Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1938 — Page 3

WAGE-HOUR ADMINISTRATOR PLEADS FO 1 8-Hour Oil Fi ire Extinguished Without Loss of Life

GARMENT UNION

ASKS MEDIATION BY WHITE HOUSE|

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I THE LABOR SITUATION

A. F. of L. convention indorses La Follette.

GARMENT WORKERS seek Iabor peace.

DETROIT sitdown strike halted.

HOUSTON, Tex. Oct. 18 (U. P.). —Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews Joined President Roose- : velt today in an appeal to the A. F. : of L. convention for prompt set- : tlement of organized labor’s split. : “Look at the gains organized + labor has made in this country in !the last few years and think what fit could do for itself and the nation »if it were again one great united > force,” Mr. Andrews declared. ® The Federation today “wholeheartedly and. unreservedly” in- + dorsed Governor Philip La Follette, ; Progressive, in his race for re-elec- : tion against a Republican-Demo-cratic coalition. . Mr. Andrews touched upon a ;point troubling both him and the ¢ National Labor Relations Board— .that the split in labor’s ranks com- ~ plicates

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are partial to the other. = “I have good friends on both sides + of these arguments,” he said,

«of both of them without each fellow

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“idea. I am fully aware that men of : principle, even when they are . friends, often find it hard to recon- - cile their differences.” I. He praised the A. F. of L.s ¢ accomplishments and described the : Fair Labor Standards Act, which he - administers, defending it against ~ . Federation criticism.

Answers Frey Charge

- He quoted Federation President * William Green as saying that “the ;law contains every major feature -and principle originally sponsored » by the American Federation of La‘bor,” and specifically answered charges of “Dictator” levelled by : John P. Frey of Indianapolis, head . of the federation’s metal trades de- > partment. Mr. Frey and Matthew Woll, both - Republicans, were the authors yes<terday of a resolutions committee * report condemning President Roose- ~ velt’s policies as “socialistic.” A last-minute rebellion prevented passage of the resolution. A strong New Deal bloc in, the -Federation’s two most powerful units—the building trades and the metal trades departments—Iled the “revolt. - Shunted back to the executive ~ scouncil for “further study,” the resport assailed steady expansion of -Governmental control over the na--tion’s workers and -“socialistic,” and appealed to business and finance to co-operate with <labor to stop such a trend.

Sudden Parley Called

The report was so pungently worded that Federation New DealLers leaped into action. Before Mr. Woll finished, Dan Tracy, head of sthe electrical workers, met with “a group in the rear of the colisseum and named William J. McSor--ley, Cleveland, O., delegate from the -Wood, Wire and Lathers, as their “spokesman. Amid the convention tumult Mr. :McSorley offered an amendment to -refer the blistering report to the “executive council. A roar of “ayes” ‘swept it back in a rare.example of ‘convention procedure. “I have heard it said that our .report was a cunning plot by Re,publicans to embarrass the Presi“dent,” Mr. Frey said. “I have heard ‘it said also that the report -recommended a return to-first principles. -Take your choice.”

Roosevelt Urged To Mediate Dispute

° NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P).— ‘President Roosevelt was urged by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union today to call a conference of the leaders of the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L, in an attempt to bring peace between the rival or‘ganizations. The I. L. G. W. U,, third largest

their work and brings ‘charges from both sides that they

“and +I want to be able to ask the advice

C. 1. O. affiliate suggested, in event the conference failed, mediation, either “by a direct public-spirited committee agreed upon by both sides or through a committee of mediators chosen by the President.”

Detroit Sitdown Strike Ended

DETROIT, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—The plant of the Motors Product Co. reopened today after having been closed by a sitdown strike while Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) of the House Un-American Activities

Committee returned to Washington to begin an investigation of all sitdown strikes of recent years. The workers, members of . the United Automobile Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate, evacuated the plant last night after their leaders had conferred most of the day with company officials. The 2000 sitdown strikers had barricaded the

industry as{Plant.

Homer Martin, president of the union, announced that an agreement had been reached whereby grievances would be held over for later negotiation while the plant operated and a new contract was being drawn. A strike vote will be taken by workers at the Hudson automobile plant tomorrow. The U. A. W. is protesting against dismissal of three shop stewards. Approximately 6000 men now are employed at Hudson.

YOUTH CRITICALLY INJURED BY BULL

CLOVERLAND, Oct. 13 (U. P.) — John Bowles, 14, was in critical condition today from wounds suffered when a bull attacked him as he was driving cows from a pasture. The bull knocked down the youth and was goring and trampling him when neighbors arrived and beat it off with stones and clubs.

MAN, CHILD DIE IN FIRE

sin ~ JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Oct. 13 (U. P.).—A father and the 7-year-old daughter he attempted to rescue from their flaming home were burned to death today. Another daughter, rescued by firemen, is in critical condition. Three other members of the family escaped without injury. The dead were Albert Lees, 51, and his daughter, Agnes.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record . County Deaths |Speeding .... 7

(To Date) Reckless Driving ..... 1

City Deaths (To Date)

Running Preferential Street 4

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MEETINGS TODAY

. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, noo Indianapolis Real Estate Beard, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noo Women’s Home issionary ‘Society, convention, Roberts Park Church, all

ay diana Independent Petroleum Assoociation, Sonyesiion, Severin Hotel, all day. ine r Credit Group, luncheon, Men's Gril e, the William Block Co.,

rm Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

oon. Pane rican Business Club, luncheon, CoJumbia Club, noon. Acacia, Soncheon, Board of Trade, noon. » Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

noon. : Indiana Motor Traffic luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. ; Radio pAgmess Guild, meeting, Hotel Ailes 8 p ol Club.’ Severin Hotel, De rastruction Teague of Indianapolis, luncheon, Architects Builders Building, noo Tndianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 E. Ninth St, ra a Theta luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Hotel Association, luncheon, Claypool Hotel. noon Women’s Home Missionary Society, conJenuan, Roberts Park M. E. Church, all

: 2 sohange Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-

ington, noon. &otimis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. . Reserve Officers’ Association, Inncheon, Board of Trade, noon Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon lta Tau Deltas, luncheon, Columbia

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Association,

m. luncheon,

BIRTHS Boys

2 Sheffie

Earl, Doris Burow, at Methodist. Charles, Wanda Borchers, at St. Francis. iy Rosemary Chamberlin, at ancis Garnel, Bertha Greenwell, at St. Francis. Charles, Greda Wenz, at St. Francis. Henry, Mamie Starlin, at Walnut. Girls

Murray, Wauneda Butler, at, Solemn, George, Helen Lyman, at William, Hazel Edwards, i City. Dee, Lula McCloud, at Sly, John, Marie Gay, at Cit Edwin, Anna Cree, at Metho dist. Julian, Janet Bandburger, at Methodist. Robert, Margaret True, at St. PL Omer, Stella Lynch, at 403 S. ral. Clarence, Violet McHenry, at 5341 *3cho-

eld. Snares Addie Middleton, at 1037 S.

hy Dorothy Custo, at 4345 Fletcher. Momen, Jacio Bean, at 330 Lexington. Aldrich, Thelma Rhyne, at 458 W. 12th.

DEATHS Jennie Hennessy, 72, at 341 N. Chester, Itypostatic pneumonia osephine Eubank, ‘5 months, at City, Sitepioeocere meningitis P. ath 68. at 1023 Boulevard Place apoplex; Elizabeth Cofer, Xs, at 520 E. Vermont, cerebral hemorrhage. Philip Elberg, 57, at 731 Union, coronary occlusion. Elmer James Barnard, 34 at St. Vincent's, pulmonary embolu -Arminda Krac as 69, at 215 E. Terrace, chronic myocarditis John A. Branch, 43, at ‘140 Puryear, carcio vascular renal disease Nellie Nora Fendrick, 57, at 712 Bates,

gaeinoma. a Lee Samply, 1, at Riley, broncho-

Wi hy at 4078 Central,

Lincoln 8. Owen, 41. coronary occlus John H. Fy 74, at 218 W. 43d, cardio vascular renal disease. Mabel Moorman, 48, Bt. on W, 39th, cardio vascular renal disea Loretta C. Ardelot, 89, hs 14a Guilford, SoLonary throm Nellie Griffin, on ‘at 840 Eastern, acute nephritis uke F. Noone, 65, at St. Vincent's, lobar pngumonia, Albert Davis, chronic myocarditi ank Harsh, 62, oF Methodist, cardio vascular jas ‘disea Leora DeWitt, 96, ps 3328 Central, bron-

| cho-pneumonia. nares J. Hawkings, 75, at City, carci-| Kan

Wiliam Guy Murphy, 52, at City, acute meningitis. Edward Allen Ganker, 8 hours, Vincent's, hern Laura Mae Ye kinson, 7s, at 2450 N, La Salle, cerebral hemorrhag Thomas Riley. = Bas S214 E. Merrill, coronary occlusio Oliver E. Williamson 71, at 1346 Xappes, alos.

rd Barnes, 45. at .Veterans’ Hos-

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STORM FEARED ON GULF COAST

Mobile, Pensacola Warned As Gale Moves Toward Mainland.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13 (U. PJ). —A tropical disturbance of gale force, sweeping toward the mainland, was expected to strike between Mobile, Ala. and Pensacola, Fla., late today. In an advisory issued at 8:40 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), the Weather Bureau said the storm center was about 275 miles south of Port Eads at 6 a. m.,, and apparently had curved toward the northeastern Gulf Coast since midnight.

“Strong winds and squalls up to 48 miles an hour continue in the Gulf to east and north of storm center,” the advisory added. “Small craft from mouth of Mississippi to extreme Southern Florida should remain in port until further notice. Storm warnings remain displayed from Garrabelle, Fla, to Morgan City, La., and small craft warnings east and south of Carrabelle to Miami, Fla.”

FILES SUIT AGAINST BYRD'S POLAR SHIP

Captain Seeks Back Pay From New Owner.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— The City of New York, sturdy square-rigger which fought Antarctic storm and ice to carry Ade miral Richard E. Byrd and his men to the “bottom of the world,” is the object of a new attack—a suit against the vessel and her owner for back wages—filed by her keeper and skipper, Capt. Ralph B. Von Suboft. Capt. Von Suboff, spruce ex-offi-cer in the Russian Navy, who with his wife has lived aboard the his toric bark through the Chicago

St. World Fair and Cleveland's Great

Lakes Exposition, has filed suit in Federal Court against Frederick

w. Griffith, who now owns the ship,

and against the ship, since under admiralty law a ship may be sued,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

) emmUnited States Weather Bureau am INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair and

what warmer. Sunrise ......5:54 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Qct. 13, 1937—

ive sein 5:09

BAROMETER 7 a m. .29.99 ry 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m..

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana — Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight, somewhat warmer tomorrow except in extreme southeast portion. Illinois — Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cooler in extreme south portion and in extreme east portion, slightly warmer in northwest portion late tonight, warmer tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight, somewhat warmer tomorrow. rs OlieeFair and colder tonight; tomorrow Kentucky—Partly cloudy, slightly colder in north portion tonight; tomorrow iair.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station Weather, Bar. Temp. Pex, ..Clear 30.04 58

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Lost Pet Is Real Worry, Says Sally

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (U. PJ). ‘—Sally Rand, the fan dancer, was in town today with five things on her mind, the most important of which concerned her pet red and white Pekingese, “China Boy.” The others concerned: (2) A new dance, (3) She’s in love (4) An assault and battery case pending against her and, (5) A $375,000 damage suit filed against her in Los Angeles by Faith Bacon. Miss Bacon charges that Sally stole the fan dance idea from her. Miss Rand wouldn't name the man she’s in love with nor talk about her new dance. “Somebody might steal it,” she said. She is en route to Los An= geles to surrender to a bench warrant issued in connection with the assault and battery case. She said she was most concerned, however, about her dog. She lost it near Harrisburgh, Pa., and was informed last night it had been killed by a motorist while it was scampering across a highway. “I can’t understand that,” she said. “China Boy had been taught never to wander across highways.” She said Miss Bacon was Jealous of her professional standing and added that fans or bubbles, “the public has already decided which of us it like best.” “I guess she must have a new press agent,” she said.

FOUR TO 60 ON TRIAL AS SPIES

U. S. Accuses Woman and Three Men of Taking Secrets to Nazis.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P.)—

Four members of an alleged Nazi awa

spy ring go on trial in Federal Court tomorrow. The most important spy prosecution since the World War, it begins less than a week after President Roosevelt had expressed concern over the activity of spies in this country and indicated that he would

request funds to co-ordinate protec-|

tion of military defense plans. Only four minor cogs in the alleged spy ring are in custody—the higher-ups either were resident abroad or managed to escape—but evidence of elaborate plans to obtain military secrets will be Seveioped by many witnesses. The defendants are Otto Herman Voss, a naturalized citizen charged with stealing plans of a high-speed pursuit plane; Johanna Hofmann,

7 a hairdresser on the liner Europa

who allegedly served as a messenger, and Private Erich Glaser, accused of stealing a military aviation code with Gunther Rumrich, an Army deserter. They were named with 14 others by a special Federal Grand Jury.

‘The indictment alleged that the

ring had been directed by the German Government.

STOCKS SHOW GAINS; GRAIN PRICES FIRM

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Stocks advanced 1 to 4 points into a new high ground for more than a year today. Volume was heavy, and at noon tickers were two minutes behind.

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Grain prices opened firm on the Chicago Board of Trade today under scattered buying based on advances in outside market§ during yesterday's holiday. Wheat was up % to cent, corn unchanged to up % cent, and oats 3% cent higher,

jhe was maitried in 1926.

Ail ierman Arms Race Looms; America Called Unprepared.

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German relations. One of the Czech representatives in negotiations with Hungary at this frontier town, Ferdinand Durcsansky, returned from a hurried trip to Berlin which may have been a bid for German support. The Hungarian delegation made a quick trip to Budapest for new instructions before renewing talks with the Czechs here at the 11 a. m. deadline.

Big-Scale British. Arms Campaign Hinted

LONDON, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Well informed political quarters reported today that Prime Minister Chamberlain will curtail his vacation and return to London to initiate a bigscale armament drive with emphasis

& | on fighting airplanes,

It was said that growing public uneasiness at the weakness of British defenses, emphasized during the

| recent Czechoslovakia crisis, caused

F | Mr. Chamberlain to decide tenta-

a Acme Photo. A general view showing the fires that followed explosions in the Cities Sgrvice Co. oil tatiks at Linden, N . 2

IBLAZE SPREADS

OVER 12 ACRES

500 Firemen Win Battle to Smother Flames at Linden, N. J.

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and was visible 10 miles away. The pall of smoke spread as far as New York City. Five hundred fire-fighters won their struggle to keep the flames away from the nearby Sinclair Oil Co. plant, which has 30 storage tanks, and the Standard Oil Co, largest refinery in the world, with 800 tanks.

Twenty Cities Service tanks, con-

- | taining 480,000 to 2,100,000 gallons of

gasoline and oil each, were destroyed. Some went up in thundering explosions, some collapsed when heat melted their seams. There were 175 tanks on the Cities Service property. Several of those still standing boiled over in the terrific heat. Fire companies from five cities responded after the fire started with the violent explosion of a 1,680,000gallon storage tank, A three-ton mass of molten iron, dislodged by that blast was hurled 150 yards onto tracks of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Seven Fire-Fighters Hurt William Cordell, official of Cities Service, estimated the loss at more than $500,000. All workmen at the plant escaped but seven fire-fighters were burned or injured. Police marked out fire lanes two miles away from the burning plant on Arthur Kill and held spectators at that distance. Crowds of 10,000 watched the spectacle from both sides of the kill most of the night. Power lines in the area collapsed and the automatic sprinkling system, which had been helping protect undamaged parts of the plant, failed. Then the warehouse and loading platform at the Sinclair plant.caught fire. The New York City fire boats Harvey and Gaynor, anchored in the kill, played streams of water on the

e distilling plant all night and were

believed to have saved it. Two Coast Guard cutters patroled the nearby water, warning ships

y. The plant of the American Cyanamid Co. was endangered. Other oil and chemical plants in Bayonne, Newark and Staten Island sent a continuous stream of Foamite and Pyrene to the fire-fighters all night.

Fresh Winds Fan

Forest Fires Again

FT. FRANCES, Ontario, Oct. 13 (U. P.) —A weary army of 5000 firefighters battled to prevent brush and forest fires in the MinnesotaOntario border region from spreading today as fresh winds caused the flames to flare up in half a dozen sections. Authorities said the fires, which had raged for three days over 700 square miles, would go on another rampage if winds increase in velocity. Twenty-one persons already were known dead and others were reported missing. The fire-fighters had all of the fires under control yesterday. But as winds freshened and humidity | dropped, they called for additional equipment. Rangers said they would be able to control the fires under present conditions.

SON OPPOSES 3D TERM

Elliott Roosevelt said today that he hoped that his father, President Roosevelt, would not seek a third term in 1940. “I guess my principal objection,” young Roosevelt said, “is that being the son of a President is more of a handicap than a help. That's just from my personal standpoint.”

REPORT MAESTRO WED -

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Friends here received word - today that Louis Armstrong, swing trumpeter and band leader, was married yesterday at Houston, Tex. to Alpha Smith, Chicago showgirl. Mr. Armstrong was divorced last September from his first wife, to whom

HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 13 (U. P.) .—|

tively to return to London early next week and call an extraordinary Cabinet meeting to consider the armament situation. After receiving reports from the defense ministers, it was added, Mr. Chamberlain wil take charge of a campaign to close all gaps in preparedness plans. If the Cabinet met, it would have the Spanish civil war, the new Japanese drive in Southern China, Palestine and the appointment of a new First Lord of the Admiralty to consider. The Daily Express predicted that the Cabinet might decide to strengthen the British fleet at Hongkong.

Nazi Press Urges

More Armaments

BERLIN, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—The German press opened a campaign today to convince the public that more European armaments are necessary because of Britain's rearmament “propaganda.”

Belgium May Fortify

French Frontier

BRUSSELS, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Prime Minister Spaak told the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee today that the French frontier must be fortified.

112,000 Italians

Casualties in Spain

ROME, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Italian troop casualties in the Spanish civil war have totaled 12,147, it was announced today as Fascist authorities prepared a jubilant welcome for an estimated 10,000 homecoming soldiers scheduled to reach Naples Oct. 20. The casualties were classified as follows: Killed—Officers, 227; enlisted men, 2430. Died of disease— Officers and men, 278; total killed or died of disease, 2935. Made prisoner—Officers, 3: men, 351; total, 354. Wounded—Officers, 697; men, 8161; total, 8858. Grand total, 12,147. It was added that about 2000 of the wounded were permanently crippled or invalidated. From the political aspect, it was indicated that Premier Mussolini was not pleased with the effect of his repatriation order on Great Britain and France. It seemed that Sig. Mussolini had hoped that when the British Government learned he was bringing home 10,000 infantrymen, it would agree to put the British-Italian friendship agreement into force, and recognize Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia. But Britain has shown no enthusiasm. The British Government apparently insisted that Sig. Mussolini bring home far more than 10,000 soldiers.

BURGOS, Spain, Oct. 13 (U. P.). —Five thousand Italian troops have arrived at Cadiz, ready to embark for Italy, and additional contingents have left Valladolid for the south after a ceremomal farewell by Rebel authorities, it was announced today.

BARCELONA, Oct. 13 (U. P.).— The British steamship Stancroft, 1407 tons, was damaged by a Rebel air bomb today during an airplane raid on the port zone.

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Rebels and Loyalists appeared deadlocked today in a major Loyalist offensive on the Ebro Front.

Nazis Confiscate

Catholic Poster VIENNA, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Police

on Roman Catholic churches of the Vienna archdiocese, urging Catholics to seek religious blessing for their marriages instead of going through only the compulsory civil rites, it was understood today. This development came coincident with an attack on His Eminence Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, in the newspaper Wiener Neueste Nachrichten, Nazi Party organ in Vienna. In some quarters, the article was interpreted as presaging a campaign against the Cardinal. The newspaper displayed a headline across its front page: “Innitzer Methods Must Now Be Eliminated,” and followed it with this comment: “It is hardly possible to conceive a greater provocation than an attack on the Fuehrer at such a moment. . . . We do not intend to permit ourselves to be antagonized without end. An end must be put to the methods of Cardinal Innitzer, who one moment shows the velvet paw and the next moment arouses political squabbles. . . . He can proclaim God’s word, but not political wisdom which filters through him from Rome. Clergy dabbling

in politics can not be tolerated.”

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LEADING ARAB OF PALESTINE SHOT TO DEATH

Open Warfare Raging, Says Sensational London. Magazine.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 13 (U. P.)—A leading Arab lawyer and Nationalist spokesman, Hassan Sidky Dajany, abducted yesterday, was found shot to death in a field today. He was 40. :

He was the first high ranking Arab leader slain during the current rebellion. Jews and Arabs were shocked by the crime.

He had been councillor of the municipality of Jerusalem, a former candidate for Mayor and unofficial representative in Palestine of the Emir /Abdullah of Transjordan.

He was known to every newspaper correspondent - who had visited Palestine in recent years for his moderate views on national policy, particularly as applied to the immigration of Jews, the basis for the uprising. He had defended many Arabs in court.

Elsewhere throughout Palestine riots and murders continued despite the daily arrivals of British reinforcements. Murders of Arabs and sacking of Government offices were reported from Haifa, Samaria and Jaffa. Sir Harold MacMichael, Lord High Commissioner of Palestine, left London by airplane today en route here after a week of conferences with Colonial office authorities. In London, the sensational publication “The Week” commented today on the Palestine situation: “War on a grand scale is raging in Palestine and in the opinion of two extremely competent military observers there is an even chance of the British getting driven out altogether. “Impartial observers are agreed that the problem is no longer one of rounding up a few terrorist gangs armed and financed by Germany and Italy. Instead . . . a position has been created in which the entire Arab population is in revolt, waging a fairly highly organized form of guerrilla war against the British forces.”

MRS. SCHOTTER DIES FOLLOWING STROKE

Resident Here 54 Years; Judge Baker’s: Sister.

Mrs. Jennie Schotter, sister of Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker and Clyde Baker, assistant City attorney, died today at her home, 233 Massachusetts Ave. She was 70. She suffered a stroke Monday

night, relatives said.

Mrs. Schotter was born in Ohio and came to Indianapolis when she was 16 years old. In addition to Judge Baker and Clyde Baker, she is survived by a son, Carl Henderson; three daughters, Mrs. Earl Coghill, Mrs. Harry C. Nesmith and Mrs. Earl Hadley, and another brother, Jacob Baker, all of Indianapolis. Funeral services are to be ar-

Hungary Sets Deadline for Czechs as Terror Rules Area; U. S. Boat at Canton Periled

Chinese Call Up Up 500,000 Reserves to Stop New Jap Drive.

HONG KONG, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—~ The American gunboat Mindanao

trapped in the Pearl River at Cane ton during the Japanese Scuth

China drive, it was feared today. British naval authorities received information that the Chinese intended to throw an obstructive boom across the river today, to keep out Japanese warships. Above the place where the boom would be constructed are the Mine danao and the British gunboats Cicala, Moth and Tarantula. Four boatloads of refugees arrived from Canton today, including 30 foreign women and children, of whom 12 were Americans.

Highways Bombed

Sixty Japanese war planes, “eyes” of Japan’s new South China Army, bombed railroads and highways be= tween Hongkong and Canton today while the Cantonese Army moved toward the coast to challenge the invaders. : British authorities here mobilized the special constabulary reserve to take care of the heavy flow of refugees into the colony. Japanese troops moved inland on a path paralleling British leased territory on the mainland, but 40 miles away. Japanese Navy sources asserted that already the Japanese had seve ered the Canton-Hongkong railroad, life line of supply for all southern China.

.ittle serious resistance and that a force of 2000 Chinese was wiped out at one point along the line of ade vance. ' Chinese reported that advance guards of the defending and invading forces had met at three points near the coast and that there was fierce fighting in each instance,

University Classes Halted

Fearing devastating Japanese air raids, authorities of the American Lingnan University of Canton suspended classes. Women attached to the university were advised to leave the area.

The Japanese first cut the Tonge kong-Canton railroad by destroying three bridges in airplane raids. The main force of the South China Japanese Army was expected to make for the railroad at a point near ‘Cheungmaktu, 50 miles from Hongkong. However, large forces of Cantone ese troops were massing at Waichow, 80 miles east of Canton, and it was on this force, apparently, that the Chinese depended to save Canton. Hence it was velieved that the Japanese would have to attack Waichow before they attempted to oc cupy the railroad in force, as othei-

on their right flank.

CANTON, Oct. 13° (U. P.).—Chie nese leaders reported they were moe bilizing 500,000 reserves today to oppose Japanese troops advancing behind a devastating aerial bombardment toward Canton.

Baruch Says America Is Also Unprepared

WASHINGTON, —Bernard Baruch, international banker and chairman of the War Industries Board, said today that America is in the same tragic position of unpreparedness that forced Britain and France to agree to the

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