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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 90

MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

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~ STOP-WILLKIE DRIVE IS LAUNCHED

~ Nazis Threaten Britain as French Accept Italy’ S Peace ce Th erms

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RAN KLED, PETAIN

HITS CHURCHILL'S, . PLEA TO ‘REBELS

Charges England’s War Effort ‘Insufficient’; Colonies, Meanwhile, Indicate They | Will Carry on War With Germany.

BULLETIN ROME, June 24 (U. P.).—France and Italy today signed an armistice ending the conflict which the Italian Government entered only two weeks ago. _ The official annnouncement said that hostilities would cease at 1:35 a. m. Italian Time (5:35 p. m. Indianapolis Time).

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor France hurried armistice negotiations with Italy today in hope of ending fighting within 24 hours and Germany reported the Nazi armed forces ready to ‘go against England.” The French negotiations with Italy, whose armies were smashing into the Alpine frontier of France, were described at Bordeaux as progressing favorably, with an agreement expected today or tomorrow. Fighting will cease six hours after signing of an armistice. : But the French Government of Premier Marshal Henri Petain still was smarting under criticism of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and under threat of French forces—particularly in Africa, the Near East and IndoChina—to fight on. .

Statement Addressed to America

As a result, the Bordeaux Government issued a long statement, addressed chiefly to America, asserting Britain’s war effort had been “insufficient” but that France by patience and work “can and must live again.” The official statement asserted that France—not Germany, or Italy or Britain—would decide French foreign policy in the future, although it did not explain how this could be done if, as reported, the armistice terms call for

German and Italian occupation of all of the coasts of France lives, one of them in Indianapolis.

for the duration of the war against Great Britain. The British war effort up to the time of the German invasion of the low countries was described in detail "in the statement, which said the London Government con-

tinued to rule with ‘*‘compromise and tradition” and that],

the preparations were “clearly insufficient” although vast

aid had been promised France. The statement also called upon Britons to receive “with (Continued on Page Three)

WAR BULLETINS

BIDDLE ORDERED TO LONDON

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P.).—Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced today that J. Anthony Drexel Biddle, American ambassador to the refugee Polish Government in France, has been ordered to go to London immediately. Mr. Hull said Mr. Biddle's orders did not raise the question of American ition of the French Committee set up in London as a nucleus for a refugee government, or the severance of diplomatic relations with the Bordeaux Government.

NAZIS CLAIM CAPTURE OF 20,000

BERLIN, June 24 (U. P.).—The official news agency DNB gaid today that German troops had surrounded the enemy in the Donon area of the Vosges Mountains and had captured more than 20,000 troops, including the army corps commander, three divisiional commanders and 1000 officers.

JAPANESE BOMBS WRECK CONSULATES

CHUNGKING, China, June 24 (U.P.).—Four direct hits by a fleet of 126 Japanese bombing planes today demolished the British and French Consulates, killing six Chinese in the French building. The British Consular officials had a narrow escape. The British Embassy was slightly damaged. The French Catholic mission hospital and the Chinese municipal hospital were destroyed.

MUNITIONS BLAST KILLS SEVERAL RUMANIANS

BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 24 (U.P.).—A munitions dump explosion at Berceni, seven miles from Bucharest, today destroyed - more than 200 tons of gun powder and killed a number of workers. Authorities began a search among Rumanian anti-Fascists after reports spread that saboteurs, in protest against the Government’s recent rapprochement with the Iron Guard, had touched

off the explosion,

ENGLAND SUSPENDS DEALINGS IN FRANC

LONDON, June 24 (U.P.).—The Bank of England today sus- " pended dealings in French francs. Dealings in French banknotes will be confined to bona fide refugees.

R. A. F. RAIDS ITALIAN COLONIES CAIRO, Egypt, June 24 (U.P.).—The British Royal Air Force of the Middle East reported today that continuous raids were being carried out over Italian colonies in East Africa. Bombs were dropped on Macaaca, Asosa and the airdrome at Diredaua, where one Italian plane was set afire and another was badly damaged. * British planes attacked Italian’ troop concentrations at the Asosa barracks, it was said.

REPORT NORTH AFRICAN ARMY FIGHTS ON LONDON, June 24 (U. P.).—French sources reported today that Gen. Auguste Nogues, commandet-in-chief of France's North African forces, in addition to Gen. Eugene Mittelhauser, commander of the Near Eastern armies, had decided to continue hostilities.

BOMB SPLINTERS DAMAGE U. S. SHIP SHANGHAI, June 24 (U.P.).—The Domei (Japanese) news agency said today that bomb splinters damaged an American steamer during Chinese air raids cn Ichang yesterday which killed 40 Chinese and six Japanese. Consular officials here received reports that a Secony Qil Co. pontoon and Asiatic Petroleum Co. - property had been damaged. v

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AUTOS KILL 12 OVER WEEK-END

‘Local Man Dies as Auto and

Truck Collide; 121 Arrested In Campaign Here.

Death stalked Indiana highways over the week-end, claiming 12

The dead were: ROY P. HIATT, 45, of 3845 E. Michigan St., injured fatally early yesterday at Emerson ‘Ave, and E. Washington St. OSCAR O. MILLER, 55, Brazil, ‘struck by a bus on Road 40 near Seelyville. OSCAR SHERMAN COOPER, 54, struck at Bedford by a car driven by Ansel Hawkins, Bedford.

EDGAR WEISJAHAN, 25, Star City, whose neck was broken in a two-car crash near his hcme. GEORGE L. YOUNG, 60, New Albany, struck near his home by a car driven by Melvin Baker, 30, of English. Mr. Baker was held on a charge of reckless homicide. RALPH KEMPH, 21, of Austin, killed when his truck plunged into a gully near Aurora. He was to have been married this week. RAY M'DONALD, 24, Seymour; PAUL BATES, Bedford; MISS SHELLIE LEWIS, 31, Anderson; HARRY DEVAL, Anderson, and CLARENCE GOMER, 47, Anderson, killed in a headon crash at Seymour. ? An unidentified man, killed when struck by a car driven by John Little nine miles south of Terre Haute.

Meanwhile, Indianapolis police continued their “selective enforcement” plan on streets where acci\dents have been most prevalent. They arrested 121 motorists. over the week-end, 90 of them on speeding charges. Only 31 accidents were reported for the two-day period. Mr. Hiatt died in City Hospital about an hour and a half after his (Continued on Page Five)

By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent BORDEAUX, France, June 24. —The Government of Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain to-

day charged that Great Britain's war effort was “insufficient” and indicated that cessation of fighting in France was ‘expected by tomorrow.

as late as March were “clearly” impressed by the insufficiency of the British war effort, an official statement said, as the British believed in the efficacy of the blockade ‘of Germany and the Government in London “continued to rule in accordance with compromises and traditions.” There were “errors and mistakes,” it was admitted, on the part of France and Frenchmen failed to understand as clearly as in 1914 the French war aim” but the Gov-

ernment expressed hope that Amer-

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Wendell Willkie arrive in Philadelphia. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indi-

the right

"I'M HUNGRY"

Willkie, Dine in Drug Store

Reporter

Pimes Special } PHILADELPHIA, June 24.— While delegates and newspapermen were asking his whereabouts, Wendell Willkie dined with a Washington correspondent last

night—in a drugstore. Ralph Smith of the Atlanta Journal met Mr. Willkie in a hotel elevator, introduced himself, and was invited at once to “come and eat.” “I haven't eaten a pite since morning and I'm hungry,” Mr. Willkie said. Soon they were mounted on stools and enjoying cheese sandwiches, while the candidate revealed that the total cost of his “planless” campaign so far has been “around $30,000.” ;

CITY COMFORTABLY COOL AFTER-RAINS

Mercury May Drop to 55 Tonight; Fair Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES .. 70 10 a. . 66 R Hemlm . ... 67 12 (noon)... 65 .6 1p. m .. 68

Indianapolis was comfortably cool today after yesterday's heavy wind and rainstorm. Tonight the mercury will drop to. between 50 and 55 degrees under partly cloudy skies, the Weather Bureau predicted. Fair weather is ahead tomorrow. One person was injured in the wind and rainstorm which lashed all parts of the City yesterday afternoon, felling trees, utility poles and wires. When Miss Irene Anderson, 17, of 342 Beauty Ave., lowered a window as the storm struck, the glass broke

Frenchmen visiting Great Britain

and cut her on the right arm.

ica will understand that France “can and must live again.” The statement continued with the declaration that certain French ministers, notably Georges Mandel, former Minister of the Interior, had conducted unauthorized negotiations with the British Government. Thus, it added, the sympathetic attitude of Churchill, Lord. Halifax and Lord Beaverorook was not maintained and Britain took toward France a more imperative and .nuch less sympathetic attitude. “Premiers Daladier and Reynaud,” said the statement, “continually drew the attention of the EKritish Government - to our difficulty in maintaining under arms men of 48 years, while young Britons of 28 years were not yet mobilized. The British Government argued a lack of arms and barracks and the impossihility of transport to Trance of enough trained soldiers.

| that large-scale strikes ' calle

Governor Bricker of Ohio gets there in time to have a Taft ribbon

pinned

BULGARIA MOBILIZES TO COMBAT STRIKES

SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 24 (U. P.). —The Government ordered a civil mobilization of industrial workers throughout Bulgaria today as a series of strikes broke out in Sofia and in the southern part of the country. An official communique’ revealed by

“obscure agitators” had been ord=red despite “all government efforts” to prevent them.

STATE NEGOTIATES FOR CLAYPOOL PEACE

Thomas R. Hutson, State Labor Division director, announced today that his department was negotiating for settlement of a strike of about 100 employees of the Claypool Hotel. Mr. Hutson predicted that a settlement would be reached in a conference between the Hotel management and Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union officials later this afternoon. Meanwhile, the A Hotel

was operating with a skeleton staff.

Petain Cabinet Bitterly Critical of Britain's War Efforts Under a'Business As Usual’ Slogan

“British labor,” the statement continued, “was attached to its habits and prerogatives and still had 1,505,000 unemployed on ‘the eve of the German offe~-ive. Britain at that time seemed to live in the calm of its naval and «=ir strength under the slogan: Business as usual.” At a meeting last night, second of th: day, the Cabinet had announced that Gen. Charles De Ga ule, vice war minister, would be court-mar-tialed at the earliest opportunity for refusing to return tov his post and for appealing to French cSicers | men outside France proper ‘vy continue their resistance. Pierre Laval, friendly to Benito Mussolini and co-author of the Hoare-Laval plan which sought to end the Italian-Ethiopian war by giving Italy part of Ethic,ia, was added to the Cabinet as vice pre

mier,

to him,

Times-Acme Photos.

Thomas E. Dewey sits down to answer a fey questions.

SUGGEST U. S. GRAB FRENGH WARSHIPS

Citizens Urge Action as Way To Erase Debt.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P.). —The White House announced today that the State Department is! considering several hundred unofficial suggestions that the United States take possession of the French Navy, merchant marine or Western Hemisphere possessions as partial payment of France's war debt to this country. ‘ White House Secretary Stephen T. Early emphasized that the suggections came chiefly in the form of letters and telegrams from private citizens. He gave no indication that the Administration .is proposing to act on any of the suggestions. He said he knew nothing about reports that the Federal Government might file a libel against the French luxury liner Normandie, docked in New York harbor, on the basis of unpaid dockage charges. Such a libel would prevent the liner’s recall to France where she would fall into Germany’s possession. Mr. Roosevelt, meanwhile, reviewed the European refugee Ssituation in a conference with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, and Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff. It was’ believed likely here that the United States might follow Great Britain's example and refuse to recognize any ‘French government established under German domination.

| SOVIET ANNOUNCES

JUGOSLAVIA ACCORD

MOSCOW, June 24 (U. P.).—The Soviet news agency Tass announced today that diplomatic relations have been established between Russia and Jugoslavia,

‘| tional

FIGHTS

today and elected 33-year-old keynote speech.

after eight lean Republican party elders at 10:15 E. D. tonight. The routine morning m

front-running candidates.

MORRIS NAMED T0 IRWIN POST

Rumor Willkie Foes Con‘trol Delegation.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY * Times Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—Reports that forces opposed to the candidacy of Wendell L. Willkie dominate the Indiana aelegation to the Republican national convention were discounted today. Ernest M. Morris, South Bend investment banker, was named nacommitteeman to replace Will G. Irwin of Columbus, but Willkie supporters denied this was an indication that Mr. Willkie would not be the [favorite son. Mr. Irwin, one of Indiana’s origi-

" [nal supporters for Mr. Willkie, did

not seek re-election. Mr. Tis. was the unanimous choice of t state delegates. At the organization meeting yesterday, Mrs, Grace Reynolds, Cambridge City, was re-elected national committeewoman; ' Carl Springer, Butler, committee on credentials for the convention; Homer Capehart, Washington, committee to notity the nominee; Ivan Morgan, Austin, committee to notify the vice president candidate; Ed Wasmuth, Huntington, rules, and Jerome Beeler, Evansville, committee on organization. The meeting was uneventful and good-natured, with former Senator James E. Watson vying: with Will Heys to make a motion to accept an invitation to the delegates to dine with Mr. Irwin at breakfas’ tomorrow. Secretary of State James Tucker, |and other prominent Hoosiers visited the %Villkie headquarters in the | Benjamin Franklin-Hotel. | Willis N. Coval, Indianapolis, is at the door to greet all comers and his Hoosier assistants include the following: Harold Bridwell, James Frenzel, Roger Wolcott, Frank Cantwell, Albrecht Kipp, Lew Wallace and (Continued on Page Five)

KENNEDY PLEADS FOR RED CROSS WAR FUND

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P) —The British Isles are facing the greatest seige in the history of man, Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to London, told the United States yesterday in a fervent radio plea for contributions to the Red Cross war relief fund. Speaking from London he said “this 1sland now faces all the danger and misery which swept over Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. The British Prime Minister has declared that this country is ‘resolved to fight on —if necessary, for years. The German Chancellor has avowed to ‘annihilate’ this island and all that it holds.”

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By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent

CONVENTION HALL, Philadelphia, June 24.—Divided on candidates, the Republican National Convention opened

Hoosier Supporters Discount

20-STATE BLOC FROM CONGRESS

HOOSIER

Group of 100 Demands Nominee More in Harmony With Republican Record’; Stassen Elected Keynoter.

Governor Harold E. Stassen

of Minnesota as temporary chairman to deliver the party's

Mr. Stassen's selection was a bid for the youth vote

years. He will keynote his T, (8:15 Indianapolis Time)

eeting of prayer, welcoming

speeches .and song was scarcely related to the turbulent politics raging in the city. among representatives of the

They generally are recoge nized now to be District Ate torney Thomas E. Dewey, New York; Senator Robert A, Taft, Ohio, and Wendell L. Willkie, New York utilities executive, in that order of first ballot delegate strength. Mobilize Anti-Willkie Drive

The real developments of the cone vention were going on in the down= town hotels where a stop-Willkig drive took form. Backbone of the drive was proe vided by about 100 Congressmen, Representing some 20 states, they formally demanded that the G: O. P. convention “name a man whose personal views and public statee ments are such that he can run effectively on a platform in hare mony with the Republican record in Congress.” Behind the effort to organize a united “stop - Willkie” front was seen the hand of old-line Republic« an stalwarts Who were worried over Mr. Willkie’s recent switch from the Democratic side to the Republican camp, his utilities connection and the similarity of his foreign policy Views to those of President Roose= velt.

Taft Claims More Strength |

The other candidates were stiffene ing their lines in an effort to beat . off Willkie raids on their Selegste strength. Taft headquarters issued a state ment claiming that the Ohio Sen ator had gained “material strength” in the last two days. J They claimed a hand in the meete ing of representatives of 13 Northe west states which yesterday adoptad a declaration against reciprocal trade treaties or intervention of the

| United States in Europe or Asia,

Mr. Willkie is on record in favor of reciprocal trade policies and is regarded as leaning closer toward intervention than any other G. O. P. candidate. The declaration of the Congres sional group of 100 did not mene tion Mr. Willkie by name, but its (Continued on Page Five)

UTILITIES FEATURE QUIET, FIRM MARKET

Utility shares featured a quiet, firm New York stock market toe day. Wall Street ascribed the deemand for those shares to the ine creasing popularity of Wendell L, Willkie for Republican Presidential nomination and to an apparent lessening of pressure against utile ities by the Securities and Exe change Commission. Steel shares were steady despite the first decline in steel operations in nine weeks, due to cessation of work on French orders. In London security prices suffered one of their sharpest slumps since the outbreak o fthe war. The “free” pound sterling plunged 71; cents to $3.66 on disclosure of the German peace terms and then recovered most of the decline. 1

INDIANA WPA BEGINS 5TH COLUMN PURGE

Anti-Fifth Column measures were instituted {in the Indiana WPA today in accordance with the

i requirements of the 1941 Relief Act,

State Administrator John K. Jennings ordered the distribution of citizenship affidavits on which eve ery WPA worker must swear he

member or an alien. Meanwhile, it was disclosed thet the new act would fix the State’s WPA employment quota at 44,000 workers from July 1 to October. This would mean a reduction of about 5000 WPA workers from the

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8,State Deaths.. 14 | 2

mid-June rolls of 49,000.

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