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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 155
Roll Call Vote May Be Demanded
NAZIS TURNED BACK IN GIGAN
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BILL PASSAGE IS SCHEDULED
BY NIGHTFALL
{ Plant Conscription Is Oniy, Point Unsettled; Volunteer | Provision Rapped.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—Chairman Andrew J. May of the House Military | Affairs Committee, said to-| day he expected to demand a/
roll call vote on the Fish!
Amendment to the Conscription Bill, providing for 60 days’ trial of voluntary enlist-| ments before invoking the draft.
“I won't take that amendment] lying down,” Mr. May said just be-| fore the house met for a session! which leaders believed would bring passage of the bill. Other house leaders, however, said | no final decision had been made of a roll call. The amendment originallv was adopted by a teller vote of | 185 to 155. It is subject to ratifi-| cation by roll call vote if one is called for successfully. | Under the Fish Amendment pro-| visions, President Roosevelt would] issue a call for volunteers among] men from 18 to 35. If he failed to| get 400.000 within 60 days, the draft | would be inveked for men from 21 to 45. : One Point Remains | Except for minor amendments only | one subject for debate remained—| the question of compulsory industrial | co-operation | The session started an hour earlier | than usual. i First amendment adopted today was one by Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.) which provides that conscripts who are buying articles on the installment plan may arrange to terminate their contracts when they are called to the colors. Adopted tentatively was an amendment barring employers from filling any gaps in industry, caused by conscription of employees, with aliens or members of the Commu-| nist Party or German-American Bund. Although the House spent more than seven hours yesterday consid-| ering amendments to the bill, only one of major importance was] adopted. That was by Rep. Albert E. Austin (R. Conn.) and would pre-| vent the War Department from inducting men into the service until adequate housing had been assured. Two other amendments that had threatened trouble were disposed cf without difficulty. One related to the age brackets] from which the measure proposes to| draw men for compulsory military | service. Efforts to change the top| age in the House bill from 45 to 31| (the Senate limit) or 55 were re-| jected. 5 Geographical Limits Debhated
The other issue related to the geographical limits within which Congress proposed to permit use of | the conscript troops. The bill would | allow President Roosevelt to send | them anywhere in the Western Hemisphere and to the territories and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine | Islands. | Rep. Karl Mundt (R. S. D.) proposed that the limit include only | the continental United States and | (Continued on Page Three)
WHEAT PRICES FIRM
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (U. P.). — There was little change in the main pody of stock prices today but a few special issues gained as much as $4 25. Trading was light. { At Chicago, cash buying kept wheat prices from sinking more than fractions of a cent and corn was fractionally lower than yester-|
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WEYGAND TO VISIT AFRICA VICHY, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—Gen Maxime Weygand returned here last night, his face and throat bandaged, after an accident when his airplane crashed near Limoges yesterday. Gen. Weygand is expected to leave for North Africa within a fortnight to reinforce Colonial defenses against the movement organized by Gen. Charles de Gaulle in London.
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We'll Have Weather
Weatherman J. H. Armington. fish-finding thermometer.
COUNTY URGED AS RELIEF UNIT
Present System Puts Unfair Burden on Townships, Tax Board Feels.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM A demand for legislation remov-
ing poor relief from the townships |
and putting it on a county-wide
basis is expected to be made during
the County Tax Adjustment Roard's three-week budget session opening Monday Board members, in recent sessions, have criticized present system under which one of nine townships—Center—hbears
infor-
about 80 per cent of the total re-
lief costs in the County.
They also criticized the wide vari- | ation in per capita costs of caring
for relief recipients in the different townships.
“Some of the townships spend al
lot more per person on reliefers than others, but there's no indication that reliefers in any townships are getting inadequate care.” one board member commented. *It townships
County Auditor Glenn B. Ralston today sent letters to the Adjustment Board members formally notifying them of their first meeting Monday morning in the Auditor's office, After the organization meeting. at which they will name a chairman and a secretary, the Board expects to move into the larger City Council
The Board will receive budgets calling for a total Indianapolis in
| Center Township rate next vear of
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ROCKEFELLER’S SON WEDS IN NEW YORK
BEDFORD, N. Y., Sept. 7 (U. P.).
—,——_—————_—_—._ 0 . |—Miss Margaret McGr ; SYODK SALES LIGHT; [7h Meroe Mois, dougie
Grath of Mt. Kisco, David Rockefeller,
N. Y.. and
were married at St. Church today by the Rev. Ketchum. John D. Rockefeller 3d was his brother's best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at tne home of the bride's parents.
Arthur
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the remainder of the He and Companion Trap
youngest son of men brandishing guns entered from Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller. |
Matthew's |
INDIANA GUARD TOOPENYEAR'S DUTY NOV. 15
Infantry Units May Train In Mississippi; Given Chance to Resign.
Indiana National Guardsmen are scheduled to be called for a year’s training on Nov. 15, it was learned today. { The Indiana Guard, which is a part of the 38th Division including | Kentucky and West Virginia, consists of 5541 enlisted men and 431 (officers in seyen regiments. Of this number, approximately 11000 enlisted men and 130 officers | live in Indianapolis. | It is believed the infantry units lof the Indiana regiments will be sent to Hattiesburg, Miss, where [many Indiana troops trained before {the last war.
Get Chance to Resign
Guardsmen, who rank under the grade of captain, and who have dependents, will have 20 days in which to resign. The rest will be inducted into Federal service as a part of the Regular Army, The Adjutant General's office expects that many officers and men
Average Fall and | Winter Forecast: Who fave families to support will | The number of resignations may | Snow? Probobly Fo in rn
: {allowances for the active service. It EATHERMAN J. H. Arming- has been reported that special pay | ton was so busy puttering allotments will be given men with around on his vacation that he dependents and with special military |didn’t have a chance y p | Quties. : lof A ann Wo Gretd Personnel emploved in ini > : a. po SH= 1 dustries of defense importance also [finding thermometer. | will be exempted. . His daughter gave him the new Exams May Close Ranks fishing gadget, he said. and then |explained: It is believed that some guard “You lower it in the water. You officers and men will be “washed 'pull it up and a little cup on the! out” through rigid physical exam- | end holds enough of the deep water |inations before the year’s service be- | to tell you what the temperature js | 8110S. at different levels. | Regular Army Medical Board ex-| “The idea is that fish are plentiful 2@minations will be given all officers at certain depths because of the and men before the units leave for | temperature. I hope it works.” | Mississippi and after they have heen The *puttering” time was spent! in training for a few months. at the Dells in lower Wisconsin. The seven Indiana regiments in-
| $s on clude two infantry, the 151st and
152d; two artillery, 150th and 139th, | UESTIONED about What kind | ang the quartermaster, medical and summer Indianapolis engineering. There are, too, one Armington looked at pattalion of special troops and the the instruments and 113th observation squadron. The medical and quartermaster regiments, each less two companies, are Indianapolis units. The Division | special troops, including the Divison headquarters company, detachment, and signal company, also are located
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Acres of the heavy mountain woodlands of Germany's Black Forest —{he famed “schwarzwald”—were ablaze after a surprise attack by British bombers seeking to destroy concealed armament factories and munitions dumps. The Black Forest scene above shows the typically dense woodlands, ever shrouded in mysterious shadows, scene of many Grimm fairy tales and inspiration for countless weird peasant legends
of late will have, Mr. the sky, studied (said sagely: “We ought to have an average Fall and Winter.” “How about a mild Winter a: e Christmas?” i,” he said judiciously, “it mig.ii be colder, it might be warmer
and as far as Christmas is cone 1 INCIINE ROS, : tis stationed ‘cerned, we might have a little snow | Je engineer regiment is stauone
or a lot, some might fall on Christ- | at Gary and South Bend, while the ‘mas Day, but it's too early to tel],» artillery and infantry regiments
| have units scattered throughout the
rest of the State. | BABY KILLED ON WAY STORE POLIGEMAN TO DYING MOTHER
| | HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept. 7 (U.| | P.) —From Detroit came word that Mrs. Marian Lewis couldn't live and ‘va ; . knew it, and that before she died] | Victim in Diner. she wanted to see her 6-month-old | | son, William.
| Claude Davis, Southport merchant! S0 Mrs. Alex Woody, in whose |policeman, had a p bullet [ont care William had been left, started
(through his right shoulder today oid the oan, trom Jer Weis) remind him that someone doesn’t ac driving a small coupe and LAY.
je um. Av. Doi Sten J eling fast. I , Mr. “avis considers him-| Near Hamilton the car went out | self Jucky. Two other shots fired! of control, crashing into an electric fat him from close range missed. [light pole. The infant, sleeping on He was seated in a dining car at a ledge, received a skull fracture {1429 N. Illinois St. with two other and died in a Hamilton hospital. men at 3 a. m. today. Two masked, Mrs. Woody was not injured.
| and superstitions. | Knocked Out for COUNTY G 0 v eg B i i Critical Rescue nae nro] SETUP ALTERED (U. P)—Two hard rights to the | jaw, delivered by an ex-pugilist, —— served as an ‘anesthetic’ last | . night while firemen worked for a Ward Chairmen Lose Idenhalf hour with acetylene torches | mn : to free a youth trapped and in- | tity in New Experiment jured critically by a rising ele- | a vator. | Of Bradford. The victim, Glorian Provost, 17- | year-old jewelry polisher, suf- | By NOBLE REED. fered a crushed pelvis, internal injuries and a fractured left foot when crushed against the secondfloor loading platform at the | Blacher Bros. plant. He was re- | ported near death at a hospital today. Provost's “knock me out!” Fascia, 25, the former ithe scene as firemen [ree aim. “Though I halted to do it.” Fascia said later, "I gave him two blows right on the jaw. I hit him just right, IT guess. Anyway, it seemed to ease his pain and when In the place of ward chairmen he began to come to, I hit him |are the county chairman's personal
again.” jLapratesiiatives whose identities will not be made public. Many of them
publican setup is an entirely new
of Carl to weeks. to | Under the new scheme, devised by
agonized cries brought boxer, strove
| ford and his associates, ward chair{men have lost their identity and {ward boundaries no longer will form [the nucleus of party machinery.
ALL RECORDS TOPPED AS STATE FAIRENDS +" “0
{the “field” representatives on the inner workings of the organization.
| workers themselves. Allows ‘Confidential’ Reports This arrangement would make
Attendance 23,000 Above Previous High. | ment to make the organization more flexible and spread the party
The red show wagons rumbled out wax among more ward leaders. of the Fair Grounds midway today.| There is nothing in the law that Livestock and horses were being requires any party to appoint waid
[the rear, using the cook as a shield. WINS $512,719 SUIT l 1 know you,” one of the bandits| WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. P.).— ous pointing to the badge-wearing President Roosevelt has signed a bill | | officer. |appropriating $512,719.21 to pay a loaded for return to the farms. Con- i i eu : | 8 012, . \ | De hairmen so we decided to name | Then he ovened fire with his 38- judgment obtained by Lester P.| cessionaires moved on. All over the DE , representatives.’ he said | caliber revolver. The gunmen fled Barlow, bomb inventor, for infringe- lot it was cleanup day, for the 88th “Under the arrangement we might through the rear door. Mr. Davis ment by the Government of a "World | Indiana State Fair was over. ‘have as many as half a dozen rep(Was taken to Methodist Hospital. |War aerial torpedo patent. | It closed last night after an eight- |, i (ives in each ward and in
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|day stand which shattered alll." "ihe wards. there may rr ow owe
records. Happy fair officials made a . wished " a final check of paid admissions— a ward leader for every precinct. 435,862, more than 23,000 above last! Seen as Buffer Against Flareup These representatives then would The authors include: BOOTH TARKINGTON STUART CHASE EDNA FERBER
year's previous record of 412,305. The Fair closed with the final act {be able to report on the conduct of of “Americana, the grandstand |... precinct committeeman who stage show which ran all week, and | : JONATHAN DANIELS ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN
one of “the best Coliseum horse) yc porspnal representative idea During the day the best beef oy»|13 Ielitvey hy Some Loservers Lo (Continued on Page Three) against another factional flareup (Continued on Page Three) JOHN STEINBECK JAMES BOYD MARGARET CULKIN BANNING JOHN DOS PASSOS REX BEACH MARY ROBERTS RINEHART SOPHIE KERR LOUIS ADAMIC KATHARINE BRUSH STEWART EDWARD WHITE CARL CARMER FAITH BALDWIN STEPHEN VINCENT BENET FANNIE HURST PHILIP WYLIE SHERWOOD ANDERSON
It Begins MONDAY.
700 JOIN CANAL STRIKE PANAMA City, Canal Zone, Sept.
I a roe) TOMORROW 1S BAY FOR THAT OUTING
in the Pedro Miguel section of the Panama Canal today brought further slow-downs in work on new LOCAL TEMPERATURES locks considered vital for U. 8. na-!/ gam. .... 68 10am. ...." 8 tional defense, The sympathy strike| vam. ....71 11a. m. .... 81 involved unskilled laborers, mostly| 8a. m. .... 74 12 (noon) .. 85 Panamanians, who acted to support! 9a. m. .... 76 ipm....54 a walkout of 250 workers at Gamboa earlier this week.
- em — summer outing. The LADY BORDEN DEAD Bureau was happy to repeat its OTTAWA, Ontario, Sept. 7 (U. forecast of the past several days. P.) —Lady Borden, widow of Sir generally fair with not much change Robert Borden, World War Prime in temperature. And just as a reMinister of Canada, died today after minder, summer, despite the high
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| experiment. in political organization. Ward chairmen, who have been! . . : . : (the spark plugs of party machines after a 24 hours period in which London, Berlin and ‘many {here as long as anyone can remem- | {ber, have been eliminated from the . : |G. O. P. picture in the last few many fires in Berlin,
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UMANIA LOSES DISPUTED AREA 10 BULGARIANS
Carol Begins Exile in Tears as Kingdom's
New Dictator Pledges Hitler Loyalty; Border Trouble Adds to Indo-China Tension. By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor
Great Britain and Germany fought on for mastery of
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Tomorrow is the day for a late] Weather|
a lengthy illness. The former Laura | temperatures, is in the home stretch. | number of planes
the skies today while Bulgaria grabbed a slice of the dige ‘membered kingdom of Rumania and war in the Far East ‘threatened to spread to French Indo-China. | Following almost three hours of British bombardment of Berlin during the night, Nazi air fleets struck at the south coast of England this afternoon and then launched ‘a big-scale attack on London. Bombs again smashed into the London area and the echo of explosions sounded in the capital's damaged streets, Anti-aircraft fire and fierce aerial dog fights indicated the biggest attack of the war after preliminary thrusts were turned back by British defenses. In the Orient, Chinese troops were reported to have ‘been driven back from the Indo-China frontier after a clash which appeared designed to offset Japanese gains in the ‘French colony. Fighting Along Red River
i | French dispatches to Vichy reported a “fierce” fight
‘along the Red River but advices from the Far East said lit was uncertain whether the Japanese actually had moved ‘into Indo-China to take over air bases and railroad privileges ‘reported granted them by the French Government. | In the Balkans, Bulgaria announced that an agreement ‘had been reached for occiipation of the South Dobrudja ters [ritory of Rumania, which already had given up territory Ito Soviet Russia and Hungary. Ousted King Carol went into ‘exile early today after being warned that he had created a danger of civil war and foreign occupation of Rumania. The Official German News Agency in Berlin reported that Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former French ‘premiers, and Gen. Maurice Gamelin had been arrested by, the French Government at Vichy and imprisoned at Riom,
Arrests Made Under Security Law
The Agency, in a dispatch from Geneva, said that it
‘had been reported from Vichy that the arrests were made
The present Marion County Re- “on the basis of a recently adopted law for the maintenance
of security.” Aerial war between Britain and Germany was resumed
other cities were severely bombed. R. A. F. bombs started
German planes, retaliating for a long British attack on
{County Chairman James L. Brad-| Berlin during the night, struck at coastal points, raced up
the Thames and caused an air raid alarm this afternoon ‘in London. British dispatches reported the main attacks ‘turned back after some damage had been iniicted.
16 London Distri ts Bombed
Sixteen districts within 15 miles of central London ‘were bombed. Seven fires were started by a single bomb. A church hall and a scheol and many apartment houses and slum dwellings were Lit. Damage and casualties were ine dicated to be heavy. Hundreds of London slum dwellers were homeless. Bombs splattered in Britain's great industrial and shipe ping centers, including Liverpool, Thameshaven, Manchester, Derby, Rochester, Weybridge, Henley and southern coastal
points. Both sides were siriking at military objectives but with greatly increased force that caused vast damage to civilian (Continued on Page Three)
Today's War Moves
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Results of the newly intensified air attacks on Great Britain are demonstrating, like previous raids, how wrong were the pre-war predic= tions of enormous casualties and desolation. If the estimates of losses made a year ago had heen justified by events, Great Britain today would be a shambles and the Empire in mourning. Instead, there has been no interference with the normal life of the nation at all come parable to the pessimistic expecta-| Lions. Capt. Liddell Hart, Great Brie During the whole of the World! tlain’s leading writer on military War, German aviators dropped affairs, in his book “The Defense 74 tons of bombs| of Britain,” published just before on the whole of | the outbreak of the present war, England, killing declared ‘nearly a quarter of a mil= 857 persons,| lion casualties and over one hune wounding 2058 dred million pounds sterling worth with material of damage might be anticipated in damage of 1,400,- the first week of a new war,” as 000 pounds ster- the result of air attacks. This was ling. Estimates the extreme of possibilities which of the future whe British faced when the war power of air at- began. : tacks were based] Such pre-war anticipations are on these figures now seen to have heen fantastic. multiplied by The number of hombs dropped daily the great in- over Great Britain is more than crease in the the total number during the whole and their en- of the World War. Yet, during last larged carrying capacity. The month, only 1075 civilians were theoretical results were appalling. (Continued on Page Three)
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