Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1940 — Page 5

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LL | I Hundreds March in Belfast With Revolvers Strapped To Leaders’ Legs. :

_ BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March 22 (U.P.).—Hundreds of | armed men of the putlawed “Irish; Republican Army” paraded through- |

. out Belfast today, defying the Ulster | Government's blanket ban on pa-

' rades, meetings and demonstrations in commemoration of the Dublin Easter week rebellion of 1916. .

Trouble had been forecast both

in Northern Ireland and in Eire during the Easter week-end. More than 400 I. R. A. men, whose leaders wore military Sam Browne belts and carried revolvers strapped to their legs, paraded in side streets in the Nationalist Falls road area here. | : ; Outside the home of the late “Lieut. Gen.” Joe McKelvey, I. R. A. leader executed by the Southern Ireland. Government in 1922 for his part in the civil war, the demonstrators halted.

Promise to Pursue Drive

There a statement was read, ss from “General Headquarters of the I. R. A” dealing with “operations of the I. R. A. Expeditionary Force” in England. After the treaty was signed between the Sinn Fein revolutionary Government. and the British Gov- - ernment, irreconcilables refused to accept it and revolted against the newly constituted I’ree State regime. A brief pericd of ¢ivil war followed. McKelvey was one of the rebels who seized the four courts building in Dublin. | The “General = Headquarters” statement said that the campaign in England would be pursued until every British soldier had been withdrawn from {reland and EngJand had recognized the “Government of the Republic” as the only Government of Ireland.

Claim ‘Public Sympathy

It warned that perhaps in -the near future the “Republican Army” would ‘take up arms in Ireland against “enemies of the Republic.” Operations in England, the statement said, had shown “the weakness of the enemy and the possibility of “new spectacular threats of countering the aggression to which the Irish people are being subjected.” There were similar parades, at each of which statements were read, in at least four other districts of Belfast. ; A stateraent issued by the I. R. A. said that never since 1921 -had public sympathy been so strongly with I. R. A: as today.

Japan's Foreign Minister Balks at |[Rome-Berlin Tie

TOKYO, March 22 (U. P.).— Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita rejected today a demand:that Japan strengthen [ties with the Romes= Berlin axis in order to prevent possible British pressure in the Far . East in the event that the Allies won the European war. - “Japan’s policy of non-involve-ment in the war is /unshakable and there 'is no necessity for. changing it at present,” Arita said. Arita made his statement at a Parliamentary | budget committee + meeting. He was responding to an interpellation hy Shoichi Miyake. . “Japan must abandon its noninvolvement policy and must join the axis ih order to help establish a new order in Europe and a new order in the world,” Miyake said. | After the World War, he said, Britain put pressure on Japan, and ‘the same thing, he added, would happen again, this time with United States assistance.

: Allied Request to Buy ‘Fast U. S.| Planes Studied

| WASHINGTON, March 22 (U. P.).—High-ranking Army and Navy officials togay| studied a request by the British’ and French purchasing * missi for | permission to - buy thousands of | the latest-type experimental wa-planes being’ developed for national defense. The Allied | purchasing mission, pressing a $1,000,000,000 armament buying program in this country, last might presented a formal request to fhe special interdepartmental committee created {io coordinate foreign purchases to per-

ferred to the Army and Navy heads who! will. decide whether the sale would disclose military secrets or would interfere with production of some 4000 aircraft now on order for the [Army and Nayy. eir recommendations will be to the Co-ordination Com- " mittee, headed by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, and |composed of Treasury, War and Department officials. The Committe will turn the matter over esident | Roosevelt for final ‘The missiori’s request came but 36 hours after Mr. Roosevelt advocated the mass sale of planes abroad as eans of building up production els, and branded as bunk rethat military secrets would ;

be osed. emphasized that there were only a few really secret devices that should not be sold. : lthough -he did not mention them, they were believed to include a highly secretive . bomb sight, a turbo super-charger for increasing engine speed and power at high altifudes, and indirect propellor drives. - WE

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Clement F. DeCroes . . . inventor,| tradesman, merchant.

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C. F.|DeCroes Was Operator Of Dining Room at . Hotel English.

Clement F. DeCroes, bakery operator and restaurateur in Indianapolis for many years, died yesterday ‘at his home, 212 S. Audubon Road. {He was 90 and had been ill for two weeks. | Mr. DeCroes invented one ‘of the | first mechanical voting machines ‘and a: mechanical railroad switch that still is in use. |

anapolis first as the operators of the old DeCross Pastry Shop, 213-15 E. Ohio St., and later as operators of the dining room in the Hotel English. Native of France

In France, where he w | born, Mr. DeCroes ‘had been spprenticed to the stone trade by his father who did work for the Belgian king, and when he came to this country he worked for a while on tunnel projects in New York. 8 In 1881 he went to. Westport; Ind., and operated a stone quarry there for 20 years.. He gave the railroad switch patent to a railroad company and in return was given a life pass on the road and a locomotive which he used at the quarry. : He was a sub-contractor on the Indianapolis Public Library central building, doing all the stone work, and. built two bank buildings in Cleveland ‘as well as other structures. He was proud of his [ability as a stone worker and often said that his training in France -made him able to do the work of two men.

Came Here in 1922

He and his wife came to Indianapolis in 1922 and opened the pastry shop when he. was more than 70, and in 1926 they became proprietors of the Hotel English dining room, which they operated until 1932. ‘Mr. DeCroes is survived by his ‘wife: two daughters. the Rev. B."M: DeCroes, a retired Methodist thin~ ister, and Miss Charlotte DeCroes; three sons, Sam and Clem DeCroes, stone contractors in Washington; and Harry DeCroes, Frankfort, Ind.; several brothers. all in France; 13 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will.-be at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Royster & Askin Funeral Home, 1902 N. Meri-

Cemetery.

1000 LOCAL PUPILS TO LEARN TO SWIM

|More than 1000 Indianapolis pupils, will learn to swim during Easter vacation. according to plans

jof ¥. M. C. A. officials here. 7

During the vacation the “¥Y” will form classes under the supervision of Momer Fulton, assistant physical director, and his assistant, Arthur Gage. : Application blanks ‘are being distributed in the schools. Boys desiring to learn :to swim are to present the applications on March 29 and 30. Thé course will open at 8:30 p. mg April 1. Each class will contain 30 boys.

CONTINUE INQUIRY IN OHIO MINE BLAST

NEFFS, O., March 22 (U. P.).— Members of a Congressional subcommittee continued vestigation today of the explosion which’ killed 73 men in the Willow Greve mine

day. | : : Rep. Fred Bradley (R. Mich.) commented only briefly after a fourhour “tour of the mine yesterday. He described the wrecked interior of the mine as a “shambles.” He said the Congressional investigators were interested chiefly in information to help them in consideration of the Neely-Keller Federal mine inspection bill already passed by the Senate. The committee also: will determine the. cause ot the disaster, if possible, he said. Rescue squads sent up five more

of bodies recovered to 34.

p WELLS ON FROGRAM

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. March 22. — President Herman B Wells of Indiana University will give the official welcome at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Achievement Banquet here April 19. Tom Reid, National Executive Vice President of the U. S. Junior Chamber will be the fea= tured speaker. } Su awiie

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