Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1939 — Page 3

MONDAY, SEPT. 4 1089

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

British Planes Drop Propaganda on Nazis In New Phase of War

All Europe Wonders When France and England Will Strike Militarily; Germans Smash Deeper Into Poland.

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Polish cities. The Polish “suicide garrison” at Westerplatte Fortess in the Danzig harbor, was reported holding out against repeated attacks by German planes, warships and land forces estimated at up to 10,000 men. Japan will remain neutral, it was announced today at Tokyo, thus ending for the time being any danger that the British and French fleets might have to fight in two hemispheres. Italy gave further indications that she intends to remain neutral. But that Mussolini would be able to maintain| neutrality was considered highly uncertain in Britain and France. Adolf Hitler, blaming Britain for the general war, was at the Polish front in command of the Nazi armies. The Germans were making two drives in the general direction of Warsaw, Casualties were reported heavy on all fronts with the Nazis claiming to have shot down 120 Polish planes, while | losing 21 of their own. The Poles reported 64 German planes | downed, many tanks put out of action and hundreds of! prisoners taken.

Ambassador Biddle's Home Bombed

The country home of United States Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle on the outskirts of Warsaw was bombed and members of his family had a narrow escape from what was described as a deliberate attack. The position of Soviet Russia continued to be a vitally! important strategic and diplomatic problem. Although in! Moscow, the Russian Government maintained an outward attitude of neutrality, it was clear that if the Soviets merely supply Germany with food and materials they will be mak-

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First Photo of

SOMEWHERE IN POLAND-—This picture, flown to Berlin,

sent by radio to New York City, is

by the heavy shelling and air bombing to which Polish cities and towns have been subjected. This picture

shows a village going up in flames

REICH SHIRKERS ‘Hitler a Proven Liar,’

FACE EXECUTION

Death Also Decreed for Those Seeking to Dull

Nazi Ruin in Poland

Times- Acme Radio Photo (Passed by Consor) from the Polish-German frontier and then the first to be published in this country showing the destruction wrought

and smoke,

Chamberlain Tells Nagis

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NEUTRALITY ACT T0 BE INVOKED BY ROOSEVELT

Congress Recall Expected; Cabinet Molds Special Session.

(Continued from Page One) followed a Sunday of anxious

Windsor Waits England's Call

ANNES, France, Sept. 4 (U. P) «<The Duke of Windsor expects to return to England, possibly tomorrow, and await definite orders from the Government, his spokesman said today. It was understood the Duke has

offered his services in any capacs ity in which he can aid his couns try. It was not specified whether his American-born duchess, for whom he gave up the throne would accompany him.

official activity, After repeated presidential conferences with Department heads, a White House snokesman said the neutrality procs lamation deadline was 6 p. m. tomorrow night. It may come any time between now and then, Delay until the last moment might or might not facilitate hurryup shipment of arms and munitions but, especially, of airplanes and their motors, beyond United States bor.

ders. Manufacturers have tremendous French and British orders.

90,000 Still in Europe

The question of a special session probably will not be disposed of until after proclamation of the Neutrality Act and of our neutrality objectives, Congress refused last session to consider Administration amendments to the act to enabie any customer with money and a ship for transport to purchase mu. nitions of all kinds here. Such amendment in practice would be assumed to favor nations controlling the seas—France, Great Britain anc their ally, Poland, in this instance. The President would ask the expected special session to revise the neutrality statute to remove all mandatory embargoes. Ninety thousand American citi- |

[potential European war zones. Many of these will return home through the torpedo hazards which last night caught the Athenia, The Maritime Commission an-|

| l review in order to avoid risks, Sir [John Anderson, Director of Civil | Defense, said In the House of

sides Jews, Germans Austrians, Czechs, Spaniards and Poles; for the Kidnaping of Kurt Schuschnige,

ing a tremendous contribution to Nazi strength.

England Forms New War Cabinet

Great Britain formed a new war Cabinet with Winston

Churchill, foe of Naziism, in the importan

Lord of the Admiralty.

t post of First

Anthony Eden, one-time Foreign night in a black touring car,

Nazis’ Will to Fight.

commons today. The Stock Exchange will remain

{closed until further notice, it was —— announced today King George held a privy Council at Buckingham Palace this morning. Earl Stanhope, Sir John An-

With derson, Maj. Anthony Eden and

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ern Front to direct the campaign. | He left the Chancellory at 8:45 last

last Austrian Chancellor, and Pas-| tor Martin Niemoeller, and the “at-| tempted kidnaping of former President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia”; for the “theft” of Czech gold and Memel, and for “arson” in the Reichstag fire,

It concluded:

nounced that additional American flag ships will be assigned within 24 hours to bring American refugees home,

TWO SHIPS SUNK

More Than 1000 Passengers

had been torpedoed by a submarine in violation of Fuehrer Hitler's pledged word not to sink merchant ships without warning.

studying the “legal issues involved” pefore making a protest at Berlin

called the incident an “outrageous

zens are estimated today to be in would be provided for merchant ves-

ON FIRST DAY OF EUROPEAN WAR

Aboard Athenia Saved; Greek Crew Rescued.

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He said the Government was

through the United States Embassy, which is taking care of British ine terests in Germany. Mr. Churchill |

preach of the submarine conven tion.” He said warship convoys

gels as quickly as possible. It was hoped that the death list would prove comparatively small. Nearly all the passengers were believed to be Americans and Cana- | dians, fleeing home from the war zone,

Most of them were tourists, As

many as 100, according to line offi- |

cials, were American college girls returning from a two-month tour

of the continent, Left Belfast Saturday

They had gone to Glasgow, Livers [pool or Belfast, most of them, to! |take other ships, and had been |

DUTCH PROTEST PLANE ARMADA

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GERMANS FIGHT - ALONE AS PEACE ALLIES STAY OUT

Italy and Lesser Powers. Take Precautions to Remain Neutral,

BRUSSELS, Sept. 4 (U. P) Gere many apparently stood alone today against Britain, France and Poland. as lesser powers sought refuge in. neutrality declarations and her axis partner, Italy, showed no sign of entering the war on her side. i Spain, allied with Germany in the anti-Comintern front, evidently does not contemplate fighting. The tone of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's radio broadcast yesterday asking all nations to avoid the horrors of war, was that of neutrality.

Neutral Bloe Reported

In Budapest, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria were reports ed to be negotiating to form a neus trality bloc. Hungary is another member of the Nazi-Fascist anti Comintern group. Italy's neutrality declaration was seen as strengthens ing Hungary's and especially Jugas slavia's position as neutral states. - Reports from Bucharest said that the Rumanian Government was des. termined to maintain neutrality uns less its own integrity was attacked. The Scandinavian and Baitie States were bent on neutrality, Finland called part of its reserve: jsts for the protection of neutrality, A special Ministry of Supplies was. immediately established and exs= portation of numerous commodities. prohibited. Shipping was practi cally suspended except with Stocks . holm and Talinn, Lithuania.

Denmark Takes Measures

Copenhagen issued declarations of neutrality covering war between. Germany and Poland, Germany and | England, and Germany and France, The State Council at Oslo pros claimed Norway's neutrality. The Belgian Cabinet in a meeting - [last night decided to summon Pare liament Tuesday, when it was eX= pected to ask for the widest powers, . King Leopold assumed personal: command of the Belgian Army tos. day. Tt was announced that all soldiers were now in position and that the frontier was in “a state of defense.” The Swiss Government today pro=

Secretary, was given the post of Dominions Secretary, “with [four bodyguards riding on the run- Sir Thomas Inskip kissed the King's ning boards.

special access to the Cabinet.” Various parts of the Empire joined in the battle against Germany. Egypt, New Zealand, Australia and Canada took quick, active measures to aid the fight.

Tension Frays Nerves The war which Germany has not

[Vet declared against anybody Was heir beds in the early hours of this [brought home forcefully to Berlin residents when gangs of men began hurriedly

digging bomb shelters,

“This reckless criminal is wanted [dead or alive” | London, and the country, held its [first business blackout last night, people darkened their windows, motorists felt their way along black streets and roads, more because it was the thing to do than because they expected air raids,

There had been one business air

hand to mark their appointments 10 new posts in the Government. Two air alarms brought millions of people In London, the eastern counties and the midlands from

morning in the expectation that [Nazi Germany had opened hostil[ities with a bombing raid on Eng-

(land. |

Atrocities Report Spurs Polish Army to New Fury

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Slovaks is fighting under the flag of Poland, under the command of Gen. Lev Prchala, Czech military leader. A Government called on former citizens of Czechoslovakia to take up arms against their “hereditary enemy” — Ger. many. The proclamation urged Czechs: and Slovaks still under domination of the swastika to do everything in their power to sabotage the German war machine (From his place of exile in London, Edward Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, telegraphed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his people “shall march with your people until final victory and the liberation of our fatherland.”

Gas Reported Used

One village “vas totally destroved and two others near Tarnobrzeg, in the southern province of Malopolska, were badly damaged with a toll of many casualties, the Government reported. The fighting around Cezestochova was described officially as severe after Polish aviation had attacked a large enemy land force, breaking up two columns of tanks and generally claiming disruption of the German front in that sector at a cost of four Polish planes Another Government said that the Germans shelled Gruduska where it was alleged gas also was used by the invaders.

Warsaw in Gay Mood

Eighteen incendiary bombs were d on the Wrzesnie railroad station, near Posen, Killing two persons and gas bombs were used Oy the Nazis at Mvysienice, Wolbron and Ropsayee, the Government charged. There were repeated air raid alarms in Warsaw, with iJazi planes flying over the outskirts amid heavy anti-aircraft fire. Polish planes took to. the air and pursued the Nazi craft. Warsaw celebrated the entry of Britain and France into the wav with carnival spirit, Cheering crowds streamed past the British and French embassies, singing their national anthems. They also cheered outside the American Embassy, where U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle was using as paper weights several shrapnel splinters recovered after the bombing of his country home.

Calls Bombing Deliberate

The Embassy announced that “shortly before 9 a. m. a German bomber power dived and dropped 12 heavy bombs near the Biddles' villa. wrecking a house next door and severely damaging the Biddle place. An incendiary bomb landed in the Biddle yard but failed to explode, it was announced, and “the fact that these bombs were released from the low point of a power dive leads to the belief that the bombing of the villas was deliberate.” Mr. Biddle said the bombs shattered the windows in his house and blew off part of the roof. He said a fragment twice as large as his hand struck the wall between the rooms of Mrs. Biddle and their daughter, Peggy. Mary Willis MeKenzie of Hopkinsville, Ky, a guest of Mrs. Biddle, and a cousin of Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, said, “it was frightful. The other house was destroyed. We rushed to the cellar and as soon as possible, gathered up a few clothes and sped by automobile to Warsaw.” There were 10 persons in the two houses, including Polish servants and two members of the Embassy staff, at the time of the raid. Al escaped.

Mr. Biddle completed dressing in has provisions for six months.

women and children joined in the

Two hundred million people were

alarm, a false one, as the House of

Claim ‘Erroneous’ Dropping Of Leaflets Violates Its Neutrality.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4 (U. P) ‘The Dutch Government today pro- |

accommodated aboard the Athenia when their own ships proved loaded to capacity or were held in British

[hibited export of arms, munitions, explosives, and other war materials to belligerent countries,

ports, Among those in the ship's pasgenger list were Miss Jane Sunder land, daughter of Maj. Gren. Archi bald H. Sunderland, U. 8. Coast Guard artillery chief, and the 10-month-old daughter of film producer Ernst Lubitseh. The liner had left Glasgow at

work. ™m one park residential sec-

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proclamation |

dispatch

the automobile on the way to Warsaw. He said the bombs “looked like 250-kilogram in size”

Sought Safe Villa |

He had taken the villa at Constancin, ND minutes’ drive from the! center of Warsaw, believing it was safer than the city. | The Polish cavalry thrust inte | Bast Prussia was said to have been made from the Leszmo-Wawicz line. | which Germans had formed Friday. | The Foreign Office said some | German planes had dropped small balloons filled with hyperite (muse ard) gas, which were picked up | by chilaren, many of whem were | seriously burned. It charged that jerowds of fleeing refugees had been bombed and machine gunned In the Torun istrict, with many casualties, and that many children, t0 14 years old, were killed or wounded in the bombing and machine gunning of a resort at Gar- | volin, near Warsaxe, | In the Dezielglewo-Sochaczew dis- | trict, 1t was charged, the raiders dropped balloons equipped with bat- | tery electric lamps and filled with | a gas not yet analyzed.

Saboteurs Executed

Newspapers said that German planes were dropping saboteurs in | parachutes behind the Polish lines in Upper Silesia to cut communica{tion lines and that all parachute jumpers had been captured. The Government announced that 25 German diversionists and sabo-| teurs had been executed at BydgoS2Cz and six at Pomman after drumhead courts marital, i Newspapers charged that saboteurs were dynamiting bridges and destroring telephone and telegraph

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Ines and asked civilians to Waves |

for them. Another report was that 27 Ger-

streets at Brdgoszez with tormadolike ary. The Foreign

Office said three

bombs had struck a convent and Poland, or if they had, they had ——

girl's school at Grudziadsz, causing an wknown number of casualties, and that the planes had swoopeed down to macnine-gun Red Cross automobiles filled with wounded. The automobiles had red crosses on the tops, the spokesman said.

Westerplatte Holds Out

Myslenic, Wolbron and Ropezycee, near the frontier in Kielce and Cracow provinces, were listed as towns where the Germans dropped gas bombs. Many women and children were said to be among the victims. The Government announced today that the “suicide battalion” at Westerplatte fortress, in the harbor overlooking Danzig, was still holding out against 10.000 Germans. The battalion, comprising about | T50 men, has been under fire of German artillery and guns of the German training ship SchleswigHolstein for three days. Land forces have stormed it time and again and have been driven back. It hasbeen bombed from the air repeatedly. Here, Westerplatte was being called the “Polish Alcazar” and the Government radio frequently adaressed the garrison, saying, “the

commander-in-chief salute you and

tion, women wearing air raid dungadees, assisted by a group of children, dug out sand from children's play boxes and camied it to the basements of houses to be sacked and piled in front of windows, The tension was fraying German nerves, as was demonstrated at a restaurant last night when a bicyelist jammed on his brakes, causMg a screech that brought most of the diners to their feet, There had been no reports of activity on the Western Front, and

(the hurried preparations against air

raids was the only noticeable reaction to the British and French war declarations.

Northern News Vague

The force in Poland was reported ing him as a “murderer” and “dan- that

advancing on two sectors, from the north and south, toward Warsaw and the heart of the country.

‘mow at war in Burope—Britain's 44 - Commons met yesterday at noon to 500,000 had gone to war against Ger- (hear the declaration that a state of

At The Hague, the Cabinet gave full approval of Queen Wilhelmina’s : declaration that lland should keep strict neutragty. Holland's (mobilization was complete, but the [entire nation seemed dominated by [the will to remain neutral.

De Valera ‘Keeps Out’

many'’s 80,000,000 at 4 a. m. (Indian- | war existed with Germany apolis Time) yesterday; France's

42,000,000 had joined Britain at 10:05 Gen. Viscount Gort, World War hero | a. m. (ndianapolis Time); Germany | and chief of the Imperial General Germany, pursued relentlessly her war agamst staff, was named to the new post of | Jang for “Chief of Overseas Forces.” Gen. Sir| Britain's War Cabinet of nine Edmund Ironside, who had been In- | mritish men had been formed, including spector General of Overseas Forces, |

Poland's 32,000,000.

Winston Churchill, who year after

vear, in speeches and newspaper ar- Staff and Gen. Sir Walter Kirke German population

As Britain organized for war,

was named Chief of the General

tested to both London and Berlin against flight of unidentified war | | planes over Holland, where they | dropped leaflets printed in German. The planes,

apparently mistook HolYerman soil. Berlin, it was reported “propaganda” planes were driven away from a German City.) The leaflets explained to the | the general |

(In

ticles and in books had warned the was named Chief of Home Forces. war situation and said that “your

be stopped.

Parliament was called into an- spector Generalships were created |

other session at 7:45 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today to hear latest statements from Prime Minister Chamberlain and others, The British press directed invectives at Adolf Hitler today, denounc-

gerous eriminal.” The Times, in {ts strongest edi-

[Government that Herr Hitler must He had been named Inspector Gen

[eral of Home Forces when two ine

yecently, The new war cabinet took over | prosecution of the war as soon as it {was named yesterday. Inclusion of Winston Churchill was taken by the public to mean the war would be waged [vigorously and to the end. | Mr. Churchill was given the im-

The torial since the World War, referred | portant post of First Lord of the

southern force was the one said to ty him as “self-deluded and self- Admiralty—that which he held in

have taken Crestochove and Radomsko, both on the main railway line southwest out of Warsaw to Kato- |

wice, Polish Upper Silesia. If the re- | yjin the climax of the most black-| WV

ports were true, they were the first important successes of the southern force. Warther south, the Germans were reported to have advanced an- | other seven or eight miles in the region below Katowice, beyond Pless, That drive appeared to be aimed at Cracow, the chief fortress in South Poland, but might be an enveloping movement designed to push Polish troops out of Katowice and nearby industrial towns, There had been no news of conse- | quence for many hours of the northern force which claimed to have, driven 47 miles across the Corridor in the first 48 hours of hostilities and to have reached the Vistula River between Graudenz and Culm, One dispatch vaguely mentioned that Polish troops trapped in the northern part of the Corridor had tried unsuccessfully to break through to central Poland, and also said that Germans had taken Berent, little town in the north part of the Corridor. Envoys Leaving Berlin

Absence of reports from .the

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either had made no attempt to break into the Graufenz-Bromberg-Thorn triangle area of North

been repulsed, Neutral military observers in Berlin believed that the Poles were trying to avoid any major engagements until the British and French could create a diversion by assault [ing the Western Frontier, | The death penalty was decreed for spying, guerilla fighting or at. tempting to undermine the German people's will to fight, in addition to avoiding any kind of military servjce. Military penalties for desertion and absence without leave were increased, The announced capture of Cezestochovo and Radomsko ended any hopes that Germany might confine ithe invasion to districts of Poland [that had been German before the [World War. Both cities are removed from former German areas. The high command complained that Poland was violating international law by instructing civilians to kill any German fliers descend-

ling from disabled planes in para-|

fchutes. D. N. B, OfMcial German News Agency, also charged that [Polish officials had arrested two members of the German Embassy staff from Warsaw when they are rived at the Polish-Lithuanian border by train. Polish civilians, it was charged,

man bombers had destroyed whole north indicated that the Germans

expects you to hold firm.” | The fortress has underground guns similar to those on the Maginot Line, but no heavy artillery. It formerly was a Polish munitions (depot. It is on a low-lying spit at/np the mouth of the Vistula River, sur- jt was reported, despite the High | (rounded by German forces and com- Command's assurance that German {pletley isolated from Poland. It |troops are fighting only Polish soldiers, not civilians, -

‘had been told to prevent any Ger{ings from destroying either their

planes or documents they carried. Guerilla bands are continually

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man fliers who made forced land- |

doomed.” “The German people, whether they willed it or not, are now confronted

hearted episode in diplomatic his | tory.” the Times said. “The invention of a German-| Polish crisis, atrocity lies and] fraudulent peace’ proposals are characteristic marks of a king of stupid, suicidal cunning.” It refers to the “folly and malignancy of Nazi policy” and “the pecu-

thoritarianism.” The Daily Mirror devoted a full] page to an imitation police circular headed “wanted.” The poster showed front and pro- | file photographs of “Adolf Hitler, |

lalias Adolf Sehnickelgruber, Adolf)

Hitler or Hidler, last heard of in| Berlin Sept. 3, 1039." The description terms him “‘dan- | gerous.” It says Herr Hitler is wanted for the “murder” of his | sountrymen in the Nazi purge, be-

FRANCE BEGINS WAR ON LAND, SEA, AI

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(ple oried “we shall be victorious,”| retired at 10 p. m. The only further political activity | was the possibility that France | might follow Britain's example and! enlarge the Cabinet. M. Daladier [was believed to have discussed Cabi- | net enlargement with Edouard Herriott, president of the Chamber of | Deputies,

The wild enthusiasm which greet. |

ed opening of 1914 hostilities was missing today. Secrecy surrounded the plan on which British forces will operate. But generally it was understood that when the British Army comes to the con-

[tinent its sector of operations and |

{bases all have been picked out in advance, The plan calls for Britain to send a minimum of 20 motorized [divisions to France as its first expeditionary force, plus its aviation |forees. The French press united in denouncing Fuehrer Hitler and term-

ing the war a “crusade for justice Miami

and liberty.”

M. Daladier said to the nation last {!

night, “French men and women, |since Sept. 1 Poland has been the

‘her - frontiers violated, her cities bombarded. | | “The responsibility of blood spilt [lies entirely with the Hitlerite gov- | ernment. The fate of peace was in Hitler's hands, and he wanted war.

arassing German troops in Poland, [Germany has refused to stop. Shep,

wants Poland's destruction in order to assure her domination of Europe and France. . . . We are waging war » because it has been imposed on us,

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[1914 when, on his own authority, he Fop

risked his job by mobilizing the British fleet days before the World ar started, Anthony Eden was given the post of Minister of Dominions Secretary but was not included in the Inner or War Cabinet. The war cabinet is: Prime Minister—Chamberlain, Foreign—Viscount Halifax. Admiralty—Churchill (mew). Exchequer—Sir John Simon, Defense Co-ordination — Admiral

liar, repellent vices of German au- y..4 Chatfield.

War--Leslie Hore-Belisha. Lord Privy Seal-—Sir Hoare, Air—Sir Kingsley Wood. Without Portfolio—Lord Hankey mew).

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Queen Mary Safe in N. Y.

EW YORK, Sept. 4 (U, P) — The Queen Mary, flagship of Great Britain's merchant marine, raced into port today after a nerve-wracking crossing of the Atlantic, during which she kept a constant guard for enemy submarines, The big liner carried the largest passenger list of its history--2331 persons, some 200 of whom slept on cots in the public rooms. It also carried $44 550,000 in gold.

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| Government fails to keep you ine | formed.” “We are at war with the present | Government but not with the Ger. man people,” the leaflets said. “We do not believe you even know what {is happening.” | There were air raid ala [throughout the Rhineland early day, apparently due to the planes | dropping leaflets.

Pope May Appeal ‘Humane’ War

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 4 (U. P). | —His Holiness Pope Pius XII was reported authoritatively today to be preparing an appeal to Europe's warring nations to wage their hostilities humanely. The appeal was expected to contain four points: 1. No use of poisonous gas.

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noon Friday, Liverpool at 4 p. m.| a4 Dublin. Irish Premier De Saturday and Belfast during Satur | yajera said in a broadoast, “the

day night for Montreal, its possengers happy in the thought that

flying northwest to they were racing for home, safe]

from the war. Then in the dark hours of this morning had come the blast of the torpedo as it struck the ship's steel hull, the screams of the vietims and the dazed moments until, the disas« ter realized, the crew manned their lifeboat stations and the passengers took to the boats. Newly reconditioned, its passenger quarters rebuilt, the liner car. ried lifeboats for 1830 passengers in addition to the crew whose members would man thom,

HOOSIERS WILL JOIN ING. 0. P. LANE FETE

Indiana Republican leaders will join with leaders of 12 Midwestern states Sept. 16 at Ripon, Wis, airport for christening ceremonies of the new airplane of the Republican National Pilgrimage Committee.

The plane, which is to be christened “Abe Lincoln,” will leave fol-

2 No bombardment of civilians lowing the ceremonies on a nations

and open cities, 3. Good treatment of prisoners.

wide promotional tour for the G.

O. P. Pilgrimage next May to Ripon,

4. Respect for property and live- birthplace of the Republican Party.

stock in captured towns. Usually sources said the Pope was

grieved over the war, but was de- teeman; Mrs. Grace B. Rey termined to exercise his influence in hational

seeking to eliminate brutalities, The Bobbitt, State chairman; : Wright, Young Republicans chairs

sources said the Pope was concerned |

especially with the eri ‘man; Indi ne 3 Suter of | ational pilgrimage

aged women and children, One Vatican source said the Pope |had expressed the intention of | making his appeal to belligerent na[tions through his envoys and | through a radio address in the near | future.

ITALY TO LEAD SHIPS BACK ACROSS OCEAN

ROME, Sept. 4 (U, P) —Italy re[mained aloof today from the BEuropean war for which she had been among the first to prepare. Foreigners who had left Italy last week fearing that it might become one of the first battlegrounds in the (approaching war, were streaming (back today from more dangerous areas. Among them were many American tourists who said they would rather wait in Italy for ships than go to France or England for | quicker passage. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo | Clano was understood today to have [informed U. 8. Ambassador William Phillips that Italian shipping lines would resume regular service in two or three days. Count Ciano was understood to have given assurances to Ambassador Phillips that Italian ships thus would be available to transport Americans home, News that Great Britain and France had gone to war with Italy's axis partner, Germany, was received calmly. Adolf Hitler's announcmeent last Friday that he did not need Italy's help at present had made war seem remote to Italians. There were still rumors that Benito Mussolini hoped to restore

Indiana leaders who have been

well-informed Vatican invited to attend the ceremonies are most | William G. Irwin, national commit-

nolds, Arch Noland

committewoman;

ana’s 24 members of the committee, and the State's Republican Congressmen.

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laim of our people will be to keep out of war.” The Eire Government with war emergency powers ordered |the tri-color as the only flying maritime flag of registered Irish : ships; it imposed censorship and ordered citizens to carry passports except when traveling in Northern Ireland. Japan has maintained an attis: tude of neutrality. Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, the new: Premier, sald today that Japan would remain neutral. Moscow took small notice of the war, Dispatches of Tass, official Russian news agency, on European events, were published today with out editorials or comment,

CALLING RESERVES.

LONDON, Sept. 4 (U. P) ~The Exchange .'elegraph agency reports ed from Moscow today that civilian reservists in the Army Reserve had been ordered to present themselves at their appointed station. The dispatch said the order was known to apply to all of Moscow and was believed to apply elsewhere, but no information was available regarding classes or the number of men affected.

SEEK TO AID BRITISH

SHANGHAI Sept. 4 (U, P) ~The British Embassy announced today that a large number of German. Jews and White Russians had ap= plied for admittance to the British: army. The applications were denied * because of regulations regarding aliens,

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peace by getting the belligerent na- . trims),

tions together at a confrence, but nothing was said of this in official quarters,

EGYPT AND NAZIS BREAK

CAIRO, Sept. 4 (U. P) Egypt broke off Sipiomanie relations with Germany \ .

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NAB 41 IRISH REPUBLICANS BELFAST, NORTHERN IRE. AND, Sept. 4 (U.P) Forty-four members of the “Irish Republican Army” were a today as a ton against disorder or sa.

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