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FRANCE NOW HAS POWER TO TALK ‘BACK TO HITLER

Ttaly’s Perilous Condition And Weygand’s Position -Strengthen Petain.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, 'Dec.. 17.—Adolf Hitler is both furious and alarmed over recent developments in France, Italy, North Africa and several other quarters of the globe, according to reports received here. The Fuehrer is said to be contemplating occupying the rest of : France, but by an irony of fate he is reportedly afraid to do so because the 84-year - old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, helpless yesterday today may not be quite so helpless. © Germany’s Italfan ally is stag-

Campaign Scheduled for Next Spring, Nephew Of Founder Says.

Plans for a drive to build a new Flanner House by the fall of 1941 were announced at a dinner last night celebrating the 42d anniversary of the Negro settlement house. The campaign will be held next spring. ; About 300 persons, including public officials, businessmen and social workers, filled the second floor auditorium at the Central Y. W. C. A. Almost the first words they heard from Frank B. Flanner, Flanner House president and nephew of Frank W. Flanner, founder, were the

which we have no control sfop us.” Ensemble Gives Program

They were told later by Hoke, chief speaker, that in the words of Horace Greeley “the only way to resume, is to resume” and that they should spare no effort to

gering under thefpaxe Mr, Flanner's promise come

ceaseless hammering of the imms British and the Me: 8 Greeks, and might be put out of the war by one more blow. Under certain circumstances, Petain might deliver that blow. General Maxime Weygand, still regarded as one of the best tac-

‘ ticians in Europe, is Marshal Pe-

tain’s .ace in the hole. Gen. Weygand is boss of Northwest Africa from Dakar to Tunis. Were he to

true. Following a program of hymns, Christmas carols and spirituals by the Flanner House Ensemble, thanks for past favors and need for continued help was voiced by four speakers. ° Mr. Flanner named Purdue University, the Indianapolis Foundation, the School Board and the Community Fund as outstanding

agencies which had helped Flanner

march now against the Italians in|HOUSe during its years of service.

Libya, there is reason to believe Il Duce would be:doomed. For the moment, however, there

" Cites Problems In summarizing the settlement’s

is nothing to indiacte that Mar-|3nnual report, Cleo W. Blackburn, shal Petain is thinkingsof anything |eXecutive secretary, pointed to the of the kind. He is a gentleman and problems arising out of the migraa soldier of the old school. Hence tion of some 2,500,000 Negroes to to Germany no less than to Brita northern cities similar to Indianhe will scrupulously observe the|apolis.

letter and the spirit of his obliga-

“Our job is to help them take a

promise of a new building “unless|. world conditions. or events over| 3

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Flanner House Maps Drive for N ew | 300 Celebrate 42d Anniversary af Dinner

ulation, business or:industries,” he said, “but rather to ask: ‘How much concerned is my city with the welfare of its people?’ ” Urges Visit to House He urged the city's leaders and others present to go out and see Planner House. He told them they would be amazed. “Fanner House has brought home

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Boston Woman, Home From Abroad, Says Camps Are ‘Terrible.’

Frank B. Flanner, Flanner House president, and Francis W. Dunn, banquet chairman . . . discluss plans to build a new Flanner House.

FAVOR BRITISH,

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one fact to me,” he said. “I've been told we spend about $12 per boy per year in two boys’ clubs here and about $400 a year per boy at the Boys’ School at Plainfield.

“In other words, we ‘spend more to keep our youth inside institutions than outside them. It’s about time we awakened to the problem of our young people.” ot

‘RACING FOR STORK’ BANNED. BY JUDGE

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 17 (U. P.) —“Racing the stok” has become illegal in Des Moines following an opinion by Municipal Judge Charles S. Cooter. “Expectant fathers, taking their wives to the hospital, must observe the speed limits,” Judge Cooter said as he fined Donald Shoemaker, Des

Notre Dame Priest Urges Crusade to Defend America First. Po The Bev. Dv. Joi A O'Brien.

Notre Dame University professor, last night denounced the Commit-

‘|Itee to Defend America by Aiding

the Allies as a “mass murder com-

* | mittee” and advocated a crusade to

defend and arm America first. He urged Nofre- Dame" students and faculty members to oppose “the war mongers, the intemwentionists, and the alien propagandists who more than .European dictators are threatening the peace and safety of America.” : -Doesn’t Fear Attack ; “The propaganda , pouring - into our counfry from the broadcasting companies and the cables of Great Britain that our frontiers are in Europe, and that we must put the European household in order before we can be safe in America, is unmitigated buncombe,” he said. “Never in our national history were we less in danger of attack from Europe than at the present time. %The Committee to: Defend America by Aiding the Allies should be called the mass murder committee. Their concern is first with Great Britain, only secondly with America. To. perpetuate Britain's hold on one-fifth of the earth’s surface

they would sacrifice the. blood ofif§f

uncounted millions of American boys and ‘bring bankruptcy to our nation.” fag Urges Aid for U, S. Needy Fr. O’Brien recommended that the American people “thunder into the ears of Congress and of the President their protest against the efforts to drag us into thé flames of Europe’s strife.” He suggested that this nation’s energies be spent rather upon caring for “the 25,000,000 of our citizens underBolg, under-clothed, and undere D2 . ’ “Let them remember that justice lee charity begins at home,” ‘he said.

ASSAILS GROUP | | ON BRITISH AID

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (U. P). —- Military training camp bands broadast today under an agreement between networks and the American Federation of Musicians that they would not displace union members in radio studios. ; James C. Petrillo, president of the Federation, who Saturday forbade the networks to broadcast a Ft. Dix military band, signed the agreement with representatives of the three major networks. : “Of course, as I explained last Saturday, we want the Army bands

we first wanted to see what was

‘studio musicians ‘were hired, al-

to go on the air,” Petrillo said. “But|.

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going to happen to our men in studios. ‘We're patriotic enough to know that the camps should go on the air in connection with the national defense program.” { Difficulties arose with radio stations, he said, when the Federation was asked [for a blanket waiver to civer any program from any camp at any time. ;He said the union was afraid a blanket waiver would eliminate many - programs for which

though the Federation never had refused to grant individual waivers. “Recently we have been swamped

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broadcast programs by Army bands, +m one day, last Friday, I believe, we had 24 such requests.” He estimated that the agreemefit would protect the status of 230 men employed in New York studios of the networks. :

NAMES CONFUSE LINEUP ALMA, Mich., Dec. 17 (U. P.).— Only a diminutive distinguishes the names of Alma college's two crack basketball forwards, each a Jack Howe. One, a junior known as Bud, was second high scorer last season. The second Howe is a

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proper, good and helpful position in this ‘and other cities,” he said. “We must give them, not charity, but a chance to walk with dignity and pride because they are men with opportunity.” F. B. Ransom, Flanner House board of directors vice president, pictured the situation which led Mr. Flanner to found the settlement in 1898. Mr. Flanner, he said, saw illfed, ill-housed people, “festering in the conditions in which they were forced to live.”

He blamed the depression, the rise of dictatorships and the present European war on our entrance into the last war. He charged that while both sides in the present war would like America’s active cooperation, Europeans feel no gratitude for U. S. help in 1917,

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tions. J Truce Can Be Two-Edged

But now a new factor threatens) to make complications. Hitler is said to have reminded Marshal Petain that peace has not been signed between Germany and France. At present they aré only living under a truce. If France does not behave, he has warned, Germany will end -the truce and take up where she left off. She will occupy the rest of France.

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 17 (U. P.) ~-Ninety per cent of Nazi-occu-pied France and 80 per cent of unoccupied France are pro-British, Mrs, Waistill Hastings Thorp of Boston said here today. She retusned to the United States yesterday after a six-months survey in France for the Unitarian Service Committee.

Moines, $15 on a charge of driving 40 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour zone. ’ “Henceforth, - these fathers may expect to pay a fine the same as anyone else,” the judge ruled.

Prance,

. be the

A month ago Marshal Petain would have been powerless to offer more than verbal opposition to such a procedure.

power.

Under Weygand are some of House, he listed more room and , colonial _fighters.|more staff workers to make more They are still well armed and, ac-|contacts for more placements.

France’s best cording to reports, eager for a chance against Italian Libya. To occupy the rest of France would be of little help to Germany—otherwise she would never have stopped where she did in the first place— whereas capitulation and perhaps revolution in Italy would distur Hitler considerably.

Not All Happy for Hitler

The old marshal must have had some such carefully thought-out plan in mind when he ordered Gen. Weygand to Africa some months ago. He could not know, of course,

exactly what lay ahead but he did|-

want, first, to keep the colonial empire intact insofar as possible, and, second, to reorganize its military forces and maintain discipline among them against some future day of action. ; Hitler's next move, therefore, will be watched with interest. He can not be entirely happy over the outlook. He must recall that in 1918 Germany first began to crumble at the edges. ‘Then, as now, the first signs of weakness appeared, not in Germany but ‘elsewhere. Bulgaria and Turkey -first began to bicker, and in September Bulgaria collapsed and sued for an armistice. The whole Germanic coalition was shaken. The Serbs pushed the Austro-Ger-mans back to Belgrade; the Turks quit; Austria-Hungary capitulated; revolution broke out in Germany, and the war was over. ‘A lot of “ifs” are involved, but if Hitler reopens the war against and France marches against Italy, Italy’s collapse might prelude to other German disasters just as Bulgaria's was in the last war.

TIP IN FARE BOX IS NO AID TO DRIVER

DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 17 (U. P.).— Augustus T. Poovey, city bus operator, had explained as much about Dallas as he could to an elderly out-of-town couple riding his bus. Upon departing, the man said. “I certainly thank you for showing us around—here’s a tip,” and dropped a handful of small. coin into the fare’ box. Poovey looked longingly at the tip: The fare box is emptied by the company. Drivers never share its con-

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Today he can do|was not yet done, but t more. If Germany denounces the nings had been made in truce and makes war on France vocational programs on a national again, Gen. Weygand can deliver|scale “to the end that we may some what might well be a mortal blow|day have a minimum of weakness at what there is left of Italian {in our young people.”

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In closing, Mr." Hoke asked: “Is your town a good town?”

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Conditions in French concentration camps, she said, are “terrible,”

adding that thousands of children |

of Czech, Polish, Austrian and German extraction were among the inmates. The Service committee is seeking to bring as many refugee children as possible to this country. A witness to the bombing of Marseilles by unidentified planes last Nov. 23, Mrs. Thorp said that the attackers dropped leaflets printed in Italian warning the people “to behave.” French officials said at

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