Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1940 — Page 1

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THURSDAY, JUNE 8 1940

BUDGET CHIEF VISIONS EARLY

AR ‘LAB 0.K.

Smith Inspects City Airport And CAA Station on ‘Significant’ Visit Here.

Harold Smith, U. S. Budget Director, in an interview here yesterday, predicted immediate passage of legislation providing for the establishment of a $10,000,000 military aircraft engine research | laboratory, ‘which Indianapolis is seeking. The budget chief, who visited the city unannounced, inspected the Municipal Airport, the CAA radio test station and discussed defense financing before returning to Washington on direct orders from Presicent Roosevelt. | An engineer by early training, Mr. Smith expressed keen interest in the proposed air laboratory, declaring he made a personal investi- " gation of the need for such a projest when he first was requested to prepare the groundwork [Eom the: legislation. Bill in Committee

The air laboratory bill is now in a House committee in Congress, kut the decision as to location of the project will be made by the * National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. Although the budget director will have no official voice in its location,

his visit here and his interest in

airport “facilities” “was highly significant. Indianapolis has been reported to hold a {good thance” of receiving the research center. “We all agree on tlie vital necessity ‘for such a laboratory,” Mr. Smith said. “Private industry is unable, because of competition, to carry on the fundamental engine experimentation. Basic experimzniation in airplane motors is needed.” added, “Germany has three such

Iaporatories” oe : Hopes for CAA Expansion

Mr. Smith denied knowledge 6f any new defense plans involving Indianapolis which might _have brought him away. from his busy desk for a one-day visit here. He expressed interest in the CAA rddio experiment station, particularly the: -instfument or “bling” landing devices, a said he hoped for gradual expansion of the CAA radio’ laboratory here. On defense financing, which is now occupying most of the budget chief’s time, Mr. Smith said that legislation which would provide for Federal financing of aircraft manufacturing expansion has been written. He said the proposed subsidy to private industry couid be accomplished in either of two ways, by outright Federal grants to the indiistry or through a contrzet arrangement, permitting the industry to own the expansion units. [It is probable, Mr. Smith said, - that the latter course will be taken.

HATCH BILL IS SENT TO FLOOR OF HOUSE

WASHINGTON, June 6 (U. PJ), —The Rules Committee today sent to the House floor the Hatch Bill to prohibit “pernicious” political activity by about 250,000 state employees who are paid wholly or in part from Federal funds. © |The Senate-approved bill finally reached the House after a sstormy ‘career. It was killed once in the - House Judiciary Committee, then resurrected and finally approved by that Committee. The date for the House vote has not yet been set. 4

GRADUATES—

There's a reason why some men -are hired while. others are | tired before they're hired.

Twelve of the country's leading executives have written some practical . advice tor June gradu: ates. William S. Knud‘sen, president of Gen: eral Motors, now on leave of a&bsence to help the Government mobilize tor detense, is the first.

His tips. appear

“IN THE TIMES TODAY OM PAGE 17

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Splash! It's cool in the pool,

st, who tries out the water at the Riviera Club pool in a preview swim.

no foolin’.

That’s the report from ‘Miss Sally Waddington, 129 E. 36th

Five City pools and the 26th

St. beach open Monday while most private pools, including the Riviera Club, open officially Sunday.

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GIRL KILLED BY HIT-SKIP AUTO

Betty ‘Jane Dawson, State; Music . Contest Winner, Is Tragedy Victim.

(Photos, Page Six)

Miss Betty Jane Dawson, 18, of 4001 Southeastern ‘Ave. winner for three years of the state high ‘school music contest, was killed last night] vy a hit-and-run. driver on Post] Road a mile south of Road 40. She and her escort, George Brinkman Jr., 19, R. R. 11, Box 496, were struck as they walked away from their car, which had run out of gasoline, -in search of a filling station. Earl Bales, 5704 E. Washington St., passing the. scene in nis car, saw Brinkman waving from the roadside, his face covered with blood. Brinkman was dazed and nalf hysterical. Mr. Bales picked Miss Dawson from the road and put her and Brinkman in his car. He drove them to Police Headquarters.

Father Near Collapse

There the rescue squad tried to revive Miss Dawson, but she was dead. Police summoned Frank V. Dawson, the girl's father, an employee of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. He nearly collapsed at the sight of his daughter's hody. Meanwhile, police administered a sedative to Brinkman, who, even in his sleep, gave a mumbling account of the tragedy. He was back -at home today, after spending the night at ‘City Hospital. Today Brinkman said his only warning of the oncoming car was a “sudden glare of lights.” Deputy sheriffs questioned a group of young people in a car that was damaged but later found they were not connected with the accident. They were released. Miss Dawson was graduated last year with honors from Warren Central High School and since then had been employed part time at L. S. Ayres & Co. For three years, while a Warren Central student, she won the state and district honors in the afinual high school musicians’ contest and last year placed second in the national contest. : She ‘was regarded as an accomplished - violinist and had won a scholarship to the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music.

Member of Quartet

She was a member of the Octavia Greene Landers violin quartet; Pogianni Violin Choir and of the Matinee Musical. She also was a member and worker in the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist. ; Mrs. Myrtle Rodden, Warren Central assistant principal, said Miss Dawson was outstanding at Warren scholarship, extra - curricular activities and leadership. She is survived by her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Robinson, 1130 S. Grant St., and Miss Ruth Dawson, 15, at home; a grandmother, Mrs. Belle Perlee, Blackstone apartments, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Dawson, Hettick, III

|. U. MEDICAL CENTER ASKS FOR NEW LAND

The Indiana University Medical Center today asked the Park Board to deed it 13 more acres at the Center for future expansion. The Board took the matter under advisement and indicated it might be willing to trade property. there

for some. the Genser owns elses

Mother in Court

Learns Son Is lll

A WOMAN WAS in Municipal Courf today, charged with assauit| and battery on her former hugs

band’s present wife. She told Judge Pro Tem. i.eo0 O'Connor that she merely had) ‘been trying to claim her son, 11,

. ‘whose custody she was awarded

by the divorce court. As she spoke, a policeman ‘handed Judge O’Connor.sa note, ‘He read it and said to her: | “Did you know your son is in City Hospital?” * “Oh, my goodness, no. It must be appendicitis,” she exglaiinsg. “You may go to your son,” aid Judge O'Connor, “the ie is dismissed.” . They went from the Court to the hospital and found the boy in good condition. He was sent home with her, and she was given instruction for home treatment.

ANTHONY RUSSO, 41, BOOK EXPERT, DEAD

Attended Library Banquet a Claypool Last Night.

Anthony Russo, bibliophile and proprietor of the Hoosier Book Shop, died today at his home, 2135 N. Alabama St. of’ heart disease.

He was 41. Last night ne attended a. banquet of the Special Libraries Association in the Claypool Hotel. Since March,-1939, Mr. Russo and his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Ritter Russo, had been compiling a bibliography of Indiana authors, and dad spent much time collecting James Whitcomb Riley information. The project was sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society, of which he was a member. He also was a member ‘of the Medical Library Association, the Anierican and Indiana Associations cf the’ History of Medicine and the Bibliogranhical Society of ‘America. He was born in New York City and was married to Dorothy Ritter of Indianapolis in 1931. Mrs. Russo; a son, Robert Ritter Russo; a da'ighter, Mary Russo; six Sisters, and three brothers survive im.

‘CARRY ON’ IS SWISS ORDER ZURICH, Switzerland, June 6 (U. P.).—The High Command today issued an order ‘of the day declaring

that the Swiss people “is an armed’

people willing to preserve its independence and we must and can defend Ngurselves.” The order, the declara on said, is simply: “Carry on.”

“|weather story.

HEAT SETS NEW

RECORD AT 92

|Thundershowers and Cooler: Weather Is. Predicted For - Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ...74 10a. m. ... 86 a.m ...%7% 1am... 9 8a. m. ... 80 12 (noon)... 92 9am ,..8 lpm .. 9

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Another day—another heat record! That, in five words, is today’s When the temperature went from 91 to 92 at noon, today became the hottest of the year so far. Yesterday the temperature went to 91, a record for the year. :The day before it got to 86, equaling the year’s record. But tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicts, there will be no new record. There will be thunder showers tonight and tomorrow and it will be somewhat cooler. The all-time record temperature for today was 96, set in 1933.

MRS. ANNA ELLIOTT PROVIDES CONCERTS

7 Mrs. Anna S. Elliott of the SpinkArms Hotel today donated $175 to the Park Department to provide a summer concert program of light music. This is the second year that Mrs. Elliott has made a donation. Last year, her contribution provided an outdoor concert which was heavily attended. Parks Superintendent A, C. Sailee said the concert this year again would be given at Garfield Park. °* Mrs. Elliott’s ‘check was accompanied by a note saying that she | felt a desire “to do my humble part: in helping the depressed state of mind that is shrouding all of our lives due to conditions across the ocean.”

FLORENCE ROBERTS, ACTRESS, DIES AT 69

HOLLYWOOD, June 6 (U. P.).— Florence Roberts, veteran stage and screen actress, died today at her home of heart disease. She was 69. In recent years Mrs. Roberts had been playing the role of Grandma in the “Jones Family” series of pictures. ‘She returned only a. week ago from a vacation in Panama. Mrs. Roberts was a native of New York and went on the stage when 15. She achieved her greatest fame under the direction. of the late David

HOLES TORN IN WEYGAND LINE

Lists Advances at Amiens, Peronne and Along “Channel Coast. BERLIN, June 6 (U. B.).—

|German military ‘quarters

said today that German

|troops had made important |gains through the Weygand

Line, particularly near Amiens, Peronne and close to the

| English Channel coast.

German forces, smashing through the French defensive lines with mass assaults led by tanks and aided by dive bombers, captured large quantities of French war materials, the military spokesman said. The chief gains by the Germans were accomplished by the right

Comand claimed was making a general advance alle along the French front.

Hamburg Bombed

The great German offensive, said |: the High Command, is proceeding |. exactly according to plan and the|

French are being driven beck on a broad front. The High Command reported that the count of pr. oners captured

and that war materials and other booty has been recovered. in amounts which earinot yet ‘be estimated. The, official D.” N. B. news agency asserted that .three persons were killed and 21 injured in a largescale Allied bombing attack last night on Hamburg, the greatest German port. (Hamburg is one of the strategic German sea bases which might be employed for organization of an expeditionary force in any attack on Britain. Allied planes have reported repeated raids on Hamburg in recent days.)

Claim Extensive Bombing

The German High Command reported that the German Air Force engaged in widespread attacks behind the Allied lines, particularly on airfields in central France and the important French harbor of Cherbourg. In addition to raids carried out in France, the High Command reported extensive bombing of Britisly airfields on the eastern and southeastern coast. German planes were also working in close ‘liaison with German at(Continued on Page Six)

CITY AWAITS. CIRCUS, BIGGER AND BETTER'|

Two Shows Will Be Given Here Tomorrow.

(Another Story, Photo, Page 10) . The circus is coming to town tomorrow for a, one-day stand. Billed as “bigger and better” than last year. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show will arrive from Dayton, O., in four trains. Shows will’ be given in an_airconditioned tent at 2:15 p. m. and at 8:15 p. m. at the Southeastern and Keystone Aves. show grounds. Some of the outstanding attractions will be Gargantua the Great, the gorilla who is making his second year's tour and who is even more frightful than last year, the Return‘ of Marco Polo, with 2000 persons in the cast and Alfried Court and his wild animals.

ITALIAN LINER HELD UP : PANAMA CITY, June 6 (U. P.).— The Italian liner Conte De Biancamano has been given orders to remain at Balboa until further notice,

Belasco.

it was learned today.

‘Blood of Soldiers Bathing Dead Man Hill,’ Says Diary Found on Nazi's Body in Belgium

WITH THE FRENCH | ARMIES ON THE AISNE, June 6 (U. P.).— Here's; what a blitzkrieg looks like to a German soldier who kept a diary. The author is dead. The French released excerpts from the "diary, which they sdid was foand “on the body of; a soldier killed last week in a forest somewhere in south Belgium. '~ It tells. of three days fighting, from” May 21 to May 24, after the French recovered from the initial shock of the tank offensive, 1t reads: MAY 21—Regiment suffered heavy Tosges: Twenty-two dead, 50 wounded.

Xi 22—Five new tombs. to. my

‘woods.

left near the. ofossiroads. They date from May 21. Company— brought back more dead during the day. There's a veritable cemetery here already. French -artillery is violently shelling our troops. The first killed belong to—company. How many will there be tomorrow? Everyone is getting ready for attack. Artillery and tanks are in position. MAY -23—Awakened at 4 a. m. Our artillery ‘began firing at 4:32 a. m. Two divisions are ready to attack. We are caught under. French fire in the village of . . . . The fog is terrible. The first two battalions are engaged in‘an atrocious fight in the

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ploding French shells continues endlessly. B. is wounded in the arm. Men with many different wounds are being removed to the rear. «The medical corps demands reinforcements. Pistols are firing on all sides in the woods. Trees are full of riflemen. We must mop up each inch of the forest. | The forest is being cuk.to pleces; Everything is flying in an B. of ‘company returned from the advanced lines with a bullet in his sbdomen. We are again under vio-

lent Prench artillery fire.. The

| French have undoubtedly abandoned

the forest. ‘We find. only a few wounded and killed.

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Allies Resist Stubbornly as Attack Gains Momentum

| By JOE ALEX MORRIS | United Press Foreign

Allied armies battled strongl ingly furious German offensive into France. Adolf Hitler threw assault tanks, dive bombers and massed infantry in vast numbers—perhaps the full Nazi strength—into the attack along the Somme and the Aisne Rivers and the High Command said the German armies were

ews Editor today against an increas-

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The arrows show where the Germans are striking with the most fury in their grand offer sive to cut off England and France.

But in Paris and London official military spokesmen gaid that the Germans had failed to break through the, line established by Generalissimo Maxime Weygand and that tanks which stabbed into the deep French defenses were shattered: by murderous fire from the famous French' 75s

Allied airplanes also struck back at the Germans from the Somme to the Ruhr Valley, blasting . communications lines and supply depots and.

bombing the great port: of

Hamburg, where the Germans said three persons were

killed and 21 injured.

of Allied airplanes intensified now being employed by both

The bombardment of imbue by “a large number”

the methods of total warfare sides with results which still

are mostly hidden by censorship but which probably are|y

vast in both damage and loss

of life.

It also appeared hat the attack on the big German port

at air bases. News of the fighting fron was indicated that the battles

(Cantinued on

ROME, June 6 u. P.).—The

States today against intgrvening in

might be important because it would probably be a central base in any .attack op the British Isles. German planes also bombed the English coast, striking %

t was still Srapnientary but it spreading along a line of more

than 200 miles and inow involving probably 2,000,000 men were-developing intensely and with great rapidity. The Germans obviously had crossed the Somme at some

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Keep Out of Europe's War, Editor in Rome Warns U. §.

authoritative newspaper Giornale

D’Italia, in an editorial signed by Virginio Gayda, warned the United

the European. conflict because the

“time might come when some great European power may intervene”

against America. The warning by Gairda,

came after the Government had | warned world shipping that Italian and colonial waters were dangerous, presumably because .of raines, and thus indicated “intentfon of joining the war. If the United States ‘al es sides in

the European conflict, the Gayda editorial said, then the time may

power would intervene ia favor of an American nation at wir with the United States. “The possibility of a more immediate and active war a liance between the United States and the Allies leaves Germany and Italy perfectly calm,” Gayda wrote. Gayda charged that ihe United States had aided the Alli¢ s since the start of the war. ' Saying that the United States would violate the Monrce Doctrine by directly interfering in the affairs of other continents, he eontihued: “The United States cannot set itself up as an armed judge of Eudopean quarrels, the origins and substance of which—owning. to its distance from Europe—it cannot pretend to understand. “The United States—great ang powerful as it may be-must not consider itself invested vith a high mission authorizing Wachington to decide on the destinie:i of other continents. Already tie United States has been intervering in behalf of the Allies sinc: the first; days of the war.” - #1t is.not true,” said Gayda, “that the United States has any duty to save the old world. Euope is not alone expressed by: England and France. There are onl’ 99.000,000

come when some great European:

who Jften speaks for Premier Mussolini,

R. A, F. STRIKES AT

Fliers Attack After Bombs Fall on English Coast.

LONDON, June 6 (U, P.) \~British bombing pianes struck behind the lines of German armies battling along the River Somme, the Air Ministry announced today after German planes had raided a 250mile stretch of the English Coast. ‘Medium and heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force attacked enemy troop Concentrations, harassed enemy movement behind the fighting front and bombed military objectives deep in the Ruhr Valley and other districts of Germany, the Ministry said. Greatest activity of the British planes, which shot down six enemy craft and lost one of its own, was directed at a series of attacks on German lines of communication leading to the Somme battlefield, where British military experts said the Germans had made some progress but failed to penetrate the deep French defenses. “Other formations of heavy bombers struck at junctions and ‘marshalling yards west from the Ruhr, while others attacked many military Objectives in| Germany,” the Ministry sai “Two of our pi craft are missing (in addition to one lost near the Somme). The air eraft

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NAZIS BEHIND LINES =

coastal

PARIS: TROOPS. STILL HOLDING IN VITAL SPOTS

Famous 75s Tur Turned Loose On Armored Units Slipping: Into Prepared Traps.

BULLETIN

PARIS, Jrne 6 (U. P.).—Huhs | dreds of German tanks have been | destroyed in the Allied stand | against strong pressure along the Rivers Somme and Aisne, Premier : Paul Reynaud said today in quote ing Gen. Maxime Weygand as saying that he was satisfied with ' the French “answer” to the Gere man offensive. i

By RALPH HEINZEN | zUnited Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, June 6.—French authorities claimed todays that 41 German tanks have been captured or destroyed along the Weygand Line and that French froops were suce cessful Fefisting: the Germalh offensive. These sources said that it was still too early in the battle to exe press either pessimism or optimism over the outcome but that French lines, generally speaking, were holde ing firm: Tank attacks. have: ‘been met Stig cessfully, it |was\said, by allowing them to infiltrate into the French

lines,’ then [cutting them off destroying or capturing them indie vidually. - :

French 75s Are Used (Earlier. tl

a he French claimed the destruction (of 100 tanks in the Amiens sector and 25 at CHaulnes. It was. believed that the 41 now reported destroyed or captured were in addition to previous reports, making a total of some 166 German - tanks put out of ‘action. The dise patch, however, was not specific on this point.) As each group of tanks ha ploughed into the French lines, i has been enveloped by the Prenc it was said,| oreventing the masses of German infantry from following up theadvance. French 75's—famous World Wage guns—were used to mow down the motorized Nazi columns, military quarters said. f

Nazi Gains Admitted

However, it was admitted that the ermans have made a gain of some five or six miles in a drive south of Peronne. It appeared that the Gere mans were trying to straighten out their lines In this area. where the French hold|a curved salient." (Although| the French military spokesman |described Chaulnes as siX miles from Peronne, measures on big-scale maps showed the dise tance to be approximately 10 miles | | —indicating| that the Germans had smashed 10- miles south of ths Somme. Cl. . Seven German planes were sho$ down in Normandy, it was ane rounced, and three others probably were destro fed in raids against cene

tral France. |

Claims (Smoke Shells Used . The es spokesman said thas the Germans had used smoke shells in bombarding the town of Rethel, on the Aisne River northeast of Reims. The smoke shells were fired to try to screen movements of German troops operating on the left flank the German offensive toward and the lower Seine River area. :

The Gerinan High Command massed the| greatest concentration of tanks sian the start of the war

in the region of Abbeville, to push the German right flank drive down the Channel coast toward Le Havre, The big Atlantic port is 85 miles irom Abbeville. The German tactics. as described by the French spokesman, were similar tot their maneuvers in the ~ (Continued on Page Five)

515 BRITONS HELD SPIES LONDON, Juné 6 (U. P.).—Home Secretary Sir John Anderson told the House of Commons today that, up to last night, 515 persons had been detained under the defense

paign against possible Fifth Column elements.

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