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EDAHLY EAGILE Weather Forecast Br the V. S. Weather Bureu PABTLY CXOl'DT AND CONT1NIED COOL TODAY AND TOMORROW 97th YEAR No. 99 Entered In the Brooklyn Poitoflce i id Clan Mall matter BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1938 ICoprrifht 1938 The Brooklyn Dally Eagle) 6 SECTIONS 5 CENTS I Everywhere i i Dewey Urges Whitney Suffer Stiff Sentence ROE FORCES END SHERIDAN RULE AS QUEENS BOSS F.

D. FIRM IN DEFEAT, ORDERS NO REPRISALS; STOCKS SOAR 5 POINTS Senate Passes Tax Bill to Lift Business Load Five-Billion-Dollar Measure Calls for Repeal of Excess Profits Levy Washington, April 9 The Senate passed the five-billion dollar tax bill late today, The measure would repeal the undistributed profits tax and overhaul other Administration tax proposals which have drawn criticism from business, Just before final passage, the Sen WINS BATTLE Drivers Strike Perils Ambulance Services Threatened Walkout Friday Unless Demand of Union Are Met Would Cause Tieups at 26 Private Institutions in Citv Bull Market Follows New Deal Sethack and Orders Flood Street-Prices Skyrocket on Heaviest Trading Dav Since Oct. 23, 1937 By II. II. CLARKE Financial Editor Bullish enthusiasm, which at times verged on the hys Undismayed House Vote, Roosevelt Calls Relief Parley Thanks Rayhurn for Fight and Says Issue Was One 'Solely of Policy' Washington, April 9 (U.R) President Roosevelt instructed his Congressional leaders tonight to refrain from recrimination over the defeat of terical, swept over Wall Street Ambulance service in 26 private hospitals in New York City will be completely paralyzed by a walkout of 162 drivers next week unless demands of the Funeral, Casket and Ambulance Drivers Union Local 643.

yesterday on news that the the Government Reorganiza-House had killed the Adminls- tlon bill, a defeat that cast a are met by midnight Friday, The Eagle learned last night. Registeied letters setting the deadline were sent several days ago to the superintendents of the ho.s- pitals, Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Valentine, according to James B. McKenna, chairman of the ambulance unit of the union, and Max Shapiro, business agent. Tha strike will tie up 56 ambulances in some of the city's largest privaf hospitals, including the Jewlch, Methodist Episcipal, St. Mary's.

Holy Family and Israel Zion Hospitals in Brooklyn. Council to Meet on Threat Dr. W. G. Nesslley.

president of the Greater New York Hospital Council, composed of 74 hospitals in the New York area, to whom the union made overtures about six weeks ago, declined comment on the strike threat. He said, however, that the council will meet sometime next week to discuss the situation and that an announcement may be made by Thursday. It Is also understood that meetings of the various boards of trustees of the hospitals affected will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the situation. Chief among the demands, according to Mr. McKenna, is a reduction in the work week from the present 84 to 48 hours.

This, he pointed out, would necessitate hiring three additional drivers for every two ambulances operated by the hospitals. Where only one ambulance is being used, an extra man would have to be employed. Demands Closed Shop The union also demands a minimum wage scale of $1,800 a year and a closed shop. At present drivers are paid from $720 to $1,180 annually. Mr.

McKenna declared. "Drivers of ambulances in hospitals run by the city," Mr. McKenna told The Eagle, "receive yearly. Seven men are assigned to every two ambulances. But in most private hospitals, only four are assigned to the same number of vehicles.

Private hospitals receive an appropriation of $9,500 annually for the operation of two ambulances. out of which they must pay insurance, which amounts to $1,600 for each; upkeep of the ambulance and the salaries of drivers. This sum is insufficient. It is the reason all private hospitals are in the rod so far as their ambulance service is concerned." The demands of the union were submitted to the council and to the respective hospital superintendents on March 1. he said, but no word has wived 1.

Couple Roi'teil From Bed, Robbed special ro nr Atlantic Beach. Arjril 9 While her I tratlon's Reorganization Accepted as an outright re pudiation of the President and his New Deal policies, the bill's toucned off ne wnicn thrust Ieadin8 stock issues 2 to over 5 points higher and put the ticker as much as three min- utes behind floor dealings at Intervals. At the close the industrial averages i Dow-Jones) showed a net gain for the two-hour session of 5.75 points. Railroads were up 1.04 points and utilities up .93 points. Turnover during the abbreviated session aggregated 1,410.000 shares, the largest Saturday tradinig since Oct.

23, 1937. when 1,565,020 shares changed hands. Wild Excitement Thef loor of the New York Stock Exchange was the scene of wild ex- citement during the entire session. Buying orders from all over the country and from abroad virtually inundated floor brokers and it was only after the greatest of difficulty that many leading issues were actually opened. Blocks of 1,000 to more than 6,000 shares changed hands at the beginning and many leaders showed price gaps of 3 and 4 points on the upside as compared with Friday's close.

Though profit taking made Its appearance mid-session and result ed In a paring down of both price advances and volume, the conces slons attracted Increased demand and before the close of trading stocits were Being bid for around Continued on Page 5D Biddle Kin Weds Son of Financier Vlllanova, April 9 (U.R) Mrs. Isabella Da Costa Fleming, a member of the wealthy Biddle family, and Henry Sage. New York. were married last Thursday, it was revealed today The marriage was at the Villa-nova home of the bride's uncle, Dr. William B.

Cadwalader. Mrs. Sage, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.

Da Casta, divorced her first husband. William T. Fleming, at Reno In 1934. Sage is the son of a retired financier of Jericho Island. Long Island.

He was divorced in 1936 by his first wife, the former Eleanor Purviance. Rejected Suitor Kidnaped Rooster oward Connor. 21. of 624 Quinry and James Coonev. 21.

court on charges of disorderly con-; vm- aur ra iiraring anu were sentenced to en davs each tl, At r- m- iiwu.sr. iviitgi.su mr oao- batino Mispenried execution of the on good behavior. 1 that late Friday the iaie rnciay the youths came to her home, and when she refused i 'admittance thev went, around to the i Broker Faces 10 to 20 Years-Firm Declared Insolvent From Start Richard Whitney will appear In Manhattan General Sessions Court tomorrow for sentence on two grand larceny counts, faced with a demand by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey that the court impose "a substantial and punitive sentence." The recomemndation that the former Stock Exchange president be punished severely for stock peculations involving an aggregate sum of approximately $210,000 was cen-tained in a memorandum submitted yesterday to General Sessions Judge Owen W. Bohan.

Whitney faces a possible sentence of 10 to 20 years in State prison. Record Covers 1,000 Pages A stenographic record of the testimony of 44 witnesses in the case, including Whitney and his five partners in the firm provided the details in the fantastic tale of high finance revealed in Dewey's memorandum to the court. Although Richard Whitney Co. was organized on June 29, 1931 as a limited co-partnership, Whitney himself was the sole arbiter of the firm's operations, Dewey asserted, the other partners never questioning his actions and many times being totally unaware of them. Of the five partners, E.

D. Morgan P. K. Rodewald, Henry D. Mygatt, Daniel G.

Condon and John J. McManus, only Morgan, according to the District Attorney, made any substantial contribution to the capital of he firm. Parners Called Figureheads "The other four were former clerks who had been elevated to the rank of partners as a reward for services," he said. None of these four part ners had any substantial contact with the office staff or took any part in the work of the office beyond occasionally signing checks." Remarking that "it is difficult to fix a precise date to mark the dif ficulties of the defendant and his firm." Dewey told the court that on -the very date the last articles of co-partnership were signed, iiune 29. 1931.

Richard Whitney Co. had a deficiency in working capital of approximately $950,000. Chances Insolvency at Start Pointing out that the firm had incorrectly listed seats on the Stock, Curb and Produce Exchanges as as sets totalling $1,050,000. thus boost ing its apparent working capital Dewey charged that "at the very formation of the present partnership in 1931 the firm was hopelessly Insolvent on the basis of its actual working capital." "As early as the Sprln gof 1931," the memorandum stated. "Francis D.

Bartow, a partner of J. P. Morgan and a director of the Corn Exchange Bank Trust com pany noticed that the bank had made an usecured loan to the de fendant in the sum of $300,000." Impropriety of Loan Cited The impropriety of Whitney, who was also a director of the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company, procuring an unsecured loan from a bank of which he was a director, was called to the attention of Oeorge Whitney, the defendant's brother, by Mr. Bartow. When George Whitney agreed that the transaction was improper, Dewey declared, Richard- borrowed, on June 29, 1931, the day the Richard Whitney Co.

firm was organized, $500,000 from J. P. Morgan Continued on Page 13 Woodhaven P. O. Site Okayed for $52,000 Emit Bureau.

National PrM Rutldlnr. Washington, April 19 The Congressional Joint Committee on Post-office Sites today announced it had accepted the site on the west side of Forest Parkway, north of Jamaica Woodhaven, Queens, for a Woodhaven branch postoffice, at a price of $52,000. In Sunday's Eagle SECTION. A Paie Editorials 1- Oniluarirj Peril of Freedom Removal j'ulton Shopping With Susan 1 SECTION Dr. Brady Kdrar tiuesl Fraternal (lood Tate Ountlnm Aniwerrd Radio Kt-rU Schools Sorietv I- Travrl 10-11 SECTION TREND PLAY: A REVIEW OF THE ARTS SECTION financial g- ft Ssorte 1-4 SECTION Automobllei Comlnt Events 7 Crossword Tuzzle I Events Tonitht 7 Gardens a Real Estate Shlpplnr News Want Ads i.

O'TION I UtiUI PAliliS "Mll IN BLOK i Deposed Chief to Retain Chairmanship Title, hut Unity Party Head Will Be Real Leader -Compromise Fails James Cornelius Sheridan, who was lifted from the obscurity of an Astoria zone executive to the mighty seat of Democratic boss of Queens County by the friendly hand of James A. Farley four years ago, was headed back to the bush league of politics last night. Shouting recriminations at his foes and fighting every step of the way, Sheridan faced lass of his powers as county leader at a meeting of the county executive committee which drew spectators from all parts of Queens to the county headquarters in Woodside. Foes Get Enough Votes With the committee in an uproar over Sheridan's refusal to allow Mrs Gertrude Fentzke, titular co-leader of Jackson Heights, to vote on a resolution stripping him of the powers of county leader, the anti-Sheri-danites had enough votes to sink the county boss even if Mrs. Fentzke's vote should not count.

The opposition, led by State Committeeman James A. Roe, went into the meeting with 31'a votes, counting Mrs. Fentzke's, against. Sheridan's 28'i. The Roe forces went into the meeting with resolutions to remove from Sheridan the powers and duties of county leader and bestow them on oRe.

The procedure, permitting Sheridan to retain the empty title of chairman, was decided upon because, under the organization rules, it is impossible to vote an incumbent out of the chairmanship without presenting specific charges before the legal committee. The device used against Sheridan last night was the same as that by which Sheridan took the powers of leader away from John Theofel in 1934. Spurns Compromise The oRe faction spurned 11th hour proposals for a compromise candidate and went into the meeting determined to supplant Sheridan with oRe. Mrs. Naomi Nicholson, Hollis co-leader, was a last minute convert from the Sheridan camp to the Roe side.

Mrs. Fentzke, who did not surrender her title of zone executive when she moved to Hamburg, N. several months ago, made the 400-mile trip back to Queens to vote against Sheridan. James E. Healy, secretary of the executive committee and a Sherldanite, skipped her name on the attendance roll call, bringing protests from the Roe faction.

Roe appealed to the body against Sheridan's ruling that Mrs. Fentzke was not entitled to a vote, but Sheridan refused to put the appeal before the membership for a vote. Amid shouting back and forth Deputy County Clerk William M. Blake, vice chairman and a Roe supporter, strode to the front of the room to put the vote on the appeal. Shouts Defiant Tirade Sheridan outshouted the opposition and launched a defiant tirade against the Roe group, charging its members with "connivance and treachery against the party." In a perfectly obvious reference to the alliance in the City Council between Councilman James A.

Burke, a Roe adherent, and the pro-LaGuardia bloc, Sheridan exclaimed "I am surprised that members of this committee have sacrificed their principles because of offers of jobs." During the height of the squabble former Assemblyman George F. Torsney, Thomson Hill-Sunnyside leader, pushed his way up to Sheridan and shouted: "You're no Hitler or no Czar!" Farley Ignored Fight National Chairman Farley, who paved the way for Sheridan's ascension to the leadership by naming the young Astoria executive patron-nge dispenser for the county and freezing out Theofel, who had held out against Roosevelt's nomination in the 1932 convention, has remained aloof from the present fight among Queens Democrats. Stripped of Powers Sheridan was stripped of the powers of leadership, although retaining the empty title, by the same method with which he took the veins away from John Theofel four vears ago" and, In turn, lost it 15 months later. After the revolt of 1935, when Sheridan was supplanted by a triumvirate, he put tip his own county ticket in the Fall primary, trounced the slate backed by the triumvirate and regained the powers of county boss when the triumvirs resigned. 1 Since his return to power in Sep- tember, 1935 after the three months interlude during which Ed ward W.

Cox, Peter J. McGarry and John C. Donovan bumped along unhappily in the driver's seat Sheridan has been trying without success to bring together the warring afc-tions of Queens Democracy, Ethiopian Sultan Visits Dure Rome. April 9 (Pi-Abba Giobir Abba Dula. Sultan of C.imma.

htoplan Moslrm, today brought Ernlto Mti'soHnt sentiments oi "loyalty, love and devotion," ate approved an amendment to make future issues of Federal securities subject to taxation. An amendment by Senator Clark (D Mo.) designed to permit Federal taxation of State and local government securities was rejected, however. Proposals rejected shortly before passage included: Broadening of the income tax ba.se, increasing surtaxes oil individual incomes and imposing a system of farm processing taxes. A joint conference committee now will seek to adjust differences between the Senate bill and a vastly different measure passed by the House. Hitler 'Threats' Put 400 in Jail Fuehrer Is Guarded as Never Before in Vienna as He Appeals to Foes Vienna, April 9 (U.R) Ignoring threat of assassination, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler tonight appealed to possible opponents to indorse tomor-I row's plebiscite on the Austrian- German union.

''I would like to speak not to my adherents but to those still believing they have reason to refuse confi-i deuce in me," Hitler told a hysterical audience in the gaudy meeting hall draped with buting and huge swastikas. Bouquets Forbidden The Fuehrer was guarded as never before. It was understood tha' about 400 suspects had been arrested in connection with the distribution of pamphlets which predicted that Hitler would not return to Berlin alive. Cordon lines were doubled and in some places tripled to hold back the thousands who jammed the streets to cheer and salute Hitler. Officials ordered all newspapers to publish a warning forbidding the crowds from tossing bouquets into Hitler's car.

Cites 'Will of God' Vienna, April 9 Hitler Justified his whirlwind annexation of Austria by declaring it was "the will of God." Addressing 30.000 wildly rheerlng followers in the final appeal of the plebiscite campaign, the Austrian-born Hitler exclaimed: "I believe it was the will of God to send this little boy to Germany to make him Fuehrer of the Reich and to bring Austria back to Ger- many." He warned his enemies never to attempt to seize power here because 75.000.000 Germans would rise against them. "Now I am in power and I shall not give it up." In another breath he said his name "will stand out forever as the son of this grrat country." Find Latest 'Token' Of Cleveland Killer Cleveland. April 9 OP) Cleveland's blod-crazed killer mocked detectives anew tonight as they grappled in the Cuyahoga River for the latest of the heads, legs and torsos which for four years he has been depositing in desolate and usually watery graves. The lower section of the 11th vie-i tint's leg cut off at knee and ankle came to light yesterday when a WPA worker found it at the edge of the river. Searching up and down the river the detectives hoped to find the head of the latest victim, which a dredger had reported seeing, and other parts of the body.

Coroner S. R. Gerber said he believed the leg was part of the body of a small woman between 25 and 30 years old. Two Women Injured As Bus Crashes Store Two women were injured na large passenger bus of the Trl-Boro Coach Corporation rolled backwards downhill from it-parking place at the curb en just off Roosevelt Wood-side, crossed the avenue and crashed Into a stationery store at til-'1-Roosevelt Ave. Miss Jane Young.

54, of 52-14 (iti.li Maspeth, the only passenger the bus, was treated for contusions of the chest and wetn home. Miss Rose Vogel, 37, of 54-33 64 th St Maspeth. standing on the sidew.nk outside the store, was knocked down by the bus and suffered a possible fracture of the left log. She was ie-moved to St. John's Ilapltul, Louisiana City.

Chinese Storm Japanese Base Report Reaching Capital of Shantung and Cutting Off Supply Lines Shanghai, April 10 (Sunday) (fP) Chinese declared today they had made a large scale assault onTsinan, Japanese-held capital of Shantung Province, carrying -their new offensive to the very base of Japanese operations on the central front. Official reports said a Chinese force stormed the gates of the walled city and occupied positions on three, sides. With the rout of Japanese forces at Talerchwang, on the Grand Canal, northeast of Suchow, Chinese said Japanese supply lines in the Lung-hai corrider had been wiped out. Chinese said Japanese forces concentrated between Lincheng and Yihsien, in the Taierchwang sector, were running short of food as well as ammunition. Chinese said further retreat of Japanese forces north from Taierh-chwang, where they were said to have suffered a crashing blow, was cut off by Chinese troops who recaptured Tsaochwang.

They added that 1,000 Japanese were killed in the flight from Taeierhchwang besides 8,000 others whose bodies were said to have been found on the battlefield. Yihsien, they said, was In flames and apparently destined to the same fate as Taierhchwang whose mud walls had been flattened by weeks of heavy fighting. False Levine Clues Keep Police Busy New Rochelle, April 9 A flurry of false clues to the disappearance of 12-year-old Peter Levine on Feb. 24 had melted away tonight after police found that a "grave" discovered by Boy Scouts was not a grave, a "stolen" car had not been stolen, and a toy typewriter found on the Bronxville village dump was not the machine with which a $30,000 ransom note had been written. A report from a searching party of Scouts that they had found a grave sent police to an abandoned nirllir frnVA at Pup TVio "orarf," turned out to be a mound of burned leaves and other debris.

The police inspected a "stolen" car found by the Scouts in a hut in the woods. It devc-loped thai, Joseph Hannon, the Rye town treasurer, used the hut as a garage, and the car was his. The toy typewriter found In a paper bag by the Scouts was declared by a Federal agent and New Rochelle detectives to be unrelated to the Levine rase. At the Noble School for Bovs and I Girls on Forest Rye, a wheel- s.nun. a anu.ci nun numr mm uii i isiuim ui -TiirtLis at uir iriii oi in- school roncc icarnco tne tools had been used by workmen.

Flock Hires Frain Andy Fraln, who was supervisor of ushers at Wrigley Field for many years, and who is also used in that capacity at the Kentucky Derby, has been hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Frain is already at work assembling a crew of ushers who will lie brightly uniformed. He will use many college students who have classes only In the morning. Germain Reported Resting Comfortably Special to The Eagle Washington. April 9 David Germain, commissioner of Jurors in Brooklyn, who suffered a slight -'roke here earlier in the week while visiting relatives, was reported resting comfortably late today at a local hospital.

His nurse said he had a very good d.w and that Mrs. Germain was that his complete recovery be rapid, Phelan and Foster Arrive at Naples Naples, April 9 (U.R) Brig. Gen. John Phelan, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, mid Edward Foster of Providence, It I secretary of the United States National Boxing Association, arrived today aboard the liner Conte savola, en route to Rome, where rv will attend the International Byxins Foiuin, starting April 19. i blight on other parts ol his legislative program.

Prospects for other portions of the New Deal legislative program were dark as a result of the killing of the reorganization bill most stunning administration setback since Ir. Roosevelt's defeat last Summer In the Supreme Court battle. Wage-hour legislation particularly ap peared to have become more remote. Undismayed, however, Mr. Roose velt opened a drive for Con-gressoinal action to provide money for victims of business recession by summoning his Congressional lead ers to a Monday morning conference on relief.

Writes to Rayburn Mr. Roosevelt wrote House Ma jority Leader Sam Rayburn, asking him to refrain from personal re criminations as a result of the de feat on the reorganiaztion bUL The text of his letter: "Dear Sam: "Thanks for the fine fight. WU1 you also thank the Speaker and the others? "The reorganiaztion bill Is Intended to simplify an dimprove the public service. With this single objective in view, I have given It my earnest approval. "The question presented is solely one of policy.

Therefore the legislative developments of yesterday offer no occasion for personal recrimination, and there should be none. "Very sincerely yours, "FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT." No Hope of Reviving BUI House leaders admitted there was no hope of reviving the reoragniza-tion bill, in the Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Berkley said ha had "enough troubles of my own" without attempting the apparently hopeless job of using the general reorganization measure passed by the House la.st year as a ba.sis for saving a part of the legislation. But Senator William E.

Borah Idaho one of the opponents of the bill when it passed the Senate, 49 to 42. urged that the ieda of reor- ganizing the executive departments be tried again on a basis which would protect the rights of Congress. I.xpocts V. D. to Take Stump Washington.

April 9 (4)The historic un-surge of opposition over the reorganiaztion bill appeared tonight to have forced Roosevelt administration leaders to abandon hoie of regaining control of the 75th Congress. Instead, they looked for a fairly quick adjournment, to be followed by a tremendous. nationwide struggle between the President and his critics in the 1938 political campaigns. It was considered certain that the would carry the fight for Ins policies to tile voters, perhaps by a long stumping tour. Program Slimed Vp Chairman Ranispeck Ga of the Hou.sr Labor Subcommittee a-torh after it was recommitted by the House last December said the reor- qanlzation defeat would "militate il al Senator Hatch Mi who voted for the reorganiwtion bill.

-siid had been "greatly magnified" but added Continued on Page 2 Tlle body of an unidentified whita nbout 45 years old, was taken lmm me waters ol Buttermilk Chan- m'1 Vsterday at the foot of Wolcott st. ma" ws of medium height and wplR'cd about 160 pounds. He a.s pmuy nam wiih a fringe of black hair. He wore a black wind- Breaker, black trousers and black shoes and socks. A white metal buckle on his black lea-her belt bore lit- initial Tenant Suitable HAY RIDUE 00(1 I'lniiis.

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"I received quite a few calls In response to the ad and have gotten a suitable tenant." Don't have vacant rooms in your house. They mean a loss of much needed income. You can find a ten-ant for them by advertising in the Wan! Ad Columns of The Eagle, Brooklyn's Newspaper. And it's in expensive, loo. Simply call nn ad Aer at A 1 1 1 4-tW0o; give her your ami "cluugc It," James A.

Roe, Russians Speed Aid to Loyalists Send New War Supplies as Losing Government Starts Killing Slackers Hendaye, France, April 9 (U.R) Soviet Russia is rushing fresh assistance to battered loyalist Spain, border reports said today, as the Barcelona government put ln'o effect an edict to all citizens to "fight or face the firing squad Russia has promised to send the loyalists 150 airplanes, by air and by ship, according to the reports reaching here. In addition, other Russian supplies and reinforcements already are beginlng to arrive. The loyalist government ordered every able-bodied man to report for duty by Wednesday noon under pain of death. Barcelona newspapers described it as the "zero hour' 'and supported the warning to all citizens that the government will "act sternly and promptly." Loyalists Win Victories Hendaye, France (at the Spanish frontier), April 9 C4) The Spanish government drew up its eastern army along costal ravines and ridges today in a desperate, back-to-the-wall effort to hold off the insurgents from its lifeline of Mediterranean coast highways. Militiamen, fighting back as they did a year ago when the Valencia- i Madrid road was menaced, won their first victories of a week of hard battling.

I They retook La Gralla, a village at the southern tip of the Insurgent line, and several adjoining heights. I Rebels 9 Miles from Sea Observers viewed the success more as an indication that the govern-1 ment forces had been able to reor-ganize, however, than that they might be ab! to launch a counter-offensive, The government line for defense of the highway chain between Valencia and Barcelona, the main government seaboard strongholds, stretches from near Tor-tosa to near San Mateo de las Fuentes. In the Tortosa region, the Insurgents are about nine miles from the sea while at the southern tip of the line the distance is about 13 miles. Drive toward Portugal Bombed and strafed Incessantly 1 and raked by artillery Lre. the gov-j emment's troops clung to their pos-i itions.

In many places they held ravines, readv to strike out against any insurgent infantry advance. The government reported Its offensive in Caceres Province, southwest of Madrid, was being carried forward toward the Portuguese frontier, across Spain from the northeastern fighting. A communique said government forces advanced 12 miles from Viflar del Pedroso to Valdescasa. Insurgents were said to be surrounded and under shellfire in the nearby village of Sordo. Paralysis Treated By Solution of Salt Syracuse, N.

April 9 (P) Evidence that infantile paralysis can be treated by injection of a hypotonic sale solution into the blood stream has been found in a series of experiments, first on monkeys and later on humans, by Dr. George TWan of the College of Medicine, Syracuse University. These experiments, started in 1935. cover a three-year span. "This hypotonic salt solution (low-salt content) has been used successfully in the treatment of acute poliomyelitis, acute encephalitis (sleeping sickness) and syphilis of the central nsrvoys system," Dr.

Retan said. "Future experience may abo show that It may be of advantage for trwtmcnt of streptococcus and melnlngococcus meningitis" I I i husband was forced bv threats of.ul T'y were o-imr shot to look on'helnlcsslv a 'Psy Magistrate Sylves- o.ing snot mi iook on neipirM a sabbatmo In Pennsv vania Ave. middle-aged bandit forced Mrs. rranKiui Luupue to surrenncr iii.umi. mr nr iuuiki guilty oy back yard, seized a bantam rooster: pj-J from her chicken coop and carried'1 'HQ JKin l)Ody in it off.

ormJllr PVionnl Mrs. Twomblv. v-iilaininiT the -U IIXHIIIIK LUdlinei eany yesiiTua y. aiit'i which lie es- caned from their home at 86 I Ten- ton Ave. The couple told Harold R.

King, in charge of Nassau County that the intruder entered tljeir bedroom a short time afier they had gone to bed. Though he did not show any gun, he com-i m.inried: "Keep still or I will shoot you with a .31 revolver." The couple said he probably came in through the front door, from which Mrs. Luepke had forgotten to remove the key when she arrived home early that evening, her arms full of plants. Mr. and Mrs.

Luepke dressed and hurried to the 4th Precinct station. woodinere. where they reported the occurrence to county police Mrs. Luepke said the man was about 5 feet 8. weighing between no and 180 and that she could identify him The ruepkes have beep married two years and have no children.

Mr. Luepke. a tiuickeeixr for the New York Central Railroad, Is 30, and his wife is 33. i tit i 11 U. S.

heCK rOrgCry Sends Pair to Jail Two Negro youths wro forged a Government check for $16 were yesterdav sentenced to serve 18 months the Fedeial Reformatory at Chillu'othe. Ohio bv Judge Robert n. men in itroos.wi rcuriai voiin. Thc pair. I.io Britton.

19. of 513 Baltic st and Charles Hart 17, of 330 Bergen Si pleaded guilty to affixing the nam" of Peter Jennings of the rvrcen m. an'iress on tne check Jr 4 nd si'ip it on i Vito A. WO licigcii St, situation to Magistrate Sabbatino informally, said that O'Connor had been courting her daughter, Cath erine, 17, but the friendship ended three months ago. The vouth has! freoucntlv come to the house since, i an interview with Catherine Mrs.

Twomblv said She said she did not believe O'Connor intended to steal the rooster but took it in a fit of pique. Gloomy Sunday Due Here Again Today Brooklynites war.n-.g porfunity to enjoy a an op-in sunnv hir.e to in cm ding cnu'iiri-'d I Sunday out of door- jwait at least anothrr- to me weanier Man, partly cloudy skies an cool weather for A mnar forecast was offered 't toin I Congress Aid for Moonrv Washington. April it A ciai House committee will proposal to free Tom Moonrv from the San Quentin prison. The rum-mittee was created today by i man Summers iD-Texas. House Judiciary Committee ntTs named Rrprcsrn'auw i of Brooklyn as chairman.

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