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25, 1940

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‘Stampede for Hillis Viewed As Averting Chance of Split in Campaign.

By NOBLE REED Indiana Repubiican leaders today claimed that the stampede nomination of Glen R. Hillis of Kokomo for Governor on the second ballot has averted all possibility of a factional division in the fall

campaign. The harmony movement started early in the State Convention yes-

terday when Raymond E. Willis, Angola publisher, was nominated for U. S. Senator by acclamation after his two opponents withdrew. Seven others were nominated similarly in quick order, leaving only two balloting contests, for Lieutenant Governor and State Auditor, besides the Governor race. Campaign managers of both Mr. Hillis and Mr. Willis announced they will lay plans to start the fall drive immediately, even before the Democrats nominate their standard

bearers in the convention here June on «lil.

State convention.

Study Delegate Complexion

Meanwhile, G. O. P. leaders focused their attention also on the complexion of Indiana's delegation to the National Convention in Philadelphia June 24. Party leaders said a preliminary study of the 28 delegates elected at district meetings Thursday night| and at the convention yesterday indicated that a majority of them were favoring U. S, Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) with the next largest bloc apparently leaning to Thomas E. Dewey, of New York. Analysts estimated that Wendell L. Willkie, New York utility executive and former Hoosier at present doesn’t have more than two or three supporters among the delegates. Bricker Sentiment Growing

There also is some growing senti-

ment for Governor John W, Bricker, : ! of Ohio, who was the keynote doctor's care. Other engines that

speaker at the convention. seem in the best of health suddenly | The first indication of the swing develop a hidden pain when some- | to Mr. Hillis yesterday came at the body whispers “qualifying.” Then | end of the first ballot when he there are those motors that look| polled 840 votes while his nearest | perfectly sound which are held back | opponent, William E. Jenner of from any official performance until | Shoals, received 509. Judge James|their caretakers are sure they have! A. Emmert received 315; Clarence squeezed every possible r.p.m. from Benadum, Muncie, 99: George R. [the cylinders. Jeffrey, Indianapolis. 79; David -1.| Although some whim could (Continued on Page Three) {quickly add to or subtract from the renee list, here are the drivers and cars [that are expected to take the exam IRISH HOLD WOMAN IN {today or in the near future: Babe d . Stapp, Wheeler Special; I.ouis Du‘6TH COLUMN’ PROBE | :ant, Schoot Special; Billy DeVore, Holabird Special; Duke Nalon, Marks-Offenhauser Special; Emil Andres; Belanger-Foltz Special; Ralu Riganti, Maserati; Mel Hansen, Hartz Special; Bob Swanson, Sampson Special; Chet Miller, Alfa Romeo; Doc Williams, Quillen Bros. Special; Paul Russo, Elgin Piston Pin Special; Henry Banks, Cheesman Maserati; Joie Chitwood, Kennedy Tank Special; Tony Willman,

FOR 500-MILE

25 Machines Ready for Tests in Five Days of Qualification.

By J. E. O'BRIEN Fifteen places in the Memorial Day race lineup remained un-| claimed today, with an estimated 25 | machines available to bid for them in the five intervening days. | Of course, not all those eligible! could be rolled to the starting apron | at the drop of one of Seth Klein's! flags. Many are still under the

BULLETIN LONDON, May 25 (U. P.).— Britain's drive against suspected fifth Columnists resulted in reports today that documents found in the possession of an Irish Republican Army officer had indicated that this week-end was the zero hour for an armed uprising against the Eire and Ulster

T “Congratulations, Hillis,” says Willis to Hillis. “Congratulations yourself, Willis,” replies Willis as the two top-ranking G. O. P. State nomin ees rest up from the rigors of yesterday's Republican The two candidates with the similar sounding names are Glen R. Hillis (left), Kokomo, nominated for Governor, and Raymond E. Willis, Angola, the U. S. Senate nominee.

15 PLACES OPEN Kokomo Knows Governor

Nominee as "Just Folks’

‘He's a Common Guy for

Says of Republican Standard Bearer.

“He's a common guy for a millionaire.”

That's what the folks in Kokom nominee for Governor.

They speak from intimate acquaintance. because Mr. Hillis is the

intimate of the bootblack, the hotel them all on the same plane. because he stops to talk to every-

The average community of ordinary size envies its millionaire, turns up its nose at him. But Kokomo doesn’t. The Howard County metropolis calls Mr, Hillis friend.

The Hillis 12-room Colonial-type home is the centerpiece of 11 zcres in the suburbs. It is a museum of furniture. Yet, when you step in the front door you might trip over a skate, or in the summer a bathing suit may be drying over the magnificent stairway-—because the mansion is a home for the “kids.”

Entertain Playmates

There are four: Joseph, 7: Flwood, 9; Robert, 14, and Margaret, 19, a pupil at Tudor Hall here in Indianapolis. They all bring their playmates home. The swimming pool in the rear of the Hillis home is the “ole swimmin’ hole” for the children of Kokomo. The plumbers son enjoys it as well as the banker's. Not so long ago Margaret walked in with 15 friends from Tudor Hall. It so happened Mrs. Hillis was entertaining her friends and several cronies were visiting Mr. Hillis. Before long it was one big party.

It takes him an hour to walk a city block

That's why intimates say “you're

Governments, Leader Card Special; Ralph Hep-

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Time Chart

Get out your watch, keep one eye on the second hand, the other on a car you want to time, and you can translate

elapsed time into miles an hour with this chart.

DUBLIN, May 25 (U. P.).—A special military court, at the request of a prosecutor who said her case was “so serious that it cannot be overestimated,” today held Mrs. Iseult Stuart of Laragh Castle, County Wicklow, on charges affecting the safety of the state. The arrest of Mrs. Stuart was connected with police charges yesterday that Stephen Carroll Held, member of a Dublin sheet metal firm, had secreted in his home a radio transmitter, a parachute, a German air force cap and a box containing $20,000 in American money. Held was remanded in custody for a week and today Mrs. Stuart, whose husband was said to be in Germany, was remanded until

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M. WILL MAKE AIRPLANE ‘PROPS’

DETROIT, May 25 (U. P.) —General Motors Corp. announced today it will enter airplane propellor manufacture on June 1 with acquisition of the Engineers Projects, Inc., at Dayton, O. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. chairman of the board, said the new unit will be known as aeroproducts division of G. M. Mr. Sloan, in his announcement, said: “General Motors is taking this opportunity to strengthen further 8 the production facilities of the na2 tion contributing to the mass pro8 duction of airplanes for defense as 7, well as for commercial purposes.” 8|Radio 9| 9/Mrs. Roosevelt 7| LOOT VALUED AT $850 8 Scherrer ... 7| Imported Syrian merchandise 8 Serial Story . 13|valued at about $850 was stolen in n Indpls..... 3 Society 4, 5/the past day from the home of Mrs. Johnson 8 Sports 10, 11 Elizabeth Mesalam, 2922 N. Sherman

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liable. to run into anything at the Hillis home, Parties are funny.”

Phone Kept Busy

There's no “flash” to either Mr. or Mrs. Hillis. They're not social | climbers. They like to mingle with everyone who shows genuineness or sincerity. The telephone in the house never stops. The maid knows voices. It's seldom she asks “Who's calling, please?” before she buzzes Mr. Hillis at one of the telephones which are distributed all over the house, Mrs. Hillis is not outshone bv her husband as a genius in varied fields. She is rated as one of the country’s leading metallurgists and mas-

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a Millionaire,” Home Town

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bellboy and the capitalist and meets

150,000 PILOTS RICKENBACKER

ARMY'S BUYING SETUP RAPPED

BY WAR BOARD

Because Ideas Run Counter to His.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY and THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writers WASHINGTON, May 25.—Criticism of Army and Navy procurement methods of the last five years is contained in the report of the War Resources Board of leading industrialists which, though completed and submitted to President Roosevelt last November, has never been made public.

F. D. R. Suppressed Report |

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Germans Move to Destroy Allied Armies Before French Counter-Thrust Breaks

Trap; “Situation Grave,” London Says.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

German armored units, infantry and airplanes struck with climactic force today in an effort to destroy trapped

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The Board, appointed by the President and headed by Edward R. Stettinius Jr, chairman of United States Steel, also recom-

to handle procurement and to coordinate and speed up industrial production of necessary war materials—a group similar to the War Industries Board of the first World War. :

Vandenberg Demands Report

The report further suggests changes and modifications in exist ing labor statutes covering wage and hour schedules, as a means of speeding up production. This has aroused the interest of champions of labor in Congress who insist that an emergency must not be used to break down labor standards. Contending that the Board's findings are important in mapping out the new three-billion dollar national defense program for which Congress is appropriating, Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R. Mich.) has demanded from the floor that the President submit the report to Congress. If it is considered not desirable to make the report public, Senator Vandenburg wants it given in confidence to Congressional committees for their guidance. The report has been suppressed hy President Roosevelt, it was learned today, largely because its recommendations on policy-that is, for a separate War Resources Board--run counter to the ideas of the President and the New Deal inner circle.

Apparently Already Under Way Mr. Roosevelt, it is indicated, does

Speedway Chief Arrives; Urges Use of Mail Planes for Training.

An air armada manned by 150,000 pilots was urged as America's first line of defense by Capt. E. V. Rickenbacker here today. Arriving by airplane at the Municipal Airport, America’s No. 1 World War pilot and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

{urged immediate training of po-

tential war birds. Capt. Rickenbacker, who downed 22 German airplanes in the last war, declared that the Civil Aeronautical Corps is only a prep school for those whom he would send into the air. “Take the first class mail” he said, “and fly it to every city of a distance more than 100 miles. Give the boys a parachute. Give them real training. Such a program would mean at least 150 flights a day out of Indianapolis alone.

not intend to bring to Washington industrial leaders who would constitute a separate entity to co-or-dinate and execute the industrial liaison program for re-armament. Rather, the dollar-a-yvear men would be spotted in subordinate positions in the regular Government depart(Continued on Page Three)

TRADERS HOLD BACK

New York stock traders today were reluctant to do much buying or selling of securities until they learn President Roosevelt's national defense plans, which Wall Street believes will include economic as well as military preparations. The President will give a fireside chat at 8:30 p. m, tomorrow (Indianapolis Time), Steel shares were prominent in the light trading, rising in price on the expectation that steel demand will mount when the arma-

“The CAA trains pilots for only 30 to 50 hours. That is the toddling stage. After that they could be sent (Continued on Page Three)

APPROVES ALIEN FINGERPRINT BILL

WASHINGTON, May 25 (U. P). —A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today unanimously approved a bill |

to require the fingerprinting and day formally notified the French | trict winners will receive medals.

registration of aliens in the United | States and to outlaw “fifth column” | activities in the Army, Navy and | Coast Guard,

ment program gets into full swing. Aircraft issues resumed their rise also. At Chicago, wheat closed more than a cent higher while other grains were up fractionally,

mended creation of a civilian group |

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The gimite bomb . . . and the goats munched on.

COATS UNHURT INVENTOR SAD

Liquid Oxygen Explodes With Powerful Roar— But That’s All.

ARMY PROVING GROUND, ABERDEEN, Md., May 25 (U. P.) .— Inventor Lester Barlow's 1,000pound liquid oxygen bomb exploded

a single one of 84 goats staked out was injured or knocked down. “I was the goat,” the sad inventor

admitted. Skeptical Army ordnance officials, who had doubted Mr. Barlow’s claim for the killing power of his glmite, said “The goats are doing the talking.” After the explosion, Army Medical Corps officers gave the goats a physical examination, including (listening to the heart beat with a stethoscope. They reported that none of the animals was injured. Senate and House Military and Appropriations Committee members witnessed the test,

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Play for City Title Next Saturday on Plaza.

The four winners of the semifinals of the City marbles tourna{ment were named today in a field |of 38 sectional winners. | They are George Mildner, 13, of 1249 S. State St, of the English Avenue Boys’ Club, in the Garfield division; Gene Vaughn, 11i3% Bellefontaine St., pupil at School 10, in the Fall Creek division; William Bise, 14, of 2160 Wheeler St. in the Brookside division, and Daniel Brosnan, 10, of 3509 W. Michigan St. in the Rhodius division. The four winners of the sectional

BANKS ARE TOLD TO STAY IN PARIS

PARIS, May 25 (U. P.).—The| Governor of the Bank of France to-|

Bankers’ Association that banking institutions will not be permitted to evacuate the Paris region, which is now an army zone,

sharpshooting will play for the City championship at 10 a. m. next Saturday at the south end of the World War Memorial Plaza. A gold trophy will be awarded the cham-

Allied armies before a French counter-thrust can break the Nazi pincers incircling an estimated million fighting men in northern France. Germany quite obviously was making meticulous prepa ‘rations for the “over-the-channel” invasion by which they 'will seek to bring the British Empire to its knees. Authorized German military quarters said today that an ‘absolutely secret weapon” from which “the greatest sure prises may be expected” will be used against England in the near future.

The swiftly moving Nazi armed forces bombed the ‘east coast of England, captured the English Channel port ‘of Boulogne, surrounded Calais and hammered mechanized wedges into the rear lines of the encircled French, British and Belgian troops from Vimy Ridge to Gravelines on the coast, the German High Command claimed.

Seek to Complete Destruction

Then, in mass infantry attacks under protection of artillery and aerial bombardment, the German offensive from Belgium and on the east and from the Escaut (Scheldt), ‘River sector on the south rolled against the Allied lines in an effort to complete the destruction.

with a powerful roar today but not| The Allied hope of rescue lay in a French stab through

‘the German lines north of Peronne, on the Somme River, to‘ward Bapaume, where the Paris press reported a gain of 12 miles despite the Nazi assertions that a “feeble” French counter-attack was repulsed. According to Paris reports, the French advance to break the Nazi trap and rescue the Allied Army of the north resulted in occupation of part of Amiens and a push to within 12 miles of the entrapped forces at Bapaume. If that 12 mile gap can be closed. The German wedge through north ‘France would be broken, the way would be opened for escape of the encircled Allied forces and the Nazi units on the coast would themselves be entrapped.

British Bombard Roads

Aiding in the rescue drive, the British Air Force pounded at the Germans over a wide front and the British Navy bombarded the Channel coast roads. | British military sources said that the situation “cone 'tinues very grave” but that co-ordinated efforts by the Allies could yet retrieve the situation and stabilize the front in France. All of the positive news, however, favored the German drive to take over North France and the Channel coast and then strike at England.

Smashing ahead in defiance of Allied counter-thrusts (Continued on Page Three)

Bombs Fall in England

LONDON, May 25 (U. P.) —Gunfire on the French coast was heard across the English Channel in southeast coast towns of England today, indicating that fierce fighting was in progress in French channel ports. The sound of battle from 22 to 30 miles away was punctuated by | nearby machine gun fire off the engaging English coast where is was believed Royal Air Force fighters were engaging German planes making

i inar ial ne pre lution addressed to the Allied armies

blitzkrieg of England. ol EY i An unconfirmed report circulated | that “we are with you until victory

in informed sources in London that the Allied armies in France had deeply dented or cut through the German trap around perhaps a million British, French and Belgian soldiers in the north. While waiting further news of

pion and the runner-up and dis-

Today's play was at Fall Creek and 30th St.; Brookside Community House; Garfield tennis courts and Rhodius courts.

Here's a war yarn, 100 per cent unofficial, told by British sailors in a waterfront hangout in Philadelphia. The writer dropped in for a lemon squash, and like the lemon squash, you can take the story of leave it.

By BILL DRISCOLL Sports Editor, Philadelphia Record

PHILADELPHIA, May 25.—~The British tanker Stormy Petrol, headed for Texas and a cargo of gasoline, hove to west of the Azores with a broken propeller. To make the repair it was necessary to flood the forward compartment. That would make the ship settle by the head, elevating the stern and bringing the propeller out of water so a new one could be shipped. But when the crew tried to open the sea-cock to flood the compartment, the valve snapped off. The repair could be made now only in drydock. While the Old Man, in a terrible rage, conferred with the chief en-

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gineer on what todo, the crew got|

out a soccer football and began kicking it about on deck between the forecastle and the poop. Every body was a little bored by the delay. Suddenly up popped a German submarine, right smack-dab alongside. “Drop a ladder,” broken-Eng-lished the subs commander. “I'm coming aboard.” . Pistol in hand, he scampered up the ladder and dashed for the radio room. The operator was already trying frantically to get off a warning. The Nazi commander shot him dead at the key, Then he walked to the bridge. “I see,” he said to the Old Man, “that your men think they can play foot ball.” The Old Man, trying to be icily polite, was riled in spite of himself. “This crew,” he said, “can lick any blankety-blank sea football team in the world.” The Nazi captain smiled a cat-playing-with-mouse smile. “You

It's a War Yarn About a Gamble and a Gambol on Sea, With a Double Double Cross---You Don't Need to Believe I

snapped the Old Man. The Nazi barked orders over the side, and six men came scrambling up from the sub. “Now,” said the Nazi, “we have a game. My men need exercise, They have been cooped up for two weeks. If your men can beat mine I spare your ship. If my men win, I give you 10 minutes to abandon the ship before I sink her.” Unable to be pleased by something in the Nazi's manner that betokened no good, the Old Man consented. The game began, Six men on a side, two 10-minute halves; the forecastle one goal, the poop the other. The Old Man had only half his mind on even so absorbing a game. He knew that carefully concealed below decks the Stormy Petrol carried a nice, new three-inch gun behind a concealed port that could be swung open at a touch. He managed to give the nod to the bo’sun to clear the gun and stand by “in case.” The score was 3-2 in favor of the

wish to bet?” he asked. “Anything I have in rp—

battle London surveyed these de-

signaled the end of the game. The Nazi officer was still smiling coldly. “My men were at a disadvantage,” he said. “Your men are used to playing on this deck. I am afraid I must construe the fine showing of my men as a victory. Prepare to abandon ship. Ten minutes.” The Nazi officer and his men disappeared over the side, and the sub shoved clear of the wallowing tanker, While the Stormy Petrol’'s crew made a great show of getting out the boats, the Old Man slipped below to the secret gun deck. When the sub was some 200 yards off the starboard quarter, the Old Man popped open the concealed port, and the bo’sun let the sub have a three-inch shell squarely amidships. The sub settled and sank fast, but not before she let go one torpedo. It grazed the Stormy Petrol’s bow and exploded. The damage was not great, just enough to flood the forward tanks, let the ship settle by the head, and elevate the stern while the crew changed |

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velopments: 1. The Air Ministry claimed destruction of 40 German planes vesterday, bringing German losses from British activity during the past

[three days to 120 planes.

2. Prime Minister Winston

Churchill, asserting that “the gravity

of the situation deepens hour by hour,” called upon British labor for work and sacrifice and won a reso-

has been won.” 3. The Air Ministry said that R. A. F. and fleet air arm planes in a series of harassing attacks on German concentrations near the English Channel coasts had sunk a German torpedo boat off Holland, set fire to at least three German tanks and put others out of action, and again had attacked German oil depots at Rotterdam. 4. The British believed that Gere many’s aerial blitzkrieg of the Brite ish Isles was nearer when German planes during the night bombed a 245-mile area along the east coast, (Paris Soir reported that French (Continued on Page Three)

ltaly Suspends Shipping

ROME, May 25 (U. P.) —Italy today suspended all trans-Atlantie shipping from Italian ports until June 10—for “technical reasons.” The order affected sailings not only to New York, but also to South American ports. In addition, there were no sailings listed for the Near

and Far Bast.

The Italian Line said that both

sail for New York on June 10, and that the next South American sailing would be on June 19, when the Saturnia is scheduled to leave Trieste

Sailings of the liners Principessa

and Giovanna Virgilio, scheduled to leave Italian ports May 28 and June 12, respectively, for South American points were postponed indefinitely. (The Italian liner Conte de Savoia was in New York, where Italian Line officials said it would sail for Italy at noon today, “as scheduled.” Officials of the Littoria

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the liners Rex and Augustus would

said that its planes were operating on schedule to Egypt and that the next plane was expected to leave for Cairo Tuesday. Cancellation of the ship sailings caused speculation that Italy might soon announce her attitude toward the war. The announcement was coincident with mounting demons strations against Great Britain and France and newspaper editorials saying that the time was ripe for Italy to enter the war on the side . Germany \

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