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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 113

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; continued warm.

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940

Entered ax Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapo

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REED, REBEL OF 1936, TORALLY 30 TERM FOES

Meeting Set in Chicago For Thursday: Vance McCormick Deserts.

WASHINGTON, July 20 P) Former Senator A. Reed of Missouri, |

who led the revolt of Jeffer-|

sonian Democrats against the New Deal in 1936, has sent out a call for a meeting of| anti-third term Democrats in| Chicago Thursday, it] was learned today. | Senator Edward R. Burke (D Neb.) already has bolted his D ind announced his support of Republican Presidential nominee Wendell L. Willkie, has been invited to this meeting to be held in the ens Hotel S

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of Senator Burke's releasecd the telegram the Nebraskan to Reed and other the “Jeffersonian Committee.” Mr. Burke ided whether he would was satd

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tive not dec it Called 1936 Meeting Mr. Reed called a similar meeting | 1936 of ‘Jeffersonian Democrats” the New Deal and Presi-| ent Roosevelt, For this Presidenal campaign several state organ-| izations. natably in California and! South Carolina a similar char-| a have been organized but today announcement was the first news of an attempt to form such a bodv on a national scale | These incidents of anti-third term rebellion coincided with reports that Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace would resign to campaign actively for the RooseveltWallace ticket In Des Moines, Mr. Wallace detoday to say whether he will

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clined resign. | “I cannot tell vou anvthing defi-| nite about my future plans until I talk with President Roosevelt, next | week “We plan to discuss the campaign at that time.”

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President Roosevelt cruised down the Potomac River to rest up- for his efforts to win another four ®ears in the White House. He planned to return late today and then, perhaps toright or tomorrow night. entrain | for his home in Hyde Park, N. Y. A number of Democratic Party leaders, including a group of promi-| nent anti-New Dealers, appeared in agreement on not supporting Mr. | Roosevelt for a third term. But | there was considerable difference on! the question of whether to “walk”| into Republican ranks under Wen- | dell L. Willkie Vance C. McCormick, who as chairman of the party in 1916 di-| rected Woodrow Wilson's re-election | campaign, announced through his newspaper, The Harrisburg Pa.) Patriot, that he would support Mr Willkie He said the re-nomination of Mr. | Roosevelt “breaks the third term | tradition, as well as the hearts of| millions of Democrats who had! hoped the dangerous and economic policies of the New Deal would be repudiated and the party re-dedi-|

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N, J, July 20.—Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee, has a slight lead over President Roosevelt in the returns from a new survey of New York State—Mr. Roosevelt's home state and Mr, Willkie's adopted state—which has just been completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion. While it is still too early to determine the outcome in New York next November, the Institute's first measurement of sentiment since Mr. Willkie's nomination—but prior to the Democratic nomination at Chicago-—shows Mr. Willkie has gotten off to a headstart in the state, Voters throughout the state were asked: “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term on the Democratic

INSTI x PUBLIC "OPINION

Willkie 51%—FDR 49% in N. Y. State SHAM

New tests of Democratic-Republican strength are now under way in each of the 48 states and will be reported shortly in the Indianapolis Times, At the present time, however, there can be no ques-

tion but that the Republican party has gained substantially in New York State since the Presidential election of 1936 Institute surveys, together with 1938 Lehman-Dewey gubernatorial the political trend in the state: Favoring Democrat

ticket against Wendell Willkie on the Republican ticket, how would you vote? The answers of those reached in a carefully selected cross-section of New York voters are:

WILLKIE ... ROOSEVELT ...........

Approximately one voter in seven (14%) said he was

undecided how he would cast his vote in such circumstances. New York State's political leanings will be important throughout the coming campaign because the state accounts for 47 electoral votes, making it the largest political prize in the country. It is important to remember that the present survey of New York voters was conducted before the Democratic Convention reached its decision this week.

SERRA REN ARR RR R RT RRA NERA ENN 51%

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results help to

the race,

Favoring Republican

40% 49 4 51

1936 Presidential Election 1938 Gubernatorial Election Institute Survey-—March Institute Survey Today

PRECEDENT IN The Eternal Protector

INDIANA DEFIED

Democrats Haven't Won S Elections in Row | Since 1851.

By EARL RICHERT If the Indiana Democrats elect their gubernatorial nominee in No-| vember, they will have shattered a third term precedent of their own. | For not since the four-year, sin-| gle term for governors went into! effect under the Constitution of 1851] have Indiana Democrats succeeded | in placing a man mm the governor's | chair three times in a row. They have had three chances be-| fore the present to make it three in| a row for a Democratic nominee, |

but thev have never succeeded.

Ruled in Early Days

However, during the early days of | the state, the Democrats had it| pretty much their own way, Jef-| fersonian and Jacksonian Demo- | crats holding the governor's office, for five three-year terms from] statehood in 1816, until Dec. 7, 1831, | when Noah Noble, a Whig, went] into office. The Whigs then held office for four terms before the Democrats ve- | g ined the governor's chair with tie election of vames Whitcomb in 1843. | The Democrats retained their hold | on the governorship until 1861, but| the new four-year single term went | into effect in that period and there) were only two Democrats elected under that provision,

In Office 1873 to 1881

The Democrats got an eight-year stretch again from 1873 to 1881 when | Thomas A. Hendricks, James D.| Williams and Isaac P, Gray held the governorship. Mr. Gray served out the uncompleted term of Mr. Williams who died in 1880. Republicans and Democrats then spiit terms until 1897 when the] § G. O. P. gained control and held it | for 12 years. Thomas R. Marshall began another eight-year Democratic era in 1909. He was succeeded by Samuel M. Ralston who four years later turned the governor's chair over to a Republican, James P. Goodrich, The Republicans held sway for four terms until Paul V. McNutt captured the governorship in 1932 and started the Democrats on the path which for the fourth time since 1851 gives them the oaopportunity to make it three straight for a Democratic nominee

APPEALS RULING OF MAGISTRATE COURT

Norman DeHoff, 914 S. West St, vesterday filed in Circuit Court an appeal from a ruling of magistrate Edward MecElfresh. DeHoff was convicted recently on charges of speeding, reckless driving and reck-

tion of conditions Avenue and for

cerses for

Stark fear still straining her face, protective arms hungrily clasping the son she almost lost, this woman becomes a symbol of motherhood—the eternal shield. with her 5-vear-old son, Jimmy, just after Los Angeles police arrested a man who had ahducted him.

INDIANA AVENUE

State Convention of Negro Baptist Church Calls For Action.

Aroused Indianapolis Negro citizens today asked for an investiga-

revocation of certain taverns

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E, CRIES GERMANY AFTER - PEACE REFUSAL

Naming of New Commander for Home Front Is England's Reply to ‘Last Appeal’; Rome Reports Spain to Join.

Matter is, Ind.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS N

United Press Foreign News Editor

re HEAT ON WAY

No Cool Weather Before Tuesday, Pessimistic Forecaster Says.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES a. . 76 10am ...8 8 am ... 3 . 81 12 (moon) ,, 89 84 ipm... 8

Thése who grumbled about the [ “phony summer” and “we had to | have blankets last night and it's July.” will please take a quick look [at the thermometer and forever { hold their peace | Taking the rumor of summer seriously this morning nature awoke | the mercury at dawn and it's been | getting up ever since Now pessimistic as weather before Tuesday, the weatn[erman refused to predict one cool | night in the next 48 hours. | It Could Be Worse Tt could be worse, On this day in 1034, the thermometer registered an {even 103 degrees for a record. The low for the day is 50, reached

to cooler

| record in 1929 Outdoor activity showers. Dry air over this promised dry skies and continued heat. Ever conservative, the weatherman made a straight prediction of “continued warm.” Today, if the temperature hits 00, will be the eighth day of 90-degree or above temperature Indianapoiis has had this year, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist. Only 19 days of this high temperature is lan average for a year, Based on 69 vears of Weather Bureau records. | While swimming pools filled with refugees from the blazing sun, the weather cent of July, 1936, when the temperature soared to 100 or more for eight days straight, reaching its peak July 14. when the mercury crept up te 106.1, the all-time high. Mr. Armington explained that most hot spells are ended by thunderstorms, but this one “is not well enough along” to forecast the nec.ed ran,

SPONGERS

Police Claim Solution

To 'Shrinking' of Cloth

is safe from

She is Mrs. Elizabeth Callea, pictured reunited

KILLED IN FALL | FROM SCAFFOLD

90-Degree Snow

Cinders It From Summer Heat

Insulate

ROCHESTER, N. Y, (U. P)—-Snow was found in Rochester yesterday when the thermometer zipped up to 90 degrees. A steam shovel bit into a cinder pile, exposing a white surface, A

perspiring workman examined it. “Holy smokes.” he yelled, “it's snow.” Officials of the Rochester Gas and Electric Co. recalled they had

20 PHILADELPHIA, July 20 (U. P).—The mysterious shrinkage of men's garments sold throughout

the country which has plagued

July

Brother, Friend Hurt Trying To Catch Victim | On East Side.

Five years ago, Kelso Miller was {an electrician. His brother, Taylor, |was a stone pointer The brothers always had been [close to each other, One day Kelso |asked his brother:

for the past six years was believed by authorities to be solved today as result of the arrest of three men, William Jones, 35, said to be proprietor of a Kensington sponging company; James Mitchell, 35, Clementon, N. J., and Charles Steinberg were arrested last night

Indiana li- | the

don’t teach me your

area’!

rapidly |

became reminis- |

cloth and clothing manufacturers |

Great Britain and the Axis powers squared off today, for a battle to victory or destruction, | German bombing planes launched a lightning attack on a South England harbor today as a grim reminder,

Does Not Doubt Vitality of Americas, He Says in Havana Talk.

| Saw Cuban Service

Seventeen Nazi planes, apparently Dorniers, escorted by Messerschmitt fighting craft, smashed in blitzkrieg | fashion at ships anchored in the harbor. Rome heard reports of Fascist plans for a great Medi= terranean offensive in which Spain would aid an attack ‘on the British naval stronghold of Gibraltar. | Berlin reported that Nazis were denouncing as “shames ful” the British defiance of Adolf litler's demand for sure render on threat of an annihilating blitzkrieg attack for which all is in readiness, | London reacted coldly to the Nazi Fuehrer’s call for an end to the war on his own terms and speeded up defense preparations with the cry: “Let them come!” "wx on There was no doubting (that they would come and probably soon, | | However, a semi-official Vatican ‘news bulletin indicated that authori [tative Vatican quarters believe Adolf | | Hitler's speech gives Great Britain ——————— | opportunity te ask what Germany's peace terms might be. Authoritative Vatican quarters were represented as believing that | British action in at least inquiring aboui German peace terms might prevent clashes leading to the dee [struction of one or both nations. HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (U, P).—| vat S Pr U. 8. Secretary of State Cordell Mull | fean Sees Peace Hope said today that the Inter-American | I! Va Aten hee the Fuehrer, ale : j ugh speaking as a conqueror Conference would unquestionably again declared that he never wanted demonstrate “the vigor and vitality the destruction of the British Em= of American republics working to- Dire.” the News Bulletin said. gether in common interest.” “This might offer an occasion The Secretary said that he re. for Britain to ask what Hitler bee turned to Cuba as a friend among !'®Ves might make possible avoid friends and in the interests of ANCE of 2 new clash which would American solidarity, |1ead to destruction of one of the “We are meeting to discuss prop. [\V0 empires—a destruction that lems essential to the life of the|liUer himself affirms prophetically Americas,” he said. “I have no/mu 3 Rh tase of prostoytion of doubt that this consultation will ie. war, that of the British Ems prove to he a demonstration of the P High Vatic a vigor and vitality of the American d rp alican quarters, it Was une republics working together in com-! Srsion, ere Sxumining the Yaxt mon interest.” : (Of Hitler's speech with especial [concer p si " - | Mr. Hull arrived on the 8. 8 PIs rar ah SOF ipussible es lead ida and was greeted by United : Sues, States Embassy officials and the Cu. 336 Killed in Month ban Secretary of State, bad (German bombers swarmed over the English Channel Coast again today vv : and the German High Oommand His arrival assumed a personal oq thay they had successfully ate { Aspect as it was recalled that he did tacked shipping, harbors, power military service in Cuba more than stations and other objectives, shoot= 46 years ago. He commented on va- vay down 21 Beh planes. a a 1 ta mong the German raiders were TRAYS historic Cuban personalities, | bombers, Stuka dive bombers and | Mr. Hull first came to Cuba in fighters, The British Government 11808 as captain of a company of reported (hat bombs had been | Tennessee riflemen to help drive the [dropped on southeast and south= | Spanish from this, their last strong- | West Scotland and northeast, south« (hold in the Western hemisphere. |east and southwest England and A conference of the foreign min-|that one German plane had been [isters of the 21 Republics begins at shot down by a British fighter. 4 p. m. tomorrow, when President| British bombers, in their latest |Laredo Bru of Cuba welcomes the raids on Germany, bombed the | assembled delegates. great Krupp Munitions Works at | The conference was called by the Essen in the Ruhr and pilots ree | United States to seek a solution ported an explosion in the works (through united action of the eco- after a direct bomb hit, according [nomic and military problems con=- to London. Factories and oil depots [fronting the new world peoples as at Bremen, Hannover and Emden

cated to its fundamental principles.’

Senator Ellison D. (Cotton (Continued on Page Three)

CADLE POSTS BOND

)

ON SPEEDING CHARGE

After failing to show up twice In

Magistrate's Court on

speeding |

less homicide. | Under the magistrate law, created | {by the 1939 Legislature, the Circuit, [Court has authority to designate | which court shall try appeals.

rr |

ARREST 24 DRIVERS |

three

charges, E. Howard Cadle, Indian- | apclis evangelist, planked down| £250 cash bond in three hills today to insure his appearance July 25, | State Police arrested Mr. Cadle Police July 12 at the City Limits on charges of going 60 miles an hour | in a 40-mile zone, and for running a red light at the intersection of | Roads 36 and 40, they said. Magistrate Edward W. McElfresh of the Speedway City Court continued the case when Mr, Cadle did not appear the first time but the next time, he swore out a warrant for his arrest. Mr, Cadle was informed and appeared at the County Jail where he made his| cash bond.

INDOWNTOWN AREA

Fight Congestion, Cite Left Turn Rule.

The drive on taxicab drivers and private motorists “cluttering up” the | mile square continued today. | A total of 17 taxi drivers and seven motorists were arrested down- | town from noon yesterday until midnight. | The cab drivers face ranging from reckless driving te soliciting fares on the street. The motorists were arrested for making | left-hand turns not at an intersec- | tion, | Police warned that a city ordi[nance bans left turns when emerg{ing from an alley, driveway, garage, | building or parking lot on to a street in the mile square. Capt. Leo Troutman of the traffic department sald the taxicab drivers had been warned repeatedly and that the arrests were a “last resort.”

charges

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Movies vais 13 Mrs. Ferguson 8) Obituaries . .. Pegler Pyle Questions Radio Mrs. Roosevelt

Churches Clapper ... Comics Crossword Editorials Financial Flynn Forum In Indpls. Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan . Johnson

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7 9 7 Scherrer 7 situation in the mile square had Society 4 5 been cleared up as much as pos- . 10, 11 sible and that arrests would be

Sports i State Deaths. 11 made to keep the area that way.

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Police said they would continue paysehold hint today in view of the making arrests until the congested | ja ppe number of recent apartment with relief the same as if they had

avenue.” A resolution passed vesterday by the Indiana General Convention of the Negro Baptist Church said that

taverns where murders have occurred are “incubators of vice.” It appointed a commmittee to investigate the “tie-up of certain per-

sons and vice lords” and the presentation of the evidence to the Marion | County Liquor Board and the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Tt asked that the law-enforcing | agencies of the city, county and! state “see to it that Negro communi(Continued on Page Three)

FORMER ELKS RULER DEAD SEATTLE, July 20 (U. P.).—-Wal-er F. Meier, 60, former Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks, died at his home here late yesterday after an illness of several weeks.

dumped the cinders last winter when the snow was a foot deep. The hard packed cinders had insulated the snow, preserving it until yesterday.

Heat Wave

SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, July 20 (U, P).—There's a heat wave in Little America, Radio engineers here talked with the east base of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition at Little America today. With the temperature in the 80s and rising, they asked Little America for a temperature reading. “Oh, we're having a heat wave too,” the expedition reported. “It's 18 above zero.” Two weeks ago in a two-way conversation General Electric officials said the west base of the expedition reported 70 below zero.

Having Any Burglar Trouble?

Police Offer Household Hints

By FRANK WIDNER |

(a burglar is your door | | screen hook. | Once past those, the burglar [practically has you at his mercy—| mot because he's so clever, but because you think you are. Lieut. Harry Schley of the police burglary detail came up with this |

and home burglaries. “It's mostly the hot weather,”

Lieut. Schley said. “People get careless about™ closing and locking

doors and hooking screens,

he wants. money.” Lieut. Schley wrinkled his nose and flipped through a sheaf of re-

What he wants

[ports of such happenings,

“And guess where most people hide their money?—Where they hide other valuables and then sigh

put them into a bank deposit box? ~I Se cedar chest! “ where the practiced _(Continwed on Page Three)

— [at 816 Stillwell St. thy; two children, June and Made- |

That | Your first line of defense against makes it easy for the sneak thief lock or to ransack the place and take what is

| “Why vou

business?” Taylor agreed, and for

(five years they have been insep-

farable, Today, Kelso plunged 58 feet to | his death from the roof of an East Side building as Taylor frantically tried to break his fall and was in- | jured himself Kelso, who was 40, was riding a |scaffold up a building at 739 E [Market St. A fellow workman, Teter [Colenne, 26, was on the ground, | helping to hoist the scaffold Then as it crept past the fourth (floor, the rope slipped. Kelso Miller [dropped Taylor Miller and Colenne tried to catch the but could not break the fall. Mr. Colenne also was injured. They are [in Methodist Hospital. The victim was born

olis resident many years.

line, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Miller of St. Petersburg, Ma. survive him. June is at City Hospital, under observation for appendicities. Her father had intended to bring her (home this afternoon.

GERMANS RELEASE 2 AMBULANCE DRIVERS

PARIS, July 20 (Via Air Courier to Berlin—Delayed) (U., P).—Francis Vicovari, New York, and Harry Havilland of Limoges, France, members of section two of the American Volunteer Ambulance Service,

month in a German prison camp. Both were captured at St. Floren-

tine June 15 after a retreat from rushing Germen armies,

|a result of old world wars | Upon the shoulders of silver- | haired, soft-spoken Mr. Hull rests much responsibility for the success or failure of what ig regarded as | the most important inter-American

and $5000 in cloth was seized, detectives said he alleged conspiracy involved $200.000. Jones and Mitchell were held on $10.000 bail, and Steinberg was held on £590 bail Manufacturers throughout the | conference n history. Latin American countries, some

country sent bolts of suiting to | of th Ite y , : | Jones’ company to be shrunk by em already under pressure from totalitarian economics, are

sponging before delivery to clothPONSINg : looking to Mr. Hull for a means to

were attacked, as were various aire dromes, Britons said. Berlin admit ted bombings in northern and west» ern Germany and said five of the raiders were shot down Britain announced today that 338 civilians had been Killed and 478 seriously injured in air raids since. June 18. There were 479 persons Killed in air raids in the month of June, half of which was covered in

hurtling body |

ing firms, police said, but instead of sponging the clot, Jones cut three vards from each bolt-— the normal shrinkage--and returned | the bolt. Mitchell carried the ends to Steinberg, who disposed of them to small tailors, it was alleged.

YARDS TO IMPROVE TRUCK FACILITIES

(Details, Page 9)

| Plans for improving truck facili[ties at the Indianapolis Stockyards) lat a cost of $100,000 were announced | today. y | Included in the work, which will |hegin about Aug. 1, will be moving the Belt Railroad sidings, building |concrete loading and unloading | | docks, a T5-car garage and parking | [lot for 1000 trucks.

REPORT MARTINIQUE | PEACE IS DISCUSSED

WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P) — | Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles conferred separately today

bassadors to this country, giving rise to reports that he is seeking @ peaceful settlement of the Mar: tinique dispute in the Caribbean. -

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maintain their freedom of action |

- - - a ———— J Today's War M By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Chancellor Hitler's Reichstag warning to the British Empire to seek peace or face destruction was accompanied by assurances to the Gere man people that Germany's “food supplies are assured however long the war may last.” This reference to a lengthy war is the first Hitler has made. Hitherto German predictions have been based on a quick cone clusion of the conflict, the end of this summer being the extreme date, The Fuehrer further stated that — ae “our productive capacity is on the to a possibly complete prevention of intre us 0 Sa imports. The war now is in its - | 3 time will be sul» | 10th month during most of which ficient for our time Germany has been receiving requirements, considerable imports of essential oven i WR materials through neutral countries DS Hts Op and because the British blockade ease.” Here, 100, hat not completely covered all is Hitler's first means of ingress Foye" that Now, however, German occupation Sor PTT ot Norway, Denmark, Holland and “ "~ vet ihade- Belgium and [Italy's belligerency quate "Yor war have permitted the British Govern conditions a h 4 ment to cease its liberal treatment of supply ships bound to those sion that Germany “faces cessation countries. During (he past two

his first admis-

reached Paris today after almost a with the British and French Am-|of imports due, of course, to the months effectiveness of the British

British blockade. [blockade has been much increased, The promise that productive There can be no doubt that Gers sapacity soon will be adequate is many is now receiving much less not sustained by Hitler's reference (Continued on Page Three)