Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 1

Page PDF (12.63 MB)

Back to issue view

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness and warmer tonight and tomorrow,

FINAL HOME

VOLUME 52—NUMBER 190

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,

Indianapolis,

PRICE THREE CENTS

Matter Ind.

Hamburg in Ruins, Vital Nazi Plants Crippled,

British Claim

INVASION ARMY BLASTED OFF SHIPS

Gallup Poll Shows

Willkie Gaining But FD. R Far in Front

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

RINCETON, N. J., Oct. 18.—The trend toward President

; Roosevelt which began in August and has continued week by week since then, has been halted and reversed in : the American Institute of Public Opinion’'s latest complete national poll on the Presidency. In interviewing conducted throughout the 438 states between Oct. 2 and Oct. 14 the Institute found an increase of 1 per cent in Mr. Willkie's popular vote throughout the country, and a shift’ of five states from the Rooseveli column to the Willkie column, This is the first time since the Institute's first poll after the neminating conventions that Mr, Roosevelt has shown a loss. The race, which the Institule has pointed out from the beginning, is a close contest, becomes even closer in terms of the popular vote. In terms of electoral. votes Mr.

Roosevelt still has a marked advantage over his opponent. ¥ 2 on : 8 8 =» HE five states which shifted to Willkie since the previous poll Oct. 6 were Illinois. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, with a total of 85 electoral votes.

Mr, Roosevelt

The trend is as follows: TODAY'S POLL

Popular Vote Electoral Vote .,...c.eo0evveessrssnsces No. of States ..oevevcoesstrocssscescne

Willkie 45% 117 11

Roosevelt 55% 414 37

seve ss essere rassee

OCT. 6 POLL Popular Vote Electoral Vole ....e00i.000iivasesecnne "No. of States ...ccconveeetccseccnncces

44% 32 6

56% 499 42

e000 s0s 0st esr ssOeD

Mr. Willkié's greatest gains in popular vote came in ihe mid-West area, although, they are fairlv widespread throughout the country. The average “undecided” vote for the nation is 9 per cent, unchanged from last time. This represents about 4,000,000 voters. ; The Republican candidate recorded gains in 34 states in this survey. President Roosevelt picked up

MUST ANSWER FALSEHOODS, F..R. CLAIMS

‘Willkie Not Telling True | Facts, He Charges; Maps 5-Speech Campaign. |

Without mentioning Mr. Willkie! #8 by name, Mr, Roosevelt asserted at a press conference that his opponent! § is falsifying major issues in a man-| ner which is deliberate rather than unwitting. | Because of this, Mr. Roosevelt said, he has been forced to abandon’ his silence in the campaign and § | schedule five major addresses be-| tween Oct. 23 and election day| which will presen: the *‘true facts” to the American people. | Defense Tours to Continue He recalled that in his July 19 ad- | ; dress accepting the third term nomi- | nation, he told the Democratic con-| vention that he would have “neither | the time nor the inclination” to} engage in political activities. But in that same address, he recalled, he promised to reply to any “de-| liberate or unwitting falsification of fact.” A “systematic program” of such i falsifications now has developed, Mr. | Roosevelt said. | His trips to make the addresses, Mr. Rocsevelt said, will include inspection tours of nearby defense! projects. He said that despite the! returned today with this semi-official character of such trips, escaped: he will have the Democratic Com-

| i

{

Dr. James V. Sparks and his wife

Marvels at

By JOE

‘Hitler's Lost—Who's Won?

Dr. Sparks, Home From War,

“Hitler's lost, but God knows who's won.”

DRAFTEES GET YEAR'S RELIEF ONTHER BILLS

Moratorium for Training ~ Period Affects Rents,

Contracts. (Local Draft.Story, Page Four)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U, P.).— | President Roosevelt today signed | legislation which, in effect, will give Army trainees under the Selective E | Service Act a moratorium on the ‘| payment of debts and other obliga- | tions. The measure specifically provides; {that the courts may suspend the] | operation of contracts, leases, and| = other civil obligations of draftees] # | who are unable to continue payiments out of their $30-a-month |service pay. Its principal provisions: ! | RENT, INSTALLMENT CON-, { TRACTS, MORTGAGES—Eviction | | from dwellings rented by conscripts | (will not be permitted where the| (rent is $80 or less a month. In- | stallment-purchased goods may not | be repossessed during the period of | military service unless the draftee | agrees to such action, Mortgages may not be foreclosed while the draftee is in service.

Life Insurance Affected

LIFE INSURANCE—Policies up! to $5000 will be kept in force ty! the Veterans administration during the draftee’s term of service. In| return, the United States would {hold liens against the policies until | the draftee repays the Veterans Ad- | ministration TAXES—When a draftee can prove his inability to pay taxes. no

| | |

| |

. « » have seen the war first hand.

British M orale

COLLIER

Dr. James V. Sparks, for 20 years a Hoosier expatriate in France, tax sales of his property could be succinct statement~on the war he only recently

‘held until after he has completed {his service. In cases where the] | property is sold by local authorities

[TLER TROOPS OUTED SEPT. 16, ONDON LEARNS

| BULLETIN MADRID, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Ramon Serrano Suner, friends of the Axis powers, assumed office as Spain's For» : eign Minister today and warned that Spain “must not lose a single moment” in coming to grips with world affairs.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Germany reported sporadic naval, aerial and long-range artillery stabs at Great Britain today as London officials belatedly published a story from neutral sources of how Royal Air Force bombs blasted a Nazi invasion fleet eme barking troops on the French coast. The reports of the British counter-blow against Adolf Hitler's invasion program Sept. 16 came during a come parative lull in night and daylight aerial bombardment of Britain, which officially reported that 6954 civilians were killed and 10,615 wounded seriously during September. That toll appeared to have been greatly increased by heavy October raids. Even today London was digging furiously into the debris of wrecked buildings and air raid shelters to save trapped civilians. : 170 Rescued from Two Shelters One group of 170 persons was rescued alive from two London shelters hit by a bomb during the night and the work was still in progress in an effort to ‘reach others, including children. The Air Ministry also disclosed that a big Sunderland

in 12 states, most of them in the New England area. In two states there was no change. By all Institute standards. this race is close. The average “undecided” vote for the nation is 9 per cent, unchanged from the last time. This represents about

mittee pay the travel costs as a] matter of “ethics.” Considers Batlimore Date Possibility arose that both he and]

| Willkie may appear in Baltimore on)

Dr. Sparks, a dentist who organized and commanded the American for non-payment of taxes. the flying boat had rescued 21 survivors of a torpedoed ship, Ambulance Corps in France for the duration of the war, said that it draftee could reclaim it not less 1, 0t did not identify the vessel is his opinion that while Germany's than six months after 1Ly .

’

re-entering

airplane production is waning, that civil life.

The Berlin High Command previously had said that of England is increa$ing. 17 Million Registered

. 4,000,000 votes. It ranges from 17 p to 8 per cent in five other states. change of only 35.000 votes in a

Massachusetts would throw the Institute's figures to

the Willkie column. Conversely, a votes could put Wisconsin's 19 elec Roosevelt column.

er cent in Nevada For instance, a state as large as

change of 15,000

toral votes in the Mr. Willkie

Because of the volatility of public opinion under the impact of

the same night—Oct. 30. He said that the Baltimore date still is a possibility, and he left that statement stand after he was reminded that Mr. Willkie will he speaking in Baltimore that same night. Last night the President sent a telegram to Mayor F. H. La

{ |

POWDER PLANT TOBE DOUBLED

Moreover, he said, people are be-| AUTOMOBILES AND TRACginning to wonder why the -Ger| TORS— Placed in a special .catewi jenny gory. Cars and tractors could not two experimental landings of Arid lig Fi Ie amie ta Dr. Sparks said, and in each case|contract price. the landing forces were annihilated. Tn all cases, the draftees would

An attempt on Sept. 16 Was be required to pay up accumulated

paid more than 50 per cent of total

German dsstroyers and speed boats raiding the British ‘coast sank a warship, two merchantmen and two tankers, An official London cemmunique, however, said that a British cruiser and British aircraft yesterday chased four German destroyers into the harbor at Brest, France, after an air and naval encounter 100 miles off Land's End.

events such as those reported in the press daily, this Presidential | Guardia of New York, who read it War Department Approves . (Continued on First Page, Second Section) at a political rally in Pittsburgh yas ised Additional 26 Million for

last night. Mr. Roosevelt tele-| Charlestown Unit.

graphed: ‘There have been so sonally correct these misstatements] WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).

stopped before it embarked, the debts after the terminations of British ‘reported today. service. : “But the English are too clever) Mr. Roosevelt signed the bill, to let the world, particularly the which supplements the general reGerman people at home, know lief provisions of the Conscription that,” Dr. Sparks said. “Instead, Act, shortly after draft officials

wthey continually harp on their (Continued on Page Five)

New Head of Home Fleet Named In connection with the reported breakup of the Ger ‘man invasion fleet, the London Air Ministry said that Royal Air Force planes had disrupted German plans by almost

many misstatements in this cam-| paign that I am determined to per-|

The 'Undecided Vote' Important Matter

The "undecided vote in the states outside the solid South is

and to give the true facts to the! —The War Department has ap-

as follows: Nevada, 17 per cent; Arizona, 15 per cent; Montana, Delaware, Connecticut, 14 per cent; Rhode Island, Iowa, North Dakota, 13 per cent; Vermont, New Jersey, Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, 12 per cent: Idaho, Colorado, Missouri, South Dakota, Iilinois, 11 per cent; New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Oregon, 10 per cent; Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wyoming, 9 per cent; Maine, Pennsylvania, Kansas, California, Washington, 8 per cent.

‘SINK OR SWIM" | WITH NEW DEAL

That's the Message Given Voters by Senator Minton, Schricker at Rally. | hands and legs as they playfully

By NOBLE REED | and unsuccessfully attempted to The - Democratic Party in Indi- | ignite the freshman home-coming ; i j i | bonfire. ana, through its major candidates, | : has pledged to follow 100 per cent A few hours later a band of

on Deal philosophy of | Butler students were dispersed the entire New Deal ph phy My Wabash undergraduates when government without a single reser-

: the former tried to paint sidevation. Gan | walks and buildings on the Crawarty chieftains and the whole, tl i ol or Yd. file of candidates have) Rane campus. It was report tosed their political eggs into one:

Butler -W abash Pranksters Hurt

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Pranks of Butler and Wabash University students—tomorrow’s football ‘rivals—resulted in painful buns to two Wabash sophomores here last night. Robert Ochiltree, 19, Indianapolis, and Robert Jacoby, 20, Logansport, . were burned on

people.” He leaves tonight for Hyde Park, where he will have the Earl of Athlone, governor general of Canada, as | week-end: guest. | Wendell L. Willkie, Republican | presidential candidate, simply will maintain the pace of his current | effort which has been at the rate of (Continued on Page Six)

| { knowledge that the German troops! | proved an additional allotment of | 5pe massed and equipped for the | $26,000,000 to double the capacity of great landing effort and that the the new smokeless powder plant be-| eather can be only a slight drawST loc - | back. : built in Charlestown, Ind., Sen | "They leave unasked the question (D. Ind) «why don’t the Germans come?’ And the people, here and elsewhere, ask the question to themselves, and then speculate, ‘Has Hitler lost his nerve?’ “In addition to that, the Germans at have gone about their bombing of

ONE WEEK LEFT IN FUND DRIVE

Workers Hope Pledges To-

the |

Wabash students had |

| Charlestown, across the Ohio River | from Louisville, Ky. The original plant is under construction now and it will be several months before it is completed. The new allotment will permit eventual doubling the output of the plant which originally was started at 200.000 pounds daily. : This was one of the steps in the War Department's program speeding establishment of a vast munitions industry. It was learned it has allocated $550,000,000 of the $774,000,000 Congress set aside for this purpose. Army officials said most of the contracts have been signed. Within the next few weeks it is expected that virtually all appropriated funds will be obligated. Aircraft and powder factories are most urgently needed, officials said.

HILLIS GOES INTO FACTORY AREAS

Republican Nominee Prom- " ises Honesty and Efficiency | . On Whirlwind Tour.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM His voice husky and his hand{shaking arm weary, Glen R. Hillis, [the Republican nominee for Gov- | ernor, was optimistic over the elec- | tion outlook today as he resumed his | intensive two-day vote seeking cam- | paign here. The nominee estimated that in his {11 hours of campaigning yesterday

of |

day Will Boost Campaign Beyond $400,000.

England in a spectacular fashion, whereas the English have been business like about bombing Germany. “The Germans hit hospitals and

continuous bombing raids on communications and industria} centers. - : “Invasion plans,” said the Air Ministry, “were not adopted because of the sustained offensive of the R. A. F.» The Air Ministry presented a detailed report of damage to German war-making capacity. The general postoffice, the Lehrter railway station and freight yards and military factories in Berlin have been damaged badly, it was said, Traffic between the Rhineland and Berlin has thrown into confusion, the British claimed, with a normal 12-hour journey requiring three days.

been

I schools and London buildings. The | English hit rail centers, munitions (plants and real military objectives. | I don’t believe the wonderful morale. [oF the British can ever be downed.! “But—and here is the sad thing--suppose the war should drag on for itwo or three years at a standoff land both Germany and England should become totally exhausted. Then, couldn’t Russia step in and take them both and France to boot?” ' Dr. Sparks said that several pre(Continued on Page Six)

CLOUDY, WARMER WEEK-END’S FARE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

BULLETIN Pledges to the Community Fund today totaled $414,040.81 when workers reported new donations of $90,919.32 at a luncheon in the Claypool Hotel. The total is 60.1 per cent of the $688,500 | goal. i With $323,121.49 of their $688,500 goal pledged after two weeks Of work, volunteers in the Community! Fund campaign will make their] fifth report in the Claypool Hotel at noon today. | Drive leaders, hoping that the, goal will he reached for the first, time in eight years, expected to-| day's report to swell .subscriptions| to. $400,000 or more. The workers have less than a]

Transport both by railroad and by the extensive syse tem of- German inland waterways has been disrupted, the British said, while severe damage has been inflicted upon : German petroleum refineries and synthetic oil plants.

London Has Easy Night ~ Changes in the command of the British fleet were announced. The Admiralty said Vice Admiral John C. Tovey had been appointed commander-in-chief of the home fleet with rank of Admiral. He succeeds Sir Charles Forbess. Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood was appointed Lord Commissioner. of the Admiralty and assistant chief of tha naval staff succeeding Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake,

Admiral Harwood was in command of the cruisers Exeter, : (Continued on Page Six)

hacket—the New Deal—to sink or Sone to Indianapolis on a similar asSkEl— - {

swim on that label at the polls, Nov. 5.

mission earlier this week.

{he met, from the platform or at factory gates, about 7000 persons, land that he shook hands and ex-

Only two plants are producing gunpowder — the Government-owned Picatinny Arsenal, Picatinny, N. J,

6am ....42 10am... 51 “Tam ....143 lam ....54 8am. .... 45 12 (noon) .. 54

week left to make solicitations and are being asked by chiefs of their

That campaign strategy was made plain above all others by Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker _ Governor candidate, and U. S. Sen-. atof Sherman Minton, seeking reelection, in two hours of fiery ora-| tory at Tomlinson Hall last night. | An estimated 4000 persons] cheered the speakers as they chal-| lenged Republican candidates to “offer a better program for the| American people than the one cre-! ated by President Roosevelt.” | Mr. Schricker said he had been| erroneously accused of shunning (Continued on Page Five)

BUSINESS FEAR CUTS JOBS, WILLKIE SAYS

Charges F. D. R. Would Send Soldiers to Europe.

(Partial text of St. Louis address, Page 27)

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Wendell L. Willkie lashed at New Deal policies toward business today, charging that it had so scared private capital that money for new, job making enter-

TIMES FEATURES

ON INSIDE PAGES

sss ene

Autos .. Clapper ....-.- . Comics .. Crossword ... Editorials .... Financial .... Forum ... 22, Homemaking. In Indpls. .... Inside Indpls.. Jane Jordan.. Johnson <..ea evosnd

i prises had been reduced more than

and the du Pont establishment near Wilmington, Del. Officials - were confident that by Nov. 1, contracts providing for Government financing of all remaining aircraft plants contemplated will be signed and ground broken for several of them.

|changed personal greetings with ‘nearly half of them. - : . Rolling out of bed at the crack of dawn, after about three hours’ Isleep, Mr. Hillis: went to the | Schwitzer-Cummins plant at 6:30 a. m. today and spent the next half (Continued or Page Five)

various divisions not to take a week-end holiday. } : They will report again at lunch{eons in the Claypool Monday and Wednesday and fnen conclude the campaign with a report at a dinner at 6 p. m. Thursday. i Harold B. Tharp, general chairman, repeated his plea to the so-

9a. m. ...+49 ip.m. .... 54

Considerable cloudiness = and warmer tonight and tomorrow was the Weatherman’s special football day prediction. Temperatures indicate we are having typical autumn and gridiron weather.

| Indianapolis and Marion County |slowly under ground and that while | today combined their fire-fighting | no blaze was visible, the entire area resources and manpower in an at- | was covered by smoke. ‘tempt to extinguish a three-weeks| Fire Department officials believed peat bog fire at 59th St. and Key- that flooding the bog was the only | stone Ave., which has been blanket- effective way of extinguishing the

Street Flushers Sent to N. Side Peat Bog To Help Firemen Flood Underground Blaze

{ licitors to strive to contact new donors and to urge those who have contributed in the past to give more.

LEGION-SPONSORED STUDENT WON'T SIGN

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 (U. PJ). —Sturge Steinert, 21, attending Temple University on an American

The plan is to fill Street Department flushers with water at the hydrant, drive the flushers to the

edge of the swamp and pump the

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert

It is easy to understand the rising German anger at Japanese restraint during the present serious phase of international devolopments in the Orient, as reported today by the newspaper Frij Nederland, organ of the free Holland government in London, Pressure upon Japan to try to dissipate American help to Britain is now one of the primary objectives of Nazi strategy, regardless of the resultant danger to the Japanese people of war with the United States, The most important contribution Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop could make to Germany's cause in Europe would be to involve America and Japan in hostilities while at the same time keeping the United States out of the European con-{—————— ——— — flict. This is the strategic ideal of Hitler to try Oriental policy for the German foreign office which requires careful watching.

Mr. Mason

to incite Japan to challenge America in the Pacific, ‘and divert some British strength

28, 29.

21 State Deaths. 35/ , (Continued on Page Six)

{90 per cent since 1930. Mr. Willkie moved deeper into in smoke. Missouri today, following his address gy. Department pumpers, auxililast night in St. Louis, during 4,y tanks and Street Department which he charged that President fj shers were ordered into service Roosevelt, if re-elected, would send, to" flood the entire bog, which ofAmerican ‘soldiers to fight in Eu- fcijals estimated exceeded 100 acres. rope, . : : The bog, famed as Bacon's Tonight he will speak in Spring- swamp, won local notoriety a few field, IIL hen the WPA attempted Summarizing the campaign before an estimated 13.- it,

{ | years ago w.

Each time the road was com-

1000 to 20,000 persons from the base pleted it would sink into the swamp. | nearest hydrant is at 54th St. and|the swamp between 52d and 59th H.| Arsenal Ave. which is more than|Sts. from Keystone Ave. west to the

‘of a statue of Jefferson on the steps |

Assistant Fire Chief Harry Fulmer said the peat was burning * ;

ling an area of several square miles 'slow-burning peat, but they were]

{ water through short, powerful hoses.

Legion scholarship he won by writ-|

'not sure that even this method job is dangerous since workmen puties of an American Citizen Un-

{would work. Safety Board President Leroy | Keach, Street Commissioner Wilbur | Winship and Chief Fulmer said they had been deluged with com|plaints: of Northeast residents against the clouds of smoke. | The chief difficulty in combating

Presidential several times to build a road across the, fire, Chief Fulmer said, is the|five hours.

lack of nearby fire hydrants. The

3000. feet away, WF

| preparing the hose lines must thread (their way along solid ground to] | avoid sinking in the bog, Chief Ful-| [met said. | Equipment will be taken to the {edge of the swamp this afternoon {and streams of water will be played {over the burning area for about

that the fire area was a portion of

Monon Railroad

tracks,

“

der the Constitution,” today reiterated his refusal to register for the draft. The student, in a letter to the Philadelphia Selective Service Advisory Board, said that he had “no excuse” and was making “no plea,”

Chief Fulmer estimated |but that the Government did not the output of American factories

have the right to tell men “whether or not they may kill,” Steinert's scholarship was sponsored by: the Legion's Americanism Committee,

from Europe and the Middle East

lengthen, it is inevitable that even- by further involving Japan with {tually the combined production of the British Empire. German efforts | weapons, munitions and planes in to bring about an understanding | Great Britain and ‘the United States between Japan and Russia have this | will surpass the output of Germany objective as their main purpose. so (and the German-occupied countries.!as to give Japan more freedom of |The German high command can action. : . visualize no victory under that con-| There are several ways of chale dition, except possibly by diverting|lenging America that Germany can {show to Japan. The most obvious would be for Japan to try to seize the Dutch East Indies and then place an embargo on exports dese (Continued on Page, Six)

As the European war continues to

| irom Europe to the Far East. | From the German point of view. therefore, the longer the war goes on, the more vital will it Yemal