Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1939 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1939 Britain Threatens Reprisals if Nazis Slaughter Civilians
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lished in Paris the following “ordinance” which it said was issued by the German General Staff: “The General Staff up to now in its incommensurable indulgence has avoided bombing open cities representing no strategic importance.
Open Towns Face German Bombing
“Nevertheless in view of the fact that Poland is ceaselessly inciting its civil population to struggle, it has been decided that this resistance will be punished without pity. “It is toward this end that German aviation will henceforth co-operate with land forces and artillery te repress all sabotage which the civil population of open cities and small towns may try. The Polish Government and General Staff will be entirely responsible for the German repression.” In reply, British foreign secretary Lord Halifax announced in Parliament that such disregard of the rules of humane warfare—if confirmed—would result in retaliation by the Allied powers. Britain would, he said, feel herself “completely free to take such action as may be deemed appropriate” in order to retaliate. The Warsaw radio broadcast late today said: “The Polish Government has drawn the attention of the Government of all civilized states to the bombing of open towns in Poland by the German Air Force, stating this bombing has been carried out systematically on towns possessing no military importance whatever. “Recently bombed towns include Siedlce, Lukow, Brzese, Luck, Zamocs and Jonow.”
Chamberlain Calls for End to Hitlerism
Prime Minister Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, said that as a result of yesterday's meeting in France of the Allied Supreme War Council the two powers are determined “to put an end once and for all . . . to the menace of IHitlerigm.” He said that far-reaching steps toward that goal already had been taken, with British airplanes operating from France and the British Navy attacking German submarines with “success” while also cutting off Nazi war supplies from overseas. Britain's war aims, he said, include liberation of the Czechs from German rule. He said the Poles were holding out strongly. The Polish forces, reported trapped west of Warsaw, were reported by radio to have turned on the Nazis, fought their way out of the German encircling maneuver and attacked the invaders from the rear.
END HITLERISM FOR ALL TIME,
Threat of Aggression Is Intolerable.
LONDON, Sept. 13 (U. P)— Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Parliament today that Great Britain and France are determined “to put an end once and for all , . . to the menace of Hitlerism * To that end, he said:
frustrated” the Nazi conquest. The British war aims include liberation of the Czechs from Nazi rule.
eign Secretary Lord Halifax, will retaliate directly if the German High Command carries out its professed determination to bomb “without pity” Poland's civilian population.
Claim Success in Sub War
The British Royal Air Force is operating on French soil and the public will be advised when British troops, already in France, go into action. The British Navy is “constantly” attacking German submarines with success and German shipping has been cleared off the high seas. The Polish destroyers have joined the British fleet. The French Army's methodical advance into German territory has straightened out their line and been “completely successful.” The Government meanwhile, is accelerating the calling up of British militia men. The Ministry of Information announced that “while the order of calling these men by age—the oldest first and youngest last—will be adhered to, they will now be called up more rapidly than originally contemplated.”
Convoy System Speeded
The convoy system in which warships protect merchantmen is being
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day and Government experts believe it will be as successful as it was during the World War. Mr. Chamberlain was enthusiastically cheered as he entered the crowded House of Commons, where many members wore army, navy or air force uniforms. Earl Stanhope, Lord President of the Council, made the same statement in the House of
[Lords that Mr. Chamberlain made | in Commons.
Mr. Chamberlain, questions, said: “The war aims of His Majesty's
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The unexpected Polish military comeback thus encircled | part of the German troops surrounding Warsaw, the radio] communiques broadcast from Warsaw and Lwow (Lemberg) reported. The big city of Lodz was reported recaptured by |
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Western Front
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Eastern Front
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lingen and Saarbruecken to Bubingen. With the French seeking to dominate the entire Saar industrial district, the German forces were reported n itwo lines: 1. A thin band of recently completed pill boxes and tank barriers on the wooded heights pot far across the Saar River. These were
built in the last 15 months. Feel Out Weak Spots
2. In the fortified main Siegfried Line, running from Karlsruhe to Kaiserslautern and Kunsel, behind Saar Province, and to Prier in the Moselle Valley. Military observers reported that this line was solid but not wholly completed. It was reported that the French had attacked again in the sector | west of Sierck, near the Luxem- | bourg border at the left of their | line, where strong German coun- | ter-attacks had been repulsed. Ac{cording to these reports, the French gained several thousand yards with | mechanized units and heavy artillery which paved the way for the | infantry. Advices received here said that {the French now had almost every
the Poles and one message said the Polish Pomorze Dr. Benes (Eduard Benes, former important German town and stra-
Army, which had been ‘lost” west of Warsaw since the start] of the conflict, had made contact with the defenders of the capital. Nazis Given Severe Setback
Whether the Polish radio reports meant merely that the German lightning war had advanced too rapidly and was being checked until supply lines were fully established remained to be determined. In any event it was obvious] that the Nazis had been given a severe setback in the East. Nazis reported that their forces were now operating far to the east of Warsaw, as well as on a line extending southward from East Prussia directly east of the Polish capital, but it merely said that all Polish counter-attacks had been repulsed in the areas west of Warsaw where radio reports asserted that the Poles were turning the German flank and threatening to pinch off the extended Nazi lines. The Nazis meantime reduced meat rations to one pound a week in the Berlin area, confiscated rubber tires on vehicles | not specifically authorized and mobilized German youth to| work on the farms. | On the Western Front, the French troops pressing into | the Rhineland on both sides of Saarbruecken reported that they had consolidated their positions and were almost ready for direct attack on the main German Westwall (Siegfried Line) fortifications.
Czechoslovak president) in which 1 said: ‘We look forward to the triumph of principles for which we have taken up arms, to the release of the Czech people from German domination.’ ”
Encouraged in France Mr. Chamberlain said that yes-
terday’'s meeting of the Allied Su-| preme War Council in France would | (be followed by further meetings to
insure the closest possible FrenchBritish collaboration in conducting
the war. Yesterday's meeting began | {lines in the Sierck sector, thus pre-
in the morning and continued until afternoon, he said. “I came away from this meeting fortified and encouraged by a complete identity of views,” he said. Mr. Chamberlain referred to the efforts of the Dominions in the war, saying: “I can say that in both military and civil spheres steps have been taken which in some cases are of a
| far-reaching character.”
Opposition parties aired their anger over the Governments handling of war news. Demands were expected for changes in the Ministry of Information. The anger over the official handling of war news was a sign that Britain was getting fully into the war. Most of today's newspapers devoted their main editorials to protests against the censorships.
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tegic position in the Saar Valley under the range of their light and heavy artillery. For that reason, it was said, the German military authorities ordered the evacuation of the civilian population to interior points. Netherlands sources reported that the Germans had ordered the complete civilian evacuation of Aix La in the Rhine province opposite Belgium, beginning today. French artillery was reported to have cut important communications venting the fast arrival of reinforcements.
Air Forces Are Active
The 19th War Communique of the French High Command said this morning: “Sept. 13, 10:45 a. m. (3:45 a. m. Indianapolis Time): Enemy artillery continued to react all night. Both air forces deployed with great activity all day yesterday.” The air ministry denied reports that Strasbourg, a French Maginot Line base city, had beerf bombed by the Germans. The French public was glad to learn that France and Britain had already instituted a Supreme War Council with the meeting yesterday of Premier Edouard Daladier and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Socialists Spurn Cabinet Offer The Socialist Party's Management Committee decided tonight, by a vote of 17 to 11, to refuse Premier Edouard Daladier’s offer of two portfolios in a new cabinet. M. Daladier, who is working to re-
nary to later formation of a War Cabinet, had offered portfolios to Albert Serol, former Minister of Labor, and Charles Spinasse, who was Minister of the Budget in the second Blum cabinet. The committee approved a letter from its leader, Leon Blum, to M. Daladier asserting that its refusal of portfolios does not reflect upon the Premier personally but that the Socialist Party would participate in a National Union Cabinet only when offered portfolios in proportion to the party's importance.
organize his Government prelimi- |
Germans in the Warsaw sector from the rear. (In Paris, official Polish dispatches reported that the Polish armies from the west had established liaison with the main Polish furces defending Warsaw. The contact was said to have been established on the Vistula plains, where there was severe fighting west of Lodz, thus defeating the Naazi efforts to squeeze 250,000 Polish troops in the Posen-Warsaw pocket.) | Unconfirmed reports circulated in | Paris today said that Col. Gen. Fedor von Bock, chief of Nazi operations in Poland, had been criticized for delay in crushing Polish resistance and might be removed from his command.
Northern Offensive Reported
A radio broadcast from Moscow, picked up in London this afternoon, said that the Poles also had started an offensive in the north. In Paris it was reported that continued rain had stirred the Poles’ optimism. The seasonal rains start in September and transform the Polish plains into bogs. If they continue as they usually do, German mechanized units soon will be eliminated from action because the roads will be impassable. Allied military experts, describing the reported Polish recapture of Lodz as the first German defeat on the Eastern Front, said that the German General Staff apparently had stretched too thinly their motorized columns, which broke under the attack of 250,000 Poles pressing simultaneously from the east and west. The recapture of Lodz would threaten the safety of the German advance as far as Radom, 60 miles due south of Warsaw, and reduce the risk that the defense of Warsaw could be turned from Lublin, 100 miles southeast of Warsaw.
WIDER GURB SOUGHT ON PROFITS OF WAR
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Assistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold said today he would ask Congress for additional
[funds to curb war-time profiteering (through better enforcement of antitrust laws. Mr. Arnold, head of the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division, said protests against recent rises in food prices made it clear that his division would need additional per{sonnel and more efficient co-opera-|tion with other departments if it is (to enforce adequately the anti-trust laws. | Addressing the National Petroleum Association, Mr. Arnold termed the anti-trust laws “the front line |defense” against war-time profiteer|ing. They should be enforced more {strictly during war than in peace | time, he said. Mr. Arnold's speech gave the first (official intimation that the Justice {Department would use the anti- | trust laws as its principal available |weapon against profiteering. Attorney General Frank Murphy, ordered {by President Roosevelt to study anti-profiteering statutes, is drawing (up recommendations that may be submitted to Congress.
1, 5. CONGRESS
MEETS SEPT, 21 ON NEUTRALITY
| F. D. R. Facing Showdown
On Plea for Cash-and-Carry Plan.
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and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.” The informal White House conference of Democratic and Republican parties’ Congressional leaders was in line with Mr. Roosevelt's assertion that politics and partisanship should be subordinated when Congress meets to consider the important question of preserving U. S. neutrality in the European war. Meantime, observers studied the President's repeated assurance that the people of the United States would not be idie if Canada were invaded. The British Government cites that statement as putting the Dominion today in a “special position.”
Taken as Defense Factor
The British Government apparently regards Mr. Roosevelt's statement as a factor in defense against invasion of the Dominion sector of the Empire. Developments in the first torcnight of the European war directed attention to the Monroe Doctrine and Mr. Roosevelt's sheech on Aug. 18, 1038, at Kingston, Ontario, in which he said: “The Dominion of Canada is part of the sisterhocd of the British Empire. I give you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if the domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire.” He reiterated that sentiment yesterday, explaining that it was nothing new—not extension—of the Monroe Doctrine. Examination of previous interpretations supports Mr. Roosevelt's contention that the
| doctrine long has extended to all
parts of the Western Hemisphere, North as well as South America. Concerning the neutrality question, Senator Frederick H. VanNuys (D. Ind.) said he would favor a cash and carry plan if “properly safeguarded” but would oppose any “legislation or alliance which may result in again sending American soldiers overseas.” Senator William E. Borah (R. Ida), led off for the isolationist bloc Monday with a warning that repeal of the embargo on shipments of arms, ammunition and implements of war to belligerents would endanger American peace.
McNutt Predicts Neutral U. S.
Social Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, a close friend of the Chief Executive, said in a radio address last night that he was “convinced” that: most Americans “stand squarely behind the President” in his neutrality stand. Mr. McNutt predicted that the United States would remain neutral and urged Americans to pledge themselves to “search for an enduring peace; not peace by surrender and flight, but peace by co-operation.” In another radio address last night, Dr. Hans Thomsen, charge d'affaires of the German Embassy, said that Great Britain's “antiGerman’ and “encirclement” policies caused the war now raging in Europe. Dr. Thomsen, chief diplomatic representative of the Reich in this country since the recall of Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff last year, insisted that Germany is struggling to rectify injustices created by the treaty of Versailles.
Watch Commodity Prices
On the food front the Federal Government continued its close watch over rising prices of basic commodities and will make every ef-
| fort to prevent war-time profiteer-
ing. President Roosevelt said at his press conference yesterday that although the Government is continuing its surveillance over the price situation, no new steps are contemplated in the immediate future. Mr. Roosevelt singled out copper as one commodity the price of which the Government is watching. He said the price of steel also is being watched.
Business Experts Confer
The effect of the war on business also is being checked. Department of Commerce officials today began a two-day con’erence with executives and economists of nine key industries in an effort to appraise the present state of business and its outlook. It was regarded as certain the discussion would include the industrial indices which already have begun to increase. Trade and business of the Far Eastern countries has been affected, the Department of Commerce said today on the basis of cable and
radio reports.
The Gallup Poll—
Shows F.D.R. Is No. 1 Democrat for 1940, McNutt Second and Still Gaining
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion RINCETON, N. J, Sept. 13.— A nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows these ma jor developments in the 1940 Democratic Presidential picture in the last month: 1. Since approximately two Democrats in every three favor a third term for President Roosevelt, the President himself must be considered a leading choice of the Demcoratic rank - and - file for 1940. 2. If Presi dent Roosevelt is not a candidate for the Presidency, however, Vice President Garner is still the popular choice of the party membership to succeed him. In spite of a slight dip in Mr. Garner's strength since early summer,
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there has apparenlty been no apprecibale change in the Texan's popularity following the attack on him by C. I. O. President John L. Lewis. 3. On the other hand, the survey shows that Paul V. McNutt has continued to gain esteem with the party's rank-and-file in the weeks since President Roosevelt boosted him to the post of Federal Security Administrator—in charge of the whole social security program —in the enlarged Cabinet. To ee how Democrats would divide if Roosevelt were out of the picture, the Institute asked a cross-section of Democratic voters in every one of the 48 states: “If President Roosevelt is not a candidate, whom would you like to see elected?” Mr. McNutt, a former head of the American Legion and more recently United States commissioner of the Philippines, received 21 per cen* of all Democratic Presidential mentions as compared with 13 per cent last month and
only 3 per cent in June.
The following figures, which give the standings ir last month's survey as well as today's, show Postmaster General Jim Farley and Secretary of State Cordell Hull still among the top-running ‘eaders:
TODAY'S SURVEY
Vice President Garner. . Paul V. McNutt .. James A. Farley ....... « Cordell Hull ........... Frank Murphy ........0 . Bennett Clark ......... . Harry L. Hopkins. ..... Alben W. Barkley ..... Lloyd C. Stark ........ All others ...... ‘ats
LAST MONTH
. Vice President Garner. . . Paul V. McNutt ........ . Cordell Hull .,..cie00¢s James A. Farldy ....... Harry L. Hopkins ...... Frank Murphy ........ . Alben W. Barkley ...... . Bennett. Clark ....ce¢s Henry A. Wallace ...... All others seserenserane
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Poles Crushed and Eastern War ‘Over,’
Nazi Chiefs Declare
Hint That Defenders in Vistula Area May Be Encirecled.
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civilians to fight German troops in all towns and villages.
Meat Rations Reduced
The German agreement not to
bomb open cities from the air or shell them with artillery was “based on the assumption that the enemy himself would not make such open places a battlefield,” the announcement said. It said that since the Poles had not lived up to that assumption, “resistance will be broken by all means.” “The Polish Government and her incapable Army leaders are responsible for these consequences,” the announcement said. The Government today reduced meat rations, including sausage from one and a halt pounds to one pound a week for the next two weeks and confiscated rubber tires from all vehicles except those expressly permitted to operate. The meat rationing applied only to the Berlin area. The rubber decree requires that all vehicles be submitted to the department for rubber and asbestos in their present conditions, Extra tires must be surrendered.
Silent on Warsaw Siege
Exchange payments will be made ranging from the price of a new tire to the price ot the old rubber. For vehicles permitted to continue operating, new tires may be obtained only with ration cards and on surrendering the worn out tire. The only report of activity on the Western Front was an announcement that three French airplanes had been shot down, two by antiaircraft guns and one by a German pursuit plane. It was announced that one French air force captain had been captured.
It was announced that citizens of been Egypt, Canada, Australia, New Zea- | and South!individual views on matters of na«
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monwealth of nations now at war with Germany, must report to local police within 24 hours, after which they may not leave the towns in which they now live. The economic requirements of war were becoming daily more stringent. An acute labor shortage necessitated the drafting of members of the youth organizations for agri--. cultural work. : Hitler youths aged 16 to 18 and Hitler maidens aged 15 and 16 will. be sent from cities to assist farme | ers in harvesting. Tens of thousands did farm work this summer. They will be employed now in gath« ering the late fruit and potaio ctons as well as at general farm work. Several contingents already bave left Berlin for rural sections. Another measure designed to reduce the labor shortage was an order that henceforth all girls be=tween the ages of 17 and 25 must belong to the Nazi Women's Labor Service.
JAPANESE TERMS WAR LAST RESORT
TOKYO, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Japan will go to war with Soviet Russia only as a last resort but her prestige {must be upheld, Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchukuo, said today. Gen. Umezu, who became chief of Japanese military authority in Manchukuo under a military shakeup ordered by the Cabinet yesterday, said that Japan did not initiate hos[tilities with Soviet forces on the [Outer Mongolia frontier. | Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, new Premier, [by an important change in Govern= | ment policy, became the Cabinet's | sole contact with the Emperor today | except for the War and Navy Min|isters who will be able to seek in- | perial counsel on military and naval | matters alone, | Hitherto, Cabinet Ministers have privileged to seek audience with the Emperor to press their
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