purdue University this week, dis tinguished as one of the youngest ever to get a degree and the second student ever to complete a fouryear course in two years. Young Novitski carried 25 hours a semester and also studied other courses outside which he passed by taking examinations. In addition, he did research proje ects for the National Youth Ade ministration to earn part of his ex« penses. He accepted a fellowship at the California Institute of Teche nology where he will continue his research in genetics and work for advanced degrees. He was graduated in 1936 from Meyers High School in Wilkesbarre, Pa., where his father then was ems ployed in the coal fields. His fae ther since has moved to New York, The only other student to come plete a four-year course in two years was Dr. Herbert N. McCoy, of Chicago and Los Angeles in 1892,

CONVICTED OF FRAUD, MAN FACES 80 YEARS

CHICAGO, June 9 (U. P.) =John M. Minnec, 44, Berwyn, Ill, faced a possible maximum sentence of 80 years in prison and a total fine of $160,000 today after his conviction by a Federal Court jury on a charge of having used the mails to defraud in the operating of two mutual benefit insurance societies. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan allowed Minnec to go free under $10,000 bond pending a new trial motion. Minnec was found guilty on each of 16 counts of an indictment which charged he defrauded 2000 members of the Lincoln Mutual Aid Society of Berwyn and the Cosmopolitan Mutual Benefit Association of Hame mond, Ind. of $75,000. Sales of the memberships were promoted largely

by mail, witnesses testified.

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