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SATURDAY, SEPT. 23,

‘TIME TO MAKE PEACE IS HERE,’ DUCE ASSERTS

Paris Claims Westwall Forts Were Damaged by Fire From Maginot Line.

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1939

THE INDIAN

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Hitler's action in joining his troops |. north of Warsaw presaged a final | offensive against the Polish capital | : or whether he left the Danzig area |:

because of the death of Gen. von | Fritsch. A state ordered, but

military funeral the Army

was |

gave only

the barest details of his death yes-|

terday, saying that he killed “on emergency patrol duty in the front lines,” a task that or-| dinarily would have been assigned to officers about the rank lieutenant. Gen. von Fritsch. a Junker officer of the old school, was in retirement until the outoreak of hostilities because of his disagreements with) Nazi elements in the Army. But after the Reich forces marched into Poland it was divulged that he was personally in command of an Army unit advancing against Warsaw

of |

had been |

Major Al Williams (left),

Times

larship Winner

Aviation Editor, has made a

| personal cash award of $150 to William P. Hebenstreit, winner of The Times’ Aviation Scholarship Competition. Young Hebenstreit, a gradu-

ate of Technical High School,

New Nazi Food Rules Put Out

from German bases in East Prussia. |

His recall to duty was regarded as]

indication of Germany's need for skilled commanders rather than any reconciliation between Gen, von Fritsch and his Nazi critics As Herr Hitler moved back into Polish baftle zones Radio Warsaw =nNnounced to the world that the city’s resistance to German attack continued strong

Russians Occupy Lwow

Warsaw's Mayor Stefan “The Stubborn” Starzynski said that despite destruction and tens of thousands of civilian casualties the troops were holding firm and morale was high. He charged the German attackers with “wanton destruction and useless slaughter of civilians.” Radio Moscow said that Red Army forces of occupation in East Poland were confiscating capitalistic enterprises and that peasants were aiding the troops in rounding up yy merchants and wealthy farme Everywhere, according to Radio to, cow, peasants were greeting the Russian troops with red flags and offers of food. Radio Warsaw said that new German attacks had heen repulsed and that two German planes had been shot down Russians completed tion of Lwow and Germans withdrawing from the area. Rumania, still avenging the assassination of Premier Armand Ca-| linescu “by arresiing and executing pro-Nazi Iron Guards, moved to forestall possible Russian intervention en her frontiers,

the occupastarted

Fear Russian Power

Polish refugees were harred from Bessarabia, an area which Rumania | got from Russia after the World | War. Refugees also were banned from the Bucharest area. our concentraiion camps were established for interning 30,000 Polish soldiers who had fled into Bessarabia before the border was closed. It was estimated that in the Bucharest area alone 1000 Iron Guards were under arrest and there were 161 known executions. Another neighbor of the U. S. 8 R., Esthonia, apparently sought to maintain friendly relations with Russia. In Tallinn, it was announced that Foreign Minister Karl Selter had gone to Moscow with important officials to negotiate a new trade treaty between Esthonia and the Soviets. Maps published in Moscow showing the line of demarcation agreed upon bv the Red and Reich Army commanders indicted that since Russia has received a larger part of Poland than Germany, the idea of a buffer state hetween the two powers has been eliminated.

Low Countries Cut Dykes

Relgium and Holland were reported to have started experimental flooding of their frontiers as a defense measure and Swiss anti-air-craft batteries fired on foreign planes flying over Switzerland Forcign correspondents who went to Praha at Herr Hitler's suggestion reported that they found no signs of disorder but they heard German officials admit that as a precau-| tionary measure hundreds of Czechs had been arrested.

BERLIN, Sept. 23 (U. P). New food rations for Germans go into effect Monday. There will be special cards for bread, flour, fats, meat, milk and sugar and other cards for coffee, oatmeal, potatoes, flour and other products, the newspapers said in issuing detailed instructions today. Only mothers may as they want. The new weekly allowances include five pounds of bread, 1.1 pounds of meat, one-fifth pound of butter, about one-fourth pound of margerine. The new cards will be punched even when the holder eats at a restaurant.

children and expectant have as much milk

UNITY IS THEME INPANAMA CITY

Distrust of Nazis Noted At Session: U. S. Seeks Imoregnable Canal.

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vives the often reiterated fears concerning the Panama Canal and the Caribbean This conference will

concentrate on erecting a protective methods of the Germans attacking off the

ring about the Caribbean. U. 8S. Overlooks Nothing

An effort is being made to prevent the acquisition of facilities by a non-American power, or the local

'of a base from which an attack on

the Canal at any time would be possible. The United States is overlooking nothing in the way of protective measures for the Canal. Its objective is to make the waterway impregnable. It was acquired from Panama, under a 999-vear lease, a site for ® new air base, 19,000 acres with a half-mile ocean front, located 70 miles from here. In with the anti-aircraft defense undertaking, it already has surveded five landing fields on the Pacific cide. It is undertaking the acquisition of other Caribbean bases. The apparent strategy is to meet possible enemy attack through an air offensive far at sea, operating from airplane carriers against hostile warships as the first phase, with a ring of anti-aircraft defenses as the second line, and the Canal itself protected bv every conceivable device to prevent damage.

European Trade Cut Off

the conference settles its defense problems it will take up economic matters. Virtually all the republic's European trade has been cut off completely or reduced so sharply that drastic readjustment is necessary.

After

Most of the republics are looking |

toward the United States for finan- | cing aid and leadership in seeing | them through a period of economic chaos

connection |

is now in Purdue.

WARSAWMAYOR TELLS OF SIEGE

Calls Nazi Attack Wanton, In Message Sent to American Public.

(Mavor Stefan Starzynski, who 1s alse Civil Defense Commissioner of Warsaw, now leading one million civilians through one of the most destructive sieges of modern times, sent the following to the United Press at 6 o'clock (Indianapolis Time) last night in reply to a radiogram asking about conditions in the city. To Polish sympathizers throughout Europe, Mavor Starzynski has hecome the hero of the hour. They refer to him as “Stefan the Stubborn.)

By MAYOR STEFAN STARZYNSKI

(Copyright, 1939. by United Press)

WARSAW, Sept. 22.—1 am Ssin- | cerely glad to be able to convey to

the American public a message pic- |

turing briefly the present situation in Warsaw, 1 feel it an honor to be the Mayor and Civil Commissioner for the defense of our capital in this hour of her supreme trial. The military position of the capital's defense, of course, is in the hands of the military stafi but 1 {ean state that our troops up to this [hour are maintaining their positions and gradually advancing. The morale of our troops continues excellent.

Charges Wanton Slaughter 1 should like to comment on the

Warsaw and I wish to reiterate my | former statements in which I {labeled these methods as a disgrace to modern civilization. They consist in the wanton and from the military viewpoint, the | |useless slaughter of our civilian] { population. They consist. in the intentional | destruction of our historical buildings, our monuments, our churches, our hospitals, the homes of our | working men and of our asylums. The number of our ualties is important. Tt runs into the tens of thousands. And the, major number of the casualties are civilians. Among the casualties women and children predominate. We have food supplies on hand, but the volume is such that we have resorted to careful rationing Milk Extremely Scarce

There is an extreme shortage of milk and dairy products. This shortage naturally has endangered, lgravely, the health and even the lives of our infants and children. The health and lives of the mothers of families is endangered bv the lack of fonds they need to {care for their young. | The only Germans we see are the pilots of the German bombing planes which bombard our city night and dav. Our treops. of course, see the enemy. They have been bravely defending our city for three weeks and they will continue to do ®0. I firmly believe that the help of the civilized world for Poland will] ‘be effective soon and that this help | will save Warsaw from entire de"struction.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

DEATHS TO DATE County

Injured . 17/Accidents 11 Dead 0 Arrests .. 434 FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried {ions Paid Speeding Re 4 26 Failing to stop at through street 1 Reckles driving 4 Disobeying traffic signals 4 Drunken driving 13 AR others . 20

Totals .... 46

MEETINGS TODAY State-Wide Republican Roundup diana State Fairgrounds, all day

Indiana Motor Traffic Association, stat convention, Hotel Antlers all day

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, ouet and meeting, Claypocl Hotel, ning. Ancient Order of Hibernians, vention, Hotel Severin, 3 p. m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, meetings, Claypool Hotel.

Indiana Shapter, Ancient Order nf Hibernians, meeting, banquet, Hotel Severin.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records in the County Court House.

state

names and addresses. Clyde PE. Bradley, et: Mary Ellen Valentine,

Alabama. Henry Joe Eschtel Jr. Mary Leona Case,

Morris Market Spezigle, 20, Louise Jacobs,

24, of 1111'; E, Mar19, of 2454 N.

22, of 1004 E. 19, of 1615 E St. S.

Frank Helen stone.

of 1121 16, of 315

Peter

Ing. ridian Herbert ®. Schmidt, ferson; Lucy Benjamin, BOR

Pernie Whitlow, 57, R. R.

356 N. JefOot 5204 Madi-

of 8. Me1R, 42

erles Edward Hovius, 36. of 340) od Deroy B. Foster, 25, of 212 x,

City

The Times, | therefore, is not responsible ror errors in |

Josephine E. Harlan, 72, of New Alhanv,

Samuel Neely, 30, ’ Vash gn. 26. of 607 Langsdale 8S. Hendricks, 19. of 2933 8S.

Ruth Reynolds. 18, of 1034 S. Key-

Ben Siokes. 20, Helen Agnes Jansen 133.

Penn.:

of Longhorn R. R. 14, Box

19, of

BIRTHS Girls Newnan,

Albert cent 's Dan, Glenn, Charles, Albert

Desmond at 8. VinMarie Pruett, Gilberta Johnson. Catherine Lay.

Aggies Hardesty

City at Methodist at 232 Smith. at 1806 Mar-

tinda; ie. Rove Helen Kingham Catherine Rose

Glen, John

at Coleman. Harlev, at Coleman. Marie Swartz, at St, Vin.

Helen Burke, at St Edward, cent's

Vincent's, Nadine Trueblond. at St Vin-

Ethel. William Drane, Henry, Ruth Siegman, Frank, Mary Gill, Henry, Mand Leon Willis Ronse ronto. Calix, Alfre Lvie

rt City at Methodist. at Mathodist. Hot'mever, 1422 Mary Totten, at 1107 Kabpes. t. Samezlla Malorne, at 131 To-

at 2858 Kenwood.

at 426 W. 12th. 2111 WwW, St, ‘Clair.

"DEATHS Christian Bernltehr oe

Road, cirrhosis of liv Frank L. Sehtidt, “Ho City. cardio | vascular renal disease, rry B, Ketcham. 53 5228 Guil- , cerebral hemorrhag Joseph Chaille, 54, at Methodist. chial asthma ga J. Kaylor, 43. at Methodist, 4 months, George Branaman, 84, nois. arterio sclerosis. Neva Mace. 43. at City. cits, David A. Surber. 71, 50. mt 1244 N.

Marie Martos, ed. Marie Vaughn, Leons Gray, at

at 3610 Watson at Rt bronoste- |

Jenkins, broncho-pneumonia

at 2816 8. Tlliacute appendi- | St

at Vincent's | coronary thrombosis George Springer acute myocarditis.

FIRES

FRIDAY N.08 210 Bright St. children ‘playing with matches. B26 A ~Sauth High School’ Airport, residence,

Illinois,

residence, S10

5 Road and Municipal sparks from flue, $800 8:43 A. M.--2451 Ethel St. cause unknown m.—1816 Hovt Ave.

: storage bulld- | Qe ing, Monon Railroad and E. ye .—1427 Sou theastern Ave. body 'v, ‘cause unknown, 1:27 P. M.—Orchard ana FE. 30th Sis.,

—-Frirfierd Ave,

and Coliseum 843 Sanders 8t., residence,

| k Keniucky Ave. automobile, Mitonve i, $5 loss,

burned ple.

of 2124 Wendeli:

Riley, |

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau |

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly | cloudy; occasionally unsettled tonight and tomorrow: cooler tomorrow,

5:4

Sunrise .. 5:33 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Sept. 25, 1938— . ds PM

MIDWEST WEATHER | Tndiana—Mostly cloudy and unseftled I tonight and tomorrow: cooler in northwest portion, not gnite so cool in extreme southeast portion tonight: cooler in east and south portions tomorrow, Mlinois—Unsettled tonight and in south portion tomorow: generally fair tomorrow In north portion; portion tonight and in central and portions tomorrow, Lower Michigan Generally |i, afternoon Rar tonight with cooler tonight; portion; generally {Roe tomorrow.

Ohio—Mostly

fair and

cloudy with showers tion in south portion and co | north portion tonight; tomorrow

Kentucky—Generally fair tonight lowed by scattered showers tomorrow: | warmer Jonight, cooler {noon and nig

civilian cas- - attitude is to be in the face of the|

cooler in extreme north south

unsettled

possibly light local frost in north eon

fol- | tomorrow after-

| WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. |

| Amarillo, Tex, | Bismarck, N. D

| Cleveland nver Dodge City. Ras... vv, Helena, Mont, Jacksonville, Fla. ... Kansas oi, Mo......

shed, hot | 33th

|New Orleans New York . | Okla, Citv, Omaha, Neb | Pittsburgh Portlan {San Antonio. ®iex. San Francisco

"Washi tom. b. ©... .- Sain

PITTMAN CALLS EMBARGO FOES 10 CONFERENCE,

Embodying Roosevelt's Neutrality Proposals.

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for a selling campaign which al- | ready has brought one advertising| technician into the secret counsels of the Senate opponents of arms embargo repeal. He was identified simply as Chester Boles of Connecticut, Phil La Follette of Wisconsin met

third hudale in two days. Col. Prank Knox and former Governor Alf M. Landon already |

‘have boosted the repeal program by | this week's Na-| Conference of Presi-|

| participating in tional Unity dent Roosevelt. Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh has spoken for isolation. Nye Tells Offer of Funds

Administration sources predict that President Nicholas Murray

Butler of Columbia University and |

the heads of two other big Eastern Universities will join tha repeal chorus when the time comes. Senator William E. Borah (R. on ) said Henry Ford and Herbert Hoover had been mentioned as ar against the Roosevelt neutrality program, | Outside funds are {the isolationists, Seiator Nye R. 'N. D.), Press. But he said the organization | lof the anti-repeal campaign outside | of Congress will be kept entirely |separate from the deliberations of | {House and Senate. Mr, neither Mr. Hoover nor

being offered Gerald P.

Mr,

‘knew, Senator Robert (Prog. Wis.) is advocating a tional enlightenment” campaign | against repeal.

| position to repeal. That fact who have not announced publicly

their position.

Anti-repeal Senators insisted that |

the mailed and telegraphed protests

largely were legitimate, spontaneous | of |

and unorganized expressions

opinion. Roosevelt in Hyde Park Mr. Roosevelt left last night a week-end at Hvde Park. Postmaster General James Farley is believed to be using

for

A. all

his influence to keep the neutrality |

contest temperate and impersonal | on the Administration side.

[| In the midst of the debate scores

of Navy and Coast Guard vessels, augmented by Coast Guard airplanes patroled as far as 100 miles Atlantic Coast today to protect United States neutrality. The patrol, ordered by the President, also operated - far into the Pacific, the Navy Department said.

END 30 TERM TALK, LANDON ASKS F.D.R,

| a"

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European war, “Furthermore, T heartily agree with the President that this should be done. But 1 submit that he himself should make the first move

“lin that direction by removing the "biggest

stumbling block of all in the path of non-partisan discussion, namely the third term issue.” Mr. Landon has not hesitated to risk criticism among his own followers by consistently supporting President Roosevelt on major ing ternational issues. At the time of the sinking of the American gunboat, Panay, by Japanese airplanes in China, he spontaneously came forward with a wire to the President saying that. so far as he was concerned, ‘‘politics stop at the water's edge.” Again, he accepted the President's invitation to accompany Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the Pan American Conference at Lima, Peru, as one of the American delegation. While there he broadcast a statement saying that whatever ences political parties may have on

domestic issues in the United States. | they were as one when it came

|e of Joreigh | policy.

UKRAINE PEASANTS

T0 DIVIDE UP LAND

LONDON, Sept. 23 (U. P).— Moscow radio broadcasts heard here said that the Russian invaders of eastern Poland were confiscating businesses and inviting “the poorest classes of peasants” and arrest landlords, and kulaks (small land owners.) At Vilna, the Moscow radio said, newspaper plants had been seized and the first copies of a new newspaper, “Vilenskaja Pravda,” had been circulated. devoted entirely to Russian Premier V. M. Molotov's speech of last Sunday and to a few short stories and poems composed by local persons. “Local committees (in the conquered territory) have ordered that

red flags shall be flown from all buildings and that placards hailing!

Stalin be erected,” the broadcaster

said.

Expected to Consider Bill | from Bertita Harding's new book, released today by the Bobbs-Merrill Co.

He and former Governor

yesterday with isolationists in their

told the United

Nye said | Ford | had been approached so far as he]

M. La Pollette “na- |

differ- |

to hunt down storekeepers |

JpoLS TIMES

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Bertita Harding's New Book Reveals Undying Hapsburg Zeal for Throne|

| By ROSEMARY REDDING FUROPE'S WAR may be giving impetus to the

hopes of a Hapsburg restoration Zita, onetime queen of Austria,

| light.” The outbreak of the European

and her son, Archduke Otto. That's the deduction one may make

in the minds of the

“Imperial Twi-

war, already in-

volving the elements of old Austria-Hungary, could afford the ambitious exiles reason for plans and plots to restore this family of stormy loves and

| her dual biographies of the Hapsburgs. although the story for its value as a source

notable not so much for its plot, moves lively enough, but book of the present struggle.

the author of is a continuation of

Zita as a relentcan well imagine situation with an “Phantom

The book is

The lives of Karl and Zita involve events of the

first World War | up to the present day.

istic endeavors for by exile to Switzerland.

and the mount This new book is an absorbing story of the young king's gay manhood, his marriage to the beautiful Princess of Parma, their idealpeace during the war,

ing involvements

followed

Karl's attempts to regain his throne are among

the most thrilling episodes of the

story and finally

the author relates the tragic exile of these two royal

persons to Madeira, Karl's death,

! » nx » | |

| MRS. HARDING says that the dramatic history ‘“‘was not

obtained library shelves but from research inte current orig-

and Zita's con-

tinuing activities in behalf of § throne for Otto.

material for this from dusty

inal sources and a great deal of study and interview-

ing in Europe.” Much of it, that it had to be smuggled out of

behind-the-scenes stories that make “Imperial TwiThe book reads like dramatized history. Royal personalities become under-

light” fascinating reading. standable under her pen. To her of “the divine right of kings"

dramatic. The book may well have ended

but fortunately the author has proceeded to give insight into some issues closest to our times. is all Karl in the beginning but from her very introduction Zita begins to dominate the dual biography. she speaks.

Bertita Harding knows whereof ota and the Emperor Franz Joseph Austria, she made numerous trips to interview friends who, like her of the Court.

included in her new book.

ota lived.

Joseph,

she says, was so politically dangerous

for she lays open both Karl and Zita's indecisions and blunders. witticism or pertinent antecdotes are introduced now and then to keep the tragedies from becoming melo-

ing her writing of the story of Max

During this time and on trips about two years ago, she collected the information she has

Mrs. Harding grew up in the shadow of Chapultepec Castle in Mexico where Maximilian and CarlIn 1909 she went with her mother to return their jewels and insignia to the Emperor Franz She danced with Captain Fekete, a mem-=-

Europe. Tt is the

of this story

German, ing man, At Brabant,

there is no touch

Current

own designs, with Karl" s death to eminence.”

The book

Durimilian and Carland Elizabeth of to the Continent family, had been

generations

dawn.” Mr. and Mrs, ing some Harding went to her father Mexico. tour,

Bertita Harding , , . writes of royalty's trials and

ber of King Karl's airplane crew on one of his at tempts at a restoration. to her family in Mexico. The wife of Jack Harding, Mrs. Harding lives at 3545 Evergreen Ave. Belgium, continues her faith in the Hapsburg destiny. “Nations createa their own symbols to revere, not vice versa, and it had been a nation which, for its had she exile did not matter, the sea of time. , , . survival of the line, come when Austria, Hungary or any of the former dominions called a Hapsburg in vain , might Roman Empire of Germanic Nations ruled not from Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse but from the venerable halls of Vienna's Hofburg. a twilight that precedes both the darkness and the

scenarios there in August after her annual visit who is still a practicing engineer In the coming week she will begin a lecture

The Eastern Front

Germans

BERLIN, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—The German Army High Command announced today that the ‘campaign in Poland has ended.” Earlier, it was announced that Lwow (Lemberg) chief city in the southeast Poland oil and corn belt, had surrendered to a German mountain division which was being relieved by a Russian division west of the city. “The battles in Galicia (South Poland) were thus essentially finished,” the communique said, “The total booty of this southern German Army since Sept. 1 was 103,000 prisoners, 252 light guns, 23 heavy guns, 37 armored cars and an in- _ estimable quantity of other war materials.” It was announced that. on the 'Bzura River sector, west of Warsaw, ‘the commander-in-chief of the Polish Corridor Army, Gen. Bortnowski, was captured, with many members of his staff.” On the basis of this communique, the Poles had been conquered everywhere except in the Warsaw region. Tt was still considered possible that Germany and Russia would set up a small dependent Polish state around Warsaw, but Nazi sources would not comment on it officially. In Berlin, Catholic quarters reported that His Eminence Pope Pius XII would. in the next few days, approach the warring nations with a written peace proposal. These reports sald His Holiness would make definite proposals for peace and that he would suggest that some large neutral country such as {the United States represent Poland. It was reported that the Pope's peace encyclical, prepared scveral weeks ago, probably would be read in all Catholic churches soon in a revised form.

Russians MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (U. P).—A | communique on yesterday's opera-| [tions of the Red Army in Poland |said that six Polish infantry divisions and two independent regiments headed by Gen. Langer surrendered to Russians near Lwow. The Soviet communique said also that | White Russia (Poland) had occupied Bialystok, the fortress at Brest-Litovsk and had started clearjing out the remnants forces in the Avgustov northwest of Grodno, near Lithuanian border.

EARTHQUAKE KILLS 150 IN SMYRNA AREA

ISTANBUL, Sept. . 23 U.P) More than 150 persons were killed, hundreas wounded. 4000 made

forests the

ed in quakes vesterday, detailed dispatches from the devastated area disclosed today. Earth shocks continued in the Smyrna zone. causing widespread panic in the devasted region, dis- | patches said.

Stop War Before It Really

| | | | | |

ROME, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Premier | Benito Mussolini today declared that | | the moment has arrived to end hos- | tilities in Europe. In his first speech since last May, 'T1 Duce, addressing Fascist Party!

leaders from Bologna at Venice Pal- |

ace said:

“The Polish question has . been |

entered into war.

Begins, Mussolini Urges

no reason to alter her decision to! ‘remain neutral or the decision taken {by the cabinet on Sept. 1 when it |agreed that Ttaly would take no military initiative in the European conflict. I1 Duce referred also to the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland. “It was with the prudent inten-|

that the Governments in London |

Red Army troops in Western |

of Polish!

Poles

Sept. 23 (U, P)).- vl radio announced today that the city still was putting up “the strongest resistance” against the besieging German Army. “The enemy continues to destroy the capital, particularly Praga

LONDON, Warsaw

of the Vistula River) by heavy artillery,”” the broadcaster said at 6 a. m. (11 p. m. Friday, Indianapolis Time). “A German attack on Zacisze, a suburb, was easily repulsed. Germans twice bombed the city. Two airplanes were shot down.” After 15 days of airplane bombings, charges by motorized troops, shelling by heavy artillery and hand-to-hand fighting in the suburbs, the surrounding Germans still were unable to capture the city. Heavy Toll of Civilians The siege had taken a heavy toll of civilians as well as Polish troops and the food supplies were reported to be running dangerously low, A Warsaw broadcast heard at Budapest, directed to the people of Warsaw, asked them to report to city officials all cases of wounded horses, as their meat was valuable, That broadcast, at 16:45 last night (2:45 p. m. Indianapolis Time) also asked all citizens to donate their beds for the wounded. The broadcast said that many been bombed and that wounded in many cases were lying on bare floors or straw piles.

Belicve Battle Area Is Wide

In Paris, French observers, basing | their estimaves on reports German, Russian, Polish and neutral sources, believed that the Poles

| still were fighting for a considerakle area around Warsaw. The lines of Polish resistance were believed to

extend roughly from Warsaw west

to Kutno, south of Lodz, east

through Radom to Lublin. north to!

Lukow, thenice northwest to the junction of the Bug and Narew Rivers, 20 miles above Warsaw,

Poles on both sides of the Hitler-!

Stalin line will refuse to accept the

provisional partition of Poland ar-! (ranged by the Reich and Red Army |

| commands, Pa ss saw,

the Polish Embassy in

| N. . TOLIST NEW

The ranks of the National Guard |

in Indiana will be swelled by 859

to a new all-time record high of |

5828, under President Rooseve t's

limited emergency proclamation. | The 859 men represent Indiana's

“| allocation of the total ordered in-

|erease of 40719 to a total national | personnel of 235,000.

Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, He State adjutant general, (said he expected a letter soon with |orders as to the particular branches | of service to which the new men | will be assigned. : Col. Hitchcock said there were many listed applicants from which |to recruit new men, but that he did not know whether the number was sufficient to fill the quota.

| liquidated. Europe has not really tion of not spreading the conflict | WO 1) 1! Nl 0 ; K

| “Armies have not yet met. {clash can be avoided by realizing | that it is vain to attempt to main|tain or reconstruct that which his- | tory and the natural dynamism of | | peoples already has condemned.” Sig. Mussolini said that Italy has

face of the Russian fait accompli,” | | Mussolini said. | “But the consequence is that these | governments compromised 'moral justification in taking action ‘against the German fait accompli,”

their |

A and Paris had not done more in the

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HITLER HONORS

(the | section of the city on the east bank

'had a talk with Gen. Fritsch, intimating |would be possible

man,

hospitals had!

| vigor early in February and the men ‘who were regarded as the objectors,

from

"HIGH OF 5828 MEN

homeless and whole vilages destroy- | the Smyrna area hy earth- |

NAZIS REPULSED ON WEST FRONT, ~ FRENGH REPORT

Big Bins Rowing From Rhine to Moselle, High Command Says.

(© ontinued from Page One) to be blasting French —— on the German side of the frontier and the roads behind the French Maginot Line. It was reported that artillery activity from the German side was of unusual intensity,

Exchange Shell for Shell

Activity in the region between the Saar and Deux Ponts was to be . explained because it was there that the French had made gains which the Germans seemed to regard as important, It was understood that the French were now in sight of Deux Ponts, which lies within the main German Westwall fortifications, The Lauter River sector, the High Command been quiet, recently. Tt is at the [extreme eastern end of the front, where the Rhine bends down toward Switzerland. In addition to the activity reported, it was understood that French and German patrols were out in no man's land all night on the principal Saar sectors. Prench guns were reported to be exchanging shell for shell with the Germans, Further, the French asserted that they had aerial superioritv and that their planes were signaling movements of German troops moving up to the front lines, It was said also that observers wers photographing the German West wall and that fortifications in this defense line already began to show the effect of French artillery fire,

te which referred, has

errors.

Fekete related the details in 1924 when he visited her She speaks Spanish, French and local advertis-

says Mrs. Harding, Zita

raised writes,

the House of Hapsburgs “The present years of since they were but a drop in The important, thing was the

S t Surprise Attack so that the day might never peculate on p

showing no confie dence in Germany's neutrality guarantees to Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, speculated on the possibility of a surprise Gers man attack through the Nethers lands. . They ruled out the likelihood of an attack through Switzerland bee cause the Swiss had what was prace= tically a continuation of the Mag= inot Line. Belgium. too, they said, could stop the Nazis on the River Meuse, But, it was said, by skirting the Meuse the Germans might at= tempt to enter the Netherlands and ‘then drive on to the plains of Flanders. This speculation was based on the idea that the Nazis would want tn do something ‘“‘kolossal” to show their might, but would refrain from a direct attack Hn the Maginot Lins as ruinously costly. In addition to reports of German troop concentrations in the Aix-la= Chapelle district opposite Belgium, there were reports today of German troop concentrations in the Black Forest in Baden, across the Rhine [from Switzerland | Walter Stucki, Swiss Minister, conferred this morning with Robert Coulondre, chief of Cabinet of the Foreign Office It was reported that the Supreme War Council meeting held in England yesterday considered chiefly economic problems, and among other things discussed plans to keep the flow of Allied exports to neutral countries going so that the Allies would be able to draw on neutral markets for their necessities,

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Pritsch and Herr Hitler did not get along, and it was reported that late in 1934 Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Herr Hitler's official heir, that smoother relations if he stepped aside in favor of a more amenable Incidentally, it had been reported thal before Herr Hitler's rice, President Paul von Hindenburg had envisaged Fritsch as his successor, But these reports were never confirmed,

Early last year, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg resigned as War Minister. Marshal Blomberg had married a woman much younger that himself, Erika Gruhn. Moreover, she was a carpenter's daughter,

Resigned for ‘Health’

It was reported that the old Reichswehr objected vigorously to this marriage. In the Kaiser's day Reichswehr officers married only approved young women of equal social status. To this objection hy the Army's traditionalists, Marshal Blomberg's resignation was ate tributed. Whatever ler

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