L.T. _ SUNOCO. WEDNESDAY, FE;BBU a M.15. 19S9 GOOD EVEfili-iG EVERYBODY: A few minutes ago, the information from London became definite and official.^The British government has just decided unanimously to accord recognition to Franco as the de-facto government in Spain, j Furthermore, it was made public. S'.1:-- ENTENTE FOLLOW HITLER Here’s an item from Belgrade, capital of Jugoslavia. It states that the countires of the Balkan Entente: Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Eoumania and Turkey, have agreed among themselves to recognize Franco’s government in Spain ENGLISH REAir.iAIlENT In the coming year, John Bull's navy will grow ■W t ^ x . ±J3±msi. [ larger to the extent of sixty new,tsents&Kai* That sounds like aa .awfJ^ lot of It means two capital ships, four A A large six Inch gun cruisers, two whole flotillas of destroyers, twenty fast vessels, and one aircraft carrier. s&uM. ftfearfc To do all that naval 'building, John proposes to borrow A four hundred rail!ion Pounds, one billion, eight hundred and seventy-six million Dollars *jr—• *'> CABHIET - 2 that the Cabinet had. authorized Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to announce this decision after taking counsel with the government of France. Later in the evening. Premier Chamberlain, umbrella in hand, wrent to Buckingham Palace. There he informed His Majesty, King George the Sixth, that the government is wlhdrawing the recognition of the Spanish Republican government, the government which Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald had recognized in NineteenThirty-One, eight days after the flight of Alfonso from Madrid IMP.IDY Amonfe the countries that imitated the Jew-baiting of Hitler, was Hungary• Several laws were passed recently in the country of the Magyars, inflicting distress and disability on the Jews. The author of those laws was Hungary's Prime Minister Bela Irnredy. One of them was even harsher than the notorious Nuremberg laws inflicted by the German Nazis. Today Premier Imredy is out. He resigned. He has learned that one of his grandmothers was a Jewess. To be sure, she had been baptized in the Christian faith when she was only seven. That was in Eighteen Fifteen. Nevertheless, when Premier Bela Imredy learned the truth abontf his^origin he felt crytkr , himself forced to His resignation was accepted A inmedi&tely by Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary. So this afternoon another cabinet has been formed in Budapest and the new Prime Minister will be a Hungarian nobleman. Count Paul Teleki, who was Minister of Agriculture in the Imredy Cabinet. HITLER FOLIO' IMREDY Foreign offioes are wondering what effect the exit of Imredy will have upon Hitler^ plans.Strangely enough, Imredy^s ✓ persecution of Jews was an anti-Nazi policy. He was trying to take the -wind out of the sails of the Hungarian Nazis, and _he^ was considered the chief bulwark agains-: them. Now there1s a story in the air today that Hungary is going to be the next objective of Hitler^ push to the east. Hefs going not only after Hungary but Roumania, with the same strong-arm method he used on Czechoslovakia. That, says the tale, is to be the crux of the next big European blow-off, and itfs -rCia due four weeks from now, not later than six, ^according to a story by William Philip Simms,' Foreign Editor of the Scrlpps-Howard Executive papers. I quote by permission of Lee Wood,^Editor of the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM. Private information received by Phil Simms has it that there will be a joint show-down by the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis. While Hitler will start the havoc in central and easterijEurope, Mussolini will cut loose in the Mediterranean. Japan1s part in this concert of action will be to start trouble around Vladivostok and point a pistol at the HITLER POLLOV. IMREpY - 2 heart of Russians maritime Siberian province. Foreign Editor Phil Simms adds a word of caution In relating this Information. He wTites: WI do not guarantee any of these statements. All I can say Is that Nazis in Germany have privately warned their business friends in other countries KIEL CMAL Among Adolf Hitler1s of the Kiel Canal. That recalls projects is another v*idening to mind a story of the last great war. One of the most assiduous presets of war in the first years of this century was Admiral jMsi Fisher, A * Admiral of the Fleet and for a While First Lord of the Admiralty. S% related in his memoirs that King Edward the A Seventh had asked him: "When is this war going to start?n And Fisher replied: nIn Nineteen Fourteen.n To which the King said: "How do you know?" "Because," replied Fisher, "it is then that the Germans will have finished widening the Kiel CanalI" And nowr they*re starting to widen it again. Its breadth is going to be doubled. But it is explained that this increase is principally for commercial purposes. At present that canal isn*t wide enough for continuous two-way traffic. MM goebbels Here's a new version of the beating of Goebbels, the Hitler's Propaganda,ifcrniscts^ It was no .A* actor who thrashed him, nor the husband of an actress, as N^*-+ reported. Goebbels was shellacked by the personal bodyguard of his colleague. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering. This story, curiously enough, comes from Philadelphia. It was told in the course of a lecture at the Women's University Club. The lecturer was Wilhelm Sollman, at one time a member of the Cabinet of German'Chancellor Gustaf Stressemann. Sollman, an exile ever since the Nazis rose to power, said his story came from % a quite unimpeachable source Germany. The question remained — A why should Goering have promoted this attack upon his colleague? The explanation is that Goebbels had become alarmed by general German indignation over his latest Jevidsh persecutions. So Goebbels passed the buck to Goering. In the newspapers he controls, he published a front page editorial praising Field Marshal Goering for his statesmanship in organizing those hf November riots. It was that which infuriated Goering and led him to send his own personal plug-ugly to beat,the propaganda Minister BARTER In the amseum of Science at Buffalo, there^s an interesting historical exhibit. It shows examples of currency, mediums of exchange, from the ear.liest known times* For instances, they have a coin of King Croesus, the fabulously rich sovereign of in the Sixth Century, B*C« That coin is said to be the earliest known medium of exchange. Today, that exhibit has been increased by an example of the latest outh organ. , the most modern means of exchange. Iflt German For some time there has been a facetious gag current ihEuropean newrs that Hitler is swapping mouth organs ^for every kind of product in other countries.j It new comes to light that several years ago a Chicago packing company sent sx the Nazis a shipment of meat products and in return received several carloads of harmonicas. The harmonics, it is said, left a bad taste in the mouths of the Chicago meat packers. Not because they tried to play the mouth organs, but because they were unable to get rid of them.^odayy jet- la DEFENSE The argument over Uncle Sam1s Island of Guam advanced one step further today. The Maval Affairs Committee of the House took action. The Congressmen authorized five millions to develop the harbor and airport tni w* This was merely one item in the measure to appropriate sixty-five millions to build new air bases for Uncle Sam. There was a motion before the Committee to drop Guam out altogether. But it was defeated, fourteen to five. Aside from that, the House today was debating the Emergency Armamente Bill which is to set aside three hundred and seventy-six million dollars to build strong^air fleets.£saE2JnDtei The chief champion of the bill today was Representative Pace of Georgia. He offered the warning that if Germany and Italy defeated John Bull and France, Uncle Sam would have to xg gird his loins and be ready for trouble. In his own words, Pace said; "Whenever we see England and France go down in war, we are threatened." Ano he added that it is by no means impossible or improbable that the fovnfall of England or France would drop Ai'ierl can territory into toe laps of rlussolini and Hxil®^*• ho said; "The Bahama Islands, Bermuda, British Hondurous, ox Germany British and French and Italy.« I Just nad a telephone caxl from Washington that V late this afternoon the House passed the Emergency Defense Bill by an enormous majority. The vote was three hundred and sixty-seven to fifteen. the amendment means that-they will added within one year PLAKES FOLLOV. DEFENSE Here’s a bulletin Wwnt just in from V/ashington. The Military Affairs Committee of the Senate is going much deeper into the business of the sale of American military planes to France. That was the gist of an announcement that the Committee made a few moments ago. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Secretary of War Woodring have been summoned to appear before t!e Committee tomorrow and tell all. mmmm mm I BANK There*s still a great deal of quiet interest in the bank that closed In Jersey City, An investigation has been started. It is reported that somebody tipped off several of the largest and richest depositors in the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Those large depositors got wrind of what was to happen last Saturday and naturally rushed /and J to the hankl drs«/6heir money, axpfcb For the three hours that the bank was open Saturday morning, there was actually a run, though it was not made public. Those large depositors got more than a million dollars of their money. RAID A raid of bandits at Miami Beach reaped a formidable haul. A of £ix walked into a hotel near the beach just before five oTclock this morning. They had come in from the garden, their faces masked by handkerchiefs, guns in hand. They held up all the hotel employees in sight, herded them into a washroom. Then they helped themselves to the contents of the deposit boxes in which the guests had stored their valuables. According to one of the Miami newspapers, their loot was not less than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and probably as high as two hundred thousand. One woman alone reported her loss as a hundred and two thousand JAMAICA Alarming news from Jamaica. There*s a strikey ffting" nn’^frhgrei a strike against shipping. In fact every vessel at the wharfs is tied up. A Jamaica labor leader called je» tht» strike because the master of an American fruit vessel A employed one non-union man in his crew. The consequence is that there are armed patrols all over the islard and a state of emergency^ Wo casualties are reported so far but last night the police had to fire several rounds of blank cartridges at a mob of strikers. They were trying to prevent non-union gangs from loading three banana boats CHEESE There* s^alarm out in the city and outskirts of Montreal, and it*s all over a pound of cheese. You might think a pound of cheese wasn't sax of much importance, but as a matter of fact the entire police force of tis* Montreal is exercised about that It was stolen. Ordinarily A A i pound of stolen.< the cops wouldn’t go far to recover a poun But this particular piece was swiped from the office of a vermin exterminating company^ It was shot through and through with thallrum sulphate which is colorless, odorless and tasteless f wlifcX1 but one of the deadliestjpoisons. And that's why (Xr-yJL cr\ C^Q^ejZ^aje Montrcel-ape" being urgod'^tonight to~bo oareful1 Tibi.ni-tnhgjg” iaa . , TALLEY There’s grave trouble in the family affairs of Marion Talley* the girl from Kansas who once made a sensation at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Marion has been on the outs with her husband, Adolph Hu Eckstrom, Miss Talley's lawyer charges today that Eckstrom has gone into hiding with their little four year old daughter. There was considerable public surprise when it became known that the singer had a daughter. Her birth was kept secret for quite a while. But now- headline'material. Miss Talley says her husband /■ A has kept her away from her daughter ever since December, Nineteen Thirty-Five, shortly after the childTs birth. ■SHRECK There* s £,ood news from Roy Shreek, the Spokane weather bureau pilot who disappeared on Sunday, For two days, parties were looking for him on land^and in the air. And they found no trace of Roy Shreek, Today he appeared, moving under his -fa*- own power, and he had a tale of danger and suffering to tell. Sunday morning he made a forced landing in the thick floods on the side of a mountain. The fog was so dense that he could see hardly anything. He didnTt know at the time that the mountain he had crashed into was one of the Coeur D!Alenes in Idaho. In short, Roy Shreek was lost, hungry, without food. on a bitter cold day. The only means he had of finding his way was to take the compass from his wrecked airplane. With this to guide him, he made a guess at what direction would lead him to food and shelter. So for three days he fought against the cold, the snow, the wind and his ever-growing hunger. He had to plod through blizzards and through snowdrifts. And all the time he wore his flying suit, soaked with water and weighing seventy-five i pounds. Why didn’t he take it off? If he had, he would have frozen to death. Finally he hit upon a farmhouse where he found ^ M food and warmth, and today the good news reached his ./k? — — W — "t — ^ ^