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FORECAST: Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; continued warm,

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VOLUME 52—-NUMBER 121

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Record-Breaking Heat Kills Three H

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1940

Entered as at Postoffice,

Second-Class Indianapolis,

Matter Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

ere, Five Others in State

FEAR HEAVY TOLL IN N. J. EXPLOSIONS

NO RELIEF DUE ~ FOR 36 HOURS, ~ NOT SURE THEN

July 29 Hottest in es Cool Air Mass Again Misses City,

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{ The heat wave which] claimed three lives herve and five in the State yesterday! will continue for at least the naxt hours, the Weather| Rureau predicted today. The skies, however, may be partly shaded with clouds tomorrow, he mercury reached a new) high of 98.9 degrees |

Leason's vesterday. The temperature today will go very near to yesterday's maximum and maybe above, it, the bureau said. Yesterday's 989 degrees was the he of record for a July 29 in the history of the Weather Bureau h The hottest July 30 was in 1013 at 102 qegrees The United Press

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reported that a cool alr was moving toward eastern also sweitering the local bureau said it will not this area anapolis dead were:

mass ot the but anect I'he Indi

CLINT HATFIELD, 54 a janitor, who was ten from his rooms 8 at 014 Cornell Ave, hortl ridin ght and died at City a half hour later THOMAS MAUORY, 53, of Tol N Hol mes Ave, who was taken to City Hospital yesterday afternoon od died at 6 a. m. toCR) ANTON GALI pensioner ald cou home,

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aft told police that he working in an onion field; Hobart and Raymond Sts. Poare investigating a report that work in the field fou eLenes Others dead in Indiana were: ERNEST NH NEWMAN, 8385, found dead in bed at Evansville noner Jacob Reisinger said he as stricken with a heart attack iced by heat EDWARD Bedford WPA apsed while at from a heart Coron RE caused by heat GEORGE V. STRONG. Bikhart, died of a heart hiz home ARTHUR GRUELLE, 38 dead heat at the Thomas Soots farm near Brooklyn in Morgan | county, CLEMENT

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UX A M'SOLEY. 46. worker, who colwork and died attack which Wynne said was

52, of stroke at

LEPKOWSKI, 20, of South Bend, drowned in Chain © Lakes near South Bend. His death was the second by drowns (Continued on Page Three)

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Cracking the Heat Wave

Sweltering under record heat, like many other parts of the country, New York welcomed the terrific thunderstorm that finally cracked the torrid spell, skyscrapers became gigantic lightning rods, as forked flashes plaved about them.

Heavy C rop Loss Feared Here; Corn May Be Cut for Silage

Field damaged by

corn and so) the intense heat

bean crops in Marion County already have heen and some farmers now are talking about

harvesting the corn green for silage

This nas reported today by Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent, if this weather continues for the rest of this week ° there

=, Will be drastic crop losses.”

| Mr. Abbott said that sov beans | STOCKS JUMP FROM [are “terribly wilted and the corn

leaves ave curled pretty tightly, both from the lack of moisture and the 4-Weeks Backlog of Good News Breaks Jam.

heat.” NEW YORK. July 30 (U. P) The stock marke! spurte out of its month-long lethargy today as shares rose fractions to 2 points. Turnover for the first three hours approximated 290.000 The upturn was attributed to the accumulation of favorable business news during the last four weeks Chrysler spurted 3'; points but lost half of the rise in profit-taking. U.! S. Steel rose a point and held well Wright Afreraft jumped more than 10 points and Oouglas, Boeing Bendix and United moved up a. point and more each after disclosure that the National Defense Advisor) Commission had cleared almost £84 100.000 in aireraft orders

at the Weather Bureau was an inch June 9 Since then the heaviest rain nas 35 of en inch on 12. On July 13 there was .06 of an inch; on the 16th 09 of an inch and on the 17th 02 of an inch “This is a critical time for corn.” Mr. Abbott said. “Right now the ears are forming and corn needs moisture I'he intense heat curs tails pollenization, too, and I believe that the heat probably js doing corn more damage than the drought. Mr, Abbott said been no pasture for

July

that there has

are feeding from the barn. The age and were harvested as the present drought got under way. Some farmers have cut alfalfa for

the second time

In this spectacular photo lower Manhattan's towering |

The last substantial rain recorded | 95 of!

several weeks | and dairy farmers for the most part’

small grains escaped weather dam- |

Poaching

U.S. PROPOSES MILITARY ROAD LINKING FORTS c=

today and thanked the heat for fried chicken he will have in the near future. The heat

Heat Hatches 13 Baby Chicks for kggTester,

FINDLAY. O., July 30 (U. P), Produce manager N. E. Van

War Denariment Drafts on For Highway Between Knox and Harrison,

By SAM TYNDALL The War Department making plang for a four-lane 'super-highway to link Ft. | Harrison, Indianapolis, to Ft. [Knox, Ky, the Ohio | . River, The super-roadway would (be financed by Federal funds land the plans, therefore, are lsubject to Congressional ac‘tion, The War Department ‘has recommended the struction of the highway [Congress Under the plan, the highway {would be of a strategic military na- | ture, but at the same time would | serve the motoring public as a part {of the state public highway net. Work. The highway is doasired War Department to make Ft and its gpold deposits readily acces. sible to the regular Army troops garrisoned at Ft. Harrison and to Of Britons on spy permit quick dispatch of troops the Far Fast. from one section to another, | | Governor Townsgnd.and the In| 0% | |diana State Bridge Commission ave | A caratly = deonted | working with U. S. Army engineers Ad dat that chips to ‘on the proposed military project, | Policy, Pre A - from all European ports, as well Parallels Old Road specified ports in North Africa and Bagar C. Miles, Corvdon, High« the Atlantic Islands, must submit way Commission member, said the (o contraband control, bridge for the route would be con-| The purpose of the action was to I structed over the Ohio near Mauck- prevent re-shipment of goods, | port, according to present plans especially oil, from Spain or other | This span in its service to the neutral territory to Germany public undoubtedly would be estab- rtaly and to prevent the Axis Powers lished as a toll bridge, he said. from exporting goods through | The superhighway would not be friendly neutral ports, (an enlargement or improvement of Affects Ships from Americas

any existing road, but would be a) new artery, Mr. Miles sald It! Tt was generally believed that the would follow generally the present blockade action—which affects ships to or from the Americas-—-was di-

state highway No. 135 which leads nearly due south from Indianapolis rected chiefly against Spain, which had been reported re-shipping oil to

to Pag Kport Knox, one of the largest mili- the Reich, but it also applies to the | Balkans and Portugal.

\Contianed on Page Three) . German aerial attacks continued |

| with the bombing of a southeast | ACCIDENT LEADS 10 { England town, but British officials

asserted that Nazi claims in regarding to sinking of British shipping Driver Accused o Hitting Woman Is Fined $165.

“ripened” 15 egrs he was testing. He laid them aside in a basket, heard signs of life a short time later. By this morning 13 fluffy chicks had hatched a 800d 1 average Ear » any “setting.”

BRITAIN ADDS BLOCKADE

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Control of Exports and Imports Extended to All of Europe.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

Great Britain drastically

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over

Conto

all European ports fought off new German bombing attacks on the British Isles and took a stern attitude toward Japanese arrests

the Knox

pefore (He Hotes of Com

were greatly exaggerated, man High Command, during the

week ending July 21, for instance, | veported that 194,600 tons of British miralty figures for that week, released, todav, reported that Britain lost only 11 ships, totaling Stating “this is one of the most tons of neutral shipping and Judge Charles J, Karabell today Allied shipping sunk. fined a 28-year-old man $165, Soh T ; & wo More Bombers Downed tenced him to 180 days on the State Grand Jury on another count fol- that by July 12 a total of 4.329.213 lowing an accident last month in|tons of enemy shipping and othe: which a woman was injured shipping useful to Britain had been 98. of 242 Hendricks Place, received | that up to July 21 only 2315052 $110 and 180 davs for drunken drive tons of British, ing. $35 and 180 days for drunken |shipping had been lost, driver's license. He was bound over continued their stubborn to the Grand Jury under $500 bond against German bombing for failure to stop after an accident. that dropped high explosives in the State Farm sentences would be town, killing or wounding many served concurvently, persons and causing extensive damThe defendant is said to have age. Two Nazi bombers was shot St. over the White River bridge and brought down on Monday then fled. He was caught by police] Other German planes made hit-| lafter a West Side chase. (Continued on Page Three)

shipping had been,sunk, The Ad[tons in addition to 10,192 vicious cases I have ever heard.” Farm and bound him over to the! Furthermore, German claims were The defendant. Powers Coomer,!' sunk, whereas the Admiralty said ness and $20 for failure to have al In the British Isles, defense forces Judge Karabell said that the streets of a southeast mgland | struck a woman on W. Washington down in addition to possibly 27

Two big hombhers of the British Coastal Command air force on patrol duty with Navy destroyers Their job is to protect ships bringing vital supplies to Britain,

Following is the second of two dispatches dealing with organization of German and British air forces,

By BRYDON TAVES

United Press Staff Correspondent.

ONDON, July 30-—Great Britain has learned the costly of the World War and is approaching the climax of history's greatest aerial struggle with a tightly organized and modern air force. Whereas in 1916 the nation was unable to meet an urgent call for 120 more fighting planes to reinforce the Royal Flying Corps in France, it is today attempting to meet the demands of air chiefs for 10,000 or more planes a month, In her do-or-die effort to challenge Germany's air supremacy, an effort upon which may hinge the outcome of the Battle of Britain, the nation finally has discarded the economy which stunted the Royal Air Force's growth in the "20s and '30s. The R. A. F. is now a healthy, centralized organization working in close co-operation with the Army and Navy. With its seven commands all under one control, it is the simplest of the three organizations. Other branches of the British Commonwealth's air power include the fleet air arm--aircraft and personnel attached to naval vessels— which is responsible only to the Admiralty, four foreign air forces subordinate to the air staff and the independent empire air forces. The story of the R. A. F.'s birth, development and centralization goes back to an afternoon in late November, 1916, when Great Britain's War Committee was studying anxiously a letter from the World War commander of British forces in France. The letter was from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. and he was demanding immediate reinforcement of the Royal Flying Corps in (Continued on Page Five)

lessons

extended blockade control to, today, |

charges in

foreign |

or |

The Ger- |

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2088 tons of |

| Mr,

Allied and neutral |

REPUBLICANS INSIST F. D. R.

‘Committee Starts Work on Executive Plea for Right To Call Guard.

WASHINGTON, (U. P.) .~ the Senate Military Committee decided today lav the controversial ‘scription bill aside

July 30

REVEAL STAND

After an angry row,! Affairs to con-, tempor- |}

arily and begin work on Presi-| dent Roosevelt's request for| lauthority to mobilize the Na-| 1

tional Guard.

Senator Hampshire,

publicans, Bridges of

led by | New

| The demands brought from Democrats that ents were ‘playing the issue Previously

RecusRbions| their oppon politics” with had |

the committee

been expected to approve the meas- |

ure today. It had devoted all last week to revising the bill for Senate consideration,

Compromise Talk Grows

Alben the com deciding |

Leader he believed “wisely” in

Democratic Barkley said mittee acted

after requested to order

measure until the President's authorize him

bill National

year's active service, Talk of a with Senator James F. Byrnes 8, CC), influential leader joining those urging a mod-! erate course, Mr. Byrnes suggested that registration of potential trainees be limited to the younger age groups. [The present bill would provide for

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|registration of all men from 18 t0/the American possessions of warring of but only those from 21 to 45 European nations from falling into | of

| 64, would be subject ular Army service, savs at first it single men from 21 to 31. Committee Chairman

to draft for regand the Army

new blockade measures, dis- to defer action on ihe conscription | disposition of | to

Administration |

the intended

Morris vent,

Heads Revolt

Senator Styles Bridges ... don't know how the President stands on this important issue and Tr think we have a right to know.’

21 REPUBLICS,

Monroe Doctrine Today; Hull Is Victor.

HAVANA, July 30 (U, P.).-The|

continental seal

oday Aa

id which will the Western

compromise increased Hemisphere from totalitarian influ-| help,”

fence and penetration. Delegates to the conference of American foreign ministers gave| unanimous aproval to the projects to promote the external security and internal harmony of the new world. These included a plan to prevent

hands, an economic agreeto make the Western Hemi-

other ment

would take only sphere self-sufficient, and a plan to

| police the continents so as to pre-| un-American activities by

Sheppard said hearings would be pifth Columnists.

(Continued on Page Three)

ANDREW KEIFER DIES HOOSIER PUBLISHER

Helped Organize Sun Here,

Times’ Predecessor.

July 30 (U —An= | general manager of |

CHICAGO, drew C. Keifer,

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| Results of the conference were [largely a victory for States and Secretary Cordell Hull. The marked another mile post in steady advance of American political and economic harmony which began in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933 and increased steadily in the | succeeding conferences in Buenos Aires, Lima, Peru, and Panama, The Havana decisions imple{mented earlier ones, by putting “teeth” into purely pacific policies and providing protection for the) (Continued on Page Three)

of State

[the Terre Haute (Ind. Tribune and FRATERNITY JEWELS

Star Publishing Co. died today at St. Luke's Hospital. He was 73. Keifer was one of the found-

ers of the Indianapolis Sun,

pred- |

Fraternity rings and pins valued

ecessor of The Indianapolis Times. at $1100 were stolen from the office

He went to Terre Haute in 1911.

Chigaso last Friday on Ryan, Terre Haute undertaker,

at the home and at St. MargaretMary Church with burial Thursday at Calvary Cemetery. | He is survived by a son, | treasurer of the publishing firm; | daughter, York, and two sisters, Mrs. McFadden, Whiting, net | Anna Horn, Cleveland,

Louis,

He became ill while en route to Test Building, business. were notified.

battle AH the body would be taken back discovered when planes | to Terre Haute today for services opened this morning.

Mrs. Harris Hanson, New $25,000,000 for Thomas Tennessee Valley to provide power 21 explosions in rapid succession. and Mrs. fr increased production of aluminum |

of the M. C. Lang Jewelry Co., 708 last night, police Maxwell C. Lang, the burglary was the office was

proprietor, said

0. K. NEW TVA DAM

WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P.) The Senate today in short order

A [passed a resolution to appropriate a new dam in the]

industry.

| needed by the aircraft

Great Bi itain Has Learned Lesson— Air Forces Tightly Knitted

Units of Britain's air defense and destruction, side by side. In the foreground, a Vickers Wellington long range bomber, in the background, a Spitfire, speedy eight-gun fighter,

Angry Senate Committee Row Delays 1 Draft Bill Action

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900 TRAPPED, SCORES HURT, SEVERAL DEAD |

Fleeing Polish Plant Work ers Showered With Sparks: Four Houses Burn.

CAMDEN, N. J, July 30 (U. P.).—A series of explo~ sions followed by fire trapped 900 employees in a paint mane ufacturing plant here today, but most of them were bee

on lieved to have escaped under ‘a shower of burning oil and

ONE PURPOSE

w Americas Sign Continental

the United

conference | the |

WORTH $1100 STOLEN

chemicals. Police reported that “scores” of persons were sent to hospitals and pra several bodies had been found, od

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Camden authorities sent frantie appeals for aid and all available ambulances to Philadelphia, across the Delaware River, and other neare by communities, A general alarm was turned in {and all families in the area wera evacuated. Four nearby houses wers set afire,

Heat Prevents Investigation

The terrific heat kept authorities | from getting near the plant as the explosions continued an hour after the first blast left the four-story brick building a mass of flames. Fire Department officials feared that besides the bodies already recovered

as Guardsmen and Reserves into one B American republics formally sign|a dozen or so others had perished Monroe Doc-|

in the flames. | “For God's sake, send us more Camden police telephoned | Philadelphia. | James H. Malone, director of pube lic safety in Philadelphia, sent over jit available police forces and ore dered 50 students of a police school to report and aid in any manner possible, The plant is located in the heart the industrial section of this city 120,000.

Flames Visible for Miles

The plant, that of the R. M. Hole lingshead Co.,, manufacturers of “Whiz” auto polish and other prod luets, is a four-story brick structure, Company officials said that normally 900 persons are employed in the plant Firemen broadcast a general alarm asking all residents of Came 'den, a city of 120,000 to shut off their | water supply so that all the avail« |able water could be used to fight the spreading flames. An hour after the first blast, the explosions still were continuing. Authorities said there was no ime [mediate way of ascertaining how many of the employees escaped from the building. Those who did escape were showered by burning oil. The flames could be seen for miles, First reports to reach police headquarters said between 10 and 15 bodies already had been recovered. | A second call for help was sent to | Philadelphia as other buildings in the area were ignited. The Cooper Hospital said 10 of the injured had been received there and the West Jersey Homeopathic Hos= pital received another within 30 minutes after the first explosion.

Reports 21 Blasts

Traffic hecame so congested that police roped off a large area and forbid entrance of anyone except firemen, policemen and hospital ate taches., One girl employee said there were

“We ran down the fire escapes as [the flames swept through the build[ing and were showered with burning joe she said

SUSPECT ARRAIGNED | IN AVENUE SLAYING

Justus McReynolds, 38, suspected slayer of Robert Chambers, 25, of 1134 N. West 8t., in or near Joe Mitchell's tavern on Indiana Ave. July 6, was bound over to the Grand Jury today on a charge of murder. McReynolds was given a pre liminary hearing before Judge John L. McNelis in Municipal Court. No bond was set. The slain youth died in the City Hospital shortly after police found him lying on the side walk in front of Mitchell's tavern with a bullet wound in his chest. The slaying resulted in the forme | ing of a citizens’ committee which | has asked a cleanup of conditions on Indiana Ave. and has requested that the County Liquor Control Board refuse to renew Mitchell's liquor [jicesse

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| FIRST AUTO DEATH OF YEAR | BRAZIL, Ind. July. 30 (U. P.).— | Otto Hadley, 67, retired carpenter, died today from injuries received Sunday when struck by a ear driven by William Green at a downtown. street intersection. It was Brazil's first auto fatality of ihe year, :

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