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ROOSEVELT DROPS

IN “BIG CITY’ VOTE]

Still Leads in Metropolitan

Areas but Margin Has Been

Cut 14 Per Cent Since 1936; Chicago, 51 tor 49.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

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PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 14.

American Institute af Public Opinion

—The big cities of the nation,

which were Sony Party strongholds in the last two

elections,

show a marked swing away from President Roose-

velt in the latest surveys hy the American Institute.

Cities of mor»

than 300,000 inhabitants show a Demo-

cratic defection of more than 14 percentage points since

1936. The shift larly striking in New York and Chicago. In Chicago, which voted two to one for Roosevelt four years ago, the Institute poll found Roosevelt leading Wendell Willkie by a margin of only 1 per cent today. However, Roosevelt car ried the big city vote by such a large margin in 1936 that. even with the defection, he still runs shead of Willkie urban centers The poll was conducted oan the question, “If the election were held today, would vou vote for Roosevelt or for Willkie? Those living in cities of 500.000 and over voted as follows: For Roosevelt For Willkie : : 3 The defection in the last fom vears can he seen from the fact that in the 1936 eiection these same areas voted 71 per cent for Roosevelt, 29 per cent for the Republican candidate, Alf M. Landon The trend since 1936 in the three largest cities, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. shown in the following comparison: For Roosevelt 1936 Today New York. 75% 62% Chicago .. . 6% 51 —16 Philadelphia 62 56 —_ 6 The significance of the big-city trend is that Willkie has made important gains in the very places where the New Deal is strongest. Roosevelt's landslide in 1936 would not have been possible without the big-city vote. Cities of 500.000 and over account for more than 20,000,000 of the total national population. In addition to todav's resul the Gallup Poll has found and previousIv reported the following facts about the Roocsevelt-Willkie campaign to cate.

is particu-

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National Popular Vote Raaosevelt

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Lineup of States Roosevelt chibi Willkie

PARLIAMENT CLEARS GRACIE AND BANKS

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14 (U. P.. Gracie Fields. the famous English actress, and Monty Banks, her pro-ducer-husband have been vindieated bv the British Parliament for leaving England with large sums of money. Mr. Banks, while his wife is raise war funds, nad received a Baldwin Webb, honorary secretary of Parliament, apologizing for recent statements made by members of Commons. Mr. Banks said he and Miss Fields 00k large sums of money when they left England to go to Palestine to enfertain troops. The War Office. hewever, suddenly instructed the actress to go instead to Canada.

is in

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who Hollywood tour Canada to disclosed that he cablegram from

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Churchill 9-1

At no time during his years as Prime Mmister of England did Neville Chamberlain have the support of as many British voters as Winston Churchill has today. A survev conducted by the British Institute ot Public Opinion shows that nearly nine out of every 10 British voters suppori Prime Minister Churchill, who took over the Government just before the Nazis mvaded France, The survey on Churchill put this question to British voters: “In general do vou approve or disapprove of Mr. Churchill as Prime Minister?”

Approve Nisapprove Undecided In simian on the popularit: Chamberlain when Prime Minister. the highest vote of approval ever reached was T1 per cent, in December, 1939.

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Tax Records 11 But Hopes Are

NUSSBAUM ]

survevs conducted of Neville He Was Ry LOWELL B. Life the famed Central Count, Marion County is having trouble with its new, streamlined svstem of handling tax collections. It's so streamlined that nary office help can't seem to get the hang of it, and only Heaven knows when we're going to get our Spring tax distribution completed. Inder the old system (antiquated as all get-out), the boys used to huff and puff and manage to get the distribution completed by the legal deadline, June 30. Now, a month and a they're still huffing and but nothing's coming out. But, like the Central Count, it ought to work swell next year, says Fabian Biemer; chief deputy auditor. (Only. he didn't mention the

London Says. Central Count, of course.)

LONDON, Aug. 14 ((U. PJ. The new machines were installed British pilots who have participated with the idea of speeding and simplifving the preparation of tax bills and the apportionment of tax collections to the various taxing units industrial | They're not only too complicated. in re- apparently, for the Auditor's help, but they're alse ton complicated for lavman to describe.

HART TAKES UP : SHANGHAI ISSUE

the ordi-

BY R. A. F. RAIDS

Captured Nazi Flier Upholds British Pilots’ Claims,

half late puffing

retaliatory raids on Germany

that miles of Germany's

said toda hundreds of square

hest

areas have heen devastated

peated attacks a Hamm, Gerhas heen raidGelsenkirchen

Records show that man railroad center, ed 28 times. while has been subjected to 15 attacks from the air The great Krupp armament works at Essen has heen raided five times and in all towns in northern German) been bombed, many of them quently One expert said it was impossible to estimate the amount of oil and gasoline destroyed by R. A. F. raids, but he added, however, that “if Germany had done to our oil what we have done to hers, despite the fact that we can draw on the world for . supplies, there would not be a single | SHANGHAI Aug. 14 private automobile on the roads to- Admiral C. Hart, day and the position would be seri- States Navy Commander-in-Chief in ous.” the Far East, arrived today in a subA captured German pilot said a marine while Japan demanded that map on the walls of the Air Minis- its troops take over the entire Brittry in Berlin depicting R. A. F. raids” ish defense sector of the Internaon the continent showed that the tional sector. Ruhr industrial area had been hit Admiral Hart's arrival resulted in hardest. It was claimed that flags an immediate tactical victory fo signifving raids in this area were so the United States in the dispute rethick that it was impossible to read garding defense of the British sector the map after the withdrawal of British troops. | There was to have been a meeting {at the Japanese naval barracks of {foreign troop commandants, with {Vice Admiral Moriji Takeda, Japanese Navy Commander, presiding as senior officer of foreign troops here, But ta, so

Boy fre- |

Considers Japan's Demand That Its Troops Replace Withdrawn British. |

Thomas ¥ inited

Admiral Hart outranks the meting. was set morrow at the Municipal Council building. It was indicated that ejcanon of Ss meeting place was mpromis ; Sap Protest

[ Had Admiral Hart desired, could have called the meeting. senior officer, aboard his yacht bel, a Navy patrol vessel, which rived here last night, having ceded him from Tsingtao. It was expected that Admiral and Takeda would meet talk over the situation which had arisen from the suggestion of Col. De Witt Peck, United States Marine commandant. that his men take over almost all of the British sector. This suggestion, bitterly fought by the Japanese, was understood to have originated with Admiral Hart.

Defense Heads Warned

Takefor to-

he as arpre-

Hart tonight to

| American

The Japanese Army's viewpoint in the Marine dispute was expressed today by the Chinese language’ newspaper Shin-SHun-Pao, a Japanese Army organ. The newspaper warned foreign defense commanders that the Japanese Army was determined to take over the British sector regardless of Col. Peck’s proposal. “If the American scheme is enforced,” it said, “we hope that the throbbing headaches, and Japanese Army will blockade from head to foot. I lost Shanghai as it did Tientsin. Then strength and weight, and finally T we shall see what the United States went to bed for thirteen weeks. Marines can do about that."

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/ 2 Months Late High for 194

Same outsiders are unkind enough ta sav that the onlv trouble with the operation that the Auditor didn't pick the right kind of help | to operate the machines “Yes and no,” counters Mr. er. “The machines are all right So is the help We could have hired experienced business machine operators, but that would have cost us three times what we're paying “And the experienced operators wouldn't know a thing about mak mg a tax distribution Some of the help, prety green,” was and misfiled sone That was several Right now, the Ing up the job the necessity rechecking the work already done to find and correct the errors “Tt always takes quite a while to get a new system like this operating,” Mr. Biemer said. “Every office that installs machines like these had trouble for a while. and then all of a sudden thev get the hang of it and everything goes along famaush That's the here Just year,’

Thefts Few i in U.S. Mailboxes

> SS HINGIOR. Aug. 14 (U, P). ost. Office Department rePs that an everage of one rural mailbox in 600.000 is robbed annually, Out of 6,000,000 rural boxes, the department said, only 10 were robbed in 1939, maintaining an average of some vears' standing.

< LINDBERGH'S FATHER ALSO ISOLATIONIST

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (U.P. INterventgonist C A. Lindbergh recalls ilar furor raised during the World War bv the isolationist theories ol Charles A. Lindbergh Sr, father of the famous fleer Twenty-three ator Lindbergh nesota member Representatives.

Aug

Controversy over the

speeches of

harles a

vears ago the Sena crusading Minof the House of was coritirizing the of the Wilson Adprotesting against the United States

ministration and involvement of in the war. Branded ‘pro-German” for anti-war convictions during 1916-17-18 pegiod, the elder bergh drew ‘down the wrath of a war-aroused public. He was hung in effigy and his house painted vellow His campaign for the Governorship of Minnesota in 1918 was disastrous. Home guard units broke up his speeches. As abuse was piled upon him, his appearance became the signal for a near riot The elder Kkindbergh that the first World War struggle for financial and mercial advantages When Col. Lindbergh in a speech made May 19 on national defense program said the nation "nesd not fear a foreign invasion unless peoples bring it on through their own quarreling and meddling ith affairs abroad, it was recalled that his father had expressed much the same opinion in his speech to Congress in 1916 Again on Aug. 14, Col. Lindbergh lent his support to a “keep-Amer-ica-out-of-war rglly in Chicago Me made a plea for peace, declaring that “we are often told that if Germany wins this war coe-op-eration will be impqssible and treaties will be no more than scraps of paper. I reply that co-operation 18 never impossible when there is sufficient gain on both sides and that treaties are seldom torn apart when they do not cover a weak nation.” The parallel is enhanced by the close physical resemblance of father and son. Rep. Lindbergh, who died in 1924 at a time when his popularity was rising, was tall, gangling, slow-spoken. ~ y

his the Lind-

declared was a com-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

5 ARE DEAD IN

DIXIE FLOODS

Four Others Reported Missr Torrential Rains.

(Continged from Tage One)

the coasl

where it was feared other deaths may have occurred Sheriff J. E. Brumit of Elizabeth ton said Mrs. Robert Shell, elderly resident, was drowned when the swirling waters coverad her car as she was driving north of the cit) The sheriff said the Rio Vista section, home of 150 families on the outskirts of Elizabethton, was inundated but the residents were) evacuated without loss of life The flood apparently had caused heavy property damage, Sheriff Brumit said, but losses had not been estimated. He said authorities had the situation “in control” and were prepared for orderly evacuation ol as many residents as necessary, Continued rains were forecast fol the affected states and it was feared the flood danger would become more acute Only one road, the Knoxville Tenn., highway, was open into Asheville, N. C., population 51,000. State engineers warned that even thi road was endangered by landslides The towns of Black Mountain Rutherfordton, Hendersonville, Canton, Lake Lure, Brevard and Chimnev Rock in North Carolina were hard hit by floodwaters and reported partly inundated in outlying sections, Refugees crowded nd the supply of

inte Asheville drinking wate; became endangered when three main pipelines were broken by floodwaters. City reservoirs held a 36-hour reserve supply. The Ashe. ville suburhs of Biltmore and Bilt. more Forest were partly inundated by the swollen Swannanoa River

Student Falls From Boat

Frank Nacke, 20, Denver, Colo student who was working at Lake Eden, N. C., was drowned when he fell from a boat in which he and a companion were attempting to reach a flood gate. A flood threat at Augusta subsided when city engineers moved a log which had jammed the lood gate of the dam protecting the city from the Savannah River. Tw men were drowned mear Augusta while trying to move their livestock from river bottom lands. The South Carolina Highway De partment said highways were flooded at 31 places along the Savannah River north of Augusta The Weather Bureau at Columbia S. C.. reported the Saluda and Broad Rivers probably would overflow a Chappels and Blvthe Jater toda

Tucson Without Electric

Service After Storm

TUCSON, Ariz, Aug. 14 (U.P) This city of 35.000 was without elec tric service today as a result of a violent thunderstorm which struck here late last night Lightning hit the transformers of the Tucson Electric Co. and damage was so extensive that service throughout the city was halted throughout the night and had not been resumed today Dairies, produce houses and meat storage plants faced total loss of their products when the cessation of electricity stopped their refrigerating units. The storm brought rain in 30 minutes

Ga re

| ganda morale and

2.55 inches of

| married

Today's War Moves

Ry J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Today's delay until the afternoon in resumption of Germany's aerial semi-blitzkrieg against Britain, despite what the Germans call favorable weather conditions, indicates a possible change in Hitler's afr strategy The previous large-scale raids had continued all dav because the attacks wore scattered over the whole area of Great Britain, Tedav's offensive, at its opening, was concentrated against more limited ob joel ives

The change in technique suggests the German High Command is not JUDGE OBJECTS TO | “WOMEN BAR HOGS’

satisfied with the results of what NEW YORK. Aug. 14 (UU. P)

may be deseribed as haphazard attacks, They APPeAT OGaunty Judge Franklin Tavier sad wasteful and the today that, “women bar hogs inland damaged gather at the nation's bars in such districts do NOL numbers that respectable men fit into the basic hasitate ta enter = saloon This German purpose practice, he said. might result in res which is 10 IY turn of prohibition to destroy Brit-| Judge Tayler suspended sentences ish ports as AN of six men charged with impairing ald in hampers the morals of a 16-vear-nld girl for ing British ship- whom thev bought drinks at a bai He said the situation resulted from administration of the state law per mitting women to drink at bars,

ping British enemy territory been aimed at small such as individual ports

at. have

Mr. Mason

tacks over consistently objectives,

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1940

THOMAS 1S WINNER IN IDAHO PRIMARY

ROIS Tada, Aug Senator RY Thomas Republican, won the nation to the remaining two vears in the term late Senator William E vestoerdav's primary Mr. Thomas all of whom « ers of Wendell 1 nearly a 2«to-l field In vesterday 's mary The Demo Bothwell Taller neck

14 (U . an old BR PATTY'S nomis

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark P.) Homer M. Adkins ternal Revenue Collection ceded the Democratic nomination for Governor today by farces of the incumbent, Gavernor Carl E, Batley, who had sought a third term

industrialized cities the industrialized centers or chan-

like Hamburg or like Cologne or Ruhr or oil storage nel ports By concentrating their attacks the Germans are able to use more planes against one objective, but at the same time the British defense planes can unite in greater numbers This new tactical operation differentiates today's battles from previous ones The Germans today concentrating against loon defenses, trving these dangerous obstacles dive operations. But the British seem to have a sufficiently large supply in reserve to send aloft replacement, balloons for those destrayed The result of todav’s fight should give some indication of the permanent valle of the balloons. This seems to he one purpose of the Gers man maneuver In the German tions the British report tion about one bomber fighters, A group of 200 enemy planes thus would have only some 50 bombers: so the damage done is not proportionate to the total numsber of planes reported in action, Most streets in British towns are NArrow presenting small target space which limits the effect of German machine-gun fire when the attacking planes overcome the balloon entanglements Great Britain showed shrewd psychological judgment in last night's -offensives. By a surprise at tack against northern Italian cities, British aviators caught the Italians off guard and delivered their heavattack since Italy's entrance war, This came Italians were counts of devastating Britain. Such an assault panied hy the scattering of propaleaflets must affect Ttahian the Ttalian reactions to German accounts of the effective ness of the raids aver Britain Rv simultaneous hombings of German objectives last night, the Brit. ish emphasized the strength of their awn air force and their abihty tha counter-attack vigorously while defending their own territory. The German people cannot fail thus te realize that the semi-blitzkrieg has not bottled up the British air power

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