Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1939 — Page 5
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Sofia Demands Reported;
FRIDAY, APRIL 91, 1080
RUSSIA OFFERS DUTCH ANSWER FUEHRER, DUCE
LONDON, PARIS FULL ALLIANCE
Poland and Rumania Feat To Accept Soviet Armed Aid in Case of War.
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agreement now, but informants added that Russia, believing it had a direct interest in préventing any German “drive to the east” might intervene forcibly, agreement or no agreement, if any Baltic country were attacked. Poland, now fully in the “peace front,” was reported to have offered armaments and military co-oper-ation—without a security guarantee, however—to Lithuania, Esthonia | and Latvia. Russia's plan, and British and French ideas as well, seemed ‘to point to a revival of the old Triple) Entente which took the three na-| tions into the World War together. 10.500 Planes Military experts estimated today that it would combine nearly 25 mil- | lion trained soldiers and 18000 fighting airplanes, Great Britain has 500000 trained men, France 6250000 and Russia 18 million, Russia is believed to have 5000 modern planes, Britain 3000 and France 2500. But these are only first line planes, new ones. There are more in reserve. It was asserted here that Britain, France and Russia were able now to build 1800 new planes a month— Britain 1000, France 400 and Russia 400. Within a month France will be) able to build 300 planes a month.
Spurns Hitler
Grigore Gafency, Rumanian
| Foreign Minister, was received by
King Tieopold of Belgium today. He was in Berlin attending Fuehrer Hitler's 30th birthday celebration but resolutely refused to commit Rumania to the policy of the Rome-Berlin axis.
HUNGARY JOINS IN AXIS POLICY
Premier Tells Duce Both Nations Seek Peace And Justice.
ROME, April 21 (U. P) —Huungary has agreed to work with the Rome-
It was said here that the present offer, as reported, Seemed to be a) victory for British plans for build-| ing up an overwhelmingly powerfull antiaggression bloc by a. series of direct guarantees between nations. Russia favored an all-inclusive antiaggression bloc in which every nation wold be pledged to join in| repelling aggression against any member. Germany's “spring cruise” fleet, on its way to the Spanish and Por-| tuguese coasts and the entrance to) the Straits of Gibraltar, passed) through the English Channel during, the night. | One destroyer of the 40-ship fleet, | the Daily Express
reported, was) listing heavily and was being towed by the oiler Samland. Pass Dover in Fog There had been considerable spec. | ulation as to the course of the Ger-| man fleet because it had been ex-|
Berlin axis, as the result of negotiations between the Italian and Hungarian Premiers and Foreign Mine isters, a communique indicated today. Count Paul Teleki and Count Stephen Csaky, the Hungarian Premier and Foreign Minister left for Budapest last night after an official visit to Premier Mussolini and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreigh Minister. Balkans Discussed
A communique issued after their)
departure said that Sig. Mussolini and Count Teleki “reaffirmed the common intention of the two nations to continwe working toward the objectives of justice and peace which characterize the Berlin Rome axis.” It was added that the negotiations were conducted in an atmosphere of
|“cordiality and reciprocal underpected in the Channel Wednesday. anding characteristic of the rela-
The first units were sighted off the tions existing between the two na-
Dover Cliffs, in fog, early last night. | tions.” The “pocket battleships” Deutsch. tet To land and Admiral Graf Spee led the carding Central and Danubian squadron. Sailors waved from the gyrope, with special regard to re-
decks of the ships at British news: sent events. It was intimated that
paper photographers in airplanes, | but the Daily Express reported that earlier, off the Netherlands coast one of its planes had been chased) off by an airplane jaunched by catapult from one of the German ships Capt. Euan Wallace has been appointed Minister of Transport, it was announced officially. He sue-| ceeds Leslie Burgin, who has been given the new post of Minister of Supply. Capt. Wallace is now financial secretary to the Treasury. The Laborite opposition an-| nounced that it would open debate on Spain in the House of Commons) next Tuesday after the annual budget statement.
Commercial Tax
Proposed in France PARIS, April 21 (U. P). — The|
both the economic and diplomatic situation of the Balkans thoroughly discussed.
was | {how anxious it is to prevent the en-|
HITLER QUERY,
Express Concern for Future Security in Reply to Questionnaire.
PARIS, April 21 (U. P)~—The Dutch Government was understood in diplomatic sources today to have expressed concern over its future security in reply to a German canvass of small European nations regarding whether they felt fear of a Nazi attack. Fuehrer Hitler, ring to reply to President Robsevelt’s peace mes= sage next Friday, asked the smaller nations whether they felt their se curity menaced by the totalitarian fevers as intimated by Mr. RooseJugosiavia was understood to have replied in the negative to her big and heavily armed neighbor.
Duteh Censidered Brave
Diplomatic sources described the Dutch reply as “courageous” under the circumstances. In effect, the Dutch Government told Germany that it did not at present feel itself menaced. But, it was added, the Dutch Government feels that it lacks the “certainty” that the present “sense of security will persist indefinitely.” The questions asked by the Nazis in an unofficial diplomatic manner were understood to be in prepara tion for Herr Hitler's speech to the Reichstag, where he presumably desires to demonstrate by the replies that no peace from the totalitarians are needed. The Agence Radio said the questionnaire included a query whether the small nations had entered an alliance against the Reich.
Lithuania Says Ne
Lithuania also was understood to have replied to the German ques tionnaire and to have affirmed that {she had no fears of attack and had asked no one to come to her defense. The German diplomatic maneuver was viewed as intended not only as |a reply to Mr. Roosevelt but as another move to break through the) British-French antiaggression front. | Thus, Herr Hitler would be able to insist to the small powers that, if they do not fear Germany, they have no reason to join the so-called “encirclement” of the Reich.
U. S. FLEET PERILS JAPAN, PAPER SAYS
TOKYO, April 21 (U. P). — The newspaper Hochi Shimbun, organ of the Minseito Political Party, said today that the movement of the United States fleet to the Pacific was a threat against Japan and added in an editorial: “It is now obvious what ime) portance the United States attaches to Japan's southward policy, and
SHOW BRAVERY |
The axis success was not dupli- forcement of the policy. But if the cated in Berlin, however. Grigore United States believes that the Gafencu. Rumanian Foreign Min- | movement of the fleet to the Pacific jster, in a series of conferences| Will restrain Japan's actions, nothresolutely refused to commit Ru- ing could be more mistaken.” mania to a policy of co-operation | The independent liberal newspawith Germany and Italy. He went per Miyako Shimbun said today from Berlin to Brussels last night that Great Britain was using the and was received today by King United States Navy as a “cats paw” Leopold and Prime Minister Pierlot. in an attempt to antagonize Japan.
Troops Kept in Spain The Giornale dTtalia, like all newspapers closely supervised by the Government, expressed bell
that the Madrid “victory parede,” |
commemorating the end of the Spanish civil war, would be held May 30. Sig. Mussolini has promised to
ACCORD WITH A. F. L. » REPORTED BY MARTIN
DETROIT, April 21 (U. PP). | President Homer Martin of the ine dependent United Automobile
| Workers Union said today the A. F.
of I. had promised the U. A. W.
Cabinet, meeting as a Council of take Italian troops out of Spain Jurisdiction over all A. F. of L Ministers under President Albert Le- after they took part in this parade. unions in the aircraft, farm implebrun, received a proposal today for May 2 was mentioned first as its ment, automobile and auto parts in-
an armament tax on all commercial |
probable date, then May i5. Thus
'dustries if it affiliates with the
payments to aid in raising $450,500, the prospect seemed to be now that A. F. of L.
000 already spent on armaments. | American Ambassador William C.| Bullitt conferred with Foreign Min-| ister Georges Bonnet today on the general diplomatic situation. | !
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elected secretary of Oriental Mis-| sions of the United Christian Mis- | sionary Society, will move to In-| dianapolis this week to make his| home here, society officials said today. Mr. Higdon, now a secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference of) North America, was elected to the new post at a meeting of the board of trustees of the United Christian Missionary Society at the Hotel Severin yesterday. His headquarters) will be in Indianapolis, but he will make frequent trips to the Orient. | The new secretary has been in missionary work since 1917 when he went to the Philippines as pastor of the Taft Avenue Church at Manila, He returned to the United States in
1937.
N. Y. BUND TROOPERS LOSE SAM BROWNES
NEW YORK, April 21 (U. P).— Uniformed storm troopers of the German-American Bund were stripped of their shoulder loops, Sam Brownes and Swastika arm bands and had to sit in the basement of Ebling’s Casino last night to hear the Fuehrer Hitler birthday celebration speeches from a loudspeaker, Mayor F. H. La Guardia’s new order against uniformed guards at meetings, and a fire ordinance against cluttering the aisles, were invoked to disrupt the troopers’ ar-
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Italian troops would remain in Spain for another month or more.
Hungarian- Slovak Firing Reported.
BUDAPEST, April 21 (U. P) An
official announcement said today
that Slovak artillery fired into Hungarian territory last night at the village of Saros Remete and the {fungarians returned the fire.
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“It was agreed that 22 Federal labor unions, comprising some 10,000 organized workers now organs ized under the A. F. of L. which logically come under our jurisdietion, will be turned over to us completion of a favorable referendum vote for affiliation.” Mr. MarHn Sate, e only major points of frictior between the A. F. of L.-U. A. w
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is pictured in the center of a crowd that waited to get a look at him yesterday as he left the White House, where he conferred with President Roosevelt. :
unity of the Rome-Berlin axis, it ; | Was disclosed today.
. | solidarity of the Rome-Berlin axis | and of the “unshakable friendship”
“|the assurance of my unshakable
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reach the bitterness and intensity
President Roosevelt said today that he hoped to submit to Congress next week the first of two plans for reorganization of Government agencies under his recently-enacted re« organization powers. Mr. Roosevelt offered no hint as to what Government agencies would be affected by the proposed changes. The fight, however, will not wait for the submission of President Roosevelt's plan but will break on the Senate floor when the body on Monday takes up the bill sponsored by Senator Byrnes (D. 8. C) which would consolidate WPA, PWA, CCC and other relief and employment agencies. Though this is offered as a separate measure its objective is similar to the plan for these agencies which the President con templates, it is learned. As a matter of fact, when Senator Byrnes learned that the President's plan was to be submitted soon, he rushed to the White House last week and asked that the President permit action on his measure, to which Mr. Roosevelt acquiesced.
Telegraphic Protests Arrive
Opposition to various features of the Byrnes bill comes from Republicans, Democrats, members of the President's official family, labor and contractors, The dissatisfaction includes so many individuals and groups that passage of the measure, once considered a foregone ooneclusion, now is in doubt. Its consideration was postponed from today to Monday on acoount of Senator Byrnes’ illness. Contractors were first to raise their voices in protest, in one of those familiar telegraph barrages from all parts of the country, apparently inspired by the Associated General Contractors. Senators found them piled high on their desks yesterday. The contractors’ complaint is against combining relief and recovery, as they put it, by merging PWA (with which they have done business) with WPA. Labor, on the other hand, protests against lumping WPA with other agencies in the fear that this will subordinate WPA and cut down its appropriations.
Tekes Je Balked
Interior Secretary Ickes is reported to be among the most perturbed, though publicly he came out for combining WPA with relief agencies. He is reported not only to be disturbed by the prospective removal or PWA from his jurisdiction, but also to be trying to get the Forestry Bureau of the Agriculture Department transferred to Interior, thus reviving an old feud between the two departments. The President, it was learned, has
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Relief and RFC to Bring Fight on Reorganization
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, April 21—A fight is brewing in Congress over President Roosevelt’s plan for reorganizing the Government.
authorizing him to merge, consolidate and relocate bureaus and agencies,
It may of the original battle over the bill
this transfer. As a palliative, it is proposed to transfer to Interior the Biological Survey of the Agriculture Department and the Fisheries Bureau of the Commerce Department. Most disturbed of all in the Ade ministration is Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC at reports that this big lending agency is to be put under the Commerce Department, with Secretary Hopkins having die rection of policy over him. Friends of Mr. Jones are saying that he certainly will resign if the transfer is approved, and may resign anyhow because of the inference drawn that the New Dealers would like to remove him from the picture here. In the debate on the Byrnes bill, Republicans will concentrate on a demand for the return of WPA to administration by the states, under bipartisan boards. They will offer an amendment prepared by Senator Taft (D. ©). Losing this battle— as is expected-—they will then vote almost en bloc against the bill.
SERVICE STRIKE WAITS
NEW YORK, April 21 (U. P).— Building operators and service employees resumed today their negotiations on a new working agreement as a strike, tentatively set for last midnight, was held in abeyance at the insistence of Mayor F, H. La
REAFFIRM AXIS IN2 TELEGRAMS
‘World Will Some Day Admit Fascism Is Justice,’ Mussolini Says.
BERLIN, April 21 (U. P)-=On the occasion of Fuehrer Hitler's
50th birthday yesterday, he and Premier Mussolini exchanged tele-
grams reaffirming the strength and Both telegrams emphasized the
between the two totalitarian powers. “This friendship.” Sig. Mussolini said, “cannot be disturbed by any ridiculous attempts of our enemies. Some day they will be forced to admit they have taken the wrong course while fascism and national socialism are the way of justice.” Herr Hitler replied: “I add again
friendship to you and to the Fascist Italy created by you.
F. D. R. Failure to Cable Hitler Criticized
NEWPORT, R. I, April 21 (U, P). President Roosevelt's failure to send a congratulatory message to Fuehrer Hitler on his 50th birthday was “utter stupidity and sheer political folly,” according to Rep. Hamilton Fish (R, N, Y.) The President acted like a “sulky, spoiled child when we were pre sumably trying to influence the dictatorial nations toward the paths of peace,” Rep. Fish told the New=port Discussion Club last night. He said the King of England and virtualiy all other heads of nations sent congratulatory messages in acSoivance with customs and tradion,
HUNT ‘SUBMARINES’ NEAR NOVA SCOTIA
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 21 (U, P).-—Canadian aircraft and warships searched off the coast today for the submarine reported lurking in Nova Scotia waters, as new rumors of mysterious activities at sea were investigated by naval authorities. Reports spread among fishermen that a submarine flotilla was being serviced by a “mother ship” 500 miles out on the North Atlantic. Canadian Defense Minister Ian Mackenzie at Ottawa announced he could neither deny nor confirm such rumors, but that he would advise the House of Commons later today of developments in the search for the submarine,
BARROWS IN SENATE RACE AUGUSTA, Me, April 21 (U, P)). —QGovernor Barrows today had officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to the U., S. Senate in 1940. Governor Barrows seeks to succeed U. S. Senator Hale, a member of the upper
Sarajevo Scene of Shouts Against Hitler and Mussolini.
BELGRADE, April 21 (U. P).— Three hundred thousand men have been called to the colors in recent weeks to reinforce the Army because of the international situation, it was reported today. Italian radio stations asserted that the total called was 600,000.
It was impossible to obtain an authentic estimate because reserve ists are called as individuals, not by classes. The government was understood to be somewhat embarrassed, diplomatically, because of the strong antidictator spirit displayed by men reporting for army service. ‘The reservists march through the countryside singing songs deriding Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Thirty persons were arrested at Sarajevo, “the birthplace of the World War,” last night because, in welcoming a group of Bulgarian students, crowds shouted: “Down with Hitler! Down with Mussolini! We want union with Bulgaria.”
POPE PIUS URGES PRAYERS FOR PEACE
VATICAN CITY, April 21 (U. P.). —His Holiness Pope Pius XI called on the faithful in a pastoral letter today to organize a *“crusade of prayer for peace among the naons.
Jugoslavia Calls 300,000
Land Owned by Rumania, Greece and Belgrade | Rumored Sought. |
LONDON, April 21 (U. P). — The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Mail reported today that Bulgaria had made extensive territorial demands against Rumania, Greece and Jugoslavia. The demands, according to the newspaper, were for: 1. 3000 of the 4000 square miles of Dobrudja, the southeasternmost pro vince of Rumania bordering on the Black Sea; 2. 3250 square miles of Thrace, the eastern section of Greece, which would give Bulgaria an outlet to the Aegean Sea between the Mestra and Maritza Rivers; 3. 1000 square miles of Western Jugoslavia; 4. The district of Strumitza on the Greek-Jugoslav border northe west of Salonika. The correspondent said Bulgarian Premier Koisseivanov had informed a secret session of the national assembly that these claims already. had been “presented at the ape propriate quarters
SOFIA, April 21 (U. P), — The only official announcement on yes terday’s session of the Parlia= mentary Foreign Aftairs Committee was that the Premier had outlined to the members Bulgaria's position, which was, that “we will continue our past policy of neutrality.” The Government has made no
statement regarding territorial dee mands.
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