Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1940 — Page 1
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| FARMERS DAY I'll Answer It This Way’
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
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DRAWS 75,000 10 STATE FAIR
Attendance Record in Sight; Big Exposition to Close Tomorrow.
The Indiana farmer was the | honored man at the State] Fair today. Farmers from every sec-, tion of the State began arriving early for the program dedicated to tillers of the soil.
Fair officials said that the ad-| vance ticket sale sponsored by farm | bureaus peinted to an attendance of at least 75,000. Tomorrow, the, final day of the | exposition, will be Indianapolis and | Manufacturers’ Dav and officials expect 30.000 more paid patrons.
Crowds Set Record
Attendance on the last two davs | is expected to send the total to! about 440000, a new record. More than 75,000 paid their way in yes- | terday. i
About 11,000 people packed the grandstand and bleachers and occupied chairs on the race tracks for the stage show and fireworks display. Late comers had to be, turned away. The horse show drew one of the biggest crowds so far. More than 5500 rimmed the Coliseum to see the thoroughbreds on parade.
Farm Bureau Crowns Queen
Miss Mildred Beeson. Hagerstown, the first Indiana Farm Bureau Queen. ruled over the second anFarmers’ Day Parade which marked the opening of today’s pro-! gram : Miss Beeson, who won the queen's | honors in a contest sponsored by | Farm Bureau insurance companies, | received her crown from Mrs. Lillic: D. Scott, second vice president | of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. . in a ceremony before the parade. | At Miss Beeson's side were Miss; Charlotte Hartman, Parke County. | runner-up in the contest. and Miss | Doris Rockwell, Jasper County, who was third. About 40 other their various counties, the queen's court.
winners in comprised
g1ris,
Many Floats in Parade
County Farm Bureaus and Cooperatives from all over the State; entered floats. Bands, live stock | and children with pets also were in the procession. : Guests of the Indiana Farm Bureau for today’s program inciud- | ed R. W. Blackburn, executive secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Mrs. harles W. Sewell. administrative (Continued on Page Three)
STOCK TRADING AT TWO-MONTHS PEAK:
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—The upward drive of stock prices, started! vesterday by Hitler's speech, con-! tinued today in the most active trading in two months. | The advance, ranging to more than $2 in some shares, forged ahead despite intermittent profittaking movements. Steels and auto issues were mixed but airplane. chemical, farm equipment, copper’ and canning stocks had gains ranging to $1.
S. D. CENSUS CORRECTED WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P.).— The Census Bureau said today that the 1940 population of South Dakota is 641,134 instead of 639,972 as previously reported. The revised figures represent a decrease in population! of 51.715 or 7.5 per cent from the 692,849 counted in 1930 URUGUAY WANTS WARSHIPS MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—The War Ministry, it was reported today, has asked the United States for more complete details of her offer to sell over-age destroyers|
| to South American countries. 1
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Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries ....20 Pegler 14 Pyle +213 Questions ...13 Radio . 23 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Serial Story ..22 Side Glances . .14 Society 16-17 Sports 18-19 State Deaths... 7
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Clapper Comics Crossword .. Editorials 14 Fashions .....17 Financial .....23 Flynn .. 14 Forum wo l4 In Indpls. .... 3 Inside Indpls. .13 Jane Jordan ..17 Johnson 14 Movies
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| Dr. Hiel Crum . . .
Unable to Treat All Who
Came, Hiel Crum Testifies
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Witness Tells How Woman Served as ‘Beam’ Over Which
(of war” but they believe that short-
5000 new patients in two vears and three months. |
Radiation Was Transmitted From Brother in Ohio. |
By EARL RICHERT
| Democrats were {a “war partv.” and Republicans here
Dr. Hiel Crum, drugless physician who diagnoses and treats patients by use of “ether waves.” testified today he never has been able to treat all the patients who seek him out Last year. he had to turn some of them away, he told the Board of
Medical
Registration and Examination which is
is the Better
hearing
Business Bureau's charges of gross immorality.
Today's hearing was continued from last Friday
STOKELY HEAD RAPS PROFITS TAX BILL
Might Force Local Firm Qut, He Tells Senate Group.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P.).— W. B. Stokely Jr, Indianapolis can-
ning firm president. told the Senate!
Finance Commiitee today that the House-approved excess profits bill might force his concern out of business. His type of speculative, Mr. Stokely said, and must rely upon profits in good vears to offset unavoidable losses in other periods. Under the bill, he contended, his company would not be able to make enough money in rela-
months.” business is highly:
tively profitable periods to carry it
through unprofitable years.
In his annual report to Stokely
Bros. & Co., Tnc., stockholders Aug. 20, Mr. Stokely reported that his firm made a net profit of $329,642 in the year ended May 31, compared to a loss of $712.904 the vear before. He said the firm had “not vet regained its full earning power” of $1,381,820 in 1936, “due to the fact that prices in the canning industry have remained below normal due to surpluses which have been overhanging the markets for the past two years.”
SEE ISOLATION DEFEAT MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (U. P.)—Red Star, official organ of the Soviet Army, said today that transfer of United States destrovers to Britain symbolizes a new phase in American help for the British and a substantial victory for the American war party over isolationists.
Because of the large audience, the healing was moved from the 14th floor of the Lincoln Hotel to the mezzanine.
No Record of Callers
did Overley, asked Dr.
“How many patients have Jast year?” T. M. manager of the Bureau, Hiel Crum. “Well, I couldn't say. Keep records of them.” Crum replied. “Well, one day when I was there.” Mr. Overley said, “I counted 26 persons in one hour. Is that about right?” “Well, I'll answer it this way,” Dr. Hiel Crum said. “A year or so ago, I checked up and found that
I didn't Dr. Hiel
iI had 5000 new patients in a pe-|
riod of two years and three i One gray-haired physician in the back of the room turned and whispered audibly to another: “That's more than Ive had in 20! years of practice.” i An objection to a question con-| cerning Dr. Hiel Crum's earnings! from his practice was sustained by | the Board. |
Engineer Is Witness | Thomas G. Hieronymous, Kansas
City. Mo., electrical engineer, was; the first witness for Dr. Hiel Crum. He testified that he had examined and had a personal experience in diagnosis by use of Dr. Hiel Crum’s “etherator,” and added that in his, judgment it had “great therapeutic value.” “The machine, in my honest judgment,” he said, “is just like a surgeon’s tool. Alone it is of no value, but operated by a competent doctor, it has great therapeutic value.” Mr. Hieronymous said Dr. Hiel
[Crum had used the machine in ex-
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amining him and his daughter a short time after they were injured in an automobile accident. He said Dr. Hiel Crum had arrived at the same conclusions as two medical doctors they had consulted. The witness testified that it is possible by use of the machine to (Continued on Page Five)
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lvesterday’s maximum of 86 degrees.
TOLASHF.D.R ONWAR POLICY
‘Many G. 0. P. Congressmen ~ Disappointed at His Failure to Develop Issue.
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—|
Disappointment is prevalent among Republicans in Con-|
‘gress over what they regard!
‘as the failure of Wendell L. Willkie, their Presidential candidate, to challenge fully ‘and dramatically what many of them look upon as a definite “war policy” of Presi‘dent Roosevelt. This, some of them think,! is the major issue and will become even more important
as the campaign develops. |
They agree that public opinion ‘generally seems to be for giving all possible help to Great Britain “short
of-war steps are being taken in such a manner by the Administration that the people may wake up suddenly some day to find themselves at war.
Raymond Clapper, Page 13; Editorial, Page 14)
It is possible, they believe, to draw the issue clearly even at this
Governor Harold Stassen (left) Dunn of Minnesota . .
PARTY CHIEFS AT RUSHVILLE
Nominee Will Be Asked to Speak Here; He Urges Vote-Getting Crusade.
By NOBLE REED
Times Staff Writer
late date, though it will take finesse in view of the confused thinking of such a period and in view of the Administration's at-! tempt to label Republicans as “appeasers.” The Republican Convention was pitched on the theme that the; rapidly becoming |
say Mr. Willkie started well in stating the issue both in his speeches just prior to the convention and in his acceptance address. Subsequently, the candidate and his party have got their wires ‘crossed, disagreeing on corollary is-
RUSHVILLE, Ind. Sept. 5 — Wendell L. Willkie will be asked to| make one of the major speeches] of his mid-Western campaign for] the Presidency in Indianapolis and] at least two other speeches in Indiana, Indiana State Chairman Arch N.| Bohbitt was to make this request as the G. O. P. nominee conferred today with members of the high command of the party on his campaign strategy. At a visit with Mr. Willkie preceding a luncheon and the major conferences this afternoon, Senator
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sues that have developed. Direction Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan of-
appears to be lacking. | Some Republicans feel that the
{ Willkie campaign has bogged down
{somewhat and needs a lift. They are counting upon candidate to provide this in his forthcoming western swing, in which thev believe he can make the most of the “war” issue. There 1s a belief here that the West is strongly against war, and that if the issue is clearly drawn Mr. Willkie can make votes. Whether mistakenly or not, Re(Continued on Page Three)
| MORE DAY OF HOT WEATHER--AT LEAST
Fair and No Cooler Is Pre-| diction of Bureau. |
| i LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sam ....63 0am ... 8 Ta Mm (...66 Nam... .=35 Sa. .... V3 12 (noon) .. 83 | Jam .... 7 ipm.... 84
their
hot weather is going to in Indianapolis at least] tomorrow, the Weather| Bureau said. The forecast was generally fair with little change in temperature. The mercury got off to an early climb today and probably will equal
This linger
CLAIMS U. S. BOMBERS FLOWN TO ENGLAND
LONDON, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—The London Evening Standard said today that American and Canadianbuilt bombers are being flown across the Atlantic in ever increasing numbers. British pilots are flying the planes | across, it was said, under the direc- | tion of Capt. A. S. Wilcockson. No indication of the number of hombers | {nor their type was given.
{to the President.
fered to make 10 national addresses {for the nominee. | Vandenberg Opposes Draft | Senator Vandenberg, who was a ‘candidate for the nomination at the Philladelphia convention, is un- | derstood to have pledged Mr. Will-| kie that his proposed speeches would not conflict with Mr. Will kie's views on international affairs Senator Vandenberg is opposed to peace-time conscription in direct conflict with Mr. Willkie's views. W. C. Brooks, Republican candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois, was present when the Senator made his offer. | Immediately after their talk, Sen-| ator Vandenberg left for
| Reserve
WILLKIE URGED | Willkie Talks Strategy
and National Committeeman Roy
. Stop here on their way to visit Wendell Willkie.
» Navy to Train » Radiomen Here WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U. P) —The Navy approved plans today for seven schools in six naval districts to train 4000 radiomen and signalmen in the U. S. Naval Reserve The schools will be set up in the Ninth District at the Naval Armory at Chicago and the Naval Reserve Armory in Indianapolis. The applicants, from 17 to 35 vears old, will enlist in the reserve on an active duty status with pay while undergoing four months of training. The Government will pay transportation to the training centers.
HOUSE TO START
VOTES ON DRAFT
Police Strengthen Guard After Fist-Fight on Congress Floor. By RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — The House begins voting on the military training bill today with blackshrouded “Mothers of America,” coatless members of the “Peace
Mobilization,” and angels from Fa-
ther Divine's “heaven” looking on from the galleries. So turbulent did these groups be-
Ind.
FALL
BERLIN RAIDED; JAPAN WARNED BY U.5., BRITAIN
Carol Loses Rumanian Power to Pro-Nazij Hungary Marches Into Transylvania; Italian, English Navies Clash.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor Great 'Britain defiantly accepted Hitler's challenge to | mass aerial war today when Prime Minister Winston Churche ‘ill promised that increasing British power would crumble the Nazi empire “more swiftly than Napoleon's.” Addressing a session of the House of Commons that was interrupted by aerial battles over the London area, | Churchill warned that heavy fighting must be expected in
| (the Middle East and that German bombardment of Britain would be greatly increased this month. But he expressed confidence that Britain could triumph in any contest of inerves, will power or endurance, even though the threat of [Invasion may continue all winter. He expressed great satisfaction in the “memorable” trade of 50 American destroyers for naval-air bases on ‘British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, but warned that Hitler would “no doubt pay the United States out if ‘he gets a chance.”
Mediterranean Becomes Key Area
Churchill said that 1075 civilians were killed, 1261 serie ‘ously injured and 80) houses damaged beyond repair by Gere man raids during August, but that Germany has lost three Ln to every British craft destroyed in the Battle of Britain and has lost pilots at the ratio of 6 to 1. | Two potentially important statements to Parliament ree (flected the British view of grave developments in the southe eastern and Mediterranean areas: | 1. Churchill predicted heavy fighting soon in the Mid (dle East, where reinforcements have been rushed, and Fore eign Secretary Viscount Halifax said that Britain would give full aid to Greece if the Greeks resist a threatened Italian attack. (According to the Italians, a “severe” naval 'battle already was in progress in the Dodecanese Islands, Italy's base off Turkey, which the British fleet attacked | vesterday. Rome said that the famous “mosquito” torpedo ‘boats were being used for the first time.)
| Secret Batteries Uncovered 2. Churchill declared that Britain would refuse to recog= nize territorial chan;es dictated by force in the Balkans, where cession of territory to Hungary and Russia by Rue mania has resulted in establishment of a dictatorial pro Nazi regime under Gen. Ion Antonescu, “the red dog.” American Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in two firmly but politely worded statements, warned Japan against invae
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Battle COMe yesterday with their applause Sion of French Indo-China or assumption of too much power
Creek, Mich. where he is to make [0 OPPonents of the bill and thel¥|in Shanghai's International Settlement. With new Atlantia
an address tonight. He said this | address will not conflict with the candidate's campaign policies Rushville ran up the flags and decorated its streets with Willkie pictures in celebration of its big day in the political spotlight.
Traffic Is Blocked
in N. Madison Willkie's temporary
Traffic Mr.
St.. near residence,
strati 's say they c ount | was blocked and about 100 or more iStration leaders say they can c
curious milled on the lawn of the home while policemen pleaded with them to get off. Mr. Bobbitt's bid for several speeches in Indiana was to he made at a luncheon in the Masonic Temple where the Eastern Star pre(Continued on Page Five)
TOTAL DEFENSE BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5
tion on the $5,296,000,000 “total defense” appropriation bill. Only
Senate approval of the conference
report remains before the bill goes
The measure carries funds for
18,422 more airplanes, start on con- |
struction of 200 more warships and equipment for an army of 1,200,000 | men,
(U. P.).— | The House today completed its ac- |
hisses for those supporting it that Rep. Lindsay Warren (D. N. C)),
| presiding, has said he will clear the | {galleries at the next demonstration. |
Policemen are standing ready io enforce the order. As in the Senate, most of the talking on the bill has been done by opponents. They have made every charge that was made in the Senate debate and a few more. But Admin-
a safe majority for the bill. One of the first votes of the day probably will be taken on age limits for registrants. The House bill would register and train men up to 45 years of age. The Senate bill stops at 30 years.
A vote is likely today, also, on pro-|
posals to defer conscription until
lafter an intensive drive for volun-|stroyed in raids that
teers. Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.) will ask a delay until Nov. 15, the proposal so nearly adopted in the Senate. No poll of the House has been made on this issue. But the House heard one of its most respected members tell it ves-
‘terday that he believes each day is|
important in the defense of Amer-
of the bill.
In sober tones, Mr. Wadsworth
said he believed that the whole face! of the world has changed since the
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OLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 (U. P.). —Quotations on love, Hollywood branch, sank to a new low today when three of the screen's greatest love makers, John Barrymore, Hedv LaMarr, and Carole
{ Landis, split with their mates.
Barrymore, the great gray pro-
| file, walked out on his Elaine and
said this was their fifth—or was it sixth?—and final separation. Miss LaMarr, who became an international star by swimming nude in her first movie, sued producer Gene Markey for divorce. Miss Landis, the self-described fugitive from a leg art career, said she had to use exceptional forbearance to make her marriage last an even
a 60 days.
They agreed that wedded bliss was a snare and .a delusion, though Barrymore, who has been married so often he sometimes loses count, wouldn't promise not to give it another try.
Carole Landis. lasted. 60 days. !
Marriage
” O MAN is safe—so long eas there are women in the world,” he opined from the isolation of his iron-barred mansion on Tower Road. Even as he told how he had left his raven-haired Elaine a week ago, never to return, a woman who identified herself as his wife's secretary was telling reporters that the Barrymores were like two turtle doves. This, said Barrymore, was a lie. He said he and his Elaine had suffered what the fan magazines call a “rift.” “And I hasten to explain that a rift is like a boil,” he added. “It develops gradually.” Established in the caretakers’ quarters of his multi-roomed house, which he described as looking like a Barrymore said he expected Elaine would file divorce proceedings shortly. il
" Sows oni NORE "
“Chinese tenement,” =
Hedy LaMarr . . . No alimony— only freedom.
[Love on Run—Barrymore, LaMarr, Landis Quit Mates
H* said that he still considers his wife “a very sweet person” and an “excellent actress.” Mrs. Barrymore last left him when he spanked her too hard during their co-starring stage tour of “My Dear Children” last winter. She appeared in one motion picture, a two-reeler entitled: to Undress Before Your band.” “I understand she is going to take further dramatic lessons and I predict she will go far,” Barrymore said. As for himself, he will remain in his mansion, even though most of the furniture was
Hus-
auctioned off a few months ago to |
help meet his debts. to star in at least movies, “I'll play Santa Claus in one of them,” he said. The beauteous Miss LaMarr, (Continued on Page Three)
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‘bases given by Britain making the U. S. fleet freer to police the Pacific, Secretary Hull was in stronger position to make such warnings. | Lord Halifax revealed that Great Britain also has
‘warned Japan to preserve the status quo in Indo-China. Eaci. Side Claims 20 Planes The Prime Minister's speech was against a background of continued and intensifying air warfare that took British bombers on long-distance attacks in the Berlin area and against North Italy, and kept the British defense forces ‘busy fighting off German attacks during the day. The Nazis claimed they had shot down 20 British planes and the British reported “at least 20” German craft dee appeared to centered again on R. A. F. ‘bases not far from London. Heedless of the Fuehrer's threats to “raze” British cities, Royal Air Force planes again swarmed over Germany, causing a two-hour air raid alarm in Berlin, killing two pere sons, blasting an Army storehouse, power station and plane factory and dropping a bomb in the famous Tiergarten. In
ca. This was Rep. James W. Wads- an attack on a north German city, 18 persons were killed. iworth (R. N. Y.), one of the authors
| So many German planes were over Britain that defense (Continued on Page Three)
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Today's War Moves
| | By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert |
Hitler's speech in Berlin yesterday has special military interest bee cause of its appeal to Great Britain for mutual cessation of night aie | bombing. Hitler described the night attacks as “useless” and it seems probable that this part of his speech was due to pressure of the German | people, disquieted by hostilities in the dark. The Fuehrer’s protest marks his first defensive utterance since the beginning of the war. Hitherto he | has always spoken entirely about|It would seem that aviation plans forthcoming of-| of the German High Command are fensives. Yester-| not working out according to schede day, however, he | ule. indicated that! Hitler's statement that he waited Germany three months before retaliating wanted to mod- against British night bombings was erate the war intended as a moral argument. But, by eliminating as a matter of fact, German aviae night raiding. tors had no training in night navie It 1s strange gation and operations. It was nece that Hitler thus essary to improvise instruction for tries to lay down them which accounts for the three rules limiting air months’ delay in hitting back. warfare after German air specialists always Mr. Mason his frequent ref-| scoffed at night raids. erences to the They were held to be useless, while great preponderance of German they considered Germany's large aviation strength and his promise numerical plane superiority would |to the German people that they! allow daylight attacks of sufficient | vould have air mastery over Britain. (Continued on Page Three)
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