Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1940 — Page 3
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TURDAY, JUNE 29,
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. Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, leader for the Willkie forces shakes hands with Alf Lan
Mr. Willkie Himself Never Has Run Even for Dog Catcher;
& i Stassen Representative of Fresh Blood in Party Which
Gave the Down-the-Liners a Thumping.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.—A new deal in the Republican organization is in prospect. ~The strange revolution which took place on the con- ~ wention floor here foreshadows a shake-up. The old-line
~ party leaders took a trimming at the hands of a group of
new, and for the most part younger, figures who now will
_ move into the foreground.
They have been called “amateurs,” and many of them
are. But they got their job Wendell L. Willkie himself, ~ go far as his record shows,
has never run even for dog-
; catcher. * of political strategy and or-
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But in the matter
~ ganization, he has turned out ~ to be a “natural.”
He has the gift. , . His chief obstacle in Philadelas the politicians saw it, was the lack of an old-type political master of ceremonies, the sort of fellow who had a wide acquaintance among the party bosses, who knew the history of people with whom one has to deal in conventions, their prejudices and preferences. Yet he overcame this and outsmarted some who considered themselves past masters at this ~ business. Young Men In Evidence
Younger figures were much in evidence in the Willkie campaign. There was the 33-year-old Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, conven- _ tion keynoter, who plumped for Mr. Willkie and was named his floor
manager. A progressive Governor, | . looked upon generally as’a ‘comer’!
. in-the party, he is representative of
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the fresh blood in the Republican Party. Others who took prominent parts in the Willkie drive were Governors Baldwin of Connecticut and . Carr of Colorado, both newcomers in the top ranks of the party; Ken- . neth Simpson of New York, who
done.
left Thomas E. Dewey some Weeks ago and joined the Willkie crusade; Sam Pryor, national committeeman from Connecticut; Rep. Halleck of Indiana and Bruce Barton of New York, who have made places for themselves in the House of Representatives.
Willkie’s Course Rough
No little of the success of the Democrats under President- Roosevelt has been due to the recognition of youngsters. They have been given places in the organization. This rejuvenating process is a studied undertaking in the Democratic Party. ©
Mr. Willkie’s course henceforth in dealing with’ political organizations is not, to be sure, a clear and smooth one. He may find himself embarrassed on occasion by the zeal of the youngsters, especially the amateurs from the ranks of business - and finance who regard the uprooting of the New Deal as a crusade and Who push themselves in to do their 10. Mr. Willkie’s problem is complicated because the issues are intense these days. Many of those who will line up behind him are representatives of business and finance, and they will be eager to raise funds and organize among their associates. They may overreach themselves. Mr. Willkie also must make his peace and his compromises with the political organizations down the line, for they are still the framework of the party.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traff® Record DEATHS TO DATE
County City 18 25 35
Total 43 52
1939 ...... 1940 ......
Ablashia B. Worth, 81, at 308 W. Ohio, arteriosclerosis. Clara Hughes, 52, at Long, pneumococcic meningitis. Ulysses McFarland, 72, at City, cardio vascular renal. Russell Whipple, 7, at Riley, scarlet fever, . .
June 28, 1940 10 | Accidents .. 0 | Arrests FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT
Cases Convic- Fines paid $116 13
tried 65 8 Failure to stop at’ through street. Disobeying traffic signals
tions. 63 7
Violations
4 3
7 2 11
Totals ,....... 101 93
MEETINGS TODAY
~~ Rainbow Division Veterans’ A ~~ yeunion, Hotel Washington. am———
BIRTHS
. Girls Alec, Dorothy Robinson. at Cit Larry.
ory Hubert,
James, Methodist.
Marian Bradley. Hetty Carlisle, at , Josephine Caroline Farr
, at ! ve Davis. at Raion . Walter, Sherman, . Hirschel, Emma
Olive Ida Lo
; Boys thur. Thelma Sweeney. 2 i AE ags. “Grace Scanla i Henry. Elsie Atkins, at Methodist.
{ Thomas, Virginia Conley, a a
at Colema ” as, Mary Henry, at 2740 Jerry, Lillian Hicks, at 95¢ W W, , Ella Burk, at 811 N.
DEATHS
atet Long, 61, rh mellitus. men
ngius. Dallas chener. 9 months, at 1423 W. intestinal influen
1 n. a. I Kruger, 62, at City, Petree Tucker, 1, t 1439 3:
myocarditis. Charles Dickerson, 79, at 3536 Graceat 4433 N. PennsylUlysses Abbott, 72, at 1656 N. Talbott, Phares. 9, at Riley, typhoid fever. © Berkley, 68, at 820 Pomeroy, acute
“ihe fell off a chair and against a
d.- arteriosclerosis. y ur Wills, 175, yania, myocarditis.
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Vv. t. Blackwell, at St. Francis. yp LHR, Grosback, at Methodist. Bradl at Methodist, Gray. at Methodist, Methodist. Mari lia Er dt an ones. at 1617 §. Meridian. Dg. a 7 Lord. Reed, at 1933 Ralston. at St. Francis. n, at Methodist.
n, Columbia.
. Nortn. : man, Illinois. Lawrence, Clementine Warfield, at 900
diana. Elmer, Marjorie Wiley, at 1619 Miller.
at $5423 Hibben, est Dale, 7, at Methodist, pneumoc-
carcinoma. East, acute
FIRE ALARMS Friday 7:59 a. m.—5846 Winth b Heine: inthrop, struck by 2:07 p. m.—2049 Ralston, oil stove. 5:36 p. m.—1505 Roosevelt, closet, $50. 7:54 _p. m.—23 E. Ohio, basement.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
be United ‘States Weather Bureau ol
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow. Hh ; : 4:19 Sunset TEMPERATURE ~—June 3, 1939— ie 7311 p. m. BAROMETER 6:3 0a. m.....29.95 - | Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7
Total precipitation since Jan, Deficiency since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER : Indiana—PFair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow. Illinois—Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow.
Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; continued cool tonight, slightly warmer tomorrow. Ohio—PFair, slightly cooler tonight: morrow fair.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A, M.
Sunrise
6a m.
LOCAL MAN DIES OF BURNS William Wilson, 2333 Yandes St., died today at City Hospital of burns received Monday at his home. His brother, Bert Wilson, 2319 Yandes St., told hospital officials his brother, who was blind, was burned when
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keynoter of the Republican National Convention and floor don of Kansas after the Kansas delegation swung
M'NARY POWER UNQUESTIONED IN FARM BELTS
Stand for TVA Expected to Help Offset Willkie Utility Link.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY
Times Special Writer PHILADELPHIA, June 29.—When the Democratic majority in the Senate was split by a feud over the Hatch “Clean Politics” Bill this spring, a friend met Senator
Charles L. McNary in a Capitol elevator and spoke of the animosity among the Democrats. “Yes,” Mr. McNary smiled dryly. “My, I hate to see these Democrats fighting among themselves!” That satirical remark suggests how this crafty Oregonian, as Minority Leader of the Senate, has been able to block the New Deal so often despite the few votes at his command. . A feuding Democratic Party was exactly to his taste, and he knew that the breastbeating, desk-pounding tactics of Republicans in an earlier day would have solidified Democratic ranks and given the White House what it wanted. Many times his strategy of letting the Democrats squabble among themselves without interference helped to thwart the Administration.
He’s No Reactionary
Senator McNary, the Republican nominee for - Vice President, has been no reactionary opposed to the New Deal in toto. He has voted for all the TVA and other powerdevelopment appropriations, for instance, and thus gives the Republican ticket an offset to Wendell Willkie’s utidity connections. He supported the National Industrial RécoVery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and has been an advocate of more liberal pensions for the aged. As ‘co-author of the. McNaryHaugen Agricultural Tariff Bill, his name was linked with one of the
great Congressional issues of the
Twenties. Three times his bill was passed and ' three times it was vetoed. Here again his position gives strength to the G. O. P. ticket in the offset he provides against arguments that Mr. Willkie has favored the New Deal reciprocal-trade agreements. : Senator McNary has a followin in the agricultural West and Middle West. It was largely to get recognition for the farm and reclamation states that his name was put before the convention.
Born On Oregon Farm
farm staked out by his grandfather. He was educated in law at Stanford University, was dean of law at Willamette University, and served‘ as associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. But at heart he’s a farmer.
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Willkie!
“Yeah! bandwagon was on its way.
G. O. P. nominee when he appeared
INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ° - Whoopee!
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Willkie!” shout two typical delegates, and the Willkie This type of enthusiasm also greeted the
before the convention yesterday.
THE NATIONAL BUDGET--
By Wendell Willkie
He was born on a 600-acre Oregon|
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struction Finance Corp. Ordinary common-sense business practice demands that our budget tell us what these subsidjaries are doing with our money —how much they are .earning, how much they are spending, and why. The budget tells us little or nothing. ! : If an ordinary business man tried to borrow money from the public on data as’ shaky as that which the Government offers us in its present budget, he might end in prison. And it would be the Government that sent him there. Again, the Government publishes a budget saying it needs this or that amount of money and then pays no attention to its own figures. In the fiscal year 1934 the budget called for $3,975,000,000. The Administration took that amount and then simply “appropriated” another $5,000,000,000. What would you think of a contractor who estimated a price at $10 and charged you $25? Certainly you would think he was pretty poor shakes as a business man. : 8 ” » SHOULD like therefore to see a new budget for the United States. This budget would be based on advanced business principles, like that which has been used in Sweden for a number of years with great success. It would give us accurate facts and figures. Where complete figures were not available—for example, in a new housing project—it would say plainly: “We think the project will cost so much, and we expect it to bring in such an such an amount.” Dishonest politicians would find it hard to loot such a budget. Such a business budget would enable us to work out a longrange plan for meeting our obligations and getting ourselves out of the red, where we now are.
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: Fst it would help us to econ-
omize on our current operations. : ; Second, it would permit us to estimate our expected profit or loss on public works and investments, so that we could reduce or expand them rationally instead of in our present hit-and-miss fashion. . Third, it would enable us to set aside money to pay off our public debt. he public debt must be paid off sooner or later. We cannot go on forever spending more than we earn, as we are doing now. ; This brings us to balancing the ‘budget. You may feel that the budget should be balanced immediately. 1 agree that it would be fine if we could do it. We must, however, face the fact that in the past 10 years Washington has spent 66 billion dol- | lars. We have spent so much
money that it will take us a long while to earn it back. 8 ” 2
T DOES no good to rail at . President Roosevelt and say he should never have spent so many billions. We were in a national emergency when the President stepped into office. Spending seemed a good idea at the time. And some kinds of spending are really productive, we know. It was money spent on white highways, for example, that turned our automobile industry into a great industry. And money spent on the WPA has given us bridges, parks, buildings and many other good things that we needed. What we must curtail is foolish spending—spending merely for the sake of spending, in the unkusinesslike belief that it will somehow help the country t0.a business revival. In order to distinguish between wise and foolish spending we need, in my opinion, a new kind of budget that will tell us plainly where our money goes. ;
HEARING SET AUG. 5 INUTILITIES DISPUTE
HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 29 (U. P.) .—Hearings on a receiver’s report on the defunct municipal electric utility today had been set for Aug.
5 by Special Judge Clarence R. McNabb of Ft. Wayne.
Judge McNabb yesterday sustained
motions of Receiver Edward Smith
to dismiss an objection to his report and to dismiss a petition for an
order preventing Mr. Smith from holding former Mayor Clare W. H.
Bangs and J. Clayton Brown, former
city construction superintendent, in the Allen County jail. Bangs objected to Mr. Smith's report and was overruled while Ford B. Irons, an Allen County taxpayer, petitioned to prevent Mr, Smith from paying board to Allen County to keep Bangs and Brown in jail. Bangs and Brown were brought to jail after they were convicted of contempt of court for failure to disclose the whereabouts of $4300 of utility funds.
FEDERAL CONTROL OF CITY AIRPORT STUDIED
The effect of possible Federal control over Municipal Airport, which may become necessary as a defense measure, was being studied by Works Board members today. Board members agreed that the possibility that the Government may take over and operate the port is not remote. They were at a loss, however, to determine the City’s role in such an eventuality. If the five-million dollar field were requisitioned as a military base, the City would have no choice but to relinquish control. It was the consensus that the City would expect no compensation from Federal authorities for the use of the field and that an order to turn it over to the Government might come without notice.
SUMMER DOLDRUMS HIT LOCAL COURTS
The paneled doors of most Marion County Court rooms were closed today for the summer. The five Superior Courtrooms were emptied at noon. The Superior, Circuit and Probate Courts will be recessed until Sept. 3. However, judges are making arrangements to place one court in service for emergency matters. The Criminal, Juvenile and two Municipal Courts will remain in session over the summer. Judges Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvenile Court, and Dewey E. Myers of Criminal Court have made arrangements for summer closing schedules which will permit attaches to take afternoons off.
BALLPLAYER’S WIFE KILLED BY ELEVATOR
CHICAGO,
batting = practice pitcher for the Chicago White Sox Baseball Club,
was crushed to death today by all hotel elevator as she tried to Jestiie : 2
her 20-month-old son from moving lift.
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June 29 (U. P)—|E Mrs. Florence Steven, 32, wife of ai}
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Robert Matter of Marion, Ind., one of the delegates who seconded Wendell Willkie’s candidacy for the
Republican Presidential nomination,
and Jerry Beeler of Evansville, cheer wildly as the Willkie bandwagon
starts moving on the sixth ballot at the G. O. P. national convention at Philadelphia Thursday night.
G. 0. P. BRACING
FOR TILT WITH
‘ASTUTE ENEMY
Willkie to Recover Lost 100 Hours of Sleep After Strategy Meeting.
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chosen the G. O. P. nominee in 1936, was opposed to another term for him. They have been-at odds for the past two years.
Mr. Willkie is now head of the party and the. committee will be reorganized the way he wants. Forsaking the business world in which he rose to wealth and prominence Mr. Willkie already was immersed in the political environment in which he will live from now until November. For two hours last night he conferred with Mr. Landon, Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the convention keynoter and later Mr. Willkie’s manager on the convention floor; Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, permanent chairman of the convention; Rep. Charles A, Halleck of Indiana, who nominated him; Gov. Raymond Baldwin of Connecticut, and Sam Pryor, national committeeman from Connecticut.
Willkie Seeks Advice
Mr. Willkie sought this conference with these leading Republican politicians to inform himself of the party's internal situation and organization, it was said, and not to dictate personal choices and policies. . After the conference, he and Mrs. Willkie retired for the night. It was before midnight and it was the first time since the convention started that the tousled-haired giant had retired so early and with the prospect of a full night's sleep. The desire for sleep seemed to occupy a large part of his thoughts. During the voyage up the coast, he planned to catch back .the “100 hours” of sleep he lost during the convention.
. or He'll Take a Rest
At this morning’s press confer-
ence, Mr. Willkie said he planned to spend two or three days in New York cleaning up his affairs. There he will resign the presidency of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. After that, he continued, he proposed to take two or three weeks’ rest. Mr. Willkie said he has not yet decided where he will spend the holiday. Just before preparing to board Mr. Howard’s boat for New York, Mr. Willkie said he didn’t expect to know until the first of next week who will be the chairman of the National Committee. Before many days pass Mr. Willkie will meet his running mate for the first: time. The convention bestowed the Vice Presidential nomination on Charles L. McNary, Republican leader of the Senaie, yesterday afternoon, just before Mr. Willkie appeared before it in person to make a short speech in which he expressed his gratitude and pledged a vigorous campaign. :
Acceptance in Elwood
An important event on Mr. Wwillkie’s schedule is his formal acceptance speech from the steps of the
{high school of his native Elwood,
Ind., on a date not yet decided. But he will devote his full time to being a Presidential candidate beginning Monday, when he severs his business connections. Mr. Willkie’s speech to the convention which nominated him was neither formal or an acceptance speech. v “As your nominee,” he said, “I expect to conduct a crusading, aggressive, fighting campaign to bring unity to America, to bring the unity of labor and capital, agriculture and manufacturer, farmer and worker and all classes to this great cause of the preservation of freedom.”
29 English Killed in Air Raid As Italy's Balbo Dies In Libya
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peacefully, but Rumania mobilized perhaps 2,000,000 men and warned that she would fight threatened renewal of ter ritorial claims by Hungary (whose troops massed on the frontier) and by Bulgaria (whose leaders were consulting Rome and Berlin on the next move). Rumanian and Soviet officials denied wild rumors circulated abroad of fighting at Cernauti and German officials said that reports the Nazi legation at Bucharest had proms
ised to “settle later” with the Russians were fantastic.”
THE FAR EAST—Japan’s foreign minister, Hachiro
Arita, declared in a radio speech that, under a new diplomatic policy, Japan regards all of East Asia and the South - Seas (including the Dutch East Indies) as‘ a co-related sphere with Japan as the central and stabilizing influence. This declaration did not go as far as had been forecast by the Japanese press, but it was regarded as warning all powers, including Germany, not to interfere in the Japanese program for a new order in East Asia.
Army Modifies Declaration
Japanese Army elements—which were reported to have modified Arita’s declaration in order to leave the Army’s hands free for action—were increasing pressure on the British and on French Indo-China. About 3000 women and children, including some 250 Americans, will evacuate Hongkong tomorrow in order to bolster the British Crown Cole ony’s defense preparations. Furthermore, the: Japanese-sponsored China Govern. ment of Wang Chin-Wei was reported at Shanghai to ba . planning to make sweeping demands on the International
would obviously have Japanese support) to back up demands for arrest of anti-Japanese assassins. In London, Gen. Charles de Gaulle today estimated that . German forces captured 350,000 French troops in the first phase of the battle of Belgium and France and an additional 600,000 in France. De Gaulle estimated also that Germans killed 60,000 French soldiers and wounded about 300,000, Adolf Hitler yesterday visited Alsace-Lorraine and other occupied parts of France. at Bordeaux is expected to try soon to complete an agreement with the Germans for returning to Paris. * The Italian war communique said that a submarine had torpedoed an escorted 10,000-ton British armed steamer and that Italian planes had bombed and machine-gunned British troops and air force bases in North Africa. :
War Moves
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Today's
Thames if the Germans were to scatter their landings and ignore the principle of a concentrated drive.
Concentration, however, requires
the south shore of the entrance. terrain offers the most advanfageous approach to London,
Settlement officials and threatening to send in troops (which ._|
The French Government
having a splendid network of railways leading to the capital and being difficult to defend. It also has the nearest coastal landings to France, a matter of serious importance not only for the transportation of ps but also for maintaining a° line of communications for reinforcements and supplies. : The rules of strategy call for a single major concentration of German forces in any attempt to make an effective landing in England. Small diversions might well occur in order to try to mask the real landing place, but it would give a considerable advantage to the British
an enormous transport fleet ase sembled in small areas of the Chane nel. How to protect the transports against British warships and aire planes and how to insure cebarkae
tion in the face of mines and are
tillery fire from the shore are probe lems so formidable that no sulue tion can have certain’y of success, on paper. Indeed, the probabilities, by all past military standards of judgment, point to very grave casualties—perhaps to an exhausting
can make a secure landing base, - from which to begin their offensive,
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