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1 The gl Wichita Eagle fit VOLUME CV DUBS BILL HOPKINS' BUILD-UP Rep. Lamneck Claims That Reorganization Plan Is 1940 Campaign Stunt SCORES RELIEF POLICY House Opponents Attempt to Delay Final RoM Call on Measure WASHINGTON, Mar. 31. (AP) The aim of the Roosevelt reorganization bill to build L. kins for president, Representative Lamneck (D.O) charged today to halt the administration's effort to push the bill through the house.

After President Roosevelt took personal command of the fight for the bill in an unprecedented denial that he wants to become dictator, Lamneck arose on the floor of the a house new to assail department a provision creating of public. fare. Scores Relief "Machine" He said Hopkins, the WPA chief, would head the new department, and perhaps would become the next president, thus continuing New Deal policies. Under the bill, Lamneck an octopus-like relief machine Hopkins has been building would become permanent and be "the most potent force in -the U. S.

for many years come." of the administration." Lamneck "Hopkins is the fair tr- -haired Dory roared. "What he wants he gets. The reason is thinks right. He spends right--and left. His life has been devoted to giving away other people's money." Attempt Delays Debate was marked by a desperate opposition fight so that, its spokesmen said, the people might have an opportunity to make their (Continued on Page 6 Column FLAMES RAGING IN COURTHOUSE Republic County Structure at Belleville Doomed; Records.

Rescued BELLEVILLE, Mar. (AP) -Fire broke out in the Republic county courthouse here about midnight tonight. Members of the town's. department said the 52-year-old ture appeared doomed. The blaze, blamed by firemen on defective wiring, began on the third and top floor.

It soon ate through the roof and down: into the second floor. Officials were able to remove most of their records. The third floor was used for storage. One fireman was overcome by dense smoke which blanketed the town. The building, located on courthouse square, was of brick.

It was built at a cost of $60,000. NEW YORK FOG DELAYS TRANS-ATLANTIC SHIPS NEW YORK. Mar. 31. (P) Nearly 2,000 passengers on two Vims- liners, the Normandie and Bremen, were stalled at the gateway of the New York harbor tonight by fog.

More than 900 Europe-bound passengers, including Mary Pickford, were aboard the Normandie. DIES IN TRAILER FIRE ST. JOSEPH, Mar. Leonard Spry, 23-year-old river worker, burned to death in an automobile trailer in which he and his father had been living, at Elwood, just across the Missouri river from here, shortly before midnight tonight. Cause of the blaze was undetermined.

Price: In the City 3c; HYPOCRITE YORK. Mar. (AP) NEW -Frank Zupa pleaded guilty and was fined $10 in traffic court today for passing a red light. "By the way," asked Magistrate Burke, "What is your occupation? This is your third offense for passing a red light." "I am an auto instructor," said Zupa, "and I teach folks how to drive." LOYALISTS ESCAPING TO FRANCE Thousands of Militiamen, Civilians Stream Over Northern Border INSURGENTS ADVANCING March into New Province of Catalonia; Surround Lerida HENDAYE, FRANCE, (AT THE SPANISH FRONTIER), Mar. entered a second province of Catalonia today in their eastward drive to the sea, while to the north of government militiamen and civilian refugees streamed toward and across the French border.

'Navarrese troops were reported to have penetrated Tarragona and captured the village of Batea in smashtheir point five miles the important city of Gandesa. second, in the sector, Insurgent dispatches said; occupied the village 'of Calaceite, in western Teruel province, crossed into Tarragona and took the village of Caseras. Capture Englishmen 'Navarrese reported they had taken a government battalion composed entirely of Englishmen in the southern sector. To the north of these operations, Lerida, "key" to the defenses of Catalonia 80 miles west of Barcelona, was announced by the -Insurgents to nave been surrounded. Lerida is capital province of the same name, of the four provinces of Catalonia the Insurgents entered.

Gandesa, goal of the Navarrese, is. almost due south of Lerida, 21 miles from the 'Mediterranean and about miles southwest of Barcelona. Southwest of Gandesa was the extreme right wing of the Insurgents, which was reported to have occupied the village of Fornoles and (Continued on Page 6 Column 4) in Missouri Kidnaping, Makes Confession G-MEN NAB FUGITIVE FOR IOWA ABDUCTION Joseph Hanley, LA SALLE, Mar. -Joseph Hanley, 34, who for three evaded federal agents who sought him in connection with two midwestern kidnapings, was placed aboard an eastbound train here late today. Earlier today, Director J.

Edgar Hoover had announced in Washington Hanley had made "a full confession" to the kidnaping of Ernest K. Newman, armored car messenger, at City, February 4, 1935, and the abduction of Sheriff Herman G. Bredensteiner and Deputy Sheriff Dean S. James at Nishnabotna, June 3, 1935. The Weather KANSAS: Fair Friday and Saturday; slowly rising temperatures.

OKLAHOMA: Fair Friday and Saturday. MISSOURI: Fair Friday and Saturday; rising temperature Saturday and in west and central tions Friday afternoon. Huge Zoo Facing Execution Several Hundred Animals at Los Angeles Starving; Flood Hits Upkeep Fund OS ANGELES. Mar. -Several hundred lions, tigers, monkeys, camels and other animals at Zoo park are nearly starved and may be put to death.

Unless immediate arrangements can be made to feed them, said Dr. C. C. Warn of the city humane department, "we will put them to sleep humanely." Funds the California Zoological society, which operates the zoo, have been depleted and admittance revenues sharply curtailed because the zoo was damaged in the March 2 floods. Soon after the floods, the animals were placed on half rations.

To provide even this, Zoo Manager William J. Richards, trainers and keepers Have gone without salary recently. Tonight the feeding placed on onethird ration basis. Outside City, 5c URGES U.S. SPURN ALL ALLIANCES Hoover Desires "Adequate Preparedness" to Keep Country Out of War FEARS TIE TO ENGLAND Ex president Sees Europe as "Rumbling War Machine" to Be Avoided NEW YORK, Mar.

(AP) Describing Europe as "rumbling war former President Herbert Hoover tonight recommended "absolute independence of political action (in and adequate preparedness" to keep the of another war. Hoover, just back from abroad, told the council on foreign relations he found "most nations in Europe convinced that we would be indrawn into the next great war in the last." "Some people build confident hope upon it," he said. "But every phase of this picture should harden our resolves that we keep out of other people's wars. Fears Alliances "I find in many quarters of Europe and some in America an insistence that, as democracy is endangered by the rise of dictatorships; and authoritarian governments; therefore democracies should join in some sort of mutual undertaking for protective action. "If we join with the two other powerful democracies, Great Britain and France, are engaging ourselves in an alliance directed against Germany and Italy and all the satellites they' can collect.

But we are doing more than this. Great Britain has her own national. and imperial problems and policies. Any commitment of ourselves will mean that we are. dragged into these policies.

France has her own special alliances and her own policies, including an alliance with Communist Russia. We would be supporting Stalin. Urges Relief to Debtors more than all this, we would be fostering the worst thing that (Continued on Page 6 Column 5) LEVINE VOICES NEW PLEA TO KIDNAPERS Pastor in Radio Program as Intermediary Who Tries to Pay Sum CRACK MARKSMEN TO HUNT MOONSHINERS NEW ROCHELLE, N. Mar. 31.

-(A)-Murray Levine made another appeal to the kidnapers of his -old son Peter tonight on a national radio program the Speaking from a friend's home here, he introduced the Rev. Francis J. H. Coffin, Episcopal minister of nearby Larchmont, as his intermediary, and disclosed that Coffin was the unidentified go-between who pay the $30,000 ransom 1, made an unsuccessful attempt, to a week after the boy disappeared. Stating, "I would like to feel that I talking directly kidnapers of Peter Levine," the minassured them that "you can telephone Mr.

Levine or me; write, or come to see either of us at any time, day or night, a and you will be perfectly safe." Indicating that the last contact with the kidnapers was a month ago, Coffin detailed to his supposed listeners how he attempted in good faith to make ransom paybade ment. you telephoned my house Tuesday afternoon, March the first, I tried to follow your instructions exactly. I drove to the designated place, reaching there at 9 o'clock. I was alone, in my own car, with the money beside me. From 9 till 10:30 p.

m. I drove slowly back and forth between the two points you named. "There were times during that hour, and a half when no other car was near me and you could have made contact with me safely and easily." Indications that developments might be impending in the case increased today when New Rochelle police went to Fairfield, on an undisclosed mission. Their trip followed upon a cryptic message she broadcast last by a radio network (CBS), believed to have been addressed to" the kidnapers. SAN FRANCISCO, Mar.

Ten of the best pistol marksmen of the federal alcohol tax California have been ordered to Atlanta, to track down southern moonshiners, the San Francisco Chronicle said tonight. Treasury department officials here and in Washington, declined to discuss the matter, but the Chronicle reported orders transterrine, from the men Secretary were of received the Treas- here ury Henry, Morgenthau, Two revenue agents recently were slain during a trip into mountains of the south in search of illicit stills. WICHITA, KANSAS, FRIDAY ODDITIES IN THE DAY'S NEWS DHILADELPHIA, Mar. 31. -(AP)-The z00 got set for jokers tonight by employing a speApril Fool telephone operator with a ready stock of wisecracks.

Last April Fool day the operator shunted away from the zoo office 1,600 calls for Mr. Fox, Miss Crane and the like. Mar. Word, 38, "thumbed" his way into trouble today. Word hitched a ride from Jackson, to Detroit.

The driver of the a federal bureau of investigation agent who recognized Word as a man wanted by Nashville, police for questioning in connection with automobile thefts. Word admitted his identity in federal court and will be returned to Nashville. EW ORLEANS, Mar. CAP)- gas well has been struck! on New Orleans' The well was drilled on Caron- (Continued on Page 14 Column 4) COLUMBUS DIGS OUT OF DEBRIS; TOLL GOES TO 10 Red Cross Rushes Relief to 600 Homeless; Clearing of Debris Is Proceeding Slowly; Injury List 100 COLUMBUS, Mar. (P)-Columbus set about today to repair the large-scale damage inflicted on the city Wednesday by the tornado which left 10 persons dead, 100 injured and 600 homeless.

P. K. Betts, St. Louis, of the Red Cross disaster relief staff, after a survey estimated 175 homes destroyed or badly damaged by the storm and said after emergency needs were met "then we will undertake rehabilitation including replacement and repairs on the basis of needs." Three persons injured in the tornado died today. Bert Cooley, 60, died tonight at a nursing home here.

He suffered severe head injuries and a punctured The others were John Wisdom, and Buddy Palmer, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Palmer.

Red Cross to. Aid The death list also included Mr. and Mrs. Louis Canfield; Mrs. Joe Grizzle and her daughters, Joan, 3, and Barbara Sue, 8 months; Mrs.

Garrison, about 65, and Jerry Grayson, 2. Betts said the consensus of Red Cross local committees was that damages would reach $500,000. Red Cross aid, he said, would include replacement of furnishings and clothing but that it would be a month before the work of determining needs and clearing the area. of debris was completed. He expressed amazement at.

the low death toll. Thora Ingebriston, Red Cross nursing director, estimated the injured at 100 and appealed to all those with wounds to appear for 12-anti-tetanus shots to prevent infection. One of the injured, Bert Cooley, 60, was reported in critical condition. Guard Wreckage Work clearing debris from the area proceeded slowly today after streets cleared. Home owners were aided by volunteers and CCC camp enrollees.

the devastated area to prevent The, highway patrol has roped off looters and no visitors are permitted. At Washington the Works ress administration told Representative Patterson (D-Kan) give all assistance possible to the area at Columbus, Kan. Patterson was told the government could do no work on private property but the state administration would be asked to extend whatever assistance he could on public property. MORNING, APRIL 1, 1938 TORNADO LOSS TWO MILLIONS Thousand Homes, Other Buildings Crushed Over Five-state Territory DEATH TOLL GOES TO 36 Red Cross Reports 5,500 "Acutely Affected" as Rehabilitation Opens (By the Associated Press) Relief and rehabilitation progressed rapidly day night in the tornadotorn communities of five states where 36 were killed and property losses approached $2,000,000. Hundreds of refugees, homeless injured, huddled in emergency quarters.

The Red Cross said 5,500 persons were affected" by the storms which tore at the tristate region of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, hit northern Arkansas and roared up the Illinois valley 'in central Illinois. Thousand Homes Crushed Red Cross field men, spreading through the region, reported to their Louis headquarters that more than 1,000 homes and buildings crumbled under the destructive sweep of the winds. A devastated area around Pekin, accounted for almost half the total property damage. Twelve died in the Illinois and 600 were homeless. More than 360 buildings, exclusive of public properties were damaged.

The storm raced out of Oklahoma to lash at Columbus, a town of 3,500 near the Missouri border. Ten persons died there as the wind (Continued on Page 6 Column 2) TORRENTS FOLLOW GALES IN Southeast Is Facing Heavy Damage from Floods as Rivers Rise POPLAR BLUFF, Mar. of widespread flood damage in southeastern Missouri followed in the wake of disastrous tornadoes which springht killed seven persons in the state yesterday. Rising of the Black and St. Francis rivers under the impetus of heavy rains was nature's fourth assault on the "Bootheel" area this year.

In February, the rich cotton district was invaded by floods. On March 15 and again yesterday, tornadoes struck with devastating fury. United States army engineers planned to reestablish offices at Kennett, probably tomorrow, to direct another fight to hold St. river was rising rapidly, and obFrancis within its levees. the, The servers predicted an even more dan- (Continued on Page 6 Column 2) PROTESTS JAPANESE ABUSE OF AMERICAN SHANGHAI, pritales (AP) United Consul General Clarenge E.

Gauss protested to Japanese authorities today against rough treatment V. F. 1 Meisling of Los Angeles received at the hands of Japanese police. Meisling, a reporter and photographer for the North China Daily News, was accosted when he attempted to take photographs of the beflagged New Asia hotel -incubator of the Japanese-inspired central government at Nanking. DETROIT.

POLICE "MOP UP" DOLICE who fought CIO pickets in Detroit after missiles were hurled at them near a screw manufacturing plant, trapped this couple at the door of a garage. Police were protecting workers who refused to join UAWA strike protesting a wage cut. FOURTEEN PAGES THE EDITOR SPEAKING: Herbert Hooner, back from Europe, has considerable to say about America's part in the world situation. Boiled down, it is: Stay at home and mind our own business. HEROINE OF KANSAS STORM AP cool, calm way in which Miss Esther Olson (above) directed THE her pupils to places of safety against a wall was credited with saving many from serious injury or death when a tornado struck the school building in Columbus, Kan.

The teacher, although injured, aided in the search for children after the storm had passed. JAPANESE STIRRED UP OVER MYSTERY VISIT OF WARSHIP (. Declare Belief That Craft Entering Island's Harbor at Night, Then Quickly Vanishing Was American TOKYO, April Japanese press gave prominence today to a report that a mystery warship had entered the harbor of one of Japan's mandated islands March 27, and indicated that "various quarters" believed the vessel was American. The said the ship played its powerful searchlights over the harport bor and surrounding hills, and then Deny U.S. Warships Are Near Japanese Isle TASHINGTON, Mar.

persons here discounted tonight Japanese press reports that an American vessel was the mysterious warship reported to have entered a harbor in the Japenese mandated Truk group of islands. These persons said the entire United States fleet was counted for in current maneuvers in the immediate vicinity of the Hawaiian islands. General strategy for these maneuvers, it was pointed out, provide for operations within about 100 miles of the Hawaiian group. The Truk group of islands, it noted, are approximately 2,500 miles to the west. quickly disappeared.

The time of the visit was said to have been 2 a. m. The report caused a sensation in Tokyo. "Various quarters" customarily is the Japanese newspaper description of government sources. "The mystery naturally is connected with the fact that the United States navy has expanded the area of its grand Pacific maneuvers," said the Tokyo newspaper Hoch1 (referring to present American maneuvers in the Pacific.) It said the island was one of the Japanese mandated Truk group, south of the United States island of Guam.

"The nationality and the purpose of the visit by a strange warship are causing speculation and irritation in various quarters," Hochi said. TWO KILLED IN CRASH WITH KANSANS' AUTO HOUSTON, Mar. -Col. Edward M. House, wartime confidant of President Wilson, was buried today with his secrets of presidents and kings.

The 79-yearold colonel's last resting place is near that Anson Jones, an early president of the republic of Texas. There was a spray from President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and flowers from Joseph A. Avenol, secretary-general of the League of Nations, and Richard B.

Bennett, former premier of Canada, now leader of the dominion's Conservative party. A Civic Enterprise TICHITA will pay tribute to its renowned citizens on April 5, when "Musical Horizons," honoring Thurlow Lieurance, is held at the Forum. Reserved seats will go on sale today at the Rorabaugh-Buck Dry Goods company. People desiring good seats are urged to purchase tickets early, according to' officials of the Wichita' Independent Business Men's association, which is sponsoring this affair. Minimum prices are being charged so that everyone may participate in this tribute to the distinguished Kansas composer.

NUMBER 91 HIGHWAY ACCIDENT IS FATAL C. C. Nye of Belle Plaine Is Hit as He Stops to Pick Up Lost Crate DRIVER IS QUESTIONED Girl Relates That Victim Jumped into Path of Slowing Vehicle LOSE HOPE FOR SIX FLIERS ON MISSING U.S. NAVY BOMBER Naval Officials Fear Ship Dived into Ocean Shortly After Five. Other Airmen Were Killed at Oahu Isle HONOLULU, Mar.

for six navy fliers aboard a missing bomber abandoned tonight by naval officials directing an unprecedented search amid casualtystrewn Pacific maneuvers. Officers, although continuing the expressed belief six men when the plane fell into the sea yesterday morning, a few hours after five other fliers had been killed in the crash of another bomber. The second tragedy culminated a week of aerial accidents which three planes, valued at $30,000, sank and at least six others escaped possible crashes by forced landings at sea. Deny Planes Defective A high naval official said the accidents had not dem strated any fundamental wrong with the planes or pilots, but on the contrary, the performance of planes in maneuvers designed to test Hawaii's defenses, had conclusively proved their value in scouting operations. Officials expressed belief the bomber catapulted into the sea off Kauai island probably during a rain squall, and sank before the operator had time to flash a warning.

The aircraft carriers' Lexington, (Continued on Page 6 Column 1) THREE AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINESE TOWN; HOPE IS DIM NEW YORK, Mar. of three American missionaries from the Japanese-captured city of Show Yang, China, last December 3 remains a mystery, a letter to the Foreign Missions conference of North America stated today, The three missionaries, the Rev. Alva H. Harsh, of Eglon, W. his wife, formerly of Hagerstown, and Miss Minneva Neher, of La Verne, vanished after the Japanese occupation while answering a call to settle a quarrel in a Chinese home.

The letter, from Miss Mary Schaeffer, of Lancaster, a veteran missionary of the Church of the Brethren, said Japanese and army officers were vestigating their disappearance, but that hope virtually had been abandoned. TEXAS ATTACKER PAYS FOR CRIME WITH LIFE HUNTSVILLE, April (Friday) (P) Virgil Terrill, year-old negro, was electrocuted in state prison here early today for a criminal attack on a Kilgore woman. C. C. Nye, 48, Belle Plaine produce dealer, was injured fatally last evening eight miles south of Wichita on U.

S. Highway 81 when struck by a motor car occupied by a group of Bible teachers en route from Enid, to their homes in Driving a pick-up truck loaded with ice and chicken coops, Nye was headed south on the highway. One of the coops had fallen off and he drove to the side of the pavement to stop. As he leaned over to pick up the lost coop, he was hit by the car. Deputy Sheriff Paul Heiger, who with Deputy Melvin Reed, investigated the accident, said Nye looked up and saw the car was about to strike him, and that both he and the driver of the car, Miss Opal Garrett, 23, Franklin, apparently.

became confused. Miss Garrett swerved the car and Nye turned in the same direction. Dies in Hospital Nye was rushed to Wichita hospital in a Downing ambulance, and died within 10 minutes after arrival. He had suffered broken neck, fractured jaw and shoulder and his chest was crushed. Deputy Heiger took Miss Garrett into custody pending outcome of an investigation.

The others in the car Miss Marjorie Ball, 22, Ford, Gladys Reichwein, 38, Surprise, and Harold Champlin, 25, Beaver City, Neb. Heiger said they told him they had been in Enid several days teaching Bible lessons at a religious. meeting and were on the way home when the occurred. The would be tragedy, (Continued on Page. 6 Column 7) DECLARES NAZIISM IS FOR REICH ALONE Hitler Declares He No Wish to Force Theories upon Foreign People FRANKFORT ON MAIN, GERtoday MANY, Mar.

expounded his 31-(P)-Adolf aims for Hitler ca united German Reich, choosing for his appearance here the 90th anniversary of a similar movement launched, in enthusiastic this historic multitude city. cheered the Fuehrer as he referred to the 1848 attempt and reviewed his own present-day efforts to realizing the "eternal longing" for the union of all Germans. "National community is such a and precious thing to us that one cannot but incessantly fight for it," he said in bringing here his whirlwind campaign in behalf of the April 10 vote on union of Austria and Germany. "In the future it will be easier," he declared. "Until now many people have been suffering from prejudices, complexes and inhibitions.

"But the younger generation goes through our schools and gets our National Socialist education. "National Socialism a holy thing that we never wish to force it on foreign people. "I hope to God it may remain ours alone forever." EIGHTEEN COUNTRIES APPROVE HULL PLAN WASHINGTON, Mar. Eighteen nations have accepted Secretary of State Hull's program fox granting asylum to political refugees from Germany and Austria. The latest to send favorable re25-plies were the Netherlands, Panama and Venezuela.

Venezuela said, however, that her to absorb refugees was limited. Many of the animals are ill from malnutrition. When news of the emergency spread today, members of the Hollywood film colony began sending in unsolicited donations. Many of the. animals have appeared in picture scenes.

Bess Meredith, screen writer; Robert Cobb, of the Brown Derby restaurants; Kathryn Williams, a serial queen in silent films, and Katharine Hepburn sent $25 each. Stuart Erwin, comedian, sent $10. The zoo's population includes a herd of deer and elk, 28 tigers, 19 leopards, 300 monkeys, elephants, two giraffes, camels, several bears and numerous birds. Cost of normal feeding is about $70 a day. Another $80 is required for wages, expenses and upkeep.

EAGLE COOKING SCHOOL'S FINAL SESSION SCHEDULED FOR TODAY Doors Will Open at Noon for Miss Emily Conklin's Demonstration Starting at Crowd Fills Theater to Capacity Thursday for Meal-planning Tips The fourth and last. session of The Wichita Eagle's annual spring cooking school will close this afternoon in the Arcadia theater. The theater was filled to capacity Thursday and it is predicted that even standing room will be at a premium today. Doors will open at noon and Miss Emily Conklin, food expert from the National Livestock and Meat will begin the last of her series of demonstrations at 1:30. To Give Choice Recipes Miss Conklin has saved some of her choicest recipes for the last day, Gefullter Kohl Kopf, whatever that is, is one of them.

While the name doesn't mean much to people, still the ingredients many, (Continued on Page 14 Column 1) 4.