Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1939 — Page 1
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OF DEreAT BEWARE OF Fg lNReRIRCTED
|W APPEAL WELFARE SLASH.
Claims. Adjustment Board's $419,407 Cut May Curtail U. 8. Assistance.
County Welfare Director Thomas Neal anounced today that he will
. ask the State Tax Board to restore
to the 1940 welfare budget the $419,407 slashed from it by the , County Tax-Adjustment Board before i's adjournment yesterday.
Before concluding its session, the|’
Adjustment Board formally fixed rates for all local taxing units. Its action will force residents of
Indianapolis.in Center Township to | pay a total tax levy of $3.31 next|| 10 cents higher than this] .
year, year’s record levy.
Two Township Rates Cut
-Rates to be paid by Indianapolis residents in Perry and Wayne| Townships also will- be higher next|
year while those of city residents] in Warren and Washington Town- || ships will be lower. All rates fixed by the Adjustment Board are subject to review by| the|| State Tax Board upon appeal. Mr. Neal, the first department| head to give notice of an appeal, warned that the heavy reduction in his: budget,
next year.” i The drastic welfare budget cut, made Wednesday, and yesterday's $564,000 cut in the Center Township. poor relief budget, were chiefly responsible for holding the Indianapolis In Center Township rate at $3.31 instead of the threatened $3.51.
Neal te Study Cuts’
Mr. Neal said he wished to study the Board's cuts in detail before issuing a. formal statement. It was believed such a statement would touch on the possibility that the reductions will force curtailment of the welfare program to below Federal . standard requirements, thus threatening the County with the loss of Pederal reimbursement funds for certain programs. In swift succession, the Board cut $100,000 from the old-age pension fund, $175,000 due Riley Hospital, $72,000 from the assistance to dependent and crippled children’s programs, $24,000 from the Colored Or(Continued on Page 5)
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Bright Spot on School Front!
i AS SOME Frdianapolis school pupils may have suspected by now, Thanksgiving vacation will be earlier this year. | This was confirmed today when , Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan announced that the holiday will be on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 23 and 24, instead ot on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, as originally planned before President Rooseivelt changed the Thanksgiving date The second glad news.Mr. Mor{gan offered :is that report cards iwill be issued Dec. 4 instead of ‘Nov. 27.
CARELESSNESS AT PARK IS REVEALED
Report on Blast Inquiry Not Made Public.
| Carelessness in supervision at one
disclosed in a police investigation, the results of which have been in the Park Board’s hands for 24 days, but which the Board has not chosen to make public. The investigation followed an ac-
cident’ at the Oak Hill Playground ion Aug. 18, in which a 13-year-old boy was burned so badly that he was confined to City Hospital for isix ‘weeks and still is undergoing
treatment. = He is still unable to re-enter school. 2 The| accident occured when shellac was set afire as a prank by the instructor of the playground, a 19-year-old college freshman. According to statements taken by Detectives Jesse McCarty, and Thomas Auls, the playground instructor at Oak Hill was sitting on the swings when one of the boys found a can of shellac. “That will kill you if you drink (Continued on Page Three)
AUTO SHARES LEAD STOCKS RECOVERY
By UNITED PRESS the stock list at New York today with auto shares in the van. Ealier the list had declined $1 to more than 3. Impetus for buying of motor shares was the report that automobile output for the week was highest since 1929. Rain in dry sections of the win-
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ter wheat belt and talk of peace in Europe forced corn and wheat
| prices more than a cent a bushel
lower in Chicago. U. 8. Government and foreign bonds staged a fair-sized advance | with gains in the U. 8. list ranging from 3-32 to- 24-32 point. futures were steady. Other war staples were marked’down in commodity markets.
of the. City playgrounds has been!
A general recovery spread through
Cotton
THAT GRID TANG
Cold Air Moving On City From Northwest Will Drop Mercury.
(Photo, Pzge Five)
LOCAL- TEMPERATURES 6am. ....68 10a.m. .... 9am. ....70 1la.m. .... 72 8a. m. .... 72 12 (moon) .. 9a. m. .... 74 1pm. .:.. 71
The weather-football-crops situation, in’ view of today's deyelopments, adds up like this: There may be a shower which will do no good for the Ohio UniversityButler University game at Butler Bow! tonight. The shower will bring “much cooler “temperatures,” which will be duck soup for the Notre DamePurdue game at South Bend and Indiana-Nebraska game at Bloomington, Unless - there are soaking rains they ‘will do little good for any Marion County farm operation. The. Weather Bureau predicted that the shower this morning, which put the city under umbrellas for the first time since Sept. 16, is only a
forerunner of more, at least one of pay.
which is likely tonight. A tenth of an inch of rain fell this morning. A few drops fell Sept. 26 ‘and Sept. 24, and fourtenths of an inch fell on Sept. 16, the ‘Byreau records show. After the showers today, skies will clear over the state and there will be real football crispness in the air, the Bureau said. This drop in temperature. comes. from a mass of cold air moving this way from the (Continued on Page 5)
Lady Bad Lu Cards From
‘Patrolman . Glyndon' Macy was back in bed today, the victim of a double attack by misfortune. It all began last week, when sev-
ti 'sion wo
RAINS TORING
"FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1999
Mr. Baillie returned te New York on the Clipver last night
trom Ireland. He had been in Europe
By HUGH BAILLIE President of United: Press E 26.—With the German-
NEW YORK, Sept.
Russian peace suggestion of today, the hour is at
Rush when the Allies must decide
tinue fighting ‘or accept second place in Eroupe, with -
the Russo-German combine top dog
Unless a lot of minds have been changed in the last few days, the Chamberlain Government in Eng“land will not accept this kind of a peace, which they regard merely as the prelude to further German expansion. However, there are a lot of influential people in England who would be in favor of giving any suggestions a good hard look before turning them
down. The next few hours should heading into another of those big history is made on Sunday. Last Saturday afternoon I had
conversation with Prime Minister C the Cabinet room at 10 Downing St.
not an interview for publication, I certain definite impressions from i
talks with other leaders of public opinion in England.
MY OPINION
since early August.
stated as follows:
whether to ‘con-
toward any peace overture may be aut
Entered
:
is that the British official attitude ritatively
Britain’s purpose in entering the struggle as Mr. Chamberlain recently ‘declared in Comm: redeem ‘Europe from the constant and fear of German aggression, and enable the Europe to preserve their independence and their
s, was to recurring people of
“The: British people are not interested in war for
war’s sake, and the German
tell. We may be week-ends, when
not be depended Consideration
‘have no desire to crush or destroy
people. They are waging a war against Germany because they believe that as lohg as the policy. of the present regime persists there can be /no peace and order in Europe. ' Unfortunately, the commitments which the German’ Government under Herr Hitler might enter into from time to time can-
upon. of any peace overture is governed
by the same difficulties described above, namely, that
a ane and frank mberlain in While it was naturally derived t as well as from
cannot be relied
no peace overture can be acceptable which comes from people whose undertakings the British feel
upon.
It is felt that the commencement of important operations on the Western Front may be delayed (Continued on Page 5)
CREDIT AID TO DEBTORS ISSUE
Pittman Says Neutrality Bill Modifies Johnson Ban On Defaulters.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 .(U. P). —Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared today that the revised. draft of the Administration neutrality program would modify the existing ban and permit -extension of credit to nations in default on their war debts to the United States. The proposed legislation, as finally approved by the Committee, would entitle Great Britain and France—
-| both war debt defaulters—to 90-day
commercial credits if the President
' | soqrauthorizes in the purchase of ma-
terials from American manufacturers. “It is my opinion that this provitld act as a modification of the Johnson Act (under which loans and credits to defaulting nations are banned) to permit 90-dgy credits fo debtor ‘nations,” Mr.iPittman sa
Johnson Plans Amendment
He explained that Germany, which owes no war debt to .this counfry, was not affected by the Johnson Act and therefore occupied a favorable position over Great Britain .and France. To equalize that situation, he said, the Cou:mittee opened the way for The Allies to obtain 90-day credits. Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal.), author of the ban on loans to defaulters, said that he intended to offer an amendment to the neutrality bill to guarantee that it would not modify his act. Mr. Pittman said that he would oppose such a move on grounds that. the Johnson law was enacted in peacetime and “we are faced with a certain condition in EGrope now.” “Under the Johnson Act,” Mr. Pittman said, “Great Britain and France couldn't get any credits at all and Germany could because she is not in debt to us. In passing a law dealing with belligerents there ought not to be any discrimination.”
Credit Section Strengthened
The final draft of the proposed bill which will be placed before the Senate for debate Monday strengthened the credit section to provide that no credit could be extended to a belligerent government in default on a 90-day obligation. - “In my opinion,” Mr. Pittman said, “this will make these fellows The Committee met today to go over the final language. Senator Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa) complained that the new ideas had been injected in discussions, but Mr. Pittman said that before the meeting ended all members were in agreement that no new suggestions had been made. In exempting American vessels carrying mail and passengers from. provisions of the title-and-carry (Continued on Page 5)
ck Deals Him
Double Deck
eral thousand flu germs moved in on
the usually healthy Officer Macy. The germs kept him down for seven days. Yesterday, feeling fit again, Mr. Macy went down to police headquarters to. report that he would be ready for work again today.
But on the way back to his home |
at 939 N, Tibbs Ave. a streetcar jumped the track inthe 1000 ‘block, W. ‘Washington St, struck ' Mr. ‘Mpey's auto and injured his hip.
“I drove the emergency car for 12
years without an accident,” he commented glumly today, “and-then: I has to get hit when I was standing s ” et ‘Mr. Mac that he has h luck as well. on the Police Force he has lost no
is ready; to: admit
- more than two weeks because of n-
ness,
his share of good During his 18 :vears
_|MAE MURRAY CRIES
| who also seeks custody of the child
rected at Bessie, John
| _Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) is a noo
Not Our War, F. D. R. Insists
WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 29 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today reiterated his conviction that the United States will be able to stay - out of the war in Europe. Mr. Roosevelt said he predicated his answers to all questions on one paramount fact—that the United States is not in the war and that he does not think we
conflict. : The President said that the American neutrality, patrol and other sources have heard reports of submarines operating in waters
off our coasts. These reports have not been verified, he sa
REPORT MARCH OUT OF WARSAW Nazis Say Disarmed Poles
Leave City of Death as’ Occupation Nears.
BERLIN, Sept. 29 wv. P.).—The march of disarmed Polish troops from shell-shattered, surrendered Warsaw began today and will continue tor two or three days, the German Army High Command announced. - The command said that| German troops Probably would occuny Warsaw Oct: 2
The German Ary reported that | following the. fall of Warsaw and the unconditional surrender of the great Polish fortress of Modlin, 10 miles to the north, measures for the medical care of Warsaw's suffering civil population were being taken.
Victory in Four Weeks
Przemysl, important eastern Polish city alloted to Russia, was handed over with ceremony. to the Red Army yesterday, the High Command said; in accordance with the Soviet movement to the demarcation line, Formal capitulation of Warsaw rand Modlin marked completion of the German conquest * of * Poland which had been ' accomplished in four weeks. ais The High Command communique said: “Przemysl was handed over Seve. moniously to: Russian '{roops Sept. 28 in accordance with, the schedule of movement to the demarcation line.
Casualties in Thousands
“The march from Warsaw of disarmed Polish troops has started and will continue for two or three days. The entrance of German troops probably will take place Oct. 2. “Measures for the medical care of the civil population have been taken. The fortifications at Modlin surrendered unconditionally before the ‘(Continued on Page 5
AT CUSTODY TRIAL
ALBANY, Sept. 29 (U.P) —Mag Murray, former screen star, wept in Supreme Court today while my ing in the custody fight for her 12-year-old son Koran Mdivani, whose ya is Prince David Mdivani, the polo player. - She had testified that Mdivani, d complete control of her ey were divorced In
Miss Murray's; custody fight 1s. diand Cortland | the
Sunning of Sverl Park X. yi Murray o ated to al-
SENATOR GLASS IMPROVING WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.).
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are going to enter the European |
‘{ill for three months.
ALLIES READY TO ANSWER NO’
Turkey and Italy Have Mystery Roles, Baltic . Nations Worried.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Hitler and Stalin put the British
and French Allies on the spot today.
They divided Poland and Stalin took over Esthonia. dominating the eastern end of the Baltic Sea. Then they said to the Allies: - “What are you going to do about it? Let's have peace, or well show you a war that is a real war.” The Allies showed every sign of being ready to face the issue. The British ‘and French Governments consulted on their next move but every unofficial indication was that they ‘would fight on to crush Hitierism and to restore Poland, deSpite. a statement by T For Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that Russia and Germany agreed fo bar any outside interference in Eastern Europe, .
‘Helgotand Is Attacked
-The Naki High Command announced shortly before Baron von Ribbentrop’s return from Moscow, where he signed the treaty with Russia, that five or six British ‘war planes: vainly attempting to raid German warships off Helgoland had been shot down, that Polish troops were marching out of surrendered arsaw and that all remained quiet the Western Frort. : The ‘French, however, reported a gain of about a mile along a #ivemile front near the Moselle River. Nazis said that if the peace offensive fails, Germany is ready for a gigantic aerial and submarine attack, backed by Russia’s vast material resources, possibly even the huge Red Army, plus the resources (Continued on Page 5)
CHARLES B, CLARKE, LAWYER, DIES AT 58
Served as State Senator And Democrat Leader.
Charles B. Clarke, Indianapolis attorney and prominent in Demoon | cratic politics here for many years, died today ‘at his home, 3520 Guilford Ave. He was 58 and had been Mr. Clarke had served as State Senator and Democratic County Chairman, and had been candidate for Mayor and for Congress. He ‘was born in Marti County and was a member of the law firm of Clarke & Clarke. He is survived: by two brothers, Oscar M. and Walter C. Clarke, and two sisters, Mrs. Bertha 'B. Clarke and Mrs. Mollie Grimes, all
{fen Indianapolis. His wife died a
ear ago.
Second-Class ‘Matter at Fostatfice. Indianapolis, Ind.
vA Nan Soviet
PRICE THREE CENTS :
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Stalin, Giving Up
Berenger had submitted to
MOSCOW, Sept: 29 (U. Nazi Germany today divided
frontier revisions.
the Allied blockade and carry
HITLER MAY ASK U.S. TOMEDIATE ;
Returns to Berlin to Wait Allied Reply to His Peace Terms.
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BERLIN, Sept. 29 w. P.).—Adolf Hitler returned: to Berlin: ‘today to} plan Germany's next move Ana new
by the threat of gigantic sea and air operations against the Allies if they refuse to end the European war. There were indications that a new peace offer would be formulated im-|c mediately, possibly with Italy acting as mediator. Speculation included suggestions that the United States "might also be approached. Bearing a new agreement with the Soviets’ to try to end: the war now or to consult on “necessary meass ures” as an. alternative, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop flew back from Moscow with assurances of Russian “friendship” and full economic support.
Sees Benefit For All
“Both states desire that peace be restored and that Britain and France . give up.their senseless and hopeless. fight against Germany,” Baron von Ribbentrop said before hurrying to see Herr Hitler. “Should the war mongers in those countries retain the upper hand, Germany and the Soviet Union will know how to deal with them.” “German-Soviet friendship is now conclusively established,” he said. “Both states will never allow anyone to interfere in Eastern European questions.” He said thet “grand econémic plans decided etween Germany and the Soviet Union should prove advantageous to both countries.”
Forecast Air, Sub Drive
Usually well-informed Nazis said; that Germany planned intense land and sea activity against the Allies if the peace move fails. "This campaign was visualized by informants as follows: 1. Intensification of submarine warfare in an effort to break the British contraband - control and starve out Britain. 2, Continuous attacks on the British Navy, naval bases, merchant ship convoys and important British and French military ‘objectives.
Offer of Bu
ffer State
~ Post to Moscicki Hin ted
LONDON, Sept. 20 (U. P) —German agents in Rumania, where the Polish Government is interned, are trying to involve the Poles’ President, Ignacy Moscicki, and ‘Army Commander Edward Smygly-Rydz in a “conspiracy to blame England and France for the swift defeat of the Polish Army,” the diplomatic
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correspondent oi the Daily Sketch “Germany and Russia §
today.
ue vine. to fix up an independent
) state to serve as a buffer be-
The ‘Germans believe
BULLETIN PARIS, Sept. 29 (U.P. YA Senate Foreign Relations Committee announcement today said that Senator Henri
peace offensive backed | sts
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ICH, RUSSIA ND PEACE, “DIVIDE Pt OLAN]
Economic Collaboration in W in War Promised by
Vistula Border;,
Esthonia Yields Islands and Port.
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the Committee “sensational
documents confirming a military, diplomatic and economic: alliance between Germany and Russia. »
'P.).—Communist Hssia sol Poland and joined in a peace
offensive to end the European war on the basis of their
At the same time, they agreed that: : 1. Germany can, draw on Russian resources to frustrate
on the war.
2. . Germany and Russia will consult on Yisbsiaiy | measures’ a threat that Russia might throw her strength |
on the Nazi side if Britain and France refuse to recognize the | disappearance of Poland and end the war.
Coinciding' with the Germans Russian agreement was a Soviet agreement with Esthonia that, under the name of a mutual ase sistance pact, providéd that Russia would get the use of the Esthonian islands of Dagoe and Oesel at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, and the Esthonian port of Paldiski, in the mouth of the Gulf. These are highly imporfant as naval and aif bases dominating the northern Bals : tic area. 5 “Al “the new agreement be< the Nazi and Communist ; tes was still short of a fulle fledged alliance, its implications : Were of tremendous military and economic importance, while ' thé clause providing for future consuls tation might mean any degree of co-operation against Britain ang France.
German Share ‘Enlarged :
The new boundary drawn across Poland—with the Bug River as its main line—reduced the previously indicated Soviet sphere but gave Russia the Lwow district and the Rumanian frontier. Nazi Foreign Minis ter Ji oachim von Ribbentrop, wha rly the pact in two days of almost wninterrupted parleys, received the Italian Ambassador; Augusto Ross, before departing by airplane for Berlin. Officials said that the new agreement pledged Pussia to adjust its economic system to supply raw ma-. terials in exchange for German manufactures and to increase the trade turnover between the two countries to a new high. The peak year in the past was 1931—before the Hitler regime—when the turne over was about $440,000,000. It was believed that the annual trade turnover provided in the Germans Russian pact signed last month might be increased almost 10-fold. Premier-Foreign Commissar Viae cheslav Molotov and German Fore cheslav Molotov and von Ribbens trop reached the agreements in all-night conference which 's shortly after midnight, upon Baron von Ribbentrop’s return to the Kremlin from a presentation of the ballet, “Swan Lake,” at the Moscow Opera House.
Diplomatic Somersault
On its very face, the agreement was one of the most important in modern times between two nations or even a group. of nations. A little over one month ago Brita ish and French political and milie tary envoys were in Moscow seeke ing to bring Russia into their anti= Hitler bloc. On ‘Aug. 19 Russia ard Germany signed a trade and credit ‘agreement. The Russian-allied ne= gotiations continued Four days later, on Aug. 23, Baron von Ribe bentrop went to Moscow and negoe tiated a Russian-German non-age gression pact. The Allied m left for home. On Sept. 7, four weeks ago today, the German's Ane vaded Poland. On Sept. 17 the Russ sian - Army poured ‘ over Poland’s ; frontier. Now has come an agreement bes tween the two greatest militaristic powers in the world, their frontiers newly joined, their p es paper as wide apart as ever, w (Continued on Page: 5)
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