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CANANDAIGUA, N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, Single Copy, 3 Cents FRENCH PLANE SALE STIRS MUNITIONS TIFF POLICE KEEP STRICT GUARD ON MUSSOLINI Loyalist Envoys Quit Madrid; Peace Studied Fascist Officials Deny Attack By Madman Intended For II Duce ISSUE COMMUNIQUES Premier Reviews Musketeers, 200 Bodyguards In Ceremony Today ROME tightened their always strict vigilance against loiterers around Premier Mussolini's villa and downtown office today following the arrest of a man who si-ot a Fascist militiaman Tuesday iu the neighborhood of Mussolini's residence. A squad of plainclothesmen ana the uniformed guard always on outside the Villa Torlonia in the; Via Nomentana, where the shooting occurred, and the Palazzo Venena scrutinized all persons in the vicinity, although authorities insisted the attack was made by a were issued. to be on the move again--this time from the besieged city of Madrid to safer places on the Mediterranean coast. Although Madrid remained technically the capital, government dispatches said the cabinet had decided to install its ministries in Valencia, and other eastern cities.

The dispatches said Premier Juan Negrin still would return to Madrid to make any important announcements of action or policy. The change was attributed officially to "material difficulties" in settling at Madrid. Only three of the nine main ministry buildings in the capital were said to be habit- SEC CHAIRMAN SEEN AS NEXT COURT JUSTICE PERPIGNAN, France --The Spanish government, which has shifted its capital four times during the civil war, was reported today able. In addition, government ports said an influx of the ministry personnel would severely tax the city's food supply. Military authorities have been urging complete civilian evacuation of Madrid to facilitate its defense.

Border observers believed the decision to move was partly prompted by the desire to spare Madrid the daily shellings to which it has been subjected since the government returned there last Sunday. The new locations also would provide safer jumping off places for flight in case of surrender to eral Franco -or final victory for the Nationalists. TOWNSENDSAYS PLAN INVOLVED IN POLITICS Corrupt Practices Of Group Charged By Committeemen DOUBTS APPROVAL man. Two communiques first said: "The Popular Culture) declares the news i nttovnnt acminst WASHINGTON (P William O. Douglas, chairman of the Securities Commission, had the in- ministryjoii SJde track for the forthcoming ap- to replace Associate Jus- abou an alleged attempt against ice Louis on the Su- aou a thp head of the government to be.

reme Courfc i-it-if nf cm I lalse. The rumor arose out of an in edent caused by a madman who fired" the shots in the Via Nomen- lana." The second: "On February The White be seeking information as to whether Douglas, a former Yale law professor, would face substantial opposi- 4.1 tion.in the Senate, which must act 14, shortly 2 upon all nominations; French Consider War PARIS iff) Premier Edouarcl IDaladier called his cabinet into session today for a fresh review of 1 the Spanish civil war, with prog- ress reported in efforts to make -nace Export 3 i While the cabinet ministers were todaj that i assembling at the war ministry, Senator Leon Berard traveled to Nationalist Spain to establish French relations there and Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez Del Vayo returned empty handed to govern! ment Spain after conferences here with Manuel Azana. president of in Via Nomentana, a roan in plain clothing noticed an in dividual evidently out of his- mind. and behaving wildly, approaches him to calm him. The man sud oenTy fired at him with a revolver, Bounding him in the stomach.

-The attacker, immediate! ar- Spain, who was demanded, that reported to have his government make peace with Generalissimo know particularly whether appointment of Douglas would be agreeable to senators, who have urged that a man from their section be named to the high bench. rested, ic Bruno Simoni. of De (near Bologna), already. reeased tSlce. from an insane hospital-the nrst time at Naples and the second time at Rome.

The last time he was dismissed from an -insane asylum was during the past Tlie villa occupies an entire bloc. and is surrounded by a high stone Mussolini was scheduled today- to review black-uniformed Mussolini nusketeers-200 body-guards sworn to defend the premiers life their own. Francisco Franco on any terms. the end of the Spanish One usually well-informed sen-1 drama" was-a headline used wlde- ator said Roosevelt wanted to the French press. The conf erence of Alvarez Del Vayo and other officials at the Spanish embassy broke up with Alvarez Dey Vayo's departure last night after a call at 'the foreign ministry.

He took a train for Toulouse. From there he planned to fly to Valencia. sources said that he failed in his mission to take President Azana back to Spain and that Azana insisted he would resign soon unless resistance i on the to Franco were abandoned. was identified as a mechan-j Born 41 years ago in Minnesota. was, men Do as attended schools in Washington state between i'904 and 1022.

He.was listed as a resident.of Connecticut, however, when last nominated to the Securities Commission Senators Hear Wilson In Secret in January, 1933. While attention centered i-igh court vacancy resulting from I Azana himself was the target of the retirement of Associate Justice French criticism for staying in Erandeis. one member of-the Sen-) Paris while holding his office, ate Judiciary' Committee disclosed that there had been heated discus- judge. U. S.

Jews Accused Of Sabotage Attempts BERLIN (IPs The Berlin newspaper Boersenzeitung a United States Jews today of trying to sabotage efforts of the intergovernmental committee to help German Jews to emigrate. (The committee on Tuesday authorized the establishment of a private international corporation to finance a five-year plan for such emigration(The joint boycott council of the American Jewish congress and the Jewish labor committee announced in New York on Wednesday that it favored continuing its six-year boycott of German goods. te making an exception for goods mandate, brought over by refugees.) sic-ns in the committee over Mr. Roosevelt's selection of federal district judges. Senators have been given to understand that they should mend men for appoint-; ments who are under 60.

committee- men said, but the president ignored this qualification in picking Repre-1 He was expected to leave over the weekend for his original retreat at Collonges. Elderly Physician Says He Will Press Plan For Larger Pension WASHINGTON UP) Dr. Francis E. Townsend tcld the House ways and means committee yesterday that his old-age pension movement had dipped into politics "up to cur necks." Some committeemen said the! Townsend organization had moved range of the Corrupt Prac- i tices Act, which required reports on political contributions and expenditures. But Rep.

Duncan (D-Mo), who laised the issue at a public heailng said he had no intention to press ii "You've got to show me where I'v: violated the act," Dr. Townsend' told Rep. McCormack CD-Mass). "Not at all," McCormack shot: back. "You've got to show us.

A very ciear case has been made cut showing that you have been engaged in politics." The elderly physician had spent the whole day answering questions! explaining his proposal for icderal pensions of up to $200 a Kionth for all persons over 60. He said he had strong doubts that Congress would approve his bill, but insisted that S200 only a start, that he would attain that and then press on for an even larger amount to raise standards of living. Duncan asked the doctor whether "raising money to educate the peo-j pie of the country to this plan has' been a major "You might call it that," Townsend replied. After committee members had! away for the witness probably $3.000,000 had beer. iected over five years.

He called! SAN FRANCISCO oW--Miss C-oi- "utterly untrue" an estimate of den West, the come-on girl of the given the committee previ- 'century, announced her betrothal to cusly by Rep Sheppard D-CaIif. the rest of the world today at the He contended vigorously that opening of a glittering ID-months' called the Roosevelt Order Arouses Senatf Defense Dispute Relation of Sales to Foreign Policy Heated Behind the doors of the Senate military affairs committee room important conferences have been g'oing- on iatelv, including; a secret discussion of European conditions by Hujh R. Wilscn. U. S.

ambassador to Germany. Here Senator Warren R. Austin (K-Vt.) ranking minority memuer the committee, emerges from the room after a meeting. FANFARE OPENS SAN FRANCISCO WORLD'S FAIR Bondsmen Held in Amen Racket Investigation ft Residents Have NEW YORK (if) A 53-year-old tentative Alan Goldsborough (D-' professional bondsman was held in Md, 61, to be a District of Columbia! the high bail of $50.000 today as a defendant and key witness in Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen's Syrian Cabinet Quits During Control Crisis Brooklyn bail gation. bond racket investi- District Judge Replies In Judiciary Hearing NEW YORK U.

S. District Judge Edwin S. Thomas, who did not keep one appointment to appear for questioning before authorities investigating the federal iudiciary. said lie would come here today from Connecticut today to civc what help he could. A grand jury subpoena was dispatched to Hartford, Conn, latf yesterday by Special Assistant JJ- S.

Attorney General John T. Cahill alter the jurist failed to appear. Explaining it had bctn irnixjssible lor him to keep the appointment, Judge Thomas said he was assembling ixirsonal records and papers lor a possible appearance before the grand jury. DAMASCUS, Syria The Syrian cabinet resigned today during a crisis that followed France's rejection of a Syrian request for immediate control of key state services. Excitement mounted throughout the country, which is a French Some feared the situation might flare into an anti- French revolt.

The government decided to quit after the French high commissioner informed Premier Jamil Mardam Bey that France could not grant i the Syrian request for greater in- dependence and asked that the dc- rnand be unconditionally drawn. The cabinet had been committed to a policy of cooperation Max Lippe. also known as "Lippy" Lipskitz, and four other persons were indicted on perjury charges yesterday by the two special grand juries investigating reports of widespread corruption among Brooklyn officials. The fourth defendant. Maurice Salit.

46. is the tenth member of the Brooklyn grand jury panel accused of perjury in falsely claiming no police record. Amen said Salit actually had been convicted of a lottery law violation and given 1 a suspended sentence. (SSION URGES FOREIGNERS TO LEAVEKULING SHANGHAI Two naval officers, one British and one American, the Yangtze river port of Kiukiang today to try to persuade 12 Americans and 53 other foreigners to leave Kuling. Central China Summer resort, before a threatened Japanese attack.

The officers were Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Jeffs, commander of the United States gunboat. Oahu. and Lieutenant Com. Stafford, commander ci ths Britiih gunboat They left Kiukiang about 9 A.

M. after having- obtained permis- W-. -j sion from D0th the Japanese and tion of Madrid tasted meat for the I see mmgly desperate confusion. the chinese wno are fighting in the had not deceived old people by holding out to them hopes they would get $200 a month. MADRID UP) The civil popula- party called the Golden Gate International Exposition.

Thirteen states. 36 countries, hundreds of commercial exhibitors 1 --and a gateway with few holds i barred bolstered the lady's ro- i mance. and sponsors estimated that by Dec. 2 fully 20.000.000 persons JI iuei will have viewed the glittering i spectacle of the exposition. i After a final preparatory week first time in many weeks when 1 3-4 the west's largest spectacle in years commonly termed the ounces 01 Argentine meat nas ais world fail settled into a 5Cmi tributed to each person today.

This was an additional source of happiness for the beleaguered city which also enjoyed a respite from the almost incessant shelling which had been going on all Crowds lounged in the sunshine or stood in food queques, while hundreds packed theaters and motion picture houses which for many San months have given only one performance a day during the week and two on Sundays. orderliness which surprised even exposition officials. The was 90 to 95 per cent complete for i the premie'e unvt-ilinir at 8 A. ii. I (11 A.

M. E. S. today. The S50.000.000 exposition was launched as a climax to completion of two great bridges across Francisco Bay.

viiinity of Kuling. Although had to rjass through the front lines of both armies, they expected no difficulty. The two officers traveled afoot as did a similar mission last. December, when a number of foreigners were evacuated from Kuling. and hoped to reach the mountaintop town late today.

Kuling is 15 miles south of Kiu- WASHINGTON () The disclo- that President Roosevelt over- war department objections in clearing the way for French purchases of American-made bombing jlanes appeared likely today to become a major iactor in Senate consideration of the administration's armament program. The first major item of military legislation a $376,000,000 army expansion bill is expected to come up in the Senate within two weeks. Chairman Sheppard (D- Tex.) said the military affairs committee would complete hearings on the measure, already approved by the House, in "three or four days" next week. The expenditures which this bill would authorize, including $300,000,000 to give the army air corps a strength of 5,500 planes and facilities to handle such a force, are notr expected to cause so much furore in themselves. It is in connection with their relation to foreign policy that the plane sales may cause considerable debate.

Consider Army Bill The military committee began consideration of the army bill yesterday, coincident with publication of part of the record of its investigation of the Hales. This transcript showed Assistant Secretary of the-War Louis Johnson told the committee that the war department objected to the sale of the planes 100 light bombers built by the Douglas Company and that authorization to release them for sale came from the President. The exact grounds of objection were not made clear. Johnson testified the planes were not built to actual government specifications or with the aid of federal funds, but rather built privately to enter in army competition, and were not, therefore actually subject to army control. Mr.

Roosevelt defended the plane sales in a press conference yesterday on his special train en route to Key West. Fla. Asked if he had supervised or facilitated the transaction, he said this was true ii his reply was prefaced by saying the French had an absolute right to buy, that the It is held on the world's largest man-made is- A disaatch from the Oahu to land, embracing 400 acres. This Admiral Harry Yarr.ell in Shan- FDR REASSURES BUSINESS, SAYS NO MORE TAXES To Pro-Nazi Bond Rally with France. Mines Mistrial Issue Shelved By Official NEW YORK issue AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL WASHINGTON Mrs.

Florence Kerr, assistant administrator of the WPA, said today that- more than 6.WO musicians on the federal music project rolls would take part in a icstivaJ of American music Feb. 21. 22 and 23. Programs. including only vorfcs of American composers, will be presented in about a hundred communities.

that caused a sensational mistrial in the first court appearance last September of Tammany District Leader James J. Hincs apparently has been shelved during his retrial. Both defense counsel and presiding Jaidec -diaries C. Noll appeared reluctant yesterday to deal again with the issue despite the apparent eagerness of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewcy to do so.

NEW YORK P) Mayor La- Guardia. frequently denounced by the Nazi press since he suggested i starring Hitler in a "chamber of horrors" exhibit at the New York 1 World's Pair, won't ban a rally of i the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. Requcitrd by religious and patriotic organizations to slop the mcetinp. scheduled for Monday night in Madison Square Garden, LaGuarcnj, said yesterday that to do so would be granting "the kind of free speech they have in Fascist countries." SEE U-BOATS SINGAPORE Royal Air Force planes today ended a three- day unsuccessful search lor two foreign submarines reported, cruising in Singapore waters. The naval intelligence service had reported seeing the U-boats near the British sea base.

island, built up on bay shoals, cost- S4.000.000 itself. Some day the locale named Treasure Island will be an airport or submarine base. It already is a ic seaplane base. But today its multi-colored beacons heralded even-thing from the ultra-latest, in science and entertain- scredv ghai they planned to evacuate by Mcnday ana foreigners who wanted to leave Kuling. Monday is the latest deadline set- by the Japanese lor the beginning of an offensive in that area.

The dispatch saicl Japanese army authorities Dressing for evacuation, but had indi- tural tions. to a historical and arch anthcJocy of states and na- rated that, if necessary, the time limit would be mit back to next i Saturday. The oricir.al deadline Fe'cniarv 10. but was extend- i-d later to Feb. 20.

uniwrt Stales and British con: offirials. aboard sunboals at 'vprc wlanning to proceed to thr Japanese front, lines at the ba.vr of Luslian Mountain to assist Aboard Roosevelt Train Enroute to Key West. Fla. President Roosevelt headed for his fleet-inspection cruise in the Caribbean today after asserting at'a train press conference that business and industry should-have no fear of new taxes, further federal competition in the power field, or spending beyond sale was 100 per cent legal and that the whole government had facilitated it. Army At the Senate committee's Jn- quiry.

Major General H. H. Arnold testified the Army had been assured the French purchases would not bje permitted to interfere with the army's own expansion program. Jif- nold explained, however, that fin- mediately after the war department was advised of the French plans last December it had ioa the ground' that "this did ndt i-jttjf- form to the release policy," a policy designed to protect newly-developed military planes" against; release to foreign governmentsV.WliB- ther this policy could enforced, in the light of testimony, was not brought). The disclosure in whicri' adinmib- tration critics displayed.

most interest was that regarding Mr; Ro6fle- velt's part. Senator Johnson member of the foreign relations committee and a champion of ericans isolationif "the committee's findings- illustrate what we've been fighting "We had better mind our own business or we will ind in trouble," he added. ber of-fhe -military coflHfnttee. iterated his criticism that the foreign policy was unclear and asserted the Senate should actly what it was when adpg upon a defense "We should know whether ttite country Is going to be -expected to act as a policeman for the world, whether we are going to defend the Monroe Doctrine or what to expect." he declared. Bridges said he was "as much to the dark as ever" following the ap- psarance the conimittee yesterday of Hugh Wilson, ambassador to Germany.

Wilson, was" summoned at Bridges' behest and upon his expressed "suspicion" that the envoy to Berlin held views oflL.the European situation at varluice with those of the admmlsmitJob. Wilson testified in an rttaosphere of great secrecy, bebJggi locked doors and after derteTibir the -official reporter had from the committee rooiii. But subsequently it was teamed 'that, even so, he had declined to virtually all questions "on either that he would.lmpai usefulness as ambassador upset delicate international reta- tions. Found Only Two MMefe WASHINGTON (P) A Frefteh air mission, sent to this country 'to buy military planes, found only two models which could "stand in ijhe air for one second" against German planes. Secretary Mprgentbau was disclosed today to have told UK Senate Military Committee.

Testimony released by -the committee showed that Morgenthau budget needs. told the senators on Jan. 28 that it At the same interview, held in i would be "good business" to his private car as his train neared i the French Douglass Attack- Florida late yesterday, the chief executive made the qualified declaration that he personally supervised the recent sale of military ers of the latest type, which one of the plane types found toe better than similar German crmtt. The French subsequently pW- to France. He said this was i chased 100 of these Britain Moves to Stop Foreign Trade War By The Associated Thrown For Loss AKRON.

William Watson, bus driver, got two bad breaks. The first came when he suffered leg fracture in the course his first lesson. The second resulted liom his suit against Teacher Edward L. Allen. A jury refused Mafl Satocriben Utt ttr Bees.

Sort NO COUJKTOm WILL CALL RAKERS THREATEN STRIKE MEXICO CITY Thousands of in 300 bakeries threatened today to strike next Saturday in protest against the alleged failure of iedeial authorities to enforce new agreement regulating bread sales in the Mexico Citv area. LONDON Prime Minister Chamberlain was reported today to have ordered Oliver Stanley, president of the board of trade, and R. S. Hudson, secretary lor overseas trade, to visit Germany to try to avoid an Anglo-German trade war. This appeared to be Chamberlain's answer to Chnacellor Hitler's recent statement thai Germany i "mutt export or die." Fiank T.

A. Ashton-Gwatkin. i head of the economics department posi- of the foreign office, will go to The PUnrsman IDAHO FALLS. Idaho Hf headed lor the nest round-up--in zr. airplane.

Retuni oi stray hor.ses to 1he F. 1. Cox ranch lor Spring chores haf rtquired in years year Cox hired an aviator, flt-v: ov-r the snowbound Lava desert 50 foulh of here and mapped approximate location of 12 missing aniir.al- lor the benefit of ground Shelter. Refuse DODGE CITY--Babbit now. A ni Ihf liltlr- I Ihrralmins; ycvmr: I in shell belt r.ich this arm wnl nssk'n to thin i rwrr'-nt Off LAKE DELTON.

paid his i ior a mt Three Nations Bid For Plane Sale to Mexico Testimony also was showing General Craif aray of staff had endorsed JPretUent Roosevelt's policy of piwnoUnf American military for cign nations. Morgenlhau said tWe Frentn MEXICO 1l Uni' ur oi ITY States. rms Reports a i a and irininr: for ihr Mrxirnn ilKUl mission had come to this ewunUT prepared to spend for cut of! tlir iinity ior Whrn A I It T.I 3T7-' cirri IP oil r--; for an jno i true if his reply was prefaced by saying Ihe French were within their rights in buying the planes, that the was legal and that the whole Government facilitated it. He also assailed civilian writers whom hr described as quasi-military for turning out maga- 1 7ine and articles on 1 affairs which they knew noth- planes if they could gCi. oeliwry inc about.

Much of their writing within six months. is just he "Furthermore." he added. His statements on domestic af- onlv want planes which are food fair? also included an invitation to or better than their are planes buriae.t critics to come to the White present in Europe. House where he would welcome i them and state how the Government's financial books couM acts down to two two companies, two models wnttn stand in the air for Otw "Now. when they look orer the field to sec what we got.

it cut to fm be Laker, out of the red without higher taxation or elimination oi essential icderal functions. Wliat really started the Presirient off or, business and finance vas- a direct question whether the adrnin- 1 against the German TREASURY REfORT WASHINGTON The tion of the treasury on Feb. 16: I Berlin next week to prepare the At Loiift MILWAUKEE--It had to happen Miss Ruth James. 27. was strating the gyrations of the Hamlv ST.

LOUIS couldn't have picked lor his CAT to It hapjvned right church Bo.v i i a ix.u 1 fire. in front, Scoots i A XEVv i as brs; cfipts, expenditures, way for the ministers and a mission tus to a social center dancing 083,47737. net. balance. i of the Federation of British Indus- i tries.

and slipped. Her leg was fractured. con- Ihe same 1 the siant year Dtxicc torlav. Public sviiej-ini Ttoey and'' awards totaled S25V- f-xtinsuishers and rushed cutside OOP S1S2.231000 in the lor a bit of first-hand experience-- 1938 month, me statistical agency and to do their daily "goon turn." said. lore dawn today.

carrM eight passengers to since U'30. onxrratisn H-i REPORT SIX RILLED TAYLORS. C. An aWO- isaration contemplated any business mobile in ootliiion wiUi the appeasement moves. He replied end of a truck near here a question of his own.

He asked what there was to appease and eight passengers called for specific reasons for what critically a reporter called fears on the part two occupants of of business to branch out. The reixrter said some power people were hesitant to go 1 forward with expansion plans because of uncertainty over further I government competition. not hurt Deputy fltartH Beardtn the tnirtt bepm to mow trw- of the.