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Orders Bigger Fleet Than Axis and Japan Combined
NAZIS RENEW ‘PULVERIZING’ RAIDS
Raids Make Bicycles
By WALLACE CARROLL
United Press Staff Correspondent
ONDON, Sept. 9—London’'s millions, men, women, girls and boys, went back to work uncowed today after the second straight night in which, from dusk to dawn, the largest city on earth had taken terror, destruction and death from the German Air Force. Police and air raid precautions workers cordoned off all areas where delayed action or time bombs were known to have fallen, but otherwise London proceeded about business as usual. Transport had been disorganized by two great air raids. Many people walked miles to work. Some, including girls in shorts, used ancient vintage bicycles. Others hitch-hiked. Many started from ruined homes and in some of these homes the broken bodies of relatives still lay
They walked througn streets littered with debris, past fires which burned or smouldered But transportation returned rapidly to mormal and all subway
lines soon were running except one, which had three sections closed. The stock exchange and other markets, which long ago had made preparations to move to emergency headquarters if London became untenable, opened normally, as did banks, including the Bank of England, with its gorgeously uniformed doormen on the job as in peace time Londoners which thev had They had spent clenched. watch
knew less, as a whole, of the story cof the night through passed than did people in the United States. hours in shelters or standing in the open with fists ing the raiders rain ruin on their city. ¥ * = * xo = had no newspapers to read until after the morning rush had started. people in the streets were grim and were taking on in such a situation. It was noticed
HEY hour The faces of the bulldog look that Britons get
that there was more insistence on reprisal bombing of Germany by the British Air Force than of the night's devastation. King Geol ‘ge VI inspected the fire-scarred East End and Thames ae ck area, saw women and children with bandaged arms and legs still mddled in raid shelters, and sought to comfort one woman who had a three children. He watched while several thousands of people were removing their belongings from damaged houses.
In the area, the King saw one crater big enough to hold three or
i« London houses. A workman told the King that 20 houses had Stood on the site. Another block of houses was jarred three feet out of line by a bomb explosion but was still standing
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Debris litters this London street and firemen fight a blaze in the backgr ound. Acme
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and Hitch-hiking Popular in London |] AMBURG FIRE
SEEN 60 MILES AFTER BOMBING
Britain Defiant in Third Day of Attack Directed by Goering; R. A. F. Active: Italy
Expects Long War.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
(German war planes blasted London again today after | British bombers started fires in the great port of Hamburg and Nazi newspapers threatened the British capital with (the fate of devastated Warsaw, Nazi dive-bombers—held back most of the dav by bad 'weather over Britain—slashed at London late in the afterInoon in quick “hit and run” raids that British dispatches said were made necassary by sturdy defenses. Six Nazi planes were reported shot down in the first phase of fighting, The Germans appeared again to be concentrating their (attack on British air bases in an effort to knock out the Royal Air Force, but damage to civilian areas in London
CONTRACTS MADE FOR 201 WARSHIPS
Navy to Bring Fleet Up to Full Power
Of 689 Vessels; President Signs ‘Total Defense’ Bill. VASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U.
the largest ship contracts in this nation’s calling for 200 new warships and one auxiliary vessel in a
program designed to create a two-ocean fleet greater than
the combined sea pow=r of Japan, Italy, Germany and Russia.
The contracts, involving; A [trative details at general mestings [gress completes the remaining lega ES |last Thursday and Friday. lislative procedure in scheduled time an actual cash outlay of $183,- p | waves of ‘Wendell L. ‘Wilikie pop- | School officials said 60000 was : Esunsa REI] |ularity for many weeks in Indiana. Trip Kept Secret Secret Uniil After only an estimate of the number of Lo onion Should take place in the 000,000, cover preliminary) | With the G. O. P. national cam- |children ‘expected to -envoll first week of October, possibly on construction work on seven] ON WILLKIE'S TOUR paign fire exploding at Rushville, Departure. SOO Trey LITE OH oh {hae Jiri ay. battleships oight air-craft| Ing. Sealy MhelDemorraiomp To now [ be a little higher, which would re- idle: men--<irom “31 ‘rough 4 - us esllps, TF ri | have been forced out of the lime- RUSHVILLE. Ind. Sept. ® (U.|verse the downward trend of the 1 NOt be registered until later, if carriers, 27 cruisers, 115 de-| ao bition ie iGivo Reva |P.)—Henry Ford made a surprise last several vears. Ns Pig ace get x crate i Nh " £ y 115 15 someining oe ® ANC stroyers and 43 submarines Local Issues Blur Result in| or 0 I ee I eT Wait denual | The total last vear was sUEhUY | gouge conferees have to thrash out oy $3 861.053.312 But Democratic leaders have Nominee Wendell L. Willkie today. | under the 1933 figure. Speeded-up| conferees "will ‘decide also whet] that will cost $3,861,053,3 “| Maine Voting. [promised some political fireworks at, 1ne automobile manufacturer re- |defense industry which should er oF _ to No A ry, a when completed in five years. | French Lick ‘that ‘will ‘be ‘heard Tained closeted with Mr. Willkie pring more familtes to the City will 0 "re Toc? 0 i ay TeCrrte The awards were made about two| (Gallup Poll, Page Nine; Addi- |around the State and perhaps fur-| = kept secret until ;after this ide- boost this year's total, the officials ‘pulsory service. If they drop this hours after President Roosevelt had| tional Political News, Page 16) i a ‘keynote for the ‘entire Mid-| pa rture. Pro. first ti mn 10 {call for volunteers, first inductions signed the $5,251.000,000 “total” de-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. P.).| "eu | When Mr. Willkie then was asked | RE ArTy MWg un Years, of draftees into the Army will take fense Will. the largest in American | __Maine's general i and 10 |. Lieutenant Governor Henry F.|gpether ‘Mr. Ford ‘would support |S ge ey Pupils ‘got a break. |;jace the last week in October; peacetime history. The measure | state primaries will be a straw in | SChricker, although hinting at some | ;;,,, j;, ‘November, he replied : 5 oe Yui ol open during Fair otherwise, about Nov. 15. contained funds for the Navy con-| political winds this week but po-| nado! issues in recent informal «yo, have to ask Mr. Ford.” ontinued ‘on Page Two) | Eight of the 10 conferees who tracts | litical interest today centers in| Peeches, will sound the keynote of ny por arrived at Rushville in |will start sessions today or tomorUnder the two-ocean navy plan Wendell L. Willkie's long-awaited | [iS 8ubernatorial campaign in a a special railroad car at mid- WICKARD DISCOUNTS row on these and other points in the U. S. battle fleeet would consist program to carry his Republican Major address. : : morning and instructed the passen- dispute between Senate and House of 32 battleships, many of them | Presidential campaign to the coun- | Sharing the platform with him at | ger agent not to publicize his pres- THREAT OF FAMINE are personally opposed to the 60-45,000-tonners; 18 aircraft carriers. |try. | Saturday night banquet raliy will lence. day recruiting drive. But the five 85 cruisers, 368 de: strovers and 185 There have been reports of Con- Pe U. S. Senator Sherman Minton,| He was driven to the Willkie resi- CHICAGO. Sept. 9 (U.P. 'House conferees are pledged by submarines, an aggregate of 688 gressional Republican uneasiness WO also is scheduled to let the dence by automobile and left by] X ept. 3 (U.°p.)—Con- rule and tradition to insist on it. fie Vessels | over the slow tempo of the Willkie VOters know his stand on a score of automobile after his visit. He was |tinental Europe will have sufficient yynder these circumstances one or
than the maval funds, the campaign before and after yhis acdefense bill contained cash| ceptance speech Aug. 17 at Elwood, i contract authorizations for the| 1nd. The candidate comes up now acquisition | with a 26-speech swing through the
of 18,422 warplanes and | the complete equipment of a 1.200.- | Midwest, Far West and Northwest
000-man Army and basic equipment | with 43 train platform appearances for 800,000 more men | also scheduled. The groundwork in wha Poll and survey indications that) the ships contracts had been laid by | Willkie support markedly has in- |
naval officials through direct ne-| creased in those areas where he has gotiations with construction firms|ghown his face so far encourage; prior to final enactment of the Republicans here to believe that measure | his westward swing will give the Plants to Be Expanded | G. O. P. campaign a shot in the i : arm. Simultaneously, the Navy revealed, The Republican National Comthat final negotiations are pending| ite meanwhile, circulated with- | for about 2400 airplanes worth | out comment quotations from Pres-|
$108,000.000. An actual execution of |
contracts will be made as S00n as| ¢,0e speech accompanied by a rec- | financing, amortization, and plant, 4 of his whereabouts from July 19| expansion details are arranged. | to Sept. 9 showing that he has been | The Navy said that $31.653.500 in| cent from Washington 32 days contracts also are being signed for|,,q jn the capital 19 days since re- | expansion of private and naval es- nomination. tablishments charged with meeting | Republicans {Continued on Page Three)
ident Roosevelt's third-term accep-
contend that Mr.
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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
{| SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 9 (U. [P.) —Judge Dan Pyle of the St. Josleph Circuit Court today sentenced
| Movies
P.).—The Navy awarded history today, !
DEMOCRATS EYE
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SESSION AT SPA As Summer
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‘Party Chieftains to Sel | Campaign Pace at
Annual Meeting.
apolis grade school pupils.
Winter-Long Study Routine Begins in Earnest Tomorrow; Attendance Above Last Year's Forecast.
(Photos, Page Eight) | The tardy bell rang at 8:30 o'clock this morning for 41,000 Indian-
| | By NOBLE REED It rang at 8:15 for 3000 high school freshmen. By ‘RUTH FINNEY The opening campaign barrage But not until 1:30 p. m. were the rest of the 19,000 high school pupils Times Special Writer |that will set the pace for Demo- II ns wi Yoh their summer Vasa AY. i ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Oct. 1 38 : x ’ oday’'s classes were more or less a dress rehearsal for the winter- ..._. e-waste : v Saw crats in Indiana will be fired at jong routine that will begin in earnest tomorrow morning Pupils were Tay be “registration “day “for |the annual two-day conference of jenroiled, given assignments and dralt party chieftains at French Lick this "Th to be released for the day. The Army has said it would reg- | Wesk end. HENRY FORD VISITS | The City’s 2000 teachers were to ister men from 21 to 30, inclusive, : ; {spend the rest of the day organiz- | Ei ' Party strategists will make a su-| ling ‘classes and making ‘out roll on the 15th day after the military
| preme effort to wrest the Hoosier |
believed to be en route back to! | Detroit by way by "way ol South “South Bend, Ind.
state and, national issues and take a few pot-shots at Mr. Willkie. Democratic leaders admittedly will stand or fall on the pronouncements made at French Lick. Sev- | eral hundred party leaders are ex-| { pected to attend.
Nurses ses Trapped In Hospital Wing
LONDON, Sept. 9 (U. P.) —Air raid precautions workers are probing with nerve straining deliberation today into the ruined upper stories of a nurses’ home where two nurses are trapped. One is
Radio Drive Opens Tonight
Meanwhile, State Democratic | Chairman Fred F. Bays announced that the State Committee's radio ‘campaign would start tonight with | regular broadcasts from stations in
| Gary, Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis and known to be alive. Evansville. | Five of the nurses, attached to Yesterday in a speech at Edin-| one of London's biggest hospitals,
|burg, Ind. Mr. Schricker charged are missing.
| that a Republican state victory Nov. | For more than 100 feet of its {5 would turn “Indiana’s government | length the garret and upper back into the hands of certain spe-| stories of the home were smashed |cial interests which failed during into bits. Fragments of debris | the dark days we have left behind, were sent rocketing for hundreds | as.’ of feet.
He also charged that a Republican national victory would “bring joy to certain foreign powers.” The] nominee said that voters whe turn | their backs on President Roosevelt | “simply are biting the hand that] fed them during the dark days.”
The nurse known to be alive is 20 to 30 feet under a tangled pile of bricks, mortar, timber and furniture. The other nurse is somewhere under the mass of wreckage. Hospital attaches do not believe she can be alive.
Honesty of Pencil Peddler
Clears Police Court Record
A poorly dressed, unshaven man| “Your of 45 appeared before Judge John | fpmy, L. McNelis in Municipal Court today, charged with peddling without | a license.
honor,” the man said “T've been straight since then and am trying to keep myself and help my
He admitted selling pencils in|children by selling these pencils.” the downtown area and said he| Judge McNelis pondered a modidn't have enough money to buy, | ment and then said slowly.
WILLKIE 10 MINUTES
60,000 Answer School Bell DRAFT DELAY BIGGEST ISSUE
‘Registration Expected to Be
Vacation Ends |
About Oct. 1, Despite Fish Amendment.
Ibooks. They ironed out adminis- (raining bill becomes law.
‘SELLING IS SPURRED
brother support five,
food this winter if Germany per-
mits equal distribution, according to Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard. Crops in general will be somewhat below normal on the continent this year, Mr. Wickard said in a special [263 to 149 after statement at the Sunday University {ment had been tacked on. It will of Chicago Round Table broadcast. be reported to the Senate bv a He said potatoes and other root|House clerk this afternoon. Then crops would be better relatively than | Chairman Morris Sheppard of the cereal crops. {Senate Military Affairs Committee
both Houses may again on the question. The Senate rejected the call for volunteers by 41 to 43. The House adopted it 207 to 200. The bill itself passed the House
“The question is more one of dis-|and representatives of the two tribution than of total supply,” he Houses probably will not get toadded. [gether until tomorrow. —————————— Six House members who later
| voted on passage of the training bill [faited to answer when the roll was called on the Fish amendment. They might change the result in another test. On the other hand, a change of two votes in the
BY RAIDS ON BRITAIN
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (U. P.) Severe air raids on Britain over the week-end brought selling into the stock market today and prices fell $1 to more than $3 where they held steady. Technical considerations also contributed to the decline, the first setback of large proportions in a dozen sessions. A report showing the steel industry is operating at 919 per cent of capacity, a new high for the year, had no id ence.
other side of the controversy. President to appeal for But the Army has made no plans for such a drive. One official said (Continued on Page Three)
RAINS GOOL CITY TO ~ SUB-NORMAL LEVEL
More Predicted Tonight and
Starting Today!
a license. | “As long as you make an honest
ClADPEr vsues 9) i pu. Richard Klowetter of Niles, Mich., EE —_ ALS Hurguwn 15 and Mervin Cagle of Palmyra, Ill, Editorials ""* 10 Obituaries ... 7 to life imprisonment for the slaying Fashions —— 9 | Pegler rr— 10|0f Walter Ebeling, Wew Work ‘city Financial .... 15 [Pyle ..... ve... Jg|lii€AtEr manager. FIVINn eons 10 Questions .... '9| “1am going to recommend to the FOr eevee 10 Radic ....... 15 Governor and all future Governors Gallup Poll.. 9 Mrs. Roosevelt g|in @ formal statement that these In Indpls..... 3 Serial Story.. 14 WO sentences not be disturbed in Inside Indpls. 9 Society ....4, 5 severity.” Judge Pyle declared. Jane Jordan. 9 !Sports ..... 6. 7, The two prisoners will be taken Johnson ..... 10 State Deaths. 7 to Michigan City this afternoon. WHEELER ASKS PROBE THIS COULD BE YOUR WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U. P.). |
| —Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D.| Mont.) today called for a Senate | | investigation into reports that Ger- | /man and other foreign sources exlercise partial control over vital 'American defense industries.
STORY =
The Times new serial story, begins today on Page 14.
“How much do vou clear a day?” living, no matter where, I won't Judge McNelis asked him. | send you to jail. Furthermore, I'm| “About 30 or 35 cents,” the man going to dismiss this probation. answered, nervously biting his lower What vou are doing is better than! lip. | stealing and you deserve credit Yor “By our records, You are on pro- | being honest.” bation for petit larceny from back| He withheld judgment and rein 1934,” the juyrige said. leased the man. K |
| Tomorrow. merico’ | A baivirind LOCAL TEMPERATURES Tell What 6 a.m. 62 10 a.m, 65 "a.m .... 06 Mam. .... 08 AMERICA 8a. m. 63 12 (moon) .. 7 9a. m. 64 1pm. .... %
Means to Them
Cool fall rains descended on In-| dianapolis today to carry tempera[tures which recently have been | above normal to sub-normal levels. The rains will continue tonight and | tomorrow and it will be even cooler | tomorrow, the Weather Bureau pre-
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The Fish amendment directs the | volunteers,
continued to mount and thousands were evacuated from ‘bombed districts in tlie East End. The German bombing of the London and southeast districts of England—directed eich Marshal Hermann Goering on the French coast—was regarded as an attempt Ito crumble British delenses, especially in the air, before an ‘attempted invasion.
London Still Defiant
| Some German sources claimed mastery of the air lover the British Isles, and the official German news agency |said British defenses were weaker, but London said that de[spite about 600 dead. 2000 seriously hurt and vast damage in the metropolitan district the nation’s fighting spirit and
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the the ability to fight back continued to mount.
The week-end saw almost continual bombardment. The world’s greatest city rocked under an air bombard ment without precedent in this or any other war, But today’s London press thundered back: “Try The answer also was written in bombs that crashed down on Germany's great northern port of Hamburg, upon her western railroad junction of Hamm, upon Ostend, a Belgian blitzkriez base, upon the French Channel coast where the Luftwaffe’'s advance guard is stationed, and upon wide range of Northwestern Germany and the North Sea.
your worst. You cannot break us!
Berlin Escapes This Time
Berlin angrily admitted that the Royal Air Force again had attempted to attack the German capital, but claimed that the bombers had been beaten off. The British Air Ministry reported that Hamburg had been under concentrated air bombardment “by a large force” of bombers for three hours. Hamburg is the biggest German port and with a population of 1,150,000 is slightly larger than Cieveland. British fliers said the fires in Ilamburg could Le veen 60 miles away. There was little effort in London to minimize the terrific toll in damage and lives taken by the German air
blitzkrieg which started about 5 p. m. Saturday and continued with little relaxation since that time, And the Air Mmustry in London warned that the worst was vet to come. Describing September as “a
very critical month in the war,” the Ministry said the German attackers have “rot yet reached the top note of their crescendo.” There were indications that the British were holding in reserve air squadrons against that desperate hour when (Continued on Page Three)
Today's War Moves
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Intensified night bombings over London are aimed primarily ak trying to force Great Britain to cease night attacks on German cities, more especially Berlin. Hitler last week described night raids as useless | and threatened reprisals. There is little reason to magnify the raids | beyond this purpose. Authoritative British quarters express doubt that the Germans are trying to “erase” London. The damage is far from being extensive enough to interfere seriously with
undisciplined tenement, dwellers ar are more emotionally affected by per«
| davtime sonal disaster than other classes, activities of the Hitler. apparently, hopes that res people, who re- | peated bombings of working class
{districts will produce the results he desires. The London cockney, however, differs from the normal working class of continental Europe. He is intensely stubborn and self-assured, and becomes pugnacious rather than weakened by attack. Bombing is not {likely to undermine his morale.
turned to work today as usual. London likewise disbelieves the German bombs are being dropped “Promiscu~-
ously.” Mest of Militarily, the attacks on London the casualties can have no major effect on the and damage war Madrid was bombed constantly
have occured in
during the Spanish revolution with« the poorer quar-
fout serious co uences, - ters of the capital, which suggests a Je. too, has nd on deliberate purpose. |and repeatedly from the air without The German intention is to try (decisive results. London has stronger to terrorize civilians so that public [resistance power than either Madrid opinion will compel the British or Chungking. Government to agree to end all] The publicity given to Reich Mar night raids. In general, the poorer, (Continued on Page Three)
Mr.
Mason