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CITY MAY SEEK $4166 PAID TO, EX-WPA CHIEF

Claim Kortepeter Signed Waiver for Services To Flood Board.

CARBON COPY PRODUCED

Report Civil Action Might Be Filed; Controller Talks to Mayor.

City officials today considered the possibility of trying ‘to recover $4166.66 paid to Carl Kortepeter for serving on the Marion County Flood Control! Board after he had signed what was purported to be a waiver of the money. The payments were in addition to Mr, Kortepeter’s job as Maricn County WPA director. He resigned the WPA position Thursday. City officials who would not be

quoted declared that if the money could not be collected out of court, the City might file civil action to recover. The matter was discussed in a meeting with Mayor Sullivan yesterday, James Deery, City Controller declared. Mr. Kortepeter, in resigning, stated that John K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, had complained that he “established too close a relationship with the. sponsors of projects.”

Denning Is Successor

The County Administrator post was filled immediately by Posey B. Denning, a district supervisor at Muncie. Shortly after Mr. Kortepeter’s resignation, Mr. Jennings announced the dismissal of Ralph Osborn, director- of the Evansville * WPA district, and the appointment of Robert W. Bowser as his sucCessor, Meanwhile City officials said they were “entirely unaware” that the alleged XKortepeter “waiver” had been signed. They said they had paid the director at the rate of $200 a month for his flood board activities. Mr. Jennings said he did not know Mr. Kortepeter was being paid by the City until Mr. Deery asked him to approve a waiver of Mr. Kortepeter’s salary for 1939 in accordance with an order from Mayor Sullivan,

Produces Carbon Copy

Mr. Deery said he knew nothing about Mr. Kortepeter ever having waived his salary until he conferred with Mr. Jennings about the 1939 waiver. Mr. Jennings then extracted from his files a carbon copy of the purported “waiver” signed by Mr. Kortepeter in April, 1937. “That was a surprise to me,” Mr. Deery said. “I looked in my files and in the Mayor’s files but found ‘no copy of a waiver or anything resembling it. Then I learned that the original copy of the waiver had been sent to former Mayor Kern. I can’t imagine where it disappeared.” “The carbon copy has the same legal validity as the original instrument,” Mr. Deery added. Walter C. Boetcher, City Controller under Mayor Kern, and later Mayor, said he knew nothing of any waiver, Mr. Kortepeter said he had signed “g paper” corresponding to the carbon copy in Mr. Jennings’ possession. “You wouldn’t exactly call it a waiver,” said Mr. Kortepeter. «That is, it didn’t seem to be a legal type of statement. I don’t recall when I signed it. It was about April, 1937, I guess.”

Received ‘Some’ Money

Asked if he received the $4166 the Controller's records show paid to him, he declared: “I did receive some money from the City, but I don’t remember how much. It could have been salary or it could have been expense nioney. I made several trips for the Board, one to Louisville.” The Controller’s records show Mr. Kortepeter was paid $1766.66 in 1937 and $2400 in 1938. There are no payments listed to him this

ear. Mayor Sullivan held a conference with Mr. Jennings: yesterday at City Hall. The WPA head told the Mayor that no changes in existing City projects are contemplated. He said the personnel changes would have no effect on current projects. The Mayor began an inquiry to determine whether Mr. Kortepeter can remain on the flood board without his WPA status. With his resignation, there is no WPA official on the Board, although M. B. Orr, Indianapolis district WPA supervisor, serves the Board in an advisory capacity. The Mayor said he would have to determine whether or not it is mandatory for at least one board member to be a WPA executive.

FARM BUREAU HEAD CLAIMS LABOR ERRS

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 18 (U.

P.).—Edward A. O'Neal, president of

the American Farm Bureau, said today that the lack of economic balance between agriculture, industry and: labor is the greatest probjem that faces the nation. “Labor's wage and hour policies have been restrictive,” he said, “be- _ cause they have led to reduced production at higher wages. Agriculture, on the other hand, has always followed a policy of abundant proion.”

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 295 Ewe Can't Pull Wool Over Our Eyes— We're Betting Spring’ sa Sure Gambol

H Sheriff Feeney! They're: gamboling again in Marion County. Or, as County Agent Horace Abbott puts’ it, “They're lambing all over the lot.” ; Mr. Abbott is referring to the County sheep colony, which, although not large, is singularly impressed these days with the joy of living. Lambs are beginning to arrive with a frequency that makes the birth rate look like the stock market just prior to the 1929 crash. They're in time, too, for the Easter trade, Mr. Abbott said. But what’s more significant, is that the arrival of the lambs and their meadow friskings are more signs of spring, which apparently arrives first on the farms and later in the city.

BALLOT MARGH 1 ON NEW PONTIFF

Conclave to Await Arrival of Cardinals 0’Connell And Capello.

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 18 (U. P)). —A high Vatican prelate said today that the Conclave which is to elect a successor to His Holiness Pope Pius XI would open late on the afternoon of March 1. There was a possibility that the Conclave would meet Feb. 28 if all Cardinals from the American Hemisphere arrived in time, the informant said. - Their Eminences William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston and Giacomo Cardinal Capello of Buenos Aires are due to arrive in Naples on the Saturnia March 1 but the ship’s scheduled call at Algiers has been canceled to get them to Italy sooner. 175 to Aid Cardinals

A score of bricklayers, carpenters and general helpers were called in today as preparations were speeded for the meeting. It was estimated semiofficially that 237 persons, all men, would be isolated from the world during the conclave, in a little Vatican triangle bounded by the courtyards of St. Damasus, Marshal and St. Uffizi. The 62 Cardinals will be assisted by 175 others. All doors and windows will be sealed with lead, with the official seal of His Eminence Euginio Cardinal Pacelli, camerlengo and acting head of, the church. Window panes will be whitewashed. Telephone lines leading into the rooms occupied by the conclave will be cut. It was believed possible that His Eminence Tommasio Cardinal Boggiani might be excused from attendance. He is 76, suffers from diabetes and is nearly blind, it was explained.

DOWN TREND NOTED IN NEW FLU CASES

Pneumonia eaths Drop in

Major Cities. ~

, Feb. 18 (U.P). —U. 8. Public ‘Health Service officials said today that they saw no cause for alarm over the present prevalence of influenza. They believed that the trend ‘in new cases is [actually downward, but will have no positive check until Wednesday when telegrams from state public health officials are received. In the week ended Feb. 11 there were 3802 new| cases reported as compared with 4310 in the preceding week. Public health, officials said ‘they regarded pneumonia deaths as the best index of | the prevalence of respiratory diseases. Figures compiled for the week ended Feb. 4 in major cities of {the country with a total population) of 33,000,000 showed 762 pneumonia deaths compared with a five-year average for that week of 992.

Evidence obtained by police and telegraph company officials is to be presented to the Grand Jury next

week in the | vestigation of the hammer sla

ig of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig.

Meanwhile, e estate of Mrs. Romig was valued at $28,981 in an inventory filed in Probate Court by Frank B. Rose, attorney. Of the total, $23,455.60 was in cash, stocks and bonds and $5525.40 in personal property. There were two $1000 notes, signed by Fred W. Kennedy, with April 30, 1938 as maturity date. The household furniture was valued at $1111.50, clothing at $98.10 and jewelry at $3469.75. The personal effects included several fur coats, diamond rings and bracelets. Two accounts in a downtown Indianapolis bank were listed but most of the cash was deposited in 4 Shelbyville bank. As the Grand Jury prepared to deliberate, the 57-year-old ex-

opavist being held ‘with his 21-

Seven Childrén And Father Die As Home Burns

NOKESVILLE, Va. Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Edward Hanshorough, 40, and seven: of his eight children were burned to death last night in a fire which destroyed their. home. Mr. Hanshorough’s wife, Edna, 35, rescued their youngest child, 2, but the others were trapped on the second floor when the roof collapsed. Mrs. Hansborough said she and her husband had been reading in their bedroom on the ground floor and had fallen asleep. She was awakened by smoke. She carried her baby out of doors while her husband went upstairs to wake the other children. escape the roof fell in and the house “blew up like a tinder box.” Mrs. Hansborough—widowed in the short space of 15 minutes--was hysterical. She and her son were taken to neighbors where she was treated by a physician for shock.

WEATHER WILL STAY MILD OVER SUNDAY

Temperatures to Dip Bit as Clouds Float In.

TEMPERATURES a m....31 10am am....31 11a m..... a. m.... 33 12 (noon).. 9a m.... 36 1p m....

eee 39 45 11 50

Mild springlike weather will play a return engagement this week-end, the Weather Bureau predicted today. Although it probably will be cloudy tomorrow, it will be pleasant enough again to send thousands of motorists to the highways. The temperature is expected to reach 59 but increasing cloudiness this afternoon and tonight will cause slightly lower temperatures tomorrow, J. H. Armington, meterologist, said. The lowest temperature expected tonight is about 35, he said.

COUNTY TAXPAYERS AWAIT STATEMENTS

More Than 100,000 Expected to Pay $8,000,000.

The semiannual ordeal of collecting about eight million dollars in taxes from more than 100,000 Marion County property owners will be started at the County Treasurer’s office March 1. Treasurer Frank E. McKinney announced today that the typing of 175,000 tax duplicates will be completed next week. They will be placed in files for distribution from the counters of the Treasurer's office on March 1. Taxpayers can get them by mail if they send a self-addressed enveloped to the Treasurer’s - office.

Ex-Convict Prepares Own Defense in Romig Death

Sheriff Feeney said he asked for paper and pencil, which were given

Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he would seek an indictment on a charge of murder in the perpetration of a robbery. Conviction carries a mandatory death sentence. The Grand Jury’s investigation will require several weeks, he said. The woman’s husband,” a Glen Alum, W. Vd, coal miner, who came here yesterday, said the exconvict visited them in their home in January. They had not met him before, he said. Police charge the ex-convict was in the Romig apartment, 120 W. 12th St, the day of the murder, that he pawned jewels found missing, and that one piece was found in his possession when he was arrested in Anderson Feb. 9. Both the ex-convict and his stepdaughter are held without bond on vagrancy charges. ’ Yesterday an Indianapolis restaurant and rvoming house proprietor, from whom the

Before they could

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939

Times Photo.

FAIR UNDER WAY AT GOLDEN GATE

President to Send Good Wishes Over Radio From Cruiser.

(Photo, Page Two)

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 18 (U. P.).—The 50 million dollar Golden

Gate International Exposition was to open at noon (2 p. m. Indianapolis Time) today. A quarter million persons were expected to attend. The ceremonies mark the opening of the West's World Fair and the construction of two of the world’s greatest bridges—the 65 million dollar San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the 35 million dollar

cities of San Francisco Bay, and incidentally, will carry most of the Fair visitors to Treasure Island, an artificial island set in the bay. The ceremonies began at 10:30 a. m. (12:30 p. m. Indianapolis Time) when Governor Culkert Olson unlocked a replica of the Fair gates with a $35,000 jewel studded key. The actual gates: were opened at the same time. They end several hours later after President Roosevelt has spoken his good wishes by radio from the cruiser Houston off the Florida coast, and other na-

tional figures have. followed him on

dhe air. an tthe Fair:Grounds. - During "the fair’s 288 days, directors anticipate an attendance of 22 million drawn from everywhere. Pre-fair celebrations were climaxed last night with fiestas and a parade. As the parade ended, a photo-electric cell in Bombay, India, set off by radio the first official illumination of the fair. Contributing sponsors of the fair include the City, State, 11 other Western states and the United States. Represented were all the nations of the Pacific Basin and many European countries. |

KIDNAPING SUSPECTS PICKED FROM LINEUP

‘Look Like’ Abductors, Ranch Wife Declares.

YUBA CITY, Cal. Feb. 18 (U. P.). —Mrs. Norma Meeks, wealthy, middleaged ranch wife, picked two Kentucky brothers out of - police lineups in two northern California towns today as the men she believed kidnaped and held her for ransom last September. The $16,000 ranso,n asked was not paid and she was released after 48 hours. Although Mrs. Meeks said the suspects—Ollin Grimes, 29, and Raymond Grimes, 24—“looked like” her kidnapers, District Attorney Loyd Hewitt said: “We have enougn evidence to go before the Grand Jury Mrs. Meeks was en first to Colusa to look over a group of prisoners, then returned to Yuba City to repeat the expériment. In each jail were five or six prisoners. Mrs. Meeks identified the suspects by number. Eaeh had chosen the numeral “2.” The brothers were arrested Jan. 30 on fugitive warrants at Louisville, Ky. G-men brought them here. The brothers denied any connection with the kidnaping.

PUBLIC FUNERAL FOR DR. WILSON PLANNED

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 18 (U.P). —Oregon Methodist leaders today planned a public funeral for Dr. Clarence True Wilson, nationally

Thursday. Between 1000 and 2000 persons are expected to attend the rites at Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church Monday. = .. Bishop Titus Lowe, general superintendent of the Portland area of: the Methodist Church, will officiate. He will be assisted by Dr. Charles | McCaughey, Seattle superintedent, and other Northwest church leaders. 2

FIRE DESTROYS HOME Fire destroyed the four-room bungalow of Samuel Brown, on Hardin Road between Burford and Jack-. son Sts., early today. The loss was estimated by firemen at $1800. A defective flue caused the fire, deputy sheriffs said. No one was injured,

U. S. DEBT NOW 39 BILLION NGTON Feb. 18 = ) —

convict

Golden Gate Bridge. They link the

known dry crusader who died |

54 NEW BILLS PUT ASSEMBLY TOTAL AT 869

House Holds Extra Session In Effort to Break Legislative ‘Jam.’

DEADLINE BRINGS RUSH

Only 18 Measures Passed By Both Houses as End Nears.

(Other Stories, Page Two)

The Indiana House of Representatives, caught in a legislative “jam” two weeks before adjournment, held its first Saturday session today to consider more than three score bills awaiting second and third reading. With today set as the deadline for the introduction of bills, mem-

bers of the lower chamber dropped 54 more measures into the hopper. A total of 869 bills have been introdueed in both houses since the open-

‘|ing of the session.

Only 18 have been passed by both houses. Fourteen of this number have been signed by the Governor.

The House concluded its special Saturday session today after introducing 54 bills and cleaning up some minor business. Speaker James Knapp said from the rostrum: “I’m sorry to see this chamber doing nothing but introducing bills. The only ones who will benefit are the printers.

This session has enacted three public health measures and has advanced to the half-way point the Administration’s hygienic marriage bill. Major problems still pending follow: Liquor Reform—Republican-spon-sored omnibus bill passed by, House and referred to Senate Public Policy Committee. Democratic bill intro-

Democratic - provisions substituted. Of two “local option” bills introduced in the House. one has advanced to second reading and the other is still in committee. . City Manager — Identical joint resolutions introduced in both Houses to provide for appointment of a special study commission to investigate the best way for Indiana cities to establish the city manager plan. House resolution passed to third reading. Senate passed its measure but transfer to House was delayed on written motion of Senator McBride. Purpose of McBride motion said to be that some Senators want the commission’s reporting date changed from Oct. 1

question as 1940 election issue. Women Voters Push Merit Plan

Merit System—Bill pending in House committee to place all State employees on merit basis. Bill in Senate Committee would place employees of State institutions under merit system. Both measures sponsored by Indiana League of Women Voters. Budget—Bills appropriating $84,801,416 to finance operation of State (Continued on Page Two)

SIX DIE WHEN AUTO AND TRUCK COLLIDE

GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb. 18 (U. P.) .—Six persons were killed today

at Taylors, near here, when their automobile collided with a truck.

The dead:

Mrs. Laura Reese of near Charlotte, N. C.; her small daughter, Alma Jean; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Johnson of near Rome, Ga.; Charlie Johnson of Dalton, Ga. and another woman identified only as “Mrs. Johnson.” Mrs. Reese’s son, Leonard, and James Davis, the car driver, were injured. Sheriff J. A. Martin said the accident apparently occurred when the automobile tried to pass the truck. He said the crumpled condition of the car indicated it had been traveling at “terrific speed.” Foy Miller, driver of the truck,

Was not injured.

‘Fidelity or Death’ Pact Binds Begging Paren is

CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (U. P).— Harold Luther, 29, and his wife, Ruby, 17, were married four years ago at Tulsa, Okla. They were so jealous of each other’s love that |they drew up duplicate agreements giving each the “right” to kill the ‘lother if untrue. They wound up in Chicago begging, using their 19-months-old daughter, Martina, to attract sympathy. : Police seized them last night. - Here's their story

was only 13. He had an $18 a week job. His landlady, also his employer, refused to let him bring his child bride into her home. He left the job and started to look for another. He told police that when he left home mornings to look for work he

|locked his wife in and marked the

duced in Senate also in this com-| n |mittee. Indications are that Re-| “publican title will be kept, but|

to Dec. 1, 1940—thus removing this

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RANCE GOT U. N. AIR

‘at Postoffice, Indianapo

SECRE:

PRICE THREE CENTS

IN PLANE DEAL,

ity of MADRID ow shelled by Rebels; besieged since October, 936; Franco says one illion Insurgent troops il! march on this key city.

Gibraltar

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

FRANCE

Barcelona

BALEARIC ISLANDS

City of VALENCIA Loyalist capital, target for Insurgent] - bombs.

City of CARTAGENA Base for Loyalist fleet, this port controls imports to Loyalist area.

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BUCHAREST—Germany, Britain,

ROME, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Premier Mussolini, completely undisturbed by what was said in authoritative quarters to have been the eighth attempt against his life, reviewed today the 200 picked stalwarts of Lis “Black Musketeers,” pledged to defend his life with their own. The ceremony was private and hundreds of plainclothesmen kept the public out of the Pincio Gardens where it was held. Thousands of persons gathered as near as they could, despite the rain, to watch the ceremony and cheer Sig. Mussolini, in ignorance of the (Continued on Page Two).

WARNED AWAY TWICE FROM CAR OF F. D. R.

Stranger Flees Into Brush; President Unaware.

(Another Story Page Three)

FLORIDA CITY, ¥la., Feb. 18 (U. P.) —Officers guarding the private railroad car of President Roosevelt here today chased a man they had twice warned away from the President’s car. The man eluded them in the heavy underbrush. The incident occurred while the President breakfasted in the car with friends just before he left by automobile for Key West. The Chief Executive was not aware of the hunt. William J. Geronomo, Florida City Police Chief, said that the stranger twice had walked into the roped-off area from which the public was barred.

REP. DIES RECUPERATING WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.) — Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.), was iecuperating rapidly today from 4n operation for appendicitis.

When Luther TT Ruby, she

One day they drew up the deuth agreements on the backs of old calendar sheets. Mrs. Luther had hers when seized. It said:

“I swear to my, precious beloved husband never to get out of his eyesight at any time or anywhere on the face of the earth. If I violate &ény of my oaths, my husband has a perfect right to blind one or both of my eyes or take my life. ; “Our life together must be a per=- 80 fect success straight through to eternity or death.” Arriving here, Luther decided to beg. But he couldn't leave his wife and she couldn’t leave the baby They agreed to beg together. - A jailer started to lock up Luther. His wife wept.

“We can’t be separated,” she said. Police permitted them to

Negrin Warned by Azana; Duce Reviews Bodyguards

FOREIGN SITUATION

PARIS—Loyalist second-in-command stays in France. LONDON—Negrin reported - yielding on surrender. MADRID—Alicanti bombed, 60 killed, 200 injured. _WARSAW—Poland Tesognizes. Franco regime.

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ROME—“Assassination” plot report officially denied.

BERLIN—German unfavorable trade balance grows acute. MUNICH—Catholic school closed in dispute with Cardinal.

France vie for trade.

PARIS, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—President Manuel Azana of Loyalist Spain was understood today to have sent an “ultimatum”’ to Premier Juan Negrin, threatening to break relations with the Negrin Government if it refuses to seek peace. If Dr. Negrin refuses, it was believed President Azana would issue & proclamation declaring the Negrin Government is rebellion against the Republic's highest authority. If Dr. Negrin accepts Senor Azana is ready io open immediate negotiations with the French and British Governments to obtain their intervention. At the same. time, Lieut. Gen. Vicente Rojo, one of the ranking officers of the Loyalist Army, announced he would not return to Spain, as did 12 deputies of the Cortes (Parliament), who mei in Paris. Gen. Rojo arrived at Perpignan,

from Paris last night and continued on to Vernet les Bains, where his wife and children have lived for several months. .

Resignation Reported

It was reported that he had sent his resignation to the Loyalist Government because of a conviction that it would be useless to continue the civil war, and that his decision was the deciding factor in the refusal of President Manuel Azana to return to Spain from the Spanish Embassy here. Gen. Rojo, talking from Vernet les Bains today, refused to give details. He said he could not give an interview because of a French

_ {Government ban on political ac-

tivities by Loyalists in France. But he added that he would not return to Spain and that he would return to Paris after a week-end with his family. Gen, Rojo and Gen. Jose Miaja, supreme commander in Central Spain, were promoted to lieutenant general—the highest rank in. the Loyalist Army—only a week ago.

Del Vayo to Report

The promotion, in Gen. Rojo’s case, was for his direction of the defense of Catalonia, where he was chief of staff of the Loyalist Army. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Loyalist Foreign Minister, left Toulouse by

‘ Iplane for Valencia to report to Dr.

Negrinon his failure to persuade President Azana to return. Before he left here he saw Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, who was understood to have told him that France had decided to wnroceed with the recognition of the Rebel Government. The French Government has informed both Senor Del Vayo and President Azana, it was understood, that they must refrain from all polivenl activity while on French

Twelve Cortes deputies met secretly in Paris today and decided to

pending the outcome of Senor del Vayo’s conversation with Dr. Negrin. “TRAIN KILLS FUGITIVES

NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (U. P)— Two young men fleeing from police-

take {men after an attempted hold-up

in France near the Spanish frontier,

refuse to return to the Madrid zone

GEN. CRAIG TESTIFIES

Morgenthau Defends Sale ‘as ‘Good Business.’

MENTIONS NAZIS

As Reich's, Senate Group Is Told.

(National Affairs, Page Three)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. PJ). —Gen. Malin Craig, Army chief of staff, was disclosed today to have told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that a light bombing

France was one of the U. S. Army’s two “valuable military secrets if we are to lead in the air.” Gen. Craig’s testimony, given at a secret co ttee hearing on Jan,

chapter in the story of how a French mission obtained the co= operation of various Government departments in the proposed pur= ; chase of military planes. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told the Committee that President Roosevelt considered the sale of new type American war planes 0 Se France “good business.” & Secretary Morgenthau said that “instead of being ashamed” of the transaction, “it is something to be proud of.” Secrecy Promised

Secretary ‘Morgenthau was shown to have testified that the French representatives were “under plédge that none of these planes

of them should be shown to anybody. ”» Secretary. Morgenthau said France had been prepared to spend 65 mil= lion dollars for 1000 planes provided

‘|deliveries could be made within six

months—by July 1. - France actual« ly ordered about 600 planes, in dd dition to 100 bought last year. J Previously, the Committee had disclosed that the War, Treasury and Navy Departments participated in the negotiations on instructions

against revealing to the French the type of planes they wanted to buy.

Legal, President Says The President defended the “deal”

aboard his train en route to Florida and said that France had every legal right to buy the planes. Gen. Craig was. shown to have

of the Army was that France might

considering adopting if \it were suc cessful in later competitions cone

referred to was a Douglas light ate tack bomber, which France subse= quently ordered. “If they sold it to them we might never have any chance at it at all,” Gen. Craig testified.

Cabinet Members in Dispute

The transcript of testimony ree vealed that Treasury - Secretary Morgenthau, and War Secretary

fore the committee over the time when France could obtain delivery of the 600 planes of various types that it ordered. “They want something which is better than what the Germans have got,” Secretary Morgenthau testis fied. . .. “They insisted that eve ery plane they buy be delivered by the first of July, and if they cane not get that delivery, and if they cannot get something as good or better than the Germans have, they do not want it.” “I told you this before,” Secretary Woodring , interrupted, “and I will tell . you again—if they want them by the first of July they will never buy an airplane in this country. fey cannot be delivered in that

with the exception of two models of two bombers, “there is nothing we have got that is as good as the Germans have got. » |

Dutch Send Two

Missions to Buy Planes WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U, P. —Two military missions from 3 Netherlands, one from the Nether lands Navy and the other from ft! Colonial Army, are in this counts to purchase airplanes, motor pedo boats, antiaircraft eq a and other munitions, the Net he lands Embassy disclosed today.

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