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THE GAZETTE VOLUME XLVII TWELVE PAGES EUFORIA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, APJlIL 9, 987 NUMBER 215 Madrid Army Turns On Rebel Beseigers Socialists Take to the Offensive And Start Terrific Battle Five Miles Northwest of Capita). INSURGENTS -FALL BACK GOLD STOCKSJN TUMBLE eace Finally Comes To the Car Industry South Africa Report IT. S. Will Cut Priors Causes Panic. Several Important Strongholds Of Fascists Rages All Night and Into Afternoon.

On the Corona Highway, Five miles Northwest of Madrid, April 3 (ff) troops, laboriously trained for offensive warfare during five long months on the defensive, surged from their trenchee outside Madrid today in sudden attack on their stubborn besiegers. Hurling their combined strength at insurgent positions near the Casa de Campo park on the west of Madrid just after dawn, the government forces stormed and ired several important, strong- jlds in a hail fire. Change Taclias. Gen. Jose Miaja, commander of Madrid's personally directed the some sources regarded as a possible prelude to a change in the government's tactics on the Madrid front.

He ordered his troops to Keep pressing forward throughout the morn- Johannes burg. Union of South Africa, April 0 crowds thronged the Johannesburg stock exchange today ns gold shares tumbled in some cases as much as 45 points as a result of fears the United States would lower the price gold. The- slump in some shares was due chiefly to an overbought position in the market which led brokers to sell out weak clients. Roosevelt Denies Move. Washington, April 8 President Roosevelt told a press conference today that neither he nor the treasury knew of any plan to lower the world price of gold.

THE BIG SHOW TONIGHT Bud Anderson's Circus Will Open With Ghows Tonight and Parade Saturday. circus Schtdulc. show grounds. Tonllbt. Ander: jn Appreciation Night." Saturday.

en Commercial street. 2 show for children, wilh adults also admitted at regular admission. performance. For the First Time in Five Months No Strikes Arc Underway in Major Plants. ing.

Insurgent airplanes, attempting to raid the capital, were drive off by government fliers after a thrilling battle over the city during the early afternoon. Ten insurgent and 10 government ships climbed dived, and spiralled in a hail of machine gun bullets for 10 minutes in clear view of watchers in the Gran Via. Finally, the insurgents flew away with the defending planes in close pursuit. Shortly after noon battle still was in full with the government offensive heavily supported by tanks, airplanes and a large array of artillery. Sacrifice Many Men.

The attacking kept up the combat in apparent disregard of its possible cost. One objective which fell to thein was the Casa Camorra, before the svar a popular roadhouse fqr on Perdices hill, just north of the Casa de Campo. If the government offensive is the insurgents will find Miaja's force's beh.hid their rearguards in the. Casa Campo, possibly with, the that they will have to I hat position and evacuate sons in the University City suburb, on Madrid's northwest. The'battle'began early night and surged back and forth without relief, into this afternoon.

Stretcher bearers, moving Che wounded to the rear, formed almost a solid line and military doctors were forced to attend many gravely injured soldiers In the trenches. Insurgent artillery retaliated in a heavy bombardment of outlying sections of Madrid. Many shells burst in districts closely settled by working classes and casualties were believed to have been heavy. Train Rips Into Refugees. Bilbao, Spain, April 9 estimated number oC persons were ground to death today beneath a railroad train in a tunnel where they sought refuge from an insurgent air An oncoming electric train, its driver unaware that raid signals had been set, plowed into the hiid- refugees in the dark tunnel on the outskirts of the city.

Some were killed instantly and many others were critically injured. About 40 insurgent planes swept over Bilbao in the air attack. Tho German pocket battlesrtip "Graf Spee" was sighted in the Bay of Biscay off Satander. ftj Rebels Drive on Bilbao. With Insurgents on the Bilbao Front.

April 9 units of Gen. Francisco Franco's northern army chased stubborn Basque defenders from its flanks in-preparation for a renewed push today toward Bilbao, capital of the Basque state. The most advanced portion of the army, directed by the Franco aide. Gen. Emilio Mola, was 10 miles southeast Bilbao; confronted only with the task of clearing out a mountain ridge before marching on.

Rebel Backer to Haly. Gibraltar, April 0 (fP) Juan March, Spanish millionaire and financial backer of the insurgent regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, sailed for Italy today aboard the liner Di Savoia." March, one-time holder of tile rich Spanish government tobacco monopoly and regarded as the wealthiest man in Spain, was reported to be on a mission to Premier Mussolini of Italy. Hot-dog weather gave way today to the pink lemonade urge as a glorious, bright morning greeted the moving caravan of Bud Anderson's Seal Brothers circus, which checked out ol its winter headquarters at 5 o'clock and rolled to the Katy show grounds for its first performance Anderson appreciation night." The entrances to the meiiagerie and big top will open at 7 o'clock tonight and the performance will start at 8 o'clock. The Emporia drill team, which is co-operating with the Emporia Chamber of Commerce, today continued its drive for ticket sales. All the tickets for the three Emporia performances printed especially for the drill team and are available from any members, as well as at the circus ticket wagon.

Free tickets for school children who answered the invitation of the Emporia Chamber of Commerce will be distributed for the afternoon show Saturday. In case the tent fills early Saturday afternoon, the circus management has arranged to give two shows Saturday afternoon. Otherwise the-; regular performance will start at 2 o'clock. The Saturday night start at 8 o'clock and the doors-will open an hour earlier. Big' Growil Anticipated.

The promise real -spring weather and "assurance IVundreds of free tickets for rural 'school pupils give hope that a large crowd will circus street parade at noon Saturday. The line of the parade as announced this morning by Chief of Police Roy Clay follows: From the Katy show grounds to Sixth avenue, west on Sixth to Union street, north on Union to Tenth avenue, west 1 on Tenth to Commercial, south on Commercial to Fourth avenue, east on Fom-th to the show grounds. Chief Clay said Mr. Andirrson planned to have the parade reach Commercial street at noon. All acts had arrived early this morning except Madam Ricardo's wild animal act, enroute from Brownville, Texas.

The circus management believes the 7 performing lions, tigers, leopards and pumas will show up in time for an exhibition in the act's steel arena tonight. HUDSON STRIKE IS ENDED Settlement Sends 11,000 Workers, Idle Since March 8, Back to Their Jobs. (By The Associated Prcssi Peace reigned over ihe American automotive strike front today for the first time In five months. While union leaders cheered agreements with four Michigan automobile producers, their foray, into the Canadian motor industry brought determined opposition from the Ontario government. Murphy Is Optimistic.

In announcing settlement of the Hudson Motor Car company tsrike last night, Oov. Frank Murphy of Michigan saici "our serious trouble in the motor industry is ended." Meanwhile, the automobile builders eyed John L. Lewis' prediction that Henry Ford would deal with the U. A. "in time" and Ford's declaration that union recognition would never be granted.

Settlement of the Hudson strike sent 11,000 workers, idle since March 8, back to their jobs. The Chrysler pact was signed Tuesday, and the Reo motor car agreement on Wednesday. The 44-day General Motors strike ended March 12. At various times approximately 225,000 automotive workers were affected. A short-lived sit-down strike in the A-C spark plug plant at Flint, a subsidiary of General Motors, ended last night.

A conference was scheduled today. Tractor Strike SeKlerl. At least 111., 11,500 em- ployes returned to work in the Caterpillar Tractor company plant which closed Tuesday. Sit-down strikers and pickets withdrew last night shortly after signing of an agreement giving workers collective bargain rights. The Committee for Industrial Organization started setting up district headquarters in the nation's oil centers.

Union officials, seeking collective bargaining with oil companies would be arranged. The American Federation Labor asked the labor relations board at to iwll workers by craft rather than by factory in elections to-determine who should represent mass production workers. A proposal to Investigate-1 sit-down strikes turned-down by a vote in- the-houBe. SKYGAZER'S DURY Noon today SO degrees Minimum lust night 34 Maximum Thursday 48 Maximum year ago 63 Minimum year ago 41 Ton.ws FORECAST. Kauiis: 1 lonlglu nnt cool In central weM, possibly llglil frost In tonight; rising Ifm- Pfralure Saturday.

Missouri: Pslr tontshl Saturday: frost or 'near tontsht: slightlv warmer Oklahoma: Fair with frost, not quite Hi cold tonishl; Saturday totr and warni- LATE NEWSULLIttW WL'ATHKK. AND I1IBT ROADS. (Conditions at n. m.1 Coffoyvlllc: Clear, roads toff. Manhattan, Emporls: Clear, roads felr.

Ottawa: roads fair to good. Arkansas City, WlcMtit: roads SOOd. Garden Cltj-: citar, roads good. Salina: titear, toads good. roads good.

Topeka: Clear, roads Ctly: clear, roads good. SPRING HERE TO STAY Clear Skies and Temperatures 'Vo 70 Arc Predicled for Saturday. Topeka, April Olear skies and rising temperatures are in sight Cor Kansas over the weekend, Federal Meteorologist S. D. Flora forecast todny.

Flora said the mercury range between 35 and 40 degrees over the state tonight, but that temperatures would climb to 65 and 70 degrees tomorrow. No additional rain is In sight, he added. "After a lengthy period of cloudy, rainy weather it begins to look as though Kansas will get some much needed sunshine and clear weather," he commented. Bljr Wasliingtgoi), April (A 3 The Department of Agricujtuw feUrnat- eri today this year's production winter wheat, from April I conditions, at bushels, compared with 559,013,000 bushels lust your, and 633,330,000 bushels, the 19'JS-32 Average production. The condition on April 1 and indicated production of winter wheat, by principal productlng states follow Kansas condition "16 por eent of ft normal, and Indicated production 173,492,000 bushels; Missouri 75 and 42,338,000.

Nebraska 63 and 44,470,000. Oklahoma 73 and 46,131,000. Texas 73 and 37,205,000, I'aul U'aner Signn Contract. Dallas. Texas, April 9 O.

president of the. Pittsburgh Pirates of the National league, told the Associated Press in telephone conversa) ion from Texas, this afternoon that Paul "Big Poison" Waner, Pi- rutes 1 hitting star, had ended his holdout biUtlc and signed a 1037 contract. CO-ED ESCAPES Frances Nelle Em- Student, Appears Sheriff's Office in Boulder, Colo. HELD IN LONELY TOWN She Reports That Her Estranged Husband, Earl Bevlin, Hat Held Her Against Will in Caribou, Cabin. OFFICERS START A HUNT Boulder Sheriff's Deputies Begin a Search of Warns Bevlin Has a Gun.

GW1NN HENRY SIGNS NO CHANGE IN THE VOTE Jenkins Gels 658 Votes More Thau Ericsifin for Commission. Official Canvass Shows. FRANCE WOOS TOURISTS Franc Alluwed to Drop as Inducement to Foreigners. ANSWERS ROAD CHARGES Former Commission Head Says Kuxiruin's Cancellations Have Not Been a Savings SEEK BEER REGULATIONS Beck Proposes Model Ordinance at Salina. Meetinff.

Salina, April 9 plug loopholes in the recently enacted law regulating the sale of 3.2 beer in Kansas, Attorney General Clarence 'V. Beck today recommended county boards adopt a model resolution prohibiting curb service of beer and consumption of beer In the premises during the hours when licensed beer dispensing closed. are Topeka, April 9 again the highway commission's action in awarding $2,700,000 of contracts for bridge and highway work, E. C. Bray, former chairman, said today Gov.

Walter A. Huxman had not saved a "single cent" by bringing about the cancellation of approximately $1,500,000 worth of the work. Accusing the Republican-controlled highway commission of exhausting its funds in the closing days of its administration, Governor Huxman said in a radio speech iCantlnuea on Pago TWOI K. U. CLASSES ELECT Paris, April 9 Franco allowed the franc to sag voday to attract tourists this summer.

The treasury has decided upon a cheaper franc, financial circles reported, with the possibility the rate may go to the low of 22.86 francs to the dollar agreed upon in the tripartite monetary agreement. The dollar closed officially at 22.40 francs for a. net decline of 2.8 per cent since the drop started yesterday. The rate was equivalent to 4.464 cents as compared to 4.593 yesterday and 4.539 at the market opening today. The pound sterling closed at 100.30 francs against 106.53 yesterday.

The financial commission charged with guarding the franc rate, financial circles reported, allowed the currency to sag to take advantage of a situation created by reports of a possible change in thu United States gold price. AIM AT ITALY'S BACHELORS Duce Calls Meeting to Increase In Birth Rate. Rome, April 9 (fp) Throughout the Italian empire today, bachelors and male members of childless marriages pondered what muy be a more troublesome future unless they help boost the declining birth rate. With wonder and anxiety, they awaited the results of the cabinet session Premier Mussolini has called for tomorrow to consider ways and means of increasing the present population of 43,000,000 white Italians to 60,000,000 in 1950. Frank Warrcn, Emporia, Is Member Of Student Council.

Lawrence. April 9 Hamilton, son of John Hamilton, Republican National committee thairman, won a partial victory as freshmav. class manager for the progressive student government league party in yesterday's University of Kansas elections. His candidate, Don Ebllng, Lindsborg, was elected next year's sophomore class president, but his vice- presidential candidate, Kenrut Pranks, Winfleld, was defeated by John Aokso.i, Kansas City, running on the Pachacamac ticket! Don Voorhees, Leavenworth, P. S.

G. was named president of the university student council over Dean Moorehead, Hugoton, but the Pachacamac party retained a coun- majority. Frank Warren, Emporia, and Marvin Cox, Yates Center, were among those elected college representatives to the student council Norton Knight, Burlington, was elected graduate representative to tha council. KANSANS GET DEGREES Princeton, N. April 9 Princeton university trustees have announced awarding of doctor of philosophy degrees to William C.

JeiTlng, Parsons, and Eugene A. Smith, Manhattan. Meeting of the canvassing board, the city commisison this mornii'3 checked over the balloting at lait- Tuesday's city elections, found the poll books in order and formally declared John W. Jenkins elected as commissioner of streets and utilities by a margin of 659 votes. The commission also found that the Grado milk ordinance had carried by 93 votes and that the school bond Issue had lost by 202 votes.

The total vote was found to be 3,994. The results announced today differed only slightly from tho unofficial figures compiled by The Gazteet Tuesday; night. ii certified the foir: lowing results on various candj-t J. W. 2.338} A.

J. School Heath, Ora Riridom, Mrs. W. D. ROJS, 3,035.

Treasurer of school H. Jafluith, Milk the ordinance, 1.9G&; against the ordinance. majority for the ordinance, 93. Schol the bonds, for the bonds, majority against the bonds, 202. The canvassing board consisted of Mayor Frank Lostutter, Commissioners A.

J. Ericsson and Carl Brogan; Lew Schmucker, representative of'sponsors of the Grade milk ordinance, and Ted McDaniel, Gazette reporter. Comtnlssionor- J. W. Jenkins was a spectator at the proceedings.

After the canvass, City Attorney O. LJ. Isaacs, who attended despite a severe cold, dictated a resolution accepting tho count as correct and It was adopted unanimously by the commission. Tic in One Precinct. One of the peculiarities revealed by the canvass was the tie between Jenkins and Ericsson in the first precinct of the second ward, where each received 128 votes.

Many blank ballots were reported, and canvassers estimated there were enough on the milk question to have changed the result, provided all the blank ballots had been marked as opposed to the ordinance. The biggest vote against the milk ordinance was in the first precinct of thf first ward, where the count was 405 to 163; the biggest in favor of the ordinance was the second precinut of the second ward, 302 to 144. Jenkins gained his biggest majority In the second precinct of the third ward, where the vote wns Jenkins. 358; Ericsson, 115. The school bonds carried only in the precincts where the proposed buildings were to have been erected, the first precinct of the first ward and the second precinct of the third ward.

To Take Office Soon. Commissioner elect Jenkins planned to submit his bond 10 District Judge Joe Rolston, this afternoon, but probably will not take the oath of office until the- regular city commission meeting Tuesday. He said he would make a definite decision later today. Former C. of E.

Coach Will Take Over K. U. Athletic nlreclor- bliip in September. Albuquerque, N. April 8 W.

W. Davis, chairman of the University of Kansas athletic committee, announced today Gwlnn Henry of the University of New Mexico had signed a 1-year contract to become athletic director at the Jayhawker school effective next September. Coach Hem-y said he would tender his resignation as athletic director at New Mexico immediately to take effect July I. The announcement came after Davis conferred here with the former College of Kmporia nnd University of Missouri coach this morning. "You may say," said Davis, "that we reached r.n amicable agreement all the line and that everything is fine.

Mr. Henry will coach no sporls. "But as athletic director all coaches will be responsible to him." "It is going to be a pleasure to return to Kansas," Henry said. "After all I got my coaching start in the state and I have a lot of friends there." Boulder. April 9 ces Nelle Crook Bevlin, 10-yetir-old Emixiria Teachers College student.

accompanied her father nnd Sheriff George Rielwrt, went back Into thu mountnin.s today in search of the estranged hmbnnd sha said abducted her. The girl snld Earl o. Bevllti took her from Kansas, to cabin at WICHITA AIRMAN KILLED Another Dead I'l-Jintt rra in Los April MV- A. plummeted to tho curlh today Ciormoti, carrying to death two men pvomlnent. in aviation K.

B. Christopher, of Swallow Aircraft Manufacturing corporation of Wichita, nnd E. A. Orunun. uttwney awwclvd with the- IMS Anjsrltvs btokoriiKe house of G.

Braslu'rtrs and fompuny, tiled in tlie crash. Tim Wi'iitlwr At the time of turclili'iit Mifl ventilar WHS Tlw ship Ml into moimtHlnous terrain about 75 mlle.s north of Los A Gorman cnfe proprietor reported saw the wnver. thon fall from height oi hundivd feet. Stale hliihwny patrolmen wore tuiuicdliitcly disputc-hcd to Lho scene Tlw mrn Uxs muiiid- niriKin curly Uiin morning for San Frnnelsto. Tholr ship, pilotocl by Christopher, WHS Uvo-plivce Swallow which lie lutrt piloted litre from Wlchllii mirt put through rtmn- onstrntlons at the municipal Griuiiin.

41, Piusndenn. He mi.sse(i resident of train for San Fnuielseo In.sl. night nnd Christopher to fly him to his dps 11 nation. Ctnmim's concern specialized In the flmuirlns of nlreraft iniumfiiclurevs, Ho leaves a widow nnd three, children. iifrrlmnffe" Teams Junior 3,043 Emporians Do Not Live in Kansas With tolerance to bo obtained through understanding, arid through a democratic approach to problems as their theme, the Pilgrimage team of the National Conference of Jews and Christians arrived in Emporia today for a series of mectmgs which will IK concluded with a mass meeting in the Lowther Junior High school at .8 o'clock tonight.

The team members, Father Michael J. Ahem, of Boston; Rabbi Edward I. Israel, of Baltimore, and Dr. M. Ashby Jones, Baptist preacher from Atlanta, appeared the Teachers College at 11 o'clock this morning and were heard by students and townspeople that almost filled the lower floor ol Albert Tayor hall.

Their second appearance was at a Broadview hotel luncheon at noon today which was attended jy about 40 Emporia men and vomen. At both appearances the deeply impressed their audiences with the Importance of heir mission and the sincerity of -heir purpose. They were brought to Smporia by no special organization but by a group of persons interested their work. Arrangements were nade by Conrad Hanson, secretary of the Y. M.

C. A. Speak at Luncheon Today. first at the luncheon today, Father Ahearn described the purpose of the organization as sn effort toward a platform on which nil American groups could unite in attacking social ills and save this country from courses taken by Spain, Germany and Italy and Mexico. "Americans are splendidly tolerant -when t.hey know each other," Father Aheam said.

"Tolerance increases in proportion to understanding." The speaker pointed out as an outstanding achievement, the that our forefathers gave equa' recognition to al! religions in the face of the fact that the American people all had a background of a religion. Although this tradition had been kept alive in America with remark- nble freedom from Intolerance Rabbi Israel, the second speaker warned that even in America the seeds of destruction are abroad thriving in social and economic unrest, and challenging the good sense of the American people. "The answer must be the continued democratic approach to these problems," he said. "We must no' (ConcmuM OP Caribou, almost deserted mining nnri helri her a prisoner at gun point. She fled from l.he cabin yesterday, she said, during her husband's absence.

Are I'liuScil. Shcrllf Rlcluirt, heioro leaving to resume the search for Hevlln, who abandoned bus automobile at tho cabin, sold lie puzzled as to why the girl coul'd not have left the cabin sooner If had wished. She snld she told him they reached Cnrilxni last. Monday and that Bcvlln hud left several times for short absences. She, said, however, he brandished gun nnd threatened to kill her If she attempted to run away, Slio Wears Clothes.

The sheriff snld the girl wore mountain hiking clothing "which looked new." After disappearing lust Friday she appeared at the sheriff's office hero and told Sheriff George Hlohart- that Bcvlin had been keeping her at the Cnrtbout cabin, Richart quoted her as saying Bov- lin "carried a gun" and she had been to. get awa.y 'until last rilghi. She caught ride to a ted 55 miles west of here, Search taris Mere, The girl's disapix-arance Smielii Hitckliiff MrtTUiiiP. Wichita. April 15.

Christopher, 3-1, president of the Swiillow Airplane company, wns in Cnll- fornln financial bucking- for n. now model plane designed by the company when he fell to his dculli In a plnne crash near Gormtin, todny, company officials suld. Only One More Tomorrow Is the last day to pay March water bill to avoid penalty. Pay promptly. E.

T. Mendel, City Clerk. Autos kill, maim wreck. Fred J. Scott Ins.

Agency U. Notice Water Users Only one mote day pay March water bill, penalty will be added after E. T. Mendel, City Clerk Armour's steaks, I5c I8c Ib. Armour's roasts, 14c I6c Ib.

Cut Rate ph. 261. By KEN CIMBEL. (Editor's Note: Tho author, a Moultric, newspaptfrmnn who got the Idea, has wrltccn small-town najnc-doublc atorlcs Ilko this for 23S bis papers, coast-lo-coast. Tho foUowln? story lour Empor- Mr.

and Mrs. Kansas Emporia, I want you to meet your "triplets," the other three Emporias that dot the map in Florida, Indiana and Virginia. Maybe you have never heard of them but you can bet your boots that they have heard of you, read with special interest news accounts from your city, and all look up to "Papa" Emporia in Kansas for the progress you have made. Still, they won't believe that your nopulatlon Is only 14,067, because of your fame. The clerks In your postoffice are acquainted with two of the three for two of them have with HERE THEY ARE! 1.

Emporia, Kan. 14,067 2. Emporia, Va. 2,144 3. Emporia, Fla.

824 4. Emporia, Ind. 75 a postmark just like yom 1 own. Quite often their mall will come here in error. Addressed to some strange name, the postal clerks notice at once that it Is not Emporia, but Emporia, or Va.

It is rubber-stamped to Emporia, Kan." and put, back on the train. The druggist or general storekeeper In each of your name-double towns all can tell you the same story (cmtiBUM oa NAMES STATE SOIL BOARD Jonas Grabcr and H. F. Sullon Given Tosts by Huxman. Topeka, April 9 Appointmen of Jonas Grabcr, Kingman, and F.

Sutton, St. John, to the state sol conservation board was announcec last night by Gov. Walter Huxman Other members of the board, under a law enacted by tho legislature a the recent session, are the dean extension at Kansas State college head of the experiment stations a the college and a member to be ap pointed by the United States secre tary of agriculture. days arc ahead. Let us in sulatc your home for comfort.

Me Kee-Fleming Lbr. Co. had tarted a search through two Kan; counties. She had left her home i Snffordvllle to catch a bus to Em- oriii, but, never arrived at her Her lunch box nnd books found nt the bus stop. An eyewitness bold officers he ad seen a man drive up in atito- obile nnd "force" the girl into the ar.

After hearing! the girl's story, IcVmrt sent her with Deputies L. R. Iclntosh and Arthur Everson to ook for Bevlin. Father in Boulder. The girl's father, Guy Crook, of affordvillc.

arrived here Itisl night after the. girt appeared. He said he had received a post- ard from his daughter telling she was and he immediately tarled for here. Richart said Crook brought a war- ant charging Bevlin with kidnaping he girl. Crook had said earlier that lis daughter had filed suit for dl- orcc In county district court.

"The girl told me she had mailed cveral postcards from Caribou but, he didn't tell me how she managed do It," Bichart said. The couple was married at Boulder October 27, IB36. CITY ACCEPTS KAHOLA However. Statrs Cioiuly That Contractor 1 Claim for Morn Money lx Not The city commission this morn- lug adopted a resolution condlilon- illy accepting the Knholn reservoir. thus complying with a request of WPA officials who nro anxious to wind up the government's slmrc of the project.

The forma! acceptance of the project- has been dc- because of a financial controversy with M. E. Glllloz, contractor on the- project. The resolution accepting the project contains the fallowing conditional sentence; tills is not an adoption Canadian Strikers Jeer at Mounties Picket Shout Defiance at Concentration of Ontario Province Police. PREMIER HITS AT C.

I. 0. Hepburn Sayi He'll Raise Army If Necessary to Keep Union From Dominating Canadian Industry. Toi-finio. April 'Canadian I'revu of union pirkois moved Into the lines nt.

the Kinni. Gonernl Motors Ciiiindii plant at. O.shawn today, tliclr loaders shout Ing defiance A rupkl of police. A spci'lal Com 1 of rod-uoiucd Roy- ul Ctinndlim mutinied police niul Ontario cKUmattirt 300. In Toronto, rciuly for un ot, i of, or nccnUeicence lit nny or contention made by the contractor and shall uot, In nny manner, bind or affect said city in the determination of nny question relating to i'lnnl icttle- mcnt with the contractor." The resolution, approved in advance by government officials, was mailed to Royden E.

Reed, engineer inspector for WPA, today. It Is expected to clear the wiiy for the finiil payment of more than $23,000 of tho government's share of the cost of the project. Awaiting rropcr Claim. Meanwhile, tho controversy with the Glllioz company continues with the city commission taking no action totluy on a recent Glllloz demand that the differences he submitted to board of arbitration. Earlier, Glllioz had threatened to sue the city for $37,000, city ofll- claLs said, had fixed the dcad- Ine for settlement at March In.

suit hns been filed, city oft'tciuLs ay. Officials siiy Gillloz never ubmitted a proper claim for mon- he alleges Is due him. despite mmcrous requests by the dly. An- 'ther similar request will Ijc sent Gillloz at once, the oltlclnls nid. Commissioner-elect rtln.s, who will take office Curly next vcck, in on the Knholn dLscus- ions today.

A Teachers College Freshman. Frances Nelle Crook Bcvlin, a Teachers College freshman, en- ollecl at the school last Scptcm- ier nnd was absent' from classes for i lime beforg and after her to Bevlin at Boulder, ate In October. Mrs. Bevlin, who had sued for a divorce In Chase county, disappeared at the Saffordville bus stop, a week ago this morning, about 0:45 o'clock, while she was waiting for a Santa Fe Trailways bus to bring icr to the college for an 11 o'clock A young man told the girl's parent, Mr. and Mrs.

Guy Crook, and Sheriff Roy E. Davis that he saw the girl riding away from Saf- ordville In an old Chevrolet coach driven by a man and that the girl ndicated she was accompanying he driver unwillingly. After finding the girl's lunch and textbooks near the bus stop, Mr Crook reported the incident to Un- dersheriff Walter Keehn and accused Bevlin of abduction. Later kidnaping charges were filed against Bevlin by Harry OTleilly Chase county attorney. WM in Saffordvillc.

Sheriff Davla said today one the girl's communications to her mother said that Bevlin was in Saffordville the night before the girl disappeared. Members of thi rook family heard a car drive In to their yard and then drive awa.y The girl wrote to her mother thn Bcvlln told her that he was tho un known visitor. Lyon county off! ccrs spent'considerable time search- Ing for the couple, although 3af- fordvllle Is not In Lyon county. "I am glad the girl has been located," Sheriff Davis said. Saturday Cmke Special.

Oh boy! CocoamiL Cake, delivered Phone Brogan's Perfect Bakery. Representative E. H. Rees Would Require Bond of Entertainers Entering U. S.

Washington, April 8 Edward H. Rees of Emporia believes nlien artists, TU and lecturers should be bonded- to assure their departure from this country. Rees. a member of the house immigration committee, drafted an amendment to the present laws, designed, he said, to prevent visiting entertainers from becoming "lost in the shuffle" and remaining permanently the United States. The amendment would require bond of at least $1,000 for each entertainer admitted on a noii-quotn basis.

The. department, Rees said now hon authority to require bond but generally dctis not cto Many Slay in U. S. "Many alien entertainers." Rees said, "come over here and with Americans for le.ss money. In- stcarl of returning home upon expiration of iheir 8-month permit ninny of them iet 5-year extensions and eventually become lost in the iliufflo.

and remain permanently in competition with our labor or on the relief rolls." Rets said a "large number of aliens admitted to the United States as entertainers now are Illegally in this country. Estimates of the number, he said, conflict aharply. The Kansan said his amendment probably will be introduced today. It would not work any hardship on "real artists," since promoters easily could post bond, he said. He said American performers wore admitted to other countries only after complying with "drastic regulations." Tlu're WHS mi whcii nc- gotliUlons would resumed In an to return the 3.700 workers to their jobs.

Thn United Automobile Workers of America, an affiliate of the John 1,. Lewis Committee for Industrial I tern ted demands for of the union. M. C. Ttc'fuscs It General Motora remained ndnmnnt, In Its position that It would not deal wllh the C.

1. O. Premier Mitchell liuphurn of On- tntlo province, charging the C. I. O.

hud "brought the United States almost Into state of unarcliy," con- currod In Genurul 1 position. and declared "If necessary we'll raise an army" to prevent tha C. 1. O. from "dominating" Ontario industries.

Hepburn declared General Motors of Canada "will get all Ilia protection from this government that, they require" In automobile parts from their strike-bound Oshawa plant. "Repair pnrts will be moved tomorrow or the next duy," suid tho prumler. "That is whon the showdown will come." Hepburn said nn advised him that union leaclorn had thraatcneri they would prevent moving of parts from Ihc factory. "Thai-, of course, -would ITifs- 1 the premier asserted. Hush Thompson, union organizer from Detroit, answered Hepburn's threats of police action wltri the declaration tlmfe If he sends 50,000 niUltla into Osntuva, General Motors still must "Blgii an agreement before it builds anothet motor cut- in Canada." The mounted 1 troopers, with their red coats, dark-blue! riding trousers with an Inch-wide yellow stripe up the sides, blq Inn huts, glistening black bclis strung ovar their shoulders and pistols at their side, moved Into Toronto from OLtasva and other posts.

Troopers Keep Watch. Tho troopers were ordered to strike duty the second day of the wulkout as authorities here heitrrt reports that strikes were to other Industries. In Montreal, officers of the intov- niitlonLil Longshoremen's association said they would refuse to work ships of the shipping federation ot Canuda in all but a few ports. Their action wniilcl Vie chiefly effective in United States harbors, they asserted. Five hundred workers at the General Motors plant In Windsor were laid off taecmise of the Oshawa strike.

They decided to picket the Windsor plant, pending a settlement at Oshnwa. In Oshawa, officials of the United Automobile Workers of America elcgrapherl members of parliament protesting against the culling in of rolicc reserves. They suld "we arc maintaining perfect discipline here." Thompson particularly attacked Premier Hepburn's assertion that 'the government completely concurs the attitude of the company that It Is going to remain clear of the domination of professional labor profiteers of the C. 1. "Hepburn Is trying to crush you for trying to sell your labor at the best possible price," Thompson told a mass mass meeting of 2,500 strikers.

Defies tin: "Red Coats." Thompson also shouted that General Motors could not win even "if you bring 10,000 red uoats In here." The mayor of Oshawa. Alex Hall, told the strikers he would not permit, either the Canadian or Ontario government to send militia or police to Intercede in the strike "Enforcement of and older the duty of the municipality." the iContlnurrt on Pnco TORNADO HITS MIAMI Miami, April 9 miniature tornado struck in Miami's southwest residential section toriuy. Injuring at least two persons and unroofing several houses. Sam Scowlns suffered head injuries and Lillian Brewer. 40, was cut and bruised when a frame house collapsed alter belnc blown from Us foundation.

The twister, cutting a swath about two blocks wide, traveled in a zig-zag course for almost two miles. L. Kretsinger, just good 801 Comnwrclal. Phone 306. LINDBERGH TRIP ENDS Couple Complete Id-weeks' Tour with Hop to England.

London, April 9 The Crurie-s Llndberglis, anxious to see their little son Jon, ended 10 wee Correction. In Utwln's advertisement in Thursday's Gazette one Item was incorrect. It should have read Boys' Sanforized Jimmy Pants, 89c. aerial tour of Europe and e.iit. at p.

m. today u. m. Em- porlt time). They at Gutwick airdrome, Surrey, after a (torn BavarJn, Fire Insurance $3 per ind up.

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