Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1940 — Page 1
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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 142
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FRIDAY, AUGUST
23, 1940
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Hitler Has Taken a Defeat, Mason Contends
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
In warfare when a long proclaimed major offensive suddenly halts with no objective reached, but with claims of great gains and few casualties, something fundamental
must be wrong. A week ago today Hitl
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Britain reached its climax with the emotionally heralded
bombardment of London suburbs.
2 BALLOT LAWS CONFUSE ISSUE
Senatorial Candidates Must Be Listed With President, One Statute Says.
By NOBLE REED
Indiana's ballot separation dispute was complicated still further today. by the “disclosure that one State election law prescribes that the names of U. S. Senatorial candidates be on the same ballot with candidates for President and Vice President. Another, law provides names of the Senatorial candidates be on the same ballot with State ticket candidates Because of that conflict, Fred C. Gause, Republican member of the State Election Board, today said he still contends that Presidential and State ticket candidates should be on one ballot.
James Urges Recodification He maintained this position in the face of the ruling of Attorney General Samuel D. Jackson earlier in the week that the names of Presidential candidates should be on a
that the |
The climax, however,
New Delco-Remy Fouridry Planned
A new aluminum foundry will be built in Anderson by the DelcoRemy Division of the General Motors Corp. It will manufacture aluminum castings for the Allison airplane engines being built by General
Motors at its Allison Engineering |
Co. plant in Speedway City. Construction will start soon and the foundry, with a force of several hundred, will be in operation early next year, O. V. Badgley, general manager of the DelcoRemy Division, said. The foundry will be built west of the division's new Plant 3.
ROB MAIL CAR ON WRONG DAY
Six Bandits Get No Cash; Train Carries $100,000 Once Each Week.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P.).—
has sifice become an anticlimax because the Germans have
not followed through.
The newness of aerial warfare and the necessity for studying temporary results and unexpected obstacles do
not explain adequately the present lull.
Interruption of
a week in following up an alleged defeat of the enemy comes near to confessing that no defeat has been in-
flicted.
If enemy casualties and damage have been three
to four times those of the offensive, why the necessity for studying results before going ahead?
9 DIE AS U.S, BOMBER FALLS
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Plane Explodes Near Denver After Heading Into Storm; Hoosier Is Victim. |
| DENVER, Colo, Aug. 23 (U. P).! —An Army bomber loaded with 15 bombs, headed into a thunderhead, crashed and exploded near the Lowry Field bombing range last night. The two officers and seven enlisted men aboard were Killed. | * The twin-motored Douglas B-18-|A was virtually demolished and the’ bodies of the men were “blown to bits,” the official Army report said. The wreckage was strewn over a [wide area. | The bombs were of a type used in target practice. An officer said they give off a black puff of smoke to show the bomber’s accuracy, and cause very little explosive damage.
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“Can't See You” Plane Radios
The bombers, in charge of Capt. | Wilbur A. Champagne of Denver, and a second bomber started on a “night bombing mission,” Maj. Leo Dawson. a member of the official board of inquiry said. Qapt. Cham-
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{Six bandits, who wanted $100,000, pagne's crew had dropped two of the state peg up the right train in New York the plane's 17 bombs and was head- : a |City early today—but it was the ing back over the range when those Richard T. James, |g, ho dav. lin the second plane saw it go into Secretary coach, a thunderhead.
separate ballot from tickets. Meanwhile,
chief deputy of State, | the mail
The fact that Germany
has been compelled to post-
pone further air blitzkrieg offensives if not actually abandoning them for the season must be regarded as a defeat
for Hitler, not only in the air but also at home.
An ag-
gressive war machine which has proclaimed conquest as its motive must continue its offensives or risk disillusioning
its own civilian support. This fact does not hold
defensively fighting to preserve itself. The necessity for a conqueror to con-
present dilemma.
in the same way for a nation Here is Hitler's
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whose office handles election ma-| chinery, charged that Indiana's election laws were so “jumbled up” that the only solution to the legal] mess is general recodification of | voting acts. “Iteis clear that the 1937 Legis- | lature specifically prescribed that | the Senatorial candidates be on the | same ballot with the Presidential] candidates,” he said. “Then the] 1933 law contradicts that.”
Claims Law*Repealed
Mr. Gause said the fact that the | later law put the Senatorial candi- | dates on the Presidential ballot repeals by implication the provisions
gers,
Three entered handcuffed two mail clerks to the] steel frames supporting the sorting bags, demanded and received the bag of mail consigned to Yonkers,
la suburb. . |
The other three held the conductor, the brakeman, and another railroad employee at bay in the rear |
coach. The engineer and firemen in)
the locomotive and the 30 passen-| including six women, didn't] know of the holdup until the bandits had escaped. Postal Inspector William K. Hal- | liday said the stolen bag contained | mail from Washington, all of a| personal nature. He said there were |
Shells from heavy, German artillery .on the French Coast shown narrowly missing
[N. Y., co-pilot: Sergt. William Mec-
“Can't see you,” the first plane radioed a minute later and then those in the second plane heard the crash, Maj. Dawson said that the crash apparently touched off the gasoline tanks.
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Hoosier Among Victims
Among those killed besides Lieut. Champagne was Sergt. Roy Adkins of Switz City, Ind. Other victims: Second Lieut. Robert P. Schmidtchen, Valley Stream, Long Island.|
Dearman, Lebanon, Tenn.; Sergt. Clarence IL. Hobbs, Denver: Sergt.
one of the 1R vessels in the convoy off Dover yesterday.
COUNCIL RACES 'wHo-0.0.07
OVER BUDGET
Requests Go Untouched as Members Listen, Yawn, Take Notes.
of the 1933 Act which specified that [two large envelopes containing 23 Presidential candidates must be on registered letters, none of them of: separate ballots. ficial documents. The 1937 law also provides that] police at Yonkers said the bandits the changes be made on voting ma-/apparently. had made a mistake. chines as well as paper ballots. But| They chose the right train, it was |
{Claud Hutchison,
Truman Fraser, McCrory, Ark.: Pvt. Denver; Pvt. Charles Kelly, Texarkana, Ark. and Pvt. Weldon Bryson, Deport, Tex.
City Councilmen were over their first budget hurdle today, leaving! [the proposed $8,000,000 expenditure | for next year untouched.
Charles R. Ettinger said separation of Presidential candidates from the rtate ticket cannot be done on machines. The State Election Board will have to straighten these things out at its meeting scheduled for some time next week.
G. 0. P. to Press Fight
Republican leaders indicated they would continue their fight for con-| solidation of the Presidential ballots with State ticket candidates. Their position is that the popularity of G. O. P. Presidential Nominee Wen- | dell L. Willkie will carry their state ticket to victory better if the candidates all are on the same ballot. Democratic leaders are fighting for the separation, on the theory that many Willkie voters would “seratch” their. votes over to the State Democratic ticket if the ballots were separated.
RESTAURATEUR DIES AFTER BEING KNIFED
John Shriver, operator of a res- | taurant at 711 Massachusetts Ave, | died in City Hospital of knife wounds today. ‘ Strengthened temporarily " by a blood transfusion, he gave police | the name of his assailant before he| died. He said a man who worked: for] him came to his room at 827 Park] Ave. and stabbed and robbed him. However, police found $8560 and checks in a billfold inside the pillowcase on the bed in his roo.
NO WAGNER ACTION EXPECTED] WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, (U. P).| —Chairman Elbert D. Thomas of] the Senate labor committee said to-| day the Senate probably will not act| this session on the House-approved | amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act. -
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: “Ni iss » said, but the wrong day. One day on ight Bombing Mission Opening their annual budget | weekly the train carries a “large| The bomber was engaged in a!study last night, the members re- |
amount of money,” said to be $100,- | “night bombing mission,” a practice|viewed appropriations for seven 000, for the payroll of a manufac-| flight simulating wartime condi-| departments. They listened, took | turing concern. Today was not the tions. notes and yawned. day. “The exact cause of the crash is| They return to their task tonight, ll —————————— not known,” the official announce- recess over the week-end and conment stated. [tinue Monday and Tuesday nights. RAIN (VERY LITTLE) “Bushels and bushels of hail- Wednesday night, the public will | [stones were found at the scene,” pe heard. Maj. Jewett said, “and either hail or| With Fred Schmidt of the Build-AIR-CONDITIONS CITY sntnine may have caused the | ing Owners’ Association and Carl} crash. An inquiry has been ordered.” Dortch of the Chamber of Com-| _—_— ———— {merce watchdogging every ilem, the moved calmly and |
Coolness to Remain fo BELIEVE F. D. R. SAVES
review session
rapidly.
Tomorrow, Tao.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
ssi B58 Nac. .... 6 > esi 38 Ma, om. . 12 (noon)
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a. a. | a. i a. | A shower which measured .08 of an inch in town and .01 of an inch at the Airport brought new coolness to Indianapolis early today. This air-conditioned weather will remain tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted. ' Skies tonight and tomorrow will be fair and temperatures a little lower than yesterday when they averaged three degrees bélow normal. $ { |
AUTO PRODUCTION UP; | ‘41 MODELS RUSHED
DETROIT, Aug. 23 (U, P) —Automobile plants increased production this week as assembly lines gained speed on 1941 meoedels, the trade paper Automotive News reported toaay. | Production was estimated at 22.667] cars and trucks compared with 17.-! 884 units last week and 14699 vehicles for the corresponding week
in 1938. Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, composer of the Notre Dame “Vic-| wheat was selling about a cent lower shown Indiana strongly pro-Willkie. |
Plymouth, Studebaker, Packard and Graham are operating on a five-day basis on new model production, the publication said. {
JOB FOR LA GUARDIA
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P).— The World-Telegram tdday said that Mayor F. H. La Guardia will be appointed Secretary of War] within a year if President Roosevelt is elected for a third term.
The 1ewspaper attributed its
story to associates of the Mayor.
It added that Mayor La Guardia's| appointment to the joint board for co-ordinating defenses of the United States and Canada was the first step looking toward his entry into the cabinet. |
12 DIE, 9 HURT IN | RUMANIAN AIR CRASH
BUCHAREST, Aug. 23 (U. P).—| Twelve persons were Killed and,
nine injured today when a plane] carrying Rumanian newspapermen |
{to the Leipzig fair erashed during
a storm in the mountains of Transylvania. The plane carried four crew | members and 17 Rumanian correspondents.
FATHER SHEA BURIED
NOTRE DAME, Ind. Aug. 23 (U. P.).—The ReV. Fr. Michael J. Shea, | tory Song,” s buried today in the Community gregation of Holy Notre Dame
Cross on campus.
| But
| making major cuts, until
Members covered appropriations | for the Mayor, Clerk, Council, Controller, Barrett Law, Plan Commission and Purchasing Agency. In-| creases requested in some of these divisions totaled $27.000. At one point, however, Harmon | A. Campbell, Republican, challenged | the traditional $2500 contingency | fund, set aside for unexpected ex- | penses, | Mr. Campbell wanted to delete the appropriation as unnecessary. | Budget Committee Chairman Albert: O. Deluse argued against the entire budget has been reviewed, “I don't know,” said Mr. Campbell, taking notes, “the public thinks these Council sessions on the budget are a joke. I'm beginning ‘to think so, too.”
HOGS ADVANCE 15C; N. Y. STOCKS STEADY
By UNITED PRESS
The highest price paid at local stockyards today for hogs of ex-|
which is 15 cents more than that!
paid yesterday and highest here tion” of State Chairman Fred Bays|
since last October. At Chicago corn prices were! about the same as yesterday but
at midsession.
trading. War issues rallied best.
| Some stocks at New| metery of the Con- York were more than $2 lower, but company with Mayor Kelly of Chi-| the | the general list steadied in afternoon cago, who. likewise, claimed Hlinois,
Police Seek Identity Of Our Ghost Writer
S nearly as police can figure it out, a couple of juvenile authors have chosen the easy way to break into print, One of them ghost-wrote a note for the Black Hood, Indianapolis’ celebrated twilight character who has been reported observed in various sections of the city during the summer, The note, found by William Oliver at his home, 919 N, Belle Vieu Pl, said: “You are next. The Black Hood.” Inasmuch as the most violent thing the Black Hood has been reported doing was running away, police told Mr, Oliver to relax. The other note was signed “Jo Ann Smith,” and said that she was 11 years old, the daughter of a wealthy South Bend man, and was, as she took pen in hand, the captive of kidnapers. The note, found at 38th and Illinois Sts., also said she would pay $500 to the person finding the note and obtaining her safe release, Police ascertained that no Smith family in South Bend has a daughter named Jo Ann. Police figure they have been black hood-winked again!
DEMOCRATS CLAIM VICTORY JN INDIANA
Bays and Kelly See Flynn In New York.
Times Special
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — The
Democratic National Committee to- have been reflected in the state-|
day claimed Indiana. The announcement, made by Chairman Edward Flynn, did take the precaution of making a quali-
|ceptionally good quality was $7.40, fication. however.
It said that it was the “predic-
that President Roosevelt would
carry Indiana. The Gallup Polls thus far have
Mr. Bays visited Mr. Flynn in
for Roosevelt,
BRITONS HAVE
‘We'll Stick It Out,” Says Dover After Shelling by Big Berthas.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent A PORT IN THE DOVER AREA, ENGLAND, Aug. 23.—"We will stick it out until Adolf shows us some-
TO SEE WORSE’
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
LONDON BOMBED; F. D. R. CONFERS ON SHIP DFAL
One Person Killed in Metropolitan Area ag Theater, Public Hall, Bank and Other Buildings Are Wrecked.
By UNITED PRESS German time bombs, dropped in the war’s first night
raid on London suburbs, exploded today in peaceful resie dential areas on the oytskirts of the great metropolis. The delayed-action missiles were dropped in an attack ‘that centered on three Londen suburbs last night. Tha German raiders, apparently picking a hole in the misty weather which has shielded Britain from large-scale air ‘attack for nearly a week, dropped bombs that blasted a ‘movie theater, a public hall, a bank, a saloon and a number of residences. The attack wa: launched shortly after British and Gere ‘man cannon had duelled across the Straits of Dover in the ‘battle of Britain's first long range artillery battle. | In the United States, the much-discussed destroyer and naval base deal with Great Britain was expected to be ‘taken up by President Roosevelt's Cabinet this afternoon, The President refused to discuss the situation in advance,
The President, however, urged immediate enactment of the pending Conscription Bill. He said it was absolutely, ‘essential to build up an adequate national defense team. > Nazis Open Artillery Battle The cannon engagement was opened up by the Germans. ‘Their guns, mounted ¢n the French coast between Calais and Boulogne, started firing on the Dover cliffs in early evening. Their shells rocked the Dover coast, but were reported to have done no important damage. British guns replied, dropping shells in Calais, according to German reports. British officials first denied that their guns had spoken, then admitted it but failed to make clear whether the guns were fired from fixed coastal emplacements or from monitors ‘along the British channel shore.
‘Worse’ Than Attacks From Air
Dover area residents described the German cannon fire as “worse” than the heavy air attacks made by bombing planes in the region. The night bombing raid on London was a brief affair but for the first time s.nce the beginning of the war persons in the central part ot London heard anti-aircraft guns in action. The German planes were spotted by British searchlight
thing worse.” was the way one man | Crews and driven off within a few minutes. Bombs were here put it today Sle! ihe Siete dropped in the far western suburbs, but none fell within NY ho IAEe artillery bom- |, iles of the fashionable West End residential areas. Damage from today's shelling was confined to civilian property, exclusively, including a church. Another
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Damage Reported to Be Considerable
: Casualties were said to be light although at least one church suffered a direct hit and one | . . : : . d v | corner of its roof was smashed, person was killed. Considerable damage was done to busie 4 Those of us who Inspec the ness property, including stores and shops and many windows amage were amazed that in view | acid . of the fact tat 40 shells struck: the| Were blown in. On bomb damaged a bank A ault. This morning shuddering explosions in the regions
town or exploded over it more houses were not damaged. Casual-| pore the bombs were dropped revealed that the Germans
| ties were only two killed and five
wounded. In general the damage was confined to hroken windows and shrapnel holes in walls, although some small houses were reduced to rubble. I visited a Protestant church and | found the aisle knee deep in frag[ments of stone work. There was a great, gaping hole in the roof and leaded windows had been twisted shattered. Great gashes marred the walls. On the altar heavy brass candlesticks were blown about in confusion. There were holes, like ugly wounds, in a plaster figure of St. |John, standing at the foot of the Cross in a crucifixion group. Bibles, still resting on a little stand, were covered with plaster dust. All the persons with whom 1 talked said they would rather be under fire from aerial bombs than {the shells of long range guns but (the general sentiment appeared to
| ment: | “Adolf will have to show us something worse.”
Regimentation
ROME, Aug. 23 U.P.).—The * | Ministry of Corporations said | today that soon it will decree | a standard type of spaghetti for all Italy, “unifying the various types now on sale.” It was expected that under the decree fewer eggs will be used in spaghetti manufacture,
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500-Mile-an-Hour Plane Approved by Army
OS ANGELES, Aug. 23 (U. P).—The world's fastest 4 pursuit plane and the largest bomber—both potentially terrible engines of destruction—were nearing com-
pletion today,
Both had been approved by. Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
chief of the ‘Army Air Corps, an chairman of the defense comm
interceptor pursuit plahe and the Douglas B-18 bomber were inspected yesterday by Gen. Arnold and Mr. Knudsen
and “unveiled” to newspapermen.
d William S. Knudsen, ission. The Lockheed the fastest
The intercepton was rolled from Lockheed's Burbank plant ready to fly and will be tested “within a few days,” a company official said. Officers expected that the giant bomber would be flying by autumn.
Maj. K. B. Wolfe, chief production engineer for the Air Corps, said the fighter pursuit plane “is withdut doubt We know it will fly 480 miles an hour with two-thirds throttle and hope
military ship in the world.
it will do better than 500.”
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’ Only the highest Air Corps officials and the engineers who built it have an inkling of what to expect when it No othér plane of its size—wing spread of 42 feet and overall length of 38 feet—ever has harnessed
such tremendous power, it was said. Its two Allison liquid-
cooled motors develop an estimated 3200 horsepower. The plane will mount at least one, and perhaps two, rapid-fire cannon, probably 37 milimeter, the biggest the Army has used on a plane. In addition, ite pod-like nose
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'had used a number of delayed action missiles. The action on the British front coincided with indica tions that the Greek crisis may be coming to a head. | Athens had reports that British and Italian naval fleets were maneuvering off the strategic island of Crete, appar‘ently preparing for action in event of an Italian move against Greece, Italian warplanes are reported to have attacked British ‘naval craft. An emergency conference was held by King
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The U.S. Defense Front
By UNITED PRESS ‘
| Momentous problems of American foreign policy involved in pro | posals to transfer old destroyers to Great Britain and lease of naval and air base sites in British Western Hemisphere possessions were expected 'to be taken up this afternoon at President Roosevelt's Cabinet meeting, The President blocked all questions on these subjects at his press con | ference this morning. He told newsmen at the outset that he would |save them work by advising them’ that there was no news so far on the destroyers or the bases. |
: : ; d- | highly controversial issue in Cone The Cabinet meeting was sche gress where isolationists and some
uled for 1 p. m. and among those ;ipers consider such a step to be an present will be four members Khojeex of war Bpaindt Cermany; : , on- | o prevent such a move Congress have held interdepartmental ® recently enacted a law, designed to ferences on thos subjects. bolster a World War statute, fore President Roosevelt noted that the, 4,0 transter of naval vessels |joint Canadian-United States De-| gi), 00¢ Congressional assent. fense Board would hold its first ses-| "1 to oct was aroused by reports sion Monday. He named the United | from London that Great Britain States members, including Mayor F.|ceemed to be anticipating greater H. La Guardia of New York, last| American aid. A daily Mail editorial night. | today=said that it “believes we are Ordinarily reliable sources have|ahout to receive further very sube indicated that decisions, at least on stantial and valuable material aid | principle, have been reached on the from President Roosevelt” and that |
destroyer and base problems. [it will be “a very nasty shock to It was reported that Attorney| Hitler.” | General Robert H. Jackson has pre-| Members’ of the joint Canadian pared an important ruling on the and United States defense board, in legality of the destroyer transaction cluding Mayor F. H. La Guardia of and that it might be submitted to! New York, will meet in Ottawa Mone the Cahinet meeting this afternoon. day to discuss North American de Seldom has there been Such terge seers.y on information about Gov- ther defense developments: e! .aent policy as that surrounding] FIRE BRIGADE AUTHORIZED destroyer and naval base p .| —=The Senate takes time out from The destroyer proposition, reported|its 11th day of debate on the Cone to be receiving editorial] scription Bill to approve and send
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