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WILLKIE TO AVOID TIEUP WITH F.D.R.

Refuses to Be Committed in Advance on Specific Acts in Field of Foreign Affairs: Wants to Be Free to Criticize.

THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

COLORADO SPRINGS,

sonfinne { LIIIU®e

of the US.

Mur.

Roosevelt is Preside:

Aug. 10.—Wendell I

in the field of foreign

it, and as far as Mr. Willkie

oncerned he must take responsibility for foreign policy,

in brief, is n candidate's behind-the-scenes apin the last few davs, ly indirect and third parties, looking

agree-

reply to

apparent

SOM of

Sort A § SARA y bac id between the President

Willkie about foreign

lv, these maneuvers have

ed towanx nominee's aca the yO old destrovers to the has not x project publicly. It that evervbody advocacy by ermediaries, most J. Pershing

John J ni

Jiescence

e1( Pro

Mr. Roosevelt et I this is 108e secrets 16S 18

int agen Way Open te Discussion will

discussion

de of Mr Vo does

wiih i

Hy In ap-

1 Lic

stration acts

he may nistration poi-

Adm perhaps, Adm aves himself free also

Nf 5 i i

to jemn Administration 1¢ European war 1 Willkie has taken a help to the Allies fundamental ap-

similar to tha

ont 11

atem late vesterday he general views on the foral interests of

the vil tes in the present inare well known, me publicly

A T0N eq

stat by

al times Tie Himself Up

he not

Declines to takes tie either as legislation, since he information at on which

acts can advance

for specific

that 1A

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3 commana nts reveal overtures had at Archibald f Congress, Davenadvisers of Mi

th wil

“HiKie not hom the known the Librarian © with Russell Mr. Willkie's former managing editor Magazine, ana wat that time enunciated e v taken in his publi Mr. MacLeish says he himself re have with the

1ave sSuggesieq

touch

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been persons not Administration that Mr. Willkie act

ion

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specie

over

on he desty sale ev include some

internationalist

Republicans Suspicious

has bemost Remistrust ure from that

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motives, 1 ol with nat suspect lot of

ne inclination 10 look

wes of

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Ihe nis nel

it them into { shell-shock when Philadelphia conhe appointed two Republicans, Henry I Frank Knox, to the to take charge of the de program This they saw as tempt to take the defense issue the campaign. will be recalled that 1t induced Alf M Republican nominee, to Join in a general policy on the jssue, then uppermost 1 st. of course, have the imce of the present international And little came of it, exan argument as to whether AN or the New Deal was suggesting the building of to alleviate

the which advocated

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and

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President Landon

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and first surance foreign ring this campaign will constantly, with develop Europe. Mr. Willkie has the President of making statements on foreign polif he committed himseif wee he might find himself support a series of ineading toward policy neither people

-policy issue will be

a he nor the kie read He le as Presicominit al

Mr. Wil

recora

18 how

S position, Roose elt Mr. Roosevelt had declined a course of policy President Hoove Mr. Roosevelt

10 the request He vember, I'he

ted No1932: immediate questions raised a responsibility which rests Lh now vested with execue and legislative authority rhat was when President Hoover sought Roosevelt approval of a revision of war debts Much doubt was expressed,” Mr Willkie commented, “as to the wisof that statement by a Presisect. None can doubt its corectness when taken by a candite for President.” here was another occasion, and important one. President asked Mr. Roosevelt to join common policy on the bank just on the eve of the latter's Again Mr. Roosevelt

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a ration.

GREET NATIONAL GUARD rhe Tillman H. Harpole Post 249 Negto American Legion post here, will meet the 372d Infantry trom Ohio the onlv Negron National d regiment in the Middle West it goes through Indianapolis row on the wav to Guard in Wisconsin. Robett commander, will be

rid 1

he m

yvers

post

the Re-!

MORE DEFENSES ARE INSPECTED

President Talks to Donovan, Just Back From Britain, On Latest Tour.

MOUTH, N. HR, Aug VU. P President Roosevelt today mspected submarine being speeded up under the national defense program at the Portsmouth Navy Yard and boarded his yacht Potomac to continue his cheek of defense establishments along ti New Enalé seaboard After a 45-minute swing through the yard, Mr. Roosevelt was piped over the Potomacs rail and sailed Boston, where later will inspect the Boston Yard Accompal Navy Fre commerce

PORTS

u e

na “au

for

Navy

Hed by Secretary of

Hany IL. Hopkins, Mr

Roosevelt was beginning an inten. brought to the

inspection of New HampRhode Island

sive

“non-political” defense bases in Ma ! Massachusetts

connecticut

ine

Confers With Donovan Mr. Roosevelt Lay J war-time comms of the fighting 69th of New York, who recently returmed from a mission to Great Britain on wiu dispatched bv Secretary Although White ana Mr. Roosevelt fo «i p Donovan's mission stood authoritatively formed Mi. Roosevelt pressions gained Eugiana indicate at there are ood chancss that Great Britain will be able repulse any German blitzkrieg

- her e y Wil n

Anan

1 con

secret

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Knox

refused of Mr unaer-

himself, name 1! was that he that his mm-

sclose LIE

15% mn “1 in

Declines te Ulear Mystery that My. Donothat eflectiveness of Force might be a in British success

their island against

It was van believed the Royal Au deciding factor in defending the Nazis There was no indication, however, that Mr. Donovan was sent abroad

reporiec

(0 assay British prospects in the Drexier says

Eurcpean struggle and Mr. Roosevelt showed no nclination to clear

t 1

up the mystery surrounding Mr. {peddlers support

Knox's activities, | Ihe swing ro paralleled President's journey through northeastern states in the 19368 campaign this time he will travel largely boat precluding the possibility politicai demonstrations

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but by

Of GREENES TO HAVE REUNION Greene Family annual reunion will be held a week rom to mo ngton

servea

A will be

noon

pasket dinner

atl

Willkie to avoid commitments in advance on specific Roosevelt Administration

Ral

day's load from

Miss Beulah Clements, 22, of 1109 Brookside Ave,

10}

construction

in the aay | [ranging

nk Knox and Secretary of gianapolis residents

JParciiing

the beddlers work year-round.

(row at Cascade Park in Bloom- Will be used to seeing them at ce

330 Peddlers Sell 2,400,000 Bars Yearly for $120,000.

EARL HOFF 2,400,000 ice cream Lars Indianapolis this sum

By take

Ith 10 Cool mea Fo

0 the 330 peddlers in the eity, from vacationing boys to grown men with vear-roundg routes have built a $120,000 business on Intaste for ice desire to have if front door And nuyes to gown

cream ang the } the business conti The man who wheels his cart to your front curd or lugs a heavy box up the star's to yom office makes all the wav {rom cents to $8 a day fe works an 11

boy ot O

Donovan, hour day five or Six davs a week

He could work seven days a week, but he usually likes to take a day

or two off. It's a business in whieh

1¢ had been personality and hard work count the

most, which accounts for the great

House sources range in the peddlers’ income

Dealers who furnish the carts or boxes to the peddlers and sell them the ice cream and the dry ice to

N= keep it cold count on a 100-day peak

season each year This vear, with a cool June, start. od out slow Bit Ravmongd S Drexler, head of the Drexier ce Cream Novelty Co. says that the July weather more than made up for June August looks like it’s going to be poor for the ice cream business, however, The best business is after Pp. Mm, and cool evenings make sales few ana fai between Men, as a general rule, make better salesmen than the boys, Mr Most of the boys concream earnings pin many of the older families, Mr. Drexler's 96 When the weather gets cold they sell hot tamalies. candy and sandwiches Each peddler has a route which he builds up himseif They all keep their eves open for a better one. but there is No serapping ovel tervitories Each peddle: ald Keeps himself on a rain-like schedule that their customers

sider their ice money, while 35

About of

SO helps business |

tain times. It ‘ jee cream bars eall

Dealers In

thusiness in

[reaches

| meted

And there goes John Moore, 16, of 830 N. East St, , a “Arst year

man.”

He's already saved S3R for

school expenses at Tech this fall,

theirs a “novelty

Huse

CON

tracted to package and sundae and

sales

My cent

Drexle th

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from 2 per ol

rose to 27 You ean almost temperature by jce ¢ream ‘movelties” My. Drexler savs The hotter it sales are-~that around 93 sales start declining The reason, he says it gels that hot dents switeh to bee) When

Speedway

last tick

per cent

gets

soft

beer

5 t

AS cream

cent

iH per

degrees sales

I SR)

veal off

degrees

is that Indianapolis resi

arink

introduced

sales

the as mount

that

ice cream 1931, the "novelly

sales

rise the

the better the is until the mercury

when

a }

and

t the yum

That's one of the hardships of the

business

| Was Slugged, Stewardess 1890 PHOTOGRAPHS

Insists, ‘and Swallowed Key' WINBLOCK'S PRIZES

Al 10 (A P “3 sounds impossible Rosemary Olive Griffith said today, “but a man slugged me In an American Airlines plane over Nashville, Tenn.” ) { A. A. hostess arher employers Nashville today and home in Flushing The attack said she experienced thousands of feet in the al over the Tennessee mountains gave to commercial aviation one of its strangest experiences Airline officials were silent pending outcome incident Repeating the

NEW YORK Known

The 22-vear-ol rivea on one planes from

went to het

0 Sit

of the alread)

story she

has told to Nashville police, postof- |

fice inspectors and line officials, the model” hostess said all she knew was that an unknown man had startled her in the powder room after dinner Wednesday night ana gemanded that she give him the key tl baggage and mail compart-

10 mel

18 ait ‘Scared SUT She Says

seared stiff.” the girl first mstinct rather than assailjant

her

Admittedly sald followed her and swallowed the give it to who had threatened to Siug He when she swallowed Kev Griffith added Si there was about HR subsequently establis X-rays because she had getting it down and Keeping it down “It practically came up and I had swallow my gum keep it down.”

it She

sae kev her unknown did the Miss said doubt a fact

\e no

9 11t

swallow 1€ Key hed by trouble

0 10 had gone into the owder room to clean {t up when che heard a man whisper “Give me the kev to the baggage compartment

said she

Saw it Happen in Movie

“I started to turn around,” she but was grabbed from behind. The man said, ‘give me the key or I'll slug you’ He did. I fell to the floor It was then, she swallowed the key “It seemed about the best thing to do. I dont know though if 1 thought much about it at the time.” { Then Miss Griffith recalled that

said,

said, that she

(she once had seen a motion picture |

stories of which the ust that, namely when a band of to steal the loot from

the mn

based on one of Rafael Sabbatini hero had done swallow Kev pirates him “In movie she continued, “they cut the hero open to get the kev

' 3 rieq

the

my mind, too

“I know it sounds impossible. I|conference Monday.

published

Maybe that was in the back!one-half hours vesterdav

how it hap-

understand

e a million theories

cant pened There ana 1 wish someone would explain all me. I can't explain it” Miss Griffith—and the airline, too-—thought she would take a week off and rest In Nashville, the Banner asserted that Miss Griffith's story was a hoax. Before she left on the flight, the newspaper said, she had written a letter to her “sweetheart” with whom she had quarrelled, declaring that she had a premonition that something would happen on the mip. Air line officials had prevented reporters seeing Miss Griffith at the hospital. Soon after this story was the air line officials arranged for the reporters to interview her. The newspaper was sent in to her in advance of the reporters arrival and when they entered her room she was white, a little atremble hands clutehing at the sheeis of her bed Obviously she was very angry. ‘Who wrote manaed One of the reporters said he had Miss Griffith then characterized the reporier with an epithet which though having little standing in a conservative parlor WAS expressive of anger and indignation. She then denied story categorically

MORE GO TO CHURCH. CONTRIBUTIONS LESS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U.P) American church attendance during the decade 1926-36 increased by one

million, but contributions declined | . quarter-billion dollars, Census Bu-| {

10 |

from the ordeal

hel

this story?” ghe de-

the

reau figures disclosed todav |

At the start of the decade 54 500,000 members of 213 religious de nominations donated $817.215.000 an average of $18 each--to support | their churches. In 1936 there were] 53,800,000 members of 256 denominatons, with contributions totaling | $518.000.000—an average of $9 each. !

GARRETT HAS PHONE

| SERVICE ONCE MORE

GARRETT, Ind, Aug. 10 (U. P).| This town of 5000 was receiving its| regular telephone service todav after a truce was called in a strike of eight operators and a clerk in the! Garrett telephone exchange The strike lasted for seven and . The workers agreed to the truce pending a |

Photographs o Bryan taken at Lafavet little pir! with a parasol in the 90's, shaved the Willlam H Photograph contest I'wo prizes were

Bloc

William

Jennings and

of a

both taken

offered

honors today

mn Old

I'he

William Jennings Bryan photograph

the "most interest prize for Mrs, FF H, ( 4 Box 808, Indianapo taken by Ira A. Thrush Mrs, Green's father, Murs. Marie

won

LaGrange

ng ireen

14 is

pic

1 i

ure R

was

a cousin of

of Frank

lin entered the photograph of the i

which won pri

little girl, charming picture” ture was taken by D. C., photographer Contest judges were

Block's camera shop manager Indiana

Leland H Celephone dent

Ridgway, Co, camera

BOTTLES 25¢

Think of it! 6 big bottles . . . 12 big drinks , . , in that thrifty home carton of tasty Pepsi-Cola, No wonder Pepsi Cola gets first call with smart shoppers everywhere, Order some today!

the

I'he

most pit

Washington

Li 1

club

Engel and Bell presi

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Cool Profit in Ice Cream

{nounced

SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1940

At City Hall—

STREET REPAIR

PRUGRAM IN ‘41 1S FORMULATED

i i

Works Board Plans Best Way to Spend Gas Tax; Little Rate Change.

the Works Board after il a for spend. next year's street Im

evolved at few

It meeting, a minutes m. yvesterdav--the plan ing almost $100,000 of gasoline tax major provements Marviand 8S mn shape,” City Engineer M. G on said, Maurice Tennant member, nodded ‘I think that he said “What asked Leo dent You'd have to take up the wood block and put in five inehes of concrete.” Mr. Johnson said, “Leave the car tracks in, they're all right but thal! wood bloek i& gone it nust have been in for 30 vears guess we'd have to take it from West {0 Alabama

on 3! terrible John Board

to be done

ought

to do? vice presi

you have Board

would W lg n.

ovel

Quick Mind's Eye Tour members of the Board eve our of the City Central Ave have cove

Johnson

{OOK and

I'he Aa mind's stopped at We wouldnt tracks We resurfacing.” How far?” asked Mr. Britton Off hand, Id as far as you can go from Ft. Wayne Ave. to 34th the engineer said Board President Louis fingered his necktie clasp I guess we'll have to do that, too,” he said “TI get an estimate of the costs My Johnson said Theres one more thing | some people on the West Side | have an idea to build a subway in Mortis St. underneath the Belt tracks. ‘Thev've been up here and thev've been up to see the Mavor.'™| Oh. ves,” said Mr, Weleh | | “1 talked to them vesterday,” Mur. | Johnson continued and 1 think 1 would relieve that district, Tl have, plane made for both Harding and Morris St. subwavs and get esti mates 11 have an idea

Little Change in Civil Rate rhe valuation estimate of $811. 9%0 080 for assessed property in In. dianapolis, which ix $551,000 higher than last vear's estimate on which the current civil eity tax rate is based. fsn't going to affect the 1941 civil eitv rate materially City Controller James FE Deery estimated that if the present $128 civil city rate ig continued next yea will raise only $7183 more on the the new valuation than it Veal enough to pave a about two blocks something officials

the up

in i

pull them

‘od couna

Mi Sal

Brandt

RO we

it basis dia thik I'his alley for even that's While City County Auditor Glenn B estimate to formulate the rate. they aren't sure that to remain unchanged I'he practice is that the Auditor] makes a valuation estimate In August for budget making purposes But the real valuation figure doesn't appear until the following February Last February, City officials pot a shock when they found the real valuation was $£3.000000 below the Auditor's August estimate, on which the current tax rate was based Ae a matier of fact, there is doubt that the valuation last year | was actually $507.073020, as an-! officially City officials valuation wag nearN

20 foot But

will use Ralston's eivil elty it's going

think the $509.000.000 hey won't find out definitely un all eity taxes payable this year re collected, mavhe sometime next vear, It's all complicated,

‘Mistaken Impression’ A member of the Mayor's Recrea tion Advisory Committee has taken with the statement which ap peared here recently that the Park Department will need an additional £30.00 veal I'he committee member said it gave the wrong im pression { The fact ie that the additional $30,000 is requested by the recreation division. The entire appropri ation which the Park Department fs asking for next vear is $1413.75 below the departments present budge! I'he recreation

very

1s|e

the being

$30.000 increase budget request more than oftset bv cuts in the operating expenditures of other divisions of the Park Department I'he increase will finance the salaries for an assistant recreation director and an additional clerk at City Hall, pay raises of $5 a month for directors on the playgrounds

and $10 a month for full time

| Bugle

Veterans of 98 ta Piente ~The annual bagket pienie of the Harold C. Megrew Post One, United Span ish-American War Veterans, will be’ held tomorrow at Rrookside Park local Spanish-American War vet erang and the Megrew Drum and Corps will go to Detroit! Mich, a week from tomorrow to! represent Indianapolis at the four-’ day veterans’ national encampment |

Mark BE. Hamer

aviation years,

Henry E. Ostrom enthusiast for many

Capt. Lewis B Rock of Davion Ohio, chairman of the Fifth Corps Area Civilian Aviation Committee, appointed Henry KE Ostrom of Indianapolis head the Indiana Committee of the or ganization Mr. Ostrom succeeds Richard M Fairbanks, president of the Ins dianapolis News, who resigned the chairmanship recently. The group was organized by Col. Frank Knox Keeretary of the Navy, to promote interest in aviation among civilians Mr. Ostrom, a contractor, owns his own plane and was one of the first advocates of a munieipallyowned airport in Indianapolis, He chairman of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce aviation committee

vesterday {eo

Light Family Organizes Indiana

members of the Light Family met

for the frst time recently at Spades

Park and organized a local section of the nationally-organized family Me Light Family originated in Clarke County, Virginia, Officers for the Indiana section are A F, Light president: Carl Light, vice presis! dent; Warren G. Light, treasurer, Mrs. Frances Fizeus, secretary, and Mrs. ©. A. Daniel, historian

supervisors and utility services for four new community houses he new community houses will be located at Rilev, Northwestern, | Camby Place and abandoned School 61

To provide these things, the Park Board and the Advisory Committee decided to eliminate funds for land purchases altogether and cut the!

[department's sponsors’ contribution

for WPA projects by two thirds, In addition, money for the purchase of playground apparatus will be switched to a fund for mimeograph publication expenses s

BOY OF 18 WINS DRIVERS’ TITLE

Gene Kennard of Evansville Is State Champion in Ford Contest.

Timve Npecinl DEARBORN, Mich, Aug Gene M. Kennard has been named [Indiana's champion automobile driver bv judges in the Ford Good Drivers’ League national! contest The 18-year-old Evansville youth, accompanied by an adult sponsor of hiz own choosing, will go to the New York World's Fair the week of Aug, 28 to represent Indiana in [the Anals Discusses Young Men—The needs! He will compete for one of of voung men todav will be dis scholarships ranging (rom $100 to $5000. He will be presented with a cussed by R. Warren Fisher at the trophy emblematic of his champions Y" Bible Breakfast at 8:10 a. m {ship and a certificate designating tomorrow at the YY. M. C. A MF | him as state champion Fisher is Indianapolis “¥" educa | I'o win over youths ol high school tional directbr age from all over Indiana, the Evansville vouth scored highest rats ings in technical examinations on driving knowledge, He took a 28« mile driving test condueied by drive

nual pienie at Northern Beach to- | ing experts, then wrote a 300-word on "What 1 personally can

| [trey yrrow. A piteh=in dinner will be! !® d [ pe _ : I' ; fte n do to reduce automobile acoldents served ¢ P: Mm. 1he alternoon ac Byron Doenges, Ft, Wayne, fine ( 8 sd al | test games. lee cream and lemonade will] be served Paul BE Miller is post com mander. The committee in charge includes Dr. A. B. Chambers, acting! chairman; 1. P MeQeheyv, Grafton Anderson, Dick Melds and Mrs John Noon {

Club See Film—A movie “Magship of the Air" sponsored] by the American Airlines, will be chief entertainment at the Service! Club luncheon Monday at the Claypool Hotel. The Service Club's weekly publication, "The Grenade. | made its first appearance this week in new form, with a summary of the! Burke-Wadsworth Aet by Everetd IL. MeCoy, and an article on "De meoeracy and Conseription” by

“

Legion Post 312 to Pienie—=Mem-| pers of the: Broad Ripple Post 312! American Legion, will have they an

WILSON REUNION SET I'he Hugh Wilson Family, coms prising etght families, will hold ita Mth annual reunion Aug. 18 at the Friends Church at Plainfield Those invited include members and des seendants of the Wilson, Harrison, Green, Stanley, Donnell, Howerton, Herde! and MeMannis families. Ems mett W. Green is president and Louisa Wilson is secratary

SHOP IN COMFORT, Entire Store Air-Conditioned

Sponsors Benefit Dances A series! of benefit dancex sponsored hy the | Hooster Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will start tonight at 143 EF

Ohio St J

ENTIRE STORE

OPEN TONIGHT

UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK

Come to Sears for

Complete Selections of

Summer Merchandise New Shipments Arriving Daily

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Telephone Alabama at Vermont St,

PICTURE PEDDLERS . ..

Cause Numerous Complaints

The appearance of this Information Message in these columns is evie dence that this publi« cation subseribes to the principles of the Better Business Bureau, and co-operates with the Bureau in protecting the public even to the extent of refusing to accept the advertise ing of firms whose advertising and sales poli« cies are proved bv the Bureau to be contrary to the public interest

The

profit, s has for

wives and others, who by high pressure selling or tricky tactics are induced to give orders for picture enlargements to transient photographers or their

gain for "advertising'' or "introductory’ purposes,

approve of sales practices used by their representatives. these companies who instruct and encourage their

mine beforehand the responsibility of the company and the authority of the representative before placing your order. "Free Picture Enlargements,'' or other ''Free'' merchandise or services where such ''free’’ offer is conditioned upon the purchase of other merchandise or services.

If information is not available elsewhere, call the. Better Business Bureau.

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This Bureau is an incorporated association, not operated for pecuniary

especially where there is a public or competitive Interest involved.

For several months the Better Business Bureau has been receiving numerous complaints from house-

representatives,

Numerous sales devices are used which would lead the prospect to believe that she is getting a free enlargement or that she is getting an unusual bar-

but always in the stories brought to us the "hook" is somewhere hidden in the scheme. Generally the "hook" is the requirement that the prospect purchase a frame for the picture. The price of the frame is usually excessive.

The names of five different companies, from as many different cities, using such tactics have been reported to us as operating in Indianapolis. Undoubtedly, some financially responsible companies may be operating in a similar manner who do not

On the other hand, there are a number of

representatives in such practices.

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