Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1940 — Page 1

el

' terday.

TREE rey TT re a tt en ae a Copp es o> ET TET RA HT Ee Sb sand

The Indianapolis Times

FINAL HOME

FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy and somewhat cooler, local thundershowers probable.

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 125 ED

Entered as Second-Class Matter *s at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940

: : ' PRICE THREE CENTS

—

WEEK-END RAIN Anti-Aircraft Guns Greatest Disappoi ntment of the War BRITISH PUSH

POSSIBLE BUT ITLL BE LIGHT

That's the Only Relief in Sight as Mercury Dallies In Mid-Nineties. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Gam .... 72 10a.m. .... 88 vam ...." llawm.... 9% Sam .... 30 12 (noon) .. 93 Sa.m .... 8} 1pm .... 9

The Weatherman predicts "probable” local thundershowers for tomorrow. But don’t get excited. There will be no heavy downpour. In fact, Meteorologist J. H. Armington said that it|

may be that only parts of | the city will get rain and]

others will remain dry.

At best, he said, the showers won't | extend over a much greater area] than metropolitan Indianapolis. | Cooler weather under the cloudy skies is definite for tomorrow, how-| ever, he promised. As for today—it was hotter than vesterday’s 92. The mercury soared | to 94 at noon with prospects of} passing 95. There was no indication that the heat would reach the heights of] earlier in the week because amp

clouds kept playing around the sun, shading it at times and keeping the mercury down. However, it was pretty “sticky” because the humidity was about 77 per cent, a little above normal for the temperature.

2 Dead and 30 Hurt in North Dakota Twister

DAWSON, N. D, Aug.3 (U.P) .— Two persons were dead and a third was near death today in the wake of tornadic winds which wrecked 16 homes and six business houses in this village of 350 last night. The dead were Forrest Knudson,

34, county surplus commodities] director whose automobile was) pierced by a flying timber, and]

George Carlson, 10, Dawson, struck | by flving debris when the twister demolished his home. Mrs. Arthur Carlson, 36, the boy's! mother, was near death in a Bismarck hospital. She and her son| were hurled nearly 100 feet when] their home was wrecked. The T70-mile-an-hour wind cut a gwath half a block wide through the village as it swept in from the| west and spent itself before reach-| Ing Jamestown, N. D. about 50] miles to the east. At least 30 pergons were injured About 30 passengers on an intercity bus escaped injury when Earl McElroy, driver, outdrove the! twister. He ignored their pleas to] gtop so they could find refuge in cellars and ditches and drove out of the storm's path.

WOMAN KILLED, TEN INJURED IN CRASH

PLYMOUTH, Ind, Aug. 8 (U. P). ~-A head-on collision of two autos today had caused the death of Mrs. Hugh Ernst, 60, of Chicago, and inJury of 10 other persons, several seriously. The accident occurred on an S-curve at Inwood, five miles! east of here on U. S. 30 late yes-

The injured were Mr. Ernst, who was driving one of the autos; his] daughter, Mrs. Tavlor: the latter's! 6-month-old daughter Lynn, and Y.| P. Rodeheaver, 55, all in serious! condition Calvin Richmond, Gary, was driv-| fing the other car and suffered a fractured skull. Five others, all of whom were en route to Gary from | a CCC camp at Portland, were in-| Jjured

MONTREAL AWAITS BRITISH FLYING BOAT,

MONTREAL, British pected to reach Montreal tomorrow

Aug. 3 U. P)-A

overseas flying boat is ex-!

tively for 2 p. m weather conditions It was expected that the flying boat would continue on to New York after refueling at the Boucherville Landing Base, 15 miles east of here. It is not known whether any passenders were aboard the plane

depending on |

WILLKIE OR ROOSEVELT?

Dr. Gallup will tell you Monday in the first nationwide test of sentiment on the Presidential contest. All 48 states are represented in this significant poll. See it Monday, exclusively in this territory in

The Times

afternoon from Ireland, it was wi > * ® y * ba ® nen... 00 You Thought Willkie Was Resting Easy in Colorado?

>

They Disagree

~ WARDNAXS, ANGER JAPAN

Crisis .Looms in Relations With Tokyo; Nazi U-Boats Active.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS | United Press Foreign News Editor

Great Britain pressed a relentless sea and air war against the Axis powers to- | day and approached a grave ‘crisis in relations with Japan. | Following British reports

Harry Woodring . . . says draft ‘that the Royal Air Force had| smacks of, lotalitarianism.

oil

blasted big synthetic |

plants at Kamen and Reis'holz, the famous Krupp arms

| | |

i | factories at Essen and other ‘German bases, the Nazi High ‘Command reported German ‘bombardment of the Thames | | Estuary and destruction of 172,000 tons of British ship-

ping. | The aerial and U-boat attacks on| | shipping (in which one submarine | claimed seven victims totaling 56,000 | tons yesterday) was said by the] Germans to have resulted in de- | struction of about 760,000 tons in July, including 25,000 tons of weer}

F.D.R.'KNIFING.' n July They Downed Only 7 ASK MAYOR'S AID “= see « we coc JOHNSON SAYS ~~ Nazi Planes Over England \y of yy BATTLE

and 55,000 tons of warships had] ‘Defended Zones Literally Must Be Ringed With Weapons.

| been damaged by the German air| attacks. | Full Damage Not Revealed ‘Same Old Stiletto,” Says Before Peril of Air Raiders Can Be Eliminated. Senator, Charging By PAUL MANNING ‘Dictatorship.’ LLONDON, Aug. 3 (NEA). —Anti-aircraft defense has been a big dis-

| [appointment in this war, WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 (UU P) Prior to the outbreak of hostilities in September, 1639, many mil-| Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. itary experts and Army officers predicted that the AA gun, be-| Board orders by rental agents, or- | Cal), criticized by President Roose- Re (ory A ake eh RvR Pe a. ine wap oY | ganized South Side residents today Abd started fires that burned for) velt as being no longer a liberal, [Since 1917, Would sweep ihe skies any p 3 \ var, appealed for Mayor Sullivan's help | days. | Coa the ot Bd today Legends were built up about the ability of the guns, firing auto. | OPE last resort” in their fight to!. The Italians also reported bomb- " . E thi of using “the same old stiletto” Matically, to score direct hits on targets traveling more than 200 miles | clear a slum section. : \ing Port Sudan, where severe dam- They'll Discuss Everything and said he could not support the | PeT hour. But Elwood Talk; Weir

vo wikis i . Is in which they |. The South Side Civic Club and age was reported. : Hioers Wiots arkicles w ours ; President's “veiled and un-Amer- German officers wro arvcies or military journa mn wihicn 1ey May Be Let Out.

Point cadets and firing shrapnel shells go off almost simuitaneously in night practice at Ft. Hancock, N. J,, on a sleeve target towed by a plane 6000 feet high.

backs

: Senator Carter Class . . . Rome, a Fascist communique “reasonable selective service.”

Mm Civic Groups Charge Health admitted that British airplanes had

. caused casualties and damage in a| Board's Condemnation raid on the Sardinia airport * WILLKIE MEETS Cagliari and on the Italian base at Orders Ignored. Bardia, in north Africa, but it was stated that Italian attacks on the Charging obstruction of Health | British oil line terminal at Haifa, in| HIS ADVISERS

| Palestine, had caused much damage

id 0 si itv that a rola hick ttempted to bass the the Parent-Teacher Association of Comparison between the British Ss sincerity t any airplane whic §| Ss © | ican deeds leading us down the hid m A SR 3% A lip Was 3m p

; and Axis Powers raids was im-| \ : School 22 joined in charging that : o Tr {in i . . , possible because the full extent of road to war and dictatorship.” ring of AA guns surrotinding Berlin, Hamburg, Essen and other points 4). agents had accepted tenants in I | . . i —— would be annihilated. _ Mr. Johnson, who campaigned for

damage on both sides was known] | condemned dwellings and were 8

——— | France circled Paris with anti- . . .. . Sg only to officials and could not be] COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, said in “LUCY BENSON DIES: te batteries, complete with | Shing condemnation orders in the | reported in dispatches passing Aug. 3 (U. P.) —The new leadership statement: ] | searchlights and sound detectors, | COULts. through the censorship. There of the Republican Party gathered:

“My record of 30 years is open] for everyone to read. It is my treasure. No man, however exalted his

land felt secure against air attack{ Lhe section under attack is Injseemed to be little doubt, however, here today for its first campaign RESIDENT 60 YEARS Britain scattered AA guns around | the 1400 block of S. Illinois St. that both German and British arms! conference with Wendell L. Willkie.

‘the countryside in September and| Seventy-one property owners whose centers, airfields, oil depots and| The huddle, Mr. Willkie said at a

position, shall, with impunity, at- | waited. homes are near the condemned port facilities had suffered vast midnight press conference, will “get tack it.” Downs Only 7 Nazi Planes oles Sigueq petition charging damage as a result of more than a the campaign: geared up and ready Sen \ : N i i : | deplorable conditions. month of almost nightly bombard-|to start with a bang and go until Oo Is entered » Widow of Bank President! gsentwaly German bombers : : aon gay ® Start day ne Ee Anances ‘alifornia’s Aug. 27 primary on the roared over Paris and London,| Claim Rubbish Supports Sheds | election y. ategy, S,

: party police and Kindred matters— in-!1 th fall Fred | Bremen Radio Silenced but not his acceptance speech—will : ~{ouses with faling aster, | German airplanes resumed scat-|be discussed, he said. Mrs. Lucy Ella Benson, widow of effective. foundations or ‘walks, .worn-away tered. small-scale bombing raids on| He had a pre-conference talk last And thus far in the defense of weather boarding, overflowing out-|the British Isles today. | night with National G. O. P. Chair-

. . aie England, of the 200 bombers which |) flooded vards durin : | : : ) "le : t's dent of the Stockyards Bank, died = e VaICh | houses and e ) § € Nazi planes dropped a few bombs/man Joseph Martin, who arrived in Mont.), answered the President's have been brought down, anti-air-|,ains. They said that eight fam-lon a town in Wales, causing some advance of the others. The Repub-

Republican, Democratic and Pro- Was Ohio Native.

gressive tickets. Four other candi- | dates are also running on two,

tickets. | : | Senator Burton K. Wheeler ®. | A S. (Del) Benson, former presi-

British planes calmly flew over Ber-| They referred to lin Anti-aircraft fire proved

aviation gasoline, of which | Japan has been a heavy purchaser | for her warfare in China.

By THOMAS L. STOKES . : Ra Times Special Writer 3 OLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 3.—The visitor who may have thought that Wendell L, Willkie was taking a vacation in this pleasant resort at the edge of the overhanging Rockies very soon discovers his error. That goes also for the tourists in the big hotel, six miles from Colorado Springs, where he is staying. Lucky is the one who catches a fleeting glimpse of him, even once. The chances are little better than those of the visitor to Washington who hangs patiently about the White House in the hope of seeing President Roosevelt, Some come here, spend several days, and go away without ever seeing the Republican Presidential candidate. They know that he is here, upstairs somewhere. An early riser might see him in the hotel swimming pool—if he can get up at six in the morning. That's about the only chance. Mr. Willkie’s morning swim is the only occasion on which he has left his quarters for the last week. All of which adds up to the quickly discerned fact that this man who sprang so suddenly to national fame and a Presidential nomination is working like a horse at the job of making himself President of the United States. Once you get off the elevator on the sixth floor of the hotel vou get the idea. You look into a room where a big

the left, as you step from the elevator, sits a man on guard at a desk, just like the guardian who sits outside the President's office in Washington. Down the corridor beyond, through another .room, you walk into a spacious sun parlor which looks upon the magnificent march of the mountainous regiment of the Rockies. And there Wendell Willkie is—sitting on a broad divan. He wears no coat. His feet are easy in bedroom slippers. The tie in his tan shirt is askew at the collar. His hair is slightly touseled. His pants are not neatly pressed. He has that inrormal 100K which some say 1s studied, but which gives, nevertheless, the effect of energy so great that it must throw off the ordinary formal habiliments to release itself. Here he spends a good part of his long day—seeing a never-ending parade of callers from all parts of the country; dictating, between times, the acceptance address which he will deliver at Elwood, Ind., his home town, on Aug. 17. This is a man, you know, who wants ‘something very much, and is going to do everything possible to get it. You also know that he is going to do the job pretty much in his own way, come weal or woe.

longer QUANG. fo sek Mlction ae] pears St. + |CIaft Are as accounted for, ONLY ilies had to use one pump. casualties’ and damage. "One ican_ Presidential candidate est: a supporter of progressive principles | R oars Si . July 8 | Sheds behind these houses, they “screamer” bomb damaged a Welsh mated that the conference would by saying: ; >| Mrs. Benson had lived at the Del- ivi __|said, were patched with tin “and church. Other bombs fell in Scot- | take only half a day. : : "a consider Hi Johnson one of the aware St. residence 50 years and | Despite this record, AA guns willis it were not for the ashes and land and near three villages in| After the Willkie-Martin discusiber ov | i i i play an increasingly important part rubbish stacked against them no southeastern England, where little sion, the campaign picture shapes great liberals of the country.” He had been an Indianapolis resident i, ‘Britain's. defense. For German | , would coll » or no damage was reported as follows: added that Senator Johnson's|more than 60 years. She was born iotc hombing during July with a| oupe they would collapse. : AAS WA repose Gi lo ita 4 endEoaEs y in Oxford, O. Mr. Benson died in| gh i bre oR | The protesting organizations said| Britain has replied to a new| 1 National committee headquar A sve 0 ie ! (greater intensity as the invasion of . Health had in-| German “surrende die” ters will be in Washington. John D. done more than anything else in | 1938. {England entered its first stage | that the Board of a vy Po : SUrTEneier or die Yn. ; : ti ’ 1 chairthe .campai vad .| She was a charter member of the " : " '| vestigated conditions three years ing with more merciless bombing | M. Hamilton, former na ional chair paign to carry the West for| : ’ know that direct hits on . docks,| i > d now Mr. Martin's executive . Matinee Musicale and held mem- : , ago and had then condemned the raids on Germany. The sudden man and no Liv Mr. Roosevelt, : ‘ 1” | factories, and airfields can only sy he (Continued on Page Three assistant, will be temporarily’ in Ne ae - berships in the Propylaeum and in| georeq by low, diving attacks, |Douses placing signs on them. Sev ge ) har f the Chi office the First Presbyterian Church. | pjanes like AA guns, can hit ral of the tenants moved out. et —— charge o ne Iago uk Wels WINDSORS ATTEND Services will be held at 2 p. m.| wp EE : 3 | J 2. The status o S . ir, ™ | what they can see. But both must! Seyfried Issues Statement JAPANESE GIVE U.S steel magnate, as head of the party's Monday at the Flanner & Bu- pave their target well spotted | « Ve : 1 MOVIES ON LINER chanan Mortuary, with the Rev.| big } RB itish AA ot t However, the groups charge, the| finance committee is only temporary | Harry Campbell, assistant minister | aoicte have learned ic that a de. TeNtal agents then permitted new NOTE ON GASOLINE ana there will be some “readjustABOARD AMERICAN EXPORT at the church, officiating. Burial fended zone must ig literally tenants to move in and have Siice | i ments when the party organization LINER EXCALIBUR, En Route to wil be at Glencove Cemetery at ringed With guns. Surrounding a successfully obstructed the Health] WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.) — is completed, possibly after today’s New York, Aug. 3 (U. P). — The | Knightstown, Ind. ity © tn f 1d with £ : Board from enforcing its ruling, Japanese Ambassador Kensuke | conference. : Duke and Duchess of Windsor are| Survivors are a sister, Mrs, Kath- | aasq 0 or Heid With & {eW IS MO A H. Seyfried, secretary of the | Horinouchi today handed Under-| 3. Any confusion which has demaking friends with their fellow |ryn E. Cole of Rushville: two broth- | Pom-Pom Bifcdtive [ Civic, Club, informed the Mayor secretary of State Sumner Welles a | veloped over various and sundry passengers aboard the Excalibur and (ers, Robert Lee Wanee of Indian- | om Sin Hee that the Board “has exhausted its| note which expressed official Japa- | 81 : appear to be enjoying: their voyage |apolis and Stanley C. of Lewisville,| A screen of shells, completely cov-| means for bringing abput any im-| nese objections to the embargo on being ironed out and that subject thoroughly. | and three nieces, Mrs. Jacob Schus- | ering an area and exploding up to provement and some action should shipments of American aviation | will be examined by party generals. They spent a quiet day yesterday | ter of Indianapolis, Mrs. Ralph Eill- | 15.000-foot altitudes, is the only real be taken against the owners of| gasoline outside the Western Hemi- | The Democratic pro-Willkie movein their suite and strolling on deck. | well of Rushville and Mrs. Russell anti-aircraft ‘defense. London is these houses.” sphere. > ment “has nothing to do” with the They visited Capt. Groves on the! Baker of Lewisville. probably the safest city in England ——— Horinouchi declined to tell news- (Continued on Page Three) bridge late in the afternoon. w—— from this viewpoint. GREECE LOSES 182 SEAMEN | papermen the nature of the com(British sources in Washington For every square yard of sky over! ATHENS, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—Greece| munication, beyond the fact that | reported that the Duke and Duchess, Z00 REPORTS TRIUMPH the city is covered either with an has lost 182 seamen and one-tenth|it dealt with a commercial matter. | USPECTS IN on the way to Nassau, Bahamas,| HOUSTON, Tex. Aug. 3 (U.P). | anti-aircraft gun or a balloon. | of its merchant fleet between the But informed sources made it clear! | where the Duke is to be Governor |The first African crown crane fledg- The pom-pom, the Swedish Bo- start of the European war and June | that it was devoted to the embargo and Commander-in-Chief, would | lings ever to be hatched in the Uni- | fors, the machine gun, the three-|20, it was said officially today. For- | on RTH SIDE HOLDUPS leave the Excalibur at Bermuda and [ted States were reported today at inch, the 3.7 and the 45 are the ty-one ships, totaling 186,000 tons, proceed thence to Nassau.) Hermann Park Zoo. (Continued on Page Three) ° | were lost, it was said. Two Caught After 3 More Couples Are Robbed. Police believe they've got the) three men who have been holding up and robbing motorists on the North Side. Two suspects were arrested in their homes and one on Indiana Ave. after three more couples were held up last night. Three others were robbed earlier in the week. Last night's victims included City Fireman William Lynch. He was held up and robbed of $8 near the Woodstock Country Club. His companion was robbed of a wrist watch. Williagn Jeffries, 729 W. New York St., and his companion were robbed in their car as they drove on the High School Road near 16th St. Richard Etchison, 2230 N. Sherman Drive, and a companion were stopped on Fall Creek Blvd. 2800 block, and relieved of cash.

500 TRUCKMEN VOTE STRIKE

DRAFT NOW NO. 1 POLITICAL ISSUE

'WOODRING HITS

CONSCRIPTION, GLASS FOR IT

¥ 9 of 10 in Congress Waver,

Talk of Compromise; Minton Angry.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.— | The No. 1 political issue of Washington dogdays is not ‘Willkie vs. Roosevelt but has

‘become whether Congress shall vote Army conscription |in* peacetime.

| Less than 10 per cent of the 531 | members of House and Senate have [taken an outright stand on either [side of this issue. The others are | waiting for a change in the Euro- | pean situation, a decisive manifes{tation of public opinion, or escape | Witough a compromise. Most recent member of Congress to announce his stand is Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.), who says he favors conscription. At almost the same time, the foes of the draft won the support of former War Secretary Harry Woodring. One vital factor in the debate is the fact that this is election year. Four hundred and thirty-five House members will be elected, and 32 of the 96 Senators. It was easy and routine to vote | billion after billion for military and naval equipment. Nearly everybody was for that, and it is recognized that if the war threat evaporates {many of the billions may never be | spent.

Discuss Enlistment Drive

| But the conscription of young men is . different, a much more highly personalized procedure than the impact of heavy taxes on future generations. Congressmen, flooded with anti- { conscription letters, puzzled ove: whether they really represent public sentiment, but concerned that they may, are looking in greater numbers toward a compromise that would involve two parts: 1. A vigorous drive for volunteer enlistments on a one-year basis, | with a pay raise to $30 a month. 2. Enactment of all registration and other features of the compulsory service bill, but with actual {operation of the draft deferred by law until after a declaration of war by Congress.

Woodring Shouts Out

Such a compromise would be ac[ceptable to Senator Burton K, | Wheeler (D. Mont.), an aggressive [leader of the anti-conscription group, the Senator said today. | The one-year enlistment plan, {with a pay raise, has already been | proposed formally by several legis|lators—including Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and Rep. Robert T. Secrest (D. Ohio)—and today was backed by Mr. Woodring, who was Secretary of War until he recently resigned at White House suggestion to make way for Henry L. Stimson. Questioning that the voluntary system has been given a fair trial and saying that conscription “smacks of totalitarianism,” Mr, Woodring included a sentence that took a direct slap at his former New | Deal associates: “If through the influence of an increasing tendency toward paternalism, we have broken down the moral stamina and fiber of the American youth, and made him a regimented atom rather than a free individual, and thereby broken down the yoluntary instinct .te service in a pafriotic way, we then unquestionably will have to adopt a compulsory | system for the defense of the coun-

|

groups working for Mr. Willkie is try.”

Minton Gets Angry The Woodring point of view was indorsed by Senator Vandenberg, who had obtained the letter, and also by Senator Wheeler. On the other hand, Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind), Administration spokesman on the Military Affairs Committee, angrily tossed a copy of the letter to the floor and shouted to reporters: . “Harry said recently he was sorry (Continued on Page Three)

TRUST FUND LEFT TO ONE-LEGGED NEWSBOY

COLUMBUS, O, Aug. 3 (U. P).— For many years Henry Shaffel, 41-year-old newsboy with one leg, delivered papers to Mrs. Mary G. Siebert, widow of a Columbus banker. Mrs. Siebert’s will today established a $20,000 trust fund providing Mr. Shaffel with $30 a month for the rest of his life. The balance of the income is to go to Mr. Shaffel's niece. Mr. Shaffel said he would keep on selling papers.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Churches ..... 5 Mrs. Ferguson . 8 Comics ....... 13| Obituaries Crossword .....12| Pegler Editorials .....

Censsnene

BIPYIE ...coranne Financial ..... 9/ Questions .....

It does not take long to discover that. It comes out, for instance; in the confident manner with which he handles mewspaper reporters at his press conferences; in the way, when he is presenting his visiting delegations to the press, he directs the conversation to bring out just what he wants emphasized; in the way he is writing his _acceptance address himself, keeping the politicians who . (Continued on Page Three)

telephone switch-board has been installed, with two girls DETROIT, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—Apat the plugs, and getting little time out to gossip. Your ears are battered immediately by the machine-gun rat-tat-tat of typewriters from three rooms to the right, where a score of girls are busier, it seems, than the same efficient type of young women you see about the White House executive offices or in Government departments at Wash-

ingten, {

lv to strike last night, 36 hours aft-

8)

Wendell Willkie . . « he’s not rgally relaxing.

between cartage operators and an-

er settlement of a 16-day dispute | Jane Jordan .. 5, Society

|

other A. F. of L. teamsters’ locgl. ‘Movies ....... .i4, State Deaths, . @

S x : + : ; k ht

aang

Flynn ........s 8 Radio .........

proximately 500 truck drivers and Forum ........ 8 Mrs. Roosevelt. 7 workers engaged in transporting | Gallup Poll ... 2 building materials voted unanimous- | In Indpls. ..... 3

| Scinerrer ...... 7

Serial Story ..:.13 Side Glances .. 8 cranial .. 111

| Inside Indpls. . 8

Johnson ....+< 8 Sports ..

!