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MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1940
VOLUME 52—NUMBER 132
Hurricane Devastates Coast From Charleston to Savannah
‘WAVES OF NAZI PLANES SWARM OVER BRITAIN IN BIGGEST BATTLE
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TOLL Now 12, | 2 FROM HERE
Morrison's Credit Manager And Local Race Driver Among Victims.
By UNITED PRESS Indiana's week-end traffic toll mounted to 12 today with the death of Paul K. Lawall, 19, Indianapolis, who was killed near Kokomo as he and his family started for a vacation in Michigan.
| Four other persons in the car were | a k 1 TIME NOW VITAL not hurt seriously. They were Mrs. 3 ; [Helen Lawall, the victim's wife; TN their two sons, Paul Jr., 16, and Wil- |
liam C., 15, and Christian Brehob, a | brother of Mrs. Lawall,
STREETS FLOODED BY HEAVY RAINS, TWO TIDAL WAVES
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GERMANY 164
England's Resistance Growing Weaker, Says Berlin; Naval Base at Portsmouth,
Manston Airfield ‘Destroyed.’
LONDON, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—~Report from various attacked points indicated that today’s air raids probably resulted in the largest toll of civilian dead and wounded of any day's air activity since start of the war,
Only One Known Dead but Six Are Reported Drowned; Wind's Velocity From 75 to |
100 Miles an Hour.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Hurricane-isolated areas of the 100-mile long coastline between Savannah and Charleston, S. C., recovered first communication with the
outside world today, reporting extensive property damage, senator Norris . speaks for “children still unborn.”
but few storm casualties. The only confirmed casualty was one woman killed by flying glass here. Charleston, S. C., amateur radio operators | reported six drowned near there but the Charleston Navy Yard station
By UNITED PRESS Germany sent hundreds of warplanes over Britain to‘day in an almost continuous attack along tke south and
This rare photo showing Adolf Hitler laughing, was taken during | southeast coasts.
of life.
said as far as it was known, there was no loss IN CON
SORIPTION
Over crippled communication lines, the Parris Island, |
S. C., United States Marine base advised Washington of Burke-Wadsworth Backers
extensive property damage but no casualties among the
3500 Marines
Tybee Island, beach resort 20 miles from here, reached the |
Red Cross in Washington by] short wave radio. Still to be heard from was Beaufort, S. C., five miles from the Parris Island base. The city of 2800 population has been cut off since before 1 p m. (Indianapolis Time) vesterday when the hurricane swept winds of over 75 miles an hour against the coast.
Vacationers Reach Safety The report to the Red Cross indi- | cated that while every summer cottage had been unroofed at Tvbee Beach, 20 miles from here, all of the 8000 vacationers had been evacuated safely. Property damage along the coast was estimated by county officials in| the millions. Electric light and water svstems here remained crippled, while Charleston—cut off except by short wave radio—reported a similar situation. More than 400 persons were homeless in Charleston, according to Red Cross reports. The remnants of the, tropical storm were dissipated over Georgia and Northern Alabama today causing widespread rains and winds of up to 30 miles an hour 300 miles inland.
Governor Goes to Rescue
| Governor Burnet Maybank of South Carolina lett Columbia, the capitol, today in an effort to reach Reaufort., His party carried axes, rope and tools and expected to obtain the aid of state constables en route | Highways into Beaufort, both! from the north and south, were reported under water ~The storm, reaching its height at mid-afternon yesterday, when its] peak velocities were around 100] miles an hour, had blown itself out] inland, but early today tremendous] tides were rolling up on the Georgia | and South Carolina beaches and cities and towns were inundated for blocks | A Charleston amateur radio sta- | tion early today reported that there was widespread looting in !
the
flooded section gf the.city and that some “military police” were patroling the city. He did not specify the affiliation of the military police, but | there is an Army post at Charles- | ton. | Tidal Wave Sweeps Six Blocks |
A tidal wave vesterday afternoon swept over the Charleston water | front for a depth of six blocks, driv- | ing hundreds from their homes. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, former Armv Chief of Staff and Red Cross representative there, wirelessed the Red Cross in Washington that 400 | homeless were being housed by the Red Cross in two shelters and that (Continued on Page Three)
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The Times’ new serial story, begins today on Page 13.
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Sun Pours Down; Mercury Goes Up
TEMPERATURES 41 am 8 12 (noon) . 83% 12 (noon) 86 1p m 89
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92 94 . 94 . 0
No relief from either the drought or the above normal temperatures was forecast for Indianapolis today by the Weather Bureau. There will be considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow, the bureau predicted Yesterday the highest temperature was 92 at 2:40 p. m. By noon today the temperature had gone beyond that mark.
Meanwhile, Marion County farm- |
ers counted their mounting crop losses in the tens of thousands of dollars. Horace Abbott, agricultural agent, estimated that the corn will now average but 25 bushels an acre, an almost 50 per cent cut from early crop estimates. During June and July rainfall measured at the station here was 2.70 inches against a normal of 6.96 inches.
FLIER FORGED DOWN NEAR CIRCUS GROUND
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gewood Man Dismantles Craft for Trip Home.
Vernon Boehie a forced landing in circus grounds at Southeastern and Keystone Aves. today when his monoplane developed motor trouble,
Edgewood, made a field near the
when the motor trouble developed. He thought he could take off from
the field, but was advised against | The ship was dismantled par-|advocates of training plan to take market. : Believing that | Du Pont and General Mills each |
it. tially and Mr. Boehle took it home on a truck. ITALY THREATENS GREECE ROME. Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Responsible Italian quarters said today that Italian forces would move
| into Greece if Great Britain made tacks will not be answered in the] any attempt fo infringe upon that interest of saving time, the first
country’s neutrality.
garrisoned there. A similar report from | Try to Speed Action, Foes |
Count on Delay. (Gallup Poll, Page Seven)
| By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer | WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-—-With time becoming the vital element in the conscription controversy, Sena-| tor George W. Norris (Ind. Neb) entered the debate todav with a charge that the Burke-Wadsworth! { Bill would tear the United States | from its democratic moorings. I'he veteran Nebraskan, only Senator still serving who voted against this country’s entry into the World War, renewed the anti-conscription bloc's attack on the bill, | Senate debate on the bill is ex- | pected to continue at least a week. but Senators were given notice to-| day that they will have no more! Saturday recesses until the measure | | has been disposed of. | Time is a vital element in the controversy over training because [the Army wants to:call a group of men in October. First it must build housing for them. It can't start new housing until the training hill becomes law. Nor can the selective |service machinery, which will sort out the men to be trained from those to be left at home, be established. More Barracks Needed
The small Senate group which is! the spearhead of the anti-training {fight counts on delay. Without ad- | mitting that it plans to filibuster. it hopes to hold up the measures | so long that training can't be started | (this fall. | In many sections of the country construction of barracks and other necessary buildings is impossible in| winter. This would prevent calling men in January, also. Thus train{ing would be effectively prevented until such time in the spring as ‘building could be constructed. In. (thi~ manner the training of men| ‘might be postponed as much as| leight months. The supply of!
|He said he was flying at 1500 feet trained men would then lag even!
behind the preparation of new |equipment. | To meet this situation, Senate!
[little part in debate. |every long speech may further im-|
[peril national safety, they will con- than a point in the carriers and {Adjustment Board, which is to meet
[fine themselves to answering ques(lions and some, if not all, of the attacks made upon the bill. | Many of the more emotional at-|
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Other week-end traffic victims
were:
RAY TELLAS, Indianapolis race driver, killed during a race at Franklin, Ind. JESSE E. SELL, 26, who died from a brain concussion after his motorcycle skidded on fresh gravel near Anderson. VOLLMER LUTHER, 21, Chicago, fatally injured in a crash with another car near La Porte. MARY FRANCIS KISTLER. 23. Montezuma, whose skull was fractured when her car hit a tree HARRY C. LAUER, 40, Bippus, killed by a hit-and-run driver at Huntington, * JOSEPH BROOKS, Markle, known also as Joseph Ostheimer, killed in an accident at Huntington. MRS. LYDIA SOMMERVILLE, New Castle. ROBERT ODLE, 24, Salem. WILLIAM EASLEY, 90, Rushville, GEORGE B. MACKEY JR. 22, Delphi, killed in collision near Summerville, Mich STANFORD COOPER, 81, Greenfield, who died of injuries received near Maxwell.
‘Charmed Life" Racer Killed on Dirt Track
An Indianapolis automobile racer who boasted that ‘no race car was ever made tough enough to kill me.” wus dead today, the result of a during a dirt track race at the Franklin Fair Grounds yesterday. The victim was Ray Tellas, 29, a race driver for 11 years. He ha
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escaped death in several Drevigus
accidents. He died in Methodist Hospital here shortly after the crash, one of (Continued on Page Five)
FIRMNESS IN RAILS FEATURES MARKET
Du Pont, General Mills and
Union Pacific Gain. NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U. P).— Firmness in rail issues and a few individual industrial issues today
featured a dull, irregular stock
gained $2. Union Pacific rose more
smaller advances were noted in Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific
{and Great Northern preferred.
Bonds were irregular with U. S. Governments lower. Wheat was up around 4 to '2 cent and corn was steady.
the Reichstag session at which he issued his “last warning” to Britain, | Shaking hands with Air Marshal Hermann Goering, der Fuehrer ap- | parently is congratulating him for the accomplishments of his air | force. Watching, his face a bland mask, is Propaganda Minister Josef | Goebbels, Portfolio Count von
Neurath.
London newspapers called it “one of the biggest air
beside whom is Minister Without
knocked
tives from the steps of Elwood High {School, from which he was gradu- |
ated. Then he will go to Callaway Trapped in Bunks as Shi Park for the main ceremony at 3 . ‘ ‘ Sinks in Atlantic.
p. m. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R.| (Continued on Page Three) LONDON, Aug. 12 (U.P.).—One hundred and twenty men, trapped in their bunks, were drown when
2 BURN TO DEATH | AS PLANE CRASHES iireri ur a0 tons, was torpedoed
(and sunk somewhere in the At-
| after wave, The battle was waged over a 250-mile front, Late this afternoon, the fighting still was raging. M d b H . Citi Germany, which boasted 93 British planes appe y oaosier ITIeS down yesterday, said 71 more were downed today. | . . . . " 3 s 19 + SIs 18 . r "» Indianapolis and Rushville Arrange Greetings, but Not|the first signs that their resistance is broken” and added The German News Agency said the British naval base Indiana was getting ready today to give a royal welcome to its], eek as as i «uins and that the important Manston favorite son, Wendell L.. Willkie, when he returns home this week-end at Portsmouth was in ruins a I . [Indianapolis and Rushville are preparing for a bit of reflected glory ) re EL . adding that only 17 German planes failed to return today. Springs, Colon, Thursday, possibly . " x . was . : ” . ¥ i. ‘Republican Party leaders and, after | SOUrces declared there was no indication that the long ‘ing toward something like a 24-hour basis. After Sunday’s Increase Force Mr. and Mrs. Willkie will be per- German planes ranged today over the island and appeared friends, staying at the home of Mrs. Irish coast. it irareasd er reports of the raids claimed little opposition Funds to permit increasing the | puchyille streets are being deco- German I pp budget, it was reported today. will make a 5-minute appearance ing 10,000 tons were sunk and numerous others damaged. Mr. and Mrs. Willkie will leave! won't be made public until a few Rushville about 9:30 a. m. Saturday fo Thales? i hours before it goes to City Council signed to test Britain 5 ability to counter aerial raids and in- . 1 . . {declined to hazard a guess on the uled to greet old friends and relaprobable tax rate p the long range German block= rate of $1.28 and may be a trifle (ade plans. [lower i vasion of the British Isles as yet but 2] policemen, However, enough ad- considerable indication that ‘ the [ditional civilian help to relieve 10 4 : tempt to blast Brtish morale and ist Pouce york 830 iso be asker, : possibly inflict severe industrial it was reported. BADEN, Pa. Aug. 12 (U, P.).— 1antic, the Admiralty and War Ofwhen their plane crashed and| que. Seven hundred and forty men ; | sider ’ ’ ‘ . . . : (that Italian aviators were shot |be considered by the County Tax caught fire as they took off from an | were rescued. down in Nazi planes today and its study by Oct. 1. (and Robert E. Browning, 29,/munique said. Many of the soldiers Budget requests of the various Rochester, were cremated in the!jumped, half clothed, into the sea,| | sav : em Va : 4 . | Today's battle appeared to be a {preliminary study by the County from 300 feet shortly after taking chief officer were among the miss-| ron yi , Council starting Aug. 26. | off. ling. follow-up to the terrific raids car-
Willkie
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ccomes a Smiling
OLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
master of ceremonies par excellence. He ran a three-ring circus here of a Sabbath, consisting of himself, Herbert Hoover and Elliott Roosevelt,
He called tune and kept everybody dancing and happy—except
Herbert Hoover. He was very unh
The day started off quietly enough. The sun was shining, and a gentle wind was blowing off the Rockies, rippling th
the rambling hotel heré where “vacation.”
People sleep late here of a Sunday, as elsewhere, except Wendell Willkie is always up early. He was up on this day, bright and early, for Herbert Hoover was coming to pay a call on him—and something
must be done.
For Mr. Hoover must not steal the headlines. Word had come into these mountain recesses that Mr. Hoover is heading up a gigantic European relief venture, and word also followed promptly that the ex-President was planning to issue a statement here about his new role and it being Sunday this would provide as cad
nice a Monday morning news story Willkie in the background.
So he gathered his ideas about him, and they prepared a statement, and then they routed the newspaper reporters out of their beds—at the ghastly hour of 11:30 of a Sunday morning—and the newspaper reporters gathered about and rubbed the sleep from their eyes as the Republican candidate's faithful Lem Jones handed around a statement announcing that Mr. Willkie, if elected Presiden (Continued on Page Three)
Ri By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
bttles ever fought,” with the Nazis swarming over, wave Royal Wel to Willki | gressively fiercer aerial offensive against the British Isles.” By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM | | The biggest reception, of course, will be at Elwood Saturday, but were shot down in the Portsmouth battle alone, Nazis said, to arrive here from Colorado Despite the big scale of the aerial combat, British a small delegation of friends and 20 MORE POLICE an aug Lip: Lo RUShyille, German air activity over Britain appeared to be mov ————— a relatively quiet celebration in or‘Funds to Elwood. | AT in Rushville just visiting with | Civil Budget. | {Cora Wilk, mother of Mrs, Willkie, ably will be asked in the Civil City and officials are hoping Mr. Willkie| were weakening. They claimed four merchant ships totals a borly non-political” talk. in process of revision and probably | fensive was that it was dee wood shortly before noon. | 9. . i 1 2 City Controller James FE. Deery At 2:30 p. m. Mr. Willkie is sched- SUNK, 120 KILLE SRE. shipping facilities, thus aiding [tain that it won't exceed this vear's evidence of preparations for an ine includes funds for only 10 additionwork and permit them to do regu- tude of their air attacks in an atd |Two fliers were burned to death | fice announced in a joint communiCouncil, the Civil City budget will ] One London newspaper reported Sept. 9. | Clarence Hartling, 22, Freedom, nearby ship difficult. the com- ing to feel a lack of trained avias High Over 250-Mile Front mitted 10 days ago, will be given a weight monoplane which crashed were picked up. The captain and| Britain vesterday and Thursday.
Wave after wave of bombers were coming over. They were protected by fighter and destroyer planes. | The main battles today were on a | 250-mile front beginning at the estuary of the Thames and running the length of the English Channel {and south coast. | One of the chief German objec- . | tives today appeared to be the great ; | barrage of ballons—the “wall” of : |gasbags to which steel cables are at« tached—which is designed to protect important south and southeast coast objectives from attack.
15-Mile Smoke Screen
: One of today's first battles was | fought at a height of 12,000 to 15,000 “|feet over the southeast coast. In this dog fight British Hurricanes and Spilfires attacked a large formation of German bombers and fighters which were gunning for the balloon barrage. Preceding the appearance of the German squad- | ron other German planes flying at a great height had put out a 15mile smoke screen. The follow-up planes emerged from this screen. Along the Kent Coast, witnesses reported that in one attack, Junker dive-bombers “roared down” in two (Continued on Page Three)
Britain claimed it had added 30 Nazi planes to the 60 bagged Informed sources in Berlin said the “British have shown y that “this is only the beginning of what will become a proTo Overshadow Elwood’s. to accept the Republican Presidential nomination Airfield was “completely destroyed.” Forty British planes Mr. and Mrs. Willkie are expected No Indication of Blitzkrieg by plane. They will be greeted by a brief stay here, will be escorted on | awaited German blitzkrieg had started. | Rushville officials are arranging der not to steal the thunder from teprific raids in which 400 German planes were employed, | Reported Included in mitted to spend most of their time for the first time over northern Ireland and the northern police force by about 20 men prob- rated by the Chamber of Commerce! DY British fighters ana contended that British air defenses ‘ |at the Rushvill 'k a “‘neighThe City’s budget request still is NShy\ @ Dank jor a "weigh - — —- The British view of the of'on a special train and arrive in + BRITISH TRANSPORT | next Monday night. ; cidentally to damage port and However, it appeared pretty cerBritish sources said there was no The police budget request actually policemen now on inside clerical Germans plan to step up the magniAfter it is acted on by the City damage. airport near here yesterday. Heavy seas made rescue work by a ; “ i ; The Board must conclude | y 'm. claimed that “Germany is beginlcounty offices and institutions, sub- (wreckage of the low-wing, light- and clung to wreckage until they [ried out by the Germans against “ Y : . ° wgmaster of Three-Ring Circus
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