Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1939 — Page 6

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Witnesses Charge Communists Are Employed in Yards at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P.) — The Dies Committee prepared today to investigate alleged Communist infiltration into - personnel of. the Washington Navy Yard. following testimony of a former Soviet general that there “undoubtedly” are Russian spies in this country’s Army and Navy. The . Committee, it was understood, now has subpenas ready to serve on 10 Navy Yard employees named by unidentified witnssses as either active members of the Communist Party or “strongly sympathetic” to communism.

Gives Names of Four

One witness, testifying at a brief executive session yesterday, gave the names of four of these persons, while names of the other six were said to ‘have been given by another witness earlier this week. Hearings probably will be held on the alleged communism in the Navy Yard next week, it- was understood. The Committee does not plan to serve the subpenas until just before the hearings, it was said, in an effort to prevent prospective witnesses from “getting together” beforehand on what their testimony will be, Tells of Purge Meanwhile, W. G. Krivitsky, former Soviet Army general and onetime chief of Soviet military intelligence work in Western Europe, was expected to complete soon the story he began yesterday. He. told the Committee that 1937 Joseph Stalin had “destroyed” 35,000 Red Army officers and had sent “millions” of Russians to concentration camps. No hearings were scheduled for today, but tomorrow they were to be resumed, with an unidentified witness scheduled to tell about alleged Communist domination of la-

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Whose Aviation Really Has Been Best? Is There Any Unrest in Reich?

« By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

Where is the Bremen? Did the Germans use gas bombs in Poland? Has there yet been a major naval

sank the Athenia? Is there unrest in Germany? Whose war planes have been the more successful, Germany'’s or. the Allies’?

those are a few of the questions yet to be answered to the satisfaction of a stickler for the rules of evidence. Rigid censorship in the belligerent countries, partisan supervision of the activities of correspondents and conflicting national interests have produced a melange of contradictory and unconfirmed reports which, while “having little bearing upon a “|broad grasp of the war to date, nevertheless served ta puzzle the newspaper reader. Here are some outstanding one amples: Revolt Rumors Unconfirmed

SEPT. 5—Paris news sources reported serious disorders at Cologne, Dusseldorf and Essen, Germany, and later were amplified to include fre-|o quent reports of revolutionary activity in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. These reports, like others to the effect that German soldiers were deserting across the Belgian frontier in large numbers, were repeated from time to time but not confirmed. SEPT. 5—The German High Command asserted that a British torpedo sank the British liner Athenia in order to create anti-German feeling in the United States. Later, the Germans accused the First Lord of the British | Admiralty, Winston Churchill, himself, of having the Athenia sunk. | The accusations were indignantly denied and eyewitnesses said a German submarine sank the liner. SEPT. 6—Dutch reports said the British Air Force had bombed and sunk a German pocket battleship in raids at Wilhemshaven and Cux-

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claimed ‘only to hidve ‘damaged a warship - and the - Germans denied any injury at all, asserting that half the attacking airplanes were shot down and the rest driven ‘off.

Saarbruecken Claims Groundless

ed Saarbruecken surrounded and French soldiers pushing on beyond. Four weeks later the French Army comand ‘announced officially that Saarbruecken was being enveloped, on three sides. SEPT. 13—The British Admiralty said it had reason to believe the Germans had mother ships at sea as refueling bases for U-boats and that Germany was attempting to establish -naval and air bases in Central and South America. There have been nofdefinite reports as 8 yeu to confirm such a belief.

Bremen Is Everywhere

SEPT. 14 — Unconfirmed reports were heard that the German liner Bremen, missing since it-left New York before the declaration of war, was sailing under the Italian flag. Other reports then and later said that: (1) The Bremen had been captured by the British; (2) that the Bremen was safe at Murmansk, Russia; (3) that the Bremen was headed for Vera Cruz, Mexico; (4) that the Bremen had made port in an Icelandic fiord; (5) that the Bremen was headed for German bases on the Spaflish Coast; (6) that the Bremen is safe in Murlhansk. SEPT. 19 — The German High Command said the U-boat which sank the British aircraft carrier Courageous had reported the sinking, thus seeking to refute the expressed British belief that the submarine had been destroyed. SEPT. 20—The British Information Ministry said it had heard reports .of violent rebellion ‘in what was Czechoslovakia, with hundreds executed and thousands arrested. In Slovakia, the report said, 15,000 Slovak troops revolted and were disarmed. Germany denied the report and said all was tranquil. 3-to-1 Discrepancy SEPT. 20—Reports were received from Copenhagen and other places of a major naval engagement in the Kattegatt Strait between Sweden and Denmark. It turned out that Sweden naval vessels were engaged in target practice. SEPT. 22—French sources estimated casualties in Poland at 150,000 ‘Adolf Hitler earlier said the Polish campaign had cost Ger-

many 10,572 killed, 30,322 wounded, 3404 missing. SEPT. 25—A 12-hour naval battle was reported off Bergen, Norway. Alleged eye-witnesses said they saw a crippled warship leaving the scene. This report never was satisfactorily explained. The British Admiralty denied . knowledge of any engagement between naval vessels. . SEPT.—26 Mr. Churchill reported the capture of a German-U boat commander who had messaged him the location of a sinking British ship. Two days later in ‘Berlin a German officer, who claimed to be the U-boat commander in question, Mr. Churchill was wrong. Today Mr. Churchill admitted his error. SEPT. 27—The Germans reported that a bombing squadron had attacked a British naval group in the North Sea and sunk an aircraft carrier and damaged a battleship. The British Admiralty said 20 German bombers had attacked the ships but failed to score a hit. Later the German radio said ‘the aircraft carrier in question was the Ark Royal. To refute this, the British entertained a U. S. naval attache aboard a vessel said to be the Ark Royal: ' SEPT.

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Command serirted that a Nazi warplane bombed ‘a British heavy cruiser Ji the Firth of Forth. British admiralty said this ‘report was, footer version of the North a ”

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SEPT. 30—French sources repeated reports that Germans were massing threateningly on: the Belgian frontier and that Belgian troops were rushing, to the border. Nazis] scoffed at the reports. The neutral frontiers are still inviolate.

OCT. 1—The French and Germans issued contradictory claims of aerial successes, the latter asserting that some 70 French and British planes had been shot down, the former claiming Allied supremacy wita less than half as many losses as the Germans had. OCT. 2—The British reported that Royal Air Force planes flew over Berlin and Potsdam, dropping propaganda leaflets. The Germans said the report was false.

What Is the Raider?

OCT. 3—Some survivors of the British steamer Clement; sunk off the coast of Brazil, said the vessel's assailant was the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. Berlin

identity of the raider has not yet been authoritatively established.

‘OCT. 5—President Roosevelt disclosed that German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder had informed ‘the U. S. naval attache at Berlin that the S. S. Iroquois, ‘en route to New York with Americans, would be sunk as the Athenia was, hinting that the British would make the attack. The British Admiralty said Admiral Raeder’s assertion was “absurd.” American warships nevertheless went to sea and escorted the Iroquois to port yesterday. OCT. 6—The semi-official Belgian news agency reported from Berlin that Germany under certain circumstances would consider her pledge to respect Belgium’s neutrality void.” The German Propaganda Ministry said the report was an “invention” and that Germany’s guarantee had no loopholes. OCT. 9—Naval-air battle is reported in Skaggerak. The German High Command reported that Nazi planes carried out a “surprise bombing attack” against British fleet and dropped seven heavy bombs on British cruisers, causing explosions. - British ‘reported battle before Germans, but denied any damage to British ships. British reported that a German naval squadron escaped the British fleet because of darkness, but Germans made no such claims. Danes reported that four: German planes, returning from the battle, had made forced

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would turn over command to Marshal Herrmann Wilhelm Goering to conduct a “blitzkrieg,” war such: as conquered Poland. But Herr Hitler stayed in Berlin, renewed his peace offer and told the Germans that no matter how long

[the war no nation could force Germany to her knees. . OCT. 11—British announce 185,000 troops .have reached France in six

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Most mystifying question of war, the Bremen, above. . . . in what sheltered nook is it hidden?

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OCT. 10—French newspapers: re-|;

ported that Adolf Hitler had overruled his General Staff, decided to go to the Western rn Front, and soon

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