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Roosevelt's Budget,
lefense Are Raked Over Senate Coals
Is ‘Atlantic Safety Belt a
“Provocation” Belt? "Vandenberg Asks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P). —A bi-partisan attack raked Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s budget and de-
fense programs in the Senate today. It began when Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) requested a vote on his proposal to create a joint Congressional committee to study Federal appropriations and revenues. As Vice President John N. Garner attempted to put the plan to a vote, Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg| (R, Mich.) and Alva B. Adams (D. Colo.) jumped up to open an attack on the budget recommendations. Senator Vandenberg said Senator Harrison’s plan would. fail “unless we have a rock-bottom, realistic
study of what we have gotten for
our money in past defense appropriations.” May Be Privocaiion Belt! “We're told,” he said, “that we must have 64 million dollars for fitting out vessels for the neutrality patrol. We can't have a, realistic approach to this problem without a study of the fundamental policy involved in the so-called safety belt. It may be a provocation belt rather than a safety belt.” Senator Vandenberg also questioned the usefulness of 60,000-ton battleships, which have been recommended by some naval experts. He said that the proposed joint committee ought to inquire into that and other “terrifically fundamental” questions. “The figures In the budget are such that if we raise any of the items we must break through the 45-billion-dollar debt limit or levy new taxes,” Senator Adams said. “The President has put this baby on our doorstep, but the Congress is in a position to meet the situation. I want to see the: Congress say to the President that ‘You have made these recommendations and it’s your responsibility if you've cut too deep.’ ” Gave 5-Point Plan Senator Adams said he could see no necessity for a huge increase in national defense expenditure. In enacting the neutrality law at the special session of Congress, he added, “we did things that were almost humiliating to protect ourselves against the hazards of war.” While Congress argued about an investigation of the budget, President Roosevelt firmly announced that Senator Robert A. Taft (R.0O.) had no chance of collecting a “handsome prize” for a “budgetbalancing formula.” ‘Mr. Taft, a 1940 Presidential candidate, recently delivered a speech in Chicago in which he outlined a five-point plan to bring Federal income into balance with outgo. Earlier, the President had said that he would give Mr. Taft a “handsome prize” if he could propose an airtight budget-balancing program. Mr. Roosgvelt said at his press conference yesterday that Mr. Taft's proposal would fail by several billions to bring revenue and expenditures into balance, and that a study of Mr. Taft's formula had convinced him that only $8,000,000 could be saved, That, said the President, would be Nt the sacrifice of essential and valuable Governmental operations. +The House was expected to pass an. anti-lynching bill’ today.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.). —The Navy, in addition to making changes in a group of new destroyers to éorrect “topheaviness,” has-made alterations in the eight-
<inch gun cruiser Wichita, it was
revealed today. Publication ot hearings on the supplemental national defense appropriation for 1940 showed that Rear Admiral A. H. Van Keuren, chief of construction and repair, refused to admit there was any “faulty construction” in the Wichita.
NAVY'S APPEAL | REVIVES ROW ON GUAM DEFENSE
Borah Again Opposes Move To Fortify ‘That Sand Dune in Pacific.’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.).
—A new storm about Guam, tiny Pacific atoll, blew up in Congress today when Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee insisted that any Naval improvements at the island must be authorized by his Committee before appropriations are provided. Rep. Vinson announced he wae prepared to make a point of order against a four million dollar fund for Guam improvements which the Navy has asked in the 1941 budget unless the Navy first obtains specific authorization to spend the money. He said he would take that action because of last year’s Congressional dispute over Guam. During the regular 1939 session Congress struck Guam from a list of bases for which the Navy sought authorization. After Rep. Vinson made his announcement, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, told the committee a 25 per cent increase in the U. S. Navy would not insure American safety in event of a combined attack by Japan, Russia, Germany and Italy. Senator ‘William E. Borah (R. Ida.), who has opposed any move to fortify what he calls “that sand dune in the middle of the Pacific,” said he would fight the appropriation if it gets to the Senate. Asked to give a breakdown of the way in which the Navy proposes to use the 25 per cent increase in tonnage which would be authorized under the proposed Vinson Bill, Admiral Stark said it would be “about” the following tonnage: Aircraft carriers, 72,000 tons; cruisers, 192,000 tons; destroyers, 60,00 tons; submarines, 45,000. That. allocation, he added, would leave 30,000 extra tons authorized which “we would like to hold up our sleeve for distribution among any of these categories.”
House Cuts Defense Bill $4,801,000
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P).
—The House Appropriations Com-
mittee today reported a $267,197,908 Emergency National Defense Bill, carrying funds for 518 new Navy planes and recommissicning of 64 old destroyers and other warships. The bill was cut $4,801,615 from the sum requested by “President Roosevelt. The money is all for immediate use to finance defense expansion and neutrality protection ‘measures ordered by the President after the outbreak of European war. The committee approved the following in this appropriation bill of the session: Army—$116,218,345, a reduction of $3,781,497, Navy—$145,082,238, a reduction of $967,018. Coast Guard—$4,422,325, $53,100 below the President’s recommendations. FBI—The full $1,475,000 recommended by the President to combat espionage and subservice activities.
TRAINS TO REICH HELD UP BUCHAREST, Rumania, Jan. 10 (U. P.). — Important quantities of Rumanian and Russian raw materials intended for Germany are being held up because of a RussoGerman dispute over railroad transport and the fact that the Danube delta is solidly frozen, it was dis-
closed today.
(Here is the second of. three special dispatches by the foreign new editor of the United Press, tracing the March of Mars across | ‘Europe Since Sept. 3.)
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
This war is in a bajtlefield state of siege that might well last a century. But on other ‘and probably more decisive fields it is being waged at unprecedented speed. Now, after four months of con-
flict in Europe, it is possible to bring into focus some of the gains and some of the losses on both sides. Many momentous factors are involved. Their results cannot be foretold.
and study of progress so far, the conflict may be reduced to the fundamental struggle between Great Britain and Germany and to these primary opposing war aims: 1. Great Britain's’ purpose is to defeat the Nazi bid for domination of Europe by closing a devastating economic and military blockade around Gerptany and thus, as the ultimate goal, reassert Britain's position as a great, if not the greatest, single influence in world politics | and trade. 2. Germany's purpose is to destroy the British Navy as ruler of the seas 'and thus .remove the greatest single traditional obstacle ‘to Nazi leadership in Europe. Those are the barest fundamentals. They may be modified by necessity. They may be abandoned
now in po So 344 Ne British. and French have sought. to force Germany to fight on Allied terms, believing that economic power will mean ultimate victory without wholesale loss of fighting men. They have been stuccessful to the extent that Adolf Hitler, by failing to strike with Germany’s full military power, accepted the challenge to an economic war. But in one respect Herr Hitler has amended the Allied plan of war. He has taken the offensive against the British navy. Now, what are the gains and what
LONDON IS DRAFTING
LONDON, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his Cabinet have started to organize a “clear.the decks for action” pro-
But for the purpose of clarification | .
only ‘by failure for the Governments .
planes. nothing of German claims—boost. the total at least to 85. But these losses, including an estimated total
POLICY OF ‘THRIFT’
are the losses? They fall normally into four classifications: land, sea, alr and economic.
"On the land, the use of armed
force by both sides so far has had only incidental or indirect results.
the Western Front, it is estited that there. have" not been
more than 4000 casualties, rather evenly divided between Germans and French with the British suffer-
ing probably a score of dead since
their arrival in the front lines.
atrol fighting is very real ware to the men who.take part; but
to date the result is merely to emphasize the state of seige.
n the air, Germany admits the
loss of only 29 airplanes, including three shot down in Poland. British
official statistics claim 86 German
craft have been downed by British fighters and French claims boost the total to 105, with a score of others believed destroyed.
The British admit loss of only 26 Neutral sources—to say
of 1200 casualties in air force personnel on both sides, represent little more than reconnaissance flying and small scale bombing expeditions. The war in the air, too, is in a state of siege. ‘It is at sea and in the economic field, then, that the real results must be sought. And in those fields the record shows:
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Germany is on the offensive at sea with U-boats, mines, airplanes and armed sea raiders in a campaign to blow the British Navy out of the water. Known results include destruction of at least 18 British warships, of which 10 were auxiliary vessels such as armed trawlers, The others included the battleship Royal Oak, the aircraft. carrier Courageous, the merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, the submarine Oxley and the destroyers Gypsy, Blanche and Duchess. In addition Germany has claimed five other important British warships were put ut of action and it has been established ‘that 16 British
warships in addition to those sunk
Reporter Walks Among
Frozen Men and Horses
shores of a long, narrow lake run-
gram in preparation for a finish fight against Germany, it was reported today in political quarters.
ning parallel to the main road (the lake’s name was withheld for military reasons) under the noses of Russian outposts. It was that road which enabled the Finns to cut off
Safeguard against inflation, and the husbanding of financial and economic resources generally, were believed to be main features of the program. But there was some belief that the program foreshadowed some as yet undefined shattering blow against Germany, aimed at hastening the end of the war. As regards this, considerable attention was paid to. Mr. Chamberlain’s statement in his speech yesterday: “Although we are not actually fighting on land we are making preparations to do so with the greatest effect when the right mo-
the 44th from the frontier in the region of Lake Raate and then to drive back reinforcements which had arrived from Russian bases.
‘That was done on Jan. 3 and that
was the day the 44th was without supplies. Tins of hard tack were dropped by. Russian aviators, but the situation became more and more hopeless.
The bulk of this division was
camping on an area no larger than seven by four kilometers (slightly more than four by two miles). There were whole batteries directed to the north and west, dominating a large
ment comes.” Some quarters saw in this an indication that Britain was now preparing to set a war pace rather than sit back and wait for the long threatened German “plitzkreig” or lightning war. But Mr. Chamberlain’s speech, emphasizing as it did the sacrifices which the country must make, was taken to mean that the Government was to make its first big effort on the home front, to put the country into economic trim for eventual acceleration of belligerent
WINTER CUTS
NAZI SUPPLIES
Frozen Streams Hit: Imports
From Southern Russia
activity.
were the
certain raw materials, mediate drastic |
increase merchant shipping tonnage.
Important phases of the Government’s program, it was indicated, problems of putting 1,300,000 unemployed in useful work, stricter control and utilization of and imin
And Rumania.
By UNITED PRESS Just as the weather has played an important part in the Russian reverses in Finland, so may it handicap Herr Hitler in his war against the Allies. (General Winter, ally of the Finns,
IN I NDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
County City 1939 .......... feds 1 1940 ....: .... fo. 2 0 Jan. 9 Injured ...... O/Arrests ....... 18 Dead ....... 0/Accidents 8
TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines
Tried tions Paid Speeding ........ 0 ¢ 0 Reckless driving . 2 2 $20 Failure to stop a through street . 0 0 Disobeying Bic : signal ......... 0 0. 0 Drunken driving. 2 1 10 All others ....... 6 6 Totals .... ....10 9 $36
MEETINGS TODAY Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
noon. Indi Lumber and Builders’ Supply Association, convention, Claypool Hote
A Lions Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, tive Club of Indianapolis, lunch-
Co- “Opera. eon, Columbia Club, In Ay OS aalber ot Ba Canary Cottage,
dianapolis Ciub, meeting, SD" of
merce, luncheon cory Pl Bo 2 ey ‘Motor ratio Association, luncheon, Hete! Antlers, noon Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, meeting. 8p. m. re Hens 2 ute n Club, dinner,
Str jet’ meri rican egion, luncheon, H ’ on, unc eon,
| MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indiana Lumber and Builders’ Su Assoeiation, convention, Claypool Hotel al
- ome Mission Council and Council of Women -for Home Missions, convention, Severin Hotel, all day In lis Real Estate Zand, lunchWashington, aA Club, 1 en Murat Temple,
noon Club, luncheon, Severin Hotel, noon.
‘Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Canary Cot- * tage, noon. dyeetising Club of Indiahavelis, Junch-
eon, Thdianapoiis Athletic Club, ni Construction . Leagu of Tatas olis, luncheon, Architects nd Builders Bldg.,
bad 2 Camera Club, meeting, 110
Aipha Alumni Assogiation, afeteria, noon
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
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Arnold Clifford Brown, 24, of 1203 Sturm; Mary Johnson, 22, of 1736 N Illinois. Woodrow Skirvin, 23, of Indianapolis; C. Leona Ramsey, 23, of vy E. 15th. Claude Earnest Gurley, 56, of 1725 LawJence; | Matide E. Neyland, 49, of 1725 awre Glen ® Franklin Gillepsie, .23, of 770 N. Tremont; Birta Mae East, 22, of 1723 N. Meridian. Francis Wayne Lahmann, 24, of 1326 Lynhurss; Evelyn Barnes, 19, of 925 Ta-
Claude D. Campbell,” 19, of 570 N. Trepout; J Juanita Lee Stutsman, 18, of 109
BIRTHS Boys Edward, Geraldine Smith, at City. | on, Anna Poinsette, at St. Francis. alter, ent’s Myron, Catherine Watson, at St. yslter, Laverne Martin, at Methodist, cen
& Sitti, Regina Adams, at Methodist. Otto, Ada Mae Beyer, at Spt) thodist. Mar tn, Sica Kindler, 3252 Washin
Eibeft, Beatrice Winkler, .
‘Albert, Providencia Miller, at 3714 Michigan. Girls
Leroy, Mildred Young, at City. George, Margaret Ames, at city. Paul, Jean Casserly, at Colem James, Christine Brewer, at St. Francis. prilliam, Josephine Deupree, at St. Joseph. Delores Milner, at St. Vincent's. Leonard, Norma Engle; at St. Vincent's.
DEATHS Margaret Blanchard, 63, at
2023 N. Pennsylvania, Soronar thrombos Sarah Ray. 84, at 220 N. hosts ‘chronic myceardiis izabeth Schulmeyer, 78, at 20359 Park, arteriosclerosis. William | Stewart, 84, at 2621 College, chronic myocarditis Elizabeth Bers, 70, at 703 Buchanah, Serebral a
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pneumonia. David Hanley, 356, at Veterans, lobar pneumonia. Barbara Cummings, 3, at 622. Payette, menin tis. 4
izabeth Graves, 179, at Central Indiana, myocar
arditis, Jeanette Kolp, a0, at Methodist, broncho-
Olga Kocolowski, at St. Vin-|
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has set his seal on the Danube delta. The oil and wheat from southern Russia. which Herr Hitler needs so desperately cannot be brought from Odessa up the Danube by barges and river tankers to Germany.
Canal System Clogged
Railway systems, already inadequate, are so badly clogged that imports into Germany are reported to have dwindled to a trickle instead of the millions of tons which Herr Hitler had counted on when he jettisoned his anti-Communist doctrines and entered into an alliance with Russia. The German canal system also is
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Burean
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Cloudy with occasional snow or rain and W. | warmer tonight and. tomorrow:
somewhat lowest
temperature tonight about 25 degrees.
partly disrupted by zero weather in the coldest winter in more than 10 years. The combination of the cutting off of river transit and the bur-
has halted not only Russian shipments, but equally important ones from Rumania‘
Disagrees With Soviet
Sunrise ...... 7:07 | Sunset ....... 4:39 TEMPERATURE —Jan. 10, 1939— 8 a. m. 55 | 1p. Meeeoeess. 40 BAROMETER
airplanes, submarines,.
Precipitauon 24 hrs. ending 1 a =. .
Total precipitation since Jan Deficiency since Jan. 1
Sieseasansssnce
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trucks. They are not arriving. Two additional factors help to make matters worse. One is an ap-
MIDWEST WEATHER .
Indiana—Cloudy, occasional rain in extreme south, snow or r ‘snow in extreme north portion tonignt and
ain in c
tomorrow; somewhat warmer.
Ilinois—Cloudy, occasional rain in exentral and snow in extreme orth portion tontant and
treme south, snow or. rain in ¢ tomorrow; somewhat warmer.
Lower Michigan—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional snow, mostly. light;
entral and
somewhat warmer in south portion.
Ohio—Light snow or freezing rain and and warmer in south and rain or snow and
warmer tonight; tomorrow
warmer in north portion.
Kentucky—Light rain and warmer to-
night and tomorrow.
rain
parent disagreement between Germany and Russia over division of the rolling stock on the Polish railways which the two dictators took over. The other is the reluctance of Rumania to part with its tank and freight cars for shipment into Germany. Rumania insists on the use of German cars and Germany has its own railway troubles.
BANK DEMANDS U. S.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
HALT ‘PERSECUTION’
cafcinom; 6, at 635 N. Westy ~ Stati Weather Bar. Temp. Leroy Kelly, at Riley, peritonitis. Amarillo, Tex, ce.ues.. Clear 29.88 40 \ Steve Stanich, 5 at Methodist, bronch- Biswas. N cD eens Snow 20.89 10 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (U. pneumonia. oSton ...:...... eee... PtCldy 30.50 16 ’ . Mar tha Weisz, at 1731 N. Capitol, Shicage, dn +=. BHOW ; 30.33 3 P.) ~The Bank of America, the naarjsrigsclerosis. ghon, 43 at Veterans, Cleveland ni Cioudy 3043 20 |ton’s fourth largest financial innisi pited . VBE ci seis te, 53) Hf [stitution will withiraw from {he p Lucile Short, “a, at 434% N. Wes ‘Helena, Mont. .... lear 2976 19 national banlging system unless Elizabeth Hill, 32, at City, chronic Jacksonville, Fla. ..... oudy 30.37 41 |Secretary of e Treasury Henry nephritis. Kansas as City, Mo. .....Cloudy 30.14 26 Morgenthau halts I ti n” f eorge Ligon, 43, at 2052 Martindale, | Little Rock, Ark....... Rain 30.26 36 persecutio! o hypertansion. . 56 its officers, President L. M. GianAntoinette Dowd, 45, at St. Vincent's, 54 | nini sai carcikoma, . n d today. Before a stockholder’s meeting he FIRES les charged that Mr. Morgenthau since | TUESDAY Gla, oy. Ji September. 1638, had ' “harried unM.—2204 W. Michigan; thawing Ep h ot |Justifiably” the bank by prosacuting 0
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Actions ‘through * the Securibies '& Commission, in what
‘artillery fire to its rear.
den thus thrown on the railways in
Russia had promised Herr Hitler 100,000 tons of oil 2 month and Rumania nearly 300,000 to run his tanks and
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clearing north of the road, but no
self in this clearing. When the Finns attacked from the opposite direction, some smaller Russian. - cannons quickly were turned around in a last minute attempt by Russian gunners to ‘save themselves: Heaps of empty shell cases behind the guns testified to this last desperate effort.
Finns Capture Guns Without a Shot
Larger guns, however, including some 122-kilometer howitzers and 7.5-anti-aircraft guns, were taken by the Finns without having fired a
shot. - When the Finns opened their final attack Jan. 5, the Red troops already were in a state not far from panic For three weeks the Russian camps had been attacked ‘by Finnish patrols. A round of bullets were fired. here and a hand grenade exploded there. Each time a number of tei were killed or wounded. One Russian prisoner from the 44th division told me, “we all feared the night. We did not dare to sleep a single night.” ' The attack from the rear Jan. 5 began on the border itself and spread to a spot where a Russian attachment was guarding an important bridge. After a short machine gun encounter, the Russian guards were killed or they fled. The bridge was blown up. This deprived the ‘highly motorized Russian division of its last chance to retreat. At. the same time a heavy engagement was in progress on the border itself. Considerable Russian reinforcements had arrived there and had tried to break through a barricade of trees and boulders with which the Finns had blocked the “door” through which the 44th had entered. i ; Reds’ Panic Spreads
The 44th heard machine gun and Panic began to spread. The order was given to retreat. A long, clumsy column of tanks, armored cars, trucks, earis and men began. to move. At that time the main Finnish als tack began from the east, northeast and south. Shells exploded on the road. From behind trees and out of the darkness Finnish machine gunners hammered into the Russian columns, mowing down men and horses. The Russians resisted for several hours. They were chiefly Ukrain-
ns. . On Jan. 7 the battle of Raate was OVeEr. Thousands of Russians had been killed or were dying from wounds or frost.
Cold Preserves Bodies
‘The sub-freezing temperature had preserved the body of every man who was killed in the exact position he had sprawled when a bullet or frost overtook him. Many of the dead Russians had their knees pressed against their chests vividly portraying the last agony they had suffered from a shrapnel wound. Others had held their / hands tightly across their stomachs whére they had been struck by machine gun bullets. Some leaned against trees where they had crawled for support after being wounded. Still others were frozen in a spread eagle fashion close to a small shelter or behind carts which they had tried to reach before freezing. 1 was told there also had been heavy hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and hand grenades. ‘Military equipment captured by the Finns at Raate was greater than any taken so far since the outbreak of the Russo-Finnish war,
TOPPING SUIT DISMISSED NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P.)— Federal Judge Clarence C. Galston today dismissed the suit brought by
bHarold G. Mayhew, private de-
teetive, .to collect $5000 from Henry J. (“Bob”) Topping Jr. cafe socialite, for alleged services in pro-: ducing evidence of adultery against|
{the first Mrs. Topp.
Finnish soldier ever showed him-|
were more or less seriously damaged. Navy casualties total 2132 dead. Although navies were larger in numbers in 1914. The German victories in four months may be compared to the following losses in approximately 50 months of the World War:
. *F. G*. Battleships ...oc0000000 > 4 2 Cruisers ......ceee00:0..25 | 5 23 Destroyers ...oe...c0....69 12 66
Submarines wesursrecee.Bt 14 199 “British. *French. *Crerman, On the other side of the ledger, Germany. has lost the pocket battleship Graf Spee, two coastal patrol ships, and five submarines which are officially admitted destroyed as compared to Allied claims that at least 40 U-boats have been captured or sunk, In Nazi eyes and on the basis of official German claims, the British
Navy has suffered damaging blows.
Certainly the spectacular ‘triumphs have been on the German side and the prestige of the British dt sea was at a new low until the vaunted
FIGHT STAGED NEAR DENMARK
Clash in Skies May Be First Of England’s Blows in Mystery Blitzkrieg.”
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near the scene of the combat said
that British planes had raided Sylt and Helgoland last night and that the raids had been resumed this morning.. Telephonic advices from the island of Romoe said it was believed that the raiding planes were . from the British Royal Alr Force. Bombs dropped on Danish soil did some damage and Dutch anti-air-craft. batteries also drove unidentified airplanes from the shores of Holland.
Sheriff Reports Planes
Sheriff I. C. Knudsen, of Romoe Island, reported that planes had raided Sylt Island air base at 6 a. m. and again at 9 a. m. (2 a. m. Indianapolis Time) and that heavy canrionading still could be heard at noon. Firing came from the south, he said, in the direction of S£ylt and, farther south, in the direction of Jeigoland. This indicated, he said, at the raid seemed to be taking place in the southern part of Sylt island or off Helgoland. Sheriff Knudsen said he saw German planes stationed at List, on the northern tip of Sylt Island. take off one after another after 2 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and go southward, apparently to join in a battle which was plainly heard on Romoe Island,
Grimmer Warfare Scen
In London, the Air Ministry reported that British. Royal Air Force planes reconnoitered over northwestern Germany during the night. This brief statement had no con-
raid in the Helgoland ares. Intensification of the aerial warfare indicated “grimmer” warfare might soon be realized, especially in view of reports in. London that the British were planning some “shattering” blow to be launched against the Germans in the future.
British “blitzkreig” ideas.
Toender Reports Three Bombs Fall
ESBJERG, Denmark, Jan. 10 (U. P.) ~-British Air Force planes raided the German air base on Sylt Island off the German and Danish coasts today, according to unconfirmed : reports from Toender. Canrionading was heard clearly from the island, which lies about 10 miles from the coast. A plane dropped three bombs on
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which lies immediately north of Sylt.
GAS CONSUNFTION RECORDS BROKEN
New records for home, industrial and commercial gas consumption were set in 1939, officials of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility reported today. ot House heating consumption la year reached 251,679,000 cubic feet, an increase of 116 million over 1938, the report showed. Inclustrial consumption reached 951 billion cubic feet, an increase of 178 million cubic feet over 1938. Commercial consumption ‘reached 346 million cubic feet, an increase of 21 million over the previous year. The .total consumption last year of 3,025,784,200 cubic feet was 328 million. more than in 1933.
pared with 85,354 on Dec. 21, 1938, representing an increase of 3547 gas consumniers. The company reported that main during last
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nection with reports of the British |.
No clue was given, however, to the |’
Romoe Island, which is Danish and|_
On Dec. 31, 1939, a total of 88,901] gas meters were in service, com-|
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Germany fights back against the blockade -. . . a British trawler sinks after bombing by a Nazi- U-boat crew.
Graf Spee ran from the guns of three British cruisers off the Uruguayan Coast and eventually was scuttled. But in the estimates of most qualified observers the Nazi victories have been largely against older British warships and must increase to a far greater scale to endanger British domination of the seas.
(ECONOMIC) .
The Allied offensive has been mainly on the economic front, where Britain moved with tacular speed to institute a “double blockade” of exports to and from the Reich and to enforce it from the beginning with a ruthlessness that did not appear until after
‘many months in the World War.
The outstanding result in four months has been to destroy Germany’s overseas trade, cutting off an estimated 60 per cent of normal imports and slashing the Reich’s purchasing power by seizure of exports. Against this double blockade, Germany has used” mines, U-boats and airplanes on a vast scale to
‘Slows Down’ Young Speeder
A 17-YEAR-OLD youth was found guilty of speeding and failure to have an operator’s license by Judge Charles J. Karabell in’ Municipal Court today and fined $16. He‘was forbidden to drive an automobile for 30 days. The youth told the court he drove the car “to go to shows and chase around in.” He was arrested yesterday by State Police for speeding 52 miles-per-hour on v S. Road 40 west of Indianapolis. “You sure ave tough on a fellow,” the youth told Judge Karabel after he was fined. “I've got to be tough on fellows like you,” the judge replied. “Do . you realize the number of persons that were killed in automobile accidents ‘last year? I'm going to slow you down before you get yourself killed. ”
STEEL INSTITUTE MAY 23 NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U, P.).— The American Iron & Steel Institute announced today that its 49th general meeting will be held here at the Waldorf Astoria on May 23.
Strauss Says:
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« shipping from ‘England. The results, as com= parable to 50 months of World War,
In four months of war, Germany has lost 24 merchant ships, of which 18 were scuttled by their own crews, according to British sta-
seized by the Allied Naval forces,
900,000 tons of goods destined for. the Reich. Germany officially admits the loss of only 18 merchant« men, of which all but one were
seizing them. Thus, Britain has suffered comparatively small “ loss: of around 2 per cent of her merchant shipThis fails to represent the
S ping. full cost because it does not include the supply ships frightened away
from England by German sea warfare, but in any event it is not comparable to the virtual extince tion of the Reich’s overseas trade, The blockade, however, is a great deal more than sea warfare. Britain and France have sought by pressure and by heavy purchases to cut into German suppiies from northern Europe ard from the Balkans. In
sought to offset their campaign by deals with Soviet Russia and other: countries, such as Rumania,
- | especially for oil to run the Nazi
war machine.
brought into action many complex forces and has been largely responsible for persistent reports of plans by both sides to violate the neutrality of their small neighbors and to undertake military expeditions into the rich oil country of the Near East. The results are still in dispute but they constitute the chief danger
fronts.
(NEXT—New war fronts.)
WAR CUTS SUPPLY OF
The City Health Board today bes gan to feel a shortage in cod-liver
blockade. The cod-liver oil is imported chiefly from Scandinavian countries.
secretary, said that the price of cod-
to infants of indigent families, had more than doubled since the war’s outbreak. Last September the Board was buying the oil for from $1.90
1to $2.10 a gallon.” Recent estimates:
quoted the oil at $4.90 a gallon, he said. If the price rise contin the Board will seek additional money from other funds to keep the usual supply available, he said. About 150 gallons is distributed annually through the City’s infant welfare tions.
EVELYN NESBIT ILL MINEOLA, N. Y., Jan. 10 (U. P.), —Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K
White, was in Nassau Hospital toe day for a gall bladder Speratione
hospital officials announesy
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What have you in mind— A COAT to i you
A SUIT—to bin you out
smartness . .
OXFORDS—to put comfort
fay
to promote a
warm understanding . . ,
HANDKERCHIEFS—for decoration or nasal service . . . ;
ie SHIRTS to do the bosom
proud . , .
delighted.
Sweeping ‘clearances are in process . . . considerable pricy wrecking results. You'll be
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which have intercepted .more than
The war in those fields has |
that the conflict will spread to new °
GOD LIVER OIL HERE
oil as a result of the European War |
Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Board:
liver oil, which is distributed free |
. Thaw, millionaire plays . boy and slayer of Architect Stanford
tistics. Twenty others have been |
scuttled to keep the Allies from |
this they have been only partially successful ‘and Herr Hitler has
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