Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1940 — Page 1
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" Berlin Claims ‘Greatest’ London Attack;
FDR TOURS ‘PIVOT - TATE AS WILLKIE ~ HITS AT DEFEATISM
‘Political Studied on Trip to Dayton.
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
ABOARD ROOSEVELT 11.—National- |
TRAIN, Oct. defense inspection is only a thin veneer for the tour President Roosevelt is engaged upon in Pennsylvania and Ohio, though he is carrying it out in the magnificently simple manner of the steady-
handed Chief Executive on a | To the thousands turning. out to, J
visit among his people in time of crisis.. This ablest political strategist of |
our generation is looking into his political defenses.
Close Contest Indicated Reports that are disquieting, for Democrats, and encouraging, for Re-
publicans, are coming of late from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr. Roose-
_ velt, as usual, has his political ear
to the ground and no man can detect a far-off rumbling more acutely.’ - Various polls indicate a close contest in these two pivotal states, with an apparent trend noted in some toward Wendell L. Willkie, who recently covered the same ground and | who will be back again next week in the critical Midwestern industrial | belt. To put it bluntly, Mr. Roosevelt is | moving into this territory to try to check this reported trend.
Akron Stop Included
The political nature of the trip will be underlined as local politicians clamber board the train, eager and a bit breathless, in the
two-day caravan across Pennsyl- |
vania and Ohio. After the itinerary had been arranged, it was revised, for instance,
to permit a stop at Akron late to-!
day so that Mr. Reosevelt could give | his blessing to Rep. Dow Harter, who is hard-pressed in his campaign ! for re-election.
Between side’ trips to “inspect” |that, that is the only way we ean] Board for approval.
defense enterprises the President | will draw out his political visitors, | in the privacy of his private car,
about Democratic prospects and does not believe in production. The Might make it illegal. what might be done to bolster them |third-term candidate told us eight| Counsel Edward H. Knight, in a
up in the two states. Tours Pittsburgh
The Presidential special halted in| Pittsburgh shortly before noon. Aft-! er waving a salute to big crowds, he | made a 17-mile motor swing through the politically important | city and county.
The President dedicated a $14,000.-
000 housing project and pspeciec plants producing heavy armor, and shell forgings for the $15, 000.000,000 defense program. In his brief speech, dedicating the | housing project, he declared that Americans will rally to the defense! of their homes and democracy |
‘should the need ever arise.
At the train's first stop at Johnstown, Pa., the state's national committeeman, David L. Lawrence, and Senator Joseph F. Guffey (D. Pa.) | came aboard. The two have been engaged in a political feud for nearly two years] and their joint arrival offered an (Continued on Page Five)
‘MY OLD MAN'S MORE CAPABLE’—F. D. R. JR.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, Oct. 11 (U.P.).—Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., told a forum of the New Jersey College for Women last night that “I'm not going to attack Mr. willkie, because I think he's a very fine man, but I think my old man js a little bit more capable.” “1 have known my father for 26 years and he has four boys and a wife who have preached and written against war,” the President's son said. , ‘He himself has said, ‘I hate war.’ On “the last three words he used the same vocal inflection the President used in his famous Chicago speech and the audience laughed.
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1 Defenses’ G 0, DP, Looney Gives
Pledge of More Jobs in Mills.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY
Times Special Writer
WITH WILLKIE CARAVAN, Oct. 11.—Wendell Will(kie, turning to New England’s textile mills for the labor support he must have to win ‘here, is pitching his case on ‘an ability to make the mill wheels turn faster and to projrec the social gains of the men at the looms.
hear him at mill gates and in town
| squares of some of America’s oldest 5
| communities, he directs repeated fire at New Deal -defeatism, which he charges is a check on the country’s economic life. Again and again he pledges his support for collective bargaining and warns that advances in labor and social legislation will be for nothing if present spending policies continue. Moves Toward Boston
| To the men in sweaters and over.alls he cries:
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fits if this Administration continues, to lead you down that road to bank-|
{ruptey.”
| The nominee moved toward Bosjon today for a major speech toight after criss-crossing Rhode IsHous in a bid for its: four electoral | votes. He concluded a busy day with an address to thousands at Narragansett Racetrack in Providence last night. There he charged that the re{election of President Roosevelt Imight mean concentration camps {for the unemployed. At Fall River this morning, he | said: | Links New Deal, Idle Plants
| “You people here in New England llive in a great industrial region. [You are interested in seeing indus-| ‘trial expansion. You want to see; {more production because you know |
have more jobs. “Last night, speaking in Providence I showed that the New Deal
years ago, when he was running for (Continued on Page Three)
FATHER AND AUNT OF “GRID CAPTAIN KILLED
Hoosiers Crash on Way to | Tulane Game.
COUDERSPORT, Pa. Oct. 11 (U. P.).—The father and aunt of a {Tulane football star were killed last {night in an automobile-truck vol(lision while en route to New York to see the Tulane-Fordham game there tomorrow. Thomas J. O'Boyle, 53, of Hobard, {Ind., father of Thomas J. O'Boyle Jr., co-captain and guard of the | Tulane team, was killed in the ac(cident, while an aunt, Mrs. Mary |Strickiand, 50, of Woodward, Okla., died en route to Coudersport hospital. Mrs. Mary O'Boyle, the youth's | riotieet, was injured seriously, while ta brother, James, was less seriously hurt. Mrs. O'Boyle, with a possible fractured skull and internal injuries, was given little chance to survive. Driven by James, the O’Boyle car collided with a gasoline truck as the truck turned left into a gas station east of here. |
HINT ENGINEER ILL AS TRAINS COLLIDE
The Interstate Commerce Commission said today that the train wreck at Cuyahoga Falls, O., in which 43 persons -were killed may have been due to carbon-monoxide poisoning of engineer Thomas L. Murtough. In a report on its investigation of the July 31 accident, the ICC found that Mr. Murtough failed to bring ; his one-car, gasoline-powered train (to a siding in order to give a north{bound freight train. right of way. The two trains crashed head-on. Mr. Murtough jumped to safety, jruRe only minor injuries.
| DYKSTRA IS WILLING
| MADISON, Wis, Oct. 11 (U. P). {--President Clarence Addison Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin {said today that he will “feel free” to accept President Rcosevelt's proferred appointment as Director of Conscription if university regents rang him leave of absence.
“You'll never collect} a dime of your social security bene-|
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.) —|
Widely Mourned
Val Nolan .-. . unexpected death shocks friends.
MAYOR TO VETO FUND TRANSFER
Believes Shifting of $10,000 For Parks Dept. Jobs -May Be lllegal.
By RICHARD LEWIS
Mayor Reginald H, Sullivan today decided to veto an ordinance which would make available $10,000 in Park Department funds for the employment of temporary labor in the next few weeks. The City Council approved the ordinance Monday night under suspension of rules and iinott | having advertised it publicly. It! {was not submitted to the State Tax!
Mayor Sullivan’s decision to veto it was based on his belief that failure to advertise the ordinance Corporation
lengthy opinion, held that the ordi{nance is legal and that City officials have nothing to worry about.
Rush Raised Question .
Ordinarily, City Hall fund trans{fers are rarely questioned, and this one would not have been questioned if it had not been made in such a (rush. It transferred the $10,000 from the Park Department's gaso‘line tax fund for materials to temporary salaries and wages. : The Mayor ordered immediate! advertisement of the proposed] $10,000 fund transfer and indicated a new ordinance would be drawn by the Legal Department and submit- | ted for Council appreval Oct. 21. Council agreed to suspend the rules on the plea of Albert H. Gisler, Park Board vice president, that! the $10.000 was needed “immediate-| ly” to finance repair of boulevards.
“Temporary Wages” Sought
In a five-page brief, copiously documented, Mr. Knight concluded: the following about the $10,000: “Ordinances merely transferring funds from one item .to another item which do not increase the total amount budgeted for such department no longer require a notice to taxpayers and the approval of the State Board of Tax Commissioners.” The transfer is planned within the Park Board's gasoline: tax accounts. The money would pe taken out of the materials fund and de(Continued on Page Three)
Liberal Giving
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BULLETIN A total of $96,214.76 was reported by Community Fund workers at their report meeting in the Claypool Hotel. This brings to $206,586.83 the total reported thus far in the drive and represents 30 per cent of the fund goal. Rapidly increasing numbers of Indianapolis residents today wore a red feather in their hat, the symbol that they have given to the Community Fund in its five-day-old drive for $688,500. As the drive gained momentum, leaders were confident that workers’ reports during a luncheon in the Claypool Hotel today will show more than $200,000 pledged. Pledges of $110,372 were reported Wednes-
U.S. ATTORNEY
SINCE '33, DEAD
Victim of Heart Attack; Eulogized by Leaders in Many Fields.
Val Nolan, United States District Attorney since 1933, died unexpectedly early today at the Robert W. Long Hospital.
For several days Mr. Nolan, who was 48, had suffered from what he thought was nervous indigestion and had remained at home all week. Shortly before noon yesterday, he suffered a painful attack and called a physician, who suggested he go to the hospital for a checkup. At the hospital, his illness was diagnosed as heart trouble. His
condition rapidly became worse and |
he died at 12:45 a. m. Wife at Bedside
» With him when he died weré his wife, Mrs. Jeannette Nolan, prominent novelist and short story writer, and their elder son, Val Jr, a student at Indiana University.
Besides his wife and elder son, Mr. Nolan is survived by another son, Alan; a daughter, Kathleen; his mother, Mrs. John J. Nolan, and a brother, Eugene Nolan, Evansville, Funeral services have been set tentatively for 8 a. m. Monday at St. Benedict's Church, Evansville. The body is to be taken to Evansville probably late today and will
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{remain at the mother’s home until
the hour of the services.
The flag at Indiana University, in|
Bloomington, was ordered at halfstaff until after the services, and university officials joined with the
| District Attorney’s friends here and
throughout the state in paying tribute to his character and ability.
Had Medical Checkup
Mr. Nolan's death came as a shock to his friends and associates who were unaware he had been ill. They recalled that only a few months ago he received a complete medical checkup and later announced his condition had been found perfect. He had been active in Democratic politics since his youth. In recent vears he had been subjected to considerable pressure to enter state politics as a candidate for Governor or U. S. Senator. For several months Mr. Nolan had
nursed a desire to resign his posi- | tion and return to the private prac- |
tice of law. However, he told friends, he was deeply interested in several pending Federal Court matters, including the WPA fraud case and the Two Per Cent Club investigation, and felt he should stay on the job until these were disposed of. A robust, distinguished appearing man, Mr. Nolan stood out in any gathering, despite his natural modesty. He thoroughly enjoyed addressing a jury, and was deeply interested in the human side of Federal Court ‘cases.
Friends recall that he always was |
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FOOTBALL BULLETIN: FINE DAY TOMORROW
Bureau Predicts Fair Skies, 70-Degree Temperature.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a. oo] 20 10 a. m.. a. «0 311 a.m a. .... 5% 12 (noon) .. a. le ipm..... 7
Tomorrow is going to be a good day for the football games in Indiana, the Weather Bureau assured fans today. The weather will be fair both tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures about kick-off time tomorrow will be about the same as today, a comfortable 65 to 70 degrees.
Swells Fund
As Drive Gains Momentum
“Early reports indicate a trend
scriptions from those who did not give a year ago,” General Chairman Harold B. Tharp said. “We are hoping that this continues for we have a gigantic task ahead of us.” With the special gifts division's job of raising about $110,000 near
{completion, subscriptions during the
‘remainder of the campaign must come from individual donors. Volunteers have until Oct. 24 to complete their canvass of residential districts and industrial and mercantile establishments. In most of the factories and business places, employees have been designated to contact fellow workers. The drive is not yet old enough for them to have sompleted
day. ¥ 4
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their task.
‘McCarty St.,
Combat Car
Has 4 Guns
And Can Travel 100 M.P.H.
Aw type anti-aircraft combat car equipped with three machine guns and a cannon and capable of more than 100 miles an hour
drive as an auto.
is industrial skill’s latest contribution to the nation’s arms. Built of .50 caliber bullet-proof armor plate and glass, and rolling along on bullet-proof tires, the car climbs grades of 50 per cent inclination, plows through mud, sand and broken ground. cruising range of 225 miles at 70 miles an hour.
It has a “And it's as easy to
The Tucker combat car .
. cannon in turret, three machine guns in car.
HE car is designed as an arm of defense against low-flying air-
craft on ground-strafing missions.
Its armament, speed, maneu-
verability and bullet-proof construction make it always ready for in-
stant use.
Designed by Preston Tucker of Ypsilanti, Mich., test models
have ‘been completed ahd plans are being made for mass construction. Construction utilizes the most modern steel process—arc welding—
which actually makes the car bullet-proof.
Welding does away with
bolts and rivets which become worse than projectiles when driven
into a tank by heavy gunfire.
The body of the combat car, which is camouflaged, is made up of
10 arc-welded sections.
Radiator angles are so constructed that bullet
penetration is almost impossible. The car has a 200-horse power mo-
tor, seven-speell transmission.
The car can go ...
here it is in action.
DRAFT APPEAL BOARDS NAMED
Townsend Sends His List of Appointees to President For Approval.
Governor Townsend today an-
nounced the names of the 62 men
whom he has recommended to
President Roosevelt for appointment as members of the Selective Draft appeal boards for Indiana. The appeal boards will rule on protests by registrants against the claksifications ‘into which they have been placed by "the local draft boards. Their decisions will be final unless overruled by the President. There will be one appeal board for each of the state's 12 Congressional districts. 12th District Personnel
The personnel of the 12th District. Appeal Board, as recommended by Governor Townsend, is: HOWARD JOHNSON, R. R. 16, Box 633, farmer. CHARLES H. BRADLEY, 545 W. industrialist. JULIUS C. TRAVIS, 3107 College Ave., attorney. CARL VESTAL, 426 N. Tibbs Ave. financial secretary of the Bridge Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers Union 22. JOSEPH E. WOOD, 4802 Madison Ave., labor leader.
toward increased giving and sub-|
DR. C. J. CLARK, 6325 Bellefontaine St., physician. Mr. Johnson farms the farm his father left to him in Washington Township. He is about 60 and has one married daughter. He is on the AAA board in the county and is a leader in the soil conservation prograrn. Former Bank Cashier
Mr. Bradley has been president of W. J. Holliday & Co. since 1932. He came to Indianapolis in 1922, upon. graduation from Yale University, and at one time was cashier
|of the Sixteenth Street State Bank,
then a subsidiary of the Fletcher Trust Co. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He served as a private in the Ma(Continued on Page Five)
SHIRLEY AND M-G-M DISCUSS COMEBACK
HOLLYWOOD, Oct: 11 (U. P).— Shirley Temple, who earned $3,000,000 in the movies before retiring at the age of 11, today was reported making a comeback. She is negotiating through her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Temple, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a contract to play in at least two pictures a year, it was said. Spokesmen for M-G-M admitted that the
neppHiations were under way in : . 4
Elsa Plans Last Party for Hitler
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (U. P.).— Elsa Maxwell said today that she wants to give just one more party —and then she’s through with “such trivia.” This final fling would be for Hitler, and on Hitler, she said, and would do more good than all her other parties combined. Declaring that in these “wartorn times” the fun of giving parties was “simply nothing compared to the joys of patriotism,” Miss Maxwell outlined a happy-go-lucky party plan to make Hitler die laughing. “I'd hold. the party in a glass room—flowers everywhere—a dinner of vegetables and stewed
prunes. A German band would play the funeral march from Gotterdammerung — that's Wagner, you know—and invite some pure Nordic blondes and all the Hitler henchmen,” she said. “While the music was playing I'd seal up the door—and pump in lethal laughing gas. Then—Hitler and his gang would die, laughing for the first time in their lives.”
INDIANA GUARD | NO
PART OF THIRD ARMY
Included in Fifth Corps; to Train in South.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, —Indiana National Guard troops now are part of the Fifth Corps of the Third Army, a War Department announcement of complete Army reorganization revealed today. Under the new orders the old Corps Areas are abolished, and the
Third Army also includes the Fourth
and Eighth Corps.
The Third Army is in command
of Lieut. Gen. Herbert J. Brees with headquarters at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. - The Fifth, Corps command is under Maj. Gen. Campbell B. Hodges with headquarters at Camp Beauregard, La. When called into active Service in January, the Indiana National Guard will train at Camp Shelby, Miss. This is the 38th Division assignment. Assignments of 24 general officers today included transfer of Brig. Gen. Ralph Talbot Jr. from his present duty as Chief of Staff of the Fifth Division at Ft. Benjamin Harrison to the Sixth | Division at Des Moines. The War Department’s reorganization orders are designed to meet command and training problems arising from a regular and conscription army of 1,400,009 men, t
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‘ish Empire, the point of immediate concern for bo
British Bomb Ruhr
: NAZI PLANES ROAR OVER RUMANIA
VAL NOLAN 48.
GERMANS MASS AND GIVE AIR MIGHT SHOW
Moscow Paper Pravda Denies Having Any Reason for Conflict With Reich; Kennedy Has Narrow Escape.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Nazi war planes roaring over Rumania heightened fear of a showdown in the Balkans or the Near East today as Great Britain and Germany fought on with relentless fury in the air. Flying low over Bucharest, more than 150 German warcraft, including dive-bombers, gave Rumanjans a stern warning of Nazi air power as high ranking German air officers arrived in the capital. : The complete control of the German military over the: oil-producing Balkan state appeared to be strongly estab lished, but both Moscow and Berlin insisted that there was no clash of interests between Soviet Russia and Germany in the southeast and diplomatic reports of a possible Axis thrust toward Greece or Turkey remained unconfirmed.
No Reason for Clash, Pravda Says The Moscow Communist newspaper Pravda published a long editorial emphasizing that there was no reason for conflict between Russia and. Germany, despite the Soviet’s great interest in the Dardanelles. The thrusting of a German spearhead into the southe east, however, added to the difficulties of Britain, in the midst of unceasing air war with the Reich. While British diplomatic representatives were. leaving or preparing to leave Rumania in anticipation of a break in relations, British bombers were pounding with tons of high explosive bombs at Nazi bases on the French coast, the big naval stations and ship yards of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven (where fires were reported) and at scores of other targets such as war factories, airdromes and oil depots. : Hamburg also was bombed heavily by the British and at least 21 persons were killed in the raids. British warships briefly shelled Cherbourg.
Bomb Falls Near Kennedy's home German sources admitted widespread British offensive action, including attacks on the heavy industrial region of the Ruhr. The German attacks on Britain continued steadily after another night of terror in which a bomb fell near the resi dence of U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and German Messerschmitt dive-bombers showered explosives on the ancient English town of Canterbury and shattered stained glass windows in Canterbury Cathedral. In view of the recent and often-repeated threats by the Axis press of an offensive on many fronts against the BritLondon and the small Balkan countries such as Greece‘and Jugoslavia was the Nazi military move into Rumania. Germany was massing huge quantities of war materials in Rumania but continued to insist that suggestions of a drive toward Turkey were British propaganda.
Soviet Forces Reported Digging In However, Russian sources in Rumania exhibited nervousness over the acceleration of Nazi moves in that country, Great tows of barges were reported moving down the Dane ube, bringing German troops with full war equipment toe prand Rumania and the Black Sea. : Reports from Russian-occupied Bessarabia said that Soviet forces were digging in defensively along the Rue manian border. There was no word of Russian troop moves ments. Germany was said to have sent $82,500,000 worth of arms and munitions into Rumania, representing an amoung equal to one-fourth of the Rumanian national budget. London reported great difficulty in communicating (Continued on Page Three)
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON
United Press War Expert
Movements of German troops down the Danube into Rumania seem designed as a test to feel out the attitudes of Russia and Turkey toward wider Axis action in the Balkans and possibly an offensive against the Dardanelies. The totalitarian dictators will have to be assured especially of Stalin's position, before further pressure in southeastern Europe can be safely applied. Russia may be said to hold the key to imme= diate future developments, and up to the present Russian responses to the strengthening of German military forces in Rumania must be per= plexing to Rome and Berlin, Reinforcements have been sent to] the Crimea on th: Black Sea, whose has been suggested recently from principal port, Sebastapol, now has| Axis sources that Germany is willnightly blackouts. = At the same ing: to agree to Russian seizure of time the defenses of the Baku oil! territory in northeastern Turkey if fields on the Caspian Sea are being | Stalin will agree to further Italoe strengthened. German expansion in the Balkans. The Slavs thus appear to be pre-| If the present aims of Germany paring for a possible emergency,iand Italy ' contemplate action in while reports from Turkey indicate|Jugoslavia alone, Russia might ree increasing friendliness in Russo- main quiescent, though it was RusTurkish relations, Neverthelgss, it (Continued on Page Three) — ¢
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