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ec, 22.—A canvass sources indicates day the Pan-Amer- ' jcan Conference [will reach an un- ¢ . derstanding | problems of the Western Hemisphere, including the ‘crucial questioy of solidarity. The agreemen wil not be dazzling, ay the ic ta is that it will carry the western world’s common front bey d the. stage agreed upon at the enos Aires conference. If so, when projected as it should be ‘against the . background of :ehadtic and. warlike Eurape and +16 will constitute. an unsensaal: but nevertheless sound and ont structive gi for democracy

.This conference is unlike any ‘| lothér = Pan-American Conference | lever (held. : The world is in upheaval. National, racial, political, leconomic and social ideologies are swirling liké tornadoes clear around ithe | globe, affecting all nations land all peoples. . That this situation should influence the deliberations in ima has been inevitable.

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From the Beginning, therefore, cretary Hull has been confronted |

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darity declaration and the principal conference delegations were forced again this morning to resume negotiations for a compromise.

was understood to have telegraphed to President Vargas of Brazil and President Baldomir of Uruguay, explaining the Argentine viewpoint,’

Midnight Talk Fails

Presidents Vargas and Baldomir were said to have replied to his message and a general exchange of viewpoints which may affect the conference deliberations resulted. Meanwhile, the delegation leaders at: Lima continued their personal negotiations on:a compromise. Secretary of State Hull, leading the United States delegation, held a midnight conference with the chief delegates-of ‘Brazil, Peru and Uruguay. Delegates admitted today that the situation was more serious than it had been at any previous time. They were increasingly concerned lest the effect of any declaration they might make on solidarity would have been discounted by the wrangling incident to its negoliation.

y two alternatives: | 1. He could [readily line up an overwhelming | majority: of the American republics in a strong pact Er overseas aggression, whethouflaged, thus serv-

I open Or ‘cam Europe and Asia | to

ng notice on eep off the grass. 2. Or he cold strive patiently | or the bést p ssible ‘understanding ased on ‘common interests and ommon responsibility, together with the ‘strongest’ implementation that would - be compatible with hemisphere unify. | Argentina Stands Alone

b There ‘has not been pa day this wor when Secyetary Hull could not have had a vote -of 20 to 1 sustaining his solidarity thesis. - Only Argentina held out. Many republics urged. a- division along that’ line. But Mr. Hull;| while urging the strongest possible implementation, has fought patiently to maintain Pan-American unity. Neutral obseryers, advancing 1underlying reasons fof the clash between Argenti a and the United States over a solidarity declaration, ‘emphasized the Hetermination of the 3uenos Aires Government to proect its position las a leader in Latin “America and as an independent and Snfuntial participant in internanal affairs. | §: Argentina, it vas pointed out, alys has-been extremely suspicious of any move which might infringe | _#n her complete liberty «of independnt action as a great nation .carryg an ispesiahs trade with many ‘her nations. > Great- Britain. and the United ates are the leaders in’ trade with te Argentine, but Buenos Aires also s important ¢ommercial relations | Swith| Germany |and Italy and she “does not wish to take any action that| those nations would resent. Even more important] in the present negotiations for ja solidarity declaration is Argenting’s determination not to be bound to the tail of the Unifed States foreign policy, kite, observers believed.

Other Reasons Cited

- Other underlying reasons for Argontina's attitu ae Wire summarized as:

1. Opposition | to any effort to “continentalize”| the, Monroe Ddctrine—that is, fo make it a policy of all of the Americas. Argentina has always bitterly opposed the doctrine as desi ned to make the "United States | dominant in the ‘Western world. ir 2.0A populaion of | more than 2,£00, 000 Italians and many Germans yhich gives Argentina close cultural es with the Fascist nations. Jes Fear of a ievival of “dollar di+plomacy” in the United States in the future. . . 4. The Argentine determination to play a dominant role in whatever develops in the way of leadership among Latin American nations. In addition, it was recalled that Argentina recently protested so strongly = the | United States

certain over-age de- - stroyers to Br zil for training pur-, poses that the plan, was allowed to die. Argentina also protested when Frank Theis of ‘Kansas City - went to Brazil to dispose of Federal Surplus Commodit Corporation wheat and the deal was sidetracked. This issue thus became a basic ‘ one. A powerfiil declaration of the kind sought, by the vast majority of fhe republi i unquestion-

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JAPAN'S POLICY IN CHINA BARED

Premier Konoye Says End

Of Extra Territorial Rights Are Planned.

TOKYO, Dec, 22 (U. P.).—Premier Konoye, announcing a new Japanese Government policy towards

China, declared today that Japan will abandon extra territorial rights in return for a settlement with China presaging abolition of all foreign concessions and a close union of an anti-Conmimunistic bloc comprising Japan, Manchukuo and China. Prince Konoye said Japan does not contemplate an economic mo-

she intend to demand limitation of the interests of those third powers who grasp. the meaning of the new Asia.” The “New Asia” policy, as previously announced, would create an “orient for orientals,” with Japan exercising hegemony and foreign influence diminished. There woud be close economic and cultural ties between Japan and China. Prince Konoye declared that Japan demands that China extend facilities for development of her natural resources, particularly in North China and Inner Mongolia.

ably have made an impression on Europe and Asia. On the other hand it would have caused a rupture in Pan-American unity—a rupture that would have been eagerly welcomed abroad. Moreover, the split might have been the beginning of a real scheme which in the long run would have played havoc with all future efforts at solidarity. In some ways Secretary Hull's choice was between going*ahead and zoing backward, between continuing

good-neighbor policy, and reverting somewhat to the old policy of hemisphere domination by the United States ‘as the richest and most powerful nation. Mr. ‘Hull apparently has chosen fo: go forward even if the advance is not exactly breathtaking. He might have ‘taken his cue from other dominant powers, or from Hitler at. Munich, ‘and perhaps scored. some, sort of theatrical victory here. But almost certainly he would , have knocked the future chances of Pan-American Solidarity higher than a kite. Secretary Hull wanted solidarity. He wanted unanimity ‘on whatever was done. He wanted the conference to close in an atmosphere of cordial good will without any member being driven into isolation to sulk and plot against any future efforts at Pan-American unity. Unless all. signs fail, Mr. Hull has achieved all these goals. At the minimum, it means added something to the existing foundation for

‘| hemisphere ‘solidarity upon which

the new world can. continue to: build, and ‘it helps to conserve at

least ‘some sanity in this otherwise crazy world. :

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Times-Acme Fhoto. ‘Her hands clenched around her tear-stained handkerchief, Mary Martin, young Texas ' songsiress, sits in her dresing room at the Imperial Theater in New York after the performance in. which she sang her hit song, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” in the musical comedy, ‘Leave It to Me,” without knowing that her father, Judge Preston Martin, had died earlier in the day at Weatherford, Tex. Other members of the cast kept the news from her until after the performance,

JUGOSLAVIA'S CABINET SHIFTS

Stern Policy Forecast to

Curb Anti-Government Activities.

BELGRADE, Dec. 22 (U. P).— Premier Stoyadinovitch tonight formed a new Jugoslav Cabinet containing five new members four hours after his previous Cabinet resigned in a body in conformity with precedent because of the recent parliamentary elections. Immediately after presenting his new Cabinet list to Prince Paul, regent, Premier Stoyadinovitcli announced that the Government's foreign and domestic policies would remain unchanged. The most important of the Cabinet changes made Milan Achimovich, Belgrade’s police chief, interior minister. Chief Achimovich, who gained prestige by his measures against the Jugloslav Communists, was expected to undertake a bold program of suppressing anti-Gov-ernment activities.

NCINNATI, Dec. 22, — Miss Dorothy Tudor, of Greensburg, Ind., bas been appointed librarian for the School ‘of Nursing and Health orchestra at the University of Cincinnati.

WAR WEARINESS

HITS BOTH SIDES) IN SPANISH WAR

,{1000 Arrested by Franco;

Rebel Agents Seize Barcelona Food.

LONDON, Dec. 22 (U. P.).—A vast

tl espionage plot in Rebel Spain, with

nearly 1000 arrests, was reported in

| diplomatic and Spanish border | | sources.

Meanwhile, the Loyalist radio at. { {Barcelona announced discovery of

sabotage and “defeatist” plots in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia, which were described as the biggest attempted outbreak ‘organized by agents of insurgent. Generalissimo Francisco Franco since the start of the civil war. Frontier reports meanwhile said there had been demonstrations by civilians in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona because of food and coal shortages. Hundreds Arrested

Franco agents were alleged in the Barcelona radio announcement to have seized contro! of milk, coal and food supplies, preventing distribution of necessary supplies. Several hundred alleged agents were arrested. Disaffection among the Rebels also was reported. One source said 45 Italian soldiers had been waylaid and hanged by Spaniards. Another declared that 100 spies and plotters were executed in one batch about a week ago. Advices reaching Paris from the border said the plot had been discovered when frontier . guards searched the baggage of Harold Goodman, British Vice Consul at San Sebastian, and that other diplomatic attaches had been arrested.

Offensive Plans Saved

The valise, it was declared, contained full details of a scheduled Rebel offensive against Barcelona, and a report on manifestations of discontent in Rebel Spain. United Press -correspondénts placed at strategic centers of communication along the fromtier agreed that there had been a series of incidents in Rebel Spain but insisted that many reports were exaggerated. It was true, also, that there seemed suspicion among the Loyalists that the Rebels themselves were not discouraging the disaffection reports, hoping that the Loyalists would relax their vigilance in Eastern Spain where. the Rebels for weeks had been planning a mass offensive, The Daily Telegraph’s | Hendaye correspondent asserted that 200 persons had been arrested in the last few days at San Sebastian, near the frontier, largely as the result of anti-Italian feeling which led to the shooting of a secretary of the Itallian Consulate. The secretary was wounded seriously by two bullets as he was returning to. his residence

at night, this dispatch said. Among |i

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those striated, the softesporident said, were several Rebel officers, including members of the staff of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the commander in chief.

For Loyalist oe . HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron. tier, Dec, 22 (U. P.).—United Press|. correspondents along the Spanish frontier, after a careful check of reports of disaffection in Rebel terri-

tory, advised today that the reports

Sppaseniy boiled down to the fol:

lowin 1. Pe arrels last week between Spanish Rebel and Italian officers at San Sebastian, Pamplona and Tafalla, all ended the "incidents without serious consequence. 2. Reports from Loyalist radio sta tions of outbreaks at Orense, Ses govia and Pamplona. 3. That all persons living on the Pyrenees border were evacuated by Rebels to the interior of Spain, because of the seizure of military documents in the baggage of Harold Goodman, a British Vice Consul. 4. That an Italian named Migliaccio was slightly wounded Dec. 13 by an unknown assailant at San Sebastian, where he had lived for four years.

U. S. Contributes Wheat for Spain . WASHINGTCN, Dec. 22 (U. P.) — The : American Red Cross today

sought $600,000 to distribute three million bushels . of wheat among war-impoverished Spanish civilians within the next few months. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles announced yesterday that the United States Government, through the Surplus Commodities Corp., is prepared to make available “at a purely nominal figure” 500,000 bushels of wheat—representing 100,000 barrels of flour—each months for the next six months to be distributed impartially in Spain. The nominal fee and the transportation costs are to be paid by contributions. : The Red Cross has distributed approximately 60,000 = barrels . of flour in Spain since last September. Shipments have been made on maritime commission vessels which are guaranteed safety In their entrance and exit from Spanish ports. Reports to the Red Cross indicated the flour was needed badly: by the civilian population, particularly children. On the Loyalist side alone; the reports said, there were 3,715,000 needy children. Rations were barely enough to sustain life with an almost. complete lack of oils, fats, soap and fuel. ~*

WORKER, 42, FOUND FATALLY WOUNDED

Lawrence J. J. Latta, 2: 2330 N. Talbot Ave., was found shot to death in his bedroom early today, a 32-cali-‘ber revolver nearby. He was 42. He was employed at Link Belt Co. William W. Nunnally, 44, who lives at the same address, said he was in the kitchen when he heard a shot. Dr. Hugh Thatcher, deputy coroner, said Mr. Latta was despondent and

in ill health.

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Italy Inva idates Treaty;

Duchess of Atholl Loses Parliament Seat To Farmer. |

PERTH, Scotland, Dec, 22 (lJ, P.). ~—Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of European appeasement ‘won a victory today when W, McNair Snaddon, official Conservative Party candidate, defeated the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Con-

servative, in the Kinross and Western division by-election. Mr. Chamberlain, supported by the verdict, announced in Commons that Fuehrer Hitler at Berchtesgaden in September said that “he would be glad to let Memel stand as it is as long as the Memel Statute is observed by Lithuania.” Mr. Snaddon, who supported the Prime Minister's’ foreign policy, polled 11,808 votes compared to 10,495 for the Duchess, a bitter critic of the Chamberlain appeasement program and so vigorous a foe o dictators that she had been given the nickname of “Red Kitty.” The regular conservative victory was ‘a surprise to political observers and was made more impressive by the fact that tlie Liberal candidate, Mrs. C. A. MacDonald, who polled 10,089: votes in 1935 but was defeated by ‘the Duchess, had withdrawn in an effort to throw Liberal strength to the Duchess. Snow-covered roads and cold weather also had been considered a handicap to Mr. Snaddon, although both sides mobilized fleets of automobiles to get the voters to the polls. Mr. Snaddon is a wealthy farmer.

URGES CONTEST OF VANNUYS' VICTORY

Bobbitt Charges Alleged Vote Irregularities.

State ‘Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt said today he. would

recommend that the State Commit-|

tee contest: the re-election of U. S. Senator VanNuys. At the same . time, Mr. Bobbitt cited several examples of alleged election irregularities which he said had been uncovered by G. O. P. special investigators working throughout the state. ‘The chairman said he would call a' meeting of the State Committee soon to consider the evidence being gathered for submission to the Senate, in the event the Committee approves the contest plan on behaif of Raymond E. Willis, defeated G. O. P. Senatorial candidate. He did

not set a date for the meeing.

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|Daladier Wins Close Test; Veterans Chanbusiesl

New Tunis Policy Likely;

Seven-Vote Margin Saves Cabinet. -

| PARIS, Dec. 22 (U: P) —The Ttal-

fan Government ina note to Andre Francols-Poncet, Prench Ambassador to Italy, has announced that if

considers the Laval-Mussolini accord of 1935 no longer valid, it was announced today. At almost the same time; the Dal-

adiér Cabinet in France escaped de-.

feat on a confidence vote by only seven votes in the Chamber of Deputilities gave way to prevent defeat on a new vote. ; Véting on Articee = of the Revenue Bill, authorizing new taxation, the Chamber today supported the Government by 201 votes to 284 after the Government had made the issue one of confidence. The Laval- Mussolini agreement concerned the status of Tunisia and involved a concessfon by France of territory bordering on Italian Libya and Italian East Africa. Presumably, the Italian note was the first step toward making new demands on France as regards Tu-

‘nisia—whether for territory or for

an altered status of the Italian population in Tunisia remained to be seen, Genevieve Tabouis, political commentator of the newspaper Oeuvre, asserted today that Fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini intended to put pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to mediate FrenchItalian differences and that Sig. Mussolini would use ‘the threat of an “ultimatum and mobilization” if Mr. Chamberlain failed. to get France to agree to his demands. Article 2 of the Revenue Bill empowers the Government to levy $264,000,000 in additional taxes direct and indirect, envisaged in decrees passed by the Government under the emergency powers it enjoyed during the recess of Parliament last. fall. The sum'is needed to balance the 1939 budget.

NEW GRAND JURY PANEL IS ORDERED

County Jury Commissioners were

|ordered today by Criminal Court

Judge Frank P. Baker to draw. 3 panel of names from which the January term Grand Jury wil selected, i There has been no Grand Juryin session here for more than t weeks. Judge Baker discharged the 1938 term jury recently because of what he described “failure to return an indictment on evidence of fraud in the Nov. 8 election.” Drawing of the new Grand Jury panel is scheduled next, week. The jurors will be selected after Judgeelect - Dewey Myers takes office

Jan. 1.

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