Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1938 — Page 6
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| Two Freighters . Loaded at Marseilles Military Docks.
(Eq torial, Page 13)
_ PARIS, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—Two big French freighters were loaded secretly at special military docks at Marseilles today as the Government ‘sped its plans to reinforce its gar- ~ rison in French Somaliland. * Stevedores were ordered to work / day and night so that {the ships, the 11,375-ton Sphinx and the 9986-ton © Chantilly, ¢ould sail Saturday and arrive at Djibouti, French Somaliland, next week. . It was reported thai artillery and munitions would be loaded on the
_ ships at night. All civilian cargo
~ had been held up.
i In addition to its other cargo, the | ships will carry Senegalese riflemen - who are to join French troops in |! Somaliland The déstroyer Eperiver and the dispatch boat D’Iberville already were under orders to reinfores Navy, units ther
fnvoy to Rtarn The Government was understood to be satisfied that the measures it had taken were sufficient to deal with any | situation | which might
arise in cohnection with the Italian
drive for tonsessions from France. Diplomatically the| Italian situation seemed to be clearing up. . It was reported that André Frant, Ambassador to Rome, to Paris ithin the next : to report and receive in- . structions | in anticipation of the visit of Prime Minister Chamberlain
A semio cial note said that Premier Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges . see Mr. Chamberlairi on his way to Rome because the French and British vernments had been in ‘continuou consultation all along. . The same note emphasized: “France| has once for all made known its formal intention not to envisage any territorial concessions ‘nor trans er of sovereignties. Apart from this decision, on which French opinion is unanimous, all other - roads are|open to the Italian Gov- * ernment for conclusion of an accord : to the| British-Italian agreement.”
edge Is Reported
This note marked a further advance in [that it was an open invitation to Premier Mussolini to make any approach he might like toward concessions in Somaliland. These concessions could | include special port facilities for [Italian goods at Djibouti, | ierminuy of the Frenchowned railroad to Addis Ababa. Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, a fore eign affairs expert, said in the newspaper Oeuwig | [today that Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador, had given assurances to Foreign Minister Bonnet that Mr. Chamberlain would not attempt to® settle talian dif erences at Rome. —
, Dec. 20 @. P.) —The Italtoday continued to attack
to withhold any definite on Paris until the coming
1 reinforcement of and garrisons and reports that Italians had been sentenced for participation in | demonstrations in
At the same time Italy was said in authoritative | sources today to be preparing to] inaugurate a new air service to Latin America as part of the totalitarian campaign to offset the fects af | the eighth PanAmerican conference’s declaration of American solidarity. . THe service by way of the South Atlantic Ocean is scheduled for inauguration early in March, reliable
aper editorials welcomed signature of a trade agreebetween Ataly and Uruguay and called the Lima conference a severe iplomatic. defeat for United
ON, Dec. 29 (U, P.).—Erich world famous musical conductor, has nceled all engagements to appear at La Scala The-
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cing letter to authorities err Kleiber, who is
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erisiCISTS ELECT EDITOR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P)). .|John EF. Tate of the University o Minnesota, editor of Physical ue, today was elected president e American Physical Society the co year. Prof. John
ny, professor of physics at Yale, .
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Send Aid to Djibouth o Claims Lovahet Line Been Smashed at Center
THE FOREIGN SITUATION PARIS—Italian-French diplo“matic horizon clearing. HENDAYE — Loyalists claim victory in first phase of drive. LONDON—Erich Kleiber criticizes Italian anti-Jewish policy. BUDAPEST—Pope to get protest on anti-Jewish laws. NEW YORK—Time Magazine names Hitler “man of 1938.”
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WASHINGTON—Administration seeks pilot for defense laws.
BERLIN—U. S. asks Germany for' new exemptions. RIO. DE JANEIRO—Tax on bachelors to be décreed.
SHANGHAI—B re a k between Wang and Gen. Chiang rurnored.
TIENTSIN—Chinese industrialist assassinated.
U, S. PREPARES DRIVE ON SPIES
Asks Nazi Assurances New Law Exempts Americans.
(Editorial, Page 13)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P).— The Treasury marshaled the forces of its investigative agencies today for a co-ordinated drive against espionage agents of foreign governments. Moving to comply with President Roosevelt’s demand for a war on foreign spies, a high Treasury official has issued an order to the heads of all investigative divisions to instruct operatives to be on the alert for any espionage activities. Elmer Irey, co-ordinator Qf all Treasury enforcement agencies, has been placed in charge of the antispy program. He will maintain contact with the heads of other investigative branches of the Government in conformity with the President's plan for centralizing the Federal espionage drive. The Treasury order sent into action thousands of agents of the customs and narcotics bureaus of the income tax intelligence unit and the alcohol tax units as well as operatives of the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. McReynolds IIL
The Secret Service, because of its war-time experience, is especially adapted for the work. Its personnel still includes men who were effective in espionage-detection activities during the World War. The Roosevelt Administration, meanwhile, faced the problem of choosing a House pilot for legislation relating to foreign affairs during the first months of Congress. Chairman Sam D. McReynolds (D. Tenn.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been directed by Naval Hespital physicians not to exert himself for two months. Rep. McReynolds has suffered from a heart ailment for almost a year.
U. S. Asks Germany
To Exempt Citizens
BERLIN, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The American Embassy presented a note to the Foreign Office today, asking assurances that American citizens would be exempt from a law of Dec. 14 under which Jews are forbidden to be managers of business enterprizes, even those which are Jewish owned. : It was understood that the note was limited to the request for assurances, and did not cite the Ger-man-American friendship treaty which has been invoked in previous instances.
Brazil to Seek
Birth Rate Increase
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 29 P.) .—President Getulio Vargas intends to promulgate within a few days a decree imposing a tax on all bachelors of between 25 and 64
day, and at the same time provide for subsidization of large families. It was reported that the decree will prescribe prison sentences for husbands who neglect or abandon their wives.
Hungary’s Jewish
Laws to Be Protested
BUDAPEST, Dec. 29 (U. P.).— Persons of part Jewish blood, affected by the Government’s new laws concerning the status of Jews, are organizing to defend their rights and plan to appeal to His Holiness Pope Pius I and to his’ Eminence Justinian Cardinal Seredi, Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, it was understood today. Many prominent persons, including former Cabinet Ministers, Army generals, university professors and Catholic clergymen would be listed as Jews under the law which classes as Jews all persons having one parent who was not baptized when the persons in question were born.
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Full Force Is Utilized; Hitler Designated ‘Man of Year.
HENDAYE, Dec. 29 (U. P.) —Military headquarters of Generalissimo Francisco Franco announced today that the entire Loyalist defense line
in the important Balaguer sector had been smashed by the Rebel offensive toward Barcelona. The Rebel announcement claimed that the full force of the offensive against Catalonia had been turned against the Loyalist lines and that, after heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, the entire Balaguer bridgehead defenses of the Loyalists collapsed. The announcement claimed capture of the entire Governmen; fortification system in that sector. The Balaguer sector of the Loyalist defenses had been holding out stubbornly as the center link in a line of fortifications along the Segre River. Loyalists Claim Victory
Previously. the Rebel offensive had bent the Government defense line back at both ends by drives against the Tremp sector on the north and the Lerida sector on the south, with the strategically important town of Cervera as the main immediate objective of a pincers attack. The Loyalists had claimed a victory in the first phase of the oifensive because, although the Rebels had made substantial gains, it was apparent that they had not broken through the Loyalist front or spread
1demoralization among any Loyalist
units. In the phase of the offensive that began today the Rebels threw their main strength against the center of the defense line with Cervera straight ahead. They sought a great victory to impress Prime Minister Chamberlain before his visit to ‘Premier Mussolini Jan. 11. Lloyds announced that the British steamer Marionga had sent out an SOS call ¢ff Iviza Island in tae Balearics, reporting it had becn bombed and the crew had taken fo the boats.
Time Calls Hitler ‘Man of 1938’
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (U. P.)— Today's issue of the magazine Time nameéd Chancellor Hitler as “man of the year,” the designation: Time gives annually to the person who has caused the most dramatic change in the course of history. “For 1938,” the magazine said, “there was only one serious contender: Hitler. Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on Sept. 29, when four statesmen-’met at the Fuhechrerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. “On the American scene, 1938 was no one man's year. Certainly it was not Franklin Roosevelt's: His purge was beaten and his party lost most of its bulge in the ihe Congress.2
Goebbels Reported Victim of Whipping
GREENWICH, Conn., Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The Greenwich Time, in an article by Editor Wythe Williams, said today that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had been severely beaten by the boy friend of a Berlin actress, whose credentials he had delayed approving. The beating, probably with a horsewhip, put Dr. Goebbels in the hospital and sent Frau Cioebbels, “outraged by the unlovely picture presented by her husband tipon his restoration to the family circle.” to Switzerland for an indefinite stay, the copyrighted article said. (Recent dispatches from Berlin said that Dr. Goebbels was confined to the hospital by an attack of grippe.)
LANDON FLIES |
HOME WITH NEW [J UNDERSTANDING
Lima Experience Adds . to Stature as Republican Leader.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreizn Editor
CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Dec. 29.—Alf M. Landon, homeward via Central America and Mexico to spend New Year's with his family in Topeka, carries with him ideas on inter-American relations, hemisphere solidarity, national defense and other problems which should prove of inestimable
value to the nation. Anybody who thinks Governor Landon went to the Pan-American Conference at Lima just for the ride is badly mistaken. From the moment he arrived in Cristobal four weeks ago on the way south he has
Latin American problems and their tieup with the United States. He has been breakfasting, dining, supping and cofetring in between with people—both North Americans and Latins—who know the situation. He bas pumped questions at them like a lawyer cross-examining witnesses. He has taken time out only for sleep.
Appointment Justified
Accordingly he is returning with a vast new stock of facts and figures, and with notions of his own about Nazi, Fascist and Communist propaganda and . economic penetration south of the Rio Grande, as well as the probable impact of these forces on the United States —on our trade, our national defense, and so on. If President Roosevelt ever for a moment doubted the wisdom of selecting Governor Landon as a delegate he need do so no longer. Mr. Landon agrees with Secretary Hull that the conference was valuable and constructive, and he doesn’t hesitate to say so. But far more important was the psychological boost Mr. Landon gave to the conference—and to democracy in general—by his mere presence at Lima. Here was a man who had run for the Presidency against Mr. Roosevelt. And he had been defeated. Yet, instead of plotting to overthrow his successful rival, or being imprisoned by the latter, he went to Lima to serve as one of his rival's. hardest-working aides. It was so different from the current custom in large parts of the world, inclyding certain new world republics, that the moral was both pat and tremendously helpful.
“Next Time He Runs”
To this impression Mr, Landon’s engaging personality contributed greatly. He mixed with people at Lima exactly as he does with the folks back home in Topeka. He quickly became one of the bestknown and most, popular of the delegates, regardless of country, sharing honors in that respect with Secretary Hull. A local wag told him that the next time Peru would go for him along with ‘Maine and Vermont. From the way people turned out to
by plane, so might Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.
picture, Mr, Landon returns to the
left. His support of the Administration’s foreign or national-defense
carry much greater weight now than ever before.
has not only earned him the privilege of criticizing but has made his criticism doubly effective when he
thinks the Adminigtration is wrong.
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United States in a far better posi- |& tion to speak as the titular head of |} the Republican Party than when he
policy, or his criticism thereof, will | i
His very readiness tof support the Administration when he | ji thinks the Administration is right |
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Chinese Chamber of Commerce Head Assassinated In Tientsin.
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 (U. P.)— Japanese spokesman announced today that Japan would refuse to return the Shanghai University to its American Baptist owners until after cessation of hostilities in China.
.The United States had pointedly mentioned the university in several notes sent by U. 8. Secretary ' of State Hull to Japan protesting the failure of Japanese to return American property in the China war zones to its owners after the actual war fronts had moved elsewhere. Meanwhile, it was authoritatively reported that Wang Ching-wei, former Premier, has broken with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on the
ground that Communist influence}
is increasing in the Government and that many of Dr. Wang's supporters have been dismissed from office. This disclosure was believed to explain, in large measure, persistent reports that Dr, Wang was on his way to Hongkong to discuss the pos-
sibility of peace with Japanese cons
fidential agents.
Tientsin Business
Leader Murdered
TIENTSIN, China, Dec. 28 (U.
P.).—A gunman, identified as Chi- |
nese, today assassinated Wang Chulin, 80, a leader in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and an industrialist, and escaped.
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