Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1939 — Page 3

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| TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1939 .

Quick Action Urged To Keep U.S. Ships From Danger Zone

Vote Expected on Disputed

Measure This Week; House

Starts Work on It Monday; Nye Replies To Minton Blast.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2¢ (U. P.).—The Senate agreed to sharp

limitation on debate today in an

effort to send the Administration’s

neutrality bill to the House late this week. Under the agreement, each Senator can speak an aggregate of 45 minutes on the bill itself, and the same length of time on any amend-

ment.

Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, achieved the

agreement after 14 members of the isolationist bloc had discussed it at a morning conference. Without a record vote, the Senate then accepted an amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.) to exempt trade between this country and Canada from provisions of the program requiring transfer of title before goods could leave United States ports qr depots.

Vote This Week Expected

Mr. Barkley and leaders of the opposing forces believed that the bill would be disposed of by Friday or Saturday. The House would Adjournment of the special session by Nov. 4 was seen by some leaders as likely. Before accepting the agreement, fsolationist leaders obtained assur-| ances frem Mr. Barkley that Senate sessions would not be unduly long, and that no attempt would be made to kill off “bona fide” amendments through a maneuver to lay them on the table. “I wouldn't agree not to meet earlier than noon,” Mr. Barkley said. “Committees are not in sesgion. We ‘are here for only one purpose. ~ I don’t think 11 a. m. would be an unreasonable starting

time.” .

Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D. Mo.) spokesman for the opposition, said that 11 a. m. was satisfactory, and added that “we are perfectly willing to co-operate to get through with this bill this week.”

In Effect, Says Garner

Mr. Clark then brought up the subject of motions to lay on the table, which automatically shut off debate. Mr. Barkley told him: «I will oppose any move to lay on the table bona fide, germane amendments, but I will not agree to

, refrain from offering a motion to

lay on the table purely extraneous amendments to gum up this bill.” With that understanding, Vice President John N. Garner whacked his gavel and announced the limitation in effect. Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.)

! replying to an attack by Senator

Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) in which the Administration whip referred to payments received by Mr. Nye for neutrality lectures, defended him-

self with the assertion that he had

made “considerable more lectures without honorariums than I have for fees.”

Personalities Charged

Mr. Nye told the Senate that he was following a long established practice. He contended that he did not have a private source of in-

‘come other than his $10,000 salary

as a Senator and was forced to meet the expenditures of his office. Obviously “referring to the Hoosier Democratic Club which collects contributions from state employees for support of party candidates, Mr. Nye said that he was not responsible for a machine “oiled by a 2 per cent assessment.” He said that Mr. Minton had dropped the debate from its high plane by indulgence in personalities. Mr. Minton yesterday referred to the many lectures “at so much per” which Mr. Nye has made throughout the country on disclosures of the munitions Hmvesligaiors, and

DIES URGES PURGE

said the North Dakotan had “made more money out of his investment than Du Pont. When Mr. Nye said that he had never urged embargo repeal as it applied to a war between nations, Mr. Minton shouted: “A man who has been killed with a bayonet is just as dead if he got the thrust in a civil war as during a war among nations.” The reported seizure of the Gov-ernment-owned City of. Flint brought demand for quick action to keep American ships out of danger zones. Senator Lewis D. Schwellenbach (D. Wash.) declared the reported seizure of the City of Flint was a “demonstration of the necessity of our Congress arriving at some conclusion concerning reinstatement of the cash-and-carry provisions in the neutrality act” which expired last May 1. Senator - Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.), assistant minority leader, said that the City of Flint incident was “just what is to be expected” and contained nothing “that ought to excite the American people.” Senator Walter F. George (D. Ga.), another member of the Foreign _Relations Committee, said he did Rot believe the reported seizure would have any bearing on the neutrality debate except to emphasize the necessity of keeping American ships out of the danger zone.

OF PEACE LEAGUE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P.)— Chairman Martin Dies (D. ‘Tex.), of the House Un-American Investigating Committee, today called for resignation of all non-Communists from the American League of Peace and Democracy which he said was a Communist “front organization.” He also denounced ‘‘pressure organizations composed largely of Government employees,” and said that the Department of Justice was studying Committee transcripts of testimony indicating that Communists and German-American Bund members were in fact agents of foreign Governments. They are liaable to prosecution, Mr. Dies charged, for failing to register as foreign agents. After hearing Francis Adams Henson, Washington writer, testify that the American League of Peace and Democracy was dominated from the outset by Communists, Mr. Dies remarked: “I cannot understand how people can read the testimony given before this Committee and still contend that the League is not Communistic.” Attorney General Frank Murphy has assignéd a staff of attorneys to study the questions raised by the Committee, Mr. Dies said at the outset of today’s Committee session.

EX-REICHSTAG MEMBER TALKS . Gerhart Seger, former German Reichstag member and now a foe of Adolf Hitler, is to discuss. “The Changing European Scene” at an open meeting sponsored by the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow at the Temple,

10th and Delaware Sts.

___° THE INDIANAPOLIS

SENATE AGREES TO LIMIT NEUTRAL

ITY BILL DEBATE

ASK INCREASED GIFTS TO FUND

$181,486 Needed to Reach Drive’s Goal Before Deadline Thursday.

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$1960 for 1005 per cent; Scott Trucking Co., $50 for 100 per cent; Hoosier Cadillac Co., $86.50 for 115.3 per cent; 30th & Central Sales, $75.50 for 100.7 per cent. General Tire Co., $250 for 100 per cent; Peoples Outfitting Co., $892.85 for 100 pre cent; F. W. Woolworth & Co., $726.75 for 100 per cent; McCrory Stores Corp., $304 for 101.3 per cent; Ace Motors, Inc, $30 for 120 per cent; Hamilton-Harris Co., $434.50 for 103.5 per cent; Hoosier Motor Club, $74.50 for 149 per cent; Pre=mier Printing Co., $104.50 for 104.5 per cent. Indianapolis Engraving Co., $259

{for 103.6 per cent; Prudential In-

surance Co., 1305 Merchants Bank, $126.50 for 101.2 per ceni; Prudential Insurance Co., 333 N. Pennsylvania St., $183 for 122 per cent; Prudential Insurance Co., 601 Circle . Tower, $221.50 for 105.5 per cent; Indianapolis Bond & Share Corp., $265.35 for 100.1 per cent; Kimble Glass Co., $126.50 for 101.2 per cent; Kroger’s Grocery & Baking Co., $2215 for 111.6 per cent; E. C. Atkins & Co, $3748.85 for 100 per cent; Continental Optical Co., $279.25 for 1241 per cent; Federal Foundry Co. $461.25 for 102.5 per cent; A. Burdsal Co., $455 for 151.7 per cent; Eli Lilly & Co., 53,374.20 for 100 per cent; Excelsior Laundry Co., $175.80 for 140.6 per cent; Advance Paint Co., $1702 for 108.1 per cent, ,

- Others Are Listed

Standing of the 12 major divisions in the drive follows: Utility, H. 'T. Pritchard, chairman, raised $73,998.15, or 101 per cent of quota; special gifts, Charles W. Chase, chairman, $109.259.76, or 99 per cent; industrial “A,” Walter I.

Longsworth, chairman, $78,960.08, or 83 per cent; individual gifts, Norman Metzger and J. Perry Meek, chairmen, $35,115.22, or 82 per cent; philanthropic, Eugene C. Foster, chairman, $6592.06, or 78 per cent. Residential, Mrs. James L. Murray, chairman, $28,978.09, or 77 per cent; public affairs, Fred Hoke chairman, $21,896.06, or 76 per cent; professional, George A. Bischofl, chairman, $16,777.30, or 73 per cent; railroad, Earl A. Heassler, chairman, $2503.65, or 72 per cent; commercial, Wilson Mothershead, chairman, $41,988.55, or 61 per cent; mercantile, Stanley W. Shipnes, chairman, $44,764.83, or 46 per cent; industrial “B” R. Norman Baxter, chairman,

$41,390.10, or 45 per cent of quota.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County ony

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Oct. 23

Injured ...... 6 Accidents .... 16 Dead ..cccc.. 0 Arrests ....... 54

MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases .Convic- Fines Violations Tried tions Paid

Speeding ...... 10 - 10 $85 Reckless driving 6 Failing to stop . through street 10 Disobeying traffic signal..... 10 Drunken driving 1 All others...... 40

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MEETINGS TODAY pany Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

BOStute house Women's Democratic Club, panty, Claypool Hot: p. m. no Club, a Spink-Arms Hotel,

Bo ational Food Products Credit Group, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon Local Food Products edit Group, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6 Jysteator Club, luncheon, Piotel Lincoln,

OPntitanapolis Home Builders’ Association, dinner, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 m. University Club, luncheon, Columbia

Kriights o Tot Columbus, luncheon, K. of C. club

23

20 20

Lutheran So . Club, luncheon, Can-

ary Cowtage. os, Fine Paper Credit Group, luncheon, Men's Gril the William H. Block Co.,

MEETINGS TOMORROW Lions Club Baby Contest Coronation Farty, Butler University Field House, 7

P Indianapolis Red Cross, annual meeting Chamber of Commerce, 3:30 p. m. Indiana Schoolmen’s’ Cldb, annual dinner, Claypool Hotel, 6 p Wy anis Club, ches ‘Columbia Club,

Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, 5 Young Mea . Discussion Club, dinner, Y. M. ct A. 2 Club, meeting, ¥. M. ‘Twgirin District 1 Legion, lunch-

eon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Forty Plus Club, meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p. m.

BIRTHS Girls ! Richard Ruth Wilson; at Methodist.

‘} Paul, Mary Whittemore, at St. Vin vs.

, John, Mar Johnson, at St. Vin po Donald. ‘Florence’ Harve Rarvert, of Bt Wiz

32, Ber $283 | He

John, Helen Muse, at St. Francis Gilbert, aargatss Mullins, at St. Francis. Albert, Mae Lola Garrigan, at Soeniin. Earl, Ruth Campbell, at Colem Leland, Kathryn Craw! ford, at’ Coleman. Robert, Irene wis, at City. Boys Fred, Lena Poad, at Methodist. ‘George, Alvada Ahnafield, at St. Eroncis, Charles, Naomi Adams, at 548 hes Frank, Wilhelmina Hill, at 232 Joseph, yugmia Campbell, o at 0. Blake. Oscar, Daisy Pratt W. Ohio Robert, Mary Kelly, ncAdmiral, Carol

ge. at 4078 CorDlysses, Cora Foot, at 1327 Cornell, | eames

DEATHS Hattie Dake, 68, at Methodist, carciEtta Scott, 56, at 2214 Valley, chronic |; myocarditis. Charles E.| Robbins, 76, at 768 Massachusetts, aortic aneurism Nellie M. Davis, 55, at ‘2019 Gent, coronary occlusion Frank C. Spangler. 58, at 1055 W. 33d, 47, at Long, brain

an cerebral hemorrhage. rnice Mowinska, soe, 8 days, at City, enteritis. Henry Crouch,’ 36, at Long, cirrhosis of

Intant Bl Alina Baldwin, 53, at City, lobar pneu"Henty D. Mosbey, 82, at 2822 Highland, try. 67. at 3914 N. New Jersey,

Esther Lan sefSoral 1 apoplexy. n, 77, at 943 E. Market, 74, at 2528 E. 1Tth,

aigbetes melft us at City. carcinoma.

Madison illiam, uremia. Frank Kn 5 SL sahoth ostel, 79, at City, cerebral hemorrhag ents Poynter, 61, at Methodist, hyperInfant Smith; 6 days, at Methodist, congenital heart Ne ay on MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are (rom official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.

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James Campbell, 21, 3 vig Sg Borier 18 of (ho 3 sk Mildred Louise Graw. %. of 1213 Hoyt. arla Thompson, 21. of 1040 N. Poa aria} Beatrice Lomatch, 22. of 3 N. Fennsviva ginia P Statboey: 18, of 961 W. Shelbys Ameria’ Rar ug, ik, 1. oP Hg “Mads aMrie Brandlein. 0 Edward Smith. 21, of 705 N.

Senate: ." Dorothy Mae Hooks.’ 17. of 1706

FIRES

MONDAY . M~—California and Vermont, M.—Elsworth and New York;

12:18 A. false alarm false alarm. 5:40 M.—2038 Massachusetts; resi-|N dence, kerosene. stove explosion, sis 10ss.. 9:43 A. M.—3615 Creston, residence, defestive wiring in washing machine motor.

9:49 A. - PL WW M.—1806 Howard; shed, Pon

nia, 21 of 961 af apih: Vir-1g

540 W.

Norwood; plaint MY

HiT sprinkler head

knocked off 11:02 A. M.—5954 Sollege; automobile, sigate; on cushion. $25 los M. 5 oa 8S. Sericton: barn, cause ig loss. 1:5 —517 Chesapeake; residence, overheated Yo $5 loss. 2:25 M.—1127 Dennison: ara © M Bosart and E ashington;

3:02 false alarm. 3:07 M. — 5657 Javertord; garage, cause unknown. $100 los ermont Sd Delaware; automobile, defective wiring, $2 loss. 7:4 M.—Fletcher and Spruce; false loin false

8:13 P, M.—East and St. Claire;

alarm : M.—West and 12th; automobile, defective wiring. 10:18 P. M.—217 E. Pearl; vacant building, caused by acetylene torch, loss unimated.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bur

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers; warmer tonight.

Sunrise 6:05 | Sunset

ERATURE md 24, i

6:30 a. m.. 5058

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending Total precipitation since Excess since Jan 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers: warmer tonight and in northeast and extreme east portions tomorrow.

Illinois—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers; warmer in central and north portions tonight; in northwest and north-central ‘portions tomorrow afternoon. Lower Michigan—Intermittent rain with rising temperature tonight and tomorrow.

Ohi Increasing rain late tonigh temperature.

Kentucky Cloudy followed by rain tomorrow and in west portion late tonight; warmer in east portion tonight and extreme east portion tomorrow,

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. Stati Weather Bar. Lemp, Amarillo, TeX. cieeee 29.67 57 Bismarck, N. D. " oston Y Chicago Cincinnati

7a m... .00 an, l..... 2.3

cloudiness followed by and tomorrow; rising

Cleveland Denver Dodge City, Kas. Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, . oe Kansas City, Mo. ... Little Rock, Ark. . Los Angel Miami, F

Mobile, Ala : New Orleans

w York mie Oklahoms the, Okla. Cloudy

maha, Neb, Pittsburgh ‘Portland, Ore. PtCldy an Antonio, "Tex. +o ‘Cloudy . San ancisco Fan

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This Nazi Raider Seized City. of Flint

3 German Raiders on Sea, Scandinavians Heat After Seizure.

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as the zone of the British Battle Fleet. - ; When the City of Flint left New York it was bound for Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, with a cargo the United States Maritime Commission admitted today included goods considered contraband by Germany. <The Emden of the last war, after escaping from Tsingtao, China, then a, German base, appeared in the Indian Ocean and sank the Russian Cruiser Zhenchug and the French destroyer Mousquet before the Australian cruiser Sydney ended its career in November, 1914.

Expect Ship’s- Release

American officials expressed -confidence that as Russia is neutral, the City of Flint would be returned to the United States Maritime Commission—which had chartered it to

the United States Lines—as soon as was practicable. Early reports of the City of Flint’s capture indicated that the incident might prove to have repercussions all the way from the Arctic to the Equator. Developments included: 1. The Russian official Tass News Agency announced receipt of a “report” that the City of Flint had ‘arrived at Kola Bay near Murmansk in charge of a German “cruiser” prize crew of 18 men and that the ship had heen detained and its prize crew interned. 2. The United - States: Maritime Commission at Washington announced receipt of a report that the City of Flint, on its way from New York to British and Irish ports, had been seized by a German naval vessel and taken to Tromsoe, Norway, Saturday, by a prize crew. The City of Flint left Tromsoe at once for an unknown destination, this report said. 3. Tromsoe Harbor authorities advised the United States by telephone that the City of Flint, during a halt there Saturday, disembarked 37 men, comprising the crew of the British freighter, and then, flying the German swastika flag, was escorted to the three-mile limit of Norwegian territorial waters by a Norwegian warship. The officials said that the City of Flint lay outside the roads at Tromsoe for between four and six hours. The Britons rowed ashore in boats of the City of Flint, they said, and nothing was seen of the freighter’s American crew.

Clement Recalled

Under international iaw, the officials said, it was permissible for prize ships to lie outside a neutral harbor: for 24 hours. Tromsoe quoted the British sailors as saying that they had been aboard a German “cruiser” for about five days before the City of Flint was sighted and they were transferred to it. : However, the reference to Bermuda brought recollection of the sinking of the British freighter Clement Oct. 2 off the Braziliais coast by a ship described variously as being a submarine, an armed merchantman and & cruiser or pocket battleship.

FUNERAL TOMORROW "FOR ZANE GREY, 64

PASADENA, Cal, Oct. 24 (U. P.). —Zane Grey, the New York dentist who made a million dollars by building the cowboy tale into a $2 novel, will be given private funeral services here tomorrow afternoon. Only Mr. Grey's wife, Lina; two sons, Romer and Loren; a daughter, Betty, and a few other relatives and friends will attend the rites to be held in Pasadena Mortuary Chapel. Cremation will follow. Mr. Grey died of coronary thrombosis at the age of 64. Because no doctor was in attendance at the death, Coroner Frank Nance ordered a post-mortem performed today.

“The German caiser Emden cee 1o10ws he Jan of her World War namesake.

U. S. Admits Freighter Had Con traband Cargo

Where Is Crew, Asks Hull; No Law Broken, Early Claims.

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tion against the seizure of the City of Flint, however, is debatable.

Stalin on Spot

Students of international law incline to the view that Germany can justify her seizure of the ship on the ground that it was bound for a ‘belligerent country—Great Britain—with a cargo which Germany formally has declared contraband of war. Imponding the vessel in a Russian port, however, complicates the situation. By precedent, the United States can demand that Russia, as a neutral, release the ship. If Russia refuses, it may be construed here as a tacit admission that Russia is morally a belligerent, The affair might put Josef Stalin in an embarrassing spot, because he seems as anxious to stay out of the war as Britain and France are for him to do. In asking Russia to release the City of Flint, the United States can cite a precedent from the World War when a German raider brought a captured ship into an American port. The Supreme Court returned the ship to the British, denying a German claim to it.

Contraband Is “Conditional”

On the other hand, Russia might cite the Hague Treaty of 1907, Article 23, which permitted a belligerent to seize a vessel carrying contraband and to conduct it to a neutral port for sequestration pending a decision of the belligerent prize court. Russia ratified this

ratification, specifically refused “to accept Article 23. © International law experts, however, pointed out another contributing factor. Tractors, foodstuffs and the like which the City of Flint carried are not on the German ‘“absolute contraband” list, but on a recently issued “conditional contraband” list, To confiscate it, the Germans would have to show a prize court the cargo. was intended directly for the armed forces of the enemy. The Russian dispatches stated that the City of Flint was being temporarily detained, and that the German prize crew of 18 had been interned. It was indicated by internment of the crew that the Soviets were following precedent, accepted by the United States. This would indicate that the next step is likely to be the release of the City of Flint. ~ British Hold 3 U. 8. Ships In response to inquiries, the Maritime Commission said that the British had taken ‘“a number” of American ships into British ports since the war began. They were searched for contraband, and released after the British approved the cargo or seized it for sale. A commission spokesman said ‘that “three or four” U. S. ships now are being held by the British. It was said that the German capture of the City of Flint had been announced, while the others had not, because it represented the first time that a “prize crew” had been -put aboard an American ship, and the first time that. a belligerent’s flag had been flown above a U, S.-owned vessel. The Commission knew only that the ship, which belongs to it but is chartered to the United States lines, had been seized. It had no information as to when or where she had been seized. It was presumed her 38 American seamen were prisoners aboard her or the cruiser Emden, which captured her. .

‘Cargo Listed

The City of Flint carried lard, cereals, canned meats, canned goods, apples, wax, lubricating oil, cotton, sewing machines, plows, ‘tractors, asphalt, pitch, grease, shade rollers, silk, chemicals, abrasive grains, disinfectants, feathers, rags, coffee, lumber, gauze, hair and wallboard. Many of these articles are on the German contraband list. The freighter sailed from New York Oct. 3 for Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow. The

ported she had arrived in Manchester on Oct. 15.

treaty, but the United States, in its|

New York Maritime Register re-

(CONTROL OF SEA

STILL CHIEF AIM OF NAZIS IN WAR

: Berlin and London Disagree

On Effectiveness of German Raiders.

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inflicted on the British Navy and merchant marine. : Although the 5400-ton cruiser Emden may be the only real sea

Nazi pocket - battleships Admiral Scheer and Deutschland also are roving the Atlantic and that fast German merchant ships have been fitted out as raiders. Many reports of submarines have been received from South American ports, including a dispatch from Colombia reporting three moving southward last week and a similar report of one submarine today off Chile. The City of Flint incident emphasizes the nature of this war— little. action on the Western Front; sea and air action to throttle the other fellow’s commerce to starve him out, and a scramble for trade.

Want Gold Now The Allies are driving to shut off

‘| Germany’s source of supplies from

the southeastern European states and ‘divert the Balkan exports to their own or other countries. Germany normally takes about half of the exports of Hungary, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Greece. But Germany has been doing business on a barter basis, exchanging her goods for those of the others. With the war, German deliveries ceased. The small nations therefore want gold, which they badly need, and it is doubtful if Germany’s gold supply would hold out under such a strain. Britain is busy negotiating trade treaties with Sweden, Belgium, Turkey, Russia and other countries. Sweden is considered especially important, because its neutral status gave Germany a rich source of iron during the World War.

Stalin Trades With Both

Germany also is negotiating a trade treaty with Russia, so that Stalin, who has been a consistent gainer in the war, may soon be in the position of trading with both sides. Russia already has agreed to sell 1,000,000 tons of fodder to Germany within the next two months. Italy also is making a trade drive in the Balkans, in the belief that Germany and Russia are trying to divide the region between them. Italian economic negotiations vith Jugoslavia are scheduled to end in a trade treaty in a day or two. Italy will get Jugoslavian cereals, cattle and minerals in exchange for textiles and automobiles. The Swiss are in the picture, negotiating trade treaties with Rumania and Jugoslavia. Belgium is negotiating with Spain. Even on this side of the Atlantic, the United States is having talks with Central and South American republics, designed to stimulate trade on this side of the Atlantic, at the expense of Europe.

OUTLAWED BULGARS BATTLE RUMANIANS

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—A serious clash in “the Dobrudja area between Bulgarian outlaw bands and Rumanian gendarmes was reported officially today. Dobrudja was taken from Bulgaria by Rumania after the World War and recently there has been increasing tension over the disputed territory. Two Rumanian frontier police were seriously wounded, the announcement said. Authorities are investigating the clash, which was considered serious because the Bulgarians were comitadjis (an illegal organization long engaged in terroristic political activities) but were said to be equipped with Bulgarian Army weapons.

miles with a population of 2,700,000. In the pest, there have been frequent rumors that outside efforts were being made to create a crisis over Dobrudja. The Bulgarians’ claim to the territory has been a stumbling block to unity in the Balkans and caused speculative reports that Germany or Russia had offered to aid Bulgaria in recovering the territory.

‘FORGOTTEN’ WOMAN OF JAIL RELEASED

CHICAGO, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—Daisy Tegtmeyer, 53, who became the “forgotten” woman of the Cook County Jail and stayed there for five years because she wouldn’t talk, was {free today, at least temporarily, She was sentenced for an indefinite term Jan. 14, 1934, for contempt of court because she refused to explain satisfactorily what she had done with a $32,000 trust fund of which she had been trustee. Since that time she had remained in a cell at the County Jail except for one 10-month period of freedom. Yesterday, on her 29th appeal, her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Moore, Brook-

Judge Dewey Myers said: “One hundred and eight days on the State Farm and $1 and costs. «+ +” He paused, The testimony had been: An 18-year-old Indianapolis boy was arrested by - Detective Oren Mangus and readily admitted he had burglarized five filling stations. He said he had been looking for money to buy his sister, a high school senior, some books. His father, he said, is a WPA worker and he had seen him start for work many a eat.

Another Case When Books | Provide a Happy Ending

family very often had nothing to eat. But what worried the youth ‘most was that his sister would come home from school and cry in her room because she had no books and might have to leave school. Detective Mangus had checked the story, found it to be true, and recommended parole. ‘ “Judgement suspended,” the Judge concluded. “We went to bat Xe for you, son,”

Detective Mangus seid after court. “Go straight.”

lyn, N. Y.,, posted two paid-up life insurance ’ policies as surely on a $1000 bond. If she still refuses to talk and the Appellate Court upholds the contempt finding, she’ll go back to jail.

ROOSEVELT CANCELS ARMISTICE ADDRESS

—President Roosevelt today canceled tentative plans to deliver an Armistice address at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. A White House statement said: “The President has been compelled, by the pressure of business here, to cancel the tentative engagement to go to Lexington on e Day and deliver an ad-

Armistic dress incident to the celebration of

|the 150th anniversary of the found-

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P.).,

Is: Cozy in Maginot Line

| Nazis have claimed that Britain is '|suppressing the extent of casualties

French troops dig in for a comfortable winter. No more sleeping in muddy trenches . , . but double deck bunks like these in the warm, dry

Maginot Line,

French Dig in for Win ter But Fear Nazi Drive East

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor The French have dug in for the winter on the Western Front. Ine dications multiply that the big test of the war will not come on the German-French frontier before spring. The French have retired from their insecure outpost positions on German soil to lines of defense back of the French frontier.

Neither the French or Germans have shown any inclination to start a major drive. The French almost obviously do not intend one and in view of the rain, mud and flooded rivers, it is doubtful if Herr Hitler will heed Marshal Goering’s advice to stake everything on a big push with all the German Army’s, resources. French opinion is that Herr Hitler will take the advice of Rudolf Hess and other leaders. Their plan is to hold the Western Front and to proceed, with or without the aid of Russia, to improve Germany’s position in the Balkan and Scandinavian states. Thus the Germans could line up a steady source of supplies for next spring, by which time the German armies could smash at the Allied defense lines without risking a serious internal crisis because of the Allied blockade. War communiques from Berlin and Paris reported there was no unusual activity on the Western Front last night.

Can Hold Out Until Spring

Even the most optimistic among the British and French agree that Germany can hold out against the blockade until spring without too great hardship, . The extent of Russia’s aid to Germany remains a question. The Allies have felt reasonably certain all along that Stalin does not intend to go to war. The French press—for what it is. worth in a time of war-born propaganda—reports that Stalin has definitely refused military aid to Germany. The French point out that Stalin’s failure to put more pressure on Turkey, thus letting the latter side in with the Allies, proves his desire to avoid entangling himself in a European war. It is also reported that Stalin is ready to temporize with Finland, rather than fight about it. " Foresces Economic War

Russia's aid to Germany therefore would be neutrality and economic assistance. On the latter, a Russian-German trade conference is pending. So far, Stalin has nibbled steadily at the pie, always gaining. With regard to furnishing Germany with

needed supplies, the joint German

and Russian control of the Baltie should insure shipments to the Reich in either Russian or German ships without interference. That would overcome the handie cap of land transport through cone . quered Poland or subservient Latvia and Lithuania. The situation on the Western Front would seem to indicate that the winter will be one of economic warfare, a war of blockade in which each side tries to starve out the other. Inactivity on the Western Front

would make more scout, fighter ip

and bombing planes available for raids on Britain, instead of being urgently required on the battle line in France. Submarine warfare could be intensified as German production of the U-Boats gets apace or ahead of losses.

Troops Comfortably Housed

Ralph Heinzen, Paris manager of the United Press, reports after a tour of the French and British front lines, that the two armies are preparing to spend a comfortable winter in centrally-heated, lighted and dry casements of the Maginot Line, where 1,500,000 men already . are garrisoned underground. It is a marked contrast to the World War, when all the armies spent the winter exposed in open trenches. France now has three chains of fortifications, built = around big garrisons to insure comfortable housing for defense troops. A big offensive, of course, would alter the situation. On the other hand, Mr. Heinzen reports, the Germans decided in favor of a belt of mixed fortificae tions, 30 miles thick, which exceed 22,000 in number. Most of them are so small that they do not provide living accommodations for troops, obliging the German army lo Samp for the winter in mud or rain,

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