Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1940 — Page 1
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U. S. Freedom Is in Peril, Sheppard Says in Urging Training for Millions.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P.).—| The Senate began debate on peacetime conscription today Implications and outcome may | well be of historic importance. For the first time in this nation’s history, Congress was judging whether the Government during peace time should lay compulsive hand on] young men from millions of homes & to train them to fight. The opposition—particularly of the isolationist bloc—was so intense that the debate was pera) to last two weeks. Chairman Morris Sheppard of the | Military Affairs Committee, lead off | man for the Administration told his | colleagues that the Burke-Wads- | worth measure is necessary to meet the threat of “certain dictator-| controlled nations.”
Fears Freedom at Stake
Urging its speedy passage Mr. | Sheppard said that the world's “totalitarian countries evidently do not propose to end until all democracies and freedom shall be blasted from Mary G the earth.’ | As reported by Mr. Sheppard's | committee three davs ago. the bill] would require 12,000,000 men be-| tween the ages of 21 and 31 to register for Army service Senator Edward Burke (D. Neb), co-authnr of the bill, disclosed, however, that he will offer an amendment to raise the training age from the 21 to 31 level to 21 4 44
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In the sili 4-H Cit unit
Mr. Sheppard expressed n— at the Senate's action yesterday in|
approving, 71 to 7, a bill authorizing |
President Roosevelt to mobilize 360,000 members of the National Guard
i i reserves f y service With the regular Amy. [SIN Division to to Get Three Minton Votes for Bill Weeks Training Now: Pre- ®.. dict Full Year Soon.
Senator Sherman Minton Ind.) voted for the Guard bill and against curtailing the President's Indiana's National Guard-—nearly 6000 strong—will be ready for probable Federal mobilization when it
power to order them anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Senator returns from the Second Army ma- | neuvers in Wisconsin on Aug. 31.
Frederick VanNuys remained on his Long considered among the best
Virginia farm and ‘missed all roll trained Guard troops in the coun-
calls | Leader Alben W. try, the Hoosier contingent is part |
Barkley indicated that he would call for Saturday sessions starting next week if the draft debate lagged The debate had double meaning because of the political campaign. President Roosevelt has indorsed! conscription “in principle,” leaving details to Congress. Most Administration supporters are backing the Burke-Wadsworth Bill Republican Presidential Candidate Wendell L. Willkie will reveal his position in his acceptance speech Aug. 17.
Party Lines Crack controversy had
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and West Virginia, The 38th leaves this week-end for | three weeks in the field where they will be toughened up rigorous training schedule of years Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, who
ever since it was organized shortly after the World War, expects his | troops to receive Federal mobiliza- | tion orders some time before the {end of the year if Congress final- | shredded |ly approves the Mobilization Bill. lines Senator Burton K., For some time, Guard officers (D. Mont.), the unofficial have been making adjustments in the opposition, is sup-|personnel in the expectation of a ported by the veteran Senator'call for a vear's fraining. George W. Norris (Ind. Neb), who| Guardsmen in strategic defense usually sides with the Administra-| industries have been quietly released tion. On the other hand, some Re- from the Guard because of the im- | publicans favor it | portance of their civil jobs A group of a dozen or so Sena- | Those whose physical tors had organized for systematic) tions are considered “borderline” opposition They plan to hold have been permitted to resign and regular meetings tc map strategv.! those in the lower ranks who have |0 select speakers and do everything dependems also have been en-|
The party Wheeler, leader of
qualifica- |
in their power to defeat eonscrip- | couragd to apply for discharges in |
tion Amendments will be offered to limit the number of draftees toi about 1,000000 and narrow the 21-31 (Continued on Page Three)
line with War Department policy. It is not expected here, however, hosing on pi Three)
LIST 1000 CASUALTIES IN CHUNKING BOMBING
CHUNGKING, Aug. 9 (U. P.)A fleet of 100 Japanese planes bombed this Chinese capital today causing an estimated 1000 casualties principally among the civilians who | failed to seek shelter in dugouts dha The Japanese raiders dropped in- . 15 cendiary bombs which set fire to 9 six areas within the walled citv. The 14 ‘modern suburbs on the south bank Mrs. Roosevelt 15 of the Yangtze River and on the Serial Story.. 22 north bank of the Cialing were also Side Glances. 16 hit. Scherrer 15] The compound of the American Society 8 Methodist Mission Middle School Sports 18, 19 received 12 direct hits. Fires broke State Deaths - BR 13 out close to t the American embassy.
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THE BIGGEST Marion County 4-H Club exhibit was judged today State Fairgrounds and first, will represent the county in the State fair competition.
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2500 exhibits, the most 1000 and 1500 exhibitors. In the calves, 71 poultry pens, 216 hogs, vegetable exhibits.
second and third prize winners
the Youth SUI there were
Mother Bowed in Grief as Police Question Daughters
Three Girls Held on Burglary Suspicion Maintain Defiant Silence and Police Are Frankly Nettled.
{ A mother. office today and saw what she had dreaded for so long happening to | | her daughters. | The girls were arrested last night after one of them was caught at a filling station at River and Oliver Ave. The window of the station was open and cigars, chewing gum and cigarefs were strewn around the window and on the ground. This morning the girls were taken
BLOWOUTS KILL ONE, INJURE 2 IN COUNTY
Lebanon Man Is Fatality; Officer Also Hurt.
Tire failures on two autos br ought | death to a Lebanon man and in-!
rey. two Indianapolis youths | {the pictures in the magazines on his 5 desk. Thev maintained their silence | Thomas Bohannon, 64, was driv- turning off his questions in defiant (ing toward his Lebanon home on monosyllables. 'Road 52 when his car went out of , control a mile north of Traders’ ‘How Old Are You? ‘Point, crashed mto a parked auto | ‘For the hundreth time.” said ‘and landed in a gully. State Po-'Sergt. Weddle, “how old are vou? I liceman Robert Shields blamed the don't know what we're going to do mccident on a blowout. ‘with you. Would you acfually like Fourfeen-year-old Clifford TLa- to go to the Girls’ School?” |Follette, 833 E. Georgia St, was [injured seriously and his cousin, to ‘be ‘William LaFollette, 17, of 1513 DeLoss St, received a broken left arm dat ‘when their 11-year-old roadster UP. then back to the magazine. overturned several times on Road| “I don’t care,” she said. 29, a mile west of New Bethel. The younger of the two sisters Witnesses told deputy sheriffs said: | that the youths attempted to pass| “If we have to go to Girls’ School, 'a truck when one of the tires blew we have to, that's all. I don't care.’ ‘out. The car rolled 200 feet. Wil-| The other sister just put her face
liam was thrown clear of the hetween her hands and watched un-! wreckage and is in fair condition, | concernedly. but his cousin was wedged in the car and received serious back ine] juries. Both are at City Hospital. | In Indianapolis, Motorcvele Offi{cer Joseph Grotendick was injured! last night when his cvele went out of control into a ditch on Cold | Springs Road while the officer was chasing a speeder. He was treated at City Hospital.
BOY ON BIKE KILLED BOONVILLE. Ind. Aug. 9 (U.P). | —Ronald Smith, 8-vear-old son of the police since one of the girls had Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Smith of near been caught at the station. {| Newburgh, was killed late yesterday took her home and arrested her siswhen his bicycle was struck by a ter. They then went to another (car driven by Dr. J. R, Mitchell of home and picked up the other girl 'Salem on State Road 261 near | At first the two sisters said they Newburgh. i (Continued on Page Three)
to the office of Sergt. Charles Weddle. There they sat, tightlipped and defiant while the mother of two of them stood outside in the ‘hallway, telling the sergeant she was afraid this was how they'd end. Only once since their arrest had the girls broken their silence. Then ‘one of them had cried: “I've never | been in trouble and if I had, 1 [wouldn't tell vou.” When Sergt. Weddle his office, the girls were looking at
| ‘One of the girls who had claimed 17. but whose admited birth
Mother Settles
As a detective walked in they looked up, showing a little interest The detective scanned their report
Ages
running around in stolen faren't you?" he said. They admittedly it reluctantly “Yes, and it was the first time we'd ever been in an automobile.” the older of the two sisters said.
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LONDON, Aug. 9 (U. P).—British fighters added to a heavy toll of German war planes during renewed bombing of the British Isles today after the record-breaking destruction of 80 out of about 400 Nazi aircraft that yesterday attacked shipping and land objectives. Two German bombers were shot down this morning in scattered but almost continuous raids against all parts of Britain. including the west coast Bristol Channel sector. At least two persons were killed and a number were wounded by bombs. Including yesterday's “bag,” Britaih now claims 336 Nazi ware planes shot down over the Isles since June 18. They listed yesterday's casualties as 20 Junker 87's, 35 Messerschmidt fighters and five dive bombers. The Air Ministry said that the Germans lost an unprecedented total of more than one-seventh of the war planes that attacked around the British Isles vesterday. “As the day's action, however, were fought in three parts with intervals of more than an hour it is probable that many enemy machines were in action several times after refueling and rearming at bases in France,” the Ministry said. “Thus it is possible that the actual number of German aircraft involved may have been considerably less than 400 and the percentage of German losses correspondingly higher.” Loss in British planes was still put at 16, but it was said pilots of three of them were how reported safe, though two of them were wounded.
Lillie Stine, Speedway City + + « her sheep took the grand champion
in the history of
Persons responsible for the show said the quality and number of exhibits were iid to last vear
heavy-set and poorly dressed, stood outside a detectives |
from the Juvenile Detention Home
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showed her to be 19, glanced |
| “You're the girls who have heen |
The case had been a puzzle for|
Police |
FLOODS FORCE MASS FLIGHTS IN LOUISIANA
| Town 6 Feet Under Water | As Rains Up to 19 Inches Follow Hurricane.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 (U, P).— Thousands of persons fled their | homes in southwestern Louisiana today before floods brought by torrential rains that followed in the wake of a hurricane. The little town of Gueydan was reported under six feet of water that backed up from the bayous and streams, | Water stood from six inches to |several feet throughout the Evangeline country in cities of Abbeville, Crowley, Kaplan and Oberlin. New Iberia had water backing up | from its bayous but the weather |was reported clearing there.
New City Hall Flooded {
More than 3000 homeless were reported by the Red Cross in St. (Landry Parish alone. Other thou[sands gathered at railroad sta(tions, courthouses and churches [throughout the area. | The first floor of the new $125.000 City Hall at Lafayette flooded, Refugees packed in higher stories. More than 19 inches of rain fell {in Lafayette in the last 24 hours. {| Abbeville reported 17.50 inches during the same period and Lake ‘Charles in exfreme southwe stern | Louisiana had 9.91 inches. Chairman Henry Larcarde of the St. Landry Parish Red Cross head- _ duarters at Opelousas, deered all hoats for rescue work. Farmers and other lowland
| ; [dents were rescued from trees, {tops of houses and other buildings. {Appeals from other men—was isolated from its base by |
Wi were coming in rapidly. Morgenthau Urges Action; the flood with only enough food for | breakfast. | Aid Sees 9 Billion Mike | "Mow soon encugh food could of
| Wu 33 | transported over a flooded a] In Debt Limit, |whose highways, bridges and rail-
| [roads were ‘water-covered, was | WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P) problematical. Administration defense and fiscal| The plight officials today urged Congress to | unexpected, unscheduled part of {provide more taxation revenue at the maneuvers of the Third Army once, and to enact a tax amortiza- Corps area now in progress. The tion plan to speed the faltering pro- floods had also cut the 45th Divireurement of warplanes. {sion from highway communications | Secretary of Treasury Mongen- | lwith headquarters, but a rail line thau Jr. pictured a record peace- |Was open and food supplies may be time deficit of $5.700.000.000 and
(transported over it, urged immediate enactment of an | excess profits tax hill, with the amortization program requested by Mr. Stimson. He said that the $49.000.000,000 debt limit will have to be increased “sooner or later.” Contractors Hesitate Undersecretary of Treasurv Dan iel W, Bell estimated that the Dan limit would have to be increased $9.000,000.000 to $58.000.000.000 to carry the defense load: He said that approximately $3.100.000,000 of the estimated $5,700,000,000 deficit for {the current year was directly attributable to defense expenditures. | A “barrier of uncertainty” regarding expansions for defense orders has arisen in the minds of confrac{tors and industries, Mr. Morgenthau said, and consequently gov'ernmental policies must be clarifiled at once The Secretary said some contrac|tors had hesitated to accept Government business. At the end of the first World War, billions of dolars of confracts were cancelled, Only 33 Army Contracts Emphasizing that speedy action was all important, hoth from the standpoint of revenues and accelerlation of the defense program, Mr. | [Morgenthau said it Was “essential lor go degrees at 2 p. m. yesterday. | {that differences as to details of the | The predicted rains will alleviate bill be not allowed to stand in the the danger of grass fires which have Way of ‘early ‘passage of this hecome prevalent in rural areas and | urgently needed legislation.” golf courses during the past few Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- days Son ‘jolted members of the House! Volunteer firemen from Lawrence, Ways and Means and Senate Pi- (Gaklandon and the Pt. Harrison nance Committees with the diselos- pire department, had an hour-long | | (Continued on Page Three) [fight against fire which swept 25 - laeres near Lawrence RICHMOND MAN DIES day, for a time | RICHMOND, Ind.. Aug. 9 (U. P) -<Forest Newman, 46, of Richmond, was injured fatally early today | when his car crashed into a ditch | courses have organized fire brion U, 8S. Road 40 four miles east of (gades. They travel on here. His death was the fourth (Which ordinarily are used to pull traffic fatality in the Richmond lawh mowers. Wet sacks are used area in _three days. to extinguish Rames.
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Guardsmen JYsolated
At Camp Bureaugard. the 36th Division of the National Guard—10,300
vens, La. in the area where {inches of rain fell vesterday. night a bridge on the last highway went | ward rare
OCCASIONAL LIGHT RAINS PREDICTED
No Relief in Sight Fro Long Dry Spell.
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Cudahy Recalled
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John Cudahy. Roosevelt asks American Ambassador to Belgium to explain that London interview,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U.P). —President Roosevelt today ordered John Cudahy, American Ambassador to Belgium, recalled to the United States immediately for consultation. Mr. Cudahy's remarks in a London newspaper interview aroused | intense British resentment and only today in London a conservative member of Parliament announced that he would carrv the matter before the House of Commons. Mr. Cudahy is reported to have | compared favorably the conduct of German troops in Belgium with | that of American soldiers. He also defended King Leopold of the Belgians, saying that the Belgian King had advised the Allied Powers three days in advance of his surrender, which collapsed the left, wing of the British-French-Bal- | gian front in Flanders at a critical moment.
PLANE MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED
Report Mail Cache Entered | Although Stewardess Swallowed Key,
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 8 U P.)~What happened to the voung | stewardess of the luxurious sleeper plane high over the Tennessee! Mountains became more of a mystery today as postal authorities ordered the plane's mail impounded for inspection. The order—plus a new disclosure | -gave the mystery a sinister cast {The man the girl said slugged her from behind in search of the key [to the baggage compartment, ac[tually got inte compartment | though she swallowed the kev to prevent him from getting it. The | compartment contained part of the ship's mail cargo. | Postal Inspector Thomas Cotton rode with the plane's passengers on fo Los Angeles and soon after he arrived there, he ordered all mail {that had been ahoard the plane held |up pending the completion of his | Investigation. He interrogated all {the passengers, took their (Continued on Page Three)
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Hello, Here's a New Number!
THERE'S NO CHEERY “Number, Please,” in Garrett todas The 5000 ‘inhabitants of the northern Tndianas town are without telephone service because all | the telephone operators of the Garrett Telephone Co. went on strike todas | Mavor Fred L | Thomas 1. Hutson, State Labor Commisisoner, this morning and | asked hit to send an investigator to the town immediately | Mr. Hutson doesn't know where Mayor Feick called from. The Mayor didn’t know how many operators were on strike or why All he said was: “Send someone in a hurry.” | Officials at the State Labor Department said it was the first telephone operators strike they recollected in the history of the | department.
Feick called
German planes swept over England and Wales again during the night, and intensified their operations at dawn ih a triple-threat attempt to blockade the British Tsles by airplane, motor torpedo boat and submarine. Casualties and material damage were caused when bombs fell ih A crowded residential area of a northeast England town Hundreds of planes had bombed and machine gunned shipping throughout yesterday and scores of others had bombed land objectives. Experts estimated that 50 bombers and 30 fighters had made the first ships attack vesterday. that 120 bombers and fighters had conducted the second and that 150 hombers and fighters had conducted the third. Submarines and E-hoats, fast motor torpedo boats, co-operated. Wounded survivors of E-boat sinkings, arriving at a southeast England port on the way to hospital, asserted that the German planes and E-boats had adopted the German tank-plane technique used on the continent. After torpedoes had been fired into British ships by the E-boats, they charged, German planes swept down and machine gunned survivors who clung to rafts or struggled in the water. The German bomber planes, some flving in squadron formation, many singly, began their operations today on land obfectives An Admiraltv-Air Ministry communique had admitted that E-boats had torpedoed and sunk three British coastal steamers during the day, and damaged others, One German E-boat was sunk and another damaged, it was asserted.
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‘We Expect That Others will Withdraw,” Says Tokyo Spokesman. By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor Great Britain waged ine ‘creasingly furious aerial war ‘against Germany and Italy toe \day but created a sensation in the Far East by ordering (withdrawal of British troops from China. A total of between 2000 and 3000 | British troops at Shanghai, Peiping land Tientsin were ordered to other (Far Eastern posts, reportedly at the “request” of Japan. While the small number of fore eign (except Japanese) forces in Ch.na are of minor military impore [tance, they have been the guardians [of foreign interests and the syme (bol of Occidental power since the [Opium War of 100 years ago.
| Rivals Dispute Claims | In the British Isles, German aire [planes renewed steady but scattersd bombing raids in almost all parts of England and Wales, following uhprecedented air battles yesterday if {which about 109 airplanes of both 'sides were reported shot down. The British Air Ministry claimed that 60 German planes were de stroyed and that Britain lost only 16 planes. The Germans claimed the de= (struction of 49 British craft, and {asserted they lost only 10. The Nazi high command also claimed that a | ol of 28 British ships were sunk lor badly damaged by vesterday's air [and Torpedo boat attacks The Germans also reported new raids on British land objectives, ine cluding aircraft factories near Liverpool and the Bristol harbor area, but admitted that British planes still were hammering at high | similar ohjectives in the Reich | The German wireless reported that “big fire destroyed a number of large warehouses" on the banks of [the River Thames in England last | night. The dispatch said the flames [lit up the sky and could be seen for | miles, The British withdrawal from | |
{China (which does not affect the Crown Colony of Hong Kong) left | United States, Ttalian and French forces in the International settle ment, and was viewed by Chinese as furthering the Japanese cafe paign for control of the Settlement and for extension of Tokyo's dome ination over a greater Fast Agia.
‘Requested’ hy Japan Tt was stated in London that the Japanese made a ‘request’ foy withdrawal of the troops simultapes ously with Japanese demands (later accepted) for closing of the Burma Road and otherwise cutting off supe plies to the Chinese Britain informed States, which has forces stationed lin Shanghai, of the decision, but there was no indication here wheth« er United States troops would be available in the future to patrol the (Continued on Page Three)
WOMAN, 75. CHAINED TO WALL, SON IS HELD
| NIAGARA PALLS, N. V. Aug. ® (TU. P) =The gon and daughter-in-law of a 75-year-old woman were held by state police today, charged (with tying the ‘elderly woman's hands behind her back and chain ling her to a wall of her home for three months Gordon Carpenter, 34, and his wife, 51, of Niagara, were charged [with second degree assault and coe | ercion
STOCKS GAIN POINT, | THEN BECOME DULL
NEW YORK Aug. 9 (U. P= Stocks advanced fractidpng to more than a point today and then turned [dull with prices holding near the highs Metal shares and automobile issuas [were most in demand Furthey [slackening in output of automobiles [this week reflected changeover to [new models Grain prices were __ virtually unchanged.
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