Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1939 — Page 1

“The Indianapoli

FORECAST: Fair and cooler tonight, with light to heavy frost; tomorrow fair with slowly rising temperature.

VOLUME 51—NUMBER 199

GUARD HOOSIER AR SLAYER IN MISSOURI JAIL

Coroner’s Jury Gives Open! Verdict Despite Pletch’s Confession Here.

CHERRY BOX, Mo., Oct. 30 (U. P.) —A coroner's jury today returned an open verdict in the strange killing of Carl Biyens, Brookfield flying: instructor, who was shot in an airplane Saturday. Ernest Pletch, “flying Lochinvar” of Frankfort, Ind, has signed ‘a confession in the killing but the coroner’s jury fixed no blame. Pletch was closely guarded in the county jail at Macon as feeling of residents in this area ran high. “Carl Bivens came to his death by reason of a shot in the head with a pistol by some person to the jurors unknown,” the verdict said. As soon as the inquest was over the scene. of action shifted to Macon, Mo., where Pletch is held | in jail. Prosecutors of three counties will meet there this afternoon to decide which county has jurisdiction. Constable First Witness Mr. Bivens and Pletch took off on the fatal flight Friday afternoon from Linn County, flew over Macon County where Pletch believed his mid-air battle with Mr. Bivens occurred, and the plane landed in Shelby County where the body was found. The first witness called at the inquest told of the organization of a posse and the hunt for Mr. Bivens’ - body. He was Constable Jay Reis of Shelbyville. He said it was decided to doneens| trate the search in this locality pits] it was learned that Pletch stoppe near here to get gasoline and was alone in the plane at the time. “It was beginning to get dark,” he said, “and we had to use flashlights. I was poking along the fence row and had just about de- « cided that it was useless to search any more that night when in the light from the flashlight'I saw him, lying face up in a clump of crumbled brush. “That was 6:10 p. m. Saturday | evening.”

Farm Youth Téstifies

Howard McConnell, 19-year-old farm youth, testified he saw Pletch _ land the plane but he was so far away he couldn't see what he did then. McConnell said he started for the ship and while he was still a considerable distance away Pletch motioned for him to stop. Pletch then left the ship and met McConpell, asking him where he could buy gasoline. McConnell directed him here and Pletch immediately took off to fly about two miles closer to town. Pletch had confessed in Indianpolis Saturday night to the fantastic Kidnap-murder of Mr. Bivens, Brookfield flying instructor, authorities reported, he said in the confession that the murder was executed—in self defense, while the plane plunged uncontrolled toward earth—over Macon County, . But Capt. W.. J. Ramsey, of the State Highway Patrol, who brought him back early this morning—by automobile—from Indianapolis, was not satisfied and said Pletch would be pressed “to tell the truth.”

Brookfield Residents Angry

Mr. Bivens died some time after the tiny sport plane he piloted, and in which Pletch occupied the rear {seat, took off from Brookfield about 4 p. m. Friday. He died before Pletch brought it down in a pasture near here an hour later. Linn County Prosecutor G. Derk Green filed murder, kidnaping and plane stealing charges. Macon County Prosecutor Vincent Moody, holding Pletch’s confession awthentic as to the murder loea-|-tion, claimed jurisdiction and filed murder charges. ; Shelby County Attorney Fred BolIgw also filed murder charges, because Bivens’ body was found. in ‘his county.

Anger was evident among Brook-|

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CHIEF MORRJSSEY’S: FATHER, 83, IS ILL

~~ John 7. Morrissey, 83-year-old father of Police “Chief Michael Mor.rissey, is critically ill from uremic polsening at his home, 1416 E. Mar- - ket S :

His condition is so grave thatl.

_ Chief Morrissey was called back to the city Saturday from a trip in the West during which he attended the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs in San Francisco, Cal. The elder Morrissey has been in ill health for the last two months. He has been retired from the railroad business. Chief Morrissey said he intends to alternate his time between his office and his father’s bedside. He planned to spend the greater part of today going through the mail that has piled up on his desk during his absence.

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‘Muni Arrives

for Premiere

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Uta Hagen (left), leading woman in Maxwell Anderson’s new play, “Key Barge” Paul Musi and Mrs. Muni.

‘I'll Have the Jitters,’ ‘Key Largo’ Star Says

Playwright Anderson Is Characteristically Reticent and “Elmer Rice Affably Carries Own Baggage.

Paul Muni arrived in Indianapolis today to appear in the play which he has been seeking for seven years.”

The play is Maxwell Andersons

“Key Largo,” which will have its

first performance on English’s stage tonight. Mr. Muni said “we have a great play here, and I hope we do justice

to it.” He confidentially predicted

'SUITS ON RELIEF

PUT UP TO QUINN

Linder Says County Lacks Authority to Take Recovery Action.

No definite steps have been taken to file suit for recovery of money paid out on false claims. for Center Township relief orders, it was revealed today as the Grand Jury began the third week of its relief probe. County Attorney John Linder, who recently announced he would work closely with Prosecutor David M. Lewis, studying evidence of false claims uncovered by the Prosecutor’s investigators, said he has decided that he has no authority to take such action. Civil suits to recover money paid on false claims must be filed by the trustee, Thomas M. Quinn, according to Mr. Linder. Mr. Quinn could not be reached for comment, but his township attorney, Leo X. Smith, said he had been considering such suits.

Mr. Smith said He had taken no

steps yet because the Grand Jury is not -ready to reveal specific instances of false claims, which may run into the.thousands of dollars. Today's session of the jury was devoted largely to false milk claims, the quality of ‘milk distributed to relief clients and the entire local milk marketing setup. Witnesses included representatives of the State Health Board and the State Milk Control Administration. Prosecutor . Lewis “said it is un(Continued on Page Three)

FAIR AND COOLER FORECAST TONIGHT

Tomorrow- to Be Fair With Rising Temperatures.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m. ....42 10a m.. “a.m.....4 11am. .... 45 -8a.m.....41 12 (noom) .

heavy frost tomorrow morning, the Weather Bureau forecast today. . Tomorrow will be fair with slowly rising temperatures, the bureau said. The lowest temperature over the week-end was 32 at 5 a. m. yesterday, records show.

he would have a case of “opening night jitters.” “It’s like jumping into cold water,” he explained. Mr. Anderson, who looks more like a retired fullback than a playwright. had little to say. The author of “Winterset.” “Knickerbocker Holiday,” “What Price Glory” and numerous other successes holds a theatrical record for reticence. He never has been interviewed. And in the short trip from the train to the Union Station lobby, he didnt break his record. Mr. Muni and Mr. Anderson, with their wives, headed a distinguished party of the Playwrights’ Company, which, as in the case of S. N. Behrman’s “No Time for Comedy” last vear, chose Indianapolis for the world premiere.

No Autograph Seekers Mr. Behrman disappeared quickly. Elmer Rice carried his own baggage and was affably silent. Guthrie McClintic, the play's director, just wanted to warn everybody that no one would be seated during the prologue tonight. A good-sized group of onlookers gathered to see the company’s arrival. Nobody asked for an autograph. Everyone seemed happy except one taxi driver who pulled up as the party was leaving the station. “I have the darndest luck,” he said gloomily. “First I missed hauling Joe E. Brown, and now I miss Paul Muni.”

LIFT SNOW CRUISER FROM CREEK BED

LIMA, O. Oct. 30 (U. P.).—The gigantic snowmobile which will be Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's means of transportation over the ‘Antarctic wastes was being lifted from the mud of a creek bed today on its own power and its crew expected that it would be ready to resume the trip from Chicago to 8o0ston by Tuesday morning. The 353-ton snow cruiser received one 10-foot lift last night and was to get two more today, It will be back on the road late tonight or early Tuesday. Two of the four Diesel engines that propel the cruiser were damaged so badly that they will have to be replaced at the General Electric plant in Erie, Pa.

REPORT OF BLAZING PLANE IS DOUBTED

SAN FRANCISCO, O Oct. 30 wv. P). —Reports that an airplane had

.|caught fire and crashed off Pedro

Point, and that two fliers had parachuted to the ocean, were erroneous, the Coast Guard and Army headquarters here decided today |p after sending men in five boats and twe planes to investigate. 2 The report was sent by the crew of the fishing boat Rio de Mar of Seattle. What the sailors had seen, the Coast Guard said, were test flares.

Cancer Doctor Hopeful As Experiment Nears End

PRYOR, Okla., Oct. 30 (U, P.).— Encouraging preliminary indications

were reported today in a country doctor’s use of the experimental new cold treatment on Mrs. Homer Stout, who has a cancer of the stomach. Whether it would accomplish any lasting improvement was a still unanswered question. Since Friday Mrs. Stout, 46, farm

wvife, mother of four school-age chil-

dren, has laid in a merciful and strange coma, all of her life impulses stilled save a restricted but steady heart beat and ‘a allow contraction of the lungs. The normally-prolific life cells themselves had almost — but not qui eased their multiplication. . The stomach tumor that had doomed her was shriveling, its cellular activity stopped, her doctor believed. The gaunt, hollow-eyed woman, who, until a week ago, was given

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but three weeks to live, was undergoing medical science’s most urgent experiment with the new refrigeration therapy discovered by Dr. Temple Fay, of Temple Univelsity Hospital, Philadelphia. . It's employment in a life-or-death fight was unique and for that reason the medical world and legions of cancer victims watched hopefully from afar. Attention was drawn, too, by the rustic setting in Dr. Van Dolph Herrington’s little frame hospital and by the device he had jmprovised for the experiment. This was a home-made “freezing blanket” he had constructed with an electrical

refrigeration unit and long sections

of thin rubber:-hose containing brine. Tomorrow Dr. Herrington will know, he believes, whether the cancerous cells are dead, never to take life again, or merely arrested in their growth for the period of refrigeration. .

' MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, wo

DOUBLE RITES ARRANGED FOR ENGAGED PAR

Millicent Mouser and Fiance, Melbert C. Maibach, Die in Auto Crash.

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Double funeral services were arranged today for an engaged Indianapolis couple killed yesterday when their car skidded and struck a tree on Road 431 at 86th St. The victims, two of four killed

_|over the week-end in the state, were

Melbert C. Maibach, 23, of 19 N. Jefferson Ave. and his fiancee, Miss Millicent Mouser, 21, cf 911 West Drive, Woodruff Place. Other traffic victims were Lem Austin, 64, killed when his car collided with another near his home af Winchester, and Vaughn Duke, 20, Albany, killed when his car crashed into a utility pole near Dunkirk.

Returning From Party Mr. Maibach died at the scene of the crash which occurred as the young people were returning from a church Halloween party at Sheridan, Ind. Miss Mouser died at City Hospital. The services will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the Woodruff Place Baptist Church and burial will be side by side in Memorial Park Cemetery. Allen R. Lawson, 20, of 612 Jefferson Ave. another passenger in| the car, was in a critical condition’ in Methodist Hospital with "head injuries. Driver Is Injured Robert M. Burton, 22, of 248 N. Beville Ave. the driver, also was in Methodist Hospital with head inuries. Deputy sheriffs said the automobile apparently struck the tree with terrific force that tore out the right side, and scattered the four occupants over the roadway. Parts of the machine were found a considerable distance from the wreck...

clerk at L. S. Ayres & Co., and Miss Mouser was a clerk in the American United Life Insurance Co. Miss Mouser was born in Madison and had been a resident of Indianapolis since 1927. Party Was Planned

A party was to have been held last night at the home of Miss Jacqueline Cullings, 512. N. Riley Ave. in honor of Miss Mouser’s 21st birthday anniversary, which was Thursday. Miss Mouser was a member of the Woodruff Place Baptist Church. She is survived :by her parents, Byron Mouser and Mrs. Margaret Potter; a sister, Miss Muriel Jeanne Mouser; a brother, Franklin F. Mouser, and her grandmother, Mrs, Minnie Stapp, all of Indianapolis. Mr. Maibach was born in Connersville Oct. 9, 1916, and had been a resident of Indianapolis for several years. He was a member of the Woodruff Place Church, also. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maibach.

CIRCLE GETS READY © FOR WITCHES FETE

Police Regulate Parking for Tomorrow Night.

Masked revelers will take over Monument Circle tomorrow night for Indianapolis’ traditional public celebration of Halloween. As celebrators put costumes in readiness and dug up all sorts of noise-making devices, police engaged in a hunt for pre-Halloween prowlers blamed for property - damage over the week-end. While merrymaking in the Circle was expected to attract thousands, scores of organizations planned private parties and dances for members and friends. Many downtown stores featured wind displays of corn shocks, pumpkins carved to resemble faces, witches and other spooky creatures. Police: prepared to increase their vigilance and issued parking regulations for the Circle demonstraHon. 3 found parked after 5 the following places will > Nd to the garage by police. The west side of Pennsylvania St. and east side of Illinois St., from Washington to Ohio; north side of Washington St. from Pennsylvania to Illinois; either * side .of Meridian from Washington to ‘the Circle and the Circle to Ohio: either side of Market St. from Illinois to the Circle and from the Circle to Pennsylvania, and howhere on the Circle.

U. S. GRAND JURORS INVESTIGATE BUND

NEW YORK, RK, Oct. : 30 (U. P.).— A Federal grand jury is now investigating “very serious charges” involving members of the GermanAmerican Bund, U. S. District Attorney John T. Cahill said today. Mr. Cahill declined to discuss the situation - further, but it is. known that a Grand Jury has heen investigating various income tax matters for several weeks. Counsel for Bund leader Fritz Kuhn, indicated today that he would ask the New York County Supreme Court for a change of venue in Kuhn's trial on charges of embezzling $14,000 of the organization’s funds.

STORM WARNING GIVEN WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P.)/

—Northeast storm warnings were ordéred displayed today by the

Weather Bureau from the Virginia Capes to Boston, Mass.

Mr. Maibach was employed as a]

Taft Sure U. S. Can Be Neutral.

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Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis.

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A Country Can Keep Out of War if It Wants To and

Americans Are So

Inclined, Ohioan Declares.

“The United Ss is sure to stay out. of the present European war,”

Senator Robert Taft ( “Ninety per cent of country can Says out St a war ut it

POLITICS S FON, SAYS MRS. TAFT

Advises Women to Take an Active Interest ‘Government.

“Women should take an active interest in politics.” That’s the advice of Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of the junior U. S. Senator from Ohio. She accompanied her husband here today and was to speak at the Third Annual Women's G. O. P. Rally at the Claypool Hotel. “If a woman is vitally interested in a home—and what woman isn’t —she should be just as much interested in the state of the country er home is situated in—and that’s

politics,” Mrs, Taft declared.

Interested in Same Things

* She. was -asked how a wife could best fit herself to help her htSband. ‘That depends on the husband’s occupation,” she said. “I don’t remember having any formal education with that in mind. We've just always been interested in the same things.” She told about the campaign that turned seeming defeat for her husband into a victory in the 1938 Ohio Senatorial race. - Organized the State “Bob thought we ought to have a man and a woman in each county to head our organization and he thought it would be a splendid idea if I got the women together. That's what we did. “It was as much fun as it was work. I've always thought politics and worked at politics since the early days in Cincinnati.”

LOSSES TOP GAINS "ON QUIET EXCHANGE

By UNITED PRESS Losses outnumbered gains in a narrow moving, quiet stock market at New York today. Steels strengthened on reports the weekly output will rise 0.9 per cent to 91 per cent

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At London, security prices eased moderately in dull trading, reflecting a market lack of buying interest in most sections of the list.

Ohio) said in an interview here today. e people are determined to remain neutral. A

wants to, especially when it is 3000 miles from the battlefields.” Senator Tait was here to address the Indianapolis Bar Association tonight and to speak briefly at the + {first annual convention of the Indiana Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs in session at the Claypool Hotel.

Mrs, Taft to Speak

Mrs. Taft, who accompanied her husband in a motor trip here from Cincinnati, was to address the federation this afternoon on “Prop-

{ganda and the Home Front.” .

Senator Taft said that this country was two and a half years getting into the World War, and that then there was only a mild sentiment against entering. “The Spanish-American war was the latest at that time that this country had experienced, and it was rather a minor war that did not make’ a great impression. “Now the people remember the World War and, know ‘what war is. I noticed in my mail on the Neutrality Bill that there was an almost universal sentiment for staying out of the war, though the methods the writers would employ were varied.”

Objects te ‘Unneutral Talk’

Senator Taft said that he con= sidered the City of Flint incident, now occupying the attention of the State Department, as of no grave importance. He declared if American ships get into Eropean waters such incidents are likely to recur. “I believe the Congress should remain in session after the passage of the bill, just to discourage any possible such incident -developing

.|into a warlike condition. However,

I believe, there will be a majority for adjournment. “I think the Administration is much too much inclined to play up the importance of the war to the United [States. There is a tendency, (Continued on Page Three)

TREASURE ISLAND’S FUTURE IN BALANCE

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 (U. P.).—Wrecking crews sa¥ 'in the long shadows of the Tower of the Sun today and puffed at their pipes while its promoters decided the future of Treasure Island. _ The Golden Gate International Exposition locked its doors at 2 a. m. with Sheriff Dan Murphy and his inevitable handful of attachments absent. Creditors of the $55,000,000 exposition were co-oper-ating with a group which seeks to reopen for a run next year.

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WINTER FALLS IN RHINELAND: FRONTISCALM

Windsor Asks Faster Knitting; London Air - Raid Alarm Called ‘Mistake.’

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Europe waited stolidly today for the long-threatened holocaust of totalitarian war—and still it did not come. Two months “after the formal ‘declaration of hositilities, the diplomatic struggle still overshadowed the occasional artillery barrages: on the Rhineland Front and the drone of isolated warplanes over the North Sea. Winter closed in on the Western Front. Snow blocked the Alpine passes. Icy flood waters of the Rhine resulted in a call by the Duke of Windsor, British Army Inspector General, for the wonien of France and Britain to speed up their knitting needles because the boys in the front line need woolen comforters.

Only England Sees War

Ice burdened the wings of reconnaissance planes and, according to the official communiques, the “aight was calm.” Only over England did the war bring fresh alarms. Air raid warnings shrieked in London—by “mistake’—and along the east coast. - Nazi planes hummed through a coastal haze and Royal Air Force fighters went up to meet them. Antiaircraft guns blazed and the rattle of machine guns attracted many thousands of persons in the countryside, some of whom reported that one enemy flier apparently was forced down at sea. Several ccastal towns from Kent to the Firth of

Forth reported seeing aerial combat,

but visibility was so poor that it was difficult to tell whether there were few or many invading planes, all apparently on feconnaissance..

Submarine Toll Falls

On the Norfolk coast, the body of a Nazi airman was washed ashore —indicating that probably atleast one more plane than counted by the British had been brought down at sea in combat last week. On the seas, the -Ndazi offensive continued against the British Navy and the Allied blockade. The (Continued on Page Three)

MUTINY IN AUSTRIA RUMORED BY ALLIES

15 Czechs Arrested in Riots At Praha.

LONDON, Oct. 30 (U.P.).—Morning newspapers today carried a report credited to the Paris radio, that German military authorities were taking drastic action in Austria as the result of mutinies in the garrisons at Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt. The report was that every tenth man in each garrison had been ordered shot as a result. ; Berlin called the story ridiculous.”

PRAHA, Oct. 30 (U.P.).—It was reported today that German authorities planaed punitive measures against Czechs for defiant demonstrations in Wenceslaus Square Saturday on the 22d anniversary of the Czech Republic. Severe sentgnces await 15 Czechs taken pris s, it was said. There was no repetition of the disorders yesterday and policemen stationed in the square were dismissed last night. Saturday's demonstrations began at 9:30 a. m. with a clash in the square between Czech’ youths and Germans. The fighting settled down to noisy quarrels between Czechs and Nazi Storm Troopers. Czech youths booed and cursed members of Adolf Hitler's Elite Bodyguard corps and a crowd of several hundred gathered and chanted: “Up

Benes! Long live the Republic!”

Uncensored News From Berlin Reveals ‘German People Ready for Anything

By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Oct. 30.—The end of the first two inonths of war finds the German people stolidly Posey for anything. They expect a long, hard pial All would welcome peace but few any longer believe there is hope of an early end to the war. They, so far, are putting up with more inconvenience than actual hardship and there is a certain

‘amount of grumbling and criticism,

some of it surprisingly in the open. But - Nazi propaganda has met considerable response. Distrust of England is not what it was at the beginning of the World War. But more and more Germans are re-

senting England's “interference” in

Editor's Note—What is happening in Germany, behind the German military machine? What are the German people thinking and doing? The United Press Berlin staff give the answers of trained, neutral observers in dispatches which have been subjected to no censorship whatever,

Central European affairs and many have come to feel that if the Reich loses this war the new peace terms will make the Versailles Treaty read like a bed-time lullaby. That, in brief, is* the broad impression given a neutral observer after two months of the strangest war of modern times. Germans are trying to live as normally as possible in the present

dha: of warfare. Outside of the actual military zones, the outward signs of war are relatively few. But over all of the nation there hangs a vivid realization of the war. Street life in Berlin, at least in the daylight hours, is matter-of-fact—almost normal. The difference in outward things can be seen only by careful observation. - For instance, the leaves are falling now in Tiergarten, but only women and old men are sweeping them up whereas young men used to do the There are far fewer automobiles on the streets. Gasoline rationed for those the general

UNREST

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Stalin - Hitler Drive On Balkans May, Be Next Blow.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

A straw which may show how the wind blows in the European war is contained in renewed reports of unrest -in Germany and in Bohemia. Like many reports in this war of propaganda, they are not to be taken at face value. Their possible significance is this: They indicate a strong Allied be=« lief that Adolf Hitler does not dare a smash attack now; that Allied hopes of a long war will be fulfilled

and Herr Hitler can be starved out. Whether Herr Hitler will attack is

as mud, cold and snow make Western Front operations harder and harder, it seems increasingly une likely that he will try it. * . Eyes Toward Balkans

Herr Hitler is confining his tactics to two fronts: 1. Attacks on British and Allied shipping to cut off supplies from Britain—enemy No. 1 to the Nazis. 2, Efforts to get supplies through the Allied blockade and to keep a flow coming from the Scandinavias, More important, to pin down his trade agreement with: Russia and get Soviet commodities, and in cooperation with Russia, to build up Balkan sources. The Hitler-Stalin agreement ape parently is working bettér than Enge land expected. Herr Hitler's trade with the Balkans has been by barter. There are few surplus commodities Germany can spare now, and the Balkans need payment in gold. That is the significance of ree ports that Moscow is shipping gold into Germany. ™

Will Stalin Help?

rumors of unrest can be ‘traced to Allied hopes that if Herr Hitler suffers a military défeat, or if the already tightened German belt has

starvation, the people will revolt. The Allies also bank on_dissatisfaction among the Cz and Poles, conquered and helpless now,

handful if a break comes.

of Europe. food barrel. Stalin has about finished his .expansion and control of the eastern Baltic, except for a pending agree ment With Finland. Will he then turn his attention to the Balkans?

Perhaps now it’s the

think so. Old Claims Revived

Poland and , divided the spoils. Russia’s share of Poland probably was agreed upon, but it is not certain that the Baltics was part of the deal, and Hitler may have

Stalin eased himself in control of thie entire eastern Baltic. However, Herr Hitler cannot operate without Russia in the Balkans. The most - probable line of action would be to divide up Rumania. That is speculation, buf it might work out as follows: Russia would take Bessarabia, along Rumania’s eastern frontier, which belonged to Russia before ths war; Germany would take a. strip to the westward, gaining oil and farm lands and an outlet to the Black Sea; Bulgaria would be swung into line by restoration of the South Dobrudjd region, got after the world war. Hungary might even be bribed by giving her Transylvania, which she lost after the war.

Form “Poach Bloc”

lies count on Turkey, now bound to them by treaty. The plan ene visaged is’ a Balkan “peace bloc”, led by Turkey and inclpding Ruse mania, Greece and possibly Huns gary. The approval of Italy would be sought, with at least an assure

fearing it. might force her into war, Such a bloc to keep the Balkans intact would have the blessing of Britain and France, who are bound by treaty to aid Rumania and Greece if they are attacked. Russia’s intentions, both in the Balkans and elsewhere, may be made clear when Premier Molotov addresses the Supreme Soviet in the next day or two in what is exe pected to be an important, speech. ,

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The old hackneyed phrase applied to the Balkans was the powder keg

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