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Reich Victory Sure,
Goebbels Tells
Christmas Party
Plutocracies Trying to
Defeat Social-Minded
Germany, He Says
Ml the Associated Pres*.
BERLIN, Dec. 22.—Minister of
Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels
declared today world plutocracies
“have risen and are trying to strike
dow-n social-minded Germany.”
Goebbels spoke at a Christmas
celebration in the propaganda min
istry for 200 children removed from
the Saar war zone and Memel.
In the first Christmas season ut
terance of any Nazi leader, the prop
aganda minister said the ‘‘war
Christmas” found a "determined
German people" fighting capitalistic
world leadership.
“But with us it is a people's war,”
he said, "* * * the people are de
fending their lives against an enemy
that has always stood opposite the
Germans.”
“Victory,” Goebbels continued,
“will be ours. We not only hope for
it. we know it.”
He said that Germany was “prose
cuting a totalitarian war" and that
the German people, "since the war,
have united in real brothership.
“National solidarity was never
greater. The German nation meets
coming events with closed ranks.”
"The enemy is not underestimat
ed.” Goebbels said. "We know what
their weapons are. Neither do we
overestimate them.
“Peace used to be the Christmas
theme, but we shall speak of that
only after victory.”
Goebbels promised that “victory
. will not be a victory of deception”
such as 1918.
Indictment Upheld
Against Health Lecturer
Mrs. Rosalyn Randle, lecturer on
health topics and mental hygiene,
indicted on a charge of using the
mails to defraud, apparently must
stand trial in District Court, prob
ably late next month.
This was indicated today, after
. Justice Daniel W. O Donoghue in
Criminal Court No. 2 of District
Court upheld the validity of the in
dictment yesterday afternoon. Im
mediately after the jurist overruled
a demurrer to the indictment,
wherein Mrs. Randle virtually said
that if the things charged were
true she still was not incriminated,
Mrs. Randle pleaded innocent. Jus
tice ODonoghue allowed her to re
main on bond.
Indications today were that Mrs.
Randle will be represented at her
trial by Attorney Robert H. Mc
Neill. Representing the Govern
ment in the proceedings since the
Indictment was returned is Assistant
United States District Attorney
Arthur B. Caldwell, who also prose
cuted her on a charge of false pre
tenses early this year—a case which
Is now pending in the United States
Court of Appeals following her
conviction.
Progress Is Reported
In U. S.-Japanese Talk
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, Dec. 22.—“Progress” in
the discussion of Japanese-Amer
lcan problems was authoritatively
reported at a fourth conversation
this afternoon between United
States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew
and Foreign Minister Admiral Kich
lsaburo Nomura.
The Ambassador was believed to
have conveyed in the one-hour talk
, the American attitude toward the
Japanese plan to reopen to foreign
commerce the Yangtze River as far
as Nanking. Talks are to continue,
but no date for the next has been
sec.
The foreign office later issued a
communique saying both Mr. Grew
and Nomura ‘•indicated a mutually
helpful attitude toward solution of
American-Japanese problems.”
There was no indication of the
extent of the "progress.” but ob
servers assumed that the whole
field of American-Japanese relations
was included in the discussions and
interpreted optimistically the fact
that further conversations were to
be held.
Woman, Thought Dead,
Bears Child, Then Dies
B» the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 22.—Physi
cians have lost a 24-hour fight to
* keep alive a 34-year-old mother
whose baby was delivered by an
operation in the belief the woman
was dead.
The baby, weighing 7 pounds, was
reported doing "as well as can be
expected.”
The woman. Mrs. Mary Moore of
Collegeville, was operated on to set
a fractured leg. The baby was not
expected for three weeks. Under
the anaesthesia the woman's pulse
stopped and three doctors pro
nounced her dead.
The caesarean operation was per
formed.
Then, under stimulants, the
mother's heart and breathing re
sumed.
Mrs. Moore never regained con
sciousness—but the pulse beat and
respiration were perceptible for 24
hours.
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GOLDEN WEDDING—Mr. and
Mrs. Judson D. Lincoln, who
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary December 18. Mr.
Lincoln, a retired Interior De
partment employe, and Mrs.
Lincoln, a native of Washing
ton, have six children and
eight grandchildren.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
Nazis Administered
Injections to Hacha,
French Reveal
Czech President Kept
Conscious at Signing
Of Pact, Envoy Says
Bv the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 22—Germans kept
President Emil Hacha of Czecho
slovakia conscious with injections
so he could sign away the inde
pendence of his country, the French
government reported in a Yellow
Book published yesterday.
The story, as related by Robert
Coulondre, former French Ambassa
dor to Berlin, was one of more than
350 documents dealing with inter
national events since the Munich
agreement on Czecho-Slovakia In
September, 1938.
M. Coulondre's report to the then
French foreign minister, Georges
Bonnet, said President Hacha faint
ed from excitement when he was
called to Berlin the night of March
14, 1939, and heard Adolf Hitler's
plans for reducing the Czech state
to a protectorate.
President Hacha was revived, only
to swoon again and again as more
severe clauses of the program were
read before the Nazi chieftains, M.
Coulondre declared.
Convinced Attack Near.
“Finally, at 4:30 a.m.,” on March
15, Coulondre telegraphed Bonnet
in code, "Hacha resigned himself,
with death in his soul, to give his
signature.” after being convinced
that hundreds of German bombers
were ready to take gff on a raid
against Czecho-Slovakia at 6 a.m.
President Hacha, he said, was
“worn out and kept conscious only
by injections.”
M. Coulondre added that the
Czech foreign minister. Dr. Franti
sek Chvalkovsky, who accompanied
Hacha, exclaimed on leaving the
German chancellery, “Our people
will condemn us. but all we did was
to save their lives! We have pre
served them from a horrible mas
sacre!”
French efforts to spare Poland
the same fate as Cecho-Slovakia
also were recounted in the Yellow
Book. One document indicated that
Germany was warned two months
in advance of the Polish invasion
that France would fight.
This document was a warning M.
Bonnet was reported to have sent
to German Foreign Minister Joachim
j von Ribbentrop after conferring at
j the French foreign office with the
| German Ambassador.
Describes Visit to Hitler.
A visit to Hitler's “Eagle Nest”
also was described by Andre Fran
cois-Poncet, French Ambassador to
Rome, who said Hitler's retreat
definitely gave him the creeps.
“I felt suspended in space,” M.
Francois-Poncet wrote to the for
eign office October 20, 1938, during
the confused post-Munich era.
“* * * The effect was grandiose,
savage, almost like a hallucination.”
M. Francois-Poncet was invited to
the retreat, which he said was sur
rounded by machine gun nests,
when he took leave of Germany to
assume his new post in Rome.
The nest at Berchtesgaden, he
wrote, is over a mile high, reached
by 10 miles of winding roadway
carved from the rocky ridge and
which leads to a tunnel at the end
of which an elevator ascends to the
glass-inclosed turret of rooms over
looking the Bavarian Alps.
There Mr. Francois-Poncet found
himself with Hitler and Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
amid teacups and Hitler's “irri
tated” talk of England's “menacing
words and call to arms.”
The Ambassador said he asked
himself whether he was in a “Victor
Hugo fantasy” or “a den of thieves
where they rested and counted their
treasures.”
D. C. Court Vacancy
To Be Filled Soon
The appointment of a successor
to the late Justice Joseph W. Cox
of District Court will be made the
first week Congress gets back, At
torney General Murphy told his
press conference yesterday after
noon. The Attorney General said,
however, that the new justice had
not been selected definitely.
There are about a dozen Federal
court vacancies and the Attorney
General expects them all to be
filled the first of the year.
U. S. Missionary Tells of Stay
In Russian Prison Camp
«y me Associated r-re&s.
FREDERICK, Md„ Dec. 22.—For
six long weeks suffering ffom scanty
rations and cold, the Rev. Gaither
P. Warfield was held in a Russian
prison camp, and finally was releas
ed only in “exchange” of other pris
oners to Germany, he told friends
here.
The former Frederick resident,
now a Methodist missionary in War
saw, advised his brother, Robert L.
Warfield, he was taken prisoner by
Soviet troops while fleeing with his
staff from the Warsaw bombings.
A Soviet officer near the Russian
border took his American passport
“and later, by mistake, I was taken
to Russia as a war prisoner.
“We were carried to the center
of the country to a prisoners’ camp
in the Province of Kursk. Here I
was held for six weeks in spite of
every attempt to get in touch with
tne American Amoassaaar m Mos
cow,” he wrote.
“When later opportunity opened
to be returned to Poland and b«
turned over to the Germans, I glad
ly agreed and took it. For nine days
we traveled by freight cars from oui
encampment in Russia to the Rivei
Bug in Poland, where we were ex
changed for other prisoners anc
handed over to the Germans.
"Two days later I was released bj
the Germans as a civilian in th<
city of Radom, and immediately ]
returned to Warsaw, where I arrivet
on the 8th of November.”
He said he had “passed througl
many hard experiences” because h<
lacked an overcoat “and I was no
used, like many of the Polish sol'
diers, to living on black bread.”
“It will take a month of norma
feeding for me to get my usua
strength and be able to do my ful
schedule of work,” he wrote.
Miami Area Officials
Promise to Aid F. B. I.
In Crime Probe
J. E. Hoover's Agents
Checking Rackets and
Gambling Revenues
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 22.—
City and county officials promised
co-operation today In a Federal In
vestigation of crime and civic cor
ruption in this winter resort area.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
reported his agents were conduct
ing a "bird-dog survey” similar to
those that preceded cleanups in
Hot Springs, Ark.; Kansas City and
Louisiana.
"It is a good idea,” commented
Mayor E. G. Sewell of Miami. "Hon
est people need have nothing to
fear, and an investigation may
serve to drive the dishonest ones
out.”
Picture ‘Not Wholesome.’
"The Miami area does not pre
sent a very wholesome picture,”
Mr. Hoover declared after Attor
ney General Murphy said in Wash
ington the F. B. I. chief was in
vestigating reports concerning for
mer associates of A1 Capone.
Mr. Hoover asserted that “no
torious” hoodlums were in Miami
and Miami Beach and added that
rackets being operated in this vicin
ity could not exist without cor
ruption.
"Were looking over the situa
tion very closely,” he added. "A
prosperous season always brings
members of the underworld to
places like this. * * * I think
that it is an outrage that a com
munity of homes like Miami has
to be plagued by such scum. We’ve
got to get them out of here.”
interested In Gambling Revenue.
Mr. Hoover declared the survey
would cover all local crime condi
tions. He declined to specify any
rackets being investigated, but did
say the Government was interested
<n the revenues from gambling.
“Mr. Hoover is welcome to make
the investigation," said Mayor John
H. Levi of Miami Beach. "All of
the city officials will co-operate with
him. We know there are hoodlums
here, as in every other city.”
“It is a good thing,” said County
Solicitor Robert R. Taylor. “I most
certainly w'ill co-operate if called
upon.”
Look Into Capone Angle.
The F. B. I. chief said some per
sons known to have represented A1
Capone's interests in the past were
here and that Federal agents were
interested in their activities.
The former gang leader, who has
a home in Miami Beach, has been
under treatment at a Baltimore hos
pital after serving a Federal prison
term for income tax evasion.
Mr. Hoover said plans for the in
vestigation were made when he
visited the city last summer. Per
sonnel of the Miami F. B. I, office
was increased then and more agents
will be added this winter.
Last winter machine-gun bandits
robbed the Blackstone Hotel of
$70,000 in cash and jewelry.
Hanes
tContinued From First Page.)
siblv in his native Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Mr. Hanes stayed at the S. E. C.
for six months. He was active in
promoting co-operation between the
commission and the New York Stock
Exchange. Then Mr. Morgenthau
invited him to become Treasury
Undersecretary with a special mis
sion to revise taxes to help business.
Mr. Haines was instrumental in
getting some tax adjustments last
session, but officials have been se
cretive about what, if any, tax pro
gram may be undertaken next ses
sion.
At any rate, Mr. Hanes is under
stood to consider his tax work fin
ished because he does not plan to
stay in the Treasury long enough to
testify at already scheduled tax
hearings of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
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Herndon Parole Case Hearing
Is Delayed Until January 23
John Herndon, left, shown leaving District Court with his
attorney, Denny Hughes. —Star Staff Photo.
The fates which threaten to send
John Herndon back to Illinois for a
crime he thought long dead and
paid for turned slightly the other
way for him today.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of
District Court, acting as executive
officer of the District, ordered the
hearing on the extradition of the
39-year-old Smithsonian Institution
employe adjourned until January 23.
Herndon's arrest recently on a
charge of reckless driving led to a
charge against him in Illinois of
violating the parole he was given in
1927 after serving almost seven years
of a 10-years-to-life sentence on a
robbery charge at a reformatory in
Pontiac, 111.
After presentation of evidence to
day by Assistant United States At
torney A. B. Caldwell and Herndon's
attorney, Denny Hughes, Chief Jus
tice Wheat commented:
“There is a question in my mind
as to whether this man is a fugi
tive. The Christmas holidays are
here. I think we ought to give him
an opportunity to prove his side.”
Mr. Hughes had contended:
That Herndon had reported to
the parole authorities repeatedly
from North Carolina—the State to
which he was paroled in 1927—until
the report blanks accidentally were
destroyed by fire.
That he was informed by Illinois
officials, after he had asked advice
from them on several subsequent
occasions, that all they asked was
that he stay out of that State.
That he later joined the Coast
Guard (from which he waa released
after It was made known he had a
prison record);'worked in the De
partment of Justice as a clerk; re
ceived a recommendation from that
department when he had to be dis
charged because of his criminal
record; was accepted for a job at
the Bureau of Internal Revenue on
the basis of the' recommendation;
was employed later as a labor fore
man at the Naval Air Station, and
subsequently became a clerk at the
Smithsonian Institution, a position
he has held for three years.
That Herndon was married and
had been a “model citizen” since his
parole.
Mrs. Herndon was present in the
hearing room, her eyes red with
tears.
“I can’t see the justice in doing this
to him,” she said before the hearing,
“particularly when he has been a
good man and never was aware he
was doing any wrong.”
The traffic case against Herndon
was referred to the probation officer
after he pleaded guilty in Police
Court early this fall.
Herndon's fingerprints were made
as a matter of course by the officer,
and the former readily admitted
his prison record when asked, also
in the routine, if he had one. A
few days later word came from
Illinois that Herndon was wanted,
and extradition papers followed.
He was arrested as a fugitive and
released under $300 bond — the
amount Chief Justice Wheat al
lowed—continued until the hear
ing is resumed.
Santa Claus Embarrassed
KEARNEY, Nebr., Dec. 22 OP).—
It takes a lot to discourage Santa
Claus, but discouraged he was at a
Christmas party for residents of
Kearney State College women’s
dormtiory.
Santa’s belt broke and he beat a
hasty exit. He reappeared only to
have his belt break again. He dis
appeared—permanently.
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Survivors of Columbus
Promised Yule Turkey
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The S76
survivors of the scuttled German
liner Columbus, who say they have
been fed better during the last three
days than In weeks, will have turkey
for Christmas dinner If they re
main at Ellis Island.
Byron H. Uhl, district director of
Immigration, said today he did not
expect their release until late next
week, because a report on the ques
tioning of the officers and seamen
must go to Washington for final ac
tion.
D. T. Magowan, commissary con
tractor on the island, made the
promise of turkey and its usual com
plements for Christmas dinner. Al
ready the Germans, who were
brought here Wednesday night by
the United States cruiser Tuscaloosa,
have praised the fare given them.
Mr. Uhl said the questioning of
the survivors so far had revealed
nothing to indicate that they should
be treated as other than "distressed
seamen” and permitted to remain
60 days in port, in accordance with
immigration laws affecting the crews
of ship-wrecked vessels. Intern
ment would be enforced, it was said,
only if the Columbus should be
shown to have been armed.
Crucible Steel and C. 1.0.
Settle Contract Dispute
By the Associated Press,
PITTSBURGH. Dec. 22.—Settle
ment of a prolonged contract con
troversy between the Steel Worker*'
Organizing Committee (C. I. O.) and
the Crucible Steel Co. of America
has been announced by Clinton 8.
Golden, regional S. W. O. C. director,
A strike vote taken early this
month among the corporation’s
12,000 workers was abrogated by the
agreement, Mr. Golden said. The
result of the vote never was made
public.
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