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BRITAIN GIVEN LAST WARNING 10 USE REASON

Feuhrer Makes It Clear Rejection Means Full Fury of Axis Machine Will Strike; Appeals for ‘Common Sense.’

BERLIN, July 19 (U. P.).—Adolf Hitler today adwho were registering their disappointment when the '3,. : “ merry) x, Ho y “ IE el isuDTOM tet when Lae dressed an “appeal to reason’ to Great Britain to avert “dename be presented for the Vice Presidency but would Struction of a great werld empire.” econd the Wall t : ae Nee HOMITALIoN INSIeRM. But he made it clear that rejection would mean an at-

Every delegation had McNutt men in it and one— | . : - ‘ Oklahoma-—refused to abide by the McNutt with- tack with all of the forces at the command of the Axis powers.

drawal and resolved to offer his name and thus make it a “100 per cent drafted ticket, When the roll call reached that state, Don | Welch, Ardmore, stepped to the microphone on the platform.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature.

VOLUME 52—

Roosevelt Ord

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FARLEY STAYS 7. DD. R. to McNutt: ‘My Good Soldier’ AS CHAIRMAN sperm

UNTIL AUG. 17

President and Running Mate Wallace Will Decide On Successor.

(Text of Roosevelt's address, Page 12)

By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to-

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By DANIEL M, KIDNEY Times Stal Writer CHICAGO, July 19. —The Democratic Party's new hero—its “good soldier”—was ready to go back to Indianapolis today, his name already on hundreds of delegates’ lips as the party's possible nominee for President in 1944, The convention hero was none other than Indiana’s handsome Paul V. MeNutt, who received last night the most extraordinary demonstration of approval that the convention had given to any man —including Mr, Roosevelt The President himself telephoned the former Indiana Governor to tell him personally that he was a good soldier who had performed his duty and had put loyalty to his commander-in-chief above all personal consideration When the convention adjourned at 1 a. m, and McNutt returned for a final visit to his Stevens the White House was on the

manager and Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, was there and commented:

“We could have had that second place if Paul would let us. But he still 1s a young man and four vears from now the thousands of Democrats who were cheering for him tonight will be voting for him in 1944”

That cheering was rated by most observers as the highlight of the entire convention week. It included both the delegates and galleries. The cheers and sustained hand-clapping matched in a measure a similar performance by “the people” for another Hoosier— Wendell L. Willkie—at the G. O. P. convention in Philadelphia During a day of bitter defeat, based on the fact that President Roosevelt served notice that he wanted Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and not Mr. McNutt as his running mate, the Indiana delegation arrived at the great convention hall straining at the leash. There were some

Mr Hotel headquarters, phone dav ordered the New Deal- It was Miss Marguerite Iehand, the President's . : > 3 personal secretary, who told him he was “just grand Democratic I arty mto an im- ® PUL $i Then she turned the long distance wire over to the mediate offensive against A al i FY DE praised Mr, McNutt's conduct in : > ? : unmeasut erms. Wendell L. Willkie, the Re- The former Indiana Governor, who received appublican Presidential candi-| pointments from President Feusewen us as Figs at ‘He Mh: acce § Commissioner to the Philippines and as his presen date. | He had acce pted a Federal Security Administrator, continued the same tradition — shattering third graciousness with which he sacrificed the Vice PresioY ination which, he dency and thanked his chief, or, os 0 d ue N Frank McHale, the rotund McNutt-for- President Sal 1ad hopea earnestly to avoid. Secretar

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Roosevelt's

demonsiration power over the Jonvention Reveals That He, Too, Has . Felt Suspense During Three-Year Debate.

at noon Monday die at 12:05 a WASHINGTON, July 19 (U. P) | | —A man in a crumpled pair of seer- |

5000 Hoosiers in the galleries,

by his Commander-in-Chief (Continued on Page Three)

A Lucky Slam! Bandits Scram

“IT WAS JUST luck, that'§ all!” When three men entered A. Ta Fisher's dmg store at 1353 Mad- | ison Ave, last might, Mr. Fisher | a holdup. He and Dr Harty Pandolfo, were behind the prescription case | Mr. Fisher told the doctor to get out the back and then he went into the store to meet the wea he suspected were bandits. They had a gun. Then the back "Hor slammed as Dr. Pandolfo left. The men ran. “It was just luck.” said Mr Fisher. “I didn't tell him to Slam the door.”

Paul V. McNutt . | | praised

‘Got the Boos and Votes

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LONDON, July 19 (U, P).— British Government leaders and members of Parliament listening to Adolf Hitler's speech indicated tonight that any gesture toward peace on Germany's terms was futile, Thousands of persons listened to the Nazi Fughrer’'s speech. It had been widely assumed, British sources said, that Hitler would make some peace gesture in the hope of shaking the united deter= mination of the British people to resist.

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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, July 19 (U.P). —Stephen F. Chadwick, former National Commander of the American Legion, today joined Senator Edward R. Burke, Nehraska, in bolting from the

Vigorous Campaign Certain

on between the Rouvsevelt-Wallace ticket ratified | here and Willkie and his running mate. Senator Charles L. McNary (Ore.). It is New ticulate and Roosevelt Administrat ness has produced. This vear the American public may expect a campaign of unusual vigor in which any parucipant 1s likely to get hurt | Whether this convention “drafted” Mr. Roosevelt or was “stage man- | aged” into nominating him is a matter of some dispute. There are conservatives here who hold the latter to have been the fact. “Had this been a free and op2n convention—" said Senator Scott Lucas (D. Ill) last night in asking that his name be withdrawn from the list of Vice Presidential contestants. There were others who felt that way about it. But the returns are in. the old line Democrats are out and the 1940 Presidential contest is moving toward November,

The campaign is

~The Democratic Vice Presidential nomiA. Wallace—demonstrated today |

the most arof the) jon that busi-

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NEW YORK, July 19 (U. P), Baldwin & Co., Wall Street betting commissioners today reported that President Roosevelt is a 7 to 5 betting favorite to defeat Republican Nominee Wendell L. Willkie. A spokesman for the firm said that there was little actual betting at present, but that small wagers had been made vesterday with Mr Roosevelt a 9 to 5 favorite. He added, however, that the latter odds were not “indicative” and generally reflected smaller bookmakers’ quotations.

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“In this hour and before this body,” the Nazi Fuehrer told the German Reichstag in the presence of Italian Foreign Miisier Cont Galeazzo Ciano, “I feel myself obliged to make one more appeal to reason to England. | “] do this not as a victor, ‘but for the triumph of common sense.” CRUISER SUNK Without delivering any ul[timatum, Hitler said that it (had never been his desire or Qianapolis Time) today itish Clai Greatest his aim to destroy the British The party purge was almost com- ‘Very, Very Interesting,’ He Bri IS aim reates Empire. pleted cozly today when Me Waliave Single Triumph So Far in | The Fuehrer sai stituted for Vice Presi rer said that his Vas supsiituted for Nice Prete Says at Conclusion of g / Ww ‘two cardinal aims in foreign John N. Garner, who ran with the : Y Mediterranean ar C 8 winning ticket in 1932 and 1936. | President's Talk. policy had been friendship COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo By JOE ALEX MgRis with Britain and with Italy. . { £ o NUD, , ’ s F New dit a“ It will be June 19 (U. P).—Wendell L. Will-| | sucker trousers and shirtsieeves sat} PUTIN YoreY oy oy Despite my sincere efforts, it tirement in tour we kie, the Republican Presidential before a bank of radio microphones) Aerial and naval warfare broke nag not been possible,” he said, “to James A. Farley of | nominee, had “no comment” today fat the White House early today and | furiously in the Mediterranean and achieve the friendship with Eng Democt Committ lon the acceptance speech of his ry , chapter in American! over the British Isles today as Adolf |!1and which I believea would have Mr. Farley today agreed to re- : OE opened a new chapter 8 | . I bl d bv both.” ] : } : : 17. At that time Democratic opponent, President history. { ler: pleaded” with Englund to seen blesse v both. main until Aug. 17 / at Me | poosevelt { hpi Ave bE r subeemmitte pad- | RY Td ov Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who | BAW wed , . a Bve-member nag During the President's speech last for seven and a half years has held) “avert destrucidon of a great em- | ed by Biward J, T3ynh 0; N¢ ©" night, Mr. Willkie chuckled occa-| hest job, said “ves.’ pire ” is expected to appoint his successor | is hia * it ee. ) [the world’s toughest job, sal | after conferring with President sionally at the President's phrases, it was the answer to his party's re-| | Northwest of the Mediterranean | Roose: elt and Mr. Wallace. As the President concluded his Re |quest that he be its nominee for | I1sle’ of Crete. a small British naval Members of the Flynn Committee dress, the Republican nominee sal that o> for another four years, | uadron headed by the Australian are David Fitzgerald Sr. of Con-| _ Very, very interesting. ents in effect for more than sq ; aR necticut: W. W. Howes of South| It was his only remark on the 19 Te of American history were, cruiser Sydney—namesake of a Dako! a: Mrs. Mildred - Jasper of speech. He declined also lo ‘coms PR BLE shattered and Mr. Roosevelt com-| famed World War vessel—scored the | Ohio; and Mrs. Beatrice Cobb of ment on the selection of yooretary mitted himself for the greatest po-! greatest single victory of the war North Carolina |of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of litical struggle of his life over the Italian Navy with a blast | Mr. Roosevelt reported to Towa as Mr. Roosevelt's Vice Presi- ould Be N a of gunfire that sank the erack desire Senator Byrnes of | dential running mate. : vil ww Wai di Knew He Wou e Name | ITtalian cruiser Bartolemeo Colleont, South Carolina or Frank C. Walker; He had predicted some time ago Civic Groups Want Indiana For neatly three years the na- fastest cruiser in the world with a | of New York as Mr. Farley's succes- that Mr. Roosevelt would accept re- . tion had waited for that moment. | speed of 40 knots but both men were said to be nomination for a third term. He Avenue Span at Hospital And for nearly a week, during the| pe 750 of the normal’ 500 men reluctant to accept the post. (had expressed a desire io run ' Democratic National Convention in| oo i» : aboard the Bartolemeo were rescued | It was a rowdy windup to four against the Presidemt rather than Placed in Use. Chicago, millions of Americans had | raved by Frouy of dejegutes udlag eynveRyion femunehtion 'S hy a British destroyer, the remaindavs stop and go politics In| some sther Democratic candidate so} allie | anxiously waited and waited from| Secretary of Agriculture Ienry A. Wallace, named as President Roose- ing British forces reported they | which Mr. Farley and a scattering that the question of perpetuation ] he possiuiliny that ihe Jaimie day to day for Mr. Roosevelt to say! velt's third term running mate. He holds an Iowa cornstalk, [were pursumg a second Italian { “ " anti-third-term conservatives of the New Deal would be a clean- Avenue bridge near City Hospita ves” or “no” to a movement to # yyy | viser from the scene of batule: ion of his appeal to ‘reason sought to make a river flow uphill. {cut one. He seemed to feel last may remain closed for as long as ‘make him the first President to Then a strong British force, in- | Would result in a “final” attack upe T ) I» Byway five more years was admitted today | on Britain with every resource that They 1 night that his previous comments : |serve 12 years in the White House. a * [eluding battleships, an aircraft car- | Germ nD ud th into th The galleries on those matters sufficed and roth- by City Offie ls, wits about A Not since Calvin Coolidge con- qQ ace mi es qa eers, | vier. cruisers and a destroyer force, Raa y. col row nto the were shouts of ing more need be said. It wou ony ake Wo on vel ruse the country in 1928 with his) lencountered an Italian force south | The Fuehter ‘war d tid last nigm ang Mr. Walkie went, © Dever ey A iy Sity ¢ A Eh ! “put, famous “I do not choose to run”| of the toe of the Italian boot. The , 0. oc ) wi ni stricting pressure to meet with cattlemen of five M Do Xl x oy I k de statement, had the issue of a third] roving F e an aKe British, although heavily attacked yap EL Th oq pi mfuence lorced Western States and discuss the Ad- {TCS c Fal or . ht vy 5° term come before the voters [by Italian airplanes, fired on and | 0° 00.0 "Cy oe claim that I feel steadily toward Mr ministration’s reciprocal tr a d e Crosses Raj pee mgt hg oe Never has any President been as | — [pursued the Ttalians until they | oubt or fear but in any: case o publican recruit, for treaties. coBpleley or. ri of Riv leertain as Mr. Roosevelt, however, S I C Hi p k t il A t found shelter under Ttalian coastal will have tha knowledge ny 1 act | . ® SC - ew : ; : ‘ a 0 ) ) } - erside Civic League members who of 4 thi] namirision when a party Today He Sti arries In His Pocke e ACCep cag (Continued on Page Two) ed rightly: avcording: lo: Wy Cote | were protesting delay :n re-opening | science ” the bridge that the channel in Fall oe oval, dipiomatie, Cloak oom | Speech His Aids Advised Him to Forget. : As he spoke, German airplanes | Creek will be widened to 500 feet in OE Rh the scene of the ulti- | ‘ INFANT SWALLOW {ranged over the British Isles again |line with flood control work. nits showdown on the mystery of | CHICAGO, July 19 (U P.).- 3 land dive bombers slashed at Brit“It would be inadvisable to repair Mr. Roosevelt's plans. Shortly | aay Ret Agriculture Henry | ish shipping in what Nazis had said the bridge when it will : : at he can take . : . OPEN SAFETY Pl was a mere preliminary to the long= 2 Jeni] yin and replaced hil ra a Spend Mr. Wallace went to the Democratic National Convention last eve- | diveatonsd “blitzkrieg.” 2 1 ours a eS of a tiny| ,,; 5 y . ; | Pemeeratic Party to support the |After the creek is widened ” he said. [nell on Brg Three | ning With 2 Sopy of hie we Leptarce Spaeth in he Doe et He expec] Hitler said that German armed Na 2% ; ; .| League members pointed out that aE ee 0 aellver S0, , . ’ ” : ve ; BR toughened by their mighty Presidential candidacy of Wendell ‘ambulances to and from City Hos- He never delivered it. Faces Operation if Food sweep through Poland and through L. Willkie, | pital, near the bridge, must detour MITCHELL TABOOS | Each time a delegatd sald “Wal- : France, were stronger today than LYNCHBURG, S. C. July 19 far out of their way, lace.” boos and catcalls, as well as F. D. R.—7-to-5 | Methods Fail. before the war started. (U. P.).—Senator Ellison D. Smith | The Works Board told league SLUGS IN MACHINE cheers, roared through the huge | Recalls Earlier Appeal 3 C.) sai : members that they would confer A large, open safety pin is in the] D. 8S. C.) said today that he would 16) nd . hall "| Germany has a greater supply of not support President Roosevelt With Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan! people say there's a lot of things Da _i ated (stomach of 17-month-old Marion | nun tions. Iron, gasoline, food and for re-election jon his Ye pur 1 ow Ohieago. " | you may do at Joe Mitchell's “curb yen the + Re ue town He Kirkpatrick Jr, and physicians at other essentials are more than ade= 1e cost of the bridge has been service” tavern on Indiana Ave. | a Fas ! * : : n . } ick ley Hospital are gravely con- quate, he declared, regardless of the estimated at $400,000. But there's at least one thing went on the Democratic ticket Rile; 3 x . ’ ’ : | lengt t jar, The delegation also protested the taboo at the scene of the recent against an equally well<known Serve abou 11. I dims of thousands condition of Dexter St. saying thal murder—you mustn't put slugs in| “friend of the farmer”—Senator They said that if the child were| or Germans” were slaughtered but City repair crews had filled chuck the cigaret vending machines, | Charles L. McNary of Oregon, the |older, he could be fed mashed po-| he “still sought” an understanding holes in the street and that within, So William Davis, 142 W. 9th St, | Republican Vice Presidential nomi- d cott hict Id with Poland. a week pasing trucks had made new | jearned today as he faced a 45-day nee. Thus pitted against each [tatoes and cotton which would enAfter the Polish victory, Hitler holes. jail sentence and a $25 fine imposed | other will be the Suny ; ee! case the pity and permit it to pass, _ "vy appealed to the insight of re et by Municipal Judge Charles J.| known exponents of Federal legisia- | from the body without harm. L Vika: BELGIAN PRISONERS FREED | Rarabel yesterday on a charge of tion .o asust the farmer. | But the child is too young or] oe EE vice Sevastale BERLIN, July 19 (U. P..—Adolf | “operating a vending machine with| Mr. McNary's record throughout ‘that, and they are trying semi-solid| “I appealed to the rest of the Hitler today ordered release of all spurious coins. | his service in Congress is studded foods for the same effect. However, world,” he added, ' “although 1 feared Belgian prisoners of war except of-| Mitchell himself appeared as a | with sponsorship of farm legisla-| |the pin is so large, they point out, that my words would not be heard ficers and non-commissioned offi- | prosecuting witness in the c#se, tion, including the McNary-Haugen \that the semi-solid foods may not'and would more than ever arouse

Whew!

The opposition had the boos but not the votes to stop Mr. Wallace. | Time after time his nominator, and those who seconded his nomination | —or shouted a defiant determination | to vote for Mr. Roosevelt's man, were washed with a flood of deri(Continued on Page Three)

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South America Waits— Until Hitler Wins or Loses

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS that it would be extremely difficult to make it work satis-

Times Foreign Editor

19.——South American eyes are

BUENOS AIRES, July

fixed on the white cliffs of Dover,

Britain has been invaded, or the thrown back into the sea,

likely to make much headway.

I am convinced that none of the Latin American countwo weeks is willing to commit itself until Hitler's bid for economic and political hegemony over Europe has won or lost. the Fuehrer's fate is still in the He had two great powers to deal with at the disposed of only and unless and until Britain Hitler's war is only half won. For that reason. South America is anxiously awaiting the news that the Nazis have launched their momentous attack against England. The opinion is widely held that Hitler has no option but to attempt the invasion. To halt matters where they are now would amount to a gierman X

tries I have visited in the last

As seen from here, balance. start. He has, thus far, Britain is still in the ring, is knocked out,

no Pan-American conference is

| cers.

| to Belgium already has begun.

defeat. defeat. Despite

n& on Havana. Until the indica

Nazi legions have been

the press,

think abot is

one—France. Cartel emanating In the South Am

down this

For Britain to make peace now would be a British

of this continent are pro-British, But South America also has a very practical side to

with Europe. France, and brings the rest of Europe under his economic dominance, South America will not willingly incur the displeasure of her best customer, That holds in spite of the proposed Inter-American and other

stands the cartel proposal.

Even those most friendly toward he proposition admit

Transport of Belgians back prosecuted by the vending machine | bill, twice passed by Congress and (Continued on Page Three)

| company.

factorily in actual practice. Others, openly suspicious, express fear that the plan

the many extremely active Nazi sympathizers, tions are that a great majority of the people This is revealed through in conversations and otherwise, it. More than 60 per cent of her foreign trade If Hitler defeats Britain as well as

Pan-American mutual-aid suggestions from Washington. first place, I have yet to talk with a single erican statesman or businessman who underIn the second, most people way seem frankly skeptical .of that whole idea.

would make all Latin America dependent on the United States. they must be dependent on one or the other they would just as soon have it be Germany as Uncle Sam. South America, Channel rather than the Caribbean. battle for Britain may permanently change the future of both hemispheres. certain that Pan-American relations will be revolutionized and that the United States will be confronted by dangers besides which those that led President Monroe to proclaim Ris famous doctrine in 1823 will be picayunish. For South America, as I find it, is far from unanimous in any single sphere of possible collaboration,” whether economic or political. political intervention may follow economic invasion, but 1 am convinced that most of these countries will buy the cheapest goods, no matter who offers them, with careless disregard of the possible consequences.

Finally, there are those who say frankly that if

is watching the English And the impending

therefore,

If Hitler wins that battle, it seems

Some leaders are fearful that Nazi

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work. The child, son of Mr. and Mrs, | Marion Kirkpatrick, Huntington,| swallowed the pin yesterday at his| home and it at first | esophagus, then later passed to the stomach. After X-rays in Huntington the | child was brought here. If the pin [is not rendered harmless by foods | (soon, an operation must be per-

| | formed, doctors said.

'STEWART-WARNER GETS $237,480 JOB

[ Times Special WASHINGTON, July 19.—The {War Department announced today |it has awarded the Stewart-Warner | Corp. of Indianapolis a contract for $237.480 to build fire units for 12,000 | Army field ranges. | The Indianapolis contract was one | |of many involving more than $31.001,000 let by the Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson.

lodged in his|

the fury of the war mongers. | “I predicted correctly that my appeal would not be heard” Hitler said documents found in (Continued on Page Two)

BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA!

He's been trom one end of the Americas to the other, But all through his writings there is that nostalgic touch tor his native state, Now he's coming back to write his own countryside, his own toiks. ERNIE The Hoosier Vaga-

PYLE: bond,” is home in Indiana,

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