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The Weather
Unsettled today and
Thursday, little change la
tempera tore. 3 lax temp.
Tuesday 89, mln. 82. River
-5 feeU 8onth wind.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, December 21, 1938
Price Sc; Newsstands 6
No. 230
New Arrest Is
Made in Probe
Of Drug Setup
Benjamin Simon la Held
on Conspiracy Charge
Against US
Learn Musicas Expended
Great Sums for Lobby
. on Liquor
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-(fl)-Ben-Jamln
Simon, who lives at the ad
dress in the Bronx which appears
on faked birth certificates filed
three years ago In Washington by
the Musica brothers, was arrested
tonight on a "general conspiracy"
charge in connection with the Mc
Kesson & Eobbins drug firm scan
dal. A man named Ben Simon was
questioned last Saturday by in
vestigators of the securities and
exchange commission : who are
de-vlng into the case and a Ben
Simon was mentioned also in tes
timony concerning purported mu
nitions deals of F. Donald Coster
Musica, head of the drug firm who
killed himself. ,1
Simon was seized by federal
and local officials at the direction
of Assistant US Atty Gen. Brien
McMahon. ,
No Trace Found
of "Midwife"
They found him at 1840 Grand
Concourse, the address given on
the Coster birth certificates for
"Adele Vinard," who was listed as
midwife when . the' papers were
filed in the capital in August,
1935. No trace of Adele Vinard
could be found and none recalled'
that she ever lived at that address.
Taken to police headquarters,
Simon was booked as a salesman,
49 years old, and charged with
violating section. 88, title 18 of
the federal laws. - :
The name Simon was brought
into the state attorney general's
inquiry by Frederick Wingersky,
Boston lawyer and vice president
in charge of law and labor rela
tions for McKesson & Bobbins.
Wingersky testified before As
sistant State Attorney General
Ambrose V. MeCall that ' he had
drafted a proposed contract for
the sale of arms,' and ammunition
and that he had turned the papers
over to Ben Simon at the order of
Coster-Musica. Wingersky said
that, so far as he knew, the con
tract never-was consummated, '
Offense Against
U8 Is Charge
Taken to the federal courthouse,
where he was detained overnight,
Simon was photographed and finger-printed.
The section which he
was charged with violating deals
with conspiracies to defraud or
commit. an offense against the
United States and provides a pen
alty of not more than two years
in prison or $10,000 fine or both.
Further investigation of Coster
Muslca's operations, meanwhile.
Indicated that. the millions pirated
from McKesson and Robbins most
ly bad been frittered away.
Much Said Spent
for Lobbying j
Great sums mulcted from the
$87,000,000 firm, they added,
were, sunk in lobbying activities in
virtually every state and in Wash
ington. The three -surviving M usica
brothers, all masquerading under
assumed names along with Coster
Musica, who resigned the McKes
son St RObblns presidency by sui
cide last Friday, are held in de
fault of $100,000 ball each.
Brian McMahon, assistant US
attorney general, who came here
from Washington to coordinate
the federal activities, said the
brothers' revenue from bootleg
ging alcohol ran into millions but
that "their Ill-gotten: gains are
mostly gone."
"They didn't live- lavishly
either," he Said, . "We have rea
son to believe .much money was
used for promoting favorable leg
islation everywhere for price-fixing
on liquors. We 'are particu
larly interested in what happened
in western states.
"Our inquiry is already under
way from the Pacific Coast east
ward, and Including Washington."
McMahon said there also was
some indication' that the Musica
brothers, who hidthelr connection
with a million-dollar swindle a
quarter of a century old under
different names and pedigrees,
were probably forced to pay blackmail.
Holy Father Gives
Thanks for Living
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 20.-W)-Pope
Pius I knelt today in a long
prayer of thanksgiving that his
life had been spared to enter the
COth year of his priesthood.
He prayed after mass in his pri
vate chapel, surrounded by flow
ers sent from all parts of Italy and
from as far away .as Paris by his
devout admirers on this anniver
sary. ; '
A Vatican news service report
ed the 81-year-old holy father's
health was good. He suffered an
attack of cardiac asthma Novem
ber 25.
"Little Flower"
Knocked Down
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A
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Snyfler's Fate
is in
Jury
nsiderat
ion
f
FIORELLO LaGUARDIA
New York Mayor
Gets up Fighting
"Lucky for Him I Wasn't
Facing Him," Declares
"Utile Flower"
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-(ff)-May-or
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, five feet
three Inches and weighing about
160 pounds, was knocked down
from behind today at the entrance
to city hall by James Hagan, some
six inches taller and 30 pounds
heavier and promptly announced
his assailant was lucky they had
n't met face to face.
The pugnacious mayor, whose
only visible Injury was a red welt
under the right eye, waved away
sympathy with the remark: .
' "It was-nothing. That all hap
pens in a day's work. It was noth
ing compared to some blows de
livered under the belt."
But, he added reflectively, "I
think it was very fortunate for
him that I was not facing him. '
Hagan, Identified by the police
as a. discharged WPA employe
who apparently blamed the mayor
for the loss of his job, was charged
with simple assault and then com
mitted to Bellevue hospital psy
chopathic word for a bearing De
cember 30. He made no threat on
LaGuardia's life. t iiif
- It was the first physical brush
LaGuardia has had since becom
ing mayor, despite a characteristic
belligerency which always has
contrasted oddly with his first
name, which means "the little
Cower."
Rain Is Greeting
As Winter Comes
-I - !
Season of Snows Official
After 4:14 Tomorrow
Morning I '
PORTLAND, Dec. 2 0 (JP)
Slightly higher temperatures and
predictions of rain today scoffeU
at the official advent of winter.
, Winter offiically begins at 4 : 14
a. m., Thursday, the moment of
the winter solstice. '
However, snow dusted Portland
and much of the state last night
and today. The tea viest rain of
the winter, .24 of an Inch, fell at
Medford. 1
Snow fell at Ashland and plows
were used to remove the white
blanket from -the highway through
the Siskiyou mountains. Fog add
ed to motoring dangers.
Temperatures here ranged from
34 to 38 degrees today, melting
the snow that fell during the
Bight.
Other temperatures: Baker 32,
Bend 20, Burns 18,, 8 Brookings
44, Hood River 288, Lakeview 34.
Medford 34, Newport ' 36, North
Bend 40. Pendleton 26, Portland
34, Siskiyou Summit 26. h
The general forecast was for
clouds tonight and Wednesday
with showers in the west and snow
flurries, in the east.
; Small craft warnings flew at
the mouth of ihe Columbia Tiver.
Highways generally were open,
but most were icy or covered with
packed snow; in spots.
tttorafy Compares Ruth
Ettirjg to Esmeralda
i4 Hugo Novel
M
Says Sjinger Threw off
Snyofr After He Had
iiiilt Her up
LOS JjTGELES, Dec 20-flP)-A
superitr court jury in the case
of Marti (The Gimp) Snyder,
accused $f attempting to murder
Myri Alfierman, who succeeded
him as te husband of Ruth Et
ting, former radio singer, retired
for the flight it 8:35 p. m.
(PST) tips evening.
After Considering the evidence
in the cfse for four and a half
hours, wfth an intermission for
dinner, te Jury reported it had
decided fp suspend deliberations
until 10 b'clock tomorrow morn
ing. &
Duringf? closing arguments in
the case iioday, the jurors heard
Miss Etting likened to Earner
elda in "fhe Hunchback of Notre
Dame"- woman, who forsook
her cripifcled protector for a
younger Jipan.
Snyderfl counsel, Jerry Giesler,
deliveredtia severe castigation of
the former radio singer, whom
he said cjvorced Snyder after he
had gives 15 of the best years
of his li$ to promoting her ca
reer, because she wanted a
younger ian.
Giesler Bjlps
Miss Ettjg .
Gieslertold the jury Mlsa Et
ting had lived a life of deceit,
that she f accepted Snyder when
she was jf "mere chorus girl" be
cause she' saw in him the means
to an en and that although be
was a cripple and not ver. well
educated, she knew he could
promote ler professional career.
"When! an artist gets to the
age when' she can go no further,
professionally, about 40 years of
age, theri comes a 'play time,"
Giesler safd. "Miss Etting didn't
want Snjder any longer. She
had kept Mm as long as he could
be of u to her. Now she
wanted another man, a younger
man,, a physically whole man,
for a playmate. r c
' "Alder&jan -was hat man. In
him she v4got what she wanted,
but that i no reason the should
get. what he wants In this case.
It doesn'i mean she should get
for a weeding present the con
viction ad imprisonment of her
former husband.
Compares Etting
To Esmetplda
"EsmeiVlda, too, wanted a
young ,roni a . man who was
physicallyS whole. When she
found hinf she left the cathedral,
where sl9 was sheltered and
safe, anl was hanged. They
found thl hunchback dead at
ber bier. finally reunited with
his love.'H
inhis haids and sobbed.
Giesler.; said he hoped the
f Miss Etting and Al-
ho flew to Las Vegas,
week for the surprise
would be a lasting
he had grave
marriage ;
dtrman.
Nev., ; las
Ceremony!
one, but he said
doubts.
TCLfCA to Give
Asciates Place
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 20
The famji TCLACA (Two Can
Live as Cjkeaply One association)
at the Upversity of Oregon fig
ured it nght be a good idea to
accept sope associate members.
Six students who were formerly
-married Uave applied for admis
sion. T
The atociation, formed two
years ago reported 173 students,
five per nent of the enrollment,
were mailed. Its founders, Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Kessh -r, are still
on ,the cjmpus and have added
a daughtn- to theli household,
Marriecf students usually have
better grajfles than the garden va
riety of iimarried scholars, pre
sumably tfcause they spend more
time at hjme, university officials
reported. S
German Boycott Voted
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 20-ff)
-A boycott of all German made
goods by the AFL Alameda coun
ty building trades council was an
nounced here today by J. C. Rey
nolds, business representative of
the council. The boycott was In
protest against Reichsfuehrer
Hitler's policies. - ,
Germany Asks Refvigee Head
To Talk Jew Hega Method
; (By the Associated Press)
Official Germany yesterday fi
nally extended an invitation to
the executive director of .inter
national refuge office to go t j
Berlin to discuss plans for emi
grating Germany's nearly 700,
000 Jews. ; r jt :i
Field ' Marshal Herman W11-.
helm Goering, i chief of the nasi
four-year economic plan, invited
the director, George Rublee, an
American, after Rublee f had
waited two months to go to Ger
many to talk to officials on the
problem.
Rublee was expected to pre
sent counter-proposals to German
plans, one of which was reported
to Include permission fori Jews
to take as much as 20 per cent
of their wealth out of Germany,
although this project was -reported
- dependent on ' sale of
more German! goods abroad.
The charge that Germany was
planning to march eastward
It-
through fhe : Ukraine ' of soviet
Russia w made in Paris by the
White RuMsian General Anton
Denikine. pe said Chancellor Hit
ler aspirefs to cut off all the rich
southern provinces of the soviet
union anu carry nazi Influence
1,800 mills east of Berlin to the
Caucasian! mountains.' r
A Japanese spokesman in
Shanghai ft reported Tokyo's air
and navaf forces had bombarded
for three fdays Chinese positions
between fiakhoi. In the extreme
south ofrj China, to Shantung
promontow in the north, the Jap
anese, concentrating the attacks
on guerria units behind Japan
ese lines, .
Britain house of commons ap
proved by a vote of 270 to 9 the
government's plan for a national
register q the nation's reserves
and manpower for voluntary de
fense sereicei The plan will be
tried for fat trial period ending
next Mar, when it will be re
viewed an altered as necessary.
Martin Snyder Awaits Decision
From Jury on Trial's Outcome
jet
Martin (The Gimp) Snyder is shown at his trial in Los Angeles on a
charge of attempted murder of Myri Alderman conferring with his
attorney, acrobatic Jerry Geisler, right.
Medical Group
Held Violator
Chance Is Viewed
Of new City Barn
Payment of $9895 County
Withheld by Mistake
May Give Funds
Salem city officials yesterday
saw a chance to replace the an
cient, dilapidated city barns at
13 th and Ferry streets in an an
nouncement' by the district WPA
office here that a project for
razing the old structures had
been approved and in advices
that the county court had au
thorized payment of $9895.72 to
the city In delinquent tax inter
est mistakenly 'withheld during
the last five years.
The WPA would be glad to
r e e e i ve an application for a
project to build a new city ware
house, Fred Bates, office engi
neer,, said after disclosing ap
proval of the . demolition project.
Plans already prepared 'at ths
city hall call for a 100 by 140
structure with concrete walls
and timber inner structure. Cost
of materials alone has been esti
mated at I10.00ii r
Alderman E. B. Pfcrrin;
ell street- committee rhairman
who has repeatedly sought bud
get appropriations for replace
ment of the old barns, declared
"if we can arrange it, we will
build the new warehouse." He
said receipt of the money from
the county should make .the
project possible. ..
The city in the tall rejected
a PWA grant for the warehouse
when it developed requirements
would run costs above the
amount - the city would have
available.
conn-Y men,
8-Year-Old ChOd
Accident Victim
WOODBTJRN. Dec. 20 Albert
Hoffman, 8-year-old son of, Cyril
and Marie Hoffman who live near
Playmore park on the Pacific
highway, was Injured fatally
Tuesday afternoon between 3:30
and 4 o'clock when he was hit by
an automobile driven by Max
Fisher of Falls City. The boy had
started home from school in Hub
bard and stopped at a house along
the road to play. As he started on
toward his own home he is said
to have stepped directly in front
of the Fisher machine. He was
rushed tohe Woodburn hospital
but died enroute.
The body is at the Beechler
O'Hair mortuary.
Jack Doyle Away
For Old Country
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Dec. 20-(JP)-S
a c k Doyle, 24-year-old
Irishman who fights and sings,
waved goodbye today to America
from the Italian . motorship Cel
Una as he sailed for Europe to
escape being deported by the U3
immigration service.
At the dock to see hh'. off
were. Movita, his Mexican-born
att'ress-flancee, John Bac-So, hl3
nfanager, and Mrs. William Koe
nig, wife of the motion picture
director.
Whether Doyle married Movita
before his departure was a
point he declined to clear up.
They obtained a license last week
in nearby Ventura county, but
there was no record of its use.
Midnight Deadline
For Ball Machines
Sheriff A. C. urk yesterday
announced he : would carry out
fully orders from District Attor
ney Lyle J. Page for the confisca
tion of any plnball , machines . or
punchboards found In the county
after midnight tolnght . Page
based his order on an attorney
general's opinion defining provi
sions . of the two anti-gambling
acts passed " by the people , last
month.
"I will have a man out Thurs
day morning to cover the entire
county," Burk declared. "Owners
of any boards or machines found
will be arrested. That goes for
'digger' machines, too."
life Is all Child
Asks From Santa
Scores Rush to Give Aid
by Blood Transfusion -to
Stricken Tot
NASHVILLE, Aenn., Dec. 20.-(fl3)-Gladys
Avaritt asked Santa
Claus to give her life and scores
rallied to the good saint's aid to
day with offers, of the blood the
10-year-old girl must have if she
Is to sea other Christmases.
The hospital where Gladys lies
a victim dt. aplastic anemia, a le
thal blood disease, yesterday
made public this simple, oral 'let
ter to Santa Claus':
"I don't want Santa Claus Co
bring me anything this year ex
cept something to make me well."
Doctors explained that "some
things to make me well" Is blood.
Blood for . repeated transfusions
through the next few weeks.
The Nashville Post of the Am
erican Legion seized the oppor
tunity and scores of husky Le
gionnaires trooped to the hospital
for tests today. Others were
touched, too, and firemen, police-
plain '!tttenf by- the dozen
joined this mercy, parade. .
Many were tested and tonight
attendants said Gladys was as
sured the fighting chance plenty
of blood can give.
. One of the . donors gave blood
in a transfusion today and more
such operations . will - follow as
needed dozens more, .perhaps,
before the final answer is known.
. As for her not wanting any
thing else, kindly Nash vil Hans re
fused -to take that seriously and
today dozens of dolls and toys and
other gifts were heaped about her
bed in the children's ward.
Ask Tom Mooney
To Make Address
PORTLAND. Dee. 90 aATm
Mooney, widely known California
prisoner, has been Invited to ad.
dress a state congress for indus
trial organisation convention here
January 14 and IE. arranremnt
Secretary James Fanti disclosed
toaay.
Governor-elect Olson nf
fornia has indicated his Intention
to pardon Mooney, convicted in
Connection With a nrpnarortnnsa
day bombing in San Francisco.
an wrote to Mooney that
'your presence here will ha an in
spiration to every worker and will
msuii m mm a determination to
greater accomplishments in th
future.
Fantz also Indicated
would be asked to aid in a tieht
against Oregon's new anti-plcket-
ing law.
Relief Recipients
In Lane Restless
EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 20.-)-Charles
Paddock, chat rman tf a
workers alliance committee, said
todav members arma1 with a iui
-r . " m C llOl
of relief iases "demanding lmme-
Jl.l. i A m m mm -
maie auention.v would demon
strate at the Ijna rnnnt,
offices tomorrow.
Paddock declared tha
tee would move Into the offices
ana "Bold the rort" until the cases
were cared for.
Relief committee officials said
they anticipated tin AnrAor knf
had notified city," state and county
autnoriues. The officers declared
no form of disorder would be tolerated.
Dragged to Death
KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 20
(tfVJohn B. Stockings, 3, truck
driver, was instantly killed yester
day when a chain booked his
clothing and dragged him under
a load of logs at a lumber mill
near Bly.' - i ' .
Sheridan Sun Is Sold
SHERIDAN, Dec. 20.-(Jp)-A&e-laide
Lake, former reporter for
the Portland Oregonian, and Paul
Launder announced the sale of
the Sheridan Sun, a weekly news
paper, today to Mr. and Mrs.' C. F,
Brown of Stanwood, Wash. The
transfer will occur January 1.
Of Trust Law
AMA and Affiliates Are
Named in Indictment
by Federal Jury
Fight of Major Import
for Medical History
Is Looming
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-(iP)-A
legal light fraught with major 1m
port for the future history of
medical care in the United States
began today when a federal grand
jury indicted the American med
ical association, three affiliated
societies, and 21 leading physi
cians on a charge of violating the
Sherman anti-trust act.
The Medical association an
nounced immediately that it
would throw all its energies into
the battle against the charge. Dr
Morris Fishbein, leader in the
association, said at Chicago that
Its house of delegates had auth
orized its board of directors to
"defend the case to the limit."
Result of Fight
On Group Health
The indictment grows out of a
fight by organized medicine
against Group Health association.
Inc., a cooperative setup in
Washington to provide medical
care for government workers who
pay periodical, risk-sharing fees
in advance.
The charge is that the defen
dants conspired to restrain trade
by preventing physicians hired by
the cooperative from practicing in
Washington hospitals or consult
ing with other doctors. It is also
alleged that one doctor was oust
ed from the District of Columbia
Medical society because of his
work with the cooperative, and
that proceedings were started
against another for the same rea
son. Thurman Arnold, new assist
ant attorney general who con
tends the anti-trust laws hare not
been rigorously enforced in the
past, Instituted the action against
the Medical association and the
others named defendants today.
Three Other
Bodies Named
The indictments, copies of
which were released by the de
partment of justice when the
grand Jury7 returned Its. report-
names, besides the medical asso
ciation, the District of Columbia
Medical society, the Washington
Academy of Surgery and the Har
ris County (Texas) Medical so
ciety. - .
.Also named defendants were
Dr. Fishbein, who is editor of the
American Medical Association
Journal; Dr. Olin West, secretary
and general manager of the as-'
soclation; Dr. William C. Woodi
ward, director of the association's
bureau of legal medicine and leg
islation; Dr. William D. Cutter,
secretary of the council on medi
cal education and hospitals of the
association and Dr. Rosco Gen
ung Leland, director of its bu
reau of medical economics. "
Sixteen Washington physicians
were also named in the indict
ment. . '
Indications are that the asso
ciation may carry the case to the
US supreme court, if necessary,
with the contention that Its op
erations cannot be restricted by
the Sherman act since medicine
is not a trade but a profession.
Attorneys for the association have
emphasized that point repeatedly.
Convict Is Freed
From Prison Life
TALLADEGA, Ala., Dec. 20-(iPJ-Convict
Joe Breed's life term
was ended today.
Nineteen years ago Breed was
sent to prison for murder. His be
havior was good and last week
Governor Bibb Graves granted
him a temporary parole . for
Christmas.
Last night, the 52-year-old par
tially paralyzed lifer, unable to
find relatives here, wandered into
the railroad yards. He was killed
by a train.
France Rushes Help
To 48 Colonists on
Storm Swept Island
Raging Indian Ocean Storm Endangers
Lives of Group on "Cursed
Isle" of St. Paul
Bremerton Radio Fan Picks up Jaiul
SOS and Relays It to French
Through US Navy
PARIS, Dec. 20. (AP) France sent an urgent call to
all ships flying the tri-color in the Indian ocean and appealed
to other craft today to rush aid to the isolated volcanic isle oi
St. Paul, where 48 souls clung desperately to life through a
raging storm. -
A feeble SOS flashed half way around the world to be
picked up by an American amateur radio operator, E. R. Gib
son, in Bremerton, Wash., disclosed a new chapter of a sea
saga, of mutiny and misery which began one morning last
May and now threatens to end with a second tragedy on St.
oPaul tne "cursed isle."
The story began at Saint Malo,
Crams Hearing Is
Set for Thursday
More Arrests Are to Be
Made in Theft Ring
Investigation
Fred Grams, 25-year-old co-operator
of the Minot Tavern in the
Hollywood district, whom state
police yesterday revealed they had
arrested in connection with a fam
ily mercantile theft ring, will have
a preliminary hearing at 10 o'
clock Thursday morning.
Charged with receiving and
posessing stolen property, Grams
in Justice court yesterday pleaded
Innocent and his bail bond fixed
at 500, which was not posted.
Information filed with the court
charges Grams with "unlawfully
and feloniously" receiving and
concealing 150 boxes of cigars, 10
cartons of cigarettes, and 10 car
tons of chewing gum, the proper
ty of the McDonald, Candy com-
ipany ot Eugenet recenUyjreported
Stolen, j : ": ', ,r, 4- 'Vi -
Grams' uncle, Reinold Grams,
is in jail in Portland and his aunt,
Clara Grams, Is in Jail at Vancou
ver. Both face charges in connec
tion with the suspected theft ring.
EUGENE? Ore . Dec. 20.-3)-State
police said today they ex
pected to make further arrests
shortly in their investigation of a
suspected mercantile theft ring
operating in northwest cities.
" -Warrants were issued for the
arrest of two men. Several other
persons already are held in Eu
gene, Salem, Portland and Van
couver, Wash., Jails.
Coast Guardsmen
Get Hero Awards
ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 20-
Three coast guardsmen stood
aboard the coast guard cutter
Ingham of Port Angeles today
with the man they rescued from
the boiling surf at the Colum
bia river entrance during a storm
to receive decorations for brav
ery. 'l: "
A , ' gold congressional medal
was - presented to Boatswain's
Mate i John McCormick. Chief
Motor Machinist's Mate Albert L.
Olsen and Surfman He-old W.
Lawrence received silver medals.
The awards were 'In recogni
tion ot assistance rendered the
tug Tyee and the seagoing barge
Nlsqualy which encountered a
strong sea at the bar in March.
While passing a line, Surfman
Richard O. Bracken was washed
overboard from the motor lit a
boat Triumph.
Heroic action resulted In
Bracken's rescue as he was swspt
toward the Jetty rocks.
New Resolution Is Prepared
Against Aggression at
Parley
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 21. -(Wednesday
)-(p)-Pan - American con
ference delegates began drafting
another resolution against aggres
sion early this morning as it be
came apparent no agreement
could be reached on previous
drafts.
The new draft is the "Pan-Am- J
erican formula," Dr. Isidoro Ruiz
Moreno, Argentine chairman, said
after leaving a conference with
the Peruvian and Brasilian dele
gation chiefs shortly before 1
a. m.
He did not describe it further
but thought it might be accept
able to the conference delega
tions. : '
- Previously, the United States
secretary of stated Cordell Hull,
announced the U n 1 1 e d States
could make no further concessions
on the resolution ' and ' that it
would not : be presented to the
conference unless a unanimous
feeling was developed beforehand
Although . the secretary . said
good feeling prevailed among: the
delegates, Argentine Insistence on
wording of the resolution created
the deadlock.
The Argentine delegates said
they had been instructed by Pres
ident Ortlze not to budge from
their stand that no mention be
made of possible aggression from
abroad; 'that the resolution refer
merely to aggression and not spe
cify, its possible origin.
The Peruvian foreign minister.
Dr. Carlos Concha; Afranlo Mello
Franco, Brazilian delegate, and
Dr. Isidoro Rals Moreno, the Ar
gentine chairman, met late last
night to discuss what farther
steps could be taken.
Argentina still has In mind the
possibility of aggression in Latin
America from the United States
and does not want deliberately to
offend European nations upon
whom reflection might be cast by
mention ot aggression from
abroad. b.- ?: t ;
The conference, despite the
deadlock, took a definite step with
introduction of a resolution
against -recognition of territory
gained by force in the western
hemisphere.
. It was expected the resolution
jmau k approved unanimously.
France, where 33 would-be colon
ists, including six women, left
last May aboard L'ile Bourbon to
settle St. Paul, where their leader
had obtained a monopoly for lob
ster fishing.
By July they had reached Port
Said, from where the first news
ot trouble was sent to Saint Malo.
The crew members and the wom
en wives of men aboard the ship
and one painter all wrote that
quarrels had broken out on the
expedition.
At least three of the women
were known to hare left at Dji
bouti, French Somallland, the
next port. Whether the other
three remained aboard as the
trawler continued southward waa
still a mystery in Paris.
Native Crew
Taken Aboard
A French naval communique
said a native crew was taken)
aboard at Djibouti.
The trawler next touched at
Madagascar, off A f r i c a's east
coast, and more crew members
left. It left the Isle of Reunion,
east of Madagascar, to sail for St.
Paul on Sept 12. What happened
oh that trip to those who remain
ed with the expedition wa not
known. , n ?
; Today;i46weverhertcime a
distress call from St. Paul, the :
message Indicating the colonists
had reached the island and set
tled there, using their ship for
shelter in St. Paul's bay, swept
by terrible Indian ocean storms.
Message Says " ' -
Coal Ia Gone
The colony's radio operator
tapped our this message:
"SOS St. Paul island, Indian
ocean. Bad weather. Exhausted
coal. Will Madagascar please call
us. We hope for help. Confirm. .
We forty-eight aboard He-Bourbon."
Twelve thousand miles away,
fax Bremerton, Wash., an Ameri
can amateur intercepted the call.
He relayed it to the U. S. navy
department in Washington, which
passed it on to the French gov- 1
ernment via the cruiser U. 8. S.
Omahar stationed in the Medi
terranean. The ministry of colonies acted i
immediately, cabling the admin- U
lstratlon of the French island of I'
Madagascar, off' Africa's east
coast, to communicate with St.
Paul, send aid and report back U
Paris.
The colonists in distress set
out for St. Paul, ominously called
"The Isle, of Perdition," despite
the fact that a previous attempt
to colonise the island had ended
disastrously in 1931.
In that year a group ot about
0, Buttering from malnutrition,
were rescued after more than a
dozen had starved to death, and
were repatriated In Brittany.
Detroit Trucker
Strike Is Halted
DETROIT, Dec. 2 1-( Wednes
day )-P)-A city wide -tr4ke ot
truck drivers that would have
tied up delivery operations dur
ing the Christmas, rush, was
called oft Tuesday night, 45 min
utes before- midnight, when it
was to have become effective.
Approximately 1,600 to 2.000
men would have been idle.
Movement of' merchandise front
warehouses to stores and. trans
portation of meat, groceries and
produce would have been halted.
Retail delivery would not have
been extensively Impeded.
A temporary agreement waa
announced by spokesmen of lo
cal 2S9 of the International
Brotherhood' of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Help
ers -(AFL) and the Detroit Cart
age association, representing -virtually
all the operators.
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