Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1940 — Page 3

Secretary Also Is Against|

Jimvoking U. S. Act in Sino-Japanese War.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U.P) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull, it was’ ‘learned today, has notified the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he is vigorously opposed to propdsals to invoke the neutrality act in the Russian-Finland and Japan-China conflicts. Mr. Hull's opinion was sought on a resolution introduced by Senator Guy M. Gillette, (D., Ia.), to make , the neutrality act effective against Japan and China, and a similar proposal by Senator John A. Danaher, (R, Conn.), to invoke the law against Russia and Finland. : “Enactment of this law is not in accord with the State Department's program,” Mr. Hull said in a letter to Committee. Chairman Key Pittman, (D., Nev.). He added that his| Department is keeping in close touch with the European situation, and that he believes that he can handle ‘ it: without . involving the United States.

Applies to Two’ Conflicts

Mr. Hull's letter, which . applied to both the Russian-Finland and Japanese-Chinese = conflicts, was turned over. to a Sub-committee headed by Senator Walter F. George, (D., Ga). Indications -were that Mr. George’s group would not act for some time, and that the full committee would proceed cautiously before it dealt with pending proposals for an embargo against Japan. The State Secretary pointed out that the United States is in no danger as the result of the RussianFinnish and Japanese-Chihese conflicts, and ‘that, therefore, there was no need to invoke the neutrality act in those disputes. Under the law, the act can be invoked when a state of war exists between two or more foreign nations and when the peace and security of this couniry is threatened.

Loan Vote Slated Today

The Senate will vote today on a bill to increase the Export-Import Bank's capital by $100,000,000. Under the p 1, Finland could obtain $20,000,000, in addition to the $10,000,000 eady obtained through the bank. Democratic and Republican leaders said there was no question but that the measure would be approved. Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to Great Britain, arrived by airplane in Washington to “confer today with President Roosevelt. He declined to comment on domestic policies or foreign affairs. He would not amplify a Palm Beach statement in which he predicted that “all hell” may break loose in Europe within the next few months. Mr. Kennedy planned to remain in Washington Po several days be-fore—-entering the Lahey clinic in Boston for a physical examination. He # scheduled to sail for London Feb. 24, and is expected to consult

Ice gorges jamming the Ohio

REDS REPULSED,

Russians Pound Mannerheim Line 12th Day Despite Heavy Losses.

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time to enter Viipuri Feb. 23, which is Red Army Day, just as previously they had hoped %to enter it on Josef Stalin’s birthday, Dec. 21..

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 13 (U. P).—Russia is using 300,000 men in its Mannerheim Line offensive, more than the total strength of the Finnish Army, the newspaper Berlingske Tidende reported today in a dispatch from Helsinki. Russia’s Seventh Army Corps, made up of 12 divisions and including 1000 tanks,” is conducting the offensive, it was said. Finnish reconnaissance planes report that more Russian troops are moving to the front, the dispatch said, in indication that the <attack is to. be on an even larger scale. The Swedish News Agency, a Stockholm dispatch said, reported that the Finns had captured several new , type Russian super-tanks, weighing 70 tons and carrying three cannon turrets, each equipped with a three-inch gun. A United Press dispatch from Kirkenaes, on thé Norwegian frontier of northern Finland, reported that Russia had started a big scale airplane bombing campaign from bases in that area. A dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter from the northern front reported that during the last few days the Russians had dropped 100 parachute troops, with machine guns and skis, in an attempt to break the Finnish northern lines. Part of the parachutists fell in-

thaws release the pent-up waters of the frozen r near Madison, Ind. as tivermen feared for: safely

FINNS. DECLARE

‘| freeze-up on tt

River crush r¢k

‘of bi

Are Bri sher Puttin Hush on 2d Cid Wave?

(Copyright, 10 i > Bel lence Service) WASHING". of 3. 13.—1s Britain having = 4 “hush-hush” cold wave? \ “a po scientists in this country @ ¢ "kb ving a guessing game on the. a Je 5 since new reports of an, ii! Hi 2 cold wave in the Baltic re: wd of a fresh -W stern Front, are coupled with. bis ki ilénce about the weather in: the 3ri ish Isles. It is recallec, tw @ uring the trerific winter “ie ith or: that struck Britain in Jar ry c¢iicial censorship clamped 15 /m a complete meteorological bla i ou. rather than let Nazi ears be isrn2d by even a word of news Cj ice. hing their foes’ discomforts. The picture is well as U, B. Wedther Bure. i -ex gerts can piece it together is 1 oi 2 cold air mass moving almast due south over the Scandinavian, !’21in ula and across the low cou®{‘:s. to reach the Western Front. "#5 ther an extension of this Bis reached out over the North Sea ‘© sileswipe Britain has to be left B cinjectre, until the censors lif the veil. In the meaniiie, ce blockades in the Baltic wil cause serious difficulties to Gernuiny’s vital steel industry, if they :1ficer‘uut shipments of Swedish iro: ci2. The highgrade ore from 5 vece is an absolute necessity: fo: th: uroduction of guns and shells, i :

PARIS, Feb. 1 (UL. of almost arctic cd paralyzed normal activities onl 4 1¢ Western Front today, a milits 1y; 1 formant said. French airplanc: mnzde a few reconnaissance fii 55: but aviation activity was sliglii

BERLIN, Feb: 3 (U.'P.).—The ‘High Command | 'mmunique said today: “In the ! af, apart from slight artillery a: 1. there were no particular events.’ :

BUDAPEST, 1 : 2 (U. P)—At

- g'iy against rivercraft moored on Indiana banks as hese dirty, jagged masses ice stove in a barge Iusehoats: and small vessels

SCUTTLED SHIP

GREW IS SAVED

British Pick Up Germans Who Fired Pursued Craft off Brazil Coast.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 13 -(U. P.).—Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, commander of British Naval forces in the South Atlantic, announced today that the crew of the scuttled German freighter Wakama had been picked up by a British cruiser. ; The ,Kakama, 71 tons, was engaged in a desperate attempt with other German merchant ships to run the Allied blockade with vitally needed supplies for Germany. It lay at the bottom of the sea off Brazil and British warships were believed pursuing other German freighters off the Brazilian Coast. Vessel Fired by Crew ‘The Wakama was scuttled by its crew as the 9800-ton British cruiser Hawkins challenged it between Cape Frio and Cape De San Thome yesterday. Until Admiral Harwood’s announcement, the whereabouts of the Wakama’s crew had been a mystery and ships and Coast Guard boats were searching for them. Admiral Harwood confirmed today that before abandoning their ship the Germans set the Wakama afire. ° Admiral Harwood was the hero of the battle of Montevideo in which his {hree cruisers, Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, drove the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee into port to be scuttled. Five Try to Run Blockade Five German merchantmen, including the Wakama, had left Brazilian ports within nine days, laden heavily with supplies which Germany ‘lacks: because :0f the British blockade: The Wakama left here

3 said.

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Candidates cratic Policies in State “And Nation.

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‘Assail Demo-

with the Indiana

clared. At Plainfield, Glen R. Hillis, an-

|other candidate for Governor, is-|288inst Mr. Roosevelt. sued a plea to the voters to return|instances it recalled the political at-

the power to the “hame folks.” “Let’s elect a State Administra-

tend to their own business,”

run their own business and

could be elected to anything.” Asks Choice Be Made

coln.

between the

Shay Minton.”

on relief “a break.”

youth to foreign battlefields.”

from chaos.” James Raps New Deal

fore a Huntington audience.

Terre Haute.

perimenting.”

Rochester. Schortemeier at New Castle

tion that will get back into the hands of Hoosiers the power to at e “Let's send representatives and Senators to Washington who will insist that the people of the United States of America intend to not

have our ‘affairs placed in the| hands of a bunch of boards and appointees who never were or

He said that autonomy in local government was an essential element of Republicanism as evolved| by leaders from Hamilton to Lin-

He asked his audience to choose “wisdom of Thomas Jefferson or the expediency of a man named Tugwell—the arguments of Patrick Henry or the ballyhoo of

Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall of Indiahapolis, a possible gubernatorial candidate, asserted at Hammond that the next Governor of Indiana must give labor and those

He said he was “unalterably opposed to sending even one American

“The next Governor must see that taxes are reduced; that needless overlapping bureaus and the departments are abolished; that the school book racket is eliminated; the beer racket ended and order brought

Richard T. James, Assistant Secretary of State, rapped a “state of confusion due to the unsound and insane policies of the New Deal” be-

“No dictator needs more than the conditions under the New Deal to prove to his own people that Democracy in America is not working,” Rep. Karl Mundt (R. S. D.), said at|coln Day address. His renomina-

Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind) appearing at Wabash, said “Let us quit New Deal tinkering and ex-

“It is the destiny of Lincoln’s party that it free us from economic slavery and bind. up the nation’s wounds,” Robert H..Loring, of the State Securities Commission, said at

At Richmond, Henry F. Dowling, Indianapolis, said that “the message of Lincoln’s life is to honor and pre-

Frederick BE. Schortemeier, former|

O.P.1 Keys

> '40 Campaign | pe AKERS RAP| To Meet 3d Term Nomination |

NEW DEAL, SMS Party Orators at Lincoln Day Gatherings Charge New

Deal Has Undermined U. S. Traditions.

By LYLE C. WILSON - United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The 1940 Republican campaign was: keyed today to meet a third-term nomination—if it comes—with charges that the Roosevelt Administration has failed and the New Deal has .under-

mined American traditions.

Party oratory echoed from coast to coast-last night at 700 Lincoln Day gatherings preliminary to Friday's meeting of the Republican

and hy= National Committee at which .the

gang manitarianism has been given lit-|place and date of the party’s nomitle or no consideration,” he de-

nating convention will be fixed. The attack was direct and bitter In many

mosphere which developed during discussion of Government and Supreme Court reorganization. If these ‘samples of Republican campaigns are typical, - the 1940 campaign will be a bare-knuckle discussion of the New Deal, regardless of the nominee.

» Méthods Challenged

The challenge was to New Deal administrative methods and motives rather than against the governmental structure as now set up. Lincoln Day language and strategy demonstrated Republican eagerness; to bid strongly for the

vote of women, Negroes and independents Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of the Ohio Senator who seeks the Presidential * nomination, and Aaron Payne, Chicago Negro leader, were given top billings. y They, with National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, a dressed the principal party gathering sponsored by the National Republican Club in New York City. Republican Presidential candidates led the general attack on the Roosevelt Administration. They charged that it ‘would lead the United States into war, that it sought centralized totalitarian powers, that it has divided class against class, stripped the states ot rightful powers. They asserted. the country should regard renomination of Mr. Roosévelt as “a pian to overthrow the American system.” Emphatic and repeated were the objections voiced at the ‘Administration’s relations with business, its borrowing and spénding policies.

Capper Unexpected Critic

Sen. Arthur Capper (R. Kas.) of the progressive wing of the party, fired an unexpectedly hot shot at Mr. Roosevelt in a Baltimore Lin-

tion, Mr. Capper said; would and should be regarded by the nation as “a plan to overthrow the American system.” He said he never had maintained that “everything President Roosevelt has done is wrong”— but: ““The most dangerous leader of any people is the leader who believes that he, and he alone, is qualified for leadership. And that is why Franklin D. Roosevelt, with all his charm, with all his genuine desire to better the lot of the people

of the United States and of the worid, is the most dangerous man serve unimpaired thé constitutional |to the welfare of the people of

form of government. ...” America today.”

Senator H. Styles Bridges (R. N.

man or woman sees thet ‘the American heritage of - individual freedom and opportunity for all is threatened by the constantly increasing debt of Government, by the further and further centralization of gov= ernmenta) power and by the steadily growing regimentation and Suppression of private enterprise.”

‘Taft Points to Problem Mr. Taft, himself, speaking at a relatively obscure meeting ‘in Greensboro, N. C., said the country | t®

faced a fundamental decision: “Whether we shall remain the kind of country. which our forefathers made and Lincoln preserved, a republic = protecting the inalienable rights, the freedom and liberty of its individual - citizens, or -a totalitarian executive with unlimited power over the lives and activities of individuals and Jocal governments alike.” : .Mr. Hamilton, speaking - in New mitted the country to drift: “economic chaos and confusion.” In a radio address here, House Republican Leader Joseph W. Mar-

prejudice, communism, fascism and “other foreign isms” can be ‘dealt with- “only ‘if we solve our domestic problems.”

York, said the New Deal had per-

tin said’ sectional jsalousies, class:

Value of Articles in 1937 Estimated at $297,T 483017. if

Times Special HEL a WASHINGTON, Feb, 13. — The value of Marion County’s manufacs, tured articles from 362,010 in 1929 to $168,139 983 in 19:

and then rose to $297,483,017 in 103%

he Commerce Department reported ay. The county ranked 40th among the nation’s highly industrialized counties in the value of manufactured in 1937 as com with 28th place in the boom year of, 1929, the Department reveaied. :

Marion County was 43d’ in money ‘|spent in 1937 for Pannceg necessities, $155,007,784, as com

with $80,402,569" in 1033 and $230, 443,553 in 1929, when it was in 20th

Place among the nation’ s 3070 coune.

Eight counties accounted for 25 | per cent or $15,350,767,000 of thé

total of manufactures in the U.S. in 1937. All but one, Wayne County (Detroit), Michigan, showed des

creases when compared with 1929,

However, all showed substantial Ange creases when compared with 1933. ‘The first eight counties were Cook (Chicago), Illinois; Wayne, Michigan; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Los

Angeles, California; Alleghany~ in | (Pittsburgh),

Pennsylvania; Cuyae hoga . (Cleveland), Ohio, and Erie (Buffalo); New York. Lake County, Indiana, was 10th, in the value of products manufac tured in 1937 with $827,498,397 as. compared - with $320,942,802 in 1933

and $807,011,177 in 1929 when it was. in 14th Place, :

" Strauss Says:

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PAAR

Secretary of State, warned a New|H.), took ‘his Presidential campaign| Castle audience - that ‘“financial|éo Oklahoma City. He hit New. Deal

disaster must follow a policy of con-|tax and debt policies and called

yesterday, carrying minerals, lard; hides, rice and coffee. - The Wolfsburg had left Recife

with Sumner Welles, the Administration’s newly appointed “roving

least 14 persons &¢ © “timated dead

side the Finnish lines and many of ’ throughout Hun: 1 ; :nday as result

them were rounded up and cap-

ambassador.” Mr. Kennedy will discuss the European situation at length with Mr. Roosevelt, who received additional reports from William C. Bullitt, 8. Ambassador to France. Mr. Welles will be accompanied on his tour of Europe by J. Pierpont Moffat, chief of the State Department’s European division, and son-in-law of Joseph C. Grew, U. 8S. Ambassador to Japan.

MEXICAN. COMMANDER SLAIN

\MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13 (U. P.)— Capt. Evaristo Pimentel Navarete, ander of a guard detachment the home of Gen. Manuel Avila amacho, presidential candidate of the Mexican Revolutionary (Government). Party, was shot to death

tured, it was said. Others were killed.

v.|Russians Again Claim

Important Victories

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (U. P). Finnish statements that the Mannerheim Line is holding fast against a Russian offensive were countered today by the third Russian claim to important victories in five days. It was asserted, in a communique issued through the official Tass News Agency, that Russian troops in the Karelian Isthmus had captured 32 defensive fortifications, including 12 iron and concrete artillery forts, in operations yesterday, and that in the last few days the Russians had captured 230 machine guns and 82

last night by Sergt. Dolores Chavez, doorman at the house,

"+ "IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County City Total 1939 0000000000000 7 1990 ..ine-soin 3 : 1 : "Feb. 12—

Injured ...... 1 | Arrests ...... Dead ......... 0 | Accidents ... MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid Speeding ........ 0 $00 Reckless driving.. 3 Failure to stop at S through street.. 0 Disobeying traffic

signal Drunken "driving. 0 All others ....... 3

Totals 00s sbos 6

MEETINGS TODAY Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Hoh. Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of

T1875 Club. luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

35 10

< lis Home Builders’ Association dinier meeting. Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:

P- Mercator Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, PC niversal Club, luncheon, Columb Club; BOO versl a5? Trade of Michigan Club, luncheon, f: 13

Boaid Dis “of Columbus, luncheon, K. of Dt noon L an Service Club, luncheon, Canary | "hoon, ine “Paper Credit Group, | juncheon, Men's Grille, William, H Sloe 3p Co noon. - Pe asing Agent ation of Innapolis, exhibit, State ni Grounds, all Sian

‘MEETINGS TOMORROW

Y..M. C. A. Camera Club, meeting, Y. M. C.A,8 3 . Lions Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, Young Ms n’s Discussion Club, dinner, Y.

Pur ue Athimni’ Association, luncheon,

“iin D Distrist, oN atrican Legion, lunch-

Lig EA of Eade. noon.

rae re silon, luncheon, Board of Tra noon Thets Tau, luncheon; Seville

Eh Bi Bb ot oo Hianaplis, £ cheon, Columbia Club, in fi r Traffic Association, lunchers, noon eo Chamber of Commerce, lunchna 0 s Glan, meeting, Ot Chamber of Comma a Iuncheon, Columbia Club, Parcha sing Agents Association of Indian. aplis, ent it state fairgrounds, all day. Agricultural Adjustment Aslocistion, Sate feeting, Tomlinson Hall, 1 p. m.

BIRTHS Boys

Pershing.

136 ah

guns, presumably field guns.

James, Marjorie Stutsman, at Methodist. en, Barbara Pritchard, at Methodist. John, Gladys Terhuna, ab St. Francis.

Francis. Mabe] hn, Othel

Frank. The City. Wiliam. Viola. Caldwell. at 1627 N. Arsenal. Jesse. Mary Dorsey, at 2209 N. Bosart. Hubert. Vesta Denton, at 2019 W. New

i Wroblewski, at 151

Girls

Howard, Beulah Arnold, at St. Francis. Fr ojuond, Marjorie Gambold, at St. ran Abe, Jeanette Polaski, at St. Francis. John, Madge Pie Srex Vincent's. Robert, La en Miller, at St. Vincent's. (Harrison. Violet Shepard, at St. Vin-

Ernest. Margaret Richardson, at St. JE Rrie. Lucille Schrader, at 953 E. pGiftord. Irene Goodman. at 2458 8. Proctor, at 1137 N.

Elwood, Lucille oer. Christene Jones, at 436 W. New

or Robert. Bakemeye:

DEATHS

ES pannel Moone, 74, at Little Sisters of The Poor, chronic myocarditis. John Newschafer, 8), at 520 E. Vermont, chronic myocardit attie Coon, 55, at Methodist, right lung

Will Johnson, 72. at 948 Fayette, chronic endocarditis. William Elder, 84, at Spink-Arms, chronic m ocaydriis. Nellie cManon, 71, at St. Vincent's, carcinoma. John Gerhardt, 84, at 373 N. Holmes, chronic bronchitis. Charles Hummel, 69, at 2801 North‘western, chronic, myocarditis. Ie Fatherine Hudson, 54, at Long, monocytic Francis Davis. i at 308 W. Ohio, EO Fe tision b 39, at Cit Im 'ommy 3 ear, a ulmonar tuberculosis. dh y nos Newell, 4, at Veteran’s, mitral Lyddia Lockenout, 68, coronary occlusion Lou Smith, ‘at 205 Beverly Dr., ial degeneration. tta O'Dell, 83, at 830 Broadway, cardio vascular renal. Elizabeth Marion, 90, at 970 N. Delaware, cardiac pv To

Charles Benedict, 20, at 3301 Washington Bd ne Ruby, ten t City, h i am Kuhn, 49, s vascular disease. a y, hypertensive ‘Mary Miller, 76, at 918 Indiana Ave., broncho pneumonia, dn Snyder, 69, at 357 N. ‘Addison, . Iva Evans, 38, at City, lobar pneumonia Juliana oEernhardt, 89, at 9130 Madison, at Alpha Home,

acute myoe Ann Shelton, 4, entero colitis.

Jesse Twines, 52, at 2309 N. Arsenal, x

lobar har prewme nia fartin, 142, at 2256 Sheldon,

Be yaseulsr

hemorr: age. Infant tillabower, 3 dass at 2006 Prospect, patent foramen ovale Delores DeHart, 7, at St. Vincent's, pneumococcic mening tis. jessie Wr right,

Viola owjand. 5 at 4058 Boulevard cent’s, bronchopo

eumonia, Charle Griffith, ns t 8t. VinPlace, ebral hemo § mons, « :

of a severe coli ia 2 and heavy snowfall during Ji st 48 hours. There was mde iar a foot of snow in Budape:/ :ft ets after the third heavy fay {ie winter. Railway lines were ! lip: Heavy snowfalls were repcri | in Rumanig, especially in Bes: 1 Abia.

BERLIN, Feb. 13 (II. 2).~It was announced that | ‘urie‘ous postoffices in Berlin 4 ii vicinity have been closed or 1:4: of c sal to keep them warm. The a biic library also is closed. : j

STOCKHOLM, (U. P.).—The 8&'¢:ish islands of Gotland and O! . ‘are isolated from the mainlanc: with mail boats unable to break rah the ice

tien, Feb. 13

t Deficiency since

at 821 River; | tur

al. ] eating, is at 1142 Villa, cerebral Mob:

Omaha 44, at Methodist, menin- :

pack. Oland badi. Lee Ie fodder for its cattle. i

td C tr. carcinoma, ¢ 41 eat Bt, Vincent's, anemia.

John Ferguson. 88, al 2803 W. 10th, epr emorr. © Roxie Ri ee ian 29 W. 13th,

‘2% Methodist, #nodisy, carcinoma, 4B,

Elizabeth Rebber, 7 Infant Voltz, 12 d

Lena Storz, 54, at ! Luna Wilson, 72, at pneum; Grace Sims, 53, i Cora Allen, 43, pulmonary tuberculos

oi Sta, hypostatic 1ag,” »avcinom Ce: tral Indiana, nna Dwyer, 73, |

bag. 2° Vermont, chronic myocarditis. Charles Haungs 9. bl Bi 8, Vermont, broncho pneumonia. ;

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' INDIANAPOLIS ¥ RBCAST ol Partly cloudy and somewhat sider tonight, with lowest temperature to: 25; tomorrow fair.

Sunrise .

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m...._.00 Looe. ..2.38

Precipitation 24 1 24 hrs. ¢ {i Ele ke 3 bl 4 fee aieeeesas 1.73

Total precipitation “si Jan.

MIDWEST *

Indidna—Partly clo iv ac 4 somewhat colder tonight; lg iv fei, rising temperature in extrem orth and extreme west portions Illinois — Becom in somewhat colder toni{ win rising temperatu; =

EATHSR

RNA iv. fair and W (dnesday fair

Lower Michigan—P; what colder in southee ortions tonight;. We emperature in west a | a portions.

Ohio—Light ,snow tc Wednesday: ndt much

entucky—Snow in « : Hos this afternoon a: turning to snow in sou er in southeast Portie day mostly cloudy ; ries in extreme eas re

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someau id rm . ialr, risin 4 :treme mort

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BU. LOIS .. cveirassrsorl (Wil i 3H Tampa, Fla, niigilie nig <b,

Feb. 3, the Uruguay left Recife Feb. 10. La Coruna left Rio De Janeiro Feb. 4. The Koenigsberg left Belem Feb. 8 but turned back and still lay near there. It was believed the ships intended to meet at sea and attempt to run the blockade together.

More Nazi Merchant Ships Try to Run Blockade

LONDON, Feb. 13 (U. P.). — The Evening News said today that six German merchant ships have attempted to break through the Allied blockade and reach Germany from Spanish waters. ‘The newspaper said that a cable received by financial sources in London told of the attempted bolt through the blockade. Meanwhile, eleven members of the crew of the British trawler Togimo, 290 tons, who were landed on the

1coast of Eire today, said that their

ship had been shelled and sunk by a German submarine. ‘One member of the crew was killed and three were injured. The survivors said they had drifted for 28 hours in an open boat. The loss of four other ships, one each by Britain, Norway, Esthonia and Sweden, was reported during the night. All were viciims of the sea war.

FRENGH EXTEND WAR LINE ALONG BELGIUM

WITH THE FREN FRENCH ARMY, Feb. 13 (U. P.).—The French Army has dug a 200-mile anti-tank ditch along the Belgian border from Lux-' emburg to the English Channel as part of an extension of the Maginot

{ Line. It was completed far ahead

of schedule and three weeks before Adolf Hitler's “lucky month of March.” The ditch follows the Belgian|w border and is supported by gun casements, thick beds of barbed wire, and a parallel system of anti-tank rails. The defense line replaces completely an ineffective system of ots smashed by German armies in 1914 Decision to fortify the zone was made after March 7, 1936, when Herr Hitler. denounced the Locarno Treaty and ordered his troops to occupy the Bhinslang.

'Meanies' Get

In his 30 years with the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., A. B. Cochran, pay station teller, has discovered that there are a good many meanies who get about $600 a month service out of the company here by placing phony coins’ in the phone boxes. He ought to know. He has to spot them in the pile of coins that comes to his official attention every day as the collectors turn them in. Mr. Cochran celebrated his 30th

year of continuous service with|with

than income.” for U. S. Senator, said at Angola.

July 16 were lower. than in 1933.

war had’ affected the price later in the summer and fall. Charging that all New Deal at-

“then tried every kind of financial Lydia. Pinkham .prescription that

could concoct.” “Yet all this was in vain,” he said. Landis Praises Dies Committee

Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind), speaking at Evansville, praised the work of the Dies Committee and said “if the radicals in our country insist on destroying our form of government we should . . . send them back where they belong.”

back to work.”

Shoals, Ind., that Lincoln’s

for 1940..

out of the European War, Albert J.

Finnish Relief: Fund, said at Elwood. “A careful study of the Admin-

window,” he said.

KILLED AT TERRE HAUTE

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb, 13 (U. P.).—Miss Leona Burns,

159 GEUIPARY It week, op418 Jones

overturned.

$600 a Mont In Phoning With Phony Coin

of them have been in the department he now heads. In that time, he estimates that he has co ted—or supervised a machine t counted—some four million dollars worth of coins. Mr. Cochran says the presence or| absence of a depression appears to have nothing to do with the per-

tinually expending sums greater

Entering the European war unless we are attacked would be a “mistake,” Raymond E. Willis, candidate

At Lafayette, Rep. Charles R. Halleck (R. Ind.), charged that despite New Deal promises, farm prices last

The Congressman said he used the July 15 figure because the European

tempts to raise prices had failed, Rep. Halleck said that the New Deal

the Administration witch doctors

He said there was “only one main problem in America today and that is to put the 12 million unemployed

Glenn W. Funk, candidate for Marion County Prosecutor, said at “constancy of purpose, contempt for all things dishonest and abiding faith in humanity,” should be an example

Beveridge Jr., state director of the

istration’s attitude toward this conflict leads one to the conclusion that|and hate that they envision no other our State Department, backed by the crop, He would find the future” of President of the United States, hasithis nation lightly held in the hands thrown all semblance of honesty and conscientious neutrality out of the

22, was killed last night and two other persons injured slightly when an automobile in which they were riding, tg strip power from the states and

driven by Eugene Nicoson, went centralize it in Washington.” out of control, struck a tree and cenira

“national disunity” the achievement of the New Deal. | “The whole New Deal philosophy,” he said, “seems to be based on a philosophy of work less, manufacure less, plant and harvest less. Vast sums for relief and subsidies— begun as temporary emergency measures—threaten to to become permanent policy.” District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York, showing his Presidential wares in Portland, Ore., accused the Administration “divide and rule” policies, asserting that “the New Deal has villified businessmen, levied punitive taxes and in the name of legitimate reform has sought to rule or ruin the commercial life of the country.” Former President Herbert C. Hoover in what was described as a resumption of political activity after a period spent on Polish and Finnish relief matters, Omaha, Neb., against a trend yard “statism.”

Calls For Shift in Ideas

The party problem, he said, was to shift the nation’s ideas and point of view. Statism, he defined as the theory that Government officials can direct or operate a people’s economic life. He warned that such trends led to overthrow of democracy in a dozen foreign countries. Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania, who restored the state to the G. O. P. in 1938, bitterly assailed the Roosevelt Administration in a Grand Rapids, Mich., speech which is likely to improve his

It is the duty of every American |chances among political groups| to strive to keep this country|which would give the. New Deal no

quarter. “Lincoln, if he returned :today,” said Mr. James, “would find & nation ruled by those who have so long cultivated poverty and ES

of those who can continue to rule only so long as they can keep the hearts of America’s men and women heavy with fear of starvation, with the fear of the present and future alike, with jealousies and rivalries that are suckled from the breast of untrutht “Widespread need and distress have blinded the eyes of many Americans to a persistent attempt

Barton Cites Unemployment

Rep. Bruce Barton R. N. Y) said in Buffalo, N. Y.: : “Bad business, unemployment, hopelessness on the part of the employer and employee alike—these have been the beginning of the dis-

aster in every country wifere de-

mocracy has been lost.” Rep. Humilton Fish (R. N. Y.), a candidate for Presidential nomination, predicted in Illinois that reelection of Mr. Roosevelt or any of the “New Deal” internationalists” would lead the United States into war within three months of the 1941 inauguration. Mr. Payne, who made the Repub-

centage of phony coins put into lican bid for Negro support, said

the bexes. There is no season of the year, he said, when the pay stations get a greater play than others. It goes along pretty much the same, he said, th collections at around und $25,000

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