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Repeating 1917 Mistakes
Dr. Elliott Urges That U. S. Be Kept as an ‘Island of Sanity In World Maelstrom.’
By EMMA RIV bewar them to bless the war of 1917-1918” Dr. Errol T. Elliott, In-
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dianapolis Ministerial Association president, said today. The First Friends Church pastor, asked what ought to be the atti-
tude of churches if the United States
European war, continued: “There is no more evidence that | war «an save gemocracy today than there was 25 years ago. In any! event, may the Christian church remain Christian, pouring into the national life all the thoughtfulness and understanding possible, in order that there may be an island of sanity a vorld maeistrom of vio-
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Rev. Mr. Lytle Is Brief
Mrs. Ralph Hudelson, former vice president af the National Council of Churchwomen and a delegate at the 1937 world conference on faith and order at Oxford, England, said: If war should come to us, ft seems to me that Christian women should continue to teach their children that it is possible for representatives of the nations of the world to sit about a conference table and come to a peaceful understanding. . It seems to me that women should never again allow themselves to be ‘propagandized’ into an orgy of hate and fear’ The Rev. Howard 8S. Lytle, Fletcher Place Methodist Church pastor. who will be a member of the commiitee on the stave of the nation at the Indiana Methodist Conference here next week, answered the question in a sentence “Speaking for myself, reconcile Christianity Thats sll!”
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‘Peace in Christ'—Dr. Hopkins
Dr. Robert M. Hopkins, general secretary of the World Sunday School Association and president of the United Christian Missionary Society here, said in part It is in such a time of crisis that the church has the divine function of serving as the representative of Christ on earth. He founded the church for just such a ministry, and specificaliv affirmed that ‘the gates of Hades shall prevail against it “Tt is in Christ alone that world will find peace.”
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Sees Opportunity for U. S§,
Mrs. Franck Hatch Streightoff. Church Federation international goodwill committee chairman and the only woman committee chairman of the federation, stated: “It is particularly important for people of a Christian nation to endeavor consistently to practice Jesus’ teachings of love and goodwill to men. . . . This cruel international situation may prove to be our! nation’s opportunity to demonstrate! to the world the fruitlessness of war and the value of creative peace.”
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BELGIUM PROTESTS NEUTRALITY BREACH
Forces British Plane Down: London Apologizes.
BRUSSELS, OU. P).Belgium toqaay protested violation of her neutrality te Great Britain after Belgian planes forced
a British bomber io land and after a Belgian plane crashed in an exchange of {ure near Mons. «In London. the Information Ministry said Great Britain had offered Belgium a formal apology for the “inadvertent” crossing of British airpianes over Belgian territory on propaganda flights to Germany). In a communique, the Belgian National Defense Department said: “Three big bombers were chased last night by our Air Force. One British bomber was forced to land. One other bomber was chased by two of our planes and was ward by signals to land. It opened fire, wrecking one Belgian plane and forcing the occupants of the Belgian plane to take to their parachutes. “This violation of our neutrality has provoked a strong protest from the Belgian Government to the British Government.”
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The Netherlands Government today protested to Germany against violation of her neutrality in con-! nection with the flights of German planes observed over Holland.
BUTLER'S AVIATION COURSE APPROVED
Butler University officials today received approval of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington to conduct a student aviation course. University suthorities said that students enrolling for the fall semester could elect to take the course. Ground training will be given at the University and flight instruction at Municipal Airport,
{under direction’ of Elvan Tarking-
ton, flight instructor. A C. A. A. school is on the Purdue University curriculum.
INCREASE EXPECTED IN INDIANA GUARD
Indiana's National Guard will probably be increased because of President Roosevelt's limited émergency proclamation vesterday, Elmer F. Straub, Adjutant-General of Indiana, said today. There are 4570 enlisted men and 391 officers in the National Guard now, he said, and because this state is so well organized, it is expected most of the increases will be made in states less well organized. The peacetime quota for the nation is 235000 and the present strength of the guard is 205,000 Gen. Straub said.
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WARSAW KEEPS UP FIGHT;
Uncensored— ‘Polish Armies Intact’
Lemberg to Lublin, one of the best in Poland and unquestionably important in the transportation of troops, it has no military value. But the Germans struck from the sky and when they winged away flames were leaping from the houses, 30 were dead and a score wounded. There was no hope for the seriously wounded for the village doctor, only man who could aid them, lay
Edward W. Beattie Jr., United
opening days of the war in Warsaw, has reached Bucharest. Rumania, and filed the following uncensored dispatch on a German air raid inte the heart of Poland's agricultural section.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR.
United Press Staff Correspondent
UCHAREST. Rumania, Sept. 9 to the Rumanian border there
and today half of it is in ashes and 30 of its inhabitants lie dead. The town and the dead—including victims of a German air raid aga:nst a village that seemed to be of
no military value whatever.
I rode into Tomaszow five hours after the bombardment and saw what explosive and incendiary bombs can do to a market town built of
wood and plaster. The terror from the sky
cultural center.
Aside from the fact that Tomaszow lies across the wide road from
NAZIS SHOVED BACK IN WEST
Moroccans Join in Attack Reinforced by Tanks And Cavalry.
PARIS, Sept. 9 (U. P). French troops have captured of the great Warndt Forest in Germany in their advance from the Maginot line, the high command an-
nounced today. Crack troops, driving into the Saar basin, had surrounded the city of Saarbruecken, reliable informants said, and now were within striking distance of Germany's great West Wall. Communique No. 11, published by the high commend, said today: Victory Held Significant “Sept. 9. 10:45 a. m. (3:45 a. m. Indianapolis Time): Land operations during last night saw action by our advance element. Most of the great Warndt Forest west of Forbach fell into our hands. We found it filled with destruction and all sorts of traps. Our Air Force operated in full liaison with our land troops.” Military experts said that between the lines of this laconic communique was to be read the news of France's first big strategic victory. It meant that the French had smashed into and bitten off the big German frontier salient which extended into France between Saarbruecken and Saariauten. Meanwhile. the Council of Ministers was summoned to meet at the Presidential palace tonight. It was reported without confirmation that the Council intended to discuss possible formation of a war Cabinet. Claim Many Villages Taken Before the meeting Premier and War Minister Edouard Daladier conferred with U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt and the Polish and Rumanian Ambassadors. Experts believed that the French were now in possession of a part of the Saar Valley, The French had gained eight mi'es in that sector. French shock troops pinched off (Continued on Page Three)
REPORTS ZEPPELIN HAS BEEN BLOWN UP
London Paper Says Atlantic Airship Was Sabotaged.
LONDON, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—The Evening Star reported todav that the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin had been blown up at its moorings at Friedrichshafen by sabotage. There was no confirmation. It was reported from Zurich, Switzerland, Monday that a tremendous explosion was heard. and a glare seen, in the direction of Friedrichshafen. The Graf Zeppelin was commissioned a year ago to replace its predecessor, which had been dismantled after flying a total of 1,055.700 miles in nine years.
‘I'm in Rags,’ Says Min
HOBOKEN, N. J. Sept. 9 (U. P.). Netherlands East Indies steamer, Johan Van Oldenbarneveit, arrived from Southampton today with 634 refugees from Europe whose complaints ranged from lost baggage and torn fingernails to the “ineffectuality” of the U. S. State Department in Zurope. Chartered to return stranded Americans, the Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt brought back 502 U. S. citizens but no cargo. Complaints were voiced on every side as the vessel docked. Miss Anne Bauer, New York social registerite, said she was booked to sail on the liner Rex from Genoa on Aug. 24. but left the ship when advised engine trouble would prevent her sailing.
struck Thursday, two-motored German bombers turned their attention to Poland's agri-
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is a market town called Tomaszow, belongings in pushcarts.
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the village doctor—are
the inhabitants have been sticaming out of the village carrying their | The biggest buildings in Tomaszow were the |
flimsy dwellings and one-room Jewish shops. ...... . dria. isWuie The Germans were able to penetrate so deeply into Poland because
"PARIS CLAIMS BIG VICTORY
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GERMANY WON'T ATTACK FRANCE, GOERING CLAIMS
dead too. inhabitants but in the last few days
The rest of the town consisted of
the Polish Army, on advice wom the British and French general staffs,
retreated in good order.
a day on which big . Apparently it was succcssrul.
Polish Army is largely intact.
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CITY FACING RISE IN PRICE OF COAL
Extent of Increase Due to War ‘Unpredictable.’
Indianapolis householders will pay! higher prices for coal this winter. H. A. Rogers, Indianapolis Coal Merchants’ Association execuilve secretary, said todav. “How much the European conflict will affect coal prices is unpredictable.” Mr, Rogers said, “since it depends upon the extent and duration of the war “Wholesale prices are firming up and that will affect the retail market. Some operators recently have advanced their prices on premium grades as much as 40 cents at the mine.” Tentative prices already have been issued by the National Bituminous, Coal Commission, now holding daily hearings in Washington, which increase the cost per ton from 15 cents to 30 cents at the mine. | “If the Commission sets prices, it will stabilize the market. But the prices are bound to be higher,” Mr. Rogers said.
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TEMPERATURES 63 19am Rf 11 a. m. kt | 12 (Noon) . 8 1pm
Indianapolis Time) that ‘absolutely false—an invention.”
High Comin Berlain
{The German Army mand had announced that German troops “entered” Warsaw from the southwest at 7:15 p. m. and proceeded to the center of the city. It said it would “occupy” the city today.
City Under Bombardment
Budapest reported the Warsaw radio station tonight announced that the city was under heavy bombardment but that German troops had not yet entered. “Warsaw will be defended to the last drop of blood,” the radio announcer said. A radiocast from London picked up in New York at 5:53 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today quoted the Warsaw Radio as saying that there was street fighting in the southwest suburbs, about five miles from the center of the Polish capital, but that Germans had not yet entered the city. Other London radiocasts intercepted in New York said that 6000 Slovak deserters had crossed into Hungary and had been detained by the Hungarian authorities. It was reported also that the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Count Stephen Csaky, left Budapest for Germany last night. The Polish embassy said:
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ARLY today Weather Man J. H. Armington confirmed a suspicion that had been lurking in the public mind since vesterday afternoon. He said it was cooler. He was right. This is. he was right this morning. And then the mercury started climbing again. The way the thermometer clings to the “gay 90s,” vou'd think it was one of the original Floradora Girls.
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ruption. A number of people in the Embassy at this moment are listening to Warsaw broadcas‘s. The Germans claim to have destroyed (Continued on Page Three)
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! “We left the ship and had a! Dalton Mann, executive president
horrible trip to Paris,” she said. of the Grace line, said that he “We sat up all night in the crowded land Mrs. Mann likewise had changed refugee train. At 2 p. m. they put from the Rex to the Dutch vessel, us off at the French border where going to Amsterdam by way of we waited in pitch blackness for Paris and Boulogne. two hours. | “They ought to close the American “There were no porters or any- State Department and use the thing. We had to carry our own American Expres Co.” Mr. Mann baggage, what there was left, and I said. “They ha'e done everything broke my fingernails. Horrible Ital- [to help stranded Americans and ian customs men were shoving us they helped us a lot. around. It was simply ghastly. My| Mrs. M. Chichester du trunk and all my things are some- wilmington. Del.. revealed that her were in France, All I have is a little chauffeur and her automobile were handbag. laboard the torpedoed liner Athenia. “I'm in rags,” added Miss Bauer, She said she had not been advised who was dressed in a black dress if the chauffeur had been saved. and wearing a mink scarf and gray She returnec from grouse shooting (hat, lin Scotland.
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The strategy was to try to keep as many German troops as possible massed in Poland until France and Great Britain could strike a telling blow
Much of it never went to battle at all | (Continued on Page Three)
. Poles blew
Polish Embassy Denies Nazis Entered Warsaw
Experts Are Unable to Extract Actual Truth of Situation; Defenders Promise Their Last Drop of Blood.
By UNITED PRESS
The Polish Embassy in London announced at 11 a. m. today (3 a. m. German reports of the fall of Warsaw were
“Warsaw still is going all right.” mans have been pushed back north of the city and at the moment «the again threat to the capital is less acute than it was yesterday.”
London | “All radio stations in War-| saw are broadcasting without inter-|
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Air Marshal Tells Berlin Workers All Poland Will Be Conquered Within Week; British Vote Two-Billion Dollar War Fund.
on the Western Front. There can be little doubt that the
By UNITED PRESS Warsaw was scarred with battle tonight, but the Poles refused to concede it to the attacking Germans. The city, which held the Germans at its gates for weeks ‘in the World War, fought bitterly against the same enemy today. The High Command at Berlin had reported that the first motorized troops had entered Warsaw's suburbs yesterday afternoon. Tonight, however, a broadcast from the Warsaw radio station picked up at Budapest said the city was still being terrifically bombarded and that the Polish garrison would “defend it with the last drop of blood.” British had reported picking up over the radio the order ‘of the day by Gen. Czuma, head of the defending forces: “Soliders of the Warsaw garrison! The commander-in< chief has entrusted me with the defense of the capital. He demands that the enemy's advance shall break against the (walls of Warsaw. We have occupied positions from which there is no retreat.”
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Belgian Neutrality Violated On the Western Front, the French claimed to have captured most of the great Warndt Forest in Germany in their advance across the no man’s land between the Maginot and Siegfried lines. French” communique No. 11, claiming the capture of the forest, said: “We found it filled with destruction and all sorts of traps.” Paris military observers interpreted the action men‘tioned in the terse communique as being a significant strategic victory for the French.
Times NEA Radiophoto. it up fo impede the Nazi advance.
An eye-witness account of the bombing of Warsaw, Page 7; Pact May Destroy Hitler and Stalin, writes William Philip Simms, Page 9; War Photos, Page 9; Thomas Stokes discusses Latin-Ameri-can Trade Problems, Page 7; U. S. Chamber of Commerce Joins Fight on High Food Prices, Page 12.
Belgium protested strongly to the British Government | st violation of her neutrality after Belgian planes forced a British bomber to land and after a Belgian plane crashed ‘in an exchange of fire near Mons. Britain officially apolo‘gized for an “inadvertant” violation of Belgian rights. Berlin continued to ignore the Western Front except for a speech by Field Marshal Hermann Goering. He said the Germany Army would complete its conquest of Poland
: within a week and then would move 1,050,000 men from the Army of 277,000 Promised tern to the Western Front.
Quickly by Woodring. | But Germany would not attack France, Marshal Goering - said, even if the French did wish to “bleed for England”
Ho. Sept. 9 (U. P). against Germany's “will to peace.” He said the Germans or ue Seseriment would show “how badly England can be beaten.” sunk by a so 78" Gnilentified ee Marshal Goering claimed the Polish Army in the Radom marine today raised the question Sector, 60 miles south of Warsaw, was throwing away its
of whether the United States would! arms. identify and protest to the bel-|
ligerent nation deemed guilty of! : ‘ ‘ys i firing the projectile. Admittedly, the Poles were in a critical situation. Wo guilt has been established so (Germans have cut them off from the sea. The bulk of their The issues of Athenian policy, food | Industrial regions 1s held by the Nazis. Opportunity for profiteering and repatriation of effective resistance has been reduced drastically. Informa-
American citizens pose hot nd! ¢; yea i : ¢ . es pe hae) H tion available in London was that so far there had been no EE. major clash between the Polish and German armies.
STOCKS UP DESPITE So far German communiques have not claimed any siz-
TAKING OF PROFITS able capture of Polish guns or other military material, leadRy, ing allied military men to hope that the Poles may have By UNITED PRESS withdrawn in good order. But they still are cut off from the Despite week-end profit-taking. source of most of their supplies and munitions and they now the New York stock market today} ,ye to defend a flat country, if the Germans can cross the
closed higher for the sixth con- os . secutive session. ' Vistula River.
In earlier trading the list had] : re (Coy . on red a to il. oT In eight days Germany has thrust 10 major columns since mid-March. Although profit- | (Continued on Page Three) taking was heavy a long line of | issues made new highs for the year. | | Grain prices in ail North Ameri- | ‘can markets slumped. At the close, | {Chicago wheat was 2!2 to 27: cents lower, Winnipeg wheat off] 13's to 3'% cents, Minneapolis off ‘2%; to 27s cents and Kansas City| 3 to 3's cents lower. Bond prices declined again, paced by U. S. issues, 15 of which made
the Embassy announced. “The Ger-
CAPITAL PONDERING REPORT ON ATHENIA
Poles in Critical Status The
"You Declared War, Goering Tells Britain,
In Berlin:
BERLIN, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—Field If it depended only on my soldier Marshal Hermann Goering, predict- | heart, we would be glad to show ing that the conquest of Poland | you how badly England can be beat= : {would within a week free 1,050,000 en. But we do not want to unleash DN Sugar and cotton de- | German troops for the Western |the horror of war over humanity.” | Foreign markets lulled as Lon-|ITont, said today Germany will not| Marshal Goering spoke to the don and Paris markets were closed Attack France. workers of a large industrial plant | “We wan. nothing in Berlin's suburbs.
for the Saturday holiday. | | from the Indianapolis hog prices were 50 French. . . . We will not attack| “If the French want to bleed for England, all right,” he said.
cents lower. | them,” the No. 2 Nazi leader deWestern provinces of Germany al-
| ee i clared. ready have been evacvated, he add-
BID TO ARMOUR HEADS Turning to Great Britain, Marshal
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U. p.), Goering said: | Secretary of Labor Frances Per-| “You declared war on us, Mr. kins today invited Armour & Co.|Chamberiain, not we on you. We officials to attend a joint confer- had the right to cross the border ence with the Packinghouse Work-|and extinguish a fire which threat- rather than on the military front. |ers Organizing Committee (C. I. 0.) [ened us. Do not mistake our offer| “They say we do not have any raw | here Wednesday. In an effort to!of peace for weakness. We have a materials,” he said. “But they canavert a threatened nation-wide deep will to peace. It is greater and not say that Russia does not Rave strike, deeper in the spirit of the Fuehrer.| (Continued on Page Three)
ed, to clear the way for defense of the West Wall. Most of Herr Goering’'s speech was a call to war on the economic front