Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1940 — Page 15
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1940
Paul-Boncour Believes League of Nations May Revive After War
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800 SELECTED FOR 152 STATE | DRAFT BOARDS
. If They Accept, Names Will
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Indiana today kept its leading Position among the 48 states in Preparations for the draft by combletion of the task of selecting over 800 persons to [serve as draft officials.
Tristram Coffin, secretary to Gov-
. €rnor Townsend,
the personnel of th
draft boards and appeal boards. the
announced that! e 152 three-man the 12 five-man 152 appeal agents
- and 152 medical examiners had been selected.
The selections were made by a Special committee of the Governor's Emergency Defense Council which
has been working | for nearly two weeks..
. Each to Get Letter
Names of the persons selected are :~ to be checked by the Governor + Monday upon his return from . & Democratic speaking tour - in ' Nebraska and thot Letters will be . sent to the persons chosen asking if
they will serve, and upon receipt of . affirmative replies. their names will -, be sent te President Roosevelt for appcintment. . The names of the persons chosen
for the various draft positions will |
. not be announced until a few days . before registration day, Oct. 16, in “order that they| will not “be pestered” by possible registrants. Ft. Harrison officials announced . that bids will be taken at 11 a. m. + next Thursday for a $250,000 reception center for conscripts at the fort. The reception center, to cover 15 acres, is to include |20 soldiers’ bar- - racks, recruiting, administration and * exchange buildings, cafeterias, infirmary, warehouse, guardhouse and » a fire house. It is| expected to accommodate 1000 men. Ba
No Order For Merz
Officials ‘said that the contracts would call for the [buildings, which are all to be frame, to be built in three months The reception center may also be! used in the mobilization of the Indiana National Guard, scheduled for early in January. ' Charles C. Merz, president of the Merz Engineering Co. and assistant manager of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, who is [scheduled to be called into active duty by the War Department to aid| in the Indiana draft program, still has received no . orders from Washington, he said today. :
‘REPORTER TO TELL
". OF PRE-NAZI FRANCE
‘Kenneth T. Dowt s, International News Service War Correspondent who is making a speaking tour of the state, will address the Indian+apolis Press Club Monday night on his experiences in France before and during the German invasion. Mr. Downs served as chief of the I. N. S. bureau in [Paris from 1936! until the capitulation of France. He! ' is expected to return to a European post within a few weeks. .. The speaker will be the guest at a Press Club dinner preceding the * address.
COAL PRODUCER SEES | INCREASED FUEL BILL
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U, P.. —John A. Howe, chairman the Committee of Bituminous Coal Producers, charged today that the minimum prices for bituminous coal to become effective Tuesday would ! increase the nation's fuel bill by at “least $44,000,000 and possibly as " much as $60,000,000. Mr. Howe, who also is executive vice president of the Truax-Traer -~Coal Co. of America, said that the difficulty of operating under a sys- _ tem in which there were 500,000 different coal prices was “manifest.”
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspandent
VICHY, Sept. 27.—Joseph PaulBoncour, French statesman, former premier and foreign minister, who with Aristide Briand shared for 20 years the role of French apostle of international understanding ‘through pacific methods in the halls of Geneva, is convinced that whether the League of Nations is revived or not after Europe's peace treaties are signed, it has proved its worth by its. accomplishments during the reconstructicn years which followed the World War; “Europe as foreseen by the Versailles and affiliated treaties would
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an have proved to be a valuable medium for the adaptation of the] 16. function os treaties to evolving circumstances | .©28ue can coniinue in Europe.” For the time being, the league| house is dormant. Accepting the invita-| whether the defection of its Eurotions of numerous foreign govern- pean members will certain technical sections league of lof the league have quit Geneva, reason to exist. temporarily, | | abroad. Outside Geneva, the tech- 4 nicians are able to carry on the spokesmen at Geneva. continuity of league effort, chief- | ly in the fields of labor, economy, vives, mandates and culture. Paul-Boncour, like other promi-; Paul-Boncour nent members of the league coun- | Press. ; cil, assembly and steering commit- many of us for some time that
ments,
interview.
“The league might {When those pacts are drafted, it,voice in settling world problems— |will readily be seen whether the|could not work out in practice. “It stands to reason that in a purely European problem, for example, such as the many which involved Italy, Germany or Spain in recent years, the other European powers should have more to say in the solution than any non-Euro-pean states far distant from the scene of conflict. In the same way, purely American problems, for example, best can be settled by PanAmerican nations without the votes of European powers. “I have always advocated dividing the league, practically, into a number of regional groups—Ameri-
lan international political clearing and sounding board or
deprive the its strength and its In the past 20 years, Briand and Paul-Boncour were France's
for safe havens]
“If the League of Nations surthere must obviously be in its structure,” told | the United “It has ‘been apparent to
many changes
not have lasted two years if the tees, feels that the league cannot|one of the fundamental theories of can, European, Asiatic. They coud League of Nations had not been in!revive its activity until the new President Wilson—a great assembly meet to settle their own reg Oftal existence,” Paul-Boncour said in peace treaties have been written. of free nations each with an equal problems, and yet the whole layou
league. “The league did fulfill successfully its original role—that of making the Versailles treaty work. Without the league, the Europe as President Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and other peacemakers conceived it would not have lasted two years. In my opinion, the greatest failure of the league was its inability to obtain universal disarmament or limitation of arms. : ? “The turning point in the league history was on Oct. 11, 1933, when Germany withdrew, but it is a historical fact that an agreement on disarmament had: been very near on several occasions. Until that
time the league's power had increased steadily. “It took too many of the first years to make the league work, but it was fulfilling its role when the climax was reached by the with-
drawal of Germany to follow. Failure to obtain an arms limitation agreement while it was possible, is the only grave fault that can b charged to the league.” 1
ENGINE KILLS WOMAN
ANDERSON, Ind. Sept. 27 (U. P.) —Mrs.. Georgiana Rogers, 76, of Anderson, was killed yesterday when struck by a Big Four railroad switch engine as she walked along the right of way here.
SERVE U. S. FIRST, ELECTRICIANS TOLD
FRENCH LICK, Ind. Sept. 27 (U. P.) —The United States is not likely to go to war if industry succeeds in producing implements needed for national defense, Chester H. Lang of Schenectady, N. Y., chairman of the Defense Co-ordinating Committee of the General Electric Co., told the
| Indiana Electric Association con-
vention last night. Industry must not fail to maintain peacetime production, however, he asserted. Objectives- before the electrical industry are service to country and customers and increased faith in a system of government that permits industry to lend a hand, he said.
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