Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1934 — Page 3
DEC. 3, 1934.
EUROPE, QUAKING WITH FEAR OVER SAAR SITUATION, SEES SPECTER OF WAR CLOSING IN Threatened Putsch of Nazis Inevitable Should League of Nations Decide to Partition Valuable Territory. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS !V<ripp-Howard Foreign Editor Beneath the ruffled surface of the Saar, forces are in motion which easily could produce an explosion that would rock Europe, once more, to her foundations. The League of Nations, under whose ausices the Jan. 13 plebiscite is scheduled to be held is aware of the danger. It knows that any sort of coup d’etat or-coup de main may be
brought off by Hitlerites, French or the Saarlanders themselves. Such a coup, both the League and a quaking Europe fear, almost certainly would mean war. Yet there is little, unfortunately, that the League can do. It is keenly conscious of the fact that the peril Is vastly aggravated by a woeful lack of clarity in some of the most vital phases of the Saar charter contained in the Treaty of Versaillles. But any move to clarify the rules governing the plebiscite might now be interpreted as taking sides. The third and last chapter of the charter annex, dealing almost exclusively with the plebiscite, says the voting shall be by districts or communes. Whereupon, it adds, "the league shall decide on the sovereignty under which the territory’ is to placed, taking into account the wishes of the inhabitants as expressed by the voting.” Does this mean the Saar may be partitioned? Will a district showing a French majority be turned over to France, even if the rest of the Saar goes overwhelmingly German? Will districts voting for the status quo be detached from the rest and ruled, as now, by the League? Should anything like that happen, the feared putsch of the Nazis, or the Nazi-dominated Deutsche Front, would be almost inevitable. Yet there is precedent for just such a partition. This is the seventh, and last, of the plebiscites growing out of the Warld War treaties and. in some of them, frontiers were changed strictly according to the Tote. Adolpf Hitler desperately needs a dazzling victory in the Soar to build up his prestige at home. Defeat to him would be a bitter pill. Indeed there is evidence that he would refuse to swallow it. That Hitler fears the slip betwixt the cup and the lip, is clearly in-
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dicated. Last year he proposed to France the immediate return of the j district without resorting to a j plebiscite. I -Renewed incitement to national passions,” he admitted, would accompany preparations for the vote. Once the Saar is returned to Germany, he said, "only a madman could believe in the possibility of war between the two states.” The corollary, of course, is that unless the Saar is returned to the Reich, war between Germany and France is possible. France, however, stood pat. She held that the Saar is now an interi national issue and out of her hands It is for the League and the Saar, not France, to decide by ballot who is to be sovereign there. In addition to technical and legalistic complexities, there are political ones galore. These are filled with even more dynamite than the others. Evidence uncovered by the governing commission reveals that the nazLs, niside and outside the Saar, are not shrinking from any methods to win the coming plebiscite. France definitely has said she will send troops into the valley at the first sign of trouble. This she will do it the behest of the League acting under the Treaty of Versailles. But if the League fails to ask for troops, in the event of a Nazi putsch, France almost certainly will act on her own. Germany has countered with similar moves. Berlin has informed Paris that if French troops enter the Saar, Germany will consider it a violation of the Treaties of Locarno. Excitement, therefore, is running high. Europe frankly is afraid. Far from having recovered from the last gory debauch, she feels it is almost too much to hope that this final war-born plebiscite will pass without more bloodshed. Yet, if and when it is safely past, poor, jittery old Europe will heave a prodigious sigh of relief . . . then start worrying afresh over some other sputtering pow’der-keg of which she will still have no lack.
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CITY MAN DIES IN AUTOCRASH Jewett Employe Will Be Buried in Kentucky; Others Hurt. Funeral services for Lee Messer, caretaker on the estate of ex-Mayor Charles W. Jewett, killed yesterday in a coll.sion between two automobiles at 13th-st and Fall Creekblvd, will be held in Stanford, Ky.,
at a time yet to be decided. Forty-six-years old, Mr. Messer was unmarried and lived at 62nd-st and Eagle Creek.
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Mr. Messer was driving a car which collided with one driven by John P. Ryker, 54, R. R. 14, Box 155-E. Mr. Ryker was injured. With Mr. Messer was William Stivers, 26, Negro, who was uninjured. Fighting for her life against a probable skull fracture and a brain concussion, Mrs. Albert Flick, 23, today was in City Hospital, another traffic victim. Mrs. Flick, who lives at 1415 Park-av. became confused in traffic Saturday night at Pennsylvaniaand Sixteenth-sts. and was struck by two automobiles. She was carrying a large, wellfilled market basket and leading Ronald, her 5-year-old son, when she stepped backward against the moving car of Lawrence Brannon. 27, Whitestown. Her basket was whirled from her hand and as she leaned forward to retrieve it, she
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Four hundred and fifty Indianapolis orphans today still were talking about the wonderful party that Loew's Palace theater and The Times gave them Saturday morning. The photograph shows some of the boys and girls arriving at the Palace theater in the Greyhound busses which carried them from the orphans' home to the theater. The main feature of the show was Eddie Cantor in “Kid Millions” which is now on view at Loew s Palace. HYGIENE SOCIETY TO HOLD SESSIONS HERE Indiana Mental Study Group to Meet in Lincoln. Nineteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene will be held Friday and Saturday in the Lincoln, it was announced today by President Donald Du Shane, Columbus (Ind.) schools superintendent. Among the principal speakers will be Dr. C. L. Williams, Logansport State Hospital superintendent; Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Indianapolis; Wayne Coy, Indiana Department of Public Welfare director; Dr. L. P. Harshman, Ft. Wayne State School assistant superintendent; Dr. Max A. Bahr, Central State Hospital superintendent, and others. was struck and run over by a car which did not stop. The driver of the second car is sought by police. Other injured in week-end accidents were George McCallister, 22, of 5021 Guilford-av, and his wife, Mrs. Drulla McCallister; Carl E. Huffman, 28. of 738 E. McCarty-st; Raymond Hill, 33, of 1127 N. New Jersey-st, and Miss Louise Ziegler, 22, of 269 N. Randolph-st.
3,000 BIRDS TO BE SHOWN HERE Poultry Exposition to Open Wedne.day at State Fairground. More than 3,000 standard bred and high production birds have been entered in the second annual Indianapolis poultry exposition opening Wednesday at the Indiana state fairground poultry building. Many nationally known poultry judges have been selected for the snow sponsored by the Greater Indiana Poultry and Pet Stock Association. Birds from virtually every state and several Canadiah provinces have been entered. Sixteen national and regional specialty clubs will participate in the exposition. On view daily will be demonstrations by the Purdue university poultry extension division. Indiana Farm Bureau, Indiana Veterinarian Medical Association and Standard Bred Poultry Association of America. Frank Conway, manager of the Overbrook farm in Brendenwood, is show superintendent. FOUR AUTOS STRIPPED Heaters, Radios Valued at 8170 Taken by Trieves. Mechanically-minded thieves entered a garage in the rear of an apartment at 3515 N. Pennsylvaniast yesterday and stripped two automobiles of water heaters and two other cars of radios. The total value of the loot was set at $l7O.
‘DIE-HARDS' IN 0.0. P. READY FOR SHOWDOWN Hilles Leads Group Asking 100 Per Cent Opposition to New Deal. Bit United Prt *a WASHINGTON, Dec. 3,-Old Guard Republicans will meet liberals unwilling to oppose the New Deal 100 per cent in a showdown fight early in 1935 at a meeting of the Republican National Committee, it was indicated today. The challenge for an "open forum” battle over the future policy of the Republican party appeared to have been issued today by Charles D. Hilles, New York National Committeeman and leader of the old line forces. Mr. Hilles made his attitude plain in a letter to fellow-Republican National committeemen made public here. He said National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher would call a full meeting of the National Committee early this winter to thrash out the situation. The meeting is expected in Januarv.
Stands Behind Fletcher At a time when liberal party members have been rallying strength for a thorough party reorganization Mr. Hilles. leader of the group which placed Mr. Fletcher in the national chairmanmship, revealed he was standing squarely behind the conservative position adopted by Mr. Fletcher in this year's election. "The only useful purpose to be served at present by the Republican party,” said Mr. Hilles. “as a political instrument is a resolute resistance to economic heresies and the offer of substitute proposals that are sound and constructive.” He characterized the Roosevelt Administration as a ‘‘revolutionary overthrow of normal American Government.” ‘‘The Republican party,” he said, "can not imitate the New Deal; can not vacillate between two opinions; can not stagger toward the left.” Ignores Party Split Regarding the election, he declared that "the people voted to continue proposals they know are wrong. A system of free government has been suppressed and a substitute has been erected on subsidies shamelessly supplied from the public treasury.” Mr. Hilles gave scant heed to third party suggestions or splits in the Republican party. He said even if some elements wished to form another party they were too diverse and the time was too short before the 1936 elections for effective organization. Mr. Hilles’ position showed certain divergences from that taken by Representative Bertrand Snell <R., N. Y.), minority House leader.
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FINANCE COMPANIES START CONVENTION 75 Firms Arc Represented at Sessions. Members *of the Hoosier Association of Finance Companies met today in the Hotel Lincoln for their ninth annual convention. Representatives of approximately 75 companies will attend. Today's session will be devoted to registration and entertainment. Speakers at the meeting tomorrow morning will include R. E. Meier,, Evansville, president; Verne Schuessler. Lafayette, secretary-treasurer; C. F. Cunningham, South Bend; Benjamin Friedman, Bureau of Motor Vehicles chief title clerk; Donald Jameson, Indianapolis, legislative committee chairman, and B. B. Bobbitt, Kokomo, membership committee chairman. New officers will be elected at the session tomorrow afternoon. Owen L. Coon, Detroit, and Dr. George W. Starr, Indiana University Busines’Research Bureau director, will speak at this session. POISON PROVES FATAL Mrs. Carrie Wilkins Dies at St. Vincent’s. Mrs. Carrie F. Wilkins died in St. Vincent’s Hospital last nigh ir poison police said she took with suicidal intent. She was 72 ana lived at 329 E. Fall Cre&k-blvd. The coroner w’ill hold an inquest j into the death.
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WOUNDED MAN. AID SOUGHT IN EMRICH HOLDUP Pair May Have Participated in Successful Robbery Week Before. A thug with a bullet wound in his cheek under his right eye was sought by police today as one of two men who attempted to hold up the Emnch Factory Furniture Store, 324 West Morris-st., Saturday nignt. The pair, also wanted by South Bend and Mishawaka police a* suspects in a series of holdups in those two cities, are believed to have fled south through Shelbyville. where a Plymouth coupe with one license plate, upside down, was discarded by two men who obtained a Red Cab there and proceeded. The men, who may have been two of the three armed bandits who obtained SBOO in a more successful raid Saturday, Nov. 24, came to grief in their attempt to obtain the day's receipts at the store when Harvey Emrich. 1709 N. Meridianst.. store vice-president, managed to slip through the rear door during the holdup and to circle the store while the men were taking $4 from the pockets of Harry Herman. R. R. 1. an employe. From the sidewalk in front of the store. Mr. Emrich opened fire with a .38-caliber- revolver he had taken from his desk. He shot thraugh the window three times, hitting one of the bandits with his third shot. The wounded man, bleeding profusely and cursing those in the store, staggered through the rear entrance, assisted by his unhurt companion. Police, called by store employes, followed a trail of bloodstains for a few yards, but these disappeared and they were unable to determine what path the robbers took in their flight in the city. In front of the store, police recovered an automobile, stolen in South Bend a short time ago, in which the robbers had a 12*gauge shotgun, several suit cases and brief cases containing men's and women's '-'nthing and a woman's handbag. T Pa license plates belonging on the car wee inside it and Illinois plates iiad replaced them. William F. Emrich, 520 Suther-!and-av. store secretary, and two other employes were present at the ime of the holdup.
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