Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1939 — Page 4

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JAPAN MOVING TANKS, MEN TO TIENTSIN ZONE

Condition Reported Growing More Serious; Hoosier Is Unhurt.

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ets as they sought to enter or leave

the concessions.

The Japanese navy, already con-

ducting the new blockade of Ku-

langsu, threatened to enter into the Army blockade here, and close the

Hai River to traffic, as vegetable boats reached the British Concession to relieve a possible food shortage. Foreign residents at Kulangsu

faced an acute shortage as the blockade came without warning and

there were no stores.

But—to the anger of the Japan-

ese — the Asiatic Petroleum Co. steamship Yan Tai Shan ran the blockade this morning with foodstuffs and with Chinese civilians, dispatches said, and the Japanese announced that they would act at once against it. As at Tientsin, where there are 233 U. S. Marines, American fighting forces were involved in the new blockade of Kulangsu. The United States had kept 32 marines at Kulangsu since May 11, when joint United States-British French action prevented Japanese seizure of the foreign area.

Army Chief Sees

Japanese Emperor TOKYO, June 15 (U. P.).—Prince Kotohito, Kanin, Marshal and Army Chief- of Staff, and Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, War Minister, consulted Emperor Hirchito today and a Foreign Office source said that any British effort to retaliate for the blockade of the British and French Concessions at Tientsin would only increase the gravity of the situation. The fact that Prince Kanin was called in with Gen. Itagaki to. see the Emperor, was taken to mean thot momentous topics were being discussed. The spokesman said that the Japanese Consul at Tientsin had informed the United States and

French Consuls that their interests)

would be “protected,” though American interests in the concessions and | the French concession specifically, ! were involved in the blockade.

Chamberlain Gives

Warning to Japan

LONDON, June 15 (U. PJ). Prime Minister Chamberlain warned Japan today against the danger of a “regrettable incident” and declared that Britain is in close consultation with the French and United States Governments. An official spokesman meanwhile revealed that Britain and France formally have challenged Japan's claim to control over the foreign concessions in China. The spokesman said the British and French Ambassadors visited the Tokyo Foreign Office yesterday and delivered memoranda to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita protesting against a statement of the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman that Japan has a right to assume sovereignty over the foreign areas. The protest paralleled that of the United States last week. Later the British Ambassador made individual representations regarding the Tientsin blockade, pointing out the danger of “provocative action by the Japanese which might lead to a regrettable incident.”

PUBLISHER PULITZER DEAD IN EAST AT 60

NEw YORK, June 15 (U. P.) — Ralph Pulitzer, eldest son of the noted newspaper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, died last night. He was 60 last Sunday. He had undergone an abdominal operation May 1. At the bedside were his wife, a sister, Mrs. William S. Moore, and two sons, Ralph Jr. and Seward. Two brothers, Joseph Jr. and Herbert, also survive. Mr. Pulitzer was president of the Press Publishing Co. publishers of the New York World and the Evening World. He was vice president of the Pulitzer Publishing Co,, publisShers of the St. Louis PostDispatch.

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TREASURY LINKS COTTON, SILVER

Unwilling to Sell Bales if Suit to Recover Coin Is Involved.

WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P) — Generalissimo Franco's Spanish Government is trying to purchase 300,000 bales of American cotton through the Export-Import Bank but is being opposed by Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, informed

sources said today. Secretary Morgenthau’s opposition, it was said, is based on the Franco Government's suit against the Treasury to recover $14,250,000 in silver sold the United States by the Loyalist regime before the Spanish civil war ended. The cotton would cost $15,000,000. A Treasury official emphasized that Secretary Morgenthau was not opposed to the deal because of any political considerations. “As a matter of fact” he said, “the Secretary is willing to facilitate any legitimate deal which would aid in disposing of this country’s cotton surplus. “However, he wants some positive assurance that once the cotton is sold to the Spanish Government it is not going to claim that payment has been made in full on the basis {of its contention that the United States owes it for the silver.’ The cotton deal, EE manding, he declared, the Treasury was prepared to fight attempts by the Franco Government to obtain the silver. The Treasury contends that it acquired the silver from what was then the legally recognized Government of Spain.

U. S. Envoy Presents

Credentials to Franco

BURGOS, Spain, June 15 (U. P). —Alexander W. Weddell, United States Ambassador to Spain, presented his credentials to Generalissimo Franco today. United States Embassy officials, meanwhile, continued their efforts to locate and classify all United States nationals who are prisoners of war. They found three more, bringing the total still in Spain to 18.

Finland Again Alone In Paying U. S. Debt

WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P)). —Finland, alone among the foreign debtors of the United States, met its obligation today. The Finnish Minister, Hjalmar Procope, called on Treasury Secretary Morgenthau today to be photographed in the act of passing over the check for $160,693. Although the Federal Reserve Bank of New York received a token payment from Hungary this week, the Treasury does not consider this a payment.

TOKYO TIMED ACT FOR NAZIS

Connection Between Tientsin Order, Slovak Rumors Believed Possible.

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Yangtze. She slipped her own merchandise into the Chinese markets duty-free by labeling it as supplies for troops She rad the rich port of Canton, lying close to Britain's great crown colony of Hongkong. She seized Hainan, the Chinese island that commands the eastern coast of French Indo-China, and then reached 700 miles farther south to grab the strategic Spratly Islands, once claimed by France.

BERLIN, June 15 (U.P.)— New reports that Japan may enter military agreements with Germany were circulated here today following the arrival of Toshio Shiratori, Japanese Ambassador to Italy and an outstanding advocate of a German-Japanese general alliliance. Diplomats saw the Shiratori visit, coupled with Japanese pressure on Britain in China, as part of a new ‘squeeze play” by the anti-Comintern powers,

All those things and others she

did, and got away with. But now Japan is engaged at Tientsin in what Britain might logically define as an act of war— if she were prepared to back up such a definition. Just what Britain will do remains to be seen. A demonstration of force might be a very dangerous gesture, particularly in view of the tension nearer home which makes it difficult to spare warships from the North Sea and the Mediterranean. And if Britain undertook to retaliate in economic ways —with boycotts or embargoes—Japan might counter by forcibly abolishing the long-entrenched occidental privileges in Shanghai and other “treaty ports.”

Britain Embarrased

Any symptoms of retreat by Britain at Tientsin would be awkward in view of her current overtures for an alliance with Soviet Russia, which hates and fears Japan. A weak policy would also risk a dangerous loss of face for Britain throughout her Asiatic possessions and spheres of influence. The United States may be expected to rebuke Japan verbally for this latest infraction of the NinePower Treaty, since American citizens at Tientsin are involved along with the British — although the Japanese at Tientsin are studiously treating the Americans with more consideration than they are the British, despite our recent $25,000,000 loan to China, our regular purchases of Chinese silver, and our informal shutdown on airplane sales to Japan.

SLAYER WINS NEW TRIAL

NEWPORT, Ind, June 15 (U. P). —Charles Leigh, convicted of sec-ond-degree murder in 1933 in the slaying of Alvin Cox, today had been granted a new trial in Vermillion Circuit Court. He was released on $5000 bond.

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SANTIAGO, Chile, June 15 (U.

" P) —Foreign Minister Luis Ortega

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ITALY FAGES WHEAT SHORTAGE IN CRISIS

ROME, June 15 (U.P.)—German Ambassador Hans Georg von Mackensen conferred with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano today, reportedly on the European and Far Eastern situations. It was understood the two discussed efforts to persuade Spain to enter a military alliance with the Rome-Berlin axis, and the possibility of extension of the alliance to include Japan. Foreign diplomatic quarters received reports today that unseasonable rains were causing severe damage to Italian crops and that unexpected delay had arisen in Italian-Spanish negotiations. It was said a bad harvest would mean Italy must import wheat at a time when all available public funds were being used in war preparation. The newspaper Stampa of Turin reported today that the Cabinet had decided on partial mobilization of reservists from the February, 1939, class, because of “extraordinary” circumstances.

BERLIN FURIOUS

AT SLOVAK TALK

Denounces Foreigners for Rumors but Takes Over Border Zone.

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rate, that the highways have been cleared of civilian traffic, that the Germans in Praha have been issued submachine guns, al 1this is ridiculous. These rumors are deliberately invented in order to stir up feeling abroad and disturb relationships.” At the same time, well-informed foreign military quarters asserted that they had confirmed reports that German troops were in Western Slovakia and had begun to occupy the military zone along the MoraviaSlovakia border as provided in the original German-Slovak treaty after the . dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, made a speech last night which kept 15,000 students and workers giggling for an hour. Dr. Goebbels used as his targets all the enemies of the Nazis. It was noted, also, that as had other fierman leaders in recent weeks, he spoke at some length, if somewhat cryptically, of failure of Germans themselves to support the official program heartily enough.

Tourist Travel in Bohemia Stopped

LONDON, June 15 (U. P.)—The Czech Travel Bureau said today that all tourist travel in Bohemia and Moravia had been suspended and that only persons able to produce papers demonstrating that they had business would be given a visa. Further, the agency said, the visa must be obtained from the German Embassy here, not from a consulate as is usual, and that even then there could be no guarantee that the journey would be completed because a further permit must be obtained from German authorities on the Czech frontier.

RITES SET TOMORROW FOR EARL W. ARCHER

Times Special MOORESVILLE, Ind, June 15 (U. P).—Barl W. Archer, who died Tuesday, is: to be. buried tomorrow at the Mooresville Cemetery following funeral services at 2 p. m. at the Carlisle Chapel. He was 50. Mr. Archer, a native of Morgan County, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Archer. He is survived by his wife, Mable; a son, Vernon, and a brother, Frank, all of Mooresville.

INDIANA MERCHANTS FORM TRADE GROUP

The Indiana Merchants Association, an organization of merchant trade associations, had been organized today with headquarters here. Leland K. Fishback of the Petroleum Marketers Committee was elected president at the organization meeting yesterday. Roland W. Slagle of the Indiana Lumber and Building Supply Association was named vice president and G. Don Sullivan of the Indiana Coal Merchants Association, secretary. The board of directors includes O. P. Fauchier, Indiana Association of Ice Industries; Charles P. Ehlers, Indiana Bakers Association; George Hofmayer, Indiana Independent Petroleum Association; Gilbert Sheely, Indiana Retail Hardware Association; Walter Mercer, Indianapolis Meat and Grocers Association, and C. W. Hunt, Indianapolis Milk Foundation.

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