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CLAIM 56 VOTES |

FOR CASH-CARRY PLAN IN SENATE

* Friends and Foes of F. D. R.

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3 p, Hotel

Program Are Carrying ‘Fight to People.

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not made his position known to the

Administration. It omitted Democratic Senators Josiah W. Bailey (N. C.), James M. : Slattery (Ill), Ellison D. Smith (S. ~ CJ), and Burton K. Wheeler (Mont.), because they had not given a flat public declaration of their stand. -The Senator's poll listed nine “doubtful” Democrats—Dennis Chavez (N. M.), Vic Donahey (0), Peter G. Gerry (R. 1), Guy M. Gillette (Ia.), Francis T. Maloney (Conn.), James E. Murray (Mont.),

“+ Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Wyo.), Rob- ¢ i E. Tydings (Md.). The United Press " ‘compilation listed Senator Gillette

ert R. Reynolds (N. C.) and Millard

as indicating opposition to the Administration’s program because of his repeated attacks on the “cash-and-carry” theory. Meanwhile, plans to speed up United States Naval construction— perhaps as a forerunner to another expansion bill—were discussed today - in Congress and at the Navy Department, © Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), of the House Naval Affairs Commit-

> tee said he expected tO see President

Roosevelt during the day. He refused to say what- specific subjects he planned to discuss, but confirmed reports that he is studying possible methods ‘of rushing to completion ahead of schedule the 72 warships now under construction by the Navy. Hearings to Be Hurried

Mr. Vinson’s White House call came 24 hours after Chairman James G. Schrugham (D. Nev.) of the House Naval Appropriations Subcommittee announced following a conference with Mr. Roosevelt that his group would start hearings on the 1941 supply bill considerably. ahead of schedule. Famous figures in American aviation added new color to the neutrality controversy. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's position in the controversy aroused new speculation as both friends and foes of Mr. Roosevelt's program claimed his support. ! Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famed U. S. World War ace, broadcast an appeal for less bitterness and a spirit of compromise to maintain national unity in solving the neutrality problem.

| Dittman Talks Tonight

Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee delivers a radio appeal tonight in behalf of the President’s program, - touching off a burst of oratory in which 11 other Senators and a former Democratic Presidential candidate—Alfred E. Smith —already have agreed to take part. The flow of oratory during the next seven days will come from Senators Lewis .B. Schwellenbach (D. Wash.), Robert A. Taft (R. O.), Sherman Minton (D. Ind.), Edward \R. Burke (D. Neb.), Tom Connally (D. Tex.), Warren R. Austin (R. Wt.), and George W. Norris (Ind. Neb.), all of whom share the Administration’s viewpoint. Opposition . speakers lined up by broadcasting companies thus far include Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D)), Styles Bridges (R. N. HJ), John A. Danaher (R. Conn.), and Bennett Champ Clark (D. Mo.). There was a possibility that Senator William E. Borah (R. Ida.), also would speak again.

GIRL, 15, TRAPPED BY FIRE IS BURNED

LA PORTE, Ind. Sept. 27 (U. PJ). -—Betty 2Zahrt, 15-year-old high school sophomore, was critically burned early tocday when she was trapped in the bedroom eof her burning home. Firemen rescued the girl after her sister, Joyce, 14, crawled to a porch roof and screamed for help. The father, Frank Zahrt, and a son, Frank Jr. were helpless to aid the two girls becadise the stairway had caught fire.. The blaze was blamed on’ spontaneous combustion and damage was estimated at $2000.

was passed by Nazi censors.

EUROPE KEEPS

EYES ON SOVIET

Fears Hitler and Stalin Plan Baltic and Balkan Domination.

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influence and the Balkans, including Rumania, in the Nazi sphere. Mr, Sarajoglu continued his conversations with Soviet leaders, being entertained at luncheon by M. Molotov, War Commissar Klementi Voroshilov, Vladimir Potemkin, Vice Commisar for: Foreign Affairs, and others. i Arrive ‘in Three Planes

Accompanying Herr von Ribben-

trop was a staff which included Albert Forster, Nazi leader of Danzig; Friedrich Gaus, State Secretary and Chief of the Juridical Department of the Foreign Office; Paul Schmidt, translator, who acted in that capacity at the Munich conference, and Kurt Schnurre, Chief of the Economic Department of the Foreign Ministry. | : The delegation traveled in three airplanes. Russia had charged Esthonia with aiding Polish submarines, and as the result the Russian Navy assumed full responsibility for the policing of the Inner Baltic. . There was no surface suggestion of a joint conference involving Russia, Germany, Turkey and Esthonia. ‘However, Berlin reported that it was not “impossible” that Herr von Ribbentrop “would see Minister Saracoglu, and in any event Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov was in position to act as liaison agent in any talks which involved a third power in addition to Russia and Germany. The Esthonian problem was the most delicate one for the moment.

Baltic Sub Base Charged

A Polish subniprine, the Orzel, escaped from Tallinn, Esthonia, Sept. 18. Russia already had alleged complicity of Esthonian government officials in ‘the escape. Yesterday it was asserted that

the periscopes of two submarines at two different spots near Luga Bay, 75 miles from Leningrad and Russia’s Kronstadt naval base and only 10 miles east of the Esthonian frontier. It was charged further that there was a secret submarine base in the Baltic. As the result, the Russian Baltic fleet sent out a force of submarines and destroyers on a hunt for raiders. . . Turkey’s position as a leader in the Balkan Enterte, its control through the Dardanelle Strait of the passage between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, its old friendship with Russia, its current negotiations for a permanent military, political and economic alliance with Great Britain and France made plain the importance of Foreign Minister Sar-

acoglu’s visit.

With upraised Marshal's baton, Gen. Hermann Goering ( draped casket during the state funeral in Berlin of Col. Gen. time head of the German Army, was officially reported: “killed in action” on the Warsaw front.

Russian patrol ships had sighted]

Thinks Bremen In Russian Port

LONDON, Sept. 27 (U. P). — Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons today that the German liner Bremen was believed to be in a northern Russian port. The Bremen, which sailed from New York Aug. 30, had been reported in various ports, including the Soviet port of Murmansk. The German ambassador at Moscow had suggested that Mr. Churchill knew where the liner was.

REPORT POLISH CAPITAL'S FALL

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

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lation was unconditional. No other details were available immediately. “Warsaw was again bombed and shelled and fires are increasing, but

fighting of fires,” said the Exchange Telegraph dispatch, filed at noon Warsaw time (5 a. m. Indianapolis Time). . “A spirit of resistance triumphs and ‘Adolf Hitler's belief that he can smash Warsaw’s spirit is shown to be an illusion, although half of the city is destroyed.” Whether the dispatch was filed before the reported offer to surrender—announced by the German High Command in Berlin—was uncertain. It appeared, however, that the two developments came at about the same time. The Exchange Telegraph message said that on 20th day of siege Warsaw still believed the Allies would send help and that “eventually they will<apply to Germany's capital the raeasures used by Germany against Warsaw.” The commander-in-chief of the German ‘army, the . communique said, has designated Gen. Blaikowitz to conduct negotiations for Warsaw’s surrender. An Exchange Telegraph Agency dispatch from Warsaw filed at noon yesterday and received in London today said that for 24 hours Warsaw had been an “unspeakable inferno.” : ‘ “Warsaw, which at the beginning of hostilities was considered an open town and consequently respected as ‘such by German troops, has now been turned into a fortress,” the German communique said. “Our yesterday’s attacks at. War-

saw resulted in our occupation of

Warsaw’s first lines of defense and on the south of the second defense line. g “As result of this advance the Polish commandant this morning has offered to surrender the city and garrison. The commander-in-chief: of the German Army thereupon detailed Gen. Blaikowitz to conduct negotiations for Warsaw's surrender.”

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE

County City - 50 [

. 65

: Sept. 26 Injured ....... 2/Accidents Dead . 0/Arrests TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 14 13° $1

7 7 7 7

Violations Speeding Failing to stop at through street. . Reckless driving .. Disobeying traffic signals ...--. Drunken driving. ~All others ..

29 14

18 0 39

Totals ..........85 3 MEETINGS TODAY

mate” So” tole me ARsrion roleniek asusiation, ou a iment Owners Association, lunchi eta ta” meeting, Hotel WashIngo, re Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

no ions Club, luncheon Hotel Washington, BATE woh Discussion Club, dinner,

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5164

.M.C. A. 6» m Twelfth District American Legion, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, meeting, ¥. M. C. A. 8p. on Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce. luncheon, Canary Cottage. noon. Forty-Plus Club, meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p. m.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

| Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington, on. : Industrial Credit Group. luncheon. Hohi n, noon. N Locomotive Engineers. . all day. dianapolis. lunch-

y n. Club, luncheon, Inb. noon

trueti League . of Sy: nstruetion (J naianapoliis, uncheor. Architects and Builders build:

. noon. Fiala ot Comers Club, meeting, 110 i Cin , golf tournament and dinn Golf

Highls and Countrv Club. aftoon and

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BIRTHS Girls

John. Helen Buneriu, at Methodist. Francis, Eloise McGlinchey, at St. Vin-

ent’s. Donald, Deloris_Robey, at St. Vincent's. John, Dorothy Fuller, at St. Vincent's. Harold, Pauline Greene, at St. Francis. Maurice, Charlene Clearwater, at .

rancis. Joe, Lillian DeCenzo, at St. Francis. Charles, Dorothy Pate, at City. i Boys Robert, Bess Conant, at Methodist. alter, Charlotte Ruszkowski, at 8t. Francis. Clifford, Carrie Adams, at Coleman. James, Marget Watkins, at Coleman. Merle, Violet Whitney, at ons Otto, Ruby Rosemeyer, at 171 [ Glenn, Lucille Rushton, at 806 Division. William, Christine Sowders, New York.

Twin Girls s Marion, Marjorie Derringer, at St. Fran-

DEATHS

Rachel Weimer. cerebro encephalitis. . > Johnnie Peal, 47, at 2143 Martindale, cerebral hemorrhage. n Loftus 68, at 520 E. Vermont,

"| chronic myocarditis.

| Carrie Armstrong, 36, at Central, psychosis. Thomas Snow, 1, at Riley, bronchopneumonia. Robert stenosis. Otis Hampton, 66, at 130° 'W. 18th, chronic myocarditis. * { Maurice Creasy, 19, at 1039 Berwyn, acute endocarditis. { G ary Van Ulzen, 2 days, at Riley, asphyxiation. ! [ Jesse. Kellum. 81, at 5631! Central, chronic myocarditis. 1

FIRES

Monday 3:17 P. M.—2200 S. Holt Road, wooden bleacher seats, ball park, sparks from previous fire. | : P. M.—1227 Bellefontaine, rooming house, defective wiring, $75 loss. . 4:38 P. M.—817 N. Layman, grass fire. dons P. M.—Southerland and E. 34th, S (02. P. M.—804!2 8. Meridian, apartment, overheated grease. 7:18 P. M.—132 N. Illinois, wooden pole. M.—6145 Indianola, residence,

9: cause unknown. 11 . M. 0 E. Washington, hardware store, overheated motor.

Tuesday 2:19 A. M.—901 N King, residence, fire in wastepaper basket. 5:44 A. M.—1213 E. 17th, Sparks from flue.

residence,

own, $50

flue. : P, M.—4038 Winthrop, residence,

matc 4 P. M.—2614 Central, residence, over-

ight. \ ‘Indi BR" Estate Board, . dianapol is Beal Es ate Board lunch

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heated furnace, 2:46 P. M.—131 McLean Place, residence, wallpaper. over flue.

at 726 E.

1, at 1718 8. Talbott, |-

a McAfee, 29, at City, pulmonary

oid--1801 Orleans, shed, cause N SS. M.—821 Ft. Wayne, sparks |

INDIANAPOLIS

5:14 P. M.—501 Kentucky. wooden fence, cause unknown :04 P. M.—3115 E. Minnesota, residence, sparks from flue. 7:03 P. M.—2500 Hoyt, grass fire.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

———=United States Weather Bureau.

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair fonight and tomorrow: somewhat warmer tomorrow.

Sunrise

6:30 a. m...29.80

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

‘MIDWEST WEATHER

. .Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow except possibly showers in extreme north portion: somewhat warmer tomorrow in central and north portions. 3

Illimois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow except possibly showers in extreme north portion tonight or by tomorrow: not quite so cool in west-central and north portions tonight; somewhat warmer -tomorrow :except in extreme south portion. Lower ' Michigan—Unsettled tonight and tomorrow, showers probable: not quite so cool in northwest and extreme southeast portions tonight. Ohio—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tonight, warmer tomorrow: showers tomorrow night. Kentucky—Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cobler tonight slightly warmer in north portion tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES; 6:30 A. M. Stations Amarillo, Te Bismarck, N. D.° on Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland

Helena. Mont. Jacksonville, Fla. .... Kansas City.

. Mo. Little Rock, Ark. s

an Francisco ..... ««.Cloudy tb: LOIS vs ensnneva PtCldy Tampa, Fla. .Cloudy Washington, Rain

D.C. 1.

‘their negotiating

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Times-NEA Radiophoto.

center), No. 2 Nazi, salutes the'® swastikaWerner von Fritsch. Gen. von Fritsch, one-

This photo

NAZIS, BRITISH

Planes Triumphed Over Ships, Reich Clajms; Denied by London.

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vestigation, the shooting merely was Norwegian naval gunners practicing. Farther to the east and of great

moment in the future of Eastern Europe was a series of diplomatic developments that took the foreign ministers of Germany, Turkey and Esthonia to Moscow. : It was considered significant that the Nazis were going abroad fo do instead of demanding that other Government leaders come to them. : In London, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, announced that Britons would pay heavily for their. war to crush Hitlerism. The income tax will be increased to 35 per cent, there will be a 60 per cent war profits tax and higher levies on beer, wine, sugar, tobacco, and whisky. Conferences either directly or in-

directly among foreign ministers]:

and Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov in Moscow were expected to result in drastic realignments in eastern Europe, where some. reports indicated ' that the Baltic States would fall’ into the Russian sphere and the Balkans would be formed into a firm peace bloc with a broad sphere of influence for Germany. Esthonia appeared most directly: in the path of Soviet expansion and her government protested to Mos-

Esthonian neutrality, .. ; Expansion Congolifiated Already, the Moscow" Government had made indirect threats against Esthonia, which ‘lies on the south coast of the Gulf. of Finland through which the Soviets now have their only outlet into the Baltic Sea. Red warships were on duty there and Russian reports of mysterious submarines in the gulf appeared to be an indirect approach to demands for. full economic cooperation of Esthonia with Moscow, if not for more definite concessions. In Bucharest, there were suggestions that Esthonia would be forced to demilitarize islands in the Gulf of Finland and would come directl under Soviet influence.

Turkey Is Enigma

With Red Army patrols spreading out along the Hungarian border, ‘the Soviet expansion was being consolidated along a line bordering East Prussia; cutting across Poland by the Vistula route and extending to Hungary and Rumania. But it was suggested that in a deal previously concluded, the Soviets and Germany had agreed that the Balkans would fall into the Nazi sphere. ; Turkey remained a major unanswered question. Best indications were that the Turks, by working with. Moscow and possibly Berlin, hoped to maintain a neutral belt stretching across the, Balkans. Italy also is working for that goal and it presumably would be highly agreeable to Adglf Hitler as a means of insulating himself| in the southeast without closing his lines of supply. On the Rhineland Front, artillery barrages continued after German attacks in the Lauter River sector had been thrown back by the French with heavy Nazi losses.

FINGERPRINT MURDER CLUE

NORRISTOWN, Pa. Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Investigators = today pinned their hopes on a fingerprint left on a. bottle as the chief clue to the murderer of Mrs. Clara Oberholtzer Buchanan, 38, attractive wife of a Philadelphia paper firm executive. Mrs. Buchanan was found strangled Monday.

concrete and steel, and first: and second air defense zones crowded with anti-aircraft batteries, both fixed and mobile. : . One officer told me that enemy airplanes which flew on a direct line from the Netherlands frontier to Berlin would have to pass between 1000 and 1200 anti-aircraft batteries -in addition tremendous number of of interception planes. The {frontier .regiors which we visited were completely militarized, ‘although life in villages and - on farms ‘was going on as normally as was possible in the circumstances. Roads at some points were filled with anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. Also there was much exercising of troops with machine guns,

a squadrons

grenades and even field guns in fields and on hills. Cows and sheep seemed to be acc

FIRE ON

DISPUTE BATTLE

cow that Red warplanes had violated

A71 BIR RUNS ON TOWNS BACK OF LINES

|Longest Range Shelling of]

War Is Concentrated , Behind Maginot.

PARIS, Sept. 27 (U, P.).—German big guns, opening up at long range, concentrated heavy fire today in

villages’ from two and one-half to three miles behind the Maginot ‘Line. It was the longest range fire of the new war, and the first aimed behind the main line of Frerich fortifications. : An authoritative commentator said ‘that some -of the enemy shells struck in the villages but that, as they had’ been evacuated and boarded up before the war started, it was unlikely that any considerable casualties resulted. _ French batteries opened up in re-. ply, laying their fire on the German long range batteries.

. “The Night Was Calm”"

The French High Command, in this morning’s communique, No. 47 of the war said: “The night was calm. Enemy artillery shelled behind our lines in the region of Wissembourg.” Wissembourg is at the northeast corner of the front, where the Rhine extends southward toward Switzerland. : It was understood that at the moment infantry action was confined tu patrols between the French and German advanced lines. Isolated German patrols were repulsed near Wissembourg. Premier Edouard Daladier left the war office this morning with an aid by automobile and was reported to the visiting French field headquarters on the Western Front. The French this morning discovered a German plane in a forest. It had been shot down. It brought the German losses to four planes in Monday’s dog fights. :

Claim Nazi Losses Higher

An authoritative informant said that French losses had been less than those¢ of the Germans, and commented that French infantry casualties had been insignificant since the start of the war. It seemed plain, however, that German losses had been relatively much higher. The few counter-attacks which the Germans had made were in waves, like those of the World War; and French machine gunners and artillery men had blasted them. The Germans yesterday essayed a surprise attack in the Wissembourg sector. They got into the first line positions of the French, and fighting was conducted with hand grenades at short range. The Germans were thrown back and then, as they retreated, they were almost wiped out by artillery fire. : .

French in No Hurry

The French were fighting under a long prepared, long range plan. Though emphasis was put on Gernal artillery fire,'French guns night and day were pounding selected positions. of the German Westwall. It

‘was: estimated that 10,000 shells had been fired: within 24 hours in the Saar and Hartz Forest areas alone. "Experts said that it might take all winter for either side to blast a hole in the main lines. Acting under 4 Cabinet decree, police at dawn today raided and sealed Communist headquarters, district headquarters, small “cells,” affiliated organizations and 'Com-munist-cogtrolled labor unions. “Conservative parties started a move to invoke Parliament to expel 76 Communist members of the Chamber of Deputies and two Senators. Party Ordered Dissolved

The Cabinet, meeting yesterday as. a Council of Ministers under President Albert Lezrun, outlawed the Communist Party, ordering it and all related organizations dissolved. Publication, circulation, distribution and sale of printed matter, drawings and all other means of

the Communist Party and Communist International was forbidden.

ALLEGES ILLEGAL - ~ KANSAS CITY FUND

- KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 27 (U. P.).—An auditing company employed by the Citizens Audit Committee alleged in a report today that the late City Manager H. F. McElroy was the custodian of an illegally operated “emergency fund” through which passed nearly $6,000,000 and that transactions amounting to $195,669.90 ,could not be traced. Ha The firm, George Rossetter & Co., charged that the entire operation of the fund ‘seemingly was in violation” of the city ‘charter. It named as - primarily responsible for “the illegal creation and existence” of the fund a number of officials including Mr. McElroy, who died Sept. 15; A. L. Darby, director of finance; several of his assistants; Maurice Carey, city treasurer; R. O. Steele, commissioner of accounts, and “various other department heads.”

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the din. Peasants stopped plowing only occasionally to watch some particularly interesting burst of tracer bullets into the sky. . Often they merely swerved their horses to avoid a machine gun or other unit in an open field. Villages teem with soldiers who are quartered in them as well as in garrison towns. None of the villages from Cologne ‘via. Aachen (Aix La Chapelle) to Trier (Treves) seemed to be evacuating its people to other areas. Both Aachen and Trier seemed normal despite reports they were being evacuated. ; : i Examination of an endless succession of concrete and steel emplacements forming the shark-tooth-like row of defenses in the Westwall showed . that the Germans in p liminary work since May, 1938, and p; Rn n in

disseminating orders or slogans of |.

‘Stand on Arms Embargo.

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definite action for removal of the arms embargo provision. Tie - The committee’s report said the Legion “views with gravest concern

flict.” J . «Therefore, with full confidence in the President and Congress, we

demand that the Congress continue in session during the present grave crisis and that appropriate action be taken to preserve the peace,

tion and that our armed forces be expanded immediately to maintain our neutrality.” Mr. Murphy said the 62 members of the committee had agreed unanimously on the report and that he did not expect a controversy on the convention floor.

Condemns ‘Isms’.

The Legion Americanism committee submitted for approval a report recommending establishment of a counter-espionage organization. It also condemned “isms,” including anti-semitism and proposed registration of all aliens. The national defense committee demanded immediate strengthening of Army, Navy and Air Force units to full peace time strength, enlargement of the merchant marine to serve as a naval auxiliary and extraordinary appropriations- of “several billion dollars” to accomplish the program. pry The Americanism committee denounced Senate Bill 1970 introduced by Sen. Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis.), which would prohibit espionage in labor organizations by employer representatives. The committee said ‘the bill has that: “peculiar odor so common to communistic documents . . . and . . . gives the green - light to communists, the bund and other subversive groups. Gen. “Adelbert De Chambrun of ‘France and Col. G. R. Crossfield of England extended the greetings of their nations to the Legion today and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, offered the fraternal greetings of his organization. Whitewings were busy today clearing debris from Michigan boulevard where the Legionnaires, their wives and children, and, Army and Navy units, paraded for! 13 hours yesterday. Crowds jammed the “loop” district until the’ early hours today and lighted three bonfires of crates, baskets and papers at important intersections to protect themselves against a 48-3¢gree temperature.

Indiana Sponsors Corn Float Tonight

CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Legionnaire william Curry, Tipton, international corn king, and a float dramatizing Indiana as a corn-producing state, will take part in the parade of stars at Soldiers Field here tonight. The corn float was one of several hundred Hoosier parade units which marched yesterday in the parade of the 21st annual national American Legion convention. Leading the Hoosier delegation were Department commander Raymond Townsley, Danville; Auxiliary President Opal Ferguson, Ft. Wayne; Paul V. McNutt, past commander and present National Welfare Administrator; Isadore Levine, La Porte, national committeeman; John Rudick, national treasurer, and Ralph Gregg, national judge advocate, both of In ianapolis, and Glen Hillis, Kokom, national child welfare director. . ; _ Forty-nine of Indiana's 52 highway policemen, headed by Don Stiver, State Safety Director, also were in the line of march.

CONSIDERS WINTER COMMUNITY PLANS

The Park Board. will consider the 1939-40 winter recreation program for community houses at a meeting tomorrow. The Board's review of the program, to be submitted by Recreation Director H.. W. Middlesworth, was postponed last night when A. H. Gisler, vice president, could not attend because of illness. : Mr. Middlesworth said requests of citizen groups received by the board this year have been considered in mapping the program. Activities at community house centers are sched-

the Board approves the program in time.

HELD ON THEFT CHARGE

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Vernon Ellis of Connersville and Fred Bruce of Richmond are held here in lieu of $800 bond on a grand larceny charge yesterday. They entered not guilty pleas to stealing approximately $500 of material from the Roots Conners-

underground in te r-communica

ville Blower Corp.

Peasants Plow Calmly Midst Shelling, Writer Finds on Tour of Westwall

vantage :of every aid that nature could give them. ; Most units are camouflaged and many are not perceptible even from a few yards away. No sooner is one of them completed than a gardening crew moves in and plants grass, weeds and even flowers around it to make it blend with the landscape. Some units are disguised as farm houses or barns. In many cases walls and roofs are 12 feet thick. I saw some of one or two rooms and one of 12 to 15 rooms, complete with hot water, shower baths,

paratus. I was told that that unit could subsist for weeks even if it were cut off from the world. : Some units are built in nests, with

like those in

tomed, now, to built

.egion Committee Urges Congress Stay

Report to Convention Avoids|

the apparently widespread belief | - that this nation must inevitably be-| § come involved in the European con-| 3

sovereignty, and dignity of this na-|.

BRITISH BOOST

uled to begin Monday, he said, iff .

kitchens and air conditioning ap-|

‘in Session

| Times-Acme Photo. Barbara May, toe-dancing drum majorette from Indianapolis, leads. her band in Chicago's day-long American Legion parade.

INCOME TAXES

War Profits Levy Scheduled With Higher Rates on Liquor, Tobacco.

LONDON, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Increased | taxes on beer, wine, sugar, tobacco and whisky, an increase in the income tax to 35 per cent, a 60 per cent war profits tax and heavy increases in inheritance taxes were announced today to the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer| Sir John Simon. Sir Simon presented ‘a supplementary “win-the-war” budget, based on a three-year war, to a crowded House of Commons, in which many members were in uniform. He said that no matter how serious Britain's problems the financial problems of Germany were infinitely greater,

Exemptions Drastically Cut

Sir. Simon said that the $00,000,000 pounds sterling ($2,020,000,000) war credit voted Sept. 3 would be sufficient since Britain faces a total outlay. of 2,000,000,000 pounds ($8,080,000,000) ‘during the present financial year. J He said that new taxes will produce 107,000,000 pounds - ($432,280,000) this year and 226,550,000 pounds | ($915,060,000) next year. Proposed income tax adjustments will mean that a married man without, children whose income exceeds 204 pounds ($824.00) per year —the equivalent of about $16.00 per week—will be subject to income tax. Drastic [reductions in income tax exemptions were proposed. “If the price of victory be high,” the Chancellor said, “it is a price

worth paying, for it is the price of.

liberty and all that makes life worth living for Europe and ourselves.” Commons without division adopted resolutions : imposing additional

PLANTOEX

Welles Favors Closing Ports Of Western Hemisphere " To Submarines. re

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i | ing his name are being implemente : led by the drafting in secret ses

sions of a revolutionary declaration extending the territorial waters of the American republics 200 to 300

would be barred. in Seeks to Keep Away War "-.

Establishment of this American water peace zone was given ime petus publicly before the confere ence by the Peruvian Foreign Minister, Dr. Enrique Goytisolo, who recalled that his. country made such a proposal to Washington ‘in 1914 at the outset of the World War. : Its aim is to keep hostilities far from American shoes, to avert ine cidents which might involve the United States and Latin America in war, and to protect inter-Amer-ican trade routes. It is motivated also ‘by determination to prevent Germany from acquiring bases for operation in the vital Caribbean and Panama Canal areas. = The proposal was formally sube mitted to the ‘neutrality subcome mittee by Sumner Welles, U. 8,

[Undersecretary of State, for cone

sideration and a report back ‘to the full conference. ‘The zone would cover the area of customary interAmerican maritime routes, except for Canadian waters and the waters and possessions of European countries. : : Sea Patrol Suggested

Mr. Welles proposed that comple ance be sought in representations to belligerents, and that American republics consult whenever it may be necessary to take action to enforce observance. He also suggested sea patrols for the area for information purposes, these patrols to .be undertaken whenever the need arises. ne Another blow to Herr Hitler was another Welles proposal to close all American ports, to the submarines of all belligerents. - He proposed also prohibitions against belligerent airplanes flying over American republics, except by previous permission, and against the promotion of helligerent activities, such as the enlistments of volunteers for military service, the fitting out of warships, etc., as already provided under the United States’ neutrality proclamation. The move to extend territorial waters testifies to the determination of the United States and Latin America to protect neutral rights’in what might be termed a policy of aggressive neutrality. id

Adequate Defense Stressed oy w Mr. Welles’ insistence, in his opene

publics must protect themselves by preventing belligerent activities in close proximity to American res, has been re-echoed in five neutral ity declarations—by Mexico, Uruguay, submitted for. consideration to the Conference which is now operating as a committee-of-the-whole.| - Throughout the public speeches here runs the theme that the Western Hemisphere, by preserving peace, will be able to help restore peace in Europe. Two conditions usually are stipulated, however; in such expressions. One is that the only way for the Western Hemisphere to keep out of war is to be prepared adequately to defend it~ self. The second is that the peace to end this war must be a just peace, not of the sort that ended the last war. Dr. Narciso Garay, Panama's Foreign Minister and chairman of the Conference, declared that peace

duties, on beer, spirits, wines and tobacco.

Justice, liberty.” ‘

Strauss

: Says:

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HOCKMEYER Corduroy SLACKS. Sizes 13 to 22,

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Very fine...

14.98.

from SAM PECK...

a two-piece suit... . Jacket . . . with a pair of contrasting

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STUDENTS! STUDENTS! A 2-PIECE SUIT (it looks like something from Don Richards). - It is copesetic. All-wool, color-shot tweed, Talon fastened (and pleated) trousers—sizes 15 to 22.

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