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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 263

CLIPPE FOUND

WRECKAGE IN PACIFIC,

U. S. NAVY REPORTS

Airline Aids Say Craft May Have Exploded.

BULLETIN PAGO PAGO, American Samoa. Jan. 12 (U. P.).— The Navy reported today that wreckage of the Samoan Clipper had been found 14 miles northwest of this island harbor. There was no indications, according to Navy advices, as to the fate of Capt. Edwin C. Musick and the six other members of the crew,

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PAGO PAGO, Tutuila Island, Samoa, Jan. 12 (U. P.). —The ancient Mine Sweeper Avocet and its lone airplane searched the Pacific Ocean south of here today for the giant Samoa Clipper, missing more than 20 hours with

seven men aboard. Officers of the Avocet believed that all water where the Clipper might have settled safely will have been covered by nightfall. : At 4:17 a. m. today Samoan Time (10:17 a. m. Indianapolis Time) the Avocet radioed: “Searching area between Tutuila and Opolu. Search by plane will be resumed in morning.” The flying boat was commanded by Capt. Edwin C. Musick, one of the greatest aerial trail blazers of modern times, and carried a crew of six. There were no passengers aboard. The plane had been carrying air express on the last lap of a new route between the United States and New Zealand when it vanished. At 5:37 a. m. yesterday, Samoan

time (11:37 a. m. Indianapolis Time) |

the Clipper left Pago Pago. About 38 minutes later, Capt. Musick reported that one of the four motors had developed an oil leak and he was returning to Pago Pago. The Clipper's radio signals continued until 8:27 a. m. Then they ceased abruptly. Reports that oil spots were sighted on the water 12 miles from the island were said to be “so vague as to not be admissible as clues.” Authorities here agreed that the plane must have been forced down to the south. It was believed that it had alighted not more than 30 miles from shore. Men at Pan-American Airways base here said they feared the plane had sunk in the sea. They believed it might have exploded when Capt. Musick dumped gasoline to gain more speed or altitude. Two Radio Sets Aboard

In two years of Pacific flying, no Clipper before had been in serious difficulty. The scene of this mishap was more than 6000 miles west of the coast of South America, below the equator. An unconfirmed report that the Clipper had beeh sighted floating in the sea last night raised hopes for a brief time. The Clipper, which had two radio sets, was believed to be down on the north side of Tutuila Island. It was considered significant that nothing had been heard even by the emergency radio transmitter. Tutuila Island is 17 miles long and five miles wide. It was assumed that unless some trace of the Clipper was found immediately, other ships and planes would come here to aid in the search. There was a possibility that the craft was adrift, or had found a haven on some remote little island.

One of Newer Ships

The plane was one of the newer Pan-American flying boats, and was regarded as a flying laboratory. It was a Sikorsky monoplane, with four motors, each generating 800horse power. With a sharp bow and a deep V-bottomed hull, it was particularly adapted to land and rising from the sea. It could carry 22' tons of cargo 163 miles an hour for 3500 miles without stopping. The wing spread was 118 feet, the hull 66 feet long and divided inte seven compartments, each an independent bulkhead section. Any tw oof them could keep the entire plane afloat.

10 Crash Victims Taken

From Montana Canyon BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 12 (U. P)). ~The bodies of 10 men who died in the Northwest Airliner crash in Bridger Canyon Monday were held in a mortuary here today pending an inquest. Wrapped in tarpaulins, the bodies were taken out of the rugged mountain area last night on sleds to a nearby ranch, and brought here on

trucks. RAPS RATE SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P). Interstate Commerce Commission Examiner Chester E. Stiles today recommended suspension of proposed increased railroad freight rates on carload shipments of fresh meat from Towa and southern Minnesota packing: centers to Indiana and Illinois markets,

Capt. Edwin C. Musick

RUSSIA FORCES NEW JAP POLICY

Peace Hopes Reported; China Masses Army in Suchow Area.

| WASHINGTON—Japanese Imperial Conference forced by fear of Russia's waiting policy, expert says. “Mild” peace terms rumored.

| TOKYO—Conference decision may | be made public Friday.

| SHANGHAT—China reported stak- | ing all on Suchow battle.

| LONDON—Great Britain to build | air fleet larger than combined Italian, German and Japanese forces,

| HENDAYE—Rebels confirm reports of Loyalist gains at Teruel.

ROME—Ethiopia stands in way of Italo-American trade pact.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U, P.) .— Japan has the jitters. Every day the war in China is weakening her by just that much. She is playing into the hands of a watching and waiting Russia and she knows it. That is why yesterday, for the first time in 23 years, Emperor Hirohito met with his civil and war lords to talk things over. At least a million men today face each other across the Amur and the Ussuri Rivers and along the frontier between Manchukuo and | Outer Mongolia. An average of four troop-trains daily are reported | to be rolling northward from Dairen. ! Other Japanese troops are massed in Korea. Every day Russian trains loaded with soldiers and munitions are moving eastward along the Trans-Siberian, while a second line .of defense is in preparation astride the strategic railway newly completed north of Lake Baikal. Posed in the maritime province of Siberia are large numbers of Red bombers, with Tokyo hardly more than 700 miles away. Each plane has a range of some 3000 miles, it is said, or nearly double the distance from Vladivostok to Japan's (Turn to Page Three)

NEW SOVIET COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST SESSION

MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (U. P.).—The Soviet Union ushered in a new phase of its regime today when the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet, elected a month ago in the first secret election, convened in the grand palace of the Kremlin. Josef Stalin walked into St. Andrews Hall, the throne room where the Tsars once sat. Me received an eight-minute ovation. As one of their first official acts, the Council elected as its president, Andrei Andreyev, Commissar of Railroads and a member of the Central Executive Committee.

— INSIDE THE C. 1.0. Communist Infiltrators Turn From A.F. L to C1. O, Says Labor Writer

F.D.R CALLS PARLEY OF 50 BUSNESSHE

Advisory Council Members To Meet With President On Jan. 19.

NEW DEAL AIM BACKED

|Industrialists Tell Roosevelt

His Policies Often Miss Goals.

(Editorial, Page 12)

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P). --Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced today that 50 of the nation's outstanding business leaders will meet with President Roosevelt, Jan. 19, to discuss co-op-erative efforts toward economic recovery. Secretary Roper's announcement followed a White House discussion late yesterday at which economic conditions and business-government co-operation were discussed by the President with five top industrialists, headed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. General Motors Corp. chairman. Donald R. Richberg, one-time NRA Administrator, participated in the discussion. The businessmen invited to the

tually the entire personnel of the Business Advisory Council, a quésigovernmental group. President Roosevelt surprised the capital yesterday by his sudden conference with Mr. Sloan; Ernest T. Weir, National Steel Corp. chairman; M. W. Clement, Pennsylvania Railroad president; Lewis Brown, Johns-Manville Co. president, and Coly M. Chester, General Foods Corp. chairman, No Details Published Mr. Sloan was their spokesman. They foresaw a greater degree of understanding and co-operation between business and Government. Mr, Sloan and Mr. Weir told questioners business was better. The White House left the public groping, however, for details of the conference. The United Press was informed on excellent authority that the White House conference had made a good start toward working out conflicts between business and governmental attempts to reach some substantially identical objectives. There was frank discussion for an hour and a half, in which the industrialists are believed to have convinced Mr. Roosevelt that they came in a helpful mood and with some general ideas for improving business conditions. Raise Objection

There was a feeling in the conference that the current recession is largely psychological but that it has been aggravated by apparent conflicts between business and Government. The conferences canvassed the projects undertaken or contemplated by the Administration and raised with Mr. Roosevelt this objection: “Some of those projects have desirable objectives but in our judgment are not doing the job. Under those circumstances, what is Government doing that it does not really intend to do?” Mr. Roosevelt explained his general philosophy and attitude and it is understood the industrialists made no major complaint against those objectives.

Col. Knox Demands ‘Positive’ Program

| CLEVELAND, Jan. 12 (U. P.) —Col | Frank Knox, 1936 Republican Vice Presidential candidate, warned today that unless the Republican Party took a “positive” role in national affairs again “its services is ended and the party will die.” In a nationally broadcast speech | last night, he urged a platform in- | cluding a “liberalized” tariff policy | and changes in the Wagner Labor | Relations Act. QUAKE ROCKS JAPAN TOKYO, Jan. 12 (U. P)-A severe earthquake shook western Japan for 15 minutes today. While no less of life was reported, prop- | erty damage was heavy.

Jan. 19 conference represented vir- |

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1938

Denies She Wed

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 (U. P). -—~Miss Marjorie Weaver, former Indiana University coed who made good in the movies, said today that she wished folks would stop asking her whether she's married to Midshipman Henson Schacht. “It's embarrassing,” she said. “He doesn’t graduate from Annapolis until June.” Miss Weaver said there was no truth in rumors she had flown to Goshen, Ind., in October to marry Midshipman Schacht.

CARTHAGE MAN NEW CORN KING

Clarence Dyer Takes Grand Sweepstakes at Purdue Conference.

LAFAYETTE, Jan. 12 (U. P)). —Clarence Dyer of Carthage, Rush County, today was crowned Indiana corn king at the annual Purdue agricultural conference when he won the grand sweepstakes with his 10ear sample of Reid yellow dent corn. Mr. Dyer also won the yellow corn

sweepstakes and the title in Section Three of the state. R. L. Heilman of Hope, Bartholomew County, won the reserve sweepstakes with his 10-ear exhibit of Johnson County white corn. Previously he had won the white cofn sweepstakes and was adjudged winner of the state's Section Four. Ora Ross of Shellyville won the single ear grand Sweepstakes with an exhibit of Reid yellow dent. The reserve single «ar championship went to Howard Christman of Madison with his exhibit of Johnson County white corn. George M. Kirkpatrick of Wingate won the midseason sweepstakes with an exhibition of golden dent corn. Carl B. Fritsche of Grosse Pointe, Mich., in a speech earlier said today the “real solution to the agricultural dilemma must come through increased demands for farm products.”

NEW AGREEMENT ON MILK TO BE SOUGHT

Distributors and Drivers Confer Tomorrow.

Representatives of milk distributors and the drivers’ union are to open negotiations tomorrow for an agreement, following expiration of the temporary memorandum which ended the October milk delivery tieup here. Arthur Viat, Assistant State Lahor Commissioner, said there apparently was no deadlock as employers had expressed their willingness to continue ' negotiations. He said that the State Labor Department and Milk Administrator will not participate unless a deadlock occurs. Mr. Viat conferred separately today with C. Winfield Hunt, Indianapolis Milk Council secretary, representing distributors, and Leslie Dobbs, secretary and business ‘agent of the Milk and Yee Cream Drivers, Salesmen and Employees’ Union 774.

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because of their political beliefs.

must see just what they want terms of their program.

Editor's Note: This is the third of 12 articles by Mr. Stolberg, long an authority on American labor history both past and current. Today he points out that radicalism is inevitable in any labor upsurge, and at the same time asserts that Moscow-dictated policies are essentially reactionary and are imperiling the newer C. 1. O.

are his own, not those of The Times.

By BENJAMIN STOLBERG

HERE is a great deal of talk to the effect that the C."1. O. is radical, red, communist, socialist,

In the first place, this does not happen to be More than 2,000,000 of the workers in the C. I. O. unions, mostly in basic industries, are in unions which have no political complexion of any kind or in which factionalism is negligible. In the second place, an economic labor organization sucn as the C. I. O. cannot keep out individuals

In the third place, we must define these various radical groups. Some of them began with a radical program which now is thoroughly reactionary; we in the C. 1. O. in

finally we must understand) that

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capitalism. Radicals did that. equally profound change in American society from “pure and simple” trade-unionism to modern inunionism cannot be brought about by William Green or Matthew Woll or William Hutcheson of the A. F. of L.

surge in labor, indeed every social upsurge everywhere, is an agitational phenomenon in which radicals always play an important part. America was not made Tories, nor did conservatives change our pre-Civil

independent by the

economy into modern industria: And just so, the

RGANIZATION and agitation go together in the beginning of great social changes. Accordingly the C. I. O. admitted into its ranks, because it had to, Communists, Socialists, Lovestonites, Trotskyites, as well as Republicans and Democrats. On the other hand, it is also true that ths various political radical movements brought into the C. I. O. their factional outlooks and some of them their

The Trotskyites we may dismiss. With all due apologies to their revolutionary fervor, they are a tiny sect which plays no role in the C. I. O. The Lovestonites were thrown out of the Communist Party in 1929 for their so-called tonserva-

DOCTORS FEAR FOR CARDOZO LOSES GROUND

Condition ‘Not Quite So Good’ Today, Physician To Justice Says.

SPECIALISTS ARE CALLED

Jurist Apparently Losing Ground, Report of His Doctor Reveals.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U. P)) — The condition of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the Supreme Court is less favorable today, his physician, Dr. J. P. Earnest Jr., announced. A council of specialists was called for 3 p. m. Dr. Earnest said he would confer with Drs. Worth Danfels and Thomas S. Lee,” Washington heart specialists, and Dr. John H. Keating, New York, Justice Cardozo's family physician. Dr. Earnest made his report after his morning visit to the apartment of the Justice, who is critically ill with heart disease after an attack of shingles and grippe.

Bulletin Is Brief

Dr. Earnest's bulletin was brief. It said: “The condition of Justice Cardozo is not quite so good this morning.” The bulletin was regarded as especially serious in view of his previous reports indicating that Justice Cardozo’s condition is critical and that he apparently is losing ground gradually in his fight against the

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complication of diseases. Last night Dr. Earnest that the Justice had failed to rally during the day as expected. | It was understood that no rela-! tives of the Justice were present at his apartment. Joseph Rauh Jr, Justice Cardo- | zo's law clerk, said Justice Cardozo | had no closer relatives living than | cousins, and that none of them | was present.

JUDICIARY REVISION PLANS ADVANGED

Norris Urges Popular Vote On Amendments.

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BULLETIN WASHINGTON, ®an. 12 (U. P.).~Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J.) announced today the House Labor Committee had voted to report a wage-hour bill to the House.

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—An alternative to President Roosevelt's | defeated court-packing program is well under way in Congress and may be an accomplished fact in a few months. One phase of the new and unohtrusively advanced program is a new bill by Senator Ashurst (D. Ariz) to set up an “administrative office” for the Federal Courts, with the Supreme Court in control of the office. This office would handle the business end of running the courts, thus freeing them from sbudgetary control by the Justice Department. A larger and more basic feature | of the program is the Norris consti- | tutional amendment to provide for (Turn to Page Three)

BARBARA STANWYCK LOSES COURT FIGHT

Frank Fay Wins Right to Visit Boy.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 (U. P).— Tomorrow afternoon at 2—by courtesy of a perplexed judge—Frank Fay will make a formal call upon his 68-year-old adopted son, Dion. His former wife, Barbara Stanwyck charged that Mr. Fay was not a fit person to call upon the child. She sued to keep him away, charging among other things that he drank too much whisky, that he hit her once on the chin, that he fell into Dion's crib one night, and that while driving his car, he took his hands off the wheel to light his cigaret, praying, “God help us, amen.” Mr. Fay's attorneys tried to prove that Miss Stanwyck spent so much time with her 50 race horses and Mr. Taylor that maybe she had nc more right to visit Dion than did

Fay. Judge Knight ruled that Mr. Fay, if he had no liquor within or without, could see Dion on Tuesdays, Thursdays and alternating Saturdays, so long as the child’s nurse remained with the -boy.

NAMED ON STATE BOARD

Everett L. Gardner of Monticello today was appointed a member of the Indiana Unemployment Comnsation Division Board of Review, rence A. Jackson, Division direc tor, announced. The Board is to decide controversies between employers and emon compensation matters.

PRICE THREE CENTS

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This kerosene can with its bottom blown out, lying in front of the stove, tells the story of the explosion and fire at the home of Mrs. Helen Burke, 35 S. Summit St., today, in which a roomer was

burned fatally and three other persons burned seriously.

Traffic Kills 12 in 12 Days;

State Speeds

Madison County ‘Death Trap’ Included in Plans; 85 to Be Erected.

Installation of flasher signals at 85 railroad crossings is to begin early this spring as part of the State's | campaign to reduce traffic deaths, | J. T. Hallet, State Highway Com- | mission traffic engineer, announced | today. Plans were speeded up today. he said, after seven persons died at railroad crossings here and at Anderson within three days. The list of tentative locations for | new signals includes the Madison | County “death trap’ on a State Road 9 where five were Kkilied in a train-bus crash Sunday. Mr, Hallett said the Commission “probably would not place lights at the Lawrence Ave. crossing in Uni- | versity Heights unless it is ecalled | to our attention. It is not on our present program.” The Rev. William H. Todd, 4210 Otterbein Ave. and his wife, Irene, were killed there yesterday. Financed with Federal funds, these projects, when completed will] bring the total number of crossings | protected by signals within the last | three years to 301, he said. “Value of the flasher lights,” Mr, | Hallett said, “is illustrated by the | fact that only one accident has occurred on a protected crossing where | the lights were working within the | last year.” The signals are to be placed af | crossings which recent surveys | showed the greatest danger.

HIGHER RAIL RATES URGED ON CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (U, P.) — President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads today told a Senate inquiry that Interstate Commerce Commission approval of $500,000.000 rail rate increases would attract new capital to the industry and aid the business and employment situation generally. President A. F. Whithey of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen urged Congressional adoption of a bill proposéd by Rep. Maury Maverick (D. Tex.) designed to afd efforts to increase rather than reduce production.

lin a grade crossing crash.

Rail Signals

Karabell Fines Violators Average of $13; Speeders Are Hit Hardest.

(Editorial, Page 12)

Another death today brought Marion County's 1938 toll to 12

one killed for every day of the year

and 10 mare than were killed in the

| corresponding 1937 period.

Mrs. Eva Gant, 58, of 1010 E, Ohio St. died at City Hospital from injuries received when struck last night as she was en route home from a theater, Her death was within 24 hours. The Rev. William H. Todd, 4210 Otterbein Ave., superintendent of the White River Conference of the United Brethren Church, and his wife, Irene, died yesterday afternoon Both

the third here

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Seven other persons were injured, one critically, in eight overnight accidents in the county, As the toll grew, officials, including Mayor Boetcher, promised increased rigidity in traffic law en-

forcement and the enlargement of |

the motorcycle patrol. Arrests overs night for traffic law violations num-=-bered 35, including 12 slated for

| speeding.

Judge Charles Karabell stiffened the amount of fines levied upon traffic law violators today. sessed 13 a total of $169, an average of $13. Five speeders paid a tofal of $75. Six persons charged with lacking driver's licenses fined $41. Mrs, Gant received fractures of both legs and head injuries when (Turn to Page Three)

FAIR WEATHER DUE AFTER DROP TONIGHT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

26 2 33 33

a.m... 0%. Mm... am 11 a. m. Rm... 12 (Noon) am... 1p... The Weather Bureau today predicted colder weather for tonight with a low of between 30 and 35 degrees. The forecast was for fair weather tomorrow after cloudiness tonight,

Valparaiso Cancels $150

Marriage License Order

(Editorial, Page 12)

VALPARAISO, Jan, 12 (U, P).— County Clerk Lewis Kellar today canceled by long distance telephone an order for $150 worth of new marriage license certificates and prepared to obey a Supreme Court ruling outlawing Indiana's “Gretna Greens.” “We have enough certificates on hand now to last us for years after the Supremé Court decision,” he said. “I intend to keep within the law, something we have always tried to do in this office. The few licenses we might issue between now and the

members are Mr. Jackson said.

time we are officially notified of the would not be worth the trou‘might oggge us.

“We stopped issuing out-of-county certificates this morning.”

Residence Requirement Dooms Marriage Mill

“The Indiana Supreme Court today had ruled that eloping couples from other states cannot legally get marriage licenses in Indiana. The court yesterday wupheld an 1852 statute forbidding issuance of licenses to, women who do not live in the counties where the issuing clerk's office is located. The opinion was given in a test case involving she State's most famous “marriage mill"—that at south of Ohi.

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ROOMER DIES, 2 BOYS AND MOTHER BADLY BURNED IN

EAST SIDE KEROSENE FIRE

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Fatal Blast Occurs During Attempt To Light Stove.

‘GIRL, & IS UNHURT

| Terrier Stands | Until Rescuers Reach Child.

by,

A five-year-old crippled | boy, burned severely on the (face and body and his leg | fractured, fought for his life in City Hospital today follows ‘ing a kerosene explosion and fire at 35 S. Summit St. which | took the life of one person ‘and burned two others serie [ ously. | He was William Burke, youngest | child of Mrs, Helen Burke, 31, a | idow, whose home was the scene | of the early morning tragedy. [ Only one of five persons in the | home escaped uninjured. Emil Martin, 46, a roomer, died [ In City Hospital of head and body | burns. : | Mother Is Burned

The other injured, also in City | Hospital, are Maurice Burke, 9, who | received burns on the body, and | Mrs. Burke, burned on head and hody. Both are in a serious cone | dition | Mary Burke, 8, daughter of Mrs. | Burke, escaped unharmed. Police took her to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Bertha Meyers, R. R. 11, Box 347 W, | Piremen found Mr. Martin uncons scious on the floor of the flaming dining room, his clothes ablaze, Nearby was a kerosene can with its bottom blown out, According to the report made by firemen, Mr. Martin was attempting to start a fire in the stove in the dining room of the twn-story frame | house, Mrs. Burke, asleen upstairs with | her three children, said she was awakened by the blast and the cries of Mr. Martin | Mary, barefoot and in her night | elothing, ran downstairs and dashed through flames to a side door, she said, with William following as best he eould When Mrs, Burke and Maurice reached the foot of the stairway, about five feet from the stove and the center of the blaz3, flames fone veloped them and they fled back upstairs, Mrs. Burke said she smashed a bedroom window and climbed out on a porch roof, but Maurice, badly burned, was unable to follow and she could not pull him through the | opening. Firemen found Mrs, [ Burke on the roof screaming. | Meanwhile, Mary said she ran to | safety and ous a side door,

“I Called Mother” “When Billy and I ran downs | stairs,” Mary told firemen and poe | lice, “I saw Mr. Martin on the floor | with his clothes on fire. “I ealled mother and told her the house was on fire and Mr. Martin | was burned. Then I went past the fire to the side door. The wind was so strong I could hardly open it. I squeezed out and ran out on the sidewalk | “Billy tried to follow me, but he didn't get out because the door | slammed shut and he couldn't open it.” Mary's screams awakened neighe | bors, Firemen found William lying on (Turn to Page Three)

'M'NUTT MAY DISCUSS | ISLAND TRADE PACT,

limes Special [ WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—A proe | posed Philippine trade agreement, which would cover United States | trade relations with the islands | until 1960, is the major reason for | High Commissioner McNutt's return [ this month, it was learned today. | While he is expected to spend | several weeks in the country, he | probably will return to his Philip« pines post and remain throughout next summer, it was said. His presidential prospects for 1040 une doubtedly will be discussed with both Indiana and national Backers while he is in the United States. According to reports here hig came paign will be well financed with Eastern capital. President Roosevelt outlined plans | for the Philippines trade agreement conferences yesterday.

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