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Paris-Rome Relations in , New Crisis After Savoy Demand.

PARIS, Dec. 1 (U. B.).—Strikers were sentenced to prison today and an - estimated 120,000 | throughout France were locked out or dis.charged from factories in Government punitive measures for yesterday's general strike. | As the Government cracked down on strikers in nationalized industries holding armaments contracts, labor warned Premier Daladier not to interpret his victory over the strikers as an invitation to -establish a dictatorship. | M. Daladier announced plans for calling the Chamber of Deputies into session on Dec. 8. | He will [face the hostile Left secure in the belief that the country’s favorable! reection to him during the strike crisis will prevent his overthrow and enable him to proceed unhampered with his recovery program. The Valenciennes | court condemned six strikers to three months imprisonment. Another court, session was to be held later in the day. The jail at Valenciennes was crowded with strikers and 20 strikers were transferred to Douai Prison pending a hearing. ;

Assistant Mayor Jailed

A Labor Confederation leader, glass workers and the Communist Assistant Mayor of an industrial village fiear Valenciennes were arrested today charged with rebellion against officers of the law. Trouble was expected at Denain

when steel mills start employing workers to replace those discharged on the grounds that they hroke their contracts. A heavy detachment of guards surrounded the mills. Work was not resumed this morning due to the local holiday of St. Eloi. ? Despite the collapse of the strike former Socialist Premier Leon Blum announced that his party would hold a “rump” Parliament tomorrow as a protest against M. Daladier’s delay in reconvening Parliament It was considered likely that M. Blum would be able to rally only the = Communists, Socialists and Union Socialists, a sizeable bloc but a minority of the Chamber. The Labor Confederation called a special meeting of its national committee Monday to study the consequences of the failure of the general strike, A few minor demonstrations in industrial centers was the only echo of the strike to which less than 10 per cent of the laboring population and less than 20 per cent of the membership of the Labor Confederation responded. -

Daladier Conciliatory

M. Daladier made a conciliatory offer to labor of “fruitful co-opera-

tion” in a radio address and silenced fears that he might seek to outlaw trades unions or the Communist and Socialist Parties. “Democracy,” he said, “has triumphed over disorder and anarchy. The Government will continue to seek the co-operation of all classes. It fought only agitators and propagandists. ; Referring to this radio address, T.eon Jouhaux, Confederation chief, paid: “PDaladier in his radio talk expressed his triumph, but the Tarpeian rock (the cliff where ancient Roman would-be dictators were thrown to their deaths) is near the Capitol.” Observers agreed that M. Daladier emerged from the general strike with the greatest power of any Premier since Aristide Briand and Raymond Poincare.

Fascist Deputies

Seek Return of Nice

ROME, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—A dempnstration in the Chamber of Deputies in the presence of French Ambassador. Andre Francois-Poncet for the return of former Italian territories now uhder French rule, placed a new strain today on recently mended Franco-Italian relations. It occurred during a speech by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.- He referred to the recent decision of Premier Benito Mussolini to assist in the repatriation of Qtalians living abroad, and several deputies jumped to their feet shoutin -

g: “Tunisia, Savoy, Nice, Corsica.” Most Italians feel that these territories and cities belong rightfully to Italy, though they have been in French hands for many decades. A repetition of the shouting ia Nenice Square, where several thousand gathered to cheer Mussolini after the Chamber session, caused diplomatic circles to believe that the demonstrations had been inspired. : Informed quarters believed that the demonstrations were obvious , hints to France that she will be ‘obliged to pay a very steep price for Italian friendship. M. Poncet was making his first ‘pficial public appearance since his arrival to fill the long vacant French diplomatic post. His displeasure was indicated when he left immediately after Count Ciano finished speaking, without waiting for

applause. ;

Carol Acts to Crush

~fFascist Iron Guard

BUCHAREST, Dec. 1 (U. P.)— King Carol II sought to eliminate completely the |Fascist-like Iron Guard organization today by mass . @arrests, dismissal of doubtful Army flicers and extensive precautions gainst terrorism which officials feared would be directed at the Jewish population. ~The government's swift action against its political foes followed the killing of Iron Guard Leader Corneliu Belea Codreanu and 13 of his eids yesterday as they attempted— according to an official report—to escape from prison guards. Later, dron Guardists distributed pamphlets which were viewed as a threat . to assassinate the King. Measures against the outlawed

Fascists Accede to 1936 Anglo-French-U. S. Naval Treaty.

LONDON, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Italy will accede to the 1936 naval agreement signed by. the United States, Great Britain and France, it was announced officially today. . A protocol attached to the treaty made possible the adherence of other powers at any time. The chief consequence of Italian adherence will be that Italy will now exchange information regarding naval buildihg programs with France, Great Britain and the United States. ‘

JEWS’ CHILDREN SENT TOBRITAIN

Nazis Put New Restrictions On Race as Ghetto Rule Draws Nearer.

(Editorial, Page 18)

BERLIN, Dec. 1 (U. P.)—The first contingent of hundreds of German Jewish children started for a welcome exile abroad today while new Nazi decrees: brought the ghetto closer. One hundred Jewish children left the Schlesischer Station ‘at 8:45 a. m. for England. At Bentheim they will be joined by 100 more from the vicinity of Hamburg. They

are to arrive at Harwich, England, tomorrow and will be housed in a camp for three weeks or a month until absorbed by British families. They are between 10 and 17. The emigration was organized by a committee headed by Lord Samuel. The committee will care for the children as they arrive ‘in England. Before Christmas it is hoped that an additional 600 children may be taken out of Germany and Austria. The station platform was a scene of great confusion. Several score mothers and fathers wept with mixed emotion—joy and heartbreak. To the children the trip was adventure. To the parents, however, it meant a parting but also escape from a doomed future. Arrangements were made hurriedly, having been begun only last Saturday and completed last night. Each child was permitted to take cnly what luggage he or she was able to carry. Each may take one mark (40 cents) across the frontier.

More Privileges Withdrawn

All the children this morning were from orthodox families, because of the better organization of the orthodox communities. Reformed and

Christian children will follow, organizers said. More privileges were withdrawn from Jews today by a decree published in the Official Gazette. It empowered provincial authorities throughout the Reich to: “Impose restrictions on German Jews or Jews without passports who will not be permitted to enter certain areas or show themselves publicly at certain times.”

Fines Provided The law probably will be imposed in connection with parks, playgrounds and other public places. It was expected to be used for provincial and national holidays such as Saturday’s “day of German solidarity.” : Heavy fines or imprisonment were provided for violations. A decree prohibiting the private sale or mortgaging of Jewish-owned real estate was published in Vienna. It was believed to forecast the forced sale of Jewish real estate, amounting to expropriation, with the profits going to the state. Germany evaded an immediate reply today to the United States note of last week, asking assurance that United States citizens, Jewish or otherwise, will be: able to continue in business regardless of the restrictive anti-Jewish decrees. Germany sent a routine acknowledgement of receipt of the note.

Australia to Admit 15,000 Refugees

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Australia will admit 15,000 Jewish refugees within the next three years, Interior Minister McEwen told the House of Representatives today. This was considered the maximum Australia could absorb without dis-

he said.

15 Attend Fascist Rally at Toronto

TORONTO, Dec. 1 (U. P.),—A mass meeting called by the Canadian National Unity (Fascist) Party last night was attended by 15 persons, five of whom’ were reporters. Speakers denounced newspapers for sympathizing with Jews.

if Iron Guardists resisted arrest. A round-up of all the organization members was ordered. Hundreds were seized in Bucharest, Mano and other cities. Retirement on pension \ of more than 20 army officers, including a number of colonels and lieutenant colonels, who were suspected of being sympathetic toward Codreanu. Seizure at Cluj, according to unofficial reports, of one of the assassins of Dr. Francis Stefanescu-Goanga, the Cluj University rector. : Redoubling of guards at centers of Jewish population, especially at

Cernauti and Timshoara, where po- |}

lice reported fears that the Iron

new terroristic acts against Jews.

HELSINGFORS, Dec. 1 (U. P).— The Finnish Fascist Party resumed activity today as the result of a court decision disapproving a Interior Ministry order dissolving the

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of Adolf Hitler, left the film capital studios and stars. :

had ‘“‘no accommodations” for her party, one studio barred its doors to her, and several ather let it be known that she would not be welcomed. : Miss Riefenstahl motored up to Mt. Wilson for its scenic panorama and its observatory, then drove to Santa Barbara for more landscapes, while the German Consul, Dr. George Guysling, denied a report published in the film trade daily, Variety, that the consulate had sought to get her into the studios and had been rebuffed. Miss Riefenstahl had been hurt by the Anti-Nazi League's full page

FORDASKS U.S. 70 ADMIT JEWS

Offers to Do All He Can to Aid Oppressed to ‘Rebuild Lives.’

DEROIT, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Henry Ford urged a limited admission of Jewish refugees from Germany into

the United States today. He said they would be “a real asset to our country” and that he would do everything possible toward helping oppressed Jews rebuild their lives. He made the statement after a conference with Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. He praised Jewish workers for their “ability and loyalty.” Fifteen years ago Mr. Ford's newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, conducted an extended anti-Semitic campaign. He is said to regard that incident as the greatest error of his career.

His statement today said in part: “I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. I am convinced not only that this country could absorb many of the victims of oppression who must find refuge outside their native lands, but that as many of them as could be admitted under our quota system would constitute a real asset to our country. Because of their special adaptability in the fields of production, distribution and agriculture, they would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this when it is badly needed. “Hundreds of Jewish men now employed in our plants show marked ability and loyalty, and if the turnover among them is sometimes comparatively high, it is indicative of their justified ambition to improve themselves. . . “My acceptance of a medal from ‘the German people does nof, as some people seem to think, involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism. Those who have known me for many years realize that anything that breeds hate is repulsive to me.

Leni Gets Hollywood Chill

udios and Calbarets Closed to Hitler's ‘Girl Friend’

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (U. P.).—Leni Riefenstahl, one of Nazi Germany’s foremost motion picture experts and often reported a “girl friend”

Her manager, Ernest Jaeger, denied that she had come here from Germany to study the industry. She was here “only for the scenery,” he said. That apparently was all she was going to see. One night club

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denunciations in the trade journals. She spent most of two days here denying she was Hitler's “girl friend” or an agent of the Reich. She said she did not understand such treatment accorded a visitor traveling as a private citizen. But the “no welcome” sign was out to her at Universal Studio, which employed her in a role in “S. O. S. Iceberg,” filmed in Greenland five years ago. It was her only par in an American picture. .

A spokesman for Warner Brothers said that a request had been made for her to tour its studio which had been turned down. It was made to the employee who passes on such requests. Other studios reported that any requests for a tour for her would not be honored. Phil Selznick, owner of a popular night club, said he had refused reservations for a party of 12 when he learned that Miss Riefenstahl was to be guest of honor. His re-

Pittman Declares U. S. ~ Must ‘Meet Force With Force.

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from any or all quarters or that this country might be forced to carry the fight far from home.

55 Articles Needed

“Our shopping list for items of war equipment includes 7300 articles or pracesses of production,” he said. “With your help, we have found production facilities in industry for practically all of them. “In an emergency, more than 99 and 25-100 per cent of our needs, industry, upon short notice, will be

however, is in that other threefourths of 1 per cent, by 55 critical items production, so different. fr nary peacetime needs that industry will not be able to produce them in mass without some education. .'. . “I want to assure you men in the field that we in the War Department will not be satisfied until we have convinced the Congress and the American people of the necessity for educational orders to industry for the manufacture of every one of our critical 55 items.”

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Woodring-Johnson

Feud Significant Now

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer :

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U. P).— An open and angry breach between the Secretary of War and his Assistant Secretary is providing a discordant background for the impending drive to expand the national defenses. The schism between Secretary Harry H. Woodring and Assistant

Secretary Louis A. Johnson is of long standing. A few months ago it was regarded as an interesting topic for drawing-room gossip but scarcely as a matter of tremendous moment. Today, however, with national defense suddenly become the keystone of the Administration’s legislative program, the enmity between the two men appears to be a matter of urgent consequence. - Neither the Secretary nor the Assistant Secretary will discuss the subject, at least not for publication. Officers of the military establishment are instinctively close-lipped about it. But it is possible to distill a few authenticated facts out of the fog of rumor which pervades Washington’s whispering galleries.

Friction Undoubted

There is no denying that Mr. Woodring believes Mr. Johnson to be gunning for his job, and that he resents it—plenty. 2 _It is also indisputable that Mr. Johnson has no kind words to spare for the man who is theoretically

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deny he has ever “said a disloyal word.” | : There is no doubt, either, that the

| friction between the two top men

in the department is causing embarrassment among officers of the military establishment, who find themselves working for two rival bosses, both of whom have easy access to the White House.

Gen. John J. Pershing has been quoted | privately by a very highplaced civilian as stating that there is “more politics in the Army today than at any time in a generation.” Army tradition would no doubt impel the General to deny making such a statement, and perhaps the quotation was exaggerated, but there is enough such talk in other quarters to suggest that there 1s at least a danger of politics invading the Army.

“Harry Is Going fo Stay”

Congress may give official attention to the Woodring-Johnson row after President Roosevelt presents his expected request for enormous increases in the Army-Navy budgets. It is possible that the two men may be questioned—no doubt in secret—about the friction between them, and its effect on department efficiency and morale. Where the President stands on the matter is not known. There is a story that the situation was brought up at a Cabinet meeting some weeks ago, in Mr. Woodring’s absence, and the President remarked with some sharpness: “Harry is going to stay in the Cabinet through my second term.” On ' the other hand, the Presi-

dent’s ubiquitous Man Friday, Thomas G. Corcoran, apparently is working hand in glove with Assistant Secretary Johnson as a member of the National Defense Power Committee, which 2 Mr. Johnson heads. Whether this collaboration extends beyond the subject of kilowatt hours and igto the realm of Cabinet politics is an interesting question. Certainly it wouldn’t be a new role for “Tommy the Cork.” Friends of Col. Johnson quote him as saying his only desire is to “finish his job” and return to his law practice in Clarksburg, W. Va. Friends of Secretary Woodring, on the other hand, are suspicious of the “good press” Col. Johnson is getting, in contrast with the abusive attacks made on Mr. Woodring from time to time, especially in some of the syndieated columns.

‘Two-Power’ Navy Urged by Pittman WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U. P.).— Chairman Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said today that the United States must prepare to win any war. in which it might become involved by arming to meet “force with force.” Senator Pittman, whose committee must pass on the Administration’s foreign policy, reasserted in an interview this country’s intention of remaining free of entangling alliances and of “minding our own business.” But he added that the operation of that policy would be sensitive to a particular situation. He warned that the three totalitar-

jan powers—Germany, Italy Japan—have prepared for war in advance of the democratic tions and contended that this try’s best assurance against a was preparedness of similar magnie tude, : = “I think the foreign policy of the United States requires it to be in & position to defend its shores against any two naval powers,” he said. “I am satisfied that our air and naval forces are not sufficient to meet such an emergency.”

Clash Reported at Peru-Ecuader Border

(Gen. Hugh Johnson, Page 18)

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Dec. 1 (U,

P.).—The boundary truce between Peru and Ecuador has been broken with bloodshed again and almost on

the eve of the eighth Pan American

Conference at Lima, it was learned today. n An Ecuadorian Army sergeant was Killed and two soldiers were wounded in a skirmish with Peru= vian troops in the territory known

as the “Green Hell,” a jungle region .

which repeatedly has threatened to become the cause of a war. i

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Universo from Rocafuerte said incident occurred Nov. 21. ‘Eleven Ecuadorian troopers in a canoe were

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Ecuador considered the incident 5 so serious that she agreed to attend

the Lima conference only after strong pressure had been brought by other South American countries and the United States in the interest of preserving American harmony,

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 1 (U. P).— Delegates to the Pan-American Conference heard persistent reports today that President Roosevelt was

planning a hurried trip here for the

opening session Dec. 9.

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