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Crisis’ at Home GASOLINE FOR ROME'S AUTOS NOW RATIONED
Ban Falls Sunday Midnight On Private Cars, Cycles And Boats.
iPHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Future of Liners Becomes Uncertain 400,000 NAZIS - REMAN MASSED UPON SLOVAK FRONT
| Take Strategic Positions
For Thrusts Into Heart Of Poland.
BRATISLAVA Slovakia, Aug. 31 | (U. P.).—Nazi Germany massed 400, [000 troops today on the northern Slovak border fn positions from 2 oN . | which they could thrust northward 3 FR {into the heart of Poland. ; Motorized transports and troop [trains increased their number | | | hourly | day At frequent intervals by day and The decree contained regulations (night during the last 48 hours trans- for ‘the previously announced ban ports bearing cheering German | . . . | troops have moved north and north- = after midnight Sunday on private | eastward across western and central | motorcycles and mo- | Slovakia, taking up positions in the | | western section of the Tatras| [Mountain range on the Slovak- | Polish frontier,
THURSDAY, AUG. 31, 1989
Full Mobilization in Britain Is Decreed: Phone Service Out
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tion to return the Free City of Danzig and the Polish Corridor to Germany, Poland had reiterated her determination to fight such moves as a threat to her independence. |
Great Britain and France,|~ \ 3 id Fy Jak London with Foreign Office experts confident of aid from Tax key [and diplomats, but there was & genand hopeful that Spain and |eral fear that diplomatic efforts had
; 3 y To |been gravely complicated by the in-| Japan might now be neutrals easeq tension between Germany | in a new war, had stood firm- and Poland. ol 8 . 3 1 A . 1 | Political experts here expresse Iv behind their pledges to aid lpejier that the presence of an Poland. | estimated 400,000 German troops TT slovak you sti Polish Soviet Russia tightened her Army | In Slovakia would stiffen regulations to bring another 500.000 |cSistance to German demands and | men under arms—boosting an armed
{might cause Poland to insist that | force already estimated at 2,500,000 |
ROME, Aug. 31 (U, P)~=The [Corporations Ministry decreed tos | day the rationing of gasoline to | taxicabs, busses, and official auto= [ mobiles-——the only cars which will be allowed on the streets after Sine
F b automobiles, torbhoats. It exempted from the ban (1) taxicabs and busses; (2) diplomatie (3) autos of foreign registry (4) autos belonging
the German troops go home before | men-—strengthened her European
any negotiations were started. ' 3ri has frontier defenses and summoned the = vag IE Rig or pies < Kohn. Teloutioto Slovak Troops Massed supreme Noviel (Parliament) Int0 ‘vanced new arguments why he must Liners of the “Axis” and the “Allies” lay side by side for hours at North River piers in New York, Slovak troops were massed on the Lio decide on ratification Of have his demands satisfied. Verbal-| (heir futures made uncertain by war threats. Top to bottom: The Roma (Italian), Aquitania (British), [eastern portion of the frontier, How oe now mnon-aggression pact with jy {4 Sir Nevile Henderson, the| the Normandie (French) and the Bremen (German. The Bremen and Aquatania both sailed last night, many troops were combined in this] rermany. ; Italy, listed as the first target of a
| British Ambassador at Berlin, Re the German ship empty, the British ship carrying Sir Ronald Lindsay, former envoy to the United States, |potential Nazi-Slovak army was not | : . had invited a Polish plenipotentiary | (officially revealed, but it was] mighty British-French attack if wart, go to Berlin forthwith to nego- te [estimated that Slovakia now had comes, worked furiously to prevent a tiate on his terms. called up 300,000 of its own troops. final showdown that would mean &a| Tt was understood today that, on | new conflagration far more disas-| instructions from London, Sir!
In the last 38 hours Slovakia has trous than Europe's World War, [Nevile responded even before the |
autos, touring Italy, to the state, The Government issued a decree today imposing a fine of $500 and imprisonment up to three years for hoarders of foodstuffs and mers chandise in quantities sufficient to cause price increases,
Deny Rail Suspension
Posters advising that anti-afe | ratd tests will be held today have been pasted on walls throughout the city, A report in London that Ttaly {had suspended train service to Aure (tria and Germany was officially dew ‘nied today as “absurd.” The observations of morning (papers gave support to the opinion lin ‘many quarters that Premier
British Recall Holiday Ship
» Times-Acme Telephoto, A small coal-black kitten, possibly an American cousin to the famous No. 10 Downing Street cat, dodged between the legs of the new British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, as he left the White House yesterday after presenting his credentials to President Roosevelt, White House correspondents promptly dubbed the Kitten “Crisis.” When Lord Lothian emerged from the White House door, he picked it up and stroked it until it purred.
MOBILIZATION Ito five normal military classes, This | | SHOCKS NAZIS brought total Slovak mobilization [regarded this invitation simply as to two classes in training, three Thus, the dramatic and almost a method of underlining the urg- [classes of reserves, and five classes
ultimate decision by Great Britain to |ency Germany attributed to a swift (of Hlinka Guards. 4 complete mobilization of her fighting {settlement of its dispute with Po. | | Po i gid Ter Ls a of Bn oo Explains Need to Soviet TED eh loa, nitend of transmitting the| Parliament; 500,000 Added to Army.
called up Hlinka Guards equivalent | New Strategy in “White War” [ British reply was sent that Britain
EW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.)) — The Furness liner Queen of Bermuda, for seven years a holiday cruise ship to the British West Indies, sailed today without passengers for England and with her port-hole windows painted black. Only the British members'of the
Move Through Moravia Say | The motorized units, which ap[parently constituted the vanguard [of the German Army which Slovak President Josef Tiso had announced would occupy the country to “keep the enemy from our frontier,’ moved forward chiefly through the
“Aggravates’ Crisis, Official Sources at Berlin.
Formal mobilization orders have invitation to Poland, the British not been a part of the totalitarian Foreign Office merely notified Potechnique of & “white” or » land of it for the purpose of infor-
“nerve a —— : | Mussolini
war,
Great Britain's preparations, in-! stock ex-
cluding closure of the
change until Monday if not longer, were carried out with a great burst
of speed.
Imation, | The new British note was sald in reliable quarters here to be un-| yielding as regards Germany's de-
MOSCOW, Aug. 31 ((U. P).— Soviet Russia today called up mands, and to urge again the use- reservists to increase her vast armed fulness of direct Polish-German ne- | forces by 500,000 men as Premier
crew were aboard, Most scheduled Labor = Oe re ed ee vase | Goering, chairman; Deputy Fuehrer ington, on arrival today from |Rudolf Hess, Interior Minister Wil-
Europe, was supplied with 500 ‘helm Frick, Economics Minister and
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Other units were being dispatched
road transpoits
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was preparing to infect | Ttalian aspirations into any settle= (ment that might grow out of the [present crisi |
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(U. P) ~The | Passed and people still do not
a a oY know whether th il b od W ; snow whether there will be war or [anti-Communist alliance ties among peace, Although there 1s To
Japan, Germany and Italy “possibly | peace there is not yet war and as
gotiations, on'a footing of equality. | Viacheslav Molotov explained a the i varter , ~. | Soviet Parliament the necessity for ers met in the Dominions Office to- |, Political quarters pondered to-| Pov: Jag@ressioh treaty ; yr day whether the Poles, even if nhe- conclusion of a non-aggression treaty day for a conference with Sir T hom- L tintion would ‘be arranged would with Berlin as Inskip, Dominions Secretary. regard themselves as oh a basis of | Discussion of the new treaty with Polish Ships Join British full equality so long as 400,000 Ger- | Germany was considered of utmost
: { \ “ema i y importance, although there was no The Admiralty announced that all Man troops remained in Slov akia. 2 a W 1 ) | a | } ebate would men when called up would proceed | ——————————— | indication whether the d |
» or a sensational na- | at once to their depots without | RY uur rb Neneh I awaiting individual summons, is (INE MORE APPEAL n BY F. D.R. FORESEEN
\ y he an scheduled for | includes retired officers, pensioners, The treaty had been s (Continued from Page One)
The Dominion High Commission- cots and will sail Saturday to IReichsbank President Walther Funk, Be - i ne a / x ¢ i : Slovaks exchanged cheers, pick up 1500 of the thousands of [Chancellery Chief Hans-Heinrich ¢
Americans stranded in ‘Great [Lammers, and Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, Roads Swarm With
Britain and France. [chief of the high command of the ‘Soldiers and Guns | : will be less strong” in the future, |long as negotiations continue . . 4
The Bremen, pride of the Ger- | . . : (armed forces, man Merchant Marine, sailed at | “yy "gainardo Attolico, Ttalian Am- | BRESLAU, Germany, Aug. 31 (U.| ‘ ite ; | We must express hope for a solus IP) —The roads Were swarming with {Premier Nobuyuki Abe announced tion
6:37 p. m. yesterday after having Ibassador to Germany, was informed troops, guns and materials moving fing Sb Nicht JOG Wi Here “Danzig no longer is the point
id IE 0 Hise lof the contents of the British communication which Herr Hitler had in 0 the Polish border fighting between Japanese and Rus- oo ne One lot 'sian forces on the Manchukuo Sh e question ‘has
Bruen ww pi a studied with Foreign Minister Joa- | a ' ! a A 3p lchim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal long column of trucks Was | onticr | Spread and now comprehends prob= proached Sandy Hook, ‘entrance |q,aung and others. filled with women—auxilfary help-| ToT 1 : lems of high justice, as it is des of the outer harbor, it was re- ers in air raid ‘protection and| The new Premier, who also 1s |... (4 vive Europe a true peace Hitler Misses Sleep | medical units. |Foreign Minister for the time be- iu. a problems referring to Everybody and everything is mov-
ported that two British destroy- | ers were lying in wait, possibly to falas, ? | (ing, said that Japan will not neces- |, fo N : 3 . ip tler was constantly ih con- colonies, means of cor ; Hon] Cortifichtes | Commissar Voroshilov said the| follow the liner across the Atlan- a, Ties ZovevTent and mili INE east. [sarily pursue a policy of complete nd yaw materials Snania ibn, A ET Heh wiloonted | - ‘Soviet Union was determined not| tic and make a prize of her if lary Jenders. He had ‘hot Jeft the | At first, most of the troops came | Isolation. lin brief 5 to solve old Bid nn to the Supmarine service are to pro- | White House and ‘His Holiness Pope | to be caught unawares by any SW-| war should break out. |Chancellery sihce his return to Ber- | {10M nearby areas, and Dresden and | “It requires much study to deter-|appgpg » ; : e submg Ser are pro- Pius XII toward llaboration in Prise military moves on the part of | — es hs Ee ih 13t ay .. | Saxony, to the west and south, Now mine whether the anti-Communist| Tea1ian ceed direct to the submarine base co n (lin eight days ago and it was unde: + . EE ! stood he slept no more than two or | they are coming from Berlin, (axis ties will be Kept alive or en-|pyuti . is ‘evident that Germany’s|tirely cut 6ff,” he said.
p ratification earlier this week but acmembers of the naval reserve and tion was unexpectediy delayed as the | all men belonging to the Royal Fleet European crisis developed. Reserve, Classes B and D The Russian Army has been estiThe only exceptions will be those mated to total 2.500.000. unfit to travel, who must produce
claims on Tunisia, Djt= and a share in the Sies
ine pared to fight by itself and win any German sotirees reported that Po-| declined comment, . ; : eo War war in which it might become en-| : . tions ‘at sty x ‘ land's three destrovers had steamed | There were ample indications in d 8 | Nazis accused Poland of trying to Bax i ne IS Cn, Ingion ed onstrations throughout Italy Mve gaged. | wreck ‘the ‘pence ‘negotiations of complete, careful and stringent than [that more friendly relations toward | months ago, appeared to be com=sumably bound for the North Sea to| ernment believes the "zero hour” | The Government, through the of-| WILL 0CCUPY DANZIG : y , ! join the British fleet. near at hand, There was a percep(Continued from Page One)
Gotan Gotivity of Czechoslovak border a year ago, "ain will be sought, through diplomatic channels. Tr ¢ Ys
both military and political, continued unabated. Albert Forster, the Nazi head of {the Danzig Free City, came here for a consultation with Herr Hitler and left today for an undis-
at Gosport /new moves. The State Department Other nations and that it was pre- POLES FEAR HITLER e | o Mey ng | (Canal, voiced throug PY [three hours Fast Jui. this time are ‘more| The hew cabinet has IOURR public dein : sacteriny ». Official quarters here that this Gov- | out of Gdynia late yesterday, pre S \: gh the of Cry SHE Beit (they were during the march to the the United States and ‘Great Brit- ing to (he fore again, this time [ficial News Agency, previously had rer y and Br - 3 YU Only small units of the Polish |tible lessening of optimism as the
[disclosed that troops were moving Gdynia, which would be at Ger- change of messages between Britain po tie States border { many's mercy in case of war, and Germany became known here. | . 2 One high Administration official | Few Still Unmobilized closed destination.
Russia also had given official | Arrest of Polish customs authorities fenid: ts hat he Sy En PLY ih Danzig and the seizure of three The Admiralty said that the Navy| “The mere wording of the mes- | ar Yoetweer Poland ing Ger. (rain loads of materials bound to | Voelkisher Beodachter. official Nazi already was almost completely | Sages, which were very cordial in|. "regardless of the new Soviet-| Poland through the port. [Party newspaper, said of the defense mobilized but that today's order View of the gravity of the subject | sh. treaty. | The railway station incident | council : meant & few additional vessels | caused foreigh observers to wonder | “Its formation ‘emphasized the would be brought into commission
with which they dealt, would indi- —y J i : i [Fuehrer's determination not to reto fill the remaining gaps and that Polish Ships Flee | just what would happen if Adolf
cate that a meeting of the minds and a solution of Europe's present Itrent one hair's breadth from ‘what men would be called up to complete | ) | Hitler suddenly were to retreat from [Germany considers its just claims.” the ranks of naval forces Gdynia, Report DANZIG, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—Ger-
dilemma is possible. [his extreme demands and express | Sir Nevile Henderson, British AmOfficers will await =a radical man circles said tonight that three
“However, the fundamental ispersonal sues appear to remain completely | imnselr Satis ; “ lbassador. handed the hew British summons but all are . satisfied with Danzig alone. | Joachim von Ribbentrop, service, it was said. The Admiralty [change of viewpoint in the very polish destroyers had steamed out
liable tojunsolved and, barring a note ‘to | Although the Government has re- ‘Foreign Minister, a little after midand the War office declined to give near future by one party or the of the nearby Polish port of Gdynia, iterated that it would not permit the [night this morning. It was underany estimates as to total men or other, the situation definitely must présumably bound for the North union of Danzig with Germany, it stood that the note arrived by speships involved in today’s orders, |be considered unaltered at the very Sea to join the British fleet. [way conceded that an awkward situ- [cial airplane at 10:58 o'clock last The mobilization orders were tan- best.” | The ‘Germans believed that the ation would arise if Herr Hitler sud- [hight and that Sir Nevile took it at tamount to complete mobilization| An apparently heartening devel- Polish destrovers were the Grom. denly demanded: “Danzig alone of [once to Herr Von Ribbentrop. Sir of fighting forces as they would/opment in the situation, however, the Blvskawica and either the war.” Nevile and Herr Von Ribbentrop leave only a part of the possible air was the reply of Italian King Vic- \xicher or the Burza. The left! The Danzig population is ‘more | talked a few minutes, it was said, reserves still unmobilized. [tor Emmanuel to President Roose- Giivnia Inte Welitesday, ‘the Nazis than 90 per cent of German origin: | and then Herr Von Ribbentrop took Danzig Station Seized |Vvelt's peace appeal of last week, ¢aiq. is its ruling Senate is thoroughly pro- the note to Herr Hitler. In the swift march or events, the Stating that Italy was doing “what-| phe same source said that several Nazi. Tt is supposed to be under Irked at Mobilization Danzig Nazis seized the railroad Ver 1S possible to bring about a small units of the Polish Navy still League of Nations mandate, with : " : ‘ted station and hoisted the swastika to Peace with justice.” [were at Gdynia. | Poland administering the port busi-| Nazi political quarters ig e emphasize their complete control of | On the basis of this reply, re-! The Vorposten, Danzig Nazi Party Ness, But the League representa- | that Poland's mobilization = agthe Free City where it was believed ctived here late yesterday, it Was newspaper, said today that Polish (ive has left and the pro-Nazi fac- Favnied ‘ erie een the next drastic move by Adolf indicated that the President tay mobilization had s6 increased ten- ton is in full control. Now, Nazis said, the onus ad deen Hitler might come. : again move to place the diplomatic sion that “the moment for solution | However, there appeared to be no Put on Poland ana thee Ri on High Nazi circles at Berlin sought Prestige against war, lof the present serious crisis appears Possibility that Poland would cede | entatious pi oof i to put it up to Poland whether the| Mr. Roosevelt also sent peace to stand directly before us.” (both Danzig and the Polish Corri- | Ot Want Te all. ht tb long exchange of notes and com- DNs to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and| Tt asserted that the mobilization dor to Germany, which Herr Hitler | All this, the Nazis aq how ey ore ications between Great Britain Polish President Ignacy Moscicki. had “sabotaged the Puehrer's last has demanded in every message on | 2P€n British ey es ‘and s w Wh mun |The German Government has failed efforts to find & solution of the the crisis. ritain's Dinking Sr Pond pa
and Germany would result in direct | A I mireld negotiations for a settlement. The|t0 redly, President Moscicki ac- European crisis.” It oe AH te oh people | DOL mobilizatioh as a defenexchange was still not broken off,/ cepted the President's suggestion| Tt was alleged ‘that ‘a Polish |'0 Keep calm, but admitted that con- sasure against the massing
; : y , sive ‘mu although the Nazi press charged the for direct negotiation and Mr. frontier guard crossed the border Git1Ons were worse than at any time >." : SRV TS Poles With seeking to sabotage the Roosevelt sent a second appeal to during the night at Steinfiiess, near SINCE the crisis arose last April, NE ran Xo BD ig Wey hegotintions wh _AQolf Hitler had Herr Hider. [Zoppot, but was driven back after Expect Direct Demands called absurd. not yet replied to Britain's latest| If Mr. Roosevelt again decides to an exchange of fire with a Danzig | ‘Germany's motion, ‘the Nawis ‘exmessage standing firmly behind her exert his influence on behalf of frontier ‘patrol. Tn uddition the! Tt was believed here that Great plained, constituted ho &_ .ession pledges to Poland, (peace, it was believed that another newspaper reported the discovery of ritain’s negotiations with Ger- against Poland and was nothing Prime Minister Neville Chamber- appeal would be sent only at the 42 pistols and 1300 rounds of am. Many were ‘close to & breakdown put effectuation of Germany's lain and Foreign Secretary Viscount last minute when he was convinced munition ih & Polish school at ANd that at any time Adolf Hit- pledge to “protect” Slovakia, : Halifax resumed conferences in/that war was practically inevitable. Pieckel. ler might shift the scene of opera-
Robert H. st, United Pres: — tions by making direct demands on , pe io oe IN INDIANAPOLIS
, Staff correspondsnt at Bratislava, Poland. estimated German troops in SloGovernment leaders requested . . ; spd | Carl, Reta B , at St Here Is the Traffic Record rie io nanan Rl St Vincent's, | DEATHS TO DATE
vakia at 400,000.) that everyone refrain from excite-| Germany is ‘merely protecting {ment and “panic tendencies,” and Jake, Sophia Lekse, at St Vincent's, George, Olive Lacy, at St. Vincent's County 65
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3! Although there was no indicanew mobilization ‘order, but pss-|tion whatever of any impending Horace, Hazel Adams, at St, Robert, Charlotte Elliott, at
simism was unconcealed. Herr Mit- civilian exacuation it was learned ler's proposals, made yesterday to that patients who can be moved John, ‘Gertrude Anderson, Britain for settling the crisis, were in ambulances are being evacuated ce nul Mildred W 8 considered here to be “cruder” from Berlin hospitais. , HG iper at St. wav | - | Re Nn Rie 3: NERY : than previous ones he had made, The newspaper Fremdenblatt of 5% cents hn. Wr . | . DIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight to France. Hamburg, usually well informed as : enneth, Marths ok St. - : i o w ne 5 . | 2, Y ! conenn artha Decker, at St. Vin BY, aint not much change ih tem | The blackout” ‘continued from to the official Nazi attitude, charged I oe _ 11 p. 'm. until dawn, and then the|ihat Polish mobilization was ‘‘inten-
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has ky} land, chronic myocarditis MEETINGS TODAY | Katherine Effain, 70, at : | It was also reported that the early Bootmakers' finish this summer &s result of severe in- | gphage crop was partially ruined
uremia. National Associntion of Powe Engi-| Lucille Bolden Hawkins, 40, 4 ¢ sect and disease infestations, was by worms, but Mr. Irwin said, how- Full double soles
r neers, convention, Murat Temp! all ok Boulevard Place, Jyocarditis, t A fan lis, lunch- Ellis Lingrell, 78, at City, uremia, 3 A con ee Ving PFs ER TaN reported today at the County Agri- ever, the late cabbage “looks good.” =5.85, , MARRIAGE LICENSES generally fair. cultural Agent's office, | Another type of beetle which is a | A. A Trwin, assistant county parasite on cucumbers, pickles and
Indianapolis Real Estate Board, (These lists are from official records | Ohio—Fair tonight and tomorrow; modagent, disclosed that local c¢om-| melons has forced gardeners to
eon, Hotel Washington, noon Nicionn, Rua, Qu ree. 1h in dhe Counts Court Howie he Tien. | ec ittl utt, AHA Chub, AUhcheon, Hotel Severin, booh. | therefore, is not responsible for errors in | morrow; At nas mercial gardeners had suffered a harvest the good melons earlier Cotistruction Lexgue, Bliiders buiaing. | names and addresses, Oe — le 108s of approximately 25 per cent than usual, and leave the damaged in the bean yield and more than 20 one to die on the vines. per cent in tomatoes, | The beetle attacking these Crops, A crop loss estimated at about 20 known as the Striped Cucumber . gi (per cent ‘was reported in melons, Beetle, spreads a disease that wilts gp | cucumbers and pickles, | the plants, Mr. Irwin said. B | The decreased production in the! The root crops apparently have 71 (bean plots is & direct result of an escaped the insect infestation, Mr. al (attack by the Mexican Bean Beetle, Irwin reported. He termed the outwhich has destroyed bean plants in look for the carrot and beet crops many county gardens, growers re- as ‘‘fine.” port. | The field crops of grath have The infestation of the insects, fared much better than the vegwhich is the “worst ih many years,” etables this summer, farmers reresulted from the ‘mild or “open ported. (winter,” Mr. Irwin said. | The corn crop ih the county is | The tomato crop, both for the normal, if hot slightly better than canning industry and local markets, average and farmers report hunhas been attacked by Septoria Leal dreds of acres of soy beans look Spot, a disease ‘which sats holes in: “excellent.”
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