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sallup Poll Shows Willkie Still Leads Roosevelt,

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SULLETIN sixth we2k a new WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.) ~—The Senate today agreed unanimously to limit te 900,000 the @ number of draftees who may he jin hy trained. at any one me under Mtoocaselt. Willkie survey, the conscription bill while the na- | Four Won Vs Nr prece, ji llkie's column at the beginning | WASHINGTON, “Aug. 26 (U. p).'of the campaign—Oregon, Idaho, |

Wyoming and Se 8 Ss { rke- | Senate supporters of the Burk leaning to Mr. Roosevelt by narrow |

Wadsworth Conscription Bill claimed | margins today, the survey ows. | 51 votes—two more than needed—| Nevertheless, Mr. Willkie is ahead | for its passage today. ‘of the President in 20 states with | Warren R. Austin, Assistant Re-'5 combined vote in the electoral | publican Leader, predicted that 51 |qollege of 284, or 18 more than the Senators either would voie or be agg which are required to win. paired for the bill on the final vote | president Roosevelt. leading in 28 which Senate Democracic Leader states. has 247 electoral votes. SL W. Barkley believes wa Come; Returns from Indiana show Mr. Wednesday or Thursday. enator | wilkie leading at the present time | Austin said that 10 of the 91 by a vote of 60 to 40. Senators were Republicans. | Two major developments of the | The Senate began its 12th day pact few days are not completely of debate on the bill at noon, re-|

: yreflected in the Institute's current suming discussion of the amend- (t,4v however. These develop-

ment by Senator Lodge (R. Mass.) ments are (1) Mr. Willkie’s accep- | to limit the number of draftees to ance speech at Elwood, Ind., which 800.000. Speeches on the amend- pepyplicans are counting on to ment were limited to 15 minutes post G. O. P. strength, and (2) each as a result of an agreement the latest phases of Adolf Hitler's obtained by Barkley at Saturday's gerja]l blitzkrieg against Britain session. He failed at that time, which some observers have ex-| however, to get an agreement 10r pected might cause additional vot-| g vote at 2 p. m. today fers to favor a third term for Roose- | Vote Near, Wheeler Admits [velt. if { The greater part of the interviewBut sentiment, even among SOmMe | jng in the present survey was comopponents of the bill, was for a pleted before’ the possible political | vote soon. Senator Burton K. effects of these widely differing Wheeler (D. Mont.), unofficial leader events had time to sink in. of the anti-draft forces, said 1t| It must also be emphasized that | might be possible to reach an there is always a margin of error | agreement today for a final vote. involved in every sampling oper- | Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg ation—no matter how carefully con- | YR. Mich.), another uncompromis- | (Continued on Page Seven)

ing opponent of the bill, an that virtually evervthing f 18TH POLIO VICTIM

against the bill had been urged a vote “one way or '4 More Admitted to Bring Patients Here to 61.

on it soon. Chairman Morris Sheppard of the | Infantile paralysis claimed another life at Riley Hospital today.

Military Affairs Committee told the Senate today that the War Depart- | The death of a Churubusco school ‘teacher was the 11th there since

ment is wililng to accept an amend- | Cotes Yt on fe 1 Tre) the spread of the disease and the 18th in the state. { The victim was Roy E. Smoker, who had been in a respirator since he was taken to the hospital Satur-| . [day night. Sir John, who is 72, told reporters ; here when the Clipper departed: | A en Bel ag died "or 5 your papers report there wg Four children were admitted to jo > 3 Si a Te fulfills the Riley Hospital over the week- -end, | 5 ste Pr ‘bringing the number of infantile specifications. {patients there to 61. Forty-five] persons, 37 of them children, are on the acute list. Sixteen, all chil-| dren, are in the convalescent ward. | Dr. Verne K. Harvey of the State | Health Board said today his reclords show 171 cases of the disease /in the state. 6 He said that the disease is prev2 i

“Republican Nominee Ranks as Ks as 60- 40 Favorite in Indiana; Sets 57-43 Pace in Illinois.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

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72, RUSHES HOME | TO SEE BLITZKRIEG

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (U. P).— One of the eight passengers aboard | the Atlantic Clipper en route to Lisbon today is Sir John A. Mactaggart, who is hurrying home to London, he said, so as not to miss the ‘blitzkrieg.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

7, Obituaries 13| Pegler . 12| Pyle 8 Questions 9 Radio ..... 8! Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Williams 3 | Serial Story.. 8 Side Glances 4 Society 8! Sports 2 State Deaths. 8

alent in 34 counties.

" NUTT SAYS 3000 GET DEFENSE JOBS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U.P). —| 8 In one month 80,614 persons have 4 enrolled for defense training under | . 10 the vocational education national | 6 defense program and 3000 have {been placed in jobs. Federal Secur- | ity Administrator Paul V. McNutt reported today. Mr. McNutt forwarded to the Na- | tional Defense Advisory Commission ‘a report on the progress of the vo(cational training program pr By John W. Studebaker, U. S. Com{missioner <{ Education,

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials Financial Flynn Forum In Indpls. ... Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan.. Johnson Movies “oe Mrs. Ferguson

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Willkie is still leading President Roosevelt by a small mar-| returns from the 48 states since the Institute's first nation-wide | reported Aug. 4. states. which stood in Mr.—

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Up but G.0.P. DIES ACCUSES in Large States "3 DICTATORS

Hitler, Duce and Stalin Flood | U. S. With Propaganda, He Declares.

race enters its ’ by the American Institute of | NEW YORK.

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rvey Aug. 26 (U, P).—

| Public Opinion—conducted during the first three weeks of August— Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.), chair-

uing to run neck-and-neck. ‘man of the House committee inves- |

indicate, but the] today he had ‘positive evidence”

that the German, Italian and Rus-! |sian Governments were flooding this | country with propaganda designed 5 disrupt national defense and pre- | vent American aid to Great Britain. Mr. seized records and taken testimony in Texas, on the West Coast and in Kansas City which proved that the | Nazi and Fascist governments were | working through Americans of Ger- | man and Italian descent to disseminate propaganda designed to {divide the country along lines of | racial and religious prejudice and to {aid their efforts to establish spies | and saboteurs in key defense indus- | tries. two; The Congressman said he would in write a letter to President Roose[velt tomorrow asking Administra-! tion support for a hill he intends to introduce shortly which would nutlaw all agents and organizations controlled by any foreign govern- | ment. | Rep. Dies, who arrived here today for a series of executive hearings, said his committee had completed [the first phase of its investigation into the entire question of Nazi- | Fascist propaganda. | In Los Angeles, Mr. Dies said, he | obtained the names of 1250 German | sympathizers, a majority of whom | were employees in aircraft factories in California and other key national defense industries. Evidence thus far found, the Con|gressman added, indicates that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef V. Stalin are operating “a central agency in Europe” through | which they are “jointly disseminating propaganda in the United States.”

TWO KILLED IN LOGAL TRAFFIC

Fatal Acvidents Occur Within Five Minutes; Seven Other Hoosiers Die.

Indianapolis killed persons within five minutes last night's rainy twilight. Five others were killed in Indiana week-end f{raffic outside Marion Two Hoosiers were killed in a Michigan crash. The dead: JAMES HARRY SHARP, 14. of 525 Highland Ave. struck at Washington St. and Temple Ave. MRS. FLOY STIERWALT, 52, of 2402 N. Capitol Ave. killed when the car in which she was a passenger skidded into a truck in the 1100 block of Kentucky ., a few minutes later. MRS. HERMAN EGGERT, 75. Michigan City. and MRS. EMMA WESTPHAL, 74, Chrisman, killed | when their car and another col- | lided on Road 20 west of Porter Saturday. JAMES R. HINES, 26, Terre | Haute, killed when his car skidded on gravel in Tamsev Road near ontanet and struck a tree. MRS. EARL UNROE, 40. Frankfort, killed in a crash on Road 39 near Rossville. BROTHER SABINUS, 44, and BROTHER CAESAIRE, 35. of | Notre Dame, killed when a light | delivery truck in which they were | ( Conchniel on Page Three)

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A Triplet a Day But Daddy's O. K.

ELIZABETH. N. J. Aug. 26 (U | P). — Arthur Smith, 27, a WPA worker, had a leave of absence today to recover from the shock of his wife giving birth to triplets at the rate of one a dav. The first, a girl, arrived Fridav. The second, also a girl, was born Saturday, and the third, a boy, early vesterday.

STEP UP, GENTLEMEN! ARMY UNIFORMS $65

CHICAG fense note: A newspaper advertisement of a Chicago tailor today offered uni-| forms for officers in all branches of | the U. S. service “tailored to the| recently released specifications both made-to-measure or readywear.” The advertisement was illustrated | {yesterday's raids while with a drawing of an officer in army | bassador and other {dress uniform. | the uniforms was $65 and up.

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LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—A! in high explosive bomb dropped withto- lin 300 yards of Ambassador Joseph |

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6747 PLANES | Bound for Home oRoEReD FOR ff . 3. FORGES

‘Defense Commission Issues Report, Blames Congress For Further Lag.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—The National Defense Commission today re-| plied to Senate criticism of progress in the rearmament program with a report to President Roosevelt showing/ that orders have been placed for 6747 Army and Navy | planes.

| The report placed upon Congress

| the blame for the fact that procure{ment of combat and training planes has not been further accelerated. | pointed out that the major por{tion of the military aircraft program is tied up in the $4,800,000 defense appropriation bill pending in the Senate The report set forth the following breakdown of planes actually contracted for by Aug. 17: Army—2029 combat and observa- | tion planes: 1887 other types, chiefly training planes. Navy—1221 combat and observaon planes; 1610 other types, chiefly | trate planes. i The report said that national pro- |

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bids capital adieu. {duction now is running at a rate of | about 10,000 planes a year. It pre-| SALEM, Ore, Aug. 26 (U. P).— (dicted that production will be lifted Senator Charles I. McNary today to a rate of 18.000 planes a vear by (Jan. 1, 1941 and 36,000 by Dec. 1, 1941.

land Navy anticipate delivery of {2200 planes during the latter half | of this year and delivery of about | 2500 planes in the first half of 1941

Americans, Canadians to Map Common Defense Plan

By United Press For the first time in | Americans and Canadians, Ee Jory always enjoyed 3000 miles of unfortified border, sat down at a conference table today to map com- | mon means of defense Whether these means ite ivy controversial transfer of destroyers to Great “Mg dg ol ‘known. Neither was there any hint that they involved the United States lease of Birtish and Canadian Western Hemisphere possessions | for American naval and air bases. | From these talks in Ottawa between the joint Canadian and! | American Defense Commission, however, was expected to spring a comprehensive plan of air. naval and coastal defenses on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts One British empire unit already has initiated the program of cooperating with the United States in Western Hemisphere defense. Swearing unswerving allegiance to| the crown, the insular legislature at Hamilton, Bermuda, notified London that it was ready to lease for 9¢ vears facilities of the great Sound of Bermuda for use as an air and possibly a naval base. U. S. Withholds Word U. S. authorities withheld comment on the offer of co- operation, | | pending official word from London. | Military authorities have regarded Bermuda as of great strategic importance because it projects (he range of U. S. airplane and naval {aircraft 700 miles out into the Atlantic, a distance equivalent to light bomber range. Other defense developments Vote on Conscription Near— (Continued on Page Three)

The STOCKS FLOUNDER: | TRADING VERY DULL 5 am X

. mm. 7% 12 (noon) 88 | NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— 7 1p m 89 Stocks floundered uncertainly today | c— fin one of the dullest sessions since] The mercuryv’'s on the climb again

for Vice President.

Republican National Committee, | Governor Harold Stassen of Minne-

| the pany,

“WILLKIE BACKS DRAFT PASSAGE

If Bill Bogs Down in Congress.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 Republican Presidential Wendell Willkie believes should pass the military tion bill immediately and is considering making a strong statement if it bogs down in Senate or House debate, it was learned today.

Mr. Willkie's aids said that some persons had “distorted” his acceptance speech indorsement of the principles of selective service training to infer that he did not favor

(U.P) Nominee Congress

conscription bill. They said that he wanted a bill passed as soon as pos= sible because he felt it “indispen(Continued on Page Three)

MERCURY FINDING A HOTTER LEVE

Occasional Local So On Program. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

With interest in the market about Aug. 18 today [sharply restricted by latest war de- Skies will be cloudy tonight and velopments, only 90,000 shares were tomorrow and occasional local show-

P. Kennedy's country house during traded in the first three hours. The ers will dampen the city, which was the am- [list opened irregular and moved nar- | sprinkled a little over the week

-end.

|rowly thereafter. Many favorites; And it was just a little, because |

Advertised price of {the embassy were at home, it was!did not appear on the tape until! [the week-end rainfall here measured |

after the first hour. only .03 of an inch.

meets with party leaders to map War factories. last-minute pians for the ceremony Coventry, which is near London, as suffering heavy damage,

The report said that the Army tomorrow evening at which he will while other raids were made on Deal, Folkstone and Canter accept the Republican nomination bury

He will drive to Portland to meet | Chairman Joseph W. Martin of the ning aerial blows, appeared to be striking with unprecee

sota and other prominent members In operation.

May Issue Strong wong Statement

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immediate passage of a military!

VICIOUS BATTLES RAGE IN BRITAIN: DAMAGE HEAVY

‘Arms and Munitions Depots in Germany, | | Targets of R. A. F.; Balkans Quiet; | Italian Spokesman Warns Egypt.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

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| German planes by hundreds struck back at Great | Britain today in retaliation for a Roval Air Force bombe and-pamphlet raid on the Berlin area. | A fleet of perhaps 500 Nazi bombers raced along the ‘southeastern and southern coasts of England, and battled | British defenses over Kent and the Thames River in a drive on the London zone, from which they were thrown back after la 30-minutes air raid alarm in the capital.

But fresh waves of bombers followed from German bases across the English Channel and Berlin reported terrific aerial conflict over southeastern England in addition to thrusts at half a dozen coastal towns and at Scilly Islands, far off Land's End. At least eight German planes were re ported shot down,

Germans Say Damage Is Heavy

The Germans claimed that heavy losses—a ratio of five 'to one—had been inflicted on the British defense planes and reported extensive damage had been done to vital British The Nazis named Birmingham, Kingston and

Both the British and German planes, exchanging stune ‘dented force at inland factories that keep the war machines The exchanges beginning last night appeared [to be some of the heaviest of the war. | German bombers dropped bombs in three areas of Couns ty Wexford in Ireland and three girls were killed, an offie cial announcement said. It was the first time that German bombs had fallen in Ireland although German airmen have been active around the Irish coast tor a week. The Government ordered an immediate protest to Berlin. Waves of British planes carried the war to Berlin in (the hours after midnight, blasting at arms and munitions factories in the German capital. Berliners huddled in air | raid shelters for three hours and one minute while the din of what seemed to be every anti-aircraft gun in the city roared into action against the British airmen.

Fly Right Over Hitler's Chancellory

| Official Berlin renorts scouted the idea that damage had been done, claiming that only one bomb, an incendiary, was \dropped on a flower nursery. But veterans of bomb attacks on other European capitals said they heard thunderous explosions amid the crash of anti-aircraft guns which sounds ed like high explosive bombs. In London, the air ministry said the Berlin attack was directed against the great munitions plants which feed the German war machine. The announcement said the (raid was one of a series in which important objectives in northwest Germany and the heavily industrialized Ruhr were attacked. Whatever the damage caused by the Berlin attack it brought the sound and feel of warfare to the German capital more vividly han ever before. The British planes droned over the center of the city and the sound of their

motors could be heard above Adolf Hitler's chancellory, the (Continued on Page Three)

Today’ s War Moves

By J. W, T. MASON United Press War Expert Last night's British air raid over Berlin must be interpreted as & warning to the Germans to stop bombing London civiban areas. The

BOMB DROPS NEAR KENNEDY |the closing days of the World War. It reached the highest mark since British planes, by penetrating the inner defenses of the German capital,

despite two hours of intensive anti-aircraft fire, demonstrated their ability to bomb central Berlin at will if the Germans wish to continue

challenging London to an air holocaust Dropping leaflets instead of bombs over Berlin's residential quarters including the residence of Hitler

If Hitler does not heed this warns ing it has now been demonstrated that the British can take effective retaliatory toll for any further Gere man terrorist bombing of London's

18-Year-Old Farm Wife, Confined to Respirator by

Sudden Polio Attack, Fights for Life of Unborn Child

N 18-year-old Hoosier farm wife, suddenly stricken with ine fantile paralysis and alive herself only because of a Riley Hospital respirator, fought bravely today for the life of her unborn first child. She is Mrs. Ruby Cook, an attractive brunet, who was married a vear ago and who is eight months pregnant. She became ill a week ago at her Darlington, Montgomery County, farm home and Thursday was brought here in an ambulance by her husband, Justus. Her condition, described as critical, is complicated by premature labor pains. Nurses at tlre hospital say that Mrs, Cook seems not to consider her own condition except as it affects the unborn child. The paralysis centered in Mrs. CoQk's respiratory muscles and extended into the muscles of the lower body. This type, doctors said,

should show improvement within two weeks. Her condition has not

changed much either way sihce she arrived at the hospital, and physicians said this can be a good sign. Anticipating the delivery of the child before Mrs. Cook is able to

live outside a respirator, physicians obtained a specially built respirator from Springfield, Ili., but this was not satisfactory. “We think now.” a physician said today, child in. the ordinary respirator if we have to. We are hoping, of course,

that Mrs. Cook will have recovered enough to be outside the machine |

for the delivery.”

If Mrs. Cook's condition should turn for the worse, however,

physicians will attempt to prematurely deliver the baby and save its |

life. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were married last summer and live on their own farm. Mr. Cook has been almost constantly at his wife's side since she was stricken. At the hospital, there is only praise for the couple's courage and co-operation. When Mrs. Cook questions about the baby, one word at a time as the machine depresses her chest and exhales air from her lungs, they give her all the assurance they can, y she smiles, .

“that we can deliver the

himself, the British informed the German people of the lack of protection given them by their air defense. Only! armament factories in the outskirts of Berlin actually were attacked, while the lives and property of civilians | were spared. Berlin reports say the droning of {the British planes was heard plainly lover the center of the city, but | German searchlights failed to find [the raiders in the sky. That is to |say the elaborate German protec- ment for reasons similar to the uns tive devices for making Berlin safe written agreement to exempt field failed to do so. British restraint headquarters from deliberate ate alone prevented duplication in Ber- tack, since neither side would gain lin of damage done to London's if each were competent to compel Sivillas Popa bp Soe Seqgns. (Continued on Page Three

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non-belligerent zones, Great Britain [showed last night that the British do not wish the air conflict to degenerate into deliberate slaying of non-combatants, but if Hitler orders it so, the Germans will be equal sufferers

During the last and the present wars, there was an informal undersstanding that no belligerent was to (bomb the general field headquare ters of the others. Since the cae pitulation of France and the tere mination of field operations, London and Berlin have become the direce tive centers of air and sea combat, the only present means of carrying on the war There were expectations that both capitals might be spared bombarde

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