Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1940 — Page 1
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[MSeres Jnowssn] VOLUME 52—NUMBER 84
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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1940
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11 Army Fliers Killed in Mid-Air Collision: , -,, =....;
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FDR Acts to Weld Americas
FALLING PLANE
FIRES 2 HOUSES|
Two in Crew Die in Tragic| Effort to Bail Out; Report One Survives.
NEW YORK, June 17 (U. P.).— Eleven Army fliers were Killed shortly before a. m. today when two United States Army bombers, un maneuvers out of Mitchel Field crashed in. mid-air and piled up in
flames onthe streets of Bellrose.
Manor, a populous section of suburban Queens. The planes, Douglas bombers Mitchel Field for maneuvers student fliers | aboard early morning. One mancuver called for one bomber to pass under another. The under plane was not low enough, it was announced officially, and the wings of the two ships locked. Almost immediately both ships plummeted to earth. Four planes, two. bombers and two pursuit ships, were in the original formation. The smaller craft escaped the tangle and headed back fur Mitchel Field as the bombers were falling in flames.
Report Major Bailed Out
An unidentified major was re.ported to have bailed out success-
twin-motor B-18-A took off from with this
fully and to have suffered a broken
leg, but this was not officially confirmed. First Lieut. Paul Burlingame, in command of one of the bombers, was a former football star at West Point. For the past four years he has been assistant football coach at the U. S. Military Academy there. He formerly lived in Louisville. Mayor F. H. La Guardia, a flier
® during the World War, arrived at
the scene of the crash while bodies and wreckage still were strewn about. «This is one of the inevitable accidents of training,” he said. One of the planes landed on a (Continued on Page Three)
Into, Giant Economic ‘Cartel
Step Would Prevent Germany and Italy:From Trading by Barter, in This' Hemisphere. WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P) —President Roosévelt moved today
to place all nations of the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, on an economic offensive designed to offset the implications of Germany's
military victory over France.
He proposed swift creation of a central trading agency for all of the Americas to compel Germany, Italy and other totalitarian countries to conduct their business in this hemisphere along conventional lines rather than through barter or similar systems.
The move appeared to be an fe) vitation to all other nations in the world to join in an economic drive] to nullify the victorious march of totalitarian nations against the democracies.
The President had no commen at whatsoever on the French capitu- |
lation, as such, but his plan for a trade monopoly in the new world was considered a reply. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, who made the announcement, did not disclose details of the plan. He disclosed, however, that Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., and ‘Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins are working at top speed on the proposal. This development ‘came- as a
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‘TIS HOT AND TWILL
BE HOT TOMORROW
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am ...%7 10a m. ... 8 7a. m....73 11am .. 81 8am. ... 7 12 (noon) .. 83 9am ...78 1p. m ... 84
This hot weather will continue in Indianapolis at least through tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said today. Skies will be partly cloudy and there will be local showers or thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow, the forecaster said. Yesterday’s maximum was 89 at 2 p. m.
STOCKS RALLY AFTER
WAR NEWS LOSSES
Report of Record Steel Mill Activity Starts Rise.
New York stocks rallied smartly early this afternoon after they had plunged from two to more than five points in morning dealings on
news of the French surrender. Announcement that the nation’s steel factories will operate at 87.7 per cent of capacity, highest this year, started the rally. French dollar bonds were offered $10 to $200 cheaper .but nobody bought them. German and ‘Italian loans soared $20 to $110 at New York. Dealings in the French franc were suspended in London and there were no quotations at New York on Europe's second most important monetary unit. Cotton broke $2 a bale and wheat futures at Chicago cracked more than 6 cents a bushel in early transactions but losses were partly recouped.
LONDON, June 17 (U. P).— France’s capitulation paralyzed dealings in British Government bonds today and forced stock issues to the lowest levels since 1933. Dealers appeared stunned by the French surrender, notwithstanding the fact that such move was not entirely unexpected.
IMPETUS GIVEN DEFENSE BILLS
Conbress to Sy on Jobs ‘Britain - Will Continue Buying War Goods.
By "UNITED PRESS Administration leaders decided today against any adjournment of Congress this week, as had been suggested, explaining that because of the crisis following France's surrender, greater defense efforts were necessary. British members of the Allied
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purchasing mission in this country hurriedly re-examined their present orders for war equipment, indicat‘ing that they probably would take over French commitments.
Tax Bill Debated
Mr. Roosevelt conferred with his Secretary Stephen T. Early on the implications of the French move. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and his State Department aides studied diplomatic reports. The Senate began .debate of the Administration’s $1,008,000,000 - a - year national defense tax bill amid increasing indications that Congress will remain in session, probably for the duration of the progeny war emergency. Alien Bill Pushed
The defense measures include the $1,706,000,000 supplemental Army and Navy appropriation, an alien fingerprinting bill sponsored by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D., Va.), who said he would press for its speedy passage in the upper chamber. Other developments bearing on defense: Chairman Carl Vinson of the
House Naval Affairs Committee in-
troduced a new naval expansion bill calling for a 23 per cent increase in the U. S. Navy by the addition of 84 warships at an ultimate cost of $1,200,000,000. The President signed another (Continued on Page Three)
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! Britain Carries On; Hitler,
War Bulletins
WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P.).—The United States is keeping close watch on peace developments in Europe which might affect " French possessions in this hemisphere, Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today.
CONNALLY: SEND WARSHIPS WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P.).—Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told the Senate today that the United States should send warships immediately to protect British and French possessions in the Western Hemisphere.
HINTS HITLER IN PARIS § ROME, June 17 (U.P.).—The newspaper La Tribuna said today that Adolf Hitler was expected momentarily in Paris “and perhaps has already arrived.” La Tribuna added that luxtirious apartments in the Palace of Versailles, where the Allies dictated peace to Germany in 1919, were being prepared for Hitler's occupancy.
_ FINLAND FEARS DEMANDS
LONDON, June 17 (U.P.).— Scandinavian circles here said they had reports that Finland feared that Soviet Russia may present some new demands to her although it was said that none had been made so far.
EGYPT WON'T DECLARE WAR CAIRO, June 17 (U.P.).—Premier Ali Maher Pasha said today that Egypt would not declare war. on, Italy ‘because of recent frontier clashes. dents were capable of diplorh | adjustment.
NAZI LEGATION STONED
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 17 (U. P.).—Two thousand student demonstrators stoned the German legation building today, breaking a window.
NAZIS SEEK NORSE PEACE
OSLO, June 17 (U. P.).—A new Norwegian Government may be established, it was indicated to- . day, to meet the demand of German military leaders here for a formal peace between Germany and Norway.
DUCE AND CIANO CONFER ROME, June 17 (U. P.).—Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Allessandro Pavolini, Minister of Popular Culture, returned from the front at 6 p. m. tonight and went into conference with Premier Benito Mussolini.
HINT ICELAND NEXT STOCKHOLM, June 17 (U. P.). —Germany was reported today to be contemplating air and sea operations against British-occupied Iceland to obtain a new base for an offensive against the British Isles.
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LONDON HOPES FRENCH FLEET WILL AID HER
Hint Ally May Turn Over All Her Resources to Great Britain.
LONDON, June 17 (U. P).— Great Britain today pledged, herself tv carry on the war against Germany alone. But authoritative British sources ceclared belief that despite the French offer to sue for peace, France will carry on the war in the theaters outside French soil. There is no reason to believe, it was said here, that France will not place all her resources outside the nother country at the disposal of ber war ally. It was stated authoritatively that France is expected to act as did Foland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, toe Netherlands. . Belgium did + [when Germany overran the home
soil. Fleet Intact, British Say
In view of French traditions, it was stated here, it was anticipated tcat whatever terms France was forced to maxe to begin about cessaticn of hostilities on the French Lattlefields, the war will go on. The French Army in the Near East and Africa, it was noted, and the French fleet are intact and in position to carry on the struggle. As for Britain herself, the watchword was ‘no surrender.” An authoritative statement said: “The British Empire will carry on the fight for democracy.” Newspaper editorials landed the (Continued on Page Three)
SULLIVAN GOES OVER BUDGET WITH AIDS
Works Board Seeks Boost of $21,974 Over 1940.
City department heads were summoned for their first budget conference today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. The Mayor said he wished to review 1941 budget estimates with the department heads before any revision is made. Departmental estimates were submitted to City Controller James E. Deery Saturday. Mr. Deery said he had not yet
114 abulated the estimates but that hg
did not believe they exceeded the
NO present budget by a large amount.
The Works Board budget, one of those to be reviewed, showed a ten-
7|tative increase of $21,974 over this
year. Part of the increase resulted from the airport request which was $5000 above the current budget. A $14,000 increase over this year was asked by the street commission and a $3500 increase by the city garage.
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
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GERMANY MAY COMPLETE CAP! ARMIES
ULATION; THUNDER SOUTH
Marshal Petain Succeeds Reynaud and Acts To End War; Nazis Refer to Famed Maginot Line as ‘Mousetrap.’
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
France asked Adolf Hitler for “peace with hogor” toda, but Great Britain fought on alone. The Nazi fuehrer—described unofficially | by Nagi sources as likely to accept nothing but complete capitulation —arranged to meet with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to: discuss the French proposal broadcast by Premier Marshal Henri Petain as German armies thundered |southward through the beaten and exhausted ranks of poilus. In Madrid, it was announced that Hitler had invited Spain to participate in the peace negotiations. Mussolini leaves Rome tonight to meet Hitler somewhere in Germany,
or -Francesponibly Munich.
Britain Hoping for Fleet | y
Leaders of the British Government took the position that the fight must go on and that France probably would join Qther refugee governments to carry on outside French soil, ‘especially with the French naval forces that are so vital to Britain. But that may depend on the meeting — Hitler and Mussolini. The advance of German armies through France cone tinued at a headlong pace despite the wan Fo of aged Marshal Petain, the man who said at Verdun a quarter of a century ago: “They shall not pass.” | The city of Orleans, relieved by Joan of Arc in an his toric battle five centuries ago, fell to the German mechanized columns, the Rhone Valley resounded to their thundering advance and the Maginot Line became what Germans called a ‘“‘mouse trap” for French soliders as a result of a Nazi push to the Swiss frontier. | | |
French Are Reported Restive
A censored United Press dispatch from Bordeaux indie cated that the French people were restive. | Political views that had been buried during the crisis, it said, are now coming to the front again and “class opinions” may eventually become more grave. The dispatch referred to reports that caused the public wrath to rise, but the nature of the peporis was not passed by the censorship. In Hungary, Premier Count Teleki congratulated Hitler on the German victory in France. Bucharest was fearful that Germany might aid Hungarian territorial claims against Rumania: At the same time another question mark as growing bigger. What does Soviet Russia plan to do? Russian troops which Saturday swarmed into Lithuania on Gers many’s eastern frontier poured into the other | Baltic states —Latvia and Estonia today. = Observers wondered whether the movement was defen sive—inspired by observation of the striking power of Gere many in the west—or whether Russia would yet play a more active role in the European war. France came to the end of the war after nightmarish hours.
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They blasted the
7 hey Didn't Seem to Care— Those F renchmen Marching Through Paris to . Prison
Glenn M. Stadler of the United Press Paris staff, who volunteered to await the invading Germans, is now filing dispatches via Berlin. Stadler’s first dispatch is timed 3 a. m. Sunday, but it is indicated that it was filed considerably later.
By GLENN M. STADLER ro United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 16 (via Berlin and Berne, Switzerland; delayed) —The strects of Paris echoed again today to the sound of military boots, on the third day of the Ger-
man occupation. They were the boots of exhausted French prisoners of
bir stood inside the high iron fence of the American Em across from German High Command headquar-" ters in the Crillon Hotel and watched a group of dejected prisoners trudge through a driving cold rain.
It was a pitiful sight. Their faces were haggard, their
clothes dirty and torn. Some wore slippers or sandals. Their shoes were run down and muddy. Most of them = carried long loaves of rain-soaked bread.
Americans Criticized
® As they dragged along the street, bent in submission, of them shouting invectives at me. “Took at that American flag!” “Look at that Amerjcan! He looks well fed.” “Why in hell didn’t you help us?” they shouted bit- ’ wy block from the Embassy a six-foot six-inch German ‘soldier who, along with iow X French nap Bal was
numb. I could see thaf
Nearly every man in the pitiful parade dropped in his tracks to the street. They took their dirty bread from dirtier pockets and began eating their ration of bread,
wine, bananas and oranges like hungry animals.
Painfully Limp Away
They did not seem to care what happened. They did not want, it appeared, to remember what had happened. People gave them cigarets and bread. A girlin a white shawl cried: “I want to see if he is there! I want to see if he is there!” as she tried vainly to push past strong German guards who refused to permit her to ppproach the prisoners. The giant German officer gave the order: “Fall in!” The French, about one in 10 of them| from the colonies,
- painfully limped around the corner, out of sight, bound
for prison camps. A few hours before I had seen truckloads of prisoners go past the Embassy. They were almost stacked into trucks, and piled into ambulances. Grimy hands that had once fired guns at their captors in a futile attempt to repel the invasion reached out for gifts which Parisians threw to them. Strollers Peek Through Gates
Yesterday afternoon, after the sun had dispeiled a
rain, German soldiers escorted a thousand prisoners along
the Seine, past Notre Dame Cathedral, the Pont Neuf, the Louvre and the Tuilleries Gardens. Most of these weré Moroccans, Senegalese and Tunisians. One looked exactly like the bearded French soldier whose picture was on the front cover of an American picture magazine recently. The men marched as fast as they could, but their legs were weary, their backs ached and their brains were
They were & picture of utter de-
jection. At any rate they were headed for oblivion for the war’s duration. Strollers in the Tuilleries Garden ran to peek through the heavy iron gates .at them. They only looked back blankly. The horses which pulled the old, worn, twowheeled carts and field kitchens seemed the only ones in the parade with any. strength and determination in them. The sounds of the boots of the vanquished were far different from the sounds of those of the victorious Germans, who began streaming through the ancient gates of Paris early on the mornng of June 14, a day sooner than Hitler had predicted. They were the first German troops to enter since Jan. 29, 1871, when their forebears conquered the city after a 132-day siege. They, arriving Friday, found the city stocked with food
© —beefsteak, fresh vegetables, butter, candy, cake and so
forth—and unscarred by battle. Sixty-nine years ago they . had won a city of starvation and desolation, whose people had eaten rats, horses, zoo animals before they gave in.
Awesome Display of Might
TI had a grandstand seat on Friday, atop the American Embassy, for one of the greatest shows in the history ofthe world. In an awesome display of military might, surprising because of the large number of horses in it, the soldiers came in from the northern, eastern and west gates, con-
iverging in the famous Place De La Concorde, which is
framed by Government buildings and the American Embassy. Wave after wave of troops passed through. In the afternoon a German brass band oo aesshepped to Cleopatra’s Needle in the center of the Place De La
Concorde and played regimental marches as the ‘troops ;
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French troops shuffling past Versailles |
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