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Italian Mobilization Reported Asked by Hitler at Brenner Mussolini Cool To Proposal to Blackmail France By LELAND STOWE, Chicago Daily News Forelgn Correspondent. STOCKHOLM, April 17.— When Adolf Hitler met Benito Mussolini on the Brenner March 18 he asked 11 Duce to order wholesale mobiliza- tion of all of Italy’s fighting strength in an effort to blackmail France into a separate peace, after which the axis powers presumably would be free to settle accounts with Great Britain. Der Fuehrer's demands were so excessive and provocative that they elicited a very cold ‘recep- tion from Mussolini, despite the fact that he is reported consistently to have favored entering the war on Germany's side from its beginning last September. ™ In Oslo, when I was there last week, there were also a great many people who had come very recently from Berlin. Most of them were Jubilant. a few of them extremely 8§0. Without further explanation, also without hesitation, I have the greatest confidence in outlining the following as the four chief proposals Hitler made to Mussolini: 1. Italy to provide Germany with 50 submarines immediately. 2. Complete Italian mobilization. 3. Italy to send an imposing army of 500,000 into Libya, use it as a two-way threat against both Egypt and Tunisia, 4. Rome to ask Gen. Francisco Franco’s consent to disembark sev- eral Ttalian divisions in Barcelona and place them on the French Pyreneean frontier—supposedly not to invade France but to frighten Paris into “common sense” and withdrawal from the war as Britain's ally, Salesmanship Fails. ‘This information reached me from such sources that its reliability can scarcely be questioned. It was stated that Hitler went so far as to urge 11 Duce to land divisions in Bar- celona and rush them to the French frontier even if Gen. Franco refused permission—but Der Fuehrer was | all the time protesting thdt he did not want to fight France. It is under- stood that Mussolini recoiled so strongly from the entire Pyreneean border suggestion that the Reichs- chanceller had to drop the idea at_once. | But on the first three proposals Der Fuehrer did his utmost to try to convince Mussolini to take the plunge. Precisely what he offered the Italians in return I was unable to learn though it would seem that Egypt, Malta and perhaps Kenya would likely be included. It is reliably reported that Hitler's salesmanship and bait fell pretty flat during the Brenner conversa- tions. Apparently Mussolini re- garded the proposed plan as so ex- plosive that it would immediately drag Italy into the war, and he|House for lunch, but would not be going to the game with the Chief Executive. was not ready to take the plungeA‘ Disappointment among Nazi leaders has not entirely been concealed. Disillusionment in Oslo. In Oslo, too, one detected an' un- dercurrent of disillusionment regard- ing Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano on the part of many Germans. The explanation for this may well be due to the fact that Il Duce's son-in-law is reported to be leading conservatives who champion the policy of keeping Italy neutral as long as possible. In view of the recent flurry about the possibility of Italy being drawn into the conflict rapidly, as a result of Germany's swift military occu- pation of Norway, the facts about the Brenner conversation seem re- assuring. It is difficult to imagine that Mussolini now would hop off | the fence onto the Nazi side while | the development of the conflict in and around Norway remains so unpredictable. the drastic reduction of German sea power through the last week's losses must certainly increase Mus- solini’s caution, since the fewer warships Germany has the more warships the allies would have free with which to curb the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean should neces- sity arise. (Copyright, 1940, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) $1,343,000 Baltimore Housing Bid Approved The United States Housing Au- thority today approved a $1,343,000 base bid for the construction of Baltimore’s fourth low-rent housing project McCulloh Homes, which will provide new dwellings for 434 families. The low bidder was the Wood- crest Construction Co., Inc., and Rosoff Bros, Inc, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Work is to get under way by May 1. The latest Baltimore project is about a half-mile from the center of the city. The city’s slum-clear- ance program contemplates the re- housing of approximately 4,000 low income families. Dewey (cantiflzd From First Page.) Instructed delegation as against the candidate filing. However, it is an old political maxim that “you can't beat somebody with nobody,” and in the past the vote has run from 10 to 20 to 1 in favor of a single candidate entered in such a primary against the uninstructed delegation. Presumably, therefore, if Mr. Dewey enters alone he will have the delegation instructed for him. In the primary 149 delegates are elected to the Republican State Con- vention. These delegates are in- structed to cast their ballots in the State convention for presidential candidates in accordance with the preference votes cast in their coun- ties and in the legislative districts in Baltimore City. Baltimore has 42 delegates in the State convention. If there is more than one candi- date entered in the presidential pref- erence primary, second choices are given, which may prove important in the event there are as many as three candidates entered. In the present instance, however, it does not look as fhough there would be more than two, and probably only one candi- date. At the offices of Senator Van- denberg of Michigan it was said to- day the Michigan Senator will not enter the primary. 2 With Farley Arouses happened yesterday between Presi- dent Roosevelt and Postmaster Gen- | eral Farley. . ocratic at the White House. went to the opening baseball game together, both riding in the Presi- | dent’s car and posing smilingly for ! the photographers. tentatively announced on Monday that Mr. Farley would be in the President’s baseball party, but when engagement at 1 o'clock, Mr. Farley indicated to reporters that he would be out shortly after 2 o'clock. In- crete information on which to base Many observers also believe that speculation, the best guess on the Democratic picture seems to be about as follows: Farley following shortly after, and now Federal Security Administrator own presidential President may finally have become disturbed at these rifts in the party’s PRESIDENT GETS PAINTING—The origin: poster for the children’s crusade for children was presented to Shown at the White House is the group wi daughter of Mrs. Clarence Day of New York; Mr. Rockwell, Peter ington and Jerry Rockwell, 9-year-old son of the artist. Roosevelt Meeting Political Speculation Postmaster General Joins Base Ball Game Party at Last Minute By JOHN C. HENRY. Those who make the Nation's po- | litical guesses were speculating furiously today on what might have The latter, also identified as Dem- national chairman, New York State Democratic chairman and an avowed candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, | had his first luncheon engagement 1 in many weeks with Mr. Roosevelt Later, they Strangely enough, it had been the official list was given out shortly before noon yesterday the Post- master General’s name was missing. Inquiries brought the explanation that he would be at the White He Went to the Game. Bustling in to keep his luncheon stead, he reached for his hat and coat about 2:30 oclock and went back through the President’s office to join Mr. Roosevelt in the motorcade forming for the trip to Griffith Sta- dium. Throughout the game they chatted in the same friendly fashion that marked their relationship before Mr. Farley's positive declaration some weeks ago that he is personally in the presidential race to stay. Close by and greeting “The Chief” and Mr. Farley with a smile and a wave was Vice President Barner, another open candidate for the Democratic nomination. Harmony Held Reassuring. With nothing in the way of con- That for the moment at least Mr. Roosevelt is in a mood not to run for a third term. With the first break made by Mr. Garner, Mr. McNutt taking a leave of absence for the purpose of building up his prospects, the front. A restoration of harmony with Mr. Farley, at least outwardly, could be reassuring to Democrats who have been particularly alarmed at the size of the Republican votes in several primaries. Whether this gesture of harmony is to go any deeper is difficult to pre- dict on the mere showing of a luncheon and a baseball game. Meanwhile, the President is kgep- ing a crowded schedule of appoint- ments—apparently intending to take a brief vacation before the congres- sional adjournment rush. The Associated Press reported last, night that Mayor W. G. Harry of Warm Springs had announced that Mr. Roosevelt was expected there on Friday, but the White House has declined comment thus far. 35,000-Ton Battleship To Be Launched in June By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 17—The Navy announced yesterday that the new $65,000,000 battleship North Carolina would be launched at the New York Navy Yard June 13. The 35,000-ton vessel will be the first battleship launched in this country in 19 years. Miss Isabel Hoey, daughter of Gov. Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina, will sponsor the ship. Sold, Serviced and Guaranteed by . . P. Steuart & Bro. INCORPORATED 139 12th St. NE. Lincoln 4300 W..S. J. Challoughliczilczise Lays Himself Down and Dies By the Associated Press. DALLAS, April 17.—Stretched out on a cold white table lies the body of Wyxzezwixard S. J. Challough- liczilczise. Awed folks from cabins and cot- tages of Fishtrap road and apart- ments on Deep Elm street creep through the mortuary to see it be- cause he was a big man—more than 6 feet tall. They whisper he spoke 22 lan- Ruages, was the father of 66 chil- dren and an archbishop church. The undertaker awaits orders to | send the body to Ethiopia. He says the bishop of the Re- formed Ethiopian Coptic Church at Madero, Calif, telegraphed the tall man was a prince of Ethiopia. The old prince just laid down and died like a natural man. He was 93. His calling card stated he was Wyxzezwixard S. J. Challoughlic- zilezise, F. R. S. S, F. R. G. S, F.R.C 8. P, Ph. D, S. T. D, L. L. T. D, prince of the royal house of Ethiopia, Archbishop of the Second Ecclesiastical Diocese of al of the painting made by Norman Rockwell for the hich made the presentation (left to right): Wendy Day, in his| President Roosevelt yesterday. Crabtree von Clusman of Wash- —A. P. Photo. the Ethiopian Reformed Coptic | Church of Christ, Ethiopia, East| Africa. He was regal, statuesque and his hair was black as coal. Deep Elm street folks said: he showed up about the time the Ital- ians jumped the Ethiopians. He claimed to represent former Em- peror Haile Selassie. Since the fall of Ethiopia he had applied himself to his churchly duties. | Mrs. L. O. Clark, who runs the| boarding house where the tall man | stayed, said he walked in one day, | | carrying himself proudly. | Speaking with a cultivated accent, | he took rooms and laid down his| | pi-line calling card. | By and by, he talked with dignity | to the other lodgers. He told of | leaving a provincial governor’s chair | to come to the United States. The other lodgers got the impres- sion he was rich. They said they | assumed he was a prince because | his calling card said so, and in his | country most anybody could be al i prince if they had a pair of shoes. | Bucharest (Continued From First Page.) Teodorescu, minister of navy and air, laid before Parliament a bill giving the government immediate power to take “extraordinary mili- tary measures” in all ports and ter- ritorial waters. Soviet Warships at Odessa. Units of the Russian navy were reported gathered in unsual num- ber at Odessa, Soviet Black Sea port. (The German radio was reported to have broadcast a Moscow report today that the Russian Black Sea fleet had started maneuvers.) “Strategic” factories working for national defense were ordered to build up immediately a 15-day emergency supply of gasoline and fuel oil which may not be touched unless there is general mobilization. The new ban on oil exports, which is temporary until huge new re- serves are assured Rumania’s de- fense forces and railways, was viewed by foreign oil experts as cer- tain to slow down Germany’s deliv- eries, which already are far behind schedule because of the disruption of transport by winter weather. The restrictive measures were de- Ifalian Wins Harvard Prize As Champion Star-Gazer By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 17— Harvard awarded a championship today—to a star-gazer in Bologna, Italy. For the third consecutive year, Eppe Loreta, Italian librarian and amateur astronomer, was acclaimed “dhampion observer of variable stars” among 142 observers in all parts of the world who last year turned in a total of 54,655 observa- tions to the American Association of Variable Star Observers with head- quarters at Harvard. According to Leon Campbell, Pick- ering astronomer at HarVard, and recorder for the association, Loreta was responsible for 5500 observa- tions made with a 8-inch tele- scope loaned him by the association. Variable stars, said Mr. Campbell, form one of the most important sources of information concerning the laws which govern the universe, since these bodies are characteristic- ally in a state of change, increasing or decreasing in brightness. Bethesda Student Tapped WILLIAMSBURG, Va. April 17 (Special) —Arthur B. Hanson, 1801 Old Georgetown road, Bethesda, & law student at the College of William and Mary, was tapped today for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa, national honor society. The Best Buy Is This TESTED Spray With Certified Killing Power for 31-.15 FREE DELIVERY—NA. 6479 American Disinfectant Co. cided upon by the cabinet economic council on Monday, less than 24 hours after the government had loading of freight cars and barges for Germany. German Demands Dropped. belief that Rumania had used the loading ban to force Germany to one for a decrease in the value of the Rumanian leu in terms of the German mark, which would permit Germany to buy more Rumanian goods with a given amount of Ger- man money, and another, for a re- duction of recently-raised Rumanian freight rates. Germany dropped these demands Sunday. Now, German quarters point out, Rumania, after getting Germany to drop the demands, has announced still further measures hampering the Reich. Rumania also had promised, ac- cording to German sources, to ex- port “temporarily” raw materials from the embargo list. Rumanians explained that their prospective wheat crop would leave scarcely enough for the nation’s own needs, let alone exports for Ger- many. The German reply to this is that the prospective failure is due largely to Rumania’s refusal to heed Berlin's advice to demobilize 1,600,- 000 men under arms so that all fields could be planted. Foreign diplomats prophesy now that Germany will seek further means of pressure to make the gov- ernment send farmer-soldiers back home. Little ‘Nations Check On Nazi Sympathizers BUDAPEST, April 17 (#).—South- eastern Europe’s little nations, fear- ing that the German war machine may soon turn in their direction, took stern measures today to elimi- nate Nazi sympathizers within their borders. In Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, police launched nationwide investigations of resi- dent German groups and individ- uals. In Hungary, Premier Count Paul Teleki, backed by Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy, prepared for an even stiffer battle with Nazi sym- pathizers within the Premier’s own party. The Hungarian Nazis seek to restore former Premier Bela Imredy to power for outright co-operation with Germany. Government action to stamp out “fifth-column” activity (boring from within a country by foreign political interests) was accompanied by in- tensified military preparedness in lifted a three-day prohibition on the | German quarters persisted in a | drop economic demands, including | S. E. C. Planfo Curb Investment Trusts Declared 'Unsound’ Merrill Griswold Urges Rewriting Bill Into ‘Simple Provisions’ By the Associated Press. Merrill Griswold, an invest; trust official, condemned as sound legislation” today a Securities Commissian proposal for regulation of investment companies and urged that the measure be rewritten into “a few simple provisions.” Mr. Griswold, chairman of Mas- sachusetts Investors’ Trust of Boston, testified at a hearing before a Senate banking subcommittee. He urged the committee to study legis- lative enactments of Great Britain and various States as a guide to re- vising the measure. He named Ohio, Towa, Michigan and Wisconsin as States in which “substantial progress has been made in eliminating most of the abuses to which open-end management companies (the type represented by the witness) are susceptible.” Suggests Seven Provisions. In “open-end” trusts shareholders have a right to withdraw their pro- portionate share of assets at any time, Mr. Griswold suggested provisions to cover these subjects, among others: Dealings with insiders as princi- pals; standard accounting principles and adequate reports to sharehold- ers; proper limitations on borrow- ing; restriction of buying on margin or short selling; disclosure of source of dividends; proper diversification of investments; provision for re- moval of improper management. ‘Would Limit Authority. drafting of legislation dn these sub- jects,” the witness said, “we believe that they can be adequately covered | with a minimum of delegation of au- thority to the 8. E. C.” A witness yesterday urged that the 1 proposed legislation be sent back to the S. E. 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