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Hull Holds Slim Hope
For World Peace,
Urges U. S. Unity
Secretary Sees 1940
Fraught With Profound
Significance for Nation
By GARNETT D. HORNER.
Secretary of State Hull called on
Americans today to meet the new
year's grave war-born problems with
clear-thinking unity in order to in
*ure our own safety and help the
world as a whole “find the road of
peace and progress.”
He held out a slim hope for world
peace during the coming year—a
hope mingled with “fear and ap
prehension” that peace might not
come until after more "ruthless and
unnecessary destruction of life and
property.”
In any event, 1940 will be “fraught
With profound significance” for this
country, Mr. Hull said in a state
ment issued last night in response
to requests for his views on the out
look for the coming year.
He said that if the warfare in
other parts of the world is intensi
fied, its effects will fall more and
more heavily upon us, while if peace
should come we would be bound in
our own best interest to help create
a “stable and enduring world peace.”
Remarkable Degree of Unity.
“It is a comforting thought,” he
added, “that since the outbreak of
hostilities in Europe, our people have
shown a remarkable degree of unity
in meeting the vast complexity of
problems thrust upon us by that
catastrophe.
“Only thus can we keep strong
within, insure the safety and secur
ity of our own Nation, and make
our appropriate contribution toward
helping the world as a whole to seek
and find the road of peace and
progress.
“Never before was there greater
need in this country for resoluteness
of spirit, clear thinking, breadth of
vision, and willingness to deal with
the grave problems before us in the
light of those basic and crucial con
siderations which affect the lives of
each and every one of us today, and
which will be decisive in shaping
our Nation's future.”
Fear. Apprehension and Hope.
Declaring that it would be rash to
attempt to forecast the course of
world events during the coming
year, Mr. Hull said he was sure “that
there are in the world few men and
women in whose hearts and minds
there is not today a mingling of fear
and apprehension and of hope."
He ascribed the fear and appre
hension to the possibility that “the
black shadow of violent warfare”
may grow blacker yet in the months
to come, pointing out that troops
lined up along hundreds of miles of
iromiers may ue umeasneu ai any
moment and make a shambles of
great civilized areas."
On the other hand, he said the
hope springs from a profound con
viction ‘‘that there is no inevitability
about war." He emphasized that
there is a way of peace if all nations
choose it and none tries to force its
Will upon others.
Substitutes Encouraged
To encourage the production of
substitutes. Japan is establishing an
organization to handle the distribu
tion of substitute products.
Patrols
(Continued Prom First Page.)_
this came from a Russian patrol
and I piled out into the snow again,
burying myself deep. When I heard
a scuffle on the ice of the road,
curiousity made me look up. Two
reindeer stood majestically on the
road, paused for a moment and then
disappeared with a crashing noise
Into the woods.
Twenty Finns appeared out of
nowhere within 10 seconds. When I
looked closer, I saw a number of
tents and dugouts. all below the
level of the ground and camouflaged
with pines, where the soldiers had
comfortable, warm quarters. This
was the advance patrol base of the
advanced Finnish front.
Silently the Finns ate the hot
soup, thick bread and butter and
sausage that we brought them.
Nothing was said except one or two
words by the commanding officer of
the base to the sled driver as the
ammunition on the supply sleds was
unloaded. I went with the com
manding officer a few yards into the
woods, and. had he left me there, I
never would have found the dugouts
again, for I heard nothing and saw
nothing but trees and snow.
Two Russians Killed.
On our way back, we heard a sud
den rifle-crack about 500 yards to
our left. By the time we reached
the dugouts, some men were already
on skis to investigate. There was a
burst of machine-gun fire, then more
sharp rifle cracks that echoed up
and down in the dreadful stillness,
and then silence. The Finns remain
ing at the base had kept on eating.
mpn a nnn unine luamns un
skis and told the commanding officer
that two Russians were dead, speak
ing in a matter-of-fact voice that
sounded like a clerk quoting the
bank rate.
With the supplies unloaded and
the soldiers fed. we began the return
Journey with the sleds. The sol
diers grinned a cherry good-by and
we began a tense journey as the
light increased and the Soviet bat
teries on a hill 3 miles to the north
began the morning bombardment
of a Finnish hill on the east. We
crept at a snail’s pace, and. for once,
I hated the light, which made the
sleds an easy target for some Soviet
sniper on a hill along our route.
Occasionally we heard the whine of
rifle bullets, but we could not hurry.
Finally we gladly arrived at the
sheltered post from which we had
started.
Much credit belongs to the men
who make this ever more dangerous
trip day after day, for the nerves
are kept near the snapping-point
all the time. When I reached com
parative safety. I felt tired and
depressed after only one trip. Day
after day, it must be killing.
At the hut there was a pile of
Russian equipment. It was like the
tragic pile of goods that is seen on
either side after every battle. As
always, the kitbags contained such
things as women’s high-heeled
shoes, stockings, lipsticks and cur
tain material, and. in one, a doll.
These luxuries had been picked up
by the Soviet troops while passing
through Finnish villages. They were
pathetic reminders of those who
suffer in all wars.
A
MONTEVIDEO.—GERMAN boat to be interned—The German merchant Ship Tacoma,
which stood by when the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was destroyed, will be interned for
the duration of the war, the Uruguayan government announced. The Tacoma is shown in Mon
tevideo Harbor. —A. P. Wirephoto.
I
Tacoma
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ashore was not immediately decided.
Uruguayan officials said the ship
would remain where she was for two
days and then be brought into the
inner harbor to be moored for the
duration of the war.
Fifty Uruguayan marines aboard
the Uruguayan Navy's steamer La
Vaileja went out to the Tacoma.
Capt. Know ran up a German na
val ensign yesterday afternoon and
steamed from the inner harbor, a;
the Admiral Graf Spee had dont
two weeks previously.
Stopped Inside Breakwater.
Instead of going on to self-de
struction as the warship did, how
ever, the Tacoma dropped anchoi
just inside the harbor breakwater.
There had been water-front re
ports the Tacoma might go tc
Buenos Aires, w’here she might be
treated simply as a merchant ship.
TVw> Anotnlio onri »Vio MiamKnrrr
owned by the same company, have
been anchored at Buenos Aires since
the war began.
Before leaving the inner har
bor, the Tacoma discharged to
a tug baggage which pre
sumably belonged to the crew.
Some of the men had been put
ashore beforehand, and the number
remaining aboard was not disclosed
One estimate said there were 60.
The German Minister, Otto Lang
mann. \\as said to be drafting a
protest to Uruguay against the ulti
matum.
Shropshire May Be Near.
It was considered possible the
9.920-ton British cruiser Shropshire
was somewhere outside the harbor,
The Shropshire, a 32-knot ship, left
Rio de Janiero Saturday morning,
in ample time to have reached
Uruguayan waters.
The British admiralty announced
last night the cruiser Ajax, one oi
three which chased the Admiral
Graf Spee into Montevideo, would
pay a ‘'courtesy" visit here soon, il
Uruguay permits, indicating th«
Ajax already may be near.
The admiralty said the Ajax it
not seeking to enter to repair dam
ages suffered in fighting the Admiral
Graf Spee, as has been reported
here.
Jane Bryan and Walgreen
Manager on Honeymoon
Ey the Associated Press
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.—Justin W
Dart, general manager m the Wal
green Drug Co., and Jlhe Bryan
movie actress, were on their honey
moon today after their marriage in
a surprise ceremony last night at
the apartment of the bride's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James O'Brien.
The O'Briens, who live in Los An
geles. came here for the wedding
which had been tentatively set foi
Tuesday. Mr. Dart, who is 32, said
Miss Bryan would give up her pro
fessional career. He is a former
Northwestern football player and
former son-in-law of the late
Charles R. Walgreen, founder of the
drug store chain. He and Mrs. Ruth
Walgreen Dart were divorced last
April. Mr. Dart was named one ol
the DrinciDal beneficiaries in the
will of Mr. Walgreen, who died De
cember 11.
Miss Bryan, who is 21, appeared
in several supporting roles before
she was starred in “Invisible
Stripes.” She is a native of Holly
wood and attended the University
of California at Los Angeles.
Funeral Services Today
For Mrs. Emma Harriss
POTOMAC, Md., Jan. 1 (Special)
—Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
Harriss. 87, widow of James W. Har
riss. who died at her home near
here, were to be held this after
noon at the funeral home of W,
Reuben Pumphrey, Rockville. The
services were to be conducted by
the Rev. K. D. Swecker, pastor ol
the Potomac Methodist Church, and
burial was to follow in Rockville
Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Harriss was a life-long resi
dent of Montgomery County. She
was a sister of William Turner
O'Neale of Montrose, Md.
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Text of Hull Statement
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Secretary Expresses World Peace Hope,
Mingled With Fear and Apprehension
The text of Secretary Hulls
statement on the outlook for the
new year follows:
It would be a rash man, indeed,
who would undertake to forecast
the course of international develop
ments during the coming year. In
the tangled skein of events in
which the world is now enmeshed,
clarity of thought and of vision is
possible only to the extent that one
clings tenaciously to basic ideas,
which must remain true however
they may be beclouded by the day
to-day situation.
I do not know what the coming
j year will bring, but I am sure that
; there are in the world few men and
women in whose hearts and minds
! there is not today a mmgling of
fear and apprehension and of hope.
The fear and apprehension derive
from the possibility that the black
shadow of violent warfare, under
which the world enters uror. the
year 1940, may grow blacker yet in
the months to come. In the recent
past, mankind has had a preview
of the haunting picture of horroi
that is modem war. Along hun
dreds of miles of frontiers there
now stand embattled, forces that
may be unleased at any moment
and make a shambles of great
! civilized areas.
Says Hope Is Not Dead.
The hope springs from the pro
i found conviction, which is common
! to millions of men and women
everywhere, that there is no inevita
bility about war. There is a way
of peace for all nations, if they
j choose the way of peace rather than
' the way of war. But all nations
must choose the way of peace. If
any of the world's powerful nations
decides to enter upon the road of
armed conquest and determines to
imnose its will UDon others bv force
j of arms or threat of force, other
j nations find themselves confronted
; with the tragic alternatives of sur
render or armed defense,
Hope is not dead today because,
j in the onward march of civilized
1 man. the forces of freedom and
! progress in the end do triumph. In
the grave crisis through which man
kind is passing now, this mav not
happen until after a period of cuth
less and unnecessary destruction of
life and treasure. But the possi
bility is not excluded that, even
I during the coming year, all nations
! may find in themselves sufficient
1 strength of conscience, of reason, of
1 the very instinct of self-preserva
tion to return—before the forces of
destruction have been loosed in all
their fury—to the tried and oroven
road of friendly and peaceful m
! ternational relations, along which
! alone the human race can move in
j the direction of material advance
j ment and spiritual progress.
Significant Period.
Whether, during the year 1940,
the shadow which now overhangs
the world deepens or whether it
lightens and, perhaps, lifts alto
gether, the coming months will be,
for our people, a period fraught
with profound significance. If the
warfare now in progress on other
continents becomes intensified, its
effects will fall more and more
heavily upon us, as well as upon
those directly engaged. If peace
should come, we shall be confronted,
in our own best interest, with the
vital need of throwing the weight
of our country's moral and material
influence in the direction of creat
ing a stable and enduring world
order under law, lest the relations
among nations again assume such
a character as to make of them a
breeding ground of economic con
flict, social insecurity, and, again,
war.
It is a comforting thought that
since the outbreak of hostilities in
Europe, our people have shown a re
markable degree of unity in meeting
the vast complexity of problems
thrust upon us by that catastrophe.
Only thus can we keep strong
within, insure the safety and
security of our own Nation, and
make our appropriate contribution
toward helping the world as a whole
to seek and find the road of peace
and progress. Never before was
there greater need in this country
for resoluteness of spirit, clear
thinking, breadth of vision, and
willingness to deal with the grave
problems before us in the light of
those basic and crucial considera
tions which affect the lives of each
and every one of us today, and which
will be decisive in shaping our
Nation’s future.
Gas Utilities Register
New Gains in 1939
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1—The gas
: utilities of the United States con-'
tinued their record of progress and
! expansion during 1939, according to
I Walter C. Becltjord, president of
the American Gas Association.
"Manufactured and natural gas
| companies, supplying towns and
| cities with a population of almost
82.000.000, served a total of 17,548,
1000 customers, representing the
largest number of consumers ever
; connected to the mains of the in
i dustry and an increase of 376,000
over the year 1938.
"Sales of manufactured gas for
domestic uses increased 1.8 per cent.
House-heating sales registered a gain
of 15.9 per cent. Sales of natural
gas for domestic uses gained 6.7 per
cent. Sales of natural gas for in
dustrial purposes rose 11.2 per cent.
Sales of manufactured gas for in
dustrial purposes increased 17.4 per
cent.”
Chinese lifeline'
Railway Bombed
By Japan's Planes
21 Aircraft Also Shot
Down in South China,
Navy Reports
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 1.—The Jap
anese Navy reported today its planes
had shot down 21 Chinese aircraft
in a big-scale battle in South China
and bombed the Haifeng-Kunming
Railroad near the border of French
Indo-China.
The railroad, built, owned and
operated by the French, is one ol
China's “lifelines” for the import ol
materials.
Damage to the line was reported
slight, but Chinese were said ir
Hong Kong to consider the bombing
significant, since it followed a Jap
anese request to discontinue trans
porting Chinese supplies.
The Japanese said that in the
battle over Lluchow, in Central
Kwangsi Province, they lost onlj
one plane while bringing down the
21 Chinese.
200 Casualties at Ichang.
Reports from the Chinese pro
visional capital, Chungking, saic
Japanese air raids had caused more
than 200 Chinese casualties Satur
day at Ichang, 175 miles west of the
Central China city of Hankow.
The Chinese Army news organ
Saotang-Pao, said at Chungking the
Japanese had suffered 400,000 cas
ualtiee In 6,200 engagements during
1939. Neutral observers said the
estimate was at least 50 per cent too
high.
Meanwhile, from the Northwest
China frontier of Paotouchen in
Suiyuan came details of a savage
battle of 10 days ago in which
Chinese got Inside the walls in a
daring effort to retake the place.
The Japanese said they enticed
10,000 Chinese into a trap and slew
3,000, mostly north of Paotouchen,
with the aid of bombing planes.
Varied Reports on Losses.
The Japanese reported their own
dead were 10 officers and 200 men,
but Chinese sources said 10 times
that many Japanese were killed.
Although the Japanese asserted
all danger was past now, an Asso
ciated Press staff man who visited
Paotouchen was given a truckload
of soldiers as a guard for viewing
part of the battle ground two miles
distant.
Sixty frozen Chinese corpses still
lay where they had fallen before
Japanese machine guns and hand
grenades. No Japanese bodies were
in evidence, but three blasted and
burned Japanese trucks attested
they too had suffered casualties.
Turkey's industrialization pro
gram has been almost paralyzed by
the European war.
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