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VOLUME 51—<NUMBER 21

FOURTH VICTIM IS ABDUCTED BY TAPE BANDITS

Monticello Man Beaten and Robbed by Pair in Auto Seized Here.

CONDITION IS SERIOUS

pr pi” Yrs

State-Wide Search Under

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Way: Car Identified in Two Crimes.

A state-wide search was under wav today for two bandits who last night abducted and beat a Monticelle gasoline station owner, their fourth Hoosier victim within a month, State Police said Arthur Johns, the filling station owner, was ab-| ducted from his filling station by, the two men, and driven into the country. | He was beaten so badly he had difficulty telling police of the crime when he was found at the outskirts of the town. He said he was robbed of $250. | Same Men Police Believe

The bandits were the same, police said. who Monday night abducted Leo V. Rogers, 641 N. Hamilton Ave. as he parked his car near the Butler Fieldhouse. They forced Mr. Rogers to accompany them to Noblesville where they robbed him of his car and $2) and left him trussed with tape. Po-| lice said the Rogers car was used in the crime last night. One of the bandits was tall and the other shout, and both carried nickel-plated revolvers. all victims agreed. | The bandits used the Rogers car also when they abducted George Coryell, 45, Tipton garage man, and, left him trussed with tape at the intersection of Roads 28 and 31 after, program. robbing him of $22.15 police said. Acting Mayor was James Kirke Rind Victim With Tape | off of Troop 3: Richard Luley, & ; | Cathedral student of Troop 69 Of Male 3 40 mien Hele) Ly | served as Lieutenant Governor, police to be the same pair, abducted and Forest MeDilliard of Troop Vernon Belcher, 20. R. R. 9 Box) 73 took Chief Morrissey's place.

540-E and drove him x the George- 5 5 town Road outside the city where they robbed him of $2 and left hun, LVIN L. BARROWS, 16 of also, bound with tape. + 5 EY 21 of the Broadway State Police said they expect to, oct < urch, “presided” over find the Rogers car abandoned soon, | ie pal Court 4. since it already has been identified! eepers,” he exclaimed, hearin two of the crimes. They said alll ing Judge Charles Karabell mete patrol cars have been notified to be out fines and jail sentences, “I'd hate to have had any more re-

on the watch for the bandits. sponsibility than I did have.”

Blockade for Bat ndits “Judge” Barrows, a Shortridge

High School junior, lives at 5828 Ensnares Liquor Suspect

College Ave. He has won 26 LOGANSPORT, April 5 (U. P).—

merit badges. The Fire Chief was Harold NegWilliam Mock, 44, of 412 N. Pine St.. Indianapolis, is held in jail to-

ley, Troop 58; Joe McNamara, day awaiting trial on charges of|

Troop 94, acted as Sheriff; Roderick, Sheridan, Troop 72, served possessing untaxed liquor after he! was arrested by sheriff's deputies’

as Adjutant General and William Hardy of Troop 2 took the place who had blocked highways mm an effort to trap two bandits who had,

of Don Stivers, State Director of | Public Safety. abducted and robbed a Monticelio filling station owner.

§ 4 4 Deputies said Mock attempted to OBERT BRACKEN, Troop 90, run through the blockade but was

was the Juvenile Court Judge captured after a two-mile chase.

and Charles Duncan. Troop 22, Officers found 185 gallons of un-

served as hit bailiff. The other taxed liquor in his atuomobile. | Municipal Court bench was occuMock said he was en route to In-|

nied by Robert McIntyre, Troop dianapolis from Chicago via Lafay-

60. ette but had become lost, Head of the Gamewell Division

was Albert Glazier, Troop 50, and RAIN TOMORROW, Le JEUSh, THOh 5 mn ihe WEATHER FORECAST

| Library for an hour. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Mn 19a Mm... 40 11am... 41 12 (noon). 43 1pm...

Get out the umbrellas and raincoats for some typical April weather. The Weather Bureau said today | that rains are due tonight and tomorrow. The forecast added that it will be colder tomorrow and tomorrow night after the precipita-

tion. Council Moves to Head Off

BARBARA STRAUSS’ Price War Threat. "CONDITION SERIOUS

Quinn Chislom

Good Deed

Scouts Rule for Hour As City and State Officials.

(Photo, Page 18)

LMOST every City office and some State offices were occupied by new officials today. The offices were filled for an hour just before noon by Eagle Scouts who had attained that rank during 1938. They served temporarily as honorary bfficials as one feature of the Civie Day

SEEK COMPROMISE IN TAXI SQUABBLE

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a. a. a. a.

| City Council members today {moved to head off what they termed Ian impending tax rate war,” which old daughter of Arthur L. Strauss| they said might grow out of a pro9120 N. Meridian St, secretary of posed ordinance to lower minimum {, Strauss & Oo. remained in rates. : cerious condition at St. Vincent's| The proposal was embodied in an Hospital today. ‘ordinance introduced Monday night Miss Strauss was thrown from her by United Cab Co, Inc, to amend horse vesterday at the Fair Grounds. the present taxicab ordinance mini-

She has not regained consciousness. mums from 15 cents for the first one

Miss Barbara Strauss, 19-year-

DETECTIVES GUARD

10 cents for the first mile or fraction. | It followed a proposed ordinance DOROTHY LAMOUR introduced previously by Red Cab, ) 'Inc., permitting that company to set la maximum rate of 53 cents for any ‘continuous trip in a general direc‘tion within the city limits. Council President Joseph G. Wood , said he would call a conference of ng letter mailed to heads of both companies to seek a in compromise. | “It appears that these ordinances | present the possibility of a taxi rate war here,” he said. “We are

NEW YORK, April 5 (U P).— Two detectives were assigned today to guard Dorothy Lamour, film ac-| tress. until she leaves for Hollywood | tonight. A threateni Miss Lamour demanded $250 small bills,

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dinances in the hope of arranging ‘a settlement.”

Tonight at 7:30 800 to 1000 Scouts |

and one-half miles or fraction, to

/going to delay action on both or-|

FORECAST: Rain tonight and tomorrow; colder tomorrow and tomorrow night.

Not ‘Bad,’ Just Wants Mule

Times Photo. + + he needs a job.

WANDERING BOY DREAMS IN VAIN

MHitch-hiker, Held Here, Sought Job So He Could Help His Granddad.

By JOE COLLIER

| Chislom intended to join Boys Town ‘at Omaba, Neb, but first he was (going to make a mighty effort to {earn a mule.

He hae wide blue eyes, thig boy | protecting local products from the wii will begin be

| from the deep South, and he talks in Southern terms but not with a | pronounced accent. | Boys Town occurred to him after [he was detained in Cincinnati, then | freed, and then detained again in | Indianapolis, this time since March |26. He explained being in jail made him think “some folks think I'm bad, being away from ‘home like this.” “But Father

Flanagan says

there's some good in every boy,”

lhe said, and, sitting there across | the table from two police officers he | seemed to wait for an answer.

Doesn't Appear to Be 16

“We don't think you're bad,” said 'Sergt. Charles Weddle, head of the | Crime Prevention Bureau, {position is this: There are so many ‘voung folks out on the road now, looking for work, and we believe they would be better off back with the families and relatives who could do most good for them.” “I know.” Quinn said, “but I've met a lot of those fellows lately and ‘most of them are just out seeing the country. They're not trying to [get a job.” | He said he was 18, but anyone who saw him sit there low in the ‘chair, creasing and recreasing his [hat and occasionally brushing back la shock of blond hair, would have

‘guessed him 15 and a scant 15 at)

[that, | “I'm trying to get a job. I had in mind trying to get a job dish ‘washing. I had one in Louisville

‘and they paid me 84 a week and) ey hy the U. S. Department of |

[what I ate. But another man worked there all the time, only he wasn't working that two weeks, so when he came back I didn't have a job,” he explained.

Mule Meant So Much

“1 was going to send what money I could back to grandmother. She'd keep it for me. I know she would. I owe her some now, about $4 and some cents. Usually when she had money I could borrow some. «Grandad was aiming to make a crop of cotton but he hadn't any mule. Daddy and I worked three years ago on his land. We rented the mules, but then Daddy lost his

«Grandmother—she usually told e what I could do and what I couldn't—told me it would be all right for me to go hitch hiking. I ‘was aiming to send back money to her and when I had enough to buy a mule or part of one I was going back and make a crop—bout three acres.” He told of writing his grandmother and then of writing more urgent(lv to his mother while he was in the Detention Home. | “I wrote her to wire right back.” ‘he said with a smile. “I wanted out lof there.”

| Faces Trip Back to Farm

But he didn't hear, so last night he and |Quinn was caught almost imme‘diately by police who happened to {be on the spot. The Travelers Aid ‘and police ave trying now to ar-

[range his transportation back to his | grandparents’ share - cropper and | muleless farm. | “I'll go back if T have to,” Quinn

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939

F.D.R. URGES END OF STATE TARIFF WARS

‘Trade Barriers Constitute Peril to Nation’s Welfare, Conference Warned.

four others broke out and |

‘ALL INDUSTRY SUFFERS’

| Delegates Meet to Smooth

Liquor, Agricultural and Tax Problems.

| (Editorial, Page 14: Another Story, Page Seven)

CHICAGO, April 5 (U. P.).—President Rosevelt appealed today for the destruction of interstate tariff walls which, he said, threaten the nation with “social and economic problems even more serious than international tariffs.” His appeal was contained in a letter to legislators and adminis trative officials of nearly all states attending a conference to seek a truce in interstate trade warfare and attempt to halt extension of interstate tariff walls. The confer ence was called by the Council of State Governments. | Mr. Roosevelt said that the United | States has been known a long time ag the world's greatest single free | trade area and that much of its | commercial importance has been due to the mobility of trade | throughout all the states,

Cites Trade Barriers

“The last few years,” he said, “have been the rise of virtual tariff barriers along state lines— damaging restrictions that have

If evervthing else failed, Quinn hindered the free flow of com- 06. 1.0 and the A.

| merce among the several states. ‘Business, agriculture, and labor have all suffered because of state and regional discriminatory meas- | ures adopted in the vain hope of

| hazards of economic fluctuations, | “Interstate trade barriers have arisen in many instances from the same causes that resulted in mounting tariff walls between nations— accountable iar so much of the [world’s unrest in recent years. The | Federal Government is seeking to [break down trade walls between ‘this and the other nations of the |world, and to remove the hamperling restrictions that have been ‘placed upon world commerce.

Closed Session Held

“Interstate trade barrviers, if allowed to develop and multiply, will, however, constitute social and economic problems even more serious than international tariffs.” | Delegates to the conference met

“put our behind closed doors for discussion |

of their differences before attempting to evolve a program of interstate co-operation on the trade problems. Six sectional meetings discussed parriers resulting from liquor reg(Continued on Page Five)

1936 LIVING COSTS SHOW DROP IN CIT

1 Per Cent Below 32 Other Localities in Survey.

| The cost of living in Indianap- | olis decreased 2 per cent last year, a

| Labor and the Bureau of Labor Sta- | tistics, revealed today. | The reduction, based on the cost lof all goods purchased by wage earners and lower-salaried workers as of Dec. 15. 1927, and again on | Dec. 15, 1938, was .1 per cent less [than the average for the 32 larg- | er cities of the U. S. included in the | survey. | At the same time, the povern- | ment agencies reported that live |ing costs here were 11.6 per cent higher than in June, 1933. but 17.2 per cent lower than in December, 11929, and 36.1 per cent below the | peak costs in June, 1920. | Comparing the costs of various | items for the four quarters of last | year, only fractional changes were | found except in fuel and light, | which averaged 2.6 per cent ‘ess for the fourth quarter than for the

| rst.

| - a rei ..bH-yp eon STOCKS PUSH UP ON “BULLISH REPORTS’

NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P).— | Stock gains here ranged to more than a point today after early irregularity. The rise reflected rumors that “something bullish” marketwise was forthcoming from Washington and that Germany and Poland would (come to an agreement over Dangig and the Polish Corridor.

Girl Than

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Prince Is Born

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REPORT DUCE HITLER AGREE BY TELEPHONE

Newspaper Announces Plan Of Pope for Broadcast on Easter Sunday.

Queen Geraldine

TIRANA, Albania, April 5 (U, P.).—Queen Geraldine, daughter of the former Gladys Virginia Stewart of New York, gave birth to a male heir to the throne today ‘while tension increased over re= ports that Italy intended to exert a protectorate over this mountain Kingdom. If the child lives to ascend the throne. he will be the first child | with American blood to become a European monarch.

ROME, April 5 (U. P) —Premier Mussolini and Fuehrer Hitler in a long telephone conversation today Stl as SER vests were reported to have agreed on a co-operative policy in the present | European situation, usually reliable | informants said.

0. I 0. AND A. F. L | ‘ | At the same time the Giornale SUSPEND TALKS i'w announced that Pope Pius

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

ENGLAND IS PREPARED

FINAL 7 HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

Matter

HTNING ATTACK,

CHAMBERLAIN REPORTS

Nation Completes Defense Pact With Poland; | Italian Army Reported Ready to Enter Albania, Reich Denies Advance.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS ROME—Mussolini and Hitler reported in agreement. BRITISH naval gunners ready. TIRANA—Son born to Queen Geraldine. BERLIN—Nazis to press influence on Franco. SHANGHAI—Japanese columns open intensive drive. LONDON, April 5 (U. P.).—Great Britain is fully pre pared to repel any lightning attack by air or underseas, Prime Minister Chamberlain disclosed in the House of Commons today as the Government completed negotiations on a mutual defense pact with Poland. Mr. Chamberlain's statement was in explanation of remarks made last night by Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, who caused a sensation by revealing that the

Pope may be preparing some un-

XII will broadcast to the world on Easter Sunday an important speech on international affairs. Postponed Pending Hearings ' Before Senate on Proposed Labor Act Revision.

| war danger, Two Points Involved

It was asserted that the Fascist land Nazi partners in the RomeNEW YORK, April 5 (U. P).—| Berlin A | John L. Lewis, president of the C.| 1. Fully agreed regarding the 1. 0, announced today that resump- effectuation of precautionary milition of peace conferences between ary measures which the Itailan F. of L. had | War Ministry already had adopted. 2. Discussed questions involving concerted action in event political developments in Europe made it ad-

The newspaper suggested that the

| been postponed indefinitely. | Mr. Lewis said that the postponement was made because of scheduled ‘hearings on proposed amendments | visable, to the Wagner Labor Relations Act, | This news came as Italy was reTore the Senate ported to be ready to send infantry,

por Committee artillery and airplanes to Albania as an “axis” move lo offset Great Britain's “Stop Hitler” drive, The only official news from Al-

Education mand La next Tuesday, and because of the soft coal collective bargaining negotiations in which he is engaged. The ©. I. O. chieftain said the meetings would resume later on a | Geraldine had given birth to a hoy, “mutually satisfactory date.” (heir to the throne of King Zog, and The peace talks were scheduled to # denial of reports that Italy was presume at 8:30 p. m. today. Mr. pressing Albania to accept an Ita-

Lewis sald that he had talked with lian protectorate. Italian Leaders Silent

Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. vice president, by telephone and that they “east eed” to the postpone- Italian officials refused to discuss let easily agy posipo [reports of military movements. Thirty thousand Italian troops,

ment. including units of the crack plume-

The C. I. O. opposes any change | he + relations law includin jn the jalior, ves : hatted Bersaglieri, were reported massing at Bari and Brindisi, 45

| those amendments sponsored by the miles across the Strait of Otranto,

| A. Foof Ly from Albania.

‘Mine Shutdown Morning newspapers ignored the Albanian problem, publishing

neither reports of an Italian pro-

‘Negotiators Locked

usually important diplomatic move

» ” ” | E T 4 ir rebuking Lord Stanhope for “talking out of turn,”

lin connection with the European

| Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of

British fleet was fully manned for antiaircraft action. The Prime Minister, while

‘nevertheless admitted that NEUTRALITY ACT ve Government considers ‘this a “time of tension” and

cording y instructed naval

Stimson Urges Wider Power gunners some time ago to reFor Roosevelt in Opening 'main in readiness to man their : uns. ; Senate Hearing. BUNS

Meanwhile, Germany and Italy sa sought to crack the united peace w TON. April 3 (U. P,.|front being built on a foundation ASHINGTON, Ap: of hayonets to halt future European aggression.

State in President Hoover's Cabinet, | Berlin Plans Pressure

today urged the United States to

‘aggressions of dictator nations. bania in 24 hours was that Queen facing a critical situation in which [three totaltiarian states have torn ‘up all codes of international con‘duct, Mr. Stimson sald “Caucas

use its economic resources to halt In Berlin, high Nazi officials in di

cated that pressure would be put on Gen. Franco for quick formal ade herence to the totalitarian antie Communist alliance as a counters

fan | the blow to the British negotiations,

Asserting the United States is

civilization is threatened by gravest danger with which it has Which the Nazi press denounced as

been confronted for four centuries.” a “madhouse” plot endangering" Opens Senate Hearings EUrppe's JDeace by encirclement of He advocated giving the President In Rome Premier Mussolini was greater power: in efforts to main- |, qerstood to have agreed with ain neutralif and at the same time | gqoprer Hitler in a telephone conto place Am/ jcan resources in op-|io.cation as to methods for mak-: position to tae advance of dictator- ling effective the German Italian ship. ly Pra ” Mr. Stimson opened hearings ow SOuRter moves against the peace proposed revision of neutrality laws ‘on before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

Ttaly Danger Spot

teotorate over Albania nor the Al|banian denial that one had been (Continued on Page Six)

LEBRUN RE-ELECTED FRENGH PRESIDENT

| NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P)-— | Acting under a new grant of au|thority, a joint subcommittee of the Appalachian wage-hour conference attempted today to break the three-weeks deadlock which has | held up a new contract covering 388.000 soft coal miners—idle since [April l—and nearly 2000 operators. The subcommittee, made up of four officers of the United Mine | Workers of Ameirea ahd four oper-

tors, r he full confer- : : ators, reported 0 the LL manie Balloting Shows Unity of Nation Amid Threats.

to reach an agreement and that further negotiations would be futile. The conference, comprising 150 district union officers and as many operators, listened to a statement by | 'U. M. W. Vice President Philip | Murray and then ordered the sub- | committee to get back to work. Burcpe. | Mr. Murray told the conference president Lebrun was elected for | that the union was willing to renew |, <acond seven-year term as 15th | the expired 1037-39 wage-hour president of the Third Republic by |

PARIS, April 3 (U. P) —Presi-| dnet Albert Lebrun was re-elected | today in a gesture of national unity | against threatening conditions in|

, Actual military measures, apparMr. Stimson asserted that the : el law. which when | ntlY directed against British-led invoked applies to both sides in a United front, centered around Italy, war, “evidently was drawn under | Italian troops reinforced the Fasthe influence and traditions of the | CS! Mediterranean lines at every past rather than to face conditions | danger spot and were 1 eported as they exist at present. (ready to move into Albania to com=He advocated giving the Presi- | Plete Mussolini's already powerful dent discretionary power in em- grip on the land of King Zog. This bargoing arms shipments to nations Move would give x arning to adjaengaged in war. cent Jugoslavia and Greece that ade herence to anti-Nazi front involves Urges Outline of Policies {grave risks. Mr. Stimson proposed also that| At Tirana, official Albanian:

Congress outline America’s neutral- Sources maintained there was no ity policies in “broad terms,” dele- thought of an Italian protectorate,

ating to the President considera but both Rome and London disble latitude in effectuating those Patches indicated that the Fascists

Radio ‘Attack’ Appears to Be Making Inroads.

| Meanwhile, Thomas Ruckelshaus.

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president of Red Cab, Inc, said hiS gqid. “but I was aiming to go back

company would resist any attempt with some m ) ‘with oney of my own and to lower the minimum rate. buy a mule and make a crop.”

“If United is permitted to lower ‘gow much would a mule cost?”

[their rates by any action that the Sept. Weddle asked.

Council might take, we'll ge lower too.” he said. J. B. Kammins, counsel for United Cab Co. Inc, said his company| And so this shareero ' ) S 5 pper son, of a would press for the rate revision. sharecropper son of a sharecropper The Safety Board has approved and muleless father was led back

He figured like a miniature David Harum. N “About $20. I reckon.” he said.

Red Cab's request for the 55-cent to his cell until something can be

maximum, but has rejected the 10- arranged for him, which, Sergt. asked by United, be. Weddle was orced to ctinl ecessitate amend: | hound to \ ne § less |

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(Continued on Page Five) the Senate and Chamber of Depu- | | The election was on the first bal- | approximately 910 votes. asked the Nationalist Government But Urges Sanitation Plant soidiers had landed at Cadiz, the [papers reported that the British The Works Board today declined | oo Italian Envoy Denies Workers of America for recognition] The Board also informed elim Foreign Minister Count Galefeel free” to take their problems Spain, it was disclosed ‘today in a quested the Board to recognize the|bassador. visory employees on working condiGuido da Verona, 58, one of Italy's lowing a statement issued by Presiill for ‘two months. Several of his bargaining collectively. 327 Minkner St, thanked pital bed suffering with burns to a bonfire near her home yesterof 332 Minkner St, caught her the flames, adding to the difficulty dition as “fa

ga |ties, meeting as a national assemBOARD AVOIDS STAND (bly at historic Versailles Palace. | | | lot with M. Lebrun receiving 506 of | ON UNION DEMAND Meanwhile, Marshal Philippe Pe- ( French Ambassador to Spain, ‘to clarify reports that 4500 Italian : | foreign office said today. NewsWorkers to Air Problems. | | Ambassador made similar represen- | tations. to take a position on the demand] of the State, County and Municipal as the bargaining agent for city More Troops in Spain Sanitation plant employees. LONDON, April 5 (U. P.) —Italunion, a Cc. I. O. affiliate, that all azzo Ciano denied yesterday that sanitation plant employees “should | fresh Italian troops had arrived in to the Board at any time, report on the Foreign Minister's The union previously had re- talk with Lord Perth, British Amright of sanitation plant employecs wT ————Sc eb to organize and confer with super- ITALIAN NOVELIST DIES MILAN, Italy, April 5 (U. P.).— tions. The Board asserted that it is fol- most popular and: most : prolific novelists, died today. He had been dent Roosevelt on the subject of public employees organizing and|works had been banned ‘by the church. Neighbors for Saving Life ATRICIA FODDRILL, 8, of neighbors for saving her life today as she lay in her City Hosabout the hips. Her dress caught fire when she stepped too close day afternoon. As she ran toward home, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Judd, and smothered the flames. They said the wind was fanning of putting out the blaze. Hospital attaches reported her con-

policies. ‘had some stern but undisclosed “And the fact that we are known measure in mind. to be ready to do so will not only tend to slow down the axis but at Troops: Reported: Weany the same time will encourage their| Infantry, artillery and airplanes intended victims not to make sur-| Were reported ready to enter Al renders which will ultimately en- bania from Italy. Other Iialian danger us,” he said. forces, including heavy artillery, rs sm——— moved to reinforce the Fascist out[posts at the Dodecanese Islands, NAZI EN OR HIP near the Suez Canal; and still other | Italian troops reportedly landed in |Spain, where French and British STARTS T0 CRACK ciriomes asked for an explanation {of the dispatch oi fresh units to | France's back door. . ; | Rumania, still in an uncertain role lin the British plans for eastern | European alliances, dispatched another infantry regiment to the frontier on reports—Ilater denied at Sofia—that Bulgaria was moving By THOMAS L. STOKES | troops up toward the border. Times Special Writer | Nervousness continued on the WASHINGTON, April 5-—The eastern borders of the Reich, and wall which Adolf Hitler has tried two Nazis were seriously injured mn to erect about the German people a clash with Poles in the Danzig against the outside world by control suburb of Langfuhr. : of press and radio begins to show| German officials denied that any signs of strain, with cracks appear- Nazi troops were on the move, and ing. |the Berlin newspapers ignored other The “outside word” of the outside | developments in order to accuse’ the world seems to be penetrating more | United States and Great Britain effectively due to a persistent radio of inspiring terrorists who threw a attack by the democracies and a bomb near the German embassy ‘at stubbor ndetermination of at least Santiago, Chile. a portion of the German people to] On his appearance in the House get the outside viewpoint despite of Commons, Prime Minister Chamthe danger of persecution and con- berlain admitted that he authorized centration camps. {a request that newspapers suppress This is the deduction from the {Continued on Page Six) : Paces shutting off of Hitler's Wil- 1 helmshaven address last Saturday, with the interpretation here that $200 ROBBERY STORY the action was taken to prevent ' rn Eng Sg DESCRIBED AS HOAX. GIVE DUCHESS TITLE, BRAZIL, April 5 (U. P.).—Perry LONDON PAPER Coan, 40, farmer and WPA worker URGES o near Clay City, has confessed, a -_. BB Sheriff Fred Will and 5 LONDON, April 5 (U. P.).—The iy ame Sato Daily Express urged editorially today. that the title of Royal Highness be granted the Duchess of Windsor so the Duke could return with her to England. CLOSE MARKETS FRIDAY NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P).—~ The New York Curb Exchange announced today that the Beard of Governors had voted to close the exchange for business on Good Fri-

day, April 7. The New York Stock

Police said today, that his story ef being drugged and robbed of $200 last week—the shock of which, caused his father's death-—was a hoax, ‘ Coan had claimed that as he was on his way to Lewis; with $200 to: buy a team of horses, & stranger clapped a cloth n cB mysterious drug over dy Today, the sheriff. sa mitted that he had i ed the story because he was afraid that if’ WA viicials lead he had $2

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