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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1940
AXIS PRESSES FOR NEW WAR ALLIES
Aid of Japan and Spain in Assault Against British Empire Is Believed Sought as Latter’s Offensive Intensifies. (Continued from Page One)
velopment to further the “new order” in East Asia, was reported landing troops at the French Indo-China port of Haiphong and fighting French colonial forces on the northern frontier of Indo-China. Chinese troops were reported counter-attacking the Japanese in the nearby Lungchow area and in Shanghai there were increasing fears that Japan would seize the French concession. France tonight warned Japan she would resist any further Japanese violations of the French-Japanese accord on Indo-China. At the same time it was claimed officially
back from the frontier of China and the French colony. Battle for Dakar Continues : 3. In Africa, an expedition of British and free France forces continued their battle to seize the French colonial port of Dakar where it wos estimated that 1100 had been killed or wounded in three days of severe and almost continuous fighting between airplanes, warships, landing parties and shore batteries. "French defenders, including air units, were reported fighting back strongly with attacks that damaged a cruiser and turned batk repeated attempts to land military units. An alleged British radio statement that Dakar had surrendered was denied officially in Vichy. 4. At Gibraltar, French airplanes bombed the British fortress for the second straight day, causing considerable damage and perhaps a score of casualties. Italian newspapers again claimed that Spain was on the verge of entering the war against Brita. 5. German air raids on London during the night were perhaps the most severe of the war, with “super” bombs bursting in the Leart of the British capital, knocking down office buildings and causing extensive damage, especially around communication centers. Isolated Nazi warcraft continued to range cver London today. 6. British bombirg squadrons struck back at German bases with raids that extended from the French “invasion” ports, which were blasted by terrific explosions, to ‘the heart of” Berlin, where, the London Air Ministry said, military objectives were “successfully” attacked for the third straight night. So far, the Royal Air Force has not only continued strongly to resist Nazi daylight raids on Britain, but: in the last week has been matching the German aerial armada in increasing the intensity of bombings.
Germans Land in Finland
7. On the North African front, where the Italian offensive into IZgypt has been stalled for a week, the British air force struck at the big Italian port of Tobruk, in Libya, where the Italians reported 15 persons killed, 70 injured and widespread destruction. The British also bombed Kufra in southern Libya and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia. The Italians reported they had retaliated with raids on Bura, in Kenya colony, and the Gallabat area in the Sudan. 8. German troops landed at the Finnish port of Vis, on the Gulf of Bothnia, after Finnish authorities had followed Sweden's example in agreeing to permit passage of Nazi troops en route to Norway. The full purpose of the German troop movements into Norway, ry northern Norway, was undisclosed but there had been persistent re-| ports of a possible attempt to oust Br fish forces from Iceland.
Hitler and Mussolini May Meet
Supporting promises of important developments, the Axis press emphasized the consultations between Ger many, Italy and Spain, which may lead to another meeting between Hitler and Mussolini; the renewed bombardment of British Gibraltar by French airplanes this afternoon and the continuing battle at the French West African port of Dakar against a British-Free French expan seeking to take over the city. The Rome and Berlin press also emphasized the Japanese efiorts to widen domination in the Far East, although they disclaimed knowledge of the reported agreement be-
Bombs Fire
Fire wrecks the interior of buildings i last night’s merciless German air raid in| which “super-bombs” were
used.
100 Miles in 15% Minutes
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P.. —A Transcontinental and Western Air “Stratoliner,” en route from Los Angeles to New York, attained a top speed of 387 miles per hour and traveled 100 miles in 15': minutes when it struck a 159-mile-an-hour tail wind at 17.000 feet between Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Dayton, O., Capt. Dick Hanson said today when he landed the plane at La Guardia Field. Capt. Hanson said bad weather from Dayton to Columbus, O., forced him to “slow down” to 360 miles per hour.
ALLISON TO ADD ANOTHER PLANT
From Parking Lot to Factory in Six Weeks— Just Like That.
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ing lot probably will have been confiscated and staked off. Did you see the plant the latter part of 1939? By the end of this year it will be just, about 150 per cent that big! To bring the size into a better comparison—the plant would occupy very nearly all the space betwee nWashington, Meridian, North and West Sts. At the end of last year there were 10 “test blocks’ structures two stories tall that look like square grain elevators. Twenty-six more have been completed this year. william S. Knudsen, chairman of the National Defense Committee, predicts the Allison plant will be turning out 400 motors a month by Dec. 1. In the meantime, workmen are continuing to move back the fences for the buildings that are still on
paper. MARKET RECOVERS AFTER EARLY SLUMP NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P.).— Stocks slumped early today but recovered partially in afternoon trading. A few individual shares were strong. Bonds were irregularly lower with U. S. Governments higher. At
Chicago wheat futures were mixed but corn was up around 3s to Ji
tween Japan and Germany.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
“Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Hotel Washington, noon Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noo Sigma Chi, PR Stratford Hotel
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noon 1939 ...ehcnecennes 24 42 66 oil cl lub, Hotel Severin, Joon. a onstruction eau. 0 n ianapo 1s, 1240 riser erred 08 62 94 spine homey Hotel =Sepl, 24— go liknagels Camera Club, 110 E. Ninth p Injured ..... 13 | Accidents 35 Toastmasiers Club No. gouinge, noe, Dead .... 0 | Arrests ...... 35 5:30 p
a AR Chi Alpha Alumni Association, TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT | Russel Cafeteria, -noo Indianapolis Motor “fransportation Club, Cases Convic- Fines Inc. Fox's Steak House, noon Seventh District Federation of Women's
tried tions pid | Clubs, Claypool Hotel, 10 a. m. Speeding ........ 16 16 $ Sigma Nu, Hotel Washington, noon. 5 5 34 vor Ruchless driving. 5 - 5 | MARRIAGE LICENSES Failure tos "pa 5 6 (These lists are from official records through street. 5 | in the County Court House. The Times Disobeying traf- .| therefore, is nat responsible for errors in fic signal ...... 9- 9 names and addresses.) Drunken driving. 3 2 2 Leo F. Gallagher, 29, of 21 N. DeQuincy; All others ......- 58 48 37 Erma M. Aust, of 305 N. State. i nl EL Hd Carter i) nal Ww 3 Ja eec rove; Ruby Hughes, 0 Totals ....s00s... 98 85 $197 | Keystone. : ax M. Earl 22, of 1107 N. Alabama; DAY Bien ba Kitchel, 27, of 324 N, Martin, uncie MEETINGS TO Charles Cole Jr., 19, of 940 Moreland; Lions Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Ruth L Hopkins, 1% of 527 N. Young Mens Discussion C'lub, Y. M. C.| Carl E. Wade 23, of Vandalia, TIL: ‘Nor6p mi. ma J. Lytle, 24, 2 Vandalia, ‘Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Hotel Louis A. Thompson, 24, of 424 N. CaliSeverin, noon. fornia; Gladys Garnett, 25, of 1046 W ~ Twelfth District, American Legion, Board | 25th. Tol Trade, noon. Woodrow D. Janes, 23, of 856 Fletcher; a yma Alpha Epsilon, Board of‘ Trade, Sarah E. Smart, 17, of 1010 English.
Leroy Clickner, 51, of Williams Hotel;
Popeita Theta Tau, Seville, noon Carrie M. Scott, 52, of 3658 Kenwood.
Co-operative Club of Indianapolis, Co-| William E. McIntyre, 24, of Exchange b Club, noon TY Jumbis © Motor Tralge Association, Hotel BIRTHS tlers, noon z Anne Chamber of Commerce, Canary : J Girls ; Cottage, Francis, Louise DeVoy, at St. Vincent's. 40 Plus Dw: Indiazapolis Chamber of Paul, Martha Sirmin, at Methodist. Commerce, 7: 30 p. Mentor, Mary Reid at Methodist. Manuel, Adela Thomas, at City
Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club noon.
Indiana Tuberculosis Association, Clay- Paul, Lois Wilkens, at St. Frohnis,
Robert, Juanita Rushton, at 3548 W.
; 1 Hotel, 12:30 p. m. Po ndianapolis’ Association of Credit Men, | 10th. Hotel Washington, noon Ernest, Geneva Quarles, at 146 CatherMilk Fiesta, Hotel Washington, 6 p. m. | wood. Indiana Association of Optometrists, Boys ; Hotel Severin, 6:15 p. Wayne, Margaret Lang, at St. Vincent's. Indiana State-Wide REMC, Severin Hotel,| Donald, Edith McLeod, "at St. Vincent's. 9:30 a. m. and 1 p. Wilson, Helena Rash, at Methodist. Tri Chi Sorority, Severin Hotel, 7:30} Joseph, Margaret Moore, at Methodist. P : Ralph, Jeanette Czerwonski, at MethHotel: _Katherine I. Quillman, 23, of 1364 odist. Karo James, Gladys Silvey, at Methodist. enal Refining Co., Claypool Hotel, all Frases; Mary Louise Moriarty, at St. da rancis
Claypool| Bernard. Dorothy Cleary, at St, Francis. Dennis, Frieda Martin, at Coleman. David, Estelle Chambers, at Coleman. Robert, YuLonda Thomas; at Coleman,
Ernest, Bessie Chitwood, at Coleman,
DEATHS
®Republican State Committee, 2 Bo iy Poa. ‘No. 1, Claypool Hotel, 8 p. m. a MEETINGS TOMORROW
Railroad Smoke Control Board, Severin
Hotel. 12:15 Pp. Bdward DD. Moore, 78, at Methodist, Sinclair 3 hiniix Co., Severin Hotel, 7:30 Cr oision TK. Mitchell Testimonial, Severin Hotel, meth E. Davis, 63, at St. Vincent's, opm Manyfaciuring Co., Sev-| David Merrifield, 7° months, at Riley, . erin Hotel 7:45 p otitis media
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cn ignes) McGinty, 3 days, at St. Vinnt's, atelectasis. oe Sallie Saapp, 52, at 1223 Laurel, chronic myocarditis. Armenta B. Muldoon, 69, at 1503 Broadway, mitral regurgitation.
chronic nephritis. Fannie Whitaker, 104, at 1840 Boulevard Place, arteriosclerosis;
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS: FORECAST—Fair and slightly cooler tonight with frost in low
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Fair, slightly cooler, scattered frosts, locally heavy in north and central portions tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cool.
Hlinois—Fair, slightly cooler, scattered frosts, locally heavy in north and central portions tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cool.
Lower Michigan-—Fair, slightly cooler, scattered frosts, mostly light tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cool.
Ohio—Fair tonight and tomorrow, cooler in east and south portions with probability of light frost in exposed places except near Lake Erie tonight: fair and continued cool tomorrow; Friday fair with rising temperate.
tucky—Fair and cooler tonight, some probability of light? frost in exposed places in north portion tonight; fair and continued cool tomorrow; Friday fair with rising temperature.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.
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or exposed places; tomorrow, fair and cgnlinued cool. "Sunrise . ... fi35 | Sunset ......5:38 - TEMPERATURE —September 25, 1940— 6am ..... 68 Lp. ma....... 88 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. 51 Total precipitation since Jan, 1...... 21.76 | Deficiency since Jan. 1.............. 4
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BOARD SPLIT ON SALARY RAISES
[Majority Suggests That All Increases Asked by City Be Eliminated. (Continued from Page One)
the Board not to trim the budget to meet anticipated revenue, but | permit him to make savings wherever possible. The majority report on the City budget was sig y Chairman Al[ner F. Walsman, Evans Woollen, William Harding and Paul Q. Richey. They declared that ‘the Board is impressed by the Mayor's statement | that economics can .be made to put the budget in- balance, and urges, in | view of the emergency taxes already | faced by the taxpayer, that the rate : for 1942 not be increased in any way. » Opposing the report were George | Kuhn, Herbert King and Mrs. Rob- | ert Coleman. | A defense of the Recreation De- | partment budget was made by Mrs. | Thomas D. Sheerin, member of the Mayor's Recreation Advisory Committee. She said elimination of the extra personnel would destroy a long range recreation program which is | “vital for good citizenship. | “You can put your money into jails and reformatories if that’s where you think tax dollars will do the most good,” she said. “We women, who have given our time to the recreation program, believe the
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the free France movement. The attitude of Marshal Petain bardment of Gibraltar by French N
quick court- martial of De Gaulle’s sympathizers in France, shows serious lack of military finesse. While Great Britain and Germany are
fighting to prevent their countries being conquered, Petain is fighting to keep France conquered. It is unquestionably to the future advantage of the French peopte that the free France movement 1h Africa be allowed to gather strength, as an aid to Great Britain in preventing Germany winning the war. Petain’s position is difficult, however, with the Germany Army occupying France and the French home Army demobilized. The Germans are capable of taking tragic action against the helpless French populace if the Vichy Government | were openly to encourage the free
France revival of opposition to Germany. Nevertheless, there are ways
whereby Vichy could secretly encourage a mere show of modest resistance against De Gaulle. Yet,
such a courageous step, which would help to regains France's lost prestige, makes no appeal to Petain's octogenarian mentality.
Loyalty to his surrender to ‘Ger-
money will be better spent in supervised recreation.”
BOMBS DAMAGE LONDON HEART
Royal Air Force Replies With Blasts at Plants Nazi Capital.
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including Adolf Hitler's Chancellery are in the center of Berlin. According to the Air Ministry, the British bombers evaded -an intense barrage and bombed the great Siemens and Halske factories, where two great fires broke out. Later, Berlin's electric power transformer and switching station at Friedrichsfelds was attacked with high explosive bombs, it was claimed. German planes had rained superbombs on central London from dark last night to dawn today in their most ferocious and most punssinig raid of the war,
Homes Crash in Ruins
For hours, as London buildings and homes crashed in ruins and the streets were littered with debris, Nazi fliers, usually flying. in close, single file, went back and forth across the heart of the capital, dropping incendiary and great explosive bombs. Londoners emerged from raid shelters, subway stations and basements as the raid ended this morning to find many buildings, shops and houses in ruins, and thousands of workers clearing the streets of broken glass and masonry. Almost all night the sky was aglow with brilliant flares which the raiders dropped to light targets, and with the fires their incendiary bombs caused. Searchlights ranged the sky and anti-aircraft guns fired furiously. It was the general belief that furious as was the attack and mercilessly as targets of all sorts including homes were struck, London was vet to face its greatest ordeal, and that the intensity of the Ger-| man attack would be increased tonight. There had been concentrated fury in the raid last night. The German planes flew remarkably low, first under clouds and then in the open sky. The crack of anti-aircraft guns, the screams and thuds of bombs, the drone of planes and the screams of victims continued all night. Four great bombs smashed into a historic site in central London which had been damaged = seriously last week. Buildings 50 yards away were rocked. Some historic buildings were wrecked, and debris was splattered over the neighborhood. A famous ' Wren Church in central London was hit but the building was only slightly’ damaged.
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American Offices Fired
The offices of an American firm was set afire but the flames were
put out quickly. The staff, in a basement shelter, was forced to evacuate when water | seeped in. | There were no casualties and the firm hoped to resume service promptly. Sixteen incendiary bombs {fell
within a few minutes on a north London hospital. One crashed through to a landing outside a room in which 20 persons were sleeping. A great bomb struck a well-known restaurant in the West End. The bomb smashed through two upper stories of the building. Several members of the staff were killed in the staff recreation and lodging quarters.
district suffered heavily. A big. bomb which crashed into an office building at a’ West End {street intersection demolished a building across street and broke glass in the windows of every building within a block. In Berlin it was admitted that the British had dropped bombs on a hospital and residences.
Nazis Say Railheads Ruined”
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A communique claimed, however, that German planes in shattering attacks on Britain had spread great damage with attacks on London, harbor works at Liverpool and Cardiff, which lasted trom ‘dawn
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War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert’
Resumption of naval operations at Dakar indicate the intention of Great Britain either to seize the port by force or to destroy its usefulness as a
ities of French warships. Having been led into the adventure by the
hapless misjudgment of Gen. De Gaulle, the British Government apparently does not intend to tolerate a conclusion that would discourage the expansion ot
submarines or the uncertain acfiv-
in authorizing a retaliatory homorth African aviators -and ordering
Regardless of how the . free France agitation may be. affected by present operations at Dakar, it has now become essential that fyture usefulness of the port for antiBritish purposes during the war be
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WOMAN FOUND "SLAIN ON FARM
Missing Since Saturday, ‘Husband Says as He Identifies Body.
HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 25 (U. P.. —The battered and mutilated body of an attractive auburn = haired woman found in a (vacant farmhouse today was identified by. her husband, who told authorities she was the former wife of & member of the wealthy Duke family. Identification was established by
the British to guard against any flank base in the South Atlantic | being utilized by enemy craft; ‘and | Dakar is the most important of | such possible sources of submarine or raider activities.
Too, Dakar is the nearest thangs Atlantic striking base against the West 1ndies and the Panama Canal. { Thus,
sidered the step advisable.
direct interest for America. Indeed,
many ranks higher than his loyalty to the future of France.
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prevented. Naval strdtegy requires |
it would be to the military advantage of the United States if at the end of the war Dakar were in" possession of a strong “friendly
strategy board at Washington conThe Dakar operations thus have
it may be said that at Dakar, the European war is approaching the|A nearest it has yet done toward the American naval sphere of defense.
James Francis Atkins, 32, of Philadelphia, an employee of the Bald=(win Locomotive Works. District | Attorney Frederick B. Smillie quoted | Mr. Atkins as saying the victim, Mrs. Ethel M. Atkins, about 35, for=merly was married to John Cicera Angier, grandson of the late Benjamin Duke, multimillionaire tobacco magnate, and cousin of Mrs. Daris Duke Cromwell. a Mr. Atkins told police that he had not seen his wife since last Satur-
power that might well agree to an|day. : American naval outpost © being| Her body, clad only in| stockings established there, if the naval|and one shoe, was discovered in the
farinhouse last night when the owner began showing: it to prospective clients. Several rooms of the house were blood-spattered and gave evidence of a terrific struggle. A splintered club about three feet long apparently was the murder weapon.
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