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JHE WEATHER Generally fair with heavy frost tonight Wednesday increasing cloudiness. Not much change in temperature. pULL EASED yIRE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and UNITED PRESS Evory Dy Except SunflT SAYRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. XLVINO. 4 The evening Times A MPiEBSl SIFEEiS Information In Blistering Headache for Foe HGAIIUI 1 HOPE FO CHECK RECESS! AND AID RAILROADS Torture Murder Given By Three House Votes Removal of ICC Restrictions on Loans to Roads (illllSllIllllill i (Mil IS GIVE! WARNING J- y'j -v si Government officials In Washington were treated to a demonstration of Uncle Sam's rapidly augmenting air strength when the army's new giant l'our-motored bomber shown above went through its paces.

Called the most powerful fighting aircraft In the world, the XB-15 has unique "blisters" along the fuselage, housing machine gunners. GUILTY PLEA MADE BY ERNEST HIPPLE ON MURDER CHARGE CONFIRMED i I (jf Unconditional End of Resistance Will Be Only Alternative to Merciless Attack on Barcelona HENDAYE, French Spanish April 5 (UP) Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spanish Nationalist is planning an ultimatum to the loyalist government demanding unconditional surrender it was reported today. The alternative, it was reported, would be a merciless attack on Barcelona by every agency of war at the nationalists's command, in cluding a renewal of the mass air-plane bombardments that brought protests from foreign governments. As the report came, the nationalists outside Tortosa commanded Willi their artillery the Barcelona-Valencia road, last great artery of communication between Catalonia and the rest of loyalist Spain. There is another road, seven miles from Tortosa at its nearest point a 22 mile cutoff east of the city, starting at Carmales.

passing through Masdenverge and San Carlos and rejoining the arterial highway at Vinaroz. But notionalists as soon as they reached Tortosa perhaps today could command this with their artillery too. Evf rywhere the nationalists were advancing, driving into and smashing the remnants of the loyalist army which had defended the Catalonian front. Nationalist jubilance was unrestrained. The official Salamanca radio broadcast: "The war Is won!" Nationalist political quarters at Burgos, the grand headquarters, were given as authority for the report that Franco planned an ultimatum to the loyalists.

The United Press bureau at Lisbon. relaying the report, said that it was insisted that Franco would issue an ultimatum soon and in the sternest terms. BILLION RELIEF ESTIMATED WASHINGTON, April 5 (UP) Administration officials said today that unless business improves im- mediately approximately 000,000 in relief funds will be needed for the fiscal year beginning July 1. WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins will appear before the Senate unemployment and relief committee this week to report on the relief situation. He met with President Roosevelt yesterday and then conferred with WPA economist Leon Henderson.

Henderson, who last spring forecast the present economic recession, believes the $1,000,000,000 budgeted last January for relief in 1938-39 will be far from ample. He said that that amount might be sufficient for the first six months, but by January Congress will have to provide for the rest of the year. He would not predict how much additional would be needed. TAX ON INDUSTRY PHILADELPHIA, April 5 (AP) Judge Arthur H. James, Republican gubernatorial candidate, charges that the Earle administration, through taxing industry, 'has killed the goose that laid the golden egg for Pennsylvania." "The policy of that administration has been to tax industry," he told the Women's Republican club Pennsylvania last night, "and now we find such taxation has destroyed the source of industry.

"For the last five years, in the nation and state, everything has been done by the Democrats to drive the source of employment from our midst to other sections the country by denuding us of employment and the food and clothing to provide the livelihood wt need." sum LOYALISTS 10 BE DEMANDED JAMS FOES IN FEAR of ruiiui Senator Holt Says Protesters Ask Their Names Be Kept Secret OPPONENTS HOPEFUL Qptter Chance Than Ever of Defeating Measure Says Chairman O'Connor WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) Sen. Rush D. Holt, W. Virginia, asserted today that Individuals protesting against the government reorganization bill feared "punishment" if their names became known. Waders prepared to bring the controversial bill up for further debate late today if calendar bud-ness can be concluded in time.

Holt made public a letter which he sent to a constituent who had protested against provisions of the reorganization measure. "Individuals write and call me in opposition to the legislation and then caution me not to mention their names in fear of punishment." The letter said: "I am in receipt of your letter in which you object to the statement made by the President of the United States about the passage of the executive reorganization bill I do not blame you for objecting to the president's statement that your telegram, as well as other wires, were sent Qirough misrepresentation and eie inspired by gome sinister Influence. "The attitude of those in control of the administration program that the individual citizens of America have no right to protest is a dangerous 'straw in the wind' the fear that has been instilled is (Continued on Page 9, Column 5) FINED PIIST IS PHILADELPHIA, April 5 (UP) Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist and composer, received a tumultuous ovation from a capacity audience in his "golden jubilee" concert last night at the Academy of Music on the same stage he appeared as a child prodigy 50 years ago. Philadelphia music lovers, socialites, those prominent in civic and artistic activities, and the "class of 1887" heard a program of Wagner, Beethoven, Chopin, dachmaninoff, and his own com-isitions, including "The Haunted Castle" and "Chromaticon." Hoffmann obliged with many encores in the concert that was broadcast over a nation-wide network. Highlight of the evening was when about 60 gray-haired men and women were asked to rise and receive the audience's applause with the pianist.

They were the "class of '87" those that attended Hofmann's first performance here when a Polish boy of 11. DEATH OFFICIALLY LISTED AS SUICIDE VALLEY FORGE, April 5 (UP) The deai from a pistol ivound of attractive Mrs. Lois Ballinger Arthur, 38, wife of a paper manufacturer, at their estate, "Rolling Acres" near here was recorded officially today as a suicide. Her husband, William, 48, and police believed her act was prompted by worry over the recent stock market slump. The tody was discovered yester- 6fr by her husband and two serv-bts after Arthur heard a shot and found the door of her bathroom locked.

Arthur, Thomas Seals, a negro caretaker, and his wife, Barthella, broke dqwn the door. The body was lying over the edge of the bathtub. After a thorough investigation end questioning of Arthur, Deputy Coroner Cooper T. Bishop announced the death a suicide. Gil Oil Two Men in Dark Coupe Seen Following Frome Car; Robbery Thought Only Motive in Crime VAN HORN, April 5 (U P) Three persons came forward today with information which authorities hoped would enable them to solve the murders of Mrs.

Weston G. Frome, Berkeley, society woman, and her daughter, Nancy, 3. E. M. Wells, a division highway engineer stationed at Pecos, told District Attorney Roy D.

Jackson he had seen two men in a dark coupe following the automobile in which Mrs. Frome and Nancy were taking a leisurely trip across the continent. Two soldiers whose names were not made public also reported having seen the Fromes' car near Balmorhea. Wells said the couple carried yellow license plates. Out of those accounts the authorities hopea to piece together enough information to put them on the trail of the persons who tortured Mrs.

Frome and Nancy apparently in an attempt to make them reveal the whereabouts of a large sum of money which did not exist. Jackscn, who for a time was at loss for a motive for the brutal crime, had decided today that robbery was the sole reason for the murders. Neither Mrs. Frome nor Nancy had been raped. The fact that most of their clothing was missing caused authorities to believe that two women were with the murderers and that those women now had the expensive dresses and coats worn by the victims.

The crime occurred last Wednesday. Wells could not give authorities a detailed description of the two men who were in the coupe nor could he tell them the make of the car. Jackson said other persons told him the two women accompanying the men in the black coupe were young. One was cescrioea as a blonde of about 24 and the other a brunette of about 30. The district attorney's theory was that the two men saw Mrs.

Frome and Nancy stop at a filling station and display a sizeable sum of money. Either the Fromes had tire trouble and were forced to stop or the men in the coupe (Continued on Page 9, Column 4) CALLED IN PROBE PHILADELPHIA, April 5 (A P)The Ruth legislative commission summoned additional Delaware county court attendants today to testify in its investigation of the trial of William A. Mc-Clurg and 15 other persons on gambling charges. Judge John M. Broomall, sitting at Media, discharged the jury last Kflnma ill Tho roco MraclictpH ffir I trial again last week, but postponed when Edgar A.

Davis, the commonwealth's key witness, disappeared. Davis testified at the October trial that McClurg, a Chester Republican leader, and the other defendants were affiliated with a gambling house in Chester. The Ruth commission to learn whether there was jury tampering, questioned a tipstaff and nine jurors yesterday. Seven were women. CHECK EXPERIENCE OF JOB APPLICANTS HARRISBURG, April 5 (UP) The department of public assistance employment board started a check today on the authenticity of experience and education listed by 8,000 successful applicants for civil service jobs with the department.

Hugh Dolan. secretary of the board, said if any inaccuracies are found, the applicant, even though he may meanwhile have received the appointment, will be declared ineligible. TREASURY BALANCE WASHINGTON, April 5 (UP) Treasury balance April 2 was com ATTENDANTS TAX BILL READY Expected to Meet Some Major Objections of Busl ness to Policies of WASHINGTON, April 5 (UP) Congress speeded help for business today in a general movement to check recession and avoid an epidemic of railroad receiverships. A business recovery tax bill, formulated by the senate finance committee, is expected to meet some of the major objections of business to New Deal tax policies. The house in voting authority for $1,500,000,000 of emergency RFC advances to business removed Interstate Commerce Commission power to veto loans.

The new Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan bill, an emergency measure of the type resorted to during early years of the 1929 depression, has been passed by both senate and house in substantially identical form. The outstanding difference is that the senate bill gave the ICC veto authority over loans which the RFC might otherwise have advanced. The house eliminated that provision without formal explanation of its unusual procedure which violates the theory of commission supervision of railroad financing. Various explanations were made, including a suggestion that the commission might retain its loan veto power under the house bill. But the consensus was that the bill was so drafted as to enable the RFC to make loans regardless of ICC approval.

Best information appeared to be tint the house sought to free the RFC from commission interference on the theory that the commission would be Inclined to oppose loans to carriers deemed to be ripe for bankruptcy. The general objective of the RFC railroad loans apparently would be to stave off bankruptcy of several jeopardized roads until hoped-for business improvement increased receipts and lifted them out of danger. Speaking in Chicago yesterday President William Green of the American Federation of Labor advocated government ownership as the only "permanent practical remedy" for the railroad problem. The RFC bill goes now to conference between representatives of the house and senate where it will be determined finally whether the ICC shall have veto power over these emergency loans. Railroads on their own are asking for a federal subsidy.

Representatives of railroad labor and managements informed President Roosevelt yesterday that a federal guarantee of railroad income would revive the industry. Estimates of maximum cost of a federal guarantee ranged up to annually. But representa tives of the roads explained that if a guarantee were made the industry would be warranted in proceeding with big scale spend ing for equipment which, turn, would quicken the steel industry and others contributing to maintenance of rolling stock so that more jobs would be created and national purchasing power would (Continued on Page 9, Column 7) QUINTUPLETS HAVE NEW BABY BROTHER CALLANDER, April 5 (Canadian Press) The Dionne quintuplets have a new brothef. The boy, weighing 7 1-2 pounds, was born last night to 29-year-old Mrs. Oliva Dionne and is the Di-onne's 13th child.

The baby and mother were doing nicely in their modest home 'near the quints special nursery, 'Dr. I. Joyal said. CHILD HEALTH DAY WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP) President Roosevelt, proclaiming May 1 as child health day, asked the American people today to "plan how the child-health work of our public and private agencies can be extended and made more effective." Judge Crane Opens New York Session With Appeal to the Delegates to Maintain "Open Mind" Albany, N. April 5 (UP) Chief Judge Frederick E.

Crane of the court of appeals started New York State's constitutional convention on its work today with a warning that it should avoid changing the fundamental law "just for the sake of change." Crane, as president of the state's first such convention since 1915, also urged the 168 delegates at the opening session to approach all matters "with an open mind." He was formally elected at the presiding officer shortly after Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn called the convention to order. Crane continued: "I know of no greater or more sacred trust which can be imposed by the people of this state than to call together in a body like this, and then say, as they say: 'Gentlemen, we are trusting you with the remodeling and revision of our fundamental form of government so that, as far as possible, under the federal constitution, our wel fare, our happiness, our conditions of life and of labor, our means of health and recreation, may measure up to the standard required for an enlightened and advancing PARIS, April 5 (UP) A violent exchange of insults and a near fist fight forced suspension of the chamber of deputies session today after it met to consider a series of drastic finance bills on which hangs the fate of Leon Blum's popular front government. Tempers cracked in a verbal exchange between Paul Creyssel, rightist deputy, and Minister cf Interior Marx Dormoy. They rushed at each other prepared for physical violence.

The chamber was thrown into an uproar and Edouard Herriot, chamber president, was forced to adjourn the session at which Blum had presented for debate the financial bills which most observers expected to be his political death warrant. FDR SIGNS MEASURE FOR PROBE OF TVA WASHINGTON. April 5 (AP) President Roosevelt's signature on a congressional resolution cleared the way today for a double-barrelled investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and a large segment of the private utilities industry. The president signed the resolution late yesterday. Five senators and five representatives will conduct, the inquiry.

It was expected that little time would be lost in getting the inquiry, actually started. METEORITE FALLS CHICAGO. April 5 (AP) A small meteorite fell into a parkway in suburban Winnetka last night and the sound of the crash and the bright light started rumors of an explosion. Policemen Lester Barker and Thomas Schultz found a two-inch fragment of the meteorite, which had cut a inch hole in the sod. five.

I SESSION OF FRENCH ENDS IN DISORDER of of 1 Although it is unusual for anyone to talk back to a dictator, M. Jou-haux (above), uncrowned king of French labor, took a severe heckling when he was howled down as he spoke at a mass meeting of steel and airplane workers in Paris. The men were on strike in favor of intervention in the Spanish civil war. F8 IS SOUGHT BY LEHIGH VALLEY HARRISBURG, April 5 (AP) The Lehigh Valley railroad has asked the public utility commission for permission to take off eight trains between Easton and Montrose. No time for a hearing has been fixed as yet, the commission said.

The trains involved: No. 227, between Mauch Chunk and Mt. Carmel on the Hazleton branch. No. 230, between Hazleton and Msuch Chunk.

No. 562 and 563 on the Montrose branch, between Tunkhannock and Montrose, Susquehanna county. No. 510 and 511, between Phil-ipsburg. N.

and Mt. Carmel. No. 27 and 30, interstate trains from New York to Pittston Junction, on the intrastate movements between Easton and Pittston Junction, near Wilkes-Barre. READING April 5 (AP) A family of 11 which set up "housekeeping" in the county relief office 10 days ago and used the director's desk for a dinner table looked forward today to a new home1 an abandoned bar room which they will share with another family.

Charles Machemer moved his wife and nine of their 10 children into the office after he said he was threatened with eviction from the house they occupied. He demanded that the relief board find them a new home. For several days, while county and state officials sought a solution, the office was closed to business. The director asserted it was "impossible to do anything with all the Machemers around." Later the family moved into a vacant room on the third floor of the building. Machmer said he would move out of the building because the children now have to walk 25 blocks to school.

CRASH INJURIES FATAL EASTON, April 5 (AP) Miss I Elizabeth S. Pohl, 68, supervisor of elementary education in the Easton public schools, and a teacher for 51 years, died today in Easton hospital from injuries suffered last evening. She was struck at Tenth and Northampton streets by an automobile. Harold F. Ricker, 19, the driver, was released on his own recognizance pending an i investigation.

BANDONMENT 0 bain Hume OCA ED LAPORTE, April 5 Hearing to determine the degree of guilt of Ernest Hippie, 21, of Wheelerville, who pleaded guilty to a murder indictment this morning, was to begin this afternoon in Sullivan county court here. After hearing Hippie's guilty plea this morning, the court heard another minor case and was to return this afternoon to, the Hippie case. LAPORTE, April 5 (AP) In a surprise move, 21 -year-old Ernest Hippie pleaded guilty in Sullivan county court today to a murder charge in the slaying of Mrs. John L. Porter, 70, last February 6.

Judge E. B. Farr immediately adjourned court. Testimony will be taken later to determine the degree of guilt. He named Associate Judges Don E.

Hughes and George E. Bown to sit with him. Hippie previously had entered a similar plea before a justice of the peace but his counsel later said a jury trial would be sought. The indictment returned yesterday was read to the young mountaineer in court today. "How do you plead?" asked Judge Farr.

"I plead guilty," Hippie replied in a calm voice. The woman's husband found her shot to death in their farm home near Wheelerville on February 6. Hippie, who was arrested a few days later, pleaded guilty at a pre liminary hearing. Later his counsel said a jury trial would be sought. A Sullivan county grand jury indicted him yesterday.

Corporal Charles Santee of the state police said Hippie had signed a statement admitting he killed the woman for money she carried in her clothing. SHANGHAI, April Chinese "new army" 5 (Uf) A of 400,000 men prepared today for a deter mined stand in central China against Japanese forces steadily advancing toward Suchow, key point in the defense of Hankow, the provisional capital. Gen. Li Tsung-Jen, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's front line commander, told the United Press correspondent in Suchow that the fate of China's "Maginot line" de fenses along the Lunghai railroad and of the provisional capital it self depended upon the Chinese stand at Suchow. Japanese sources predicted an immediate drive on Suchow and asserted that advance units already had entered Kiangsu province below Taierhchwang, where one of the bloodiest battles of the war was fought.

Military spokesmen asserted that the Chinese lines in southern Shantung province crumbled and 100,000 troops were in general re treat following Japanese occupa- tion of Taierhchwang. 400.000 CHINESE DEFENSE BY SENATE'S VOTE WASHINGTON, April 5 (UP) The senate today confirmed, after more than three months deliberation, the nomination of Ebert K. Burlew to be first assistant secretary of the interior. Sen. Key Pittman, contended that hearings disclosed such a high degree of negligence upon the part of Mr.

Burlew with regard to his official duties and total disregard for the interest of the government that he should not be confirmed by the senate." Burlew's nomination was sent to the senate Dec. 20, 1937, and during hearings Pittman cited four cases which he contended showed inefficiency upon the part of Burlew as an administrative assistant in the interior department. WASHINGTON, April 5 (UP) President Roosevelt will receive a letter from President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico, presumably bearing on the Mexican expropriation of American oil properties the White House announced today. The letter will be delivered to the president today by Dr. Francisco Najera, Mexican ambassador to the United States.

The White House did not reveal what the letter was expected to contain but indicated that the tone of the communication was believed to be friendly. It was thought certain, however, that the letter concerned the oil situation and possibly the res lilting U. S. action in ceasing pur chases of Mexican silver. TOKYO, April 5 (UP) The Domei (Japanese) news agency reported from Suiyuan today that a holy war had broken out in northwestern China against Soviet influence, The dispatches, quoting reports from the city of Kashgar near the Soviet Turkestan border, said that Mohammedans under the leadership of Ma Chung-Ying had proclaimed war against Soviet-dominate Chinese officials.

FIVE MEN KILLED AS BOMBER CRASHES LONDON, April 5 (AP) Five men were killed today in a Royal Air Force bomber crash at Tib- thorpe, Yorkshire. The bomber had been on a night flight. It was the thirty-second RAF crash since January 1, with a total of 52 deaths. WILL CARDENAS MESSAGE NORTH INA.