Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1940 — Page 1
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By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer ELWOOD, Ind. Aug. 17.-—-Edith Willkie shvly one of the biggest ordeals of her life this afternoon. She was to hear her husband accept the nomination as the Presi-
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AIT HOOSIERS ‘STAND ON ISSUES
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EDWIN C. HEINKE
Times Staff Writer ELWOOD, Ind.,, Aug. 17.—~Wendell Willkie came back ‘home to Elwood this afternoon to face more than a quarter of a million people and to reveal his stand on the major issues of the 1940 political campaign. Under a blazing sun, he was to speak first this afternoon
By PAUL T. SMITH United Presa Staff Correspondent
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 17
NORWOOD, N. Y., Aug. 17 (U. | gential nominee of the Republican Party. And from the moment she
¥ 9 Fe ; J 7 * a! o wr Attack, But Warns Isles ‘Full Fury P.) President Roosevelt arrived !stepped off the train this afternoon, she bade goodby to any privacy amid the First Army todav to view | she might have until November—and perhaps longer. z : he once Wendell Willkie arose early today to
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By UNITED PRESS i ; cio: ‘p . . (peace-time history and confer on| (to sit before the curious and in- he was born and accept the biggest Sritain’ shifted from the air to the Sed hemispheric defense with the Cana- | lquiring eyes of a quarter of a million job of his colorful Ter
{dian war leader, W. L. MacKenzie : people. At 10:36 a. m., he boarded a spe- | Willkie was courting her
{cial train and traveled to Elwood to Lavish Spending Results in, She spent her last day of seclusion |
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The Battle for todav. di . : : . : \ : King. German bombing raids on England came to a virtual “mr. Roosevelt had atready an-
halt. In the 12 hours since dawn today, not one Nazi plane nounced that conversations are in k had bee ted | progress with Canada on hemisphere attack had been reported. |defense and negotiations are pro-
But on the seas, Adolf Hitler proclaimed a complete ceding with Great Britain for
“Billie” Remembers folk tell an estimated 200,000 Republicans who and the world that he will accept j the nomination as the Presidential candidate of the Republican Party.| In his pocket as he went was] his acceptance speech in which he
She smiled to those Elwood she caught glimpses of-—folk knew her as “Billie” when Wendel
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blockade of the British Isles and in formal notes to neutyg]) Yotean Sieh sphere 06 jsnses| governments said that “every neutral ship approaching the 3ritish coast subjects itself to danger of destruction.” The British scoffed at the! —
German announcement and SHOWERS POSSIBLE suggested it might forecast a shift of plans away from] SOMETIME TONIGHT the air blitzkrieg. Nazis Blame Bad Weather | FE Tz London announced that the At- Temperature to Be About hgh Same; Elwood Dry.
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against aggression from overseas. Mr. King will board Mr. Roose-
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N. Y, after the President has in-
spected the war games of the First]
Army in progress there. In Mr. Roosevelt's private ear, the President and Mr. King will have dinner together and spend the evening talking. The Prime Minister will spend the night aboard
| Mr. Roosevelt's train and return to Co. at 2508 E. Washington St.
Canada tomorrow when Mr. Roosevelt leaves for Hyde Park, N. Y. The President left his special train shortly after 11 a. m. (In-
tells his stand on the major issues confronting the nation. | He came here Thursday night q | from Colorado Springs, Colo, where he had spent five weeks vacationing, campaigning and preparing his address. He came to this, the home town of his wife, to rest for one day | of the and the .quiet Hoosiers here gave him the privacy he had sought,
He Gets His Quiet
To the home town folk he was | It was twilight in Rushville. The | just another citizen who had come nominee for President of the Re-| back to visit his fiiends and inspect publican Party was standing on a his five Rush County farms. When | he drove to the business district to
‘Kentucky today of the bandit who
: | vesterday at her mother's home in Arrest of Suspect in Rushville. Her girlhood friends : came calling. She greeted them all, East Side Holdup. calling them by their first names, { To Rushville she was an old frien Kindness to a hitchhiker and 1av- home for a one-day visit and when ish spending led to the arrest in she strolled through the streets the lcitizens just stopped to pass the time of day ,with her | Thursday morning robbed the East| Today that was a thing ‘End Branch of the Fletcher Trust | past. Gone, too was yesterday's | episode,
ng ad se And with his arrest it was re- Suppet’s Ready vealed that the loot was not only|
$3000, but $12,812. When caught he
from the steps of the high school he once attended. Then he was to go to Callaway Park to deliver his acceptance
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It was a strange Elwood that Mr. Willkie saw as he stepped off the train. Bands were blaring, the streets were [jammed, official cars were racing up and down, hawkers ‘barking their wares, the ‘whole downtown area a mass
| of color—and his own likeness stare (ing at him whichever way he | turned % Today probably will go down as
The Big Day
1:30 P. M.—Willkie train for high school, 2 P. M.—Ceremonies on high school steps, : P. M.—Willkie
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Well-informed Berlin quarters said that German planes last night laid
mines in the Irish Sea, Channel and North Channel
St. George's It was
dianapolis Time) for a whirlwing had what he didn't spend in the inspection of the 91,000 regular and Same satchel in which he carried it National Guard troops massed near out of the bank, authorities said. | the source of the 8&t. Lawrence! After abandoning the stolen car { River. War games by divisions have |in which he had made his getaway just been completed and the troops|from the bank near Loogootee, he
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corner a block away from home debating with hls old friends Bdith Willkie walked forward
{buy cigarettes and newspapers and (when he strolled through the barri-
“Come oh, Wendell,” she called, caded streets near the Wilk home |
“Suppers ready.”
they stopped to chat——and he liked it
claimed that three large steamers {will go into two-sided mock Army struck mines in the Irish Sea off
hood ak Ho ai tle Monday. la KE 7 ay : | There is little possibility of rain Pat the Isle of Man today, that two of! *M Pa ) | The Presidential party was met them sank and that the other de- in Elwood this afternoon. by Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, comveloped a heavy list. : | Scattered thundershowers are pre- jnander of the First Army and diPreceding today's slackening of gjcted for Indiana generally, but! rector of the maneuvers, air activity, Hitler's High Command!
warned that Britain—despite a 'he time was fixea as tonight. More Canada May Be Asked
week of blistering aerial attacks—| were forecast for tomorrow, has not yet felt the full fury of the As for Indianapolis, well, “possi- To Join Defense Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U. P.) —
German Air Force, {bly thundershowers tonight and toflights Bureau would predict for a city Authoritative sources said today that
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Berlin said “bad visibility over the morrow” was the best the Weather| Channel” blocked bombing ces today, but London claimed the thats really been crying for rain Canada may be invited to assume slackening off was due to the heavy and heat relief. [full partnership with the 21 Amertoll of German pilots and planes; As for heat relief, the Weather-| (Cottinued on Page Three) taken during the last week and the Moat oh _ of Shon like, ! =, heavy blows of R. A. F. bombers at| NOt much change in temperature.” Nazi airports, oil depots and n-' RI BR Ga FRENCH 10 DISARM dustries. | ] ; The British announced their] SURP SED, SAYS ! BOAT AT MARTINIQUE bombets hag shies ab Hew hee! MURDER SUSPECT| wasuinoron, Aue 17 (uv. po, rm ‘at fenne the Zeiss orks Bt HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17 (U. py] Frenth sourées . reported today Nenu. the Messerschinitt factory at|—Benny (Bugsie) Siegel, who had | that Te and Great pritaih Avgsberg and Aircraft stores at tut a fancy figure in Hollywood 187€ Ti > Oikorm he He Holledz. |night life, said today that his ar- BE param carl) which has The British Mediterranean feet/rest on a murder charge involving Dee, eld at any Beah islahe units. including battleships and|New York's Murder, Ine, “was allo Bre Fy tis} b ig (Contintied on Page Three) la surprise.” jade since France capitulate 0 New York authorities described Germany. | Siegel, who was found yesterday in! 1he British had feared that the the attic of his 35-room rhansion, | Bearn, which put in at Ft, de France as “one of the six most dangerous With a cargo of 100 American and criminals in the nation” He and|SOme French planes, might fall into two others were charged WEP | Getthan hands. | murder in the gang slaving last’ are Thanksgiving Eve of Harry Green-| WYOMING GAINS 9 PER CENT berg, alias Harry Schacter, a mem-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (U, P.) — ber of the Louis (Liepke) Buchalter: The population of Wyoming inmob in New York. {ereased 21.198 or 9.4 per cent, from 1225565 to 246,763 in the past decade, the census bureau said today.
EX-AIDE OF PERSHING DEAD WHEELING, W. Va. Aug. 17 U, P.).—J. Sumner Jones, 39, brigadiergeneral reserve, who served as. QUITO, Eguador, Aug. 17 (U, P.). assistant adjutant general on the —Arroyo del Rio was proclaimed staff of Gen. John J. Pershing President-elect of Ecuador today during the World War, died at his after Congress completed its final home “here following a week's ill- analysis of last January's election iness. § | returns,
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ey w together, They walked home tog : With his wife and her mother, |
Mrs. Cora Wilk, he sat in the porch | [swing and under the trees of the [back vard of the Wilk home to meet | old friends and new, Together they had a lunch of fried chicken and
[stole another and headed toward his old Kentucky home in Owensboro.
{ Bn route, he picked up a wien TRADING SLOWS UP ‘hiker and talked. In Owensboro, [the hitchhiker talked—to police. | A lot of people ih Owensboro re- | FOR WILLKIE PEECH cherry pie and last night a dinner. membered James Arnold Boarman, | Capt. Joseph Patterson, publisher |22, who now lives hete. Citizens and UE of a Daly ae [police learned he'd traded in an p ; : H 8 old car and deposited $600 for a new I'IICES Firm, Some ave y {one and had bought $200 worth of | Small Net Gai WILLKIE IS TROUBLE | clothes. mall Net Gains. | ; Authorities there already had a NEW YORK. Aug. 17 (U. P) | FOR ILLINOIS ELWOOD tip from Indiana State Police to be | : os on the lookout fer a car like the one | Trading in stocks dwindled today| JOLIET, Ill, Aug. 17 (U. P), -_— he traded in. Sith, the A Sn las the financial district awaited Blanche fLinenarger, posimsisiress, a rail led to Frankfort, | Flite iat | Blwood, Ill, repor y 8 Ky i306 breil 1 | Wendell L. Wilikie's acceptance ceived 120 pieces of mail addressed | | Boarman was caught as he speech at Elwood, Ind. [to Wendell L. Willkie and his wife | | stepped from his hotel this morn<| Prices were firm and some lead- and postcards requesting hotel ac- | |ing to his new car parked outside. jo jssues had small net gains after (commodations for the “Willkie I He is charged with being a fugi- : = ; |acceptance ceremonies. {tive. FBI agents here said he will [2D irregular opening. The market | Elwood, Ill, is a village south of| {be taken to Lexington and arraigned | ignored the German blockade here, more than 200 miles northwest ‘before a U. 8. Commissioner on a against Britain and favorable busi- [of Elwood, Ind, where Mr. Willkie bank robbery charge before being |hess news. Corn and wheat prices today accepts the Republican Presireturned here. {at Chicago were fractionally higher. !dential nomination.
' . / k 4 $ | It's Wakeup Time---at 3 o'Clock in Morning By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM combing out their hair. All manTimes Staff Writer ner of washrags were being wrung ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 17.—They out. were waking up along the roads The favorite breakfast seemed this morning. In cornfields. On to be just plain Hoosier fried the highway shoulders. At road- chicken. There were a lot of | side tables. sandwiches. Yawning. Stretching. The hamburger stands were combing their hair. starting to do a rushing busi=gaily, ness, And then on to Elwood. And amid all this early-morning That was the scene along bustle there were those who slept countless highways leading here on peacefully by the side of busy this morning. What time they roads and inside noisy Callaway | pulled aside to .sleep nobody park. knows. But starting at 3 in the Just not accustomed to early morning, they were getling up. rising.
Every roadside table between here and Indianapolis was filled, People were eating their break‘fasts. At 4 in the morning! It was the same inside Elwood In Callaway Park they slept on benches, on newspapers, in autos | and on the ground without aid of newspapers or anything else. At 7 o'clock this morning, Callaway Park looked like mid-after-noon at the ordinary County Fair, At giant circular pools, men stood washing themselves, throwing the water over them with great swoops. Their wives were dipping their combs in the water,
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high school for park, 2:30 P. M.—~Introduction of State G. 0. P. candidates. 3 P. M.—Willkie arrives at speakers’ stand; invocation by Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus, Indiana University; “God Bless America,” sung by John Charles Thomas, 3:15 P., M.—Joseph W, Martin Jr., Massachusetts, chairman of the G. 0. P. National Committee, introduced by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Indiana; Martin delivers formal notification, 3:30 P. M.-3:45 P. M.—-Will-kie starts acceptance speech. The ceremony will be coniuded with singing of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Columbia, Mutual and National Broadcasting systems will broadcast Willkie's acceptance speech; CBS and MBS will broadcast the high school ceremonies,
WHEAT IS LOWER IN CHICAGO OPENING
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (U. PJ). Wheat opened fractionally lower on
the Chicago Board of Trade today but dealings were quiet. Other grains were about steady. Wheat started off !s to 2% cent, September 68's cents. Corn was off 13 to up 's cent, oats off 5 to up Soy beans were unchanged to % cent lower.
EAGLES RAP 5TH COLUMNS CHICAGO, Aug, 17 (U, P.).—=The Fraternal Order of Eagles pledged today its more than 600,000 members in a campaign against “fifth column” activities and other “subi influences in our American e,”
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one of the biggest one-day shows the Republican Party ever has puff on. The size and scope of the event | was almost beyond description,
11,000 Host to 300,000
An Indiana city of 11,000 persons was host to a throng that might conceivably: pass 300,000 persons. | They came from all sections of the
United States. The rich rubbed | shoulders with the poor, city dwell. {er with the farmer. | What had been corn and wheat (fields three weeks ago today was a | gigantic park, capable of accome modating as many as 350,000. Ale | most 1000 policemen were on duty, struggling with the lines of traffic, | The Corn Belt's Tom Sawyer who | made good was coming home to ace fcept the leadership of the Repube {lican Party and to draw the battle {lines for his campaign against | Franklin Roosevelt for the presie | dency of the United States.
Arrives at 12:30
Mr. and Mrs. Willkie left Rushe ville at 10:30 this morning and are rived here at 12:30 to be greeted (by a roar of cheers. At 2 o'clock, |the nominee was to set the stage {with a “little talk” from the high | school and from there the whole show was to move to the park. At 3 p. m. the ceremonies were to get under way. Rep, Joseph W, Martin, new National Chairman, was to “notify” Mr. Willkie¥ of his nome ination and then Indiana's first [native-born Presidential candidate | was to deliver his address. It was to be broadcast by three national networks (NBC, CBS and Mutual). The show actually started yestere day morning as the vanguard of today's crowd started to appear, Hawkers were everywhere. By last night, all Elwood was in a festive mood. A show was given from the plate (Continued on Page Threel
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