Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1939 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 228
SURRENDER OF QUINN WA
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FORECAST:
Inquiry ls Completed by
4 ARRESTED
Griffin, Anderson, Bluestein Out on Bond: 93 No Bills.
Thomas M. Quinn, former Cen. ter Township Trustee, was expected to surrender to Sheriff Al G. Feeney today to face three mdictments ree armed last night charging him with official neglect and accepting bribes rom grocers. The indictments against Mr Quinn and four associates, the late ter charged with filing false claims and obtaming money under false pretense, marked the close of the Jrand Jury's six-week inquiry of
Neenan,
the township's poor relief adminis.
tration All five are to be amaigned next week before Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers,
Griffin, Anderson Named
Those indicted besides Mr. Quinn were Frank Bluestein, operator of two RIOCETIEE YeceIvIng A substantial share of the township's relief grox ery orders under WM QuMn's trusteeshm John Barton of Quinn and
Griffin, son-m-law operator of several milk routes for twa dames which have been receiving A large share of the township's milk busimess Dan R. Anderson, Quinn's cam PAIgN Manager last vear and oper ator of twa “favorite” relief groceries John Neenan, emploved until re cently as an order writer at the trustes's office He Was one of the principal withesses before the Grand Jury | 93 Nobills Returned |
The jury returned nobills in con- | nection with 93 persons it had investigated, Most of these were guocers, coal dealers and other vendors domg business with the township Bluestein surrendered to Ohiet Jatler Thomas Sullivan last night twa hours after the Jury had sudmitted report to Judge Myers Pirst to surrender today was An derson, who appeared with an at tome Hitz bond was signed Paul & Seima Dreier, 3335 BE. Ver mont St While he wae filling out the bond Griffin arrived m company with Nis attormey. Thomas Blackwell Nn A X00 cash bond was provided Hr Dr. John PF. Parker, 5143 Pleasant Run Bivd
Neenan Released on Bond
who it 43 and lives at New York St, was released Robert Beilach
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Neenan 2842 E on bond signed by 1910 Buf Road The sherift's office was notified by Alvin C. Johnson, attorney, that Quinn, who was out of the city, reportedly at & southern Indiana health resort, would surrender this afternoon The penalties provided by law for the various offenses charged in the indictments follow Filing false claims, 2 to 14 vears imprisonment and maximum fine of $1000; false pretense, 1 to Vears and maximum fine of $1000. with an alternative of 10 davs to 6 months m jail and fine of $10 ta $50: bribery, 2 to 14 vears imprisonment and a maximum fi of $10,000: official negligence avs to 6 months in jail and fine from $10 to $500
Bribery Count Listed
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The bribery indictments Quinn charge him with $50 from Herman Maher, listed as OPErating & grocery at 9%1 WwW. 80th St, and an undetermined sum from another grocer, Lee H. Cooley, listed AS operating a store at 1603 Nelson St The afficial negligence indictment charges Quinn “obligated the township for the claim of Henry Taylor, 951 Ft. Wayne Ave.” for $4.05. but “failed to check said claim and purchase order with the records.” Anderson was named in four indictments, one of them also naming Neenan Anderson was charged with filing the following false claims for food: Joseph Tells, 1643 Alvord Ave, $440; William Searcy. 1401 Carroliton Ave, $3.70; Melvin Woodson, 6207: E. Market St. $405 and (Continued on Page Three)
CLEARING WEATHER EXPECTED TONIGHT
10 "AL TEMPERATURES m. 6 10 a.m. . mm. 1" 11 a.m, . TH n 12 (noon) m. 1? 1pm
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The rainy, rloudy, is on the way out, the Weather Bureau promised today The fore. cast is fair weather for tonight and tomorrow. It will be a hit colder The mercury is to sink as low as 30 degrees tonight The promised diving up was welcomed by shoppers whose funds were increased a million dollars vesterday and today with the receipt of Christmas Savings Clubs checks Despite yesterday's almost continual rain, the downtown district was thronged throughout the day.
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Members of the Grand Jury ave shown submitting te Criminal Cont Judge naming five persons for alleged irregularities in the Center Township velief administration,
the jurors is Prosecutor Davia M.
Yowis,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1939
Grand Jury 3 GET TERMS | Bill Herschell,
Timax Photos Dewey Myers indictments At the left of
Improved Housing Asked; FHA Predicts Big Year
Morgan Warns ‘Serious Health Problem’ Is Being Created.
By RTCHARD LEWIS Dr. Herman G. Morgan, eity health officer, today advocated a municipal low-cost housing project to better living conditions of Indiannapolis ndigents He asserted that the houses in which indigents now are living have inadequate sanitation facilities and are creating "a serious health problem.” Dr. Morgan ance program
the slum clear. should meinde, pos. Sibly, a series of small Mmdividual homes with complete sewage dis posal and sanitary facilities” He said he believed this would be preferable to a Jarge apartment such as Tockefield Gardens the only previous slum clearance project here
sad
Board Faces Problem
Dr. Morgan's statement was made to The Times after it was disclosed yesterday that many families having been living in houses which have been condemned by the Health Board as unfit for human habitation He admitted that it was impossible tor health officials to raze many of the condemned dwellings for lack of any other places to which the inhabitants could be evacuated Dr. Morgan also stated that many families have been forced to m dwellings which are insanitary and generally unfit for habitation because nothing better was available and that there was a sorious shortage of low rent properties in habitable condition
Recalls Previous Objections
“For the sald, “there decrease In
relief
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past seven has been a the number of demalicshed because those which were condemned were by the Trustee to shelter on relief “These houses had previously been occupied dy non-relief families (Continued on Page Three)
COMMITTEE TO SCAN JOINT BUYING PLAN
Sullivan Names Group Afte Meeting on Proposal.
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A committee to work out a plan of joint purchasing of similar items by various City departments was named bv Mavor Reginald ®. Sullivan today at a conference with department heads The bulk buying plan was sue gested recently as a means of obe fainme lower prices The committee, which is to meet next week, includes Louis C. Brandt and Leo Welch, Works Board members, Dr, George W. Kohistaedt. of the Health Board; Albert ¥. Walsman, City Hospital business director; Leroy J, Keach, Safety Board Albert H. Gisler, Park member, and A. C. Sallee Park superintendent Purchasing Agent Albert WH. Losche is to cooperate with the committee
LEG OF GRID STAR MAY BE REMOVED
Board
LOCK HAVEN, Pa, Dec. 2 VU. P).—Dr. T. E. Teah said today that would be impossible to deter
it would be necessary to
‘amputate the right leg of Harry N.
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BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
Dunkle' the University of North Carolina's sophomore fullback star Dr. Teah described Dunkle's con- | dition as “serious.” due to hemorthages in the muscles of the right thigh and severe hruises and the swollen condition of the leg A blood vessel was ruptured when Dunkle played Thursday against the University of Virginia but, Dr. Teah said, it was an aggravation of a, former injury.
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10 Million Program in State Low-Cost Field Expected.
By DAVID MARSHALL Indiana's low-income families unable in the past to build own homes are expected to struct 10 million dollars worth small houses during the next months This prediction was made today by R. Earl Peters, Federal Housing Austhority State Administrator The construction spurt will come, Mr. Peters said, when the pudlie, construction mdustry and leading agencies take advantage of an FHA program which went inte effect Sept. 1 S2506 May Be Borrowed
con. of 12
their
The program makes it possible for
families with an annual income of from R000 to $1500 te Huild then own homes and pay for them in monthly installments noe greater than their present rent Under the program $2500 may be borrowed for up to 15 vears at a 3's per cent annual discount. The borrower must have & 5 per cent equity in land or cash before he is eligible for a loan and all of the $2500 must be spent on the house, Restrictions have been kept to a minimum believed oonsistent with sound operation, Mr, Peters pointed out. Heretofore, the FHA insured home had to be built in particular Teas close to transportation, schools nd churches
Quality Stil Emphasived
Construction had to be modem m every detail Neighborhood ends were studied to be sure that the area was not on the downgrade. [| Thirty-nine separate factors were in determining the eligibility of a home morigage for FHA insurance Under the new program, as imder the regular programs still in force the quality of workmanship and materials must be the best. but the FHA does not require as much to be done as under the regular pro. {rams The small homes do not need to have central heating Plumbing facilities required in the regular Programs are not mandatory in the new program. The location of the home in relation to churches. Schools, transportation and economic area is not of primary importance
Expect 2500 Were
Mr. Peters expects the homes will be built where land prices are relatively low and very possibly in those Marginal areas near large cities which provide workers with cone {venient access to industrial plans and factories, More than 2500 homes would be started in Indianapolis now if mort. gage Tunds were available, Mr
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Thomas M. Quinn .
THIRD INVESTIGATOR JOINS WPA INQUIRY
River Project Reported to Be Under Scrutiny.
. Indicted.
Edward other
Tyler today Joined
Congressional
{wo mvestigators here in the Tndiana WPA inguin Mr. Tver will J Shillite and Matthew Connelly, who have been here several weeks The Investigators to be delving into White River flood here, Also under scrutiny are WPA operations in South Bend, Marion, Ft. Wayne, Gary, Hammond and Anderson and expense vouchers of officials.
WOMAN DROWNS TO SAVE HUSBAND
CONIMICUT, R. I, Dec. 2 (U.P) Lawrence Stanton owed his life
assist George J
fon
were reported the $6.000.000 control project
dence
Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight with lowest temperature about 30.
Fatersd av Second Clase RL Postorfies, IMidianane
Hoosier Poet,
ON CHARGES OF
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Given 10 Years: Beckett Eight Years.
Three persons, including a 60« | vear-old woman, were sentenced to prison terms and fined hy Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today on charges of using the mails to defraud in a $640,000 diana swindle, Mrs. Ethel Pitt Donnell, $707 N.| Meridian St, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was sentenced to serve 10 years and pay a fine of $5000 A similgg sentence was given Rd ward J. Hartenfeld of Henderson, Ky, and Chicago, who stood trial and was convicted, He gave notice of appeal Robert Ave, who also pleaded guilty, was| sentenced to serve eight vears in prison and pay a fine of $2500
Reckett
| Judge Baltzell said he took inte [consideration that Beckett had [served 13 months In Prison for obtaining money under false pretenses in Grant County Passing of sentence followed a two and one<half hour questioning of the prisoners by Judge Raltzell Referring to the lame, and blind who had testified, Judge Baltzell said that in his experience on the
Served Time
bench he had never seen the type!
of witnesses which had appeared in this case “I don't see how vou could sleep at night.” the Judge told Mrs, Donnell and Beckett several times,
Remanded to Marshal
who said she was my intentions as
Donnell, in
Mrs “as honorable
anyone could me,” asked for time to
settle her affairs The Judge reminded her that the case ended two weeks ago and that she had had ample time, He remanded the three into cus tody of the U. 8. Marshal and they were taken to the County Jail The Judge overruled Hartenfeld's second motion for a new trial Hartenfeld was convicted Nov, 20 by a Federal jury after a six-day tial. The jury acquitted Jolm K Knapp, 3603 Washington Blvd RBReekett pleaded guilty to the charge before the (rial opened and Mrs. Donnell changed her plea. of mnacence to guilty on the third day of the tral Beckett a Spectator
At the close of the trial Harvtenfeld's attomev, James A, Ross. Appointed bv the court, waived pres entation of defense evidence. Mr Ross also waived the making a summation feld's behalf The jury deliberated 25 minutes Mrs, Donnell was not present when the verdict was read. She had not appeared in the courtroom since her change of plea, Beckett sat among the spectators as he had since the trial opened. [ The Government introduced evito show that the alleged swindle was accomplished through the trading of promissory notes for good building and loan stock, and in some cases, a subsequent payback with alleged worthless bonds Testimony was introduced by the Government to show that over a five-year period beginning in 1932, nearly 200 Indiana investors, many of them local residents, lost their [life savings” through four com- | [panies controlled by Hartenfeld and [| Mrs, Donnell Charged Use of Mails
More than 7 witnesses, most of them women and manv of them blind, lame and aged, said they had last amounts ranging rom $1000 to $43.000 by turning over building and loan stocks for promissory notes or 10-year income bonds The Government introduced evidence intended to show that Mrs Donnell falsely represented the value of her four companies in written statements sent through the mails. Those indicted were officers of the American Terminals & TranSit Co., of Henderson, Kv, a holding company for three other firms: The Green River Valley Coal Co. Indianapolis; the Green River Valley Terminal Co, of Tndianapolis and Evansville, and the Chicago. Ohio & Mississippi Transit Co., of Henderson,
in Harten-
Peters said. Lending agencies have today to his wife. who was drowned been slow in lending funds as they after Kissing him Roodby and tell- 102.291 SEE ARMY
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NEW ALBANY GETS 0. K. ON FHA LOAN
WASHINGTON. Dee U.P) A S461.000 loan to the New Albhanv Ind, Housing Authority was among loans of $15.480.000 ta 11 local hous Ng authorities approved today by President Roosevelt The approved loans were to de(fray 90 per cent of the cost of 13 [low-rent, slum-clearance projects expected tO cost & total ‘of $17,206,000,
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{TR him to save himself { Mr, Stanton and his wife. Geor | RIANNA, were aboard his fishing smack 200 vards off shore last night when it caught fire. They amped mto the water and when his attempt to save her apparently was useless, she kissed him goodbhy and told him to save himself.
FUMES KILL, WORKMAN MARTON. Tnd.. Dec. 2 (UP) J. T. McCullen, 34, Rlshury, Meo. died today after deing overcome Hv asphalt fumes while .working in a 17-foot excavation for a new sewer Efforts of rescue squads to revive | him were futile.
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D. Beckett, 5520 College William M. Werschell
the State]
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MUNTCIPAL STADIUM, PHA. |
2 VU. PH-The largest, crowd of the 193% [football season--102.201 sat in a cold. grav mist todav and watched the Armv play the Navy in the 40th renewal of the nations No. 1 [pageant The betting was even iron was fairly long rains, Tt huge tarpaulin
DELPHIA, Dx
The tid]
pected to be present, decided not | attend.
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firm despite night- sMicial news agency, was protected by a fp [eral persons had been armested for | President Roosevelt, who had ex- spreading rumors at
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his pen ix silent, | Veteran Indianapolis News Writer Succumbs After
Long lliness.
Rill Herschell The Hoos praises of Nix Ant God Good today at Place He had been in failing health for more than a vear and was unconscious for 24 hours He was 66 Mr. Herschell had been a news paperman for more than 40 years [He was a member of the Indian[apolis News editorial staff for 32 lyears, serving as police reporter feature writer, covering general assignments and writing poetry He was born in Spencer, Ind., the son of John and Martha Herschel His father was a master blacksmith and mechanic who came from Scotland. That's why when Bill got tired of [school when in the seventh grade al Huntington he hecame a machin ist In the railroad shops But along came a strike and after it was aver Bill had to look for a new job A career began the dav he met James MeOCormiek, editor of (he Princeton Daily News at Princeton He became a reporter for the Daily News and was a good one until the aav he died Eager for a larger Meld and ex(Continued on Page Three) |
is dead poet who sang beloved state In te Indiana,” died his home, 858 Tecumseh
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FIRST LADY SCORES DIES INVESTIGATOR
Witness Quizzed as Though A Prisoner, She Charnes.
(My Day, Page Seven)
WASHINGTON, Dee. 2 (U, P) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sharply criticized J. B. Mathews, chief investigator of the Dies Committee. today for questioning a witness as though he were a “prisoner, consid- | ered guilty, being tried at the bar.” NM vs. Roosevelt's rebuke was made in her newspaper column, “My Day,” after her third visit te Committee
[ hearin~s vesterday to listen to testi |
mony by officials of the American Youth Congress and other vouth organizations Today's first witness was Jay, Lovestone, once general secretary of the U. 8 Communist Party He told the Committee that the frst Job of American workers “is to do entirely without the type of polit - ical organization that is now paradParty.” Mi Lovestone was expelled from the Communist Party in 1920, after a dispute with Stalin, In her column the First Lady! again criticized the Committee for | not having notified witnesses suffi- | ciently in advance to prepare all evidence, but commended those members, “whom I have had the pleasure of observing," | for their “genuinely courteous and | helpful” attitude toward witnesses | Except for the questioning by Mr. | Matthews, Mrs. Roosevelt said that the hearings were a “heartening exhibition of government operating helpfully.”
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MONROEVILLE, Ind, Dee. 2 (U PO. Alfred Stephenson, 78 burned to death in his bed today when flames partially destroved the home of his son-in-law, Charles Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter escaped by leapmg from a second story window. |
SUAVS UNDER ARREST { BERLIN, Dec. 2 (U.P)--D. NB. reported todav om Bratislava, Slovakia. that sev-
the instigation
to of the British intelligence service, to “Premier
alarm the population.
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| The Times Golden Gloves Fund Clothes 160 Children
The Indianapolis Times Golden Glove fund wins the first round of the 1939 Clothe-A-Child campaign which opened vesterdav. One hundred sixty children were clothed with money raised by last vear's Golden Gloves boxing tour-
ments. Thus, the 10th annual Clothe-A-Child drive got underWAY with a leap and last vear's boxers took healthy this year's problems among In-
smacks at |
This auspicious start was made yesterday's cold rains and dampness that are among the Rreatest problems of the season for ill-clad school children. | ~The Times has set wp headquarters at 206 W. Marviand St. with & staff on duty from 9 am. to 5p. m. Here are the wavs you can participate: 1. If you wish to shop with a child personally, call R1 ley 5551 and make an appointment to moet & cRild at Clothe-A-Child headquarters.
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lists to determine the neediest children and to eliminate duplication of clothing gifts. The cost of outfitting a bov or girl depends upon individual needs. The average is from $8 | to $12. | Your gift will mean warmth for chilled bodies, an increase in | morale and a step toward a hap- | pier life for the underprivileged children of Indianapolis. Telephone RI ley 5551 NOW and | Ask for “CLOTHE-A-CHILD.”
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F.D. ‘MORAL ES
FIVE VILLAGES
Claim 19 Soviet Airplanes Shot Down; Believe Red Warship Sunk,
BULLETIN COPENHAGEN, Dee. 2 (UM). The Danish vadin announced today that Sweden was calling up more men to the colors and was
suspending all Army leaves,
(UU. P).=Pins evacuated Ave north of back toward the famous
Dee, 2 today
HELSINKI nish troops Karvelian border villages Leningrad, and fell
their rear fortifications Mannerheim Line, After announcing that in three days of war that they have shot down 19 Soviet planes, the Finns said they believe that the new §500-ton Russian cruiser Kirov was sunk in a battle off the Island of Hanko vesterday The Kirov, it was announced, did not return to its hase, The Finns said that a Soviet destrover had been disabled and that a submarine chaser had been sunk, The Kirov, built in 1936, had a normal complement of 624 men, It was armed with six 7.1-<inech guns. four 4-<inch anti-atreraft guns, three 37 mm. anti-afreralt guns and four machine guns The Finns said ated the border
{hey of
that evacu villages Jappinen, Hartonen, Raasumi, Sirkia and Saaroinen in accordance with
previously prepared defense plans Air Raid Alarm Sounds
The Russians, they zaid, on the third day of war continued to as fault the Finnish lines both north and west of Lake Ladoga without result, The Russians, the Finns announced, were suffering heavy case ualties An air raid alarm sounded at Lahti radio station today, but results were not known Up to 5:30 p.m. 9:30 a. m anapolis Time), the capital quiet, The American Legation is preparNg to evacuate from 40 to 50 American wives to Stockholm by way of Abd tomorrow, Abo is a port on the southwestern tip of Finland Some of those (0 be evacuated are wives of members of the legation staff, some are tourists and others have been permanent residents of Helsinki.
Baltle at Hanko for Hour
the the
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Finnish announcements empha - Sized that their withdrawal fiom the Karelian frontier was orderly and in accordance with general stall plans he Finnish Cabinet (onight decided to refer the Finnish-Russian dispute to the Usague of Nations The Cabinet, contrary to reports published abroad, remains in Hel. sinki. Tt met twice (oday in an un disclosed, underground shelter The Hanke engagement aceurred (Continued on Page Three)
RUSSIA RECOGNIZES ‘REBEL’ FINN RULE
Bares Plan to Make Nation Semi-Soviet State.
MOSCOW, Dee. 2 (U. P.).—RusSIa’s plan to make Finland a semi Soviet, state like the Outer Mone golian peoples’ republic in Asia, was disclosed today when the Government officially recognized a revolutionary Finnish “Government” purrs D on the Finnish horde: an exiled Finnish Communist The official Radio Moscow appealed directly to the Finnish people tea join the Armv of the Revolutionary Finnish Government ANd to “overthrow their traitors and oppressors,” The appeal Pogodin of A~ademv Coincident
by
today
was the
read by Col Soviet Military
with the announces ment that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, (Parliament) had accorded full diplomatic status to ' Otto Kuusinen's Finnish “Government,” Premier « Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov of Russia gave United States Ambassador (Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS HOLD STEADY WITH TRADING LIGHT
By UNITED PRESS Leading issues held steady on the
|New York Stock Exchange today
while special stocks Trading was light. regular with U. issues easier, were down Wheat gained fractionally at Chicago, Hog prices at Tndianapolis were 10 cents lower on weighty be~ tween 140 and 300 pounds,
were mixed Bonds were irS. Government Seandinavian bonds
NVOKES
BAN’ ON 10 REDS
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Target for Raids On Finland,
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War in Brief
WASHINGTON==Pressure [President to seve | lations with from Moscow
put on diplomatic res Russia after snub
HELSINKI<Russiant continue te assault Finnish lines on third day of war
MOSCOW “Rebel” regime set up by Russia yesterday in Finland [ Is recognized officially by Moscow,
(COPENHAGEN. Anger of Scandis | navia against Russia for invading Finland explodes into street dems onstrations
LONDON Britain prepares ta pub into effect Monday its blockade of German exports
PARIS-<French military dispatches report patrol activity on the Weste ern Front,
WASHINGTON, Dee. 2 (U. P) we President Roosevelt today invoked A "moral embargo” on shipment of airplanes to nations which bomb civilian populations. Mr. Roosevelt did not name Soviet Russia specifically in his statement but. declared it was issued in the ‘ight of recent recurrence of such acts.” “The American Government and the American people have for some ame pursited a policy of wholee heartedly condemning the unproe voked bombing and machine Rune
ning of civilian populations from the air,” he saw,
Mission Reported in U, &,
"This Government hopes to the end that such unprovoked bombing shall not be given material encoure agement in the light of recent ree currence of such acts, that Amerie can manufacturers and exporters of airplanes, aéronuautieal *quipment and materials essential to aire plane manufacture, will bear this fact in mind before negotiating contracts for the exportation of these articles to nations obviously Ruilty of such unprovoked bombe mg.” The President acted quickly after it became known that an official Russian mission was in the United States offering airplane manuface turers large sums of cash for planes, motors and parts He issued his statement after a conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull At the same time. Secretary Stephen T. Early dige closed that Finland had replied orally to President Roosevelt's joint plea to Russia and Finland to re [rain from civilian bombings
Finland Tells Gratitude
Presidential
Mr. Barly satd Finland “expressed high gratification at the action taken by the President” and advised the U.S Minister that a formal reply was being prepared for transe mission Mr, Roosevelt has nat been ade vised of an official Russian reply, but the sfMcial Soviet news agency, Tass, published a statement by Fore [e1gn Commissar V. M. Molotov calle [ing the plea “pointless.” | Mr. Early indicated that this Cove ernment considers that no answer, and caustically suggested asking ‘the dead, injured and widows and orphans how pointless it (the Presie dent's plea) is” Issuing Mr. Roosevelt's statement invoking the moral smbargo, Mr, Barly said he wanted to take the opportunity to call public attention (to “the fine co-operation given by American manufacturers and exe porters to the Government's policy as outlined in (his statement.”
Ban on Japan in Effect
A similar ban on airplane shipe ments has heen in effect against Japan for more than a vear. ale though this nation never has dee clared formally that a state of wap existed between Japan and China. | The State Department arranged the embarge against Japan The American Minister land, Arthur Schoenfeld, reported yesterday that civilians, including children, had been Killed in the bombings Molotov's statement, published in Russia, said that Soviet airplanes had not and would not bomb towns. Mr. Roosevelt's statement in effech disputed (he Soviet contention, since it referred to recent instances of “nations obviously guilty of such (Continued on Page Three)
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