Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1939 — Page 3

TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1939

Allied Supreme War Council Throws All Power Behind Poles

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said, and if they become general the Nazi mechanized army will be handicapped greatly. The German High Command, announcing their troops were steadily closing in on Warsaw, had occupied Posen and were “crossing” the San River toward Lwow in the south, admitted “minor fighting” on the Rhineland Front, The Germans said the Rhineland fighting was among “advance groups” in the Saargemuend-Hornbach area, but from Paris came official reports that the French troops had sliced off another salient between the Saar and Blies Rivers, The French also reported fighting in the Moselle Valley and the Vosges Mountains, The Germans were reported to have been severely bat. tered by French artillery and—more important from a general viewpoint—to have been forced to bring up more troops | to bolster weak spots in the defense lines, The British Ministry of Information, announcing for the first time that British troops had landed in France, said, however, that they had not yet gone into action, Government to Transfer Staffs The Government is taking steps to transfer from Lon. don a limited number of departmental staffs who can pers form their duties away from the city without loss of efficiency, the Ministry announced today. A Ministry spokesman said that between 7000 and 8000 Government ems ployees would be involved in the transfer. No Ministry or) offices intimately connected with wartime activities will leave. The German Westwall (Siegfried Line) fortifications in the Sierck secter are weak, the French reported, and some parts of the defenses never have been completed, so that the Nazig have been forced to take drastic measures to strengthen their position in the face of continued French advances toward the main Rhineland forts, With both Adolf Hitler and Marshal Hermann Wilhelm | Goering on the Eastern Front, however, the Germans ap-| peared determined to complete their triumph in Poland be-| fore starting big scale operations in the west, From Vatican City, it was reported that Pope Pius on| Thursday would appeal to the warring powers for a “local-| ized” conflict and for “humane” warfare, Operations were chiefly on a 60-mile front, with the| French reporting methodical advances by infantry and tanks| against increasingly heavy German artillery fire, Rains to Hamper Reich Troops Obviously, the war on two fronts was taxing Germany's,

fighting strength. Men up to the age of 48 were called tol the in the Reich. Bread will soon be rationed. Women are doing the work of men all over Germany.

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But although such factors are favorable to the Allied Vandenberg (R. Mich) would be tary, the Blies,

position, they were far short of showing that the Reich! fighting power had suffered any serious damage. The Nazi! high command reported that the Posen “loop” in western Poland was rapidly being cleaned up and communication lines strengthened for what was expected in Berlin to be a death stroke at the Polish armies. The Nazis confidently predicted that, as soon as their positions have been consolidated after last week's swift advances, they would quickly encircle and destroy the Polish armies in the Warsaw Lodz sector, push on to Lwow in the|

southeast and then be free to turn their full strength against| 3 The Treasury deficit for the 50 villages

the British and French. 16th British Ship Lost to Subs When they do turn to the West, they said, there will| be a million more troops in the Rhineland and there will be effective submarine counter-attacks against the British! blockade of German shipping lanes, Contraband goods will be listed and

carry outlawed goods to the Allied powers. In that connec-

tion, the United States freighter Wacosta was stopped and quotas would be restored if neces-|

searched and then released by a submarine off the coast of Ireland last Saturday, it was revealed last night. Beyond the battle lines, there was intensive diplomatic activity in Rome, where British Ambassador Sir Percy Lo-| raine again conferred with Fascist Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Although no announcement was made after | the meeting, British sources hinted that it might prove to be of importance.

OVER REPEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO

Borah and Nye Protest On Neutrality Revision; Sugar Quotas End.

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the Administration would face a “real war” on the legislative front if it amempts to change the neutrality law. “Starting in 1814.” Mr. Nye said, “we Americans revelled in a feast on profits available through sale of war supplies to warring Europe. We relished this return to a point of worship. “It was not long before we were prevailed upon to provide Europe with the credits and the money they needed if they were to continue buying from us. Step by step we let Europe use this love of ours for war trade as a club team came ultimately to rule our American course in foreign affairs,

Censorship Is Denied

“It ultimately destroyed our neutrality and dragged us to war” The White House took apparent cognizance of Senator Borah's ate tack today when Stephen T. Early, the White House secretary, said that reports of censorship referred to hy Borah were “bogey men” not based on fact. Senator Borah had mentioned “constant suggestions about the censorship of the press, of the radio . . . and shutting off debate.” Mr, Early's remarks on censorship were in response to questions cons cerning the agreement by major broadeasting systems on a policy of handling war news in view of this country's neutrality. He emphasized that the Government had no hand in that agreement, Mr. Early said. “The Government wants no censorship either of the press or of the radio and would like very much if a parity could be established between them in the collection and dissemination of news and in the discrimination of news.” Early Session Indicated

President Roosevelt has said that he would call Congress into special session in an attempt to strike the embargo from the statute books, Chairman Adolph J. Sabath (D. 11) of the House Rules Committee said after talking with President Roosevelt today that Congress prob. ably will convene in special session on or a little before Oct. 1. The consensus here is that President Roosevelt will win his way, but not before a fight. Other developments included: 1. Look Magazine reported that a canvass of members of Congress indicated a plurality opinion that Mr. Roosevelt and Senator Arthur H.

the major party Presidential nominees next year, 2. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), a strong 1940 contender for G. O. P. nomination told a Seattle, Wash,

audience our country's best service survive |

to democracy would be to emergency with democratic institutions intact. He proposed, to that end, abandonment of government control in business and agriculture, abolition of planned economy, price fixing and wage fixing and a quick reduction of Federal spending. Keep Money Agreement

first two months and eight days of the first quarter of this fiscal year aggregated $947.000,000. 4. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, announced that application of British and French exchange control would not scrap the tri-partite monetary agreement entered into with those nations. On the food front, Mr. Roosevelt

all ships will he jolted hoarders and those whole- | tensity of their artillery fire on the subject to search, and to capture or destruction if they salers who have been holding sugar| German fortifications.

stocks with an order temporarily suspending sugar quotas. He said

sary to protect sugar producers.

| The quotas came off because of the!

war emergency, extraordinary consumer purchases and apparent speculative activity. The President's action coincided with Department of Agriculture forecasts indicating bumper yields of grain and other crops. These forecasts bore out official assurances that there is no prospect of any food shortage in the United States.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record) DEATHS TO DATE | (These lists are from official records | C tv Cit | In the County Court House. The Times, oun y HY | therefore. is not responsible for errors in | 8 names and addrasses, | ‘ 64 10 | Sent. 11 |. Edwin Henderson, 24, of Blue Rid . | Sept. 3d 3 Edith Anna Morgan, 23. of dha 3 Accidents . .... raat Whttewnon. $6. af 368 N. Revs: aul At on, 3 nf 264 N. Kevsto Dead ..... 0 Arrests ....... 80 Emma Mav, 43. of 1315 Bancroft ™ NDAY 4 s CO C Ervin Kamp, 46 of BloomingMONDAY TRAFFIC COURT |, "L08 £ Warren: 36 ‘ot BF. ROPS: Cases Con- Fines @anapolis Tried victions Paid | Welter Allen 10 10 $968 NX. Talbott 6 6 aN Rhiman A, Rotz of 3330 Broadway: Marie A. Menges, 22, of 1324 W. 25th St

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James Battle, 50, at City, carcinoma, Mildred Gieseking, 17, at 1737 Howard, endocarditsy Effie Smock, 72, at St. Vincent's, chronic mvocarditis

Pearl Carpenter, 34, at City, lobar pneu.

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artillery in the Saar-Moselle triangle, The German general staff was reported to have thrown five divisions as reinforcements into the Moselle | Valley—territory held by the Amerlican Army of Occupation after the World War armistice. French movements in the SaarBlies salient were regarded as stra[tegically most important because [they eliminated two salients which [had heen created by curves in the Saar River and loops in its tribu-

50 Villages Involved

From the western edge of the Warndt Forest, past Saarbruecken 'and across the Mandel River to the Blies, the French now are reported massed along the main line of German communications feeding the Siegfried Line forts. French military experts insisted that soon the Germans will be obliged to withdraw from this sector to a new line established between fortified positions of the Siegfried Line. Latest operations involved nearly from which the Gerpopulations had been evacuated. The High Command for{bade naming of the villages, but it was known that the whole operation formed an intricate part of the offensive plan, Using the favorable terrain captured during the past week the] | French now, according to sources|

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to roundup all civilians bearing guns.

Earlier today the French had disclosed only that they were consolidating positions won in a meth-| odical advance on the Western] Front in the face of increasingly {heavy German artillery fire. This morning's communique, No. 17. from the High Command, said simply: “There is calm along most of the front.” It was the first approximation in the new war of the famous 19141918 “all quiet on the Western Front." The communique was interpreted to mean that in pursuance of their battie plan since the beginning of operations the French forces were consolidating the positions they had taken yesterday in an advance along a 12';-mile front. It was understood that after each advance toward the main German Westwall the French were making | their positions as secure as possible against counter-attacks by consolidating them with large quantities of automatic arms, trench mortars and | field guns. Thus they combine se|eurity with the advantage of a] strong jumping-off place for the | next advance, Indications were that the French operations were emerging from the first contact phase into the “engagement” phase in which big French forces were approaching the main German defenses at several points.

~NEW GHIEFS NAMED

FOR JAPAN'S ARMIES

TOKYO, Sept. 12 (U. P.) —Japan in an army shakeup involying some

of its highest active officers, named new supreme commanders today for its armies in China and Manchukuo. The shakeup is intended to hasten termination of Japan's undeclared war with China, the Army section of the Imperial headquarters said. Gen. Toshizo Nishio, Inspector General of Military Education, was named supreme commander of the forces in China with Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, until the. recent cabinet shakeup, War Minister, as Ghief of Staff, Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, previously in field duty, was named commander of the Kwangtung Army, the Japanese Army in Manchukuo, which since mid-May has been engaged in a series of fights with RussianMongolian forces on the Outer Mongolian frontier. He succeeds Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, who had been commander and Ambassador to the

Manchukuan Government. since 1936.

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SOMEWHERE IN POLAND-Civilian snipers have proven to be the biggest headache te German troops occupying conquered Polish So while divisions of Nazi soldiers continue to smash their way deeper into Poland mopup squads like these remain behind to

with axes in a concentrated effort

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being hurried around Radom, The general impression among the Germans is that when Adolf Hitler's troops crossed the San River they performed one of the most important maneuvers of the war on the Eastern Front. That maneuver enabled them to strike either north or south and to put further pressure on the Polish Army, wherever it may be concentrated behind Warsaw, The Poles are actually holding against three German Armies driving on Warsaw, the military reviewer of the newpaper Le Temps in Paris said.

Poles Turn and Attack

Other unofficial sources, surveying the Eastern Front, said that massed in and behind Warsaw, 30 Polish divisions were holding off 70 German divisions squeezing the Polish capital in a gigantic pincers operation.

On the Center Polish Front inside a semi-circle formed by the Vistula River, Le Temps said, Polish Poznan forces which had been retreating turned and attacked the Germans east of where they had entered the zone west of Warsaw. German southwestern armies, Le Temps said, still were 25 miles from the evacuated Polish capital. It said also that bitter fighting raged on the River Bug Front where Polish resistance was described as particularly strong. In this sector fighting was heavy along the upper Narew River around Lomza. On the Southern Front, according to Le Temps, new battles began along the San line where Germans were trying to turn the Polish center and cut off the WarsawLublin region from eastern Galicia and Rumania. The German advance, it was said, hda been slowed down along the middle Vistula,

Vistula at Lowest Ebb

Le Temps said that outcome of the present fighting would depend upon the strength of the Polish forces in the vast territory between the Bug and Vistula Rivers and upon the value of the Vistula as a defense line now that the river's water is at its lowest level. Utmost importance also attached to ability of the Poles to manitain themselves on the Bug, the only viver protecting their right flank against mechanized German divisions. Other unofficial sources said that the Germans were halted at the Vistula by a powerful concentration of Polish artillery. The Polish army was described as intact despite 12 days of steady retreat from open flats without even a hillock behind which to make a stand. Mechanized German forces which had rolled through Polish border towns were described as forced to halt until the German command could bring up infantry and field artillery. In the south and center of their line the Poles now are on rough terrain far easier to defend than the plains of Poznania and Galicia. War Material Saved Polish artillery was said to have caused heavy losses among German columns massed in the plains and clogging the few good roads. The official Polish radio today said that Marshal Edward Smygly-Rydz has succeeedd in saving all Polish war material and stocks of Polish war reserves in his swift retreat to the Polish defense triangle. As long as the Poles hold their present line south from Warsaw to the Carpathian Mountains there will be no shortage of food and munitions, the Polish radio said. The Poles also said they still hold a vital line of communications from Warsaw northwest of Vilma. Poles also were encouraged by the start of the rains in Poland. The broad, dry plains, over which the German war machine rolled relentlessly for 11 days, soon will be mucky mud flats. The rivers, Vistula, Bug, Narew and San, toward which the Germans are driving and behind which the Poles have concentrated the greatest array of artillery and cavalry ever seen in Eastern Europe, will rise quickly and freeze, It will be more difficult for the Germans to move supplies when the roads are quagmires; it will be impossible for heavy German tanks to reach some half-flooded regions. Then the famed Polish cavalry wil lhave the advantage.

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MAJOR POLISH FORCES IN TRAP, REICH REPORTS

Indicates German Armies Dealing Death Blow East of Warsaw.

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continued to fight along the San River in the Przemyl-Jaroslav sector. The Nazis did not appear to have made much progress and it was uncertain whether they nad

been able to establish a bridgehead over the San.

Battle in San Sector

There was heavy fighting in the San sector, however, and the German communique reported capture of the town of Chyrow, south of Przemyl, between the headwaters of the San and Dnieper. This gap in the two river systems is an historic battleground and offers opportunity for Polish flanking attacks to prevent crossing of the San further north. In the Sandomierz sector, there were no reports of Germans having crossed the San, thus indicating that the Polish forces on the Central Vistula front are still intact. The German aerial fleet was bombing railroad lines over a vast area east of the Vistula to disrupt Polish communications. The High Command announced that Posen, Gnesen, Hohensalza and many other towns in western Poland had been occupied and that all territory belonging to Germany in 1914 was now in German hands. Dispatches from the front told today of a visit by Adolf Hitler to field headquarters of the Lodz-War-saw front, where he heard Poles

‘and Germans battling with machine

guns less than a mile away. He flew there in a bomber, the Army said.

Silent as to Western Front

The German dispatches again made no reference to fighting on the Western Front. The Poles still held Gdynia, the Baltic port at the top of the Corridor, but it was hopelessly surrounded. The latest mobilization of reserves brought men as old as 48, most of them World War veterans, to the colors. It was said that the older men probably would be used behind the fighting lines, but that the main reason they were called up was that most of the younger classes had not had any military training. The mobilizations have caused a severe shortage of manpower throughout Germany, Some businesses were being run by girl secretaries, Women had replaced most men barbers. It was reported that Herr Hitler had chosen a Senate of 22 men to elect a new Fuehrer in case he, Herman Goering and Rudolf Hess all died. He has designated Herr Goering, No. 2 Nazi, as his successor, and Herr Hess, deputy party leader, as Herr Goering’s successor.

MID-AIR LEAP FATAL

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12 (U. P). -Missing his footing when he attempted to leap from one steel pier to another, Clarence J. Vogel, 47, of Wellsville, O., was killed today when he fell 35 feet while supervising construction of a theater 1In West View,

Rival War Claims

By UNITED PRESS ee GERMANY

High command says big battle along Vistula reaching “final point” with Germans advancing on Modlin, key defensive city 20 miles northwest of Warsaw; announces capture of Thorn, Posen, Gnesen, Hohensalza and other towns placing in German hands virtually all of the Polish territory held by Germany before last war; reports widespread air raids in which 36 Polish planes were destroyed; claims Poles being defeated northeast of Warsaw in offensive which started from East Prussia; asserts submarine blockade of Britain will be as effective as Britain's naval blockade of Germany.

ALLIES

British troops, mechanized units, artillery and aircraft in France; French consolidating advances along 60-mile front centered on 27mile line between Saarbruecken and Piermasens; claim French infantry and artillery superior to German and that two-to-four-mile advance made yesterday despite heavy artillery and troop counter-attack; Warsaw radio claims Polish coun-ter-attack threw Germans back several miles and that German assaults on capital from north repulsed; start of rains in Poland hailed as threat to German war machine,

AMERICAN SHIP SEIZED BY SUB

Freighter Is Detained for Three Hours; At Least 26 Craft Sunk.

By UNITED PRESS The detention and search of the

American freighter Wacosta by a

German submarine off the coast of Ireland was referred today to the State Department at Washington for a decision bearing directly on United States neutrality. This development oincided with a recapitulation today which showed that torpedoes, shells and mines have sunk at least 26 vessels—more than 115,000 gross tons of shipping— since Germany and Britain began their war on each other's merchant craft 10 days ago. The Wacosta's master, Captain G. Self, radioed to the offices of the Waterman Steamship Co. at Mobile, Ala., the operators, that the submarine halted his ship Saturday and sent a searching party aboard which spent three hours examining the cargo and ship's papers. This incident was reported a few hours after it had been announced semi-officially in Berlin that Germany had declared a counterblockade on Great Britain and would enforce it with submarines. The announcement was that Germany was drafting lists of contraband similar to Britain's list; that “all means” would be used to prevent war materials and foodstuffs from reaching Britain, even from neutral countries, and that a “blacklist” of commercial firms dealing with Britain would be drawn up. British losses in 10 days were raised to 16 when it was announced that the British steamer Inverliffey was sunk by & German submarine and that the members of its crew had been rescued by the American vessel R. G. Stewart.

BRITISH FORGES LAND IN FRANGE TO ENTER WAR

‘Not Yet in Action,” Says Ministry; Nazi Raid Defense Called Weak.

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reversal of British policy. For years British military policy was based firmly on the idea that if Britain were involved in another European war, France would undertake to defend her frontiers and Britain would pool its air force and its powerful

navy with those of France, the French directing land operations and the British Navy operations, with the question of aerial opera=tions to be decided. Prime Minister Neville Chamber= lain was expected to make an announcement in the House of Come mons tomorrow regarding the creation of a Ministry of Shipping. Plans for the ministry had been made before the war started. One of the primary tasks of such a ministry in the last war was the alloca« tion of ships to various classes of goods, to insure a steady and rae tioned flow to the British Isles. Aviation experts asserted today that Royal Air Force leaflet raids over Germany had given the greatest satisfaction to the highest circles because they indicated most strongly that Germany's ground defenses, such as detectors, searche lights and aircraft batteries were at present “appallingly weak.”

Ground Defense Slow

Men who are taking part in the raids were quoted by informants as asserting that on not a single occa= sion did German searchlights ope= rate. This, the experts said, was an ine dication that the German detector apparatus did not register the ap=proach of British planes or the fact that they were overhead. Further, they asserted, it was not until the British anti-Hitlerist leaflets fluttered to the ground did the .ground defenses become active. Then, it was asserted, the German searchlights were so ineffective that it was a “joke,” and anti-aircraft batteries were apparently non-ex-istent because there was no attempt at a barrage. Hundreds of Americans, including four tennis professionals, went by train to an undisclosed port today to sail for home on the United States liner Washington. The liner had 1800 passeners, some of whom will sleep on couches and chairs in the ship's lounges.

CHARGE WMCA WITH ILLEGAL BROADCAST,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (U., P.). ~The Federal Communications Commission today ordered Radio Station WMCA, New York, to show cause why its license to broadcast should not be revoked for alleged illegal interception and broadcast of secret Government messages from Germany and Great Britain. It was the first Government move toward disciplining radio since the European war began. FCC officials said the commission had voted the

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