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WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.) — American clipper pianes would be prohibited from landing at the British port of Bermuda under

terms of a bill introduced today by Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.). Mr. Clark’s bill would amend the

‘Airways’ trans-Atlantic planes from stopping at the British island in retaliation for British censorship of “American mails there. '__The British; he told the Senate, have been “rifling” the mails and once detained a clipper plane on which U, S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy was en Toute to this country on official business. Nearly half of the mail was confiscated on that occasion, he said. The new resentment against Great Britain came with the start of debate on the $1,032,784,000 Treasury-Postoffice supply bill.

Cut Below F. D. R. Budget

As approved yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the measure is $11,160,000 below President Roosevelt’s budget recommendation, but $629,503 over the Houseapproved total. Britain’s search and seizure pol-

icy was bitterly criticized by Thomas Quinn Beesley, president of the National Council on Business Mail, Inc., who said at committee hearings on the bill that his organization is preparing a “formal and vigorous protest” to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Senator Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.), chairman of the appropriations sub-committee considering the “farm bill, predicted today that the Senate was “certain” to appropriate some money for farm tenancy. The House, in its economy drive against all appropriations bills, eliminated from the agriculture department supply bill for’ 1941 the $25,000,000 recommended fund for the farm tenancy program. Mr. Russell said his sub-committee might ask the Senate to appropriate $50,000,000 for that purpose. >

Push Finn Loan Bill

Mr. Russell’s prediction came as the House Agriculture Committee reported a $350,000,000 farm mortgage insurance bill that would be inoperative unless Congress appropriates money for it. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace asked the Committee to adopt the certificate plan for increasing agricultural income, adjust production and protect farmers from loss of foreign markets. He said that more government aid to farmers is needed and suggested three alternative methods, price fixing, high loan rates and marketing certificates. . Meanwhile, House leaders promised today to give immediate right-of-way to the Senate-approved bill

the House Banking and Currency Committee reports the measure. How soon that would be was not certain because of the illness of Chairman Henry B. Steagall (D. Ala). The bill would increase the capital of the Export-Import Bank by $100,000,000 and make possible loans of $20,000,000 each to Finland and China. : Naval Group Aroused : The prospect that the Navy’s new aircraft carrier Hornet might have to go to sea without planes because of the Congressional economy drive stirred a revolt today among mem-

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Committee. > “Sending the Hornet to sea without planes would be like sending out a battleship without guns,” said Rep. Melvin Maas (R. Minn), ranking minority member of the Committee. ‘ The Hornet is due to be com_missioned in 1942. It was started under the 1938 Naval program and

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REBUILT KLAN EYES ELECTION

Imperial Wizard Refuses to Estimate Membership In Indiana.

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bringing to life again the religious fight “which we hoped was ended with the 1928 election when Al Smith was a candidate.” : “When I took office,” he said, “I announced I wasn’t concerned with the problems of minority groups, such as the Jews and Negroes and aliens, but rather with the majority group of Americans. “The Jews’ problem is probably

the worst of eny of the minorities. He has had trouble in any country in which he has lived. I think this is because he is taught not to Americanize himself for fear of losing his racial identity. “I have been invited by the leader of a prominent Jewish organization in Detroit to address his group and I am going to talk to them on that subject.” : The 43-year-old imperial wizard was born in Terre Haute where his father was in the teaming business. Mr. Colescott was graduated from the Terre Haute Veterinary College in 1917 and shortly afterward enlisted in the Army, serving in four major offensives of the World War. He was a second lieutenant when he left the service at the close of the war. : He joined the klan in 1923 while Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans was imperial wizard, and since that time has been a professional klan worker in Ohio, Texas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Kentucky. Later he was assigned to klan headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., as Evans’ chief aide. He succeeded Evans as imperial wizard in June, 1939, at an imperial klonvocation— national convention.

PASTOR GUEST SPEAKER

The Rev. Frank E. Davidson of South Bend will be guest speaker at the Third Christian Church’s dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m: today. A trustee. of the United Christian Missionary Society and, chairman of the board of commissioners for the ordination of ministers, the Rev. Mr. Davidson formerly was pastor of the Engle-

will cost about $22,000,000.

wood Christian Church here.

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cheaper but more smokeless type of fuel. Chairman Deluse asked each committee member for comment on the smoke situation. Some of the comment: ‘ Donald G. Sullivan, representing the Indiana Coal Merchants Association: : “Coal dealers are as anxious as anyone else to help eliminate smoke and the waste caused by inefficient firing methods. We need greater public education.” Miss Grace L. Brown of the Smoke Abatement League: “The educational program must be carried on.” > Mrs. Max Norris of the Smoke Abatement League: “We should combine with education a practical method of enabling householders to buy good fuel economically and extend the use of coke.” ; Earlier in the meeting, a summary

of the City’s efforts to combat smoke was given by Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board president... He said considerable reduction had already been accomplished through Fire Department inspections of 2000 furnaces, made last year.

J. Webster Clinehens, City Combustion Engineer, said that the City’s policy of summoning repeated violators of the smoke ordinance had achieved partial success.

Of 31 persons summoned orn alleged violations, three had eliminated smoke, six had eliminated it partially, 10 had made slight improvements to heating equipment while the remainder either had failed to reduce smoke or were making adjustments, he reported. Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. said. smoke abatement should be popularized to the point where economical firing methods would become a matter of habit.

WAR MINOR TRADE FACTOR, AYRES SAYS

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out in Europe, businessmen in this country hurriedly made preparations which would have been prudent and profitable in 1914.” Col. Ayres said that unless “far more numerous and larger war orders are placed” this nation’s economy will remain as it was before the war began. “Our problems still are those of huge taxation, idle men, idle dollazs and multiple barriers impeding the expansion of business enterprise,” he said.’ The Cleveland economist cited decline in industrial production from December to January and fromy January to February and predicted another decline from February to March. : “The solution of our short-term business problems still depends on the unpredictable developments of “For the longer term our future economic welfare still depends on the attitude of the national Government toward business enterprise.” Col. Ayres said that during the final four months of 1940 production increased much more rapidly than consumption because thousands of ‘manufacturers and merchants were investing in goods “as

a sort of war risk insurance.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record ° DEATHS TO DATE Count City Total 2939. 0iniiee- 2 8 1 19490 ............ 3 4 7

—Feb. 14—

Injured ...... 3 | Arrests ...... «. 0 | Accidents ....

WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

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Cases Convic- Fines|

Tried tions Paid

Speeding ........ 2 Reckless driving . 1 Failure to stop at ‘through street .13 Disobeying traffic signal Drunken driving. 3 All others ........13 °

Totals .........22 11

MEETINGS TODAY : Sigms Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

noon. : Indianapolis Real Estate Board, lunchi Hoel an Sof Dindiana lunchAdvertiotns athletic Club, noon. Juncheon, Murat Temple,

. , luncheon, Hotel Severein, noon. Construction Le dia lis,

Caravan Ci fioon.

Purchasing Agents’ Association, exhibit, Fair &roun

Sta ds, all . ; ate ianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 % . m. En Theta Pi, luncheon, Canary Cottage,

Chi ‘Alpha Alumni Association,

MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, Rog iimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, ROOD. erve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Sa eat ancheon, Canary Cottata Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbiy CID, oes ‘Stamp Club, meeting, Antlers Bove Rigma. luncheon, Canary Cottage. ge litgaarety, Simphany, Qretustes. eon-

a Agents’ Association, exhibit, state Rae ¢ Grounds, all day.

BIRTHS

§ Boys : , Blanche Blowe, at City. Daler: Raver Dusing, at St. ancis. . Niles, Mary Hatton, at St. Francis. william, (Helen Hofer, a Bt. cls. ; AS ‘Esther Pursell, st Bt. Francis.

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Earl, Ethel Padgett, at Coleman. I Hudgins,

“Robert, Bernice Charles, Beulah Seitz, at Methodist. Laurence, Lois Murray, at Methodist. . Albert, Bertha Remmel, at 608 E. 12th,

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Jacob, Hattie DcGroot, at St. Francis. Charles, Ruth Trees, at 8t. Vincent's. Arthur, Bonita Grubb, at St. Vincent's. Roy, Anna Moulden, at St. V nt’s. James, Louise Hendrickson, at St. Vin-

ent’s. Hamlin, Ermal Cloyd, at Coleman. ilpin, at Methodist. Methodist.

ethodist., 1915 Boulevard

ace. Bernard, Mary McShea, at 2340 Brook-

side. : Murrell, Roanne Scott, at 831 Birch. Wilbur, Vanda Matheson, at 1642 Arrow. Elmer, Ruth Gruenholz, at 1225 Dexter.

DEATHS

Hickman Willoughby, 47, at City, general peritonitis. Elizabeth Davis, 66, at 915 St. Paul, myocarditis: g

George Griffin, 48, at City, typhoid fever.

Lillian Johnson, 47, at 1523 W. New York, cerebral hemorrhage. Fannie Hemphill, 83, at 2450 N. Dearborn, | broncho-pneumonia. Robert Holdcroft, 89, at 628 8. Missouri, broncho-pneumonia. Pierre Vacher, 86, at 520 E. Vermont, chronic myocarditis. Anna Butler, 87, at 520 E. Vermont, brojicho-preumonia. : 5 Santa ates, 50, at City, cellulitis of Richard Evans, 74, at 1538 Lewis, bron-cho-pneumonia. . piaoanor Dorrell, 64. at Methodist, pneuAvufur Haywood, 86, at 1019 E. 20th, cerebral hemorrhage. William Holt, 78, at City, arteriosclerosis. Katherine Hicky, 73, at 3203 Graceland, carcinoma

pp BSptrice’ Morris, 75, at City, lobar pneu-| 5 Grace Overton, 56, at 2725 Jackson, acute | 5

dilatation of heart. Sally Edwards, 78, at 520 E, Vermont, chronic myocarditis. 5 is Smi 74, at Veterans, cerebral hemorrhage.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times. therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. David Jordan, De la Brenda Allen, 22, of 2228 Martindale. Earl Greenwood, 34 Cynthia Voss, 26, of 330 E.

William G. Hedgepath, 24, of 523% N. Caiifornia; Almg fouise Hill, 21, 2% 1609

George White, 20, of 948 N. West; Nan-|QOm

nie Mae Harris, 19, of 709 W. 1th " Ee ir, 34, of #4 E. Raym e amer, yO i ond. Bu ‘Pershing;

gene Lewis, 27. of a Mary M. Strubraker, 23, ‘of Sia ‘Walde- ¥ x ; : ta =

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32, of 1509 Bellefontaine; |p.% of Roosevelt Hotel; | Miami 9th,

27, of 584 Coburn: |p

Alice Virgin, 19, of 618 E. 24th. Gustave Adolph Klotz, 27, of 4757 Washington Blvd.; Stella 8Sevo, 27, of 3268 E.

Wilbur Miller, 37, of Lima, O.; Georgia Hostettler® 28, of 1116 Capitol. Alfred Henry, 33, of Marion, Ind.; Kay Hanmore, 24, of Dearborn Hotel. Cecil Anderson, 35, of 24% NWN. Illinois; Dorothy Mae Lloyd, 29, of 17 N. Arsenal.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. ‘Weather Bureau INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST --Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain tSnight and tomorrow: rising temperature; lowest tonight about 35. Sunrise ...... 6:38 | Sunset TEMPERATURE

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Illiois—Cloudy, followed by occasional light rain tonight and TOMOTrOW armor tonight and in east and central portions

tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Clou ton - lowed by snow oh NY a) N snow n in extreme south portions

or rai tomorrow; rising temperature. Ohio—Increasing cloudiness and not cold tonighy: SOHIOrIOw cloudy and warmer followed by light snow. - Kentucky—Increasing cloudiness and not cold tonight; tomorrow cloudy and

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Clerks to Scan Balloting Law

The County Clerks Association of Indiana was to meet in a closed session at the Claypool Hotel this afternoon to discuss the new Central Ballot Counting Law and the Hygienic Marriage Act. Marion County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger, association secretary, said chief discussion would center around the ballot law, which-will

operate for the first time at the May primary election. Clerks will outline the plan for uniform procedure under the new election law provisions. Association members also are expected to outline their duties in connection with the new premarital blood test law which be‘comes effective March 1.

VANDIVIER ‘DRAFTED’ T0 SUGGEED SELF

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Women’s Republican Club chairman; Mrs. Clarence Martin, Indianapolis Women’s Republican Club chairman; Mrs. Burton Beville, Marion’ County Women’s Republican Club chairman; William Henry Harrison; George L. Denny, Themlore Damm and R. L. Brokenurr. The county chairman will be elected shortly after the county convention early in May. Several other candidates are expected to seek the chairmanship.

Irwin Predicts G. 0. P. Victory in State

Times Special WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15— Will Irwin, Indiana Republican National Committeeman, and Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, national committeewoman, joined in predicting here today that Indiana will go Republican this fall whether the Democratic Presidential candidate is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paul V. Meus or any other possible nomnee. Here to attend the Republican National Committee meeting tomorrow, they favor an early convention

-ldate and Mrs. Reynolds said that

Hoosier Republicans generally favor Chicago as the convention city “if it offers proper terms.”

x INTEREST IN FIRMS

BY EMPLOYEES CITED

. Charles W. Jones, general superintendent of the William H. Block Co., last night told the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants the “employees are interested in the progress of the firms which employ them.” He spoke at: the Indiana Univer-

sity Extension Building on “Person-

‘|nel and Labor Relations Relating to

Cost.” “Surveys conducted among the nation’s business firms show that the employee does not necessarily desire an increase in wages but a chance to aid in the progress of his firm,” Mr. Jones said. Howard Knapp, Cincinnati, national president of the organization, is expected

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FINNS HOLD OFF FURIOUS ATTACK

Use Captured Tanks Against . Reds Whose Casualties Are Put at 45,000.

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the ice of the Gulf of Finland,

where the Russians sought to turn the right flank of the Mannerheim Line, but were dispersed when Finnish artillery dropped shells from a high angle and broke the ice. Russian attacks were reported in vain northeast of Lake Ladoga, where the communique said that a column of 100 Russian sledges was destroyed. The first air alarm in 13 days sounded in the Finnish capital today

occurred about 10 miles to the west. No planes were sighted here.

Finns Call Up Men of 43

The Finns called up men of 43 years of age—many of whom are already fighting as volunteers—to strengthen their ranks. They were holding fast, praying for foreign: aid. Neutral experts here had begun to express belief that the Red Army could not maintain for long-the pace According to reports credited by the Summa Sector had been shallow, exorbitantly costly, and possibly dangerous because the salient might be bitten off by co-ordinated Finnish flanking attacks.

Russia Claims Finns Retreat With Heavy Losses

MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—A retreat by Finnish troops in the Mannerheim Line, after heavy losses, was reported today in the communique of the Leningrad military area headquarters, in charge of war operations. . Issued through the official Tass news agency, the communique said Russian troops had occupied 16 new Finnish defensive fortifications, including eight iron and concrete artillery forts.

British Prepare to Speed

Volunteer Recruiting

LONDON, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—The Government was understood today] to be preparing machinery to handle recruiting of British volunteers for Finland. Arrangements are being made, it was said, to handle volunteer applications on a mass basis. A decision regarding the agelimit of Britons permitted to enlist soon will be made, officials said in denying reports that only those over 27 would be permitted to go to Finland. .

POPE SENDS THREE ON PEAGE MISSION

BERLIN, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—A special message from His Holiness Pope Pius XII in conection with peace efforts at the Vatican was under-

stood today to have reached Mgr. Cesare Orsenigo, the Papal nuncio here. Similar messages also were

London and Paris. Catholic circles in Berlin said that special importance was attached to the message from the Pope. : (In Vatican City it had been reported that the Pope sent a special message to the Papal representatives at Berlin, London and Paris asking for a report on public and governmental reaction to the forthcoming visit of Sumner Welles, United States Undersecretary of State, to Europe.) it The Papal representatives in all three belligerent capitals also recently received instructions from the Vatican to obtain certain information, it was understood.

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 15 (U.P.) — Hope that peace soon will be restored in Europe was expressed by Pope Pius today when he received an Argentine military mission headed by Gen. Giovanni Pistorini.

FUND VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Fifty additional young women volunteers are needed for the solicitation of funds to aid Finland in theaters here Saturday and Sunday, Albert J, Beveridge Jr. state chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. said today. : - * Volunteers were asked to register at state’ headquarters in the Clayool and receive credentials,

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IN PARALYZING STORM IN EAST

Closed, Roads Blocked In Several States.

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New England alone the damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Snowfall ranged from 6 to 14 inches in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a wind shift causing the storm to miss Vermont and New Hampshire and to touch Maine only lightly. ; Rhode Island was the hardest hit. A gale-churned sea pounded : the coast from Watch Hill to Narragansett where combers rolled far inland. Scores of small boats were smashed and at least two of many distressed fishing vessels'were unaccounted for. All schools in the state were closed. The blizzard lashed all of Connecticut, forcing schools to close and, as elsewhere, marooning automobiles and busses, grounding airplanes and delaying other forms of transportation. The storm was so severe that Lloyd W. Sheldon, 37, returned voluntarily to the Tolland County jail after breaking out. The snow in western Pennsylvania measured 15 to 20 inches in depth and it produced drifts which demoralized all transportation. Outlying schools were closed for the week-end and several schocl busses were marooned on county roads. The tri-state section of eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey experienced belated relief from the blizzard which continued today. Traffic generally was halted and schools were closed in rural districts and at Harrisburg, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and other large communities. Fourteen school children were marooned in a bus for seven hours at Lewes, Del. Hundreds of Pennsylvania and New Jersey homes were darkened when power lines went down. In western New York, state police asked motorists to stay off all highways which already were strewn with bogged down automobiles. Metropolitan New York was deluged by eight inches of snow. A force of 15,000 men worked all night with plows, flushers and brooms keeping the main traffic arteries open. Edward C. Nugent, deputy commissioner of. sanitation, ordered out 23,000 emergency workers at

a. m. : At Elmira, N. Y., two babies were born without medical aid because of the transportation failure and thousands of school , children throughout the state had an enforced vacation. Syracuse, N. Y. reported 16.7 inches of snow, a 15-year record. Albany had 12 inches, Amsterdam 14, and New York City 8. Ten barges broke loose on the Hudson River at New York and drifted down stream, menacing ships. _ The storm extended into the St. Catherines District of Ontario, blocking highways and scores of automobiles and trucks to be stranded.

12,592 Stranded at

Sonja Henies’ Revue BOSTON, Feb. 15 (U. P)—A majority of the 12,592 spectators who attended the opening of Sonja Henie’s Hollywood Ice Revue in Boston Garden last night was stranded by a 14-inch snowfall. Thousands were marooned in elevated subway and terminals or stayed in the Garden overnight. Shortly after midnight, most of the huge crowd had drifted downstairs to the Boston & Maine Railroad’s North Station Terminal or the lobby of the adjoining Hotel Manger. : Those who stayed in the garden mostly were musicians of the revue, their wives and attendants. They slept in dressing rooms or on benches.

Cold Makes Brief

Return to Florida

LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 15 (U. P). —In a brief return of cold weather to Florida, the northern portion of the state experienced near-freezing temperatures this morning. Most ‘major weather reporting stations had readings above the freezing mark and none of them reported frost, but it was believed the mercury slipped below the freezing point at a number of lowground places. in northern Florida. Lakeland had a temperature of 31, Jacksonville and Gainesville 37, Apalachicola, Orlando and Eustis 40, Melbourne, 41; Okeechobee, Sanford and Belle Glade 42, Bartow, Bradenton and ‘Tampa 43, West Palm Beach and Ft. Myers, 44; Miami 48, and Key West, 53.

STORM HELPS POLICE AS MOB DISPERSES

STOCKTON, Md., Feb. 15 (U. P.). —A blizzarc helped State Troopers maintain calm in this Eastern Shore village today after an angry mob had engaged in a pitched battle with patrolmen' during their search for a Negro who allegedly murdered a farmer and assaulted his wife. Fifty-three troopers. continued their search for David Collick in the bleak, snow-swept swamp-land as a severe storm abated. A mob of 1000 armed men, bent on lynching Collick should they find him first, abandoned their search late ‘yesterday because of

swamp surrounded and predicted that fast-dropping temperatures would force Collick from his hiding place, fod ‘DEWEY RAPS ‘CUT IN DEBTS’ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 15 (U. P.)—Thomas E. Dewey charged here last night that the Administration’s claims of a $17,500,000,000 private debt reduction in the last seven years were an indictment rather than an accomplishment. Most of the reduction can be found in “records of bankruptcy proceed-

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Coal Shut Off From Business Firms in Berlin

- BERLIN, Feb. 15 (U. P.) —Busi‘ness houses, including stores, in Berlin, received notice today that henceforth no coal, coke or other combustibles might be supplied to any office or industrial building. Many office buildings had only enough coal for today, One industrialist said that numerous factories, including some

armaments plants, had not been heated for two weeks.

3 Many Berlin ‘theaters have closed within the last few weeks. The Reich Commissioner for Coal Distribution ordered dealers. to give preference first to families in which there are children not more than two years old. New blizzards in recent days, with snow falls heavier than any in Germany for decades, had caused delays of hours on main railroads. 3 : Thousands of private homes were without heat in below-zero-temperatures. Coal has been provided, however, for hcespitals, which are jammed with in‘uenza cases.

ALLIES BUILDING DEFENSE IN EAST

Britain, France Have 600,000 Under Arms in Palestine, Egypt and Syria.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor A whole series of developments in Southeastern Europe and the Near East has caused the world to wonder what is brewing, if anything, in the Balkans and the Near and Middle East. SHE . The Italian Supreme Defense Council has just ended a series of meetings in which complete plans were mapped for war if it comes in the southeast. 2: Turkish .authorities in London have received information that Russia has started building fortifications along the Russian-Turkish frontier and along the pipe lines which cross from the Caspian to the

Baku fields—Russia’s great oil reservoir. ‘Despite German denials, it is reported persistently that German engineers are helping the Russians in these preparations. Britain and France are massing troops in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, with probably 600,000 men under arms in that region. In the opinion of severa! experienced United Press correspondents just returned: from. Europe, the preparations are mainly for defense purposes—just in case. As one of them put it: : “I am not expecting my house to burn down but I have it insured.” Ferdinand C. M. Jahn, United

in the Balkans, Turkey and the Near East, who has just returned to this country, says thers is no indication of aggressive plans by either Germany or Russia to attack

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battle through heavy snow drifts, police

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The arrival of officers at the side

of the wounded woman, Mrs. Ralph

Caldwell, 26, climaxed one of the most, fantastic murder plots in the

history of Washington County.

Wounded in both arms, Mrs. Caldwell was weak from loss of blood and barely able to talk. Her nerve-shattering ordeal began last night in an isolated farm house six miles from here.

Wife Wouned by Charge

But from her and from previous phone conversations with persons in the farm house, where she lay since last night, police learned the principal facts in the case. They were: 1. Two men were dead: Ralph Caldwell, 38, prosperous farmer, shot in the back by a disgruntled farm hand he had discharged, as he stood in the kitchen of his home. The farmhand, Glenn Plants, 38, several hours after the shooting, placed the shotgun he used to kill Mr. Caldwell, against his own chest and forced Mrs. Caldwell to pull the trigger. 2. The mother of two children, Mrs. Caldwell was wounded ‘as she threw her arms about her husband in a futile attempt to save him from. the shotgun blast, fired through the kitchen window. ‘

Forced to Kill Slayer

After the original shooting, Plants forced his way into the Caldwell home and threatened to kill her and her children, Roy, 7, and Harold, 5, while she pleaded for her own life “for the sake of the children.” It was not until several hours later that Plants finally placed the newly purchased shotgun against his own chest and directed Mrs. Caldwell to pull the trigger. She did, killing him. * Then the mother, her children and Lester Phillips, 16, a farmhand hired to replace Plants, made their way to the farmhouse of Charles Owens, 400 yards away. Mr. Owens called Washington police, who set out for the scene last midnight. They reached the home twelve hours later, after burrowing their way through snow drifts as high as six feet. Mrs. Caldwell was attended during

the night by neighbors on instruc-

tions phoned by a Washington doce tor. The officers planned to carry her on a stretcher to the main highway and from there send her to a hospital. : Officers said Mrs. Caldwell told them Plants threatened “to get your whole family” when he was fired

{last week. He returned last night

after leaving his estranged wife and two children in Washington.

M’ENTEE NAMED CCC HEAD WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.). —The White House sent to the Senate today President Roosevelt’s nomination of James J. McEntee,

Rumania, which has been guaranteed by the Allies.

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