Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1940 — Page 4

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WELLES, oul TALK TOF, D.R.

Meeting ‘Linked to 'Foreigh Situation; ‘Peace Offer To Duce Denied.

Chamberlain Fightsto Stay As British Bolster Defenses

or whether at some time he gave IIR way to another man, Britain Ted | \ how made up its mind, in its de-| liberate way, to face the war square ly ahd fight it to the end ‘with alll [Its resources and all its strength.

Chamberlain started his official!

| Fell ‘From ‘London Train, | |

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NEW YORK, May 9 (U. P)— Webb Miller of United Press

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Joseph Dote, alias JOE ADONIS, object of a country-wide search on charges of kidnaping and extortion, \surrendered at the office of Spacia] (107 Monday night. Assistant Attorney John Harlan Amen in Brooklyn today. Adonis, long a power in the underworld, was booked by Brooklyn

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Coroner Declares.

chairmanship.”

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ganization meeting had been reset

Regarding the Democratic chair manship fight, Mr. Deluse said he “had not been advised” ‘of party leaders’ action to support him and that he is “not a candidate for the

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day by conferring with Lord Halidor Phillips, | resign. Halifax c¢rossed Downing [Street from his Foreign Office to the Prime Minister's official resi-

plan which the latter had rejected. “The President authorized issu-

ance by the White House of the dence, No. 10, for a morning talk.’ NN

had offered Premier (fax, regarded by nearly everyone | Mussolini 8 mediation or peace 'as his political heir in case he does|

hE. | TONDON, May 9 (U. P.).—After a RR tan inquest at Battersea Morivary, Coroner Hervey Wyatt decided todey that ‘Webb Miller, European Igeneral manager of the ‘United Press, died an aceidental death as a result of falling from a train at

police two hours after his arrest. He said he was a retired businessman. He ‘will be arraigned later today.

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At a caucus session in Mayor Reginald Sullivan’s office yesterday, leaders, including the Mayor and six county judges, ‘were

following “statement: “‘The report is compietely er-| roneous, It has no basis in fact.’ ” | The White House statement did not clarify completely the situation. | The Rome report had said that the | alleged overture to Mussolini did not contain a specific proposal for | peace or mediation, but that only | an offer of another peace effort had | been made. State Department spokesmen said, however, that the White House statement was intand-! ed as | specific denial of the Rome | dispatch President Worried | The President and his foreign ad- | visers have been worried for days| that the war may spread soon tol other countries. Forsa week it has| been believed here that the Presi-| dent was engaged in some diplo-| matic maneuver, possibly an attempt | to prevent such an extension of the War area. That belief was based on conferences between Mr. Phillips and Mussolini and a long list of} Foreign affairs experts as callers at the White House. Undersecretary Welles has been a frequent ealler| at the President's office, and Mr.| Welles and Assistant Secretary of | State Adolph A. Berle Jr, were ati their office late yesterday during the latest “scare” in Holland. Meanwhile, on other affairs fronts there were lowing developments: 1. Some members of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee planned | today to seek additional information regarding the sudden decision to keep the fleet at Hawaii “indefinitely.” They were chiefly interested in the diplomatic implications

Eager to Avoid Incidents

2. The State Department turned its attention to the problem of thousands of Americans who are living in European countries threatenad by the possibility of new offensives Because it is anxious to avoid incidents ‘which may influence Americans, the State Department! has repeatedly warned hationals in “dangerous” localities Secretary of State Cordell Hull yesterday emphasized the Department's interest in these American expatriots, business men and travelers. He revealed that a second! notice has heen given to Americans | in the Danubian snd Balkan couns | tries, It was assumed that similar] warnings have been issued in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy

foreign the fol-

DEPUTIES TURN COWBOYS SAN RAFEAL, Cal, Mav 9 (U P) Sheriff Walter B. Sellmer has more thah a white elephant on his Rands, He has 83 head of daity| cows, They were turned over to his custody pending legal procesdings The sheriff and his deputies had to turn cowboys to herd them six miles to ranch.

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[not the least ih Government oireles | (who had reasoh over a humber of |

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The Prime Minister was cheered | by a ‘waiting group of about 100 people as he left his house to walk Sy | over to nearby Commons. X Re | He was cheered again by Govern- oy ment supporters when he entered : i the Commons chamber. » \ |

Opposition ‘Group Jubilant 3

Sir John Simon, first member of the Cabinet to enter the Commons wl lobby, looked harassed and tired. | \ | Opposition members ‘were jubilant. | 3 They said they felt as if they had stormed the Bastille. It was forecast that if Chamber-| lain went, his successor would at] once deprive Sir Horace Wilson, per-|

manent Secretary of the Treasury ahd head of the Civil Service, of his| JSter Chamberlain ih ‘case ‘the

ipcOnspicods but reportedly de-| Inter decides to resign.

cisive influence oh ‘Chamberlain. (gaa) of ‘@ifficulty ‘and danger. ‘Me Called w policy maker, Wilson has agded: “We must endure this ‘With been regarded by many opponents!gumness until Wore favorable ©omnof the Government as the man behind Chamberlain. Gossip ‘was that any new Prime Minister would take into the Cabi-|

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Lord Halifax . . . Regarded as the political heir of Prime Min-

lassuredly will.” Apropos of the air situation and the possibility that Adolf Hitler L. S. Amery, a former First Lord of | Might at any time order an ‘attack the Admiralty and a political power, |i _force on the British Isles, ail and Alfred Duff Cooper, who re-|cefense forces have béen advised to signed the First Lordship, at the Undergo special training to meet outset of what looked like a brilliant |2Hy attack by parachute troops. career, because he “could hot| Soldiers and air force men on

/stomach” the Munich Conference guard at airdromes where sabotage agreement

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That was when nearly might be attempted by ! h special

everybody else was cheering Cham- | chutists are being ®given berlain's promise of “peace in our|training in pistol shooting. time.’ The coastal airplane watch serve S M ® [ice is being strengthened; more atSndall War Cabinet Tndicated tention is ‘given to big ‘expanses of It was taken for granted that any |iselated countryside and moorlands: new Prime Minister would invite op- plans have been made to barricade position leaders into his Cabinet and | major roads if neeessary. belief ‘was growing that they could| hroueh the political correspond-

and A. V. AleX-|saper of the politically important Labor, and Sir Aronibaly Hap of re politically po

: : : . : [ Rothermere chain, suggested Lord Sinelair, Liberal, ‘were mentioned as R BE

likely appointees, | The belief prevailed also that al

new Premier ‘would yield to the de-| vel mand for a smaller War Cabinet of | Hit IOVS George De Hae Sremier

not hore than six or Seven men | Vth Churchill as vice Premier, Sir who ‘would be reljeved of all routine | Archibald Sinclair, leader of the departmental duties so they could | Liberal party, as Foreign Secretary,

devote themselves to Major issues of Anthony Eden, Chancellor of the policy and strdtegy . Exchequer, and Herbert Morrison,

g Labor, Supply Minister, Churchill ‘Closes Debate The two leading Conservative It ‘was hot ‘yesterday's vote alone | newspapers, favorable to the Gaythat weakened the Clovernment | ernment, showed the trend that Speeches by its own supporters had | even Government supporters ‘were shaken national confidence. | taking. Winston ‘Churehill, Wirst Tord of] Tt fs urgent that Mr. Chamber. the Admiralty and senior defense |l2in should undertake the reorminister, ‘who had been regardeq S2nization of his Cabinet without

to Chamberlain, the Daily Mail itself in a first page editorial urged

[as the most forceful ficure in the delay,” said the Daily Telegraph. | Cabinet, the debate last night for the Gov-

“No personal or other considerations must stand in the ‘way of drawing ernment that he and Admiralty|intc the conduct of the war the best leaders had advised against ah at-| talent. tack by the fleet on Trondheim. | He had said one reason for the! strength of the demand for & Min-

had confessed in closing

Allied setback in Norway was that Germany was superior in the air. Numerical inferiority of British planes, he said, would condemn Bhitain for some time to a great

fore differently constituted,” said the Times. This seemed to imply t hat ‘Chamberlaih's resighation would be necessary,

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Clapham Junction. “It is a ‘sad case” the coroner Said, “a sad end to a brilliant life. Mr. Miller ‘was a perfectly normal | and healthy map and there ‘was nothing to worry him at all.” Dr, Frederick Simpson testifted that Mr. Miller died from a frac-| tured skull, that “his injuries ‘were | consistent ‘with a simple fall onto |

k the railroad track.”

Funeral services will be at ¢ p. m. | tomorrow in the Chapel of Golders Green crematorium. Mr.

His ‘widow, Marie Alston} Miller, and his 18-year-old son,| (Kenneth, are in New York. Services at Golders Green ‘will be conducted by the Rev. A. Taylor of § Saint Brides Church in Fleet Street | (Church of England). The Rev-j erend Taylor is known as the news- | | paperman’s vicar. | Tributes to the memory of thel famous ‘war correspondent andj news executive continued to pour in from capitals throughout the world where Mr. Miller was known | personally and where his by-line| [had been familiar to newspaper | readers for many years, London morning papers printed {laudatory obituaries,

“One of Greatest, Says Roy Howard

{ NEW YORK, May 9 (U.P.) —Roy } [Howard nf the Seripps-Howard | Newspapers, commenting last night | on the death of Webb Miller, said: [ “Few men in American Journalist have had ro wide and thrilling a | career as Webb Miller. Few have | added so much to the luster of the | American reporter. To Webb Miller | journalism ‘was truly a profession, and he had scant consideration for | those to whom it represented nothing more than a job. i “His was a profession based upon | a code of professional ethics to} which he gave rigid adherence— | honesty, integrity, aecuracdy, and a sense of journalistic responsibility, | He had them all and he kept faith with them ali. He was one of the greatest reporters of his era.”

Slain by British Secret

‘Service, Germans Claim

BERLIN, May 9 (U.P) -—The (German press, apparently oh or-| | ders from above, charged today} that Webb Miller, general European | Manager of the United Press, had been murdered by the British secret [service | Taking their cue from the officiall

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(news agency, DNB, whith had eir- | culated the charge last hight, to-| [day's newspapers featured it under sensational headlines | At London, a spokesman for the | Foreigh Office commented oh the {DNB charge as follows: “Mr. ‘Webb |

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