Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1939 — Page 2

Jap Leaders Split On Reich Ae: Push Drive in China

THE FOREIGN SITUA SITUATION

ysl | divided on war views. - 1 { WASHINGTON—Isolationists seek support in Congress. cs - LONDON—British tension eases, Kennedy says.

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(Soviet: Army Calica ‘Broken Reed,” Page Nine)

.. TOKYO, March 25 (U. P.).—Japanese leaders are’ engaged in urgent consultations over a German proposal for a broad German-Italian-Jap-anese military alliance against any opposition to their policies by the democracies, it was asserted .today in official quarters. . Informants said that -aiscussions ‘were so bitter that a Cabinet crisis

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might; possibly be precipitated. ‘It was said that at present a ‘majority of leaders were opposed to . involving Japan in:European mat-

ters but were not willing to abandon the German idea unless a better proposition were forthcoming else-

where. ~~ Leaders Consult

Premier Hiranuma, Foreign Minister Arita, War Minister Itagaki, Navy Minister Yonai and Finance Minister Ishiwata were said to be in frequent conference in an effort to decide Japan’s policy. In connection with the alliance talk, it was disclosed that Baron Hiranuma had reported to Emperor Hirohito today on the closing of parliament and “pending diplomatic matters.” : ‘As Baron Hiranuma visited the Emperor, 106 of the 466 members of the Diet, representing minor parties, sent him a petition asking him to conclude a military alliance with Germany and Italy “against Great Britain and France, which are obstructing Japan’s present sacred aims.” xX

Japs, Chinese Lock in

Fierce Engagement

“SHANGHAI, March 25 (U. P.).— The - Japanese and Chinese forces are locked in a series of bloody engagements over a 70-mile front between: Wuching and Wuning, dispatches to the Chinese newspapers said ‘today. * According to messages the fighting is more bloody and terrible than that which occurred on the Shanghai front. “More than 100 Japanese bombers reportedly attacked the Chinese, . positioris in the last few days, but | the Chinese defense remains firm except for a hole along the highway to Nanchang.

Slovaks Ask Hitler

For Protection

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March | 925. (U. P.).—Slovaks expected Adolf

Hitler to intervene today in their fight against an invading Hungarian | army. German-blooded Slovaks | have been killed by Hungarian |

bombing planes and Herr Hitler was! understood here to be indignant. President Tiso sent urgent notes to Berlin, reminding Herr Hitler of | his guarantee of Slovakia’s integ- | rity, the price for which his newly | proclaimed state placed itself under German influence after its secession from Czecholovakia last week. M. Tiso protested that the Hungarians were violating the new Slovak integrity and he sent by special | messengers, detailed information of | * the killing of people of German, blood at the towns of Neudorf, and | Zips, in eastern Slovakia, where | Slovak and Hungarian troops were fighcing fiercely. | It was understood that Mr. Tiso expected Herr Hitler to take what-| ever action was necessary to drive the Hungarians back at least to the former Czechoslovak-Hungarian. porder established after the post- | Munich stripping away of Czechoslovak border areas.

Goering Says Axis

Is Unbreakable

ROME, March 25 (U. P.).—Field Marshal Goering, German economic dictator and right-hand man of Adolf Hitler, pledged today ' that Germany would remain at all costs beside Italy. The pledge was given in Premier Mussolini's own newspaper, Popolo d'Italia of Milan, as Sig. Mussolini perfected the draft of a speech he is to make tomorrow—a speech which. may prove one of the most important of his career. So sensational was Herr Goering’s statement that hope rose sharply that it would now be possible for Sig. Mussolini to obtain by peaceful negotiation the “natural -aspirations” he seeks to satisfy, at France's expense, in the Mediterranean: and Red “Sea areas, In * pledging German - Ttalian friendship, Herr Goering spoke bitterly of Great Britain and alluded to her, particularly, as the proverhial dog that barks but never bites. “The Berlin-Rome axis is unbreakable,” Herr Goering said.

Conscription Urged Upon England

LONDON. March 25 (U. P).— France and several other powers have urged the British Government that immediate introduction of national conscription in Great Britain is essential to- the real success of any effort to check German expansion, it was understood today. It was asserted that BY ident Lebrun of France on his state visit here strongly impressed British

KENNEDY NOTES

BRITONS’ CALM

Ambassador Sav: Says Tension Does Not Equal That of Last September.

LONDON, March 25 (U. P).— There may be great danger of war in Europe, but the British public is much calmer than last September, Joseph P. Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador, said in a speech to the London Press Club last night. “With the events of last week still bitterly fresh in the minds of the press, who are in close and constant contact with the problems of government,” Mr. Kennedy said, “we must realize the obligation placed on men in official places, except those charged with voicing the decisions and feelings of their government, to keep their mouths shut. “No matter what one says, it is likely to be misunderstood. The best intentioned remark might set emotions off at a dangerous tangent. “This week I talked with friends from the United £tates. They feel the present crisis cannot be nearly so bad as September. They notice everyone here is much calmer than before. Actually the danger may be as great or greater. but the masses of your pepulation are calmer.”

Nazis Talk Trade With Belgium

BERLIN, March 25 (U. P.).—Germany, pursuing a vigorous drive of economic expansion, announced today that a Belgian-German commission had concluded talks for a commodities exchange between Germany and the Belgium-Luxem-bourg customs union, as well as the question of credit transfers for the next few months. Coincidently it was reported fat Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recenty deposed as head of the German chosen. would return today from Switzerland to assume a “sp2cial post.” It was reported that part of Schacht’s new duties would concern the reorganization of the Czechoslovak areas announced by {Sermany.

Swiss Strengthen

Border Defense

BERNE, Switzerland, March 25 {(U: P.).—The Faderal Council de-! Jered today that mines be loaded! and guards strengthened on all borders. The Swiss Telegraph Agency said the measures are the same as those taken during the Czech crisis last September.

Canadians Divided

On War Views

MONTREAL, March 25 (U. P).— Canada is busy. arming and preparing for “the next war” but the Canadian people cannot agree where and under what circumstances the arms should be used, it was indicated today. The Canadian Government this year is spending over 85 million dollars—the most in peace-time history-—extending the country’s air, naval, military and. coastal defenses. : Most Canadians approve the precautionary measures but the unity of views on war ends there. A -large section, particularly in so-called “French-Canada,” oppose any . suggestion that Canada enter into any military agreements committing the country to go to war under any. circumstances except to defend Canadian territory. ‘Another section, chiefly Englishspeaking, favors close co-operation between Canada and Great Britain on defense matters, and still another favors co-operation with the United States.

Hungary Invites Slovak

Peace Delegation

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 25 (U.P.).—Hungary has invited Slovakia to send a delegation to Budapest to discuss termination of hos-| tilities in the Carpatho-Ukraine frontier area, it was announced today. It was asserted officially that Slovak airplanes yesterday bombed the undefended frontier area cities of Ungvar, Rozsyno and Nagy Berenza, and that the Hungarians shot down

Jeaders with the argument that adoption of British conscription | would be of - immense material, strategic and psychological effect. Poland and other powers, it was understood, have been conveying similar arguments to the Governent. Rand has coldly declined to enter a four power “Stop Hitler” -bloc without some concrete military ~ guarantees,

MADISON CCC TO BE MOVED

MADISON, March 25 (U. P.).+ The Madison CCC camp will be moved to a new location near Ko-

seven Slovak planes.

OFFICIALS CONTINUE WATER PLANT STUDY

Mayor Sullivan, Edward Knight, City = corporation counsel, and Joseph G. Wood, City Council president, continued their study into the possibility of acquiring the Indianapolis Water Co. in a conference vesterday. The Mayor ealier conferred with C. W. McNear, Chicago broker, who outlined: a plan by which the City could issue as much as 33 million dollars in 3 per cent bonds to pur-

komo May 1, it was announced here today. O. L. Head, secretary of the! Chamber of Commerce, said he had | received letters from Rep. Eugenes, B. we and Senators Minton and | ] Nuys: informing him that the, ould be’ made,

chase the company and then retire|| {the bonds out of water revenue, :

over a 40-year-period.

Further conferences will bé held |!

next week, the Mayor's office said

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Surgeons nationally known for

from right), conducted the clinic.

their work with cancer, who attended the American College of Surgeons meeting here, held a cancer clinic at the City Hospital yesterday. Dr. Frank Adair, cancer authority from the New York Memorial Hcspital (second

They then wer

Diet Knowledge T vrmed One of Medical Wonders

‘The child of the future will be benefited physically and mentally

by advanced preventives in the field

of medicine, according to Dr. George

W. Crile, head of the Cleveland Clinic.

He was one of the speakers at the public meeting at the Claypool Hotel last night which closed the Midwest conference of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Crile said that medicine now is preventive rather than a last resort. He added that in the future children will be guided more beneficially through childhood, adolescence and into the stress and strain of modern life. Knowledge of food values td obtain correct diet and to eliminate harmful ‘diet fads” was listed by Dr. Bowman C. Crowell, Chicago, associate director of the college, as one of the six wonders of advanced medicine,

Periodical Exams Favored

The others, he said, were periodical health examinations to discover ailments; light and ventilation to kill germs and prevent disease; anaes- | thesia and analgesia, or the relief, from pain provided by drugs and gasses; antisepsis and asepsis, or! prevention of infection in surgery, and organatherapy, or the regulation of human glands with animal substitutes. Speaking of diet importance, Dr. Charles C. Higgins of the Cleveland Clinic, said that a balanced daily diet should include one serving of meat, one serving of eggs or cheese, two servings of raw fruit, one uncooked and one leafy vegetable, butter and cream, one pint of milk and at ‘least six glasses of water,

Dr. Frank E. Adair, New York|

cancer specialist, said that the In-

a year could be cut in half if every- | one would be examined at least once a year and if the afflicted would heed warning signs.

| Cancer Gives Warning

“Cancer is not a disease which ‘creeps up upon its victim, but a| growth. that gives constant warning | signals,” he said. “We know a great deal about what causes cancer and have two or three methods of cure for most cases.” He listed common. causes of the disease¢ as constant friction on. the shin, black moles and ‘excess exposure to the sun .over a period of years, Other speakers on the program included: Dr. Alfred Adson, Rochester, Mayo Foundation Graduate School, University of Minnesota; Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern, Chicago, Associate director of the American College of Surgeons and president of the International Hospital Association, and Dr. Howard Naffziger, San Francisco, American College cf

ISOLATIONISTS MAP NEUTRALITY FIGHT :

WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. P.).—Proponents of strict neutraiiiy sought support today in the Senate

for a hitter fight over the Administration’s plan to modify or repeal existing neutrality legislation. Senators Nye (R. N. DJ) and Bone (DD. Wash.) are the leaders of the isolationist bloc which will seek more rigid neutrality laws Monday they will introduce amend‘ments which would remave soma of the discretion allowed the Presiderit under the present act and make several major features, including the “cash-and-carry” provisions, mandatory. Administration supporters will seek to give the President a freer hand in aidimg the Democracies against the so-called aggressor nrations. That issue will be raised be-

Committee next Wednesday, when Chairman Pittman (D. Nev.), plans to arrange procedure for _counsider- | ing various proposals to amend or repeal the act, including his own. i Nye said he wanted to be prepared for a fight, but that he “seriously doubted” whether recent! agitation for repeal or modification was intended to mean that Congress might act on the question a] this session.

John - Boettiger,

ALIBI IS EXPECTED AS BUTSCH DEFENSE

William A. Butsch, who is to go on trial here May 8 for the slaying of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig, is expected to base his defense on an “alibi,” attorneys indicated. Yesterday Butsch filed in Criminal Court a special notice of alibi declaring he was in Anderson at the time police say he. murdered and robbed the middle-aged woman in her North Side apartment. She was murdered Jan. 17, Morgan . County Circuit Judge | Omar O’Harrow, who has been selected. as special judge for the trial, ! set. the May 8 date yesterday. The (trial was originally scheduled for April 19 but the date was changed after Butsch ‘asked a judge. other than = Criminal Judge Dewey - E. Myers. :

’ Times Photo. shown the hospital's new cancer ward by Dr. Charles [ hospital superintendent (right) and Dr. J. W, Hofmann (left), the local chairman of the clinic. Dr. Bowman Crowell, second from left, is a director of the American College of Syrgonns, The Epes sna their sessions last night.

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TWO DIE SIPPING SAME HIGHBALL

Woman Takes Liquor First: At Party, Comments, ‘It Tastes Like Poison.’

ASHUELOT, N. H., March 25 (U. P.).—Less than five minutes after drinking from the same highball glass, two guests at a house party were stricken fatally last night. The victims, Edgar Smart, 28, and Mrs. Julia Wheatnn, 25, neighbors, died soon after reaching a hospital. “We don’t know whether it was double murder, accident or a suicide pact,” said County Solicitor John R. Goodnow after he and police had questioned for hours the other four persons who attended the party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smart. “Neither have we been able to establish the nature of the poison which caused the deaths. I have sent samples of the liquor to the state toxicologist at Concord.” Mr. Goodnow said he learned from the other guests that Mrs. Wheaton first sipped from the glass, made a wry face and exclaimed: “This tastes like peison!” . Then, according to Mr. Goodnow, Mr, Smart drank. froth the same

glass and said: “It sure does.”

SEATTLE, Wash., March 25 (U. P.).-—Elliott - Roosevelt's much-dis-cussed remarks on .the likelihood of Vice President Garner getting the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination, drew fire today from President Roosevelt’s son-in-law.

In a chatty letter signed “John” and published in a prominent position on the first page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Publisher Boettiger told his brother-in-law that Mr. Garner was “too sot in his ways.” Mr. Boettiger, a former newspaper correspondent in Washington, D. C., who married the President's daughter, Anna, was careful in his letter not to make a direct accusation that son Elliott had deserted his father. He did say, however, “You can’t stop people from insisting that your Pa has got to stand for a third term.” “It: would be tough on him—to say riothing of the rest of the family—but people won't stop talking that way,” Mr. Boettiger said. The letter in part: “Dear Elliott: “I see by the papers that you think Mr. Garner is ‘in the driver's seat’ ahead of all other contenders for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940. “Out in our neck of the woods we sort of like Mr. Garner, He's a good fisherman; chews tobacco, takes his whisky neat, cusses in a forthright way; and such human qualities appeal to us. “We'd like him a lot better if he stood for the New Deal and backed up the President like he used to do. “Old Cactus Jack has got a way of appealing to Congressmen in their own language that would certainly be helpful if he did his appealing on the right side of things. “The trouble with Mr. Garner is that he is just too ‘sot in his ways,’ foo old-fashioned to grasp the new order in this world of ours. He can catch those fingerling brook trout in the’ creek near Uvalde but has he ever fied into a Big King salmon like we run ou here in Puget Sound? “The world goes. by Cactus Jack and he just can’t catch up as we see it. Maybe he could carry Texas. You're on the ground and I'll take your word for it. But out here if he is in the driver's seat at all he is

Mutiny A mong Roosevelts: I n-Law Opposes Garner

he has lost the road and is really

headed for a cactus bed in Uvalde. “Anyway I thought you'd be interested in knowing that Mr. Garner never could carry Washington or any of these Western states. “Regardless of how the family might feel about it, the fact of the matter is that out here you can't stop people insisting thai. your Pa has got to stand for a third term.

FOR THEFTS OF POSTAL FUNDS

112 Others ‘Are Arraigned,

Accused of Offenses ‘Against U. S.

Arraignments or sentencing of 114 persons charged with offenses against the U. S. Government were concluded today before Federal District Court Judge Robert C. Baltzell: Charles W. Schultz, former Saltillo postmaster, was sentenced to one year and a day: in prison for mbezzling $232.50 in postal funds. The same sentence was given Thomas 8. Stephenson, former Leavenworth postmaster, whose ac-

{counts were found short of $872.54.

Both pleaded guilty. Four persons were arraigned on charges of forging WPA checks. They were James Durrah, 18, of Vincennes, sentenced to one year and a day in prison; Willie Jones,

| Evansville, and Floyd James, Jeffer|sonville, whose cases are to be inves-

tigated further, and Wilber Stewart, New Albany, sentenced to two years in prison, a Five Await Further Probes

Three youths, charged with conng to defraud the Government by overcharging the Tell City CCC

cases investigated further. They are James McCown, Tell City grocery manager, and Lloyd Timberlake and Leslie Jones, both CCC

grocery purchasers. The Court also decided to investi-

Ackerman Jr. and Robert Grinstead, charged with conspiracy and burglarizing the North Vernon postoffice.

Federal Grand Jury on charges of conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government by diverting WPA labor on projects at Kokomo to private use pleaded not guilty and their trials were set by Judge Baltzell for 9:30 a. m. Monday, May 8. Two of the defendants, former

| Mayor Olin R. Holt of Kokomo and Carl Broo, former Kokomo City At-

torney, waived counsel. Others Indicted

The others indicted include Lester E. Ratcliff, 2952 Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis, former WPA supervisor in Howard and Tipton Counties; Thomas C. Heady, president of the Sumption-Heady-Hunt Co., Kokomo; ‘Joe Tarkington, former Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission employee; George H. Morrow, former Kokomo City Engineer; George Mix, former Kokomo assistant City Engineer; Mel Good, former Kokomo City Clerk; Lincoln F. Record, former Kokomo WPA project superintendent; James A. Harmon, WPA project supervisor, and Charles W. Harley, who succeeded Ratcliff as WPA supervisor in Howard and Tipton Counties. The trial of Clarence V. Crockett, former teller and cashier of the Farmer’s National Bank at Shelbyville, was set for May 4. He pleaded ‘not guilty to a charge of embezzling $42,423 from the bank.

Clifton Faces Trial May 3

Oscar. L. Clifton, former manager of the Hobbs branch of the Windfall Union State Bank, is to be tried May 3. He pleaded not guilty te a charge of misapplication of the bank’s funds. * , Twelve pleaded guilty to charges for forging and passing Government checks and were given heavy sentences by Judge Baltzell who warned that “this practice must be stopped.”

. BARKLEY BOOSTED FOR 40 LOUISVILLE, March 25 (U. P.) —

"A group of 200 Kentucky Democrats

moved today to make Senator Barkley, U. S. Senate majority leader, their “favorite son” candidate for the 1940 Presidential nomination.

Early

Bird Gets Squirm | In This Case

The moral of tls may bets. report for work exactly on the dot. If youre late, the boss is peeved and if you're early, the police reserves are cafled out. : Willard Greenard arrived for work at the Dayan’s Linen Store, 25 W. Washington St, at 8 a. m. today, 15 minutes before he was due. When he unlocked the door the delicately-timed A. D. T. burglar alarm sounded. The result was the arrival of three cans of police armed like the posse which sought Wyoming’s Tarzan, an A, D. T. officer and a crowd of curious. . Mr. Greenard took it with surprise, the police as routine, the crowd with excitement and the A. D. T. officer—well, the same thing happened last Saturday morning when another employee came to work too early.

DIME, SEIZES $1

Police foday sought an armed bandit who last night held up a | Shelby St. streetcar motorman and robbed him of $17. In other overnight burglaries more than $115 worth of jewelry was taken, police reported. Thomas J. Reilly, 48, of 219 W. 31st St. told police he stopped his streetcar for a man at Troy -Ave. and Shelby St. The man handed him a dime, Mr. Reilly said, then thrust a revolver in his back, saying: ‘All right, hand it over.” As he stepped from the car he told Mr. Reilly to “get going or I will blow your head off,” the motorman _ said. o James Fleming, 38, of 245 W. 38th St., reported his house. had been ransacked and his cuff links and a watch worth $75 had been taken Jewelry valued at $41 was reported missing by Joseph A. Sturdyvin from his home at 4561 N. Delaware St.

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It would be tough on him-—to say nothing of the rest of the family— but people won't stop. talking that way. “Maybe what you really mean is that Mr. Garner would be a good president of the State of Texas. The Texas people might be growing conservative as you suggest but certainly that isn't true of the people of the real West. “The way we look at it is this: “The Democratic convention in 1940 has to name a New Dealer. If the boys down in the Solid South put up a reactionary Democrat, and the rest of the states somehow put enough votes to nominate him, it will be just too bad for the party and the country, as we see it, because in such a case these folks out here would turn right around and vote for a third party candidate or

a Republican. Wouldn't that be too |

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William H. Normann, 3506 E.|Michigan St, an Indianapolis po-|

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