Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1938 — Page 5

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Army Officers Involved In Overthrow Plans Are Shot.

+ HENDAYE, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—Dispatches from Rebel Spain today reported that Generalissimo Francis€0 Franco's heralded offensive against the Loyalists has been postponed indefinitely because of discovery of an anti-Franco plot among Army officers and because Loyalist spies had secured detailed information on insurgent military plans. | According to one version reported

~ at the frontier, an anti-Franco plot

was discovered among Army officers and soldiers of the'1llth Field Artillery regimerit at Burgos— Rebel ' headquarters—earlier this month. Burgos was virtually besieged, according. to these advices, by Franco police and civil guards from Corogna in order to put down the plot. All streets were barred and police raided hotels, bars and restaurants, arresting 400 persons. Later arrests raised the total to 765. The reports said that all officers involved in th? plot were shot, including two colonels and a major of * the artillety regiment and the San Martial infaniry regiment. They were said to have been charged with plotting to. overthrow Franco. Police were described as being “unusually severe” in Franco Spain since discovery of the plot against the insurgent generalissimo.

Hitler ‘Deal’ on Jewish Boycott Spurned

LONDON, Dec. 21 (U. P).—War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, today * called upon Prime Minister Chamberlain to inquire into charges that the Government's rearmament program was not progressing satisfactorily. Meanwhile, it was learned that Adolf Hitler has demanded a halt of the world-wide Jewish boycott of . German goods in return for financial co-operaticn in resettling . 700,000 German Jews in new homes abroad, it was learned today. The demand was part of the plan ~offered the Intergovernmental Committée on Refugees by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, last week, It was studied by . George Rublee, American executive director of the committee, and financial experts of Great Eritain, France and the Netherlands. But it was understood that | the powers had turned it down because the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands were unwilling to commit themselves to buying more Germar: goods. Several points in the German plan were considered excellent, however, and Mr. Rublee will go to . Berlin and discuss means of transferring 700,000 Jews from the Reich. Orderly Removal Goal

Notable among these points was Germany's pian for organizing the emigration of Jews in an orderly way which would cause the least possible inconvenience to receiving countries. Mr. Rublee, a Washington lawyer, was expected to go to Berlin in January and seek a compromise to retain the best features of the German plan while finding different means of financing the mass emigration. He was expected to obtain the approval of all the governments represented on the intergovernmental committee. Although Dr. Schacht’s plan has not been revealed, it was reported reliably that Germany’s demand for cessation of the Jewish boycott, . which has caused inestimable harm to German trade, was one | of its principal features.

Four-Foint Plan It was reported that the plan was: 1. That all Jewish capital in Germany would be paid into a central fund under Gfrman Government control. 2. An international loan would be floated in the United States, Britain and other countries to raise a sum equal to Gernian-Jewish capital. Jews throughdut the world would be expected to. buy these bands to ‘help their [gernjan brethren. 3. Each German Jew leaving the Reich would receive from thé inter‘national loan fund as much money as he left in Germany. This would make many German Jews acceptable in countries unwilling to admit _ destitute refugees. 4. Interest and amortization of the loan would be increased German | exports to the United States; Britain, France ahd other countries , financed by the German-Jewish | capital in Germany. Thus the Jews in these countries would have to halt the boycott of German goods | if they wanted to be repaid the money they had| put into the international loan. | It was this patt of the plan which the financial experts found inac- | ceptable,

Refuse to Comment On Portrait Order

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P.).— Officials of the Czechoslovakian legation refused to comment taday on an order from the Praha Government to remove portraits of Eduard Benes. former President, and Thomas Masaryk. founder of the Czech republic, [irom the legation’s walls.

‘China Clamps Down

On Modern Diversions

| CHUNGKING, China, Dec 21 (U. P.) .—The Chinese Nationalist Government, seeking to rally every spree of resistance to the Japanese ies, toclay approved a movement = clamp down on modern diversions imported from Western countries. The New Life Organization formulated regulations which would prohibit functionaries from frequenting vaudeville, or sing-song establishments or tea houses. The regulations also would ban sing-song girls from wearing “ultra-fashion-J if

| PROFESSOR TO RETIRE CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 21 (U. P).—John Livington Lowes, who celebrates his Tist birthday today, become a professor-emeritus at Harvard University next Sept. 1.

ssi and Poland” to Increase Trade as Reply to Hitler.

MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—Substantial increases in trade between Soviet Russia -and Poland were interpreted today as a Russian-Polish reply to any designs which Adolf Hitler may have on the Ukraine.’ Confronted by Nazi-encouraged agitation for the creation of a “Greater Ukrainia,” the Soviet and Poland announced new intergovernment trade increases and were expected to follow them up with a formal trade treaty and a strengthening of political ties. The trade increases were approved by Anastas I. Mikoyan, the new Soviet Commisar of Foreign Trade, and M. Lichovsky, director of the commercial and political department of the Polish Ministry off Commerce and’ Industry.

Signing Due Next Month

As a result of conferences lasting three days, it was ascertained that the possibility of extension of trade turnover between both countries in its general scope would reach from $26,400,000 to $30,240,000 a year. The new trade treaty probably will be signed next month. It will provide for a mutual most favored nation principle regarding customs duties and other trade questions. A communique said that all eommercial problems between the two countries would be solved as a result of present future negotiations. Polish quarters said they expected to receive from Russia raw materials, tobacco and iron ore in return for textiles, textile machinery, locomotives and steel products.

Political Significance

Foreign observers interpreted the trade agreements as of less significance than their political implications. Several weeks ago Soviet Russia and Poland expressed their good intentions toward one another, and the announcement came at a time when Herr Hitler was reported as having designs on the Ukraine. At the same time ssia, concerned about the Nazi agitation in the Ukraine, asked France to define her attitude toward any possible Ukrainian autonomy efforts and whether she would reaffirm the French-Russian pact of military mutual aid in event of aggression. In his speech on foreign policy the other day, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet failed to mention the French-Russian agreement. Most of the Ukraine is in Russia, but parts of it are in Poland, Rumania and Czechoslovakia.

MOSCOW. Dec: 21 (U. P.).—Controversy between Soviet Russia and Japan over fishing rights off the Siberian Coast reached a new crisis today as a result of another talk between Foreign * Commissar Maxim Litvinov and Japanese Ambassador Shigenori Togo. The controversy has reached a deadlock which gives little hope of being broken before Friday, which had been set as the deadline because any agreement must be ratified by the Japanese privy council before the national holiday starting Sunday and the Emperor's vacation starting Dec. 28. Actual fishing would not start until spring:

Ukrainian Autonomy Appeal Is Rejected

WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The Government teday notifiled the Ukrainian deputies [in Parliament that their request for consideration of a proposal for Ukrainian autonomy had been rejected. In rejecting the Ukrainian autonomy resolution, the Government spokesman pointed out that the autonomy - demand involved |a change in the constitution which requires signatures of one-fourth of the members of parliament before, it can be considered. The Ukrainians, who have only 16 members, admitted they could not get the necessary 52 signatures.

Goering Orders Production Stepup

Hermann Goering. in charge of the Reich four-year plan, today ordered Economics Minister Walther Punk to increase German economic production. “An increase in production can be realized by improvement of machinery and production methods and by increasing the output of individual workers,” Herr Goering said in a letter to Herr Funk.

Charge Jap Ships Sought Tribute

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P.) — The .U. S. Maritime Commission opens hearings today on charges that two large Japanese steamship companies have attempted to exact tribute from American Pacific Coast lines by threatening to precipitate a rate war. Officials of the two companies— Osaka Syosen Kabusiki Kaisya and Yamashita Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha —are scheduled to answer allegations in a complaint filed by West Coast shippers and. shipping companies. The complaint charged that the two Japanese companies inaugurated “drastic and unwarranted” rate reductions on traffic moving between the east coast of South America, American Pacific Coast posts and Japan, the cuts applying mainly to coffee. The move, it was alleged, was designed to force American companies to allot the Japanese carriers from 25 to 30 per cent of the coffee t c moving northward, or the cash equivalent of that volume. | The commission has authority under the 1920 Merchant Marine Act to take such steps as it deems] necessary to remedy such a condition, if the allegations in the complaint are found to exist. If necessary, the commission could deny the companies use of American

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SCOTTISH VOTE TEST IN BRITAIN

Chamberlain Policy Issue; Nazis Devote Space to La Guardia Attack.

GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The first out-and-out test of electoral: Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Europe's dictators. came today in a by-elec-tion in the West Perth and Kinrose parliamentary divisions. The test was offered by the Duchess of Atholl, whose dislike of dictators won her the nickname of “Red Kitty.” She is running as an independent for a seat in Parliament against W. McNair Siiaddon, a prominent farmer chosen by the pro-Chamberlain Conservatives. Mrs. C. A. McDonald, wife of ¢ Perth parish clergyman, the Liberal candidate, withdrew. The cold wave and foot-de:p snow on the Scottish highlands complicated the election. Supporters of the two candidates braved a blizzard and treacherous roads ‘o go to the polling places. The record-breaking cold wave was believed to favor the 64-year-old Duchess, who looks more like a country = schoolmistress than the premier duchess of Scotland. Her strength lay in the urban centers while Mr. Snaddon must depend upon the agricultural vote. Taking account of this, Mr. Snaddon rented 500 automobiles to transport thrifty Scottish hill dwellers to the polls free of charge. The Duchess yas able to round up only 60 cars.

Anthony Eden

Home From U. S.

PLYMOUTH, England, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—Anthony Eden returned to England from the United States today and said he had learned much of the American viewpoint during his brief visit. Arriving aboard the Queen Mary, Mr. Eden told interviewers that contrary to the popular British belief, the American ‘people were greatly interested in world affairs, European events in particular. He praised the “remarkable service” rendered readers of American newspapers, particularly about European and Far Eastern affairs.

Fined for

LeAtiing Fascists

TUNIS, TUNISIA, Dec. 21 (U.P). —Ubaldo Rey, president of the Fascist organization “Italia,” began serving a three months’ prison term today for leading the Italian Fascist demonstration here on Dec. 8. In addition he was fined 500 francs. M. Rey, a captain in thé French army during the World War, appeared before the French correctional tribune wearing the Croix de Guerre with palms. His defense lawyers declared that M. Rey, with a brilliant war record, was not antiFrench but was merely an gxponent of Franco-Italian rapprochement.

Germany Told

La Guatdia ‘Thrashed’

BERLIN, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The Nazi devoted much space today to

“I'm not going to eat again until you let me out of here,” said the father in his jail cell. “You're just trying to pin somehing on me. Well, you can't pin anything on a corpse—and I'll be a corpse myself before you get anything on me, because I'm rot going to eat any more,” William Sprinelli said in broken English. He is of Italian descent.

William Spinelli Jr. 19.

" They faced each other in Central Police Station earlier today and the youth urged his father to confess he killed his wife, the youth's mother, with an ax and burned her body in the family incinerator nine days ago. Rose Spinelli, housekeeper in a wealthy Beverly Hills. home, has béen missing since Dec. 12. : The father refused to confess and insisted he knew nothing about the disappearance of his wife, who, he admitted, has been his sole means of ‘support for 10 years. Spinelli is less than 5 fedf tall. He readily admitted, police ghid, that he had intimate relationséwith two of his daughters. . a_charge of incest. Near the incinerator at the Spinelli home, the police had found a collection of bones, one of which was

said, on medical authority, to belong to a human skull,

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FOR AMERICAN ACCORD DRAWN

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d laration against totalitarianism led

to the latest compromise effort. It was understood: that the Argentines had been granted their desire to avoid use of the word “non-American” in connection with the danger of invasion of the Western Hemisphere, thus directing the declaration’ against American as well as non-American powers. At the same time, one United States source when asked whether the compromise would mean a tris umph for Argentine if accepted, replied: “It doesn’t look that way to us.” Argentina had rejected any sweeping declaration of continental solidarity in the face of extraAmerican aggression, and it was understood that the Argentine delega-| tion had been instructed from Buenos Aires not to alter its position. The Argentine position virtually had deadlocked the conference on its most important business and the next move appeared up to Mr. Hull. Meanwhile, the project for an American League of Nations was shelved when the Commission on Organization of Peace unanimously referred it to the International Committee of Jurists at Rio De Janeiro for study.

GOTTSCHALK HAILS BUILDING PROJECTS

Claims New Structures Will Remedy Overcrowding.

.Building projects at six of the State’s institutions is expected to alleviate much of the overcrowding revealed by a survey in October, Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Department of Public Welfare said today. According to the October report released today, eight of the correctional institutions in the state are greatly overcrowded.

The State Prison at Michigan|

City, built to accommodate 2100 persons, has 480 more than that number, the report stated. The Pendleton Reformatory has 300 more than its 1700 capacity. Other crowded institutions, according to the report, include the Boys’ School at Plainfield, with 11 over capacity: the Central State Hospital, here with 258 over capacity; the Logansport State Hospital with 278 over capacity; the Richmond State Hospital with 41 over capacity; the Madison State Haspital with 124 over capaicty and the Ft. Wayne School with 76 over capacity.

EUROPE’S DISASTROUS COLD WAVE HANGS ON

LONDON, Dec. 21 (U. P).— Deaths and widespread privation continued today as all Europe suffered from the fourth day of bitter cold weather, Violent gales swept the Black Sea, the Baltic and North Sea and temperatutes remained below zero in sections of England, France and

Germany. Great Britain counted 39 dead, France 23, Rumania 11, Czechoslovakia three and Hungary two. Seventy persons were reported frozen to death in the Lodz area of Poland. On the Polish-German

border, where German-Jewish refu-|

gees are living in improvised shelters, at least 10 persons were dead.

“mouse” Mayor Fiorello La Guardia got from an unemployed stonecutter yesterday. The Voelkischer Beobachter, official organ, of the Nazi Party, carried a banner headline saying, “La Guardia Thrashed” and the Lokal Anzeiger’s lLieadline read, “Man in despair beats La Guardia, misery

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Youth Accuses Father Of Mother’s Ax Murder

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (U.P.).—William Spinelli, 58-year-old dwarf who is held with his 19-year-old son on suspicion they murdered Rose Spinelli, 48, wife and mother, went on a hunger strike today.

In a bedroom they found a bloodsoaked mattress, a bloodstained floor, and a hand ax spattered with dark stains. - Police said they were convinced that either Spinelli or his. son had hacked Mrs. Spinelli to death, dismembered her body, and reduced the pieces to ashes in the incinerator. The son was booked on a charge of suspicion of murder. He told detectives that his father had forced him to writé to a third sister saying that their mother had gone to South America with another man. After hours of this questioning, detectives decided to confront father with son. They put them in a room together and listened for more than an hour while the son urged his father to confess murder. “Pop, they're going to find it all out in the end, so tell me, where's 'Mom’s body? Where's she at, so we can give. her a decent burial,” demanded the son. “No, no, you know where she is. You probably killed her yourself,” the father replied. “But the ax, Pop,” persisted the youth. “It was in the garage, and you had the only key. No one else could get in.” “You're the one,” the elder Spinelli flared back, “you know you always were the black sheep of the family.”

942. Provided With Warm

Apparel—Many More In Need.

UST 58 more children clothed, and The Times’ Clothe-A-Child campaign will pass the 1000 mark. But that means the job is not even half done. And there are just four more days—today, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. One hundred and fifty children were clothed yesterday, with Link Belt No. 228 leading the parade by

providing warm apparel for 36 5

children. Mile-of-Dimes, the Sidewalk Santa, has reached $2400. The score: Clothed Directly by DONOrs. cocceees...569 Children Clothed by Donors Cash ($3,685.09) cccc0eee...373 Children Total. ee asansssvess +2 Children

Mile-Of-Dimes (Estimate) ..$2400

TODAY'S DONORS

Link Belt, Dept. 228.. 36 Children Indiana Fur Ce. .... 11 Children Employees J. L. Mac"Daniel Printing Co. 10 Children Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Keeler 10 Children Maintenance Real Silk Hosiery Mills Employees of Indianapolis Machinery and Supply Co..... Payroll, Welfare, Hospital & Employment,’ Employees Sales & Credit Union, Employees of Real Silk Hosiery Mills

7 Children

5 Children

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George J. Mayer Co. , Employees

Staff of = Railroad-

men’s Federal Savings & Loan Association State Highway Commission, 7th Floor. . J. L. McDaniel Printing Co. In Memory of Edward H. Meyer .... Office, Collector of Internal Revenue .. Power Dept. Employees of Indianapolis Railways . Advertising Dept., L. S. Ayres Bureau of Buildings, City of Indianapolis Employees Indianapolis District Office, Indian Refining Co.

Fadely-Anderson, Inc. Allen & Thomas, Cleaners Klein & Kuhn Zonite Metal Corp, Tool Division Fountain Square Christian Church .. Hibben-Hollweg Employees (clothed children previously) Indianapolis Public Welfare Loan Co.

(clothed children

previously) ........ R. H. Maher.....,... S. C. Keegan........,. Norris Maher Girls of Indianapolis Works of International Harvester Co. G. W. Orewiler Fletcher Trust Women’s Club

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Chassis Alignment Service, Inc. .... as Bakers and Salesmen, Colonial Bread .... Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown . Indianapolis Circulation De-

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1 Child 1 Child Central Bowling League No. Student Council of Crispus Attucks High School D. & B. Poolroom... Employees of Gulf Refining Co. ...... U. S. Rubber Co. Dept. 32, Third Shift Van Camp Milk Co. Employees Mrs. W. McDaniel... Phi Tau Delta Sorority (Beta Chapter) 1 Child

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Equipment Eighth Floor Bethany Class of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church... Art Department, The Indianapolis Times Mrs. W. C. Vehling. . Voucher Certification Section, Farm Bureau Administrator Office Employees of Trojan Hosiery Mills Boy Scouts, Troop 41, Yankee District ... Employees = Johnson

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Clothed today ...... 150 Children - Clothed previously .. 792 Children

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Total clothed to date 942 Children

Presented With Watch \a Annual City Hall Yule Party.

Hereafter, when asked what time it i3, Walter C. Boetcher will pull a gold watch from his pocket and remember the time City employees paid tribute to him as “the best Mayor Indianapolis ever had.” * The watch and the tribute were given to him by 300 City officials and employees who assembled for their last annual Christmas party at the Athletic Club last night,

The presentation brought a quick flush to the face of the retiring ji Mayor. u

up the band and the feeling of the | moment was translated into rhythm ad on the dance floor. i

DIES, VICTIM OF GAS HEATER MARION, Dec. 21 (U. P)—

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