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FRIDAY, JULY

AZIS STEP U BRITISH RAID TOLL MOUNTI

12, 1940

Workers Search Bomb-Wrecked British Homes

30 More Killed, Censorship

Hides Extent of Fury; 6 Bombers Downed.

(Continued from Page One)

tion could maintain a peaceful position Almost every rope pointed toward a further steady merease in the German-Italian offensive against Britain, which fought back with bombardment of German

bases in France and the low countries and fierce counter-attacks on the Nazi aerial armada swarming over the British Isles. Hour by hour the toll of death and destruction appeared to be mounting behind a screen of censorship as the British sought to smash Adolf Hitler's reported preparations for an mvasion of England and the Germans increased the fury of their aerial at tack The German ing and

were spreadto villages ction. Farm incendiary slain with of the

raiders from ecitie 5 without dist Ignited by and cattle Few

disa farm buildings bombs, horses

™ gun

fer were machine

country escaped Yesterday's

Areas

estimated at 30 persons Killed and hundreds wounded, had not been compiled before the raiders were hack again over the east cna They were striking in davlight now.

toll

and

King Has Narrow Escape

British censorship permitted only the location of stricken towns revealed, but apparently the easten of England was being hit hardest In that region are Norfolkshil amous market-gar-dens: Yorks s grazing lands, mill and barre gloomy moors; lush meadows Essex; Northumberland fi villages and Durhan King Georg cape when

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IN INDIA

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Plan nec Dut

County Total

47 11 Aceidents Arrests THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURY

Cases Convie tried tions

~July 1} 0

Injured Dead

Fines 3

Violations Speeding Reckless Farlure ta ‘thraugh

driving ston at street Nisaheving traf signals Dranken driving. All others

Totals

MEETINGS TODAY

YF arhange Clb 1 Optimist Cinh Club

Reserve Officers UIA Gl

noon Board of "Phi, Delta, Theta. Canary 66 Delta Tan Delta, Columbia Kappa Sigma, ( Cott

ARE, noon Club, noon age, noon

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These 1isty are from officia) records in the County Court House. The Times therefore. 1s not responsible for errors in

names and addresses.)

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Nabgare:

BIRTHS

Girls

2b E. Georgia,

development in Eu-

Workers search

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Revocation of Licenses Is Asked by Better Business Bureau Head.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS FORT (CARTY and

warmer famarraw

~Fair fanight

famnrraw Slightly ranler tanizht.

Snnarise 3:28 Sunset

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TEMPER ATO 19 kh i BAROMETER 0.0%

July n TODAY

6:30 a. m

Prec piat 10Nn 2% hours ree DI! Ation Since De Actes Sine: Jan. 1 MIDWEST WEATHER Tndiana—TFair tonight an cept some cloudiness in portion tonight: cooler onight, warmer tomo

I tomorrow extreme south

eX south portion row Nlinois—Fair tonight cept some cloudiness portion tonight; cooler portion tonight; wa Lower Michigan morrow; warmer Ohio—Generally fair tonight and row, except light rain in extreme south portion ronight, somewhat cooler in south portion tonight. comtinued cool tomorrow; Sunday fair with moderate temperature Kentucky Cloudy and cooler with showers this afternoon and in east and central portions tonight. tomorrow generally fair and continued cool; Sunday fair with moderate temperature WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES. 6:30 A. M, Station Weat hey Ba Temp Amarillo, Tex PtClay 0.04 A Bismarck, N. D PLeIAy Boston Ram Chicago Clear Cincinnati ( Cleveland Cloudy Den Daodae City Jackson Kansas C Little "Rot k I Angele Fla Ala Orleans York oma ©

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ruins of wrecked homes for one of the continuous Nazi air raids on the British Isles.

FRAUD LAID TO °°

| German-held territory.

casualties following This wreck-

In War's W

LONDON, July 12 (1sh air and ground forces downed seven German planes today as Swastika-marked squadrons swept over the Isles from the south coast of England to northeast Scotland in the most persistent air attacks of the wa Amidst Admiralty precautions by

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alarms the anti-mvasion ordering measures to disable anv vessels likely to fall mto German hands and the Home Mmistry forbade the employment of alien: of any nationality in certain imaustriez in certain sections without pects] permi The seventh German airplane 1oss of the dav occurred in southeast England when six Roval Air Force fighters chased a German bomber Ma with bursts machine aun fire forced it down in open country German planes shot down today brought the among attacking forces to 31 planes during the past two days, Four of the bombers shot were from a squadron of 12 was attacking shipping Last night the British conducted extensive raids on Germany and Three British

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nf Yash losses

down which

did not return.

PRESIDENT STUDIES CALLING UP GUARD

(Continued from Page One) he would want to call up from 300.000 to 400.000 men immediately and a siimlar number next April, and then added enigmaticallt “That 1s if we can wait until next April. We mizht ind that we have to move April np to Januar Gen. Marshall «aid that on Ort 1. 1941, he would want to call up AON NON more Men. making a total of 1.200.000 to 1490600 new men under military mstruection

Indiana Firms Get $327,036 War Orders

Three Indiana firms were awarded contracts totalling $317.028 from War Department funds appropriated for the 1940 and 1941 fiscal vears. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson announced today at Washington, They were

planes

that

the International Stacey Corp... Wabash, $20.949; (Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, $165.1073, and the Marmon-Herrington ye Indianapolis, $99.678.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U.P) President Roosevelt's $4.800.000.000 defense message contemplates funds and contract authorizations to give the Army a fleet of about 6000 modern tanks, nearly double the striking force previously authorized, War Department officials said todav

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age is on the eastern coast where 11 persons were killed by the German

bombs.

ven Nazi Planes Downed

orst Air Attack

King George and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, disclosed were among the millions of Britons who were endangered by and machine gun bullets the raiders rained on towns and countryside Between 20 and 30 persons had been killed, at Jeast, and hundreds wounded in raids during the last 24 hours. Fourteen were killed and 47 wounded in one coast town vesterday King George was at an east coast when German homber head. Neither the King troops went to shelters Prime Minister Churchill and coastal de fense troops he was inspecting in southeastern England area took shelters when German planes bombed them. Many of the German planes now used diving tactics, and followed up ther incendiary and high explosive hombs with machine gun fire. They were using whistling bombs in hope of terrorizing the populace. The planes came in continuous waves, splitting their formations after they had crossed the coast and operating singly so as to spread destruction and, thev hoped, terror over as wide a range as possible

WILL-HE?

Democrats, | Give

You Wendell Willkie

it was

the bombs

mspectineg hy oop vesterda flew nor

foun over fhe

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DALLAS. Tex Guy Warren, a Corpus Chr oilman who 1s state chairman of the Nominate Willkie Demon erats sald today that the nom mee of the Republican Party would he placed in nomination hefore the Democratic national convention at Chicago next week Mr, Warren said a member the Texas delegation would nominate Mr. Willkie. He refused to identify the delegate

AETNA T0 INCREASE RATES ON INSURANCE

HARTFORD, Conn. July U P.) —The Aetna Life Insurance Co. today announced because of decreasing revenues from investments it will increase rates for insurance and endowment sold after Sept. 1, The insurance company however, that increased would mean greater policies The Aetna concern now wiil culate its non-participating ums on a rate of interest cent instead of the 3', per serve basis now in effect

July 12 (UU. P)

1st)

12 that

life policies

added premiums cash value of

prem3 per

of 3 cent re-

ONLY QUESTION WHO FOR NO. 2

Dozen Men Are Mentioned For the Vice Presidency; Start on Platform.

(Continued from Page One)

faction of a a hloe of otherwise the head

the losing fight to attract partv workers which might he unfriendly the ticket

Dozen Men Mentioned

thrown to convention

to of

i= a differ

there

there thing 1s the opinion that the oh and there that any of 1

time one held is a killing some quarters man could survive 12 years For another, Mr. Roosevelt might want a ticket-mate to whom he could turn over the White House later, in event of his election, with confidence that the New Deal would prevail Perhaps a dozen mentioned here for dency. They include William B. Bankhead Senator Joseph F. Byrnes, Carolina; Federal Security istrator Paul V. McNutt, Indiana; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace. Towa; Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Washington: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Tennessee; House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, Texas Governor Lloyd C. Stark, Missouri Senator Scott W. Lueas, Illinois, and others Conservatives Have Stake Highly placed Democrats helirve Mr Roosevelt would like Dougla the A4l-vear-old Supreme Court

Rut this ence For generally Presidency is doubt in

still

men are being the Vice PresiSpeaker Alabama; South Admin-

well

[1932 | N. | haps

FD. R. REMAINS

SILENT ON EVE

TWO BAD

OF CONVENTION

Plans No Visit to Chicago Where Draft Movement Gains Momentum.

(Continued from Page One)

Republicans to their meeting

Philadelphia. Mr.

at |

{

Roosevelt emphasized that he|

is hard at work on national defense

and other dency to such a degree that he has no time to worry about what goes on at Chicago. He said that during his trips to Hyde Park he can keep in close touch with developments here by long distance telephone and can return to the White House in seven hours if necessary. During his cruises down the river, he said, he/ always remains close to the Marine | base at Quantico, Va., where he can| get instantaneous with the White House Already Accepted as Candidate Cruises down the river and occasional trips to Hyde Park, he said. represent his entire travel for the rest of the summer a reporter asked whether this

problems of the Presi-|

communication |

program | When | rule |

would apply regardless of what oc-|

Chicago, Mr. Roosevelt re-

curs at

plied that after all he still is Presi-/

dent. of the United States As for the immediate present, and that he might send a to the convention, Mr Roosevelt said he had no thoughts on the convention one way or another But the President already has been generally accepted as a candidate. Speculation here has shifted to the manner in which he will accept the nomination which the delegates assembling in Chicago are ready to give him. Only Farley Shares Secret

only two men know the President's plans—Mr. Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley, But most of the Cabinet and other high Government officials were en route to Chicago to strengthen the already overwhelming draft movement John A. Mack, New York attorney who nominated Mr. Roosevelt in and 1936. leaves Poughkeepsie, Y., for Chicago tomorrow-—pers-with a third nominating address in his brief case Since Mr. Roosevelt declined to discuss his plans today. the alternative appeared to he. A quick trip to Chicago to tell the convention in person, a letter telegram to Mi Farlev or some other party leadei at the convention, or a radio address to the delegates. I'he President could decline the nomination. Major party leaders considered such a possibility fantastic and Democratic members of

Presumably,

7 oo the House acted to make a rejection more difficult.

Repeating Speeder Gets Double Dose

TWICE UP IN a month proved disastrous to William Reasonover, 31, of 402 W. Walnut St, in Municipal Court today. He was arrested last night on

a charge of speeding at 38th and Meridian Sts. On July 1, he had been arrested for speeding on Northwestern Ave, and was placed on probation. “You've got a lot of nerve coming in here twice in a month” was the greeting Reasonover got from Judge Charles Karabell. On last night's charge Reasonover was assessed $1 and costs, given a five-day jail sentence and his license to drive suspended for 90 days. A $1 and costs on the old charge brought the total fines to $22,

THIRSTY GROPS HAVE A DRINK

And There Were Numerous Other Good Points in That Storm.

(Continued from Page One)

seems (oo and there

have touched only here The corn seems to have

[been undamaged and should benefit

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aver

the rain City lawns perked up with shower, too, and a new green crept into the spots that had been slowly browning. Citizens swapped stories about the lightning which struck several places and set minor fires Only three persons were reported injured. Junius Meadows, 22: Lester Baldwin, 43, and his son, Bryan, 10, all of 1326 Hiatt St, were injured when their car went out of control in a gust of wind on Road 67 near Tibbs Ave. and into ditch. They were treated at Hospital. Electric power off in several

City

was momentarily sections of the Cily and lightning struck the WIRE at 42d St. and Ralston putting the station off the air 58 minutes.

Road, for

NEW YORK, July 12 (U, P)--A rain and electrical storm that spread the metropolitan area lasi night. driven hy a wind dwindled foday to a drizzle, leaving behind if flooded cellars, street cave-inz broken windows At least one death and zcores mjuries were attributed te the storm, the worst of the year, which broke a heat wave and sent the temperature tumbling 20 degrees in one hour. The dead man was Evans, 70, who suffered a heart tack when lightning struck him

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George

ANTI-WAR PLANK

MAY SHUT OFF 30 PARTY TALK

Wheeler and Clark Pleased By Foreign Stand as Drafting Begins.

CHICAGO, July 12 (U. P.).—150= lationist Democrats predicted today their party's 1940 platform would contain a strong anti-war plank which would dispel threats of a third party, campaigning on a peace issue Senator Burton Mont.), himself a Presidential nomination if dent Roosevelt does not run, that he had been assured that the would contain a pledge send American troops to

K. Wheeler candidate for

(D. the Presi= said

not to

| Europe.

Woh this in the platform, Mr. eler said that he would support Er: the convention nomis nates Wagner Calls Meeting

Mr. Wheeler and Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, who also has been critical of Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy in the past, expressed Roosevelt's latest message to Congress which cone the strong anti-war lane guage The finished platform is expect= ed to be one on which Mr. Roosevelt can run for re-election. It will dee. fend the New Deal, and attack Ree publican performance and prome ises Resolutions Committee Chairman Robert FP. Wagner of New York called his group for its first infors mal meeting this afternoon to bes gin hearing planks proposed hy varie ous organized groups,

Murray Listed as Witness

C. I. O. Vice President Philip Murray probably will be among the first withesses Unlike C. I, O, President Lewis. Mr. Murray fae vors a third term for Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Lewis talked to the Republican platform mniakers, but he won't be here, American Federation of Labor President William Green and A. PP. of L. Secretary Treasurer George Meany also will suggest labor planks to the Democrats Approximately two score other ore ganizations and individuals, ine cluding the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Women's Party, and the Veteranz of Foreign Wars, have asked to be heard 1000 AMERIC ANS _ LISBON 12 (U. P.). <The liner Manhattan sailed for New York today accompanied by the United cruiser Trenton and the destroyer Dickerson and care rying more than 1000 American refugees from the war zone The Manhattan is due in New York Thur: day

Jul

States

hab Faually placed Dem acrats insist that canzervative which due he smashed! if Mr. Roosevelt seeks a thud | would. nevertheless, be able to| Ju Douglas’ nomina

the to

blae i] Aat term prevent stice tion Owing to the Vice President may succeed Presidency. there is just as at stake for the conservatives preventing New Deal control of party from being continued in such | a contingency as there is at stake for Mir. Roosevelt in attempting to assure that it would be. If Mr. Roosevelt refused to ae cept renomination most of the Vice | Presidential possibilities and some | others such as Senator Burton K. | Wheeler, Montana, would become | Presidential candidates and the | convention would be faced with a | confusing difficult situation Sena- | tor Wheeler is left off the list of] second-place eligibles largely becauze he savs he would not take that position. but

also because and Mr. Roosevelt are not good friends

that =» to the much | in | the |

possibility

Genial Jim Now Farley the Mechanical Man Who Performs His Duty With a Heavy Heart

(Continued from Page One)

newspapermen when, discussing arrangements, he spoke »f “the nomination’ mstead of “"Hominations” and, Blushing. quickly caught himself Before he was reminded and added, “T mean the plural instead of the singular.” Re fooled no one Now Jim sticks at the formalities He doesn't see why the “candidates” should not be placed in nomination, as usual, and the roll of states called, as usual, and evervthing be done regularly, as usual, instead of by acclamation You get the impression that some way, somehow, he hopes it won't come to pass—hopes against hope, refuses to let himself admit it even to himself, looks hungrily for a miracle. It was not s6 in 1932. Ther he vould gladly have dispensed with all the formalities Nineteen-thirty-two! thirty-two! back to that That was a vear when big Jim did not know ail there was to know about national politics. There were some things of which he was Blissfully ignorant Now he knows all--the disiliu- | stonment, the heartbreaks Tt a sad and human story of a man with the political instinets A Nnataral Horn politician if ever there was one—who made a discovery, the “political find” of the generation, in anather man with a

Nineteen-

(glamorous and compelling name in

politics— another Roosevelt.”

1 He had to have that

faith In the man. came

love for him that men

have for each athey Farley, Franklin D “the man Jim never bothered a great deal about Frank Roosevelt's views and Beliefs, what the word Bxperts call “social and economic philosophy,’ except that he knew Frank Roosevelt was for the common man, and s0 was Jim Farley He never bothered, either, until long afterward, about the measures | that President Roosevelt adopted to achieve his purpose There were other men who looked after that. (men who came to be called “the brains trust.” | They were not Jim's kind, but if the President wanted them around then Jim tolerated them. Jim did not understand their talk, but that was all right, too.

What Boss Said Was 0. K.

“If the Boss is for it for it,” was his creed. But then the other hove and some of them were little more than that-— moved toward the center of the picture, gathered like eagereved courtiers about the throne and began ta jostle Jim aside. They didn't like some of the tribe from which Jim had come—the pols iticians. They had no tolerance fo men who straved from the straight ANd Narrow path of New Dealism. as they imterpreted it And so came “the purge.” as it Iwas called, in 1938, when the Presi

rarely To Jim

Roosevelt was

Everything here goes,

, then I am

[ when,

divide the goat

from

{ried them

dent

he zaw the sheep

and

Jim never believed in that

gradually a coolness drew up

him and White House It as the courtiers bezan to talk about another term for President Roosevelt | Jim had ambitions man. They were never The President, frankly, eould see Jim Farley as his successor Jim would gladly take second place But that is not in the stars either

Prepares Way With Heavy Heart

So he sits here at his desk and | prepares the way, mechanically, and | after it is all over he will go his own | wav. No more the thrills f those davs in 1932, when there was suspense in the hotels along the lake [front as he himself has described it. men delighted "in wandering through the hotel corridors looking wise and whispering secretly about trades and agreements’ —and ‘I was working 18 or 19 hours a day, conversing with hundreds of people constantly consulting with other | leaders’ —when “I ate mv meals usually consisting of sandwiches | and milk, off a trav, and slept a few hours just before dawn if the! opportunity offered.” | No more | Just a man behind a desk with a | heavy feeling in his heart But smiling still for the world to see,

tween the man in the

wag accentuated |

too. He is hu-| encouraged not

| |

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