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"FRIDAY,

DOWNING

PALACE BOMBED

Troops Ready for Action, General Reports; Italian

Attack on Egypt May

SEPT. 13, 1940

STREET,

Be Timed With Ger-

man Invasion of Britain.

{Continued from Page One)

Hints Invasion

head of the Empire, the time of complete evacuation of |

London is approached.”

German air action today made it seem to Londoners| that this strategy was being attempted.

Business and industry

|fevere SUress.

already were operating under Workers found it difficult to get to their]

jobs, difficult to continue under the constant air alarms and

difficult to raid shelters.

Scorn

keep up the pace after sleepless nights in air | Marshal von Brauchitsch

‘Curtain of Steel’

Germany reported that great new fires on both sides of the Thames had been started by today’s bombings. A Fon article warned that Rritain could have an invasion “if she|

wanted it,” hinting that by

the time the air force was|

through with Britain the mation would be so ruined that he would b itulate without incursion of Gershe would be forced to capitu v Both Sites Expected to,

man troops.

With possible von B Fran Sarcastically tain of steel” correspondents to wait

were boastin

Relfas A coastal town was coast was attacked.

Ireland.

One northwest coast town had its first raid.

activity in the M severely.

was much cashire were bombed The Royal Air seat of the massi the first time in

that Essen,

attackea ior

significance Rrauchitsch inspected the German forces in northwest

commenting on anti-aireraft barrage, German quarters advised and see whether the British still according to a informa-

o about it after today’s

reported the first

Farce was active too.

Field Marshal Walther

ce and pronouncea them ready for action.

London's new “cur-

attack.

Industrial Centers Heavily Bombed

German attack in Northern bombed and shipping off the

There

idlands. Two towns in Lan-

Berlin admitted ve Krupp arms factories, was four nights. Other R. A. F.

bombing squadrons paid their customary visits to Bremen,

a possible base for the inavsiol

has been 1ts last night. [he R. A. F. also and oil stores at Le Havre, F

whicl he used

might

heavily which wou

gland, and (Germany, attack.

Italian Attack

1 an)

Despite reports that the

heen started bv three strong

bombed almost every tself. the Germans reported, was not visited by the R. A. F.

attacked tankers, ‘rance, and Flushing, Holland, for starting points for an invasion of hombed the great

1 attempt, and Hanover, which night for weeks. Berlin

docks, supply ships

railroad vards of

Id have to play an important

Is Skirmishing Italian attack on Egvpt had columns, official communiques

indicated that action so far was confined to aerial prepara-

tions. However in

The Italian High Comm

_ general skirmishing along a 200-mile front

kenva was admitted by the British. and claimed that heavy day,

and night air raids were made along the Egyptian coast In

the direction where the Italian

s hope to advance. Fires were

<tarted and tanks and armored cars were hit, it was said. Other attacks were made on Abia in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

El Katulo in Kenya. The

Jimma and

Today's War

(Continued fr

and

Eciasciamanna.

Br command of the Channel, the difficulties of Graziani’s task would be much lessened. Ecypt's attitude antagonism might be awed into subservience. There is no present indication, that Italy definitely ng on any such development. Roman newspaper comment recentlv has repeating that the war will go into next vear and may even Jact two vears longer. A fatal break in Britisl ing power, therefore, cannot be upon by golini in

weaken itish

however 1S

counti

heel

resist counted advance If Germany cannot overcome the Rritish defenses, Italy has no assurance that the French colonial revolt against the Petain Government | spread through Morocco into Algeria. Should Graziani move {rom Libva toward Suez, would be open to a French colonial attack from Algeria, which borders Libya's western boundary. Such a development would depend,

will not forward

his reat

0 Africa German Britain their lot

not be

from a halt in operations against Great and deciding to throw in with the British. It canknown in anv such turn in the war may occur; and for this reason it “would not be

taking heart

IN INDIA

Herve Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County City Total — 3 46 f4 . 3 60 91 —Sept, 12— Injured ...... 3 Accidents Dead . 0! Arrests THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid | 19 19 $74 6 3 11

1929 1240

cece

Violations Speeding Reckless driving. . Failure to stop at through street Disobeyving traffic signal Drunken All others

4 3

driving

Totals ........ $106

MEETINGS TODAY

¥xchange Club, Hotel Severin, Optimist Club, Columbia Club,

noon. noon. Reserve Officers’ Association, Board of | Trade, noon Phi Delta Theta, Canary Cottage, moon. | Delta Tau Pelta, Columbia Club, noon.

Kappa Sigma, Canary Cottage, noon. | MEETINGS TOMORROW Uivigtian Endeavor Society, fall conven-

tin Brookside United Brethren Church, all day

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, ic nat responsible for errors in | names and addresses.) Genrge BP green. Janice Rudd

Gunasnn, 28 nf 304 Fver- | 26 nf 228 E 15th | Werren McDermerd 28 of 3760 Torest Magner, Olive Gardner, 22, of 1248 N. New | Jersey. |

British bomhed Massawa,

Mus- |

course, upon the French in North|

advance whether

Assab, Asmara, Gura,

Moves

om Page One)

good strategy for Graziani to ignore the possibility. With Great Britain continuing to hold off the Germans, Graziani would secarcelv risk using his whole strength in Libva for an offensive across the Egyptian desert. He might well be expected to hold back a considerable reserve to guard against & French North African uprising, thus weakening his offensive power against Suez, It seems probable that Germany and Italy understand the delicacy of the situation, since Gen. Weygand was ordered this month to proceed to Morocco to trv to subdue. the growing insurgency among the French North Africans. Weygand has delayed his departure, pieading illness; and he, too, may thus be awaiting the outcome of the intensified German attacks fon the British Isles, If the Germans cannot press forward with more imposing results than they Ihave vet gained, Weygand's illness may permanently incapacitate him for carrying out his obnoxious duty. In that event, if an Italian campaign against Suez begins, it must start under a handicap, and under Tevised strategic conditions.

NAPOLIS

Paul W. Glass, 35 of 603 E. 32d; Wells. 34. of 1530 College Elden Warren McClure. 23, Morris; Vera Lucille Thompson, 6087 W. Morris Evere't Emerson Anna Katherine Taylor, ing Paul Margaret Davis Charles Mann

of 6001 23,

Ww, of

26, of 21

3168 N. Bast

8S. Zimmerman, 25. of 922 E.«10th; 25, of 2945 Ruckle. 18, of 1104 Oliver ma Williamson, 16, of 530 Birch. Harold Wilson Trulock, 23, Irma Pauline Blank, 24, R.

Thel-

of 102 N Vine, R. 2, Box 433.

BIRTHS Girls Albert. Margaret Rollings, at City. Howard, Alice Hamilton, at City John, Blanche Thompson, at St. Francis. Robert. Mabel Mandabach, at St. Francis. Paul, Helen Sparks, at Methodist. John, Annabelle Turner, at Methodist. Woodrow, Bettie Coleman, at Methodist. Russell. Allegra Walden, at Methodist. John, Kathryn Leech, at St. Vincent's. Boys John, Mabel Kendrick, at Coleman. Lain, Kathryn Kellams, at Coleman, David, Hope Marks, at St. Francis. George, Dorothy Utterback, at Methodist. David, Marian Morrow, at Methodist, Paul, Lucille Freeman, at Methodist. Frank, Margaret Irish, at Methodist.

DEATHS

Quillen, 2 mo, at at St. at 5829 Forest Lane, 78, 58, at 66, 74, 42, 12 hours. at

hemorrhage Rt Cty,

James 1414 Park, |

| patent foramen ovale,

Nancy Rar pens. 63, monary edem John M. Wilson, 50, hypertension. James E. Pierce, coronarv occlusion. Joseph J. Brandt, carcinomas. Holliday Grinslade, diana, arteriosclerosis. Wilbur G. Hinkle, coronary occlusion Viola C. Watson, Honat pneumonia. Edward Miller. lavke. intra cranial Bunce ier, 30 hemorr on el, genital heart,

at 5114 Central,

St. at Central 11

at Pastern,

1 month. at Long, con-|

Lucille |

of 523 8. Fiem- |

Vincent's. pul- |

1403 Cornell, Om 1228 Nor- py

| cerebral |

ting workers,

"ew

“troops are ready.’

BRITISH FLEET MAY BE RISKED

Stake All When Invasion Comes.

By WILLIAM PHILIP STMMS | Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-—Britain, [tion received here, may risk the de- | struction of viRually her entire [Navy by throwing it into the all-or-nothing battle which *will come when Hitler attempts to invade England. I sav “when” because no one here with whom I have talked recently says “if.” They are expecting it to begin any day. Hitler, they say, is now in the position of a crap shooter who has thrown a whole series of lucky sevens but whose accumulated winnings are still piled high on the table. To pocket what he has already won, he has still to throw another seven. He must defeal England if he expects to win the war, and that can only be done by invasion,

Conqueror or Failure?

The corollary of course is that the coming battle will be as crucial for Britain as it Germany. Nobody knows this better than Prime Minister Churchill. Profound student of history that he is, he knows

is for

that any day now the English Chan|nel., the Straits of Dover and the [North Sea mav witness a stiuggle every whit as portentous for England as the invasion by William the Conqueror or the attempt of Spain's Invincible A, mada Accordingly, Hitler his effort all the accumulated might of the Fuehrer's past six vears of intensive preparations, and { Churchill cannot afford to withhold a single ounce of his strength. Of what good would the British Fleet be to Britain if Hitler crossed the

will put into

Channel and took over London and

England as he has taken over Paris and France?

Both to Risk Much

From the moment Hitler gives the order and the Nazis shove off for | their trip across the channel, there can be no turning back. From then on it will be do or die for both sides. At a given moment, the narrow seas | between the Continent and Britain

Iwill be black with boats and barges laden with tens of thousands of troops. heavily accoutred for landing. With them, teetering precariously on the waters, will be all the hopes and all the ambitions of the Nazi Napoleon. One all-out blow by the British and the whole business — barges, troops, hopes, ambitions and all—might be at the bottom of the sea.

That Britain will risk much to | deliver such a blow is obvious. Like | Farragut, who when disaster seemed imminent at the battle of Mobile Bay shouted: “Damn the torpedoes; | | full speed ahead!” and plunged to [victory through the mine-filled waters, Churchill is expected to hurl | his fleet at the Nazis while they! are in mid-Channel. That not a British ship would return is vpossible, Hitler may be counted on to fling all his divebombers, torpedoes, warships, coastal guns, mines and the rest of his Iweapons into the fray. But forlorn hopes have won before now and the British may do it again. If so, Winston Churchill would go down in history as greater than his ancestor, John Churchill, hero of Blenheim and Duke of Marlborough.

5 | OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Burean we...!

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST-—Fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. « BI¥Y

Sunrise tees DIK Sunset TEMPERATURE —Keptembey 13, 1930 Bm. . 3 1 wm. RAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m... 30.13 an Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total orecipitation since Jan. 1 .. | Deficiency since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana-—Fair tonight and warmer in south and east portions tonight: warmer in south portion. cooler in extreme northwest portion tomorrow. Minois—Fair. warmer in south and central portions tonight: tomorrow fair, cooler in north portion. Lower Michigan—Partly seattered showers in north portion, not so cool in extreme southeast portion tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy, cooler in west and | north portions, Ohio—Fair and warmer tonight: tomor- | row increasing cloudiness and warmer, | followed bv light showers in north por- | tions Saturday night. Kentucky Fair and tonight: tomorrow fair

tomorrow:

cloudy,

slightly warmer and warmer.

| WEATHER IN OTHFR CITIES, 6:30 A. M. |

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SABOTAGE GLUE

Dead Jersey Blast; Hoosier Is Among Victims.

(Continued from Page One)

however, and the morning shift of workers filed back to the grounds. [Casualties had decimated the plant's force of 1200 employees, but the survivors were all put to work, making dynamite, clearing debris and hunting for bodies. Investigators questioned survivsome of whom said that several employees of the Her-| leules and the Picatinny Army | Arsenel at Dover, nearby, had been | discharged recently as the aftermath of a joint Ku-Klux Klan- | German- American Bund meeting lat the Bund's camp Nordland, [miles from here. ie workers said that FBI men nad watched the meeting and had noticed several ears bearing the small 1dentitication plates issued to ferTions plant workers, entering | the Bund camp. A check-up of "these identification plates led to the | dismissals, ers. Bund Lists Checked

Major Charles H. Schletfel of the State Police said, “some of the | people emploved in that (Hercules) [plant did not look so good.” Mr. Hunt said, “we checked very thoroughly the lists of German-Ameri-can Bund members supplisd by Sheriff Denton J. Quick of Sussex County (location of Camp Nordland) and we failed to find a single Bund member on our payrolls. I am satisfied that there is no sign of sabotage.” Ten of the dead were found on a wooded hill about 300 feet from the solvent recovery building where the first explosion occurred. Survivors said they heard a faint blast and saw flashes of fire through the windows of that building before the first big explosion. Rescue workers believed that the 10 men had run to the hill when the fire started and had been caught by the full force of the big oxplosion before they reached the summit. Their deaths prevented investigators learning what had

hapepned at the origin of the dis- |

{aster. Hoosier Among Dead

Among the dead was Paul W. Stallcup of Elnora, Ind One rescue worker who had helped remove the 10 bodies from the hillside said, “when we quit work at ldark we still saw the twisted hodies of more dead farther on in

black underbrush.”

The disaster began in a unit com- |

week, the solvent

pleted only last recovery building. was a nnestory brick structure, 150 by 40 feet, with a corrugated iron roof. where 16,000 pounds of smokeless powder was being subjected to a out’ process. Survivors from nearhy said there was first a dull roar, followed by flames from the windows of the solvent recovery building, then an earth-shaking blast that tore the building to pieces. A few seconds later there was another terrific blast as seven more buildings in the production line, containing 34.000 pounds of explosive, were touched off,

Worst Since ‘Black Tom’

The two great explosions, at 1:30 p. m. yesterday were heard for 50 miles and shook buildings in New York and Connecticut, 75 miles away. Many townspeople here were injured by glass flying from shattered window panes, It was the worst munitions plant explosion in this country in recent times. The notorious Black Tom explosion, at Jersey Citv. N. J.. on July 30, 1918, which subsequent! was traced to German sahoteurs and resulted only a vear age in a German-American Mixed Claims Commission awarding $50,000,000 aamages to persons and firms mn | this country, killed only four and | injured 10 persons.

HOW COME? JOE ASKS ~ OF MODEL T TIGERS

| (Continued from Page One) | sional only 10 vears. That was the lonly position he knew how to play— the only position he had ever tried to play. You just didn’t take a seasoned first baseman and make a big league outfielder out of him all of a sudden. It was not that easy. Or at least so everybody agreed. And then there were other prob[lems which seemed to need the magic | touch of a magician’s wand to solve. | Pitching was one. Tommy Bridges | had been around for 10°years. The {eccentric Buck Newsom has made more stops on the baseball map than Rand-McNally could count. | There were uncertainties in the | outfield. The catching, too was none too solid. Birdie Tebbetts was a good receiver, just a fair hitter, but he would do. But what if anything happened to him? Well, loosely, that was the picture {in the spring when all the experts. (including the home breds, casually | {consigned the Tigers to a second! division berth. We recall talking to Mr. Del Baker, the manager. in| Tampa and he made an amusing comment, to wit: “We've got so many question marks I don’t know whether I'm running a quiz program or a ball club.” And that was the truth. thing had to work out just so if the Tigers were going to get any piace. We talked with Mr. Baker in the Tigers’ dressing room before the {game vesterday. We wanted to know what had happened. “I can tell you simply what happened but I can’t tell you why or (how. Everything we had a long shot hope for turned out to our In short, we have been [lucky.” This is rather typical of Mr. (Baker, who places no high value on {genius in the dugout. There can ‘be no question that he has been [lucky in spots but he has also made some moves Which reflect greatly to (his credit as a smart baseball man, [Perhaps the smartest was in getting rid of a lot of junk relief pitchers fland resolving to go along with youthful, if inexperienced arms. |Pellows like Newhouser, Gorsica and Benton. You eran't win with reputations or press clippings, is Mr, Baker's theory on pitchers, &

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

8 INVESTIGATING This Auto Went Riding—on a Bomb DRAFT MAY GO GROUPS SEEKING 4 %7—

PAGE 3

Workers clear

Forecast Blast

NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (U P.).—~PM, New York afternoon newspaper, predicted 11 days ago that the Hercules Powder Co. plant at Kenvil, N. J, would be dynamited by German saboteurs. Henry Pavnter, assistant managing editor of the newspaper, said on Sept. 2 in a story on Fifth Column activities that the dvnamiting and other acts of sabotage in this country were plotted at a meeting of “Hitler spies” to coincide with the start of an invasion attempt against Great Britain. The Hercules explosion, Mr. Pavnter wrote, originally was timed for the following weekend, but would be postponed if necessary to conform wjth Nazi blitzkrieg plans.

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a London s‘reet of wreckage of an auto which a bomb blew onto a rooftop in London, The wreckage then slid to the street.

Friday 13th Hoodoo Hexed, [i

According fo All Reports

(Continued from Page One)

Robert Ave.,

633 N. Jefferson their 13th birthwere intact when

Cooning, celebrated davs They all last observed Beverely J Leeds Ave, the 13th in brated her one that the 13th as good checked. Neither has anvihing distressing been heard from Jeanette Christine Tracev, R. R. 3. Box 6a, who was born at 1313 Hovt Ave... and now attends Wayne Township School 13 which has 13 rooms and 13 teachers, She is 8 vears old today,

homes with numbers adding to 13appeal in the situation anc defv black magic with black cats Black also symbols of bad luek, get an awful mauling on Friday the 13ths because of persons 13 years old grabbing them to have their pictures taken walking under ladders. Robert Barton, 844 N. Capitol Ave. a pupil in a grade school Room 13, celebrated his 13th birthday today by carrving a black eat unde: a ladder and up until press time nothing bad had happened to him Frederick and Edward Schuh 5840 Rockville Road. celebrated 10th birthday anniversaries todav and Joan Robert Cooning and Jimm:

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TOF.D.R. TODAY

Sori, Probably Tomorrow, to Start Machinery.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UP), Congress hopes today to send the conscription bill to the White House for President Roosevelt's signature, The Senate met an hour earlier usual to act on the eonferreport on the measure, under all men between the ages 21 and 35, inclusive, must regisfor compulsory military traine-

than ence which

ter ing. Administration leaders had hoped the Senate would act on the bill before noon and the House by mid-afternoon, but Senate approval was temporarily delayed when Sen ator Richard B. Russell (D. Ga), one of the authors of the original “industrial draft” amendment, objected to the compromise version Once signed, the draft machinery will be set in motion throughout the country=the first time in history that men have been compelled to arms in peacetime, Leaders of the Senate isolationist bloc, who have denounced the bill as “a step toward dictatorship,” indicated that their fight against the report will be confined to attacks on the action of the conferees in abandoning the so-called Fish amendment which would have delaved the draft 60 days pending trial of a voluntary enlistment program Isolationists conceded that thev had little chance of altering the repori “We'll probably bit,” sald Senator (D, Mo.), an isolationist

JONES FORMALLY NAMED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (U1. P) President. Roosevelt, today gent to the Senate the nomination of Jesse Jones as Secretary of Commerce Congress has authorized Mr, Jones to hold hath the Cabinet post and his present position as Pederal Loan Administrator

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