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The Indianapolis Star FIRST IN INDIANA In Morning and Sunday Circulation. Telephone Riley MIL. FORECAST FOR TODAY: More or Less Unsettled. Yeaterday't High, 35; Low, 29. VOL.

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Issued Daily and Sunday. THREE CENTS. rn mm mm MM to MB; AUSTRIA FREE, Men Arrest Suspect as Writer Of Extortion Note to Clark Gable Eastern Newspapers Note McNutt Bid In "After Banquet" Editorial Comment Isabcllc Snuffles As She Gets Term Return to Indiana Denied Because She Knocked Policeman Down. FAMILY LOSES HOPES AS LIFE EBBS STEADILY Son, Sister Keep Vigil at Tucson Hospital Rapid Decline Sets in After McNUTT BOOM SEEKS TO LINE UP DELEGATES VanNuys Snubs Foe Again As Hoosier Democratic Forces Begin Trip Home. Special to The hd ianapolit Star.

Baltimore, Feb. 24. In an editorial headed Review of McNutt" the Evening Sun says in part: "It seems in order to inquire who this McNutt is and what he has done to make him presidential timber. It must be admitted that he has had experience. He was in politics before he got out of college.

During the war he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel at 27 an accomplishment possible only to two types of men, to wit, military geniuses and superb politicians. Within a few years after the war he was dean of the law school of the University of Indiana another feat possible only to an excellent politician. Within a few years after that he was national commander of the American Legion, whence he went to the governorship of Indiana and thence to the Philippines. "His administration as Governor was marked by some excellent work. He boosted taxes, but he restored the solvency of the state.

Incidentally his officials allowed John Dillinger to escape. "Outside of that, he has figured prominently in the news twice. One was when the unfortunate Hoover was trying to cultivate more friendly relations with South America and McNutt, as commander of the American Legion, helped by declaring in a public address that those countries 'can hear the sound of a gun farther than anything 'The second time was when, as high commissioner of the Philippines, he ordered that at public banquets a toast should be drunk to him before one to Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine commonwealth. "Mr. McNutt is a vigorous red-baiter, or was when that was popular.

He has also the politician's ability to acquire a satisfactory per diem for expenses. His 'cocktail that is, allowance for entertainment in Manila, is $10,000 a year, while that of the American ambassador in London is only Specie la The Indianapolis Star. New York, Feb. 24. The New York Times editorially comments: "On Feb.

23 Senator Minton gave a gorgeous East coming-out party to the illustrious proconsul on leave, the Hoosier bird of paradise. He outshone the lights. He outbid the frolic punch. His handshake was snappier and more searching than the grip of the 10,000 cocktails boldly shaken and taken in defiance of the Indiana drys. Canape and caviar are scarcely Jeffersonian delicacies, but the plain people at home understand that nothing is too good for Paul, himself a Spartan who prefers ham and eggs to all the kickshaws of Capua.

Meekly he accepted the feast subscribed for by a few adorers. Surely he had no need to explain to impertinent questioners that he was not a candidate for office. If the highest office should seek him. then, subject always to the will of Mr. Roosevelt, he is not the man to wave away the host relentlessly pursuing him.

So, guided by faith and matchless pulchritude, he waits and hopes." Plunkets Killed As Plane Crashes Washington, Feb. 24. LV The Federal Bureau of Investigation tb- ight announced it had taken into custody a man alleged to have ritten an extortion note to Clark able, using the name of a woman neighbor against whom the man had a "crudce." The bureau said Gaylord Forsvth, I years old, or ronda, "confessed to writing" an extortion note to the motion picture actor, demanding payment of $1,000 "if you alue your life or your future." I'ses Woman's Name. The note, the bureau said, was written over the signature of Alice Schnetter, also of Fonda, but orsyth said she had no knowledge of the "extortion plot and that he igned the name to the letter as a spite proposition, as he had a grudge against her." "She likewise slated, upon inter-lew," the bureau added, "that she knew nothing whatsoever about the extortion letter." The letter, the bureau said, was postmarked Fonda and dated Feb. 9, addressed to Gable at Hollywood, Cal.

The letter was referred to the bureau upon receipt, the announcement said. Silent on His Intention. "Forsyth would not admit," the bureau said, "that he had addition al plans for obtaining the money from Clark Gable In the event it was mailed to Alice Schnetter." Investigation, the bureau said, disclosed that the woman is reputa ble and comes from a well-to-do family." Forsyth has been employed as a VETERANS UNITE TO SMASH NAZIS American Legion, VFW Here Will Oppose Banding Of Brown Shirts. Attempts of Adolf Hitler's agents to organize Brown-Shirt Nazi units in Indianapolis will be met by the united opposition of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, leaders of both service organizations announced yester day. The declaration came after NaI agents distributed brown cards mysteriously In the city announc ing In German and English that Hitler's Amerika Deulschen Bundes (German-American Bund) would hold an organization meeting here March 14.

Investigation yesterday revealed that an American-born Nazi agent, who disclaims German ancestry and says he was born in Indianapolis, is attempting to obtain a hall for the meeting. The meeting was scheduled originally for the Athenaeum, but the management of that organization canceled reservations after learning that the Bund was a pro-Nazi group. The agent, working anonymously by telephone, attempted to rent halls of the Transportation building, South Ride Turners, Syrian-American Brotherhood and the Llederkranz, but was refused. Says Agent Called. Joseph Harrleder, president of the Indianapolis Saengerbund, said that the agent called on him three weeks ago and announced he was going to organize brown shirt troops in Indianapolis.

"He didn't ask to rent the Saengerbund hall because he knew he couldn't get It," Mr. Harrleder said. The agent said that he was. born and reared in Indianapolis and was not a German, Mr. Harrleder as- Turn To Page 5, Column 6, DEFIANT WORD TO NAZI STATE Schuschnigg Vows Liberty Of People Declares Pact With Berlin As-1 sures Peaceful Life.

By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. Vienna, Feb. 24. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg tonight dedicated himself to a relentless tight to preserve Austrian independence which he said Germany unmistakably had guaranteed. Addressing the Diet, he defiant ly proclaimed "Austria must remain Austria" and declared that since illegal political activity in the nation was finished for all time the Austrian mission now was to develop her own independent life.

Austrias independence, ne de clared as both Austrians and Ger mans listened to an international broadcast of his speech, was guar anteed by Chancellor Adolf Hit ler of Germany, by the Austro- Germnn frienship accord of July 11, 1936, and the agreement wnicn he and Hitler reached Feb." 12 in their Berchtesgaden conference. "Milestone of Teace." Schuschnigg called the agree ment with Hitler a "milestone toward peace" and an assurance Aus tria may preserve her sovereignty, He said it merely was an exten sion and confirmation of the friend ship accord and each agreement, he insisted, contained: 1. German guarantee of Aus trian independence. 2. A commitment by each gov' ernment to refrain from interfer ing in the internal affairs of the other.

3. An Austrian promise that her policies always would be based on recognition of the fact that Aus' tria was a German state. Clears Austria's Role. 4. Clarification of Austria's role in the Rome protocols alliance among Austria, Italy and Hungary.

5. Agreements on practical measures to bring about internal pacification. "Both the German chancellor and I hope the meeting at Berchtesgaden will be a milestone in the relations between the states assuring permanent friendship," he said. He recited industrial and com mercial statistics to establish that Austria was capable of independ' ence and able, with the co-opera' tion of 3,000,000 members of the Fatherland Front, to perpetuate the Christian authoritarian form of state. Some Opposition Shown.

While the chancellor's oft-re peated determination to light for independence aroused enthusiasm in the Diet and throughout the na tion, there were some manifesta' tions of opposition. In Graz a Nazi flag was unfurled from the flagpole atop the city hall and it remained there throughout Schuschnigg's address. Vienna police and members of the Fatherland Front scattered several groups of Communists and Nazis in Vienna, the police on several occasions using the flat sides of their sabers. In blunt phrases, the scholarly chancellor flouted German efforts to make a one-party, Nazi state out of Austria. Still a Free Nation.

"For us it is not a question of national socialism or socialism but patriotism," Schuschnigg shouted to the Diet he used as a sounding board to tell the world Austria still Turn To Page 2, Column 4. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiimiii THE SOUL HAS EYES This is Helen Keller year a nation's glad tribute to the woman who, blmd and deaf, has achieved remarkable things and proved that tremendous handicaps can be surmounted when there's the u'lll to win. Tiext Thursday, March 3, will be national Helen Keller day. Appropriate to the day is Cutzon Borglum's beauiv ful story of how he too Mus Keller into the Rodin Museum in Paris and introduced her to a marvelous new world of sculpture. And she under stood.

For, as Borglum says, the soul has eyes! tor gl urn's ttonf III be found if, THIS WEEK. The Stor't colorgrorure maqo-tine, NEXT SUNDAY iiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiimiiumiimmii Newark, N. Feb. Told by a judge that "You have been relying too long on a pretty face, and you have a vicious character," 21-vear-old lsabclle Mess- mer of Elwood, was sent to Clinton Reformatory today, taking with her the secret of the identity of a man with her when she knocked down a policeman with her auto as he tried to question her. Asked bv Judge Richard Hart shorne to tell the name of the man who jumped from her car as po lice pursued it.

she declared: "1 lady and a lady never tells. Citing the girl's difficulties with police in Pennsylvania, lorida, Texas, Washington and Baltimore, Judge Hartshorne imposed an in determinate sentence after finding her guilty of atrocious assault and battery. Wants to Come Home. Weeping, the girl pleaded for a chance "to go back home to In diana." She told the judge she thought the two detectives who waited in front of her apartment Jan. 28 to question her were gangsters.

"When they tried to stop me," she said, "I hopped Into my car, stepped on the gas and almost ran them down." She was caught after a flve-mlle chase at high speed in which a policeman fired a shot in the air. The judge pronounced her story 'utterly incredible." Union Agent's Residence Bombed at Terre Haute Terre Haute, Feb. 24. (JP) Explosion of a bomb here tonight damaged the residence of O. Soucle, business agent for local No, 841, of the International Union of Operating Engineers, and broke windows in an adjoining house.

No one was injured. Mrs. Soucie, alone in the res! dence, said her husband was out of town but pending communlca tion with him she refused to tell police or deputies his whereabouts Sheriff deputies said the bomb' Ing "probably was due to Internal union troubles." iney learned they said, that a group of station ary engineers recently withdrew from the local, an Ar affiliate. Nevada Senator Offers To Stump for VanNuys Washington. Feb.

24. UP) An other foe of President Roosevelt': ill-fated court plan offered today to come to the assistance of Sen ator VanNuys in his Indiana cam paign for re-election. Senator McCarran (Democrat, Nevada) said he was ready to aid VanNuys in whatever way he could while not stumping Nevada seek ing his own return to the Senate His promise of support followei an earlier one by Senator Wheeler (Democrat, Montana), who like wise was Instrumental In defeat of the President's proposal to reorgan ize the Supreme Court. French Bust of Pershing Is Gift for Legion Here Le Havre, France, Feb. 25 (Fri day) (jTI United States Ambassa dor William C.

Bullitt sailed aboard the United States liner Washington today for New York, where he is scheduled to arrive March 3 for vacation in America. The vessel carried a bust of Gen, John J. Pershing, a gift from vet erans of France to the national headquarters of the American Le gion at Indianapolis. Admits Making Mother, 77, Dance TilPWeary Special 1o The Indianapolis Slar. Valparaiso, Feb.

24. When William Halbright, 49 years old, of Chesterton, admitted to Superior Judge Mark B. Rockwell today that on several occasions when he went home drunk he forced his 77-year old mother to get out of bod an dance to radio music until she was wearv. he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Kansas Communist Quiz Recommended for Vote Topeka, Feb.

24. (U.P.) The ways and means committee oi the Kansas Senate today recom mended for passage a House reso lution providing for an investiga tion of alleged Communist activ ties at the University of Kansas and at other state educational institu tions. Painted Plates to Save License Cost, Is Charge Reading, Feb. 24. UP) An accusation that he sought to solve the annual problem of new license tags by painting his 1937 plates to make them look like 1938's was placed against Calvin Scheidy to day.

A hearing was set for later in the week. Bullitt Compromise Move Rejected in Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Feb. 25. (Fri day) iJP) The Record said today that Pennsylvania leaders naa re iected William C.

Bullitt of Phila delphia, United States Ambassador in France, as a compromise candi date for Governor in place of Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh Distressing Day. Tucson, Feb. 24. UP) Gen. John J.

Pershing, dauntless leader of America's World War forces, was failing rapidly tonight and members of the family who came tearfully from his bedside indicated the end was near. A bulletin issued by his staff of three physicians at 10:45 (11:45 a. m. Central standard time) said his heart was very irregular and his blood pressure rapidly approaching a "critical low level." The general's coma continues." the bulletin said. "Although he was semiconscious for a short period, he is failing rapidly." Labor to Hold Life.

Elaborating on the official bul letin. Dr. Roland Davison snid: "With the very rapid progress of ailment against him, I doubt if he can last very long." the specialists labored to keen his heart beating. Ihroughout the day the stern. gray-haired commander grew steadily weaker, his heart becom ing more faint and his strength fading.

Three physicians. Dr. Davison. Lieut. Col.

S. U. Marietta and Dr. Verne Mason, remained in constant attendance Tace l'p and Down Corridor. The general's only son.

Warren. who arrived only this morning from Palm Beach, and his sister, Miss May Pershing, left the hospital room, each visibly moved. They paced up and down the corridor. "Your aunt needs rest; see if you can get her to sleep for an hour," a nurse whispered to War ren. Sorgt.

C. C. Shaeffer, for 10 years the devoted companion of the general, followed the family from the room. Sobbing, he said: "We refuse to believe it is the end." Hopes Take Drop. Hope for Gen.

Pershing's life sank when physicians issued the bulletin that he had become unconscious after steadily sinking for three hours. A fourth specialist, Dr. William Kerr of the University of California, was awaited at Tucson. Today was a continuous series of discouraging bulletins. Four nurses surrounded the aged soldier's bed.

He was propped high on his pillow and made no move. Gen. Pershing- suffered a heart attack 5 and, with the complications of rheumatism, was ordered to bed. Appeal to Escape Chair Prepared by Mrs. Hahn Cincinnati, Feb.

24. UP) Attorneys for Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, condemned poison slayer, drafted today their appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court by which they seek to save her from becoming the first woman to die in Ohio's electric chair. Attorney Hiram C. Bolslnger Sr.

said the appeal would be filed Monday, alleging error in the admittance of evidence concerning three deaths other than that of Jacob Wagner, 78-year-old acquaintance of Mrs. Hahn, for which Mrs. Hahn was convicted. British Bomber Missing With Long-Distance Aces London, Feb. 25.

(Friday (U.P.) A Royal Air Force bombing plane, practicing for an attempt to break the world's long distance record, was missing today with the two pilots chosen for the flight. The bomber left Upper Heyford airdrome, in Oxfordshire, Wednesday morning and was last heard from yesterday over Rothbury, in Northumberland. The hop is scheduled shortly from an Egyptian airdrome to Australia. Two Sleeping Children Are Burned to Death Tyrone, Feb. 24.

(U.P.) Two young children were burned to death today when fire destroyed the mountain home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zindel at Shope's Hollow, one and one-half miles outside of Tyrone. The victims were Patricia Ann, 19 months old, and Wayne Howard, 8 months old, who were sleeping in the house alone. Truck Driver Blamed For Crash With Train Chicago, Feb.

24. UP) A report of the Illinois Commerce Commission today placed upon Frank Gregson, a truck driver, blame for the wreck of the Wabash Railroad's Chicago Limited Tuesday. The train was derailed as it col lided with Gregson's truck. Greg-son was killed in the accident. The report said he ignored a flasher signal and drovt into the path of the train.

(Pictures on Page 15.) By EVERETT ATKINS. Indlanapoll Mar Bureau, 1S97 Preaa Building. Washington, Fb. 24. The ballyhoo over, now for the serious business of quietly beginning a search for prospective McNutt delegates! That is the Frank McHale strategy.

Satisfied that yesterday's performance was the "most spectacular, stupendous and colossal" ever held, the Indiana Democratic "troupers" tonight began the trek back to home grounds to await the country's reaction. They had done things with a bang, daring to outdo anything ever witnessed in the nation's capital, and accomplished nation-wide advertising for the Hoosier presidential offering. Paul V. McNutt remains here. A presidential showman for a day, he today quickly stepped into the role of high commissioner to the Philippines making a report to various eovernment officials, In cluding President Roosevelt, who have an interest in what is hap pening or should happen in the Islands.

Chats With Roosevelt. Within the day the high com missioner had a 40-minute chat with the President, lunched with his personal friend, Secretary of War Woodrinz and tonight was the special honored guest at a 60' plate dinner given at the Willard Hotel by the honorable Quentin Paredes, the Filipino commissioner to the United States Congress, and his wife. The guests present Included all of the members of the Indiana congressional delegation, save one nd their wives, and several high ranking officials whose duties re late to the islands. Senator and Mrs. Frederick Van Nuys sent "regrets." The senior Indiana Democratic senator considers he was snubbed and ignored at last Saturday's Indianapolis McNutt banquet; they returned the insult by refusing to attend yesterday's reception here for McNutt and for the same reason they passed up the Filipino dinner Invitation.

The senator and his wife do not conceal that they prefer not to be in the company of the Indiana Democratic boss who has issued orders that the long time Demo cratic stalwart Is to be "purged and eliminated from public life, And naturally the senator has no urge to help McNutt land in the White House. Townsend Comments. Governor Townsend, commenting upon VanNuys absence from yes' terday's reception to McNutt, said that he had not anticipated the senator would come that it would have been embarrassing to the sen' ator and to everybody else. The McNutt-Townsend machine in Indiana is capable of striking down and trampling upon the Democratic senator, who was once state chairman and leader of his party in the Indiana State Senate, but they do not have enough fa miliarity with the national situa tion to realize that VanNuys hinv self, through several colleagues in the Senate with whom he has fraternity-brother relationship, will have no small veto power when the .1940 national convention rolls round. The President received an earful of Indiana politics within the day first through McNutt and then Townsend.

The President talked more politics to Governor Town send than he did McNutt, but just What comment Roosevelt made on Turn To Page 2, Column 6. Weather Forecast Jim Crow says: A par ently those Chinese airmen forgot to say "excuae It" after bombing that Japanese town. Indiana More or less unsettled Friday; Saturday considerable cloudiness and warmer. TndianaDolis More or less unset tied Friday; Saturday considerable cloudiness and warmer. V.

8. Wrathrr Bmti Spertal Repart. ALMANAC OF THE DAY. :24 I Sun seta 5:32 TTHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY, Relatlra Humidity. a nu act Noon 75 pet 7 p.

m. 78 pet Precipitation. Amount durtns 24 hours endlnf at 7 p. Total amount inc Jan. 1, 1938....

rf.nannM fmm annual .03 3.46 Accuinuwiw sinca Jan. 1 (detlc-ency) Temperatures. Drr 30 Wet 30 Maximum SS K. nr. .11 Wet 29 nrvr Jfc Wet 27 29 For the Same Tate Last Year.

a ti 2S I Maximum LARK GARI.K. farm laborer In the vicinity of Konda, the bureau said. The case will be presented to the United States attorney at Mason City, the bureau said, adding that meanwhile Forsyth was being held in the county jail at Poca hontas, la. ORPHANS' HOME CONTROL ARGUED Welfare Body Is Ready to Take Over County Heads Oppose Action. The Marlon County Welfare De partment Is willing and ready to assume management of the Colored Orphans' Home If granted author ity by the Board of County Com' mlssioners, Thomas L.

Neal, county welfare director, said yesterday. The announcement was made after a group of 20 citizens had called upon the county commission ers and requested that the county welfare department be permitted to supervise the county institution as a means of relieving "a deplorable and overcrowded condition in the home." The commissioners indicated they would not act on the request be cause of the expense involved. ConiitiUaloners Doubtful. Each of the commissioners Dow W. Vorhles, Clarence I.

Wheatley and John Newhouse discouraged the group on the prospects of their giving up control over the home to the county welfare department. The citizens' group Included so clal and civic leaders. Heading the committee was Raymond Clapt, secretary of the Council of Social Agencies and of the Community Fund. Others Included Fred Hoke, member of the State Welfare Board; Evans Woollen Jr. and Miss May Belcher of the social agen cles' council; Miss Josephine Mad den and Miss Jean Brown of the League of Women Voters; Dr.

Ben Jamin A. Osborne, F. B. Ransom and F. E.

DeFrantz of the Mon day Luncheon Club, a Negro men's organization; Mrs. Frances B. Cos- ton of the Woman's Improvement Club and representatives of the committee on religious and civic Turn To rage 5, Column S. nnance, property una puvaie uvra obeyed the screams of sirens and the shouted alarms of motorcycle squads warning of "enemy air raiders" as the rehearsal continued. "It is within the realm of possibility that the Chinese could raid Kyushu or other points throughout Japan," a spokesman acknowledged.

The scene in Parliament arose In the first five minutes of debate on the government's long-awaited mobilization bill and grew to such pitch the speaker adjourned the House overnight A Cabinet crisis was predicted unless the government revised the bill. Its proposed controls would empower the government even to expropriate personal property and completely to suppress newspapers. The bill also contains strict, specific Turn To Page 12, Column 2. NLRB WINS FIGHT; GETS $3,000,000 Senate Restores Fund Cuts Despite Glass's Battle For Economies. Washington, Feb.

24. IIP) A $2,955,000 appropriation for the National Labor Relations Board emerged intact from a Senate storm today despite demands for "economy" and a charge that the board's activities were a "national disgrace." An appropriations committee headed by Senator Glass (Demo crat, Virginia) had cut $345,000 for salaries and expenses, as well as $40,000 for printing, from the bill, but the Senate restored the sums after hearing pleas not to "cripple" the board's activities. Glass led the fight for economy although he told the Senate when he asked for a vote: We shall not be greatly sur prised, or greatly disappointed, if the committee is overriden in this instance." Glass Derides Board. Glass aimed a few pointed re marks at the board's personnel, de claring that "some of us did not want the board to extend its ten tacles into every community in the United States." It remained for Senator Burke (Democrat, Nebraska), however, to voice severe criticism of the group which administers the national labor relations act. It was Burke who charged that the board's op-erations had been a "national dis grace." Senator Neely (Democrat, West Virginia) took Burke to task for this, declaring it was an unjusti fied slander" on the board.

He recalled that Burke had asked a congressional investigation of the board and then, after hearings, nad voted against his own resolution. Burke Explains Actions. Burke retorted that he had be come convinced there was some merit" in the contention of other members of the judiciary commit tee, who said that if any investiga tion were made it should be con ducted by the labor committee. He said his opinion tnat tne hoard was "biased" had not changed. Senator Thomas (Democrat, Utah) and Senator Wagner (Dem ocrat, New York), author of the labor relations act, launched into a lone discussion of the board's rec ord, defending also the law which created it, This moved Glass to remark that he was "not a little Irritated at having to sit here for nearly two hours to hear matters tnat are not pertinent to the report of the committee.

Criticize Increase. "The committee thought," Glass said, "that until the labor board had established its usefulness, or its viciousness, as the case may be, we should not increase its appropriation this year by nearly above the amount the board had last year." Defending the appropriation for additional attorneys for the board, Senator LaFollette (Progressive. Wisconsin) said the agency took four times as much testimony last year as the Interstate Commerce Commission takes in an average year. Los Angeles, Feb. 24.

IJP) The wealthy Lord and Lady Plunket of London, England, and Pilot T. J. (Tex) Phillips were killed in a crash of an airplane a mile and one-half south of the Hearst airport at San Luis Obispo, Josenh Willicombe. secretary to William Randolph Hearst, an nounced today. A third passenger in the plane, James Lawrence, Hollywood, was injured critically, Willicombe said.

The party was en route to the Hearst ranch at San Simeon. The plane, owned by the Los An geles and San Francisco newspa pers of Hearst, crashed when the pilot became lost in a heavy log. The ship burst into flames. Lord and Lady Plunket, trapped the cabin, were dead when help ar rived. The nobleman, sixth Baron Plunket and descendant of a historic Irish family, arrived in Los Angeles two weeks ago with Lady Plunket, who was the daughter of Fannie Ward, famous stage and screen beauty.

Lawrence, a world traveler, is the son of Sir Walter Lawrence, owner of a large estate outside London. He was a traveling companion of the Plunkets. Pilot Phillips left the Monrovia (Cal.) police department two years ago, to become a pilot for Hearst. He leaves a widow and 9-year-old daughter. Lord Plunket was formerly an officer of the 4th battalion of the rifle brigade.

He was 38 years old. Lady Plunket was the widow of Capt. Jack Barnato of the Royal Air Force. The title held by the late Baron Plunket falls to 14-year-old Hon. Patrick Terrence William Span Plunket, eldest of three sons.

"Apostle of God" Dies; Knew Many in Kansas Eldorado, Feb. 24. (U.P.) "Brother William," known to hundreds of persons in this area as the "Apostle of God," died today. He was 89. Brother William wrote his own obituary, but did not reveal his name.

It was said that he came from Ohio and that he had walked over a great part of the United States. He preached to auto owners who, gave him a lift. Indian Chief Charged With "Honor Slaying" Miami, Feb. 24. VPl Patrolman Raleigh Hill said John Osceola, grizzled 78-year-old chief of the Seminole Indians, shot and killed John Billy, another Sem inole, today to avenge reported mistreatment of Osceola's daugh ter.

Officers said that the elderly man freely acknowledged the slaying and that he was receiving plaudits and coins from admiring relatives. Angry Women Strikers Attack WPA Supervisor Los Angeles. Feb. 24. (U.P.) A crowd of angry women staging a "sit-down strike" in the Hall of Records because two super visors refused to vote county funds to continue a WPA sewing project today attacked Supervisor Leland M.

Ford at the door of his office. The women subjected Ford to rough treatment before he was res cued by the supervisors' sergeant at arms. "Phantom" Air Raid Terrifies Japan; Uproar Ends "Nazi" War Bill Debate Hankow, China, Feb. 25 (Friday). (D The I nlted States government, it was dlacloaed today, has Informed Japan it has no Intention of ordering evacuation of Americans in the central China war xone as re'iueated by the Japanese army.

Tokio Feb 25. (Friday) JP Riotous debate over a war control measure 'forced Parliament into recess today after Japan had spent four terrified hours waiting for a "phantom" Chinese air armada that nevr appeared. The uproar In the lower house, one of the most turbulent scenes in Japanese parliamentary history, broke up debate last night on the government's national mobilization bill which would impose wartime regulation of Japanese business, A few Hours earner, air mm warnings hart been canceiea on Kyushu, southwestern island of Japan proper; on the main island of Honshu and the colony island of Formosa, ending a scare that had proved false. Chinese bombers, which Wednesday raided Formosa, had been reported headed across the China sea toward Kyushu. Ruvdans Dangerously Near.

In Tokio, much of the reaction dwelt on the fact that Vladivostok, Russian Siberia, where a huge Soviet air fleet is concentrated, is almost as close to the capital as Formosa is to China. The calm with which densely settled Tokio, much of it built of paper and wood, had taken air-defense practice, yesterday was over. Plainly nervous, the populace fp.m.. 23 i Minimum 14.