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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 168

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1939

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

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INDIANAG 0p. Posie ot 6.0. Rally.

RALLY PARADE

Capehart Infers Refusal as ‘Favorite Son’ Candidate For Presidency.

FRANK, GANNETT SPEAK

Publisher Predicts Bitter Neutrality Fight in Congress.

Hundreds of Hoosier Republicans,

circus down-

augmented by bands and

elephants, para through

town street: fanfare Homer EK. inferred he offer to be‘favorite son” for

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Pre SCHENGEN. LuxembourgFrance Frontier, Sept. 23 (U. P.) —The lowly pig has become an arm of the military service in this new war, frontier reports said today It was reported that Prench soldiers were using pigs to detect, and to be martyrs to, mines laid by ‘German soldiers along the Moselle-Luxembourg sector of the Western Front According to reports, soldiers have sent pigs out the path of their advance. The pigs “detected” the mines, it ‘was said, by exploding them, and the French then advanced. After digging in, it ‘was said, they sent out a new lot of pigs to “detect” the mines toward the next objective

U.S. TIGHTENS CHECK ON FOREIGN AGENTS

State Department Issues Drastic New Regulations.

As to the

idency, the supreme obligation Republican Party to fight fon inmph of sound principles of economics. The cause more important than the man. be we know that we are hting right principles h somewhere in the Republican Party man who will be the mo effective exponent of these principles. Let's set aside all personal and leave road open for that man.” Thousands jammed downtown streets during a two-hour parade that was one of the high spots in wo-day conference of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association and the State Central ‘Committee. called it the “14-40 Roundup,” maaning to elect their 14th

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WASHINGTON, Sept The State Department sued new regulations drastically strengthening surveillance of foreign agents in the United States In the regulations made public today and distributed to all interested parties, the Department incorporated sections of the old 1917 Espionage Act requiring agents acting directly for foreign governments te notify the Secretary of State of their activities

the After waving Fair were servea preceding a of speeches Frank E. Gannett Y., publisher, one of the principal speakers, declared that the most im(Continued on Page Two)

HOSPITAL MAKES miu LIGHT OF PROBLEM DAYLIGHT TIME ENDS |

AT 2 A. M. TOMORROW

CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (U. P) Residents of the Chicago metropolitan area and northern Indiana and Ilinois towns who lost an how during their sleep last April will find it again in their sleep this week-end. Daylight saving time, in effect since April 30, ends at 2 a. m. tomorrow, Statisticians figured observing the “fast” 148 hours of summer

DIES AFTER AUTO CRASH

SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Sept. 23 (U P.).—Kenneth A. Rhoads. 21 Mishawaka, died early todav en route to a hospital here with a fractured skull received when his automobile rolled over several times in Mishawaka

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City smoot hix electric

Hospital functioned last night with power because of a down, as does modern conveniences,’ Charles W. Mvers sald He said that the Polar Ice & Fuel Co. has offered to furnish all the and distilled water the hospital need during the emergency, of charge. The power plant will be operation some

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SOUTHERN G-MAN TO HEAD FBI HERE

B. E. Sackett, head the FBI in Louisiana and Mississippi with headquarters at New Orleans. todav he will become head of the Indiana division in Indianapolis to succeed Herold Reinecke, resigned Mr. Sackett said will take up his duties here last of next week Mr. Reinecke associated with Ward Co., Chicago

F. D. R. AT HYDE PARK

HYDE PARK, N. Y P.).—President Roosevelt arrived here early today and motored immediately to his Hyde Park home.

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By JOE COLLIER This is necessarily an essay on weather because today is the last day of summer, in some respects, and the first day of autumn. in others It depends a lot on how vou look at it, but more on when. Anything up until the cocktail hour is likely to be summery, and after, autumny, because summer ends and autumn begins at 4:50 p. m (Indianapolis. Ben Davis, Irvington and Woodruff Place Time). As one o the fashionable encyclopadias puts it, autumn happens because “the sun's rays fall more obliquely on the earth in the fall than in summer because of the inclination of the earth's rotative axis to the plane of the eliptic (q. v.).” There probably is no more succinct wav of putting it. When the sun obliquely, less of it hits the ‘earth. When less of it hits the earth, the ‘earth gets less warm, When it,

Sept. 23 (U.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Jane Jordan . Johnson Movies 5 Mrs. Ferguson Nusle Obituaries Pegler Pyle Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story Forum . 10 Society q 3 Grin, Bear It. 14 Sports 6. In. Inpls. «... S(State Deaths.

Churches Comics R Crossword Curious World Editorials Financial

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is Frank Gannett, left, Rochester, him is Paul Bausman, executive in

charge of arrangements for the convention.

WOMAN DIES AS SHE LEAVES BUS

Mrs. Delia McCool Is Victim: Six Injured in Another Traffic Accident.

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Mrs Alabama St into the path killed last night. The accident occurred on Road 34 a half mile west of Pittsboro in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs James Long, cousins, who were to g0 with her to the home of David Surber. another cousin, who died Thursday in St. Vincent's Hospital here The car was driven by Harry Revnolds, 3435 Winthrop Ave. Mrs. McCool, a native of Indianapolis, is survived bv her husband, Daniel McCool; a son, Joseph McCool, and a nephew, Police Lieutenant Edward Moore. She was a member of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. parish

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Collar Bone Broken

SiX persons were injured. one seriously, when two cars collided last night at High School Road and Morris St Miss Imogene Tingle Ingomar St, was the most seriously injured, with a broken collar bone and a brain concussion Others injured were Clarence Ogden, 17, R. R. 3. Box 270B: Corttee Barett, 26. of 1051 River Ave. Terry William Fuller, 19, Bridgeport; Bonnie Dean, 15. of 824 Ingomar S and Bert Barrett, 24, of 338 Wisconsin St John E. Johnson, Temple Ave, a pedestrian, was struck by a car at Martindale Ave. and 25th St, last night and was reported in a serious condition at City Hospital with a fractured skull.

Hit by Railroad Car

Shea, 59. of 626 N. Parker was injured seriously when was struck yesterday by an Indiana Railroad car at MassachuAve. and Delaware and New York Sts. Mr. Shea is an employee of the Indianapolis Printing Craft Bowling Association and is a retired printer Seven-year-old Robert Poole. 2037 Singleton St., was injured when his bicycle collided with a car at Pleasant Run Blvd. and Ravmond St.

BUTLER, SERIOUSLY ILL, HOLDING OWN

WASHINGTON, Sept QU. P) The condition of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler. seriously ill with a bladder ailment. was reported unchanged today. Justice Butler's physician reported that he spent “a very good night” and that his condition was “unchanged.”

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gets less warm it gets, almost always, more cold. (Note: This doesn't apply to certain parts of the earth. such as the tropics, because of some basic geometric principle that you should have learned in elementary school.) The tropics have no winter. spring or fall. The Arctic and Antarctic have no fall or spring to mention —only winter and summer Indianapolis has all four, owing to careful planning and an early territorial law which is almost forgotten. As for the Weather Bureau. which has always maintained that to ali practical purposes autumn begins Sept. 1, it merely said that weather tonight will be occasionally unsettled and it will be cooler tomorrow,

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gg FRITSCH, ONCE ‘PURGED, DIES IN WARNAW MIEGE WHILE ON PATROL DUTY

Hitler Headquarters . Moved to North of

Polish Capital.

& Paris Claims Westwall Forts

Times Photos 0. K. Skyles, Tllinois Republican chairman, right, and Arch N. Bobbitt, Indiana chairman, talked politics during the caucus sessions

rs Nice in DEBATE CURB ON AMERICAN SHIPS

Senate Committee Seeks To Conform With F. D. R. Neutrality Program.

War's Nice in Warsaw (Ind.)

WARSAW, Tnd. Sept. 23 (U P).—The postcard business has been booming here since the start of the European war. Tourists have been cards to friends and saving “Safe-in Warsaw of war

UNITY IS THEME ~INPANAMA CITY

mailing relatives no sign

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U. PD Fourteen Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussed today a tentative draft of neutrality changes to prohibit Unitea States vessels from carrying on trade of any kind with belligerent nations. The bill, closely neutrality program President Roosevelt in convening the special session of Thursday, was expected to be ready for full committee consideration Monday. Only Democrats absent day's informal meeting were Senator Pat Harrison, ill at his Mississippi home, ana Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri, a leader of the isolationist bloc opposing the President's program. Senator Clark was invited to the meeting by mistake, it was explained, but remained away after discussing the situation with Chairman Key Pittman of Nevada Eddie Rickenbacker. president of Eastern Airlines and war-time American ace, revealed today that he will make a radio address Tuesday night opposing the embargo repeal Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R Mich), a committee member who wants to keep the embargo, has agreed to help gel a bill to the floor in order to speed action. Both sides are looking for bigname. non-political indorsements (Continued on Page Three)

COAST HEAT ABATES:

Distrust of Nazis Noted At Session; U. S. Seeks impregnable Canal.

following the laid down by

By THOMAS L. STOKES from toTimes Special Writer PANAMA CITY, Sept.

surcharged

23.—An

atmosphere with war

tensions, radiating 3000 miles across the Atlantic this

the opening of

to tropical city,

surrounds the Pan-

American. Conference of foreign

ministers, which -assambles in its first plenary session today Twb currents are dominant among the delegates from the United States and 20 Latin American countries who will settle down to work out a common protective program on defense, neutraiity ana trad», after the welcoming address of Panama's President, Juan D. Arosemena. One, which augnurs well, is the new spirit of wunitv manifest in the United States and Latin America, in the face of the European crisis and its reactions on this hemisphere The other is the seething undertone of suspicion toward Germany, intensified by the presence of Nazi diplomatic representatives, which recalls to this correspondent the passion of Worle War days. The way has been well prepared for real accomplishments in a series of advance meetings attended by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. head of the U. S. delegation, and various representatives of the Latin American republics. These meetings were marked by most friendly and co-operative feeling, and a determination to act together to protect the Western Hemisphere. | Defense measures have taken precedence over trade neutrality and other considerations. The defense phase and capitalized by developments. In sharp contrast to the Buropean war at this gathering of peaceful neighbors, is the suspicion toward the unusual Nazi interest in the conference. Local newspapers are stressing the arrival here of Otto Reinbeck, the German Minister to Central American countries, who regularly maintains headquarters in Guatemala, and the presence here of other German diplomats in Latin America. Distrust and suspicion fill the air as the presence of the Germans dramatizes the Nazi attempts to penetrate Latin America. and re(Continued on Page Three)

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (U. P). —The worst heat wave in California history was abating today after causing an estimated 74 deaths since Sunday. The Weather Bureau said that this afternoon would be “somewhat cooler” and bv tomorrow or Monday the temperatures would be back below 100 degrees The peak of 103 degrees vesterday in Los Angeles was three degrees below that of the day before. The minimum, however, never dropped below 84 vesterdayv and all the night before, which was an alltime record.

intensified European war

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS 1939 hv Scripps-Howard Newspapers)

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 greatest single contribution dent Roosevelt could make in the present froubled situation, former Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas said today, would be to tell the

country categorically that he does not want a third term and would not accept the nomination even if offered.

= The Presi-

BRITISH LOSE 2 MORE SHIPS IN WAR ON SEA

LONDON, Sept. 23 ((U. P)— Britain today disclosed the loss of two more ships. Announcement was , made that hope had been | abandoned for the freighter Roval| Sceptre and its crew attacked by a German submarine Sept. 6. Rescue vessels have been unable to find anv trace of the Royal Sceptre’s crew, The Ministry Information also announced that the H. M. S. Kittiwake. | a naval patrol vessel of 510 tons carrying a complement of 60) men. struck a mine in the English Chan- | nel on Sept. 20. Five members of the patrol vessel's crew are inissing and are believed to have been killed. Two others were injured and are receiv- the special message to Congress (ing hospital treatment. The Kitti- Thursday if that is the best way to wake was able to return to harbor keen this country out of war. ‘for repairs,

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 23 (U. P.). =President Roosevelt today again declined to commit himself on third term possibilities, He refused to comment on Alfred M. Landon’s proposal that he renounce all aspirations for another term to unify national sentiment in the European war crisis,

Mr. Landon expressed himself as not averse to the removal of the embargo along.the lines suggested in

congress |

Also, he added, he is entirely in tics in the

Were Damaged by Fire From Maginot Line. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Premier Benito Mussolini Italy broke a four and one-half-month vow of silence today to declare that the moment has arrived to end hostilities in Europe. His speech was made unexpectedly, coincident with disclosure that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler had moved his fisld headquarters from Danzig to a point north of Warsaw and the announcement by the Command of the death of Col. Gen Werner von Fritsch. outstanding German strategist and former com-mander-in-chief. Report Three Attacks Pramier Mussolini said that now that Poland had been captured and before the armies really met on the Western Front, that Britain and France should recognize the “fait accompli” and make peace. He said their moral principles had been compromised when vhey prudently failed to declare war against Russia

for invading Poland just as Hitler |

had invaded it. But cated that perhaps the two armies were already in real combat between the Rhine and the Moselle. The Paris War Office announced that heavy German counter-attacks had thrown the entire sector into activity. German shock troops were thrown back three times from the French line east of the Saar, the War Office said, and French aviation disclosed that French artillery fire has caused heavy damage to the Westwall fortifications. Poles Held to Warsaw

The German Army High Command. continuing to ive only scant attention to the Western Front, announced that the Polish Army. except for the defenders of Warsaw, has been conquered. There was speculation as to whether Herr (Continued on Page Three)

N. Y. TRADE LIGHTEST SINCE WAR BEGAN

Most Changes Small but Harvester Gains.

By UNITED PRESS

Approximately 560,000 shaves were traded in the stock market at New York today, the smallest total since Burope went to war. Most changes were small in the general list, although a few issues made extreme fluctuations. Among the large gainers was International Harvester preferred, which jumped $7 on a single sale. Wheat prices were fractionally lower at Chicago, reflecting weakness at Winnipeg. Bond prices were about steady.

Alfred M. Landon , again risks G. 0. P. criticism.

favor of adjourning all party poli- when it comes to consider what our |

now about to

German High |

a French communique indi-

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Col. Gen, von Fritsch killed

‘in action.’

NAZIS POUND AT "WESTERN FRONT

Big Guns Roar on Both Sides From Rhine To Moselle.

(The German Army communique today made no mention of action on the Western Front.)

PARIS, Sept. 23 (U. P.).=German troops have begun to counterattack heavily on the Western Front and the whole area from the Rhine to the Moselle had become active, the French High Command announced today. German shock troops were thrown three times against the French lines east of the Saar River yesterday and were set back each time Big guns pounded on both sides of the front during the night and this morning. It was believed that The German attacks and heavy artillery fire coincided with the arrival on the German side of Col.-Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch, Army Commander in Chief, to take charge of operations. Communique No. 39 of the French High Command said: “Several enemy attacks against positions we had conquered east of the Saar River were repulsed at the close of vesterday afternoon “There was great activity throughout the night on the front, particularly between the Saar and {the region southeast of Deux Ponts (Zweibruecken), and on the Lauter.” The first paragraph of the com=munique referred to the three vain attempts of Nazi shock troops to retake a forest the French had captured. French machine gunners and artillery crumpled three waves of German troops that attempted to get into the forest and meet the French with hand grenade and bayonet. German big guns were reported (Continued on Page Three)

Turn Down Third Term to Aid Unity, Is Landon’s Appeal to Roosevelt

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sticking is best

begin and issue of what try as a whole But, he went on, that is going to be difficult if not impossible as long las people throughout the country are talking about a third term for

President Roosevelt and the air is filled with eonversation about not | “swapping horses in the middle of the stream.” It is too much to ask either the | Democratic Party or the Republican Party, said Mr. Landon, that they | forget politics as long as the third term issue remains so definitely in the foreground “In normal times,” the Republican [standard bearer of 1938 continued, “it is altogether natural, politically |speaking, that a President nearing {the end of his term should hesitate to throw away one of his trump cards [and remove himself from the polit ical picture so long in advance of the conventions. "But these are not normal times Something far more important than mere party considerations are at stake. The President himself rec | ognizes this when he asks the Congress to adjourn partisan politics on Page Thyee)

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| Ousted by Fuehrer, Rejoins Army as War Starts.

BERLIN, Sept. 23 (U. PP). -=Get= many's one-time Army commanders in-chief, Col. ‘Gen. Werner von Fritsch, fell in action before Wars saw while on emergency patrol duty commander of the 12th Regiment Col Gen, von Brauchitsch disclosed

as mere Artillery Walther today Gen

Brauchitsch, commander=ine chief io the monocled Junkers Gen, Fritsch, added brief details to a cryptic an« nouncement from TMuehrer Adolf Hitler's own headquarters that Gen, Fritsch had died in battle befors Warsaw on vesterday How Gen. Fritsch died and who, as a regimental commander of artillery, he was on emergency patrol duty before a besieged city, was not disclosed either in the statement from Herr Hitler's field headquat= ters or in the obituarv notice pube lished in the Allgemeine Zeitung over Gen. Brauchitsch's signature,

Praised by Hitler

An official communique, datelined “Fuehrer headquarters,” said “Col, ‘Gen. von Fritsch was Killed the 22d of September in battle be« fore Warsaw “The Puehrer honored von Fritsch in an order of the day to the Army, “The Fuehrer ordered a military and state funeral In a signed three-column death notice in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Gen. Brauchitsch said: “On Sept. 22 Col. Gen. Freiherr von Fritsch, chief of the 12th Artil= lery Regiment, fell while carrying out emergency patrol duty in the front lines before Warsaw, Returns mg to his regiment on the first dav (of the war) he died in final, unconditional sacrifice to the Army to which he had devoted his life Deeply shocked and in all sadness, but also with great pride, the Army stands at the grave of this great soldier.” Hitler

It was announced last night that Herr Hitler had moved his heads quarters from Danzig to the field operations area of the North Army which drove to Warsaw and encircled the city from the east That explained the datelin® “Fuehrer headquarters” announcing the death in action of Col. Gen. von Fritsch. He died on the 14th day on which the Poles in Warsaw had ree sisted the German war machine, Thus ends2d the career of the small, precisely dressed, monocled man who came hack after a Nazi purge of the Army and died for his country,

“Turged,” Then Vindicated

“purged” German Army officers in February, 1938, Five weeks later a military court of honor vindicated him completely of alleged anonymous aspersions. Ti was reported that this was done at the demand of the Armv. Tn June, 1938, he was publicly rehabilitated “in recognition of his great serve ices in reconstructing the Army.” He came back to the Army when the present war began Gen. von Fritsch was a Junker, epitome of the soldier of Imperial Germany. unyielding, unswerving. He advanced steadily in rank under the Kaiser and under the Weimar Republic. In 1934, under Hitler, he became commander in chief of the Army Herr Hitler Germany in

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was ready to rearm defiance of the Vers sailles Treaty Gen Fritsch was there to do it, and it was to his work in building up this new Army =in leading a unit of which he was killed=that the citation of his te= habilitation in June, 1938, referred,

Al Odds With Hitler

He was 59 at death. He was the son of a lieutenant general, and he was educated in bovhood to be a soldier. He entered the Army as an ensign in 1898, in the 25th artillery, He was made a lieutenant two yearg later, and a captain in 1913, At the start of the World War Gen. von Fritsch was on the Gene oral Staff. He was made a major in 191% By the end of the wat he was on the Air Force General Staff. He became a lieutenants colonel in 1022, a colonel in 192% and a major general in 1930. Then he became lieutenant gens eral and, in 1934, general and com= mander in chief of the Army. IL had been reported that from the first the unswerving Gen. (Continued on Page