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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 83

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers tomorrow; not much change in femperature.

SATURDAY, JUNE

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RUSSIA SIGNS NE ES LITHUANIA;

Tommies Go Back for Another Crack at Nazis

DRUNK DRIVER 1S FINED. $780, GIVEN1B0DAYS

Six Farm Terms Are to Be ~ Served Concurrently; Wife : Also Convicted.

Convicted of traffic. violations following three arrests, Roy King, alias Roy Atkins, alias Oscar Brown, 32, of 517 S. Taft St., today faced payment of $780 in fines and a 180-day term on the State Farm.

If he does not pay the fines he must serve out at $1 a day the largest single one, $250, which with his sentence will make one year and 65 days. The sentences run concurrently. Arrested on April 29, Judge Charles Karabell fined him $10 and costs and sent him to jail for 10 days for driving while drunk, and fined him $1 and costs for being crunk. The days were suspended | and he was placed on probation to pay. His driver's license was Ssuspended. He was arrested on May 20 as the result of an accident and the case was continued until yesterday. Meanwhile, he was arpested after an accident June 9 and was held in| jail pending yesterday's hearing.

Penalties Listed

These penalties were imposed: On the May 20 charges—for driving while drunk, $100 and costs and | 180 days on the State Farm; driver’s license suspended for one year; | driving while license was suspended, | $100 and costs and 180 days; fail- | ure to stop after an accident, $50 and costs; drunk, $10 and costs and | 180 days. i On the June 9 charges—driving | while license suspended, $250- and | costs and 180 days; driving while drunk, $100 and costs and: 180 days;

The 180-day sentences are. to run concurrently. s Wife Also Fined His wife, Mary, who was arrested | with him on May 20 and June 9! on charges of drunkenness, was | given two fines, $25 and costs and’ $10 and costs and sent to the! Women’s Prison_for 30 days. Convicted of driving 70 miles an hour on E. 38th St., Henry an 1925 E. 69th St., was fined $25 and costs today by Judge John McNelis.| Judge Karabell fined Claude |

Steel- helmeted British troops, fully equipped with pack rolls and provision sacks, march up the gangplank of a transport ship in a southpast port, part of the second expeditionary force England is pouring across the channel into France to stand against Hitler's crushing legions,

Pressure From Home Makes

Adjournment Unlikely Now

' Administration Leaders Apparently Resigned to Situation;

Democrats in Dilemma on Question.

By THOMAS

L. STOKES

‘Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 15.—Pressure from back home has manifested! ha degree that Administration leaders now apparently are d toykeeping Congress in session, with brief recesses for the na-

itself to s resi uel tional political conventions.

Influential with members are some letters expressing fear that Presidrunk, $100 and costs and 180 days. | dent Roosevelt's policies might involve the United States in the European

MIDNIGHT CANNONS WAITED BY ANGLERS

Indiana Towns Celebrate As Season Opens.

Perhaps not every one of the ap-| | proximately 300,000 fshing license |

|war, and reminding Congress of its responsibility in a critical period. Senator Bennett Clark (D. Mo.), who has been active in the antiwar group and in a campaign to keep Congress. in session, said today that the war fear is prevalent in jioitors and telegrams which have ome in since President Roosevelt's Speech at Charlottesville, Va., early this week. “The people are for giving help to the Allies, but they are very much against going into this war, and

anybody who “thinks otherwise is|

Harrick, 207 Fulton St., $1 and costs (holders in Indiana will be at lakes | making a mistake,” Senator Clark snd sentenced him to 10 days in tAbd streams tomorrow as the sea- | said.

jail for reckless driving, and $1 and costs and 10 days for failure to stop at a through street, and 10 days for speeding. A fine of $1 and costs imposed on a resisting charge was suspended, The sentences also run concurrently.

Twh-Hurt Seriously in JSlide Across Pavement

‘Twa persons were injured seriousy today when they slid 20 feet across the concrete highway after (Continued on Page Two)

PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (U.P).

—Damage was estimated at $1,000, -| 000 today from Philadelphia's first

five-alarm fire in a ‘decade which

swept a lumber yard and spread to

houses, stores and manufacturing plants in the vicinity. Fanned by a stiff southeast wind, | the flames started in the block- | square Howard Ketcham Lumber vard. Two rows of dwellings were damaged and at least five Andustrial | plants were ignited. Fire-fighters

summoned by the five alarms within |

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16 minutes were able however to avert a major conflagration. Nearly a score of civilians and firemen, including Battalion Chief Maurice Horan,| were injured or overcome by smoke. *

"MERCY SHIP SAILSNEW YORK, June 15 (U. P.).— The “mercy ship’ McKeesport, carrying a $1,000,000 Red Cross cargo of foods and medical supplies, sajls shortly after noon today under i siructions to proceed at full speed to Bordeaux where an epidemic is {feared among war refugees.

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son opens. Maybe a few will be out of the state on business. But at midnight tonight there will be a general uprising of fishermen in the state and the bass, pike, crappies, blue gills and red-eared sunfish had better beware. There will be fish season celebrations tonight at Angola, Monticello, \Elkhart and Jasonviile. There will be parades and speeches, fish fries] and general street ceiebrations. At midnight a cannon will be fired \in each of these towns and the fishermen will run for . the streams. Conservation Department officials predi¢t that this year the fishing {will be better than usual.

PROTESTS AGAINST VITT ARE RENEWED

CLEVELAND, June 15 (U. P.).— | Protests against Manager Oscar Vitt | | were renewed today by\ important | members of the Cleveland Indians | who fear that President Alva Bradley is weakening and will allow the { situation to drift to some sort of al | settlement. “Everything was fine at the ball! | park yesterday and we won a game, "| | said Bob Feller. “But all the boys] { still feel something has to be done. |I don't want anybody to think I'm | temperamental. I'm not. I always| | gave everything I had. But there | is too much nervousness on this’ team right now.”

1750 U. S. REFUGEES ABOARD WASHINGTON:

GALWAY, Ireland, June 15 (U. P.).—The United States Liner Washington, carrying a capacity load of 1750 Americans fleeing the war zones, sailed for New York at 11:55 o'clock ‘(Indianapolis Time) last night. The skies were overcast and a mist shrouded the liner as she eased out of the harbor. Approximately 850 passengers boarded the liner to join those picked ‘up at other European ports. {Most passengers were women or | children.

CAIRO, Egypt, June 15 (U. P.).— United States Vice Consul Evan] Wilson said there were 575 Americans in the Near East awaiting [passage home and that only 125 of them could be accommodated on American Export Line ship,

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Excalibur, now in Mediterranean

A canvass of the House has shown a majority in that body against adjournment, and this was reflected in {Speaker ‘William Bankhead’s (D. | Ala.) admission that Congress could not adjourn, as previously Planned, by June 22. One poll én the Senate shows that branch evenly divided, though Senator Clark claims there mow is a majority against adjournment. Floor Leader Alben Barkley (D. Ky.), it was learned, has told members privately that Congress will not adjourn, though the Administration still would like to have the legislators wind up their work and go home. Democrats are in a dilemma. Republicans have taken a stand against adjournment and are prepared to make a political issue of it if the Democrats should ‘succeed in forcing an adjournment at this time. If something should happen ‘after Congress adjourned, then the (Continued on Page Three)

SHOWERS DUE, BUT THE HEAT’S STILL ON

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ...%1 10am. ...8 Ta m.... 73 11 a. m. . 81 8a. m. ... 75 .12 (noon) .. 83 9a m. ... 7

There will be occasional showers in Indianapolis tomorrow, - the Weatherman predicted today. There was no promise of relief from the present heat. There will not be much change

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Life With Father Tomorrow Probably Won't Be Tied

Dad can sit back in his chair tonight and relax. For the 6dds are with him that he won't get the perenniai necktie for Father's Day tomorrow. Johnny, Mary ‘and mother are choosing a wider variety of gifts for Dad this year than in years

past and are concentrating strongly on cool summer clothing, chiefly sports wear, according to downtown store managers. Polo shirts, slack suits and light

‘weight pajamas are very much in J

War Bulletins

ITALIAN FORTS SEIZED LONDON; June 15 (U. P.)— The War Office issued a communique tonight saying that British troops and the Royal Air Force had captured two Italian forts, Cappuzzo and Maddalena, near the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The captures, previously announced in Cairo, said ‘that “four Italian officers and 100 men were taken prisoner at Ft. Cappuzzo. Ft. Maddalena surrendered, -

BRITISH CRUISER SUNK ‘LONDON, June 15 (U. P.).— The British Cruiser Calypso, 4180 tons, has been sunk in the Mediterranean by an Italian submarine, the Admiralty announced today.

BULLITT ‘FREE TO MOVE’

BERLIN, June 15 (U. P.).—Because of limited communications with ' Paris, avthorized German quarters said today, it was not known whether U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt was remaining in Paris or whether he had left to join the refugee French Government at Bordeaux. Mr. Bullitt, it was said, continued to have complete freedom of movement as a neutral diplomat and was free to pass through German lines whenever he desired to do so.

EX-PREMIER MAY GO FREE

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, June 15 (U. P.).~Former Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch, interned recently by the Government, has received assurances that he will be rejeased soon, it was understood today. Stoyadinovitch long has been in disfavor because of his strong Nazi-Fascist leanings.

‘WE WANT GIBRALTAR’

MADRID, June 15 (U. P.). Crowds shouted “we want Gibraltar” when Generalissimo Francisco Franco motored through the city yesterday en route to the “Spanish reconstruction - exposition.” :

JUDGE DISMISSES BEVERAGE CHARGES!

Charges of violating the 1935 Beyerage Act and the Slot Machine Act against Willard Starkey, arrested Tuesday at the Labor Temple, 45 Virginia Ave., were dismissed by Municipal Judge Charles Karabell today. The Judge charged that police made illegal entry because they were without a search warrant. Twelye slot machines seized by the officers were not returned.

“What can I get for my Dad that is comfortable?” However, the necktie, that timehonored symbol by which most of the nation used to recognize father’s existence and pay him tribute, still ranks high in the public favor. Many Dads, like it or not, will have ties (not of their own choosing) to wear to church or wherever they may. go on “their day.” : And, of course, they “can always use a tie.” Somnie dads will get pipes, cartons of cigarets, golf balls and golf clubs.

A TIRED TOMMY FISHES IN SEINE

Reporter With B. E. F. Finds Soldiers Cheerful After Battling ‘Snarlers.’

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN FRANCE, June 14, 7 p. m. (Delayed) —Tonight I visited a Britisn light tank unit just returned from three weeks of catch-as-catch-can fighting against the spearhead of the German attack. This unit, once a crack cavalry regiment, has been doing seemingly impossible tasks in an all-out fight, far removed from the reconnaissance and skirmishing work it was supposed to do. I found the men of this unit still cleaning their guns and their faces, and already one of thém,.his face ‘washed and his gun clear, was strolling along the river bank with a long fishing pole of the type which French . fishermen hold for hours without—as far as anyone has ever known—catching a fish. These men had been asked to deliver frontal assaults on positions in which the Germans were dug in

against the famous German .37(Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS GAIN UNDER STEEL SHARE’S LEAD

New York stocks advanced today under lead of steel shares, then receded from the highs, Traders anticipate further gains in steel production next week. Bonds were higher and cotton futures had gains ranging to 50 cents a bale. W leat closed higher at Chicago, but corn dipped fractionally. Sterling fell more than 3 cents and there were no dealings in the French franc in exchange markets. |

NANCY GOODRICH ON WAY FROM NEW YORK

Miss Nancy Dorwin Goodrich, 18-year-old granddaughter of ‘former Governor James Putnam Goodrich, was en route to her home in Golden Hill today lafter being missing in New York for five days. After an eight-state missing person alarm had been sent out tor the Vassar College freshman, she encountere Haerle, when she stepped into a New York hotel lobby last night. Friends said there had been a misunderstanding between the girl and her mother over plans for her returning home after the Vassar commencement.

MARTINSVILLE PLANT BURNS MARTINSVILLE, Ind, June 15 (U. P).—The Davis Cooperage Co. plant was destroyed today by fire of id origin with a loss estimated at | $50,000, principally in lumber.

ERNIE'S BACK!

“The Vagabond From Indiana’

column

resumes his today. Turn

And on July 1 they may get a P,

deep, to take their little tanks in|

her stepfather, Louis!

VERDUN

ALLIED FORCE

INTACT,

ITALY ATTACKS

ALLIED ENVOYS AND PRESIDENT INCONFERENCE

Request Meeting as Senate ‘the little Baltic state of

Committee Approves Tax Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P.). —The Senaie Finance Committee voted unanimously in favor of a special tax bill designed to raise $1,007,000,000 a year to help defray cefense costs as the French and British Ambassadors were conferring with President Roosevelt on the war situation. : The conference with the President was requested by Lord Lothian, the British envoy, and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin,-the French amrassador. It was presumed the possibility of additional aid to the Allied armiesgalso was discussed.

The meeting came as the Senate was speeding action on Mr. Roosevelt’s $5,021,000,000 defense program. The chamber met in a Saturday session, an unusual procedure. Chairman Pat Harrison said the defense bill would be "laid before the Senate Monday with the possibility of its passing Wednesday. The Committee also accepted, 16 te 4, an amendment by Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) calling for 2 10 per cent reduction in all Govcrnment expenses except for defense.

2 Measures Pending

Two defense measures are pending on the Senate calendar, blocked by prolonged debate on the Houseapproved $1,224,784,918 relief bill, Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley ordered the ' Senate to abandon its customary Saturday recess to take final action on the relief bill and to begin work on the pending defense legislation. President Roosevelt, meanwhile, ordered the Federal Power Commission to take immediate steps to insure adequate electric power for the national defense program, while Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed that the Government is investigating reports of propagandist (Continued on Page Three)

IT'S T00 LATE FOR 0,5. AID, BERLIN SAYS

Urges Europe Be Let to Put Own House in Order.

BERLIN, June 15 (U. P.). — The newspaper Hamburger Fremdenblatt said today that even if the United States wished to help the Allies win the war, it would not be able. And, the newspaper said, if the United States wishes European recognition of the Monroe Doctrine, it must recognize the doctrine of

| Europe for Europeans.

“America is another world,” the newspaper said. “Its isolationists —the real Americans, peaceful conquerors of the continent who for years were for the peaceful wellbeing of their farms in the Middle West, the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico—are absolutely right when, by their natural attitude, they always maintain that it is a matter for Europeans to put European affairs in order.”

ECUADOR CUTS DOWN ON U. S. IMPORT LIST

QUITO, Ecuador, June 15 (U. P.). —The Ecuadorean Government today issued a decree virtually prohibiting the import of a long list of United States products. Effective today, the decree stated, import quotas will be reduced by 75 per cent on American-made auto-

mobiles, sewing machines, flour, lard, | paints and varnishes, hosiery, patent |; leather and imitation leathers, and |}

cash registers. The United States has long ranked as the leading foreign seller in Ecuador.

INJURED IN SCUFFLE . Guy Pitts, 39, of 1110 N. Gale St., night engineer at Tomlinson Hall, was treated at the City Hospital last night for cuts received when he attempted to rout a number of “gate crashers” on the roof of the Hall while a dance was in progress. Mz. Pitts told police about 25 men

|attacked him as he attempted to get

‘Northward passing through Verdun and running to the north

ALL TILL INSISTS; IN ALP

Genoa Regions Bombarded by Warshipsj) Separate Peace Rumor Is Denied;

French Cabinet in Session.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

German armies, striking with furious power, captured

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Verdun today and clamped a huge military pincers into the

northern end of the Maginot Line. Italian armies punched. into the French Alpine frontier and Russia's Amy occupied Lithuania. The collapse of the| Maginot Line was at hand, Nazis said, after the $500,000,000 defense system was breached on a wide front in a tremendous attack by German aerial, - artillery and infantry units south of Saarbruecken. The citadel and town of Verdun were captured and also the forts of Vaux and Marre.

Allies In act, London Insists

The battle still goes| on in France with the Allied armies withdrawing instact and rumors that the French will make a separate peace unjustified, authorized spokesmen in Lon. don insisted. But the Germans clgimed that their armies were smashe ing forward on the entire front in northern France, that 200,000 prisoners had been taken and that the line of retreat of the French had been “turned” or disrupted by Nazi encircling tactics. In Moscow, the official news agency ‘said that a covenant had been signed last Monday by Russia and Germany for procedure in settlement of frontier problems and that negoe tiations had been proceeding “in a friendly atmosphere.”

French Cabinet in Session sia}

Somewhere in France, decision that may be of the greatest importance. Premier - Paul Reynaud conferred with Gen. military situation just before the meeting. The German stab [into the historic Verdun battlefield was the spearhead of operations behind the Maginot Line, co-ordinated with a great frontal attack south of Saar

bruecken which the Nazis said had breached the line which

niilitary experts once considered impregnable.

In the World War, the Germans began an attack on Vere

dun in February of 1916 and continued it until September, taking parts of the area but finally failing in the main attack and being driven back by a French counter-offensive.

Terrific Blow to France

From a military viewpoint, the German break through in the Maginot Line (if confirmed) would be a terrific if not final blow to the battered French défenses. The point of penetration was said by the Nazis to be on the east-west part of the Maginot Line (near Saarbruscken)) where the defense system turns at right angles from the

d be in a a to sweep slong beto the Italian frontier.

ward, Presumably wou hind the Maginot Line

Separate Peace Rumors Denied

rate peace with France, which were were also ignored by German officials at they were not interested because

Rumors of a sepd still denied in London, in Berlin, who said th they were out to annil smash the “plutocrats/’ in Britain.

Britain was busily intensifying preparations for doe (Continued on Page Three) 2 Ls

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St. Didier because here is the hinge of the French line which

corner of the Maginot Ling, 65 miles away. If this hinge can be broken, and the main French line flung backward toward the new fighting area south of Paris, the Allied forces will be cut into three sections. The first section, comprising most of Weygand's strength, will have to retreatl south-

. westward. Thea E second section will | comprise

the [French forces | between St. Didier and the northwestern pivot of the Maginot Line, including Verdun and the Argonne. The third section will include all the Maginot | fortifica-

major puipose. Weygand’s lines, however, are intact and there is no in tion as yet of the St. Didier breaking. Nevertheless only les sening of German pressure, it would seem, can prevent continuation ¢ the slow Allied retreat. If Weys gand is forced to abandon Ve

swing southeastward, himself pi ing on St. Didier or some sector. Should the retreat extensive, he would have to" cons sider abandonment of the Ma Line, hetween Montmedy and Strase bourg, using the Vosges Moun A to ‘protect his right flank.

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