Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 3

}. "HOUSE TAKES ECONOMY FIGHT TO ROOSEVELT OFFICES

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Two Boards Lopped From Supply Bill In 43-Million Slash

Total Sill 34 Million|

Above Funds Spent This Year.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.). =The House Appropriations Committee carried the economy fight straight to the White House today by reporting a $1,100,212,307 independent offices supply bill which eliminated all funds for two. important sections of President Roosevelt’s own executive office. f The Committee denied any funds whatsoever for the National Resources Planning Board and the office of Government reports. Those are two of the principal agencies which Mr. Roosevelt placed in his executive office under last year’s Government reorganization. The funds—totaling $2,115,000— were stricken from the bill on grounds that’ Congress had passed no law authorizing the continuance of the agencies. With other cuts the Committee’s action left President Roosevelt's executive office appropriation at $1,334,850, a cut of $2,136,400 below the budget and $1,439,380 below the current year.

Ship Building Fund Cut

Cuts made in funds for other &overnment agencies placed the total of the bill $94,492,166 below Mr. Roosevelt's 1941 budget estimates and $15,233,625 below funds being spent this year. This is the first appropriation bill for 1941. It carries funds for scores of boards and commissions. Biggest reduction came in a $100,000,000 ship construction fund provided for the U. S. Maritime Commission by the budget. The sub- ~ committee cut this to $75,000,000 and the full committee slashed off another $50,000,000—leaving the fund at $25,00,000, a total cut of $75,000,000. The committee disallowed all funds asked for salary increases— estimated at $3,088,497 — and announced it would follow this policy in all supply bills this session.

Agencies Figure in Disputes

The two executive office agencies for which funds were denied have been the subject of previous Congressional dispute. The “Resources Board is a central Government planning agency. It has conducted national surveys of resources, income, expenditures, water power facilities,

etc., which the New Deal has used|’

as a basis for legislative recommendations. The Office of Government Reports is the successor of the National Emergency Council‘and several related agencies. Its function is to collect information for the President on conditions throughout the country and to disseminate general information concerning the Government. : It is headed by Lowell Mellett. -Both agencies had previously existed as independent units but were placed in the executive office by the President’s reorganization order. At the same time he transferred the Budget Bureau to the White House.

Road Estimates Slashed

The Committee reduced the public building construction fund to $20,250,000, $25,545,000 below the current year. Public roads appropriations estimates were cut $5,000,000 by reducing the grade crossing fund to $25,000,000 and leavi the public lands highways fund;at $1,000,000. For U. S. Housing Authority contributions to building programs, the committee recommended $10,000,000, a reduction of $5,000,000 from the budget. The committee appropriated for the Veteran’s Administration $580,-

Cnorsir in Brier TODAY

Senate confirms Frank Murphy as Supreme Court Justice. House Committee reports independent offices appropriation bill. Naval Affairs Committee continues questioning Admiral Stark. Ways and Means Committee hears Assistant Secretary of State Grady on reciprocal trade. Smith Committee NLRB hearing. Labor Committee holds executive session,

YESTERDAY

Senate confirmed several nominations. House Naval Affairs Committee continued questioning Admiral Stark. Ways and Means Committee heard Undersecretary of Commerce Noble. -Smith Committee NLRB hearing.

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180,544, an increase of $34,766,375 over 1940, and $460,000 below the budget. Pensions were increa¥ed $24,429,304. Rep. Louis Ludlow (D.| Ind.) said Indianapolis is assured of a $140,000 recreation building at the Veterans Hospital. The sum was contained in the independent office appropriations bill. The building was listed on the new construction program of the Veterans Administration for the fiscal year 1941.

VanNuys Calls Meeting Of Subcommittee Friday

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — Senator Frederick VanNuys (D.| |Ind) announced today .that he has called a meeting Friday of the Judiciary Subcommittee of which he is chairman to consider both the House and Senate anti-lynching bills. The Gavagan bill, as| passed by the House last week, differs slightly from the Wagner-VanNuys bill as presented .in the Senate, and the latter text may be substituted, Senator VanNuys said.

JUDGE HALTS FIGHT, COUPLE SKIPS OUT

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St. ide said he had advised them to hide out for a while. Back in the courtroom it was freely whispered that the bondsman was armed, and when he returned Attorney Carrico went over and whispered to him: “Look. I was just acting for my clients. I'm not mad at you and have nothing against you. I'm not going to shoot you and I don’t want you to shoot me.” Two hours after the Laanan couple had fled the courtroom for a hiding place, Judge Myers called the bondsman before him. “If,” said the Judge, “there ever was a man guilty of contempt of court, you're him, making that kind of a racket in my courtroom when there’s a man here on trial for his life. “I don’t care whether you have the proper papers or not. If you say one word, you'll get six months in jail. Now you’d better get out of here as quietly as possible.” The bondsman left court. In the corridor he said he had ‘a local

that he was going to take Laanan back to California.“When I find him,” he said, “I'm going to . . . « well, I'll find him,

don’t worry.”

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man shadowing the Laanans and

To Stay Ou

WAGNER PLANS NEW LABOR BILL

N. Y. Senator to Request Legislation to Improve Industrial Relations.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.).— Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.), author of the National Labor Relations Act, announced plans today for new legislation to improve industrial relations. The bill, which he will introduce in the Senate probably late next month, will provide for an improved Federal conciliation service designed to stabilize labor relations, reduce labor strife, and help settle strikes. Mr. Wagner declined to discuss details of his bill, but similar plans have been discussed in labor circles ever since the National Labor Relations Board became the target of attacks by employers and labor unions. Among those advocating enlargement and extension of the existing conciliation service of the Labor Department has been William M. Leiserson, newest member of the Labor Board and former chairman of the National Mediation Board. The Labor Department’s conciliation service now is charged with using its good offices to seek peaceful settlement in any labor disputes. A section of the act creating the Labor Department authorizes the Secretary of Labor to act as mediator or appoint commissioners ‘“whenever the interest of industrial peace may require it to be done.” In the past it has been contended that the service was understaffed and lacked funds to participate in a nation-wide scale in labor disputes. Meanwhile, the special House committee investigating the Labor Board summoned three more trial examiners for questioning, and the House Labor Committee called its first

meeting of this session today.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATH TO DATE County Ciiy Total 1939 ees sessece 1 3940 .civeeveis- 2 Jan. 15 j Injured e000 7|Arrests secs 24 Dead ......... OlAccideats ..... 15

MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines TL

Tried tions Paid Speeding ........ © 0 $ Reckless driving... 0 0 Failure to stop at through street.. 0 Disobeying traffic 0

12 17 ¥ = Sm — Totals ......... 16 12 MEETINGS TODAY Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool wt: Men's Club, luncheon, ¥. M. C. A, 5 Yio Club. luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, hy yha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of TE eccator Club. luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, > Dniversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, niversity a Michigan Club, luncheon, si is red olumbus, luncheon, K. of

ERT Club, luncheon, Canary ) luncheon,

Credit Wg s Grille, Wm. H. 0., noon.

Ch rities Burcan, annual meetof asin Hotel, 6:30 p t ETINGS TOMORROW # Cc. A. Camera Club, meeting, Y. C.A,8p mm Lions Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Young Mens Piseussion Club, dinner, ™ association, duncheon,

$17

Hotel,

urdue Arum n ¥ en a Fa Aiea Legion, lunche si ma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of | C

Board of india is Real Estate Board, Property Madagement i Division), luncheon, Can-

Delia Reta Ta Tau, luncheon, Seville TavClub, noon. am Motor Traffic Association, lunch-

1 Antlers, noon. ior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon,

di tt HiFi Sa meen. Chamber of Com-

PKiwanis Cote. luncheon, Columbia Club,

. . oti Club of Indianapolis, lunch-

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records _ in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in pames and addresses.)

Fu nworth, 26, of 1540 Sells; dare | Faull Or Belcher, 25, of

ante. fi..of 4H W. aati:

Bi. Dorothy A. Carlsen, 22, of 5225 W.

nce M. Merkley, 31, of 1118 Eng-|cu lishe Ruth Alice Futhey, 30, of Ben Davis.

BIRTHS Boys Joseph, Opal Collins, at Methodist. Bryan, Marguerite Hiner, at Methodist. James, Helen Miller, at City. Joseph, Elsie Jarrett, at Cit James, Helen Davis, at St.

Lrainein. Clyde, Betty Harlow, at St. Francis. thony, Mary Laurenzana, at

cis. James, Viola Sims, at 2330 Schofield. Ernest, Lucille Neese, at 1502 Sey, x Craw? ford, Laura Sue Jones, at 1537 N. I'S! Theodore, Katherine White, at 1636 Le-

William, Marie Kruse, at 525 Sanders. Henry, Anne Marsh, at 5686 N. Delaware. gooomes, Catherine Graham, at 1722 Belleain Everett, Fredonia Bush, at 1641 Yandes. Clarence, Ruby Goldsby, at 1103 Kappes. Reginald, Irene Rice, at 1749 Miller.

Girls Florence

St.

Ralph, Methodist, S. A,, Genevieve Kriner, at Coleman. John, Leona Raia, at SO t St. Francis.

Katzenberger, at

Lawrence, Marie Kno Herbert, Helen Hearell Pat ‘St. Francis, , at St. Vileonis.

Hamilton, Una _Houchin, at 646 ‘Bireh Beraunisiaus, Nellie Nichpon, at 222% E. DW ashinguon Say NOD Anna Penick, at 2013 Martin-

ia, Frances Hamilton, at 2526 IndianSiRord, Alice Jones, at 846 W. New Paul, Catherine Matrau, at 827 E. New York.

DEATHS

‘Charles Sewell, 9 mo., at Riley, tubers eulous meningitis. Wal jor McLaughlin, 32, at Long, chronic

“nari a arloite Petri, 62, at Coleman, carGeorge Shuck, 75, at City, cerebral

hemorr Nanc roves, 8, at Central Indiana, cerebra hemorrhag Emma 2 Bonannae a, at 528 Bright, lobar pneumonia. Fannie Pickens, 98, at 3085 Central Ave., cardio vascular renal dise i. Methodist,

George Blankenship, 50, pneumonia. dS va Baker, 51, at 1144 Evison, Ar ia Schmidt, 64, at 523 Cottage, chronic nephritis. Jo, 80, at City,

oseph Sauter, arteriosclerosis. Wayne Lawson, 36, at Long, bilateral hydronephrosis. Frank De i, 64, at Central Indiana, pulmonary tuberculosis. John dams, 70, at 731 W. Walnut, bronchopneumon

car-

chronic myocarditis. Flowers, 39, at City, carcinoma. Lucile Kunkle, 27,

Central Indiana, acute cardiac dilatation. Eva Brooks, 77, at 523 N. Grant, cerebral hemorrhage.

lobar pneumonia. rthur Foote 80, at 1427 N. Delaware, myocarditis. ona Cunningham, B56. Michigan, Ha thrombosi ie Lockhart,

rrhage, John ao, 70. at Methodist, toxemia. Carrie Swails. 71, at 29 N. Colorado, vascular renal disease.

at 3029% W.

(00m, 01. at 4330 English

61, at og, cerebral |]

Paul Price, 26, at Jong, pneumonia. i ty Tellefere, 9, at City, miliary tuber-

08is. Sttaite Ehrgott, 70, at 605° N. Colorado, cerebral hemorrhage.

FIRES

Monday Pry os M.—1826 N. Alabama, defective ue, 7:47 A. M —410 W. Ncrth, A. D. 9:13 A. M.—1432 N. Belle Vieu, furnace coil. 10:45 A. M.—1853 Ludlow, A, D. 12:12 P. M1111 E. 15th St., orhiated tar kettle, $5 Tuesday

12:29 A. M —Pennsylvania and 32d, hot automobile motor, $2.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Light to moderate snow tonight and tomorrow; not so cold tonight; lowest temperature about 20.

Sunrise .

7:05 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Jan. 18, 1939—

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m....30.27

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 3 a. m.. Total ‘precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana-—Light to moderate snow in central and north portions and probably oF extreme south portion ionighy and morrow; not so cold tonight.

Illinois — Snow tonight and tomorrow, mostly light to moderate, except possibl some rain in extreme south portion; no so cold tonight.

Lower Michigan—Snow in south and possibly in north griion tonight and tomorrow: not so cold in south portion toDignt. and in extreme south portion tomorrow.

Ohio—Light snow and continued cold tonight and jomorron; colder tomorrow Jon and Thursd dy ’ with. light snow in ion tonight and tomorrow and light snow or rain in south rtion tomorrow; not quite so cold tonight, colder tomorrow night and Thursday. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Weather Bar. Temp. ear 30.14 27

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Clarence Hayes, 66, at'201 N. New Jersey, |} Mobile,

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Son and Da ghier of Old Russia

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Baron Rokassowski von Wrangell and Baroness Leda Wrangell... They hate Josef Stalin.

Baron Wrangell Tells U.S.

t of Europe

If the European wars continue, Russian and German high commands will unify just as England and France, and “then things will happen.” That is the opinion of Baron Rokassowski von Wrangell, former officer of the Imperial Russian Army and grandson of: the former Governor-General of Finland, who is here to address the Rotary Club today and the John H. Holliday Jr. Post 186 of the American Legion

tomorrow night. Baron Wrangell, a true son of old Russia, regards his lecturing as a sort of “missionary” work. His -purpose, he says, is [to let the people of America know the true dangers of the European situation, so that they will know better how to stay out of it. Baron Wrangell is a cousin of the late Gen. Baron Peter Wrangell, commander-in-chief of the White Russian Army, who fought against the Bolsheviks in 1920-21. | He bitterly hates Josef Stalin. “Russia is the greatest land power on earth and Britain the greatest maritime power, and it is inevitable that they will clash,” the Baron said. “The old Russian czars were relatives of the English monarchs, but Stalin has no relatives in England.” Stalin, the Baron thinks, fancies hmiself as master of Asia rather than of .Europe. “If the British are kept busy in Europe, as it is highly likely they will be, Stalin is very likely to strike to the southeast—Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and then India,” he said. He thinks a unification will follow when Germany and Russia finally discover they have much in common. “Germany will lend Russia many technicians, making the Russian Army much stronger,” the Baron said. They may even lend them 50,000 mechanized troops to aid in the drive on India, or the southeast.” Baron Wrangell paints a gloomy picture for the Finns. He says it is almost an: impossibility for them to win, “If Russia has lost two divisions, they have lost less than 2 per cent of their armed forces,” he said. Their manpower will win the war.” The Baron predicts that England will not send Finland great material aid, since Russia could retaliate immediately by striking through Afghanistan to vulnerable India. “We should use all our efforts to stay out of this war,” Baron Wrangell said. “It will be a war to exhaustion, in all likelihood.” : The baron, known as plain Charles at home in New York, loves to discuss military strafegy. He got out a huge map and drew lines with his fingers to illustrate possible lines of Russian attacks to reporters who interviewed him in his room at the Athletic Club. He is a naturalized American citizen and has traveled over the country for some 15 years as a representative of a commercial firm. He began lecturing on Jan. 1. | His wife, Baroness Leda Wrangell, travels with him and acts as his secretary. Although born only a few miles apart in Crimea, they met only three years ago in New York and were married shortly thereafter. The baroness is also of a Russian noble family. They have many things in common but the one on which they agree most is that they hate Josef Stalin.

TWO SUNDAY TRAINS

The Indiana Public Service Commission has authorized the B. & O. Railroad to discontinue two Sunday passenger trains between Indianapolis and Hamilton, O. The change was authorized on the petition of the railroad which stated that revenues were not sufficient to sustain the service provided by the two trains.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16 (U P).— Joan Bennett's first husband attempted suicide today, driven to distraction by the thought of the

beautiful movie blond-brunette on her third honeymoon. John Marion Fox, 38, was found

|by a fellow boarder in his rooming

house apartment. He had swallowed 50 sleeping tablets, and physicians said he had only an “even” chance to recover. The one-time Seattle playboy left no notes but police said he told

{them that he tried to take his life

because his first wife married Movie Producer Walter Wanger last Fri-

day. ‘| He would rather die than live | by

without hope of remarrying the girl pepTok as his bride Landon in

1825, when she was 16,

B. & 0. DISCONTINUES; av

TENSION EASES BUT NEUTRALS

Finns Claim Reds Repulsed As Britain? Promises War Materials.

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the scene of a series of unsuccessful Russian attacks in recent weeks.

ualties, the announcement said. On the North Central front two companies of Russian iors were dispersed near the eastern frontier “in the direction of Salla,” the communique said. Recently the Red Army had been reported attempting to mass new forces in the Salla salient for another attempt to cut Finland in two by driv toward the Gulf of Bothnia, The Finns said they had captured two of the famous Russian “parachute” troops which had been landed behind the Finnish lines and were seeking to send information by radio to their own forces. For the fifth day, Russian airplanes swept over: southern Finland in air raids today. Hundreds of thousands of people huddled in freezing air raid shelters during air alarm periods in the towns affected.

Report Douglas Planes Used

In connection with yesterday's bombings, the Copenhagen newspaper, National Tidende, reported in a dispatch from Viborg that 21 Douglas planes dropped scores of 250-kilogram bombs on the city. (Russia manufactures American designed planes by special license. Douglas is a widely known American plane.) Finns estimated that since Friday nearly 10,000 bombs had been dropped on nearly 50 towns and villages. They alleged that the Russians had bombed some isolated houses and had machine gunned individuals. Aabo, Viborg, Hanlo and Koivisto Island suffered heaviest. It was estimated by Finns that 1000 bombs and more than 1000 heavy naval shells had struck Koivisto Island, where are situated the heavy Finnish naval guns that serve as a right flank anchor for the Mannerheim defense line.

British Arrange Aid

As the Finns continued their defense, encouragement came from London where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the Government was granting export licenses for substantial quantities of war materials to Finland. - Mr. Chamberlain also confirmed that Britain and France have granted Turkey a credit of 25,000,000 pounds (about $100,000,000) for armaments, 15,000,000 pounds in gold, 2,000,000 pounds to liquidate arrears in Anglo-Turkish clearings and 1,500,000 pounds to liquidate Fran-co-Turkish arrears. The Prime Minister indicated that progress is being made toward bringing neutral nations .closer to the Allies as a result of the expansionist activities of Soviet Russia and of what he called new fears that Germany might attack Belgium or Holland. ¢ Charges Prles Persecuted

Mr. Chamberlain charged that the Germans were deliberately attempting to depopulate the former Polish territory of Poles and Killing many Polish leaders. ‘In all, the Prime Minister's remarks indicated satisfaction with recent European developments. In the Far East, the Japanese Government headed by the new Premier, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonali, decided to postpone the scheduled meeting of Parliament until Feb. 1, which is after the date of expiration of the Japanese-American commercial treaty. The new Japanese Government is expected to seek improvement of relations with the United States as far as compatible with Japan’s “independent stand” in foreign affairs. -, Wang Offers Peace

In Shanghai, Wang Ching-wei, scheduled to iead a Japanese dominated “Central Chinese Government,” telegraphed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese leader, today offering him peace on Japanese terms. Wang offered to go, with colleagues, to Chungking, the Chinese war capital, to negotiate. But, he said, if Chiang continued his “unreasonable” attitude, . Wang would have to negotiate with Japan for peace in part of China and leave the Japanese to deal with

Conditions in the interior were such, Wang said, that China had no hope of victory. : In his message, ‘Wang said that all Chinese people wanted peace.

TECH SENIORS WAIT PARTY Technical High School seniors will hold their annual Winter Party Friday afternoon in the sechool gymnasium. Mrs. Alberta Johnson,

senior sponsor, will be in charge.

vorced him three years later after their daughter, Diana, was born. «I can’t bear the thought of Diana being brought up by another man,” police quoted him. Mr. Wanger and his bride apparently had slipped out of town on their honeymoon, but Miss Bennett’s sister, Barbara, wife of Morton Downey, arrived at the police

hospital early this- morning and| {when he married the blond member |.

inquired about Fox. She talked with Miss Bennett ‘by telephone, and they arranged for Fox's removal to the California Hospital and for care by a specialist. His condition was “much impreved” the hospital said, Friends of Fox were bewildered his action. The pieces didn’t

fit together very well, they said. In

"REMAIN ARMED

|: The attack was hurled back and. the Russians suffered many cas-

National Guard, N. Y. Police Probes Opened; 17 Held On $50,000 Bond.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (U. P).— United States Attorney Harold M. Kennedy prepared evidence today

of the Christian Front plotted to overthrow the Government in an armed uprising.

He said he expected to present the case to the Jury next Tuesday. The defendants, arraigned yester day before Federal Judge. Grover Moscowitz by 49 Department of Justice agents, were held on bonds of $50,000 each, which they were unable to furnish. Their hearings were set for Feb. 5. Several subsidiary investigations have sprung from the week-end roundup of the suspects, one by National Guard authorities interested in whether the 12 Springfield rifles, several thousand rounds of ammunition and explosives found in the men’s possession had been stolen from armories.

in other cities were reported: under way, and Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine here, said he would investigate, reports that 40 policemen had been identified with the Christian Front here. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI head, had announced that the prisoners plotted to blow up a Jewish and a Communist newspaper plant here ‘land a theater that shows Russian movies. No hint of the evidence against them was given at yesterday’s arraignment. Each pleaded “not guilty. ” They were a nondescript group; mostly clerks and ‘ laborers of average means. Three were active members of the National Guard, one, John T. Prout Jr, a Captain in the Headquarters Company, 165th Infantry; and three were inactive National Guardsmen. Most were, of Irish or German descent and almost all were regular church-goers. One, John F. Cassidy, described by Federal agents as a leader, told newspapermen: “I'll tell you what I have got. to

BRITISH REJECT SECURITY ZONE

Contends American Navies Are Unable to Police Such Vast Area.

LONDON, Jan. 16 (U. P.).—Great Britain, rejecting in conciliatory terms the “security zone” of the American republics, contended today that the American navies could

not police Such a vast sea area and that it would become a sanctuary for German fighting and supply ships “from which they could emerge to attack Allied and neutral shipping.” The British statement was in reply to a message from the acting President of Panama on Dec. 23, calling attention to the ban on all belligerent a “tivities from an area extending 300 to 600 miles from the coasts of American nations. The reply was sent to the President of Panama, for dissemination to the other 20 American nations which unanimously had approved the security zone plan. . The Daily Mail, said today that

a “life belt for Hitler,” and that its legality was questionable since the first condition would be a means of enforcing it “and of course, the American countries couldn’t possibly maintain an effective patrol over so vast an area.”

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U. P.)— Republican and Democratic Congressmen opposed today any effort to “police” the Western Hemisphere safety zone as. suggested by Great Britain in its rejection of a joint American protest against British violation of the zone, Senators William E. Borah (R. Ida.), Lewis B. Schellenbach (D. Wash.), Tom Connally (D. Tex.)

all flatly opposed the idea of polic~ ing the zone. They believed that attempts to enforce it would get the United States “into trouble.” State Department officials, declined comment, indicating | that there would be none until the American republics have consulted among themselves. It was understood that the reply would be discussed by the Inter-American Neutrality Commission meeting at Rio De Janeiro.

P.).—The Inter-American Neutral-

“common means of action for. defense” of the Western Hemisbhere

today. President Getulio Vargas of Brazil, opening the meeting, pledged the 21 American republics, to do everything possible to “prevent the American seas from becoming the

scene of an armed conflict.”

Joan Bennett’s 1st Mate Tries Suicide; Despaired of Another Man Rearing Child

Gene Markey, screen writer, : producer and bon vivant, between the Fox and Wanger marriages, and they had a daughter, Belinda, now 6. In the second place, as far as the friends knew, Fox had made no previous attempts at reconciliation— he had, in fact, spent much time in court battles with his former wife. He had promised to settle down

of one of the stage’s first families. But when she sued for divorce Miss Bennett accused him of leading a dissolute life and being an uns ather i

vent her from changing their daughter’s name to Markey. He admitted he drank too much but he said he

wanted the child's name to remain tt Fox. * ;

for a Grand Jury. that 17 members.

Inquiries of the Christian Front

such a neutral zone would become] .

and Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.),}

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16 (U.

ity conference began formulating aj.

In 1936 he went to court to pre :

U.S. Grand Jury to Get Evidence of Armed Plot

Capt. John T. Prout Jr. of the New York National Guard + ¢ « held in plot. against U. S.

say. And ‘it’s this and it goes for the Christian Front. Get it right: Long live Christ the King! Down with Communism!” The group was described as “Nazi in tenor,” anti-Jewish as well as anti-communistic. Mr. Hoover said they had held rifle target practice at a Camp near Narrowsburg, N. Y. Residents of that town said that Cassidy and John Albert Viebrock, another of the men, had been spending their summer vacations and week-ends at an ‘inn there for several years and that they and 10 or 12 other men had held “rifle practice” in that vicinity twice last fall. It was not confirmed, however, that the Christian Front had any target range or camp of its own in that vicinity. Natives who watched their shooting said it was “awful.”

ONTARIO ACCEPTS DAFOE RESIGNATION

TORONTO, Ontario, Jan. 16 (U. P.) .—The Ontario Government, Premier Mitchel Hepburn announced yesterday, has received and accepted the resignation of Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe, as guardian to the Dionne quintuplets. Premier Hepburn said Dr. Dafoe’s resignation was quite voluntary.

quins’ physician and will be in full

Dr. Dafoe will continue as the

HORE-BELISHA ‘DENIES BRITISH ARMY DISCORD

Chamberlain Merely Says Ousted War Secretary Was Too Energetic.

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whether those places were in the Far East. Speaking of the recent Cabinet shakeup, Mr. Chamberlain said that it was “pure invention to suggest that there has been army pressure on me to displace Mr. Hore-Belisha.” He denied reports that thére had been differences between the mine | ister and the Army Council, or so= called “brass hats.” The Laborite and Liberal. opposition complained bitterly because Mr. Chamberlain refused to give a full explanation of the cause for the! Secretary’s dismissal except to hint that he was foo energetic. | “Put it all on the table,” the opposition shouted at the Prime Minister. “Why don’t you change yourself?”

Expects No Resignations

There will be no change in the policy of democratizing the Army as a result of the departure of Mr. Hore-Belisha, Mr. Chamberlain said, denying that any high Army officers had threatened to resign unless the War Secretary was removed. “No officer serving at any time ever said ene word to me which was inconsistent with his duty to his Ministerial chief,” the Prime Mine ister declared. : Mr. Chamberlain said that Mr. Hore-Belisha’s resignation obviously was not connected with Army reforms because the Cabinet approved the reforms and, therefore, all mem= bers of the Cabinet shared respon sibility for them. ‘The dismissed War Secretary told the House that his reforms were carried out with a degree of agreement in contrast to the history of most Government reforms.

Calls Victory Sole Aim “I do not wish to have the recol

|1ection of that endeavor marred by

any atmosphere of bitterness or controversy,” he said in asserting that his sole consideration was to win the war. “There have from time to time been differences of opinion for there have been differences of outlook and temperament and understanding. “Those have not been deeper than must occur in any association of men bent upon pressing tasks cf more than transitory importance. “I did not select my collaborators because they were resolutely complacent or supinely acquiescent. I selected the strongest when they -

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