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HITLER, NOT DUCE, IS NELOJNITIATOR Spokesman Asserts He Re alizes Reich Is Isolated by Franco-Soviet Pact. (Copyright. 1936. by Associated Press.) ROME, February 20.—Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, rather than Premier Mussolini, is taking the initiative in intense Italo-Oerman diplomatic ex changes. authoritative German circles said today, in an effort to bring about a complete rapprochement. Ulrich Von Hassell, German Am bassador to Italy, went to Munich last week, had a long conversation with Hitler and then returned to Rome and requested an audience with Fulvio Suvich, Italian undersecretary for foreign affairs, these sources disclosed. After his audience with Suvich, the German Ambassador flew back to Ber lin yesterday morning, at the same time that the Italian undersecretary was talking with Egon Berger-Walden egg, Austrian foreign minister, at Florence. Suvich returned to Rome today to report to Premier Mussolini personally en the progress of the negotiations. Hitler Realizes Position. A spokesman for German quarters said Hitler had realized the third Reich was isolated in Europe by the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact and by Franco-British military con versations. He realized that Italy also was iso lated by the operations of sanctions, being applied by the League of Nations as punishment for the Fascist warfare In Ethiopia, this source said. He wanted to establish a common Viewpoint between them. Consequently, it was asserted, the two dictators are now exchanging views on fundamental questions, such as the League of Nations, the Franco Soviet pact and Austria. The Hitler Initiative in resuming the pourparlers with Italy followed a simi lar initiative by II Duce several weeks ago in attempting to better relations between the two countries. Papers Play Up Conference*. Some Rome newspapers published in Juxtaposition today the news of the conversations between Suvich and Berger-Waldenegg at Florence yester day, Von Hassell’s visit to Berlin, Mussolini’s reception to the Polish Ambassador here last night, a visit by Hermann Wilhelm Goering to Warsaw and French press nervousness over the possibility of an Italo-German rap prochement. Diplomatic sources attached signifi cance to the fact that the Polish Am bassador, Alfredo Wysocki, left this morning for his capital to recount to the Warsaw foreign minister his latest conversation with II Duce. Mussolini and the Polish Ambas . sador, it was learned, discussed the whole European situation and the Franco-Soviet pact in particular. Defense Against Sanctions. The conversations between Suvich and Berger-Waldenegg were Inter preted in informed circles as a move by Italy to strengthen its defenses against sanctionist nations. A disposal of the problems of Aus trian independence from Germany and Italian rapprochement with Ger many, these sources said, would im prove Italy’s diplomatic position im mensely. It would free Fascist Italy from fear of facing two distinct European complications—from Geneva, seat of sanctions, and from Austria, beyond Italy’s Brenner Pass—simultaneously with a pressing of the Italian cam paign for conquest in Ethiopia. It would enable H Duce also to di vert to other purposes the garrison he has massed near Brenner Pass as a warning against any German inter ference in Austria. Rome diplomatic sources said they regarded prospects for an Italo-Ger man accord as a particularly effective weapon against the sanctions being imposed on Italy by the League of Nations for the warfare in Ethiopia. Clergymen Live Longer. According to statistics, the longest living class of human beings is the clergy. And their wives live to an even greater age. Crippled Ship Reaches Port Listing badly, the British steamer Trelissick limped into port at Astoria, Oreg., convoyed by Coast Ouard boats, which answered her distress signals 244 miles off the Oregon co4st. Her plight was caused bg a shifting of her cargo In a storm. She was apparently undamaged. —A. P. Photo. REVIVAL OF GANG Killing of McGurn Does Not Mean New Outbreak, Official Says. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 20 —The pos sibility of a revival of gang wars— touched off by the killing of Machine Gun Jack McGurn—was discounted yesterday by the Chicago Crime Com mission. R. W. Dvorak, assistant operating director of the agency that keeps a perpetual watch on the underworld, gave this reason for the continuation of mobdom’s peace: “There’s nothing much left to fight about." McGurn was A1 Capone’s favorite follower. Heads usually rolled when one of the “big fellow’s" men was killed. But Dvorak said things and “the take” have changed since prohibition repeal. “About the only motive for murder is private vengeance. There are no rich spoils to quarrel over.” Banquet to Honor Chaplain. The Curley Club of Washington will hold a banquet at Wesley Hall tonight in honor of Rev. Francis J. Kelly, chaplain. Roland J. Hyland, president, will be toastmaster. The entertainment program includes songs and Instrumental numbers by several members of the club. ARMY ORDERS. Waddill, Col. Edmund C., Infantry, to be retired February 29. The following Cavalry officers from Army War College to duty in office of the chief of Cavalry: Smith, Lieut. Col. Henry J. M.; Grow, Maj. Robert W.; Wittaker, Maj. Frank L. Carmody, Lieut. Col. Robert E.. Cav alry, from duty in office of the chief of Cavalry, to Baltimore, June 30. Miller, Maj. Lester T„ Air Corps, from Army War College and Bolling Field, to Randolph Field, Tex., July 1. Stone, Maj. Laurence F., Air Corps, from Army War College and Bolling Field, to Randolph Field, Tex., July 1. Stafford, Maj. Rolland E., Signal Corps, from the Philippine Depart ment, to Richmond, Va., on comple tion of present tour of foreign service. Fisher, Capt. Harry E., Engineer Corps, from duty in office of the chief of engineers, to Mineral Wells, Tex. i - ■ - - - ' ! MINING AWARDS GIVEN LEADERS IN INDUSTRY William L. Saunders Medal Goes to Head of St. Joseph Lead Company. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 20.—The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers last night conferred awards on members singled out for honors. The William L. Saunders Medal, previously awarded Herbert Hoover and John Hays Hammond among others, was presented to Clinton H. Crane, president of the St. Joseph Lead Co., one of the world’s largest. The Robert Woolston Hunt Prize went to Carl C. 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