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The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Fair and continued warm tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy with local showers and cooler.

FINAL HOME

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 117

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

2000 PERISH AS TWO SHIPS SINK

SHOWER TOEND

CITY'S WEEK OF STIFLING HEAT

‘Cooler Tomorrow’ Forecast,

Although New Record Is Possible Today.

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BEER EEE

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11 p. m. 12 (noon) 1pm ...

Running Even

Today

Yesterday 78 78

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81 84 88 91 93 95 95

Cooler tomorrow!

For seven days and seven| Indianapolis in above normal tem-

nights, baked peratures. Tomorrow,

Bureau predicts, the heat |”

h as

the Weather

Bride Who Stole Stockings for Trousseau To Serve 60 days Unless Groom Raises $60

HE immediately sobbed the story to her fiance, J and they bleakly noticed that the arraignment date and the wedding date as set in the invitations were one ard the same. “We didn't want to go from the court to the altar,” the youth said in court today, “so we were married Saturday.” He stood back of his bride in court, whispering encouragement to her as Judge Charles Karabell, accepting the guilty plea, lectured her severely, “Anyone who accepts a salary check from an employer and then steals from him deserves to go to prison,” he said. She sobbed hysterically. “I'll fine vou $50 and costs and sentence you to serve 60 days in the Indiana Women's Prison,” he said. Then he looked at the young bridegroom. “For your sake,” he said, “I'll suspend the days. But she'll have to pay the fine or go to jail.”

U.S. ‘EMBARGO PLACED ON OIL

Shipments of Scrap Metal Also Shut Off to Europe And Far East.

WASHINGTON, July 25 (U, P.) —| WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P)). Louis Johnson has resigned as As- | —President Roosevelt today exetary War, the White Mi | tended the export licensing system, [J1sten) ee en ; | 2 5 | which amounts virtually to an emis ol § i , | 5 E | bargo, to petroleum products, scrap . ediately President Roosevelt imm yi iron, and other scrap metal. |

inated Robert Porter Patterson 9 ¢ al. Te oh to succeed him. | i we | Acting under a law giving him

Ir. Patterson has been a judge of | | authority to control exports of mu-|

By FRANK WIDNER

BEAUTIFUL 23-year-old girl, married only last Saturday, cried bitterly in Municipal Court today as she admitted she stole part of her trousseau. Today, the date designated on announcement cards as the day of her wedding, she was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to 60 days in the Indiana Women's Prison—but the days were suspended Even so. unless her husband, who admits he's broke, can raise the fine and costs, she will have to serve it out at $1 a day. A week ago, as she and her fiance were deep in wedding plans and had just mailed out the invitations setting the wedding date for today, the bride was arrested. She was charged with having stolen | 10 pairs of silk hose from the mill where she worked | Some of the hose she wore to pre-marriage parties in her honor. Some she had saved for the honey-

LOUIS JOHNSON “QUITS WAR 108

| | | Yields Place to Republican, May Become White House |

Assistant.

Dead at 8

CALL TO ARMY |_ Pledge to Family Men

DUE AT ONCE IF BILL IS PASSED

Orders to First 1,400,000

| |

Are Expected to Follow |

Within 24 Hours.

WASHINGTON, July 25 —Congress speeded toward action]

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on a compulsory military training ;

bill today as it was revealed that

that War Department is ready to|

begin drafting an army of 1,400,000

men within 24 hours of enactment |

of such a law. The Senate Military Affairs Committee has nearly completed the writing of a bill that would draft] within a year such an army of | vouths who have no dependents. It| is expected to approve the bill to-|

day and send it to the Senate floor | |

for debate Monday.

The House Military Affairs Com- | ¥ mittee, considering the same bill, : seeks information on the cost of a|

five-year program which, according | to military officials, will 3,000,000 reserves by May 15, 1945.

This Year's Cost Estimated

produce | :

Maj. George L. Eberle of the War | : Department General Staff told the |

House Committee that the program | would add $1,100,000,000 to the cost of maintaining the Army during the current fiscal year. Testifying in support of the bill |

wave will be broken by showers. Tonight, however, will be hot and today mav set a new record for the vear. Yesterday is champ as things now stand, with a 98.3 recording at

the Secpnd Circuit Court of Appeals, lin New York since March 21, 1939. | Mr. Roosevelt expects shortly to offer Col. Johnson a post as admin-| istrative assistant to the President] | designating him as his “progressj Mrs. | reporter” on the entire national de-

Otto N. Frenzel Sr.

| nitions, materials and machinery | ap. Eberle said his figures covered (essential to the national defense. tne contemplated mustering of Na- | the President revised a previous tj,na) Guardsmen in September, the | proclamation so as to cover oil an& grafting of 400,000 men in October scrap metal. and another 400,000 in April, 1941. Vital War Matrials Appearance of the next witness, Petroleum and scrap iron are ma- | Benjamin C. Marsh, executive Sec- |

345 p.m

The Weather Bureau at Chicago |

Canadian into night and showers were predicted for most!

that cool moving last

said began plains

breezes northern weather

the Cooler

northern states today, and by even southern states by tomorrow night.

Heat Overcomes Two

. Two more persons were reported

overcome by the heat were Esther Gillard, 42, of 16th and| Col. Johnson's resignation followed. 1 and Minerva Ford, 35, of

Mill Sts. 929 Locke St. Leo Allen,

him first aid.

748 Lexington ! dived into the Willard Park pool | Early said. and injured his head.

here. They

Police gave

Although pastures and hay crops

seeded this spring have been dam-| the corn and

aged, appear unaffect

Horace Abbott, agricultural agent! the crops could use rain, and would be better if it were not so hot, but the situa-

said that of course,

ed.

soybean crops

off

tion is not yet critical

Yesterday's hot spot was La Porte, with The figure broke Lafayette

105.

record there

in the state a maximum of a six-vear recorded

100 degrees, the highest of the year,

and Crawfordsville 101 and Washington!

Kokomo had

reported 99.

and Anderson each reported 98. Chicago Registers 101 Deaths caused by the heat and

drownings when the first long hot wave Montana,

South Dakola heat drowned

Refore the cooler weatl belt, soared to 100 plus degrees,

into the grain

total

let w

North tions of Wyoming

264

Dakota and

in the nation up in the weekas reported over sec-

Minnesota and

Eightv-three died of

prostration

and 181 were 1er moved the mercury

making

the Plains States, Upper Mississippi

Valley Plateau Region nation

Highes

and Southern

Rockies and

s the hottest in the

4 SU

readings reported were 113 degrees at Tyndall, S. D,, |

(Continued on Page Three)

MUSSOLINI'S FAMILY

FIGURES IN U. S. CASE Indianapolis consumed 50.800,000 U. S. LIEN AGAINST

HOLLYWOOD, July 25 (U. P) Renato Senise when threatened with arrest as an| anti-Fascist, today describes in court| shortage. Howard S. Morse, Indian-! | fi | , - Tr y . -- | fic toll to 43. his efforts to introduce Producer Hal| polis Water Co. president, said the ber Fi. Harrison, Oollector of Inter of Premier

Roach to Benito Mussolil

Dr. Senise, an exporter, is suing demand. Mr. Roach for $30,000 he claims is| due on a contract to make Italian|was one of the highest in several pictures

He said he arranged for ei 17, 1931

motion capital.

Mr. Roach to meet members of th

the family

who left Italy

with American

Duce’s family during a trip to Rome.

The plans the visit

collapsed to Hollywood of Vittorio

shortly

Mussolini, son of the Italian Pre-

mier.

Mr. Roach contended a provision

guaranteeing Dr. Senise $30,000 had | been inserted in the contract with-|

out his knowledge.

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Ave. |

— the season, yesterday in seeking re-

after

fense program. Follows Tradition

| White House Secretary Stephen T. {Barly said that Coi. Johnson's with-

drawal was in conformance with the| ILL 7 MONTHS aft | naion that a Cabinet member | : {was disclosed that the Administra-|

| ! | : | i t Pas mf may choose his own assistant secre-| iii | tion had stopped the shipment of | taries. He was a holdover from the {oil in American tankers to ports

| Cabinet service of former Secretary Widow of Otto 9 Former outside the Western Hemisphere. | {of War Harry Woodring. . | This had shut off such shipments to | |The new Secretary of war, Henry Dean of Indiana Bankers; |Spain and tre Far Bast, except in I. Stimson. exercised his right to] it | foreign ships. Rites Tomorrow. Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel Sr, member |

[select his own first assistant, and) Deny British Influence The shutting off of the shipments | |day by air en route to the Bohemian of a pioneer Indianapolis banking | © Spain followed virtual British | rove near San Francisco,” Mr.| Ber Ad . "° blockade on such shipments. The family, died last night at Methodist | gritish feared the oil would reach | Hospital after an illness of two rtalyv and Germany. The Treasury | Rest to Come First months. She was 81. |denied, however, that the British | “Since time immemorial there al-| Mrs. Frenzel was born in Indian- [action had any bearing on the Ad- | wavs has been a precedent per-| apolis near the present Union Sta- ministration's decision. mitting any Cabinet officer to select lion site, and attended the old Ger-| The U. S. Maritime Commission, | his own Assistant Secretary. man-English school. Her husband, meantime, disclosed that it had re- | “The President, as soon as he is Otto N. Frenzel, for many years! fused to charter American vessels to able, intends to wire Johnson his president of the Merchants National a Japanese firm for transportation | acceptance of the resignation, and) Bank, died June 23, 1925. He was of oil to that country. It said this advise him that he confidently ex-| known as the dean of Indiana action was in line with a new pol-

terials vital for any war machine. The White House, however, offered! [no specific reasons for the extension | of the licensing svstem. The action came shortly after it]

“Johnson left Washington vester- |

WATER CONSUMPTION SETS YEAR'S RECORD

to return to Washington for con-| Mrs. Frenzel, who had lived most|to the Western Hemisphere, tinued service with the Govern- of her life at 17th and Illinois Sts. ee eee ment.” fat the time of her death was reJudge Patterson is a Republican | siding at 3215 N. Meridian St., and holder of the Distinguished Apt. 3. She was the daughter of Service Cross. | Frederick and Susannah Goepper, Col. Johnson is a West Virginia|and had devoted her life to her HIT-RUN ACCIDENT commander of the American Legion.| She is survived by twe sons, John Many believed he would not accept p. Frenzel Jr, president of the the new position being offered him.| Merchants National Bank and Otto, . . . Col. Johnson was said to have been! N. Frenzel, president of the Indiana Mrs. Lettie White Injured promised Mr. Woodring’s job and Trust Co.; three daughters, Mrs. was reportedly offended by Mr. Robert E. Sweeney, Mrs. Elmer Near Her Home. Stimson’s appointment. |Cline of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Mrs. ‘ | ! Mrs. Lettie White, 46, of 2160 W. President's choice as Vice Presiden-| er Miss Mary Schopp. | Washington St., was in City Hostial candidate for the third term| whe also “is survived bv (campaign, but that also fell through.| gyandchildren, Eleanor Dickson tured skull received when she was | Frenzel II. Otto N. Frenzel III, struck by a hit-run car last night.| l vin a . '{ McKinley Lanahan, 43, of 501 Thomas Frenzel Mumford, Mrs. : George Ziegler, Robert E. Sweeney Holt Road, accused by deputy sher- | Jr., John Frenzel Miller, and Eugene iffs of being the driver of the car, C. Miller Jr. all of Indianapolis, and drunkenness, drunken driving, failJohn Frenzel Cline, Elsa Elizabeth |,,,.a to have a license and leaving Cline, Margaret Jane Cline, all of tho scene of an accident. His bond | Sete Scarsdale; four great-granachildren. was set at $1000. | Services will be at 10 a. m. Fri-| Witnesses to the accident gave Company Reports Supply IS gay a: the Flanner & Buchanan deputies a license number ang al * Mortuary with burial at Crown Hill.| few hours after they arrested Lana-| | Adequate.

0, of 2712 Paris July 9 when a car he jumped from the!

| Benny Martin, 5 PR ] ly Ave, injured | gallons of water, a new record for| {struck him as CARROZZ0O DROPPED back ste is ice truck | step of his ice truck, died] |last night at City Hospital. His CHICAGO, July 25 (U. P.).—Car-|death brought the city's 1940 traf-

lief from the heat. But there's no danger of a water|

PRINCE WAS WRONG; COMES BACK TO U. S.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. July 25 (U. P.)

nal Revenue, discharged a lien of | $241,088 for back income taxes al-| | iegedly due from Michael Carrozzo,! | union leader, in Federal Court after| | Carrozzo posted bond. although the company The Government claimed he owed, 54,030,000 gallons on July! $241,088 for unpaid taxes in 1937 “| and 1938. | The year-round consumption av-! He placed in escrow Government | erage is 30,000,000 gallons Ra. | bonds 15 per cent in excess of the! Duchess Cltafitte of Luxembourg, | The peak demand yesterday came amount involved in the litigation.| V!S ted the Daited Rtales and ex. | between the hours of 4:30 and 7:30 Removal of the lien freed all his| Dressed DOR Phe Yak warring |p. m. when nearly everyone in the| properties from court control. A DN Wy respect the | city seemed to be sprinkling or tak-| Carrozzo is president of the In- neulrasly of JS county,

: : : : : He returned to the United States i a - shower. p ‘rier : : ng cool-off shower | ternational Hod Carriers Union, today, accompanied by six other

members of Luxembourg's royal family—fugitives from the German blitzkrieg. They arrived aboard the United States cruiser Trenton and received a booming 21-gun salute.

supply is adequate and the company {has had no difficulty in meeting the

The pumpage figure for yesterday

| years, | pumped

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Joy of Honesty Is Sweet fo

Man Returning Lost Purse” —————" g Lost Pu S€ srock STALEMATE

George Rogers has had a small Louise Bell of Niles, Mich., who has] [ fortune in his home at 353 W. 26th been following back along the trail REMAINS UNBROKEN St. since Sunday and he never said of a vacation trip she and her husa word about it except to the police. band made Sunday. She saw an! NEW YORK, July 25 (U.P) —AlToday he gave it back to its right- advertisement Mr. Rogers had put though volume of sales picked up ful owner. He was as proud and in the paper and she was able to moderately from hot weather dolhappy as only an honest man can give word-for-word the inscription droms, the stock market stalemate be, fon the back of the watch in the! continued unbroken today. Mr. Rogers found a purse Sunday purse. Price movements mainly were at the gravel pit north of Broad| She said she didn’t know what a confined to fractions. Secretary of Ripple. It looked like an ordinary fair reward would be but that she the Treasury Henry Morgenthau black purse but it had $871 in it, and would talk it over with her husband.| Jr.'s statements regarding British five diamond rings, two ruby rings Said Mr. Rogers: “I feel mighty plane orders and aircraft production and a watch. good about it. right person got in the U. S. had no appargnt mar ket a \

| been married to James Kenney, : | retired railroader, for over 57 years. which three or four tiny trawlers yacht Gaviota,

| —Eleven months ago, Prince Felix lof Bourbon-Parma, consort of Gist

| It wks identified today by Mrs. the purse.” effect,

(retary of the People’s Lobby who

opposed the conscription measure, led to a clash with Committee | members. Mr. Marsh referred to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in connection with the conscription of na- | tional manpower. “Was that the same Hitler that was in Poland?” asked Chairman Andrew J. May. {

Takes a Dig at Roosevelt

“The same Hitler that President Roosevelt backed up to Munich,” Mr. Marsh replied. | Rep. R. Ewing Thomason (D. Tex.) broke in with any angry ob-| jection. { “There are other places to discuss | the New Deal and politics,” said Mr. Thomason, demanding that Mr. | Marsh confine his testimony to the | bill. A moment later, when Mr. Marsh asserted that the bill was “a dis-| grace to anvone calling himself a Democrat,” Rep. Charles I. Faddis (D. Pa.) interrupted. “I don't want this Committee used as a sounding board for some | crackpot,” he said. Despite the apparent approval of some form of conscription by most members of both committees, the

| |

| bill faces a long fight in the Senate.

Wheeler Denounces Plan A hint of the intensity of the de- | bate was given by statements of op- | position ‘by Senators Burton K.| Wheeler (D., Mont.), a leader of the | isolationist bloc, and Senator | George W. Norris (Ind.,, Neb.), usu- | ally a supporter of administration policies. Mr. Wheeler denounced conscrip- |

bill on every front. . : Mr, Norris announced his opposi- |

military service in a letter to the Rev. G. A. Moon, a minister of Lin-| coln, Neb., in which he said it was| “abhorrent” to compel young men to serve in the Army in peace time. | He said that he did not believe present world conditions confronted (Continued on Page Three)

HERBERT KENNEY'S | MOTHER IS DEAD

Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd,

mes-Acme Telenhoto.

Ti left, Assistant Chief of Staff, and

Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, leave House Military Affairs Committee hearing where Gen. Shedd promised that “never in time peace” will the Army draft men with dependents.

REPORTER SEES

NAZIS REPULSED

British Anti-Aircraft Fire Extraordinarily Accurate, Beattie Says. By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR.

United Press Staff Correspondent

A SOUTHEAST PORT, England, July 25.-—-Swarms of British fighting

planes today drove off new attacks | by German aerial raiders on British |

coastal shipping.

| | British air sources told me shortly

after noon that an estimated 80 German planes had struck with bombs and machine guns.at shipping in the Channel during the morning. I saw squadrons of fast British fighting planes wheeling through the sky and converging from all directions to lead a counter-attack on the Nazi raiders.

Germans Scattered

Anti-aircraft batteries on shore and on warships at sea opened up on the German planes with an intensive barrage. Later UT was told that none of the

10! pital today with a possibie frac- tion and said he would fight the|shivs in the convoy under attack

haa been damaged, but that the German attacks had been scattered

{tion to the theory of compulsory and driven back across the water.

(In Berlin, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 28,000 tons of British shipping yesterday and to have shot own 10 Birtish planes.) Nazi aviators appeared to be concentrating on attacks on British coastal shipping. A number of convoys have been attacked in the last few days, but in most cases the Germans were reported driven off with severe losses. Reporter Sees Fight A solid wedge of fast-flying German planes heading directly to-

DARK DAYS

Robert Prefers Blonds,

NEW YORK, July 25 (U. P.).— The dark news today is that the nation is fast losing its hlonds. Gentlemen may profess to prefer them but the ladies are skeptical and so—in the opinion of Robert, hairdresser to society and the stars of the screen—American women are tiring of golden and platinum tresses and are scrambling from one end of the rountry to the other to achieve a new crowning glory of ebony, chestnut or even henna.

Ghost Named in Suit

LOS ANGELES, July 25 (U. P.). -—The divorce court takes up today the case in which a ghost is co-respondent. Dr. William E. Boyce, a wealthy eye specialist, alleged in his depsition that his wife, Lillian, had been persuaded to give up loving him by a ghost named Sho-sha. He and his wife went to a seance two years ago and Mrs. Boyce met the ghost. He persuaded her, her husband said, that they were “soul mates” and she fell in love with him. “I had no comeback,” Dr. Boyce commented. “You can't fight a ghost.”

DRIFTING YACHTS IN MICHIGAN SOUGHT

Score Blown Out in Lake From Mackinac Moorings.

CHICAGO. July 25 (U. P.).—The Coast Guard reported today that

But Most Women Don't!

OILY SEA FULL OF SWIMMERS FIRED BY NAZIS

‘Civilians on British Liner Bombed; French Craft Torpedoed.

(Joe Alex Morris, Today's War Moves, Page Three)

} | !

LONDON, July 25 (U. P.). —Great Britain reported to-

‘day that German and probe

(ably Italian bomb and torpedo

attacks had sunk the famous trans-Atlantic liner Lancase 'tria and the French steams ‘ship Meknes with apparent; loss of from 2000 to 3000

civilians, soldiers and sailors. The 16,243-ton Lancastria sank under a furious half-hour aerial bombardment off the French hare

bor of St. Nazaire during the British evacuation of France on June 16, when the attacking planes {were alleged by survivors to have |set. fire with incendiary hombs to oil-covered waters in which men, [women and children were struggling [toward safety. | The 6127-ton Meknes was sunlk {last night off Southern England, (while carrying 1200 French Navy |officers and men who chose to be repatriated from Britain to France. |Of these 300 were feared lost.

Some Seized by Germans

The number lost on the Lane castria was not definitely known, but the number still unaccounted for was put at 2823 to 3023, out of which it was reliably estimated that about 1700 perished. The difficulty in estimating the number who perished on the Lane castria arose from the fact that some reached safety but fell into German hands. It was stated tha from 5300 to 5500 were aboard the ship, including troops, women and children. If the number estimated to have [fallen into German hands proves to be smaller than 1000, however, the death toll on the two ships may mount over 3000. Survivors said that they believed Italian as well as German bombing planes participated in the attack on the Lancastria., The Lancastria was bringing Brite lish troops and eivilian refugees [from France and the loading had | just been. completed when, survivors |said, the airplanes came over.

Claim Deck Machine Gunned

They charged that the planes bombed and machine gunned the decks of the Lancastria and then allegedly attacked men and women swimming in the oily waters. “We were within a few miles of St. Nazaire and still at anchor,” one survivor, a soldier, said. “1 was on deck and the deck was thronged with troops expecting to be in England in 24 hours. Some of us had been in France since tha landing of the original expedition= {ary force. “Suddenly there was a drone of lairplanes. They were at a grea# | height. Then they swooped low un= til we could see the Nazi and Ital-

lian emblems. Terrific Salvo of Bombs

“Then there was a terrific salvo of high explosive bombs, one of which went down the funnel. It was clear the Lancastria was finished.” The soldier said that within 15 (minutes the big ship was on her {beam ends.

a nd “But this was after the planes re= (turned and machine-gunned the (troops on the decks at close range,” h> said. “Once the ship was on her side [she disappeared in a few seconds. (Many of the soldiers were trapped {below decks.

Mrs. Ella Webb Kenney, mother | wards this port led us to believe at two of its cutters and an airplane | “But back came the planes, ma=

‘of Herbert P. Kenney, director of first that we were in for a heavy are cruising the waters |the State Legislative Bureau. died attack.

But British pursuit ships

of Lake | Michigan in the vicinity of Mackinac

today at her home at New Albany. | zoomed up to meet them and soon Island in a search for several sailing

She was 77. Mrs. Kenney had lived at New| Albany for may years and had |

three sons, | Robert

Other survivors are Clarence of Chicago,

bany: two daughters, Mrs. J. L.|

| Harvey of Waterbury, Conn, and |

Mrs. John MecCullouch of Scotts-| burg, and a brother, Gary. Funeral services will be held |

Sunday at New Albany.

the sky was dotted with planes engaged in individual dog fights. From a height overlooking the

plodded, seemingly oblivious to

of |bombs falling from the sky, I saw | to Charlevoix. Pendleton and J. Donald of New Al- the aerial conflict from beginning Kewadin, of Penawater,

to end. The show began quietly enough. Far up the channel I suddenly no-

Albert Webb of [ticed a white plume inching across|Traverse City,

the sky. It was reminiscent of the (Continued on Page Three)

yachts caught last night in a strong wind.

The Coast Guard said the cutter

a harbor and a smooth sea, through | Escanaba had found the 68-foot

its sails torn and | propeller fouled, and was towing it Also found were the and the Stephia. The cutter Antietam, out of Milwaukee, and an airplane from the Mich., Coast Guard station, also were participating in lthe search.

Wire From Missing Son Overjoys Mother,

Guarded From Fears That He'd Drowned

If Mrs. Willard Shannon ever makes a list of good samaritans she's known, she'll start with her| own neighbors. When a bicycle and a suit of clothes on the banks of Eagle Creek led police to think that a boy had been drowned there, Mrs. Shannon's neighbors kept the fact from her that it was her own boy they were looking for. All Mrs. Shannon knew was that her son, Willard Jr, was missing. He had been gone all day. His father 3 working at Peru. She suspected,

but didn’t know for sure until today, that Willard Jr. was “ashamed to face his Daddy” after an accident with the family car. She was almost frantic, she said. Her oldest daughter, Mrs. George Johnson, of 2602 N. Olney St., went with a neighbor to police headquarters late last night. They identified the bicycle and clothes as Willard’s. They didn’t tell Mrs. Shannon—they just waited in the hope that a miracle might happen, It did. At 3 a. m. today a tejegram came from Clinton, Ind, from Willard Jr.

Fo oh hid A aes he

pole

It said he was down there visiting a nephew of Mr. Shannon. He had started out on his bicycle to go to Clinton from his home at 2369 Adams St. He had tired on the way. When he got to Road 34 and Eagle Creek he abandoned his extra suit of clothes and bicycle and either hitch-hiked or took the bus on to Clinton. After the telegram came, all the neighbors flocked to the Shannon home. Said Mrs. Shannon: more after I got the telegram

“1 prayed

t¥an

before.”

ah LS

(chine gunning the swimmers who | (Continued on Page Three)

U. S. TO DEPOR 5 NAZI SEAMEN

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. July 25 | (U, P.).—Deportation to Mexico of {five crew members of the German [freighter Arauca, which ducked into {port here last December to elude a | British cruiser. was being arranged |today, immigration officials dis closed. The five will be sent to Mexico at expense of the Hamburg-American ine, operators of the Arauca. In ° Mexico the seamen probably will join members of crews of other German vessels in North and South America for return to Germany.

INCREASE PARK SIZE FOR WILLKIE SPEECH

ELWOOD, Ind., July 25 (U. P.).— Arrangements were being completed today to increase the size of Calla« way Park, site of the formal accep= tance speech of Wendell L. Willkie, from 40 to 350 acres. The increase was ordered to handle the oversize crowd expected to attend to hear Mr. Willkie speak - Aug. 17. Between 250,000 and 300,000 are expected by Homer Capehart of Washington, Ind. arrangements chairman. 8