Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 5

NEUTRALITY PLAN 10 BE SUBMITIED Plenary Session of Peace Conference to Pass on 21- Nation Proposal. By the Assoeiated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December 17.— The proposed neutrality convention eo-ordinating existing American peace treaties was ready today to be sub- mitted to the plenary session of the Inter-American Peace Conference. The proposal, jointly sponsored by all 21 nations at the parley, was wnanimously approved by the Neu- trality Committee yesterday, paving | the way for its last step before beingi turned back to each republic for rati- flcation. Its purpose is to set up consultative machinery among the American re- publics to co-ordinate existing Amer- foan peace treaties. | Creation of an American league or aspociation of nations was recom- | mended by an Inter-American Peace | Conference subcommittee today, but observers generally predicted it would | not win approval by the full parley. It was expected the plan would be | referred to the regular Pan-American | Gonference scheduled to be held in 1938 at Lima, Peru. That was the aetion taken yesterday on a proposal to establish an inter-American court of justice. Trade Matters Taken Up. The conference, its agenda cleared | sonsiderably by approval of nine other measures in plenary session yesterday, turned to the trade and commercial interests of the Americas. | Approved in the Economic Com- mittee, these resolutions were listed for expected adoption at the next full session: 1. A recommendation that Ameri- | fean nations abstain from increasing their customs barriers, begin reduc- tion of tariff burdens and ask the rest of the world to co-operate in efforts | te improve international trade. Mrs. Camilla Warner is shown at Los Angeles as she ended a 41-year search jor the son she left in a Nebraska orphanage. She is reading a letter from Richard Douglas Foster at Scotts Bluff, Nebr., asking if he was her son since remarried and been divorced, said that was the name she had given her son. Foster, shown in inset, advertised recently for information regarding his Christmas reunion. THE EVENI Mrs. 'Warner, who has mother. They hope to have a —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. American Union compiling a sum- mary of these facts. 6. A proposal for creation of an inter-American academy of interna- 2. A recommendation all American tional law like that at The Hague, | mations ratify the agreements of the the Netherlands. | Pan-American Commercial Confer- | 7 4 plan to establish commissions ence at Buenos Aires last year, where | ¢4 push a program of inter-American it was voted to establish boards of | jntellectual co-operation. commerce, foster bi-lateral agree- | with the completion of voting on ments against smuggling, regulate in- | the nine proposals, delegates burst | Valencia and from 30 to 50 a day in Barcelona. Foreigners look in vain for the con- ntration camps for prisoners of war. | One foreigner was told bluntly by | an Anarchist leader: “Take prisoners | when food is so short? That would be foolish. Moreover, we don't want to use men for guard detail who could be fighting on the front.” A military commander told another | | ce NG STAR, WASHINGTON, | craft which flew out | curred at | Fascist officers said their troops com- announced some Germans were killed, some wounded and some captured. Leaders expect Gen. Franco, insur- gent chief, to send his Moorish Legion- naires and picked troops once more against the gates of the capital. The attack probably would come from the west, they said, because two insurgent columns already were moving on Ma- jadahonda from Robledo de Chavela, some 25 miles west of the capital city. On the northeast, the Fascists marched on Algete, some 15 miles from Madrid. From these insurgent troop movements, government mili- tary men deduced that Franco would strive to enter Madrid on a far-flung offensive, rather than through the northwestern university city section, in which some units of his men al- ready have penetrated. Then, as his next step, they said, Franco probably would try to drive a flank movement between Madrid and Valencia, the seat of the Madrid gov- ernment for some weeks. ADVANCE MADE IN FOG. Fascists Report Planes and Troops Met Counter Attack. WITH THE SPANISH FASCIST TROOPS OUTSIDE MADRID, De- cember 17.—Spanish Fascist bombers flew through the fog yesterday in an attack on the Madrid front as ground troops pushed their advance against a Socialist counter attack. Boadilla del Monte, west of Madrid, was reported occupied by the Fascists in an attempt of the troops of Gen. Jose Varela to re-establish contact with those of Gen. Emilio Mola in a movement to encircle the Spanish capital. Despite the mist which made the smoke of their explosives invisible, 20 large planes bombed the lines all around Boadilla del Monte, Pozuelo de Alarcon and Humera about seven miles west of Madrid. A score of pursuit planes escorting the bombers fought off the Socialist to engage in machinegun fighting in the sky. The Socialist counterattack oc- Boadilla del Monte but pleted occupation of the place by nightfall. They said 75 Socialist soldiers were killed in the ‘“cleaning up” of the area by insurgents using bayonets. D. C, ALCOHOL TAX UNIT PROBE RESTRICTED Only Baltimore Personnel Involved, Declares Sec- retary Morgenthau. Secretary Morgenthau today said that personnel investigations being made of the Alcohol Tax Unit are con- fined to the Baltimore office, where reports of alleged irregularities have come to attention of the Treasury De- partment. He refused to discuss detalls of the inquiry, which is said to have arisen in connection with collection of taxes on post-prohibition alcohol. At the same time Morgenthau de- nied a report that his department has secured affidavits alleging graft on the part of more than a dozen Washington policemen. He said the report ap- parently was based on certain in- | formation obtained by the old Prohibi- tion Bureau when it was part of the Justice Department. The data, he | said, were in files turned over to the | Treasury by the Justice Department | after repeal of prohibition. | Morgenthau said the matter is dead | and he is not interested in it because the Treasury had nothing to do with it. | Morgenthau said the personnel in quiry in Baltimore had been erro- | neously linked with another case, a criminal investigation growing out of | the seizure near Dundalk of a large still. This criminal case, he said, is in the hands of United States At- torney B. J. Flynn in Baltimore. The Treasury head told reporters he was “glad to say there are few cases of wrong-doing in the Treasury personnel,” pointing out there are 65, 000 employes under his supervision He praised the civil service personnel “as & whole” as being “honest.” Radio Center Planned. South Africa’s fifth major broad- | casting center is to be established at Stellenbosch. ternational air traffic and create a special pan-American tourist passport as a stimulus to travel. Approval Unanimous. President Roosevelt'’s hope that the 21 American republics would stand *“shoulder-to-shoulder” against out- side aggression won unanimous ap- proval yesterday. Enthusiastic delegates adopted a Dnited States plan for joint consulta- tion if American peace is threatened from abroad or from within. Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull's resolution for ratification of five existing Ameri- ean peace treaties by natoins which have not made them effective gained quick adoption. Both proposals had Jjoint sponsorship of all republics. The plan for consultation in the event of a threat to American peace will re- quire passage by the various Legisla- sures before it is effective. The other projects which won full conference approval were: 1. A protocol mdopted by the Conference at Montevideo, stating in- tervention by one state in another’s affairs is “inadmissible.” 2. A resolution to postpone consid- eration of creation of an inter-Amer- jean court of justice until the regu- Jar pan-American parley at Lima, Peru, in 1938. The Pan-American Onion, which has headquarters in ‘Washington, would study the various plans in the meantime. 3. A recommendation that treaties and conventions adopted at inter- American conferences be open to other American states—thus enabling Can- ada to adhere to pan-American pacts —and a proposal that if specific pro- vision is made, treaties be open to any other nation in the world. 4. A resolution to improve codifi- cation of international law in the Western Hemisphere under direction of the Pan-American Union. 8. A recommendation that each @overnment publish its stand on points of international law, with the Pan- to the convention 1933 Pan-American | into a flood of oratory, hailing the| consultative system to be created under the peace and security con- | vention and the general “good neigh- | bor” attitude of the conferees. ! Delegates on the committee ap- | plauded Sumner Welles, United States | Assistant Secretary of State in charge |of Latin American affairs, when he reiterated before them the principle of good neighborliness and declared | all American states were equals. " Madrid (Continued From First Page.) coming involved is one of the major disappointments to the workers class which, from the beginning of the war, believed it could depend upon the French proletariat for aid. While anxious over the adverse in- ternational situation, the government | of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero is increasingly concerned over the | menace of a Syndicalist-Socialist ex- plosion which has been avoided thus far only through exercise of the great- est tact with frequent concession to | the Syndicalists. It is a well-known fact in Madrid, the reports declared, that the govern- | ment, despite its claim of firm control foreigner: “I can do nothing with the Anarchist | militia. They fight when and where | they please—if they please. They | don't know what discipline is. If I should attempt to enforce orders would suffer the same fate as other: in my predicament—I would be shot.” Even the Anarchist leader, Buena- ventura Durruti, indisputably a brave | man and courageous leader, was pow- erless to control his own men. | He was killed in action and buried as a hero, but there are persistent rumors he was shot by his own men for insisting on an attack. Adding to the seriousness of the Madrid situation, the reports declared, | | was increasing troop desertions. One foreigner was informed on the | highest authority that the whole gen- eral staff of Gen. Pozas disappeared en route from Madrid to Valencia. and 20 experts from the Exchange Con- trol Board left Madrid for Valencia, | | but never arrived. Officers have charged that whole militia units mysteriously disappear {and there have been instances of en- tire battalions going over to the enemy, the accounts said. MADRID FEARS INFANTRY. | MADRID, December | Bombed Madrid feared 17 ) — today its | government, which an official spokes- | the civil war against Spain’s Fascists |10 the situation, is powerless to domi- | Fascist besiegers would unleash an- | nate the Anarchist elements within | other infantry attack following an air FREIGHTER CLAIMED BY SPAIN. | Ambassador Asks Return of Navemar, Held in Brookiyn. NEW YORK, December 17 (#).— The Spanish government yesterday officially entered the case of the| freighter Navemar, held off the Red | Hook flats in Brooklyn by its crew | of 30, while its captain protested. Feranado de Los Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the United States, ubmitted an affidavit in Federal Court, Brooklyn, stating the vessel had been the property of the Spanish government since October 10, and, as | such, was immune from seizure. The Compania Espanoka de Navi- gacion Maritima of South America, which claims ownership, earlier | brought a libel proceeding on grounds the vessel had been seized by the crew while riding anchor. The Ambassador accompanied his | afidavit with an order requiring the | company to show cause why the case | should not be resumed and why the | court should not turn back the ship | to the Acting Spanish Consul in New | York. PREMIER RENEWS REGIME. 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