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IE=irsrowarn] VOLUME 51—NUMBER 188

Entered as Second-Class Matter at .Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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_ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1939

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FINDS RELIEF

FOOD BETTER §

Quality Up “Sinoe - Inquiry

But Still Inferior, Says Markun.

The quality of food received by Center Township poor relief clients has improved substantially since the relief situation has been in the limelight, but still is substandard, Louis R. Markun, businessman, said today just before he appeared as a Grand Jury witness. ‘Mr. Markun, ‘one of three witnesses at. the opening session of the Grand jury's relief probe, testified again today. He said today he planned to give the jury the names of several public officeholders and relief clients as witnasses, but would ask that their names be “kept absolutely secret sono reprisals can be taken against them.” Charges Gifts to Party

‘Meanwhile, several deputy prosecutors waded through thick bundles of grocers’ claims for food furnished to relief clients. Later, they plan to conduct a “house-to-house” check to determine if any false claims have been filed. Mr. Markun, an outstanding critic on relief conditions since 1933, said that he talked yesterday to numerous relief clients with whom he is acquainted. «I found that the quality of food .has improved since The Indianapolis Times began its investigation, but still is sub-standard,” he said. “Apparently that means that the ‘grocers are trying to straighten things oui. At least, they moved quickly after the investigation began.” Now head of the U. S. Wholesale To., Mr. Markun was the Republican nominee for State Auditor in 1938. Yesterday he charged that most _ (Continued on Page Four)

NEARLY LOST TRADE, G. M. WITNESS SAYS

(Early Details, Page 5)

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 17 (U. P).— George Traendly of West Orange, N. J.. charged in Federal Court today that he virtually was forced out of the automobile business because he used finance com-

* panies other than the General

Motors Acceptance Corp. HE testified in the Federal Government’s anti-trust trial of the General Motors Corp., three affiliates and 17 individuals.

Ol’ Sol Delivers, Chasing Shivers

1OCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m .... 41 10a. m..... 7a.m. ....40 1am. ....48 8a.m,.... 41. 12 (noon) .. 49 9am .... 43 ipm.... 52

THIS MORNING'S bright sunshine was a bit deceptive, as anyone starting out for work without a topcoat soon discovered. But after dipping fo an overnight low of 40 at 7°a. m., the mercury began responding to solar treatment. Result: One of those fine fall days that moves tne poetic to

2. Mrs. Lucille Glick . . 3. Mrs. Olive Morton . .

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1. Mrs. Goldie Gleason . . . the family still has to be . did a washing while waiting. . the hospital will find her at home. Inset—Edgar Earl Hovious . . . benefactors’ blood has kept him

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Mother’s Plea Answered

With Four

they have never seen.

who is in Riley Hospital, battling

JEWETT FARM HOME THREATENED BY FIRE

Lack of Water | Hampers Fight Against Blaze.

Fire, believed to have started from chimney sparks, caused several thousand dollars damage today to the 12-room residence on the Charles Jewett farm at Arlington and Massachusetts Aves. - Damage -to the bujlding was estimated at $2000. Two Indianapolis pumper companies ‘sent to the farm had difficulty in fighting the blaze because of an inadequate water supply. Discovered by a passerby, the fire started inthe roof and quickly enveloped the upper half of the building. Several thousand dollars’ worth of valuable antique furniture on the second floor was destroyed, but neighbors and passers-by. rescued furnishings from the main floor. The farm tenants, Mrs. Betty Russell and her daughter, rtha Vandergriff, were in the Kitchen when the blaze was discovered.

C. T. BROWN, 62, IS DEAD

KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 17 (U. PJ). —C. T. Brown, former president of the Howard County Bar Association, former Democratic County Chair-

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man and close friend of Senator Fred k VanNu died!

Transfusions

For the sixth successive day, three South Side women. geared their household activities to the labored breathing of a 15-year-old boy whom

The boy is Edgar Earl Hovious, Martinsville High School student.

severe bronchitis which developed

after an emergency appendicitis operation. The women, all members

of the auxiliary of Lavelle-Gossett Post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, are standing by to supply the boy with a fifth blood transfusion if he requires it. Two of them, Mrs. Olive Morton, 1131 E. Gimber St.. and Mrs. Goldie Gleason, 1132 St. Paul St., already have given blood to the youth. Mrs. Lucille ‘Glick, 1132 S. Keystone

Ave., stands ready if her help is needed.

Turns to V. F. W. Leader

Last Wednesday night Mrs. Fred Hovious, the sick: boy’s mother; was making a desperate effort to find blood. donors for her son in a strange city. At the suggestion of her husband, a Veteran of Foreign Wars member, she called ‘Mrs. Nellie Carey, a former Indiana auxiliary department president. The Lavelle-Gossett Auxiliary was the only post meeting that evening. So, Mrs. Carey called Mrs. Morton, the president, shortly after the nieeting had been called to

order, and asked for volunteers. Of |

the 21 members present, Mrs. Mor-

ton, Mrs. Glick and Mrs. .Gieason.

were among the first to volunteer. Wait on Phone Call

Next morning at 10 o’clock-they were greeted by an anxious, grateful mother at City Hospital, where they came to have their blood typed. And, by uncommon good fortune, ‘all three had the same type blood as the patient. | That afternoon Mrs. Morton gave a pint of blood, and on Saturday, .- Gleason contributed. e-

GERMANY SAYS

§ LAND RETAKE

, Claim - Most of Territory

Seized in West Has Been ‘Recaptured.

BERLIN, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—The

‘German . High Command “asserted

today that French troops had evacuated the greater part of the Ger-

man territory they had held on the

Western Front and had retired be-

‘Ihind their own frontier.

"This announcement came immediately - after’ a French High Command communique announcing that 76,000 German troops, in an offensive east of the Saar River yesterday, following upon a smaller attack in the Moselle sector, had pushed the French back to prepared defensive positions. In a long communique, the High Command said also that five enemy planes, two - British and three French, were shot down yesterday while reconnoitering over Germany.

Boast of Baltic Victories

The full communique was as follows: , “In the course of yesterday. French troops evacuated the greater part of German territory hitherto occupied by them before our fortifications, and retired behind: their frontier. ' “British naval-forces were yesterday again successfully attacked. Two British - warships in the Firth of Porth were struck by (airplane) bombs of the heaviest size. This success was achieved despite the most heavy enemy defense by anti-air-craft fire and pursuit planes. “During the d:fense.of German territory yesterday tive enemy planes (Continued on Page Three)

NAZIS TO REPATRIATE + 2,500,000 GERMANS

BERLIN, Oct. 17 (U. P).—Germany intends to repatriate all German minorities from all European countries as soon as possible, a Foreign Office spokesman said today. It was estimated unofficially that German minorities in Europe totaled more than 2,500,000 people. The spokesman said Germany did not. intend to include Germans. in North and South America.

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Paris’ Paper Hears Hitler Is Coming To War Zone.

PARIS, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—Seventysix thousand” German shock. troops, smashing into the French advanced

observation posts, it- was disclosed today. , The attack was made late yesterday afternoon. Picked troops, clad in armor. reminiscent of the days of chivalry, advanced behind tanks and and an earth-shaking artillery barrage ‘east of the Saar River. It was their biggest attack of the war on the Western Front and the French expected bigger ones. French military authorities said that while thé Germans had regained some of the most advanced positions which the French had won last month, they still remained on German soil practically the full length of the front from the Moselle to the Rhine. This presumably meant that at one point the Germans had penetrated - French soil. The French yesterday said the village of -Apach, on the Moselle, had been seized. Met by Artillery Blast

Knowing from tense activity behind the German lines, and. the ceaseless rumbling of transport, that an attack was coming, the French had ‘cleared their advanced lines of all ‘but- highly trained handfuls of outposts. These withdrew as the Germans advanced. When the Germans reached the French prepared line they were met by a blast of artillery and machine gun fire that stopped them. They retreated and the French followed them up. But the Germans, it was admitted, retained some territory which was valuable for observation purposes. The newspaper Paris Soir, in a dispatch from Amsterdam, quoted the Niewe Rotterdamsche Courant as saying that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler soon will establish general headquarters in the Westwall. : Gains Termed Costly The French tightened anti-air raid precautions It was announced officially that military authorities have informed police prefectures that in the future anti-aircraft batteries may open fire without siren warnings to the people. ’ Following up an attack in the Moselle sector to the west by one German division, about 15,200 men, five German divisions hit the French lines in the Saar attack. The German troops wore steel vests and vizored helmets. : After resisting with light weapons (Continued on Page Three)

WAR STOCKS LEAD IN MARKET'S GAINS

Douglas Reaches New High In Aviation Shares.

By UNITED PRESS

$3 rise in the New York stock market today as intensification of war activities brought hurried short covering. ‘ : Douglas reached a new high in aviation shares. Chrysler $ $3.1215. Anaconda registered a gain of more than $1. Other sections of the list joined the advance. War activity in Europe stimulated grain ‘prices at Chicago, wheat gaining more than a cent and corn rising about a cent. Other commodities - were higher. 8 ‘Government issues met demand in

a firm Londun stock market.

Fund Strives to Reach

$300,000 Mark Tomorrow

tive in Community Fund drives in

Community Fund workers speeded their activity today in an effort’ to hoost. the amount pledged: to $300,000 by tomdrrow, when the fourth report meeting will ‘be held at the Claypool Hotel. ; * Yesterday fund workers: reported an additional. $47,811.27 which brings the present total to $251,726.Raymond J. Kelly, national commander of - the ‘American Legion, will speak ‘at. tomorrow's meetin;

Detroit. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of the Marion County Juvenile Court spoke yesterday at a luncheon meeting of the fund workers. :

“If we could make people know know that the most fundaneed of human life is not put an understanding. help; |

as we men ‘relief ) if we could give them the picture as we see. it every day of these 37 agencies doing in their own way something to help the people of Indianapoiis, we wouldn't have a lot of difficulty in raising money for the Community Fund”. Judge

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lines on a 19-mile front, have taken a dozen villages and several valuable

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vasion of F rance Repu JUTLAND FLAGSHIP HIT, 13 SUBS REPORTED SUNK

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LONDON, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—The first account of how a German submarine slipped: past the supposedly impregnable Scapa Flow defenses . to sink the battleship, Royal Oak, was given the House of Commons today.

first lord of the Admiralty, and Defense Co-ordinator Lord Chatfield — told how the submarine glided into the famous naval bases, fired its torpedoes in the very heart of Britain's naval defense positions, and escaped unscathed. It caught Scapa Flow asleep. ; “The entry of the U-boat must be considered a remarkable exploit of ‘professional skill and daring,” Lord Chatfield told Commons. ; He said it remained a -matter of conjecture how the submarine was. able to penetrate the. harbor defenses, the mines and the antisubmarine .nets. He said the Uboat apparently fired two starboard torpedoes at the Royal Oak. One of them hit the warship in the bow. A muffled explosion followed and the ship's store of inflammables was flooded. “Twenty minutes later the Uboat fired three or four torpedoes and ‘these. striking in quick succession, caused the ship to capsize and sink,” said Lord Chatfield.

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LORD CHATFIELD said the Royal Oak was lying at the extreme end of the haibor and that therefore many officers and inen drowned before the rescue could be organized. More than 800 died, he said. ; Mr. Churchill declaced that the first ‘muffled explosion on the Royal Oak was at first believed to be due to internal causes, but that the firing of the three or four torpedoes 20 minutes later dispelled this thought. “Serious as it is,” said Lord Chatfield, “it does not affect our margin of security in heavy vessels, which remain ample.” ” rn 2 SCAPA FLOW is the ase where, in 1919, German crews, rather than see their vessels turned over to Britain, scuttled all their battleships and all but one of the cruisers and five light ‘cruisers. * It was Britain's chief naval base during the World War. It is situated south of the Orkney Islands, north ‘of Scotland and has un-

Air Alarm Si

LONDON, Oct. 17 (U. P).—Gr

power in the great Scapa Flow base Nazi bombing planes raided tha the training battleship Iron Duke, This was in addition to slight damage inflicted on the cruisers Southampton and Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk in an aerial attack yesterday along the Firth of Forth.

In counter-blows, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill announced, about one-third of the original Nazi submarine fleet of 60 vessels ‘is believed to have been destroyed since the start of the war; four Nazi bombing planes were shot. down in the Firth of Forth raid; and one or two at Scapa Flow.

One Plane Chased

The German attacks have been aimed at Scottish bases, striking directly into the strongholds of British segpower. ‘But the -Air Ministry announced that German airplanes also | reconnoitered over: the east coast of England this morning and afterfioon and were driven off by Royal Air Force planes and anti-aircraft guns. No bombs were dropped there. Air raid warnings were sounded in many places in Lincolnshire and the East Anglian and Kent coasts after an observer corps had reported enemy reconnaissance. “One enemy aircraft was intercepted off the Yorkshire coast and pursued to sea,” the Ministry. said. : 15 Killed in Raid

“At 10:30-a. m. today an air raid took place at Scapa Flow,” Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons. “The attack was made by about four machines. Two. bombs. fell very near H. M. S. Iron Duke and the ship sustained

Two men—Winston Churchill, i

*| —Chairman David I. Walsh

Sub Baffles English by Scapa Flow

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Scapa Flow . . the fleet was asleep,

Reich Seeks to Show’ Vulnerability of Foes’ Ships.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

est” -is raining aerial and suk’ marine blows at British sea : power in an effort to break the Allied blockade of Germany,

A spectacular U-boat raid into the British lion's den at Scapa ‘| Flow on Saturday when the battle ship Royal Oak was sunk; an aerial

il attack on the same great naval base today when

the battleship. Iron Duke , was damaged, yesterday's aerial, attacks on the Firth of Forth

"naval yards where three warships

tensity of the conflict. : The Germans. logt at least five bombing planes in two days of raid=-

Lord of .he Admiralty Winston Churchill reported 13 to 20 U-boat sunk since the start of the war, But the Nazi victories were specs

usual natural defense facilities, no German submarine succeeding in entering Scapa Flow during thy World War. It has only two main exits, one seven miles long; and two wide into the Atlantic: and the other three and a half miles long and two wide into the North Sea. Strong currents in- the narrow exits: make submarine navigation extremely hazardous. : ” ” ” IN 1918 a U-boat manned entirely by officers made the attempt but failed, its picked crew perishing. The ships of the German fleet were interned at the base in November, 1918. On June 21, 1919,

the ships were scuttled. Britain.

since raised the vessels and converted them into scrap. , Mr. Churchill told Commons that “intensivé search of the anchrage has not yet yielded any results.” He admitted that the Uboat apparently escaped and that British counter-attacks had been in vain. WE ”

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IN AN UNREVEALED German port at 9 a. m. this morning Ligut.

Prien, commander of the U-boat, made his official report to Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Lieut. Prien insisted that had also fired a torpedo at the British battle cruiser Repulse and had damaged it. This the British refuse to.admit.

rens Shriek

Along British East Coast

eat Britain announced today that

daring Nazi aerial raiders had struck blows at the heart of British naval

north of Scotland. t famous base today and damaged flagship of the battle of Jutland.

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tacular demonstrations of what might happen if 200 instead of a dozen planes crossed the North Sea, and they were intended to strike at Allied morale as well as British sea power, al

Seek to Show Weakness

The British Navy's sea supremacy is tie greatest weapon of the Ems pire and the backbone of allied des fenses. Any disaster—none is yet seriously threatened—to the British Navy would be one of the worst blows to the Allies if not a de= cisive factor in the war. ‘id Thus, with Herr Hitler's peacé offensive a failure, the Nazi strategy in seeking a spectacular demonstras tion of the vulnerability of the British Navy becomes obvious and presages far greater German thrusts in the future. At the same time, it was exe pected that Allied counter-blows by air would be forthcoming. The first already may have been undertaken, as. Dutch reports said plans were seen speeding loward the German naval base at Emden and that heavy ‘explosions were heard from. that direction.

German Drive Halted |

on the Western Front. { Powerful thrusts by the Nazi |armed forces on the Saar and Mo'selle sectors of the Rhineland front drove back Allied troops. The German High Command reported that the French had retired from almost all occupied territory. The French said that 76,000 Nazi troops had pushed forward—briefly invading French soil—but had been thrown back with heavy losses by concentrated fire from the Allied positions. The main result was that the Germans succeeded in relieving pressure on the important Westwall city of Zweibruecken, the repotts . dicated. I 15 Killed in Firth. | The new series of air raid alarms

WALSH FEARS ARMS SALES STEP T0 WAR

: Move Made to Ease Ship Bans in Neutrality Bill. “WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 wu. PP).

(D. Mass.), of the Naval Affairs Com-

mittee, told the Senate today that

repeal of the existing ban on arms shipments to belligerenis would be “tragic” and might involve the

United States in the ‘European war. Simultaneously, Assistant Republican Leader Warren R. Austin, of Vermont, a proponent of arms embargo repeal, introduced an amendment to the hill which would suspend the whole neutrality program whenever peace was restored in Europe. ;

“We who are against repeal are primarily. opposed now to a parade of war weapons from America to Europe,” Senator Walsh said, “because we never again want to wit‘and that

ness the parade of dying maimed American youths | (Continued ‘on Page Three) is

ONE KILLED, 2 HUR ‘LOGANSPORT, Ind.. Oct. 1

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aroused the English east coast at mid-day. They extended

area dotted with shipping and fishe ing centers and: dockyards. A new alarm also was sounded in the Firth of Forth—scene of yester= day's German air attack—but a few hours after many thousands of persons in England and Scotland nad sought shelter the “all clear” signal was given everywhere. | There were reports that a German plane had been sighted over the Firth of Forth, but German re connoitering activity was responsible forthe widespread alarm. ts

raid by a dozen Nazi bombers

| Royal Air Force and anti-aircrait batteries were alert for new attac Germany claimed that at least 100,000 tons of British warships ha (Continued on Page Three)

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