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By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent |

NEW YORK Oct. 13 —Hang on to your hat.

Don’t look now, but while everybody was busy with ational defense something happened to the depression, Experts disagree on exactly when the depression ended and the boom began—in 1932 or 1933 or 1935 or yesterday, But it happened. Out in Towa a farmer just sold 110 head of hogs for $5000 and

bought an electric stove. In Chicago a department store

reports its best month in 22 years.

It’s a boom—with sound effects too. The crowd in Manhattan's

night club belt was never noisier.

There are those who say it’s just a defense boom and wn leave the

nation badly hung over.

: But their voices can’t match the hum of airplane engines in Indiana, California, New York, New Jersey and New England, where production lines move a little faster every day. : "A few years agd—in the memory of the youngest reader—the nation’s steel plants had a graveyard look. Today. their stacks and

furnaces’ glow.

WILL JAPAN FIGHT IN NEXT 30 DAYS?

Yes, Says Washington, If Experts Believe Tokyo's

There Is No: Risk Involved: Policy Depends on U. S.

Decisions and War in Russia.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Certain major’ moves by Japan—possibly including intervention in the war against the Soviet Union within the next 80 days—are foreseen by

officials here.

The exact scope and nature of the moves, say these officials, depend on what happens to Moscow and Soviet Rusgia in the next few days or weeks, and on decisions of the

United States Government. To understand just what is meant, it is explained, it is necessary to examine certain fundamentals of the Japanese position. In the first place, when the Japanese talk of their “co-prosperity sphere” in the Far East, they mean the whole of Eastern Asia from Kamchatka Australia, including the Philippine ands. That is to say, this is the maximum for which Nippon is playing at the moment. Her minimum is to hold on to as much of what she already has as she can, Her broad plan, therefore, is to be ready to grab whatever the' world upheaval tosses her way but to de this without too much peril to herself. Accordingly Japanese action is expected to follow some such pattern as this: Should Soviet Russia crack up sufficiently to justify the risks involved, Japan will march against Viadivostok and the Maritime Provinces of Siberia—possibly pushing as far west as Lake Baikal.

. Singapore? Not Yet At the same time, she would move to consolidate her position in French Indo-China—on land, sea and in the air—and maybe cross over into Siam, For the time being no attack on Singapore or the Dutch East Indies is expected. Tokyo does not believe the United States would dare go to war to defend Siberia on behalf of Red Russia at a time when American public opinion apparently is opposed to going to war against Germany on behalf of democratic Britain. Using the same logic, Tokyo does not seem to think the United States would fight Japan to save IndoChina for France, or Thailand (Siam), about which most Americans know little or nothing save that it is on the opposite side of the world and that it produces white elephants or something. Warnings from Nomura

On .the other hand, there is reagon to believe that Japan is fairly well convinced that the United States would fight to prevent the absorption of the East Indies and Singapore. The Japanese Ambassador, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, is said to have warned Tokyo how Washington feels about that area. An early Japanese invasion of Siberia would cause no surprise here ~—providing Hitler makes good his reiterated boasts about destroying the Red Army. Hitler is extremely

FEAR SEVEN ON BOMBER KILLED

Twin-Motored Army Craft Blasted to Bits in California Crash.

BEAUMONT, Cal, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Army officers said today that they “assumed”: all seven men aboard a twin-motored bomber had died in its wreckage but that the plane and its crew were so mangled they could not locate all the bodies. The ship, en route from Albuquerque, N. M. to March Field, Cal,, crashed into level ground during a fog late’ yesterday. It exploded on impact and searchers said there was no piece remaining more than a foot in length. Army officers believed the accident was caused by the rain and fog which had lowered the flying ceiling to zero. Occupants of plane were: Lieut. d. E. Overstreet, Lieut. J, S. Park, Lieut, J. W, Templeton, Sergeant R. J, Thomas, Sergeant D. B. Bell, Sergeam R. J. Farlow and Corp. J. A.

Two Dead, 16 Hurt in-

Texas Bomber Crash

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Two were dead and 16 were injured today as a result of the crash Saturday of a four-motored B-17 bomber taking off from Duncan Field here. The plane, unable to take off, crashed into the transportation building at the ‘field, killing First Lieut. Maurice A. Morgan, the pilot, and First Lieut. Robert Reichstadt, the co-pilot.

dertaken to keep from the Russians American supplies which enable them to keep on fighting—even if only guerrilla warfare. He is said to have insisted recently that Japan use her navy to stop these shipments, but Admiral Nomura warned against it as almost certain to bring war. Nazi pressure is still being applied to Japan. Hitler is calling for more “cé-operation.” In response, Tokyo is expected to keep rattling the sabre louder and louder as the war in Europe waxes hotter, but no

anxious for this invasion to be un-

one belteves she will burn any bridges behind her, -. .

LAST WEEK, somewhere in the land, a brawny man with hair on -his chest/ poured a steel ingot and made history. : “That ingot sent tonnage for 1941 to date above the total for all 12 ‘months of 1929. And 1929 was considered an excellent Yeuadp oa

certain black day in October.

Tonnage for the week was 1,621,000 net tons—the argent in history. Tanks roll off production lines and gun barrels come off the lathes. The roar of factories, .the babel at store counters and bars, the voices raised in alarm—all add up to “the boom is on.” The depression started to die in 1932 after the low, some economists say. Others date its demise from the bank holiday in 1933. One economist told the United Press that the depression gave. up the ghost on July, 1935, and that the boom started squawling the

- next day.

An almost uninterrupted rise started then and is still going.. There ‘were, of course, setbacks in late 1937 .and early 1838,.but. they have been explained away as “normal secondary Teatiions in a long Tecovery

movement.” # 8 =

BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE—but there just wasn’t enough plant space in : Witleh to spend all the billions Congress appropriated for

REDS BRING UP NEW RESERVES

From Siberia, Rumors Say; Paratroops Fail to Aid Nazi Drive.

Army reserves; rolling up to the front by the truckload, today coun-

peared to be taking some of the punch out of the Nazi offensive.

moving forward at a heavy cost in casualties. At many points the Nazis weére employing parachute troops.

that the German advantage of surprise concentration of numbers and material at the pointe, of attack was wearing off.

Do Nazis Have Reserves, Too? It appeared here that Hitler's

gaining control of Russia’s administrative center seemed to depend largely upon German ability to throw in reserves to counter-balance the fresh forces brought up by Marshal Semyon Timosherko. (Moscow dispatches did not indicate where fresh Russian reserves came from but there had been reports from the Far East that some units were sent from Siberia to the Moscow area.)

Paratroops ‘Wiped Out’

War front dispatches told of extensive use of paratroops by Germans on fronts where the Nazi war machine had been stalled by fierce Russian resistance. Paratroops were dropped behind the lines in an effort to disrupt communications and create chaos in the rear as an aid to the. enemy’s efforts to break through. Russian troops, originators of the parachute units, wiped out the German paratroops with the aid of well-organized civilian units, the dispatches said, reporting that snow on much of the war front had greatly handicapped the Germans and forced them to try to speed up their :drive . before real : winter weather sets in.

Home Guard Formed

The threat to Moscow, it was admitted, continued extremely grave and boys and older men were drilling in the streets and parks as a result of the German thrusts from the west, through the Vyazma sector, and the southwest, past Orel and Bryansk, both of which have been exacuated by the Russians. Russian guerrilla troops were reported intensifying their activities behind these fronts and succeeding in killing many Germans as well as disrupting communication lines. On the Leningrad front, the Red Army was reported ‘still counterattacking at many points.

Attack ‘Bloody Paw’

But the main war front was before Moscow. Especially near

Vyazma. . “The enemy Is' storming with might and main toward Moscow and the heart of the Soviet Union,” the newspaper Pravda said, “but our reserves are moving op to support the troops stemming the Fascist on-

slaught. : “Repulse of this offensive will hack off the bloody paw hanging

over the heads of millions of Soviet

people.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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SATURDAY TRAFFIC COUR Cases Convi- F Violations

MEETINGS TODAY Indiana ‘Automeblle. Insurers, Hotel Washington. re Union, Hotel Washingtan, Metals,

Rmerican Society for Me Pe Cleaners, Hotel

6:30 and indianapolis Synthet cien bteel Gia, "8 Board 3 0 Trade, noon. a a. Indianapolis’ Chapler, EO eaiaty. ot 446% BE.

Architects, S Ike AE Hotel, nace. noon. aah Canary Cottage,

bliean Washington st. Be Dame Club, Board of Trade, noon. tn

rth Side University Club, Columbia Club, paRdustrial Union Council, Amalgamated

FGeutral Labor Union, oy, Claypoot 8 en:

Improved Order of Redmen, Claypool | gas

pndisns, Biprss, of Pocahontas, Clay-

i. MEETINGS TOMORROW 1 Apartment ‘Owners, Hotel Washlis po, and Fishing Club, ‘Hotel, noon.

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Phalanx Fraternity, ¥. M. C. A, 7:30 plnians, me Syndent Peteuloum Dealers, af day ** State Assembly, Claypool Hotel, Order of Redmen, Claypool

Hotel, all day.

ms ———— MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are taken from official records in the County Courthouse. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for

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* Rithner, 3 934 8. Delaware

Mine L. Heh, 2 Gill Hail, ‘21, of Duct, Is, of 2826 Central.

Prieda x Jr., 19, of Ei N. Euclid;

L. LaShro raiticia B. Porter, a1, of 3152 N. Me-

Jesse J. Culbertson Jr., 21, of 65 8. Mount. Mary P. Garland, 21, of 2621 W.

Morace E. Pierson, 20, of 3127 GraceJud “Alice 3. Walker, 20, of 3128 Grace-

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‘29, of Fr) N. New wis, 20, of 3912

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Showers tonight and tomorrow morning followed by fair weather by afternoon; warmer to"mat, cooler f{omorrow afternoon and n .

5:54 | Sunset

—Oct. 13, 1940— M.oeeee 58 1 p. m..

- BAROMETER TOBAT 6:30 a. m....30.24

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 eT m.. Total precipitation Deficiency Pines an Sine gan.

¥ IDWEST wa Indiana—Showers tonight and in. east and south portions tomorrow morning, Becoming partly cloudy to fair tomorrow; warmer toni Bs, cooler tomorrow; wind southerly ting to northwesterly late tonight and tomorrow morning, 20 to 30 miles per hou Tilinols—Snowers tonight - and in treme south

exportion tomorrow ' mo: g fair late tonight and Y oorning, Morrow and in northwest orton late to-

nigh southerly, to thwesterly ed tonight.’ ap” a0 i > 6 miles Ther

Ohio—Inc oo Teasing § cloudtaess and and warmer

night; tomorr arm and windy with “scatjored ey"

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MOSCOW, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Red|’

ter-attacked German forces along Napoleon’s road to Moscow and ap-|

The Germans however, were still]

Reports from the front line said|

hopes of . reaching Moscow. and|.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. 29 BE "Temp. 83 84,

‘Invaders’ Capture Fort, Shell New York City

Swarming under one of the huge 16-inch guns of Ff. Tilden, which guards the approaches to New York City, these “enemy” soldiers surprised the garrison, and gained temporary possession of the Fort. They turned the guns on the city, and dumped 30 to 40 giant. shells into the heart of Manhattan, before being driven out. Dive bombers and parachute troops also wreaked havoc in New. York’s first large scale war

Americans are employed, more than

ber was about 36,000,000. le, but sometimes they sing. of production. Let the 1935-39 1928 and come up to date. You

July, 1832, it had fallen to 53. In a, 1937, reached 121

and the 1938 average was - In 108 and in 1940 it averaged 1

» # . credit to prevent a fuaway 1939 the index curved upward to

AY present the index sands st 161, ‘which means that the industrizt

games—a phase of First Army maneuvers which cover an area from Boston south to North Carolina,

machine is producing 61 per cent more goods on an average y basis than it did from 1935 to 1939. inclusive.

It may be artificial, cin the result of ihe deen progam,

and priorities may do a lot of damage Nevertheless it’s a boom. i ; believe, ih will gt. tteriodd no dniiter what happens

in the war. But don’t say “boom” in Wall 8

adjustments’ are made,”

treet.

1020 the average monthly turnover on the New York Stock

Ex ge was 93,700,000 shares.

In the

first nine months of this

your the total turnover was only 106,000,000 shares, a monthly average

of 11,800,000.

8 ua.

"ON SEPT. 3, 1929, the industrial average in the Dow-Jones compila

tion hit an all-time high of 381.17.

‘Civilian industry is afraid of what priorities will permit

can find munitions makers who see away in the form of taxes. ’

” 120. and you I the bulk of their profits draining

The average now is a

But you can’t spend billions for defense without having a boom. It may produce a headache later, but while it lasts it’s a boom.

Te depression'ts diag, R.IP.

NORWAY GIVEN ‘LAST WARNING’

Nazis Clamp Down After ‘Invasion’ Forts Are ‘Sahotaged.

“By UNITED "PRESS '

Norwegian dispatches reported today the discovery of extensive sabotage to newly built German antiinvasion fortifications in the Alesund district of Norway and said

the local Nazi military commander

had given the people a “last warning” to cease these activities. The dispatches; received in Stockholm, said all those who had participated in destruction of the fortifications would be punished severely —‘4f adults are found responsible they will be court-martialed, if children, the parents will be held responsinle.” An “Army’ in Jugoslavia Many persons have already been arrested, it was said. The sabotage was reported to have been carried out after the completion of recent “invasion exercises” by German troops. The British radio reported meanwhile that Jugoslavia now has an organized army which is fighting

sporadically against the German oc-

cupants and in one ‘engagement captured 700 German officers and men, The Stockholm newspaper, Social Demokraten, reported from Berlin that obituary notices for 13 policemen killed in action in Thrace: during the uprising of Greeks have been printed. ‘Accidents’ in Czechoslovakia The paper claimed that guerrilla war still was in progress between Greeks and Bulgars, particularly in mountain districts Czech sources in London claimed that a large sugar warehouse in Praka has been burned, a Nazi troop train has collided with ° freight train, killing 15 persons at Cseska Trebova, and German gasoline storage tanks at Tabor set

afire. The Vichy Radio, heard by CBS, reported ‘from Bucharest that a ghetto has been set up for Jewish inhabitants of Cernauti. The official German news agency reported that Paris police had arrested 24 alleged Communists and seized large quantities of leaflets and blank checks in a raid on a suburban “Communist cell.”

PUPILS TO WITNESSS THE PASSION PLAY

A schedule of attendance at the Black Hills Passion Play school matinees for the .remainder of the week was anno today by the Lions Club, sponsors of the show in

Schools 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 46 and 47. Tor

Thursday, 55, 56, 58, => 70, 73, 4, 75

63, 63, 66, 67, 1, 78, 86, 87.

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Nazis Have Slowed Down, But Moscow Still Is in Peril}

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN IN 8 Conyrigis 104, by Tog Indiapapo tne. LONDON, Oct. 13.—It was believed here today that the German drive had slowed down slightly due either to increased Russian resistance, a normal lull for the refreshment of attacking forces, or the need to clean up Russian het which remain behind the advanced German spearheads. It is believed, at the same time, that the threat to the Russian ca ita] remains extremely serious and its fail within the next two weeks would surprise nobody—probably including ‘the Russians themselves: Private reports from Moscow indicate that all preparations have been made either for the abandonment of the capital or. for a prolonged ‘state of siege which would presumably - involve the retirement of the Soviet Government and foreign colony to the other side of the Volga, or even as far as the Urals. In this desperate situation one great source of hope lies in the fact that - the Soviet Government has made plans for every contingency and is ‘consequently prepared to continue organized resistance to the Germafis even though the capital is cut off ‘or captured. It will remain for the Germans— if and when they take Moscow—to discover ‘where the Russians would make their next stand. It is obvious, at the same time, that in the north they have a likely defense line along the Volga provided they can salvage enough troops from ° the ' central front to man it.

Don or the Volga?

In the case of the Ukrainian armies, which also have been subjected to terrific hammering and have had heavy losses, the next two natural defense lines are the Don and Voiga rivers in that order. If Marshal Semyon Budenny has a | cnough men left and reinforcements of men and material are made available soon enough, he may make a stand before Rostov and along the Don, in which case German progress into north Caucasus, toward Baku, would be halted for the time being. Otherwise, the Russians may have to retire behind the Volga and to establish a separate defense for the Caucasus in an effort to keep the Germans from the oil wells there. In this they would be assisted by

P-ler of the Russians to establish a

the Caucasus Mountains which form an impassable barrier between northern Caucasus and southern Caucasus all the way from the Black Sea to the narrow maritime plane which runs to the Caspian.

Front Would Be Narrow The Georgian’ Military. Highway, which is the only passable road across the range, could easily be held. It should be within the pow-

narrow, impregnable front barring the Germans from Baku, partieularly if they are sustained with men and materials from the south.

do continue to advance in central Russia and the Ukraine it is -possible to count upon the. continued exister.ce of great bases of Russian resistance east of the Volga—which would include the Urals and Siberia —and in the. Caucasus. If worst does come to worst these are the centers into which the British and Americans must continue to pour supplies. The Caucasus is the more easily reached of the two but as long as Vladivostok remains open it should be possible to pour. in supplies to the Urals as well.

PHOTOGRAPH EXPERT T0 ADDRESS CLUBS

Art Association ‘of Indianapolis members and Indianapolis Camera Club members haev been invited to attend a lecture by Dever Timmons, of Coshocton, O., Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the John Herron Art Museum. Mr. Timmons is one of the three

judges who will award the Warren H. Munk trophy to the camera club at the current exhibit at the museum. The speaker is a leading salon exhibitor and in addition to being an. associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, > a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art, London.

His subject will be “Making Photographs More Interesting.” .

War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Implicit in

centrated material aid by Britain and the United States to Russia is the British hope and belief that Russia will hold an Eastern Front during the winter and be able to fight with renewed strength next

spring. The British Minister of Supply made this plain when he said in a radio speech yesterday that the Soviet Union “must be enabled to enter the spring campaign with adequate supplies of munitions of war.” at the three-power meeting: in Moscow, he and W. Averell Harriman, representing the United States, had promised Stalin to deliver everyasked.

Mr, Keemle

Lord Beaverbrook’s appeal for con-

looked forward to the British will be able to at-

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HEAD WARNS A. F. L.

‘SEATTLE, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Lynn U. “Stambaugh of Fargo, N, D., newly-elected - Commander * of the American Legion, warned the Amer~ ican Federation of Labor today to be on its guard against Communists while" helping’ produce "weapons of |¢ war for Russia. “There is danger that in our sympathetic ‘provision of these tools to Russia, solely because Russia is a government opposing the further spread of Hitlerism, our guard may be lowered and Communism in the United States may get an opening that hitherto has been denied,” Mr, Stambaugh said. Opening its second and last ‘week after a two-day recess, the convent tion ‘began action on more than 150 resolutions. . .

DUTCH GENERAL AT MANILA .. MANILA, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Gen. H. Terpoorten, chief of staff of the Netherlands East Indies, arrived. today for three days of informal conferences with United States military officials... .

Germans Claim 350,000 Prisoners at Bryansk . . And Vyazma.

ERLIN, Oct. 13 (U. XN, Pla spon German High Comm : munique claimed today that “s50, Russians have been taken .pr the battles of B

communique issued a few h after the regular communique serted that destruction of pocketed Soviet forces around Vyazmga nearly complete. German reports indicated that northern claw of the pincers is German column which is now driv ing forward from the Valdai sector, near the sourse of the Vi This column had remained s tionary at the start of the Nazi fensive against Moscow but is n believed to be thrusting tow Kalinin, 100 miles northwest Moscow, possibly with the inten : of driving east and crossing Volga to circle now on Moscow fr the northwest. The southern arm of the pin it was indicated, is now in the wv cinity of Tula, 100 miles south Moscow, or possibly beyond ths

by the High Command. . If the two pincers arms shoul® meet east of Moscow the Ge r would then have created a vas pocket enclosing the Russian capa ital and enveloping the strong Rusg sian forces assembled to def Moscow. German sources said “the en backbone has been br military landslide of t days will lead to furthe velopments in the near future.” In its communique, houcd

Hitler's headquarters,

ern armies of Marsha Budenny, who . had “ ped the battle of the Sea of| Azov, Germans destroyed one ing 1100 prisoners and guns, The High Command said that peated attempts of the Russians t8 break through the German lines Leningrad had been repulsed heavy losses for the Russians. '

—————————— SCOUTS PLAN HIKE Hayward Barcus post 55, can Legion, is sponsoring an o night hike for Boy Scout ; 83 to Wyandotte Cave, Oct, 18-19

The post also plans to send a d egation to the Knightstown H for Boys. This activity was s

by ‘the post and lately has 1 carried out by the 12th District of the American Legion, :

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