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France Determined to Hold Tunisia
Argentine Only Dissenter Continental Defense Plan
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WILLINC follower of
Konrad Henlein. the Sudeten
Germans’ leader, Is smiling
Willy Brandner (above), called
leader of the first of Henlein's
Free Corps units.
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Japan May
Reviset)pen
Door Policy
TOKYO, Dec. 8 (/P) —Foreign
•Minister Hachiro Arita told U. S.
and British Ambassadors “It may
be necessary to'revise the prin
y «ciples of iq'UE’l opportunity to the
open door to .China.”
Arita, a news agency said, told
the envoys in separate inter-'
views that there we3 no need fori
conflict between Japan and other)
(powers ov:ir interests in China1
if the others “recognize realities i
in the far east.”
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PILOT UNCONSCIOUS;
BOY LANDS PLANE
GREENSBURG, Penn. Dec. —
Mil-bum Gergeley, 17. riding in
the r ar cockpit of an airplane,
investigated when the piane be
gan to make curious gyrations)
in the air, and found it? pilot,
Alfred Nison, 25, slumped over
the plane’s controls, overcome by
gas fumes.
The youth batter d the glass
covering to the forward cockpit:
with a wrench, dragged Nison to
one side, disengaged the controls)
and then switched them to the
rear set. The plane dropp d diz-'
zily for 1500, feet but the yoaing
man succeeded in landing it safe
-ly. although he had but little fly- j
ing experience.
MONOXIDE GAS
KILLS HUNTERS
BIG FALLS, Mont., Dec.—Four,
deer hunters were found dead
and a fifth was in a critical con-1
dition from what was believed
to be monoxide gas poisoning
from a heater in their house!
trailer north of here. The dead
are Lyle S. Schoenenen, aged 37;
F. J. Ruth, 25; Louis Jergens, 27,
and Walter Spannus, 25, all of
Hutchinson, Minn.
Xmas Benefit Baseball Games Dec 15, School Gym
President Says
We Need No
Secret Police
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (/Pi -
President Roosevelt disclosed he
planned to send to Congress an
other message recommending
legislation empowering him to
reorganize government agencies.
The President conferred with
government reorganization ex
perts yesterday, and said at a
press conference, that the confer
enori resulted in very good pro
gress.
The legislation he requested
would be of broad scope, he said,
adding that it was understood,
that various members and con
ferees planned to introduce the
bills. The President said he had
no idea whether there wrould be
fundamental changes in the new
program as ccmpar d with that
which passed the Senate last con
gress but which met defeat in the
House.
He also told reporters that ef
fective coordination would be ob
tained among intelligence forces
of the government, but emphas
ized howewsr. that he was going
to ask additional appropriations
to meet the situation by no
means ended by the recent spy
trial in Now York. He said that
no OGPU or secret police were
needed to watch the American
people but the nation does need
to have its people watch the,
secret police of other nations.
SWEDES REQUIRE DANES
WASH IN DISINFECTANT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec.—
Travelers entering Sweden from
Denmark are required to wash
thi/ir hands in disinfectant, have
their shoes disinfected and sub
mit their clothes for dry clean
ing. It is an experiment in con
trol of hoof and mouth disease.
Bearded travelers are required
to wash thair faces in disinfect
ant.
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WORLD’S LARGEST MILITARY PLAN E_ln the employ of the rmted States army-stretches Us •«»* J°dy along totMMrwtVr tiling '* j
took part In army air corps maneuvers. Buili by Boering, this four-motored B15 carries in its nose a gunners ne. 1
Report Italian
Troops Massed
French Border
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UNDATED, Dec. 8 (P) — Re
ports of Italian troop concentra
tions in Northern Spain within
easy striking distance of the
| French frontier caused concern
| in France as Italians in Tunisia
' d imonstrated in support of Fas
cist colonial claims on France.
France’s worry over the Italian
campaign was also aggravated
bv the widespread belief that
Germany was backing Rome’s
'colonial aspirations.
President Lebron summoned
j Premier Daladier unexpectedly
I for consultations.
They held a long talk, presum
; ably on the new Franco-German
' no war declaration, and the poss
ibility of German support of It
| alv.
'Scores of Italians were arrest
: ed in Tunisia as they began form
! ing in processions on streets ofj
Tunis, chanting Fascist marching
; songs after police had broken up
1 anti-Italian demonstrations by
! French residents.
Reports from Spain which lack
ed official confirmation said Ital
j ian troop movements begun on
November 22, were still contin-j
; uing and said concentrations in-'
! eluded motorized units, much ar-;
! tilkiry, and about ten thousand
troops. The Domei news agency
! said they were massed at Log
rono in northern Catalonia.
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Former Envoy
To Japan Dead
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, (JP)—
Cyrus Woods, aged seventy sev
en, former U. S. Ambassador to
Japan died. He was the only
envoy to remain at his post in
Tokyo during the earthquake in
1923. He had been in a hospital
for fhre weeks.
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Leaves Relief
Modifications
To Congress
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (/P)—
'President Roosevelt said that it
was up to Congress to decide
whether f deral relief procedure
should be modified to meet crit
ic <m of WPA. That was his com
ment when asked at a press con
ference of his reaction to the
statement made by WPA admin
istrator Harry Hopkins that some
chang.s might be made in the
Hopkins agency, particularly crit
icism on the “politics in relief”
angle. He said yesterday he had
some definite ideas about amend
ments in mind.
Ambassador
To China Is
Called Home
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (/P)—
•Acting sreretary of State Sum
ner Welles announced that Nel
son Johnson, U. S. Ambassador'
to China, was summoned home
immediately for consultations
with President Roosevelt and
other officials. Johnson will ar
rive in mid-January after a mot
or .airplane, and steamer trip by
way of London. Ambassador j
Johnson has b en away for four,
years.
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B. D. STEWART NAMED
WAGE-HOUR AGENT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec.—
B. D. Stewart, commissioner of
mines at Juneau, was designated
as ths representative of the wage
and hour division for that area.
Stewart will leave Seattle Decern
her 10th for his post.
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France Will
Fight To
Hold Tunisia
UNDATED, Dec". 9 f/P)—While
war-like cries resounded in em
bittered France and Italy, dele-1
gut s from twenty one American
nations met in Lima, Peru, to
work out their problems and
destinies in peace.
In Rome, anti-French demon
strations continued as twelve,
hundred students marched in the
stre ,ts shouting “forward Italy," 1
demanding French territories in'
a rising volume of Fascist cries!
in Tunisia, French protectorate,
in North Africa. Diplmatie cir
cles predicted that it may lead to,
formal Italian demands for "con
cessions” there.
In Paris, sources close to Dala-i
d er said France would fight if!
necessary to defend the protect
orate and pointed out significant-!
ly that Italy’s neighboring Libya!
was far more vulnerable to at-j
tack than protected Tunisia. Re- j
inforced mobile guards patrolled
the streets of Tunis and French
troops are held in barracks wait
ing developments. 1 person was
gravely wounded and three
others less severly injured in dis- j
orders accompanying demonstra-1
tions between Italians and;
French Arabs which lasted al- 11
most til midnight.
Reports from Spain and ,
France indicated that movements
of Italian troops in. northern
Catalonia were merely part of
preparations in a new Spanish
offensive in the dormant Span
ish Civil War.
Ukranian citizens in Poland]
presented their claims to the
Polish parliament in the auton
omy region of about fifty thou
sand square miles and of eight
million inhabitants, and sought
their own premier and ministers]
who would also be members ofj
the Polish cabinet. They would
have autonomy except in matters
of foreign policy, currency, bud-1
get, and government loans.
CZECH MINISTER u
I'. S. is Col. Vladimir Durban
who recently returned to Wash
ington after visit to hum-land.
Pan-American
Conference Is
Now In Session
LIMA, Dec. 9 </P)—U. S. Dele
gates to the eighth "Pan-Amen
:an conference expressed their
>£ilief that President Roosevelt’s
continental defense plan would
ae adopted as a resolution but
i-o't incorporated in the pact. The
-esolution they said was but It
ample declaration of the exist
ence of a growing threat to Am
rican peace from abroad and of
aeed of defense against outside
aggression.
It is the determination of each
country to defend itself to the
utmost if attacked Argentina’s
apposition to the formal pact was
ieomed sufficient to thwart such
a project in the sessions opening
today. Manuel Corder Reyes, Nic
araguan Foreign Minister, assert
ad Nicaraguan support of Roose
velt’s plan. ,
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