Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1940 — Page 1
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Leaving a trail of black smoke in the sky, a British barrage balloon falls in flames as German Messerschmitt speeds away after a success-
ful atack. ing away defense balloons which operations,
During a lull in bombing raids, Nazis concentrated on clear-
have proved effective against dive
Blitz May Be On But Life
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There's No Change in Average Day or Diet of Family in
City’s Crowded
‘Danger Zone.’
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—Some say the blitzkrieg is on.
more than 1.000000 families in this Here is a day in the life of one
If it is, city appear not to be aware of it. of London's middle-class families, a
dav during which hordes of German air raiders were smashing at the
coast of Britain 50 to 60 miles away.
The family includes the wife, 40; two daughters, 15 and 12. The piss) —
home in what auarea of}
is an ordinary thorities “call “the London.” The eldest daughter rubs the gleep oui of her eyes at 7:30 a. m.| rises and folds the blackout curtains fn each room. That is the first reminder that a war is going on. Then she glances at the sky and, perhaps, remarks “balloons up,” infavorable weather for anj
danger
dicating air raid. It's an Old Story
and the remark was a trite one. The family assembles at breakfast table at around 8:30 a. m. The meal is cereal with milk, eggs and bacon or fish, toast, marmalade or homemade jam, tea or coffee. Just what it was before the war. The husband glances at the morning paper headlines and casually gives the family the war yesterday he gleefully announced that “the R. A. ¥. got T8 Jerries. Guess Hitler isn’t going to find it so easy to take this little old fsland.” That perks the family they go on about their business a tittle more jauntily than usual. Streets Are Thronged Husband and son depart for work, the daughters for school, and the
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the husband, 43; a son, 18, and
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940
Entered ax Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,
at Postoffice,
THE WILLKES LAND HERE BY PLANE TONIGHT
Arrival at Airport to Touch Off Week-End of Celebration.
By NOBLE REED Indiana’s favorite son and Mrs. Willkie will set foot on Indianapolis’ Municipal Air-| port sometime tonight. | The United Press, Colorado Springs, ‘plane would land here at 8 p.m. United Airlines at Chi‘cago said 5:55 p. m. Municipal Airport said 6:30 p. m. In| Elwood, Homer Capehart said| “late tonight.”
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THE WILLKIES
Arrive at Municipal Airport sometime tonight, drive directly to Rushville. In Rushville all | day tomorrow. Entrain for El- | wood Saturday morning, arriving at noon, Leave Elwood after | notification ceremonies, return to Rushville for 10-day visit.
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GETS $3000 IN BANK ROBBERY
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‘Menaces 7 While Leisurely Looting Cash Tills of East Side Branch.
A bandit walked leisurely linto the Fletcher Trust Co.'s East End branch about 10 ‘a. m. today, threatened seven people with a revolver and ‘walked out a few minutes
later with an estimated $3000
| (all covered by insurance). | Carrying a satchel, into which he was to empty his booty, the gunman announced as he stepped into the bank at 12506 KE. Washington St.: “This is a stickup so don't let anycne move The three employees and four customers obeyed and the bandit walked in back of the tellers cage. “Open the Drawer Wide” | “Open the drawer and open it | wide so we can get to the big money in the back,” he ordered the branch
manager, Charles F. Bechtold. [ The gunman set his satchel down
Thus will begin a week-end
on a high stool nearby and, still| brandishing his gun with his right] hand, opened the bag with his left
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BRITISH REPORT 57 MORE REICH PLANES DOWNED
At Least 400 Invading Craft Spatter Bombs Over Wide Area; Parachute Scare
Is Termed Hoax.
BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—About 30 Ger- | man planes late today were reported bombing the \ outskirts of London and were being fought off by British fighters and anti-aircraft fire. The air raid alarm signal was sounded in London in early evening. The alarm was sounded shortly after the re- | port was received of the attack by German bombers on objectives on the outskirts of the city.
| BERLIN, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—German airplanes flew over London today and hombed sections six miles outside the metropolitan area on the lower Thames.
By UNITED PRESS Germany's warplanes “filled the skies” over bomb-splat-tered Britain this afternoon. Attacking with fresh fury after an 18-hour lull, the
{are being made to accommodate
in which plain ordinary day coaches, de luxe Pulimans,| airplanes, busses and private] ‘automobiles will pour up-| wards of 250,000 persons into that triangle of Hoosierland pointed by Indianapolis, El-
wood and Rushville,
Hundreds of persons are expected to be at the airport {onight when the air cavaleade bearing Mr. Willkie and his party lands. Hundreds more and perhaps thousands are expected to head for Rushville tomorrow, where Mr. and Mrs. Willkie will stay until Saturday morning. And more than 200,000 will swamp little Blwood Saturday when the Republican standard bearer accepts his nomination. At Elwood plans
as many as 350,000. Fair weather for the notification ceremonies was promised by the Weather Bureau today. The forecaster said that “the way it looks now it should be fair and quite hot at Elwood.” About 60 citizens of Rushville, members of the Willkie #Booster Club, half Republicans and half Democrats, according to announcement, are to meet the Willkies this evening. The party will be driven to the Rushville home of Mrs. Cora Wilk, Mrs. Willkie’s mother. Nothing is on the schedule until tomorrow afternoon when Mr. Willkie may make a 10-to-15-minute
6 MORE PARALYSIS
Mrs. Dorothy Briggs . . « saw her second holdup,
A Saga of Three Smart Girls,
Who Found Law Is a Friend
Patient Police and Lenient Judge Banish Bitterness,
Inspire Hope Instead of Despair.
By HARRY MORRISON Three “tough girls” met kindness today. They lost their hard ex-
and dumped the money into it. He glanced down to the floor at several bills which he had dropped. “Those fives look good to me, I better take them,” he said, He stooped and picked them up.
Turns North on Tacoma
backed out the front door, | «till gesturing with his gun, and stepped into his automobile which was parked near the bank. He was seen to turn north on Tacoma Ave
He
Monday night at a North Side show room It. was the second holdup experi[ence for Mrs. Dorothy Briggs, a teller, who was sitting at a typewriter behind the cage.
She Was a Hostage
| When four bandits invaded th bank in March, 1929, and took $8200,
The license number was obtained | and police said it was a car stolen |
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Nazis pounded hard at the Dover area and Stuka dive ‘bombers slashed at iniand objectives. In little more than five hours, some 400 German planes had been spotted over Britain's soil. London announced officially that 57 Nazi planes had been downed by midafternoon against seven British losses. The British said that 25 more had been damaged so badly they probably would be unable to reach their bases. In addition, 17 others were listed as “‘possibles.” Other developments were: 1. Berlin reported that German planes today flew over | London and drepped bombs along the lower Thames. It marked the first time that Nazi craft had been reported by either side actually to have flown over London proper.
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Italian-Greek Crisis Feared Tension hetween Greece and Italy increased after an unidentified submarine torpedoed and sank the Greek cruiser”
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teriors and stood misty-eyed in Juvenile Court, trying to find wayds to'they took her as hostage, but re- Helle in the harbor of Tinos and sent two torpedoes crash-
express their thanks. What went on. the record was the story of how children go wrong. And why.
It was the story of scant funds, of bitter homes, of more children
Then came the seaech for what the world owed them--a chance to laugh and to play.
First Ride—In Stolen Car
CASES ARE REPORTED
27 Children Now Being Treated at Riley.
Six new cases of infantile paraly-
stolen automobile. “It was the only time I ever rode in an automobile,” she said simply. From that it was just a step to the next thing. That was breaking
One of the girls went riding in a|
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[leased her after an auto ride of several blocks. The other employee in the bank during today's holdup was Thomas
than the families could carve for, of a! D. Moffett, the assistant manager. | lack of understanding, of drinking.| The patrons who were in the bank mons that the danger of invasion has not passed, met the
were Patrick Craig, 26 N. Tacoma Ave.: Jacob Platt, 4002 Broadway. Leslie Jenkins, 3280 N. Drexel Ave, and Mrs. Paul Morris, 23 S. Rural St.
talk at Memorial Park and say hello to his neighbors. Following the Elwood ceremonies | Saturday, the Willkies will return) to Rushville to make their home for at least 10 days and possibly {wo weeks. Although official an(Continued on Page Three)
DU PONT OPENS JOB BUREAU AT PLANT Timer Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Aug. 15. The BE. I. du Pont Co. today set up an employment office at Charles-
town to hire 500 to 600 employees for its new powder factory on which
sis have been reported at various points throughout the state during the last 24 hours, Dr. Thurman B. Rice, acting head of the State Health Boag, said today. Two of the new cases are at South Bend, two in Elkhart County, one in Grant County near Marion and one near Vincennes in Knox County. Four children stricken with the disease were admitted to Riley Hospital for treatment yesterday, bringing to 27 paralysis patients now being treated there, Dr. Rice said there seems to be a slackening in the number of out-
‘ground, Two of the girls ran,
the number of infantile} | with the girls, the police started to|
HNSON into small stores, stealing candy and FOR LOUIS J0
cigarets. Last Friday, police caught them] in the act, They had broken into 1 a filling station at River and Oliver White Aves. Cigarets, candy bars, chew-| ing gum were strewn over the] The third stood as if in a daze as the police arrested her. She was 17. Her companions were arrested later, her 16-year-old sister and another 17-year-old girl
House Job Rejected, Another Is Offered. |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—-| Former Assistant Secretary of War [.ouis Johnson today rejected President Rooseveit's offer of an appointment as special administrative asThey were hard, defiant, tight-|sistant on national defense, He took lipped. [ under advisement an offer of anBut policemen have daughters, other position in the Federal Gov-|
too. After several hours of talking ernment. Mr. Johnson resigned from the]
War Department to make way for Robert P. Patterson, a Republican selected by Secretary of War Henry Stimson,
get the story, piece by piece. “Need Responsibility”
ing into a quay packed with pilgrims celebrating the Festival of the Assumption. 3. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, warning Com-
‘severest Parliamentary squall of his Premiership over his anti-fifth column drive. 4. Reliable British sources said that investigation had proved that parachutes dropped in the midlands and Scotland were part of a German hoax and that no parachute |troops had landed. This announcement came after thousands of British troops and civilians had scoured the countryside and the ringing of church bells, signal that parachutists were
about, had been heard in a northeast village.
The heavy glare of fierce fires could be seen across the English Channel last night and early today, indicating British fliers had paid a visit to German air bases. The fires appeared to be burning some distance back from the French coast in the area studded with German short-range hombing bases, between Calais and LeHavre.
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Passenger Train Machine-Gunned 6. British forces in Somaliland have retreated in the face of a violent Italian attack, British Cairo headquarters reported. Mass German bombing attacks brought one battle after another today over the southeast coastal region.
construction will be started Sept. 1. Meanwhile, the company was distributing checks to owners of land on which the $250,000,000 plant will
Hews (and tomorrow, but even so, there | Will be little change in temperature
fand no relief from the prolonged | torid spell. But sothe sections of Indiana will be treated to showers or thunder[showers tonight or tomorrow. The Weatherman said there should be
west central portions of the state
be built. Highest price paid was $200 fan acre for a plot of river-front | ground.
‘SENATE GROUP VOTES | FOR BRIDGES PROBE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U, P=
some rain in the northwestern and, ype Senate Immigration Committee.
‘by a 6-to-5 vote, today approved
breaks throughout the state, but that there is no reason to believe [they will stop. He said the disease is breaking out throughout the North Central |states, but that Indiana so far seems to have the greatest number of cases. Approximately 50 persons, most lof them children, are suffering from the disease in Indiana. There have been seven known deaths.
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fred Bradshaw. He listened patient- |
him.
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'STOCK PRICES RALLY BUT VOLUME DRAGS
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (U. P.),
WINDSORS LEAVE NASSAU
HAMILTON, LBermuda, Aug. (U. P.)-—-The Duke an
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Stock prices rallied slightly today but trading volume failed to expand. | Opening prices were steady to |
Today it came up to Judge Wil- L.
“These girls would do well in a inet.
His amiability after today's conly as Miss Marcelle Sadlier of the! ference led some to believe the new| 3... he Juvenile Aid outlined the case for job offered to him might be a highly| drove the Germ | important one—perhaps in the Cab-Postmaster-generalship attack objectives behind the coast. will be vacant in September.
The
BULLETIN
(Earlier Story, Page Five)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—The House today voted, 210 to 110, to give President Roosevelt
British anti-aircraft guns raised a curtain of fire that an planes high in the air. Some of these 'planes, dive bombers, roared down at screaming speed to Observers estimated that German air squadrons lost almost 20 planes in one fierce dogfight some distance inland from the coast. A big raid was made on a northeast coast town. There la German plane machine-gunned a passenger train and it ‘was reported that three persons were killed. In another ‘town two children were kille by a German plane, which
tonight and in the west and north|legislation which would call upon | a free hand in using the National
wife takes her market basket and goes shopping. I'he streets are thronged as usual with many khaki-clad figures minling with the civilians—another gign of war soldiers werent there they were needed on the She finds e/€1 vihing she wants at (Con 'iutied on Page Three)
it would mean
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tomorrow. During the first half of August there hasn't been enough rain in | Indianapolis to measure. The nor!mal rainfall for the period here is 3.31 inches. : A firebug may be abetting the dry weather in causing grass fires northwest of the city. Sheriff Al Feeney’s deputies, tired after fighting 22 such blazes yester{day, heard several reports that 'youths in an automobile touched off |several blazes northwest of town land then sped away. One spectacular blaze blamed on
16! the firebugs flared near the home] 15 of Walter Silverthorn at Nora on!
| Road 431. The se clouds of
93 smoke hampered efforts of workers]
[to beat out the blaze, | Another fire swept about 50 acres
| Arlington Ave. ened a woods adjoining the grounds ‘of Ladywood School for girls and Brendenwood.
The blaze threat-|
the Attorney General to investigate alleged “subversive” connections of Harry Bridges, C. I. O. maritime leader, and deport him if he were found guilty.
By THOMAS
Times Spe COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug.
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still an appealing mask. It is a great adventure for any
United States—and it is a great adventure for this one who comes | from the ranks of law and business, not politics, the second such in 22 between 46th and 56th Sts. and near |
recent years. The times place upon An afternoon plane trip lands state, where, at Elwood, his birth Saturday with whole world will listen. One who
today from his mountain refuge here to enter a cold, hard world of political reality—a brand new experience for him that will test his | mettle and reveal the manner of man behind what to most people is
is acceptante speech. Not only this country jut the
Windsor left for Nassau today where! firm in quiet dealings. Shortly later the Duke will assume his duties as|small buying orders developed and Governor of the Bahamas. The|gain ranging to $2 were set up in Windsors said they were rested after the leaders. Thereafter prices held their stay in Bermuda. narrowly in sluggish trade,
T. STOKES cial Writer
15 ~Wendell IL.
world.
Willkie emerged America holds a key position
the single most important position
| Guard and Organized Reserves if | necessary to repel any aggressive | | move toward the Western Hemisphere,
Willkie, Coming Home to Reach for His Star of Destiny, Proves Himself Dynamic Figure Who Makes Own Rules
United States in these troubled times draws the attention of the whole
among the nations of the world, a
fateful position because of the threats to the few last strongholds of democracy, and the President of the United States occupies perhaps
in the world.
Saturday will be Wendell Willkie day. He knows it,
He is about to reach for the fickle star of destiny.
man—running for President of the
him great responsibilities, him tonight in Indiana, his home place. he will epen his campaign
host of advisers.
sat then in the Whit aspires to the Presidency of the }
An acceptance address four years ago delivered by a pleasant little . man on the Capitol steps at Topeka, Kas., began to dissolve the myth built up about a Governor of Kansas, Alf M. Landon, and his star went down and down and down as he was pulled and tugged by a
He found himself completely outmatched by the dazzling foe who e House and sits now in the White House, the (Continued on Page Three)
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‘swept down with its guns wide open. It appeared likely that the Germans today sent over more planes per hour for the short period of time in which ‘attacks were made than in any of the other raids this week. There was a steady stream of reports of planes, then anti aircraft fire, then dogfights and dropping German planes.
Vickers Plant Wrecked, Nazis Say
In Berlin, well-informed German quarters predicted that ever-increasing masses of German planes would be flung into the mighty air onslaught against the British Isles. Thus far, it was claimed, Germany has hurled only a small fraction of her available power into the onslaught on the British. Nazi officials discouraged speculation as to when the | zero hour for the long-awaited blitzkrieg against England would strike but it was the general belief of neutral ob|servers in Berlin that it was near.
The official German News Agency D. N. B, said thas (Continuéd on Page Three) %
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