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controversy and ) the ravishment by this plague of omething which {iscretion.’ hful indiscretion® avement of ninee and has brought ches in a death the world. ncerely repented, ; but we cannot, by inference.
s action will have 1diana politics in val of his stand use public power cident reverses an te as a leader in , emerging. tion men whose t to get even by n next November, good government rotes, demonstrate lic service.”
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neatly into a pate of the three men fer the governor's J. Russell Sprague, eckle, and Herbert rnor Dewey's last
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' Barneville Is a Fortunate Place
Barneville is a fortunate place, because not a shell was fired into it by either side. The lieutenant with us told .the woman we were glad nobody had been hurt. When she translated this for the crowd, there was much nodding in approval of our good wishes. ) We must have stood and talked for an hour and 2 half. It was a kind of holiday for the local people. A little French shopkeeper came along with a spool of red, white and blue ribbon from his store. He cut off pieces about six inches long for all hands, both American and French. In a few minutes everybody was going around with a French tricolor in his buttonhole. Then a ruddy-faced man of middle-age, who looked like a gentleman farmer, drove up in one of those one-horse, high-wheeled work carts that the French use,
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
@ By EDWIN C. HEINKE, Guest Columnist
YOUNG BILL KRAFFT is an example of what a fellow with business brains, confidence, ambition, brass can do in a good town like Indianapolis. It's an intriguing story, this fairy tale rise of . William Richard Krafft, who came here about seven years ago with $3000 in his pocket. And keep your eye on Bill: The story is lkely to get more fascinating as the years roll on, use when a man can run a $3000 string into a small network of concerns that do better than a million a year gross, you have to put him on the first team of up and coming young Indianapolis businessmen. It made you wonder last Tuesday up at his Monarch Engineering Corp, 37 W. 11th st, when they presented Bill with the army and navy “E” award. Here he was—the center of attraction among a lot of well-entrenched Indianapolis businessmen, Everybody was paying him compliments, For instance, there was the governor, and a lot of big Buick officials. In the back of the room were mounted movie cameras, recording the entire ceremonies. Bill Krafft was Buick’'s man of the hour. As far as anybody knows, Bill is the first Buick dealer to get the army-navy “E” and Buick sent a truck of movie equipment down from Detroit to take the pictures which will be used in pepping up G. M. dealers all over the country.
Buick Was Unhappy
LATER IN THE EVENING there was a little dinner in the chateau room at the Claypool where everybody complimented Bill all over again. Krafft took over Monarch Buick seven years ago with that original $3000. Buick was unhappy; the company wanted $8000 but took the $3000 because Buicks weren't selling in Indianapolis and something had to be done and perhaps this ambitious youth
was the guy to do fit. Right now Bill has his fingers and most of his hand in about a dozen concerns around the city. At
Consequences
(Last of a Series)
Mr. Krafft
WASHINGTON, June 24~The southern revolt against the New Deal, whether or not carried to the final extreme, may have an unintended result. The fact that it is legally possible for a state convention to instruct its electors not to vote for the : party nominee, except under certain conditions, is shocking voters into an understanding of the electoral college system, and how far ,it may be from reflecting the popular will, This may result in action to abolish the electoral college by amendment to the Constitution, and to guarantee voters that their ballots will be counted for the presidential candidate for whom they are cast. Popular election of Presidents has been proposed but will not be seriously considered because smaller states won't let it be considered. It would deprive them of the disproportionate power they now wield through having two electoral votes for their two senators, regardless of population, in addition to the electoral votes based on house membership, where population counts.
Norris-Lea Proposal BUT FORMER Senator George W. Norris and Rep.
Clarence F. Lea have for many years advocated doing -
away with the electoral college while retaining elec toral votes, to be divided among the states as at present. The difference would be this: In each state the votes cast for Mr. Roosevelt would be counted for Mr. Roosevelt; those cast for Mr.
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Takes Handle Out of Front Door
table while the little Frenchman puttered around. He let two policemen and his own family in, and then took the handle out of the front door so nobody else could get in. . The Germans had drunk up all his stock except for some wine and some eau de vie. In case you don't know, eau de vie is a savage liquid made by boiling barbed wire, soapsuds, watch springs and old tent pegs together. The better brands have a touch of nitroglycerin for flavor. So the little Frenchman filled our tiny glasses. We raised them, touched glasses all around, and vivied la France all over the place, and good-will-towards-men rang out through the air and tears ran down our cheeks. In this case, however, the tears were largely induced by our violent efforts to refrain from clutching at our throats and crying out in anguish. This goodwill business is a tough life, and I think every American who connects with a glass of eau de vie should get a purple heart.
the prize baby of them all, Monarch Motor Co. he'll do $650,000 gross business in used cars, parts and customers’ labor this year. At the engineering plant he'll do $275,000. He sold $100,000 worth of furnaces last year, will repeat this year. He has an auto parts company that'll do $150,000 and his Broad Ripple store with its Firestone line and du Pont paint will gross $40,000. Those are only some of the companies. He has others, like the Salesmen's Finance Co. and even a small loan license. Bill Krafft left public school 37 in New York City in 1917. He became an office boy and stock runner in Wall street. He dabbled in a lot of things, but in 1937, General Motors Holding Co. offered him Buick in Indianapolis. He could come out here and ‘take a look at his own expense. “It seemed rather strange, but I did it,” said Bill “They wanted me to invest $8000 in this business, which was more money than I had ever seen. I finally sold them on the idea that they let me come out and manage the business for two months.
Didn't Know a Soul
“I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT and came here in March, 1037. I didn’t know a soul in Indianapolis. The employees here at Monarch had had so many changes (four presidents in two years) that I had to start selling myself to them. In May, 1937, I had made progress but I told G. M. all the money I could raise was $3000. I pledged them I would not take a nickel out of the business other than my living expenses until I could pay for it out of profits. They were very unhappy, but had no alternative. We made money from that time on and in April, 1941, I had paid back all my indebtedness and was the sole owner of Monarch Motor.” Remember when they froze cars and a lot of dealers went out of business? That was when the resourceful Bill Krafft brought in the Firestone line of bicycles, tricycles, refrigerators, stoves and radios. Everybody who passed the windows of the Monarch thought Bill was screwy but he started to sell his stuff and make money. Then came other refrigerator and radio lines, the furnace line, auto parts and finally the engineering corporation. Youll be hearing more of Bill. Remember, he is only 43.
By Ruth Finney
Dewey would be counted for Mr. Dewey. Under the electoral college system now in effect, the candidate winning a majority of the electoral vote in a state gets the whole vote of that state, not the proportion to which he is entitled. In 1932, for instance, Mr. Roosevelt received approximately 2% million votes in New York state, Mr, Hoover approximately 2 million. But Mr. Roosevelt got all of the state's 45 electoral votes, Under the Norris-Lea plan, the votes would have been divided between the two in proportion to the popular vote cast for them. In the last election, Mr. Willkie got 45 per cent of the popular vote but only 15.3 per cent of the electoral vote. In 1936, Nir. Landon got 38 per cent of the popular vote but only 1% per cent of the electoral vote,
Won Majority but Lost
TWICE SINCE the civil war, a candidate has obtained a majority of the poular vote but has failed to win the presidency through failing to win a majority in the electoral college. Cleveland had almost 100,000 more popular votes than Harrison in 1888, but was badly beaten in electoral votes. In 1876 Tilden led Hayes by 250,000 in the popular vote, but lost out by one in the electoral college. Atolition of the electoral college is usually sponsored by the outs. Rep. Lea ceased to work for his plan early in the Roosevelt administration, and Republicans started to take it up when their candidates made such a poor showing in the electoral college. If the anti-Roosevelt movement in the South should lead to election of a President clearly not the choice othe oe indignation might wash over parties waves sufficien it to about the change at last. Hy res brie
By Eleanor Roosevelt)
Restrained Attitude Not All Due to War; Party Seeking Harmony.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Seripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 24—The sober and restrained attitude of party leaders and delegates arriving for the Republican national convention which opens here Monday is not all due to the war, which is casting a somber shadow over proceedings. The subdued atmosphere, particularly among hard-headed political realists, is due partly to the admitted difficult job the party faces between now and November if it is to defeat President Roosevelt. Nobody regards this as easy. The optimism of a few months ago in many Republican quarters has faded, giving way not to pessimism, but to a realization of an arduous task that will require all the skill and finesse that can be put into it. This situation is reflected in the careful plan being worked out for the convention by the leaders in the interest of harmony and dispatch, with no undue bickering, no loud noises, no fancy frills out of tune with the serious times.
Only One Band Playing Incidentally, only one band has blared forth so far, that hired by the local-Bricker-for-President club to serenade the Ohio governor's arrival, which he did not know about in advance and which was mani-
festly embarrassing to him. Political considerations are paramount in every move here. Reports from the Pacific coast, for instance, are not as encouraging to Republicans as had been anticipated, which is whipping up the determination to “draft” Governor Warren for second place on the ticket. Governor Dewey's lieutenants are active in this direction. The New York governor wants the Californian for his runningmate, because of his character and standing with the party in his sec~ tion, to give recognition to the West | and to help the ticket there in the campaign. Governor Warren's reluctance is regarded as sincere. But he will be confronted, when he arrives here Monday, with the plea that he should accept the nomination in the interest of the party. Rumors were about today that he was weakening under long - distance pressure already exerted by Dewey leaders.
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Stampede Possible If he makes a hit with the dele- | gates with his keynote speech Mon- | day night, a stampede to him is likely to develop. { In recognizing the tough job it appears now to defeat President |
volts against the administration, which are one of the principal sub-
tion here. psychological effect among voters in! to their party. They cite two reasons: Reveals Resentment
FIRST, {t reveals widespread resentment over New Deal policies and philosophy in the usually faithful South, which naturally = arouses skepticism elsewhere. SECOND, it raises the possibility of creating confusion and throwing the election into the house of representatives, a possibility that might drive many votes to the Republicans to avoid such an outcome, They cite the 1924 election when the injection of the La Follette third party seriously raised such a threat. Republicans then created that slogan “Coolidge or Chaos” which some believe was effective in driving many voters to Calvin Coolidge, running for re-election.
DISTRIBUTE TAX NET OF OVER 10 MILLION
More than $10,000,000 in property taxes collected during the spring installment payments in Marion county weré distributed to various local government units today by County Auditor Ralph F. Moore. . The city government got the lion's share of the semi-annual tax melon
went to city hall and $2,847,000 to the city schools. Other distributions were $972,000 to county government units; $137,-
AIR BOARD PROBES ‘CRASH FATAL TO TWO
— $6,908,000 — of which $4,061,000 |
~ Robert Frederick Lucas A LATHE OPERATOR at the Stewart-Warner plant claims the title of Indiana's ‘champion father” He is twice - married Robert Frederick Lucas, father of 21 children, 18 of whom—13 sons and 5 daughters—are living, six at home. Their ages range from 4 to 37 years. Two sets of twins are included among them. Eight of the Lucas boys are in the armed services, six in the army and two in the navy. One of them, Earl, 27, is a war prisoner in Germany, having been captured in Africa. The other army sons are Ralph, 34; Harold, 29; Merrel, 27; Lowell, 22, and Ralph II, 22. The seagoing Lucases are James, 24, and Isaac, 18. Their father, born in Owen county, lives on a farm near Bridgeport.
PARK PROPOSAL STATUS IN DOUBT
County Commissioners Say They Haven't Thought Anything About It.
County commissioners haven't thought anything about acquiring land for a public park and forest preserve, they said today following announcement by a county coun-
‘How Are They to Receive Cards for Registering?’
Tilson Asks.
By NOBLE REED Only a comparative few of Marion county's tens of thousands of voters in the armed forces will actually cast ballots in the November election here, it was predicted today as the preliminary operation of the new soldiers’ vote law got under way. Cumbersome difficulties arose as the first applications for registration arrived by mail at the county clerk's office in the court house. “I don't see how even a small percentage of the military personnel from this county will get registered under the new law,” declared County Clerk A, Jack Tilson. Must Register by Mail
He pointed out that before any soldier can get county and state
man first must register by mail with a postal card printed here. “How are the thousands of local boys and girls overseas going to get these cards unless someone here sends them?” he pondered. “If some member of his family here doesn't get one of these cards and mail it correctly the soldier will never vote.” Mr. Tilson pointed out that thou-
plications to his office.
‘Won't Know Procedure’
“They won't know about the procedure here while they are a couple
ballots from his office the service- |
sands of the boys will not send ap-|
As though heralding victory, Mr. and Mrs. William A, Waller, 521 E. 32d st., noticed on Dday that their prize syringa bush had sprouted a blossomed “V.” “We hope it is nature’s symbol of faith in the allied cause,” they said.
CHILD, 4, AND 10 | OTHERS INJURED
‘Auto Hits Boy; Operators, 3 Passengers Hurt in Streetcar Crash.
A four-year-old boy and 10 other
of thousand miles away,” he said. Other difficulties, he said, included a provision of the law that re-
cilman that the council was considering such a proposal. Councilman Richard Smith this week said he was compiling data
on a proposal that the county ac-| ¥ quire forest land for recreation and | Should be sent to all fighting fronts)
conservation purposes to be known as the “Richard Lieber Memorial Forest,” in honor of the late Col. Richard Lieber, founder of the state park system. He cited a 1943 law authorizing counties to acquire forest lands for park and conservation purposes either by outright purchase with tax money or acceptance of land.
Acquisitions Authorized
“The law authorizes county commissioners to acquire the land but they said they hadn't been advised of the council's plans for a park. “We would gladly accept lahd as a gift for forest conservation but
{we would be opposed to spending tax dollars to acquire any forest]
land,” declared Commissioner William T. Ayres.
quires the postal card registrations |to be certified by the secretary of state's office before they are listed officially at the county's clerk's | office. Mr. Tilson said registration cards
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‘and military camps where soldiers {could have easy access to them, fill { them out and mail them back. i “If we depend on each soldier to make application by mail, very few | will vote,” he predicted.
Fight Recalled
i A fight over provisions of the sol|dier vote bill developed during the
of a gift special session of the legislature last |
April when minority legislators
sought unsuccessfully to insert an
{ persons were injured in automobile
SRTTWN JIL
Stage
Face Most Critical In Pacific; New Blows Rain on Them.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 24—The Japanese faced the most critical stage of the Pacific war today with five of. their aircraft carriers disabled—at least two of them probe ably sunk —"as powerful United States forces prepared to launch attacks on Japan itself. Adding to the destruction inflicted by the United States forces Monday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that one of Japan's largest and newest aircraft carriers, of the 20,000-ton Shokaku class, probably was sunk Sunday by an Amerttan submarine which sent three torpedoes into the -flaitop. The, new carrier brought to 15 the number of enemy warships sunk or damaged in two days of action
| between U. S. Pacific forces and the
Japanese in the western Pacific.
Report Volcano Raids Tokyo radio reported today that an undisclosed number of allied planes attacked Iwo Jima, in the Volcano islands, midway between Tokyo and the Marianas, early this morning for the second time in 10 days. (The enemy broadcast, recorded by FCC monitors, said “detailed reports” on the raid were not yet available. (The official Japanese Domei news agency also reported that “largetype” allied planes yesterday raided Tobi island, 425 miles northwest of American-held Biak island in Dutch
{or streetcar accidents last night. | Larry Dwayne Smith, four-year-{old son of Mrs. Alberta Smith, | 2432 N. Alabama st, was injured about the head and shoulders at Market and Illinois sts. when struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. | Bernice Finegold. 3741 Ruckle st. |He was treated at Methodist hospital. |. A streetcar collision on 63d st near the Monon railway tracks in- | jured both operators ‘and three | passengers at 6:20 p. m, yesterday. | The accident occurred at the point | where the single track forks into a double line.
! Driver Cut, Bruised The operator of the outbound
amendment permitting use of the car, Rudolph W. Ade, 52, R. R. 1 {federal short form ballot in the Bridgeport, was treated at St. Vin-
| through the mails. The federal ballots, when au-
|thorized by the state, will be dis-| erator of the inbound car.
|event state ballots did not arrive|cent’s hospital for cuts and bruises
|of the knees as was Joseph Car- { roll, 41, of 1654 Carrollton ave., opThe
{tributed to soldiers by their com-| Passengers were Paul Coulter, 18,
manding officers wherever
Republican majority leaders de-| Ralph feated the amendment, contending|2Ve-
they |
of 6249 Kingsley dr.; Kenneth | Brown, 24, of 2527 College ave., and Reasor, 17, of 6325 Guilford They were all treated at St.
Councilman Smith said he would | 4pa¢ use of the federal ballots would | Vincent's and released.
Roosevelt, Republican leaders are Submit’a report on the proposal to| finding encouragement in the Texas, | {Pe council in the next few weeks. Mississippi and South Carolina re-{I%0 Park sites are being consid-|
One is a’ large tract bordering on
MOVING OF JUVENILE
jects of conversation and specula- | the Indianapolis Water Co's reservoir lake in the northeastern sec-
Republican leaders here claim ation of the county and the other is
a tract along Big Eagle creek in
other parts of the country helpful | the southwestern part of the county.
Army Fliers Held
In Decapitation
SANTA ANA, Cal, June 24 (U. P). — Two army pilots whose plane clipped off a motorists head near Wickenburg, Ariz, Thursday night are under arrest while the case is investigated, headquarters of the western flying training command said today. The training plane's wing sliced through the windshield of a car driven by Earl W. Nepple, 67, Los Angeles, killing him but not touching his wife or a hitchhiker they had picked up. With the headless body still clutching the wheel, the car raced hundreds of yards across the desert before Mrs. Nepple could stop it. a The officers, 2d Lt. Howard E. Stittsworth, the pilot, and 2d Lt. Dean C. Fundingsland, his passenger, were arrested when they landed at Luke field, Ariz
soldier voting.
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injunction by residents in
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idle and deteriorating,” Pritchard said in his ruling.
safety,” the court continued.
| peal bond at $500.
result in Democratic domination of
HOME IS SCHEDULED
Removal of the Juvenile deten-!tomobiles at 62d st. and Keystone tion home to county property at ave. injured four people. 25th st. and Keystone ave. is sched- |
Removal plans followed a ruling! {by Judge Walter Pritchard in su-| Keystone in an automobile driven | perfor court yesterday in which the/by H. L. Ralston, 812 West dr, court denied the petition for an|Woodruff Place. the | was driven by Norman Taylor, neighborhood of the new site. The R. R. 16, Box 317G. residents contended that property| values would decrease should the dents of Woodruff Place, were Mrs. listed as sunk since the war started. | Ernest Michelis, 707 West dr.; L. G.| “The county is paying $200 a Hughes, 812 West dr.;, Mrs. L. F.[1000-pound bomb hits on another month rental to keep children in a|Jones, 639 East dr. and Mrs. Jane place (538 W. New York st.) called Pigman, 911 West dr. a firetrap by the state fire marshal, | taken to St. Vincent's hospital. while valuable county property is| :
Wy" Club Inducts 15 Men Tonight
“The Juvenile home for children is not a prison, jail, or lockup, but if it were a jail, the law of Indiana says that a jail of itself is not a nuisance but is a matter of public
Mrs. Beulah Melton, 112 S. Traub lave., was treated for bruises by a by an automobile at Belmont ave. and Washington st. William Streepy, 239 N. Noble st., the driver, was |charged with driving through a safety zone. The head-on collision of two au-
Women Among Injured The injured were riding south on
The second car
The injured, who were all resi-
They were
The Men's club of the Indian-
hotel. Members of the club are sponsors of the service men's activities at the “Y,” and also are planning a boys’ camp near here.
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Dr. Francis C. Smith is president of the group that will accept Joseph M. Bosenbury Jr., Roy Combs, Dr. Richard F. Griffin; C. K. Hoff, J. Henry Miller, Walter A. Mitchell, George Moyer, Arthur L. Peterson, Carl Scheick, Walter C. Sommers, Earl C. Townsend Jr, Leonard Trent, James W. Warriner, Frank B. Walls and John H. Winn as new members. Mrs. Earl H. Schmidt, as colonel,
entertain and house more than 20,000 service men a month.
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New Guinea; Palau, 560 miles east {of the Philippines, and Yap, 300 {miles northeast of Palau. | (The agency earlier had reported {that “at least 60” American carrier{based planes had attacked Guam | yesterday.) -
Stingings New Blows
While Japan was drawing its forces together in anticipation of new blows from B-29 Superfor- | tresses or Vice Adm. Marc A. Mit- | scher’s task force 58, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific air force delivered another stining attack on enemy shipping off the western end of Dutch New Guinea, 600 miles from the Philippines. Mitchell medium bombers, in the third heavy strike in a week on the Sorong area, sank or damaged six Japanese ships and three barges Thursday, MacArthur announced. All but one—a 3000-ton freighter— definitely were sunk, and the big merchantman was listed as “sunk or damaged.” The increasing toll of Japanese naval and merchant ships together with the allied land drives from the Marianas to New Guinea and to Burma on the mainland, brought Japan to its darkest period of the war. Another Destroyer Sunk In Monday's battle of the eastern Philippines, Nimitz disclosed that an enemy destroyer, previously listed as damaged, had sunk, bringing to five the number of Japanese. warships definitely sent to the bottom by U. S. carrierbased planes. The others were a large carrier of the Hayataka class and three tankers. In addition another Hayataka carrier was damaged severely and left burning furiously, with a strong possibility that either it or the Shokaku carrier--perhaps both—could be added to a minimum of seven other Japanese carriers definitely
The U. S. planes also scored three
carrier, believed the 17,000-ton Zuikaku, and hit a smaller unidentified carrier with two aerial torpedoes. Nimitz also announced that two more; Japanese bombers were shot down to raise the enemy aerial losses for two days to an estimated 375.
KING OF GYPSIES LIES
apolis Y.M.C. A. will induct 15 new | Frank Beckwith, attorney for the| members tonight at the Lincoln IN STATE AT MUNCIE plaintiffs, said that he will carry an appeal to the state supreme court {and Judge Pritchard fixed the ap-
MUNCIE, Ind., June 24 (U. P,).— The body of Steve Miller, 57-year-old Gypsy king, lay in state today while mourning tribesmen arranged Greek Orthodox services for their ruler at Toledo, O. The tribesmen said they were en route to Indianapolis from Toledo with the body of the king seated in his automobile, but decided to leave the body at a Muncie funeral home and transfer rites back to Toledo. Originally, the Gypsies planned to take the body to Indianapolis because. services for a former tribesman had been held there. Of Brazilian descent, Miller was a native of Chicago. He has relatives in seven states, his tribesmen said.
HOLD EVERYTHING
JAP VICE ADMIRAL, 3 GENERALS DEAD
By UNITED PRESS The deaths of a Japanese vice admiral and three generals were announced by the Domei agency in a wireless dispatch reported last
; commission. | The vice admiral, Yoshimasa akahara “died from illness while
dispatch said. : The dispatch said two lieutenant identified only as Mot-
ctively engaged at the front,” the|
and Yokoyama, “died in ac-|