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Editorial Page Daily Cartoon Society, Movies Wants Markets ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PART THREE ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937. PAGES i -2C MCGir Col RW 1 AUSTRALIA TO INAUGURATE RED ANOTHER ASSAILS At MacDonald Memorial Service POLAND ASKS DELBOS FOR COLONIAL OUTLET BAR ASSOCIATION APPROVES PLAN TO Text of Protest: German Army And Navy Chaplains Warn Nazis of Danger in Fight on Christianity They Tell Hitler Half of Populace Believes Nothing Coming From Government, a Grave Situation in Case of War. 4 press Christianity.

National Socialism will -conquer. Christianity is going to be destroyed." Rosenberg Award Is Cited. Such is the opinion of the populace everywhere. The official recognition of Ludendorf propaganda and the granting of the first national prize (established after Hitler boycotted the Nobel Prizes) to Alfred Rosenberg (in charge of Nazi ideological training, have done away with all doubt. Every one in Germany now knows how things stand.

Therefore, the breach. In the country, where the differences are not concealed, it is now customary for the villages to be divided into two camps. The one supports the local National Socialist leader. The other supports the pastor or priest. The differences are so great that the two parties sometimes come to blows.

explanation when the differences find no public expression is the universal fear that men and women feel today. In the cities the' situation is in reality the same It simply is not as noticeable. The means by which this combat Associated Press Photo. LORD and LADY BALDWIN TEAVING Westminster Abbey in London after attending services ior Ramsay MacDonald who died on a vacation cruise to South America. nHE chaplains of Germany's armed forces sent to Chancellor Hitler a sensational protest against the Nazis' repressive attacks on Christianity about a month ago.

The text, which has not been given the public in Germany, entitled, "Memoir Regarding the Effects of the Church Struggle on the Moral Preparedness of the German People," has just been published in this country by the New York Times, from which the following is taken by permission: THE conflict centering about the Protestant Church could still be referred to in public addresses in the year 1935 as mere pastoral bickering. Today it has become, together with the conflict centering about the Catholic Church, a domestic political issue of primary importance. The new breach that divides the German Nation is the breach between National Socialism and Christianity. This source of disunity, because it has its roots in religion, goes deeper than its predecessors. The real source of disunity, however, is not religious or ideological differences as such.

These have existed previously without the unity of the nation and comradeship being endangered. The World War proved that. The real source of disunity is, on the contrary, the appearance of the State's forces in such differences. The State and the (Nazi) Party combat today not only the political activities of the churches. They combat Christianity.

This fact is repeatedly denied. It is true nevertheless. Undermined From Within. Within the church the attempt is being made to transform the Church into a State institution under the dictatorial direction of the Reich Church Ministry. The Minister has reinstalled German Christians everywhere, and exactly those German Christians who have surrendered the very substance of the Christian, faith.

Thus the is undermined from within. At the same time it is attacked from without. In the training camps of the Party it is repeatedly explained that National Socialism has three enemies: Judaism, Masonry and Christianity. Public acceptance of Christianity is regarded, when a new position is to be filled, as a tie that unfits the candidate for service to the State or the Party. When a Brandenburg pastor recently started services in a village in which they had not been taking place, the local public school teacher, a party member and a Storm Troop member, said to him: "Why are you introducing services? The State is going to sup PROTECTIVE TARIFF SYSTEM Minister Says It Will Abandon Li censing in Interest of British-American Negotiations.

By the Associated Press. CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 7. Trade Minister T. W. White announced today in the Australian House of Representatives that the Commonwealth would abandon its trade licensing system in favor of protective duties.

The change, which he said would not be made until Parliament reassembles in March, was described as a gesture toward British-Ameri can negotiations for a reciprocal trade agreement. White said the Government's decision resulted from its experience with the licensing system and improvement of the trade balance since restrictions were introduced. Pendine- the chance, he said, non competitive goods will be granted licensing regardless or tne country of origin. The present restrictions would apply to competitive goods ntil the dutv svstem iroes into ef fect. No change was intended at present in import quotas for motor chassis, he said.

TVia Government will start at once on an inquiry to determine duties deemed necessary to protect Australian industry. TURKEY DENOUNCES TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP WITH SYRIA Notifies France, Which Holds Man date; Said to Want Better Safeguards for Its Interests. By the Associated Press. ANKARA, Turkey, Dec 7. Tur key denounced her treaty of friend ship and non-aggression with Syria today in a note to the French Government, which administers Syria under League of Nations man date.

The Turkish view apparently was that the attitude of French author ities in Syria had been inimical to Turkish-Syrian amity. Turkish-Syrian relations have been strained the last year particularly on the question of French administration of the State of Alexandretta on the Turkish frontier. Official sources indicated Turkey is disposed to consider a new agree ment to safeguard Turkish interests in Syria "more adequately. A formal announcement said French Foreign Minister Yvon Del-bos is expected here in January to discuss Turkish-French problems. MEXICO'S LARGEST BUDGET ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT YEAR Expenditures to Total Increase to Be for Public Works Program, Copyright.

1937.) MEXICO, D. Dec. 7. The largest budget in Mexico's history has been announced for next year. Expenditures will total 410,000,000 pesos $114,000,000) an increase of $22,223,000 over 1937.

The increase will be used in continuing the development of national resources and the public works program, and, if the national income continues to increase, all points of the six-year plan will be completed by 1940, it is said. In the last two years the Federal income has reached the highest level on record. In 1936 it exceeded the average for 10 years by about $29,000,000. BRITISH RESCUE REBEL FLYERS Take Spanish Airmen to Malta After Their Plane Is Shot Down. By the Associated Press.

VALETTA, Malta, Dec. 7. The British liner Largs Bay rescued the pilot and observer of a Spanish insurgent warplane and landed them at Valetta today after the plane sank off Cadiz after it had been riddled by anti-aircraft fire. The pilot said five other ships disregarded his signals for aid after the plane was shot down. 23S The sensible is carried on is the ruthless useof State power.

In this connection it must be recalled that the State's authority is not being employed now for a faith outside the realm of its own life as in the period of the counter-reformation. On the contrary, the State itself is an ob ject of the new ideology that combats the Christian faith. Situation Called Intolerable. The racial ethic, represented through the Party and the police, hurls itself against materially helpless Christianity armed with all the force of the totalitarian State. The situation has become wholly intolerable through the fashion in which those State forces are employed.

(At this point the petition contains a brief review of State employment of force against the Protestant Church since the summer of 1933.) It continues: 4 Herr Kerrl's Ministry (the Min istry for Church Affairs, headed by Hanns Kerrl) knows likewise no other method for dealing with the Protestant Church but dictator ship. The Secret Political Police have always been the organ of its policy. Its procedure has become ever more harsh. Of the 18,000 Protestant pastors in Germany approximately 1300 have been in prison or under police arrest since 1934. That the pastor should be arrested has become a routine affair for Protestant parishes.

Says Pastors Incur Indignities. (Examples are given of pastors subjected to various indignities Continued on Page 4, Column 2. STALIN FROM ABROAD Former Soviet War Board Di rector Says He's Now -a Fugitive in Paris. I Dm 4 Via tswt Traa PARIS, Dec 7. Walter KrlvIU zky, Russian who identified him self as former director of the War.

Industry Institute, bitterly de 1 nounced the Soviet administration yesterday. He Issued a statement similar to the announcement Alexander Bar- mine, former first secretary of th Soviet legation at Athens, made Sat urday resigning from the Russian i diplomatic service. Krivitzky asserted he had been, a member of the Communist party, since 1919, and an officer of th Red army before entering the War Industry Institute. He said he had i filled "special missions abroad re- cently. "The policy of the Stalin Government becomes more and more in opposition not only to the interests of the Soviet Union but also to those of the workers movement in Krivitzky said.

"All thoso who built Soviet power through the fire of civil war, famine and cold now are destined for extermination. "By remaining abroad I hope ta have the possibility of bringing my; contribution to the rehabilitation of sens of thousands of alleged spies and 'agents of the Gestapo (German secret police) who really ar militants devoted to the working class. "I know and have proofs a pries has been put on my head. I believs it my duty as a revolutionary militant to bring all that to the knowledge of international working opinion," his statement said. $396,000,000 IN PENSIONS FOR 1937; SLIGHT DECREASE Two Recipients of War of 181 Payments Still on Lists.

By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Tho treaty of Ghent ended the war off 1812 the day before Christmas 123 years ago, but the Government still has two pensioners on the rolls of that war. They are the widow of a New; York militia private and the daughter of another Mrs.

Carolina Kinjr of Cheektowaga, N. widow of Darius King, and Mrs. Esther Ana Hill Morgan of Independence, Ore, daughter of John HilL The records of the Veterans' Administration disclosed today that the nation's pension bill for the 1937 fiscal year was $396,000,000 or less than in 1936. As pension lists of earlier wars decrease, the World War lists increase. Officials estimated the total for the current fiscal year would be $402,000,000 because the last session of Congress increased slightly; the pensions of some widows and opened the rolls to new pensioners.

Pensions were paid in 1937 to veterans of all wars, 161,783 widows, 65,123 children, 85,722 parents and 1505 other dependents. i fine JAK.U337 in- APR.3.I837H -n b-50 25cd ZERO INC. SUPERB PRE-WAR DEALER ABOUT IT. Beck Assured of French Help in Plan to Resettle Jews in" Madagascar. By the Associated Press.

KRAKOW, Dec 7. Poland's de sire for raw materials and an out let for emigration were discussed with French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos before he departed today for Bucharest on the second leg of his Central European tour. The Polish Foreign Minister, Joseph Beck, gave the visitor a clear definition of Poland's viewpoint on the colonial question and received a favorable reply. As Poland has had no colonies, Beck explained, the country is not pressing territorial claims, but should an international body be convened to discuss colonial problems, Poland would wish to be represented. Delbos told Beck the Polish position was regarded by France as justified.

A dispatch from Paris said that Beck had asked that Poland be given the same consideration as Germany if a new colonial partition were discussed and that France might satisfy at least part of Poland's desires. A Paris Foreign Office spokesman said a Polish committee already had gone to Madagascar, a French island, to study the possibility of establishing a colony for Polish Jews. Madagascar, with its dependencies constituting an area of 237,950 square miles, lies in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. Polish sources said the emigration of Jews from Poland should be taken as a solution to overpopulation, not as an anti-Semitic means of ridding the country of Jews. As Beck bade Delbos farewell at the Krakow station, both seemed pleased with their four-day discussions.

They had come to Krakow from Warsaw to visit the tomb of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski. French Cabinet Expresses "Greatest Satisfaction." By the Associated Press. PARIS, Dec. 7. The French Cabinet expressed the "greatest satisfaction" today with a statement by Premier.

Camilla Cbautemps that France and Britain were in accord on "all subjects." A communique was issued following a meeting with President Albert Lebrun at which Chautemps made a report on his recent London visit. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos accompanied him. French and British officials at the London conference explored ways and means of insuring the peace of Europe. WORK ON CHANNEL TO DIVERT LONG LAC ONE-THIRD FINISHED Waters Now Flowing Toward Hudson Bay to Be Turned to Lake Superior. FORT WILLIAM, Ontario, Dec 7.

(Canadian Press.) The six-mile channel being dug to divert Long Lac waters, flowing north to the Hudson Bay, to Lake Superior, Is about one-third completed and is expected to be finished next summer. The channel is 100 feet wide, with an average depth of 14 feet. Six steam shovels are moving about 4500 tons of earth daily. The Ontario hydro-electric power commission is building a dam on the Kenogami River, 14miles north of Long Lac, to control the flow to the north. A second dam will be built six miles south of Long Lac, about 26 miles from Lake Superior.

About 200 men are working on the project, the largest ever attempted in Northern Ontario, man pauses FUNERAL DIRECTORS CONCORDIA LANE APPOINTJUBGES Vote About Two to One President Authorized to Launch Move to Amend State Constitution. ATTORNEYS ARGUE ABOUT NEW SYSTEM I Advocates Say It Will Take Judiciary Out of Politics; Opponents Call It Undemocratic A plain for striking the shackles 0f politics from the judiciary, by pending the Missouri Constitution to Drovide for an appointive method I of selecting judges, was approved I by the St Louis Bar Association I last night at Hotel Chase. I The viva voce vote on the ques- ition of adoption of the plan, recommended by the association's Jbommittee on Judicial Selection nd Tenure, was ciose cnuugu iu require a standing registration of ayes and nays. No count was made tut the proposal appeared to carry fcy a vote of about two to one. President George I Stemmler was authorized to appoint a committee charged with the responsibility of submitting the amendment either by the initiative or through rtinn of the Legislature.

The com- Tiittee would be named, he said, montiner rt tret ssrwin Inn's Executive Committee Friday after noon. Two-Hour Discussion. More than a score of members took part in the two-hour discus-lion, which preceded the vote. Advocates of the plan saw it as the best method of encouraging those qualified for. judicial service to become interested in a career on the bench, as conducive to a higher type of judicial performance and as an entirely democratic method of aiding a confused electorate confronted with a ballot containing "a host of names for a welter of offices." Opposition to the proposal centered about the contention that it violated democratic principles by placing selection In the hands of rfudiciary Commissions and that it would be regarded by the public as a "lawyer plan." How Plan Would Work.

As previously announced, the plan would eliminate nomination of judicial candidates at primary elections and set up a State Judiciary Commission of seven members which would submit to the Governor three names, without consideration as to political affiliation, for each vawnrv imnnir nt Jtie Supreme Court or of the St. Kansas City and Springfield Court of Appeals. Similarly, Circuit Judiciary Committees for nomination of Circuit Judges and other Judges of courts of record for appointment by the Governor in the respective circuits ire provided for if voters of the re-Wctive judicial districts wish to "opt the method. The State Judiciary Commission old composed 0f tne Cnlef Justice of the Supreme Court, as airman; three members of the asouri Bar, one to be selected worn each of the Appellate Court i-S by lawyers residing in the ustnct, and three citizens not law- ln one to be amed from each JPPeBate district by the Governor. sation.WOUld Berve wiUlout compen- 1 Final Selection.

Jhe Governor might make his se- from the three names or tne commission for three addi tional names from which to choose. hoi? 'PPototment, the Judge would lce unt the Dec 31 follow- tag the 6CUCIU.1 eiecu next general election after office his firSt year In less than 60 years before 1 general election preceding lerm ay dijj. ucuaiauun oi can-tion7 a 12-year term, the ques-n -SS "ubnitted to the voters in office?" bot maJorlty of those casting inv question vote against mak and if the majority st th. per cent of those voting JufeV elecon, the term of the c. 3LWld exPire the following 12-vp 9therwise ne would serve Difm from the following The 25 per cent provision 53 a safeguard gawLdefeat of a Jude by an Ct4 minority at an election fcdidLi voter might not cast rest.018 because teck of TV Judiciary Commla-Bdtoo.

be headed by the Prefer In the CUrt Of Ap- um for.111011 circuit Is located, ,7 'awyers of the cir-o Knted fcy the Governor and --iii non-lawyers to be the Judges of th. rurt ROOSEVELT'S INFECTION X-Ray Shows Jawbone Is Not Involved No Operation Necessary. By the Associates Tress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.

White House officials said today examination of X-ray photographs had disclosed "no bone Involvement" in President Roosevelt's gum, which has not healed since extraction of an infected tooth. Secretary Early said the infec tion was confined to the soft tissue of the gum, and that another treat ment, involving cleansing of the toqth socket, was given this morn ing. He said it would not be nec essary to scrape the jawbone. Dr. Ross T.

Mclntire, naval phy sician, and Lieutenant-Commander Arthur H. Yando of the navy den tal corps, examined the X-ray photographs, taken immediately after the President reached the White House yesterday from his curtailed Florida vacation. "There is still some soreness and slight drainage, but both Dr. Mclntire and Commander Tando are highly gratified at the reading of the pictures," Early said. The President had a luncheon conference with Secretary of Labor Perkins and attended to other appointments including his regular press conference in the afternoon.

Told by a reporter that the business recession was getting worse and asked what he intended to do, the President said in the first place it was only an assumption that the slump was getting worse. As for the second part of the question he asked his inquirer not to tie his hands. Pressed for an am plification of the assumption remark, the President said people argue both ways on the subject. TWO INFLUENTIAL PARTIES ARE DISBANDED IN BRAZIL Factions Dissolved In Powerful States of Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. RIO DE JANEIRO, Des.

7. Dis patches from Sao Paulo and Rio Grande du Sul yesterday said all political parties in those two politically powerful states had been dissolved in obedience to the de cree promulgated by President Getulio Vargas Dec. 3. Dispatches from the state of Para, in the far north, said parties there also had been dissolved in the move to make Brazil a one-party nation. The dissolution in Sao Paulo and Rio Grande Do Sul wiped out the only state parties which had national" influence.

Parties in Brazil generally have been organized on state lines. On Nov. 27 Vargas attended a ceremony symbolizing the end of the virtual autonomy of the Brazilian states. The flags of the 20 states were burned on an altar behind which was raised the national green and yellow banner. 8 KILLED IN BUS COLLISION Forty-Five Reported Hurt In Fog at Zlmapan, Mexico.

MEXICO, D. Dec 7. Ambulances left this city today for Zima-pan. Hidalgo state, were eight persons were reported killed and 45 in jured in a collision of two passenger busses on a fogbound highway. Zimapan, where the accident hap pened before midnight, is 130 miles from here.

Miami-Havana Air Cruise. MIAMI, Dec. 7. A fleet of private airplanes took off today for the second annual Miami-tc-Havana air cruise, postponed from yesterday because of bad weather. The first objective was Key West, where the flyers were to refuel.

They were expected to reach Havana this OF GUM NOT SPREADING of Appeals. Nominations, appointments and elections would follow the same principle as those for higher judicial offices, but terms would be for only six years. Recall Provision Retained. After lengthy debate, the recall provision in the proposed plan was retained. It provides that the question of retention in office of any Judge may be submitted at any general election upon the filing of a petition signed by 8 per cent of the qualified voters.

The Judge might be recalled by a majority vote if the majority equals 25 per cent of those voting in the jurisdiction. Former Supreme Court Judge Fred Xi. Williams, moving that the provision be eliminated, said he considered it improbable that it would be invoked and that it might Interfere with the work of a Judge just as his necessary participation in politics now does. Former Police Commissioner George T. Priest and former City Counselor Charles M.

Hay were among speakers favoring retention of the section. To remove it, they said, would weaken chances of adoption of the amendment. Hyman G. Stein, president of the Lawyers' Association, and Sigmund M. Bass led opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment.

Stein said it would transfer control of the judiciary to a small group and create a "monopoly" in law practice by a small group. Bass defended the present system of electing judges and chided members of the Bar Association for campaigning for friends they wished to see obtain the Bar Association indorsement. Ronald J. Foulis, chairman of the Committee on Judicial Selection and Tenure, and R. Walston Chubb, a member, explained provisions of the amendment.

Other members of the committee are Roberts P. Elam, William F. Fahey, Luther Ely Smith, Ethan A. Shepley and Israel Treiman. U.

S. APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RAIL MEDIATION BOARD ORDER Boles on Bargaining Election of Nashville, Chattanooga. St. Louis Road. By the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Dec 7. The United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting here today, upheld the Railway Mediation Board in. dispute arising from a collective bargaining election among employes of the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis Railway Co. The court affirmed the decree of the United States District Court of the Middle District of Tennessee.

In the decision, written by Judge Charles C. Simons, it was stated that the Mediation Board has "great discretion" in determining eligibility of employes to participate in an election to determine a collective bargaining agency. The company had charged that changes In eligibility of employes to voe in the election were contrary to law. The case was appealed by the company. The Railway Employes Department of the American Federation of Labor was appellee.

The A. F. of I group was designated as representative of the various craft groups of the railway in the election, in which it was opposed by the Association of Shop Employes, which the opinion said previously had been recognized by the company. The company then refused to accept the A. F.

of L. group. The A. F. of petitioned the District Court for a mandatory Injunction compelling the company to accept the results of the election.

The injunction was granted and the company's request that the board be ordered to conduct a new election was denied. Potters Join Japanese Boycott. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The United States Potters' Association joined today the campaign of some labor groups to boycott all consumers and distributers of merchandise manufactured In Japan.

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