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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 235.

100 ARRESTED ASPOLICE PUSH

SAFETY DRIVE,

Traffic Deaths Cut 26 Per Cent; Record Still Is Threatened.

49TH PEDESTRIAN DIES

25 Lives Saved, McCarty Says; $261 Suspended In Traffic Court.

Nearly 100 motorists faced traffic charges today as police kept up a smashing drive to cut down the City’s annual Christmas toll, making a total of 263 arrests for a fourday period. The 49th pedestrian death of the year was recorded as Lieut. Lawrence McCarty of the Accident Prevention Bureau disclosed that 1938 pedestriag deaths in Indianapolis were nearly as high as last year’s although traffic fatalities as a whole had been cut 26 per cent this year. The latest pedestrian victim was Isaac Raines, 70, of 1302 Fayette St., struck by an automobile Dec. T. Four persons were hurt as eight accidents were reported. Three persons were injured slightly and the driver shaken up when a car driven by Prof. Stith Thompson of Indiana University crashed into a concrete culvert at Harding St. and Troy Ave,

Instructor Injured

Those injured were Mrs. Thompson, their daughter, Rita, and Miss Mary Edith Gaylord, 24, assistant instructor at the University. They were treated at Methodist Hospital. Police yesterday arrested 24 persons on charges of passing red lights, and 17 the day before. Thirty-two persons were charged with speeding in the past two days. Ten persons were charged yesterday with crossing preferential streets without stopping. One person was arrested for reckless driving. . 25 Lives Saved Arrests for all other traffic, viola= tions amounted to 50 yesterday. «kn Judge John .McNelis’. Traffic Court 24 persons paid a total of $82 in fines and costs for traffic violations and $261 was suspended. Fifteen defendants were charged with parking ordinance violatoins. Lieut. . McCarty said that his records show that the majority of pedestrians who have been killed this year have been elderly persons. Last year to date, 96 persons died in all traffic accidents. This year the toll is 71, a saving of 25 lives. Last year’s pedestrian toll was 53. This year to date it is 49, a reduction of only four despite more favorable fall weather this year, Hence, the ratio of pedestrian deaths to total fatalities rose from 55 per cent last year to 69 per cent this year. : : Ten persons were killed this year while crossing streets where there is no traffic signal, 11 were killed crossing intersections with the “go” light, two were killed walking against the traffic signal, one was fatally injured walking in g roadway. Two were killed while getting

off or waiting for streetcars, twol®

crossing intersections diagonally and 20 crossing the street in the middie of the block, Lieut. McCarty said. “The statistics show motorists have been displaying more caution in driving,” Lieut. McCarty said, fou pedestrians are still too careess.” Night time is the most dangerous for pedestrians, he said. Thirtyeight of the deaths resulted after dark, while 11 were in daytime. Only four of the pedestrians killed this year were under 20 years of age, (Continued on Page Three)

WEILAND MENTIONED AS BENCH APPOINTEE

Governor Townsend today said he had not made up his mind as to who would be named to fill two - Municipal Court judgeships, and declared that the appointments might not be made for another week. ; From other State House sources it was reported that Louis A. Weiland, State Alcoholic Beverages Commission attorney, who has been active in county Democratic politics, apparently had the best chance of being named judge of Municipal Court Room 1 to succeed Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, judge-elect of Juvenile Court. : Judge Charles J. Karabell of Municipal Court 2 is expected to be reappointed, it was said. The Governor has been receiving numerous requests for reappointment of Judge Karabell, a Republican, from labor and business groups and attorneys.

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BOOKS ..rvscs 9 Broun asta nee 10 Churches .... 5 Comics Crossword ... 2 Curious World 14 Editorials .... 10 Fashions-.... 5 Financial ... 13 Fiynm ........ 10 ses it 14 act Grin, Bear In Indpls. .... 3ISp Jane Jordan.

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Bradshaw Aids

Miss Lena Lee Cohen

Robley E. George

WOMEN TO BACK MANAGER PLAN

Voters League Will Study Outline of Proposal For State Cities.

The Indiana League of Women Voters will begin a study of the city mahager..plan- in the. light of its application to Hoosier cities, it was announced at state headquarters today. : A new packet of up-to-date material has been assembled for distribution by Mrs. Lester Smith, chairman of the department of government, The study of the manager plan, state headquarters said, will be tied in with a survey of city government made by local leagues in 1935.

In the outline of the manager plan study, Mrs. Smith quoted Dr. Leonard White, Chicago, as saying in his book, “The City Manager”: “The Government of the people of the U. S. is destined to be the governments of municipalities. . It presents in sharpest form most of the problems of modern democracy and raises insistently the question whether local government can rest on a popular base and hold high standards of operating efficiency. «. « “The city manager plan is the most perfect expression which the American people have yet evolved of the need for combining efficient administration with adequate popular control.” The outline develops the structure of present city government and touches on the problem of home rule, legislative control and budgets. The manager pian, it says, is one of the seven items fo ractive support listed by the league on its legislative program.

DOCTORS DISPUTE TRADE’ DESIGNATION

Novel Surprise Move Made In Antitrust Case.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P) .— Goverhment attorneys studied today a surprise move by the medical profession in the Government's antitrust case against organized medicine being presented to a Federal Grand Jury. : In an action which lawyers said is virtually unprecedented, the District of Columbia Medical Society asked the Court to instruct the Grand Jury that medicine is a profession and not a “trade.” The motion is based on the word-

which, the Government contends, the American Medical Association

have violated in fighting a local cooperative health movement. The Sherman Act forbids conspiracies and combinations in restraint of

application of that statute to trade and commerce in services as well as goods can be made.

however, maintain that the medical profession is not engaged in trade and therefore is not subject to the antimonopoly act. Government attorneys said the motion is “novel” in two respects: 1. Grand ’® juries, once instructed in general terms at the beginning of their investigation, are not ordinarily called back by the presiding judge for further instruction. 2. Parties under investigation do

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ing of the Sherman Antitrust Act and its affiliate, the district society, | “trade or commerce.”

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SHAKEUP DUE ‘FOR JUVENILE COURT JAN. 1

Bradshaw Announces Plans - And Appoints Three to His Staff.

EXTRA SPACE IS SOUGHT

New Chief Probation Officer

Will Supervise All Investigations.

Plans for a complete reorganization of Juvenile Court operation were announced today by Judge: elect Wilfred Bradshaw, as he named three members of the Juvenile Court staff for 1939. Judge Bradshaw, who will succeed Juvenile Court Judge John F.

Geckler Jan. 1, sent his resignation as Municipal Court judge, effective Dec. 31, to Governor Townsend yesterday. He will announce soon 19 other Juvenile Court appointees, including another referee. The new appointees are Robley E. George, 3942 Hillside Ave., referee; Miss Lena Lee Cohen, 639 Union St., reporter, and Miss Helen Daniels, 15 W. 27th St., chief complaint clerk. 4 ‘I've Worked Day and Night’

Judge Bradshaw said he intends to staff the Court’s probation department with the best trained persons available “to investigate the family lives of all children that come into court.” “I have worked day and night for a month interviewing applicants for positions and I believe I am getting the best staff this court ever had,” he said. “My appointments are being made solely upon the qualifications of the applicants; that is the only thing that matters with me.” The judge said he will attempt to get the fourth floor of the Court House remodeled soon for a new Juvenile Court room -and general offices. 2 “Office conditions in the basement at present are very unsatisfactory,” he said. Only “three or four” of the present staff of workers.in the court and. probation departments will be retained after Jan. 1, he said. He added that the chief probation officer, to be named later, will have complete charge of all investigators. ; Mr. George was graduated from Michigan State University and has practiced law in Indianapolis seven vears, with the firm of Means & Buenting. He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, Indianapolis Lawyers’ Association and Monument Lodge, F. & A. M. He is married and has three children,

Lived Here Eight Years

Miss Cohen is a graduate of Butler University, member of the Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic society; and Delta Phi, debating society. For many years she was a teacher in the Sunday School of the National Council of Jewish Women and at one time was employed at the Kirshbaum Community Center. For the last three years she has been secretary in the City Legal Department. Miss Daniels has lived in Indianapolis eight years, moving here from Tipton. For the last four years she has been executive secretary of the Indiana Committee, a nonpartisan organization interested in criminal law amendments and crime prevention measures during the last two Legislatures. : Other major appointments yet to be made besides a chief probation officer, inciude a Negro referee, court bailiff and a case supervisor. Judge Bradshaw said the referees would preside as judge in certain cases in addition to advising the Court on legal matters.

LIGHT RAIN, WARMER WEATHER PREDICTED

TEMPERATURES

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33 35 9a m... 3 Light rain and rising temperature were forecast for tomorrow by the Weather Bureau today. The temperature, which fell to 27 last hight, was not expected to dip below 38 tonight.

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SATURDAY, DECEMB

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be) HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 (U. PJ. —Allan Hersholt, 24-year-old son of Jean Hersholt, had on file today notice of intention to marry Osa Massen, 23, Danish actress. The couple met last March at a celebration of the elder Hersholt’s 25th anniversary in pictures. He said the marriage will take place Thursday.

REPLACE AUTO LICENSE CHIEFS

State House Patronage Shift Costs Fourteen Bureau Heads Jobs.

In the first State House patronage upheaval since the election, Frank Finney, State auto license bureau commissioner, announced today that 14 branch auto license bureau managers had been replaced, and one new bureau established. Distribution of these managerships is on a patronage basis, the jobs usually being held by County and Ward chairmen, Branch managers receive a 25-cent service fee on each set of license plates sold,

and a..10: _ fee -. '|has sought for several weeks and -a..10-¢ent fee ; on -Sriverss. tions of altesed

licenses. | ; All the new branch managers are to take office immediately and the sale of 1939 license plates is to begin Monday. Two of the replacements for Wabash and Bluffton°bureaus were announced earlier this week. New replacements include: At Williamsport, Charles P. Holtz replaces J. B. Denins; at Michigan City, Mrs. Harmon Green replaces Mrs. Carrie Ohming; at Gary, Chester = Foster replaces B. Ray Smith; at Cambridge City, Wayne Whipple replaces Maynard Bertsch; at Lafayette, Ambrose R. Mayfield replaces George Burnell; at Dunkirk, Charles E. Reese replaces Al Ent: at Beech Grove, Thomas Gill replaces R. E. Kenendy; at Carlisle, Albert Whiggs replaces Fred Ogle; at English, Mrs. Charles T. Brown replaces C. J. Sams, at Morroco, Marvin Bower replaces Harold Martin; at Boonville, Russell E. Baker replaces L. L. Roth; at Decatur, Nathan C. Nelson replace Dee Fryback; 3 The new bureau was established at Oldensburg, and R. J. Backus was made the manager there.

RABBIT FEVER CASES IN INDIANA INCREASE

A total of 55 cases of tularemia (rabbit fever) have been reported in the State so far this month as com-

pared with 33 cases in Indiana during December, 1937, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Director, reported today. State Health Board records show the disease always is most prevalent in December and January.

GLASS PIERCES HEART, KILLING CHILD, 2

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 10 (U. P.) —Two-year-old Mary Alice Carlson, helping her parents clean the basement today, fell with a fruit jar}

‘in her hand. The jar shattered and one of the fragments pierced her

Sanitarium to take up again the battle against

But she is not concerned about herself—only her 68-year-old schoo ] thous proper clothes and might becom

heart. She bled to death before she could be taken to a hospital.

PRISONER at the Indiana State Farm, who shall be nameless here and is but a number there, today sent a $1 contribution to The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign “At the request of the prisoner,” the chief clerk of the Farm wrote, “we have deducted from his account here at the Farm the sum of $1 and are enclosing our regular Prisoner’s account check made payable to your Clothe-A-Child Department in payment of

You may, if you wish, let your own imagination build a background for this man, fabricate in your own mind the impulses and point of view that lead him to send a dollar to help clothe some Indianapolis school child who otherwise might beforced to quit school and maybe even his home because of economic conditions over which he had

You might also wish this prisoner a Merry Christmas, if you can

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ER 10,1938

NOLAN TO ACT ON EVIDENCE IN KOKOMO PROBE

Investigation Into WPA Will

Start -- After Current Fraud Trial Ends.

U. S. HEARS TESTIMONY

Winning Republican Leads

Election Recount in La Porte County.

Val Nolan, U. S. district attorney,

announced today that he will begin

an investigation of allegéd WPA irregularities in Kokomo within the next 10 days or two weeks. Mr. Nolan said he has received a report of Federal investigators who spent more than a month in Kokomo hearing testimony of WPA workers and others charging gross irregularities in the operation of WPA projects. ’ The report, Mr. Nolan said, was received yesterday from the U. S. Attorney General in Washington, who “requested that I give it attention.” . Mr. Nolan said he would not be able to study the report personally

until after conclusion of the Con-| .

tinental Credit Corp. fraud trial,

now in progress in Federal Court.

He said he intends to study the

charges at “Kokomo, and others,” but declined to elaborate on what other charges he referred to.

“As soon as the Continental case rial is over,” he said, “I am going to make a thorough study of the report with the view of determining if there have been any violations of Federal statutes and with the view of presenting any such violations to the Federal Grand Jury next spring.”

G. 0. P. Meeting Set

State G. O. P. leaders today planned a conference of State Com-

mittee executive officers with Raymond E. Willis, defeated Republican Senatorial candidate, to review evidence of alleged election irregularities in seven counties. The counties, where the G. O. P. to un‘election

cover indications of al fraud, are Lake, Marion, Vigo, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Clark and

Arrangements for the conference, which will also include Indiana national committeemen, were being made by Judge Noel Neal, Mr. Willis’ campaign manager.

Bobbitt Adamant

“The temporary writ of prohibition handed down by the State Supreme Court does not interfere with our presenting evidence of irregularities we have already collected to the U. S. Senate Elections Committee,” Judge Neal said. Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State chairman, would not comment on the meeting, in which, it is expected, the final decision to continue or abandon the contest action would be made. “I can’t say anything about the nature of evidence we would review in the conference,” Mr. Bobbitt said. “We have collected a quantity of allegations charging irregularities in seven counties where we sent investigators.”

“Out of Our Hands”

John K. Jennings, WPA state administrator, was out of the city and could not be reached for comment. Stanton Bryan, deputy administrator, said he had not seen the report. “The whole thing is out of our hands now and has been for some time,” he said. ‘The charges were turned over to the WPA division of investigation, an entirely separate organization, and their report was turned over directly to the District Attorney.”

Successful Candidate 36 Votes Ahead

LA PORTE, Dec. 10 (U.P.) —Walter F. Danielson, successful Republican candidate for the State House

of Representatives, led his Democratic rival, Martin T. Krueger, by 36 votes today in a recount of ballots in the November election. Nine of La Porte County’s 56 precincts remain to be counted. They probably will be completed by Wednesday, the Recount Board stated.

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13-Year-Old Cave Dweller Is Back Home

A 13-year-old boy, who for| three days has lived in a cave, promised Patrolman George Stricker of the Crime Preven=tion Bureau today that the next time he has a hankering to run away from home he will make the Police Headquarters his first stop. The boy, who has no other ~ record except that he periodically is away without leave from his home, told Patrol-

|. man Stricker _that he. plans. |

to go to Florida to work. Since Jan. 1 he has left home 20 times, his father told police. When he attends school, he has a good scholastic record, but he can’t resist truancy, he told the r.oliceman. He was found by police when his family reported him missing. He was hack home at press time.

EXPLOSION INJURES

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Mrs. Lulu E. Kline Is Victim Of Mysterious Blast.

Detectives and fire authorities today continued their investigation into a mysterious explosion yesterday which critically injured Mrs. Lulu E. Kline, 39, of 5901 Forest

Lane, SE * Mrs. Kline, who is the wife of Edgar J. Kline, vice president of the William E. Shumaker & Co., investment firm, was reported in a ‘very critical” condition with second degree burns at Methodist Hospital. The blast occurred in the kitchen of the home shortly before 5 p. m. When firemen arrived they found the back kitchen door blocked by a chair from the inside, they said. Firemen broke through the windows and after entering the blazing rcom said they heard someone groaning. They found Mrs. Kline lying on the floor in front of the stove. ; The Fire Department rescue squad administered first aid. : Several notes, two of which were written on sheets of two beds, were found by detectives, who opened an investigation, they said. One note read; “My precious baby, forgive me,” according to police reports. The explosion rocked the neighborhood, shattered all the windows in the Kline home and raised the kitchen ceiling from two to four

inches.

Just a Number—But, Like Hundreds of Others, He Remembers the Less Fortunate in Clothe-A-Child

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Another mother writes that her 9-year-old boy, “has only one pair of pants and I've washed them so much they hate no warmth left. His underclothes are three years old and they are beyond patching.”

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HESE three letters of the scores that came in Clothe-A-Child mail yesterday go to the roots of human emotion and experience. The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign is the way more

fortunate persons can help.

The Times has headquarters at 206 W. Maryland St. with a staff on duty from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Here are the ways you can participate: 1. If you wish to shop with a child personally, call RI-5551 and make an appointment to meet a child at Clothe-A-Child Headquarters. 2. Or if you want The Times to act for you, mail a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Experienced shoppers

will do the rest. :

3. Or you can join with others in your office, club, church, sports team, fraternity or sorority. Select a treasurer and shopping committees. Then let us know how many children your group desires to clothe. The Social Service Department of the Public Schools checks the lists to determine the neediest children and to eliminate duplication

of clothing gifts. The cost of outfitting a boy The average is from $8 to $12. Your gift will mean

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or, girl depends on individual needs. warmth for chilled bodies

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ANTI-AGGRESSION PACT SUGGESTED BY HULL AT ~ PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY

Forceful Character of Informal U. S. Suggestion to 21 Republics.

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MILITARY ALLIAN

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of the 21 republics attending proposals.

EDEN WARNS OF FASCIST THREAT

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

LIMA—Hull reported asking Pan-American pact against ‘isms.’ NEW YORK—Eden says democracy is endangered; 11,000 attend La Guardia’s rally against oppression. WASHINGTON — Mexican-Ger-man trade agreement rumored. re 2 8 8 o “TOKYO—Clash" with Russia on ‘Sakhalin feared. : MOSCOW—Russia says Japan must pay its debt.

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'PARIS—Daladier barely wins confidence vote. TUNIS—Serious week-end demonstrations feared.

ROME-—Pupils kept away from French Embassy.

MEMEL—Germans stirred on eve of election.

HENDAYE—Air raids renewed by both sides in Spain.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (U. P).— Anthony Eden, who resigned as British foreign minister because of his Government’s policy of “dealing with dictators,” disclosed today that he was visiting the United States to listen and learn the American viewpoint on perils to European democracy. 3 He said that Great Britain was acutely conscious of its own perils and was resolved to stand firm. Today Capt. and Mrs. Eden chatted for nearly an hour with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia and had luncheon with Col. Julius Ochs Adler, New York Times vice president. Later they planned to visit the world’s fair grounds and look over some American night clubs tonight. Earnest and affable, he arrived late yesterday on the liner Aquitania, boarded a cutter at quarantine in the rain, and was rushed to the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where 4000 persons, including many leading industrialists were attending the annual dinner of the (Continued on Page Two)

LOCAL TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED ON HIGHWAY

Loses 20 Cents to Bandits He Thought Officers.

Times Special MARION, Ind. Dec. 10. — Two armed and smooth-shaven bandits, wearing caps to resemble police officers, held up James Ross, Indian-

apolis, truck driver for the Indiana Film Transport Co., 12 miles north

of here early today and left him bound to the steering wheel after

obtaining only 20 cents. : State Police sent five cars to: the district to aid Marion and Ft. Wayne police in efforts to capture the two men. They fled north in their auto on Road 9 toward Huntington. Mr. Ross told Sergt. Roy Cox of the Marion Police Department that

Huntington when two men in a large sedan drove alongside. “They both were wearing dark caps with shiny visors and leather jackets, and I thought they were police,” Mr, Ross said. “They got out of the car and pointed automatic pistols at me.” Before reaching for Ross’ pocketbook, the bandits bound his hands to the steering wheel with adhesive tape, he said. It was m than one hour before Ross was able to himself and notify police. Ross said he usually made his ections from theaters toward the

of the week and he believed

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10.—U. understood today to have submitted for consideration of leading delegations to the eighth Pan-American Conference - the question of whether the Americas should join in a force |§ ful, binding agreement designed to bar foreign aggression |} and foreign ideologies from the Western World. |g

session of the conference and is expected to give delegates

| military alliance. The Hull project

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s afternoon at the first plenary’ | a full outline of United States

| Carlos Concha and Jose Mario Cantilo, the Foreign Ministers of Peru and Argens

tina, also will speak. Rh The powerful steering committee met before the plenary session. - Conversations among the leading | delegates indicated that Secretary Hull's plans might go considerably | farther than previously indicated, | although it was emphasized that | discussion [so far had been of & | preliminary nature. Tad Nevertheless, the forceful charags' ter of suggestions said to have been = | made by Secretary Hull caused an under-the-surface sensation among other leading delegations. + Ay Secretary Hull's project goes far beyond an agreement in prin between the United States and . gentina. Under the project, the terence within a few days make formal announcement. common American front, withou signed agreement, against forei ideological interference in Amer: affairs or foreign aggression.

No Alliance Proposed How far Secretary Hull's pro goes can be understood from following resume of its articles. T% secretary does not propose a signed

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is as follows: The American nations would fors mally declare that any menace from a non-American country would

cern by all American nations. Any attempt by non-American nations to implant a political system in cone: flict or at variance with the domes= tic political system of any such American nation likewise would seriously concern all American nas tions. Further, it would be agreed uns der the Hull project that in event of such extracontinental menace, | the American nations would consult among themselves on the esti means of repelling such menace and. each nation would contribute such. action in the best manner at its disposal ,and to the best of iis ability. The Hull project further provides: for annual meetings of the foreign ministers of the American nations to consider questions of interest to the American continents. )

Argentina Holds Key

It is possible that the agreement in principle between the United States and Argentina is such that! Argentina will be able to agree to |: the terms of the Hull project. Howe _ | ever, in view not only of the terms: of the proposal but also the fast that it appears in reality to be & formal pact, it is not clear how the implications of the project can be made to accord with Argeniina’s already definitely announced I€= fusal to sign a formal pact. ded! It is equally possible that Sete retary Hull has been made so confls dent on the agreement by Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo ° Argentina on the basic principle

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