Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1939 — Page 2

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CRYSTAL FLASH CHARGES DENIED BY ROAD BUREAU

Petroleum Corp. Suit Claims Gasoline Contract Did Not Go to Low Bidder.

The Stat {lighwav Commission failed to the charged Court 3 Flash

todax it had

award a gasoline contract to

best bidder, as Superior

Crystal

and filed In the

lowest in a vesterdav bv Petroleum Corp The Commission last nounced it awarded contracts for supplyving 3.000.000 gallons of casoline and 84.000 gallons of motor oil in six districts The Crystal Flash firm's suit ts only the award for the Green-

c11it Sul

week anhad

conwas received by

Oil Co

to comment 1 the suit

delined The on! int charoes that. on neeas (on he Greenfield disirict, which inCounty. the Pure Oil waz: 26300 higher than

Flash bid

Siniff Explains

he hazic of the estimated ATAarion 1

the

Clifford nN Commission member

The

thinks it

explan Commission did and tl ontract te

still the The bid of

mreguiar

lowest anc the Crystal sh Co. was ¢ sion of the com-

because of ti

ion. presirs to fail-

of the oil

error.’ the words Page but the name set 1 Page 24 Fehsenf rged that Co. bid actually was the lowest, with Crystal Flash ard Oil Co. and Indian Oil Co

being lower the order named

tted on

Prompt Delivery Promised

The suit that in reiecting

the Crystal Fl i because of the omission nf th n 10 in Commissi

the felt also

the printed exthe

members that 1 did not uf-

ficient hulk ants to

deliveries

have make prompt Fehesenfeld =aid the eomdant plants m mdianannlis |! and. Franklin and Carme! ith

12 trek aaleivne it 15 mn KX mal

nt « sible to make deliveries in the district More than half th Marion Count He aszerted that Stand hidde:

be in was Jow othe! ceived

et vir te districts

the award district The Crystal Flash bid on according to the suit, was 21 below the sumer tank Standard

aasoline. | cents commercial conmarket prices,

discount of

posted wagon Oil offering 1.75 cents and Pure Oil 15 cents The suit asks that the Commisawarding the and the

enjoined from the Pure

required to

sion be contract to Oil Co that it be Crystal Flash bid

accept

aispute

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Grapes Bear

First Year

Times Photo.

Gustav Stark, Indianapolis wood carver, gave these grapes a great

big hand. Here's why. grape vines for Mrs He planted some of the thev are bearing the first

some sort of a record, or at

clipping vear! least

[.ove Bird of [calous Hue |

At Hospital |

An unidentified and lonely

which has for two

Meth-

love bird

dave been a ‘guest’ at

odist Hospital, still wag un-

claimed today, although at

least a dozen persons have

called about him

Re came late Tuesday night

and perched on a window

ledge on the =eventh fino

According to a metal leg hand

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name ig 1 CT 37,

answer to it

his but he doesn’t He is brilliantly green and some folks sav he will die unless he is

mate

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restored to his

AWAIT AUTO STRIKE END DETROIT, dune 1 (t:. P.) Settlement of a 12-dav old strike

which has tied up 12 automobile

factories was expected today as U | Labor Conciliator James Dewey said he would rule on union grievances which caused

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Early this spring he pruned some Concord Robert Cavanaugh, Graceland Ave. and 44th St. s at Mr highly unusual

And this is

1013 Bellefontaine St Stark savs he believes

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MONGOLS BACK

Report Planes Fire on Allies Of Soviet on Khalka River.

June 1 (U P) A News Agency todav that Japanese counterattacked and retreat a Mongolian the Khalka River on of Outer Mongolia and

TOKYO Japanese) reported planes into

Domei dispatch Army drove force 2long the houndam Manchukuo On Mav 11

reported to

a Mongolian foree was have crossed the river the Nomnhan Oasis in where it deMongolian attacks scale, according

invaded Johi Desert feated Other followed on larger to Japanese reports.

and

the was

Japanese Consul

Threatens British

TIENTSIN. June 1 (UP) Japanese Consul Hikozo Tanaka, in an ultimative communication to the British Consulate. demanded toda: that a man suspected of assassinating Cheng Si-keng., Japanese-spon-sored Customs Superintendent, be handed over bv June 7. A Domei News Agency dispatch said that Consul Tanaka threatened that unless the alleged assasin was handed over Japanese authorities would resort “to whatever action they deemed fit.” Supt. Cheng was shot in a ish Concession theater April 9.

Brit-

Amoy Settlement Talked by Consuls

HONGKONG. June {| (U. P.) Rritish, American French anc Duteh consuls met today at the home of the Japanese Consul of Kulangsu international settlement of Amov) for a two-hour discussion of Japanese demands for increased representation in the Government of the settlement. They also were to discuss the sitnation created bv the landing vesterday of additional Japanese marines against the warnings of foreign powers,

HITLER SEEKING AID OF JUGOSLAV PRINCE

BERLIN. June 1 (U P.).Fuehrer Hitler today staged a demonstration of Germany's air strength in a welcome to Prince Paul. Regent of .Jugoslavia Prince Paul and his party will remain in Germany for eight davs of conversations and State affairs. Herr Hitler was expected to urge Prince Paul to bring Jugoslavia nearer to the Berlin-Rome diplomatic axis. Prince Paul will seek to avoid any definite commitments

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GEN. GAMELIN PUSHES ARMY CONFERENCES

Joint Action in Case Of ‘Contingency.’

FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON — “Conditional Acceptance” given, Soviels say.

PARIS—France urges Britain to compromise quickly.

MOSCOW—Formal reply to proposed draft to be sent. BERLIN—Nazis push counterdrive; entertain Jugoslavs, SAN SEPASTIAN—U, 8S. Ambassador reaches Spain. CADIZ—Last Italian troops sail. ” » ” TOKYO—More Jap-Mongolian fighting reported, TIENTSIN — Japanese consul sends “ultimatum” to British. HONGKONG — Consuls debate Amoy issue,

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LONDON, June 1 (U. P.).—Gen Maurice Gamelin, chief of the French fighting forces, will negotiate with British staff officers next | 1 week an agzreement on British and French co-operation in any con-| tingeney which might arise under the new “security front” commitments, it was understood today. Gen. Gamelin's visit will be the first of a series nf big scale military conferences aesigned to put teeth into antiaggression arrangements. But it was understood that in advance of formal opening of negotiations, four separate French military missions had visited Lonjon secretly within the past week. It was proposed to bring Russia into neaotiations npon the expected conclusion of a defensive agreement | with her. Clarification Expected

the

As regards the speech at Moscow nf Premier-Foreign MinMolotov of Russia,

vesterday ister Viacheslav

| Soviet quarters here said that it was

[not a

rejection but a “conditional acceptance” of British proposals for a security pact, These sources said that Russia would insist on clarification of the British proposals. Russia fears a sitnation in which Britain might retum to an “appeasement” paliey with Germany and leave Russia isolated Tt has heen reported that. as soon as Russia entered the security front. Prime Minister Chamberlain intended to make some peace gesture toward Germany. Commissar Molotov's speech was believed here | to be a warning toe Mr. Chamber- |

lain not to relapse into the Munich

{policy of appeasement, and not

to | try to agree- | ment with Russia as an instrument

use the prospective

| to win a British-German agreement. | |

Agreement Held Possible

Russia has already requested clar- | ification of an article in the British draft of a proposed treaty, referring to the League of Nations covenant and its principles Russia fears| that this clause might be used to delay the enforcement of a security | pact if an emergency arose. It was understood that Britain was prepared to make changes in this] article to overcome Russia's suspicions The view of Russians here seemed

{to be that agreement was possible |

| bassador, to the Foreign Office dur-

and that Mr. Chamberlain would not he able to risk. at this stage, a breakdown in negotiations.

France Urges Quick Compromise

PARIS. June 1 (U, P.) France wag believed tn have urged Great Britain in diplomatic consultation tndav to satisfy Soviet Russia's demand and extend the Anglo-French “peace front” guarantees to include the small Baltic states along Russia’s western frontier French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet conferred at noon with British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps and was believed to have stressed the necessity of finding some immediate compromise solution to overcome Moscow's objections to the AngloFrench draft treaty for a tripower military alliance.

Russia's Formal

Answer Drafted

MOSCOW, June 1 (U, P.).—Pre-mier-Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov prepared today to dispatch Russia's formal answer to a British draft treaty providing for a Rus-sian-RBritish-French security pact. It was forecast that the reply would he sent to London, for deliverv bv Ivan Maisky, Russian Am-

ing the week-end if not tomorrow

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BUCHAREST, June 1 (U, P.).—~Rumania voted today on the election of its first corporate, one-party Parliament, All 800 candidates hore the approval of the Official Front of National Rebirth. Only 2,000,000 voters registered, compared to a registration of 4.000.000 in previous years. Opposition leaders interpreted this as a protest against the tactics of the regime, Under the new system. the Chamber of Deputies is divided into three groups of 86 members each. One group represents agriculture and labor; another commerce and industry, and the third the professions.

NEW U. S. ENVOY

Hopes to Strengthen Bond Between America and Madrid Regime

SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain, June | (U. P.) .—Alexander W. Weddell, new American Ambassador to Spain, said today that he hoped to strengthen friendship between Spain and the United States and that if he did so he would be satisfied. Mr. Weddell, formerly Ambassador to Argentina, entered Spain vesterday from France, accompanied by his wife. As to the people toward Nationalist Mr. Weddell said: “I certainly think American people as well as the American Government wish to see the new Spain happy and prosperous.”

attitude of American Spain,

Italy and Argentina To Sign Trade Pact

ROME. June 1 (U., P.).—An Ital-jan-Argentine trade pact will be signed here tomorrow, it was said in reliable quarters today

CADIZ. Spain, June 1 (U, P) Foreign military intervention in Spain ended today when twn Italian transports and the cruiser Emmanuele Filiberta Duca d'Aosta sailed for Naples with the last of 23.000 Italian troops who helped bring about a Nationalist victory in the civil war

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