Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1937 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

EUROPE AFRAID T0 GO TO WAR, SURVEY SHOWS

Continent All Armed, But No Nation Feels It Is Ready to Fight.

By WEBB MILLER (Copyright, 1937. by United Press) LONDON, April 14--After a month spent in visiting the feverishly rearming capitals on the continent I am convinced that the nations of Europe are literally afraid to go to war. ; Large and small they $7,000,000,000 this year in the race to rearm. But they are afraid to agit They don't dare td risk it—

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Fear of war is the cause of the armaments race. I saw nations wuilding up their armies, their navies, their air forces—fear driving them on in the greatest arms race in history. The threat of war is ever present. It is in the air. And the defensive forces are piling higher and higher. Someday they must fall—but the

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threat of immediate war seems slight. None will start it. i

Continent Under Arms

I found that Europe has 5,000,000 men actually under arms seven days a week—a tremendous fighting force. There are 36,000,000 more who have - had military training. In addition, Europe has millions of children who soon will reach military service age. Yet I returned to London after my flight to the military capitals convinced that the outbreak of a major war in Europe is further away now than it has been in several years past. I reached that conclusion after visiting France, Germany, Italy, Soviet Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and of course England where I live. In both the political and military domains confusion and doubts are-so serious that to start a war anywhere ig a risky gamble at present. One British cxpert put it this way: { “To launch a war nowadays is like backing a horse that has never | run and whose breeding even is unknown.” | . The military expert is Capt. Liddell Hart. His comment aptly describes the plight of the European nations. It|is an attitude which probably will go far toward restraining headstrong leaders and deferring the |cataclysm of a major | European conflict. War Is Opposed Another vital factor is perhaps the more important fact of Great Britain's immense rearmament, which is certain to exercise a retarding influence upon the next great war. She wants no war. Others include the certainties that France is intent only upon maintaining the status quo, And Soviet Russia wants no war because she is fully occupied with the development of her internal economy. Germany cannot reach the height | of her military power before 1940. | Italy is absorbed in the military pacification and financial exploitation of Ethiopia. She wants no war yet. Great Britain is glutted with territory. She has everything she wants and knows she cannot rely on military aid from the Empire unless she is invaded. Strongly rearmed, she will ‘throw her weight increasingly and heavily against war anywhere. Furthermore, none of the political leaders is able to foresee exactly how the powers will align themselves in the event of war. None can place reliance upon the system of alliances. Repeated violations of treaties has sapped almost all confidence in written instruments,

Military Theory in Chaos

In the military sphere the array of uncertainties is even more formidable with the advent of modern war in three dimensions—land, sea and the air. In the theoretical domain, military science| is in a state resembling chaos. General staffs are trying to fit the new 300-miles an hour airplane technique upon the old-style three-mile-an-hour speed of conscript armies The development of speed has shaken military technique to its foundations. The possibilities of transporting entire armies with guns and munitions at 30 to 40 miles an hour, and great air offensives at 200 to 300 miles and hour have upset all previous military conceptions. The efficacy of such new weapons as airplanes, tanks and gases and the defense agaihst them is largely an unknown factor under presentday conditions. The impossibility of preventing air invasions on a large scale has introduced a totally new factor upon which the World War and the later Ethiopian and Spanish conflict have thrown. no appreciable light. The drastic policy of secrecy possible under dictatorships is carried to an extent never before known. Dictators control communications and the press so rigidly that they _ might even conceal the fact that their countries are engaged in a war. sad 2 Another uncertainty is provided by the potential war power of the totalitarian (Fascist) nations, where the entire country| constitutes ga yreat war-power plant. Terrorism New Technique

The effect of and defenses against terror among civilians under gas and aerial bombings—a new development of warfare aimed at the destruction of the enemy’s civilian nerve—-i§ yet another uncertain factor.

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| spiritualist program at night. day afternoon.

by a WPA orchestra direction of William Grueling. Victoria Barnes is to deliver principal address. services and an address are scheduled for Sunday. is to close Sunday night.

SAW FATHER ONCE,

By United Press

time silent movie actress who saw | her father only once after her sixth | birthday was sole heir to his $25,000 estate today.

Mrs. Kirby, 38, of Los Angeles was “the daughter and only next of kin” of Warren C. Bartlett, shoe manufacturer who died May.

letters previously listing a niece, Mrs. Ethel W. Trott of Lynn, and a nephew, Fred W. Comerford of Detroit, Mich., as heirs.

Hawks’ Mystery Plane Appears

Frank Hawks’ new mygtery plane may do great things, its pilot be-

lieves.

Hawks declares he%ias already reached 368 miles an hour in his

new stream-lined monoplane, pictured here over New York (with the

Empire State Building in background).

He plans to attack the werld's

land speed record of 352 miles an hour and the transcontinental mark of T hours, 25 minutes, 28 ‘seconds, both held by Howard Hughes.

STATE SPRITUALISTS| TO CONVENE FRIDAY

Delegates From 28 Churches Expected at Severin.

Delegates from 28 churches are to convene in the Hotel Severin Friday for the 33d annual meeting of the Indiana State Associations of Spiritualists. An address by Dr. B. F. Clark, Indianapolis, association president, is to feature the opening session? Committee reports are scheduled for the afternoon and a musical and

Officers ar: to be elected SaturA musical program is to be presented Saturday night under the Dr. the

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SALEM, Mass., April 14.—A one- |

A Probate Court judge found that Gertrude (Beatrice Bartlett)

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Judge Harry R. Dow of administrations

BREAD AND WATER FOR PRISON ‘SITTERS’

Ly United Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 14.— Twenty-one convicts, conducting a sit-down strike at a state prison camp near Jasper, must remain on a bread and water diet until they ‘“repent” and agree to resume work, Agricultural Commissioner Mayo said today. The convicts struck because they wanted a camp officer removed. Mayo said as soon as the convicts “repent” they will be scattered about in other camps. State Controller Lee remarked “it seems like that would be sowing the seeds of sit-downs.”

DEFENSE IS TO OPEN IN STANSBERRY TRIAL

Daughter of Slain Widow Testifies on Shooting.

By United Press KOKOMO, April 14.—Defense testimony was to start today in the trial of Roy Stansberry, Logansport automobile salesman, charged with the murder last September of Mrs. Ruth Klooz, 42-year-old widow.. Stansberry’s attorneys were uncertain whether he would take the stand to defend himself. The State rested its case late yesterday after Mary Katherine Kloogz, 16-year-old daughter of the slain woman, testified that Stansberry shot her mother. Three other witnesses earlier related that they had heard Stansberry threatened to kill Mrs. Klooz. The State charges he was infuriatéed when Mrs. Klooz' affections for him ccoled. Defense attorneys said Stansberry intended to commit suicide before Mrs. Klooz, and that she was accidentally shot in the struggle to prevent him.

PEACE COUNCIL MAPS AIMS IN LETTERTOF.D.R

Co-operation of U. S. With! League of Nations Recommended.

A letter citing the eight objectives of the Midwest Council of International Relations in urging world peace was sent to President Roosevelt today by Dr. E. J. Unruh, Indianapolis, director. Dr. Unruh said the council's educational program is based on the realization that ‘‘the peace, security and prosperity of individual nations and their peoples may best be promoted through better and closer international co-operation.”. :

Objectives Listed

The following principles were recommended ‘as the minimum basis for the fulfillment of the United States’ responsibility as a member of the international community”: 1. Official co-operation of the United States with the League of Nations. IR - 2. Economic equality of treatment to provide freer access to raw materials, removing of excessive trade restrictions and - currency stabilization. 3. Arresting of the continuous growth of world armaments with ultimate material reductions of armaments by international agreement. 4. Extending of the ‘‘good neighbor” policy to all nations to aid in restoration of international confidence. 5. Settlement of international disputes by use of a permanent court of international justice and

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6. The full use of the council's membership in the international

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CONVENTION SPEAKER NAMED Ray Baughman, Indianapolis, has | been selected as one of the speakers at the 14th annual coal convention

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Sectional | meetings, election of officers, and a medical and nursing | session today were to close the Indiana Tuberculosis Association conference in the Hotel Lincoln. “A Program of Rehabilitation for Tuberculars” is to. be outlined by Holland Hudson, social service director of the Hamilton County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Cincinnati. at the final session. Association nurses were to hold a luncheon meeting. Addressing a joint meeting of the association and the Indianapolis | Medical Society last night, Dr. Al-| fred Friedlander, University of Gincinnati College of Medicine dean. said tuberculosis takes four times as many lives in the United States annually as automobile accidents. “The disease takes 150,000 yearly,” Dr. Friedlander said. It attacks all ages. Early treatment Rs crease chance of a cure. Other speakers yesterday were Frank Stafford, Bureau of Health Education, State Health Board, -and

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7. Rigorous observance of the] Paris Pact! and increased recognition of the sanctity of treaties.

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