Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1940 — Page 3

br Hitler Is Reported To Have Questioned |} Neutrality of U. S.

Ww orld May Have Peace On German Terms, Fuehrer Says. = (Continued from: Page One)

of the “injustices” which Germany ~ suffered under the Versailles Treaty, it was said. ~

Welles May Return

As regards the position of the smaller neutrals, Herr Hitler was ~ believed to have told Mr. Welles that Britain, not Germany, was menacing them. He was believed to have added that alleged violations of international law by Britain - had forced Germany to take counter-measures, involving neutrals, in self-protection. Authorized quarters expressed belief that Mr. Welles would visit Berlin again, presumably for another conference with Herr Hitler after he has talked with Premier Edouard Daladier of France and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain. It was reported that the Chancellor might soon call a meeting of the Reichstag to re-state his position in advance of any possible developments from Mr, Welles’ mission. Present at the conference in the Chancellery were Alexander Kirk, charge d'affaires of the American Embassy; Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Dr. Paul Schmidt, chief Foreign Office: interpreter, and Otto Meissner, Secretary of State for the Presidential Chancellery. All the Germans at the conference were in uniform, Mr. Welles and Mr. Kirk wore morning dress. Leacing the Chancellery, Mr. Welles drove at once to the Amerjcan Embassy, where he was expected to draft a report to the State Department for the President. As was expected, he refused to comment on his talk with Herr Hitler.

Talks to Goering Tomorrow

It was arranged for Mr. Welles to see Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2, Herr Hitler's official heir, air force chief and economie dictator, tomorrow. Herr Goering returned -to Berlin today after a week-long inspection of air bases on the North Sea coast and on the Western Front. Mr. Welles planned to leave %omorrow for Lausanne, Switzerland. On Wednesday he will go to Paris to see M:. Daladier and from there continue to London to confer with Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Welles’ talk with Herr Hitler was regarded as the high spot of his tour, in that the Fuehrer alone of belligerent leaders, was in sole charge of his country’s policy. A second talk with Herr Hitler alone could overshadow it, apparently. As to -this, an authorized informant said immediately after today’s conference: “We do not believe this will be Mr. Welles’ last official call in Berlin.” Mr. Welles looked stern as he left the Chancellery for the Embassy. From the Embassy, he returned to his hotel to confer with J. Pierrepont Moffat and Lucius H. Johnson, State Department officials who are accompanying him. Unnoticed by Crowds

Mr. Welles was escorted from his hotel, for the Hitler conference, by Baron von Doernberg, chief of protocol of the Foreign Office. Charge D’Affaires Kirk followed in a second government car with Gustav Struve, a protocol officer, as his escort, to the Chancellery entrance, flanked by guards and two heroic-size bronze figures of nude male athletes. Mr. Welles and Mr. Kirk, with the German attaches, drove along the Unter Den Linden unnoticed by crowds, but a little group had gathered at the hotel as the party left, and soldiers in it gaped at. the blue great coats and swinging daggers of the protocol officers’ uniforms. Led by the tall, red-haired Baron Doernberg and by Herr Struve, who served four years in Washington and a year in San Francisco as a diplomatic and consular attache, the party entered the Chancellery at 10:55 a. m. (3:55 a. m. Indianapolis Time). The huge, heavy elec-

trically operated bronze doors of the Wilhelmstrasse entrance to the Chancellery’s “court of honor” swung open as the official cars apProsched and swung shut behind

A en ovd of perhaps 100 people watched from the street, in bright sunshine. Few the visitors. In fact, few Germans knew that Mr. Welles was seeing Herr Hitler, for newspapers had made no advance mention of it.

Troops Salute Welles

Mr. Welles locked most serious as he entered the Chancellery courtyard, to receive a salute from troops of an honor company of Herr Hitler's “SS” bodyguard regiment. He and Mr. Kirk were escorted along marble corridors to the reception room outside Herr Hitler's private office, and thence into the brown. marble and ma= hogany office. At the entrance to the private office Mr. Welles found two black uniformed, black helmeted “SS” guards, one on each side of the door, standing with legs apart, leaning on their rifles, in the manner of troops of Frederick the Great.

Portrait of Bismarck

Over the entrance hung a bronze tablet bearing the initials “A. H.” for Adolf Hitler. Inside Mr. Welles found a long, spacious room with Herr Hitler's work desk in a corner at the opposite end to the entrance door, flanked by a bronze bust of Frederick the Great. In the middle of one long wall over the fire place, hung a portrait of Bismarck in the uniform of commander of cuirassiers. Other walls were hung with famous paintings and tapestries brought from museums .all over the country. The rug across which Mr. Welles walked, thick and light colored was so big that it had been woven on especially built looms, larger than any that cculd be found in Germany. Before the fireplace a six-piece chippendale set, table, chairs and sofa, had been arranged for the conference. Opposite the fireplace were four large windows, looking over the chancellery garden through which Hitler often walks in mediation.

State Department

Offers No Comment

WASHINGTON, March 2. (U. PJ). —sState Department officials today “read with interest” but offered no comment . on press reports of Sumner Welles’ momentous conference with Adolf Hitler. There had been speculation here for some time that one of the major topics likely to be discussed by Mr. Welles and Herr Hitler was the possible restoration of ambassadorial representation between the two countries. But the decision in this matter is one for President Roosevelt, arid no official would comment or speculate on this possibility.

ROOSEVELT DIVORCE 1S LIKELY MONDAY

HOLLYWOOD, March 2 (U. PJ). —Mrs. Betsey Cushing Roosevelt's attorneys expected today that she would be awarded a divorce Monday from James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Superior Judge Thomas C. Gould yesterday continued hearing of her suit because her brother and chief witness, Howard K. Cushing, was ill. If he is unable to testify Monday, a deposition probably will be taken. Mrs. Roosevelt testified in Judge Gould’s chambers that her. motion picture producer husband twice had asked her for a divorce—in May, 1938, in Washington, and last November in California. Each time she denied his request, she said, their relations Became more strained. “I went to New York and took the children with me, because I thought it was best for them. He never came back,” Mrs. Roosevelt said. Mr. Roosevelt filed the original suit, charging desertion.

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HOOVER SHOWS THE EARMARKS OF A EAAIEE

Otherwise, Why. Should He Take the Spotlight-at Congress Hearing? #By LUDWELL DENNY

: Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 2.--1If

| Herbert Hoover is not running for

8 | President, why does he take the

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Sumner Welles (left), U. S. traveling emissary, is welcomed to Berlin

by the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Belgian Pilof Killed in Chase

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lef that a naval engagement was in progress. Belief was expressed here, how-

ever, that German bombing planes, reported off the coast earlier, had

‘attacked British shipping and per-

haps had been engaged by Royal Air Force fighter planes, which raced to the scene. Gunfire seemed to center between Berwick-on-Tweed and the Firth of Forth. Residents of the town hastened from their beds to the seashore. Some thought Berwick-on-Tweed was being bombed. Flashes of fire could be seen in the darkness, but when the gunfire ceased just after dawn no ships or planes were to be seen. Residents at Dunbar, near Berwick, reported that they heard gunfire throughout the night. Explosions were heard at sea off the Northumberland Coast of England, to the southeast and these were taken to be from German planes ' bombing shipping. Later, an ‘unidentified British steamship,

“larriving in port, reported that it

had been attacked by a German bombing plane near Amble, on the Northumberland Coast.

Nazis Claim Successful Attacks on Warships

BERLIN, March 2 (U., P.).—German airplanes have successfully attacked British warships and merchantmen in convoys during flights over the entire North Sea as far as the Orkney Islands, a High Command communique asserted today. One ship sank immediately, it was said, another caught fire and four suffered such severe bomb damage “that their loss is probable.” The commnique asserted that one “enemy” plane, after a night flight over northwest Germany yesterday morning, flew over Netherlands territory at Nymwegen on its way home. There were no particular events on the Western Front, the communique said.

Air Activity Observed On Island of Sylt

ESBJERG, Denmark, March 2 (U. P.) —Air activity was observed early today in the vicinity of the German air base on the Island of Sylt. It was impossible because of darkness to determine the nationality or number of planes involved, and it was uncertain whether German planes were maneuvering or British planes were attacking, Shooting was heard.

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CHECK STORY OF PRISON INMATE

State Officials Told That Doctor Took Medicine And Instruments.

A former Indiana Reformatory inmate’s story that Dr. Elmer J. Kalal, surgeon, and medical supplies from the ine stitution was being checked today. Dr. Kalal is in Marion County

bond. He is held for the Federal Grand Jury on charges of furnishing dope to wholesale peddlers. He failed three times to make bond before the U. S. Commissioner. Now he must make bond to the U. S. Marshal with two bondsmen instead of one as required wifh the Commissioner. An inventory was being made at the Pendleton Reformatory and Dr. Kalal’'s home to check the former prisoner’s story. :

Arrested Wednesday Night

Dr. Kalal was arrested at the Reformatory\ Wednesday night after Federal and State officials said an informer purchased opium and. co-

chase followed a six-weeks investigation. Narcotics agents said they found

possess narcotics in his office or home, according to Elmer Crews, U. S. Narcotics Bureau agent-in-charge here. The Indiana League of Women Voters issued a statement today saying the Dr. Kalal “incident” showed the need for the merit system. The statement read: “The deplorable incident at the Indiana Reformatory furnishes striking evidence of the need for extension of the merit system of appointment to personnel employed at the state institutions—a need long advocated by the Indiana League of Women Voters. Asks Qualified Personnel “The state institutions are not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Welfare and, therefore, not operated under the merit system. “The institutions represent a large capital investment, and a large annual expenditure of state money. Especially those built with the idea of rehabilitating inmates should be staffed with qualified personnel.”

HELEN HAYES LEAVES FOR FATHER’S RITES

CINCINNATI, O, March 2 (U. P.)—Helen Hayes,

father, Frank V. Bro at his home at Pearson, Md. yesterday. Miss Hayes, who is here on tour with her play, “Ladies and Gentlemen,” left for Pearson to attend the funeral.

News of her father’s death was withheld from Miss Hayes until the final curtain of last night's performance, performances and left by plane today. She said she would fly to St.

engagement there.

former Reformatory chief was taking instruments

Jail, still unable to provide $10,000

caine from him for $90. The pur-

narcotics in his private office, his home and in the reformatory. The doctor had no Federal license to

noted actress, mourned today fhe death of her , who died

She canceled * today’s

(Louis Monday for the opening of an

limelight of a Congressional hearing for the first time in 12 years?

picious politicians who think he's running very hard. ! That reaction is unfair to Mr,

of aggression abroad whom he would help. But it is inevitable— asinevitable as the unfair charge ‘that Mr. Roosevelt is using the war tragedy to feath- Mr. Denny er a third-term nest. - Politics is dirty business, and both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt in their day have helped make it $0. . They can’t complain about the cynicism of their fellow politicians.

Neither Admits Running

There is this similarity between the alleged candidacies of these two men: Neither admits it. But other politicians judge them by appearances. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt could not act more like candidates if they were candidates. | More important than the similarity is this difference: Mr. Roosevelt apparently has the nomination in the bag, if he wants it—still a big “if.” Mr. Hoover apparently wants the nomination, if he can get it—a bigger “if.” The reason they say Mr. Eloover is running is not only his increased publi¢ activities. His political aids are trying to get uninstructed delegates who can be controlled by him at the convention. Among his active henchmen are: Lawrence Richey, his former political secretary, exAssistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest L. Jahncke of Louisiana, Charles G. (Hellanmaria) Dawes of Illinois, National Committeemen H. E. Spangler of Iowa and R. B. Creager of Texas. - :

Controls California

He controls the California delegation through a live-and-let-live working agreement with Hiram Johnson, though the Senator is no friend of his. Here is the sales talk they are using for him: He can get campaign funds from the conservative angels of the party. * He is the only potential candidate with a big name who will fight the New Deal alphabet from A to Z, without admitting some of it is good; who will make the campaign issue ‘sacred American: individualism”—of which he is the personification. He is the only potential candidate with public executive experience. He is the only one with a reputation as a foreign affairs expert, which is exceedingly important to voters in this world crisis.

Republican opponents: “They never come back.” “We can get all the money we want without Hoover.”

Public Opinion Turns

“Hoover could not win the election on a foreign issue, because he believes in the Roosevelt-Hull co-operate-with-Europe policy. If public opinion turns against that policy, we will need an isolationist candidate. “Otherwise, the Republican came paign issue must be ten milion unemployed. And Mr. Hoover is the one man who could not make that issue stick—not as long as a single Democrat was left to shout, ‘Fourteen million unemployed back to Hoovervilles.’” The most bitter crack of all, and the most frequent, is simply: ye don’t like him, and never di ”»

SARAH E. ELDREDGE - RITES TO BE IN OHIO

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Ellen Eldredge, who died Wednesday night at her home, 3344 College Ave., will be held at Piqua, O, Monday. Burial will be at Piqua. She was 79. Mrs. Eldredge, the widow of Judson MN. Eldredge, was born in Hamilton, O. She lived at Piqua until after her marriage and then moved to Marion, ind, coming here in 1898. She is survived by a daughter, Marian, at home, and a sister, May Voorhis, Piqua.

GANNETT COAST-BOUND PHOENIX, Ariz, March 2 (U.P.). —Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. ¥Y., publisher, today carries his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination to California after warning here that a continuance of the New Deal would gradually make this country’s government a dictatorship. :

| This is the question asked by sus-|

But here are the arguments of his|

Oto of Hapsburg fo Seek

U.S. Aid in Regaining Crown

Hopes to Ascend Vanished Throne When Present War Is Over.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE nited Press Cable Editor Otto se oF Tage an earnest young man with one fixed idea in life—that he is a King and Emperor by divine right—is about to He will come incognito as the Duke de Bar and by ordinary clipper plane, in contrast to this country’s most recent royal visitors, the King and Queen of Great Britain. Otto is heir to an ancient, vanished throne. His iron - willed is|mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, and his devoted supporters hope to see him enthroned king and emperor in central Europe again at the ehd of this war. The object of his visit is to promote that cause. Otto has been reared by his diplomatically skillful mother as an emperor. and divine ruler. He is known to his followers as the Emperor, royal by birth and actually emperor at the moment his father, the Emperor Charles, died in comparative poverty and in exile. As a child, in play with his brothers and sisters, he would set-

ltle juvenile arguments with the

finality, “I am king.” He was tutored in languages and the sword, in the scepter and the strategy of the throne. He was taught by his mother that it is beneath his dignity to shake hands with any but the aristocracy. Ameriea will find in him an earnest young man, zealous in his cause and regal in his bearing. His education was. thorough. He is an accomplished linguest. Otto is fairly tall and well-built and is proficient in sports. He is an ardent- Roman Catholic and received his early education from the Benedictine monks. His attitude toward life is that

‘Otto of Hapsburg . .. . shakes hands with none but the aristocracy. *

of an ascetic. He has never shown any inclination toward romance and attempts to match him with a princess of the Italian royal family several years ago failed conspicuously. Otto is now 27. .Zita reared him with rigid discipline. She never lost faith in the Hapsburg destiny and held the torch which kept the Hapsburg flame alight in Europe during the devastating post-war days, the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the collapse of Austria. If is a saying of the Hapsburg line that their only men are their women. His mother’s instructions for his trip, it is understood, are to seek in general the sympathy of Catholics in the United States but also to sound out American reaction to plans to re-establish the Hapsburg monarchy in central Europe in the

event of an Allied victory.

Note on Dead

Man's Chest

Tells How 'Gallant 3' Died

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Christian work at once for the sake of our families.” It was signed by all three men and was believed in Mr. Davidson's

handwriting. Much remained to be explained

{in the story, one of the strangest

ever to come from this desolate country, but from the note alone it was evident that the men had faced death with calm deliberation, knowing it was inevitable and doing everything to make it easier for the person who found them. It was an appeal to a stranger they knew they would never meet, to interrupt his journey through this littletraveled land and do an act of mercy for their families. They apparently had met a lingering death, either from starvation or freezing. Mr. McNeil said he had seen some scrawlings in the cabin, written by a feeble hand and dated Dec. 8, 18 days after the three men knew of their doom. - The cabin was one of those that dot the far north, used by white

and Indian trappers alike, kept stocked with a few days’ fuel and provisions and never locked, according to the code of the country. Any passerby is privileged to use it. It was believed that the three men had been forced down by storm| or lack of fuel and had been showbound as soon as they reached’ the cabin. Too, they probably were lost, although Mr. Davidson ‘was familiar with the country. * Mr. McNeill said two bodies were lying on the floor, the other, on which the note was pinned to the breast, on a bunk covered by a blanket. He said he touched nothing. but the note. The men from here planned to ascertain whether an airplane could land near the cabin to take the bodies away, in accordance with the wish expressed in the note, or whether they would” have to, be brought here by. sled. The cabin is only a day’s travel from here by dog sled. Or if the airplane had held up, it could have flown here in 15 minutes. :

Long Time No

See, Governor

BATON ROUGE, La., March 2 (U. P.).—Rebellious legislators today refused to answer the call of Governor Earl K. Long for a special session and ended the 12 years of puppet lawmaking started by his brother, the late Huey P. Long. Fighting to hold the remnants of power left the machine after his defeat in the Democratic run"off primary, Governor Long first summoned. the legislators to meet at 4:30 p. m. yesterday. Later he delayed the hour until 8 a. m. today, but at the appointed time neither house had a quorum and could not be called to order,

CORNELIA CONWAY, 96, IS DEAD HERE

Miss Cornelia Conway, who lived on the same farm in Jefferson County, Indiana, for 70 years, died today at the home of her niece, Mrs. Frank H. McConnell, 2145 Carrollton Ave. She was 96. Miss Conway was born on the Jefferson County farm and lived there until coming here to make her home with her nicce. She is the last member of the family of John and Emily Hogland Conway. She was a member of the Hopewell Baptist Church at Volga, Ind. for 84 years. Several hieces and nephews survive. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the Montgomery Funeral Home. Burial will be

Mrs. | in the Hopewell Baptist Cemetery.

DEPAUW STUDENT DIES

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 2 (U. P.).~—Betty Jo Biggs, 17, a DePauw University freshman from Evansville, died last night from injuries suffered late Thursday in an accident: at the entrance of MecCormick’s Creek State Park near

here. Three companions also were|to

| injured.

SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOR RUMANIANS IF--

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attacks her from the rear if Germany decides to {ake punitive action on the west, he added. “Each May 10, on the anniversary of Carol's return to his kingdom, he reviews his troops. I saw several of these reviews and I cdn say that he is building up a tremendous war machine, “It’s a great show. The soldiers are excellently disciplined. It has

taken a longer time than it would in a Western country because the people are still illiterate. In that respect his education and intrenchment program go hand in hand.” But Carol will try not to use his army, Mr. Owsley said, because, as always, he will place s manship above power. “These are stirring times for Rumania and either her darkest or lightest hour. This will be the supreme test for: Rumania and the diplomacy of her leaders.”

Britain, Rumania Reach Oil Accord

LONDON, March 2 (U. P)—A British - Rumanian understanding

on Rumania’s sale of petroleum |, products abroad was believed to have been reached in a long Foreign Office conference today between Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Rumanian Minister Viorel V. Tilea.

Viscount Halifax handed M. Tilea a memorandum which was said to have disposed of the Anglo-Ru-manian oil controversy in amicable fashion. Rumanian sources ssid that M. Tilea gave assurances that Rumania was ready to sell as much oil to Britain as she sold to Germany and that assurance was said have settled any possibility of

dispute.

One of These Beauties to Reign as Relay Queen

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REPORTED SUB ATTACK FOUND

British Freighter. Declared In ‘No Apparent Danger’ Near Puerto Rico. (Continued from Page One)

Bradley of the destroyer McLeish, one of the ships co-operating in the search. - The Navy would not say whether the Southgate had actually been threatened by a submarine or whether the whole affair was a false alarm. In connection with a suggestion that the Southgate might have sighted a U. 8. submarine and mistaken it for an enemy attacker, the Navy merely said that no U. S. submarine was scheduled to be operating in the vicinity of the freighter. At the same time it was reported that the crew of the German freighter Troya had scuttled their ship when a British: warship inter= cepted it in the Dutch West Indies within the neutrality zone. 2 If it is ascertained. that a warship and a submarine had made attacks within the Caribbean, the United States’ military and naval stronghold, it was believed this Government would protest to the Government responsible.

Roosevelt May Act

It was expected that President Roosevelt would call upon the heads of the State, War and Navy De-

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mediately. upon his return to the ‘White House today to k& every effort to ay the veracity of the submarine report. - Mr. Roosevelt had just finished a cruise through the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, and an inspection of the defenses of the Canal. If German submarines are ope erating in American waters they may be refueling from supply ships operating from a port or ports in one of the American republics. All . of these nations adopted a joing declaration at the Panama cone sultative conference forbidding the operation from any American port of supply ships for belligerent vessels. ' Brazil Is Aroused

All the American republics now are considering a request of Brazile ian Foreign Minister, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, for renewed consultation to consider ways and means of enforcing the safety zone. Aranha’s request followed the ine terception of the German mere chant ship Wakama off the coast of Brazil by a British cruiser. The . Wakama was scuttled by her crew, and the members of the crew were

ship. This was the last violation of the neufrality zone until the two reported yesterday. All three belligerents—Germany, France and Great Britain—recente ly rejected the joint protest of the American republics at the battle in

German pocket battle ship Graf Von Spee and three British cruisers,

Consider ‘Teeth’ ; The Governments had informed the belligerents that they were considering putting “teeth” into the safety zone declaration. One such measure, they said, might be to forbid any belligerent vessel which was

for any cause, even for emergency supplies or repairs, under penalty of immediate internment. The position of the reported ate * tack on the Southgate was close to the outer defenses of the Panama Canal, which President Roosevelt favors strengthening. A Navy air base is now being built in Puerto Rico and a new military department has ‘been created there. Reports of foreign submarines near the American coasts have been circulated several times. Twice President Roosevelt gave Creviatics to them.

U. S. Does Most of Patroling

The Americas undertook to patrol the whole neutrality zone, but most of the patroling has been done by the United States. The neutrality

entering the zone, but did forbid their fighting there. It provided, however, that after a proclamation by the President of any country, submarines should be barred from the waters off that country unless they were. disabled due to natural causes. President Roosevelt has issued such a ban affecting the United States regions of the neutrality zone. Britain, France and Germany all have protested that the American

in violation of international law. An Army officer.said he believed two American submarines left San Juan Thursday for a practice cruise find that the Southgate probably had seen one of them and its radio operator had gotten off a hasty SOS without waiting to igenvity the submarine’s nationality.

Naval Clash Reported

Off Uruguayan Coast

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March 3 (U. P.).—The newspaper Tribuna Popular, in a special dispatch from Rio Grande, said that “it is report~ ed without confirmation that a naval battle invelving three British Sruisels and i laige German sube marines ev! 200 from Cape Polon “ping miles Cape Polonia is ‘about 100 miles northeast of Punta Del Este, Uruguay, where last December three British cruisers engaged the Gere man pocket battleship Admiral Graf

| Spee in a battle.

Tribuna Popular is regarded as a sensational newspaper and its ree

skepticism here,

- BERLIN, "March 2 (U. P)~Re= 1at ' the British steamer had been attacked by a ‘German submarine near

{Rico were ridiculed by a Foreien

Difice Spokesman today, According to fi

partments and the Coast Guard im=

taken prisoners by the British war. , = |

Uruguayan waters between the .

known to have violated the safety zone, to enter any American port

law did not forbid surface warships

neutrality zone preclamation was = 4

port was received with considerable i