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POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1943

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Gives Detailed Review Of Parley To Joint Meeting Washington, Nov. 19.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull told congress today that activation of the fourpower Moscow program of international cooperation would obviate the need for “sphere’s of influence” for alliances, for balance of power” or other similar arrangements used in the past to preserves peace. In a detailed review of the Anglo-American-Soviet conference at Moscow, Hull told a joint meeting of the house and senate that the basic policy of international cooperation for the maintenance of “victims of destructive forces of international anarchy which in the absence of organized international relation will rule the world.” Explaining that the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China in the basic Moscow declaration “pledged themselves to carry forward to its fullest development a broad and progressive program of international cooperation," Hull told the congress: “As the provisions of the fournation declaration are carried into effect, there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power or any other of the special arrangements though which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests.” Thus, Hull continued, the results, of the Moscow conference were of “supreme importance,” At the meeting of the Anglo-American-Soviet foreign ministers” the whole spirit of international cooperation, now and after the war, was revitalized and given practical expression.” Hull did not speak directly of his year-long campaign to have the major American political parties agree on foreign policy and thus remove from the field of competitive politics. But he congratulated the members of congress for their “breadth and height of vision and statesmanship” in adopting “by overwhelming non-partisan majorities” resolutions favoring U. S. Avar participation in an international system for the maintenance of peace. No Secret Agreements. Hull said that although the enemy has suffered “defeat after defeat,” we still face “enormous hardships and \mst sacrifices.” He emphasized again and again the importance of international cooperation and' understanding lest the full fruits of final victory be lost. He said it was becoming increasingly clear that the time was near when more and more Axis-held territory Avould be wrested from enemy grasp; “when Germany and its remaining satellites will have to go the way of Fascist Italy.” He said no secret agreements Avere made at Moscoav, nor was any even suggested. Cataloguing the prime achievements of the Moscoav meeting, Hull led off Avith the agreement to establish “A general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states and open to membership by all such states, large and small.” Hull explained that the Moscoav conference Avas not intended to solve “all the problems” before the major powers, putting into this category questions relating to boundaries. Territorial questions, for instance, “must, by their very nature, be left in abeyance until the termination of hostilities.” The cooperative effort after the Avar, Hull said, Avas aimed “toAvard enabling all peace-loving nations, large and small, to live in peace and security, to preserve the liberties and rights of civilized existence and to enjoy expanded opportunities and facilities for economic, social and spirtual progress.” o DeMarigny Invited To Leave Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 19. — Count Alfred De Marigny, who Avas acquitted here last Thursday night of charges that he mui’dered his multi-millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, has received a deportation notice. Marquis Georges De Visdelou, Guimbeau, his closest friend, also received a deportation notice. The letters were described as “invitations to leave the Bahamas” rather than direct orders from immigration authorities demanding the departure. The governor’s executive council held a closed meeting Saturday at Avhich time it Avas believed the “invitations” were issued. Neither De Marigny nor De Visdelou Avere available for comment. Godfrey Higgs, De Marigny’s lawyers, Avas out of the city on a fishing trip. De Marigny conferred with Attorney Ernest Callender, Si\, today but no statement Avas issued either by Callender or De Marigny. Sources .close to De Marigny said the count and his 19-year-old Avife, Nancy, daughter of the slain gold king Avould leave Nassau in the next two weeks for New York Avhere Nancy plans to have an operation on her mouth.

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NeAvburyport, Mass.—His friends were not at all surprised when John Paul Jones of NeAvburyport joined the Navy the other day.

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London, Nov. 19. — Diplomatic sources were hopeful today that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin Avill meet soon to detail decisive battle plans for Avinter and spring and to prepare for Avhat appears to be an imminent crisis in the Bal-

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An Ankara broadcast heard by the London Daily Mail said a conference of the three Avould be held in the “near future.” “Well-in-formed Allied circles” were given as the source of the report. Both Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill have reiterated in. recent Aveeks their desire to meet with Stalin to further the coordination of Allied strategy begun at the Moscoav conference of foreign ministers, and the quickening situation in the Balkans and on the eastern front posed a f{#jprable background for the new meeting. Observers Avho make if their

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crisis in the eastern BalkansSii the six Aveeks before Ncav Year’s day as a distinct possibility. One diplomat in touch AA’ith intelligence reports from a dozen occupied or satellite capitals forecast that Adolf Hitler already faced a choice of abandoning the Balkans or committing one quarter of his armies to defend Rumania —Avhich would be a lost cause, any-

business to follow closely Axis. Europe r e g a r d a sudden political

Avay, in the long run. The virtual certainty that the Germans will have been expelled from all southern Russia by the end of Avinter, if not before, is the greatest factor in the approaching crisis, but the American raid on Sofia and its promise of increasing attacks on the Balkans also probably Avill prove an important influence. Reports reaching London from Europe say that the Rumanians again are sounding out, through third parties, the possibility of a separate peace. Probably in connection Avith these reports, Rumanian Premier Ion Antonescu is visiting Hitlers’ headquarters. Bulgaria at present is too deeply committed to Hitler to make overtures to the Allies, but the ovenvhelmingly pro-Russian sentiment throughout that country leaves little doubt that the government would not survive a collapse of Rumanian resistance. Thus, it would seem advisable that Mr. 13 —lauaiitai .ujh —a

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work , vantage of any breach in Hitler’s Balkan Avail. There has been criticism in both the United States and Britain that these countries Avere caugbt flat-footed t>y the deposal of Premier Benito Mussolini and Italy’s surrender.

EARLY MEETING

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FDR-Churchili-Stalin To Meet Sooner Than Expected London, Nov. 19.—A Daily Telegraph dispatch from Washington said today that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were expected to meet even sooner than Avas thought likely at the time of the Moscoav conference. The tripartite conference at Moscoav Oct. 19-Nov. 1 was presumed to have laid the ground Avork for a meeting among the “Big three” some time before the new

year.

Reporting in a similar vein, the Washington correspondent of the London NeAvs-Chronicle reported today that there was talk in the American capital again of “big events in the offing.” “It’s vague and carefully phrased, but urgent,” he said. The need for an early conference of the three heads of states, military circles said, was underlined by the likelihood than the German grip on south Russia Avill be reduced in the next feAv weeks to a hard-pressed bridgehead across the Dniester river, which itself probably Avill be liquidated in the Soviet winter campaign. The liberation of the Ukraine inevitably Avould produce a firstclass spasm inside Rumania and Bulgaria, observers said, and Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin should meet in the near future to formulate a flexible policy to meet quick changes in both the military and political situation in the eastern Balkans. London circles believed Adolf Hitler Avould defend Rumania to the limit to protect the Ploesti oilfields, whose loss might collapse German resistance av i t h i n six months, but a sudden Anglo-Amer-ican thrust across the Adratic in conjunction Avith a Russian assault across the Dniester probably would doom the Balkans to early cap-

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Amother argument for an early meeting of the three heads of state was seen in signs that Germany might be defeated by next summer instead of Christmas 1944 if a properly coordinated military and political program is followed. The London Daily Telegraph’s j Washington dispatch suggested that Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin might frame a declaration demanding, Germany’s surrender, possibly Avorded along the lines of WoodroAv Wilson’s “14 points” of the Versailles conference. Wil-

Will Have Little Effect On Induction, Says Officials

Washington, Nov. 19.—Selective Service officials said today that their immediate reaction to the compromise bill which Avould place fathers at the bottom of the national draft pool was that it would have little effect on present induction policy. They were reluctant to discuss the section of the bill agreed to by House and Senate conference com-mittees-—and almost certain to become law—which would permit President Roosevelt to delegate policy authority solely to Selective Service Director LeAvis B. Hershey. The bill comes before the House Thursday. As for the section negating the designation by War ManpOAver Chief Paul V. McNutt of non-defer-rable jobs, they said they were “inclined” to think that most fathers of draft-age and physically fit who Avere in such occupations have already been drafted. It was unofficially suggested that the bill’s design to require drafting of the nation’s single men before fathers are taken could have an unforeseen effect—the stalling of normal induction rates because of the fact that new 18-year-olds, presumably all single, are continuously becoming eligible for induction. The conference report provides that appeals boards Avith jurisdiction over the area in Avhich a registrant works, rather than where he might be registered, shall handle occupational deferment appeals, and makes the President finally responsible for questions regarding industrial deferments. The bill also authorizes the President to name a medical board to revieAV physical standards set by the Army and Navy, and permits, under restrictions, pre-induction physical examinations. It was said that most single men of the nation, physically and otherwise acceptable to the armed forces, uoav are in the armed forces and the bill would have no retarding effect on the drafting of fathers who consistently have been on the bottom of the list. As for non-de-ferrables, it was said, those not

HENRY (Continued From Page One) said, “is something of which the public should be aware. Many of us have knoAvn it or years, but it has been impossible to get it to the public because of the suppression by the pewspapers of this kind of news.” Senator Lister Hill (Dem., Ala.) declared that Wallace and Shipstead had “rendered distinguished public service in bringing the matter to the attention of the Avhole country.” Wallace argued the financial exploitation of our railroads by bankers has placed an unbearable burden” on the people and is Avithout parallel in American life. “It is the cause and center of the raildroads’ difficulties and of many of the nation’s ills,” he said. The plundering of the Erie, the NeAv Haven and other Eastern railroads has been equalled only by the looting of certain Western roads, the greatest of which was the Mihvaukee. “How these plunderers could have escaped the consequences of their evil acts is incomprehensible. They or their successors rule the railroad empire today as they did in the heydey of their financial manipulations. The are tightening their grip. So I say to you that the people’s battle has not been won, that the battle is on, and that it will never cease until these evils are uprooted altogether.” already in the army would just go in their regular order number. —o

Sonja Henie To Present Spectacular Show In Indianapolis Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 16—AlAvays a tireless worker and a skater who never asks any other performer in her ice show to do anything she can’t do herself, Sonja Henie Avill set a new record for appearances when she presents her 1944 HollyAvood Ice Revue here in Indianapolis at the Coliseum from November 18 through November 28th. The Queen of the Ice will be featured in four glittering production spectacles with the men and girls of the ensemble forming the colorful background for her own dazzling interpretations on ice and in addition to all that,* will once again feature heL OAvn solo creation, always the high spots in every Hollywood Ice Revue. During the numerous appearances that keep her on the ice for almost an hour all told Miss Henie Avill run the gamut from the “Boogie Woogie” and “Jitterbug” of the present day to the grace of the ballet and the dances of “Gay Paree.” In her first presentation she goes distinctly “Hollywood'’ along with the boys and girls of the ensemble and it is a “Movie Town” .splurge. “The Hula” with new rythms from Old Hawaii, a creation featured for the first time by Miss Henie tAvo years ago and since then a command performance from her thousands of fans Avill be repeated this year. But the costumes will be new, the music will be new and added authentic steps jmd movements will be brought to skating by the star hei’self. The incomparable Sonja Avill have «s a setting the entire company in a South Seas Fantasy. Miss Henie’s mastery of the ballet on skates will be brought to the front when she features her solo offering. The girl who won more world and Olympic titles than any other skater has been Avorking for weeks on a new routine that will be unveiled for the first time during this seventh annual tour of the Hollywod Ice Revue. She will be seen in tAvo other production numbers. Making merry with the cast in “Hayride” as the entire company goes dOAVn on the farm and in the finale she Avill dance the “LaSorella” garbed as a “Saucy Parisienne” as she and the entire company relive a portion of the “Gay Paree” she knew when she skated there in the gay days amid gay throngs before the war. A strict disciplinarian Avhere she herself is concerned, Miss Henie has been rehearsing her part in her latest show for approximately the past three months and she is even better than ever before. It is skating at its very best wih Sonja Henie, who is “ice skating.” o Alexandria’s Fuel Supply Is Serious Alexandria, Ind., Nov. 19—Fuel dealers today urged the solid fuels administration to rush coal shipments to Alexandria as 100 families were without coal and others had less than a 10-day supply. The town’s five coal firms said they had ordered shipments several days ago when their stocks were in danger of being exhausted but they had no idea when the loads would arrive. Residents caused a run on woodburning stoves and electric heaters, quickly wiping out the town’s supply. > Township Trustee Marvin Worley said the four families on dilect relief had sufficient coal since he ordered it before stocks were depleted. —o The United States sends about 4,000 short-Avave programs of iibavs, propaganda, and entertainment a Aveek to various parts of the world.

Feminine Traffic Cops Begin Duties Indianapolis, Nov. 19. — Women Avho have directed traffic from the rear seat for many years, today moved into a more authoritative spot. Indianapolis’ first tAvo feminine traffic cops began their duties today, directing traffic on monument circle. Mrs. Artie Stockdale, wife of a deputy sheriff, and Mrs. Ann Bennett, wife of a war worker and mother of four children, buckled on their revolvers, adjusted their Sam Browne belts, and waited their first arguments with a burly male truck driver. Their uniforms, excfept for the caps and slacks, which show a feminine influence in the tailoring, Avere like those of male police. Police Chief Beeker said that if Mrs. Stockdale and Mrs. Bennett are good traffic cops, he’ll recruit 26 more women to take over traffic and release men for other police jobs. Mother Charged With Selling Son Hammond, Ind., Nov. 19—Capt. San dor Singer of the Hammond police said today that Mrs. Harriet Horton, 29, and Owen Clark, 33, Avere being held in jail for investigation Avhile police inqured into a report that Mrs. Horton had sold her two-year-old son to a Linton, Ind., man for $50. Singer said Mrs. Horton denied that she had sold the baby, but

said the child had been given to Mr. and Mrs. Grover Beebe for adoption. Singer did not disclose the source of the report that the baby had been sold but said the boy had been adopted legally. The officers said Mrs. Norton and Clark Avere being held for investigation by a federal grand jury of an alleged violation of the motor theft law. Mrs. Horton and Clark were arrested last Aveek by federal officers, who charged the couple had stolen a car in San Francisco and driven it across state lines. Both pleaded guilty to auto theft Avhen arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Schuyler Dnvyer and were placed under $2,500 bond. Mrs. Horton has four other chilsdren besides the baby boy.

Wm. G. Keane New Bankruptcy Head Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 19—William G. Keane, of the law firm Newkirk & Keane, Fort Wayne, appointed Saturday as bankruptcy referee of the Fort Wayne division of the Northern Indiana Federal Court, today made preparations to take the oath of office. Keane’s appointement came from Judge Luther M. SAvygert of Hammond. He succeeds Benjamin F. Heaton of Fort Wayne Avho announced his resignation last week. He had been referee since 1941. Keane, a Democrat, said that he has to post bond and file an oath before officially assuming the referee’s post. Induction into office, he indicated, Avould take place

Legal Notice

Notice is hereby given that the local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will, at 9:00 A. M. Central War Time on the 3rd day of December, 1943 at the Clerk’s Office, Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County begin investigation of the applications of the following named persons, requesting the issue to the applicants, at the locations hereinafter set out. of the Alcoholic Beverage Permits of the classes hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive information concerning tlje fitness of said applicants, and the propriety of issuing the permits applied for to such applicants at the premises named: Ora E. Gallimore, 97525, Transfer Beer, Liquor, Wine, Retailer’s permit from Fred W. Littlefield and Ora E. Gallimore, 118-120 S. "High St., Muncie—Harry L. Rodgers, 97489, (Restaurant), Gaston—Beer, Wine Retailer—<’ The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, 97493, (Grocery), 704 So. Walnut St., Muncie — Beer, Wine Dealer-^ American Legion Post No. 165, 97564, (Club), 110 1-2 E. Second St., Muncie—Beer, Liquor, Wine Retailer— Said investigation will be open to the public, and public participation is requested. Alcoholic Beverage - Commission of Indiana By JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary BERNARD E. DOYLE Excise Administrator

here some time this week. Vice-president of the Allen county Bar Association, Keane has practiced law for 20 years. He also is a member of the State and American Bar Associations. Keane received his A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1922 and an LL. B. degree from the University of Michigan two years later.

About 2 200,000 long-distance telephone calls are being made in this country per day, at an average connection-speed of 3.7 minutes.

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATION In the matter of the passage cf certain ordinance by Common Council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special appropriation cf funds. Notice is hereby given taxpayers of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, that a public hearing will be in the City Hall, Muncie, Indiana, on the 6th day'of December, 1943 at 7:30 o’clock P. M. on an ordinance making special and additional appropriations as ftvllows, to-wit: POLICE DEPARTMENT, Budget Item No. 11. For Salaries of Officers and Members of the Police Department for Fiscal year ending December 31, 1943 $1,600.00 FIRE DEPARTMENT, Budget Item No. 11. For Salaries of Officers and Members of the Fire Department for fiscal year ending December 31, 1943 $1,800.00 Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. If said additional appropriation is determined upon, a certified copy of such determination will be filed with the county auditor, who will certify a copy of the same to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, and said State Board will fix a time and place for the hearing of such matter as provided by statute. COMMON COUNCIL OF City of Muncie, Indiana J. Clyde Dunnington, City Clerk. Nov. 19-26

PROUD OF 1914 MODEL T.

Albany—Usually blase Albanians stopped right in their tracks when they saiv the ancient carcass of a 1914 Model T Ford in front of a neAV-fangled parking meter. The owner, 18-year-old, Robert Steivart of nearby Altamont, says it will do 45 miles an hour and gives 20 to 25 miles on a gallon of gas. Gas rationing, he says, poses no problem for him.

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