Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1940 — Page 1

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 91

illkie Still Gains, Taft Strong, Dewe

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OHIOAN TERMED MAN T0 BEAT IN ~ G.0.P. VOTING

Stassen’s Keynote Speech Sends Convention Off to Enthusiastic Start; Hoover .To Give Address Tonight.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Permanent Chairman Joseph W. Martin today called on the 1940 Republican National Convention to fight “absolutism” at home and abroad and select, a leader who will end seven years of New Deal “failure and futility and broken promises.” Mr. Martin Sounded his rallying cry as the Republicans moved into the second day of a red-hot Presidential nomi- - nating fight—probably the hottest in 20 years. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio appeared to have moved into the man-to-beat position but the race still was wide open. The biggest first ballot vote will go to Thomas E. Dewey of New York but there were reports that the Dewey strength is beginning to wilt in Philadelphia’s hot-house political atmosphere. J. Russell Sprague, Mr. Dewey’s campaign manager, reiterated, however, his prediction of 400 votes for the District Attorney on the first ballot. Wendell L. Willkie's last minute delegate raids had all the candidates jumpy. But many chose Mr. Taft as the ultimate beneficiary of both the stop-Willkie drive.and Mr.

Tt was reported that Mr. FAV Rl TE SON SEEKS 28 VOTES

Willkie had gficked up 10 or a Willkie Breakfasts With

dozen votesh in the last 24 hours from Senator H. Styles Hoosiers; Watson, Lyons Reported Holdouts.

Bridges of New- Hampshire. There were suggestions that Mr. Willkie might be negotiating to obtain Mr. Bridges as his Vice-Presidential running mate but the report was By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

without confirmation. The Connecticut delegation today _ voted unanimously to cast its first ballot for Mr. Willkie. :

But the contest” is hardly begun and leaders privately concede that the trading upon which an ultimate nomination for President prcbably will be based has made little progress. Mr. Dewey leading on the “first ballot, Mr. Taft second and Mr. willkie third is the way it stacks up now. The first roll call probably will come tomorrow night. In & closed committee session

plank-drafters were hammering out

the 1940 Republican platform.

PHILADELPHIA, June 25. — A movement.io swing all of Indiana’s 28 delegates to the support of Wendell L. Willkie as a favorite son candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination was launched today. The drive got underway when the | Hoosier delegates breakfasted with the Elwood native at his headquarters: in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. +

Martin Pleads For Sanity

Mr. Martin’s address picked up|

The breakfast was arranged by Will Irwin, Columbus, delegate-at-

The Indianapolis

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature.

TUESDAY, JUNE

night, velop. :

The possibility of a stampede for former President Herbert Hoover hung over the Republican National Convention today as the exPresident put the finishing touches on the speech he will deliver toThe Hoover boom is small, but real, and anything may de-

25, 1940.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as Second-Class Matter

DAWN PATROL GETS 51 MORE FAST DRIVERS

Overnight Accidents Drop To 23; 115 Pay $299 In . Traffic Court.

More than 50 speeding motorists were arrested within two hours today as motorcycle policemen continued their increased vigilance in streets where accidents are

most frequent. Today's arrests followed the recording of 123 yesterday, 92 of them on speeding charges. Thirteen motorcycle officers began their cruises at 6 a. m. and between then and. 8 o'clock, they signalled 51 speeders te the curb and ordered them into Municipal Court.

Most .in East, North Side

Most of the arrests were on the North and East Sides. Four were nabbed in the 3000 block of Northwestern Ave. Three - others were caught in College Ave., 4900 block. Two were stopped in 38th St. and two others were halted in E. Washington St., 6300 block. While the number of arrests grew, overnight accidents were reduced to 23 and only 12 persons were hurt,

SMACK!

Maftin Takes One Right On Kisser

PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (U, P.) —Rep. Joseph W. Martin, bachelor permanent chairman of the Republican National Committee, got a couple of Kisses today to the cheers of some 15,000 persons in convention hall. Mrs. James P. Winnie, pretty wife of the National Committeeman from Hawaii, presented him with a lei of 100 white carnations and after placing it around his neck, kissed him full on the lips. Mr. Martin kissed her right back and then the two of them went through the performance again for the photographers. Mrs. Winnie remarked that “he was so embarrassed he'll never be the same.” “Business is picking up,” Mr, Martin said.

COMFORTABLY COOL

WEATHER WILL STAY

the theme of last night's keynoter large, who pioneered in the moveaddress by Gov. Harold E. Stassen ment which already claims all the of Minnesota. He charged that the way from six to 16 delegates. Administration of President Roose-| As is his custom, Mr. Willkie velt was trending “toward one-man talked informally in his winning Government and national bank- way to increase his delegate power, ruptcy” and that “personal liberty, which already has united the entire equal rights, equal justice, and con-|Presidential field in an effort to stitutional government” are threai- head off his nomination. ened. : || Last night a significant conference “America,” Mr. Martin said, (Continued on Page Three)

“wants to get back to sanity, - progress and peace. Peace at home.

Peace abroad.” : The Republican leader in the House slashed at Roosevelt bungling of national defense and warned that

«there is much reason to believe we

may yet wake up to find we have

en pushed into war.” been, ITY convention officers

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ABSENT MINDED (2) BOMB OWNER HUNTED

Ww YORK, June 25 (U.P) — rai bomb squad today studied an aerial bomb found in the Pullman coach of a train from Wash- . ington. y ie police had two theories: _ 1. There was a plot to blow up something.

2. An absent minded inventor or} ,

Government official forgot the

bomb. Authori put it wa agencies checked.

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RITES ARE HELD FOR

Fair Tonight and Tomorrow, Bureau Promises.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

.60 10am ...7 a.m ...65 1la m. ... 78 8a m. ... 71 12 (noon)... 78 9am ... 712 1pm... "74

$ a.,m. .

Comfortably ¢ool will continue least through tomorrow, the Weath-

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ONE OF SEXTUPLETS

ALBION, N. Y,, June 25 (U, P.) — Funeral services for Alberto Bush-'

and Mrs. J. F. Bushnell, of Chicago, | in 1866, were held here today. His-death yesterday left only two of the six children surviving. Two girls died in infancy and a brother in 1934. ‘ Existence of the sextuplets was not generally known until two years ago when a birth certificate was produced showing that the six children were born to Mrs. Bushnell Sept. 8, 1866.

X MARKS THE SPOT INFANTRY STALLED

NEW YORK, June 25 (U. P.). — The 71st Infantry of the New York National Guard, listing offers to recruits, went through the alphabet to X before it got stuck today. For J the National Guard listed las inducements—jauntiness, jollity land jovality. is | The X offerings were xercise, xcellent opportunties for xcelling. The only Y offering was ‘‘yesness.”

IS IT CRICKET? LONDON, June 25 (U. P.).—One factory in London is encouraging its workers to greater effort with this slogan: “Your grandmother's funeral can wait; Hitler's can’t.

NAZI AIR GENERAL KILLED

BERLIN, June 25 (U.P.).—Mal. Gen. Fritz Loeb of the German Air

er Bureau predicted today.

The weather will be fair tonight

and tomorrow, too. The Weather-

iman said the maximum today will nell, one of sextuplets born to Mr. pe about 75 degrees. The Cy

tumbled to 58 at 5 a. m. today.

REPORT ITALY MASSES MEN OFF JUGOSLAVIA

ISTANBUL, Tufkey, June 25 (U. P.).—Travelers arriving today reported that Italy had concentrated troops on the Jugoslav frontier and that villages on the Italian side had been evacuated. Black Sea shipping sources arserted that Russia had been transferring troops by land and water from the Caucasus area to the Bessarabian German frontiers,

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CITIZENS MAKE

Signal Sought at 34th and Orchard; Action Against 30th St. Speed Asked.

Two groups of North Side property owners today appealed to the Safety Board for ‘new safety measures, :

A petition signed by 128 residents asked for a traffic signal at 34th St. and Orchard Ave. Three other | property "owners appeared and- asked that speeding be halted on E. 30th St. between Forest Manor Ave. and the City limits, The petition for the signal was presented by Phillip Hoffbauer, 1810 Arrow Ave. 22d Ward Democratic chairman. The "petition set forth that the intersection is dangerous because the motorist’s view is obstructed by buildings and hedges at the corner.

The 30th St. residents .said there

must ‘walk in.the street. They asked the Board to install speed limit signs. Board President Leroy J. Keach said he would order poiice to investigate.

SARDINES ARE DISH FIT FOR EX-KING

hadn’t been for a few

SAFETY PLEAS

are no sidewalks and pedestrians

MADRID, June 25 (U. P.) —If it cans of “most delicious” sardines, the Duch-

none of them seriously. Capt. Leo Troutman of the Accident Prevention Bureau still insisted that there was no special “drive.” He insisted’ also that no speed traps were set and that officers. were. crusing in the. open, not lurking behind billboards or other places of hiding to eatch unsuspecting drivers.

115 Fined Total of $299

He warned motorists that officers will continue to arrest all violators daily. > Those arrested have been ordered to appear in Muni ipal Courts this week. y In traffic courts yesterday 115 motorists were fined a total of $299. Everyone of 50 speeders who appeared was convicted and the fines totaled $183. Sixteen pegsons who were charged with ignofify traffic signals were convicted and each were fined $3 and costs with the costs suspended. Only one accused driver, charged with reckless driving, was acquitted.

WAR BABIES LEAD "DROP IN MARKET

Losses, Range to 4 Points on Churchill Talk.

War babies led the New York stock market down to losses“ranging to more than 4 points today after the House of Commons address by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. regarding disposition of the French fleet. Utility shares, which moved up strongly yesterday on the Wendell Willkie boom at the Republican convention,- more than gave up gains of the previous session.

in Indianapolis at

ess of Windsor said today, she and the Duke—former King of Britain who renounced his throne to marry her—might have gone hungry. With thousands of other refugees from war-scarred France, the Duke and Duchess made. their way safely into Spain two days ago and today they recounted their experiences. They said their future plans were uncertain—they were sure, however, that they would not go to the United States—and said that for the time, at least, they would content themselves * with sight-seeing in Spain, pending “instructions.”

BILLION-DOLLAR TAX MEASURE IS SIGNED

WASHINGTON, June 22 (U. P.). ~ President . Roosevelt today signed the special $1,050,000,000-a-year tax bill designed to help defray the costs of the huge national defense pro-

REPORTS OF FIGHTING DENIED BY RUMANIA

BUCHAREST, June 25 (U. P.).— The Rumania Government today officially denied reports abroad of fighting ih Bessarabia. Dispatches from Kishineff, capital of Bessarabia, said that there was no fighting there. Supporting the Rumanian Government’s denial it was said at the Soviet Legation here: “We have no knowledge of the reports nor do we place any confidence in them.”

ram. ° The bill, which permanently lowers income tax exemptions from $2500 to $2000 for married - persons. and $1000 to $800 for single individuals, also raises the national debt limit four billion dollars above the present 45-billion-dollar ceiling. The measure boosts surtax and corporation fax rates, and together with the individual income levy in‘creases, are expected to yield an additional 322 million dollars annually.

battlefields.

through the French defenses

FSA TO HAVE NEW HEAD . WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P.). —Dr. W. W. Alexander resigned today as administrator of the Farm Security Administration to become vice president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. He will be succeeded by C. B. Baldwin, now assistant ad-|

obedience.”

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ministrator of the Toa, :

Huntziger Signs

: Yi Radio-Telephoto. French General Charles Huntziger signing the German armistice that gives the Nazis control of strategic areas and industries in France. a!

GILBERT HURTY DIES HERE AT 61

Past President of Symphony Society; Was Major in World War.

Gilbert Johnston Hurty, president of Hurty-Peck & Co., died last night at his home, 1210 Pickwick Lane, Golden Hill. He was 61. Mr. Hurty was the husband of Gladys Sutton Hurty, columnist for The Indianapolis Times who writes under the penname of Jane Jordan. He was born in Indianapolis Aug. 18, 1878. He attended the Indianapolis public schools and graduated from Shortridge High School in 1897 and Amherst College in 1901. His father. was the late Dr.. John N. Hurty, distinguished Indiana physiclan. © . Mr. Hurty had been in business here all his adult life. He started the Aquos Distilled Water Co, in 1915. He was a captain in. the World War, serving as disbursing officer in the medical department. He became associated with the Hurty-Peck extract firm following the. war. Tl . He was a past president of the Indianapolis Symphony Society and was a member of the Wogdstock Country Club, the Contemporary Club and the Dramatic Club. Survivors, besides his wife, are his mother, Mrs. Ethel J. Hurty, and a sister, Mrs. Almus E. Vinton, both of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. The Rev. Frank C. Wicks will officiate and burial will be in Grown Hill Cemetery. .

HEIL HITLER! WHY,

THE MANS CRAZY!

NEIVA, Colombia, June 25 (U. P.).—Emil Alexander, 26-year-old shoemaker, was so overjoyed when he learned of Germany's victory

machinery and , leather, gave away all his shoes and rushed into the street, shouting: “Heil Hitler! We don’t have to work ahy more because we own.the world!” Police took him to Mibate insane

asylum.

Kenneth C. Banfield, 26, said French machine gunners told him of the “absolute disregard of life” shown by German soldiers who finally succeeded in ' breaking

at Sedan.

“They came on and on, eight deep and stepping over the bodies of their comrades,” Mr. Banfield said. “The French were sickened. The Germans were slaughtered like rabbits but they seemed to love the job of driving hopelessly ahead into the guns. “It is a psychological reaction. It is fantastic how they do it. * It is not a question of courage but of blind

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BREAKING PLEDGE

Japanese Fleet, Meanwhile, Occupies thd Spotlight in Far East as It Steams Toward Indo-China.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Great Britain charged France today with agreeing to surrender of the French fleet in violation of solemn pledgesy but called on the French Empire throughout the world to fight on for the ‘‘the rescue of France from bondage.” ‘Prime Minister Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons, said that it was with “grief and amazement” that he learned the armistice signed by the French Governe ment provided for turning over the fully-armed 804,000-ton navy to Germany and Italy, but he did not definitely say that the fleet had yet fallen into the hands of the Axis powers. That the British still hoped to get part of the French fleet despite the armistice terms to which the French Cabinet of Marshal Henri Petain agreed was emphasized by, Lord Caldecote, Dominions Secretary, in the House of Lords,

Axis to Use Fleet, Says Churchill

But the attitude of Churchill indicated there was little if any hope of preventing the bulk of the French naval pow er from falling into the hands of Germany and Italy. : The Axis powers, occupying large areas and virtually all coastal points of France as a result of the armistice today, will pay little attention to their pledge not to.use the French! fleet. in their offensive against the British Isles, Churchill / charged. . : The French fleet, he added, was a “powerful but not decisive” factor in the safety of the British Empire and it was only after the French Cabinet of Paul Reynaud agreed that the Navy would put into British ports that the British Gove ernment released France from her pledge not to seek a sep« arate armistice. ;

Ridicules Germany’s Pledge

Churchill, asserting that France had pledged that the fleet never would fall into German hands, ridicyled Adolf

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Hitler's pledge not to use French warships against Great Britain. I aie, “We know the value of that,” he snapped. Many solemn assurances were given that the French fleet would never be allowed to fall into German hands,” he said.

“It was with grief and “amazement that I read of the

armistice terms which stated that the French fleet should be collected at certain ports and there demobilized under Ger man and Italian control. Under this armistice French war vessels are to pass into German and Italian control while

they still are armed.” Japan’s Fleet Goes to Indo-China “Tt is to be hoped,” Churchill said, ‘that life and power will be given us to rescue France from the ruin and bondage into which she has been cast by the might and fury of the

enemy. ...” | At this point a member shouted: “And her politicians!”

over France that he burned his.

Germany, observing the cessation of fighting in France, indicated that less than two-thirds of France would be occupied by Nazi forces and said that the German terms were “hard but not humiliating.” Italy, expected to take over the Mediteranean coastal area, said that the fight against Brie tain would go on “until victory.” ¢ | ei In the Far East, Japan sent a battle fleet to French Indo-China, officially “to watch for the time being, condie

tions of transportation of goods to China by Indo-China.”

At the same time the Japanese Government was re ported to have decided to deal directly with the Indo-Chinese

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‘On They Came, Like Rabbits to Slaughter’

NEW YORK, June 25 (U. P.).—Thirty thousand German soldiers storming the Maginot Line at Sedan marched up a hill and died in the fire of French machine gunners who were sickened by the slaughter, according. to an American volunteer ambulance driver back from the

Mr. Banfield said he was amazed at the “incredible” - success of German espionage in the Lorraine section, where he was working. ; | At-2 p. m. one April day, at Roughling, the ambulance drivers were notified to stand by because a French party: was going over at 9 o'clock in search of German prisoners. At 5 p. m. the German radio broadcaster, in his usual chummy manner, addressed by name the lieutenant who: was to lead the French party. : 5 “Don’t come through the way you planned, Lieuten-

ant,” the broadcaster said. ‘We have guns covering that.

spot. But you might try it a little to the left. It’s so ex. ‘posed there we can’t put up a gun.” | Another time, Mr. Banfield said; when an inspecting , colonel was lynching with his officers, the German broad. caster told him he was sitting too close to his neighbor and proceeded to name in turn each man at the table, conclud<" ing with an expression of hope that the colonel was enjoy-

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