Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1938 — Page 3

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DIFFERS WITH LEAHY o ESTIMATE OF PROTECTION

UNDER NEW

‘DEFENSE NAVY

Strategists See Possibility of Fleet Bottled In One Ocean With Nation Vulnerable

In Other In

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Case of War.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (U. P.).—President Roose2k and his chief naval adviser are far apart today in their timates of how much protection the new “defense Navy” will be able to guarantee the United States. That factcoupled with the peculiar disposition of the American fleet since 1932 may in some degree explain insist-

ent repetition of charges that ©

the United States and Great Britain have established a naval understanding for guid-

ance in emergencies. Admiral William D. Leahy, Naval Operations Chief, testified before the House Naval Affairs Committee that for “complete and adequate” protection of both coasts the United States would need a Navy at least twice as large as that contemplated under the new 800 million dollar program. That expenditure will increase the Navy by approximately 20 per cent.

Thinks of Both Coasts

Mr. Roosevelt is not planning to double the Navy, but he is talking of naval defense in terms of both coasts in addition to the Panama Canal and the outlying possessions. He reiterated that policy yesterday. On Jan. 28 in submitting his program to Congress the President said " our national defense was “inadequate for purposes of national security.” And added: “We cannot assume that our defense would be limited to one ocean and one coast and that the other ocean and other coast would with certainty be safe. Adequate defense affects, therefore, the simultaneous defense of every part of the United States.”

Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Committee has written into the new naval bill a declaration of “policy along those lines—that the United States will maintain a Navy to protect “the coastline in both oceans at the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Hawaii and our insular possessions.”

Fleet in Pacific

The foregoing constitute a formal declaration of American policy which the record indicates Admiral Leahy does not believé the Navy is large enough to maintain. Furthermore, the Navy is not physically disposed to protect both coasts simultaneously. Since March 22, 1932, the United States fleet has been sta-

tioned in the Pacific. Prior to that |

time the ships of the scouting force had been stationed in the Atlantic and the battle force in Pacific waters. The fleet was combined after Japan invaded Manchuria. _ In a test on April 24-25, 1934, the entire fleet was moved through the Panama Canal ass a unit. The movement took 47 hours, but there is substantial naval opinion back of the belief that the Panama Canal may not be open when America next. goes to war.

British Enter Picture

Before Admiral William H. Standley retired as naval operations chief he made the statement that the first knowledge the United States would have of hostile action probably would not, in the future be a declaration of war. More likely, he said, it would be a dispatch from Panama that a tramp freighter had exploded in Gatun Locks, perhaps blocking the canal ‘pending major repairs. One coast would have the fleet and protection. The other coast would be vulnerable. Some persons argue, therefore, that circumstances might arise in which the British fleet would patrol, police or fight in the Atlantic while the American fleet was patrolling, policing or fighting in the Pacific. They suggest directly or by implication that there exists an understanding of some kind between London and Washington to that

end. They bolster their contention by assuming that Great Britain's fleet is so engaged by consequences of Italian and ‘German political expension that the two great oceans almost automatically would be assigned in time of emergency to the fleets of the two great Englishspeaking peoples—the Pacific to Americans and the Atlantic to Britons. The case against existence of any agreement ior immediate or future American fleet movements has been stated in repeated categorical” deDials by Secretary of State Cordell Known facts are that the United States now is in the process of consultation with Great Britain and France for abrogation of existing naval limitation to meet a situation created by Japan.

CLARK VICTIM

OF PNEUMONIA

Noted Pathologist, 69, Had Practiced Here for More Than 40 Years.

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of the old Medical College of Indiana before that. He was born in Economy, Nov. 28, 1869, and attended primary schools there. In 1889 he entered Earlham

.| College where he remained for two

years. He began his medical training at Bellevue Hospital at New York. He was graduated in 1891. After work there he left for Idaho Falls, Ida. where he racticed general medicine for about a year. In 1904 he studied surgery at Johns Hopkins University. Returning to Indianapolis, he wis appointed -City Health Board secretary, a post he held for several years. | When the Indiana Medical School was organized, Dr. Clark was placed on the faculty as an instructor in surgical pathology In 1917 Dr. Clark enlisted in the Army Medical Corps and became commandant of Base Hospital 32. He was given the rank of colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps after his return to the United States in 1919. For his distinguished ‘fecord during the War, he was cited by the French’ Government and Gen. Pershing. -Dr. Clark was president of the Indiana Medical Association last year. Other medical organizations of which he was a member include the Marion County Medical Society, American Medical Association, th American Surgical Society, of which there are only 150 members in the country; the Western and Southern Surgical Societies, the Associa= tion of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons. ; He was a director of the Columbia Club, a member of the Indianapolis Country Club and the Scottish Rite. Survivors, besides his wife, are a daughter, Mrs. Arnold W. Talbott of Rye, N. Y.; granddaughter, ‘Eleanor Talbott, and grandson, Edmund J. Talbott, of Rye, and three_ sisters, Mrs. Charles Williams of Muncie, Mrs. M. E. Edwards and Mrs. ‘John H. Eberwein, both of Indianapolis. !

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 16 (U. P.). —Gen. John J. Pershing was confined to bed today with rheumatism and a slight cold. Dr. Roland Davison said that the condition of the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War was not alarming. The General complained last night of a rheumatic condition -above his left knee. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, former Vice President, was at the General’s bedside.

CONGRESSMAN WARNS OF PACT

Army Experts Claim Nation Is Safe; Profits Bill Again Delayed.

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a definite, written agreement,” said Rep. Fish, “my answer is no. But if it is on the basis that we are now holding daily intercourse with the highest authorities of the British Empire for parallel action, which means concerted ‘action, my answer is yes.” “We have understandings for definite parallel action. That's exactly why I'm fearful this Navy will be used to go into parallel action with Great Britain to police the world.”

Senators Hear Army Views on Defense

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — The Army can defend the United States

successfully against invasion by all comers. The Navy is valuable mainly for the defense of outlying areas such as Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Samoa, etc., and for the protection of maritime commerce. Those are the ‘conclusions several senators have reached as the result of private inquiry among military authorities. Accordingly they plan to attack the President’s $800,000,000 naval expansion bill when it comes before the Senate. If the Naval Affairs Committee of the House or Senate were to call | high Army officers for testimony, the latter would support the above conclusions with fact and figure, these senators said, but they anticipate no such move by the committee.

4|FLOOD PERILS WANE

IN LOWER MICHIGAN

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. .16 (U. P.) —The flood threat in southern Michigan appeared at an end today, with most cities and communities along rivers and streams rehabilitating caused damage estimated at more than a million dollars. Only at Grand Rapids was there possibility of further damage, and weather observers expressed doubt that the crest of Grand River, due at the state’s second largest city sometime i would be ser-

| ious.

IN INDIANAPOL IS

Here Is the. Trdffic Record

County Deaths (To Date)

City Deaths (To Date) - 1938 . 1937

sresveis X¥

(Feb. 15)

Accidents 3 Injured

Hatin Preferential Street

Light 9 . Drunken Driving, 1

Others. 26

MEETINGS TODAY . Liens ‘Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, j Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbis Club.

+ Indianapolis Amateur Mo Movie Club, meeteserace Cred Grous. luncheon. Ant- : “Young M Men's Discussion Club, dinner. - 3 X povdse Aiuni "Association. luncheon. Hf eoiryfls Dic? nr can Legion, lunches { Sur Juhcheon. Board

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Indianapolis Conference of Bank Audi tor. Hotel Washington, 6:30 p Feasral BR s Association, i CO avertioing “Club ot" 4, dian tis. lunch vertising Club of indianapolis, uncheon, Columbia Club, s Pa Sigm Chi," luncheon. "Board of Trade.

a erioan Business Club, luncheon, Co- |.

lumbia Club, noon Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

oon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. n. Caravan Club, Tincheon, Murat lo

00 Indiana _ Motor Traffi 3 luncheon. Siotel Antlers." n ico gi Soeecistion on AR .. luncheon, Architects and Builders Build: ing, noon.

MARRIZ GE LICENSES

(These lists are from official reeords tn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors In names or addresses.)

Isaa¢ John Steinhoff, 21, of 1 - way: Kathleen Kee, 16, of 320 2 wads

E. Coverstone, 19, of 2742 N. spn, St. NUninary gulidred Sterrett, 17, ‘of 2729

BIRTH Boys

James, Mildred Ross, Marvin, Naomi Haus, a ft gaethodist,. jack. Vivian Spicer, a Albe , Gladys Gaug

Girls Edward Celestia Klesin Paul, Jessi rgan, a at’ Alfr e Cooper Arthur, es Ave.

*8. Ee Victor, Marga Grager rgaret LE a 1326 E. LeOliver, Laurayne Kensinger, at Method-

Rohn, Isabelle Troyer, Edwin, Irma Hassold, : 3 jhlethodist.

DEATHS

at St Fan an ols,

Fred L. Hospital, ne sobath B Il, 81, at 503 rumme! acute cardiac dilatation, Bright, ward John e. "so. at 584 Julian, acts e nyoch arditis. cker, 64. at St. Vincent's, fractugs of fe fem Washington, 41, at City, aortic angutism. ers. 65, at 306 S.. Malcott,

Eva diabetes a: Elizabeth M. Ohr. 83. at 1640 N. Delafare. eis static. pusumonia,

ak Mgthodist, cerebra hemoriites | ». A

atrophy of ce oehienbrock, ¢

Reese, 59, a Central Indiana | Denver K, 2. at Long. hyper- |

Charles Edward Waltke, 70, at 141 Bancroft. e" Gookerly, $1. t er - betes | oie y at Veterans, dia

us. Emmaline Imel, 60, at 1526 Hoof» gen, Tfubercuiosts.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau...

INDIANAPOLIS—Rain or snow tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature.

Sunrise ...... 6:37 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE ~—Feb. 16, 1937—

oh ives 5:22

Preci

itation 34 58 endin Total ging 74 mw.

Drzeipiia

MIDWEST WEATHER

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tomorrow north; no change temperature. ° Illinois—Rain south, snow or rain portion tonight and tomorrow; change in temperature. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy. snow beginning tonight or tomorrow; not quite so .cold uh portion tonight. Ohio—Cloudy, followed by snow tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, |, Kentucky—Rain in south and .rain or snow in north portion tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.

north little

after. high water]

AUSTRIA YIELDS TO NAZI DEMAND 'FORKEY POSTS

Schuschnigg Grants Power

As Ultimatum Deadline Approaches.

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discussed soon. Ultimatum Expires

An. ultimatum—still mysterious as to exact origin, though there could be little doubt as to its significance —had expired at midnight. It was reported in usually reliable quarters that Chancellor XKurt Schuschnigg, before he submitted to it, had offered his resignation and that Presidnet Miklas, after offering . the’ post. to Richard Schmitz, Vienna Mayor and former vice chancellor in the Cabinet, per= suaded Chancellor Schuchnigg to stay because Herr Schmitz refused to serve. The amnesty, which was the first activity of the new Cabinet, releases 1228 Nazis and 480 Communists in prison, and detention houses and 198 Nazis and 250 Communists in concentration camps today or tomorrow. Also 150 Army officers who had been dismissed as Nazis were to be reinstated half to their former posts, the others to the pension rolls, with arrears from the time of their dismissal. A total of 1932 Nazi civil functionaries dismissed since the Nazi putsch of 1934 were to be reinstated, with full back pay.

Defense Post Important

‘Anton Rintelen, former Minister to Rome, was expected to be freed under the amnesty. Herr Rintelen was supposed to have been the Nazis’ choice for chancellor had their 1934

putsch succeeded. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

. The full effect of the reorganization was yet to be felt.

It was noted that Chancellor Schuschnigg did not resume, in the Cabinet overturn, the post of National Defense Minister which he held in the last Cabinet. Gen. Wilhelm Ze¢hner remained as War Secretary, but it was believed that a Nazi might be named to the Defense post. The Government was expected soon to order newspapers that they must not criticise either the German Government or its activities. Austria's Nazis, it was. conceded, had won a momentous victory and had brought the country, after years of efforts, into a semblance of full co-operation with Germany.

‘Background Secret

Events had moved so swiftly that the Government was able to comply with the ultimatum only after its actual expiration. Just before midnight the official broadcasting station had been ordered to remain open so that a communique could be flashed. The key post in the Cabingt is that of Minister of Interior and Public Security, nominally embracing the control of law and order and the police. It is held by Dr. Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, official Nazi representative on the Cabinet. A source intimately associated

lin the Government told the United

Press that by a secret agreement Dr. Michael Skubl, the Secretary of

| State for Security, actually would

be chief of the State Police and gendarmerie; and he is a faithful Schuschnigg man.

“anti-Communist” pact would be|s

y anNuys Opens | Te Drive To Hold Seat by Mailing Out 100,000 Ple dge. Cards

Townsend Derides Senator’s Efforts as ‘Defense Of His Individualism.

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Senator” state. The Senator said that he feels his friends would rather do their own organizing in this manner than to be asked to join a club directed from the top.

Signers to Be Secret

' “Only myself and those who sign: the cards will know about who is helping and who isn’t if they want to keep it secret,” he pointed out. Following is the full text ot the VanNuys letter:

Dear Fellow Hoosier: : Less than 10 months from now the people of Indiana will be called upon to decide their choice for Senator. For 37 years I have fought hard and consistently for the cause of true Democracy. I have held the Senatorship by vote of the people of the State for the last five years. During that time I have tried to represent you here to the best of my ability, voting for those measures that would bring you the greatest measure of security, happiness dnd prosperity. Certain persons in politics in Indiana have issued decrees calling for my elimination as a candidate for Senator. I received my office from the people, and I will retire only if the people deny me the privilege of re-election. No official, no clique, no politician or’ set of politicians can dictate my retirement ‘from Indiana public life without first submitting it to' the people themselves. : To say the least, I need help. I need your help. I need the help of every thoughtful citizen, interested in unbossed representative’ government. And today, I address this letter to you with that thought in mind. I want to recruit an active, en- | ergetic group of 100,000 or more leaders in Indiana life to aid me. by their suport. I want each in his own sphere to give me earnest and wholesome backing. I want you to talk this matter of the Senatorship over. with your friends. Analyze my record, and if you feel I have not supported the thought and desires of the average man and average woman of Indiana, say so. Weigh what I have dohe on the scales of honest and impartial judgment. Balance the things that you think are good, against thoge with which you perhaps do not agree. I want a committee of 100,000 or more friends. And so I am writing this little note fo you. If you are for me and will work for me, fill in your name /and address on the inclosed card, and send it in the envelope. The. postage on the envelope is guar-=+ anteed. No stamp is heeded. Just sign, your name, and don’t sign unless you mean to give me your whole-hearted help in my fight - for unbossed representation in the Senate of the United States for the people of Indiana. Cordially and sincerely yours, FREDERICK VANNUYS. ‘P. S.: An extra pledge card is inclosed. Get a friend to sign it and help the cause along.

STORM DELAYS U. S. SHIP NAPLES, Feb. 16 (U. P.)—The United States liner Exchorda arrived today from Marseille, 60 hours late because of a storm which still was raging in the Mediter-

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By RAYMOND Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—It is inconceivable that no attempt will be made by the peaceful countries to negotiate a readjustment to head off this war which seems to be coming around the corner. Failure to attempt that would be to admit the bankruptcy of a civilization which could do nothing except manufacture machines with which to

U.S. War Scare Campaign Called ‘Menace to World Peace Ef forts

CLAPPER

slaughter itself. By inching this country into | the current big-league war scare, the Administration is making any attempt in that diregtion increasingly difficult, if net impossible. Coming down to cases, the Administration is endangering the most constructive contribution that anyone has made in the last fifteen years, its own reciprocal-trade program. It is doing that, ironically, just when this program is about to pass out of the minor experimental stage and reach into the heart of world economy. We are negotiating an agreement with Great Britain which should be completed by the end of the summer. When that is done, the two largest economic forces in the world, the United States and

‘| Great Britain, will be teamed up

with almost 30 other countries in a network of reciprocal agreements which will scale down tariffs and barriers all around in a mutual sharing of reductions.

Dictators Opposed

Meantime we have leaped into the delicate situation with a first-c war scare, in which we are fanning up feeling against Japan, Germany

‘| and Italy. We don’t like dictators,

particularly those who go out trampling down weaker peoples. We lose no opportunity to say this officially. Constant, reiteration reacts to embitter the condemned nations and to make them more suspicious and less willing to listen to reason. The

mp. | theory here is that if you talk big

you can scare them. This talk has. been accentuated

naval program. All sorts of fantastic scare .possibilities are tossed

2 it ‘lout, such as the comparison of our

fleet with the combined Japenese Italian and German navies, as

recently to help drive through the

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World War “without intention of repayment” might conceive “the idea of taking by force a dawdling and unprepared United States.” He must mean Italy is about to come over here and clean us up. Such stuff from responsible and well-in-formed men is vicious scare talk which creates hysteria and prevents rational judgment of the situation.

Alliance Lines Drawn

We will always insist’ on a Navy as large as Britain's altheugh our reasons for it miay vary. We are as determined to dominate the West- |. ern Hemisphere as Japan is determined to do: her backyard, although we have bee more adept and far less brutal in doing it. Our sudden war scare only draws the lines more tightly, with the United States,* Great Britain and |/ France on one side and the. triple aliance of Japan, Germany and Italy on the other. If we slip into this halance-of -power setup it is not likely that our trade program can become a vehicle leading toward general ‘economic appeasement. Nobody will give an inch if it is felt - that war is just around the

corner and that- we already have

picked our corner.

clubs throughout the

considerably |

JAPS ADVANCE ON RAILROAD

Foreign Embassies Warned To Help Prevent Bombings of Missions.

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3 after taking up positions at Pengpu and Hwaiyuan in northern Anhwei started a general retreat to Mingkwang and Fengyang. A Japanese spokésman admitted that there was considerable skirmishing and destruction of the railway in the vicinity of "Paoting, south of Peiping in northern Hopei province. Travelers reported, however, that the city remained in Japanese hands despite continued attacks.

A Japanese Embassy official said that Japanese authorities at Peiping had requested the United States, British, French, German and Italian Embassies to demand that the Chinese remove military trains concentrated close to foreign-owned property at Chengchow to avoid further bombing of foreign holdings. The American Southern Baptist mission was. struck Monday by bombs dropped’ by Japanese planes,

American Faces Rebel Court Martial

GIBRALTAR, Feb. 16 (U. P)— Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle, 22, of Washington, D. C., faced a court martial today after he failed in an L attempt to swim to Gibraltar and ‘escape’ from Rebel forces.

Eire and England To Resume Talks

LONDON, Feb. 16 (U. P)— Eamon de Valera, Irish president, will return to London Feb. 21 for resumption of the Anglo-Irish trade talks, Premier Neville Chamberlain announced in Commons today.

Report Pope ° Protested Bombing

LONDON, Feb. 16 (U. P.).—Diplomatic sources reported today, without confirmation, that His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, had written to Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish Rebel leader, regarding the bombing of civilians.

Soviet Consul Reported in Italy /-

ROME, Feb. 16 (U* P.).—The Giornale d'Italia said today that Theodore Butenko, Soviet charge d'affaires who mysteriously disappeared from his post at Bucharest, is in Italy where he fled to escape from the Bolsheviks. -

Goering Reschedules

Visit to Poland o

WARSAW, Feb. 16 (U. P.).—The projected visit to Poland of Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German propaganda minister, which was postponed recently, has been re-: scheduled to begin Feb. 23 and continue five days.

SOLDIERS PATROL - ~ THUANA AFTER Rio

TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb. 16 0. P.).—Army authorities mobilized |

200 men of the Agrarian Party Guard today to help enforce peace after two men and a ‘boy were killed land public buildings burned yesterday as a mob of 1500 tried to lynch a soldier who confessed to murdering a child. Fifty soldiers patroled the town and others defended the stone military barracks, where the killer was held for justice. He had confessed assaulting an 8-year-old girl and murdering her in a garage behind

the barracks.

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However, Comissioner Probably Will Pay Visit to White House, Says President; Eastern Press Continues to Ridicule Drive.

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Corps also have Jeceived invitations.

Worried by Editorials

Supporters of the McNutt Presidential candidacy were disturbed today by a new outburst by the Eastern press ridiculing the campaign. The Washington Post charged that his mission was so secret that “even Mr, Roosevelt does not know about “Modesty has never been exactly a McNutt virtue,” Franklyn Waltman writes in the Post. “But it was not until about a month ago that the Commissioner agreed to let the country have the works—to com-

kmence his buildup for the Presi-

dency.” 2 Washington observers, according to Mr. Waltman, “suspect that the bill (for the reception a week from today) will be defrayed by the Two Percent Club of Indiana. . . . The Indiana Two Per Cent Club figures in the McNutt Presidential buildup. It*is whispered that his campaign is being financed out of the fund. “Some observers, as well as some Hoosiers, believe High Commissioner McNutt is getting himself out on a limb, which will be cut from under

| him by 1940. Be that as it may, the

McNutt campaign will be a gaudy, spectacular show while it las

New York Times Jests

The New .York Times jests that the Commissioner “shows his characteristic modesty by not having his reception on Feb. 22. He is not the man to rob another of his laurels. “Bereft of his ‘radiant personality,’ Indiana is left in the dark,” the New York Times editorial concluded. “Senator Minton, who seems to be the chietRyducior of the toy train, is a docile iple of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Minton has curi< ously described Mr. McNutt as a ‘natural’; that is a natural-born office-holder. Long may 'McNutt and his subsidiary sun shine on Indiana!” The Baltimore Sun is equally satirical; its editorial is entitled, “Big Man, What Now?” + Hit by Washington Times The Washington Times declares that Mr. McNutt “probably will not even get as much as a four-leaf clover from either the White House lawn of the little strip of greensward around the Postoffice Building where Chairman Farley spends some of his time.” But, it continues, “someone has casually arranged a ‘whirlwind cam=’ paign of speeches and appearances, culminating in the massed reception here in Washington. Anyone in the United States who doesn’t know Paul McNutt at the end of that. series is possibly somebne who doesn’t read the papers, listen to the radio or. attend the movies.”

McNutt Due to Leave

San Francisco Tonight

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (U.P.). —Paul Vories McNutt, who left the

BOB BURNS ! Says: J oLL¥ OOD,

Feb. 16.—1 always thought the people in my part of the country were carefree and easy going—until I came to Hollywood. Some of these people out here will go in for pretty near anything as long ag it ain’t too much trouble and don’t calil for too - much risk. ‘The other day on the set a couple of young extras were talkin’ to me and they told me they was gonna get married. I says, “Well, are you sure you love and the boy says, “Well, not exactly, but it won't cost nothin’—my father’s a preacher.” So I asked the girl if she was sure she loved the boy and she says, “No. but what have I got to lose—my

United States as a political question mark 1 than a year ago to become High™ Commissioner to the Philippines, returns today to report to Washington first hand on the Oriental situajon and, possibly, to clarify his “ifftentions” toward the 1940 Presidential campaign. Mr. McNutt is due here today from Honolulu aboard Pan-American Airways’ Hawaii Clipper. He and Wayne Coy, his administrative assistant, will leave for the East on the Overland Limited tonight at 8:20 o'clock. The significance of his visit is three-fold: 1. He will be one of the first American officials—if not the first —to bring President Roosevelt direct information regarding the 8SinoJapanese war and its effect on American interests in the Orient. “2. He is expected to give a full, if informal, report to his superiors on his first\10 months as High Commissioner, including his observations on the ‘Japanese colonization of Davao, rich southern province of the t Philippine archipelago. - 3. He reinjects himself directly, if temporarily, into the domestic political scene amidst mounting speculation that\he may seek the Democratic Presidential “nomination in

1940. . Talked With Admiral Just before starting home, Come missioner McNutt dashed to Shanghai to view effects of the war and to confer hurriedly and in secret with Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, American Asiatic Fleet -commandant. What message he ca to Washington from the veteramt admiral, Mr. McNutt has not revealed,

but the tances of his unexpe trip to Shanghai increased its_significance." Commissioper McNutt brings detailed persogh! observations of developments HY Davao, on the island of Mindanao, where Japanese farmers and small merchants have made such collective headway that Filipinos called the Government's ate tention to the situation with alarm, The, High Commissioner ° visited Davao a few weeks ago. Important as his reports will be, politicians were more exci over an unmistakable “McNu for President” boom. Reception Arranged Already Democratic supporters have arranged an elaborate reception in Washington Feb. 23 and issued hundreds of invitations to “come and meet McNutt.” ; Commissioner McNutt, tall, strike ingly handsome, who at 46 is past . national American Legiofy com= mander and former Indiana Gover= nor went out to Manila last April amid pasty rs, that he was being poli lly exiled. He promptly . touched off a diplomatic row by insisting that as personal representative of President Roosevelt, the High Commissioner took Precedence over Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon in banquet: toasts. This storm subsided however— with toasts given as Commissioner McNutt prescribed. Mr. MdNutt has withheld his political ambitions as scrupulously as he has the exact purposes of his

| | return, prompting some observers to

call him the party “mystery man.” He was to be met here by a small group of civic, Army and Navy officials, including Maj. Gen. George S. Simons, retiring San Francisco ‘esidic commandant. Commissioner - McNutt and Mr, Coy had a compartment reserved on the Overland Limited as far as Denver. A heavy schedule indicated that they might fly East. He and Mr. Coy have tentatively booked return passage by Clipper to Manila March 9.

160Q Tickets Sold for Home-Coming Dinner

Indiana Democrats prepared toe day to welcome High Commisisoner McNutt, scheduled to arrive day night on his flying trip fri Philippines. More than 1600 tickets have been sold for the . former Governor's home-coming dinner at the Clay pool Hotel Saturday, Indiana Deme ocratic Editorial ation leaders

father is a lawyer.” (Copyright. 1938)

said, Arrangements ‘have been'made = to seat 2300. ;

the Russet. ‘hurried along!

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