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FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; much colder tonight ‘with lowest temperature 12 to 20.

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Annoying Small Children Also Is Missing.

‘QUIZ GARDENER’S AUNT

Declared He Was Taking Her Away on Plea of Mother, Police Told.

PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 20 (U. P.). —A statewide search was ordered today for 8-year-old Anna Louise Sweitzer, believed by police to have been "abducted by a middle-aged

gardener. The child’s parents reported that she was last seen with a playmate Sunday at a playground and that she had not returned home last night. After they had searched the

“neighborhood in vain and contacted

the playmate, they reported the disappearance to police. ; Police learned that Townsend Davis, 40, a part-time gardener at a home near the Sweitzers, frequented the playground. They went’ to Davis’ home and his aunt, Mrs. Jennie Purcell, told them he brought Anna there, packed a suitcase and drove away with her in a 1927 Buick sedan, : ; Police said Davis was arrested two weeks ago when accused .of annoying small children. He was released after an investigation.

| Teletype Alarm Flashed

Before he left, the aunt said, Davis told her that he was taking Anna away at the request of her mother. He said Mrs. Sweitzer wanted the girl taken away because she was being mistreated by her father, according to the aunt. Detective Chief Stanley D. Decker asked State Police to send a teletype alarm to all State bureaus ordering Davis’ apprehension. He also asked Yuma, Ariz.,, and Blythe, Cal., authorities to watch for the sedan. These towns are border points on main highways east. The child was described by her parents as blond with blue eyes and fai skifly “She was wearing a red checkered skirt and blouse. : Davis is six feet tall, has brown hair, blue eyes. He is slender and slightly stoop-shouldered. Police said they had learned that he was a pianist and organist and had often played at church affairs here. Ralph Sweitzer, Anna’s father, is a World War veteran, having served in the Aviation Corps, and is partially disabled. The family is of modest means. The home is in a middle-class neighborhood.

FCC STANDS PAT ON WLW POWER ACT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U.P.).— The FCC today affirmed its decision ordering radio station WLW of Cincinnati to cease broadcasting on “super-power” of 500,000 watts on March 1. The Commission denied a petition of the Crosley Corp., Cincinnati, for a rehearing on the decision and refused to stay the order for discontinuance of WLW'’s Superpower experimental license. | WLW has been operating on su-per-power for five years. Under terms of the order, it must begin broadcasting on normal power of 50,000 watts after 3 a. m. March 1.

FREDDIE MAY ENTER CULVER THIS SUMMER

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 20 (U. P..

'—Freddie Bartholomew, 15-year-old

British film star, and his aunt and guardian, Miss Myllicent Bartholomew, today announced that - they will become American citizens. Miss Bartholomew said that she intends to take out her first citizenship papers soon and that the proceedings also would make her adopted son an American cilizen. The young star also reported that he is being granted a leave of absence from his studio during July and August so that he may enroll at Culver Military Academy in Indiana for the summer session.

CARMEL MAN HELD FOR SLOW DRIVING

Roy Andrews, Carmel, arrested yesterday by State Policeman Patrick Barton, who said he was driving between 10 and 12 miles an hour on Indiana 67, was found guilty - today by Municipal Judge John L. McNelis but judgment was withheld on a charge of reckless driving. Mr. Andrews said he was driving slowly because he was looking for a chicken farm.

HAGUE’S SON NAMED TO JERSEY BENCH

TRENTON, N. J, Feb. 20 (U. P.). — Governor Moore today appointed Frank Hague Jr. 34, son of Mayor Hague of Jersey City, as a judge in the Court of Errors and Appeals, highest court in the state. The Hague appointment will be sent to the State Senate tonight for confirmation. It was believed the nomination would be confirmed.

KENYON DIVORCE DUE HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 23 (U, P.).—

.Doris Kenyon Lasker, former screen

star, said today that she and Albert D. Lasker, advertising execu-

_ tive, had separated and that she is ‘4 [CC 2:

winter today.

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Plea. for Hitching Pos Upsets Equilibrium of Works Board. -

Edward W. Harris, president of the Hamilton-Harris Co. and former City Councilman, today asked permission of the Works Board to install a saddle horse hitching rack in front of his home at 3510 Washington Boulevard. Startled Board members, who said they had not seen a similar request for several years, indicated they would grant it. ; “I have a dandy hitching post with a horse’s head on it which Tl sell to him,” commented Louis Brandt, Board president.

DISCOUNTS FEAR OF STATE FLOOD

Weather Observer Believes Cold Will Check Rivers; 15-20 Low Forecast.

i ' By United Press “Pears of additional floods due to unusually heavy rains throughout Indiana yesterday and last night

were discounted today by J. H. Armington, Government weather observer at Indianapolis. The rains, reported at from one t6=two inches, sent the Wabash River roaring eight-and-a-half feet higher at Wabash and more than six feet higher at Logansport. The White River rose more than three feet at Elliston and almost four feet at Anderson, Mr. Armington said. “If the freezing weather forecast for tonight arrives,” Mr. Armington said, “it would prevent the runoff of much of the waste water. Even if it does not. freeze, there is little danger of floods unless we have much more rain.”

Sunday ‘Spring’ Hits High of 67

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Much colder weather was forecast by the Weather Bureau for tonight, with the lowest temperature from 15 to 20. If will be fair tonight and tomorrow, the Bureau predicted. The average temperature yesterday was 58, with a high of 67 at 11 a. m. Eight-tenths of an inch of rain fell here and heavier falls were recorded in other parts of the State.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba., Feb. 20 (U. P.) —Western Canada emerged slowly from the worst blizzard of the The storm swept across Manitoba and Saskatchewan, taking at least one life and crippling transportation facilities. . : An ‘official 38 degrees below. zero was reported in Winnipeg.

MARGARET MNELIS 1S DEAD HERE AT 101

Once Taught at st. Joseph’s Catholic School.

Mrs. Margaret McNelis, pioneer Indiana resident and one of Indianapolis’ oldest residents, died yesterday at the age of 101. Mrs. McNelis was born near Cincinnati while her parents were migrating by covered wagon from the East to Indiana. Just before the Civil War, the family moved to St. Joseph, Mo., where Mrs. McNelis taught school several years. Later she came to Indianapolis, teaching in St. Joseph’s Catholic School and St. John’s Boys School. She was married in 1875 to Patrick H. McNelis, who owned and operated the old Occidental Hotel on the site of the present Occidental Building. : Services will be at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas C. Kelly, 1704 N. Pennsylvania St., and at 10 a. m, at SS. Peter & Paul Cathedral. Burial will be at Holy Cross. Mrs. McNelis is survived by four granddaughters, Mrs. D. L. O’Hair, Greencastle, and the Misses Frances, Gertrude and Patricia Kelly of Indianapolis and two grandchildren, Thomas and Shirley Anne O’Hair, Indianapolis.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Feb. 20 (U. P.).—Pederal and State investigators will meet at St. Paul tomorrow for an inquiry into a freak accident near here in which a runaway freight engine collided head-on with a Chicago & Great Western passenger train. The engineer and fireman of the passenger train were killed and 22 persons were injured. The accident occurred shortly before midnight Saturday at Tennant, Iowa, 31 miles northeast of Councii

Bluffs. Trainmen said it was one of the strangest in the road’s his-

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AUTO CRASHES

FATAL TO TWO DRIVERS HERE

Accidents Reported Over Week-End.

3 OTHERS DIE IN STATE

Youth and Girl Are Victims As Car Collides With Bus At Hammond.

Week-end traffic brought death to two in Marion County and three in the State. : Eugene E. Wildman, billiard par-| lor proprietor, 221 Eastern Ave, died a half hour after his car crashed into the rear of a Peoples Motor Bus Co. feeder bus on Road 40 west of the City early today. Clarence P. Laycock, 1119 W. 30th St., injured Saturday when his car collided with a truck driven by Albert Kaney, 1102 S. Dennison St., at Holt Road and W. Morris St, died last night in City Hospital. | In 29 other accidents reported here, eight persons were injured.

Die in Hammond Crash

At Hammond, Gariel Alm, 23, and Miss Viola Nash, 17, of (Gary, were killed when their car collided with a Chicago-bound bus. James Frodeg, 20, Veedersburg, was killed Saturday near his home when his car crashed into the rear of a loaded coal fruck, during a rainstorm. : | Mr. Wildman’s car struck the bus which had stopped to discharge a passenger. The impact ocked the bus 25 feet, it was reported. Charles Simon, 21, of 5814 W. Washington St., a passenger in Mr. Wildman’s car, also was injured. Deputy sheriffs found him lying at the side of the road, as though he had been thrown through a window of the car. He said that the bus suddenly loomed in front of the car and that it was tco late to avoid a crash. Mr. Simon was trealed at

.|City Hospital and released.

Woman Is Injured

Mrs. Flossie Jones, 38, of 520 N. Pine St., a bus passenger, was injure’ and her condition was‘ described as fair, She is at Methodist Hospital. : | | Frank Ward, 3032 Jackson St., bus driver, told deputies that a passenger, Charles Murphy, 3548 W. Washington St., just had alighted from the. bus when the | crash ‘occured. : Mr. Wildman is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nellie O. Wildman. Mr. Kaney told deputy sheriffs that Mr. Laycock was driving south on Holt Road and was attempting to make a left turn into Morris St. at the intersection when their accident occurred.

Funeral Wednesday

Funeral services for Mr. Laycock will be in the Blasengym Mortuary at 2 p. m. Wednesday, with burial in New Bethel Cemetery. Born near Traders Point, Sep! 23, 1873, Mr. Laycock was an Indianapolis resident 31 years. He was a chiropractor and had an office at 312 E. Washington St. Mr. Laycock is survived by two sons, James and Wyant of Indianapolis; two brothers, Chester, Indianapolis, and the Rev. Robert F. Laycock, pastor of the Methodist Church at Elnora.

Rain Blamed in Fatal Crash on Road 34

VEEDERSBURG, Feb. 20 (U. P.). —Heavy rain was blamed today for an automobile-truck collision, in which James Frodeg, 20, of Veedersburg, was killed and two others were injured. ; The accident occurred on State Road 34. A car in which Mr. Frodeg was riding with two others crashed into the rear of a truck loaded with coal. Francis Wood, 24, also in the car, was injured critically.

Young Man and Girl

Killed Near Hammond

HAMMOND, Feb. 20 (U, P.)—A young man and a girl were killed near here yesterday when their automobile collided with a bus. The victims were Gariel Ajlmi, 23, of Gary, and Miss Viola Nash, 17, of East Gary. William Glamm, 34, of Chicago, the bus driver, told police

Runaway Engine Kills Injures 22 in Iowa Crash

Mr. Ajlmis’ car swerved into the

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engine was switching on a siding at Tennant when a steam pipe burst. j | Fireman Ed Sharp, Council Bluffs, jumped out of the cab. Bruised only slightly, he went to the aid of the engineer, John Anderson, Council Bluffs, who was scalded. | As they reached the ground, the engine started to roll backward down the siding, pulling a loaded grain car. It crashed into the middle of a string of freight cars at a cross track, derailing four. In some unexplained way the reverse lever shifted and the engine reversed its direction. It sped along the spur, entered the main line, and careened down the tracks for nearly five miles, still pushing the grain car. : Trainmen estimated that it was

Eight Injured in 29 Traffic|

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1939

" tigation in the hammer slaying of David M. Lewis said. ;

One-Pound, 13-Ounce Baby Dies

Efforts of physicians at Methodist Hospital to keep alive a one-pound, ‘ 13-ounce baby born Feb. 11, had been in vain today. The baby, Rita Eileen Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Volney Charles Wilson, 823 N. Keystone Ave, died in an incubator yesterday. The infant had been given alternate sips of tea and milk, fed with an eyedropper. ; The infant had regained its birth weight at the: time of death, =o ofl ow The father is employed in the mechanical department of

the Indianapolis Power & Light Co.

YEGGS CRACK SAFE DESPITE TEAR GAS

Amount of Loot Taken at Coal Firm Undetermined.

Yeggs early today battered open the safe of the Metropolitan Coal Co., 945 N. Davidson St., and esped with an undetermined amount money. All lights in the building but the one nearest the safe were burning, and the building. itself was floodlighted ‘by a nearby filling station. The cracksmen apparently wore gloves kept in the office for drivers and they worked in tear gas released when they battered the safe. ~ Clayton Meig, company president, said that at one time Saturday there had been $2800 in cash and checks in the safe, but that some of it had been banked and he did not know immediately how much cash was gone. ’ . The cracksmen punched the combination out, battered opeh a cast steel door to an inside compartment, and broke into portable cash boxes that contained $300 in cash. The tear gas was released when the punch went through the combination and broke a glass vial.

VACCINATION ORDER EFFECTIVE IN WEEK

Morgan Reports Campaign Is Showing Results.

Public and parochial school pupils who have not been vaccinated for smallpox by Thursday will be barred from classes starting next Monday, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, announced today. Dr. Morgan said approximately 75 per cent of the:pupils, teachers and other employees in schools have been vaccinated thus far, while the vaccination program in kindergartens has been completed. Dr. Morgan reported that the compulsory vaccination program in the schools is beginning to show vesults. In January, he reported, 60 per cent of smallpox victims were adults and 40 per cent children under 18, whereas thus far this month only 20 per cent of those affected have been children. Thus far this month, also, it was reported, 122 smallpox cases have been reported, an average of about six a day. In January, the cases averaged 4.5 a day.

Seek $15,000 More In Smallpox Fight

City Council will meet tonight to consider for passage an ordinance

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Grand Jury Hears Romig

The first to testify today in the Marion County Grand husband, H. Daniel Romig. Four others also testified, Prosecutor

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WITNESS TODAY

Lewis Hopes for True Bill Against Ex-Convict By Tomorrow.

H. Daniel Romig and the officials who investigated the murder of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig today testified before the Marion County Grand Jury as it opened its investigation of the case. In addition to the 28-year-old husband of the victim, the Gran Jury heard Roderic Rae, special erie. iv

Sergt. Thomas ‘Aulls of the po homicide squad, and Deputy Coroner Norman Booher. Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he hopes to have an indictment charging first degree murder in the perpetration of a robbery return by tomorrow. i girs If the indictment is not returned by tomorrow, he said, he will ‘attempt to have police postpone a proposed arraignment in Municipal Court tomorrow of a 57-year-old exconvict now held for investigation on a vagrancy charge. - Meanwhile, Police Lieut. Donald Tooley said he has; possession of a bottle of hair dye with which the ex-convict is ‘alleged to have changed the color of his hair after the Jan. 17 date Mrs. Romig was murdered in her apartment at 120 W. 12th St. )

STAY OF FOUR DAYS IS GRANTED M'CALL

Governor Delays Execution After Hearse Arrives.

RAIFORD, Fla., Feb. 20 (U.P.) — Franklin Pierce McCall, convicted kidnaper, was saved from the electric chair today by a four-day postponement of execution and then covered his head with: his arms when another condemned man walked past his cell- to the execution chamber. McCall, a callous farm youth, had been scheduled to diefat 9 a. m. (Indianapolis * Time) for the kidnaping of 5-year-old Jimmy. Cash of Princeton, Fla., who died while held as a hostage for ransom, He had eaten a “last breakfast” of bacon, eggs, toast and coffee when L. F. Chapman, prison superintendent, informed him that Governor Fred Cone had postponed the execution date until 11 a. m. Friday. The delay was made so that McCall’s attorneys could appeal to the U. 8. Supreme Court. A guard reported that McCall received the news of the delay stoically. : : Within an hour a procession formed outside the .cell of Paul. Fried Bunge, condemned for Kkilling his wife and two small daughters at Tampa, Fla., last May. When Bunge, accompanied by a minister and. guards, walked past his cell, McCall hid his head under his arm. Eight minutes later Bunge was dead. : - McCall's young wife was confident,

husband would not be executed. So close was the margin by which McCall escaped death today that a hearse that was to have taken his body away was waiting at the prison gate. His head had been shaved and his trousers slit for the electrodes.

TWO. U. CAGE STARS OUT OF IOWA GAME

BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P). of Indiana University’s

Rep. Evans Expects Special

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(CLAIMS G.0.P. 8 WON'T ACCEPT

STATE BUDGET

Session Due to Fight Over Figures.

LEGISLATURE TODAY HOUSE :

Labor groups plan to oppose to prohibit sitdown

hearing tomorrow night scheduled on bill to restore the town of New Harmony. Defeated an attempt to force - from committee the bill to -* provide a new legislative apportionment. (Page Five.) Advanced to third reading the Senate bill to exiend the State’s milk control sysiem until June 30, 1941. Republican leaders discuss possibility of a special session to consider the budget as the Ways and Means Commiitee prepares to begin analysis of the biennial appropriaiion

SENATE

Convenes at 10 a. m, Finance Committee delays hearing on bill to reduce gross income tax rates of retailers. Awaits introduction of new gross income tax bill to provide sliding scale of gross income tax rates for retailers ‘based on volume of business. Received favorable committee report on “compromise” liquor reform bill, (Page Five.) Awaits introduction of bill to provide a referendum vote on State’s old-age pension policies. (Page Two.) Awaits committee reports on. bills to provide for revision of State’s liquor control sysiem and to set up merit plan for State institution employees. (Page Five.) 4 Textbook Investigaiing Committee completes report. (Page Five.)

: Declaring the Republicans would hot ‘accépt the $84,801,416 biennial appropriation bills in their present form, Rep. H. H. Evans (R. New Castle), House majority floor leader, said today he did not see “how a special session can possibly be avoided.” Sh G. O. P. members of the lower chamber have announced a caucus for.tonight presumably to formulate the party's policy on this matter. Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee was to meet this afternoon to begin a detailed analysis of the budget. To enable the committee to complete its work by the end of this week, Speaker Knapp announced that the House would not hold afternoon sessions until the budget is reported back to the floor. :

Inquirries Planned

. Committee members said they planned to call in department heads and ask for explanations of any

item increases. Rep. Evans also said G. O. P. representatives were particularly anxious to force Democratic Senators to take action on the Parker Bill to provide a new basis for distribution of State-collected gasoline tax and motor vehicle funds to local governmental units. Because this measure would reduce the amount of funds available to the State General Fund and prevent diversion of any of this money to the General Fund, Administration leaders are reportedly trying to smother this bill in Senate committee. The bill has passed the House, the chamber of its origin. Rep. Evans prepared to read into the House journal an eight-point Republican program which: would include establishment of th§ county as the administrative unit for the gross income tax, public welfare, automobile licenses and store tax and the abolition of these State departments,

Milk Control Measure

Advances in House.

The Senate bill to extend the life of the State Milk Control System until June 30, 1941, withstood a bombardment of amendments and floor strategy in the House today to move along to third reading, one step from final passage. When the bill came up for second reading, Rep. Harry Shull (R. Auburn) offered an amendment which would enable consumers to buy milk directly from farmers. This type of ‘(Continued on Page Two)

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NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (U. P)— Police ordered elaborate precautions today to prevent rioting at tonight's «Americanization” rally of the proNazi German-American Bund in Madison Square Garden. ‘Policemen assigned to the meeting were increased by 350 to 1300. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine announced that he would command y and Acting Mayor Newbold Morris warned that the Bund “will have to do its ‘bunding’ inside” the Garden. ; . It was one of the largest police details ever assigned to a public meeting hefe. It was increased after inti-Nazi organizatioas pro- : The circular

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. LIMA, Peru, Feb. 20 (U. P).— Numerous civilian, military and police suspects were reported detained at the Panoptico Penitentiary today as the Government investigated a brief abortive revolt attempted early yesterday by Gen. Antonio Rodriguez, Interior Minister and chief of the Fascist-like “Union Revolucionaria” Party. One of those held was Gen. Ciriloh Ortega, suspected of being Gen. Rodriguez's coleader. The Cabinet ended a 32-hour meeting early this morning, and was expected to issue a long communique on the revolt today. The city was normal, and too busy with celebrating its annual carnival, which started yesterday, to bother

sign left of the revolt was the heavy guard at the Government palace, and the body of Gen. Rodriguez which reposed in one of its rooms.

Four Are Killed

Gen. Rodriguez and four others— a police officer, two civil guards-and a Japanese struck by a stray bullet —were killed in the revolt and eight were wounded, including three police officials who were in the conspiracy and five civil guards. It was —a-strange revolt, apparently confined to a few people in Gen. Rodriguez's party and executed. with almost unequaled audacity. President Benavides sailed from Callao Saturday night for a vacation at Pisca. Gen. Rodriguez, the revolt leader, was one of the Cabinet ministers who was at the dock to see him off. Gen. Rodriguez bade him an affectionate farewell—andg hastened back to Lima, to take his place as “Minister of Governmen Rt or Cabinet executive, during his absence. Gen. Rodriguez arrived at the principal gate of the government palace at 2 a. m. yesterday, witnesses told the United Press. He was accompanied by Gen. Ortega, a fellow leader in his party, and a group of police and army officers. Guards suspected nothing because it was customary for Gen. Rodriguez as “Minister of Government” to sleep at the palace in the President’s absence. Gen. Rodriguez approached Capt. Alejandro Ismodes, chief of ma(Continued on Page Three)

DENNING TO SCAN COUNTY WPA WORK

Officials Are Invited to Conference Today.

Posey B. Denning, newly appointed Marion County WPA director, today called a meeting of City and County officials to discuss present and future WPA projects in the County. Mr. Denning succeeded Carl Kortepeier, who resigned Thursday. He said the meeting was called to consider future projects, and review the status of those now in operation. It will be held at State WPA headquarters at 2 p. m. . Mayor Sullivan, County Commissioners and State officials are expected to attend. John K. Jennings, State WPA Administrator, has assured City officials that no current projects would be affected by the

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Fear Violence, Increase at Bund Rally

sergeant remained at the Garden during the night hecause of a report that three bombs would be planted in the building and exploded during the meeting. Acting Mayor Morris said that the Bund would not be permitted to have loud speakers outside the garden. He warned against sidewalk demonstrations and indicated that police would prevent uniformed bund members parading to or from the Garden. Bund officials said 3000 members in uniforms would be in

“maintain peace.” Mr. Morris criticized the wearing of uniforms, pointing out that the Federal Foreign Relations Act made the wearing of the uniform of a for-

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30,000 OF ITALY'S SOLDIERS MOVED TO NORTH AFRIC?

Audacious Fascist-Like Rebellion Smashed in ‘Peru; British House of Commons Told Duce : Has Reinforced Libya Area.

FOREIGN SITUATION

DAMASCUS—Secret radio gives revolt orders. > LONDON—Chamberlain may announce aid to France.

talks rumored.

BURGOS—Franco not expected to leave Spain. TRIPOLI—Badoglio inspects Italian defense. PARIS—France occupies land once given Italy. MADRID—Bread ration cut again, now 3!; ounces.

LIMA—Leader of brief revolt is killed. SAN DIEGO—Nine arrested near naval zone. SHANGHAI—20 Chinese assassinate official.

LONDON, Feb. 20 U. P.)—The Italian Government informed Lord Perth, British Ambassador, on Feb. 8 that 30,000 reinforcements had been sent to the Italian garrison in Libyr, R. A. Butler, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, announced to= day in the House of Commons. . The House entered on an impors tant debate during which Prime Minister Chamberlain may ane nounce a Government decision on proposals to send a British Army to France in event of war. : During the question hour, Mr, Chamberlain refused to be drawn out on the progress of negotiations for recognition of the Spanish Rebels and efforts to end the civil war. . Regarding the progress of discuse sions with France on the subject, he said “His Majesty's Government is maintaining the cloest contact with the French Government and discuse sion with it are still in progress. No statement therefore is possible ‘at this stage.” : Tel Treaty Not. Broken

Mr. Butler, discussing the Libyan situation, said the Government did not regard the dispatch of Italian troop reinforcements as a hreach: of the British-Italian. agreement, bes . cause it brings the garrison to the same strength it was when th agreement was signed. be Mr. Chamberlain announced that Great Britain will send a trade mis= sion to Soviet Russia, and other Northern European capitals in March. It was rumored meanwhile that United States export induse tries were ready to enter negotiae tions with British and German ine dustries to regulate competition in world markets and forestall a trade war. British and German industrialists are to meet at Dusseldorf on March 15 to discuss cartel arrangements such as the Webb-Pomerene Act permits United States industries enter. Le

Secret Radio Gives

Syrian Revolt Orders

DAMASCUS, Feb. 20 (U. P)—A secret Syrian Arab radio station broadcast orders today to rebel leaders designated by numbers fo begin distribution of arms and ame munition in Aleppo, Damascus and Lattakia in preparation for a simule taneous uprising. : > French police believed the station to be situated in Tripoli, on the coast. It began broadcasting several days ago, announcing formation -of the “Greater Syrian Revolutionary. Committee.” Asking the Syrians to emulate the Arab revolt in Palestine, the station promised them victory against the French. : Unrest and agitation for come plete independence from the French mandate continued throughout Syria in the wake of the resigna= tion of Premier Jamil Mardam Bey: and his Government. s Members of the Government de- = nied Italian and German reports that they had declared Syria's ine dependence but admitted the situa tion is grave and that they fear trouble, : ¥ Riots Reported

(The London Daily Herald reporte ed demonstrations and riots m many Syrian towns, and said that hundreds of demonstrators and poe licemen were wounded over th wi ~The province of Latta= kia, which long ago declared th: it did not recognize the Syrian Go! ernment, has now declared fi independent, the Herald said.) The Government was forced. resign as a result of agitation by Opposition, which accused it of ing to secure Syrian indepen as guaranteed by France in agreement of 1935, which was ratified by the French Parlia Premier Mardam had ¢ the new French High Co er, Gabriel Puaux, to (Continued on Page Three)

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