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European Officials Pessimistic, but People Expect No War

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January— ‘‘ have months which to cure the future of Germany."

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January Hitler thunders demands for return of German colonies.

Europe is sick of

Tension More

February

German troops are sent to Spain

a war fever, tossing on its bed for crises from month to month, though

LIEGE

Sh AY March Czechoslovak i a and Memel seized by Germany.

eases Hitler

velt's

take Cz

President Roose.

peace,

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Fuehrer in Memel April

May Fuehrer inspects border forts on the western frontier, .

defies

plea for

Poland moves into as crucial country,

1939 is slightly more than half over.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor ARSAW, July 10.—~When I sailed from the United States five weeks ago everybody was asking if there was going to be war By that they meant would war come this summer or fall? Over here I have put that same question point blank to everybody

ETI ™ SEE J with whom I have come in contact. England, Denmark, Poland and the

some of the biggest names in Europe and many of the plain people.

And the result was surprising,

Practically all of those who are not connected with government— that is to say, doctors, lawyers, merchants, engineers, taxicab drivers, waiters, traveling salesmen and so on—say they don't believe there will

be a war,

On the other hand, I have yet to talk with a single official who

was an outright optimist. None of

say in so many words that he regarded war as inevitable, but without exception they admitted the situation was extremely grave--graver, ac-

cording to a majority of them, tha

The public, of course, may be indulging in wishful thinking. And responsible officials may be somewhat influenced by a desire not to weaken or slow down national-defense preparations by talking peace.

In any event, I have yet to encounter a single man or woman,

whether official or otherwise, who without flinching. Everyone I have visited thus far on this trip—is ho ably resigned to and prepared for

WATER REPORT

Is Danzig next?

3 oS < iB July Free City of Danzig clamors

for return to Reich,

NOTE. CHARGES

June

spotlight

Be $300,000 Above

MNUTT TAKES JOB

| . { Test of l.ove | Young Wife, Near Death After Leap,

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM

The net surplus or profit to the City from municipal operation of

WPA PAY ISSUE ‘BEFORE HOUSE

be $300,000 higher than estimated by Judson C. Dickerman, according to figures submitted to Mayor Sullivan by representatives of the C. H. Geist Estate.

Claims City Profits Would |

I have talked to scores—in France, Free City of Danzig—among them

them has cared to go so far as to

n it was at this time last year.

does not face the possibility of war encountered in the countries I have ping for the best but is unmistake-

sign of alarm or dread. The people powers are now better prepared to officials I have seen. They think it

his luck again at an early date or pitious time,

leader of the strike-while-the-iron-fied with present gains for the time insiders believe will result in a ne

word “test.”

Britain, France and Poland actual the last moment if convinced that

a test is coming.

the worst.

Defends Bridges

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the Indianapolis Water Co. would! was |

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WAR IF

Chamberlain Gives Po

LONDON, July 10 (U. P. lain told the House of Commons today that Great Brit-

Everywhere there is less talk of war than in United States. Nowhere is there the slightest indication of panic.

There is not even a are cheerful and increasingly confi-

dent that even if a new and graver crisis is ahead the antiaggression

meet it.

That a new crisis is ahead is the belief of practically all the

is likely to come within two months.

Fuehrer Hitler is widely believed to be still undecided whether to try

postpone action until a more pro-

Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is credited with being the

is-hot school. Field Marshal Her-

mann Wilhelm Goering is said to be cautioning the Fuehrer to be satise

being and to consolidate them.

It is precisely this indecision on the Fuehrer's part which many

w and early crisis. Some use the

These believe that Her Hitler plans to take Europe once again to the very verge of conflict in order to determine whether or not

ly will fight—but to draw back at they will.

If things are carried to that extreme, the merest accident, or a shot fired by a nervous sentry, might set Europe ablaze. At least one consolation, however, is held out by those who believe If Europe manages to escape war this summer and fall, they say, there probably will be peace for a relatively long time to come. By 1940, they argue, the peace bloc will simply be so powerful and so well organized that Herr Hitler won't dare attack.

BRITISH PLEDGE

DANZIG

IS THREATENED §

land ‘Blank Check’ by

Extending Guarantee to Free City in Statement Before Commons.

) .—Prime Minister Chamber-

The figures, contained in a letter | Sa

ain is “firmly resolved” to fulfill her guarantee of military

AS SECURITY CHIEF

White House Announcement Scheduled for]

Tomorrow; Coy Slated as $9000 Assistant; Campaign Will Be Continued.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 10.--Paul V. McNutt today acL000 position as director of the

cepted the newly created {12 Federal Security Agency.

Finds Husband True.

HICAGO, July 10 (U. P).-—-Last vear Gwendolyn Moore, then 17, decided to test the love of Walter Schulz. 22-year-old coast guardsman. She slashed herself 110 times with a razor and told him the superficial cuts were inflicted by an intruder. Schulz’'s emotional response was satisfactory, even when he learned the truth. They were married three weeks later. But Gwendolyn still wasn't quite sure. A month ago she ran away from ! Schulz to see if he would try to | find her. Last night he did, at a hotel near their home,

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He emerged from a halfhour talk with President Roosevelt to sav that the offi cial announcement must come from the White House and will be made tomorrow at the| President's press conference./Seven Killed in Crashes in

His appointment will be sent Indiana and Michigan:

to the Senate for confirma- : It tion. W. R. Bair Victim.

TWO LOCAL MEN DIE IN TRAFFIC

He reproached her. They quarreled. She threatened to leap from the fourth-floor window. He persuaded her not to. But when he turned around a moment later she

| was gone,

Today in a hospital Schulz bent over Gwendoyn, holding her hand. In her conscious moments she smiled at him because now at last she was sure. But physicians thought it was too late.

Wayne Coy, Mr. McNutt's administrative assistant, will become

his assistant under the new sat up ; , y . Rr yt al apolis, were among the seven perat $0000 a year, it was learned. | Fo

ccording to present plans My. SDS killed in four week-end traffic McNutt will continue to wind up his accidents in Indiana and Michigan. affairs as High Commisisoner to the William Roland Bair, 18, son of

Philippines, while Mr. Coy will be Roland R. Bair, Indianapolis theacting as director of the new di-|

Three Hoosiers, two from Indian-

DELAWARE PAVING

PLANS SUBMITTED

Sabath Seeks Restoration of Old Basis; 3000 in Indiana Strike.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P).! | -—Rep. Adoiph Sabath (D. Ill) tolday introduced a bill to increase hourly wages of skilled relief workers as demanded by more than 100.000 WPA strikers. Rep. Sabath’s’bill would eliminate | provisions of the 1940 Relief Act] which terminated the prevailing | | wage policy and substituted a sys|tem of security wages. The new [system in many cases required |skilled men to work twice as long) for the same wages they formerly received. Skilled Workers Rebel

Skilled ~ workers suspended work | on thousands of projects.

The A. F. of LL. and the C. 1. O. are marshaling their forces to try to compel Congress to restore the policy of paying prevailing wages— that is, to pay the same hourly wages on WPA that private industry pays. Senator Wagner (D. N. Y))., supported by Senator Murray (D. Mont.), is expected to introduce in the Senate a bill similar to Rep. Sabath's.

Work Projects Commissioner Har- |

from C. W. McNear, Chicago invest- | ment broker representing the estate, | were received by the Mayor last Thursday and were made public to- | day. At the meeting Thursday, Mr. Mc- | | Near informed the Mayor and his & committees that the estate would not recede from its original price of $5,000,000 for the Water Co. com- | mon stock.

Price Brings Deadlock

The Mavor replied that the City | was not interested in the stock at that price. This left the negotiations deadlocked. Mr. Dickerman, Federal Trade Commission utilities expert, had ad-|

Carol King

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|vised the City that it would be jus[tified in paying $3,500,000 for the [common stock, adding that the

HEARING BEGINS

benefits to be obtained from the

company's ownership might even

justify a higher price. Mr. McNear's letter contended that in his report, Mr. Dickerman included as cash operating expen-ii-tures $59.000, representing amortization of rate case costs, and for debt discount and expense. These are mere bookkeeping items which require no cash outlay, Mr. McNear said, and the $59,000 should be added to the $1,268.391 Mr. Dicksrman estimated would be available annually for payment of bonds and

ON DEPORTATION

West Coast C. I. 0. Leader, Fighting Charges of Being Communist Alien. SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 (U.

P.).—The long-awaited deportation hearing of Harry Bridges, Aus-

2 COURTS DROP 'YES-NO' RULING

McNelis and Karabell Ban ‘Judgment Withheld’ Finding in Future.

The indefinite ruling, “judgment withheld,” was banned from both Municipal Criminal Courts today. Judge Charles J. Karabell of Court 4 decided Saturday to withhold judgment only after finding a defendant guilty. Today Judge John L. McNelis of Court 3 said he had conferred with Judge Karabell on the matter and concluded that “his position is absolutely correct.” The action of the judges ends a controversy over the meaning of the .ruling which had been handed down on numerous occasions without a definite finding of ‘guilty” or ‘innocent.”

be declared either guilty or inno-|

interest and for profit. tralian-born Pacific Coast C. I. O. director, opened today at the Angel

Tax Exemptions Cited [Island immigration station in San

: . or= Mr. McNear also held that a p | Francisco Bay.

> y i * the | tion of the taxes now paid by t James M. Landis, Harvard Law

vision.

ater executive, was killed in a crash between Petoskey and Walloon Lake,

Rock Asphalt Resurfacing of

rington, standing firm on his orders company as a privately-owned util-

School dean, was examiner at the

cent,” Judge McNelis said. “There | will be no indefinite rulings in my court.” The Police Department for years has been listing “judgments withheld” as convictions.

aid to Poland if Polish independence is threatened at the Free City of Danzig. While again emphasizing the hope of the British Gove

ernment that calm could he restored and negotiations undertaken for a peaceful settlement of the quarrel between Poland and Gere many over the Free City, Mr. Chamberlain fully supported the position so far taken by the War= saw Government and indicated that Britain would avoid seeking to put any pressure on Poland to reach a settlement. The Prime Minister's statement, however, said that Britain's guarantees to Poland would be fulfilled if Poland resisted a Nazi blow at Danzig.

‘Blank Check,’ Say Nazis

The declaration had been approved in advance by Poland, and at Warsaw Government sources praised it as not leaving a single gap in the British guarantee. Influential German Nazis said that they also believed Mr. Chamberlain Nad “given Poland a blank check.” Danzig Nazis professed not to be much interested: they said

“1 agree that a defendant must I'anzig’s destiny was purely a Polish<

German affair and claimed they could not understand why “everyone is so excited.” In his anxiously awaited statee ment, Mr. Chamberlain said: “We have guaranteed to give our assistance to Poland in case of a

lity, but which would not have to

be paid by a municipal utility 3 h 8 hs > noua be included in the City's LAr Scasiany Porm) on. Aps) “profit” from operating the utility. {<5 1 shght, Hn se, 39-} In his report to the City, Mr. old Mr. Bridges, who is one of the Dickerman said that in the event|COUNtry’s most powerful labor leadlers, is charged with being a Com-

ity ired the utility, the § fie Ci Sean [munist and, as such, an advocate of

to state administrators to drop all WPA workers who absent themselves from their jobs for five days, Plans for resurfacing of Delaware asked his state aid today for data

|St. from South St. to Madison Ave. on the extent of work stoppage.

deportation hearing ordered by clear threat to her independence

which she considers it vital to resist with her national forces, and we are firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking.” Mr. Chamberlain admitted that

Coy Is TH {| Mich.

Mr. Coy was Sticke with a Yes Leon Montgomery, 31, of 7280 W. current ailment of Kidney stone washington St., was killed Saturday while both were at Commerce Sec- night as he walked along Road 40

retary Hopkins Maryland country to his home. { Charles Hull, 35, Ft. Wayne, and | with natural rock asphalt were sub-

Stretch Proposed.

THIEF LOOTS PURSE WITH POLICE NEARBY

home vestarday and remained there

overnight. later it was said.

He may be hospitalized

Mr. McNutt gave every indication

of being completely pleased job. ity to ability

his administrat domestic field

dispiny in the

with the prospect of his latest New Deal] It gives him ample opportun- | Wwe and

came as a reward for his success as

High Commissioner, Administration sources.

Hope for F. D. R. Blessing

The McNutt-for-President paign will continue, he reiterated

fter talking to the President today.! When asked if the new job. which! to an-| anything | Indianapolis

he left to the President nounce, would now going on

change atl

according to

cams-

headquarters of the McNutt in 1940

campaign,” the former Governor declared: “Not a thing. continue as planned.”

Upshot of the new assignment is | that he will campaign for the 1949

nomination as though President {Continued on Page Three)

SILVER PRICE CUT

Hoosier |

The program will

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P) —

The Treasury today reduced

its

this mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hull, 63, lof Alton, Il, were killed and four others were seriously injured Saturday night when two autos collided near Marion. Five persons were injured in Indianapolis week-end traffic and 96 motorists were arrested on charges of violating traffic laws. Two other persons were killed in

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MERCURY TO REMAIN NEAR NORMAL HER

Fair Tonight and Tomorrow Is Bureau Forecast.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES a.m. . 12 10 a. m..... am.... nam... 8 am... 1? (moon)... 81 cic IB ipom.. 82

81

9am.

Indianapolis residents were as-|!_8n awning at the Lerner Shop, of work on all projects was com-

‘sured by the Weather Bureau that

‘mitted to the Works Board today by City Engineer M. G. Johnson. { The job will cost $3893, according | to the engineer's estimate. Abutting property owners will not be assessed, Mr. Johnson said. WPA is furnishing the rock asphelt and the labor, | with the City paving fer equipment, rental and management. Plans for street and sidewalk re{pairs were submitted for Fairfield | Ave, both sides; Central Ave. to the [streetcar entrance at the State [Fair Grounds; the 2300 block, Olney | St, 150 feet in front of School 51; | Tacoma Ave, east side, 17th St. to 'Brookway; 17th St. north side, Ta[coma to Temple Aves, and Brookway, both sides, from Tacoma Ave. to Temple Ave.

Installation of sidewalks on both!

sides of Summerset Ave, 11th to

15th Sts. also was proposed. FIRE TIES UP TRAFFIC Traffic was jammed this noon at Washington and Meridian Sts, while half a dozen companies of | firemen extinguished a small blaze

{8 EB. Washington St. The fire was 'believed to have been started by a

price for foreign silver to 35 cents | temperatures today and tomorrow |cigaret. an ounce, 1.75 cents below the prey- Will remain near normal. The foreious quotations and 8 cents under cast said the weather would be fair

the level prevailing before July 1.

Clapper Sees a 'Break' for McNutt

Mr. McNutt "gets a break™ under the New Deal. Raymond Clapper sees significance in President Roosevelt's offer of the important Fed-

Security Agency tha fo

eral post to Hoosier Governor. See Page S.

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| tonight and tomorrow with not jmuch change in temperature. | The nighest reading yesterday, |after the heat wave was broken by iate Saturday rains, was 89 at 2 p. m. The average yesterday was 78 degrees, only two above normal.

By UNITED PRESS

Showers and cooling breezes ended today a week-long heat wave which

‘killed 57 persons and caused heavy {damage to crops.

U. S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago said cooler weather was general throughout the country except in some sections of the West and Northwest. He said tempera-

{tures might begin to climb again to-

morrow or Wednesday. A mass of cold air moving eastward over the Midwest and scattered thundershowers in the East, South and Southwest, combined to

e temperatures.

[taxes now paid by it should be [taken from its revenue and paid

3000 IN S into the City treasury. He did not | ! IN WPA SHUTDOWNS include this tax money in the bene- | fits accruing from City ownership | of the utility. T Mr. McNear pointed out that the company's taxes last year totaled | $589,668. Of this amount, he said, $216974 was paid to taxing units within the City, including the | school and civil cities.

‘Definite Saving’

Even under municipal ownership, $21,054 of Indiana Gross Income Tax would have to be paid. The remaining $251,640, representing taxes now paid to the Federal and State Governments and the County, Mr. McNear said, will be a definite saving under City ownership and should be added to the Cily's net income, The $316974 paid into the City treasury would permit reduction of the civil city tax levy in an amount | sufficient to offset any increase! made necessary by the other local | taxing units to reimburse them for | the loss of taxes now paid by the company. Mr. McNear argued. After citing these figures, Mr. McNear said the City, after paving (Continued on Page Three)

Projects at Standstill i

Three Counties.

By UNITED PRESS WPA projects in three Hoosier counties were at a standstill today as 3000 workers protested regulations in the newly enacted relief bill increasing working hours without providing for wage increases. The Indiana strike was called by workers in Vermillion, Clay and Sullivan Counties at a mass meeting at Brazil yesterday. Two hundred workers set up picket lines. “We're not going to let anyone work,” a volunteer picket said yesterday at the conclusion of the mass meeting. | WPA pickets in Clay County re(ported today that the suspensions!

plete. Some WPA workers who had not attended yesterday's meeting (Continued on Page Three)

Traveling Ba

“Balboa” visited Indianapolis today—between trains—and created a flurry of interest at the Children’s Museum. The visitor is a Rose Boa snake, member of the constrictor family, only two and a half weeks old. And he spent most of his time entwined about the arm of Mrs. Jane Garrison, curator in chief of the Brooklyn, N. Y.. Children’s Museum, who stopped here on her way home. “No, I'm not afraid of snakes,” Mrs. Garrison told inquirers. “I used to be but I couldn't possibly be afraid of snakes in front of the children—so k like them now!”

“Balboa” iS" a gift from Cy Per-

Children’s Museum on Arm of Woman

by Boa Constrictor Visits

| kins of the San Diego, Cal, Zao.) ing to discover the end of the over- | Mrs. Garrison carries her acquisition| flow pipe from the basin. When in an ordinary sugar sack—tied at|Mrs. Garrison found him he was the top, of course. And for three nearly out of sight. She just weeks he will do without any break- | scratched his side and he turned fast, dinner or supper. around and came back.

“When he gets to his new home When persons traveling on the he will get a steady diet of mice, same train with Mrs. Garrison ordinary house mice,” Mrs. Garrison | learned that she had a snake with said. “But until then he will just|her “there was considerable scramdiet. The hot weather and traveling | bling and changing of berths,” she is hard on a snake, especially a baby said. one, “Balboa,” who is two and a half It has been an eventful journey feet long now, will be 10 or 12 feet from California. In St. Louis Mrs. long when he is mature. “But he Garrison put “Balboa” in some isn't dangerous at all. I'd think

the violent overthrow of the Government.

Seek Change of Site

Since i935, one year after he led the San Fraacisco general strike, Mr. Bridges’ enemies have been demanding his deportation. The Labor Department has conducted several investigations of his past and present affiliations. A deportation order was issued, then suspended, because a deportation case, similar. the Department held, to Mr. Bridges’, was then pending before the Supreme Court. In Congress, there was a demand for Miss Perkins’ impeachment because of the delay. Finally, this spring the Supreme Court ruled and today's hearing was ordered. . The hearing began in a small room at the immigration station, but Mr. Bridge's attorneys immediately sought to have the case moved to San Francisco. Thomas Shoemaker, Chief Deputy Commissioner of Immigration, was there to present the Government's case. Mr. Bridges’ principal lawyer was a woman, Carol King of New York.

Private Citizens Testify

The Government had 25 to 30 witnesses, including persons who have investigated Mr. Bridges as private citizens. There also was documentary evidence. The nature of Mr. Bridges’ defense was unknown beyond the fact that he has always denied that he is a Communist or an advocate of revolution. Mr. Bridges has charged that “antiunion elements” were persecuting him. He was backed by a “Harry Bridges Defense Committee,” whose motto is "unionism is Americanism.”

BURNS FATAL TO GIRL

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. July 10 (U. P..—Injuries suffered last Wednesday when firecrackers tossed by a friend ignited her dress caused the death today of Ruth Rexwinkle, year-old daughter of George Rexwinkle, general superin-

water in a wash basin Being young | everyone would like him,” Mrs. Garand curious he lost no time in try-|rison said.

tendent of the Standard Oil Com-

Gets $17 From Auto as Crash is Probed.

With five police officers a few yards away, a sneak thief took $17 from the purse of Mrs. William Murphy, Route 1, Box 672, she reported today. A car driven by Mr. Murphy was struck by a bicycle driven by Charles Tolen, 14, of 1509 Wade St., at Virginia Ave. and Shelby St. The youth received face bruises and was sent to City Hospital. While radio patrolmen and accident prevention officers investigated

the population of Danzig is almost wholly German racially, but said that the prosperity of the people depends largely on Polish trade and the latter's access to the sea. He said there was no question of any opposition of the German population of Danzig. On the cone trary the administration of the city is in German hands and the only restrictions were not of a kind to curtail the liberties of the citizens,

Claims Pledge by Hitler

The present regulation of the city’s status, he declared, although it might be capable of improvement, could not be regarded as basically unjust or illogical. Mr. Chamberlain contended that maintenance of the status quo In

the accident, Mrs. Murphy got out of the car and left the purse on the front seat. When she returned to the car she | found the purse still there but the money gone. One of the officers turned the report into Police Headquarters.

SQUALUS SALVAGING | SET FOR THIS WEEK

PORTSMOUTH, N. H. July in (U. P.).—Barring unforeseen accidents, Rear Admiral Cyrus W. Cole | said today, Navy salvage workers | will begin Wednesday to raise the | sunken submarine Squalus and its 26 dead. The last of five pontoons to be attached to the flooded stern of the | submarine was made fast yesterday

moved to a point over the bow of | the ship for the sinking of the two pontoons to be attached to chains reeved about that portion of the ship.

FOREIGN SITUATION SLOWS UP STOCKS

NEW YORK, July 10 (U.P. .— Traders turned cautious in the stock market today pending clarification of an uneasy foreign situation, and

pany’s Whiting refihery.

dealings declined to the smallest total in nearly 21 years. 4

and today the salvage tug Falcon |

Danzig was in fact guaranteed by Fuehrer Hitler himself up to 1934 by a 10-year treaty (since denounced by Herr Hitler) concluded with the late Marshal Pilsudski. A source close to Berlin Foreign Office said that such a statement had been expected as “just another step in the English policy of encirclement.” It charged that the statement would injure the cause of peace, “for it will encourage the Poles.” The statement called Mr. Chamberlain's interpretation of Ger-man-Polish negotiations and the status of Danzig “misleading.” Mr. Chamberlain said that up until last March, Germany ape< peared to feel that the whole posi= (Continued on Page Three)

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