Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1940 — Page 1
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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 129
Farley Will
THURSDAY, AUGUST §&, 1940
at Postoffice,
'Happy Days’
STARK AMONG THOSE LISTED | AS SUCCESSOR |
‘Man Behind Ballots’ in "32 And ’36 Will Become | Head of Yankees.
HYDE PARK, N. Y,, Aug. ! (UU. P.).—President Roose-| velt today accepted with | “sincere sorrow” the resigna-| ! . nis tion from the Cabinet, effect-| ive Aug. 31, of Postmaster| General James A. Farley, the| “man behind the ballots” in| the New Deal campaigns of | 1932 and 1936. Mr. Farley's resignation was dis- | closed by the President when he made public the letter of acceptance he had written in response to a letter from the Postmaster General dated Aug. 7. The President gave no indication who Mr. Farley's cabinet successor would be.
First guesses centered around | James A. Farley . .. “IT know Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Mis-| I shall be happy.” Souri and Senator James A. Mead ——————e———
of New York, { The Postmaster General ae LOANS PLEDGED
had announced his retirement as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in which post he will be succeeded Aug. 17 by Edward J. Flynn of New York, and his | resignation from the cabinet was | the final step in his return to pri m bani Expects Happy Future 1150 to 200 Millions DefiniteMr. Farley will become president | |y Committed, Jones Tells of the New York Yankees baseball | b club, and in that connection his House Committee. letter to the President said: “TI know that it will please you WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P) — to learn that I have made definite |pederal Loan Administrator Jesse arangements for my future in|jones told Congress today that tie private business where I Know I paconstruction Finance Corp. has shall be happy. made “informal but definite” com-
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CITY PROPOSES REGULATION OF BOOM" AREAS
ning Board to Guard Health on Qutskirts.
Boys Cash In on ‘Fellow Amateurs!’
Declaring that outskirt residential | districts “eventually will be taken
into the city anyway,” City officials! :
{ [today pressed the County to set up|
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an agency to deal with safety and]
‘health probiems arising from the (rural building boom. J. Keach, Safety Board |
{ | president, speaking for the City, has i [formally asked County Commission- | ! lers to revive the inoperative County | : | Planning Board. |
Commissioner Harry Hohlt es pressed himself in favor of the plan | and promised the Board would con[sider the proposal. Concern over the health problem was expressed publicly a few days] ago by William Book, Chamber of | Commerce executive vice president, | who said he was studying the legal | | aspects of rural residential con-| | Struction as it affected public health | and sanitation regulations. | | 1
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Inspections Urged
On the heels of that statement, { Mr. Keach yesterday urged commissioners to establish a system of building inspection through the] {County Planning Board as one an|swer to the problem, With Mr. Keach were George] {Popp Jr., City building commission- | er, and Michael B. Reddington, City | attorney. | Such a system, Mr. Keach said, | could he carried out on the basis of codes set up by the City Plan- | | |
ning Board. These codes, he said, were designed to insure uniform construction providing proper fire, sanitation and water supply protection. He added that if the County {Board was made operative, all City
Times Photo Sometimes thev get a transient boo from some
motorist but on the whole the drivers either ignore the stand or buy a plate. On several occasions people have bought as many as a dozen to give to
friends. Once a farmer drove moment. Then he said. “Willkie can’t be a President He drove on without buving.
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY Wendell Willkie, Repubiican Presidential candidate, coined a catchy campaign salutation—"Fellow amateurs!” Today Bill Browne, 13 (left) and George Browne Jr, 17, of 149 E. 37th St, had borrowed the words to stimulate the sale of Willkie car tags. Their stand is at 38th St. and Washington Blvd, and they are doing a brisk business, thank you. They have sold nearly 156 of the plates and with the | proceeds are going to Boy Scout Camp Monday.
SEPT, 8 CHOSEN |'You Know They're Close
up and stooped for a
He's a farmer.”
Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,
Leave Cabinet Aug. 31: ‘Sorry, Says Roosevelt
NAZIS LOSE 9 PLANES, CLAIM 15 SHIPS
PRICE THREE CENTS
Ind.
34 BRITISH CRAFT ARE SHOT DOWN, BERLIN REPORTS
Furious Torpedo and Air Raids Launched; Italians Report Further Advance in
Africa; Japan Plagues London. By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor
Great Britain renewed a slashing aerial war with Gere many today, prepared to make a stand against Italian armed forces in East Africa and faced agitation in Japan for strong ‘measures to exterminate British influence in East Asia. | Two severe aerial battles in which nine German planes ‘and two British fighters were lost occurred over the English Channel as the Nazis resumed aerial attacks on shipping and
{ ‘scattered land objectives.
In Berlin the High Command reported that a powerful Nazi air and torpedo offensive had sunk 15 British ships, ‘damaged eight others and brought down 34 British airplanes in furious fighting. The German attacks began last night after, the High Command said, Nazi bombers had smashed at British motor works, factories and defense positions at Chester, Plymouth, Manchester, Cardiff, Dorchester and elsewhere and laid mines off British ports. In blitzkrieg fashion, the German speed boats then attacked “a strongly protected ship convoy in the English Channel” and in the face of heavy fire by British warships
SENATE VOTES [smi fui
of 17,000 tons, the High Com-
ported damaged.
Claim 29 Planes
mand said. A fourth was re-"
When You Smell Cordite’
ate life. Neither the President mitments for loans of $150,000,000 departments would aid in making
Farley made any mention of the third term issue in their letters, although they exchanged mutual ex- | pressions of esteem and regret at! severance of their political association which led to the New Deal victories of 1932 and 1936. “During my life time I shall cher{sh the associations and friendships | which I have made while serving as Postmaster General, both in the postal service and in the other de-|
to $200,000,000 for new airplane factories. Mr, Jones told the House Banking and Currency Committee that these commitments were the result of recent discussions with William S. Knudsen, Defense Production Chief. He said the money would result in construction of about a half a dozen plants. Seven or eight million dollars, he
partments and agencies of the Fed- explained, has been earmarked for eral Government,” Mr. Farley said, [the Packard plant, to expand its : (facilities to handle the Rolls Royce [airplane contract refused by Henry expressing my deepest Ford. The balance, he said, will be at the opportunity you lent to other leading airplane fac-
Roosevelt Tells Sorrow
“Again gratitude
the
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CHICAGO IMPOSES JAYWALKING FINES
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—Pe-
afforded me to serve as a member | tories. of your cabinet, and with kindest! Several days ago the RFC anpersonal regards, I am. faithfully nounced that it had approved loans yours, James A. Farley.” |of $92.000,000 to the Wright AeroMr. Roosevelt wrote Mr Farlev nautical Corp. for plant expansion of his “own sincere sorrow that we designed to increase its production are losing vou as a member of the Of aircraft engines. official family.” - All of us in the Administration will miss vou deeply; we count - NAB BOYS SWIMMING geeing you often,” the President] wrote “1 especially count on this after all of our years of close personal association. Our friendship will always continue > “I need not tell vou that you nave Deputies Hale 6 Into Court; alvavs my affextionate regards.” \ - ; Despite the mutual expressions of Four Lectured. friendship and esteem, Mr. Farley's resignation apparently marked an| The sheriff's office means business historic milestone in the history of When it warns Marion County the New Deal. | youngsters to stay out of unguarded L swimming holes. Wallace at Hyde Park Yesterday afternoon County The Farley resignation was an- Safety Director John Dora placed a nounced at summer White new “No Trespassing” sign at House as Mrs. Roosevelt opened a Foley's gravel pit, Tist St. and Valnational front porch campaign for lev View Drive—the 20th such sign the third term and the President (to be placed there in the last two conferred with his running-mate| years. The other signs and several Henrv A. Wallace on strategy for barbed wire barricades all have been Presidential battle, torn down. he strategy meeting was held | under circumstances suggesting | past the pit that Secretary of Commerce Harry swimming there in 70 feet of water L. Hopkins may succeed Mr. Farley | just a few yards from the sign. This as the “master-mind” behind the is one of the deepest dies of water ballots in the third term campaign. in the County. Mr. Hopkins arrived at the summer| Six of the boys are over 18 and White House shortly before noon to they were arrested on trespassing participate in the Roosevelt-Wal- | charges and ordered to appear in lace discussions of strategy | Municipal Court this afternoon. The With the Summer White House as other four came into the Sheriff's background, Mrs. Roosevelt was | office this moming—by request— hostess to nearly 800 New York where Sheriff Feeney gave them feminine leaders of her party at a and their parents a severe lecture. tea and political rally at her Val-| Foley's pit is less Kill cottage. The rally appeared to from Ravenswood Beach where the be the opening gun of the New Deal campaign Before coming here, Mr. Hopkins conferred with Mayor Fiorello H. 1a Guardia of New York, leader of a group of liberals of both parties which supports Mr. Roose(Continued on Page Three)
IN DEEP GRAVEL PIT
than a mile]
boys are welcome to swim all they |
[regular inspections. | “The rural areas eventually will (be taken into the city anyway,” Mr. Keach said, “and for that reason rural construction should be planned to conform to city zoning regulations not only from the point of view of health, but also to protect property values.”
Counily Board Inoperative
| The County Board has not functioned since it was created by law several years ago. Appropriations requested for the body for years have been rejected because of the lack of any program. | The “"back-to-the-country” migration has brought new clusters of | homes outside the city. Many of | these developments are not served | hy city water, sewage disposal or | fire protection systems. Building of {homes dependent upon well water and septic tanks cannot continue without control, city officials contend.
A Bumpy Street? Why, We Like It!
A resident of Golden Hill informed the Works Board yesterday he liked chuckholes in the residential area's secluded and unpaved thoroughfares. He appeared before the Board to oppose a plan to pave
oiled gravel, at $1.25 a lineal foot. Members of the Board were taken aback, but they grew positively amazed when the resident, Harry V. Wade of 1201 Golden Hill Drive told them: “You people are very good about grading and oiling our streets. We appreciate it. The streets have a few
Three hours later Mr. Dora drove chuckholes, but we like them. They | and found 10 boys (slow up traffic and protect our chil-
dren.” Flustered, the Board took the matter under advisement.
several streets in the district with |
‘PEAGE SUNDAY’ RN Britain's ‘Night Hawks,’ Carrying the War to Germany
F. D. : r m i | . » » bg hon ASS In Bombing Raids, Respect Nazi Gunners. Prayers for Tranquillity | | United Press Staff Correspondent
And U. S. Safety. AN RAF AIRDROME, Somewhere in England, Aug. 8—"It looks HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 8 (U. jjke a dirty night,” the squadron commander said. He and his young P.). — President Roosevelt today men climbed into 17 big Vickers Wellington bombers and roared away
called on Americans to unite on into the gathering gloom.
By WALLACE CARROLL
| Sept. 8 in prayer for world peace,! | but reminded that the Government
is rushing defenses to protect America’s heritage of freedom, By proclamation, Mr. Roosevelt fixed Sept. 8 as a day of prayer for an enduring peace, both at home and abroad, and for strength to] make Americans firm in the de-| fense of their heritage. Mr. Roosevelt's proclamation: “The American heritage of individual freedom and of government deriving its power from the consent of the governed has from the time of the fathers of our republic been proudly transmitted to each suc-| ceeding generation, and to us of] this generation has fallen the task| mo... 12 (noon) . of preserving it and transmitting it | lpm ....8 to the future. We are now engaged
in a mighty effort to fortify that; Scattered thunderstorms that | heritage.
“Mindful of our duties in the M& bring some hit-and-miss relief | family of nations we have endeav- | 10 Marion County farms, were preored to prevent the outbreak and dicted for tomorrow by the Weather the spread of war, and we have Bureau today. raised our voices against interna-| Otherwise the forecast contained coached on landmarks. tional injustice. As Americans and nothing hopeful. It will be warmer | It was almost dark when the first as lovers of freedom we are humbly tonight and tomorrow and the tem- bomber hopped off, guided only by | | sympathetic with those who are perature today was scheduled to go a flare path—a line of eight to 10 | facing tribulation in lands across somewhere near 90. Yesterday the dim lights strung across the field.
Germany. Night after night they have de-| fied darkness and cold and fierce
SCATTERED SHOWERS
| anti-aircraft fire to bomb German
MAY HELP FARMERS oil refineries, munitions plants, rail-
road junctions and airdromes. A group of American correspond- . : in ents watched the take-off and reThere S Little to Hope for in ‘turn of a flight. It was one more Drought Relief. of probably 1000 such raids. Night was gathering as the LOCAL TEMPERATURES bombing squadron came out of the hangars. On this particular flight {the squadron had fixed objectives— (certain oil dumps in Germany. Guided by Flare Path
Worker's fitted large high explosive and incendiary bombs |aboard the planes. Intelligence officers gathered data regarding the targets. The meteorological section |set to work. Then the crews were
These voung men are the “night hawks” of the Royal Air Force | | Bomber Command who have been carrying the war to the heart of |
TODAY ON GUARD
Way Is Cleared for Debate On Much Disputed Draft Plan Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P.).— | The Senate today agreed unanimously to vote at 2 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) on a bill conferring upon President Roosevelt power to mobilize “360,000 members of the National Guard and the organized | Reserves for a year's service with the regular Army. The special rule was requested by Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley to clear the way for consideration of the controversial Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill by tomorrow. The majority leader was disturbed at the failure of the Senate to take final action on the Guard measure after three days of angry discussion. There was virtually no opposition to its passage but for two days a cross-fire of personal invective between Senators Rush D. Holt (D. W. Va.) and Sherman Minton (D. Ind) shunted attention from the pending measure to the controversial conscription issue. Opponents of the Burke-Wads-worth bill appeared to be mapping an organized campaign against the draft bill which, as now written, would require registration of over 12 million men between the ages of 21 and 31 for Army duty.
the seas. maximum temperature was 86, one | All the planes were Wellington, “When every succeeding day|degree below normal. mid-wing two-motored monoplanes brings sad news of suffering and dis- capable of long range flying with a| aster abroad we are especially con- heavy bomb load. Each carried a| scious of the divine power and of crew of six—a pilot, second pilot, | our dependence upon God's merci-| BUENOS ATRES, Argentina, Aug. navigator, bomb sighter, wireless ful guidance. With this conscious-|8 (U. P.).—Police reported today operator and two gunners, nes sin our hearts it is seemly that that 35 interned crew members of we should, at a time like this, pray the German pocket battleship Graf to Almighty God for his blessing Spee had escaped from custody (Continued on Page Three) | since January.
35 INTERNED NAZIS ESCAPE
Back in Four Hours
In the nose and tail are gun tur-| rets which can be operated hy-
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 8 (U.
|P.).—Rosemary Griffith, stewardess who was found bruised and unconscious lounge of a twin-engined plane before it landed here last night, was injured accidentally when the craft struck rough weather, her amployers said today. | Paul Stanley, manager of the | American Airlines office here, and
Stewardess Found Unconscious in Plane; Rough Weather Is Blamed by Employers
airline °
in the women's sleeper :
destrians in Chicago today faced Chester H. Borum, captain of the possible maximum fines of $200 for Nashville Airport Police, said they crossing streets between intersec- and the pilots aboard the plane tions or against the red glow of were entirely convinced that no traffic lights. | Toul play was involved. | The City Council yesterday| Mr. Stanley added that the 24- | passed an ordinance fixing the pen- | year-old, brown-haired girl's conalty for jaywalking at forfeits of | dition was not serious and that she $1 to $200. Tt was the first time might give an interview later at the in the city's history a ban had been | hospital to which she was removed placed on indiscriminate street after the plane's arrival. crossing by pedestrians. | Capt. Borum gave his opinion as i ————————" {to the accidental nature of Miss STORMS RAKE ITALY'S CROPS Griffith's injuries at Dallas, Tex. 5 | Side Glances. 16 FLORENCE, Aug. 8 (U. P).—| 3 Society ....12-183 Violent storms and cloudbursts another sleeper here to which pasSports .....18-19 throughout central Italy caused one |sengers were transferred. He said State Deaths. 6 Quart numerous injuries, severallhis trip to Dallas was on routine
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Comics 2 | Obituaries .. Crossword Editorials Financial fynn Forum In Imdpls. .. Inside Indpls Jane Jordan Johnson ..... Movies .. 10-11
Mrs, Ferguson 16{
5 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Scherrer a Serial Story.. 22
fives sad crop damage. |business and that he had
where he had flown after boarding
draulically, enabling the gunner to swing his machine guns in a com- | plete circle within a few seconds| despite the strong air pressure at high speed. All the planes were piloted by |New Zealanders. In about four hours they were back. By radio, the fliers told of bad weather which had prevented them from finding their initial objec-X-ray examination of Miss Griffith tives and which sent them to what disclosed that she had swallowed is known as “alternative targets.” a small key to the plane's baggage | Many encountered heavy anti-air-
. [craft fire. compartment, and it was suggested that she was holding it in her mouth | German Gunners when the plane struck “rough air,” causing her to fall. Mr. Stanley ridiculed reports he said were circulated to the effect
ww boarded the plane to question the passengers.
“Accurate”
| One plane reported it had at[tacked the Ypenburg and Schipol |airdromes in Holland and had “ob-| es Yiqeih . na | SETVEd many large fires after drop- | that she was “seized by a man who ping bombs.” Another plane at-
demanded from her the key to the) ok > baggage compartment.” tacked a munitions factory in Ger-
Official investigations of the girl's| Many and “scored a direct hit with
injury Were started soon after To + «+ + Other bombs just plane, flight No. 5 from New York Missed. to Dallas, landed here at 9:40 p. m.| Over a 3 a. m. breakfast of bacon (Indianapolis time) yesterday. |
A and eggs, the pilots said they had| post office inspector accompanied ® “healthy respect” for German Capt. Borum to Dallas, and an air- anti-aircraft batteries. port policeman said FBI agents| ~1hey have lots of guns and planned to inspect the plane, de- Searchlights and they are very actained here, on which the stewardess curate,” one pilot said. was hurt. | Another pilot said, “we often feel The air line announced that Miss the bursts of shells. When they Griffith, whose home is at Spring- whiz past you and you can smell Mass., was found unconscious the cordite—boy, on Page Three) (close,”
Rosemary Griffith . . . swallowed key to baggage compari: field,
ment,
A dozen Senators opposing the peacetime draft measure met late yesterday in the office of Senator George W. Norris (Ind. Neb.) to plan strategy for the coming debate. Among them were Senators Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.), Robert M. LaFollette (P. Wis.), Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D) and Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.). The anti-conscription bloc, ac-
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HURRICANE PASSES; DAMAGE $1,500,000
Two Killed, 24 Injured in| Two States.
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 8 (U. P.). —A tropical hurricane which had reached a 90-mile-an-hour fury was dissipating itself in rain and gales over southeast Texas today. [ Weather forecasters expected that | what was left of the storm would be gone by noon. They said it was spreading “like a fan.”
This morning, renewing the ate |tack on British shipping, German |airplanes were credited by the High Command with sinking 12 British ships totaling 55,000 tons and damaging seven others. The total of ships listed as sunk in the attacks since last night was 72,000 tons. Five British fighting planes and one German plane were reported destroyed in the battle over the ship convoy in the channel. (In London, the Air Ministry said nine German planes had been shot down in air battles and two British craft were missing.) | The German communique said {that 29 other British planes were | brought down in a series of battles with the British during the day, while in all only three German craft were listed as missing. In the East African campaign, Fascist fighting forces appeared to be making further progress, seek= ing to close in on the big British Somaliland port of Berbera and threatening operations against Aden which, if seized, would give Italy a foothold in Asia and might fur ther Benito Mussolini's hopes of becoming the protector of Islam’s vast Near Eastern areas. Just how strongly the British forces would attempt to oppose the Italian three-pronged drive into Somaliland was uncertain, but London military sources predicted a stand would be made in the high hills south of Berbera. In the Far East, Britain appeared to be facing trouble with Indian Nationalists as well as with Japan, which continued pressure on British interests and also was reported | still threatening action in French | Indo-China.
Indian Dispute Flares
In India, leaders of the Nationalist Congress indicated that new British proposals for greater Indian representation on the Viceroy's Executive Council, for creation of a war advisory council and for a new post-war constitution were entirely
cording to one member, laid the Unsatisfactory to Nationalists seek- | oh |
ing immediate independence or do=minion status. There were hints that Indian Nationalists would refuse to cooperate in the British war effort as a result. In Tokyo, a group of 126 members of the Japanese Parliament presented to the Government a resolution urging strong measures to oppose Britain and to wipe out British influence in East Asia. Recently relations with Britain had been reported improved, although Japan still is holding six Britons on charges of espionage. Nine others have been released. In French Indo-China, there were new reports that Japan had submit ted detailed plans calling for “cooperation” of the French authorities, while Chinese Government reports (Continued on Page Three)
Port Arthur, Tex. hardest-hit town in the hurricane's path, was | cleaning up debris today—tree | limbs, broken glass, boards and parts of roofs. Damage was estimated at $500,000 and 24 persons were injured by flying debris yesterday. The city was without power from noon until 7 p. m. yesterday. : Outside of Port Arthur, it was believed that damage was more than Jabs deaths
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RAIL ISSUES FIRM ON DULL EXCHANGE
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P).—A steady to firm tone in : shares featured a dull, narrowly irregular stock market today. Bonds were Hvegulprly higher with U. & Governments lower. gid
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