Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1939 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
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19, 1080
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Group May Line Up
To Delay Further Outlays for Relief
Senate Passes 100-Million-Dollar Bill Despite Roose-
velt; President to Ask
Billion, 500 Million for
Next Fiscal Year Starting July 1.
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.
).—The Congressional economy bloc,
succesful in slightly whittling this year’s relief funds, will try to prevent any appropriation for relief in the coming fiscal year until the WPA is materially reorganized, it was indicated today.
The fight over the last of this
year's relief funds ended last night
when the Senate passed and sent to President Roosevelt a bill appropriating 100 million dollars—50 million less than he asked—to carry WPA
until July 1. Senator Minton (D. Ind) voted for the 150-million-dollar amendment. Senator VanNuys (D. Ind) still ig ill and was absent but he was paired against it with Senator Hill (D. Ala). The President will ask $1,500,000,000 for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Word of that figure, to be formally submitted by Mr. Roosevelt within a few days, was cheered by economy advocates. A total of $2.250,000,000 was voted for relief this year. Encouraging, Says Adams It seemed to them to hold promise of being a long step toward curtailment of spending. Before cheer-
JUDGE RESIGNS: 0.5. DROPS QUIZ
Federal Jurist Questioned In Manton Case Reported Ili.
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. PP) —President Roosevelt today accept-
ing too loudly, however, they awaited assurances that that sum; would be made to last the full year| and that the Administration would] not be returning, as it did this year, for more. Chairman Alva B. Adams (D.| Colo.) of the Appropriations Subcommittee in Charge of Relief Bills, said that Mr. Roosevelt's intention of asking for only $1,500,000,000 was “very encouraging.” The House Appropriations Inves-| tigating Committee, dominated by economy bloc members, indicated the future course of the economy bloc. It proposed to see to it that the WPA is so reorganized as to really hold down costs. They will} aim at a complete new setup, al-; thought what form it will take was] uncertain. Investigators already! have been assigned to the field and | it was expected that one of the; Committee's recommendations al-| most certainly would be for a per-| manent legislative committee to supervise relief policy. Estimate Pared The Investigating Committee be-| gan its hearings in executive ses-| sion yesterday with WPA Admin-| istrator F. C. Harrington as witness. | It expects to meet there days a| week and will continue in closed | sessions, despite Republican demands for open hearings. Democratic members of the Committee oppose public meetings, contending that Republicans would attempt to call witnesses who would accentuate Administration “mis-| takes” in handling relief, rather than look for a new program. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky) announced the; President's plan to ask for $1.500,000.000 for relief next year. That figure will be a slight reduction from the rough estimate in the President's January budget message of $1,700.000.000.
Jennings Plans Survey Of WPA Employment
A survey to determine the length of employment of WPA workers on Indiana projects was ordered today
by John K. Jennings, State WPA |
Administrator. Mr. Jennings said the survey is expected to show the length of continwous employment and the number of months intervening between the worker's present and last preceding WPA empioyinent.
Age of workers and of
types
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ed the resignation of Federal Judge REdwin S. Thomas of Connecticut, whose affairs have been investigated in connection with the McKesson
|& Robbins scandal and other mat-
ters. Attorney General Frank Murphy
said that in view of the resignation, there would be no further “consideration of the question of impeach-
The resignation, effective immediately, was submitted in a letter dated April 8. It was accompanied by a statement from Judge Thomas’ doctors saying that his physical condition was very serious—a condition which Mr. Murphy said the Justice Department “greatly regrets.” “After studying the medical records, I am satisfied that Judge Thomas is a very ill man™ Mr. Murphy said. “If we have appeared overzealous in anything we have done, it is because we have been trying to protect the public interest.” Connecticut friends of Judge Thomas had charged the Justice Department in its inquiry had shocked the judge unnecessarily. Mr. Murphy said that Judge Thomas had been questioned closely in matters involving resigned Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton, the McKesson & Robbins case “and other things besides.” Judge Thomas was ordered home from a vacation in a dramatic episode last FebruWhile on a ship enroute to the Canal Zone, he was ordered home and testified before the Grand Jury which indicted Judge Manton. Judge Thomas had been on the bench since 1913. He is 66.
NEW THEORY PROBED IN DEATH OF GIRL, 19
MOUNT MORRIS, N. Y., April 12 (U. P.) .—Police today investigated a theory that 19-year-old Lois Patricia Tryon was Killed ac|cidentally last Thursday night {while attempting to crawl over the {couplings of a train blocking a crossing. Authorities learned that several
freight trains had passed over the | Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
1
(tracks here about the time Miss | Tryon was killed. Her body was
| found along the tracks by a railroad
employee early Friday morning.
projects on which they worked also| Coroner Anderson V. Vickers orwill be obtained, he said. Results!iginally said he believed the girl
are expected to be available within]
a month or six weeks.
had been thrown under a moving train.
OC PUSHES
All Is Well Among Dem
CRITICS OF NLRB FAVORED TO WIN ELECTION ISSUE
Change Would Give Company Right to Request Vote On Legal Bargainers.
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. PJ). —Critics of the Labor Board are expected to win their long fight to allow employers, as well as employees, to request elections for collectivebargaining representation, Unless the Board changes its prohibitive regulation, Congress probably will force the change by an amendment to the Wagner Law. This is one of the few points on which friends of the Board on Capitol Hill and around the White House admit that change is needed. The main consideration preventing immediate action by the Board jtself, thus removing the necessity of this most popular of all the proamendments, apparnetly is the feeling that the fight has gone too far already to stop it with this last-minute compromise, Board's Blunder Recognized It is now rather generally accepted here that the Board made a bad tactical blunder in failing to change this unpopular rule when Senator Wagner and other friends suggested it quietly last year. Although Senator Wagner's attitude on this has not been entirely a secret, he has refrained hitherto trom any statement which could be interpreted as critical of the Board. Hence the importance of this flat statement at the Senate hearings Monday, that— “There is nothing in the present act which denied this privilege to employers. The prohibition rests on a ruling of the Labor Board. This ruling evolved before the current labor split, to meet the situation where an employer might attempt prematurely to freeze a situation produced by a long tradition of opposition to unionism. “While there should still be safeguards against this situation, the labor split has introduced a novel situation where a well-intentioned employer is caught between the competition of rival groups. In such cases, under appropriate safeguards which these hearings should develop, I feel that the employer certainly should have the right to petition for an election. “It would seem that the Board could accomplish this under its rule-making power. But if not, there should be legislation toward that end, unless these hearings develop compelling reasons, which I do not now see, why such a change would impair the objectives of the
act.” Opens Way for Reply
Senator Wagner has thus opened the way for Board members, when they testify, to argue as follows: That the rule was justified originally as a necessary restraint of antilabor employers, and only became burdensome later to a few well-intentioned employers after the A. F. of L.-C. I. O. split. That continuance of the rule after the A. F. of L-C. I. O. split has been justified up to now because it was a factor in relatively few situations, and because the interunion confiict was believed to be temporary. That in view of continuance of the A. F. of L.-C. I. O. split, never contemplated by the law or the Board’s rule, the Board will no longer oppose modification of the rule with proper safeguards. Whether the Board will take advantage of this face-saving opening at the hearings is not yet clear. But some such gesture, in answer to charges that the Board is “stiffnecked,” has been advised and may be carried out.
IN INDIANAPOL
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MEETINGS TODAY
Fraternal Order of Police, dinner, Clavpool Hotel, § p. m. Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Purdee Alumni Association, Hote( Severin, noon. Indiana Lumbermen’s Club, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m. Kiwanis Claud, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Young Mens Discussion Club, dinner,
Indianapolis Apartment Owners’ Associatien, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. 12th District, American Legion, luncheon, Roard of Trade, noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon, Delta Theta Taw, luncheon, Seville Tavern, noon. Beverage Credit Group, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, noon. Co-Operative Clab eof Indianapolis, luncheon, jumbia Club, noon, Indiana Motor Traffic Association, funcheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Burroughs Opera Club, meeting, Hote Washington, ¥ p. m.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
indiana State Association o Spititasl. sts, . ay ote . Mm. ee dlanape a Board, vanch-
Indifnh he Real Eshate - eon, Hote vashington, n . Sigma Nu, neon. Hotel Washington, noon. Alliance Francaise, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p.m, dvertising Club of Indianapolis, lunch-
eon, Columbia Club, noon, Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,
noon. American Business Chub, luncheon, Co-
Iumbia Club. noon. Fine Taper Credit Group, luncheon, Men's Grille, the William H. Block Co. noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat mple,
oon. Radio gatinters Guild, meeting, Hotel . HA, MS luncheon, Hotel ge oh. ons n League ol ndianapelis, luncheon, Architects and Builders building,
oon. Indianapelis Camera Club, meeting, 110 E._ Ninth St. 0 m. : Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Canary CotTraffic Cled, dinner-dance, 6:30 p. m.
luncheon,
tage noon. ndiana Cc umbia Chub,
BIRTHS
Tony, Madeline Zappia, at St. Vincent’s. | Francis, Margaret Callahan, at St. Vincent’s. Charles, Louise Clark, at City, Noah, Jeanette Houchin, at City. Edgar, Mary Black, at Coleman. John, Helen Kay, at Methodist. Harold. Enid Hamel at Methodist, George. Josephine Mitten, at Methodist. hone, Dorothy Maples, at 513 Buchanan. James, Morrelle Martin, at 1222 Cornell. Clarence, Myrtle Allison, at As Spann. Ray, Grace Stevenson, at 288 S. Keystone. Carson, Marian Coleman. at 2038 Co-
' lumbia. | Charles, _ Mildred Dickerson, at 432 Kauffman Place. Bovs Robert. Helen Congress, at St. Vincent's. Robert. Ruth Jovce at St. Vincent's, Joseph, Josephine Adams, at St. Vin-
tt at Coleman
ecker, at Methodist. Elmer, Arsula Maddox, at 338 N. Temple. Hubert. Sue Maples, at 514 Buchannan. Charles Juanita Burretto, at 8335 S. Ala-
bama. Bishop, Louise Westmoreland, at 2407 N.
ural. Gilbert, Elizabeth Leslie, at 1629 N. Arsenal, Arthur Esther Smock, at 702 N. Dor-
Nan. Rav, Alberta Littel, at Methodist, Russell, Helen Johnson, at Methodist.
DEATHS Dennis Dwyer, 45, at St. Vincent's, general ritonitis. William Freeman, 39, at City, lobar pneumonia. William I. Rankins, 48 at Veterans, arteriosclerosis. Jessie J. Smith, v5, at 2201 N. Alabama, cerebral hemorrhage. at Central Indiana,
Alice Ascher, 85, chronic endocarditis. Mary Ellis, 48 at Central Indiana, influenza 22, at Long,
Russell Stiedel, myelitis, Patrick Sexton, 82, at 520 E. Vermont, chronic myocarditis. in FP. Head, 57, at 315 E Fall +d, Hodgkin's Disease. ¢ a Kattau, 65, at Methodist, perionitis. Pinkie Lee 48 at 819 W. 27th, chronic nephritis, ora B. Yost, 63, at City, acute endocarditis. Martin Wesson, 78, at 1427 N. Delaware, cerebral hemorrhage. Margaret Hoffman, 56, at 125¢ Olive, carcinoma.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are trom official records fn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)
Elmer Jordan, 26, of 1 N. Delawa St Frances Stranz. 5, of 2035 N. Merida.
n St E. Kinnet:, 53. 12 E._St. Clair St: Luciends Hadley, & o& 19 ont St. Stanley, 28, of 91 6th St. man, 22 of 263 arion McGinley, 27, Sout cia MeGiniey, 29 ot eis N. Ox
cent's, Paul, Caroline Har Edward, Madonna
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Blanche Grant, FIRES Tuesda
Girls Raymond, Maxine Keaton, at St. Via-
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4g: . M.—May Holmes, 120 W. 15th, defective flue, no loss. 4:31 P. M.—920 Bellefontaine, from flue, $3. 9:09 P. M.—Unice Rummel, 501 N. Emerson, laundry ignited by gas hotplate, loss unestimated. 11:22 P. M. and 11:28 P. M —Gus Delcus Restaurant, 1312 W. Washington, overheated stove, $100. Wednesday
M.—Progress T-~uadry, 420 E. defective T. water flow
sparks
5:35 A, Market St. system. 5:56 A M.—I~ overheated st-t
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Stairs, 1029 N. Illinois, $10.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
By U. S. Weather Bureau a
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight with a heavy frost and lowest temperature about 27; tomer. row increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer,
Solin 5:11 | Sunset .....
TEMPERATURE —April 12, 1938— 6:30 a. m....... 30 1p Mm... .
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m.. 30.32
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Fair and continued cold to- , heavy frost or temperatures below freezing: tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer.
Ilinois—Fair, not quite so cold, heavy frost or freezi temperatures tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness with ing temperature, Lowar Michigan—Occasional snow this afternoon, unsettled tonight, comin generally fair tomorrow, continu colc except somewhat warmer tomorrow, in central and south portions. Ohio—Partly cloudy with freezing temperature and heavy frost, not so cold in extreme northwest portion Soe. tomorrow generally fair with slowly rising temperature. Kentucky—Fair with freezing temperature and heavy frost, slightly colder in southeast portion tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. Station. Weather, Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. .... 6 Bismarck, D. Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland «...
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Times Photo.
All seemed well in the ranks of the State Democralic Party today as Frank McHale, campaigh manager for High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt (right) and Fred F. Bays, newly elected State Committee chair man, chatted after the committee's meeting yesterday at the Claypool
Urges U. S. Kill All Poor Over 70-75
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.) — Euthanasia — mercy killing—is now proposed as a possible solution of the relief problem. Maj. Edward L. Dyer, U. S. Army, retired, suggested in a talk before the Washington Society for Philosophical Research yesterday that aged persons—over 70 or 75—without means of support be humanely Killed to relieve the nation’s relief burden. He also proposed that the hopelessly insane and dis eased, “children born as monsters,” and all first degree murderers be done away with. “I don’t advocate taking everyone on relief rolls out and giving them a shot,” he said, “but euthanasia should be considered in cases of old age, where the persons are of no use to themselves or anyone else.” Major Dyer said he realized that “many religions would be against it.”
REPORT GZECH PLOT T0 SHOOT HITLER
LONDON, April 12 (U. P).—The Daiiy Mirror said today that German secret police uncovered a plot of a group of Czechs to shoot Adolph Hitler as he spoke at the launching of the battleship Tirpitz
at Wilhelmshaven. In an undatelined article, the paper said the Gestapo on March 31, the day before the launching, searched nearby quays and arrested two Czechs who carried automatic pistols. In a raid on a nearby house, owned by a former Sudeten German, the article said, they arrested four more Czechs, all armed. All of the Czechs calmly confessed the plot, according to the Mirror. Two of the party escaped to Holland before the arrests were made, it said. The Mirror gave as its source an unnamed Dutch journalist, who it said witnesc~4 the arrests and was (hims~1{ arrested and held incom- | municado wmtil Tuczday, when he was ordered to leave Germany ime | mediately.
MRS. LAUER TAKEN TO WOMEN'S PRISON
NEW YORK. April 12 (U. P)— Mrs. Edgar J. Lauer, 58-year-old wife of a State Supreme Court justice, a fashion leader and favorite hostess of the cosmopolitan set, was confined today in the Women’s House of Detention where there are 500 prostitutes and the lowest type of women criminals. Pending a medical examination to determine her fitness for work, she was in a cell. She had been booked, bathed and given a uniform. She was limited to $3 a month spending money for candy and cigarets. Her husband was inconsolable. He sobbed when he embraced her and bade her goodby before she was taken from the courtroom. She also wept and exclaimed, “Why did they do this to me?” Mrs. Lauer was the first of the defendants in a smuggling conspiracy centered about Albert N. Chaperau, a globe trotter who helped American celebrities smuggle jewels and fine clothes from Europe, to go to prison. Jack Benny and George Burns, radio and movie celebrities, were let off with fines and suse pended sentences, Chaperau was Jenitrieel to five years’ imprisonmen
7 CCC YOUTHS HURT AS TRUCK OVERTURNS
PERU, April 12 (U. P).—Seven CCC workers today were recovering from injuries suffered when a truck in which they were riding overturned near here. Twenty-five boys were riding in the truck when it overturned, and
MILK PRIGE CUT PLEA IS STUDIED
State Board Ponders Ruling As Probe of Its Conduct Gets Under Way.
(Continued from Page One)
densed milk and butter at lower prices. C. W. Humrickhouse, Milk Board executive secretary, said the petition would be presented to the Board at a special session for “preliminary discussion.”
Price Raised in 1927
He declined to predict whether the Board would make an emergency order before a formal hear ing is held. The last time milk prices were changed in the Indianapolis area was in July, 1927, when the delivery price to consumers was raised from 11 to 12 cents a quart. Although the distributors declined to comment on the cause of reduced consumption here, it was reported that the use of substitutes such as powdered or condensed milk is increasing. Mr. Hunt said the one-cent reduction would tend to increase sales enough to relieve the emergency.
Webb Among Probers
The members of the legislative committee investigating the Milk Control Act administration are Senators John Bright Webb (D. Indianapolis) and Albert Ferris (R.
Milton) and Reps. C. Y. Foster (R. Carmel) and Carl E. Roell (D. Shelbyville) ¢ All members of the State Milk Control Board, including Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker were present to testify today. The Legislature renewed the life of the Milk Control Board for two more years only after one of the most bitter battles of the 1939 session. At one iime a delegation of 1000 iaiin~s stampeded into the chambers to favor extension of the Board. During debate on the measure charges were made that $100 bills had been offered various Representatives for their votes in favor of extending the Board. Opponents of the Board contended that it was monopolistic and dictatorial, but proponents said it was the principal factor in stabilizing the Hoosier dairy industry.
WOOSTER, 0., WOMAN ‘AMERICAN MOTHER’
NEW YORK, April 12 (U. P)— Mrs. Elias Compton of Wooster, O, has been selected “The American Mother for 1939” by the Golden Rule Foundation. She will come here to receive her title on May 14, Mothers Day. She is the widow of Dr. Elias Compton, who was dean of Wooster College for 22 years, and the mother of Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Techonology; Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, profesosr of physics at the University of Chicago, a Nobel Prize winner; Wilson Martindale Compton, lawyer, economist and general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Washington, and Mrs. C. Herbert Rice, wife of the principal of Christian College, Allahabad, India.
U.S. TOPARADEITS SEA MIGHT APRIL 27
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P). —The U. S. Fleet will parade its might April 27 off Cape Henry, Virginia, in the first review of the nation's sea strength on the Eastern seaboard since 1934, the Navy announced today. About 70 warships, including eight battleships, four aircraft carriers, five heavy cruisers, 11 light cruisers and many destroyers, will pass in review before Secretary of Navy Claude Swanson’s reviewing post aboard the heavy cruiser Houston. The Houston will be located about 11 miles southeast of Cape Henry. The fleet, under Admiral Claude ©. Bloch, commander-in-chief, wiil
pass in review en route from its 0 ia jes at Roads to
MOST OF EUROPE ARMING AGAINST THREAT OF WAR
Germany and Italy, With Million Each, Lead in Parade of Might.
LONDON, April 12 (U. P.)~Millions of men under arms were spread across Europe today as al most every nation took military precautions against the threat of war. The totalitarian powers, Germany and Italy, with a million men each shouldering bayonets, led the parade in manpower but France, with a million soldiers on duty, and Great Britain, boosting her standing army and national guard toward the 600,000 mark, were not far behind. Soviet Russia's armed forces now are estimated at about 2,600,000 and Nationalist Spain's at almost a million, Smaller Nations Arm
In addition to the approximate seven million soldiers ready for action in the six major nations, almost every other country has taken military precautions, adding substantially to the normal total of 1,« 100,000 men which 18 other Euro= pean countries keep under arms. The Italian armed forces, most disturbing at the moment to Great Britain and France, total more than 900,000 men, exclusive of colonial troops and are chiefly distributed as follows: Albania, 50,000; Spain, 60,000; Dodecanese Islands, 30,000; Libya, 80,000; Ethiopian area, 280,000; Italy, 400,000. Military experts noted particular ly the 30,000 troops on the small but strategically important Dodecanese Islands, which Italy has been fortifying with heavy artillery as a possible threat to British and French communication lines in the eastern Mediterranean.
Estimate Believed Low
Many experts also believed that the 80,000 total, as estimated at Rome, for Libya was too low in view of tension along the Libyan-French
Tunisia frontier. Other Italian troops are at such points as Sardinia and Sicily. Germany's army has spread out over a wider area as a result of the seizure of Czechoslovakia. At the same time, the actusl frontier of the Reich was shortened and made more easy to defend by inclusion of the central Eurcpean republic. Latest reports have indicated that the German forces were being strengthened on the eastern frontier, facing Poland. France has put approximately 400,000 reservists under the colors in less than a month since Premier Daladier was given temporary dictatorial powers. Added to the normal peace time fighting force of 650,000, the French have more than a million men under arms. Most of the reservists have moved into the Maginot Line area, facing Germany. Britain Seeks Volunteers
Great Britain, the only big European power without compulsory service, is in the midst of a gigantic campaign for volunteers who are steadily boosting the size of the reg-
ular army (normally 218,000 at home and overseas) and the territorials or national guard (normally 160,000 but now expanded to accommodate 370,000 men). Rumania has cailed up many reservists, possibly 200,000, in addition to her standing army of 200,000 men; Poland’s normal armed total is 277,000, and Jugoslavia has called some
normal army of 190,000. Hungary, going through border warfare in connection with redistributicn of Czechoslovak territory, has greatly increased her normal army of 35,000.
GAPEHART TO TALK ON M'NUTT DRIVE
Times Special KOKOMO, April 12—Homer E. Capehart, Washington, Ind., industrialist, will address Howard County Republicans Monday night on High
Commissioner Paul V. McNutt’s candidacy for the Presidential nomination. “Mr. Capehart said he didn’t believe that the Presidency would be safe in Mr. McNutt’s hands,” W. W. Dragoo, Howard County G. O. P. chairman, stated. “He asked us if we cared if he said so in his talk here. “We told him we'd be delighted to hear anything he had to say.”
EVIDENCE ON PIERCE HELD BY PHYSICIANS
BEDFORD, April 12 (U. P).— Evidence concerning the mental condition of Samuel Pierce, 69, charged with slaying his neighbor in a feud over land boundaries, today was in the possession of physicians here. The farmer was examined by physician’s on request of Pierce's attorneys, but they did not reveal what the results were. Pierce's trial will start April 24. He is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Earl Roach, 65, on Feb. 12.
ARRANGE RITES FOR L. WALTER BREAKS
CRAWFORDSVILLE, April 12 (U. P.)—Funeral arrangements were being made today for IL. Walter Breaks, 63, of Crawfordsville, who died yesterday. He was a prominent Montgomery County Republican. He had been a trustee of Purdue University, treasurer of the Indiana State Fair Association, and member of the
State Board of Agriculture in addition to holding numerpus
reserve officers in addition to her|"
By Italy
long-dreaded European war,
Since the beginning of the decline of the League of Nations it has been clear that no nation is willing to risk war solely in defense of an ideal in the abstract. Only when its own vital interests are directly involved will it take up arms. Thus there are frontiers in Europe which, if molested, would vastly irritate the governments of the old world democracies, but which would not necessarily precipitate a general conflict.
Greece Strategic Spot
But there are other areas of which exactly the contrary can be stated quite categorically. One such is the corridor, which, if closed, would landlock Poland and turn the key to that nation’s destiny over to its unfriendly neighbors. A second is Greece, today one of the most important spots, strategically speaking, in the whole basin of the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is vital to both Britain and France as well as to Italy. Since Trafalgar, Britain has been supreme in those waters. From Gibraltar she has mounted guard over the western end. From Suez she has controlled the eastern gateway. From Malta she has dominated the waters in between. Italy Is British Worry Now the picture has changed. The change has been brought about by the airplane. Gibraltar still frowns down upon the sea’s western portals, though not as securely as in the past. But Malta has become untenable as a major naval base in the event of an Anglo-Italian war, while as for Suez, even if British ships continued to enjoy safe transit there, the Red Sea, Strait of Bab el Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden are all under Italian guns—or rather the bombs of Italian aircraft—as long as Il Duce can hold out in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The rise of Italy as a great power, particularly in the air, constitutes for Britain a dangerous upset. She is keenly aware, therefore, that she must remedy the situation in one
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German Invasion of Polish Corridor Also Is Described as Sure Signal for Outbreak In Europe.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, April 12.—Should Italy attack Greece, or Germany invade the Polish corridor, it would almost certainly be the signal for the
This can be stated on the basis of information just received from authoritative sources in Britain, France, Poland and Greece.
of two ways, either by making friends with Italy or by eventually fighting her. If it is to be war, Britain must find a way to build up her position in the Mediterranean. As matters stand, Greek harbors are at the disposal of her warships. She is on friendly terms with the Greek Gove ernment. King George II is of British and Danish ancestry, is a cousin of King George VI of Eng=land, and is sympathetic to Britain, Were Italy to seize control at Athens, the invasion would deal a further terrific, perhaps fatal, blow at the British Empire’s lifeline. Similarly, the friendship of Turkey. is important te Britain. Just across the Aegean Sea from Greece, Turkey is chief guardian of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, connecting the Mediterranean with the Black Sea. Were she hostile to Britain and France in a war with the Nazie Fascist powers, she could probably close the whole of the eastern Mediterranean to the two dee mocracies. If Italy took over Greece, the Rome-Berlin blcc would almost certainly move in on Bulgaria, and perhaps on the whole of the Balkans, and so probably seal the fate of Rumania and Hungary. Soviet Russia would be bottled up in the Black Sea and her Ukraine would be more menaced than ever,
WOMAN IDENTIFIES OKLAHOMA BADMAN
PALO PINTO, Tex. April 12 (UT, P.).—Mrs. Grace Lutke of Oklahoma City today had identified Leonard C. Stockton as the man who kidnaped her and Joe Ball in Oklahoma City last Friday night. Mr. Ball, an Oklahoma City mail man, was murdered. Mrs. Lutke escaped. Stockton was wounded and captured near here late Satur day after he had robbed the First National Bank of Graford, Tex.
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