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| MONDAY, DEC. »n es ge Holds 4 of Spee Crew On Charge of Blowing Up Ship, Scuttled by Order From Hitler
Commander Just Misses
Arrest, Heads for Buenos Aires.
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bore the brunt of the sea fight, had arrived at the British naval base in the Falkland Islands, Argentine coast, with 61 dead and 23 wounded. Uruguayan authorities, along with their other diplomatic worries, were concerned about the salvage problems—whether anybody, perhaps the British Admiralty, would believe that despite the explosions and the searing fire, there might be something valuable still aboard the Graf Spee, if only her 11-inch guns which experts said might still be saved and reconditioned. The exact means by which the Graf Spee was blown up remained a German Secret. There were all sorts of reports as to time bombs, electrically exploded mines and other means of destruction. Capt. Langsdorff and his crew had taken no one into their confidence. The most persistent reports were that time bombs were used, similar to the ones with which the Graf Spee as a raider had blown up merchantmen, or that three Argentine boats which went alongside a few minutes before its death provided dynamite for it. Americas Co-operate There seemed one certainty on the diplomatic side—that the American governments including the United States would at once seek means to prevent another naval battle within the limits of the se= curity belt agreed on at Panama just after the European war started. Negotiations already had started between Uruguay, the United States, Argentina and Brazil to draft a new declaration which might strengthen the neutrality of the American continent. Uruguay had acted throughout in closest consultation with other American governments, Envoys of 11 American republics met here just before the Graf Spee was blown up to hear the Uruguayan Government's viewpoint of its action in refusing a stay to the ship, and they had assured Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of their governments’ full support. Six Points in Protest In the letter which he had sent the Uruguayan Government, Capt. Langsdorff had protested to Uruguay on six grounds against its refusal to give further shelter to his ship. He disclosed that Germany had asked 15 days in which to repair the ship. The points in the letter were: 1. The Hague Convention covers repairs to belligerent ships in neutral ports. 2. The official Uruguayan Naval Commission which examined the Graf Spee could see that its fighting power suffered but little damage whereas the ship's seaworthiness had been impaired materially. 3. Intense efforts were made to vepair the ship, but the time was insufficient. Further, customs offi=cials stopped civilian workers help= ing to repair the ship at 6 p. m. Sat urday and permitted them to resume work only after several hours’ delay. 4. The decision of the Uruguayan Cabinet not to give further shelter to the Graf Spee was “a flagrant violation of the aspirations for hu= manization of warfare” which guided The Hague conventions. 5. The discrepancy between the friendliness of the Uruguayan people and the action of the Government leads to the supposition that pressure was exercised on the Government “by an interested party.” 6. Though Capt. Langsdorff did not recognize the justice of the
off the
Uruguayan Government's decision he would abide by the time limit. The letter ended: “But because the Uruguayan Government denies me the facilities previded by The Hague convention to put my ship in seaworthy condition I am not disposed to hand over to this country control of my ship, the fighting potentiality of which is unimpaired in any way. “In these circumstances there remains for me no solution but to sink my ship by blowjng it up near the coast, disambarking as many as possible of my crew.”
British View Given
Great Britain's viewpoint was expressed by the British Minister, Eugen Millington-Drake, in a statement to the United Press: . » The ship has been definitely destroyed exactly as if she had been destroyed by gun fire of British cruisers, and . . , the destruction of this ‘super corsair’ was due on the one hand to British sea power, on the other hand to Uruguayan law power. I mean that Uruguay upheld the rule of law, and better and more difficult still, the rule of international law. “At any rate two forces working in conjunction spelt freedom . . freedom of the seas . . . at least in these parts and for the time being.” The Admiral Graf Spee was blown up just as the sun was sinking. Scores of thousands of people lined the Uruguayan shore of the Plate estuary to watch it.
Break Was Expected
Througheut Saturday night, under the glare of searchlights, weld= ers had worked on the Graf Spee’s hull and there was every indication of an impending break for the open sea. By noon it was reported that all surface repairs had been made. The diplomatic situation was active, The British and German Ministers were in frequent contact with the Foreign Office, and there were conferences among Uruguayan Cabinet and Noval chieftains and envoys of American republics. Early yesterday afternoon eight ambulances clanged to the dock nearest the Graf Spee’s anchorage and 22 additional wounded were brought ashore from it. The Government made it known that it had definitely refused to extend the 8 p. m. deadline for the Graf Spee's departure. Thousands upon thousands of people crowded to the dock area, many left football games at the half to be Yn at the finish. Loud speakers, installed at the docks, blared out scores of Uruguayan and other South American football games,
WAITS DERBYSHIRE DECISION ON APPEAL
Gurney G. Derbyshire, 69, convicted last week of defrauding the U. S. Government through illegal diversion of WPA labor, has until 11 a. m. Wednesday to decide whether he will start serving his year and a day prison sentence without awaiting a ruling on his Sobel. The appeal was filed Saturay. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell offered to reduce Mr. Derbyshire's $5000 bond to $2500, if he decides to remain at liberty pending Circuit Court of Appeals action on his appeal. He was convicted with his son-in-law, Carl F. Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA director. The latter, who was given an 18months’ sentence, also has appealed his conviction.
Fuehrer and and Alds Debate Further Action After Ship Is Scuttled.
BERLIN, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—Adolf Hitler was understood today to have discussed with the Nazi High Command the possibility of further action in connection with the scuttling of the pocket battleship Graf Spee. A vigorous protest already has been made to the Uruguayan Government on the grounds that Uruguay did not permit sufficient time for the warship to make repairs before forcing it to leave Montevideo in the face of a massed fleet of Allied warships. Well-informed sources said that the possibility of a German claim for damages from Uruguay in con= nection with loss of the $20,000,000 Graf Spee had been discussed but that it was not believed any such claim would be made.
Doubt Incident Is Closed
Official quarters indicated that the Graf Spee incident, however, was not closed, although no indication of the next step was given. Nazi officials did not attempt to conceal their annoyance with the action taken by Uruguay. Among those attending the conference with Herr Hitler at the Chancellery were Col. Gen. Wilhelm von Keitel, Admiral Erich Raeder and Marshal Hermann Goering. It also was made known officially that Herr Hitler had ordered the Admiral Graf Spee scuttled.
Man in Street Puzzled
“Regarding the sinking of the armored cruiser Admiral Graf Spee it is made known that the Fuehrer and highest commander gave the order to Capt. Langsdorff to destroy the ship through its own explosion inasmuch as the Uruguayan Government had declined to give the time necessary to make the ship seaworthy,” said a communique of the official news agency. Nonofficial German quarters had been surprised at the Graf Spee’s fate. They had been sure that it would go down fighting or remain at Montevideo to be interned. The German man in the street was both surprised and puzzled at the news of the Admiral Graf Spee. It seemed difficult for ordinary people to understand why the ship which, they had been told earlier, had won a victory over the British and suffered only slight damage, had to be sunk because it was unfit to go to sea.
Give-And-Take Mate Divorced
AN 18-YEAR-OLD wife told Superior Court Judge Herbert Spencer today that she wanted a divorce from her husband for this reason: Last Christmas he bought her a Jot of Christmas presents and charged them to her mother’s ace count. They quarreled and he left home. Then he came back and took the Christmas presents. She was granted a divorce,
MIND AGILE AT 71
1.OS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (U. P) — S. L. Finley, after a lifetime spent as mountain mail carrier astride a mule, then mining, merchandising and final retirement, put in six months studying California's real estate laws and acts, and passed the stiff examination of the California state real estate board, at the age
of V1.
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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Admiral Graf Spee Pauses Before Last Mile
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This aerial photo, sent from Buenos Aires to the United States by radio, shows the crippled German sea raider Admiral Graf Spee in MonteShe was exploded by her crew to deny three British and French warships
FINNS RETREAT IN ARCTIC AREA
Drive Off Russians, However, in Furious Attack On Mannerheim Line.
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importance they had called it their Verdun. Russian assaults were supported by withering artillery fire in what military experts said was hope of slaughtering the Finns and pushing them back by the sheer weight of tanks, men and metal. Papers found on the bodies of Russian dead were said to have threatened that if the troops did not hasten their march through Finland they would be taken before a tribunal, where death sentences are the rule, Encouraged by these victories, the Finns had taken the offensive on the propaganda front. They printed pamphlets with pictures of 10 wrecked Russian airplanes and captions reading, “Comrades who will never return to you,” and dumped them by airplane on Russian territory.
Russians Break Through In Furious Arctic Fight
SVANIK, NORWEGIAN-FIN-NISH BORDER, Dec. 18 (U.P), — Russians opened a furious attack with airplanes, artillery and infantry in the Far North today and
broke through the Finnish lines opposite the Norwegian town of Bofossat Noon, it was reported. The fighting could be seen from the border here. The Russians still were blasting their way through the important Finnish Paskamo line. Ten or 12 Russian airplanes could be seen over the battlefield. Artillery was tearing up the earth,
Russia Claims Advance
In Petsamo District
MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—The “invincible Red Army” has advanced 46 miles in the Petsamo dis-
trict of North Finland, and 81 miles on the Ukhta front, more than halfway across Finland's narrow “waist line” toward the Gulf of Bothnia, a war communique said today. Nothing was said of fighting on the Manneheim Line. Both Izvestia, organ of the Soviet Government, and Pravda, organ of the Communist Party, bitterly de-
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nounced the expulsion of Russia |from the League of Nations. | Pravda said that Donald D. Ed|gar, United States Consul at Ge‘neva, had sat as “observer” at the League session, but that his capacity was that of “tutor.”
Helsinki Reports Mutiny
Of Russian Battalion
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 18 (U. P.) —Official Finnish military quarters claimed today that a Russian battalicn of about 8000 men had mutinied north of Lake Ladoga, on the Eastern Front. The Finnish claims were that the Russian soldiers shot their political commissars and officers.
GREATEST AIR FIGHT OF WAR REPORTED
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ready have been washed ashore on the Frisian Islands, the announcement said. Earlier, it was claimed in Berlin that German warplanes yesterday sank four British ships and serie ously damaged three auxiliary vessels. The official German news agency DNB made the claim. Expanding the High Command's communique DNB said that the ships sunk by German machine gunning and bombing planes included the patrol boat Pearl and the coastal steamer Serenity,
London Admits Two
Vessels Were Struck
LONDON, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—The Admiralty and Air Ministry announded jointly today that a number of attacks had been made by enemy aircraft on British and neutral merchant and fishing vessels in the North Sea yesterday. “During the morning attacks were made on the small motor vessel Serenity and the fishing trawlers New Choice, Ben Clair and Craig-|was ielea,” the announcement said. The Serenity and the New Choice west {were sunk. "
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Reveal U. 8S.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U. P.) — The Administration was revealed today to have rejected a proposal that Government capital be used to assist the British in controlling
liquidation of their American securities holdings. This was disclosed as part of the authoritative inside story of a long series of conferences last spring in which high Government officials, anticipating the war, took measures to shock-proof the nation’s economy. According to the official account, the British Government inquired in April whether this Government had legal powers that might enable the United States to aid the British in controlling liquidation of American securities held by its nationals and others residing in Great Britain, Sources within the Administration suggested that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. could make a loan to a British Government corporation, or to a British-controlled or American-controlled private company. Such a corporation would then have been empowered to buy up the American securities held abroad and thus prevent their being dumped on the stock market. The proposal was considered at a conference of top-ranking Administration fiscal officials in the latter part of April. It was decided that the RFC could legally make such a loan, but that it would be against public policy to do so. The decision was conveyed to the British after receiving approval of Jesse H, Jones, then RFC chairman, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. : No such corporation was set up, but since the outbreak of war, the British Government has required British residents to register their holdings of foreign securities, They cannot sell any part of their hoidings without permission of the British control authorities, In recent weeks, there were rumors in Wall Street—which failed of substantiation by officials here— that a Canadian corporation would be formed with RFC backing to acquire foreign-held American securities. Another disclosure made by authorities fully conversant with last spring's preparedness conferences was that Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. considered a plan
to try to avert war through an
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tions to withhold vital war materials from aggressor powers. Mr. Morgenthau abandoned the idea as impracticable, politically and financially, and then began intensive preparations with other high Administratioh officials to cushion the country’s economic machinery against the impact of imminent war. The dominant thought in the preparations was to maintain ‘“business as usual” in the United States come what what may ir in Europe.
JAPAN WILL OPEN YANGTZE TO TRADE
TOKYO, Dec. 18 (U, P.) —Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Foreign Minister, advised American Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew today that Japan intended to reopen the Yangtze River in China to navigation by foreign ships. Admiral Nomura invited Mr, Grew to his official residence to hear the news that foreign ships would be permitted in the Great Yangtze, a trade artery extending into the heart of mid-China, and one along which American and other foreign interests have plants from which they have been barred since early in the war by the Japanese Army and Navy. The move was regarded as part of an effort to forestall expiration of the American-Japanese commercial accord next month,
GAS, MILK GRADING BILLS EXPECTED
The second phase in the City's attempt to acquire the Indianapolis Gas Co. properties was expected to open tonight with the presentation
of an ordinance to City Council authorizing condemnation of the company’'s properties. Council is also expected to decide tonight what further action will be taken on the Health Board's milk grading ordinance which would set up three grades of milk on the basis of bacterial count. A Safety Board ordinance which would register all bicycles in the City for a 50-cent fee will be intro-
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CRUISER IS SUNK BY BRITISH SUB
Torpedo Darted Through Protective Cordon of Six German Destroyers.
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tled by its crew in the North Atlantic last month while being pursued by a British warship. It had left St. Michaels, Azores Islands, Nov. 12. Such ships as this had served as supply ships to the Graf Spee and other German raiders. Cruisers of the Koln or Koenigsberg class are the ships of those names and the Karlsruhe. They carry nine 59 inch guns and a normal complement of 541 officers and men. The war time complement would be somewhat learger. Ursula is a coastal type submarine of 540 tons with a crew of 27 officers and men, It has six 21inch torpedo tubes. News that the Graf Spee had been blown up was regarded here as confirming a brilliant British victory in the first big Naval fight of the war and as pricking the reputation of the German pocket battleships. Britons pointed out, too, that when the German pocket battleship Deutschland, sister ship of the Graf Spee, attacked the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi the British ship had chosen to fight, and had gone down with its flag flying and its guns still firing. The Rawlpindi now has been avenged, Britons
1| said.
Discussing the fate of the Graf Spee, Navy men suggested that it had been proved that 11-inch guns were too heavy for 10,000-ton ships, that the engines of the pocket battleships caused so much vibration that accuracy of fire suffered, and that the ships of this type were not s0 maneuverable as had been claimed. Britons were most surprised at the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee. They had been convinced that
! it would either go out fighting, in
an attempt to escape, or would be interned. Now they recalled the scuttling of 400,000 tons of German warships, the German grand fleet, in Scapa Flow after the war. The German crews scuttled their ships as they were being surrendered.
I. U. DEDICATES CENTER
Times Special EAST CHICAGO, Ind. Dec. 18.— President Herman B Wells of Indiana University, is to make the dedicatory address for the I. U. Center here tonight. Preceding the program, the Board of Trustees will meet in the first session ever held outside of Bloomington or Indianapolis. Approximately 2000 persons are x= pected to attend the program.
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BROUN, 51, DIES | OF PNEUMONIA, HEART DISEASE
Became Worse Early Today; Also Novelist and Magazine Author.
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a generous enemy. It is terrible to lose him.” Carl Randau, president of the Newspaper Guild of New York, on behalf of the executive council, said: “Heywood Broun’s death leaves a permanent void in journalism and the trade union world. His fellow workers on the nation’s newspapers will always be indebted to him for his efforts, at great personal sace rifice, to help them improve their conditions. “The American Newspaper Guild is his monument.” Mr. Broun was born in Brooklyn, Dec. 7, 1888. He began his 30 years of newspaper work with the New York Morning Telegraph in 1910 and two years later joined the New York Tribune. After some years as reporter, sports writer, drama critic and book reviewer, the Tribe une made him a columnist because one day he had neglected to read a book and wrote 800 words about his dog instead. Joined World in 1921 Eventually, in 1921, he joined the New York World, but was discharged seven years later because, in the May 4, 1928, issue of the Nation, he attacked his employers’ editorial stand on the Sacco-Vane zetti case. He transferred his cole umn to the New York Telegram, which later became the World-Tele-gram and on Dec. 15, 1939, joined the staff of the New York Post. Only one of Mr. Broun's columns appeared in The Post before his death.
A big, shambling man, he was 6 feet 3 inches tall, but a pronounced stoop made him seem shorter. He played basketball at Harvard University, which he attended from 1906 to 1910, but never was graduated because of failure in elementary French. This faile ure, and the fact that he was born in Brooklyn, were familiar take-offs in Broun columns for humorous animadversions on topics of no special importance, but filled with genial charm. These were balanced by columns in which he expressed himself on economics and politics and his views Jere sharply left. Ran for Congress He was once a member of the Soe< cialist Party, on whose ticket he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1930, In recent years he was several times described as a Communist and ale ways denied it, sometimes with ccne siderable heat. , Communists attacked him vioe lently during his membership in the Socialist Party, but when their party line switched to one of co-operation with liberals their attitude changed, It changed again after the Nazie Saqviet pact, which Mr. Broun ate tacked. Mr. Broun was a [ounder of the American Newspaper -Guild and its first president. He had been reelected each year since. The son of Heywood Cox and Henriette (Brose) Broun, he was married to Ruth Hale, head of the Lucy Stone League, on June 6, 1917, They had one child, Heywood Hale Broun, and were divorced in 1934, His second wife was Mrs. Johnny Dooley, known on the stage as €one nie Madison, whom he married Jan, 9, 1935.
Wrote for Magazines Aside from his newspaper column, Mr. Broun wrote also for such periodicals as the Nation, the New Republic and more recently, the Commonweal. He wrote some short fiction for various magazines and also turned out three novels, “The Boy Grew Older,” “The Sun Field,” and “Gandle Follows His Nose.”" He collaborated in “Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the ford.” In recent years, Mr: Broun was said to be writing a Biblical novel, His religious convictions eventually were resolved into conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in May, 1939. His personal appearance made Mr. Broun the butt of many jokes, a good portion of them self-inflicted, Because suits hung loosely, though an excellent and expensive tailor served him, Mr. Broun often was described as resembling “an unmade
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