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‘NAZIS KNIFE HOLLAND IN TWO: WAGE FURIOUS LAND-AIR DRIVE
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
German armies smashing into the Low Countries split Holland almost in two today and broke the strong first defense line—including the key forts of Liege—of Belgium. The apparently hopeless plight of the Dutch was indicated when Queen Wilhelmina and the Royal family fled to England, presumably because the Netherlands armies were being battered to pieces in central Holland and the fall of | such cities as The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam was | threatened by the swift Nazi thrusts from the north and west. Slashing counter-attacks by Dutch, Belgian, British and French frontier troops and mechanized columns failed to halt the Nazi advance, but the main Allied armies were in position in the Belgian secondary defenses behind Liege for what | both sides predicted would be the biggest and possibly the
most decisive battle of modern times. Claiming the capture of some 18,900 Dutch, French and | British prisoners, the Germans officially reported that they | had taken the city of Liege, broken through the Belgian Albert Canal defenses at two points, driven across Luxem- | bourg to battle the French in southern Belgium and sliced, straight across south Holland's big river valleys to make, contact with their own airplane-landed troops from Rotterdam. The Dutch admitted a deep, in thin, wedge had been driven through the heart of Holland and that a German armored train had reached the Langstraat district southeast
of Rotterdam, but they claimed to have regained control of
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most of Rotterdam after a long battle with German para-|planes, were surging forward with tremendous power in a chute troops and said they were fighting back against the | drive to slice through Holland and Belgium and seize bases German advance with Allied aid. . from which direct attacks could be launched on England. The British Admiralty——fighting to prevent the Belgian In brief, the Germans claimed officially to have: city of Antwerp from falling to the Germans—said British 1. Captured the key Belgian defense city of Liege, alnaval units had been in action off the Low Lands coast, but | though some Belgian outer forts continued resistance there. the Germans claimed they had sunk a British cruiser and 2. Broken the Albert Canal, main Belgian defense line, troop transport with aerial bombs and there was no definite at Maastricht and Hasselt, forcing the Belgians back to their indication that British soldiers were being landed on the second line of defense and threatening to undermine the Dutch coast. defenses of Antwerp and Brussels. The German successes in Holland pointed strongly to- 3. Forged through Luxembourg and south Belgium to ward a great battle on Belgian territory in defense of Ant-|battle French troops near the River Qurthe. werp and Brussels and to keep the German forces from 4. Broken through the Dutch defenses to make contact seizing Channel ports for a direct “blitzkrieg” attack on Eng-!with airplane troops landed at Rotterdam at & point near land. Unless the British and French can quickly organize the south Willem Canal, only 40 miles from Rotterdam. a counter-attack, it appeared that the Germans in any event This was a drive to separate the main Dutch area from | had a good chance of establishing bases on the Dutch coast Belgium. less than 150 miles from England. ; 5. Captured all of north Holland, bombarded British The dangers facing the Allies were fully realized in|warships and transports (sinking two) off the Dutch Coast London as the British and French main forces took up bat-/and made possible an attack across the Zuyder Zee on Amstle positions in Belgium in an attempt to stem the German terdam. advance. The Dutch and Belgians admitted that their front line Allied forces pouring into the Belgian and Dutch front lines are “in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history,” Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in winning a vote of confidence in his new Government. From the battle fronts, almost every report indicated that an Allied victory could be won only at tremendous costThe German mechanized columns, supported by fleets of air-
man armored car column had reached the Langstraat sector, in Brabant Province, after severe fighting. | Allied mechanized columns, however, were reported fighting back the German advance forces in southern Hol-| land and in the Belgian Tondres sector, northwest of Liege.
The Allied aviation struck back at the Germans ey (Continued on Page Three)
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defensive forces had fallen back and the Dutch said a Ger- |
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The Hague appear threatened.
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DUTCH SECOND
Both Parties Turn to District | And State Reorganization Meetings. By NOBLE REED The Hoosier political spotlight today turned to the Democratic and Republican district and state reorganization conventions this week after a complete count of Marion County Primary ballots showed the total vote cast| was 106,000, a record new| high. | Complete county tabulations dis- |
closed that: 1. Republicans cast 51,000 votes, an increase of 16000 over the 1938 Primary G. O. P. vote while 54,000] * Democrats cast ballots compared to| 64,000 two years ago.
Booher Loses 92. Dr. John Wyttenbach defeated | ~
Dr. Norman R. Booher in the | | Democratic Coroner race by a bare | D margin of 111 votes. Dr. Booher
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perform all the duties necessary for | the practice of law.” The plea in| abatement of Miss Elizabeth C.| Claypool, Arthur F. Eickhoff and!
Monday as scheduled. U. S. Attorney Val Nolan opposed
g recount will be asked.” The County Election Board made a special recanvass of the Booher- | | nominated by only 41 votes. | " | The hearing on the plea in abateJames A. Collins, by a margin of | Bradford, newly elected county | Congress, Sherwood Blue for Pros- | Sel, Who is under doctor's care in ination over James F. Cunningham majority of more than 25,000 votes. the delay, saying that the Gov-| test. The first three, in order of
said “it is reasonably certain that | Wyttenbach ballots and reported | the unofficial totals to be: Wytten- | bach, 19,127; Booher, 19,016. Earlier : ‘lw unofficial totals showed Wyttenbach | WPA Hearing Indefinitely Postponed Because of 3. Judson L. Stark, who was lead- ¢ ing in the Republican Twelfth Dis- Counsel Ss liness. trict Congress contest during most of the earlier tabulations, lost to 467 votes ment in the Government's case | 4. At least four candidates in the against Arthur V. Brown, local major Republican contests SUpport- ‘banker charged with WPA fraud. ed by the faction led by James L. was delayed indefinitely by Federal chairman, were nominated, some Judge Robert C. Baltzell today. by comparatively small pluralities. The delay was granted because | Ludlow Wins by 25,000 of the illness of Prank C. Dailey, | They included: Mr. Collins for | Chief of Mr. Brown's defense coun- | ecutor, Paul E. Tegarden for Treas- Methodist Hospital. urer and Otto W. Petit for Sheriff. The case was delayed “until such 5. Walter C. Boetcher won the Democratic County Treasurer nombv more than 5000 plurality. “6. Louis Ludlow won the 12th District Democratic Congress contest over William C. Erbecker by a 7. Dr. Theodore Cable, a Negro dentist, nosed out Joseph Wallace | for the fourth place nomination in'and hada 91 the Democratic State Senate con-{subpena to appear Monday. their vote were, E. Curtis White, Joseph F. Sexton and Jacob Weiss. Republican leaders hailed their (Continued on Page Two)
{Nolan said that the firm of Dailey, O'Neal, Dailey & Efryomson were | the attorneys of record for Mr. Brown, that Frank C. Dailey was the only one represented as being ill and that the other three lawyers were “enough to represent ag Brown's interests.” Mr. Nolan continued:
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ants charged with crime and the administration of justice demands | that this case be tried with all pos-! sible speed. Tt is the plain obliga-| tion of the three attorneys for the! ‘defendant who are not incapacitated | to try the issues on May 20.” { The issues in the three pleas of | Radio 11 abatement which will be heard! Mrs. Roosevelt 9 next Monday are the defendants’ Scherrer . 9 charge that women were arbitrarily Serial Story.. 15 [excluded from the Grand Jury and Inside Indpls. Society .... 6, 7 the question of the admissibility of Jane Jordan . 7 Sports ....12, 13 certain exhibits presented to the Johnson ..... 10/State Deaths. 16'Grand gury.
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MESSAGE NEAR
‘President Confers With Leaders; May Ask Extra Half Billion.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 13.—President Roosevelt today decided to send a special message to Congress asking large additional funds to bolster land, sea and air defenses. The amount has not been decided. but may boost the present $2.000.000.00 Army-Navy total as much as $500,000,000. The message will be sent sometime this week. The new funds will go toward (modernizing this nation's war ma[chine along the lines of Europe's [latest weapons as displayed in the | Polish, Finnish, Norwegian and
| Western Front campaigns.
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Women and girls hail British soldiers as an Allied tank rumbles through a Belgian village to aid against German invasion of the country. Few men of the town are seen in the picture, apparently because | they have been called to the folors. This photo was radioed from London to New York,
Troops Direct Traffic as Fleeing Refugees Jam Road's
By RICHA D. M'MILLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, IN BELGIUM, May
| 13.—The British Army in Belgium moved into position today to face the
German invaders driving toward the English Channel. Belgian defenses were being tested severely under the weight of the enemy onslaught, and the British expeditionary forces were regarded as about to engage in what appeared to be the first real battle of the
b+ armored German arson: NATH SAY 18,900 HELD AS PRISONERS
formed the spearhead of the GerReport British Ships Sunk,
man smashing thrust aimed at turning the defenses of the Albert | Liege Citadel Captured. BERLIN, May 13 (U. P.). — The
Canal, which would open the way to| Belgian coast and channel ports.
Mechanized Forces in Support
Behind the German mechanized units ‘were vast supporting forces with devastating aerial backing. | German bombers were laying | waste to the countryside immedi-|
time as Mr. Dailey is able to fully | gtely in the path of their armed official news agency today reported | day from injuries inflicted by
forces. The cost to the German that German advances in Holland,
air foree BPpCarel Wage he 'Norway and on the Western Pront NARHA uh abies "south of Saarbruecken had resulted
Carl F. Kortepeter will be heard | ith the British ready for battle, In capture of 18900 Dutch, French) wrs. Walker Nh thie EN have sent in power- 8nd British soldiers, including “one when she was found in her room
general and his staff.”
, ‘the ‘German Dutch ful forces to parry the | At authorized
attack. the same time,
ernment was ready to try the case Fleeing before the invaders were German sources said that the Ger-|police. witnesses under |throngs of refugees whose numbers Man air force yesterday sank a] Mr. |
| British destroyer and a transport [by direct hits and set two other Refugees Drop by Roadside transports afire. Old ‘women and babies sat side by The prisoners captured were listside on carts piled high with chat- ed as follows: tels. Men. women and children! Near Tilburg, Holland, one Dutch walked by the side of the carts, suf- general and his staff, in addition to fering nights and days of misery| 18,000 Netherlands troops taken and privation ‘with the German|prisoner in one German Army area. bombers ever-present. Weaker ref- | In an advance south of ‘Saarugees dropped exhausted by the brucken, on the Western Front, 600 roadside. | French prisoners, As the human tide flowed on, the, In mountain fighting north ‘of British forces passed in the opposite | Mosjen, on the north Norwegian direction. Last week the British coast, 300 prisoners, ‘mostly Engtroops were received with cheers and | lish. Rowers but those days are over, and| The destruction of about 320 the men in the British Army were enemy planes also was reported. facing the reality of ‘war. | ‘German military quarters ‘said British troops moving toward the that German armored forces action passed Belgian wounded on|clashed with enemy armored forces their way to the rear. Refugees) possibly British or Prenchstreaming past the advancing troops southwest of Saint Trond on the said the fighting ‘was furious. road from Tongres to Louvain. Air Force planes assisting ‘of Page Three)
increased hourly.
Rep. Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, ranking Republican member of the House Banking and Currency Committee, said he is willing to introduce legislation to raise the national debt limit now from $45,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000. He also challenged Mr. Roosevelt to request the boost to open the way for financing defense and other needs. Rep. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D. N. C.) introduced a bill to suspend restrictions of the Johnson Act and the Neutrality Law in order to permit American credits to belligerent nations for the purchase of non-military goods in this countrv. | Rep. Bulwinkle's was the first {measure of its kind and undoubtedly the forerunner of a series which ‘will precipitate a nation-wide controversy. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass), an advocate of increased American military preparedness, introduced a Senate resolution for appointment of five Senators and five Representatives to formulate a new military policy for the United States (Continued on Page Two)
analysts believed today. f dam.
LONDON, May 13 (U. P.).—Germany has staked everything on a win-the-war drive to smash through the Low Countries for a direct blow at Raitain, military | The German offensive has developed four major thrusts by which—with the aid of heavy parachutist detachments and airplane landed troops at the rear—conquest of the Low Countries and seizure of the Channel ports is apparently hoped to be effected. The situation as seen here: 1. Germans are advancing rapid-
ly in flat northern Holland, not
designed to be held under Dutch defense plans. The Germans claimed capture of Harlingen at the mouth of the Zuvder Zee and may be preparing a ‘water attack across the Zuyder Zee on Amster-|
2. A second German thrust is! apparently knifing across the midHolland belt, in an effort to isolate the important Rotterdam-The Hague-Amsterdam ares, lying north of the Maas River, from the southern part of the country. One German column crossed the Yssel near Arnhem. It may have been (Continued on Page Three)
MARKET DIVES ON WAR FEARS
Stocks Break 2 to 7 Points; Rumor Italy Has Joined Germany. (Details, Page 11)
War jitters rocked Wall Street today and stocks broke 2 to 7 points in the heaviest selling movement of the year. Brokers ascribed the selling to unconfirmed rumors that Italy had decided to enter the war on Germany’s side and to fears that the Naris will deliver a quick knockout blow. to the Allies.
Two selling waves struck the market, one shortly after the opening and another just before noon. Tickers were driven late on both
Warm Today And Then Rain
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The weather will continue warm today and tonight and by tomorrow afternoon or night there will
LINE IN DANGER
Troops Battle Fiercely as Germans Drive Wedge In Holland.
BULLETIN
ROTTERDAM, May 13 (U. P.). =Dutch forces now control all of Rotterdam lying north of the Maas River and have driven the Germans out of Noorder Island, it was claimed here today. The situation south of the Maas River which bisects the city was not revealed but it is known that the Germans still hold the ruins ‘of Waalhaven Airport which lies
| ‘on the south bank.
By CLIFFORD L. DAY
United Press Staff Correspondent AMSTERDAM, May 18. Dutch forces fought fiercely today to stem powerful German advances, including a dangerous thrust that reached Langstraat on the Bersche-
be thundershowers, the Weather
Bureau forecast today. Cooler temperatures will follow the showers, the Bureau said.
BULLETINS
SWISS LEAVES CANCELLED
ZURICH, May 13 (U. P.).=The | Swiss Army StaiT at Berne orderen | cancellation of all leaves today.
SAYS 400 NAZI PLANES LOST |
occasions. Stocks showed little] rallying power, even when steel] operations this week were reported the best in three months. Heaviest sufferers were Chrysler, | Allied Chemical, American Airlines, Norfolk & Western, Bethlehem, Douglas Aircraft, Sears Roebuck, Loft and International Paper.
WOMAN SLUGGED. | ROBBED IN HOTEL
Mrs. Alice Walker, 65 was re-/and weakness in securities.
st Hospital to-| h Methodist Hosp a ‘highest in 10 days as the result of |
covering i
robber who invatied her room at a
hotel Saturday night, choked her | struck her on the |
with a towel, head, and then escaped with $6. was uncohscious
'by a beil boy.
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NEW YORK, May 18 (U. P).— A German wireless broadcast heard here today told of speculation in Germany about the reported new type of weapon used by German troops in capturing the Belgian fort of Eben Emael. The broadcast said: “Mystery surrounding the ‘new German weapon, which was decisive in the occupation of the Belgian fort of Eben Emael is occupying the minds of the German population and during the Whitsun holidays ‘was the topic discussed every‘where. : will be recalled that the
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Death Ray? Dive Bombers? ‘New Weapon’ Stirs Germans
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Sugar, rubber and copper—so | called “war staples”’—were strong but wheat broke 3 cents a bushel, | reflecting favorable crop reports At Indianapolis, hogs sold the a 10-cent advance which boosted | the top to $6.25.
LA GUARDIA URGES 3D TERM
NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P).— ayor F. H. La Guardia today an-
Roosevelt for a third term “if he runs again”
which will be decisive in determining the result of the war. “About technical details of this new, mysterious weapon, wildest rumors are circulating. While some claim the whole thing consists only in the employment of dive bombers, others believe it to be the application of the so-called death rays which in literature about future wars has been playing a role for years but existence of which has never heen substantiated. “These latter claim ‘numerous parachutists who were landed were equipped with apparatuses of bigger than knapsack size and with their aid parachutists ‘were (Continued on Three)
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PARIS, May 13 (U. P.)=A French official statement today reported that 400 German airplanes had been destroyed in the past four days.
GERMAN SHIPS SINK
STOCKHOLM, MAY 13 (U.P). —The Norwegian High Command said in a communique today that German troops have landed in | southern Haalogaland, near Bodo, | and that several German trans- | ports were sunk in the operation, |
BELIEVE SWEDEN'S FATE IS IN BALANCE
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 13 (U, P.).—Neutral diplomats here believed today that the outcome of the invasion of Belgium and Holland would determine whether Sweden was invaded by & large German force already reported massing in east Norway near the Swedish border. It was estimated that 120,000 Geer- | man troops were concentrated in south central Norway. now. Air raid protection rules have been invoked throughout Sweden. Blackouts began at 6 o'clock yesterday evening.
SHIRLEY, 11, RETIRES; ENROLLS AT SCHOOL
HOLLYWOOD, May 13 (U. P.).— Shirley Temple, who amassed a fortune of $3,000,000 in eight vears and now is only 11, has “retired” from the films to lead the life of a normal adolescent child. She still is under contract at 20th Century-Fox and the studio hopes she cah make one film a vear. Toexclusive
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maas, southeast of Rotterdam, which threatens to cut
Holland in two.
The Dutch High Command atl mitted the loss of Langstraat to German armored forces and other advices asserted the Germans hat engaged Dutch troops on the west bank of the Yssel, endangering the Dutch second line nf defense. German High Command claimed contact between a column which cut across Holland to the South Willem Canal, 40 miles from Rotterdam, and airplane troops dropped near Rotterdam. The South Willem Canal is near Langstraat, If the German claim is true, 1% would indicate that at least a thin German line had been traced almost the whole distance across Holland from east to west.)
Planes Attack Rotterdam
It was admitted at The Hague that the Germans had succeedes in overrunning Groningen and Friesland, northernmost Dutch provinces which lie on the eastern shore of the Zuyder Zee. But it was asserted this territory had ne defenses and was intended to be abandoned in event of invasion. Rotterdam where the Germans hold part of the city reported that it had been under intermittent air attack since 4:30 a. m. Air raid nlarms have sounded f ntly and loud explosions were hea. Damage appeared to be largely confined to shattered windows. One Heinkel bomber was brought down in the city streets on the right bank of the Maas. Some fires still ‘were burning. Constant fire from Dutch anti aircraft guns, rated among the best in the world, kept German airplane (Continued on Page Three)
Dewey vs. F.D. R., Hull
Just a few percentage points separate Thomas Dewey against President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull in Gallup Poll "trial heats.”
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