Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1939 — Page 1
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HITLER ASKS PEACE ON OWN TERMS
VERDICTINGAS | Heils and Handshake for the Fuehrer
SUIT MAY LEAD T0 RATE DROP
Baltzell Rules City Not Bound by Lease Made 26 Years Ago.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Possibility of a reduction was seen today sult of Federal Judge Robert Baitzell's decision that the owned gas utility is not a 99-year lease executed by predecessor The lease, under which Citizens Gas Co. in 1913 took over mains and other equipment of the Indianapolis Gas Co. required an annual lease payment of more than & half million dollars annually by! the City's Citizens Gas & Coke Utility ; Judge Baltzells 52-page decision Jate vesterday invalidating the lease is subject to appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals by the plaintifl, Chase National sank of New York, trustee for Indianapolis Gas bondholders.
Property Could Be Bought But if the City should win in the higher court, would be In position to begin negotiations with Indianapolis Gas a new lease at a reduced rental charge, or for gn outright purchase of the Indianapoiis Gas property. This would make possible a reduction in rates Judge Baltzell set 11 a. m, Thursdav for entering the judgment formally in the court record. When the City, in 1935, took over the Citizens Gas Co. property, under the terms of a charitable trust agreement, it declined to assume the 09-vear lease, The lease rental, was contended, was too high since many miles of Indianapolis Gas mains parallel those of the Citizens Gas Co, and thus are not useful.
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Early in 1936, an agreement was | entered into between the City and Indianapolis Gas whereby the City) smece has been paying the lease rental (representing interest payments on Indianapolis Gas bonds and stock) into a local bank, in escrow, pending settlement of the dispute. This escrow fund, which now totals nearly $1,500,000, was not turned over to the City by the court's decision yesterday since the escrow agreement provided that if the lease were held invalid, the City and Indianapolis Gas officials would attempt to work out a “reasonable” rental agreement covering the period from 1936 Failure of the two to agree probably would result in the court's naming a master in chancery to hear evidence and decide on the sum to be paid by the City out of the fund for past use of Indian-| apolis Gas property. i
| Entitled to Judgment
In his decision vesterday. Judge Baltzell held that the Chase Bank which, as trustee for the bondholders filed suit in 1936 to entorce the lease, is entitled to a judgment against the Indianapolis Gas Co. for the past due bond interest coupons, totaling $1.032,150 as of last
April 1, but that it is not entitled |
®o receive interest on the past due coupons. The remainder of the $1.500,000 fund represents interest due on the Indianapolis Gas common stock. No provision was made by the court for paying this interest. Failure of the Indianapolis Gas Co. to obtain from the City enough | rental to pay the bond coupons under a new lease might result in| (Continued on Page Four)
HITLER'S ADDRESS BOLSTERS MARKET
By UNITED PRESS The stock market reacted upward at New York today in response to Hitler's speech at Danzig, with some issues boosted as high as $7 a share
The first reaction to the speech] had been downward, but tickers soon were clogged and dropped be-| hind the market when Hitler finished speaking and traders bid eagerly for “war habies.” Prior to the speech, the market had heen $1 to $2 higher. Grain prices were around 2 cents lower at mid-session on the Chicago Board of Trade, but rallied on the| Hitler speech. Foreign dollar bonds) generally were lower. Cotton fu-| tures gained as much as 60 cents a| bale after early weakness. A rally in the British pound sterling bolstered world currencies against the American dollar in foreign exchange dealings.
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10! Johnson 9| Movies 7 Mrs. Ferguson 10 Obituaries . ..
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Crossword ... Curious World Riitorials Financial Flynn 10] Forum ... 10|Serial Story.. 15 Grin, Bear It 15 Society 6 In Indpls..... 3{Sports .... 12 13} Jane Jordan. 6|State Deaths. 8
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HIEF MORRISSEY, like y : | Northwest Mounted Police Allowance for Jail Meals always gets his man. . . | The Chief personally Given Attention of
County Board.
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from Rochester, N. YY, to face a bad check charge. During the Townsend convention last June, the Chief charged, Adjustment] Smith phoned him and asked | help in getting hotel accommodations. He read a letter of introduction from an Eastern city's
The County Tax Board today renewed its attack on the system of paving County officials’ fees in addition to their salaries. | ranged the room and vouched for In the limelight today was the| the man. Sheriff's office. Yesterday it was Then he found, he said. that the County Treasurer and Clerk's| Smith left an unpaid hotel bill offices, | and four bouncing checks totaling Meanwhile, Thomas Quinn, Center| ghout $31. In Criminal Court today, Smith reply to the* charge that he is pay-| pleaded guilty, and was sentenced ing 20 per cent higher prices for poor relief food than the general| Judge Dewey Myers agreed to the public pays. The charge was made | Chief's request that Smith in letters to the trustee and to the | given a suspended sentence if he
Adjustment Board by Louis R.| pays the hotel bill and checks. Markun, Republican candidate for| —— - Mi Markun's charge was made in ac ance of the Board's review of the Center Township budget for NE D The Adjustment Board's sex SAFETY 10 3 0. Kk. on the Sherifl's office fees arose dur- | ing a discussion of a state law per12'; cents a meal for jail prisoners Board Approves Downtown Traffic Change.
State Treasurer in the last election. DRIVING TO LEFT OF 1940, scheduled for later this week. mitting the Sheriff an allowance of
A total of $28,000 is set up in the proposed 1940 budget of the Sheriff | for feeding prisoners. Recommendations that downtown traffic be allowed to move to the left of safety zones where space
Requests Explanation
Frederick Albershardt, Board vice chairman, who initiated vesterday's
attack on the Treasurer and Clerk's between zone and curb is less than and water consumption curtailed.
office fees, said
have explained “what becomes of Safety Board today. this allowance. |
| The n dati ors “A former sheriff,” he said, “ad- | 1 recommendations were made mits he made $83,000 from fees, in-| by Police Chief Michael F. Morcluding the prisoners’ meals allow- rissey following a traffic survey. ance, during his term of office. Why Reports of the surv should we be forced to aliow this Zones of 26 intersections were [narrow for adequate traffic movement.
amount?” County Auditor ex-officio secretary replied: “You must allow (Continued on Page Four)
TIMES WARNS PUBLIC ON DIRECTORY CALLS | Chief Morrissey told the Board
Persons representing themselves that the places where the distance as calling “from The Indianapolis|between the zone and the curb line Times” today were reported con-|is 16'% feet or less “seriously hamducting telephone interviews with|pered traffic movement, caused acsome Indianapolis women in the in-|cidents and created traffic jams in terests of “a special Indianapolis rush hours.” directory.” { ES ———r ese pe The Indianapolis Times is not THREE HOOSIERS DIE connected with any such venture and | persons claiming to represent The | Times are imposters. Those who are | approached may notify The Times | or the Better Business Bureau.
Fabian Biemer, to the Board, J \ jordinance amending present regu-
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all safety zones. Proposed revision [would affect all zones in the down- | town area except those along Was: - ington St. and several on the South and East Sides.
: a |Sept. 19 (U. P.).—The bodies of CREEK POLLUTION CHARGED three Indiana men, drowned at FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. 19 (U. P).| Brights Lake, 70 miles east of here —Damage suits asking $62,500 were yesterday, were being sought today. on file today against the city of | A The men, Nat Gardiner, Reid Franklin and the Morgan Packing Ridgeway and P. A. Abernethy, all of Co. of Franklin by owners of eight| Wabash, Ind., drowned when a canfarms on Young's Creek south of|vas canoe with which they were exhere. | perimenting overturned.
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lations which require all automo- scorch to conserve [tive traffic to drive to the right of |grinking water.
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ALLIES REPLY WITH BIG GUNS IN SAAR BASIN
British War on U-Boats; Europe-Asia Division Talked at Berlin.
BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 19 (U, P.. — Prime Minister - Neville Chamberlain will reply in the House of Commons tomorrow to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's Danzig speech, it was stated authoritatively tonight,
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor The Allied powers today answered | Adolf Hitler's proposal for peace on | {his own terms with a blast of heavy | artillery on the Western Front and the roar of Royal Air Force planes | |searching the seas for German Se marines, No hint came from either Paris or | London that they might weaken in their war against “Hitlerism.,” but |
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concern as to whether—now that KEEP BLANKET | Poland has been crushed —the Nazis | {might violate the neutrality of small | | states such as Belgium and Holland. |
Reports of German {(roop concentrations and evacuations of civilians Temperature Rise Forecast But That Fall Chill
near these neutral borders were circulated without confirmation in Still Lingers.
London and Paris Poles Still Fighting
| The German armies seemed to |be shattering the last Polish resist(ance in co-operation with smoothly moving Russian troops. But the Poles still held out in two of the [three largest cities of Poland, War- | saw and Lwow. The second city of Poland, Lodz, was reported just cap- | tured by the Germans, German commanders greeted Rus- | sian troops as friends and stood | |aside as the Red Army fought its way into Vilna. The Polish GovThree days ago Indianapolis Was ernment and commander -in-chief |
LOCAL TEMPERATURES mw ....5% Ham . 31 12 (noom) .. 3 1pm a, 2pm taal
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sweltering in 100-degree tempera- had fled into Rumania ture and praying for a breeze, The Soviet's ultimate plans in Today it arose shivering and com- Eastern Europe remained a mystery, | plaining at the early morning cold. but it was considered significant | If it isn't one thing, it's another that submarines of Poland “and! —especially in Indiana. other countries” were hiding in BalThe Weather Man predicts slow- tie ports. ly rising temperatures for tonight | Criticises Esthonia
and tomorrow, but that doesn't] mean that another heat wave is| The Soviet charges mentioned Esthonia in particular. The terri-|
lurking in the offing. So you might pack a blanket tory now occupied by the states ot when you go out to see the Indians |Esthonia. Latvia and Lithuania | and the Colonels clash in the na- provided Tsarist Russia with vear-| tional pastime at Perry Stadium round ports on the Baltic before the | tonight. | World War. | On the Western Front, where | British artillery had moved up to | support the French, the Nazis made [another counter-attack east of the [Saar but were reported thrown back | . again by the Irench, who were! seeking hy methodical advances tol gain control of hoth banks of the Saar River, | Nazis had strongly reinforced their Westwall forts and were be- | [lieved to be using their big 16'.(Continued on Page Three)
Southern California
Heat Kills Four
1.OS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (U.P) Southern California's worst heat wave in 22 vears entered its fifth day today with dawn temperatures ranging from 85 to 90 degrees. Authorities ordered schools closed
prostration in the immediate vicinity of Los Angeles. Scores were
treated in emergency hospitals. MARATHO N CONGRESS | Damage to vine crops. such as to- | FAVORED BY SENATO
| MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 19 (U, in| P.).—Senator H. Styles Bridges (R. last | N. H) believes Congress should stay in session until the end of the The suburb of Inglewood let lawns | Furopean war so that “the power | its supply of o make decisions will not rest on . |one man, (Great Britain has announced | | officially preparations for a war of at least three y. ars’ duration.) Senator Bridges has been men- | tioned as a possible 1940 Presi-! | dential candidate and is now tour-| ing Midwestern and Western states to sound the political situation. He | criticised President Roosevelt for declaring a limited “state of emer- | gency.”
No general rain has Southern California
fallen since
ITALIAN LINER BARS - NAZI PASSENGERS
Precaution Believed Taken To Avoid British Search.
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| HOPES FOR ARMOUR PEACE WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P..|
—Secretary of Labor Frances Per-| Kins said today that Armour & Co., | officials appeared willing to make “concessions” in collective bargain- | ing methods which she hoped would | avert a strike threatened by the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (C. I. O.).
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (U. P).— e Italian Line refused today to permit holders of German, Czech
liner Rex. Passengers with these credentials were put ashore as the liner was about to sail. Officials declined to comment on
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NAZIS CAN FIGHT 6 YEARS
AND NEVER WILL GIVE UP,
DANZIG
Hitler Highlights
“Now 82,000,000 Germans are united in this struggle. They want to live”
“The outraging factor to me was to have to suffer at the hands of a state that lay far beneath us.”
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“At the last moment peace could still have been saved, The Duce made proposals which Germany and France accepted but Britain refused. Britain sent a two-hour ultimatum, One cannot present the German people today with ultimatums.”
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“We want to do the Polish soldiers eredit. They fought bravely and bitterly, but their superiors lacked intelligence.” ” “1 told the Air Force to wage a humane war, The Polish Government ordered a war from ambush.”
“I am happy to offer the British statesman whe said the Germans wanted to dominate the (Russian) Urals the opportunity te see the light, The German demands are very limited. Our demands will he maintained, however, despite all dangers. The future composition of the Polish state is now in the hands of Germany and Soviet Russia.” ” ” ” “Danzig will be German as long as the German people exist. All parts of the Reich are now united.”
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THRONG IS TOLD
'Fuehrer Threatens 500-to-1 Reprisals for Allied Bombings, Speaking While Guns 15 Miles Away Blast at Poles.
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DANZIG, Sept. 19 (U, P.).—Adolf Hitler tonight held out to Europe a choice between "lasting peace” on terms of Nazi conquests or years of bloodshed. | Speaking within a few miles of Nazi artillery blasting at remnants of the Polish Army, the German FKFuehrer told cheering Danzigers and the world that all of the Reich was now united, that Germany could fight six years without thought of capitulation and that inhumane methods of warfare would be met in kind many times over, “1 have no war aims against either France or Britain,” ‘he said in one temperate passage in perhaps the most bellig‘erent speech he ever delivered, “England (by blockade) is making war against German ‘men, women and children, The moment might come for us "to use a weapon which cannot be turned against us.
“We Shall Never Give Up”
“We shall answer accordingly . . . but we shall never capitulate.” | Without making any concrete proposals for peace on ‘the Western Front, Herr Hitler declared that: | 1. Poland shall never “rise again’ in the form decreed by the Versailles Treaty. Russia and Germany “guarantee that,” he said. | 2. There will “be no conflict” be ‘many. 3. Germany has no ambitions to seize the Russian Ukraine or the Urals.
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Threatens Bomb Reprisals 4. British “war mongers” threw England into the war ‘not in defense of Poland but in a futile effort to destroy the ‘Nazi regime in Germany, 5. Any methods of warfare used against the Reich will ‘be met with like methods because for every bomb dropped ‘on a German city 500 bombs will fall on Allied cities.
HITLER IS REMINDED OF HUMANE PLEDGE
F. D. R. Indirectly Urges End to Civilian Raids.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P). -— President Roosevelt indirectly called on Adolf Hitler today to make good his pledge to refrain from bombing civilian populations. In a telegram to Ignacy Moscicki, President of Poland who last night in a message to the American Executive charged the Nazis were ‘“deliberately bombing” Polish towns. Mr. Roosevelt indicated a belief that the German air force had killed and wounded thousands of Polish civilians. Meanwhile, the White House said today that the President plans to appear before a joint session of the Senate and House at 1 p. m, Thursday (Indianapolis Time) to deliver in person his request for neutrality law revision. - The message, precipitating what is expected to be a historic debate on measures to keep this country r. will be brief, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said. Speakers at an emergency meet-
of Mayors today pledged full co(Continued on Page Three) URGES UNITY IN LABOR GARY, Ind. Sept. 19 (U, P).— Governor M. Clifford Townsend today urged organized labor to ‘sit around the table and agree upon a united policy to carry us safely through the trying days to come.” He spoke before the State Federation of Labor convention here,
the order to clear the ship of German nationals which came from the headquarters of the Italian Line at Genoa, Since the British blockade of the |
| North Sea, German nationals have
| United States.
been able to return home only | through Italy. The Italian Line ac-| tion thus closed the only way of
entr into t i | + he Reich ‘Helm We! (oNDON, Sept. 19 (0. Pr=
British warships and airplanes and
Shippin circles believe he Pome re aa German submarines, both stung by
Iman with several hundred million 12.
Schwab, 77 and Lonely, Dies in N. Y. Apartment 2%. = tei
| would not be stopped and searched NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (U. P.).—| Mrs. Schwab, whom he often PY the British. Charles M. Schwab, a lonely old credited for his success. died Jan.)
dollars, died last night. He was 77. | Death eo him at 7:30 p. » GARNER'S 700 OLD, SAYS FELLOW TEXAN
The chairman of Bethlehem Steel | (Indianapolis Time). His sister, WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P).
Corp., which he founded, died of Mrs. David Barry of Loretto; his coronary thrombosis in his Park|brother and sister-in-law, the EdAve, apartment where he went six|ward H. Schwabs, and his physician, | —Mavor Maury Maverick of San months ago to escape the lonely sur-| Dr. Samuel A. Brown, were at his|Antonio, Tex., said today that Vice roundings of his three palatial bedside. His only other near relative President John N. Garner is a homes where he had lived with the is his sister, Cecelia, a Carmelite “fine, woter-drinking, Christian woman whom he married in his nun at a Loretto convent. | gentieman with a great past,” but youth and whose death left him in-| Mr. Schwab had been ill often in| he is too old to be President of the expressibly saddened. [the last five years. United States. “I have no home,” he said when| Mr. Schwab will be buried in the| ‘Garner's future is behind him.” he returned from Europe Aug. 31 Gates of Heaven Cemetery at Mr. Maverick said. “Everybody is and revealed that he had closed Pleasantville, N. Y. Thursday, after saying that in a time of emergency his Riverside Drive chateau, his Lo- a solemn high requiem mass at St.|we can't afford to elect a man Presretto, Pa, summer estate and his Patrick's Cathedral here. ident who is that old.” Bethlehem, Pa., home. “1 el Mr. Schwab's career during the start life anew,” he said, (Continued on Page Three)
Vice President is 71.
losses and encouraged by successes, |are engaged in a grim and deadly fight of extermination in the North Sea and on the Atlantic, it was indicated today. | It was disclosed that British Royal Air Force squadrons, operating with a special coastal com(mand, have attacked many submarines and sunk some. | Figures released by the Informa(tion Ministry today showed that the German U-boat which torpe-| |doed the British aircraft carrier] | Courageous Sunday night took a| toll of 579 dead or missing. | The Exchange Telegraph reported | |today that the 4600-ton Furness |Line ship Avuemore had been sunk | by a submarine. The agency said | there were 11 survivors. On the German side were other
Mr. Maverick said he believed the victories against British merchant- | of Paris,
men. The Information Ministry said|
579 on Courageous Lost;
that it was believed the fishing trawlers Lord Minto and Arlita, 295 and 326 tons respectively, had been sunk and that a third trawler had rescued the crews. But it was made known also that
BERLIN, Sept. 19 (U, P.).— The German high command announced today that the Uboat which sank the British airplane carrier, Courageous, had reported its attack, thus indicating that it had escaped the depth bombs British destroyers dropped in an effoft to destroy it.
several bigger British vessels, including the Rothesay Castle, 9016 tons; Baron Liovat, 3395 tons; 10902 tons, and Barari(Continued on Page Three)
Toward France, he made repeated gestures of sympathy ‘designed to split the Allied powers and cut off England's hostile combination, | Making the first public pronouncement since his proclamation sent Nazi troops surging in Poland on Sept. 1, the German Chancellor said the Reich and Russia will create a situation which will “relieve” tension in Eastern Europe. “1 want to restore mutual confidence,” Herr Hitler said. But while it seemed to offer peace, Hitler's speech also carried the threat of a war of redoubled vigor and horror. ‘He threatened, in effect, to loose the German Air Force ‘against France and Great Britain and he complained of Polish atrocities, Charges Polish Atrocities
“l have ordered the German Air Force to be humane,” Herr Hitler said. “If the democratic countries want it differently, they may have it. In this respect, too, my patience is not unlimited.” Danzig was in carnival dress for the occasion. Flags were flying from hundreds of windows around the market square and swastikas were everywhere. The Polish Army has been smashed, Herr Hitler said, adding that 300,000 Poles had been taken prisoner. “On one day 20,000 prisoners were taken,” he said, “yesterday, 50,000.” He charged that thousands of Germans had been vic(tims of Polish atrocities and that in some cases the eyes had
| ’ . ling of the United States Conference | 2€€n gouged out of noncombatants by Polish soldiers or
leivilians. Germany, too, is ready to fight for three years, Hitler (Continued on Page Three)
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Western Front
(The German war communique today made no mention of the Western Front. Neither did dispatches from neutral nations.) '
PARIS, Sept. 19 (U: P.).—~French | troops have repulsed a night attack, preceded by heavy artiliery prepa-
Eastern Front
BERLIN, Sept. 19 (U. P.).-The Army High Command announced today that the Poles were still defending Warsaw, in the 1ith day of a devastating siege, but claimed that “the break up of surrounded Polish Army groups is proceeding rapidly.” . Apparently working in close co-
ration from the German big guns in the Westwall forts, it was understood today. War Communique No. 31 of the High Command said today: “There was a partial enemy attack during the night in the region east of the Saar. This attack was repulsed.” Previous communiques had told of heavy German artillery bombardments, and it was indicated that | the Germans had used for the first time new 16': inch naval guns, mounted on big railroad flat cars, which had been brought up to positions behind the Westwail. German field guns and the big guns had bombarded positions behind the French lines, on the Saar-pruecken-Saarlautern sector west of
in an attempt to impede the ad(Continued on Page Toren,
ordination with Germany, the Rus~ sian General Staff at the same time reported its advance columns were approaching Vilna in northlern Poland and Lwow in the | south. “The battle on the Bzura (60 miles west of Warsaw, north of | Lodz) ended with 50,000 Poles taken prisoner,” the Nazi communique said. “The Germans called on Lemberg (Lwow, chief city of the southeast) to surrender. Ten thousand | Poles were taken prisoners when.a smaller army group was destroyed | northwest of Lemberg.” a | The German Government also said that its soldiers have occupied | Polish oil fields southwest of Lemberg. | This meant that with all their re-
City | the scene of today’s German attack, verses, the Poles were still in com=
mand of Warsaw, their largest city; (Continued from Page One)
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