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Times Photo. blue skies, these Indianapolis children went to school today. They are . S0th St; Robert Lee Campbell, 305 W. $0th St: Marilyn and Evelyn |

Times-Aeme Photo. ™ Dondon=—The children of Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown were saddled with evacuation kits and sent outside the probable alr raid area for their safety. They are (left to right) William, 5; Margaret, 4; John, 11, and El

Most of Americans Are Safe rine Fired Shots

LONDON, Sept. 3 (U. P) —A submarine torpedoed the British liner | Athenia without warning and then fred two shells at men, women and |

children scrambling into lifeboats,

ocean disaster said when they made port today. ' About 90 persons perished, it was estimated on the basis of sur- | —The United States served formal

vivors reports. About 930 survivors, i aboard, had Been accounted ror: 4 passengers still missing Some were killed instantly by the impact of the torpedo. Some drowned. At least one—a woman— committed suicide By leaping into the sea when she saw that her child was dead. About 100 of the SULVivOrs tere injured All survivors agreed victims of a submarine (Mm Belin German oMcials, aware that the submarine campaign of 1914-1918 was a powerful factor in Bringing the United States to the | ald of the allies, denied a German | submarine sank the Athenia. The insisted the ship either stick 4 mine, went hg Because of an internal explotion, or was torpedoed | by the British themseives in an at-| tempt to make public opinion in the United States hostile to the Reich) | Another Ship Sunk | Lord Stanhope announced in the! House of Dords today that so far there was no official confirmation that the submarine had fired a shell | at the Athenia after torpedoing her. | He said it would be impossible to | estimate the number of casualties until all survivors had been landed The Information Ministry announced tonight a report that an-| other British steamship, Bosnia, | had been sunk and that all hands! nad been reseed by the Nore wegian tanker Eidanger, except a! fireman named Woods, who Was

they were

TS NEUTRALITY

as Survivors Claim SubMma- presidential Action Awaited, Alter Torpedo. | During Day to Prevent Sale of Arms.

. eh 0 Ar fy | survivors of the war's first Qt WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. BP). neluding most of tie 311 Americans notice on the world today that it is Survey showed approximately 500 determined to maintain a strict ' oe Deutrality fn the European eons

KIDDIES GET HODKEY "sc PERMIT FROM FAIR

Thousands to Attend Edu This proclamation of neutrality

by President Roosevelt was issued

cation Day Tomorrow. [ander terms of international law. . a Aris Embargo Awaited

It was not required by this nas | tion's neutrality legislation. Later

sighed the

noon (Mmdianapolis Time). Tt became effective with the signature a few!

TODAY'S PROGRAM Governor's, pegistators’ Day,

Grand Stand—Racing, vawdevilte and band concerts, afternoon: stage show, HRreworks 9:45 Pom

Colisenmt — Horse show, parade of champions, band concert, THIS Bom heavy draft, pairs, geldings or mares, 3 vears and wider, 7:30 p.m.

Women's Building—Style Show, 10:30 a. mh. to 2:30 pw.

Judging of sheep, swine, horses, cattle,

Special demonstration, Youth Building northwest corner of grounds, 2 p.m.

is expected to issue a Presidential [proclamation invoking an embargo on Arms, munitions and imple[ents of war to belligerent nations. | That step is mandatory under the [neutrality statute which My, RooseVvelt desires Congress to revise, The arms embargo proclamation, officials said, will be completed at | a conference between Mr. Hull! State Department aides and My. | Roosevelt. That conference will in at 3:30 p.m. tr. Roosevelt signed the neutrality proclamation in the pres ence of Mr. Hull, Acting Attorney | General Pobert MM. Jackson, thie dersecretary of State Sumaer Welles, PA Secretary of Srv Av State A A. Berle and Stephen | Thirty-five thousand alana | po viv, White House secretary.

school pupils are expected to “play Pi President Acts With Speed

Maj. Eliot Says

500 of 1400 on Athenia U.S, PROCLAIMS Remain Unaccounted for |

proclamation a few minutes before P®

Iminutes jater of Secretary of State! wees

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[of the British Navy.

= GERMANS CLAIM GRIP ON SILESIA

Report 12 British Planes Shot Down in Raid on Nazi Naval Bases,

BERLIN, Sept. 8 (U. P) ==Offielal reports of smashing German vies tories in Poland, and announces ment that 12 British planes were ghot down during raids on German naval bases at Wilhelmghaven and Cuxhaven, caused mass rejoicing in Berlin today It was officially announced that not a single shot had been fired on the Western (Rhineland) front. The War Ministry today issued

‘Italians Are Not Fools— They Cannot Fight Allies’

‘Outpost Positions Are Perilous, and She Faces Internal Interference==Perhaps Domination==by Nazis.

(Editor's Note—This 1% another dispateh cabled By Mal George Fielding Eltot, famed military authority and author of “The Ramparts We Wateh' He completed A tour of the leading military nations of Europe fast before hostilities broke out and it writing & series exelnsively in this area for The Indianapolis Times.)

By MAY. GEORGE F. ELIOT Times Kpecial Writer LONDON, Sept. 5 —Benito Mussolini's last frantic efforts to secure ace for Europe reflected clearly his realization of the insecurity of rtaly's military position. This insecurity is two-edged. ftaly is insecure exvernally againgt Anglo-French attack, insecure internally against German interference, possibly domination the following communique: It ie therefore unsafe for Italy to enter war on the | “Until p o'clock this morning not side of Germany. And also unsafe for her to refuse a single shot was fired on the to do as told by Berlin, western front, There have been no To consider the Italian military position, frst air attacks except a raid by the look at the outpost positions. [British on Wilhelmshaven and Cuxs At present there are approximately 50.000 men oh | haven (German naval bases).” the Dodecanese Islands, principally Devos and| The entire Silesian industrial Rhodes. These islands are ih an exposed position area of Poland, was reported here . close to the Turkish coast, with noe possible support to be in German hands and it was : hear at hand, also officially announced that the Reports that the yare intended for an attack on great northern Polish fortress of the Dardenelies, or possibly Salonica, in conjunction | Graudenz (Grudziadz) had been with an ftalian thrust from southern Albania across captured. Greece, overlook the impossibility of assembling nee= Victory in Air Reported essay shipping and conveying troops by sea against : the opposition of the Turkish and Greek navies, German airplanes in combat between Warsaw and Loda this mornBritish in Mediterranean . Maj. Eliot . a ing shot down 11 Polish planes, it The lattter would be supported instantly by the was announced officially. Cierman British Mediterranean fleet, which assembled in the eastern Mediter= losses Were not stated. It was ahs ranean under one of the best and most vigorous and energetic admirals nounced that a third Polish subs He is Sir Andrew Cunninghani, and he is coms marine had been sunk in Dansig tion in those waters and has ample jp. . SE force to deal with any Italian A German seaplane patrol alto efforts, shot down a British bomber off Dog= In Libya, the Italians have 80,000 gerbank Monday afternoon, it was

MACHINE-GUN FIRE ' men, plus some native reserves, announced. Y.ater the Clerman pa-

. trol alighted on the rea and rescued HEARD IN WARSA (Here they are confronted on the y.. pyitish crew from their sinking (west with the Freneh in Tunis=| plane, it was said,

gecure behind the fortifications of German army high eommand

plenty in touch with the whole situa

POLES T0 MOVE CAPITALINLAND, CONTINUE FIGHT

British Sink Two German Freighters; Reich Torpedoes English Merchant Vessel; Slovakia Lines Up With Hitler,

Warsaw, under smashing attack from the Gere man armies, was being evacuated tonight while the British and French forces sought to relieve the pres-

|sure on the Poles by coming to grips with the Nazi

forces on the western (Rhineland) front, ; News that the Polish Government was preparing

{to move to some other city came as the United States

formally proclaimed its neutrality to the world. These developments in Europe's war came as diplomats

puzzled over an official Italian communique saying that Mussolini's peace efforts failed because Adolf Hitler refused to withdraw his troops from Poland, It remained to be seen,

however, just what this meant, Germany had made undisputed gains in Polish territory

but both Paris and Berlin agreed that there had been no fighting on the western front, French troops moved into their front-line trenches on the border and the German forces did likewise, going into a zone six miles wide between the main fortifications on each side,

Friedrichshafen Explosion Reported

Communiques said the “engagement” had been prelime inary, The only large scale clash between the Allies and Germany seemed to have come with the British bombard. ment of the German Navy at Wilhelmghaven on the Kiel Canal, Germany claimed that 12 British bombers had been shot down and the English announced that the raid was “successful,” apparently damaging or destroying two Nazi warships, Later, Swiss frontier guards reported hearing a tree mendous explosion from Friedrichshafen, the German Zeppelin headquarters, They said they had seen a column of flame ghoot into the air, But what had happened is not vet known outside of Germany, The war on the propaganda side still centered about the sinking of the British liner Athenia, It was disclosed that many lives had been lost in the tragedy and estimates ranged from 90 to 500, The 930 passengers and crew members

by a German submarine, ‘submarine come to the surface and fire two shells at the

| hookey™ tomorrow, the second day of | school, to attend the Mmdiana State Fair,

| AnQ they all will have acceptable

reported dead The Bosnia, owned by the Cu-nard-White Star Dine, was a cargo liner of 2400 tons. She went down 130 miles west of neland.

The proclamation was put in its final form during an hout and 13 minute conference participated in| by those who witnessed ite sigha-

excises, for the day will be observed as Educational and Chidrens Day, and Foyd I. MeMurray,

ture. y President Roosevelt acted with state super-| ynprecedented speed in declaring rction, has Awepjoan neutrality, He acted ap-| ) hat a PUD attending the! yioximately three and a halt abort hom his Hh lot be counted months quicker than did President apsent fom his classes, | Wilson fn similar eireumstances As a further lute to the PUPS] gyping the first World War. Mv.|

TIP TO PUPILS-—GRAB as If anv attraction other thah a Wilson did not formally declare out | THE WINDOW SEAT chance to ~Diay hookey' Without! neutrality then anti Nov. 13. 1014

(Continued on Page Six) That conflict started the frst of : a —— RN : August, 1014 | LOCAL TEMPERATURES crater IST ENEMIES |" Mr. Barly said that My, Roosevelt, lh oo U8 3 [ul YHAL Sept. 3 (U. P).—~The | carrying out his pledge to the nas 11 a. mw, 14 | British Embassy anhounced today | ijon to exert every effort for news| 12 (Noon) . vg [that 15000 German Jew refugees in| trality, also may take further exeous | A foc WG [Shanghai have been nically as “enemies” of England.

classified yeeh= | tive attion not prescribed by the _ : neutrality law to keep thig co y The schoolchildren won't like this! It was said that a “white list,” | out of wan Bo. . outlook & bit. It will be warmer covering German refugees acceptas “I think that the President is tomorrow and many schools haven't ble to Britain, might be issued later (Continued on Page Three) air-conditioning vet. It will be fa ge ie ER aL

Athenia survivors put inte Galway, Ireland, and Greenock and Glasgow, Scotland. intendent of public t I addition to the 380 survivors ruled yp. Rp arriving at Galway there were about gui (Continwed on Page Six)

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the Mareth line, whieh is far too formidable for any gueh Italian |foree to hope to attack with sueeess. The Mareth line eannot be outs flanked because of the terribly difficult desert and mountain routes in WARSAW, Sept. 3 (U. P).—| which a whole army could perish. Artillery and machine-gun fire was|Also, the Mareth line=<like all fort-

heatd ih Warsaw late today as the | 1fed lines—-can be both a defense

By [and a springboard for attaek. ee ade plans tu move to On the east, the Libyan forees

{face Egypt where the new British! Distant thuds of heavy guns and | G0 CALI of the middle: the chatter of machine-gun fire | oo Ganeral Sir Archibald Wavell, brought the war even closer to Wars |. "haet informed and experienced saw than did four days of aerial gyi officer in this area of the bombardment by Releh war planes. |yoig has forces which assure the Couples carrying gas Masks gepance of Egypt against any Italian strolled in the center of the eity. |, empt east were clogged with traffic of a ghje routes—one along the coast populace making an orderly evacu-|yoad on Alexandria by way of ation, |Mersa Matruh, at present an Anglos Foremost among those fleeing the | ggyptian advanced base, the other city were people in the up r walks hy the oasis of S8iwah, Since the (Continued on Page Three) British control all tha wells, how to

Government Ready to Move As Air Raids Continue.

Both tonight and tomorrow. | gp Rush fo Families That Budget Can

Easily Own a Beer Car

By combining those items in Vol budget whieh provide for refresh. nents and ear-fare any

Buying of gar Jn the last few| Food brokers and grocery chain days, as a result of the war situation, heads ; ; family can afford a good veed Stripped most local grocers of their Rams ie nied, any | car. BY investigating a ‘ew of SUpply over the week-end and forced | : oh the ears otered in The TIMES them to place fimits on sales, it was| “There is an excess of sugar in the | Classified Used Car Ads, vou can reported today. country today,” elect A wood-looking ear with a’ Reports of inereasing prices results | “which hag resulted in keeping the | dependable ig ahd pay for Ited in customers rushing to groceries price below notmal. The price of | at $15 a month. to lay in large supplies, in some raw sugar jumped the cases as much as 200 or 400 pounds, cents—Friday, and again today, and this exhausted the stocks of and'the refiners don't know where many grocers Saturday afternoon. Other grocers contacted reported | demand for flour and canned goods “heavier than usual” but not ex cessive,

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gome of the grocers were sold out

one broker said, of 4 or 5 cents on a fve<pound Comics sack of sugar in the last week.

limit-—25 today but reported some di

[they are going, so they are just said refiners, uncertain as to future holding oh to their stocks of re- prices and as to what steps the They probably will Government might take to maintain steady prices, have declined to acs plenty of sugar cept wholesale orders for a few days. In

supply large forces with water would be a problem indeed for an invade ing force. If the Italians had to (Continued on Page Three)

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is that people got scared and tried | Books ........10) Jane Jordan., 8 to buy excessive amounts’ [Broun ....ivi0 0) Johnson ......1 Grocers generally reported a rise Clapper ...... 9] Movies vevees 17 Mrs, Ferguson 10 Crossword ....16, Obituaries ....18 Curious World 17, Pegler ........10 Editorials ,.... 10 Pyle vane 9 Fashions ..... 5 Questions ..,,. 9 Financial .....11/ Radio ........11 Flynn 00000 10] Mrs, Roosevelt 0 Forum .......10| Serial Story...17 Gallup .......18| Society ....... 4 Orin, Bear Ib: AY Sports ois 1 384 13 Ind'pls iii 3 te Deaths, 18

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official claims of vietory ineluded: Claim Poles Falling Back

1. German capture of the important Polish eity of Kattowice and the neighboring town of Novyohor= OW. 2. German eapture of Ciraudens, (Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS SKYROCKET IN SCRAMBLE TO BUY

Steel Leads Climb of War Issues in Busy Trading.

Ry UNITED PRES®

Traders at New York bid frantieally in a mad scramble to buy “war baby" stocks today as world markets again took on a war pattern after the Labor Day Holiday, : War stocks soared $5 to $15 while trading in commodities practically ceased, Holders refused to sell, The Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 0.20 points. Predietion was for a %7,000,000-share turnover for the day. Steel shares were a feature with Bethienem in the lead at 84%, up 1%. In London gold was pegged at a record high of 168 shillings, Sugar prices at New York made the limit gain of 25 points. Cotton gained almost $3 a bale, September rubber spurted 360 points, Bond trading was the most active in years with CGlerman issues break ing about 80 per cent and other foreign loans tumbling 1 to 7 points, Losses in U, 8, Governments ran to 16-32 point,

who had reached safety insisted the ship had been torpedoed They said they even saw tha

sinking vessel, Germany denied it vehemently,

Three More Ships Sunk

The British navy was playing an important role. The sinking of the German freighter Carl Fritzen was announced following on the sinking yesterday of the German freighter Olinda, The British lost the steamship Bosnia today. All hands were saved. From Poland came the word that artillery and machine gun fire could be heard in Warsaw. The Germans reported that they had smashed their way into the rich Silesian ine dustrial sector, capturing Kattowice, and had thrust downs ward from East Prussia to a point 50 miles north of Warsaw, U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle ard his family departed from Warsaw and it was reported that the

British embassy staff was to follow, It was believed that the new Government site would be set up at Lublin, 95 miles away and toward the Rumanian

frontier,

That the Italian communique was significant there was

no denying. Some diplomats

claimed that it might be the

first step toward an Italian disavowal of Germany and sube

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In Paris:

Battle Lines Form in West: Paris Hears Air Raid Alarm

PARIS, Sept, 5 (U, P) -—An offi- moving into advance positions and celal communique today said that an that observation operations were

engagement understood to be preliminary maneuvering of advance French and German troops had begun on the western front, The operations were in a zone six miles wide on each side of the frontier, where troops moved into trenches between the main French and German fortified lines, 80 far as official announcements were concerned and so far as official sources had been advised in Paris there had been no real fighting on the western front up to 8:46 a, m, (Indianapolis Time), In Berlin a War Ministry com munique denied any shots had been fired on the western front. The contact made between the opposing forces was mainly in the nature of observation operations, Communications with the front were in mill hands and officially reported details were ed to

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carried out, Alr raid alarms sounded early toe day in Paris and other points due to such observation flights by Gere man planes and official war come munique No, 3 announced that "movements of the combined land, sea and air forces are proceeding normally.” Thousands huddled for three and a half hours during the first air alarm raid of the war, No planes appeared although anti-aireraft fire was heard for a short time, Military advices from the Polish front were more detailed and said that flve German attacks were under way in the Polish Corridor area, which has been narrowed down by the Nazi pincer movement. Fighting also was reported in the Posen area, these dispatches said, while the Poles were reported counter-attacking the Nazis south Cracow, 4