Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1939 — Page 2
FRENCH DON'T FIND ITALIAN TRENCHES -
PERPIGNAN, Franco - Spanish Frontier, May 2 (U. P.).—An une official French delegation, returning
from a tour of the Spanish province of Gerona at the invitation of the Governor, reported today there were no traces of Italian troop move= ments, trenches or fortifications paralleling the French border. The Governor had invited the inspection to disprove charges by Ue French Communists that Italian troops had moved back into Gerona and taken up positions facing France.
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Federal Officials Doubt Pendergast Aid Is Suicide
KANSAS CITY, May 2 (U. P.)— The Missouri River yielded no trace today of Edward K. Schneider, close business associate of Democratic Boss Thomas J. Pendergast and key witness in Federal prosecutions of Pendergast, and Federal authorities declared that he had not committed suicide. Schneider's ‘‘suicide” or disappearance was & severe blow to the Government's case against Pendergast and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were looking for him, convinced that he was alive. Schneider's car was found on a river bridge. On its seat were suicide notes. His hat was found floating in the river two miles downstream. But there was no trace of a body, though firemen and sheriff’s deputies had made strenuous efforts to find one. ? A diver descended but his efforts, too, were fruitless.
Cole Bros. Win Permit For Parade
‘The Safety Board loves a parade, and today granted Cole Bros. Circus a permit over the protest of Police Chief Morrissey, ‘who said it would do traffic no
STOKES PRAISED ON HIS WINNING PULITZER PRIZE
‘Aren’t Many Like Him,’ Declares Colleague in Washington.
SOVIET-BRITISH TALK FRIENDLY. COMMONS TOLD
Far Eastern Issue Looms; 50 Nazis May Get Orders to Go.
LONDON, May 2 (U. P). Clement R. Attlee, Labor leader, warned Prime Minister Chamberlain in the House of Commons today that “many people are disturbed by the slow progress” being made in lining up Soviet Russia in the “peace front.” At the same time, the Home Office prepared to order more than 50 Nazis to leave Britain before the end of the month. The information was supplied to the Home Office by a special branch of Scotland Yard. It was understood the number of | Nazis already expelled in the last week was larger than had been announced. “Mr. Chamberlain, as before, refused to reveal details of the negotiations with Russia, declaring: “I ean’t help people getting that sort of idea (that progress is slow), but the “discussions are proceeding in a perfectly friendly way. There necessarily are a great many details to consider and there are other governments to be considered.” It was understood that British negotiations were reaching a critical stage because of the Government's reluctance to enter a military alliance with Russia which would risk alienating Japan and driving it into a German-Italian-Japanese military alliance. Seek to Wean Japs Away
It was understood in Paris that) Great Britain had agreed definitely to exclude a Far Eastern guarantee from proposals to Soviet Russia. Ande Charles Corbin, French Ambassador to London, was said to have disclosed that Viscount Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, had agreed with Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador, to omit the Far Eastern guarantee because Britain hopes to wean Japan irom the Rome-Ber-lin axis. Authoritative sources pointed out that it is known Tokyc has refused German preposals to co-operate with the axis in the present military and naval maneuvers in Europe,
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U. S. District Attorney Maurice Milligan, who heads the staffs that will prosecute Pendergast, noted that Schneider was “an imporiant Government witness” in asking Federal agents to investigate the possibilities of ‘hoax, suicide or that he met with foul play.” Friday, Mr. Milligan said, Schneider made a detailed statement concerning the affairs and incomes of Pendergast from the eight corporations which he controls and of which Schneider is an official. The next day a Federal Grand Jury reindicted the Democratic leader. Pendergast appeared before Judge Merrill E. Otis in Federal District Court yesterday, pleaded not guilty to the charges that his payments in 1935 and 1936 were not in proportion to his income, and was freed on bond pending trial June 12 or soon thereafter.
EXPECT JURY TODAY IN FT. WAYNE TRIAL
FT. WAYNE, May 2 (U. P).—A jury to try Adrian Miller, 31, of STEAM and OIL Racine, Wis., for the slaying of 18-| permanent Wave
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in his state were flagrant. Governor Chandler was making & spectacular fight to win the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Senator Barkley, President Roosevelt's £enate leader. Editor Saunders suggested that a good reporter—“someone like Tom Stokes”—be sent to get a story that would be of national interest. There aren’t many like Tom Stokes. So he was assigned to Kentucky. Hiring a car, he disappeared into the interior of that state. Many days later he returned—with the story. He had driven more than 1400 miles, up and down and across Kentucky. He had talked with hundreds of people—politicians, WPA officials and supervisors, relief workers, ordinary citizens—in his disarming Georgia crawl. And from these often unwilling witnesses he had extracted the truth.
Probed Both Sides
It was characteristic of Tom that he went after both sides with equal determination. He found WPA deep in politics in behalf of Senator Barkley. But he found the state organization being used in much the same way for Governor Chandler The result, as he described it in his first article, was “a grand political racket in which the taxpayer is the victim.” Harry L. Hopkins, then national WPA Administrator, undertook quickly to destroy the effect of Tom's stories. Mr. Hopkins made a Kentucky investigation of his own, then issued a long statement, flatly denying most of the Stokes charges and belittling the rest. But when Senator Sheppard's committee got through investigating the Kentucky campaign, it was the
Stokes charges that stood up and the Hopkins denials that fell flat. Reporter Stokes should have a large share of the credit for drastic pro-
Booms at Gibraltar
Harbor Removed
GIBRALTAR, May 2 (U. P.). — The German warships maneuvering in the Mediterranean having left this area, the defensive booms across the entrances to Gibraltar Harbor were removed today.
NO. 13 JINXES FIREMEN
CINCINNATI, O.,, May 2 (U, P.) ’ —While representatives of 13 fire departments were holding a meeting at suburban Cheviot City Hall the 13th of the month they were ine terrupted at 10:13 p. m. by a call from the Cheviot fire department.
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Miller, a one-time sailor, who said | he spent several years in South America before coming to Ft. Wayne to study engineering, is charged with | attacking and strangling Miss | Express charges are reduced on parcels of 21 Ibs. or less—on heavier shipments for shorter distances. hours after her nude body was dis-(} Convenient, fast, nation-wide seroY her landlady Oct. Wi vice. Rates as low as 25¢! Phone i |
line, in an area about the size of Marion County and with about the same number of people, is the Free City of Danzig, formerly German, now de-
The broken line shows the outline of the Polish Corrider, across which Fuehrer Hitler wants an auto road, probably paralleling the railroad to Marienburg in East Prussia. Within the double broken | manded by Herr Hitler.
CLAIMS BRITISH | F.D.R.’s Neutrality Plan PLOT U. S. WAR Attacked by Vandenberg
WASHINGTON, May 2 (U. P.) —Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) toNye Says Book Shows Plans day denounced President Roosevelt's proposal tc use “methods short of To Embroil America in war,” against aggressors as “a terrifically dangerous and treacherous New World Conflict.
thing.” Senator Vandenberg concurred By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer AREA IN SHANGHAI
with witnesses before the Senate WASHINGTON, May 2.—Senator
good. Chief Morrissey then answered a phone call outside the Safety Board office and the Board hurried up to vote the permit when he was out. The parade will be at 11 a. m. Monday, starting from Southeastern Ave. and Keystone Ave., proceed east on Washington St. to Capitol Ave., to Market St., to the Circle, to East St. and back to the grounds. The circus opened today at Marion and will play here Monday and Tuesday.
THANKS, STRANGER, FOR RESCUING DOG
Flash, a 9-year-old German
house where they both lived. He| confessed the murder less than 24)
Girton in a Ft. Wayne rooming Throughout the first day of the : trial Miller appeared unconcerned. RAILWAY EXPRESS He is expected to plead innocent
by reason of insanity. 1839 A Century of Service—~1939
foreign Relations Committee that Nyve (R. N. D.) has brought before
legislation which would permit the President to designate an aggressor the Senate a very frank analysis by |
power and apply sanctions against it would constitute “a hostile act.” a British writer of possible methods | of enlisting the United States on! England's side in “the next war.” The propaganda technique for the United States is part of a book, “Propaganda in the Next War,” written by Sidney Rogerson. It is one of a series, under the general
title “The Next War,» edited by Capt. Liddell Hart, the internationally known military authority.
such as sending Japanese warships! to the Mediterranean. Japan had threatened to sign a military alliance with Germany and Italy if Britain, France and Russia allied. It was reported those to be expelled include the young society woman, Fraulein von Griesheim. The expelled Nazis are being classed as “undesirables.” Although some Germans approached by Scotland Yard are journalists, it was understood the latter are suspected only of connection with activites of Nazi organizations. Among those already ordered to] : s leave are O. G. Vaarlowa, Nazi Party |, 1 discussing be book snd Pd organizer in this country; E. P. Him-| ting excerpts into the Tr Sens malman, his principal aid, and Jo-| tor Nye explained that it was pubhanna Wolf, connected With the lished last fall but that its circula- | German Labor Front. tion is now being stopped. The copy |
2 R. G. Rosel,! t i gon correspondent of Hermann 4 is the only one in the United
to which he had access, which he|
Silom Goering’s National Zeitung, «i tes was procured from the li-| Riso. was Ofdiersd out. prary of a university which he did] 30 More Due For Order not name.
When Germany learned of the Calls British “Brazen” start of the expulsions three weeks
He indicated he believed it would be virtually impossible for the United States to be “half in and half out’ of any international conflict. Pittman Seeks Action
The Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee are considering revision in U. S. neutrality policy. Chairman Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Committee believes speedy action to replace the expired cash-and-carry neutrality provision is necessary because of possibility of some sudden move in Europe by Fuehrer Hitler. Under the expired section of the, Neutrality Act, sale of any goods to belligerents, other than arms and munitions, was forbidden except for cash and for transpertation in the | ships of the purchasing power. Sale | of arms and munitions to belligerents is prohibited under other provisions of the act, which continue effective.
SHANGHAI, May 2 (U. P)—A joint Japanese Army and Navy statement issued today demanded suppression of all anti-Japanese activities in Shanghai, including the incitement of anti-Jajanese sentiment by citizens of third powers. The statement was regarded as an implied threat to occupy the International Settlement and the French Concession. The statement said the Japanese Army and Navy are responsible for maintaining peace and order in all occupied areas, including the Settlement and Concession. It declared recent representations to the settlement and concession were ‘“‘warnings” which, if unheeded, would resuit in an “acute situation.” However, the statement declined to state flatly that Japanese forces would undertake occupation.
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hibitions against political use of relief funds which since have been written into Federal law.
Started When 23
Tom started as a reporter at 23, after graduating from the University of Georgia 18 years ago. Twelve years later he became Washington correspondent for the SecrippsHoward newspapers. He has covered every beat in the capital; every national = political convention since the Democrats’ rowdy assemblage at Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1924; most of the great Congressional investigations, beginning with Teapot Dome. And thousands of those who are important in national political life and government know and like and trust Tom Stokes. He is married, his wife being the former Hannah Hunt of Washington.
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ago, she expelled three British busi-
It singles out as the “main plank”
shepherd watch dog, is normally so distrustful of strangers that he has been chained nightly in the parn of his owner, Mrs. Cordelia Bidlestetter, 4903 W. Washington St. Early today the barn caught fire. Flash was helpless as none of the family had awakened. But a motorist stopped, unchained Flash and led him out. A few minutes later, after deputy
sheriffs and the fire department arrived, the barn had been destroyed. The motorist did not leave his name. Mrs. Bidlesetter said the loss was about 1500 and that a truck had been destroyed. “I am certainly grateful to the stranger who saved Flash,” she added.
BLACKMER WEDS SINGER PARIS, May 2 (U. P.)—Henry Blackmer, New York and Colorado oil mai who has been living in France since the Teapot Dome scandal, announced through his lawyer today that he had been married on
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nessmen from the Reich. The Home!of British propaganda “the old Ofiss Sint) In Suns not| democratic one.” Among other| aliatory but are “simply in ful-| : “ fillment of a policy of keeping a methods. ¥ ForoTInoAN: tra ena watchful eve on the activities of | ing literary iights” be sent to this] Nazi organizations” and to take country to circulate the English | steps “to terminate their stay.” | viewpoint across the dinner table; | In addition to three Germans who that easy access to the front be] have already left England, the arranged for American newspaper | names of five others who were or-| correspondents and newsreel camdered to leave were turned over to|eramen, so they can get “horror” the German Embassy. scenes; that American sympathy for It was also undrstood that a|the oppressed be capitalized; that further list of about 30 had been|Japan be drawn into the war, to prepared. They may be asked to! arouse American hostility, and that leave within two weeks. medals be distributed lavishly to
: Americans serving in forces of the French Expect Nazis
British or their allies. To Push Submarines
The book, Senator Nye PARIS, May 2 (U. P.).—French!
“staggers the imagination. “It amazes me that men could &s naval experts studying Chancellor Hitler's
so brazen in laying down the plans s . {which are to entrap us, publish predicted peeoh I or Re cheas ‘them, and give them, at least for would attempt to gain submarine > 0% BEY, 1h the Wort: Task Called Difficult
mastery of the seas. Hitler's denunciation of the 1933] » German naval limitations treaty | ot fas nip" Ihe Mhoy =x: with Great Britain was believed by Plains. “the American Is the great Frgtun Somers to be a technical champion of the cppressed and freove to cover German construction! quently of the soi-disant ed of underwater craft i < # y . sp in excess of the | ¢1ich may explain why he is so fre-
tonnage permitted by the naval] pact. quently taken in by the hard-luck As a result, the experts were in- | Story of London confidence trickclined to agree, the Reich is now |Sters. likely to revive the spectre of World| ‘Secondly, the American peoples War U-boat terror by concentrating |are still under the influence of much on construction of submarines. of the Great War propaganda. Equality Is Reported “They are more susceptible than Germany's submarine construc- most peoples to mass suggestion. tion had been limited by the treaty | They have been brought up on it— to 45 per cent of Britain's but |and since 1918 they have shut themFrench sources reported that tie | Selves off from reality. Thirdly, Reich today has more submarines |they are at this moment the battle(Germany has been building smail [ground of an active propaganda of underwater craft) than Britain and |labels.” that the tonnage of the two nations | Explaining that there is at pres2 practically the same in this cate-|ent ‘a strong section of American Ty. The Nazis began building sub-|said the general situation in the marines in 1935, but they were al-| United States is, however, “more
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most all small coast craft which favorable to Great Britain than in|
could not be used on the high seas. |1914, The tonnage of the German sub-| It will be very difficult to get the marines runs from 250 tons to 700| United States to participate in a
opinion against us,” Mr. Rogerson |]
With the expiration of the cash-and-carry provision, United States vessels are permitted to engage in unrestricted trade in goods other than war materials with belligerent nations at the risk of blockades and submarine nests. Senator Pittman is author of neutrality legislation which would permit the sale of all goods, including war materials, on a cash-and-carry pasis in time of war.
Editorial Writer Testifies
Testifying before the House Committee, Irving Brant, St. Louis StarTimes editorial writer, urged reenactment of the provision because «one week's delay, one day's work in speeding up a decision on the neutrality act, may mark the dif-
| ference between peace and war in
Burope.” The cash-and-carry clause which expired last midnight, he said, should be renewed and “enlarged to permit war munitions, as well as materials of war, to be sold and delivered at the buyer's risk.”
Defense Fund Asked
While the neutrality controversy in Congress remained confused, President Roosevelt moved to Bolster national defense, both in continental United States and in the Panama Canal area. He asked Congress to appropriate an immediate $206,502,500 for Army Air Corps expansion and strengthening of Panama Canal fortfications. He also asked that authorization be voted for an additional $70,487,500 in contracts. He asked that $185,440,000 be appropriated directly for army plane purchases, salaries and equipment, and that authority be granted to contract for an additional $64,560,000 in planes. BARGAIN PERMANENTS m, Shampoo, Push Up Wave and
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tons. The Reich admits a total of 61 war, the writer says, “so difficult submarines but French reports say as to be unlikely to succeed.”
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the dangers of underwater craft. | In addition, Britain now has 70 submarines of her own built or] building. Soviet Russia has a re-| ported 210 built or under construc-| tion and Italy a total of 106, com-| pared to 91 for France and a reported 84 for Germany. Japan has 59.
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IN CAPITAL TONIGHT
Times Special WASHINGTON, May 2.—Senator VanNuys (D. Ind.) is due to return here tonight from the Mayo Clinic where he underwent an operation {April 21 and is now reported completely recovered.
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