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Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J, July 12.—Evidence that the Democrats will have a real fight on their hands in tempting beat Wendell Willkie for the Presirevealed in a nation-wide survey by the While it is only the state-by-state polls the Democrats have named their candidates for President and Vice-President next week that will have any significance, nevertheless today's results give some indication of the Willkie strength Thev show Willkie running a close race with Franklin D. Roosevelt in popular strength throughout the nation, and running virtually even with him in the sections of the country which control the greatest number of Slegtoral votes, These results constit of course, no forecasts of how the race would et, because it is the state-by-state line-up of electoral votes rather than the popular vote which puts a man in office. Such state-by-state checks will be started by the Institute directly after the Democratic candidates for Presiaent and Vice President are named. In today's study a cross-section of voters in all parties throughout the country were asked: “If President Roosevelt runs for a third term on Democratieé ticket against Wendell Willkie on the Republican ticket, how would you vote?” Those expressing a choice voted as follows: Roosevelt 53% Willkie 47 One voter jn every ten (10 per cent) expressed no opinion,

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It should be remembered in studying thesa figures that the Republicans have already held their convention with its publicity and excitement, while the Democrats have not yet had their inning. In 1936, Institute surveys found a 4-point rise in Republican strength after the G. O. P. convention, In spite of all these factors, however, it

teresting to note that the number of voters favoring Roosevelt today is considerably smaller than the number who wanted the Democrats to win the election in a survey taken less than a month ago. At that time, prior to the nomination of Willkie

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by the Republicans, 58 per cent of all voters polled said they favored a Democratic victory this year. At the same time, 57 per cent of voters with opinions on the third term said they favored President Roosevelt's re-election, These figures compare with a present vote of only 53 per cent for Roosevelt when he is matched against the man who captured the G. O. P. nomination in a whirlwind campaign. Willkie's popularity, the poll shows, is greatest in the upper income group—the source of Republican strength for the last eight years—while Roosevelt's has alwavs been greatest in the lower income group. Significant enough, sentiment in the middle income group, which generally holds the balance of power in a national election, is almost evenly divided on Willkie and Roosevelt, after having been for Roosevelt in 1936. ° Another source of Willkie's strength, judging by today’s indications, is his ability to draw 1936 Democrats away from Roosevelt. The poll finds that of those persons who voted for Roosevelt four years ago, about one-fourth are for Willkie today.

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TOLL MOUNTING:

ITALY JOINN IN EMPIRE SMASH

Stepped Up, With R. A. F. Attacking German Territory; Berlin Claims Heavy Shipping Losses. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor A titantic struggle between the Axis powers and the British Empire—possibly a prelude to the climax of the European War—gathzred momentum today on a land, sea and air front stretching from Scotland through the Medi terranean to West Africa. German bombing planes pounded at British shipping, harbors (including Plymouth and Portsmouth), towns and countryside with steadily ine Casualties we were mounting but details wera

ports, arms factories, creasing fur, y.

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- No Evidence Reported of Knife or Gunplay: Kruse Back at Post.

Everything was quiet and orderly along Indiana Ave. last night, 1nvestigRtors reported today There was no evidence of sales in taverns or at the after the midnight closing they said. There were gun play This quiet

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great i or prevailed as City and | County law entorcement agencies) conferred to combat after-hour | selling and crime which has been | common on the avenue for years. Investigators were assigned to keep vigil from parked autos as a result of murder in or near Joe Mitchell's tavern Saturday night] and complaints Negro organi- | zations to the Board.

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Dozen Mentioned in ten or series of raids on taverns and! alleged gambling places, Police For Vice Presidency: | Chief Michael F. Morrissey sald Start on Platform.

no “There {called for By LYLE CC. WILSGN {merely says these United Press Staff Correspondent ! CHICAGO, atic National Convention meeting!

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July 12.—The DemoThe complaints were Keepers ignored the legal selling hour and dispensed alcoholic beverages at anv time they chose The State Excise Department moved into the investigation to determine the citizenship of Mitchell and his legal right to have a tavern| license. | Meanwhile,

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Detective Capt. ward Kruse, who led a raid shaurs Tuesday night to obtain (evidence in last Saturday night's murder, was back on the job after| being suspended Wednesdav night. His suspension wasn't a result of! the raid, but because he and three other officers went on an out-of-town picnic Sunday without telling headquarters of their whereabouts. |

ana AD pians are for he Potomac and a trip a his Hyde Park

ife—then if the de t may be considered an instance of the office seeking ithe man. The platform committee began its neetings this atternoon, hut will not lave much to do The foreign relations plank which caused Republicans so much trouble in Philadelphia last month has been defined by Mr. Roosevelt's message to Congress pledging that American troops would not be sent to participate In Europe's wars. !

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Miller in Uniform { Lieutenant William Miller, head {of the homicide squad, was back in ia uniform. Acting Investigator For No. 1 place on the ticket a Clifford Beeker was a patrolman majority with some hundreds to[88ain. So was Acting Detective spare already are committed to Mr. {Sergeant Michael Kavanaugh, who {Roosevelt if he will take the nomi- Nad been secretary to the chief. nation. The consensus here is that a) McReynolds, Nero 3s. of lhe will take it, possibly with reser- 526 N. Senate Ave, was held with-| vations and after a message to the Out bond, charged with the Saturconvention urging that some one 9ay night murder of Robert Chamcise be named. bers, 25, Negro, which resulted in The possibility that Mr all heat being turned on the

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nA ORT Ind., July 12 (U, ~The bear cage at Frankfort's T. P. A. park dismantled some months ago, it was in use again today. The police department brought it it up, and has installed it as a lockup in the newly remodeled headquarters

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Charging practices “are imical and contrary and health of the public,’ | Overley today asked the Board of Medical Registration and |

Examination to licenses held by D Crum, 1025 Prospect St. Mr. Overley, who the Better Business Bureau made the charges and the request in an affidavit which he signed 2s a citizen and which he filed with | the Board in the State House. { The Board now must set a date and place for a hearing and notify “@ Dr. Heil Crum at least 20 days in advance, He holds a license tg | practice as a chiropractor, issued {a1 1930; as a naturaopath. issued in

HOLLYWOOD, July 12 (U. P)— 1928; and as an electrotherapist, issued in 1029.

Actress Ida Lupino narrowly escaped being burned when her ciga- | Cites ‘Etherator’ ret set fire to a wig she was wearing affidavit charges to the authority]

while posing for a photographer, | : ‘ The film player was sitting for Sranted under the certificates and The storm is over, icenses he holds. Dr. Heil Crum jineer on. Photographer Scotty Welbourne, who employs in diagnosis and treatment hastily tossed a black camera cloth a mechanical device which he calls : over her head, and extinguished the an etherator or a co-etherator Jemborarily relieved: Perple who a It charges that “the machine is Were sweltering now have there top

| Absolutely valueless in the actual €0ats handy. In the short treatment of disease other than the One hour, between 1 and 2 yesterday

| possible mental effect on the per- afternoon, a thunder and wind

jens Sninfatnied regarding such Storm revolutionized the weather Cand that the machine Situation in Indianapolis—making indianapolis | Driver Among Victims of Collision.

' incapable of producing €Veryboedy happy. It created only a theraputic radiations of Minimum of property disorder and personal injury. The weatherman advised getting out the blankets again tonight with cooler than last night's temperatures predicted. It will be fair tonight and tomorrow, however, with warmer weather predicted for toWATERVILLE, O, July 12 (U. her, whereas her condition has been Morrow. P.).—The driver and two passengers pronounced as hopeless by an emi-| Yesierday's weather spasm did were killed and nine other passen- nent Indianapolis oculist. (precisely what the Bureau said it gers injured today when a Greya | would do. It brought .35 of an inch of rainfall. which will olis to Detroit struck an empty| It is also charged that he pro- and pastures, and it brought a decattle truck on a curve two miles nounced as healed after $35 or more Cilne in temperature. east of here. worth of his treatments a Marion| It also brought a precipitous drop The dead were Jesse Copeland, 38, County woman who is now said by in hundreds of tree limbs that were of Detroit, a passEnpe: the driver, physicians to be dying of cancer, |blown off in the 30 mile-an-hour| John L. French, 32, Ft. Wayne, and| In event the patients found it in- | wind Mrs. Beulah Cree of Muncie, Ind. convenient or impossible to go to| The wind did some spotty dam(who died of her injuries at Toledo his office for treatments, the affi- age to small grain fields, but Hospital four hours later. davit charges that Dr. Heil Crum | (Continued on Page Three) Another woman passenger, Mrs. assured them he could “broadcast | ——— Clara Lammert, of St. Louis, was treatments” to them wherever they reported in critical condition. were and that he charged for such 52 DEAD, THOUSANDS Police said the cattle truck going absent treatments. south out of Waterville, crashed The machine, the affidavit says, head-on w ith the bus. (Continued on Page Three)

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to be drafted Tvenue. for the duration of the emergency with an intimation that he would retire then in favor of his Vice Presidential running mate is one of} the factors which makes the second | place nomination uncommonly im-| portant. This nomination usually is (Continued on Page Three)

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C. M. T. C. COMMAND TO CHANGE TODAY

a review at Ft. Har the command of the first Citizens

CHICAGO, July 12.—They called him “First Ballot Jim.” Joshing, in fun. That was back in 1932, here in! this same city. A hig genial fellow, with a gleaming bald head, always

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Military Training Camp will pass } from Ma). Alfred L. Marcum to Col. Robert S. Harsh, both of the U. S. Organized Reserves Maj. Marcum is from Anco, Kv, 7 and Col. Harsh from Columbus, O The trainees will pass In review alter the change of command cere7 monies . Rifle instruction, marksmanship, musketry, and map and aerial photograph reading, were on the schedule for the C. M. T. C. trainees to(day. {

chewing gum, always smiling, exudmg confidence, as he dashed here! and there, “It's Roosevelt on the first baliot,”| he kept saving. It wasn't exactly that. He chewed gum more belligerently, and a tiny lint of worry sneaked at unguarded moments across his round face, like a wisp of cloud across the moon, as! delegates faltered momentarily and the alliance against Jim's man Roosevelt stiffened for a time. But it turned out all right in the]

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TOKYO, July 12 (U. P.).—Fiftytwo persons were killed, 100 wounded and thousands made homeless today by a typhoon which struck | Keijo, Chosen (Korea). Soldiers were called out for patrol | duty and to assist refugees and | prevent looting. Reports said that |

end, after the fourth ballot, when|the same shores of Lake Michigan, | 100 Pridges were demolished by the

the delegates thundered “Roosevelt” where the wind whips the memories | SOM: Most of the deaths were as the roll was called and the bands into the hotels along the water| Caused by falling houses. Heavy played “Happy Days Are Here front and into a room where the Winds and rains continued in the |Again” and a determined man, who big man sits behind a desk and !YPhoon area, adding to the suffer-

had descended literally from the crisply gives the necessary orders so ing of the homeless. clouds upon the convention, stood that this convention—though he! ————————— country a “New Deal.” nothing had ever happened eter Big Jim Farley grinned then from two friends. IN NARROW TRADIN Four years later, at Philadelphia, ! lon the first ballot.” | : : it was a first ballot sure enough,| But he knows it. The man in the| Stocks fluctuated narrowly in In this good vear 1940, back again'has told no one else, but anyone New York. Volume was light. in Chicago, it is to be a first ballot, who knows him has only to watch| Steel shares were steady to But Jim's heart is not in it now. [thing is not well with Jim Farley a | minor fractions. Utilities, coppers, He is a mechanical man, going ‘and that means “third term,” which | lairerafts, his duty. He let it slip in a conference with|area. And here is tragedy. Here along (Continued on Page Three)

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on the platform and promised the likes it not — shall proceed as ' STOCKS FLUCTUATE ear to ear, like a boy. He won't say now: “It's Roosevelt | and easy, | White House has told him, and Jim early afternoon trading today at again, and easy, ‘him here to be certain that every- slightly easier ~and motors lost through the motions, since that is he abhors.

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withheld, Big Italian bombers wera reported taking off from all Fascist airdromes to attack British air and naval objects after an official Fascist state ment claimed severe damaga to a British naval convoy in President — Move 10 a continuation of the struggle

Add Defense Power in for suprerhacy in the Medi« : : 'terranean, Talk With Stimson,

| more (German planes wera WASHINGTON. July 12 (U.P). Shot down in the battle for Britain, President, Roosevelt zaid today that

making a 31 in twe davs he is considering calling up the Na- and 106 since June 18. But the intensive training!

German High Comn claimed in a new step to strengthen the re-

serve defenses of the United States the. effectiveness its naval He revealed the possibility at a and air siege was demonstrated by | press conference attended by his ? total of 432.213 tons of enemy Bow Becresary of War, Henry L. shipping sunk up to July 8 : : {| London dispatches disputed thas Nazi claim and stated the average tonnage lost by Britain was stil much below the record of the World War for a sustained period.

Attacking Coastal Cities

The German High Command said up | that dive bombers were being used for A attacks on British shipping lai land objectives and that five merchant ships were sunk and nine |others damaged in the Channel yes«

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terday. Chief of Staff, told | isnatchee Military Affairs com-| Dispatches from London indicated

he would recommend | considerable damage, including home Na- bardment, of some industrial areas, tional Guard if a compulsory mili- but the chief emphasis in messages tarv training bill is enacted, coming through the British censo; « The National Guard's strenath ship was on bombing and machines would be filled out to full wartime gunning of coastal towns in contra.h

a : with Berlin's claims that only mili power of 400,000 men with con- tary obiectives had been attacked. seripts and then would undergo at: y

Italian claims that damage had least one year of intensive training, been inflicted on the British fleet Gen. Marshall said.

Such a plan, Gen. Marshall em- the Mediterranean-—which Roms : re : 2 "reported steaming toward Egypt— phasized, would depend upon enact- were described semi-officially in ment of a law embodying the broad [.ondon as untrue. These sources principles of the Burke-Wadsworth! iq the only British loss was a dise measure requiring registration of ,pjed airplane. every man from 18 to 65 years for selection for defense training.

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Hungary Demobilizes

nations of appeared to comparative calm Adolf Hitler to solution of their quarrels until after the bats tle nf Britain. Hungary sent many thousands of her soldiers back to the fields to produce food—presume ably at Hitler's stern suggestion Rumania clamped down on Brite |ish-controlled oil resources in order [to prevent reduction of the fuel sup< [ply going to the Nazi war machine, Berlin reported that the Bulgarian | Army leaders, including part of the "general staff, would confer at the German capital this week-end. Turkey's Premier, Refik Say yaa,

NAVY TRIO CONFERS HERE ON AIR BASE bn remer, Ben Shan,

‘Discusses esas Aviation expressing confidence Rag the na= ; (Continued on Page Three) Unit at Local Port. ’

A three-member Navy Bureau of! Aeronautics board from Washing-| ton met with City officials at the|

Municipal Airport today to discuss the possibility of establishing a Naval Reserve aviation base at the airport. The men flew in at noon and remained an hour. Mavor Sullivan, the Works Board, I. J. Dienhart, airport superintendent, and Chamber of Commerce representatives offered the Navy Department certain facilities for the establishment of a base here. The board, composed of Capt. C. P. Mason, Lieut. Comm. J. M | Rutherford and Lieut. Comm. F. E.| Weld, returned to Washington tol make their recommednations to the] Navy Department.

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in the including lengthening period from eight months to at least 15 months and increasing the pay of conscripts from $5 a month to $21 a month. With a conscription law on the statute hooks, Gen. Marshall said (Continued on Page Three)

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