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HP TUTTC -1 ilJcj NDI anapo: Weather Forecast PAIR; SLIGHTLY WARMER Sunrise, 6:03. Sunset, 5:47. NEW LAST EDITION yoL. LXIX NTTMBEB WHOLE ai .21.330 FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1938 THREE CENTS 38 PAGES BT LOCAX CAJUtTJBl 12 A WEX3C nn innr nnrm tit rrr uv I Juv 1 vSLyju LfliUU into S7 rniorin CiiSE ilia i LY I AX Ml li UbilVI uuLa li SHE HAD SO MANY CHILDREN MORE SURRENDERS TO UTILITIES NEAR? Vienna Calls Off Plebiscite After Ultimatum by Hitler; Britain, France Varn Berlin Citizens Wonder If State Will Bow to Light Co. as Jt Has in Water Case RATES GO HIGHER, HIGHER PROPOSAL LOSES JOR SECOND TIME Indiana Delegation Votes 9-2 Agafnst Reconsideration of Penalty Levy COUNT ON PLAM 253-153 Crowe and Greenwood Favor Surtax Substitutes Adopted The Indianapolis Xew Bureau, 603 Albee Building.

WASHINGTON, March ll.The house this afternoon killed an attempt to put back into the tax revision bill an adminstration crooosal 1 Community's Expense for Elec-1 trie Power Has Not Been Cut, as Promised I Munich Center for Nazi Corps MUNICHi March 11 (A.P.) Mobilization of German troops in the seventh army corps area near Austria's bor Does the almost unconditional surrender of the state of Indiana in the effort to regulate water rates in Indianapolis indicate what may be expected of the public service commission in the long-pending Indianapolis Power and Light Com- wvkj a. ior a special surtax on family-1 pany rate case? This is the question that confront owned and closely-held corporations. Speaker William Bankhead announced that the roll call vote was 233 to 153 ed the utility ratepayers of Indianapolis today after they had found that instead of preparing for a rate hearing "anew" in the federal court, Ralph E. Hanna, public counselor, and the attorney-general had been The Indiana delegation split nine der is in full swing tonight. Munich is army corps headquarters.

Placid, imperturbable Ba Premier Closely Guarded After Threats it BULLETIN VIENNA, March 11 (A.P.) The Austrian government press bureau announced tonight that German troops had crossed the Austrian border at Passau. Austrian troops were ordered to fall back without resistance. BULLETIN VIENNA, March 11 (U.P.) Chancellor Kurt Schusch-nigg has resigned, the official radio station announced tonight. against ana two for. Those voting to remove the tax on family held corporations were John W.

Boehne, secretly negotiating with Water Company attorneys a pact by which the public representatives quit the field in the water case. varians believe the purpose ENGLAND MOVES TO EASE TENSION London Advises Berlin to Refrain From Interfering With Austrian Plebiscite MUSSOLINI HOLDS ALOOF European Capitals Tense as Vote Nears Nazis Refuse Pledge to Stay Out LONDON, March 11 (U.P.) Great Britain strongly warned Germany tonight that she would not remain indifferent if Germany takes military action In the Austrian crisis. Unofficial but reliable sources said that Premier Neville Chamberlain told Joachim von Rib-bentrop, German foreign minister, of Britain's attitude and left no doubt in the latter's mind that Britain would be forced to act If trouble developed through foreign intervention in Austria. The British stand was disclosed almost simultaneously with the news from Austria that the plebiscite called by Chancellor-Kurt Schuschnlgg had been Indefinitely postponed, for the moment averting a crisis of the first magnitude in which Britain was prepared to act. was to scare Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who had called for a plebiscite Sunday on Austrian independence, a move regarded by Nazi lead ers as unfriendly to their cause.

Because there is no effort to hide james x. raney, Finiy II. Gray, Glenn Griswold, Charles A. Haileck, Virginia E. Jenckes, William H.

Larrabee. Louis Ludlow and William T. Schulte. Against removal of the family corporation tax wert Representatives Eugene B. Crowe and Arthur H.

Greenwood. Administration pressure, if effective in other state delegations, did not change the Indiana stand since Jt voted two days ago eight to 2 to strike the tax out. At that time Representatives Farley and Gris-wold were absent, but had signified their intention to vote to strike out the family held corporation tax. Representative Samuel B. Petten-glll.

out of town, for the week-end. was paired in favor of striking out the tax rate. Way Paved for Final Vote. The action -paved the way for a vote on final passage of the Hefty revenue Republicans and rebelling Demo J4 Since these public representatives, on whom the ratepayers have been depending for representation in utility cases, have abandoned the effort to regulate the Water Company, what assurance remains that they will not also retire in favor of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company? consumers are asking. Realization that the electric case Is even more complicated than was the water case gives rise to uneasiness among the ratepayers as to whether there is good faith opposition to the attempt of the Light Company to obtain from the 'public service commission an evaluation of its property far beyond the public's realisation of its worth, After going through the year 1936.

paying light rates higher than prevailed in eighty comparable cities, Indianapolis consumers were assured that the commission. mobilization, Bavarians believe it is not intended actually to send troops into Austria. Evidences of mobilization are: 1. Men are being called to the colors and their private cars commandeered. 2.

Municipal buses and private trucks are requisitioned. 3. Owners are frankly told these BULLETIN ROME, March 11 (U.P.) The official Italian newsagen. cy, Stefani, announced from Vienna tonight that Chancel-lor Kurt Schuschnigg has resigned and that Dr. Arthur through an interlocutory order 1 500 PUPILS WILL Seyss-Inquart, Nazi interior Dr.

W. A. Wirt, Head of Gary Schools, Dead PRESIDENT SCOLDS 3 TVA DIRECTORS vehicles will be used on the Austrian border. Rumors circulated that Czecho-slovakians were moving over the Austrian border to vote in Sunday's plebiscite for independence and that France also is supporting the anti-Nazi Austria ns. There is known to be a large concentration of troops near Sternberg, twenty miles south of Munich, along one of the main roads into Austria.

Regular army units and brown -shirted S. A. and blackshirted S. S. (Nazi guard units) are moving toward Freilassing, near Salzburg, would reduce the community ex-1 pense for electric power by $525,000 a year.

i Last week they learned that in-! stead of reducing the amount paid! the company in 193? by $525,000 the Interlocutory rates had, in reality I increased the total earning of the I company by approximately On the disclosure before the I commission that the company actually had a greater profit under the new rates than the old, another recess in the hearings was granted on motion of Hanna, the public counsellor, who said he desired i i LONDON, March 11 (U.P.) Nerves tightened in European capitals tonight as statesmen watched Austria and indications multiplied that behind Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's call for a plebiscite on Independence Sunday there are political moves of great importance. Dispatches from usually well-informed sources indicate: 1. That Schuschnigg obtained the approval of Premier Benito Mussolini to hold a plebiscite in which every one agreed Austrian Says Their Squabbles Have Obscured and Impeded Power Policy WASHINGTON, March It (A.P.) minister, becomes chancellor. I Austrian sources in London also report Schuschnigg'g resignation, but say ho has been succeeded by Dr. Otto Ender, elderly lawyer and legislator, a moderate anti-Nazi and a chancellor of the pre-Dollf uss, era.

Endcr drafted the famed "Dollfuss constitution." crats refused for a second and final time co include the "IB" surtax on cicely -held companies in the bill. They have contended it would subject legitimate business enterprises to a punitive tax in an attempt to-reach a few firms that mteht be used for tax avoidance purposes. The? house had agreed tentatively, by 130 to 124 vote, on Wednesday to strike the "IB" tax from the bill. Today's ballot merely ratified that decision. Supporters of the eliminated tax declare its removal will lower the revenue yield by about $40,000,000.

Even If that tax were included, these legislators say. the bill would bring in $22,000,000 less than the $5,330,000,000 which the treasury receives from the present Representative Willis Robertson Va.) persuaded the house yesterday to vote an increase of 25 cents a gallon In the liquor tax, which he said would produce a year, i Representative Chester Thompson (Denw T.1U succeeded in tacking on an amendment to tax imported pork and pork products about $5,000,000. COMPETE IN TESTS County Scholarship Leaders to Vie in Achievement Program Five hundred boys and girls from Marion county chools are sharpening their pencils and their wits in preparation for the educational achievement tests to be taken Monday afternoon at Butler University. The achievement program sponsored by J. Malcolm Dunn, countv i time to prepare exhibits to refute presented by the com- esiaent nooseveu toia tne quar- testimony Garmisch and Fuessen.

iciiuij uueuwrs uus aiternoon Roads out of Munich art con he had been convinced reluctantly 1 Nazis are at a decided disadvantage: pany. It is recalled now that when Judge Robert C. Baltzell called a conference to determine what further steps should be taken, in the water case the state's representa- II trolled. Trains to the south are still running "for the time as railway authorities put it. The Austrian consul at Munich departed toward Vienna by A Continued on Page 4, Part I that high Italian circles may even have suggested the plebiscite.

2. That chuschnigg notified Great Britain, and therefore undoubtedly France, of his intention. 3. That he did not notify Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. 4.

That he did not notify even Dr. Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, sole Nazi member of the Austrian cabinet and for years his friend. 5. That Hitler did not notify Mussolini of his Intention' to sum that their work was impeded and real issues of public policy obscured by personal recriminations. 1 The President made a long state- ment to the three members of the Tennessee Valley Authority's board after they sat down for judgment by the President on charges that Chairman A.

E. Morgan on one hand and Directors David E. Lilien-: thai and H. A. Morgan on the other 'ave made against each other.

Chairman Morgan has accused his wtv associates of bad faith, respon- sibility for illegal expenditures and other things. H. A. Morgan and Lilienthal have charged that the chairman is de FRENCH CABINET DEADLOCK LOOMS WHITNEY. INDICTED FOR STOCK THEF1 Representative Robert Doughton N.

snid. howevpr 'th. superintendent of schools, and his department, in co-operation with the Marion County Parent-Teacher Association and Butler University education department, has become an institution in the county. Each school in ttie county, outside Indianapolis, is respressnted by high scholarship pupils from each grade above the third, the rating based on first semester examinations. An essay contest also is part of the program for those from the sixth grade through high school.

Winners in each grade and essay winners will receive medals in a ceremony April 11 at the Butler gymnasium. A program will be mon Schuschnigg to Berchtesgaden February 12 to receive terms for an Austro-German "agreement. R'bbcntrop Worried. termined to "rule or ruin" TVA. I It seems plain that Joachim von Ribbentrop, new German foreign minister, is worried over the Aus VIENNA, March 11 (A.P.) The government announced tonight that the plebiscite on Austria's independence has been postponed.

The announcement followed reports that Germany and Austria's Nazis had exerted powerful pressure to avert the referendum, which Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg had called for Sunday. It came as Austria was assuming the aspect of an armed camp, with clashes in many cities between Nazis and Fatherland Front supporters of Schuschnigg's fight for independence. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian minister of the, interior and closa friend of Germany's Relchsfuehrcr Adolf Hitler, is reported to hava presented a demand, "like an ulti trian situation. He was made for DR. WILLIAM A.

WIRT eign minister in the Nazi shakeup "It is intolerable to the people of the United States," the President told the directors, "that issues of fundamental public policy should be confused with issues of personal integrity and misconduct. "I have called this hearing to investigate charges of dishonesty, bad faith and misconduct. This is not an inquiry to determine a national power policy, a national con- or reoruary 4 after having served as ambassador to London, and came GARY, March 11 CSpU- given in celebration of the project. The tests Monday will be given by members of the department of education faculty, with Dr. A.

B. Carlile as head. The committee on Achievement day is directed by James N. Jay, Dr. William A Wirt, founder of the here ostensibly to wind up his af Gary school system and superin fairs, but actually to hold talks with government leaders as a basis for future British-German friendship tendent thirty-one years, died of Dewey Obtains Grand Larceny Charge in Abuse of Trust Fund Picture on Page 18, Part 2 NEW YORK, March 11 (A.P.) The immediate rearrest of Richard five times president of the New York Stock Exchange, an a new charge of grand larceny was ordered this afternoon by John J.

Bennett, state attorney-general. NEW YORK, March 11 A.P.)-An indictment charging Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, with the theft in securities today negotiations heart disease today. He was sixty-four years old. Today Ribbentrop is reported to Dr. Wirt suffered an attack last Blum Refuses to Trade For-eign Views for Support-Nazi Troops Cause Alarm PARIS, March 11 (A.P.) Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos tonight called in the German ambassador, Count Johannes von Welczeck, and directed his attention to what i officially described as "the grave European situation brought on by concentration of German assault units on the Austrian border." Sources close to the foreign office say Delbos asked Count von Welczech pointedly what Germany would do if disorders should arise in Austria.

These sources add that it is probable that Britain and France jointly will invite Italy to adopt a stand with them against interference in Austria be hurriedly cleaning up his program so that he can fly to Ber lin. to be at Hitler's side this weekend when the plebiscite Is held. night and died after a second this morning. Death was attributed to overwork. Mildred Harter Wirt, his third treasury fisurr-d the added liquor tax would yield only $19,000,000.

But Representative John McCormack (Dem. Mass.) contended that on the basis of figures issued by Hemv Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury, the Joss from rejection of the IB tax on closely-held corporations would be no more than Thompson's proposal was approved 107 to 88. Other suggestions lor taxes, on foreign products went down like ten-pins after Representative Fred Vinson Ky. told the legislators the house floor is no place to write a tariff bill. Finally the members grew impatient and then voted down a dozen amendments without even getting explanations of them.

Scrapped along with the import tax amendments are suggestions to put a 10 per cent, tax on gross receipts of radio broadcasters, levy cne-cent-a-gallon tax on fuel oil, lower the beer tax from $5 to $2 a barrel and reinstate a tax on furs. The major provisions left intact would modify the capital gains tax and establish a new corporate tat system. Little corporations, with Incomes up to $25,000, would pay a 12 to 15 per cent, income tax and no undistributed profits tax. Most of those with earnings excess of $25,000 would pay a 16 per cent, income tax plus a 4 per cent, tax on undistributed profits. Maximum rates of 16 to 39 per cent, would be established for gains on capital assets retained by a taxpayer for more than thirteen months.

Continued on Fajce 4. Pari 1 PATRONS OPPOSE BUS SERVICE CUT matum," for cancellation or post ponement of the referendum. No new date was set for tha transformed the collapse of thej brokerage firm he headed into a Delegation Protests 52d and Continued on Page 4, Part 1 BUND CAMP TALK STIRS NASHVILLE Charles W. Soltau, of Indianapolis, Acquires Much Land in Brown County Picture on Last Page NASHVILLE. March 11 Spl.) Whether a Bund 0 camp, similar to those etsablished at various points over the country, may be planned in the vicinity of Nashville is a matter that is causing considerable comment today plebiscite.

wife, and a supervisor in Gary schools, was at his bedside. He won national attention in 19,34 when hs alleged that President Roosevelt was the "Kerensky" of an American revolution plotted by "brain trusters" of the New Deal. He subsequently was called to Washington for a congressional inquiry, but administration leaders laughed away his charges. Hoosier born and educated. Dr.

Wirt built the Gary school systeut or the "work-study-play system wkieh has become famous in school circles as the Gary. Wirt or platoon The postponement means Schusch His natural anxiety was not lessened, apparently, by two talks with Viscount Halifax yesterday. Tt appears that Halifax told Ribbentrop that Germany's demands for colonial territories can not be satisfied except as part of a general European agreement. Further, It is widely reported In unusually well-informed quarters that Halifax asked Ribbentrop, and Sir Neville Henderson, ambassador at Berlin, asked the German foreign office, for assurances that Germany will not intervene inthe Austrian plebiscite. The answer, both from Ribbentrop and the German foreign office, is said to have been that Germany could give no pledge and that it nigg has bowed to Hitler.

Franz von Papen, German am Keystone Route Change to Works Board Protesting against the proposed abandonment of the Fifty-second street and Keystone avenue bus line rase for the criminal courts. Whitney, through his counsel, Charles H. Tuttle, Republican lead- er. asked and obtained a stay until' Monday of his arraignment. The indictment, returned by a New York county grand jury late bassador, flew to Berlin today and Continued on Page 4, Tart 1 and the use of Schofield avenues type of organization vesterday in a lightning "action by rom Forty-sixth to Fifty-second in the last year.

Dr. Wirt had ork in Thomas E. "Dewev. district attoroevf; a delegation oi prep- i an increasing amount of reorganization of c. a owners ana otners appeared consequence of a might be the duty, of the German "llMu today before the works-sanitation fhe srhont inarri anri sn attempt government to intervene In defense grand larceny in the misappropri- board i by teachers, organized into an A.

F. among Brown county residents. of "Germans" in Austria. ation of the securities from a trust Indianapolis Railways. plans L.

union, to obtain considerably in-fund of which he was executor and tu ask Permission of the public creased salaries. Ribbentrop is said to have prom ised to mention the British request For the last several years, Charles W. Soltau and his wife, Mrs. Pearl Soltau, at whose home in Indianapolis a German-American Bund meeting is to be held Monday, have been acquiring ground in Brown county, about eight miles east cf cwnmisbion aoanaon tne i At trie 1937 session of the Indiana i Fifty-second and Keystone line, and general assembly Mayor L. B.

to replace it with an extension of ton successfully lobbied for a meas- co-trustee. 'The heavy-set, grave PARIS, March 11 CA-P.) Leon Blum, premier-designate, tonight refused to disclose his foreign policy until assured of Radical-Socialist support, threatening a deadlock in France's efforts to set up a new cabinet amid alarming developments in central Europe, including German troop movements on the Austrian frontier. Yvon Delbos. foreign minister in Camille Chautemps's resigned cabinet, conferred with Count Johannes von Welczeck, German ambassador to France, immediately on hearing of troop movements on the Austrian border. All Chautemps ministers remained in their posts.

Blum, Socialist leader, trying to form a new People's Front government with Communist members, insisted on knowing whether Radical-Socialists, more conservative than Socialists and Communists, would ne MUiersville line. The works ure giving him power to appoint five times president of the Stock Exchange and Wall Street leader aireaay nas agreea to use i school board members, a duty here News Features Page. Mark Tbistlethwalle .7, Part 1 Boake Carter Part 2 Comics 10, 11, Part 2 Crossword Puzzle 10, Tart 2 Editorials 6, Parti Financial 18, 19, Part 2 Health Column ,10, Part 2 Movies .11, Part 1 Radio Fif8m, .15, Tart 1 Serial 11, Part 2 Society 2. Part 2 Sports 12, 13, Part 2 ociiuue-ia avenue. tof ore held bv th citv council.

The through the critical years of the depression, was charged with appropriating securities of "an aggre- Spokesmen for the delegation said proposal was fought by many steel thirty-eight of forty-two property Nashville. Soltau first bought 148 acres near State Road 46 from Benjamin Petro, and two years ago he bought an adjoining twenty-one I acres at a delinquent tax sale. This1 ior assurances to Hitler on his arrival in Berlin. Italy enters prominently into the present situation because of her interest in maintaining Austria's independence with but thirty miles of Austrian territory between the Brenner pass on the Italian frontier and Germany. British-Italian negotiations have started at Rome and, though it is admitted that they will be difficult, there seems in both capitals a determination to make them succeed.

The Weather Indianapolis and Vicinity Clearing this afternoon, followed by fair tonight and Saturday; slightly warmer Saturday. Indiana Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly warmer Saturday. Other weather details oh Page 1, Part 2. city groups, including school leaders, as a move to bring school af gate volume oi aoout SlUo.ooo lor owners In Schofield avenue had personal loans, from a fund estab-; figned a petition protesting against fairs under political control and was urn en dv ris Tarnpr-m-isir Tn laLpj'jc nu wkm cc at xn i i received a quit claim deed uooj. iiuj vuuuitii itrsjiutru bume uustiLer ai ure- from William Earl Ueorge R.

Sheldon, leaving in the would be endangered. There are i paratorv to eiiminatin" Dr. Wirt to the land fund only a single share of Beth- v.o driveways, the group said, and from the svstem Stitt. ehem feteel Company stocs with cars are narked in the street, thus In rcpnt mth? n- wirt. nnr i In 1933 So itau bought forty acres a market value of too.

forming a narrow lane for traffic c. But it was said frankly here yes- While Whitney silently went The board told the delegation i the board have held many long ses- I the same vicinity from John C. it sions on salary matters and have Perry, while in 1931, William A. Sol- I tau, his "father, bought twenty-five 1 Continued on Page 4, Part 1 i acres, also nearby, from Otto participate before stating his poli- terday that the prospect for British-Continued on Page 4, Part 1 Continued dn Page 4, Part 1 Continued on Page 4, Part 1 Continued on Page 4, Part 1.