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PRESIDENT URGES | sss, fSeweces-. RESISTANCE AT BRUSSELS INLAND SITES FOR = "38 CRUSHED, BERLIN CLAIMS;

PLANE FACTORIES & J | MAGINOT GAP WIDENING

said SVarvine ioe WR FO \ I" PARIS, May 17 (U, P.)s=Gen. Maurice Gamelin in To Capital. J 3 -— . an order of the day said tonight that “every French unit

BULLETIN a eS hubba: h : | ‘which is unable to advance must accept death rather than WASHINGTON, May 17 (U.P). | | mp Sa aga . An abandon its terrain.”

—A Senate appropriations subcom- “The fate of the country and that of the Allies and

today and prepared to send the Floor Space and Personnel “As always in the critical hours of ‘our history, the bill to the full committee Mon- watchword today is ‘conquer or die’ We must conquer,” day.

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ee | ‘Continue to Expand ‘at a SH 5 | A= FX (French Pouring Fresh i —— By LYLE C. WILSON | Allison Plant. | Wh ene i - Troops Into Hole in BERLIN, May 17 (U. P.).=The official D. N. B. news United Press Staff Correspondent | g a y ; 3 " WASHINGTON May 17— By SAM TYNDALL WR a SSL 1 Defense Line. agency claimed late today that the last Allied line of re. {a 3 rn On Indianapolis’ chances of becoming | X a al 4 | sistance before the Belgian capital of Brussels * President Roosey elt indicated a huge aviation manufacturing cen- \ ow il aa N PARIS, May 17 (U, P).—Heavy Ned." Ie P els “has ‘been today that the Government ,.. pightened today as President rh EB. a RJ dl . > k Allied reinforcements today poured crushed. will build airplane factories to Roosevelt urged all aviation firms i Dy mr TONS BR * tons of high explosive shells and i —————

help private manufacturers, locate new plants thlang 8s ‘a } TF v _ — 3 bombs into the apex of the German |

Siprecaution against coastal raids. : x | speed production toward his| As the Government and aviation break-through in the Maginot Line

™ 3 J 3 0 : f United Press Foreign News Pditar : | 3 3 3 : SO {les northeast © ST ‘ oe goal of 50,000 war planes. oo alas Tres! WE ¥ E \ Ra yop Yeni Flying German columns are driving northwest toward He disclosed that he and called for vesterday by the Presi-| . a - The pounding of the Allied attack | the English ‘Channel from near the French border, it ‘was

his advisers are urging pri- a Wat the all : ia : 2 centered’ on Rethel on the River | feported today, forcing an Allied withdrawal from the de- § X | hia ig Te A Aisne, about 25 miles from eims. | o : : : vate plane producers to locate anticipates eventual further expan- IN RE tie Padtoat. RR i res iruction ‘of ‘this en, | fense lines which protect Brussels,

q 3 % | on ; § 3 Fe pe od | r 1 » all new factories inland—be- sion of both buildings and personnel. Toa Ne wade Rani Sh ae Rid WR | salient was said here to be of utmost Me German threat was that Belgium would be cut . | Local aviation, and industrial | Aad daa wn ! kA Wee. " ? importance. ‘This was ‘Where the| jo poo og : " : h " " tween the Rocky Mountains!ieaders were encouraged by Presi-| 8 LR gh Ah Attu A LGormans reached their nearest oft from France, isolating Allied armies in Belgium from

and the Allegheny Range—to dent Ra Annoyrcemert, that al. : Conte Cuantar OF EBD IR point to Paris, n ‘it ‘their communications and supplies, ro Fe ‘and his alds are uti mAh Ta ey Great masses of heavy artillery " : y ’ get away from the more vul- ;nq aviation motor producers to lo-| land powerful anti-tank guns wer! Me Belgian Government evacuated Brussels and moved

nerable coastal areas. cate their new plants between the i - 0 Times Talephoafn "brought up through the night nan to Ostend on the Channel. The British ublic ‘was Bei tree \presitiont ‘also ‘Announced ‘to Rocky and Alleghany Mountains. The “explosive” type of German warfare, now threatening Paris only 100 miles away following a bremk- | wort to Box in the spearhead of the | p ng

1 | through the Maginot Line, is illustrated above. | Goymian ‘advance which was Ted py Prepared, apparently at Government order, for bad news,

a press conference that 35 more old Indianapolis May Benefit : , y hab fe . : : : STH Ap : Rec (tg . ; ; tanks and ‘armored cars. The gravity of the situation was emphasized in Londo World War destroyers would be re- If this is carried out, they said, | At dawn the Allied command y p naon,

conditioned and placed into active! yr. Giana be irly “tai be I 3 . iil | . : ine lav polis is fairly certain to be 11 ; I'hrought these forces into action and Phinge Thro ( ¢ \ service, giving the Navy a total of chosen for one or more of thef 1 a 4 1 : 1 cent thousands of fresh troops ng ugh Gap in Maginot Line | 336 destroyers. Congressional Sources njantg. 1 i [sent thousands of ata, |

r “ © ( ‘ . “ in » yeported that 22 of the old destroy- " s=Tmey can't. locate such factories [he German thrust toward the Channel ports was being

5 0 ; i 4 | | | . > ers would be assigned to some secret!i, small towns,” Myron Green. § 1 / - ee et vbacle, it appeared, by heavy armored columns which plunged work. | Chamber of Commerce industrial I 1 ! through {lve deen gash in the Maginot Line extensi Mr. Roosevelt stressed the indus-!commisisoner said, “because they { OTHER WAR NEWS - £ - PRas n M gin Line ‘extension from {rial phases of defense preparations have to be in centers of population ooo , , a 'Mezieres to Sedan. These columns cut through the breach

under the new billion-dollar pro- with a large available supply of 'A new detailed map of Tu tand dashed northwest,

gram he sent to Congress vesterdayv. skilled mechanics ‘Urges Its Separation From LONDON. May 17 (U. Lines With France Periled: Countries aaa ; ge | Oficial statements in Bein partly coved by Allied

He said it might be advisable this, “They also must be near large air- | “te r . . , “pv » \ v ov . Al . > ye « ‘ . d air com- : - : . . . % . summer to order manufacturers to ports. There are only a half dozen Politics in Talk Before P.).—Germans are driving Belgian Government Flees: Te NEL ne ’ dispatches ‘said that the Nazi blitzkrieg toward thie English

turn over to the Government ma- Or So cities meeting those qualifi- 1 Ki Heapie va tions | toward Laon and Marle, | Pe . : , feaune, chine tools produced under private cations. ith iigobe Women Voters. | \ | | London Gloom Deepens. rep. Boehne of Indiana proposes \ hannel had broken the main British defense lines along BT LC tuie: id to) en tortns Said Te would eon | about 70 ‘miles northeast of new national defense taxes Paged the Dyle River in front of Brussels, captured the Belgian event any “bottleneck” develop- ° » S8 A i ’ $ \ , NG na. i$ : y RTE CAT . 3 Pe in the production of planes and sult Mr. Green at once ‘and they By ‘ROSEMARY REDDING | ‘Paris. it ‘was ‘reported reli SHA A 4 mihi [production ‘of ‘planes, pilots limits | fortress of Namur and smashed westward down the Sambre engines. oe, itn nn | BLOOMINGTON, Tnd., May 17.— Hy Owighe, oo iin awing 110m the diterste| Wat ~.e.....Page 8/River into the French Maginot Line defenses at Maubeuge, Plane Makers Called | his vs Ladue | . n ; ; in " : i 4 ry Assistant Secretary of War Louis BDO valiapility for some of rie Wilild ty H. Book, executive vice, ‘1 ONDON, May 17 (U. [tines protecting Brussels as result Air power has made peril to us. | On French soil, according to the German High ComJohnson summoned representatives MO, PERS (cont age we sent ibe tie Ts CHam- | 1) "Phe ‘British Air Min. [of ® German threat to split Allied Fal, "expery "Wats in the Nazi forces widened their break into the Maginot of 40 plane, engine and ACCESSOY |y.4, ne Der ‘of ‘Commerce, today recom-| . : x | communications between Belgium 'Golorful description of the “Battle ; : tras : rianufacturers to meet here Monday |, oo tacturer in the country offer- mended to the Indiana League of istry tonight said the Ger- R ‘Line ‘west of the Meuse River so that they now “claim a

letters and maps to every plane | encriptie . Limi ati , | (and France. of Annihilation” » . . ; na a e TI rs ing space at Indianapolis’ 1015-acre Women Voters a four-point program mans had Yost more than | rye British public tonight ‘was | (62:mile front from Maubeuge to Carignan, south of Sedan, caft production to 50000 | S ‘Municipal port. ee einen " [From which flying mechanized columns have stabbed deeply North of Rethel the Germans were |

gnnually. designed to free relief from politics | 1000 planes in the past sev- | being prepared for bad news from . - : en days. | the fighting lines. The British Press attempting to widen their salfent into French territory.

Mr. Johnson said that while “we “We Stand a Good Chance” and to place it on a “business basis.” | Association distributed a dispatch to against fierce Allied resistance. Nazis Tiv for Knockout ‘Blow

hope private industry can do the ‘Mr. Dienhart said: | Coincidental ‘with Mr. Book's | job alone” several means may be “We got a lot of good replies at speech before the organization's 18th| INCREASE BRITISH POWER {hundreds of British newspapers de- Planes of ‘both the Royal Ait NN Heise Ne the LS that i most of Hei: Wahid convention, the League moved to! 'TONDON. May 17 (U. P).— |claring that the press must inform | corps and the French Army poured | In Paris, it was admitted that these thrusts had reached "ederal aid. He said ' or sim- free buildings, or buildings they ’ : ie » nara nil | “ - ; while | ; » : Federa HE Rl Rie mu [vee pUiiqiies dings they| mend to the Republican ‘and | Prime Minister Winston Churchill |the public that “the present situa bombs on the German column While [pagal 100 ‘miles from the French capital, and that tre ilar Joans might e made, S| could pay for in the form of rent. . : | "has informed the French Govern- tion must be regarded us one of the heavy artillery blasted ‘away would be in addition to Mr, Rose The city had no money to ule for Democratic state conventions that | ment of “a View ‘pheasure” ‘taken | extreme gravity.” with high explosive shells. Imendous German power ‘was being thrown into the main velt’s plan for construction of fac-| this purpose. they include in their party planks | b Increase Great "Britai 3 atthed The situation Was described "By Military commentators asserted | bu . . : eh tories with Government money. “Now, with the President discussing lone calling for extension of the stiiking power, kt ‘Wom tated to. | reliable Sources as the most ation, that the Cierman High Command offensive in an attempt to win the war by a quick and

a Sen e.ation he he. tones to puta | merit system in Indiana. night in an explanation of the | Since the great German drive of Nad thrown its most powerful strik-idevastating blot, st! y isle } ,

’ y > «ing force into the snter of the ; . . : defense program under way as plants for the private manufactur- This and other items of a program Sie WiiWihar's 7150 Yo PAs. eerie to NS , reTRTS [French defensive system between | The Allies fought back with everything they coula throw quickly, ns possible bre. it Tooks like Indianapolis has of work for 1040-42 were considered | GrayMS 'BRUSSFLS FALLS (Allied defense system in France. | Namur ahd Sedan where the forti- into the battle along the Maginot defenses, Paris dispatches The Senate Military Appropria- excellent chances, this morning at a session on the NEW YORK, May 17 (U, P.).—|

tions Subcommittee heard Gen.| “Of course, they won't build all Indiana University campus. The | yp SG teed Bhondonsting Co., o- Germans Swing Northwest | NCOs an pag RRS) eat that Allied Plates and guns were hurling tons of high eorge C. Marshall, Army Chief-of- such plants in one city, but we IITS0 Bay ns on closed with a | day intercepted a German short Tt was learned reliably that the, explosives into the German positions around Rethel inh an ornare id alg yh vive rata sous tv Gor (nen Geom, frees vey veoke STOCKS PLUMMET ON («ort to cotanee the Nasi sant TS atae Swift abproval to Jegisimtion | 2 "Revision of 'Indiaria 'tiws ‘to Nan igh Comany vs awnouhe. |p oii, on | | The German blitzkrieg offénsive methods appeared, oh

. aa aR ing that German {troops have Mezieres and Sedan have swung : ; i to “lift the lid" off present restric- MERCURY EXPECTED 'apply appropriating Testrictons to gniered Brussels. [sharply to the northwest whete their FRESH WAR JITTERS the surface at least, to wean that Adolf Hitler had shot the tions on the number of planes and rellel expenditures. Aes advance threatens to cut off the Mrariex 1 : : : . 2. The institution of business) WEAR ANTWERP, NAZIS SAY [allied armies in Belgium from lines ‘works ‘in ‘an offensive that might win or lose the war. Ih

pilots which the Air Corps may thods in the ‘Spending of relief | Rh | . have TO OLIMB TONIGH methods in the ‘spending | 'BPRUIN, May 17 (U. P.).—Nazi [of communication with France. | i Berlin, however, Nazis ingisted that that was not necessarily | it All Sections Suffer in 2 to 8-

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

« y ’ | money. | # y y v | June ‘Trip ‘Probably OIF 3, Prompt ‘enactment of ‘u law Sources reported a ag Ii a rove tre, althotigh they expressed confidence that the Gertan of. ME Re i I eh completely to divorce relief from ‘poo, ‘gn. ‘direction of the Dutch |to make “certain withdrawals” from Point Decline. fensive would clsar the Allied forces from Belgium dnd estab.

sure of the European situation and | . | polities. base | 3 : th defense expansion ‘program ‘is ‘Gloutly Skies Hold Threat of “4 ‘a enange in the law requiring, hg PRs Yonrets approaching I te Dr tbers River lish bases for attack oh England over a short air route, going to keep him close to the trustees to require relief recipients ™ . | Belgian ¢ (Detalls, Page “21) Netitral sources in the Nazi capital also said that while

] . te ; J - y Meanwhile, the Belgian Govern. | iin White House. He canceled his] Showers. to do some work for their. relief. | FALL BACK IN NORWAY ment has left Brussels, Radio Brus-| The New York stock market had (Continaed ‘on Page Thee)

plans fo go to Hyde Park, N. Y, ‘LOCAL TEMPERATURES | Perhaps” Mr Book said, “you ‘LONDON, May 17 (U. 'P.).— |sels said today. The announcement another case of War jitters Tate toover the week-end. . Ms Toa.'m. ... 5 will say that the position of spender Radio Stockholm quoted the Nor- was made by the Belgian Minister | day and ‘a fresh ns of vehi: | . mm

.. 54 12 (moon)... 60 | TTT | saying that Allied and Norwegian | “The Government's decision to cracked two to eight points to few I Germans Say Namur Caphu red; .5%6 1p.m. . "60 DIES ASKS STH COLUMN PURGE troops had ‘withdrawn from cer- leave the capital was taken because lows for more than n peaY, Trad- In Berlin: Shain So on 2M Live. [ TY . . .

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: . m. He also said that obviously his .m, ...53 11am .. 60 ICURtIGED Gn Tile > | ‘wegian telegraph agency today ‘us [of Interior, A. Vanderpoorten. undermined stock prices, ‘which | m. ITTY m.

‘oury which has been hov | WASHINGTON. May 17 (U. P).| tain points in the ‘mountains (Continued on Page Three) ling swamped ticker facilities. The mercury which has been hov-| __pan “Martin Dies (D. Tex) told ~— — Sa eastituee He ddl All sections suffered, and aireraft |

ering at unseasonably low levels for |. Se 10 Ww wasting | \ Shares Ye ‘lb “even ‘more ‘than | Im ease three dus. wil cm to- ie on masons ansense wren 1 W/O By Duce Means War; | ane esterday, Bonds | BERLIN, Wy 17 (0. 'P) THe {lie Baribre River Hows Irom France night and tomorrow, the Weather-| sa it affectively with “fifth column” , r 1 slumped with the stock market lyermian High Command claimed to-!into Belgium to Catighan, just : ively wit oun "Fhe jitters ‘spread to ‘Chicago's day that ‘attored “spsed columns south of Sedan.

| " { BEGINS | man promised today. Today : high activities of the Communists, Nazis \ vied “olasted ON tral AMES Mines | est reading, however, Will be Onlyigng Fascists in the United Staves, rs to HH Oo ld u h < A I'wheat pit where wheat slumped 31; had blasted the cenira ed Dr In neutral military ‘quarters these |

TOMORROW! ‘about 65 degrees, he said. Yo 4% cents. Corn fell more than [in Belgium, captured (he fortress | gevelopments Were fegarded ‘as of Skies are to be cloudy tonight and two cents, the May future selling at fof Namur ‘and ‘driven deeply into | niewes, importance. But (Wey de-

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by the leading - auto : The Prenc) | cupport” the nomination of Senator (Ne Battle of {We Marte, they sige Cit , : ; | ‘Private Services for Frederic, clapper 19 Obituaries ....16 the war for the immediate present. te French must retain lange support’ the nomination Of BF regarded these ‘as ‘a ‘great ‘achieve. Ct dealers throughout the Murray Ayres, president of L. S. Comics 34 Pai forces in Morocen, Tunisfa ‘and Arthur Vandehberg for President, Invent of the CFoFIIAN Amy But ony. | Sested that “sone similar develop.

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lin the ‘Flanner & Buchanan 'inancial ....:i5 Radio, ........35 out notice ‘any day. But personal troops in southern France as if they Special Judge Charles B. Stall (gastsive -CFoffian victory oh {he expected to attempt ‘a swing ‘north ; ‘Mortuary. ‘Flynn 9) Real Estate 21 observation and contact with many ‘were actually at war with Italy, | today refused to ‘set ‘aside ‘a ‘$3600 Western ‘Front. : toward (We English ‘Ohannel fh a» new low prices. Turn | ‘Mr. Ayres, who was 68, had been Forum CT 9) Mrs. Roosevelt 19 who are In a position to know all, The Balkans and the Near East/defanlt judgment ‘against Thomas Pie Farman High ‘Command Ws- great are. in efforts th trap ‘the now to the classified | 11 five months. [Gallup Poll... 14 Scherrer "that mere outsiders can know-—and'afe in a similar state of suspended Dillon rendered June 12, 1939, in ferted tite Allies ‘were retreating British and Welglan oops Th colimns ‘and ‘see the | He became president of the store ;In dps 3 Setfal Story... 35 there are no insiders here—lead me Fanimation, and for the same reason. favor of Mrs, Tdn Helen Freeman, from their defense positions | the ‘northern Belgitim and tHe Wortire many Bargains ‘being of- jin 1896 upon the death of his Inside Indpls. 20 Side Glances .20 To believe that the Word will not be | Thus the Nazis Wave ‘an ‘absolutely president of the Thdianapolts Btor- | Louvain gector ‘which protect Brus. ons. totter of France. : ’ Jai YORI 2 father, Lyman S. Ayres, who came Jane Jordan ..23 Soctety ... 22, 33 spoken vet awhile. | free hand to put their ‘maximum [age Co. The judgment ‘was for sels. It claimed (Hat Coermans were ~Aganist this Heive it ‘Was expected Neged

tered. Ihere in 1872 from Geneva, N. Y | Johnson 20 Spo | On ae J \ y : HOW SAY ; : i aN Ye VASE. rts 26, 27, 28 e reason for delay is that Italy force into the attack through Hol-|a gambliftg 168%es of her hus- 'ddvahel th the agonot | the French would Taunch a despér- | naovies .. ....24State Deaths.. 5 (is now helping Germany quite wl Continued ‘on Page Four) No: George Preen el TN pre! (Continaed on af Fou)

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