Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1939 — Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPT. 21,

President

For Cash and Carry |!

[Law on

Hull Says Changing Rules In Midst of War Is All Right.

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such & But a United Press poll indicated a Committee majority to amend the neutrality law by repealing the arms embargo sand establishing a cash and camry policy on the sale of American goods to belligerent states,

VanNuys With Roosevelt

proposal

The embargo repeal margin slim but appears dependable. The lineup on the basis of votes and expressions of opinion is believed to be as follows: For arms cash-and-carr

embargo repeal and (12)—Pittman, Harrison, Connally, VanNuvs, Wagner, Barklev, Murrav, Schellenbach, GufRarkley Murray Schwellenbach, Guffev, Green, Pepper and Thomas (Utah) Against Borah berg George Doubtful and White All M. Landon, 19368 Republican Presidential nominee, emerged from the White House conference, declaring that the United States should arm itself at once. He said present national defense was not adequate, To the thought Congress should remain in session throughout the emergency. Mh have suggested that speed its work but that Senate Republican and Democratic leaders remain here, presumably as a liaison between the legislative and executive branches

repeal (8) —Clark (Mo), Johnson, Capper, VandenLa Follette, Shipstead and

(3) Gillette, Revnolds

to Congress

House and

President Listens

The President retained complete freedom of action after his conference with respect to his neutrality message to Congress today. He did not indicate whether he would ask for repeal of the entire statute, repeal of the arms embargo alone or, merely, submit the problem to Congress and ask for some action which would make the present law more neutral He told the conferees the present act was unnentral becsuse it violat-| 00 disputed tenet | national that 8 entitled te purchase neutral The President was described as 5 good listener the conference amenable, agreeable and willing to hear all arguments. And the conference seemed substantially to agree with him that something should be done about the embargo although there was no agreement on procedure VanNuys Changes Mind

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Mr. Roosevelt yesterday th faced a majoi long war in ta bring in retarm S

told conferees world civilization crisis and that Europe would spread more belligerents, Secol State Cordell Hull, SpesakWilliam R. Rankhead. Mr. Ga! ney Repubhican Leader Charles 1 McNary (Ore) and Assistant Leads Warren A Austin (Vi House Democratic 1.eader Sam Ravhurn «(D. Tex Senate Major. itv Leader Alben W. Barkley D Kh Senate Assistant Majority Leader Sherman Minton (OD. Ind.). Senator James F. Byrnes (D. S.C) Chairman Kev Pittman (D. Nev) of the Senate Foreign Relations Commitlee, Chairman Sol Bloom (D. N. Y) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Carl] E. Mapes (R. Mich.), senior minor- | ity member of the House Rules Committee, attended the conference, as ad Mr. Landon and Col. Frank Knox, 1936 Republican nominees for President and Vice President Conferees who discussed the meeting agreed that Mr. Roosevelt asked no piedges nor did he reveal the form in which he would propose neutrality changes to Con gress toda But he led off with a discussion of international law which Interpreted 8s meaning that first choice would be out right repeal nf the existing act and | the substitution cash and car export of all our goods to helliger ents The United Press was informed that his second choice appeared to be mere revision of the existing act, chiefly to rid it of the embargo against export of arms, ammunition and implements of war. In either choice the cash and carry procedure would be in effect

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MEETINGS TODAY Advertising Club of Indianapolis, eon, Canerv Cotiage, noon Elephants, Inec.. meeting 30 p.! American Business Club, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noon Qil Club, luncheon. Hote Construction League of luncheon, Architects and noon Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting E._ Ninth St Pp. m

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MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Republican Editorial Association, | Claypool, all dav. Indiaman Motor Traffie Association, state convention. Hotel Antlers, all dav Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin noon Reserva Officers Association, Board of Trade noon Speakers’ Forum, dinner Martin dining room Salesmen’s Club ington, noon.

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WESTWALL' OF AMERICAS, AM INPANAMA CITY

Conferees Meet to Seek 3 Mutual Protection of Neutral Rights.

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gates here is that the penetration] ideology in Latin America! has been exaggerated. Trade sta-

of Nazi

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tistics show that Germany's high-| pressure propaganda campaign and barter methods have not produced the results claimed, and have not greatly improved Germanys gen-|

The Eastern Front

ral commercial position as compared with that of the United States,

Poles

Now, of course. virtually all Ger. TONDON, Sept. 21 (U.P.

man trade is shut off by the British saw’s radio station informed blockade, world todav that the city still was

Hitler's Shadow Reaches Far fighting of the surrounding Ger-

There is wide difference of opinion many Army witer RHoHier ay of among the delegates regarding the destructive air raids. potential threat to the Western| It was the 13th day of the siege Hemisphere if German victory in| The voice of the Warsaw anEurope should shift sea power from nouncer, “Colonel Lipinski,” familiar Britain to Germany. But acute now to all British radio listeners, speculations dramatize this meet- came through as usual shortly after ing and vivify the diplomats’ con- midnight with a “Defense Army versations, as the shadow of the communique” which said: one time Austrian corporal falls “Polish troops advanced over {wo across the Atlantic miles in the western (Warsaw) secUnder pressure of what Under- in: tm a fierce bavonet charge, inSecretary of State Sumner Welles. papiry units retook the suburbs of | United States delegate, describes 8s procs anw Wola, capturing mam RN ER urgenty. | prisoners, three heavy and seven the American republics have an op- light machine guns. Detachments of portunity to draw closer together— 1, polish light horse successfully with all the advantages such co-' oa. repeated charges dislodging

operation offers if properly handled. \.." ahemy from intrenched posiSome delegates believe this con- tions.» ,

ference faces the first real threat to the Western Hemisphere since Monroe in 1828 proclaimed his famous doctrine to check the American ambitions of European nations combined in the so-called Holy Alliance,

Warthe

Signals Strong When Last Heard

A British Broadcasting Co. official said the Warsaw station's sighals were strong when last heard, just after midnight «5 p. mm. Wednesday, Indianapolis Time Welles Teswes Ntatement Every. military expert in Europe Undersecretary Welles issiied the had conceded for days that War following statement on landing SAWS blight was hopeless, There here was nothing Great Britain or “Every dav that passes heightens France could do to relieve the siege. the significance of this meeting for 2nd dispatches reaching Paris said the purpose of consultation.” that since the city was surrounded This meeting grows out of the ® Week ago it had been impossible Lima Conference declaration of last '0 ®et ’ December. There the United States tion to Warsaw from the “security and Latin American neighbors took triangle” around Lwow, in southcognizance of the Nazi threat, re- east Poland. the only other region affirmed continental solidarity, and Still in Polish hands. : pledged themselves to defend it| But there was not a discouraging “aganist all foreign intervention or Word in Col. Lipinski's broadcasts activity that may threaten them.” throughout last night. And the They also pledged themselves to|fact that he was still on the air

meet any such threat by invoking gave proof, like the flag at Fort

the consultative machinery which McHenry which inspired Francis now becomes operative in this con- Scott Key's American anthem in ference of Foreign Ministers 1914, that the Poles “still endured.” Conditions are considered pro- Reports Planes Shot Down pitious for a joint understanding cil . on the common problems of Col. Lipinski sald 40 German neutrality. defense and trade. This Rirplanes raided the city three times is true not only because of pressure Vesterday and that anti-aircraft nf the Furopean emergency, but gunners shot down seven of them also because of the lessening friction He said the hombs destroyed what and suspicion of the United States Was left of the Royal Castle, the Art The old fear of “Vankee Imperial-| Academy's National Museum and ism” is disappearing in the light of the Central Institute for Physical the good neighbor doctrine | Training. tsi “Despite the fact thal the Ger.

698 AT N. Y. ABOARD [nr Meve withdrawn a rss num: ARMED MAURETANI

Front there were three raids on Warsaw during the day,” he said. " phe | A Warsaw broadcast heard in NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U. P).— Bucharest said that great crowds The new $12.000000 British liner were gathered in churches all over Mauretania was at her pier today the city for special masses for viebristling with armament. tory, during one of the raids and Fore and aft were four-inch sub- that the people continued to pray marine cannon and smaller anti- while the bombs fell. The cathedral aircraft guns, She had been painted organ had been destroved by 8 homb gray, more like a warship than a and could not be used for the servpassenger liner, and her superstrue- | ice, the broadcaster said. Bovs 15 ture was piled with sandbags. She and 18 vears old were offering slipped in from the Atlantic ves- themselves for military service, he terday afternoon with 98 passengers said, and women were doing evervincluding 265 Americans | thing but actual Aghting and were ho — Rh - especiklly helpful in carrying water FEARS WAR WAVE OF FLU food and cigarets to the fron! lines CHICAGO. Sept. 21 (U. P.) —The| At Budapest. Warsaw's Mavor Journal of the American Medical Stefan Starzvnski was heard broadAssociation today editorially quoted casting that vesterdav's bombs had a noted Rockefeller Institute physi- destroyed one college, several le. cian that the present European war gation buildings and the Prudential may bring another outbreak of in- Life Insurance Co, skyscraper. He fluenza similar to the epidemic of said that half the buildings in the 1918. War invariably means the city had been ruined or badly damSprgating of disease, the Journal aged, and that the art treasures of said.

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~ |High Command communique

rtion tonight, |

Germans-Russians BERUIN, Sept. 21 (U. P)

German troops and airplanes from

the Eastern to the Western Front

today as the Army High Command |

announced that the Polish Army had been “destroyed,” oxcept Warsaw and “in and around Lemharg (Lwow)” in the southeast, The communique said: “On Northern Front of Warsaw) (the number of Polish prisoners increased to 170.000 and is still growing. More than 300 guns and 40 armored taken, In the south, near Zamosz (70 miles northwest of Lwow), and Tomaszow (60 miles southwest of Warsaw), larger Polish units surrendered with 108

light and 22 heavy guns. number of captured thus ceeds 350,000. It and Soviet troops had made contact ‘at a number of places” in Poland and that the German soldiers were retiring behind their line of demarcation, The disposition of Polish prisoners was a subject of conjecture here now that the Armv High Command vesterday termed the Polish operations “closed, with the defeat of the enemy at the Vistula” (west of Warsaw), German officials took foreign neswspapermen to a prison camp at Grossborn, near the Polish Corridor, last week and let them see that Polish prisoners were being “loaned lout” to German farmers. Russian troops were releasing all Polish prisoners after taking away guns, telling them to go home, A group of German Army officers went to Moscow, presumably to decide on details of the occupation It was announced that ‘German troops had begun retiring from the [Brest-Litovsk (Brzse na Bugu) sec tor, just inside the limits of the White Russian district, and that they would be withdrawn “to the German-Soviet demarcation line” after Polish troops had heen cleaned out of the Lwow region. Lwow is 50 miles inside the Polish Ukrainian section. These announcements indicated that Russia.would get both “Western White Russia,” which has 3.500.000 inhabitants, and the “West. ern Ukraine,” which has 8,000,000.

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Russians Claim

Capture of Lwow

MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (U, P).—The Soviet press praised the Red Army today for “mass heroism” in fighting “the enemy,” indicating that the Russians had met with resist. ance in their march into Poland. “The Red Army showed the world what a powerful force she represents,” the newspaper Pravda said in publishing an official commu-

nique announcing capture of more |

[than 60,000 prisoners, .280 pieces of (artillery, 120 airplanes and a large quantity of war materials Previously, Russian newspaper reports of the march into Poland had put great emphasis on the jubilation | with which they said the White Russians and Ukrainians greeted the Red Army and had not referred to any fighting of importance. The General Staff asserted laconjeally in yesterday's activities that Red troops (had “occupied” Lwow (Lemberg) (and Grodno, at the limit of their [agreed line with Germany. | Confirmation of the assétion that the Russians had “occupied” Lwow would be important news. The Poles had held it in a ferocious fighting against repeated German attacks. The Russians said vesterday that their cavalry and tanks had entered the northeastern and southern outskirts, But the Poles insisted they still held it and a German this {morning said: “The Poles are resist. ing only at Warsaw as well as in and around Lwow.'™)

DISPENSATION GIVEN CATHOLICS AT RALLY

cue luncheon at the Republican

rally at the Fairgrounds Saturday, Front,

an ember day on the Catholic Church calendar, today were given special dispensation by Bishop Joseph E. Ritter to eat the meat, The dispensation, however, is for the noon meal only, it was plained at the chancery

NORTHWEST U. S.

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west United States, in at least one | respect.

So long as he remains on the Su-

preme Bench, Mr. Douglas intends Graceland Ave. law [motorcycle belonging to in Washington. Follette, 4018 Graceland Ave,

(to select his law clerks from [school graduates [Oregon and ldahn, He § of his youth ih Wash

he still considers his

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ders Confer With F. D. R.

Senators Charles I. McNary (R. Ore), minority leader; Warren R. Austin (R, Vt.) and Key Pittman (ND. Nev.), Foreigh Relations Committee chairman, left to right, before the neutrality conference with President Roosevelt at the White House yesterday.

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IN DOUGLAS’ FAVOR Mrs. Lena Coffman, 50, of 1825

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U.P) .— [and left arm today when accumuSunreme Court justices are supposed lated gas in a coal stove exploded « impartial, but Justice William 'as she was cooking. O. Douglas is partial to the north- ported in fair condition at City Hos-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMKEN

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The Western Front

Allies PARTS, Sept. 21 (U. P) France | has completed its general mobiliza- |

‘tion and the country's entire man- | {power is in readiness for action at |concefitration points or has heen as- | |signed to duty, it was announced today. Premier Edouard Dalladier will make a radio speech to the nation at 8:30 p. m, today (1:30 p. m, In-

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ldianapolis Time), it was announced. |

General mobilization became comIplete at midnight, end of the 20day limit by which every man, aftler receiving his order for mobilization, must be at the post assighed him, Completion of this gigantic task

‘meant that in addition to the regu- | [lar Army of 700000, which foreign

(military experts call the best in Burope, man for man, France had | mobilized 5,300,000 reserves who were now ready for action-—8,000,000 men in all, every one a veteran of com[pulsory military training and freshener courses,

Pastures Made Airdromes the 20 days of the

Times-Aeme Photos,

[ During all

mobilization period, while the Pbles Russian ships were now an route to spter the war

[tookgthe hammer blows of the Nazi [AY and Air Force, French mechanized units and artillery had been going eastward to the Western Front in an unending flow. It is permissible to say now that scores of hitherto innocent looking pastures, all the way hetween here and the German frontier, have suddenly blossomed into military airdromes which now are filled with thousands of French—and British— war planes, Reports from various key points in the country indicate that British preparations in France are progressing on an enormous scale,

Ready for Long War

BY RUMANIANS

Possible ‘Touchoff’ to Wide Intrigue.

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sistent seeking

reports that Germany was to dominate Rumania economically- especially to gain Rumanian oil for the Nazi war machine. There had also been fears in Rumania that Soviet Russia pushing southwestward through Poland, had desighs on the Bessarabian territory that she lost to Rumania after the World War Germany and Russia, Herr Hitler had assured the world, are in full agreement on the future of eastern Europe,

Trance was now prepared for a long war, such as she and Greal Britain have felt from the first day was in prospect, News of the completion of general mobilization came with sighs that Germany, believing its campaign in Poland completed, preparing for big-seale action soon in the West, Communique No. 35 of the war, issued by the French High Command this morning, said: | “There was local activity between {advanced posts, There was artillery action on both sides.” This meant, after comparative quiet, that men out in the no-man’s land between the main French Maginot and German Westwall fortifications were feeling each other ‘out, looking for a weak point, and that big guns were hammering road intersections th the rear on hoth sides to impede the movement toward the front of men, guns and materials. Claim Aachen Evacuated The Petit Parisien, whose commetns on the Western Front situation have proved accurate so far, said toaav: “The French High Command watching German troop movements [With the greatest interest. | “The evacuation by the Germans Great Britain, steadily pouring of Aix-La-Chapelle (Aachen, oppotroops, artillery and airplanes into gjte the Belgian frontier) is unquesFrance, was believed to have cap- tionably part of a prepared plan.

West

The possibility of such developments in the southeast overshadowed for the moment even the shifting of millions of soldiers on the Western Front in preparation for the fight to a finish between Germany and the Allied powers, France completed 20 davs of gen: eral mobilization with 6.000000 of the world's hest-trained men unde: arms and pushing their way slowly into German territory against local counter-attacks and heavy artillery

Concentrate on

Germany shifted large numbers of troops, airplanes and war materials from the vanquished Polish front, where about 1,000,000 Nazis were in action, toward the Rhineland fron- | tier facing France,

Bremen Reported Seized

was

Germans BERLIN, Sept. 21 (U, P) —German officials made no secret today of the shifting of their attention from Poland to the Western Front, Col. Gen. Walther von Brau-

[chitsch, Army commander-in-chief, |

has gone to the Westwall to familiarize himself with conditions there, it was announced, The German radio announced [that the Bastern Army's withdrawal [to a line in Poland agreed upon with Russia would “immediately set free many units for other purposes.” Expect Russian Aid

Germany had 70 divisions in Poland and travelers said troops and

ariplanes had been passing west- |

"ward for two days, | German spokesmen frequently [commented that France and Cireat [Britain now must eontend with the | powerful Army that destroyed Po(land in lass than three weeks, Well informed sources said 70

Germany with such supplies as cotton, oil and wheat,

Claim U., S. Being Drawn Tn

| Hence, the the British blockade would not starve them into submission, Of- | ficials sources also said that Geer. (man submarines already had sunk 360.000 tons of British and were causing England to wor‘ry about her own food supplies, | The attitude of the United States was being discussed frequently, Diplomatic Political Correspondence, a semi-official agency charged that Britain was using [Poland's defeat to draw the United | States into the war,

DAY OF PRAYER SET IN CITY TOMORROW

Germans believed,

Priests of the Tndianapolic deunery of the Diocese of Indianapolis

will assemble at St, John's Church |

tomorrow for their annual day of prayer, by order of the Most Rev Joseph E. Ritter, bishop. | The Rev. Fr. Thomas Wallace, S. J, of West Baden University, will be the spiritual director. Meditation will begin at 10 a. m. and continue until the close of holv hour at 4 p. m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed during the six hours, Priests will attend from Tndian apolis, Bloomington, M™anklin, Greenfield, Martinsville Shelhyville and St. Vincent. Similar [days of praver and adoration will be abserved in the 10 ather deaneries of the diocexe before the end of the vear,

Strauss Says:

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tured or destroyed about one-fifth mhe enemy is either constructing |

of the Nazi submarine fleet so far geafansive works because the region sent out to the high seas and it Was jo nat sufficiently fortified, or (he

believed British destrovers may have y.oinn will he vised as a point of de attacked more U-hoats vesterday in

the Kattegat Straits off Denmark The German liner Rremen was reported a British prize of war, but the report was unconfirmed Soviet Russia claimed (o captured ®0.000 Polish soldiers

the 1914 enveloping movement (through Belgium)” (Tn Berlin today, Dr. Paul Jaseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, ca tegorically denied tha! Aachen was ANA being evacuated or that CHermans much war materials as the Red had anv thought of vinlating BelArmy straightened out its Iie of ginny Puteh or Luxembourg heuocoupation of the eastern third of tralityv)

Poland, facing German forces on 8 an anthoritative Trench source

have

parture in a hig offensive to repeal

boundary extending from Lithuania gajd that the Germans had six me- |

through Grodno, Brest-Litovsk, and chanized divisions near the Western Lwow to the Hungarian border, Front (possibly 80.000 men with 2700 One of Poland's detachments, dis- tanks and more than 15,000 other Soviet announcements that vehicles). Lwew had been occupied, was re- However, this informant ridiculed ported fAchting somewhere in the reports that the Germans had 1800 Lwow sector if not inside the city. airplanes at Aix-La-Chapelle. He Another still held out at Warsaw, said the air field there could handle where Poles said counter-attacks had hardly more than 40 to 50 planes thrown back Germans again and But, he said. heavy German air that the suburbs of Praga and Wola | Planes concentrations were distribhad bern taken in hand-to-hand Uted all along the Western Front fighting with bavonets, Seven Nazi i sttuairplanes were reported shot down. “uy onrding ‘to certain fhiormation the Germans this fime have nal the intention ta eommit the same faults as (hev did 25 vears ago, Tt is reported that they will not vio. Ministry, were revolt-fj, 1p ‘Belgian neutrality, Will the ing against Germany and were same be true of Holland? Several fighting “courageousiy” despite hun- hundred hombers already have heen dreds of executions and thousands assembled near the German-Hol-of arrests. Nazis vigorously denied land horder. the British reports, There was encouraging news for The fact that Nazis had made Frenchmen in the terse announceplans long before the war began for ment in last night's High Comrepressive measures in former mand communique that ‘French Czechoslovak territory to curb dan- 8nd German pursuit planes have ger of sabotage added weight to the engaged in several battles. One British reports, but neutral sources SY Oe was downed within were unable to confirm that there ah was & serious or big scale uprising ine French used several squadin the German protectorate. | rons of American Curtiss pursuit | planes, acquired in the United | States before the war,

Nazis Deny (rech Revolt

according to in the British

Crechoslovaks, formation published bh

Real Test in Future The massing of Allied troops and! artillery, the turning of many French cow-pastures into air fields, the sporadic aerial engagements over the Rhineland-Nazis said eight Allied planes were shot down and the clogged German roads over which Nazis forces were move ing westward toward the French] border were all indications of the | 4

LUDLOW 1S INFORMED OF HOSPITAL DISPUTE

Rep. Louis Ludlow (DD. Td) toay was informed by Mrs, Gieorge Buckner of the current cone ersy regarding the reported ire to provide training facilities

testing the strength of the German for Negro internes and hurses in

Westwall forts would be undertaken (y, new F Wing of Oitv Hos with greatest caution. Mrs, Buckner = hr pil That may mean weeks before gy a ‘nter-Racial ‘Committee's counter-attacks on the Western a eT expects to realthough military experts furn to Washington Inte this week predict frequent engagements on A wae instrumental in helpin to ohsmaller seale as the two powerful (nin the PWA grant for the wi 's enemies feel each other out from constretion. Col RB w dy their fortified bases or seek to gain acting PWA neministen tor oy ground for =a major Trent, PWA adviser oh Negra (Affairs, have charged that terms { this grant have hot been ocarred out | Mayor Reginald HM. Sullivan has WOMAN TO HOSPITAL called a meeting of members of the \ : (Aesculapian Medical Society, a group of Medical doctors, for tomorrow morning. TF. W. Ransom, Bloyd Ave, was burned on the face Negro member of the Oity Oouneil, [iso is to attend. Dr. ©. B. Lucas, | Aesculapian Society president, will head the delegation. He was one of a committee which obtained per‘mission last spring from Mayor Sul[livan for appointment of Negro physicians to the City Hospital out-

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pital. Fire of undetermined origin damaged a double garage at 4018-20 patient departryent, early today. A| Dr 1. A, Lewis. Negro physician L. G. La who headed the committee which Was met, with the Mayor last spring, |

pent most (destroyed. Damage to the building [said today that he had uot been ington, which land motorcycle was estimated at | inv hint state. $250 by firemen.

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WHY SECRECY, CLAPPER ASKS OF ROOSEVELT

Writer Challenges Motive for Concealing Results of Unity Parley.

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wanted them to “help us to help them." There was some neat secret diplo=macy going on then. Col. House, on hehall of the American Govern= [ment, signed a memorandum with the British Foreign Minister, Viscount. Grey, in February, 10186, which said: “Col, House told me that Presi= | dent Wilson was ready, on hearing from France and England that the moment was opportune, to propose that a conference should be sum= moned to put an end to the war, Should the Allies accept this pro posal and should Germany refuse ft. the United States would probably against Germany,

That Was in 1918

“Col. House expressed the opine (fon that, if such a conference met, it. would secure peace on terms not unfavorable ta the Allies: and if it. failed to secure peace, the United States would leave the conference as a belligerent on the side of the Allies.” That is how things were done. A little half<-pint ambassador telling the British Foreigh Minister on what conditions the United States would enter the war against Ger many That was in 1918, just & year hefore we went in. Another thing, a few days after | Col, House thus offered to take [the United States into the war. | President Wilson called in a group of Senators and Representatives. They met very early in order to ascape the newspapermen. Tt wak called the sunrise conference. All presen were pledged to secrecy. One leaked and said Mr, Wilson hinted that he was arranging the intervention of the United States in the war That's one reason 1 don't like secret conferences on such impors tant matters as this, which e¢oncern every person ih the United States. In view of past history, all too recent and tragic, the publie deserves to know what is going on, Are we heing committed again te something under cover of secrecy? Let, Congress stay here and turh on the light

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