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[scurrs—nowaspd VOLUME 51—NUMBER 266
‘Quads at Home in Cardboard Incubator
CUT SPENDING, IS TOWNSEND'S ORDER T0 AIDS
‘Payrolls Included in Move to
Protect Fast-Dwindling State Balance.
Witk the State's
mental expenses, including payrolls. The Governor called into an emergency conference executives of 24 State departments yesterday, instructing them to put the brakes on spending and “turn part of their budget money back into the general
The economy move followed a re- \ port published in THe Times last
surplus of 24 million dollars has dwindled to $9,113,000 in 18 months. Statisticians estimated that if the present rate of spending is continued another year, the surplus will
have been wiped out.
Patronage Will Suffer Under the Governor's edict, Democratic patronage will suffer because department heads said they were ordered to reduce *personnel whereever possible.” Counteracting political losses as the result of patronage curtailment, however, will be the 1940 campaign slogan that the Administration is winding up its four years with a cash surplus, observers predicted.’ Governor Townsend told the executives emphatically that he intends to end his Administration with a healthy balance, according to State House leaders. During the conference, he questioned each department head at length on his spending plans for 1940. Most Expert to Have Balances
“Most of them reported that they will be able to pile up some unspent budget money and turn it back to the general fund by December,” Governor Townsend ‘said. De ent heads also reported, he said, that revenues during the last six months -exceeded those of the first six months of 1939. “Operating costs in many departments also’ have been reduced recently,” he said. The Governor and department heads declined to predict the extent of personnel cuts but admitted that some reductions in payrolls “will have to be made.”
LACK OF APARTMENT GARAGES IS NOTED
A survey of 22 Indianapolis apartment houses showed today that ga‘rage space is provided for only 21 per cent of the cars-owned by apartment dwellers. These figures were submitted to the Safety Board by Building Commissioner (George R. Popp Jr. today to illustrate his contention that lack of garages in apartment districts contributed to the overnight parking problem. Meanwhile, Safety Board members compiet: preparations to enforce a City @rdinance prohibiting overnight p rking on City streets beginning next Tuesday. Board members said thes, would study Mr. Popp’s figures in considering an amendment to {the building code which would require apartment builders to provide adequate garage space.
28 ARE INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY
The Federal Grand Jury this afternoon returned 21 indictments accusing 28 persons of violating Federal laws. Twenty-seven of those accused are in custody. All those indicted are to be arraigned at 9 a. m. Friday. Val Nolan, U.S. District Attorney, said the Jury cleaned up the cases preparatory to investigating alleged WPA irregularities. He said he had no income ‘tax cases to put before the Jury. Frank Ray Updegraff, 29, of 3615 N. Temple Ave, was indicted on a charge of having embezzled $9039.21 from the Peoples State Bank over a period of six years. He was a note teller there. Other charges included violations of the narcotic act, the Mann Act, the Dyer Act, and postal laws.
INDIANAPOLIS NEXT “IN U. S. RACE PROBE
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (U. P.).—U. Ss. District Attorney William J. Campbell, heading a Government drive against alleged “bootlegging” of race
Indianapolis and East St. Louis, Tl. today as the next objects of the campaign. Mr. Campbell said that his chief assistant, Samuel Kldus, has won a fight te ban telephone service to a race ‘information service in Los Angelés and will proceed immediately to Indianapolis, where it was reported last week that a successor to M. IL. Annenberg’s disbanded Nationwide News Service, Inc., was being organized.
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FORECAST: Light to moderate snow tonight and tomorrow; not so cold tonight, lowest temperature about’ 20.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1940
TENSION EASES BUT NEUTRALS REMAIN ARMED
Finns Claim Reds Repulsed As Britain Promises War Materials.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Tension eased today in the neutral zones of the European front, but there was no relaxation of precautions. Both diplomatic maneuvers and action on the propaganda front
‘were responsible for developments
centering around security of the small neutral nations. : ~ Germany charged that the. fears of war on new fronts were caused by Allied propaganda, but in any event ‘the immediate surface result seemed to have hardened opposition to. the Red Army or to the possibility—frequently cited by the Allies —of some future Nazi-Soviet joint
- |action.
mes-Acme Telephoto.
' A cardboard incubator today served as the temporary home for Alabama’s quadruplets, Faith, Hope, Charity and their unnamed brother, shown in the incubator at the Walker County Hospital at Jasper, Ala.
3-PART SAFETY DRIVE MAPPED
‘Indianapolis Safest in 40,’ Slogan for Work by. Council Here.
Organization for a completely coordinated industrial plant, home and traffic safety program in Indianapolis was announced today by
.| the (Indianapolis Accident Preven-
tion Council. The council has about 60 City industrial plant members. E. C. Forsythe, president, said between 20 and 25 thousand employees would be affected immediately. Three divisions will be set up within the council devoted fo plant, traffic and home safety. . The plant committee will ‘meet monthly for discussion and motion pictures on industrial plant safety problems.
| It Will Keep Statistics It {will maintain a statistical department that will keep safety and accident figures for comparison with ‘other cities’ records. Speakers from member plants will be interchanged and | interplant visitations will be held, The traffic safety department has announced its slogan as “Indianapolis the Safest City in ’40.” Spot radio broadcasts will be held. There will be interviews with City judges, police officials and. traffic accident victims. Slogan and comment outlets are being arranged in theaters and churches. Civic clubs will be urged to form their own co-operating safety organizations.
League to Be Formed
A | Safe Driving League will be formed in member plants’ personnel and comparisons will be made among the plants. Boy Scout control of downtown pedestrian traffic on Saturdays will be arranged with police supervision. At a meeting last night at the Hotel Washington the council decided on immediate co-operation with| the City in sanding icy streets near membér plants and shoveling snow on streets and sidewalks in those areas.
LAFAYETTE PERKINS,
REALTOR, DIES AT 74 --
Directed ‘Many of City’s Large Sub-Divisions.
Lafayette Perkins, secretarytreasurer and general manager of the American Town Lot Co., died of pneumonia today in Methodist Hospital. He was 74. Mr. Perkins had been active in real estate affairs here since the turn of the century. He organized the American Town Lot Co. in 1914 and had since directed the subdivision of Northcliffe and Norwaldo Additions and the Biltmore and Drexel Gardens as well as many subdivisions in other towns in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. He was born in Woodstock County, Pennsylvania, and obtained a law degree from Allegheny College, Meadesville, Pa. He came to Indianapolis to practice law, but soon became interested in real estate. He formed several Mexican land firms shortly after 1900 and spent much of his time there for several years. Mr. Perkins was active in affairs of the Democratic Party and was a member of .the ‘Indiana Democratic Club, the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, He lived at 2403 N. Talbot Ave. He is survived by his wife, Julia. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Thursday at the Blackwell Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. ;
HOLT TO APPEAL KOKOMO, Ind., Jan.'16 (U. P.). —Former Mayor Olin R. Holt of Kokomo said today that he will appeal to the United States Supreme Court his conviction last May of conspiracy to defraud the Government through misuse of ‘WPA lagor,
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Faith, "Hope, Charity and Brother Total 12 Pounds
Born by Lamplight to Miner’s Wife in Alabama Hills; Parents Puzzle Over Name for Boy, Last in Multiple Birth.
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 16 (U. P.).—The first set of quadruplets in Ala-
bama’s history—three girls and a boy—were “doing nicely” today in an
improvised incubator at the Walker The babies, born Sunday night
lamplight in front of an open fireplace, with a 65-year-old country doctor in attendance. The girls were named Faith, Hope and Charity; but the astonished parents had not yet decided on a name for the boy. Their weights today were: Faith, 3 pounds 2 ounces; Hope, 2) pounds 14 ounces; Charity, pounds 4 ounces, and the boy, : pounds 4% ounces.
practice, has delivered 3000 babies, including 50 sets of twins. But he was not prepared for a wholesale delivery when he was summoned Sunday night to the cabin of sharecropper and coal miner, Clyde Short. The temperature was 26 degrees above zero, very cold for Alabama, and a gusty wind whistled through the hills. Dr. Sankey drove two miles from his home in the mining village of Nauvoo to reach the cabin. Two Beds Face Fire
The bedroom of the two-room cabin was 15 by 16 feet and contained two iron beds facing an open fireplace. Mrs. Short, 36, and red-
‘|haired, was in one of the beds, in
pain, and she assured the doctor that her “time” had come, though, according to her mathematics, it shouldn’t come until March 25. He quickly verified her diagnosis. He put Mr. Short to heating water. He sent Mrs. Short’s mother for some of the neighbors and one of the neighbors took the Shorts’ five children, the .oldest, 10. Dr. Sankey moved the bed nearer the fire. At 8 p. m.,, Mrs. Short gave birth to a girl. Dr. Sankey had barely slapped her into a healthy screaming infant, when a second girl arrived. He slapped this one too, and handed her to a neighbor woman. Then, to his amazement, a third girl was born. “Doctor,” said the neighbor wom- , “do you reckon that’s all?” “No,” said Dr. Sankey. At 9:20 p. m., one hour and 20 minutes after the first, the fourth baby—a boy—was born.
Returns With Milk
After the mother had been cared for and the babies washed, Dr. Sankey cooled some ‘of the boiling water in a tea kettle and fed it to them from a teaspoon, drop by drop. Then he wrapped them in blankets and laid them on the bed, end to end. Dr. Sankey went home at 12:30 a. m. and returned at 8 a. m. yesterday, with a hot water bottle, blankets, and a can of milk. He fed the babies with a teaspoon again, then came back to get Mrs. Marguerite Rowland, a nurse. At noon, an ambulance took the mother and the babies to the hospital. The mother’s condition was reported to be good.
Dr. H. J. Sankey, in 36 years of|
County Hospital here and Dr. A. C.
Jackson said they had a good chance to live.
in a two-room farm cabin in the
hills two miles northwest of Nauvoo, were brought into the world by
NEW PARK BOARD
MEMBER NAMED
Gertrude v. Brown, Social Worker, Succeeds Mrs. Louis Markun.
Miss Gertrude V. Brown, 3259 Carrollton .Ave., organizer and exec-
utive secretary of the Northeast Community Center Boys Town, today was made a member of the Park Board by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. She is a Republican. Miss Brown succeeds Mrs. Louis Markun, who did not seek reappointment after a four-year term because, she said, she intends to work for the success of the Republican Party in the coming elections. Miss Brown has been active’ in social service work all her adult life. She did graduate work in the University of Southern California, the University of Missouri, William and Mary College, and the New York School of Social Work, and received her M. A. degree from the University of Cincinnati. She is a graduate of the National Training School of the Young Women’s Christian Association and a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Mayor Sullivan declared that Miss Brown will be of great assistance to the Board because of her ability and interest in recreation. He expressed regret that Mrs. Markun could not longer serve on the Board, and said the work she has contributed is; appreciated. In her letter, Mrs. Markun said sine hoped the Board will continue to work for the development ‘of the Holliday Park and Botanical Garden and the West Side Park: an expanded recreation program; the
{utilization of = school grounds and
buildings for recreational facilities; and the appointment of the best qualified personnel for SBciency | in edminisiration.
1ST LADY NOT FOE OF ‘PLANNED CHILDREN’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.P) — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today that she does not oppose “the planning of children,” but that she does not wish to impose her views on any one else. It was her first utterance on ‘the question of birth control since her husband has been President
Couple Wins
Catalino PF. Laanan, 29-year-old Los Angeles Filipino, appeared in Criminal Court today to have a hakszs corpus action dismissed. He had been held here on a California fugitive warrani as having jumped a bond of $250, but California said it would .not extradite. So when Laanan and his white bride, Mrs. Mildred Laanan, 19, formerly of Indianapolis, started to leave the Courtroom, a Los Angeles bondsman attempted to put handcuffs on Laanan. Immediately both of the Laanans began to fight, and Mrs. Laanan stepped between her -husband and the bondsman who was trying tc
capture him. They made such a rumpus. in the. cogridor, and, 50. fre-|.
and Runs
In Court Corridor Battle
quently banged against the glass of the Criminal Courtroom door, that Judge Dewey Myers was disturbed. A man was on trial for his life in Judge Myers’ court. All the time Laanan was shouting, “No. I'm free. No. I'm free.” Bailiff Dugan stepped up and said: “What's going on here? Come on in here, you.” The three went into the courtroom and Judge Myers motioned to the bondsman to sit in the jury box. Just then the couple’s attorney, Robert Carrico, led them through a back door of the courtroom and down to an outside door of the Court House. “Scram,” he said, and they ran through. the snow. toward J ~ {Continued on
Developments Listed
The developments included: - 1. Pope Pius was understood to have stated, in response to a British inquiry, that the Vatican has no criticism of the political attitude of any state except Soviet Russia. 2. Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, while emphasizing in reply to Russian protests that they were obssrving the rules of neutrality, indicated they would continue or increase their aid to Finland on an unofficial basis. i 3. French sources said that there was reason to fear a joint NaziSoviet move, but that the Allied powers stood ready to aid any neutral which is the victim of aggression. : 4. Britain was reported to have offered aid to Norway and Sweden if their independence is threatened. 5. Italy was described in reliable sources as regarding the Soviet criticism of Sweden and Norway as a grave development and as considering any extension of the Red Army activity as a “calamity.”
Claim Russians Repulsed
8. The Moscow radio strongly attacked Sweden and charged that Scandinavian workers were being exploited. . 7. Both Sweden and Norway protested against Soviet aerial violations of their keoibioao . Despite a bitter cold temperature
lof 36 below zero, fighting. continued
in Finland. An official communique issvied in Helsinki said a Russian attack on the Karelian Isthmus had been repulsed with heavy losses, and that two Russian companies had been broken up on the important North Central front. The communique said that a Russian detachment attacked Finnish positions on the southeastern Karelian Isthmus front near Taipale, on the shores of Lake Ladoga and (Continued on Page Three)
SNOW T0 ROUT COLD WAVE, BUREAU SAYS
Three Injured in Falls Due To Wintry Weather.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ...14 10a. m... 17 Tam... 15 11a. m. ... 18 8a. m. ...15 12 (neon)... 21 9am ... 16 1pm ... 23.
Light to moderate snows will chase the cold wave tonight and tomorrow and the lowest temperature tonight will be around 20, the Weather Bureau predicted today. The minimum temperature in the last 12 hours was 12 at 1 a. m., but the mercury started to climb at that hour. Three persons were injured yesterday in accidents attributable to the weather. There was skating today on Lake
tinued tonight. Rosemary McKinney, 9, R. R. 20, Box 493, received lacerations when she fell off a sled while coasting at Central High School, Valley Mills, yesterday. Falling down in the rear yard of his home, Rollie Corey, 53, of 268 S. Arlington Ave., received a fractured left arm, police said. Rosella Harden, 41, of 1829 Churchman Ave. received a broken right ankle when she slipped and fell on the ice at Delaware and Market Sts.
MURPHY, JACKSON, BIDDLE CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.) — The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Attorney General Frank Murphy as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. There was no record vote. A minute later, the Senate approved the nominations of Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson to be Attorney General and Circuit Court Judge Francis H. Biddle to be Solicitor General.
HOG PRICES DROP; STOCKS IRREGULAR
By UNITED PRESS . Indianapolis hog prices slumped 10 to 25 cents today as 15,000 were received for sale. : New York stocks turned irregular in afternoon trading after losing early firmness. Steel shares led the recovery, then settled to yesterday's closing levels. Experts said technical factors guided the market.
Alabama [Wheat was fractionally lower at Chicago
Sullivan, and the sport will be con- |;
| Legendre has returned to the front,
.. Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,
- U. Boats Rescued, Germans Say.
LONDON, Jan. 16 (U. P.). —The Adniiralty today announced the apparent destruction of three British submarines—the Seahorse, the Undine and the Starfish— while engaged “in particularly hazardous service.” The three ships normally carried
war-time action. Some of the crews of the Undine and Starfish were reported rescued by Germans.
smaller type, built for coastal operations. They were the first lost in action by the Allied powers, which claim to have destroyed or captured from 30 to 40 Nazi U-boats since the war started.
Two of 640 Tons Each
The Seahorse and the Starfish were both of the Swordfish class. They were of 640 tons: and each carried a normal complement of 40 men. Each was 200 feet long and carried one three-inch gun and one machine gun and had six 21-inch torpedo tubes in the bow. The Undine was of the Unity class. Her tonnage was 540 tons and she carried a normal complement of 27 men, which probably would be increased in war-time service. The Unity was 180 feet long and carried six 21-inch torpedo tubes. The submarines apparently were operating .along the German coast as a. sister ship of the Undine—the Ursula—reportedly sank a German cruiser in -the mouth of Ws River Elbe last month.
Next of Kin Informed.
The Admiralty announced that | the next of kin of the men .aboard. the three ships-had been informed. The Admiralty communique said: “The Secretary of the Admiralty regrets to announce that during the past week his Majesty’s submarines Seahorse, Undine and Starfish failed to return to their bases or report. These three vessels had been engaged in particularly. hazardous service and the Admiralty fear that they must now he regarded as having been lost. “The next of kin are being informed at once. The German wireless has announced that part of the crews of the Undine and the Starfish have been rescued.”
Starfish Resembles Salmon
It was recalled that the submarine Oxley was destroyed by an accidental explosion shortly after the outbreak of hostilities with the loss of four officers and 49 enlisted men. ‘The Starfish was similar to the British submarine Salmon which was reported to have torpedoed two German cruisers of the Bluecher and Leipzig classes. } The Salmon also was the underseas craft which allowed the German liner Bremen to pass when the ship was making its way from Murmansk to a German port. The British said the Bremen was allowed to pass because it could not be warned before being attacked. The Germans said that. their patrol planes drove the Salmon away. According to the latest available Navy. list the Starfish was commanded by Lieut. G. H. S. Haward, the Undine by Lieut. Comm. A. S. Jackson and the Seahorse by Lieut. D. S. Massy-Dawson.
I Berlin. Announces
Destruction of Two
BERLIN, Jan. 16 (U. P). — ‘The German High Command asserted today that the British submarines Starfish and Undine had been destroyed in Helgoland Bay. Destruction of the submarines was announced in today’s high command communique, which said: “The British U-boats Starfish and Undine have been destroyed in Helgoland Bight (Bay) through German defense measures. Part of the crews were rescued.” What the defense measures were was not immediately known. Both mines and submarine nets are customarily used in areas of such military importance
Indianapolis, Ind.
a peace-time total of 107 men but|: probably had more men aboard for’
All three submarines were of the|
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PRICE THREE CENTS
U.S. LOAN TO FINLAND IS PROPOSED BY F.D.R; 3 BRITISH SUBS LOST
Part of Crews of Two
Bracks ‘Silence
Leslie Hore-Belisha. “y didn’t know we ‘were making the army too democratic to fight for democracy.”
WAR MINISTER DENIES DISCORD
Chamberlain Fails to Offer’ Explanation for Ouster Of Hore-Belisha.
LONDON, Jan. 16 (U. P.) —Prime Minister Neville Chamberlairf, defending the dismissal of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, told the House of Commons today that the Allies “are ready” for any effort and any sacrifice if the war enters “a more acute phase.”
Both the Prime Minister and Mr. Hore-Belisha; took ' a. calm and Fharmonious-official view of the War Secretary’s dismissal, denying it was due to pressure by the Army “old guard” opposed to reforms. Mr. Hore-Belisha added that it had never occurred to him that “we were making the army too democratic to fight for democracy.”
Definite Explanation Lacking
But—despite the loud protests of the opposition—no definite explanation of the dismissal was offered in the Prime Minister’s speech concerning the war developments and the inference was left that Mr. Hore-Belisha had been too energetic for what some newspapers called the “military caste.” Both Mr. Chamberlain and his former War Secretary emphasized the need for harmony to carry through with the war. The Prime Minister repeated his
be the war is about to enter a more acute phase.”
- Army Pressure Denied
case,” he said, “we are ready for it and we will spare no effort and no sacrifice that may be necessary to
determined.” He New Zealand were soon sending troops “to places ‘where they are most needed.” He did not indicate
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MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD FLASHERS REMOVED
New Signals Installed at Madison’ Ave. Crossing.
The middle-of-the-road standards for flasher warnings at the Madison Ave. crossing of the Belt Railroad are being removed. Side signals, not in the lane of traffic, were in operation today. J. J. Liddy, Belt Railroad superintendent; said that he will ask the State Highway Commission to trim the trees, now partly obscuring the new signals. Watchmen will be on duty, he said, until the old standards have been removed, and the street resurfaced. The removal of the old standards culminates a civic club fight that has lasted for several years."
PARIS, Jan. 16 (U. P.).—Soldier
feeling he’s been cheated. His wife gave birth to triplets,
making four children in the family and putting him in the class of “fathers of four,” who are presently demobilized. But one of the babies died, and since he had only three children left, he was sent back to the front. M. Legendre was. married in April, 1938. When mobilization was ordered last September his wife had borne him one son. She went to the hospital Jan. 10 and he rushed to her side on. “special leave for ex-
_ Pectant fathers.”
Triplet Dies, Poilu Thought Exempt Returns to Army
His joy at the birth of triplets was | POS€
boundless and he prepared: to go back to his farm in St. German en Laye, near Paris, and forget about the war. Then one of the babies died. “But why must I go back, since I've had four, and the count is verified by birth certificates,” he argued tary. authorities. “I've r to demobilize.” “Don’t have any illusions,” the doctor said. “Even -the lottery sometimes announces a winner only to recall it and admit the numbers were false. Better luck next time.” M. Legendre kissed his wife and returned to the trenches with a \heavy heart, i
previous warnings that “it may well |
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secure the victory on which we are|t
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Spurs Sharp Debate;
George Says Such Aid ‘Unneutral.’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.) .—President Roosevelt sug-
consider non-military loans to Finland . and touched off a sharp Senate debate in which Senator Walter F. George (D. Ga.) charged such aid
was “unneutral.”
At the same time, calling for invocation
resolutions of the
| Neutrality Act against Finland, Rus-
sia, China and: Japan were ine troduced ' by Senators John A. Danaher (R. Conn.) and Guy M. Gillette (D. Towa). Mr: Roosevelt suggested that if Congress wished to aid Finland it provide for loans to finance noénmilitary purchases through the Ex-port-Import Bank and the Recon. struction Finance Corp.
Amount Not Specified
Mr. George attacked the sugges. tion sharply, demanding that Congress cease ‘permitting Jesse Jones or anyone else to make unneutral loans to foreign Governments.” Roosevelt suggested the cash
lus U. S. farm products and
ents of war with the money would be forbidden. The amount of
- The| President outlined his proposal for Finnish aid in Lieniios)
warned against creation of recedent which might open
pean nations, but said he did not believ his proposal would ‘‘constitute or Threaten any so-called, ‘ine volvement’ in ° n wars? The Export-Import Bank already has. advanced a $10,000,000 credit, but land has called * for ‘only $3,000,000 of that sum.
United States a great desire for some action to assist Finland to finance the purchase of agricultural surpluses and manufactured prod~ ucts, not including implements of war,” said Mr. Roosevelt.
Admits Opposition The President’s letter in part:
of land paid the regular ine stallment on her debt to the United , I directed the Secretary of réasury to place the money separate account pending
the a of ab s and manufactured prod. not including implements of There is at the same time bted opposition to the creaf precedents which might lead rge credits to nations in e, either belligerents or neue No one desires a return to y status.
such a It’s Up to Congress
“The facts in regard to Finland are just as fully in the possession of every member of the Congress as they are in the executive branch of the Government. The matter of credits to that republic is wholly
‘within the jurisdiction of the Con-
gress. .
reasonable approach would be action by the Congress authorizing an increase in the revolving credit fund of the Export-Import Bank and authorizing the Reconstruction
and securities from the Export-Ime-port Bank to enable it to finance exportation of agricultural surpluses and manufactured products, not ine cluding implements of war. “It is wholly within the discretion of the Congress to place a ceiling on the amount of such loans. Whether this.legislation should ins clude an additional increase in the revolving credit fund of the Export~ Import Bank, in order to provide for additional loans to - increase our trade with South and Central America, is also within the discretion of the Congress.”
Want Money for Army
Meanwhile, it was learned that Finnish representatives here have told Congressional leaders that a non-military loan would do their country little good. What they need to fight off Russian invasion, they said, is money to buy arms, ammuni=tion and implements of war. They requested $50,000,000 for that pure
The Senate Banking and Currency Committeer, which is considering legislation to authorize the RFC i lend Finland $60,000,000, plans to meet tomorrow to study the President’s communication, and may ask
to testify. ' Chairman Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.), indicated that prominent members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be invited to attend. Friends of Senator Norris (Ind, Neb), who voted World War, said that he doubted the Vistom of any type of loan; although he was very sympathetic - toward. the Finnish Fausey wo
gested today that Congress
be a Se to enable Finland to -
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“Last month when the republic .
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Finance Corp. to purchase loans
Mr. Jones and other lending SEperts, :
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