Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1939 — Page 1
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Hitler Snubs Peace Plea +++ F. D.R.
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Mighty Soviet Army Key to Manpower Lineup
ENGLAND—600,000.
- FRANCE~1,000,000
SITALY=950,000,
Here are the latest estimates of major European powers’ land forces, including air and mechanized units.
GERMANY—1,750,000'
Scale of Miles ee) 0 100 200 300:
HUNGARY / Nir ~ YUGOSLAVIA 3 & —— wos ¢ ‘BULGARIA
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RUMANIA
' TURKEY ==300,000 Against 2,700,000 Italian and
German troops, likely allies could pit at least 257509 men. But the mighty Soviet army, it now appears, would be either neutral or definitely
on. the side of the axis nations.
BOY- FALLS § FLOORS, LIVES
Notes in Hotel Ro Room Tell of
Loneliness; Condition Is Termed Serious.
Doctors today fought for the life of a 17-year-old boy, still alive nine hours after he had fallen or plunged from the 12th floor of the Hotel
Lincoln. Notes found in the youth's room indicated - he was despondent because he had ‘no home” and was not popular with girls. The youth, Edward C. Frazier Jr., was saved, police said, when : he landed cn a screen covering a thirdstory sklylight. He was taken to City Hospital where it was said he was in serious condition.
Left Three Notes He left three notes, police said, complaining that girls did not care for him. Detectives who talked to him at City Hospital said he told them he had no home and that no one wanted him, One of the notes was addressed to an aunt at Atlanta, Ga. with whom he made his home before coming here Saturday. The others were to friends. Shortly after he ‘was taken to the hospital, the youth was visited by his father and stepmother, who live at 1634 Asbury St. Police said the youth asserted he had been living
with his uncle since coming from
Atlanta. oth the youth’s arms were, bro-
ken, his left elbow was dislocated, several ribs were broken and he is believed to be hurt internally. Hospital attendants, however, said he may live. Registered From Miami
Hotel attendants said he registered between 11 and 11:30 o'clock last night under the name of -Edward Gray, Miami, and requested a zoom on ‘a high floor, paying cash. A bellboy and a room clerk, F. R. Born, 1001 E. Washington St. said they heard a noise about 3 a. m. and found the youth in a sitting position, tangled in the screen. .
HARRIETT RANDALL OUSTED IN NATIONAL
NOROTON, Conn., Aug. 23 (U. P.) .—Helen Mae Siegel, Philadelphia, ‘eliminated Harriett Randall, | Indianapolis, the Hoosier State champion, in the second round “of the Women’s National Gulf Championsnip Tournament here today, 2 and 3
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Inju red Girl,
From Coma, Asks Slippers
Betty Jean Shields, One of Season Wanes, in
Two-year-old Betty Jean Shields—condition drowsily from an all-night coma today at City Hospital and asked
where her new slippers were.
She was one of three children injured on playgrounds as the season waned in the City Parks preparatory to the resumption of school.
HINT 6-GENT CUT IN GOUNTY TAX RATE
$150,000 Working Balance Reported Opposed.
Tentative vedtictions in the Marion County 1940 budget requests which would effect a 6-cent cut in the threatened 64-cent levy are reported to*have been agreed on by County Council during its informal budget study. The Councilmen today indicated they would not allow a request for a $150,000 working balance in the County general fund. This balance would mean ‘21; cents in the levy. Yesterday and Monday, it was understood, they agreed tentatively on; budget cuts’ which would effec! an’ additional 3% cents cut in the levy. At appeared they were determifiedt tc keep the levy as near the current 48-cent figure as possible. Meanwhile, during today’s budget study, Councilman William N. Harding demanded that County Commissioners “clean up the insanitary conditions in and about the Court House.” Mr. Harding charged that during ‘an inspection. trip to Juvenile Court yesterday, he observed garbage outside the window of the court, and a pail of garbage in the hall. Commissioner William Brown said garbage cans in the Court House yard ‘cannot be helped” but prom(Continued on Page Five)
U.S. GRANTS GUARD AIRPORT $435,533
An allottment of $435,533 was made today by the WPA: to improve the Indiana National Guard airport at Stout Field, it was announced. in Washington. Maj. Oliver Stout said the work to be done will consist of bricking up and modernizing the three old Federal hangars, .the moving of boundary lights to include areas added to the field, reroofing of the building now housing the photographic and medical sections and the restaurant. He said the garage will be enlarged to accommodate new Federal equipment assigned there and that the field will be graded and drained.
PROVISIONS EXTENDED WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P). Elmer ed the temporary and partial exemption provisions for handicapped workers in “sheltered workshops.” which are institutions conducted on a
non-profit charitable basis to rebabies handicapped. persons,
2, A wakens
Three Hurt as Playground Critical Condition.
critical—awakened
Betty Jean’s new slippers and a trip yesterday to play in the Rhodius Park swings were to have been two very special things planned for her this summer. Her mother, Mrs. Mattie Lee Shields, 22, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. James Kéy, with whom she lives at 1544 W. Washington St., took Betty "Jean and a neighbor, Dorothy Monroe, 13, to the park yesterday. They * carried Betty Jean, 29 pounds. The distance fs a mile and ies Betty Jean played in the baby swings and Dorothy on the larger ones. Then, unaccountably, Betty Jean ran into the path of Dorothy's swing and was struck'on the head. Mrs. Shields carried her to a pump and washed off the blood. She (Continued on Page Five)
Wasp Blamed In Auto Death
OUNT VERNON, Ind. Aug. 23 (U. P). — A wasp was blamed today for the death of Mrs. Gertrude Baldwin, 65, who was killed yesterday when the automobile in which she was riding plunged into a 12-foot ravine along Road 69 near here. L. P. Cox, Wadesville banker, driver of the car, said they were
driving to Mount Vernon to attend a meeting of the Posey County Welfare Board, of which both were members, when a wasp flew into the machine. He said he Jost control in his efforts to get it ou Mr. Cox suffered chest bruises but his condition was not regarded
C0BB SETS AUTO MARK: 368 MPH
Second Attempt ‘Over Salt Flats Gives ‘World’s Record to : Briton.
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—John Cobb drove . his = 2600-horsepower. automobile to a new world speed record of 368.85 miles per hour here today. Mr. Cobb piloted his Railton Red Lion 24-cylinder car over the 15mile course first from south to north and was timed as he hit the measured mile in the center at 370.75 miles per hour. But for an official record to better the mark of Capt. George E. T.
Eyston of 357.5 miles an hour Mr. Cobb had to make another run from north to south with the average speed taken-as-his mark.
Returns at 366.Clip
On the return trip he was clocked 366.97 miles per hour. Mr. Cobb, a London fur broker, won the world’s: speed record last year when he traveled at 350. miles an hour here but he held it only 24 hours before Captain _Eyston took it away from him. Cobb’s speed for the measured kilometer—slightly shorter than the mile—was 369.74 miles an hour, far above the old record of 350.07 mph. When Cobb. came to the salt flats this year he said he had hoped all his-life to- make 360 miles an hour —a mile in 10 seconds. record was the fulfillment of Cobb's life ambition, an ambition that started when he began driving fast motorcycles around London as a hobby nearly 20 years: ago. On reaching the south end, Cobb said he was bothered slightly by wind. “I slowed down slightly, " the 30-
|year-old sportsman said ‘as he re-
gained his breath. “I knew I'd gone fast enough northward for a recov I wanted .to be sure and get c 9 Asked why he “slowed down” coming hack Cobb said. his motto was “safety first,.even a’ six miles
as serious.
a minute.”
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FD. R. ENDS
FISHING TRIP A DAY EARLY|
|Hull Also Speeds Toward
White House as Europe’s Cisis Grows.
WARN OCEAN TRAVELERS A
Government Leaders Ponder Methods to Avoid Shock To U. S. Industry."
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull hurried back toward Washington today as representatives of important Government agencies met for the second time in 24 hours to discuss precautionary maesures to be taken if war comes.
The State Department warned American citizens against traveling to Europe. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said he understood that the American embassies in hoth France and Poland also have warned American tourists in those countries to return home if possible. :
Roosevelt Ends Vacation
Mr. Roosevelt cut short a proposed Gulf Stream fishing trip and ordered the cruiser Tuscaloosa to put into port at Sandy Hook, N. J, at 6 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow instead of proceeding on to Annapolis, Md., on Friday as planned. Mr. Hull left White Sulphur Spring, w Va. this morning and expected
today. White House Secretary Stephen Early said that a White House staff would go to Red Bank, N. J., where Mr. Roosevelt will board a special train, so that the Chief Executive can work as his train speeds toward the capital. Mr. Early said Mr. Roosevelt would motor from Sandy Hook to Red Bank to board his Washingtonbound special train. Mr. Roosevelt's decision to return 24 hours early emphasized the gravity with which he viewed the situation. It coincided with speculation as to whether he might be planning some new move to try to prevent war in Europe. But this speculation was entirely unofficial, and was not even hinted at officially.
Lindsay and Welles Confer
Mr. Early said that the State Department had advised Mr. Roosevelt that it believed it would not be necessary for him to cut his trip short, but that the President himself decided to speed up his return. As England's attitude stiffened and Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany, delivered a personal note to Adolf Hitler, Sir Ronald - Lindsay, British envoy to the United States, spent half an
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Spring s Here! Bed Spring
TEMPERATURES
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6 a. m 92 7am 4 8 a. m.... kid 9am " 10 a. m.... “
NE fine day in 1850 a gent by the name of James Liddy, ‘Watertown, N. Y., went to the county fair in his surrey. It was such a bad day he curled up in his surrey and went to sleep. ‘When he got home he invented the first bed spring. “It isn’t time for the state fair yet, but today and tonight will be fine to comure with Mr. Liddy’s fine invention Fair and cooler tonight, the. Weather Bureau said. But the weatherman is turning on the
heat again tomorrow.
Criss at
for air raid blackout.
and French.
BERLIN
if Britain does.
requisitioning.
calmly.
BRUSSELS—Oslo nations neutral.
Russian negotiations.
‘No Retrea L,
a Glance
LONDON—Rritain goes on war footing after Hitler's defiant answer to direct warning. City prepares
Hears Molotov holds way
open for continued treaty negotiations with British
—“We will not renounce our national interests in Poland,” Hitler declares.
MOSCOW—German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop confers with Foreign Affairs Commissar Viacheslav Molotov on non-aggression pact.
‘CANBERRA —Prime Minister says Australia will fight
PARIS—State of “war alert” pervades all Europe with 10,000,000 men under arms. Troops mobilized.
SLIATCH—Slovaks demand share of Poland when Germany ‘“‘readjusts” frontiers.
ROME—AIl Italian merchant ships made subject to
WARSAW—Poles consider situation unchanged by Ger-man-Russian negotiations; they await eventualities
confer on ways to remain
TOKYO—Newspaper reports Taps may Graal German and Italian ambassadors for report on ‘ German-
WASHINGTON—President Roosevelt interrupts vacation and hurries home.
> Hitler Says To British Warning Note
BERLIN, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—Adolf Hitler today informed Great Britain that its warning against forcible solution of the Polish quarrel would not cause Germany to renounce her vital national interests, the official Nazi news agency announced. Herr Hitler's stern statement was given to Sir Nevile Henderson,
British Ambassador, in a brief conversation at Berchtesgaden, the news
63 REPORTED DEAD AS SHIP CAPSIZES
Huge Wave Engulfs Vessel Near Brazilian Port.
- BAHIA, Brazil, Aug. 23 (U. P)— The National Telegraph Agency said today that 63 persons—46 pas-
crew—perished when the coastal steamer Itacare capsized.in heavy seas and sank at the entrance to Ilheos Harbor, south of Bahia.
saved, according to National Telegraph. They were the captain, the first officer and a child. The Itacare traveled regularly between here and Ilheos, a cocoa post 125 miles south of here. Pirst reports said that the steamer, fighting mountainous waves in
an attempt to make the shelter of the harbor, was engulfed by a tremendous wave. Business in the, cocoa port was suspended as rescue crews put out
or the scene of the tragedy.
United Press Sta
by Britain—or war. week-end. to the greatest crisis yet attained.
Then with lightning speed, with Russian Communism.
. and French and Poles. After announcing the pact was
fight without Russia and that the only a matter of time,
back jubilantly and with expressions was all over; that Poland would now collapse; that Britain could
f£ Correspondent
1 oon Aug. 23.—-A supreme European ‘crisis approaciied The Y iiernatives were a big backdown by: Adolf Hitler, by Poland or
Events were moving toward a climax with irresistible. momentum, It was most likely that the showdown would
come’ ‘before this
In all of these rapid-fire (developments, Herr Hitler appeared to be bringing his “war of nerves” against Britain and her potential allies
Time after time, the Nazi Fuehrer
had hammered at the weakest points in ‘the ‘British security. front, jabbing ‘at Poland, feinting at Hungary and threatening Jugoslavia. he launched the move. to- reconcile Naziism
If the rules of the Czechoslovak diplomatic war had heen; working, the Nazi-Soviet deal should have been a knockout blow to the British
being negotiated, the Nazis settled of confidence that the shoo
fourth partitioning of Foland was. |
Unless Nazis, Poles or Bri tish Back Doton It’s War
By WEBB MILLER
Br the ‘British, French and. Poles refused to collapse under the Nazi diplomatic blows. Today, they came up fighting for what ap-
peared to be the final round. Defense forces of the security
front were boosted to new highs;
constant watch was ordered for the appearance of enemy bombing planes over the frontier; war supplies to Germany were cut off; Par-
liament was summoned to meet in
- “Der Tag” set by Herr Hitler for his greatest triumph—to
London tomorrow—rumored to be t Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain’s Government the powers of a dictator. It seemed today that the question of a general European war
depended primarily upon two
things—
1. The nature and extent of Herr Hitler's move against Poland. 2. Whether Poland, knowing that neither Great Britain nor France could render her effective military aid, would nevertheless decide to fight
if Germany attacked.
It was learned that the German General Staff estimated that it would completely crush Poland within two or three weeks by simul-| ‘taneous thrusts from the south through Slovakia, from the southwest through Silesia, and from the west. from Pomerania.
. If the words and the Everyone, British. ‘and foreign,
‘grim temper of the British people mean] anything Britain ‘will fight if Poland resists on a wide scale. :@ |
it
with whom I have talked since
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sengers and 17 members of the
Only three of those aboard were
agency announced. Sir Nevile had gone to Berch-
_|tesgaden on instructions of the
British Government to deliver directly to Herr Hitler a message advising him that Britain believes the Polish problem can be settled peaceably but that Britain is determined to aid Poland and to meet force with force.
Warning Handed Hitler
The News Agency said that the British message to Herr Hitler was the same as the official communique issued in London last night, declaring the readiness of Britain to resist force “to the uttermost.” “In compliance with the wish of the British Government, the Fuehrer today received the British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson at Berchtesgaden,” the D. N. B. Agency said in a dispatch from Berchtesgaden. “The Ambassador handed the Fuehrer a letter of the British Prime Minister which was phrased on the same lines as yesterday’s British an-
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STOCK PRICE DROP REFLECTS TENSION
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P.).— Reflecting: increased tension abroad, stock prices broke sharply at New York today in increased turnover and losses ranged to: more than 3 points as the list lost all of yesterday’s gains. The heaviest buying since last year’s September ‘crisis swept North American grain markets, shooting wheat prices up to the 5-cent limit at Winnipeg and lifting American markets 2 to 3 cents. - All grain prices: soared as traders rushed to buy on‘ the belief that) European war was inevitable. Wall Street's awakening to the seriousness of the European situation came when it was announced Lloyds had raised war risk insurance rates and the Germans reported the Poles had fired on three of their passenger -planes. London stocks first declined, then rallied and finally settled. Selling spread to all sections of the New York list. Chrysler lost more than 3 points. U. S. Rubber issues lost more than 2 points.’ Du
Pont dropped more than 4 points.
Losses of 3 points or more were noted in Westinghouse Electric, Hercules. Powder, American Smelt-
LONDON PREPARES FOR AERIAL RAID BLACKOUT: SEEKS RUSS SHOWDOW
Special E Sescion of Parliament Is Due. : Tomorrow.
BULLETINS 2 PARIS, Aug. 23 (U. P).—"% Premier Edouard Daladier is- ie sued an official communique - tonight announcing that sup-’ plementary military reserves . : were being called to the colors. to complete defensive meas- -: ures taken by France. 55
LONDON, Aug. 23 (U. P.). —Soviet Premier WViacheslav :: Molotov was reported reli-i.il: ably tonight to have advised’. _ Great Britain and France <: ‘that Soviet Russia was willing to continue negotiations - for 2 three-power mutual aid : pac
LONDON, “Aug. 23 (U. Py. —Great Britain went ona war basis tonight and prepared for the worst after an
ing to Adolf Hitler that his plans for carving up Poland would mean a European conflict.
Herr Hitler, receiving the British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson
- lina" brief interview at his Berchtes=-
gaden mountain retreat, cuitly replied that the British pledges to Poland never would cause Germany to renounce her demand for living space or for correctio sailles Treaty settlement which’ tore large areas from the Reich. : The British acted with unprecedented speed to be prepared for any eventuality. Blackout Looms :
All local officials were ordered’ to arrange for blackouts tonight and SEry night hereafter against air raids. Le The air-raid warning system was ordered put in readiness ‘ad manned 24 hours a day. i The Board of Trade clamped down on war or war materials exports: conserve resources, and to cut off large German purchases. German newspapers again ate
ities and the o Agency reported
cial Nazi ee German:
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Polish batteries or warships. Franz von Papen, German A sador to Turkey who has han several difficult missions for H Hitler, hastened back to anb
be successful in an effort to Turkey—guardian of the a= nelles—away from the security front because of the German non-aggres-sion negotiations with R Many observers in Berlin felt that it was likely there would be a German ultimatum to Poland any time after the German-Soviet pact is signed but there was no official’ ad=mission that Such action vas planned. | = Hitler Says ‘Keep Out® | | ° Striking back at Herr ] communication warning Londc keep out of Germany's quarrel v Poland, the British Government: L Summoned the Privy to meet tomorrow in advance tomorrow's extrao session Parliament to consider defense cautions for any emergency created by Herr Hitler's determination ‘ to
former German areas from 2. Arranged for. return to London tonight to side at the Council on King in Council Has power to | ar
get back not only Danzig but all
tish Government acted to mee threat of war before this week-end 4 the
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received i
furious diplomatic battle in the Nazis sent Foreign Ribbentrop ‘ to rejen Min the Communist state as a Herr Ribbentrop was high honors and immediately
into conference with Soviet T Viacheslav Molotov on the project
German-Soviet non. In Berlin, where the Nazi | new,
inembers of the h Embeey a v prepared to go -heme. ‘Vari cruise ships in Burdiean (Continued on Page F
BOLIVIAN CHIEF KII Li ) LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 2 U.P President Gen. German E today of what doctors s
accidentally inflicted bulle
STEAL $25,000 IN GI NEW YORK, Aug. 23 w! Three bandits held up the offic Gardel & Schefler, jewelers, 4
ing, Dugas Aircraft and Philip. Morris. ;
and escaped with gems val
unsuccessful 11th-hour warn-
x the Ver-
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tacked Poland on charges of atroc- °
senger planes were fired on | or
where Nazis predicted that he would n
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overshadowed for the moment oa