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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 66 MONDAY, MAY 27, 1940
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NALON IS 20TH War's Horror Comes to Young
TO QUALIFY FOR S00MILE RACE
Averages 121.79 in Second Attempt; Others Wait Dry Track.
Emil Andres qualified the An- | dres Special this afternoon at a | average speed of 122,963 miles an | hour.
DUKE NALON ‘iarks Offenhauser Special Time Speed 1:1408 121.490 1:13.80 121.951 1:13.69 122.133 1:40.02 121.589 vas 120.790
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Duke Nalon, veteran race driver, became the 20th driver to qualify at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today | for the Memorial Day 500mile race. Piloting his four-cylinder Marks | Offenhauser Special, Nalon toured the 10-mile qualifying route at an average speed of 121.790 m. p. h, It was his second attempt, having run out of gas on the first lap of his at- |
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Shortly after Nalon won a place in the seventh row, a light sprinkle of rain doused the track and it was closed for some time.
Wait for Track to Dry
Young and old suffer alike from the war's horror. This youngster is being treated in a hospital for
an plane, according te the French-censored caption.
The track was opened again
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By RICHARD D. McMILLAN British United Press Staft Correspondent
AT ROYAL AIR FORCE HEAD-
They asserted that in flying over the fields of battle. mounds of Ger-
shortly before 1 p. m. and at least Proposes Collaboration
three drivers had their cars geared | to make their qualifying runs as, Defense Program; Asks soon as the track dries. | x : Among those ready was Ralph Sternness With Spies. Hepburn. He drove one lap, lost
{man dead could be observed from QUARTERS IN FRANCE, May 27 the air, The fliers asserted that if (U. P.).—Royal Air Force pilots as-| they could obtain a few hundred serted today that huge {res are more fighting planes they were cerburning all along the German com- | tain that control of the air could be
the cap off the radiator and returned to the pits for a new one. Emil Andres also was ready to go as soon as weather permits With weather threatening and
the sun appearing only intermit- |
tently, the crowd was estimated at less than 1000, but track officials expected it to grow during the afternoon. The oval will be open to qualifiers until seven o'clock this evening.
French Driver Ready
Rene Drefus, the Frenchman who was granted a leave of absence from the Army to drive in the race, had his Schell Special ready and
was expected to try to qualify today. |
He passed his driver's test yvesterday.
Because of the weather the last| must deal vigorously with “spies, |
few days, which all but prevented trials, the drivers were eager to try as soon as possible for the 13 remaining places open in the lineup for the annual classic.
HOUSE BOLSTERS U. S. FIFTH COLUMN DRIVE
WASHINGTON, May 27 (U, P). —The House today passei and sent to the Senate a bill to expedite President Roosevelt's transfer of immigration law enforcement to the Justice Department as a move to bolster the nation against Fifth Column treachery. The measure was passed by voice vote. Under the terms, the transfer would become effective 10 days after the Senate approves the measure. Originally, reorganization orders become effective 60 dary after they are issued, uniess the Senate and House reject them.
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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May , 27.—Presi-
ship of Government capital with
munications route ana that great numbers of German dead have been observed on the battlefields, The pilots said that their bombs had started fires all along the Ger-
man corridor into France and fur-
{private industry in the vast na- | ther back where the German troops
wrested from the Germans. The R. A. F, today was hailing a new hero-—the chief of the corps. He is a New Zealander and he now has 40 planes to his credit. Three R. A. P. pilots including the New Zealander have shot down a total
vvees.17 Obituaries ....10/ ment said that pe
|tional defense program in which and supplies are being brought down
| the nation is engaged today.
| He said it would be accompanied | bv great re-employment. The purpose of Government ad- { vances for plant expansion and other purposes evidently would be to relieve private capital of the risks of sudden peace-—sudden cessation | of war orders. The program was outlined by the | President last night in a fireside { talk ominous with warning that we
| saboteurs and traitors.” The Fifth Column—the Trojan | Horse—is no idle dream, Mr. Roose|velt said. : “New forces are being unleashed.” ran the warning, “deliberately | planned propaganda to divide and weaken us in the face of danger as other nations have been weakened before.” He repeated that “our own American hemisphere is threatened by forces of destruction.” To labor Mr. Roosevelt promised no sacrifice in the Administration’s social objectives—wage hours act, old-age and unemployment insurance and labor's rights in general, | but he warned that minority strikes (Continued on Page Three)
COOL AND CLOUDY WEATHER TO REMAIN
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
via 38 104M. ... 65 sin 33 20% fh oc OF ... 58 12 (noon)... 87 . 838 1pm ... 68
Skies will remain partly cloudy in Indianapolis through tomorrow and there won't be much change in temperature, the Weather Bureau said. The rainfall during intermittent periods from 10:51 a. m. Saturday to 7 p. m. yesterday measured 93 of an inch. The fall after 7 p. m. was | not measurable
of about 100 German machines, it
from Germany. is said.
R. A. F. Pilots Report Huge Fires Burning Along German's Route, Piled High With Dead
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A Belgian mother and her children seek a haven during a bombing (Photos via Clipper today from France.)
attack.
One victim of the New Zealand ace was a German Heinkel. (Here four words were censored), The plane was about to drop a 500-kilo gomb when the New Zealander ripped the German ship in two with all eight guns of his Hurricane fighter plane. One R. A. F. squadron leader told me about one battle which ensued when some British planes were on a ‘bombing expedition behind the German lines, An R. A. F, pilot, about 25 years old, had his hand almost shot away by machine gun fire, but continued to unload bombs on railroad crossings.
FIRE LOSS HIGH “IN LOGANSPORT
$200,000 Blaze Destroys! Half Block on Edge of Business Section.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, May 27 (U. {P.).—Fire of unknown origin de-
[stroyed a two-story building covering half a block at the edge of the business district today with loss lestimated at $200.000. | Located in the building were the | Elkhart Packing Co. the Elliott Wholesale Grocery, the R. B. M. Manufacturing Co. warehouse, the | Soil Conservation Service of the De{partment of Agriculture and Shuider & Schloss coat factory, which employs 165 persons. Firemen were hampered in their efforts to battle the blaze by explosions of the gasoline in 27 Government cars and trucks which! caused the brick walls to collapse. | The Conservation office served (CCC camps at Lafayette, Valpa- | raiso, South Bend, Peru, Ml. Wavne, Kendallville, Portland, Franklin and Lebanon, All of the personal and property records were consumed.
The heaviest loss was wustainea| DALE Is Changed So Winner
by the R. B. M. Co. which estimated | «Mi damage to its raw materials at] Can Go to 500 Mile Race.
$115,000.
British Gesture to Italy Is Reported
LONDON, May 27 (U. P).— Reliable reports today said that the Allies were preparing to modifv their blocking in favor of Italy by allowing Italian ships to reach Italy without inspection at contraband control points. In return, it was reported, Italy would guarantee that nothing imported into Italy in Italian ships would be re-exported to Germany. Coincident with the reported Allied move designed to reduce friction with Italy, it was suggested in well-informed quarters here that President Roosevelt might send another message to Mussolini urging that Italy settle her grievances with the Allies by peaceful means. Meanwhile, Great Britain has decided to appoint a new Ambassador at Moscow, usually reliable informants asserted today.
MARBLES TOURNEY
The City Marble Tournament Ee (oo. 1 ooee championship match will be played COUSIN OF KING MISSING at the Indiana World War MeLONDON, May 27 (U, P.) —Lord morial Plaza at 3:30 p. m. WednesFrederick Cambridge, cousin of King!day, instead of Saturday as pre- | George VI, was reported officially viously planned, the tournament today to be missing in active serv- committee announced today. |ice, presumably in Flanders. | The change in plans for the finals
BERLIN, May 27 (U. P) —Prince | Wilhelm, eldest son of the former
{has been killed in action, it was learned today. He was 34, Wilhelm von Preussen was the first Hohenzollern prince to enter the Army of the Third Reich. He had renounced |, his claim to suc- 3 cession to the j now non-exist-ent throne after
6a morganatic 4 Mrs. Ferguson 12 marriage.
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| Wilheim died | yesterday as the [result of serious [wounds received at the front May (23. A first lieu(tenant, he was a company com- | mander.
Prince Wilhelm
Prince Wilhelm of Germany, Ardent Nazi, Killed in Action
| Crown Prince—Friedrich Withelm—!
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gor foreign princely family.
was made so that the tournament winner may have opportunity to attend the 500-mile race Thursday. The Indianapolis Times will donate {two tickets for the race to the winner, one for himself and one for a member of his family. | Originally scheduled for last Satat Potsdam, probably .|urday, the final battle in the tourdav. otsdatn, plobably on Wedmes nament had to be postponed when Prince Wilhelm renounced his rain Friday made it impossible to royal rights in April, 1033, when he hold district finals until Saturday married Fraulein Dorothea von Sal- Morning. The semi-finalists played | viati. {in a light rain which muddied the | The Prince, it was understood at rings and made their
‘the time, became engaged without slippery. |consulting his father or the ex-/ City and County officials will be
| Kaiser, who was reported grieved by Present Wednesday afternoon to
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nl the action of his favorite grandson. Ward medals and trophies to the
| Fraulein von Salviati was descended sectional, district and all-city cham-
but her mother came of simple! The semi-finalists who will Bourgeois stock. {knuckle down Wednesday are Under the oid code of the Prussian George Mildner, 13, of the English ruling house. a Hohenzollern could Avenue Boys’ Club: Gene Vaughn, marry only a member of a German | 12, of School 10; William Bise, 14, | Brookside, and Daniel Brosnan, 10, Prince Wilhelm was educated at|Rhodius. Potsdam and in 1916, according to Hohenzollern custom, he became an! honorary lieutenant but lost his]!
HOOSIER CHARGED TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 27 (U.
(revolution. He had planned to join jail today charged with the murder the Navy after completing his of John Young. 57. who died yesschooling but at the time of his terday of severe injuries sustained
'on the head with a crowbar.
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FRANCE DENIES CALAIS SEIZED
German Losses in Ferocious Attacks in Two Sectors Called Frightful.
PARIS, May 27 (U, P).—German | armies are attacking the Allies in| two sectors of the Western Front with the greatest ferocity and with utter disregard to frightful losses, a high military source said today. It was admitted that during the night Allied troops had retired from their River Escaut line in the Valenciennes sector after inflicting terrible losses on the attacking Germans. In the Menin sector on the Bel-gian-French frontier, along the Lys River, the Allied troops held against extreme German pressure, exerted as in the Valenciennes area with disregard of loss, it was asserted. In the English Channel fighting, it was said, the Allies stili held Calais this morning under continuous German airplane bombing. It was admitted that the Germans had taken the citadel of Boulogne, which Allied troops had held stubbornly while the Germans held the town proper. After taking the citadel, a military informant said, the Germans turned their attack toward Calais, swinging northward along the coast. The Allied troops retired during the night to a pre-established line in the Valenciennes area, it was said, only after inflicting enormous losses on the Germans throughout vesterday. The retirement was effected, it was said, because the High Command considered the position of its troops too exposed, in view of continued attacks.
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GERMANS DRIVE TOWARD YPRES
Indicate Savage Fighting For Every Foot Gained; Claim Trap Tightens.
BERLIN, May 27 (U, P.) .—~German armed forces drawing tight a ring of guns around trapped.Allied armies in Flanders were officially reported today to be striking forward Ypres in an effort to encircle ward Ypes in an effort to encircle the French city of Lille and make
contact with Nazi mechanizéd units on the English Channel coast. Bloody fighting for every foot of ground was indicated in the High Command’s communique, which said a deep wedge had been driven into the Allied left flank north of the Belgian town of Menin and very close to the World War battleground of Ypres. The communique alse indicated that the pace of the German advance had slowed, although it reported Allied counter-thrusts were repulsed and advances made by the German forces with the aid of dive | bombers which blasted at the en-|
troops. Resistance Strong at Lille
Although the Germans were In position to strike at either Paris or England, it was apparent that every resource was being concentrated on cutting up and destroying Allied troops encircled in the north. The strongly fortified Lille area, in which powerful Allied mechanized forces were reported, has been the greatest obstacle to the German drive, The Ypres drive also appeared designed to cut off the Belgian | Channel ports of Ostend and Zee- | brugge. which have been held by the Allies under constant German aerial bombardment, In addition, the High Command said, German troops are attacking northeast of Lens and in that sector repulsed counter-attacks by (Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS BOOSTED BY ALLIED RESISTANCE
More activity in the nation’s steel | factories and reports of stiffer Allied resistance in Europe sent prices on the New York stock market up fractions to more than two points in light trading today. Wall Street was a little more.optimitistic, anticipating further im-
The French High Command made | industries where war contracts play | §
no report on what progress was being made in the drive to cut off the
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provement in business, especially in
a big part. Wheat closed a cent lower at
German corridor from Bapaume to| Chicago while corn sold but frac-
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tionally lower.
Boy at Play on Floor Killed By Man Falling From Attic
A coroner's inquest was to be held today in a freak accident which killed 5-year-old Joseph Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Jones, of 1540 Perry Ave. last night. The child's head was crushed when a prospective buyer of the family home fell through a ceiling from the attic and dropped on the child as he was playing on the fioor of a room below.
/military rank with the post-war P.) —Joe McKinsey, 65 was held in E. Brandon, 63, of 758 Pleasant Run
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marriage he operated an estate in Thursday when he was found beaten lshed upstairs attic by Mr. Jones, | Funeral services will be conducted |Upper Silesia.
Answering an advertisement that the Johes home was for sale, James
Parkway, North Drive, and iis son, E. W. Brandon, of 1217 N. Temple Ave, were being shown the unfin-
when the accident occurrsd.
The elder Mr. Brandon slipped off a joist and crashed through the plaster. His feet struck the child's head full force. Mr. Jones took his son to St. Vincent's Hospital, but he died en route. The Jones family decided to sell their property several days ago when they were refused further weifare aid because they owned their own home. Mr. Jones said he planned to use the money from the sale of the property to buy food and clothes for his family. Surviving the child besides the mother and father are two brothers, Virgil Jones Jr, 6, and Vernon Jones, 11 months.
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BULLETIN LONDON, May 27 (U. P.).—British infantry, aided by French tanks, counter-attacked German troops in violent fighting on both flanks of the northern FrancoBelgian sector, British General Headquarters reportedtoday. X The High Command asserted that the “British freat: remains intact.” The British counter-attack followed a bitter assault” by German troops which was directed particularly at the the French and Belgian troops which hold the easterm sector of the Allied northern position. ] The High Command said that the British counterattack was successful, but did not reveal the specific points : at which the fighting occurred. :
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Adolf Hitler's armies paid a tremendous price in dead today in an effort to keep the German offensive from stalling against stiffening Allied resistance. The German High Command said that progress had been made in squeezing the trapped British, French and Belgian armies, estimated at a million men, into a smaller circle in Flanders so that they might be more easily de stroyed by fleets of Nazi dive bombers and masses of charg ing Nazi infantry, wr A deep wedge was driven into the Allied left flank: im
Belgium, according to the High Command, so that the Gexe—-
mang north of Menin were approaching the historic battles
(field of Ypres, encircling the big French city of Lille from
the north and threatening to turn the Allied line or push it back to the Yser River, i The Germans also said that they had repulsed attacks by French Colonials (possibly the famous Senegalese) with bloody losses in the center of the trap northeast of Lens and were attacking again to drive new spearheads into the trapped Allied troops, while the German air force continued its blasting raids on Channel ports and French communications lines as far as the Paris area. But from the Allied side, the British Navy and the coms bined British-French air forces were striking with increased power at the German mechanized units along the Channel: Coast and fighting to cut through the Nazi “corridor” nerth of the River Somme in an effort to encircle the German forces along the coast and behind the Allied lines in the north. The authoritative British Press Association said that" “it may be assumed” this battle to close the corridor was in progress and that at the decisive moment a great Allied counter-offensive would strike at the Germans.
Although it was emphasized that the military situation (Continued on Page Three) .
Today’s War Moves—
Nazis Occupy Boulogne From Wrong Direction
J. W. T. Mason, whose feature “Today's War Moves” won intefe national fame in the World War, will write a daily analysis of the military situation in Europe for The Times. He has just returned from intensive travels in the Far East and Europe, where he in viewed statesmen, soldiers and industrialists.
By J. W. T. MASON SINE Germany’s occupation of parts of Boulogne and other centers along the Channel coast has come from the wrong
direction to possess value for any attack on Great Britain,
Unless the Germans can break the strong line of the Allied Armies further east, the present German positions along the
‘Channel must be considered as having questionable offensive
importance as far as the British Isles concerned. The combat area-in Flanders and north ern France somewhat resembles a wavy drawing of a huge, distorted pipe. The bowl is occupied by the Germans, with the outer side curving from Antwerp to the Somme. The Allies are massed along the hundred miles of this outer side, trying to keep'the Nazis within the bowl. The pipe stem joins the bowl in the vicinity of Cambrai, Valenciennes and St. Quentin and fol= lows the Somme westward toward the Channel, swinging northeastward at Abbeville and trying to follow the Chane nel coast line. Through the pipe stem the Germans are send ing comparatively small bodies of mechanized troops, who have succeeded in swinging along the coast as far as Bou logne and near Calais. : og If this turn backward of the pipe stem toward the bowl were to be continued it would bring the stem back to the upper rim of the pipe, enclosing the Allies within the circle,
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But, even then, the position of the Allied troops would
not be desperate as long as the German troops ‘occupying’ (Continued on Page Three)
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