Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1939 — Page 1
As Lindbergh Hopped
Col. Lindbergh inspects his glistening plane before leaving Stout Field for Dayton,
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FOREIGN SITUATION LONDON-King and Queen to use passenger liner, DUBLIN—De Valera trip to America, PARIS — Soviet Ambassador pledges aid to democracies, ROME-—Military pact may reply to Rritish dratt, WASHINGTON--U, 8 buys planes with Indianapolis-made engines, BERLIN-—<Hitler expected spurn EF. DR. as mediator, TOKYO--Promier refuses ally Japan against Britain
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LONDON, Aptil 27 (U. P) Peace in Burope is in the balance and “a very little one way or another” may precipitate war, Prime Minister
Chamberlain told the House of Commons today. The Prime Minister in opening debate on his decision to introduce peace-time conscription, which is bitterly opposed by Labor, sald that: “1 do not want to give you the idea that war is imminent, I do not think it is. I do think we are in a position in which a very little one way or the other may decide whether war is going to come or not.” Relieves Disaster Averted
He also indicated he felt disaster had been averted by the conscription decision, Before the debate opened this morning Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that pulse, one of the strongest units of the British fleet, will not take the King and Queen on their trip to Canada, as previously planned Their Majesties will travel on the chartered Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia, Mv, Chamberlain said, sailing May 6 The change was made because of the tense European situation,
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pulse may be needed at any time “Tt would have been stupid to prefer to lead the country to disaster rather than take the decision announced vesterday,” Mr. Chamber. lain declared. He also said conscription is so important that the Government may be forced to call a general election if the opposition pushed the conrtoversy over the fssue too far Seeks to Avoid Election
The Prime Minister plainly showed, however, that he is anxious to avoid an election if possible because it would leave the country in a state of uncertainty in “what might be vital weeks.” As soon as the Prime Minister finished speaking, the opposition, starting with Maj. Clement R. Attlee, Labor leader, opened a bitter attack on his decision. Maj. Attlee charged Mr. Chamberlain had not been a good friend of democracy, asserted that the voluntary system proved adequate (Continved on Page Five)
DIDN'T SAY HE WOULDN'T WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P). Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich) said today in a letter to the TimesHerald that he never said he would not accept the Presidential nomination in 1940. He asked that a correction be made “to Keep the record straight.”
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Spurned for Swing, Wite Gets Divorce
A 21-year-old bride of a year was granted a divorce today after she testified her husband loved jitterbugging more than herself Mrs, Vera Campbell told Superior Court Judge Russell Ryan she met her husband, Paul, at a dance and that they were marvied in April, 1938 Between then and December when they separated, he bee came a jitterbug champion and she was forced to sit at home, she testified, She said she disliked “jitters bugging.”
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RELIEF BUDGET | FOR 194015 CUT
NATIONAL AFFAIRS PRESIDENT asks $1,750,000,000 for relief. TREASURY consolidation plan abandoned, HOOSIERS divided on ganization proposal, TAX REVISION to aid business being sabotaged, (Page Four) CONGRESS now expects to adJourn by Aug. 1 SILVER BLOC may set price on money bill support. HOUSE group favors Bergdoll n MURPHY to invite business to join antitrust war, BRIG. GEN. MARSHALL made Army chief of staff,
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SOVIET TO AID DEMOCRACIES
French, British and German Warships Concentrate Near Spain.
| PARIS, April 27 (U, P) British. | French and German warships [moved near the western entrance to the Mediterranean today as Soviet Russia was reported nego[tiating with Rumania to back up a [statement that the Moscow Gove ernment is prepared to ald the Eu|ropean antiaggression front, Apparently rushing negotiations jin advance of Fuehrer [Tvan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador to London, arrived in Paris {from Moscow by way of Copenha(gen, where he told the press that “Russia is ready to help with ma- | terials and machines if the Western democracies are attacked ™ M. Maisky was reported arranging 1a secret conference with Grigore {Gafencu, the Rumanian Foreign {Minister who is now in Paris, While the diplomatic negotiations to strengthen the antiaggression [front as rapidly as possible were un[derway, advices reported extensive [naval movements in the Mediterranean. The German cruiser Koeln | rived off Algeciras, in Spain. Four | German destroyers and nine sub{marine were due at Cadiz. Two British destroyers, and one [submarine, Severn, joined the bat- | tleship Ramillies, according to a message from Gibraltar, where [French warships recently have | been concentrated.
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'VERMILLION'S FIRM ASKS BEER PERMIT
| State Senator Walter Vermillion | (D. Anderson)" is one of the incorporators of the Independent Beverage Co. of Anderson, which has applied for a beer wholesalers’ permit, it was learned today. Senator Vermillion also is a member of the State Budget Committee.
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| WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P). | President Roosevelt today asked | Gongress to appropriate $1,750,000,
000 for relief in the 1940 fiscal year, of which $1.477.000,000 would be used for the WPA, The proposed WPA appropriation represents a cut of one-third from velief costs in the present budgetary year, President Roosevelt estimated it would enable WPA to maintain an average payroll from July 1, 1030, to June 30, 1040, of slightly more than two million persons. “Barring unforeseen and unpredictable developments,” said the President, “we are justified in expecting an upward trend in the volume of employment between now | and June 30, 1940." He placed present WPA employment at 2,800,000 and said the aver age for the 1989 fiscal year would be about three million persons, Cost of 1930 WPA operations was $2,250,« 000,000 . Mr. Roosevelt declared that at the present rate of operations national (Continued on Page Three)
VALPARAISO EDITOR
DIES WHLE ON TRIP
‘Lynn W. Whipple Is Found in
| Ft. Wayne Hotel Room. ann | JFT. WAYNE, April 21 (U. P).—| | Police said a man they identified las Lynn W. Whipple, editor of the | Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger, had | been found dead in the room of a hotel here today. Coroner Walter E. Kruse made an investigation, In Valparaiso Mr. Whipple was considered one of the outstanding Republican editors in Northern Indiana. He was 42, He was on a business trip to Ine dianapolis and Ft. Wayne when he died, his office said. He was born in Niles, Mich, and went to Valparaiso in 1924 and purchased the Valparaiso Messenger. Three years later he effected a merger with the Vidette. He conducted a daily column and wrote many special articles for publication elsewhere.
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BERLIN, April 27 (U. P) —Wellinformed sources predicted today that Fuehrer Hitler in his speech to the Reichstag tomorrow would refuse to accept President Roosevelt in any role as mediator in a settlement between Germany and other powers. Also, it was said Herr Hitler will refuse German participation in any conference which might be called by
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Herr Hitler is expected to deal exhaustively with German-American relations since the entry of the United States into the World War, [with particular reference to Wood« [row Wilson's 14 points. | While rejecting Mr. Roosevelt's | peace proposals Herr Hitler is ex- | pected to re-emphasize his desire for peace. Nazi propaganda chiefs made arrangements for the speech to be broadcast through the Reich, and
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939
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Insure U. S. World Aviation.
After an overnight inspection visit here, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh took off at 0:15 a. m. today from Stout Field and headed east.
He landed at Wright Field, Dayt off for New York at 10:58 There upon their arrival srom England.
on, at 10:15, refueled and then {ook he was to greet hig wife and sons
Col. Lindbergh was driven to Stout field by an official of the Allison
Engineering Co. arriving at 8:35.
He disapeared in the hangar where
his pursuit plane was stored, and the doors were locked,
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Sergt, Russell Long pushed the plane to the concrete apron.
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Long got into the cockpit and started the motor as Lindbergh stood
on the wing. The flier then shook hands with Capt. Matt Carpenter, took off his felt hat and put it in the cocks pit, climbed in and gave the motor a couple of speed bursts, He taxied to the field and took off. He flew here yesterday from Buffalo and spent the afternoon inspecting dies, plans and motors built for the U, 8, Army at the Alli son Engineering Co., Speedway City. It was part of his Government. backed survey calculated to establish the supremacy of the United States in world aviation, His visit was unannounced except to Allison Co. engineers and his movements were kept a secret,
Stuffs Goggles in Pocket
Col. Lindbergh stayed all night at the home of Ronald M. Hazen, 5047 N. Capitol Ave. Mr. Hazen is a vice president and Allison Co. engineer. The flier arrived in a single seated Army pursuit plane at Stout Field shortly after noon yesterday. He was met by an Allison Co. offi cial who had waited about a half hour at the field without telling field employees or officials for whom he was waiting. Col. Lindbergh climbed from the plane, pulled off his goggles and] stuffed them in his suit coat pocket, | and conferred briefly with company officials. He then took a brief case, and some luggage from the plane, cautioned field employees that he did not want his arrival or presence here known, and told them to service the plane, “T don't know whether I'll be back today or tomorrow." he said. Girls Hold Party at Field
He and the official motored away, and presumably went directly to the Allison plant in Speedway City. Persons who had gathered in front of the plant say him as he and three Allison company engine eers were studying blue prints in a front office. Later the sun shade was drawn, Barly in the evening a number of persons drove to Stout Field and asked if Col. Lindbergh was there. A Ben Davis High School girl's club party held at the field luncheon was pretty well disorganized because the girls seemed more interested in Col. Lindbergh than in the party. They kept leaving the lunchroom and wandering about the South hangar where the plane was kept, The plane used by Col. Linde bergh is a standard type pursuit ship. :
ELISSA LAND! TALKS IN CITY NEXT WEEK
Elissa Landi, Italian<born star of stage and motion pictures, will address the Contemporary Club here next Wednesday night at the English Theater, it was learned today. She will speak on “The Difference Between Stage and Screen Acting.” Her discussion will be augmented by demonstrations.
STOCKS HOLD GAINS: AEROS ARE STRONG
NEW YORK, April 27 (U. P)— Retaining gains ranging to more than 2 points above the previous close, stocks today held steady in afternoon dealings. Aviation shares were strongest with gains ranging to more than 2 points in Douglas , Trad tinued light as traders held hak
PLANT GUARDS ENGINE SECRET
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Indianapolis Company Is Ready for Mass Production in Defense Drive.
By SAM TYNDALL The Allison Engineering Co. plant which was founded here years ago to perfect boat motors, today highly bolsters America's hope for world military aviation supremacy. Guarded as closely as the nation’s gold vaults, the workshop at Speed-
way holds the blueprints of warplane engines considered the fastest and most durable in the world, There are only about four of these super-power motors in Army planes, but Col, Charles A. Lindbergh saw the tools and dies for many thousands of them yesterday. What Ool. Lindbergh thinks of the Allison engine in comparison with others he has seen or heard of in Europe probably will be learned only by Government officials and the U. 8. Army's high command. Two Allison motors powered =a sleek army pursuit plane across the country in record time recently, attaining speeds of more than 400 miles per hour. So successful have been the tests with the Allison engine that the General Motors Co., parent corporas= tion of the local plant, is about to manufacture them in quantities for the Government. Preparations for mass production were revealed yesterday by one of the plant technicians, John Kreutzinger, electrical department head. About the time Ool. Lindbergh was poring over blueprints and inspecting plant departments, the War Department in Washington ordered 571 war planes, and it is believed that (Continued on Page Three)
SEEK TO SAVE BOY'S EYE
Indiana University Medical Center physicians sought today to save the left eye of 10-year-old Dick Braun of Huntington. Last Monday the child attempted to untie a shoelace snarl with a table fork. The fork slipped and gouged his eye.
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NEW YORK, April 27 (U. P).— The Norwegian American liner Oslofjord, bringing Orown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway to New York for an American goodwill tour, rammed and sank the pilot boat Sandy Hook in a dense fog in the outer harbor today. e 26-man crew of the Sandy Hook abandoned ship. All were rescued by life boats from the Oslof jord. Oné man was injured, the Coast Guard said, The Sandy Hook put out to meet the Oslofjord about 6 a. m. to place a' pilot aboard the ipectuing liner
Ship Carrying Royalty Rams Tuy, 26 Rescued
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PLANE ORDERS BOOST ALLISON
Local Factory's Motor to Be Used in Craft Valued At 13 Million.
WASHINGTON, April 37 (U., P). —The Army today disclosed detailed contracts for its new air defenses which provide s balanced program of huge bombing planes and the latest type of swift pursuit and in- J teroceptor planes. The new contracts were for 571 new planes, the first step in the Army program of building up its aerial defense force to 6000 fighiing planes. Simultaneously, Assistant Secretary of War Johnson, announced that within a few days the War Department will award an additional 10 million dollars in contracts for the new attack bomber type of plane tested in recent competition at Wright Field, Dayton, O.
Contracts Are Revealed
The' contracts on which details were revealed tdoay were for five types of planes. 1. Heavy, four-motored bombard= ment planes, similar to the “Flyinf Fortress" type, from the Con=solidated Aircraft Corp. of San Diego, $2.880,000. 2. Pursuit airplanes, single-mo-tored, known as the “P40,” one of the fastest airplanes in the world, from the Curtis Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corp, New York, $12,872,308. The P-40 is powered with an Allison, liquidcooled motor, made at the Allison factory in Indianapolis. The plane is officially credited with speed “considerably in excess of 300 miles an hour.” Unofficial observers state that it has flown above 400 miles an hour. It carries two machine guns and is designed to fly at high altitudes. 3. Pursuit interceptor airplanes, twin-motored, from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp, Burbank, Cal, $2,180,728. These planes also are to use Allison motors. 4 Pursuit interceptor planes, single-motored, a new type of ypursuit aireraft, from the Bell Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo, N. Y. $1,073,445. 5. Photographic airplanes from the Beech Aircraft Corp. Wichita, Kas. $628,749.
Number of Craft Withheld
Mr. Johnson did not reveal the numbers of each type of plane purchased. The contracts do not include the cost of engines, propellers, instruments and accessories. These defense expansion plans were revealed coincidentally with reports that the automobile industry has spent millions of dollars eplarging its plants for Government armament orders.
14 FILM COMPANIES FACE TRUST ACTION
WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P). —The Justice Department announced today it will institute antitrust proceedings against 14 motion picture companies tomorrow.
About 6 a. m. (Indianapolis
Time), the Coast Guard reported, the Oslofjord rammed the Sandy Hook which was crippled immediately. The Sandy Hook then started to run for shallpw water before she sank. Then her radio crackled: “Sinking—help urgently needed.” The Coast Guard cutter Galatea and two lifeboats from the Sandy Hook and Rockaway Point stations put out, but by that time lifeboats from the Oslofjord already had picked up the Sandy Hook's crew. The Sandy Hook sank about a
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225 IN HIGHWAY BUREAU FIRED
Dicus Announces Personnel Cut Monday,
And Abolition of To Meet $600,000
Dismissal of 225 State Hi
Two Departments Slash in Budget.
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effective Monday was announced today by T. A. Dicus, Highway Commission chairman.
The personnel reduction,
which includes the abolition
of two departments, was necessary to meet a $600,000 cut in the Commission's budget as fixed by the Legislature, Mr,
Dicus said. The traffic and planning
RAPS POLICE FOR LAXITY IN COURT
McNelis Angered Because - Officers Fail to Appear In Traffic Cases.
Police officers who fail to appear in Municipal Court to testify in traffic cases were assailed from the bench by Judge John McNelis today. He threatened to ‘cite some of them for contempt.” The judge, at the same time, critized other officers for talking aloud during court session and threatened to eject them from the courtroom, While Judg. McNelis aimed his verbal fire at arresting officers, police reported the arrest of 52 motorists overnight as three persons received minor injuries in accidents. Meanwhile, Sheriff Feeney opened a campaign against motorists who are driving without licenses. Judge MecNelis' criticism of of(Continued on Page Three)
‘TAPE MEN'S’ VICTIMS WILL VIEW PIERGE
Companion Checked Also in Recent Crimes.
Paul Pierce, escaped convict, and his companion, who were captured
this week in Henderson, Ky., were to be viewed today at State Police Headquarters by victims of the “tape bandits.” Capt. Walter Eckert said the move was a “precaution” as it had been suggested the men might be the bandits who have bound, robbed and abducted their victims. He said that some descriptions tallied with those of Pierce and his companion. Two new gray caps and a green overcoat which were said to be similar to those worn by the bandits were found in their possession, he said. Pierce ‘was returned here last night and questioned under heavy guard at State Police Headquarters. The convict, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Orville Quinnette, Indianapolis detective, Dec. 8, 1935, escaped from prison by hiding in an outgoing bakery truck.
COAL MINER KILLED, 1 HURT IN OHIO CLASH
COSHOCTON, O., April 27 (U. P). One coal miner was shot to death and another was wounded seriously clash between union and
miners at Otsego, Mus-
survey departments will be eliminated. The 129 persons employed in these two de= partments will lose their jobs. Seventy-one of these are Democrats and 58 are Republicans, Mr. Dicus said. Earl Feldman, South Bend, director of the planning department, has resigned, Mr. Dicus said. Hallie Myers, head of the traffic safety de=partment, will retain the title of traffic director and continue his work without the present personnel, The job of traffic director is fixed by statute. . In addition to the 129 employes to be dismissed in the two departments, Mr. Dicus said nearly 100 more in other highway divisions will have to be dismissed.
Saves $500,000 in Salaries
Anticipating the shakeup after the Legislature reduced the depr te ment’s personnel budget, abot. 70 highway engineers have resigned to take jobs with private companies, Mr. Dicus said. The total saving in salaries as a result of the staff reduction will be about $500,000 a year, Mr. Dicua said. Commenting on the planning sure vey division, Mr. Dicus said: “The division has directed the work of planning Indiana roads and bridges to meet the needs of the future. This work is largely that of professional engineers.
Can't Delay, Dicus Says
“The reductions necessarily will curtail much of the work that is being done and will be especially noticeable to the general public in the safety program. “This reduction hits us at the worst time as we are entering into the peak construction period.” Mr. Dicus explained that the reduction could not be delayed until July 1, the beginning of the State's fiscal year, because a change at that time “would upset the entire highe way program.” He said very few salaries in other divisions of the department will be reduced to absorb the budget cut. “Our highway engineers already are receiving less than they can get in private industry,” he said.
KEEP THE BLANKETS! ‘IT’S COOLER TONIGHT”
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 57 10 a. m.... 7 a. m.. 59 11a m... 8am... 64 12 (noon). 9 a. m.. 67 1pm...
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The weather will be mostly cloudy and cooler tonight, but will be gene erally fair again tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said. The highest temperature reached yesterday was 75 at 2 p. m. and the Bureau said it might get warmer today because the early temperae tures were higher than those yese terday.
HOG MARKET STEADY A top price of $7.10 on 180-t0~200=. 1b. hogs prevailed in a steady mare ket at Indianapolis today. Vealers.
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