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Danzig Nazi Leader
Fails to Give Clue to
Fuehrer's Plans
Back From Hitler Visit,
Forster Blasts Poles;
Sees Liberation Near
By the Associated Press.
DANZIG. Aug. 11.—Danzig Nazis
looked today to the Salzburg con
ference of Italian and German for
eign ministers for the clue to their
Immediate future which their dis
trict leader failed to give in a brist
ling but unrevealing speech.
They felt that talks between Count
Galeazzo Ciano of Italy and Joachim
von Ribbentrop of Germany might
produce a key to the situation block
ing their often promised “return
to the Reich."
Nazi District Leader Albert Forster
had visited with Adolf Hitler only
two days before he delivered a 45
jninute blast at Poland to thousands
of Danzigers in Langer Market Place
last night
But he brought not one new word
from the Fuehrer.
Though he appealed to citizens of
other nations aligned against Ger
many to prevent a war and voiced
again a belief that the "hour of
liberation is coming," the closest he
came to setting a date was in a wish
that it might be “not far distant.”
Berlin newspapers played up For
ster as a man who gave an appro
priate answer to "unbelievable
threats of the Poles" by his declar
ations that:
“War threats do not frighten us
at all. • • •
"We National Socialists have seen
to it that the Danzig people have not
lost their nerves in these tense
times. * * *
"We have done everything in
Danzig in recent weeks to repulse
and to answer every attack or sur
prise on Danzig of whatever
kind. • • *
"Poland may clearly understand
that • * * Germany and our Fuehrer,
Adolf Hitler, are determined to stand
at our side in case of an attack
from Poland.”
In Warsaw, Forster's speech was
regarded as intended for “local con
sumption” and the absence of any
definite statements as indicating
Hitler had not yet decided on any
definite move in the Danzig dis
pute.
—
Japanese to Investigate
Situation at Kaifeng
By the Associated Press.
PEIPING, Aug. 11.—Upon ft re
quest by the United States Embas
sy, Japanese authorities promised
today to investigate the status of
30 Americans at Kaifeng, Northern
Honan Province, who were reported
to have been detained for undis
closed reasons.
A cryptic message received by
the Embassy at Chungking and re
ports brought by a courier through
Japanese lines last Saturday said
the Americans had been ready to
leave Kaifeng because of anti
American manifestations, but were
not permitted to do so.
Travelers who left Kaifeng before
the reported detention said the anti
American campaign had been mild,
consisting of some attacks in the
local Japanese-controlled press fol
lowing the July 26 abrogation of
the Japanese-United States trade
treaty.
Chinese Negotiating
For Big Soviet Loan
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING. China, Aug. 11.—
Reliable sources intimated today
that the Soviet Russian-Chinese
commercial treaty of June 16 might
be broadened to provide as high as
700.000.000 rubles (nominally $133,
000.0001 in credit and material aid
for China.
Chinese finance officials readily
admitted that Chinese-Russian ne
gotiations were proceeding at Mos
cow.
A preliminary Russian credit,
amounting to approximately $30,
000.000, was said to have been ar
ranged. It was said China would
grant economic concessions in the
northwest and provide Russia with
certain raw materials.
Spain Reported Rushing
Border Fortifications
By the Associated Pres*.
HENDAYE, France (At the Span
ish Frontier). Aug. 11.—Border ob
servers reported today that the
Spanish Nationalist government is
rushing construction of fortifica
tions near the French frontier be
tween Irun and San Sebastian.
Residents of the Hendaye region,
who frequently cross the frontier,
said thousands of former Repub
lican soldiers, now enrolled in Na
tionalist labor brigades, were being
directed in the work by German
technicians.
Motorists driving along the main
highway from the border to the
seaside resort of San Sebastian were
able to see the activities plainly, but
when they stopped for a closer view
they were sent on their way by
Nationalist guards.
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Italy Seen Weakening
In 'War of Nerves'
Over Danzig
Salzburg Parley Is Sign
People Are Perturbed,
Paris Circles Hear
Bv PERTINAX.
PARIS. Aug. 11 (N. A. N. A.i.
Diplomatic circles in Paris specul
ated today whether developments
in Italy might not shake Germany's
apparent resolve to bring the whole
Danzig question to an issue this
summer.
The unexpected conference at
Salzburg of Mussolini's son-in-law
and foreign minister, Count Gal
eazzo Ciano, and German Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
was understood here to imply that
the Italian people are beginning to
be seriously perturbed by what is
commonly called the "war of nerves"
and that Fascist power, notwith
standing its dogged resolve to stand
firm, now feels compelled to pay
serious heed to that new trend of
public opinion.
Several signs have been recorded
during the last week to indicate that
Italy might not continue to keep its
foreign policy keyed to the pitch of
the anti-French demonstration of
November 30. The extraordinary
rnmmnnifmo t Vi n onihnntiop
to the press last Saturday to deny
that the purpose behind the arma
ment maneuvers in Northern Italy
was to make preparations to repel a
French invasion bears witness that
Mussolini had better take care not
to put the loyalty of his countrymen
to too severe a test.
Is is surmised that Count Ciano
means to tell von Ribbentrop the
first available opportunity ought to
be seized to approach Mr. Chamber
lain and enlist his good will in favor
of an all around international settle
ment and that, to that end, the co
operation of the Holy See could be
enlisted.
It is difficult to ascertain upon
what foundation this new view of
Italian policy rests, but it is an in
controvertible fact that it is enter
tained here by serious people. More
over, it Is asserted from a diplomatic
source that, notwithstanding all in
dignant denials given out in Rome,
Mussolini’s health is seriously im
paired.
Harlan Aide to Get Post
FRANKFORT, Ky„ Aug. 11 </p).—
Emmett Durrett, State counciliator,
who aided in peace negotiations in
the Harlan County coal area, said
today he had resigned to take a po
sition with the Wage-Hour Division
of the United States Department of
Labor.
England shipped 831,000 bicycles
to other parts of the world last year.
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Half of England Blacked-Out
In Air Raid Defense Drills
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 11.—Great Britain’s
greatest black-out—a demonstration
of civilian and military defenses
against bombing raids—early today
blotted out lights in half of England,
an area populated by 30,000,000 per
sons.
As dawn streaked the eastern sky,
just before the signal for “lights on,”
Sir John Anderson, lord privy seal
and air raid precautions chief, told
reporters that the experiment would
prove of “great value” but that it
was impossible yet to “express a
considered judgment.”
As daylight progressed anti-air
craft searchlights which had fanned
the sky for three and a half hours
were dimmed and London, nerve
center of the 28 blacked-out counties
of Southeastern England, came back
to life.
Early air ministry reports on the
success of London's defenses—pur
suit planes, anti-aircraft guns and
the balloon barrage—were sketchy,
but Londoners who tramped about
in the dark hours thought it was
significant that few bombing planes
were seen over the city.
Five hundred bombers simulating
an enemy roared in over the eastern
and southern coasts in attempts to
dodge through and score "hits” de
spite 800 defending planes and 60.000
groundlings deployed with gadgets
and guns to detect and shoot down
the raiders in make-believe.
Sir John said there would be
“smaller, sectional A R. P. tests,”
probably unconnected with Royal
Air Force maneuvers, throughout
the country at regular intervals in
the future.
Britain to Surrender
Alleged Terrorists
To Japanese
'New Evidence' Against
Four Chinese Held at
Tientsin Cited
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 11.—The British
government announced today that
four Chinese alleged terrorists who
had been the center of the British
Japanese dispute at Tientsin would
be handed over to Japanese author
ities for trial.
It was announced that new evi
dence submitted by the Japanese
had established prima facie cases
against the four Chinese and that
they would be handed over imme
diately.
Japanese authorities in Tientsin
accuse the four of complicity in the
killing of a Chinese customs official
of the Japanese-dominated North
China regime. British refusal to
turn them over after they were
seized in the British concession at
Tientsin brought on the Japanese
Army blockade of the British and
French concessions which had been
in force since June 14.
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, Am
bassador to Japan, has been in
structed to convey London's decision
j to the Tokio government. The Am
bassador to China. Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, also has been instructed
to inform the Chungking govern
ment of the British decision.
Two of the Chinese will be tried
on murder charges growing out of
the assassination of S. G. Cheng,
the customs official, April 9. The
other two will be charged with mem
bership in illegal organizations.
Delivery of the four was first
among the Japanese demands at the
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Bntish-Japanese conference at To
kio on China policy, which also is
considering economic relations of
the two powers in North China.
It also was announced that an
othei Chinese. Ssu Cheng-wu, who
was arrested in the Tientsin British
concession last September on
charges of terrorist activity, would
be nanded over to the Japanese for
detention “under reasonable safe
guards.”
United Press Rome Office
Closed, Chief Expelled
By the Associated Press.
ROME. Aug. 11.—H. R. Ekins,
United Press correspondent here
who was ordered from Italy yester
day when the government closed
the organization's Rome bureau, left |
with his wife today for Paris.
An official said the government's
action, believed to be the most dras
■ tic even taken against a foreign cor
i respondent in Rome, was caused by
! publication of a dispatch distributed
outside Italy by the United Press
saying that Mussolini was seriously
| i“
An official said the dispatch was
“absolutely untrue." j
While the office is closed the
United Press will not be able to send
news dispatches abroad from Italy
nor furnish news to its Italian
| clients.
To demonstrate that he was in
good health Mussolini appeared
i Wednesday night at an open-air
i opera performance in Rome.
Mr. Ekins said the Rome bureau
of the United Press had nothing to
j do with the dispatch in question,
j which bore a London date line and
: told of reports circulating in Eng
I land.
Poland Thinks Peace
Is Still Possible in
Europe, Beck Says
Nation's Will to Resist
Helps Prevent War,
Minister Feels
By JOHN GUNTHER.
WARSAW, Aug. 11 (N.A.N.A.).—
It may be fairly said that the future
of Europe is in the hands of Po
land's foreign minister, Col. Joseph
Beck. The tremendous question of
peace or war may depend on his
decision. If Germany should make
a sudden adventure in Danzig, it is
Col. Beck who will have to deeide
whether or not Poland will tight.
If Poland fights, England and Prance
are pledged to fight for Poland.
Col. Beck fully measures up to the
responsibilities of the situation.
The main impression I gathered
from an interview, though Col. Beck
did not say so in so many words,
is that Poland thinks that peace is
still possible. Col. Beck said that
Poland has a line from which she
cannot retire, but that the very fact
of Poland’s strength and determi
nation to resist will tend to prevent
war.
001. »ec* saia mat foiisn rela
tions with the Soviet Union are
developing satisfactorily and that
Anglo-Polish relations are extremely
good. He said that Anglo-Polish
accord emphasizes a new conception
in Europe that peace cannot be
maintained by further concessions
to Germany. As for Danzig, he
indicated that a peaceful solution
was probable on certain terms.
Proposed Peaceful Solution.
"Do you think that a peaceful
solution of the Danzig problem is
possible? If so, how?" I asked.
"I proposed a peaceful solution on
March 28 directly to the German
government through the Polish Am
bassador in Berlin." (The gist of
Col. Becks proposal at that time
was a free development of the in
ternal life of the German popula
tion of Danzig with Danzig to re
main an independent organization
closely connected with Poland
economically.)
"What about Polish relations with
the Soviet Union?”
"One must not forget that Po
land and Soviet Russia are neigh
bors and that therefore relations
between Poland and this great
power are of extreme interest and
importance. We have to take care
that thesf relations develop stead
ily and satisfactorily without too
great divisions or without going to
extremes. I am very proud that,
notwithstanding the fact that we
had a war with the Soviet Union
so recently as 1920. I have been
able to sign a non-aggression pact
with the Soviet Union which I still
believe to be a very useful treaty
and one which it is very important
to maintain and observe."
weakness W ould Risk W ar.
"Do you think that the Polish
determination to resist attack serves
to prevent German aggression?”
"It is always very dangerous for
peace when, on one side, there is
too great an accumulation of
strength and. on the other side, ex
treme weakness. Our moral strength
and our will to resist are not dan
gers to peace. On the contrary,
they are factors in consolidating
the situation. They are elements
of security, as we have a line from
which we cannot retire. If we
showed signs of weakness, there
would be greater risk of war.”
C.I.O. Maritime Leaders
To Plan All-U. S. Group
By the Associated Press.
The C. I. O. announced yesterday
24 of its maritime leaders would
meet here Monday to discuss an or
ganization campaign, renewal ot
contracts which expire September
30. and plans to form a National
Industrial Maritime Federation.
In a call issued by Joseph Curran,
president of the C. I. O. Maritime
Union, the organization said repre
sentatives would appear from the
American Communications Associa
tion, the Marine Engineers' Bene
ficial Association, the N. M. U. on
the East and Gulf Coasts, and a
group of West Coast unions such
as the International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's Union.
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youth Shot Along River Front
In Row Over Stoning of Cruiser
Seriously Wounded
As Party of 14
Return From Dance
Louis Apastolakos. 17, of 109 E
street N.W., was shot in the hip and
wounded seriously early today after
a row which he and 13 companions,
girls and boys returning from a
dance, had with three men on a
cabin cruiser moored in Washin8ton
Channel.
Police detained the three men
who were aboard the small yacht.
None of them, detectives said, would
admit the shooting and the weapon
—reported to have been a rifle—
could not be found.
The 14 young people, investigating
officers said, were going home from
a country dance in two cars. They
stopped along the channel opposite
the engineering wharf. The boat
turned a searchlight on them. The
group objected to this, the police
said# and an argument with the
yachtsmen followed.
The boys threw stones at the boat,
according to the police report,'
breaking a window and a 5-gallon
water bottle. A man ran up the
| shore with a rifle and opened fire.
He then approached the cars and
attempted to empty the repeating
rifle into the close-packed group,
the police were informed, but he
was disarmed by his companions. I
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LOUIS APASTOLAKOS.
—Star Staff Photo.
Young Apastolakos was hit with
the first shot. His friends—eight
boys and five girls—took him to
Emergency Hospital.
This was the second mishap to
belall the youth within two months.
In June he was repairing a pipe on
the third floor of his home when
he fell and broke an ankle and a
wrist.
Snite and His Bride Take :
220-Mile Wedding Trip !
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Frederick B.
Snite, jr., self-styled "boiler kid,*
and his bride received congratulatory
messages and calls from friends at
their home today after a 220-mile
wedding trip.
The infantile paralysis victim, en
cased in an "iron lung” in which he
has spent most of the last three
years, was married yesterday to
Teresa Larkin of Dayton, Ohio.
The young couple made the trip
in Snite’s specially built trailer ac
companied by a chauffeur, nurse and
attendant.
They toured through Northwest
suburbs and Southern Wisconsin
late yesterday, dining with friends
at Lake Lauderdale, north of Elk
horn, Wis., before returning to their
suburban River Forest home.
Snite and his 25-year-old bride
have deferred plans for a longer
wedding trip at present. The bride
groom, who is 29, will undergo new
treatments at his home for at least
a month.
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Hughes' Request
For Sub-Stratosphere
Ocean Hop Studied
Flight Would Blaze
Trail for New
Use of Land Planes
The State Department and the
Civil Aeronautics Authority today
were studying Howard Hughes’ re
, quest for permission to make a
: trans-Atlantic air flight that might
1 prove the trailblazer of a new type
of commercial air travel over the
ocean—by land plane.
Mr. Hughes. Texas millionaire who
flew around the globe in record time
last year and was voted this coun
try's outstanding aviator in 1938 by
the National Aeronautics Associa
tion, has filed an application with
the C. A. A. for approval of a sub
stratosphere hop from New York to
France in his new: four-motored,
streamlined, closed-cabin Boeing
307.
Associates of Mr. Hughes disclosed
today that the flyer proposes to lift
the ship to a height of more than
20.000 feet for the journey, dimin
ishing the time and the distance
between the American and the Eu
ropean continents. The Boeing 307
weighs 56.000 pounds and has a
capacity of more than 20 passengers
The Pan-American Airways has
shown an interest in the ship in
connection with suggestions that the
line inaugurate a fast, land-plane
service to Europe, supplementing
the seaplane clippers now' in service.
A ship similar to the Boeing 307
crashed near Seattle last spring
when it was being demonstrated to
officials of the Royal Dutch Air
Lines, interested in putting it into
service in the Far East. The pilot
of the plane supposedly was putting
the ship through paces for which it
was not built.
Farley Moscicki's Guest
By the Associated Press.
WARSAW, Aug. 11.—President
Ignace Moscicki entertained Post
master General James A. Farley at
a private luncheon today. Mr. Far
ley is to be a guest of Foreign Min
ister Joseph Beck at a dinner party
tonight, after which he Is leaving oy
train for Krakow. He will go to
Vienna and Rome Saturday.
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