Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1940 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 183,

GREAT BRITAIN'S LIFE LINE' GUT, ITALY ASSERTS

Fleet Damaged, Chased Into Egypt by Bombers, Rome Reports.

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when sent to the bottom in one month. In the aerial attack on the British Isles, the German High Command again claimed to have efficiently bombed many important arms factories, harbors and airfields, includ-

ing such vital centers as Portland,

Newport and Dundee quays and Billingham and Newcastle factories British censorship still concealed names of towns bombed by the Germans but reported continued heavy raids, which the London air ministry said were matched by British bombing attacks on German military objectives. The Germans dumped 24 high explosive and 100 incendiary bombs on one village in northeast England this morning. On the other side of the island thev killed one person and wounded two in a town in Wales

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The plane, which has five cabins in the central section

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Here is the second of two uncensored dispatches on Russia.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Russia Strengthens Its Frontier at Japan's Door

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| and four sleeping compartments in the wings, has a cruising range of about 1900 miles and cruising speed of about 131 miles per hour. The streamlined wheels are more than 6 feet high.

Activity in East

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PETAIN NAMES | S HER --JUST IN CASE

French Reported Ready to Tie Franc to Dollar | | At 2.3 Cents.

GRENOBLE, France, July 13 (U, | P.) —Marshal Philippe Petain, 84-| | year-old “Chief of State” of France under the new Fascist-like governs. ‘ment, made Vice Premier Pierre Laval his official heir today in event, | that anything happens to him, pending enactment of a new constitution. If anything happens to Laval, he | |ordered, a second heir should be [named by the Council of Ministers. |

It was reported unofficially that (the Government had decided to! value the franc at 43.30 francs to {the dollar (about 2.3 cents a franc.) | Berlin reported that the French | Government intended to tie the [franc definitely with the dollar instead of the British pound sterling. In his decree making Laval his heir, Petain said: “We, Philippe Petain, Marshal of |France and Chief of the French!

War Refugee

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Times-NEA Teleohoto Waiting for “history to clarify itself” is Maurice Maeterlinck, re nowned European dramatist and author of “The Bluebird,” who arrived in New York a penniless refugee, his gray wig encased in a hairnet.

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| |Hopkins Is Reported | | (Continued from Page One) | | vention would renominate the Presfe dent if he will assent. | In the absence of any word from [the White House, but with two of [the President's closest followers already here, the delegates pouring into this convention city assumed {that he would. | Meanwhile, Democratic platform makers heard representatives of farmers today. . Edward A. O'Neal, president of {the American Farm Bureau Federation, was the chief witness at the second day of hearings by a reso=[lutions committee which hopes to | present its work for convention ape |proval Wednesday night. Wallace on Committee Secretary of Agriculture Henrv A, | Wallace is the Iowa member of the (resolutions committee and there (have been reports that he may urge lan agricultural plank broad enough

Italy Claims Many Ships Italy said in her communioue to-

ALSO ‘ICE MAN' day that Italian planes were still _, . . bombing British warships in the Finds Time to Aid Husband Mediterranean. The communique bs admitted that one Italian destroyer | In Addition to Her Household Duties.

had been sunk by a British bom(Continued from Page One)

By PETER C. RHODES United Press Staff Correspondent TOYKO, July 13 (U. P.) —Russia regards China's fight against the (Japanese as a “just war” and is intensively strengthening her military | {and naval forces in the Far Bast. { In line with that attitude the Soviets have massed strong forces in [ the maritime provinces of Siberia and are working night and day to (build up the region's population and industry. It has all the aspects of the western United States in the —— — bom days of westward ho. The question I was asked frequently on a trip across Soviet Union was: “Will the United States enter the war and will she decide to give open aid to China as the frst step in her national defense?” Despite Russia's sympathy and

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to permit Government fixing of farm prices if economic develop= [ments resulting from the war ine | terfere with the present crop pro |grams.

| State by law of July 10, 1940, order we that if for whatever reason we are ROOSevelt Plan to Mobilize hindered from the execution of the! : : Plea; naeces of Chief of State before 50,000 Waits Action ‘the execution by the nation of a By Congress (Continued from Page One)

Crowd Departs on Of Prosecutor After All-Night Vigil.

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new constitution, M. Pierre Laval. | [Vice President of the council shall |assume this function with full rights.

The farm state vote is important. Republicans express confidence that [the off-year special election iesults ‘were indicative of a Republican trend in the corn belt which will carry over until November and aid in the election of Wendell L. Wille kie. Guy Warren, a Texas Democrat, today began a campaign, which he said has support in Texas, to gain the Democratic nomination for Mr, Willkie. “The nomination of Willkie by | the Democrats,” Mr. Warren said, Gen. Marshall testified in connec- | “will eliminate a disorganizing and [tion with the Burke-Wadsworth Bill | viciously-confected political camand ports on the Mediter-| to: universal miiltary and home de- paign and insure national solidarity including North Africa, un- | fense training for all men between |with a bold, vigorous front for the

bardment. It said six more British] airplanes had been shot down, four at Molave in Bast Africa The location of the British warships under attack was not given Earlier Italy had claimed that the British Mediterranean fleet had fled to Egyptian ports with Italian planes chasing them all the way Italy claimed that her warships and airplanes had sunk one and possibly two battleships, four destroyers and five submarines from the British Mediterranean fleet; had damaged another battleships, and aircraft carrier, three submarines and two cruisers and had chased the surviving British warships into Egyptian ports Sapping Britain, Nazis Say I'ne Germans claimed to have sunk 4.329000 tons of British shipping since the war started. They said the losses were sapping Britain't strength and breaking down her morale on the eve of the blitzkreig on the British Isles The Germans said that 90 per cent of Britain's imports of bauxite, essential to the manufacture of aluminum for airplanes, had been cut off by the conquest of France and the stoppage of shipments from Greece, the sources of supply. The Germans also said that Britain faced an oil shortage because of her tanker ship losses and that vast amounts of fuel consumed by British airplanes patroling the coast and guarding convovs Britain's plight in was reported improving, however It was reported that she had reached an understanding with Japan over the shipment of war materials to China over the Burma Road. Japan had demanded the closing of the road and the British had feared a Japanese assault on| Hongkong R. A. F. Claims Many Hits I'he British air ministry said its planes were retaliating with bombing raids in Germany and a Maiseille newspaper reported that the French feared an attack. presumably by the British, on their great Mediterranean naval base. Toulon. where most of the remnant of the French fleet was based. The report said that Toulon danger zones had heen cleared of civilians The British said their planes had Attacked the German - occupied Dutch airdrome at Waalhaven for two hours, causing many fires and!

| from 13 states—came after a conSuggests Second Heir ference between Mr. Roosevelt and

| soldiers were at work every day re- UP fhe en RNG took MOY rte In the event that Pierre Laval is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. inforcing these positions. | Martinsville jai OE EI tae

ter C. Eckert and two State Troop-|hindered for any reason whatso-! It followed by only a few hours, On my train going East were large a5 went along. ever, he would be replaced by a !€stimony before the Senate Milinumbers of naval and military dias i moon : : tary Affairs Committee by Gen. officers. There were also groups of A ker Sd he xpecia ve pes 501 appointed by the Council of George C. Marshall, Army Chief of workmen and technicians going to . Crises ASAIN: , | Ministers by sev

. en votes (out of a Staff, that the entire militia should | the maritime provinces under three- didn’t know what the charges would total of 13).

; Until his investment be mobilized “right now” and that ; A § w have con- | : i¥s year contracts with very favorable he He Sad De ould have to co |the Council would carry out the some form of compulsory military | interest in the Chinese cause it was VeFas,

The tw 4 wer had beats a1 functions.” [training is “immediately essential.” : : 8 ; am ‘ “ 1e two other men ha “| A special decree placed the ports | my impression that if the United They ho headed for the “boom ,. ted last night when they ven-!u¢ Bir Nantes a ae po: States and Great Britain abandon towns” which are springing up al-| ed out of the hall and passed the ; all aid to the Chinese, the Soviets Most overnight throughout the re-

a thot saluti ' Rouen, | hh ag without saluting may swiftly seek to conclude a non. 8ion. They said that the growth of

ranean, Authorities said they didn't know! ger , ; ageression pact with Japan. (the towns and cities in the past der the admiral of the French fleet. | 15 ang 65 years of age. He said the hostile world." The object of that would be to four years had been almost un-

whose idea it was to send the mes-| i senger into the hall. Many in the il, Tow SOY oi, SI | militie should be increased to 400.- Hotels were filling today and divert Japan away from the in- believable, ir crowd said they believed a few men announced his ministers last night. 0 el by Suavien of trainees af- TY Sai opie Br Mote of terior of Asia toward the South Conditions, surprisingly, seemed had come over from Plainfield and | ected by the Measure. ove land a iC leadership and. .ran Pacific and to free Russia of the better in Siberia than in old Russia. started the action which originally | He made iL clear that the Gov- and le. Tammany Hall's hoss possibility of simultaneous involve-' Many of the new towns have large had been planned for next Tuesday tars | platy W SHEistanlie: roan, Served ment in Europe and the Far East. factories and I saw building activi- night. 1 oon ~ ze ! s ) ; - ‘ . : ae] st : ” aval, vice premier; Gen. 3 e , ’ i . Meantime, the Soviet Union i! ties going forward in Sverdlovsk. Wevgard fon G Masime rarely and Sem [he mselines of ay deogution was solid for the making a major effort to strength- Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Biro- €Y8and, defense, and Adrien warfare iha we ° urned: out, imi oo, ~ en her Far Eastern position. bid jan, Kharbarosk. and Vliadi- the Plainfield ATREioan Legion Marquet, interior. Other ministers Hnder the SIH ,000, 00 “total de- onvenes Noon Monday Nadivas AW ral v : wy! e ense program. At noon Monday, the conventi nat gg 0 Ried I ee Fete is so heavy on the trans | Post said that Legion members who{2r: | Presidential power to mobilize the convenes, but not until aii I I J ands, VIE ha txt ss} ie ;.| Vere there were there as citizens) Foreign affairs, Paul Baudoin| National Guard for extensive train- when the nominating speeches will naval port there were 30 Sov iet | Siberian that the roadbed is suffer- |, oc Legionnaires. No one was in| (retained); finance, Yves Bouthillier [ing training awaits Congressional Ibe in order, wiil Mr. Roosevelt | warships, including a small squad-| ing. We passed many gangs of r, wi . sevelt have ron of new light cruisers and many | maintenance workers, I saw two

uniform. | (retained); war, Gen. Georges Col-|action on the May Bill [t : is mi i The only others besides the two son (retained): Navy, Admiral 13: detiste: hig mind. It Wasspossiq large destroyers of about 1500 tons. wrecks in the course of the trip. I saw many submarines go out each! We met two crowded prison trains

d The measure, introduced several|ple that he would declare hime ov . enue out of the hall last Francols Darlan (retained); air, weeks ago by Chairman Andrew J. self before then night before the meeting became an| Gen Bertrand Pujo (retained); |M , : ilitarv irs ; : . ; ‘ ‘ . » May of the House Military Affairs . . day for practice maneuvers in the! taking exiles to the northeast and endurance contest were an elderly | public instruction and arts, Emile Commit iee would iy him to Herat Sn Senajer Juries six days 1 was there ; several times I saw prison gangs man and his wife. The husband | Mireaux: youth and family, Jean call out the Guard for an indefinite | the convention it was said, as the the hills around Viadivostok are working on the railroad under saluted and mumbled the oath and Ybarnegaray; colonies, Henry Le- period for training and other pur- emissaries of the President. The draft strongly fortified and companies of guard they drove away in an auto of an- mery; justice, M. Alibert, and agri- poses, so long as the militiamen | Roosevelt forces were being organs het A - cient vintage culture and nourishment, M. Ca- are not used outside continental er 2 dershi The crowd of townspeople grew ziaux ized under their leadership. as the word spread of a “little ex~| president Albert Lebrun, whose

: T . / WwW M United States, the Panama Canal Mr. Hopkins is said to be ithe : Zone or U. 8. insular possessions. convention pipe-line to the White O ay S ar oves [citement on Main St office was abolished under the new PEDESTRIAN STRUCK Alle er wa tte LL

It also permits the President to House and Senator Byrnes is said United Press War Expert to retire to the country. INE. SIDE VIADUCT

merge National Guard and regular 'to be the floor manager for the Farmers, housewives and children _ a———— army wks jeg terms. Italian claims that the British Mediterranean fleet has heen Who hadn't enjoyed such excite- | “bottled up” are contradicted by a French announcement that Toulon ment in years walked up and down | is alarmed over thé" possibility of bombardment by British warships.! the street. When nothing happened | 2 Frank Barnes started to cross B. he fralians say massed air attacks are forcing the British to con-!by midnight the crowd dwindled to H A V E Y 0 U H E A ® D T H E N k Ww S a Washington St. this morning in the | centrate their warships at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, but about 50 darkness under Belt Railroad (he great French naval base of Toulon is near the western end. Italian! Somebody started a bonfire in tisex in the 3500 Block. A minute later naval itnlligence thus seems to lack ° Hiiddle bi Ole Sires! 0 rep mem] he was struck an automobile | Mormation possessed by the more trust in the security of their aay 8s | I ght) driven by William E. Dixon, 17. of 328 N. Oriental St Witnesses said Mr. Barnes did not look “well enough” in the direc-

Frghch of the French fest that fs Narbors than in the effectiveness of A gawn the crowd began to grow beyond British control is concen- their gunfire. It is natural for the again and scores of people peered Italians to be reluctant to challenge into the hall from the second floor tion from which the car was coming. He in the City Hospital shock ward in eritical condition

trated at Toulon ‘ind r . One of the ma- British sea power in the Mediterra- Windows of an apartment building | across the street The Witnesses Italian naval With a possible fractured skull, and internal injuries

jor problems of t ! nean to open combat closed the shutters on the He was on his way to his home

the British com. strategy is based on speed more hall windows ‘ 53951, ichi ] " had heavily bombed the Texel Island | or 1525: E. Michigan St. from the

mander-in-chief : in the Mediter- than on offensive combat. Farmers, hands in overall pockets, Italian warships are faster than chewed tobacco, talked about the) and Haamstaade air bases, both jn] Ser BR Nagame co, o Holland. They also bombed muni-{ >= = RON i rE hb

ranean is to pre-| ’ ; ; ‘ ices of m pr ts, W f vont Jane Sor. | he British by a maximum of two Willkie By he TS el he hee , - . ’ tions works at Ludwigshafen and 1ad been working until 10 a. m Cologne, Germany:

prise naval Sor= | vn . a ; : (knots per hour. But, to gain this roetviile’ tie from Toulon! p 8 | Mooresville's dogs. blast furnaces at Sieburg, a factory at Mutterstads

which the Ger. | Superiority armament has had to be Samaritan Gels Water mans might di- sacrificed. The British ships can give rect. Constant and take more punishment than the See ey that a ype wate over . ok Fibs the people in the ha were mngry, NC eh has to Isaiah, bu} they ag get away as at least thirsty, and there was nol and factories in Strasbourg. France be maintained quickly when in distress. The vater up there . the Air Ministrv said which may hamper British concen- Italians can maneuver more rapidly A Good Samaritan went up with The German high command said tration of effort in the Mediter- in a sea fight. If an Italian fleet of a bucket of drinking water. that British bombers attacking Ger- ranean against the Italians. superior tonnage were to encounter Then pretty soon Prosecutor man objectives had “destroved several houses and killed several civilans in north Germany last night. and that 13 British planes were shot down

It would be good naval strategy, 4 lighter British squadron. the Foley Kopsared and made his fronttherefore, if the British could dam- Jtalians would +have a falr chance St€P speech effectively as to put it out of action enemy, but the British have shown Citement anyhow and Saturday is 3 —— — for an indefinite period. no disposition to fall into such a Pretty busy day in this town, / / |so strongly fortified as Toulon,| Trustworthy details of Italian air however, would be very difficult, attacks on British warships are WHEN HOIST FALLS! air offensive would scem to be the ish “naval formation” was attacked DEATHS TO DATE cnly method open to the British, from the air and then divided into! PT WAYNE. Ind. July 13 (U.P). | County City Total he with their own warships. ferent speeds can be acepted as evi- crushed to death vesterday when | ) The fact that the French are dis- dence that air power has not yet the hoist of the dump trunk he Was | 39 62 cates some British plan to remove To divide a squadron and cause’ the frame of the truck. the Toulon danger is being made. the units to develop different speeds! The accident occurred on U 8S holding to cautious tactics, placing attack bv dissipating the target, Abhoite. ‘White H Calling Smoke Filled R ite Mouse Calling Smoke Filled Room! He coated with banter the infer-)would be a help with the Senate in ence that he was not in contact'a new administration.

age the French fleet at Toulon s0 of inflicting heavy losses on the Ihe crowd had had enough exAn attack against a land base trap. ~ r DRIVER iS KILLED Long-range bombardment and an|lacking. Italian claims that a BritHere Is the Traffic Record who cannot afford to take chances' three groups and moved off at dif- __ jesse Earl Wisel, 26. Roanoke. was 20 2% 47 quieted over a possible attack indi- caught up with naval defense, driving fell and pinned him against | Meanwhile, Italian warships are is the naval answer to a superior air Route 24, about one mile south of! ! k ’ . . Ch ® r Harry Hopkins Answering in Chicago! there. The visitor leaves with no definite

while when Fred sasses me. I don't like that.” But, oddly, they smiled at other, The Andersons open the station at 6 a. m. and usually close it around 8 or 9 in the evening. After that they go home for dinner and Mary Anderson does her housework They have no time for hobbies, said Mrs. Anderson, “We don't run around added her husband. “Fact of the time we're too tired.” Mrs. Anderson was quick to point out that she doesn't do the family laundry. “I send it out,” she says simply In the ice business for 14 years, she doesn't look old enough to be the mother of two children—Mary Lou, 11, and Sandra, 7—and you'd have a hard time guessing her age She's 20. Mary Anderson has found time to start her children on hobbies, Sandra studies dancing and Mary Lou has just about conquered the mysteries of the guitar Indianapolis’ only icewoman was hesitant about talking. She said she feared a “ribbing” in “The Icicle,” the Polar trade paper. She didn’t explain, though, how she'd find time to read “The Icicle’ even if it did “rib” her,

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having.” and a joke or two. they interview the interviewer. These old-liners are merely part of the scenery, like the manners and the Texas sombreros, for it is appropriate that an old custom, like having a lot of politicians around a convention, should be continued In a hotel room across the street sits a man who used to have much

to say about the Democratic Party

{—eating his heart out as he goes (about the chores of providing the jmechanical trappings for a Democratic convention, for he still {Democratic National Chairman—in name He keeps up a cheerful front, does Jim Farley, but his lightning repartee with the newspaper reporters, which wag never better. hides inner sorrow and bitterness He does it so skillfully that he does not seem to be straining. You could easily toss a nice red apple across the street from the

_%2 window of the Hopkins suite to that

of Jim Farley. But the little gap may never be bridged. At least it will not be in

teacher.” No love is lost between Harry and Jim. | Spying a newly arrived newspaper (woman from Washington in the {crowd at his press conference, Jim wanted to know from her

“Is that the situation?” someone asked before the newspaper woman could reply. “That's what it looks like.” Jim answered. “Have you seen Harry Hopkins?” came an inquiry, “No—is he here?” Jim shot back. “Do you intend to see Hopkins?” “I'm ready to meet all comers,” Jim replied, with a gesture and a | grin, Later, when the question was raised again, he said: | “I'm staying right here at head-| |quarters, and I'll be very glad to see | Harry Hopkins.” | “You rank above him in the Cabinet, don't you?” “It depends on what you mean,” Jim answered with a laugh, The visitor ta Mr. Hopkins’ suite finds that gentleman as pleasantly non-committal as any old-type Tammany politician. He fences with the interviewer about the President's plans, about the Vice ‘Presidential candidate. The times call for a different type of running! mate than ordinarily. Might that! mean Secretary of State Cordell {Hull> Mr. Hopkins’ face becomes! the poker type. Will the second man be a strict New Dealer, such as Associate Jus | tice Douglas, or a man from the! conservative wing, perhaps Senator! Byrnes? It depends on whether yvbu |

(want a vote-getter or a map who!

answers, only mysterious hints hard to translate He also leaves with the strong | impression that the New Dealers intend to make only such gestures as are absolutely necessary toward the conservative wing of the party, How far they will have to go will depend on what Senator Byrnes, the liaison man, discovers as he talks with the other side. For the New Dealers are in com- | mand and pale-faced Harry Hop-! kins has the say. The other “Presidential candi- | dates” at this convention—and the | phrase is used hereabouts only ironically—have hung out their banners, and the conservatives are! gathering, too. But it is all like the of a one-ring circus, drab and pathetically ludicrous. Only the Vice Presidential candidates are lively. They plot and whisper and hope and get their pictures taken for the local papers. It's hard to keep count of them. Incoming delegates move about | in a fog. | One from Georgia uttered the i i

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general complaint. “I can’t find out what's going on,” | he said. “Nobody seems to know. | The word has passed around that the Secretary of Commerce—what's his name?—oh, ves, Hopkins, Harry | Hopkins is going to tell us wh) to do.” ‘

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