Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1940 — Page 1
FINAL HOME
a —
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow, —
PRICE
THREE CENTS
VOLUME
Claude Wickard of Indiana Named S ir
BRITISH TROOPS QUIT SOMALILAND
I k With Canada
LONDON CLAIMS Blix AIR VICTORY AS RAIDS LET UP
U. S. Warns R.A. I Berlin Says
Matter Indianapolis, Ind.
Yhtered ar Second. Class at Postoffice,
ecretary of Agriculture
52—NUMBER 138 MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1940
F.D.R. Calls for Quick Action on Defense Lin Sa
CITY TO SPEND MORE, BUT CUTS RATE 2 CENTS
Revenue Gain, Bigger Balances and Higher Valuation Make It Possible,
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM The Civil City will ask the City Council tonight for authority to spend more money, next year but to cut the tax rate 2 cents, There's no magic combination of a higher budget and taxes. Tt is posible because fifth the budget will by miscel- | dog Aver at
» ”
¥ »
N
WILLKIE WAITS F.D. R REPLY | 10 CHALLENGE
Unless 2 Meet in Debate, Hoosier Plans to Open Campaign in Kansas.
RUSHVILLE, Aug. 19 (U. P.)).—Wendell Willkie mspect his Indiana
oes to Cabinet Hands Across the Border
Safety of Liner Up to Nazisy Are ‘Successful,
Ind..
L.
Raids Turin Industrial Attack BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P.)=The War Office tonight announced that British forces have evacuated British
Somaliland, The evacuation was accomplished with the aid of British naval forces,
five
} 1 4 while he awaits
ix
challenge
farms wil 1) a repli velt
two
ant Roose that the ididates
from wid
nis involved in this Presid
debat e
§ LO
Mr. Wickard Carroll
Lu he Issues
3 pL QUITS = FOR CAMPAIGN
a-8en
a
MLE . hs,
ential
face-to-face 1 lower ol anticipated
(license fees,
roughly be financed
of the A He Roosevelt
offere
camj
anne
Aim. uheed revenue - tax and balances left the end of this vear These balances and the estimated miscellaneous revenues for next year are higher than this year Quite a few of the City depart. ments \re asking more monev--a total Of $135.000. Most of this is canceled bv the fact that the sinkfing fund requitements next year {Will be $100.000 less than this vear Too. more money will be received for each l-cent of the tax rate ik cause of the higher proper valuation in the city
Total Tops 8 Millions
Getting down to figures, the oe] Proposes 10 spend | total of a little more than $8.000.000 $8.062474 to be exact) which $32.000 more than it was allowed this year Of the total, almost $6.500,000 would be raised by property taxes and the remainder from balances and miscellaneous revenue The proposed tax rate for next vear is $1.26. This year's $1.28 rate was 2 cents under the 1939 rate, A $50,000 increase for the Police Department is largelv for increased personnel. The Chief proposes to add 10 mew patrolmen and hire 18 more civilian ‘emplovees. Ten ol the civilians would do the clerical work now being done hy an equal number patrolmen, thus freeing "the latter for police work and give Ol ing the Chief the equivalent of 20 more policemen
laneous By UNITED PRISS
Germany relaxed the pace of her air war today as Great Britain claimed the higgest victory of the aerial blitzkrieg, asserting that 140 of the 600 planes which attacked yestere day
y ate) a ol
cepting nomina formal Brmpalign int nt i Mackenzie King of Canada (center), whose momentous con. joint Canadian-United Ntatex defense board,
in memory
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister W. 1. ference vesterday led to an agreement to create a permanent are shown with Secretary of War Henry LL. Stimson during memorial services near Lisbon, N. Y,
NEW ALLIANCE STRESSES UNITY.
Was
Four Americans on Join Board May Be Named By Thursday.
PARK, N. Y,, Aug. 19 (U : P.) President Roosevelt today prevent any invasion of the Americas called on the State, War and Navy Departments for quick action to im. plement the United States mutual Sip defense agreement with ‘Canada and set Thursday as a deadline for SON called it a
[such action The Italian high command said today that Italian forces departmental heads at Washington to the entire British defense posie Mr. Roosevelt made clear that he tion in British Somaliisnd. The Rome communique declared
wants immediate action on estab . , ' » lishment of & permanent Canadian. that the English second line of defense in front of Berbera, had heen
United States joint board of de. fence of North America i . Amounting virtually to a defense Countering this, A alliance with Canada the new declared that British olanes had agresment served notice upon ag gressor nations of the world that airdrome at Addis Ababa, sCorme the United States never will permit ie % $b a mets 24 ars and starting a gasoline fire, [conquest of its North American gal 8 . i . {neighbor The R. A. F. algo was active on the continent, bombing | es. | Milan, Turin and Cuneo in Ttaly's industrial triangle and
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 WU. [an aluminum works in Germany the border from P) ~The Nenat ropri N © Nenate Appropriations Switzerland.
“i)}
o vil me once Resignation Effective Sept. high paign 5: Hoosier Raised From Undersecretary.
Campaign ware 19
mbar
Coffeyville
had heen shot down,
There was no German reply to this contention, except a terse High Command communique which said the attacking had achieved “great the raids and
[a new “telling blows”
{aught OY In SChooL
his his firs sposch made W
deliver Plans for the
Yost
i sn —
ELWODD SAFE; | Food Rushed fo TIE IN STATE 0.22”, S10
PR N. C, Aug. 19
“Trucks laden with food State Claims Record for
DR, left here today Northampton County, whare Handling Traffic on Willkie Day.
ord floods in the Roanoke valley brought a food shortage thousands of refugees From 4000 to 5000 were less in an area stretching from { Emporia, Va, to Williamston, N State Police officials believe a na« O.. where the flood was not ox tional traffic record was set in In- pected to reach its height before diana Saturday, late in the week The greatest motor cavalcade in Many of the refugee: were Indiana history sent probably 100.000: rescued by U. 8S. « Guard automobiles over state highways to hear Wendell Willkie at Elwood And not a single serious accident among these motorists was recorded But when the rush was over, the usual number of state traffic deaths
hoats, bv volunteers and bv emers started to appear. The week-end
gency trains which plowed through water almost up to their fireboxes tollyaxterday and in other parts the Saturday-sstood at
FAIR AND WARMER, ED eee BUT NOT SO TORRID
N. Mount R|t., was killed instantly ; when the car driven by her husband Rains Help Gardens (and Citizens’ Disposition.)
Henry, and another driven by Jacob Kirst, Philadelphia, collided on =a LOCAL TEMPERATURES 80 10 a. Mm,
bridge on Road 40 near Richmond Mr, Davis and Mr. and Mrs, | | Cline, also of Indianapolis, | . 62 IT a.m 64 12 (noon) 88 1pm
EN A. ee
eran Rep If » [forces successes” In
mn mil
with Joseph House Na
this
Ney TAN Marin OM d ih licen Republican
Some time
UP) were delivered,
nomis-
WASHINGTON President nated ture Claude R tO rucceead Secret lace campaign whose esignation fe hours earls With Mr. Wickard the President also se ination format
3 Nh { ueceaa
Aug
Roosevelt
ional week Nv.
rman Willkie tion in Min ad then spend two New York befor campaign at Coffeyvhe will and
16day \ with
Meanwhile the United States’ were growing more strained from Washington that the Nazis would be held strictly ace | countable for any harm that might befall the U, 8S. Army t trangport American Legion, now en route through the North
Atlantic with 897 American war refugees aboard. Almost simultaneously this [States was cementing what amounted to a {with Canada, another step in President Roosevelt's plan to
elationg Germany formal notification
will leave fo NnesoHth ‘or Maine an
Ol
Vaca SEE
AgriculIndiana | A. Wal-| mate a
Undersec: Ol Wickard of ary Henn running he accepted
with the UU and for reo. River
to
three ARVs
Kansas swing his
Northwest aown
SY warlier
's nomination, is to the SenPaul H. ApassRtant ro Mr. Wickship
has a farm
res of farm primarily
men an
ni Of
the United defense alliance
with action,
t Ie 10M he non homeTowa,
ary, tos
OD
Wiilkie
ate plebhy ol the secret he undersecretary Wickard is 47 and Camden, Ind. Which be managing as soon as was from Pura: University 1933, he became the corn-hog Adjustment was named in February,
in t HYDE
Mh
neal
8011 He 1M
COWS
milk- he pitch. neve
sPused. however, to pose : defense area hy
Ander«
All of England today was declared a John Anderson, the minister of home security.
“precautionary measure,’
on he
ract
said
nL ors Ol n R hay he uated K sh 1 ay efore he became August Presi al non ¢ sistant chief After { tour wil Ao return of Miss Man stration Sleath, the farms, where the he and Edith, snd th Phi have rest At 30 Rush C« t Memon
Tonig!
ne 0axt " OO") 0
SW aNOf SOC -
qeultural
He
section
he the | . i In telephone conversations with . ‘ had taken Lafaruk, key
0 nome manage! f ell the 19386.
(nauguration of program stant dn Sion November Underse
the Presi
been me appeal a
ceremony
son Ol In
oeror
0
9 “ R]i
broken, F.'s Middle Fast command hombed the Italian military
hane
8 nd di ol State capital of Somaliland, ybhablv will 5 ; Nh the I.
Kies ™ Deal's
Nr. W New goceplan DH 1 delops 2 od Ne nw Republican speech Mi
his
Pension Requirements Up 23, of 1226 A note from Derov J. Keach, Safety Board president to the Council explains that more men are needed for accident prevention work QC Wrpiue on Page Three)
PAYS TO SEE SHOW,
listen to eniv El ad
ye Harold
nis roaa Je She ACh, a radio Inter ready had tvles Bri deliver to Mr. Ick 1 hope
make «
DOLE oo direct hits on four
He
senator
Wan ne al H Hampshire rebuttal
ONS the departs to begin active came the Vice Presidency The tone of Mr. Roosevelt's lettel ying Mr, Wallace's resighation the immediate nomination of Indianian to succeed him indicated the Administration attaches
Tokes : 1A Sept
ment ment
S adres Of paigning fo to the
Bi’ ac . P | passengers in his car, were injured | serfously, as were Mr. and Mrs. Krist
Other victims were
ana
an
doesn’t ii ACT'OSS
pe of
Tokes
me of wual
a
(Continued Page Five)
KNUDSEN. ARNOLD INSPECT ALLISON
{
on
res the ha
ovel
Two high ona pict POI ana m a
company
> blue. AL RY recent received De ana Ar
aefense prints engineering For the months, All William 8, Kn fense Commission Maj. Gen, Hemy Corps ‘chief They amv Washington inspection and companies recy
MY
SPE the LON seeona NON National chairman H. Arnold
wasen,
by sirplane from transeontinents ow centers worked jerstood
SE and
comma Mtl the entire They were exe.
104 /Y
is completed
to leave 1
ea
STOCK TICKERS DEAD: WAR DOMINATES
D
A
namnNaPolis
NEw YORK
10NS
{ oday dwinlevels in movea IIreR-
Aug. 19 ANSEL [STOCKS | Aled tO around the 22 Vers ularly mn Brokers said ti } turday was constructive market still was dominated by considerations Most important news was & slight rise in steel operations 87 cent pacity, compared with 82.2 per & Vear agd, Corn and wheat actionally lower Chicago
aenrest
and Prices ]& Narrow speech } but that the War nt te pel ol o¢
sold
a]al
ON INSIDE PAGES TIMES FEATURES
Mrs. Ferguson BD ue “> Peg Py le “ Quastions Radio | Mrs. Roosevelt Scherrer \ 3 Serial Storm ide Glances RDCIeNY POLLS . 10,
tate Deaths.
BOOKS van Comics NY Srossword ditorials
of <TD «F ~A 0
18)
pd
oo A
N Inside Indpis S Jane Jordan. . JORNSON ver vs
MOVIES veneene
[oR Pt
! ¢ vote
primary importance where Republicans made siderable gains in sfonal elections Indiang, lkewih state of Republican Nominee Wendell 1.. Willkie Mr. Walls denation was cepted just 10 days before he livers an address at Des Continued on Page Five)
ICKES TO ANSWER
e, is the
ACES Tey
to the farm belt cone the 1938 Congres-
RO-
de-
home Presidential
Moines, panion who didn’t
' break down a
WILLKIE ON RADIO
Cabinet Member on NBC Chain at 7:30 Tonight,
WASHING Interio tonight nist
TON, Aug. 19 A Secretary Harold gives the Aanswar to of Wendel] 1 Republican Party's He will (Indianapolis Time) Broadeasting Cd
Toekes Admi
copy
ation’'s the
ance speech Rie, tha dential candidate 30 3 National work Sena ton outspoken Term for has not since the
2 ARMY MEN KTLLED BRAINERD. Minn. Aug. 19 PO) Two Towa Army maneuvers were Killed mobile accident here vesterday Davenport, were Cant Thomason, and Second Lieut 1. Moss,
YM ]
Ickes was one of agqvocates of a President Roosevelt discussed politics Chicago convention.
in an
The men,
ERNIE PYLE
yy BN
L
coum
{ trad
{
i Nes
TO0aYy
They start
PAGE SEVEN
(
P 1
al
speak | ovey
Roosevelt Wills Pres.
net. Net
the most
Third
He
U
GOES TO | S$ BROWN COUNTY
vublicly
men here for antonine miles north of both from Howard Kam Virgil
ation,
nd
D a
~ <
AN
| pressed their
|
THEN ROBS THEATER
re
Che admission fee Manager Carl Nrosse collected from a pairon at the Vogue Theater last night was ttle compensation for his subsequent conduct When the show was over it seems the patron didn't leave, After the theater was closed he went tO & rear door and opened it for a come see the show, Both men then used a crowbar to “burglar-proof” door They pulled up & 912 office rug and placed it over the front of & wall safe to deaden the noise thev made when they Knocked off the combination and battersd down an inner door They broke apen a box and took $1300, plus evervthing else the safe contained, including pas pers that were of value only to Mn Niegse
or
Srong
SIDNEY FAULKNER, 38 injured fatally when his car struck an iron beam at the side of a bridge near Hartford City PAUL BERNARD BRINER, Muncie, killed when his car skide ded off the road and plowed into a tree near Alexandria | DONALD BARL VEST, 25 An. |! derson, killed when his automobile sideswiped a (ruck northeast of Alexandria JACK SMITH, 75, Muncie, who died in & hospital after he was strack by a ear while afoot at a Junction near Muncie MRS. RUSSEL WRIGHT, 41, Kingman, Ariz, killed in & heads on crash of two cars east of Richmond ASMUS KARSTERSEN. 56, was Killed innstantly when struck hy an automobdbile driven by Harold Peterson of Chicaga on Road 8, 10 mites northivest of Valparaiso
22
inches
{then again from 6 DP. m
[sequence was on July
helped
The weather in Indianapolis night and tomorrow will be fai will be “somewhat” warmer tom row, of weeks which was broken by terday's two downpours Yesterdays rainfall totalea It rained steadily for hours from 11 &. m. to 1 p. m. ¢ Pm It that fall on July an inch
time this measurable
was the first there was a was 01 any
there rain of 15
the late
31 when The last
Farm experts said dens and pasture and meadow had been helped by the rain that the drought, one of est, in history, had already most corn bevond the stage
Motordom Mourns Alger Boy---Chrysler; Headed Firm Depression Couldn't Stop seed 2 Terms as state
GREAT NECK, N. Y. (U, PO). ~The automobile industiv mourned one of its Alger heroes today Walter P. Chrysler who gave up a successful career in another fleld to become one of its “Dig three.’ Mr board
Aug. 19
Chrysler, 85, chairman of the of the Chivsler Co. and builder of one of New three tallest skyscrapers, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his estate here yesterday evening. He been ill for two vears Funeral services will be held at 1 a. m. Wednesday at St. Bare tholomew's Church New York and he will NE
in
Expressions of sorrow arrived at | {the estate from the leaders of his | | industry and of PF, Kettering vice president of Gene |
business. Charles eral Motors; William 8. Knudsen, president of ‘General Motors; W. P, Brown of the Briggs Manufacturing Co, Harlow H. Curtice, president of the Buick division of ‘General Motors, were among the many who exregret at his passing. Mr. Chrysler's genius for mass pro-
duction methods enabled him to to the top enter the Ty after it had been!
York City's |
had
be buried at Tarrytown,
| store as delivery
in what $5000 into debt to buy his first auto-
the son of a railroad engines ginning at 10, he or making mone) He rands, sold milk and eggs, calling cards, and school vears, worked bov. time he
I'an
for month. By the ished high school more than 100 Mr, Chrysler's wiping grease and
had sa
first real
Re
to It Oi*=
but nothing like the torrid spell x
OK.
159]
three |
and |
Of
con-
AT nd but
the long ar
“" JAMES BINGHAM, 79,
fed
Be
showed aptitude
el.
printed during his high in the general $10 a he had fin
ved
job was carrying tools in
the Union Pacific Railroad shops at
Wamego, where he earned cents an hour, He was interested in tools and motors, made them go.
seven intensely and He w
ent
| mobile, and took it completely apart
and put it together before
his first vide in it.
Walter P. Chrysler . went $5000 into debt to buy his first automobile,
pioneerad by others and rise quickly He was born in Wamego, Kas, |
: ,
‘Colorado &
His gency
“break” came in an em One dav a locomotive pul
into the shop with a cracked ¢
inder head, and the superintend of ‘motive power, Mr. Chrysler's work, asked him
His effort earned him tion to general foreman of Southern shops,
(Continued on Page Five)
taking
arled vie ent
who had watched
i
| he could fix it in two hours. He did a promo-
the at
until 6:30 orders month board
rams- ‘and The last measurable rain was ‘membership early next week,
[Board will
Committee today approved unanimously a S5008,169.27% supple mental national defense appropriation bill te finance construc. tion of a twovocean Navy and equipment of a mechanized land Army.
Under Mr. Roosevelt's spedd-up it appeared that the four oi American members of ‘the| will be named hy Thursday may meet with
five
White House Secretaty DD. Hasvelt said that the meat both in Canada and States and at various
Acting William
the U cities
Mi
nited
Roosevelt's orders were iss (Continued on Page Three)
ed
LAWYER, DIES HERE
Attorney General,
James Bingham, former general of Indiana and a here for many years, died He was 7. He had been about four vears Mr, Bingham was born in Fountain County, Indiana He was county school superintendent and then served as prosecutor. During the gas boom days, he practiced law at Mwunefe until 1908, when he was elected for the first of two terms as attorney general, under Governor J. Frank Hanly and Thomas R Marshall, He was successful in obtaining an injunction against insurance coms» panies establishing rating bureaus He also was credited with pure food legislation He was a member of Presbyterian Church and lumbia Club Mr, Bingham was the father of Remster A. Bingham, former judge advocate of the American Legion, with whom he had been associated mn the practice of law until health forced his retirement. The only other survivor is a brother, George F, Bingham,
attorney lawyer today ill for
the Second the Co~
the Canadian]
{responsible for the
Italy said the bombings while the only
“ho victims were reported”
ag a result of
confirmation of the attack on
(Continued on Page Three)
— Today's War Moves
emotional interest bombardment
Although [on Garmany's all between the raids over
of
Any analysis of the effect of consideration British offensive hlitzkrieging German dominantly daviight | fighting in the attractive to the GGe'mans since the start of the war. One principal reason is (the British bal[loon defense which cannot be widely distine guished in the dark and a potent danger to aircraft flving blind As the British fhvented the tank. the only new weapon evolved in the last war, so thev have ores ated the balloon defense, the only novel instrument of the present conflict, The Germans did not ves alize the possibilittes of the tank until late in the World War, just as they now are behind in balloon de~ fense British countersattacks are thu able to operate more advantageous lv at night than are the Germans, while at the same time the British
are
The attacks are ald:
has not
pre Night
all been
1
0
Mr. Mason
have developed a specialized abil | ity in the technigue of blind fiving. |
British pilots all must undergo an intensive course in the “Link train or,” which reproduces an airplane fixed in a room, The pilot has a hood aver his head while the stationary machine 80 manipulated as to give svery effect of real flving
18
This training 18 primarily successes the Yn
a chart,
throughout
Britain and Germany and German-occupied areas the pow
The least deviation | from the pilot's course is traced on|
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
concentrated interest is divided attacks ovep
the world i Britain, military the British counte and Ttaly an
fAict erman
must take inty Both sides
o-
cn
(
present or as well as have been gaining
ults
Britith aviators in their night A comparison done to British
ASsA of the damage and German obe fpctives must he speculative, for though the British authorities ale low American correspondents to visis areas, the Germans do not, offensive has three prime To annihilate the shemy's strength. ta destroy come bases and factories, and 1 oivilian morale
hombed An all dhiectives aviation batant depress There is ha reason to believe eivher belligerent can overwhelm the other's air power in the present phase of aperations In the long Yun the consequences factory destruction must be 0 the disadvantage of Germany bes cauge Great Britain can draw upon Canadian productivity and can puts chase factory output from the United States where there is a cone stant increase of available material for British use As for morale, the air war has nos vet been long enough or sufficiently intensive to have any serious effect upon either Germany or Great Britain. Ttalv may be the first 10 show this consequence because of tha higher emotionalism of the Italian people Tt would seem, therefora, that as long as Great Britain can give Gers many blow far blow, Hitler's Xe pectation of destroying British ree [sistance from the air will have to ba
revised German casualties are too high for Hitler to allow them to continue indefinitely at the present Yate, Germany must hold back a large [reserve in case of trouble with Ruse
sia or in the Balkans.
ol