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The Indianapolis Times

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 178

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938

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PRICE THREE CENTS

SUN 1S ONLY BSENTEE AS SERIES OPENS

Kind Ruffing Throws, but Not Bill Lee.

YANKEES SWAGGERING'

43.000 on Hand for First Game: Odds Favor N. Y. Powerhouse.

PROBABLE LINEUPS Chicago Cubs Hack. 3b Herman, Demaree, Cavarretta Reynolds, Hartnett Collins,

New York Yankees

Crosetti Rolfe, 3b Henrich, rf .. DiMaggio. of | Gehrig. 1b Dickey, © Selkirk, If Gordon, 2b 3 Jurges, a3 Ruffing, p. w. 21,1. 7 Lee, p w. 32, 1 4 Umpires—At the plate, Moran (N. at first base. Kolls (A. L.): at second base, Sears (N. L.); at third base, Hubbard tA. LD)

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(Editorial, Page 12)

WRIGLEY FIELD, CHICAGO. Oct. 5 (U, P).—The gods of the | baseball wars sent a gray and cheer-| less afternoon, an afternoon tailor-| made for the slingers of smokeballs, to the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs for the opening game of the 1938 World Series today. Even the brave old sun sneaked behind the clouds when the Yankees, swaggering and jibing at the Cubs, came out to get their eyes on ine sights and began slamming baseballs into the bleachers in batting prac tice The weather was not quite to the taste of Big Bill Lee. the human workhorse, who carried the hopes of the Cubs. The general would have | nreferred a little more sunshine and a little less of the cool breeze that stiffened the flags on the rim of this big bowl where 43 000 persons assembied

Chuckle for Ruffing

Rut Rufus Red Ruffing, ace of the Yankees pitching staff, who sends that ball up there like something out of the business end of a gatling gun, grinned clear across his face when he squinted his eyes aloft and saw a dark, slate-gray sky. He figured a black day would make | his hard high one look as small as| a golf ball when the Cubs started swinging. Odds swung back and forth be-; tween 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 that the Yankees. who with Ruffing in there, have a power hitter in every slot, will win the series for their third consecutive world championship. The Cubs went into the game weary and frazzled from a pennant race that saw Gen. Lee work four consecutive days. The general had a shaky, wounded army behind him —an army that came back from the National League wars with two of its best men on the casualty list Augie Galan, a ball hawk in the putfield and a deadly hitter, 1s out of it with a wrenched knee swollen as large as a honsy-dew melon Manager Gabby Hartnett wound tape around two fingers of his throwing hand. and said he would ga in there and catch as long as he could Uniforms

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Gray, Too

The Yankees came cut for batting practice in uniforms as gray as the skies. and occupants of the grand-! stand got on the edge of their seats ta watch DiMaggio, Gehrig, Dickey and Selkirk bust baseballs into the distant bleachers. Gehrig bounced one high against the brick wall in right field and a long. mournful “ah” went up from grandstand and bleachers. A moment later the right field bleacher fans. who had been in their seats since 9 a. m., scatter>d when Selkirk pumped a ball clear over their heads into the street. More than 2000 fans stood in line throughout the night at Wrigley Field box offices. waiting for the 8000 bleacher seats to be placed on sale. The field seating capacity was increased from 37,500 to 40.700 for the series. If standing room 1S eXhausted the attendance will be approximately 43.600.

James Roosevelt May See Second Game

ROCHESTER. Minn, Oct PP) James Roosevelt, the Presi@ent's eldest son, who recovering from a gastric ulcer operation, may attend the second game of the] World Series at Chicago tomorrow. | If the weather is warm and I am permitted to do so, Il be there,” he said. He planned to leave Rochester tonight at 8:30 p. m. by train for Chicago. en route to California for a two months’ vacation. He has spent the last week at the home of his physician, Dr. Howard K. Gray, who operated on him at Mavo Clinic three weeks ago He plans to leave Chicago Thursday night by train for Oakland, Cal. He will drive from there to Hollister, Cal, for a visit until Dec. 1 at the ranch of a friend, Walter P. Murphy, a Chicagoan.

Steve Mesner. Tribe Infielder, Marries

Infielder Steve Mesner of the Indianapolis baseball club was honeymooning at the World Series opener in Chicago today Yesterday, he married Miss Charlene F. Steffan, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Harry F. Steffan, 571 East Drive, Woodruff Place. They both were rooting for the Cubs. Mr, JMesner was recalled hy the Chicago team at the end of the American Association season but is not eligible to participate m the

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Great Day for Smokeballs, |

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Lee Sees Red

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Red Ruffing

TAIT, INDIANA FUGITIVE, HELD

Questioned in Chicago Slaying: Denies Charges, Admits Robberies.

CHICAGO. Oct. 5 (U. P.).—Capt. Daniel Gilbert of the State's Attornev's police announced today that Ernest Tait, 30, Indiana desperado who was captured here yesterdav, had confessed eight safe robberies in the Chicago area since 1936. Tait, who gave police the name of Ted Lawrence. denied, however, the slaying of John O'Brien, Chicago tavern owner, a crime for which he had been sought. Mr. O'Brien was shot to death July 17 on a street corner Capt. Gilbert said he will have witnesses to the assassination view Tait today.

Police and postal inspectors seized

Tait early yesterday in a tavern. Capt. Gilbert said Tait's safecracking jobs had included six five and 10-cent stores and two food marts. Capt. Gilbert said Tait escaped from the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City in June, 1936, eight months after he had started serving a 3-to-10-yvear term with Jame, Flaherty and Donald Nye for an attempted robbery of the Speetiiway National Bank at Indianapolis State Police and deputy sheriffs captured the men during the robberyv after they had received a “tip” was in progress. Tait was wounded before he was seized. Patricia Gatke., 27, with whom Tait had "bheenn living in a small hotel here, was seized by Capt. Gilbert's men last night.

St. Louis Police Hold Four

In Indiana Holdups ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5 (U. P).—Two men and two women were held for Terre Haute, Ind. authorities today in connection with two Indiana holdups which police said the men had confessed in signed statements. They were: Julius M. Trader, 1lias Jud Trader, 22; Albert Leo Turner, alias Leo Turner, 24, both of Terre Haute; Mrs. Agnes Irene Wilder, alias Sarah Trader, 19, and Mrs. Thelma Sutton, alias Thelma Allen, 22, both of Indianapolis.

Indianapolis police today said they believed two young men who ob$228 in a robbery and two holdups in Terre Haute and Clinton

apols residents

STUDY MOVING 1. Ul. MEDICAL SCHOOL TO CITY

Doctors’ Proposal Would Consolidate All Units In Indianapolis.

SCIENCE SESSIONS BEGIN

Association Head Urges Use Of Hospitals as Study Centers.

(Another Story, Page 20: Photos,

Pages 13 and 20.)

Ry JOE COLLIER The Indiana State Medical Association. through its committee on education, this afternoon was considering a resolution which would propose moving the entire Indiana University Medical School to Indianapolis and which would ask the Legislature for a bigger madical school budget.

Whatever action committee

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takes will be referred to the House

of Delegates. This proposal is in line general program of the House © Delegates for a more extensive use of the State's institutional facilities for postgraduate work. Earlier today. Dr. Herman Baker, Evansville, association president,

with the

called upon every Indiana commil-|

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nity to use ts hospitals as centers of postgraduaie education. He urged that the Association employ a physician to help in the organization of every hospital in the State for the teaching of graduate [courses for Association members. The suggestion, made as the scientific program of the Association's 83th annual session got under wax in the Murat Temple, was in line with recommendations of both the American Medical Association and a special committee of the State Association for extension of medical service to the public.

Committees at Work

Meanwhile, the House of Delegates, through committees, studving other recommendations of the A. M. A. as the State Association committee marshaled its forces for a fight against socialized medieine. Another invoice of the State's hospital facilities was announced. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board secretary, said the Board will begin immediately an inspection of all hospitals to see if they have apparatus necessary for typing pneumonia. Although there is no money now available for public purchase of pneumonia serums, Dr. Harvey said an extensive State fight against the heavy pneumonia death toll would be started this fall. Dr. Baker said the postgraduate (Continued on Page Three)

HOSPITAL DEATHS LAID TO CHEMIST

DETROIT. Oct. 5 (U. P.).— Deaths of four inmates of Eloise Hospital were blamed by Superintendent Thomas K. Gruber today on “the inexplicable act” of a chemist employed by the hospital. The chemist, Hugh McCallum, 49, of Youngstown, O.. was one of the victims of poison alcohol. { Dr. Gruber said McCallum, eraduate of Carnegie Tech, was given a job in the hospital laboratorv washing chemical glassware. The superintendent said he believed McCallum obtained methyl alcohol, drank it and gave it to three inmates to drink. All died.

GUESTS FLEE FIRE AT ANDERSON HOTEL

ANDERSON, Oct. 5 (U. JD — Fire at the Grand Hotel here early today forced 50 guests to flee, many of them in night clothing, when flames swept through the third floor. Damage was estimated at $5000. Assistant Fire Chief Arnold Meister received a broken ankle

the attic.

Bund Seeks to Weld All Fascist Groups, Is Claim

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U, P) The German-American bund has been seeking to consolidate all Fascist elements in this country into one movement under bund leadership, John C. Metcalfe today told the House Committee investigating un-American activities. Mr. Metcalfe, committee investigator, who once joined the bund and became a storm trooper, testified that Newton Jenkins, Chicago lawyer, sought to unite 125 Fascist organizations into a third political party. He said Herman Schwarzmann, leader of the Astoria, N. Y. Bund post, told him that “American Germans will be at the top of this merger.” Mr. Metcalfe cited incidents in which Italian blackshirts and other organizations joined in bund celebrations. He said that bund officials claim that the Ku-Klux Klan, the Silver Shirts, headed bv William Dudlev Pelley of Asheville, N, C.. and the Gold Shirts of Mexico also are “working with” the Nazi organization. “Blackshiris and a group of Ttalian war veterans displayed their

new found unity with the Bund ati polit:

Camp Nordland. N. H, 1937." Mr. Metcalfe said “Their leader, Salvatore Caridi, Union City, N. J. received a great cheer when he advocated a ‘punch in the nose’ for those Americans who disagree with Mussolini or Hitler.” Mr. Metcalfe said California Bund members told him alignment behind Mr. Jenkins would aid them politically. He quoted Willie Kendziz, secretary treasurer of the Los Angeles Bund, as saying that under such a union “There wouldn't be that King Kong in New York—La Guardia.” He said that

July 18,

Arno Risse, leader

of the San Gabriel, Cal, Bund Post!

told him the Mexican Gold Shirts numbered 100,000 and were “getting set for a revolution” and that “after that will coms trouble in the United States.” CHICAGO. Oct. 5 (U. P) —Newton Jenkins, Chicago attorney, today emphatically denied charges made by Investigator John C. Metcalfe before the Dies Committee that he sought to unite 125 Fascist organizations in this country into a third cal party. ‘ji

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Slip in Time

Saves a Fee

To Doctors

Firemen did more than just rescue 66-year-old James Carson, 727 N. New Jersey St. from a pear tree in the rear of 721 N. Fast St. today. They saved him

from a medical fee, too. Mr. Carson was picking pears | when his shoulder,

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dislocated 10 years ago when he fell off a horse, slipped out of place as he was sliding down the tree. He became lodged in a fork of the tree. Firemen Terry McGovern and Leo Lindors reached him with a 20-foot ladder. As they carried him down he sighed in sudden relief. | “I'm all right bovs!' “You just slipped that { back in place.”

he said. shoulder

CHIEF ISSUES STRIKE ORDER

Officers Told to ‘Peaceful Picketing’ as

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Police today were instructed by

f Chief Morrissey to permit “picket- |

ing in a peaceful manner” in all strikes and labor controversies in Indianapolis, as defined by City and State strike regulations. They also were ordered

in a labor on orders from

involved except

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The order, read to all patrolmen |

call, was seen as to criticism by

at morning roll {the City's answer

some labor groups of police action!

strikes. It had been reported that some labor organizations had requested Chief Morrissey’s resignation.

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| Boetcher and State labor officials, and State Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson and Arthur Viat, his |assistant, visited Mr. Morrissey at | Police Headquarters yesterday.

labor controversies” if they are de[tailed to strike duty, and to “talk {to no one on labor questions.” {~ If trouble arises that they are {unable to handle, the officers are to call their commanding officers at headquarters, the order said.

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BUDGETS CERTIFIED

FOR STATE REVIEW

Oct.

15 Is Deadline for Notice of Appeal.

| Budgets for all taxing units | Marion County were certified to the State Tax Board today for. review at a hearing starting Oct. 18. County Tax Adjustment Board members have signed all local budgets. which include a rate of $3.19 for Indianapolis in Center Township next year, one cent below the 1938 rate. | Budgets as submitted to the Adjustment Board three weeks ago called for a total rate of $3.47 in Indianapolis in Center Township. Officials of the various taxing units have until Oct. 15 to file notice of their intention to appeal for restoration of any items cut or eliminated by the Board. Under a 1937 law, any tax rate | within a corporate city that ex{ceeds $2, or any levy in rural dis|tricts exceeding $1.25, automatically are subject to review by the State Tax Board. | The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association has indicated it will not ask any more cuts in the budgets.

TOSCANINI SAILS. DENIES DETENTION

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PARIS, Oct. 5

layed so long in Italy he was traveling at a speed out of keeping with

| his years to keep an engagement in’

| New York, was asked today if reports that the Italian Government had refused to permit him to depart were true. He replied: “The story is not true, The Government denied it.” Sig. Toscanini sailed from Le Havre aboard the liner Normandie at 8 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). He had raced across Paris by auto from the train which had brought him from his home in Milan.

BANDITS GET $6000

EVANSVILLE, Oct. 5 (U. P)— Police were searching today for two

bandits who held up a Southern

{ Indiana Gas and Electric Co. cashier vesterday and escaped with $6000.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

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Questions ... Ratio ........ Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story.. Society ...... Sports .... 14, State Deaths.

Wiggahesss,

Jane Jordan.

Permit gs

not to,

escort trucks operated by any comcontro- |

Chief Morrissey has been in sev- | eral recent conferences with Mayor |

Police were warned in today’s or-| ders to “take no part in strikes or |

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Adjustment |

: (U. P.).—Arturo| Monday night are former Indian- when he fell through the roof into Toscanini, orchestra conductor. de-

AGREEMENT ON TRACK RAISING NEAR, I CLAIM

‘Concurrence With City on Modified Financing | Plan Reported.

IS OPTIMISTIC

MAYOR

| Voices Confidence After Talk!

With Belt Railroad President.

The City and Indianapolis Union | Railway officials have reached a] “virtual agreement” on a modified | plan of financing the Belt Railroad |

track elevation project, 18arned today. The agreement was reported following a meeting at Chicago yester-| day between Mayor Boetcher and | . BE. Newcomet, Union Railway president. Mayor Boetcher’s comment {lowing the meeting was: “We are very optimistic concernling the negotiations.” { Summary of New Plan The plan is to be submitted to the Union Railway board of directors. Under it, the railroad is not called upon, as in the earlier plan; to pay its total share in cash, it was reported. The plan is reported to be a modification of a 1925 contract between the railroad and the City, and provides for an initial cash payment of $46,343 to the City by the railroad. The balance of the railroad’s share would be financed by a City bond (issue, to be repaid by the railroad in 10 years after completion of the | |project, under the reported plan. | J. J. Liddy, Union Railway superintendent, said: “Mr. Newcome{ has

assured the! City that the railroad will eco-! operate in every wav by having! {railroad and City engineers get to-| gether to work out engineering de- | |tails.” He declined to comment on | (the reported financial agreement. | The plans call for elevation of tracks at East St., Singleton St. and | Madison Ave. at a total cost esti-| mated at $936,879, of which PWA will finance 45 per cent. ! Of the balance, the railroads, un-| | der State law, must pay 50 per cent, | {the City 34 per cent and the County | | 16 per cent.

. The PWA grant amount to $421 | 596. The City and County share and |

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portion of the proposed South Side § it was/| §

PRESIDENT BENES RESIGNS

TO AID CZECH RELATIONS WITH NAZI GOVERNMENT

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Fish

Gen. Syrovy Becomes,

Provisional Head At Praha.

FACTIONS UNITED

New Cabinet Makes Concessions to Slovaks.

(The European Situation, Page Three; Another Praha Story, Page 16.)

PRAHA, Oct. 5 (U. P.).—President Benes resigned today after a losing fight to prevent German absorption of the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia. The Government was left for the time being in the hands of Premier

g Jan Syrovy, one-eyed World War

Times-Acme Photo,

Former President Benes of Czechoslovakia.

Forecasts Victory;

VanNuys Defends Hull

‘Senator Replies to Critics ‘Middle-of-Road’

Of Trade Policies at Logansport. Times Special

FT. WAYNE, Oct. 5—U. 8. Sena-| tor VanNuys centered his campaign |

Policy For G. O. P. Urged by New Yorker.

By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer

HUNTINGTON, Oct. 5.—Rep.

(the railroad’s share the latter to activities here today following his Hamilton Fish Jr. (R., N. Y.) today

|be advanced by the City, willl | amount to $468,439. This sum would | {be raised by bond issue. The railroad’s share of the cost, | | excluding the intial cash payment, | | which must be repaid to the City, | |is estimated at $210,789, it was un-| | derstood. |

'NEW HOSPITAL HEAD DUE IN TWO WEEKS

| Dr. Frank I. Jennings, Minneapolis, is expected here within the next two weeks to assume the! superintendency of the Marion]! County Tuberculosis Hospital at, Sunnyside. | Dr. Jennings. who was appointed [by the institution's board of man-| |agers yesterday. succeeds Dr. A, E.! Hubbard, who died recently. | Dr. Jennings, a graduate of the! | Medical College of Syracuse Uni-| versity, has done postgraduate | {work at Harvard Medical School. | Cornell Medical School and the! | University of Minnesota. At present connected with the Glenn Lake Sanitorium at Min-| neapolis, Dr. Jennings has written | | many papers on various phases of | | tuberculosis.

PETITION ASKS SALE ~ OF CLAYPOOL HOTEL

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A petition asking permission to {sell controlling interest in the Claypool Hotel Co. owned by heirs of the estate of Mrs. Adelaide! (Lawrence, was on file in Probate | Court today. { Attorneys for the executors, who filed the petition, said the sale] rwould require approval of Probate! Judge Smiley Chambers. | The value of the stock held by. heirs of the Lawrence estate has! been estimated at between $500.000

and $800,000. It has heen reported |alignment, including the attempted tcnight and tomorrow was forecast | for several months that numerous party “purge” of the recent primary by the Weather Bureau today. To-| family near Pilsen, in Bohemia

address at a Democratic rally at] Logansport in which he defended | the National Administration's reciprocal trade agreements. For the first time in this campaign, Senator Minton is to share] the speaking assignment with Sena- | tor VanNuys at the Fourth Con-| gressional District rally here tonight.

was on record with the prediction that “irrepressible conflict between radical and liberal Democrats will

| split the Democratic party wide open

in 1940.” Addressing about 3500 who attended a Fifth District Republican rally here last night, the veteran New York Congressman declared

|that the President “has abandoned |

| hero, at the head of a reconstructed | Cabinet in which the Slovakian minority of the partly-dismembered republic has been given stronger representation. Premier Syrovy became provision al president. The Constitution pro= vides that the National Assembly must be called to elect a new Presi= dent. | Mr. Benes had been President of | Czechoslovakia since December, 1935. He was leader of the Czech nationalist movement since World War days and one of the founders of the Little Entente. As chief delegate to the Versailles Peace Confernce, he sturdily promoted creation of the postwar republic and stanchly defended it in the ensuing years at the League of Nations.

Incurs Hitler's Enmity

| Mr. Benes’ policies incurred the | bitter enmity of Fuehrer Hitler. The Fuehrer excoriated him in recent Nuremberg and Berlin speeches, denouncing him as an unscrupulous plotter and a liar. Gen. Syrovy’s new Cabinet of national concentration took office this morning, after having given their oaths of allegiance to Mr. Benes last night. Appointment of Frantisek Chavale kovsky as Foreign Minister may mark the beginning of a new for= eign policy which will tend to bring Czechoslovakia and Germany close together. 5 He is referred to here as the Ber= lin-Rome-Tokyo Axis minister. President Benes left office, it was

Rep. James IT. Farley and Harry liberalism and made his bed of radi- | explained, because he felt that Ger-

Gottschalk, Democratic nominee for | Mayor of Ft. Wayne, also are to speak, and other candidates on the State and local tickets are to be introduced. This meeting, like the one in Logansport last night, is one of a series being sponsored by the Young | Democrats. Declaring that Bertrand H. Snell, Republican Congressman from New| York, was distributing cards con-| taining “misleading statements” on| the effect of the reciprocal agree-| (Continued on Page Seven)

F. D. R. WEIGHS THIRD

Discussed Prospect With tn

Liberals, Is Report.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-—Presi-| dent Roosevelt's “look-see” toward 1940 now is represented in usually well-informed quarters as including | thought of creating a new liberal third party independent of the two old parties. | This is based not oniv on Mr.| Roosevelt's repeated declarations] and moves aimed at a political re-!

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calism.” “This is the real campaign issue,” he said. He said that if the Republican

|Party took the middle-of-the-road immediate future. course without “compromising itself

with either the Left or Right,” it would win in 1940. “Victory is inevitable unless a handful of reactionaries and selfish interests swing us to the right,” he said. “If we let them do that, we won't carry Maine or Vermont and we won't deserve to.” Willis at Richmond Raymond E. Willis, Republican

| Senatorial nominee, was prevented | ro from attending the rally hecause of |

speaking engagements at ShelbyDistrict last night. He prepared today to make his third major campaign speech at Richmond tonight. Mr. Fish, in an interview, said at he was convinced President Roosevelt would seek a third term

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BUREAU PREDICTS COOLER WEATHER

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many’s hostility toward him would jeopardize the best interests of Czechoslovakia in the negotiations which will determine his country’s

Departure of Mr. Benes leaves the new Czech Government free, if it decides on that policy, to drift away from the democracies and line up with Rome and Berlin.

One of Founders

Mr. Benes was one of the founde ‘ers of the Czechoslovak republia (that was born of the World War, directed its foreign policy through 17 years when it was a bule

|ville and Rushville in the Tenth wark of the French-inspired, antie

German entente in Central Europe, And finally it was his lot to be President of the nation when the |pressure of Adolf Hitler's “Greater | Reich” became too strong and the {powers decided to sacrifice the Czech boundaries that had been es-

to keep the New Deal at the helm! tablished after the war.

A small, agile and frugal man of 54, he worked ceaselessly through ithe long days of the recent crisis to preserve the republic as it had been constituted. He proclaimed the readiness of Czechs to fight if their (allies would stand by them and |fight, too. But the allies decided {that war was too great a risk and all of Mr. Benes’ diplomacy could (not prevent Germany's annexation of long-disputed minority areas.

Fled During War Mr. Benes was born of a

poor and

prospective buyers have been nego- season and his statement that he day's temperatures ranged about 10 he alone of a large family was sent.

tiating for purchase.

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degrees above normal.

Are Newspapers Fair to Roosevelt?

Readers Think So, Gallup Poll Shows

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Publie Opinion

NEW YORK, Oct. 5-—Are

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the country and of all shades of political opinion. Asked whether

whole, 72 out of every 100 Democrats believe the press is fair to Mr.

the |the news reports in their papers| Roosevelt and 90 out of every 100

‘newspapers fair to the Roosevelt were fair or unfair to the Adminis- Republicans hold the same view.

Administration? Although the President on several occasions h a s criticized the press for the way it reports Washington affairs,. an over=|whelming ma - jority of newspaper readers in a national [survey think the press is fair and impartial to the Administration in its news columns. The survey

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This vote of confidence in the impartiality of news reports is the |

more striking because a majority |, q Ohio, and in the Far West, the | 50 because h

of American papers lean editorially | to the Republican side. In 1936, for example, more than!

flsix out of every 10 newspaper

readers told the Institute that the | papers they read were supporting

Despite the Republican complex- |

ion of the press. today’s survey finds | that a large majority of Democrats

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Sentiment regarding newspaper reatment of the New Deal varies lightly according to geographical ections. In the East Central area, which cludes Michigan, Illinois, Indiana

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The sentiments by sections follows: Fair Unfair New England ...... 87% Middle Atlantic .... 83 East Central ...... 77 West Central .., ,. R4 South vevernprve 38

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|to high school and the university. | There began his association with Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, “Father of Czechoslovakia,” who was its President until 1935. When the war began in 1914, Mr. Masaryk went to Paris; Mr. Benes remained to do undercover work at Praha until, in a few months, his activities were discovered and he fled through Switzerland to France and England. In 1915 and 1916, Mr. Masaryk and Mr. Benes worked out details of the proposed new republic, which finally was proclaimed on Oct. 14, 1918, with Mr. Masaryk at its head and Mr. Benes as Foreign Minister, Often during the ensuing years, {it was suggested that Mr. Benes be=|come Premier. He declined that | post, some suggesting that he did e did not want to prej= chances of becoming He was Mr. Masaryk’s | the second President of {the new republic, and when Mr, | Masaryk retired in 1935, Mr. Benes was elected.

udice his | President.

| STOCKS GO TO NEW HIGHS | NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U,P.).— | Tickers were clogged today on the | New York Stock Exchange as stocks soared 1 to more than 2 points to the highest levels in abe a year.