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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 167

RUSSIA GETS MOST IN POLISH SPLIT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939

0. P. CHIEFS

LAUNCH STATE 14-40 ROUNDUP,

Harmony Plea Is Expected; Elephants Arrive for Parade Tomorrow.

WADSWORTH 10 SPEAK

Leaders ‘Hush’ Favorite Son Booms, but Many Seek Delegates.

By NOBLE REED Thousands of Hoosier Republicans and 15 circus elephants arrived in Indianapolis today for a twoday “14-40 G. O. P. roundup” to revitalize party lines and sound a militant battle cry for the 1940 campaign. Several freight carloads of elephants were unloaded here by the Cole Bros. Circus which rented the animals to the Republicans. The living party emblems will be in the parade through the downtown district at 10 a. m. tomorrow along with 17 bands, 64 floats and 1200 autos I'he parade will start at IndiAve. and 16th St, and proceed downtown on Indiana Ave. thence south on Senate Ave, east on Washington St, around the Circle and out to the Fair Grounds.

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Hope to End Disputes

Under a blaze of oratory from nationallv-known speakers and the blare of brass bands, the G. O. P leaders said they hoped to smother the sectional fights which have been brewing within the ranks for months The

six |

sessions, sponsored by the In-|

diana Republican Editorial Associa- |

ticn and the State G tral Comniittee, got under way noon today with a Juncheon conference of the editors at the Claypool Hotel Following private causcus sessions | during the afternoon, will conciude their part of the pro-| gram with a banquet and speaking | program at the hotel tonight. James | J. Wadsworth, voung New legislator, quet

O. P. Cen-

speaker,

Harmony Plea Expected

York | will be the principal ban-|

at |

the editors|

Boy Arouses 6 in Burning Home VOTE 10 LIMIT

David Elliott,

12, and his sister, Mary,

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nes

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house to save six lives.

He and Sister Then Save Kittens From Back Porch

Invalid Woman Among Those to Flee After Fireman's Son

Spreads

Alarm.

A fireman's 12-vear-old son discovered a fire in a neighbor's home

escape uninjured. Then the boy. Davia Eiliott, | Sus. ran to tl the burning house

WPA QUIZ DATA TOBE SCANNED

Edwin V. O'Neel, Bditorial Asso- Counsel for Cones

clation president, is expected to make an impassioned pleg for more harmony in the party and denounce

the undercurrent factionalism that | has been threatening to attempt rve-|

organization of the party The name, 14-40 Roundup, hey the party's intention 14th Republican

signito elect t President in 1040 The program committee said thev expect more than 20000 persons to attend a barbecue picnic at the Fair Grounds preceding the big mass meeting at the racetrack

grandstands where the main speak-!

ing program will be held at 3 p. m. Headlining the speakers will be Dr. Glenn Frank. chairman of the National G. O. P. Program Committee, =nd Frank E. Gannet. Rochester, N. Y.. publisher who has been a foe of New Deal policies. Other mass meeting speakers will be Homer E. Capehart, Washington, Ind, who staged the “cornfield conference” at his farm last vear and Mrs. Bertha Bauer, Illinois National Committeewoman. Although party leaders have put the official “hush” on favorite son booms for the gubernatorial nominations, least half a dozen them will be out campaigning for delegate support, ‘Favorite Sons’ Listed Those mentioned include: Glenn Hillis, Kokomo, attorney: Judge A. Emmert of Shelbyville; Senator William Jenner of “larence BE. Benadum, cie lawyer; Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis: Mavor Harry Baals of Ft. Wayne; Secretary of State James M. Tucker and A. V. Burch of Evansville, former State Highway Commission chairman. Although it is generally conceded that the ‘“z0 sign” Raymond Willis,

Rr James State Paoli;

Angola publisher, to run again for the U. S. Senate, there are reports that Clarence “Dick” Wells of Kokomo, who sought the nomination last year, may seek again

FEAR HEAVY TOLL IN TURKISH QUAKE

IST ANBUL, . Turkey, Sept. 22 (U P.) —A terrific earthquake shook the region of Smyrna today and authorities feared a heavy ties The greatest force of was felt at Fotcha, Ketchili and Vergame where, it was reported, most of the houses collapsed.

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Probers to Confer With Nolan Tomorrow.

J. O'Connor Roberts, counsel for the Congressional subcommittee investigating alleged WPA irregularities here, will confer with District Attorney Val Nolan tomorrow, it was announced today. Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.), committee chairman, said the conference would study data submitted by the committee's agents, George Shillito and Matthew Connelly, relating to possible eriminal offenses. Rep. Woodrum declined to comment on reports current in Washington that a conflict had arisen between the committee, WPA Administrator John K. Jennings, Mr Nolan and the agents of the WPA's own division of investigation, conducted a separate investigation here, Kortepeter Indicted

The indictment this week of Carl F. Kortepeter, former Marion Countv WPA Director, and his father-in-law, Gurney J. Derbyshire, on

|eharges of conspiracy to defraud the

| Government

Mun-

through illegal diversion of WPA labor, was based on the WPA agents’ investigation. “I cannot say yes or no at this time to reports of such a conflict,” Rep. Woodrum said. The reported conflict was denied here. Mr. Shillito said he and Mr. nelly had received the operation” from Mr, Mr. Nolan. Cites Roberts’ Letter Jennings said his office had

Con“fullest coJennings and

Mr.

Congressional investigators and had furnished every record asked for. He added that he has received a letter from Mr. Roberts “come plimenting me on the fine co-oper-

ation I gave the committee.”

toll of casual-

the quake

| cast

| peratures

Mr. Nolan said he didn’t see how he could have been in conflict with the Congressional committee agents “when, thus far, I have had no relations with them.”

‘FAIR AND WARMER,’

WEATHERMAN SAYS

LOCAL TEMPERATURES «M.S 11 am .M.... 535 12 (hoon) «ML B83 1pm « Mn... GF 2pm .m, 2

The Weather fair

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Bureau todav foreweather and higher temfor tonight and tomorrow, IN GAS CHAMBER FLORENCE, Ariz, Sept. 22 (U. P).—Frank Connor, 23. a soldier, was executed in the State Prison gas chamber today for the holaup murder of Tracy Bird. city clerk of Nogales. Officials said Connor was Le “calmest condemned man” in story of the prison.

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and his sister,

Mary, 14, next door and rescued six kittens in a box under the back porch.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Anthony Tighe,

|57, the invalid, and five other sleep-

ine Joensoers of the family at 1429 S. , had awakened and made ore ove “from their burning home. Others who escaped were Mr. Tighe, Mrs. Jean Millhoff, 18, their |daughter; James Montgomery, 18, heir grandson; Anthony Tighe Jr. their son, and Mrs. Edna Brower, 30, housekeeper. Mrs. Tighe, long an invalid, today was in bed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Elliott, parents of David and Mary, next door, under doctor's orders. Mr. Elliott is a fireman at Engine House 3 and was on duty at the time of the fire. All persons and the Kkittens were safe when the firemen arrived. David watched his father at work, and confessed afterward that although he himself wants to be a fireman, it makes him nervous when his father is helping extinguish fire because of the danger involved

Firemen estimated the damage to

the Tighe home at $300

Mother, Infant Rescued

In Ben Davis Blaze

A mother and her

who home at Ben Davis today by a nurse |

after a passing motorist them the roof was afire. The motorist. who did not give his name ran into the house and told 4-yvear-old Margie Lee Casteel, R. R. 3, Box 279, that the house was afire. She called to Miss Vietta Osborne, the nurse Miss Osborne first rescued the infant and Margie Lee, and then returned to help Mrs. Lee Casteel out of the dwelling and into a parked car, where she remained until she couli be taken to the home of a neighbor. Firemen said the blaze from sparks from a stove fire newly

warned

kindled to keep the infant warm. | Neighbors formed a bucket brigade

and carried out furniture until Engine Co. 18 arrived. The damage was estimated at $500.

Burke Calls Embargo Repeal Long Step Toward Peace oN AIR LABORATORY

Nebraska Democrat Asserts Message Is Notable State Paper.

By EDWARD R. BURKE U. S. Senator From Nebraska

In his message on Neutrality Act |amendments, which will take high rank among State papers, President Roosevelt gave utterance to the (rallying ery of all those who favor changes in the law. Repeal of the arms en.bargo is a step, and a long one, toward peace. This was not a rhetorical statement, It was fortified by historical facts and logical arguments, It thus becomes necessary at the outset for all who have been inclined to go the other way to re-examine their position. It was driven home that they have fallen into the common error of placing the incidental above the fundamental. They have so emphasized a circumstance of the | moment that they have come to ig (Continugd on Page Three)

| Hoover

|cash-and-carry dealings with

hurriedly |

: 10-day-old | child were saved from their burning

started |

EXTRA SESSION

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Senate Democratic Leaders

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Supporting Borah.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U.P). —Senator William E. Borah (R. Ida.) said today that some oppon-

‘ents of repeal of the arms embargo {have mentioned Henry

Ford, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Herbert as possible participants in a nationwide campaign against that type of neutrality law revision. The names of former Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin and Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, World War aviator ace, also have been heard on Capitol Hill as possible participants in the campaign. This development came today after top Democratic leaders of the Senate agreed unanimously to con-

| fine the special Congressional session strictly to issues arising from

the European war crisis. The decision was in President Roosevelt's recommenda- | tion that the session devote its time exclusively to consideration of his neutrality proposal for repeal of the arms embargo and substitution of belligerents. Committee Session Delayed Meanwhile Chairman Key Pitt-| man (D. Nev.), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delayed until Monday Committee con-

today and spread an alarm that enabled six persons, one an invalid, to'Sideration of neutrality revision.

With party lines splintered by the neutrality issue, the unanimity of the Senate Democratic leadership

| group emphasized the general closing of Democratic lines—from long- | dissident Southern conservatives to

extreme New Dealers—in support of the Administration program. The restriction of the session "to the purposes for which the President has convened it” was voted by the 19 members of the Senate Democratic Policy and Steering Committees.

Repeal Foes Warn of Fight The move came as opponents of embargo repeal warned that they would fight “from hell to breakfast” against Mr. Roosevelt's program. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democratic floor leader, said neutrality legislation was not specifically named in the resolution because there might be some related questions which would be considered. He said the meeting was ‘very har(Continued on Page Three)

PROFIT-TAKING NIPS 52 RISE IN STOCKS

Government Bonds Dip to Further Lows.

By UNITED PRESS

Aggressive profit-taking nipped a cutters and airplanes is operating in| Premier Daladier returned to the] where | | War

$2 stock rise at New York today and at the start of the final hour most issues were around their former cloze. Wheat prices were about steady at Chicago while corn was slightly lower. U. Government bonds slumped to Ri lows for the year with losses ranging from 1-32 point to 8-32, although one issue broke 1 22-32 points. Sugar futures were irregular, cocoa was ‘11 to 14 points higher | and cotton had gains running to 30 cents a bale. Trading continued dull in the London Stock Market, but a firmer, undertone was noted in the Amer=-| |ican section as the close neared.

line with

GERMAN AREA

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RUSSIAN AREA

WARSAW

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HUNGARY

__ Poland's fourth partition ‘on ‘Germany's s share e includes Warsaw.

F.D.R.REPORTS Barbara Secs RUMANIA SLAYS

SUBS NEAR U.S.

One Sighted Off Alaska, Other Off New England, President Says.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. —President Roosevelt day that two foreign have been sighted off Alaska and| off New England. The President said he was announcing the report as a matter of | {public information. be drawn into speculation as to Hae tionality of the submarines, nor disclose his source of information.

The cubmarine sighted on the Pa- | was seen off the]

cific side, he said. southern boundary of Alaska where the boundary reaches Alaskan Inside Passage.

Jokes About Nationality

The second submarine was sighted 60 or 70 miles south on the tip of Nova Scotia about half way between | Nova Scotia and Nantucket Shoals, | the President said.

near the

When asked about nationality of Minister

the undersea boats, Mr.

| for a

P).| revealed to- i submarines |

To Flee Paris

PARIS, Sept. 22 (U. Countess Haugwitz von Rev em the former Barbara Hutton, applied today to the French police

land.

It was understood that Countess | to | Rotterdam, where she hoped to

Reventlow desired to travel embark for the United States. When she was unable to obtain an exit visa she presented an au- | tographed photograph to the U.S. | Embassy and a member

| Embassy staff accompanied her to

He refused to|——————————

Roosevelt | ferred today for the second

police headquarters to apply for a safe conduct pass.

> SECOND ALLIED WAR COUNCIL REPORTE

Daladier Flies to England, Meets Chamberlain.

PARIS, Sept. 22 (U. P.).—Pre-|

'mier Edouard Daladier and Prime |

Neville Chamberlain contime

jokingly said they might be Swiss. since the outbreak of European hos-

One reporter suggested that

might be Bolivian or dersea vessels.

U. 8. Affected, He Feels

they | tilities. might be Canadian submarines. Mr. | Roosevelt countered that they also/M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain | Afghan un- conferred

Reliable quarters understood that |

somewhere in England and that they were accompanied by their high military commanders. constituting the second Allied Su-|

The newly established neutrality preme Council.

! patrol of destroyers, Coast Guard

the approximate location

The conference was revealed when

Office after an all-day ab-

the submarine was reported sighted | sence.

off the northeast Atlantic Coast. Mr.

Roosevelt inferred that the (12 noon Indianapolis Time),

When M. Daladier returned about

reported position of the submarines having been away since 9:20 a. m,,

was close enough to States to affect

terests.

Fishing Boat Captain Reports He Saw Sub

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, (U. P.) Capt. [fishing boat Mary Elinor

Sept.

{off Prince of Wales Island, west of| | Ketchikan.

(These opposing arguments were written by Senators Vandenberg

(R. Mich.) and Burke (D. Neb.), Scripps-Howard Newspapers.)

especially for The Times and other

¢ ment in this war.

. volved if we sell and ship no “arms, ! ammunition

Times-Acme Photo,

Bnafees Nye, La and Johnson . . . isolationist leaders,

the United it this country’s in- the

was stated that he had gone to conference by airplane and that an official communique would

be issued later.

E. C. Hudson of the!largest spy syndicates ever said to-|erate in the United States and a

day he had reported to the Coast|{number of arrests are expected soo Guard that he sighted a submarine |The syndicate was uncovered by

EXPECT SPY ARRESTS NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (U. P).— Federal agents were understood to-

22 day to be on the trail of one of the

to op-

the augmented war time staff of the

FBI Vandenberg Fears ‘Cash and Carry’ Needs Insulating;

Michigan Republican Claims Present Law Is Better Than New Plan.

By ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG

. 8S, Senator from Michigan

I BTA the President's dedi-|

to America’s non-involve-But I continue to believe that he recommends an| involvement formula—at least, a] far less insulated formula than the one now on our statute books. If] all of us are solely seeking honorable peace for our country, the sole question at the moment is involvement, Are we less calculated to be in-

cation

and implements of war” to any belligerent? Or the President desires, we shift to a

“cash and carry” policy intended

(there can be no doubt about this) | to arm one belligerent against the The question answers it-|

other? (Continued on Rage Three)

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safe conduct pass to Hol- |

of the |

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Nazis Say Line Was Agreed Upon Before War; Carol Sets Up Army Government to Guard Neutrality After Assassination.

CHAMBERLAIN AND DALADIER MEET

‘Warsaw Holds Out for 14th Day of Siege] French Claim Germans Lost 150,000 Dead and Wounded in Poland.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Nazi and Soviet Armies split up Poland today while ‘next-door Rumania sought to suppress terrorist remnants ‘of the Iron Guard organization with concentration camps and firing squads. The German News Agency said the demarcation line in Poland had been agreed to before the war started. It seemed Ito give more than half to Russia. Reports reaching Bucharest, but lacking official confirmation, indicated that between 100 and 400 had been executed and thousands imprisoned as the new military Governjment set up by King Carol to ‘guard lumanian neutrality 2 enged the assassination of Premier Armand Calinescu ‘by the pro-Nazi Iron Guards.

MANY PRO- NAZIS On the Western Front, atil«

| lery fire was intensified by ‘Hundreds Reported Dead as|both German and French, but

there was little other action Military Dictatorship except for the meeting—the Is Set Up. |

second of the war—between Prime Minister Neville ChamBUCHAREST, Rumania, Sept. 22 berlain of England and Pre2: P).—The Government of King jer Edouard Daladier of Carol, acting under powers of 2 France. | military dictatorship, struck a . | series of powerful blows today at| In Poland, the defenders of Ware remnants of the pro-Nazi Iron|saw held out for the 14th day as | Guard organization charged with (he German and Russian Armies {the Fes ssiauion of Premier Ar- drew a line through the center of d Calinescu. (the country—far to the west of any ning Ox in Bucharest, which the previously indicated Soviet pene= | Govenment refused to confirm or | tration—to mark their separats that hundreds of Iron | fields of activity. [Cons were executed in various| prom London, there were reports pari) of the country in addition 10 of heavy gunfire by naval units off fiicially announced as either eX- {he English coast indicating new a or killed while attempting to attacks at several points against flee | submarines. The Government anTE honsinds of terrorists and SUs- nounced that British aircraft in ace [os were crowded into concentra- tion over the Western Front had tion camps and police raids con- shot down at least one German |linued in many cities. fighting plane. The first German Bodies Lie in Street | Prisoners, from captured submae

rines, arrived in England. | The bodies of nine of the assassin | band lay in a main street of Freed to Go West Bucharest—scene of the assassina-| The advantage of the Polish par= | tion—as a ghastly warning to ter- tition agreement to Germany | rorists. seemed to be principally in that it Three other Iron Guards charged | freed German troops for service on th aiding the assassination plot|the Western Front. | were summarily executed by a firing | German soldiers had done most of 'squad at the nearby hamlet of the fighting and the French today Adjud Panciu. | claimed that total German casualAnother, according to official an-lties in Poland had been 150.000. A nouncement, was killed when he at-| French official broadcast said the tempted to escape from police—the| Germans had lost 900 airplanes same circumstances that officials and 600 pilots in the Polish came announced last year had pS lren | paign. lin the death of Corneliu Zelea Cod- The Nazi soldiers withdrew to reanu, the Iron Guard leader. | the western banks of the Pisia, Na- ; rew, Vistula and San Rivers which All Are Youthful approximately cut Poland in half Almost all of those execuled or | | from East Prussia to the Hungarian shot were youthful members of the|border. The rivers line was ane organization. Those who carried out| nounced as the limit of military the assassination were in their operations. twenties. The Red Army—marching in “This will be the fate of assassins | from the east in the last days of (and traitors,” proclaimed an enor-| | conflict but still forced to fight in mous poster above the corpses, ly-|the southern Lwow sector—shoved ing in the Boulevard King Carol II. |to the eastern banks of the four rive | Thousands upon thousands passed | ers, taking Vilna, Bialystok, Brest n. the bodies today as they lay in tor-|Litovsk, Lublin and Lwow, and ,| tured postures in the street where drove toward the suburbs of War= {six of them had been shot by|saw. soldiers, at the range of arm's| Under the demarcation agreed ar as they stood lined up before | upon by the German and Russian an army truck facing the pistols of | High Commands territory assigned for the present to the Soviets in-

(Continued on Page Three) nee cludes among others the highly ime

C. OF C. LOSES PLEA [Priant cities of Vilna, “Brest.

Litovsk, Bialystok and Lwow. Germans Get Warsaw, Lodz

Germany will acquire Poland's two largest cities, Warsaw and Lodz, the important industrial cities of Krakow and Poznan, the coal fields of Upper Silesia and Gdynia, Poland's only seaport.

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Moffet Field near Sunnyvale, Cal. {has been selected for the U. S. aero nautical research laboratory which wi | Chamber of Commerce committee

| | . . i i y | {here sought for Indianapolis, it was Facing each other across a come

announced today. Ce; ; Myron R. Green, industrial com- | Mon frontier at last, the Germans tS : and Russians still had to decide missioner of the Chamber of Commerce. said “that is what we ex-|Vhether a small buffer state should 3 : {be created around Warsaw, when

pected as Sunnyvale was really] | designated as the site in the origi-| (Continued on Page Three)

{nal appropriation bill.” | He said that the committee's ef-| forts were chiefly to “sell” Muni-| lcipal Airport as a site for one of} | the similar lahoratories to be estab- | | lished later,

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