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Palladi The) Palladium-Item Receives The Associated Press, The International News Service, and The United Press. Indiana Thundershowers Friday, Saturday; temperatures unchanged. Ohio-Showers Friday; Saturday fair. HE AND SUN-TELEGRAM FINAL EDITION SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS RICHMOND, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1939 rrT mo XT 111 rFalltdliim Established 1831. Consolidated "I TWENTY PAGES 109, 161 with Sun-Telegram 1907 and with Item 1939 an SB LTU i L1LJ Li I i MOSELEY'S STATEMENT READ Where Blast Ripped School, Injuring Many 78-100 ON HELPLESS CRAFT; Stolen Car Also Contains Little Girl CRAWFORDSVILLE, June FEVERISH SEARCH CONDUCTED BUT STRICKEN FROM RECORD; "GROTESQUELY ANTI-SEMITIC" BUT NOTHING DEFINITE FOUND 1.

UP) Louis Daniel Morris, 20 years old, told Police Chief Otto Beiderstedt today he stole an automobile here last night to drive to his home at Alamo, but didn't know the two-year-old daughter of the car owners, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Rice, was asleep in the rear seat. Morris was charged with auto Twins, One Other, Reports Location Decided Second Boy Dies After Truck Crash Confess to Thefts General Fearful of Assassination; Lauds Hitler's Objectives, mobile theft. by Buoy Shot from Crippled Craft Are Beiderstedt said Morris drove up to police headquarters last night in the Rice car and told officers he had found it and the baby in a ditch.

When questioned, however, he admitted he had stolen the machine, not knowing the little girl was in it, the chief I 4 4 'Chi 2K A- it i 1 1 added. IP99 i 'V wsis. i -v i' No Subversive Activities Shown, Committee Says, in Striking Out His Report May Have Struck Wreckage of One of -Lost Ships Known To Be in That Vicinity CRAWFORDSVILLE, June 1. UP Ross and Reid Gilmore, 20-year-old twin sons of Newt Gil-more of Bloomington, and Stanley Cochrane, 19 years old, Montgomery county farm boy, confessed today a series of burglaries in this vicinity, Sheriff Merle Remley said. They also confessed stealing an automobile from Stanley's father, Henry C.

Cochrane, the sheriff added. The three were arrested yesterday at Bloomington. Bond Limit Hike Passed by Senate Mr. and Mrs. Rice found their daughter playing with officers when they came to report the SEYMOUR, June 1.

UP) The crash of a truck in which nine Crothersville High school boys were driving to the "ol swimming hole" took a second life today. Harlan Albertson, 19 years old, died in a Seymour hbspital. Russell Schill, 16 years old, died soon after the truck was swerved into a bridge rail by a tire blow-out. HOUSEREJECTS. PENSION PLAN: VOTE 302-97 "kidnaping." 4 HITLER PLEDGES GUARANTEES TO YUGOSLAVIA By RICHARD L.

TURNER WASHINGTON, D. June 1. UP) Major General George Van Horn Moseley, embattled enemy of "international Jewry" and Communism, concluded a two-day ap WASHINGTON, D. June 1. UP) The senate approved legislation increasing the treasury's bond limit today after attaching an amendment permitting the ii By JOSEPH H.

SHORT BULLETIN BIRKENHEAD, June 2. (Friday) (AP) The admiralty announced this morning the missing British submarine, Thetis, with 79 to 100 men aboard, had been located 14 miles from Great Ormes head, with 18 feet of tail showing above water. The admiralty said "There is nothing to indicate the men are other than safe." WASHINGTON, D. June 1. Firemen searching ruins of grade school Tennessee Valley authority to is UP) The house booted the Town sue $100,000,000 of bonds.

The Firemen search the ruins of a two-story frame school building at Barberton, Ohio, ripped apart by send Old-Age Pension bill out of the window today by a 302 to 97 legislation, which goes back to the an cxDlosion while between 80 and 100 children between the ages of six and 11 were at their desks. house for action on the amend vote while its parent, Dr. Francis More than 30 children were injured, several seriously. "The building was being used temporarily by the Akron suburb for "overflow" pupils. (Central Press Photo) BERLIN, Germany, June 1.

UP) Adolf Hitler guaranteed Yugoslavians borders tonight in an exchange of toasts with Prince Paul during a lavish state dinner. The German fuehrer, who is entertaining his guests royally during the five-day stay of the Yugoslav regent, said that in Prince E. Townsend, fidgeted in his gal lery seat. The roll call, generally conced' ed to be an effort by the Demo cratic leadership to put Republi ment, would increase, from to $45,000,000,000 the amount of bonds the treasury may have outstanding. It would not, however, increase the existing limitation of $45,000,000,000 on the treasury's total debt.

uamo uay cans on the spot, placed 55 mem bers of the minority party on rec Is Celebrated at Louisville ONE DIES, 8 HURT IN OHIO PLANT BLAST CUBA ORDERS JEW REFUGEE SHIP TO LEAVE ord for the bill. In addition, one Republican was "paired" for the measure meaning that he would have voted for the legislation had he not been paired off with one of pearance before the Dies committee today with a prepared statement which the committee considered so grotesquely anti-Semitic that it was immediately stricken from the record. The general, who also revealed an apparently gnawing fear that he would be assassinated at any moment by his Red foes, excitedly expressed throughout a long session on the witness stand, his approval of Hitler objectives and accomplishments and his regret that the leaders of some "patriotic organizations" in the United States find the movement personally profitable. His own activities, he eaid, had cost him money. But the climax of his testimony was.

reached with his prepared statement. At intervals throughout his testimony, he had demanded an opportunity to read it and had been put off. Overnight, he cut it to one-third of its original length, which he had estimated at an hour-and-a-half. When all committee questioning was done, his chance came. Demeanor Changed Paul's presence "we see a happy occasion for a frank and friendly exchange of views which I am convinced can only bring benefits to our peoples and states." Stressing the friendship of Germany for Yugoslavia, he continued, 'T believe in this all the more since a solidly founded and tiMstful relationship of Germany toward Yugoslavia now that through historic events we have become neighbors with common borders estab its opponents.

MAIN STREET WORK STARTS NEXT WEEK Republicans against the bill to taled 107. BELLEVUE, Ohio, June 1. UP! LOUISVILLE, June 1. UP) Louisville celebrated its first annual "lamb day" today, and breeders approximately 5,000 sad-faced bleating little animals to the Bourbon stockyards for the occasion. From as far away as Harriston, 662 miles from Louisville, The Democratic majority split One man was killed and at least i 40 for and 194 against Representative Boland of Pennsylvania, HAVANA, Cuba, June 1.

UP) A tragic shipload of 917 German Jewish refugees tonight faced return to the land from which they fled. President Federico Laredo Bru coupled an order for their the Democratic whip, had estimat lished for all time will not only secure a permanent peace between ed before the roll call that not more than 50 members of his party would vote for the measure. He ship to leave with a threat to use our two peoples and countries but shipments of lambs poured in for the special market. Prizes were distributed for every phase of the eight were injured tonight in an explosion at the City Ice and Fuel company plant here. The Bellevue hospital said the dead man was Donald Ice, an employee of the plant.

Eight persons overcome by ammonia fumes, were admitted to the hospital. LONDON, England, June 2. (Friday) UP) The glistening new submarine Thetis, proud product of Britain's swift rearmament, lay helpless under about 130 feet of water somewhere at the bottom of the Irish sea today with between 78 and 100 men aboard. Reports which lacked confirmation from the British admiralty, said she was believed to have been located by means of a checkered marker buoy shot from the crippled undersea craft commissioned less than three months ago and carrying officers, seamen, and the builder's technicians on a trial dive from which she failed to emerge yesterday afternoon. These reports of her location conflicted, but most of them indicated she lay some 12 miles out to sea from Mersey bar lightship or about 25 miles from Liverpool, the great west England port.

More than 13 hours after the $1,638,000 submersible made her last dive at 1:40 p. British summer time (6:40 a. c. s. t.

Thursday) not a word had been received from her. Collision Feared It was feared she had collided beyond that will provide an element of calm for our jittery con also forecast that not more than 75 Republicans would favor it. To the totals for the two prin lamb-breeding industry. tinent." P. L.

Mathis, owner of 254 Prince Paul, in responding, noted Paving of Main street, f.rom West Fifth street to Twenty-third street, will start next week, city officials said they had been advised by the Indiana State Highway commission. City Engineer S. W. Hodgin, who met with district highway gunboats if necessary to tow it from Cuban waters. The presidential decree came during a day of uncertainty in which the captain of the German liner St.

Louis, expressing fear of a "collective suicide pact" among his refugee passengers, sought in lambs from Harriston, received a prize for shipping the Hitler's expression of respect for the Balkan's country's border with cipal parties were added the votes of two minor party members for the bill and one against. George C. Massig, an employee the reich. of The Bellevue Gazette, said two greatest distance. Edgar E.

Chas-tain, his wife and three children were rewarded for "coming the Doners at me plant blew up, "car rying the ammonia plant with it. greatest number of family miles1 Massig said ammonia fumes to the celebration. They live near officials at Greenfield Wednesday, said Thursday that the work would be started at West Fifth and Main "My visit is a demonstration of the determined will of the Yugoslav people to live and work together with the German people in an atmosphere of peace and friendship," he said. Unusual measures taken by the spread over a wide area and BROKEN PIPE KEY TO SCHOOL BLAST Salem, Ind. "many persons were His whole demeanor changed from that of an impatient, indignant and occasionally defiant witness, to that of a man with a mission in life.

He sat upright, put on his spectacles and began reading in a deep, gruff voice which contrasted curiously with the usually high-pitched and somewhat nasal tone with which he had answered questions. The statement, which he had assured the committee was "good stuff," proved first of all an ac streets, possibly on Monday morn Top lambs brought llj cents, a "good market," stockyards men Police Chief Charles North said the blast shook an area extenduing said. 10 miles each direction. vain to have the government rescind its order against landing; them. Although the president directed the St.

Louis to leave "within the day," and marines were held ready to carry out his orders, it was understood the liner was granted a delay until it could refuel and take on provisions for the return voyage to Germany. The Cuban Treasury department, instructed to carry out Laredo Bru's order, was said to have It was reported three men were German government fo welcome Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia provided an indication of the importance attached to this POOR RATINGS blown 50 feet into a near-by field. Woman Succumbs BARBERTON, Ohio, June 1. UP) Investigators exhibited a broken section of gas pipe tonight as their best clue to a terrifying explosion which blew out the walla of a makeshift school building yesterday, injuring 57 persons, three country in the rivalry of the powers count of what various people aDroaa naa said about Communism and the Jews in 1918 and 1919. ASSIGNED TO After Operation of them critically.

They dug up the severed li- The committee shut him off abruptly, precipitating an interchange in which he demanded: "Are you investigating me?" ior position in the Balkans. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The three Baltic states of Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were believed yesterday to hold the key to the stalemated British-French-Soviet Russian negotiations for a mutual assistance pact. London diplomats represented the little republics neighbors of inch main nine feet from the shattered two-story frame building, DISTRICT JAILS ing. Equipment will be worked from that point east until the job is completed, Hodgin said he had been advised. He said the commission had not determined Just how the street would be closed during the work.

Hodgin estimated the entire job would be completed in about three weeks. First operation will be the complete cleaning of the section to be surfaced. This will be followed with a binder of bituminous material, over which will be placed the leveling course. Three days will be required for the leveling course to cure, after which the surface course of rock asphalt will be applied. The work will be done with Highway department equipment.

W. L. Magaw has been awarded the contract to supply the material The total estimated cost of the improvement is $60,000. Acting Chairman Healey announcing through Fire Chief Claude Witwer that fumes ap parently seeped into the basement Ranked in next to the lowest from the break. A formal report will be made later, Witwer said.

Russia as occupying a dominant granted Luis Clasing, agent for the Hamburg-American line, until 6 p. m. tomorrow to get the ship out of port. It was held probable in port circles, however, that Capt. Gus-tav Shroeder of the St.

Louis would try to complete the task of taking on stores and get under way early tomorrow while his passengers are asleep. This move was understood to be under consideration because of the fear that the refugees, including 500 women and 150 children, might be driven to desperation and try to jump overboard. position now as a result of Russia's insistence that they be given specific guarantees against KILLED BY GAS DELPHI, June 1. UP) group in the state, the Wayne County jail was said to be "unfit for human habitation" by the Indiana Department of Public Welfare, in an official report made public Thursday night The body of Silas Wilson, 75 years CONNERSVTLLE, June 2. (Friday) Mrs.

Dorothy Glis-son, 30 years old, wife of Russell Glisson, died shortly after midnight Thursday following an operation at Fayette Memorial hospital here. She formerly resided at Blooming Grove. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. (d.

a. t) Saturday in the First Methodist church here, with interment following at the Everton cemetery. Friends may call at the residence, 123 North Central avenue, after noon Friday. Besides the husband, she is survived by her step-mother, Mrs. Ida McKinley.

TO PROSE SHOOTING MUNCIE, June 1. UP) old, was found in his private garage However, a hitch lay in the fact Mass.) assured him that that was the case, and after some further altercation, during which the general promised to stick to subversive activities in America, he was permitted to continue. The remainder of the statement contained assertions that the Jews "maintain a state within a state," that they cannot pay allegiance to both "international Jewry" and to the United States, and that they are fomenting both international war and domestic revolution. "The handwriting on the wall," he said, "is clear as a bell." The general reached his peroration with the following: here today. Coroner Hubert Gros tney have indicated a desire to (HITLER) (Continued on Page 7, Section 1) theorized carbon monoxide had killed him as he worked on the The department's finding listed motor of his automobile.

Wayne county's jail in Class as unfit for human habitation "unless improved immediately." with some' underwater object, possibly the remnants of one of the many wrecked ships which strew the bottom of the sea in the vicinity, and disabled her electrical apparatus. Naval experts estimated she contained sufficient air to stay submerged 36 hours, but more than a third of that time had been used up shortly before the first gray streaks of morning light split the sky over Merseyside. Presumably all, or nearly all aboard the Thetis were equipped with individual Davis lifesaving devices which would be used as a last resort in an attempt to send them to the surface from escape hatches. But observers believed no attempt would be made to use this method of self-rescue until broad daylight when the survivors could be picked up easily. Representatives of Cammel Laird, the builders, and other unofficial rescuers reported the submarine's marker buoy had been sighted by both planes and surface vessels belonging to the vast rescue fleet which churned the Irish sea all night long in a ghostly light of flares, searchlights, and rockets.

Meanwhile, men-of-war, submarines, antisubmarine vessels equipped with secret detector devices to locate submerged ships, and Royal Air force planes searched the sea off the mouth of the Mersey river and the rugged north Welsh coast. Relatives Anxiously Wait In Birkenhead little knots of women gathered at the entrance (78-100) (Continued on Page 7, Section 1) Businessmen, F.D.R. Confer Among jails in this district, Henry Rain an Aid to Dry Crops; More Forecast for Today County jail at New Castle was Coroner Earl K. Parson announced also listed in Class D. "Consequently it is self evident but Results Not Learned xnai tnose Jews who affiliate The report gave Randolph today he would give no verdict, but would ask a grand jury to investigate the fatal shooting of Howard memseives witn organized world Jewry and thereby accept the County jail at Winchester a rating of while Fayette and Franklin jails were listed in Class of the United States Steel cor May, 1932 has the 20-year-old record with .31 of an inch of rainfall, while that same month in Gammons, 56 years old, Tuesday.

The coroner said George Burden, poration; J. F. Fogarty, president ui ucmg na nationals as proclaimed by Brandeia should be denied office holding-. SUffrn rt Fifteen county jails in Indiana of the North American company; J934 registered .91 of breciDita- 35 years old, farmer and Gammon's nephew, told of shooting his uncle after he attacked Burden's and all other citizenship rights in were listed as "unfit for human habitation," in Class E. They included: Delaware, Gibson, Clinton, Montgomery, Wabash, Jeffer Carle C.

Conway, chairman of the board' of the Continental Can company, and Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineer uie American republic. Deleted from Reeorrf mother with a chair. DIES AFTER FALL When he had finished, there was a long pause, while the p-enpmi ing corporation.

WASHINGTON, D. June 1. JP) Eight leading businessmen talked over the subject of first concern to them business tonight with President Roosevelt in the intimate formality of his study. But what was said, or even generally discussed remained for President Roosevelt to disclose, possibly, at his press conference scheduled for tomorrow morning, for unusual precautions were taken by the White House staff to keep the guests from encountering reporters as they left. son, Orange, Hancock, Blackford, Jennings, Starke, Crawford, Martin, Ski tzer land, and Scott.

pursing his lips in characteristic fashion, looked defiance at the INDIANAPOLIS, June 1. Conner, 65 years old, of Indianapolis, who fell and hit his head on a curb Tuesday, died in The department ranked jails of committee. Representative Demo- coir Tmm XT Senate Puts O. K. on Supply Bill; Economy Plea Fails the 92 counties in five classes, from A to E.

a hospital today. i. jnex.) broke the hush. tion. Despite its subnormal rainfall, May was a typical month.

Although cool during the first week, the mercury began a steady climb thereafter and remained in the seventies and eighties during the daytime for the rest of the month. Chief characteristic of the month was its clear, blue skies, and few days were marred by dull, grey clouds. Many individuals who were still in hibernation during rainy, chilly April, emerged last month to enjoy the glorious, sunny days. Maximum temperature for May Ending a dry period that threat-ened crops in some sections of the district, .24 of an inch of rain fell in Richmond Thursday, the first day of June. Slight as the rainfall was, its help and the U.

S. Weather bureau promise of more rain today and tomorrow will be the relief desired by most farmers. The bureau's weekly summary of weather and crop conditions in Indiana, reported Thursday, concluded: "The weather was mostly favorable for farm work, but the soil is too dry in some sections. Winter wheat is making fair to good progress; it is heading in most sections. Conrplanting is nearing completion and much is up too with fair to good stands.

Progress of oats is mostly fair. Pastures and clovers are mostly in fair to good condition but rain is needed." The slight rainfall and comparatively cloudy skys brought a ls nt one sentence in uie enure statement that points Psychology Student Gives Prof Startling Bit of Own IsLedicine WASHINGTON, D. June 1. 03 A booming chorus of ators approved a $305,267,000 bill for flood control, rivers and har bors work, and other undertakings However, because the meeting was arranged by Secretary Hopkins to coincide with the Advisory council's session, it was generally thought that it was not called for a discussion of new measures which the president might have in mind. The eight were invited to dinner, and dined at the White House, but without their host.

Mr. Roo today after shouting down pleas for economy. Resembling a college cheering There was Vraciu, lying comfortably and unharmed in a tarpaulin held by friends. Vraciu's grin stretched from ear to ear. A crowd which had been primed for the exhibition gave what spectators later described as "bird calls." section at times, senators quickly rejected reductions of $50,000,000 was 90.

reached on the twenty-fiftn day of the month. The lowest thermometer reading was 32 degrees, recorded on both May 1 and 3. Both high and minimum temperatures were about normal for the month. made by their Appropriations com ouoveraive activities in this country and I move that the entire statement be deleted from the record." There followed a brief conference among the committee members. "The committee," Healey announced, "has decided that the entire statement will be eliminated." k068 that th press the general mildly in- quired.

There was no answer. Moseley's fear for his life was revealed early in the day. Taking the witness stand he picked up a glass of water, inquiring 'ia this water all right?" An aide, whose identity was a closely guarded (MOSELEY'S) (Continued on Page 7, Section 1) The Lost Is Found Thrusting a 36-inch forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, a New York veterinary removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a spark plug, a pair of dice. Which proves that there are many ways of losing one's possessions.

The best way of recovering them is usually a Palladium-Item want ad like the one below: mittee, added a few minor items. sevelt was still suffering from a sinus attack and slight fever which had kept him abed through and then sent the big supply bill back to the house. the day, and so kept to his room. Senator Adams He joined his visitors after dinner, however. Hopkins sat at the GREENCASTLE, June UP) All was quiet in Prof.

Paul J. Fay's adolescent psychology class at DePauw university. The students were hard at work on a last-class quiz. Suddenly and without warning, Alex Vraciu, East Chicago Sophomore and a member of the football and mile relay teams, jumped to his feet, threw an eraser at the professor and shouted, "I just can't stand it any longer." He dashed to a window, two stories above the ground, and plunged from sight. Girls in the class screamed.

One or two were near the fainting stage. Fay rushed to the window and looked out. He expected to see the worst but not what he actually saw. head of the table. The guests were: who led the futile effort to cut $50,000,000 from the total voted by the house, could not even get a record vote on these items.

Not enough senators raised their hands Charles R. Hook, president of relief in temperatures, too. Thursday's minimum was 68 degrees, considered high for comfortable weather, but the maximum was only six degrees higher 74. The noon reading was 69 degrees, and the midnight, 70. A Record Month Only twice, in 1934 and 1932, in the past 20 years, has the district been subjected to such an arid state at it was last month, the record books at the pumping station reveal.

May produced but 1.10 of an inch of rainfall, which was far from adequate for agriculture. The professor said not a word. He went back to the front of the room and sat down. For several years, he has staged "fake fights" in his class room to learn how sharp are the eyes of his students. After these "fights," he has queried his students on "who hit who and when, Vraciu said he "pulled the stunt" to see if the professor "could take some of his own medicine." The professor "took it," but said he would not "like to have to take it again." the American Rolling Mill com to obtain the formal roll call.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rainfall throughout Indiana amounting to nearly two inches in some places brought relief to thirsty crops and put an end to a series of hot days yesterday. The rain was heaviest in ihe southwestern part of the state. Hazelton reported 1.18 inches, Petersburg 1.16 inches, and Washington an inch. Evansville had .65 of an inch, (RAIN) (Continued on Page 7, Section 1 pany; John D. Biggers, president POCKETBOOK LOST CONTAINING cream check.

Si bill. Return to James F. Norris, New Weston, Ohio. of Libby-Owens-Ford Glass com' Indiana projects approved under pany; W. A.

Harriman, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific the bill include flood control ap propriations as follow: Indianapo TEMPERATURES Yesterday Max 74; 68; noon, 69; 70. Precipitation, .24 of an inch. railroad; A. D. Whiteside, presi lis.

Fall Creek section, Pocketbook found and mailed the same day by honest sailor. Muncie, and Anderson, dent of Dun Bradstreet; E. R. Stettinius, chairman of the board $127,000..