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THURSDAY, JULY 17,

AR GENERALS

Andrews Given Caribbean, Harms to Command at Newfoundland.

By CARLES T. LUCEY TiYies Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 17.— The ‘War Department, in an important concession to the growing domi-

nance of aviation in warfare, has placed Maj. Gen. Frank M. An-

drews, one of the Army’s best air-|,

men, in charge of the vital PanamaCaribbean defense area. It is the first time an aviator has been given command of land as well as air components in an area of such importance. The War Department's move came as the Senate Military Affairs . Committee was considering an ap"peal made yesterday by Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) on behalf of his bill to create a Department of Aviation, in which existing Army and Navy Air Forces would be united. Vote Postponed

Senator Albert B. Chandler (D. Ky.), a member of the Committee, joined Senator McCarran in urging hearings on the measure. He moved for appointment of a subcommittee to conduct the investigation, but a vote was delayed until a later time,

Senator Warren R. Austin (R. Vt.)

and other committee members in-|

dicated favor for hearings but proposed that the whole committee, rather than a subcommittee, conduct them. Senator Chandler was agreeable to this. ? The appointment of Gen. Andrews was the adoption by the Army

been very successful with the Germans—assigning of air officers to command forces in which air power is the vital striking force.

Returns to Midwest

The same consideration was foilowed in naming Brig. Gen. Henry W. Harms, an air officer, to command United States forces in Newfoundland. _ Gen. Andrews will take over Sept. 10 from Lieut. Gen. Daniel Van Voorhis, a cavalryman. Gen. Van Voorhis will return to the command of the Fifth Corps Area, relieving Maj. Gen. Clement A. Trott, who will leave active duty

reaching the age of 64 on Oct. 1. The Fifth Corps Area includes Indiana. Devers to Ft. Knox

Another very important shift was the appointment of Maj. Gen. Jacob L. Devers to command the expanding armored forces at Ft. Knox, Ky. He will replace Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, one of the earliest proponents of Army mechanization! Gen. Chaffee is now absent from his command because of illness. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, commander of the Sixth Corps Area, Chicago, will command the Fifth Division at Ft. Custer, Mich. He replaces Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Cummins, who becomes the new Sixth Cerps commander. Most of the generals given more important assignments yesterday were in their 50’s—Gen. Andrews is Sram replace colleagues ‘in their 0's.

Now They Try Io "Lend-Lease Ickes

NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P.).— The Brooklyn chapter of the America - First Committee proposed to Secretary of Commerce Harold L. Ickes today that he go on a six months’ “smear” tour of the country and then “lend-lease” himself to the British Government for a flight to Germany ‘a Ia Hess.” A letter to Ickes,” signed by William T. Leonard, executive chairman of the Brooklyn chapter, said it was the consensus of 130 chairmen from “key cities” that the commerce secretary was “the best asset the America First Committee has.”. “The Brooklyn chapter would appreciate it if you would tour the country with your smear attacks on - the members of the {America First Committee, Col. (Charles. A) Lindbergh and Senator Burton K. Wheeler and the 80 per cent of the American people who want no war, ” the letter said. The Brooklyn chapter offered to furnish “an extra large black pot and an extra long smear brush that will be big enough to carry

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MY [had raged at three other points sub- ® |sided during the night : relative change of position, a Rus-

E | engaged.

in charge. struction. Co. of Indianapolis, who

four families. Each unit has three in every way.

before the beginning 4 of work on the

And on Aug. Government. Nineteen of the buildings are d room units to accomodate 75 families. A maintenance building and pump house with a 50,000-gallon elevated tank and tower were also built. Indianapolis firms have been supplying the materials an¢d Indianapolis labor is being used. There are 303 on the pay roll. All told, 460,000 feet of lumber will be used and all materials are used up as fast as they arrive at the site. The Marion Development Co. of Indianapolis is the contractor. This is one of three defense housing projects in southern Indiana. The’ others are at New Albany and Jeffersonville. More may be put up later, it’ is reported. They will. provide homes for workers in the powder plant and affiliated defense industries in that area.’

PERU GIVES PLEDGE OF ECUADOR PEACE

LIMA, Peru, July 17 (U. P.).— Peru has accepted the offer of the good offices of the United States, Brazil and Argentina to re-establish peaceful relations with Ecuador, it was announced today. Informed sources emphasized that this does not mean Peru agrees to the mediation of its territorial dispute with Ecuador by the three countries. It was understood Peru will insist on direct negotiations with Ecuador on that issue. (Ecuador accepted the tri-power proposal Saturday, without reservations as to the method of settling

enough mud to last you for several weeks at least.”

the territorial dispute).

1—Charlestown’s $202,000 defense housing project for ordnance plant workers is nearing completion. responsible for the rapid development. Durgin Jr, Washington, Government project engineer; Earl Martin, construction superintendent, and Delbert B. Meyer, general manager Mr. Meyer is vice president of the Ostrom Realty & Con-

These three men are largely They are (left to right) F. L.

has been “loaned” for this work.

2—Putting the roof on a two-story housing unit to accommodate

bedrooms and bath, and is modern

3—The buildings will front on specially constructed roads and lawns will be laid around each unit. This is a general view of construction progress. Materials are used as rapidly as they arrive.

4—This three-family dwelling is getting the final exterior touches

inside.

20 Units, Costing $202, 000, Are Framed Within 20 Days

‘On June 20, the first lumber for Charlestown’s $202,000 defense housing project arrived and work was started. Just 20 days later, on July 10, all 20 units were completely framed. 4, the first completed building will be turned over to the

wellings, with two and three bed-

HINT ACTION AGAINST JAPANESE IN HAWAII

WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.) — Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee suggested today that Japanese Nationals in Hawaii may be “segregated,” if such a step is necessary

{to protect the Pearl Harbor naval

base against sabotage. He made the suggestion in connection wtih consideration of the Administration’s proposal for a $100,000,000 construction program of bases in the Pacific, from the Philippines to Alaska. Rep. Beverly M. Vincent (D. Ky.) asked if it were possible to deport Japanese Nationals from Hawaii as a precautionary move. “Let’s not get into deportation in this bill,” Rep. Vinson said. He added that it would be unwise to move the Naval base from Hawaii ‘merely. because of the presence of a “few or a few thousand subversive Japanese.” He said that the Navy “is trying to protect its property in Hawaii” and would segregate the Japanese if such a step was neces-

sary. Delegate Samuel W. King, Hawali’s Congressional representative, said he had no knowledge of plans to segregate the Jspansse in Hawaii.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County oly Teta] 1940 000 s0SNRNINNNNYS 31 > -

—July 16— esoes 11

Arrests ...... 43|Dead ..co0000 0

WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

: Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions paid Speeding ........ 14 13 Reckless driving... 3 3 Failure to stop at through street., 4 4 Disobeying traffic Drunken driving. 3 All others ....... 13

Totals ®e0ssccee 40

MEETINGS TODAY

poms Seve Ward Cas, 9 a m Sever n Hi

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m. Severin Hotel. |

idl oi Efate Board, noon,

ia wash of Indianapolis, noon, | ° Indians ns Athletic Club. Oil Club, noon, Severin Hotel.

Indianapolis Camera , Club 8 110 _ ®_Ninth BY , 8 p. m., cis.

pis Motor Transportation Club,

¢., noon, X's Seal Indianapolis Real te Board, after

Esta noon and night, Hillcrest Country Club.

ard - of Shuren Extension, 8:30 p. m,, |

Hotel Severi MEETINGS TOMORROW

ip Sich ange Club, noon, Hotel Severin. timist Club, noon, Columbia Club. Delta Theta, noon, Columbia Club. - Delta Tau Delta, noon, Columbia Club, Indiana: Stamp Club, 8 p. m. Hotel

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in dresses.

John C. McKinley, 23, of 718 N. Denny: Marie PapgbumL, 21, 8 of 283 9 E. New York. Harry D. Jon 20, of T05 Ma Pe Grocaenstic; Martha Ferrand, 18, of 31 9 | Hanna, Greencastle. Freeman Bradley, 21, of 440 w Wabash; Odessa Neely, 21, of oi1, 5 Capt tol. Russell A. Gal Wa of 5051 BroadJeyt Pearl I. Megen are 34, of 25 Maple ou James E. Cahill, 22, of 443 LaSalle; MilLaMar, 20, of S. Buchanan, Dan-

dred I ville, Tu. Logan D. Southfield, 28, of Joganspors: Henrietta Waul, 22, Bloosimegton Elvin E. Overton, 56, of 272 Ww. Georgia; Carrie E. Sanborn, 53, of 56 S. Holmes.

BIRTHS

Girls

Winifred, Geraldine Skidmaore, ward, Zelma Sloan, at City. Sibert. Lola Gilligan, at Cole Sees, Margaret ain, at St. Vincent's. William, Margaret Canatsey, at St. Vin

cent’s. Paul, Rub Tomlinson, at St. Vincent's. George, Vivian Harlin, at St. 4Vincent's. Jola Haris Emery, at Met Sterling, Fern Hollingsworth, i " Meth-

odis am, Mildred Carsell. at St. Francis. Robert, Dorothy Gatlen, at St. Francis. Boys

Andy, Jeanne Califar, at City. at St. : a e

at City.

ding! Theo., Ton Luthmers, at Methodist. Leo, Dorothy Wuensch, at St. Francis.

Louis; .at St. Francis,

Mary Lyons, Lous.

Wilma Rice,

Ray 324 1ton. Walter, Wanda Glover, at 515 Shelby.

DEATHS

Francis G. Schiudecker, 66, at. 1433 Union, corona occlu:

Siyiile Alta ncock, 5 at City, carcinAsidrew Moore, 41, at Long, congestive

Witijam Maloney, 48, at Veterans, endocarditis. John T. Williams, 71, at 1301 W. Michigan, coronary occ

coronary ‘thrombosis. william R. Anderson, oS; at 214 N. Walcott, gardie vascular r Karl B Kelly, 58, at 5 iH E, 36th, val.

harles Rybolt, 42, at City, Hodgkins

Tab Kuk 7 8t°310 Sanders, cas- St 1

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Edward, Mary McGinnis, at St. Fran-|t

on. Mi d, 73, at 3370 Broadway,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST:

Partly

cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; showers or thunderstorms tomorrow.

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise 4:30 Sunset

July 17, 1940— Vensimers 601 Pp. Mm. .oouese

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m......29.98

Pri Sy 3 hours ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; showers or thunderstorms tomorrow.

‘Tlinois—Partly cloudy and warmer with showers or thunderstorms tomorrow and in north and west portions tonight. Lewer Michigan — Partly cloudy and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy to cloudy with showers, warmer in east south portions.

Ohio—Increasin

cloudiness tonight; tocloudy with local showers and Probably. a not much change in temperature. , tek -MOEUY. Slo tonight and Py and in west poron Sy not much Ra in tempera-

‘| WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6

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Butte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland .. Dodae City. Kas. : ge y, Kas. . Jacksonville, Ha. Kansas Shy. M 3 gele.

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DUTCH CHEER AT BRITISH ‘V' RAID

122 Ships in Harbor Sunk or

Damaged, London Reports.

LONDON, July 17 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force was revealed today to have. carried’ out its greatest daylight attack on Rotterdam since the start of the war, sinking or damaging 22 ships—totaling 140,000 to 145,000 tons—in the Dutch harbor. The terrific assault was carried out by two squadrons of British bombers which flew in over the city almost at rooftop altitude and drew wild cheers from the Rotterdam populace as they ‘swung over their objectives in a “V” formation— symbol of the British victory propaganda campaign. The attack on Rotterdam was only one phase of the ever-widening British air offensive against the Continent.

Hamburg Raided by Night

Another 13,000 tons of enemy shipping was attacked in raids over the English Channel, off the west coast of France and the coast of Norway. . Following up the daylight offensive British planes roared over Germany for a night attack on Hamburg that lasted until the early hours of. this morning, but bad weather prevented the British pilots from observing the full effects of their bombardment. (The German high command claimed that nine British planes were shot down in attacks over Holland yesterday. Berlin admitted “unimportant” damage at Hamburg and said “a few civilians” were wounded.)

Liner Debris Thrown High :

“Eleven ships varying in tonnage from 1000 to 2000 were hit and left smoking,” the air ministry said of the assaiilt on Rotterdam yesterday. “The Rotterdamsche Lloyd Liner Boloeran, a motor vessel of 17,000 tons, was hit several times by bombs. One fell between the funnels. Debris from the ship was thrown high into the air. “Supply ships, each of 4000 tons, exploded. Flames from one towered above the attacking aircraft. Smaller vessels of the same kind also were hit amidships and they exploded.”

MILLION EXPLOSIVE POUNDS LOS ANGELES, July 17 (U.P.).—

Production of explosives in the|China.

United States will have reached 1,000,000 pounds a day by the end of this year, William 8. Knudsen, office of production management director, told business leaders here last night.

Belgians Fled in Stolen Plane On Fuel Bought by Bribes|

LONDON, July 17 (U. P.).—Three heart-breaking months of methodical preparation went into the dramatic escape to England of two young Belgian aviators in an old

German training plane with gasoline they had obtained 'by bribing

The youths, both slight and blond, one 24, the other 25, landed in England several days ago. They wore Belgian air force uniforms and the Belgian tricolor was painted on their plane as a gesture af defiance to German occupation authorities. Working under constant threat of

preparations for their flight shortly after being German

prison camp near Antwerp. : They found the plane in a stable in a cow pasture. The instrument panel was missing, so they built a board of their own. They conI indicator, a

$21,000 Birthday

Gift Is Bargain

NEWPORT, R. I, July 17 (U. P.).—The mother of torch-singer Gertrude Niesen bought her a birthday present at auction today—the $2,500,000 Hermann Oelrichs’ famed villa “Rosecliff” “for $21,000. The ‘bidding was something less than spirited. From a starting price of $5000 the offers climbed slowly upward until after a long lapse the auctioneer sent a cry echoing through the ornate but vacant rooms “Sold to Mrs. Anita Niesen of New York City.” After making certain her daughter was not in the great-ballroom where the auction took place, Mrs. Niesen told newsmen that this was her daughter's birthday and that the purchase was a “surprise” present, Thus ended the three-day sale of furnishings which had brought buyers and watchers from as far off as Los Angeles. Built 37 years ago by Mrs. Theresa Fair Oelrichs, heiress to a gold fortune, the property remained in the family until sold this year to Abraham Leichter, New York attorney, who authorized today’s sale.

JAPAN'S PACT WITH MOSCOW IS DOOMED

By PAUL GHALI

VICHY. July 17.—Japan’s neutrality pact with Soviet Russia is doomed by the resignation of Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who negotiated it, in the view of French officials here. Observers in Vichy wonder whether ‘Japan’s next blow will be struck at the Netherlands East Indies, with all that such a move implies, or else will be directed at Russia's +Siberian port of Vladivostok. While they do not overlook the possibility of a threat to French Indo-China, sources close to the Foreign Office view the develop-

calm. It is noteworthy, as Indo-China looms larger in the news each day,

Minister of Colonies, charges Great Britain with a disservice to the cause of French ‘Imperial defense. According to Platon, the British have held up and “starved” in-the French Somaliland port of Djibouti, regiments of French Senegalese troops who were bound for Indo-

DRIED FRUITS MARKET CANBERRA,’ Australia (U. P.).— Canada is becoming an increasingly important market for Australian

Jdried fruit:

while German sentries walked their rounds 600 yards away. Their work completed, they went about the- hazardous business of obtaining high-test aviation fuel by bribing German pilots. Everything ‘was set then and on the appointed night for the escape, they went to the stable’ only to find their gasoline had been stolen. Unable to obtain more aviation gasoline, they bribed mans info. giving them ordinary gasoline, which they distilled in five retorts. Finally, on the night they were to try again they hauled the plane from the stable into a clearing. They gunned the motor and took off at 2:30 a. m, barely clearing some tree tops. German searchlight batteries picked them out of the sky for an hour as they headed for the English channel. Over the channel the motor began to sputter and the plane dropped quickly from an altitude of 9000 feet to 1400 feet. However, managed to reach the English coast, where Royal Air Force pur-

TIRE The pilots, h:

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-« |that when the Russians recaptured ‘i |Rogachev earlier this week they had

sian air force throughout yesterday

troops at pontoon on bridges.

had been rounded up.

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that Admiral Rene Platon, Vichy’s|

FIERCE FIGHTING

Moscow Hints Nazis Forced 30 Miles From Stalin Line at One Point.

MOSCOW, July 17 (U. P.) —German forces are driving with full power to break through in the Pskov-Porkhov area of the Leningrad front, but great battles which

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sian war communique said today. Violent and large scale fighting continued throughout the night in the Pskov-Porkhov sector, the communique said. The day’s first communique had noted great battles also in the Smolensk and Bobruisk (Moscow) and Novograd Volynsk (Kiev) sectors, wtih massed tanks, motorized infantry and artillery of the main Russian German armies fully

(Mention of Bobruisk, 162 miles southwest of Smolensk, indicated

pushed the Germans back more than 30 miles from the “Stalin Line” at that point.) But the afternoon communique said that on all but the Pskov-Pork-hov sectors there were no major battles during the night and no important changes of position. It was indicated that along the line generally, and especially in the Novograd-Volynsk sector, the Russians were holding fast. The communique said the Rus-

concentrated deadly blows on German tanks and motorized infantry and artillery, bombed German airdromes, bombed and machine gunned concentrations of . enemy

HELSINKI, July 1 17 (U. P.).—An official communique today reported that Russia is continuing to drop parachutists in Finland and added that additional Soviet parachutists

ROME, July 17 (U. P.).—Russian parachutists have been captured in Hungarian Transylvania near the Rumanian border, the newspaper Popolo di Roma said in a dispatch

man reports claimed today that

BERLIN, July 17 (U. P).—Ger-

Nazi forces have captured Smolensk and Chisinau, important objectives on the Moscow and Bessarabia

fronts, ‘and that infantry dynamiters, cloaked in artificial fog, had blasted the Russians from the. last of the heavy bunkers protecting the Kiev area. The only one pf these claims confirmed by ‘the Nazi high command was that of the capture of Chisinau, (Kishenev) the Bessarabian capital. The High Command asserted that “great successes are being prepared” in an engagement of 9,000,000 troops which it called “the greatest struggle in world history.”

Report Last Reserves In

It asserted that the “last” Soviet reserves had been thrown into the battle to attempt to stem the Nazi advance. The official DNB news agency asserted that the final bunkers of the Kiev: defense area were captured after advance German divisions had stormed past the bunkers to regions farther east. The DNB account claimed that the Soviet bunkers had been “largely shot to pieces” in previous days

which then moved past the Soviet strong points. However, it claiméd, the Soviet defenders remained in underground passages, some of which went down three stories into, the earth. When the Nazi advance units had passed the bunkers, the Red Army troops refiewed the battle.

Attacked by ‘Pioneers’

“Quick employment of storm pioneers,” DNB said, “prevented the bunker crews from utilizing the full TV | fighting power of their works. “They were attacked with the strongest explosive. charges until no longer were they able to fire a shot.” DNB described how German infantry units, protected by artificial fog, workéd their way up to the massive concrete forts and “forced the last surviving Bolshevists to capitulate with concentrated explosive charges.” DNB alleged that “political commissars” locked the crews into the bunkers and said only 20 Russian survivors were captured, some of them severely wounded. The news agency also claimed

from Budapest today.

STRAUSS SAYS:

of fighting by the advance troops

railroad junction 2356 miles south! ; west of Moscow yesterday. : The capture of Smolensk, junosi : tion of five railroads and starting; point of an express highway to Moscow, come after German had “broken the resistance” \ strong Russian .rear guards, it was’; asserted. West of Smolensk one German division took more than 1000 prisons’ ers including the staff of a division, { and also took extensive quantities: of field guns, tanks and trucks, it was added. The Germans and Rumanians oc cupied Chisinau after a short fight in which they took many pr and in which “the main mass the Soviet Army with its full equips ment was destroyed, “informants “ \ serted. A bend of the Dniester toward which the German-Rumanian forces; are now driving is but 10 miles™ east of Chisinau and is 85 miles from Odessa, chief ‘port of the Ukraine. Report Russian Retreat Informants said they had heard. nothing of reports that a German tank spearhead had driven to with in 100 miles of Moscow, but they said that such an advance was “possible.” Reports from the front intimated that big German gains might be expected within the next few days especially on the Leningrad and Moscow fronts, Informants said it was certain that the German advance lines were considerably beyond the lines which High Command communiqués had indicated. An official news agency dispatch said that in. the Pskov area of the Leningrad front the Russians had started to) leave strong rear’'guards to protect their retirement, appar ently in hope that new defense lines could be organized by the time the rear guards were wiped out. It was added that the German advance had been so speedy that the attempt had failed and the main Russian force had been “brought to battle” and had suffered “considerable” losses. . The Air Force .also is steadily attacking great Russian armies retreating before the German tanks and infantry, informants said, and pilots report thatthe Russian withe drawal has ‘ceased to look like an orderly retreat and now looks Uke 8

the capture of Smolensk, important

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