LEAD 1 /-T-^L^rr /v3<? <7 neither side in that world -shaking quarrel shows any sign of backing down. Hitler apparently means business at the cannon^ mouth. If the Poles continue what he calls their provocation of Germany he will destroy ifcc Poland with the sword. If Britain and France put in their oar, they too will be destroyed. Thatfs what^he is quoted as having said to Dr. Burckhardt, High Commissioner of the League of Nations for Danzig. Burckhardt reported this conversation to London. It was this which moved the Chamberlain Cabinet sen^Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson with a personal mesage to the Fuehrer. It repeated Chamberlain’s v/arning that if he starts to carry out/his plans for carving up &± Poland, Great Britain and France will stand by their guarantees. In other words — war. This warning, this personal message from Chamberlain, the Fuehrer rejected ^ categorically and curtly, j'^he quarrel between Germany and Poland over Danzig is none of Great Britain’s business, hsms rench. It J A Hitler had informed the British Ambassador that no warning, no nor of the French. It was officially announced ^in Berlin that J A 1 i LKAD - S * 1 word from either Gre<>t Britain or France would persuade Germany to deviate one step from her vital national interests. fiaje For a while today the world was electrified by a report that Hitler had offered Poland the alternative of being partitioned flauri Kanay^once more or becoming a Nazi Protectorate like Bohemia and Moravia. But that was eventually denied. More conservative observers believe the previous stories of Hitler’s offer to the Polish Government^ If the Poles will make a peaceful gesture. Hitler will be content^with the return of Danzig and of a German Corridor across the Polish Corridor ^ The word from London is that the British are prepared for the worst. The tone of every report indicates that both they and the French have reconciled themselves to the fact that war is inevitable, saving and excepting either a miracle or another surrender like that of Munich last year.^ King George VI !■ is rushing down to London from Scotland to be present at a special meting of the Privy Council tomorrow. By Bxfcdfexh British tradition only the King in Council has the power to make peace and war, ,nn - 4 The Board of Trade Issued an order forbidding the export of raw materials. |\ The system for warning the population A against air raids is virtually on a war basis, working twenty-four hours a day. In France troop trains continue to take soldiers toward the Maginot Line and the Italian frontier. Premier Daladier £ announces the calling of more reserve^ to the colors. /V Though it* s not specifically announced, one may assume that the French Military are also carefully guarding the Spanish frontier. In this war, when and if it breaks, France will be in the awkward position of having not one front but three. And even that doesn't include the possibility of a German invasion t tiro ugh Switzerland. MOSCOW ^ Moscow today presented a spectacle which even as late as^a^year ago would have seemed impossible. From the Flagjptaffs there fluttered emblems strange indeed for the capitol of Red Bolshevism. The Swastika flags of Germany. They w^ved a greeting to foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, envoy extraordinary from Adolph Hitler, who for so long paraded himself before the world as the number one enemy of Bolshevism^) Extra police lined the five miles from the airport to the Kremlin while Ribbentrop, escorted by a special secret police body guard^iew^ the Italian and Molotov German ambassadors, paid a state visit to JlMXXXXiOE, Soviet / A Premier and Foreign Commisar. (Ribbentrop had two long conferences with Molotov discussing world" pae^t > the non-agression treaty whichagain revolutionize the maD of Europe and probai^^the destiny of the world. But here is almost the cream of the grim Jest that Britain Stalin has played, on Great^Bxifcisi^and France. Molotov has notified London and Paris that the Soviets are v/illing to go on' talking about a Thr®? power Treaty for reciprocal aid and support MOSCOW - 2 They’ll talk in -one breath a now-war treaty with Hitler, and in another breath a military alliance with Hitler’s enemies. \ From Moscow there’s a late report that the non-aggression pact may not be as nearly complete as the Germans are saying, ITALY In all this complicated and tumultous European scenario one hears almost nothing of Italy and ©«e» Mussolini, hut one dispatch from Home neysoEs reports that Foreign Minister Count Ciano received the French Ambassador for the first time in a couple of months. And it was reported that the British Ambassador had handed Count Ciano a copy of Chamberlain’s warning to Sqghjcny ■Acteif' Hitler. L«-T^Sunog.Q - 'ujaanagdav. Aurypt gz J ] CiZQ J-ine chaos in Eur p© was most; "tersely and accurately described this evening by King Leopold III of Belgium. Over the air he told the world that the big nations are Bocsf- mobilizing almost all of their armed forces, and the world is living in such tension that collaboration between countries seems impossible. And he added that there* s not a single nation which wish s to send its children to war. »,It is still possible King of he Belgians, ’’time presses. As the crisis grows more accute all contacts will soon be difficult. War will bring economic collapse. There will be no vietor.n King Leopold was speaking for the seven so-called Oslo nations. There wa-s-'i to negotiate, the v/orst can be warned the BLACKOUT Ifr Aieak&-.a&—though, dapknoop tonight covei" wi^a po^tio^-o^Tsot onl^ Europo the British Isles^ -livery place where raiding airplane bombers might strike is prepared for a blackout. )The Metropolitan police of London sen! notice throughout the city ordering every building, every house. to be ready to extinguish every light at an instant’s notice. Not only tonight but every night hereafter. And the Home Office has telephoned instructions to the authorities of every city. every community, to be ready to do the same. Building owners and housekeepers were hurrying around to board up their windows or drape them, eo•neosefttia 1 lights"1 could- no1>-be— after It was announced that^ii^the blackout—order has been issued the police will smash any window and enter any building where a light is showing .. smxm - Mmm _______ i Just to make things «cs±a# for the British Government, A A it is faced with, a strike of rail way workers. For some time the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen have been demanding higher vmges, shorter hoursg Last week they were turned down by the four principal lines in Great Britain. The engineers and firemen retaliated with a strike to begin next Saturday. The Minister of Labor today implored UT~0\ a QJ^ them to postpone it. But the railroad men refused. A tie up the principal British transportation arteries Just when 11 ’!'; ip they*re most needed MARKET vS As a rule such news as burned up the wires today * _ght be expected to raise havoc in the markets of the world* Curiously enough the Exchanges in Europe were efw'Hcgg quiet and dull. The same thing happened in Wall Street, At the opening of the day brokers and traders were seldom more calm. But as the news from Europe poured in stocks began to wobble, some of them reaching the lowest point of the year. By the same token commodities rushed toward the sky in typical war scare fashion. Then came a short but portentous cable from the money district of London. Lloyd’s, the great insurance institution. jumped all war risk insurance rates. Thereupon Vtall Street woke up and started selling. This In spi^e of new\inslde\the United States\that should have caused stockVto rise, reports of Increased building, of heavy activity in steel production. The big demand for F.H.A, mortgage's, incrpkse in car-Ip dings. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ The war scare was more potent than all these optimisti< \ \ N ^ ^ influences. ADD MARKET n ___ The biggest excitement was in the famous old Khafc wheat pit of the Board of Trade in Chicago. And the grain traders went hectic with the belief that war in Eurooe is a •frranrfefa foregone conclusion. The same thing happened at Winnepeg, the big center of the Canadian grain market. Wheat went up the legal limit, five cents. kxt* dnly the legal limit stopped itg=ggjagg~T&§iigc> ROOSSVELOL The war scare cut short a lot of official vacations in these United States as well as in Europe* It sent both the President and the Secretary of State hastening back to Washington as fast as steam would take them. Mr. Roosevelt had planned to catch fish in the Gulf Stream, or maybe only €9 teach the bait to swim. Instead of that he ordered the Commanding Officer of the Cruiser Tuskaloosa to make speed for Sandy Hook, New Jersey. There he will land at eight o*clock tomorrow morning, motor to Red Bank, New Jerseand take a special train to the Capital. A staff of Secretaries A A from the White Ebuse will meet him at Red Bank ia so that he can get to work the minute he!s on board the train. Secretary Hull, who was at White Sulpher Springs, lef-fc early this morning and was back in the Capital late this afterno n ADD ROOSEVELT e State Department did not wait for the return of ^Secretary to issue an official warning, a warning to all Uncle Samis nephews and nieces. Don!t travel in Europef Stay off liners crossing the Atlanticl ^ Steamers leaving the other side of the Atlantic are filled up wich Americans rushing home. The German liner Bremen left Cherbourge tonightwith a passenger list of eighteen hundred, of which twelve hundred are Americans DIES A firecracker thn^m« 94,l( ,a -y-fning tinmjiinlitiM exploded under the Dies Committee investigating un-American job as investigator for the committee had received money which was supposed to have come from the Silver Shirt Fascists of Ashviile, ^orth Carolina, The man is Frasier Gardner of know that it had any connection with the Silver Shirts, But he said he did believe thatWllliam D, Pelley, the founder of tAjtUl the Silver Shirts, «9 connected with that Skyland Press. Then A Gardner testified that he had no connection with Pelley, ttee»s counsel &$m produced telegrams sent to Gardner signed W. p, and W.D. p , Then admitted that he had met -------- J A Pelley several times but never in private. After Gardner had made these-confessions the Dies Committee went into scr executive session. Dies fcfcaa announc< activities t hat a man who applied for a Gardner said he didnft that he was turning the testimony over to the United States Attorneyfor appropriate prosecutive action under the perjury statutes or any other statutes pertaining to the case. Dies also said that Gardner had come to him with recommendations from some United States Senators and high officials of the Government, OftidiiUl* hfekl beuu recuiving^abou-L^Tli11/ Cellars wools fa from the gkylaii press wtie BUSCH -tHit Europe is not the 6nly scene of tragic political drama. Early tills afternoon a dispatch from La Paz, capital of Bolivia, brought word that President-Dictator General German Busch had been gravely wounded. The official communication harixth added that he himself had fired the shot. that it was accidental. Later, the drama and mystery became more sensational. President Busch is dead. Only a few' weeks ago we likrd of an attempt at A revolttSSaa in La Paz, a palace revolution. It was soon over because General Busch. rratiron hand, suppressed it ' A ^ in strict dictatorial fashion. Tonight La Paz has a provisional President, General Carlos Quintanilla, Commander-in-Chief of the Bolivian Army. STEAMER ’Jy Onjtythe war scare news could overshadow the shocking sea disaster in Brazilian waters. A coastal steamer carrying forty-six passengers was pZZZ entering a harbor south of Bahia. A The seas were running high and t difficulty. As she waes toss steamer® was having came a wave even larger than the^ mountain of water that Kapx capsized the ship. Forty-six passengers and seventeen members of the A 4 fxjgw crew, nkragued within sight of land. Only three were A- A saved, the Captain, the First Officer and a child. COBB A new worlds speed record for motor cars, six miles a minute. ^ne latest phase of the long-drawn-out speed A i duel between British Captain Eyston and British Fur Broker John Cobb. year ago Cobb was champion, travelling three-hundred- and-fifty miles an hour. But he wasn1! champion long. Twenty-four hours later Eyston took the blue ribbon away from him. YesterdayCobb seht his twenty-six hundred horsepower car over the Bonneville Salt Flats at^hree-hundred-and s£apfeF=B^i5 I siorty-u-ijS^ miles an houry nineteen miles an hour faster than Eyetonfs mark. But that speed of yesterday was not official. Today he drove the measured mile one way three-hundred and-seventy and three-quarters miles an hour, and on the return trip slowed down to three -hundred-and-sixty-six and ninety-seven hundredths miles an hour. When they asked Mm why he slowed down he replied; ^Safety first, even at six miles atx a minute.1' I And he said he knew he had gone fast enough one way for a record# 11 an# he wanted to cinch the record and be sure to get baex. A A any rr«tav John Cobb I2#' now the fastest tlie worlcpon wheels I 1 I1 PRIZE FIGHT m One bit of American news leads us blithely from the tragic to the ridiculous. It*s about prize fight last nightj the decision that caused the good right arm of Lou Ambers instead of Henry Armstrong to be raised fex when the fight was over. There's an ag angry aftermath to that ghtweight championship bout. It»s the old story. Armstrong's manager stst»$3tiixiai complainairin classic prize-ring terms: "We was uiL^ He says one deuuty of the New 2ork ^ A A. \ V Hoxing Commission sat on a stool directly under Amber's corner and Ambers all through the fight. Armstrong's manager xxx also complained that Ambers won by sticking his thumb in Armstrong's eye. The eye was taken to a physician today to be examined. The physician said that Armstrong's eyes were so badly beaten up he couldn't tell whether it was done by fists or thumbs^ 8»'*oday the manager of Henry Armstrong asks the Boxing Commission to reverse that decision and give it to his ! i ! ! II man.