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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21, 1940

POWERS WATCHING

U. N.-BRITISH DEAL FOR DESTROYERS

(Continued from Page One)

One plane was shot down.

A fire was started bv one dive-

bomber but it was reported quickly extinguished.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, that German air losses may

the official British figure of 710 since Aug. 8.

British

air minister, reported have been even heavier than He explained

at the number of planes listed as “probable” or “possible”

was more than

equal to the number claimed officially. Athens reported new tension as Italian mobile divisions were said to be ccncentrating on the Greek-Albanian

frontier.

Relaxation of mass air attacks on Britain was inter-

preted in London as the lull

before the storm.

A hint that the sicrm may not be long delayed was seen

in news from Vichy,

France, that Germans again have

sealed the border between occupied and unoccupied France against any travel, whether by rail, motor or foot. Every effort was being made hy the British to harass

German preparations for the big attack.

All German radio

stations went silent at 11 o'clock last night and even the] wireless service of the official German news agency was

suspended.

This was taken to

indicate that long-range

British bombers were again striking deep into Germany.

German newspapers

scoffed at the confident address to

the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Church-| ill and said his references to British offensives in 1941 and | 1942 indicated the extent of present British weakness.

It was revealed in London that the Duke of one of Scotland's richest and most important peers, from office as Lord Steward of the ro

removed

SJuccleuch, was | ral household

Ist May during the drive against fifth columnists.

Hint 50 Destroyers Part of U. S. Deal for British Bases

(Continued from Page One)

be regarded as strategic defense areas by the United States. These include the French islands at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Miquelon and St. Pierre; the French-owned Caribbean Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe; the Dutch island of Aruba, near Curacao, and the Dutch, British and French Guianas on the South American coast, as well as numerous smaller islands. Among the key British Western Hemisphere possessions on which U. S. military authorities would like to establish outposts are Trinidad, Jamaica, Bermuda and Newfoundland. The question of sending destroyers to Britain was discussed pro and con with increasing fervor Th congressional circles and elsewhere William C€. Bullitt, ambassador to France, arrived by airplane early todav after having conferred most of vesterday with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park.

day, Mr. Bullitt urgdd that the United States sell its over-age destroyers to Britain and predicted that Germany would attack United States if it defeated Britain. It was learned that Justice Department attorneys were closely an informal opinion recently published by four prominent lawyers suggesting how transfer of destroyers could be accomplished legally without Congressional authority The plan, in brief, would provide for transfer of the warships to the Army, thence to a private corporation, then to & neutral country, and finally to Canada or Britain. The four attornevs—Charles C. Burlingham, _Thomas D Thacher, George

the |

studying |

Dean Acheson—contended in a letter to the New York Times that this would around any legal prohibitions against direct transfer or sale by the Navy, Congressional opponents of “shortaid to Britain disputed such They maintained that specific action by Congress is clearly necessary before any destrovers can be disposed of. They predicted that any request for such action would result in a prolonged fight in both houses. Some members of usually well informed policy, said that Trinidad, largest British island in the West Indies, would be the first British possession to be leased as a naval base, Navy and War Department officials. thev said, viewed the islands as essential to the defense of the Panama Canal. Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the order of their necessity, also were

Rublee and

get

of -war” interpretations

congress,

on foreign

. ‘mentioned as probable selections. In a speech at Philadelphia Sun- |

Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead told reporters yesterday he believed there was ‘pronounced sentiment in the House and in the country” for obtaining British bases in the Atlantic. There appeared to be little opposition to the plan in either branch ot Congress. The destroysr question met with a totally different response. Isolationists accused Churchill of trying to ‘get the United States into war.” Even some of the most consistent supporters of the Administration's foreign policy urged caution. It was believed that leasing of | British and Canadian property for military bases ld be accomplished without Congressional action.

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fighting plane finds

in hiv Messerschmitt does his dance of victory while the flaming bag No0is G.

glides to earth.

its target—a barrage balloon on

Trotsky Has 1-in-10 Chance, Say Attending Doctors

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guard at the fortified Trotsky villa guards suggested that his plan had

in the Coyoacan suburb where the attack was made. The assailant,

a trusted friend

who had been given the freedom of lout if

the villa, was known as Frank | Jackson, an American, and was said | to have an American wife. But he told Gen. Manuel Munez, police chief, at the hospital, that he was Jacques Mornard van Dreschd, 36, born at Tehran, Persia, of Belgian parents, a newspaper man by profession. He told Gen, Nunez also: "I would give my life blood for Trotsky.” It was reported that Dreschd had disagreed violently with Trotsky in recent weeks on the “Fourth International” which Trotsky had organized to oppose the “Stalinist” Third | International. It was said that son of a Belgian speaks English and as Irench He is tall, is of average black hair and wears He was dressed poorly

diplomat. Russian as well about xix feet build, has short eye glasses.

Blond Woman Arrested

Police said that they were questioning Sylvia Ageloft 30, ®& siriking biond with blue eves, reported to be a native Russian and a naturalized American She refused to talk to newspaper men Hatless, she wore octagonal eve glasses with a smart tailored gray suit, white blouse and coffee colored stockings. It was reported she and Dreschd met in Paris two years ago. They had been seen together frequently here and it was reported that they had visited the United States recently, Ever in long has had

here his

since his arrival 1937 from Norway on of exile, Trotsky himself guarded. Since May 24, when 20 men armed with machine guns burst into the grounds of his villa and fired into his bedroom the guard had been strongly reinforced. Cries Heard From Study afternoon Trotsky He had been busy

autobiography and propagandist at-

was on

Yesterday in his study. a monumental on his merciless tacks on the present Russian regime Elsewhere in the house were Trotsky's wife. their grandson, three bodvguards and Trotsky's secreJoseph Hanson. Late in the heard from the study. The guards land the secretary ran in, led by Robbins, They found Trotsky desperately wounded, lying on the blood-stained carpet. Standing over him, & pistol in his hand and British-made raincoat on his arm was Dreschd. The pistol had not been Dreschd had attacked Trotsky a sort of cut down alpenstock had a head =ix or seven mches long One end of the head was a sharp point, the other was clawed, like a hammer. In a secret nocket of the rain coat was a new dagger, eight to 10 inches long. Dreschd fought with Robbins and did not fire his pistol. | He suffered head wounds and Hanson an injured wrist. “Let him live! Let him Trotsky cried as the man and then he became

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His Hot Fell Of, He's Back in Jail

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 21 (U. P.).—A man hunted for more than two years in various parts the country on charges of swindling was in Federal custody here today because his hat fell off. He was listed as Adrian L. Dudley, a Federal fugitive who es= caped from a U. S. marshal on July 17, 1938 by breaking the glass out of a Pullman coach and leaping to freedom. At the time he was being returned to Penns sylvahia from California to face charges in a $52.000 swindle. Arrested here on an anonymous tip as he was negotiating for purchase of a tourist camp under an

| mlias, he was taken to city jail but

was to be released because no | charge could be found against { him. Just then his hat fell off. A deputy picked it up and found a billfold in the hat band that res vealed his true identity. DIVORCES JOAN SARGENT HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21 (U, P) = Greta Keller, Viennese actress and singer, obtained an interlocutory divorce decree yesterday from John Sargent, Beacon, N. Y, composer and arranger, whom she accused of

deserting her five years ago.

den |

afternoon cries were |

with | It |

unconscious. | He had not recovered consciousness | |

receiver |

with and Way

[been to kill Trotskv quietly the alpenstock or the dagger, fuse the pistol to shoot his he were discovered It was only because ne was completely trusted that he was able to get nis weapons into the villa. Other visitors had been searched since the May attack. At the hospital it was found that the weapon his assailant used had penetrated his skull and pierced his brain, and that he had been {wounded in the shouldsrs and legs.

LEADER OF SECT

~~ HELD IN SLAYING

Dreschd was the | He |

NORTH WINDHAM. Me., Aug (U. PP.) —Authorities guardad against reprisals today as ® reputedly ordained minister of a religious sect faced arraignment on a murder charge as result the latest outbreak of violence involving the sect this summer

| “when we have a blow

| strike a foul blow

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[ple are very

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES A Flaming Nazi Target

U.S. DEFENSE

PLANS BUNGLED. CLAIMS WILLKIE

Issues Charge as He Again

Puts Debate Challenge Up to F. D. R.

| | (Continued from Page One) inspection trip so it would “waste any of his time.”

He issued the following statement:

not

| |

“I think it would be an appropri- |

late thing for Mr. Roosevelt and me to engage in joint debate on de- | fense during one of his visits to de- | fense projects.

“I think I could show conclusively |

that the Administration defense nrogram is hopelessly inadequate, delayed, and improperly organized. “Mr, Roosevelt should tell us how much (armament) is on hand, and how much on order, | “That won't waste any of his time {He probably would be making a [speech anyway, and it would just give me the privilege of making a| speech at the same time and then | each could reply to the other.”

| Will Confer With Hamilton On his arrival in New York tomorrow, Mr. Willkie will confer with (John D. Hamilton, executive rector of the Republican National

(Right) there's one less balloon. The German Committee, and Dwight Green, Tlli-

O. P. gubernatorial nom|inee, At a joint meeting of Rota Kiwanis Clubs here last night Mi Willkie again referred to Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes’ radio

{answer Monday night to his Elwood

[come

Arthur F. Cox, 49, of Philadelphia,

jailed shortly after the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff Dean Pray here late yesterday, protested that he had shot in self-defense In other cells were members of the sect held as material witnesses, Kenneth A. Carr, 23, and Miss Verle Adams Garfein, 18. both of Portland Investigators said that Carr had entered Prayv's garage to play phonograph records ‘which they had been using to win converts to the Pray, who was working beneath a car, them to leave Howard Xeenan, 18, who was with Pray at the time, said that when Pray climbed from beneath the car, Cox drew the revolver from a bag and hegan shooting.

PAPERS GET HEARING ON WAGE-HOUR LAW

21 U, P). Ganey

sect

PHILADELPHIA. Aug Federal Judge J. Cullen today Oct. 2 for what is believed to be the first case in the c¢ounfry on whether newspapers are subject tothe wagenour law Judge Ganey at that time will consider a petition bv the Phila-| delphia regional office of the wagehour division for an order forcing two Easton, Pa., newspapers to pro= duce their books and records for inspection to determine whether they have ‘violated’ the minimum wage standards

KILLED BY TRAIN TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug (U P.)—Pauvl P, Hagan, 19 was killed today when a Chicago & Fastern Railroad train struck him as he was riding a bicycle along the right-of-way. The parents, two sisters and two _brothers survive him

sel tee

two other |

Cox and |

ordered | hock to him,

a hearing on Copley

Mr. that we

acceptance speech. In Indiana, Willkie said, he had learned to strike ourselves, and we don't through stooges Mr. Willkie dictated a statement yesterday renewing his demand for the joint discussions and offering to to places of the President's choice to facilitate the debates immediately after he was informed of the President's reply at Hyde Park

strike it

Repeats His Challenge

“I would suggest thag the President name experts who understand the building of defense works to make inspection trips with regard to such defense works and that the President devote =uch time as he now uses for the purpose to making work by discussing the {issues in which the American peo much interested,’ Mr Willkie saic “Tt is true that Franklin D, Roosevelt President of the United States, It is equally true that he is running for a third term for President of the United States. The democratic process basically rests upon discussion and man who seeks the office of President not alone should be willing but is an obligation to publicly discuss the questions before the American people,

‘I'VE DIVORCED YOU,’ WIFE TELEPHONES

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U.P A Newbold Morris, president of the [City Council, disclosed today that his wife, Mrs. Margaret ‘Copley Thaw Morris, had obtained a divorce Aug. 13 in Sheridan, Wyo., on the ground of mental cruelty Mr. Morris said the decree was that he had known nothing of until he received a letter from his wife telling him of her action, He attempted a tele phone reconciliation last night, he said, and he still hopes that some agreement mav be reached Mrs. Morris, a noted bridge plaver retains custody of the two children peter, 9, and Newbold Ji The Morrises were married in Mi Morris is a descendant of the signers of the Declar It dependence and Mrs. Morris 1s daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Josiah Thaw of Pittsburgh

MRS. GARNER AWAITS ORDER TO HEAD EAST

U.P) wife and

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -Mrs. John N., Garner secretary of the Vice President, has advised his friends here that she is prepared to ‘refurn to Washington at a moment's notice” whenever “the boss’ gives the word The Garners returned to thei Uvalde, Tex... home shortly afte the Democrats mominated President Roosevelt for a third term and selected Henry A. Wallace a: his running mate There was speculation then whether Mr. Garner would return during the re mainder of his Vice Presidential I mam

Partisan Fight Developing

would have to mark their {tial choice on then vote Tor state ticket candidates on the machines, “That procedure would greatly increase the cost of the election by having to buy the paper ballots) in addition to the pense,” declared Marion County Clerk election official here,

paper,

and chief

Presiden- |

machine eX | Charles R. Ettinger, |

On Separate Ballot Issue

(Continued from Page One)

bv virtue of his office. indicated he would follow the ruling Fred C. Gause. the Republican member of the Election Board who originally raised the question of a separate ballot, declined to say what position he Will t ta ake

The Republicans are charging that |

the separate Presidential would be needless, extra expense and are criticizing the Democratic Administration for “putting another burden on the taxpayer.” “But the law specifically provides for a separate Presidential and there's nothing we can do about it,” chorused the Democrats, Yesterday, at the request of Governor Townsend, Aftorney General Samuel D. Jackson ruled that under existing laws the Presidential ballot must be separated from the state | ticket The Governor, who is a | member 0 the State Election Board

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| LONDON, Aug. 21 (U, P.)=No hi restraint has been placed on the movements of the Duke of Buccleuch, 46, who was removed last May as Lord Steward of the Royal household as part of the widespread drive against Fifth Columnists, the home office =aid today. | It was revealed last the Duke, one of Great Britain's richest landowners, hed been removed from the palace post. Dismissal of the Duke on the grounds of his sympathy with Nazi doctrines was accomplished quietly when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister although the Duke's position was not a Cabinet appointment. Buccleuch is a banking associate of Queen Elizabeth's father His sister married the Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George. The Duke, owner of about 480.000 acres, is reputed to receive an income of $1,000,000 a vear from his estates.

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