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87th YEAR. No. 34,913. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1939—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. »» _THREE CENTS.
FINNS STAND FIRM AGAINST RED INVASION
Heavy Losses Reported Inflicted
On Russians; Arctic Port Retaken
- « _ «•
Defense Claims Widespreac
Success in Land, Sea
And Air Fighting
(Partial text of Premier Ryti’s radia address on page A-ll )
BULLETIN.
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, American Minister to Fin
land, reported to the State Department today that he
personally had witnessed “indiscriminate bombing” by
Russian planes in Helsinki Thursday and that there
were 42 known fatalities.
Members of the American Legation personally saw
some people killed in the bombings, Mr. Schoenfeld
reported.
By the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Dec. 2.—Big guns thundered today alonj
the Karelian front where Finns were reported standing
firm after inflicting heavy losses among invading Sovie
Russians.
Defense forces claimed widespread successes in bitter lam
and sea and air engagements yesterday.
Reports fro mthe battle zone between the Gulf of Finlarn
end Lake Ladoga indicated that Finnish troops were not sufferini
6erious losses.
A defense ministry communique at midnight said at least H
“and perhaps 18 or more” Russian planes were shot down yesterda;
without any Finnish air force losses.
(Against the Finnish reports of successes, the Russians
announced in a communique that their forces had advanced
into Finland all along the frontier.)
Authorities announced 200 Russian prisoners had been takei
on the eastern front.
The Finns were faced with the problem of caring for refugee
from their bomb-torn cities. Roads outside Helsinki were crowdei
with trucks, automobiles and wagons carrying women and childrei
from the'danger area. Railroad stations were jammed witl
refugees seeking less precarious residences inland.
Red Losses Declared Heavy at Suojarvi.
The largest land action occurred on the eastern frontier, a
Suojarvi, where the ministry said “enemy losses were heavy. Fin
nish machine-gun fire annihilated two enemy companies to th
last man.”
On the Karelian front, Finnish officials said 36 or more in
Military leaders said a new automatic rifle was proving sue
cessful on the eastern front and causing heavy casualties amon
the invading Russians.
Russaroe Fortress at Hangoe was reported undamaged despit
heavy bombardment by Russian warships, one of which was re
ported sunk by defense batteries.
(One report identified the sunken vessel as the 8,500-ton
cruiser Kirov; a Reuter—British news agency—dispatch later
said, however, the Kirov was afloat and that it was an uniden
tified Russian destroyer which sank.)
me supreme commander ot
Finland's armed forces declared
meanwhile that the whole coun
try is “ready to fulfill its duty
unto death’’ to support the
new government’s determination
never to surrender the little re
public’s independence.
While the battered nation steeled
itself to meet fresh assaults Rus
sia's mighty machine, Field Marshal
Baron Gustaf Mannerheim issue
this order of the day:
"Finland’s President has name
me supreme chief of Finland’s de
fense forces. Brave Finnish soldier;
I undertake this task at an hou
when our hereditary enemy one
j again attacks our country.
“Confidence in its chief is the firs
condition of success. You know m
and I know you, and I know th
i (See HELSINKI, Page A-4)
Helsinki, Scarred by Soviet Bombs,
Begins Cleaning Up Wreckage of Raid
By LYNN HEINZERLING,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
HELSINKI, Dec. 2— Only the
clatter of workmen’s shovels, the
hiss of water from firemen's hoses
and the commands of soldiers were
heard today as debris-cleaning
squads took charge of a bomb
wrecked section of Helsinki that two
days ago was a flourishing business
center teeming with life.
Two days of invasion by Soviet
Russians had left Helsinki badly
scarred by air attack.
I walked through a blackened,
wTar-marked section where two days
ago bombs ripped apartment houses
like doll houses and knocked out
windows half a mile away.
At Hietalahti Square, the shattered
walls of the Institute of Technology
stood out sharply. The interior of
of the building had been wrecked.
Two professors were killed and it
was feared many students as well.
Five Caught in Laboratory.
School officials told today how five
engineers were working in a labora
tory on the top floor when the Rus
sian bombers came. A bomb knock
ed out the floor beneath them and
left them standing high on a shelf
formed by the top floor.
Wreckage blocked Loennrot street.
A sad-faced porter silently took
me Into the court of his apartment
building and pointed to the walls
about us, cracked and bulging,
Binged curtains fluttered from the
windows. Where a wall had been
khocked out the living room and
bedroom furniture could be seen in
a heap in the open air.
A bomb had torn through the
building, blasting a huge crater in
the basement floor.
From the doorways of some of the
wrecked buildings women with tear
stained faces could be seen occa
sionally. They carried suit cases
crammed with belongings.
Steel beams in the institute build
ing had been twisted by the bombs.
The Russian Legation near the
square lost all its windows. A Lu
theran church and a German school
were destroyed.
Skylight Knocked Out.
Huge chunks of solid granite were
ripped out of the stony Finnish
| and chipped granite foundations c
! buildings far from where the mis
siles exploded.
The force of one explosion was s
, severe that, though it occurred sev
| eral blocks away from the hot«
where I am staying, part of th
hotel's skylight dropped into th
; lounge. No one was injured.
After the first raiders attackec
huge clouds of smoke soon darkene
the capital.
Sub-Lt. Winckelanan, a reserv
officer, said he was lving down ii
his room when the first bomb fell.
‘‘I grabbed my saber, military pas
; and the law book I was studyin
; and hurried to the street,” he saic
‘‘I barely reached it when a bom
i hit the Institute Building and abou
i wrecked it.
“'Near the entrance to one of th
underground shelters the Finns ha
placed about the city, I saw a hug
crater dug out of stone by a bomb.
‘‘About 4 a.m. of the second da
| of the war I managed to get a rid
1 in an army car to Grankulla wher
the United States Legation set ui
temporary headquarters and man;
refugees were quartered.”
Train Service Irregular.
Men and women, some with chil
dren, were sleeping on benches
chairs, the floor and the hard rub
bing tables in the massage rooms o
the place which ordinarily is i
bathing establishment.
It was able to sleep three hour
in a chair before returning to Hel
sinki by train. Train service is ir
regular.
Along the roads leading west ou
of Helsinki almost all kinds of con
veyances could be seen bearing refu
gees. Many of the older model car
had broken down.
An officer supervising the removs
of refugees said six Finnish childrei
rode to a safety zone in a hearse.
Stoic Finns were trying to go abou
their tasks in the capital as if noth
ing had happened, but this obvious
ly was difficult.
Trim waitresses in the hotel wher
I live usually wore high-heele
shoes; today they wore rough, heav
shoes and thick, woolen socks to b
ready for any emergency.
The early darkness in Helsinki i
particularly trying when air alarm
^^^^mnde^arf^pedestriansar
■ FIELD MARSHAL
MANNERHEIM.
r
; Russia Recognizes
Provisional Regime
, Of Finnish 'People'
; Roosevelt Appeal Against
Bombing of Civilians
i Brushed Aside
Text of ‘ People's Government”
declaration on Page A-4.J "
t _
- B>, the Associated Press.
> MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—Soviet Russia
formally recognized today a "peo
ple's" provisional regime which she
’ proclaimed for Finland while scorn
! ing the embattled Finns’ own new
. j government.
i Premier-Foreign Commissar Vy
acheslaff Molotoff declared the So
viet expected “no good" from the
- Finnish government, and praised the
- rival Russian-approved group as a
factor leading to “hope for a peace
! ful and satisfactory solution of the
i present crisis.”
He brushed aside as "pointless" an
I appeal by President Roosevelt of the
| United States that Finnish civilians
not be bombarded from the air.
1 ; "Soviet airpians nave not DomDea
towns and are not going to do so,”
1 said Moiotoff.
Finnish legation attaches here
t still did not know when they would
r be able to leave Moscow. The lega
e tion was without telephone connec
tion and w'as crowded with foreign
t ers buying foodstuffs and furniture.
e Red Army Reports Successes.
? The Red army reported successes
all along the Finnish border, in
cluding penetrations up to 16 miles,
capture of the Arctic port of Petsa
mo and occupation of a number of
border towns on the Karelian Isth
mus, with the shooting down of 10
Finnish airplanes.
f Russia s demand for a strip of
territ ry on the Karelian Isthmus,
between the Gulf of Finland and
3 Lake Ladoga, as a protection for
Leningrad was one of tne points on
j which fruitless negotiations were
a conducted prior to the present con
l fli-t. Naval and aerial bases on
Finnish soil and title to some islands
in the Gulf of Finland also were
j demanded.
The Red Army reported it had
» “passed” the town of Terijoki, on
i the isthmus (Finns said they still
held the town.)
5 Kuusinen New Premier,
’ It was there that “the people's
” government of the democratic re
t (See-MOSCOW, Page A~-9 )
Soviets Declared
Repulsed Near
Norway's Border
By the Associated Press.
KIRKENES, Norway, Dec. 2 —Ci
vilian refugees arriving here frorr
Finland reported today Finnish
troops had retaken the Arctic porl
of Petsamo.
Finnish authorities were said t<
have confirmed the reports. Earlier
the ci v was reported in hands 01
Russian forces which parachuted t<
earth from airplanes.
Fighting in the Petsamo district
was almost entirely by infantry a;
the roadless mountains and deep
snows prevented either side fron
bringing up artillery.
Finnish soldiers who recapturec
the seaport marched all night
through the snow to reach theii
objective. However, they had tht
advantage over the Russians who
after taking the town, found all tht
food supplies either carried away 01
destroyed in the fire which followec
the air raids.
The refugees also declared tht
Finns had defeated the Russians ir
a battle-60 miles north of Salmijarvi
site of valuable British-Canadian
owned nickel mines just inside tht
Finnish-Norwegian border.
150 Reported Left Dead.
The Russians were said to havt
left on the battlefield more thar
150 dead, whose equipment anc
clothing indicated the Red troop!
were pooriv prepared for war ir
the Far North. Many apparentlj
had suffered frozen feet.
Russian reinforcements were re
ported en route to Petsamo, and (
new battle was expected.
Soviet warplanes, meanwhile, con
tinued active in the narrow Fin
nish corridor leading to the Arctic
Low-flying planes were reported t<
have attacked Finnish motorbuse!
carrying refugees toward the Nor
uvi uu .
Bed sheets were tied over some o:
these trucks as camouflage in thi
snow-covered terrain
Previously. British and Canadiar
employes of the Salmijarvi nicke
mines, owned by the Internationa
Nickel Co., fleeing across the Nor
wegian border, reported that Rus
sian troops were only 9 miles fron
the frontier.
(Reuters. British news agency,
reported that Finnish troops,
after an all-night march over
snow-cdvered roads, had made
a surprise attack on Russians at
Petsamo. Finish aircraft aided
the infantry. Russian losses wei4
believed heavy.)
Tire refugees reported the Rus
sians had blown up the Salmijarv
Bridge after trying vainly to de
molish it with aerial bombs yester
day.
At Salmijarvi, the Finns were sail
to be pouring gasoline on rooftop
and firing the houses to impede thi
Russian advance. Animals wen
slaughtered to prevent them fron
falling into the invaders’ hands.
Finnish soldiers were reported ti
have been ordered to blow up thi
Salmijarvi nickel mines and bun
the buildings if they retreated.
Finns Fight Through Red Lines.
One small detachment of Finnisl
infantry, surrounded by the Rus
sians near Petsamo Mountain, wa:
said to have fought its way througl
the Soviet lines.
A steady stream of Finnish refu
gees continued, meanwhile, to pou:
over the border into Norway. Ap
proximately 300 women and chil
dren, crowded into trucks driven b;
boys 12 or 14 years old, crossed, ici
and snow to reach the Norwegiai
border town of Svanvik yesterday.
Most public buildings in Svanvil
and other frontier villages have beer
converted into barracks for refu
gees. Schools, in some instances
have been converted into hospital:
in expectation of an influx of wound
ed Finnish soldiers.
! Summary of Today's Star
r Page. Page.
» 1 Amusements, Obituary __A-12
; B-16 Radio_A-17
) Church News, Real Estate,
, A-14-17 B-l-7
Comics .B-14-15 Society - . A-13
Finance A-20 Sports __A-18-19
Editorials __A-10 Woman's Page,
■ Lost, Found B-9 B-8
»
- Foreign.
f Finns stand film against Reds on
1 Karelian Isthmus. Page A-l
Russia recognizes Finnish “people’s”
5 government. Page A-l
' Workmen clean up bomb-wrecked
Helsinki business area. Page A-l
France to demobilize fathers of two
t or more children. Page A-l
' Finns reported recapturing Arctic
port from Reds. Page A-l
5 Increased activity is reported on
western front. Page A-4
1 Loss of four more ships raises war
1 total to 171. Page A-5
t National
■ Roosevelt asks “moral” ban on planes
for Russia. Page A-l
Lovestone tells Dies probers of break
5 with Stalin. Page A-l
i Dewey candidacy has extraordinary
/ aspects. Page A-3
: Wallace urges self-financing farm
setup. Page A-3
s Washington and Vicinity.
t Holdu^nen mi&» valuableshldden
Defendants are nnea in uassin
tarring case. Page A-2)
Four Santa Claus lanes open fieri
with fitting ceremonies. Page A-2i
Boulevard traffic rerouted after air
port levee breaks. PageA-2J
Sports.
Army-Navy clash high spot of variety
grid finale. Page A-ll
Club owners due spotlight at winte:
baseball meeting. Page A-ll
Rose Bowl should settle how grea
are Tennessee Vols. PageA-li
Blase Gotham strangely stirred b;
Redsklns-Giant game. Page A-l
Editorial and Comment
This and That. Page A-l
Answers to Questions. Page A-l1
Letters to The Star. Page A-l
David Lawrence. Page A-l
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-l
G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-l
Lemuel Parton. Page A-l
Constantine Brown. Page A-1
Miscellany
Nature’s Children. Page B
Bedtime Story. PageB-1
Cross-Word Puzzle. PageB-1
Letter-Out. Page B-l
Winning Contract. PageB-1
Uncle Ray’s Comer. Page B-l
Christmas Advetnure. Page B
Service Orders. Page A
VitAl Statistics. Pace A
I
Jay Lovestone Tells
Dies Committee of
Break With Stalin
Ousted Communist Chief
No Longer Hopes to
Reunite Party
BULLETIN.
Jay Lovestone. for many years
a directing head of the Com
| munist party in the United
i States, told the Dies Committee
1 today that agents of the OGPU,
Russian secret police, attempted
j to “get" him last year. He said
the agents ransacked his home in
, July, 1938, and stole his private
' I documents, but that he had been
warned of an attempt on his life
and had remained away from
home.
Jay Lovestone. former general sec
I retary of the Communist party of
; the United States, told the House
' Committee on Un-American Activi
1 ties today the first job of the Ameri*
' can working class is to throw over
| board the type of political organiza
i tion represented by the party.
The blond, bespectacled witness
! testified he was ousted as gen
eral secretary by Josef Stalin in
; 1929 because of a “violent conflict"
with Moscow over how the various
units of the party should be led.
i Prior to that time, he said, he had
“received and been subjected to all
the honors of the party save one
liquidation by a firing squad."
Recounting many of his experi
1 ences, his trips to Russia and con
ferences with Stalin. Mr. Lovestone
asserted he had insisted on a princi
ple of “party democracy,” but that
1 "Stalin and his puppets, while they
I uiu iiu t jwi u uii pa pc i , »uiaicu
| | every concept” of such a principle.
[ i Denounced by Stalin.
Ten years ago, the witness said,
Stalin thought Communism was
“just around the corner” in the
1 United States, but he disagreed with
' him and took the position that
1 capitalism was “far from finished.”
1 For this, he declared, he and others
who shared that view were de
nounced by the Soviet dictator.
Mr. Lovestone said it took him
and other expelled party members
seven years to get over the idea of
reunification of the party in this
country, but they abandoned it final
1 ly in 1936. At present, he said, he
is secretary of the Independent
; Labor League of America at $35 a
week “when we can get it.”
Asked by J. B. Matthews, commit
. tee investigator, why he had not ap
' peared voluntarily to testify as had
Earl Browder and other party offi
cials, Mr. Lovestone said it was part
ly because he did not agree with a
"good deal” of the committee's pro
cedure, but largely because he did
not want to be found in any neigh
borhood where “even the dust of the
Stalinist machine would fall on me.”
Although Mr. Lovestone was said
, to be the last scheduled witness,
! (See^JN-AMERICANT^Page A-4.)
Hansen, Navy Back, to Wed
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 </P).—A
Navy victory in its football game
I with Army today would be the ideal
. engagement gift for pretty Ruth
I Bernice Hunter, 23.
, Her betrothal to Harold (Swede)
: Hansen, a back on the Navy squad,
will be announced at a party after
J the game. Win or lose on the grid
iron, Hansen wins the girl.
J Romance of Coins
> The Cross Roads Theater
L group will be featured in the
1 presentation of another in
[ the special junior high school
[ program series. The “Ro
mance of Coins” will be
dramatized over Station
WMAL at 7:30 o’clock. The
Star is co-operating with the
National Broadcasting Co.
and the Board of Education
in bringing educational radio
features to the junior high
school student*.
Three Red Airmen
Reported Slain by
Women and Children
By the Associated Press.
HELSINKI. Dec. 2.—Women
and children of the Karelian
village of Olkinuora. armed with
shovels, axes, pitchforks and
shotguns, were reported today
to have killed three Soviet Rus
sian flyers who bailed out of a
damaged warplane.
Several small boys, the re
ports said, saw the Russians
parachute to earth and roused
the village, which had been
» drained of its male population
by the call to the colors.
Surrounded, the Russians
were said to have fired their
pistols at the villagers, who
charged in and overwhelmed
, them. None of the villagers was
injured.
Later, an undamaged ma
chine gun was salvaged front
the plane, which crashed near
the village.
Fair in San Francisco
Will Not Be Reopened
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2.-Plar
to reopen the World's Fair here i
1940 were abandoned today by tt
organization which directed the 19:
show, and prospects are that blov
of the wrecking hammers will soun
through Treasure Island within
week.
Leland Whitman Cutler, presidei
of the San Francisco Bay Expositio
Corp., said his organization had re
luctantly decided to instruct i'
counsel to liquidate the affairs (
the corporation.
He pointed out in a statemer
that a drive for $1,650,000 deeme
necessary to finance a reopening (
the $55,000,000 show had not yet sue
ceeded and now. with less than si
months in which to prepare lor
revival, the Executive Committe
feels “this is too short a time f<
the task on hand.”
Decision to drop reopening plar
came shortly after George Creel ar
nounced in Washington that Pres
dent Roosevelt was in favor of
repeat season. Mr. Creel, chairma
of the United States San Francisc
Fair Commission, said the Presider
believed the fair, if reopened, coul
be made "the rallying point” for ex
tension of pan-Americanism.
Red Legation Windows
In Copenhagen Smashet
By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 2.—All wir
dows in the Soviet Legation hei
were smashed in the night.
France Demobilizes
Fathers of Two or
More Children
Hundreds of Thousands
Will Be Affected
Eventually by Order
Bt th* Associated Press.
PARIS. Dec. 2 —Premier Daladier
announced today that all fathers of
two or more children who have been
mobilized will be released and sent
, back to their homes.
The demobilization will begin De
cember 15 with fathers of four chil
dren or more, whose release had
been ordered previously. Hundreds
of thousands eventually will be af
fected.
At the same time the Premier an
nounced men 40 years or older will
be taken out of the front lines and
replaced by younger men now in
service in the rear.
On October 28 France ordered de
mobilization of 100.000 soldiers who
had four or more children or were in
s the older age classifications. The
n first order released all men in the
e class of 1910 <men born in 18901,
9 those 43 or over who had three chil
dren and 45 or over with two chil
s dren.
d
g
t His Boss Away,
“! Television Set
f 'Tells on'Boy
. ! First-hand evidence that televi
j sion use for sports events will wip<
j out the old grandmother excuse t<
11 t the boss for failure to appear foi
work was produced during the tests
x of newr portable field pick-up equip
a | ment here yesterday.
e A young man who is employed ir
r the interstate Commerce Commis
sion. which is in the building ad
s joining the Federal Communications
* Commission, decided, after his boss
" had gone to the television receiving
a room in the F. C. C.. to get a view ol
n the apparatus fro mthe pick-up end
° The young man got a good close
} up view of the camera, which, oi
“ course, got a good view of the young
' man, as did the boss jn front of one
of the receivers.
Everything went along fine, until
the boss, on returning, sent for the
young man and asked where he had
I been most of the morning.
“Right in the big room working.’
he replied.
But the boss knew better, and
e told him. There was no further
discussion.
5,000 Washingtonians Brave
Elements tor Army-Navy Game
Capital's Greatest Football Migration Leaves
On 13 Trains; President Cancels Trip
Threatening weather today forced
President and Mrs. Roosevelt to
cancel plans to attend the Army
Navy football game in Philadelphia,
but failed to dampen the enthusiasm
of 5,000 other blanket-toting Wash
ingtonians massed at Union Station
to take part in the greatest football
migration in the Capital’s history,
Thirteen trains, running on a 5
to 10 minute schedule, left the sta
tion between 8:20 and 9’30 o’clock.
F<earing blankets, raincoats, um
brellas, thermos bottles and laden
with yellow chrysanthemums, a
number of cabinet officials, many
Army and Navy big-wigs and just
plain football fans flooded the sta
tion to catch the special trains.
Calls Off Hyde Park Trip.
Mr. Roosevelt also called off i
scheduled week-end trip to his home
at Hyde Park, N. Y. He had plan
ned to go there from Philadelphia.
A heavy fog, hanging like a pall
•over Washington, added to the con
fusion at Union Station, where
traffic was jammed for blocks durlni
ths rush. A boot* of apoeikl police
men and officers of the Metropolitan
force, many of whom had come
down to see the President off,
turned traffic officers and untangled
the lines of vehicles.
A half dozen plainclothesmen, alsc
assigned to presidential duty, alsc
were among those present, since the
Chief Executive did not decide tc
call off the trip until an hour and
a half before he was scheduled tc
start.
Many Special Trains.
Many parties had special train;
for the trip to Philadelphia’s Mu
nicipal Stadium. Among these were
the Navy Department, a Capito
Hill group, the War Department anc
the Army-Navy Club.
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs
Ickes joined War Secretary Wood
ring on the War Department’s spe
cial. Assistant Secretary of Wai
Johnson also was in the party.
On the Navy special were Actinj
Secretary and Mrs. Edison, Attornej
Geperal Frank Murphy, accom
panied by Miss Anne Parker; Mrs
“ (Sm ARMY-NAVY, Page A-12.)
Roosevelt Urges
Exporters Refuse
Russia Planes
President Asks Firm
Front Against Nations
Bombing Civilians
By JOHN C. HENRY.
President Roosevelt today called
i on American manufacturers and ex
porters of military aviation equip
ment to continue in force their
"moral embargo” against sale of
such articles to nations guilty of
unrestricted aerial^arfare on civil
ian populations.
Taking his action in a formal
statement drafted after consultation
with Secretary of State Hull, the
President said:
"The American Government and
the American people have for some
time pursued a policy of whole
heartedly condemning the unpro
voked bombing and machine-gun
ning of civilian populations from
! the air.
Nations “Obviously Guilty.”
“This Government hopes, to the
end that such unprovoked bombing
shall not be given material en
couragement in the light of recent
i recurrence of such acts, that Ameri
can manufacturers and exporters
of airplanes, aeronautical equip
ment and materials essential to air
plane manufacture, will bear this
fact in mind before negotiating con
tracts for exportation of these ar
ticles to nations obviously guilty of
such unprovoked bombing.”
In substance, the President's
declaration is a repetition of ors
made by Secretary Hull on July 1,
1938. aimed at that time at Japa
nese aggression against China. No
countries were named in the dec
laration.
Reports during the past 48 hours
of Soviet bombing operations
against Finnish cities, despite a for
mal appeal by Mr. Roosevelt Thurs
day night that there should be no
resort to such "inhuman barbarism.”
precipitated today's pronouncement.
Soviet Buyers Avoided.
Actually, as reported in the Star
yesterday, American dealers al
ready were turning a cold shoulder
to Soviet efforts to make large
cash purchases of aviation equip
ment here.
In this connection Presidential
| Secretary Stephen T. Early called
attention today to "the fine spirit of
co-operation given by American
manufacturers and exporters to the
Government's policy as now outlined
in the President's statement."
Mr. Early also disclosed that the
government of Finland has given to
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld. United
States Minister in Helsinki, an oral
reply to Mr. Roosevelt's appeal of
Thursday night, expressing gratifi
cation and advising that a formal
reply was being prepared for trans
mission to Washington.
The morning conference between
| the President and Secretary Hull,
held at the White House after Mr.
Roosevelt had canceled plans to at
tend the Army-Navy football game
at Philadelphia, had given rise to
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Laurence A. Steinhardt might be re
called from Moscow for consultation
and that there might be some tem
porary modification of Finnish
financial obligations to the United
States.
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Remarking that no formal answer
has yet been received to the Presi
dent's appeal for restraint in aerial
j warfare. Mr. Early took occasion to
! deny that published quotations from
Soviet Premier MoltofT in Moscow
constitute an acceptable answer. As
reported by the Associated Press,
j Tass, official Soviet news agency,
quoted MoltofT as describing the
| President’s appeal as “pointless.”
"You might ask the dead, the
injured and widows and orphans
| how pointless such an appeal is
or has been.” Mr. Early said.
Pronounced American sympathies
for Finland have lent force to several
distinct proposals here by which
material encouragement could be
| offered the beleaguered country.
First of such steps is the “moral
embafgo” against sale of American
war planes to the Russian govern
ment.
Second would be cancellation or
postponement of financial obliga
tions owed the United States by
Finland, always scrupulously hon
ored by the little Baltic nation.
Third would be the severance of
diplomatic relations with Soviet
Russia.
Effective opposition to sale of Amer
ican fighting planes to Soviet pur
chasers is primarily a spontaneous
manifestation of the attitude of
American manufacturers, quietly in
dorsed by Government officials. Its
operation was noted yesterday in re
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.)
Soviets Charge Allies,
U. S. Try to Expand War
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—The Soviet
government newspaper Izvestia as
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made through the press of the
United States. Britain and Prance
to draw the Balkan States and Bel
gium, Holland and Switzerland into
the war
"Conditions in Belgium and Hol
land show what a tremendous role
is played by the spreading of panic
in the English, French and Ameri
can press with the purpose of at
tracting neutral countries into the
war,” Izvestia said. “They claim
Belgium, Switzerland and Holland
are being menaced by the German
invasion and as a result militaristic
policies dominate these countries.
Such is the policy of the marching
allies of the present war.”
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