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BIG BATTLE WON. FRENCH

Trapped’ Poles Fight On, Fo

RAIN EXPECTED LATE TODAY T0 COOL OFF CITY

Two More Dead as Record Drought Nears End After Heavy Damage.

TEMPERATURES 18 10 a.m, FT Ham 12 (moon)

8) 82 1pm

LOCAL m, m. m. m

a. 83 a. 87 a. 9% a. 23

The best and most welcome

VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 162

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Possibly a local thundershower this afternoon, followed by fair and tonsiderably cooler tonight and tomorrow,

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE

R 16, 1939

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REALTY HEAD STUDYING PL FORHATCHACT

. Restraint Needed in Use of

thunderstorm that ever broke over

Indianapolis was expected late this afternoon. It's the one that is to break the September heat wave and make tonight and tomorrow “cons siderably cooler according to the Weather Bureau Temperatures within bounds 90 until noon

sort of reaching

remained today, not

Some Crops Damaged wo more pereons died in Indiana ak a result of the excessive heat, and one more was Indianapolis The record-breaking September heat wave also is reported responsible for water shortages in some Hoosier cities and farms and some damage to late crops Temperatures reached 100 Thurs. dav and neared it yesterday.

Evansville Man Dies

hose whose deaths were attributed to heat were Louis P. Kleiderer, 73. who died of a heat-induced heart attack in an Evansville cleaning shop in which he had been a pariner for 30 years. and Harold W Ploeger. 44. Louisville, Ky, who died in Terre Haute William Heid, 29. of 358 W. Washington St, collapsed yesterday at his work at Stokely-Van Camp's and was reported in a fair condition in Methodist Hospital Many Indiana communities dismissed school vesterday because of the excessive heat, and resort owners reported a heavy rush of reservations for cottages for the week end Resches have been crowded all week, it was reported.

LUCIUS HAMILTON IS DEAD IN FLORIDA

Friends and relatives here were notified today of the death of Lucius OO. Hamilton, former president of Hamilton-Harris & Co. cigar wholesalers here, in Miami, Fla, Mr. Hamilton had been operating the Mirabar Hotel in Miami since selling his interest in the company here to his parther, BEd Harris, in 1929. He was 73 years old. Funeral services will be held here Tuesday afternoon at the Flanner & Bu-

chanan Funeral Home, with burial

in Crown Hill Mr. Hamilton was born in Kentucky and moved to Rush County where he became a tobacco company salesman. He formed Hamil ton-Harris & Co. in 19068 with Mr. Harris, and served as its president until 1929 He is survived by two sons, Fran. cis FF, Miami, Fla, and Lucius V. Hamilton of Indianapolis

MISS COCHRANE SETS NEW AIR SPEED MARK

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (U. P) —Jacqueline Cochrane claimed a new women's air speed record of 2 hours and 2 minutes today for the 1000 kilometer-tabout 622 miles) course, She gunned her silver Seversky pursuit plane from Los Angeles to San Mateo, Cal. and back yesterday at an average speed of 300 miles an hour The aviatrix vious record minutes

ESTABLISH PATROL IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 18 (U. P). Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are considering establishing a joint naval patrol of the South American Atlantic coast, Foreign Jose Maria Cantilo said today. Argentina already has begun to patrol her long coast. ships Rivadavia and Moreno returned Wednesday from a good will mission to Brazil, and the four destroyers which escorted them were put into active service at once.

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The Advantages of Living in An Apartment,

When vou live in an apartment you really live because vou have so much more time for vourself. Compaciness of room arrangement yusekeeping so much

SAS the janitor

ar takes care of the furnace the grass the snowy and all those other odd fobs that seem to (ake un so much of vour time And remember too your fue! and water bill is paid when vou live in an apartment Plan now to visit a few apartments be. fore selecting vour permanent ad adresse for the winter

Consult TIMES Want Ads For the Better Apartments,

Minister |

The battle- |

" clation attorney,

Public Money for Politics, Convention Told.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Times Staft Weiter

LAKE WAWASEE, Ind, Sept. 18 ~The proposal for a state “Hatch

Law,” barring all non«elective pub- |

lic employees from political activity, today was studied by the Indiana Real Estate Association's tax and legislative committee, The nee for such a law was suggested by Samuel C. Cleland, Ft. Wayne Taxpavers Research Assoin an address

AY the closing session of the Associa

tion's two-day convention here late

f vesterday.

reported prostrated in

Times-Aeme Telephoto Col. Charles A, Lindbergh . “Le us not delude ourselves”

LET'S STAY OUT, LINDBERGH PLEA

Stimson and Butler Join Neutrality Debate, Asking Arms Ban Repeal.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U.P) The debate on how the United | States is to stay out of war quick‘ened today Col. Charles A Lindbergh, Henry LL. Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, and Nicholas Mure ray Butler, president of Columbia University, had added their voices to it, Col. Lindbergh addressed the listeners of the radio networks of the National Broadeasting Co. the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Mutual Broadcasting System--an audience of a size usually enjoyed only by the President. Mr. Stimson and Mr. Butler expressed their views in letters to the editor of the New York Times. | Col. Lindbergh's plea was for isolation in Europe's present struggle He saw no circumstance, beyond ‘that of evident self interest, in which America would be justified in undertaking a foreign war. He said nothing concerning the neutrality law-—which Congress % meeting next week to reconsider— whose proponents believe wili keep America out of war and whose opponents believe is unneutral and could involve America in war, But his speech seemed more near ly related to that of Senator William E. Borah Thursdav night in (Continued on Page Three)

PASSENGER HOPS OFF

AS PILOT SLUMBERS

Alarm Sounded for Young Man in Light Suit.

A voung man in a light summer suit calmly took off from Municipal Airport in a yellow monoplane shortly before daybreak today, while the pilot slumbered in a downtown | hotel, State Police reported. A description of the plane was {brodcast to all Middle West airports. | The pilot, David H. Bishop, of |Chicago, sald the young man, who {gave the name of “J. B. Heath” chartered the plane at Oaklawn,

Ill, late yesterday to come here to

see his “boss.” The passenger invited him to stay { with him in a room in a downtown | hotel, Mr. Bishop related. The young man went out about 1:30 a. m. and never returned. This morning when Mr. Bishop awakened, he found his door locked on the outside and he to called a clerk to get out. Municipal Airport officials said the young man told attendants he intended to warm up the plane and wait for his partner. But he flew away, Mr. Bishop said the young man told him he wanted to photograph some Indiana railroads The plane belonged to the Pred Schumacher Flying Service, Oaklawn, Ill, .

Mr, Cleland charged the Indiana Highway Commission has

the bid-

“without competition in

use of rock asphalt possibility ot

j ding,” and he urged resision of the State Highway Department laws to

provide competition in bidding. Shirk Elected President

His address followed the election of Benjamin F Shirk, Ft. Wayne,

to the presidency, to succeed Earl B Teckemeyer, Indianapolis. Joseph |

J. Schmid, Indianapolis, was elected secretary-treasurer. The association adopted resolutions pled thg its vigorous opposi(tion to any increase in property taxes and its support for a “scien tific” reassessment of real property in order to equalize assessments and develop a taxing system placing the burden proportionately on all the people, in accordance with their ability to pay.

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Savings Foreseen

The resolutions asserted thal since a new general assessment of property seems imminent, an assessment made under a scientific method, such as has been tried in other cities, would eliminate present claimed inequalities and establish a more equitable payment of property taxes. An Indiana “Hatch Law.” Mr Cleland said, would save governs mental units large sums and permit tax savings bv eliminating “in a large measure the mainte nance of political organizations out of the taxpayers’ money." “The modern political machine.” he said, ‘eats, lives, feeds and (Continued ot Page Two)

HOOSIER ENGINEER

HURT IN COLLISION

| COLDWATER. Mich. Sept. 16 (U. P) New York Central Railway officials, investigating a head-on collision of two freight trains, said today that an open switch apparently had caused the crash late yesterday at the track's intersection with U. S. Highway 27. Twelve cars were derailed and the engineer of one locomotive was inJjured silghtly. Damage was estimated at $10,000. Fred Lauver, 49, of Elkhart, Ind, engineer of the eastbound train, suffered lacerations. His fireman, D. C. Hizle 30, i Elkhart, escaped injury.

DIES REPAIRING WIRES William Moore, an electrician. who lived at 2048 Central Ave, fell dead in the office of Dr. James H. Borders, 2821 BE. 10th St, today as he was repairing electric wires. Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, said he believed the death was due to heart disease. Mr Moore was 60.

DUCHESS OFFERS HOME LONDON, Sept. 18 (U, P).—The

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“dissis | pated” thousand: of dollars through

Hateless War

British Crews Say UBoat Commanders Helped in Rescues,

IVERPOOL, Sept. 18 (U.P). ~The crew of the torpedoed British

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VIETSPONSORED BY GERMANS

Influence disclosed | today that they exchanged cheers |

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with the crew of the German sub- |

marine which sank the ship.

Arriving here today on a Nore the

| wegian ship, the master of Influence said the U-<boat come mander saw him and his men safely aboard the rescue ship. The British cheered the Germans and the Germans cheered in response. The master said that betore sinking his ship the submarine commander made sure that the crew had sufficient food. elothing and tobacco. Because there was no rescue ship in sight, after the crew took to lifeboats, the subse marine went in search of one and returned some time later accoms panying the Norwegian ship.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 18 (U. Po) —The third officer of the British Freighter Inverliffey, sunk by a submarine, said the German officer allowed eight members of the crew whose lifeboats was in danger of sinking te stand around the submarine's conning tower while the U-boat took them to another life-boat.

LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. P).— The crew of the sunken British freighter Cheyenne today sald that the submarine commander offered to tow their lifeboats to shore and stood by until the res cue ship Ida Bakke arrived.

ACCUSES CITY OF BREAKING FAITH

PWA Adviser Says Pledge To Share Hospital With Negroes Broken.

The City of Indianapolis today was charged with having failed to keep a definite pledge made in obtaining PWA funds for the City Hospital's FF Wing by W. J. Trent. PWA Advisor on Nearo Affairs in Washington. Mr. Trent said that the City had pledged to turn over the FF Wing's fifth floor to Negro nurses and internes, and has not done so. He produced correspondence from his files to show that it was \his pledge that caused the PWA grant to be raised from $70,650 for a serve ice building, to $157500 for the F Wing as well. The latter grant was made Jan. 28, 1937.

Hearing Is Asked

Meanwhile a committee active in inner-racial affairs asked the In(dianapolis Board of Health that it be given a hearing on Monday to | press demands for quartering Negro internes and nurses in the F Wing to care for Negro patients in that wing. The group met last night following receipt of a letter by Mayor | Reginald H. Sullivan from Col. E. W Clark, acting Public Works Administrator, asking if this provision, as set forth in the City's ap(plication for Federal aid in building the wing had been carried out. Commenting on the committee's action. Rabbi Elias Charry of Beth El Zedek Hebrew Congregation said: “It if high time that someone spoke up for the human rights of a submerged group in our community. We Americans are so worked up about the abrogation of human rights in other countries that we are almost ready to go to war about it. We might at least be concerned when such abrogation occurs in our own midst.

Called Definite Menace

{ “I feel that not only has a bad political situation been created for some obscure political reason, vut

Flames Sweep

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Photographer Erie

h hy German incendiary hombs,

Mrs. Roosevelt Advises ‘Calm’

NY. Sept. 168 (U, | P.) Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-

velt urged women today to lead in alleviating suffering of civilan populations in warring countries and to seek a "juster peace” when the war is ended “No one wins a war any more.” she said at her press conference, “The problems are merely deferred and must be met some time, Today they must be met by the world as a whole, not just by the people | that fight the war.” | She counseled people to be calm, and to refrain from making judgments until they have made every | effort to find out the truth. | “Nobody knows whether this country can keep out of war” she said, “but we all hope with all [ our hearts. | “The minute wars begin, they | spread. 1 am more thoroughly convinced that prevention is the | only safeguard.”

REPORT MANY DEAD IN'SHIP EXPLOSION

French Mine Layer Sinks; Three S 0 S Calls Heard.

By UNITED PRESS Unconfirmed rumors of the sinking of a French mine layer with 100 casualties and three mysterious SOS calls from ships reported sunk | near the American coast highlighted the war on the seas today. A dispatch from Casablanca, French Morocco, said an explosion |

Duchess of Windsor today offered /that it is a definite menace to the |occurred aboard the French mine

use of her home, the Chateau de la Croe at Cap d’Antibes,

[entire community. We have ob-

southern | tained money under false pretenses | was

|laying cruiser Pluton while the ship loading mines. The report

France, as a home for convalescent unless we carry out obligatiens we | said about 100 of the Pluton’s crew

| soldiers.

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Democrats Strike Up the Band and Vote McNutt ‘Best’ Presidential Hope

By NOBLE REED Times Staff Writer

FRENCH LICK, Ind, Sept. A battery of drum corps, bands and vaudeville entertainers was set up here today to give Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt the biggest ovation since the homecoming at Indianapolis last June. The week-end conference here, sponsored by the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, was turned into a presidential boom for Mr. MeNutt, following a series of caucuses during which favorite son drives for the gubernatorial can-

|didacy were sidetracked in the in-|

terests of 1940 harmony.

The editors, in a business session,!at a French Lick meeting two years|las Aircraft down $4 a share; U. 8. gave a vote of confidence to Mr. ago and later taken back into the Steel $2.62'i; Bethlehem, $4.37, 16.— | McNutt “as the best candidate for fold,

| the Presidency in the nation.” | Party pressure for a united tront

program to keep the machine free pass legislation at its special session | which were firm.

from friction among candidates was

sounded by State Chairman Fred F.|<cash-and-carry” plan for the sale |ihe selling dried up and new specu-

Bays during the opening caucus session late yesterday.

“The State Committee will not be- | gnjted States neutrality, I will vote in Douglas and corresponding rallies come embroiled in the campaigns for a cash-and-carry plan,” he said. elsewhere so that by closing time

for 1940 nominations—the man who

gets the most delegates to the State reat all nations alike if true neu-| industrials and some of the others | convention will be the nominee for tyality is to be accomplished. Some registered gains.

Governor,” he warned the State Committee,

|who was turned down by the party . 3 "

injected an international atmosphere into the conference. | He predicted that Congress will|

|starting next week, providing for a |éf arms to European belligerents. | | “With proper safeguards

for | | «However, the legislation must

legislators are talking repeal of all| | neutrality laws and rely entirely]

U. 8S. Senator Frederick VanNuys. upon international laws but that is' were higher, 407 lower and 143 un- |

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Caleraft, recently decorated by the Polish Government for meritorious work, caught this spectacular shot of Warsaw homes, being burned by flames of battle, to London and passed through Br ouses are those of working class people, and that the blaze was caused

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Hurry Up Reinforcements

JAPANESE TRUCE

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Paris Dispatches Tell of Three-Wave Infantry And Tank Attack on New Trenches on Soil + Of Reich Repulsed by Bayonets.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

French military authorities today claimed that they # had administered a “crushing” defeat to the Germans in the biggest Western Front battle of the war, At the same time three “trapped” Polish armies cone tinued desperate resistance to German forces, which wera emashing into southeastern Poland in an attempt to cut off all Polish lines of retreat into Rumania, On the diplomatic front Soviet Russia, with part of her armies, mobilized on the Polish frontier, strengthened her The French claimed that any hostilities by Russia in the European con flet would bring Rumania and possibly all the Balkan coune ‘tries into the war on the Allied side, : French military dispatches said that a German counters attack at the Nied River between the Moselle River and

|Saarbruecken had failed to dislodge the French from their new defense lines on German soil, despite tewrific artillery shelling and three waves of infantry and massed tanks. The Moscow-Tokyo truce halted fighting on the Outer {| Mongolian frontier, but in Moscow it wag stated that negotias« tions have not progressed to the stage of concluding a |Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact. Many problems remain to be settled before a non-aggression pact can be larranged, it was said. But it was regarded as significant (Continued on Page Three)

NAZIS REALIGN | JAPAN, RUSSIA

position by negotiating a truce with Japan.

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This photo was rushed itish censorship, which stated the

The Eastern Front

| | The Allies

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. | BERLIN, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—Thres United Press Stat Correspondent Polish armies continued desperats

New Ambassador Named as POLISH - RUMANIAN FRON-. [resistance to German forces today, I'IER, Sept. 16 —The vanguard of an Army High Command announces=

1 y 2 Little War’ in Far |diplomatic refugees accredited to ment tonight said.

East Is Ended | Poland crossed the border into Ru-| The armies, described by the Ger ’ mania today on the advice of the mans as “trapped,” were fighting SL Polish Government, as flying col-| west of the Vistula River around 16 (U. P).—A umns of German tanks and tFucks| 1EAN0, at Modlin and in Warsaw | itself. The Poles fought so desperately,

Germany

MOSCOW, Sept. well-informed source reported today Plunged deep into southeast Folang, that negotiations which resulted in| In Paris the newspaper Paris Soir| “ at : a Japanese-Russian truce on the|'0d8Y said a‘ dispatch approved vy[ It Was indionte, this ie Somes of Outer Mongolia and |the censor that the German casual | .ongthen the narrowing ring Manchukuo were started on Ger- | Hes in Poland to date total 100,000 around the Polish forces. man initiative. killed and wounded. The Polish The Army announcement said also Because of the agreement, Russia | Telegraph Agency admitted that that “Poles were offering stubborn named a new Ambassador to Japan, | German forces have cut the road : y

[resistance in their citadel at Brest Constantin Smetanin, who has between Minsk and Siedice. The io 0 4" Bl ecena Bugu). Their fight

: held up the advance of one wing of terim during the absence of an Am- tors of bombing and machine-gun-| . “ooo prussian Army, which was bassador to Tokyo, was named the ning Red Cross units and evacua= | 1 ved from marching southeastnew Ambassador. [tion trains from altitudes as low a8 | ward down the Bug River. . | 50 feet. On other fronts, especially in East 1000 Soldiers Commended British and French diplomats poland, however, the Germans re The agreement to stop fighting were the first ‘o desert Zaleszczykl, ported gains. ended-—at least for the time—one the litle frontier market town, Herr Hitler's armies were execute of the little wars in which Russia within 25 miles of both the Ru-|ing two gigantic maneuvers evident had been engaged, in the Far East, manian and Russian borders, where|ly aimed at cutting off Poland from since the Bolshevik revolution. | Poland's Government had made a her remaining outlets to Rumania Engagements had been fought in stand after three hasty moves in and Lithuania. the last year or so both on the 1 gays. | Southern armies were swinging Outer Mongolia and Siberian fron- pglish offirials. including Presi- eastward toward Tarnapol and the

Germany

tiers of Manchukuo. More than | (Continued on Page Three) | (Continued on Page Three) 1000 Russian soldiers hold decora- | tions for gallantry in action at the | hill of Changkufeng in the summer of 1938 The actions fought were regarded Th WwW t F t rather as a test of strength than as e eS ern ron proper battles These tests, however | important they might have been potentially, have been put in a minor | The Allies position relatively by the new war in| Europe and Russia's negotiation of| PARIS, Sept. 16 (U. P). ~The By UNITED PRESS a non-aggression treaty with Nazi piggest Western Front battle of the| The official German communique Germany. For those reasons, as it| 5 ort war resulted today in a crushing on the war and German newspapers fContinded on Page Three) defeat for the Germans after three were completely silent today regards \waves of infantry and massed tanks no njitary activity on the Western LATE BUYING HALVES [failed to break through new French Front. EARLY STOCK LOSSES | defenses on Germs hills, according Likewise, there was no informa ‘to military dispatc oS loop | tion available from neutral Luxem= — Ph Toe battle rage 3 B 3 By bourg, Holland or Belgium near the By UNITED PRESS former Paarl center of a sector be-| Moselle sector where the French New support came into the Stock oe the Moselle River and Saar-|Ciaim lighting is going on. Rome's Market today after the list had been | ypyecken. newspapers, which have correhammered down in its most severe| Attacking Germans were said to spondentsw ith the German armies decline since the war boom de- have been hurled back despite ter- in the West, were likewise silent on veloped two weeks ago. vific shelling by their supporting|the fighting. Heavy realizing sales during the ;gteriesi n the Westwall and furious first part of the session drove DOug- | assaults by a score of diving, strafing German planes.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Defeating the Germans in their second great counter-attack of the war with heavy German losses, the | French held hills from which their | observation posts look down into Books cevses the Saar Valley northwest of Saar-| Broun ...... lautern and across the wooded Saar | Catton lators filled the gaps. Their buying hills to big Westwall fortresses at Churches brought a recovery of $2.25 a share|Saarwellingen and Duppenweiler. [Clapper Fresh German troops brought up| Comics 14 | Obituaries ei | from Trier tried to drive the French | Crossword ... 12 | Pegler 10 the losses were halved in the leading off newly conquered, vital hills. |Curious World 14 Pyle 9 During 10 hours of German ar- Editorials .... 10/ Mrs. Roosevelt 9 [tillery preparation Reich tanks and | Financial 11 | Serial Story. . 14 A tabulation at the close revealed | troops crossed the Saar at Rehlingen Flynn 9 Society ... 4, 5 that of the 798 stocks traded, 156 and by way of Hemmersdorf and Forum 10 Sports .... 8 7 moved into the Nied Valley in an|Grin, Bear It 14 State Deaths. 12 (Continued on Page Three) | In Indpls. .. 3 | Williams .... 10

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