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SCRIPPS HOWARD : VOLUME 53—NUMBER 185

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Herewith is the first installment of William L. Shirer’s best seller, “Berlin Diary,” to which The Indianapolis Times has exolusive rights.’ Mr. Shirer tells what he saw, heard and felt during the seven years of Hitler's rise to power. At the time of the opening -entries, Mr. Shirer was a reporter on the Paris Herald. Three weeks Mier; Ia left Paris to become Berlin correspondent for Universal

INSTALMENT I—HITLER’S RISE TO POWER (June, 1934—March, 1936) ; PARIS, June 30, 1934—Berlin was cut off for several ‘hours today, but late this afternoon telephone communi-

‘cation was re-established. And what a story! Hitler and

‘Goering have purged the S. A., shooting many of its lead‘ers. Roehm, arrested by Hitler himself, was allowed to commit suicide in a Munich jail, according to one agency report. The French are pleased. They think this is the ‘beginning of the end for the Nazis. Wish I could get a ; post in: Berlin. It’s a story I'd like to cover.

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dead: Gregor Strasser, who used to be second in importance to Hitler in the Nazi Party, and Gen. von Schleicher and his wife, the latter two murdered in cold blood. I. see von Kahr is on the list, the man. who balked Hitlers Beer House Putsch in 1923. Hitler has thus ‘taken his personal revenge. Yesterday, on Friday the 18th, Hitler got away with his explanation in the Reichstag. When he screamed: “The supreme court of the German people during these

the: Friedtichstrasse Bahnhof: ot about “10 this evening,

The first persons-to greet us were two agents of the secret’ §

radio station in Vienna. Apparently their coup has s tailed and Miklas and Dr. Schuschnigg are in control.

2 8 ® » a» . PARIS, Aug. 2—Hindenburg died this morning. Who can be present now? What is Hitler do? » » 8 ” PARIS Aur. 8—Hitler aid what no one expected. He made himself both President and Chancellor, (Editor's Note—Three weeks later, Shirer left Paris

‘work stoppages in industry. |

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PARIS, July 14—It now develops that Hitler's purge ‘was more drastic than first reported. Roehm did not kill himself, but was shot on the orders of Hitler. Other

twenty-four hours consisted of mysen!! the dephfies rose

and cheered.

® PARIS, Tilly 25—Dollfuss is dead, rv ede ved by the Nazis, who today seized control of the Chancellery and the

to become Berlin correspondent for Universal Service.)

BERLIN, Ai. 25—0ur

Reich this evening was probably typical,

introduction to Hitler’ Ss Third : We arrived at -

police, They grabbed me as ‘I stepped off the train, led ma a little away, and asked me if I were Herr So-and-So. I said no. One of them asked again and again and nally, I showed him my passport. | ‘ _ He scanned it for several minutes, finally looked at me suspiciously, and said:.“So . . » You are not Herr So-and« . So, then. You are Herr Shirer.”. “None other,” I re. plied. He gave me one more suspicious glance, winked at “his fellow dick, saluted stiffly, and made off. » ® = # ® » BERLIN, Sept. 2—_1In the throes of a severe case of | depression. I miss the old Berlin of the Republic, the carefree, emancipated, civilized air. The constant Heil * Hitler’s, clicking of heels, and brown-shirted storm troope. ers or black-coated S.: S. guards marching up ad down the street grate me. : | « Am going to cover the dial Nazi Party wally at (Continued on Page Nine) X

REPORT BRITISH TROOPS IN RUSSI

STRIKE HALTS CONSTRUCTION ON U.S. SHIPS

Stops $150,000, 000,000 De-|

fense Contracts'in South; Gary Mills Reopen.

By UNITED PRESS

‘Munro: B. Lanier, president of the Ingalls: shipbuilding Co. of Birmingham, Ala., said today that 3000 shipbuilders. were out at the company’s Pascagoula, Miss., yards and that construction was halted on $150,000,000 worth of defense contracts.

Mr. Lanier said the strike, which came without. warning, was apparently the nesult ofa jurisdictional te between:

shipways and seven outfitting ships was also hdlted; Mr. Lanier said.

Resume — at Gary Meanwhile, full prodiiction was re-

stored, at least temporarily, at the|

wling mills of the Carnegieep Corp. at South Chicago ‘and , dnd, hut negotiations : remdined stalemated in the A. PF, of L-C. 1. O. jurisdictional dispute paralyzing the nation’s combat vehicle output. A work stoppage affecting 11,000 men in the Carnegie-Illinois dispute, second walkout at the plants in a week,"ended today when full SINS reported for the midnight

The 8. W. O. C. announced, however, that a dues inspection‘ campaign would begin Wednesday at the Gary works—largest steel mill in the world—and company sources declared that the dues collection drive carried the threat of further the entire steel

Close Shop Drive Hinted

Executives in the steel industry predicted that the “dues collecting angle” might be the 8. W. O. C. entering wedge in a campaign for a closed shop for the steel Paustly: In the A. F. of L.-C. I. O. jurisdictional fight, holdifig¢ up production of Army tank and combat vehicles, Federal -conciliators, rushed to Detroit to effect a settlement, reported a stalemate but scheduled further conferences today. The dispute involves A. PF. of L. and C. I O. factions of the United Automobile Workers &t the Spicer Manufacturing Co., Toledo, O., producing 70 per cent of combat vehicle! transmissions, and Hillsdale Steel Products Co., Hillsdale, Mich; C. I. O. unionists are on strike at the Hillsdale plant, where the A. F. of |

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Locomotive Lifted Erom Soo Canal

Fall . | Put at'$13,000,000; FBI Opens Probe.

FALL RIVER, Mass. Oct. 13 (U. ?).—A division of the national efense program was dealt a crip-|-ling blow today by’ the $13,000,fire that roared through the irestone Rubber & Latex Products , ‘plant for 24 hours, destroying masks, - barrage balloons, mainery and 120,000 tons of crude bber. Although 25 FBI agents and repsentatives of the state fire maral’'s office - continued their ina high investigating official id that “all evidence gathered | sol. far points to accident.” Backfiring of a huge cooking oven as believed to have started the nflagration. Described as the most disastrous fire in Fall River history, it was fought by 700 firemen from 75 communities affer it was discovered on the third floor of one of the buildings late Saturday night. ‘During the battle, 11 firemen were hospifalized and more than ,a score were treated for burns, smoke inhalation and other ‘injuries. Roger S. Firestone, president of the company and son of the late Harvey Firestone, said that from 2000 to 3200 employees had been made idle by the blaze. He said he expected that manufacture of ‘needed defense supplies could be relumed within a.few days. Firestone said more than 43.00000 worth of machinery was lost as well as a building described

L. won an election » one vote,.

as one. of the argos storehouses.

Baltim ore Parade Takes Wally ~ Past BrickHo re of School Days

BALTIMORE, Oct. 13 (U. BY, on This city of oysters and family trees had an opportunity today to demonstrate its enthusiasm for the woman it has learned to love and

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for her husband, the Duke of WindSor. Over a twisting route along the narrow, crooked streets of this bay metropolis, the. former Wallis War-

1field of Baltimore was to ride as a

The procession was modest-only cars with 8 motorcycle escort.

River Factory Loss

To the best of our ‘knowledge

Ee pr ¥ Tangled i in ‘Monkey Business’

|. By JOE COLLIER

Chico ‘is at ome, now,’

8 reoverine from g bad case of mikey: ‘hysteria, and the Po ce ‘Department is back

to normal.

So far as we know, the bell-less belfry of the Emanuel Baptist Church,

1425 Arsenal ‘Ave. ris once more uninhabited’ by man or beast,

Rut we are geriain of this: That Sergt. John' Sheehan and Capt.

MOSCOW: CALM BUT AWARE.OF ITS PERIL

Radio Rumors of Panic and Hunger Refuted.

By-A: T. STEELE Copyright, he Ofricago Daily ' News, MOSCOW, Oct. 13.~The. por waves _ these . days, especially those from the direction of . Berlin, are bringirig us highly extiting' but extravagantly inaccurate stories about conditions in Moscow. = ° Just to straighten ‘out the record here are the answers to afew questions provoked by these broadcasts. IS ‘MOSCOW’ PANICKY? The answer *is no. The people are taking'a tense interest’ in war developments - and’ large groups stand around the bulletin boards. Yet, though the hews is not cheerful and the newspapers are candidly admitting the serious aspects of the situation, the population is taking it quietly. There is a strong belief in the ability of. the Red Army to defend the approa IS MOSCOW BEING EVACUATED? Not on any important scale. Women with, n are being advised to leave town but many of . them are reluctant to go. The remainder of the population stays on and proceeds with'ifs normal pursuits. There has been no closing down of stores, offices or places of amusement. Public services including trolleys and busses operate normally. All the embassies are still here; there are even some still under construction.

MOSCOW?

Vice Commissar for. Foreign ALfairs Solomon Lozovsky. ‘answered that question at his press conference on Saturday with an emphatic no. All the Government offices are open for business.

1S MOSCOW STARVING?

No. There is strict rationing of foodstuffs as has: been the case for several . weeks, adequate amounts of Thi essentials like bread, vegetables ‘and. milk are available to purchasers. 3)

IS MOSCOW A: SHAMBLES? Cettalnly, not. You have. to look “bomb

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es to this city.|

Roy Pope are once niore touch and’ g0 over an incident that ‘happened 20° years ago. i It all happened when Chico, re‘cently of someplace jn Asia and wholly unused to a Western civilization, ‘bit through his leash and es{cgped from his owner, Frank Laux, 19, of 1405 Chester St., yesterday. He was reported on various housetops yesterday but eluded Swut and all others who sought to capture Darkness ended the ehtase, No one knows where . Chico spent

1941, by The Indianapolis 1 Times) the night.

But bright and ‘early today he was ‘reported. on’ a housetop at Commerce - St. and Massachusetts Ave. ‘Three ‘squads of police were sent there, but the monkey had left.

The Sergeant Takes Charge

Eventually he made his way to the top of the Emanuel Baptist Church which was surrounded by seven policemen, and all the neighbors. About this time, Capt. Pope at Police Headquarters, heard of the monkey being ‘loose. With: a wry smile, and the memory of an incident years ago, he ordered Sergt. Sheehan: to take charge! of - the monkey chase. ‘And when that: order came .on Sergt. Sheehan’s radio, the sergeant allowed himself an insubordinate grimace. On arriving to take charge, he found "that: "Chico, ‘uhcomfortable because of the heat on the roof, had Eotie into the bellfry Whire it was cool, » Patrolman ‘Arthur ‘Rats climbed into ‘the bellfry and plugged “the entrance hole, but Chico would have (Continued on Page Two)

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HULL APPEALS

FOR APPROVAL

Cites 1936 Sub Pact as Proof Nazis Broke Faith In Sea Warfare.

' WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U. PJ). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Jcharging Germany with complete breach of faith in sea warfare, urged

the House Foreign Affairs Commit-

.|tee today to approve speedily legis-

lation to permit arming of American merchant vessels, Mr. Hull was the first witness as the. Committee opened hearings on the Bloom-Connally Bill to repeal Section 6 of the Neutrality Act | which prohibits: arming of Amerit ships. The. bill also sanction to

poi n of ea mlliat American merchantmen in order to re-establish the nation’s} “gelf-Ti t upon the ocean.” He sald’ the neutrality law was ef American defense, Secret Session Called Mr, Hull said he felt it most vital to: the national interest that Section 2 of ‘the Neutrality Act—barring American merchant ships from belligerent = areas—be modifi or repealed outright. But he did not ask the Committee to include such a provision in the pending bill. He read a prepared statement at an open session of the hearings. But the conmimittee planned to go into secret’ session to question him at greater length. “A gigantic military machine has been thrown against peaceful people, both on’land and on the .sea, (Continued on Page Two) ih br ——————————————

FUND CAMPAIGN GOES INTO LAST 10. DAYS

Community Workers Make Another Report Today.

BULLETIN Community Fund workers at their report meeting today listed additional pledges totaling $32,213, bringing - the amount ra to date to $177,843, or 258 per cent

of the goal of $688,500.

Community Fund workers were to meet at the Olaygool ag again as the campaign to raise $688,500 went into its final 10 days. "At previous meetings, pledges totaling $145,630 were listed. amounts to 21.2 per cent of the The fist that raised

year, The next” report meeting after today will be Wednesday noon in

‘|the Claypool.

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afloat Which irritates the Mose :

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OF SHIP ARMS |

today |

OPM Job Ahead

Foank Hoke

FRANK HOKE 10 GET POST

Contracts ‘to to Small Firms Will’ Be Sought; Kunkel Succeeds Simmons.

. , Times Special’ ' . WASHINGTON, -Oct. 13.—Frank Hoke will ‘be named soon as director of sthe OPM contract distribution service for Indiana with head: quarters at Indianapolis, it was learned here today. The appointment = will se announced by Floyd B. Odlum, newly appointed national head of the service, who expects to solve the priorities unemployment.problem by getting contracts to smaller plants. Mr. Hoke is the son of Fred Hoke, prominent Indianapolis manufacturer, who has ‘had several welfare posts under Democratic Administrations. : John'M. Carmody, Federal Works Administrator, .announced ‘that Kenneth M. Kunkel, formerly with the State Gonservgbion Departmeént, today succeeded Virgil M. Simmons, Bluffton, as Indiana director of the public work reserve. He also will have headquarters in Indianapolis. His job is to build up a back log of well-planned local, state and Federal - public’ works projects ‘ for imemdiate use “in cushioning the economic shock When defense slumps off.

WOMAN MOTORIST "HELD IN ACCIDENT

MRS. SARAH E. ERK, 821 N. Oxford St., was arrested on a traffic charge and taken to police headquarters in the patrol wagon today after her car struck: Marvin Polk, 16, of 1625 E. Kelly ‘8t., at Oriental and E. Michigan Sts. Polk boy, who. was on his way .to school, was ed. from nis bicycle to "the pavement. City Hospital physicians said he has a head injury and that his collar bone may ‘be broken. - Traffic Officer Henry F. Fillenwarth, on duty at the intersec-, tion, said Mrs. Erk disobeyed ‘his * signal. She, also was charged with reckless driving. Mrs. Erk sald she misunderstood the signal.

JUDGE MANTON ENDS U.S. PRISON TERM

LEWISBURG, Pa., Oct. 13 (U, P)).

1e|—Martin' T. Manton, once the na-

tion's ° highest’ jurist below the United -State§ Supreme Court, left

house | Northeastern’ Federal Penitentiary

today, having served 19 months on

VICHY, Oct, 13

of transferring its seat io Bverd. lovsk, formerly called’ E U on the slopes of 4

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NAZIS SLOWED.

OPEN MOSCOW CIRCLING DRIV

Allied Front Reports Beeon Become Lose Gloomy, + Stockholm Paper Says B. E. F. Has Reached Archangel in Soviet Arctic.

War News on Inside Pages

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: “By JOE | ALER MORIS r ' United’ Press News Editor Avrival of. a. \ British. ‘Expeditionary Farce-in-the-S¢ ; "Union was’ reported ‘from ‘Stockholm without ‘confirmatio

| today as Hitler's armies attempted a vast encirclement ate.

tack to sweep around reinforced Soviet defense lines and take Moscow from the rear. :

Hitler’s armored forces were reported only 60 to 9%. i miles from Moscow but there were many indications that. i fierce Soviet resistance and a sudden blast of icy rains and | snow had slowed the Nazi advance momentarily,

Dispatches to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet by way of Finland said that a British force purportedly nums bering “several tens of thousands” of men had landed at Archangel, scene of American military operations after the World War, to supplement the flow of Allied war materials’ to the hard-pressed Red Army. .

Perhaps From Jeeland,

" London declined to comment on the. report. Canadian headquarters at Ottawa also declined, comment on suggess tions that Canadian troops were involved in the reported: or expedition, but wide speculation was ‘aroused by disclosure; that the Canadian Defense Minister and Chief of Staff had arrived in London, Probably for conferences on new war strategy. Training of Allied forces, including crack Norwegian winter forces, Canadians and other units has been in prog ress in Scotland and if an expeditionary force has been dis« patched it probably would be units specially trained for, fighting in cold amd snow. The British forces being trained. for assault landings and raids, however, would not be likelg) to be used for such an expedition,

400 Planes Bomb Reich

"A number of British troops trained in Tceland havel been released by the United States occupation forces there and presumably would be suitable or an expedition into:

|northern regions.

The British also sent’ 400 bombers on a wide

.|series of night attacks, centering on Nuremberg in Bavaria,

the Rhine industries and northwest Germany. One of the chief targets was Bremen. Big attacks were made on the invasion coast of France and on shipping oft: Norway. The urgency of British aid to the Red Army—demanded’ loudly by the London press last week but since soft-pedaled —was emphasized by war front dispatches telling of d perate fighting “almost within sight” of Moscow.

Reinforeements Arrive

The dispatches reported that: CENTRAL FRONT—Crack Red Army reinforcements, according to Moscow, stemmed the advance of the German offensive after inflicting heavy losses on mechanized units infantry and paratroops dropped behind the Russian lin But Berlin reported that a great German pincers operati had been started in an effort to encircle. the entire Moscow area and take the capital from behind after. capture of 3¢

{000 prisoners at Vyazma and Bryansk.,

NORTHERN FRONT — German dispatches adm

| that the Russians still were holding off the Nazi forces Ten Leningrad and . Moscow reported new couter-attacks “| killed 1500 Germans and wounded many more during’e

ter-attack advances. SOUTHERN FRONT—Russian defenses still were

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ing out. 4 d heavy ‘attacks through the F ; o Nazis claimed to have }