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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 8&5

70% Boost in U. S. Navy Sought vo Britain Thunders Her Defiance

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Ford Given Right to Make Allison Motors. ++ + French Still ill Fighting

PLANE ENGINE ACTION TAKEN BY G. M. UN

Announcement Is Made Here ‘By Otto T. Kreusser, Local Plant Manager.

By SAM TYNDALL

The Ford Motor Car Co. has been given permission to manufacture the famed Alli-

Allison manager,

Mr. Kruesser said, however, that he believed that Henry Ford, who said recently his plants could produce 1000 planes daily, is considering manufacture of the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. They are 12-cylinder in-line liquid-cooled motors of the Allison type. : “We see no reason why it wouldn't be perfectly all right for Mr. Ford to manufacture the Allison motor if he can and so desires,” Mr. Kruesser said. “We are smothered with. our own problems here now and all manufacturers are working toward the! same preparedness goal.” 3

Examined Curtiss P-40

Mr. Ford asked to examine the Allison-powered Curtiss P-40 at Detroit after he made his mass production statement. The Rolls-Royce Merlin, which the British have given him permission to manufacture, powers the famous British pursuit and interceptor planes, known, as Hurricanes and Spitfires. At the same time, Mr. Kreusser said the Allison division is “beginning to get on top” in its previously lagging motor production. Mr. 1.ents after another inspection® of the plant facilities by the U. S. Army Air Corps chief, Maj. Gen.| H. H. Arnold, who flew here from ‘Wright Field yesterday with Brig. Gen. George C. Brett, Air Corps material division head.

Other Plants Make Parts

At the same time, Mr. Kreusser said that an increasing number of motor parts is being made by General Motors units in other cities. / He!said there were no immediate plans “for further expansion at the ‘main production plant in Speed-! way, declaring that officials hoped to “go full tilt on production here | first.” “We haven't had the opportunity | to go full tilt,” he said. “We have Leen changing the plant constantly, z0ding to it, and that has, of course, slowed us some.” . The plant, according to other | sources, is prepared to turn out 100 | motors in June, 60 more than in, May, but still half of the original | scheduled monthly output. The larger Allison motor, a 24-| cylinder X-shaped engine, has been fitted experimentally in a new ty pe | Boeing attack plane on the West] (Continued on Page Three)

COURT LIFTS ZONING | BAN ON MORTUARY

The Indiana Appellate Court yesterday reversed a decision of Marion Superior Court 3 which prohibited the operation of a funeral home at 447 E. Maple Road. A ruling returned in 1938 5) Judge L. Ert Slack had annulled _ action py the Indianapolis Zoning Board, which had granted permission for the establishment of a funeral home by Edward E. Tyner at that address. The funeral home had been oper-

Road address from Sept. 28, 1938, until January, 1939, after the county ‘court reversed the Zoning Board decision.

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Clapper ..... 13/Mrs. Ferguson 14 Comics +.es0s 19 Music ..ceeee 7 Crossword ... 18 Obituaries ... 12 Editorials .... 14! | Pegler sessdse 14 Pinancial. ..15, 16 Pyle eesescnsdt 13 Flynn 14 Questions .... 13 Forum ....... 14{Radio tall Poll... 6 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 pls..... 3. ‘Scherrer sates 13 nh Indpls. 14 Serial Story.. 19 Jane Jordan.. 8 Side Glances. 14

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‘STOP WILLKIE’

MOVEMENT ON

‘Veteran Leaders Alarmed as

His Popularity Grows; Dewey Well in Front.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, June 18.—District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination is off .to a good start today in a. wide open race notable at the moment for indication of a stop-Willkie movement.

The spectacular last minute campaign of Wendell L. Willkie, Comand South Utilities executive, has alarmed some ‘of the {party's veteran leaders and there is a tendency among them toward some kind of agreement to permit {an early nomination in the party's national convention convening Mon|day Nomination of a dark horse candidate such as Mr. Willkie, Gov-|

iernor John W. Bricker of Ohio, or

former President Herbert C. Hoover | appears now to be possible only if] ithe convention encounters a series! of deadlock ballots. i

Landon Gives -Dewey Break

Mr. Dewey, Senator Robert A.| | Taft and Senator Arthur H. Van-! |denberg were out in front in early, pre-convention campaigning.

|| Taft and Mr. Dewey have come into

the stretch still contesting for the! delegate lead with Mr. Willkie making a final fortnight spurt that | placed him second in popular appeal as measured by the Gallup Poll. Mr. Dewey took the first pre-con-vention-week trick yesterday when Herbert K. Hyde, resolutions com{mittee member from Oklahoma and a strong Dewey partisan, ;was elected temporary platform committee chairman by acclamation. Mr. Hyde was boosted into the chairmanship by former Governor Alf M. Landon, Kansas, the candidate in 1936. Mr. Landon’s support of Mr. Hyde does not commit him or the Kansas delegation to support Mr. Dewey, but it was counted a good break for the District Attorney and an indication of Mr. Landon’s half-formed

sympathies.

There is no evidence here of a (Continued on Page Three)

FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE AT U. S. SUB BASE

GROTON, Conn., June 18 (U. P.). -Fire of undetermined origin caused extensive damage at a pier

(oi the U. S. submarine base Were

tcday. A committee was named to investigate. Preliminary estimates placed damage at $10,000.

Officials said there was no sus-|

picion of sabotage. A submarine, the R-4, which was moored at the pier, was not dam-

Local Showers

eo ° To Bring Relief / LOCAL TEMPERATURES .%3 11am ... 79 e ... 75 12 (noon) .. 80 ... 18 1pm ... 83 . ... 18 2p m.... 84 19

INDIANAPOLIS will get relief’ from the heat tomorrow, the Weather Bureau promised today. Showers and thunderstorms predicted for tonight and tomorrow, are expected to bring cooler temperatyres.

NAVY ORDERS TWO

Nazi Activity Is Is Reported

Cause of Action.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 18 (U. P.).—Two. United States warships sent last’ week on a “good will” cruise in South American {waters have been ordered here because of local Nazi activities, it was reported reliably today. { Disclosures by a parliamentary committee investigating German Fifth Column activity that Storm Troop units are |operating in {Uruguay and discovery of: caches ‘of arms and ammunition intensified ‘the nation's anti-Fifth Column fight and brought: the arrest of at least 12 German citizens, including two men said to be German ‘secret police agents in Uruguay.

COLON, C. Z., June 18 (U. P.).— More than 1000 Panamanians, in a torchlight parade, marched to the British and French embassies last night to express their sympathy. They stopped in front of the French consulate and sang and cheered. The consul, Pierre Mory, thanked them in a choked voice. The parade then) moved to the British consulate, | where Consul Lawrence Barnett expressed the British determination to continue the fight.

TRAIN KILLS WARSAW MAN WARSAW, Ind. June 18 (U. P.). —Hugh Ellsworth, 55, Warsaw, was killed instantly today when he was struck by a Pennsylvania train.

SHIPS T0 0 URUGUAY

{to lighten holdings pending dis-

STOCKS RALLY, THEN DECLINE

Profit-Taking Attributed to Caution Pending Peace Terms Announcement.

Stocks rallied to the best levels in more than ‘a month in early dealings today and then lost most of the recovery in precautionary profit-taking. Brokers attributed the forenoon rally: to stimulating effects upon industry of the national defense program and to belief that Britain will take over French war commitments made here. Profit-taking was laid to a disposition on the part of some traders

closure of German peace terms to France, The move in Congress to limit profits on Government airplane orders limited demand for aircraft shares and they held around yesterday’s closing prices.

MONTGOMERY FLIES TO SAVE MADELEINE

HOLLYWOOD, June 18 (U, PJ), - Robert Montgomery was given the knight-errant role in real life teday of rescuing Madeleine Carrll from war-torn France. For some days Paramount Studio had heard no word from Miss Car(cll who went to Paris to care for orphan children at her country Fouse when the Germans broke through France. Yesterday, word arrived that she was safe in Biarritz on the Riviera. Mr. Montgomery, his duty served with an American ambulance crew in France, was in Portugal awaitng the Atlantic Clipper to fly home. The studio cabled him instructions to charter a plane and pick up Miss Carroll at Biarritz so she could take the Clipper home, too.

"BURNED IN ‘GAS’ BLAST

Albert Lewis, 31, of 804 N. Missouri St., was burned seriously today in an explosion of gasoline he was pouring into an automobile tank at the Monarch Motor Sales

Co., 1016 N. Meridian St.

War Bulletins

INDO-CHINA SEIZURE URGED TOKYO, June.18 (U. P.).—The rightist Mei Rinkai organization, composed of retired army officers and extremists, today presented the Japanese Government a resolution advocating Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. It recommended that “a detail of ‘troops be ordered immediately to seize Indo-China.”

NAZIS SAY 20,000 SEIZED

BERLIN, June 18 (U. P.).—The official DNB news agency claimed today that 20,000 French troops were t{aken prisoner when a French group surrounded in Alsace yesterday tried to break through the German lines. DNB reported the capture of six 70-ton French tanks and almost 100 oth- . er tanks.

REPORT RUMANIAN SHAKEUP

* LONDON, June 18 (U. P.).— The Exchange Telegraph Agency today quoted the German official news agency DNB as saying that the Rumanian Cabinet had re-

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FRENCH CLING TO FLEET ROME, June 18 (U. P.).—The . newspaper Giornale D’Italia reported today that the British Government had offered to buy the French fleet but the French had refused. The newspaper also said the British Admiralty had in--structed all Dutch, Norwegian and Polish ships at sea and heading for France to make for English ports. .

REPORT RIOTING IN RIGA

NEW YORK, June 18 (U. P.).— The German wireless broadcast today a report of rioting in the streets of Riga yesterday when the Red Army entered the Latvian Capital in connection with its increased military precautions in all Baltic states.

MORE OF B. E. F. HOME

LONDON, June 18 (U. P.).=— Large numbers of the British expeditionary force evacuated from France were brought today to a West Coast port. Others arrived at a south coast port.

By NOBLE REED Ahnouncement of Vanderburgh County Democratic leaders that they will support David M. Lewis, Marion County Prosecutor, for the Governor nomination, today further complicated the three-way contest in the State Convention. The Vanderburgh ‘bloc of 78 delegates had been one of the unknown factors in" the pre-convention picture and the swing to Mr. Lewis

brought statements from backers. of

Lewis Picks Up Vanderburgh's 78 Votes, But Rivals Claim 'Strength Unchanged’

both Lieut. Gov. Schricker and R. Earl Peters ‘that their respective strength remained unchanged. The concensus of observers was that “none of the three gubernatcrial candidates knows his exact »elative strength,” and that sentiment of a majority of delegates will not be known until the convention. roll call is started June 27. The Evansville swing to Mr. Lewis

followed Me that Walter crats and there is no doubt that L

Foley, Vi anderburgh Cony J Demo-

cratic chairman, had been appointed campaign manager for the prosecutor.

In accepting the appointment, Mr. Foley said: “I deem it a great

Lewis in ‘his campaign for the Governor nomination. Already reports from over the State indicate that Mr. Lewis is the overwhelming choice of the rank and file Demo-

privilege to be associated with Mr, |

BIGGEST FLEET IN HISTORY 1S STARK'S PLEA

Congress Moving at High Speed on Defense Plan; Adjournment Out.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P.).—Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, urged Congress today to authorize a 70 per cent increase in the Nayy’s fighting strength—virtually doubling the present fleet—at an esti-

He told the House Naval Affairs Committee that such a move would give the United States by far the largest Navy in the world, exceeding even the combined fleets of Great Britain and Japan—now, with this country, the largest naval powers. Such an armada, Stark said, is necessary in. view of the world conditions. He stressed that the. increase was imperative for the defense of the Western Hemisphere beside

tecting outlying possessions such as the fortress of Hawaii.

Secret Session Is Held

Stark's recommendation was made as the committee considered a bill introduced by Chairman Carl 0. Vinson yesterday, 23 per cent boost in fighting tonnage. Stark's 70 per cent figure included the 23 per cent in Vinson’s' bill. Prior to making his plea, Stark testified secretly before the Committee for two hours. There was

and Italy and its implications so far as the European war and this country is concerned. Specifically Stark recommended an increase of about 200 fighting ships, and 100,000 tons of auxili~ aries.

Supply More Craft

When the program is completed, Stark estimated, it would give the Navy 3,670,000 tons of underage and overage fighting craft, far in excess of any other navy in the world. The proposed increase would virtually double the battle fleet. Stark recommended that the increase be divided into 385,000 tans of capital ships, 125,000 tons of airplane car riers, 420,000 tons of cruisers, 250,000 tons of destroyers and 70, 000 tons of submarines. Congress, meanwhile, was moving (Continued on Page Three)

G. M. CONTRACT ASKS $12,000,000 PAY BOOST

DETROIT, June 18 (U. P). — A new contract with General Motors Corp., to be submitted to members of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) for ratification, provides for wage increases totaling approximately $12,000,000 annually and several innovations for the industry, fhe union announced. The contract covers some 135,000 workers in 54 G.-M. plants in which the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. won a recent National Labor Relations Board election.

SUES TO CONTROL . INSURANCE CONCERN

In a suit on file in Superior Court 2. the State Insurance Department today asked permission to take over jurisdiction nf the Monument Life Insurance Co., 305 Inland Building. The Insurance Department alleged in its suit that “the company is insolvent; that the affairs are in such a condition that its. further transaction of business will be hazardous to the policyholders, to the creditors and the general pubLe.” According to the suit, the -ad-

the liabilities, $81,922.91. Charles A Woods, company manager, declined tc comment other than to say the company’s case would be presented.

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SHIP RETORTED SINKING

SAN FRANCISCO, June -18 (U. P.).—Globe Wireless reported today it had received a message saying the S. S. Niagara, an Australian vessel, was sinking in the South Pacific following an explosion in the No. 2 hold. The crew was reported aban-

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600D HOPES OF FINAL VICTORY; SAYS CHURCHILL

‘If We Lose, Whole World Will Sink Into

The Abyss of a New Dark Age,’ British Prime Minister Tells Commons.

BULLETIN

MUNICH, June 18 (U. P.).—Chancellor Adolf Hitler

and Premier Benito Mussolini tonight reached an agree- .

ment upon the attitude of the Axis powers toward France’s request for an armistice, It was indicated that the heads of the German and Italian states decided upon the terms—widely expected to

be unconditional capitulation—under which France will be

allowed an armistice.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

uous “battle of Britain.”

speculation that the group may) have discussed the possible surren-|: =. der of the French fleet to Germany | qu

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“There are good ahd reasonable hopes o he promised. “But, if we lose the battle of Britain, the whole

Great Britain girded for an invasion by air and sea today as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini decided the fate of 2 a beaten but still resisting France. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speaking at the hour the two Axis dictators met under the battleflags of Munich, warned that aerial bombardment and attack by sea were imminent but promised that Britain was prepared— with every available weapon distributedto fight a contine

f final victory,”

world will sink into the abyss of a new dark age.” Outlining the extensive land, sea and air preparations, including probably 2,000,000 men armed, to defend the British Isles, Churchill made two important points regarde ing world relations: 1. He bluntly warned the French Government to avoid “throwing away’ an oppor tunity for future freedom by, ceasing resistance, adding that Britain could not release France from her treaty obli-

‘gations as an ally. He said

there still was a chance that the French would fight on. 2. He declared that the battle of Britain was of vital importance "to the whole

world because “if we lose, the whole world including the

science.” Refers to U.

The United States, he said, immense and continuous ahd

United States, and all we have known and cared for will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, perhaps, and more prolonged by the lights of a perverted

S. Promises

has assured the British of an increasing flow of materials

and the dominions have approved the decision to fight on.

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people or acquiescing in the ItaloGerman division of the spoils, depending on the result of Hitler's coming blitzkrieg against the British Isles. . Hitler is risking all in his next offensive, so that it should be aimed at Britain’s weakest ~ spot—the necessity for importJing food supplies. To try to starve the British into capitu= lation through Mr. Mason air attacks on food -carrying merchant ships offers possibilities

which Hitler must consider more se-

Today's War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

Hitler's and Mussolini's plans for defeating .the British Common= wealth of Nations are far more important to them than their work today at Munich dividing the French Empire. The peace terms to be forced on France will have future validity only if the British people can be compelled to agree to them at the war's end. Britain will have the final say, either restoring France to the French

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riously than any plan for a tore rorizing series of air bombing against civilians or a large scale ine vasion. It has been part of Hitler's suecessful tactics thus far in the war to deliver surprise blows against the enemy, catching them off their guard. Great Britain has prepared an elaborate system of defense air attacks, parachute troops, and the landing of enemy forces from the sea. Hitler may try none of these offensive movements or, if so, then only on small scales to test the power of the British safeguards.

Especially is Hitler in no to risk additionally heavy re {Continued on Page They)