Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1940 — Page 1
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and slightly cooler today and tomorrow.
FINAL HOME
WILLKIE PUTS SELF IN RACE FORPRESIDEN
Halleck to Nominate Him at G. 0. P. Convention; May Be ‘Favorite - Son.’
WASHINGTON, June 12 (U, -P.).—Wendell Wiilkie, head of the Commonwealth and southern public utilities ~ system, announced today that his name would be put in - nomination for President before the Republican National Convention by Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.). Mr. Halleck is Second Indiana District delegate. : Mr, Willkie made an off-the-rec-ord speech to the National Press Club at luncheon here today and - Rep._Halléck- was one of the honor guests.
Before the luncheon, Mr. Willkie| .
said that he will enter the conven-
tion at Philadelphia June 24 with “60 to 75 delegates on the first ballot, depending upon how many we need.” He declined to say how many will be from New York or any other state. . May Be Favorite Son
Mr. Willkie is known to have six of the 28 delegates from Indiana and may get the entire delegation as a favorite son candidate after the ‘nominating ‘speech, it was said. - Mr. Willkie a native of Elwood, Ind., says that he is a liberal and that a true liberal’s function is to “strive to make men free.” The utility chief started his career as an attorney in Ft. Wayne, Ind. in 1919. His parents were both lawyers and at 16 he had helped his father prepare a case. He became a member of the law firm which had several utilities as clients. He developed into a brilliant trial lawyer and attracted the attention of B. C. Cobb, then presidet t of Commonwealth & Southern,
Became President
Mr. Cobb persuaded him to go New York, In 1933 at 41, Mr. Wi kie became president of the utility Other utilities were discharging salesmen, but he hired 500 ey ones. Under his leadership, ge corporation doubled. its sales in si years and rates were lowered. He fought Government controllof business and a long fight with the New Deal transformed him from a Democrat to a Republican. He shied from politics during his younger years and his first major activity was as a delegate to the Democratic- National Convenijon in 1924. :
Over 5000 Willkie Backers Claimed
“The Indiana committee Suppokes ing Wendell L. Willkie, New utility executive and former Hoos for the G. O. P. Presidential nomination, today announced that between ‘5000 and 10,000 Indianapoli residents had signed petitions backing Mr. Willkie’s candidacy. Willis N. Coval, chairman of th | Willkie - for - President Committee also announced that Mrs. Kin Hub bard, wife of the famous Hoosie humorist who died several year ago, will head the Indiana women’ division supporting Mr. Willkie. The Committee reported tha *hetitions for Mr. Willkie were bein circulated by half a dozen othe campaign groups over the State ang that the petitions will be presente to Indiana delegates to the National G. O. P. Convention in Phil delphia June 24. 3
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WAR ORDERS SPUR SHARP MARKET RIS
Stocks, advanced today on increased Vv War stocks were two to
up eight points or more. prices were accompanied by fantastic rumors, none confirmable.
points and more on the Iron Age statement that the industry operating at 85% per cent of ity and that new orders were anticipated from the Allies, from the American defense program, from the automobile industry and rail-
How G. O. P. Can Serve U. S.— Raymond Clapper gives
his viewpoint, directly, frankly, clearly. . . .
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Seeks Nomination
definitely a andidate.
Wendell Willkie . . . G. O. P. Presidential ¢
ADJOURNMENT PLAN FALTERS
Leaders Hesitant as Clamor Grows for Keeping ~N Congress on Job.
. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent * WASHINGTON, June 12 (U. P.). —Bi-partisan demands that Congress remain on the emergency job to collaborate with President Roose velt in dealing with vital problems today jarred Democratic leaders’ plans to send Congress home ‘June 22.
Senate Seinnctate Leader Alben W. Barkley stood pat, insisting that adjournment one week from Saturday would be feasible. Speaker William B. Bankhead said the adjournment date had not been definitely decided. Co House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn said Congress could adjourn after speedy disposition of Mr. Roosevelt's program but did not appear wholly confident that Congress would quit so soon.
Virginia Stands Firm
The| President told questioners he thought Congress could finish its ob in a fortnight. But some Democrats are balking at adjournment in time of emergency. There are some veterans whe suggest that all of those insisting .lon a continuous, emergency-long ession do. not really mean it but rould accept defeat gracefully if adjournment were forced upon them. Republicahs of both houses have dopted no-adjournment resolutions ‘in an effort to keep Congress-on the job. There are some indications of outight suspicion on both sides in a ituation which finds President oosevelt convinced Congress could quickly complete its work and go home. Numerous legislators insist that they be permitted to remain (Continued on Page Four)
NAZI SUB MENACED LINER, BERLIN SAYS
U. S. Failed to Inform Us of Course, They Add.
BERLIN, June 12 (U. P.).—The German Radio reported today that
*|it was a German U-Boat which yes1b|terday stopped the American steam- | |er Washington and it was explained
that the refugee vessel had been halted in belief that it was Greek. The official German News Agency DNB also said that a U-Boat had encountered the Washington but the agency did not specify that it had halted and threatened to torpedo the ship. 3 The radio explanation was that the U-Boat, in stopping the Washington, believed it had encountered a Greek steamer which earlier in the day had been stopped and given a course to follow. Until the Washington was identified it was be-
“|lieved that the Greek steamer had
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ALLIED FORCE |
BLOCKED FROM
ESCAPE BY SEA
Rheims and Rouen in Nazis Hands; Cabinet May Move Again.
TOURS, June 12 (U. P.).—|§
The Allies™ Supreme Council met somewhere in France today to plan heroic measures for stemming the German onslaught which now [threatens Paris from three directions. While the war leaders conferred, French generals in the field threw tank units and infantry into ceaseless coun-ter-attacks against the oncrashing Germans wherever the French had been able to establish themselves on momentarily dependable lines. The Germans, three, armies of them led by tanks, smashed unremittingly against the French along the Seine, Oise and Marne Rivers
with the aim of encircling the capital from the east and west and overwhelming it from the south.
Moment Is Critical
An official War Office spokesman insisted that the enemy had not yet achieved decisive results, but it was apparent that the moment ‘was critical. The French said their lines were intaét from the Lower Seine to the
Argonne and that their troops were
resisting the Germans inch by inch, rear guard attachments attempting to slow the advance ‘while the main bodies got into new positions from which they hope to hold the enemy. Participating in the Allied Supreme Council meeting were Premier Paul Reynaud, Generalissimo Maxine Weygand, Marshal Henri Petain, Prime Minister’ Winston Churchill, British War Minister Anthony Eden and Gen, Sir John Dill, Chief of the "British Imperial General Staff. It was the first meeting of its kind since the French Government left Paris, and the Council members were -believed to be in a temper to take whatever desperate measures might suggest themselves as providing an effective means of stopping the Germans.
Tours Roads Bombed
While massed German shock troops moved into battle behind their tanks in the battle of Paris, German planes bombed main roads between the city and Tours, and it did not appear the French Government could remain long in this area. Despite the bombing attacks, however, the entire diplomatic corps succeeded in making the journey
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Air raid shelters were hastily established in the dungeons of ancient castles in this historic region for the protection of embassy stafis, including those of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, China, Belgium, Spain and the Argentine. U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt, however, has said he would remain in Paris, no matter what (Continued on Page Three)
COOLER WEATHER ‘INCHING’ THIS WAY
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 71 10a m.... Tam... 72 1ll a m.... 8a. m... 74 12 (Noon). 82 9a. m... 76 1pm... 8
Although it was to be slightly cooler today, no immediate “break” in the heat was promised by the Weather Bureau. J. H. Armington, U. S. weatherman, said cooler weather to the west of Indianapolis was “inching” this way. He said’ the mercury would not get much higher than 80 today and that it would probably be a little cooler tomorrow,
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The, War Moves—
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Nazi Victory Not Assured if Paris Falls; Strong Capital Forfi fications Are Hinted
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
German announcement that the Nazi troops are within 122 miles of Paris along the Oise River means Gen. Weygand is escaping from the encircling flank attacks of the enemy. - The Allied eastern western armies along the Paris front have been maintaining a fairly strengthened line in their retreat, but the central Allied troops fighting in the Soissons re Po have fl been holding . back, running ~ the risk! of being caught in a. pocket. | Gen, Weygand has now ordered
ye Mason ing trap. This is why the advancing Germans hav reached easy artillery range of Paris | along the Oise. The German war machine has not reached the point of exhaus
their withdrawal from the clos- ;
tion for which the Allies hoped. It: hag become essential, therefore, that Gen. Weygand order a general re-
treat along’ the whole front. Thi retirement is being con ucted good order and seems that Hitler will fail to the: Allied armies. The time necessary for| the capture of Paris depends| on the strength of .the city’s secret- outer fortifications. It is not wn how strong these defenses a There have been vague reports that they (Continued on Page Jute
intervention on Germany’s side.
The ever-shifting lines in the conflict engulfing the Old World today had lengthened over a 4000-mile front as a result of Italy's Mussolini, so far, has confined himself to operations in the Far and Middle East where he hopes to conquer British and French colonies. progress today from the Arctic Circle to the quater.
Military adventures were. in
THO CYCLISTS
INJURED HERE|
Third Boy Hurt as Police and Safety Officials Redouble Vigilance.
. Two Indianapolis school - pupils, both bicycle riders, were injured seriously and a- third boy| was hurt less seriously .in Indianapolis and Marion County traffic in [less than 24 hours. With the school vacation only three days old, police and school safety officials increased their vigilance over children playing in streets. .
Capt. Leo Troutman of bse Accident Prevention Bureau said there will be safety lectures in playgrounds. He urged school boy patrol members to help other children during the vacation and asked all pupils to remember the safety pledges they made before dismissed from school'last week.
Observe Rules, Evans Asks.
William Evans, school safety director, made a plea to bicycle riders to abide by rules contained in books provided them. He also renewed his plea to children to exercise greater caution. ¢ Those injured critically were Ralph Morgan, 16, Manual High School pupil, of 1909 Charles St. who was not identified at City Hospital until 18 hours after he was hurt, and Robert Corn Jr. 14-year-old Washington High school pupil. Injured less seriously was James French, 4, of 1105 Polk St. struck by an.auto in Dorman St. near his home today, as his twin brother John watched from the porch of the home. His father, Oscar French, was in the house and heard screeching brakes after the child was struck. Identified by Motor
The boy, who was treated at City Hospital, ran from behind two parked cars into the path of one driven by Floyd Denny, 2450 Pierson St., who stopped immediately, it was reported. The Morgan youth was identified by his mother, after members of the family had made a frantic search for him. : The parents went to the hospital after learning that an injured boy answering Ralph’s description had
| then she shrieked.
I e | Day's Bulletin: 137. LI 2 so 1g] It's Hot, Ain't I? CLEVELAND, June 12 (U.P). — The temperature was 83 today and it was sultry. “Hot, ain’t it?” a young man remarked to a woman passerby on a downtown street. “Whew, I'll say,” she said, and - The young man was disrobing.
-All his clothes were off when Patrolman Andrew Bessick dashed up [and attempted to surround him. Failing that maneuver, the patrolman took the position that would do the most good until reinforcements .arrived. The young man was clothed again in’ the patrol wagon. But at [Central Station he disrobed again. Back in his clothes he was ordered taken to the county jail for a psychiatric examination. On the| way he ‘took off his clothes. +E patrolman held the
g man’s trousers with one hand and mopped a damp brow the other. ; is guy’s worse than Gipsy Rose Lee,” he said., “Take your eye off him a minute and—whsst! —just like that!” Hot. Ain't it?”
MOTHERS STIRRED BY FALL GREEK GREEK DEATH
Protest Lack of Pools After Boy, 14, Drowns.
A group of North Side mothers today protested the lack of public swimming. pools for that section after 14-year-old Jack Collison, 2920 Ruckle St., was drowned in Fall Creek. The mothers termed the creek “the most treacherous ‘place in’ the City.” They said the only available
"| pool is the 30th St. wading pool and
that children of the drowning vyictim’s' age are barred from its because of their size. The boy was caught in the cur-
Monon Railroad bridge after he had waded out beyond his depth. His chum, Robert Reed, 14, 2901 Ruckle St., was forced to stand by helplessly as young Collison was dragged under. Jack’s widowed mother, Mrs. Betty Collison, was notified at the Polar
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Paris Becomes
streamed southwestward. |
morning. In the darkness,
a City of Rumors, Good and Bad:
United Press| Staff Correspondent
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, June 12.—Huge fires ringed Paris today as German armies battered at the de- - fenses of the French capital and German airplanes bombed areas through which probably two million refugees
: The raiding German airplanes dropped bombs on areas far behind Paris throughout the night and this
the flash and explosion of
bombs added to the terror of the refugees, although the bombers were striking chiefly at military objectives.
o Earlier in the morning, I coyld plainly see from a tall
French Provide Mobile Maternity Hospitals for Refugees
By SAMUEL DASHIELL
"building in Paris the fiery path made by the German
bombers ardund the capital.
Later, as the great march of
refugees moved southwestward away from the “Battle of Paris” the dark shadows of German planes still raced
through the sky.
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There were many expectant mothers in the throngs evacuating the capital and French authorities provided mobile maternity hospitals, doctors and nurses to care for
them. A number of babies - from the city.
were born during the flight
It. was believed that about 40 British women ambulance drivers remained with the French during the retreat
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ti idas
rent midway between 30th St. and,
TURIN IS TARGET (FR. A.F. BOMBS
England Warned to Expect Unheralded Plane and ’Chute Attacks.
LONDON, June 12 (U. P.) —Great Britain took the war to Italy today with a bombing raid on military objectives in northern Italy and a blanket embargo against all Italian exports. Simultaneously, Sir John Anderson, Minister for Home Security, said. in the House of Commons that Great Britain was threatened not only with bombing raids but also with parachutist attacks and urged, “in these critical days, the fullest collaboration between the military and civil authorities.” “Any obstacle impeding such collaboration,” he said, “ought to. be ruthlessly swept aside.”
Shelter for 20 Million
In the course of debate on home defense, - Anderson said air raid shelters had been provided for 20 million persons. “We have got to accept the possibility of a great. number of unheralded attacks,” the Minister added, “and the period of warning on which we can rely in many cases will be mueh shorter than the five to seven and a half minutes which has previously obtained.” In addition, striking back at Italy promptly and forcibly, the British and South African air forces attacked Italian bases, including airdromes, in Ethiopia. Royal Air Force planes had bombed Italian Libya yesterday. It took the Air Ministry two short sentences to tell of the raid on Italy: - “Aircraft of ‘the Royal Air Force reconnoitered northern Italy last night. Bombs were dropped on certain military objectives.” The Pnited Press Cairo correspondent reported that Royal Air (Continued on Page Four)
GENEVA IS BOMBED; 4 KILLED, 19 HURT
Swiss Fail to Identify Raid- : ing Planes.
BERNE, Switzerland, Inhie 12 (wu. P.).—The Swiss Army Staff said today that “foreign planes” had bombed ‘Swiss territory and that five bombs dropped on Geneva, seat of the League of Nations. (The Swiss Army communique did not indentify the planes.) An Army communique said that four persons were killed and 19 in-
-|jured in the bombings. In Geneva
two persons were killed and -19 injured critically. The. communique said: : “Today in the first morning hours there were several violations of Swiss territory by foreign planes which dropped bombs. So far as was ascertained one homb dropped near a schoolhouse in the vicinity of Lausanne, several near Daillens and
five. in Geneva, killing a soldier, one ‘and injuring #2.”
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CRISIS SPEEDS EVACUATION OF FRENCH CAPIT
Supreme War Council Confers to Devise Last Resistance’ to Save City; British Fliers Bomb Northern Italy.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
A climactic battle for Paris raged today at the core of a vast fighting front stretching from the coast of Scandi. navia to the platéaus of East Africa. Adolf Hitler's armies, sweeping in a semi-circle around the French capital, reported the Nazi divisions had crashed down the Oise Valley to within 1214 miles of Paris after a bloody but “completely successful” offénsive Eom the north.
East of embattled and barricaded Basia ¢ the German mechanized legions rolled over the battlegrounds of the World War, through the cathedral town of Reims, into the rolling country-side—dotted with white crosses of two dece ades ago—at Chateau Thierry and on through the historie valley of the River Marne. |
Nazis Claim Surrender of 20,000
West of Paris, the Germans took Rouen, battled their way across the River Seine at several points and, the Nazi High Command reported, encircled Allied troops on the coast between Dieppe and L.e Havre, The German High Command said’ that .20,000 Allied. troops had surrendered in the St. Valery-en-Caux “pocket™ on the channel coast, where much booty was captured. In addition to the sweep down the channel coast, the German press again called attention to progress of the German forces through the Rethel sector of northern France. The High Command did not give details on this sector but newspapers in Berlin said that it provided an increasing threat that the French Maginot Line would be flanked and turned by attack from the rear. The British and French forces still fought back with all of the power that Generalissimo Maxime Weygand could throw into the defense lines and British bombing planes raided the crowded industrial area of Northern Italy.
Britain Awaiting Bombing Raids &
In London, the Government said that Britain must expect bombing attacks at any time and that German parachutists were expected to lead an attempted invasion of the British Isles, presumably after the battle of Paris but possibly before that conflict ends. Air raid shelters have been prepared for 20,000,000 Britons. Material aid to the Allies, especially fiom the United States, is increasing, British Minister of Supply Herbert ' Morrison reported and said that the Allies—believing that (Continued on Page Three)
‘Turning the Maginot?’
BERLIN, June 12 (U.P.).—The surrender of 20,000 British and French troops on the English Channel coast after their failure to escape. by sea, was claimed by the German High Command today after it had placed its attacking ferces within 124 miles of Paris. ; High Command claims of smashing triumphs from Paris to the coast were followed by indications by the official German news agency D. N. B. that German attacks along |
the Rhine were intended to turn the main Maginot Line at the same time the Germans were attempting to force the surrender of Paris. French and British troops on the coast surrendered at St. Valery-en-Caux, between Dieppe and Le Havre, the High Command said, indicating that Allied forces hitherto defending Le Havre were facing the predicament in which they hid found themselves in Flanders after capitulation of the Belgian Army. : Before claiming a sweeping victory on the coast, the High Command had said that in advances excxceeding Germany's 1914 and 1918
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Turkey, Italy
Turkish ports, and was “reported to through the Sea of Marmora toward
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 12 (U.P) .—Turkey broke off relations with Italy today, ordered its ships to take shelter in
drives on Paris, German troops had smashed to positions on the River Oise, only 121; miles from Paris, and had girdled the outer fortifications of the imperilled city. D. N. B.’s front report, hinting at an attempt to turn the main Magnot Line, said that “the Upper Rhine. Front by no means has the character of a secondary battle= field”. The Agency, commenting on :violent artillery duels between the Maginot and Siegfried Lines on the Rhine, said that “it is important to riote that the entire direction of the (Continued on Page Three)
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ercial ’ e neareést have sent its battle fleet steaming the Dardanelles.
It was reported that the German and Italian Ambassadors and
ing at Ankara, the capital, to consider the situation and the like-
war on the Allied side. ~ News of the breaking off of commercial relations with Italy came officially from Ankara. TurkishItalian commercial relations had been based on a clearing agreement. Immediately afterward came the news that all Turkish ships had been ordered to proceed at once to the nearest Turkish port to await orders. Next came the report, disseminated by reliable sources, that the Turkish fleet had been ordered from its bases at the east end of the Sea of Marmora and was steaming toward the
Dardanelles, which lead et the
lihood that Turkey might enter ee ]
the Bulgarian and Hungarian Ministers had held an emergency meet~
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