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FORECAST: Partly cloudy with showers tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cooler tonight.

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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 133

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1940

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‘WORST TO COME,” BERLIN WARNS AS 500 PLANES POUND BRITAIN

EEP FINGE CROSSED! RAIN 15 ON THE WAY

City's in Line Showers From Southern Part of State.

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Obi1tua Pegler 2 Pyle Ques \ Radio 4 Travel News Mis. Roosevelt 3 Scherrer ‘i 12 Serial Story 3 Side Glances

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IN POLIO GASES

infantile Paralysis Strikes 40 in State: ‘No Epidemic,’ Health Board Says.

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drought Hhurman of the State Health break of infantil VvRiS in several portions of the state. Dr. Rice said that the poliomyelitis seems to come with hot dry weather with cold weather Approximately 40 persons. of them children are from infantile paralysis, and there have been seven deaths from it during the past month

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11 Cases in Goshen outbreak of the disJoseph and Elkhart counties, Twelve ¢ases Aare now under quarantine in the former county and there were three deaths there last week-end Elkhart County has reported 26 cases, seven in the city of Elkhart, 11 in Goshen and eight In the rest of the county

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were reported Plymouth over the week-end one at Connersville I've cases were reporred at Washington, md. toda No cases have heen reported around Inqianapolis, 1 outbreak cannot considepidemic. Dr. Rice declared the cases seems to be

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be ered an since none of relate (lose Mishawaka Pools The Health Depart cerned over the Di WwW. physician thern part with local can done mM Don director of

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ment is jon. however, Jackson, Health has been sent to of the state to coauthorities to do to combat the W. Gudakunst the National ile Paralysis Jackson wimming osed

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STOCKS DECLINE 3

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ik ga . ‘Blue Chips’ Are Heaviest Losers, Some Off $5. NEW YORK, Aug. 13 U. P Stock prices Broke an average of $3 today because traders feared the long-awaited Rlitzkrieg against Britain was progress. The deline was the since Italy en tered the wal Three times traded in the fst were sold in that There was heavy bond market also Selling spread into and the Chicago market. tures were off as meh as 43 eents a bale, world sugar futures hit new record lows Wheat was 3p cent ower at Chicago Hut corn was steady. The

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curd stocks Cotton fu-

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free” foreign ings however stocks $3 in some were such Chrysier, Bethlehem Fastman Kodak, Wright Aero, Republic Steel preferred and International Paper preferred Three or more dollars were whittled from Allied Chemical. Dow Chem‘al, Monsantd Chemical, du Pont ang U. 8 Steel Raitlioad issues had losses rang ng more than $1. Mercantile, textile issues, Building stoeks, eoppers, aircrafts and oils had declines

New York more than Heavy losers

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FELWOOD GAILY

‘DONS BUNTING §

Saturday Program Starts at 10 A. M., Willkie Speech Due at 3:15.

EDWIN HEINKE

Times Sta Writer ELLWOOD, Ind., Aug. 13.— The hard manual labor of preparing for thousands of visitors almost completed, Elwood today slipped on its party dress of bunting to await the arrival Saturday of Willkie, native son Presidential

Republican

Today thie carpenters were putting finishing touches on the platform in Callaway Park where ceremonies take place. Merchants were streaming their store fronts with red. white and blue bunting. Workmen were stringing uv wires over (he streets and tomorrow these will be draped with bunting Calcium chloride nas heen spread wer five miles of gravel road to lay the aust and the extensive parking have been leveled off and are ready to receive an estimaced 40.000 autos | All work proceedeq eves of tourists who mvasion he town before 8 o'clock the morning these qavs and reach a peak late in the afternoon. Along the streets souvewier hawkers’ move from person io person and car 10 car, selling trinkets. The whole atmosphere is one of a State Fair or Race Dax Homer Capehart. chairman of the | arrangements committee, received a from Danigison. Conn. Theodore Roosevelt Sr,

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who was invited to take part in the |

fceremony. It said. “Heart and soul for Willkie gret age and infirmities prevent aecceprance

Schedule Released For Willkie Day

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U.P) The Republican National Commnittee announced todav that Wendell I.. Willkie has approved plans for morming - to - afternoon notification celebration at Elwood, Ind. Aug. 17 rhe program will start with \ formal entertainment at 10 a. m [indianapolis Time) at Callaway! Park. where Mr. Willkie will make his acceptance speech late my the day Mr. Willkie, Mrs. Willkie (Continwed on Page Three)

SHOOTS GIRL. FALLS, BREAKS OWN NECK

SUDBURY, Ontario, Aug. 13 P) John Basok, 30-year-old sect hand, fired five bullets nto chest and back of Annie Harwnchk, 1% dance with him. In trving to escape. Basok stumbled over the girl's body and yell breaking neck Harrmehuk's condition Was serious Basok died today

CUDAHY TO ARRIVE TODAY BY CLIPPE

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (U.P John Cudahy, United States Ambassador to Belgium, arrives today on the Dixie Clipper from Lisbon en route to Washington for “consultation” with President Roosevelt Mr had described food shortages German-occupied Bejgium in unauthorized press interview London last week

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Fragments of Steel Indicate

Shots Fired Across Channel MORE ARMY PAY

World War Veterans Doubt Planes; Threads

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Pieces Came From Raiding on Side Noted.

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United Press Stal Correspondent

SOMEWHERE ON THE ENGLISH SOUTHEAST COAST veterans who know about shell fire said todav

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guns across the English Channel may

long-range artillery After a series about, this correspondent | appeared to be the nose of a shell hood insisted that their

4 AUSTRALIAN WAR pr DIE IN GRASH

Three Cabinet Members and Army Head Killed.

Aung. 13 ministers

of explosions

CANBERRA, Australia U. P)—Three Cabinet the Chief of the Australian eral Staff. two other passengers and a crew of four crashed to death in a Roval Air Force airplane today ministers were al

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a waitress who refused to once sworn in to fill temporarily the

posit of the key men who crashed — the Ministers for Armyv and Air ana the Executive Council vice presi

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crash, a national the plane was Canberra, the [which the ministers were Way té a Cabinet meeting The dead: Brigadier G Army Minister; J. V. Fairbairn, Sir Henry Gullett, Exeeus tive Council vice president; Lieut Gen. Sir Drudeneli White, Chief of the General Staff; Col. I. FP Thonthwaite, of the General Staft; Fairbairn's secretary;

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when planes were

War veterans living in the neighbor

homes, reduced to wreckage, Rad been destroyed

shellfire One of tha fragments which 1 picked up had threads on one side and while gunnery officers could not say whether it was a shell or a bomb fragment there was strong belief that it was a shell fragment. 1 picked it up on a hillside, a few feet from where a woman nurse and a man had been Killed (High quarters in both and Berlin denied that German shelled Britain from the French side of the channel) The explosions which occurred be fore we found shell fragments ap ‘parently were not connected with eariier air raids on this port They tore away the upper of two adjoining houses and roafs of neighboring houses were peppered with what appeared to have been artillery shrapnel Wins within a half-mile radius of the explosions were shattered First reports were that three four persons had been Killed and 12 wounded Veterans of the great war, on the scene, said that there were at least four explosions and that at the time no planes were in the air They believed that yermans across the channel mav have been experimenting with batteries which they were reported to have installed on the French coast

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NAZIS EXECUTE HOLLANDER |

BERLIN, Aug. 13 (U. P)-—Mvn dert Miuwissen of Amsterdam was executed today for attempting tol obtain information regarding Ger-| man military bases, the Peoples)

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A Stately Stagger With $250,000 Pearl Gown

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13 (U.P) — Rita Hayworth today draped herself mn the world's most expensive gown —valued at $250000—-and after it was all over she was so limp she could hardly walk The actress was not overcome with emotion, although she was the first to wear the gown. She was dog-tired from trying on the dress made of 40000 pearls which weigh 27 pounds The fabulous gown has just been completed for the Imperial Pearl Syndicate of fine, matched pearls which it spent vears collecting After everyone in the salon had been looked over by managers and detectives, the dial on a huge safe was twirled and a piain cardboard box brought out | The lid was opened and there it Wasa solid mass of pearls With several feminine fitters to assist her, Miss Hayworth went be(hind a curtain

shimmering

a half dozen

Rita Hayworth . . . changes back + inte stacks,

‘Shall I slip it over head?” she asked 2 My dear, you couldn't even lift over your head,” she was told “Then how do I get it on?” “Sit down on the floor, and as we slip it over your head, you rise and we will slide it down.” | A few seconds later, Miss Hayworth emerged She was pearls from her neck to the floor. But the spell was broken when Miss Hayworth tried to walk around the room with the stately stride of a model. She bobbed and was puffing for breath after a few steps When the show was over, she changed back into her slacks The pear] syndicate hopes, through the display of the gown, to inerease interest in pearls throughout the world. The valuation of 8250000 is for the pearls alone. Making the | ROWNH comes to several thousand) dollars more. It took 150 hours to) string the pearls, and 15 dressmak- | ers worked three weeks embroider | ing them on chiffon foundation,

Sheppard, Barkley

BACK PLEA FOR

Accept $30 a Month Plan as Draft Compromise,

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Ang. 12 (U.P) «Rrig. Gen. William E. Shedd, Assistant Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee today that congressional delavs on conseription and appropriations will make it impossible for the Army to have 200,000 men in uniform by Oet. 1 as planned. Gen, Shedd said that the Armv now does not expect to reach that goal before Jan. 1, 194),

WASHINGTON. Aug Administration leaders todav made the first move toward compromise on peacetime conseription bill and hoped the step would thin the ranks of the measure's opponents Chairman Morris Sheppard of the Senate Military Affairs Committee accepted an amendment proposed by Senator Josh Lee (DD. Okla) to raise the basic pay of enlisted men from $21 to £30 a month, Democratic Leader Alben W,. Barkley said he approved Mr. Sheppard's action The move, if carried wonld RO part way toward meeting the demands of a group whieh eontends that jow Arm) has been an ab stacle rec At the same time, it would eliminate discrepan cies between Armv and Navy base pay whieh have been a subject of bitter criticism in recent years The maneuver was disclosed as the Senate entered its third day of debate on the draft bill Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D Mont), unofficial leader of the opposition, challenged the value of the support given to the bill by Col (Continued on Page Three)

War Bulletins

ITALY DENTES ULTIMATUM ROME. Aug. 13 (U. PP) =ItaleGreek tension increased today but official circles denied reports that Italy had sent an ultimatum to Greece. It was said, however, that 1taly considered the Albanian sits uation grave and still was studying reports from Albania and Italian officials in Greece,

DUTCH REPORT BOMBINGS

THE HAGUE, Aug. 13 (U, P) == At least three persons were killed last night when British bombers attacked Amsterdam and northern Holland provinces, it was said officially here today, It was claimed that the Wilhelmina Hospital in Amsterdam was damaged seriously and that an asylum for women in Castrieum, a northern Holland village, was hit,

CLAIM ITALIANS REPULSED

LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. PP) British general headquarters in a communique from Cairo, Egypt, said that British forces had re. pulsed an Tialian attack today on British positions covering Jugar-

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TEMPO RISING,

LONDON WAITS 1000 PER DAY

Germang’ Disputed by Britain; Cross-Channel Guns Reported in Use.

Claim of Air Control Over Dover Is

BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—Britain struck back

through the air at Germany today, British bombers roared off in a series of daylight raids which the Air Ministry reported carried them from Germany's famed Jutland sea base to the Bay of Biscay, where from French soil Germany has been carrying for. ward the attack on England. The counter-blows against (Germany cost the R, A, F, 12 planes, the Air Ministry reported, but at the same time 28 German planes were heing brought down over Britain up to late afternoon at a cost of only four British fighters.

Be UNITED PRESS Germany attacked Britain again

tempo,

today at blitzkrieg New waves of Nazi planes roared over the English Channel to continue in darkness the never-ceasing mass attacks for the third Successive dav, “The blitzkrieg is on!" British screamed, But Germany said the attacks “will become more vio lent with every day.” Officially there was no comment in Berlin as to whether the devastating raids were preliminary to a final offensive in the “Battle of Britain,” but it was congidered significant that well informed quarters said the raids could “not be regarded merely as an episode.” The Germans claimed that they controlled the air of historie Channel port, as their planes roared across the narrow English strait in flights of 50, 70, 80 and 100 bombers and fighters,

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Dover,

Germans Claim 69 Planes

Semi-official Berlin said today’s raids had taken a toll of at least 69 British planes. The new German armadas appeared off the Thames Estuary, over a coastal town and above an inland town of southwest Britain late today. Thousands of citizens took refuge in public shelters in southeast coastal towns as a great air battle raged over the mouth of the Thames Estuary. Up to 5 p.m. (10 a. m. Indianapolis Time) it was une officially estimated that between 400 and 500 German planes had heen sighted over Britain and the British coast, Unofficial estimates of German losses indicated the figure would be over 30 with well over 20 already accounted for. There wag a possibility that for the first time German long-range artillery mounted on the French coast was firing across the Channel, presumably in the Dover area. Although London and Berlin authorities said they had no knowledge or confirmation of the shelling re« ports, observers at a British Channel port reported what appeared to be shell explosions and said shell fragments had been picked up. Reflecting the increasing tempo of the aerial combat both London and Berlin offered frequent reports on the bate In Berlin, an almost running account of the air ware fare was being made public including announcements shat squadrons of bombers “are now on their way to England.” The atmosphere of the German capital was one of ten sion and there were repeated suggestions that even bigger (developments were to come. No hint was given of what (these developments might be.

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No Reports Issued on Damage

In London, the Air Ministry departed from custom to issue an early communique on the progress of the fighting, It de¥eribed the German assaults as “mass attacks” and said that “hour after hour Spitfire and Hurricane pilots roared into the sky and waged relentless war against the Nazi airmen.” There were no reports on the amount of damage in flicted by the attacks but it was scarcely to be doubted that the tons of bombs were having their effect and substantial numbers of civilian casualties were anticipated. The attacks were concentrated especially in the Dover region and along the south coast, But it was plain that the British were not taking an entirely defensive position. Night bombing attacks on Ger man objectives continued and Berlin revealed that a day light raid was made this morning by British bombers on the

Aalborg Airdrome in Denmark, which has been attacked

‘repeatedly by British airmen. Berlin said 16 British planes

were shot down in the attack. Authoritative British sources indicated belief that the German air attack still was in its opening phase. They sug"

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