Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1940, Page 5

British Diplomacy Battles to Get Japan's Benevolent Neutrality ‘Amazing Concessions’ Hinted in Effort to Plug Flow of Goods to Reich By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 23.—A severe diplo- matic battle is raging behind the scenes here between Great Britain and Germany, a reliable source dis- closed today, each side seeking to enlist Japan's “benevolent neutral- ity” toward the European war. This informant said that the British had “hinted at amazing con- cessions” in an effort to obtain Ja- pan’s consent to intensification of the allied blockade in the Pacific. The major objective there would be to prevent war materials—American oil, copper and tin and rubber from the East Indies—from reaching Vladivostok for shipment over the Trans-Siberian Railway to Ger- many. Reports reaching Japan said that Vladivostok is choked with incoming | cargoes consigned to Germany, that 1 warehouses are overflowing and docks piled high. | It was said that an average of 1500 metric tons (1653 tons) of carbon daily is licensed for trans- shipment. Copper, Oil and Tin Exports Jump. American copper imports at the Russian port from the outbreak of | the war until March 31 totaled 70,- 000 metric tons (77,140 tons), | according to Japanese statis- tics, whereas former! Vladi- vostok received an average of only 6,000 metric tons yearly. Im- ports of oil and tin have increased similarly, it was said. | The informant disclosed that the | latest British move came in the form | of a proposal to conclude a trade agreement whereby Japan's already heavily favorable balance would be substantially increased through greater British purchases of Jap- anese foodstuffs. It was indicated that Britain also | is prepared to meet Japanese de-.| mands for a lowered tariff on cot-| ton textiles entering India. Understanding Seen. Gradual relaxation of British- French opposition to Japan's policies ected with the “probability that an understanding will soon be | reached” on the following points: 1. Disposition of Chinese govern- ment-claimed silver specie stored in vaults within the British and French concessions at Tientsin. A forecast that an agreement on this point would be reached soon was published last week in the Tientsin newspaper | ‘Yung Pao, mouthpiece of the Japan- ese Army there Yung Pao said that $100,000 of the | $12,000,000 worth of silver would be | ullocated to famine relief in North China and the remainder taken into custody by a joint committee. Linked with agreement on this issue was the | prospect of accord on North China currency questions and a resultant lifting of the Japanese blockade of the British and French concessions &t Tientsin. Closing of China’s “Lifeline.” 2. Closing of the Hanoi-Kunming Railway in Southwestern China to transportation of supplies from | French Indo-China for the Chung- king governmeat of Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek, a step long de- sired by the Japanese forces in China. 3. Withdrawal of British stabiliza- ton of the Chinese Nationalist cur- rency. 4. Co-operation of the British | eommercial interests in China with the Japanese and the Japanese- sponsored regime of Wang Ching- wei. Neutral military experts asserted that the Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the biggest loopholes in Brit- #in’s world-wide effort to block the | flow of commodities to and from Germany. Japan’s Consent Necessary. Japan’s consent was said to be| absolutely necessary to plug this| hole. Vladivostok lies on the Sea of Japan and the Japanese recently have voiced concern lest the activ- {ties of British warships be extended | there. It was understood British Ambas- sador Sir Robert Leslie Graigie had advised the Japanese Foreign Office that Britain would permit Norwe- gian shipping to continue to ply regularly between Japanese ports without interference. Tokio newspapers, meanwiile, gave great prominence to the testi- mony given before the Naval Affairs Committee in Washington by Rear | Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, who was quoted as saying that war between the United States and Japan is in- escapable if the present trend of events continues. The Japanese Admiralty declined to comment on Admiral Taussig's statement. E. C. Edward Ruppert, Restaurant Man, Dies E. C. Edward Ruppert, 77, who operated a restaurant in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania N.W. for many years, died Sunday in Garfield Hospital. He had been ill since| his birthday, September 11. A native of Washington, Mr. Rup- pert was the son of Edward and Mary Ruppert. He retired in 1917 after 35 years. His place of business was patronized by many of the Capital's notables. Mr. Ruppert was a member of Lebanon Lodge of Masons and at- tended Concordia German Luther- an Church, Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maggie B. Ruppert; a son, E. C. E. Ruppert, jr.,, and two half-brothers, William Niemeyer of Bethesda, Md., and Bernhardt Niemeyer of New York City. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home, 3914 Morrison street N.W., with burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Condition Remains Serious Mrs. Margaret Frere, 29, 1124 Tenth street N.W., was still in criti- cal condition today at Emergency Hospital with injuries she received in a plunge from the Calvert Street Bridge Sunday morning. She dropped about 70 feet, her fall being broken by a tree. Police discovered ber about dawn. WINTHROP, MASS.—OLD MAN NEPTUNE GOES ON A RAM- PAGE—This scene along the water front was typical of the Mas- sachusetts and Maine coasts yesterday as a driving northeaster THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940. Two Manslaughter Indictments Among 59 Returned Here Wife Is Accused of* Mayhem in Dispute . With Her Husband Among the 59 indictments handed up today to Justice F. Dickinson Letts in District Court were two manslaughter charges and a woman was indicted on a charge of may- hem for allegedly throwing lye into her husband’s face, as the outgrowth of marital troubles. Indicted on a charge of man- slaughter was James H. Jones, col- Tientsin Americans Hard Hit by Blockade, U. §. Tells Japan Grew's Representations In Tokio Bring Promise Of Immediate Inquiry Senate Rejects Two 0f 5,488 Nominations Sent It This Session By the Associated Press. The Senate has rejected only two of 5488 nominations sent to it by President Roosevelt so far this session. Both were postmasters. Official figures compiled to April 15 showed today that the name of one other postmaster was withdrawn by the President and there has been no action yet on 575 nominations of all types. The box score from the time Mr. Roosevelt took office in 1933 to the opening of the present session, January 3, showed 57,849 confirmations out of 57,251 nominations. In that period there were 57 rejections, By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 23.—United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew today made representations to Masayuki Tani, Japanese vice minister of foreign affairs, charging that Ameri- cans at Tientsin were suffering hardships as a result of a tightening of the Japanese blockade on the ored, 25 years old, who is charged with shooting Edward T. Haynes, colored, 30 years old. George Clark, colored, 25 years old, was indicted on a charge of manslaughter in the shooting of Neal Eason, colored, 25 years old. Mrs, Evelyn Nelson, 32 years old, was indicted on a charge of may- hem, causing lye burns on the right side of the face and back of the neck of her husband, Carl J. Nelson, who lives at 720 C street N.E, on NE. According to police, Mrs. Nel- April 11 at Seventh and C streets 105 withdrawals and 240 not acted upon. Mrs. Jeffreys Named To Mount Vernon Board B the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., April 23.—Gov. Price yesterday appointed Mrs. Al- bert L. Jeffreys of Chase City to the Board of Visitors of Mount Vernon and reappointed four other members | British and French concessions. It was understood that Tani had promised to investigate immediately and attempt to remedy the difficulty. A usually reliable source said that the situation had recently been growing steadily worse. The concessions at Tientsin, with foreign populations of about 6,500, including military forces, and about 192,000 Chinese, have been hemmed in by Japanese troops and barrie cades, with varying degrees of ree striction on travel and supplies, sent/high seas battering beaches and seawalls, causing thou- sands of dollars’ damage to roadways and beach houses. Note Berlin (Continued From First Page.) advanced beyond Aamot and Lille- hammer, north of Oslo, and about 60 miles northeast of Trondheim, cutting connecting roads leading south from the allied landing point at Namsos. Swedish Minister Arvid Richert called at the Foreign Office today to discuss Sweden’'s protest against German warplanes’ violations of Swedish territory. Authorized sources intimated that Richest was told Sweden had a strange method of counting—that every town over which a plane was | seen was reckoned separately and reported as five different incidents. In this manner, Germans said, 40 to 60 ‘invasions of Sweden easily could be constructed when, as a | matter of fact, only a few planes| flew over the country by error. (One Swedish newspaper has charged that the German aerial incursions were deliberate at- tempts to reconnoiter Sweden’s defenses.) Repeated raids on Andalsnes, a British debarkation point on the Norwegian west coast, virtually have paralyzed anti-aircraft de- fenses there and established Ger- man air supremacy in Southern Norway, according to DNB, official German news agency. Debarkation Points Bombed. So complete was the German mastery of the air, the news agency declared, that the Nazi bombers were able to cruise at leisure over Andalsnes. Both that port and Namsos, 200 miles to the north, which also has been used for allied debarkation, were reported in flames. DNB said that Nazi warplanes, | ranging over Southern Norway, had bombed and machine-gunned other enemy objectives, including the im- portant railway junction of Dombas, to facilitate the advance of German ground troops moving north from Oslo. The attack on Dombas, which was said to have been destroyed, apparently was aimed at cutting the railway line by which British troops have been moving from An- dalsnes to reinforce Norwegian troops on the Hamar front, 60 miles north of the capital. Dombas, situated 60 miles south of Andalsnes, is doubly important from a strategic point of view be- cause it also is linked by rail with the German-occupied west coast port of Trondheim, key to Central Norway. Other objective which DNB said had been attacked from the air were Lillehammer, 75 miles south- east of Dombas on the Andalsnes- Hamar railway; Elverum, 20 miles east of Hamar, and the Mjosen Lake region. Norwegians had offered stiff resist- ance in the snow-covered rough terrain on the Hamar front, but had paid for their opposition in “bloody losses.” DNB denied reports that the Brit- ish had recaptured Hamar and said that German troops had occupied Gjovik, 15 miles to the west, after inflicting heavy losses on the Nor- wegian defenders. The news agency said German po- sitions at Trondheim and Stavanger, on Norway’s southwest coast had been strengthened, and that Nazi communication lines everywhere in the south were being improved. Annenberg (Continued From Firs_t Page.) Annenberg defense counsel, ex- plained the wealthy publisher’s po- sition thus: “All that Mr. Annenberg cares to say now is that he was influenced by the fact that any alternative would involve years of trying and expensive litigation. At the same time, he hopes to dispose of the civil claims for taxes that have been and will be made against him and the companies in which he is interested. “He further hopes that by taking responsibility upon himself so far as he can, this will be taken into consideration by the Government and the court in connection with the charges pending against his as- sociates and employes. “In the proceedings upon the im- position of sentence we feel confident that the absence of any serious charge of moral turpitude will ap- pear and Mr. Annenberg asks that Jjudgment be reserved on this until then.” Date for Dispostion Set. The court set May 23 for the dis- position of all pleas. The defend- anis—13 in all—pleaded innocent to the various counts of the indictment until the fifth count was reached. Then Annenberg and Haffner en- tered their guilty pleas. The fifth count alleged that An- nenberg’s net income for the year 1936 was $2,312,63447 whereas he reported it as $731,640.75 and paid an income tax of $475,552.16. The Government charged a tax of $1692,84880 was due and that $1,217,296.73 had been evaded. Horses cannot be shipped from Yugoslavia without special permis- sion from the government. The news agency said that the| \Will of W. P. Meicalf By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 23—The text of today’'s German high command communique follows: The English yesterday attempted no landing in the Narvik region oc- cupied by German troops. English naval forces, however, again bom- barded the city and port. German troops in the Trondheim region, supported by light naval forces, pushed forward up to 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) in a northeastern direction, thrust back the enemy there and cut connecting roads leading southward from Nam- s0s. One Norwegian patrol boat was destroyed in Vaksdal Fjord. In re- gions between Bergen and Stavanger fighting with scattered Norwegian troops units is continuing in the further outlying surroundings of cities. Numerous guns fell into Ger- man hands. North of Oslo German troops con- tinued to advance beyond Aamot Text of Nazi Communique Narvik Shelled, but No British Troops Landed There, High Command Says people at left watching storm’s fury. cinity of Andalsnes fighting umts‘ again attacked British war vessels and transports. Despite the hectic defense, one British destroyer and one transport steamer were sunk. Another de- stroyer was struck by a bomb of | medium caliber and one transport ship of approximately 5,000 tons was destroyed by fire. | Further bomb raids were directed against the important railway sta- tions of Dombas and Grong, in Cen- tral Norway, as well as against rail lines and roads from there. Sta- tions, tracks and roads were de-| stroyed, thereby making it impos- sible for the opponent to operate | quickly from Andalsnes and Namsos. | Last night another unsuccessful British bombing raid on Aalborg was | repulsed. One British plane was shot down by anti-aircraft guns. The submarine hunt in the Katte- gat yielded another success, Sup- plies continued reaching Ndtwegian | ports. Off Stadlandet a submarine torpedoed a supply steamer of 6,000 and Lillehammer despite terrain dif- ficulties and enemy street barricades. | Fighting units of the air force | participated in the fight. One Nor- | wegian plane was destroyed. Off the | Norwegian west coast and in the vi- | tons in convoy destined for Norway. | No special developments in the west. Border patrol and reconnais- sance flights were undertaken. A single enemy reconnaissance plane flew into Western Germany under | cover of night. Provides Medical Care for Needy New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Named to Handle Work Medical and nursing care for needy and deserving persons here would be supplied, through the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, under the terms of the will of Wil- liam P. Metcalf, lawyer and real estate broker, who died here January 8 and left an estate valued at about $230,000, District Court was advised | today. . | If the church refuses to accept the | income of the trust fund, the entire trust, set up under the will, is to cease and the trustee, the American Security & Trust Co. is to transfer the entire trust fund to the Wash- ington Home for Incurables, Wiscon- sin avenue and Tilden street N.W. A number of bequests are left to relatives and friends under the will, dated November 26, 1935, with a supplement dated May 15, 1936. The American Security & Trust Co. and Attorney Stanton C. Peele filed the petition for the probate of Mr. Met- calf's will, which disclosed that his personal property aggregated $71,100, while the assessed value of his real estate totaled $169,122. The law firm of Peele, Lesh, Drain & Barnard signed the papers and filed the peti- tion in the court. Under the terms of Mr. Metcalf’s will, he leaves $5,000 to the Wom- an’s Missionary Society of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church to erect a memorial in memory of his mother, to be located in “some mountainous region of this country and adapted for work among the mountaineers”; $2,000 to the Presby=- terian Home for the Aged, $1,000 to the American Bible Society, $1,000 to Gideons Band, to distribute Bibles; $5,000 to the Board of National Mis- sions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, in memory of his father; in trust, $30,- 000 to his cousin, Helen Maynard of Kansas City, Mo., of which she is to get the net income; $250 to his friend, Eugene W. Weaver of the Burlington Hotel here, as well as the testator’s books; $5,000 to Mrs. Frances Rhea of Riverdale, Md.; to his friend, Dr. Charles C. Marbury, 1015 Sixteent hstreet N.W., $10,000; the income from $10,000 is to go to his housemaid, Lacy Dixon; $5,000 to the New York Avenue Presby- terian Church, to be added to the permanent endowment fund, while a codicil to the will givas $3,060 to the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 1147 Fifteenth street N.W. Legionnaires to Hear Talk on Defense Roads Military attaches of legations here have been invited to attend a meet- ing tonight of the National Cathe- dral Post, No. 10, American Legion, in Reno-Esther Hall, Wisconsin avenue and Windom place N.W. An illustrated lecture on national defense highways in this country and Europe will be given by Charles Upham, executive engineer of the American Road Builders’ Associa- tion. He is expected to describe such roads in Germany and Pan-American countries. William A. Van Duzer, District trafic director, will discuss local traffic problems. , The meeting is scheduled to begin Divorces Granted, Two Men Each Weds Other's Wife By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 23—In divorce suits and answers some months ago, each of two hus- bands charged the other stole his wife’s love—and the wives similarly accused each other as to the husbands. Williams Ingels claimed his wife, Catherine, left him with the statement that she planned to live with Francis C. Farmer for two weeks to learn whether they were “properly suited” to each other. All charges were modified, however, and divorces were granted each couple on mental cruelty grounds. On January 20 the former Mrs. Ingels and Mr. Farmer were married at Las Vegas, Nev., and today friends learned that Mr. Ingels and the former Isabella Farmer were wed at Yuma, Ariz.,, April 13. | | Yugoslavs Press Drive On Pro-Nazi Activities By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, April 23.— Milan Acimovic, former Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, today was restricted | to his residence as authorities pressed a campaign against asso- ciates of former Premier Milan Stoyadinovic, who has been interned on charges of pro-Nazi activities in Yugoslavia. Acimovic, regarded as a Stoyadi- novic lieutenant, is expected to be taken under guardy to a village in Southeastern Bosnia. Stoyadinovic’s brother, Dragomir ,Stoyadinovic, an editor, was jailed on charges of publishing reports damaging the security of the state. Authorities, however, said the accu- sations against him were not linked directly with the plot to overthrow the government charged against his brother. FULLER BRISTLECOMB HAIR BRUSH Doesn’t Disturb a bargain is to - see your Buick dealer first! at § pm. [ Duff-Cooper Urges against Moore, son complained to her husband about sending a subpoena to her landlady, when divorce proceedings are pending between the couple. Others indicted and the charges them are: Thomas William B. McMichael, Douglas Taylor and Carroll A. Rus- sell, joyridin Edward F. Powell, Alonzo E. Taylor, of the board. Mrs. Jeffreys succeeds | Rosewell Page, jr., of Hanover. Reappointed were W. A. Smoot of | Alexandria, Norman Call of Rich-| | mond, Louis Chauvenet of Esmont | since last June. The United States maintains a detachment of marines at Tientsin, Recently there have been indica- tions that the blockade soon would and C. Gratton Price of Harrison- |be lifted. R.| burg. = it- s Victi RUG Beauty Our Du Hit-Run Car’s Victim A 'War Against Whole German People Nation Is Behind Hitler, Shares in His Crimes, British Are Told By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 23 (via radio).— War to the death against the whole German people and not merely }agamsu the Nazi regime was urged | | today by Alfred Duff-Cooper, former | First Lord of the British Admiralty Mr. Duff-Cooper, speaking before the Royal Society of St. George in | place of Winston Churchill, First| Lord of the Admiralty, said German attacks upon Austria, Czecho-Slova- kia, Poland, Denmark and Norway were “crimes of the whole people.” Reviewing acts of the German military in the last few years, Mr. Duff-Cooper spoke of them as a “series of crimes” which made a terror of Europe. and declared they were not the crimes of one man or a group of criminals “but the crimes Arthur Kirkorian, Albert F. Dariano, Francis 1. Gray, Henry Glasco, Wal- Maben, housebreaking and larceny; Benjamin Belton, housebreaking; Henry Small and Lewis Thigpen, robbery; George D. Craig and George Schaeffer, setting up a gam- ing table; George Schaeffer, James A. Shaw, Ben R. Goldberg, Herbert Donald, Harry E. Gaskins, Barney Berlinsky, Larney S. Pugh, Bernard Neuyahr, Louis Dutch, Stephen J. Gauzza, Ruth A. Heffner and Joseph | De Pollar, violation of the National | Motor Vehicle Theft Act; Albert C. Johnson and Bena T. Reeder, pan- dering; George T. Stonestreet, Viola Simms, Marian R. Robinson, Elton Brent, violations of the Harrison | Import and Export Act; Inez M. Howard, Raleigh L. Morton and | Zony Peterson, assault with danger- ous weapon; Mary E. Meyers, James Allen, John C. White, Clifton E. and assault with intent to commif to commit robbery. James M. Williams, Samuel Artz, ter Watson, Henry Small and Neal Price, violation of the numbers law; | Burton M. Burkey and William U. | Boyde, forgery and uttering; Harry | Still in Critical Condition The condition of John H. Byers, 68, secretary to Representative Leo E. Allen of Illinois, was said to be still serious today at Emergency Hospital where he was taken Friday night after being struck by a hit- runwcar at Fourteeth and N streets Mr. Byers, who lives at 1417 N street N.W., suffered a concussion, scalp cuts and a fractured collar- bone. Police were searching for the driver of the car. | Mr. Byers is a former Iilinois State | Senator and for years has been a | congressional secretary. Call Mr.Pyle na.3237 SANITARY CARPETY & RUG-CLEANING CO. 106 INDIANA AVE. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. | Narcotic Act and the Narcotic Drugs | Reed, assault with dangerous weapon | robbery; John L. Jacobs and Her- | man M. Bailey, assault with intent | HOTEL BRI ATLANTIC CITY, W. 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Mr. Duff-Cooper declared that “Germany has assumed many ugly shapes in her past, but never has | the face of Germany assumed so vil- lianous and vile an aspect as under leadership of this little gang of blood-stained, money-making mur- derers.” “Hitler says the entire German people is behind him,” Mr. Duff- Cooper said. “I, for one, am prepared to take him at his word.” The audience cheered when Mr. Duff-Cooper said that Britain had command of the sea to an even greater extent now than she had eight months ago and that no na- tion with command of the sea ever had been defeated in a great war. “How long it will take to achieve victory,” he said, “no man can say, but one thing we do know and tha is that victory is certain in the end.” N. L. R. B. to Receive Strike Pay Claims By the Associated Press. 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