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THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1939

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

President Appeals For Cash and Carry Law on Neutrality

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Hull Says Changing Rules #

Senate Leaders Confer With F.

In Midst of War Is All Right.

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proposal. But a United | Press poll indicated a Committee majority to amend the neutrality law by repealing the arms embargo and establishing a cash and carry | policy on the sale of American goods | to belligerent states.

VanNuys With Roosevelt

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 embargo repeal and) cash-and-carry (12)—Pittman, Harrison, Connally, VanNuys, Wagner, | Barklev, Murray, Schellenbach, GufBarklev, Murray, Schwellenbach,| Guffey, Green, Pepper and Thomas (Utah) Against repeal (8)—Clark (Mo), Borah, Johnson, Capper, Vandenberg, La Follette, Shipstead and George, Doubtful and White.

such a

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(3)—Gillette, Reynolds

Alf M. Landon, 1936 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, Mr. Roosevelt was said | to have suggested that Congress | speed its work but that House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders remain here, presumably as a liaison between the legislative and | executive branches, |

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 unneutral because it violated a never-disputed tenet of internationai law that a belligerent is entitled to purchase arms from a neutral. | The President was described as a! good listener at the conference. amenable, agreeable and willing to] hear all arguments. And the con-! ference seemed substantially to agree with him that something should be done about the embargo | although there was no agreement | on procedure.

VanNuys Changes Mind

Mr. Roosevelt told yesterday th

his conferees world civilization | faced a major crisis and that a long war in Europe would spread to bring in more belligerents. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Speaker William B. Bankhead, Mr. Garner Republican [.eader Charles I... McNary (Ore) and Asgistant Leader Warren A Austin (Vi) House Democratic Leader Sam Ravburn (D, Tex.). Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley D Ky.) Senate Assistant Majority Leader Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) Senator James F. Byrnes (D. S.C), | Chairman Key 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 minority member of the House Rules Committee, attended the confer-| ence, as did Mr. Landon and Col. | Frank Knox, 1936 Republican nom- | inees for President and Vice Presi-| dent. Conferees who discussed the! meeting agreed that Mr. Roosevelt asked no pledges nor did he reveal the form in which he would pro- | pose neutrality changes to Con-| gress today. But he led off with a ciscussion of international law which was interpreted as meaning | that his first choice would be outright repeal of the existing act and | the substitution of cash and carry | export of all our goods to bhelligerents. 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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WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Con- Fines Tried victions Paid | Speeding 15 15 $127 | Failing to Stop at Through Street. § 5 8 Reckless Driving. 19 19 Disobeying Traffic Signals ........ 13 Prunken Driving. 1 All others

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$229 MEETINGS TODAY

Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Hithehi-) eon, Canery Cottage, noon | Elephants, Inc.. meeting, Clavpool Hotel | 7:30 p.m Ameriean Business Club, luncheon, anapolis Athletic Clb, noon | 0il Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin. noon. | Construction League of Indianapolis, | luncheon, Architects and Builders Bldg

noon ; { Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 E. Ninth St. 8 p. m | Auto Accessory | Group, meeting,

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p.m. Federal Businessmen's Club, luncheon. Hotel Washington, noon. Shrine Caravan Club, Temple, noon. | Real Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel! Washington, noon. | Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington, | noon.

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MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indians Republican Editorial Association, Claypool, all day. Indians Motor Traffie Associat 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, AIM INPANAMA CITY

Conferees Meet to Seek Mutual Protection of 8 Neutral Rights. the penetration |

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cates here is that

(day limit by which every man, a

Times-Acme [‘holns,

Senators Charles I. McNary (R. Ore.), minority leader; Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.) and Key Pittman

of Nazi ideology in Latin America! (D. Nev.), Foreign Relations Committee chairman, left to right, before the neutrality conference with Presi-

Trade sta- |

has been exaggerated.

dent Roosevelt at the White House yesterday.

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

The Eastern Front

ral commercial position as com- |

‘pared with that of the United Poles States.

—War- | Now, of course, virtually all Gev-| LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—War

man trade is shut off by the British saw's radio station informed the | blockade. world today that the city still was

Hitler's Shadow Reaches Far | fighting of the surcounding Ger-

: : i saduipbos] 7 ‘my * another day of There is wide difference of opinion Many Army after a ,

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- (5, 1 a fierce bayonet charge, insecretary of State Sumner Welles, fantry units retook the suburbs of United States delegate, describes as propa anw Wola. capturing many ‘A moment of grave EmMErgeNncy.”|nusoners, three heavy and seven the American republics have an OP- | jight machine guns. Detachments of portunity to draw closer together— yo polish light horse successfully with all the advantages such co-|p,,4e repeated charges dislodging operation offers if properly handled. the enemy from intrenched posiSome delegates believe this con- tions.” ¥ ference faces the first real threat | {fo the Western Hemisphere since| Signals Strong When Last Heard Monroe in 1823 proclaimed his famous doctrine to check the American ambitions of European nations combined in the so-called Holy Alliance,

A British Broadcasting Co. official said the Warsaw were strong when last heard, just | after midnight «(5 p. m. Wednesday, | Indianapolis Time), | Every: military expert in had conceded for davs that Warsaw’'s plight waz hopeless There was nothing Great Britain or

Welles Tssues Statement Burope

Undersecretary Welles issued the following statement on landing here: “Every day that passes heightens the significance of this meeting for the purpose of consultation.” This meeting grows out of the Lima Conference declaration of last December. There the United States and Latin American neighbors took cognizance of the Nazi threat, reaffirmed continental solidarity, and | pledged themselves to defend it]

and dispatches reaching Paris said that since the city was surrounded

to get any more food or ammunition to Warsaw from the “security triangle” arounc Lwow, in southeast Poland, the only other region still in Polish hands. 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 tiki : : on the common problems of| Col. Lipinski said 40 German neutrality. defense and trade. This| Airplanes raided the city three times is true not only because of pressure Vesterday and that anti-aircraft of the European emergency, hut | gunners shot down seven of them also because of the lessening friction He said the bombs destroyed wha

land suspicion of the United States. Was left of the Royal Castle, the Art

The old fear of “Yankee Tmperial-| Academy's National Museum and ism” is disappearing in the light of the Central Institute for Physical the good neighbor doctrine. | Training.

een — | “Despite the fact that the Ger698 AT N ¥ ABOARD | mans have withdrawn » large num- - " ber of planes from the Eastern ARMED MAURETANIA Warsaw during the day,” he said. ~ | A Warsaw broadcast heard in The new $12,000,000 British liner | were gathered in churches all over Mauretania was at her pier today the city for special masses for vicFore and aft were four-inch sub-|that the people continued to pray marine cannon and smaller anti-| while the bombs fell. The cathedral gray, more like a warship than al and could not be used for the servpassenger liner, and her superstruc-| ice, the broadcaster said. Boys 15 slipped in from the Atlantic yes-| themselves for military service, he terday afternoon with 698 passengers | said, and women were doing everyre v gr x | especislly helpful in carrying wate: FEARS WAR WAVE OF FLU food and cigarets to the fronl lines Journal of the American Medical! Stefan Starzynski was heard broadAssociation today editorially quoted casting that yesterday's hombs had cian that the present European war gation buildings and the Prudential may bring another outbreak of in-| Life Insurance Co, skyscraper. He 1918. War invariably means the city had been ruined or hadly damspreading of disease, the Journal aged, and that the art treasures of

| Front there were three raids on NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U. P.).— Bucharest said that great crowds bristling with armament. | tory, during one of the raids and aircraft guns, She had been painted | organ had been destroyed by A bomb ture was piled with sandbags. She | and 18 years old were offering including 265 Americans, thing but actual fighting and were CHICAGO. Sept. 21 (U. P.).—The| At Budapest, Warsaw's a noted Rockefeller Institute physi-| destroyed one college. several lefluenza similar to the epidemic of [said that half the buildings in the said. the Royal Palace were destroyed.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

BIRTHS Girls Mary Rose McClary, at Metho

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair night and tomorrow; slightly econler William, Mary Samuels, at 1422 Wood. Night. somewhat warmer tomorrow. rard. T

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Sunrise ..5:32 | Sunset

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DEATHS

Charles McNeely, 50, at City, tuberculosis, Pearl Vaughn, 54, at Long, mvocarditis. Joseph Bisjack, 54, at Long, pulmonary, embolism. 1 Richard Warrenburg, 5, at 1548 Bacon. RE. at

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France could do to relieve the siege, |

a week ago it had been impossible

Mayor |

| That may

tomorrow; |

Germans-Russians | BERLIN, Sept. 21 (U. P)).—Trav- | elers reported heavy movements of Assassination Regarded as

German troops and airplanes from ; i the Eastern to the Western Front | Possible ‘Touchoff’ to Wide Intrigue.

BY RUMANIANS

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today as the Army High Command | announced that the Polish Army] had been “destroyed,” except at | Warsaw and “in and around Lem- |

harg (Lwow)” in the southeast, ; ON ; ait: “On ‘th seeking to dominate Rumania ecoi a i n ® homically—especially to gain Ru-

Northern Front (west of Warsaw) 'manian oil for the Nazi war ma[the number of Polish prisoners in- chine. There had also been fears

14 i he ceraad : in Rumania that Soviet Russia, , q 5 st NOW ~ ! tressed to 170,000 wre ¥s Solil grow pushing southwestward through Poing.

More than 300 guns and 40 jand, had designs on the Bessaraarmored cars were taken. Tn the bian territory that she lost to Rusouth, near Zamosz (70 miles north- Mania after the World War,

Germany and Russia, Herr Hitwest of Lwow), and Tomaszow (60 ler had assured the world, are in

miles southwest of Warsaw), larger, full agreement on the future of Polish units surrendered with 108 eastern Europe, light and 22 neavy guns. . . . The| Concentrate on West number of captured thus far ‘ex- The possibility of such developceeds 350,000. ments in the southeast overshadIt was also announced that Nazi wed for the moment even the and Soviet troops had made contact hiring of millions of soldiers on “at a number of places” in Poland 1, western Front in preparation and that the German soldiers were .. (10 fight to a finish between (retiring behind their line of de- Garmany and the Allied powers, | marcation, hus | France completed 20 days of genThe disposition of Polish prisoners ..\ mabilization with 6.000.000 of was a stibject of conjecture here now ne world's best-trained men under that the Army High Command Vves-|..ms and pushing their way slowly terday termed the Polish operations into German territory against local “closed, with the defeat of enemy at the Vistula” (west of Warsaw), | German officials took foreign troops, airplanes and war materials {newspapermen to a prison camp at from the vanquished Polish front, |Grossborn, near the Polish Corri- where about 1,000,000 Nazis were in dor, last week and let them see that action, toward the Rhineland fronPoiish prisoners were being “loaned tier facing France. flout” to German farmers. Russian] Bremen Reported Seized troops were releasing all Polish iii ke prisoners after taking away their| Great Britain, steadily pouring guns, telling them to go home. troops, artillery and airplanes into | A group of German Army officers France, was believed to have capwent to Moscow, presumably to de- tured or destroyed about one-fifth cide on details of the occupation. Of the Nazi submarine fleet, so far ITt was announced that ‘German Sent out to the high seas and it was [troops had begun retiring from the believed British destrovers may have | Brest -Litovsk (Brzse na Bugu) sec- attacked more U-bhoats vesterday in tor. just inside the limits of the the Kattegat Straits off Denmark White Russian district. and that The German liner Bremen was rethey would be withdrawn “to the ported a British prize of war, but German-Soviet demarcation line” the report was unconfirmed after Polish troops had heen cleaned | Soviet Russia claimed (6 have out of the Lwow region. Lwow is captured 60.000 Polish soldiers and 50 miles inside the Polish Ukrainian much war materials as the Red section. These announcements in- Army straightened out its line of |dicated that Russia.would get hoth occupation of the eastern third of | “Western White Russia.” which has Poland, facing German forces on a 3,500,000 inhabitants, and the “West- boundary extending from Lithuania ern Ukraine,” which has 8,000,000. through Grodno, Brest-Litovsk, and |Lwow to the Hungarian border. | One of Poland's detachments, dis-

Russians Claim | © : [puting Soviet announcements that

Capture of Lwow 'Lwcw had been occupied, was re-

MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (U. P).—The ported fighting somewhere in the Soviet press praised the Red Army Lwow sector if not inside the city. today for “mass heroism” in fight- | Another still heid out at Warsaw, ing “the enemy, indicating that where Poles said counrer-attacks had the Russians had met with resist- thrown back Germans again and ance in their march into Poland. that the suburbs of Praga and Wola “The Red Army showed the world | had been taken in hand-to-hand what a powerful force she repre- fighting with bayonets. Seven Nazi sents,” the newspaper Pravda said airplanes were reported shot down. {in publishing an official commu- | nique announcing capture of more | | than 60,000 prisoners, .280 pieces of | Czechoslovaks, according te in(artillery, 120 airplanes and a large | formation published by the British quantity of war materials, |Tnformation Ministry, were revoltPreviously, Russian newspaper re- ine apajnst Germany and were | ports of the march into Poland had |fohting “courageousiy”’ despite hunput great emphasis on the jubilation | guads of executions and thousands | with which they said the White ,¢ »ects. Nazis vigorously denied | Russians and Ukrainians greeted the Jdeiten . Red Army and had not referred vol IE Britich Yepores. > Pirie ; y “1 The fact that Nazis had made | Thy, Sgliing * importance. | plans long before the war began for | e eons Staff asserted 18CON- | 1.0 ecsive measures in former | ically in 3 communique COVETINE | vyechoslovak territory to curb danera TE ym Gv eps ger of sabotage added weight to the | and Grottn at ‘the limit o or British reports, but neutral sources agreed line with Germany. Confirmation of the 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 south(ern outskirts, But the Poles insisted | they still held it and a German |High Command communique this | morning said: “The Poles are resisting only at Warsaw as well as in and around Lwow.”)

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sistent reports that Germany was

fire

Nazis Deny Czech Revolt

was a serious or big scale uprising

asset . eption |, the German protectorate,

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 lover which Nazis forces were movling westward toward the French border were all indications of the |size of the struggle coming on the | Western Front. But there was also every indication that the real battle

DISPENSATION GIVEN testing the strength of the German CATHOLICS AT RALLY |Westwall forts would be undertaken

|with greatest caution. we Apu mean weeks before Catholics who attend the a will be any mass attacks or cue luncheon at the Republican | counter-attacks on the Western rally at the Fairgrounds Saturday, Front, although military experts lan ‘ember ‘day on the Catholic | Predict frequent engagements on a 'Chititch ‘calendar. today Were given] alex scale as the two powerful jal dispensation by Bish To. | CTIEMICS feel each other out from Dr =D : : Shop [their fortified bases or seek to gain seph E. Ritter to eat the barbecued | ira tagical ground for a major

meat. | thrust. : DS

The dispensation, however, is for the noon meal only, it was “STOVE BLAST SEN | WOMAN TO HOSPITAL | Mrs. Lena Coffman, 50, of 1925

plained at the chancery Bloyd Ave. was burned on the face WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. Pp). land left arm today when accumu-

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IN DOUGLAS’ FAVOR

Supreme Court justices are supposed | lated gas in a coal stove exploded to be impartial, but Justice William las she was cooking. She was re|O. Douglas is partial to the north- ported in fair condition at City Hoswest United States, in at least one pital. [respect. Fire of undetermined origin dam- | So long as he remains on the Su- aged a double garage at 4018-20 !preme Bench, Mr. Douglas intends Graceland Ave. early today. A to select his law clerks from law motoreycle belonging to L. G. La {school graduates in Washington, Follette, 4018 Graceland Ave, was |Oregon and Idaho, He spent most destroyed. Damage to the building of his youth in Washington, which land motorcycle was estimated at he still considers his state. $250 by firemen.

| Premier Edouard Dalladier

HINT OUTBREAK

the counter-attacks and heavy artillery

Germany shifted large numbers of

were unanle to confirm that there

The Western Front

Allies Germans

PARIS, Sept. 21 (U. P). France| BERLIN, Sept. 21 (U, P) Cerhas completed its general mobiliza- man officials made no secret today

[tion and the country’s entire man- of the shifting of their attention!

{power is in readiness fo Ci AL from Poland to the Western Front, |concefitration points or has been As-| ny Gan Walther von Brau v, it was announced to- | } : 4% Ny eg to duty, it Was chitsch, Army commander-in-chief, | Pr will has gone to the Westwall to fae) make a radio speech to the nation miliarize himself with conditions t 8:30 B. m on YEN, Th ‘there, it was announced, anapolis Time), ft ed. | . | General mobilization became com- | 1ne German radio announced Iplete at midnight, end of the 20- | that the Eastern Army's withdrawal ft- [to a line in Poland agreed upon ler receiving his order for psoas ‘with Russia would “immediately set uh, must be at the post assign (free many units for other purposes,” Completion of this gigantic task | Expect Russian Aid meant that in addition to the regu-| ..., : VolduiOaas. : [lar Army of 700,000, which foreign Ciaran ed We divisions I Po |military experts call the best in land and travelers said troops and |Burope, man for man, France had ariplanes had been passing westmobilized 5,300,000 reserves who were ward for two days, | (now ready for action—6.000,000 men | aman ypokesmen frequently lin all, every one a veteran of com- | vor that Prarie . |pulsory military training and fresh- [commented thal France and Great ener courses [Britain now must eontend with the didoisiinien powerful Army that destroyed PoPastures Made Airdromes [land in less than three weeks, | During all the 20 days of the Well informed sources said 70 mobilization period, while the Poles Russian ships were now gn route to tookathe hammer blows of the Nazi Germany with such supplies as cot- | Arf and Air Force, French mech- ton, oil and wheat, anized units and artillery had been Olim U. 8. Being Drawn Th going eastward to the Western : k Front in an unending flow. | Hence, the Germans believed, It is permissible to say now that the British blockade would not scores of hitherto innocent looking starve them into submission, Ofpastures, all the way between here ficials sources aiso said that Gerand the German frontier, have sud- man subraarines already had sunk denly blossomed into military air- 360.000 tons of British shipping, dromes which now are filled with and were causing England to worthousands of French—and British— ry about her own food supplies, war planes. | The attitude of the United States Reports from various key points Was being discussed frequently, lin the country indicate that Brit- Diplomatic Political Correspondlish preparations in France are pro- ence, a semi-official agency 'gressing on an enormous scale, (charged that Britain was using Poland's defeat to draw the United Ready for Long War | States into the war,

DAY OF PRAYER SET | IN CITY TOMORROW

France was now prepared for A long war, such as she and Great Britain have felt from the first day was in prospect, News of the completion of general mobilization came with signs that Germany, believing its campaign in Poland completed, was preparing for big-scale action soon | : in the West. | Priests of the Tndianapolis deanCommunique No. 35 of the war, ery of the Diocese of Indianapolis issued by the French High Com- Will assemble at St, John's Church | mand this morning, said: [tomorrow for their annual day of | “There was local activity between Dn OR er Sr Most Rev advanced posts, There was artil- Jose 2 ter, bishop. ey Aton on both sides.” The Rev. Fr. Thomas Wallace, This meant, after comparative S. J, of West Baden University, quiet, that men out in the no-man’s Wh be the Rp ewer Medi - land between the main French|'Atlon will begin at 10 a. 'm. and : ._eontinue until the close of holy hour Maginot and German Westwall for- at 4 m. The Blessed Sacrament tifications were feeling ‘each other |, be exposed during the six out, looking for a weak point, and - ; y that hig guns were hammering pmoingie road intersections in the rear ON polis, Bloomington, Brownsburg, | hoth sides to impede the movement mpnklin Greenfield, Martinsville toward the front of men, guns and gpelhyville and St. Vincent Similar materials. |davs of praver and adoration will he Claim Aachen Evacuated ahserved in the 10 other deaneries of The Petit Parisien, whose com- the diocese before the end of the metns on the Western Front situa- year, tion have proved accurate 50 far, —————— said todav: | | “The French High Command is (watching German troop movements | with the greatest interest. | | “The evacuation by the Germans of Aix-La-Chapelle (Aachen, oppo-| site the Belgian frontier) is ungues- | tionably part of a prepared plan. | The enemy is either constructing | defensive works because the region | is not sufficiently fortified, or the region will be used as a point, of de- | parture in a hig offensive to repeal the 1914 enveloping movement (through Belgium).’ (Tn Berlin today, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, categorically denied that Aachen was being evacuated or that Germany| had anv thought of vielating Belgian, Dutch or Luxembourg neu-| trality). An authoritative Trench source said that the Germans had six me- | chanized divisions near the Western Front (possibly 60,000 men with 2700 tanks and more than 15,000 other vehicles). | However, this informant ridiculed | reports that the Gei'mans had 1800 airplanes at Aix-La-Chapelle. He said the air field there could handle hardly more than 40 te 50 planes. But, he said. heavy German airplanes concentrations were distrib-| uted all along the Western Front. | Discussing this angle of the situ- | ation, the Petit Parisien said: | “According to certain information [the Germans this time have not the intention to commit the same faults as they did 25 vears ago. Ti (is reported that they will not violate Belgian neutrality. Will the same be true of Holland? Several hundred hombers already have heen assembled near the German-Hol-land horder. There was encouraging news for Frenchmen in the terse annourcement in last night's High Com‘mand communique that “French and German pursuit planes have engaged in several battles. One enemy plane was downed within our lines.” The French used several squad(rons of American Curtiss pursuit | planes, acquired in the United! | States before the war,

LUDLOW 1S INFORMED OF HOSPITAL DISPUTE

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| Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Thd) today was informed by Mrs. George W. Buckner of the current controversy regarding the reported failure to provide training facilities for Negro internes and nurses in the new F Wing of City Hospital. Mrs. Buckner is chairman of the W. C. A. Inter-Racial Committee's hospital division, | Mr. Ludlow, who expects to return to Washington late this week, was instrumental in helping to ohtain the PWA grant for the wing's construction. Col. B. W, Olark, acting PWA administrator, and Ww J Trent, PWA adviser on Negro | affairs, have charged that terms | (of this grant have not been car[ried out, | Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan has called a meeting of members of the Aesculapian Medical Society, a group of Medical doctors, for tomorrow morning. FF. W. Ransom, Negro member of the City Council, |also is to attend. Dr. ©. E. 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 phy|sicians to the City Hospital out- | patient departrient. Dr. L. A. Lewis, Negro physician 'who headed the committee which (met with the Mayor last spring, |said today that he had mot been

| |invited to attend tomorrow's meeting.

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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 hehalf of the American CGoverns ment, signed a memorandum with the British Foreign Minister, Vise count. Grey, in February, 1018, which said: “Col, House inld 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 ta put an end to the war, Should the Allies accept this proposal and should Germany refuse ib, the United States would probably enter the war against Germany,

That Was in 1018

“Col, House expressed the opine fon (hat, 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 ac a belligerent on the side of the Allies.” That is how things were done. A little half-pint ambassador telling {he British Poreign Minister on what conditions the United States would enter the war against Germany, That was in 1018, just & vear hefore we went in Another (hing, a few days after House thus offered to takes the United States inte the war, President Wilson called in a group of Senators and Representatives. They met very eatly in order to escape the newspapermen. TL waNs called the sunrise conference. All presenl 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 secret conferences tant matters as this, which e¢oncern every person in 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 +6 something under cover of secrecy? Let, Congress stay here and turn the light

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