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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 101

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REPORT THUMBS DOWN ONM'NUTT

Roosevelt Has No Place for Him on Ticket, Capital Hears.

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Stafy WASHINGTON, Jul Roosevelt has humbs } aul V. McNutt Vice President on a third term

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National Recognition to Be

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Preparedness; Turner to Present Certificates.

By SAM But University's given national recognition at bol of national preparedness

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The occasion will be used to mark completion of the first Jovernment toward building an army of pilots for national

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The ceremonies also are being planned as an aerial glamour

Government the pro-

for young men the seeks to train as pilots for posed national air armada, Oswald Ryan. member the Civil Aeronautics Authority, sponor the defense pilot program, idress the graduating pilots phases of air preparedness. The ress is to be picked up at 3:30 m. bv WIRE and carried b national network the Mubroadcasting svstem Latest mode! Army planes Wright Field at Dayton are flown the airport for the Clses Col. Roscoe Turner, three-time Thompson speed trophy winner, will present the CAA certificates to the voung pilots, while Elvan Tarkington, their instructor, will read off the roll of honor, Although termed most of the students are expected to continue their flight instruction and head for Randolph Field, Tex, the Army's "West Point of the Air.” where they will be turned out as Army fliers, Graduating pilots from other Indiana colleges in the program also will attend the ceremonies, including the 45 members of Butler Uni(Continued on Page Three)

GUARD ON CAPITOL IS STRENGTHENED

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States Capitol today by a guards and requirements employees entering out of working hours carry identification cards House Sergeant-at-Arms Kenneth Romney said the identification card requirements were similar to regulations adopted during the World The credentials are necessary for all emplovees entering the building before 9 a after 4:30 p.m Mr. Romnev ditional cause World's Fai:

were strengthened additional

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MEN WITH DYNAMITE DRIVEN FROM PLANT

Leave Explosives Behind at du Pont Unit.

BATON ROUGE. La P.).—Four men, carrying were surprised last night as they attempted to enter the duPoniEthyl plant north of here, it was believed toda) Sheriff Newman H. DeBretton said the men escaped, leaving four sticks of dvnamite behind I'he Sheriff's office immediately dispatched deputies and bloodhounds to the plant on the banks of the Mississippi River, and the area for miles a.ound was searched fo hours. The plant tetraethyl lead fuel for high octane gasoline, used principaily in airplanes

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INDEPENDENCE INDIA'S AIM BOMBAY, July 6 (U. P.).—-Mo-handas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, said todav that India’s immediate objective must be “unadulterated independence” He advised members of the All-India Nationalist Congress to decline to bear arms

manufactures!

PITTMAN SEES EVIL PORTENTS IN NAZI REPLY

Hitler Laying Groundwork For Future Incursions, He Maintains.

WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P.).—Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that Germany's rejection of this country’s warning that it would not tolerate the transfer of Western llemisphere territory from one European country another, established the for future violations of the Monroe Doctrine. Senator

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Pittman and other Con gressional leaders, including Chairman Sol Bloom | Foreign Affairs Committee, sharp issue with what they termed a German insinuation that the United States had violated the Doctrine by interfering in European matters, Senator William H. King charged that Germany already eeking ‘to influence control ith American Governments,

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Son Relations Strained

A double-barreled rebuke directed at Germany by State Cordell Hull appeared m posed on U. S.-German relations an even greater burden. Many observers believed that any further strain might well result in then severance Mr. Hull's rebuke was in his sharply worded rejection Germany's contention that entorcement of the Monroe Doctrine Is “untenable,” and in a State Department announcement that foreign diplomats in the United States must not engage in “public discussion of questions relating to this countrys policies and attitudes.”

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Mr. Hull told Germany that the United States would uphold the Monroe Doctrine—come what may and that it

all but “purely political” where co-operation serves the cause of international law and order. Germany's reply to the United States ,warning said. in eflfect, that the United States had warned the wrong country since Germany, “in contrast with othe: countries, especially in contrast with England and France, has no territorial posspesions in the American Continent.” The German Government desired (Continued on Page Three)

SHIP AHOY

Navy Wonders How to Get

| Vessel to Sea

By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Navy is building vards at Philadelphia a 45,000-ton which

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July in battleship, the New Jersey, when fully equipped and manned may be unable to reach the sea. The New Jersey, when completed and ready to join the battle line. will require an estimated channel depth of at least 37 feet, naval officers say. The existing channel in the Delaware waterwav is only 35 feet. The Navy either must float the ship out to sea short of men and supplies, and equip it later. or the channel must be deepened

Britain, ‘Surprised’ by Lockheed's Fighting Ability, Now Depending Upon Them to Break German Siege

Ry WALLACE CARROLL United Press A ROYAI England July

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Staff Carrespandent ATR FORCE BASE American-built airplanes by Britisih oificers as the “surprises” war ind a vital factor in preparations to defend the Bri The American-made planes roaring over the North Sea on “in vasion patrols’ of the Roval Air Force when foreign correspondents visited this strangely camouflaged airdrome this morning They are wheeling above fjords of Norway and over the indentations of the Dutch and Belgian coasts in search of German ship, aircraft and troop concentrations The British Air Ministry bought several hundred lL.ockheea B-14 liners before ti War Aas hoping these commercial long-dis-planes which punishment fitted into

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belly of each plane. Glass was installed in the nose so that the navigator could use what had been the baggage compartment. Machineguns were fitted in forward and a dome-shaped glass gun turret was installed near the tail. “At first we thought these planes would be all right for scouting and photography.’ one grav-haired squadron leader told me “Then the crews discovered the)

could do amazing things with them and that it took a hell of a lot of punishment to bring down a Lockheed. They were the first nlanes to drop bombs on Norway. When we abandoned a policy of not attacking land objectives in Germany it was a Lockheed that dropped the first bombs and set fire to oil tanks at Bremen and Hamburg.” He said that the planes had been in combat with every type of Ger-

man aireraft and had alwavs proved themselves the better. No Messerschmidt (the crack German fighters) has ever downed a Lockheed, he said. “Today they are the eves of Britain on invasion patrols,” he added. “Their job is also to break what the Germans call the siege of Britain.” “They are fine Kites,” a young pilot from Calgary told me as we watched the planes circle overhead. “We had good luck over Holland the other dav. Our job was to bomb a ~ruicer and three merchant ships moored at Willemsoord. “The Jerry didn't hear us coming and we got right over the cruiser and put our noses down before he knew what was happening. We dived to about 400 feet and unloaded. One lot hit forward. another amidship and a third near the stern “And as I am standing here when I looked back I saw one side of that ship break clean off | "We certainly did for that baby.”

intends to continue co- | operating with European nations in| matters

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In Heated Election

MASS RAIDS TO PAVE WAY FOR LAND ASSAULT

‘Germany and Italy Increase ‘War of Nerves’

Gen, Manuel Avila Camacho , , , favored to win,

FAIR MEXICAN VOTE PLEDGED

Cardenas Says Ballots, Not Bullets, Will Prevail Tomorrow.

MEXICO CI'kY (U. P.) Amid reports and rumors of immi-

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July nent revolution, the men and women of this republic of 20,000,000 elect tomorrow to President [a ised would dictate

President

a successor

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that ballots and not bullets the choice, { Cardenas, in to the nation today, declared “Mexico will demonstrate that while a large part of the world is subjected to force and attacks on the principle of liberty, Mexico finds no need to use force or persecution.” The election will install “the legitimate successors of the incumbent regime.” The campaign was a “purely democratic function” which served to consolidate the institutions

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a message

| Berlin, was said by Nazi sources

As Hitler Returns for Talk With Ciano;

Sweden Yields to Berlin. BULLETIN LONDON, July 6 (U, P.).~The Admiralty said in a communique tonight that the French battle cruiser Dun. kerque had heen hit six times this morning by bombs dropped by the fleet air arm. Bv JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Germany and Italy increased the tempo of their war of nerves and aerial bombardment against Great Britain today in a reported pian for a blitzkrieg air offensive within the next 10 days. Adolf Hitler. returning from Field Headquarters to a vast organized celebration in the gaily decorated streets of in Stockholm to have approved plans for a six-day aerial bombardment of the British Isles by 3000 airplanes, including new models with “surprising, death-dealing instruments.” Only after six days of continuous bombardment in which glider bomb-carriers are used will the Axis powers attempt to deal with the British Isles by invasion or otherwise, these dispatches asserted, Sweden Bows to Nazi Demands Tuesday was mentioned as the most probable day for start the dispatches did not say whether it be next Tuesday or a week later. Regardless of whether the Stockholm reports are an example of Nazi frankness such as has been demonstrated in the past, the reports left no doubt that the Germans and [talians are throwing the “war of nerves” in high gear with propaganda, threats and war preparations on a huge scale, accompanied by persistent small scale aerial bombard-

the blitzkrieg to ~but

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‘ment of the British Isles.

HOLIDAY AND WAR “KEEP MARKET DULL

Stocks Gain Irreqularly; Grains Off.

New York stocks improved irregu-|

larly today in the dullest short ses-

sion in a year, Many traders Wall Street for

were absent from extended vacations

{and those who were present were re- { luctant [further war developments, selection

to add to positions pending

of the Democratic Presidential candidate and drafting of an excess profits tax Bonds gained irregularly in a light turnover. Wheat eased fractionally while corn was down more than a cent at Chicago

YARNELL URGES U. S. GIVE BRITAIN A NAVY

P) former

IOWA CITY, Towa, July 6 (U Admiral Harry Yarnell, commander of UU. S.

fleet. said last night that apparently this country will have to fight the totalitarian states sometime, so it might be best to fight now If we fought now, he said, we would never have to fight them again He proposed to a Univer-| sitv of Towa audience that the United States furnish the British a navy | if necessary, thus saving this countrv an aultimate $15,000,000,000 armament bill.

the Asiatic

TOLERANCE APPEAL | MADE BY WILLKIE

NEW YORK, July {U. PJ. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential candidate, said today in an interview published in The Day, Jewish daily newspaper, that antisemitism was ‘‘a possible criminal movement” the growth of which would be a “calamity.” Mr. Willkie appealed for national tolerance and religious liberty, saying that he had asserted his position “long before I even thought of being a presidential candidate.”

DUTCH FACE DEATH FOR AIDING BRITISH

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LONDON, July 6 (U, German-controlled radio Hilversum, near Amsterdam, said today that special measures, including the death penalty, have been invoked against Hollanders “who continue to sympathize in word or deed with England.” Penalties alan were invoked against those failing to report such sympathizers,

P.).—The

The dates and details for the offensive against Britain may vary but both Berlin and Rome were preparing feverishly for the blow they have threatened and one extremely important develcpment was announcement by a Swedish spokesman that permission has been granted for Germany to ship war materials—to be used in attack on Britain— across Sweden to Norway. Ciano, Hitler Confer Tomorrow Furthermore, Fascist Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano was en route to Berlin for conferences on Sunday with Hilter and other high Nazi officials, after which it was hinted he might go to the front (presumably in Western Europe) from which the offensive against Britain will be launched. Italians repeatedly have said they would participate in the attack. For the time being, the intensified war of nerves and {the submission of Sweden to Nazi demands—demands that may be of greatest interest to Soviet Russia in the north —overshadowed deveiopments in the aerial war in Western [urope, a naval conflict in the Mediterranean and land fighting in Africa. The threat of further conflict Britain and France continued, but there were conflicting reports on naval operations in the Mediterranean. French and German dis patches said two British cruisers had shelled and sunk the (Continued on Page Three)

Today's War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert

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Air attacks now being directed against Gibraltar could cause some damage to British warships at anchor in the harbor in the bombing were

| sufficiently intensive, but the rock fortress itself is in no peril from the

air. During recent aviation raids, British destroyers stationed at Gibral= tar put out to sea where space and movement give them greater immunity. Their policy is to return to the rock haven when raiding ceases, i a ES The inability to harm Gibraltar from the air and the small chance yf damaging shipping anchored, close to the sheltering cliff would not warrant a major air attack Nor could enemy aviators impose serious inflictions on troops and civilians.

planes and large concentration of planes at Gibraltar would require the use of airplane carriers The Gibraltar dockyard would be under distant artillery fire if Spain became hostile, making Gibraltar vulnerable as a British fleet repair station. But an artillery bombards= ment would not affect the rock itself, within whose sides are n= numerable chambers for big guns. To capture Gibraltar an invading force would have to cross a low, sandy isthmus half a mile wide and one and one-half miles long, leading from Spain to the rock. The devastating fire that could be brought to bear on this exposed position would make any attack haz= ardous in the extreme. The guns of Gibraltar could repel any possible assault from the ses. The last time an attempt was made to capture Gibraltar was by the French and Spanish in 1783. The besieging fleet marked a great ad= vance in warship construction with the ships’ sides six to seven feet thick. It was thought this armor | belt would defy any size cannon bai as it did early in the engag (Continued on Page Three)

Shops, residences and military barracks are along narrow thoroughfares at the base of the rock, which towers 1400 feet high. Accuracy from the air has not reached the point where deliberate hits could be scored by bombs aimed at such confined targets. The narrowness of the Gibraltar terrain, however, though providing pro - tection from the air, seriously interferes with (he port's utility as an offensive air base. There is lack of adequate landing space for air-!

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