Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1940 — Page 4
STUDY OF DRAFT
MEASURE OPENS
Cox and Woodrum Protest|
Putting Hillman at Head Of Training Plan. (Continued from Page One)
and Clifton A. Woodrum of Vira. : They predicted that the plan, which would give: all - youths one year of: disciplinary training, would be defeated if Sidney Hillman, member of the advisory defense commission and C. I. O. vice president, is to direct it. . Mr. has been designated by Mr. ysevelt to supervise preliminary development of the program. Democrats opposing Mr. Hill- * man want the War Department to have charge of it. The training measure’s provisions are: -Compulsory registration of all male citizens between 18 and 65, with exemptions only for members of the regular armed services and reserves. | : : Eight months of military training for men between 21 and 45. Training | for home defense of those between 18 and 21, and those between 45 and 65. Selection | of those,to be trained by lot by a selective’ system to be created by the President. Payment of $5 a month and subsistence to trainees. Deferred training exemptions only to the Vice President, members of Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet members and Governors of the states and territories while holding office. Other defense developments: 1. Senate and House .conferees reached agreement on the $1,158,000,000 relief appropriation bill under which the President would be given authority to require instruction of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees in non-combat activities. 2. The Senate, by a voice vote, approved and sent back to the House the $1,777,000,000 supplemental Army-Navy supply bill containing funds to build the Army and Navy up to wartime strength. Other pending defense measures include proposals to expand the standing Army to 400,000 men, increase the fleet by 70 per cent and remove restrictions on Army and Navy construction. The War Department prepared to call 8500 reserve officers to active duty. Officials said that the tours of duty for the reserve officers will range from a minimum of six months - upward, depending upon circumstances. : : Meanwhile Congress dug in today for an all-summer session with recesses only during the Republican
major
WASHINGTON DOCKS WITH 1787 REFUGEES
NEW YORK, June 21 (U. PY) The United States Liner Washington, docked today from Europe and discharged to the safety of American shores. 1787 men, women and children. Hundreds of tugs and other craft greeted the ship that came so close to being sunk off Portugal by a German submarine. There were 259 children aboard the big ship—so large a .number that she was dubbed “The S. S. Diaper” en route—and most of them had gone through the experience of dangling over the side of the Washington when the order came from the submarine to abandon ship in preparation for torpedo attack. That was on June 11, 180 miles off the Portuguese coast. Capt. Harry Manning, praising the behavior of his crew during the crisis, said it was a. “pitiful” sight to see the sleepy-eyed children rushed into the lifeboats. “Everybody had a life preserver,”
happens to me is unimportant. If I should be cast in the discard a few months later, the only questions I must answer to myself are these, “Did I do my duty? Did I do it well.”
Congress Asked to Probe
Resignation of Woodring
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —A demand for a joint Congressional investigation into the circumstances of Harry H. Woodring’s resignation as Secretary of War was made by Rep. Frank Carlson today as the Senate Military Affairs'‘Committee called for public hearings on the nomination by President Roosevelt of Henry L. Stimson as his successor. Mr. Carlson, a Kansas Republican, introduced a resolution in the House calling for the investigation following published reports in which Mr. Woodring was quoted as saying recently that he expected to be
Harry Hogan, Ft. Wayne, Ind., chairman of the third region; Herbert Hyde, of Oklahoma, temporary chairman of the resolutions committee, and Dr. Glen Frank, chairman of the program committee (left to right), confer at the meeting of the Republican na tional convention resolutions committee.
'President Asked My Help," Knox Says in Taking Post
(Continued from Page One)
Mr. Stimson was chosen for the together with Col. Frank Knox, 1936 G. O. P. who was appointed Secretary of the
Cabinet post yesterday, Vice Presidential candidate,
Navy. : Knox Hearing May Be Public
vention. Mr. Woodring,
ten on asbestos.”
. It was believed that the Senate Naval Affairs Committee also would order public hearings on Mr. Knox's nomination when it meets tomorrow. The action on both nominations thus would be deferred until after the Republican National Con-
Kansas Democratic leader, resigned effective upon the confirmation. of Mr. Stimson. His letter of resignation was not made public by the White House on grounds that it was “too personal.” Other sources said that it was “writ-
FD. R. DIRECTS"
Plucking of 2 for Cabinet Driving Republicans to Anti-Interventionism. (Continued from Page One)
self-defense to a position of strong anti-interventionism, with accom charges that Presi-
along interventionist lines.
that the Democratic Party is the 2 party,” a phrase often heard ere. ; : This was based on the fact that both the Cabinet appointee’s have gone along with the President in foreign policy, while Mr. Stimson took several steps beyond Mr.
.|Roosevelt in his June 18 speech at
New Haven—a speech which, it is
with the knowledge that he was enter the Cabinet. ! In this address Mr. Stimson not only came out for compulsory military service, but also advocated a naval alliance with Great Britain and France in which the United States would participate by opening its harbors for refueling and repair of the Allied Navy and, if necessary, by providing. a naval convoy for American ships to carry supplies to the Allies. He urged that the neutrality act be junked.
Hamilton Points to Exit
There is a group in the resolutions committee, including Henry =.
the Hoover Administration, and Herbert K. Hyde, committee chairman, which is seeking a strong antiinterventionist - declaration, with a blistering condemnation of the Roosevelt policy and only a mild postscript suggesting continued supplies for the Allies within present neutrality act limitations. The President’s appointment, stiffened the determination of this group. : And speaking for the National Committee, Chairman John Hamilton recalled the well-known desire of Messrs. Stimson and Knox “for ‘American intervention in European affairs,” in a statement which all but read the two out of the party. . This extreme view may be modified by calmer counsel, especially from Alf M. Landon, chairman of the subcommittee drafting the foreign affairs plank, and Dr. Glenn Frank, who wrote the 30,000-word document covering platform recommendations,
6. 0. P. SESSION
dent Roosevelt is directing policy. It served to accentuate the cry
BRITISH DEBATE
assumed here, must have been made |
Fletcher, Undersecretary of State in |
forced out of office because he opposed stripping this nation’s defense forces to aid the Allies. Public hearings on Mr. Stimson’s nomination were called at the insistence of Republican members of
Capt. Manningg continued. “I kept talking to the submarine by blinker but he did not answer. Just as daylight dawned—the whole episode took only a half an hour—He (the submarine commander) told me to
and Democratic national conventions. -
Picture these lovely
the committee.
The Senate reflected little of}. the “national solidarity” which, Mr. Roosevelt said prompted him to call in those outstanding members of the opposition party “in a time of world crisis and in behalf of our national defense.” Mr. Stim-
President’s more bifter by a realization that, in a campaign year, two of their prominent leaders would be standing
Debate Effect on Willkie
The Republican feeling over the action was made the
go ahead.”
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son will head the War Department; Mr. Knox the Navy.
another move toward war.
sures to aid the Allies.
in their formal comment. with the cutting ‘action of the organization leaders at Philadelphia in reading Mr. Stimson and Mr. Knox out of the party.
The tight little band of Senate isolationists thundered that it was They cited Mr. Knox's and Mr. Stimson's advocacy of increased mea-
Some G. O. P: Senators were soft But
sponsor for Administration policy. This will put on opposite sides Mr. Stimson’s one-time chief, Herbert Hoover, who undoubtedly will be a prominent party spokesman on foreign policy during the coming campaign. He will outline his views to the convention Tuesday night. As for the effect of the Presi~ dent's move on candidates, opinion
their private feelings were in tune
varied, ° There was the view that it would help Wendell L. Willkie, even beyond tle obvious reason that it has made old .party tags somewhat ob-
Trees to Bloom NEW HARMONY, Ind; June 21. —The famous “golden rain” trees of New Harmony are expected to bloom next week. ; ] It was at first believed that late freezes would prevent the annual ‘display of yellow blossoms on the hundreds of trees. But no wthe
‘trees contain many buds.
The trees’ name comes from the fact that as the “blossoms ‘drop
from the branches, they take-on |
the appearance of “golden rim.”
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DEFENSE MOVES
Nation Awaits Nazi Invasion In Anticipation of Merciless Fight.
LONDON, June 21 .(U. P.).—The House of Commons, ending a secret session on home defense, prepared today to hold another next week on
the vital supply problem. It was expected that the sessicn would be held Thursday and that the entire situation as regards aircraft, tank and general army equipment would be debated frankly. So secret was yesterday’s session that the only official word was: “The adjournment of the House was moved and a debate took place on home defense and other matters.” In its implications, the debate was one of the most important ever held in the 600-odd years of parliamentary history.
For two nights before the debate,]||
the German Air Forces had bombed a wide area of England and had extended its raids into Wales and a part of Scotland. The whole country awaited a German attempt at invasion, in the belief that there was going to be a merciless fight on British soil. For that reason, the supply debate also was expected to be of the greatest importance, particularly. as regards airplahe and tanks, which now may be needed for home defense. There was speculation whether at last night's debate the question of eliminating Neville Chamberlain and other “appeasers” from the Cabinet was raised by men who think that a ministerial housecleaning is necessary to pu‘ the country at the peak of efficiency and vigor.
solete and thus has minimized Mr.
Willkie’s long membership in the|}
Democratic Party. It was argued that Mr. Willkie would be the best type of man to conduct a campaign against what has become in effect a nationalist Government, with his dominant issue efficiency in building up the national defenses. 7 On the other hand, some observers pointed out that Mr. Willkie has gone along for a program of help to the Allies—though it is true he has tempered this in the last few days by strong declarations against involvement in war—and that. he might not be able to accept a plat-
form that went the whole hog in|
condemning the fundamental Roose-
| with the overwhelming sentiment of
4 tary Affairs Committee, .Senator
‘|Commerce Harry L. Hopkins
Administration leaders and the ranks of New Deal stalwarts praised the appointments as a “patriotic measure” to solidify the country behind the great rearmament program. Old-line conservative Democrats were scornful of the President for choosing avowed Republicans for the key posts. Isolationists, led by Senators Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont), and Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo), promised more speeches against the nominations. But they can cut only a small number of votes out of New Deal ranks.
Senate Shell-Shocked
Seldom’ has the Senate bcen so bewildered as when a messeng:r delivered the nominations yesterday. Mouths fell agape; eyes bulged with disbelief. The President sent no message, no explanation; just the two names on two pieces of parchment. Before leaving for Hyde Park, N. Y., last night, the President issued the following statement: ; “The appointments are in line
the nation for national solidarity in a time of world crisis and in behalf of our national defense—and nothing else.” There were no clues here as to any possible bearing of the action on the great unanswered question: Will Mr. Roosevelt take the thirdterm nomination that is certain to be handed to him at the Democratic convention next month? Mr. Woodring said sharply to reporters who found packing cases already stacked around his office: “I believe that every ex-Cabinet member should leave Washington in 24 hours, and I shall try to make it as rapidly as I can pack.”
Minton Voices Approval As a member of the Senate Mili-
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Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) is ready to oie approval of Mr. Stimson, he said. : “Our committee must pass on Mr. Stimson’s qualifications,” Senator Minton pointed out, “but any man with his illustrious record should have no trouble in passing that S 3 Senator Minton also will support the nomination of Col. Knox when it reaches the Senate floor, he said. Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) termed the President’s selection of these two prominent Republicens a “surprise” and said he wanted to examine the matter before making up his mind in regard to voting to accept or reject them. He was one of a handful of Senators who voted against confirmation of the appointment of Secretary of
Commenting ‘on the political effect .of appointing two Republicans to the leading preparedness posts at this time, -Senator Minton said: “If the G. O. P. at Philadelphia is sore about this, we will be willing to make a deal with them. They can have Wendell L. Willkie and John L. Lewis in a sort of horse rade.” .
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