Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1939 — Page 3

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“On Finland, Ponts. Bombs on Capital

Casualties in Raids on Helsingfors May Total 200; |

Tiny Republic Fights Back Against Air, Sea and Land Offensives. i

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for the time Belz at least her fight seemed as 6 hopelots 5 in the long run as was the plight of Manchuria, Austria, Ethi-

opia, Czechoslovakia, Memel, thonia and Lithuania.

Poland, Albania, Latvia, Es- |]

Whether the Russians “toll decided to Yale over Fin-

land was not indicated definitely but in any event it was |

made clear almost on the 22d anniversary of Finnish independence that the Soviet” Government intended to force out the Government of Finnish ‘Premier A: K. Cajander to bring about the capitulation Finland to Russian demands for naval -and’ land bases on Finnish territory. In Moscow, for instance, it was said in mid-afterhoon that wellinformed circles knew nothing of ‘the fighting which had been underway for hours in Finland.

Nazis Look te U. S. In Berlin, ‘where the Nazi Govern-

ment took the role of a spectator

at war in an area the Germans had long influenced, it was suggested | that the United States,offer of its good offices might avert a formal war in Finland. e American offer was transmitted to Russia this morning. Those developments indicated that behind the Russian screen of charges that Finland (population:

3,800,000) was “threatening” to. at-]

tack Leningrad (population: 3,500,000, largely soldiers) was the fundamental desire to wring military concessions from the Finns. Thus the Soviets, after punching at the Finnish defenses, might be - willing to resume negotiations with a new government at Helsingfors without actually extending Russian _ frontiers over Finland. Such an outcome, however, apparently would depend upon the extent of Finnish resistance and the intensity of fight-

" Molotov Opposes Mediation

That the United States offer of mediation would be used as the basis for resumption of negotiations appeared unlikely, however, as Viacheslav Molotov —in breaking off relations with Finland —declared the quarrel was between the two countries and that no third party. should interfere. In any event, Finns believed, they would be doomed to complete domination by the Soviet. Russia apeared to be forcing the “dispute to a decision to complete her “defensive position” in the northern Batlic area and to free herself for action in the Balkans. As a result not only the Scandinavian countries which are neighbors of Finland but Rumania and— less directly—Italy were alarmed by developments. Hint Balkans Next

There have been repeated indications that, once the Finnish dispute is settled, Russia will seek solution of problems in the Balkans, possibly involving the Bessarabia district which Rumania got from the Russian Ukraine after the World War. Italy has bitterly attacked the spread of Soviet influence and warned Russia to keep out of the Balkans. But there appeared to be no possibility of intervention from “the outside to aid the Finns. The Scandinavian countries were sympathetic but clinging to their neutral. status between two constantly closer to them. The: Allied powers ‘were more than occupied with ‘a spreading sea war and with threats in the Far East of Japanese retaliation against the British and French order for seizure of German

exports. Japan is a big purchaser of German goods which are, essential to her economic and military structure and there were threats at Tokyo to seize Allied goods in the Far East in retaliation.

. HOG PRICES HERE UP

ANOTHER 10 -CENTS

By UNITED PRESS Hog at Indianapolis gained another 10 cents today, bringing the top price ta $5.85. The gain, equal to yesterday's, was general in in all es New York stocks recovered a portion of earlier losses after declines Sangin from fractions to more than $2. Business news was favorable. Wheat prices advanced at Chicago.

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I, S. OFFICIALS “KEEPING WATCH

Called Grave; F. D. R. And Hull Confer.

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official dispatches would become apparent. Strong sentiment, it was known, has been building up in both Government and public circles favoring a rupture of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The history of Soviet-American relations since this Government recognized the Stalin regime in No-

vember, 1933, has been one of repeated confiicts. Two strong influences behind American recognition of the Soviet regime were hopes that the Soviet would make some acceptable settlement of the Russian debt held in the United States, and that American exports to Soviet Russia would be increased by hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Both failed to materialize.

Negotiations in Vain

In the exchange of letters between: President Roosevelt and then Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinov which ‘were made part of the agreement upon which United States recognition was based, the Soviet guaranteed to refrain from interfering in any way, by propaganda or otherwise, with American institutions and the American form of government. Negotiations were carried on for months between the two governments for a settlement of the debts amounting to approximately $450,000,000. The negotiations collapsed and no settlement was ever reached. In 1936 this Government sharply reminded the Soviets of their promise to refrain from interference with American institutions. This followed a congress of the all-Russ Communist “Party in “Moscow Moscow at which Soviet offielals made fiery speeches advocating “poring from within” methods for the overthrow of American Government institutions. .

KUHN GUILT SEEN AS SETBACK TO NALS

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Judge James G. Wallace announced would be imposed Tuesday. He is liable to 30 years’ imprisonment. The 12 businessmen of the jury deliberated eight and a half hours before deciding that he had stolen $1217 from the Bund. The original indictment had accused him of thefts totaling .more than $14,000, but two of the 12 counts were severed before the trial began and Judge Wallace threw out five others for lack of evidence. Kuhn was convicted of the five remaining counts. Under the first two he was guilty of first and sec-ond-degree grand larceny in taking $717 from the Bund treasury to pay

“Golden Angel,” Mrs. Florence Camp, across the couniry. She testified that she repaid $600 which the State contended he had pocketed. He was guilty of second-degree larceny in embezzling a $500 legal fee which he had pretended to pay; to attorney James D. C. Murray and two counts of forgery in concealing

this theft with false entries in the Bund’s accounts.

Russian - Finnish . Situation!

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their march toward Helsingfors.

MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (U. P)—Informed Soviet sources denied for the second time today they had any knowledge ‘of reported Soviet aerial bombings in Finland. They declined to comment. on the reports. The official Moscow radio this afternoon made no reference to Soviet-Finnish hostilities, but it discontinued reports of Soviet mass meetings against the ‘Finnish Government. - The favorite theme of today’s broadcasts was the literature of the various Soviet national groups. A group of Soviet journalists and writers who reported the Soviet campaign in Poland, have been ‘on the Finnish frontier for several days, it was learned. A dispatch from the Kronstadt naval base off Leningrad said that the Baltic fleet crews had passed resolutions praising the attack of Premier Viacheslav Molotov on Finland and saying: “We stand ready at any moment to smash to atoms any war provocateurs. Our arms are fully pre-

or to insure the safety of ingrad. ” ; } "Gunners at the Kronstadt fortress passed a resolution saying:

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“Our guns are ready to fire; our troops are longing to fight.” There were similar resolutions passed at many: other Soviet mass meetings. The Soviet denial came more than five hours after Helsingfors and other Finnish cities were bombed and Russian troops had crossed the Finnish border. Telephone and telegraph communications between Moscow and Helsingfors had been interrupted. The Finnish Legation had requested - a “laissez passer,’ ‘to get home, following the announcement of Molotov at 10:30 last night that diplomatic relations with Finland had been severed, but the pass had not been received. The Finns were ready to go ‘as soon as the formalities were completed. The United States offer of its good offices ‘in the Soviet-Finnish dispute was presented to the Foreign Office by Walter “Thurston, American charge d’affaires, at 12:45 p. m. (three hours after the. bombing of Helsingfors). The offer was rejected. -

Steinhardt Refurns

Mr. Thurston saw -V. P. Potemkin, Vice Commissar. for Foreign Affairs, for 10- minutes. The public. knew that Pinnish situation had taken a grave turn and thousands waited in front of news stands for papers, which were late. Mr. Thurston acted on the United States good offices offer, messaged

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Soviets Deny Any Attack. Hours After Blows Fall

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This map shows the path taken today by Russian troops in their land invasion of Finland. Other thrusts were made by sea and air. The arrow points to the route apparently taken by the Russians in

from Washington, in the absence of Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had been in Stockholm on private business several weeks. He returned by airplane with Charles Bohlen, while Mr. Thurston was at the Foreign Office. . Molotov had said in his midnight radio speech explaining the reasons for the breaking of diplomatic relations with Finland, that the quarrel was between Russia and Finland, suggesting that no peace making was wanted. A message by President Roosevelt to President Mikhail I. Kalinin of Russia two months ago, expressing the -hope that, the Soviet-Finnish territorial dispute, could be settled peacefully, had resulted in bitter attacks in the Soviet ‘press .on the American foreign policy. . The armed attack on Finland was no surprise to diplomats here. It had been clearly implied last night that the only way the Finns could avoid an invasion would be to overthrow their Government and install a new one which would accept Russia’s demands. : 4 Finland. Accused Molotoy difarged ‘that: Finland's |. sFmy-anesiityieth the:size of Rusé 's—was menacing the Soviet frontier, endangering . Leningrad, a city of 3,500,000, and had ordered the Red Army and Navy “to be ready for any surprise and immediately check for possible fresh. sallies by the Manish military clique.” Russia’s 180,000,000. people had been inflamed with a war spirit, ‘Finland had not been given a chance to reply to Russia’s note of Tuesday canceling the Soviet-Fin-nish non-:aggression treaty. This reply had been received by the Finnish minister here, Baron A. A. S. Yrjoe-Koskinen, from Helsingfors yesterday evening. : .Koskinen’s version of what happened yesterday evening was described by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter at Stockholm, Sweden, which terviewed him by telephone. e ‘newspaper said Koskinen tried to present the Finnish ote even : after’ the - diplomatic

break. Notified Helsingfors

He was quoted: “I was astonished when told the Soviet Government did, not desire to receive the Finnish note. I was summoned to Potemkin at 10:30 p. m. The Vice Commissar’ was very correct and handed me the notification of the severance but. did not answer ‘my request to let me see him later and present the Finnish note. I returned to the legation and ‘notified Helsingfors.’ “When I did not hear further from Potemkin I sent the legation porter with the Finnish note to the Foreign Commissar (Molotov). It was a great disappointment to me that Potemkin did not want to receive me again. I have a strong impression that the Soviet Government already had made up its mind and did not desire to receive our no Finland “has categorically denied that her troops anywhere violated

{the Russian border, as ch

arged, despite the fact that the Red Army headquarters at Leningrad has given details of at least five occasions troops crossed the frontier or fired on Russian troops on the other side.

OR. WELLS, I. U. HEAD, nN: LOCAL HOSPITAL

last night. Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean

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University president, was in Rob- Ar 4 jain | niet and tomorrow; continued nild}" Ww. :

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of the university's seo of. —— w The university president was ex- i

- Winter warfare on the Finn-Soviet. borderlands-

today as

: loomed Russia bégan iis invasion of Finland on land, sea and air fronts. Ski troops; Soin above, say be a vital part of the Finnish defense.

FRENCH DEBATE EMERGENCY ACT

Immunity Denied to Red Deputies. | ‘PARIS, Nov. 30 (U. P).—Group

delegations representing the Army and Finance Committees of the

/|Chamber of Deputies approved by a

vote of 17 to 13 today the Cabinet's Bill ‘providing revision of the law to allow emergency full powers to the Government subject to parliamentary ratification within a month

of issuance of decrees. The vote was taken affer the delegations had rejected many alternate projects. Meanwhile the Chamber voted to remove Parliamentary immunity protecting 11 Communist deputies, including several being sought by. the police. The new special powers bill was introduced by M: Daladier into the first wartime session of the French Parliament. It will be debated by he Chamber later.

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German Planes-Scan Scotland, Firth of Forth LONDON, Nov. 30 (U. P.).—Four German reconnaissance. planes flew over the east coast of Scotland today and two Heinkel. bombers appeared near the Firth of Forth. It was reported a dog fight occurred when ‘Britain fighters went. up. to. engage the bombers. ‘Two. German bombers also. were | sighted north of the Firth of Forth

Force Fighters.

Quiet on Front, -

French Assert

PARIS, Nov. 30 (U: P). —French War Office communique No. 175 said today that “all is quiet: on the West~ ern Front.” French military dispatches said that their artillery opened a systematic, harassing: fire: between the|. Moselle and Nied: Rivers. ‘The: artillery blasts were aimed at German mass movements: behind the lines: It was reported : that the French fire caused a regrouping of divisions and frustrated.German plans for-a possible offensive in the MoselleNied salient. Continued bad weather hampered aerial operations on both sides.

German High Command Reports Slight Fire

BERLIN, Nov. 30 (U. P.) ~The German High Command communique said today that on the West-|: ern Front “there was only slight local artillery fire. Air reconnaisance over | tish ‘territory was continu ed ing the communique, the official German news agency DNB said that “on numerqus fronts the enemy was active. in: pre sometimes in strength. All patrol attempts were repulsed. % “East of the Moselle ‘the enemy artillery fired on our positions as usual, In the district of Saarbruecken and Hornbach somewhd more lively artillery fire was ported during Wednesday i Yesterday the enemy did not attempt to fly over German territory.”

BROWN BEATS ‘RUTGERS

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warships had fired. on Tammelsuu on the Karelian Isthmus from the Gulf of Finland, that Russian ar-

“|tillery had pounded the Finnish

sectors of Suojarvi and Kivena, that Red troops had invaded Finland at Suojarvi and that Soviet planes had raided the Emso Valley, Viborg and Imatra. J ‘Unconfirmed messages ‘said that Hangoe had been bombed and that Russian troops attempled to land there after the bombardment. (Hangoe is a tip of land and an island at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, one of the areas which Russia demanded from Finland as a naval base.) An air alarm was sounded at St. Michele in the middle of Finland during the day. 3 TU. S. Legation Moves The United States legation announced it was moving immediately to Grankulla, 10 miles from -Hel-

singfors, and Americans -employed at- the legation were given: instruc-

{tions by- the. military attache as to

how to. use their gas masks." The Government, of: Premier A. K. Cajander declared a state of . war, called reserves to the Army of 300,000 men and formally put the hero of PFinland’s fight for independence 22

Emil Mannerheim, in charge of the nation’s armed forces. Gen. Mannerheim' as a veteran of Finland’s’ war -against Russia after

the Bolshevik revoiution and he ROYaL{yisids the confidence of the Finish. : armed forces and the public.

“Advance at Two Points: 77 Finnish messages said that the

‘I'soviet troops invading the Suoparvi

district, in southeast Finland, had found a “no man’s land” there’ because the Finns withdrew. The area is not important to the military defense of the country, it was: poised out. The Finns’ main line of defense now. is. about 25 miles: back’ of : the 'Suojarvi: area, where the terrain provides natural defensive positions.

active’ at‘ two points in northern Finland, near the fisherman's peninsuise, which was reported partly occupied. The industrial district of ‘the town of Emso was bombed and a

hospital set afire as attempts .were

DEALERS SEEKING | AUTO STRIKE CURB

A resolution by : the Automobile Dealers Association of Indiana urging amendatory legislation to prevent labor disputes from interrupt-

nounced today. The iD which made . NO direct reference to the recent ler strike, declared that interrapas|tion of production during negotiations of labor disputes not only af-

t|fects the “two parties immediately

involved but more vitally the public and those agencies and their em-

and also those agencies and employees supplying raw materials

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| Eve-Witness Phones Story ‘Of Horror in Helsingfors

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years ago, Gen. Baron Karl Gustav.

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The Soviet troops were reported |.

ing industrial production was an- |

for manufacture and service there- |

"The ' Indiana Association Fi touch that the Nationa} Automobile

| Prepared for ‘Submission. To Judge Myers. :

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is wo become County Treasurer ah The new trustee, who was named ‘after three meetings of county Democratic chieftains and daily star-

| chamber sessions of the Commis-'

Finland's national hero, Baron Gustav Mannerheim, is in Sharge of the tiny nation’s armed {

made to destroy cellulose plants. Five bombs were dropped on: the town of Viborg. The town of Imatra was bombed, but the Russians missed their objective there—an electric plant. - The town of Tammelsuu in Karelia was shelled by warships from the Gulf of Finland, and Rus- |g sian : troops crossed the border at Suojarvi, north of Lake Ladoga in southeast Finland and occupied a sector of Finnish territory there. They had beaten down Finnish resistance with an artillery barrage. An artillery battle was raging at Kivena, on the Karelian border, where Finnish territory extends to within 22 miles of Leningrad, a Russian city of: 3,500,000. Foreign Minister Erkko announced that the whole Soviet Baltic fleet had left its base at Kronstadt, at the eastern end of the Finnish Gulf. Erkko appeared calm and confident. - Meager reports indicated the Finns were fighting hard.

Claim 12 Planes Driven Back

It was announced that at Sveaborg, 12 Russian bombers had ap-

and had been driven away by ground batteries before they caused any ‘damage. The planes flying over the capital also’ dropped leaflets printed in the Finnish language: “You know we have bread; don’t starve.”

Fighting was occurring at various|

points along the wild, 600-mile|. stretch ;of Soviet-Finnish border extending up to the Arctic. Artillery firing was reported at Rabotchi and ‘Kola, in_ the Far North, a region where the wintry nights now are 19 hours Jong, and darkness falls

attacks began on all ‘sectors

a. m. Indianapolis Time), nine hours after Soviet" Premier-Foreign Commissar. V. M: Molotov announced in Moscow that diplomatic relations with Finland were severed because

peared over the coast at 10 a. m.

sioners, is leaving a position carry. ing a $3600 annual salary for that: of the trustee, Whieh pays. $3000 per: year. The post as chief deputy sheriff; however, will technically be up for re-appointment next year when the’ pe office of Sheriff is up for election. - The unexpired term of the trus-. tee amounts to three years, one Jeary having been served by Mr. Quinn. A native of Indianapolis, Mr. Mueller attended Manual High’ School and the Central Business College, and spent five years as a bookkeeper for the Indianapolis Brewing Co., leaving in 1917, He served ‘nine months overseas as a sergeant inthe World War. After the war, he spent 10 years:

fining Co. here, In 1930 he moved: to the Gulf Refining Co., where he, remained for two years.

‘bank examiner for the local office of the Federal Deposit Insurance: Corp. He held this position, for Ave,

months.

Mr, Mueller was named : oh deputy under Sheriff Otto Ray Jan,

Los "ever since, ‘having beer re=. appointed by Sheriff Feeney. = Mr. Mueller i§ married and lives: at 610 E. Morris St. The trustee-elect said he would. issue a statement of his aims and policies in conneétion with the new’ job before ne: The ap-.

pointment was de effective ‘Wednesday, Co ners, said, to’ perform the; leas t jardship on ‘the

Sheriff's office. . 4 . Although Sheriff: Feeney declined’ to say: who ‘would succeed Mr,’ Mueller as his chief deputy, Deputy: Richard Stuart, in charge of the Sheriff's investigating staff, was immediately mentioned as the possible’

'|appointee.

Two persons, Dan R. Anderson,’ grocery store owner, and ‘J. Barton: Griffin, milk route owner, have been under ‘arrest for several weeks on’ charges. growing. out of the relief probe by. the progecytor. 2

$1000 FIRE BURNS: | NORTH SIDE ‘KOOP

A fire of ‘undetermined origin early today did about $1000 damage to the Chicken Koop, in the 7300" block. on

ve Sm

‘No one was ‘there 80 hol

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that metal knobs on a music

melted down. The alarm apparently had been turned in by a passing motorist who

the Finns wep, threatening. to “attack” Russia. . :

did not wait for the arrival of fires men.

Strauss . Says:

ih the employ of the National Re<:

.In 1934 he was named assistant

935, and ‘has served in that ca<

about 50 feet from the bar wheré& the fire was mdst intense were

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