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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1940
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‘LITTLE WAR’ RUMORED IN BALKANS
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WILLKIE - BANS COUGHLIN HELP
IF PREJUDICED’
Editorial in Social Justice Brings Statement; Flies Here Today.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—Republican Presidential!
nominee Wendell L. Willkie]
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gaid today that he did ot)
want the support of the Rev.| Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit| radio priest, if he understood correctly that Fr. Coughlin] opposed certain people be-|
cause of their race.
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HOUSE AWAITS
TAXBILL AIDING §
WEAKER FIRMS
Rate Schedules Increased,
Minimum Exemptions Are Raised by Committee. WASHINGTON, Aug.
ore
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| (U. P.).—An excess profits] :
‘tax bill with provisions de-| 'signed to protect small and weak corporations awaited only formal drafting today before being introduced in
(the House. The House Ways
ithe measure late yesterday after
and Means [Committee agreed unanimously on gs
Aliens Register
DOUBLE THREAT;
- §% EGYPT IN PERIL
‘Hungary and Russia Reported Involved: Nazis Hope for Peace There, Bomb Rich British Midlands.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor
Rumors of Rumanian clashes on both the Hungarian and Russian frontiers today jarred the uneasy peace of the Balkans as Italy threatened war on Egypt, British
RUMANIA FACES
lincreasing the rate schedule and [raising the minimum exemptions. Instead of a single schedule {carrying rates from 25 to 40 per
Mr. Willkie's declaration followed | 8 press conference question regard- | ing his reaction to an editorial! in|
planes bombed 27 airports in German-occupied territory and Nazi planes slashed sporadically at England.
Fr. Coughlin’s newspaper, Justice.” “I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's] race or religion or who is in sup-| port of any foreign economic or political philosophy in this coun try,” Mr. Willkie declared.
‘Won't Compromise Beliefs’
The Republican nominee was asked whether Fr. Coughlin fell within this description of persons whose support Mr, Willkie did not want. He replied that he understood that Fr. Coughlin opposed certain persons because of their race and declared that if this understanding is correct, “then I'm not only not interested in his support but Idon't want it, and that goes not only for him but for anybody else.” { “I don’t have to be President of | the United States, but I do have to, keep my beliefs clear in order to live with myself,” Mr. Willkie continued. “I'm not enough interested in being President to compromise my fundamental beliefs.” (In Detroit, Fr. Coughlin reply-| ing to Mr. Willkie's statement, said he had not made up his mind over whom to support “and maybe I'll]
“ prefer to keep silent.” |
(He said his own opinions should} be distinguished from those in editorials of “Social Justice,” and added: “I'm not against any race, Y'm against all those independent of their race who refrain from con-
‘Sounded Needed Call’
The Social Justice editorial of] yesterday, on which Mr. Willkie commented, said that his Elwood, | Ind. acceptance speech “sounded a much-needed call to American Na-|
“Social |
EARNER
DEAR MOMMY : I am very tired but I just want to tell you that I like it very
much here in America. We may leave the lights on whenever we want, and we don’t even need to have a gas mask ever. I miss you very much and hope you are fine and
safe. Love,
JOY.
The above might have been the letter 6-year old Joy Warren wrote from Canton, 0. to her mother in England. Joy is one of 84 British child refugees who have been taken into Ohio homes.
Refugee Ship Nearing U. S.
YOUNG MOTHER FIGHTS FOR LIFE
Removed From Iron Lung For Caesarian, but Infant Dies Soon After.
birth.
prematurely at Riley Hospital last | night and died at 4:30 a. m, ap-| parently also the victim of paralysis. | Mrs. Cook's condition remains
Met by American Warships
' American Legion Passengers Crowd Rails to Cheer Escort
After Long Hours of Peril.
By FRANK MUTO United Press Staff Correspondent
ABOARD U. S. S. AMERICAN LEGION, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—The U.| Doctors today were battling to S. Army transport American Legion, carrying 870 refugees from warsave the life of 18-year-old Mrs.|torn Europe, was picked up by two American escort destroyers last Ruby Cook, a victim of acute in-| {fantile paralysis, who lost her first-|
night 550 miles frem New York.
. a rao The ship had been lod from Petsamo by two Finnish patrol ships demning Naziism and Communism.”) |, * baby today after a Caesarian| through heavy Russian minefields up to the North Cape, then was
journey home. Hundreds lined the rails and cheered as the two American destrovers steamed into sight. Life boat drills were held con-
critical, physicians said. S 1 : : | Mrs. Cook was brought to the |stantly aboard ship, sometimes sevpotent 0 inspire hope and con hospital Thursday and placed in = eral drills being held on the same
tionalism, under a leadership com-
with rates from 20 to 50 per cent. | The new schedule of rates, allow-|
ing each corporation to choose the how it’s done... cheapest of two methods of com- |
|putation, follows:
Amount of Excess Profits Average Earnings Method
25%
Invested Capital Method
First $20,000 ....... 20%,
Next $30,000 ...... 25 30 Next $50,000 ........ 30 Next $150,000 ...... 35 40 Next $150,000 45 All over $500,000 ... 45 50
A minimum credit against the excess profits tax of 6 per cent return tal was increased to 7 per cent. There were other, less important, | last-minute changes, but these two] provide a “substantial” increase in the anticipated revenue.
1940 corporation income instead of $165,000,000. , Chairman Robert L. Doughton of
who said he “couldn't be happier over anything” than that his group has agreed unanimously on so comIplicated and important a subject as excess profits taxes, expects to be able to introduce the bill today.
May Pass Thursday
If the draft is completed in time, the House can begin consideration—
fand possibly pass the bill — on
|escorted by British warships through mines studding the coasts of the] 4 ! The infant, a boy, was delivered [Shetland Islands and the Hebrides before the long trans-Atlantic Thursday, Rep. Doughton thought.
In its present form the bill covers
SENATE SPEEDS
three fields: 1. Suspension of the «profits limitations imposed on airplane: and warship manufacturers under Gov-
on the first $500,000 of invested capi- |
the Ways and Means Committee,!
Robert Smith, temporary clerk, submits his fingers to illustrate . Archie Kimble, Government employee, expects to
do this 4000 times. |
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AT POSTOFFCE
‘Answer Queries Frankly, Clerks Say as Local Activity Starts.
The first of, 4000 aliens in Marion County registered at the Postoffice |
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Experts today under the Alien Registration! have not submitted official figures, Act. | but it was estimated unofficially that
Thirty-five were waiting in line
noon a total of 50 had appeared. The battery of clerks said there] was no hesitancy on the part of the non-citizens to furnish full information and to be fingerprinted. Postmaster Adolph {said practice blanks issued a week ago lowered confusion to a minimum, The registfation is averag(ing 30 minutes per person. Refusal to register or failure t answer the questions truthfully carries a fine of $1000 and a six
months’ prison term,
Mr. Seidensticker, who is in| charge of the program here, said| {that he expected all aliens in this |area to be registered before the Dec. 26 deadline, All information given py the laliens will be regarded as confiden-
cent, the committee decided on two, | Wild reports flew from one Balkan capital to the next
of clashes and incidents centering around Rumania but
there was little official confirmation.
One report held that Rumanian and Russian forces clashed in the Bukovina region which Russia recently took
from King Carol.
h0 SIGN BLANKS | Accerding to one version 100 were killed /in the fighting and six Rumanian planes shot down.
‘other report said 70 were killed and one plane downed.
An-
Hungary Shows Anger
A source close to the Rumanian General staff said that Russian-Rumanian frontier incidents have been occurring for several days and that “It seems a little war has been
roing' on.” This source said 8
that on at least one occasion
'the Soviet troops have penetrated for more than a half
mile into Rumania before being driven back. Two separate Hungarian-Rumanian incidents were ree
ported from Budapest. One
‘Hungarian bomber by a Rumanian fighter plane. the bill might yield $30,000,000 on when the office opened and by other was a clash of [rontier guards at LaJos-Tanya, east of
Szeged.
Hungarian anger was evidenced.
was the shooting down of a The
Hungarian-Rumanian
relations already were tense because of breakdown in nego-
Seidensticker tiations for return of lransylvania, which Rumania obtained
from Hungary after the World War. There were indications that Germany and Italy might
en the Balkan peace.
, step into the Transylvania squabble if it appeared to threat-
Bomb Synthetic Oil Plant Throughout the night the German air forcé smashed at land objectives around London—which suffered a six-hour air raid alarm—and at the great industrial areas of the Midlands, possibly in the Birmingham area. But during the day
ernment contracts.
2. An amortization or write-off ton, Mr. Seidensticker said. program ‘to permit manufacturers of | ———————————————
tial and placed on file in Washing- the Nazi raids were reduced to isolated flights along the ‘southern coast and an hour-long attack on a ship convoy off
fidence respirator, her respiratory muscles day. Passengers wore their life
| Scotland.
It said that Mr. Willkie's declara-| tion that he would lead Americans “down the road of sacrifice and’ of service to your country” seemed to the magazine “to be precisely the sort of honest fact-facing that we need in our national leadership.” “We think the acceptance speech! was the honest utterance of an American leader whose experience and record qualifies him to undertake the tremendous task he faces as President of the United States the article continued.
‘Can Better Trust Willkie’
«Social Justice believes that in the present
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can better {rust the nation fo a man| like Wendell Willkie than to a iki
like Roosevelt.”
Willkie a few
Mr. held
ferences with political leaders here |?
today while making plans to de-
part in mid-afternoon by airplane
for Indianapolis and Rushville. One of those with whom he talked was Generoso Pope of the Italian newspaper Il Progresso, who has been supporting the Democrats. Willkie previously had announced that his initial campaign tour, (Continued on Page Three)
LOCAL HOG PRICES HIGHEST FOR YEAR
Farmers received more money for their hogs at Indianapolis stockvards today than they have since last September, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. Prices boomed 10 to 25 cents over vesterday and the top paid was $7.65 per hundredweight as compared
wl A > loxygen and at normal respiratory | 16.
emergency Americans|
paralyzed. At that time she was pre- | preservers most of the time.
maturely in labor, but the pain | eased and physicians yesterday hoped for a normal delivery, if nec- | essary while she still was in the respirator. t 7 p.m, decided it was necessary
Look-outs Are Doubled
Passengers were not allowed to send wireless messages until the ship was safely in the hands of
yesterday physicians her American escort today but regto take ular news from outside reached the
the baby. They removed Mrs. Cook [Ship and brought big crowds daily
from the respirator and rushed her to surgery.
rubber bag was filled
{around the bulletin board.
The American Legion left Pet-
with samo in northern Finland on Aug.
On Aug. 19 the ship entered
intervals quantities of oxygen were |the most dangerous part of the trip, forced into her lungs. Physicians that part for which Germany re-
| weighed about three pounds and |
t 4 a. m. its respiratory muscles | [failed and efforts at
{respiration were futile. paralysis caused the death, and in-| dicated they would make a post) mortem examination to see if that | | theory is true. | Mrs. Cook is the wife of Justus] Cock, Montgomery County farmer.
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END ESTRANGEMENT,
‘Husband Kills Wife, Then Ends Own Life.
A family quarrel that began with | the separation of wife and husband
{made Physicians said it is possible that dangerous.
{said very little anaesthetic was re- | fused to take responsibility. | ir quired. hen the baby was delivered, it [of the British Isles the number of
Passing through the area north
look-outs was doubled. Everyone
was apparently a normal child. It Was ordered to wear lifebelts except
con- | cried lustily during the night but | When sleeping or eating.
Heavy
seas which must have dislodged
artificial many mines and set them adrift,
this area extraordinarily The ship slowed down
and picked its way cautiously. Lifeboats Are Unlashed
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DRAFT DEBATE
‘Only Three Questions Now
Deiay Final Vote in Upper House.
By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The Senate, in a new mood since de-
military training today. The change might have been due
to the terrible crescendo of JE | tion is provided to relieve small in succession, without the usual stern ati : A. HR : ; : Lo 'n|corporations of the tax. This pro-| warm-up period in between, says C. answer with “the sword.”
Battle of Britain; to the
statement of President Roosevelt | vision, it is estimated, will mean that L. Mitchell, principal meteorologist] and the more aggressive attitude of only about 70.000 of America’s 475,- of the U. S. Weather Bureau. 1 a growing|000 corporations will have to pay an | (recognition that sentiment in theexcess profits tax.
Wendell Willkie; to
country does demand passage of the training bill without delay.
was set after two weeks of dilly-
British patrol ships and planes |dallying when the Senate knuckled
escorted the ship through this area.|d0Wn to business and disposed of a Most of the passengers remained Score of amendments in an eleven-
ers sleeping on the deck in their life preservers. Lifeboats were unlashed could be lowered instantly. The Royal party of Princess (Continued on Page Three)
\calm, although I saw two passeng- hour session yesterday.
There were no long speeches on
|Aatjons) defense materials to recap-|
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ture the cost of plant expansion in five years. 3. The excess profits tax. The profits tax will apply only to corporations, and not to individuals
or partnerships. As a basis for de- | termining what are “excess” profits, |
the bill selects the years 1936 to 1939 inclusive, to be known as “base period years.”
In a general way, when a corpora-| = tion’s income tops the income of]
G0oL WAVES COUNT, Besides the airports in Germany, Holland and Belgium,
the British today raided the great synthetic oil plant at | SO FORGET THE HEAT Leuna, the oil depots and aircraft factories at Frankfort ‘and an explosives factory at Griesheim. . : | In Italy last night, British planes raided the Fiat auto And if You Don’t Believe It, and plane motor factory at Turin and a magneto plant near Here's Proof. Milan, reporting that they had started fires. Rome said that a hangar was struck at Milan but that otherwise dams
|these base period years, that addi-| By Science Service velopments of the week-end, pushed tional income would be subject to toward the end of its debate on the excess profits tax.
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Affects 70,000 Firms First, however, a flat $5000 exemp-
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Then a corporation may elect one tains of air sliding down from the
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — The age was not serious. two-blanket temperatures that | Italy Threatens Egypt spread over a large part of the coun- | y {try on the week-end were due to the, The Fascist press, however, angrily denounced the larrival of two big Arctic air masses| . . igs .. 32 Egyptians for aiding Britain and warned that Italy would Italy has already been bombing | Alexandria and other Egyptian bases, hut theoretically these attacks have been aimed at British troops and naval forces. In Cairo it was first reported and then denied that
The magnitude and direction of | migration of these invisible moun-|
{ : : . : or two methods of computing a fur- north were normal enough; it was, ..« . WE "y . . Whatever the cause, new tempo ther credit against the ny 8 2 Egyptian Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha had resigned and
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Under the “invested capital” (Continued on Page Three)
SHE WANTS TO SEE WAR LONDON, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—An old
{the bill; most of the debate had to| woman, refusing to take shelter dur-
MURDER AND SUICIDE |hung on their davits so that they eration.
bill will pass and one of the bitterest, Senator Bennett Clark (Continued on Page Three)
and [do with the subject under consid- | ing an air raid on a southeast town, Opponents conceded the told the air raid protection warden: |“Young man, I'm too old to live to
kg another war and I intend to see
all of this one I can.”
Man Who Says He Got U. S. Into Last War
Tries Again---But Goes Into Wrong Office
A y nly a week ago.| : Ta Yi Sven tare de. | Ended last night with the wife's The = cel ts and higher retaijl | murder and the husband’s*suicide. creased receip | Earl Lewark, 59, shot and Killed
pork prices. | Mrs. Ethel Lewark, 35, at the home
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — Sir
York, stocks rallied an irregular decline at the opening. Trading was slightly more active than yesterday. Corn and wheat prices at Chicago gained moderately from yesterday.
At New some after
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{of her sister, 2451 S. California St., {where she had been living since | their estrangement. He beat the sister, Mrs. Mabel Chadwick, when she attempted to interfere and was attempting to reload the shotgun when Michael Powell, brother of the women, wrested the gun from him. Mrs. Chadwick received only minor injuries. After he shot his wife, Lewark left her home and went to the home of his brother, 901 S. Meridian St., where he had a room. In that room he shot and killed himself with a shotgun borrowed from a neighbor.
George Paish, 72-year-old British economist, got into the wrong office when he visited Senator Burton K.
Wheeler (D. Mont.) and tried to enlist the Senator in measures to aid Great Britain which the Senator believes would involve the United States in war. For nearly three hours the two argued over the war and America’s position and responsibilities. The elderly Britisher apparently became excited over the trend of the argument. As he stood in the door preparatory to his departure he told the Senator in a tense voice—according to the Senator—that he was the
He thought it over. Then, he said, | he consulted several of his col- | leagues and they advised him that] he should make the incident public.
So he took the floor of the Senate Indi : ' ve} .o. | Cver Berlin, | anapolis today and more is preand thus spread on the record one | ied Bok ) P of those episodes that sometimes be-|,,o"\\.o weather Bureau.
come important in turbulent periods | like the present.
none other, so far
the statement to Senator Wheeler. He talked to Senators Barkley (Ky.), | Democratic Floor Leader in charge
of the Administration's legislative usefulness the pastures that failed program; Pittman (Nev.), chairman early in July.
of the Foreign Relations Committee; Walsh (Mass.), chairman of the|
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- [be broken by It developed that Sir George had weather and maybe by a boisterous | talked to several Senators though to| thunder storm or two, the Bureau as could be said, Nevertheless, it was the first learned, did he got to the lengths of |sych rain since early summer and
their close succession that was unusual. This has been a summer of cool
‘been asked to form a new cabinet. ow . ' ‘ a: TV ivi » b y th ere Poole wlio Ihe slackening of daylight aerial activity by the Ge record heat that intervened in July, mans followed intense night-time raids by both sides, which Mr, Mitchell said. Since the first of« . BI rlin July there have been five great cool disturbed the sleep oL London and Be ! ' . waves. The German night raids on Britain were described as (Continued on Page Three)
People will remember that ed Today's War Moves
neated fortnight, but the really memorable thing about the summer | By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
now ending has been the number of | really cool days and nights, the meteorologist said. German bombless visitations over the center, of London last night were retaliatory for the British air parade over Berlin the night before. |The purpose was to show Germany considered herself competent to Ila.m .... 7 | 0et any British challenge .to devastate the capitals, 12 (noon) .. 16 The only essential difference between the raids was that British p.m ....7 |archlights picked out the enemy planes flying over London while
n | British planes remained invisible
Sod-Soaking Rain Drenches | City, With More on Way
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Sa.m.....7N 1Wa.m .... a.m. .... 12 Sam. .... 13
Sa.m. .... 3
A sod-soaking rain descended o as an indirect suggestion, that the
Both belligerents are thus engag-| capital raids be discontinued. Gers It seems man sky writing planes, too, that t h a t/|smoked a huge question mark and arrow above London yesterday might have been asking, “What's the use?” Common sense dictates that the centers of Londoh and Berlin ree main unmolested since neither bel ligerent can hope to gain militarily by sacrificing its own headquarters for the privilege of damaging the other's. Yet, there are times when desperation or temperamen brushes common sense aside.
tonight and tomorrow | {ing in warning tactics.
evident neither wants to assume responsi=bility for bombing the others metropolitan area, bringing! down destfuction on its own capital. If, however, these taunting exchanges con-
Gentle and steady. the rain may | intervals of clear |
should return a healthy green to lawns that are drought parched. It also should restore to some
MINERS END STRIKE
anger
: “ Naval Committee, and Taft (Ohio), !
HARLAN, Ky. Aug. 27 (U. P.).—
tinue 10n Eg German raids over Great Britain
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18| Pegler ...... 12 | Pe enough t he ¥/,¢ 1arge are reverting to the pre-
might easily lead plitzkrieg type. That is, they are
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HOOSIER DIES OF BURNS RISING SUN, Ind, Aug. 27 (U. P.) —Clara Stegemiller, 58, of Rising Sun, died today in a Cincinnati hospital from burns suffered when her clothing was ignited as she burned waste paper in her
yard."
United States into the last.war and would do everything possible to get us into this one. He said further, according to the Senator, that he was going to make several speeches in the United the country into the war. States and that sentiment for war| The Montana Senator said these would “mount wave upon wave” un- statements shocked him.
Sir George Paish , . . he talked
too much. vate capacity
with the British Government.
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Sir George, the British Embassy the United Mine Workers union | said, is the United States in a pri- | were expected to return to work | “in no way” connected today after a one-day
til Congress would de forced to vote Embassy declined to comment on| Harlan-Wallins Coal
Senator Wheeler's charges. His presence here recalled the|union miner, who alleged he was| visits to Berlin have a retaliation
to a real attack peing conducted by formations of through exasperation which might
strike at
The | tageous to both sides. \ non-| The British specifically deny their | seins deliberate, since weather con= ditions have allowed their use.
intimidated, swore out 31 warrants.) motive, which might be interpisted] (Continued on Page Three)
Corp. walkout took place after a
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comparatively few planes instead of = THe five Harlan County mines of the have dire consequences disadvan- engaging in great mass attacks. The = ‘abandonment of mass formations
a: Le