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LUDLOW SEES PROMPT 0. K. FOR AIR ‘LAB’
Indianapolis Urged as Site For $8,400,000 Engine Research Plant. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 21.—Prompt approval of President Roosevelt's] $8.400,000 request for an aircraft engine research laboratory was predicted today by Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.), seeking to have it located in Indianapolis. The request calls for $2.000,000 cash and $6,400,000 contractal obliga- | tions and will be acted on Friday by | the House Appropriations Commit- | tee of which he is a member, Rep. Ludlow explained. f Myron Green industrial commis-| sioner of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and I. J. (Nish) Dien-| hart, Indianapolis Municipal Airport # anager, are here urging Indianapolis as a cite for new aircrait| plants as well as the laboratory.
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Final selection of the site rests with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and will not be made until the appropriation actually 1s available, Rep. Ludlow reported. Denver and numerous other cities are working equally as hard as Indianapolis to be chosen as the site for this project. The first Government aircraft laboratory was located at Langley Field, Va., and a second now is under construction at Sunnyvale, Cal. Mr. Green said that he will confer with several aviation industry leaders here and already knows of at least two concerns who are interested in establishing $10,000,000’ plants in Indianapolis if the Federal | Government makes funds available. At the meeting of aviation officials with Government leaders yesterday, it was estimated officially that the President's program for 50.000 planes per year would necessitate an outlay of approximately $7,000,000,000,
RFC Ready to Co-operate
Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, said the RFC is ready to co-operate with banks making secured loans for defense purposes by underwriting or directly taking 75 per cent of the loan, Indiana Senators and Congress-
men are receiving offers of buildings Several Billion Dollars Are ous |
and building sites from vari Hoosier cities seeking to bring new| war industries to them. The situation here has some of | the vim of the early New Deal days,| when NRA was getting under way, but it is considered likely that the (Continued on Page Two)
The Safety Board may net know | what is art, but it knows what it doesn’t like. It doesn’t like a sidewalk exhibit of works of art on the| Circle as requested today by Cheer | Broadcasters, Inc. { The organization asked to be permitted to display the works of young Indiana artists June 5, 6] and 7. The Board postponed action, | indicating it would not grant the permission,
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War Aids F.D.R., McNutt Says
Security Administrator Is Believed Convinced of Third Term Now.
Federa: Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, returning to Indianapolis today after a ~ 14,000mile campaign tour through the West, said the European conflict is “bringing new support to President. Roosevelt's foreign policies.” Observers interpreted this state-
ment to mean that the Hoosier can- for establishment of a proposed!
didate for the Democratic Presidential nomination may be convinced that the President will accept a third-term nomination. “It is obvious that if Mr. Roose-
velt accepts, he can have the nomi- Republican viewpoints and those of]
nation,” Mr. McNutt said. When asked about his own chances for the nomination he said: “I haven't been myself in any of my
Deal Administration.” The former Indiana came to Indianapolis to attend the Ulen Country Club gridiron ban-
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BETHLEHEM DIPS $10 “AS STOCKS PLUMMET
Sheared From Values.
By UNITED PRESS Heavy
hours were near 2,500,000 shares.
News reports that German forces; The highest temperature yesterhad reached a Channel port and| day was 80. | that the Allies were being routed |
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selling on the New York] Stock market today sheared several) | billion dollars from paper valuations} and ran the loss since the German | invasion of the Low Countries to| | around $10,000,000,000. Losses in the | | main list ranged to $10 a share in| tonight and
CIRCLE ART DISPLAY Bethlehem. Sales for the first three the Weather Bureau predicted
Ohio Senator Says Move Would Force G. 0. P. to Sacrifice Views.
Republicans and Democrats will be able to agree upon a foreign policy and a defense program without a coalition cabinet, U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. OQ. said in an interview here today. The Republican presidential aspirant asserted he saw no reason
coalition cabinet. | “That would force the Republi'cans to sacrifice their views on domestic issues,” he said. “There is a fundamental difference in the | President Roosevelt domestic issues.” Senator Taft, who arrived here
on
talking about today on the last lap of a Wesiern| speeches— speaking tour. gave a radio address I've been talking about the New at noon and was guest of honor at a| the | Governor State Republican Committee at the |
public reception arranged by | Columbia Club. He was to leave Indianapolis today for Lebanon where he will be| one of the principal speakers at the) Ulen Club gridiron banquet tonight. ! At a press conference, the Sena-| tor expressed approval of President Roosevelt's national defense and | (Continued on Page Two)
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F.D. LANDON TALK SET AGAIN AFTER ‘MIXUP
President Phones Kansan In .Chicago and Ends ‘Comedy of Errors. By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 21—Presi‘dent Roosevelt today personal-| ly renewed his invitation to his| 1936 opponent, Alf M. Landon, to, confer with him tomorrow at the | White House, and announced that | Mr. Landon has accepted. | Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, said earlier cancellation of | the engagement was the result of a | mixup due to negotiations through | intermediaries. He said Mr. Roosevelt cut through the confusion this] morning with a long-distance tele- | phone call to Mr. Landon at Chicago. It was decided then that the 1936 Republican standard-bearer would lunch tomorrow at the White House,
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In Chicago, Mr. Landon an-| nounced he would leave there today | for Washington. Error in Announcement new
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| Brig. Gen Edwin M. Watson, anothler White House secretary, had said | the luncheon had been called off. ‘Mr. Early said, however, that Mr. | Roosevelt merely had wanted to postpone the luncheon engagement for one day rather than to cancel it entirely. | The comedy of errors followed re-| ports that Mr. Roosevelt is considlering the possibility of forming a | coalition cabinet, perhaps by naming [Col. Frank Knox as Navy Secretary, {replacing Secretary Charles Edison who is resigning to run for Governor of New Jersey. Mr. Roosevelt had invited Rep.!
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After a 60-mile smash to Abbeville, the
Nazis say they are in position to cut off a million Allied troops in
(U. P.).—France fought grimly today against the James W. Wadsworth (R. N. Y.) to “disaster” of a German offensive through her northeast toward the
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BULLETIN PARIS, May 21 (U. P.).—Germany’s vast aerial fleet unleashed all of its fury tonight in a tremendous drive to disorganize the Allied rear lines in northern France. French military sources reported that Marshal Hermann Goering’s air force, leading German panzer divisions of tanks and armored cars had spread a red zone of smoking ruins through Picardy and Flanders.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign
Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg
News Editor offensive stabbed 60 miles to
the English Channel today but Allied armies battled grimly ‘to break a huge German military pincers closing on the coast of northern France and Belgium.
The desperate position of Great Britain and France == | was admitted in the French Senate by Premier Paul Reynaud
‘who said that *‘unbelievable”
The Premier said that a
blunders permitted the Nazi
| break-through cn the River Meuse. But he promised that Fos | the Allies yet would conquer even if that requires a modern ‘military miracle.
terrible error had been coms
mitted on the French northern front, where the Germans seized a bridge across the Meuse that had not been blown
up and thus were able to pour their great mechanized
n strength through the heart of Allied defenses. German Gains Admittedly Great
Times Telephoto. penetration of the German armies,
long threatened attack on England.
; for Miracle
Almost as Reynaud spoke, air raid warnings sounded
lin Paris, anti-aircraft guns thundered along the English Channel and England feverishly prepared against the threat
of aerial bombardment or invasion for the first time in
almost nine centuries. And across the Channel,
which narrows to 22 miles at
Dover, the German mechanized units admittedly had taken
| Amiens and Arras and crashed on to Abbeville, at the mouth
luncheon today, but Mr. Wadsworth | Channel ports, but Premier Paul Reynaud—blaming the advance onigf the River Somme, in an effort to trap possibly 1,000,000 was unable to keep the appointment ‘unbelievable faults”—promised that the Allies yet would conquer, ev en) because of a previous engagement. |if a miracle is needed to save them. Promising punishment for those responsible for the German break miles long coast opposite England.
The Germans also claimed to have broken up the main French Army in the north and captured its commander, Gen,
Mr. Wadsworth is manager of the (Continued on Page Two)
BULLETINS
| WASHINGTON, May P.). — A terse Red Cross cable- | gram said today French food resources will be “immediately exhausted” because of the inroads | made on supplies by 5,000,000 | French and Belgian refugees.
! STOCKHOLM, May 21 (U. P.). —Sweden protested to Berlin today against the action of a Ger- | man seaplane in flying over and machine gunning the Swedish railroad station at Vassijaure yesterday. The Swedes said the German flier killed one civilian, Vassijaure is inside the frontier in the Narvik area.
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BERLIN, May 21 (U. P.).—Brit-
gium at the start of Germany's blitzkrieg are attempting to reach England and are under attack by the German air force, the official German news agency D. N. B said today. The agency claimed that Allied forces were completely surrounded in Belgivm and northern France,
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ish troops which were sent to Bel- |
{through on the River Meuse, Rey-| Inaud said that failure to blow up| ate, referred to the German ad{bridges had been partly responsible | vance in terms of “disaster” and | for the Nazi success and he charged admitted that the important cities that the Army of Gen. Andre Corap; of Amiens and Arras as well as Péer(U. |failed to reach the river in time tolonne and Hamm on the River Sompanzer attacking mans.
oppose the German (mechanized) divisions defenders who were “badly officered, badly trained and thinned out.”
The Premier, addressing the Sen-|
‘War's Not Lost'=London
LONDON, May 21 (U. P.).—The Allies may yet avoid defeat in the Northern France, British military experts but the battle can be lost without losing the war. An authoritative source said that the British expeditionary force |is “fighting well on positions assigned to it and is in good heart.” The {statement referred to British forces that had retired to the west of
“Battle of the Bulge” in
|said today,
| Belgium and Northeast France. Military sources took a reserved view of the German claims that they had reached the English Channel coast of France and said that |the battle in Northeast France can ‘not be regarded as a German victory until the Nazis have con-| |solidated their positions, | Even if the Germans get controi of Belgium and Northern | France, the Allies can reform along
MRS. WHITNEY STAYS IN RENO the Somme and Aisne Rivers. | CARSON CITY, Nev, May 21 (U.|
Thus the main German gains
(Liz) | would be the control of the coast! gown more than 50 enemy planes, | Whitney, who was divorced yester- opposite the Straits of Dover (only | aging 25 of their own. day from John Hav (Jock) Whit- | 22.8 miles from England) and posi- | ney, wealthy sportsman, plans to | tions that would “hamper” British- | {hat Sunday's raids on troop con- | remain in Reno “for a while” and French communications. probably will eventually return to)
Hollywood and resume her quest in a position to strike at England. in Belgium were made in the face | captain in the World War, but was]
The German planes also would be
|it was pointed out.
me, had been taken by the Ger-
| The fall of Laon 80 miles from |Paris also was admitted. It was (Continued on Page Three)
British planes made heavy bonib- | ing attacks on German lines 0 communications and treop concentrations immediately behind the | fighting fronts in France and Belgium vesterday, the Air Ministry | said today. The Ministry said the attacks | were continued during last night] and that in night raids on German | positions in Rotterdam, Holland, oil tanks were bombed. The Air Ministry said last night | that British fighter patrols had shot |
Royal Air Force pilots reported
| centrations, airdromes and com- | | munication lines of the Qermans,
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French, Belgian and British troops and take over the 140-
| Henri Giraud.
Nazi Press Is Jubilant
British as well as French military experts faced the possibility that the battle would be lost, but they pointed out that the Germans still must consolidate their positions and strengthen the thin lines of mechanized units pushed
through northern France.
Only the weakest advance units
have reached the Channel, they said. Even if the Nazis are successful in seizing the entire French and Belgian coast as far as the Somme, the British
said, the war will not be lost
But admittedly the Germans’ gains were great. Peak of the blitzkrieg attack was at Abbeville where the
flows
into the Channel
70 miles from England,
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‘Foe Bottled Up’ = Berlin’
BERLIN, May 21
(U. P).—The High | Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg armies had smashed through to | Channel in “the greatest attack operations of all times” and were ate
Command said today that the English
tempting to cut off all Allied troops in northern France and Belgium, Nazis claimed that about one million Allied troops had been isolated in Flanders and were in greatest peril after defeat of the French Ninth
Army and capture of its staff, including Gen. Henri last Saturday was placed in command of the main Allied defenses along the “bulge’ front.
Giraud, a famed strategist, was a
‘A War of Little Forts . . . Pretzel-Like Railways . .
By RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondent FRENCH ARMY
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, May 21.—Out at
the front today the Allies and Germans are fighting the strangest war
ever fought. | It is a war between thousands of little forts, in each of them a couple to 10 or 12 sweating men, who sweep fields, forests, roads and village streets with fire which it would be impossible for a man alone to live under for five minutes. The Allied tanks are now in action, smacking into German positions with their guns blazing, firing | their ammunition, and racing back to take on oil and more ammunition. | There: are two or three men in most of the tanks on the Allied side. They come back blackened and sweated. { The crews wear the special |leather helmets, padded front and (Oantinued on Page Three)
By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY IN BELGIUM, May 21.— Famished
dogs, left behind by their women §
and children owners in a panic flight, raced crazily about the streets of Louvain today. ‘Past the smouldering ruins of the beautiful
library which America rebuilt after :
the world War. Tongues lolling, the dogs raced
aimlessly, nosed for food and water, German
and raced on again. soldiers adopted some of them; the rest were left to themselves. Louvain is the most shot up town I have seen in this or the Polish wars.
and artillery. Tracks at the railroad station were like pretzels and we were warned by the Commandant that
the tracks were still mined and that Belgian homes , , .
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Whole blocks have been laid | waste by the joint action of Ger- _ man Stuka dive bompding planes °!
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“then we came upon a village that had been a target.”
Giraud, who! captured in the first two weeks of
fighting in 1914, The 60-mile break-through at lightning speed to the Channel port of Abbeville, only 70 miles across the water from the historic English [town of Hastings, was merely the outstanding of a series of gains claimed by the High Command. Other claims included: 1. The French towns of Arras, Amiens and Abbeville (all highly important communications centers in the north) were taken by German motorized troops which slashed their way with amazing speed to the Channel in order to speed up establishment of bases from which a blitzkrieg could be launched against England. 2. German columns led by the air (Continued on Page Three)
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