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WILL OPEN TAX BOARD STUDY
First Session Set Tomorrow: Walsman Named Group Chairman.
The Marion Tax Adjustment Board met in an organization session at the Court House todav, elected officers and voted to begin study of the Indianapolis School City budget at 10 8. m. tomorrow. Albert, FF, Walsman, former Tax Board member who was on the adjustment board last Year, was named chairman, and Frederick C Albershardt, public accountant, vice chairman, The Board voted to hold a public hearing at 10 a, m. Wednesday and to study the 1940 Civil City, County and township and town budgets, in that order, after completion of the proposed school budget.
Recognize Tax Appeal
Before adjourning its one-hour meeting, the Board read into the records & stronglv-worded appeal on taxation from the United Tax Reduction Committee, declaring ‘“‘the taxpayers of Indianapolis face the highest tax rates ever demanded.” Meanwhile, a tax education committee of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association began & campaign to prevent public school budgets throughout the state from being cut by the various county adjustment boards. The committee was formed at & meeting of the association last week to deal with what its members termed “a critical financial problem facing the schools, growing out of mounting relief and other governmental costs.” Immediately after taking the chair at today's board meeting, Mr. Walsman said: “We will make the sincerest effort to bring tax rates down to the lowest figure possible commensurate with good government.”
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Budget No ‘Plaything’ | He also warned that “we do not | Intend to make a plavthing out of | this budget study.” In a letter from its chairman, George L. Denny, the United Tax Reduction Committee declared: “If those rates are adopted, they will strike at the very foundations of our family, personal and business security, because, as a direct result, they will increase rents and the costs of every necessity of life. Our people have awakened to these facts and are demanding that something be done about it.”
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The committee, in its statement, then listed five tax or budget prohlems which they said faced the board: 1. Salarv and wage scales for public service which continue to be based on prosperous times when private pay rolls necessarily have been adjusted to actual business condi- | tions. 2. Retention on the public pay | rolls of unnecessary employees as a reward for political, as distinguished from public, service. 3. Contracts for services -and materials Jet from political motives. | 4 Mandatory state levies, 5. Mounting costs of relief and welfare, partly because of waste and favoritism, Calls for 96-Cent Levy The 1940 Schools budget, which! will be scrutinized by the Board tomorrow, calls for a total expenditure for operation and maintenance in the 1939-40 school vear of $6.871.318. an increase of $52,285 aver the 1938- | 39 budget. Of the total, $4.902.431 | must be raised from taxation. This! calls for a 96-cent levy, the same as | for the preceding year, The Adjustment Board is expected to be in session for at least two| weeks, Its deliberations must completed by Oct. 1, under the law. Robert H. Wyatt, State Teachers | Association secretary and member of | the tax education committee, said | the group would present statistics on school finances directly to county | adjustment boards and the State Tax Board, and would oppose any attempt to lower tax rates by cutting school budgets. He said preliminary research by the committee shows that as school costs in Indiana were cut more than | $5,000,000, or 9 per cent, between! 1931 and 1938, the cost of other governmental units increased more | than $69,000,000, or 33 per cent.
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TEST NEW PLANE AIDS TOMORROW
Nation's Crack Pilots Here To Try Radio Landing Setup at Airport.
By SAM TYNDALL
The beginning of & new era in the
development of radio navigational aids to aviation in the United States, may be marked at the Municipal Airport tomorrow with opening of formal tests of the nation’s first approved instrument landing system. Crack pilots of commercial airlines and the U. S. Army will take turns in test “blind” landings before of the National Radio Technical Committee for Aeronautics and government radio experts,
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Tests Are Successful
Installation of the ment, which includes 16 high-fre-quency transmitters, required two years and was made by the International Telephone and Telegraph Development Corp. for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, It is the first instrument landing System in the country to employ a modified curved and straight-line glide path, Preliminary tests of the equipment, which cost approximately $100,000, have proved successful, according to Joseph Hromada, chief of the C, A. A. radio test station at the
airport, who ha. supervised the in- |
stallation for the government. Only formal approval by the © A. A. and Technical Committee remains before formal adoption of the system for installation in the nation’s ‘major airports.
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German Action Believed ~ Slowed by Bombardment
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In Saar Valley.
BULLETIN PARIS, Sept. 11 (U. P).— France officially notified the League of Nations (nday of its contention that Germany had committed aggression against Poland.
PARIS, Sept. 11 (U.P) .—French troops smashed German counterattacks in an overnight battle on the Maginot-Westwall frontier, it was reported today. This encouraging development was supplemented by assurances | from Andre Francois-Poncet, French
Ambassador to Rome, that “chances
are good” for the of Italian neutrality M. Francois-Poncet was understood to have advised Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet that Italian neutrality might eventually work out in favor of the Allies.
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French Claim Gains
The German counter-attacks on
the Maginot-Westwall frontier became sO violent, dispatches said, that French and German troops met hand-to-hand in the open [lands along the Sierck-Saarburg road in German territory, and the Germans were thrust back at the
It was asserted that the German counter-attacks had been repulsed completely in the end and that the French were left with the important gains they had made in their slowly, constantly developing advance toward the main westwall. The German counter-attacks centered on a 12-mile front between Mertzig and the Moselle River on the French left flank near the Luxembourg frontier, at the base of a wooded triangle formed by the Saar and Moselle Rivers and the | frontier.
Stand Near Buschdorf
The French were now holding positions in the neighborhood of Buschdorf, inside Germany, on that part of the front, Farther east, French Maginot Line artillery opened up & big scale shelling of railroads and highwavs at the important communications junction of Zweibruecken, 16 miles east of Saarbruecken. Continuing ‘its reticent attitude toward the French operation, the High Command in its war communique No. 15 said merely: “Morning of Sept. 11: There is (Continued on Page Three)
STEEL SHARES RISE: U.S. BONDS DECLINE
The system operates to transmit |
on ultra-high frequencies radio code signals which may be picked up and
used as a guide to airport runways |
by airline pilots “blacked out” by “zero-zero” weather conditions.
The signals, in the form of dots!
and dashes, combine to form a glide path, which extends in a graduated curve & half-mile from the airport boundaries to the paved landing wavs. Most of the airlines will bring their special equipped experimental planes, known as “flving laboratories,” here tomorrow to make the tests.
It’s a Blessing! This Cool Day
LOCAL TEMPERATURES . DS Wa.m... . 3) a.m... "MN . 63 12 (Noon). 72 . OF 1pm... 8
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HE first cool fall day came as a blessing today to a parched city which had been Sweltering in an unseasonable heat wave since Thursday. It will be warmer tonight and the mercury will climb again tomorrow,
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GLENVIEW, Ill, Sept. 11 (U. P.).| —Johnny Goodman, former national | open and amateur champion from | Omaha, Neb, reeled off another masterful round at North Shore Country Club today and tied Don Schumacher, Dallas, Tex.. and Tom Sheehan, Northville, Mich., for the early lead in the first qualifying | round of the 1939 amateur golf championship with a 70, two under par. | Capt. Ken Rogers, U. S. Army of- | ficer from Montgomery, Ala., flew in| today and created a four-way tie for the lead with 37-33—70.
Wheat Prices Advance in All North American Marts.
By UNITED PRESS The New York stock market surged upward for the seventh consecutive session today as speculators on war profits rushed to buy steel shares. Bethlehem Steel gained $7.25 to establish a new high for the vear, Other war stocks rose. European markets, mostly under
| restrictions, were quiet.
Wheat prices were 1 to 2 cents higher in all North American markets. U. S. bonds resumed their declines and four of the issues made new lows. Other sections of the bond market advanced. | Cotton gained 9 to 17 points, rubber 35 to 105 points and hides 42 to 58 points.
LOCAL WOMAN KILLED Mrs, Jane Wright, 65, of 642 Division St, died today in Methodist Hospital of injuries received in an
auto accident on Road 40 near Charlottsville.
Polish Chances Slim, Not Hopel
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MSTERDAM, Sept —Warsaw 1° a city almost without gas masks, but Polish mothers have taken their needles | and thread and made an in- | genious attempt to save the lungs of their children from being | choked und burned by poison | gas. Eric Caleraft, a British photographer for Acme Newspictures and NEA, and The Indianapolis Times told about it today when he arrived here after a stay in Warsaw -~his head filled with “burning memories” of the attempts of | women to save their children. The women took large hunks of | cotton or gauze and sewed elastic bands to them. Then they hung | these rude gas masks around the children’s necks and told them to pull the cotton up over their noses and mouth at the first gas alarm. It is doubtiul whether the homemade masks would be of any use, but it is the best that mothers can do and and they must do something. Mr.
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Caleraft left Warsaw on Sept. 4, vefore the Germans were pressing as hard against the Polish capital &s they are now, But he said when he arrived here today that he would never forget the scenes of horror he saw, “My one big burning memory of Warsaw,” he said, “wa~ of seeing women g° mad while looking for their children after an &ir raid. The Germans used big explosive and incendiary bombs, n n » “QOME of the women searching for their children crawled on their stomachs like snakes. Others rushed blindly into burning buildings. Some of them mumbled but others screamed at the top of their voices: ‘My God my babies.’ IT can't get those scenes out of mind.” Mr, Caleraft said the children were much calmer than their mothers. He said they stood in streets and doorways calmiy watching the airplanes come over and asking their parents how many persons had been Killed or injured One of the worst sights he saw, Mr. Caleraft said, was when bombs fell on the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw where many of the patients were children. He watched rabbis carrying the pa- | tients to air-raid trenches around
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WARSAW SNAGS GERMAN DRIVE FOR THIRD DAY
‘Moscow Calls Moscicki’s Cause Hopelessy
Italian Neutrality Is Sure, Paris Told; ‘What Kind of War’? Britain Asked.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor Poland's armies joined battle with the Nazis today on a ‘bow-shaped front stretching 250 miles, while French sols diers repulsed the first German counter-attack in the west, | Determined to keep Adolf Hitler's forces fighting on two fronts, the bulk of the Polish troops stood their ground in defense of Warsaw, fought furiously in the Radom sector 50 miles to the southwest and attempted to stem a German thrust through the south against Lwow, The Nazi high command reported that fighting had be-
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‘come severe after 11 days in which the Doles fell back rapids ly toward the fertile central plains on which they stopped ‘the
Imperial armies of Germany in the World War and where they smashed the Bolsheviks in 1920,
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French Still Cautious
| Whether the Polish triumphs of past years could be
Loaded with death! Passed through censorship and flown to New (repeated on the plains east of the Vistula and San Rivers re York, this picture shows a German plane being fitted with bombs for air raids such as have been turning Warsaw into a chaos during the
past 11 days.
the hospital—trenches which the less seriously sick of the patients had helped to dig Mr. Calcraft said the German bombers flew in groups of three around the city “The defense was left almost entirely to anti-aircraft guns,’ he said. "The guns seemd to be able to reach an excellent height, but it appeared to me that they fired too late. Shells were always exploding behind the planes.”
His train took four days to get from Warsaw to Riga and was hombed seven times without a direct hit being scored. The engineer frequently backed the train long distances when track was torn up ahead, maneuvering to get another line that was intact. Several times while the train waited on sidings passengers would go te farmhouses and buy egrs. The engineer and fireman would boil them,
CRUCIAL POLISH | Ditier, Doltar, BIG BATTLE IN
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Nazis Report Lines 250 Miles Long Through
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| BERLIN Sept. 11 (U. P). — The | German high command reported to- | day that the first great battle of the Polish war was reaching a “decisive” point in the Warsaw and Radom sectors of a 250-mile semi-circular | front, The announcement coincided with a decree that bread would be rationed to the German nation, beginning Sept. 25. The amounts to be fixed are to be determined later. Through its protectorate setup in Praha, the Government warned all Crechs today that joining Czech legions abroad would be regarded as treason against the Reich, Severe penalties were threatened. [ The Naval Ministry answered official British charges that Germany| is pursuing unrestricted submarine warfare with the assertion that it was but another phase of Britain's “shameful propaganda lies.” A Naval Ministry communique | said: “In the Athenia incident it has been clearly stated that German] naval forces had been expressly in- | structed to carry on naval warfare according to international agree-| ments.” Tigh long communique covering the
crossed the German frontier. | “This disclosure, and a belated: (statement on British Royal (Continued on Page Three)
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“The Ramparts We Watch” and ‘Bombs Bursting in Air.”
By GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT
ONDON, Sept. 11.—Ycu can depend on the (German military mind
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German tactical theory is still dominated by the ideas of Von Schlieffen, who considered the victory of Hannibal over the Romans | at Cannae in 216 B. C. a model for all tactics. object of the German military always is to envelop the enemy flank—
preferably both flanks.
Silver Scholar
ORIS PETROFF, 18, more, walked into the Butler University offices today to register for the fall term. When the was asked, Boris heaved two heavy sacks onto the counter, University officials opened
Boris, who lives at 725 S. Meridian St., explained that his father had saved the silver dollars during the summer months to provide the tuition fee.
CALL TO CONGRESS LIKELY THIS WEEK
Roosevelt Returns After ‘Brain Trust Ouster.
WASHINGTON, Sept —President Roosevelt the White House
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Administration's peace policy to make plans for a special session of Congress to revise neutrality law,
He was met at the Union Station | bombings on Saturday and another relations, the Ministry of Tnformaby Louis Johnson, Assistant War |17 yesterday. Poles claimed that 15/tion said tonight in a formal state- |
Secretary. Authoritative sources said that the special session call would go
atest operations, the German out before the end of the week. that OER | High Command admitted for the The date Congress would convene out against a terrific artillery bom- Year basis, was viewed as a Tur yhel first time that French troops had was not specified but Oct. 2 was bardment and that five German rejection of any peace overtures
mentioned as a probable day. While at Hyde Park for
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registration details | were completed and the $105 fee |
the | sacks and found 105 silver dollars, |
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POLAND BEGUN
Nazis Use Fake Radio Station to Persuade Poles to Give Up Warsaw.
By UNITED PRESS Polish sources over Europe today asserted that the Germans had been forced back from the suburbs of Warsaw in fierce fighting and that [the greatest battle of the GermanPolish war was under way on a front of more than 250 miles. Poland was starting its first widespread general resistance to the Germans from Poltusk, on the Bug River 30 ‘miles north of Warsaw along an irregular line through Warsaw's outskirts to Lodz and then along a jagged line to Sandomierz and Krakow, A German communique admitted “fierce battles” In ‘contrast to (previous Polish delaying action. Allied military sources said the Ger-
PP). mans had been using about 50 di-|
visions actively, totaling around 850,000 men, but that they now were
tinue his personal command of the engaging another 20 divisions in Poand (and, bringing their total to around Britain desires
1,200,000 men. Germany resumed bombing of Warsaw at dawn today after 17
of the 70 German bombers were shot down over the week-end, Warsaw's radio station asserted the capital also was holding
shells had made clean hits in the
the city. The radio said that two Ger- ler or other leaders in the present Air week-end Mr Roosevelt announced man tanks had been destroyed in Nazi regime.
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HESE have become vast turning movements, in which there are widely separated forces moving toward a common objective. The danger there is that, as against a well organized central force, various detachments are exposed to counter attack and destruction.
I was told again and again in Warsaw that the Poles expected con-
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army intact and then te counter=
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This very situation seems to have arrived and Polish counter-
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there still are troops available for
| that purpose, which seems quite certain, Polish resistance to the German advance has not =o far been of
In the present Polish campaign we see this traditional strategy at
work once more.
It is illustrated in the enveloping of the Polish corridor from east |
and west, Upper Silesia from west and south, and in the current efforts
to surround central Polish positions by concentric attacks from Bast Prussia, from the corridor and from Silesia, via Lodz, However, present German dispositions in Poland have passad bevond the stage where they may be described as true envelopment, in which the enveloping force rarely loses touch with its own main body
or holding force.
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last-ditch character, and quite rightly =o, because the Poles cannot afford to lose any of their precious first line divisions in early stages
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German reports of prisoners and guns taken would indicate capture only of the Polish rear guard detachments and a scattering of local
reserve formations,
Tt would seem that the Polish army has escaped any serious disaster and is concentrating in and south of Warsaw. Meanwhile, the ad-
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‘mained to be seen, but for the time being the terrific mos ‘mentum of the Nazi war machine had been slowed down and ‘the first major battles of the war were in progress, On the west front, the French continued cautious in ‘their preliminary attacks on the German West Wall (Limes) | fortifications but they reported that they had a firm footing in the Saar sector, turned back the first Nazi counter-offen= sive and forced the German high command to send rein
| . . » y forcements which might otherwise be used in Poland. |
How long it might be before a major French-British ats tempt is made to crack the German main line was a matter ‘of increasing speculation and in London the Kvening Stand lard, owned by Lord Beaverbrook, caustically asked “What [kind of a war is this?” The newspaper urged Britain to act more swiftly to aid the Poles, | Hint Duce Peace Plea | The critical tone of the London newspaper coincided with reports from Berlin that Premier Benito Mussolini of [taly, might soon address a message to Britain and France ‘through the Italian Ambassadors, There was intense diplomatic activity in Berlin, with [the Italian Ambassador playing an important part and some new move seemed possible despite the advance declaration of British and French newspapers that their Governments ‘were in the war to fight to the end. German war communiques admitted that fighting was on a major scale in Poland but said that the Nazis would soon [force a decision, having trapped “hundreds of thousands” ‘of Poles west of the Vistula. At Moscow, the newspaper Pravda reflected official ‘opinion in an article saying that Poland defeated,
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"Fighting for Return of Decency,’ England Claims.
In London:
LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.).—Great “a just and enduring peace with any honorable German government’ and is fighting for “a return to decency” in international
the statement pointed out that it would he possible to make an “ens during peace” with an “honorable” government in Germany, Lord Beaverbrook 's Evening Stands ard today expressed impatience at reat Britain's failure to give more | effective aid to the Poles, “What kind or a war is this?" the newspaper said editorially, “We ask it seriously. , . . Nineteen out of 20 persons are asking this question: ‘Are we making as decisive an ats tack upon Nazidom as our strength allows?’ “All communiques suggest that The “tale of limited German ter- (he effort in the West is insufficient [ritorial ambitions has been told too) to slacken Nazi pressure on the often to inspire the slightest con-| Hast,” the Standard said in demands | fidence,” the Ministry said, although’ (Continued on Page Three)
ment, The statement, following an[nouncement that the Government |is preparing for war on a three-
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In Ottawa:
OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 11 (U. P). budget. Heavy tax increases were The Canadian Government today | sertain. effecting probably corporas
Canada Goes to War; Money Must be Voted,
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[notified Parliament that it proposes y u to raise an immediate “war fume” ODS profits and capital [of $100,000,000 to carry on the war Rains. The income tax rate was axe [against Germany, pected to be increased as were taxes Part of the money will be raised on tobacco, alcoholic beverages and by taxes, part by borrowing. The other luxuries money will be used, it was said, not The Dominion's declaration of war only for the defense of Canada, but put her at Britain's side in her war for “the conduct of naval, military | on Adolf Hitler. The declaration was and air operations in or beyond signed personally by King George Canada.” VI in London, He had appealed to Parliament met today to consider the Dominions Sept. 5 to “make this | the budget proposals, after the for- | cause their own.” It also was signed mal declaration of war vesterday., | by Governor-General Lord Twesdss The House of Commons tomorrow muir, whose sighature could have is to receive the Government's war (Continued on Page J'hree)