Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1939 — Page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1030 More Rain Forecast! As State Rivers Rise; Two Hoosiers Drown,

low-lying farm land was flooded, 3

Flood Stage Is Exceeded Here; Aurora Farm Families Flee.

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predicted for late Wednesday by the Weather Bureau there. Although White River was only slightly over flood stage in Indianapolis, water threatened to invade homes in Ravenswood and Exeter Park. Inhabitants renewed their demands that something be done to relieve the areas from periodic floods. Paul Pepp, Ravenswood town board chairman, said installation of gates in the Broad Ripple dam to release water at flood times would keep Ravenswood dry. Exeter Park residents found water in their homes and persons in both communities were ready to move as the water continued to rise at the rate of an inch an hour. Roy Goodpasture said water has spread a city block from White River in Ravenswood and that it is rising there at the rate of one inch an hour. So far, he said. no persons have been forced to leave their homes. The Indianapolis Water Co. gauge showed a stage of five feet below flood stage and an inch an hour rise. The floods followed a general twoday heavy rain, and streams rose rapidly as surface water drained into them.

3000 May Leave Homes

The National Red Cross predicted that if flood rains continue, 3000 persons in the Ohio River valley will have been forced from their homes by tomorrow. They could not estimate the number already out of their homes. Ten workers have been sent into the area. Rainfall ranged up to three inches during the last few days of last week, and the Ohio River, into which nearly all southern Indiana rivers drain, immediately showed the result of the heavy precipitation.

only a few families were forced from

that the river rise would stop today. At Seymour the White River covered thousands of acres of lowland and drove nearly a hundred farm families from their homes. It was

hours. It was still rising slowly today. The Patoka River at Petersburg inundated lowlands and drove several families to higher ground. The water was rising rapidly, and was causing the White River at West Petersburg to rise about two inches an hour. At Anderson the White River was at 14 feet 7 inches and apparently steady. The flood stage there is 10 feet, and the high waters had covered some sections of the town and much farm land. It was at its highest point this year.

Heavy Damage Forecast

The White River also reached its highest point in 1939 through Jackson County and covered thousands of acres of farm land. It was more than three feet above the mt flood stage and rising rapy. Southwestern Indiana points had not been endangered by the flood early today, but observers believed that considerable damage would be done in that territory when the rising waters reached that point. New Albany reported early today that the water was starting to rise slowly, but that the situation was not alarming. The added threat of more rain today indicated that the flood dangers would be increased tomorrow and Wednesday. If more rain falls, it appeared improbable that the already swollen rivers could carry it off safely.

Landslides Wreck Homes

Five homes were wrecked at Portsmouth by landslides and rains totaling 5.65 inches in three days. One hundred families near Iron-

At Aurora this morning the Ohio|ton were forced to evacuate their River reached the 54-foot level, a homes.

rise of three feet in the past 16 hours, and two feet above the flood stage. The Big Four railroad tracks

Springfield faced a curtailed water supply. A 42-inch intake pipe was closed when surface water

were submerged, water went over from an overflowing creek flowed

several river-front streets and High- |

way 568 was blocked below Rising Sun. Basements in downtown busi-|

ness houses were flooded by backing!

sewers. Forty families fled from the high waters, many of them in trail-| ers which have been in general use| since the 1937 record flood. Nearly a hundred farming families moved from their homes in trailers, in general use since the; 1937 flood. Thousands of acres of] land were inundated. It was estimated that the river was rising about four-tenths of a foot an hour, faster than during the peak of the 1937 flood. The Miami River along the OhioIndiana border was at flood stage for nearly the last 50 miles of its course into the Ohio. It threatened to pocket Lawrenceburg, and it was reported that the Ohio was at a 60foot stage there. Many highways were closed and some bus service discontinued. The crest of the February fiood at Lawrenceburg was 58 feet.

Wabash Rises at Lafayette

At Lafayette, the Wabash River rose from an 8-foot level Saturday

into the city water main. At Athens, the Hocking River overflowed and inundated the Ohio University baseball field and the airport. Several homes were under water. Adams County pupils were unable to attend school. The Ohio River reached 47.2 feet at Huntington, W. Va. Huntington has a flood stage of 50 feet, which was expected to be reached tonight.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST ARRANGE ACTIVITIES

The Central Committee of Unie fied Promotion of the Disciples of Christ drew up plans for the

church's activities for the coming vear at a meeting in the Hotel Severin today.

The plans will be submitted to|000

the Board of Directors of the promotional body of the Disciples of Christ tomorrow and will be pre-

to a 158 stage yesterday morning. Early today the river was at 16.6 and | still rising slowly. The flcod stage! at Lafayette is 15 feet and although’

sented to the Board of Review of the church in meetings here Thursday and Friday.

their homes. Observers predicted |i

about 10 feet over flood stage, and} had risen more than 16 feet in 24s

A vagrant twister which took

shown above.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ANGLO-RUSSIAN TREATY TALKS ARE HASTENED

NN Envoy to London Hurries to

Moscow to Join * Negotiators.

LONDON, April 17 (U.'P.).—Ivan

% §| Maisky, Russian Ambassador, leaves

tomorrow for Moscow to join in British-French-Russian negotiations

Rk for the immediate adherence of

Russia to the European “peace front,” it was announced today. Ambassador Maisky, who has conducted the Russian end of negotiations here, will act as consultant to Russian Foreign Commissar Maxim

BR Litvinov in his talks with Sir WilS| liam Seeds, British Ambassador to

Times : Telephoto. seven lives and injured nearly 50

persons, wiped out the town of Capron, Okla., a town of 200 inhabitants, leveled the city hall, garage and grain elevator to the shattered ruins

33 ARE DEAD, 100 HURT IN TORNADO

Pastor and 12 Parishoners Killed in Arkansas Church; Alabama Town Hit.

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last prayer and Mr. Best's grave had been filled in, it was raining and blowing hard and about 40 of the mourners took shelter in the church.

The Rev. West sought to quiet the fears of several women in the church and called for a hymn. As the mixed voices were raised in the South’s traditional funeral hymn, “God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” the tornados funnel came roaring out of the west, dipped to earth and struck the flimsy, frame building broadside.

Its planks, pews, flooring, and the bodies of victims were sucked up and carried for several hundred yards. The wind caught up with Undertaker Raymond Stevenson, who had left the church. He turned his automobile and sped back. Trees, parts of roofs and outhouses blocked the road and it required more than an hour to reach the scene of the devastation. Mr. Stevenson called police and hospitals in Dermott, Warren and Monticello over the first telephone he could reach. Ambulances were started but could not negotiate the roads gullied by heavy rains. Bodies of some victims, Mr. Stevenson said, were found in fields lying amid twisted wreckage several hundred yards from where the church stood. The funnel had last dropped to earth at Haynesvile, south of Monticello, where it cut straight through the little oil town flattening homes, overturning automobiles, up-rooting trees and telegraph poles, Killing seven persons, injuring and causing damage estimated at $500,-

A few minutes after it wrecked the church at Center Point, it dipped to earth again at Tillar, Ark, 20 miles away, cut across the plantation yard of J. A. Gabbie and

killed his wife.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths Speeding

(To Date) 1 ' Reckless

drivi

Running preferential

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City Deaths

20

April 15 & 16 Injured 9 | Drunken Acciderts ... 28] griving ... Dead . 2] Arrests

| Running Red

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reo... 70, Others

MEETINGS TODAY

Indianapolis Home Show, fairgrounds, all day. Indiana Claypol Rotel, Insurance Ad eon. Hotel Washington, American Society for Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m. : Notre Dame Club of Indianapelis, dinner, Indianapolis Athletic Ciub, § p. m. Independent Tire alers of Indiana, state meeting. Hotel Warren, all day. Indiana Hairdressers’ and Cosmetologists’ Association, state meeting, Hotel Lincoln,

Credit

Bar Association, luncheon,

12:30 p.m. justers’ Association, lunchn

s Paint and Wallpaper Greup,

meeting, Columbia 4:45 p. m. Indianapolis Sales Executive Council, dinner, Columbia Club, 6 R: m, Indianapolis Press Club, dinner, 48

Monument Circle 6 p. m. Scientech Club, luncheon, Board of

de, noon. Ta aice Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

Club, meeting, Washington St, 8 p. m. Upsilon, luncheon, Board

oon. Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary ttage, noon. OO aiaha University’ Ciub, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapolis Home Show, fairgrounds,

a ana Tuberculosis Association, con-

. Hotel Lincoln, all day. Te ary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, notipha Delta Omega, meeting, Hotel Washington, 8

p. m. Alpaa Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Trae Ten, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, ? Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, PO niversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, PO miversity of Michigan Club, luncheon, BR aes TO des, luncheon, Board

Club, ttage, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.) Pg ATH ral Ye 3 ois sh

St. cGee, 27. of 438 W, New York a Bet Mae Phillips, 21, of 51¢ Drake ukasik Jr.. 30, of 43¢ N. Rural . Bakerville, 20. of 1230 N, Ave i hi 23. of Muncie: Ceclia cha Yo f 2129 N. asbama St.

oon, A Irvington Republican of

luncheon, Canary

St stanley Bi Hele iy itten. 0! White, 28. of West St.: Hie Mitchell, 24. of 1902 N. Capitol ve. : Herman Hall. 53. of Detroit. Mich.: Iva ock. Indianapolis. Pollock. IX od, 43. of 3140 Boulevard

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of Indianapolis 27. of 4044 Boulevard

f 6468 Arbor St.; 5 Arbor St. 5. of Terre Haute: 321 W. 2

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Dotts. 20.

Vivian HOW Ra

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oon. : e Metals, dinner,

Harry B. Green, 22. of 1962 Broadway: Loretta William,

20, of 2513 Guilford Ave

Leo Wagner, 26. of 44 N. Beville Ave. Minda Marsh, 23. of 339 S. Temple Ave. Charles Carey, 66. of Muncie: Stella Rybolt, 60. of 1519 N. Dearborn St. Bartee, 28. of 636 May fon, naroiay r t.

Gesena Neesen. 74, at 2158 Madison, chronic myocarditis. John Ad Gamble, 71, at 1131 liver, cerebral hemorrhage. Margaret Adolay, 87, 929 S. New Jersey, mitral stenosis. Peter H. McBride, 75, at City, bronchopneumonia.

y {perforated appendix.

t.. Elen William Monroe, St.: Anita Day. 22, of 314 Leonard Keeler 22. of 172 Domres Sachs, 18, of 401 E. t, Robert Chandler. 22. of 1722 Hoyt Ave.: Belvo Alsop N. Warman Ave.

Oscar Anderson, 26. of 615 Cottage St.; Quai Heacock, 18, of 1530 Churchman >

e. Carl Lunte, 23. of 4710 E. 10th St.: Virginia Reel. 18. of 1331 Ringgold Ave. Wagner, 26. of 44 N. Beviile Ave.: Marsh, 23 of Te p Rauscher, Moore, 486 . Henry Si. ames Turner, 37. of 2033 Highland Place: Julia Scott, 27. of 1110 N. Summitt

St. Johhn Demaree Jr. 19. of 2043 Dearborn St. Vivian Sowalter, 18, of 838 N. Bosart Y

144 N.

Minnesota

Minda Fred

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Arsenal

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David Butcher. 22. o : 19. of 1344 S. Pershing

St.: Vera Alderson, St.

BIRTHS Girls

Thomas, Ara Kirsch, at City. William, Christine Skaggs, at City. PL Delores Eckstein, at St. Vinnt's. Ralph, Dorothy Ruth, at St. Vincent's. Bingham, Alma Hall, at St. Vincent's. Rodert. Mary Helen Evles, at St. Vincent’s. Ravond, Mabel Cork, at St. Francis. Vernon, Mary Adolph, at St. Francis. John, Christine Neuert, at St. Francis, Henry, Maudie Dunkin, at Coleman. Harold, Norma Schloot, at Methodist. Russell, Dorothy Fritz, at Methodist. Harold, Alma Smith, at Methodist, Wayne, Blanche Irvine, at Methodist. William, Elvira Ashburn, at Methodist. Boys V. V.. Hilda Perkins, at Methodist. Harold, Virginia Huber, at Methodist. . Ruth Decatur, at Methodist. Alfred, Maxine Hurt, at City. William, Viela Myers, at City. Carl. Georgia Wilson, at City. Howard, Ola Arthur, at City. Chester. Daisy Kilgore, at City. Keith, Lucille Porter, at St. Vincent's. Harold, Margaret French, at St. Vincent’s, Frank. Catherine Chandler, at St. Vincents, Archell, Edna Pierson, at St. Francis, n, at St. Fr i

thodist. n, at Methodist. t Mesthodist.

ist. at thodist.

Harry, Dorothy NonBurg, eh etcher,

George, Una Single, at Twins

Winfield, Bessie Wood, at Methodist, boy and girl

DEATHS

Louise S. Dowlin, 84, at 40i1 Boulevard Place, cerebral hemorrhage. uis C. Beaman, 84 at 1901 Park, cerebral hemorrhage. Rebecca Oppenheim, 83, at

itis. Winfield S. Aldridge, 77, at 2303 Guilford, broncho-pneumonia. Ida Re wRner 83, at 1731. N. Capitol, coronary occlusion. Daniel McCarthy, 75, at 1709 English, acute inanitio 1 pneumonia

Katlerina Huendling, 73. at Methodist, |;

obstructive jaun Ollie

pneumo

nia. Raz Christian Ruske, 40, at 438 N.

rt, sarcoma. Elizabeth Brewer, 81, at 3245 N. Ili

hland Place. | Bosa

nois, h) atic eumonia Willard Gann a at Methodist, peri-| Omaha,

tonitis. Archibald S. Lockhart, 68, at 163 Union, broncho-pngame

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12:50 A. is; {of Arthur Abell cigaret on cushi 118 A Ha

Methodist, | Ros

n. William Hancock, 41, at City, sroncho- |;

ce. Mae Stout, 78, at T09 Park, lobar Mpl

Lillian Jones Brown, 64, at Methodist,

FIRES

Saturday 1:15 P. M.—Roy C. McQueen 2230 E. 75th, cause unknown, aed = 2:30 P.M.—Sophia Freeman, 1309 Cornell, smoky furnace, no loss. : . M.—A. C. Bennett, 210 N. Temple, burning flue, no loss. 8:46 P. M.—1700 S. White River Blvd., automobile of George M. Webb, loss unestimated. Sunday

M.—781 E. McCarty, a n, . 9: . M.—Claude rdwick, automobile parked at 923 Harrison, cigaret on cushion, loss unestimated. 2:57 P. M.—G. Lelie, 1629 N. Arsenal kerosene stove explosion. > a { I ii ot ington and yirginia Ave. ute! arry er, aver emergency brake. no loss. erhenien

Sunday 12:42 A. M.—Vacant hcuse, 927 Church, S.

cause unknown, no los 4:54 A. P. Lyons 2047 BellePigs: no loss. 842 Orange, cause

broten smoke F M.—F. Mack,

unknown, $50.

fontaine, 5:56 A.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloudy and much colder tonight and tomorrow with rain tonight.

Sunrise....... 5:04 | Sunset........ 6:23

TEMPERATURE —April 17, 1938—

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending+6:30 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. ? : Exc! J 1

ess since Jan. MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Mostly clou tonight and tomorrow, rain in_centra and north portions tonight and rain or snow tomorrow i Pr portion, much colder in south

Illinois—Unsettled and colder tonight, rain or snow in central and north portions; considerable clcudiness tomorrow, snow flurries in central and north portions, colder in east portion.

igan—Rain changing to snow t and tomorrow, colder tomorrow in portion, strong shifting winds.

81

Lower Mich! tonigh sout Ohio—Cloudy. showers in east and north portions tonight and probably in north portion tomorrow morning, cooler in south ahd Scwrel portions tonight; cooler toW.

Kentucky—Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow generally fair, cooler in east portion.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. Station. Weather, Bar. Temp. Bmsrille, 5 $ 30.12

Ch ( Ver ...... ee eens Dodge City. K Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, Fla

R228 E8InRsSRIssY

83, at 2:8 Hovey, ar: |Sas

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WOMAN WITH $9000 IS DEAD OF HUNGER

DETROIT, April 17 (U. P.) —Mrs. Mary Holmes, who often was seen begging stale bread and meat scraps, died in Receiving Hospital and one cause of death was listed as malnutrition. When the 79-year-old woman was admitted, hospital attendants found nearly $9000 in a valise she carried.

BURKE BRANDS NLRB ‘UNFAIR’

Revision in Law That Would Make Industrial Peace ‘A Reality’ Sought.

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. PJ). —Senator Burke (D. Neb) antiNew Dealer, denounced the National Labor Relations Board today as “wholly biased and unfair.” He urged the Senate Education and Labor Commitee to adopt amendments to the Wagner-Labor Relations Act which would make industrial peace “a reality.” Appearing as the second witness before the committee which is considering various proposals to change the present law, Senator Burke accused the present NLRB members of “putting the Federal Government in the business of stimulating establishments of labor unions,” and of being “partisan advocates of a particular type of national unionization.” Senator Burke's proposed amendments would change completely the Board's present personnel, drastically revise its administrative funetions and place equal responsibility for unfair labor practices upon employers and labor unions. Senator Burke criticized “blind partisans” of the present act and its administrative board who “make light of the suggestion that anything need be done to make this law fair.” He contended he was not opposed to the “broad objectives” of the act, but that he did not mean by that “the interpretations . . . by an enforcing agency that has been rightly denounced from one end of the country to the f{arthermost corner as wholly biased and unfair.”

Don’t Extend F. D. R. War

Powers, Thomas Urges

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U, P). —Norman Thomas, frequent Socialist candidate for President, today

urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee not to give President Roosevelt greater discretion in application of U. S. neutrality legislation.

Bill to Extend CCC Five

Years Reported Favorably

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P). —The House Labor Committee today reported favorably a bill extending the life of the Civilian Conservation Corps for five years. The Administration had sought to have the CCC made permanent. The committee struck out a provision to raise the salary of the CCC director from $10,000 to $12,000 annually and to place the administrative personnel under Civil Service.

3 BELIEVED DROWNED IN CALIFORNIA RIVER

PITTSBURG, Cal, April 17 (U. P.).—Five members of a fishing party were thrown into the swift waters of San Joaquin River yesterday when their outboard motorboat capsized. Two were rescued, one body was recovered and two per-

5 0 sons were believed drowned.

House Bill Would O. K. War Materials As European Debt Payments to U.S.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 17.—A fact sometime overlooked in the present international crisis, that foreign nations still owe us 11 billion dollars on account of loans to fight the last war, will soon be brought to Congress’ attention again. The House bill authorizing appropriation of 100 million dollars to buy strategic war materials not procurable in the United States contains a provision which would permit this country to credit purchases of such materials against war debts. Senator Lodge (R. Mass.) failed

{in his attempt to insert such a pro-

vision in the bill authorizing 40 million dollars for purchase of strategic war materials which the Senate three weeks ago. The House bill, with the larger

a pro-

°c |appropriation and also with {vision a Z

ng barter of

Russia. Announcement of his departure was taken to mean that the negotiations to bring Russia fully into the “peace front” had reached the decisive stage and that haste was regarded as essential.

Army in Background

It was understood that the basis of negotiations was that in event of an attack on Poland or Rumania, or of a general war which would bring Britain and France into action, Russia would provide Poland and Rumania—both guaranteed against attack by Britain and France—with war munitions and war materials and would contribute its powerful air fleet to a “peace front” pool for a gigantic bombing attack on “aggressor” countries. The Russian Army, now numbering 2,500,000 men, also would be in the background. French Foreign Office sources, dispatches from Paris said, believed that conclusion of a British-French-Russian air pact was merely a matter of details and might be announced any day.

Accept Roosevelt Plea

The Daily Express reported that Poland was considering extension of its own antiaggression front by giving guarantees to Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Information in British quarters was that Poland had determined to resist any German attempt to seize the Danzig area. Great Britain and France, having announced officially their complete adhesion to President Roosevelt's peace plea, awaited the formal replies by Fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador, spent all yesterday in conference with King George as & week-end guest at Windsor Castle, discussing the presidential appeal and the general European situation.

Large French Fleet

Goes to Gibraltar

GIBRALTAR, April 17 (U. P.) — The largest French fleet in many years arrived at this strategic British naval stronghold today as extraordinary military, aerial and naval precautions were taken throughout the Mediterranean basin. Three French admirals arrived in connection with concentration of fighting ships that included two battleships Bretagne and Lorraine, three cruisers and seven destroyers. The Italian Government meanwhile considered it necessary to give Portugal assurances regarding Italian troops in Spain. Gibraltar, Southern Spain, Tangier, Spanish and French Morocco, Frenc Tunisia, Malta, Italian Libya, Egypt, Greece and even Tanganyika, down on the East Coast to Africa, reported military activities.

ROOSEVELT DROPS FIGHT FOR AMLIE

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt today formally withdrew his nomination of Thomas R. Amlie to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission after making public a letter charging that factors impelling the withdrawal “Ill serve the democratic form of government.” The nomination was withdrawn in a formal communication to the Senate. “I deeply regret that a certain type of opposition should deprive the Interstate Commerce Commission of one as able and as wholeheartedly devoted to public service as you are,” Mr. Roosevelt wrote. Mr. Amlie requested the withdrawal in a letter to the President April 7, after it became obvious that his opponents in the Senate had made his confirmation impossible. Opposition to Mr. Amlie centered on charges that he sympathized with communistic objectives. Mr. Amlie denied the assertions Mr. Roosevelt said that he, too, was called a Communist and “wild-eycd radical” a quarter of a century ago because he fought for factory in-

spection, a 54-hour working week for women and children and other

social measures.

by the House, probably this week. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Charles I. Faddis (D. Pa.), has been favorably reported by the Military Affairs Committee. During public hearings before the House Committee, Herbert Feis, State Department adviser on international economic affairs, expressed the view “that it would be mutually beneficial both to ourselves and to these governments that are in debt to us if the terms could be found for delivery of such materials on the debt account. “But I have pointed out that that might require an actual revision of our own debt agreements, which is far from simple, and you have pointed out that you would not want any such possibility to retard the carrying out of the objects in this bill by direct appropriations. It is desirable. It would be very difficult, and should not be permitted to re-

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Reichstag Called to Hear Hitler's Reply to Roosevelt Plea.

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Hitler was visiting his native Austria. He was expected to meet there tomorrow his rigit-hand man, Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goering. Nazi fury against the President and his policies reached a new high. The publication DiplomatischePolitische Korrespondenz, Foreign Office mouthpiece, accused the President of playing the political game of Great Britain and France, “encirclement” of Germany, and said that Germany and other Central European nations, which were not specified, regarded his message with profound distrust.

Goering and Mussolini Draft Possible Reply

ROME, April 17 (U. P.).—Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering left for Berlin today with a draft of Premier Mussolini's reply to President Roosevelt's peace proposals. The reply was understood not to be a complete rejection but to reject at least the major portions of the proposals. A decision on when the answer should be forwarded will not be reached until Marshal Goering confers with Fuehrer Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. It therefore may be delayed for some time and perhaps he held up to coincide with Herr Hitler's address to the Reichstag.

Duce Argues for Reply

It was understood that Herr Hitler suggested ignoring the note but that Sig. Mussolini persuaded him that it was necessary to reply if merely as a matter of diplomatic routine. Qualified Fascists insisted that Italy's and Germany's replies will be negative in substance but at the same time suggests that the general idea of nonaggression pacts and disarmament and economic conferences is not distasteful i Italy and Germany if the matter is broached in other ways. The two leaders were said to particularly resent any implication that Italy and Germany are trouble makers and that proposals based on that premise are inacceptable. The Italian press meanwhile bitterly attacked the Roosevelt message, the Messagero even urging that it should “be considered an act of war.”

Papers Get Out Dictionaries

Sig. Mussolini's own newspaper, Popolo d'Italia of Milan, said: “A simple reading of the document reveals its immeasurable superficiality and coarse incoherency, its typical demagogic pretentious mentality.” But the Messagero, in an editorial similarly regarded as inspired, charged: “The message constituted part of a general attack promoted by the democracies against the totalitarian nations and should be considered as an act of war.

Soviet President

Congratulates Roosevelt

MOSCOW, April 17 (U. P).— President Kalinin of Soviet Russia today telegraphed President Roosevelt congratulations and sympathy on his peace messages to Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini.

French Council

Session Called

PARIS, April 17 (U. P.). — The Council of Ministers was convoked today for 10:30 a. m. tomorow, presumably to consider the international situation. :

EFFICIENT PAROLE PLAN MURPHY AIM

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.). —Attorney General Murphy today urged establishment of an efficient parole system as one way to “put the machinery of democracy in working order.” He spoke before the opening session of the National Parole Conference, attended by representatives of State parole and pardon boards, governors, peace officers and social workers. The two-day conference will hear an address by President Roosevelt at 5 p. m. today. The address will be broadcast by all three radio networks.

Nolan Attends Two Meetings in Capital

U. 8S. District Attorney Van Nolan is in Washington, D. C., this week attending the National Parole Conference and the Conference of United States District Attorneys. He is expected to return later in the week.

bills that the committee is now considering.” Senate debate brought expressions of regret that the European nations had repudiated their obligations to us, with the exception of Finland and Ireland, and approval in some quarters of the credit plan, impracticable as it might be, to serve as a reminder that the money still is due. The bulk of the debt is owed by England and France, two nations now interested in lining up the United States with them against the dictators. Soon after European debtors had worked out funding agreements in the early Twenties, duly ratified by Congress, propaganda for cancellation began, to which President Coolidge made the famous retort: “Well, they hired the money, didn’t they?” Payments were suspended in a moratorium engineered by President Hoover, and no further payments fhave been

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Berlin Reports Agreement For Danzig Area’s Return

Likely Soon

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Juan Cardenas

BURGOS, Spain, April 17 (U. P.). —Newspapers condemned President Roosevelt's peace proposal today, terming it “grotesque” and provocative of war. The attacks appeared as an official bulletin announced the appointment of Juan Francisco de Cardenas Rodriguez at Nationalist Ambassador to the United States.

CHINESE PUSH ~ CANTON DRIVE

Claim City Is Encircled; Japan Watches Reaction To F. D. R. Plea.

HONGKONG, April 17 (U.P) — Artillery fire was heard in the foreign quarter of Canton today as -the southern metropolis ‘became the focal point of a Chinese counter offensive extending through five provinces. After the capture of Tsengshing, the offensive was concentrated on Canton. A strong Chinese force was reported to have crossed Sainam Creek to the west of the city and to be within 12 miles of Canton, despite withering Japanese machine gun fire. A second column from the northeast advanced 15 miles in 48 hours and was within 20 miles of Canton. The Chinese claimed their encirclement of Canton was completed, with the Pearl River the only remaining Japanese outlet. The Chinese offensive was believed to be a direct response to loans from Britain and the United States.

Manchukuan-Russian Ambush Reported

TOKYO, April 17 (U. P.).—The Domei News Agency, in a dispatch from Hsinking, Manchukuo, reported today that one Russian was killed in an aleged: ambush by Russians of three Manchukuan guards near the frontier. Manchukuan casualties were not specified. The Japanese Foreign Office has instructed its Ambassadors in European capitals to report on the reception given to President Roosevelt’s appeal for peace in totalitarian and “peace front” nations,

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AT QUARANTINE, DIPLOMATS HINT

Rejection by Duce and Hit« ler of Peace Plea Seen As Isolation Step.

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P.). —Diplomatic officials today believed President Roosevelt was quietly making effective against Germany and Italy the ‘“quarantine” of aggressor nations which he advocated 18 months ago. Secretary of State Hull meanwhile expressed gratification over the public and governmental reaction of two continents to President Roose= velt's appeal to Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini for a 10« year nonaggression agreement. Rejection of the appeal by both Herr Hitler and Sig. Mussolini was anticipated here. But is was believed that a negative reply would em= phasize the isolation of those two nations. Foreign diplomats cited the clare ity with which the President's mese sage fixed sresponsibility on Gere many and Italy for any war which may develop. They said that in doing so he had acted in advance to place responsibility for “war guilt,” and that hearty indorsement from major governments of the Western Hemisphere had confirmed that judgment.

Congress Debate Expected

Disappointment of the Adminise tration over unfavorable unofficial reception of the plea in Germany and Italy was compensated somee what by approval of 16 Latin Amer= ican Governments and of Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Such consolidation of public opine ion against the two nations, now considered to be the principal threats to peace, was regarded .by some officials as a first step toward realization of Mr. Roosevelt's proposed “quarantine.” As Congress reconvened after a three-day recess, Chairman Walsh

clared in the Senate “We can ne longer adequately defend a two ocean nation with a one-ocean navy.” He said that our Navy and Air Force must be sufficient to combat any probable combination of for eign powers, but declared that the

crisis. to apply economic sanctions against aggressor nations.

Pittman Expects Rejection

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