Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1940 — Page 3

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Expected to Start in Week; Stock 1 Ask Russia Why She Wants RailEg way Built West to Border. apr JOKHOLM, Sweden, March 14 (U. P.) —Sweden and Norway have

to negotiate a defense alliance with Finland and: expect to start military and diplomatic negotiations immediately after final ratification

of the Russo-Finnish treaty, probably within one week, the Foreign

Office disclosed today. Sweden, it was said officially, ‘will ‘ask Russia to explain why it wants ‘to build a railroad across nd to the Swedish frontier, . .- Norway, it was understood, is i likely to ask Russia why it wants free passage for goods 'in transit across the Finnish Petsamo area to Arctic Norway.

Sweden May Grant Credits

Sweden prepared to provide Finland immediately, it was under--stoed, with credits, loans and public subscriptions to an estimated total of 200,000,000 to 300,000,000 Swedish ‘crowns ($47,680,000 to $71,520,000) for reconstruction, it was understood. * (It was indicated strongly that part of these contributions would be used for fortifications along Finland's new frontier with Russia.) The proposed déensive alliance— and its purely defensive nature was emphasized—is to bind each of the ~ signatories, Sweden, Norway and Finland to: defend the others against attack. Finland = requested Sweden and ‘Norway three days ago to reveal their attitude toward a ‘defensive alliance if Finland made peace with Russia, it was said, and both nations immediately agreed in principle to such an alliance.

Stockholm Is Anxious

It -had been understood that Sweden, increasingly anxious ‘over the implications of the Russo-Fin-_nish treaty, had taken the initiative : for a pact. The newspaper Folkets Dagblad said today: : “The Swedish people realized yesterday that the first move had been taken to destroy the Scandinavian countries, and they realized that Sweden was next. . . . It is a great ' mistake to assert that Finnish independence is intact. Finnish independence is of the same sort as that of Esthonia, Lithuania and Latvia. ‘Mention of a military alliance proves poor naivete and an attempt to. bluff the Swedish people.” A military and diplomatic conference of the three northern powers is to be summoned as soon as Finland has withdrawn its troops from the fighting lines, settled the new * frontier with Russia and exchanged ratifications of the peace treaty, it was understood. This was expected to have been accomplished within one week. :

Seek Military Co-operation

The . three-power meeting would prepare defensive. treaties in detail and specify cases of aggression in which each power would guarantee to help the others. . Regular general staff talks would be arranged among the participants, to insure military collaboration, the preparation of fortifications and the mutual provision of military sup-

plies. “The alliance would be purely defensive, so as not to violate Finland’s pledge to Russia to abstain from participation in any bloc hostile to it. ! : eo Alliance talks would be followed &t-once by a meeting of Scandinavfan foreign ministers either here or at Oslo to conclude complimentary economic, diplomatic and po- % litical agreements. Denmark would not be expected to paricipate in the military alliance but it was hoped it might » strengthen its collaboration with the - three participating states. : The proposed alliance would not permit signatories to conclude alliances. with outside nations and it * was forecast that it would previde, in .event the signatories were en-

gaged in a defensive: war, that a.

common agreement would have to + be concluded before assistance could be accepted from any outside power. Scandinavian countries generaHy were beginning to note that under the treaty, as the newspaper Ber- ‘ ¢_lingske Tidende of Copenhagen put it, “never before has Russia advanced its own borders so far to‘ward Scandinavia as in 1940.”

. Copenhagen Hears Entire Finn Cabinet May Resign

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 14 (U. P.) —Finland’s entire Cabinet may resign in favor of a provisional Ministry which would take the responsibility for ratifying the Russo- # Finnish peace treaty and resuming

diplomatic relations with Russia, it was Tr ’ If this course

‘restoration of relations had completed.

the resignation of War Minister ‘Juhu Niukkanen ' and . Education Minister Uuno Hannula. ‘Those ministers resigned, however; because of their bitter oppesition to the Government’s decision to accept the Russian peace terms. It was indicated that if the Cabinet of Premier Risto Ryti decided to give way to a provisional one, there would be an eventual reorganization on the basis of the present Cabinet. ; :

No Russian Opposition To Alliance Indicated

MOSCOW, March 14 (U. P).— Well informed quarters in Moscow

Scandinavian alliance apparently would be consistent with the RussoFinnish peace pact so long as it was not directed specifically against the Soviet Union. , Although ‘Article 3 of the RussoFinnish peace pact enjoins Finland against third power alliances against Russia, and Russia against alliances against Finland, it was believed that a reasonable interpretations of the clause would exclude a purely defensive alliance from the purview of the article. :

Nazis Hope for Better

Russo-Italian Relations

BERLIN, March 14 (U. P). — Nazi sources’ today reported improved prospects for improving relations between Italy ‘and ' Soviet

Russia in eonnection with trade negotiations among the Berlin, Rome, Moscow and Bucharest Governments. : Russia and Italy, according to information reported in usually wellinformed German sources, are nearing the conclusion of trade negotiations which the Nazis hope will bring the two nations closer together. | These negotiations in -the Nazi viewpoint are of importance in connection ‘with broad ‘diplomatic _efforts to improve the German position in the East and South of Burope in order to frustrate the Allied blockade.

WELLES EN ROUTE TO VISIT MUSSOLINI

PARIS, March. 14 (U. P)—Sumner Welles, United States Undersecretary of State, arrived today by airplane from London and continued - tonight to Rome to confer

again Saturday with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, who may have some new information for him about Germany's war wews. Sir Ronald Campbell, British Ambassador to France, and Robert D. Murphy, counselor of the American Embassy, met him at. the airport. Mr. Welles. immediately , visited Premier Edouard Daladier at the War Ministry. Representatives of - the - British Foreign Office and United States Ambasador Joseph P. Kennedy had been at the London airport to see Mr. Welles begin his homeward trip. With his usual reticence, Mr. Welles even refused to tell newspapermen whether he had enjoyed his visit in

| London. His tour will end officially

Saturday when he sees. Mussolini for the second time in two weeks. ‘Mr. Welles confered with Premier Edouard Daladier and handed him a personal letter of greeting from President Roosevelt, which was understood to have been similar to that which the American diplomat previously -had transmitted to Premier Mussolini. The letfer was said to contain nothing of political importance. : ” Mr. Welles later. conferred with the British and Ifalian ambassadors

at the United States Embassy.

ay. = ; C were decided upon, |¢ it was reported, the provisional Min- | istry would in turn give way to a new permanent Cabinet as soon asj: the formalities of ratification 2 3 ni 3

Finland already had announced |

said today that the , proposed :

HOLLYWOOD, March 14. (U. P.).—Indianapolis’ \screen actress, Priscilla Lawson, had been granted an interlocutory divorce today from Allan Curtis. (She was Priscilla ‘Shortridge in In-

Priscilla Lawson . .-. husband told her he didn’t love her.

dianapolis.) She testified that Mr. Curtis, a leading man, asked her to divorce him only three months after their marriage last Nov. 17, and told her he did not love her.

Needed, Finn

built up by thé Finns had been taken from them, he said. “But the Finnish people, their institutions, their rights, are still preserved,” he said. “After all, we have only lost some territory. “On the credit side we can note our fight for justice and our moral victory, which can never be too highly valued. “We trust to receive help from civilized nations, nations which have the same ideals as ours, to aid us in our reconstruction. “But above ‘all we must rely on ourselves. Unity gave us strength in the fight. ' It must be our basic principle in future.” Those in the audience stood at attention guring the five minutes of the President’s speech.

Mannerheim Also Speaks ly

His broadcast was preceded by the rendition of the national anthem, “Bjorneborgernes,” a march in honor of the Finnish Army which was composed for Napoleon when he came to Finland in 1809. Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim, hero of the war, addressed the nation later today. Baron Mannerheim in his last order of the day yesterday said that the Russians had lost 200,000 dead in their invasion of Finland and that the Finnish dead numbered 15,000. The order in part follows: “Soldiers of the glorious Finnish Army— “Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, an exacting peace which ceded to Soviet: Russia nearly every sattlefield on which you shed blood on behalf of everything we hold dear and sacred. “you did not want war. You loved peace, work and progress but you were forced into the struggle in which you have done great deeds, deeds which will shine for centuries on the pages of history. “More than 15,000 of you who took the field will never again see your homes, and how many there are who have lost forever the ability to work, © But you also dealt hard blows and if 200,000 of our enemies are how lying on snowdrifts gazing with broken eyes at our starry sky, the fault is not yours. You did not hate them nor wish them evil; you. merely followed the stérn law of force—kill or “be killed. “Soldiers! I have fought on many battlefields but never have I seen your like as warriors. I am as proud of you as though you were my own children; I am as proud.of the man from the northern hills as of the sons of Ostro Bothnia, the Karelian forests, the hills of Sago, the verdant hills of Hame and Satakunta, the leafy copses of Uusimaa and Varsinais—Suomj. I am as proud

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record : DEATHS TO DATE

» : County City Total wo SEER RR, 7 12 15

LE EE NER J 13 ; 0/Accidents viene 4

WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COUR

Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid 14 $73

4 33 15 28

20 3 35 25

» . Violations Speeding + - Failure to stop at . through street 5 ~ , Reckless driving 15 Disobeying traffic signal

All others ...... 39

Totals teren. 868 $88 $202

MEETINGS TODAY v ‘Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Hotel

% Washington, noon. I nS tome Club of Indianapolis, Inn.

u apolis Athletic Club, noo ma , Board of Trade, noon. avan Club, Murat Temple, noon. Club, Hotel Severin. noon a

ianapolis Camera Club,

St. . Mm. : ta Theis Pi Canary Cottage, noon. bda Chi Alpha Alumni ciation, et Cafeteria, noon. dianapolis Motor Transportation Club, s Steak House, noon. * tion Optometrists, 1 ine, Claypool Hotel, ign . n id onaiistal Automotive Parts Association, ‘Columbia Club, all day. 3 : ——— + MEETINGS TOMORROW Spimisi” Clad darumbin Ghul, oon: . g i. ve e > eiatl 5 od of 2 ‘Delta Theta, Canary Cottage; moon. i 3 Tau Delta, Columbi noon. pT Stamp’ Ciub, Hotel Antlers, 8 4 "aie Sigma, Canary Cottage, noom

carcinoma. : Eile Lewis, 44, at Cit:

Westinghouse, Claypool ‘Hotel, noon. Indiana State Drivers, Claypool. Hotel, 3 . m. Indiana Whist Association, Hotel Severin, 7:30 p. m.

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BIRTHS

Girls

Edward, Florence Throm, at Methodist. ‘Sterling, Gladys Jones, at Coleman. Garlyn, -Louise Wiant, 1202 E. Vermont.

Boys Ralph, Mary Jane Bird, at Methodist. est, Irene Fentz, at Methodist, - nald, Ruth Wood, ‘at Col : Mable Payne, at City. oy. Beulah Spill r. at 3825 Theodore, Verha Banks, at 901 DEATHS Nicholas Brown, 86, 1 gene, -. riosc erosis. , 8.501.518 =u i arte Lillie Critchfield, 78. at Central Indiana, hypostatic pneumonia. 8 atie Bomer. 43, at 533 W. Vermont, . peritonitis. Nellie Creig, 38, at 1 AON Pacoma, co~ nary em m ; : , at "Methodist, cererhage. Y 2 ord in Richardson, 35, at City. thyOteria Mabry, 26. at City. bowel obstruccodarsaret Schwall, 11, at Riley, tuberNancy DeAtley. 78, at 2160 N. Ilinois, inoma. - : nee Louise cerebral [ John Wilson; nitis. -

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Partly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight with lowest temperature 15 to 20; tomorrow fair and continued cold. . x

‘Sunrise .../. 5:58 Sunset

TEMPERATURE -March 14, 1939— seve. 3911 p. m.

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. ...: 30.08

Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m, . Total precipitation. si Deficiency since Jah

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Partly cloudy, snow flurries in northeast portion, colder tonight; tomorrow, continued cold. hi Illinois—Generaily fair tonight and tomorrow; -somewhat colder tonight; rising temperature in extreme southwest portion tomorrow. :

Lower Michigan—Cloudy to partly cleudy with snow flurries tonight and tomorrow; colder tohight. : Ohio—Snow flurries and colder tonight: and continue cold, except snow flurries in northeast portion, (TY i

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‘Kentucky—Mostly cloudy and colder, with snow flurries in north and extreme east portions .tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cold. {

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Scandinavian Defense Pact

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President Says

of the sacrifice of a child from a lowly cottage as of those of the wealthy : : “The destruction of more than 1500 Russian tanks and more than 700 enemy aircraft speaks for deeds of heroism often carried out by single individuals. “Despite all the bravery spirit of sacrifice, the Government has been compelled to conclude a peace on severe terms which, however, are explicable. Our Army was small and its reserves and cadres inadequate. We were not prepared for war with a great power.

World Admiration Aroused

fending our frontiers we had, by insuperable effort,. to procure what we lacked. We had to construct lines of defense where there were none. We had to try to obtain help which failed to come. We had to

buy arms and equipment at a time when all nations were. secretly .arming against the storm which sweeps over the world, -

the admiration of the world but, after three and one-half months of war we were still almost alone. We had not obtained more foreign help than two. reinforced battalions equipped with artillery and aircraft for our own front, where our own men, fighting day and night with-

have .had to meet the attacks of ever-fresh enemy forces, straining their physical and moral powers beyond all limits. : “When some day the history of this war is written the world will lean of your efforts. “After. 16 weeks of bloody battles, with no rest day or night, our army still stands unconquered before an enemy which, despite terrible losses, has grown in numbers, nor has our home front, where countless air raids spread death and terror among women. and children, ever] wavered. “Burned cities and ruined villages far behind the front, as far even as our western border, are visible - proofs of the nation's sufferings during the past months.”

FUTURE RESTRICTED

7 5 (Continued from Page One) new frontiers there exists no terrain

fensive system could be constructed.

ance have been seriously compro-

Peninsula, which catches the important country of southern Finland between the claws of the Russian pincers. > narrow waistline Russian terms restrict: Finnish defenses by giving Russia a gateway through the hilly barrier to the head of the Gulf of Bothnia. i Hn “And in the Arctic, Josef Stalin possibility of Finlands’ defending herself by restricting the size and numbers of submarines, aircraft and warships based on Petsameé. / the

In granting the Russians right of free transit across the narrow Petsamo corridor Finland has brought Russia, “0 all practical purposes, right to. Norwegian territory. Even more significant, this time for Sweden, is the imposition of a railway corridor ‘across Finland to Sweden, thus tonnecting the Murmansk railway to the frontier of Sweden by way of Kemijaervi. With Finland thus militarily hamstrung and with Russian fingers reaching toward the Norwegian and

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TERRE HAUTE, (U. P.).—Mrs.

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| today placed a battery of desks just lin front of the. elevators on the; | third floor in the Federal Building. :| There a taxpayer who doesn’t’ need ‘| help in filling out. his blank can be ‘| sworn, make out his check or get a

| fecting some future tax schedules. :| Congressional - committee on In-

| the effect on tax revenues of raising |mittee for permission to do so, and

the age limit for exempt dependent

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out the possibility of being relieved, | -

FINN RESISTANCE IN |

where’ another equally strong de-| Finnish chances of future resist-}

mised further by the Russian foot-| i hold on the mainland in the Hanko|

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Swedish frontiers it is likely that Sg Stalin will find means, by diplo-| matic pressure or otherwise, of pre-]

‘HEAR 1ST LADY| Ind, March 14}: velt will ‘deliver pr i oe ¥ X di y ‘an iS ari 1B ko 33 '|a three-day celebration at the Inf}

| mue Bure office here will be open until midnight tomorrow for filing of income The announcement was made by Collector Will H. Smith. At the

have filed their returns.

receipt for the cash. Non-taxable returns can be left ‘at these desks

From Washington, however, came hint of possible good news at-.

It was disclosed that a joint ternal Revenue taxation is studying ‘The present law permits

an exemption of $400 annually for children -under 18, but the com-

WASHINGTON, March. 14 (U. P.)—The inventor of “the most deadly” explosive sought permission today to demonstrate its force by blowing up atiimals with %t. “It: won't hurt them,” he said, ce «it. causes instantaneous death” = i. of glo Lo Lester P. Barlow of Stamford, ‘Conn., so impressed the Senate Military Affairs Committee yesterday with: & description of his new explosive that the committee burned the minutes of the. two-hour session ‘lest a foreign power leatn the

formula. : A joint meeting of the Senate and House Navy and Military Affairs Committee has been called for next Monday to discuss the experiment. War and Navy Department officials will be invited to attend. Mr. Barlow said he was asking to demonstrate the explosive by exploding mines of it in a field of animals.. He has asked the com-

it was assumed the committee would discuss it with military authorities. Rep. Ralph E. Chureh (R. IIL), who attended the Senate Commit-

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suffering, - - RE Seneator:Gerald P. Nye (B: N. D,), who, with Rep. Church, Suggested that Mr. Barlow testify, said the explosive was so. deyastating it would give any nation an “ingome parable advantage ih war time.” Its detonation, he said, ‘utterly destroys everything within miles.” - After a long period of “trial and error,” he said he had discovered a method to prevent an explosion of the ‘gases without a separate detonator, making the explosive “absolutely safe.” rd . He said he could get no hearing from Amerjcan military authorities who told him:it was impossible to use the mixture safely. ~ - :

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tack on the Balkans.

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fore any decision was taken. t ‘was said also that Turkey, while welcoming all means of safeguarding Balkan peace, was not #is-

role in the Balkans.

| OIL BURNS ARE FATAL

BLUFFTON, Ind, March 14 (U. P.) —Lessel W. McClurg, 45, who was burned yesterday when oil he was

at the Wells County Hospital today. He is survived by his wife, and one

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