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THURSDAY, DEC. 15) 1938

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| Baldwin Aiding Eden, Report; ~ French Increase Arms Budget; Jews Pay 100 Million of Fine

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Rehamberior, od

Nazis; Franco Broadcast Hints at Peace.

Baldwin, regarded the mo fluential Conserva figure ‘Great Britain,

LONDON, Dec. 7 P).~ tiv

policy, itt was understood today. Earl Baldwin of

ecessor. It was he who

al leader, he announced that Grea Britain's frofitier henceforth

Channel.

It was Lord Baldwin | who caused the German Nazi boycott of a banquet only Tuesday night at which Mr. Chamberlain criticized German newspapers for “heaping ° vituperation” on him—*“the most. réspected |

of our statesmen.” Now, it was Baldwin is - quietly coaching Capt.

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Eden in the demand that the British Government « firm up its policy

‘toward the dictator nations. Keeps in Background

Lord Baldwin has been careful, as ‘a conservative personage, to avoid

taking any open stand against Mr.

Chamberlain. But. his influence is . great throughout the country, and ‘his own quiet - pressure combines

with growing open opposition to Mr.

Chamberlain's. “appeasement” policy among: Liberals, Laborites and

‘dissidént Conservatives.

It was recalled also that it was

“Lord Baldwin who brought Capt.

~ Eden to the front and named, at 38 years of age, to the key post of For-

eign Secretary—a post which Capt. "Eden resigned in protest against Mr. _ Chamberlain's policy of negotiating

and as Capt. Eden Saw it, over-con-ciliating Fuehrer Hitler and Pre-

mier< Mussolini. = |

Prime Minister Chamberlain ‘warned ' Germariy plainly today of __ Britain's financial might and increased armament as vital factors

in. a possible war.

Speaking at a luncheon to Lord formerly | Vivian Hugh

Bicester, Smith, in the House of Commons, _ the Prime Minister said:

“When German statesmen reflect

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on the possible consequences of con- . fiict, they think not/ only of our armaments but our great financial resources, which in a war of long durdeciding

“ation might prove the

factor.

= “This has a great influence in

in is backing Anthony Eden's demand for a firmer foreign

ew ley was Prime Minter Chamberlain's predhandled ~ the abdication crisis, he who caused a world sensation when, as nation-

was the German Rhine, not the English

wnddediood, Lord

LIMA ACCORDS ON TRADE AND DEFENSE NEAR

U.S. Projects Win Favor; Quito Waits Attack By Rebels.

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declaration to be acted upon by the conference. The new text gives a solemn warning to the world that the American nations Will resist as one any foreign aggression or interference in their affairs, but ye: the same-time will avoid any indication that the Americas are turning their back on the rest of the world The Argentine delegation was especially emphatic on avoiding any spirit of isolation hecause of close ties and trade relations of vital importance: with European natioris. Generally, however, the United States and Argentine viewpoints have besn considered unusually harmonious at the conference.

‘Unity in Democracy’

The redrafted declaration was entitled: “An expression of conscience and solidarity of the Americas.”

The text said: | “The Inter-American Conference meeting at Lima, considering that the nations of America are achieving spiritual unity by a similarity of democratic institutions, an irrevoc- » [able desire for peace, sentiment for humanity and tolerance, absolute adhesion to the principle of human rights based on equal sovereignty of states, individual liberty without religious or racial prejudice; * “That supporting such principles and desires, they seek and defend continental peace and collaborate in universal acord; “That there exists among the American nations a natural solidarity, by virtue lof which any action intended to alter their peace or independence is destined to provoke a spontaneous common reaction, declares:

Each to Act for Self “The American republics reaffirm

DiSSeTving lhe page of the world.” | their willingness to co-operate in

The’ de

day. Cengare io Be Moved

half of the Labor Party, is to move:

“That this House has no confi- claj foreign policy of His

dence in th Majesty's ‘Government.” . Passage Unlikely

This is the. fist direct challenge to Mr. Chamberlain's entire policy. Other oppesition motions of censure

against the Government have been

on particular aspects of his strategy and tactics.

The motion was so worded that

; for| a firmer policy toward Herr’ Hitler and Sig. Mug: solini will reach another stage Mon-

The Labor Party will challenge > then, in the House of Commons, the entire conduct of Mr. Chamberlain’s foreign policy. Hugh Dalton, “n be-

universal re-establishment of principles on which their solidarity is constructed and the American conscience formed; : “In event of American peace being threatened by an act or threat or force from a non-American government or any other attempt aimed at altering territorial integrity or destroying the national institutions of any American nation, they protheir decision to put into practice their solidarity by consultative processes, which are provided in existing accords and to. co-ordinate thus their will to resist such action with methods intelligently advised by the circumstances. “However, each Government is to work under the method adopted per se and with plain recognition of its equality and juridical caBacity as a sovereign and independent state.”

U. S. Sends nds Third Note : On Jewish Issue To Berlin. 4

BERLIN, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Tens of thousands of German Jews today handed over to the Nazi Government a *100-million-dollar instal‘ment of the 400-million-dollar fine levied on them because of the assassination of Ernest von Rath, Secretary in the German Embassy at Paris, -by a 17-year-old Jew. It was a gigantic bookkeeping operation, essentially, which gave German banks one of their busiest days. Shares of the fine were levied on those Jews whose total possessions were more than $2000. The operation proved principally to be a transfer of huge amounts of Jewish deposits from ordinary banks to the Prussian State Bank which was designated to receive today’s insialment. <

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a td LONDON, Dec. 15 (U.P.).— The News Review asserted today that it had excellent authority for reports from Berlin that 15 high-ranking Army officers had been executed on treason charges and that dozens of others had been sent to concentralion. camps (or military prison. According to the publication, it was alleged that the men ‘involved planned to raid Fuehrer Hitler's mountain home in Bavaria, and even contemplated . seizing or killing Herr Hitler. Similar reports previously have been denied by the German Government.

There was very little direct transference of money or stocks. Banks generally did the main work by notifying the central bank that specified sums were to be transferred. to its account. . Banking experts said that Jews for several days had been instructing their banks-to prepare the transfers. "Debt Rise May Be Slowed

In cases where stocks and bonds were transferred, early preparation was not possible because banks In big cities received instructions only this morning that t value of stocks and bonds must™he calculated on the basis of quotations for Nov. 30. These quotations happened to be approximately the same as those today. However, most". provincial banks had not even received these instructions, which were forwarded by ordinary mail yesterday. Today's payment was made as Nazi expérts were wondering whether the rapidly rising German public

debt can ever be reduced safely. The Jewish fine will probably not reduce the debt, but it will put a brake upon the speed upward.

New loans floated by-the Reich

in 1938 total almost $3,200,000,000— more than three times as great as in 1937.

Official statistics show the fotal

public debt amounts to $10,530,000,000 or an increase of 36 per cent over last year. #

The unpublished figures on Ger-

many's floating debt are estimated by foreign, experts to bring the to-

tal indebtedness above 20 billion

Rites i

Services will be held Saturday for William J. Mooney Sr., one of Indianapolis’ most prominent business; civic and political leaders, who died yesterday. (Story, Page One.)

PARK BOARD SCANS EAST ST. EXTENSION

Engineers Have Estimates Of Cost Ready.

The Park Board today was to consider the proposal of Mayor Boetcher for the extension of South East St. through Garfield Park to create a through artery for South Side traffic to State Road 31. The proposal was made by the Mayor . last week as a means of utilizing WPA labor now available. Park Board engineers were to submit estimates of the cost of the projected extension. Park Board members were to discuss the problem of building a crossing at the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, which would be necessary’ to link the extension to the southern portion of South "East St. The program would follow the City’s long-range plan of eventually building six ‘arterial highways through the South Side.

SALLY FINDS HER CLOTHES ARE HEAVY

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 (U.P). —Whatever Sally Rand may not wear on tne stage she apparently makes up for by what she wears off the stage. Her clothes weighed 50 pounds over the maximum allowed on planes when she flew here for an engage ment.

HIT-AND-SKIP VACTIM THOUGH IN REVERSE

BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— Joe Siig applied to police to learn

if he s guilty of heing a hit-and-run drive He said he ran into a girl, but it was the girl who ran so fast afterward he was unable to ascertain whether he had injured her or not.

financial puzzle, although there is general agreement that the Reich is. in no danger of immediate economic collapse. «

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RUSSIA CLAIMS FISHING VICTORY OVER JAPANESE

Tokyo Expected to Yield; Chinese Guerrillas Inside Shanghai. :

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sia claimed a diplomatic victory over Japan today in a serious dispute over Japanese fishing concessions, due to expire Dec. 31.

serted that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov rejected a Japanese demand that Russia at once sign a

Ambassador, had promised that Japan would guarantee payment for Russia’s share of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. if she did so.

a proposal, which M. Litvinov pireviously made, that a * temporary fisheries agreement be signed, it was said. Commissar Litvinov said

one-year agreement only if Japan paid the railroad installment on which Manchukuo defaulted. Furthermore, Commissar Litvinov, despite Ambassador Togo’s protests, said that in any agreement at all,

fishing areas previousl Japan off the Siberian €0ast, about 40 lots which Russia a to treat as closed, strategic areas. The areas in question .are about nnetenth of the total alloted to Japan. The prospect was, on the basis of the communique, that Russia would sign a one-year provisional fisheries agreement “provided that Japan made good their railroad payment.

Japanese Fight 6000 Guerrillas

SHANGHAI, Dec. 15 (U. P.)—A Japanese Army spokesman admitted today ‘that the Japanese Army, Navy and Air Force were fighting Chinese guerrilla units in the SHanghai, Nanking and Hankow areas, all nominally under complete Japanese domination. For-two days, the spokesman said, Japanese units had been ‘mopping up” a unit of 6000- men of the new Fourth Chinese Army, operating south of the Yangtze in the Shang¢ hai area. The Fourth Army men were believed to be part of the famous Eighth Route Army, the former Communist Army. Chinese sources asserted that the headquarters of the new Fourth Army actually were in Shanghai.

CANADA REPORTS WORLD TRADE DROP

OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 15 (U. P.)—Ottawa’s world trade is declining. A report issued by the Dominion bureau of statistics showed the Dominion’s external trade during the seven months ended in October was valued at $992,005,829, with $1,193,787.551 in the correspon--ing period of 1937. Exports were valued at $545339,302, compared with $680,487,506, and imports at $408,135,617, compared

with $503,577.290.

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Rus-

A Foreign Office communique as- ||

long-term fisheries agreement, even |; ‘though Shigenori Togo,

Japanese |

Ambassador Togo had agreed tol}

Russia would sign even a temporary |

compared |.

Russia would withdraw from the. 7 alloted to|

One man was injured and five others narrowly escaped when this sewer ditch, in the 6200 block of Carrollton Ave. caved in today. The injured man, Cecil Trotter, 21, was buried to his chin in gravel and

loose dirt. Story, Page one.

Times Photo. .

Soviet Official Conicrs With 2 Held Under $25,000 Bond

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Mikhail Brean, Soviet Vice

Consul of New York, conferred in

on charges of stealing American Naval: secrets and promised a statep

ment scmetime/ today. Ivanushkin talked with Mikhai

Gorin, 34, manager of Soviet Tourist

Agency, in the County Jail. Gorin,

a Soviet citizen, was held with Haiis

Salich, 33, a naturalized American, under $25,000 bond.

Accompanying the vice-consu

were United States Attorney Ben-

jamin Harrison, and a ' Federa

Agent. United States

permission to!see his countryman.

-¢ I hope to have some kind of a “1 have not had time to study the case

statement later today,” he said.

yet.” Mr. Agent, also refused to comment.

Both Governments Silent

Official silence of both govern-

ments in the case strengthened be-

lief that it had a serious interna-

tional aspect.

The vice-consul was permitted to!

talk with his countryman in Rus-

sian, but only in the presence of a member of the Naval Intelligence, who was

Lieut. William Maxwell, called into the conference becaus he understands the language.

accompanied the vice-consul to th

meeting. Lieut. Frankel was overheard to inform Gorin that he would

see him again today.

Ivanushkin, accompanied by twol aides, T. Baranov and S. Michael, =

Marshal Robert Clark granted Ivanushkin

Harrison and the Federal

An attorney, J. Allen Frankel, also| $487 worth of untaxed whisky in his

jail with one of two Russians held

ll arrived last night by plane. Baranov and Michael guarded the official from cameramen and refused to answer questions of reporters. Baranov was described as a civil engineer; Michael as an interpreter. 1 Both prisoners, arrested Sunday, had been held incommunicado. 1| Gorin, however, was allowed to telephone the Soviet Embassy at Washington three times and, indicated that he was trying to furnish bond. He formerly was attached to the consulate here. Salish, “loaned” to the Naval Intelligence office at San Pedro by the Berkeley, Cal.,, Police: Department, was accused of passing on to Gorin secrets of Japanese naval strength that the United States had obtained. He has lived in - this country 15 years, is a linguist. The Navy reportedly wanted him because he spoke Japanese.

DRIVER HAVING $487 IN WHISKY ARRESTED

Indiana State and Excise police e| today had under arrest Forest Davis, Cincinnati, who, they charged, had

e|car and was driving while intoxi- | cated. He was arrested near Lagootee last night. Police said he had picked up the liquor in Illinois and

FIRSTLADY ONS, : 10 REPLACE SON

Mrs. Rosdevalt to Be Named Director Monday “Represent James.

BOSTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Mrs, - Franklin D. Roosevelt will be elect= ed one of four directors of the ims: surance firm, Roosevelt & Sargent, -

financial interest in the company, « John Sargent said today.: : Mrs. Roosevelt will. replace her _ eldest son, James, and will jattend board meetings to protect his in terests. James Roosevelt has be=' come a vice president of Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., and will . spent’ most of his time in Hollywood. The insurance company does business in Boston and, Chicago. When he became secretary to his. father, the President, James re=signed his position with the insure ance company but retained his ine

t “a great many of the policy.

I think I owe it to my clients to

‘She ‘Won't Get Paid’

“My mother . . . won't get any salary,” he said. “I doubt ‘if she

attending board meetings.”

Mr. sargent said James Roosevelt had suggested his mother’s appoint= ~ ment and that he would attend Monday’s meeting for her election, The other directors. are Mr. Sar= gent; Arthur J. Anderson, senior partner of O’Brion, Russell & Co., affiliate of Roosevelt & Sargent, and

Roosevelt & Sargent. The board meets about every three months.

ning Post referred to Mr. Roosevelt's’

as son of the President to get big contracts.

lier’s Magazine. Be

FIND MOTHER-IN- LAW

happy home’s public enemy No. 1 is ‘still the mother-in-law, according to Adrian Hassard-Short, secretary of the London Committee on Poor

Persons Procedure, who .in the last: 10 years has handled more than: 16,000. divorce cases. Three other great sources of divorce were jealousy, selfishness and lodgers, he said.

JUSTICE OF PEACE

of Fairacres,

has his first case to, hear.

was on his way to Ohio.

necessary bond.

next Monday but she will sell no {insurance and will not have any.

An article in the Saturday Eves

HASN'T HEARD CASE

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 15 (U. P.).—~ Voters have faith in George Brane deis, well-known Omaha merchant, . For many years justice of the peace. *

Mr. Brandeis again’ was elected to that post—but he still After each election he neglects to post he be

INSURANCE FIRM

terest in it. He announced in Chi= .- cago he owned a large interest and ".

holders were customers of mine, so °

have a representative on the board.” -

wilk even get her expenses paid for :

¢

Edward M. Gallagher, member ‘of

insurance business recently and insinuated that he used his position -

Mr. Roosevelt denied any -. such activity in an article in Col-* ’

CHIEF DIVORCE CAUSE

LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—The.

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RR SSS SE FET

dollars for a nation of 80 million persons as compared to the United States public debt of 39 billion for

iif db passed—it could not, conceiv- | ably, because of the Conservative majority—it would force the Gov-

Quito Awaits U. S. Sends Nazis

| ernment’s resignation. The Labor Party, bent on making

.the debate on the motion a full dress affair, named Arthur Greenwood, Albert Alexander, Sir Charles

Edwards and Maj. Clements Attlee,

party leader, as supporters of Dal-

~ ton’s motidn.

French Delay Syrian Independence

PARIS, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Premier

Daladier, his foreign policy as re-

gards Italian demands drawn on - firm lines, submitted to Parliament ‘today a budget which envisages ex--penditures of more than one billion

dollars on armaments.

As a preliminary to submission of the budget to the Chamber of DepGeorges that .even if it meant war Italy “would obtain not an inch of soil of the that all air and sea forces would aid Great Britain in event of

. uties, Foreign Minister

"Bonnet had announced (1)

. French Empire, and (2)

French land,

-an unprovoked attack. M. Bonnet's reference to France's

-

- willingness to aid Britain against unprovoked attack was designed to emphasize the British-French iden-

tity of interests as. represented by their entente.

Late last night Mr. Bonnet on recommendation of the Chamber Finance . Committee asserted that . the Government would delay ratification of the Syrian independence

"treaty.

‘This ostensibly simple declaration that France under, its League mandate . would® assume full administrative control over Syria and strengthen its military fand naval position in the Eastern Mediterranean in view

meant, it was understood,

of the Italian agitation.

Rebels Hint at ~ Peace Possibility

HENDAYE. Dec. 15 (U. P.).—The Spanish insurgent radio broadcast,

Rebel Attack

QUITO, Ecuador, Dec. 15 (U. PJ). —President Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez massed artillery and airplanes today to back. up his demand for the immediate surrender of dissident Army units fortified on. Ichimbhia Hill, dominating the capital, under the leadership of Left Wing political chieftains. An order for attack was expected at any hour. Police, tarabiniers and cavalrymen patroled the Streets of the capital, and’ the Presidential Palace was heavily guarded. Business was suspended, All telephone, telegram and radio communication was under a strict censorship.

Crack Regiment Deserts

There were occasional clashes fh the streets between patroling units and groups 0f Left Wing political: adherents, demonstrating against ‘the dictatorship of the President. The disaffected troops had réfused all demands that they surrender, and in turn demanded that the President revoke a decree (dissolving Parliament. Col. Luis Larrea Alba, only reCently returned from exile, and Dr. Arrizaga, Assembly speaker, were reported to be leading the troops on IchHimbia Hill, and to be determined on a finish fight. The crack Yaguachi Regiment was the central element of the revolting force. It was reported that the Atahualpa battalion was supporting it, among others. Throughout last evening there were vain efforts to effect a compromise bétween the Government and the disaffected elements. When all efforts failed, the Governmens concentrated all loyal elements in the vicinity of the capital, nearly 10,000 feet up ‘in the Andes and almost on the Equator, and prepared for a fight.

WELFARE HYGIENE CLINIC TO OPEN

130 million population.

In the simplest form possible, the questions posed for economists are: At what point does further debt increase, become impossible without economic collapse (such as monetary inflation)? How long can the Reich continue to postpone a reversal of the “present borrowing policy? Must the Government ever begin irying to balance its budget? For orthodox economists the answers might be comparatively simple, but under’ the Nazi-controlled economy the whole problem is a

New Note on Jews

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) — Acting’ Secretary of State Sumner Welles revealed today/ that the United Sta.es has sent ‘a new note to Germany requesting immediate assurance that American Jews will not be discriminated against in the Reich. The note expressed «disappointment” over failure of the German Government to give these assurances which have. been requested twice previously. It was delivered in Berlin yesterday.

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