Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1940 — Page 1
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VOLUME 52—=NUMBER 104
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1940
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Matter
‘NO FIGHTING OVERSEAS’--F.D.R.
OF GUNS
AND RUM
Some Confusion Surrounds Police Squad’s Visit to Mitchell's Tavern; Is It a Pre-
lude to a Sweeping Crackdown?
By RICHARD LEWIS 1 Apparently spurred by Mayor Sullivan's statement that
“any political obstacles”
to
the maintenance of law and]
order on Indiana Avenue will be removed immediately, the]
Police Department early today raided Joe Mitchell's tav-|
ern and arrested Mitchell. Some confusion surroul Chief Morrissey insisting tha vestigation into a murder a
ded the incident, however,! j t it was simply part of an in-| id that it had no connection! §
with any reports of a sweeping clean-up drive on *“‘the|
Avenue.” Complaints about lawlessness in the City's most densely populated Negro section have been piling up steadily in recent Saturday night, a man was murdered in or near the Mitchell tavern and yesterday a delegation ot Negro citizens waited formally upon City officials to demand a crackdown.
weeks.
Terrorism Charged I'he delegation’s spokesman charged that corruption and terror dominated all life in the section. While Safety Board members remained mum on the political aspects of the situation stepped forward ment: “If there are any political obstacles to law enforcement on Indiana Ave, they will be removed.” With startling suddenness the Avenue came to heel last night. At midnight, every “hot spot” was closed tight. The usual curb vending of liquor stopped. There were some suspicions at City Hall early this afternoon that word had been passed down the line that police squads were preparing to move in These same City Hall sources viewed Chief Morrissey's denials of a raid and of a crackdown, as an indication that the Chief was alarmed law violators get advance information on his plans,
with this state-
lest
Kruse Heads Raiders
The raid on the Mitchell estab-
lishment was conducted shortly after midnight headed Capt. Kruse, entered the tavern and seized gambling equipment, including pool tables. To move this paraphernalia, the detective squad was forced to call for uniformed officers. Mitchell was taken into custody at 3:30 a. m. and charged with vagrancy. He immediately posted a $1000 cash bond.
by Edward
The protest made yesterday was |
a tale of how Indiana Avenue voungsters carry knives and learn to wrap their index fingers around pistol triggers at the age of 12. The spokesman was Stirling W. James, president of the Federation of Associated Clubs, Witnesses Evaporate
The root of Indiana Avenue's evil is in the taverns, which stay open “as long as they see fit,” he charged. He said his organization had pledged itself to overthrow the “rule” of the Avenue's political and semi-political bosses. “Nothing stop these law ders,” he asserted
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done now to violations and mur“Everybody, even little children, carries a knife or some .ort weapon. They drink cheap whisky and the first thing you know, they start to cut. This condition exists right under your noses.” Chief Morrissey replied that the police are making arrests on the Avenue, but are not getting convictions. Witnesses and evidence evaporate almost as soon as a crime is committed, he said. “We arrest someone after a cutting, and the victim comes down to the police station and says he can't (Continued on Page Three)
is being
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the Mayor |
A detective squad, |
DOUBTS FADING
* ON THIRD TERM
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‘Bankhead Believed in Rail
Position in Contest for Vice Presidency.
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, July 10.—With Paul V. McNutt out of the Democratic Presidential picture, talk was revived here today of pushing Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) for Vice President on a third-term ticket, The Senator, however, said that | he is for giving that place to Mr. McNutt,
| | | PES | ARN |
“You Can Just Picture . . .
right. It was this way: Somebody out
(we check into it. en | So a photographer wandered out By LYLE C. WILSON [{esterday morning about 9 o'clock! United Press Staff Correspondent | and, sure enough, there was a State CHICAGO, July 10. — President Highway Department steam shovel
heaving dirt out of Mr. Elder's yard | rOSeV ' TON Tn an- t v0 a | Roo pvelt will be a third-ter m can into a conple of State Highway De-| (didate, according to the best infor-
partment trucks. { mation available here today, five; Then, about 10 o'clock we called |
al Convention meets to name a 1940 What it was all about. ticket. { Mr. Vogelsang, who said “it must 1 | Speaker William B Bankhead. | the maintenance department. I'm Alabama, is believed to have rail in construction and we're not doing | position in the conquest for Vice|it. Try Mr, Shaffer. Or, Mr,| (Presidential nomination. Senator | Walker.” [James F. Byres of South Carolina | Well, and Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky who will be permanent convention chairman, are possibil|1t1es, | Democratic conservatives insist [that they can stop Associate Su-|
{preme Court Justice William C.|
was out with Mr. Shaffer. A man whose name we didn't get came to] the phone and we explained what] we wanted of him. “That's not my department,” he] said. “Try Mr. Green.” | Douglas, another who has been men-| Mr. Green, it turned out, wasn't] [ tioned. | there. His secretary said she would! If 1940 is a third-term year, the have him call. He didn't. [political combination of Roosevelt-| A wee bit discouraged, we tried| Garner-Farley which triumphed in| Mr. Elder's office. a9 fb ba oy . " he Dies at Tocent cote af many | p00 calling? aid the gi {New Deal policies has opened Pres- | w e laid her ne Shie Sa an | idential headquarters (he's leaving town for a week or sO { Mr. Farley arrived here vesterday ang ! don t know Frere 0 jet a from New York still guarding se- | touch with him. Re he Tan in, ‘erets imparted to him Sunday at | though, Le) 2sk him 0 call you. Hyde Park in conference with My, } MIE, Elder didn’t call either, (Continued on Page Three) Ww e thought we'd try Dick Heller, the Governor's secretary, He said | | (Continued on Page Three)
MERCURY PASSES 90; <roy
T FIELD PLANS
Low, You Know . ..
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM
The State Highway Department has been busy removing a hill on |Bowman Elder's property out at Trader's Point, but it’s undoubtedly all
Elder Hill . . . It's a Gift.
State Cuts Down Elder Hill— Undoubtedly It's All Right
Road 52 Bends Badly . . . We Need the Dirt.
at Trader's Point told us about it
and suggested mysteriously (these things are always mysterious) that]
JUDGE INFERS DOUBT OF STICKER VALIDITY
Man Who Received 8.
: “You have 90 per cent of the driving public behind you,” Municipal
{Judge John L. McNelis this after- | Settlement jo we tried and found Mr. hoon told an attorney challenging | Put , Sn atte Shaffer was out. Mr. Walker? He|the constitutionality of the Indian- [20d there were no attempts to
apolis police traffic sticker system. The judge withheld judgment in the case of Frank Sisson of 5863 Broadway, who has received eight stickers. Mr. Sisson's attorney contended that the auto and not the driver is the guilty party and that any sticker evidence is purely circumstantial. Judge McNelis inferentially supported the argument saying, “Courts elsewhere have ruled that the officer must see the person drive the car and park it.”
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U.P). —President Roosevelt today approved a plan to incorporate in
the proposed excess profits tax a system permitting national de-
RAIN IS ON THE WAY
‘Showers Are Promised by Tomorrow Night.
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| | Governor M. Clifford Townsend | "today asked the State Budget Committee to study the possibility of appropriating additional money for | the expansion of Stout Field, the National Guard airport here. The Governor said expansion
| plans should be considered now in order to meet requirements of the | Federal Government's future defense program. The Governor discussed a possible
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The temperature reached 91 at 1 ip. m, today. [need of additional improvements at The weatherman promised tl field to accommodate more
{ kod . planes. Money for this wo y | thundershowers to cool things off a ip be appropriated At of dls have {bit by tomorrow night. [tingent fund.
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fense industries to amortize their investments in plant and equipment over a five-year period.
NAVY SABOTAGE PLOT "FOILED, DIES SAYS
AUSTIN, Tex. July 10 (U. P.).— Rep. Martin Dies (D., Tex.), chairman of the House committee in- | vestigating un-American activities, |said today that a plot to sabotage
a battleship un . | . . ‘hs : . as § e i rif = P under construction Was | tention while authorities were noti-| Department has indorsed in prin
(discovered yesterday and the plans [ frustrated.
Mr. Dies said the battleship Was | store from which the call was made, strength of 375,000 men.
|in a Pennsylvania shipyard but re{fuses other information. He would not name the yard or discuss the alleged plot.
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35,000 PLANES
FUNDS SOUGHT
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TOGIVE NATION
Pledge of No Aggression Is Coupled With Request For Total Defense.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt asked Congress today for funds to give the United States nearly 35,000 fighting planes. He coupled his request with a pledge that American troops would not be sent to fight in European wars. “That we are opposed to war 1s known not only to every American,
but to every Government in the world,” Mr. Roosevelt said.
Pursuing Italian Fleet in Mediterranean, British Report
“HOT SPOT JOLTED IN RAID ON AVENUE
100 NAZI PLANES RAID ENGLAND; 10 SHOT DOWN
Hitler Seeking to End Balkan War Threats: Rome Insists British Retreated in Fight for Mediterranean Control.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Adolf Hitler struggled to end war threats in the Bal. kans today and free the full strength of the Axis powers for the spreading aerial and sea warfare against Great Britain. New and greater German aerial attacks on the British Isles—in which at least 10 planes were lost—followed a series of sea battles between the British and Italian fleets in the
“We will not use our arms in a war of aggression; we will not send our men to take part in European
| wars. But, we will repel aggression
Times Photo.
JAPANESE HATE |
Official Quarters Join in Anti-American Campaign | Sweeping Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, July 10 Three thousand Japanese tonight! demanded an apology before an international assemblange from Col. Dewitt Peck, U. S. Marines commandant here, for the arrest Sunday of 16 Japanese gendarmes, The demand was embodied in a resolution passed at a mass meeting. Official Japanese quarters joined in the general anti-American cam-
days before the Democratic Nation-|the Highway Department to ask! Holds Up Action in Case of |paign but they refrained from atFirst, we got,
tending the mass meeting, regarded as a promotion project for the Japanese newspaper Tairuku, Extremist elements had threatened a march into the International “disarm the marines” meeting was orderly
tonight's
march anywhere, Calls Marines ‘Barbarous’ A Japanese Embassy spokesman
interfering in the mounting anti- [ American campaign and Japanese | authorities said any American reply short of an apology would be unsatisfactory. The authorities made their statement after Rear Admiral Seiji Takeda, commander-in-chief of the Japanese special naval party here, had said that the action of the United States Marines on Sunday was “barbarous beyond description.” The Japanese gendarmes, ir civilian clothes but armed, had entered the Marines’ defense sector of the international settlement with(Continued on Page Three)
FAIR WILL BE BOMBED, WOMAN TELEPHONES
NEW YORK, July 10 (U. P).—A woman telephoned .a warning police today that the New York World's Fair would be bombed again this afternoon. “For God's sake, tell police that the World's Fair is going to be bombed at 2 p. m. today,” she informed the telephone operator, who (attempted to hold the woman's at-
fied. When police arrived at the drug! the woman was gone, | Police doubted the authenticity of| the warning, but promised a close watch.
War's 'A Bloody Dispute Between Business Rivals," Says Woman Industrialist, Pleading That America Keep Out
~NEW YORK, July 10 (U.P.).—Vivien Kellems, woman electrical engineer, was back today from a tour of Europe convinced that the best , course for the United States is non-involvement in a war which she sees as purely a bloody dispute between business rivals. Miss Kellems is a $50,000-a-year president of a firm which manufactures a shell-lifter, and it was to discuss an order from the British | that she went to London. She found, she said, that the British upper
ide Indpls Wane Jordan ‘Johnson ;
the war. “The English caste systém is as said, “but it is cracking. ginning to murmur. This has scare
Mrs. Ferguson 12 Music Obituaries 2 Pyle Questions Radio 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Scherrer n Serial Story . 17 Society voile 3 2 Sports ixsit, § State Deaths . 9|
Crossword Editorials . Finaneial Flinn Forum
In Indpls low races, Americans and Japanese
read letters
Movies ..... charit®s,
For the fi
classes hate Americans and yet are trying desperately to get us into
hide-bound as that of India,” she rst time the lower classes are bed the upper classes to death. They
are fighting for their lives, and they despise us for not helping them.” She said that in London she frequently heard the remark: “We'll hold out as long as we can, and then we'll let the two yel-
, Bight it out.”
At a luncheon attended by Lady Chamberlain, sister-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, she heard Lady Kemsley from persons replying to a request for coptributions to war
Miss Kellems said she remembered most strikingly a letter which said the writer felt no obligation to contribute to alleviate a situation caused by an incompetent government, After the luncheon several persons asked Lady Chamberlain: “How does your brother-in-law feel about conditions now?” “When Lady Chamberlain replied,” said Miss Kellems, “her voice
was dangerously sweet. in a long time.’”
‘I don’t know,’ she said, ‘I haven't seen him
France's surrender cost Miss Kellem's firm hundreds of thousands of dollars, but she sald her only regret was that France had been de-
feated.
“War isn’t my business,” she said. European war was none of America's business. blood for a people who hold us in contempt?
“I came home convinced the Why should we shed They call us yellow.
England says she is fighting for democracy. Believe me, there are no
lofty ideals to save.
“The issues are mixed, but they are far from being quixotic.
It's
for money, for trade, and not for democracy, that they are killing one another, on the one hand. On the other, there is this battle of the classes, this frantic struggle on the part of the aristocrats to survive.”
‘FOR U.S. GROWS
(U. P).—|
said officials had no intention of]
landing |
to]
| against the United States or the Western Hemisphere.”
24,591 Planes by '41
Mr. Roosevelt in a special message asked $4.848.171957 in cash| and authorizations to add 15,000 | ew planes to the Army air corps | and 4000 to the Navy: to rush] mechanization of the land forces and speed construction of a Navy second-to-none, Acting Secretary of War Louis | Johnson said that addition of the | new planes to those already appropriated for would give the Army 24591 completed warcraft by October, 1941. He said Defense Production Chief William S. Knudsen estimated that the time might be cut by two months.
Silent About New Taxes
The President did not say anything about financing the new proleram by new taxes or otherwise. But he said he believed the people “are willing to make any sacrifice” to provide for “total defense.” Mr. Roosevelt called attention to pending measures for compulsory military training and the training of personnel for defense industries, | indorsing their principle. } “In this way,” he said, “we can {make certain that when this modern {materiel becomes available, it will [be placed in the hands of troops |trained, seasoned, and ready, and that replacement materiel can be guaranteed.” The President's new message brought the total of his appropriation and contract authorization requests to this session of Congress to about $10,000,000,000, a total entirely without precedent in the peacetime history of this country. Mr. Roosevelt outlined the immediate objectives of the new defense program as follows: 1. To carry forward the Navy expansion program designed to build up the Navy to meet any pos(Continued on Page Three)
LODGE BILL URGES 750,000-MAN ARMY
‘Makes Public Officials Eligible for Service.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P). | —Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.) today introduced a bill to provide for a highly-trained American army of 750,000 men, to be | conscripted from men 21 to 25 | years old. |" Senator Lodge's bill, in effect a [substitute for tHe pending Burke[Wadsworth Bill which the War
ciple would enable the Army to double its present authorized
Under the Lodge proposal, all men trained in the new army would be classified as reservists. They would be required to spend one vear in training, as against a period of eight months provided in the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. The measure also would make lic officials. Bill would exempt the Vice President, members of Congress, Cabinet officers, Justices of the Supreme Court and governors of states and territories.
eligible for military service all pub- |R The Burke-Wadsworth |3
Mediterranean, where both sides claimed the other fled after suffering heavy damage. London announced that the “battle has developed into a chase of Italian naval forces by the British.” There were no casualties among British ships, a communique added. Perhaps the greatest aerial conflict of the war raged along the British coasts as swarms of fighting planes and powerful anti-aircraft batteries attacked the Nazi bombing and fighting planes, reportedly shooting down three in as many minutes during one phase of battle. At the same time the German High Command in a special bulletin reported seven British bombers were shot down after an attempted attack on Amiens today.
Position of Russia Studied
While the Nazi-dominated French Parliament at Vichy went through the final stages of establishing a totalitarian constitution, Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano conferred with Hungarian Premier Count Paul Teleki and Ilungarian Foreign Minister Count Stefan Czaky at Munich, They discussed the Nazi-Fascist plans for a “new order” in the southeast, according to Berlin sources, and it was presumed that both Hungary's territorial claims on lumania and the position of Soviet Russia in the Balkans were surveyed thoroughly. There were persistent reports that a settlement between Iungary and Rumania was at hand, with Rumania ready to give up a slice of Transylvania to the Budapest Government. The main objective at present, however, is the preservation of peace in the Balkans in order to free Germany and Italy for the battle against Britain in the west. The British Admiralty today announced laying of a great mine field across the far northern Atlantic, designed to ward off German invasion attempts and hold the German fleet from the high seas while the British deal with the French and Italian fleets.
British Confident of Navy Victory
Outcome of the naval operations in the Mediterranean may be of greatest importance in that battle, and the British were described as confident of their ability to deal with the Italian fleet. Two British battle fleets steamed the narrow waters of the inland sea. One moved east from Gibraltar. The other plowed west from Alexandria and encountered an Italian fleet believed to comprise two battleships, many cruisers and escorting destroyers and submarines. Accounts of the ensuing battle in the Ionian Sea off
Crete were conflicting. The Italians admitted loss of the (Continued on Page Three)
Today's War Moves
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert The reason why French warships were not sent to British ports be fore Marshal Petain’s capitulation is contained, by inference, among documents purporting to have been captured in France and now issued in a new German White Book. The papers show that Gen. Weygand believed the Allies could win the war only by a complete and decisive military victory, which he sought in the Near East. The inference follows from this judgment of the French Generalissimo that once the French Army collapsed the Allied naval power was considered useless for winning the war, The fundamental reason for not handing over the French fleet to the Brit-
which had so easily conquered their own troops. They seem to have become convinced that with the French Army out of war there was no hope for the British Empire. Thus, the disposition of the French fleet became a subordinate matter, not worth a serious quarrel with Germany over armistice terms. Petain and Weygand must have reasoned that they had lived up to their agreement with Great Britain when they obtained German consent not to use the French warships against the British.
MARKET DECLINES IN LIGHT TURNOVER
New York stock prices declined irregularly today and volume continued around its recent light levels. {There was a tendency for prices to move out of the narrow area in sev-
ish thus seems to have been the same as the rear Mr. Massh son why the
A military victory anywhere on land they believed impossible after France capitulated, and that meant
French Government did not move to North Africa and continue the war from a colonial base instead of surrendering. The two negative actions were taken because the French leaders considered furtherresistance to Germany would be hopeless.
eral instances. Bonds were narrowly mixed in light turnover. Wheat prices eased while corn and cotton gained. Sugar futures developed strength, especially the world #®utures—war staple.
Weygand and Petain apparently had become dazed by the overwhelming defeat of their armies. Judging the position solely from their military standpoint they were awed into a belief in the invincibility of the German war machine
to them the certainty that the Germans would win in the end at sea. Why, therefore, bother too much about the fleet? The French armistice negotiators wanted. the best terms possible, and they did not wish to enrage the Germans by allowing French warships to be used against Germany after France's surrender. Too. there may have been resentment among French generals who believed British military help had beep insufficient. .
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