Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1940 — Page 1
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NAZI BOMBS RIDDLE HOSPITA
* Patient, Pinned Under Debris, Sings to Rescue Workers
S rescue workers dug in the ruins, a water tank on the hospital burst and thousands of gallons of water poured down to impede
ONDON, Oct. 9 (U, P.» —Rescue
squads and horror stricken civilians
dug today for the shattered bodies of men, women and children buried in the ruins of a big hospital building and an air raid shelter struck by high explosive bombs during an all-night German plane attack on London which reached a new peak of ferocity .. One huge bomb tore three complete wards from a suburban hos-
pital building containing 108 aged invalids, and an unknown number Another scored a ditect hit on men, women and children.
men and women, helpless chronic of doctors and nurses. an air raid shelter containing 150
. The German aviator who bombed the hospital returned to drop a ‘bread basket” which showered incendiary bombs on rescue workers
| and started fires in homes, vicinity.
warehouses, offices and shops in the
The first big bomb smashed through the hospital roof and buried patients, doctors and nurses deep under plaster, beams and bricks. Surviving mempoers of the hospital staff were at work before rescue
squads arrived. Some of them had to leave,
STATE RESTS IN LUX TRIAL
Hit-Run Victim's Mother Sobs After Identifying Sports Shoes.
A weeping mother today recalled in Criminal Court a summer night “date” began with a trip for ice cream cones and ended with the death of her 19-year-old daughter, Betty Jane Dawson.
The state rested its case against)
Leland Peter Lux, alleged hit and run driver, with her testimony. After Mrs. Mary Dawson took the stand, a deputy prosecutor handed her a pair of sport shoes and asked her if they were the ones Betty Jane wore the night she was struck by a car on the Post Road. Mrs. Dawson,
plied firmly in a low voice: are.” She was not cross-examined, and left the courtroom, sobbing audibly. Several spectators wept too. Earlier State witnesses had described how Betty Jane left her home the night of June 6 with her sweetheart, George - Brinkman * Jr., also 19. State Expert on Stand
They left’ in Brinkman’s car, bought and ate the cones, and then the car ran out of gasoline. While they were walking to get gas, the hit-and-run car struck them both,
“injuring Brinkman and killing the
girl. Preceding the mother's testimony today was the statement of a State Police technician that - headlight glass found at the accident scene came from a car of the type owned by Lux.
And a garage owner said that the]
headlight on the car Lux brought to him for repairs after the accident was beyond repair. The jury yesterday heard the story of the injured Brinkman,
Garage Owner Testifies
John Fall, owner of the Sheridan Garage, E. Washington St. and Sheridan Ave. testified that Lux brought his car to his garage and told him that he'd had an accident at the Post Road and Road 29. “Lux told me he heard a crash,
looked back and saw an auto, but] {9.—The tougher they are the better
that he couldn't get the license number,” Mr. Fall said. On cross examination, he said he was not sure of the date that Lux brought fhe car in. He also said Lux had left his car standing outside the garage that morning from ‘a half hour to an hour” before he brought it in to have it repaired.
Emphasizes Dents in Car
Russell Dean, Lux's attorney, returned again and again, in crossexamining the State's witnesses, to the condition and position of the dents in Lux’s car. Mr. Fall said that the paint had not been knocked off any of the dents in the car except the one on the front. of the right rear fender. {Coniinucd on Page Three)
Toughest Job On Earth!
oosevelt and Willkie are hting for a job the scope, wer and duties of which o hard to grasp. Ludwell Denny has writa series of articles on
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AdEY worked in the light of flares and the flames of a burning warchouse next door, smoke choking them. An elderly man among the victims, pinned under wreckage, sang popular songs to those who worked to extricate him. Surgeons and nurses were guiced to other patients by thejr screams, and quieted
them with morphia injections.
Eight persons were known dead in the bombed air raid shelter. Rescue squads worked in relays to tunnel into the people trapped,
because gas was escaping from a broken main nearby. overcome by gas revived only after long treatment. Reaching the victims, through their hastily cut tunnel, - workers found those inside had been buried as they sat. The workers
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rescue
tried to quiet them by talking to them until surgeons could arrive to
administer sedatives.
Two women and a boy died while they were being dug out. Some of tlie men and women in the bombed hospital were more that 80 years old and had been helpless for years.
Search for Fun Ends in Death
WABASH. Ind., Oct. 9 U. P.} — When 17-year-old Janet Rudicil, Wabash High School senior, felt the urge for brighter lights, she borrowed her father's automobile and drove off. Alvah Rudicil, her father, was attending a banquet when someone told him of the disappearance of his daughter and automobile. He found both at the “Jumpin’ Jive,” hangout for high school students. Mr. Rudicil drove Janet home; then returned to the banquet. A few minutes later, Janet fired two bullets through her chest. Coroner Tod Bender returned a verdict of suicide.
WILLKIE AT BEST IN NEW YORK INVASION
Continues East to Warn of
Dictator Threat.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer
ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct.
he seems to like them. Wendell Willkie could have gone down into New York's financial district and come off with a hero’s acclaim, but he carried his fight for the Presidency to the teeming pavements of the garment district. He got away with it, too. There in an area to which the Bronx cheer is no less indigenous than to the Bronx itself, the Republican nominee got a surprising demonstration of support in his plea for a united America in time of crisis. It was the candidate’s own determination to go into the most hostile territory he could find. Today as he begins his swing through New England, and on sticceeding days as he turns westward again for what he hopes will be a steady crescendo until election day, the mills and the factories and the docks will. hear his plea. He knows he must make votes in these places if he is to advance. He speaks at Hartford, Conn., this afternoon, at New Haven tonight. Mr. Willkie stopped at Stamford, (Continued on Page Five)
FOUR DISTRICTS ARE. DOUBTFUL
Landslide in Either Party Could Upset Picture, Analysts Say.
(This is the eighth and final summary of a series of articles on present political trends in the State's 12 Congressional districts.)
By NOBLE REED
Four Congressional districts listed as “doubtful” in the Nov, 5 election, today appeared to hold the key to the ratio of division between Republicans and Democrats in Indiana’s next delegation in Congress. The following table outlines at a
|glance the consensus of analysts on (political trends in the districts as
of today: , : Probable Districts Candidates Winners 1st *Schulte (D) Belshaw (R) Cox (D) *Halleck (R) Sands (D) *Grant (R) Corbett (D) *Gillie (R) Wolf (D) *Harness (R) Bauer (D) *Johnson (R) Bedwell (D) *Landis (R). *Boehne (D) Werner (R) *Crowe (D) Wilson (R) Ward (D) *Springer (R) *Larrabee (D) Robinson (R) *Ludlow Collins (R) . Ludlow
(*Denotes Incumbent.)
The conclusions, of course, do not take into consideration the many factors that may cause the rise or fall of sentiment for either of the Presidential candidates in Indiana before election day. Any landslide voting trends for either party on election day could easily upsét the whole present picture of the next delegation in Congress. c However, if present polls and surveys hold true through election day,
Schulte 2nd Halleck
Doubtful 4th Gillie 5th . Harness 6th Doubtful Edge io Bedwell
7th
8th Boehne 9th ; Crowe 10th : Springer Edge to Robinson
11th 12th
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With Police Chief Morrissey sitting on the bench beside him, Municipal Court Judge John McNelis today criticized the charge of “resisting an officer” and reprimanded a police sergeant for his method of arresting a woman driver. The defendant was Mrs, Eva Miller, of 5302 E. St. Clair St. She was charged with failure to display lights, to which she pleaded guilty, and with drunkenness, operating a vehicle under the influence of liquor and resisting an officer, to which
ishe pleaded not guilty. | After Mrs. Miller had entered her plea, Judge McNelis sent for Chief {Morrissey and said: f 3
McNelis Reprimands Officer On Way He Arrested Woman
“I want you to hear the testimony of this case.” Chief Morrissey took his place beside the judge. Mrs. Miller told the court she had been to a dentist, and that part of the treatment required scraping the bone. She said her dentist prescribed whisky, and that she and two friends drank a half pint. Sergt. Hill testified he stopped Mrs. Miller's car at Vermont and Delaware Sts. when he saw her driving without lights. He said he told her she was under arrest for having improper lights. He said he smelled
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Londoners on. their way fo work saw shattered beds, torn blankets and hospital equipment hanging crazily from the jagged edges of what the bomb left of the building, high above the street or sticking up
from the debris.
Ambulances from other hospitals arrived and stretchers were laid
. on sidewalks and. in the streets, filled with the wreckage of ware-
houses, shops, offices and homes strucl: by other bombs, awaiting any
victims who might remain alive.
Other Londoners took last night's raid in their stride.
They re-
mained in their shelters, increasingly inured to hardship, and emerged
only for breakfast and work.
Groups of professional singers and musicians entertained in some
subway shelters.
A favorite song among these people, many of them homeless and destitute, was “Run, Adolf, Run, Run Run!” and “Poor Old Soul, You'll
Need a Rabbit Hole.”
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1. Colonial houses at 70th and Warwick Road in Arden Addition,
north of the city.
2. Single-story cottages near Broad ‘Ripple High School in the
5900 block of Marion Road.
3. Close to expanding industries of Speedway City are the homes
dround 1700 on Beeler St.
Growth of Local Industries Increases Housing Demand
Carpenters’ hammers and masons’ frowels are being wielded at the fastest pace in more than 10 years as new houses take form in In-
dianapolis and Marion County.
With new industries and expanded: operations at old ones bringing new families to the city and county, the building industry has stepped up speed to meet the demand for houses and utilities stand by to pro-
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VANNUYS TO WORK FOR STATE TICKET
Adds He Will Nill Seek Re- election of Senator Minton.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—U. S. Senator Frederick VanNuys, who has taken no active part in the Democratic campaign’ in Indiana or elsewhere this year, announced here today that he will “work for the reelection of the Democratic ticket in
Indiana.”
* Also. he said specifically that he would “work for the re-election of Senator Sherman Minton.” Senator VanNuys’ absence at some of the bigger Democratic’ campaign events in Indiana has been conspicuous during the last few months. This was attributed to his outspoken opposition to a third term for President Roosevelt. Senator VanNuys said he will return to Indiana next week and remain until after the election. He said his speaking activities, if any, would “depend upon circumstances.”
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vide service. . During the first three quartets of this year, the construction of nearly 900 houses with a valuation of $3,952,185 was authorized in Indianapolis alone. That's far ahead of last year’s rate when erection of 700 houses valued at $3,236,105 was valued during the first nine months. The year’s total was just seven more than that for nine months of 1940. ‘The permit and valuations figures are for just inside the City limits and don’t tell the story of the home building boom in Greater Indianapolis. Permits are not necessary for construction outside the city limits, but estimates are available from builders and real estate men. Houses are growing up north of “the city, riortheast, east and south of it. Speedway City and its environs are the scene of concentrated building to the west. One company alone has built and sold 65 houses in the Speedway City area. During all of last year, 198 new houses were built in all of Marion County, according to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Realtors and builders estimate that this year’s total will be 10 to 20 per cent higher. That means that in two years more than 2000 new houses will have been constructed in Marion County. Thus far most of the building has (Continued on Page: Three)
BUREAU FORECASTS MORE WARM DAYS
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
a.m ... 46 10a m. ,,. 64 am ...49 1ll a.m. ... 66 a.m. ... 63 12 (noon).. 68 m...5 1lp.m. ...%0
It's going to get warmer, the Weather Bureau said today. The temperature today will go into the 70’s and it will be even warmer tomorrow under probably cloudy skies. The lowest reading tonight will be
6 7 8 9 a.
about 50 degrees.
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Home Building Here Hits Fastest Pace in More Than 10 Years
$109,000 FUND GIFTS RECEIVED
First Report Spurs Workers In Campaign That Ends Oct. 24.
Campaign Goal Campaign opened Campaign ends First Report Meeting—Today Claypool Hotel
A total of $109,872.34 .in pledges.
was reported today at the first report meeting of Community Fund workers in the Claypool Hotel. ° This amount, reported by the special gifts division, represents 16 per cent of the $688,500 goal. Solicitors in this division took to the field several days in advance of the main army ‘of volunteers who started their canvass Monday. The special gifts division, which calls on business and industrial firms and individuals counted upon to make big pledges, is headed by Charles W. Chase; president &F the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. More than 3000 volunteers expect to contact about 80,000 donors or prospective donors during the campaign which continues through Oct. 24.
DUNN POLL PREDICTS WILLKIE'S ELECTION
National Survey Gives Him 334 Electoral Votes.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (U. P).— The Republican National Committee today made public the results of the Dunn’ Poll which forecasts the election of Wendell L. Willkie with a minimum of 334 electorial votes. Using methods which the Republicans said were tested with considerable accuracy in the 1936 Presidential and 1938 Congressional elections, the Dunn sampling showed
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nominee “undoubtedly” would carry all the states north of Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oklahoma and, in addition, would win Colorado, Wyoming and Oregon. Rogers C. Dunn, statistical analyst who directs the survey, claimed to have “found means of overcoming handicaps” encountered by other polls, specifically those which have run contrary to his findings and predicted the overwhelming re-elec-tion of President Roosevelt. One of the means, it appeared, was consideration of the vote of WPA workers in each state.
'PINCHOT FOR THIRD TERM WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Gifford Pinchot, former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, today indorsed President Roosevelt for a
third term and promised to aid the Democratic drive for Pennsylvania's 36 electoral votes.
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AMERICANS ASK PASSAGE HOME FROM FAR EAST
BULLETINS : BERLIN, Oct. 9. (U. P.).—German bombing squadrons: were reported officially today to have “smashed to pieces” a vital rail center in London and to have inflicted great damage on industrial centers elsewhere in England.
LONDON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—A reliable source said tonight that the Soviet Government had assured the’ United : States and Britain explicitly®that Russian policy toward China remains unchanged, regardless of Japan’s adherence to the Axis alliance. In the past the Soviets have aided: China in carrying on the war,
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Operations of the Axis powers and Japan threatened new military blows in the Balkans, North Africa and the Far East today, but the real war raged most fiercely in the air over Germany and the British Isles. ‘Nazi warplanes smashed with bombs and machine guns at streets in London and other cities where the wreckage of buildings, hospitals and homes was piled higher than ever
|as a result of furious attacks in the last 48 hours.
In London, where bombs crashed a section of a hose pital and an air raid shelter, several persons were killed, The toli mounted as Nazi pilots circled back to drop incen= diary bombs on the scene and others glided low to machine. gun streets in British towns. Another bomb later crashed into the corte) of the same hospital but no more patients were killed. British Turned Back, Berlin Says The heavy all-night attacks on Britain were echoed by, the crash of British bembs in Germany, where the London Air Ministry said that great damage had been inflicted on the Nazi naval bases ai Bremen and Wilhelmshaven and the invasion ports along the English Channel and in Holland. Objectives included oil\refineries, power stations, war factories and other targets. Nazi sources at Berlin reported that about 30 British bombers had been turned back by Nazi night fighters when they tried to enter Germany from the North Sea, while more than 250 German planes were dumping 150 tons of explosives on London. : The United States warning that Americans should leave Japan and most of the Far East and Great Britain’s decision to reopen the Burma Road for military supplies to China in mid-October appeared to have bolstered Chinese determina tion to carry on the war and to have caused some surprise in Tokyo. ‘ U. S. Ready for “Any Eventualities” 2 In Shangha’, Americans crowded shipping offices in hopes of getting passage. Leaders of the Shanghai American Association cabled the State Department asking for ships to speed the evacuae tion. Offices of the American President shipping lines re ported that all passenger accommodations had been engaged up to the end of the year. Experts said it would take months to get all Americans out of the trouble zone. In Washington it was made known that the United States was prepared for “any eventualities” in the Far East. Developments following the warning yesterday for Americans to return home included:
Wheat Cut Off From Japan 1. Hasty purchase by the Navy Department of numer ous auxiliary ships. to comprise a “navy train” of supply, service, tender and transport vessels to serve the fleet in event it is sent to areas distant from its American bases. 2. Conferences between President Roosevelt and his two most trusted naval advisers, Admiral William D. Leahy, former chief of maval operations and present Governor of Puerto Rico, and Admiral J. O. Richardson, commander of the fleet. 3. Revelation by Admiral Richardson that when he ree, joins the fleet at Hawaii he plans to take “several thou sand” additional nava: personnel with him. 4. Announcement by the Department of Agriculture of suspension of the export subsidy of approximately 25 cents a bushel, which it has been paying, on all wheat or wheat
flour exported to the Japanese-controlled areas of China, (Continued on Page Three)
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
First unofficial Japanese responses to the forthe coming reopening of the Burma Road are moderate, indicating no desire in Tokyo to make an immedie ate issue of the matter that would extend the European war to the Far East. Increasing realization of the gravity of war in. the Pacific may ‘well exert restraint on bellicose commentators in the Orient. If the Japanese have decided that the new triple alliance will carry them into war sooner or later against the United States, quick action at Tokyo would not be strae tegically desirable. The position of Russia should first be determined in any realistic examination of the future course of events. Japan now is seeking some form of understanding with the Russians, [of the threat of a German-Italian hoping for assurances that Stalin |attack against Russia in Europe. will become friendly toward Japan’s| But if Japan were weakened and Asiatic ambitions and will not take |cut off from the Asiatic mainland in advantage of a Pacific war to press {a prolonged war, with Germany seri= his own .Oriental claims. The triple [ously preoccupied in the west, Ruse alliance might be counted upon to [sian intervention would become ale hold Russia back for a time because (Continued on Page Three)
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