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The Dayton Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 12

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The Dayton Heraldi
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THE DAYTON HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL' 9, 1937 12 set in Washington," Derivan said Oakzvood Near Search East Side-- "and I am sure that it will not Rebels Throw- 2-Year Street) be changed." Strike to Go on" been the poignant prelude to an Toledo and the country to the west, offensive that might prove an im-1 They hud reached the southern portant factor in the entire war. igatej and poured around the west Yesterday the Loyalists made a side. They selected the Casa de series of light attac ks south of the Campo and University city, on the capital, where five months ago the northwest side, for the attack they was a student at St. Lawrence uni verslty. Canton, N.

V. Sheriff Satisfied Suspect Not Irwin KALAMAZOO, April 9- Frye said Friday that the strike from the El Pardo woods, seeking to wedege in behind the insurgents in Case De Campo and cut them off. Westward in the Guadalajara mountains a heavy artillery duel was going on. The Rebels shelled Hita and Gajaneros, north of Guadalajara, and authorities ordered Safety Record oni lulled from Page On Nationalists were pouring men (I'P) Sheriff Charles Struble said Oakwood is nearing the end of totlav he was "satisfied that a Concluded from Pajje One the scene before the killer had completed his revenge. Kthel Geneon, now Mrs.

Joseph Kudner, was guarded day and night by detectives who feared that Irwin would attempt to harm her because she had refused him. Investigators reported that a hitch-hiker who surrendered him confidence that they wouM take the city. Ill Feeling: On the diplomatic front, ill feeling between Italy as against Brit self this morning at his office is Then the International Brigade, rushed from the east coast, went into fiction. They stopped the Nationalists cold, then counter attacked in the Casa de Campo, and Madrid was saved. In the five months since then northward believing that the city's fall was a matter of clays if not hours.

loyalist artillery hammered roads in the Nationalists' rear to keep back reinforcements. The capital itself was quiet, bathed in a bright spring sun, and its second year without any deaths from traffic accidents, records of the Oakwood police departments and municipal court show. Since the middle of 1935 no one not missing Robert Irwin, New the latter town evacuated of its civil population. The case De Campo battle was by far the most spectacular. In the York sculptor, sought in the mur der of Veronica Gedeon, artist'i model, and two other persons.

statue of Mrs. Kudner, modeled it looked like a quiet night. Sud- thousands of men have been killed from a 0 white soap about six has been Hiueu as me result or a denly an 8-inch shell crashed into ion both sides, but the Nationalists the Loyalists lines on the city's! were held. inches long and three inches wide, had been found in the bathroom ain and France was unabated. It even went to the extent of severing: sports relations.

After yes-terday's cancellation of the French-Italian football match in Paris next Sunday, plans were made also to cancel boxing, bicycling- and horse show events. crash and din officers shouted orders, urging their men on, but their voices were drowned by the incessant cannonading. Motorcycle couriers munitions trucks and ambulances cairying the wounded back to Madrid rolled Pending word from authorities in New York city and Philadelphia, the hitch-hiker, Robert Noble Mackalevy, 22, will be held in Kala motor vehicle accident in Oak wood. Only one fatality was rC' ported in 1935 and one in 1934. Loyalists' Turn.

Today after five months cf of the Gedeon apartment when the bodies were discovered. They believed that the killer had carved the likeness while waiting for Veronicahis third victim to return The record is attributed to mazoo county jail for investigation, however, the sheriff disclosed i punishment, it was the Loyalists' west side, where thousands of men, Spaniards, Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, plain Republicans; and Americans, Canadians, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians and others of the international brigade of anti-Fascists were massed for an along the roads among the pines, The French retorted to Italy turn and they were jubilant. Mackalevy, accompanied by a motorist who drove him to this i i cha-ges that they have violated Stretcher-bearers came and went, the neutrality agreement with an clr rality ag the vigorous enforcement policy against traffic violations by the police department and Judge Fred-lick W. Howell of the municipal court. city, gave himself up today, ex lens ai ine dressing Milium uy mo will be carried on.

"We didn't start this for nothing," he said. "We are going on until our demands are met." Derivan said that the hourly wage increase was the result of a survey made sometime ago, which already had been reported to Columbus with other county surveys throughout the state, before any report of an impending strike locally was heard. "If the people refuse to work" said the district director, "that's their privilege. But they will not be allowed to make up time lost, and if they do not appear on their projects for five consecutive work days they will be dropped from the project." Raise Affects 8,000. The unskilled labor rate increase will affect approximately 65 per cent of the 8,000 workers employed on WPA projects in the county.

Workers who remained on the job of the Edison street project answered the strike appeal with the personal problem, "Who is going to feed our families if we quit?" "You aren't getting enough to live on now, you're starving now," the strike leader retorted. "Yes. but before we went on this job we had nothing. At least we are getting some kind of a living now," one of the workers huee sate of the park, once the official government state of de-mil and calling on Italy to prove plaining he was the mysterious hitch-hiker who left a party of it. Germany entered the dispute by sending Dr.

Robert Ley, high Nazi official, to Italy, presumably to discuss mutual action. in h(m(, a dat(, at 3 a Nationalists are retreating Easter morning. along the line. I e.ilnert Magg'l. a sculptor, told The attack of the Loyalists was police that he knew Irwin in 1931 on a scale that indicated it must and that the latter had been in be historic.

the habit of flying into a frenzy It started with a furious artil- over trifles. On one occasion, lery barrage as the dawn crept up Maggi said, two sharp-pointed from the east. Central Madrid sculptor's tools fell from Irwin's trembled from the concussion of; pocket. Irwin explained that he lh guns. i always carried them for protec- Then the Loyalists moved over.tion.

Byrnes was stabbed with an three Milwaukee motorists at Battle Creek yesterday and was reported resembling the missing Irwin. "I have taken a lengthy state attack. The bombardment became heavy and punctuating the big explosions came the chatter of the Nationalists' machine guns. Lights in the city winked out. Only the headlights of automobiles broke the inky blackness of the streets.

But as the firing intensi property of King Alfonso. Gen. Jose Miaja, the imperturbable, bespectacled commander-in-chief of the Madrid front, sent into the battle the pick of his men, Spaniards and. anti-Fascists of many nations. The Loyalists went over the top Construction Started On $15,000 Building Construction of a $15,000 brick building at 315-323 South Main street, for the Ludlow Realty company, was under way Friday.

The one story building ia expected to fied the horizon to the south and trenches with the to the robed instrumen. such as an ice pick. A barber whose name was with- west was lighted brightly by be ready for occupancy June 1. The Hobart Sales and Service bayonet. at 4 a.

m. after a night in which Nationalists, sensing the imminence of attack, blasted their lines with artillery and machine gun fire to cover the arrival of flashes of fire from cannon, trench From behind them the artillery held turned over to the investiga- agency and the Gem City Butchers ment from Mackalvey and I'm satisfied he is not the man sought," the sheriff said. "Nevertheless, I've taken his fingerprints and am holding him here for investigation until I get a check back from New York." Flying Squads-- font-lulled from Pnee One kept up a roaring fire and 40 t0IS an envelope containing photo-bombers and pursuit planes swept graphs of busts of Mrs. Knuder, Defenders Open Battering Drive By HENRV T. CiORfXL, nited Presi Staff Corrripondrnl) It oiivrliht, I nilrd Prml WITH LOYALIST ARMY IN CASA DE CAMPO, MADRID, April 9.

(UP) Madrid's defenders opened a battering offensive west, east and north of the capital today in a supreme' effort to drive the invaders from its gates. With Ernest Hemingway, nov mortars and machine guns. Above the angry red on the horizon shot up Verey pistol bullets, to explode eerily in the sky and descend slowly, flaming, on their little parachutes. Supply Co. will occupy two of the three storerooms.

The building will be 64 feet wide and 80 feet long, with each storeroom measuring 21 feet by SO feet. Fighting was general. Along the whole western side of the city, where the Nationalists had at over tne rebel lines Domoing anu machine gunning. At a. two and a half hours after the battle started, fighting reached a furious peak.

The ground still trembled from ex- told him. Firing Stops. As suddenly as it began the fir Veronica and President Roosevelt. The barber said the package had been left in his shop about 10 days ago by a young patron who left in a great hurry. The police began checking a number of addresses found in the envelope.

Scores of "tips" as to Irwin's whereabouts continued to reach police headquarters. Men resembling him were reported sighted at various places tnroughout the country. they never got anything definite. This time they can come to us," the noise was Louis Bilenkin, Former ing stopped and there was an tin- ploding shells and nuiet niiuse until the I.nvahsts Resident, Dies in West tacked so many times in hope of driving through to the city's heart, the Loyalists were on the attack. Field headquarters here in the Casa tie Campo, directly west of the main part of the city along the Manzanarea river, said that important gains had been made on the west Nationalist side of the city.

NOW tiie TIME TO GET YOl'H MAYTAG WHILE THEY LAST So Enemy Hanes. Not an enemy plane was to be seen, and this was taken to mean that Nationalist general head- Word has been received by relatives here of the death of Louis Bilenkin, a former Daytonian, in went over in hope of freeing the capitol for all time from the menace of the Nationalist siege. It was five months ago today that the International Brigade, Los Angeles, Calif. He suffered a 1 The police viewed as the "hottest A elist, and Joris Ivans, cameraman, I watched the battle in Case De Campo Park, in the western outskirts of the city. Gen.

Jose Miaja, commanding: the defending army, threw the full strength of his forces into action. Under a withering blast of artillery shells and aerial his infantry and machine gun squads relentlessly pushed the Insurgents back through the heavily wooded park. Pushing Southward. To the north another defending; column was pushing southwards tip" a report that a hitch-hiker, closely resembling Irwin, had been picked up near Scranton, paralytic stroke two months ago i and never recovered. Funeral serv- ices and burial will be held in Los I Angeles Sunday.

The Casa de Campo is a great park, formerly a. royal park, just across the Manzanares from the royal palace. Here, among the thick trees, the shrubbery, and in the west park to the northeast, on the river, the fighting was heaviest. then an unknown force even to most people in Madrid, stopped the Nationalist shock troops. Foreign Legionnaires and Moors, in the Casa Campo where I watched the Loyalist troops go over this morning.

The Nationalist troops had Mr. Bilenkin had been a resident Tl Jti WW Model Jj prise, without time to organize an aerial defense. As the men on the front, only or so away from the city, moved along with the ultimate weapon, the bayonet point, the populace turned out in muss into the streets. They could hear it all. But all they could see was the airplanes overhead, 30 seconds away from the Nationalist lines.

The planes swept back and forth from the Light Attacks AIJ during the night there had driven northward irresistibly from he said. Strike rnreeoguizetl Harry J. Derivan, district WPA director, announced Friday that the local office was not recognizing any strike until formal notice of it was presented in the form of demands by the strikers. "This is only a small group causing the trouble," he said, "and the majority want to continue to work." Meanwhile an hourly increase for unskilled WPA labor in Montgomery county, from the present wage of 4H centa an hour, was announced by Mr. Derivan, to be effective April 13.

The increase, the exact amount of which has not been fixed, will reduce the number of hours which the men must work in order to make their monthly security wage of Derivan explained, but it will not affect the wage. Demands of the strike committee call for an increase of 20 percent in the monthly wage, and a 30-hour week. "The monthly security wage is of Los Angeles for the last IS years. He is survived by his widow, Bertha; five daughters, Esther and Miriam Bilenkin, Mrs. Rose Rus-man, Mrs.

Hal Nides, and Mrs. Pauline London, and a granddaughter, Gloria Nides. all of Los Angeles, and three sisters, Mrs. Nathan Factor, Mrs. Hyman Thai, and Mrs.

Neil Stire, of Dayton. Wednesday night and driven to Battle Creek, Mich. The hitch-hiker was reported wea-ing a ring with the initials and a black suit with a pin stripe, identical with that broadcast in a police description of Irwin. The police believed that if the man were Irwin, he might be heading for the scenes of his youth, perhaps to a hideaway in the Rocky mountains of which he once spoks At Lockhaven, police held a vmmv mmf Wffk NO DOWN" PAYMENT HOME TRIAL Mndrl 3)1 battle front to the heart of the city. 1 The planes looked like racers pivoting around pylons as they jerked around in the vicinity of the i highest buildings.

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Y. Photographs of his fingerprints were sent to investigators here for comparison with those taken from the Gedeon apartment and from Dayton Maytag 111 SOl'TII LI DI.OW n-2nr; open eves. the room Irwin occupied when he People first craned their necks at the planes, then instinctively ducked as one would dive for them. I am watching the fighting 500 yards from the Loyalist front lines among the trees of the Casi de Campo, along with Krnest Hemingway, novelist, and Camerman Joris Ivans. All around us explosive bullets are popping, interspersing the chorus of the guns with their sharp crack like the sound of giant have had to drop to hands and knees several times as some Nationalist three-inch shells crashed into the wooded section in which the Loyalist staff officers are receiving their reports and directing movements.

A little time ago a shell landed not more than 25 yards away and toppled a big pine tree. dived and rose. Hemingway, Ivans and I looked at each other, then simultaneously, wiped the dust from our hands on our trouser legs Jul TjlL-ti'L No Bruise- 10-Picce Kroehler Matched Ensemble. This beautiful matched ensemble at the price of the suite alone. Modern davenport, lounge chair in latest style and coverings, 2 beautiful lamp tables and matching coffee tabic, 2 beautiful lamps, a smart smoking set and book rJJnlHiillH ruin linli il from Pae Out fill GUARANTEED i.

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The bather making use of the FriedUinder, tame-tub merely turns a handle, as on a sports roadster. That lets down thd door, providing a rubber-ribbed-lamp from floor to tub, like circus elephants rise to enter freight cars. With nevrr a thought of danger, the bather trods safely up his ramp, sits down in the tub, slams shut the door and turns on the watrr. The rei his lathering procedures is orthodox. When he's through, he must unplug the drain before opening the door to get cut, on penalty of ruining the plaster on the ceiling below, lut that is no particular detriment, unless, of course, he happens to be in a hurry.

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ni. w. third DWOADWAYA. A IITTIC RI6K THAT UA0S T9 IIC CAVINCS" on.

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