Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1940 — Page 3

JAPAN THREATENS RENCH INDO-CHINA:

URKS EDGE AWAY

Tri-Color Marked Planes Seen Flying Toward |

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Africa: British Believed in Command. Of Ally’s Fleet.

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tions that part of the French fighting forces might continue the war. : fas ~~ French airplanes were reported flying to North Africa. The French fleet of 804,700 tons—which both Britain and Germany seek as of possible decisive importance in outcome of the war—was still unaccounted for, although some units were understood to be fighting under. British command in the Mediterranean. In the Near East, the French armed forces carried bn. ,

The French Government of Marshal Henri Petain, how-|

ever, seemed to be in a position where refusal of the Ger-man-Italian terms for an armistice could not be considered. The French military spokesman said that the French Army continued to resist but it seemed certain that the tempo of fighting had drastically decreased and that the German advances through the provinces were almost without serious opposition on most fronts.

Turkey Turns to Soviet Russia

The conquest of France or at least most of the nation left Hitler's Armies dominant from the Vistula River frontier with Soviet Russia to the Pyrenees and Scandinavia to the Balkans. | . ‘With the co-operation of Mussolini and the friendship of Gen. Francisco Franco of Spain,"the Nazi sway over continental Europe is unchallenged except for Russia's grip on the Baltic and Ukraine. © None of the small states of southeastern Europe can fail to co-operate with the Nazis and even Turkey, dropping or ignoring its alliance with Britain and France, was reported to have turned to Soviet Russia again.

Effect Felt th Far East

~The effect of the German dominance in Europe on a scale comparable only to the Napoleonic era was felt more and more acutely in the Far East where Japan was reported threatening military action against French -IndoChina and in the Americas, where compulsory military service plans were being pushed and where an alleged Nazi plot against the Uruguayan Government was uncovered. . Tokyo newspapers reported that Japan had based its threat against Indo-China on its alleged aid to China. (Indo-China, with 286,000 square miles of territory and 23,350,000 people, rich in resources, is less than 600 miles, at its nearest point, to the Philippines. Saigon, Indo-China, is about 1000 miles from Manila.) Turkey now will move only if attacked by Italy, it was said, or if Italy attempts to occupy French Syria. It was] reported that Turkey considered occupying Syria, if Russia approves, to warn Germany and Italy that they must not disturb the Eastern Mediterranean in cutting up the French

Empire.

Newspaper Hints Peace Terms

In Rome the newspaper Popolo Di Roma said that Mussolini and Hitler had demanded that France surrender all her gold, foreign credits and raw war materials and join in a blockade of Great Britain as the price for peace. It listed the terms as follows: 1. France to hand over to the axis powers all its gold and foreign credits; 2. France to surrender all gold credits it held for states which had declared war on Germany—DBritain, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium; 3. France to surrender all raw materials or materials useful to the war industries, such as oil, copper and man- | ganese; “11 : 4. France to guarantee that normal industrial activity will be resumed and all evacuated workers will be returned to industrial districts; 5. All French industrial, economic, commercial and financial means to be used in ‘the continental blockade against Britain. : : | Say Duce Urged Light Terms

(In London, diplomatic sources heard that during their conference at Munich, Mussolini had urged Hitler to modulate the harsh terms that Germany intended to impose on France. . (These sources said that Mussolini indicated that, if Germany was ig Italy would confine her demands to Corsica, Tunisia, Nice and certain African areas such as Djibouti, and that II Duce told Hitler that it would be wise to “consume the French imperial cherry in several bites instead of one. These reports were not confirmed.) Hitler's newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter indicated that the terms were designed to eliminate France forever as a military factor in Europe. : _ “In this hour we may well think of November, 1918 {when the victorious Allies granted Germany an armistice) and say: We learned by it, Frahce’s power is destroyed and we will see to it that never again in Germany's European accounts can the threat of that mortal enemy reappear.”

Today's War Moves

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French would be felt for the most part in the Mediterranean and North Africa, directed Italian forces. Yet, Petain’s plea for “honorable” terms, however gener= ous, might not deter some French leaders from seeking means of going on with the war on limited basis. There are Frenchmen who wish to abide by the Anglo-French agreemen{ signed at the outbreak of the war pledging each nation not to make a separate peace. : Too, there always has been a French school of thought convinced

authorities believe [they could have moderated the Prussian terms .in- * flicted ‘on France—surrender of Alsace-Lorraine and payment of an indemnity of $1,000,000,000. This remembrance lingers among French-

men. | It would be much more difficult now for a new army to be equipped at the present time within continental ' France. But, the French Army in North Af is a powerful force as is also the French Navy. Too, large numbers of French planes must still be fit for use. Fance still

against |.

has effective m of co-operating . with Great Bri for continuing the struggle if De Gaulle were able to organize resistance. "" Mussolini seems to understand this fact if the report be true that he urged Hitler at their Munich meeting to offer lenient terms to France, presumably to try to overcome in advance, repudiation of a Petain capitulation. “It would be natural for Italy to an. since any

that supremacy at sea must win any

European war, in the end. This|

belief is based on the writings .of the American naval historian, the late Admiral Mahan.

The Mahan principle that sea

power always wins is responsible for the British determination to fight

the war to a conclusion on the

water. If French support to Britain is forthcoming, even though France officially surrenders, the writings of Admiral Mahan will be one of the

France.

NAZI COMMISSAR MAY RULE PARIS

As Starving, Thirsty Dogs Bark.

By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent

FRANCE, June 19.—Pari§ is approaching normal for a city -occupied by an enemy. The sun-bathed boulevards are crowded with strollers, cafes and

restaurants are. reopening newspapers have reappeared. High German officials are arriving, including, it is reported Heinrich Himmler; chief of the dreaded Gestapo. There are frequent arrests—by French policemen of suspected Fifth Columnists, by Germans of suspected anti-German

agents

German radio sound trucks blare to the crowds in the. principal streets translations of German High Command communiques reporting that French troops are laying down their arms.

Poiltical Refugees in Terror

Jews and foreign political refugees are in terror. Thousands of refugees from Nazi rule in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria were caught here. Some are hiding in the woods around Paris or in cities to the south, and the Germans are closing in on them inexorably. Co-ordination of the German military and civil administrations is proceeding and it is believed likely that a German commissar will be appointed to govern France, like those in Poland, Norway and Holland.

normal. An hour's drive in the Paris environs showed the pathetically inadequate barricades and other defenses the French had erected to protect Paris. In some cases concrete, still hardly set, had been used. In others trucks had been overturned.

. Destruction Is Complete

The Germans, I saw, when they could not push through one of these barriers, had simply sent a big tank crashing through the walls of an adjacent house. The town of Pontoise, the big French radio center, had been severely bombarded and was utterly deserted, so far as 1 could see. Beauvais, too, showed tragic demolition. Hundreds of starving, thirsting dogs roam the deserted-village and highways in the countryside. Some, shut up by their fleeing owners, bark dismally from houses. Old women are returning to their homes, weeping as they plod along. They may be seen poking in the ruins of their homes and shops. Wrecked automobiles along the roads outside the City show the nature of the chaotic mass flight from Paris.

A wounded British soldier géts

Women Plod Along Weeping

WITH THE GERMAN ARMY IN

and

Outside Paris, things are not so

House

4 Calling for

bill. The su and $588,233,170 for the Navy. purchase 3000 Rolls Royce airplane The bill carries authorizations and appropriations sufficient. to bring the standing Army to 375,000 men and permits President Roosevelt to raise the enlisted strength of the Navy above the present limit of 180,000. The Secrstary of the Navy also is authorized to exceed statutory limitations on repairs and alterations to vessels! “during the existing emergency. Debate Begins Tomorrow

The bill also provides funds for purchasing 3000 Army planes, aside from the Ford engine orders, and for beginning work on 68 new warships. The House Rules Committee approved a rule sending the new naval expansion bill to the floor for debate tomorrow after hearing Chairman Carl O. Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee assert that the program has Mr. Roosevelt's approval. The measure is designed to give the United States the largest Navy in world history, surpassing even the combined might of all potential totalitarian enemies. The program calls for an ultimate fleet of 733 fighting ships. It would add 200 vessels to those already in service, authorized or building, at an estimated cost of four billion dollars during the next five years. In tonnage, the [program virtually would double the Navy’s present strengih. Once the measure is adopted, the Navy will call for $170,000,000 in cash to get the work started during the 1941 fiscal year which begins on July 1. A good deal of the money will go to equip American shipyards for the gigantic task. Significantly, the program would ban the sale of any warships to foreign powers without the consent of Congress. That - provision was designed to quiet possible criticism that the Administration was building a fleet which it might make available, in part, for resale to Great Britain. Fleet of 3,670,000 Tons In urging adoption of the program, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, said that it would give the United States a battle fleet of 3,670,000 tons. That would exceed the present estimated naval strength of Japan, Italy, Germany, Russia and France. It would just about double the present British fleet. Negotiation of this Government’s

an. announcement in London by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of British aircraft production, that a 6000engine order has been placed with Ford,

French Fleet Would Give Axis Edge

a drink from a buddy on the quayside as they dock in England from

Defense Fund Is Approved: Naval Expansion Is Speeded

eqins Debate Tomorrow on $4,000,000,000

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P.)—The Senate’ Appropriations Committee approved a $1,777,489,788 supplemental defense fund today as the House Prepred to take up the new four-billion-dollar naval expansion

plemental appropriation carried $1,075,178,808 for the Army It also approved a $43,500,000 item to

CAROL CONFERS WITH

contract with. Ford coincided with|gh

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TILLMAN NAMED TOMOLDF.D.S TRAINING PLANS

Boys and Girls Alike Would Serve Government for Little or No Pay.

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Clothing Workers’ Union, also will supervise outline of plans for training young women for which useful tasks may be found. The plan—unprecedented in the country's peace-time history if accepted by Congress—would be continued “until the world returns to sanity,” this official said. Details have not been completed, but it was understood that present plans would require one year of service at little or no pay beyond subsistence. : | Mr. Roosevelt, announcing his plan at a press conference yesterday, emphasized the contemplated training program for boys, but in response to a question said that it probably would be extended to include girls if useful tasks could be found for them. : The Administration official who § [has been working on details of the plan said that his conception of it would include both boys and girls, about equally divided. ’ The President described his plan casually, explaining that his idea was to subject all young Americans to some form of discipline for about a year. He added that young Americans were patriotic enough, but that their idealism drifted toward the ‘isms.’ Cites C. C. C. Camp

As an example of his belief that discipline was beneficial for youths, | he cited the Civilian Conservation Corps: where he said a friend recently found a ssound, youthful idealism, stemming from the inculcation of discipline and a realization of responsibilities to other humans. ; Mr. Roosevelt said that his plan was for Government, not military training: that it envisaged the training of young men in these four categories: . 1. For combat service. 2. For uniformed behind-the-lines service as technicians, aviation mechanics, etc. 3. For non-uniform training in industrial production necessary for support of a fighting army. 4, Conservation corps training to preserve natural resources. The Administration official estimated that about 2,400,000 persons annually would be in the age, categories from which the trainees would be called. However, about 400,000 of these probably would have to be exempted because of dependents or physical incapacity, he added. His estimates, however, with those of the Census: Bureau whose statistics showed that between 3.000,000 and 3,300,000 persons reach the ages of 19, 20 and 21 each

Times-Acme Photo.

Total of 733 Ships.

engines from the Ford Motor Co.

AMERICAS EXPECTED TO CONFER ON WAR

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P).| —The American republics were ex-| pected today to call within a few! days for a consultative conference to discuss grave problems thrust upon this hemisphere by the war. Authoritative quarters believed that, for the first time in the history of Pan American meetings, Canada might be officially represented at the conference which many authorities now believe to be both imperative and imminent. Hemispheric problems calling for early consultation include: 1. The joint resolution passed by both Houses of Congress: declaring that the United States will not recognize the legality or acquiesce in the transfer of territory in this hemisphere from one non-American nation to another. i 2. President Roosevelt's proposal to formulate a Pan-American cartel for éxport surpluses to forestall possible attempts by European or Asiatic powers to effect political or military penetration into Latin America through economic pressure. 3. The necessity for the United States to rehabilitate herself in the eyes of some Latin American leaders as a military power tapable of defending the Monroe Doctrine.

varied

yoaly irprise to. War Department

It was impossible to estimate the cost of a program such as the President proposed. Experts suggested that the cost per day for lodging and food for each person called for training would be about 42 cents. That figure is somewhere between the daily maintenance costs for the army and civilian conservation corps. War Department officials said that President’s proposal came as a‘ complete surprise to them. However, they were quick to indorse the plan. Mr. Roosevelt said that the details of his proposal are now being worked out and that he will forward it to Congress within two or three weeks or perhaps within six weeks. Only twice in the country’s history has conscription for military service been applied — during the last of the Civil War and in the World War. Until recent months, legislators have been cool to suggestions for compulsory military training. Now, however, some are in a more receptive mood.

URGES BANKHEAD AS DEMOCRAT KEYNOTER

CHICAGO, June 19 (U. P).— Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley today recommended Speaker William Bankhead, Alabama, as keynoter and temporary chairman and Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky, Senate majority leader, as permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention which meets here July 15. He said he had made no recommendation for chairmanship of the resolutions. committee which will draft the party’s platform, but anticipated that Senator Robert F. Wagner (N. Y.) “would receive consideration.” The Postmaster General declined to discuss possible candidacies.

GRIDER TO PAY $647 FOR VOTE RECOUNT

PRO-NAZI LEADER

BUCHAREST, June 19 (U. P.).— In a move believed in some quarters preliminary to formation of a new Rumanian Government, King Carol granted special audience today to Horia Sima, pro-Nazi Iron Guard leader. Indications were that Carol was attempting to unite Rumania rightists and leftists in a new Government which would prepare to face an imminent showdown on frontier revisions. Sima fled to Germany last year after Rumania’s purge of the Iron Guards, who were outlawed.

FAVOR CONSCRIPTION

WASHINGTON, June 19.—Both Senators Frederick VanNuys and erman Minton (D. Ind.), today expressed themselves in favor of the general . idea of conscription, as voiced by President Roosevelt, but withheld final commitment until they see the detailed plan.

Germany +4 Italy 4+ France =

Possible Axis Total

The partial recount of ballots cast for the Republican nomination for County Treasurer will cost Neal

Great Britain

ETI ambiab

258,080 tons

234,488 tons

tH A

303,945 tons

; 30

796,513 tons

Grider, defeated candidate who asked the check, a total of $647.10. The cost was set by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox and under the law must be paid by the losing candidate. Paul E. Tegarden, certified

ani

Aircraft Carriers : ‘ar 38,500 tons

None

68,146 tons

809,700 tons

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264,100 tons

by the Canvassing Board as the Republican treasurer nominee widened his winning margin of 550 votes by 83 votes during the recount.

SENATOR GIBSON NEAR DEAT

pas 15 Sa 113,600 tons

sili

207,262 tons

5 21

173,729 tons

; 21

494,591 tons

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P.). —Senator Ernest W. Gibson (R. Vt.) is so seriously ill of pneumonia that his physicians have given up hope of his recovery, the Senator’s office said today.

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586,755 tons

152 wie

165,480 tons

101

167,977 tons

"433,018 tons

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356,819 tons Ole Black Rufe

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‘110,690 tons

102

96,961 tons

: 336 viii.

73 TWO NORTH SIDE: women were startled when they saw a black-robed and hooded figure at 42d and Illinois Sts. last night, but police failed .to get excited.

72,609 tons

"226 ships ®| 328 ships

543,001 tons

717,920 tons

239 ships 810,758 tons

240,911 ‘tons

793 ships 2,071,679 tons

Wilma Redford, a nurse employed at 4150 N. Illinois St., and her companion, June Leslie, 4041 Washington Blvd., said the robed man disappeared in the bushes

416 ships 2,089,983 tons

depends on who gets the French and Italy would bring

Balance of power on the sea, where Great Britain will continue strongest in her anti-axis offensive,

navy. Chart shows how addition of

axis to tonnage parity with Britainjand to numerical superiority with 90 per cent ; es. are for ships built, ;b riated for cak of wan

when headlights of an approach-

pushing her toward collapse, the

German Forse MARMON PLANT p LONDON, June 19 (U. P.).—An T0 DOUBLE SIZE AND PRODUCTIO te

authoritative British statement i Expansion Will Expedi 4

predicted today that = Europe would be in the throes of famine Commercial and U. S.: ~ Military Orders. ~~

four months hence and that by An expansion program at (the

winter - Germany would be addressing “food peace appeals to Marmon-Herrington Co., doubling Lthe size of the factory and its out-

the Vatican, the United States and the non-European world genput, was disclosed by company: of=ficials today. - 7

erally to break the British: blockThe step has the two-fold pur-

ade.” : Germany's food position approximates that of March, 1918, when the threat of starvation was pose of meeting Government orders for military units and expeditin commercial orders. x Construction work was started this week and will be completed by Sept. 1. : - The program includes a new building adjoining the present faétory at W. Washington and Harding Sts, an addition to the agsembly plant, extending the structure ‘to block. long length, and construction of a spur track from the . plant to the Belt Railroad to prévide a 300-foot loading dock. The company’s output includes alkwheel-drive motor vehicles, high-speed track-laying tractors and combat tanks, zE Bert Dingley, vice president, - would not reveal the number of units the company will manufa¢ture when the plant is enlarged. He said there would be an increase in the number of workmen, but would not estimate the number. = ~ Mr. Dingley said that local laber is being employed in the expansion program and that all possikle materials are being purchased from Indianapolis concerns. | Enlargement plans were developed by and are in charge of H. K. Ferguson Co. engineers, of Cleveland. z Marmon-Herrington trucks ate being used in public utility servige, road building and maintenance, 6il production, logging, highway freight and passenger service and many other fields. The company makes 30 different models of trucks powered by gasoline and Diesel engines. : 5

Ford Not Likely Now To Make Allison Engines:

The announcement that the Ford Motor Car Co. has signed a contraet to make Rolls-Royce Merlin airplane engines, has eliminated any possibility that Ford may make the Indianapolis-developed Allison engine. : Allison officials said yesterday that “they saw no reason why it wouldn't be all right for Mr. Ford to manufacture the engine if he so desires.” : Z The Allison plant already is filiing several millions of dollars worth of orders for the U. S. Army Air Corps. :

statement said. i “Harvest prospects in Europe, especially in the southeast, are bad or at best moderate, to which must be added the failure of Russia to supply the quantities expected by Germany,” the statement added. “Belgium's situation is desperate, facing real famine in two months.”

NEW BROADCAST FIRM ORGANIZED

All Stock Subscribed For By Local Business Executives.

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sets out among its objectives the following: : “To build, construct, purchase, lease, own, maintain and operate a radio station or radio stations for. the broadcasting, rebroadcasting, transmission, distribution and dissemination of entertainment, instruction, music, plays, radio shows, operas, concerts, recitals, exhibitions, lectures, athletic contests and other performances and entertainments, public or private; news, speeches, photographs; pictures and any other matter or things of interest to radio listeners; “To carry on and conduct a radio broadcasting business in all its pranches, and upon its own behalf or upon the behalf of others, to arrange, present, produce and to broadcast through its own radio station or through other radio stations, or by or through or as a par of a chain of radio stations, programs of entertainment, adveriisement, amusement, education, or otherwise, and to make any and all contracts or arrangements and to provide all facilities necessary, useful or advantageous in the conduct of the business of the corporation. “To engage in the field of teievision in any manner or way whatsoever.” : : Mr. Wood, secretary of the corporation, is in Washington ‘oday filing an application for a permit to construct and operate the station with the Federal Communications Commission.

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ing automobile flashed on him. “Just a college boy being given a degree in’ a f[ragernity,” police

French fleet to navies of Germany

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