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VOLUME 52--NUMBER 139

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GIBRBETOWN, N Aug. 20 P) Four workmen were killed day in an explosion which wrecked [a cartridging house at the EB I du {Pont de Nemours Co's Repauno dynamite plant here Six workmen were in ®e one story frame structure at the time but company spokesmen said the two others eseaped Cause of the blast was not immes diately determined Company and Gibbstown threw a heavy guard around the plant and would admit none but firemen who helped the du Pont force keep the resulting fire from a SDreading to buildings where high 12 explosives are stored 1 The Repauno plant is one of the 11; Series which makes up the vast du 13 Pont works here, Last winter two 11] workmen were Killed when a dyna- | 11 mite mixing plant exploded i Hundreds of employees were 12] ordered evacuated as a precau- ..». Sjtionary measure from other build. 14-18 | Ings, 9! The explosion shattered windows ina of nearby homes,

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GIRL DIES OF PARALYSIS PLYMOUTH, Ind, Aug. 20 (U, P) ~—Dorothy Crawford, 14, of Ply mouth, died yesterday from infan. tile paralysig, the second victim of the disease in her WE family Her brother, Hugh, 17, died four days Ago,

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

17 1 Obituaries ... 18 | Pegler 2 Pyle 13 Questions hen 12 Radia ... Forum ..... 12M Roosevelt Gallup Poll +..10 Scherrer .. In Indpis. .... 3 Serial Story . Inside Imdpls 12 Side Glances Jane Jordan .. 8 Society Johnson 42 [Sports .... Movies ....... 7 State Deaths

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ARSHINGTON senator BH Styles replying to Secretary of Harold 1} eke, declared that the New Peal “is Put an American form of Naziisin® and that Mt. “tekes himself a Hitley in short pant My. Tekes, making an Adminisiraton answe to the Willkie accept nee address, characterized Mr». Will as the simple, barefoot Wall P oot lawyel He said Willkie's President Roogevelt may the country to war was conte ible” and that the Re ™ an Party wag a party of pro Nazi appeasemeant Regarding My that Mr. Roozevelt “eoule our the battle of Britain” to de bate with My. Willkie op a commen platform, Senator Bridges declared in a statement through the Repub liean A national committee “Phe keepe: of the White House umbrella rushed to hiz mastery aid

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PLAIN DEALER BACKS WILLKIE CANDIDACY

CLEVELAND, Aug. 2) (© The Cleveland Plain Dealer, brokenly Demoera for 100 years today a front page editorial an ounced support of Republican ean Sn Wendell I, Willkie for Presilent The Pl

BY the Administration to Mr. Willkies speech fekex said that the @¢. O declaration that the President waz “deliberately inet to war” wa ‘eontemptible He deseribed Willkie ax “the rieh man'k Roozevelt: Willkie, the sim le, barefoot Wall Street lawyes

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By EARL RICHERT “LAUDE R. WICKARD startea with a good chance in life and has 4 made the most of it That, briefly, iz the opinion of Hoosier sonally the calm, serious man who haz heen nominated by Roosevelt ag hig new Secretary of Agrieulture He wag born in the palatial home on hit fathers 320-acre farm about four miles east of Camden. Ind, in the heart of some of the fehest farm land in the state Hit grandfather started the farm in Andrew Jackson's time and it

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has been kept in the family ever since, with a few acres and more ims provements being made on it with each new generation The only time spent away from it wag hig four years at Purdue University and the seven vears since he has been in Washington in the * . » . » * I E managed the farm until he wen! to Washington, and he comes His parents, Mr, and Mrs, Jack Wickanrd, still live on the farm and oversee the work on it and he has “stuck to his teachings” Hix father early familiarized him with the problems and duties of more serious than his classmates and that he never stole watermelons, or played “hooky.” tude, He studied hard and stood at the top of his classes in the Cols lege of Agriculjure, Upon and assumed

The farm has been home to Mr, Wickard for his entire life Department of Agriculture, back to it now whenever he ean get away from hig duties Mr, Wickard, an only ehild, was reared to be a farmer, farm management, and friends say that even during boyhood he was When he went to Purdue University, he maintained the same attis tion, he went back to his father's farm

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j HEARING IS oT FOR AUGUST 28

Council to Begin Study on Thursday; Bond Plan Falls Through.

City Couneil will begin its (zerutiny of the eight million i budget request at 8

[dollar m, Piwrsday and has

mn A buble hearing ie es. | The request would require a vate of $1.28 for each $100 of | property in 1941, Council 1azt night fatled prove a bond issue for whieh would have been prove and moaernize [and Police Departments | Republicans at first insisted {the entire amount be placeq in the | Budget “where the folks can see if {yather than be yaized by pond | Issue

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| The vote on the bond issue itself | Wag on party lineg, with the Demo erat lacking enough to eamyy if and the Republicans jacking enough {0 at a The money was new Are station A, Madison Ave the police radio {Du ding of the fre Purchase of Wor ana 18F equipment Council held a public hearing on an ordinance that woud (all places gelling liquor at midnight jon week davk and at 1 am { Sunqay

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PLANE PARITY NEAR, HE SAYS

Puts Britain's War Losses at 92.000 Killed, Wounded And Captured,

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oN Draggists Protest would a fect tL places whien al Deer ax a xigeline and Ale open for othe! Business igen Ning hours Albert ©. Fritz, India hapolis sociation of Retall Druga! tary, protested that any ruling clos Mg drmg storex on Sundaas ent off wpedical supplies on 8 Renneth Weddle, Rivers Civic League attorney, araued the other hand that the proposed ordi-| nanee would eurb illieit liquor sales, | yeduece traffle aceidents due to drunken driving

MERCURY 55 AT 5; | BLANKETS ARE BACK

Little Warmer Tonight; Farmers Want Rain,

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LONDON. Aug. 20 Minister Win today fold today that Great Britain i moving |ever closer to air parity and event Iw al afr superiority despite Germany 'a Mass raids My. Churchill said that eaeh day of air b over Britain's soil-—=now bristling with two million armed de fenders—outs down Germany's ad [vantage He hinted

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that Britain, too, is pre paring surprises and contemplates [taking the offensive in 1941 and 1942 | Specifically, he aszeried that nA bigeer air attacks on Germany are In prospect and that growing British strength enables her te di vert lareer forees the Mediter ranean to'deal with Italy Mr, Churehill's ehief points were 1. A plea to the United States for release of overage destrovers 2. An offer to lease to the United ates on a M.vear bask defense in the Western Hemigphere Refusal relax the British dlackade of Europe and reiec tion of the proposal former President Hoove food be allowed to nations conquered hy 4. An estimate of Rritain's wai losses thus fay at 02.000 killed wounded, missing or taken prisoner meluding civilian casualties I'he road to vietery Prime Minister, "may not be so long AR We expect but to eount upon this, Be it short, rough or amoeoth eh our journev's end he inereased bombing of Gers many assures us of one of the surs| (Continued on Page Three)

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Temperatures remained nearly degrees below normal today-—=ihe weeond full day of relief from a month-long heat wave it Tomorrow they will be somewhat higher but 80 far there 1k ne pros pect of return record Righg i will be fair tonight and tomorrow the Weather Bureau predicted The lowest temperature in last 12 hours was 33 at A today Farmers said that the rain and the cool weather brought great relief to erops to hay and pastures But more rain iz needed and they estimated one-half the eorn one-third the tomate

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" Wi kard ‘No Politician, Farmer er All. His Life

active management He specialized in Hampshire hogs and fed cattle when the eonditions and priess warranted He took an active part in Farm Bureau work and soon was elected

head of the Carrell County Farm Bureau He later taught classes in the Farm Institute of the Purdue Uni

versity Extension Department » » = E was picked, according to friends, for the position of assistant F chief of the corn<hog section of the Agricultural Adjustment Ads ministration in 1933 because he was recognized throughout the Mids west as “one of the best informed men in his field.” Promotion followed promotion in the Department of Agriculture due to his ability, hig friends say He was named ohief of the corn<hog section of the AAA in 1038 and a vear later was named asustant director and within a few months director of the north central division of the soil conservation program He was appointed Undersecretary of Agriculture by the President last February, He is now 47 For as high a political post as he holds little known among Indiana politicians but has never mingled much with

" » » E has been a litelong Democrat H the party leaders, He served one term in the State Senate prior to his Washington appointment, but even while here did not take a great part in the party councils He is not the politician type nor give away cigars “You ean count on ane thing," savas his friend, Hassil BE. 8chenek, president of the Indiana farm bureau, "Mr. Wickard will give the Department of Agriculture a businesslike adminiatration, “He is all business. And he is a real-dirt farmer, . do all right,” ‘

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VER ENGLAND FOR TWO HOURS

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Capital of British Somaliland? A. F. Planes Reported Near Berlin:

Rumanian Negotiations Move Slowly.

Ry UNITED PRERS German bombers made a mass attack on Britain toe day at the very hour that Prime Minister Winston Churche ill was proclaiming to Commons that every day of air combat is bringing Britain closer to eventual superiority over the German air force, Churchill bristled with confidence in Britain's ability to beat back her enemies and in 1941 1942 launch offense sives which would give her victory, He said British aweraft production had zoomed to une dreamed levels and now “has largely exceeded” that of Gere many and he promised increasing air pressure on Germany and Italy, le offered the United States defense bases in the Weste ern Hemisphere, asked for U, 8, over-age destroyers and ree fused to relax the sritish blockade of Europe lest such action prolong “the agony.” of peoples conquered hy Gere many, Battle Rages for Two Hours

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was speaking German bombers—wave wave={lew in over the English Channel for the day's attack in mass formation, For two hours a terrific battle raged as British fighters and British anti-aiveraft batteries engaged the Germans. Some German dive-homberg broke through to attack an alrdrome in inland southeast Britain and others dropped bombs on other southeast objectives, Berlin elaimed attacks were pressed home on air fields lin Kent, including those at Southend and Eastchurch as well ag on unnamed arsenals, I'wo continents, 1neanwhile, watched the progress of the U, Army transport American Legion, homeward bound with 897 war refugess aboard through mine-infested waters, | Unofficial computations indicated the ship would be in “grave danger” until late this afternoon,

German Radio Stations Go Off Air

The tension over the ship ig the outgrowth of a heated controversy between the United States and Germany over the course the American Legion should take on its home« ward vovage, The new waves of German bombers started over as British bombers still were returning from raids which last night and early this morning caused Berlin's fourth ar alarm of the war, German radio stations at Hamburg and Bremen went off the air, suggesting the presence of a British attack on thege major German ports, Berlin's air alarm lasted from 12:45 a, m, to am, It was said by German officials that two British planes penee trated to Tegel, a northern suburb, One plane dropped a flare but neither dropped bombs, the Germans said, Some 40 explosions were heard from the direction of Berlin's far westeri. outskirts, It was believed these were anti=aireralt guns, Other British planes raided the French Channel coast The attack went on all night and The sound of heavy exploe shore and flames of the

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from Calais to Boulogne, still was continuing at daylight, sions was audible from the British

said t® fires started by the bembing were so bright that they sile

houetted French church steeples against the sky. Two separate attacks were made on Boulogne where port (Continued on Page Three)

Today's War Moves

T. MASON Expert

By J. W United Press War Tialy's complete vietory in British Somaliland must be considered a tribute to Mugselini's political acumen, and emphasizes the Italian prine eiple of warfare, which riska attack only when the enemy is numerically inferim he military elements involved are insignificant. The Italiana already in Eritrea could have commanded the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden as [well as the RBritish base of Aden, itself, if they had possessed naval | strength and sufficient alr power in that area | British Somaliland gives no ret. [ter opportunities than Eritrea for |sueh operations {The Italians will ™ unable to influenee the course of mili« tary events any more effectively [in the Gull of [Aden and the | Red fea (han [nelor é: The whole of Italian Fast Africa, n= cluding Somalis land, Eritrea “nd Ethiopia 18 180=

Too, he can inquire why the German (air blitakreig against the British has not been going so well and why Hite [ler has to give his aviators days off (if the German casualty list 1s a8 ine |slgnificant as Berlin's communiques lay Exchange of polite inquiries bee tween the two dictators of this chars {acter are natural when their plans [against Britain at home and Britain [in the Mediterranean are, not going (according to expectation, A military |alllance always moves toward | Nerimination when campaigns bee come precarious But they have shown no cone crete evidence of superiority ovep lated by nearly 1000 miles of Brit-/the British Mediterranean fleet and [sate controlled land and desert from have been hesitant about the the Mediterranean Egyptian campaign Clerman commentators have been| Only a few days ago British ware wondering at Italy's Mediterranean |ships heavily bombarded Bardia, inaction at a time when Ciermany| Italy's coastal port in Libya, which has been trying to bomb Britain|is the key base for an tian into submission, ‘Now, however, offensive. Italian warships did not Mussolini can point to Som d, (Continued on Page Three),

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