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FORECAST: Fair and not so cool tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer with showers at night and Sunday.

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EDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent

EGNE FOREST, r today gave to France his ns of armistice on the spot where Ger“many signed an end to the World War in

I stood|in old dining car No. 2419-D of the| Wagons-Lits Company today and watched the German Chancellor hand to French delegates the terms. a 22-year-old ache to German

the sun was bright and thie Plefsant f rests of Compiegne were quiet

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and at peat. "The terms given France today were based on three premises. to the four French emissaries by Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel after Hitler had handed them his terms. The armistice, said the preamble read by Keitel, must: Assure Germany that France will not again take up the battle. Give Germany assurances needed for carrying on the war against Britain.

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War seemed far away.

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These were read

Lay the foundations for an ultimate

new peace in

which Germany will receive

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SHELL-SHOCKS BLICAN CHIEFS

Leaders Actio | | Platform to

PHIL virtually diy the White H Republi to ig that Mr. Roosevelt’ ‘ Cabinet offjcers— Henry L.

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cting the Republican national convention from - At least that’s how it looks today. ans don’t like it a bit. But privately they have

s raid on their party for two Stimson for war and Frank

. Knox for Navy—has a very definige bearing upon what their

conyention platform. : The Pie makers eno lowing his in pecent da

BYS. All this has

few days. | What And what,

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they are asking, will Mr. &

vo they T {quire a news-service f wire from Washington in their conference rooms. Party leaders were shellshocked by the Cabinet appointments. In twosomes and in groups they raged, and when they had recov-

ered sufficient breath and calm the y. issued

ever, had the rcw and Db: fane tang of their private utterances.

The two Cabinet t their share. liate effect, as it was e at first blush, was rive the | Republican Party in | (Continued on Page Four)

TWO BOARDS 0. K. ~ BRIDGE BOND ISSUE

|A $46,000 bond issue to finance the! proposed West Michigan St. pridge over Eagle Creek was authorby thé Works Board and County Commissioners today, City Engineer M. G. Johnson said actual construction on the bridge would begin in about six months ‘after legal requirements for floating the! bonds and receiving bids on ‘construction have been met. ‘The City and County will issue $23,000 in bonds. Works Board members said they would seek the * approval of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the City Council immediately.

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TS MY DUTY TO HELP--KNOX

‘The Navy Knows No Party,’ He Explains in Accepting Cabinet Post.

CHICAGO, June 21 (U. P).— Col. Frank Knox announced today that he had accepted nomination as Secretary of the Navy because “the President has said that I can help him.” “National defense is not a partisan question,” Mr. Knox said. “It should have the united support of the people regardless of party. Congress in the past few weeks has acted with substantial unanimity on every national defense proposal. “The administration of the Navy department is in no sense political. The Navy knows no party. At. a time of tremendous naval expansion. it is vital that its management shall be wholly non-political. The President has asked me to serve as Secretary of the Navy on that basis and on that basis I have accepted. “I firmly believe that in a time of danger to our country each of

us must do whatever we can to meet |’

that danger. As good citizens we must serve in whatever capacity we are asked to serve. “We are in danger now because we are inadequately prepared. The President has said I can help him. If I can help him get us ready for any emergency I must do so. What (Continued on Page Four)

103 SNARED IN POLICE TRAPS

; Cycle Squad Blankets All Admit Privately That President’s n Directly Affects Candidate and

‘Strategic Points; New Drive Is Permanent. A squad.-of 20 picked motorcycle

| | officers covered the city at “strategic

| points” yesterday, ( zpeeders faced traffic. charges in|

Municipal Court. The extent of the roundup indiied that selective traffic law enfori’ “ant, the new plan concen-

| {trating anti-speed traps .at spots

reported by the public, is effective. It also served warning that efforts to slow down the speeders no longer will’ take the form .of periodical drives, but will become a permanent program, according to Capt. Leo Troutman, police traffic division head.

Streets to Be Marked

Under the new program parents and merchants have been asked to report any new “speedways” on the city’s streets and boulevards. The complaints will be answered by motorcycle officers who will set up a “speed trap” and mark the street for future close observation. More than 1200 speeders and other traffic violators have been arrested and sent through the ¢ity’s traffic courts since the selective plan went into effect a month ago. Today’s “catch” of "speeders, in addition to 23 other erring motorists, were to appear before Judge John McNelis, who fined 25 speeders $125 yesterday. Forty-four fast drivers paid $231 the day before.

» Watch Rush Hours

In their traffic program, the police and the county Sheriff's office have appealed to factory heads to warn their employees that “hurry-to-work” drivers are being watched in the industrial sections of the city. With the complaints in their hands, the motorcycle officers are sent out to form their dragnets before the citizens begin their morning rush to piffacy and factory

‘buildings.

STOCKS HOLD FIRM AFTER EARLY RALLY

Trading Continues Light;

Wheat Market Quiet.

New York stocks maintained a firm tone in afternoon trading today after a late morning rally. Trading continued light. Automobile shares were sustained by a continued high rate of motor car output. Indications of a continued high rate of steel output and a rise in steel scrap aided steel shares.

This News'll Chill You— It's First Day of Summer

Indianapolis shivered today in the coldest first day of summer in history.

{ peratures to 17

The mercury skidded to 47 degrees at 5 a. m,, breaking a 43-year record. Topcoats were hauled out to cover summer clothes to brace a cool mass of air which sent the tem-

degrees below normal.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 5am ...47 10a. m. ...-68 6am. ...52 1la.m. ., 70 7a. m. ... 57 12 (noon)... 72 8a. m ... 63 lpm. 674 9am... 66

He predicted that it would “not be so cool tonight” with temperatures 5 to 6 degrees warmer.

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J. H. Armington, U. S. Meteorologist, ex =

record breaking “cold snap” was due to the enveloping of the

plained that the

| The new low for the season came ion the first official day for summer nd the longest day of the year. The previous record low on the i first day of summer was set in 1897 when it was 49. The Bureau sail that low tem-

| peratures were general from the Middle West by a mass of fairly| Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic fast-moving cold air combined with| Ocean—the coldest June 21 on radiation during the night.

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By UNITED PRESS

acknowledgment of defeat.

such as neo diner ever had before.

F. D. R. DEFENDS ECONOMIC ‘WAR

Terms Cartel for Americas Extra Step in Program For Defense.

(Another Story, Page 31)

HYDE PARK, N. Y,, June 21 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt disclosed today that his plan to marshal the economic power of the Western Hemisphere nations represents a new step in a program of economic defense to supplement military defense against the inroads of totalitarian powers. The plan for a cartel to control exports of staple products of the 21 American nations and Canada, Mr. Roosevelt said, is designed “as a mea«s of protecting our economy and the economies of the other American republics from the repercussions. of the disturbed international situation.” Arriving at his Upstate New York home for a week-end visit, Mr. Roosevelt defended the plan which involves control of $2,000,000,000 in Western Hemisphere foodstuffs and raw materials. At a press conference, he hit out at critics of the program who, he said, are crooked enough to contend that the plan envisages immediate import to this country of Argentina’s entire beef surplus, Capital for the cartel, he said would b& provided from the Western (Continued on Page Three)

HINCKLEY IS NAMED TO COMMERCE POST

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt has nominated Chairman Robert H. Hinckley of the Civil Aeronautics Autharity as Assistant Secretary of Com-

Johnson who has been named to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Hinckley will co-ordinate the civil air functions of the Department into which the CAA was merged under a recent disputed re-

organization order issued by Mr. Roosevelt, = ; :

History was repeating itself today. Adolf Hitler chose France’s shrine to her World War triumph, the forest in Compiegne where German emissaries in a railroad dining car heard the 1918 armistice terms as the setting today for French

The diner is now housed in a Tuxurious shed

over the world have journeyed to the forest to walk

merce, succeeding Col. J. Monroe.

down the aisle between the neat chairs, to inspect

the place cards of the table which tell who sat in the 10 chairs grouped around it 22 years ago. It happened to be convenient for the meeting of four Germans, two Irenchmen and two Englishmen on an icy November morning two hours before

dawn when Marshal Foch said to the enemy emis-

People from all

Safety Advocate Accused in Crash

TWO OFFICERS of the Citizens Safety Committee who usually sit together to discuss methods of promoting traffic safety will face each other in Municipal Court this afternoon. “ Robert H. Scrogin, 56, of 5661 N. Pennsylvania St., committee secretary, was to appear before Judge Charles J. Karabell, committee president, on a charge of drunkenness and vagrancy. Mr. Scrogin’s car was in a collision last night with one driven by Mrs. Rolland Friedman, 3736 N. Pennsylvania St, at 38th and Pennsylvania Sts. Mr. Scrogin is held under $1000 bond.

ASKS U. S. CONTROL POLICY OF AMERICAS

CHICAGO, June 21 (U. P.)— Philip F. La Follette, former Governor of Wisconsin and head of the National | Progressive movement, said last night that United States should be given a “controlling voice” in the foreign and trade policies of neighboring countries in return for policing the Western Hemisphere. He said this country must guard the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle. to Cape Horn and must never let the European war spread to" this continent.

saries: “Gentlemen, what is the object of your visit?” Marshal Foch in this photograph is second from . the right and Gen. Weygand is second from the left.

STUDY OF DRAFT MEASURE OPENS

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Cox and Woodrum “Protest Putting Hillman at Head Of Training Plan. WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P)).

—The Senate Military Affairs Com-

mittee prepared today to consider the most drastic compulsory military training bill ever offered Con-

gress as President Roosevelt's universal government service program for youth hit its first Congressional snag. The Senate bill, introduced by Senator Edward R. Burke (D. Neb.), who recently was defeated for reelection, in the Nebraska primary, would require registration of an

estimated 40,000,000 men between the ages of 18 and 65 for some form of military service or defense duty. A companion bill was introduced in the House today by Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R. N Y.) with the support of the Citizens’ Military Training Camp Association. Opposition - to the President’s plan, which will be sent to Congress within three to six weeks, was touched off by two House Deinocrats—Reps. E. E. Cox of Georgia

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Italian Press Working Hard At Putting Windsor on Throne

ROME, June 21 (U. P.).—The newspaper Messagero claimed today in a dispatch from Berne, Switzerland, that the British Army had risen against King George and was demanding the return of the Duke of Windsor to the throne. The dispatch was carried by Messagero under a hanner line on the front page of its noon edition. (The Italian press and radio for the past two days has devoted unusual attention to the Duke of Windsor. Yesterday a report was circulated—and officially denied in

ILondon—that the Duke's arrest had

been ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill if he returned to Britain.) Messagero carried a second dispatch under Geneva dateline reporting that Windsor had arrived at Barcelona and was there awaiting developments in Britain. (Both the Duke and Duchess arrived .in Barcelona by automobile from the French Riviera last night. They were met at the frontier by the British Consul General and brought to the royal suite of the

Ritz Hotel. It was understood that]:

they intended to proceed later to Lisbon.)

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REICH'S ‘SHA MAIN THEME OF FACE P RLEY

Comins Demand ‘All Assurances’ for Waging War Against Britain; Fuehrer Hands | Terms to Envoys Personally. .

BULLETINS

BERLIN, June 21 (U. P.).—The official D. N. B. . news agency reported from Compiegne today that the French armistice emissaries returned to the railroad coach

and resumed negotiations with Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel at 6:10 p. m. | I

ROME, June 21 (U. P.).—The Rome Radio said tonight that if France agrees to the German armistice terms Italy will co-operate with Germany in a military occupas tion of France. The radio indicated that military occupation is one of the German armistice prerequisites.

By UNITED PRESS | ~ Adolf Hitler today healed the wound to German pride left by the World War armistice of 1918 by handing to “a emissaries of a vanquished France the terms under which he will permit her to lay down the burden of war. In the same dining car, in the same forest of Compiegne where Ferdinand Foch told German plenipotentiaries in November, 1918, that his armistice terms were unconditional surrender, Adolf Hitler reversed history against the French, While a German band played Germany’s song of’ trie umph, “Deutschland Uber Alles,” Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, Hitler’s chief of staff, read aloud the Dieamile to the = which De Fuehrer had just presented. |

“Wrongs” of 1918 Are Cited

The preamble declared that: | | 1. Germany must have assurance that France cannot resume hostilities. 2. Germany must receive from France “all assurances” enabling the Reich to continue the war against Great Britain, - 3. Preliminaries must be laid for a peace under which Germany will be fully compensated for ‘‘wrongs” committed against her “by force.” . “Today’s action in Compiegne Forest,” said the official D. N. B. agency, “has eradicated the past injustice done to the honor of German weapons. The solemnity of our action toward an enemy who has been honorably defeated stands in contrast to the eternal hate-sowing monuments on this scene where once Gallic vileness abused the uncone quered German Army.”

‘Suffering’ Recalled by Keitel

Keitel harked back immediately to that day nearly 22 years ago when Germany laid down her arms. This action, he said, was in confidence of assurances “made by the American President Wilson and confirmed by the All d powers.” “The war,” Keitel said, “was thereby corichlod lai ‘action which was not wanted by the German people and Government and id which the enemy was not successful. in decisively vanquishing the German Army, Navy or air force. “At the moment of the arrival of the German Sa

commission there began the breach of a solemnly given (Continued on Page Three)

WAR BULLETINS

ITALIANS REPORTED ROUTED IN ERITREA CAIRO, June 21 (U. P.).—British forces yesterday crossed into Eritrea, Italian East Africa, from the Sudan and routed powerful | concentrations of Italian troops, an official Middle East general | ‘headquarters communique claimed today. The British forces, | mechanized, took several prisoners in what was described in the communique as a series of highly successful raids.

THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS REACH BRITAIN LONDON, June 21 (U. P.).—Thousands of Canadian soldiers and airmen have landed at a west coast port with almost complete equipment, it was announced today. First contingents from Canada were largely equipped in Britain. The same ships brought planes which will be piloted by both Canadian aviators and the R. A. F,

SWEDISH RIKSDAG MEETS HURRIEDLY

STOCKHOLM, June 21 (U. P.).—The Swedish Riksdag was convened today in an unexpected secret session. The purpose was not revealed. Members were summoned by telegraph. Many rushed here from their country estates. It was believed that a message by the King, drafted at a recent secret session of the State Council, was read to both Houses,

NAZIS CLAIM 2 FRENCH SHIPS SEIZED BERLIN, June 21 (U, P.).—Der Angriff asserted today that France's 35,000-ton battleships Clemenceau and Richeliey have fallen into German hands. There was no| official confirmation of the report. The newspaper asserted that when German troops ene tered Brest they found the battleships still in the stocks at the i great French naval building yards there, |

+JTALIANS SAY 400 U. 8. PLANES SEIZED Hin NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P.).—Columbia Broadcasting cn ; picked up an Italian short-wave radio newscast today quoting the German official news agency as saying that the Germans had captured 400 airplanes which had just arrived from America, and 2000 motors complete with plans for eal By