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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 170

TUESDAY, SEPTEMB

ER 26, 1939

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CITY SHIVERING

IN SUB-NORMAL

MERCURY SKID

It’s 10 to 12 Degrees Under What It Ought to Be; 50 Early Today.

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RL a.m. .... 51

Angola, 40; Ft. Wayne Reports 42.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ....51 11am .... 3 12 (noon) .. 59 1peam .... 60 2p m

Sa.m. .... 5 Sam. .... 4 10a.m. .... 55

After breaking all-time Septem- | ber heat records in the city and 'state only a few days ago, tem- | peratures today skidded to 10 to 12

: | degrees below normal. Indianapolis snuggled under dou- | ble blankets as the mercury dropped | to 50 at the Municipal Airport sta-

[tion early today. The State's cold- | was Angola, |

jest spot last night with 40. Ft. Wayne reported a low | of 42. Weather drought. Light

the prolonged

showers are indicated for today and |

tomorrow, and the temperature is

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Times-Acme Photo. Ann Sheridan came all the way from Hollywood to Chicago to add “oomph” to the American Legion's parade down Michigan Ave. today. She had planned to ride a white horse as an over-dressed Lady Godiva but rain rendered pavements slippery. “Besides.” she lamented, “I have only a few light things to wear.” (Other Legion photos, Page 13.)

Doughboys of Last War Begin Parade of Peace

Drizzle Halts After Half an Hour as Nation Awaits Service Men's Stand on Neutrality.

CHICAGO. Sept. 26 (U. P.).—The men who marched the Western Front of war 21 years ago in muddy khaki pulled raincoats over snappy American Legion uniforms in their parade of peace today. A drizzling rain was falling as bugles called the doughboys of 191%718 into line for the parade of the Legion's 21st annual convention. But. rain or shine, the march went on as it did two decades ago

te pene DEFEAT CARDS

The Legion devoted its entire day to the parade of peace but the question of American neutrality and the stand the ex-soldiers will take on the arms embargo issue occupied the | minds of all. The Legion will vote | its policy before the close of the con- |

vention Thursday { 2 : Legionnaires, their auxiliary, Gold Thompson Starts for Cincy; 33,000 Jam Stands.

Star mothers and sons and daugh- | ters of the Legionnaires participated in the line of march nearly two miles down Michigan Blvd. to the reviewing stand in Soldier Field. Santa Claus in a red suit rode ing Louis a motorized sleigh with two statue Gincinnati op deer. He represented Santa Claus, | Ind. The Lake County, Ind. drum] and bugle corps played Michigan's] victory song as it passed in review.|The St. Four hours after the parade be-|into town today for a four-game gan the Indiana jis Su 21st series with the Cincinnati Reds that 13 —_—wer assit '( o : ; 4 er Fi Were pague through obably will decide who wins the . National League pennant. Keep Peace, Chadwick Pleads Manager Bill McKechnie of the : { Of 600 resolutions submitted to Reds, who had been expected to committees for Sonsiieranos, Abeut lead with Bucky Walters, his ace, 5 ality. m - . ‘ : vam: others made a last-minute switch to Junior i | Thompson as his pitcher for the first

a cash and carry policy. “The question is the biggest be- game of today's double-header. Ray fore the convention,’ James P. Blades, manager of the Cardinals, Ringley, Chicago, chairman of the | called on his willowy right-hanaer, Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Curt Davis. ; said. “It may be placed before the, The Reds went into a 3-0 lead in convention as a whole. Our stand the second when Myers slammed a will have a great influence upon the home run over the left field wall nation's course.” land scored Lombardi and Craft National Commander Stephen ahead of him. Chadwick told the convention yes-| Holding a 3':-game lead in the terday that it was the Legion's dying days of the season, the Reds duty to keep America neutral in the [can clinch the pennant by winning present war in Europe. both games of today’s double-header, or they can clineh the pennant by Funmakers Parade, Too winning any two of the four games {with the Cardinals. Single games will be played tomorrow and Thurs-

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The 40 and 8 Society, funmaking group of the Legion, held a torchlight parade and its annual “wreck” A : . : last night. Locomotives and box | Each team has won its last seven

ine | EAMES. cars. fire engines and jallopies | ; ; . i . equipped With spray guns and water | The weather was cool and cioudy

: Eid _|with a breeze blowing in from cenpumps paraded up Michigan Boule- | o "q 14 (oward home plate. A ca-

: . | pacity crowd of 33,000 was in the The Legion's standing committee |¢tangs.

IN FIRST GAME, 3-1

| The two-day, 2-inch rain which farmers need badly is nowhere in | sights Mr. Armington said.

Winter's first snow was reported |

| with two inches of snow covering the |ground in northern New York State near Canton. Temperatures dropped |overnight from 74 degrees to 32. A heavy fall was reported vesterday over most of South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Valentine, Neb, had a

California Waters Hold 40 Dead in Storm

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—The calming seas off Southern California were searched today for the bodies of approximately 40 men, | women and children who put out in small boats for relief from a heat wave Sunday and were caught by a sudden storm. Estimates placed the death toll as high as 44. The shoreline was (littered with wrecks of | whose passengers had not been ac-

counted for and some authorities!

|feared the toll would be much | higher. | Only three bodies had been found. | Two were pulled from Los Angeles {Harbor and a third floated ashore {at Point Mugu, where the excursion | fishing boat Spray capsized with a | loss of 24 lives.

High Waves Subsiding

Eleven boats were known to have | been wrecked in the violent and unexpected 65-mile-an-hour gale which whipped up from a Mexican hurricane, and 23 others were still reported missing. The waves, which those aboard the boats said looked

“as high as three-story buildings.” |

| were subsiding today and the search

| successful.

001 000 000—1 9 1 for bodies was expected to be more | F.D.R. CALLS SIX TO

| The Navy assigned four destroyers

CINCINNATI, Sept. 26 (U. P.) — and several patrol boats to help the| Louis Cardinals stormed Coast Guard pick up bodies and |

{hunt for still missing craft.

RAILWAYS OPPOSES DRIVE-TO-LEFT PLAN

| A proposed ordinance to allow

Man J. H. Armington | saw little prospect of relief from

four-hour snowfall. |

vessels |

Polish Soldiers in German Prison Camp

In!

Poles just brought from the front to a German prison camp dress after delousing precautions.

SOVIET ORDERS FLEET PLACED ON WAR BASIN

‘Patrol Finnish Waters as Visit of Nazi

Foreign Minister Is Announced

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Esthonia Is Nervous.

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT IN WARSAW

British Told Not to Expect Results Soon, but | Churchill Claims Advantage on Sea;

Times-Acme Photo.

APPROVAL GIVEN

* SCHOOL BUDGET

The County Tax Adjustment Board | today voted 6 to 1 to approve the Indianapolis School City’s $6,871,318 | proposed 1940 budget without mak-| ing any reductions. The budget calls for a 96-cent tax levy. the same as the current rate. | The approval came after a, vigorous debate in which Frederick | Albershardt, Board vice chairman,| asked a 1-cent reduction in the levy | for administrative expenses. This brought vigorous protest from Harvey Hartsock, Board representative of the School City. Protest Poor Relief Costs

Board members also heard a pro-| test on “the increasing costs of poor | relief,” from representatives of the | Apartment Owners Association, the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and! the United Tax Reduction League. Before approving the schools budget, the board cut 3 cents from the Center Township (outside) spe-| cial schol fund levy of 7.47 cents, | tentatively reducing the proposed: township (outside) rate to $2.035.| The rate is anticipated reductions in the poor relief levy. Mr. Albershardt’s motion to cut | the Indianapolis School City tax

| rate 1 cent failed for lack of a sec-|

‘Tax Board Favors 86-Cent Levy; Begins Study of Civil City Rate.

| approve the budget as requested was]

passed with only Mr. Albershardt (dissenting.

| Hartsock Defends School Board

| Mr. Hartsock defended the proposed school budget, declaring the {School Board had included only requests which were considered ‘‘absolutely necessary.” Mr. Albershardt attacked rising administrative costs which he said “must reach a limit sometime.” During the debate on the Schools budget, Board Member Pliny Wol(Continued on Page Three)

NEUTRALITY PARLEY

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Wisest to Run, || ONG WAR SEEN

Solomon Finds

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (U. P). —Two of cafe society's veteran battlers George White, the

“Scandals” producer, and Sidney |

Solomon, former night club owner—tiraded punches today in

pre-dawn encounter before a-glit- |

tering audience at the Stork Club. Versions of the were as numerous as the celebrities present, Among them were Lahr, Eddy Duchin, Nichols and Ella Logan. White, who once tangled with Rudy Vallee, objected to a remark Solomon made, He rapped a right to Solomon's face and took a highball in his own face in return. Solomon sprinted for the door with White in pursuit and they slugged it out in front of the club. White had the last word—a polished right toe as Solomon disappeared into a taxicab. Two women wearing white sables were at the White's table. He said one was Olga Gorey of the Scandals. He would not name the other.

STEPHENSON IS AT TRIAL SCENE

Ex-Klan Chief Refuses Comment as He Awaits Hearing

fond, but Mr. Hartsock's motion to | At Noblesville.

By NOBLE REED

Times Staff Writer

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Sept. 26.— D. C. Stephenson. former Ku-Klux! Klan dragon serving a life term for murder, in jail here today. declined to discuss his impending new trial hearing. saving “I will not betray my friends by making public statements.” | Stephenson, who was sentenced | here 14 years ago at his murder trial for the death of Madge Ober-| holtzer, State House stenographer, was brought back here last night from the Indiana State Prison to confer with his attorneys in prepa- | ration for the hearing next week on his new trial plea.

Refuses to ‘Betray Friends’

In declining to discuss his case, |

Senate Group Urges Less

Stephenson said to reporters: “I am just a human being who |

few I have. I was unfortunate in|

Pressure for Arms Sales | needs friends and I'll not betray the |

BERLIN, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—

| motorists in the downtow i | : { ownilown ates 10 Reliable sources reported to-

| pass safety zones on the left was night that the German Govopposed today by the Indianapolis ernment was considering | Railways, Inc., at a Safety Board sending Ambassador Hans | meeting. Dieckhoff back to Washington | Charles W. Chase, president of within the next two or three the company, told the board that weeks as ‘‘a peace gesture” to ‘the proposal would slow railway the United States. | operations almost 40 per cent. He |also said it would jeopardize the safety of passengers in the loading | zones.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U. P.). President Roosevelt called in six members of his Cabinet today for a

getting mixed up in a dynamic] political situation in Indiana and that is all I will talk about now.” Stephenson then wrote out a statement—on the war, in which he said: “I am deeply grieved to see =a group of vain old men in Europe bent upon drowning civilization in the blood of another cataclysmic war, and earnestly hope this country will not be involved.”

Hearing Oct. 4

| The Board delayed action until|special conference at 1 p. m. (In- | Leroy J. Keach, president, Police dianapolis Time) on extraordinary Chief Michael F. Morrissey. and ’ | railway officials study the matter | further.

BULLETIN

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (U. P.).— | Radiomarien Corp. reported today that it had intercepted a message | reporting that the Socony Vacuum tanker Japan Arrow had sighted

departments to preserve the neutrality of the United States.

pating in the conference were Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Acting Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Attorney General Frank Murphy.

a submarine of unknown nationThe White House conference was

ity off Ocean City, Md.

on national defense submitted its] final report and demanded “an im- | mediate increase in strength and | a greater degree of readiness for | the U. S. Army and Navy.” In today’s huge parade a detachment of Chicago police preceded Lieut. Gen. Stanley H. Ford, grand marshal of the parade. Next in line came units of the regular U. S.

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A capacity crowd of more than 1800 women squeezed into English’s | Theater today for the opening of (the annual free Indianapolis Times Cooking School. As the scents of pot roast, apple pie with bran crust, and exotic dishes like Armenian Pirags sifted : : through the theater, Miss Ruth Clapper o [Movies . 6 Chambers, noted dietitian, showed Comics ....... 21 Mrs. Ferguson 14 4,0, women how to prepare more Crossword . 20 Obituaries : HM than 20 dishes. Curious World 21 Pegler ........ 14/4 feature of the opening session Editorials - 14/Pyle .......... 13 yas the nation-wide CBS broadFashions 11 Questions .... 13 cast of the Hormel “It Happened in Financial 15{Radio ........ 15 Hollywood” show. Flynn 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Another new feature was the Ferum 14 Serial Story... 21 “parade of Foods,” staged that Gallup Poll 2| Society 10 everyone in the theater could see Grin, Bear It. 21 Sports .....18, 19|the dishes prepared by Miss In Indpls, 3, State Deaths.. 17 Chambers

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summoned as influential Senate Democrats promised victory for the

measures in progress in the various!

1800 Jam English’s as Cooking School Opens

Three young women, dressed in Mexican, Swiss and French costume, carried the dishes around the theater and then placed them under a battery of mirrors. Lesson No. 2 on “How to Make Husbands Happy” will start at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow. Doors will open at 9 a. m. and at the same time Thursday. A member of the International Livestock and Meat Board, Miss Chambers is an acknowledged expert in meat cookery. She also of|fers practical instruction in other food preparation, as well as valuable hints on marketing.

A feature of each session will be a fashion show sponsored by L. S. Ayres & Co. The course will close with a session at 7 p. m. on Thurs-

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President's arms embargo repeal if executive departments keep “hands off” the Congressional fight. The United Press was informed the “hands off” advice and assurance of victory had been given department heads. The executive branch, of which Mr. Roosevelt is the chief, is the New Deal citadel and interested Senators fear that excessive pressure from that direction might impair the newly-found Democratic Congressional solidarity. “This question belongs to Con= gress now, and there is no need for (Continued on Page Three)

RAIL SHARES NEAR HIGHEST SINCE 1937

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—

Railroad issues featured the stock |

Miss Oberholtzer died at her {home in Indianapolis after she was tallegedly kidnaped and assauited by { Stephenson. | He will prepare evidence in an

The six Cabinet members partici- attempt to show that threats upon|to come from heavy guns

his life prevented him from taking the witness stand in his own defense at his murder trial here 14 years ago when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The hearing on Stephenson's writ of coram nobis, which in effect asks for a new trial on the grounds (Continued on Page Three)

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Tallulah Bankhead, Bert | Dudley |

Naval Battle Reported.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

AS ALLIES’ HOPE United Press Foreign News Editor The Red fleet went on a war basis in northern waters ‘today as Soviet Russia emerged in a dominant role in European diplomatic maneuvers.

The next move by the Soviets created wide speculation ‘when it ‘was announced officially in Moscow that Nazi Forleign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop would arrive there ‘tomorrow. Reports had been current that he would sign By WEBB MILLER ‘a military treaty with the Russians but in Berlin official

United Press Staff Correspondent | sources denied that such a move was planned.

LONDON, Sept. 26.—The view of | m 1 . ari i | expert neutral observers in London. | I'he announcement on the Moscow radio that Soviet

‘after nearly four weeks of war, is warships were patrolling northern waters off Russia and Finthat Adolf Hitler cannot win a long | ihr : . ) is Airs . war and Great Britain: and France land worried Esthonia the most. The Esthonian Minister cannot win a short one. left Moscow hurriedly, just as the Esthonian Foreign MinThe French and British confi-ligia) had done vesterday following a conference at the Krem{dently expect to win the war but ’ : . they believe victory may be precipi- lin. It has been reported that Russia wants access to the ‘tated by the crack-up of the Ger- Baltic through Esthonia. {man home front and not necessarily . . : ; ‘bv an overwhelming victory in the A new naval battle possibly of major importance was Reld. Ld is : ‘reported in the Skagerrak Strait connecting the North and Without claiming inside informa-| “= = : . re ‘ . tion of Allied plans, it seems to me Baltic Seas, where the allied blockade of Germany is drawn {that the tactics and strategy of the most tightly. French and British at this time may | § {be defined as pointed toward a war| [which will surely if slowly force = . . . a nai | . : | r rq . "YE Ww V V Germany to capitulation. 3 Five warships, a submarine and airplanes ere in olved | Count on Economic Victory |in the second day of naval fighting off the Norwegian coast Naturally later developments but details of the engagement were lacking.

‘might alter these fundamentals, and | % ~ e ivi . also. thie dEBRtion. of . Frere. In the House of Commons at London, Prime Minister

‘British strategy does not mean that Neville Chamberlain told the nation that progress was being (the Allies intend to pull thelr nade toward economic strangulation of Germany's war mapunches in military combat. : : .t : | 1 am convinced that the British, chine but that it would be a long struggle. Winston Churchill, for instance, are planning and fully| pjyrst Lord of the Admiralty, reported success in combatting

intend to send millions of men to]. 4 : . . 5: U-boat warfare, with a steadily decreasing loss of British

Hitler Can't Win Extended Conflict, Say Neutral Observers.

Warns of Long Struggle

the Continent to fight. That theory | would account for the cautious way

| Allied against

in which the war has proceeded so far on the Western Front. che theory is borne out by the combats on the diplomatic front. the insistence that the war is Hitlerism and Nazi bureaucracy and not against the German masses.

Hunger and Hopelessness

The man in the street expected that Air

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MAJOR BATTLE OFF NORWAY INDICATED

Heavy Firing Heard Ashore; Planes Roar Overhead. OSLO, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—Heavy

gunfire and maneuvers by five warships and a submarine off the Nor-

Likewise |

while the German Army and] Force were smashing Poland | the French and British would avail!

‘merchant ships. | He said that possibly one-third of the German sub‘marines at sea had been destroyed; that German merchan- | dise seized and used totaled 67,000 tons more than had been lost by Britain in submarine attacks and that the Allied forces hunting down U-boats would be three times as great ‘late next month than they were at the start of the war.

Peace Offer Expected

Adolf Hitler, returning trom the Polish front, arrived ‘in Berlin with Herr von Ribbentrop and was believed likely to go later to the Rhineland front to survey operations (against the Allied powers. It was reported they would make ‘a “final” peace offer within a few days but expected no ‘results from it. The Polish front had been narrowed down to fighting at Warsaw—which the Germans reported they had now en‘tered from the West—at Modlin, and at the Hela Peninsula jou the Baltic Sea. Fighting in the Rhineland remained definitely in the ‘preliminary stages, with cautious French advances under ‘heavy artillery bombardment, sharp German counter-

|wegian Coast today appeared to attacks, especially east of the Saar River (which the French | Staval tating Jn said they threw back) and occasional aerial dog fights in |part in the fighting, reports from Which both sides claimed successes. Five more French planes tenses at sad said that sco] were shot down today, the Nazis claimed. | activities which were witnessed | But these maneuvers on the field of ba'tle were little (from the shore—not far from|mope than exploratory punches to test weak spots and an

| where heavy cannonading was re-| : ported yesterday—indicated that a | (Continued on Page Three) major sea battle was in progress. | Two big warships, believed to be| either heavy cruisers or battleships, | N . Sl V . b azis Slew Von Fritsch, . . Polish Radio Charges

and three cruisers and a submarine | | were seen by spectators. | Planes could be heard roaring | | overhead and there was a prolonged | | period of firing which was believed | LONDON, Sept. 26 (U, P.).—The reported that as a result, some of radio announcer quoted | the German officers had heen v that Col |transferred last Friday to the y former | Western Front and many others investigate. Eight or ten freighters commander-in-chief of the German | Rad been arrested. (put in to shore to escape the shoot-| Army, was assassinated by Nazi, Ine Warsaw station was | Ing. secret police and that many of his| jammed” immediately after the

A state-wide movement to eradicate rural and urban slums was launched today at a conference of housing groups at the Hotel Antlers. Immediately following round-table sessions on housing problems the Indiana Council of Housing Authorities was formally organized. The Councii resolved to begin an immediate | paign throughout the state. In an address to 856 housing group {representatives at a luncheon, Carl H. Monsees of the National Associa-

fellow officers on the Warsaw front référence to Gen. von Fritsch. had been arrested. because of their PT0-German broadcasts, presumably

outspoken indignation.

Launch Slum Clearance Program for All Indiana

low-cost housing cam-|

The prisoners were said to have| reported that Gen. von Fritsch could not possibly have “died a soldier's death .on the battlefield,” because they had seen him last Thursday enter a car at Grodzisk, 0 ; [20 miles from Warsaw, and drive these things so that an American | _ ; i " democracy can continue to endure | 2VaY in a southwesterly direction, in a war-raked world.” |away from the front. : The only official detail of Gen.

The conference will reach a clji-| itor’ : max tonight with addresses by Floyd yon Piitscls death was 8 Salemen

ion So Saco| CELT; Ay semmandoe he Crane, U. S. Housing Authority as- mas he had ied Jsading an sistant administrator, at a dinner | 2 ipery rexunent on patrol os y a the task of a colonel, three ranks

meeting. below Gen. von PFritch's rank. Five round-table discussions on| |housing ran continuously during the Blame Gestapo | morning session. The discussions| The Warsaw broadcaster said were illustrated with photographs of | prisoners, taken yesterday morning Indianapolis’ shack and tenement| py Polish lancers in a sortie on the district which wert used as exam-| German lines surrounding Warsaw, |

(originating from some station inside the German lines in Poland, frequently have encroached upon the Warsaw wave length. drowning the Polish station out with superior power.

Called Counter-Revolutionary

A few hours before the broadcast the Liberal evening newspaper, The London Star,- had been circulated here containing an article by its gossip columnist stating that “the death of von Fritsch is a mystery.” “There. is a most popular explanation that this supposed leader of counter-revolutionary sentiment in the German Army has been ‘liquidated, ” the columnist said. “One reason is that he believed Germany would lose the war. Another is that he declined to take command because of his principle that generals should have control, independent of

market again today and the average | tion of Housing Officials, predicted rose to within touching distance of | that public housing “will become the high since 1937 made earlier the foundation on which a broader

ples of bad housing. had made depositions asserting that |direct interference by Hitler or The discussions included: : Gen. von Fritsch was “cowardly as- | other Nazi leaders. Another suggesLegal aspects of public housing. | sassinated by the Gestapo.” [tion is that he undertook what was

this vear. Gains that ranged to $7 in Norfolk & Western gave the market a strong tone, :

American democracy can be built.” “An intelligent electorate,” he

headed by Matthew W. Welsh, Vin-| The: prisoners allegedly told of

virtually suicide by leading a highly

cennes Housing Authority executive

|indignation among Germany of- dangerous reconnaisance outside

said, “demands safe and sanitary | secretary, and Walter E. Stanton,|ficers over the death of their|Warsaw. Such a course would not

living conditions, We must provide

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