Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1940 — Page 1

SCRIPP _ HOWARD VOLUME 52—NUMBER 73

'IT'S WAR TO THE DEATH' -- CHURCHILL

F. D.R. CALLED 'SURE BET' FOR 3D TERM RACE

Observers Believe Byrnes Will Be His Choice As Running Mate. By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 4.— All doubts about President Roosevelt and a third-term renomination now have been dissipated. He is ready to accept.

He is in a position, because of

the concentration on his leadership

in the critical state of world affairs,|

to name the Vice Presidential can caidate and dictate the platform. This he will do.

Senator James F. Byrnes (S. C)) : appears to be his personal choice:

for running mate.

While there had been little doubt of late that Mr. Roosevelt would.

run again, it became a certainty over the week-end when he canvassed the whole situation in a heart-to-heart conference with Senator Byrnes. They talked during a cruise down the Potomac on

which Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, the President's closest confident, also was included.

Garner May Be Sidetracked “I have nothing to say about any

matters about which I talked to the President,” Mr. Byrnes told report-

ers. - White House Secretary Stephen I. Early said he knew nothing about the reports. But, it is understood that the President reached the point of definite overtures to Senator Byrnes to become his running mate and that the Senator was acquiescent. This seems to mean the end of the revived talk about a RooseveltGarner ticket again this year; also of discussion of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of the House, -and Speaker William B. Bankhead as Vice Pres-

idential possibilities. \ The argument for retention of Vice President Garner was that this would provide a “national unity” ticket, with New Deal and conservative wings of the party once again joined together. But this purpose likewise would be achieved through nomination of Senator Byrnes, who certainly has been grouped with the southern conservatives and yet, through all the party vicissitudes, has maintained cordial relations with the White House. He is the one conservative with whom the President has talked frankly and through whom he has operated on many legislative matters Texan’s Influence an Wane The impelling motive in selection of Senator Byrnes as Vice Presicential candidate, it is said, is that he would be far more effective for the President at the Capitol than Mt. Garner has been. In the last two years the Vice President has often pulled at cross-purposes with “the captain,” as he calls Mr. Roosevelt. The President and New Dealers generally have been reported bitter toward Mr. Garner, not only because of his direction of legislative sorties against some phases of the New Deal program. but also because of the Vice President's entry into primaries as a means of checking the third-term campaign. The lack ot cordiality, it might be said, is mutual. With Mr. Garner's overwhelming defeat in primary elections by Mr. Roosevelt, and the flocking of conservative and anti-New Dealers to the President under the stress of international crisis, the Texan no longer has the influence he once

was supposed to wield.

MERCURY ON WAY T0 HIGH 80’S TODAY

LOCAL "TEMPERATURES 6 am ... 70 10 a m. ... 83 7 am... 74 11 a m... 84 8 am ... 78 12 (noon) ... 84 9 am ... 80

Continued fair and warm weather were forecast for Indianapolis for tonight and unsettled weather was predicted for tomorrow by the Weather Bureau today.

The temperature probably will not

reach the record of 94 degrees today, the Bureau said, but may get a little higher than yesterday's 86.

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SLOAN INSPECTS ALLISON PLANT

Visit Follows Roosevelt's \Request for Expansion \ Of Local Output.

(Photo, Page 5)

By SAM TYNDALL The high ' command of General Motors Corp., led by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., board chairman, today inspected the Allison Motor Division here in connection with national defense program plans. Only yesterday the officials were asked by President Roosevelt in Washington to expand production of the Allison engines as an important part in the preparedness drive. On his arrival, Mr. Sloan said that the Allison plant can be "expected to do its part in any program involving national preparedness.” The visit of Mr. Sloan, his first of G. M.s newest motor division, indicated the immediate importance of the famous Allison engine in the mounting preparedness program. His inspection followed by three days an inspection of Allison facilities by G. M. President William 8. Knudsen, who is also a key member of the President’s new National Defense Commission. The closely spaced visits of the two highest General Motors officials, gave rise to reports of possible im- . (Continued on Page Three)

ELDER DENIES 2%’ TAX SETTLEMENT

Stands by Position: That

Funds Are Exempt.

By DANIEL. M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 4.— Bow-

man Elder denied here today that he has made any tax settlement with the Treasury as a result of the Two Per Cent Club investigation by Internal Revenue Agents in Indiana. It had been reported here that settlement had been made on funds in controversy amounting to approximately $250,000. Mr. Elder said all he knows about such a sum is what he has read in the newspa-

pers. He still is standing by his previously announced position that all money he handled as Two Per Cent Club treasurer was spent for political purposes and therefore is not taxable, Mr. Elder asserted. Accompanied by Frank M. MeHale, McNutt-for-President manager and Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, Mr. Elder arrived here by train from Indianapolis yesterday. They returned by plane today to attend the funeral of Attorney General Omer S. Jackson at Grenfield.

Both declared that the: principal purpose of their trip here was to see a long-time American Legion friend, J. Monroe Johnson of South Carolina, sworn in as a new member of the Interstate Commerce Commision.

Allies Bomb Germany;

Angry and stunned by the swift death blows from the air, Parisians watch as rescue workers remove the sack-wrapped body of a a victim of the German air raid. Casualties passed the 200 mark, with 45 killed.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940

Five Missing in

Nebraska Flood

WALTHILL, Neb., June 4 (U. P.) —Heavy rains ranging to 10 inches today drove hundreds of families from their homes in the northeastern Nebraska hills and at least five persons were missing.

Creeks which wind from the hills to the nearby Missouri River were overflowing and the Winnebago Indian reservation was inundated almost completely. T. W. Boughn, a mechanic at the reservation, reached Walthill on foot and reported four members of an Indian family missing and believed drowned. He said the Burlington railway station at Winnebago Village was destroyed and Harry Crawford, the agent, missing. The rain began yesterday, reached near-cloudburst proportions early today.

MAYOR WARNS AIDS ON ‘BUDGET PADDING'

Controller to Get Estimates For 1941 by June 15.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan warned all City department heads to avoid “budget padding” as the budget estimates began today.

The Mayor's statement was contained in a letter distributed to all City departments heads by City Controller James E, Deery. Officials were instructed to begin preparing estimates for next year’s needs at once and to file them with the Controller by June 15.

"It is needless to say that it is the Mayor's desire to confine all requests to actual anticipated needs,” letter said. The Mayor and the Controller appealed to department heads to confine their estimates to this year’s budget appropriations. Any increases must be accompanied by complete explanations, the Controller said. Mr. Deery explained the budget estimates will be tabulated and will then be discussed and probably re-

duced at a conference of all officials early in July. The complete budget must be presented to City Council by Aug. 15.

Nazis in Dunkirk;

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TURNER TRAINS DEFENSE PILOTS

Enlarged SchoOl Expected to Turn Out 400 Fliers In Six Months.

Col. Roscoe °Turner’s new air school prepared today to “go into production” -of ‘new pilots and instructors to help fill the ranks of potential war pilots as requested by President Roosevelt. Col. Turner announced that the Civil Aeronautics Authority has approved the Turner Aeronautical Corp. as a school, not only for primary flight training, but as a “normal college” to turn out primary flight instructors. It was announced also that plans have been completed for the construction of a $100,000 school and hangar building at Municipal Air port.

Staff Is Enlarged

Through his general manager, W. C. Gage, Col. Turner announced that he is now prepared to turn out 400 pilots in the next six months. Three additional instructors were added to the staff. The latest model Link Trainer has been purchased. The Trainer gives the potential flier flight instruction on the ground. The school also has added a special course in instrument or “blind” landing for instructors and potential Army and commercial fliers. The-facilities will enable the school to turn out between eight and 10 instructors per month. At the present time, Mr. Gage said, the school has 80 primary pupils.

Those added to the staff are Lieut.

William Hudson, U. S. Naval Reserve, a former airline flight captain, who will give instruction with the Link Trainer; Meredith I. Pettigrew, Anderson, specialist in primary instruction, and Charles Waff, radio technician and instrument specialist. Other instructors include Virgil Simmons and George Gamsjager.

SOVIET RELATIONS EASIER? LONDON, June 4 (U. P.).—Richard Butler, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons today that the Government was prepared to enter into normal relations with the Soviet Government.

une 4.—Waived out of the major leagues, Jay Hanna ) Dean, most colorful pitcher nodern baseball, agreed today to

With steady work on the Chicago Cubs' farm at Tusla, Okla., the eccentric right-hander believes he can overcome the injury that robbed his famous fireball of its

Diz Sends Self to Minors in All-or-Nothing Experiment,

By Steve Snyder United Press Staff Reporter CHICAGO, June 4 --Waived out of the major leagues, Jay Hanna (Dizzy) Dean, most colorful pitcher of modern baseball, agreed today to return to the Texas League for a noble experiment with a sidearm delivery. Dizzy goes at his own request. With steady work on the Chicago Cubs farm team at Tulsa, Okla., the eccentric right -hander believes he can overcome the injury that robbed his famous fireball of its speed and return to the majors as an effective sidearmer. Date of his transfer still is undetermined, but it probably will be soon. Owner Phil K. Wrigley of the Cubs said, “It’s up to Dizzy when he wants to go. It was his idea.” Dean, nursing a head .injury received in a fall from an automobile driven by Glen (Rip) Russell, Cubs’ first baseman, let Mrs. Dean answer that one: “We'll find out one way or the other down there. Either Diz can pitch or he can’t. We can't go on ‘disappointing - everyones, ‘Wrig-

ley, Gabby Hartnett and the crowds (Continued on page 11)

FORECAST: Fair and continued warm tonight, becoming unsettled tomorrow.

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ARMY LEADERS FEAR TROUBLE FOR AMERICAS

Chief of Staff Urges O. K. Of Guard Duty as ‘Fire Extinguisher.’ BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 4 (U.P.). —The Senate today approved and sent, back to the House a bill authorizing the Navy to acquire 10,000 airplanes, 16,000 pilots and $144.132,000 of new or improved navy bases. Chairman David I. Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee said the Government was

negotiating to establish some of these new bases in South America.

WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P.). —Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, declared today that the possibility of frouble in this hemisphere within the "next month or two” requires that the President be given authority to call National Guardsmen to serve with regular troops. : He emphasized, that he hoped such a call would not be necessary. He urged the House Military Affairs Committee to approve disputed legislation to empower President Roosevelt to call out National Guard and Army reserve men for service anywhere needed in event of an emergency between the adjournment of this session of Congress. and the beginning of the next. He did not identify the potential trouble areas on the American continent, .but spoke specifically of danger to the Panama Canal. Ad-

ministration circles are said to fear | possible trouble lin Mexico, Brazil or Uruguay.

‘Tragic Shortage’ of Men

The House Deficiency Appropriations Subcommittee, meantime, disclosed that Gen. Marshall told it last week that there is a “tragic shortage” of seasoned, trained fighting men in the Army. Gen. Marshall refused to discuss details of the National Guard program in public before the Military Affairs group and confined his testimony to general outlines until the Committee went into secret session. The session lasted an hour. One committee member said afterwards the situation presented “is damned serious.” Several members indicated the Committee would approve the resolution.

It’s Marshall’s Idea

Gen. Marshall emphasized the request for Presidential authority to call the Guard was his own idea. He said the program was tantamount to calling a fire extinguisher into play “rather than the entire fire department.” He also stressed that, “we are thinking only of the Western Hemisphere.”

Army sources explained that Gen. Marshall favors calling into active service unemployed, single members ot the National Guard and reserves. They would be blended into regular organizations on a temporary basis, out would receive regular Army pay and allowances while on duty. The House sent the $1,823,252,724 Emergency Army Appropriation Bill to conference with the Senate. The measure contains regular appropria(Continued on Page Five)

HULL REAFFIRMS MONROE DOCTRINE

Keep Hands Off Western Isles, He Warns Europe.

WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P.).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull today gave the Administration’s unqualified support to a joint resolution in Congress declaring this Government will not approve any transfer to another European power of sovereignty over any European islands or colonies in this Hemisphere. Mr. Hull pointed out that the proposed bill “is in effect a restatement of the position which this Government has consistently taken

for more than a hundred years” in

the Monroe Doctrine. The part, which provides that if any transfer of territory appeared likely, the United States should consult with other American republics, Mr. Hull said was a “reaffirmation of the policy adopted in recent years of co-operation with the other American republics in matters of common interest.” “Several European states have had possessions in the Western Hemisphere for long periods of ime and this Government has at no time undertaken to interfere with them,” he said. “However, in keeping with its tra- | ditional policy, this Government must necessarily insist that such possessions shall not become the subject of ‘barter or conquest between rival European powers or be made the scene of the settlement of European difficulties."

Churchill said that “even if the British Isles should be subjugated,” the British Empire would fight on until “in God’s good time the new world steps forth to the liberation-and rescue of the old.” Churchill revealed that 850,000 Allies, once believed almost, hopelessly trapped, had been rescued from Flanders. The French and British meanwhile disclosed that “vengeance” raids had been made on German areas, which Berlin said, included

NAZIS REPEAT AERIAL RAIDS

Squadrons Roar Over Swiss Border Toward Rhone Area; Report Cherbourg Hit.

BULLETINS

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 4 (U. P.)—~German air squadrons roared over Switzerland toward the Rhone Valley again today and fragmentary reports indicated widespread aerial hombardment of France. ‘

NEW YORK, June 4 (U. P.). —The Columbia Broadcasting System today intercepted a British radiocast which said that German planes had bombed: Cherbourg, great French port. No details were given,

By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 4—French airplanes have bombed German territory in a swift, determined reprisal for the German airplane bombing of Paris, a War Office spokesman said today. : The raid was but the first French retort to the German attack, the spokesman said, and. others would follow promptly. Concerning the extent of the raids, the Paris Soir said that the French bombings included much of northwest Germany. The newspaper said Rotterdam and Aix-La-Chappelle also had been bombed. (In Berlin, it was reported that a suburb of Munich had been : bombed during the night and eight persons killed.) Meanwhile, it was unofficially reported that the Germans had raided the port of Le Harve, a main terminal for the trans-Atlantic lines. Parisians, uncowed by yesterday’s raids which killed 45 persons and wounded 149, demanded that the air force take the attack to Germany and bomb German cities unsparingly. Conversations in the streets and subways turned almost entirely. to the hope that Allied bombing planes (Continued on Page Three)

G. 0. P. RENOMINATES GOV. WILSON IN IOWA

DES MOINES, Ia., June 4 (U. P.).—Gov. George A. Wilson won renomination in yesterday's Republican primary election, almost com~ plete unofficial returns showed today. He defeated H. R. Gross; Des Moines radio newscaster, in a close contest. ‘John K. Valentine, former U. S. Attorney and former Lieutenant Governor, won an easy contest with State Senator Edward R. Breen in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial nomination. Returns from 1,989 of the State's 240 precincts gave: : Wilson 142,918; Cross, 118,424. Valentine, 50,861; Breen, 37,646.

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

. Europe’s warring powers traded sledge hammer blows today in a military prelude to the probable entry of Italy into the spreading conflict as Prime Minister Winston Church of Great Britain told the House of Commons there would be no surrender.

With a possible direct reference to the United States,

Munich, as a result.of the dropping. .of more than 1000 bombs on Paris yesterday when 45 were killed and 149 “wounded. The German High Command announced the occupation

of Dunkirk where a small rear guard had fought to the last (Continued on Page Three)

BRITAIN HINTS HOPE OF AID FROM NEW WORLD; MUSSOLINI DELAYS ENTRY

Winston Ghurchill ....."There will be no surrender,”

Bust of Leopold Missing at Fair NEW YORK, June 4 (U. P).—A bust of King Leopold of The Bel=, gians was missing today from the place where it previously was displayed in the reception room of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Dr. J. A. Goris, assistant commissioner general of the Fair from Belgium, refused to comment on the removal.

GERMANY REPORTS DUNKIRK IS TAKEN

Claims 79 Planes Downed in Air Raid on Paris.

BULLETIN PARIS, June 4 (U.P.).—The Admiralty said tonight that the Allied armies had abandoned Dunkirk after losing six destroyers and the supply ship Niger. Most of the crews were reported saved. BERLIN, June 4 (U.,P.)—German troops have captured the city of Dunkirk, last of the Channel ports to have been held by the Allies, the German High Command said in a special communique today. An earlier communique had said that the German forces had entered the flaming city of Dunkirk, seized Ft, Louis and brought the battle of Flanders near its end. The High Command, said that 40,000 prisoners had been taken at Dunkirk and that with capture of the city the French and Belgian Channel coast from Abbeville northward now was in German hands. .The first communique of the day told of a bitter struggle for the possession of Dunkirk. The communique claimed that in yesterday’s German air raid on Paris, 79 French airplanes were shot (Continued on Page Three)

URGES LEAVE FOR CAMPAIGNING POLICE

An ordinance ‘mandating the Safety Board to grant leaves of absence to police and firemen who, wish to run lor public office was under consideration of City Councilmen today. The proposal was submitted by Councilman Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, last night. It followed the Safety Board's dismissal of Patrolman Morris Corbin, who refused to resign from the Police Department when he ran for the Republican nomination for sheriff.

MORRIS CO. HEAD DIES

BLUFFTON, Ind, June 4.—William D. Morris, 58, president of Morris Co., which operates a chain of 68 five and 10 cents stores in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, died today of heart disease.

335,000 Saved From Flanders

Defense Phase Over, Prime Minister Tells House. LONDON, June 4 (U. P.), —Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that a “colossal military disaster” had been suffered in Flanders, but that 335,000 Allied troops had been rescued miraculously, and that the British Empire ‘would fight on even if England were subjugated ‘‘until in God’s good time” the new ‘world rescues the old. “We shall fight in France, on oceans, on landing grounds, in fields

‘and in streets,” Churchill said. “We shall. never surrender. . . We

shall prove ourselves again able to | defend our island home ... if necessary alone.” But, he said, Britain and France will aid each other “to death” as good comrades” and will “not be

content with a defensive war”

against Adolf Hitler.

The Prime Minister spoke in straight-from-the-shoulder terms. of ‘the great Battle of Flanders in which the British alone lost 30,000 killed, wounded or missing. He warned the nation to be prepared for the Germans to strike at Paris or London because Hitler has “the whole of the Channel ports in his hands and we have been told he has a plan for invading the British Isles.” There was a “victory inside. the deliverance” of Allied troops from the German trap in Flanders and it was scored by the British air force, Churchill said, but he warned the nation against considering the deliverance a victory “because wars are not won by evacuations.”

Lost Almost 1000 Guns

Churchill, telling the story of what experts believe was the greatest single military operation in British history, said that: 1. A total of 335,000 French and British. were rescued from Flanders by the Allied navies and a fleet of a thousand boats, but the British alone’ lost 30,000 men, almost 1000 guns and “all our transport and armored vehicles, besides weakening the French Army and losing the Belgian Army. « 2. The Allied forces at Calais were given an hour to surrender" but they fought on in ‘the burning city for four days in an heroic episode that enabled the French to establish lines protecting Dunkirk and thus permit evacuation of the Allied armies. Only 30 unwounded men were rescued from Calais. 3, The British need no longer withhold opinion on the “pitiful” capitulation of King Leopold of the Belgians, which cut off the Allied line of retreat in the north. (Cries of “treachery” rang through the House after this statement).

Nazi Losses Worse, He Says

4. The British expeditionary force will be “reconstituted” and built up once again” under its gallant commander in chief” Gen. Viscount Gort, because “there is no reason| why the losses cannot be repaired in a few months.” 5. Far heavier losses were inflicted on the Germans than were sufferéd . by the Allies in the Battle of Flanders and the German a force was “frustrated in its task” of destroying the retiring Allied forces. 6. The British empire and the French republic “will defend to the

death rheir native soil, aiding the other like good comrades to the ut-| most of their strength. . . . We shall

never surrender.” 7. Britain must expect “another blow to be struck almost immediately against us or France. We are told

Hitler has a plan for invading the British Isles but this has often been thought of before.” He said that “we shall prove ourselves again ‘able to (Continued on Page Three)

METAL, AUTO SHARES LEAD STOCKS HIGHER

Metal and motor shares led .the New York stock market higher in early morning trading today. Among the leaders were Bethlehem, U. S.

Steel, Republic, Anaconda and Kennecott. Aircraft shares also were higher. Chrysler led motor securities which are now classified as war issues since their plants can be turned quickly into production of munitions and other equipment.