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The Indianapolis Times

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FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness with showers and thunder storms and cooler tonight and tomorrow.

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 118

Today’s Best News—Cloudy Skies, Showers

NAZI 370 10DEGREE.

MERCURY DROP S DUE TONIGHT

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Heat Ends at Twilight,’ But Perspiration Will Stay Till Then.

Almost Over

Today 83 82 81 80 79 80 81 84

Yesterday 80 80

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A one-degree ‘‘cold wave’ | struck Indianapolis for a few hours today and left almost no impression. Closely following it, ever, will be a 10-degree drop | i in temperatures, escorted | here from the air-conditioned | northwest by thunderstorms. | When vour perspiring ears hear the distant rumble of thunder late this afternoon, vou will be hearing | what amounts to a meteorological | bugle announcing a change of] weather pace | All over the week-end and into! next week it will be cool, the | Weather Bureau predicted, and there's no indication of a return to the high temperatures of the last] eight days. [ |

North Benefits First

Relief came first to the northern tier of states and followed rain and!

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

FINAL HOME

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PRICE THREE CENTS

and

Cooler

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A British motor torpedo boat of the above type figured in yesterday's Channel battle during which craft are reported to have routed nine German torpedo boats.

hid the amount of damage.

wov- WILLKIE FEARED Turner, Grounded by Injuries,

Britain's Tiny Mistress of Chan

Casualties were claimed

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two English although the smoke screen

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NINE NAL

BY DEMOCRATS Moves Office fo Hospital ToRpEDQ BOATS

Party Leaders in Indiana Worried, Concentrate On Big Cities.

By NOBLE REED “If the election were heid next week, Wilikie would carry the State by 100,000.” This was not a G. O. P. publicity release. It was the worMNed comment of a group of Marion County Democrats i downtown hotel

Speed King Rueful Over ‘Crackup on Ground’ After Flying 25 Years Without a Scratch.

By SAM TYNDALL | Col Roscoe Turner may be temporarily grounded but he's definitely not going to be “out of action.” The dynamic speed flier at first was pretty disgruntled (to put it! mildly) the way fate dealt with him last Sunday night when he was! involved in an automobile accident. From his bed at the Methodist — Hospital, the Colonel growled:

| “After flying 25 years without a HINTS WAL A ‘scratch, I would have to get my first

'crackup on the ground.”

Col. Turner received a bad frac-

English Admit 2 Destroyers Damaged in First Real Battle of Small Craft. LONDON, July 26. (U.P.).—The

first real battle of torpedo boats off

as Great Britain renewed a stubborn and effective fight against Germany's air and sea offensive,

The battle between nine German |

motor torpedo boats and two Brit-

SEIZED UNIONS, AGENT CLAINS

Bartenders’ Chief, Facing Ouster, Bares Tieup of Labor and Crime.

EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first of two stories dealing with the seizure of an important service union by gangsters, °

By RICHARD LAMB Times Special Writer CHICAGO, July 26.—Prep‘aration and public service of (food and alcoholic drinks in ‘Chicago is controlled by the |Capone mob, operating under la charter issued by a union affiliated with the American | Federation of Labor, accord-

ing to one of the union's own tofficials. The charge is made in a statement, attested and filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, by {George B. McLane, for 28 years ' business agent of the A. F. of L. Bartenders’ Local 278. McLane decided to expose the

anschluss of organized labor and syndicated erime, which was an open secret in Chicago anyhow, when, according to him, the mob

Bares Racket

LOSE 28 PLANES IN ONE DAY

CAPONE'S MOB

rn nr —————

SPLASH BOMBS IN SEA AROUND BRITISH CRAFT

Gun Crews of Ships Fill Sky

With Bursting Shells as Convoys Go Calmly On.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR.

‘United Press Staff Correspondent

AT A SOUTHEAST ENGLAND PORT, July 26.1 have spent a long day watch« ing British ship convoys going about their business while scores of German and British planes fought overhead and the bombs dropped thick

George B. McLane . . . hits back after threats.

URGE ONE-YEAR

‘about them. I have helped to take wounded men off boats and I have watched British destroyers racing over to bombard the French coast. British fighting planes have

ARMY SERVICE

Draft Foes Suggest Drastic Cut in Voluntary Time As Substitute.

tried to muscle him out of his $200-

(Another Story, Page 24)

downed 28 enemy craft—a record for 24 hours—to bring to 208 the number shot down since start of | intensive raids June 18. The raids continued today and another bomber was brought down jin southwest England this morning. Earlier, a German plane had dropped bombs at a southeast town, damaging houses and a school land causing some casualties.

a-week job. By an injunction peti-| WASHINGTON, July 26 (UP | Yesterday afternoon I saw two

tion filed last May 31 he blocked | —A proposal to reduce the Army's German planes

shot down and

this move, temporarily at least, and | voluntary enlistment period from others damaged when two squaddragged the skeleton out of the three years to one will he offered rons of Stuka dive bombers made

| closet. | The union involved is the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Interna-

Embraces 14 Locals

{tional Alliance and Bartenders’ In-| the English coast was disclosed to- ternational League of

day

America,

{which for the sake of brevity we

{will call HREIA. | Including Local 278, the HREIA has 14 local unions in Chicago coviering bartenders, waiters, cooks, jcounier men and even soda jerkers.

to the Senate next week as a substitute for the pending military conscription bill. | Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg | (R. Mich.) said this plan would be offered, either by himself or some | other Senator. He said it would bring 1,000,000 men into the Army voluntarily within three months. Mr. Vandenberg told the Senate yesterday that he did not believe the Army had demonstrated any need for cempulsory military train-

‘a hit-and-run attack on a convoy, the second raid of the day,

Planes Dive with Bombs

One after the other the Stukas plummeted toward the sea through (a sky splashed with the burst of anti-aircraft shells, loosed their bombs, zoomed and banked simultaneously and streaked homeward as British fighter planes engaged the German fighters above them. The raiders came from a cloud film when the convoy was just past

ture of the pelvis which will keep: ig" 1510p torpedo boats and two All 14 enjoy wide city recognition in|ing or that it had sold the public. (him on a hospital bed for at least destroyers was fought during a sea [the city’s hotels, restaurants, satwo months. He also received sev-| and air engagement around a Brit- loons, cafes and night spots. eral fractured ribs when the car in Sh convoy and the Admiralty said | As in other cities, these locals are . which he and two other persons the German ships fled after 15 min- united and their functions are sution Is Likely With Start were riding was struck by another Utes, laying down a Smoke screen |pervised by what is known as the lat Lyndhurst Drive and Morris St. that hid the damage inflicted on Hotel and Restaurant Employees Of Active Campaigning. Col. Turner, his secretary and nj, A lotraie gituitied the Local Joint Board snd Dis Credt : i . 3 | friend were thrown from an open mir y mitie le 108s >ouncil— e Joint ar 8 Wl, s of I din he Great formations of water, which Democratic counties first to save President Roosevelt today indicated Were not hurt seriously. them from slipping under the pres- that his Democratic running mate, Shows Rapid Gain

destroyers, including the 1360-ton! President of the Joint Board 18} Merce who refuses to rehire ga Spurted up. Each plane dropped sure of Wendell L. Willkie campaign Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.

thunderstorms. Weather forecasters are relying on these storms to spread out the cool air mass over Indiana. Sharpness of the break in the heat-wave was demonstrated by a drop of 29 degrees in temperature at Milwaukee within an hour yesterday, 101 to 72. At Chicago the reading fell from 101 to 73 within three hours. The thunder-squalls carried little moisture except at scat- | tered points in northern Iowa. Charles City. Iowa, reported four!

The substitute proposal appeared |this port. The first 12 circled to be TS Dy oposa opponents |once, banked from formation and of the compulsory plan and those dived one by one. The attack was still undecided. so close to shore that I could see The Senate Military Affairs Com- |the bombs the moment they left mittee, which is considering the the planes, just before the low compulsory service bill, wrote into Point of the dive, until they ex« lit a section designed to protect the Ploded with a brief splash,

|For the first time in 10 years they | (are expressing privately their gen-!

| wine fears of defeat at the polls nr D R Indicates Resigna-

a lobby. ae | The Democrats are really worried. |

| November. They're changing their plans of Six months ago which called for | concentration of the campaign in| the Republican stronghold districts. |

| Boreas, the sinking of five small

Louis Romano, a West Sider who| o one large and two smaller bombs, | ships and the damaging of five worker who had been drafted,

manufactured alcohol cans during] be classifie ; f and as the last of the 12 went out wold: be classified ‘5s guilty: of an of its dive it followed the rest to-

prohibition.

inches rainfall A freak storm swept through the Montreal area of Quebec at 4 a. m., uprooting trees, disrupting communications and ripping bams from] their foundations, carrying one barn | 75 feet. The storm was accompanied by rain of such intensity that it flattened crops, destroying corn, barley and oat yields on sore farms. Basements were flooded by overloaded drains and early risers worked or ate in candle light when the power system failed

| Minneapolis Cools Off | Two days ago the maximum temperature at Minneapolis was 103 degrees; early today thermometers | stood at 66. Wind and hail accompanied the cooler weather in some sections but only minor damage was reported except in northern Illinois where power lines were seriously damaged. Utilities reported !

1500 breaks in service in that region, faced the prospect of being made James A. Farley as Postmaster GenThe cool zone extended as far Democratic National Chairman to eral and Democratic National Chair- | Succeed Postmaster General James

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WAR SHARES SHOW | FRACTIONAL UPTURN

NEW YORK,

ing from Washington, New York] rand elsewhere urging that he take

July 26 (U. P.).—|

A mild rally in “defense babies,” was the only comment he would P.).—The Rev. Fr. Thomas

shares which stand to benefit most | from the national defense program, | boosted the stock market fractions! to more than a point today. Trading, however, picked up only mod-| eratelv. | The rally was led bv Bethlehem Steel, which yesterday reported | orders in excess of plant capacity, | and Chrysler, which reported half- | year earnings at record. Both is- | sues rose more than a point. The expansion in turnover was not sufficient to indicate whether the month-long market stalemate! had ended, brokers said.

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Movies ....... 10 5 Mrs. Ferguson 16 Obituaries Pegler Pyle Radio Real Estate ..

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Comics . oo Circling City Crossword Editorials .... Financial . Flynn Forum .. : Gallup Poll... In Indpis. Inside Indpls.. Jane Jordan., Johnson

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Scherrer Serial Story .. 22! Side Glances 16! Society 12. 13 Sports .....18, 13 State Deaths. 20

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sentiment. “We've got to maintain our Democratic majorities in those counties first or we're lost,” said one Court House Democratic leader. At the same time, leaders, although expressing confi(Continued on Page Three)

MNUTT DISCUSSED FOR FARLEY'S POST

Talked as Party Head F. D. R. Silent.

limes Special

WASHINGTON, July 26 —Paul V.

’

i McNutt returned to his Federal Se- |

curity Agency office today and

A. Farley. From the moment he arrived his phone was busy with persons call-

command of the party.

| “I am saying nothing just now,”

make. President Roosevelt at his press conference this morning, said that he had not given any thought to the national chairmanship as vet. Much of the same backing which gave Mr. McNutt the only sporitaneous ovation accorded anyone during the entire week of the Chicago convention is being shown for placing him in the national chairmanship.

Republican !

Wallace, will withdraw from the getic flier at a time when he is

paigning this fall. | $225,000 air school here, his national |

The President said he did not pre-, a clude the possibility that Mr. Wal- |

lace might take a long leave of ab(sence rather than resign. But he {gave strong indications that the | Secretary will follow the precedent [that Mr. Roosevelt himself followed in 1920 when he resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to campaign for Vice President. | Mr. Roosevelt said he had no idea! when Mr. Wallace would launch his campaign. It was expected, how-" ever, that the Cabinet withdrawal] [would come sometime about Aug. 20!

ozen other enterprises. But today he made known that

pital-office sick room.

they heal. His doctor reported he| was coming along remarkably well” | considering the seriousness of the fracture. Visitors are Barred

I r | {

As a matter of fact, { —the tentative date set by Mr. Wal- said the Colonel was doin {lace for his notification and ac- well.” ceptance speech “somewhere in transact business right away, and| Iowa.” | did so until the doctor ordered a The President refused to be drawn «nq visitors” sign hung on the door ‘out into discussion of successors 10 and told the hospital to disconnect

{his phone.

the doctor | g a bit “too He wanted to see everyone, |

| More than 100 bouquets of flowers | were delivered to the flier's room and more than 500 sympathy tele'grams poured in after the accident. {Among those who sent them were Howard Hughes, 'round-the-world-

AS NOTRE DAME HEAD flier, Robert Hinckley, Assistant Sec- |

NOTRE DAME, Ind. July 26 (U, ‘etary of Commerce, Olsen and ) } > Johnson, radio team. and Maj.

A. williams, Scripps-Howard aviati Steiner, C. S. C. provincila of the editor. Congregation of Holy Cross, an-| The Saturday night “Skv Blazers" nounced the appointments of presi- broadcast will g0 on the air in New dents to three Catholic universities | York without its star tomorrow last night at a conference at the inight. John Knight, Detroit news‘University of Notre Dame. {paper publisher and World War, The Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C. flier, will pinch hit. | S. C., who has been serving as acing president of the University of Try to Arrange Broadcast Notre Dame since last January, was| (Col. Turner will be moved during confirmed as president of the uni- the week-end from the fourth floor! versity. to a second floor room which is now

man.

FR. O'DONNELL STAYS

Serum Given Hoosier Girl Bitten by Copperhead Snake

Times Special

HUNTINGBURG, Ind. July 26.—

‘The condition of 2-vear-old Jean tion, he said, and added that perby a| 6 three-foot copperhead snake at her p, --+ 16 farm home, was described by her calf in the barn yard, stepping near Pital bed. But for the present the

Hubster, bitten yesterday

physician today as “fair.” “The leg is swollen,” he said, “and

17/it is blue and painful. It’s too early, shed, then reached out and bit her. Mrs. Rocsevelt 15 of course, to tell exactly how it will

come out, but we expect her to recover.” Serum rushed from the Indiana University Medical Center at Indianapolis by State Police arrived at 12:45 a. m. and was immediately 4 »

{being equipped with a special air! cooling unit. | In this hospital office, there will! be a huge desk, some business-like | ‘chairs, a desk, filing cabinets, plus | a radio and two telephones. The {Colonel will dictate his business [letters to a secretary, see people on| There business matters and in genera] “Tun the show” right there. Friends are even attempting to] haps none could have been expected. make arrangements.so that the star The child was bitten yesterday of “Sky Blazers” orning when she shied from a toe his radio listeners from the hos- |

|administered by the doctor. ‘was no noticeable immediate reac-

la tool shed. Apparently the snake, Program will go on the air without | |later found under a sill in the Col Turner.

thought she had backed into a disc SWALLOWS TEETH, DIES

'in the barn yard and had hurt her-!| BRENTWOOD. N. Y.. July 26 (U.| self that way. When the leg began {| P.).—Abraham Grasnow, New York, to swell and become painful he took died today of strangulation when! her to the office of the doctor who he swallowed his false teeth in an! immediately suspected a snake bite., automobile accident, He Rae 65.

Her father, Grand Hubster,!'

This all happened to the ener- Others in a powerful German air at- | (The |

Cabinet when he begins active cam- swamped with plans for his new Germans claimed to have sunk 11)

tack on a convoy yesterday. out of 23 ships in the convov and

tons of ships.) The trawler Fleming was struck

Admiralty said, but it was during

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SPEEDING DRIVER FAST THINKER, T0O

Youth and Lawyer Keep Step Ahead of Police.

A 19-year-old charged on

discharges in

youth was speeding

sult of his quick thinking, coupled with a bit of courtroom confusion. The defendant, Charles Johnson. 277 N. Randolph St., while driving on E. 10th St. the other day,

porated town.

Fear Too Much Svalight Romano professes to be a bar-

{radio program, and about a half- 0 have destroyed a total of 63,000 tender. Nobody believes it, least of

all George McLane. The occupational claim was the wedge which

he doesn't intend to “just lie there.” amidships and sank “during action got him into Local 278 without ever He's going to direct his many activi-. between two of our trawlers and swinging a bar towel. ties from a specially equipped hos- [our German dive bombers,” the| The

talk around underworld 'haunts now is that the Capone syn-

Weights have been attached to the big battle over the British con- dicate wants to relinquish its grip on his legs to hold bones in place while YOV yesterday that torpedo boats of {the bartenders and restaurant work-

ers, if it can do so gracefully. The necessity of subjecting its principal torpedoes to a public grilling is said to be too high a price for the mob. Its other activities might suffer from too much sunlight. | McLane’s description of Romano's (Continued on Page Three)

F.D. R. TO INSPECT CHESAPEAKE BASES

WASHINGTON, July 26 (U.P.).— | President Roosevelt and his highest

Municipal Court today as the re-!naval advisers Monday will inspect

'the defenses of Chesapeake Bay— |ocean gateway to the national Cap{ital. | Accompanied by

Secretary of

saw Navy Frank Knox, and Chairman A P Al a motorcycle cop about to nab him. David I. Walsh and Carl O. Vinson hot yet arrived at a point of asking On Quickly, he swung his car into East of the Senate and House Naval Af-|Such assurances, but it may we { Drive, Woodruff Place, an incor-|fairs Committees, Mr Roosevelt will come to that point a little later on.

inspect, the Norfolk Navy Yard, the

unfair labor practice under the Wagner Act, and the conscript could appeal to the National Labor Relations Board for reinstatement, The Committee also approved sec(Continued on Page Three)

U.S. MAY ASK NAZIS FOR SAFETY PLEDGE

If Our Ships Save Children, Subs Must Stay Away.

WASHINGTON, July 26 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt said today that the United States may ask European belligerents for assurances of safe conduct if American ships are sent to Britain to evacuate children from the war zones. Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee today unanimously approved a bill to authorize American ships to take part in such evacuations. Mr. Roosevelt said at a press conference that tne Government has

| He made it clear that the United

ward France, Gun Crews Stick to Posts

The convoy, which for minutes {was nearly invisible behind the tons of water the bombs sent up, came into view—22 plodding, unromantic little ships built for peace and now asked to stand un to a weapon which as much as anye thing smashed the French Army The convoy continued on its way, Then 12 more planes appeared and repeated the dismal task. By this time German Messerschmitts and British fighters were biting a! each other's hind quarters high above the Stukas and the anti-aircraft fire through which they drove. Flashes glinted from the decks {of ships in evidence that the gun crews stuck to their posts under the attack. High above, a spot of flame appeared. A Messerschmitt, clearly distinguishable because of its square cut stubby wings, began to spin down toward the sea. Half way down its pilot bailed out. The plane blazed intensely for a moment and plunged nose first in a welter of spray. To the south, another German plane crashed, leaving behind it a black pennant a mile high. Slowly the fighting planes moved (Continued on Page Three)

| |

In court today, the motorist’s at- | Norfolk fleet base and training sta- | States is anxious to do all in its

|torney moved for dismissal on the tion, : ‘grounds the policeman had no right Comfort, Va, the air base at Lang- dren from the war zones, but pointto make an arrest in another in-|ley Field, Va., and progress on ship ed out that to atterapt to withdraw |

corporated town,

Kelso Elliott, judge pro tem, two, Johnson. Afterward, a checkup revealed

that the City has a contract to

| police Woodruff Place.

fortifications at Old Point

construction at the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.

{the bay Sunday and Sunday night, make the inspections on Monday, land return to the White House | Tuesday.

Judge, Under K. P. 'Sentence,’ Learns He's Going to Cabinet

PLATTSBURG. N. Y.,, July 26 (U,, can tell his story P.).—Judge Robert P. Patterson, orders.

new Assistant Secretary of War, will take into the Cabinet a buck private’s viewpoint. He received the news of his appointment while on kitchen police

sional men's Army training camp ere. ; Still clad in army denims. he was Andrews of the General Staff.

his appointment is confirmed, Gen. Andrews and every man in this en-

campment will be subject to his

| Judge Patterson had been as(signed to disposing of the garbage |and chopping wood when the news ‘came. Only a few before, he had |tramped for two hours on guard

{duty at the business and profes- | duty with an army rifle slung across

| his shoulder.

| power to aid in the removal of chil-

{them in American flag ships would be to assume a terrific responsibil-

land out of British ports without beling torpedoed or bombed. Several American refugee committees and Congressional figures have advocated relaxing the Neutrality Law to permit the sending of American refugee ships to Britain,

‘SPORTS EDITOR, 22, DROWNED UPSTATE

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 26 (U. P.).—Richard Kunkel, sports editor of the Michigan City NewsDispatch, was believed drowned last night when a yacht in which he was sailing tipped and sank one-half mile off Michigan City during a

high windstorm. Mr. Kunkel, who was 22, had been

SEIZED FRENCH SHIPS

LONDON, July 26 (U. P).—

| pondered the matter a minute or| He will leave on the yacht Po-|ity unless positive assurances were French ® warships seized by the and then discharged young tomac tomorrow night, cruise down given that the vessels could get in

British when France withdrew from the war will be used in the fight against Germany and one man o'war, manned entirely by French= men already has been to sea, “taking an active and successful part; in operations,” the Admiralty dis |closed today. Other French warships, some manned by Frenchmen, others by Britons and some by the naval personnel of other Allies are being made ready for service under cone trol of the Admiralty.

‘FARM LIGHT RATES CUT-

A new schedule, ordering a slight reduction of electricity rates on 28 Rural Electric Membership Corp, {lines throughout the state, was ap-

Mr. Patterson served in the Army | sailing with three companions on proved yesterday by the Publio

during the World War.

{along with other business and professional men, €

He is tak- | the Daisy O, owned by Mark Moor- | Service taken to meet Brig. Gen. Frank N.|ing a “freshener course” in military | man,’ restaurant owner. : ] If [tactics at the Plattsburg Camp | wore life belts and struck out for a proximately $4000 a year to the

All four

pier. Mr. Kunkel failed to make

ore. AP

Commission, The new ‘schedule will effect a saving of aplines’ commission officials said,

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