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-I" The! WORTH-WHILE iOGANSPORT R3UG A EDITION FOUNDED 1844--VOLUME 92 FOB DEPARTMENTS PHONE 142 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER ALL LEADING MARKETS PUBLISHED DAILY MEMBER A. B. C. Price 3 Cents U.S. PREDICTS BUSINESS BOOM Rebels Gain Foothold In Street Fighting Rages In Sanguinary Battle Loyalists Planning Counter Attack In Effort to Dislodge Insurgents in West Park and University City.

Insurgent troops forced their way into Madrid proper today in the midst of a furious artillery and aerial bombardment. The Nationalists crossed the Manzanares river on the west of the 1 capital into W.est Park and University City, and fierce hand-to-hand fighting was in progress. The siege of the city seemed to be nearing its climax. The Madrid government forcps were resisting desperately and, according to advices to the British embassy in London, planned a counter-offensive designed as a flanking movement to attack the enemy's rear on the west, Tha embassy was advised that the government has about 100,000 men opposed to the enemy's 45,000. The latter, however, are trained troops, while the government forces are mostly raw.

reruits. Madrid suffered heavily from the asrial bombardment and thorn have been hundreds of casualties in the last few days. Buildings were destroyed and many fires set by incendiary bombs. The aerial attack, designed to terrorize the capital into submission, failed of its tffect in that regard. The citizens were merely infuriated by the slaughter and destruction, and grimly determined to resist to thf Government Takes Drastic Step LONDON, Nov.

17--(UP)--Spanish nationalist troops have crossed j.n/west. 'jrifilaiid fought'their "way into the park (Parque del Oeste), British embassy from Madrid said today. The government has completed ilans for a counter-offensive south of Madrid, the advices said, and in addition intends to make a- di'sstic eorganization of its administration. The nationalists made their crossing of the river, in Madrid proper, from the Fanceses railroad bridge north of tfie palace, which the loyalists dynamited Sunday, the advices said. Thence they fought their way into the park, situated in a position of great strategic importance near the nvodel prison and the great Montana barracks which would be prime objectives in a further attack.

The dispatch was sent as nationalist airplanes spread destruction and death through the capital with their bombs. It said that under the reorganization planned by the government, the various emergency committees now in control would be dissolved and command restored to army officers. The plan for a counter-offensive Deemed based on belief that a comparatively small force cculd hold nationalists back in Muurul, in house-lo-house fighting, for a siu- ficient time while loyalist troops a'-lacked the nationalist rear guard, known to be seriously weakened by concentration of men about 'Madrid. The plan calls, the embassy said: 1. For an attack southward and southwestward from Madrid.

2. The first phase of this attack ivould be on the nationalist rear guard. 3. The second phase would be an attack in the Aranjuez-Toisdo section. For this, the government intended to hold a line running parallel with Toledo and Aranjuez, southward of The embassy estimated that the sovernment had 100,000 men at il-s command in the Madrid area against 45.000 nationalists.

Close Bendix Plant Due To Labor Dispute Charge Unionization A Cause for Shutdown of South Bend Factory. Hickle Begins Prison Term Jlay Hickle, 37-year old Negru sentenced to 5 to 21 years in state prison in Cass circuit afternoon when he pleaded Suilty to second degree rape as the iftermath of an attack on a Wood- lawu avenue colored woman Saturday, was removed to the Michigan City prison Tuesday afternoon. The wheels of justice whirled rapidly in the case ot Hickle. While attack took place late Saturday afternoon it did not come to the attention of police until Sunday morning. Hirkle was promptly seized, confessed and taken before Smith as quickly as possible.

When ,.11 Jckle pleaded guilty sen- passed-hmi'iMliaHty and '-h3 commitment was issued Tuesday. SOUTH BEND, Nov. 17 -(UP)--Local plants of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, employing approximately 4,500 men in manu- faetum'of-automobile. -airplane inotui'uoat accessories, was down tc'iay, apparently bccausa of labor The shutdown was announce by John P. Mahonoy, vice president and manager, in a statement to em- ployes through a public address system in the plane.

sahl tin? issue was ''om- plete unionization of the plant by the United Automobile Workers of America, a uv.it of the American Federation of Labor. Workmen, halted by the message coming through the public address system, first appeared dazed and then angry murmurs were heard as they continued to loiter beside idle machines, ignoring for the most part Mahoney's request that they leave the plants. Mahoncy suggested in his statement that all employes desiring, to rsliun to work shouiJ nice 1 out- siie the plant an-3 priiieiii petition which the management would undfei advisement. 7. troubles, i i .1 round a dispute between a coaipamy-spon- sovcii and thti A K.

cf unit, nave harassed UK-. than a year. The national lab relritions boitrd been asnovl to clesignatp ore nf the two as 1m- tjaiulug agent for thn wcrlcinen. Kidnap Two And Hi-jack liquor Truck Truckmen Held Prisoners all jX'lght and Relieved ot $1,060 liquor load. BEDFORD, 17-- (UP) Kidnaped and held all night by hi-jackers who stole a truck load of whisky, William Probst, 44, and Hermari'Barnett, 29, both of Kansas City, Ka.s., were released near, here The two men said they were kid- naped on XI.

S. road 50. mile west of Brownstown, early last' evening and driven about all-night in an automobile before, being freed on a highway four -miles west of here. They said their eyes were bound with adhesive tape all during their captivity and they were unable to give a detailed description the hi-jackers. Probst and Barnett said they obtained a truck load of whisky and gin, valued at 53,060, at a Lawrenceburg distillery yesterday and were en route to Kansas City when halted by four men in a Chevrolet sedan near Brownstown.

One of the captors drove the truck while the other three, held the two Kansas men. in the car, they told Sh.eri.fE Lincoln They said they drove all night and could hear their truck part of the time. They had' no idea where they were taken except they heard interurban signals several tiriies. were dumped front the Automobile this rooming. Probst and Barnett said they were not harmed by hi-jackers.

Workman Trampled By Team Frank Sohlcheck, Employe of Local Brevfine Company Is in Hospital Barber Slain in Quarrel Colored Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting In Mitchell Barber Shop MITCHELL Nov. 17 (UP) --McKinley Hack, 42, barber, wa.s shot and killed instantly here last night by Nash English, 40, Negro, as result of a quarrel. Hack was shot through the chest after he had forcibly ejected English who was believed intoxicated, from his barber shop. English was arrested shortly after and was held in Lawrence county jail at Bedford pending arraignment on a murder charge. Anna Lanninz, 9, and her father Grant Lanninz, were only witnesses to the shooting.

Lanninz told police that English had made insulting remarks before his daughter, who was getting a hair cut, when Hack ejected him from his shop. Waldron Firm Low Bidder On Bridge Mitchell, Miller and Waldron. Indiana, contractors, were low bidders on Neft ditch bridge on state road 18 one mile cast of Mctea, the staJe highway commission announced Tuesday. The bid oE the Waldron firm is'lisled as $9,231.58. The bridge is a one span measuring thirty-five feet in length.

It will replace a bridge wrecked by traffic. Severely if not seriously injured when he was trampled by one of the horses and then run over by the wagon, Frank Nohlcheck, 66, of 1730 High street, employed as a driver by the K. G. Schmidt Brewing company, was rushed to St. Joseph's hospital late Monday after- suffered broken ribs and multiple bruises from head to foot.

The accident happened at the i Kiesling Bros. Crystal Gardens farm west ot the city on the Delaware road shortly before 3 o'clock. Nohlcheck, who had just delivered a load of fertilizer to the farm, was climbing back onto the wagon when the accident happened. He lost his balance and fell between t.he horses and the front" wheels. The horses started just as he fell and one ot the team is said to have stepped on the man.

Then a wheel passed over his body. Men near the scene of the accir dent put Nohlecheck in an automobile and hurried him to the hospital. 1936 Election Bills Before County Board The Cass county commissioners in special session at the court house Tuesday passed on bills covering election expenses. While most of the requested payments from the fiftyrthree precinct inspectors were found to comply with amounts.provided by law, the board found some that requested amounts in excess to the allowance. These bills were changed to conform with others.

The expense covered by allowance made Tuesday include pay of members of the elction boards, cost of meals, and other necessary payments in connection with the election. City Bills Allowed At Meeting of Board Claims and payroll $26,740.67 for the first half ot vember were allowed by the board of public works and safety in session at the city building Tuesday morning. Claims to and Tha board had no business to transact and adjourned as operating expenses had been Panic Is Averted In Hospital Blaze Tragedy Prevented By Quick-Acting Hospital Guard; Doctors and Nurses Restore Order. CHICAGO, Nov. 17-- (UP-Panic struck among 2,716 patients in Cook county hospital early today, when fire destroyed a record room in the basement of the fireproof building.

Scores of patients cried or screamed as clouds of smoke billowed through the eight floors of the building and filled corridors, wards and private rooms. Nurses and doctors answering emergency calls succeeded In maintaining order, and quieting patients whose conditions might have been endangered by undue excitement. Meantime, the fire was extinguished with loss only of 12 years of case records. The fire was dicovered almost simultaneously by Fire Guard Clark Landers, Elevator Operator Casey Kielminski, and Switchboard Operatr Margaret LaPlant, who observed an automatic signal warning overheating in the record room. Landers first to r.eachjxthe scene.

He took a coiled a standpipe and rushed room where stacks of wooden filing were. in When the.rjjom, the ceiling directly beneath iward 20, filled ith tonsil, Flames were so intense. Landers was forced to lie on: tha'floor. The door slammed behind hiin-and he was trapped. Fighting for his life, he played a stream of water on the ceiling, where it stopped the fire from spreading into the tonsil ward, and at the same time cascaded onto the burning cases.

Dr. Aaron Gunther, on duty in the emergency room, and Martin Greenaway, an attache, reached the room a few seconds before Landers' hose burst. Gunther obtained a second 'the Three were quickly bringing the fire under control when firemen -arrived to complete the task. Farm Tenancy Survey Begun President Appoints Committee to Sake Exhaustive Study of System WASHINGTON, Nor. 17--(UP)-President Roosevelt today appointed a special committee of farm leaders and others headed by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.

Wallace to report by Feb. 1 "on the most promteing ways of alleviating the shortcomings ot the farm tenancy 1 L. C. Gray, assistant administrator of the resettlement administration, was designated executive secretary and technical director of the committee. In a letter to Secretary Wallace the President wrote that "I am anxious that we thoroughly examine and report on the most promising ways of developing a land tenure sj'stem which will bring an increased measure security, opportunity, and well being to the great group of present and prospective farm 1 Tax Session Set Dec.

10 GOT. Elect Townsend Calls Meeting to INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 17-(UP)--A public conference to consider any "inequalities" in the Indiana gross income tax law was set for Dee. 10 today by Governor- elect M. Clifford Townsend.

Anderson Ketchum. secretary of the state board of tax commissioners was named director of the conference. Townsend said he would address the conference on the opening day and outline provisions which he will insist be retahied He added that recommendations of the conference as to elimination of "inequalities'' in tlio law will be presented to the legislature for consideration. Say Qeorge Ade Critically III Famous Hcosier Hnmorlst Placed Under Oxygen Tent At Ulnml Beach, Fla. MIAMI BiACH, Ha, So.

1J ier humorist, Is jll at his Tfintcr liomc here, it "ivas learned today. Ade, 70 years old, Is suffering from a 'lung ailment. His Illness Trns aggravated by the effects of injuries sustained when he fell three TV eeks ago at his home In Brook, Ind. An oxygen tent vfas being nsefl In treatment. At noon lie rvas reported slight- IT improved lint his condition remained serious.

The author made his annual trip to Florida last iveek, arriving here three days ago by auto. Union Cliiefs Ponder Fate Of CIO Group Federation Coiisiders Stains of lewis Group as Latter Unions "Try" William Green. --CONVENTION HALL, TAMPA, Nov. 17--(UP)--The American Federation of Labor battle over John L. Lewis' rebellion began behind locked doors of the convention resolutions committee Monday when eight resolutions were submitted in favor of the insurgents.

While David Liiienthal, director of TVA, addressed the 36th annual convention of the federation, the 17-mau resolutions committee became the first major battleground of the internal warfare shaking the foundations oJ united labor. John head of the metal trades, led the assault on the insurrectionist committee' for industrial organization, demanding expulsion of the member unions. One other resolution proposed punitive action "against the Lewis On the other hand, eight resolutions favored rescinding the council's suspension order or giving full support to the Lewis faction. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--(UP) -Three hard-bitten chieftains! of 'the nation's most powerful labor-union assembled today to consider "treason" charges against William Green labor's titular leader and a fellow member of the United Mine Workers of America.

The UMW leaders ordered Green" to; "appear tomorrow "trial," but the red-faced American Federation Labor presW dent replied that his duties at the federation convention made it impossible for him to return to Washington. Ohio Banker Found Slain III His Auto Circumstances of Crjme Preclude Any Possibility of Victim Taking life. AKRON, 0., '17-- (UP)-- Albert J. Albright.u official, was found mysteribusly slain on a lonely road, eight 'miles northeast of here early He 'was in the seat of his a bullet through his heart. The hand thiottle had been pulled down the machine was in high gear and its lights still buined.

It had 'stopped aftr -careening 200 feet along a bridge railing, breaking, off front wheels 'Beside Albright's body was a .38 calibre revolver. 'The trigger had been'' pulled three The first and third bullets had Jailed to discharge. Authorities ruled out the possibility of suicide Albright left his home, in Massillon, yesterday morning to attend a bankers' banquet in Cleveland last night. Residents near the bridge heard the crash at 11:40 last night. Soon afterwards the body was found.

Authorities, said that they could not discover, that Albright had enemies, was not a motive since Albright's, money $18 was found in his puise They believed that his slay er aftei firing the shot tossed the into the ifai and lemamed to push the geai level into high and jerk: down the thiottle Farm Lady Ends Life WithGun Husband Discovers Tragedy At Home Ifear Wheeling Late Testerday 111 health over a period of several months that had necessitated two major, operations is blamed for despondency that led to the suicide of Mrs. Thomas McGuire, 32, at her rural on Willis Klrkpat- rick farm three quarters of a mile north of Wheeling, just east of state road 29 yesterday afternoon. The husband, who was employe.1 on the county roads Monday, made the discovery the tragedy whin he arrived home about. 4.o'clock. Finding the house locked, Mr.

McGuire looked through a kitchen window and saw the body of his wife on the kitchen floor, with the family shotgun at its side. suspected that a tragedy been enacted so he ran to the William Meade home a few rods west summoned Mr. Meade. The two forced their way into the house and found that Mrs. McGuire was dead from a shotgun wound in her chest.

Dr. Hubert Gros, Carroll county coroner, was summoned from Delphi. He found that the woman apparently had placed the butt of the gun on the floor, pressed the muzzle against her breast and then touched off the trigger with a small stick that was found on the.floor. Before her marriage to Mr. Me-.

Guire several years ago, the victim was Gertrude Shaffer of the Caniden community. Besides the husband she is survived by seven sisters and eight brothers. The, body was prepared at the Letter funeral home in McGuire was the niece of Mrs. Bert Clifton, deputy Carroll county'sheriff. Funeral, rites will be held at the church, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon with Rev.

J. H. Pierce: in Burial will be made in the'Sharon Gift Makes Possible Burning of Mortgage LEITBR'S FORD, Nov. 17-Featured, by the burning of the church mortgage the annual Homecoming the Letter's Ford Meth: odist church and Sunday school was held hera. Sunday.

A number of former pastors spoke. Rev. M. O. pastor, in general charge.

Burning of the mortgage was made possible by a $500 gift received recently'through the will, Hhoda Campbell. Forecast Nation's Trade Will Reach 1929 Levels Department of Commerce Indicates That Business During Holidays Will Rise Ten Per Cent Above Last Year. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--(UP)--A holiday business boom, hitting 1929 prosperity levels and rising 10 per cent above last year, was forecast today by department of commerce officials. Assistant Secretary Ernest G.

Draper said preliminary reports from all fields, indicated many, lines of business operate at 1929 peaks. He based his contention on improved conditions, lessening of unemployment, higher earnings and distribution by scores of corporations 1 of million's of dollars in dividends, and.increased wages and bonuses. Major F.D.R. Winds Up Work For Cruise South President Leaves Tonight for South America; Urgent Problems Given Attention. WASHINGTON, Nov.

17--(UP) -President Roosevelt today through a final whirlwind of administration problems- betoro leaving tonight for the Pan-American peace conference at Buen'os Aires. He touched, on a dozen pressing administration questions at hie final Washington press conference until mid-December, when he re- tuins floraiis South Ameiican He inaicated major attent on. was- beirig given to pioblems of tenancy and unemploy.me.ut Ho niopoted a registration meth od foi a i unemplMnent cenoLs as opposed the enumerator system and named a commission to study the tenancy question and recommendations for legislation ai the next 'congress. The chief executive was seated before the desk that lie uses when he broadcasts to the nation as lie answered a barrage of questions that were tired at him and briefly discussed the budget and his forthcoming trip. The president will leave tonight for Charleston, S.

where he will embark on Wednesday. He will stoy one day at Rio De Janeiro en route. The arrival at Rio De -Janero is scheduled for Roosevelt will Nov. 27 and spend the Mr. day ashore as guest of.

the president of Brazil. Then the Indianapolis, accompanied by the cruiser Chester which--will act as -Escort all the way, will proceed to an Argentine port as yet unnamed, arriving Nov. 30. The day th'e President is expected to make the opening'ad- dress at the conference. The schedule calls for departing Dec.

2 and arrival at Montvideo, Uruguay, Dec. 3, for a stay of several hours. There will be stops at Trinidad for refueling on both trips, but Mr. Roosevelt will not go ashore there until the return trip. Before returning to Washington he is expected to stop off in Warm Springs for a day or two.

Usually the President spends Thanksgiving at the southern resort for treatment of infantile paralysis cases. The port at which the President will disembark on his return to the United States has not been determined, but probably will be Charleston. Likewise the White House said it would not announce the port of debarkation in Argentina'luntll the President was- aboard the Indianapolis but indications that Mar Del Plata would be selected. The peace conference was summoned by the President of Argentina after Mr. Roosevelt had: circularized the on the idea.

American Republics Coast Storm Claims Three NEW YORK. 17--(UP)-The gale-swept north Atlantic took 1 la tole. of three lives' today on "a small British freighter in midi ocean while about 100-miles: away I another vessel flashed a call lor laid. A message from the freighter: Tweedbahk, intercepted shortly before 9 a. reported that the captain had been -killed and.

men had been washed overboard by heavy seas. The vessel's radio ator said that, the ship was hove to in a heavy gale and was marooned in His wireless room by. the battering high-breaking wavee. factors in the Improve ment picture: 1--Dividend distributions DJ many corporations because ot Increased earnings or a desire to escape the 1936 revenue act's provisions a heavy ev undistributed surplus. 2--Increase in Income of farmers from 57,201,000,000 last year to a estimated $7,750,000,000 this year, although it is still bole-wine $10,417,000,000 in 1929.

3--Estimated- risej national Income from $53,500,000,000 in 1035 to $60,000,000,000 or this year. 5--Industrial, production at its highest peak since 1930 and rising. Dividend Stimulus 'Business is continuing at a rapid rate," Draper said. "Undoubtedly part of the acceleration is due' to. the increase in dividend payments.

The laggards 1 in Industry aipptacJo be, and" export trade but. even in these fields the trend is upward. It looks as if we can see increase in business -for the end of thi ye-- and during the coming year. 'Of course, profits cannot be expected a proportionately; large as in 1929 and 1930 as prices in many lines are down but thi undoubtedly works to the advantage buyers in the lower income groups." Administration economists re-, ported.that retail sales "were running about 35 per cent ahead of 1935 but below those of 1939 be- causo of cheaper prices. deposits are above aa all time.

peak. Payment of the soldiers' bonus was cited an another factor stimulating trade. Another is the steady creeping of steel toward 1929 levels. It is about 12 per cent below that year but profits are more frequent and wages have been increased, it was explained. The automobile industry is enjoying one ot its best years from the viewpoint of manufacturers and distributors, while labor and farm wages are higher.

Despite the general increase in wages.and. profits, experts predicted that-the ratio of national income distribution would not be af- 'fected materially. Retail trade, generally, is expected to about 15 per cent abova last Christmas season. Mail order houses, on the basis of increased purchasing power, reported to the department ot commerce that trade is improving rapidly. Hamlet Fire Loss $40,000 Bushels of Grain Destroyed In Blaze pTown Threatened PETMOtlTH, Nor.

originating In tha dryer room completely, destroyed the Hamlfft grain and Jeed building at Hamlet; west -of here, last night estimated at $40,000. included, new machinery, aud 30.000, bushels of grain. Firemen said the-entire tfwn was threatened when the wate- supply height of the blaze, Weather a slightly -warmer Partly el on fly sonth, clondr and unsettled portion i and Wednesday, snow flurries ex-i trcme northeast; Wednesday a extreme sonth, colder extreme northwest late colder Wednesday..