Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1937 — Page 2
| is PROTESTS T0 APANESE
“OVER AIR ATTACK THREATS;
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World Advisory Bo Body to Ask |No Right to to Warm Envoys
Tokyo and Japan to Peace Session.
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To Leave Nanking,
Hull Declares.
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League of Nations aid Loyalist | boat Luzon, just as if the staff had Spain and China at once and ef-| remained in the embassy.
fectively. He spoke contemptuously of efforts to place the “aggressor” nations. The Russian foreign commissar shouted: “Between aggression and nonaggression, between peace ‘and war, there can be no synthesis . . . parrots in high places should be told that nonsense repeated day by day does not cease to be nonsense.” Litvinov’s reference to “parrot nonsense” was to the assertion of the totglitarian nations that they were perpetrating their aggressions under the slogan of anticommunism. “That slogan merely covers a yearning for tin, copper or trade advantages,” = Litvinov | said. “That slogan now has been extended to cover ‘similar regimes’ to Communistic ones in China and certain European countries. That must be
; stopped.
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“The League can afford both Spain and China more extensive aid than those countries are modestly asking.” League« Assembly today agreed to refer to its secretariat a Chilean demand that states not belonging to the League be consulted as to possible reform of the covenant, so that they might join. Litvinov in his speech criticised the Chilean proopsal, {but in Song SO said: |
Regrets America’ s| Absence
“None of us forgets for a moment and all of us| sincerely regret the absence from [the League of such a mighty power -as| the United States, . . . “Yet I should consider it discourteous to suggest that the United
- States is ready to become a member
of the League, but are awaiting only our inquiry and invitation so as not to take the first step themselves. “A great state which knows its own powers cannot be guided by such petty considerations of prestige. I am sure that if the United States
- Government thought it possible to
* join the League on any particular
conditions it would not await our inquiry and invitation and would find a way herself to let us know there can be no other attitude on this question on the part of any great state which holds dear the interests o peace and international co-opera-ion.”
Zero Hour Fis For Nanking Attack
NANKING, China, Sept. 21 (U. P.) —Hundreds of thousands of Chinese watched a gray sky today and listened for the drone of airplane motors, awaiting the destruction of their capital and their homes by a Japanese air armada. Noon was the deadline, after which at any hour massed Japanese war planes might appear, in keeping with the formal warning of the Japanese high command, to. rain bombs on the city until it was crumbled back into the dust on which—ruins of older cities—it was built nearly 600 years ago. The zero hour passed without event. Antiaircraft gunners stood ready at the guns mounted hur-
riedly in the hills surrounding the:
city. Occasionally, a Chinese plane
circled high over the city, on pa-
5 trol, its pilot ready to challenge the
of Japanese planes
_. gigantic death fleet that was ex-
pected, American Embassy | officials fled to the safety of the gunboat Luzon intending to steam up| the river beyond the 12-mile radius of the area the Japanese selected for their visitation. As the American Embassy staff, under Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, sheltered aboard the little river gunboat Luzon, 17 other Americans, including members of the United - Press staff, began moving to the ' embassy expecting to remain for the duration of the emergency.
Heavy Rains Ground
Japanese Planes |
SHANGHAI Sept. 21 (U. P)— Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little, commander-in-chief of the British fleet, has warned the Japanese high command that the British embassy and British warships wiil stay at Nanking despite Japanese threats to destroy the city, it was understood today. Admiral Little sent Bs warning to Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander-in-chief of Japanese naval forces, who had warned foreigners, and Chinese noncombatants, to get out of the capital, it was said. A Japanese spokesman hinted, soon afterward, that the death raids on Nanking might be postponed because foreigners had not been given sufficient time to flee. But heavy rains in the Shanghai area, whence most Japanese raiding planes would go, gave hope anyway of respite for the city, apparently doomed to destruction. The rain was so severe that it seemed the massed air raids: on Nanking must be postponed. A Japanese Navy spokesman, however, warned that the raid might come at any hour.
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The United States today tightened: | rear upon Japan {6 compel her | to quit the highroad of war, to fulfill her treaty pledges and to observe the usages of international law which she is widely accused of violating. The action was taken in separate but simultaneous steps on widely separated fronts. In Geneva, American Ambassador to Switzerland Leland Harrison was instructed by the State Department to participate as a nonvoting official observer in the meeting of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Far Eastern Affairs. In Washington, Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito was reminded that this Government is watching closely every development in Japan’s undeclared war on China and that serious threats to American nationals resulting from that war will not pass unchalleriged by the State Department.
Evacuates Embassy
In Nanking, under threat of immediate and complete annihilation by mass attack of Japanese war planes, American Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson temporarily evacuated the American embassy as a precautionary move to assure the safety of the lives of his staff. He made-it clear that abandonment of the embassy was due entirely to threat of destruction from Japanese attack. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, com-mander-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, formally advised the Admiral in command of Japanese Naval forces in the Shanghai area that the United States has naval vessels stationed in the Yangtze River adjacent to Nanking, and warned that Japanese airplanes must not attack or damage these ships. . Although neither Ambassador Saito nor State Department officials would comment on Ambassador Saito’s call at the Department late yesterday, it was generally believed that Acting Secretary of State Moore warned Ambassador Saito just how seriously this Government regards the Japanese threat to bomb the Chinese capital “off the map.” State Department officials approved the action of Ambassador Johnson in evacuating his embassy at Nanking, and his taking American nationals who cared to go along, on board the U. S. Gunboat Luzon.
Britain Makes Protest To Tokyo
LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—The British Government today made representations to Japan regarding its threat to send a massed fleet of airplanes to destroy Nanking, capital of China. The representations were made to the Japanese foreign office through Sir Robert Craigie, new ambassador at Tokyo. The Government, it was said, reserved its right to hold the Japanese Government responsible for any damage to British lives or property.
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with each other that they have shown in conferences with employers, an agreement could be reached which would bring unity to their movement. : Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Department of Public WelTare Director, also spoke. He declared the cost of maintaining needy aged, blind and their dependent children in their own homes is. less than it formerly cost to maintain them in State institutions. Mr. Gottschalk said only 20 per cent of the total costs of aged assistance is borne by counties and raised by taxation on real property. Counties pay no share of blind assistance costs, he said, and only about 26 per ‘cent of the costs of aiding dependent children. William Green, American Federation of Labor president, is to speak at one of the convention sessions. Craft union affiliates of the federation met yesterday and drew up three resolutions for presentation to the convention. One would urge the Legislature to transfer the insurance risk on workmen’s compensation to the State in order to relieve employers of the burden. A second would ask for wider use of Indiana limestone on Federal projects. Another would ask for an “adequate apprenticeship” clause to be included in all bargaining agreements.
TEACHERS TO EARN MORE PAY IN QUEBEC
. QUEBEC, Quebec, Sept.21 (U.P.). —The Quebec Government will spend $400,000 a year to improve conditions among the province's paarly paid rural school teachers.
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HULL MAY CALL ARMS MEETING
Duce’s Limitation Plan Found to Coincide With America’s.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The United. States may yet take the initiative to bring about world arms limitation along the lines proposed by Premier Mussolini of Italy last May. Secretary of State Hull frankly regards the situation as “ominous.” Convinced that disaster lies ahead unless the armaments race can be halted, he has sent blanket instructions to American envoys abroad never to lose any opportunity to stress this country’s views on the subject. The Secretary sees only three possible ends to the present mad competition. One is to end it by international agreement. The second is national exhaustion. The third is catastrophic war. If and when a promising opportunity comes to bring about a halt by agreement, foreign governments are being informed, the United States hopes it will be able to share in the leadership of the move.
Secretary Hull's views coincide with those of the Italian premier. Last May, Il Duce toid this writer that Europe and the world must soon find some sane means of putting a stop to the frenzied arms contest or else be prepared for a crisis of unprecedented gravity. The crisis might descend on the world from either one of two directions, he said. It could take a political turn and lead vo war. Or it might assume an economic g¢haracter. Eventually rearmament would have to stop if only as a result of national exhaustion. Whereupon unemployment and associated evils weuld plunge the world into
the depression from which it is now emerging. The alternative to disaster, the Duce warned, is an early agreement among the leading powers to end the race. And he suggested President Roosevelt as the best man to take the initiative. All would accept an invitation from Roosevelt, he said. They would have to. “None of the nations can long
| keep up the pace they are going
now,” he stated bluntly, “and they know it. To do so would mean to wind up in economic collapse with armies of jobless, perhaps in revolt —nobody can foresee what.”
Two Factors Cause Delay
Two things, however, make it advisable to postpone action for the time being. One is the Sino-Jap-anese war. Japan will hardly join in an arms limitation move as long as she has the Chinese conflict on her hands. And if Japan will not limit her armaments, Russia will not limit hers. And so on. The second obstacie "is Great Britain. Britain takes the position —and observers are inclined to agree with her—that the present topsyturvy situation in Europe is largely due to her: weakness following the World War. Thus, until she completes her $7,500,000,000 rearmament program, she will look on limitation with disfavor. The Mussolini plan however takes such cases as Britain’s into consideration. The Duce does not propose disarmament. He does not even suggest reduction. He admits both are outside the realm of practical politics at the present time. What
for the future. Suggests Fixation Plan
That is to say, he suggests the fixation ‘of programs. While certain. nations, like Britain, may be unwilling to halt arms manufacture at once, no nation should object to the immediate limitation of its
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Rockwell Kent Offers to Change Much-Disputed
Capital Mural],
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—Rockwell Kent offered today to revise his mural in the postoffice building “absolutely free of charge” to satisfy the Puertb Ricans who protested its “message of good-will.” The painter and liberal author said in a letfer to the United Press he is willing to paint into the mural the President of the Puerto Rican
Senate tearing up a message in obscure Eskimo dialect which bid the people of the island to throw off American rule.
Answering complaints that the recipients of the message on the mural were “half-naked African bushmen,” Mr. Kent offered to add portraits of members of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives. The mural depicted the delivery of a letter from the Arctic regions to the tropics. There was a tumult among Washington officials when Vilhjalmur Stefansson, veteran Arctic explorer, translated the microscopically printed Kuskokwin dialect: “To the people of Puerto Rico, our friends! Let us change chiefs. That alone can make us equal and free.”
Message of Good Will
“That is merely the American message of good-will to a people in its aspiration for freedom,” Mr. Kent said in announcing his willingness to change the mural. “©f course, the time may come, even in America, as it has already come in Fascist Italy and Germany, when such a message or such aspirations in a people would be treason. “Thank God it hasn’t come yet!” Mr. Kent recognized the complaint of Puerto Ricans that his painting showed only one white man whereas most of the people of Puerto Rico are not Negroes. “I am not ane to stand upon what are called ‘artists’ rights’,” he said. “I would like te please my public. “Although my decorations as they now appear in Washington were made in faithful adherence to the sketches approved by the Treasury Department, I will, with the Treasury Department’s approval, paint in an adequate number of assorted members of the Camara De Representantes. I'll guarantee to make these portraits so that nobody can mistake them, and I'll do the whole thing absolutely free of charge.”
program—with the accent on the program. If the present competition is not to lead inevitably to economic collapse of war, the Duce holds, an agreement not to exceed certain definite limits should be reached by the powers as soon as possible. Such an agreement would eliminate the competitive, or most dangerous, element. If and when the European and Far Eastern imbroglios reach something like a truce, the chance for arms limitation along some such lines as these may be at hand. For never have world statesmen been so frightened, and seldom have so many been in agreement that early action is imperative if the world is to be saved from disaster.
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WILKINS’ PLANE FORGED DOWN
Explorer Breaks Silence of 33 Hours, Missing Hunt for Fliers.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 21 (U. P.) —Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer, and the crew of his flying boat who are searching the Arctic for the six lost Russian fliers, reported by radio today that they were safe on a lake near Aklavik, N. W. T. They had been unreported for 33 hours.
The message said Wilkins’ plane was forced down late Sunday by bad weather that is extending over the Far North as another winter sets in. Wilkins said he had trouble finding a landing place, and when he did find a suitable small lake in the Mackenzie River Delta, he and the four men of his crew were so tired they went to sleep without reporting their whereabouts.
They had been expected at Aklavik and Capt. W. R. May, Canadian Airways official, was preparing to organize a searching party to look for them. The message today was received here by A. A. Vartarian, Soviet agent who was in charge of arrangements for his countrymen’s illfated flight.
Nearly six weeks had passed without a trace of Sigismund Levanevsky, the so-called “Lindbergh of Russia” and his five companions who set out from Moscow Aug. 12 bound over the North Pole for the United States. Their iast radio message was sent two hours after they crossed the pole, when they were flying blindly through a storm.
FRIENDS PASTORS OPEN YEARLY MEET
Times Special
RICHMOND, Sept. 21.—Indic: a,
Friends Church pastors were arriving here today for the 117th Yearly Meeting in the First Friends Church. Sessions were to continue through Sunday. The opening day’s program was to concern problems of ministry and oversight.
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POLICE CHECK DRIVING HABITS OF MOTORISTS
‘Guinea Pig’ Traffic Survey Established by State On Road 67.
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was driving south on Broadway at 25th St. when his car collided with one driven by Cecilia Russell, 26, of 1423 E. 25th St. Mr. Breedlove’s car turned over and hit one parked in front of 2464 Broadway, police said. Mr. Breedlove, his son, William, 14, and Raymond Hinshaw, 27, 2612 Central, riding in the Breedlove car, were hurt, none seriously. Miss Russell and Robert Russell, 16, of 2602 Indianapolis Ave. also were injured slightly. Rudell Apple, 25, of Lebanon, was treated at City Hospital for injuries
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PF, F. Glazer, 43, of 1528 N. Grant St. reported to police last night, that while driving north on Grant St., he swerved to the right side of the street to avoid children playing in the street. He said a metal binder post near the curb broke his windshield and cut his face and hands. Police later cut off the binder post. Lewis Garber, 40, R. R. 7, told deputy sheriffs that Normall Jones, 29, R. R. 17, failed to slow down when he saw his cow in the road and struck her. Jones was arrested on charges of reckless driving.
Woman Injured in Crash
Rosie Sockley, 45, of 840 W. 27th escaped with minor injuries when pinned underneath her car after a collision today at 49th St. and Broadway. She was taken to City Hospital. James G. Vaughn, 40, of 813 E. 49th St., driver of the second car, was unhurt.
Traffic Fines Double
Income of Court
Municipal Court 4 attaches today predicted that the amount of traffic fines would increase the total of all fines assessed in that court during the third quarter to approximately $16,000, or double the amount assessed during any third quarter in the last seven years.
Judge Pro Tem. Bess Robbins today ordered erring motorists to pay a total of $128 in fines and costs, while she suspended $116.
The predominate offense was running preferential streets. Twelve drivers were fined a total of $66 onthat charge. Four speeders were fined a total of $51,
10 Hurt in Traffic
Ten persons were injured in traffic accidents here today and, last night. Richard Dockens, 42, of 2730 Wood St., was injured on the head when his auto overturned after a collision with another driven by Rexford Cornell, 32, of 321 Brookside Parkway, at 28th St. and Chester Ave. Mrs. Nettie Harvey, 57, R. R. 17, Box 201, was injured today when struck by an automobile driven by Albert Honnocker, 38, of 529 S. Keystone Ave., at Meridian and Washington Sts. She was taken to City Hospital. Police said the driver was not at fault. Sergt. Joseph Gibbons, Municipal Court 4 bailiff, acted as his own attorney in his owns courtroom today and won acquittal on a charge of disobeying an officer’s traffic signal.
He was arrested yesterday after-
21 (U.
WASHINGTON, Sept. P.).—Osgood Perkins, well known Broadway actor, died here early today a few hours after the opening performance of a new play,
“Susan and God.” He was 45 years old. Death was due apparently to a heart attack.
noon by Traffic Officer Gerald Haugh after Sergt. Gibbons’ car figured in a collision with another driven by William C. Cooke, 24, of 2915 Jackson St. at Alabama and Market Sts. Sergt. Gibbons questioned the arresting officer on which ear crashed into the other. The officer, who said he had reported that the bailiff’s car hit the other, testified that he was in doubt on the point. “If the officer is in doubt as to which car hit which,” said Sergt. Gibbons, “then he's in doubt about the signal he gave. I move that the defendant be dismissed.” Judge Pro Tem. Robbins sajd she didn’t know which officer to believe and sustained the motion.
Three Die in Car-Truck
Crash at Numa
CLINTON, Ind. Sept. 21 (U. P). —Three persons were killed, two instantly, in an automobile-truck collision near Numa, Ind. a few miies south of here last night. The dead are: John Ullo, 50, Clinton, and William Picatti, 21, and his wife, Evelyn, 20, also of Clinton. - The accident reportedly occurred when a heavy semitrailer truck driven by Mural French, Evansville, swerved to the wrong side of the highway to avoid a crash with a stalled bus. In swinging out to pass the bus, the truck collided with the Clinton car.
Lafayette Resident Named For Traffic Study
Robert F. Royster, 21, Lafayette, today was named among 15 men to receive fellowships for a years’ graduate study on traffic and highway subjects at the bureau for Street Traffic Research of Harvard University. : Mr. Royster, a graduate of Pur-
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SEEK NEW PLAN FOR ORDINANGE T0 ZONE SMOKE
City Officials Start Fresh Attack After Council Kills Measure.
A new plan of attack in the city's campaign against. smoke was sought by city officials today after a pro-
| posed ordinance, strengthening pres-
ent regulations, had been killed by action of the City Council last night. The proposed measure would have divided the city into “smoke zones” and set up a density scale for judge ing smoke volume. William A. Oren, Judiciary Com-=-niittee chairman, reported the bill unfavorably and recommended that it be stricken from the files. “We have studied this bill and see no reason why it should pass,” Mr.
Oren said. “We feel the present smoke ordinance is sufficient and that further restrictions would
hinder industry.” G. O. P. Oppose Transfer
No discussion followed Mr. Oren’s report and the Council was unanimous in striking it from the files. A bill which would require dog owners to certify that their ani mals had been vaccinated before they would be granted licenses, was introduced. It will be considered at the next meeting. *
The Council authorized a transfer -
of police funds to help defray cost of opgraiing the police teletype syse
i 0 A. Schumacher, Mr. Oren and Edward B. Kealing, Republican members, opposed the transfer. The Council limited parking on both sides of Audubon Road from Washington St. to Audubon Place
and banned left turns at 16th and °
Illinois Sts. and at Noble and Wash ington Sts. Action on other proposed ordie nances was deferred.
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3-Way Car Smashup Ends in Fatality
HUNTINGTON, Ind., Sept. 21 (U, P.) —Seven hours after being injured seriously in an automobile crash near Lagro yesterday, Jacob Wintrode, 63, died at his home in Andrews last night. Mr. wintrode’s car was strack by one driven by Lucien Clarke, Detroit, Mich. The accident occurred at U. S. Highway 24. Another car driven by a member of the Clarke party plowed into the wreckage.
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