:• ^ U5 ' [ ' H ,v ' ' ! i ’ • • V ' ; r AVERAGE DAILY OtROULATIOM WEATUER for the Month of Fobenory. 19SR Forecoot of U. B. Worther Banoo, Bartford 6.099 Fair aad eoMer tonight; Friday Member of the Audit fair and wariiiea.. Bare— of OtmnhMoo* MANCHESTER — A CITY OP VILLAGE CHARM VOL. LVIL, NO. 148 (OaasUod Advertittog on Paga U ) MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 24,1938 (FOURTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS Czechs On Bicycles Built for Battle NEW STRIKES IN PARIS, ULLE PLA^ BLUM French Chamber Votes IN REPORT ON PARKWAY To Eliminate (profits On Goverpor Cross Makes Pub- Mnnitions; Conserrathres SENATORS AT Wendel Starts Suit lic Findings Of Engmeer In Open War On Premier. ODDS OVER THE For Millions Against To Settle Cootroversj Be- Paria, March 24.— (AP)—,rA sud- PROBE OF m den outbreak of new strikes In the tween Department Heads; Paria district and the Lllle region Hoffman and Others In northern France was added to- *^ridges Do Not Consti- day to the financial and political Norris Seeks Speedy Inipiiry Newark. N. J.. March 24.— (^iP) Parker Sr., former chief oT Burllng- difficulties of Premier Leon Blum’s —Paul H. Wcndcl filed suit in Fed-T ton county detectives; Gustav Lock- tute Menace,” ifeporL government. The strikes came In In Senate, Barkley Wants cral Cdurt today seeking 83,600,000 wood, a state motor vehicle depart- damages from former oiaveroor the metallurgical, ’chemical and oth- ment Inspector who Investigated the Harold G. Hoffman, Ellis H. Park- Llndbergh-Haiiptmann case for er Industries and Included several The Honse To Take Part; er, Sr., and Jr., and five othec-|for- nationalized factories, where work- Hoffman when he was governor; Hartford, March 24.-'-(AP) sona for alleged conspiracy in hla Carroll T. Jones, head of the State Governor Cross made pubUe ers sought to force employers to kidnaping and torture, which he sign new collective contracts. Colony for Feebleminded Males at Bridges To Fight Nonunee said caused him to confess falsely New Lisbon where Wcndel was con- today a report by a cbnsultiaf In Parliament the Chamber, de- the Lindbergh kidnaping. fined after being brought from engineer from whom he ao’ucht bating a measure for "total mobiU- Taxes on'beer and soft drjnks help maintain Ui* army of Cxeeho Slovakia, a detachment of which is shown on wheels In a recent maneuver. Czechoslovakia Is grimly on guard against possible encroach- The former Trenton attomey Brooklyn, N. Y. technical Advice in the contjro- Izatlon" of the nation in wartime, Washington, March 24—(.^P)— charged Hoffman "directed and ment from- Germany, following Hitler's annexation of Austria. , The Czechs have a strong tradition of Also named were James Kirk- versy between two of his , do* approved a new governmental de- military bravery. Senator Norris (Ind., Neb.), Insist- controlled” the crimes committed l;am, chief of Mercer county detec- partment for civilian defense; Blum partment heads over the Mer» ed today on Immediate approval of against him. tives to whom Parker Sr., turned faced Senate opposition to his finan- Others nimed defendants were over Wendel, and Walter Yooa, Mrs. ritt Parkway which deaertbad cial proposals; Socialists warned of a Senate Investigation of the Ten- Mrs. Ada Bading, secretory to Bading’s brother. the $26,000,000 fiuper-highwiqr a plot to set up a dictatorial “pub- nessee Valley Authority, but both lic safety” cabinet.’ aa "an excellent piece of con« admlQlptoatlon leaders and TVA Strikes Are ‘'Symbolic” critic^* were opposing bis procedure. atruction.” The strikes, which embraced the Warns Mid-Europe War Democratic leader Barkley declared The. engineer, Charles J. Citroen and other large factories In the inquiry should be conducted Bennett of Hartford, devoted the Paris district, were limited Jointly by the House and Senate, SENATE WOULD ELIMINATE the major part of hia eight*, chiefly to "symbolic” movements, senators King ' '(D., Utah), and page report to the design of with work halted for only a few Sure To Drag In Others Bridges (R., N. H.), outspoken hours. Almost all the strikers critics of the TVA, wanted to write bridges on the new Fairfield sought a clause in their collective into the resolution a long list of COMPTROLLER GENERAL county Parkway, the pijncipal contracts pinning wages automati- specific charges agstost .TVA ad- matter of ..contention, and as* cally to any rise In the cost of liv- Premier Chamherlain Makes ministration. ing. serted the structures "do not The lower house resumed debate JOSEPH LAWLOR CALLED The Senate Audit'(tommlttee ap- Rejects Byrd's Proposal To constitute a serious menace to proved the* Norris resolution, which on the “total mobilization" bill and Flat Pledge J o Fight If traffic under reasonable driv* voted to place organization of de- would provide 850,000 for expenses Preserve The Oflice By LATE NEWS fense against air raids and gas at- of the Investigating committee. Its ing conditiona.” France Is Attacked; Re- BY WATERBURY PROBERS presentation to the Senate this af- studied An AagW tocks under Defense Minister EMouard Daladler. " ' ternoon was expected to precipitate 47 To 36 Vote; Bitter Dis- The governor asked Itennett "to a new round of hot debate over FLASHES! make a stinty of all (juestlons . Deputies said all civilians would be provided with gas masks, and fuses Aid To Czechs. President Roosevelt’s ouster of TVA bteiM, especially those relating to : estimated total cost of the meas- Dean Of State Senate Ones- CHINESE ADVANCE Chairman A. E. Morgan. pute Follows Ifis Motion. Hhe bridsto” after he was caltsd NO FLOOD DANGER upon to act as umpire In the tetter ure at 300.000,000 francs (89,(K)0,- Resolution Of Oensore dupute between Highway Comnist ooa) London, March 24— (A P)—Prime Hartford, Mareh 84— (AP)) dondBj Jurors About NORTH OF SUCHOW This was the subject of two reso- ito rapM meMteg ol enows ateag Bloner John A. MacDonald and The plans followed closely those Minister Chamberlain today refused lutions drawn, but not yet . Intro- Washington, March 24.— (AP) — Public Works Commlsskmer Rofaset In England, Including establish- fi? headwaters of the. CewWctlcat to give Czechoslovakia "a prior City's Financial Affairs; duced, by Bridgea. One proposed The Senate tentatively approved to- there la ao todleatlaa et a sertens A. Hurley. ment of new air raid shelteiv guarantee” of immediate armed that the Senate censure the chief The Hartford engineer, a membsC . throughout Frinde, training of day almUtlon of the office of oomp- flood to Hartford. help against Germaa - aggresilon, executive, and the other eaUed for Leotle F . Oenoves, Fbdetai of the firm of Bennett and Tenv. etviUans on what to do In raids, and troller general. It rejected 47 to M also said the bridge constnotMR but ha warned Adnif tnuer that a Is Democratic leader. Eitond Unns SO M3esJ)eep, the removal of Dtrectors H. A. metoorolofM, ra^tted today the tns^ctlon of first aid corps. Morgan, the new 'Chalmah, and a propoeal by Senator Byrd (D-Vn) does -not "reduce the capacity'* e l middle Bnropean war would drag In rtver has risen to llJ l at acma and ^hui To Oust Blnm« other powers. David E. Ultenthal. to priwerve tbo office Intact ..yonM probably reach flood stage of the parkway as a whole to o a a o tff The ministerial crisis was threat- modate traflle because each of tM "Where peace and war are con- ^aterbury, March 24 — (AP) — 30 Rifles Fide Along Bridges eaid he was undecided Byrd bad sought to knock out a t 16 feet sanwnpse late Friday or ened Senate opposition to Pre- 28-foot pavement lanes is widened cerned," be told a packed, Intent Joeeph H. .Lawlor, president pro whether to put the reaolutlona be- the administration’s pending re- oariy Satniday, mier Leon Blum's national defense House of Commons, “legal obliga- • * • about three feet as it peeses under fore the Senate, although yesterday organization bill a provision to the spans. financing plans. Le Populatre, So- tions are not alone involved, and If tempore of the State Senate, was The Tientsin Jlailway. he told the Senate that Morgan’s IRWIN DECLARED SANE eliminate the comptroller and divide He listed a number of oafeguardfl cialist party organ, charged that war broke out It would be unlikely summoned today by the Grand Jury removal amounted to "convicting blfc duties betwee. the director of Now York, Mareh 24— (AP) — Nationalist opponents of Blum's to traffic on the parkway, among to be confined to those who have as.; which is investigating the mimlctpal the budget and a new officer, the Robert Irwte, 29-year-old senlptor, second People's Front government Burned such obligations. Shanghai, March 24 — (AP) — them the following; affairs of his home.^^qtty of Water- (Continued on Page Eight) auditor general. told ter the Beckman HIU slaying Umltetlon-of spe^ limit to “ tta m 'planned to force the premier out. "It would be Impossible to say Chinese counter-offensives north of of veronica Gedeon, artlat’s model, The Nationalists, the paper said, bury. Supporters of the bill predicted BO to 00 mUee an hour.'' where It would end and what gov- The S9-year-oId dean ‘of the Sen- Suchow extended lines of the 10- that defeat of the Byrd amendment her mother aad a lodger, hao been Proper policing. were prepared to “descend Into the ments might become involved. ate arrived in the (3aurt House day-old battle today to a gigantic presaged final passage of the meas- declared sane by a Innaoy commis- AdMuate signs, pavement streets” to force formation of a "This is especially true of two sion, It wao reUaMy reported today. aon-poittical Cabinet, suspenslpn of alone at 10:20 a.m.