Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1940 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Occasional light 231 tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy and continued cool; Thursday, fair and rather cool.
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S CAR OUT AFTER
1chmen to ‘Drive DreyMachine if It Starts; orecast Is ‘Fair.’
BULLETIN Schell Special qualified by nch driver, Rene Le Begue, thdrawn from the 500-mile afternoon after a rod from the crankcase, g the motor, while the was being driven in practice countryman, Rene Dreyfus. : r ard Musnik, manager, said that Dreyfus and LeBegue will drive Dreyfus’ car as a team: in the event it is not displaced in
rounding the when members
from that direction -and he had gone into a spin cracked up. Rushing to the , they found the tossed rod.
| By J. E. O'BRIEN Two French soldiers who obtained leaves from fighting the Nazis and traveled 4500 miles to drive in the 500-mile race, today faced possible elimination from- Thursday’s Speedway classic. } . If | three drivers qualify this afternoon at more thay the 118 m. p. h. speeds of Rene egue and Rene
[Dre us, the Frenchmen will be out 9, 83-qar lineup
soldiers and as to accept their mosphere at the supercharged
he weather for the Memorial Day race will be fair and rather cool, U. S. Meteorologist J. H. Ar gton | promised today. He predicted occasional light rain tonight, followed by partly cloudy, and continued c morrow. F
weather 10-
Drivers, railbirds, | A. A A and Speedway official were in heated controversy over ther the -rules should be aived "and the colorful foreigners ~ permitt, to race even if hnically displaced. Dreyfus pleaded that he thought 115 m. p. Di was sufficient to get him lin the lineup. apparent that LeBegue's speed in! his [qualifying journey“ yesterday!
would be no faster,| attempts were |
made to flag’ him
down and give him |notice. |
Bernard Musnik, their manager, |: " . explained their plight to. them to-
day [because they speak no Eng-
lish. another chance to qualify,” he said after interviewing them. | realize that is impossible and are willing to abide by the rules.”
Can They Go Faster? [He said maybe they should have over sooner to get in more
i ice. Some members of the 100Am J
ile-
nen
ldn’t go faster than 118 anyhow.’
his car| on d five laps |at unofficial ti betwee 120 and 123 m. p. | Some railbirds didn’t fancy thelr poss ble elimination because of |the ational color which might be : eliminated with them, . t officials of the A. AA Spe ar were agreed that ‘the should not be broken to permit to race when no, concessions ever made before to accomo-
Doescher, pe steward, said thet| the entry blanks sent to Mrs. 3 O'Reilly Schell, sponsor of the
specified that only|’
the 33 fastest cars would start. He said also that he went to their garage before the {rials, repeated
ule and hinted to them that
fon, suggested at tHe 100-Mile-an-P Club dinner last night that ield be sHiarged to permit the race, even if
like to have hem in there. ev came a long way to race here. Ard then we American drivers have a little score to settle in connectien with Roosevelt Raceway,” hes “Td like suck their goggle off out here.” He referred to the difficulties American drivers encountered on the Vanderbilt Cup race oval in New {York a few years ago -vhen the rules favored foreigners, the race being run clockwise with hairpia s and! other handicaps to which American rs were not adapted. “Ever since the Indianapolis race Continued on Page 16)
hinder A. A Al entrants; being i-
Rene Le Begue . , . car withdrawn after mishap.
Rene Dreyfus . . . will his car’s 118 m. p. h. be surpassed?
«SHOOT FOR MARBLES
TITLE TOMORROW
Four to Battle for for Crown| at |
Memorial Plaza. |
The new City marbles champi ion
en it became
“Naturally the bays would like, “But they ha
will be crowned tomorrow w. four crack marble shots gather| = ‘the Indiana World War Memorial 'Plaza for the City . Tournamént finals. The winner will receive two tickets to the Memorial Day 500-mile race and a gold trophy with his name inscribed on it. The awards will be presented by Mayor Regiald H. Sullivan and Sheriff Al ney. "The last lap of the monthlong tournament, in which more than 3500 youngsters participated, begins at 3:30 p. m. sharp. Immediately following the games presentation of the awards will be made to the runnerup champion, four district champions and 38 sectional winners, in addition to the all-City champion. —In the event of rain, the finals will be postponed until 10 a. m. Saturday. Rain forced postponement of the final play from last Saturday morning. Shooting for the championship tomorrow: will: be George Mildner, 13, of the English Avenue Boys’ d Club; Gene Vaughn, 12, School 10;
William Bise, 14, of the Brookside }
Community Center, and Daniel
BtOsnan, 10, of the ‘Rhodius Com-
munity Center,
ROOSEVELT CONFERS WITH ROY HOWARD
WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.) '— Roy W. Howard, president of the New York World-Telegram, conferred with President Roosevelt today. Mr. Howard said that any information on his conference would have to come from Mr. Roosevelt. He added that Mr. Roosevelt had wanted to ask him several questions on lects | ‘whose nature he did not revea
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‘Stentz. told the Committee.
a wn GREATER DEBT LIMIT PLANNED
Present Congress to Get Bills |
For 5-Year Plan; F. D. R. Gives Approval.
WASHINGTON, May 28. (U. P.) — The Administration will ask the present session of Congress for new national defense taxes yielding up
| |to $700,000,000 a year and a $3,-
000,000,000 increase in the national debt limit. ‘This was announced today in a joint statement by Congressional leaders, including Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the House Ways and Means Committee and Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) of the Senate Finance Committee. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Internal Revenue Commis-
sioner Guy T. Helvering and tax ex- §
perts also attended the conference. announcement followed a pur conference in Mr. Morgenthau's office. The statement said that President Roosevelt, had been advised of the conferees’ conclusions and had approved the program.
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said they would summon their committees | into . early meetings t formulate details of the national defense [finance program. “Year Program Mapped
ess will be asked to levy ol taxes which will yield ; 700 million dollars over a fired period,
Existing law ‘sets a ‘45-billion-dol-lar limit on the public debt. The stands at $42,786,692,992. The ew-debt limit of 48 billion dollars - would ,leave .a margin of more t an five billion dollars that could be borrowed.
Congress: ‘May Stay in Session”
The decision to seek new taxes this session—instead of waiting -until next |year, as many leaders previously had desired—almost cer= tainly means that Congress will ‘remain in session beyond the early June sdjourament goal that had been planned Treasury experts have been mak(Continued on Page Three)
M’NUTT BOOMED FOR SECRETARY OF WAR
(Another Story, Page 13) Times Special WASHINGTON, May 28.—Paul V. ni McNutt is being touted for Secretary of War today as rumors continue that President Roosevelt may halt the long feud in. that department by ousting both Secretary, Harry Woodring and Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson. Earlier, Mr. McNutt had been talked of for both War and Navy Cabinet | jobs, but his friends advised him that since he was seeking the, Democratic , Presidential nominatien ‘it was inadvisable to take on {any military role. Now, however, his friends point out that, either the War or Navy posts are top jobs in the war crisis and that his much acclaimed administrative ability could be used to great advantage in either one. Industrial co-ordinator is another job for which Mr. McNutt has been suggested. His administrative assistant, Wayne Coy, said today that all of a rumors are without any “official |or semi-official sanction,” however.
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6. 0. P. CHARGES = LAXITY, DECEIT
Offers 7-Point Defense Plan; Administration Stung to Sharp Protest.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 28.—Repub-| s lican charges of deceit and laxity in preparing for national defense fired the political forests and aroused the Administration to sharp protest today. Last night's air was laden with the Republican =attack by. actual and potential Presidential candidates. They charged that Cabinet jobs were in the wrong hands in an emergency. Former President Herbert C. Hoover boomed loudest with a demand for a non-political munitions administrator to manage national rearmament and preparedness and have charge of defense money. Administration spokesmen complained that it was a partisan assault and announced that Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson will reply over the NBC Blue network at 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) tonight.
Answer Fireside Chat
Republicans addressed themselves in" part to Mr. Roosevelt's Sunday Fireside Chat in which he outlined the state of national defense. One Republican was comparatively kind to the Roosevelt Administration. Assistant ‘Senate Republican leader Warren R. Austin said: “On national defense we are united. The strong harmony of our action taken lasi week is actuated more by the conviction that this is mecessary for our ‘own tranquility than by the, emotion excited by the abhorence of the wrong involved in the inhuman and horrible slaughter of peaceful noncombatants and the ruthless and barbaric invasion of neutral countries. “We perceive the significance of the penetration of Latin America by totalitarian foreign policy and the phenomenon of the Fifth Column.
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Seeking at From Varead of Sky
War Pilot Group Drops Lindbergh
PARIS, May 28 (U. P.).—The Trench and Air Association, representing World War pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, today ordered cancellation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's honorary membership in the Escadrille. - The withdrawal was ordered, it was explained, because of Col. Lindbergh’s speech of May 19. Declaring that Col. Lindbergh's speech was contrary to the spirit of the American volunteers in the Escadrille, the announcement, said that “they believe his words are an insult to the memory of their comrades who fell on the field of honor.”
U. S. BOMBER CRASH KILLS 6
Only One in Crew Escapes Death as Plane Falls In Mojave Desert.
MARCH, FIELD, RIVERSIDE, May 28 (U. P.).—Army, Air Corps headquarters today announced that a B18A Douglas bomber: crashed at Muroc Dry Lake last night, killing six members of ihe crew. Cause of the crash was not announced. The Army spokesman said the accident occurred during night flight maneuvers. The dead: Lieut. Jess A. Smith, 30, of Woodrow, Colo., the pilot. Lieut. Charles A. Nisbett, 25, Alton, Ill., co-pilot. Thurman T. Owens, Okla. Wayne Z. Kauffman, Burlington, Iowa. Doyle H. Bean, Kirbyville, Tex. Eugene A. Schulz, Twin Falls, Ida. Only one person, Private John B. Stewart of Midway, Ala. survived. He was flown to Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. His condition was reported critical. Muroc Dry Lake is in the Mojave
Ardmore,
. “Notwithstanding the imminence of a Presidential election, in which (Continued on Page Three)
Desert 80 miles northeast of hefe and is used regularly by the Army for practice bombing maneuvers.
Girls Tell Senators They Were Asked to Be
WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P)). Virginia Stentz, pretty former University of Pengmsylvania coed, told the Senate Wire-Tapping Committee today that a private detective offered her a $200-a-month ‘job and clothes to entertain prominent politicians as part of a plan to “get the Democrats out” of Pennsylvania. Miss Stentz of Uniontown, Pa., testified that the job was offered to her in 1939, by Basil Needham. He told "her, she said, that the salary would be paid by “some. of the most prominent Republicans in Pennsylvania.” “He said that he had intentions of getting in contact with the Democrats in power and ‘he said that he intended to get material for the coming election,” Miss “He said that Pennsylvania had been a Republican state but that it was slipping and that they were anxious to get the Democrats out of the state.” Needham previously was identified
before the Sl” an opera-
tive «for the Seaboard Detective Agency headed by Frank | Bielaski. Miss Stentz said that Needham first offered her a job as a receptionist in a Coca-Cola vending machine office .on the same floor as the Democratic headquarters in Philadelphia. That position, , she said, was “fairly nominal.” “He told me just so the office was open during part of ‘the day, I could|€ have friends in at' any time I wanted,” she continued, “and we could play cards and do other things.” Needham later said his “real interest” was politics, and he then offered her the $200 job, she said. His plan, as he revealed it to her then, was to bring prominent Democrats into the office and introduce them to her, she said. “What did he say your duties
would be?” Committee Counsel William P. Maloney asked.
rather vague.” “Did he say anything about taking these prominent Democrats out to
with the prominent Democrats:
Chummy With Democrats in G. O. P. Plot’
“Yes.” ’ “To cocktail lounges—to dinner?” “Yes.” Miss Stentz said that Needham had offered to pay her expenses and see that she was supplied with
clothes—“such as sport jackets and other things necessary for country clu bs. | iy “I told him that I was not interested,” she added. When he first discussed the receptionist job, Needham told her she should “become acquainted” with the people in Democratic Headquarters, she said. Virginia Holliday Campbell, another of the students who interviewed Needham, testified that her interview was very similar to that of Miss Stentz. She also said she rejected the job. “He told me he wanted to run the Dermoorats out of the country,” she
“Well,” said Miss Stentz, “he was said. She added that Needham told her|
pait of her duties would consist of
| Play golf 3n
leading “a healthy outdoor life with Democratic politicians.”
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Pausing In flight from the. German invaders in Belgium, an elderly woman and {wo men seek the shel-
ter of a tree as raiding Nazi planes roar overhead. This photo was passed by the British censor.
‘CHANNEL OURS, BERLIN BOASTS
Predicts Swift Nazi Advance To Coast in. Tanks and Transport Trucks.
BERLIN, May. 28 (U. P.).—Germany today claimed . that “the great battle of Artois and Flanders
has reached its climax” and that its forces 10W njay advance against - Channel as fast as whippet ta ks and swift transport trucks’can carry them. The German forces were’swarming along the Belgian coast toward the French Channel port of Dunkirk and the High Command, in a communique from Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's headquarters, claimed that the German Army had broken through French fortifications along a long line in the Valenciennes area. Capitulation of the armies of Leopold, King of the Belgians— 500,000 strong—was regarded here as having deprived Britain and France of a tough and most valuable ally. German . sources said that the surrender of Leopold, admittedly against the will of his Government, had broken the back of the Allied pape, on the European mainand
Seven Miles From Bruges Today's High Command communique said that German troops
were only seven miles away from Bruges, where Leopold had his
: headquarters before he capitulated.
German military experts believed that their troops would reach the Channel cost of Belgium today. German quarters said that annihilation or surrender of British and French troops remaining in Belgium now was a matter “only of days’— perhaps hours. “It would not be surprising if the terrible blow of the Belgian capitulation were to shatter the morale cf the Allied armies remaining’ in the (Belgian) pocket and cause them to throw up their arms rather than be destroyed in a hopeless fight,” high German quarters said. Germans said that the Belgian surrender marked the conclusion of the first part of the war in the west with the second phase “to be fought out between the three main cpponents.”
Call on France fo Surrender
In well-informed quarters it was considered: certain that. Germamy would concentrate her force in the second phase against only one of the two Allies—“probably England.” High German quarters predicted that one effect of the Belgian surrender would [be to impose a severe
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CABINET BA SAYS LEOPOLD'S REIGN IS ENDED
Nation Will Carry Ong
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was repudiated ky the where Premier Hubett® Pierlot announced that Leopold had -been deprived of his throne and that the’ Council of Ministers would carry on beside the Allies. Great Britain and France are fighting on stubbornly and “with good heart,” according to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Paul Reynaud, and expect to triumph in the end. But, Churchill warned, the people must expect “hard and heavy tidings.” These tidings, it was believed, would concern the tragic plight of the trapped British and French troops—probably now 800,000 of the finest
through the Channel ports.
Britain and France Fear Channel Escape Cut Off.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
King Leopold syrrendered the Belgian Army today and Adolf Hitler's mechanized legions moved down the Chantel coast in an assault designed to deal ; a death blow to trapped
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ight Stubbornly;
The King’s capitulation at the peak of the Nazi offensive refugee Belgian Cabinet in France,
King Leopold . .|. stuns Allies.
Tied fighting men—battling Nazi .attacks from three sides and from the air and faced with loss or destruction of their last remaining | communications lines
Only an Allied enter ofloieive fiom the southosnd there is no definite sign of a successful thrust from that
direction—appears likely to save the trapped armies, it was
Germans to advance toward armies tighter by an advance
cording to the Nazis. | “It is only a! matter of
Army in the fa French troops in Flanders.
assault designed as a finishing blow Allied fighting men as’ the refugee Belgian Cabinet met in Paris and declared that Leopold had been deprived of the throne he inherited from his father, Albert. The 38-year-old monarch who refused to desert his battered Army, but defied his Cabinet’s demand that they fight on, had violated the Belgian Constitution and been taken prisoner so that he could not continue to reign, Belgian Premier Hubert \Pierlot said in a radio speech from Paris.
The refugee Cabinet will take over, Pierlot said, and “Belgium will fight on until victory. “A new Army will be raised to
said hy British military sources which indicated that thers was little hope of retreat across the: Channel at present. Furthermore, while the Belgian collapse per
itted, the
Bruges, Ostend and Dunkirk,
the German offensive from the south squeezed the trapped
through French fortifications
near Valenciennes and the capture of Douai and Orchies, ace
days or even hopis?” it was
asserted in Berlin} “It would not be surprising if the ler : f (Continued on’ Page Tires)
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France wil Win-Reynaud
PARIS, May 28 . P.) —King Leopold III surrendered the Belgian of the German drive today and Adolf Hitler's mechan ized legions surged through in the north to § Sirfee at trapped British and
Nazi dive bombers, artillery, tanks and maser infantry united in the
against perhap half a million crack
“Those capable of bearing arms will be mobilized. Others will do war work. We are passing through the most painful trial in our his= tory. Whatever happens we will re< main worthy of those' who fough$ from 1914 to 1918. “Our Army did not: deserve the fate meted out to it.” x The refugee leaders said that the Belgian Cabinet decided on civil and military mobilization of Belgians, on French soil if necessary. “We must save our honor” Paul Hymans, former Premier said, French sources said that Leopold did not give the slightest hint of capitulation to Gen. Maxime west,
ght flonpside the Allies.
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Bitter Days Nea london
LONDON, May 28 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill told
the House of Commons today that
France was fighting in “good heéart and with utm
the British expeditionary force in:
t tenacity” against
tremendous odds, but that the nation must be prepared for “hard ‘and
heavy thing which may happen us of our duty . Nor ‘should ifr
make our way . . . by disaster and grief to the ultimate defeat of our enemy,” Churchill declared in explaining how King Leopold of the Belgians surrendered and left the
British and French armies gravest peril on three fronts. | As the Commons cheered urch-
ill's speech, British military expe said that it appeared that only ar
Allied eounter-offensive from th south could save the trapped Allied | armies in Flanders. |
dings” as a result of the japiotiation of the Belgian Army,
this battle (in Flanders) can relieve
least part of the Belgian Army might rebel against the capitula order and fight on, it was'said that the sweep of the Germans toward the Channel through the collapsed left flank in Belgium left the ems l/pircled Allied | armies only =e choices unless they surren Bey: :
lines destroyed or seiz Germans, in hope that. t
oti 2. To attempt to os by way of the French Channel port of Dup«
Regardless of Teports at at
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