Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1939 — Page 2
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AGREE TO KEEP ince oosters Avance Test CITY TEMPERS PATRONAGE IN KEY PARK JOBS
NEGOTIATING IN COAL DISPUTE
Nation-Wide Strike in Effect, Nonetheless, Pinching Industry,
BULLETIN NEW YORK, May 5 (U.P) ~Wage-hour negotiators for the Appalachian soft coal ine dustry agreed today to cone tinue efforts to settle the soft coal dispute, John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president, and Charles O'Neill, spokesman for the operators, agreed to name new committees to cone tinue negotiations which broke down today after meeting since March 14
COAL STRIKE AT A GLANCE NEW YORK Government tries to avert absolute breakdown in negotiations, Industries pinched, INDIANAPOLIR well stocked asx shutdown affects 9800 state miners, WASHINGTON Secretary Perking believes there still is hope operators, always yield. ing WW past, now ready for showdown with Lewis, NLRB accailed as organiser HARLAN, | Police with machine guns guard mines,
Consumers
Kk OO
9 u n \ A strike began
today while the Federal Government
NEW YORK
nation-wide
Man
soft coal
struggled against tremendous ob.
stacles to prevent it developing ito
one of the biggest and most bitter
labor struggles of recent times While Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the Department of Labor Cone ciliation Service, the Government's representative at the Appalachian contract negotiations, was pleading with management and labor to Keep negotinting, thousands of were going on strike in Indiana, Ili nois, Kentucky, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico A nation-wide soft coal tieup was expected to be completely effective
by tomorrow night,
Shortage Grows Acute While Dr. Steelman pleaded, =a coal shortage was growing more acute, threatening industry, the essential of cities, and the employment of thousands in business which cannot operate without officials esti26 million
services
Government that
\ coal.
mated there were
tons of mined soft coal in the hands
industry, railroads and public itilities——enough for only 26 days. Already two of New York's three subway svstems, which carry millions to and from their jobs and homes daily, were operating on curtailed schedules, The third system will curtail its schedules within a few days All lines are supplied with electricity by power plants whose coal supplies are dwindling and must be nursed, If management and labor adjourn sine die. Dr. Steelman warned, half a million miners and their families will be threatened with destitution industrial output will be jeopardized and the four-billion-dollar soft coal business will suffer to competing fuels which may be irreparable Roosevelt Plea Observed The noon from its negotiating sub-committee the Federal Govcontinuation of the nationwide
of
losses
reconvened at
of failure
conference
to receive a report
and to consider
ernment’s plea for efforts to settle mine. strike, Dr. Steelman presented what he indicated was President Roosevelt's urgent personal hope that the conference might find some means of continuing the negotiations There were some indications that the conference might adjourn and then reconstitute a committee to maintain relations of some sort between the cperators and John L Lewis’ United Mine Workers of America. It appeared more likely, however, (Continued on Page Three)
STILESVILLE BOY DIES FOLLOWING DOG BITE
Three-year-old Charles Lee Lyons Jr. Stilesville, was dead today as the result of a dog bite received two days ago. Dr Norman Booher, coroner, said the death resulted from a streptococcus infection. He was told that a pet bulldog bit the child and that the wound was treated at home at first When the child's temperature reached 106 degrees late yesterday his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyons Sr. took him to Riley Hospital. The child died before he could be given medical assistance.
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FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight: tomorrow, increasing cloudiness and warmer, followed hy showers at night or on Sunday.
IE 51—NUMBER 4
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Ban the ban on binge is the request contained in this long petition
to City officials. It was displaved
boosters at the Athenaeum.
last night at a meeting of bingo
It ix held by Miss Lois Houston ( left), of
625 N. Grant St, and Mrs, Ruby Mercurio of 1108 N. Euclid Ave.
Chief
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If Players Are Found
An attempt to operate a bingo game to force a test of (he validity of the Safety Board's ban will be made by the Bingo Operators’ Asso
ciation Wednesday night
Officials Indicate That Only - ‘Well Qualified” Will Get Supervisory Posts.
WOMEN’S CLUBS HEEDED
Lesser Positions Expected to Be Awarded Favored Party Workers.
By RICHARD LEWIS A modification of the patronage system of distributing summer playground jobs was foreseen today as City Park officials indicated that key supervisory posts will be awarded only to “well qualified” persons | According to the plan, minor jobs | which entail little responsibility and experience will be awarded to fa[vored party workers while the important spots will be reserved for those who have proven themselves capable in former years, The move toward thinning patronage gravy was under way was learned, as a result of the tivities of prominent women's
the it AC
Oor'-
? ganizations in demanding better per.
sonnel for parks and playgrounds Rigid Standards to Be Sel
While the key posts, which include | supervisorships and matronships in the parks and large playgrounds will not be awarded on a straight
| |
{ merit basis, it was understood that |
| persons selected will have to meet | rigid standards Mavor Sullivan, who is preparing to select a committee of representative women's organizations to assist him in improving parks, said
be selected in June by himself, H W. Middlesworth, recreation direcs tor, and A. C. Sallee, parks superintendent, would prove staisfactory The heat has been on City ad-
I'he announcement was made last night as 350 bingo fans, meeting at ministrations to improve personnel
declare that “we've neen spanked long enough.”
FAIR AND WARMER,
BUREAU'S PROMISE
Chance Showers to Develop . Late Tomorrow, Though.
{ LOCAL TEMPERATURES m., 3 10 a. m, ci... 58 11 a. m. .m, | 12 (Noon) a.m. 66 I pm
. { 5 80 | Fair and warmer weather for tonight was promised by the Weather Bureau, but warmer weather tomorrow will be accompanied by cloudiness and possibly late in the day. The showers, however, may not start until Sunday U. 8. Meteorologist J. H. Armington said that with the mercury vising rapidly today, it probably will 0 into the 80s He said such a temperature would be normal He's not responsible for the Kentucky weather, but he said that the weather forecast for Louisville and the Derby tomorrow was for fair and warmer with showers in the late afternoon or at night
showers
GOVERNMENT BUYS HELTONVILLE STONE
Contract Reported as to Be
Largest Since 1929. |
| BEDFORD, May § (U. P)-—A limestone contract, reported. to. be
the largest since the 1920 boom days, |derson Saturday night to play bingo |
was awarded the Heltonville Co. today by the U. S. Government.
[is a social game and ‘not
The location of the proposed game was not annonnced Chief Morrissey said arrests wisld be made if any game was fohnd “If anybody holns a bingo game and we {ind ot where it is we'll be there,” he said. “If we see a law violation there will be an arrest I don’t see why these people didn't Ro before the Legislature to get the gambling laws repealed.” As new petitions seeking the lifting of the ban were circulated last night, Roy Grow of Rushville, association secretary, said that 17.000 Indianapolis bingo players already had signed such pleas Police were invited to attend the meeting and three officers were assigned. They were not invited to two similar meetings last week when more than a score attended to prevent any attempts at conducting a game,
Social Eidson
White pins with red lettering “Be a Bingo Booster,” were handed the fans as they entered the meet. ing The majority of those attending were women A trio of musicians clothes plaved as the crowd assembled “Hold Tight,” “I Cried for You" and “Hail, Hail. the Gang's All Here” were the favorites Mr. Eidson declared that bingo a racket like the Better Business Bureau says, It's an up-and-up business that gives a lot of its profits to fraternal and charitable causes.” Suggests “Binge Platform” "We've learned a lot and we're going to fight this thing clear through,” he continued. “We've hired attorneys and we're all set to see Just where the law teeps us from plaving a social game. “Call up the City Fathers tomorrow. Tell them youre a taxpaver and you'd rather spend your money in Indiahapolis than go up to An-
Game, Says
mn evening
and buy groceries. Tell them when the day comes to vote, vou'll show
| has increased this vear with the charge last fall that numerous summer emplovees had proved incompetent, Check Applications
Mr. Middlesworth and Mr. Sallee, meanwhile, are going through hundreds of applications for the summer jobs preparatory to choosing a list of eligibles for the Mayor's approval. Appointments to 200 jobs are scheduled about June 1, Mr, Sallee said He added that if the volume of applications continues there will be more than 4000 requests from which to select the 200 employees, | Officials have said that one of the {reasons why personnel standards have been low in the past is because the low salaries for the summer jobs discourage a great many persons from applying
RESURFACING DUE ON CENTRAL AVE
|
Works Board Approves Paving From 38th to 44th.
| The Works Board today approved a proposal to resurface Central Ave. from 38th St. to 44th St The resurfacing will be done with (five-inch reinforced concrete, City | Engineer M. G. Johnson said. Cost to the City with use of WPA labor will be $42 586 { Property owners will be assessed 25 per cent of the City’s cost, which will amount to about $1.25 a foot. The remaining 75 per cent of the [cost will be paid out of gasoline tax { funds.
HEALTHIEST BOYS IN COUNTY SELECTED
{ A basketball scar and a couple of fillings in his teeth were all that
The stone is to be used for the them just what you think about the kept John Mills, 17, adjudged the
Social Security and Railroad Retire ment Board Building at Washington. The agreement is with the Mec-! Closkey Contracting Co. which! holds the 11 million dollar construe-| { tion contract. Although details of the contract were not disclosed, new full-time] night shifts are to start at the Hel- | tonville quarries tonight and officials] {said they were assured of continu | ous operation until next spring. About 250 workmen will be employed {
10 Colts in Derby Sta Fast Track a
(Other Stories, Page 25) | LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 5 (U. P) —Ten colts will make the run for the roses in the 65th Kentucky | Derby tomorrow. A bright blue sky and hot sun portend clear weather and fast foot- | ing for the rather short field in the mile and a quarter classic All horses will carry 126 pounds Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ On Location was the first horse entered after trainers had shied awav from the racing secretary's office for more than an hour, waiting for their rivals to show their hands. The name of Xalapa Clown was the last dropped into the box. Trainer, Earl Sande, who saw his
personally to name John Hay Whitney's Heather Broom, winner
bingo ban. We'll give them a bingo platform before long.” Persons invited to the platform all said they wanted to play bingo “as
soon as they'll let us.”
LINDBERGH FLIES WEST
FORT RILEY, Kas, May 5 (U. P)~—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed here at 11:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today after flying from St. Louis. He refueled his ship and took off for Albuquerque. Dayton early today.
rting
healthiest boy in Marion County, from having a 100 per cent rating His rating in the health contest sponsored annually by the 4-H clubs among their 400 members, was 97.3 per cent, He is a senior at Decatur Central High School. | William Arnold, 16, Warren Cen- | tral High School, was picked as secfond healthiest boy; Floyd Bass, 186, junior Augusta High School, third. | Young Mills will represent the (county in the 15th annual 4-H
He left| health contest at Purdue University |
{June 12 and 14.
Field With
nd 85,000 Crowd Forecast
How They Line
Post Position 5 10
Horse— On Location T. M. Dorsatt Heather Broom Viscounty XxJohnstown XChallenge Technician El Chico Challedon Xalapa Clown
XxBelair Stud Entry.
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Owner— Milky Way Farm Joe W. Brown
Valdina Farms Belair Stud Belair Stud Woolford Farm William Ziegler
Up at Churchill
Jockeys— A. Robertson L. Haas B. James C. Bierman J. Stout Kurtsinger Adams Wall Seabo S. Coucci
Whitev C J N Brann B. Franzheim
r
of the Blue Grass stakes at Keeneland a week ago.
Hundreds of persons gathered
18 great colt Stagehand cut out of the! about the racing shed and spilled 27| Derby by fever a year ago, appeared [over the walks when J. J. Flani-
gan entered the Valdina Farm's Viscounty, the jay colt which de-
| feated Technician by a nose in the mile derby trial on Tuesday. A cheer rose from the crowd when Trainer Matt Brady dropped the name of William Ziegler's 1938 juvenile champion, EI (Continued on Page re
FRIDAY, MAY 5
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JOHNSON LAUDS ALLISON ENGINE
Predicts Start Soon on 800 Powerful ‘Mystery’ Army Plane Motors.
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SAM TYNDALL Wai Johnson announced here today Allison
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Assistant Secretary of Louis that En-
are
soon as projected
gineering Co. expansion plans begin to “mystery”
for the
will Its motors
completed. the plant manufacture 800 powerful warplane 8 Army Johnson
of
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miners’ the Athenaeum. heard Bovee Bidson, 712 Day St, association president selections for vears, but its intensity contract for the motors within two
hours after the money was made available by Congress Mr. Johnson, here in with American Legion metings, also disclosed that lison plant, although a division the General Motors Corp, has fo nine years been “owned and cone trolled” by the War Department. He said the Allison 12-cylinder, liquid coled V-type engine developed after years of research was “the Army motor” and declared that the War Department considers it the ‘greatest airplane engine for high speed performance in the world today.” Praises G. M. Co-operation
The U. 8S. Government has in effect subsidized the General Motors Corp. in its Allison | division according to Mr. Johnson. He said that the General Motors Corp. in its co-operation in carrying on the research ‘deserves the { highest credit He added that the Allison plant a great thing for Indianapolis.” Most of the the research S. Government, The new motors,
connection executbive the Alof
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funds used were paid he said two of
to carry on by the U which
are in experimental stage, recently | craft! reported | an |
powered an Army across the country at speeds of better than 400 miles hour, will equip a portion of the 571
pursuit
new Army fighters recently ordered |
by the War Department, he said Some will be fitted in the new planes in twins, while others will be used alone He declined to say what portion of the planes will be | equipped with the motors.
More Contracts Due Soon [ In this connection he announced that signing War Department contracts for additional alr fighters could be “expected within the next few davs."” The national warplane expansion program. under which President Roosevelt envisages an additional
6000 planes, including the 571 cone
tracted for, he said is progressing “ahead of schedule.” He was asked whether he thought the United States would be capable of adequately defending itself from attack with completion of the 6000 additional airplanes He replied that ‘‘the present program is adequate to defend the (Continued on Page Three)
OIL STOCKS STEADY IN FALLING MARKET
NEW YORK, May 5 (U. P).— Outlook for increased use of petro-
- | leum because of the soft coal shut-
downs today made oil shares a firm spot in an otherwise lower stock market Although gains were fractional in| the oil issues, they were in contrast | with the remainder of the market. | which displayed losses ranging to 2 points in Johns-Manville.
Hogs above 160 pounds rose 10/ cents at Indianapolis today while lighter weights held steady. Top price rose to $7.25. Vealers were steady. the top price at $10.50.
FORMER TVA CHIEF ARRIVES FOR TALK
Dr. Arthur E. Morgan. former Tennessee Valley Authority chairman, arrived here today for an address at the North Methodist Church eighth anniversary dinner tonight | Dr. Morgan, now president of Antioch College, Antioch, O., is the guest of J. W. Esterline, president of [the Esterline-Angus Co. The for-
walked in and |/mer TVA chairman is to speak on|to Poland.
| “Expansion of Government” at the dinner, which is sponsored by the {| Tower Club. |
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POLAND TURNS DOWN
1000 armament and equipment
- experimental
HITLER DANZIG TERMS; BRITAIN SPURNS RUSSIA
‘Beck Calls Germany's Proposals ‘One-Sided’, Leaves Door Open for Negotiations, But Insists on Equality.
LEGION URGES WAR TRAINING IN CCC CAMPS
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Compulsory Military Service | In State Universities |
Also Asked.
-— v y “ » Y L] “ . 4 Military training for the nation's CHUNGKING—Japanese bomb Chungking and Swa300,000 CCC enrollees, expansion of tow
(the R, O.T.C.and C. M\ T. C,, and " . FY n ; . furthe renlargement of the U. 8. SHANGHAI—Foreign property unsafe, Japanese say.
Army were called for today by the| ; — American Legion “to meet today's WARSAW, Poland, May 5 (U. P.).—Poland today ree
gh jected Fuehrer Hitler's “one-sided” demands for return of ighway across the Polish
FOREIGN SITUATION WARSAW-—-Parliament thanks Beck for firm speech. LONDON--Irish cause worry as Britain answers Moscow, GIBRALTAR—Nazi guest, BERLIN—Danzig plebiscite discussed.
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The action was taken by the : ” ind Foipyid executive committee, which speaks Danzig to the Reich and a Nazi h Whe for the Legion, as its two-day ses. Corridor, but offered to enter into peaceful negotiations for sion closed at headquarters here . : . vay -— « a solution of their quarrel. I'he Legion also asked that ship- . " v en . ‘ " ments of scrap iron from this coun- Foreign Minister Josef Beck replied to Herr Hitler in a try be banned for the present. It gneech to a crowded, cheering Parliament, which immedisuggested that "industrial America . . ae rac ar : 'be prepared for large-scale emergen- ately afterward took the first step tow ard conferring dicta« ley production rather than to now torial powers on President Moscicki for duration of the
manufacture excessive quantities of "on B In WAFS expensive material to be placed in | € Riergency. : 3 pregency. decrees SOVIET ARMED a, ——
| warehouses." Asks Guard Increase were submitted to a commite
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for approval upon order Parliament. As Col. Beck concluded formally received the thanks | Parliament, the deputies shouted: “Long live Moscicki! Long live Poland!" Col. Beck, in a firm but concili= atory speech, declared that: Poland will not permit herself to be cut off from the Baltic Sea coast. Million Men Back Him Poland, with an estimated million men under arms, believes that no | “self-respecting nation” would ac=
the National Deadopted by the|
The report of fense Committee, Executive, urged that the National] Guard be enlarged, that shipyards be built on the Wset Coast to serv-| ice war and commercial craft, and
that the defense of the Panama Britain Rejects Proposal as Canal be strengthened. The immediate establishment of | Irish ‘Army’ Calls 5000 Men.
of and of
$150,000,000 to ‘finance the armament. and equipment reserve Feces sary to meet the mobilization needs | of the regular Army and National Guard was urgd, as was the imme-| LONDON, May 5 (U. P) —Great| diate establishment of a $440,000.- Britain informed Moscow today that re- | at present she cannot accept Russerve necessary to mobilize one mil-|sia’s request for a military alliance lion men [with Britain and France. The formation of a board to study| Although Britain was occupied at cept one-sided demands such as the requirement of an effective air/the Faget with 3a Ish StsiS: Herr Hitler made. defense for a five-year period was Lord Halifax sent the reply to Sir| ; ; : . ; advocated. : y | William Seeds, British Ambassador, | Polat iene into ogo Compulsory military training for|after it had been approved by the | tations GT Sey n ATS students in land grant colleges was| Cabinet's foreign committee at the | With "8ood hi Riri ag Y eaceful urged, in order that military-age| House of Commons. Hon ey we ~ a Sons citizens will be made familiar with| The Irish crisis was marked py | met rods. Yo QA aeg the use of modern weapons of war, bombing outrages and a ‘call tok a has been forced to consider the report said. |arms” by the outlawed Irish Re-| whether Germany actually seeks The report urged that commis-| publican Army. L fn a : i sioned officers in the Army be in-| Twelve thousand policemen, jn. Histi0iD OF the Osrman popdision N ‘ { , y wy y . ald . y (Continued on Page Three) cluding 4000 special constables, pa-| ing Poland from the Baltic?”
_ troled London all night and kept) ide Scion } i . Las .~"| Poland considers the Corridor as 3000 CASUALTIES down a repetition of the bombings “our Province of Pomorze” and “we
of the night before that wounded aw ie ~ “have no grounds whatever for re= five persons, but the I. R. A. Proc= | iricting our sovereignty on our Japanese Also Bomb Swatow on Coast.
to bode serious trouble for the t}at Poland had offered to extend the present highway facility between Germany and East Prussia across the Corridor. Denies Knowing Hitler's Plans Declaring that “we in Poland do
British Government, | The “mobilization” order was read at an I. R. A. demonstration at Belfast. It instructed all members to be ready with arms and equipment | for “immediate response’ to calls] from headquarters. It is estimated | . 4 nEYPh that the 1. B. A. Nas: S000: mem 1t | Bot known the conception of peace operates outside the law in the six|at any price,” Col. Beck put parUnited Press Staff Correspondent counties of North Ireland and works | ticular emphasis on statements that CHUNGKING, May 5 (U. P.).|for the union of North Ireland with he did not know in advance—as in= Thirty-two Japanese airplanes | Eire. |dicated in Herr Hitler's speech—of bombed the business and residentiai| Lord Halifax instructed Sir Wil-| German proposals for extending the district of this third emergency|liam to seek an immediate inter- | now denounced nonaggression treaty capital of Nationalist China today.|view with iVacheslav Molotov, Pre- | between the two Governments or Foreigners, including many Amer-| (Continued on Page Seven) for an international guarantee of [icans, were endangered. < Ea
— . the Slovak territory, An estimated 3000 Chinese were SLAYS 75-YEAR-OLD
| Polish newspapers hailed his Foreign schools, |
a speech as “dignified, calm, moderate { "WO . fand firm” and carried such heade | mistions and consulates were blasted | FIANCEE AND SELF : q and set afire. Dead and dying lit-| know the cone
lines as: ee “Poland does not tered the streets and thousands fled] JACKSON, Tenn, May 5 (U. P.). ception of peace at any price—Po= the city ahead of the resultant fires|—The love tragedy of a 25-year-old |land will not allow herself to be cut [ which were fanned by a high wind. man and a 75-year-old woman was | off from the Baltic—Germany must | Foreign advices said Japanese air- | termed beyond explanation today.|prove her will for peace.” (planes had also bombed the center | Ten minutes after they applied for| The leading opposition newspaper lof Swatow, a city of 178,000 on the a marriage license, the young man Goniec Warszawski said, “The ene coast 200 miles above Hongkong, dragged the old woman to their tire nation stands behind this and inflicted many casualties this|/ automobile and killed her. He then speech.” morning. | shot and killed himself. Polish Parliamentary circles bee Bombs struck the British and| She was identified as Mrs. George lieved that Col. Beck was referring Frerich consulates here. The Brit-| H. Donnell,.of Oklahoma City, he as|to the Russian Ukraine when he ish Embassy Secretary, John G.|L. J. Burns. {mentioned unofficial allusions by Tahourdin, was slightly injured and | . Seip —— |prominent Reich Government offiATE GROUP 0. K.S
[the Vice Consul's residence was SEN cials “reaching far wider and furs ‘badly damaged. [ther than the subjects now under
The Canadian Friends mission and | BILL TO DRAFT CASH |consideration.” — |
|school were burned and Mr. and | It was believed that this remark Mrs. Arnold Vaught of Chicago | referred to suggestions for a joint WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.) —|German-Polish policy regarding the It was learned that Col.
| barely escaped from it. A hotel in which the North Amer-| The Senate Military Affairs Com- | Ukraine. ican Aviation Co. had offices and| mittee today approved a bill to draft | ’ afer in which many foreign pilots lived, | dollars as well as men in the vent] S Teterence ® 2 CGermat (Continued on Page Seven) lof war. statesman who opined that this ———— provincial town (Danzig) would not be an object of conflict between Po= land and Germany” meant Air
Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goe=-
- . . * | Danzig Nazis See Hi tler; | (Continued on Page Seven)
Plebiscite Is Considered
lamation issued in Belfast seemed own territory.” He said, however,
By ROBERT P. MARTIN
| |
TEXAS OBSERVATORY DEDICATION OPENS
BERLIN, May 5 (U. P.).—A spe-| and British circles viewed it as un-| cial airplane courier carried a full!likely to aggravate the tense Euro-| FT. DAVIS, Tex., May 5 (U. P.).— summary of the challenging speech | pean situation. | Recent studies of the so-called |of Foreign Minister Josef Beck of | Fascist circles at Rome deplored | “variable” stars may enable astron|Poland to Berchtesgaden, where the speech as indicating an unyield- omers to measure the dimensions of Fuehrer Hitler pondered his reply |ing attitude but expressed hope that|the Milky Way, Prof. Marlow Shapin his Bavarian mountain retreat. a solution might yet be found for|ley of Harvard Observatory, told Foreign Minister Joachim von | the German-Polish quarrel, | scientists today. Ribbentrop and Albert Foerster and| Political quarters in Danzig| He addressed the opening meeting | Arthur Greiser, the Danzig Nazi | described it as “merely a general{of the symposium being held in |leaders were with the Fuehrer. answer” which fails to clarify the|connection with the formal dedi= The possibility o fa plebiscite to differences. |cation this afternoon of the Mc= determine the fate of Danzig was As in the past when he has met Donald Observatory which houses suggested in an official statement With opposition, Hitler was not ex- the world's second largest telescope, given to the foreign press tonight. | pected to modify his demands. His| More than 200 prominent astronDanzig is 96 per cent German and Reichstag speech indicated that omers and educators will take part the result of a plebiscite would be Germany would increase her de-!in the four-day symposium and the a foregone conclusion. mands if they were not met in the dedication. | While Col. Beck left the way open [first instance. - {for negotiations, it was strongly| The German press gave an indi(doubted that Herr Hitler would cation of the Reich's course by re-| WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.).— [negotiate on the terms which Col. newing its campaign of reporting The Senate Appropriations Commit= Beck indicated would be acceptable anti-German “outrages’ 'in Poland. | tee today approved a $358,000,000 The papers reported anti-German | increase in the Agriculture Depart= demonstrations at Posen, where an|ment Appropriation Bill to finance effigy of Herr Hitler was burned in|farm parity benefits and distribu= (Continued on Page Seved) tion of surplus commodities. i '
0. K. FARM PARITY FUND
Official French quarters gave whole-hearted approval to the “firm
but courteous tone” of the speech i y \ ( |
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