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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 155
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939
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Roosevelt Proclaims ‘Limited Emergency’
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ITUHEAD ASKS WAR ‘CUSHION
Baker Wires F.D.R., Perkins Urging Pressure on
By LOWELL B. NUUSBAUM A demand for immediate labor peace as a means of cushioning the shock of American repercus-
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sions from the war in Europe was) forwarded to the Federal Govern-
ment today from Indianapolis Claude M. Baker, president of the International Typographical Union, appealed directly to President Roosevelt and’ Labor Secretary Frances Perkins to bring pressure on C. I. O. and A F. of LL. leaders to iron out their disputes and form | a united labor front He warned that unless all elements in America co-operate, theve| may be a repetition of "20 years ago when inflation and runaway costs of living destroyed the advances made by labor over a long period.”
Recalls World War
During the last World War, he recalled, the spread between prices and wages bore heaviest upon the workers of the country. | “Unless we are to experience the] same results again,” he added, “there must be a national labor movement sufficiently strong to protect those who work.” He charged that there no longer fs any fundamental issue betwen | the two labor factions. “Since the A. F. of IL. has recoghized and accepted the policy of industrial unionism, where such will best advance the welfare of the workers,” he said, “there no longer can be anv serious contention that the interests of the two groups are in any wise opposed.” Mr. Baker's action followed by two weeks the 83d I. T. U. convention at Ft. Worth which went on record as being “desirous that there be one federation of workers which will seek a peaceful and constructive solution of their differences.”
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Claude M. Baker . . . ‘peace in labor , . . inevitable’
COOLING WINDS T0 BREAK HEAT
Time September High Is Equalled.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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am. a.m am, 9am Relief from the sizzling weather
which yesterday equaled the all-time September high temperature, and
The I. T. U. is virtually on the |
sidelines in the C. I. OA. F. of I quarrel. The oldest A. F. of L. union in int of continuous existence, it is facing expulsion from the A. I of L. because it refused to pay a special assessment of 1 cent a month for each of its 80.000 members, Mr. Baker said he believed that, except for the fact the working members in both groups are, in a jJarge measure, “inarticulate” “virtual state of war” between the leaders would have been resolved jong ago. He explained that in very few unions is there machinery for submitting questions of policy direct to the membership,
Urges Co-operative Move
“Divided labor is weakened,” Mr. Baker said. “Just as the President has called upon industry to co-op-erate in the public interest, so should labor be called wpon to cooperate, “There can be no real co-opera-tion while labor remains divided into two camps with leaders of each exhibiting an attitude of belligerency. “Peace in labor and a unified 1abor movement are inevitable, Apparently immediate peace is possible only if the Government adopts the same attitude toward labor that it has with industry generally.” In his telegram to Secretary Perkins, Mr. Baker urged her to request the President to call C. I. O. President John L. Lewis and A. F. (Continued on Page Five)
OLOSE FT. HARRISON GUN RANGE ROADS
Roads running through and near the rifle and machine-gun range at Ft. Harrison were closed today as a precaution against spectators driv. ing into the line of fire during practice, Army officers said. Another road around the golf course also was closed. Officers denied the closings were ordered as a safeguard against spying at the military center,
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which started out even hotter today, was promised for tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau, The mercury, which yesterday climbed to 98.2 degrees, registered 78 degrees at 6 a. m. today, seven degrees hotter than the same hour vesterday. However, T. H. Armington, U. S.
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| the northwest would start the mer. cury downward some time this aft-
ernoon. Cooler Weather Ahead
Temperatures 10 or 15 degrees lower tonight than last night were forecast, with much cooler weather tomorrow, Elementary pupils in the public schools were to be @gismissed at noon
{today because of the hot weather,
Superintendent DeWitt Morgan announced
night, Karl Frederick sat
(the Indiana Hotel. He fell asleep. | When he awoke, he was on the sec. ond floor roof, his left leg and arm broken.
80 Overcome at Fair
More than 30 persons were pros(trated by the heat at the State Fair yesterday, none seriously. A. A Irwin, assistant County agent, said there may be some damage to late fall gardens and fallseeded alfalfa from the heat and dry weather, Highest official temperature in the state was 103 at Vincennes. Other temperatures reported included La Porte, 102.5; Washington, (Ind, 102; Ft. Wayne, 101: Evansville, Portland, Terre Haute and Lafayette, 100.
8~I have just come out lie many bodies of men and women
Polish atrocities. I personally saw
the Germans, Bromberg is a shattered shell
houses for blocks. fronts of houses were riddled by
fought their way into the city an and doors,
left and the Germans arrived.
dead and hopeless from the horror
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Relief Promised After All
While trying to keep cool last! in the| window of his third-floor room at
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where buildings are pock-marked by machine gun bullets and where German officers say that those persons were Germans—victims of
took me 40 mile deep into the war zone, The tour was conducted by
leading into it were dynamited and the explosions broke windows in
There must have been bloody street fighting in the suburbs. The
German headquarters gave me an escort to a section of the suburbs where it must have been a nightmare between the time the Poles
Frequently as we stood on street corners women, whose eyes were During my stay in th city I saw many Poles, most of them young,
being marched across Pilsudski Square with their Gestapo agents were guarding them. I saw four EN \
ORDERS GIVEN TOBUILD TIGHT
To Be Increased; Special Congress Planned.
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I. . DEFENSE
Naval and Army Strength
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U, P).—|
President Roosevelt today pro- | claimed a state of limited national)
emergency to safeguard neutrality |
[and strengthen the national defense within peacetime authorizations, Mr. Roosevelt issued executive ore ders increasing the naval and army | strength and augmenting the per | sonnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Navy to Have 145000 Men
Navy personnel will be increased | “as rapidly as possible” by voluntary | enlistments to 145000, Present na-| tional defense authorizations provide |
[a maximum personnel of 191,000. The
Army with authorized enlistment of 280,000 was increased to 227000. The National Guard wnich was an authorized personnel of 428,000, was increased to 235000. The Marine Corps was increased at flat 25 per cent. The Army was authorized to bring its commissioned personnel up to full strength by calling up reserve officers. The FBI force was increased by a maximum of 150 men. Mr, Roosevelt emphasized that his proclamations and executive orders were not directed to and putting the United States on a war footing but to maintain the United States peace front, Plans Special Session
He also announced: 1. That there would be a special session of Congress limited, if possible, to war emergency legislation such as repeal of the arms embargo section of the Neutrality Act. He said no date had been determined and that the call might come early or late, 2. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles will represent the United States at the forthcoming Pan[American conference in Panama [where the Western Hemisphere republics will discuss problems im- | posed upon them by war. 3. Assistant Naval Attache Hitchcock in London reported today through Ambassador Joseph P, Kennedy that the S. S. Athenia, carry(Continued on Page Five)
1-A-S-T GALL! FAIR WILL END TONIGHT
‘Final Attendance of 25,000 Expected.
By ROGER BUDROW One of the largest “back to the farm” movements in Indiana's history will begin tonight when the big livestock barns and exhibit halls at the State Fair are emptied for another year,
It was “hurry, hurry, hurry—this is your last chance” at the Fair to-| day, designated as Indianapolis and Manufacturers’ Day. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan headed a delegation of City officials and thousands of Hoosiers—{rom farm and city alike —rushed for a final “once over” of the Fair. A final days attendance of 25000 to 30,000 was expected by officials. The attendance the last day of the 1938 fair was 24.711, Yesterday's record paid attendance of 71375 brought the total for seven days to 384,000, or 24,000 more than at the same time a year ago. Among the day's top-notch drawing cards were the auction sale of cattle in the afternoon and
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' Death Takes No Holiday in Warsaw
Times-Aeme Cablephoto,
Many were killed when Nazi bombs hit this Warsaw apartment house , , . the picture passed censors,
Y 4 YC BULLETINS NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (U. P.)~The Duteh radio reported today that the Dutch mine-layer, William van Der Zaan, struck a mine near Helder and was destroyed. Of the crew of 51, the report said, 23 were killed outright, eight were seriously injured and others are missing.
NORTH TRURO, Mass, Sept. 8 (U. P.) An unidentified submarine was reported sighted today about three miles west of Pollock Rip Lightship, near the entrance to Nantucket Sound. The recently launched submarine Sea Dragon has beeh undergoing her trials over the measured-mile course off Provincetown, and Coast Guards believed this may have been the submersible sighted.
U. S. WARNING: ‘D0 NOT HOARD’
Price Rise, Experts Say, Due To ‘Scarcity Psychology’ Among Housewives.
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—You are playing into the hands of profiteers if you are buying to hoard. Because there is no food shortage and none in sight. That is what the Government experts say. Although some charges of deliberate profiteering are being investi gated by the Justice Department, there seems to be no sweeping legal remedy in peace-time. The most effective remedy is said to be the housewife--if she can be convinced that instead of a shortage there is a large surplus. Thousands of housewives, elvie groups and war veterans demanded regulatory measures today as retail prices of sugar, flour, meat, canned fruits and lard especially climbed steadily higher in reaction to the European war, President Roosevelt today assured the public that there will be no repetition of war-time food profiteering such as that which boomed the cost of living in 1917 and 1918. He said that although the prices of foodstuffs may be on the rise these prices will not go through the roof. Mr. Roosevelt said that there is no conceivable possibility of an act. (Continued on Page Four)
DENVER STREETCAR
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (U. P.). «The Holland-American Line said today its liner Statendam had radioed that it had picked up the 37 members of the crew of the British steamship Winkleigh. There was no indication in the message what had happened to the Winkleigh, The Statendam was two days out of Southampton when she made the rescue.
STOCKS GAIN AGAIN
Grain Prices Turn Lower.
By UNITED PRESS
AS TRADE BROADENS
Steel Sets New York Pace;
| positions considerably in advance
FRANCE USING 70-TON TANKS
First Big Battle of War Reported in Making on Saar Sector,
PARIS, Sept. 8 (U. P.) —A series of local operations on the Saar front widened today into the first big battle of the French-German phase of the war.
Informants said the French ate tacks in that sector were led hy gigantic 70-ton tanks mounting twoinch guns and called rolling forte resses, French war communique No. 9, issued by the general staff at 11:50 a. m. (4:50 a. m. Indianapolis Time) said: “We were able to achieve local advances of variable importance, substantially improving the condi tions of our advance at certain points.”
Tanks Support Infantry
Fresh German divisions were thrown into action on the Saar River sector, where French pressure continued under protective shelling of big caliber artillery in the Maginot Line. The battle was fought chiefly by infantry, supported by hundreds of tanks on both sides, in the wooded hills which circle Saarbruecken on the German side, It was reported that the French continued to advance after holding
of their Maginot Line, and that they had penetrated the great Bienwald Forest on the German side of the Lauter River, which marks the frontier between Lau-
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WARSAW CAPTURED. NAZIS CLAIM
BIG RHINELAND BATTLE BEGUN, PARIS INDICATES
Reich Army High Command Says Troops Entered Polish Capital, Then Berlin Radio Tells People City Has Fallen.
Outcome of war may hinge on neutral nations, writes Maj. Eliot—Page 17.
By UNITED PRESS |
The German Army high command reported to night that a unit of the German Army had entered Warsaw, but denied that there had been any French “attacks” in the Rhineland. The Polish Army had rallied for its first real stand against the Nazi armed forces, but the Germans attacked the city from three directions after squeezing tight the vise around the strip from Ware saw to Posen (Poznan), still in Polish hands. Although the Polish capital had been “blacked out” by censorship on news since Wednesday, it was indicated that the major portion of the Polish Army had been able to escape across the Vistula and prepare for a new stand there, The German radio claimed the city had fallen, but it was believed possible that heavy fighting was still going on there.
Battle Around Sarrbruecken
The French had reported that a number of German troops had been transferred to the Western Front, but this apparently slowed the Nazi advance only momentarily, Gers man war communiques this morning said the Nazis were 28 miles from Warsaw on the north and 25 miles away to the southwest. In the West, the French Army was seeking a weak spot in the Nazi fortifications, The French War Office an nounced short advances, and neutral reports indicated that a tank and infantry battle was going on in the woods ene circling Saarbrucken, which the Nazis have evacuated. of civilians. The British Navy and Royal Air Force patrolled the seas in search of German submarines, British planes cone tinued the propaganda war by dropping 3,500,000 pamphlets over the North Sea and Baltic coastal cities, while Britishers at home lightened their belts on food rations, |
Most of Poles Behind Vistula 1
President -Roosevelt proclaimed a state of “limited na tional emergency” in the United States and said he would call a special session of Congress. The official report of the sinking of the Athenia was released in Washington, Presi« dent Roosevelt said it required no comment; it said the ship was sunk by a torpedo from a submarine of unidentified nationality, The Polish military position was regarded by British ex perts in London as less favorable than had been hoped, but by no means hopeless. The main Polish forces were
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. Warsaw Has Fallen,
WRECKED BY BOMB
DENVER, Sept. 8 (U. P) Denver detectives today investigated a bomb explosion which yesterday wrecked a streetcar, injuring nine persons, Sergt. Oscar Willis of the police bomb squad said he was checking a report that a man in a “blue-green coupe” had been seen placing a shoe box on the car track just a few minutes before the explosion. A hole was torn through the car's floor and windows were shattered by the force of the explosion. Passengers were
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of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Poland, between the ages of 14 and 70.
25 mutilated bodies in a tour that
of a city, Most of the big bridges
bullets, fired when the Germans d the Poles resisted from windows
they had seen, passed by.
thrown into a panie,
Stocks other than the “war babies” saw broadened trading today as the bull movement in stocks continued for the fifth session. Commodities in New York wore generaily irregular while grain prices at all North American centers turned lower for the first time since the war. Chicago wheat closed 3 to 81% cents lower. Corn was down 1% to 214 cents, The regulated foreign markets did practically nothing. Steel shares paced the market at New York and the general list advanced to the best level since March 14. Gains ranged to $5 in Beth. lehem Steel.
This story was written by Frederick C. Oechsner after German Army officers personally had escorted him on a tour of the Eastern Front. It was passed by German censors. story is unavailable because correspondents are barred from the front by Polish authorities, Mr, Oechsner is manager of the Berlin
United Press Bureau,
Poland's side of the
be farm workers being taken away in an armored car, Young German
soldiers with drawn pistols guarded
them.
All of those Poles were said by the Germans to be snipers and informers—persons who had shown Polish soldiers where German
civilians lived.
German officers said the Poles in custody would be summarily
court-martialed.
I saw only one instance of mistreatment of a Pole on the part of
the Germans,
A Polish Jew came to headquarters and was kicked and
struck by truncheons in the hands of S88 men.
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terbourg and Wissembourg. National Cabinet Hinted
Bf German Radio Reports,
The Supreme National Defense Council met this morning at the Elysee palace with President Albert Lebrun presiding. Premier and War Minister Edouard Daladier, French Commander in Chief Maurice Gustave Gamelin and all members of the General Staff were present. It was said that the Council studied the situation of the armies and the conversion of the nation to a war footing. Reports circulated today that a National Union Cabinet might be (Continued on Page Five)
BERLIN, Sept. 8 (U. P.) ~The German Official Radio broke into its program tonight and said that Warsaw had fallen. The announcement followed soon after the Germany Army High Command reported that a uRit of the German ' Army had entered Warsaw during the evening. Shortly before the High Command announced that German units had reached Warsaw at 7:15 p. m, it stated officially that in a rapid advance during the after-
After the Battle Is Over—Bromberg Is Shattered Shell of a City
By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent
ITH THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE POLISH CORRIDOR, Sept.
“Ahout 50,000 others learned to be German pretty quickly yesterday and today.” As I walked along the streets with a German officer, people sometimes would lean out of windows and say softly: “Heil Pilsudski.” That tribute to Poland’s hero drew no criticism, however, for the late Marshal Pilsudski is in high favor with the Nazis and a German military guard of honor is kept at his tomb, On the way up to the front one thing struck me foreibly, The Germans were prepared for this war; the Poles were not. I even saw crude Polish pillboxes in which the cement, encased in boards, still was wet,
In contrast, the Germans were prepared to the smallest detail, Their preparations extended deep back on a wide front, Miles back from the Polish frontier, on German soil, hospital units had been set up in schools. Town halls were turned into barracks. There were emergency airports in open flelds. Gasoline and munitions depots were on main roads, but well concealed. There was no air of high adventure in the bearing of the German soldiers. They were extremely business like, A hand-sewn swastika floated from a farm house here and there and peasants came out with upraised hands, uttering “Heil Hitler” in a guttural Polish accent, But most of the farmhouses were deserted. Dead cows, caught in cross fire, lay in the fields. Here and there a Polish helmet hung on a cross where a soldier was buried, Even German soldiers told me that the Polish Army fought with
desperaje courage.
noon, Nadarzyn, Warsaw. The radio announcement gave no details. It was followed by the playing . of ‘Deutschland Ueber Alles” and the Nazi Horst Wessel anthem. Then there was five mine utes of silence. The High Command also said light German troops had entered Sandomir, which was described as & center of the Polish armament ine
dustry. that
German troops reached 12 miles southwest of
While official sources said German territory in the Rhineland front with France “was not ate tacked” all day Thursday, the mili= tary dispatches from Poland cone tinued to report swift advances in which mechanized troops and aerial forces combined to beat: off occa= sional Polish counter-attacks.
(The difficulty of ocom« munications and the censorship delayed all news out of Warsaw, The latest dispatches to reach the United States today were Wednesday. See Page 20.)
German announcements and broadcasts to the German peoples said that Polish resistance was sur= prisingly weak. In many instances the Germans claimed, activities were merely pursuit of the Polish TO rom & tactioal tewpaint, today's From a tactical v ! operations as reported here before the purported fall of Warsaw were: 1. The Nazi forces moving down from East Prussia and the Corridor yore less than R Miles orth arsaw, where a -