Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1939 — Page 1
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939
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WARNS RISE IN PRICE OF MILK CUTS DEMAND
11 Cents High Enough, says
Chicago Expert at Board Hearing.
Indianapolis should not have to pay more than 11 cents a quart | for milk, Dr. J. A. McClintock, Chi- | cago physician anc scientist, de- |
clared today at the Milk Control Board hearing on the recent milk | price increase. More than 200 spectators and witnesses, many of them representa-| tives of civic clubs, were present. Other developments in the milk| situation included: 1. Leaders of civic groups threat-| ened to call a City-wide one-day-a-| week milk strike unless the Milk] Control Board rescinds the tentative | 1-cent a bottle price increase. i 2. Harry G. Wiest, secretary of the Milk & Ice Cream Drivers’ Local] 774, said his organization is considering a possible strike of milk] industry workers to force down the| price of milk. 3. The Indianapolis Council of | Women, conducting a forum to- | day on the milk price rise, was told | by George H. Whitesides, Marion | County Farmers Bureau chairman, that the farmer actually receives 1 cent a quart less for his milk today than he received 40 years ago. The women are not interested in any “strike” move in the present controversy, Mrs. Lowell Fisher, president, said. 4 City Council deferred action last night on a proposed ordinance setting up grades of milk on the basis of bacterial count, permitting only Grade A to be bottled, and de-| cided to hold a public hearing on the ordinance.
Cites Effect on Trade
The civic group representatives expected to be permitted to present their witnesses before the Control Board hearing this afternoon. In a prepared statement submitted to the Board this morning, Dr. McClintock said any increase in the) price of milk is certain to reduce | consumption. i
He is a former member of the! the direction of the council and|
Philadelphia and Chicago Milk Con- | trol Boards. “When milk was 8 cents a quart] in Chicago,” he said, “a million] quarts were sold to householders; when the price was raised to 10] cents, the consumption of milk went | down to 800,000 quarts, and when | the price shot up to 13 cents, only 584,000 quarts were sold. “The discrepancy between the] price paid the farmer and the price the consumer pays never is explained satisfactorily by milk distributors. Comments on Civic Fight
“The Government, no doubt, is right, when they suspect that a milk | trust exists. “Indianapolis is the first city, with | the exception of Kansas City, where | civic clubs are championing the | rights of the consumer and fighting | to get justice for the farmer.” Dr. McClintock suggested paper | containers would reduce the cost! of distributing milk at least seven- | eighths of a cent a quart. | Jackiel W. Joseph, Park Board president who appeared as attorney | for the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., told the Control Board the Kroger Co. has found paper containers a means of reducing the cost. He said the grocery chain can sell a quart of Grade A milk over the counter for 10 cents and make a profit, and added that the company is supporting the Milk Foundation’s petition for a 2-cent differential between the over-the-counter and de-| livered prices. At present, a 1l-cent| differential is permitted by the Control Board.
Discusses Distribution
Ieon C. Coller, Marion County milk administrator, was questioned | by Paul C. Wetter, Federation of Community Civic Clubs president, in regard to alleged unlawful rebates by distributors.
large distributors were
inducement to buy their milk?” | Mr. Coller said he did not think this was being practiced here at
lawful. Similar practices were dis-| (Continued on Page Seven)
CLOUDY, WARMER,
T At the meeting of the Indiana Traffic Safety Council today at the Indianapolis Athletic Club,
State Seeks 100 More Traffic Police
imes Photo. Dr. Miller
McClintock, Yale University Bureau of Street Traffic Research director; Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson of the International Chiefs of Police, and Paul G. Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., and council president
(left to right), conferred.
PLAN OUTLINED Boys Mourn Grid Star
BEFORE COUNCIL Who Di
Krem!| Praises State for Its Enforcement, Warns Against ‘Fixing.’
The Indiana Legislature will be asked to increase the State Police Department by 100 men within two vears as a traffic safety move, Director Donald Stiver said today. He addressed the Indiana Traffic Safety Council meeting here under
Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Corp. Others who addressed the meeiing at the Indianapolis Athletic
Club were Lieut. F. M. Kreml, Inter- |
national Association of Chiefs of Police safety director; Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Yale
| University Bureau of Traffic Re-|
search; Sidney J. Williams, Public Safety director of the National Safety Council, and State officials.
State Police Praised
Mr. Stiver said that the additional men will be needed for patrolling highways if an adequate enforcement program is maintained. He made the statement after Lieut. Kreml praised the State Police for their enforcement program “as the only real program of traffic law enforcement carried vn by any state police today.” Lieut. Kreml and Mr. Stiver pointed out that fatalities for the first 10 months of this year in
Indiana have been reduced 7 per|
cent, as against increased fatalities in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois. They said that gasoline consump-
tion had increased for the first 10
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INFANT FALLS INTO WALL AT HIS HOM
Unhurt in 9-Foot Drop Saved by Police.
’
A 19-months’ old baby fell nine feet between the walls of his home this afternoon, and a police emergency squad delivered the child back to the arms of his anxious mother, unhurt, but covered with soot. Herbert Alvey Jr., son of Rev. and
installing who was hanging clothes in the] refrigerators and other equipment attic, and fell in between the walls | : in hotels and restaurants as an through an open hole to the second Washington St., about Jan. 29, 1940. |
floor. Officer William Cravens rescued him. Officer Cravens was forced to
opening. When he reached the child,
{ ‘Friends Say Manual Senior Injuries—But He Might
ed Protecting Pal
Could Have Avoided Football Have Hurt Fellow Player.
The neighborhood boys who always admired him as their peer at | baseball, football and basketball gathered today at the home of James
(Dutch) Flanagan, 2140 Linden St.,
where he lay dead.
They said he died of a football injury that he could have avoided
if he had been thinking only of ‘neighborhood game Nov. 26. Time after time he had carried the ball for great gains in a neigh-
borhood game at Garfield Park, they was tackled hard once, and deliberately chose to fall on the knees of one player at the side of him rather than the head of one in
said. He
| & { front of him. : 3 He
James Flanagan Iriends. : oy his mother, Mrs
| Angela Flanagan, came home |insisted that he was merely not injured in the game.
sick
received ? ! internal injuries | and was helped home by some When}
himself when he was tackled in a
DEFENSE BEGINS WPA EVIDENCE
Road Projects ‘Not Illegal As Far As | Know,’ Says Derbyshire.
Gurney G. Derbyshire told a Federal Court Jury today “as far as I .| know now construction of the roads
, he which were built on my property
| » was not illegal.”
Mr, Derbyshire and his son-in-
Soon it was evident that the 18- aw. Carl F. Kortepeter, former
| year-old Manual High
| i |
taken to St. Francis Hospital.
; Wa School | prarion County WPA director, are | senior was quite ill, and he was
As his condition became worse, 22 of | his fellow athletes went to St.
{jon trial charged with illegal diver(sion of WPA labor. The Government contends the {two men conspired to use WPA la-
| Francis and stayed all last Saturday yor to build two roads on Mr. Dernight, waiting to have their blood | jvshire's farm north of Southport,
tested for transfusions.
he died at 6:15 a. m. today.
| which has been platted as Derby-
Four transfusions were given, but| hire Subdivision.
Mr. Derbyshire testified that in
Last winter, James was awarded jv he asked Mr. Kortepeter if the a sportsmans trophy after a basket-| wpa could build roads on his prop-
was his most prized possession.
Funeral services will be Saturday morning in the Walter Blaesengym |
ball tournament in which his team | erty Jegally. did not win. That, his family said, .
Mr. Kortepeter told { him, he said, that it could not be | done unless the land for the roads was dedicated to the County. This dedication was made, he stated, on
Funeral Home, 2226 Shelby St. and | sept. 3, 1938.
his neighborhood friends will be pall Burial will be in Holy said, was worth about $500.
| bearers. | Cross Cemetery.
The land for the two roads, he
“Such a thing as defrauding the
He is survived by his mother, his| United States was as far from my
father, James Thatcher; brothers, | « John, 17, Thomas, 15, and sisters, Derbyshire said, “and to my knowl-
Rosemary, 12, and Maureen, 2.
MORRIS PLAN SIGNS | FOR NEW QUARTERS (Details, Page 17)
| William L. Schloss, president of the Indianapolis
Railway Exchange Building, 108 E.
Morris Plan, today He asked Mr. Coller if it had been Mrs. Herbert L. Alvey, 1039 Spruce | announced the institution will move | called to his attention that “certain St. crawled away from his mother, |. +0 new and larger quarters in the
{mind as it possibly could be,” Mr.
edge all the work was legal.” Introduced into evidence was a plat made in 1924 showing two roads land lots laid out on the Derbyshire property. Mr. Derbyshire said he had had an ambition since that time to convert the land into a subdivision. First to testify for the defense |after the Government rested at [10:30 a. m. were character witnesses for Mr. Kortepeter. They included William H. Book, Indianapolis {Chamber of Commerce executive vice president; A. B. Good, schools (Centinued on Page Seven)
HIGHEST HONOR OF FUND GIVEN A. L. RUDDELL
‘Businessman Has Served Since ’19; Drive Called ‘Best in History.’
(Photos, Page 11)
Almus G. Ruddell, Indianapolis businessman who has served the Community Fund since its founding in 1919, was named honorary member of the organization, its highest award for service, at a banquet last night at the Claypool Hotel. The citation was delivered by Evans Woollen Sr., who said: “We congratulate you, not that hu are now honored, but that a life has been so lived that you have deserved the honor.” In accepting, Mr. Ruddell declared that the spirituality of a City is reflected in the manner in which it supports a Community Fund. Made Friends, Says Ruddell “When we cease taking care of and being interested in those less fortunate we take the first step to barbarism,” he said. “You've set a high standard for me to follow and live up to the rest of my life. I have been happy my work. I have made friends in the work I have done—friends I could never have otherwise had.” The banquet was attended by about 300 business and civic leaders, representatives of the 36-mem-ber agencies of the fund, Chamber of Commerce members and other civic organization representatives. A congratulatory spirit pervaded the dining-room as speakers reviewed the year’s work. They called it “the best Community Fund drive in the history of the organization.” Hoke Speaks
Fred Hoke, long-time Community Fund supporter, made the principle address. He was introduced by Harold B. West as “the man who has opened more Community Fund drives all over the country than any other man.” Mr. Hoke reviewed the work of the State Department of Public Welfare. He congratulated Thurman A. Gottschalk, department di|rector. He said Mr. Gottschalk had |leaned over backward in a successful attempt to bar politics from his stewardship and called him a “splendid State director.” Hugh McK. Landon presented the nominations for the 1940 Board of Directors and they were unanimously elected. They are Evans Woollen Jr., William A. Hacker, Philip M. Adler Jr, Mrs. Brandt C. Downey, George A. Bischoff, Samuel Mueller, Charles |W. Jones, Nicholas H. Noyes and ‘Perry W. Lesh, who were re-elected, (Continued on Page Seven)
KUHN SENTENGED AS ‘SMALL TIME THIEF’
Gets 215, to 5 Years for Larceny, Forgery.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U. P).— General Sessions Judge James G. Wallace today sentenced “Bundesfuehrer” Fritz Kuhn to two and one-half to five years in prison not as “a rabble-rouser or a hate-dis-penser,” but as “an ordinary smalltime forger and thief.” In pronouncing judgment against Kuhn, convicted of stealing $1217 from his German-American Bund. Judge Wallace said he believed the leader and several of the defense witnesses committed perjury during the trial and called upon District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to take Grand Jury action. Kuhn paled, but kept his shoulders squared and his head erect as the judge heaped denunciation upon him. Sentences are to run concurrently. The three counts on which he was| sentenced were one of grand larceny | and two of third-degree forgery in |connection with a $500 legal fee raised by the Bund for Attorney
In| district
ALLIES FACE QUESTION OF JOINING FINLAND IN HOLDING OFF RUSSIANS
War in Brief Is Scandinavia Next?
HELSINKI—-Finnish troops in Arctic are reported scoring amaz- Britain, France Wonder.
Soviets’ Casualties Heavy, Helsinki Reports.
ing successes against Russians.
MOSCOW-—Russia rejects new Finnish attempts to negotiate settlement, threatens to quit League.
STOCKHOLM—Fifteen classes of Swedish reserves called up for partial mobilization,
LONDON-—Allics start blockade OF Nazi exports, hunt German sea raider believed to have sunk ship.
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 5 (U. P.;.—Stormy weather aided Finland's fighting forces again today in holding back the Red Army and semi-official dispatches reported Finnish successes in military operations on two southeastern fronts. Finnish tank traps, supplemented by quick-firing anti-tank guns, were described as disrupting the Soviet attacks north of Lake Ladoga and on the Karelian Isthmus, where Russian troops were reported pushed back in some isolated sectors after suffering high casualties. Official sources reported that Finnish troops and volunteers also were making a strong stand on the |Arctic Coast but communications {with both Karelia and the Petsamo were disrupted and the {Government information usually lagged behind frontier reports relayed through Norway telling of renewed fighting in the north.
Arctic Bombings Reported
Messages from Svanvik, on the Norwegian border, said that Soviet warships had appeared off Petsamo Fjord and that Red airplanes were ranging over the Arctic coastal area, reportedly bombing Salmijarvi and Kolochoki.
Official circles in Bergen, Norway, reported that one of three Russian planes which bombed Salmijaervi was damaged by Finnish anti-aircraft fire and forced down. Frontier messages also reported heavy cannonading at Petsamo and Liinahamari, where the fighting has | been most severe. An unconfirmed report published in Stockholm said that Finnish airplanes had raided the Russian airdrome near Murmansk, dropping bombs that destroyed 60 Soviet airplanes but the report lacked confirmation elsewhere. Russian reinforcements were arriving near Petsamo and a big Soviet offensive in the Arctic area was believed likely. Snow fell intermittently all along the southern coast and the cloudy ceiling was too low for successful aerial activity.
Helsinki Streets Deserted
On the eve of the 21st anniversary of Finnish independence the streets of Helsinki were almost empty and workmen were covering windows with boards in the main streets because of fear of a Russian aerial onslaught when the weather breaks. The Government organized food and other supplies, which appeared to be plentiful for the present atl least. Despite assertions in authorized Russian mediums that only military objectives would be attacked by Red planes, the rumor spread through the capital during the night that a gas attack from the air, first in world history on such |a city as Helsinki, impended. | British consular officials were so alarmed at the rumor that they | used the telephone to warn all Brit- | ish subjects to leave the city at (Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS REGULAR; HOGS HERE OFF 15
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor Britain and France were faced today with the problem of whether they are going to fight Russia as well as Ger many. Russia is already at war in Eue rope and it becomes a question of whether the war is going to be cone fined to Finland or spread and ine volve the other powers. It is doubtful, in the final analy sis, if the war can be confined to Finland. Russia probably can in the long run, with her overwhelm-
. EJ = on ingly superior strength and ree sources, conquer Finland, if the
Take to Sea and Air After Finns are left to fight it alone. oo ; The strength and success of Fine British Ship Is Sunk; nish resistance indicates that it may Blockade Begins.
OSLO—Foreign ministers of Denmark and Sweden called to discuss Finland's charge of aggression against Russia.
take Russia many months. But after that, would Russia stop for long? The great Swedish-Nore wegian peninsula lies in her weste ward path. Allies Hands Now Full
The Allies are primarily at war to stop German aggression and end {the rule of might which has seen country after country gobbled up. That is stated as their war aim-— to establish a system of security under which independent nations {will not feel in danger of being overrun at will by a powerful neighbor. The job of “crushing Hitlerism” is in itself a handful for the Allies, as three months of the war have proved. They have had no desire to see the German-Russian alliance turned into a military one in which they would find the full weight of Russia thrown in with Adolf Hitler. But if Germany is subdued, and Russia is left alone to push weste ward while the subduing is going on, the Allies will be faced with the same thing over again. There will be Russia, capable of taking over where Herr Hitler left off.
Moral Pressure Great
In the minds of those British and French statesmen who dread the penetration of bolshevism into Eue rope, “the last state shall be worst than the first.” The question has become acute both because of Finland's course ageous resistance and because of the world-wide indignation and alarm over Russia's course. The moral pressure is great. Britain and France will have diffi
BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax said today in the House of Lords that Adolf Hitler had “bartered” away the liberties of the Baltic states. He said that “in the last few days we have witnessed what has been unnecessarilly condemned as an inexcusable act of aggression by one of the largest (Russia) upon one of the smallest (Finland) but most highly civilized nations of Europe.
LONDON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—The Allies pressed their hunt by air and| sea today for the roving German | pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Deutschland, confident that neither could reach a home port without being attacked. The latest clue was a report that the Admiral Scheer had sunk the British refrigerator ship Doric Star, 10,088 tons, in the South Atlantic. Aircraft from the British coastal command are making routine flights daily over the North Sea and the North Atlantic, searching for German submarines, merchantmen and warships. Heavy bombers are assigned especially to sea lanes which German raiders presumably would take in retreat to a home { port. Allied naval vessels waited word from the air that the Deutschland or Admiral Scheer had been sighted. The Admiralty announced that the Doric Star had been attacked by a German raider and ‘pre- culty “selling” their promise to sumed,” because there had been no|make all states of Europe free and further information, that she had Secure if Russia conquers Finland been sunk. |by force of arms and can repeat The Doric Star, with ~ normal the same tactics against some other crew of 70 and accommodations for | country. six passengers, was en route to Finland's die-hard fight England from New Zealand and forced the issue into the open. Australia. The British Press asso- Scandinavia Alarmed ciation said the ship was not carSweden and Norway have no ile
rying passengers. : 3 : There was no information as 1o lusions about Russia's aims in the fate of the ship's crew. Poe = ope. t Both have tried Tt was said that the ; sperately to stay neu ral, but ship was not the danger is at their borders now.
rmed. armed A school of thought has developed
has
The London steamship Horsted,
By UNITED PRESS New York stocks were firm in afternoon dealings today. light. only fractionally. gained at London.
Hog prices at In15 cents
early trading. dianapolis slumped
on others. CATTLE GO ON RATIONS
BERLIN, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Ration cards for horses, cattle and swine
| James D. C. Murray, retained by {Kurn to represent the organization) lin a Nasau County case.
will become effective immediately, it was announced today.
Trade was Most leading issues changed Industrial shares
Chicago wheat prices advanced in
on weights above 160 pounds, 10 cents
1670 tons, has been torpedoed in the! North Sea with the loss of three members of its crew, it was announced today. Five are missing. Thirteen survivors were landed last night. The Horsted was torpedoed off the East Coast yesterday. Meanwhile Great Britain and (Continued on Page Three)
JOINT CRITICISM OF RUSSIA IS HINTED
lu. S. Reported Ready for
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the baby was standing at the bot-|
tom of the shaft between the studding with his arms stretched up-
| ward, waiting to be rescued.
By JOE COLLIER
Norris Goff and Chester Lauck of | Mena, Ark. well known in Indian-|
| 46 More Clothed as Lum ’n Abner Aid Clothe-A-Child
present, but that it would be un- | squeeze his wav into a two-foot|
| | took a bite of chicken.
“Have some turnip greens,
”»
“That's mighty fine,” he said, and
Lum |
Hemispherical Action.
in Sweden which favors jumping in to aid Finland now before Russia could overrun that country and establish fortified bases in the Aaland Islands, just a broad jump from Sweden. Sweden is not unprepared for trouble, it was shown today when the army was partly mobilized, leaves cancelled, and preliminary are rangements made for civilian evace uation of Stockholm if it should bee come necessary. If Norway and Sweden go in, there is a good chance that Britain might class Russia with Germany as a belligerent and throw her weight behind the Scandinavias.
Aaland Islands Important
‘British naval bases in Norway and air bases in Sweden would go far to halt Russia in her tracks. The
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— State Department quarters said to-| day that the United States is pre- | pared to join in a hemispherical de- | nunciation of Russia's invasion of)
Aaland Islands, which Finland already has begun to fortify, would perhaps be saved from Russian oce cupation. The islands are of the utmost ime portance. They guard the ene
|apolis though seldom here, today | { were full fledged workers in one of the city’s favorite charities—Clothe-A-Child. ——n They are better known as Lum 'n’ Patrolman Gilbert Jones, 30, of Abner of radio fame, and they are 533 Leon St, was in City Hospital| playing here at the Lyric Theater. today with a bullet wound inflicted Last night, after five stage shows,| l accidentally by his partner as the two scheduled broadcasts, and other
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Partly cloudy skies and slightly two were making an arrest yester- activities, they
higher temperatures were forecast| for Indianapolis tonight and tomor- | row by the Weather Bureau. The lowest temperature tonight] will be about 35, the Bureau said. | | SHOPPING
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day. His partner, Patrolman Alexander Posey, reported that they saw a man striking a woman in the 400 block Indiana Ave. and that they stopped and arrested him. A crowd collected, he said, an as they ordered him into the squad car another man interferred. They arrested him. Then they drove to
a call box at Vermont St. and| “Shucks, we should have gotten a
Capitol Ave. and ordered the men out of the car.
broadcast for half an
hour over WFBM on behalf of The |
| Indianapolis Times’
| charity. | While they broadcast, from 10:
ito 11 p m,
(but it was Lum w little dejectedly after the broadcas
hundred or more.” So m spite of the fact that they
30 © listeners called The | Tiras office and pledged to clothe d 46 children. Rapid calculation shows| that to be more than one a minute, | ho remarked al; N A i 3 ¥
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One of the two became abusive worked a dizzy 12 hours yesterday, | and Officer Posey pulled a 38-caliber and were going hunting this morn-|
revolver.
This was discharged ac-|ing before the first show, they are cidentally and the bullet glanced going back on WFBM from 10:30 to
into the car, striking Officer Jones 11 o'clock tonight. They decided that | on the way down in the elevator
{in the leg.
KENNEDY HEADS HOME
| clipger.
after last night's broadcast.
| These boys do things like that. LISBON. Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Joseph They ordered a thrasher’s dinner of | P. Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to fried chicken and all the trim- | London, left for New York today mings last night just before they aboard a Pan-American Airways were to go on the air for their first | commercial bjpadeast at 6:15 p. m.
Norris (Abner) Goff and Chester
Times Photo. (Lum) Lauck . . . “We'll get those
kids clothed.”
6 p. m. Lum and Abner were unaffected by the short time they had. They passed the chickey.
The dinner was served at about]
“You say,” said Abner, “that] | every single cent raised goes to the | kids?” “That's right.”
clothed last year?” "1831." A waitress said: “The manager says that you are on the air in seven minutes and that the studio is on the fourth floor and you take an elevator.” Lum said: “Have one of these candied yams. They're really delicious. myself into one.” A waitress started around Abner. “Hand 'em over,” he said.
around the table.”
pleasantly.
on. “How much broadcast?” he asked.
chicken. peas. the stage show.”
“How long will that be?” (Continued on Page Three)
“I have nothing to do but walk “But that takes time,” he said,
Mr. Goff’s uncle, Bert Goff, Colorado Springs, who hadn't seen him for 10 years, was dining with them. That is, he was looking breathlessly
“We'll get together on the program between the broadcast and legation here. Another column, 500 Gallup Poll .,
republics desire to take such action. | The statement of U. S. attitude! on the proposed Western Hemi- | | spere declaration was made as political tension rose over the issue of President Roosevelt's recognition | of Soviet Russia. State Department quarters said | that the attitude of the United
| sia had been communicated to |other American republics. It fol-| lowed suggestions from several Latin-American capitals that such a statement be issued. |
| FASCIST DENUNCIATION ‘OF MOSCOW SPREADS
ROME, Dec. 5 (U. P.). — Fascist, student demonstrations against Rus-
time before the Sia and in behalf of Finland spread | clapper
(to Milan today and were renewed in
“Four minutes,” said Abner and Rome. helped himself to another piece off |
“Down with Communism, viva nland,” thousands of parading stu- |
Lum took a heaping spoonful of dents in the capital cried. |
Police estimated that 1000 stu|dents gathered before the Finnish |
strong, marched past the American | consulate general on Via Veneto, shouting anti-Soviet slogans. \
into the Baltic and control the pass=age of Sweden's great iron and steel shipments and Finland's pulp and cellulose. Complete stoppage of those supplies would be a severe blow to the Reich, The British and French attitude may be crystallized after the meete
I've talked gates on the denunciation of Rus-|ing of the League Council and Ase
the table for some black-eyed peas for
sembly at Geneva this week-end. France so far is averse to antage onizing Russia and precipitating & Russian-German military alliance,
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