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| announced that its | ‘Marion County budgets and levies

‘FORECAST: Fair i somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow.

Rr na VOLUME 51—NUMBER 175

COUNTY CLERK . PAID AT LEAST - $20685IN'38

Treasurer's Income Put at

$16,218 Plus Estimated $15-25,000 in Fees.

CHECKED BY EXAMINER

Accounts ~ Board's Report

Requested by Tax Adjustment Board.

The State Board of Accounts to-|

day reported to the County Tax Adjustment Board that the Marion County Clerk last year received in fees and salaries a total of at least

$20,685.90. The Marion Courtiy Treasurer, according to the report, received $16,-

tion to 2 demand fee for the collection of delinquent personal property taxes. This demand fee, which has been estimated by Adjustment Board members at between $15,000 and $25,000, was not included by the State Board because, it was said, no record of such fees is kept by the ‘Treasurer. Compensation listed in the report for the County Clerk does not include, the report said, “any personal fees or profits which may have accrued from the issuance of marriage licenses.”

¢ Brennan Signs Report

This statement referred to the practice by the Clerk of charging between $1 and $3 for marriage license certificates, in. addition to

the statutory marriage license fee of $2. The report, which was signed by Edward P, Brennan, Accounts Board chief examiner, was made from records of the City Controller, County Auditor and County Clerk, at the request of the Adjustment Board.

The information was sought by a |

subcommittee which is preparing a | Weather Bureau for tonight and to-

public report on budget and tax problems. Fees Listed

The State Board's report on the |

Clerk’s office for last year showed the following fees and salaries: Salary as clerk 4,800.00

S 4 Salary as election commissioner 1,000.00 voters registration

000.00 | week-end occurred when the home

epileptic fees Insan by and o ion (names) .... Voters r Sfistratiop (transfers) .. Change of venue transcripts Serving income tax warrants .... Serving Buemployment -compensation warrants Election contests Naturalization fee Fish and game Neense fees Witness

“20tal uo. reisanres tees bernie: $20,685.90

Compensation received by the County Treasurer in 1938, as shown by the report, included: °

Salary as Treasure Salary as City ET ASHECT

Six per’ cent fee on delinquent personal property tax bi 10,218.68 $16,218.68 In referring to the demand fee, which is 50 cents for each personal demand upon a delinquent personal property taxpayer, the report stat-

“No record of the amount of demand fees received by the County Treasurer, whic is in addition to the fees set out in this report, is kept. | We are informed that these fees are paid directly to the Treasurer as his personal property.”

Request Made Last Week

The request for the report was made by the Board last week after Frederick Albershardt, Board vice chairman, said he had keen informed the County Treasurer received as personal compensation, including salary, between $50,000 and $75,000 a year. ! On the basis of his estimation of the total fees received by the Treasurer, Mr. Alpershardt forced through the Board a cut of $7300

in" the Treasurer's budget item for|

extra clerical help. Mr. Albershardt contended the Treasurer should be able to pay salaries of this help from his personal fees. | The figures in the Accounts Board report are expected to he used by the Adjustment Board in revision of statutes legalizin fees. The Adjustment Board’s report, which also is expected to cover poor

these

| relief costs and administration, is ! expected to be issued before the end

of the week. Meanwhile, the State Tax Board review of the

fixed last week by the Adjustment

Board could not be started until | after Oct. 25.

DIES HOLDS CHICAGO Quiz CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Rep.

| Martin Dies (D. Tex.) chairman of

the House Committee on un-Ameri-

| can activities, opens a hearing here

today to investigate the activities

of Communist, Fascist and Nazi or- | ganizations in the Chicago area,

a—

Somebody | Wants-— : B

and- will pay cash for those disearded items of furniture, lawn mowers, bicycles, clothing, | etc., “mow collecting only dust in| your attic and basement. Dig them out and “tell the world” about them + thru a little inexpensive Times Want Ad... . The cash vou get may pay for a new fall suit. Phone your ad tonight before 9 or tomorrow before 11 a.

_RI-5551 THE TIMES For Want Ad Results

Cardinal Mundelein . , . won

Pope's praise.

FIRE DESTROYS 2 HOMES HERE

Mercury Dips to 37 but Tomorrow’s Outlook ‘Is Fair and Warmer.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... 40 7am. ] 8a. m 9am

12 (noon) .. lpm. .... 67 Low temperatures sent the city to th ( coal shed this week-end with the result that firemen were called upon to put out 12 cold weather,

‘though they were not officially ‘re

10.00 | Bookwalter. Fire is believed to have 50 started from a defective fireplace.

ao00g Fields, 1215 N. Sheffield Ave. with

rging

fires. Two homes were destroyed. Fair and somewhat warmer {weather was predicted by the

morre t. The lowest temperature over. pe week-end was at 6 a. m. vest day when it was 37 degrees. There were light frosts yesterday

morning and this morning, al-

ported by the Weather Bureau. Greatest single fire loss over the

of T. E. Lain, Kessler Blvd. and Barrett Ave., was destroyed. Firemen estimated the loss at $7000. The home was owned’ by John H.

The Lains saved only a few articles of clothing.

Flue Blamed in Fire

A kerosene stove started a fire that destroyed the home of Harry

a low estimated at $2500. A $25 loss was reported to the home of Josepn C. Hackard, 4327 Bethel Ave, when the roof was ignited by a defective flue. Kindling at the home of H. W. Warner, 962

East. Drive, Woodruff Place, was ignited in the basement. Hot ashes set fire to some paper ‘boxes in which they had been deposited at the home of Mrs. E. C. Klieder, 5107 Broadway. Fifty canaries and some parrots were suffocated when coal gas exploded in the furnace at the home o Clarence Taylor and started a re.

Sparks Ignite Roof

A fire that started from an unknown source, did $1000 damage to a duuble residence at 1421 Prospect St. Flue sparks set fire to the roof of the home of W. H. Fisher, 1910 Bellefontaine St. An overheated furnace at the home of Thomas C. Neidlinger, 6173 Park Ave. started a fire while the family was away. A defective burner on a kerosene stove at the home of Leo Cassidy, 1321 W. 28th St., started a fire. A can of oil exploded back of a furnace at the home of W. R. Kelso, 809 Tecumseh St. An overheated furnace at the J. C. Sedberry Co., a machinery supply house at 416 8. Meridian St., started a fire that did $40 damage early today.

COURT HOUSE HIT BY FIRE MARION; Ind. Oct. 2 (U, P.)— Damage estimated at $15,000 resulted today from a fire in the third floor storeroom of the Grant County Court House. None of the cur-

: | Hitler and other | leaders.

Cardinal Mundelein Dies In Sleep at Illinois Home; | Ou tspoken. Foe of H Hitler"

: Chicago Churdan Was

Spiritual Leader of 1,000,000 000 Catholics.

Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, spiritual leader of 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in “the Chicago) archdiocese, died in: his sieep today in his 68th year. The Church mourned the loss of

in temporal as well as religious matters and who dared to speak with a biting tongue against Adolf German, 3 Nazi

He was the first Catholic of his

{rank to express indignation at the

persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany and his castigation - bf the Reichsfuehrer as “an. Austrian paper-hanger—and a poor one at that” aroused angry echoes in Berlin. The Nazis protested to His Holiness Pope Pius XI but the latter defended Cardinal Mundelein’s “courage in defense of the rights of God and the Church.”

Household Grief- Stricken

Death, attributed to coronary thrombosis. came so peacefuily that members of the Cardinal's entourage did not know he was dead until he failed ‘to respond to ‘their call at 7:45 a. m. The household was so stricken with grief that it aid not

: [reveal his death to the public until

more .than two hours later. He passed away at his villa.on the grounds of ‘the seminary of St. Mary's of the .Lake, ‘built under Cardinal Mundelein’s direction in a suburb named for-the prelate, who had been a: cardinal since 1924, archbishop since 1915. He, had been in good health and spent a normal Suungay. Associates regarded Cardinal Mundelein as: one of the church’s ablest executives and it once was Psaid of him: “He should have been a. banker.” He was a close personal friend of President Roosevell and reputedly sponsored the . appointment of William J. Campbell, head of the Catholic Youth Organization, as U. S. district attorney.’

Attacked Nasi Regime

The Cardinal drew international attention when he German leaders at the diocesian meeting in 1937. Himself of German origin, and with thousands of German Catholics among his flock, he minced no words in denouncing those who had brought priests to trial, searched monasteries, charged immorality in church schools and impressed members of the Catholic Youth Organization into the brown-shirted Hitler youth. Herr Goebbels threatened revenge upon the German church in a broadcast reply. The German ambassador made “representations” at the White House. The, German press called the speech “unbridled and malicious.” His . ‘oliness Pope Pius XII‘ told a group of Chicago pilgrims at the Vatican two months later: "i have a magnificent cardina ”

TURNER NEGOTIATES FOR SITE AT AIRPORT

Central Aeronautical Corp. Purchase Is Discussed.

Representatives of Col. Roscoe Turner, who proposes to: establish a flying school at the Municipal Airpar, today began negotiations to buy the Central Aeronautical Corp. at the Airport. Announcement of negotiations was: made jointly by Carl Wilde, Col. Turner’s Indianapolis representative, and Irving M. Fauvre, Central Aeronautical Corp. attorney, at the Works Board meeting. Mr. Wilde and Mr. Fauvre said a decision on the the sale. probably would be reached this week. Mr. Fauvre said that while Central would welcome Col. Turner's proposed flying school, the corporation would insist that its present contract gives it a mohopoly on fuel sales and plane servicing. Central’s position has delayed the Board’s action on Col. Turner’s proposals, which in addition to the fly-| ing school, ask the right to compete

rent records was destroyed.

with Central in fuel sales and plane servicing. Sirs :

CHICAGO, Oct. 2 w. “P.).—His’

a prince who commanded respect:

tL. Josef. 8

MONDAY, OCTOBER. 2, 1989

Beri but Drop No ‘Bombs.

WESTERN FRONT QUIET

|One of Two Lettish Ports And Non-Aggression Pact :

Asked by “Soviet.

BULLETIN MOSCOW, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Ht ‘was announced. here today that * the ‘Lithuanian’ Foreign Minister

tant discussions.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor With Europe's belligerents -settling down to the likelihood of a long war, it appeared that tiny Latvia would be the next object of Soviet ‘Russia's new ambitiohs in the West. * The second month ‘of hostilities got under way with British planes flying over Berlin, dropping . no bombs. : A new and perhaps final peace “ultimatum” by Adolf Hitler—perhaps through Italy—was expected, but Great Britain and France were turning it down in advance. s Moscow remained. the diplomatic center of dctivity. Latvia's: Foreign Minister, flew to the Soviet capital. The Soviet Union was reported moving’ 20 divisions of troops from the Esthonian frontier to the border

non-aggression treaty and a Russian naval base at Libau or Windau on the Latvian coast.

No Tea: Party Invitation

Moscow ' announced simply that the Red Army was being given “a freer hand in Europe,” but Latvia distributed ration cards and most foreigners left Riga, capital of the nation, with two-thirds the area of Indiana and about half the Hoosier population.

those which made Esthonia a puppet state of Russia’s and gave the Soviet Navy and air force bases on the Esthonian islands of Oesel and Dagoe and the port of Paldiski.

vian . Foreign Minister’ v Munters ° was delivered by Bins Esthonian Foreign Minister, Karl Selter, on his. way home from the dinners he had been given at the Kremlin to ease .his sensibilities. Also on the way to Moscow was Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu of Rumania. Rumanian Bessarabia,

of Russia before the ‘World War. The Soviet Union has never recognized Rumania’s , possession of: it. It was feared that Russia would

the price of Rumanian adherence to a Russian-German bloc.

"How About Lithuania?

Lithuania, slightly ‘smaller than Latvia but more thickly populated, is. . the third Baltic state which

closest to Germany. There were hints that the Soviet spread of in-. fluence. along the Baltic would soon include that government, too. Turkey, at the opposite Russian frontier, apparently was maintaining a middle course. . Although long a ~lose ally of the Soviets, the Turks were ‘going ‘ahead with eonclusion’ of an alliance with Britain and ‘France. Thus while they are. ex‘pected to specify that Turkey will not join in hostilities against Russia the Ankara Government leaders seemed willing to co-operate with the Allies at the important Dardanelles Strait. On the fighting fronts, every move. served to intesify the determination of both sides to fight b the finish. On the high seas, a mysterio German - raidér suddenly appeared i... (Continued on Page Three)

51,000 FLEE EUROPE WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 .(U. P.) —/|’ The State Department’ announced today that 51,725 Americans have returned from. Europe since the war started Sept.’ ‘There were approximately oo 000 in Europe during the summer. .. - .

TAR BOILS, STARTS FIRE NEW CASTLE, Ind. Oct. 2 (U.P). —Pire which started when a “pot of tar boiled over today caused ‘an estimated $10000 damage to’ the

Oliver Pp. Goar Poultry. Co.

British- ‘Planes “Fly “Over|

will fly. here. -fomorrow : for impor-

of Latvia to support a demand for a |”

These demands were similar to

ime! Poten;<dnd.

like Latvia and Esthonia, was a’ part

either demand it# return or make it

formerly belonged to Russia and the |.

for: talk »

BERLIN, Oct. 2 (U.P.).—~The

Allied powers refuse Adolf Hitler’s titioned Poland.

to make a “final” peace offer to tends, if it fails, to deliver a “peace Nazi Richstag Friday or Saturday, it

. Entered at Fostothce

Hitler Asks Italy’ s Aid for Peace

Times "Acme Radiophoto, i

Count iano and Fuehrer Hitler . + + in Hitler's new. Chancellery on peace Tegatiagions, 5

oo”

Clan Returns to Rome; Germans Occupy Warsaw

Nazi: press hinted today that Ttaly

as well as Soviet Russia would lend military aid to Germany if the

bid for peace on the Iasis of a par- .

BERLIN, Oct. 2 (U.P) —Adolf Hitler has asked Benito Mussolini

Great Britain and: France and -inultimatum” to the Allies through the was reported today.

. Meanwhile German troops moved to their occupation’ of Warsaw.

NINE KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

Indianapolis Pedestrian Is Among Victims; Driver Is Arrested.

Nine persons were killed in week-

Indianapolis. The dead are: CLEOTIS SHIELDS, 27, of 453% E. Washington St. & pedestrian, killed in the 3000 block Southeastern Ave. "AUSTIN G “ki struck. a truek. : CARL SPALDING, - Richmond, killed there wher his car struck a parked truck. SAMUEL BARNETT, 50, Crawfordsville, killed there when. his ‘car struck a freight train. MRS. ALBERTA BARNETT, his ‘wife, killed in the same accident. DAISY CARTER, Marion, victim of a three-way crash at El-

waod. ROBERT HOLLINSWORTH, 18, Bloomington, killed ‘there when his car skidded into a stone cul-

there - after “car

vert. RICHARD RAMON, 9, Bloomington, injured fatally there when struck by a delivery truck. FRANKLIN PIERCE, 22, Kokomo, victim. of a head-on collision, 4 3 Struck by Car Mr. Shields, who is a native of Mitchell, Ind., was walking across ‘a Southeastern Ave. intersection when he was struck by a car which police said was driven by Arnold N. Fox, 21, of 972 Lexington Ave. On the order of the deputy coroner, who investigated the case, Mr. Fox. was charged with reckless honiicide, improper license plates and no’ certificate of title. He was held under a $1000 bond. . Mr. Fox told police he did not see Mr. Shields until it was too late to avoid the accident. ° Delmar Shreves, 37, of 237 Fulton St., was in City Hospital with ‘a broken neck received when his car went into a ditch on a curve on Road 29 east of New Bethel Saturday night. Deputy sheriffs said Mr. Shreves .(Continued on Page Thres)

BEATEN. AND ROBBED IN ARBOR AVE. HOME

Jeske M.: Millner Sr,” 65, was beaten hy two thieves who early to-

Ave. and stole $387 and jewelty. He was found lying on the kitchen |

.| floor: unconscious by his son Jesse|

M. Millner Jr. when the latter returned home shortly-after midnight. ‘Mr. Millner said that he was choked as’ he turned on the electric light ‘and then was beaten: The money was taken from his overcoat.

end Indiana traffic, one of them in

OVE, 24, Washing- |

day invaded his home at’ 620 Arbor |:

A High “Command” communique { [said the first troops marched tri- ‘ lumphantly into the city -yesterday morning. There were no “incidents,” the communique said.

Hela ‘Forts. Surrender

The occupation was being ‘completed .as cities throughout the Reich were hedecked with flags celebrating the conquest of Poland after less than a month of war. It came as the last center of Polish resistance—the Hela forts—raised the white flag.

The communique said the surrender of the Hela peninsula was gained with a threat of attack by land and sea forces. The penisula’s force of 52 officers, including the commander of the Polish ‘Fleet, Rear Admiral Jozef

‘| von Unvrg, and 4000 men laid down

their arms this morning, the communique said... . Reports from Warsaw said all

Ans quiet in the ared where shells

and bombs had wreaked have for nearly & month.

Ciano Leaves Berlin

Count * GGaleazzo Ciano, Herr Hitler’s invitation, left unexpectedly for Rome at noon today (5 a. m,, Indianapolis Time)’ ey a stay of only 12 hours and 28 minutes. He had talked with Herr Hitler and Joachim . von Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Minister, last night and with Baron von Ribbentrop for an hour this morning. . An’ official source said that con-

night. : Another well-informed source said |

Ciano of the proncsals he intended (Continued on Page Three)

NEW POLISH REGIME LEGAL, HULL HOLDS

U, Us. Recognizes

Nation's Existence.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Secretary of Stale Cordell Hull announced today that the United States does not recognize the conquest of Poland. ‘ He. said that the United. States would continue: its ‘diplomatic relations with the present Polish Government which has been reorganized in France, : The Polish “ Anibassador here, Count "Jerzy Potocki, still will be recognized ‘by - this, country and J. Anthony Drexel Biddle, American. Ambassador to: Poland, now .in ‘France, will continue his mission ‘there, Mr. Hull said. “Poland is now the victim of force RE ts territory Has’ been taken over. ., .'. “Mere seizure of - territory; however, does not extinguish legal existence of the Government.” The United States. still recognizes the: legal existence of Ozechoslovakia despite its ‘actual disappearance this spring.

Scherrers Back in. ‘Our Town’, Friends Glad

By JAMES THRASHER

APPARENTLY, it never occurred to Mr. and Mrs. Anton Scherrer that anyone had been worrying

about them in the last five weeks.

They were sur-

prised, in fact, that their friends had learned they were arriving home from their European vacation x

yesterday.

But they scarcely had their hats and coats oft

until the door bell and telephone

started ringing.

The Schellschmidts and the Koehnes and the Von-

neguts dropped in, along with the visitors.

press and other

It was distinctly evident that a large circle

of friends and admirers was both happy and relieved. Mr. Scherrer (as if everyone didn’t know it) is the chronicler of local memorabilia who mines a rich vein of reminiscence in ‘his Times column, “Our

Town.”

His summer vacation sometimes takes him

to Europe. And this year he and Mrs. Scherrer decided that they would spend a week in a belated

look at Holland before proceeding. out, it was a wise decision:

As things turned.

“Ask us anything about Holland and the Dutch that you want to,” Mrs. Scherrer said, by way of explaining that their look at Holland was a good,

long one.

For instead of proceeding ‘up the Rhine

to Switzerland, as they had’ planned, and thence

to Paris and London, they got as and stayed there.

far as Haarlem: °

Only the folks back in Indiana Bputis 4 didn’t know that.

. lengthy narrative.

“Our idea was fo go to The

Hague for a couple of days, then to Leyden, becayse

. it is a fine old

university town and Rembrandt's

birthplace, and on to Haarlem. »

_ But one morning in their hotel at Haarlem, they heard the unaccustomed sound of marching feet,

‘and were told th “We decided,”

at Holland was mobilized. Mr, Scherrer said, “that if we were

- going to be interned—voluntarily, of course—we had

picked about the

nicest possible place for it. Haar-

* lem is a city of 130,000, about 10 or 15 minutes from : Amsterdam, an hour or. so from The Hague, and the seacoast is nearby.”

. So they stayed in Haarlem, while 24,000 - soldiers

| poured- into the -

city and turned the streets; Mrs.

Scherrer said, into a Mardi Gras. There were 100,000

- sol

‘quartered’ in Amsterdam, they. “understood.

The Scherrers got to see the pictures in the Franz "Hals Museum béfore they were removed for safer x Keeping. But soon the city took on 's warlike 1 * with sandbags piled | up to the windows, of | ~ postoffices ‘buildings.

and

other public

5 "We don't know anything Shout: the. var both

adie Matter Ind.

Ttalian Foreign Minister, who came here at

versations had -been completed last

Herr Hitler had advised Count

Pittman

NEVADA SENATOR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.

our war!”

mittee, declared today that’

history.

on provisions of the present

tions. He also urged repeal

BRITISH VESSEL SUNK BY RAIDER

Advices Received ‘in. Brazil Indicate Attacker Was Nazi Pocket Warship.

LONDON, Oct. 2 (. P.) —The Admiralty warned all ‘ships in the South Atlantic today to take precautions against attack by mysterious German sea raiders after the British steamship Clement had been sunk by. an unidentified, but heavily armed. vessel believed to be a Ger-

man pocket battleship. It ‘was understood that the

off the Brazilian coast. Advices received in Bahia, Brazil, asserted that the Clement actually had been sunk by a German pocket battleship. If true, that would in-

in slipping through the : British blockade. Belief had been expressed here that if a pocket battleship were in action in the South Atlantic, it might be the Admiral Scheer. ‘The British Embassy in Buenos Aires said today that 13. survivors from the Clement had been picked up by an unidentified IloydBrasileiro ship, and would be landed at Bahia, probably tomorrow. The Clement carried 48 or 49 men, The Admiralty previously had warned all ships that Germany, in a radio broadcast, was threatening that Nazi U-boats would sink vessels on sight because the Admiralty is now arming merchantmen.

11 Die in Torpedoing Of Danish Merchantman

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 2 (U.P.).—Eleven men were I yesterday when a German submaraine torpedoed the -Danish merchantman Vendia, 1150 tons, in the Nprth' Sea. Six men were saved. . On sighting the . U-boat, the Vendia stopped, survivors said, but its momentum carried the ship : (Continued: on Page Three)

A. F. OF L. TO SUPPORT ARMS BAN REPEAL

(Eartler Story, Page 14)

CINCINNATI, O., O., Oct. 2. (U. P.). —William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told delegates at the opening session of the A. F. L.'s 59th convention today that the organization. will. support. President Roosevelt’s proposal to revise the Neutrality Act in the understanding that it will keep the United States out of war. “We are willing to accept the President’s word and give our support to the cash-and-carry plan, ’ Mr. Green said.

MARKET STEADIES. FOLLOWING DECLINE

By UNITED PRESS

The New York stock market steadied in afternoon trading today after a Jong. decline that had ran 0 $3.° Leading issues came bac I from the lows. Wheat and corn at Chicago were off more than a cent a bushel 88

to European pose? niks. icon nevtraliey.

Clement wassunk by gunfire 70 miles |

dicate that the Nazis had succeeded |

Otapper . cavers

War May Be Brought to Our Very Midst He Says in Defending Embargo After -

Attack.

RAPS "HANDICAPS"

“BULLETIN

(U. P.).~—Senator William

E. Borah (R. Ida.) told the Senate today that the. European war will be brought “into our very: midst”. if Congress grants President Roosevelt's request for repeal of the embargo on arms shipments to belligerents. | “Let’s stay out of this war!” he shouted. “It is not

‘

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Senator Key Pittman (D. Nev.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Come

the present Neutrality Law

handicaps America in her determination to stay out of war, Mr. Pittman emphasized his plea by asserting that the world is threatened by the gravest crisis in its recorded

Opening a momentous: Senate debate on neutrality law revision, the drawling Westerner centered his attack .

act which permit American

ships to carry any goods except arms to the warring na-

of the arms embargo, which

he said was not a true symbol of American neutrality.

“The danger to this nation lies not so much in the type of goods that it exports, but

in the facet that American vessels are used for shipping, Senator Pittman said. : » Gallery Is Full' The -800 gallery seats were filled and long queues of disappointed spectators extended down the long marble stairways to the basement of the Capitol. This trémendous

throng had started gathering before the Capitol was opened this morn.

ing. Admission to the Senate gale lery was by: al card. . Extra police. were called to keep -the crowd Srqerly: This force was augmented by FBI agents. . Senator Charles W. Tobey R. N. H.) told reporters before the Sen< ate met that if he obtained an op~ portunity,' he would offer a motion to recommit the bill to the Foreign Relations Committee. - Members ‘of the isolationist bos. held a meeting in the office of Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal), They agreed to try to co-ordinate their attack on the bill as much as possible. A quorum’ call—the first of. the special session—was asked by Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.), assistant majority leader, shortly after Vice President Garner rapped his gavel. As the clerk. started to call

the roll there was a rumble of con~

versation on the floor and scraping of chairs ds Senators hurried into the chamber to take their places.

Pittman Hints Future Peril

Because of his position as chaire man of ‘the Foreign Relations Com mittee, Senator Pittman got ihe lead-off position for the A tration in the great debate which is expected to last from three to six weeks. “There is no cause for fear. now

‘|that we will be drawn into the

brutal and widening conflict,” Sen ator Pittman said, “and yet, Mr, President, we as the representatives of a peace-loving, democratic .peo~ ple, have no right to refuse to take into consideration that such war, or a war that develops out of it, may not some day be brought to the gateway of our own, country

“It seems to me that the strong

and almost fanatical zeal of some of our ‘Senators in treating these particular goods (armaments) As distinguished from other .. instruments of war and: retaining. them on the embargo list, even if un= consciously, by: pride of past atti-

tude, Senator Is Impatient

“Even some distinguished Sen ators contend fhat it is the symbol of neutrality. It is just another catch word that leads American people to believe that the repeal of the embargo list is the repeal of all neutrality TE aio. in Senator Pittman said that he was (Continued on Page Three)

ROOSEVELT FETES HULL !

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P).—In honor of the 68th birthday of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, . | President Roosevelt entertained him at an informal luncheon today in He: executive glgees; os

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