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—HowaRDY VOLUME 52—NUMBER 111 THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 at Postoffice, Indianapolis. nd.

‘NEW DEAL TICKET: F.D.R.-WALLACE

| President's Decision Expected in Radio Address at 8 P. M.

ERE, PPS DESRE > EXPECT [OWAN TO WIN BOS IPAS | ON 1ST COUNT TONIGHT;

The New York World-Telegram

today reprinted excerpts anerit the ¢ 4 weather from two reset, columns by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Spectacular Attack on The “on “June 28, the day after Wen- .

| Rock May Precede dell L. Willkie

received the

Nazi Blitzkrieg. Republic an a * a a | i nation, 3 aes | : i iv SOE ALEX MORRIS no newspaper 8&8. 3 REPLY T0 0 ALL White House Message _ i v i i rs. : United Press Foreign News Editor Reon tit ob - ‘a | Is Belne ni i

Great Britain stood her! served in her

ground doggedly against the golemn "My ia | Oa Convention. Axis powers’ war of nerves| “The weath- ~. § © ; pl Hon

, . «1 Ek n in Mrs. Roosevelt ‘to reduce the dangers of con AA rs | (U. P.)Thepress departs

flict with Japan in the Far, From her column for today, the | Where President Stays || i a8 ? ment of the Mutual Broad.

| day President Franklin D. Roose- . basi, velt was selected as the Demo- Close to Radio.

a : | ; casting System said today | German and Italian threats cratic candidate, The World-Tele- WASHINGTON. July 18 : a that President Roosevelt 3 it: rove) oted: x NGTON, uty : : against the British Isles were| gram qu : will k -adio add . ‘fs 0 1: | “This is the most delightful July [(U. P.). — President Roose-! make a radio address intensified but the blitzkrieg| (.ather that I can remember. a Ay at 8 o'clock (Indianapolis hc SH i ; velt, awaiting formal notifica- : ; ; e p invasion still was delayed. $ 8-4 . . I | : yo 4 Time) tonight Airplanes believed to be Italian| \EANWHILE, it was learned |tion of his renomination, pre- Ss. again oe Gg Cusine in Chicago that Mrs. Roosevelt pared today to acknowledge BY LVL some damage to the grea rush win “appear” before the Demo- | LPT weeds J; v y LYLE C. WILSON P the Jotification with a mes United Press Staff Correspondent

eT Ring ree VIALS, atid] cratic convention JORIBL, Se to the Chicago conven ; se - d | honed James Farley and said [sage (o the (Chicago ¢ en- . with his Axis allies by hinting that Jelep on 8) Friends had indicated |: g ; tous CHICAGO, July 18.—AdSpain wanted Gibraltar and former Bf Ym var be tion, followed by an historic ini North ~Alrican possessions, . thus {0 eT tt WOUS B8 WCE KC | ves or nd answer to the third ministration men in control of sessions, s ial” i ared before the § § CC Nab: ficial” if she appear ‘the 1940 Democratic National Convention today named a ‘ticket of Franklin D. Roose-

raising the threat of a spectacular convention after the President ‘ . itary rat > » ST rm in a radio address to the military blow at “The Rock. addressed the gathering from te . a x nation tonight. | Henry A. Wallace . . . Iowan gets

R. A. F. Strikes at Germany Washington | | » Ie : : | In the seclusion of his execufive| “green light from Roosevelt . managers. 'velt and Henry A. Wallace to

ported striking at German bases in office, Mr. Roosevelt received a _"'" —— daylight raids again and in Africa telephone call from Senator James y make an unprecedented third the Royal Air Force reported it had 5 | F. Byrnes (D. 8S. C.) informing him M NUTT IS OUT term bid for the White House. ¥

British bombing planes were re-

heavily bombarded the big Italian

Mr. Wallace's nomination will he

base at Tobruk, starting huge fires | that he 1s again his Party's choice and doing much damage. [for the Presidency. This was not | made at a convention session toe German raids on the British Isles | MINTON HINTS i

night. Indications were that the former Iowa Republican and Sece retary of Agriculture would go over

regarded as a formal notification, {continued at a slackened tempo, but | however there w some casualties in north-/ ~ : : east Scotland and some damage mn Senator Wires Hoosier ‘ Mr. Roosevelt planned to send a| | south Wales. : | ‘ [statement to Mr. Byrnes which the! : \ lon a first ballot sweep Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Wil Work for Your Vic- | south Carolina New Dealer will read Others Continue to Back The question of whether Mr.

told an angry House of Commons

that Britain's acceptance of Jap-| tory in November.’ to the convention. | Hoosier, Predict Second | Roosevelt would address a special

anese demands for cutting off war The statement through Mr ; convention session tonight by radio materials to China merely was for! WASHINGTON. July 18 (U. P.).— | Byrnes, however, probably will not | Ballot Victory. was still open. Senator James PF. (a three-months period, in which the tor Edward R "Burke (D. Neb). |Bive a yes or no answer to the Byrnes, one of the draft Rooseveit government would be ready to aid Sena a! DO today bolted the greatest political riddle of all times.| CHICAGO, July 18 (U. P.).— managers, said he would read to RN Ae pl, and equitable 1, oe tie. Party a announced 1b appeared more likely that it Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) |the convention this afternoon a peace in the Orient. aia rt of the Republican Presi- | ¥0uld be a formal acknowledgement today indicated after conferring| telegram from the President on the So far as has been indicated at Dis S! wo didate. Wendell L. Will- | @f his convention's draft and a word with Secretary of Commerce Harry third-term draft | Tokyo, the Japanese government dential candidate, fof thanks for the honor proferred I, Hopkins that the name of Fed-| Tentative procedure for today's

Franklin Delano Roosevelt » being formed by Premier Prince XI€ . her | him. | eral Security Administrator Paul V. Proceedings after a last-minute Fumimaro Konoye intends to pusi! Senator Burke, who was elected to It still was believed that the| pmeNutt would not be entered in SWitch was as follows:

ahead with a program of expansion the Senate for the first time in'., dent utilizing national radio : a] ; i view | Nominating speeches for Vice Ci Lah ; Cone] : , S , $ tial race in vie : ® | and of elimination of foreign in-|1934, was defeated for Eaton | networks, will transmit his MEET) ar yce lesiential rate 19 Mew Presidential candidates will be de ly, n P k H d/ St | fluence in the Far East, but this vear in Nebraska Primaries ¥| (Continued on Page Three) | of Secretary of Agriculture Henry livered at this afternoon's session, | ou g ar 00 um eq S Churchill pointed out that Britain! Governor Roy L. Cochran 5 ——— aac —~ A Wallace. 3 : |The convention will then recess (Continued on Page Three) Mr. Burke sent a telegram to Mr. | at ; : | until early evening, possibly 6 p. m. PROPHET'S ROLE S ® |G] F L d 12 em Willkie at Cqlorado Springs, Colo.,! “Will McNutt’'s name be with-| (Indianapolis Time) when the Vice advising him that he would “work MILKMAN KILLED IN drawn from the race?” Mr. Minton presidential ballot will be conducted | pecia asses rom a I for your victory at the polls in No-| was asked. : srr 1 Vi IT vember.” | “I suppose so,” the Senator veo, Roosevelt Notified ‘ A “Thus only may we make certain,” | CRASH AT CROSSING plied. “What the hell. He isn't Mr. Byrnes notified Mr ooseve Predicted 46 States for (Phots; Page 25) T0 HAVANA HINTED Mr. Burke said, “that never again] | or , Bocsevels ; 3 ! will any party or any individual be | s——— | Mr. Minton referred to Senator noon of his nomination. He said F.D.R.in 1936 hut Re- | BY HEFE V1ARR tempted to try to overturn the wide . * | Millard E. Tydings, Maryland, whose Mr. Roosevelt was sendin a teleA two-year battle to save the sight of 12-year-old Robert Parsons ee — precedent established by Washing- Charles Carter S Body Is name was placed in nomination for gram expressing his views which fuses 1940 Forecast. | by corrective glasses received a crushing setback yesterday when a young R He M D ._ ton, strengthened by Jefferson. = eport He May Dramatize Madioon, Monroe std Jackson, rg Pinned Under Wreckage. Fo Roosevelt's overwhelming ma-|He declined to say whether this upe CHICAGO, July 18 (U. P.) —Post- ‘ ; : cherishe y a mericans who | | jority. [set tentative plans for the President master-General James A. Farley, Although an oculist here is filling an emergency order for new Conference Sunday. | prize their freedom.” A New York Central freight train| Despite the statement from Mr. to make a radio address this evening. dent Roosevelt would carry 46 states afternoon, will have been without any for a full day. HAVANA, Cuba, July 18 (U. P).|verse reaction here from conserv- . fara nad | given up their fight for the nomin-| reported to be planning to fly west in 1936, today declined to forecast, Ten days without glasses, his —Reports circulated today that ative members of the Democratic and N. Sherman Drive crossing 10. | Elven RP. Let time before the il hg attend oe a Y ne a Roosevelt victory in 1940. loculist had warned him, would re- |jeavi i President Roosevelt would drama- Party to President Roosevelt's nom- day, instantly Killing the driver, co i.00 oo | session. “I am not at the moment in the|gult in either blindness in both eves Lavine 2 PER lor i ad ie |tize the Pan-American Conference, ination for a third term. “ | Charles Carter, 35. | They claimed to have some dele-| As soon as word of Mr. Wallace's } Id t hea er the(friaps bY 6 Sersonal visit a 7 ha ge Re der) The truck was rolled 80 feet down gates from every state “pledged” to selection stared to fly through the 11S press conierence aont want eyed | right ev i ion vec) " " i ‘ * ‘ack . u yas Mr. McNutt d still were predict-| notel lobbies the others in the Sopa ni lvariig | ) ve. The eye conditi z= Z BP or the track and Mr. Carter's body was Mr. McNutt anc p 0 to be making an predictions 2 3 ye condition re-| . (washington sources doubted nominated President Roosevelt for (ing that he will be nominated on Vice Presidential field began to drop € Indicated ne mignt nave some- : { | / a 4 thing io say on the subject after the A 14, we SW inmmng atithen he has been under constant yang ) | He predicted that a “host of citi-| The train engineer. Ross Hogue | Whe second ballow, jut The fits) man reported to have latiohal Committee heats viday| Willard Park yesterday. They, their care of a Crawfordsville oculist. | ; tured i . he ra Antsy] National Committee meeting Friday . : : : . : These reports raised hopes of zens nurtured in the Democratic nraitoon. Til. said he saw the driver istr P tt at which he will make his he Gertrude Parsons, and | The glasses, which are being dup: Latin oe diplomats here for |faith” will support his stand against approaching and when he did not A wart: fl that course known. It is reported he will| \neir tWo sisters have been staying|licated today, were fiited only three’ some major accomplishments during | the third term for any President -0ssi 8 or : ; . J p g| stop at the crossing, he tried to stop 0 u several names would go before the Market St, while looking for a worn for nearly a year Ey includin resid 1 {ot : : 5 : ; ' os 8 g Presidents Buchanan.,| charles Virt, 44 E. 10th St., who . Never Fxpected to Win [house The family plans to move| The family originally came from| WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P).|Jackson and Grover Cleveland in was patied Atos the ticks wail] OUAL TEMPERATURES {Lg appeared io be for Peders! Lodn He ad tA ane & eh here from rawfordsville. Dunkirk, Ind. Mr. Parsons is a|—Secretary of State Cordell Hull oprosition to a third term. ling for the train to pass, said the T AP RO rill tie gay as ne arrivea 1 1€ press con Scheduled to meet their mother at|brick mason and is employed now at |leaves for Havana today to attend| “I disclaim the leadership of those gasher signal was working but that Say A Farley's blessing Alea So Siti the HOI" | Rober was outside the rooms when working here. . American republics, starting July 21.|ago put themselves on record that| My Carter. who lived at 1999 N.| ¢ . | Bankhead Stays in Race Victions with him. he einphasized.| oC oe mupren he had left the spe-| Mr. Parsons saic that the Craw- Before leaving, he was expected to|2.y departure from the two-term LaSalle St. was an independent | Speaker Willlam B. Bankhead of He didn't sav what these convictions, C12 glasses on a bench. He returned |fordsville oculist, anticipating the|issue a formal statement on the|tradition would be unwise, unpatri- driver for the East End Dairy, 577 . mm. | Alabama, whose name will be the (to ger them, but they were missing. |glasses might be broken and anxious | purposes and aims of the conference [otic and fraught with peril to our nN. Highland Ave. He is survived 12 (noon) ., Wi [first to go before the convention

| going to pull a Tydings.” {in a telephone conversation about the Presidency in the face of Presi- would be read to the convention, | hoodlum at Willard Park stole the glasses. who accurately predicted that Presi- | glasses to fit the same prescription as the stolen pair, Robert, by this The telegram was the first ad- | cick a milk truck at the 2ist St.| Minton, the McNutt forces had not| Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was . . Na 2 lacy . : : | role of a prophet,” Mr, Farley told or jj» his being permanently Cross- | pack of his head and one ov Robert and_his brother, Frank H.|sulted fiom these injuries, and since that Mr. Roosevelt would go to Ha- a third term. | pinned under the wreckage. quit was Federal Security AdminTite e 7 33 | w ; ; oa bi ; resign to enter business (recently at the Market Hotel, 528 E. weeks ago, and were to have been | the conference opening Sunday. He quoted past Demoeratic leaders, {he train. It was impossible. | convention. Most substantial backe ference. He told newspapermen that|3.33 1 m. the boys dressed, and Crawfordsville, but soon will be/the consultative conference of lof my party who but a few years amr Carter did not stop. were but it was obvious he was re-

ferring to his opposition to a thirg| Someotie told him a boy had picked not to have Robert go without them | which was called to discuss prob- | free institutions, and who today take| by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | 1p m | for Vice President, doubted that the terth for anv President |them up and dashed away. | for any longer than necessary, fur-|lems arising from military success-|the very action they then de- Carter; two sisters, Mrs. Stella The heat’; on! | White House had picked Mr. Wale “I never had any faise HIuSions! Robert was struck by a car at|nished her with a prescription soles of Germany in the Lowland nounced,” Mr. Burke's telegram said.| Hodge and Mrs. Anna Kaston, and : lace and said he still is in the race. about this, as vou ail know.” Mr. Dunkirk two years ago as he was'they could be duplicated. countries. (Continued on Page Three) (a brother, Abraham Carter, | “My name definitely will go beFarley continued. “As I indicated in! - fore the convention.” he said. “I my brief talk last night, I had don't believe the White House has

weet Glass, ‘Unreconstructed Rebel,” Gets in Last Snarl at Third Term Ess ===5

Ln is Would ire orn natin] ; Chairman Henry Steagall (D. Ala.) to hold a different opinion of me.'| By THOMAS L SORES through it all—to the nfan the President has so often called the spiritual considerations was the right to present the oF Ine Bouse Banking an Corensy ‘No Apologies’ » “the unreconstructed rebel.” name of “an incomparable Democrat” who had conducted |nhead's name. Mr. Farley remarked that the CHICAGO, July 18.—The “unreconstructed rebel” The two rather like each other, each in his way, the the affairs of th: Democratic Party in a way that no man | Mr. Wallace was given the nod

demonstration for him was ‘“some- A ki : : : . |by the Roosevelt strategy group thing bigger than votes.” | has staged perhaps kis last rebellion. And right gallantly, p.osident and the 82-year-old Virginian. in 40 years had conducted them—and that was a lot of headed by Secretary of Commerce

He revealed that many “very dear, | Senator Carter Glass, i your vitorv ; Marley i ’ tie i i : 3 ) » | aon ona n : : : ory. Fa he said, was a politica genius. Harry L. Hopkins. well-intentioned” friends had urged |g FR X way The convention was ready for its tart lecture. The pny | yin ; i Bs “u 3 ’ Wi human Shortly before the Wallace choice y. Jd m, he said, was a man po whom 1) p B

him not to make the race. | = 2 : del é : ; : bes : an : m. . Sw a Peco § CaAtA elegates knew it was coming. He had given fair warn- : ’ ih 2 was revealed, word was circulated I, De A, He past ere was no Bf : A tiny, bent figure out of the ng g g being can always rely, a man who in all his life neyer vio- |by the President's men that Mr. Soot, Why I should periin thn ire IR 5 past, symbol of an old order that : “ark » call lated a pledge once given.” Roosevelt had given Mr. Wallace etica to olf” Ms ev want | BRS : a rkansas,” called th T A . the “green light,” provided the justice to myself,” Mr. Farley went | : 1s gone, he hurled the pent-up . y the clerk He was talking now from the corner of his mouth, in |candidacy was approved by Mr.

on. “But I haven't any apologies or | : i . “Ark -1 rivoinia ? rol \ +q3 A . . SAY terels. © foo cree bare IE bitterness of the old order at the Arkansas yields to Virginia,” came the voice from y.¢ familiar snarling way. His listeners recalled how (Continued on Page Three)

I wouldn't change any one act of |& aR massed thousands of the new— the floor. bitter he had been about the i Lange an ” Xa SR x : : en abc gold devaluation act—he : HIRE)! Lfed tO doy Spam: | S E | the common people who enjoy a The little noises subsided. The Virginian came to the called it a violation of the Government's pledge; how bit- NOMINATION FAILS

; : i] new political liberation. front of the platform. ter about s : 3 a \ ; spending, about the balanced-budget pledge in TIMES FEATURES La ge ; They sat before him in the “The chair recognizes one of the most outstanding {14 1932 platform which he helped to write; how bitter 10 AFFECT STOCKS : : : A few high-grade issues, such as®

ON INSIDE PAGES :. Tv Democratic convention last night, statesmen not only of our time but of all time—one of the ap0u¢ so many other things that have happened in the |american Telephone & Telegraph, sullen and resentful most of youngest men in the United States Senate—Senator Carter New Deal. registered gains of a point of more

3 | Ni : i i ; " : : ‘ . on the New York steck market toClapper ..... 17, Mrs. Ferguson 18 J them, breaking forth angrily as . Glass. Then it came, as he raised his voice to say that Jim oY but the main list Cad Ia

Comics 25 Pegler ....... 18 ; he snarled at the third term, as he Senator Barkley moved away and the diminutive load Farley believed in the traditions of the Democratic Party, |fractionl area. The Roosevelt nomi=

Crossword ... 23/Pyle ........ 17 io c > : : : Wh pd S n h en anticipated and ace Fanon «oo. 13] Questions... 13 spoke sarcastically of broken of dynamite opened his speech: traditions existing since Thomas Jefferson, who said a nat Be bee af a

Financial wee 19 Bade, jo] Carter Gina, .« ‘Farley be- pledges, of violated traditions. “There is no material consideration and there are few pyecident should never be nominated for a third term. A [influence on the list. ynn Mrs. Roosevelt 17) lleves in tradition. ; : : : i" fd , a , an —}? ae Rusa ic 1 dwindled to the | He was nominating his friend spiritual reasons that would draw me from a sickroom chorus of disapproval rose from the floor and galleries to |gine, Mean dwin ory

Forum Scherrer 1 A : : ; : smallest in 22 years. Steels In Indpls. ... 3 Serial Story . 25 Jim Farley for President, but the convention knew he was “We can’t hear you! Louder!” came from the galler- gi.ive him in the faze. | narrowly Tired with volume re-

Inside Indpls. 13 Society ...10, 11} talking straight to Franklin D. Roosevelt, listening beside ies i i by. Jeports Johnson ,.... 18, Sports ... 21, 22 ! : 3, ’ 3 . When it subsided, he continued — that Jim Farley [ing of 4 Movies i... 7|Btate Deaths. 14] a White House radio—and likely grinningggood-humoredly” He went on, sfraining to be heard, to say that among § (Continund on Page Threa) A gt i Y : : i a Ll

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