Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1939 — Page 3

TR] PORT HOPKINS DRAFTING

Point Program Rumored as Goal; NLRB Is Debated

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

"TVA wins Supreme Court

test (Page One).

NEW YORK Federal Judge resigns (Page One). HOPKINS reported drafting business peace plan. NLRB Chairman and industrialists’ head debate. VINSON bill seeks trade of cotton for minerals. WPA bill sent to conference by House.

WAS GTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.)— Business sources represented Commerce Secretary Hopkins today as contemplating a four-point program to ‘bring about peace between in-

It 'w understood that the program was not presented as such to

the Business Advisory Council which met here with Mr. Hopkins last week. But the United Press was informed that it was outlined to ‘some’ of the business leaders who - conferred earlier with Secretary Hopkins From those conferees word sifted through the business community that the new Commerce Secretary has in mind: 1. An effort to conciliate the Administration’s dispute with the elec- . trical power industry. 2. Obtaining agreement from the C. I. O, the A. F. of L. and business on amendment of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. -3. A plan ‘to make the Business - Advisory Council more active and influential in effecting an appeasement policy. 4. Constructive railroad legislation.

Speech Expected Soon

A spokesman for Secretary Hopkins neither denied nor confirmed the foregoing report, but said there was “no comment.” Washington representatives of business groups, however, were convinced that the outline was a stitbstantially accurate forecast of what is coming here to be known as “The Hopkins Plan.”

Senator Hopkins will announce]

shortly acceptance of one of many speaking invitations which he has received since his nomination to the Cabinet. He wants to deliver his first speech within a fortnight and may at that time outline his program. The United Press was informed that he expected to approach the utilities-New Deal problem through the Commonwealth & Southern Corp. dispute in which the corporation is seeking to dispose of its large interests which are in competition with the Tennessee Valley Authority for what stockholders consider to be a fair price. HR The Administration and the corporation are far apart, however, on price dnd Secretary Hopkins may attempt to persuade the authorities to raise -the bid.

Seeks ‘Fair Price,’ Report

Secretary Hopkins was represented as believing that if a “fair . price” policy could be worked out the utility industry would be reconciled to the fact that henceforth there always will be a certain amount of Government competition in the production of electric power. " But! if privately owned plants acquired by Government authorities were purchased at fairly satisfactory prices and if the charge for Gov-ernment-produced power were kept within a “fair range,” it was suggested here that the industry would be almost immediately stabilized. The desire for utility stability is primarily to re-establish utility * securities as an attractive investment for private funds.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.) — Chairmen of the National Labor Relations Board and of the National Association of Manufacturers provided arguments today for and against amendment of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. The issue, which may be brought up in Congress within two weeks, was debated by N. A. M. Chairman Charles R. Hook, who is also president of the American Rolling Mill Co,,-and NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden last night on a nationwide radih network. Mr. Hook declared that labor strife of 1937 was “one of the major causes for the precipitious decline of business activity” and said “the obvious thing to do is to amend the Wagner act so as to correct its one-sided character; to separate the functions of fact-finding, prosecution and judicial decision, and to do everything that Congress can do to guarantee impartial administration.” Mr. Madden admitted that strikes were numerous in 1937 “when the act was defied as unconstitutional,” but declared that preliminary estimates of Government sources “indicate that strikes during 1938 when

[the act was in regular operation

were only one-half as numerous and involved only one-third as many workers” as last ‘year.

Conference Ordered On Relief Bill

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.).— The House today sent the 725 million dollar Relief Appropriation Bill to conference with the Senate. Although both Houses agreed on the lower appropriation in preference to President Roosevelt's request for 875 million dollars differences between the two houses on minor amendments must be ironed out. The Senate changed a House provision banning politics in the WPA, struck out a House amendment prohibiting employment of aliens, and another House provision limiting wage differentials between North and South to 25 per cent.

Vinson Seeks Trade

To Bolster Defense

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. PJ). —Chairman Carl “Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee introduced a bill in the House today to authorize trading of surplus farm commodities for 100 million dollars worth of minerals needed for national defense. Rep. Vinson’s bill would provide for Government. buying of surplus agricultural commodities — chiefly cotton—to be exchanged for mineral products of other nations. The 100 million dollars would. be expended over a three-year period

". DENIES KILLING KIN

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Elmer Leduc, 19, of Woonsocket, pleaded not guilty in Superior Court today to an indictment charging him with the murder of his 72-year-old grandmother. Leduc surrendered at Swainsboro, Ga., Jan. 11 and allegedly confessed that in a fit of rage he bludgeoned his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Baker.

I. U. ‘Crooks’ Find Crime Never Pays

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Jan. 30.— A syndicate that apparently offered for sale answers to a final English examination here, stumbled on a little detail of history and got itself exposed. Answers to two questiofis, graders said, appeared identical on paper after paper. One of these questions was to name five Latin writers, and the same five appeared time after time. ° That was odd, the graders thought, but the answer to give the dates of the Age of Pericles really uncovered the scheme. : The dates were wrong.

TVA UPHELD IN SUPREME GOURT

Child Labor Case Ordered Reargued; Morley’s "Appeal Denied.

. (Continued from Page One)

on a program calculated to destroy complainants business.” The ruling, in effect, affirmed dismissal of the test suit by a special three-judge Eastern Tennessee Federal District Court last spring. The lower _court decision, rendered last spring, went further, however, and held that the broad TVA program was legal and fell within constitutional bounds of governmental activity. The utilities, in bringing their challenge, contended that TVA officials were working together with other Government agencies such as the Public Works Administration and municipalities throughout the TVA area to destroy, illegally, all private power companies.

Charge Illegal Conspiracy They asserted that actually the general TVA program constituted a vast illegal conspiracy designed to acquire “operation and control” of the power business throughout the TVA area. They further charged that power phases of TVA—which they ‘contended were the basic phases of

the program—in effect amounted to an unconstitutional invasion of rights reserved to states by the Constitution, and that operation of the power program would deprive states of their regulatory authority over public utilities.

MOTHER OF 5, SHOT

LAFAYETTE, Jan. 30 (U, P.).— Mrs. Lawrence Mullendore, 29, mother of five children, died today of a bullet wound received Saturday night during an argument with a former boarder over a $10 debt, Officers said Harry Baker, 56, accused by the victim’s husband of firing the gun, is being held in the County Jail pending Grand Jury action. Lawrence Mullendore, 30, the husband, told authorities that Baker, who formerly lived with them, came to recover clothing the Mullendores were holding for non-

payment of a $10 board mill.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths Speeding .... 6 * (To Date) 1939 5| Reckless

15| driving .... 0

es ess cece

Running preferential streets

City Deaths (To Date)

1939 1938 ...

Jan. 30 Accidents .... 46 Injured ..... 13 ‘Dead ....:..v 1 Arrests ...... 49

Running red | lights

Drunken driving .... 1

Others eave

MEETINGS TODAY

i Pastors’ Conference, nominational meeting First Baptist Church, all Indiana Christian Ministerial Association, gidvinier eonfsrahes. Central ChrisChurch, a ay. an wish Education Auxiliary, meeting, Board ‘of

interde-

rshbaum Center, 2:15 m Ki ientech lub, lu R

indianapolis Thos Club, dinner, 48 Mon-

t Circle ~Bervice Ch b, Hotel Lincoln,

Bo dianapolis Sales Executive Council, juncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Irvington Republican Club, 5446%2 £ Washington $t.. 8 p. m. a Upsilon, lunchepn, Board of Trade, ToNorth Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary e, noon. Coltage Pa Ame Club, uncheon, Board of

1 a” University Club, ‘luncheon, Coiumbia Club, noo! “

p. m. | luncheon,

meeting,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana Pastors’ Co: nominational | y Resunt.

“hoary Club. ‘ luncheon, “Algha 7 Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Te Club, ‘luncheon, ‘Spink-Arms Hotel, Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, ~ University nf Michigan Club, * luncheon,

Trade, Boar of “Columbus, luncheon, Hotel

Washington, n Lut

terde-

nfer ence,

irst Claypool Hotel,

theran id Clup, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official tecords in the County Court House. The 2'imes, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names of addresses.)

Floyd ‘Hampton, 31, of 746 aden st.; Henriett Carvin, 25, of 202 Bright St. Richard P. Brooks, 21, of 121 Sherman Drives i ary Jane White, 21, of 3902

11th 8 Ray Maholn, 44, 0. 216 E. 9th 8t.; Della He aly, 39, of 31 S. Arlington St. George H . Liontine 30. of 253 W. 29th

Bt: Jane O’Roark. 19, of 5302 Winthrop|

Vv Kinine Davis, 29, of 1356 5 Tremont St.; Esther Willoughby, 25, of 1117 8, Persh-

ve. Charles W. Bell, 21, ot 2206 Gale St ait Ruby PF. Withers, 18 of Hog. Rooseve

Earl Breedlove, 22, of Mooresville, Ind.; ry PF. Keys, Ss. of 11 N. Alabama St. drey Earl Evan , of R. R. 3,

in Baptist

Edmund Brucker, 26, of Graylynn Hotel; Marcelline Bedard Spencer, 26, of Graylynn Hotel. Cecil Emery Cambridge, 46, of i114 Sterling St.; Ethel B, Hadley, 46, of 1241 N. Pennsylvania St. Herbert - Glenn, 38, of 2347% W.. 10th St.; Beatrice Kearce, 53, of 1151 WN. Sheffield Ave. Paul C. Poynter, 37, of 2042 Parker Ave.; Mabel Ruth Allen, 32, of 2042 paket Ave. Harlan Alfred Crouch Jr., 21, of 401 S. Arlington Ave.; Marcia Jean Sharp, 18, of 6073 Dewey Ave Virgil Woolbright, of 1527 Rembrandt St.; virble E:aine Knight, 21, of 1221 W. 19th

t. Estus Jenkins, 28, of 517 N. Alabama St.; Frances Rebecca Priest, 29, of 311 E. St. Clair St. Dennis Connell, 24, of 1739 N. Tacoma St.: Racine} Crosley, 21, of 1211 Newman St. Ja ck Rist, 21, ‘of 1202 N. Capitol Harel L. 'Weinbrecht, 18, of 521 Br wick Ave. Fred Negri, 31, ot 1329 Tabor St.; Cecil D. Webb. 18, of 42 Sanders St. Vern McClain, 41, of 713. N. Alabama St oridegard S. Hasselbring, 35, of 234

Kenneth K Pate, 20, of 342 Hanson Ave.; prances Marie Hufford, 18, of 342 Hanson Ave,

BIRTHS Boys Owen, Dorothy Parks, at St. Vincent's. “Charles, Alice Ray, at St. Vincent's. William, Dorothy Bates, at St. Vincent's. Lewis, Sue Neff, at St. Vincent's. seDonald, Madeline Murphy, at St. Vin-

“William, Martha Peinkham, at City. Fugen, Elizabeth Jones. at City Leslie, Marvel Sanders, at Colas. Lydia, Phillip McNeal, at Coleman. Ray, Florence Moulden, at Coleman. Zaward, Genevieve Trumpey, at 1901

Lutter, Lilly Bewley, at 1669 N. Cen-

George, Miidred O’Haver, at 1102 Perry. Girls Hun, Viola Cox, at 1806 S. East. Wilson, Wilma Pate, at 513 3 Coffey. John, Orpha White, at 1427 Cruft. Robert, Mary Jones, -at St. Vincent's. Lawrence, Lenore Sweeney, at St. Vin-

Margaret Pike, at St. Vin-

William, Lillian Koch, at St. Vincent's. Glenn, Catherine Fateley, at St. V cent Van Buren, Josephine Robold, at City. Stewart, Elizabeth Combs, at Coleman.

DEATHS Morris Weissman, 79, .at 1133 8. Illinois, i hig John Feigen. 76, at St. Vincent's, chronic interstitial en phritis Cc. efor. "62, at City, chronic ne Rritis, ose Agnew Shea 63, at St. Vincent's, cerebral hemorrhage. nosey Taylor BL at City, broncho-pneu-ro Jonnella M:Reynolds, 30, at City, scarlet Otis W. Ritter: 49, at Veterans Hospital,

acute cardiac dilatatio Henry B. Palmer, ri at City, broncho-

pneumon 59, at’ St. Vincent's,

nia, Oliver P, Young, carcinoma. ; . Guy 62, at 1215 Newman,

D. Brewer,

nt’s. Clarence, t's .

E. CAFC NOTA. James E. Toney, 39, at Methodist, men-|,

in fraae Sutton, 65, at 1307 Brookside, | Litt

anem - Borainy Marie Webb, 34, at City, appenErnest Robert Lindenberg, 66, at City,

broncho-pleun,on ia. S. Harris, 56, at 936 Fayette, AOE Thy Thy George F. Greenland, 68, at City, bron-Sho-pheymon ia. arl Sterngren, 72, at 520 E. Vermont,

Yaa myocarditis Marmalet J, :

Thiebaud, a 3243) N. New

John Coreoral:. Ui at 737 N. Wallace, chronic myocar

Kittie Sykes, Bb “Bt 606 W. 24th, chronic

myocarditis. are Anders, 70, at 2753 Carrollton, cardio-vascular renal disease m———

INCORPORATIONS

Republican Builders, Inc., 918 Peoples Bank Bldg., Indianapolis; no capital stock; to work and build for! the future Sugcess of the Republican Party; Roy R. Bair, B. Nelson Deranian, Edwin McClure. Edward W. Mehren, Glendale, Arizona, and Herbert B. Bishop, Milwaukee, Wis. registration of trademark, ‘Squirt,’ class

‘44: nonalcoholic beverages.

Field's Furs, Inc., 718 Broadways, Gary; resident agent, Aria Topper, same address: capital- stock, 300 shares of $10 par value; to deal in furs; Aria Topper, Marvin Top-

N.| per, Louis E. Levinso:

on. Huntington Trust & Savings Bank, Huntington; dissolution. Elkhart Cartage Co, ane. Ekhart; dissolution by decree of co Acton State Bank, Aas, dissolution,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

begeeeeBY U. S. Weather Bureau____|

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Snow and colder tonight with lowest temperatures 20 to 25; tomorrow fair. * Sunrise....... 6:55 | Sunset....... 5:02 TEMPERATURE Jan. 30, 1938— 1p m..... oe BAROMETER

7a. m... an, 1

Precipitation 24 hrs, endin, ‘Total Precipiiation since Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Snow. Colder tonight. ch colder in extreme south. Generally fair south. Mostly cloudy north; tomorrow colder in extreme southeast portion.

Miingis—MosHly. cloudy. Snow in northeast. Somewhat colder in east and extreme south tonight; tomorrow generally fair slightly warmer in. extreme north-

Lower Michigan—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Snow probable, mostly heavy. Not much chaige in temperature; strong Rortheast to north winds diminishing to-

Ohio—Snow in northwest and changing to snqw in east and south portions tonight; vS3lder tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy h snow flurries in east and colder n os and south portions. Kentucky—Rain hanging to snow flurries and much colder tonight: tomorrow generally fair. colder in east porti on.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7AM. Station, - Weather, Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. ..Clear 29.96 32 Bismarck, N. Boston

rain

IN QUARREL, DIES

him of the action. in their seats and the room packed

BLIZZARD HITS DUNES, SWEEPS

Roads Blocked in Northern Part of State; 10 Die in Chicago Area.

(Continued from Page One)

other on the North Side. All were attributed to slippery rails and poor visibility. 14 Hurt in First Wrecks

Fourteen were injured, one critically, when a Douglas Park train rammed into a halted train at the California Ave. station about four miles west of the loop. Several hours later, eight persons were injured in a rear-end collision of two east-bound Ravenswood trains at Damon and Wilson Aves., nine miles north of the loop. A third crash involved a Garfield Park train which crashed into the the rear of a standing Chicago, Elgin & Aurora Electric, which uses the same tracks, at Kedvale and Harrison Sts., about six miles west of the loop. Ambulances had difficulty plowing through snowdrifts to the scene and private automobiles were requisitioned to take some of the injured to hospitals. Whipped by gusty winds, the snow choked suburban arteries of travel. David MacLuckie died of exhaustion in the Des Plaines railroad station after battling drifts from his home. The Chicago Motor Club reported that all motor traffic was at a standstill in northern; Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Michigan. The club warned that automobile travel in that territory will be impossible for several days. - Gale Strikes Suddenly Opening of the Chicago Board of Trade was postponed today from 9:30 a. m, until 10 due to the blizzard which was delaying arrival of traders.. The Chicago Stock Exchange was opened on schedule but only half a dozen brokers were on hand. The blizzard was part of a snowstorm that struck with sudden fury and swept in a great arc from St. Louis through Illinois, northern Indiana, southern lower Michigan, upper New York State and ncrthern and central New England. Rain was falling or threatening from Jacksonville, Fla. to Boston. All airplanes were grounded between Chicago and New York. Central and northern Illinois appeared hardest hit by the snowstorm. More than 10 inches of snow had fallen in Chicago—the heaviest fall since March, 1931, when there were 16.2 inches. U. S. Forecaster C. A. Donnel said there was an even chance that the storm would exceed the Chicago all-time record fall of 19.2 inches in March, 1930.

Lake Shiping Halts

The Coast Guard reported that all shipping on the Great Lakes in the blizzard area was at a standstill. There were seven inches of snow on the ground at Detroit, where trolley and bus service was delayed seriously by the storm during the early morning rush hour. The fall in western upstate New York ranged from one inch to one foot. Traffic was impeded by drifting snow. New England expected five inches of snow as’ the blizzard roared into that area. Rain and sleet fell in southern New England. Temperatures dropped in the snow-swept areas. Chicago reported 28 degrees; Buffalo, N. Y., 20; Detroit, 24, and St. Louis, 30. Three persons were killed and more than a score injured as electrical storms accompanied by winds of tornadic force lashed Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia, levelling homes and telegraph and telephone lines. Property damage was in the thousands of dollars. . Heavy rains brought a threat of floods along Arkansas rivers. Freezing rain fell in the northern and eastern fringes of the storm area, which centered over the Ohio yaliey and was moving northeastwar

Three Men Killed

In Train Derailment

CHICAGO, Jan. 30 (U. P.).— The Illinois Central said today that three men were killed and one injured last night when the engine and 29 cars of a freight train were derailed at a cut one mile north of Hobbs spur in Pope County. The railroad said the accident occurred when the freight train struck a pile of rocks which had slid onto the tracks from the embankment. The dead, all of whom were removed to Vienna, Ill.: A. F. West, engineer. M. G. Waterbury, fireman, ' W. Choate, head brakeman. All were from Paducah, Ky.

KANSAS CITY JURY PROBE THWARTED

Writ Temporarily Stops ‘Gambling ‘Cleanup.’

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 30 (U. P.).—The cleanup campaign against gambling in Kansas City was halted today just as Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern was about to charge the Grand Jury and start it on a sweeping inquiry. An application for a writ of prohibition, filed before the State Supreme Court by W. W. Graves Jr., Kansas City prosecutor who had been barred from the jury room,

.|stopped Judge Southern.

The judge was just preparing to come from his chambers and deliver an hour-long charge when the clerk of the Supreme Court telephoned him from Jefferson City and told The jurors were

with spectators, when the judge announced he could not proceed until the writ of prohibition had been disposed of. . Judge Southern dismissed the

if | jurors until Wednesday morning. At|

‘DOWN ON CITY §

Spurs Nazis

Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels

GOEBBELS SAYS REIGH TO GO ON

Hitler Speech Today May Answer Roosevelt, Back Duce.

(Continued from Page One)

contradition of the much-vaunted right of self-determination prevented them from joining the Reich. As far as Germans were concerned all these pious sentiments had no practical value, he said. “In January, 1938, I made up my mind to make Austria part of Germany—at whatever cost.”

Cites Election Returns

“In February, 1938, I said that the Reich could not longer remain indifferent toward the fate of the millions of Germans torn from the

Reich against their will. “In the ninth of ‘March I gave orders to German infantry divisions

to march into Ausiria in order to liberate the German territory.” The populace of the liberated country was “jubilant when our troops marched in,” Herr Hitler said. “All this happened in a breath-taking tempo.” Herr Hitler said the election of April 1 showed that an overwhelming majority was behind the Nazi program. Speaks of Czech Crisis

Herr Hitler then turned to the Czechoslovakian crisis. He said that country had become the spearhead of all anti-German activities. Mobilization in Czechoslovakia was designed to defeat Germany in the field of international politics, and to undermine German prestige, he said. Germany mobilized, he said, because the Czechs did, not because the Nazis wanted to intimidate their neighbors. On May 28. he said, he gave orders for military preparedness.

Praises War Machine

Hitler praised the military machine of Germany which he said had proved itself in the. crisis. “If anybody says that Germany threatened the peace of Europe, that is contrary to all known facts. Germany has not threatened anybody. It merely defended itself against foreign threats.” He said Germany would never tolerate the interference of other countries in matters of purely German concern. “We were all happy when, due to the intervention of our friend Mussolini and also Chamberlain this crisis had been solved peacefully. However, without our determination to clear the situation at all cost, such an understanding would not have been possible.” He said Germany’s action in Czechoslovakia was approved by the German people with the same overwhelming majority as the Austrian

“| Anschluss.

Reviews 1938 Events

In short sentences, Herr Hitler discussed the historic events of 1938. He said: “In the 14 points which Presi-

‘dent Wilson assured Germany in

the name of the other Allies were the basis of a newly-organized world freedom was included the elementary concept of the right of peoples to self-determination, and in the same period the erstwhile

‘| Allies did use that concept when

it- could be exploited for their egoistic purposes. “Thus Germany was denied the restoration of her colonial possessions with the excuse that one could |© simply not return their inhabitants back to German against their will —about which no one bothered in 1919.

Deprived of Rights”

It was understood that an influential group including Dr. Goebbels and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, had urged Herr Hitler strongly to reply to President Roosevelt and other American critics of the - European dictatorships. Such men, it was asserted, advised Herr Hitler that he ought to rebutt emphatically statements made by foreign critics, and notably by the President—but that as usual they were opposed by Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, “Nazi No.

2,” and other so-called ‘“conservatives, ” who wanted Germany’s rela-|

tions with foreign countries built up in the interest of the Four-Year Plan of Economic Self-Sufficiency. Herr Hitler worked until the early hours of this morning on the semifinal draft of his speech, in complete privacy, dictating into" a machine from rough notes he had jotted down as ideas occurred to him. He slept late this morning, it was unders Jplanning to reread the text and theR revise Vit late this afternoon in ‘preparation for its delivery| tonight. As the anniversary -began, - Dr. Goebbels addressed school children

‘Mayor Amede Oliva.

Al-

France Accepts 35, 000 Fleeing From Ruin Of Barcelona.

PERPIGNAN, French = Spanish Frontier, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Fre:ch mobile guard reinforcements rushed to frontier towns today to guard

hunger-maddened and disease threatened refuges from Loydlist Spain. While Spanish Loyalist leaclers sought to organize a battle line 40 miles north of Barcelona for a last stand against advancing Rekels, they were faced with a state nearing revolt at some points along the border. Premier Juan Negrin was publicly insulted at La Junquer:. The Premier was shouted down when he attempted to addres: a crowd. Rather than face further incidents, Premier Negrin left La Junquera without completing his effort to rally the people to restore order and continue resistance In Catalonia. ~ At Puigcerda the situation was reportedly extremely serious. Cien. Quintana, an important Loyalist leader, was imprisoned and replaced by Col. Garcia Vitandof. Col. Vitandof ordered the arrest: of Bloody incidents were feared in the famished,

-refugee-crowded town.

Epidemics Feared

Premier Ne returned to Figueras where the Cabinet has been meeting almost continually but without apparent results, At conclusion of the last session both Dr. Negrin and Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo refused to comment. The plight of refugees in the border region grew worse today. Thousands of refugees were in bad health. Many children died in the flight through the snows. There were numerous cases of typhus discovered. Some refugees were found to be insane when examined by physicians on the frontier. Albert Sarraut, French Interior Minister, and Marc Rucart, Public Health Minister, were expected Lere from Paris today to investigate reports that the diseased efusens might cause epidemics in France if allowed fo enter.

35,000 Refugees Admitted

It was estimated that 35,000 refugees already had entered France and that another 70,000 were approaching the frontier. Loyalist President Manuel Arana was reported planning to seek refuge on a foreign warship as other Loyalist notables joined the refugee stream. Arrivals on the French side of the frontier were reported to: include Francisco Largo Caballero, Left ‘Wing Socialist leader and former premier; Jose Giral, another former Loyalist Premier; Col. Juan Ascensio, an anarchist leader long prominent in the Loyalist Army, and a number of leading writers and sducators. French authorities, their frontier guard reinforced by 5000 troops, permitted women and children to ¢nter as fast as they could be accomodated—but until further orders from Paris, the border remained closed tight to able-bodied men. It was expected that men would be admitted as soon as the safety of all women and children had been assured.

Control of Roads Regained

The streams of refugees contihued unabated. But their terror .had subsided and Spanish and French authorities had regularized the flow of traffic along the main highivays. Bad weather and stiffened Lpyalist rear guard action appeared to have slowed down the Rebel advance. Hammered for weeks in on: of the most gigantic offensives of modern warfare, tangled for days in a horde of hungry, terrorized refiigees

toward the safety of France, with soni of their leaders reported ciuarreling among themselves, the Loyalists faced a task that might have awed a Napoleon.

Rear Guard Meets Moors

At least they had stopped. ‘Their rear guards already had begun to fight against the Moroccan Army Corps of the Rebels, now some 22 miles north and northeast of Barcelona. Another Rebel Army, impeded only by the difficulty of the mountainous country, was marching eastward along a long front parallel with, and only 18 miles west of, the Barcelona-Vich-Ripoli- Puigcerda highway. This army intended to cut the highway along a front extending all the way from Barcelona to the French frontier, south to north— ahd, in co-operation with the Morocns who were moving northward, to squeeze the Loyalists into France or into the sea. : | The new Loyalist line was formed along the front Vich-Santa Coloma de Farnes-San Feliu de Quixoles, Bune roughly eastward from e Barcelona- Puigcedra road to the Mediterranean. ‘The Rebels were 18 miles io the south - -of this line,

Three Reported Dead

In Siamese Plot

SINGAPORE, Jan, 30 ((U. P).— The Siamese official radic announced today that a plot to overthrow the Government and restore to the throne ex-King Prajachipok had been thwarted, with the loss of at. least three lives. -

throne on March 2, 1935, aiter a coup d’etat had shorn him of power,

1now lives in England. The plotters

intended, in. case he declined res-

his brother, Prince Nogan Sivarga, now living in the Dutch East Indies, the report said.

year-old King Ananda Mgzhidol,

regency. of three members. ‘Two military officers, whose names were not given, were said to

have been shot to death when they esisted arrest. A provincial Aa,

against the menacing attitude of|

(Continued from Page One)

that we would find in this country thousands of Americans who, seeking immediate riches—fool’s gold— would attempt to break down or evade our neutrality. “They would tell you—and, unfortunately, their views would get. wide publicity—that if they could produce and ship this and that and the other article to belligerent nations, the unemployed of America would all find work.”

Day-by-Day Decision Vital

Yet just a few days ago Mr. Roosevelt defended the sale of military planes to France on the ground that it would make work for our idle aircraft factories. : Mr. Roosevelt said at that time that you get into war by little day-to-day decisions. “At this late date,” he said, “with the wisdom which is so easy after the event,

series of small decisions which led Europe into the great war in 1914, and eventually engulfed wus and many other nations. We can keep out of war if those who watch and decide make certain that the small decisions of each day ‘do not lead toward war and if, at the same time, they possess the tourage to say ‘no’ to those who selfishly or unwisely would let us go to war.” Those words of Roosevelt, only two and a half years old, sound like dead history, so far are we down the road now.

Senators May Ask

Presidential Letter

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.). —The Senate Military Affairs Committee may request today ascopy of a letter allegedly written by President Roosevelt to Government Department heads asking co-operation with a French mission buying military planes in this country, e The Committee met in secret

of negotiations whereby France is purchasing the latest type Ameri-can-made’ planes with the Administration’s co-operation and of eircumstances surrounding the presence of a French Air Ministry official aboard an experimental bomber that crashed near Los Angeles last week. The Committee’s meeting was the major Congressional event as national defense and the Administration’s foreign policy became the chief issues before both Houses of Congress. Passage of the relief bill by the Senate Saturday with the amount of the appropriation definitely settled, cleared the way for emphasis on the President's preparedness program. Military Affairs Commi ttee Chairman Sheppard (D. Tex.) summoned G. Grant Mason of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, to determine whether the plane . that crashed, precipitating the ¥rench purchase controversy, was intended as an addition to the air force or

session to continue its investigation|. by dynamiting the Yellow River ice i

0 Nid

Loyalists Probars Now Stand | As Refugee Horde Slows Down; Russia Maps New >-Year Plan

U.S. SLIPPING T0 WAR CRISIS, GLAPPER SAYS

Change in Roosevelt’s Attitude Since 1936

Molotov Announces Drive; British Plane x Output Speeded Up." 4

MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (U. P) —So=' viet Russian leaders have decided to set themselves one of the most. gigantic national development pro= grams in world history in the third

1937 to 1942, it was disclosed todays

President Molotov to the 18th Cons’ gress of the Communist Party which* opens March 10. : It was disclosed today in broad’

detail through the official Tass! X agency.

The program includes: ~3 : 1. Increasing - the national cone ;

sumption total by 100 to 150 per) : cent. s 2. Raising the volume of indus<: 2 trial output to 36 bililon dollars a? year, an increase of 88 per centi over 1937, oi

3. Increasing the automobile outs’ put to 400,000 a year.

4. Raising the output of electrical power to 75 billion kilowatt hourss

5. Raising the coal output to 230

million tons. 5 6. Raising the oil output to rl : million tons. 7. Raising the rolled iron output Se

to 22 million tons. 8. Building a new oil base, come

parable to the great Baku base, bee tween the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. 9. Increasing the output of goods’ for general consumption by 170 cent. ; 10. Raising the productivity 5 labor by 65 per cent, and lowering: we find it possible to trace the tragic The production cost by 11 per cent. -

11. Fixing the 1942 agricultural, output at 5 billion dollars. i 12. Increasing the number of horses by 35 per cent, big horned cattle by 40 per cent, -hogs 100 per cent, sheep and goats 110 per cent: 13. Laying 6831 miles of railroads,’ increasing the length of navigable’ waterways to 71,415 miles, laying or reconstructing 130, 041 miles of high ways. 14. Training 1,400,000 technicians and 600,000 experts with higher edu=: cation. 15. Commencing the building of “the world’s greatest construction. project’—two hydro-power stations in the Kuibishev area with a total capacity of 3,400,000 kilowatts.

7000 Japanese Troops Killed, Chinese Say

CHUNGKING, China, Jan. 30 (U, P.).—Chijnese military authorities claimed today that 7000 Japanese troops have been killed in the past’ 10 days in the Shanshi Province of« fensive of the Japanese. Chinese troops halted the advance

‘4

at several important fords.

-F

British Plane Output Reported Speeded 15

LONDON, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Great Britain’s airplane output is fast ap< proaching . Germany's and, if spurred by the grave necessity of. war, could reach its 1218 level— 3000 2 month—within a measurable time, it was reported today as Brite ish leaders awaited Fuehrer Hitw; ler’s speech. Coincidently it was asserted that: the first of 200 United States:

Lockheed bombing planes, ordered | by the Royal Air Force, had arrived | in Engl

d and that the delivery rate soon would be 25 a month.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 30 (uv: P.).—Foreign Minister Oswaldo; Aranha was en route to the United States today to discuss with Presi dent Rosevelt and American ofs. ficials “questions of supreme inters’ est to the two countries.”

as a commercial product.

who fled north from Barcclona |.

Prajadhipok, who abdicated the

toration to the throne, to offer it to]

The throne is occupied by 13-| : and the country is governec by a|

STRAUSS SAYS:

Topcoats,

$2 and Shirts at

. B pairs

$25 Overcoats and

Wearingtons, 15.75

Lord Pepperell White Shirts, temporarily 1.45

they're

2.50 Patterned 1.45

Quite some few Sacks

A group of Ties, Mufflers and Handkerchiefs at HALF

Tey re le.ces Ar , Come

five-year plan covering the years’

The plan is to be announced by:

ARSE N ERAN NES ANE ANA ERG AREER Es aE) RD

4 BEARD ELGR RE RENEE CEE EES Go