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4 DROWNED AS WIND AND RAIN SWEEP SOUTH

Many Are Feared Missing Where Autos Plunged Into Stream.

TORNADOES HIT 2 TOWNS

High Water Blocks Roads in Mississippi, Georgia And Alabama.

ATLANTA, Ga., March 30 (U. P.). —Floods, tornadoes and heavy rains that were almost cloudbursts left a trail of dead and injured and heavy property damage in .four southern states today. At least four persons were drowned near Jackson, Miss., when their automobiles plunged into Black River after a bridge was washed away. It was feared many others were missing. Three persons were injured and half a dozen buildings demolished at East Brewton, Ala. Two storms within 12 hours caused extensive property damage at Hattiesburg, Miss. Wind, rain and hail service and caused failure of the electric power system for five hours.

Georgia Has Floods

Throughout Georgia heavy rains caused creeks and streams to flood. Lagrange, Ga., reported a six-inch rainfall in less than 24 hours. Streants in southern Alabama, where a 3%-inch rainfall occurred, were reported at flood stage. Many highways were partially blocked. . The Leaf and Bouie Rivers in Mississippi were rising. In addition to the four known dead an undetermined number were missing in rain-swollen Clear Creek bayou, 10 miles east of Vicksburg, Miss., in which automobiles plunged last night when one span of a bridge washed away. One truck and at least five automobiles plunged into the bayou. Three of the cars were raised and a diver was summoned from New Orleans. Four Bodies Recovered

Four bodies were recovered. Victims were:

Marvin Meeks, 26, of Canton, Miss

Miss Margaret Guice, nurse of Memphis, Tenn. M. W. Beaver, 26, construction worker of Jackson, Miss. ; S. M. Wilson, 25, of Jackson, Miss.

One of the missing was Norman Schlemmer, Vicksburg mill executive. His coat containing identifying papers has been recovered. The span which washed out was over the bayou that runs parallel to Big Black River, and was part of the approach to a large overhead river bridge. An all-day rain sent water down the creek in raging torrents, T. L. McIntosh, Vicksburg em-

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periment Station, said he believed that his car was the first to fall into the water. He opened a door of his submerged machine and was swept a half-mile downstream before reaching shore.

Flags Down Autos

Rushing back to the open span, he flagged down two cars in time to save them from plunging into the water. One of the motorists he stopped was M. L. Sharbrough, salesman from Dallas, Tex." Drivers of several cars ignored the warnings of Mr. McIntosh and Rupert Lewis of Fiorence, Miss., who had escaped earlier from the cab of his submerged truck, and drove into the stream. T. B. Tennant of Vicksburg, driving with his daughter, stopped his car 10 feet from the bridge chasin after he had seen an automobile ahead of his disappear. They helped pull five persons from driftwood near the bank by tossing ropes to them.

Fair and Warmer, Tomorrow’s Outlook

TEMPERATURES m....39 10a. m.... 36 m....38 11a m.... 36 .... 31 12 (noon).. 35 .. 36 ip m.... 36

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weather tomorrow, was forecast by the Indianapolis Weather Bureau today. The temperature, which reached a high of 44 at noon yesterday, remained fairly constant until midnight when, from 43, it began a slow drop.

CONFISCATE ALCOHOL WARSAW, March 30 (U. P).— Police today arrested Harry Kemp, Springfield, Ill, and confiscated 150 gallons of allegedly untaxed alcohol which they claimed was being taken from Chicago.

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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 16

Ticklish Job Surprised Nurse Puts

Toe-Tweaker in His Place (Prison).

EW YORK, March 30 (U. PJ). Pretty Marian Cribbs awoke to find a young man tickling her foot. He tweaked her big toe. She jumped and said, “Oh.” “The reason,” the young man said, “that I am waking you up is that I am robbing you.” Miss Cribbs, a registered nurse, sat up and explained that she was just a working girl and hardly worth robbing. The young man sat down and they talked for an hour and a half. He said he liked to steal only from the rich and give to the poor, “like Robin Hood.”

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ISS GRIBBS said she thought ; she was not in the proper attire to receive a young man and that she was sure her visitor would not put his own sister in such an embarrassing position, “You are very pretty,” the burglar said. “I think I'd even like to marry you. I've got $1000 saved up and I'm sure we could make a go of it.” Miss Cribbs thought it might be a good idea. She urged the burglar to leave and telephone for a date as a proper young man should do. He left, telephoned and the date was made. : But Miss Cribbs took a detective along and in the lineup today the young man said he was Joseph Perez. Police said he had a record.

CITY GAS SUIT RULING WAITED

Cincinnati Court to Decide On Injunction Involving Firm’s Bank Funds.

By LOWELE B. NUSSBAUM

A ruling on preliminary proceedings in the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility’s suit against Domhoff & Joyce, Cincinnati, former coke sales agent for the city-owned utility, was awaited today in Common Pleas Court at Cincinnati. In its suit, the City seeks judgment for $47,884, which it contends is due for coke sold by the firm in February. The Domhoff & Joyce five-year contract, ‘which expired Feb. 28, was not renewed, the utility contracting last month with another Cincinnati firm, Hickman, Williams & Co. Injunction Is Granted

The action was filed at Cincinnati Tuesday. Common Pleas Judge Alfred Mack granted the utility a temporary injunction restraining the First National Bank of Cincinnati from honoring any checks which would reduce the Domhoff & Joyce bank account below the amount in dispute. The coke utility also is asking a permanent injunction. However, Charles A. Sargeant, head of the Cincinnati firm, said today that his company had withdrawn its account from the bank prior to the filing of the suit. The utility’s complaint asserted that the Domhoff & Joyce firm owed the utility $184,008.64, representing the proceeds of coke sales in February, less commissions, but that the company gave the utility a check for only $136,164.04.

Lays Claim to Sum

Thomas L. Kemp, utility manager, said the firm contended the $47,854 was due to it for commissions on coke .in storage, coke sold to the utility’s employees and certain other sales. ! Mr. Sargent declared “there is no question but what they owe us that $47,000, and we can very easily establish that.” Mr. Kemp said the utility is guaranteed against any loss because it holds credit insurance posted by an indemnity firm, but that the insurance agreement requires the utility to file the suit in an attempt to collect the amount in dispute.

CLIPPER AT LISBON AFTER ATLANTIC HOP

21 Aboard on Second Leg of Shakedown Flight.

LISBON, Portugal, March 30 (U. P.).—The Pan-American Airways Yankee Clipper arrived here at 10:20 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today on the second leg of its first flight across the Atlantic. A crew of 12 and nine Government and private observers were aboard as the 41-ton ship arrived from Horta, Azores Islands.

HONOLULU, T. H.,, March 30 (U. P.).—The California Clipper, PanAmerican Airways big flying boat, landed at Pearl Harbor at 5:50 a. m. (9:50 a. m. Indianapolis Time) today on its maiden commercial flight from San Francisco to the Orient. It carried 25 passengers and a crew of 11, the largest load of passengers ever carried on a transPacific flight.

REPORTS $250,000 THEFT MARYSVILLE, O., March 30 (U. P.) —Herman Hamburger, who said he is a New York jewelry salesman, reported to Union County authorities today that he and his-chauffeur had been kidnaped and robbed of $25,000 worth of jewelry.

RING REPORTED STOLEN

Ray Pearce, 38, Chicago salesman, reported to police today that a dia-

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ITALY TO BREAK FROM ‘PRISON,

IL DUCE CLAIMS

Fascists Disappointed by Daladier Speech, Call 250,000 Troops.

FOREIGN SITUATION

COSENZA, Italy — Mussolini insists on Suez rights

PARIS — Daladier leaves way open for negotiations. ” n s

LONDON — Britain increases army, makes offer to Poland. BERLIN—Germany to buy all Reichsbank stock. WARSAW~-—Nazis have made no Danzig demand, Poles say

CHICAGO—Czechs and Slovaks to hold convention in U. S. BUDAPEST — Head of Upper House of Parliament resigns. ” 2 ®

‘M AD RID—Moderate leaders “courteously” arrested

WASHINGTON—Bowers to advise House on Spain. un # ” TOKYO—U. S. co-operation to be asked by Japan. NANKING — Japanese - sponsored regime denounces U. S. SHANGHAI — Japanese take Pearl River port.

COSENZA, Italy, March 30 (U. P.). — Premier Mussolini told a cheering crowd in the great Lictor Square today that Italy would not “remain a prisoner in the Mediterranean” and that its claim to special concessions as regards the Suez Canal had to be satisfied. Praising the . “defeat of bolshevism” in the Spanish civil war and

the role Italians played in it, Sig. Mussolini said that Italy was ready to stand up for her claims. “Speeches are only words if they are not accompanied by facts,” he said. * “Pacts or No Pacts”

Then, in what his hearers took as a reference to France's attitude on his “aspirations,” Mussolini pounded his right fist on the stone railing

of the Government building balcony from which he spoke and said: “Pacts or no diplomatic pacts, we will never resign ourselves to remaining prisoners in the Mediterranean.” The Duce arrived this morning on a tour of Calabria, during which he was expected to make several speeches bearing on the refusal of Premier Daladier of France to take the first step in French-Italian negotiations. As Premier Mussolini left Rome by special train last night, 250,000 mengof the classes of 1918 and 1919 —the entire 1918 class and one-third of the 1919 class—were reporting for army duty.

Troops Carry Banners

It was reported that before he returned to Rome he might meet Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Fuehrer Hitler's righthand man, at Naples. In some Fascist quarters it was even rumored that Generalissimo Franco of Nationalist Spain might attend this meeting, or meet them later at some convenient point for a conference on Italian-German-Spanish policy. : The 250,000 men whom Sig. Mussolini called to the colors—180,000 of the 1918 class and 70,000 of the 1919

racks even before he left Rome. They carried banners “Tunisia~Djibouti-Suez Canal,” “The Mediterranean Is Ours” and “More Cannons, More Battleships. More Airplanes.” The men are those born in 1918 and the first four months of 1919. It was understocd that their call was a normal one tor this time of year and that they had received notifications of their liability for training service several weeks ago. Italian disappointment at the tone (Continued on Page Four)

Editor's Note—Further analysis of the situation in Russia is contained in today’s dispatch from Roy W. Howard of the ScrippsHoward Newspapers, the fourth of a series of cables in which he is summing up the observations he made in five weeks of visiting the major European capitals and confering with leading statesmen and other leaders.

By ROY W. HOWARD

(Copyright, 1939, Scripps-Howard Newspapers) ARIS, March 30.—In a speech delivered a few days ago before the 18th Congress of the Communist Party, Joseph Stalin admitted that the recent blood purges, generally credited with having played havoc with the Red Army, had been attended by ‘serious blunders.”

Tt is not known how much time will be required to repair these blunders, but it is assumed in Moscow that the best evidence of the joh’s being completed will be a changed attitude on the part of the Japanese Army. For the apparent indifference to what Russia might do in the Far East, which has characterized the attitude of Tokyo, is now attributed to the fact that the Japanese knew of Russia’s “serious blunders” before the Western Powers

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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1939

Farley Puts. His O. K. on Riley Stamp

Times Special © .WASHINGTON, March 30.

—Postmaster General Farley today assured Rep. William H. Larrabee (D. Ind.) that a James Whitcomb Riley commemorative stamp soon will be forthcoming if a list he has submitted to President Roose~ velt is approved.

~The list is made up of American authors and poets and the Hoosier poet is’ third in the latter group. Accompanied by Senator Minton and Indiana Congressmen, Rep. Larrabee presented Mr. Farley with petitions of all grade and high school pupils in Hancock County asking that the Riley stamp be issued. “Sure I am for it,” Mr. Farley said. “I know a man named Riley, who wrote ‘The old Swimmin’ Hole,” was a good Democrat.” Rep. Larrabee said both the poet and his father were Republicans.

VANNUYS REPORTED LLIN CAPITAL HOME

Senator May Be Removed To Hospital.

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 30.—Senator VanNuys is confined to his home by illness and his condition is such that he may be removed to a hospital, it was learned today. Meanwhile Senator Austin (R. Vt.), minority member of the subcommittee investigating the Willis fraud charges in Senator VanNuys’ election, said he expects “some results within the next few days.”

K. E. Voroshiloff . “ Russian War Commissar

the impunity with which the Jap-

eg their flank in China to Ti possibility of a Russian attack.

The German General Staff is reported to have dismissed consideration of the Russian Army as a serious offensive factor more Poland’s re-

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FORECAST: Cloudy, becoming fair, colder, heavy frost or freezing ‘temperatures tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.

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WNUTT'S 1340 RACE LAUNCHED IN WASHINGTON

Formally Presented as the ‘Budget Balancer’ in McHale’s Letter.

CALLED BORN LEADER

Garner Hides in Cloakroom As His Boom Reaches Floor of Senate.

WASHINGTON. March 30 (U. P.). —Paul V. McNutt’s campaign for

the, 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination hit the capital today with the former Indiana Governor significantly billed at “the budget id and dispenser of prosperity. Congressional Democrats were

‘summoned to support him to restore

party harmony. His candidacy was formally presented by Frank MecHale, campaign manager, in letters to Democrats in the House and Senate. : Garner Hides in Cloakroom

Vice President Garner's Demo-

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‘Senate floor when Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.) submitted a resolution by the Texas State Legislature indorsing Mr. Garner for the 1940 nomination. Mr. Garner left the presiding

§ [chair when Senator Connally rose.

The Gables . « «+ + » “They were quite lovey-dovey.”

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HIS ‘BEST GRIN’

‘Hello, Mom, This Is. Your New Son-in-Law,” He Informs Kin.

HOLLYWOOD, March 30 (U. P.). —Grinning from ear to ear, Clark Gable- rode triumphantly back to Hollywood today with a bride, blond Carole:Lombard. = ° It was 8:15 last night (Indianapolis Time) when Mrs. Elizabeth Peters picked up ner telephone here and heard a boisterous laughing male voice exclaim: ! “Hello, mom, this is your new son-in-law.” Mrs. Peters and her daughter moved here from Ft. Wayne, Ind., when Carole was 12. Carole’s name then was Jane. Mrs. Peters’ son-in-law and her daughter were in Kingman, Ariz, in the study of the Rev. Kenneth Engle, who had just made them man and wife. : They had motored there secretly in Mr. Gable's white roadster, had been married in the Rev. Mr. Engle’s Methodist Church chapel before two witnesses, and, after the phone call, they started back. They arrived in Hollywood this morning and announced they would (Continued on Page Three)

ANNOUNCE SCHEDULE FOR CCC IN INDIANA

WASHINGTON, March 39 (U.P). —Director Robert Fechner of the CCC announced operation schedules today for Indiana CCC camps from April 1 to Sept. 30. Mr. Fechner diselosed that 5800 enrollees will be stationed in 28 Indaina CCC camps. New camps will be at Lagro, Miami County; Portland, Jay County; Logansport, Cass County, and Kendallville, Noble County. Camps will be closed at Lagro, Wabash County; South Bend, St. Joseph County; Princeton, Gibson County, and Lexington, Scott

County. :

Nazis and Japan Scorn Red Army After Purge ‘Blunders,’ Says Roy W. Howard =z: ries

Hitler movement is largely attributed in Warsaw, to. the conviction of Joseph Beck, Polish .Foreign Minister, that he could not count on any substantial -assistance from Moscow in case Hitler directed a new territorial grab eastward into Poland.

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S is the case in Italy, foreign appraisal cannot:be considered a reliable. measure of the internal popularity or strength of the Russian dictatorship. The system is still referred to in Russia and in Comintern circles abroad as Communist, even though it has long since ceased to resemble anything either Marx or Lenin would recognize as such. But by whatever name it is called, the system is more completely sold to the Russian masses than fascism is to the Italian proletariat. As in Italy, so in Russia a new generation has grown up since the revolution. The new generation is not only completely indoctrinated with the Bolshevik creed, but, thanks to the thoroughness of the Russian censorship on incoming news, which keeps out all heresy, it is incapable of imagining virtue in any other system. In considering Russian opinion, it is necessary to differentiate ‘sharply between the opinion of Jhe political and military hierarchy

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President Pro Tempore Pittman (D. Nev.) replaced the Vice President and Senator Connally asked that the resolution of the Texas House of Representatives be read by the reading clerk. Before the clerk started to read, Mr. Garner had vanished into the Senate cloakroom. Senator Sheppard (D. Tex.) seconded Senator Connally, declaring that he was “in hearty sympathy with the resolution.” The resolution asserted that “by repeated tests of legislative and administrative capacity and ability, John Nance Garner has fully and sconvincingly demonstrated his statesmanship and grasp of national affairs.” “People prospered in Indiana,” Mr. McHale's first McNutt pamphlet said, “because of Governor McNutt's fair dealing with agriculture, labor and industry.” One page of the pamphlet, tucked in the letter, was devoted to Mr. McNutt’s gubernatorial record under the black type heading: “The Budget Balancer.” -

“We Propose Paul V. McNutt”

Mr. McNutt now is High Commissioner to the Philippines. He is expected to return this summer, report to President Roosevelt on Far Eastern conditions and resign to devote himself’ to Presidential politics. Mr. McHale hopes to do for Mr. McNutt what James A. Farley did for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1931. His leter said: “We propose Paul V. McNutt for Presidential nomination to close up (Continued on Page Three)

EX-SENATOR BROWN NAMED CONTROLLER

Supersedes Elliott, Hoosier Critic of New Deal.

WASHINGTON, March 30 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today nominated former Senafor Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire, a liberal Democrat, to be Controller General, succeeding Republicans in that office who often have criticized New Deal actions. The Controller General passes on validity of Federal expenditures. Mr. Brown, a New Dealer, was defeated for re-election last November. The appointment, for a 15-year term, fills an office which has been officially vacant since July 1, 1936, at the expiration of the term of John Raymond McCarl. It removes a Republican, Richard Nash Elliott, a former Indiana representative,

Mr. Elliott has been a source of irritation to the Administration. Although not the dynamic figure that Mr. McCarl was, he has been outspoken in criticism of the Administration on several occasions. Mr. Brown, it was understood, was sponsored for the nomination by Vice President Garner. Mr. Elliott will continue as assistant controller general at $9000 a year, the post to which he was appointed by President Hoover. His term does not expire until 1946.

GUNMAN ROBS TRUCK DRIVER ON STREET

A gunman held up a coal truck driver on the North Side today and escaped with $11 in cash, according to police. : Loren Jackson, 45, of Maywood, the driver, told officers. he had delivered a load of coal in the 800 block of N. Illinois St. and turnsd west on St. Clair St. when a man leaped on the running board and shouted: “Give me what you got back there.” Jackson said he told the man he did not get any money because the sale was charged. The bandit then drew a revolver and struck at him with it, breaking the windshield of the truck, the driver said. Reaching into the cab of the truck, the man tore open Jackson's -coat and seized

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MATHEWS GIVEN 27021 YEARS

Jury Returns Manslaughter Verdict in Shooting of Laundryman.

A Criminal Court jury today found George F.,Mathews guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Tom Lee, 75-year-old Chinese laundryman. A sentence of 2 to 21 years in Indiana State Prison was recommended. Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers followed the jury’s recommendation and immediately sentenced Mathews to Indiana State Prison. Deliberate 12 Hours

The nine men and three women jurors reached a decision at 4:30 a. m. after more than 12 hours de-

liberation and reported a sealed ver-

dict to Judge Myers. Mathews was tried on charges of first and second degree murder. The jury’s finding was made after two days of testimony. Asked if he had anything to say, Mathews said: “I would like to thank the jury.” r Judge Myers declared, “I don't think that is necessary. The jury performed its duty.”

Verdict Called Victory Both sides hailed the verdict as a victory. Attorneys for the State said it was tantamount to life imprisonment for the 58-year-old wanderer. The jury could have returned a death sentence. : The jury found Mathews guilty of fatally shooting the aged Chinese behind the counter of his laundry, at 430 E. Washington St., in an argument over a 75-cent shirt, July 2, 1934. It was reported that in the first jury ballot four voted for acquittal and eight for conviction.

MOST STOCKS SLIP; EARLY RALLY FAILS

NEW YORK, March 30 (U. P.).— Most stocks were down fractions in early afternoon dealings here today as an earlier rally failed to attract new buyers. Volume, which yesterday fell below the half million mark, dwindled further.

Sellers tried to boost hog prices 10 cents at Indianapolis today but the level remained at record lows, the top price staying at $7.30. Vealers were 50 cents to $1 lower, the top at $10.50.

EARLIER DELIVERY OF MILK BEGINS MONDAY

State Control Board Lifts 5 A. M. Order.

Beginning Monday, Indianapolis dairies’ will start delivering milk earlier in the morning under a ruling made today by the State Milk Control Board. "Under the winter schedule invoked by the Board, no milk is being delivered before 5 a. m. That schedule was to have been in effect until April 30, but upon a petition

‘filed by distributors the 5 a. m.

rule was lifted. During hearings before the Board yesterday afternoon and last night on technical phases of the Marion County market pool, Wymond J. Beckett, Indianapolis attorney and milk producer, charged that “milk control measures in Marion County are not bringing a fair price to the producers.” He declared the milk marketing regulations were “too complicated” and that the county market area is too large.

WARNS DEPUTIES OF AMBUSH NEVADA CITY, Cal, March 30 (U. P.).—Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen ordered his deputies to take special precautions against ambush today as they hunted through the Mother Lode country for a giant red-beard-

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Wife Returns $1000

Left by Husband In Flight.

ACCOUNTS SHORT,

Suspect Disappears During Business Trip Here.

By HEZE CLARK Times Staff Writer

FRANKLIN, March 30.— G-Men from Indianapolis headquarters of the FBI today joined the search for Herbert Hacker, 24, teller of the Farmers Trust Co. who dis appeared with $8705 of tha bank’s funds. :

The Federal agents allied with State Police and Johnson County authorities in the hunt after U. S. Commissioner Howard S. Young ab Indianapolis issued a warrant for Hacker's arrest on a charge of embezzling $5600. The warrant was issued on complaint of the G-Men, As the search was broadened, Sheriff Pete Pangborn of Johnson County said that a note which Hacker had left for his wife, along with $1000, said that “I didn’t think it would come to this.” ; Sheriff Pangborn said that the note also told Mrs. Hacker to forget, him, and love their 20-months-old baby, Beverly. He said Hacker told her that the $1000 would “tide you over until you find something or someone” Mrs. Hacker immediately returned the money to the bank. ;

Fails to Meet Wife

Sheriff Pangborn said that bank officials told him that Mrs. Hacker accompanied her husband to Indi=

anapolis yesterday morning. They said that he presumably had $5500 in mutilated paper money which he was to deposit at the American National. Bank. He had arranged to meet his wife at 11:30 a m. at an Indianapolis store, but when he failed to keep the appointment she returned home on an interurban. Hacker, in the meantime, had returned to Franklin and had left the envelope cone taining the cash and note with Mrs. Hacker’s mother. A later inquiry at the Indian apolis bank revealed that Hacker, instead of making a deposit, exchanged the $5500 for newer money of larger denominations. Officials here, learning of the teller’'s disappearance, made an inevestigation which revealed that an additional $4205 was missing from his accounts.

Believed Heading South

State Police sounded a general alarm for Hacker's disappearance together with a description of him and the car in which they believe he headed south after stopping at home. Detective Raymond Boll of the Seymour barracks was assigned to direct the hunt. Hacker's disappearance startled this community in which he had lived all his life and had been a respected citizen. Bank officials said that he was a trustworthy employes, reporting for work on time daily and apparently going directly home after the coms= pletion of his day’s task. Authorities said that he had no debts to worry him, but he owed a small amount on his automobile. Hacker had worked at the bank for almost three years. He was a former Franklin College student and attended a business college.

HALLIBURTON FEARED LOST IN STORM AT SEA

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (U. P.) —Fears were growing today that Richard Halliburton, adventurewriter, and his crew aboard the Chinese junk Sea Dragon may have met with disaster on their projected trans-Pacific trip to the San Francisco World’s Fair. : It was feared storms in the are from [which the junk last reported its position six days ago may have disabled or passibly sunk the 75foot craft with its crew of 10 Americans and four Chinese,

WASHINGTON CHERRY. BLOSSOMS OPENING

WASHINGTON, March 30 (U. P.). —Washington’s famed cherry trees were bursting into gorgeous blooms around the Tidal Basin today. But just about everything else was going amiss for tomorrow’s scheduled opening - of the capital's annual cherry blossom festival. The major complication was rain and cold. cine

GIRL, 3, FOUND DEAD IN MOUNTAIN THICKET

ANGELS CAMP, Cal, March 30 (U. P.).—The body of 3-year-old Victoria Amaya, missing four days on a heavily thicketed mountainside,

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