Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1939 — Page 1

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3500 MOBILIZE T0 MAKE FUND DRIVE SUCCESS

Workers Canvass City as ‘Taft Opens National Campaign Here.

VISIT HOMES, OFFICES

First Report Meeting Set Tomorrow; Goal Is $683,710.

Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis were asked to ‘‘dig deep” today to make this year’s Community Fund campaign a success. More than 3500 volunteer workers canvassed homes and’ downtown business offices as the annual drive got underway, with a goal of $683,~ 710 to be raised by Oct. 26. Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, chairman of the Community Mobilization for Human Needs, formally opened the drive with an address at a rally

of Fund workers at’ the Murat Theater last night.

Introduces President

He spoke over a nation-wide radio hookup and introduced President Roosevelt, who talked from Washington, The Indianapolis program " signaled the start of Community Fund drives in 400. other cities throughout the nation. Mr. Taft, son of former President William Howard Taft and brother of .Senator Robert Taft (R. O.), declared that the Community Fund “is the greatest local demonstration of democracy, and it needs to be made a success for 1940.” “We enlist the voluntary services of men and women, young and old, and make them feel that their home town should be a well-rounded whole, a place in which every person should have a chance not to exist merely, but to live. “Such an undertaking builds toward our democratic_ideal because it is based upon the conviction that each human personality has the capacity to make some contribution to the common: good and the belief that each of our communities must become a co-operative enterprise with a chance for each human personality ‘to make his contribution.”

Audience Is Silent

The Murat Theater audience remained silent during the broadcast at the request of radio officials. In an earlier extemperaneous address, mace ‘entirely for the Sa anapolis audience, Mr. Taft said my own judgment we are nol going to get into the war.” He explained that the European war, regardless of our attitude toward it, would affect the local Community Fund drives throughout the nation. He said he believed that it would strengthen the campaigns since people would realize “we are mobilizing against human wants and suffering and not against some other nation.”

“Members. of communities are

" especially glad, in view of what is}

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TERM SUSPENDED ON CHARGE OF PERJURY

Ralph Davis, 38, of 1527 Martindale Ave., was given a suspended sentence of 1 to 10 years in prison today in Criminal Court when he pleaded guilty to perjuring himself in applying for a driver's license. Auto license officials told Judge Dewey E. Myers that in January, 1938, Davis applied for a,beginner’s driving license but wis turned down because of defective eyesight. The following August, it was testified, he applied for and received a regular driving license, stating he previously had had a license. The discrepancy was discovered, it| was stated, when Davis was arrested Oct. 4 after his car had struck,a youth.

pklayon, STOCKS UP PENDING ANSWER TO HITLER

By UNITED PRESS Belief that France this afternoon may reject Adolf Hitler's peace bid . brought an advance in the New York stock list that ranged to more than $2. Part of the demand represented short covering rather than new buying and turnover was small. Wheat prices were up about a cent at Chicago and corn gained , fractionally. Speculative railroad | bonds paced the bond market, while U. S. Government and foreign issues declined -slightly. Most major commodities scored substantial gains with small buying orders finding limited offerings.

ANTON SCHERRER

has come back from his vacation abroad. and his return to

OUR TOWN means that the popular column which bears that

title will be resumed in The Times

TOMORROW

VOLUME 51—NUMBER 182

|the Mayor’s advisory committee, the

| partment. ra * Meetipg yesterday, the committee

The India

FORECAST: Showers this. atternoon, followed by fair and considerably cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and cool.

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Bobby Brown, 933 N. Oxford mother, Mrs. Reid C. Eddy, 920 N. observation oar. :

Clocked ar 97 In Tryout Run |

THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD’S new streamlined Mercury, 1l-car train just completed at the Beech Grove shops, was inspected by several hundred persons today at Union Station. The new train, which will have a mile-a-minute schedule between Chicago and Detroit, was built at a cost of $552,000 ‘by 600 men working four and a half months. In a test run yesterday, it was clocked at 97 miles an hour. Engineers said it could have done 118 on a heavier track. Among the Mercury's features is a new type dining car, with no tables, diners reclining in individual overstuffed chairs and using - individual trays.

WIND, RAIN BRING AUTUMN WEATHER

More Showers Are Forecast; 60 Tonight’s Prediction.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m.....7" 10a. m..... 7a.m. ....%76 1llam ..:. 73 8a. m. .... 76 _ 12 (noon) .. 68 9a.m.....7 .1p.m. .... 63

High "wind and a drizzling rain today ushered in cooler weather, ending the unseasonably warm weather of. the last few dyas. The mercury, which stood at 75 degrees at 6 a. m. today, six degrees higher than at the same hour yesterday, wavered during the morning, dropping into the sixties by noon. The Weather Bureau forecast continued showers during the afternoon, followed by fair and cooler weather tonight and tomorrow. Tonight’s low is expected to be about 60 degrees. A wind velocity of 22 miles an hour was registered during the morning. The mercury yesterday climbed to 88; a new all-time record for Oct. 9. The previous record was 84 degrees, set in 1892.

NINE DIE IN CANADA AS TRAIN HITS BUS

ETOBICOKE, Ontario, 'Oct. (U. P.).—Seven school children and two women’ were killed today when the car in which they were riding to school was hit by a Canadian Pacific Railways passenger train at a crossing. Bodies and car wreckage were strewn along the tracks for nearly one mile. Police said Mrs. Gordon Brown, driver of the auto, stopped the car at the crossing while an eastbound train passed and then drove directly into the path of the westbound train.

A recently organized ParentTeacher Association's committee has indorsed the selection of City playground and swimming pool instructors and supervisors by the merit system. The committee’s statement, made at a meeting yesterday, supports a similar indersement by the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Recreation The committee, representing approximately 30,000 parents in the city’s 88 P.-T. A. groups, is headed by Mrs. Clarence Alig, and includes Mrs. George L. Clark, president, Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teach-er Associations; Mrs. Paul Harvey, Mrs. Frank: Lentz," Mrs. Carl J. W. Manthei, Mrs. Frank Rieman and Mrs. Robert Wild. The group was formed this fall to co-operate with

Park Board and the Recreation De-

{ceived no specific orders.

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SILOS a

Entire Fort Personriel to Get Intensive Training at Alabama Camp. The entire personnel of 2200 -en-

listed men. and 100 officers of artillery ‘and infantry units stationed at

Ft. Harrison will be shifted to Camp

McClellan, Ala. “within several weeks” for an intensive training period, it was learned today. The change will affect virtually every soldier at the Fort. Soldiers here, including a battalion of the 19th Field Artillery and

‘the 11th Infantry regiment, are a paft of ‘the War Department's newly

created Fifth Division. The Army

Department has ordered mass irain-|

ing at Southern reservations for seven new divisions.

Orders Awaited

Lieut. Col. G. A. Davidson, post executive officer, said he knew that plans included placing the Ft. Harrison detachments in one of the stream-lined divisions, but had re3 “But, we expect them momentarily,” he said. The new Fifth Division has a peactime. strength of 436 officers and 8517 enlisted men from Middle ‘Western States. Maneuvers at Camp McClellan are to continue through the fall, winter and spring months. Col. Davidson said plans, as he understood them, did not include transfer of families and said “this creates a real problem for us.”

Training Center Hinted

It has been reported that the post here would be used as a training center for recruits enlisted under President Roosevelt's proclamation

ordering the War Department to

expand the Army to its full peacetime. limit. It also is reported that high ranking officers of the National Guard throughout the country, including Indiana, will be ordered to go to the training centers as official observers. This would include officers of the 38th National Guard Division, with headquarters here.

NINE ARE ARRESTED IN ‘GREYHOUND RAID

.State Police early today raided the Greyhound Club at Jeffersonville, confiscating $8000.in gambling equipment ~ and arresting nine alleged - operators, Capt. Eckert'announced here today. .

The raid was conducted by 20

state police officers headed by Lieut. Ray Hinkle and Lieut. Harry Sutherland. They. descended on the establishment located just outside of Jeffersonville about 1:30 .a. m. and found $480 in cash scattered about on 73 gambling tables, Capt. Eckert sa

P.-T. A. Committee Backs Merit System for Parks

issued a statement of policy in which it described selection of the best obtainable personnel as the “all-im-portant, first step” in a better recreation system for Indianapolis children. The committee also asked each of its 88 units to study community needs, and urged both municipal and private agencies to “get a composite picture” of present recreational activities in the city. A plea that provisions be made in the recreation program for unem-

ployed youths who are out of school.

was- included in the statement. Mrs. Clark said she felt that “we do not need more playgrounds so much as we need better supervision over those existing at present.” She also said that the committee advocates completely eatiipped playgrounds = at “strateg points” throughout the city in Ser that all

children may have an equal oppor-jand (

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1039

BALLOT TODAY | ON NEU

Tobey Seeks Divorce of Title-and-Carry Clause, Embargo Repeal.

NID ALLIES, AUSTIN ASKS

|| Vermont Senator Is Frank in

Urging Arms Sales ‘to Hasten Victory.

BULLETIN : WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U. P.).

—The Senate today rejected the

Tobey motion to send the neutrality revision bill back to, Committee for redrafting.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U. P.).— Opponents of the Administration’s

i | neutrality bill hammered away at

it in the Senate today as a vote impended on a motion to sent it back to the Foreign Relations Committee. The motion was offered by Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H), who proposed that the Commtitee be instructed to divide .the bill, seek immediate enactment of the title-and-carry provisions and. let the

bargo continue. Administration leaders were confident of ‘defeating the pre-commital motion. s Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.) told reporters he

motion would give a “good indication” ‘of the Administration's strength, but that he was not prepared to consider it a “test vote.”

Borah Denies It's Test

“My vote can’t be considered a ‘test’,” said Senator - William BE. Borah (R. Ida.), a leader of the isolationist block. Senator John A. Danaher (R. Conn.) resuming the speech he began yesterday, contended that proponents of arms embargo repeal “want to; trade with belligerents.” Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.), of the Foreign Relations Committee, replied that Germany, a belligerent, now was in a position to receive all the arms and munitions it desires from Russia, ‘Rumania and Italy, which Aare neutrals,

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Austin Urges Aid to Allies

© “Can the Senator show us that these countries he has named are supplying Germany with materials| we have sold. them?” Senator Danaher asked. “I know that a pact has been signed between Russia and Germany under which Germany is’ to receive all she needs,” Mr. Pittman replied. Assistant Senate Minority Leader Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.) said he was supporting President Roosevelt's neutrality program because he believes removal of the arms embargo will help Great Britain and France win the war, “We must do all things possible.” he said, “to hasten the victory of the Allies.” He said he felt the pending bili should be described as a national defense act. Senator Austin’s frank statemént was the first admission by & Senator supporting the Administration that the pending bill would aid the Allies. Isolationists charge that repeal of the embargo would give Britain and France the advantage by virtue of their superior navies. Proponents of repeal, however, charge that the present embargo gives the advantage to - Germany because, they claim, Germany doesn’t need to buy arms here.

STEPHENSON BETTER

Judge to Rule On New Trial Plea Next Tuesday.

By NOBLE REED Times Staff Writer NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Oct. 10.—D. C. Stephenson, former Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader, who was stricken with a gall ‘bladder attack in jail

proved today. Dr. J. D. Sturdevant, the attending physician, said that an emergency operation may not be necessary now but advised that surgery will needed eventually. Meanwhile, Circuit Judge Cassius M. Gentry took under advisement Stephenson’s demand for another trial in his 14-year-old murder case. The former Klan leader is serving a life sentence for the death of Miss Madse Oberholtzer of Indianapolis Judge Gentry said he will rule next Tuesday on the new trial plea, which. is: based upon the defense contention that the second-degree murder vedict was illegal. Attorneys for the State, who contended that Judge Gentry does not have. the power to grant another trial, completed their arguments yesterday after Stephenson’s lawyers | vania argued their contentions for Dearly two days last week.

SIXTH: CHILD BORN

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10 (uU. PJ. —Mrs. . Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wife of the World War draft dodger, | gave birth to her sixth child today. | ‘The hospital notified ied Bergdol): at Governor's Island, where he is serving an eight-year sentence. Mother

RALITY BILLS RETURN

tdebate over repeal of the arms em-|.

thought the vote on Senator Tobey's | *

SURGERY DELAYED;

here yesterday, was reported im- :

TO MRS. BERGDOLL nied

Mr. Elliott was a kindly, home-|,

? Betty Jean Dies

Betty Jean Shields Two-year-old Betty Jean Shields, whose skull was fractured six weeks ago when she was struck by a swing at Rhodius Park: died today at City Hospital. Betty Jean, proudly wearing a new pair of slippers, went ‘to the playground Afig. 22 with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Lee Shields, 1544 W. Washington St.,. accompanied by Betty Jean's aunt, Mrs, James Key, and a 13-year-old neighbor. Betty Jean played in the baby swings for a time, and then ran to watch. the older children. As she did so, she stepped in front of a swing and was Injured.

3 DIE, 19 HURT INN. Y. I Y. BLAST

Tailor Shop Explor Explodes, Glass

Flies Up to Twelfth Story.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (U.P).— Three persons were killed and at least 19 others injured today in an explosion that shattered a tailor shop at 23d St. and Lexington Ave., one of the city’s most populous districts. Many of those injured were passersby who were struck by flying stones, glass and plaster. Window glass as high as the 12th floor of adjacent buildings was shattered. An emergency hospital was set up in a nearby drugstore where the dead and injured were placed on the floor Heling ‘the arrival of ambu-

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URGE WIE SUUARE PARKING METER TEST

Safety Board Members Ask Wide Trial .Downtown.

| A suggestion that parking meters be . installed throughout the mile squared downtown to’ test their effect in regulating parking was made at a Safely Board meeting today. Frank B. Ross and Donald F. Morris, Board members, made the suggestion after plans for a limited test area had been submitted by Capt. Lewis Johnson, head of the Accident Prevention Bureau. Mr. Morris said the area designated by Capt. Johnson would be “inadequate for a real test of the effectiveness of the parking meters.” “It would take trial installations throughout the mile square to convince me that the meters would be desirable,” Mr. Ross said. Mr. Morris predicted that a general installation of meters would bring the City at least $100,000 annually which he said could be used by the police to prorhote traffic safety. ‘The Board reached no decision on when or where to make the tests.

SWEDISH SHIP SUNK

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10 (U. P.).— The Swedish ship Vistula was torpedoed® northeast of Shetland Islands today. . Nine of the crew were reported rescued and nine were missing. The Vistula was bound for England with pig iron. :

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- SARR FIGHTING RESUMED

STALIN WORSE THAN HITLER?

‘BRITAIN ASKS:

Lloyd Batre Discaunted. But Anti-Communists~ Cut War Fever.

LONDON, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Great Britain and France may make a clear statement of their war aims in such form that Adolf Hitler, if he really wants peace, can consider them counter-proposal§ to those he made in his Reichstag speech, it was understood today. Most members of the chief political parties, Conservatives, Liberal and Labor, held that Fuehrer Hitler’'s own terms were absolutely unacceptable. But there was a strong feeling that if Herr Hitler wanted to submit a reasonable offer—one which would be recognized by the world as involving no Allied surrender and as offering hope for a lasting, honorable peace—the Allies naturally. would be glad to consider it. En

No “Appeaser” Now

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, long an ‘“appeaser,” was now among the firmest advocates of a strong British policy. He was understood to be working harmoniotsly with Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and archenemy of German Naziism. Mr. Chamberlain was said to have written personally some of the most biting passages in a Information Ministry - commentary last Friday night on Herr Hitler's speech, a commentary which contemptuously |« dismissed the Nazi peace bid as hardly worth considering. . Mr. Chamberlain's weekly war re- ‘| port to-Commons was delayed until ‘| Thursday to permit - further consultation with the Dominions, apparently on some move of great importance.

But Tories. Are Worried It was considered possible, however, that within the next - few days, if the Germans continued their campaign of peace propaganda, a joint British-French statement of war aims might be made, Any such statement probably would be firm and would be based on freedom not only for Poland but for Czechoslovakia and would demand

air-tight: guarantees that rule hy

force in. Europe would end. Little attention was paid by leading politicians to the peace drive of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the latter half of the (Continued on Page Three)

ARTILLERY DUEL IN WEST IS REPORTED

French Say Desperate Nazi Patrols Are Hurled Back. ,PARIS, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Strong

German patrols were hurled at the French ‘lines yesterday @ afternoon

and throughout the night and were|"

repulsed every time with-hand grenades, it was announced today.

The Germans made desperate efforts to capture French prisoners, presumably so they could pe questioned about the strength of the French ‘lines. . Meanwhile, artillery battles swept the whole front, The Germans had

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are victors in wartime.

threats of a terrible war as an

first reply by the Allies.

mination to fight to the end.

WAIT DALADIER REPLY TO NAZIS

Premier May Answer Query By Hitler, ‘Why Are We Fighting?’

PARIS, Oct. 10 (U. P.) —Premier Edouard Daladier replies by radio tonight (1 p. m. Indianapolis Time) to the question Adolf Hitler asked last week in his Reichstag speech: ‘Why are we fighting?” it will be the first formal states ment by one of the Allied powers on

should be opened’ on & basis of a conquered Poland, with neutral nations including the United States, serving as mediators. Great Britain's reply to Herr Hit- | ler, presumably to be synonymous with France's, may be given Wednesday when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain makes a statement to Commons. The Allies’ war aims have been expressed as restoration of Poland and Czechoslovakia and an ironclad guarantee against further Ger‘man aggression. Aims Still Stand

There "was nothing to indicate that this’ viewpoint had been changed by Herr Hitler’s speech and subsequent Russian agitation for’ peace. On the contrary, official French quarters believed that the new German - Russian friendship was weakening Germany in Eastern Europe and enhancing the’ Allies’ “(Continued on Page Three)

BULLETIN

HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—The Government today suggested voluntary evacuation of Helsingfors and Viborg eivilians as ° Finnish delegates traveled to Moscow for vital political and economic negotiations’ with the Soviet Union.

Afr pnt FILE SUIT AGAINST DIES CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—The Chicago branch of the American League for Peace and Democracy filed suit in Federal Court late yesterday against Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.) and the Palmer House, Chicago hotel, charging violation of the “search and seizure” amendment of

the Constitution.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent ~~ NEW YCRK, Oct. 10.—Death came today fo the gray, gaunt old man whose job it was to lead death by the hand into 300 - execution rooms. Robert Elliott, official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, died quietly in-his home at Richmond Hill, and his passing leaves me free to tell how he felt-about sending out man-made lightning to still the hearts of those who had. transgressed the laws of organized s0ciety. ‘He told me about it one snowy Svening in a little hotel in Pennsyljust before he went up the winding road to Rockview Penitentiary. for a double execution. We

{were eating dinner and the-pledge

I made was that nothing we said ‘|would be revealed during his life-

spun sort of a fellow and he seemed to be eager to he Ny ‘for the clock to crawl around to the time when he would go to the room where Francis Waey and Martin Farrell were ging Wo die for their crimes. Robert

to someone as!

tt was only a few|~ m the most important |

Elliott, Hauptmann Executioner Dies, Saw Job as Rightful Part of Society,

Lindbergh baby, was -in the death and Mr. Elliott was going to be’ the man who would throw the switch. ‘He asked me whether I had been to Hauptmann’s trial and when I told him yes, the thing that was in his mind came out. It was this: Mr. Elliott never liked to perform an execution until he was ce that the prisoner was guilty beyond all shadow of doubt. So, sitting there at the table, I

{underwent a sort of cross-examina-

tion on the guilt or. innocense of Hauptmann,

slowly, putting a match to his pipe when he finished his dessert, “that a man like Col. Lindbergh would

|get up on the witness stand and lie

about a thing‘like this?” + “No,” 1 said, “Do you?”

either. : But do you think | man like Dr. Condon (the J Ba} Bie thé ransom HegodaLonp would tell | C in a courtroom?”

~ Itold him I did, and we reviewed

| some of the evidence.

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the tions, of - Germany. and). Russia ha t peace 08 incsCliations

“Do you think,” Mr. Elliott asked|

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. He mentioned every sizeable doubt{Flynn ... that had been brought up in the|For trial. He asked eager questions, Sag

Ch sevberiai Delays Talk but Gives No Hint He Will Make Truce Proposal; British Claim Supremacy in Planes at Front

BULLETIN PARIS, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—Premier Edouard Daladier = told the nation in a radio broadcast tonight that “our troops are in enemy territory,” the Allies control the seas and history teaches that the nations controlling the seas.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor .

Adolf Hitler repeated his proposals for peace and his

alternative today a few hours

before French Premier Edouard Daladier broadcasts the

Germany's desire is for peace, Fuelirer Hitler said, “but no power on earth can force us to our knees” and continua~ tion of the war will result only in greater unity and deter

He spoke after a sudden re

sumption of Toe) fighting in the Rhineland and on the

North Sea. The Fuehrer snoke in bee half of the winter relief campaign in a Germany already acutely conscious of the dan

gers in the coming months of bitter cold, with the Allied fleets blockading the Western food routes and Soviet Russia still an uncertain answer to the Nazi need for food and raw materials. ’

British Claim Best Planes

‘Almost at thé hour he spoke; the British Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood was telling the House of Com mons in London that the royal air force had been nighly successful in fighting the Nazi U-boat threat, that British. fighting planes were prove ing definitely superior to the famed German craft apd that an air force of “overwhelming” ‘strength: twas being built.

British _ Prime Minister Neville ‘Chamberlain ‘was scheduled to state the British ER in the House of Commons on Thursday—a delay of one day to give time for consultation with the Dominions on a: possible move of great importance. As yet, however, there was no definite indication of any change in the Allied demand for an end to Hit= lerism as the basis for peace. Beyond the diplomatic front, there was sharp patrol fighting on the Rhineland and an apparent res sumption of naval and perhaps aerial engagements in the North Sea. Soviet Russia’s reported troop concentrations near the Finnish frontier and reports that an une identified warship . — presumably Russian—was standing off the stra-. tegic Finnish Aaland Isles created concern in the North Baltic as the Finns went to Moscow for politieal and economic negotiations. -

Sweden Asks Delay ’

The projected meeting of the Oslo group of neutral nations this week has been postponed after Swes den suggested that the developing international situation might necese sitate quick and direct action. : In Berlin, false reports of the resignation of the British Government and an armistice created great excitement and led to charges by Nazis that British secret agents had been responsible for a maneuver: that created high hopes and then gloom in the capital. The false stories of peace and of resignation of the British Gove ernment, coming shortly after the Reich had called up still more ree servists chiefly for labor service, appeared to have been part of an Allied move to damage German morale, but in London the Foreign Office said that it was “fantastic” to blame British agents for the inci-

dent. !

Report Naval Gunfire

he unofficial armistice which had d to a large extent on the fighting fronts for the last few days was broken, the French reported, by repeated vain attacks by German patrols in the Saar and Moselle sec«

gunfire was heard off the coast of Southern Norway in apparent resumption of yesterday's unsuccessful Nazi aerial attacks on the British fleet. But for the most part the prine cipal action continued to be in ihe

"| diplomatic field with the Allied pow.

ers reportedly ready to push s ly ahead—especially in the war which French claimed Some: “ had cut 41 per cent of : trade—after several days of apparent uncertainty. : {There were indications that the (Continued on Page Three)

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