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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 148
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939
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BRITAIN MOBILIZES ON AIR, LAN AND SEA, IMPOSES CENSORSHIP
EIGHT-DAY FAIR England Calls Its Masters of the Seas HITLER REPLY UNLIKELY NOW, BERUN STATES
STARTS FRIDAY ~ALL ABOARD!
Everything Indicates Records Will Be Broken at State's 87th Exposition. The
produce of
bast that Indiana's farms the newest achievements Hbosier colleges and wuniversities—and tae largest number of exhibitors in the history of the Stafe are ready to go. The 87th annual Indiana State Fair will open tomorrow at 6 a. m. with the expectation of plaving to & record crowd, probably as many as 440,000 in eight davs. And in addition to augmented exhibits and an enlarged midway, fair patrons will see some $2.000,000 worth of new buildings that have been erected on the grounds since the last fair In addition to the new one of the largest of its Xind im the counfry, there is a new junior educational center comprising three new buildings. Construction work has not been completed but the buildings will be used as they are, Fair officials said Program Expanded The Fair program was expanded to eight days instead of seven for the first time because of the increased number of 4-H Club entries this year, according to Harry G. Templeton, Fair manager. The first formal will be presented by organized youths from throughout Indiana tomorrow morning Participants will include Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs, Hoosier Boys’ State, Catholic Youth Organization and National Youth Administration.
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BUDGET SHEARS TO SNIP TONIGHT
Only Four Citizens Show Up For Public Hearing on
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Formal trimming of the 1940 Civil City budget will be started by
A parade starting at 11:30 a, m./ Councilmen tonight following last)
will end at the new $625.000 Junior Educational Building, which will be dedicated. Speakers will include Governor M. Clifford Townsend and representatives of all the organizations. Harry F. Caldwell, president of the State Board of Agriculture will preside. Music will be by the Indiana Music Festival Band.
Fun Jamboree Planned
A fun jamboree for the vouths will be staged in front of the Grandstand. starting at 6:45 p. m. The festival and Boy Scout bands and Music Festival Orchestras will feature the musical program. * The program, for which Lieut Gov. Henry F. Schricker will be master of ceremonies, will be featured bv scott ceremonies, presenta(Continued on Tage Four)
FAVORS RETENTION OF JUVENILE HOME
The Juvenile Detention Home Auxiliary today asked County Council not to consider any proposals {or abandoning the present detention home at 538 W. New York St. The Auxiliary’'s request, made by its president, Mrs. Walter H. Geisel. was the result of Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw's recent informal suggestion to the Council that the present rented home de abandoned when the lease expires next January, and a smaller home be built to house juvenile deliquenis Mrs. ‘Geisel said the size of the present detention home makes it possible to segregate juveniles
A FAIR AFFAIR THE FAIR WILL BE
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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1deal weather for the opening of the State Fair was promised by the Weather Bureau The pledge Was for fair skies tonight and tomorrow and not much change in temperature with the arrival of September.
STORM DELAYS SQUALUS LIFT
PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Aug. 31 (U. P).—The final “lift-tow™ of the sunken submarine Squalus may be delayed until next week, Navy officials said today while salvage workers awaited abatement of the storm which drove their fleet to shelter.
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'might’s public hearing at which only four taxpayers appeared. It was indicated that minor cuts in various funds of the $£8.040,691 budget would total about $60.000, permitting & reduction of slightly more than 1 cent in the proposed $1.30 City tax levy. An additional 1-cent reduction in the levy will be made possible as soon as the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. bid on a new 10-vear public lighting contract is approved by the Works Board. The contract calls for a 850.000 annual saving in lighting costs. This would reduce the City levy th about $1.28 County Hearing Friday Meanwhile, preparations were being made by County Councilmen for a public hearing on the County budget and levy at 10 a. m. tomor-
row in the Commissioners’ Court at the Court House. Three women and & man were present last night when City Council opened its public hearing. None made any suggestions for cuts. Joseph J. Schmid, real estate dealer, declined to speak, saying there was tod small a crowd. He left with ‘the promise to be back Monday night when the budget is to be formaiiy adopted. Cuts are expected to be made in the Works Board Administration! budget, where a $12,000 increase was requestea; in the Building Commission’s requested $13.000 increase and in several items in the Park Department's budget.
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Council's shears will saip small items, 11 was understood. on the theorv that a great manv small cuts will not seriously impair departmental functions. There was some sentiment for reduction in the Health Department and City Hospital requests which total $31.000 more than current appropriations. Last night. representatives of civic and health organizations supporting the increases failed to appear to defend them. Tonight's meeting, during which Council will study the budget privately, will be followed bv sessions tomorrow night and possibly Saturday until & reduced figure is agreed upon. GIRL, 3, SCALDED Three-year-old Lillie White, 3206 Orchard Ave, was burned on the stomach and on the right leg and arm today when che pulled a kettle | of hot water from a stove. The| child, daughter of Mrs. Mabel! White, was given first aid by police.
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16 Johnson ... 15 Movies ....10, 11 15 Mrs. Perguson 18 23 Obituaries . 14 22 Pegler 1c 23 Pyle 15 16 Questions . I 13 Radio 17 17 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 15 Serial Storv.. 23 16 Society ...... 12 3 Sports, 18, 13, 20 12 State Deaths. 14
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Spider Spins FRENCH COUNCIL
Ominous Web
OMETIME during the night a spider removed a dire prediction from its web at 842 Bates St. Today, according to Joseph Hirdner, who operates a grocery store at that address, the neighborhood war crisis seems definiteIv past. About 4 p. m. yesterday, Mr. | Hirdner relates, a customer showed him where a spider had woven the Jetters WAR into & web on the store's side ‘door. This morning the spider had taken out the whole corner containing the prediction. Tn August, 1914, Mr. Hirdner saw a similar message in a spider web at 842 E. Georgia St. (note same address). He also reports that he knows a woman who saw the word McKinley written bv & Vincennes spider in 1901. A few days later, the President was assassinated
CITY ENDS EFFORTS T0 BUY WATER C0.
Council and Trustees Back Mayor's Committees.
The City’s efforts to buy the Indianapolis Water Co. definitely were at an end today following a meeting of City Councilmen and Utility
District trustees late vesterday at which it was dacided formally to drop the plan. A recommendation to this effect was voted Tuesday by members of the water subcommittee and the Mayor's citizens advisory committee. Negotiations for the purchase became deadlocked when H. S. Schutt, executor of the C. H. Geist estate, declined to guarantee that the City would not be liable for anv Federal income or State Gross Income taxes incident to the transacdion.
HOGS DIP 25 TO 35 CENTS
Hog prices at Indianapolis todav declined 25 to 35 cents, foreing the top price down to $6.60 Vealers were steady at $11. while fat lambs rose 25 ta £0 cents to make a ton price of $9.50.
CALLED QUICKLY
American Legion Paris Post Offers Men to Drive Ambulances.
PARIS, Aug. 31
U. P).—The
Council of Ministers was summoned | There is puhang 0!
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bert Lebrun “to study the progress of European negotiations,” but pos-
sibly to issue general mobilization
orders, The call followed information delivered to Premier Edouard Daladier by Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador, regarding Britain's mobilization orders. Tt is highly exceptional for the Council of Ministers—which is the Cabinet and the President— to meet without & prior meeting of the Cabinet. The French radio announced that the American Legion mn Paris had decided to place 1000 Legion members at the disposal of the War Office to organize an ambulance serv. ice for the front lines. The announcement said Tegion headquarters in the United States had been’ asked to send over several thousand more volunteers. Germany, according to reports here, had up to half her Army of 2,000,000 in her eastern provinces and up to 800.000 opposite France's Maginot Line. The reports indicated that the Polish air force had established secret bases in Posen and Lodz provinces, bringing Berlin Within 100 miles of them and Breslau within 30.
No Request Yet, Legion Says Here
American Legion national headquarters here has not been asked by Legion headquarters at Paris to furnish volunteers to the French War office for front line ambulance service, National Adjutant Frank E. Samuel said. Commenting on & United Press dispatch to that effect, the national adjutant said there would be no authority short of national convention action for entering ‘into such activity such &s was reported requested by the Legion inh Paris.
‘Nothing More to Be Said,’ Official Sources Say Of Messages.
BERLIN, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—Nazis expressed surprise tonight that Britain had issued orders amounting to general mobilization of her land, sea and air forces. They said the order constituted a definite aggravation of conditions in Europe.
The Nazis, who have been blaming
Poland for obstructing German “peace efforts” in co-operation with Britain, turned towards the British move us a further obstruction. The same sources added that in the last two days the situation seemed to have been made worse by Poland's refusal to enter “serious negotiations with Germany.” bv Poland's alleged menacing of Slovakia and by what was called Britain's failure to make concrete proposals vo Germany. No Answer Expected
Taking all these factors inte consideration in connection with the British mobilization, these sources said, ‘the situation has been very considerably aggravated.” Competent German quarters said that when Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany, handed the new British message to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop he had been fully appraised of the Reich's attitude and there consequently no German reply was expected. Anglo-German diplomatic exchanges are now in a “state of suspension,” it was said. “Germany {placed herscards fully on the table. more it can do to e German v point” Tt was be at Her Hitler's decision would be made by | tomorrow night. Reliable sources also disclosed that consultations between Germany
and Russia had taken place in the |
past few days. Asked whether these
consultations included military mat- |
ters, German quarters said no subjects would be excluded irom the talks and that it could be assumed that military matters probably were discussed. Defense Council Meets The newly formed German fense council met late today Herr Hitler attending. Members of the new council are: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm (Continued on Page Three)
ONE MORE APPEAL
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Silent on Collaboration With Pope Pius.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U. P).— President Roosevelt was believed
ready today to meke one more ap-
peal to Europe's leaders to avert war. Some of his chief foreign policy advisers counselled him that a final decision between war and peace is likely to be made before the end of the week. Mr. Roosevelt before going to his office, conferred for nearly an hour this morning with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, who carried a bulky portfolio. “Ask the Secretarv of State.” was the only response at the House to questions as to the possibility of an exchange between the (Continued on Page Three)
London Begins Evacuation Tomorrow
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ONDON, Aug i YOU. Po Great Britain will begin tomorrow the mass evacuation of 3.000.000 children, mothers, expectent ‘mothers, blind people and cripples, equipped with gas masks, to safely areas, the Ministry of Health announced today. Paris started evacuating its children today and by noon had | removed 40000 to the country. Children here will entrain at 72 subway stations which will be closed to ordinary traffic Railroad traffic will be severely cur- |! tailed for three or four days. In addition, the Government announced that starting at 7 &. m. tomorrow nine main exits from London will be made one-way streets outward to facilitate movement of persons who want to leave London as rapidly as possible by road.
taken to safeguard the lives of those concerned against sir raiders, will include “priority” classes in all cities and towns in the Government’s evacuation zone. About 1500000 school children will be aff in London and the |
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big provincial cities of England and Scotland. Wales and Ireland are not affected. There are 700.000 to be evacuated in the London area alone. Only on Tuesday, Arthur Greenwood, acting Labor Party leader,
' had demanded in the House of |
Commons that the Government
| start evacuation at once.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberiain did not then respond. But
| at 12:20 p. m. today (5:20 &. m. | the British |
Indianapolis Time) Broadcasting Co. sent out Ministry's statement. This statement said that the evacuation did not mean that war was regarded as inevitable, but that the Government had ordered
the
it as a precautionary measure in |
view of prolonged tension. Realizing the tremendous task before it, one which will mean the bregking up of hundreds of thousands of homes in England and Scotland, the Health Ministry appealed earnestly for national cooperation, Tt asked that there be no unnecessary ‘movement about the
Tt ‘civilians which might
Of 3 Million Young, Lame and Blind
T asked that those who are to
receive evacuated persons “put aside every consideration of personal interest and convenience
and do everything possible to contribute to the success of this great national undertaking.” Barly tomorrow, children from hundreds of thousands of homes | of ordinary Englishmen and Scotsmen, will gather at their schools.
eons and personal possessions, ex- | tra clothes—those who have them —tooth brushes and other simple articles. ' Teachers and other adults will accompany the children to trains and busses. At their destination, quiet towns in the countryside, the children will billet in private homes and camps. Some children from the crowd-
ed East End of London will get |
their first train rides and will see fields, the woods and the sea for the first time in their lives. At their destinations, teachers will see that the children at once send postcards home announcing | their arrival,
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Claims Sept. 6
EW YORK, Aug. 31 (U, P.) —Wythe Williams, ed itor of the Greenwich, Conn. Time, said in a radio broadcast last night that Adolf Hitler has set Sept. 6 as the “zero” hour for war in his dispute with Poland. “Negotiations will dawdle on for a few days, but the deadline is sei,” Mr. Williams said. “My information reveals that Hitler has decided on Sept. 6 for the zero hour.” Mr. Williams, a former foreign correspondent. said Hitler is threatened with a revolution that might break within “a matter of hours” because some of the Fuehrer's military leaders do not want war. They have caused a dangerous split in the Nazi Party, he said, and have put Herr Hitler “on the horns of a dilemma.”
VATICAN ISSUES PLEA FOR PEAGE
U. S. Sent Copy as Delegate
MNS Told to Hurry “Back
To Washington.
VATICAN CITY, Aug. 31 (U. P). | —His Holiness Pope Pius XII issued an urgent appeal to the powers today to halt their war preparations and preserve peace. Simultaneously the Pope issued from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo an order that Catholic churches throughout the world offer special prayers [or peace. The Pope transmitted his appeal to the envoys of all the powers accredited to the Vatican, through His Eminence Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papel Secretary of State. After pointing out that the inter-
national situation is most tense, the |
Pope's appeal urged that Christian
reason prevail in order to prevent
armed conflict. Copy Sent to U. S.
It was delivered by Cardinal Maglione when he summoned to his office the Ambassadors and Ministers attached to the Holy See. Among those who responded were the German, French, Italian and Polish ambassadors and the British Minister, A copy of the Pope's peace message was delivered to William Phillips, United States ambassador to Italy,
by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Borgongini-|
| Duca. Papal Nuncio to Ttaly, because the United States is not officiaHy represented at the Holy See. It was stated that the message was presented informatively as a copv of the Pope's general appeal to ‘Governments - throughout the world, and not as & special message to President Roosevelt,
Pilgrimage Called Off
Myr. Phillips immediately transmitted the message to President Roosevelt through the State Department. An international pilgrimage of 20.000 persons representing the Catholic workers and youth organizations of 20 countries, which was scheduled to be held in Vatican City on Sept. 2, has been indefinitely postponed.
MARKETS CALM BUT PATTERN TO WAR
By UNITED PRESS World economy and world mar-
kets today shaped toward a war im- |
minence pattern but maintained an [outward calm that was in marked contrast with the summer of 1914. | Financial markets and the pound | sterling resumed their decline. Gold advanced. Wheat and other war commodities advanced. The London Stock Exchange an- | nounced it will close tomorrow and | remain closed until Monday at least, | because of transportation problems [involved by the London partial |‘ evacuation order, | Today, New York Stock Exchange officials and the Securities and Exchange Commission are ready with carefully laid plans to keep the New York market open in any éeémer- | gency. Wall Street today completed for‘mation of a Banking Advisory Committee to serve as a liaison group | Srteeen the financial district and | Washington in event of war. | Prices held well ‘on the Exchange ‘but, dropped $4 a ‘share in some
CRISIS ‘AGGRAVATED,’ NAZI SOURCES CLAIM: POPE MAKES NEW PLE
Russia Debates Reich Pact Ratification; | London Watches Out for Air Raids; Italy Tries to Stave Off Clash.
By WEBR MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 31.—Great Britain announced tonight that she had decided on complete mobilization of her vast naval, regular army and air power against the threat of a new European war. The Government's portentous decision—announced in an official communique at Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain’s residence at 10 Downing Street——increased the strain of Europe's war of nerves to an almost unbearable pitch. Already 12,000,000 men wete under arms and massed on the continental frontiers, the Great British war fleet was strung out in battle array across the North Sea and orders had been given to remove 3,000,000 helpless persons, chile dren, women and invalids, from England's cities to the countryside starting tomorrow, | The Government also announced censorship of incoming ‘and outgoing cable, telephone and wireless communications. "Telephone and teleprinter service to the Continent was cut at 6:40 p. m. (11:40 a. m. Indianapolis Time) and telephone ‘service to the United States half an hour later. | Alarm on All-Day Basis | The Government also called up 20 per cent of the tens of thousands of full-time air raids precautions service mems bers, including auxiliary firemen. Air raids precautions controllers throughout the country were ordered to take up day and night duties. Air raid alarm and defense serve ices were put on 24 hour duty. The mobilization decree appeared to have been timed to exert the greatest possible influence on the balance toward peace at the very moment Pope Pius was issuing a new appeal to the big powers to avoid war. The Pope appealed to the powers that they work for peace so that “Christian reason may prevail,”
Deadlock Tightens
The text of today's mobilization communique said: “In continuation of measures already adopted, it has ‘been decided to complete naval mobilization, and to call up the remainder of the regular army reserve and supplemens ‘tary reserve. “A further number of the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve will also be called up. Officers and men should await further instructions which will be made public immediately, |by each of the three service departments.” In Berlin, in Paris, in Rome, in Warsaw similar and almost complete preparations for war had been made as the ‘deadlock between Germany and Poland tightened until it 'seemed to some observers that it might soon surge beyond ‘hope of further diplomatic maneuvers. | Next Move Up to Hitler The possibility of further exchanges between Great Britain and Adolf Hitler continued open, but in the German capital high Nazi sources said that the positions of both sides seemed to have been made clear and that the Nazi Fuehrer might decide that another diplomatic message was unnecessary or futile. Whether that meant that action would be Herr Hitler's next move-~some Berlin observers said tomorrow was be. ing persistently mentioned as a grave dav of decision—was not indicated. The deadlock had been growing tighter and tighter all week and repeated messages shuttling back and forth from Berlin to London had seemed on the surface merely to have ‘made the hope of an agreement less bright than ever. | Herr Hitler had declared and repeated his determinas (Continued on Page Three)
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Beck Meets British Envoy; Nazis Occupy Rail Depot,
In Warsaw:
| [| WARSAW, aug. 31 (U. P).—A|way for military movements. Yew
/Government spokesman said today | (rains will be allowed to run and all ‘that German secret policemen had | Pasengers will need a special permit to board them,
‘occupied the railway station at! | Danzig last night and had hoisted| The seizure of the station. follows | Swastika flags over it. ing a long series of anti-Polish andl | Asked whether Poland intended to | 8llegedly German-inspired incidents ‘take action in Danzig as a result, | in the Free City, raised the question the spokesman said none was in the minds of foreign observers as ‘planned “at the moment.” Foreign to how far Poland intended letting | Minister Josef Beck held a long Danzig authorities go before taking ‘conference with ‘the British Ambas- | action, |sador today. The customs, railroads | Meantime, the Government ais-|business were t Xhree ort ‘closed that train schedules and serv- | Danzig's life whieh Poland always |ice will be restricted after midnight had said it would never permit the (for both passenger and freight.|Nazis to dominate. But in the past Normal schefiules will be entirely few days Poland has
discontinued, presumably make (Continued on