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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 141

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Giant Shells Make 100-Foot High

By HARRY HICKINGBOTHAM

United Press Special Correspondent

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This may be the type of Big Bertha used today in the long-range German shelling of a British convoy.

INDIANA TRADE Pil Di ne as BESTSINGE'29 21s Corps Invades Cam

Hoosiers Awake to Find provored Cars and Tanks in Command but It's a ‘Plot’ of Umpires.

imes Special FIELD HEADQUARTERS, 38TH DIVISION, NEAR WYEVILLE,| Wis, Aug. 22.—Surrounded by armored cars and tanks as they slept, Maj. | Gen. Robert H. Tyndall and three-fourths of his staff were “captured” last night by opposing war game forces. { The “capture” ended abruptly the second “Battle of the Swamp”| | between the 38th Division, commanded by Gen. Tyndall, and the Ohio!

Aug. 22. National Guard, commanded by 4 BOYS, 71 THEFTS--

Steel Mills Working at 97% | Of Capacity; Picture Here Bright.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind, —Business in Indiana is since the boom days of 1929. Steel mills are working at 97 per,

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the best! Maj. Gen. Gilson Light. { The first round of the “battle” was won by the 38th division, composed of National Guard units cent of capacitv—the rate was only from Indiana, Kentucky and West 56 per cent last year { Virginia. The Ohio unit had | Farmers are getting higher prices promised revenge.

* their cattle and hogs. : 2g activity is continuing at| There's a Lot of Confusion ‘Mother Wants te Son out i | At the 38th headquarters here, ; Time to Start Soros

rapid clip. i there is still a lot of confusion on | 0 So far as police yet have been

reasons for the ‘capture.” A lot| able to discover, the only proceeds

ure, but these the causes of the * the In-| of good-natured charges were flung | of 71 burglaries admitted by four North Side boys is a piano top-full|

says at the umpires—and there was a of kewpie dolls.

for Buildin an increasingly There are other Hoosier pict are the chief ones, diana Bureau of Business Research, which made the survey.

Contrasts With National Picture

{great deal of rationalizing by officers. But one thing is clear: articularly ron of armored cars flying red| 1 Indiana flags (identification tags of the Tih & com-| “enemy’’), swooped in on the diparativels ionary situation in'yision commanded post in a woods the nation as a whole. {about 6 a. m. after the maneuver Although many of the orders are was 18 hours old. from the Government for Army and| The 38th Division staff officers Navy national defense programs, piled out of pup tents, dashed for railroads and foreign customers are their cars and velled to the serbuying heavily, too. |geants to destroy the operations] In the Calumet regicn of North- maps. But before they could highwestern Indiana, for example, the tail out. the umpire said, “Sorry. glow of the steel m 30 ian fur- {You're prisoners of war. n highligthed effort fiillll A quick consultation between the orders w hich taxed the capa ity of umpires and the corps high com- | each } The Bureau says this!mand, sponsors of the inter-divi-| condition is expected to continue sion problem, brought release -of the | for months to come. four officers who direct the opera-! ? : The meney Hoosier farmers tion under the commanding gen- she said. pocketed from the sharp advances eral. — - in livestock prices offset the losses] in grain and hav prices and help to]

rie Set Up Second C. P. ‘HAYFIELD ‘FIREBUG’ make up for the loss of one-third] They sped from camp and set up| SEARCH IS RENEWED | |

to one-half of the corn crop because | another command post four miles | of the drought. away, tapped telephone wires and | ) sent an urgent call for “help.” The county's “firebug” swarmed | circulation again. Neighbors in the vicinity of the

135 New Homes Here Infantry and artillery New and expanded factories grind- over the countryside in less than | ing out defense materials for the! 25 minutes. | Lafayette Road, at the north edge! Government { to bring, The Hoosiers claim that Gen. | of the City, reported seeing a man| more home bu buying. Light's division didn’t capture them, |Stop his car, get out and set fire | Carpenters’ hammers in Indian- and added that the mechanized to a hayfield. The Sheriff's fire ol apolis were rapping briskly as 135 61st Coast Artillery regiment of | partment was sent to extinguish new homes went up in all sections regulars, who were attached to the the flames. | of the city. 37th division, made the round-up.| A description of the “firebug” The rest of the local picture also, The main body of the Ohio Guards- | Was dispatched to the State and City was bright. Bank postal re- men were “checkmated” until the |police. He is believed to be the

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friends at her home. were won on various trips to amuse- | {ment parks, and police assume the boys committed the crimes to NE dates. But the bovs, who toured the city with {pointed out apartments they had robbed, will sav nothing about the] disposition of the loot. Neither the bovs nor their parents | [seem to realize the seriousness of the crimes, police said. The mother | of one of the bovs asked when he! {would come to trial. “I want him out time for school,”

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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

President 2! Obituaries 19 14 11

Comics Crossword Editorials «ees Fashions Financial Flynn Forum In IndplS..... Inside Indpls. Jane Je rg John

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Hernand Manuel beside

Gen. Alfredo Lamont representative, and Gen. | Police, kept the first vigil man who, after

Questions .. Radio Mrs. Roosevelt Scherrer 3 Serial Story... 2 Side Glances. ciety 10, Spor P'S wn 6. State Deaths

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c2ipts, newspaper vertising, re- armor ‘ed “Red” cars swooped in, the Same one who set fire to a number | tail sales. and livestock receipts | Hoosiers say. (of fields on the East Side in the] showed substantial gains S over July, | It's All a Plot? last several weeks. 1933, although some of them showed | seasonal declines from June, 1940. After the smoke had cleared away | Last was the coal mines’| today the umpires let it be known | Much Ado About bast July since 1920. Electricity pro-| that the capture of Gen. Tyndall duction rose 5 per cent, reflecting {and his staff was a “plot” by the] ! . Increased use of refrigerators and umpire command, who wanted to | Wally S Hair-Do tioning. {see how quickly the situation could! Retail trade declined it usually [be reorganized with the command-| NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P). does in the summer but most kinds ing general and most of his staff | —A hairdresser will leave here of business reported sales well ahead ' gone. tonight by plane for Nassau in of this time last vear. Motor vehicle| Col. Russel B. Moore, G-4 (who | response to a cablegram from the dealers. hardware stores and build- didn’t escape) said he knows “for! Duchess of Windsor, who wants ing material dealers fared the best.|sure” that the armored attackers| a new hair-do for an important i —————— {came across a bridge that was the- | reception tomorrow. Oration blown up. “I can prove The hairdresser, Wavne ForCONGRESS WILL GET | he glowered. | rest, recently set the hair of Lady { Mendl and the titled American 2-CENT LETTER BILL | told the Duchess about it. ForORE. ve YOUTH. 16. FINED $22 | rest will take a permanent wave NEW Y X, Aug. 22 (U dryer and other equipment with | New Congressional bills to ah FOR DRIVING 62 MPH him. up first class postage for the whole! country to 2 cents and to authorize; Because he was arrested for speed- | the printing of paper currency in ing 62 miles-per-hour when he did denominations of less than $1 will!not have a driver's license. a 16- | be introduced soon by Rep. William year-old West Side youth was fined B. Barry (D. N. Y)), it was reported; $22 in Traffic Court today and told | here today. | “you ought to be sent to jail.” | Edwin H. Smith, judge pro tem, | fined the boy for speeding, for reck- | less driving and failure to have a! driver's license. The arresting officer testified he “had to drive 76 to 78 miles-an-hour” to catch the { vouth. The youth told the judge he got his license after his arrest The judge took it away from him, say- | ing, ‘vou 1 don't ‘heed to drive a car. AID TO KNOX SWORN IN WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. P). —J. V. Forrestal. former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt and member of the New York firm Dillon, Read & Co. was sworn in today as Undersecretary of the (Navy,

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Ferguson 14] ‘afternoon at the Spanish cemetery.

[Government engaged

{Crusade

{already [program expansions and Senate re- dent [jection of the proposal to conscript [wealth all aided rising prices.

of whom

expenses should be borne by the Government,

as to give the freedom of his suburban though he had fortified and garrisoned it against a| murder attempt which he had always expected. Arrangements were made to bury Trotsky this questioned by detectives in a room nearby where) (Continued on Page Four)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22,

22.—I1 saw a British convoy

Dover today run the gauntlet of a terrific cannonade of long-range German artillery emplaced on the French coast from Calais to Boulogne, Shells from the German guns screamed across a distance of about 20 miles but so far as was known none of the British ships was struck and the con-

voy, protected by a smoke screen, out of range and sight. The thunder of the German

around on this side of the Channel and we could see the flashes of the German artillery in long rows There was a shattering din each

through the haze. time the guns boomed, apparently of four.

I saw the convoy of 18 ships enter the Straits of Then the German

Dover and proceed eastward.

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in the Straits of

A few

a short

steamed steadily guns shook the Small motor peared and smoke firing in batteries

Water Spouts[TALIA

guns opened up. Four huge spouts of water were thrown up some distance from the ships, between them and the German batteries. followed by terrific explosions. minutes French cliffs followed by three others. interval splashes appeared around the attacked ships. for about 40 minutes the ships pushed on without altering their speed. During the bombardment a German plane, apparently a spotter for the shore batteries, appeared in the clouds over the sunlit Channel, ers protecting the convoy chased it away.

with screen which obscured plowing steadily on, from the French Coast. ally the ships passed from sight, parently unharmed. patrol of the sky but no German bombers appeared.

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ROAR AT DOVER

N ATTACK IN MIDDLE EAST [5 FEARED NEAR

World Powers Continue to Keep Eye on U. S.« British Destroyer Deal; English Aid Pledged Greece.

The splashes were

a flash from the Then after in the water Although this continued

later I saw

British fight-

boats moving at terrific speed apBritish destroyers they made a the attacked ships, Gradubevond Dover, apBritish fighters continued their

"0S. ENTRY IN WAR OPPOSED

K. of C. Also Condemns

Subversive Groups and Salacious Books.

Hatch "Victim' i D.R. CONFERS

The Knights of Columbus closed

their international convention here today with the passage of resolu-

tions opposing United States inter- |

in in the European war and

{concerning He activities of “sub-

versive groups.” The latter resolution also commended the various agencies of the

un-American forces. In another resolution,

ment to the Burke-Wadsworth hill [exempting clergymen and divinity | Tou from conscription A fourth resolution urged definite | ction to enlist the support and co- | operation of civic and fraternal or-

| ganizations in an endeavor to have |

local suthorities prohibit Sie and |

KEWL BOLLS LET Som To, wh

literature. The Knights also reaffirmed their R orally to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence and pledged support of the Bishops’ to emphasize these doc-| trines through a civic education program sponsored by the Commission on American Citizenship under the auspices of. the Catholic | University of America.

The convention recommended !

These dolls were found when they that the supreme council reaffirm | interviewed one of the prisoners’ girl its support of the National Legion State Department of Conservation, Canal,

She said they of Decency in Opposing the appar- | will

ent increase in “partially objec(Continued on Page Four)

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Stopping 'Em Makes ‘Em Ill

MOTORISTS stopped by cvele policemen will have to think up some new excuses if they expect to escape arrest. A 33-year-old woman charged with speeding 33 miles-per-hour and failing to have a driver's license found that out today. “Why were you driving so fast.” the judg. asked her. “I was ill and wanted to get home.” “Did she tell you that.” the judge asked the motorcycle policeman. “Yes,” he answered, “but they all get ill when you stop them.” The judge fined her $5 for speeding and withheld judgment on the other charge.

CANADIAN STOCKS LEAD MARKET RISE

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U, Canadian securities, hMAL by] an indicated mutual defense agreement with United States, led the

stock market up as much as $2 to- all factions of the American bour-| Tenn.) according | President Pravda, address Republican Labor Day dedicating Chickamauga

ay. A more than seasonal increase in

| freight carloadings, reports showing which industry Presidential candidate's declaration| Dam,

completed defense on foreign policy had untied Presi-| tem

many branches of

have

that

SIR OLIVER LODGE DIES

LONDON, Aug. 22 (U. | Press Association announced todav the death of Sir Oliver Lodge. Sir Oliver, 89, was a noted scientist! specializing in electricity, and was

well-known for his work in psychi-| lincome, as provided in a settlement. |

cal research.

P.).—Mexican work- [was selected because | understood that Mrs. Trotsky had said she intended | opposed him in life, filed today before the diminutive | [to remove the body for rebirial elsewhere within two body of Leon Trotsky, one time Russian war lord, as |years. [it lay in state at an undertaking establishment. Lazaro Cardenas ordered that funeral | to the United States, {as an exile from Tzarist Russia during the World War, Every effort had been made to save Trotsky's life, Chief of [and he had fought against death as he had fought | of the | his enemies before, during and after the Bolshevik

had bitterly |

ez, Nunez, the body

his personal |

having been a revolutionist for 43 revolution in Russia. of his 60 vears, died at the Green Cross Emergency |after a trusted associate known as Robert Hospital last night of wounds inflicted with a sawed | but who identified himself to police as Jacques Mooff alpenstock by a mystery man whom he so trusted nard van den Dreschd, a Belgian born in Tehran, villa even | Persia, had pierced his brain with an alpenstock. As Trotsky died, Derschd and a glamorous blond

| friend, Miss Sylv

This cemetery

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in exposing

the dele|gates approved a proposed amend-

| bh A | Virgil M. Simmons

SIMMONS TO RESIGN HIS POLITICAL POST

Hatch Act Forces Decision

By Conservation Head.

Virgil M

Simmons,

Democr atic | because |

resign soon as {Fourth District Chairman lof provisions of the Hatch Act, it] | was learned authoritatively today The Hatch Act bans from active participation in politics any employee whose salary (part, directly or indirectly, Federal funds. The Department receives [propriations regularly. Party leaders, after [conferences with legal

is paid from

| Mr. resignation was reached by a { terpretation of the Hatch Act.” | State Chairman Fred F. Bays said | Mr. Simmons probably could retain | both positions under the letter of | the law with liberal interpretations | “but we aren't taking any chances.’ Party leaders, during their conference on the Hatch Act's effects {on organization work, said “one or two” other state officials may also ( have to relinquish their posts. They declined to disclose which officials might be afTected.

Simmons’

‘SOVIET SAYS WILLKIE F. D. R. TO DELIVER ‘HAS ‘BOURGEOIS’ VIEW ADDRESS LABOR DAY

MOSCOW. Aug. 22 (U. P.) — Wen-| dell L. Willkie's Elwood “showed the unanimous attitude of

| geoisie toward the war, to the Komsomolskaya said that the

Roosevelt's hands in aiding! Great Britain. SUES FOR SETTLEMENT HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22 (U. P) — Mitzie Havnes, asked damages of about $3500 today from her divorced husband, Dave Gould, a Hollywood dance director. She charged that Mr. Gould had failed to pay her 10 per cent of his

Trotsky, Revolutionary, War Lord and Foe of Stalin, Dies of Assassin's Attack

it is on dry soil and it was

It was reported that the body would be brought

where Trotsky spent some time

He had lived for about 27 hours Jackson,

ia Ageloff of Brooklyn, were being |

head of the|in Trinidad, close to

state |

Conservation |

Federal ap- “Blanket Weather’ Expected |

prolonged advisers, | |said the decision that will result in |

“Nery conservative in-|

»| tonight and tomorrow,

political |

speech |

| cording tn present plans,

Broadway show girl, |

By UNITED PRESS Germany's “super-big berthas,” mounted from Calais to Boulogne, bombarded a British convoy in the Straits of Dover for the first time today, shaking the earth on the ‘English side of the Channel and sending water spouting as

ON SHIP DEAL == as 100 feet.

The 20-mile-away bombardment was apparently unsuce Also Scheduled to Select cessful, all 18 of the British vessels in the conv oy escaping U. S. Members of Canada without damage. Defense Board. The capitals of the world powers, meanwhile, were still WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. P). busily discussing the reported deal by which the United States will get British naval bases in the Western Hemie sphere in return for as many, perhaps, as 100 American destroyers.

tions.

Roosevelt Returns to Washington | All the conferees declined to dis- | President Roosevelt retumed to Washington today te {cuss the meeting “for the time be-

ling.” ‘handle the negotiations personally and early this afternoon

Those who conferred with the | President were Acting Secretary of | | State Sumner Welles, Secretary of |

he was in conference with his defense chiefs. Varni immi nsive i vi i aig oni nig in Mi Warnings of an imminent offensi . in the vital Middle ‘of Navy Frank Knox and Attorney | Kast sector were being sounded. Italy, it was reported, may, General Robert H. Jackson. | : 3 . s . ‘strike against Egypt, Aden, Greece—all three—~in a move

| The President also was scheduled |today to name the military strate- | ” ~ . " . hips eT to sever the Suez Canal life-line to India and Britain's easte

gists who will sit on a joint defense | | board with an equal number of] | Canadian representatives, planning | €IN empire,

land mapping military blueprints | ohi Tavs ~.in-chi oo IE ior eprint Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, commander-in-chief of the itish forces based on Egypt, warned that:

[lease of air and naval bases in British—and perhaps Dutch and . . French—possessions along the At-| “Encouraging News Any Day Now” bint Be seaboard from Newfoundland | : : ; South America was presumed to| He added cryptically to newspapermen that they “might be top on the list of Presidential receive an encouraging piece of news any day now.’ 1581 SS, London advised that only details In Rome it was believed that attacks upon Egypt and (remained to be worked out for 99-| Aden, the British fortress controlling the southern entrance The suggestion was not

year leases of bases to the United | States in British possessions. Bases tO the Red Sea, are in preparation. the Panama , . hi i Ee ie, PRnainR ignored that some move against Greece, object of a bitter head of the North Atlantic shipping [talian press campaign, might be made at the same time to g (Continued on Page Three) T the British position in the eastern Mediterranean.

A British spokesman in Athens said today that the

SHOWERS PREDICTED reer rg te sé sunt WITH MERCURY DIP

The drive on Aden presumably would be launched from [taly’s new won positions in British Somaliland as well as ees closer bases in Eritrea. The Italian high command reported a series of attacks by Italian planes and submarines on British naval vessels, presumably in the Mediterranean.

To Stay Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

5 T0a.m. ....% 11 a. m, 4 .. 65 12 (nobn) ..

Thousands See Bombardment

: The command claimed that one submarine had sunk a +». 68 1pm..." [British submarine and that another Italian underseas vessel Showers will drip on Indianapolis had torpedoed a British destroyer. Italian planes were said [to have attacked a flotilla comprising two 10,000-ton cruisers Temperatures today were about po . “ : : seven degrees below normal and it's and four 5000-ton cruisers. Two of the cruisers were said going to be even “colder” tomorrow, to have been hit bv bombs. the Weather Bureau's forecast said. | I ~ : Indianapolis slept under blankets | The spectacular Channel bombardment today was wite again last night. The mercury nessed by thousands on the Dover cliffs. The long-range | dipped to a low of 58 at 5 a. m. : | today. [Ol a was topped off by an attack a few miles furthe« r up the coast by 12 German dive-hombers, two of which ‘were immediately brought down by the British defenders. The German channel guns shelled the convoy as it was (proceeding up the coast from Dover towards Deal. They roared away with salvoes of four shells a minute, with the interval diminishing to 30 seconds as the bombardment in creased in intensity. British warships raced around the convoy,

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. —Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. today announced that Roosevelt will deliver an Chattanooga, Tenn., on |

at laying a part of the TVA power sys(Continued on Page Three) Speculation arose as, to the pos- | sibility the President might discuss the New Deal power program, It will be his first formal address, acsince he

Today's War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

Today's attack on a Channel convoy by German artillery mounted along the French Coast must be considered an experimental maneuver of doubtful expediency. It follows recent reports of fragments of German artillery shells being found in a British east coast town with no traceable damage. The Channel is too wide to allow control of its waters or the [British Coast by guns firing from France and Belgium | Accuracy has never been attained | for long range artillery, The mar- | may be taken as the possible limit gin of possible misses is too great to of usefulness for such artillery, [permit reliance [Thus, for continuous efforts to bate updn the firing [ter an objective, reserve guns become in a serious en- essential which are difficult to ine leounter. As the | stall. hnhumber ot It is especially complicated to die rounds fired in- rect coastai guns at distant ships |creases, the im- 'ping. The British convoys, by keep= probability of the ing close to the British Coast while target being hit | passing through the narrow Dover increases. The | Strait, would be approximately 20 shells take miles away from the German bate erratic courses | teres. and cannot be Added to the normal inaccuracy controlled. a” of the bombarding shells, the" | Too, the life of Mr. artillerymen would be unable to ia large caliber maneuver their guns in keeping with (gun is short. The extreme velocity | the zigzag course which convoyed laffects the inner lining of the rifle | vessels pursue under attack. {and in some cases repair becomes | It would be impossible for Gere. ‘necessary after 25 rounds have been many to cut the Channel in two by |discharged. One hundred rolinds | (Continued on Page Three)

was renominated.

WHO'S AHEAD, FDR OR WILLKIE?

Now that Wilkie has made his acceptance speech, is his stock higher or lower? the Gallup Poil's second state - by - state report on Roosevelt vs. Willkie will appear exclusively in The Times

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