Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1939 — Page 3

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PARIS TRIES TO CHECK NAZI TRIESTE LEASE RUMOR

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In Deal to Transfer 200,000 F rom T yrol

FOREIGN SITUATION

LONDON—Midlands ‘blackout’ called 98 per cent successful.

PARIS-—French and British celebrate Bastille Day.

BERLIN—Geoebbels reveals British propaganda letter.

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TOKYO0—15,000 Japanese stone British Embassy.

TIENTSIN—Army boycotts negotiations with Britain.

By UNITED PRESS France and Great Britain sought today to check reports that Germany had acquired a hold on Italy's important Adriatic port of Trieste, which was taken from AustroHungary after the World War. Italian officials denied as “fantastic® French newspaper reports that Italy had conceded Germany a 10-year lease on Trieste, authoriz-| ing the Reich to build grain silos, new docks and an air base—and possibly a naval base—there. Officials at Rome said, however, that Italy and Germany were continuing negotiations to give Germany preferential railroad rates and lower rates in use of port facilities such as the independent Austria held.

Resistance Organized

According to the Paris reports, Ytaly granted Germany special privileges at Trieste as a compensation

IF WAR AVERTED, POLAND DID IT, SIMMS ARGUES

Hitler Holds Off as Proof Piles Up Nation to Fight Grab for Corridor.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

THE POLISH CORRIDOR, July 14. —When the history of the hectic spring and summer of 1939 comes to

be written, the chances are that, if

war will have been averted, the chief credit will go to Poland. A neutral, one of the soundest and most analytical observers in this corner of Europe, declares that

(almost certainly, but for the stand {taken by the Poles, war would have

broken out in April or May. It appears to have been the idea of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister and one of Fuehrer Hitler's closest advisers, that Poland and Rumania were as ripe for swallowing as Czechoslo-

for the mass evacuation of Germanspeaking people, between 150.000 and | 200,000 of them, from the South Tyrol which Italy also obtained from Austro-Hungary after the World War. This area is to be completely Ytalianized. German-speaking inhabitants are to be given their choice of going to Greater Germany or moving to Southern Italy or of abandoning their language and culture for Italy's. A Londen News Chronicle dispatch from Bolzano, provincial capital, reported that organizations were being formed among the peasants to resist the plan for transfer, possibly even with force.

Axis Faces Test

Political undesirables will be the first to go—men and women, perhaps 17.000 of them, who have during the last 20 years kept the German spirit alive and resisted Italjanization. These thousands have appeared on Fascist blacklists: arrests and raids on their houses have multiplied recently. This is putting the axis to a real test. It was reported in high diplomatic sources at Rome that Italy's sudden expulsion of all foreigners from the Bolzano province was to ease German feelings. It was said that Berlin had asked Rome to avoid the appearance of acting only against the German minority, and so foreigners could not report atrocities that might accompany the mass forced migration. Official sources said the expulgion was due to the discovery of espionage activities by French and British elements.

Long Duce’s Headache

Nevertheless, it was expected that American, Swiss, Dutch, Scandinavian and French property owners who have been told to settle their affairs within a reasonable time will in most cases be permitted to remain in the Tyrol or return later. The original 48-hour deadline seems to have applied only to the 10,000 Germans who were not Italian citizens. The German minority question in South Tyrol has been a long-stand-ing problem with Premier Mussolini. The area includes the two most important passes across the Alps between Germany and Italy and it was given to Italy after the World War as an essential to her defense. The Government has desired to remove all traces of irredentist headaches that might be caused by a desire of German residents for reannexation. Therefore credence is lent to reports that a lease of Trieste may have been traded for Italianization of the South Tyrol.

OCHS LEAVES $12,211,422 NEW YORK, July 14 (U. P).— Adolph S. Ochs, late publisher of the New York Times, left an estate of $12,211,422 net, it was revealed to-

vakia. Also that the swallowing could be accomplished without war —a war which Germany did not particularly want.

An Obstacle Appears

The moment the wheels were set in motion an unforeseen obstacle was encountered. Where Austria and Czechoslovakia had given way and Britain and France had hesitated, Poland snapped back like a rubber band. Col. Josef Reck, the Foreign Minister at Warsaw, replied that Germany's demands could be satisfied only over Poland's dead body. Moreover, he was credited with meaning every word he said. For once, tgo, public opinion was in advance of the leaders. Generally, “war fever” has to be drummed up. But Herr Hitler's arrogant claims for Danzig and a corridor across the Polish Corridor so infuriated the Polish pecple that spontaneous demonstrations occurred all over the country, calling upon the Government to strike back. All factions rallied to the Government's support. Had the Germans moved against Danzig or the Corridor, observers agree that war would have followed immediately, regardless of consequences. The loss of her outlet to the Baltic would have doomed Poland economically anyway, and she was prepared to die fighting rat&gr than take it lying down.

So Nazis Held Off

It was the Nazi thesis—sponsored, it is said. by Herr von Ribbentrop— that neither Britain nor France

would fight for Poland or Rumania. Once confronted with an accomplished fact, they would make a terrific outery but in the end they would yield. Poland, however, made it clear that with or without help from the outside she would fight to the last ditch and the last man. True, her population is only 35 million against Germany's &5 million. Doubtless she would be defeated. fighting alone. But she had 30 divisicns of troops ready for battle, another 30 could have been ready in a few days, and eventually some four million Poles could have taken the field. Before it was over, therefore, the Nazis would have known they had been in a scrap. So Herr Hitler hesitated. What Germany wanted if she went to war at all was a “blitzkrieg”—a fast, short fight.

Poland’s ‘Strong Man’ Will Speak Aug. 6

WARSAW, July i4 (U. P).—Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Army inspector general and ‘strong man” of Poland, will make his first speech in a year Aug. 6 at Cracow, it was

day in an estate tax appraisal.

announced today.

home.

Swing Comes Back Too Soon

Robert Sisk, 13, of 901 River Ave. was swinging his sister, Reba 11, in Riley playground yesterday and the swing struck his forehead. He was treated at City Hospital and today he and Reba are staying

Times Photo.

F. D. R. INSISTS ON NEUTRALITY

Sends Congress New Message; Hull Asked About Ban on Arms to Japan.

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would give Congress a check on the Chief Executive. A compromise also was sought in the grounds on which embargoes might be imposed. Under the language tentatively agreed on last night, the President would be authorized to proclaim an embargo on munitions and certain other materials whenever a nation party to the treaty was found to be endangering the lives or rights of American citizens in China, or threatening the territorial integrity of China. The proposed law would expire Feb. 1, 1940. Isolationists prepared to attack the legislation on the ground that, if enacted, it would put the United States in the position of violating the amity-in-commerce treaty signed with Japan in 1911. Senator Pittman insisted that it would not, and said his theory was supported by R. Walton Moore, State Department counselor; John Bassett Moore, former counselor and former World Court judge, and by Quincy Wright, professor of international law at the University of Chicago. Senator Pittman said that in view of opposition to the proposal, it might take the Committee three or four days to act.

ONLY ONE INJURED IN NIGHT'S TRAFFIC

The Police Accident Prevention Bureau barely missed attaining one of its greatest ambitions—a night

in which no one was injured in traffic. Only one person was hurt last night. Miss Verbia Wolfe, 21, of 4955 Manlove Ave, cut her right elbow slightly when the car in which she was riding and a truck collided at 52d St. and Guilford Ave. Police said the truck was driven by Horace Holt, 31, of 2306 Carrollton Ave. Mrs. Elizabeth Lakin, 57, of R. R. 17, Box 432, was charged with being drunk and failure to have a driver's license and certificate of title after police said her car figured in a collision. They said her car ccllided with a taxicab driven by Charles Castle, 41, of "39 E. Market St., at Illinois and Washington Sts.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

DEATHS TO DATE County City 47 27 33 JULY 13 Accidents Arrests Cases ConvicTried tions . 22 20

. 16

Fines $145

Violations Speeding Reckless driving .... Failing to stop thru street . Running red light Drunken driving .... All others ....

7 6

27 81

20 65

81

$414

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Totals 139 130

MEETINGS TODAY Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon.

Reserve Officers’ Association, Board of Trade, noon.

Delta Theta, oon. Deita,

luncheon,

luncheon, Canary Columbia

Cot-

luncheon,

Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary on.

tage, no MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the Countv Court House. The Times, therefore. 1s not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Charles Roberts, 18, of 1520 Milburn St.; Naomi McGinnis, 17, of 1417 Rembrandt St, James C. McLacuchlan, 28 of 412 Ruskin Place: Juliet Baker, 25, of 3104 N. Pennsylvania St. Everett Easterline, Ave ; Mary Shewman, ginia Ave. Erwin Kleiner

30, of 1031 English 25, of 850% Vir-

26. of

2 - _ Napoleon Marguerite Herrmann,

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Robert Thompson, 23, of Indianapolis; Betty Owens, 22, of 1114 W. Ohio St. Gurnell Rhoades, 18, of 1510 Cornell Ave.; Elizabeth Boyce, 16, of 1337 Massachusetts Ave. Thomas Daugherty,

72, of Henning, Ill; Effie Esworthy, ] 5

51, of Indianapolis.

BIRTHS Bors Robert, Odessa Martin, at 2517 Highland ace. Magonia, Velma Fergison, at 1412 W. SN William, Sarah Swani gan, at 926 Missouri. Charles, Anita O'Brien, at 1326 Bacon. Maude, Beatrice Knight, at 2149 Belle-

fontaine. Florence Haase, at 1425 Church-

Harry, Arnold, Loretta Loman, at 553 Warren. Frank, Dorothy Ketten, at St. Vincent's. Thomas, Nellie Clark, at City. Glen, Myrtle Allsup, at City. Girls Carl, Jean Robeson, at S Vincent's. Lewis, Susie Jones, at Cit Richard, Helen Turley, My City. Frank, Anna Mae Standt, at City. Wallace, Patsy Hobaugh, at 654 E. 21st. James, Eva Hughey, at 447 St. Peter. Charles, Edna Carson, at 357 S. La Salle. Herbert, Muriel Owen, at 3549 W. 12th.

DEATHS

iy C. Schweer, 48, at City, cirrhosis ve Lida Denham, 52, at 123 W. 29th, auricular fibrillation Ella Aker, 7, at 1344 W. 32d, interstitial nephritis. Dudley S. Mumslie, 40, at Veterans Hos-

pital, carcinoma. 32, at Methodist,

Marjorie Alexakos, ulcerative colitis. yarren, 45, at City, meningococcic meningitis.

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FIRES

Thursday

4 A. M.—Automobile, 4226 Broadway. 7 A. M.—1022 Sterling, trash in fur-

nace. 12:30 P. M.—L. S. Ayres & Co. paper

chute. 3 43 P. M.—247 N. Arsenal, rubbish. 4.36 P M.—3300 Prospect, grass fire.

5:03 P. M.—63 Ridgeview Drive, short

eILeul. P. M.— 2600 Cold Spring Road, parks oT Fools 5:41 P. -—2258 N. Meridian, sparks in

~Penpsyitania a New York, automobile, cause unkno 08 P. M.—1223 Shettield, cause

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ing St. William L. Fisher, 24, of 1630 Lawrence; June Price, 23, of 1011 Dawson Ste

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bureau

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair night and tomorrow; Sunday fair warmer,

ceravs 4:28 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —July 14, 1938-—

Sunrise

BAROMETER

6:30 a. m...29.92

.00 Total precipitation since Jan. . Excess since 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana — Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler in extreme sout portion tonight; Sunday generally fair and warmer in cast and sout possibly local showers in northwest portion.

Ilinois—Fair, slightly cooler in extreme south portion tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; warmer in northwest and west-central portions: Sunday nartly cloudy and warmer in south, scattered showers in north portion. Lower Michigan—Fair tonight and tomorrow: cooler in extreme southeast portion tonight: moderate temperature tomorrow; Sunday unsettled, possibly local showers in west portion. Ohio—Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair with moderate temperature; Sunday cloudy and followed by showers. Kentucky—Fair and slightly cooler tonight; tomorrow fair in east and increasing cloudiness in west portion; Sunday local thundershowers.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M.

Station. Amarillo. Bismarck,

Tex. D.

Den: Deze City, Kas. Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, Kansas City, Little Rock, Ark

* Fle Mpls. Ist. Paul Mobile, Ala. New Orleans New York ......... Sia, Citv, Okla. aha eb, Bittehar h Portlan Ore. San Antonie. Tex. . sir Francisco

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And So Cop Did His Best To Cool Ott

BUFFALO, N. Y, July 14 (U. P.).—Police cars and fire trucks raced to the Y. M. C. A. last night. Some one had telephoned that a young man was about to leap from a seventh story window. A large crowd gathered as police and firemen came to an abrupt halt, dashed to the seventh floor, to find a young man sitting on a ledge outside a window. “Whatcha doing out there?” barked a cop. “Trying to cool off,” young man said.

G. 0. P. TO MOBILIZE FOR STATE CAMPAIGN

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the

other party leaders, Mr. Hogan said a G. O. pP. Congressman had warned Indiana Republicans to start campaign activities at once. The letter also warned Hoosier party leaders to stop all the talk! about party reorganization. “To make further party changes at any time between now and after the coming primary will serve as a further admission of party ineptness,” Mr. Hogan's letter stated. “I have no brief for the present heads of the party, but I have presumed an interest in some of the rank and file Americans who want the Republican Party to measure up to perhaps the severest crisis that has confronted this country since 1861.

Urges Militant Action

“I am sure that I express the desire of the average Republican voter when I urge that militant activity start promptly without any hesitation created by creeping doubts as to who shall be State Chairman from now until the primary or ever after.” Mr. Hogan's letter stated that he had received a letter from ‘one of our Republican Congressmen.” Mr. Hogan quoted the Congressman’s letter as follows: “‘I am certain that it will take the forum plan or some other colorful activity initiated at once in order to offset the very effective work which Fred Bays (Democratic State Chairman) is now doing in Indiana.’ ” ‘Don’t Take McNutt Lightly’ Mr. Hogan's letter referred to the McNutt-for-President campaign in Indiana which, he said, “should not be taken lightly, at least by Indiana Republicans.” “If (the McNutt campaign) it serves no other purpose, it will be a medium for making our Democratic opposition more cohesive and militant and as a healing process permitting them to forget some of their New Deal antipathies. . “With no native Republican son as a candidate for the Presidency, we will have to find other formulas

gram of the opposition.” Mr. Bobbitt said a program of forum meetings will be started in every county in the State within the next few weeks.

NOTED PATHOLOGIST DIES NEW HARTFORD, Conn., July 14 (U. P.).—Dr. Frederick Parker Gay, 65, noted pathologist and bacteriologist and member of the Columbia University faculty since 1923, died

NEW HEAT BLAST COMING SUNDAY; 3 ARE STRICKEN

Mercury Drops to 62 After Season’s High Mark Is Set at 98.4.

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was the direct cause of death or aggravated a previous ailment. Frank Stevens, 58, of Rockland, collapsed while pumping a tire on his car at Franklin. His death later was attributed to the excessive heat and overexertion.

LAGRANGE, Ind, July 14 (U. P.).—John Lytle, 87, and his brother, Andrew, 82, today were recovering from the effects of yesterday's excessive heat. John fell in a faint to the floor of his home here. Andrew took one look at his brother and also was overcome, apparently from a heart attack,

Mrs. Henrietta Boyd, 71, of 1616 E. Washington St.,, who was overcome while walking about two blocks from her home, remained in a critical conidtion at City Hospital. Charles Whitlock, 11, of 1130 S. Senate Ave. was recovering at his home after being overcome while playing. George Metevia, 39, of 350 E. Washington St., became ill under the blistering sun while standing at Illinois and Washington Sts. He was taken to City Hospital While asphalt paving was softened by the heat and blazing sun, the City Street Department and State Highway Department reported little trouble. State Highway crews, however, blocked off a 30foot square “blister” on Road 40, about 6700 block west.

South and West Boil Again as Toll Hits 38

By UNITED PRESS The second severe heat wave of 1939 gripped the South and West today while cooling breezes brought relief to Midwestern states counting nearly two score of deaths attributable to three days of extreme temperatures. U. S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago said the heat belt extended today across the country, skipping only the northern Atlantic and Great Lakes areas, and saw little change in temperatures during the next 24 hours. At least 38 deaths, from heat prostrations and drownings were attributed tc the heat wave which swept over the country after only a brief respite from temperatures which began soaring over the Fourth of July week-end. Illinois, where temperatures yesterday ranged from 96 to 101, led the states with six prostration deaths.

CONSERVATIVE HELP FOR M'NUTT SEEN

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Senate was taking a nap when he arrived. While waiting to be received, the former Indiana Governor went to the Senate and thanked Senate Democratic leaders for the prompt confirmation of his appointment. Vice President Garner and Mr. McNutt joshed each other. He termed the latter’s immaculate white suit “ice cream duds.” Observing that the Vice President smoked cigar after cigar, the former Indiana Governor promised that he would receive a box of his best Manila cigars today. But reporters who wanted to learn what one Presidential candidate may say to another when they meet were disappointed. Mr. Garner waved them from within hearing distance.

LONDON JOINS PARIS T0 DISPLAY POWER

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ish subjects, both Chinese and Occidental, to the colors as a warning to Japan that the colony will be defended. While French President Albert Lebrun, flanked in Paris by military and Government leaders of both nations, took the salute, a detachment of guards with bagpipes playing led 10,000 troops past the tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. Tanks, motorized artillery and mounted units swept up the avenue behind detachments of Senegalese, Malagash, Moroccan, Algerian, Tun=isian and Indo-Chinese regiments. The French Foreign Legion and troops of the French Metropolitan regiments also joined in the parade in which the famous grenadier guards of King George's household regiment participated as an implied warning to the Rome-Berlin

today at his summer home here.

axis.

Girl and Mother Bitten After Auto Strikes Dog

A 9-year-old girl and her mother, attempting to comfort their pet dog after an auto struck and fatally injured him last night, were bitten by the pain crazed animal.

The are Patty Bennett and Mrs. Mary Bennett, 418 S. Warman Ave., and today they were beginning rabies treatments at City Hospital. Neighbors who saw the accident: said the girl involuntarily ran to the side of the dog and that her mother followed. Both were bitten on their hands before the dog died. Donald Burnett, 9, of v7 Deloss

St, cut a gash in his right foot when he stepped on a piece of glass at Willard Park pool, and Jean Snyder, 17, of 617 N. Bancroft St, suffered a cut over her left ear while diving at Ellenberger Park swimming pool. Patrick Looney, 12, of 124 N. Elder St., fell while running in a lockerroom at Rhodius Park and cut a gash on his forehead, while Billie Silcox, 6, of 1944 Carrollton Ave, fell and bruised his kneecap while playing in the backyard of his

15,000 Japanese Stone Tokyo British Embassy

TOKYO, July 14 (U. P.).—Fifteen thousand persons massed before the British Embassy today, hurled missiles and Japanese flags into the grounds and shouted antiBritish epithets. It was called the biggest antiforeign demonstration in recent Japanese history. The demonstration was held as Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambas-

sador, consulted over the program for negotiations on the Japanese blockade of the British and French concessions at Tientsin. A Foreign Office spokesman announced that the Government was not involved and that the demonstration was spontaneous. Other well-informed sources said that the anti-British movement was fully regimented and that even in pri-

Strauss Says:

mary schools children were being urged to write anti-British essays. Five hundred policemen massed three deep at all entrances to the grounds and held the demonstrators back.

SHANGHAI, July 14 (U. P)— British reports said today that two hand grenades exploded in the British Consulate at Tsingtao, causing] some damage but no casualties. The reports said Japanese authorities expressed regret for the incident and said they would try to apprehend those responsible.

PEIPING, China, July 14 (U. P.).—A Japanese spokesman claimed today the capture of the important junction of Luan in Shanshi Province, hailing it as the 12th biggest victory over the Chinese Eighth Route Army since the outbreak of

the war.

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LIBERTY AT STAKE, CHADWICK CLAIMS

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 14. —Stephen F. Chadwick, national commander of the American Legion, rapped the “tendency of the Government to create bureaus and commissions with powers of both judge and prosecutor,” in an address here last night before the American Bar Association. ’ Mr. Chadwick, a Seattle lawyer," declared that regardless of the good intention and represented beneficence involved in the recent action of the National Labor Relations Board in granting employers, or employees, the right of petition, such grant is inherently “repugnant to the spirit of freedom. “The law should. be so clear that no agency can win commendation by making a gift of what should be right. This tendency, to combine the powers of prosecutor, fact-find-er and judge is reactionary.

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