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VOLUME 51-NUMBER 171

- FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat ‘warmer tomorrow.

Entered as at Posioffice,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 1939

‘SURRENDER OF WAR

‘Something Is Being Cooked Up in Moscow’

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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE

United Press Cable Editor The European war is becoming a struggle by Dicta-

tors ‘Stalin and Hitler for domination of more than half

the continent.

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The new Europe, as they envisage it, would be two

continents,

The two dictators would exercise hegemony

over all of eastern Europe from the North Sea and the Baltic Seas to the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

Hegemony means leadership or dominating influence,

_ not necessarily military rule.

. two dictators became increasingly clear.

Shattered Poland is the

zone of conquest. Esthonia

Today the pattern of the

and perhaps Latvia and Lithuania, lying north of Poland and extending along the ‘Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, bordering Russia, may be in danger. Dictator Stalin, judging from diplomatic maneuvers in progress at Moscow, may plan to extend Soviet Russian territory roughly some 303 miles westward into Europe, stopping just short of Warsaw—and extending from the Gulf of Finland to the nothern borders of Rumania. Perhaps he also has his eye on eastern Rumania, which was Russian before the World War. carry Russian domination down the western coast of the Black Sea, at least as far as Bulgaria. short coast line which ends at the border of Turkey.

At the moment Turkey is the uncertain ingredient in Europe’s bubbling diplomatic cauldron, apparently playing both ends against 'the middle. Something is being cooked up in Moscow, where the German, Turkish and Esthonian foreign ministers are gathering. Turkey has professed her desire to play ball with Britaih and France. Yet at the same time, the Islamic state is dickering with Berlin and Moscow, indicating a possible about-face as sensational as the sudden’ deal between Dictators Hitler and Stalin. Thus, unless the British and French Allies can conquer such powerful opposition by: ‘military strength—and they have yet to shew any desire to break through the (Continued on Page oy,

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$9100 LOPPED FROM COUNTY BUDGET ITEMS

Fees Paid Treasurer on Tax Delinquencies Are Put Under Fire.

The County Tax Adjustment Board made the first substantial budget cut of its session today when it lopped $2100 from the proposed 1940 County estimates. The reduction followed the announcement of Frederick Albershardt, Board vice chairman, that he would demand that the Board reconsider its action yesterday in refusing even to consider trimming the Civil City and School budgets. These two budgets were adopted with no reductions in budget iténis,

‘but the Civil City levy was cut 2

cents as the result of an adjustment in the City’s anticipated reveue next year from sources. other

‘than the property tax.

“1-Cent Clit Possible

It was indicated the Board would attempt to, pare the County budget enough to effect a 1-cent reduction in the proposed 5l-cent County tax rate. Today's session opened with Mr. ‘Albershardt announcing he intended to seek new - discussions of the school budget to give “some consideration to the $40,000 payment to the schools voted by the Gas Utility

"in lieu of taxes.”

Harvey Hartsock, Board member, explained “that is offset by a decrease in valuation.” The subject was dropped when Albert F. Walsman, Board chairman, interrupted with: “Let's get on the County budget.”

Albershardt Protests

Mr. Albershardt arose quickly and said: “Before someone moves to adopt the County budget as submitted, like what happened yesterday with other budgets, I move we take $7300 from the Treasurer's item for extra

clerical help in delinquent tax col+Jections.

“It has been brought out that the Treasurer gets fees for the collection of delinquent taxes in addition to his $6000 salary.” Mr. Walsman said Frank E. McKinney, County Treasurer, had told him that one of his deputies would appear hefore the hoard today to explain his hudget requests. “Why doesn’t Mr. McKinney come

-up here himself?” Mr. Albershardt |S

asked. - “He's hever in the Court House. “I have had lots of taxpayers write- me letters and telephone me about the awful burden of taxes, and I know that the public thinks it is terrible that the Treasurer makes $50,000 a year. . “I think the Treasurer can get along without this extra help.” "Alpert O. Koesters, chief deputy treasurer, who walked into the room at that moment, was told that Mr. Albershardt favored cutting out the extra help item.

’ Koesters Replies “If you want to disrupt the Treasurer’s office,” Mr. Koesters replied, “and cut the clerks who wait on you, okay.” “Why can’t the Treasurer pay the extra "help out of his fees?” Mu. Hartscck asked. “The Treasurer collects $300,000 in delinquent taxes; isn’t that worth something?” Mr. Koesters countered. It was brought out in- the discussion that the Treasurer recéives a 50-cent demand fee on each delinquency notice sent out, in addition to a 6 per cent of the total amount of delinquent personal property payments. “The Treasurer doesn’t need that extra help. There are employees stumbling over each other down in that office,” Mr. Albershardt said. Walter Horn, Indiana Taxpayers’ { (Continued on Page 4)

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Wanasring Exile

56 VOTES FOR LIFTING ARMS

dent as Foes Carry Fight To People on Air.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —Administration leaders today

iE claimed 56 assured Senate votes—

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll . Returned as. a porier.

DRAFT DOERR TELLS OF VISITS

Bergdol Fostifics He. Spat Seven Years in U. S.

33 ‘Since 1929.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2" . Py Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War draft dodger, testified at his court martial today that he ‘had visited the United States secretly in June, 1929, and remained here for four years. Bergdoll testified that he returned again in 1935 and remained in the United States three years more. The disclosure came as a surprise. He had been presumed to be living in exile in Germany from 1920 until last May. Bergdoll said that -he had taken a ship from Germany to Montreal, using the passport of Joseph Amann, a German hotel porter. Then, under the name of “Bennett Nash,” the same he used on his return aboard the liner Bremen last May, he entered the United States at Rouses Point, N. Y. Stayed Four Years “How long did you stay in the United States?” he was asked. “Four years,” he replied. Bergdoll said he went back to

‘Germany .on the liner Bremen in

June, 1933, returning again in October, 1935, by way of Montreal. He returned to Germany in October, 1938, sailing from New York on the liner Europa as “Nash.” Describing his first trip, Bergdoll said: “I went to Grind Central Station in New York, took a taxi to the Pennsylvania Station and went to Trenton (N. J.). I stayed there overnight ‘at the Stacy Trent Hotel and then went to Philadelphia to my home at 52d and Winfield Sts.” Returned for - Gold “Was your first return here in 1929 for the purpose of obtaining some gold?” asked civilian defense counsel, Harry Weinberger. “That’s right.” “And where was this gold?” “In the house at 52d and Winfield.” Bergdoll said that. the gold—*“as far as I can remember, it was $160,000”"—had been hidden in a secret compartment ‘in a closet of the family mansion in 1918 or 1919.

Dust Off the Overcoat, Don ’t Be Silly, Forecast Is Fair but a Trifle Chilly

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m.....51 1lla.m.... 7a.m..... 53 Sam. .... 9a m..... 10am .... 60

Temperatures were six degrees below normal in, Indianapolis today, which is about ‘the best indication, except the calendar, that winter 1 is on the way. | Seasons change, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, said, with a series of weather fits and starts. Winter ‘comes, therefore, temperaaph that looks something

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Tomorrow will be somewhat warmer, Mr. Armington said, which will complete that tooth in the saw. Armington

seven ‘more than .a majority—for President Roosevelt's arms emimigo repeal program. At the same time word came from the White House today that the President will keep the legislative track clear for consideration of the arms embargo repeal by withholding nominations until the Senate acts ‘on the neutrality law. : Mr. Roosevelt also will refrain from any comment on the neutrality question for the oki White House Secretary Stephen T. . Barly

ptissand foes of neutrality revision “booked new radio time to

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who. already have been responding with thousands of Selegrams, letters and postcards.

Informal Poll Taken

An informal poll conducted by a Senator high in White House councils showed 51 Democrats, four Republicans and one Independent on record in favor of neutrality legislation repealing the embargo. and substituting a mandatory “cash-and-carry” requirement on sales of all goods to belligerent nations. Forty-nine votes constitute a Senate majority. A United. Press compilation placed 47 Democrats, five Republicans and one ¥ndependent - in the President's camp today. It included Senator Ernest W. Gibson (R. Vt.), who told reporters he intended to vote for repeal but apparently had (Continued on Page Three)

BURGLARS RANSACK TRUSTEE'S OFFICE

Desk and Relief Files Are Rifled, Quinn Reports.

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Desks and relief files were ransacked by burglars who last night entered the Center Township Trustee’s office at 214 N. Senate Ave., but nothing was taken, Trustee Thomas Quinn’ reported to police today. . Police 'said entrance was gained through an unlocked first floor window. : Mr. Quinn said the only records disturbed were those in the office of District 2 on the second floor. Files disturbed were chiefly those under the letters “F,” “G” and “M.” “Things were mussed up a little,” the trustee said. “I think it was someone searching for a. little change. It wouldn't do anyone any good to take any of the records because we have duplicates.” The office was broken into last July and records under the letter “W* were disturbed.

‘thoughtless statements about what weather will be the next day. In the first place, it costs considerable

money to get the data from which

to make a forecast. In the second place Mr. Armington and all other forecasters have to be 85 per cent or more correct—or else. : To help him, a new teletype machine has been installed in his office by the Civil Aeronautics Authority and this carries reports that

‘|augment the regular Morse wire re-

port. For some time now, the Department of Agriculture, which maintains the Weather Bureau, has been experimenting with forecasts of weather over a longer range—say three and four days.

This experiment, Mr. Armington said, will be considerably set back, perhaps, by the current European war. Ships of foreign register- at sea, especially the Atlantic, are not reporting weather conditions now,

because t ey don’t want to reveal their p )

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To the Victor Belong the Spoils

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EYES ON ON SOVIET) Congress Stay i in Sevston

da CHICAGO, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—The American Legion foreign relations Fears Hitier-Stali Stalin Plot to committee presented its: recommendations to the 21st annual Legion convention today without committing itself on the arms embargo issue. Rule Baltic and Balkans; The omission was expected to. precipitate a vigorous fight on the conRibbentrop Arrives. vention floor. — .The report, issued asa a “pronouncement” by Chairman Ray Murphy,

MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—-Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived today to participate in a series of conferences expected to affect eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Dardanelles. Flying from Berlin with a group of 35 German experts, von Ribbentrop arrived at 5:40 p. m. (9:40 a. m. Indianapolis Time) as the Soviet capital was lavishly entertaining Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu and preparing for further | conversations with BEsthonian Foreign Minister Karl Selter. “The Esthdnian minister arrived back in Moscow from Tallinn at 6:10 p. m. Arriving on the same plane were the Esthonian minister to Moscow and. the Soviet minister to Tallinn and two Esthonian experts on: international law.” Official sources were reticent regarding the full scope of the con-

versations which may be direct or indirect among the various foreign ministers invited here by Soviet Foreign Commissar. Viacheslav Molotov, but diplomatic circles believed that there would be a general discussion of international problems affecting the Baltic States, Poland and the Balkans. German troops today retired 5 the. line agreed upon as marki their sphere in Poland. In Buc rest, it was reported Germany and Russia had agreed that the Baltics| « “ should fall in the Soviet sphere of| Indianapolis women have but two!

European war and referred to Congress the responsibility’ of determining the nation’s policy. It recommended:

indefinitely | during the present ANERIC AS PROPOSE MAGINOT SEA LINE

“grave crisis”; that President Roosevelt and Congress pursue a policy Welles Favors Closing of Ports to Submarines.

that will prevent involvement in the conflict, and that the armed forces be expanded immediately to maintain our neutrality. “In the present crisis,” the report said, “world conditions may change so rapidly that a pronouncement by the American Legion at this time on specific legislation: may bs wholly inadequate in the near future.” » Boston was awarded the 1940 convention today. The Legion rank and file is divided on the question of whether the arms embargo should be repealed’ and ‘President Roosevelt’s cashing. car ro 1 for sale of arms to’ SAIN propose be substituted. Straw ballots indicated thatgabout. 70 per cent of the Legionnaires favored revision of the neutrality act with (Continged on Page Three)

COOKING SCHOOL ENDS TOMORROW

Session of Times’ Course at 7:30.

By THOMAS L. STOKES A Times Special Writer

PANAMA CITY, Sept. 27.—Adolf Hitler's ears must burn from the vocal and psychic darts emanating from this Inter-American conference of Foreign Ministers. At least

little disturbing to Otto Reinbeck, the German Minister to Central America, and other Nazi diplomatic attaches here as observers. The full delegations of Argentina land Chile, late in arriving here, attended today’s private plenary session. The conference, by word and: act, is saying in effect to Herr Hitler: “Keep your submarines and airplanes and Nazi ideology ‘away from the Americas.” Successive public speeches denouncing Herr Hitler's aggressions and persecutions without mention-

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their culinary artistry at the annual free Indianapolis Times Cooking School. The final sessions will be held at 9:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at English’s Theater. Because of capacity crowds the “Itheater will be open half an hour earlier. “ At today’s second session, the nearly 2000 women watched Miss Ruth Chambers, noted dietitian and member of the National Livestock and Meat Board, prepare more than 20 dishes. She also gave practical instruction in meal [planning and marketing

because weather conditions might be of military importance. Even so, this rircumstance hardly affects the problem of forecasting for ‘Indianapolis, Mr. Armington said, on the overnight and one-day basis now employed. Proceeding on that basis, Mr. Armington said that we will have fair weather tonight and tomorrow. ' He said that 50 was the minimum temperature recorded here in ‘the last 2¢ hours, and that a 45-degree {=i temperature was E registered early today at Angola, the lowest report-

By FREDERICK OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE GERMAN WESTERN FRONT ARMY, Sept. 27.—

More than 1,000,000 German troops awaited confidently today, in the Westwall line of fortifications opposite France, an expected attack by the French and British armies. Their morale seemed good, and a two-day visit which I and four other foreign correspondents made of a 200-mile stretch of the wall indicated that, if Germany's new defenses are not impregnable they will take a frightful toll of life from any attacking army. -The defenses are more than 30 miles deep at points; they include, according to German officers, thousands of anti-aircraft batteries, tens of thousands of blockhouses. some of which might hold out for weeks

Today’ s dishes were the kind that) satisfy appetites increased by the tang of autumn. Among them were: Country boiled dinner, German potato pancakes, molasses nut bars, hunters’ soup, oven stew, sauerbraten, kidney loaf and broiled lamb with vegetables. ‘Each person attending the school received, without charge, a booklet 1|containing all of the recipes Miss |{ Chambers demonstrated. She also }| outlined a “30-minute meal” house1| wives could purchase on the way ed in the state. home from the school and’ prepare The average date fora killing {in 30 minutes. even if surrounded, and hun frost in Indianapolis is cs 20 and

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REPORT POLISH - CAPITAL'S FALL

Nazis Say 100,000 Soldiers Face Capture as Fighting Comes to End.

BERLIN, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—The city of Warsaw capitulated unconditionally today, the Nazi High Command said, on the 20th day of bombardment, fire and starvation. Previously, th: Nazi High Command had announced that the battered. Polish capital had agreed to surrender and that emissaries had been appointed to negotiate the details of the surrender. Radio and other messages from Warsaw said that about a million persons in the city were facing starvation, that about half of the city was in ruins, that many fires were burning and that water and ammunition were low. The announcement of the unconditional capitulation said that 100,000 Polish troops, including the gar-

rison of Warsaw, were surrendering.

Fighting Continues, Dispatch Reports

By UNITED PRESS

The city of Warsaw—bombed and burned ferno”—was reported by Nazis to have offered to surrender, but an Exchange Telegraph dispatch said that at noon today defenders were still fighting back. In Washington the German Embassy said today. it received official information that Warsaw had capitulated this morning at 10:30 Warsaw time (3:30 a. m. Indianapolis Time). The message said that the capitu-

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Plowing Goes On Behind Westwall, Writer Finds

tions, that they were built entirely from the defensive viewpoint. On this first visit by foreign newspapermen to the German side of the Western Front, accompanying General Staff officers answered questions freely, and permitted closeup|” inspections of units in he main defense lines. What we saw was remarkable. In one field three-fourths of - a mile wide: and one and a quarter miles | long ‘there were 60 to 70 defense units, and ‘the officers Said that along the entire front there were tens of thousands. The Westwall is constantly being improved and enlarged, we - were, told. . New construction” was seen everywhere. Originally the Westwall was erected only opposite the French frontier. Herr Hitler ordered it extended to the Holland and to Switzerland frontiers.

PRICE THREE CENTS

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor .

Harrassed by fire and starvation, short on food ‘and ammunition but unmeasured in its heroism, Warsaw capitu= lated unconditionally today according to a Nazi High Com mand communique issued in Berlin. The surrender followed several hours of conflicting ree ports during which the capitulation was claimed by the Gers mans and denied by Exchange Telegraph dispatches. from

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Two German I Shot Down in North-Sea Says, Denying Berlin t Boast That Bombs Damaged Ships.

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“The High Command announces that Warsaw has une {conditionally capitulated,” the said in a terse, military announcement of the war's most

official communique, in Berlin

Formal Surrender Expected Friday

city to the German High Com-

mand is' expected to occur Sept. 29. The military garrison

estimates, of more than 100,

- Great Britain and Nazi Germany made conflicting claims of success today in the first battle between ware

announced that a British air. - plane carrier had been destroyed and a battleship dame aged by a swift aerial attack against the British blockade

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through First Lord of the

Admiralty Winston Churchill, announced that two of 20 ~—— attacking. Nazi planes had- been -shot. down. and-that the od a British Ages Suffered no damage or ‘casualties, i

Similar conflicting. onion prevailed over unconfirmed reports that heavy French guns had destroyed sections of the German Westwall between Merzig and-Saarbruec-Although fierce Nazi counter offensives were rumored, the Army communique « issued in Paris made no men-

tion of the French successes, The first of the long-awaited tests between’ Britain's gréat weaponswarships—and Germany's mighie threat—airplanes—was a dead of words pending further clarification. After first claiming to have de= stroyed ‘the aircraft carrier, the Nazi High Command explained that “the vessel had been hit by a heavy bomb.” This: did not necessarily imply, the statement pointed. out, that the carrier had been sunk.

Victory Unconfirmed

The victory claimed by Nazis, if confirmed, might indicate that Ger= many’s reported 10,000 first line airplanes would be in a position to fight the blockade by which Britain is seeking the economic strangulation of the Nazi war machine. Berlin reports described the battle as the greatest and most dramafio ever fought “between airplanes and warships—a battle such as naval and = airplane experts had awaited for years to decide the entire future trend. of sea warfare. The nayal-aerial battle was fought in the middle of the North Sea, far from the point off the Norwegian coast where heavy naval gunfire had been heard in the last two days and where, the Norwegian Govern= ment announced today after an ine . (Continued on Page Three)

RAIL ISSUES HOLD GAINS ON MARKET,

By UNITED PRESS A rally in the stock mw ; paced by rail issues t mounted to new highs ne ran into! profit-takin 1 the list turned ar 0 Most rail issues held g ing to more than $1. lower. Chrysler was do General | Motors lower. | Wheat and corn were fractionally | ower. aK major commodity prices were regular. ah

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