Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1940 — Page 2
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MNUTT T0 DEBATE
issues Challeiige After Ex-Governor Offers to Pinch-Hit -. For Roosevelt; Attorney Asks Wallace Some Embarrassing Questions.
‘By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM : If things keep on, this campaign probably will go, down into political history as the ‘campaign of would-be debaters.” : : Wendell Willkie started it when he challenged President Roosevelt to take the stump and debate the issues of the day. Mr. Roosevelt demurred, but Indiana’s Paul V. McNutt volunteered to accommodate Mr. Willkie. Mr. Willkie in turn ignored Mr. McNutt’s challenge. Now comes State Senator William E. Jenner, of Shoals, challenging Mr. McNutt, the Federal Security Administrator, to debate state issues at any time or place. Senator Jenner's challenge was made through State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, who suggested that the debates could take place during Mr. McNutt’'s scheduled series of campaign addresses between now and the election. “Mr. McNutt has appeared anxious to debate with somebody,” Mr. Bobbitt said, “as is evidenced by his] - willingness to pinch hit for the! President and debate with another) Indiana-born master debater, Wendell L. Willkie. “But Mr. Willkie had no time to Joust with an interference runner. We will put Senator Jenner with] Mr. McNutt on any platform any, place in Indiana and leave the de-| cision to the voters.”
Chief Speakers
REPUBLICANS
TODAY—Judge James ‘Emmert at Greenfield; retary of State James Tucker at Goshen; Glen. R. Hillis, Lake County tour all day; Raymond E. Willis, Peru. in afternoon and Marion at night; Russell I. Richardson at Bloomfield; Robert Loring at Rushville. TOMORROW — Mr. Tucker at Muncie; John K. Ruckelshaus at 2300 E. Michigan St., Indianapolis; Mr. Hillis. Fowler in afternoon and Winamac at night; Mr. Willis at Muncie; Charles M. Dawson at Rochester; David Hogg at Bip-
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DEMOCRATS
TODAY — Clarence Donovan at Frankfort; Judge William Fitzgerald, Greenfield Township, Orange County; Mrs. Hettie Dunkin at Anderson. TOMORROW — Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker. at Corydon; Fred F. Bays at New Castle; Mr. Donovan, Saltillo, Ind.; Ralph Hanna at Bloomfield; Mrs. "Inez Scholl at Huntington; Willett Parr at Tipton,
Royse Wants to Know
. Wilbur A. Royse, Indianapolis attorney, took advantage of the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate's visit here yesterday to send him a letter propounding a lot of em-|
oe tins ve met on vo ROBERT ACTION STIRS CAPITAL
books written by the nominee, Henry Resignation as Secretary
Bridges ‘Gratified’
Senator H. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) demanded immediately that Mr. Robert resign as Secretary of | the Democratic National Committee
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‘RESIGN,’ TUCKER'S WORD T0 SGHRICKER
Indiana's lone State House .Republican officeholder, Secretary of State-James M. Tucker, called on Lieut. Gov. Henry M. Schricker to resign as the Democratic gubernatorfal nominee in a campaign talk last night at Lafayette. ‘The resignation was demanded as
|evidence of his sincerity in declar-
ing “he would rather lose the eiectiort than ‘buy’ the office. “Are we to understand,” - Mr. Tucker asked, “that the beer and liquor business does not represent ‘large moneyed interests?’ Does Mr. Schricker mean to convey the idea the ‘Two Per Cent Club’ is not a large moneyed interest?”
Dragonflies fly backward and sidewise without altering the position of their bodies.
Have you taken a
By DICK THORNBURG
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Nine luxury yachts have been purchased recently from private owners for national defense purposes, and the Navy is inspecting qthers with a view to aequiring them. Navy Department officials listed the nine yachts, and their former |owners, as follows: : The Trouper, purchased from C. { A. Tilt, motor manufacturer of Chicago and New York. The Intrepid, from Murphy, Chicago. The Onwego, from the estate of
Walter P.
George Bourne, New York.
Navy Buys Nine Luxury Yachts for Defense Purposes, Paying $150,000 for One; Negotiates for Others
The Evelyn R. II, from W. R. Reid, Houston, Tex. The Gypsy, from Robert T. Herrick, Boston. ’
~ The Entropy, from Harry Furman, Schenectady, N.Y. The Elda, from Arthur Davis, New York. The Katoura, from Alfred Loomis, New York. The Arlis, from R. Livingston Sullivan, Philadelphia. Officials declined to state the prices paitl for the yachts, or to say to what uses the Navy will "put
them. Most of them are much slow-
er than modern destroyers. or even than the 50 over-age destroyers which were transferred to Great
“Industrial Tour”
of our city lately, Miss Indiana?
® We've never been a Pittsburgh or a Detroit, but recently we're
taking our place in the sun. Our local industries are beginning to
stretch ‘a bit and more and more big “outside” industry is looking
Britain in the deal for naval bases. From other sources it was learned that the Navy paid $150,000 for the Trouper, an 85-ton yacht, 106 feet long, with a top speed of 22 knots. The original launched about 15 months ago, was $300,000. It has bleached mahogany planking, air-conditioning, tiled showers and toilets, and leather lounge upholstery. J Navy inspectors recently have sur-
veyed the 267-foot steel-hulled pow- |
er yacht, Hi-Esmaro, owned by H. E. Manville of Pleasantville, N. J, former chaiiman of the JohnsManville Corp. The Hi-Esmaro, 1333 gross tonnage, is considered one of the handsomest pleasure craft ever
cost of this craft,|
built in this country. Her original cost, in 1929, was $1,250,000, and her speed of about 16 knots is a little less than half that of a modern destroyer. More than a dozen big American yachts, including J. P. Morgan's $2,000,000 Corsair, have been purchased for war service by the British and Canadian Governments in the last year.
RECOVER $37,000 LOOT
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—Police today recovered $37,800 of the $50,000 in gold that was stolen from the mail room of the Pan-American Airways base here on Aug. 29. : >
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 24. 1940
6.0. P. NAMES 8ON LABOR COMMITTEE
An advisory committee of eight to work with the Republican State
Committee's ‘labor division was announced today by State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. The eight, all prominent labor leaders here, will work with Robe Carl White, former assistant Secratary of Labor, now director of the state commygttee labor division. They are Charles W. Kern, S. P. Meadows, Forrest McIlroy, Courtney Hammond, William Yager, Guy McCoy, David Mathews and Miss Mabel Lowe. | More accidents occur on the high-= ways on Saturdays than on any other day in the week, but more persons are killed on Sunday than on any other day.
and that the, Justice Departinpet with favor on Hoosier land as a place to live and grow.
A. Wallace. The books were “New Frontiers,” published in 1934, and “Whose Constitution,” published in 1936. A sample question: “On Page 21 (of ‘New Frontiers’) you state that if we get into a really big war, the after effects might result in dictatorship. \ “Is this your reason for supporting | of Party Baffles the third term for Mr. Roosevelt?’| Hint Thus far, Mr. Wallace hasn't had Politicians. time to answer the letter, By LYLE C. WILSON Willis Tells Why United Press Staff Correspondent Raymond E. Willis, G. O. P. sena-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Polittorial nominee, told a Wabash cam-| ical Washington was shopping paign audience last night that bad around today for an answer to the management and stifling of Hee en- | question: Who pulled the trigger on ee Pe The. pressing | debonair Lawrence W. (Chip) Robdomestic problems. ork, and why? © Waly ; “Roosevelt told us in 1832," Mr. 1 Dave been investigated all my Willis said, “that he would| solve the |life—and by professionals, Nr. Bab farm problem, which everyone knew | &I¢ Temal ked last mont. Be ad on was the result of the maladjustment | 8ressional Bead A a oly of world economic conditions caused | 12d revealed that his : Aa. oa by the World War. He gave us | engineering firm had obtained eight some more promises in 1936—and | °f 66 Navy building contracts let He's still making promises. But the! Within about a year. The contracts farm problem is Still With us.” to Robert & Co. entailed $931,560 in Putting the industrial nation back fees. at work might not be a complete solution of the farm problem, but it would be a tremendous help, he said. "Mr. Willis said he stands “with Wendell Willkie and the Republican Party in their promise to the farmer that the present farm program will be continued until a better one can be devised.” .He charged the President with being more interested in.international! affairs than domestic problems, and | with throwing up a smoke screen of pretended occupation with pressing foreign affairs to nide the New Deal’s failure to provide adequate national defense and to solve acute domestic problems.” Credit Where It's Due New Deal claims to fathering the bank deposits insurance law were] given a kicking around before the Irvington Republican Club : night in a speech by George W.|
Eggleston, Indianapolis attorney. | Mr. Eggleston quoted a letter from | Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R | Mich.) to the effect that when the] deposits insurance bill was proposed, | President Roosevelt ‘emphatically and bitterly opposed it.” “Nobody can claim a monopoly of credit in connection with" this achievement, (passage of the law),” Mr. Eggleston said, “but least of all can the Roosevelt crowd pretend to any such monopoly. Many Republicans and Democrats collaborated in finally producing the Bank Deposit Insurance Act, but the President is not ‘among those ‘present’. He referred to Senator Vandenberg as the “father” of the insurance law.
W. J. Heim Named
William J. Heim, president of the Republican Farmers of Indiana, Inc. has been named Kentucky representative. of the Republican National Committee's agriculture bureau. - The appointment was made on recommendation of State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. Mr. Heim has goen to Louisvill: to #&stablish headquarters and organize the agricultural vote in Kentucky.
Poll Is Studied
They're still talking about last week's. Gallup Poll, with its heavy Democratic! gains, around Republican headquarters in the Claypool Hotel. : The average party worker® is firmly convinced the poll is “off somewhere”’—just as firmly convinced as the Democrats were a couple of weeks earlier. Neil D. McCallum, the party's state -secretary, says. the poll results in Indiana (giving the Republicans only 51 per cent) doesn't jibe with his reports from -county chairmen. : «But maybe It's .a pretty good thing, after all.” he commented. “gome of the boys were a little too fident and had a tendency to sit pack and take things easy. This ought to make them get busy.”
Many New Voters
The County Republican Commniittee estimates 22500 young men and women will be eligible to vote in a Presidential election for the first time Nov. 5—provided they are rly registered. The committee its estimate on the fact almost 25,000 babies were born in the
last ry olume of commercial contracts in
investigate the circumstances of the contracts. , “I'm gratified that my criticism has produced tangible results,” was Mr. Bridges welcome to. thé announcement yesterday in New York that Mr. Robert had resigned his committee position. Senator Bridges later declared that Mr. Robert's resignation “is not enough.” - And again urged that the Justice Department ‘investigate the contracts. But no impropriety has heen publicly established or acknowledged regarding those contracts. Mr. Robert said his firm, with the greatest
its history, now required all his time. The party secretaryship was a demanding post at convention time and on occasions such as. annual Jackson Day dinners where Mr. Robert usually presided at Washington’s $100-a-plate gatherings. He put on those dinners which raised hundreds of thousands for the party war chest.
Suspected by New Deal
But Mr. Robert was suspected by New Dealers.” He was found one evening at the Shoreham Hotel at a small dinner in company with a representative of Howard Hopson of the Associated Gas and Electric Co., mid-way in the bitter battle over Mr. Roosevelt's death sentence dnt public utility holding companies. Secretary of Interior and Public Works Administrator Hareld L. Ickes feared that Mr. Robert was lobbying federal funds into the South. As a “Farley man,’ New Dealers counted Mr. Robert out of the preconvention circle committed to a Roosevelt third term. Mr. Robert's earlier resignation would not have surprised Washington, which half expected he would walk the plank with James A. Farley, who announced his impending resignation as committee chairman and Postmaster General the day after the Democratic National convention ended. That was wHen the New Deal officially took over the party.
INDIANS AND ESKIMOS COME UNDER DRAFT
By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—About 140,000 Navajos, Apaches and other (Indians—many of them sons of World War veterans—will present themselves when 16,400,000 Americans register for peacetime training for national defense. The number
in Alaska. Indian Service highly the military qualities of America’s Indians, tested under modern fighting conditions during| the World War. Conspicuous among | Indian fighting traits are remem-! bering and carrying out orders. dis- | playing fortitude and endurance,! and willingness to volunteer for! hazardous feats. | Indians in the A. E. F. won special praise for unique service in scouting and signaling, in which sign language and Indians tongues
officials praise
city and’ county from 1916 to 1919.
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played a valued role. |
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includes 3500 Eskimos and .Indians :
The industrial commission of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com-
merce estimates that industrial expansion completed in Indianap-
olis in recent months or projected for the near future, to care for the
increased volume of regular business and to meet the demands of
the national defense program will create 15,000 or 20,000 additional jobs and add from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000 to payrolls.
Our steady, healthy growth, our facilities, our midwestern level-
headedness is a safe background for expansion. Whether spurred
by national defense needs or in the course of normal business
increases, we will reap the rewards of our belief in America, in
Indiana and in Indianapolis.
What's going on jy Here?
ride out Capitol Avenue,
We at Ayres’ are expanding, too! When you
at Tenth Street,
you'll see three of the old Stutz buildings,
long vacarit, coming to life. That's where
our pew, modern service center is to be
located. This also is part of our forward-
looking plan to keep pace with a city and a
state that's growing.
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