Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1939 — Page 3
MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1939
Poles and Germans Clash in ‘Biggest’ 250-Mile Battle
‘What Kind of War Is This?” Asks Beaverbrook, Urging Stronger British Fight; Moscow Calls Warsaw’s Chances Hopeless.
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and the strengthening of western frontier defenses was designed to protect Russia against retreating Polish forces. Italy, too, took the position in agreement with Berlin that the Polish conquest was an assured triumph. The Fascist press strongly backed up Premier Benito Mussolini’s campaign to form a strong peace bloc in the Balkans, jesigned to keep the small countries out of the conflict and thus permit Germany to clear up the Eastern Front and shift more than a million men to the west against Britain and France. The French Ambassador to Rome, Andre FrancoisPoncet, reported to his Government that the chances of Italy remaining neutral were good and that such a prospect would favor the Allied powers. Spain, too, acted to strengthen her neutrality by ordering Germans out of the French frontier
zone. Hitler Flies Over Front
Although Allied sources reported that Germany had been compelled to raise her total of men in the Polish campaign from 850,000 to 1,200,000, the Germans insisted that they had the main Polish armies trapped south and west of Warsaw and that, as Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering predicted, the “task” in the East would be mainly ended by next week-end. The Germans claimed that large parts of the Polish army were surrendering and that the Nazis had crossed the Narew and San Rivers. Adolf Hitler made a long airplane flight over the Polish front, going close to Warsaw and watching severe fighting south of the Polish capital. The Nazis reported that their prison camps in Poland were crowded by tens of thousands of prisoners, including three Polish generals, and said that | the German Navy, using landing parties, was battering] down the defenses of Gdynia, the Polish seaport on the Baltic. German Ships Held in Baltic
Nazis felt confident that they would still be able to end the Polish fighting and turn their full attention to the Rhineland front before Britain and France can achieve any important gains in the West. They already have sent reinforecements into the Rhineland fortifications, but as long as) the Poles can hold out as an organized Army in the East the Nazi military operations are necessarily handicapped in the West. To date, the Polish Army has taken a severe beating but Allied experts believed that it was far from finished even if Warsaw is lost. On the high seas, Great Britain clamped down harder against Germany, reporting over the week-end that German shipping had practically been swept from the sea lanes except across the Baltic to Scandinavia. British Lose 11 Ships The British Cabinet, making plans for at least three vears of war, tightened its control over almost every phase of life, seeking to ensure supplies for farmers, urging an increase in wheat production, and setting maximum retail prices for certain foods. With 11 British ships lost to German submarines, the Government also speeded up its plans for convoy systems
{ quered Poland.
and worked with the French Navy to lay mines around the
German coasts.
In Paris, the Government issued a series of decrees regulating national finance and economy and Finance Minister Paul Reynaud declared that Germany was “worn out” economically even before the war started.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
DEATHS TO DATE County
ROBB (cccciiiiiaiciiiies 83 1939 ........ i‘ 68
Sept. 9 and 10 2 Accidents .
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FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Con- Fines Tried victions Paid
ging ....... © 0 0 Roki driving. 3 3 $13 Failing to stop at through street. $3 Disobeying traffic signal 0 Dranken driving. © All others .......
0 $33
Totals ........ 55
MEETINGS TODAY
Ladies Auxillary of Mens Apparel Club, Claypoo ote n hia Aa rcoliegiate Coaches” Associa.
eeting, Claypool Hotel, Ye Alana apolis Fred Club, dinner. a ‘WMon-
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week of luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,
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Thanstriar | Prien CoRReH, meeting, Amalgamated Hall,
MEETINGS TOMORROW American Cheinteal Society, Yiheheon., nn, meeting. Hotel Severin, 12:45 Roth otary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,
n, ROGVie Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,
luncheon, Canary Cotluncheon, CoPlumbers
on. Per eator Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,
oon, 8 ean lis Home Builders’ Asspeiatioh. eeting, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 p. + Oniversal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club.
POR nights oS, pS Toby, luncheon, Board of Trade, Latheran. Service Club, luncheon, Canary
trage, a Cone P Paper Credit Group, LL Men's Gril the William H. Block oon. a Men's Club, luncheon, Y. M. ©. A.
Manager Benefit Association, meet-
in otel Severin, p.m, pp Club Board, iuncheon, Hotel Severin, "toon.
FIRES
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u t o. M— Sunset Ave, sparks { fon Briss | Pe Joss $10 11:08
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$49 Pa;
12 P. M.—1843 N. Harding St, garage, soaiks rom bonfire, loss $50. 2 Ninth Ave.
M.--Mars Hill, SARE Pid dog house, children plaving w un Chale. loss
1linots and Minnesota Sts,
dnp, P. M.—Louisiana and East Sts, grass fire 2:25 P, M.—Southeastern Ave. and Cruse St., wooden Tene sparks from bonfire, : P. M5300 N. Illinois St. grass
IP N —jielid '% and 18th St, 3:34 W. Ohio St, HI Sy and ak, cause unknown, unestimated. 4:13 P. M.—2100 Bluft Road, dump, 4:25 P, M1740 W. Michigah St. grain levator dust explosion, loss unestimated 28 P. M.— 2606 N. Sherman Dr. garage, cause unknown, loss $35. 1:39 —Indiana State Fair Grounds, tree, sparks from bonfire.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses,
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Richard Shoemaker, 25 of Pittsbun h, Mary Louise Lustig, 25, of 540 Mid dle Dr, Woodruff Place. Lawrence Franklin, 37, of oe 8. Addison; Louise Fave Baker, of 702 N.
Belleview, Harry H Newland, 22. of 1844 E. Minnesota;: Alta Roe, 18, of in Nordyke. Hn 939 N. Tibbs;
Julian D, Macy Anna of nh 5 ackson. v. 50, E.
gal: McConnell, . Jasper Gregor of St ; oa Atchison, 48, of 256 S Grace Bruce B. Bebel, 21, of Alexandria, Ind.; William J, Miller, 18, of 1404 Naomi, Reuben Feick, 33, of 2354 N. Talbott; Esther Walker, 26, of 516 N. New Jer Sey. nnis Kenemer, 25, City; Catherine I Whitton, 19, City Jack H. Wormer, 28, of ja N. Salem; Frieda Naperstick, 30, of 821
. WashingSot Ease Deloss. 61% WEES aihihgton. 3 0 719 Sout 0, ot 719 Sout
uel W, Dalton, 22, of 1859 T linn: B. Taylor, 18, of 3004 Meredith. erlev E. Smitherman, 57, of Mogi vile, Ind: Margaret Crawford, Cit Evert HEREC 22, of 151% heron: Ethel F. i9 of 1048 Tallman. Frederi Sry ant, 27, of Chicago; Kathryn, Bart, 23, Yo 4925 Graceland. Donald R RATA eror, 21, of Lafayette; Charline M. Fridley, 18, of 8 George Johnson Ir 22 Charlotte Hays, 17 11 ox. Ral ‘ bile 8 of 809 N. Jefferson: Martha E. Hed 24, of 923 N. Rural. Lilo 3 addie, , of 1015 N. Belmont; Dorot Wilson, 22, of 968 N. Tremont,
BIRTHS Boys Plates, Lillian Stone, at 2608 Boulevard
“Ran Helena Sullivan, at 1030 E. Troy. jiliam, 1 Thelma Schindledecker, at 1728 N. De Luther, Chitstine Howard, at City, . Betty Chapman, at City. James, Lillie Mae Coe, at City. , Pauline Ingle, at Coleman, ,. Betty Wright, at Coleman. James, Lucille Anderson, at Coleman, Louis, Bessie Albrecht, at Coleman, Girls
ichard, Allene Collins, at 1818 E. 12th, y ilbur, Naomi Connell, at 1918 8. Ran-
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BRITAIN SHAMED FOR LUKEWARM HELP TO POLAND
‘What Kind of a War Is This?’ Asks Impatient London Paper.
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ing most vigorous prosecution of the war and the stamping out of profiteering at home, Meanwhile Great Britain tightened her control of the sea and dug in for a long war. The British and French navies, working in close co-operation, were
laying heavy mine fields in the North Sea and the English Channel, closing in the blockade on Germany which they hope will bring her to her knees. The Admiralty hastened its prep-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Me Shows German Strategy
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_ PARIS REPORTS
arations to convoy all Allied merchant shipping to and from Allied | ports and to the major ports of | the world as (ierman submarines | sent four more British ships to the bottom. The British seemed conditioned and ready for a long war, deter-| mined to withstand any German| effort to obtain peace after its armies have conquered Poland. On the basis of authoritative statements over the week-end, there seemed no possibility of peace except on Anglo-French terms—that Germany must evacuate her troops from Poland.
German People Learn of War
The British Broadcasting Co. said today that many Germans were ignorant that Britain and France had declared war until the first communique was issued at Berlin regarding fighting on the Rhineland front. The regular news broadcast quoted a foreign correspondent at Berlin as saving that news of the Western Front fighting, announced on the German radio, had created a great impression among many Germans who had hoped that hostilities in the Rhineland could be avoided. An indication of Britain's determination and of her conviction that the war would not be over soon, was the Government announcement that farmers could obtain as much motor fuel and supplies for agricultural production as they needed, and that the Government was opening a campaign to put 250,000 more acres into porduction in northern Ireland. Authoritative sources repeated | that Britain had no intention of} even considering a truce if Germany offers one after she had con-
Food Prices Regulated
The Ministry of Food set maximum retail prices for granulated sugar and potatoes. Authoritative quarters said that Britain’s flotillas of destroyers and light craft hunting submarines, particularly around the British Isles and the Atlantic Ocean lanes, had been particularly active. Nothing was said about their results. Submarines are known to have torpedoed 14 British ships. The Ministry of Information announced the names of the latest as the Regent Tiger, the Goodwin, the Rio Claro, the Gartovan, the Magdapur, the Blairlogie and the Kennebec.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 11 (U. P).— Rumania redoubled defense preparations today in fear that she might be drawn into the war if Hungary or Bulgaria tries to regain territory lost to her in the World War, The Government was said to view with suspicion the Berlin visit of Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Stephan Csaky, who, it was believed,
of» | West Yl warmer,
might have obtained German support for Hungary's claims.
Steve Dumigan, 87, at 1523 Broadway, carcinoma Jessie Skaar, nephritis, Charles White, arteriosclerosis.
Jennie Gurley, 55, at 442 N. Colorado. cardio vascular renal disease. Ernestine Whitehead, 17, monary tuberculosis. William E. Greuling, 51, at 1523 Broadway, angina pectoris. Steven B. Hatfield, 81, cerebral hemorrhage. Susie Keith, 45, peritonitis, mma LaMar, sarcoma, James Nicley,
50, at Methodist, acute
75, at 2152 N. Talbott,
at City, pul-
at 1815 College, at Methodist, 78, 80,
general at 1523 Broadway 3652 Clifton arteriosclerosis, Sarah Wright, at City, cercbhral hemorrhage John Ison, 43, at 6500 E. Shelley, coronary occlusion. Mar 78, at 2624 W. Washing-
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST— Pa tty clondy and not so cool tonight; becoming mostly cloudy and warmer tomorrow. Sunrise ..5% | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Sept. 11, 1538 8 a
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| Precipitation 24 hrs. end: Total Prapiption, hinte Hon. Excess since Jan,
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana— Partly cloudy and not so cool tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and warmer, postbly showers in extreme nopthwest ' Jit ni ostly cloudy, local thunderhoa tomorrow and possibly in north-
and west-central portions tonight,
Lower Michigan Increasing cloudiness, not so cool tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy, possibly showers in extreme west portion, warmer. Ohio Increasing cloudiness: warmer in west and south portions tonight, followed by showers and warmer tomorro Kentucky Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight; followed by focal thundershowers and warmer tomorrow
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FOE ROUTED AT BAYONET POINT
German Action Believed Slowed by Bombardment In Saar Valley.
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general calm. Our troops made a local advance.” Other advices said that the French, now operating in divisional strength, had widened their operations on the German front and had made further deep gains toward the main line of the Nazi Westwall. Heavy French aerial bombardments at German concentration points in the Saar Valley behind the German Westwall were reported to have slowed German action and | to have tended to disorganize troops and supply movements toward the front, Fighting on the Maginot-West-wall line had now been going on for one week, dating from the first French feeler shots and the small scale advances of infantry to contact the Germans. The scale of fighting was now assuming larger
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Three flanking movements have got Germany one-third of Poland, the shaded area en the map. Germany first made two simultaneous
flank attacks, the first from east
the second from south and west on Silesia (B-B), then a three-way
attack similarly on Warsaw (C-C-
Maj. Eliot Says Poland's Chances Are Not Hopeless
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vance of the northern and southern arms of the German pincers appears checked on both sides. The Nazis undoubtedly realize the dangers of their present tactics, but probably count on the speed of their advance to disorganize Polish armies and break Polish morale. Likewise, they presumably figure that their air force attacks can nullify the Polish army’s mobility, an essential to counter attacking. It is quite clear that the Germans have, for the moment at least, established air superiority on the northern front, but air superiority is never a permanent or assured thing because of the very nature
of that military arm. But the fact remains, , despite all
proportions. But it was insister in French quarters that there had vet been no grand scale action. The Germans were showing stronger resistance and evident determination to portect posts in front of their main line, The Germans had counter-at-tacked strongly but to no avail, and it was indicated that the French continued to held the initiative all along the line.
and west on the Corridor (A-A),
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Germans Thrown Back Informants said that in the
Rival War Claims
By UNITED PRESS
GERMANY — High command claims German forces completing encirclement of Warsaw, having fought to south bank of Narew River on front 85 miles northeast! of capital; reports some Polish divi sions trapped, laying down their arms; in south drive to cut Poles off from Rumania reported to have progressed across San River to Radymno and Jaroslaw and advancing toward Lwow, less than 60 miles east; naval forces moving against Gdynia.
ALLIES—Polish sources say Warsaw defenders repeatedly thrust back German assaults on suburbs: nearly 2,000,000 Polish troops re ported concentrating for new stand on Vistula River front; French claim they repulsed first important German counter-offensive on Western Front; French fight deeper into German territory east of Saarbruecken in drive toward Cerman West Wall, British strengthen blockade, claim virtually all German shipping driven from major sea lanes; perfecting convoy system designed to eliminate submarine menace.
BIG BATTLE IN POLAND BEGUN
Nazis Use Fake Radio Station to Persuade Poles to Give Up Warsaw.
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counter-attacks which failed near | the Moselle, the Germans gained | several hundred yards before the | French threw them back. Infentry and machine gunners (advanced slowly on the sector east | of Saarbruecken, it was reported, | mopping up and consolidating ground won by massed tanks. Reports from the front said that the French now menaced Blieskastel, 12 miles east of Saarbruecken; Zweibruecken, 16 miles east of Saarbruecken, and the village of Tamrasse in the same area, and forced the Germans to evacuate them. As the French feeling-out of the Westwall continued on a constantly developing scale, there were other developments: 1. It was said after an early morning air alarm in Paris, start | ing at 4:10 a. m. (9:10 p. m, Indianapolis time Sunday) and end-
this, that the Poles have lost a great deal of territory and their continuous retirement certainly is not helping morale.
Unless they can score, not only some striking success, put also be given strong evidence of Allied support, they may be in serious trouble. However, I suggest that both these things may yet happen, and that the Polish situation, though not at the moment very favorable, is a long way from being hope= less. Then, too, the Germans may be getting a little too cocky, and, as they press on and spread out more thinly, their transportation dif ficulties begin.
Reich to Ration Bread:
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Hitler Flies Over Polish Front in Bomber to Survey Gains.
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Force leaflet raids over Germany, appeared in the last two paragraphs of the communique as fololws: “In the west, for the first time, French patrol troops crossed the German Frontier and clashed with our advance posts far in front of the West Wall (the Siegfried or Limes Line). The enemy lost many dead and prisoners, including one officer.
ing at 5:15 (10:15 p. m. Indianapolis time Sunday) that raiding German planes had been driven off long before they reached the Paris area. 2. Reliable informants said that Premier Edouard Daladier was imminently preparing to reorganize his Cabinet, making Marshal Henri Petain, 83-year-old hero of Verdun, 'his War Minister and assuming the foreign portfolio himself in place of George Bonnet, who might replace M. Petain as ambassador to Spain. Peace Feelers Rejected
3. Finance Minister Paul Rey(naud, after decreeing a series of resource mobilizing measures includ ing an embargo on export of gold and capital, told the country: “I do (not believe I am underestimating our adversary in telling you that {Germany is already in large meas= (ure worn out by the gigantic ef« fort she has made in preparing for
nch Advance
| they occupied, and southward to Sandomierz. Poles trapped on the west bank of the Vistula were be: | lieved trying to retire to the east bank to form new lines. 5. In the far south, German troops marched down the OCracow=Lwow railroad line and crossed the Cars pathians from Slovakia to reach the San River defense lines, The Germans claimed that bridge heads had been established over the | San just north of Przemysl and| south of Jaroslav. Thus Lwow, the | capital of the Ukraines, would be| gravely endangered since it is only 50 miles due east,
German dispatches asserted that! war.
“On the Night of Sept. 9 British planes threw leaflets over several towns: in northwest Germany. The|, crew of one plane, which crashed | near Uberstedt in Thuringia, were made prisoner. On the West Frontier three French planes were shot down over German territory. Bombing attacks did not occur.”
Hitler Surveys Gains
It was announced that Adolf Hitler, acting as Supreme Commander of the German Forces in Poland, had visited the front by airplane yesterday and had even flown close to Warsaw, at a point where desperate fighting is now in progress. Herr Hitler, leaving his headquarters, joined the Germany Army Corps operating northward from Silesia, it was announced, and surveved the territory this corps had gained in its advance northeastward of the line Czestochowa-Kielce-Kon-skie south of Warsaw. Todav's battle lines extended over the whole of the bow-shaped front stretching through the heart of Po- | land from the East Prussian frontier, at a point far northeast of Warsaw, to the Carpathian Mountains, in the southeast, it was reported.
Battle Near Decisive Point
The defenders of Warsaw, fight? ing between the Vistula and Bug rivers, and the Polish forces near Radom, 50 miles to the southwest, were roughly the centers and points of most intensive fighting. From the Nazi military viewpoint, however, the Radom fighting appeared to be most important. The second communique issued by the High Command today said that the battle area in the Warsaws= Radom sector was reaching a decisive point. A number of soldiers too great to count and huge war
3 stores have been captured by the
Nazis, it said, while south of the Vistula River at Kutno the trapped enemy “continues to try to escape.” There actually were five sectors of serious fighting for the time being. They were reported by Nazis as fol lows: 1. The East Prussian Army at the extreme northeastern end of the fiont, bridged the Narew River at Nowgorod and Wizgna, 85 miles southeast of Warsaw, and took the town of Lomaza.
Fight Between Rivers
2. North of Warsaw, roughly over a 30-mile stretch, the Germans and Poles seemed to be fighting, sometimes hand to hand, in the area between the Narew and Bug Rivers, with the Germans struggling across the Bug Southward between Wyszkow and Brok. 3. Warsaw itself was the center of heavy fighting between Polish forces and a German column that moved up from the southwest. 4. South and a little west of Warsaw, the Polish battle lines were broken in many places but there was severe fighting in the Radom sector
and along the Polish flanks, northward to Lods which the Naals sald
some Polish forces were laying down their arms. The German advance has been] slowed considerably in the past 43 hours and the intensity of the fight-| ing was apparently much greater than in the first week of the invasion, With the rainy season coming on, it appeared probable that the most critical phase of the war in the east would be reached soon and that events of the next few days would determine whether Poland is to play a decisive role in the Allied struggle against the Reich.
CANADA NOW IN WAR
AS KING SIGNS BILL
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made it effective anyway, and Prime Minister MacKenzie King. The Cabinet approved the declara« tion after Parliament had adopted Lord Tweedsmuir's “speech from the throne.” in which he said that a “state of war now exists.” Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in telling Parliament of the Government's plans to aid the Allies, announced plans for supplies and trained air pilots to Britain and France and for protecting British and French interests in the Western Hemisphere. He said no conscription was cone templated. However, volunteers between 18 and 41 years old are being accepted for overseas service, No recruiting in the United States is planned, the Government said. But officials would not say whether Americans would be allowed to enlist in Canadian regiments as they did in 1914. Recruiting for foreign armies in the United States is prohibited by President Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation.
New Zealand to Send 6000 Men to Europe
LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.) New Zealand will be the first of the British Dominions to send an expeditionary force to Europe, an official of the New Zealand High Commissioner’'s office said today. The first unit will total 6000 men, it was said.
4 CHILDREN HURT IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 11 (U. P.) —Five persons were injured, four of them small children, when an automobile collided head-on with a loaded school bus early today. None of the children were hurt seriously, according to Sheriff's Officer Frank Fuhs. They were Emlie Bowlin and her brother, BEd Komer, and Raymond Beebe. Amelia Yovan, 24, driver of the automobile, was taken to the Lutheran Hospital for treatment.
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| Germany's organism is already very [ vulnerable,
Economically and financially,
On that front Germany no longer has fresh troops. [Tt is a fact that we are beginning [the war in economic and financial conditions very superior to the enemy's.” 4. French newspapers unanimously rejected peace feelers put out Saturday by Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Hitler's official heir, in a speech to munitions workers,
Report Ciano Angered
Regarding the question of Italian neutrality, Ambassador Francois Poncet was reported to have informed M. Bonnet that Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had been angered by the Nazis’ quick thrust to settle its Polish claims “hy force.” : Previously Berlin was reported to have assured Rome that Germany would not go to war to obtain satisfaction of her Danzig demands. The ambassador arrived in Paris from Rome last night with a full report on Franco-Italian relations and Rome's attiude toward the European conflict,
WPA INVESTIGATOR BEFORE GRAND JURY
A WPA investigator and an official from the Marion County 3urveyor's office today appeared before the Federal Grand Jury and it was believed they presented testimony cn alleged WPA irregularities. Val Nolan, U. 8. District Attorney, has declined to say whether he will seek indictments in the WPA matter this session of the jury. At the same time two Congressional probers of th . are making a state-wide investigation from their headquarters in the Federal Building. They are George J. Shillito and Matthew J. Connelly, both of whom declined to comment on their progress.
BOARD AND TURNER TO DISCUSS SCHOOL
The Works Board today decided to arrange a conference with Col, Roscoe Turner to work out plans for leasing an acre of ground for the flying school and repair depot which Col. Turner plans to establish at Municipal Airport, Board members said an arrangement would have to be worked out whereby the new enterprise did not compete with present leaseholders at the port. Myron Green, Chamber of Commerce industrial commissioner, said three other cities were bidding for Col. Turner's school, and asked the Board not to delay action on the requested lease,
ASK U., 8S. SHIP CONVOY
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 (U, P). —The German American League of Los Angeles, in a telegram to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, today sought naval convoy of all American ships sailing to and from ports.
one skirmish 30 miles from Warsaw, A proclamation by the Burgomas- | ter of Warsaw declared that the
Germans were now a little more] than six miles from the city at the nearest point,
Radio Ruse Invented
The Burgomaster, in his cast heard at Budapest,
broad urged the
last drop of blood.” He said that almost all the city's open for business. The Germans were also using the radio in their attempt to capture the city. A German station broadcasting in Polish and other languages on the Warsaw station's wave«<length urged the Poles to give up the fight, “Otherwise the German Army chiefs will bombard the city,” the station said. Broadcasting in English, the same station, with sound effects, tried to convince listeners that the city had fallen, “Heavy fighting is going on around our station,” the broadcaster said. “German troops are advancing, but we shall broadcast to our last breath.” The same announcements were repeated in French, with the explosions at the same places,
Bridgeheads Bombed
The Germans were bombarding Vistula bridgeneads to keep the Poles from withdrawing and consolidating their positions along the middle Vistula. The semi-official French newspaper, Le Temps, declared today that the Polish forces were consolidated around bridgeheads behind the Vistula south of Warsaw. The Polish capital itself is the most important Vistula bridgehead. Le Temps’ military expert said the heaviest fighting was to be expected at the angle formed by the upper Vistula and the San River, about 110 miles southeast of Warsaw, with the Germans attempting a pincer movement complementing the one against the Narew sector northeast of the capital, where today's battle began, The last Polish communique said that Polish troops still were west of the San, fighting against German forces seeking to break the defensive line formed by the San and the Vistula.
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CONGRESS CALL WITHIN A WEEK THOUGHT LIKELY
Roosevelt Streamlines Own Office, Sends Welles to Panama Meeting.
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that he had streamlined his own office so that “the nation might not again be caught unaware” and to aid in normal operations of the Government, This change had been authorized by Congress under the President's Reorganization Plan No. 1. It became effective this morning. Coincident with this reorganization announcement a White House source said that the brain trust, described as ‘those creatures of the imagination,” was “out the window.” Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that his six assistant presi dents, who officially begin their work this morning, had no authority over any department, Mr. Roosevelt wants the mandatory embargo on shipments of arms, ammunition and implements of war to belligerents replaced by “cash and carry” policy, i. e,, any belligerent may buy anything in the American market if he pays cash and carries it away in his own ships. The war came to the American Continent yesterday with Canada's formal declaration. Within a few hours, the President issued a predrawn proclamation through the State Department extending the arms embargo to Canada, which Mr, Roosevelt had said the United States would defend in case of an attack by a foreign power. The President last week invoked the em= bargo to cover the other belligerents. Panama Parley Made Vital A second proclamation yesterday, released through the State Department, declared United States neu-
| trality under international law in
the war which the President said “unhappily exists between Germany, on the one hand, and Canada, on the other hand.” A third executive order instructed
| people to defend themselves “to wl Government departments and agen.
cies to enforce the Neutrality Act and other regulations in the case of Canada, All of the proclamations had been prepared and signed by Mr. Roosevelt before he left for Hyde Park Friday. Extension of the European war to the Western Hemisphere through Canada's formal declaration height= ened interest in the conference of the 21 American republics which meets at Panama City next week. A United States delegation, heaced by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, leaves Friday for Panama City. The conference was called under the Declaration of Lima to soildify Pan-American policy with regard to the conflict in Europe. ': The sources which predicted definitely that Mr. Roosevelt's special session call would be issued this week said that the Administration feels certain it has enough votes to repeal the arms embargo, but that it is considering mecnls to prevent a filibuster by opponents. New Army Increase Talked The “cash and carry” plan would permit any belligerent to buy war supplies here. But Germany would actually be barred because Britain's fleet dominates the seas and is enforcing a blockade of Germany. The present law, the Administration con=tends, helps Germany by depriving her enemies of war supplies their control of the seas would enable them to obtain otherwise. It was learned that the Administration may raise its regular and reserve land, sea and air forces to the full peacetime strength of 970,000 men if the war is prolonged. Mr. Roosevelt lagpt week ordered an increase to 632490. Maritime Commission officials said that the Government's “ghost fleet” of merchant vessels, which formed the “bridge of ships to Europe in the World War, would be resurrected if an emergency develops.
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The Junior Charge account——permits
moderate wee tailored to yo
kly payments (or is ur needs).
Your request will be given
courteous con
It's good to h help to you in
sideration!
ave. It will be a great getting your fall clothes
. + . your hats, furnishings and oxfords. It's not a payment plan that is through—. but a charge account that stays open.
NO CARRYING CHARGES
(Of course, we also have the conventional 30-day CHARGE
ACCOUNTS).
Inquire at the
New Accounts
desk . . . Balcony.
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