Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1940 — Page 3

DAY, APRIL 12, 1940

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ships seemed to be making (a Toten attempt _ to break

line |ever known.

on its Western Coast,

‘during the night and mined its entire coast. unconfirmed reports Germany had| demanded of Sweden the ‘right of passage for troops bound for Norway.

There were

weden, Holland and Belhad asserted that they

would defend their integrity

by [force if they had to.

e German High Command as-

| serted” that it had Succeeded in ex- . tengling its occupation area around

,» Narvik and Elvenes and that} ad. beaten off British airplane] 3 naval attacks on ‘Trondheim and Stavanger.

Rome May Add to Army

n Rome, Benito Mussolini was] ted to call 1,125,000 men to the| colors today, increasing Italy's army 102,250,000.

t was reported in reliable quars that five classes of reserves, ally totaling 260,000 men per ass, would be called within 48 urs. because of the possibility that ring would spread the war all over rope. en born from 1908 to 1914 were expected to be included in the call. cers will be summoned by tele-| graph; men by pink postcards. 4 In what was believed to have been a prelude to a mobilization comJunique, Sig. Mussolini had said in speech at Orvieto Sunday that aly was preparing to face an ring emergency and “we believ e. are ‘not unprepared for excep: onal events.” Posters already were up in Rome sking for more naval volunteers, pecially technicians. It was rerted that the calling up of five lasses would be only the forener to a still further mobilizaion. - Hysteria Sweeps Balkans |

The Balkans were swept by a lague of hysterical rumors. None of the alarming ones were ronfirmed, but pressure was comg from all sides—Germany, Italy, Russia and the Allies—and there vas an ominous upsurge of interis intrigues. | In Belgrade it was reported they; Italians had disembarked at Zara, Italian port on the Jugoslav coast; Forty thousand Italian “workers” had reached Albania; British troops had landed at 3Jonika, Greece; British warships had entered the Black Sea. Calmer heads could not keep the excitement down and it was said in authoritative Belgrade sources that if the tension persisted, Jugoslavia would have to strengthen her de+ fenses even though the flooded Danube makes her safe from invasion for the present.

Dutch Begin Evacuation

Of Key Frontier Areas |

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 12 (U, P.). — Netherlands military

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Im, saying that British war-

| Il areas, it was ma known today; \|after increasing the already extensive military preparations to resist any attack. Wives and chilr n of workers at the huge Philips Radio and Lamp Works at Eindhoven, 30s miles from the German frontier, were removed to’ central Holland, behind the “water line” which ‘Netherlands | troops hope to hold in event of an attack. Medical students were evacuated from Groningen @ University and brought to Amsterdam, All soldiers from many “points were brought here.

STATE KAPPASIGMA MEETS TOMORROW

I |Active and alumni members of Kappa Sigma fraternity chapters of Purdue and Indiana Universities and Wabash College are to atterid the annual state meeting and dafice here tomorrow. George R. Jeffrey, Indianapolis, Republican candidate for Governor, will speak at a luncheon meeting in the Columbia Club, Paul R. Summers, Indianapolis, district grand master of the fraternity, will preside. Following the luncheon there will ‘be a general discussion of ways to co-ordinate policies of the fraternity. with educational programs | jof universities and colleges. The dance will be held tomorrow night in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Andy Hansen’s oOrchestra of the University of Illinois will provide music.

FUMES OVERCOME TWO

MEN IN APARTMENT

Two workmen were overcome by fumes in an apartment at 10th St. and College Ave, today and were rescued by fellow workmen. They were Henry Schonkwiller, 525 B. 10th St, and Burch Baqwie.

1015 Lexington Ave. Their condition at Methodist Hospital was described as fair. | The men were taking paper oft the walls of the apartment with a gasoline machine. H. O. Parry, building custodian, found them lying on the floor and called fellow workmen who opened the windows. Police revived the men with an inhalator.

2 CONCERTS BOOKED FOR JONES SINGERS

Two concerts will be given in Indianapolis churches this week-end by the Floyd Jones Singers. ‘They will sing tonight at the Olive Branch Christian Church {under sponsorship of the Young People’s

|| [Society of the church, and Sunday

at the Grace Methodist Church. A student concert will be offered Sunday afternoon by the Floyd Jones School at the chapel af 1564

ton, Virginia/ Pruitt, Eloise Long,

authorities have started evacuating some civilians from Key fronty Sr

nora Powell and Mrs. Alice Camor.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County Oily Total 1939 S800 000n 10 1940 2050000008000 8 =Aprjj 11— Injured .....12 | Arrests ...... 18 Dead .....v.. 1 | Accidents ... 31 THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines “Violation tried tions paid Speeding ....... 11 11 Sus Failure to stop at through street 4 4 112 Reckless driving. 11 9 { Disobeying traffic y signal ........ 6 6 Drunken driving 0 0 All others ...... 21 20

21 2

Totals ........ 53 50

MEETINGS TODAY Yudianapafie Jems Show, Manufacturers Building, a * Exchange Clab, , Severin Hotel, noon. Optimist Cluh, Columbia Club, noon. ony ficers’ Associaition, Board of rade. Phi Delta’ Theta, Canary Cottage, npon. Delta Tau Delta, ohmitia ou noon. appa Sigma, Can Cottage, noon. Setany Cattle Cub, "Hotel Washington. Sp ariean Communication

Association, Hotel Washington, 8 p Service Club, Hotel Pwhington. 1 B

MEETINGS TOMORROW |

Indi anapolis | Home Show, Manufacturers’ uildin, Democratic aiterial Association, Claypool Hotel. all day. igma Chi, Indianapolis. Athletic Club, &iterroon’ and nigh N

§ BIRTHS Girls Kenneth, Marian Havely, at Coleman, Boys Eme Norma Jameson, at City. Ermil, Beattress McMurtry, at Methodist. James, Mary asher, at Methodist. Kenneth, Dorothy Swanson, at St. “Wincent’ Charles, Ruth Henzie, at St. Vi nesnt's. sy alter, Victorene Spaulding, at

umes, Mary Ramage, at 2117 N. Talbott.

DEATHS

Miller’ Sells, 1 at City, aortic aneu ism. Maude Rabo 65, at St. Vincent's, mitral OE iey Nancy J. Small. Vis, at 1038 N. Illinois, chronic myoCargitis Mary Vance, 33, at City, bowel obstrue-

55, at Methodist, at Long, =general

ion. John Henry Baker, cerebral hemorrhage. Ftha oy der, 50, metastas. Iva a A wens, 62; at Methodist, pulmonary emboli

Thomas McGrayel, 82, at 2626 Guilford, broncho-pneumonia; Sgeush Gensler, : 69, at 5229 Madison, carc Arthur ® salladay. 56, at Methodist, cerebral hemorrhage. thrombosis.

James Bunnell, 33, at City, Lillie May Wilson, 61, ’ Ceniral Inat City, pulmonary

diana, carcinom at City, bowel ob-

a, Mary Brickens, 48, tuberculosis. R 64, at 170% Wood-

osa Johnson, 58, struction Robere’ Todd | Irwin, lawn, carcinoma.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U.S. Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair: tonight and tomorrow; not quite so cold to-

1 night, with lowest temperature about 28; | warmer tomorrow.

Sunrise ..... 5:11 | Sunset ..;... 6:20

TEMPERATURE * | —April 12, 1939— 1p m.uiisee BAROMETER TODAY | 6:30 a. m... 30,35 | Fresipitation 24 hours ending 7 a, m..

Total precipitation since Jan. Fob oive Deficiency since Jan. 1 3

MIDWEST WEATHER | Indiana—Generally (fair tonight and tomorrow, not auite so cold in central and north portions; freezing temperature general tonight;' warmer tomorrow. Mlinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, rising temperature late tonight in central and north portions; frost or freezIng temperature tonight; warmer :omor-

or wet Michigan—More or less unsettled tonight and tomorrow, possibly snow flurries in extreme north poryion tonight, not quite so cold late-t enien t; warmer tomorrow in central and south ‘portions. Ohkio—Fair and continued cold tonight; tomorrow fair, not so:cold Kentucky—Fair, sh tly. colder treme portion tonight slowly rising temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. | Weather Bar. Temp. ear 30.79 13

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Danish Supply: Ships Are Halted.

WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. PJ). —Greenland is more American than European, President Roosevelt said today: in a press conference discus'sion of humanitarian problems on ‘the Danish island which led to speculation whether it ultimately would be encircled within the sphere {of Western Hemisphere defense.

Mr. Roosevelt said. he considered discussion of political questions

(raised hy the relationship of GreenViland, Denmark and Germany to be

premature. Germany this week occupied Denmark. But the President

/|said he had suggested that the Red | the French and British defenses os defense

Cross organize relief for Greenland’s 117,000 inhabitants this summer. if the regular Danish supply ships are unable to care for them. If is Mr. Roosevelt's idea that the American people would be glad to “chip in” to help the Greenlanders, practically all of whom are Eskimos. Views Human Side

The President said, however, that questions of whether the Monroe Doctrine applies to Greenland, a Danish colony, are premature. He said that as yet he is considering Greenland problems on a humanitarian rather than a political basis. Emphasizing his humanitarian interest in the world’s largest island, Mr. Roosevelt pointed’ out that Danish ships in the past regularly have made several trips-a year with necessary supplies. He said that, at his suggestion, the American Red Cross is looking into the needs of Greenlanders. Emphasizing that any relief would not involve a large sum of money, he said that he believed the American people would be glad to help Greenlanders. He said the idea of Greenland relief was strictly his own idea and was prompted in no manner by Danish representatives.

Studies Island Problems

As for Iceland and its problems, said Mr. Roosevelt, he has not yet had time to get to that subject. But he will continue to study problems of Greenland closely. Invasion of Denmark has raised [questions about the future of those islands in relation to the American policy of guaranteeing defense of the Western Hemisphere. The questions appear to bear on broad principles of this country’s 'diplomatic policy rather than military considerations. Greenland and Iceland were bound by different ties to Denmark. But officials believed that Germany, despite its occupation of Denmark, has no incentive to make any serious bid now for actual control of them. 2 Problems Foremost

Long-range implications of the situation, however, engaged the President's serious attention. He has discussed the matter with several callers in the past two days, posing these questions: First, are Greenland and Iceland properly within the American orbit? Most’ of his. advisers were understood to have expressed conviction that Greenland should be considered part of the American continent; that Iceland should not. Second, if Greenland is part of the American continent, how does the German domination of Denmark bear on the Monroe Doctrine and the United States’ pledge to defend the Western Hemisphere?

TRAIN HITS AUTO

William Lobb, 25, of 1529 Woodlawn Ave. escaped injury and a companion was slightly cut and bruised today when their auto was struck by a New York Central freight train at the Shelby St. Belt Railroad crossing. Carl C. Harvey, 1126 St. Peter St., a passenger in Mr. Lobb's car, was given first aid by police.

Asks U. S. Red Cross Aid if|

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Adolf Hitler grabs again and this time Denmark is absorbed into a fast growing Reich. Seven Nazi conquests are shown on this map. In the attempted eighth, Norway, they are meeting resistance.

ed to use Swedish railroads transit of reinforcements to Nazi forces scattered through Norwegian strong points. The reports were ‘doubted by a Swedish legation spokesman and responsible German sources said that they had no information regarding such demands. Announcement of the laying of the new mine field failed to indicate any accommodation for shipping to Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania or Russid via the Baltic, although a lane was left open fz Swedish ships. The admiralty announced the new mine field extended up the German and Danish coasts to a point 60 miles southwest of Bergen. Mines were laid on both sides of the Skagerrak with a 20 miles wide open channel clear down the center of the Skagerrak to the North Sea from Swedish territorial waters. The Kattegat has been blocked completely. Thus Sweden will have an outlet tc the sea but the field extends into Norwegian territorial waters on the north and into German and Danish territorial waters on the south.

|CELEBRATION HELD BY NEWSBOYS' BAND

Forty years of leading the Indianapolis, News Newsboys’ Band will be celebrated today by J. B. Vanda-

worker, thousands of friends and Band alumni and the Band itself. They were to be joined in a downtown parade by bands from all the Indianapolis high schools, the Butler University Band and the Knightstown Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s Home Band. The parade was to form at about 2:35 p. m. today before the Indiana World War Memorial, where a concert was to be given. A “rehearsal” will be held by alumni at the Claypool Hotel later and the present Band will give a concert at 6 o'clock in the lobby. A banquet will be held in the Claypool following the concert in the lobby. California alumni will have a meeting at the same time on the West Coast. Arrangements have been made for a telephonic

tribute from that group to Mr. Vandaworker.

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British Sow Vast Mine Field: Fliers Raid Nazi Baltic Bases

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The attack of the bombers on the German vessels in the entrance to the Baltic was regarded as one of the most daring avistion feats of the war, Air circles said that the munitions ships which was blognh up in the raid was in a line of eight to 10

vessels which were speeding northward through the great belt. Penetrating deeply toward the Baltic proper, a German-Russian lake, the bombers attacked German ships only about 100 miles from the

BERLIN HINTS OF

LAND BOMBING

Veiled Threat Follows Alleged British Aerial Attack on. Rail Station.

BERLIN. April 12 (U. P.).—The German official news agency asserted today that British airplanes had bombed a small railroad station in Schleswig Holstein in northwest Germany and that if it was established that the attack was deliberate “Germany is given a complete new basis in waging the war against England.” “This is the first time in the war that enemy planes have attacked a German communications point,” the agency said. “If repetition of such an attempt shows that it was planned Germany is given a complete new basis in waging the war against England. The necessary conclusions would immediately be drawn.”

British Deny Charge

Hardly had the German official news agency assertion of the Schleswig Holstein bombing reached New York than the British Air Ministry officially denied it. In some neutral countries the belief had been ex-| pressed that both sides had hesitated to start land bombing because of the frightful implications of aerial warfare against cities. The German High Command announced that German troops in Norway had beaten off British air and naval attacks on Trondheim and Stavanger, on the Norwegian southwest coast, and had occupied new areas around Oslo, Narvik and Evenes. Evenes is across the Ofoten Fjord from Narvik.

Claim British Attacks Fail

It was announced that British torpedo-carrying © airplanes had raided Trondheim and that British warships had attacked Trondheim Fjord, but: that both attacks failed and German troops had taken over more Norwegian coastal fortifications and put them in a state of preparedness. The official news agency said German troops had reached Dramen, 25 miles east of Oslo, and Eidsvold, 44 miles northeast of Oslo. “German troops: yesterday steadily enlarged the area of occupation

Qerinah Baltic coast.

near Oslo,” the communique said.

The Box 0g

In a pre-convention preview of the 1940 Presidential race the Gallup Poll is asking voters ‘in each state: “Which party would you like to see win the Presidential election?” Following are the results for 17 states reported thus far:

LEANING REPUBLICAN

Electoral Votes

New Jersey ...... . 16 Massachusetts Towa ......... ceeresney 11 Michigan ..... J 19 Ohio . 26

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INDIANA FAVORING DEMOGRATS IN POLL

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publican swing in Ohio were registered in the mid-term elections of 1938, of course, when Buckeye Republicans elected John | W. Bricker to the governorship and sent Robert A. Taft—now a Presidential favorite —to the U. S. Senate in close contests. Another straw in the wind was the result of Congressional byelections there last. month, when the G. O. P. yote averaged 13 points greater than: it had been in the same districts four years ago. Today’s survey shows that the trends revealed in these two isolated by-elections are fairly characteristic of the state as a whole. In both Ohio and Indiana, moreover, majority opinion| is still cool toward a third term.| Asked, “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term, will you vote for him?” 42 per cent in eash state said “Yes,”

REPORT ALLIES HEM IN NARVIK

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British Believed to Sunk Five More German Destroyers in North.

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fjord and finally were run aground on the rocky shore.

This naval action left Narvik cut -

off by sea from any communication with the _Gutside world. While here in the hills and mountains Norwegian troops have formed an iron ring around the town through

which_it seemed doubtful that the

Germans could penetrate. In fact, all reports indicated they were hastily. withdrawing detachments which had filtered out on the railroad line and highway from Narvik and concentrating them in the port as if to resist attack. | t It was reported to me that a fairly large British force hi landed farther down Ofotenfjord * which leads up to Narvik before the British destroyers went into action. Persons who arrived here told me that these troops had advanced to a point “across the bay from Narvik called Ankenes. -They said that the British had set up their headquarters at the village of Ballangen, down Ofotenfjord a few miles from Narvik. There was no estimate of ‘the size of this British landing party. The Germans originally had sent out detachments as far as Osevantan but there they met a much

larger Norwegian patrol. The Ger- -

mans had no mechanized troops but were using a few Norwegian trucks which they had confiscated ‘at the Norwegian military base at Narvik. However, the trucks were of little value to them a sthe roads are blocked with huge snow drifts from the blizzard which has raged for the last three days. Military men suggested to me that the lines which the Germans had established into the interior were greatly extended and thinly held and doubtless highly vulnerable to any determined Norwegian attack. + 3 In this connection it is important to recall that the Norwegians have a force of some 30,000 men mobilized in this section whereas the German garrison holding Narvik has been estimated at only 5000 to

6000 men.

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