Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1941 — Page 2

wo HOPE WF COMPROMISE

Democrats Indicate Court. . Fight; GOP Mandated, Dawson Says. (Continued from Page One)

ble, we must have control of the various State departments.” : ‘Governor Sohricker had presented ® 14-point proposal to Mr. Dawson and James M. Knapp (R. Hagerstown), Speaker of the House, in which he proposed to give all elected officials full control of their departments, but to retain control over such important divisions as the Highway Commission, Public Service Commission and Conservation ' Department.

: © Principles Differ

' In his letter, Mr. Dawson said: “It is still apparent that there .Btill exists a wide cleavage between the principles by which the respec tive sides are bound. “As we see the picture, the existing cleavage is between principals . upon which the two major political parties are divided.and upon which they went before the people last November. “On the one hand, the majority in the legislative department keenly. feels the responsibility resting on it to enact laws and provide for their administration in accordance . with the principies of the patty to which they are adherents. - “On the other hand, you as Goveror, being an adherent of the other major political party, quite naturally feel just as keenly ydur responsibility to perform that high office in accordance with the principles of your party.

Both Have Responsibility

“On one thing, however, we all have a common interest and that is to discharge our respective respon-

sibilities within and in accordance with the Constitution, even though we may have. varying views as to what the constitutional limits may-he.” . - - The Governor's contention that the G. O. P. “ripper” legislation is unconstitutional was formally indorsed yesterday by the Democratic State Committee. -The Committee, holding its first executive meeting since the Legislature opened, adopted a resolution, giving. its official “go sign” for Democratic legislators to continue their fight against the Republican “decentralization” program unless & compromise can be reached.

Support Compromise

Party leaders also “supported the Governor’s offer to.compromise with the Republicans on an agreement for division of power in the State ‘Government, In the event, all compromise attempts fail, State Committee members indicated they were ready to carry their “fight to the courts and Siscussed plans for. possible litigaon In a brief talk before the Com‘mittee, Governor Schricker said that in His % mess so Be Legislature, he “de : tralization” ling had “only thing in mindeithe. welfare of pegple. ” . y a Continiies Efforts

: “The Governor told the Committee that he would: strive for a comromise “until the last day of the egislature.” The State Committee's resolution stated that “Governor Schricker and the Democratic legislators are displaying a steadfast devotion to the true Democratic principles in their deliberations. “The committee hereby expresses wholehearted approval and gives its . unqualified support to the Gover- ~ nor and Democratic legislators and pledges to them the gratitude of the Democratic party for the unmanner in which they are handling their responsibilties.”

* STOCKS UP IRREGULARLY

- NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— Btocks pushed irregularly higher in light trading today after early uneasiness.

building for more than six hours tators stood in swirling smoke which enveloped two city blocks.

the smoke floors from the basement about p. m. Together with Mr. Delbauve and John Sehr, a drug clerk, the men: attempted to extinguish the flames in the basement. They were driven outside: bythe thick, acrid smoke from entering -the building for some time.

an apartment: .above, was ill and o| confined e| be helped to safety by the firemen.

other occupant in’ the apartment building when the fire started. None were able to save any of their personal belonging because of the smoke.

among the spectators and a restaiirant across the street from {lhe burning building had its heaviest business of the week.

that the exact cause couldn't be determined.

by the heavy smoke and water. Records and files in the music coinpany were saved but expensive radios and electrical equipment, jincluding a number of refrigerators were jumbled together in a huge pile when part of the floor caved

in. truck left the ruins at 9 p. m.

Choking acrid fumes and heavy smoke caused tears to stream down the faces of these two firemen as they poured water into a burn-

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E. Washinzion St. Yesterday.

Woman Is Helped to Safety As East Side Building Burns

More than 20 firemen fought a

The fire, which at times thraza

Starting in the basement of tkh¢ ‘|

Tacoma Cut Price Drug Store, operated by Paul Delbauve, the flames spread into the Tacoma Theater, the Paul routed two persons from apart. ments on the second’ floor.

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William House, janitor, discovereqi seeping through the

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Mrs. Luna Demory, who lives in to her room, and had to

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Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy said

Most of the damage was caused

No one was injured. The last fire

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knife-like wind, caused approximitiely $20,000 damage ta the twoestory brick building at Tacoma Ave. anil E. Washington St. It was owned by the Tacoma Realty Co.

A house at 1205 Vandeman St. {occupied by Dewey Clark, was deThe blaze was caused by a defective flue, firemen said. Five families were forced outside at the Steele Apartments, 126 E. Ninth’ St., when smoke filled the building at 5:30 a. m. today. There was no loss. Approximately $150 damage was caused in a house at 514 Bright St. shortly before midnight. The fire was confined to the roof. Several other blazes kept firemen busy today. ;

Grocery Roof Fired

The roof of a grocery at 2418 Southeastern - Ave. was ignited by utility ‘wires when a light pole toppled in front. of the store after being struck ‘by a skidding truck. Fire damage was small. A blowtorch, being used to thaw watér pipes in a rooming house at 307 N. New Jersey St., caused a $150 fire, At a 3733 E. 30th St. tavern, an overheated stovepipe caused a small amount of damage. A fire that started under the stairway in a residence at 1867 Draper St., caused $300 damage beJus firemen ‘brought it under contro

PEACEMAKER ROLE OFFERED BY JAPAN

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noé reason for alarm. He said Japan’s alliance with Germany ‘and Italy was an entirely peaceful one and then added: “We cannot help feeling, therefore, a certain amount of anxiety if not misgivings as to the warlike preparations of the British and American Governments to meet supposed contingencies in the Pacific and ths South Seas.”

Sees no Reason to Prilong War

' Japan, Ishii said, could see no reason to prolong the ‘war. Mentioning only Britain specifically, he sald that the present situation demanded © statesmanship. and that Japan hoped it would not be wanting. “Japan is fully prepared to act as mediator or to take whatever action is calculated to restore normal conditions not only in greater East. Asia but anywhere in the world. “We want to repeat that the purpose of the three-power pact (Japan’s alliance with the Axis powers) is peaceful. “If the American Government could only be persuaded to restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere -and avoid causing anxiety which is unnecessary in the minds of the Japanese people, the situation

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EXPECT GREEKS TO CEASE WAR

British Believe Ultimatum of Nazis to Be Acepted as Balkan Door Opens.

(Continued from Page One)

it was conceded, hardly would have made her agreement with Bulgaria without obtaining a green light

from Moscow.

Russia may have obtained recognition of her special interests in Turkey from. Germany in return for allowing Hitler a free hand in the Balkans. Further light on Russia’s foreign policy and the important question of a possible Soviet-Japanese nonaggression pact may be afforded a week from today when PremierForeign Commisar V. M. Molotov is scheduled to address a gathering of the Soviet Communist Party. This date, Feb. 25, has sometimes been mentioned also as a deadline for German troop movements into Bulgaria. Importance of the Soviet dealings with Japan was emphasized again today when Saigon, French Indo-

| China, reported that Japanese fleet

concentrations in the Gulf of Siam have been strengthened by units arriving from Formosa. The Japanese naval and military movements north of Singapore have aroused a general war alarm in the Far East which, many fear, might pass into a stage of active hostilities should Tokyo. win a non-aggression pact from Russia which would encourage her to move freely in the South Pacific.

Watch Jugoslavia

The thawing of Russo-Japanese relations was noted yesterday with the announcement in Moscow that the Soviet was negotiating a trade pact with Tokyo. The next step in Nazi Balkan diplomacy was expected in Jugoslavia. Berlin offered a broad hint that the Bulgarian-Turkish agreement was expected to have repercussions in Jugoslavia and in some quarters it was suggested that Jugoslavia shortly might agree to take a bystander’s position in event of Balkan military moves. Belgrade was said. to be faced with a choice of positions suggested by Germany. One is a position of complete neutrality whatever may develop around her borders. The other is a position of “collaboration” with the Axis. The reward for “collaboration,” it was hinted, might be a slice of northern Albania and a gateway to Salonika. Germany offered the suggestion that the Bulgarian-Turkish agreement ultimately would undermine the Anglo-Turkish military alliance. The Balkans believed there was an understanding between Russia and Germany whereby German interests in Bulgaria were recognized in return: for -acceptance of Russia’s paramount concern over the Dardanelles and Turkey.

Barges Ready Along Danube

London reported that the Germans have assembled hundreds of barges along the Danube River for pontoon-building purposes and that the Nazis could muster 75,000 troops along the Greek-Bulgarian frontier within 10 days. The Germans also were said to be constructing a sizable submarine base near Constanza on the Black Sea. From the African battle front came word today that Ethiopian patriots have forced the Italians to abandon important posts only 175 miles from Addis Ababa. The German official news agency, DNB, reported an exceptionally heavy air attack upon the British central Mediterranean fortress of Malta. The British reported shipping losses for the week ended Feb. 9 at 13 ships of 29,806 tons, less than half the weekly average for the war. The figures did not include possible losses in the Nazi sea raider attack on a convoy.off Portugal last week. They also said that a 4000-ton Italian ship had been sunk and an auxiliary cruiser and two merchant ships damaged by the fleet air arm in a central Mediterranean attack. Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, French Vice Premier, set off for Paris again today to confer with Otto Abetz, Adolf Hitler's representative, and possibly Pierre Laval.

Rome Admits Loss of Port Rome confirmed loss of Chisimaio,

iland, to the British, but said fighting continued in the area. The second half of the class of 1921 was called to the. colors Feb. 27-28. Plans for intensified collaboration of the German and Italian fleets were discussed by the naval chiefs of the two countries. At least 12 persons were feared dead today in the ruins of a London public shelter on which a German airplane bomb crashed during the night. Rescue squads had nearly finished rescuing wounded from the shelter this morning when g time bomb exploded nearby and buried two more persons in a shop basement. Germans dropped hundreds of incendiary and a number of explosive bombs on London during the night. Firemen put out the incendiary bombs and the explosive bombs did comparatively little dam-

Bombs were dropped on & number of east coast points during the night and two of the German bombers were shot down. The Greeks claimed to have captured 330 more Italians, mostly from Alpini and Blackshirt units,

on the northern section of the Al-

banian Front. New mountain positions on the

.|central and northern fronts were

reported taken by the Greeks, and the Italians lost valuable materiel when two of their counter-attacks were repulsed.

" THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES |Aid Bill Gives To Enter War, Foes Contend

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authorize the employment or use of persons in the land or naval forces of the United States at any place

beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere, except in the territories and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), leader of the opposition, announced his group would fight for adoption of the Ellender amendment, as well as other changes.

“Pure Grant of Power”

“What is this bill?” the minority report asked. “It is a pure grant of power to the President to do as he pleases with any foreign nation, for any purpose, and on any terms he may see fit, to make available to any nation or nations, any part, or the whole, of the military or naval power of the United States. “It is a complete negation of the policy that has been ours in the past and an invitation to the President to take a hand in the game of power politics in every far-flung region of the earth. It would authorize him to say what nations shall receive, and for any reasons at all to open to them our military and naval equipment and our resources; and it is perfectly obvious that once commitments have been made, our men will have to guarantee the favored nation and underwrite its war.” Opposition speeches began after Senator Wheeler had outlined seven amendments that his group would demand and Senator Scott Lucas (D. Ill) suggested a compromise that would provide for a six-man Congressional board to consult with the President on arms transactions.

Clark Lists Seven Counts

Mr. Clark said he. opposed the bill on seven counts: 1. Its number (H. R. 1776) is a “desecration upon the memories of those heroic men” who followed Washington in 1776. 2. Its title—“to promote the defense of the United States”—is “misleading and misrepresentative.” He charged it would authorize “the denuding of American defenses.” 3. Because it authorizes the President to "dispose of armaments “without consideration or for any consideration he may choosé to any country in the world.” 4. Because it gives the President “autocratic powers” to dispose of defense weapons and other commodities. 5. Because it is an “abdication by Congress of its functions and ‘responsibilities.”

Violates Pacts, He Says

6. Because it is a violation of the Declaration of Panama and the Treaty of Havana. 7. “It stakes our national safety on the victory of one belligerent in a foreign war and brings us to the very. brink of war while at the same time permitting the serious weakening of our own means for defending ourselves. . . .” Mr. Clark charged that the Administration’s contentions that the measure was designed to keep us out of war was “completely negated” by such supporters of the bill as Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) and President James Conant of Harvard University—“the most noteworthy advocates of our entry into the war.” “Among the most vociferous of the supporters of the pending measure,” he said, “are the ardent advocates of ‘union now’ a scheme which can only be described as essentially in effect intended to bring about: our entry into the British commonwealth of nations on something akin to dominion status. .. .

Denies British Lack Assets

“I hope sincerely . . . that Great Britain may successfully withstand any and all onslaughts of the unspeakable Hitler. . . . “Much as I admire the ‘heroism of the British defense of their own islands . . . I am entirely unwilling to commit this country to a defense of the British Empire around the world. . . I cannot agree that the American people should be called upon to underwrite the expenses of the defense of the

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British Empire from Hongkong to Labrador. “I am unwilling that American taxpayers, already hard-pressed, should be called upon to make sacrifices by the adoption of:measures which Canada and ‘New Zealand and Australia have not been called upon to enact.” He also charged that the financial resources of the British Empire have not been exhausted. Mr. Wheeler said his supporters would fight for these major changes

"lin the bill:

1. A requirement that Britain state her war aims ‘before help is extended. 2. A prohibition on naval convoy of British or U. 3S. merchant ships to England. 3. A prohibition on further depletion of the Navy. 4. A declaration that nothing in the bill extends the President's

outside the Western Hemisphere or possessions, including the Philippine Islands. 5. A limitation on the amount and type of equipment which can be taken from Army or Navy supplies or orders. 6. Specific reference to the countries to be aided by the United States. 7. A requirement for Army and Navy approval of any transfers of U. S. equipment to foreign governments. The first day of debate on the bill —devoted to Republican and Democratic supporters—ended late yesterday with assertions that the United States would go to war, if necessary, to prevent a German conquest of Great Britain.

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