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VOLUME TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
AZIS SMASH WAY INTO FRANCE
N FOR ATTACK ON MAGINOT LINE
Sr Mo an WAR'S GREATEST BATTLE RAGES ON 100-MILE LINE
DEAD LITTER | Belo FIELDS AGAIN NEAR VERDUN
Thousands of Airplanes and 8 Tanks Used in Fight Along I : By JOE ALEX MORRIS World War Front. |
PARIS, May 14 (U. P.).— German forces drove into France today in an effort to! break through and flank the Maginot Line. | A battle which seemed des- |! tined to settle the war in the Low Countries and possibly Ea : The Germans pierced Holland with swiftly moving cole prove a decisive factor in the, Gen. van den Berg, chief of lumns, broke through the Belgian defenses on the Albert European conflict, raged on| the general staff of the Belgian |Canal, threatened Antwerp from the direction of Turnhout, French and Belgian soil along Army. . . + Can his small but |,,t apparently threw their main strength southwestward a wide front on the Meuse ®Mcient forces hold out agatust |; 1, prapce, where tie French evacuated the historic city of
: : .! the 1940 invasion? “ “ § liver at the scene of some of Sedan. Germans were reported to have taken the city. DUTCH W ARNED Prospect of German aerial attacks on Britain and ago, was evacuated by the French, | according to strategic plan as the | plaints against the raids were regarded as ominous in view of German threats to retaliate against any bombardment
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Swiftly Moving Columns Pierce Dutch and Belgian Defenses as Germans Seek Bases for Blow at Britain.
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BULLETIN AMSTERDAM, May 14 (U. P.).—Gen. Henri G. Wine kelman issued a proclamation today ordering cessation of fighting on the main defensive fronts in Holland.
United Press Foreign News Editor Germany’s armed forces smashed into France today in
j [the great drive to crack the Maginot Line and establish bases in the Low Countries for a blitzkrieg against England, A battle that may be the greatest in modern times dee ‘veloped between Europe's mechanized armies—tanks, artile
lery and airplanes—along the World War battlefields of the River Meuse.
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This is one of the first action shots from the front. It shows a British machine-gun nest awaiting attack in a Belgian village. :
YOUNG CYCLIST Roosevelt Completes U.S. BILLIONS LOSTIN KILLED BY CAR Defense Plan for Congress MARKET PLUNGE
By LYLE C. WILSON 4,000,000 Shares Dumped;
captured by the Prussians 70 years | construction, urged that the U. S. militarily the raids were ‘completely unjustified.” Come
United Press Staff Correspondent { shipyards be put on a 24-hour conWASHINGTON, May 14.—Presi- struction basis, and suggested a dent Roosevelt today completed the $300,000,000 additional appropriation
Twin, 14, Is Hurt; Vietim
the fiercest struggles of the] France increased when authorized military quarters in Ber greatest concentration of German
World War. This was 125 miles northeast of Paris. lin said that Allied planes last night bombed towns in west Sedan, where Napoleon IIT was Germany, killing 12 civilians and wounding numerous others. The Germans said the towns were undefended and that land and air power pounded across Resistance Termed Hopethe Meuse toward the advance po- | | sitions of the Maginot Line.
Center Rider in Line Of Six.
(outlines for a big preparedness pro- to put this speedup into effect. (gram to keep Europe's “four-alarm' Rear Admiral Robinson told the {fire” from spreading to these shores. House Naval Affairs Committee of
‘Blue Chip’ Issues Drop; Grains Crack.
| Agreement on general aspects of
Jackie Southard, 14, of 2334 Avondale Place, one of six boys in! single file formation on bicycles on! heavily traveled E. 38th St, was struck by a car and killed last night. His twin brother, Billie, received only minor bruises. The accident occurred west of Arlington Ave.
the program, which may boost present $2,000,000,000 defense outlays by more than $500,000,000, was reached at a conference with three Cabinet
and Navy and budget officers. Details were kept secret as Mr. Roosevelt bound his advisers to silence. He will put the program be-
the plan after Chairman Carl Vin(son said that the nation’s present warship construtcion program is go(ing forward “entirely too slowly.” The President made it clear, Mr.
(Details, Page 15) By UNITED PRESS
Dead Litter Fields
Thousands of alrplanes, artillery and big infantry were engaged on Belglan battle lines stretching across ancient fields of conflict from Louvain to Namur
tanks, torces
two alternatives in devising means mor-ridden exchanges in the U. S./medy and Verdun.
to meet the cost of the new defense {outlays which may run $500,000,000 | (over the $2,000,000,000) defense ap-
| today.
It was admitted even in authori- | France on a 50-mile front along the Traders dumped nearly four mil- {tative quarters in Berlin that the River Meuse. {lion shares on the New York Stock success of
the whole lightning
Billions of dollars in security and and southward into France Near seq British and French forces in members, commanders of the Army Early said, that Congress has only commodity values were lost in ru-|Charleville-Mezieres, Sedan, Mont- |, jattle near the Belgian town of
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less; Report Allies Defeated Near Louvain. BERLIN, May 14 (U. P.).—German armed forces were reported of-
ficially today to have swept through Holland to the seacoast, to have re-
Louvain and to have smashed into
The German drive through Bel-
of German soil. Stubborn Resistance Appears Vain
On the basis of the Nazi High Command communique, which was partly confirmed in Allied reports, the Nether lands was, virtually in German hands and the eastern half of Belgium was dominated by the advancing German columns despite stubborn resistance at scattered points. The Germans claimed that their armies threatened both Antwerp and Brussels in swift advances from the north and
Exchange alone, and even “blue method of warfare was at stake. {chip” investments plunged with the| Scenes of some of the most sav-|j; the Turnhout sector, about 30 Losses ranged to $19 age fighting of the World War | miles northeast of Antwerp, the The ticker was late were being litterad again with | gigh Command communique said, decide whether it should be “It is getting late in the session and almost all the day. It was believed | thousands of dead. Verdun, re-| and advanced to the Grosse Gette. financed by new taxes or by raising the Congressional leaders have told to be the biggest crash since 1532.|membered by every American of| Official military quarters added the statutory debt limit above the you that there is increasing senti-| In a hectic Chicago Board of | World War days, is only 22 miles that German columns had repulsed present $45,000,000,000 ceiling that is ment for adjournment of this ses-| Ltade pit, wheat dived the daily southwest of Longwy. | British, French and Belgian forces rapidly being approached. sion as early as possible in June, | Permissable limit of 10 cents. Corn The battlefront extended much on the Gette, pursuing them in the The meetings were . | was off 5 cents, oats nearly 4 cents, |farther than it ever did in the gjrection of the Dyle River defense
: i er held. as © increas ; Avo oi " : di ilitar , i 14 eres reins oral 2100 this Government notified the tier mn SECON isto IheTusse ie Rel rye 10 cents and soybeans 8 cents, World War, however. Furious jines near Louvain. Then, according to military sources in Berlin, a Gerillie, g , 16, of 2 , All sorts of unfounded rumors fighting was under way in Holland,| (The Allied forces on the Gette
\ ‘e.. and Charles Spangler, 20 American republics that it is. Mr. Early emphasized the gravity bar . 5 : lorry © aioe ; wf | man column that apparently advanced from the east Bele ae Sin Eastern Ave. pene | willing to join in a declaration of with which Mr. Roosevelt Ro the| Were added to reports that the{ with ihe Germans Strugeling 0 River, Which lies 15 miles east, of | ian sector of Maastricht and Liege met and defeated Al , |protest against Germany's invasion spreading war in Europe | Allies were receiving more setbacks break across the Zuyder Zee dike |the famous World War town of |g g - Stopped Along Road . | ;
of the Lowlands. | “The feeling here is that if there 1 Belgium and Holland. U. EE Rae I Cl een A TO oe TR Meenas lied mechanized columns near the Gette River and pursued The boys said they had stopped _ Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Samuel js a four-alarm fire up the street) Government bonds—regarded as the m. The Hague, Rotterdam | pumber of tanks, which had ad-|them back toward the River Dyle, on which is situated the
. : ’ . ins -ordi . | worid's highest grade investment— Sterdam, \ along the right fringe of the road M. Robinson, co-ordinator of ship (Continued on Page Four) | Word's ; . , and Utrecht—from the rear. vanced to the front lines in Belgium Eros 7 yl . end were just starting out again. broke to new lows for the year, ogg RN German | famous World War town of Louvain—only 18 miles from
Billie was resting on his 2 good |) 0 p TO CHOOSE War and peace stocks were] Halted onslaught fron. the Maastricht and | Brussels. 1 % '
raf : i thrown overboard in a wave of emo-| . " a i S . : Wo a Tor date 'o vet 5 bow tional liquidation. In the Dow-| pe Oenvals ete hanmerine 8 iLiepe Oe appeared toh bet The main battle line (eliminating Holland's shattered \ | | the outer fringes rt of | 18 ‘mans > | : R a § fronts) stretched from a point on the Dutch border north
A car driven by Carl Beagle, 17, DISTRICT CHAIRMEN Jones averages, industrial stocks | Thame i
; > inot Line facing the Bel- driving on Antwerp from the northof near Lawrence, brushed Billie] | were off $9.28, utilities $1.62 and the Magino 8 8 p |
fore Congress later this week. | propriations which the President alMr. Roosevelt indicated through' ready asked. White House Secretary Stephen T.| “One choice it to put down a na- general list. Early that it is up to Congress to tional defense tax,” Mr. Early said. In du Pont.
[gium broke the Allied defense line east.
From the north, with Holland's defenses reduced and the country cut off from Belgium, the Germans reported they had broken through Belgian lines near Turnhout (30 miles northeast of Antwerp) and reached the Grosse Gette River at a point southward.
Today, neither police nor the surviving boys were able to explain how tie others escaped injury, since Jackie was in the middle of the formation. In front of him were William Coffman, 14, of 2053 Caroline St. and Harold Leonard, 135, of 2137 N.
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Claim Assaults
. | ‘ai gian frontier, but nowhere had western Turnhout Front and on | of ntwerp southward along a jagged front through central and then Sever Saeki Then oe | rails, $1.29. they made any indentations in the Brussels from an eastern front by P za 4one. a a g car swerved out into the str | Antw |
| line itself, and French dispatches | way of the Gette and Louvain. Jue d » distance away. : : 1 vere | cit f Louvain is only abou “Harold Leonard and Billie, both Clashes Expected in Eighth, ICHAILLAUX WARNS UJ, 8, 200 the German loss Were ot on oe
miles from Brussels. Of Whom fe Boy Seouis aNd EUOW/ Nazis claimed that Holland's main |
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first aid, sought to help Jackie. One} of them called to a passing motor-| jst for a doctor and a short time later deputy sheriffs arrived. Freshman at Tech | Mr. Beagle said he did not see the bicycles until it was too late. The boys said that their cycles carried tail reflectors. They said they did | not see the car. | Jackie was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Southard, and he was, a freshman at Tech High School | with Billie. His parents, Billie and] a sister, Miss Betty Southard, 16, survive him. Mr. Southard is em-| ployed by the National Window Dis-| play Co. Funeral services for Jackie will be at 11 a. m. Thursday at the] Fountain Street Methodist Church and burial will be in Lebanon. | | TIMES FEATURES
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elect district
Tenth and Second.
Newly elected Republican county chairmen convened in 10 separate; conventions over the state today to chairmen who will, come to Indianapolis tomorrow to choose State G. O. P. Committee officers. | At least three districts were reported likely to have fights over
election of chairmen today. They,
are the Eighth, Tenth and Second] Districts. | Two candidates are contesting for! the Eighth District chairmanship— | Albert Rothrock of Corydon and | Ben Huffman of Rockport. The present chairman, Harold McMur-| trie of Huntingburg, is expected to
In the Tenth District, three, candidates are in a contest to suc- | ceed Ralph Adams of Shelbyville They are Edwin .V. O'Neel of Hagerstown, former president of the Indiana Republican Editorial As-|
and Irvin Norris of Shelbyville. | In the Second District, Lafayette
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Temperatures today took a big | spurt toward the 88-degree record, for this day, but the Weather! Bureau was not sure that record would be equalled or surpassed. Nevertheless, readings in| the middle 80s at least were indi-| ated.
There will be cooler weather and! siderably” cooler weather by tomor-|
row afternoon, dicted.
the Bureau pre-| | States citizens.
OF RED ‘FIFTH COLUMN’
WASHINGTON, May 14 (U, P). -~Homer L. Chaillaux, director of | utAanked Belgium's “Little MagiNational! charged the | before the House Immigration Comimittee today that Communist Party {members comprise a “fifth column”
the American Legion's Americanism Commission,
danger to the United States.
ITALIAN LINER SAILS NAPLES, May 14
sailed for New
passenger
York today.
(U. P.).—The local showers tonight, with ‘‘con-| Italian luxury liner Conte Di Savoia Her Marshal Patrice M. MacMahon in| list included many United | the Franco-Prussian war, on Sept.
y breaking through the Belgian
defenses north of Liege and crossing the Albert Canal west of Maastricht, Holland, the Germans had
not Line,” which extends south | from Liege to the Longwy sector, {connecting up with the French {Maginot Line. The Germans were |driving southward into France behind the Belgian line. Sedan, which the French evacuated while a terrific battle raged around it, is the site of the defeat {of the great French Army under
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ire w tones ie men 1's 1914 in Paris Again as Tear-Stained
Refugees Jam City, Call Bombings ‘Hell!’
PARIS, May 14
: (U. P.~The| |sociation; Elmer Bossert of LIberty never.ending stream of travel-worn| and tear-stained Belgian war ref-| ‘Republicans are reported boosting ugees, lugging with them what | | their county chairman, Byron C. little they could salvage from their ables, many were carried in baskets their homes half clothed and with-
transfer the homeless to the farm-|were killed by machine gun fire as
lands.
They arrived with all the pos- German Babies bodies side by side. shared carriages with family valu-|
sessions they could carry.
Young for the district chairman- wrecked and abandoned homes, was and the tiny ones in blankets.
ship to replace Morrison Rockhill of Warsaw. | District chairmen in the First and Twelfth Districts were men, | If no opposition to State Chair-|
1914 all over again, Parisians who recalled the first war said.
Few able-bodied men were
in| [their ranks. They were mostly old their husbands,
{they fled along a road near the frontier. She left the
Many of them were forced to flee jout money or food.
None of them know the fates of sons and brothers
Some of the refugees, injured by men and boys but one husky Bel- of military age who are resisting
“Hell!”
elected | bomb splinters, described four days gian leading a group of his country-| the German advance. Saturday along with county chair- of continuous bombing in one word: men explained that he had run into) |a German column deploying along |Belgian front in busses which a few
British infantrymen moved to the
“The noise alone was enough to a ditch while en route to his regi-/ months ago were taking civilians to
| |
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WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO VOTE IN PRIMARIES
‘Federal,’ ‘State House’ Groups Battle in East.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 14 (U. P.).—Two state issues dominated the West Virginia primary election today. The first was a battle for Democratic nominations between the “Federal” and “State House” factions of the party. The second was the drive of Republicans to make voting gains that would portend victory in the November election. Sixteen delegates to each national party convention were to be chosen today but little interest attached to this phase of the campaign. The delegations will be un-
(instructed.
Unofficial estimates indicated the total vote might reach 600,000 ballots, or about 100,000 greater than in the 1936 primary.
COLUMBUS, O., May 14 (U. P). —Governor John W. Bricker was assured of Republican nomination
70 ALLIED PLANES DOWN
BERLIN, May 14 (U. P.).—The official German news agency D. N. B. said today that 70 enemy planes had been shot down today
in the Sedan area of France by German pursuit planes.
DUCE SEES DEMONSTRATION
ROME, May 14 (U. P.).—Premier Benito Mussolini today watched demonstrating Italian
French and British flags had been placed under crossed umbrellas. Il Duce, driving his automobile past the blazing flags, made no move to intervene.
BELGIANS CALL MORE
BRUSSELS, May 14 (U. P.).=— Belgium, fighting German armies advancing toward France and against Brussels and Antwerp, today called all men of the second reserve {fo immediate duty with the colors. Government sources said all German parachute troops in the Brussels area had been captured.
ALLIES LAND IN NORWAY
LONDON, May 14 (U. P.).—A British War Office communique
students burn coffins on which |
said today that the Allies had |
WAR BULLETINS
FRENCH HOSPITAL BOMBED WITH THE BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE, In France, May 14 (U. P.).—German planes bombed a hospital in a French village on the Marne, killing a number of patients, RAF sources asserted today. In addition to the patients, 16 other villagers were killed.
SAYS NAZI LOSSES HEAVY BRUSSELS, May 14 (U. P.).= Germans fighting in the Liege area were suffering heavy losses today, Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot said in a radio report on the military situation.
REPORT BELGIAN CITY AFIRE PARIS, May 14 (U. P.).—The Paris newspaper L’Intransigeant reported from Brussels today that the Belgian city of Namur, southwest of Liege, was in flames after an intensive German aerial bombardment. The newspaper said that the Germans had been bombing Liege for the last 12 hours.
DUTCH FIRE STORES AMSTERDAM, May 14 (U. P.). Fire blazing in and near Amsterdam today were set as “military measures” by the Dutch authorities in what was regarded a move to prevent valuable stores from
Gallup Poll .. | falling into German hands. One
major conflagration raged in & petroleum warehouse near the Amsterdam central railroad sta-
man Arch N. Bobbitt develops fol- madden vou.” one said. ment. He fled in a truck which car-| British country and seaside resorts. ’ In Indpls 3 Serial Story.. 19 lowing the district reorganizations| Nurses and women volunteers fed ried him into France. | They were the modern counter-|for a second term in today’s Ohio Inside Indpls, 14 Side ‘Glances. ‘today, he expected to be re-elected them hot soup and sandwiches. | “Now,” he said, “I can return to parts of the historic London busses primary. He was not opposed. Jane Jordan.. 9 Society ...... 8, 9 by acclamation at the State Com- Soldiers prepared 500 beds in the my unit in Belgium.” in which fathers of the infantry-| Secretary of State George M. Johnson ..... 14 Sports 10, 11 mittee meeting at 10:30 a. m. to- main Belgian refugee center and An elderly woman said she left men of today went to the front in|Neffner predicted a record vote of Movies vvsvses 16,State Deaths. 17/ morrow at the Claypool Hotel. | arrangements were being made to her home with two children. Both! 1014. (Continued on Phe Three)
been successful in landing troops at Dbjerkvik, seven miles north of Narvik, in the rear of Germans holding the Norwegian Arctic port.
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