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years entitled him. : When he lay down his heart | hurt him. So it was easier to go on tending the garden and orBULLETIN : PARIS, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—The - Council of Ministers will meet at

Es rE AS NAZIS POUR INTO FRONT LINE

Paris Says Patrols Active; Berlin Claims French ~~ _~Mttacks Fail.

PARIS, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—A heavy German assault on the Western Front was awaited today after 48 hours of intensified patrol activity which synchronized with large-scale troop movements behind the German lines. : Movements of more ‘German soldiers -into the front line coincided ~ {with the arrival of heavy reinforcements, French military dispatches said. The intensified patrol activity, experts said, seemed the forerunner of a heavy attack. ; French War Office Communiqu

“THURSDAY, NOv.5, 19 _ “HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __ Hitler Misses Death By 10 MinutesWhen ~ Bomb Kills 8 Nazis

Germans Blame British, French Blame Gestapo; 60 Hurt, but None of Seriously Injured Is Party Leader.

Nazi Propaganda Comes to Jersey

chard, and keeping active. He felt better. : is

On Nov. 3 he fell from ‘a ladder as he was gathering pears in his orchard. He was brought into Methodist Hospital and last night died of injuries received in that fall. ; He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mabel White, .of the. home, three miles northwest of Cumberland, and two sons, Harry Weise, Peoria, Ill.,"\and Russell Weise, Dayton, O. : " Puneral services will be held at the residence at 2 p. m. Saturday, with burial in Memorial Park.

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LONDON, Nov. 9 (U. P).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain today reiterated Britain's intention “not to lay down her arms” until she has been assured that “Europe has been freed from the threats which long. pave paralyzed the life of her peoples.”

The explosion occurred at 9:21 p. m. Practically all the leading Nazis had accompanied Herr Hitler to the station, where he entrained for Berlin immediately. “In all previous years, it had been customary for the Fuehrer to begin his big speech about 8:30 p. m. and he usually ended #bout 10 p.m.,” the official announcement said. “This time, because of the brief time available for him to stay in Munich,

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\ 53, holder of the “blood order” and member Qf the company of Brown Shirt Emil Kasberger, 54, local Nazi official in Munich. - Eugen Schacht, 32, oldest member of Nazi motor propaganda unit. Weber, 37, radio speaker

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in travelling propaganda unit. Leonard Reindl, 57, office clerk. Maria Henle, 30, cashier in the beer cellar, 2 The official list of the injured totalled 63. Some of theme were in critical condition.

British Note “Coincidence”

Nazis denied vehemently a report broadcast this morning by the French radio station at Strasbourg that the Gestapo had planned the off some

aa Party. “We can only desc the story

as criminal,” a spokesman said. “The fact that Strasbourg described the report as emanating from Amsterdam by way of Berlin we regard as an insult to the Netherlands’ flag and honor.” ‘British officials suggested today that there was an apparent similarity between the Munich beer cellar explosion last night and the Reichstag fire, from the ashes of which the Nazi dictatorship arose. They said it was a “coincidence of conspicuous _ fotune” that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler had left the beer cellar and coupled that coincidence with the fact that no Nazi Party officials were in the hall at the time of the explosion. A crowd of several hvndred stood in a drizzling rain outside the Chancellory but Herr Hitler did not

appear. Couniry Is Angry

He had reacited the Chancellory at 10:30 a. m. after an all-night train ride from Munich. He had been spared the sight of the explosion that brought down the ceiling on a screaming mass of men and women who had been helping him celebrate the 16th anniversary of his beer hall “putsch.” The force of the explosion had even torn out and destroyed some of the heavy sceiling joists and left the Nazi shrine in ruins. ° An unprecedented furor swept the country through the night. .The general theory was that someone had sneaked into the attic over the famous beer hall, taking advantage of the “black-out” and the labyrinth of passages and exits in the block of old warehouses and apartment buildings, and had planted a bomb there, probably a time bomb that failed to catch Herr Hitler because he left earlier than he ordinarily leaves the anniversary celebrations. : There were 500 persons packed inside the hall and 1000 crowded outside it. The explosion rocked the neighborhood, shattering windows blocks away. Police cordoned off the wreckage and lifted the blackout restrictions while the dead and injured were carried away. Even had there been no casualties, the bombing would have been considered sacrilege by the Nazi— worse, perhaps, than the burning of tv’. Reichstag, forerunner to the anti-Communist campaign and Herr Hitler's rise to absolute power. This ar is where Hitler plotted the revolution: Down with the came the chalk-marked board containing the famous bullet hole made by Herr Hitler's revolver, when 16 years ago last night, he rushed in through the reek of smoke and beer, fired the shot and shouted: “The revolution is on.” Herr Hitler, apparently, was not present when the bomb went off. He had finished his 57-minute speech at 9:08 p. m. (2 p. m. Indianapolis Time) and had loitered pnly three minutes with his old gronies before hurrying away to attend to “urgent affairs of state.”

his speech was advanced one-half hour. “His speech, which usually lasted one and one-half hours, yesterday lasted scarcely one hour. Consequently, the Fuehrer finished his speech shortly after 9 p. m. “If the meeting had proceeded as in previous years, all the leaders of the party would have been sitting where the bomb exploded. “Last night the hall was a vast pile of ruins. This is explained primarily by the fact that the only

pillar supporting the ceiling was | broken by the explosion sc it could |: not support the ceiling, which| crashed down with all the debris of | :

the joists and props.” Ready for 5-Year War

In his speech, Fueher Hitler had |!

announced that the day war started he had informed Air Marshal Hermann Goering to prepare for five years war. He said Germany was ready to act in a “language Britain will understand”—a threat observers took to mean an intensified air and submarine campaign.

Throughout his speech Herr Hit- :

ler heaped derision on the British, especially First Lord of Admiralty Winston Churchill, but said little of the French. He said Germany, like Britain, wanted an end of wars, but that this could not be until Britain is

forced to abandon “its attempt to|:

establish a police dictatorship” over the world. Herr Hitler spoke sarcastically of British assertions that the Allies are fighting to protect civilization and to restore justice.- He said Germany was fooled once when great ideals were held out after the last war, and’ would not be duped again. “When Britain today says she. is fighting for culture and the freedom of civilization, that is only for laughter in Germany,” he said. The real British reason, he implied, is that they hate Nazi Germany. “The British hate the fact that

we abolished unemployment and]

wiped out social discrimination,” he said. “The British hate the fact that we are developing s fresh, strong youth. They hate the fact that we are helping ourselves ecoad through the four-year

“All Lies,” He Cries

He described the German-Soviet agreement as “a triumph of common sense” and noted that Britain had not declared war on Russia when the Soviets took over a large part of Poland. He regarded that as proof that Britain was hypocritical in her statements that she went to war in defense of Poland. : Sareastivally, 2 referred to the 10Ity 1deals put forwar World War: Pp 9 Sileriie “Where is the much vaunted freedom of peoples? Where are all the promises regarding colonies? Where is the assurance of general disarmament? All lies!” The veterans of the Nazi Party, who were gathered around him in the beer cellar, laughed as their leader recalled the British assertations that once more they are fighting for justice, for self-determina-tion of peoples, for civilization.

Points to British Slums

“Only in the British mining regions, only in their slums, is there civilization,” Herr Hitler chided. “We are convinced that there will be war as long as there is no just division of the world’s riches,” the Fuehrer declared.

citizens.

MUNICH BOMB MAY FIRE WAR

Gemany Applies Pressure To Neutrals, Hovers Over Dutch.

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timed'4o rouse the German people to the highest pitch of fighting determination, ready to die on the battlefield or suffer privation in a long war of blockade. The Germain press leaped into action and began its bitter denunciations almost: before the smoke had cleared from the ruins in Munich. The Communists were blamed for the Reichstag fire; the entire Jewish people for the assassination of an undersecretary of .the German Embassy in Paris; now England is the deep-dyed villain, with the Jews mentioned only in the remote background. ’

England and France that the outrage was. engineered by the Nazis themselves to whip up the people to the proper fever heat. The whisperers made capital of the fact that Herr Hitler and all the big Nazis were safely away before. the explosion occurred. The insinuation aroused bitter indignation in Germany. Obviously it was no- more supported by facts than the charge that the Reichstag fire was set by the Nazis themselves to open the door for extermination of the Communists. Yet thousands of British and French, in the heat of war, will be willing to believe it.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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MEETINGS TODAY lis Real Estate Board, lunchco 0a Washington, noon. e.. Yinelh lub of Indiana . lunchoa? oh Athletic Club, noon. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

: ( Business Club, luncheon, Inaa Athiete Club, noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon

Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple, noon I

© Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon.

tion f_ Indianapolis, I oe enitaon and” Builders build

, noon. : Ing disnapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 East Ninth St. 8 p.m. / Beta Theta Pi, Piuncheon, Canary Cot-

, n. a ian Association of Insurance Agents, State fpavention, Indianapolis Athletic ay. ‘Alliance > 4 Francaise. dinner, Hotel Wash- . +82 I. ianapolis Association of Industrial Adtertisers, dinner, Hotel Washington, :30 p. m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, Bo piimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. < a Detla Theta, luncheon, Canary Cot- , Noon. ta Tam Delta, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary Cottage, Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Washdiane Section, American Society of En . Central Indiana

Seclety 5% Electrical Baan can eers, int dinner, Washingto; 6 p. . i . on of America,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible Yor errors in names and addresses. Jol Driskell, 57, of Indianapolis; Hel THOS BE oF 005 3 Hoianapalls; Helen ank William Cook, 20, of R. R. 10, Box 68; Laura Marie Nelson, 19, of 431 N. Gladstone.

Blandell Leon Hutson, 33, of MartinsTae Bessie Lee Brewer, 33, of 838 N.

Joseph A Herman, 65, of Beech Grove; Zilpha Ward, 52, of Beech Grove.

BIRTHS

: + Boys Leonard, Dolly Collins, at City. George, Ella Artley, at City. J Bessie Brown, at City. . Elliott, at Coleman. Paul, Mary Beckley, at St. Vincent's Alvin, Frances Yetter, at St. Vincent's. Francis, ‘Frances Barrett, at St. Vin-

cent’s. Iser, Dorothy Shellenberg, at St. Vin-

c 5 Morris, Mary Ayers, at Methodist. Herman, Vera Strube, at Methodist. Edgar, Marie Voyles, at Methodist. Donald, a Carter, at 311 N. Pine, Bryon, Rita Bennett, at 1629 Finley. Girls John, Mildred Crooke, at Coleman. coiliiam, Elizabeth Ann Springer, Max, Elberta Kendall, at St. Vincent's. Elvin, Helen Lile, af 1208 Kappes. Fred, Evelyn Denzio, at 546 E. io.

DEATHS

William Bradford, 64, at Long, intestinal obstruction. Oscar Dubois, 68, at Canal, drowning. Arndt Ethel, 36, at Coleman, pneumonia. John Lugenbell, 78, at 2901 N, Delaware, coronary occlusion. Dee Barnes, 54, at 2850 Kenwood, carcinoma. . Sarah E. White, 68, ‘at 241 N. Pershing, coronary thrombosis. Thomas Genver, 53, at City, pulmonary tuberculosis. Jacob Deuser. 75, at 2701 Massachusetts, gastro enteritis. : rainy Punni , 17, at 120 W. 26th, chronic myocarditis. Fg ahoney. 81, at 414 N. Walcott, chronic myocarditis. Oma Phillips, 45, at Methodist, pulmonary embolism. Cora Campbell, 58, at 1135 N. Warman, cerebral hemorrhage. Andrew Brodhecker, coronary occlusion.

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FIRES Wednesday 7:52 A. M.—2536 Eastern, residence, $35. 9:16 A. M.—229 N. Edison, overheated

stove. - - 10:02 A. M.—1745 S. Keystone, sparks

from flue, $10. 12-06 P. M.—1505 N. Delaware, residence, (402 P. M.—437 E. Market, parking lot,

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fire, loss unestimated. : Thursday , 12:33 A. M.—115 N. Forest, residence under construction, sparks from heater. 1:09 A. M.—725 Gardner, packing plant, Sparks from smoke house, -loss unesti5:05 A. M.—725 Gardner, packing plant, Sparks from smoke house, loss unestimated.

OFFICIAL WEATHER | __ United States Weather Bureau —

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Unsettled with occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight. with lowest temperature above freezing; colder tomorrow afternoon. :

Sunrise

6.24 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE . =Nov. 9, 1938— “iia. 30 1pm ....... 51

‘BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. .... 30.36 Pi

Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m..... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jah. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

' Indiana—Occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight; colder tomorrow in central and north portions. Illinois—Occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight; colder ‘tomorrow in central and north portions. Lower Michigan—Rain ton: gh or hy tomorrow, warmer tonight; colder in central and west portions tomorrow afternoon. . Ohio—Rain tonight or by tomorrow; warmer tonight, colder in central and west portions tomorrow afternoon. , Kentucky—Mostly cloudy (and warmer tonight and tomorrow, showers tomorrow; Saturday rain and colder. . |

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. .......Cloudy 29.83 57 Bismarck, N. D. ...... Cioudy © 29.72 Boston . P Sa

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Thousands of these German propaganda leaflets were received through the mail by New Jersey Pictured is part of the text of circulars mailed to residents in Essex, Bergen and Passaic Counties, charging Britain had supplied the Polish armies with poison gas.

French Accept U.S. Neutrality

PARIS, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—France and Britain never will compromise the neutrality of the United States, Finance Minister Paul Reynaud said today in a speech before an American Club luncheon at the Inter-Allied Club. “It is not men that the French republic and the British Empire need,” M. Reynaud said. “It is arms, materials and machines.” He urged wider. exchanges with the United States as “one of the aspects of liberty.”

RELIEF JURY VELS ACTS IN MYSTERY

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week. It was learned that the same witness heard was before the Grand Jury - yesterday an dthe extra session was for the purpose of completing his testimony,

Examination Is Begun

Mr. Garrison said the jury next week would begin meeting at 9 a. m. instead of 9:30 a. m., because of the press of business. The relief probe may require another -three weeks to complete, he said, adding that there is little possibility of even a partial report being made by the jury within less than two weeks. : : Meanwhile, a field examiner for the State Accounts Board began a preliminary examination of the relief administration setup in the office of Center Township Thomas M. Quinn, preparatory to revising’ it on a business-like “foolproof” basis. : The Board’s assistance was requested of : Edward - P. Brennan, chief examiner, yesterday by Mr. Quinn and Leo X. Smith, township attorney. : eri + - Arrests Follow Admission The Grand Jury investigation, which has - developed evidence of numerous false claims filed against the township by certain vendors, followed Mr. Quinn’s admission to The

_! Indianapolis Times a month ago

that “political and family favoritism” ruled his distribution of relief patronage. At that time, he said he was going to remedy the situation. Two men have been arrested on affidavits charging false claims. They are John Barion Griffin, milk route operator and son-in-law of Mr. Quinn, and Dan R. Anderson, operator of two “favorite” groceries, and campaign manager for

1 DEAD IN RIOT LAID TO. OLD LABOR FEUD

GREENVILLE, Ky. Nov. 9 (U. P.) —Authorities today blamed a Jlapeup of an old labor feud between the United Mine Workers of America and its rival, ‘the Progressive Miners ‘Union, for a riot in whic one man was shot to death and 10 others were injured late yesterday. The riot occurred at a mine being opened 12 miles west of here by the Hart Coal Co. Sheriff Tuck O’Neil said apprcximately 300 men, whom he identified as members of the U. M. A, a C. 1. O. affiliate, began picketing the mine where about 30 men were working. He said some of ‘the pickets broke gate and fight and shooting started. . ing Robert. ‘Brown, ' 45, construction 3 Desintendent ‘at the mine, was

KOKOMO, PLANT CLOSES KOKOMO, Ind. Nov. 9. (U. P.).

38 '|—The branch plant of the Chrysler

Corporation here closed :today because the company strike in Detroit cut off its’ supply of materials. The

River after a relatively quiet after-

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3 PLOTS FAILED TOKILL HITLER

Bodyguard Shot in Austria; Other Attempts Cover 1-Year Period.

LONDON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—Seven previous attempts to kill Adolf Hitler in the past seven years were recalled today, along with the fact that in 1935 the rumors of plots against him became so persistent

that insurance premium rates against his death soared to 6 per cent. The most recent attempt prior to last night’s explosion at the Munich beer cellar was reported by Heinrich Himmler, Reich police chief, during Herr Hitler's tour of the Polish battle fields. No details were given. : The plotters went to work in 1932 when Herr Hitler was opposing Field Marshal von Hindenburg in the German presidential election. A dozen rifle shots were fired at a train in ‘which he was riding. In March, 1935, Copenhagen police discovered a plot to assassinate him and start a revolt in Germany. Many were arrested. ie In June, 1938, when Hitler was speaking in Vienna, a shot was fired at him from a window and a Storm Trooper killed. F Another attempt was made about the same time when his automobile was crossing the Prater River at Vienna. A shot fired at the car struck Julius Shreck, Herr Hitler’s bodyguard, and wounded him fatally. Shreck and Hitler had changed places in the car. : About this time it was reported that friends of Capt. Ernst Roehm, slain in the Nazi “bood purge,” had formed a secret organization known as “Roehm’s Avengers,” and that Hitler feared them. Se On Jan. 10, 1939, Ernst Niekisch, well-known Nationalist writer, . was sentenced at Berlin to life imprisonment after he and 20 others had been tried for plotting to kill Herr Hitler and other high Nazis. Fifty alleged minor’ participants also were convicted. Last August the Polish radio station reported that an attempt had been made to kill Herr Hitler at the Kroll Opera House. : It was just 16 years ago today, on Nov. 9, 1923, when Adolf Hitler was grazed by a bullet and 19 of his comrades were killed in Munich by police who thwarted the “march on Berlin” planned by him and Gen. Erich von Ludendorf in the “beer cellar putsch.” :

RULES HIGHER DEBT | TOP UP TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Congress will have to vote authority for exceding the 45-billion-dollar

forcing borrowing above that mark at-its session cnvening in January, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., said today. : He gave assurance that the public debt would not exceed that present limit before Congress meets in Janary. . , Mr. Morgenthau did not. believe that President Roosevelt would ask Congress to raise the. 45-billion-dol-lar borrowing ceiling. The present debt is $41,168,000,000, but the Sécretary said that the Treasury was “all right” at least until Congress reconvenes. :

SPIDERS SNAG THE LAW OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 9 (U. P).— Spiders are co-operating with motorists to beat the city treasury out of about $3 a day. Spider webs have clogged the apparatus

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throughout the night on the whole front. There were encounters and stiff local engagements between’ the Moselle and Saar Rivers.” The communique was one of the few since the start of the war which admitted more than mere routine operations at the front and military experts said that admission of “stiff local engagements” by the War Office was highly significant since it has been most reserved in all communiques issued since the start of hostilities.

gan last night east of the Moselle

noon. Four raiding parties, each comprising a company well supported by artillery, atacked French outposts 15 miles from the river. The French said the Germans were repulsed after “stiff engagements.”

Germany Claims French Attacks Are Repulsed

- BERLIN, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—The German Army High Command announced today that Reich troops had repulsed French attacks on the Western Front. The High Command said also that further reports showed that seven enemy planes, including one British, had been shot down in Western Front air battles Tuesday. Previously the Germans had placed the enemy losses at five planes. “During the past two days enemy attacks, in which participated units of about one or two companies, were repulsed southwest of Saarbruecken and southwest of Pirmasens,” the High Command announced. “In a counter-attack we succeeded in taking several prisoners.”

BASE PRICES QUOTED TO U .S., GRACE SAYS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P). —Eugene G. Grace, president of

eral Monopoly Committee today that his company quoted base prices to the U. S. Government but frequently sold below that price to private purchasers. Mr. Grace made this disclosure during questioning by Leon Henderson, Securities and Exchange Com mission member. Mr. Henderson remarked that Bethlehem and. all steel companies quoted base prices to the Government. Mr. Grace said he could not speak for other corporations but that his firm always quoted. the “base price on Government contracts. = ! “I think we lost a lot of Government business,” he said, “because our prices were too high.”

PASTORS ASK CHANGE IN NET FINALS DATE

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tions - department of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, ministerial groups in the northefn part of the state and Bishop Titus Lowe, resident bishop of Indianapolis for the Methodist Church. = ¢ The - Church Federation department’s protest said in part: : “We recognize basketball as a fine ‘clean sport, and are proud of the distinction it has brought to the field of Indiana sports, and the games played at any other time should have state-wide support. “But if the date for the finals is to he the day preceding Easter, thousands ‘of basketball fans will feel. that they must forego the pleasure of seein; them. ; “Furthermore, it must be evident that the celebration attending the results of the game will inevitably conflict with preparation for Easter services of worship.”

Discussion Is Invited

The Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, pastor of the Capitol Avenue Methodist Church, is chairman of the Federation department which sent the protest letter. Following its receipt, Commissioner Trester invited the Rev. Mr. Clegg and a committee of ministers ‘to discuss the matter with him. “He seemed courteous and sympathetic,” the Rev. Clegg said. “He assured us he would go to work on this.” ~The Rev. Mr. Clegg said the committee fixed no specific time in which it would expect an answer.

GIRL, 17, KIDNAPED; 'EX-CONVICT SOUGHT

NAMPA, Ida., Nov. 9 (U. P)—A 17-year-old girl identified only as “Tiny” Nichols was kidnaped today. Chief of Police J. L. Balderston broadcast an order for the arrest of a Donald W. Harper whom he iden-~ tified as an ex-convict. Chief Balderston said the girl and her abductor were in a stolen North] Dakota car presumably heading toward Oregon. gail * “Harper is dangerous and he is armed,” the chief warned.

HURD VISITS IN CITY After an absence. of four years, William Hurd, one-time Indianapolis building commissioner, stopped here today to visft old friends. Mr. Hurd, now connected with the Outdoor Advertising Co. has been at Purdue the last several wee

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H. H. Fout, Indianapolis, senior United Brethren bishop, and Bishop John S. Stamm, Harrisburg, Pa. senior Evangelical bishop, served as co-chairmen. Following the session here, fegional meetings will follow for possible changes in the proposed justments. The final drafts will be submitted to the general U. B. con-

there was here.”

He then derided the “stiff-necked

Conference in 1942 for ratification. Rules to Be Drawn

The two commissions are scheduled to work out before Saturday a “discipline” of rules for. the merged church, for which the name “United Evangelical Church” has been suggested. : Since the general conference of both churches have approved union in principle and since the two com-’

ing on the various: problems of union. for the last five years, only a few problems remain between the two denominations. Knottiest questions, besides that of ordaining women, are financial, involving the combination of the million -dollar-a-year publishing business and the pension funds and educational endowments belonging to the two churches.

Committees to Report

The committees which will report to the joint: commissions. here and their chairmen are: Incorporation and union, Dr. H. F. Schlegel, Harrisburg (Evangelical); itinerancy, Bishop C. H. Stauffacher, Kansas City (Evangelical); ministerial pensions, Bishop G. D. Datdorf (U. B.); ecclesiastical organization, Bishop - Stamm; membership and financial plan, Dr. A; P. Weaver (U. B); mission boards and fields, Bishop A. R. Clippinger, Dayton, O.; publishing interests, Bishop G. E. Epp, Naperville, Ill. (Evangelical); editorial boards, Bishop E. Nyy Tastorits, St. Paul (Evangelcal). : fh

Lord Mayor's luncheon at Mansion chequer Sir John Simon, the Prime peace effort by Queen Wilhelmina of Britain's distrust of Germany, on

which he laid responsibility for the war. :

Sir John read Mr. Chamberlain's

speech because the Prime Minister | is" confined to his bedroom by an’ acute attack of gout.

Rebukes ‘Stiff-Necked’ Nazis In his speech the Prime Minister

{wrote that “the war never would have come if, on the side of the German Government, been the same desire for peace as

there had

men to whom Germany has handed over the guidance of her destinies.”

“Events have shown,” he said,

ad- | “that they would be satisfied with nothing less than repetition of forci« ble attainment of their desires, which they had unsuccessfully tri before.” :

Mr. Chamberlain said that sin

the start of hostilities the position of the Allies has strengthened while that of Germany has deteriorated and he insisted that repeal of the American arms embargo had contributed greatly to the stronger pos sition of the Allies.

“The repeal of the neutrality act

in the United States reopens" for the Allies the greatest storehouse of supplies in the world.” Tension in Belgium Reported Increasing

BRUSSELS, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—A

Belgian Cabinet meeting was called for this afternoon as palace and Government quarters awaited replies {from belligerent powers to the peace appeal by King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina.

* Tension in the Belgian capital

was increased by announcement that several planes of unknown nationality had flown over Belgian terri tory ‘during the night: ”

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isters were confronting a grave ine ternational situation and that there was- concern over reported hea German troop movements near Dutch and Belgian borders.

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Minister left little doubt that the and King Leopold would fail in view

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Total - membership of ‘the two churches is about 700,000, the united denomination will have in Indianapolis.

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