Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1939 — Page 3
BRITISH REPORT GERMAN THREAT TO SINK U.
|Pletch Guarded in Mi issouri Prison
Bsmeiican Crew’s Safety Now Chief ~ Purpose, Hull Says English Freighter’s Séamen Say Captors of Their
, Ship and City of Flint ‘Did Not A ant to Fight England.’
LONDON, Oct. 30 (U. P.).—Members of the German prize ¢ crew which captured the American steamer City of Flint threatened to sink it if the
. American crew tried to make troubl Stonegate said today.
e, survivors from the British steamer
The Stonegate was shelled and sunk by the German pocket Betulsthip
Deutschland just before the City of prize crew of 50 to 40 men armed with revolvers and hand grenades was put aboard the City of Flint, which is now presumably trying to sneak through the Allied blockade to a German port. any today predicted that the ‘ship would succeed in breaking through, but Danes watched the coastline carefully .at Hamlet's castle of Elsinore, believing that there . might possibly be a battle between Germany ships or submarine and British vessels when the Flint tried to pass the blockade. The Danes also feared the ship might hit one of the mines loosened by heavy week-end storms. : Nazi seamen aboard the Deutsch‘land were “amazed” when the European war broke out, the Stonegate survivors said.
Landed Today in Britain The Stonegate survivors, who were landed by the City of Flint at Tromsoe, Norway, reached a port on the ncrtheast coast of England today. “We heard the Germans tell the
crew of the City of Flint that if
they ‘tried anything’ their ship
would be sunk.” “The Deutschland fired warning shells at the Stonegate and ordered us into the boats,” the survivors said. “Then they took us aboard the Deutschland. We saw the Stonegate founder in flames.” Then the Deutschland soci sighted the City of Flint, captured it, and put the Britishers aboard the American freighter, which the prize crew sailed to Tromsece, and then on to Murmansk. The Stonegate survivors said that they had been sworn to secrecy and they revealed little of what happened after they boarded the Deutschland and were transferred to the City of Flint for the voyage to Tromsoe.
‘We Are Sorry’
One survivor, from his home at South Shields, said that the Stonegate crew was aboard the Deutschland for four days before being transferred to the City of Flint. “We were treated with every consideration,” said the survivor, who declined to permit mention of his rame. “Many of the German officers spoke good English. The German crew impressed us with their efficiency. We were 12 days aboard _ the City of Flint before we entered ~ Tromsoe.”
Another survivor said a member of the prize crew told them: “We are sorry to have to sink your . ship. We really do not want war with Britain. We- knew nothing about the political situation right up to or very shortly before the out-
Flint was halted by the warship. |
break of war and then we were amazed at the situation.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that the State Department was taking every possible step calculated to contribute to the safety
the freinghter City of Flint. Mr. Hull did not elaborate on the steps that he might have in mind. It was believed he might be seeking
to have the Americans put off in Norway. Sescretary Hull made these observations prior toa conference later this afternoon with President Roosevelt. A sharp protest to the Soviet Union against its disposition of .he S<{City of Flint appeared feasible on charges that Russia had violated at least the spirit of pledggs given en it was recognized diplomatically in 1933.
Reason Changed
Charges that the Soviet Union had illegally restored the vessel to the Nazi prize crew in the neutral port. of Murmansk and had withheld adequate co-operation from the American Embassy throughout were fortified by the Department with an inferential complaint of duplicity in assigning a cause for the ship entering Murmansk at all.” When the ship first entered the Russian port lack of charts was given as the reason. Later it was said that “damaged machinery” was the cause. A scarcely noticed provision in the Roosevelt-Litvinov agreement by which the United States recognized the Soviet Union provided that consuls would be informed promptly of arrest or detention of American citizens and that consular requests to visit the detained citizens “should be granted without delay.” The American crew apparently was detained, but not arrested, by Soviet authorities during the two days that the German prize crew of the Flint was detained, but Mr. Steinhardt or his aids were unable to communicate with them, even by telephone, or to pay a visit to Murmansk.
MOOSE PLAN MEETING
FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 30 (U. P.). —Officers of the state Moose . organization voted here yesterday to hold their 1940 convention at Evansville Sept. 19, 20 and 21. H. L. Mintch, president, called another meeting for early next year at Evansville.
of the 41-man American crew on]
Earnest Paul Pletch . . . Poriders
_ THE INDIANAPOLIS
As Coroner's Jury. Returns Open Verdict
Feeling. Runs High Against ‘Lochinvar’ After Confession to Murder.
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field’s 7000 residents. today and Pletch was being kept in Macon’s modern concrete and steel jail, 33 miles from Brookfield. “Bring that boy here and I'm afraid they won’t need any trial,” Brookfield’s Night Police Chief, Clyde Cassidy, said, but a statement early today from Mrs. Etta Bivens, widow of the flier, had a
J quieting affect.
“Take good care of that fellow,” she said. “I want him handled by the law so he can never do any harm to anybody else. But I do not want a mob to get him or any lynching. Mrs. Bivens indicated she might ask that an additional charge of robbery be made against Pletch. Her husband, she said, probably had several hundred dollars in his possession Friday, the proceeds from the sale of his garage to Ray Hunter, fellow mechanic.
Called “Flying Lochinvar”
Pletch, christened “The Flying Lochinvar” last summer when he stole a plane and kidnaped Goldie Gehrken, an Illinois farm girl he wished to marry, appeared calm in his cell after an all-night drive from Indianapolis. He had been captured Saturday night on a hillside near Bloomington, Ind., where he had landed the
i [stolen plane a few hours after
=~ Wages of Sin in the Sky.
a too, for Governiient officials fiot to be nefitral in talk, and upon that was based, I believe, the opposition to the. present bill.” He said he thought the bill might have been somewhat strongér, and recalled that he had offered ‘an amendment. that would have established a 300-mile restricted zone for American ships around European waters. This was turned down on the grounds that the President has such authority, Mr. Taft declared.
Recommends ‘Zone’
“And I believe that if Germany should declare unrestricted warfare, the President would establish some such zone.” . : Of his political ambitions, Senator Taft said only that he was going about the country” meeting as many Republican leaders as possible.” They plan to leave for Cleveland
tonight.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record County City 20 1
—Oct. 28-29— 2| Accidents “il SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT
Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid
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MEETINGS TC na Revidli tan Women's Rally, 3 | Ho tel, 10 a. In Bar ‘Association, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, 12:30 p. Club, Nincheon, Board Trade. n *Ciub, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, EE ingt Republican C1), 54462 "Washington St.. 8 p. Indiana ls Press: Club, dinner, 48 Moni ment Circle. sh B coorth Side altors, luncheon, Canary Cone ana “University Club, luncheon, Counis Ol MEETINGS TOMORROW Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, oon. Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, Mercator Club. luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,
~Oniversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
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meeting,
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clu noon theran Service ‘Club, luncheon, Canary
ottal noon ote ® jen 's Club. luncheon, ¥Y. M. C. A, noén.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records fn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors un names and addresses.
Donald Reachert, 23, L2H ey c LF a C! y Zimmer, 20, Arthur F ovigant, 4 48, Indianapolis: Sylvia Her R. 2 Box 439.
Juachech, noon.
of 1238 Hiatt; Finley.
Richard” Petty, yn of 1004 N. Delaware; | is no.
Sarah Shannon, of 230 Samuel Scalf, 36, of 534 Chase; Jennie
of wn Oliver. 2401 Guitord;
tf 2401 Guilford. of 2402 Park; Eilee
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Wilbur Sanford,- 36, of 5001 W. MichiR W. 33d. Eder; 00 N. “iceystone; Her ™ Main, x of 230 Mink-
. Merrill Sheffield;
a, Ind. Fred Young, . 10th; Ruby Smith, 32, “Bridgeport, Ind. i Morg 20. .% 2720 Clif-
lis. 1353 Silver; Minnesota. Freda
C ey. 0, Edith Perry. 23. of aly RS gs ar. Vis, ON Schmidt, 24%, 535 N. Davidson. Ernest, Prough, 33, of 1123 S. 11th, New Castle, Ind.; Mary Reynolds, 33, of 3519 College. F t.
Benton Shook, 22; of
. 2626 E. Michigan. 23, of 221 Wood; Cleona
0 E118 N. Warman; i is, 30. Wot os Ta K294; 0 Yanda Smith, 33. of 62nd St. and Michi-
an Road. David Vehour, 22, of 99 N. Patterson. Franklin, Ind.; ME Draste, 19, of 1416
Lawndale. William Luker, -of Champaign, Ill;
Mildred ‘rutewier. is, of Indianapolis.
BIRTHS ; Girls Lee, May Carpenter, at Methodist. Harold, Gladys Kiewitt, at Methodist. John, Norene Farmer, at Methodist. Leland, Florence Venable, at Methodist. Maurice, Clara Healey, at St. Vincent's. celaWrence, Vernetta Harkness, at St. Vin«Joseph, Catherine Mazelin, at St. Vincent’ Clayton, Beatrice Roberson, at St. Fran-
gary. Bessie Pingleton, at 330'2 N. EuAnthony, Pauline Pierce. at 212 XN; Rura Paul, Adel Weber. at €23 S. k James, Francis Taylor, at 1215 S. Da
Wins, Ruby Huddleston, at 536 Birch. Boys Joseph. Ann Maloof. at Methodist. Guy, Gilberta Kornblum, at Fo ethodist, Loren, Ida Shimer, at St. Francis. Seldon, Irene Johnson. at St. Franeis. Elmer, Helen Beck, St. Fr. Ralph. Thelma Teare, at Maurice, Willa: Dean Noel, at Cit Jesse, Mae White. at 1804 Northwestern.
CORRECTION
last Thursday’s edition of The Times girl had been born to William and Mary Beal at St. Vincent's Hospital. This was an error. The baby . w
DEATHS
Barbara Sanbert, 8 mos, at Riley, broncho-pneumonia. one} yatt, 83. at 1534 Deloss, coronary Ele. Kiefer, 76, at 1417 Prospect, coronary thrombosis. Amos Raufiman, 87, at 1442 8. Harding,
. |epitheliom.
Lillie ‘Andress. 77, at 908 E. Georgia,
a, | carcinom
TY. 4, anda Williams, & oF
PF. Bowen, 22, of 2306 B - Mildred Koers, 21, of 635 N. Fook.
n, 24, of 2146 HAT Ife Vil pit Bw h 0 roit, h Ph His Whey, 40, ne Jersey. 9, Cc Minetta BR Se. of 2129 An id
Th Rash 35, ¢634r of edpicl! =n i, 698 E. Doris Snyder, 22, of 21. of 51% HEE sos 8 Delsware Dorothy : Alice ® %. in GE
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John 2 Ison, 45, at Central, pulmonary
William Wilham, 66, at 1218 Orange, carcinoma, ge Brownlee, 51, at 327 Agnes, purulent otitis media. Martin Collins. 57, at 1154 Concord, cor. onary thrombosis. Frank Petty, 68. at City, ulcerated colitis.
cho-pneumonis. Norma Tillberry, *3 months, at City,
iar: "Wiis" Cocherl, 74, at Methodist, arterioHenry Lang, 73, at Methodist, pulmonary | N embolism
cho-pneumonia. George McLoskey, 89, at 42 W. 1ith, chronic myocardit is. a senberg. 84, at 1902 N. Tliinois, Shronic. EI mois: Samuel
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Sam DuShane, 84, at St. Vincent's, bron- Los 3 Miami.
a Eiser, 64, at St. Vincent's, bron-|0O
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Ludvic Scholem, 46, at Veteran's, onary occl Emma E cinoma.
FIRES SUNDAY 12:38 A. M.—Stockyards Hotel, short circuit in motor. 12:42 A. M.—1928 Boulevard, trash 1:31 A M.—Rader and 25¢h, malicious false alarm. 12:38 P. M.—28 E. :14th, cleaning shop, Ir oy J smoke, 6 M.—3100 N. Keystone,
M. — 2418 Coyner,
M.—814 Marion, residence, scare. —581 N. L pn, residence, Hal-
M.—Pine and E Michigan, mali-
automo-
smoke 3 pe. residence, 417 PB.
. cious faise alarm. :
M.—E. St. Clair and East, malicious faise alarm. MS nsigner and Miller, mali-
cious false ala MONDAY —East and Orange, malicious
—1042 W. 43d, car and ga-
1:09 A. M. false plerm,
Ky.; | rage. cause .unknown. $300. :50 A. M.--1046
W. 43d. garage, communication from 1042. 25. 1:50 M., 1048 43d, garage, com-
Rader ind 25th, malicious
’ munication from 1043,
false alarm.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Bureau a.
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and cooler tonight, with light to heavy frost;
ture. Sunrise ...... 6:12 |. Sunset. ....... 4:45
TEMPERATURE —October 30, 1938—
6 a.
6:30 a. m
Precipitation for 24 hours at 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1 ./
Midwest Weather Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow: cooler except Zong e Michigan, with light cav rost tonight; slowly rising temperature tomorrow.
Minols—Cienerzlly fair tonight and tomorrow; light to heavy frost; colder in extreme south and extreme east-central portions tonight; rising temperature tonIorrow. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloud ton) ht and NOTE with some light ra snow in northwest and extreme an boo tions tomorrow: colder in south central and extreme east tonight; slowly rising Seiperature tomorrow. hio—Cloudy, slightly colder, receded by Nght Lod pong the Jake and in €Xortion tonig omorrow slightly" colder in extreme east
" Kentucky—artly cloudy and colder, ceded by light rain in extreme past Portion tonight; tomorrow fair, colder in east port ome
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
Station Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, N. Chicago Cincinnati Slevelang
Den Ci Dopaer City, Kas. .... Helena, Mont. Jacksonville, Fla.’ Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. An Sle
reme fair ortion
Mi pol Mobile, Ala
Biiisbuign: Portland, Ore. San Antonio, rei, 0s C San Francisco ... 3t. 2 Lo uis :
Brown, 78, a Patngouin, pneu- Ts
U.S. Sure to Stay Out Of War,” Taft Predicts
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Mrs. Katharyn Kennedy Brown of Dayton, National G. O. P. Committeewoman from Ohio, was to give greetings from club women of that state at the women’s luncheon.
RELIEF CLAIM SUITS LEFT UP TO QUINN
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likely that the grand jurors will be ready to return a partial report this week. He said his deputy prosecutors and investigators will take up the study of claims for coal, clothing “and the whole business” probably later this week. Thus far, it was indicated, the investigation of milk and grocery claims has not been completed.
No arrests on affidavits are anticipated within the next few days, Mr. Lewis said. At the start of the Grand Jury probe, two men were arrested on charges of filing false claims. The first arrested was John Barton Griffin, a “favorite” milk route operator, and - son-in-law of Mr. Quinn. Waits On Committee The other was Dan R. Anderson,
operator of two “favorite” relief groceries. Mr. Anderson was cam-
tomorrow fair with slowly rising tempera- :
38 SIS a what happened to it. The chancellery, where death penalties for robbery—soon
paign manager for Mr. Quinn last year. Meanwhile, announcement of the personnel of a committee named by Mr. Quinn and the Township Advisory Board to put the Township’s relief administration on a businesslike basis, was delayed pending acceptances from those named on the committee. Three have accepted and the two others were to decide today, Mr. Quinn said. The committee, according to the trustee, will be given a complete description of the present political favoritism system, and will be asked to recommend a completely new system removing the objections which led to the Grand Jury investigation.
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tanks for gas which is a byproduct
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_|of synthetic brown coal gasoline,
Taxicabs are rare and to be used only when no other form of con-
3 veyance is available. It is the smart 61thing for women to bicycle now. . But the opera and the theaters
are filled—even more than before the war. Supper and dancing places are patronized about as usual. In restaurants there is no warm food served between 3 p. m. and 6 p. m. and shops close for three hours every afternoon. ‘Retail stocks are scarcer, but most of the queues in the street to purchase limited supplies have disappeared. Many articles are absent from the shelves of shops and stores, however, and literally hundreds of others can be purchased only ‘with Special permits which are
application. There are many other signs of
2P-|the war, too. Some schoolhouses
near the center of Berlin fly the Red Cross flag. There are hospital beds where school benches used+to be. Big resort hotels have been turfied into military hospitals.
Generals Draw Crowd
On the famous Unter Den Linden there are groups of weather-rough-ened soldiers on leave. me of them can always be seen peering into a shop window which displays the new type of iron ‘cross. Another of their favorite shows maps of the former ‘Polish
ot ve
doled out sparingly upon special ances
ows | posed
stunting it over the farm home of
| his parents at Frankfort, Ind.
His mother, Mrs. Guy Pletch, sent the informatioi to Indiana police which resulted his capture. ° Pletch Sticks to Story
. During his two days in Brookfield, where he drove in his sister’s car, he and Bivens became close friends, Pletch told police. Bivens told him that he was in financial difficulty and together they decided to steal the plane, owned by Thomas Watson, Brookfield druggist. Mr. Bivens was highly regarded in Brookfield and authorities believed that Pletch’s motive was a desire to steal the plane which he could obtain in no other way than slaying its custodian, who took excellent care of it. But Pletch stuck to his story. He said that after they left the Brookfield Airport, Bivens got “cold feet.” They argued, finally fought, and the plane went into a nose dive. To prevent it crashing, he shot Bivens in the back of the head, he said, and to prevent him “freezing” the controls, he assured authorities, he shot him a second time. He then landed, tossed out the body, took off again. A mile further east he landed again to get gasoline from a construction gang. iday night he spent with a farmer at Nelsonville. Saturday morning he took off for Frankfort.
» The sorrowing parents of Earnest au “flying Romeo,” were back at their prosperous farm home near Frankfort, Ind., today as he faced murder charges in Missouri. | Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pletch, and Miss Pauline Pletch, the flier’s sister, visited him in the Marion Coun-
ty jail yesterday afternoon and told |
him to “make your peace with God.” As they left, Mrs. Pletch and Miss Pletch were sobbing. Mr. Pletch, who some time ago had told acquaintances that his son probably would do something desperate ‘one of these days,” was tight lipped.
RASKOB ON STAND INANTI-TRUST SUIT
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Oct. 30 (U. P.).—John J. Raskob, wealthy “father” of General Motors Acceptance Corp., and a director of General Motors Corp., related the history of automobile financing in Federal Court - today. He was a witness in the Government’s anti = trust prosecution against General Motors, GMAC, two affiliates and 17 individuals.
CONNIE TALMADGE WED NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (U. P.).— Constance Talmadge, former movie star, and her fourth husband, Walter Giblin, a broker, will Rave to postpone their honeymoon for two months, they said today, because his business will keep him in New York. They were married Saturday.
youthful Blackshirts gooss.sien in the Guard, is another spot for idle spectators. They see the generals and the sta en going and coming, but they s ldom see Adolf Hitler. The long lines of dusty trucks and ambulances that sped through the streets after the Polish campaign have ce Except for families of the dead, few people speak much about the Polish warfare. Letters that frauleins receive nowadays from soldier beaus are postmarked in the Rhineland. | Food always is a foremost thought, but authorities repeatedly reassure the people that there is no danger-of another period such as the British blockade brought in the world War. Still there is strict rationing of food and that sometimes has caused apprehension among the people despi‘e the official reassur-
Blackouts Bother Public
Portly busihessmen can be seen in ‘any restaurant—even the most fashionable — obediently handing over little pink ration tickets for their schnitzels, if their wives have been able to spare the tickets from
: the home supply.
The other great inconvenience, which. also is a depressing factor, is the nightly blackout. Darkness and a sense of being sealed in their homes ‘bothers these people who always loved community song and When the blackout was first imtraffic accidents rose and the robbery curve .shot upward, but drastic punishment — including ra
Pletch, 29-year-old Hoosier|
EMBARGO BILL BEGINS DEVIOUS
HOUSE JOURNEY
| Rules Committee Prepares
Motion to Send Measure To Conference.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P.).— The House today prepared for consideration of the Neutrality Bill tomorrow by agreeing unanimously to
night to file a rule providing that the bill be sent to conference. The death of Rep. Chester C. Bolton (R.. O.) had complicated the situation. The House wished to adjourn out of respect to Mr. Bolton, but under House rules could not begin the neutrality debate tomorrow unless the rules were filed today. Granting of a unanimous consent request by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn (D:. Tex.) removed that complication.
Oklahomans Back Repeal
The nine-man Oklahoma Democratic House delegation, at a meeting just before the House convened, agreed unanimously to support the Administration, bill, members said. When the House last voted on the arms embargo issue three members voted against the Administration, and four in favor of repeal of the arms embargo. Both sides conceded that the House vote, expected Wednesday night or Thursday, would be close. Administration leaders said their polls indicated a repeal majority of not more than 30 votes. Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.), opposing repeal, predicted the embargo would be retained, but by less than 10 votes.
Clear-Cut Test Assured
The Rules Committee will recommend that. the House refuse to agree to Senate amendments to the House Neutrality Bill, which was passed last June 30. This will send the measure to conference with the Senate. Although the House technically will be rejecting the Administra-tion-approved Senate Bill by adopting the Rules Committee report tomorrow, the action will not be significant - since Administration leaders have agreed to the procedure to make possible a clear-cut test on the embargo issue. The decisive House vote will come immediately after this action when Speaker William B. Bankhead (D. Ala.) entertains a motion to instruct the House conferees to insist on retention of the modified arms embargo which the House wrote into its bill last June by a 41-vote majority last June.
/ 50 Or 80 Hold Bill's Fate
House debate will find the fate of the bill. in the hands of a small group of about 70 or 80 House members still publicly uncommitted on the issue. Indiana’s Congressional delegation probably will divide, 8 to 4, on the Neutrality Bill. All Democrats except Rep. Louis Ludlow will be for it. Republicans are against it. All of the Hoosier Republicans opposed the Bloom Bill in the last session.
Ludlow Favors Embargo
Rep. Ludlow, author of the War Referendum Amendment resolution,
bargo. He advocates selling nothing to belligerents. Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.), World War veteran and member of
|the House Military Affairs Commit-
tee, declares that, he does not believe in the principle of neutrality
the arms embargo now in the belief that this represents the overwhelming sentiment of his district.
STABILIZATION FUND
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P). —The Treasury Department’s $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund has shown a net profit of $15,055,650 since it was set up on Jan. 30, 1934, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.
said today. The fund been virtually inoperative si outbreak of the European war os France and
Britain have instituted exchange
control.
Uncensored News From Berlin Reveals German People Ready for Anything
cut down on the toll. Illustrated newspapers cartooned the funny side of the blackout, showing romantic couples in- the dark and poppa stubbing his toe. But the darkness gnd. the food
of war, despite. neutral estimates that there is no acute food shortage at present although there is considerable mal-administration. \The German people did not want the war. They had believed Herr Hitler would ‘solve the Pblish problem without war and they believ he could avoid a conflict with B ain and France and that he would devote the nation’s efforts to restoring normal conditions at home.
Nazis Blame England
+ They had a degree of pride in the Army’s successes in Poland. There was the same ore greater ‘pride in such achievements as the bold’ torpedoing of the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow. But none of ‘these things answered Moe question: “Why are we fighting in the West?” Nazi propaganda has hammered home the answer. It is a charge that England is out “to rob Germany of her vital rights and to starve German women. and children.” France, the Nazis say, is only being “misled and driven by England.” That often repeated charge has made its impression. But the average German is still puzzled about the new tie-up with Soviet Russia’s Communists, who had been denounced for years. He also is wondering why Italy has not
ed herself at Germany's side with sword in hand,
give the Rules Committee until mid- |
will oppose lifting the arms em-|
by law, but will vote against lifting |
GAINS $15,000,000|.
cards keep the people actutely aware] .
Crash Victim
Millicent Mouser, killed with her fiance in an auto crash on Road 431 at 86th St. last night, will be buried at his side in Memorial Park Cemetery following funeral services at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the + Woodruff Place Baptist Church.
WINTER FALLS (ON WEST FRONT
Windsor Urges Knitting; London Raid Alarm Called ‘Mistake.’
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British steamer Malabar of 7976 tons was sunk in the Atlantic with loss of five men trapped in the engine room. , Seventy were saved. Two British fishing trawlers, the first of the war, also were sunk. The sinkings raised the toll of British shipping to 30,000 in the last week, but October’s toll was sharply down from that of September. Fuehrer Hitler emphasized his desire to remain in uniform by canceling plans to go to his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden until after the end of the war. But what his plans for ending the war are was
not revealed as he conferred with Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering .and kept in close touch with Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of armed forces. It was indicated that Herr Hitler would inspect Nazi garrisons around Berlin in the next few days. German Ambassador to Italy Hans von Mackenson left Rome for a few days in Berlin, where he was
the situation in the Balkans follow-
S.
expected to report to Herr Hitler on
SHIP U. S. REFUSES NAZI PROTEST ON 50 MILLION
Awards Made in Black Tom And Kingsland Cases by | Justice Roberts. | :
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P), —The German-American Mixed Claims Commission, acting over the “emphatic” protest of the: German Government, today announced awards of 50 million dollars to
|claimants for damages suffered in
the Black Tom and Kingsland, N. J, explosions just prior to the United - States entry into the World War. This action was taken at a brief meeting during which the German Government, through a note to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, sought to quash the procedings. Supreme Court Justice Owen J, Roberts, the umpire during the negotiations, approved the awards, involving 153 American and Canae dian claimants, which amounted to $21,157,227.01 plus interest at 5 per cent over a 20-year period. .
Involve Sabotage Charge
The claimants charged that the
explosions were caused by German sabotage of American-made munie tion stores at those big depots. During the Commission's: meeting t h e American Commissioner, Christopher Garnet, made public an exchange of correspondence bee tween Hans Thomsen, the German charge d'affaires, and Secretary Hull. Dr. Thomsen presented his Government's “emphatic representa< tions” against the proceedings of the commission. Secretary Hull's correspondence rejected the Gere. man position. : Dr. Thomsen charged that ever since the German Commissioner, Dr. Victor Hueécking, had withdrawn from the proceedings in protest to the = Commission's activities, all sessions of the commission were nothing but “rump” sessions. He Bemis Mr. Justice Roberts of. “ as.” 3 Hull Denies Jurisdiction
Mr. Justice Roberts was chosen as umpire by both the United States and Germany before Adolf Hitler came to power. Secretary Hull said that the come mission is outside State Department jurisdiction but that he had “entire confidence in the ability and ine tegrity” of Mr. Justice Roberts and believed that the withdrawal of the German Commissioner “was dee signed to frustrate or postpone ine Sehutigly the work of the Commise sion.” t Only about $23,000,000 is- on de posit. to pay the claims. Germany is expected to refuse to pay. the rest and perhaps to seek an injunction
against any payments | under today’s award.
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