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F.D.R. RENEWS HIS PLEA FOR

$120,000,000

Keys Relief Appeal to Drive For General Recovery Of Business.

WARNS OF WPA JOB CUT|

Five Million Will Lose Aid

Unless Relief Budget Is Met, He Says.

(National Affairs, Page Four)

WASHINGTON, March 14 (U.P). —President Roosevelt today coupled a new request for 150 million dollars relief funds with a declaration to Congress that business will suffer if WPA is forced to reduce its rolls.

He said that if the money is no granted aid would have to be withdrawn from five million persons directly and indirectly in the next three:months. He said WPA would have to discharge 1,200,000 persons and that those persons had about 3,800,000 dependents. He asserted that this withdrawal of aid would not “contribute to the prosperity of the United States” and that “merchants and landlords” would suffer as well as unemployed persons left without means of subsistence.

Keys Appeal to Drive

The President thus keyed his relief appeal directly to the drive under, way in other sections of the Administration and Congress to aid business recovery through removal of governmental obstacles to economic expansion. Some members of the economy bloc had contended that curtailing of relief expenditures would aid business confidence. Indication that Congress will give

serious consideration to. Mr.. Roose}

velt’s request was seen in the comment of Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary. He forecast that the fund would be approved if hearings show that “the money is needed actually for relief and not for politics.” Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley said he had no doubt that the 150 million dollars would be approved. Administration leaders believed Congress would act fairly quickly on the proposal. They said privately they hoped for passage of a deficiency measure by April 1,

Will Demand Probe In the House Rep. Eugene Cox

(D. Ga.) said he intended to intro-

duce a resolution for a full investigation of the WPA. “Some say it is sound,” he continued, “some say it is not. There seems to be only one way to find out and that is to investigate.” Mr. Roosevelt advised Congress that there had been no substantial change in unemployment conditions since his original relief message of “January and his repeated request for 150 million dollars in February. Congress so far has ignored that request and the President by his message today sought to spur it to action. He declared that new studies ‘of the relief and unemployment problem supported fully his statement that 150 million dollars more is needed.

Puts Burden on Congress

Mr. Roosevelt sought to place upon Congress the responsibility for reduction of relief rolls that would result from any cut in his appropriation request. He emphasized his belief that a sharp-reduction in WPA rolls at this time would harm economic recovery and the prosperity of small businessmen. “Since my messages of &January and February,” he said, “a careful checkup shows that there has been no substantial change in the ¢onditions of unemployment. On the contrary, recent data have become available substantiating the real need for an additional appropriation of 150 millicn dollars. “Because it has been alleged that I would be satisfied if no further appropriation were made for the coming three months, I feel that in justice to myself I must make if clear that I am not sending this message to the Congress merely for the | purpose of going through mot

iofis. “The Government of the United States is faced with a condition and not a theory. The insufficieny of the money appropriated will compel the administrator (of WPA) to discharge about a million and a quarter actual workers in the immediate future. “I cannot bring myself to believe (Continued on Page Three)

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ORDERS BINGO GAMES BANNED

Safety Board Tells Chief to Enforce State Law . Against Them.

The Safety Board today instructed Police Chief Morrissey to enforce the law that prohibits bingo games. LeRoy J. Keach, Board oresident, read the order which was filed in the records of the meeting with no discussion. The statement read: “This Board has been advised that bingo games violate the laws of Indiana. The Board of Public

Safety instructs and directs the FPo-|

lice kita to enforce the law.” Chief Pledges Enforcement

Chief Morrissey, asked ii he was going to enforce the law, said: “The statement speaks or. itself. It’s either enforce the law or hand in my resignation. “The Board order will be complied

1 with immediately.” No one was present at {ie Board

meeting to speak in behalf of the game. The bingo issue was first brought up at a Safety Board mceting a week ago when board meibers revealed they were considering regulating the game throughout the city. > Meanwhile, copies of resolutions adopted by the Indianapolis Methodist Ministers’ Association, urging suppression of bingo gaires, were delivered to Mayor Sullivan and the Safety . Board. The Association, at its meeting

yesterday, also ordered a lziter sent|.

to Prosecutor David Lewis praising him for his activity against gambling,

GRAND JURY TO SIFT HANGOCK GAMELING

Session Opens Tomorrow; Follows Plantation Raid.

GREENFIELD, March 14 (U. P.). —A probe of Haucock County gambling conditions by the Grand Jury was scheduled for tomorrow as the result of the State Police staid on

the Plantation night club near opt

ville in which nearly $20,000 of alleged gambling equipment vas confiscated. The special jury session was ordered by Judge John B. Hinchman. He said that it was issued at the request of Prosecutor Glenn Williams and Sheriff John Dent. ! Mr. Williams, meanwhile, filed a petition for authority to des roy the gambling equipment seized at the Plantation. Ten men, all alleged to be connected with the gambling operations, were arrested in the raid and are waiting arraignment.

CRASH INJURIES FATAL

LEBANON, Ind., March 14 (U. P.). — Samuel Eddrington:, 53, of Advance, died last night of injuries received when his car crashed into a bridge abutment during & heavy fog and rain. His wife also was injured.

‘Slovaks and Nazis riot against Crechs in Bratislava.

Flood Peril Continues; New F E ngland in Danger

East Faces 2s Disasier Equal To 1936 as Storm Toll Reaches 38.

By United Press A threat of flbods as disastrous as those of 1936 confronted New England today as a consequence of the worst March blizzard since 1888. Forecasts of warmer weather near the week-end and of snow mixed with rain on the coast Wednesday night added to fears that the melting of the three-day accumulaiion of slush would send streams out of their banks. Clearing skies and rising temperstures throughout most of the storm area gave shovelers a chance to clear highways blocked by snow

alls which ranged from nearly four

inches in New York City to 14 inched in upstate New York, 14.2 at Boston and 30 in Stoneham aud Rumford, Me. : New England reported 22 deaths, upstate New York five and New York City and southern New Jersey

In Massachusetts, where the potential flood threat was almost as great as in 1936 authorities ordered more than 200 miles of back roads cleared of snow against the hossibility that main arteries would be blocked by floods. Spring floods were .reported elsewhere in the country. Half of Jordan, Mont., was submerged when an earthen dam collapsed, and in Missouri, Iowa and other Mid-West-ern states lesser inundations were reported.

PERRYS RECONCILED ILED HOLLYWOOD, Marchi 14 (U. P.). —Helen Vinson, blond film star, today applied for a dismissal of her divorce suit against her husband, Fred Perry, the tennis star. Her at-

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that she and her husband had decided to resume married life.

Chinese Is Arrested for Ruining Circle’s Flag

A Chinese, who szid he lived “outside the State—on Ohio St.” today was charged with hav ng destroyed an American flag which police said he tore from the south side of the Soldiers and sailors’ Monument. Apparently infuriatec-but vo incoherent to be understood, tl. man pulled down the flag, toe the stripes to ribbons, and bit cut the stars with his teeth. He was discovered by Mor.ument employees who held him until police arrived. When police came the man kicked one of them and attempted to free himself they

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L. H. Coleman of the Adjutant General's office, ordered police to wrap up the torn flag and not display it as they took it as evidence to the Police Station. Hz explained he did not want a crowd gathered outside to see it. Federal Bureau of Investigation officers joined police in questioning the man at Headquarters. They said he would start to answer questions in English and then get excited and turn to Chinese. The Chinese was charged with vagrancy, destroying an American and resisting an officer.

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Ravenswood Gets Relief, Evansville Expects 45Foot Crest.

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Under beaming skies, flood waters continued today to drain from Indiana’s Wabash and White River basins and to rush toward the Ohio River, inundating lowlands and blocking roads. ‘Continued rainless, but increasingly cloudy weather was forecast by the Weather - Bureau for tomorrow, with a sharp drop in temperatures for tomorrow night. Tonight will be fair and warmer, the Bureau said. The Weather Bureau said , White

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River was rising below Indiahapolis.

The main stream of White River was due to rise to 23 to 24 feet at St. Petersburg, and 24 to 25 feet at Hazleton by the end of the week, he

said. Falls at Lafayette

The Wabash was falling at iafayette but rising downstream, the Bureau said, and will reach 23 feet at Terre Haute within a day or two and 24 feet at Mt. Carmel at the end of the week. Meanwhile, residents at Ravenswood said they will demand some protection from the periodic fioods and that- all that was necessary would be head gates in the dam near Broad Ripple Park and dredgs ing of the drainage north of Bro. Ripple and near Ravenswood. Downstate communities may still expect flooding, the Weather Bureaws. predicted, and Evansville was reported to be expecting a crest in the Ohio River of 45 feet. Seven more roads were reported closed by the State Highway Commission. They were: Road 41 west of Attica; Road 63 east of Clinton and Road 150 north of West Terre Haute in the Crawfordsville area: Road 156 near Patriarch; Road 235 east of Medora, and Road 250 east of Brownstown in the Vincennes area, and Road 258 at Porltand in the Seymour area. |

Tavern Is Flooded

Roy Goodpasture, Ravenswood grocer and tavern owner, said water had dropped two inches but still was 18 inches deep in his tavern. He said no one was forced to leave homes in the area and that “the worst is over.” . | Those driven from their homes Sunday by high water were returning today to clean up debris from dwellings and yards. No considerable property loss was reported, although the Bureau said there still may be damage to * ” property in

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NEW REPUBLIC 1S PROCLAIMED FOR SLOVAKIA

During Independence Celebrations.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March 14 (U. P.).—Slovakia proclaimed its independence of Czechoslovakia and Josef

| Tiso was named President and

Premier of a new Republic of Slovakia at a German-spon-sored meeting of the Slovak

Parliament today.

Shortly after this announcement was officially made, sources regarded as reliable said that an official radio message to the new Government announced that the independence of Carpathg-Ukraine had likewise been declared at Chust. An unconfirmed report from Chust said about 40 Ukrainians had heen killed and many wounded by Czech troops attempting to- Suppress independence celebrations. Tuka Is Vice Premier, Reports from Chust said the troops drove the demonstrating pop-

‘|ulace from the public square into

side streets and entered buildings

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GZECH PREMIER AND HIS CABINET RESIGN

President Goes to Berlin to Talk With Hitler.

PRAHA, March 14 (U. P.).—The 'zechoslovak Cabinet resigned today as the Slovak Parliament met to declare independence. | All communication was severed between Praha and Bratislava. - It was announced after the Cabinet resignation that Hungarian troops had occupied three villages in Carpatho-Ukrainia and that Ukrainian Separatist Guards had clashed with regular Czechoslovak troops and police. President Emil Hacha and Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky left by special train for Berlin to confer with Fuehrer Hitler. Minister Chvalkovsky was considered the most pro-German member of the retiring Rudolf Beran Cabinet. The public was unaware of events al Bratislava. Newspapers merely published a report that the Slovak Diet was in session. The cabinet had met until the esrly hours this morning, considering demands ffom Germany regarding Slovakia and the German “language = island” portions of Czechoslovakia. It was understood that Germany had demanded the reorganization of the Cabinet, with Gen. Jan Syrovy, the War Minister, and Gen. Alois Elias, Communications Minister eliminated. They are accused of belonging to the Army faction opposed to subservience to Germany.

STOCKS TURN FIRM AFTER EARLY SLUMP

| NEW YORK, March 14 (U. P).—| | News that sentiment in Chile was “| crystallizing against the proposed

copper export tax brought a recovery in copper shares that ranged to more than a point on the New York Stock Exchange today. Other stocks

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Prof. Albert Tuka, veteran Slovak

|separatist leader, was named Vice

Premier of the Slovak Government. As the new republic was proclaimed, Hungarian troops crossed the Czechoslovak frontier and occupied the Carpatho-Ukrainian town of Oerhegyalja. German troops were expected to cross the frontier into Czech territory at any time. Poland .strengthened her armed| forces in the Teschen area, accord-

London. Three States Responsible

At Praha, the Czechoslovak Cabinet, refusing to countenance demands by Germany for a “final” solution of the Czechoslovak problem, resigned at- a meeting coincident with that of Parliament here. It was indicated strongly that the solution would be another dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, this one into three nominally independent states: Bohemia, the Czech area, with a population of seven million; a Slovak Republic of 2,750,000 people, and a Carpatho-Ukrainian Republic of 800,000 people. Actually Bohemia would be at Germany's mercy. Slovakia was expected to be under direct German tutelage. Carpatho-Ukrainia would be a vassal state of Hungary, if Germany consented, and might go to Hungary and Poland jointly to give them a common frontier. But there was considerable doubt that Germany would consent. Slovakia’s independence was proclaimed ceremoniously during the secret Parliamentary session. Dr. Tiso, named President and Premier, was Premier of the Slovak semiautonomous Government. His (Continued on Page Three)

M’NUTT IN ’40 CLUB FORMED AT CAPITAL

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 14.—A “McNutt for President” Club was launched officially today by a group of Indiana Democrats employed here. Announcement of the club’s formation followed the laying of a wreath at the bust of Thomas Marshall, in honor of the Hoosier Vice President’s birthday. Officers of the McNuft Club are Earl J. Cox, president; John M. Ho-

displayed a firm tone after early softness.

gan, secretary, and Chris Mortiz, treasurer. 4

Chamberlain Turns Back On Czech Dismemberment

LONDON, ‘March 14 U, P).-— Prime Minister ‘Chamberlain publicly washed his hands of responsibility for the fresh dismemberment|,g of Czechoslovakia in the House of Commons today. He said the British-French guaranty at Munich of the territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia was one

against unprovoked aggression “and|

that has not taken place.” Mr. Chamberlain said he had no

the Czech Governinent’s resignation and the Slovakian and Ruthenian declarations of independence. Clement R. Attlee, Labor leader,

Bk ‘the Government waiting for a fait accompli? Has the Government consulted the French Government, the Czech Government or any Government about what should be done to deal with the situation?” “I am not sure what the honorable member thinks the Government Shedd do,” Mr. Chamberlain replied

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NAZI TROOPS ON MARCH STATES SET UP HUNGARY SEIZES UKRAINE

Budapest Sends Ultimatum to Praha for Evacuation of Ruthenia Today; 30 Villages Occupied.

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“language island” of Brno.

the Czech troops in 24 hours.

HUNGARY WARNS PRAHA, MARCHES

Gives Czechs 24 Hours to Leave Ukraine Area; 30 Towns Seized.

BUDAPEST, March 14” (U. P.).— Hungarian troops battled their way into Czechoslovakia on a 15-mile front today and the Government sent an ultimatum to Praha demanding within 24 hours withdrawal

of Czech troops from CarpathoUkraine (Ruthenia). The ultimatum was delivered in a note to the Czech Minister, Milos Kobr, at 3 p. m. (8 a. m. Indianapolis Time). Hungary demanded an answer within 12 hours and said that the Praha Government would be responsible for failure to answer. The demarche contained friendly references to Slovakia which were

tantamount to a deciaration of soli-

darity with the new regithe at Bratislava. It was reported that the Hungarian Government had received tacit assurances from Berlin that penetration of: Carpatho-Ukraine would not meet resistance from the Nazis. Seize 30 Villages

It was indicated that Germany would not oppose establishment of a Hungarian-Polish frontier if the Hungarians are able to establish one in their present drive. Germany has previously opposed Polish-Hungari-an desires for a common frontier by Hungarian annexation of CarpathoUkraine. Hungarian troops were reported to have seized 30 Carpatho-Ukraine villages, penetrated 15 miles and to be headed for Szalyva—half way to the Polish frontier—when the ultimatum was delivered. The ultimatum demanded: 1. Freedom for all Hungarians interned by the Czechs during a series of raids across the frontier in recent months. 2. Permission for the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia to organize “for self defense” and to carry arms. 3. Withdrawal of Czech troops from Carpatho-Ukraine within 24 hours.

Poland Backs Hungary

In Attack on Ruthenia WARSAW, Poland, March 14 (U. P.).—The “absorption” of CarpathoUkraine, easternmost state of Czechoslovakia, by Hungary is now inevitable, authoritative Polish circles asserted today after the declaration of Slovakian independence. At the same time, it was said officially that Poland has no territorjal or other claims in Czechoslovakia or Carpatho-Ukraine since the annexation of the Teschen area after the Munich conference.

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BRITAIN AND FRANCE SIT AND WATCH

President Hacha Leaves Praha for Berlin to Get Fuehrer’s Orders; ‘Language

Be Taken.

(Editorial, rial, Page 10)

BERLIN, March 14 (U. P.).—The postwar Republic of Czechoslovakia collapsed today under the military threat of Nazi Germany’s “march to the East.” With Fuehrer Hitler putting on the pressure, the dismembered republic was splitting up into three independent states on the anniversary of Germany's seizure of Austria. ‘First to go was Slovakia, which proclaimed its independence at Bratislava early today with the support of Nazi. armed forces which massed at Vienna, 30 miles away, and: started to march across the frontier to the German

Second was the easternmost tip of the little republic, : Carpatho-Ukraine, which was reported by radio to have declared its independence a few hours later. Previously Hungarian troops had battled Czech soldiers on the Carpatho-Ukraine frontier, invaded the area—apparently with the tacit consent of Herr Hitler—and sent an ultimatum to the Praha Government demanding withdrawal of

The action meant either Hun-

garian overlordship or annexation, which appeared more likely, over * Carpatho-Ukraine “fo give Hungary and ‘Poland

|a common frontier, The third part of the res public, Bohemia and Moravia, remained to the Czechs but only under Nazi sufferance and President Emil Hacha left Praha for Berlin to ask Herr

Hitler what to do.

Great Britain and France stood aside and Italy applauded as Herr Hitler acted to force the “co-opera= tion” of the Praha Government and prepared, according to some Slovak sources, to take over the Germanspeaking “language islands” in Czech territory which he failed to get at the Munich settlement. Nazi sources close to the Foreign Office predicted that German troops would enter Slovakia by midnight (5 p. m. Indianapolis Time) to sup= port Josef Tiso, new President of that state, and to protect Germans from alleged Czech terrorism. The Hungarian invasion of Care patho-Ukraine was as sudden a blow as the Nazi action to complete pare tition of the Czechoslovak Republic. Well-informed Nazi sources hinted that the Hungarians advanced wit approval of Herr Hitler, althoug® previously he had blocked the desire of Budapest to annex CarpathoUkraine in order to have a commort frontier with Poland. The central Czechoslovak Cabinet at Praha bowing to Herr Hitler's ultimatum, resigned after its come munications with Bratislava had been severed and amid a bitter bare rage of Nazi newspaper abuse, ine cluding widespread charges of Czech terrorism against Germans. Hungarian troops occupied an ese timated 30 Carpatho-Ukraine towns, penetrating 15 miles. Unofficial Bude apest predictions were that the soldiers would continue to Szalyva, midway between the Polish and Hungarian frontiers.

Poland Backs Budapest

At Warsaw, it was said officially that Poland had no territerial claims in the dismembered Czecho= slovak republic, but at the same time high’ authorities expressed the conviction that today’s develop= ments meant that Hungary eventueally would get all of CarpathoUkraine. Poland and Italy have backed the Hungarian demand for that region in the past, but Herr Hitler has blocked it. German police were massed along the Czech and Slovak frontiers and German garrisons nearby were at full strength. Slovak sources asserfe ed that the Nazi troops would occue= py four Czechoslovak cities, but ine formation = coming from persons

~ |close to the Nazi Foreign Office was

that several thousand of Herr Hite ler’s bodyguard regiment and storm

‘I troopers: would-march into Slovakia,

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l.U.ATHLETEDIES OF CRASH INJURIES

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. March 14 (U. P.) —Eithel Galloway; 21, former Bloomington High School basketball © captain, died early today in an Evansville hospital of injuries ree ceived in a truck-train wreck Thurse