Light and Showers WEATHER Wednesday. Today LEADER-TRIBUNE TELEPHONES News 345 and 1050 Advertising 234 and 244 Circulation 123 24 HOURS OF SERVICE Member Associated Press LEADING FIFTH DISTRICT VOL. 51, NO. 143 News Briefs (By Called Press) The perquisites of policemen in Yonkers, N. are vanishing one by one under the regime of City Manager Raymond Whitney.
First Whitney served notice that no more free meals could be eaten by' policemen who 'have been accustomed to dropping into restaurants for a snack. Then he struck closer) and banned free drinks. The cops are waiting for ultimate blow to strike. They fear that fruit stands are next on the Whitney list. 150 Fred Smiths.
One of the favorite gags in Boston Monday was to call the Hotel Lenox and ask for "Fred Smith." There were 150 Fred Smiths attending the third annual banquet and story-telling and get-together of the Boston chapter of the Benevolent and Protective and Completely Universal Order of Fred Bullet Prints. Louis Wrasse, Wauwatosa, is a to- finger He. believes it will aid in identifying stolen weapons and those used in crimes. Sample bullets will be obtained by firing into a steel chamber which traps the bullets without smashing them. One bullet from each weapon will 'be kept in-Wauwatosa and the other sent.
to the Department of Justice at Washington. Cracked Knuckles. Tijuana, May 27-(P)-It cost two Los Angeles deaf mutes $50 each to "crack jokes on the knuckles" before Francisco Dominguez, chief of. the federal traffic police. The youths were arrested on a reckless driving They engaged in animated finger talk before Dominguez.
Said one: "These cops are. dumb. We won't have to pay any money." "So?" said Dominguez, "cracking jokes on the knuckles, eh? That will cost you $50 each." The chief, it seems, knows the language of mutes. Quints 6 Year. Old.
Callander, May 27-(P)- The sixth birthday anniversary of the Dionne quintuplets will be celebrated, mass tomorroy for the by first their time. attendThe service will be in their own nursery by special arrangement. Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, the parents, and brothers and sisters of the famous little girls will be present.
A five -section birthday cake with six candles on each section will be served. Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne each will have candles of a different color to facilitate the blowing-out ceremony. Pleasant Journey. Lafayette, May 27-(AP)A deputy sheriff and a bondsman motoring from Chicago to London, with a prisoner, were arrested near here today by State Patrolman. Gordon Taylor who placed intoxication charges against all three men.
nit the They peace were court taken where into a a fine justice of $10 and costs was imposed on the bondsman, W. F. Curry, 49, of London. In addition his privilege to drive in Indiana was suspended for six months. Skid Johnson, 49, also of London, the deputy, was fined $5 and costs and the prisoner, Albert D.
House, 30, was fined $1 and costs. House had been arrested in Chicago after having jumped bond provided by Curry to assure his court. appearance. in London. criminal assault charge, according to information given the state police FOREMEN'S CLUB CLOSES SEASON A.
H. Viatt, Labor Department Inspector, Gives Talk at Dinner Meeting at Hotel. Grant County Foremen's Club ended its season with A dinner meeting last night at Hotel Spencer. Approximately 130 persons were present. A.
H. Viatt, Indianapolis, inspector for the wage and hour di4 vision, United States department of labor, gave principal Viatt discussed, his work and the functions of the wage and hour division. -Dinner music and an entertainment program was provided -by the Modernairs, a girls' trio, presenting piano, accordion and. vocal selections, A program of magic was presented by Bert. vaas.
The Modernairs and Ser. professional entertainers. from Indianapolis. C. E.
Guthrie, Y. M. C. A. general secretary and executive secretary of the Foremen's Club, gave a review of the club's activities during the season.
Louis Crist, club president, had charge of the meeting. A A MARION, INDIANA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1940 LAUNCH SUCCESS Financing Means 1 ASKS DEFENSE NAZIS DRIVE THROUGH CHANNEL PORTS TO CIRCLE ALLIED ARMY YPRES BOULOGNE ST OMER COURTRAI BRUSSELS LILLERS VALENCIENNES ARRAS CAMBRAI Somme DIEPPE AMIENS MICHEL RONNE QUENTIN 3 SEDAN LA FERE POROUEN Seine disne SOISSONS R. A N. 4P PARIS Marne R. 4 Here are latest Germans claimed they scant five minutes the to halt its lines.
In the 20-mile The French also reported ENGLAND DOVER developments in the heavy fighting on the western front of have captured the channel port of Calais (1) and declared by air from Britain. Belgian troops at- Courtrai (2) offensive temporarily. On the Somme river (3) French wide bottleneck in the Bapaume and Perrone sectors (4) "strong enemy attack Was repulsed" in the Montmedy $400,000 Fire Sweeps Block CCC Records Burned At Logansport. Logansport, May 27-(AP)Damage was estimated at $400,000 tonight from A fire which swept today. through 8 half of brick and.
concrete buildings near the Logansport business district. The fire, of unknown origin, started in a building -occupied by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, The explosion of gasoline tanks of government cars and trucks endangered firemen. The fire spread to the Elkhart Packing Company's refrigeration the Elliott Wholesale Grocery the B.
Manufacturing "Co. warehouse and the Schulder and Schloss Women's Garment Factory. The conservation office kept records for CCC camps at Lafayette, Monon. Valparaiso, Bend, Peru, Fort Wayne, Kendall: ville, Portland, Franklin and Lebanon. All the records were destroyed.
The fire was discovered shortly after 3 A. and it burned for three hours before it was brought under control. James I. Barnes, owner of the (Please Turn to Page Two LIEGE MAASTRICHT LONGWY 25 50 MILES Europe's The they hold Boulogne, counter-attacked to force troops dented enemy the Allies held firm. region (5) at the PLAN BENEFIT FOR RED CROSS Part of Proceeds From Aviation Show Will Be Contributed to War Relief Fund.
As contributions to the Red Cross war relief fund reached $210.50 Monday, officials announced that part. of the proceeds from an aviation program and demonstration Thursday at Marion Airport will be contributed to the fund. A portion of the fees paid by airplane passengers will be turned over to the Red Cross chapter, according to Capt. Harold Preston, Fort Wayne, owner and pilot of the passenger airplane, and Dolph Lenhart, airport manager. chief -instructor -at -Airport, will give demonstration during the -afternoon- and a -parachute-jump will be a feature of the Memorial Day program.
Clark will present several aerial stunts and maneuvers, including "cutting the ribbon" at 1,500 feet, power dives and an attempt to break the "rollover" record. The program was planned at a conference held by Ray Needham, chairman of Grant county chapter, American Red Cross; Mayor Carl F. Barney, Billy Connors, chair(Please Turn to Page Tool Memorial Sunday Observed With Traditional Services Members of patriotic groups joined in conducting traditional memorial services- here Sunday, consisting of the strewing of dowers on the waters of the Mississinewa in honor of Grant county soldiers and sailors who died at sea and the customary. memorial church service held this year at St. Paul's Catholic Church.
Rev. Vincent Ehinger, Louisville, celebrated solemn high mass at the church at 10 A. m. and was also principal speaker in the service. duM.
the chaotic conditions of the world today," he pointed out, "it is more ever to remember, our service to four God; second, our service to our fellowman, and third, our 'servA resolution was passed by the to our country:" PRICE THREE CENTS ATTACKS, IS Studied BOARD HERBERT HOOVER PRESENTS PLAN IN RADIO TALK 'Single Headed Administrator' to Direct Program Proposed Former New May 27-(AP)-A "single-headed administrator" to direct the United States' vast defensive armament program WAS proposed tonight by former President Herbert Hoover. In a nation-wide radio speech on "national defense," he termed boards and political coalitions "foolish" in emergencies and advanced the following program. for "real A munitions administration can be created Washington. 42-It should have a singleheaded administrator with assistant heads for labor, agriculture and industry. "3-This administrator should be an industrialist and not a politician.
"4-He should have authority to appoint a non-partisan advisory board representing the Army, Navy, labor; 'transportation, manufacturing and agriculture. "5-The whole of the purchasing and manufacturing for the and Navy from private industry, administrator. should he done business by this of Army and Navy is to state what they want. It is for the munitions administrator to deliver it. "6-A research organization should he created to constantly improve these products, "7-All appropriations for such work should be made to this organization." "This is a form of organization that will get speed and economy," Hoover declared.
"Urgency, speed and economy are not bureaucratic virtues." He based his recommendations on three "lessons" which he said had been learned during and since the World War. Experience had shown, -first, that large-volume procurement of munitions must be separated from Army and Navy establishments, he said, adding that. was job "for management and labor," A job that "requires that thousands of factories be coordinated to do. their part." The second lesson was that such (Please Turn to Page Trol AIRLINE STOP. SOUGHT- HERE GMA Officials Prepare Request to Include Marion on New St.
Louis-Detroit Route. A request to include. Marion as a stop on a new. air route between St. Louis and Detroit will be made to the Chicago and Southern Airlines, according 10 An announcement last night by Billy Connors, chairman of the Greater Marion Association Aviation committee.
An application for the new route has been filed by the airlines company, according to reports received by GMA officials. The application provides for the route between St. Louis and Detroit via Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. or via Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Anderson. and Fort Wayne.
Connors said. that since Anderson has no landing field, and stated he will 'communicate with the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the airline company in an attempt to make Marion one of the points of call if the application is granted. Marion is on direct airline route between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Connors stated. Marion -industrial leaders have sought inclusion of Marion on an air route as a means of improving mail service. The.
proposed new route would serve as a feeder line for the routes and would connect with the southern lines at. Indianapolise. 4- BUT CLAIMED GERMANS DECLARE END OF FLANDERS BATTLE IS NEAR BOOST IN DEBT LIMIT, NEW TAX LEVY ARE SEEN President Asks for $32,000,000 to Finance Training of Thousands of Pilots. Washington, May 27. (AP)-Immediate action to finance the vast national defense by double method of increased taxes and additional borrowing--was under consideration in Washington tonight.
Leaders of both parties in the House were reliably be polling their memberships on the question of immediate tax The chairmen of the House and Senate committees in charge of revenue legislation conferred during the day. The treasury was said to be nearing the completion of a study of the problem and possibly formulating recommendations on it. An additional $32,000,000 was added to the huge -penditure already in prospect when President Roosevelt asked Congress for that sum today to. train civilian pilots. With his request he sent a letter from the budget bureau saying that the Civil Aeronautics Authority was prepared to undertake immodiately a big expansion contemplating preliminary training for 45,000, secondary 9,000 and advanced.
training for 40.200 malt Congress, while awaiting a decision on the financing question, prodded the big armament plan through the various legislative processes. One subcommittee agreed to work far into the night to action on a supplemental 000,000 appropriation for the Navy. At the same time, the men who manufacture machinery which produces the myriad intricate parts of an airplane other defense items met here and promised the government first call on their output. They have been overwhelmed with foreign orders. Secretary Morgenthau, who conferred with them, said later that he had listed $200,000,000 worth of machine tools needed for the defense program, but had urged that there be no obstruction to the provision of machinery for the automobile industry's production of 1941 models.
Retooling of auto plants for "41, models should be completed within a month' and ought not be interferred with, the secretary said. But, he added, one large manufacturer had already offered to forego new models for 1942. if necessary to free the ma(Please Turn' to Page Two) COMMENCEMENT ENT SERVICES HELD Forty- Two Receive Diplomas at City; Given -by Dr. F. B.
Knight, Purdue. Commencement exercises for the 42 members of the Gas City High School 1940 graduating class were held at 8 p. m. Monday at the high school auditorium with Dr. F.
B. Knight, Purdue University, giving the commencement address. Recipients of the American Legion awards, presented by William A. Jay of the Gas City and JonesLegion post, Dale Briggs and Mary Pat Malay. The awards are made each year on five points: honor, courage, scholarship, citizenship and leadership.
The school faculty makes the selection. Music was provided by the high chorus 'and the high school band, directed by Fred Reiter. The program was as follows: March, "Courage," by Bennett, high Purdy, school band; band; invocation, school song, Rev. by. Frank Vandre, and Harbison; "Gipsy "The Hikers," by Ruebush, high school chorus; "Unfinished Symphony," by Schubert, band; address, Dr.
Knight; Announcement of American Legion awards, William A. Jay; presentation of--diplomas, -Superintendent A. Reifel; benediction, Rev. Milo Bowsman. Baccalaureate service was held 'at 7:30 p.
Sunday at the auditorium with Rev. Joseph A. Suelzer as principal speaker. Music was provided by the girls sextet and the high school orchestra. Nazi Press Hammers At Drive on England.
Berlin, Tuesday, May 28--(UP) -German military experts said today "it is only a. matter of days" until an estimated 1,000,000 Belgian, British and French troops surrounded in Flanders, must surrender, attempt to flee to England "under a hail of German bombs," or be destroyed. -The whole German press today was concentrated on the propaganda theme: "we are sailing against England." Whether the high command actually planned an immediate invasion of Britain, however, was uncertain. Some observers believed the next effort would be a drive on Paris which, if successful, would be followed by an offer of separate peace to France, Spokesmen claimed that the Allied forces trapped in Flanders were fighting a desperate rear guard action to cover attempts at a mass embarkation for England. The German air force was 'said to have 'observed a large number of troop transports in the Belgian and French harbors still in Allied hands.
They appeared to be seeking to take on British troops, the Nazis claimed. The Germans, meanwhile, claimed to be gouging three salignts into the great Allied circle, apparently attempting to hack it' into three pieces. The high command said that a thrust west from the Courtrai region of Belgium had taken the Germans very close to the world war battleground Ypres. Sharp and bloody fighting was reported around Lens, southwest of Lille, beyond which the Germans said earlier to have advanced to Labassee. The two drives appeared to form A pincers movement, designed to swing around fortifications in the Lille region and.
if possible effect a juncture somewhere on A line from Bethune to. Ypres. A swing around the industrial city Lille also would carry the Germans beyond the last strongly fortified zones between them and the coast, up which the third German column was pushing. -With -the capture-of the. channel ports of Boulogne and Calais, the British position was described as worse than it was atlany.
time in. the World War. "We are able now to dominate completely the entrance, to the channel," a spokesman said. "London is cut off. All trade through the channel has been reduced to virtually negligible importance.
"Along the coasts of Norway, Denmark, and Belgium, Britain is menaced by our submarines, speedboats and bombers." The British troops in northwest France and Belgium will find a homeward flight extremely difficult and precarious, Nazis said. They claimed that- German air raids had destroyed large proportion of the harbor works still in Allied hands at Dunkerque, Ostend and Zeebrugge. WAR FEVER FLAMES Rome. May 27-(P) -With war fever flaming throughout pro-German Italy, the British embassy tonight advised inquiring nationals (Please Turn to Page Trol CASH BUYERS FOR THINGS YOU NO LONGER NEED If you are looking for ways to get extra vacation cash you need only to look around home for things you no longer need but which can be used. to advantage by some one else.
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2-PIECE-Living extra chair. good condition. Phone! You can phone ads for the "For Sale" column to A classified adtaker at. PHONE 234 or 244 French Think Italy Will -Enter War Soon. 3 1 Memorial Day Association commending Rev.
Ehinger on his address and authorizing Rex George, general chairman. to transmit it to Rev. John A. McCarthy for the speaker. Escorted by the American Legion color guard, auxiliary, members marched from the courthouse to the bridge at 3:30 p.
m. Sunday where Mrs. Thomas president of the Women's Relief Corps, had charge. Other corps officers taking part in the program inMrs. Viola McCoy vice-president; Mrs.
Sadie Roye, secretary, and Mrs. Maude Moorehead, chaplain. Two 'songs, "America" and My God to Thee," were sung and Rev. John Lewis, pastor of' the Swayzee Street United (Please Turn -Page Two) I Paris, May -28 (Tuesday) (AP)The French cabinet met until after midnight last night following a day in which the Allies were hammered by 8 terrific German offensive which forced them to give ground in Flanders and which yielded only to French counterattacks along the :4 Somme on the south side of the Nazi corridor to the sea. only learned that the cabinet considered both political subjects, but the Paris press was devoting increasing attention to the prospect of Italy's.
imminent entry into the war. Temps "hour for a deThe. important, newspaper Le cision is approaching." "At the rate at which the current battle is expanding and decisive hours approach, the politics of the neutral countries, or rather the non-belligerents, tend to become precise. Mussolini will hardly delay any longer his de-. cision." The paper added that "Italian newspapers have announced that in connection with commercial negotiations between 'Italy and Japan it was agreed that in case communication difficulties should occur between Italy and Ethiopia, Japan would be charged with provisioning the new Italian domain." Premier Reynaud will address the country, at 8:30 A.
m. C.S.T.) it was announced. The violence the German tacks, aimed at Allied forces cornered in coastal Belgium and northern France, were hardly less than the fiercest battle at Verdun in the World War. The Allies there were forced to take up a new stand defending the English Channel. To offset somewhat the Nazi gains in the north, where at numerous points they crossed the river Lys, last water barrier on the way to the channel, the French central army in the Somme sector, south of the Nazi calient to the sea, hammered the Germans back to regain several villages.
The Germans put everything available into the campaign to crush the French, British and Belgian forces in the battle of Flanders, threw wave upon wave of infantry, a thundering artillery bombardment as well as their dive hombers and armored columns into their drive for a quick decision over the Allies. The overnight battle into of the Flanders. major raged operations. of this war while Allies withdrew from their Scheldt river position in the Valenciennes sector to a prepared line farther west toward the channel. The struggle raged with undim(Please Turn to Page Two FOUR ELIGIBLE FOR POSTAL JOBS Incumbent, Three Others Listed as Eligible; Fail to Decide Manner of Selection.
Four men had been certified last eligible for the Marion. postmastership, it was learned after the applicants had -been notified of their grades. The four eligibles are Postmaster Arthur J. Green, certified on a special list for incumbents, and Marshall Gotshall, Carl 0. Mittank and William Wert, the three highest of the other applicants.
Mittank is present superintendent of mails, Gotshall is 8 realtor and Wert recently was elected Democrat The manner in which-the-selection will be made was not determined last: The twoIndiana senators requested indorsem*nt by Democrat precinct committeemen served by the postoffice, although, the plan has been condemned by Civil Service officials. said he was notified he was first on the list with a grade of 80.8. Mittank's grade was 78.4 and Wert's grade was 76.6. Postmaster Green said his grade was "about Of the 62 Democratic precinct committeemen in the county, 40 are served by the Marion Prior to. the primary election, the committeemen declined to indorse Green and recommended that James Dunn, assistant license bureau manager, be named.
acting postmaster. The United States senators from Indiana said they could not act on that recommendation and An oral examination for applicants was ordered. Officials said that the changes resulting. from the primary election might. cause 8 different recommendation if the question is again submitted to the committeemen.
The postoffice quarters soon are expected to be moved to the build: ing now occupied by the Kelley Exchange store at Second and Washington streets. The temporary quarters will be occupied during, construction of a new federal building here. Permission has been granted by (Please Turn to Page. Twel CENSUS REPORTS SHOWS INCREASE Early Returns from Four County Towns Show Slight Gain Over 1930 Population Figures. Preliminary count of the current census returns for four Grant county towns Monday revealed net gain of 34 in population, Kirt Boswell, district.
superintendent, announced last night. Swayzee, whose population rose from 604 to 658 in 1940 and Fowlerton with jump from 204 to 255 in the 10-year period, recorded A total gain of 105. Two other towns, Upland and Matthews, disclosed a combined loss of 71 in the preliminary reports. Matthews' 1930 census count of 513 dropped to .449, a loss of 64. Returns from Upland revealed a loss of seven, dropping from 906 to 899.
Boswell said, "while the figures given are preliminary and subject to rorrection, they are 'believed to be substantially While waiting returns from other Grant county towns, census officials and Marion civic leaders issued a last minute appeal for full. trooperation aidingto make. a 100 percent count here. Citizens. not having been counted or contacted by enumerators are urged to fill out the blank appearing In The Leader-Tribune and mail it either to this office or the district census office, federal building, Kokomo..
