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Evening star., 1939-11-15
The War in Europe by Day
Musso Seen Tokne Lead in Welding Balkan Neutral Bloc
With at Least Moral Support Of Aneo-French Allies

active cooperation from the allies
is not SO evident.
The friendly gestures which the
allies have been making toward
Rome lead one to suspect that they
are giving Mussolini more than
moral support. 1t is difflcult to see
how, If there wasn't at least tacit
understanding, the allies would feel
comfortable In leaving affairs Of
such moment in II Duce's hands.
1t begins to look as though there
is a sleeping partnership waiting for
Mussolini in the concern OF John
Bull and Company If he wants to
accept it, now that the Rome Ber-
lin affiliation seems to have cooled
off. On that score Mussolini isn't
talking.
Relations Not SO Touchy.
Still, relations between Italy and
the allies aren't so touchy as they
were. There seems to be an incli-
nation to forget the days when the
Italian press was demanding Corsica
and Nice from France and the stu
dents Of the Paris Latin quarter were
responding with a claim for Vesu-
vius.
Britain's First Lord of the Ad-
miralty Winston Churchill made
what seemed like significant state
ment in speech Sunday night. He
said that ITALY which we feared had
become separated from its historic
association with England and
France in the Mediterranean-an
association which will become still
more frultful-has adopted the wise
policy of peace"
True, he got stepped on for thai
by Virginio Gayda, italian editoria
Evening star., 1939-11-15
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,

Associated Press Foreign Affairs writer.
The Soviet Army newspaper Red
Star charges the allies are attempt-
ing to use the Balkans as timber
for the construction of a wooden
horse for the discontinue of Ger
many and Russia.
The paper doesn't put it quite that
way, but asserts in manner of re-
proof that Britain and France are
seeking to create Balkan bloc un-
der their domination and also to
gain control of the all-important
Dardanelles.
Such an achievement would, of
course, be devastating blow at
Germany, and a most unwelcome
obstruction to Communist politico-
economic expansion in that strategic
area.
The Red Star has put its finger on
a vital spot in the European up
heaval. Control of the Balkans and
Dardanelles long has been an allied
dream But different interpreta-
ton may be placed on the drama
unfolding rapidly in this cockpit on
the peninsula.
Hungary and the Balkan States
are being welded into neutral bloc
which presumably will be of a de-
fensive nature. The moving spirit
in this far-reaching enterprise, how
ever, is Mussolini, who has his own
interests in that region. Somewhere
in this picture the allies tit, but
their position isn't so clear.
Duce Has Allies Blessing.
1t is apparent that the Fascist
leader has the blessing of England
and France. Whether he is getting
Evening star., 1939-11-15

writer who often voices the views
of the government. Gayda said it
didn't become England to speak of
the historic association of the three
countries in the Mediterranean
while the British control the sea S
two gateways-Gibraltar and the
Suez Canal.
However, the writer perhaps
wasn't so indignant as his words
appeared. One suspects that in a
back handed manner he was tell
ing England that Italy insists on
greater rights.
Duce Useful as Neutral.
That II Duce doesn't intend to
let Italy get caught between the
allied and the German millstones
is quite apparent. He is out to
improve his country's position while
the going is good and his drive to
create the Balkan bloc is part of
his program.
He still wants territorial expan-
sion to meet Italy's requirements
and, perhaps, his own ambitions,
for Ethiopia isn't filling the bill
Many observers believe that Eng
land and France would be prepared
to give substantial reward to
secure Mussolini as an outright
ally-either active or passive.
One wonders whether in the long
run the allies wouldn't prefer to
see him remain neutral but friendly
A neutral Italy, free to perform
such tasks as formation of the
Balkan bloc. would be more useful
than an Italy invaded by Germans
Such a service would still be worth
the reward at the end of the con-
| flict.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Allentown Firm Wins
Navy Yard Contract

The Navy Department yesterday
announced the award of a $l37, 400
contract for the erection of the
steel framework for a new central
Office and drafting building in the
Washington Navy Yard. The con-
tract, awarded to the Lehlgh Struc-
tural Steel Co. of Allentown, Pa,
called for completion Of the work
within $50 calendar days.
Construction Of the foundation
for the new building now Is being
completed under a separate con-
tract, and bids will be invited in the
near future for third contract for
completion Of the superstructure.
Construction Of the quartermas-
ter warehouse at the local yard is
nearing completion, and steel work
is going up for the large new gun
assembly shop, major item in the
$4,000, 900 expansion program for the
yard. Construction of temporary
berth for the u S. S. Hartford, the
Civil War flagship Of Admiral David
Farragut, is being completed at the
east end Of the yard near the Ana.
costa Bridge.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Teachers Group
To Elect Officers

The Association of Teachers Of
Pre-School Age Children will meet
tomorrow at pm. at the Play Gen.
ter, 1919 M street NV, to elect Of
ficers for the coming year.
The meeting will also include a
panel report on the National Asso-
ciation for Nursery Education meet
ing in New York last month. Speak
ers will include Mrs. Harriet A.
Houdlette, patent education spe-
cialist at the American Association
of University Women; DR.. Dorothy
Whipple, pediatrician at the Chill
dren's Bureau; Mrs. Adelia Dayton
Heiney, director of the Child Re-
search Center. and Mrs. Kate Edel-
man of the United States Housing
Authority.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
|Nozi Radio Jeers
British Rule of
Driving to Left
BY the Associated Press

oy lnS hSSOClateQ FEeSS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The Eng
lish custom of driving on the left
side OF the road instead of the
right, the Columbia Broadcastine
System reported today, has be-
come the basis for German prop
aganda.
The systems short-wave listen
ing post" reported an Oxonian-
voiced announcer at station DXB
in Berlin last night as follows:
I'm lieu of more spectacular VIC
tories on the western front the
British Army is attempting to con-
quer the roads of France. They per-
sist in driving to the left, whereas
the French, who still think France
is their country, drive to the right
The result has been many serious
accidents and delays in traffic"
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Change in Nazi Plan
To Invade Holland
Puzzles British
Allied Preparations,
Unrest in Germany
Seen Explanation
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK.

Chicago Daily News Foreisn Correspondent.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-Germany's
rejection of the Dutch-Belgian
mediation offer leaves the situation
as It was 10 days ago, with only the
change that German invasion of the
Netherlands and Belgium has been
indefinitely postponed. Official
quarters in London are puzzsed to
explain this last-minute alteration
and suggest various reasons why the
much -heralded attack did not hap
pen.
1t is generally agreed that the
wide divergence of opinion inside
Germany between the Nazis and the
Reichswehr operated against inva-
sion of the low countries. but such
divergences are known to be new,
and it is assumed that new con-
siderations caused the German
change of plan. The threat of in
vasion may have been useful to
force the neutral sovereigns to make
a peace bid and. at the same time,
to attempt to frighten them into a
neutrality benevolent to Germany.
Reich Unrest Reported.
From a military viewpoint, Ger
man intelligence reports may have
led the Reichswehr to reconsider in
vasion because of the concerted
Franco-British plans to meet it, and
it is thought here that the Amer
lean reaction certainly surprised
Berlin-though whether the United
States would, in fact, have entered
the war if the neutrals had been in
vaded is doubted. The only other
explanation offered is that the re-
suit of the Munich explosion has
been widespread unrest in Germany,
making a major offensive hazardous.
But it is not believed that the
planned invasion has been given up
permanently Highest political and
military quarters here regard recur-
rent peace moves, alternated by
threatened invasions, as part of a
program which will continue for the
duration of the war.
Any Attack Would Aid Allies.
Military experts constantly remind
that real strategy requires enemy
attention to be attracted to the
quarter on which attacks are the
most unlikely. Therefore. today's
reported troop concentrations in
Southeast Germany may presage an
attack on Hungary which has been
prepared while attention has been
centered on the Netherlands-or
while attention is now being drawn
toward the southeast. a German
invasion of the Low Countries may
develop.
1t would seem that whether the
Germans attack to the southeast or
due west, or do not attack, there are
advantages to Great Britain and
France. Any offensive is bound to
open wider front for the allies
which may prove suicidal for Ger
many, while no offensive gives the
allies time to build up their armies
air forces and production.
Meanwhile. Nazi air attacks on
British naval bases and shipping are
bound to continue.
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Evening star., 1939-11-15
}. Will Taylor Rites
Will Be Held Fridoy
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LA TOILETTE, Tenn, Nov. Is
Representative j. Will Taylor, SO,
Republican, of Tennessee, who died
suddenly at his home yesterday, will
be buried here Friday after services
in the First Baptist Church.
Apparently in good health, Mr..
Taylor had returned to his home
Monday from Washington, D. c.,
where he had voted with the admin
istration forces for repeal of the
arms embargo He was found dead
in bed yesterday morning. His ply
slcian said he suffered heart
attack.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Polish Police Powers
Are Returned by Germans
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOCIATED Press.
KRAKOW, Nov. 15-German au-
thorities administering conquered
regions of Poland turned over to
Polish police today the task of look
ing after the interests of the Polish
population.
German police. it was explained,
henceforth will be charged primarily
with safeguarding Germans and
their institutions in the region.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Lions Plan Program

The North Washington Lions Club
will hold its Our Governors and
Ladies Day Luncheon" at the Ken
esaw Apartment cafe tomorrow at
1914 pm.
Wives and sWeethearts Of the
North Washington Lions will be on
hand to welcome District Gov. John
foreman Of Salisbury, Nd, and
Deputy District Gov. James Enright
of the Bethesda Chevy Chase Lions
Club.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Four Missing in Sinking
Of Destroyer Saved
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-The ad-
miralty announced today that four
of six men previously reported miss
ing from an unnamed British de-
stroyer sunk by a German mine
now are known to have been saved.
A NTH was reported in a hos
pital with serious injuries.
The revised casualty list includes
one dead, one missing and Is
wounded.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Board Votes to Close
Toledo ScohoIs

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 15-Faced
by a 100000 deficit, the Toledo
Board of Education last night or
dered all public schools closed No
vember % for the remainder of the
year.
The closing is a mandate from
the public" board members said,
pointing out 4-mill tax levy for
school purposes was defeated two
to one in the November election.
New revenue will become available
after January |.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Pan-American Group
Meets Here 10 Study
War Trade Problems
Advisory Committee Will
Take 10 Proposals
Under Consideration
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States sought today
blunt and realistic" solutions by
the American republics Of the eco
nomic problems arising from the
European war.
The Inter-American Financial
and Economic Advisory Committee,
appointed at the Panama confer
ence In September, called its first
meeting at the Pan-American
Union. Sumner Welles. Acting Sec
retary of State, is the United States
representative and chairman Of the
meeting.
Meanwhile at Guatemala City
delegates from 18 countries are at
tending the first Pan-American con-
ference of treasury representatives.
There, too, problems presented by
the war in Europe were under dis
cussion.
Mr.. Welles said the advisory COM
mittee, composed of technical rep
resentatives from each of the p
republics, has "a unique opportu-
nifty to undertake task of the high
est significance and of the highest
usefulness.
Practical Problems Faced.
ut is called upon to deal with
practical problems, and if it is to be
successful the solutions it recon-
mends must, in their turn, be feaSi-
BILE and practical" he explained
''If it points out in a practical
manner the way in which existing
and urgent problems affecting inter-
American communications and
trade can actually be solved, bluntly
and realistically, it will not only
have achieved the purpose for which
1t was created, but it will have like
wise demonstrated the best of rea-
sons why close inter- American CO.
operation of this character should
continue in ee future in times of
peace as we'll as in times of war"
Will Study 10 Proposals.
The advisory committee has de-
cided to take under consideration
these matters:
l. To make immediate studies of
any problem of monetary, foreign
exchange or balance of international
payments nature presented by any
Of the American republics.
2. To study means of assuring
stability in monetary and CONNER
cial relationships among the re-
publics.
8. To provide for exchange of
commercial and financial informa-
ton.
4. To propose measures for offset
ting dislocations in the trade of
the American republics affected by
the war.
S. To establish a customs truce
In the Western Hemisphere, to re-
duce duties and eliminate trade
restrictions.
Financial Cooperation.
g. To create an inter American
institution to insure permanent
financial cooperation among the
republics treasures and central
banks.
7. To increase importation anc
consumption of products of the
American republics through lower
prices, better transportation ano
credit facilities.
8. To organize an inter- American
commercial institute to keep i'm
porters and exporters in touch with
one another.
8. To establish new industries and
negotiate commercial treaties for
the interchange of raw materials,
10. To use silver as one medium
for international payments.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Senator to Attend Banquet

Senator Edwin c. johnson of Col
orado will attend an Odd Fellows
banquet in honor of the president Of
the Rebecca Assembly and her stat
Of officers at 8 pm. tonight at the
Mount Rainier Odd Fellows Hall.
Evening star., 1939-11-15
Move to Limit Guatemala
PorIey Work Defeated

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov Is (F).-
The Pan-American Treasury Con-
ference, having shaken off an at
tempt to restrict its functions, started
committee meetings today with.
goal of closer unity to avoid econ
nomic effects of the European war.
The United States joined Argen-
tina in shelving a Chilean move to
limit any findings to recommends
tions' to the l8 governments repre-
sented.
DR.. Fernando Maria Castellon, the
Chilean delegate, contended last
night it would be unWise for the
conference to attempt to formulate
and approve policies.
Opposes BLANKET Restriction"
Venezuela's and Colombias dele
gates supported him. Jorge Soto del
Corral of Colombia argued that the
work should not go beyond the mat
ters of banking and exchange laid
down last December by the Lima
Pan-American Conference. which
arranged the present sessions. War
time problems have arisen since
then.
DR.. Hector Ghiraldo, the Argen-
tinian delegate, contended. mo
blanket restriction should be laid
upon the conferees before they even
begin work.
His point carried, IS to 8, after
Herbert E. CASTOR, chief of the
United States delegation, suggested
that the conference reserve decision
on whether to conf1ne itself to
recommendations only.
Mr.. CASTOR said the United States
was ready to do all in it's power TO
help the mutual solution of inter-
American problems but felt that
analysis of American Treasury mat
ters should be the primary business
OF the conference.
No Specific U. S. Proposals.
He said the United States had no
specific proposals, but was willing
to discuss whatever the others
desired. The United States Treasury,
he said, "sympathizes with the
aspirations and attempts so evident
In the respective policies of the
countries represented here to build
toward more diversified and more
stable national economies"
Favorable responses from dele
gates of the United States, Argen-
tina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and
Salvador followed a statement of
the conference aims by Jose Con-
zalez Campo, Guatemala's finance
minister.
These included development OF
better communication among Amer
lean republics, flexible and united
banking organization for intensifica-
ton of credit, relaxation of ex-
change restrictions, and creation oi
. continental spirit to combat the
shock of the European war.
Evening star., 1939-11-15

Miners, long idle, are returning
to work in coal mines of Wales.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
YOUTHS BORROWED
 RIDE TO MAINE
Stole Four Bicycles to Make Trip to Obtain
 Work on Farm

Three boys, who were placed on probation by Judge John L. Gaffney in juvenile court today are anxious ly looking for a lift to the state of Maine where they have an offer of job picking potatoes.
 The offer of the same job was the cause of their being arraigned in juvenile court on charges of stealing bicycles. According to Probation Off, ficer Kathleen. Crowley, the boys last week, upon being informed that they could have the job in Maine, looked around for ways and means to get there. None immediately pre- senting itself, they finally decided to borrow bicycles, taking four at war; ious places. They stole four, 1t was learned, to strip one for accessor- les for the three bikes they planned to use on the long journey.
 The lads were arrested Saturday, following police investigation of the reported thefts. All the bikes were recovered.
 The recordsr of the boys will be wiped clean, Judge Gaffney said to- day, if they find a "good" way to get to Maine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
SURGEONS SON ]! ADMITS KILLING.
Shot Step-MOther Be. cause He Resented Her
 in Mothers Place

Benton, H., Aug. 2-(UP)-George geon, has admitted, police revealed today, that he killed his step-moth- CT because he resented her having taken the place of his mother. The victim, Mrs. Nancy Gore, 45, was the second wife of Cores father, Dr. George Gore, prominent in sev- eral southern Illinois and eastern Missouri communities. She had been his secretary for 10 years and mar ried him two years ago, less than a year after the death of his first wife. She was shot to death early on the morning of July g while sleeping on a screened porch of her home.
 Young Gore confessed the staying last night after he had been shown signed statement of his wife, Kathryn, 26, that he had admitted the staying to her. Early today Dep- uty Sheriff Raymond Hayes an- nounced Gore had admitted he had brooded over the belief his step- mother, while his fathers secretary, hastened his mothers death.
 "fIe said his mother had worried that Nancy would succeed her and asked him to try and prevent 1t. He said he planned to get his step- mother for several months.
 "He also believed she prevented him from receiving more money from his father"
 "He said he had been living just to kill her and three other Ben- ton residents, county Judgde Everett Lewis, IT. G. o. Buntin and Dr. M. Harris.
 The judge presided at @ sanity hearing for Young Gore in 1936. The physicians were witnesses. Gore was confined to an asylum at Anna, H., for four days while being examined and was released.
 Gore is @ former University of Ill., inois student. He and his wife, were seized the day after the staying at their home at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, where he worked for $10 a week in an office his father maintained there. They were brought here and emphatically denied the staying. Gore said he and his wife had been on @ weekend trip in the Ozark mountains at the time of the slay- ing. Four days later his wife was re- leased. He was charged with murder and released under $10,000 bond fur nished by his father.
 The couple was arrested 8 second time Sunday at Cape Girardeau and charged with the theft of $70O from the hope chest of a young woman who resided in their home. Mrs. Gore confessed the theft and inves- tigators learned that Gore had bought @ secondhand automobile at Cairo, H., with @ portion of the funds. He used the automobile, his wife said in her statement, to drive from Charleston to Benton the night before the staying.
 "When he returned" she said, "he told me he had been to his fathers house at 2 Q. m. He said he walked around the house, trying all the doors, and that Nancy awoke and told him to go away.
 "He went back to the house, he said, and broke a pane of glass in the door of the porch. He said he shot her twice more. He said his father rolled off the bed and he didn't know whether he had hit him. Then he got into the automobile and came back to Charleston
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02

rooms, private rooms for the family, smoking rooms, etc.,. all go hand in hand at the Buckmiller ] funeral home with the very newest advance ments in the field of funeral ,di- rection. Few canopy. ideas, a public address system covering every room in the funeral home, c chime en. trance call, all are incorporated in the new Bucl:miller structure. ,
 Furnishings and the ? decoration motif are in exquisite taste and the first view of the interior. invariably provoked exclamation of admira ton from the beholcer. The entire plan is for convenience and comfort for the family, and there is @ most pleasing feeling of ease and restful- ness throughout the entire building.
 Both Paul and Louis Buckmiller are Naugatuck high school graduates and wer> graduated from the Me- Allister College of Embalming in New York city. Both were associated with the famous John B. Rooney firm of funeral directors in New York city, before opening their own company here about four years ago. and are members of the National Association of Funeral Directors Paul Buckmiller Is second vice-presi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-02
Reappointed

State Legion Commander Bernard l.. Alderman, Rockville, six years; Miss Leila Thompson, law division head of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.,, four years; Mrs. Clifford Thompson, Walling- ford, president of the state Parent Teacher association, two years.
 Vernon S. MOrehouse, StratfOrd, president of the town council, six years; Prof. James Grafton Rogers of Yale university, four years; Frank H. Gates, Derby, four years, and Rep. Carl M. Sharpe, POmfret, four years.
 ReappOintments: Col. Samuel II. Fisher, Litchfield, six years; Roger s. Baldwin, Greenwich, six years; Albert E. Lavery, Bridgeport, two years; Chief Justice William H. Maltbie, two years; Probate Judge Edward c. Moran, Norwich, six years; Rep. Frank II. Peet, four years; Prof. Charles J. Tilden, New Haven, four years; President Rem sen B. Ogilby, Trinity college, two years; Lieut. Gov. James l.. Me Conaughy, president of Wesleyan university, two years; Robert I. Catlin, Hartford, four years; and Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe, of the Hartford diocese, six years. =.