Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1939 — Page 3
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NAZIS 21 MILES
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Reports Rail Station Aflame And Destruction of Vistula Bridges.
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which crossed the Vistula at Chelmno (Culm) have advanced 28 miles further and have crossed the Drewenz River northeast of Thorn, highly fortified city 35 miles east southeast of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), which the Germans captured earlier
in the week. Reports indicated that the western one-third of Poland was in German hands; that the Poles had
been driven out of most strategic
places of the Corridor and that East Prussia had been reunited with the rest of Germany.
Claim Units Wiped Out
The Army high command listed two Polish divisions and three battalions it said had been practically wiped out through casualties and prisoners since last Friday. They were: The famous cavalry division “Pomorzka,” whose officers were mostly scions of nobility; the 27th Infantry Division; armored battalion No. 8; chausseur (cavalry) battalions Nos. 1 and 2. It was announced
that 25.000
Polish prisoners had been taken, Fuehrer Hitler would return this week-end or early next week to his Berchtesgaden mountain retreat, where, Nazi area now occupied by Germany Sources said, he would confer with the Italian Ambassador. It had been suggested that Premier Benito Mussolini 50 per cent of her nitrates. The Of Italy would soon advance another plan for peace, presum-
mostly in the Corridor. | Military authorities said that ‘the!
produced 95 coal, all
per Poland's
cent lead and zinc,|
Jaslo district, upon which the troops were moving, produced 24 per ‘cent of Poland's oil. In this same Upper Silesian area, it was announced, Poland had lost roliing mills, raw materials and semi-finish products for her army's guns and ammunition. From now on, German militarists said, the Polish Army will have to fight with the arms and ammunition at hand, & supply they said, of only a few weeks. | Deny Fighting in West All reports Western Front were denied here. It was announced that Adolf Hitler had visited battlefields in the corridor all day vesterday and had spent some time near Graudenz where Poles trapped in the north part of the corridor had battled desperately trying to escape through
of fighting on ‘the bordering France
a gap in the German line. The Poles were still trapped, it was said.
Herr Hitler, 't was announced, did not return to his headquarters until after midnight today. He saw fields littered with abandoned Polish | cannons, 100 of which the Germans| captured, it was announced. Nazi sources said today that they expect Herr Hitler to return to his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden this week-end or early next week, when, it was reported, he would confer with the Ttalian Ambassador. The heaviest Polish losses were| said to have been suffered during a flank attack by German armored divisions. If the reports of German advances were true, (Polish communiques did not dispute them on any main points) the German ‘drive to the east” had now reached territory never a4 part of the ‘Germany of history. In the south, Germans were reported advancing as far as 30 miles in a day, indicating that the Poles were abandoning the area and con- | centrating elsewhere. Krakow, for example, was said to have been captured without resistance.
ICKES’ SON ‘SILENT,’ | PROUD PAPA CLAIMS
Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, a proud papa at 65, passed out 25- | cent cigars at. his press conference
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. aim !
today and announced that his 4-cday-o0ld son, Harold McEwen, is the “strong, silent type.”
Since Secretary Ickes is not noted as one of the “strong, silent tpye,” in political affairs at least, a reporter asked if this indicated that the youngster might have different political views, Secretary Ickes replied the baby has not “shown any political lean- | ings as yet.” |
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SOMEWHERE IN POLAND—Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler is shown entering a hospital train to visit
This photo went through the censor,
Third of Poland Seized; Allies Expect Long War
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WITH FOE NEAR
ably on the understanding that Herr Hitler would keep what .
he had captured.
Allies Mean Business
zinski, that the fight would be
carried through to the end.
That attitude was reflected by the London Times, which said that “the survival of Hitlerism would only mean that Nachrichten.
‘the world would continue to pass from one crisis to another | and that it must therefore be
It also was reflected in the hoom-) ing of guns on the Rhineland front, where the Siegfried Line made it almost certain that any French attacks would be costly and any advances beyond about 10 miles very slow. But it was being reported today that the French had already reached the edges of some German villages and that some of the first] pillboxes in the Siegfried Line ad been seized.
Expect 2 or 3-Year War
From London, Webb Miller, vet-| eran United Press war correspond- | ent, reported that ‘the British masses were ready for a long war if| necessary to end naziism and that) many expected at least two or three years of conflict. | The Polish situation, some British and French military experts as-| serted, was by no means as hopeless as might appear. The Polish Army is a good one and it has so far waged a retreating and delay-| ing war over ground that could not reasonably be defended against the superior Nazi mechanized forces. From now on, the ‘experts believed, the Polish resistance will] harden and the battles will be longer and more costly. | In the meantime, the power ‘of Britain and France is gathering for| the western attack, the strangle-| hold on German overseas supply lines is being tightened and a long, | desperate conflict is not considered | improbable.
REICH BATTLESHIP IS REPORTED SUNK
BASLE, Switzerland, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—A radio broadcast last night | said British raiding airplanes had] sunk the German pocket battleship Gneisenau in an attack on the naval
base at Wilhelmshaven. | The broadcast asserted also that the ¥rench Air Force raided Frank- | in Western Ger-|
ish planes raided Wilhelshaven and | Brunsbuttel Monday and the British | Government said that they made di-| rect hits on at least two German | warships.
ended once and for all.”
ITALY TO STIFFEN NEUTRALITY STAND
ROME, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—TItalian diplomats under the guidance of Premier Benito Mussolini studied
further clarification of Italy's neu-
trality stand today.
They laid plans whereby Italy would remain aloof from the present conflict while still fulfilling its obligation to the Rome-Berlin axis Ttalian correspondents with the German Army wrote today of Adolf Hitler walking with his troops, talking with wounded in field hospitals, with soldiers in the trenches, and with Polish prisoners. Carlo dall'Ongara in a dispatch from the Vistula front said he saw Herr Hitler march in the field for a few hours “trudging along with one of the regiments through the Polish countryside.” He said the Fuehrer wore a common soldier's
Gdynia Holds Out as Lodz Refugees Are Stranded In Capital.
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WARSAW SILENT
EXTRA SESSION TALK WANES AS
CABINET MEETS
‘McNutt Among Those Who Discuss Neutrality Plans With F. D. R.
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of the three new agencies created under the New Deal government reorganization plan—Lending Administrator Jesse Jones, Works Adminis-
ity Administrator Paul V. McNutt. Before the Cabinet met, Mr. Roosevelt discussed the application of the Neutrality Law to the Philippines with High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre, Mr, McNutt and Golden Bell, legal adviser to Mr. Sayre, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., coincidentally expanded [his emergency advisory council to six members by adding well-known economists to the group. | They were Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago, and Walter W. Stewart and Winfield W, Riefler, [both of the Institute for Advanced (Study, Princeton, N. J.
visers to the Treasury. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said that he ‘cannot say
|
|trality law, Problems Rise in Orient The United States today found new problems in the Far East de-
manding its attention. The State Department received
[word from Warsaw. It claimed that
on Lithuanian territory during ‘‘in-
very roundabout Poland had mobilized six more
non-commissioned officers
{the French Radio Agency, which [quoted it from a Riga, Latvia, dis(patch in the Basle (Switzerland)
The last news story out of Warsaw, by the well-known war corre[spondent, Edward W. Beattie, Jr. [sent ‘out yesterday morning, follows:
F light From Warsaw
Murried as Guns Boom By EDWARD W. BEATTIE
United Press Staff Correspondent | WARSAW, Sept. 6. — Everyone able to borrow or beg a conveyance was abandoning the Polish ‘capital {today as the rumble of distant (¥erman artillery fire grew louder. There were many among the 1,700,000 population, however, who could find no means of leaving and to them the imminence of invasion was so real that they were inclined to talk in whispers. | Foreign Embassies Closed | The Government had moved to Lublin, 100 ‘miles southeast, and the foreign embassies were closed. A large force of Germans was reported
(spreading out on a line 30 miles]
north ‘of Warsaw and the city seemed destined to come under ar- | tillery fire, perhaps in a few hours. Discouraging news was brought by refugees now arriving from
squadron of ‘German bombing planes had dropped several bombs
discriminate bombing of the PolishBut from London and Paris came strong indications Lithuanian frontier.” | that both countries were in the conflict to “end Hitlevism.” | that [t was asserted that Britain's new nine-man war Cabinet classes of reserves and all officers
v . | a re- | had informed the Polish Ambassador, Count Edward Rac- [gardless of age. This was carried by |
[official confirmation of reports that [Japan has asked Great Britain and [France to withdraw their armed | forces from China” of their own volition.” \
[it should result Japan to take over foreign concessions in China. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt has ‘directed Federal Bureau of Tnvestigation 'G-Men to curb espionage and [subversive activities and to prevent [anti-neutral developments in | United States and possessions over|seas. The FBI has re-established insular offices to cope with spies.
| The Panama Canal zone was)
transferred by executive order vesterday to complete military control. No one expects a foreign power to attack the United States. But if such an attack were made its first blow in this hemisphere probably [would be at the Canal. Meanwhile, the Treasury is re{inforemg its staff ‘of
charged With carrying out
pro-
[ing to shipping and the State Department pushed plans to expedite [return ‘of Americans stranded in [Buarope, including survivors of the S. S. Athenia, now in Glasgow. | Military experts said that Great (Britain's renunciation yesterday of sea power limitations under the 1036 London treaty constitutes | virtual elimination of the last [major ‘international barrier to [unbridled warship construction | throughout the world, Mr. Roosevelt is expected shortly [tO issue a new proclamation extendling the provisions of the Neutrality | Act to South Africa, which declared
war on ‘Germany last night. Canada |
is expected to declare war imme-
uniform. He added that peasants cities as distant as Lodz 60 miles diately, in which event the act
[who had hidden in the forests, came West. The arrival of ‘German troops
Lwould be further extended to cover
out and cheered as Herr Hitler ar-| Near Lodz meant that the whole the North American dominion.
rived.
Grace Moore To Go to War
EW YORK, Sept. 7 (U. P). — Grace Moore, the singer, announced today on arrival on the liner Manhattan that she will go back to Europe “as soon as possible” to join an ambulance corps.
The corps is being formed by |
American residents inh ‘Cannes, she said, adding that it may in-
| clude the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor. Miss Moore indicated she would have to complete contracted engagements lasting through the winter before she could volunteer. Her husband Valentine Perara, also will join, the singer declared, and Lilian Harvey, the film star, already has enlisted.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record) DEATHS TO DATE County City |
058 .. Luin ROLE 65 48 ISD Luana . 63 39 Sept. 6 Injured «. 3/Accidents .... 10 Ded ......\ . 1 Arrests Noy BS WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT | Cases Con- Fines Tried victions Paid Speeding 11 10 $49
less drivi George, Phyllis McQuiston, at Methodist. | Reckle S driving 3 R 0 Robert, Florence Peck, at Methodist. Failing to stop at | Fverett Anabeli, Denny at Methodist, | ward, Helen Brigham, at ethodist. through street 6 4 3 Irving, Jennie Silver, at ethodist, Disabeying traffic Lester, Dorothy Durban, at Methodist. : ~ w | am, Esther Dock, at Methodist signal Ab 17 15 ul John, Christine Cook, at 1134 Broadway. Drunken driving. 0 0 0 Earl Mabel Cannon, at 1215 Calhoun, a | ‘alter, Betty Gregory, at 1617 Lambert All others ...... 25 NR R2| Harold, Edna Hoard, at 1106 Deloss, i in i" Boys Totals .. ..62 55 $120 iam, Wilma Morris, at 238 8. Sid i | Kim, x v Herman, Susan Cook, at 1844 8. KeyMEETINGS TODAY stone.
Indiana State Fair, all day Indianapolis Real Estate Konrad, luncheon, Hotei Wasnington, noon, Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Canary Cottage noon American Business Club, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noon. Oil Club, luncheon, Severin Hotel, noon. Construction League of Indianapolis, luncheon, Architects and Builders Building. noon. Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 Ninth St
+ Ninth nD. mW | Jennie Creed, 68, at 255 Trowbridge, | Fra TILA AI Qil Club, luncheon, LT occlusion. otel, ° p.m y 5 . ay Co. dinner, Severin Hotel, | ormbn, Semper. §4 ‘wt Si Mredison,
MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana State Fair, all dav, Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin
noon | Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club.
Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. .
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These tists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times. therefore, is not responsible for errors in names anf addresses,
Warren George Wiser, 19 Camby, Ind.: Dorothy Marie Funke, 19, of 332 8. Hamilon {
Clyde David Troxel, 28, Koko
| 0; Wilma | Louise Smith, 23, of 2342% N. i
linois,
12:2 vard, wooden | OK 12:51 a. m., 9808 N. Rural St. ea hee. | Omaha
Creek, Johns
Maurice J. Fitzpatrick, 27. of 1415 8.) Alabama; Esther E. Wheatley, 26, of 1617 8S. Talbott. Frank Berry, 41. of 108 W. North; Betty | Jean Barton. 24, of 1420 N. Illinois. | Frank J, Wamser, 51, Terre Haute; Mrs. Edith L. McNely, 41, Indianapolis
BIRTHS
Girls James, Kathryn Drake, at 8t. Vincent's Byron, Mary Jane Kautzman, at St. Vin- | cent's, Thomas, Helen Halloran, at St. Vincent's Otis, Fredirco Duerson, at City, Marvin uintilla Stewart, at Methodist. | William, Wilhelmina Hoover, at Meth- |
odist, Robert, Doris Morgan, at Methodist, Frank, Dorothy Iannuzzi, at ethodist
Kenneth, Mary Hanson, at Methodist, Russell, Ruth Lindeman, at Methodist. William, Ina Bruhn, at Methodist, rancis, Thelma Helkema, at Methodist. Harold. Julia Eden, at Methodist. Charles, Zula Sprinkler, at St. Vincent's. Russell, Glena Shanks, at City.
DEATHS
Betty Timmons, 14, at Riley, lobar pneumonia.
Alice Headlee, 20, at Long, peritonitis. Guy Loury, 35. at Methodist, ulcerative
colitis, |
Emma Moroney, 71, at St. Vincent's, car- |
, (cinoma.
William A. Davidson, 82, at 618 N. Alaama, chronic myocarditis,
a
FIRES
Wednesday
11:08 a. mm. 805 Spruce St, garage, bon- | fire, $15 loss.
4pm
for
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southwestern industrial district had been captured. The refugees, too, created a new problem here most of them had come in automobiles with only enough gasoline {to get this far and no means of | proceeding. There was no gasoline | for sale here.
Rail Station Demolished
Another raid by 70 German air- | planes Tuesday had demolished the region of the railway station and caused more havec in the sub|urbs. The Germans had spared the main business district of the [eity, At 5:30 a. ‘m. ‘today another raid, a bomb cut the railway administration building in half and only the fact that it [was so early in the morning pre- | vented a heavy loss of life. The building had been crowded by seve eral thousand persons during business hours. There were several | casualties near the airport and |after the morning raid, Poles began barricading the streets.
CITY SHOWS DROP IN FORECLOSURES
Times Special — | WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Home [mortgage foreclosures declined 43 per cent in Indianapolis during the
during |
Hull Ts Cautious
| Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who has consistently opposed Japanese expansion in ‘China as violation
of the nine-power treaty and other |
[pacts to which both Japan and the | United States are signatories, told reporters today that the United | States is giving full consideration to all phases of latest developments in the Orient. Mr. Hull recently announced abrogation of the U. S.Japanese trade treaty of 1911, | He refused to comment further regarding the possibility of changes in America's Far Eastern policy. | The U. S, Navy ordered the aircraft carrier Langley to Manila, osstensibly to aid in the enforce‘ment of Philippine neutrality. Un|'official observers believed that this step was an indication that the | United States stood ready to protect its traditional interests and poi|icies in the Far Bast.
Prepare to Return Americans The United States Line's Presi-
dent Rooseveit sailed from New York last night and will pick up Americans awaiting removal at
The 8. 8. Orizaba will leave for [European waters as soon as a crew |can be signed, the Department said. |The 8. 8. Manhattan, now en route
to the United States, will be re-
Havre,
= first seven months of 1039 as com - | turned to Europe immediately, INDIANAPOLYS FORECAST — Fair to- pared with the same period in 1038. |
Arrangements have been made,
night ahd tomorrow: slightly warmer to- the Federal Home Loan Bank Board the Department said, to place four
night; continued wart tomorrow.
[reported today. During the seven-month period
| additional ships in service to sail for | European ports some time this week,
trator John M. Carmody and Secur- |
This move might intensify tension | rumor said between Japan and United States if ter-measures and arrangements tor |
the |
experts |
| visions of the neutrality act relat-|
Rival War Claims Today
By UNITED PRESS
ALLYES—¥rench Army c¢ommuniques claim French forces advance into German territory on western front. Unofficial reports say French penetrating as far as | seven miles into the Saar district; 300 French and British | planes reported to have bombed | ‘German west-wall fortifications | in Aix la Chapelle (Aachen) area | and German steel and munitions areas in the Ruhr. Polish forces reported digging in for most determined stand to date against Germans descending upon Warsaw. British troops landing in France,
GERMANY — High command asserts that all of the western Polish industrial area, about onethird of the country, is or soon will be in German hands and that forces are rapidly getting into position for a three-ided attack on Warsaw. Westerplatte garrison in Danzig harbor reported to have surrendered after six days of resistance. Germans reported 21 miles from Warsaw on north and northwest, moving on Lodz in the southwest and on Tarnow in the south. German army communiques insist no fighting on French front.
British
Cabinet Indicates Any Nazi Bid for Early Peace Will Be Spurned.
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Hitler and discus a4 general settle-
[land was ‘dispelled by several tactors.
| The Polish Ambassador, Count
whether Mr, Roosevelt still regards Edward Raczinski, was understood | or does not regard it necessary to to have reported to his Government | Broadcasting Co. intended to start call Congress back to revise the neu- | that the nine~man British war Oab- | broadcasts in
inet is unflinchingly determined to | emash Hitlerism. [after Count Raczinski had talked with Viscount Halifax, Foreign Secretary, and Winston Churchill.
Toes of Naziism in Cabinet
Another factor was the inclusion
[in the Cabinet of Winston Church[ill and Anthony Eden, sworn enemies of Naziism,
that the Admiralty had taken coun-
(way. The Prime Minister predicted (the submarine ‘peril would be quickly ended by improved modern
| ing submarines, The influential Times, regarded as
frequently reflecting views of high | during the night as there was no
official ‘quarters, said today that Hitlerism must be ended.
| Particular interest
Mr. Chamberlain told the House |
Subs Sink More Ships, Premier Says
| |scattered through western India, East Africa and Central Asia, today [called upon his followers to give “unstinted service” to the British cause, The Information Ministry announced today that a Ozech foreign legion, similar to ones already fighting against Germany in Poland, | was being organized here by Eduard Benes, former president of dismem-
The three ment after the Fuehrer has accom- |pepad ‘Czechoslovakia. (will act temporarily as special ad- | plished a lightning conquest of Po- |
The government aided in mobilizling all available help to complete [the harvest during the present fine | weather,
Polish today and that
broadcasts were In addition there
[garian
| Tuesday.
[Ttalian, | Arabic. An ‘official announcement last night said Nazi war planes yester-
day turned back before reaching the | of Earlier reports eavy fighting was in progress jn had said they met British planes in| the region of Saarbruecken, chief a ‘dog fight” over English territory.
coast of England,
Workmen began digging air raid
in attempts by establishment of a convoy system [trenches in dozens of private gar- Moselle and Rhine Rivers. : [for all British shipping were under dens and squares throughout the
|'city today.
talk, military men and
| years, | Londoners had a full night's rest
[air raid alarm,
An official ‘order issued today forattached to| bade anyone to sound a siren or Count Raczinski's report and to the | hooter, a whistle, bell, horn, gong
It was understood that the British
[Czech and Serbian language broad- the frontier at The report came casts would be started soon. Hun- ‘marked by a river, started |
Nearly ‘everyone with whom I {my laymen, methods of detecting and destroy-| feels that the war may last several |
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FRANCE GREETS BRITISH TROOPS
Seven-Mile Invasion of Sage Basin Reported in
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Osusky announced he was orgafe [izing Czechs in France into a nae
tional army to fight with the French on the western front. Alike trian refugees were joining the
Foreign Legion. Luxembourg Reports Fighting
Thousands of Germans in a cone centration camp at the Colombes ‘Olympic Stadium have been given the ‘choice of joining the Foreign Legion or remaining in concentris [tion camps for the duration of hoke [tilities, the newspaper L'Tntransis geant said. | French official communiques wera most reserved. But reports from [Luxembourg and Switzerland, north and south of the active front, indi= loated that the French had made considerable advances in an operas [tion which seemed only in its opens ing phase, As many as 600 tanks were used in one operation alone among seV= eral on the front, at the northeast corner of France, according to re= ports. 5
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Choose Land Border
The northeast corner area was (selected, it was believed, because that point is nbt
The Luxembourg and Swiss fe
were ports said that the French had cabs programs daily in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and lery emplacements at the outset of
tured a series of pillboxes and artis
[their drive, and thus were able to [continue their progress, | Luxembourg, just to the northw the Saar area,
3 t reported that
|eity of a rich coal mining and the (dustrial area lying between the »
Saarbruecken Ts Target ©
Reports indicated that the main ‘enich drive was being pointed at [Saarbruecken by troops who hed been moved up from the Metz ah [Nancy regions. . | There were reports alge that {the Aix La Chapelle (Aachen) dis« trict about 125 miles to the north [300 “Allied” airplanes conducted. a ‘bombing raid on the German Lites (line fortifications. “Allied” planes
Times editorial because of reports Or similar instrument except in ac- |were reported also to have attacked cordance with directions of the authorities.
[circulating in Europe that some sort lof peace move might be made by Germany or in ‘Germany's behalf as soon as Adolf Hitler felt that his [armies had penetrated sufficiently inte Poland. The idea was that Herr Hitler [wanted only a local war, Also there were reports that Benito Mussolini might soon make | some peace move. Mai, ‘Gwilym Lloyd George, son of Britain's World War Prime Minlister, David Lloyd George, has
joined the Government as Parlia-|
mentary secretary of the Board of Trade, an appointment list published today revealed. He entered the Government with the consent of his father, | The Times said today: | “If and when the German armies have completed a considerable advance, Hitler would naturally be expected to make an offer of peace . that is already plainly antiei[pated by yesterday's transparent at[tempt to persuade France, having declared war, not to wage it. | “On this tactical move it is _suf[ficient to say with the Prime Minister that the survival of Hitlerism [would only mean that the world would continue te pass from one |erisis to another and that it must therefore be ended once for all. . . . | “The allied nations are in this | war with rim determination to end la Nazi Government utterly faithless and brutal. They will neglect no legitimate means and spare no [effort to achieve this end.” | Announcement twas made ‘early today that South Africa had de|clared herself in a state of war with (Germany. | The Aga Khan, spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 Ismailian Mohammedans
AWAIT WAR DECREE BY CANADA TODAY
OTTAWA, Sept. 7 (U, P).—Can= ada was expected to declare war on | Germany today. Parliament meets in emergency | session to hear a “speech from the | throne” by Governor-General Lord | Tweedsmuir, announcing the Gov=- | erraient’s position in the Franco- | British-Polish war with Germany. Most sources expected a declara- | tion of war in line with Canada's [repeated announcements that “when Britain is at war, Canada is at war.” Prime Minister Mackenzie King first set it forth on Monday. But some observers said a formal declaration of war might be avoid-
| this year there were only 409 fore- |The four are expected to transport ed to permit Canada to serve as a
| closures in Indianapolis as compared
approximately 3000 persons back to,
this country.
“back door” for supplies from the United States to Britain.
MIDWEST WEATHER
Yndiaha-—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer in south portion tonight, continued warm tomorow.
Illinois — Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow, except probably showers and cooler tomorrow in extreme northwest portion. Lower Michigan — Much cloudiness tonight and tomorrow, probably local showers: slightly cooler in extreme north portion tonight and in central and north portions tomorrow. Ohio—Generally fair,
warmer in east and south
portions tonight and tomorrow morning: showers and cooler tomorrow afternoon and night; much cooler by Saturday.
Kentucky—Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow fair followed by showers and cooler tomorrow night and in west portion tomorrow afternoon; much cooler Saturday
WEATHER IN OTHER CITYES 6:30 A. WM.
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Poles’ Suicide Stand at Westerplatte Is War's Outstanding Saga of Heroism
Sunrise ..... 5:19 Sunset ..... 8:07 | TEMPERATURE —Sept. 7, 1938— . bl - Ba M1 1H th... gy | With 718 in 1938. BAROMETER 6:30 Bh. ‘Mm... 09.9% | Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 4. m... .00 Total precipitation since Jan, 1......33.73 EXcess since Jan, 1........ 5.486
By GEORGE KIDD United Press Shaft Correspondent | RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 7 (U. BP) — | Word came out of Berlin today that Poland had fought and lost its [ “battle of the Alamo.”
| For four days I watched that bat- | tle—the suicidal attempt of a hand- | ful of Poles in the Westerplatte | Fortress on a spit of land near Dan|zig to repel air, sea and land at[tacks by German forces. The saga [of heroism ended, according to ad[Vices from Berlin, when the garri[son surrendered to the Germans at [10:20 a. m. today.
Almost every war produces some
one—the Greeks at Thermopylae, the American in the little Texas Mission called the Alamo, the forces of Franco who held the Alcazar at | Toledo during the Spanish Civil | War, | At the Westerplatte, it was said, some of the chivalry | warfare returned in the midst of modern, mechanized warfare where the rules are off.
The German attackers paid tribe ute to the valor of the de- * Shad np
Co hugh
fenders When the white flag of surrender went up. The outbreak of the war found | between 70 and 200 men in the Westerplatte. They were dug in strongly | nehind modern fortifications, ma[chine guns were placed shrewdly and [the defenders were well equipped [with ammunition and food. | Tt was there that the first shot [of the war was fired. The German naval training ship Schleswig-Holstein steamed into position early last Friday, trained [her heaviest guns on the WesterIplatte and blasted away. All day (Friday, Danzig Harbor rang with
|of big shells battering away at the | Poles, At night the Westerplatte still was resisting. | The Germans made at least two [frontal attacks with infantry. Both times machine guns chattered and |
ported killed. The German officers [never could find out where the ma\chine guns Were planted and were having fire on the
trouble directing their heavy| They nests, | agamat
On Saturday, the Germans, unsuccessful by sea and land, took to [the air, Twenty-two Nazi bombers went aloft and dropped at least 50 bombs jon the defenders of the fort. Hour after hour the Germans rained a bombardment on the fort. They even used land artillery and an armored train, but every time | the ‘Germans thought they had si= lenced the resistance, the machine [guns chattered again. Tuesday I left Danzig With a group of newspapermen., The Germans said they would ‘not object” if we departed. When the taxicab in which we
isolated act of heroism such as this|ipe roar of cannon and the scream | were riding rolled away in the dark-
[ness, the Poles still held the Wester|platte, The advices from Berlin indicated
| vhat the Nazie' bombardment did
enough damage to allow German troops successfully to storm the fort. An official announcement from Ber
of medieval in one charge 50 Germans were re-| lin said Germans ocupied the Wes=
terplatte. he surviving Poles, it was said,
iS nothing Earth
and EXTRA wear,
bootmaker's finish
Leather soles=or
lots of them are
surrendered. had held out for six days overwhelming odds,
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poy
Strauss
(within its price bracket)
like the “SERVICE”
We put EXTRA comfort inte them . . . and PLUS smartness
The costly GAMBOLA leathers (vegetable tanned) in smooth and grain effects=<the leather doesn't expand or contract (You don't feel a storm coming==by a burning or pinching of the feet).
Smooth and business like lasts Dogagy rugged brogues . . . Plenty of them with the antique
gum soles.
Some of them are in our windows
insides
awaiting your try-on,
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