Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1940 — Page 1
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1600N TERROR DURING THREAT BY SEA RAIDER
Liner Washington Finally Released After Captain Lowered Boats.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.).—The U. 8S. Liner Washington, carrying 1020 passengers and a crew of 570, was threatened with torpedoing by an unknown submarine
off the north Portuguese|
coast early today, but was permitted to proceed after an agonizing exchange of signals
in the darkness. The Washington, lights blazing on American flags painted on her sides, was one of three large liners recently assigned to bring Americans home. Germany had sent official notices asserting it had information that her enemies would try to sink one or more of these ships and blame her. : Whatever the nationality of the submarine, it gave the Washington a real scare.
Sub Acknowledges Error The submarine came to the sur-
face and twice ‘ordered the captain|
of the Washington to abandon shi informing him the ship was to be/ torpedoed. On the second warning, a Capt. Harry Manning stuck to his] bridge and! kept advising the sub- |
ship, the submarine gave Mannin,
. *10 minutes” to abandon his TD Passengers and crew had
Capt. Manning, however, kept his
blinker signal going, advising the|
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PARIS DARKENED
‘BY SMOKE PALL
marine that this was an American
'Exodus of Civillans Gains
Momentum as Germans Draw Nearer. PARIS, June 11 (U. P.).—Under a
Cooling Showers Promised in City
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a. m...71 10am .. 80 Yam ,..7 1am... 81 8a. m ... 76 12 (noon) -.. 84 am ... 98 1pm... 8
Relief from the hot weatHer
which will send .the mercury into the high 80s again today was promised by tonight or tomorrow by the Weather Bureau.
HOUSE, SENATE SPEED DEFENSE
[Roosevelt Pledge of Total
Short-of-War Aid Gets Support.
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Troops Reported in Battle Since ‘Dawn; Bombing of Malta Claimed.
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Adolf Hitler struck with
Africa.
offensive into France.
earlier phases of the war.
the rear.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
T0 NEW FURY
Nazi Offensive Threatens Rear of Maginog Line; French Capital Prepares for Street |
Fighting; 24 Italian Ships Seized. (‘Today’s War Moves’ on Page Wo
i the full power of the German
armed forces at the smoke-blanketed city of Paris today and Italy moved against French and British Somaliland in sash
But Allied armies, enraged by the Italian “stab in ths and encouraged by President Roosevelt's promis: of material aid, fought back with increasing fury and at a mounting cost to the Germans against the crushing Nazi
The anger of British and French peoples against Italian Premier Benito Mussolini—denounced “jackal”’—and the plunge of Hitler's legions toward the gates of Paris seemed, for the moment at least, to spur the Allies to a peak of resistance and determination unequalled in
in London as a
Allies Counter-Attack Repeatedly
Again and again, the Allied armies counter-attacked before yielding ground on a semi-circular front that drew ever closer to the French capital and struck a wedge into the Argonne that Nazis said threatened the Maginot Line from
An official French spokesman said today that Paris may, be destroyed entirely because of French determination never
to yield the city intact to Adolf Hitler. The spokesman said that there can be no question of declaring Paris an open city in an effort to spare its art
ROME, June 11 (U. P.).—The Italian Army struck on several fronts today and was reported to have advanced into British and
terized the President’s address last night at Charlottesville, Va. “This is no time to speak
submarine that the Washington black pall of smoke almost as dense was an American ship. Finally|as last night's blackout, military auafter several minutes of silence, the |thorities took over Paris for defense submarine ordered Capt. Manning against German attack today as re-
There will be showers tonight and probably tomorrow to cool things off, the Bureau said.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.). Secretary of State Cordell Hull today officially and personally informed the Italian Ambassador
to proceed on his course. “Thought you were another ship,”
the marine commander at last] gba Go on.” Over the city throughout the night
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signalled. ease go on. The Washington sailed yesterday from Lisbon, en route to Galway, Ireland, to pick up more Americans before turning toward New York. -
Captain Phones Office
The dramatic story of how nearly 1600 American lives hung in the balance for 10 minutes on the sporadic dots and dashes of the two ships’ blinker systems was telephoned by Capt. Manning to the ..U. 8. Lines offices in New York, which advised the State Department. 7: Manning said the Washington, shortly after the first encounter last midnight (E. S. T.) had sighted another submarine of unknown nationality but that the second undersea boat had not stopped him. “The 8. S. Washington sailed from Lisbon at 5 p. m., June 10, with 1020 passengers and 570 members | of the crew bound for Galway, Ireland, on repatriation services. It carried no mail or cargo and trav- | + eled without convoy.
Boats Being Lowered
«Accordingly, notices were given by the United States Government to each of the belligerents. «The course she sailed had been previously notified to the belligerents. “At 5 a. m. this morning, Greenwich Mean Time, she was stopped by an unidentified submarine at 12 degrees 50 minutes west 42 degrees 12 minutes north and ordered to abandon ship and later ordered to proceed on her course. “The following- messages were exchanged by flicker signal. “Submarine—'Stop ship. East to ship. Torpedo Shp. : «“Washington—'American ship.’ «“gubmarine—‘Leave ship.’ ‘Washington—American ship.’ ‘Submarine—‘Ten minutes.’ “Washington — ‘American ship. American ship. “The submarine was silent and did not answer. «Washington — ‘American American ship.’ Ba ID Thought you were another ship. Please go on.’ “On the order to ‘leave ship’ the pasengers and crew were ordered to lifeboats and some of the boats were actually being lowered when the order came to ‘please go on. “The ‘vessel proceeded on her (Continued on Page Three)
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ports circulated that German tanks had approached the city’s outskirts. German planes were heard flying
when the city was shrouded in. the blackest bldckout of the war. This morning the miljtary governship took over the city. The day
the city. Highways Barricaded
(In London, the French Embassy said that the suburbs of Paris, especially on the south, were heavily bombed last night and that there was a great cloud of smoke over all the suburban districts. So far as is known, the Embassy said, the main part ‘of the city was not bombed. Other reports from London indicated fires were burning in the suburbs of Paris and said smoke was thick over the whole city.) . All highways leading to the city were barricaded. Preparations were being made to defend the capital | street-by- -street and block-by-block against German attack. Through the night cannonading {had been heard at intervals. Antiaircraft guns fired against the German planes. Martial Music Broadcast
The great exodus of civilians went on through the night and today. On all the main highways leading from the city today [there were long lines of pedestrians plodding through the haze. Some carried hastily wrapped bundles and others pushed carts or pulled small wagons. Automobiles carried a few refugees. The flight increased its miomentum as reports circulated of the swift advance of the Germans. Reports were current that German tank elements were approaching the outskirts. ; The Bourse was suspended . but
{newspapers continued to publish.
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By LEE G:" MILLER
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 11.—Twen-ty-five years ago an Italian editor was arrested for a speech urging intervention on the Allies’ side. His name was Benito. Mussolini. He was not in custody long. Three
weeks after his arrest Italy resigned from the Triple Alliance, and in another three weeks—on May 24, 1915—she was at war alongside England, France and. Tsarist Russia. Editor Mussolini, 31 then, was
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called to the colors. Before the war 15 was over—a war in which 600,000
13 Italian lives were lost—he had been
!wounded, had attained a sergeancy tand had abandoned socialism for something he called fascism. {In 1922 he hecame dictator of Italy, and yesterday, bellowing his belligerency above the ecstatic din of his biack-shirted claque, he took [Lily into the war against her forer comrades-at-arms.
broke with a black - haze covering!
CITY STREET FUNDS TERMED INADEQUATE
Situation Revealed in Study Of Budget.
By RICHARD LEWIS
The City is financially unable to halt the deterioration of its paved streets, half of which are 25 or more years old and in need of major repairs. This condition was disclosed for the first time today in a budget study by City Engineer M. G. Johnson The Engineer's report followed a disclosure last month that the streets cannot be repaired or resurfaced without drastic changes in the present budget structure or additional gasoline taxes. With its present budget setup and gas tax receipts, the Works Board can resurface only the equivalent of one mile.of 50-foot street each year. This costs $90,000. The City this year has exhausted its gas tax money for street resurfacing on the reconstruction of South St. from Alabama St. to Kentucky Ave. and of Talbott St. from 16th to 21st St. the equivalent of one mile. Mr. Johnson's report showed that the cost of reconstructing and widening one mile of dual lane pavement 62 feet from qurb to curb with a six-foot center esplanade is $190,000. This was approximately the cost of widening S. East St, which is considered a model municipal thoroughfare. Mile by mile, the cost of main-
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In some shadowy = Valhalla the
that in his deliberate judgment Italy’s entrance into the war “would be considered one of the greatest of human tragedies.”
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WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.). —The House Appropriations Committee today reported a $1,706,053,908 supplemental defense bill, with funds to increase the Regular Army to 375 men and to enable the Navy to start construction of 68 new warships. « The bill was. reported as the House itself completed Congressional action on legislation authorizing an 11 per cent increase in sea power and a 10,000-plane naval air force. These Congressional defense developments came as a majority of the legislators aligned themselves behind President Roosevelt's pledge of material aid to the hard-pressed Allied forces. The White House reported receipt of thousands of telegrams indorsing the policy. The United States, put on record by its Chief Executive as feeling that Italy, by its belated entry into the war, had thrust a dagger “into the back of its neighbor,” seemed to have abandoned its status as a real neutral, in the view of many officials, to become a non-bellig-erent. Mr: Roosevelt's pledge of full material aid to the Allies was made at the graduation exercises of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. late yesterday. To a cheering audience of graduates, students, faculty and visitors, and to millions of radio listeners, the President praised the “magnificent valor” with which the Allies are fighting .aggressors, and added:
to proclaim certain truths. Overwhelmingly we, as a nation, and
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committed the partners to consul-
“Let us not hesitate—all of us—
news may interest Woodrow Wilson, tation in advance of war, and that whose 14 points helped to frustrate|Italy had not even been apprised in at-the Paris Peace Conference what advance of the Austro-Hungarian Italians considered their destiny. ultimatum to Serbia. It came about this way: Then Italy went shopping. FindWhen the World War started,|ing Vienna cool to her territorial Italy proclaimed her neutrality |desires, she bartered in London with despite her alliance with Germany better results.
and Austro-Hungary. She pointed out that the treaty of alliance had
By the secret Treaty of London, signed April 26, 1915, the | Allies promised her:
one of America's
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loudly while carrying a feather duster.”—Editorial, Page 14.
GREEN SAYS A. F. L. WILL AID IN DEFENSE
Pledges Full Support to U. S. As Delegates Cheer.
William Green, A. F. of L. president, today pledged his organization’s whole-hearted support of America’s defense preparation in an address before the American Federation of Musicians’ convention at the Indiana Ballroom. “The workers are willing and determined to give a full measure of their support,” Mr. Green told more than 700 cheering delegates. “We will avoid becoming involved in strikes, because these are times of service. At the same time the employers must deal with the workers fairly, There must be no lowering of standards and no increase in hours of individual workers until every man in the nation has an opportunity to earn a decent living. “If Hitler takes Britain and, with it, the British fleet, the United States will be in the fight with Canada against Germany,” Mr. Green continued. Commenting on Italy's entrance (Continued on Page 11)
5000-A-DAY,” SAYS EDSEL
WASHINGTON, June 11 (U, P.. —FEdsel Ford asserted today that in a great emergency the Ford Motor Co. might be able to make 5000 airplanes a day, rather than the 1000 that his father, Henry, had mentioned.
In Some Valhalla, Duce's Action May Interest Wilson, Whose 14 Points Helped to Frustrate Italy's ‘Destiny’
1. A new northern boundary, reaching to the strategic Brenner Pass and taking in numerous Italians then under Austro-Hungarian rule. 2. A long stretch of the eastern Adriatic coast, reaching as far south as Cape Planka. 3. Confirmation of Italian sovereignty over the Dodecanese Islands in he eastern Mediterranean. 4, “Equitable compensation” for Italy in "Africa in the event of France and Britain enlarging their African territories at Germany's expense. Later, in a conference at St. Jean de Maurienne, the Allies further agreed that if Turkey were partitioned the Smyrna area would be Italy's. And then came President Wilson, on Jan. 8, 1918, with his 14 points. Point nine stated that “a readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recogniz-
able lines of nationality.” Note that
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French Somaliland. At the same time aerial bombing attacks were carried out on Malta.
ROME, June 11 (U. P.).—Italy speeded wartime measures today as authoritative quarters said that since dawn Italian troops had been in battle at unspecified points and Premier Benito Mussolini, under orders from King Victor Emmanuel, took supreme command of land, sea and air forces. The King left Rome for the field. After a meeting of the Council of Ministers, Foreign Minister - Count Galeazzo Ciano left by airplane to take command of an aviation squadron. t Where Italian troops had gone into action remained a military secret but a communique was promised for later today, an authoritative source said. Military headquarters were moved from Rome as part of an effort to keep the capital an open city and ‘free from aerial bombardment. The Council of Ministers under the presidency of Mussolini adopted legislation for control or confiscation ‘of commercial and industrial firms owned or operated by subjects | \ of enemy states. The Cabinet extended death sentences for certain crimes, such as murder, robbery by violence, kidnaping for ransom and rape. It created a special department to deal with food supplies and increased surtaxes from 25 to 100 per cent. Authoritative quarters regarded President Roosevelt's speech of last (Continued on Page Three)
TURKEY MAY DECIDE WAR STAND TODAY
‘Gray Wolf’ Hurries to Ankara to Meet Cabinet.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 11 (U. P.).—President Ismet Inonu, the “gray wolf” of Turkey, meets with his Cabinet at Ankara today in a session that may determine whether Turkey enters the war on the side of the Allies. Bitterly anti- German like the late leader of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, Inonu broke off a tour of inspection of Turkey's fortifications in Thrace and rushed back to Ankara to discuss the nation’s position as a result of Italy’s entry into the war. Cabinet members had held an urgent session here last night and returned to Ankara ready to report all developments to the President.
U. S.-ITALY CABLE CUT NEW . YORK, June 11 (U.P.).— The Commercial Cable Co. was informed today that the cable line linking Italy and the United States had been interrupted at 1 p. m. at some point beyond the Azores. It was believed that the cable had been severed by the Allies.
treasures and famous buildings.
spokesman said.
for Prime “Minister Winston
victory for the Allied cause.
of the blockade.
House of Commons: “Mr. Roosevelt has vitally inspired the free people of Europe. His assurance that the material resources of his great nation will be placed at the disposal of the Allies makes it inevitable that, however, hard the road, the cause of civilization will in the end prevail.” Attlee, 'in addition to commenting on President Roosevelt's Charlottesville, Va., speech last | night, told commons: 1, That Italy had entered the war like “a jackal seeking to get some scraps from the kill of another beast.” 2. That 24 Italian ships had already been seized and three others
Commons that the material aid of America wou
“We are confident that Hitler's hordes never will ge to Paris but if they do we shall defend every stone, every, clod of earth, every lamp post and every building,” the
“We would rather have Paris razed to the ground than fall into the hands of the. Germans.” In London, Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Atlee, spe
ng se of assure
Churchill, told the H
Italian Ships Are Seized
Twenty-four Italian ships have been seized and three others scuttled, he said, and Italy is already feeling the power of the Allied fleets which will squeeze her i in the grip
The British Admiralty said that Italian waters—includs ing the upper Adriatic—had been mined. The statement claimed that mines had been sown in waters which would
cut off or endanger operations around virtually all Italian {Coyiinuéd on Page Three)
‘U.S. Our Savior’ =London
LONDON, June 11 (U. P) Maj. Clement Attlee, member of the Inner War Cabinet, said today that President Roosevelt's assurance thas | America’s material resources will be placed at the disposal of the Allies assures a victory for the Allied cause. Speaking for Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
Attlee told the
were scuttled by their own crews. 3. That Italy, like Germany, will feel the ever-tightening pinch of the Allied blockade. J 4. That the Allies were forced to withdraw from Norway because of the pressure on the French front. A War Office communique said today that airplanes bombed ‘ and raided Malta several times during the morning. - The War Office. said that one enemy plane was destroyed in the attacks which were described as having caused only slight damage. Malta is Britain's island fortress (Continued on Page Four)
‘Paris Must Pay’—Berlin
BERLIN, June 11 (U. P.) —German military sources asserted late tow day that German troops are approaching Paris both from the northwest and northeast! and are now only 37 miles away in both |directions,
light guns—weére described as operating against the British east coast where they apparently were intercepted by the destroyers. Severe engagements resulted, the German sources said, but all the speedboats returned to their bases. The statement by German military sources indicated that important German infantry forces are approaching Paris. ‘Previously, German tanks and other armored elements have been reported considerably nearer the French .capital. Previously, it had been indicated ithat the Geran forces closest to
Military spokesmen at the same time claimed that during] the night German speedboats battled with British destroyers off the coast of Britain, The German speedboats—fast motor craft carrying torpedoes and
Paris were those driving dovn from the northwest. The assertion tha troops also are approaching the city from the northeast would indicate an advance southwest of Soissons. The High Command communique said that a vast battle was “proe ceeding in full force” from the Engs lish Channel to the Luxembourg frontier and that the Germans were making progress in bitter fighting east of Rheims. In this sector, according to the newspaper Hacht Ausgabe, the “ads (Continued on Page Three)