Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1939 — Page 7

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rent budget, would not require an increase over the current $1.30 levy because of an increase in anticipated miscellaneous revenue and balances. Most of the increase was accounted for by fixed obligations, in-

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tory increases in the police and firemen’s pension funds. Resistance to several of the division requests in the Safety Board, especially in supplies, is expected. Councilmen leafed through 1000 pages of figures last night, discussed tonight’s schedule and adjourned. It was indicated that the Republican minority would object to allowances asked for supplies when Harmon Campbell, Republican, asserted that estimates for putty were too high. The reference became the target for puns and the subject was dropped as Mr. Campbell promised “plenty more discussion on these apparently insignificant items.” On the basis of new valuations, a cut of 13 cents in the County levy would mean reducing the proposed 1940 expenditures about $788,000.

Welfare Budget Debated

Chief among the budget .items in dispute is a request by Welfare Director Thomas Neal for a $300,000 working balance in the Welfare Department budget. It was this proposed fund that brought about a heated session yesterday.. At that time, Walter Horn of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Associa-

‘tion charged the Welfare Depart-

ment with “deliberately failing to pay its bills.” Mr. Horn also demanded that the Council cut. the Welfare Department personnel and salaries item 33 per cent, “to the minimum requirements of State law.” . Mr. Neal explained he needed the working balance because none of the funds appropriated in the budget are available for paying old-age pension checks due between Jan. 1 and 5 each year.

Payment Held Up

This has made it necessary, he said, to withhold a payment of nearly $260,000 due the Riley Hospital under a children’s program, It was the custom of delaying the payment to the hospital a year in order to meet the pension checks that provoked Mr. Horn’s charge about “deliberate” failure to pay bills. In suggesting a one-third cut in welfare personnel and salaries, Mr. Horn said the State, although pledged to reimburse County Welfare Departments for 50 per cent of the total personnel cost, had allotted , Marion County only $74,000 next year, on the basis of the State um requirements for personnel. Fifty per cent of the amount actually budgeted for personnel would be $100,000. Mr. Neal said 135 persons are employed in the department now, a reduction under last year. He added that the personnel is working under a greatly increased case load since the Department has been given the responsibility of investigating applicants for the NYA and CCC.

SEES REAL PERIL TO U. S. IN WORLD WAR

DENVER, Aug. 25 (U. P.).—The United States is involved so much more economically in Europe now than in 1914 that it could not remain out of a world conflict more than three months, Harry E. Terrell of Des Moines, Iowa, associated with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and secretary of the Des Moines Peace Council, said today. ; “If Great Britain is defeated, nothing will stand betweefi us and Hitler,” he said.

INVESTIGATE BORROWING - WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U.P.)— M. Burnett, Baltimore, Md., insuring Commtitee today questions Paul The National oMnopoly Investigatance executive, as to why he used the name of his secretary to borrow $200,000 from his company.

Leads V. F. W.

Merville A Ray, Evansville, Indiana commander Veterans of Foreign Wars, will head the Hoosier delegation to the 40th annual V. F. W. encampment Aug. 27 to Sept. 1 at Boston, Mass. The Evansville post’s junior band, which last year won the band championship, will defend its title at the encampment. Prizes totaling $7500 will be awarded the competing bands.

SOVIETS PLAGE POLAND ON SPOT

Lay Tiny Nation Open to Quick Annihilation Before Allies Could Aid.

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days ago. Nor did they appear to have the slightest doubt that Russia would eventually come in. Then came the bombshell of Russia’s treachery. It is now known that, while Soviet officials were stringing Britain and: France along, they were plotting secretly with the Nazis, even to the point of holding back all mention of the deal until the European situation had become 80 grave that the news would explode with doubly damaging effect. The situation at the moment, therefore, is this: : In case of war, Poland will be isolated. Germany expects to be able to hold the French back with a minimum of manpower. I understand the plan is to use some 400,000 reservists—the younger element of her World War veterans, who have had actual training in French warfare—stiffened by about 100,000 picked young storm-troopers. British troops, of course, can be counted out of the picture for the present—also the British fleet, whose blockade could not even begin to make itself felt for many months to come. ;

Similarly, no real- help can be expected from Rumania. One of Germany's first acts in case of conflict would be to bulldoze Hungary and Rumania into something like acquiescence, threatening them with quick extinction if her demands were not met. Nor could Turkey and Greece quickly make their influence felt. With the rest of Europe thus walled off, Germany could bring to bear against Poland virtually her entire might. Nazi troops would attack the so-called Polish Corridor through Danzig and from East Prussia on one side and from West Prussia on the other. Another powerful army probably would advance on Warsaw from the direction of Silesia. Isolated, Poland would have to bear the brunt of this first landfighting alone. Adolf Hitler's General Staff, I am told, has informed the Fuehrer that he. might expect the German Army to be east of Warsaw within 60 days after crossing the frontier. Whereupon, after disposing of-Poland, they plan to turn the steamrolier around and make for France and England. While Russia’s treason may now nail Poland to the cross, her ressurrection would come with victory for the democracies on other fronts. For while Herr Hitler may stage, and even win, a lightning war against an isolated and smaller opponent, that will be just the beginning, Tot the end, of the conflict.

To win he will first have to destroy

the French and British empires.

AIR STRENGTH VITAL IN CRISIS, WILLIAMS SAYS

Conflict, If it Comes, Will Be Settled in 72 Hours, Major Believes.

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 25.—If

| the ‘issues between England and

France versus Germany are destined to be settled by force, I predict that the decision, win or lose, will be reached in a matter of 72 hours—in short, via a true air war. Land armies mobilized to the west of Germany will be stymied, unable to move and reduced to making faces at each other from the depths of the French Maginot Line and the German Seigfried Line.

superiority, the British and French sea forces will find themselves without an opponent. German naval power constitutes little more than a raiding and harassing factor.

‘Only One Course Open’

To the east, German land forces undoubtedly will sweep away a Polish army which will sacrifice itself on the strength of promises of British support, which may never materialize. It is difficult to pieture any practicable method by which British army support could be landed within the Polish frontiers. If the British decide that Hitler can be stopped now and not later, there is only one course open to them, namely, a mass air attack on German cities and industrial centers. This means the first great clash of major airpowers. Its outcome will be greatly influenced by which side gets the jump and carries the attack. In available fighting and bombardment planes, England is undeniably stronger than she was a year ago. Likewise Germany, with airpower as her only trump card, has just as undeniably improved her air might. x

French Negligible Factor

The British had to make up a big gap in ships and trained men to fly them. Bad fiying weather during the 1939 spring and summer and failure to synchronize her training capacity leaves England with more ships, but all too few pilots. French air power is still a negligible factor. The use of her airports and air bases for British operations is France's greatest contribution. If the British break through the German anti-aircraft and air defense, Berlin will come in for a mauling. But the Germans have so distributed their aircraft factories that the complete demolition of a few will not stop the show. On the other hand, a successful air attack against London, the most vulnerable air target in the world, would paralyze this nerve center of the British Empire. 'Twould Be Matter of Hours At any rate, I believe that an air war decision—England and France attacking Germany—would not be a matter of months or years but of hours. One or the other airpower must win, since there’s no such thing as a draw contest in an air war; and the lost air cause will settle the entire conflict. An ugly, momentous tragedy seems to be in the making—its deadliness to be equaled only by its blindingly rapid decision.

MONETARY PACT STANDS

—Acting Secretary of the Treasury John W. Hanes said today that the tri-partite monetary agreement between Great Britain, France and

British withdrawal of official support for the pound.

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KANSAS CITY, Kas., Aug. 25 (U. P.) —The original Wyandotte County courthouse building has been bought. by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce here and will be used to house a historical museum.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P.) ~The texts of President Roosevelt's appeals to Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany and - President Ignacy Moscicki of Poland follows: = To Herr Hitler: | “In the message which I sent to you on April 14 last I stated that it appeared to me that the leaders of

great nations had it in their power to- liberate their peoples from the

less the effort were immediately made with good will on all sides to find a peaceful and constructive solution of existing controversies, the crisis which the world was confronting must end in catastrophe. Today that catastrophe appears to be very near at hand indeed.

“To the message which I sent to you last April I have received no reply, but because of my confident belief that the cause of world peace— which is the cause of humanity itself—rises above -all other considerations, I am again addressig myself to you with the hope that the war which impends and the consequent

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may yet be averted.

“I therefore urge with all earnestness—and I am likewise urging the President of the Republic of Poland —that the governments of Germany and of Poland agree by common accord to refrain from any positive act of hostility for a reasonable and stipulated period and that they agree likewise by common accord to solve the controversies which have arisen between them by one of the three following methods: First, by direct negotiation; second, by submission of these controversies to an impartial arbitration in which they can both have confidence; ar, third, that they agree to the solution of these controversies through the procedure of conciliation, selecting as conciliator or moderator a national of one of the traditionally neutral states of Europe, or a national of one of the American republics— which are all of them free from any connection with or participation in European political affairs. ]

OFFERS BACKING OF U. S.

“Both Poland and Germany being sovereign governments, it is understood, of course, that upon resort to any one of the alternatives I suggest, each nation will agree to accord complete respect to the independence and territorial integrity of the other, “The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler, or any people, possess the right to achieve their ends or objectives

disaster that impended, but that un-/

through the taking of action which will plunge countless. millions of people into war and . which will bring distress and suffering to every nation of the world, belligerent and neutral, when such ends and objectives, so far as they are just and reasonable, can be satisfied through process of peaceful negotiation or by resort to judicial arbitration. “I appeal to you in the name of the people of the United States, and I believe in the name of peace-lov-ing men and women everywhere, to agree to the solution of the controversies existing between your Government and that of Poland through the adoption of one of the alternative methods I have proposed. I need hardly reiterate that should the Governments of Germany and of Poland be willing to solve their differences in the peaceful manner suggested, the Government of the United States still stands prepared to contribute its share to the solution of the problems which are endangering world peace in the form set forth in my message of April 14.”

WRITES POLAND ALSO

To President Moscicki:

. ‘The manifest gravity of the existing crisis imposes an urgent obligation upon all to examine ‘every possible means which might prevent the outbreak of general war. “With this in mind, I feel justified in suggesting that certain possible avenues of solution be considered. “The controversy between the Government of Poland and the Government of the German Reich might be made the subject of direct discussion between the two Governments. “Should this prove impossible or not feasible, a second avenue might be that of submission of the issues to arbitration. “A third method might be conciliation through a distinterested third party, in which case it would seem appropriate that the parties avail” themselves of the services of one of the traditionally neutral states, or a disinterested republic of the Western Hemisphere wholly removed from the area and issues of the present crisis. Should you determire to attempt solution by any of these methods, you are assured of the earnest and complete sympathy of the United States and of its people. During the exploration of these avenues, I appeal to you, as I have likewise appealed to the Government of the German Reich, to agree to refrain from any positive act of hostility.

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“Both Poland and Germany being sovereign Governments, it is understood, of course, that upon resort to any one of the alternatives

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LONDON, Aug. 25 (U. P.) —King George and Queen Elizabeth with their two children and other members of the Royal Family will be quartered in bomb-proof, gas-proof subterranean shelters in Windsor Castle if war breaks out.

More than a mile of deep tunneling into the London Castle already has been completed. Vast quantities of food, medical supplies and other necessities are being cached in huge vaults especially constructed for the use of the Royal Family, : The scope and details of the emergency preparations indicated the gravity with which the King

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