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U. S. Demands That Russia Return
City of Flint and Cargo to Crew;
Nazis Plan to Take Ship to Reich
Reply of Moscow
To Representation
Is Awaited
Secretary of State Hull announced
today the United States Govern
ment has demanded of Soviet Russia
the return of the City of Flint and
her cargo to her American crew.
The demand. Secretary Hull said,
Was presented by Ambassador Lau
rence A Steinhardt, and no reply
has yet been received.
; The American demand, he said,
was based on the United States con
ception of international law on the
subject.
, Mr. Hull said this country's views 1
of the international law on the mat
ter embraced a United States Su
preme Court decision in the case of
the British steamer Appam, which
was sent by the German raider
Moewe in 1916 into Hampton Roads,
Va., with a German prize crew
aboard.
The Supreme Court's decision
called for the release of the vessel
and its cargo on the ground the*
Germany had no right to send a
prize ship into an American port. :
Mr. Hull said the American position
also embraced article 21 of the
Hague Convention of 1907 which
said that a prize ship could put into
a neutral harbor only in case of
exceptional circumstances such as
stress of weather, breakdown of ma- 1
chinery or lack of provisions.
In such case, the Secretary said,
the ship must be released and depart
after the exceptional circumstances ■
have been overcome. 1
Mr. Hull said the American legal
I position in the case of the City of
Flint had been set forth in several (
long telegrams to Ambassador Stein
hardt. 1
in iiara on snips status.
Mr. Hull revealed that the State
Department is still very much in
the dark as to the status of the
City of Flint at Murmansk.
He did not have authentic infor- ;
mation, he said, on a report from ,
Berlin that the City of Flint had
put into the Russian port for re- j
pairs. He said he did not know
whether Russia had interned the
Ship or not, and he had no infor
mation that Germany and Russia
. had agreed that the ship was to be
turned over to the former.
He had likewise no information
from the German government as
to whether it was instituting prize
court proceedings, he added.
Mr. Hull informed inquirers the <
State Department had communi
cated to the American Embassy in : 1
Berlin all the information it was j
able to get on the City of Flint j
case and requested the embassy to '
obtain from the German foreign! 1
office not merely all the facts it ! i
could on the case but also all the 1
relevant facts as to the attitude
-Of the German government. I
Secretary Hull also said he had >
instructed Ambassador Steinhardt j :
to send a representative to Mur- 1
mansk to talk to the American
I crew. H estimated it would take i
two days, however, to get there. I
The State Department had been <
advised by Mr. Steinhardt last night 1
that the crew of the City of Flint '
is safe aboard the ship in Murmansk, i
. Russia. i
The envoy's message did not dis
close what would be done with the
ship, taken to the Northern Russian !
bay with a Nazi prize crew aboard *
several days ago.
Mr. Steinhardt quoted a dispatch {
from Tass, Soviet news agency, say- t
ing the German crew had been re- ,
leased from internment. The dis- ,
patch said the ship was taken to
Murmansk because her machinery <
had been damaged. J
Officials previously had made i
clear that the United States ex- (
pected to get the ship back. She |
is owned by the Maritime Commis- j
cion and operated by the United
States Lines under charter. She r
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U-Boat Sunk by Snell, 8
British Ship Reports
By the Associated Press. c
LONDON, Oct. 26.—How a British e
cargo boat sank an attacking Ger
• man submarine was related today f
in the South Wales Argus by one of c
the ship's officers. -]
His story related: a
“The U-boat surfaced almost under s
the ship's starboard bow when the j
crew was at dinner. After a shell r
duel in which the ship was not hit c
the U-boat dived, re-emerging 3
miles miles away. The ship's gun
ners reopened fire and with the ex- .
plosion of the final shell the U-boat ?
sank.” 1
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U. S. Radioman 1
May Have Fled !
Flint at Tromso l
By the Associated Press. ^
BERGEN, Norway, Oct. 26—Re- S
ports received here today indicated
the American radio operator of the
City of Flint, United States ship
captured by the Germans, escaped
the craft at Tromso, where survivors .
of the sinking of the British steamer c
Btonegate were put ashore.
The reports said he mixed with c
members of the British crew and c
wandered off the City of Flint un- t
noticed by the German prize crew c
as the Britons were sent ashore. p
The present whereabouts of the a
radio man and his name were not c
immediately available. K
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William Schuss of Norfolk, Va.. b
was listed by the Maritime Commis- u
6ion as the City of Flint’s radio op
erator.
Free Port Facilities
to Trieste Sought
5y Nazi Mission
New Loophole Needed
For Imports Shipped
By Allied Blockade
By JOHN T. WHITAKER,
rhicuBO Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
ROME. Oct. 26.—The German
rade mission negotiating in Rome
md Milan has informed Italy that
t counts on free port facilities at
rrieste. Italian shipping center in
he Adriatic, for the major part of
he imports it hopes to slip past
he British-French blockade.
Austria and Czecho-Slovakia in
heir day enjoyed free port rights
it Trieste and the Germans argue
hat the Italians must continue
hese facilities for the Germans.
Most contraband for Germany
low passes up the Danube Canal,
»ut this canal is frozen over about
he end of December. The Germans
isk that when this loophole is closed
rrieste and Fiume shall serve as
unnels for Balkan shipments and
ransshipments.
Political Pressure Noticeable.
The arrival of the German mis
ions at Milan and Rome is ac
ompanied by considerable political
iressure noticeable here, but sus
lension of the talks and a promise
hat they will be resumed reveals
hat serious economic difficulties
hat divide the Italians and Ger
nans.
cxai cauv uwcs itaiy
.000.000,000 lire (about $100,000,000)
inder the clearing agreement. Ger
iianv cannot afford to ship ma
rines to Italy in payment, and
here are no more German tour
sts to right the balance.
Germany has taken Draconian
aeasures where the war prevents
ler from delivering machinery con
racted for by Italy. Berlin has
old German patents to Italians,
nd one Milan concern is already
ireparing for the manufacture of
neumatic circuit breakers under
he patent of a German electric
ompany, while another has a pat
nt for a steam control apparatus.
The trade mission has offered a
urther sacrifice, it is understood, in
rder to move freight from Trieste,
'rade through Trieste is virtually
11 involved in clearing agreements,
3 that freight has not been paid
l cash. The Italians are now de
landing cash instead of an ac
ounting under the clearing system.
Italy Offered Nazi Ships.
Since the Germans have no cash
t is learned that they proposed
hat Italy should take over 27 Ger
3an ships which lie in Trieste Har
or. • The Italians declined. Now
he Germans are talking with the
iumanians and Hungarians, and
he former are said to be examining
he German ships today with a
iew to acquiring several in pay
lent of freight charges over the
Rumanian railways for goods
hipped to Germany.
The truth is that the Italians
re embarked on a policy of cash
nd-carry. The country needs cash
nd raw material and has no ad
antage whatever in selling to
ankrupt Germany. Italy has al
;ady doubled her trade with the
alkans by curtailing shipment to
rermany, and the fruits and agri
iltural products normally sent
here are being shipped now to
outh America. Pears, peaches and
turns have gone already to Brazil
net* Argentina on the Neptunia and
ceania. Italian shipping in the
orth Sea and the Baltic has been
;sumed, but is not allowed to touch
slligerent ports—an effective meas
re of the policy of cash-and-carry.
(Copyrldht. 1939, by ChlcaM
Dally Ntvi, Inc.)
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Massed for Attack,
French Patrols Find
Reconnaissances Locate
Huge Concentrations;
First Snow of War Falls
Bj the Associated Press.
, PARIS, Oct. 26.—French land and
air patrols were reported today to
have returned from reconnaisance
- assignments with information indl •
eating the Germans were fully pre
pared for a big push on the western
front.
The French said their scouts told
of huge troop concentrations and
i supply arrangements usually re
garded as forerunners of a major
offensive. They estimated the Ger
mans now have 1,500.000 men on the
front and In support areas.
Actual fighting, meanwhile, was
limited to minor patrol clashes be
tween the lines on the northern
flank—the only sign of action along
the front since the German counter
drive into the Saarland 10 days ago.
French military sources said their
patrols were seeking to take pris
oners for questioning on the pos
sibility of an enemy attack. German
patrols, they said, were met with
firm resistance in attemps to filter
through French outposts and barbed
wirp
For the first time since the start
of the war, snow fell in the Vosges
Mountains as rain and cold swept
the entire front, hindering infantry
operations and grounding air forces.
Today's French communique said
the night was “quiet as a whole"
and noted "bad weather.”
In anticipation of a possible at
tempt to crack the Maginot de
fenses, French authorities offered
facilities for the voluntary removal
of the civilian population of Nancy,
which is about 40 fniles behind the
fortifications.
Only 57 of 120,000 residents, it was
disclosed, have thus far availed
themselves of these facilities.
In the rear, Polish and Czech
recruit armies were in training. It
was disclosed today that Gen.
Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish Premier,
had visited the Polish recruits yes
terday. Most of them came from
the mining regions of Northern
France and Belgium.
Duce Sees Armored Cars
ROME, Oct. 26 <iP).—Premier Mus
solini watched a demonstration of
new types of armored cars and mo
torized artillery today. He inspect
ed the equipment carefully for sev
eral hours and drove one of the
motorized units.
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Soviet Agrees to
Release Vessel,
Says Berlin
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 26.—Authoritative
Germans declared today that Soviet
Russia had agreed to allow the
United States steamer City of Flint
to leave the port of Murmansk in
charge of her German prize crew
as soon as they considered the ves
sel seaworthy.
A spokesman indicated the vessel
would be brought to Germany as a
prize.
"The German prize crew will get
aboard again,” he said, “and you
may rest assured the ship will not
be headed for the United States.”
Crew Declared Safe.
The United States Embassy said
the German foreign office at noon
had “informally communicated” to
the Embassy that the City of Flint
entered Murmansk because she had
suffered “havarie” <sea damage) and
that her American crew was safe
and unhurt.
Sources close to the foreign office
indicated that the communication
was oral.
Authorized German sources said
the case of the American ship had
been clarified between Germany i
and Soviet Russia. Russian officials
had recognized that the City of
Flint sought refuge in Murmansk
because she was unseaworthy, it was
caiH
Explanation Due Today.
German sources said the United
States Embassy here would be given
a full explanation of the ship's sit
uation today.
A Hamburg prize court, informed
sources said, is expected to judge
the contraband question in accord
ance with international law.
The City of Flint was en route
to Great Britain with what Ger
mans have said was contraband
when she was boarded by a prize
crew in the Atlantic.
Remains at Murmansk
For Cargo Verification
MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (A5).—The
American freighter City of Flint re
mained at Murmansk today trending
“precise verification” of her cargo,
Tass News Agency announced.
The German prize crew of 18,
which seized the ship and took her
to the Soviet Russian port in the
Arctic Ocean Monday, has been re
leased from internment but not to
board the City of Flint again.
United States Ambassador Lau
rence A. Steinhardt, who said he
was assured the American crew of 42
was safe aboard, expected the Rus
sian government to give details of
the seizure and internment today, j
He and the foreign office said they
had no knowledge of any change in
the ship s status.
Tass reported the City of Flint
had been taken to Murmansk after
a brief halt at Tromso, Norway, be
cause her machinery had been dam
aged.
Germany also sought to clarify
with Russia the disposition of the
vessel. An authorized German
source in Berlin said the freighter
had a “good cargo” and that Ger
many was asking Russia to give it
back.
When seized, the City of Flint was
bound for British ports with cargo
which the Germans said was contra
band It included tractors.
Ambassador Steinhardt spent most
of last night studying legal aspects
of the City of Flint case with his
aides in view of Russian intention
to inspect the cargo.
McNary in 1940 Race,
But With Reservations
By the Associated Press.
Senator McNary of Oregon tossed
his hat into the 1940 Republican
presidential ring today—with a
string attached.
The minority leader in the Sen
ate said he had informed Western
supporters that he was willing to
have his name placed before the
party's national convention for the
purpose of aiding agricultural areas
in selection of the Republican can
didate and platform.
“In no sense am I interested,” he
added, however, “except for the pur
pose of getting together on some
condidate before we go to the con
vention.”
Greek Ship Hits Reef, Sinks
ATHENS. Oct. 26 Forty per
sons were believed drowned today
when the 250-ton Greek coastal
steamer Amvrakia struck a reef and
sank near Volo. The vessel was en
route to Piraeus.
Nazis See Trouble
Between Britain and
Soviet on Contraband
Goebbels' Paper Finds
Consequences of Note
Far-Reaching
Ey the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Oct. 26—The German
press today interpreted Soviet Rus- j
sia's rejection of Britain's contra- '
band list as a ‘‘sharp protest against ;
blockade warfare" which might lead
to serious trouble between the two
powers.
Commenting on what to Germany
is one of the war's most serious as
pects, Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels’ newspaper Der
AngrifT said ‘‘Moscow's note con
tains a clear warning susceptible of
causing far-reaching consequences
unless it is observed."
The paper declared Britain had
two alternatives—either to alter her
contraband list or take the conse
quences which plight result from
any seizures of Russian ships. .
Der Angrill said ‘‘a decisive word
has been spoken.
“Soviet Russia established in this
note that England's method of con
ducting war contradicts all interna
tional conventions relating to war
time sea commerce.
“England’s methods are nothing
more than open piracy, made no
better by the fact that it is practiced
by a great sea power.”
Russia Charges Breach
Of International Law
MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (/P»—Russia's
protest against the British contra
band list, calling it a violation of
the principles of international law
and reserving the right to claim
compensation for Russian losses
resulting from its enforcement,
was in England's hands today.
The note, handed to British Am
bassador Sir William Seeds, de
clared that merchant ships of the
U. S. S. R. being state property,
“for this reason alone should not
be subjected to any measures of
compulsion applied to privately
owned merchant ships.”
In the note replying to the British
notification of contraband lists,
Vladimir Potemkin, vice commissar
for foreigh affairs, declared the list
“gravely impairs the interests of
neutral countries and destroys inter
national trade.”
Potemkin said the Soviet govern
ment “deems it not permissible to
deprive a peaceful population of
foodstuffs, fuel and clothing and
thus subject children, women and
aged people and invalids to every
hardship and to starvation by pro
claiming goods of popular consump
tion as war contraband.”
He said the Soviet also did not
agree to the British note of Sep
tember 11 demanding that neutral
merchant ships call at designated
ports for checking by the British.
“Such measures violate the ele
mentary principles of the freedom
of merchant shipping,” Potemkin
declared.
"The Soviet government cannot
fail to declare that merchant ships
of the U. S. S. R. are state property
and for this reason alone should
not be subjected to any measures of
compulsion applied to privately
owned merchant ships,” Potemkin
said.
“On the strength of the above,
the government of the U. S. S. R.
reserves its right to claim from the
British government compensation
for losses to organizations, institu
tions or citizens of the U. S. S. R.
by the above mentioned measures
of the British government and ac
tions of British authorities.”
New Tax Lien Filed
Against Al Capone
By the Associated Pres*.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26— Al
Capone was named defendent in
an Income tax lien for $22,245 to
day. Internal revenue agents said,
however, this would not interfere
with the former Chicago gangster’s
release November 19 from the
Terminal Island Jail, as it is a civil
matter.
Capone was sentenced to 10 years
in prison in 1932 and one in jail
for income tax evasion. Good be
havior shortened his prison term
and he was transferred to Terminal
Island from Alcatraz Prison to serve
the jail sentence. He was fined
$50,000 and ordered to pay court
costs of $30,000. He still owes
$20,000 ob the fine.
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Heart Bared
By Gun Blast,
Boy Is Alive
Bv the Associated Press.
READING, Pa.. Oct. 26—An 11
year-old boy still lived today
although his heart and left lung
were exposed by a shotgun blast.
The boy, Robert Van Buskirk. was
kept in an oxygen tent and hospital
physicians noted “slight improve
ment” in his condition. He was shot
last night as he and two companions
played with shotguns.
Ruth Judd's Brother
Here Phones Cryptic
Word to Her Husband
Doubts 'Court Action'
Necessary for Escaped
Murderess of Nurses
BACKGROUND—
On October 17, 1931, Winnie
Ruth Judd, killed two nurses with
Whom she lived in Phoenix, Ariz.,
and shipped their bodies off in
trunks. She was twice sentenced
to the gallows, but finally, ad
judged ipsane, was sent to the
Arizona State Hospital. She
escaped late Tuesday by substi
tuting a dummy for herself in her
cot.
Bt the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. Oct. 26.—The
escape of Winnie Ruth Judd
through an unguarded door of the
Arizona Hospital for the Insane
prompted a search today from
Phoenix to Los Angeles—the exact
route over which she shipped the
dismembered bodies of two mur
dered woman companions eight
years ago.
Y. C. White. Governor's investiga
tor who disclosed for the first time
today how the escape Tuesday night
was accomplished, believes, how
ever, that the blond 34-year-old
trnnk murderess still is in hiding in
Phoenix.
Her expressed desire, contained in
a letter to Gov. Bob Jones, to visit
the hospital bedside of her husband
in Los Angeles, caused authorities
to be on the alert there.
Message From Washington.
A puzzling angle to the case was
provided by reports from two Los
Angeles newspapers that a man
identifying himself as Burton J. Mc
<8ee RUTH JUDD, PageA-3)
Opie Read, Humorist,
Is Seriously III
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Opie Read,
86-year-old humorist, who created
"The Arkansas Traveler” and swap
ped jokes with Mark Twain, was
critically ill today.
His physician said he held little
hope for Mr. Read's recovery from
an illness aggravated by last month's
heat wave.
Wallace Third-Term
Remark Displeases
White House
Cabinet Officer Should
Have Consulted 'Victim/
Stephen Early Says
By JOHN C. HENRY.
Reacting openly for the first
time to third-term talk by a cabi
net officer, the White House today
showed apparent irritation at the
suggestion by Secretary of Agricul
ture Wallace that war-time condi
tions make it desirable that Presi
dent Roosevelt be a candidate for
re-election in 1940.
Chiding the cabinet member for
his remarks, made in response to
a question in an interview yester
day at San Francisco, White House
Secretary Stephen Early told his
press conference today:
"It would have been kind and
polite of the speaker to have con
sulted the victim before he spoke.”
Mr. Early's statement was in re
sponse to a question on the third
term issue, which he specifically
interpreted to refer to Secretary
Wallace s remarks.
Pressed for precise identification
of "the victim," Mr. Early countered
by asking:
wno is ine tnira-term suDject
of the statement?”
Remark Held Badly Timed.
That the White House displeasure
with Secretary Wallace s remarks
may be as much because of their
timing as their actual meaning, was
indicated by Mr. Early's answer
when informed that there had been
criticism at the Capitol due to rais
ing the third-term issue while Con
gress is considering the controversal
neutrality problem and has been ap
pealed to by the President himself
to adjourn politics and partisanship
in the face of this grave world issue.
"It could have been better timed
if it had to be timed at all,” Mr.
Early said curtly.
At this point, he declined further
discussion of the matter.
This very criticism of reviving the
third-term fight at this particular
time was made yesterday on Capitol
Hill, not only by spokesmen ordi
narily opposed to Mr. Roosevelt, but
also by some who have been among
his most enthusiastic followers.
Among the latter were Senator
Minton of Indiana, Democratic
whip, and Senator Thomas, Dem
ocrat, of Utah. The Indianan ob
served that this is no time to dis
cuss presidential politics, that plen
ty of opportunity for such discus
sion will be provided next year.
Thomas Has Nothing to Say.
Senator Thomas remarked: “This
is the very worst time to be talk
ing about politics while the Senate
is discussing the non-partisan neu
trality measure. Therefore, I have
nothing to say at the present time.”
In the past Secretary of the
Interior Ickes and other high-placed
administration spokesmen also have
urged a third term, but the Wallace
statement was the first to appear
(See THIRD TERMTPage~A^3T'
Senate Bans
U. S. Flags on
Foreign Ships
Amendment Bars
Violators From
Ports 3 Months
BULLETIN.
By a vote of 54 to 36, the Senate
this afternoon defeated a move
of the isolationists forces to pre
vent shipment of poison gasses if
the arms embargo is repealed.
By J. A. OLEARY.
The Senate wrote into the neu
trality bill today a provision de
signed to prevent foreign ships
from sailing under the American
flag. It would bar any ship vio
lating the provision from American
ports for three months.
Action on the revised provision
came after the Senate was told by
Senator Tobey, Republican, of New
Hampshire that jhe British used
the American flag on their mer
chant ships during the World War
to "mislead German submarines”
and escape capture.
oenaior looey disclosed mat. ne
had taken up the matter with Sec
retary of State Hull. The Secre
tary, he said, had advised him
there had been no indications that
the British were making similar
use of the flag in the present war.
Senator Tobey, who originally
proposed the provision, although the
Senate acted on a less severe sub
stitute put forward by Majority
Leader Barkley, argued that the
use of the flag by foreign vessels
would endanger American lives and
property.
The flag issue came up as the
Senate sped along toward a final
vote on the Neutrality Act tomor
low.
Tobey Broadens Amendment.
At the outset of today's session.
Senator Tobey broadened his
amendment to include suggestions
made late yesterday by Senator
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. This
Tobey motion provided that any
foreign vessel convicted by an ap
propriate tribunal of flying the
American flag would be forfeited
to this Government, its master sub
jected to possible fine or imprison
ment, and all other ships of the
same ownership thereafter barred
from American ports for three
months.
Senators Barkley and Taft. Re
publican, of Ohio opposed the Tobey
plan on the ground this country
cannot fix penalties for offenses oc
curring outside of its jurisdiction.
Senator Tobey insisted he was
trying to get away from "milk toast
diplomacy" by enacting an effective
prohibition against the use of this
country's flag by belligerent ships
to escape attack at sea. He yielded,
however, to the suggestion of Sen
ator Barkley by dropping the pro
vision for forfeiture and punishment
of a ship master, leaving only the
exclusion of such ships from Amer
ican ports for three months.
The Senate moved slowly in dis
posing of amendments. After the
flag amendment had been adopted.
Senator Neely, Democrat, of West
Virginia, took the floor to discuss
the general issues in the bill, pre
dicting that if "the Hitlerites win
the war in Europe" they will within
five years wage war against the
United States. He pictured “a Sieg
fried line 3.000 miles long on our
Northern border.”
House Leaders Agree.
Meanwhile. House leaders appar
ently reached a tentative agreement
to send the Senate version of the
neutrality bill to a joint Senate
House Conference Committee for
compromise rather than risk letting
the House amend the bill directly.
This was made known after Ma
jority Leader Rayburn, Minority
Leader Martin and Representative
Mapes of Michigan, senior Repub
lican on the House Rules Committee,
had a discussion on procedure.
The Democratic leaders let It be
known they hoped to dispose of the
neutrality bill Anally by the end of
next week and adjourn the special
session immediately.
At his press conference. Speaker
Bankhead said the Anal decision
on procedure would await Senate
completion of the legislation. He
predicted the House would complete
action within a week.
"I think that will allow for liberal
debate,” he said.
It was disclosed earlier today that
Senate opponents of the bill had
switched their strategy—with little
hope of success—in an effort to get
a clearer test of their strength for
retaining the arms embargo.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis
souri, said he would try to insert
in the bill the language of the exist
ing law forbidding arms shipments
to belligerents.
He conceded that his amendment
had little chance of adoption, but
said it would provide an affirmative
test instead of a negative or "back
door” approach through a motion
to strike out the bill’s section re
pealing the embargo.
nuimnisirauun lorces welcomed
the opposition change in plans and
claimed between 60 and 70 votes
for repeal. The opposition conceded
them 55 to 60. A majority is 49, pro
vided all 96 members vote.
Amendments Pile Up.
Senator Clark said he would offer
his embargo-retention proposal after
all other amendments were disposed
of. The time was uncertain, for a
fresh flood of amendments slowed
up floor action yesterday.
The Senate was held in session
more than seven hours yesterday,
but it succeeded in disposing of only
three more amendments. All were
rejected.
Senator La Follette, Progressive, of
Wisconsin lost, 67 to 32, a proposal
to create an Export Control Board
to restrict American exports to bel
ligerents and neutrals to normal
peacetime amoun^i.
Another amendment, by Senator
Johnson, Democrat, of Colorado to
eliminate presidential discretion in
making the Neutrality Act effectlva
when he finds that a state of war ag
ist* abroad was rejected, 61 to 16.
N
Britain Ready tor ‘Finish Fight",
Chamberlain Tells Commons
Prime Minister Accuses Reich of Bidding
Soviet to Crusade on Empire
(Text of Chamberlain's state
ment on Page A-9.)
B.v the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 26.—Prime Min
ster Chamberlain declared today
:hat Britain was ready for Ger
nany’s “fight to the finish” while
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax de
:lared Soviet Russia occupied East
ern Poland only after Germany had
‘started it and set the example.”
Lord Halifax said Britain's pledge
:o Poland had been onlj "to provide
igainst the case of aggression by
Germany” though he admitted “it
,s quite true that it makes no dif
ference to the Poles whether they
ire invaded from the east or west.”
"The last thing I would wish to
io in this matter.” he told the House
if Lords, “would be to defend the
iction of the Soviet government at
he particular time at which they
:ook it."
“But it is right to remember two
hings,” he said. “First, that they
could never have taken that action
f the German government had not
started it and set the example that
ney did set when they invaded Po
and without any declaration of
car.
“In the second place, it is worth
chile recalling that the action of
he Soviet government has been to
idvance the Russian boundary to
chat was substantially the boun
lary recommended at the time of
he Versailles conference by Lord
3urzon. ’ I
Lord Curzon then was the British
foreign secretary.
Chaiges Reich Seeks Crusade.
Lord Halifax spoke as Prime Min
ister Chamberlain, addressing the
House of Commons, accused Ger
many of inviting Soviet Russia “to
join a crusade against the British
Empire.”
In both houses the call was made
for a quick understanding with
Russia—in the Upper House by Lord
Listowel, opposition Laborite, and
in Commons by Sir Archibald Sin
clair, opposition Liberal leader.
Lord Listowel urged the recogni
tion of Russian occupation of East
ern Poland as not too high a price
“for the goodwill of a first-class
power in wartime.”
The foreign secretary said the
possibility of new trade agreements
with Russia was being examined
and declared that despite profes
sions of Soviet economic solidarity
with Germany, Russia now appeared
“willing to trade impartially with all
the belligerents.”
The Prime Minister, giving his
eighth weekly war report, replied di
rectly to the Danzig declaration of
German Foreign Minister Joachim
von Ribbentrop that Germany would
make a finish fight.
“There can be but one reply." said
Mr. Chamberlain, "and we are pre
pared to give it.”
His accusation that Germany
1 See "CHAMBERLAIN, Page A-9.)
8-Page War Map Supplement
To Be Published in Star
To meet an apparent need for
concise, readily available refer
ence material in map and digest
form dealing with the back
ground of the European war,
The Star, as a part of its edi
tions Monday, will publish an
eight-page War Map Supplement
containing in concise form some
of the vital facts which facilitate
an understanding of the daily
events in the present world drama.
The supplement, constituting a
ready-reference atlas, will con
tain essential information on
geographic, military, naval, his
torical, political and economic
aspects of the European war.
Eight large-scale maps hava
been especially prepared for this
> T
supplement to illustrate various
phases of the war and its com
plex background.
The largest of these, a 14-col
umn map of the Europe of today,
covering the center pages of the
8-page supplement, is accompa
nied by a summary of the rise of
Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler
and the conquests which during
the past four years have added
an area of 63.000 square miles to
the German Reich and increased
her population by 18,000,000 per
sons.
Other maps show the western
front along which 1 the French
and British Armies today face the
Nazi divisions, Europe in 1914,
(See SUPPLEMENT. Page A-3.)
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C-2-3 Radio _C-8
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Editorials ..A-10 Sports _- D-l-3
Finance __.A-19 Woman's Pg. C-4
Lost,Found. D-4
Foreign.
The War Situation Page A-Z
Britain ready for “finish fight,”
Chamberlain says. Page A-l
U. S. demands Russia return City of
Flint and cargo. Page A-l
Nazis see Anglo-Russian trouble over
contraband. Page A-l
French report Germans ready for
big offensive. Page A-l
Nazis to sail City of Flint to Reich
as prize. Page A-l
Soviet demands on Finns still unac
ceptable. Page A-4
Liberal victory in Quebec hailed by
Canadian leaders. Page A-4
New air-raid policy is announced by
Britain. Page A-4
Britain not telling cost of sea war,
say Nazis. Page A-8
Britain makes fresh plan for propa
ganda war. Page A-8
Notional
Dies committee member hits pub
lication of league list. Page A-3
Louisiana Capitol guarded to pre
vent Leche coup. ^ Page A-17
Washington and Vicinity.
Navy Day to be observed tomorrow
throughout country. Page A-2
West End businessmen hold first
annual parade. Page B-l
Van Duzer studies taxicab cruising
problem in District. Page B-l
Sports
Dixie gridders amass great array of
nicknames. Page D-2
Columbia to make course changes
first time in years. Page D-3
All-America backs are plentiful on
Dixie teams. Page D-4
Editorial and Comment
This and that. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. PageA-10
Letters to The Star. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-ll
G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-ll
Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-ll
Preston Grover. Page A-ll
Miscellany
After Dark. PageB-10
Service Orders. PageB-13
Vital Statistics. Page C-5
Nature's Children. Page C-5
Bedtime Story. Page C-6
Cross-Word Puzzle. Page C-6
Letter-Out. Page C-6
Winning Contract. Page C-7
I Uncle Ray’s Corne^ Page C-7