Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1940 — Page 3

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DAY, JULY 30, 1940

DRAFT BILL WAITS ON SENATE BATTLE

Republicans on Committee Demand Roosevelt Make Stand Known.

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held this afternoon on the mobilization plan, with Chief of Staff George C. Marshall and Maj. Gen. John F. Williams, chief of the War Devartment's National Guard Bureau, as the witnesses. President Roosevelt has not commented on the specific pending conseription bill Rut in his speech to the Democratic convention at Chicago, Mi Roos evelt said . Because of citizens involv ed In defense, most right sons are agreed that some form of selection bv draft is as necessary and fair today as it was in 1917 and 1918.” Demand Stand by F. D. R,

Heated exchanges over the conscription question began soon atter the committee met in executive session this morning, it was said. Mr. Bridges, Senator Chan Gurney (R. S. D) and Senator John Thom. as (R. Idaho) demanded to know the President's position. Mr. Bridges, it was said, told the committee that Mr. Roosevelt has sent messages to Congress on all other phases of the defense proeram but has said nothing about the conscription bill, originally introduced bv Senator Edward R. Burke (D. Neb), a lame duck antiNew Dealer, and bv Rep. James Wadsworth (R. N. XY) We dont know how dent stands on this important issue and T think we have a nght to know.” Mr. Bridees was reported to said Mr. Gurney and Mr, backea him up

the millions of the conduct of thinking per-

the Presi-

have Thoma:

Finally Decide on Delay

Senators Serman Minton (D. Ind) and Joseph Lee (D. Okla), New Dealers, accused the Republicans of “plaving politics” with the question. Mr. Sheppard sought to smooth out the row by pointing out that the War Department favors the bill: He said that was tantamount to Administration approval The Republicans were not satisfied with that, however, and the debate went on. Finally, it was agreed that the National Guard measure should not be delayed by the dispute ever conscription

Attack

Other opponents of the conseription bill who intensified their attacks were Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich), John L. Lewis, C. I. O. president and Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) Mr. Bridges told reporters late that the commitiee might act on the Guard bill before the end of the day He predicted the Senate would pass it later this week There is no reason why the National Guard measure should be held up bv what might turn out {in be two or three weeks’ debate on conseription,” Mr. Barkley said Mr Sheppard said that before the committee takes final action on the conscription Bill, it may vote on a proposal by Senator Warren R. Austin (R. Vt to limit the measures application to men between the ages of 21 and 31 Myr. Austin’s suggestion, which has not vet come before the committee in the form of an amendment, would limit the bill's application to about 12,000,000 men, in place of] 42,000,000 who would have to register under its present provisions. Mr. Sheppard also said that some committee members desired a clarification of provisions in the bill designed to protect trainees’ jobs while they are in camp. The bill now stipulates that emplovers refusing to rehire men at the expiration of their draft service would be deemed guilty of violating the Wagner Act.

Others Intensify

House Hearings Resumed

The House Military Affairs Committee meantime resumed hearings on its own version of the conseription hill The Rt. Rev. Msar. Michael J Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, charged that professional military men exerting “high pressure propaganda’ in behalf of econseription. He said a drive for voluntars enlistments would be better for the countn Msgr

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United States, said that the church

would naturally abide bv the decision of the Government, but that preferred to see a voluntary enlic:ment drive tried first.

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| Rep. John Costello (D. Cal.) inter-

rupted his testimony to call for a conscripted army of 1,000,000 men. He said that voluntary

enlist- |

ments were “coming slow”; that the

Army strength had increased from

229 465 men in April to only 267,500

now. He Army

said he did not believe the could be strengthened suffi-

cientlv under the present voluntary

system Fosdick Pleads for

D1 tor of the Riverside Church, York,

Ob jectors

Harry Emerson Fosdick, pas- | New in a statement prepared for

presentation to the House Commit-| tee, urged adoption of the conscien- |

tious objectors by the Quakers.

amendment proposed

The amendment would give indi- |

vidual opportunity to state their case. Little opposition to Mr. Roosevelt's plan to call out the National Guard was manifested in either House. “With the foreign situation being what it is, we have to take every precaution to guard against come what may,” Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) of the House Military Affairs Committee said. “We have to take the word of the com-mander-in-chief. Undoubtedly the inclusion of the Philippines in his request is based on the critical Far Eastern situation.”

Asks President Be Specific

Rep. Paul Schafer (R. Mich.) dissented “The President will have fo be much more specific than he has been before I would approve such a request,” he commented. I woud like to know what will be done with the National Guard, where it will be kept and why it is necessary.” If approved by Congress, the cost of mobilizing the Guard and reserves probably would come out of 200 million dollars voted recently to Mr. Roosevelt to use as he sees fit in bolstering the national defense. Mr. Roosevelt said that the “Se-

the Guard “be brought to the high-|

est possible state of training efficiency more rapidly than its present | program permits.”

Willkie's Stand Asked

If granted the authority, he said, he will order the Guard to duty in successive increments to permit the effective use of available training facilities and equipment. When the Guardsmen have attained the desired state of efficiency, they will be released. Mr. Wheeler challenged Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie to advise the country of his stand on conscription. He insisted that he should “tell the mothers of America, the workers of America, the vouih of America and millions of others whether vou are in favor of changing our traditional policy with reference to voluntary enlistments in time of peace and also whether vou subscribe to the policies laid down hy many of your friends who want to do everything short of war—which means war.” Mr. Vandenberg reiterated his contention that shortening of the Army enlistment period from three

| statements that

years to 12 months would result in| about one million men joining the|

|Army. He was supported in Mr. Lewis and Senator |

Arthur Capt (R. Kas).

TWO BANDITS SEIZE $108,000 IN HOLDUP

ASBURY PARK N.J P.).—Bandits held up two messengers of the Asbury Park National Bank & Trust Co. in front of the Asbury Park postoffice today and escaped with two bags containing $108.000 in cash Three men walked up to Clarence Barton Jr, 25 and Joseph Sturm, 30, as thev stepped from a private automobile and started toward the entrance. The bandits thrust guns at the two mesengers. seized the bags and fied to a sedan An accomplice started the car as the three bandits swing into it and they And _herth toward Allenhurst

July 30 (U.

this|

| Italian plane were reported

conscientious objectors an |

curity of the nation’ demands that| jammed with military

Tortured

the Jemelle, France, railroad sta

bombers scored direct hits.

into twisted scrap iron, show how railroads, vital links in army communications chain, were smashed. The photo above shows

these rails Giant tanks, of homb-blasted tion, after Nazi

the steel will be

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES French Ruins Prove German Might

fell before the Nazi juggernaut.

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| orderly at City Hospital,

MYERS OUSTS

CITY HOSPITAL LABORATORY AID

‘Created Discord,” He Says, But Ex-Orderly Blames Lucas Case.

William Powell,

Negro laboratory |

has been |

| discharged after seven years’ service |

lat the hospital for | cord,” Dr.

thickly armored to withstand fire, Above, in setting buildings, Germans dismantle cap-

tured French tank for shipment to Germany where

used for munitions,

Nazis Put Off Rebuilding of Ruined Towns;

Reconstructionof War Machine Comes First

Bv ALEXANDER DREIER United Press Staff Correspondent, PARIS, Julv 30. Germany has not vet started re-building towns and villages in occupied France because she is concentrating on building up her war machine for the anticipated invasion of Great, Britain That was the impression gained by a party of foreign correspondents who have just returned from a German-conducted, eight-day tour of northern and western France. The entire zone along the French side of the English Channel has! been blocked off. The roads were and supply trucks, but the correspondents were warned not to reveal in what direc[tion they were moving. During the tour the correspondents Saw tow n after town which had |

been wrecked by German dive bombers and artillery. In three towns onlv the churches were standing and an officer remarked, ‘the Stuka pilots had sport in bombing a town and leaving the churches standing.” The streets had been cleared of wreckage in order to permit passage of military vehicles. German military police were on every corner directing traffic French peasants poked in the ruins searching for lost household articles. Their faces had no expression and they spoke only among themselves In several towns the correspondents saw supplies left behind by the British Expeditionary Force which had been evacuated at Dunkirk. The Germans said there were 1500

[sides of beef, tons of coffee and {millions

of cigarets lefts by the

‘British in their hasty evacuation.’

Nazi Bombs Kill Several In Raid on British Town MILITARY ROAD

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and-mim raids on Wales and other areas of Rritain, while the Naz High Command reported that four British ships totalling 32.000 tons and 15 British planes had heen qestroved in vesterdavs fierce dive bomber raid on the port of Dover The communique, which also ciaimed damage to a 10C00-ton British cruiser and two other vessels, was in contrast with London damage caused bv the Nazi raids was slight The Admiralty also announced that the British patrol vacht Gulzar was sunk yesterday during a German air attack. There was no loss of life, | In the Mediterrancan, the V.alian! High Command reported Fascist] bombing planes attacked a British | [eonvoy and caused serious damage | to several ships, one of which was set afire. One British and one shot | {down during the air and sea battle | (over the convoy between Crete and | Libya.

Invasion Preparations Stepped Up

Rome press reports said 24 Ttalian planes participated in the attack and dameged a British battleship and a cruiser. From the British side, Roval Air Force planes continued hombing atracks on German bases, especially along the German-held Belgian, Dutch and French coasts from a hich the long-theratened Nazi invasion of the British Isles might be launched. Dispatches from unoccupied France reporied that German a:med forces, including many naval units had been massed in northwestern France and in Belgium and thet preparations for the offensive against Britaii were seen by trav.

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Wm. RH Atkins, 64 Edgar F. Lanham, 27 1610 W. Vermont; Mary E. Olsen, 19, 1834 W. Vermon: Robert L. Winkley, 19, 819 S. Randolph; Marjorie J. Petux, 18, 1018 S. Randolph William A. Edwards,

2%, 2423 Brookside Kathryn Bushy, 24 412 N, Alabama Layer E. Goodman, 28 city: Mildred J. 11 21. 318% E. North, No. 18 gi G. Emminger, 23 land. Dorothy M. Reich, 23, Clan Kenneth Jones, 27 321 8 Margaret Kieis, 21. 2330 Union Arthur A. Merriman, 2%. 59%°% Rawles; Dorothy M. Elmer. 20. 4835 E_ Michigan Jovee T, Mandabhach 218 N. Reville, 532 N. Kevstone

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Reckman., 86. at Cont cerebral he ‘morrhage Harry Tha aT 58 hroncha-nnen Onis Esther Crane, 42,

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Margaret 58 nephritis Roy Denham, stenosis Andrew Brand, City, thrombosis. Winifred Mullen, 70, at 1516 Rembrandt, coronary occlusion. Bert Gaines, 66, at St. nary thrombosis Emma Everroad, carcinoma, Fred C. Gardner, arteriosclerosis. Jessie Fennell, carcinoma. Stella Toohev, 64, mitral regurgitation. John Jenkins, 68 cerebral hemorrhage Alonza Pavne, 56, ary edema Bessie Cunningham, chronic nephritis Benjamin Greek, ternal hemorrhage Nora Gwin, 0 pensation of heart Prescilila Bell, 37. at Central acute cardiac decompensation Bessie Tate, at 62% W cho-pneumonia Elizabeth Halone, chronic myocarditis John Holland. 44 ary tuberculosis homas MeConnell, Hodgkins Disease.

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WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M

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elers as far as There was still Jdication, however, whether an actual be attempted.

Soviet Plans Still Mystery In the Balkans, the long-standing mystery of Soviet plans and of Soviet relations with Germany continued to dominate thz2 efforts of southeast European nations to adjust themselves within the German sphere It was sald at Bucharest that the AXis powers were seeking to line up the Balkans in a way that would (halt any further Russian penetration into the southeast. Rumania was described as ready to make territorial concessions to Buigaria ana Hungary—officially in a willing

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miles inland trustworthy inof when o invasion would

effort to maintain peace but actu-!

ally under a program laid down at

British Angered by Japan

The important point as yet unclarified was the attitude of Russia toward such a realignment under supervision of the Axis powers Officially, the good relations between Germany and Russia continued unchaged, but interest was shown in Berlin in a visit by the Soviet Ambassador to the Nazi Foreign: Office for a long conference. The nature of the conference was not disclosed In the Far Fast, relations between Great Brutain and Japan were steadily deteriorating, largely as a result of the arrest on espionage charges of British subjects. one of whom was officially said to have committed suicide It was believed that a large numsome of them businessmen of long standing in Japan, had been siezed. Japan was reported planning to dismiss about 300 foreign instructors in Japanese schools on the same grounds.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

wee United States Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS night; tomorrow warm.

FORECAST Fair to. partly cloudy; continued

ou TEMPERATURE —July 30, 1939 1

Sunrise Sunset ...... "0

BAROMETER

6:30 a.m 30.01 ending 7 a since san 1

Precipitation 24 hrs, Total précipitation Deficiency sine: Jan

MIDWEST WEATHER Pair In south portion. partly north portion tonight and tomn extreme north portion in extreme north por-

Indianacloudy In morrow; warmer romorrow; warmel nuon tomorrow, Minois—Fair in south portion, partly cloudy in north portion tonight and 10morrow: local showers in extreme northwest portion ‘tonight; warmer mn north poriion iomorrow Lower Michigan~ Considerable cloudiness tonight tollowed by local showers 1tomorrow; slighty warmer tomorrow In southwest and south central portions. Ohio Local thundershowers tonight and OMOrrow,; Not so warm tomorrow and in

north and central portions tonight.

Kentucky Generally fair and tinued warm tonight followed hy thundershowers and not quite so tomorrow

eonlocal warm

Station Amarillo, Tex. .......Clear Bismarck, N. D. .... PtCidy Boston uae vane Cloudy Chicago .. PtCldy cincinnati Clear Cleveland .. Clear Denver Dodge City,

Weather Bal 9.96

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Kansas City, Little Rock, Ark. Los Angeles Miami, Fla Mpis.-St. Mobile, Ala. New Orleans New York .. “. Okla. City, Okla, Omaha, Neh Pittsburgh ; Portland. Ore .4 Tex. San Pra Tonic Tampa, Ma ‘sd ‘Washington, D. C.

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In one town the correspondents visited a British officers’ mess hall where half finished meals had been left on the tables. In Alsace and found that the provinces, practical purposes, already come part of the greater German Reich. Customs officers, which 11 months ago stood along the Rhine, have been moved westwards and a process of Germanization has begun French street names have disappeared and instead of Rue Marechal Foch we saw such shiny new signs as Adolf Hitler Strasse or Rudolf Hess Strasse. Cafe proprietors have taken down signs saying Brasserie and in their place have gone up signs saying Gasthaus. The French word Biere has been changed to the German bier.

Lorraine it was to all

had be-

U. S. PROPOSES

War Department Drafts Plan for Highway Linking . Fts. Knox and Harrison.

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fary reservations in

about 12 miles from Mauckport and about 30 miles from Louisville No estimate of the cost was made by Mr. Miles. but it is believed it would run into many millions The proposed military arterv is reported to be a part of a War Department plan eventually to leriss-cross the nation with strategic highways to permit quick dispatch © of troops. Ft. Harrison has recently been given a more important role in the | national defense picture. The local | reservation is earmarked as a re- | eruit training center in event of mobilization and at present is headquarters for the Fifth Army Division. Ft

the country, is

Knox also is a training camp and is expected to be a training center for the Army's increasing mechanized units Although the proposed superhighway would in general follow Road 135, it would be more of a bee-line. over which motor trucks, tanks and other mechanized equipment could be speeded, it was said The State Survey Commission has prepared survey maps of strips along the proposed route for study by the Commission and Army engineers My. Miles pointed out that the state already owns the nght-of-way at Mauckport where the bridge could be constructed.

“ereating dis- | Charles W. Myers, superintendent, said today. Powell charged that his dismissal | followed activities by him in behall| of Dr. Clarence Lucas, the hospital's only Negro interne who was dis- | charged two weeks ago for violating | hospital regulations—eating in the white internes’ dining room. Albert F. Walsman, hospital busi- |

ness manager, said that although | Powell's work as an orderly had been generally good, the hospital | authorities had reccived many coms- | plaints about his behavior, notably in sponsoring gambling games, and | that Powell had been discharged twice during the seven-year period, | but re-employed each time.

Praised in Letter Walsman provided Powell with a

| fetter of recommendation which re-

ferred to ‘changed conditions” for | | his release. The letter termed Powell |

“fait hiul, conscientious and dili- | ent.

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Walsman said reports had reached hospital authorities that Powell was! holding meetings at which Dr. Lucas| was present and that these reports were to the effect that some morn-| ing the hospital officials would wake | up to find all the employees on| strike, Dr. Myers, who dismissed Dr. Lucas, said that Powell was "an| inveterate gambler,” that many complaints had been received about his work, and that “recently since we had a little difficulty” he had] been trying to organize a group to strike "and was creating discord in the institution.”

Pastors’ Group Protests

Powell charged Dr. Myers with “openly exhibiting contempt for the rights of Negro citizens.” Mayor Sullivan would not com-| ment on the Powell dismissal other than to say there were some indica-| tions the incident looked like! “politics.” Meanwhile, the Baptist Minister-| ial Alliance issued a statement de- | claring itself “obligated to protest | the “segregation” of Dr. Lucas at! City Hospital, |

GIRL WINS BATTLE AGAINST SNAKE BITE

HUNTINGBURG, Ind, July 30 (U. P).—Two-year-old Phyllis Jean Hubster today was recovering from the bite of a copperhead snake, but it took the combined efforts of her the Indiana University Medand the State Police to

doctor, ical Center save her Last Thursdav the child was struck by a copperhead at the farm of her father, Grant Hubster, who summoned a doctor alter he found out what had happened. The doctor sent an emergency call for anti-venom serum to the Medical Center at Indianapolis, and three relays of State Police delivered it here.

WORKMAN CRUSHED IN WABASH PLANT

WABASH, Ind. July 30 (U. P.).— Hudson R. Pressler, about 29, was killed last night at the Container Corp. factory when he was crushed between two paper rollers. He was

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trying to rewind paper on a mamachine when his hands were] caught and he was pulled through| a Narrow space,

PAINTER BREAKS LEG

Anderson, 40, of 320 E ver-| received a fractured left] ieg todav when he fell from a scaf-| fold at 321 N. Delaware St. He fell approximately eight feet to the roof | of a one-story porch and from there tn the ground. He was taken to Qity Hospital. He iz an emplovee of ‘the Airbrush Paint Co

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Today's s War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Reports from Marseilles that German troops are being aligned along the Channel coast are being circulated simultaneously with a statement from Paris that Germany is concentrating on building up the Hitler war invasion of Great Britain. says the Channel coast zone is filled with military

machine for Paris, likewise, supply trucks, but there is confusion Correspondents who have been visiting the area of movement are prohibited from mentioning which

direction the

trucks are going. If the trucks were moving from Germany into France, the direction would be taken for granted and would scarcely receive mention. It may be therefore. that . the trucks are Mr. carrying back into Germany supplies left behind by the British and French troops who retreated after thq Flanders disaster. This assumption is strengthened by reference in the same report | from Paris of huge quantities of enemy material still remaining in Channel coast towns, including meat, coffee and Cigarets. It would seem,

Mason

'| therefore, that German troops in the ‘| Channel coastal territory may be re-

|elaiming captured supplies rather [than concentrating there for an in- { vasion of the British Isles. | If the German High Command (really were moving troops to stra- | tegic places for an assault on England, it is scarcely probable that news of the operations would be so | generously distributed. Every effort {would be made to keep the troop transportations secret. There have been increasing bombings during the last few days of French Channel ports by British aviators, where oil tanks for supply- | ing airplanes have been the targets But Great Britain has announced

(nel, {large movement of enemy ships, and

in the Paris reports.

no hombings of German troop concentrations in France and Belgium. On the contrary, British air attacks continue to be directed against the industrial Ruhr and other centers well within Germany. If Hitler were centralizing near French and Belgian ports the numbers of divisions essential for an invasion of Britain, it is incredible that the] British would not take molesting | action from the air.

Before an invasion can be started |

' it will be necessary for Germany to]

move an enormous flotilla of boats| to the Channel ports for embarking troops, artillery, tanks and supplies. By no possibility could such a feat be undertaken secretly. |

British reconnaissance planes, constantly on duty over the Chanwould be sure to report any

they would be quickly bombed. If Hitler has decided to risk in-| vasion, against the military advice which recent reports say has been given to him, it would be good] strategy for the Germans to try to confuse Great Britain in advance. Reports such as those now circulating from Marseilles and Paris may have this purpose. It would be good military tactics for parachute troops to take off from one part of the French coast while the main invading force embarked elsewhere. Some such preparation may now be in an experimental stage. The chances of a successful land. ing on British soil are so small and | {German realism is so efficient that it iS necessary to be cautious in! expecting Hitler to take the risk of ,a full military invasion,

Ruby Keeler Quits Al's Show

CHICAGO, July 30 (U. P.).— Dancer Ruby Keeler packed her bags today for a trip to California—a trip for which she gave up ail attempts to effect a recon ciliation with her former husband, Al Jolson, and quit her $1000 a week job In his musical “Hold On to Your Hats.” The Jolsons separated a year ago after being married 11 years. Last week, Miss announced that she and Miss Keeler Jolson were unable even to get along as friends on the stage. “It would simplify matters il she would marry someone else,” Mr. Jolson said, Their divorce becomes final In January.

RECORD HEAT KILLS 3 HERE

‘No Break Forecast After Hottest July 29 in City's History.

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ing in St. Joseph County in less than a week, both in the same lake. DONALD SPERRY of Elkhart, who died in Lee Memorial Hospital at Dowagiac, Mich, injuries suffered when he fractured a vertebra while diving in shallow water, FRED KELLY. Boonville carpenter, died from a heat stroke suffered while he was working on a roof near Castle Garden, five miles west of Boonville

Dozens of other Hoosiers were prostrated by the heat. Widely scattered

observers could see no possible drop in temperatures throughout the central and southern sections. Bedreported 104, Anderson 97, Logansport 103, Lafayette 98 and Rushville 99,

Hundreds Treated

Hundreds more were treated for sun stroke and others collapsed when the muggy blanket of air | settled over the Eastern and Middle Western regions. At Philadelphia the temperature was only 77 degrees, but the humidity was 93 per cent, New York City also reported 77 degrees and humidity of 90 per cent, In the Mississsippi Valley Louis reported that a maximum of 101 degrees was expected for a sec ond successive day Salt Lake City, Utah,

expected the

| mercury to rise to 07 degrees

Strauss Says:

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DOCTRINE TODAY

Ervecied to Seal Americas From Totalitarian Penetration.

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Americas against any type of age gression. United States representatives believed the conference was the most important event for the continents since the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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military, | collaboration as various committees {and other

thundershowers | | were foreseen for the northern sec-| tion of the state today, but weather

Secretary Hull and the other members of the United States dele«

| gation sail for Miami at 5 p. m, | (Indianapolis

time). They leave

Miami for Washington by train

| immediately after their arrival.

start inter-American and political

will economic

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agencies begin’ giving effect to the resolutions and acts | signed here. Ma or achievement of the confers ence was implementation of the rad determination to forbid the transfer of European colonies to non-American powers. The | United States because of its military strength, will have the major role lin determining when there is an age gression.

Modernize International Law

Other accomplishments included? | Modernization of international law in the light of new world cone ditions, The American security zone cone [tinues effective with provision for further study and greater efficacy. There will be greater co-operation to prevent Fifth Column activities. There will be larger and more effective economic co-operation, | Concerning the colonies, the con[ference approved a United States [sponsored *‘trusteesnip” plan which lin effect implements the Moaroe Doctrine, entitled the “Act of Hae |vana,” the declaration provides .o* |interim application of the principles of the convention penaing its ratie fication by the respective republics,

Free Hand to Intervene

The official text of the act dise closed that the United States or any other American nation would be given a free hand in taking over | Buropean possessions if it became necessary to preserve the peace of [this hemisphere. Argentina filed last minute reser vations. At a plenary session last night Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, read a statee ment concerning the Falkland islands, the ownership of which Are gentina disputes with Great Britain, “certain southern regions of Argene tina.” and the matter of Argentina's constitutional rights “The certain southern regions.” include the south Georgia Islands and some Antarctic areas, Melo said, A third reservation said that the signing of the act, and the cone vention should not be interpreted as affecting Argentina's normal cone stitutional methods

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Note it has 2 hangers for suits— compartments for shoes, handkerchiefs,

socks and ties—It has a

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at your s

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