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Demands ‘Restoration of "Private Enterprise’ by New Deal Defeat. | (Photos, Page 11) * By NOBLE REED

Indiana Republican leaders today were attempting to de-

termine whether the turnout

of 17,000 persons who jammed Butler Fieldhouse to its rafters last night means that Hoosiers are “going for” Thomas E. Dewey, the G. O. P. Presidential aspirant. When the crowd filled all the normal seating space of 15,000 and

began spilling out into. the aisles

and filling the huge athletic arena besides, just to hear Mr. Dewey speak, party leaders went into huddles. Some of the chieftains agreed off-the-record that if Indiana still had the Presidential preference primary, Mr. Dewey ‘probably would carry it.” ol Dewey Appears Aw

The New York District Attorney himself appeared to be awed by the size of the sprawling audience and remarked into the microphone

Jof a national radio hookup that

<*if this crowd is an indication of ‘general enthusiasm, the Republican Party is on the march to victory this fall.” ; As he left the City at noon today after a brief visit of the U. S. Veterans Hospital, Mr. Dewey issued a statement expressing his gratitude for the ‘great meeting .and cordial reception” he and Mrs. Dewey received. Mr. Dewey’s next speech will be at Oklahoma City. Members of Mr. Dewey's touring party said of 10 speaking engage‘ments, the Indianapolis rally was rivaled only by the Chicago meeting recently. In the crowd, however, were some Democrats, including party workers. Some of them said they were there as “curious observers.” A long string of chartered busses standing outside indicated that some of the G. O. P. organizers had a hand in getting a big percentage of the people {0 the Fieldhouse.

Applause Is Generous

One. Indianapolis Republican said he was “hauling people to the Fieldhouse in his car from all parts of the city for more than three hours before the meeting began.” The crowd also was swelled by glarty workers brought here from every district in the state under “orders” .from their: county chairmen. Applause was generous, but the cheering appeared to be less spontaneous during Mr. Dewey’s speech in which he lashed vigorously at New Deal policies in industry, declaring that business has been the “scapegoat of this administration” for seven years. Cheers also swept the auditorium

when the New York District Attor-

‘ney assailed the Indiana Democratic Two Per Cent Club as “one of the worst forms of political extortion.”

Ushers Add Color to Scene

Adding color to the scene were 300 girl ushers wearing uniforms adorned with white collars and figures of large red elephants. Also there were 300 young men ushers. Both groups répresented the Marion County Young Republican organizations. J Rivaling the guest of honor for a big share of the cheering was former U. S. Senator James E. Watson, “wheel horse” of the Republican Party for a -quarter of a century. The vast audience arose and cheered when the gray-haired veteran of many political rallies was introduced by Arch, Bobbitt, State .G. O. P. chairman. Mr. Watson has retired from active politics. Warming up to his subject, Mr. Dewey declared that New Deal policies have had a “destructive effect upon small business.”

Declares Emergency at Present

“There is an emergency in this country” he said. “There is the necessity for restoring employment and .the system of free private enterprise by getting rid of the New Deal—and quickly. “We in America insist that 10

. fhillion unemployed men have a

right to a future and a right to a normal place in a free society. The opportunity to exercise these rights is about to be re-established by the ‘ American people. ¥ “The next administration will be —(Centinued on Page Four)

WOMAN INDICTED

Mrs. Lorraine Byrd of Lawrence Township yesterday was indicted on a charge of assault and pattery with intent to murder, in connection with the shooting March

.73 of Betty June Witte, 14-year-old * Lawrence girl.

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Johnson: ..... 12 Movies 14 Mrs. Ferguson 12 Music i 14 Obituaries ... 10 Pegler ....... 12 Pyle : Questions .... 11 Radio 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Serial Story.. 17 Society .... 8, 7

Books ........

Drive to Save Lives of Pedestrians Mapped

I'S ‘BATTER UP IN BIG LEAGUES

Yanks Favored to Repeat; Torrid National League Race Predicted.

* By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 16.—Tomorrow the world may f#ll asunder, but today the baseball season opens. With more than 200,000 people looking on, ‘and approximately = 50

million interested, the major leagues|” open a campaign which ends neXty"

October. The all - powerful New York

Yankees will try to bag their fifth consecutive American League pennant—a new record. The Cincinnati Reds, so brutally abused in the World Series, will try to repeat—something that hasn't been done in the National League since 1936-37. In each league seven other clubs will try to knock them off, swell chance. The Yanks and Reds look like a million bucks to everybody from Broadway to San Francisco's Market St.

Yanks Start Crippled

As luck would have it, the Yanks start crippled. Joe DiMaggio, American League batting champion, will be on the sidelines with a crippled knee. Joe Gordon has a charleyhorse and-may or may not play. Atley Donald has a sciatica infection. Jake Powell is recovering from a brain concussion in a hospital in Asheville, Ky. Red Ruffing, designated to pitch the opening game today, has a troublesome elbow which necessitated treatment yesterday. As Lefty Gomez said: “It looks like the Yankees are trying to break up the Yankees.” But regardless of these cripples, the Yankees remain 7-20 favorites to win the American League pennant. Some f say they can lose any two men in the lineup from now to Christmas and still win. Some other folks don't agree— principally $4,000,000 Tom Yawkey, who owns the Boston Red Sox. Tom said that this is the year his Red Sox will come winging down in front (Continued on Page Three)

TOWNSEND RENEWS “SLOT MACHINE WAR

Thereii Be No Armistice,’ "Operators Warned.

Declaring that “there will be no armistice in this war,” Governor M. Clifford Townsend today ordered. State Police to redouble their efforts to drive slot-'machines out of Indiana. Since November, the Governor said, State Police have kept the State practically free of slot machines, and it was not until recently that word reached him of their reappearance. = Prior to November, Tast year, the Governor explain he State’s policy was to rely on local officials to enforce the gambling laws, or to use State Police; when a request was received. s However, this has been changed since in “seven ‘or eight counties it was impossible to secure the written request, although it was known that slot machines were operating.” Unless local officials enforce the gambling laws, “State Police will make a concerted drive against slot machines,” the Governor said. The (first county to be affected will be Vermillion. The Governor has demanded that any slot machines !in that county be removed: by Thursday night. “I take this step regretfully because I believe in home rule and have no desire to interfere with local government,” he said.

CLOUDS TO REMAIN TONIGHT, TOMORROW

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m. ,..53 10a m. ... 54 7am. ... 56 11 a.m. ... 53 8a. m. ... 56 12 (noon)... 53 , 9am ... 52 1p.m ... 55

Indianapolis weather will remain partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted today. It will be cooler tonight, the Bureau said. The lowest temperature of the

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* AT HOME SHOW

Officials Say Attendance to Top 100,000; Electric ~~ Day Noted.

All previous attendance records are being shattered by the 19th Indianapolis Home Show at the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds. Through last night, nearly 55,000 persons had visited the exhibit. With six more days to go, show officials predicted the attendance would exceed 100,000. The record was 90,000, set in 1939. Today is Electric League Day at the show. More than 200 members of the Electric League of Indianapolis, holding their first major activity since the recent reorganization, met at the Home Show for luncheon. League Head. Presides

Dan C. Hess of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. League president, presided. He also is chairman of the publicity and entertainment committee of the Home Show and a member of its executive committee. A. B. Smedley, Chicago, district engineer of the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., spoke at the luncheon on recent electrical developments. The lunchegn was served at tables in the centerpiece of the show, with the garden setting.

County persons are attending, show officials said, but : persons have registered from all over the state. The show has the greatest number of exhibitors in its history and for the first time has three model homes. | r =

Good Place to See Gardens

The Electric League is an: exhibitor this year, as it~ has been every year of the show. Sixty-five firms are participating in this year’s League exhibit, which is one of the largest of the show. . : Meanwhile, the Home Show continued to be about the best place to see spring flowers which have been retarded in outdoors gardens by the severe winter and reluctant spring. All three model homes are surrounded by gardens planned and executed by the Garden Clubs.

BRIDGE WARNING GIVEN

Capt. Leo Troutman -of the Accident Prevention ' Bureau - today warned Indianapolis baseball fans that the Indiana Ave. bridge over Fall Creek is closed and urged them to choose another route to Perry Stadium for the opening of the baseball, season Thursday.

Not only Indianapolis and Marion|

Times Photos.

1. Double parking congests. traffic movement and frequently causes accidents. This is a view of Monument Circle,

2. Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson, noted traffic expert, lice find the cause of accidents here.

is assisting po-

3. If jaywalking, a sample of which is shown here, could be

eliminated,

Citizens

there would be fewer pedestrian fatalities.

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Organize to Cut Death T oll

Launch Educational Program to Help Walking Public ‘Save Themselves’; Accident Causes Analyzed.

- A vigorous double-barreled campaign to reduce the local pedestrian traffic toll was being organized today by the Indianapolis Police Department and the Citizens’ Safety Committee. ; Exactly twice as many persons—22—have died in Indianapolis traffic this year as in the same period during 1939. Sixteen of the victims were

pedestrians.

ADAMS WILL SETS UP $1,000,000 TRUSTS

Manufacturer’s 2 Daughters ~ Named Beneficiaries.

Two $1,000,000 trust funds are created by the terms of the will of William Ray Adams, president of the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co., which was filed in Probate Court today. - Mr. Adams died April 5 at Bos Angeles while on a vacation rip. : The income from one of the trusts, placed with the Union Trust Cq., is to go to a daughter, Mrs. Louis McClennen, Cambridge, Mass., and her descendants, while the income from- the other is to go to another daughter, Miss Jane Adams, and her descendants. . The will makes no immediate provision for the widow, Mrs. Hele: Johnson Adams, who, it is under stood, was made the beneficiary of another trust fund created several years ago. The. will provides that in the event of the death of either daughter, the income is to be divided between Mrs. Adams; the surviving

daughter; Mr. Adams’ brother, Roy |-

E. Adams; Mrs. Roy E. Adams, and

{four nieces, Mary Ann Macomber,

Janet Adams Brown, Anne. Louise Jose and Laura Margaret Roberts. Upon the death of both daughters and all descendants and. blood relatives, the money in the trusts is to be placed in a new trust fund for the Indianapolis Foundation.

..2 DIE IN PLANE CRASH MIDDLETOWN, Conn. April 16 (U. P)—~Two persons wegpe killed in the crash of a chartered plane in a forest at Higganum early. today. °*

Forces Issue

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer Fs WASHINGTON, April 16.—Candidate Tom Dewey, by double-riveting his new isolationist plank, has forced the foreign policy issue into the Republican convention and probably into the election against the Democrats. ; : Se His press statement in [ndianapolis' yesteraay reatfirmea that: “The paramount otligaticn of our Government : is to consider every word and act from one standpoint: That is, to make certain that the United States will not become in-

Dewey's Foreign Policy Stand:

at Cenvention

"lin any aspects’ of the war or the

negotiations between the warring pcwers.” : This is particularly significant because he had just come from New York, where the anti-isolationist wing of the Republican Party is strongest, and from Washington, where there is increasing fear of involvement because of Danish and Dutch possessions in this hemisphere. “2 After Mr. Dewey shocked some of his Eastern supporters by going isolationist, in Wisconsin March 29 and 30, it was thought that his “internationalist” advisers (who helped

dvolved either directly or indirectly

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Nine other persons have been killed by traffic in Marion

County. Police Department traffic engineers, assisted by Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson, noted traffic expert, were analyzing the fatal accidents to find their causes. : The Citizens’ Safety Committee and Police Chief Michael FP. Morrissey announced an educational program to teach pedestrians “to save themselves.” , “The only way we can reduce traffic fatalities is to teach pedestrians to save themselves,” Sergt. Dickinson said. He is field traffic expert of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Cites Lack of Funds

“The fatal auto accidents are dropping while those involving pedestrians are increasing,” he said. Sergt. Dickinson pointed out that the local = department is handicapped in ifs fight on the accelerating death toll by lack of funds. All programs being proposed will depend upon whether or not money can be obtained to carry them out, he said. Other cities—like Cleveland—which have slowed down their rate of traffic deaths, have had nearly unlimited funds, he said, and have been aided by service clubs, insurance companies and other safety-minded organizations.

" Plan Warning Signs

_ In the educational program, authorities hope to equip accident prevention cars with loud-speakers and send them to the areas where most accidents occur. ‘The cars will supervise the district while accident prevention officers caution motorists and pedestrians of the dangers of the areas. - The Department also is considering painting stencils on sidewalks showing pedestrians where and where not to cross streets and warning them against jaywalking. Also under consideration is a plan to have Boy Scouts or school patrol ‘boys distribute handbills in the downtown area, outlining “do’s” and “don’ts” for pedestrians. The handbills would be distributed after (Continued on Page Three)

MRS. ZIMMERMAN, HOOSIER ARTIST, DIES

BRAZIL, Ind, April 16 (U. P).— Mrs. W. Paul Zimmerman, 65, prominent Hoosier artist, died here today. pr She was a. well-known still-life painter and her works were displayed at the’ State Fair, the Hoosier Salon in Chicago, the Indiana

| Artist gallery in Chicago and vari-

ous Indiana exhibits in Indianapois. . i. J Surviving are her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Reese Stigler, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Ste-

‘| Hacha (Emil Hacha, President of

1S MUTILATED REYNAUD SAYS

French Premier: Adds Hitler Has Suffered Smashing Defeat in North.

PARIS, April 16 (U. P.).—The Allies have won a “smashing victory” in Norway, have “really mutilated the German fleet” and as result of the Allied seizure of the northern Norwegian port of Narvik Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, “who is sinking deeper in crime,” bas suffered “an immense moral and personal defeat,” Premier Paul Reynaud told

the Senate today. M. Reynaud said that during the Scandinavian drive Germany had lost 30 per cent of her line ships and had suffered other terrific naval] and merchant shipping losses.

Other Losses Listed

He said other German ship losses included “ ... 20 per cent of her cruiser strength, 25 per cent of destroyers sunk, 15 per cent of destroyers damaged and 78,000 tons of merchant ships, sunk, scuttled or captured.” ; “As result of the occupation of Narvik Germany’s iron route has been cut,” M. Reynaud said. “Hitler was mistaken. He believed that the small neutral nation (Norway) would not resist. . He took the King of Norway for another

Czechoslovakia when Germany occupied Praha.) “But the sham Government which he established already has collapsed amidst general contempt. The unity of opinion prevailing among civilized hations-is-consolidated. France Called Invincible

“United States citizens of Scandinavian origin are in position to judge the situation on its merits. A great voice has been heard from the White House denouncing the excesses of force.” M. Reynaud devoted a portion of his speech to the address made in Washington yesterday by President Roosevelt before the Pan-American Union. “President Roosevelt said that a nation living in hate will finally be destroyed internally by hate,” the Premier said.” “That is absolutely true. ft “In Scandinavian affairs there is another victim — German propaganda. As centers of Norwegian resistance organize, friends of liberty everywhere are rallying to their cause. Naturally, everyone is anxious because the real test is yet to come. We may see some hard days but the enemy will learn that when France fights for liberty it is invincible.” :

TWO U. S. BOMBERS FELLED, BERLIN SAYS

Claim War Material Seized In Battle With Norse.

BERLIN, April 16 (U. P). — A special High Command communique today said that a British .10,000-ton cruisers had been sunk by German airplanes off Norway, that three British airplanes, including a huge Sunderland flying fortress, had been

thrown back Allied shock troops on the Western Front. “An attack on an advance German observation post was shattered and the enemy lost an officer. seriously wounded and 11 men killed,” the High Command said. “At Speichern and in the Palatinate Forest, the enemy lost dead and prisoners in shock troop operations which failed.” The High Command and official German sources listed the following developments in the war in the

orth: Two Lockheed (American type) airplanes were shot down during “numerous” British attacks on Stavanger. Strong British naval units and troop transports near the Lofoten Islands indicate enemy intentions to land near Narvik in northern Nor(Continued on Page Three)

UNCONFIRMED RUMOR BRINGS STOCK BREAK

Unconfirmed rumors that Rumania had become a new war front caused a selling wave on the New York Stock Exchange today. The whole market tumbled but shares of American’ oil companies having large. Rumania interests were hardest hit. The largest of these are the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Socony-Vacuum. hid May wheat in Chicago reache $1.10 a bushel, up 1% cents, highest since last December, and corn gained more than a cent.

Hogs sold 20 to 25 cents higher af; Indianapolis on receipts of 9000

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shot down and that Nazi troops had|

t§in what they are doing, why then

belligerents at last had found

Dispatches from the Sw German reinforcements were frontier from the Trondheim

700 men—had been sunk off planes, including a “flying fo

mendous damage and started

NAZIS SEEKING VICTORY | UTHERN NORWAY ~ BEFORE ALLIES GERMAN FLEET

ARRIVE

Battle Norse Near Sweden as War Tempo Increases; Claim British Cruiser Sunk, Three Planes Shot Down. =

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreigh News Editor

German and Allied forces raced toward Europe’s new battlefield .in Norway today amid conflicting claims of trie umph in"warfare that intensified hour by hour. ot Both sides appeared in agreement that in Norway the

the spot on which they could

fight outside their own frontiers and developments came with a staccato beat that increased the fears of other small nations from the low countries to the Balkans. al These developments included: ° :

edish frontier reporting tha driving toward the Swedish and Oslo zones in a hurried

effort to strengthen their positions in Norway before Allied Expeditionary Forces can be consolidated in the north.

Nazis Claim Heavy Cruiser Sunk 3

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A German High Command communique saying that a heavy British cruiser—the 10,000-ton type carrying 600 to

Norway and three British rtress,” had been shot down,

A statement by French Premier Paul Reynaud that the Allies had “mutilated” the Nazi fleet in their counter-drive in Norwegian waters, sinking 30 per cent of the German line ships and seizing the north Norwegian port of Narvik, ; A London statement that Royal Air. Force planes had raided the German-occupied Norwegian “port of ‘Stavanger In “wave after wave” of bombing craft which did: tre.

a great fire in an effort to

slash German air communication lines to the north. A statement by authoritative London sources that

Canadians and possibly French troops were participating in

ter-attack the Germans, who from Trondheim to within a f

lain reiterating his confidence

Balkan countries and that it ness” to repulse any attempt

her. neutrality and rejecting

In Stockholm:

tier to set up a defensive line,

Russian Fleet Maneuvers in Black Sea 1 : i . A speech by British Prime Minister Neville Chamber.

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the Allied Expeditionary Force landed in Norway to coun-

claimed to have struck inland ew miles of the Swedish fron-

of victory over the “mad dog”

German policy of aggression and assertitig that he intended ' to carry on as Prime Minister until victory was assured. A statement by the Moscow Radio that the Red Fleet in the Black Sea had started maneuvers opposite the worried

‘is in a state of full prepared to penetrate that sea. There

had recently been much speculation on whether the Allies would seek to go through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea to smash German shipping on the Danube River. A speech to thé Senate by Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak emphasizing that Belgium will maintain

indirect/ suggestions that the Free a 4

rans Fire on Swedos 1 By Mistake' at Border

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 16 (U. P.).—German troops fired at Swedish policemen on the Norwe-gian-Swedish frontier, a Stockholm newspaper reported today. German detachments, advancing along a railroad bridge, reached the Swedish frontier at 2 p. m. yesterday, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter said, and were halted by] Swedish border police. The Germans fired, machine guns at the policemen, the newspaper said, but hit none of them. <= Swedish soldiers went to the aid of the policemen and, it was said, shouted at the Germans: “Are you at war with Sweden?” : The Germans ceased fire and apologized, the newspaper said, Meanwhile, intensified aerial, military and naval activity—including a sea battle in the Skagerrak—was reported today in press dispatches from southeastern Sweden. It was indicated that the battle was fought yesterday afternoon: A United Press dispatch from Stroemstad on the Swedish coast

In London:

of the Skagerrak said that heavy!

Confidence in Allied Victory ~ Expressed by Chamberlain

gunfire was heard from a southe westerly direction. : : At Stroemstad there was an air raid alarm for the first time after 18 hea y German bombers were seen flying northward toward Oslo, but they kept outside Swedish territorial waters, : pi The | Stockholm radio reported that two foreign airplanes had — flown near Gothenburg this morning and that Swedish coastal vessels fired several warning shots at them. The Gothenburg harbor was declared a “forbidden area” in which none can enter without permit. = Frontier dispatches said”that the Germans were pushing out from Trondheim, on the west coast of Norway, as rapidly as possible and had reached a point only three miles from the Swedish frontier. Norway is only 45 miles wide in the Tronde heim sector. 7 Late frontier reports indicat however, that the Norwegians & still holding the Hegra fortifications in the Trondheim sector. .> 7 - The Stockholm radio announced " (Continued on ‘Page Three) ° /

A list of ship losses since the war started, Page 14.)

LONDON, April 16 (U. P), — Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain today reiterated the Government's confidence of victory in the European war and said that all efforts were now concentrated on counterattack against Ge navia, where it was nadian units are ‘in peditionary Force in Norway. 2 In addition to the Canadians in the expeditionary force sent to Norway, it was indicated that French troops—possibly - the famous Chasseurs Alpins—were participating in the campaign in the north, or would soon be in action in the Norwegian hills. ot “If the Germans were to triumph

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every fortress built by civilization

would go down and the world would relapse to barbarism which only a

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the National Free Church Council, “But they won't go down.” = = - Mr. Chamberlain declared that the Allies were bending all efforts toe ward counter-attacking Germany fois Bd i sai tha; ue felt “encoun to carry on” as Prime Minister “until our purpose is achieved.” T or

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Nindersaditis Richard A. Butler, Underseciétary “Foreign Affairs, told the House that the British forces have landed in the Faroe Islands, Daish poss action was taken, he said, to-prevent the Germans from establishing bases there. . IF, early in December for about si months training. Used to a northe erly climate, they .had been ears marked for Scandinavia in event o warthere. ‘=’ ooo Part of the Allied

Norwegian operations v upon the principles of Christianity [today in Air Ministry

that ‘British ‘planes tavanger, a big

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