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i WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round Roosevelt's Foreign Policy Calculated to Show Nazis that U. S. Objects to Hitlerism By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.

Most important policy being shaped in Washington is that pertaining to foreign affairs. This has been discussed in a series of confidential conferences between the President, Sumner Welles, Ambassadors Bullitt and Kennedy. It is safe to say that these talks have been more important than cabinet changes, Democratic squabbling or preparations for the coming session of Congress. The reports brought to Roosevelt by his ambassadors can be summarized briefly: 1. The Chamberlain appeasement policy is getting Britain nowhere.

If the French and British are pushed further by Hitler they will have to fight. 2. They will be pushed further probably in the spring. Hitler always has timed his moves carefully. Also he has made the German people forget their economic woes by a series of political victories at the expense of Germany's neighbors.

So another move will come soon. 3. Conclusion is that war seems almost certain in the spring or summer depending upon one big IF. That one big IF is the United States and her future foreign policy. This is what Roosevelt and his advifeers have been studying so carefully in recent weeks.

Key to Germany Roosevelt foreign policy has taken as its key to the German military mind the famous meeting of the kaiser with his cabinet in 1016, when he decided to intensify submarine warfare against American merchant shipping. At this meeting, Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg reported to the kaiser that if submarine warfare were intensified, the United States was sure to enter the war on the side of the Allies. He made this a positive prediction. Whereupon the German military and naval commanders both informed the kaiser that It made no difference if the United States did enter the war. The American army, they said, was a mere handful of men, her navy not enough to Interfere with German submarines.

German military and naval forces, they guaranteed, could handle both without difficulty. They promised that with all supplies cut off from the Allies, Germany could win a quick victory before the United States could train an army. This advice was accepted by the kaiser. At that meeting he decided to Intensify the submarine war, risk the entry of the "impotent" United States. Airplanes Talk Roosevelt's advisers draw an important deduction from that conversation.

What influences Germany most today, they say, is the military strength of her ene-. mies particularly in airplanes. This deduction is reinforced by Hitler's tactics at the Munich conference and after. What counts with Hitler are the weapons for a quick victory by air. At Munich he figured that Germany's air force could clean up Paris and London in a few days and all would be over.

In this he may have been right. In modern warfare airplanes talk, and Germany has about double the French and British air force put together. Last spring she was making airplanes at the rate of 400 a month. Now she has increased the rate to 1,200 a month. And she is still building new airplane factories.

Piecing together the different parts of this picture, Roosevelt's foreign affairs experts report war in Europe inevitable within six months or a year unless. It is also their opinion, as well as the opinion of almost every other candid observer in this country that the United States cannot stay out of any world war. Eventually, human nature being what it is, the passions of war will drag us in. Prevention of War Therefore, the problem from the American viewpoint becomes the practical one of preventing war in the fiist place. That is where the kaiser's conference with the German war council in 1916 comes in.

Roosevelt advisers figure that mere knowledge that the United States will fight, will not deter Hitler. Only the knowledge that the United States is armed to the teeth with airplanes will soothe his militarism. They figure that if this country has as many airplanes as Germany and is ready to place them at the disposal of Britain and France, thus circumventing any quick victory by Hitler, then Der Fuehrer is not going to be so eager for another crisis. Thus recent developments in Roosevelt policy become much clearer. (1) is the new airplane program.

Instead of merely prepar- XContlnued on Pag Nineteen). SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE iUnuEn STATE STRIKES MASS BLOW IN DRIVE ON IE Padlocking of 16 Houses Asked By District Attorney as Offensive Continued In a mass attack against vice in San Bernardino, District Attorney Jerome B. Kavanaugh yesterday invoked red light abatement proceedings against 16 asserted houses of ill fame on and Stoddard streets. The prosecutor filed 12 suits in which 14 persons were named as owners of the 16 houses. The new complaints bring the total filed to date to 20.

Previously, Mr. Kavanaugh invoked the act against six hotels and rooming houses in the downtown business district while Mayor C. T. Johnson, acting as a private individual, filed actions against two properties. OWNERS OF RECORD San Bernardino county's grand jury recommended the filing of abatement act suits following two investigations into vice conditions, which the jury charged were "de plorable.

The properties and owners of record named in the new suits are: Walter Krug, Sylvia M. Krug, 107 street; Iner. C. Lyons, 123 South street; Russo, 113 and 113 street; Guy A. Varley, Nellie U.

Varley, 117 and 319 street; Vincent Brusca, 116, 128 and 130 street; Mildred Pearl Van Lew, 216 street; J. T. McCool, 153 Stoddard street; Maud A. Reed, 174 street; Berthe Lavergne, 217 street; Mary Mazzola, 112 and 114 street; Minnie Cook, 200 street. In addition, 10 "John Does" and "Doe" companies are cited in each (Continued on Page Nineteen) High Mass for Tessie DuBois Solemn high mass will be said for Mis.

Tessie DuBois, widely known resident of San Bernardino, at funeral services at St. Bcrnarchne's Catholic church at 9 a.m. today. The Rev. Fr.

Patrick Dunne and his staff will officiate. Mrs. DuBois died Tuesday at her home at 1153 street, where she had resided for 57 years. She was 81 years old, a native of Roscommon county, Ireland. Surviving are two sisters, Kate Hayden of Topeka, and Mary Tobin, of Ireland; and two brothers, Richard, of Dublin, and John Hayden, also of Ireland.

Stephens Bobbitt are in charge of the services. What's Doing Today 6:30 a.m. Base Line Breakfast club, 486 Base Line. 7:15 a.m. Realty board directors, California hotel.

12 noon Exchange club, Mapes cafeteria. 7:30 p.m. Eagles lodge, Eagles hall. 8 p.m. Damascus lodge, installation of officers, Odd Fellows temple.

DAMASCUS LODGE, MASONS, TO INSTALL 1939 OFFICERS New officers of Damascus lodge, No. 648, F. A. will be Installed at public ceremonies tonight at 8 o'clock in the Masonic temple at 675 Third street. E.

John Eriksson will be inducted as the new master of the lodge, succeeding M. G. Hamilton, who will serve as installing officer. Other new officers to be seated at the ceremonies are: Herbert W. Robbins, senior warden; Charles Pease, junior warden; Guy L.

Chambers, treasurer; Myron D. Abbott, secretary; Maurice G. Hamilton, chaplain; Louis H. Seaback, senior deacon; Carroll L. Judson, junior deacon; E.

Walter Horton, marshal; Jay C. Garren, senior steward; C. Harold Mathews, Junior steward; I. Nelson Johnston, organist; Walter Boston, tiler. Thomas R.

Hartel will be the master of ceremonies and Harry Hill will give the address of welcome. Installing officers, in addition to Mr. Hamilton, will be Frank H. Graf, marshal; Myron D. Abbott, secretary; Joseph Snyder, senior deacon; Chickering Nelson, junior deacon; Mrs.

Maud Long, guest organist. The program will include: Presentation of Mr. Hamilton; presentation of Ralph H. Logsdon, inspector of the one hundred and VALLEY'S 'SWEETHEARTS' TO BE MATINEE-GUESTS iffl igi if) iiiiK si; i SHMHR Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, glamorous "sweethearts" of the screen, who.se new technicolor opportunity for entertaining San have been married 50 years or longer. Party Planned by Sun-Telegram, Fox Theater for Couples Wed 50 Years "Sweethearts" of the screen will entertain sweethearts of the San Bernardino valley at a novel theater party Sunday afternoon.

The unusual opportunity provided by the advent of MGM's latest technicolor classic, "Sweethearts," starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, inspired the party, and on that day couples residing in or near San Bernardino who have been wed 50 years or longer will be the guests of The Sun-Telegram and the Fox theater. Ernest Martin, manager of Fox theaters in San Bernardino, has arranged a matinee for 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Court street theater to yOUTHS ELECT LODGE STAFF James Harvey Weller was elected as thn new master councilor of San Bernardino chapter, Order of De- Molay, succeeding Jack Landis. Installation of officers will be conducted on Jan. 25 aflhe Masonic temple.

Other officers chosen for the ensuing term follow: John Elmer Quinley, senior councilor; Ralph Crabtree, junior councilor; Richard Henry, senior deacon; Charles Patton, junior deacon; Clifford Morris, senior steward; (Continued on Page Nineteen) E. JOHN ERICKSSON fourth Masonic district; entrance of officers; Introduction of guests, and dance. Soloists will be Mrs. Elsie Miller and J0hn Gilbert. RY IN FRIDAY film, "Sweethearts," will provide the Bernardino valley "sweethearts" who accord special recognition to these couples, the valley's "perpetual sweethearts." Continuous marriage of 50 years or longer is necessary to qualify for the honor roll which will be made up when such couples assemble at the theater, Mr.

Martin said. Registry books will be provided in which they will be asked to record their names and addresses, and the date and place of their marriage. From this data the oldest "sweet-hcarts', in the vicinity also may be determined, Mr. Martin said. Those "golden wedding" couples (Continued on Page Nineteen) I A varied program of choral and orchestral music will be featured on the first San Bernardino Fed eral music project symphony con cert for the new year Wednesday, Jan.

11, at the San Bernardino Val ley junior college auditorium, Supervisor James K. Guthrie an nounced. A group of valley singers will appear with the Federal symphony orchestra and 50-voice chorus for the program, directed by Henry Cantor, music project chorusmas-ter, Mr. Guthrie said. Among the soloists are Leota Lit-tlejohn, soprano who has been heard in previous Federal concerts; Margaret Guthrie, soprano who made her San Bernardino debut several weeks ago with a fine performance in "Haensel and Grctel;" Emmett Casey, well-known tenor (Continued on Page Nineteen) Rosicrucian 1939 Forecast Issued Hallam Huntington, of 171 Sixth street, district commissioner for the Rosicrucian order, AMORC, in San Bernardino, has just received book lets issued by the order prognos ticating events for the new year.

Peace between Jews and Arabs for the first time in many centuries will be realized during the year, the booklets aver, among other predictions. Jews and Arabs became known as separate races after the separation of Scmitio tribes in 2500 B.C. Predictions of the Rosicrucian order, Mr. Huntington said, are based on graphs and charts depicting economic trends and human tendencies, and not upon superstitious assumptions. For the United States, the book let foresees an increase in the exportation of copper, steel and grain; general improvement in business, and a definite decrease in the exportation of motion pictures.

Italy, the booklet states, will become stronger economically and will pull away from dangerous alliances with Germany, IP 11 0 CO kKD mi OA1LT ORA.NGI BELT NTWS DEATH MORNING, DECEMBER FIRE Joint County Conference Asks Early Work on Program to Protect Timberlands Drafting of plans for fire protection in the San Bernardino and Angeles national forests and preparation of a budget to provide for an adequate program yesterday was authorized at a joint conference of officials of the two counties at Ontario. Foresters of San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties will draft a comprehensive protection program and the budget for the proposed work will be submitted, to the same group at another meeting to be held in Ontario, Jan. 11. FORESTERS MAP PLANS Details of the program will be mapped for San Bernardino county by Claude K. Barker, acting supervisor of the San Bernardino national forest and by Russell Z.

Smith, state ranger in charge of the San Bernardino division of the forest service. The Los Angeles county program will be drafted by William V. Men-denhall, supervisor of the Angeles forest and Spencer Turner, Los Angeles county forester. At the second meeting, the of ficials will study the program and if it is approved, will ask other public agencies to endorse the budget to provide state and Fed eral money for the program, said C. E.

Grier, chairman of the board of supervisors, who attended the session. ACREAGE BASIS A. W. Walker of Wrightwood pre sided at the meeting which was held at the Hotel Ontario. Conference members suggested that whatever appropriation is made for the fire protection sys tern should be divided between the two counties on an acreage basis.

(Continued on Page Nineteen) Lake Company Asks Damages The Arrowhead Lake corporation yesterday filed suit in superior court against three state highway officials asking $1,789 for damages assertedly caused to a boathouse by the March 2 storm. Defendants in the action are Earl Lee Kclley, director of the state department of public works; C. H. Purcell, state highway engineer afld E. Q.

Sullivan, district highway en gineer. The corporation, in a complaint signed by Paul F. A. Conway, assistant secretary, alleges that a fill across a highway near the North Shore, boathouse was negligently constructed and allowed flood waters to wash into the building and cause damage to the structure and boats inside. The San Bernardino law firm of Guthrie Curtis represents the corporation.

Magician Entertains Lions Club, Children Mystifying. 125 Lions club members and their young guests, Capt. T. Jones of Hollywood, exhibited a variety of sleight of hand tricks on the children's program given at the service group's meeting at the California hotel yesterday noon. The magician appeared on the program arranged for the meeting by Chairman W.

P. Dean, Edward Fisher and Carol Judson. Children also contributed to the entertain ment, two of them singing solos and others playing musical instruments. President Clyde C. Whitney pre sided.

Senior High School To Erect New Sign A sign identifying San Bernar dino senior high school will be erected in front of the school administration building at 1850 street, Col. Byron W. Allen, chair man of the building committee, re ported yesterday. Resembling the sign in front of San Bernardino Valley junior col lege, the new sign will be built by Struthers Sign Co. of San Bernardino and installed within the next month, he said.

Spackman to Speak At Exchange Meet Closing the 1938 season, today's meeting of the Exchange club will feature a discussion of the history and current problems of Egypt by Ellis L. Spackman, San Bernardino Valley junior college instructor. Mr. Spackman toured Egypt and other Near Eastern lands during the summer. Past-president Douglas M.

Shaw will preside at the luncheon session in Mapes cafeteria olub room, BATHTUB TO 30, 1938 Laboratory Findings Indicate Stains Discovered on Sweater Of Woman to Be Human Blood BEFORE TRAGEDY STRUCK is 1 I 4 i Family photograph, taken a in the tragedy which turned Christmas into a day of stark grief in the Joseph A. Davidson family, of East Highlands. In the picture are Mrs. Katherine M. Davidson, whose bathtub death mystery remains unsolved; her husband, Joseph, and their daughter, Patricia, now 12, who found her mother's body.

Young Democrats Ask WPA ToOustOfficial Charging that retention of Col. Donald H. Connolly, Southern California WPA administrator, meant retention of "many reactionary local WPA directors," San Bernardino Young Democrats last night demanded his removal from office. In a resolution adopted by the group in session at 413 Third street, Col. Connolly's continuation in office was declared "contrary to the wishes of the unemployed organizations of the county and contrary to the wishes of our new Democratic governor, Culbert L.

Olson." CARLSON BOOSTED The group also added its name to the list of county Young Democratic organizations urging that Dr. Glen E. Carlson, professor of soci ology at the University of Redlands, be appointed to the SRA administrative staff. Dr. Carlson served as vice-chairman and acting chairman of the state relief commission for several years.

In their elections for the new year, the Young Democrats retained President Edgar J. Beall and Ser- STATE GETS. $172,463 BID ON CANYON ROAD REALIGNMENT A low bid of $172,463 was submitted yesterday for the contract to realign the Mountains-to-Sea highway from Corona to Santa Ana canyon, main route for San Bernardino and other inland traffic to south coast beaches. District State Highway Engineer E. Q.

Sullivan announced. The project, preliminary phases of which already have been under taken, was made necessary by the approaching construction of a dam at Prado. Water impounded by the dam will innundate the area near the present route. V. R.

Dennis, San Diego contrac tor, submitted the low bid, it was determined when sealed proposals were opened in the Los Angeles office of the state highway division. The existing highway, leaving Corona on Sixth street, loops north ward to Prado station and then south again to the canyon entrance. The new alignment will be almost a straight line extension of Sixth street, eliminating seven right-ans-i- SECTION INLAND few years ago, showing the principals geant-at-Arms Burns A. Applegate. New officers are Betty Tollman, vice-president; Mrs.

Alice Hill, secretary, and Charles Sage, treasurer. APPOINTMENTS MADE President Beall made the following appointments to the executive board: Eugene Nogueras, publicity; Don Duree, rules and resolutions; Gene Hill, speakers' bureau; Joseph Trogdlen, membership; and Louis Bonnett, precinct organization. Copies of the group's resolutions will be forwarded to Governor-elect Olson, Senator-elect Sheridan Downey, and Representative Harry R. Sheppard. Y.M.C.A.

Youths to Enjoy Snow Sports A frolic in the snow at Camp San-Y-Ca for young men of the San Bernardino Y.M.C.A. has been scheduled for Dec. 31 to Jan. 2 by Charles Alford, membership secretary. Leaving Saturday afternoon, the group will arrive in camp to spend Sunday and Monday participating in snow sports at the San Bernardino mountain camp.

or near right-angle turns In proceeding directly across the grain fields. One of the curves is the sharp turn at the entrance to the canyon. This will be replaced by a cut 90 feet deep and 1,100 feet long across the angle of the present turn. In all, the project is 5.4 miles in length. Part of this distance, six-tenths of a mile, has been graded under a separate contract let by the Orange county flood control district to Person Hollingsworth and Wilbur C.

Cole on a bid of $241,183. The remainder of the grading and all the paving on the route will be done by TWO EMPIRE PAGE ELEVEN Quiz Continued After Husband Attends Funeral Rite The murder theory in the baffling death of Mrs. Katherine Davidson of East Highlands, was strengthened yesterday, according to Deputy District Attorney C. O. Thompson, when county hospital laboratory testa proved that several stains on the woman's sweater were human blood.

Mr3. Davidson's body was found fully-clothed in the bathtub of her home last Friday afternoon. Her sweater was lying on a cabinet of drawers in the bathroom, said Mr. Thompson. WOMAN BURIED As authorities continued their in vestigation into the death yester day, Mrs.

Davidson was buried i th Hillside cemeterv at Redlanda in Her husband, Joseph A. Davidson, and daughter, Patricia, 12, who discovered the body, attended the services at the Little Chapel of Palms, Redlands. At the request of sheriff's officers, Mr. Davidson returned to the courthouse at 2 p.m. to again attempt to throw some light on the mysterious death.

QUESTION NEIGHBORS Undersheriff James W. Stocker and Deputy W. T. Russell returned last night from East Highlands, where they had questioned neighbors of the Davidsons. With Attorney Stanley Mussell, retained by Mr.

Davidson's relatives, present the officers interrogated the husband briefly regarding information pertaining to the case. Undersheriff Stocker said the investigation will be pressed today, with Deputy Russell and himself "rechecking every angle of the case." INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE "We have not found sufficient evidence to make any arrest," he declared. Miss Marjorie Champion, who conducted the laboratory tests at the county hospital, said that three blood stains were on the sweater. All were small spots and were dry, she reported. One was on the front on the right side, the second was on the back toward the right side and the third blood stain was on a metal clip.

Mrs. Davidson's skull had been (Continued on Pa, i Ivr? -cw-, Recovery of SteU-H Auto Trails TcW Recovery by Los of an automobile trailer stolen bet," 1 in San Bernardino was reported to San Bernardino police yesterday' by J. W. Rorex, of Glendale, owner of the trailer. The trailer, fully equipped and furnished, had been towed from a service station, 1125 Third street, where Rorex had narked it from 11 p.m.

to midnight Dec. 1 Divorce Sought on Charge of Desertion Margaret Anderson filed suit in superior court for a divorce from Charles Anderson, alleging desertion. The couple was married Ausr. S. 1925 and Anderson deserted her Sept.

15, 1937, Mrs. Anderson said in a complaint drawn for her by Attorney Martin J. Coughlin. the state highway division under the contract for which bids were opened yesterday. The impending construction of the dam also necessitates realignment of the Sante Fe railroad (Continued on Page Nineteen) LONG MIRE'S Business College Comer Fourth and 8treets San Bernardino, Calif.

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