The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 1

THE HOME PAPER MO UEN BAILT BISPA O'CLOCK -ir EDITION TCH 59TH YEAR att at po.tornc. Molln Li, under act ol March 3. 1879. MO LINE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1937 TWENTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS VESSELSUNKBY Gangster Pleads GOVERNOR GIVES MEN OF MOLD XE By JACK MORiUIZ Guilty to Aiding In Iowa Murder "Fireside Chat" Tonight Awaited By Court Rivals NATION'S STRIKE IDLE ESTIMATED In Pen and Ink REBELS SPANISH, BIENNIAL BUDGET AND NQT BRITIS TO LEGISLATURE AT OVER 100,000 Washington, March 9.

UP) Leading allies of President Roosevelt expect him to contend tonight that his court reorganization program is the only practical means yet suggested to meet what he has called "a grave national crisis." Some wrhite house callers had the impression today that in his radio "fireside chat" the president would give to the country arguments he has been making to members of Mar Cantabrico, with Cargo Presented Month Late, It Is from U. S. and Mexico, Is Victim of Attack. Industrial Disputes Tie Up Production in Scores of Scattered Cities. $18,884,288 Out of ance as Outlined.

congress in favor of his court bill. i Xi A CREW'S FATE IS UNKNOWN REQUESTS TO BE CHOPPED 1 i CHRYSLER SHOPS CLOSED Socialists Report Captured Estimates of Income Based on Lewis and Green Factions Go After Steel Workers; G. M. Truce Is Called. Italians Admit Violation of Neutrality Pact.

Continuance of 3 Percent Sales Tax. SkAIINGt OF MASONS (U M1 32 SHORT WILLS f-B AssoeiAtioN op Tragic CLUB, ANT) fRl-eOV PUKeHASlNG AGtNlS ASSN vWW "BORN AND EDUCATED IN MOLINA MARRltT lit 'feiw A MARY RlHRMAN OP DUBUQUE, IOWA AND IS Hi SS ffV PATuy of James oseAR and EtfiY Jon mK''' London. March, 9. VP) Soanish Springfield. March 9.

wpv Spnd government officials anxiously ing to the legislature a provisional budget out of balance by $18,884,288, Governor Horner notified th wis- Bougnt muay learn ine late 01 the crew and passengers, reported to include two Americans, aboard lature today he Immediately would move to cnop requests for funds tin THOMAS J. RUNYON. He will broadcast at 9:30 p. central standard time. Opponents awaited his talk before perfecting strategy for senate hearings on the proposal, which begin tomorrow.

Some officials said they believed the president would emphasize his view that the constitution does not bar legislation like the AAA, NRA or the Guffey coal act, and that those laws were invalidated by Justices out of step with the times. Whether he would close all doors to compromise or challenge the opposition to suggest a better way to change the viewpoint of the supreme court majority "now" were subjects of speculation. Farm and organized labor leaders siding with him reported the president adamant for his program and optimistic about the prospects for ultimate congressional approval. In his speech, the president will take up where he left off in his address to the democratic "victory dinner" Thursday, when he contended the supreme court was thwarting national progress. He served notice then that he had "only just begun to fight," and would broadcast tonight "and thereafter, from time to time, as may be necessary." the mystery irelghter Mar Cantabrico when the crashing guns of an insurgent cruiser sent her to the til they are within anticipated reve Garner, March 9.

UP) nue ior uie next biennium. Thomas J. Runyon, 31, boyish ap A month late, the budget message pottom 01 ine Day 01 It was believed all aboard the freighter which earrted pearing gangster irom Bethel, today was under life sen predicted that $220,800,000 in non earmarked revenues would be col tence in prison for his part in the roadside murder of James Zrostlik, tities of war stores" for the Spanish government had been picked up by lected during the two years starting July l. me cruiser canarias after they leaped into a pounding sea, lighted Requests for apprjpriations. from those funds totaled $239,684288.

young umt, larmer. District Judge Henry Graven sentenced him late yesterday afternoon after Runyon pleaded guilty to a charge of participat ny ine Diazing jiujk last nignt. The British destrover Ec.ha "A balanced budget should be our joint objective without recourse to ported to the admiralty here the additional taxes," or revival of the ing in the killing. Runyon was iar uantaDncos crew are aboard state property tax, or diversions of the Canarias." taken to Fort Madison penitenti necessary special funds," Mr. Horner Although the destroyer's message ary toaay.

said in his message. was taken to mean the xrm fnrtv Heavily armed deputies and pa men under Capt. Joe Santa Maria trolmen guarded the courtroom, Announcing that conferences would be held with all state offi The show of force recalled state naa Deen saved irom a watery grave, their fate at the hands of cials, the governor promised that as soon as possible he would recom ments of prosecutors last Saturday t-t they feared a gangland Invasion to shoot Runyon's way to freedom or kill him because "he uieir captors was unpredictable. Fled from New York. mend a balanced budget for the next FARLEY IN RAP two years.

The conferences prob Aboard the Spanish government ably will be held Jointly with the might talk too much." EARNED HIS "FIRST MONEY SWlNlNQ SHOES AND SELLING NEWSPAPERS DURING SeHOOL VACATIONS WORKED AT C0LP CLUB IN 1909 WORKED AS ireignter when she sailed from Vera appropriations committee of the Cruz, Mexico, after a dramatic flight After he has passed sentence, Judge Graven said he had dealt house and senate. with a cargo of material of war val CLERK IN VARD OF MOLINE eUANNEUL leECO. HE is Treasurer op moline consumers MISSOURI CRAYtt ROAD GRAVEL AND CONSUMERS SALES op it clairp. HoTel corp. and Warsaw HE WAS ONE OV TUt ORCfiNlEERS OP MISSOURI GRAVEL eo.iN 102? Of the increased requests that put LIES AT COM (Continued on Paw Thirteen) ued at $2,700,000 from New York AND IATEK "BECAME "BOOKKEEPER AND SALESMAN4 the provisional budget out of bal harbor, were reported to be two ance, the governor said: American, two Italian and one "under no circumstances should Spanish passengers.

IN 1917 THE CHANNtLL ieE eo. AND MOUNE SAND CO. WERE CONSOLIDaTEu, NAMING. iX MOLINE CONSUMERS CO. DID OFFICE WORK AND SELLING AND LATER MADE TREAS.

ARGUE LEGALITY the impression prevail that these The Spanish ambassador In Lon amounts are recommended by me." don, Pablo de Azcarate Florez, de dared the vessel "carried huge Asserts They Haven't Given "Adequate Alternative" to President's Plan. Relief Financing Discouraging. But Mr." Horner added that the quantities of war stores," which were required for an intensified new OF FRENCH LOAN relief financing outlook is discour offensive by the Valencia govern aging, warned that more than the ment. Definite news the doomed muni present $3,000,000 monthly outlay may be needed for unemployment relief and pointed out that the biennial cost of old age pensions to MEASURE TO TAX tion ship was the Mar Cantabrico ended six tense hours in European Treasury Leaves Question of Flood Threatens Burlington Track East of Barstow chancelleries caused by the first QUAKES FELT IN SEVERAL STATES the. not counting federal belief the victim of insurgent guns matching grants, will increase from Americans Investing in Defense Issue Open.

was a British passenger liner. UTILITIES PUSHED Bg Associated Prtti Leased Wirt. Detroit 75,000 automobile workers made Idle by strikes called by United Automobile Workers after Chrysler corporation rejects union demand for recognition as sole bargaining agency for all its employes. Flint, Mich. Truce between General Motors and United Automobile Workers ends strikes at seven Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants Involving 13,500 employes.

Washington President William Green of American Federation of Labor prepares for unionization of structural steel workers, the same objective as that of the rival Committee for Industrial Organisation; C. O. discusses plans for unionization of textile and oil Industries. Pittsburgh Vice President John P. Frey of the American Federation of Labor accepts Invitation to meet with employe representatives group of Carnegie-Illinois; new raises include many steel's white collar workers.

Chicago Representatives of steel employes Independent labor organization In Carnegie-Illinois steel mills plan collective bargaining conference with company president. Chicago Wage Increases of nine cents an hour granted 92,000 packing Industry workers, effective March 15. Industrial conflict enveloped a large segment of the automobile industry today, raising to more, than 100,000 the number of persons made idle by strikes from coast to coast. While workers deserted scores of factories and business establishments to enforce various demands, leaders of rival organized labor groups drew plans for far-reaching unionization drives. The United Automobile Workers of America, balked In its effort to gain recognition as sole bargaining agency for 67,000 Chrysler corporation employes, called sit-down strikes that closed nine Chrysler plants In Detroit.

In addition to some 55,000 Chrysler workers in Detroit, 4C00 at the company's New Castle, plant were made Idle because of lack of supplies from Detroit units. The Brlggs Manufacturing which supplies Chrysler with bodies, curtailed operations at Detroit, throwing 4500 out of work. U. A. W.

A. strikes at the Hudson Motor Car company's three manufacturing plants at Detroit plunged 10,000 workers into Idleness. Union leaders accused the company of "stalling" negotiations on wage adjustments; Production at the Firestone Tire Rubber Co. at Akron, closely associated with the automotive Industry, was at a standstill for the fifth day, keeping 10.000 idle in a dispute over exclusive union bargaining. Sit-down strikes that tied up seven Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants at Flint, were ended by a truce agreement between the U.

A. $9,000,000 to $25,000,000 for the 1937-39 biennium. "We may soon be confronted with The first word, "Bombarded, burning and sinking" was signed by the call letters of the Elder-Dempster liner Aba, home-bound from the alarming problem of carrying Washington, March 9. UP) The West Africa to Liverpool, and gal Adamowski Confident He'll upon state emergency relief rolls a much larger number of needy unemployed than are now on such rolls," he said, referring to impending re vanized the British warships into action. Earth Shocks Attributed to Disturbance of Glacial Formations In Ohio.

treasury, politely rebuffing a French attempt to faciliate borrowing from Americans, left open today the question of whether investors legally may ship money across the Atlantic It developed the Aba had sighted Obtain Passage of Bill by Tomorrow. ductions In WPA expenditures by the burning vessel and sent out tne the federal government. to buy part of France's new defense The budget totaled $455,275,888, BOS under her own call letters. May Have Been Captured. loan.

Including federal grants and earmarked funds such as motor fuel taxes and motor vehicle license fees. Secretary Morgenthau told re Arcachon, France, March 9. UP) porters that investors, their lawyers and federal district attorneys would Declaring he last saw the shell The unbalancing occurred in the have to decide If sending funds abroad to purchase French govern' funds from which the state pays its general expenses and for relief and pensions. pounded trans-Atlantic munitions ship, Mar Cantabrico, in tow of the insurgent warship Canarias, Juan Boo, a Spanish seaman, related to ment securities is a violation of the Johnson act. Mr.

Homers estimate that (The Johnson act forbids loans to Springfield, March 9. (flV-The 3 percent utility tax bill to raise an estimately $17,000,000 for relief during the next biennium cleared its first major hurdle today when the house passed the measure by an emergency majority vote of 113 to 26 and sent it to the senate where it faces another severe test. Springfield, March 9. (JP) The day a dramatic story of escape 800,000 would be raised to meet those expenditures assumed that the re under bombardment In the Bay of nations defaulting on war debts.) The question was brought into Biscay. tail sales tax would be kept at 3 Chapel Hill, N.

March 9. VP) Postmaster General Farley accused opponents of President Roosevelt's court reorganization proposal of "straining at a gnat" today and cited what he called ample precedent for a change in the judiciary. Farley, chairman of the democratic national committee, spoke here under auspices of the North Carolina political union nonpartisan student organization at the University of North Carolina. Those within the democratic party who oppose the plan "agree with his (Mr. Roosevelt's) diagnosis of the evil but fight the method he offers to cure the evil," Farley said.

He added these opponents have not offered an "adequate alternative." "Congress has frequently varied the number of supreme court justices," Farley said. "The court has consisted of five members at times and ten at others. It has been Increased or diminished ordinarily because congress was dissatisfied with the court's attitude and wanted men of another mode of thought on the bench." Thirteen Years of Failure. Discussing a proposal for a constitutional amendment to accomplish court reorganization, Farley said, "We have been trying thirteen years to overcome the supreme court's decision on the child labor act with a constitutional amendment, and haven't got within hailing distance of the requisite confirmation by three quarters of the states." The authority now asked by the president could be altered by a "simple act of congress," he said, whereas an amendment that should prove impractical or inadequate, necessitating delay in the first place, could be changed only by the "elaborate processes of another amendment." None of the senatorial lexers opposing the president's plan "suggests sharp focus yesterday by the state percent and that the utility sales ment of Senator Borah, Idaho re tax bill would be passed and also His story indicated the Mar Cantabrico might not have been sunk and that her $2,700,000 load of American munitions might have Section crews from four communities were summoned to Barstow last night as Burlington railroad officials became alarmed that high flood waters being whipped against the railroad right of way by a stiff wind might undermine tracks a mile east of the village. The emergency crews, which were called on duty from Barstow, Colona, Osborn and Rock Island, were still hard pressed today piling thousands of sandbags along the tracks.

The river at Barstow today remained at a standstill, leaving the village isolated. All reads leading Into the town remained closed to traffic and under several Inches of water and ice. Light traffic was allowed on Route 92, which was closed yesterday from the Junction with Route 86 northeast of Silvls to the junction with Route 82 north of Geneseo. Only passenger automobiles, however, are allowed over the road as highway men are still trying to repair the damage caused when high water undermined a culvert on the highway. Route 67 from Rock Island to Milan was opened yesterday afternoon when flood waters receded slightly and ice jams passed down stream, removing danger from the bridges over the river.

River at Standstill Rock river remained at a standstill at the Moline bridge over Route 150, remaining at yesterday's stage of 12.8. The Mississippi river con-tinued to rise and today measured publican, that it had been Intimated not be permitted to drop below 3 percent. Morgenthau would permit such transactions. Sales tax revenues were estimated fallen into the hands of the insur gents. Senator Johnson, California re at $8,000,000 a month during the administration drove ahead today with its utility tax program to raise publican, author of the act prohibit biennium.

Shipping circles believed the insurgents were trying to get the disabled vessel to Pasajes, near San ing loans to defaulting nations, as relief funds. To Be Hard Job. Finance officials said the Job of serted: Majority Leader Benjamin S. Sebastian. Boo said an insurgent Morgenthau turned over to ad trimmine off more than $18,000,000 pilot whom the Canarias placed ministration congressional leaders Adamowski, promising another house passage roll call, was confi Chicago, March 9.

UP) Seismologists concurred today in ascribing earth shocks felt in seven midwest states and Canada shortly before midnight to disturbance of glacial formations in northwest Ohio. Seismograph records in several cities affected by the tremors and at Harvard university disclosed the shocks occurred at 11T45 p. nu central standard time, and continued with varying intensity for from 2 to 15 minutes. The expert consensus was that the shocks bore close similarity to those experienced In the midwest last week but were slightly greater in severity. Both disturbances were termed "moderate" and traced to rock crust unheaval.

The latest series of tremors were distinctly felt, but caused negligible damage. In Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. Buildings were shaken in Cleveland, Columbus and other Ohio cities. The rattling of windows and dishes startled persons In Detroit, Louisville and Indianapolis. Police stations were flooded with inquiries.

The question in most instances was whether the disturbance was an explosion or an earthquake. Epicenter in Ohio. Attesting to the belief the epicenter was in the glacial region from the requests, which will be aboard the Mar Cantabrico asserted copies of a query from the French dent he could get the 102-vote necessary If the budget Is to be bal he would try to get the ship to an Insurgent haven. government asking whether the United States would object to ap anced without new taxation, was emergency majority to send the bill to the senate by tomorrow at the latest. It was largely a matter of admittedly difficult.

pointment of a fiscal agent in New Amonz larger reouests for in Boo, picked up out of the sea by a French fishing boat after, he had leaped from the shelled and burn creases were $5,000,000 added for how many were absent today. York to pay coupons on the proposed loan in dollars. The bill is designed to yield ing Mar Cantabrico, said he be- normal school operation and buildings, $3,800,000 for the University of Illinois, $1,000,000 for syphilis con- Proposal Dropped. The treasury's reply, made public Continued on page Thirteen) 500,000 a year, taxing all utility sales except water, as a replacement for the unconstitutional 1935 law. Continued on Pags Thirteen) by Senator Robinson, Arkansas democrat, the democratic leader.

Submission of the budget removed said it did envision objections. LEGION PLOTTERS one of the big objections of the eighteen republicans who refused to Senator Johnson declared the shipment of American funds to support the tax law week when it got ninety votes. Adamowski planned (Continued on Page Thirteen) AJecnQllieir France to purchase the bonds would be "absolutely illegal" under his law. to have all democrats lined up. congress is going outside its consti (Continued on Page Thirteen) GET JAIL TE A proposal by the French govern Speaker Louie E.

Lewis encoun tered success with his first Monday YOUTH SURVIVES tutional function by adding to the membership of the court," he said, but added they objected to the purpose, terming it "packing the court." night session. Enough members ment that an unidentified New York bank handle its new national defense subscriptions in the United States has been dropped because of American objections, official French were present last night to send PACKERS TO HIKE two emergency bills to the senate. Representative Paul Poweu, spanning northwest Ohio were ob A GUY YMo VOLCANO PLUNGE sources said today. Vienna democrat, asked a $100,000 appropriation for the pumping of WAGES MARCH 1 5 00 NO" FOR 4m T'NAU the flooded Sahara mine at Har- Alibis Offered by rlsburg. servations at Anna, that chimneys toppled by the quake of last Tuesday and since repaired, were felled by the shocks last night.

Danville, 100 miles south of here, reported feeling the quake. Observers said the Elks'. club building Residents iold of pictures being shaken from the walls. Four on Trial for Burning of Tavern Marinn Til March A. IP Alibis room offered vesterdav by Former Chicago, March 9.

VP) Wage increases of nine cents an hour for more than 92,000 employes in the nation's meat packing industry were announced today by the "big four" packing companies. It was estimated the pay hikes, the second within five months and rvrmtw oivrfft Mann, and three oth Prosecutor Raps Horner on Death Penalty Actions East St. Louis, March 9. VP) Asserting Gov. Henry Horner has "consistently refused to let any woman die in the electric chair," Assistant State's Attorney R.

V. Gus-tin will not demand the death penalty for Mrs. Myrtle Vorls, whose trial on charges of murdering her husband began today. "It is useless to spend our time arguing for a death penalty, and it is useless for a jury to deliberate on the death penalty," Gustln asserted, "when Governor Horner appears to have conscientious scruples against permitting a woman to be executed." Tokio, March 9. (IP) Kaname Okai, 25-year-old antique dealer, hurled himself headlong into the seething sulphurous "crater of hell" on Mount Mihara today and then fought his way back to life after six hours within the roaring natural cauldron.

"I've gone real hell twice over," the youth cried after his attempt at suicide, "now let me live!" Okai was caught on an overhanging cliff midway down the pit which forms a vast smoking sepulchre for the bodies of more than 2000 sui BRIDE OF 15 BECOMES GRANDMOTHER OF TWO ers charged with the burning of A. E. Hart wells tavern near jonnson City a year ago, in their arson trial Detroit, March 9. VP) Nine men were sentenced today to prison terms pf one to five years each for a Black Legion plot to kill Arthur L. Kingsley, newspaper publisher of Highland Park.

The sentences were pronounced by Recorder's Judge John V. Brennan, who convicted the men a week ago after hearing a month-long trial without a Jury. Seven of the sixteen defendants were acquitted. Among those sentenced were N. Ray Markland, formef mayor of suburban Highland Park and Arthur P.

Lupp sr, once milk inspector for the Detroit board of health and named by Investigators as Michigan commander of the secret society. The men were convicted of plotting to shoot Kingsley in 1933 because of his political opposition to Markland, who then was mayor but later was defeated for reelection. Others sentenced were Alvis Clark, a former automobile plant foreman; Rudyard Kipling Wellman, a garage owner; Willard Fosters, suspended Highland Park fireman; Frank Howard, suspended fire captain; Matthias O. Gunn, suspended street railway lineman; Hubert James, and Roy Hepner, a Block Legion here. The former Williamson county oi-f icer testified he was at home at the fim.

Af tio rrc Aherlff Zollle Carter City Leaders Plan Program. Officers of the Illinois Municipal league met today with mayors and officials of Illinois cities to draft a legislative program for presentation to the general assembly. Heading the list of twenty-three tentative recommendations the league will discuss tonight and tomorrow is a request for full power of home rule to municipalities to manage local 1 affairs, a goal the league has sought for years. Their home rule program seeks a refund of public utility taxes paid to the state; home rule over gas tax funds preventing diversions, registration of solicitors by municipalities, exclusive power to cities and villages to license and regulate dogs, strike out the "50,000" population limit in the 1919 hospital act, consolidation of township and city functions In some Instances, allow city treasurers to succeed themselves in aldermanie cities, and the revision of the city and village laws by a municipal code commission, VAV collaborated his statement, assert cides. ing he called Mann, when notmea if fh.

ire. Mann answered at Ills home In Herrin, ten miles away, the the fifth since 1932, would latten the workers' pay envelopes by more than $22,000,000 a year. The Increases, affecting all hourly paid and piece work employes, both male and female, were scheduled to go Into effect at the plants of Armour and company, Wilson and company. Swift and company and the Cudahy Packing company next Monday. Officials of the "big four" reported the new basic wage scale would be 62 cents an hour, an all-time peak in the packing industry and an increase of 26 Va cents over the low of 36 cents an hour which prevailed In 1932.

When he recovered from the terrific force of his fall, Okai changed his mind about committing suicide and shrieked for help Villagers heard his cry and ran to the crater's rim and under their encouragement he Inched his way Umatilla, Fla March 9. IP) Fifteen-year-old Dolly Butler Scates was happy today in the marriage which made her the grandmother of two girls, one older than herself. "We are getting along even better than I had expected and I wouldn't go back to my folks for all of them," she said when asked about her marriage Saturday to 60-year-old Red-dick Franklin Scates. Marriage to Scates, a citrus grove tender, made her the stepmother of six of her husband's children by his first wife. They range in age from 35 to 13, and there are two granddaughters who are 13 and 17.

sheriff said. Jesse Williams, also a defendant, en in wflji at the Johnson City po CONTINUED COLD. Government forecast for quad-cities and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Continued cold tonight, with tempera lice station when the alarm was turned In. He accompanied omcers to the fire and saw Elmo 'Farris.

slowly up the inner side of the chasm, climbing hand over hand to another defendant, helping to iignt LONG LEAVES $1167L New Orleans, March 9. UPy The late Senator Huey P. Long left a net undivided estate of $116,971, a final account of the succession proceedings filed by his brother, Lieut. Gov. Earl K.

Long, showed. ture about 20. Warmer a higher ledge where his rescuers the blaze. Charles Farris, ratnersoi vrmn. and also facing charges, ar hauled him to the surface with a rope.

(Weather SUtUtlce on Market Page) rived later, Williams said. X).