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scarps —nowaspY VOLUME 52—NUMBER 157 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940 Entered us Second-Clase Matte

RAIN ON BERLIN. LONDON

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This modernistic apartment was mangled in the German air raids. This Messerschmidt 109 will give the British no trouble. It was shot down on the Thames Estuary in a dog-fight, Women carry belongings from homes in the burning dock area,

0.P SWEEPS tS DICK HELLER London Begins to Look Like PLEASED WITH M ETHODIC AL’

Warsaw, Few Areas Unhurt

3! Suspended Patrolman Warren | Diy Go ve dave witnou pa ‘Poorest Sections Hardest Hit, but Some Famous Districts R A ll )¢ | RESSED

Re —...- on the grounds he insulted a S ff M t it H it St K pe : pedestrian while on traffic duty at Ny rni ospita ruck. Republicans Get 65 Per Cent, Meridian and Maryland sts. 1 Sigk ‘of It, I'm Through. yess. aternity eso Knudsen Says U.S. Can

‘ hief Michael Morrissey was | By WALLACE CARROLL . ee EE FS Of ‘Ballots; Eight the complaining witness a He Says; Plans to Enter Unined Press Staff Correspondent Produce Best and Most;

i { i | | i i he heard the patrolman call the | : LONDON, Sept. 10.—A collection of names of streets where hombs : . lg So pute ' : 5 Primaries Today. | pedestrian names. Business. nse dropped in London during the last three days reads like a map| Allison Program Rises. | Retaliation Demanded by Populace of Both hh , “He called the pedestrian a jay of London i es By UNITED PRESS | Ywaliear * 1 Es ’ . : . : Sik ae a ; - BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 10 (U. P.).| . te Phos ’ Hiutit ‘States Wert to tie walker,” the complaint said. | By NOBLE REED It is no longer necessary to tour the city to see the effect of the or. Coe fn fo B00 of "the "Na- Capitals: Cy oss-Channel Duel Reported: ight states t Ep |

“ar. “x 141 - , Sp v . i . I'm sick of polities. . . . I'm merciless German raids. tional Defense Commission, com. |

» y ¢ i SS > i Fleet St. news- : . | $4 ’ through. Two blocks from the United Press offices in the ) pleting with Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, British Also Raid 1 Ha Ipaper district lay the bodies of a Army Air Corps chief ‘a tour of the | oil 4 Ge man Poi ts.

primaries today as Republic-! i ans pointed jubilantly to TIGERS IN LEAD | With these words, Dick Heller, man and a woman, wrapped in ions Milita Tv aiFeR . r 3}a § 5 | until three months ago a we QUICK ACTION ON ‘blood-stained burlap, with the shoes nation’s military aircraft plants, said By JOE ALEX MORRIS

sweeping victory in Maine's av that ' was convinced or a Rn Be. the nation” ‘election - in Indiana Democratic politics of the victims on top. They lay in i Tie BO I | : : United Press Foreign News Editor tes prac ee ii BA TLE RED SOX over his vast State House gs A ayant not only the best but the most Methodical bombardment that battered both Berlin of vesterdav we alon e Thames. -Nearby was a| <r ’ ; ~ | : ~ thd I yesterday. |patronage machine. announced his | DRAFT IS HINTED cveom erater and Tribe cor trees | Planes of any nation in the world. and London again today plunged Great Britain and Gere

None of today's eight primaries | i ; iS y { : 2 ee | SMPAAS voy FH y C23 : “is : held ally vations Significance |retirement from politics today. had been shorn off as if by a hurri-| He predicted that a year from NOW many into an aerial war of attrition that seemed likely to Voters in Arizona, Colorado. Louis . : | He announced plans to go into | cane. | American aviation plants would be d Iv ‘will I . fanz. Michigan. Minnesots. New Yanks, Vittmen Rained OUE; private “business upon his return! | The stone balustrade of the Em- turning on 0 eh ot Rs a knock-out. Hampshire ‘Vermont ‘and ‘Washing . | « Vo lan: no : 'bankment was pitted with scars, month with a pl < ull in mass : ks o ‘itish cani i pe Au Xn Sune Cleveland May Regain jody from a month's vacation Willkie ‘Asks ‘Elimination Of | Jaded to those til Feniatning from a month in July, 1942. The presen: , _.. : SS SUSIE Wh ive Brith Ei] during I tld idates trip through the West and ‘said 60-Dav Del C | German Zeppelin and airplane raids schedule called for 33.000 planes by daylight hours—although London had four raid alarms—= "Georgia goes to the primaries to- Top Spot. I LAY Tach is TN ou vay ‘Uelay as LOn- |. ine world war. (April 1, 1942—19.000 for the U.S. ‘was due chiefly to unfavorable weather conditions and ‘will wiorrow. New Mexico Sa turd er as executive secretary to the Gov- | . land 14,000 for Britain. B 5 a a : ; : morrow, 1 Mexico Saturdas THE “IF” TABLE efor. ferees Meet. | Thousands Evacuated |" toetivery ‘or ‘Allison ‘engines ‘to O° followed, Nazis emphasized, by new and still more intense

| Five weeks ago Governor Town- oO " ip or . hinds ; ing i 1 bar in “retaliation’”’ for Tb : ; ; ne bomb had made a direct hit power pursuit ships is proceeding bombardment in “retahation” for bombing of th ich, Ww, . Pct. Win. Lose. 'send announced that Mr. Heller WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P.. > > es ha ; ri Ou Ss Whiant om- | ¥ e Reich Se Su ‘ond “dav Jeav figp- | os On v Wire a, ON ‘a ‘three-story Embankment S& ry, Curtiss DA hoe) Shikai. : . . 578 570, Would take a 30-day leave of a Satisfactory progress” was re-. = . : cials said at Buffalo. They will re- Britis Pushed Back Slightly Oras sence but at that time it was pre-| i Sov P ris Shep- Puilding, tearing a huge hole in its "oo September ' re-| . Ti esterday forec: h Cleveland. 4 ~ ported by Chairman Morris Shep- Ns ceive 150 in September, they re is, imes, vesterday orecast that nh dicted that the State House patron- u oar .. front. Nearby the windows of a norted, and expect a delivery rate of | Bad weather also hampered British attacks on the Gere Brewster would defeat Brann for “New York 75 57 se chief would not return {pard of the Senate Military Affairs I Wow |! each bn . . " vc ? ? 4 , W age “clue! ‘would 'n n, . famous hotel had been blown out. 4099 3 month by the end of the year, man capital—altl h tral : f Berli d ‘ot Senator from Maine, 62 per cent ‘Boston ... 72 6: 533 Huiried "Bit Recalled | Committee today as Senate and rTrains were evacuating Women sufcient to eliminate possibility of Man capital—although central parts of Berlin and other BEd tpsas today reports Chicago 0 63 526 530 5%) utes Before his “leave | HOUSE conferees working on the and children by the thousands and 5 pottle-neck in production. [objectives in the Reich were hombed during the night—but in BY 5 | A Iew minutes beiore his “leave” p SAITOH i11| the highways were filled with autos, tos y 5 , iy : lew YY d ou form of the conscription bill ! g ow ie Sev , y . s RAFAL ! that with virtually all precincts oe Yay. at ‘Cleveland, ‘game wus ‘announced ‘Mr. ‘Heller ‘came oe Wi dni p trucks and vans carrying women | 9200 a Month in U.S. | the British strategy tor many weeks has been based on reported, Brewster was elected = Postponed, rain. bout Sof ‘thie ‘Governor's Oifite lin tg | SHC thelr fir Sup ‘and children to havens in the coun-| ‘present output of engines of ali Steady, unrelenting raids against many scattered targets Senator by 61 per cent to 39 per . | Shortly before the I1l-man con- i... ‘gyt correspondents could find [kinds Mr d said, is 2200 : thu Yes ; . cent. hurry, ‘ripped ‘up ‘his ‘straw Wat, lg.anne ‘committee ‘started ‘work. p>. Dut, COrresp Hot ‘even ‘old (rds. Mr. Knudsen said, 1s 2200 a ieonsidered ‘most ‘vitai ‘to ‘the Nazi ‘war ‘machine. | DETROIT, Sept. 10.—With today's thyew it into the ‘waste paper ‘Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican | o.oo 1 i pen Be yell In both belli t capitals, | rer, tl ’ : : | Wer er 4% imen. {He pointed out that more engines h both belligerent capitals, however, there was an

SERGE ——— | New York at Cleveland game rained ; ! : ial : oi ; alk 1ild- resi ] minee, told newsmen . : a . . 4 . . . . , Republicans cast 65 per cent or Out, baseball interest centered for Dasket and stalked out of the build ARSE that he hoped the |, Lhe men agreed that keeping are needed because some planes re-|increasingly insistent demand for more and stronger blows more of Maine soregate ballots (he afternoon at Briggs Stadium in ing. He has not been back since. al Rushvile, a i iW things going in the city was a man's [quire two to four engines. By July .. dvs Ie I AC a OS ’ Nanas ie. Ha ati , h | conferees would eliminate the Fish ce hrodi : : ii] at the enemy and both indicated that attack and counter vesterday and Republican National this Motor City where the Boston| Democratic leaders a month ago levi he ddfatt for job. { 1941, he predicted, production will hairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. is- Red Sox were booked to battle the refused to believe that Mr. Helle, amendment Gg ne a or Thoroughfares "Escape be 3500 a month. attack would go on with terrible regularity except for lulls i a statement declaring that the Tigers, new American League lead. had quit party work, but the former | two months. uch of the support “I Hid Ve S66ne FENEnGOUS SHOU tes tion “ fefin telv ei ok ee ers, : : 2 2 patronage boss today made it plain | for the amendment, sponsored by «now I've only myself and the cat lof “expansion take place in an ex- due ‘to weather conditions. on "a 1tely neraias e 1 I'§ ; ~ % bps | ; i r . . , h " . Ie) $ axe X- x . . the Roosevelt Administration]! Detroit's Tigers, who backed into |that he is SR HO ¢! Ro: ie Hoa, Te a in War [tremely short time,” Mr. Knudsen | The goal of each side is the same but the tactics are all it elRciency meline 1 Weasterdav “vw ‘Olav. | ., ller first became prominent ’ Cy reteran. “Hitler can send all he's got | <n; ; ' ; i sep . : : Fad ae Eg Fe : ny 5 Re re in politics about six years ago when | Chairman Andrew J. May of fhe ee ong 2s we ghee Heri a Be. ED different because of Germany's quantitative superiority and ravaganc ana ragicaiism. 108 0 thle nite 0X, Sstartec ei Dwi h | ; 3 ! . —- >. D ave ¢ a C - . . - a te {day with a half-game lead over the Ne became executive secretary of five-man House Committee said a}, .in0 7 won't worry too much now ployment of a few hundred men to desire for a quick victory in contrast to British efforts to

brie . . 3 he ic Committee settlement is possible before night- ; : Nasa . ‘| : : | : y 04.0 rie 0 \pracitts We. Ip cr 20 "8 olie=gavie ead lover ren the Tate macs. Jacheor ‘was Fall. Neither Rep. My nor Senator | {18t the ‘wife ‘and ‘ids ‘are ‘out ‘of | thousands. 'hold out until plans can mature for a 1941 counter-offensive,

i : [the way.” | “One fact is outstanding. Everyi 'd would predict the out- 3 ‘ . 3 v=) . ba " | The Red Sox can only improve State ERI ay. or word circulated that the| A young wife kissed her husband where we have found that the qual- | Communications Are Vital : Ralph O. Brewster (R. led] their position by winning since they | Gambled on Lewis | conferees probably would: FSoUHbY antl Yai 3 Subrose JS (1y Treqltieed hour pede alll dia : : { D> f HY 149.653 " moa DE Ee | He rose to power as patronage 1. Accept the House provision fe- When I Write you soon your address Hig Te gs een Fo evidence The Nazi air fleet, under personal direction of Reich ‘D.) lor Senator, 145.63 to ‘104,947, ever, a ; | se : Ad Neti ; i ontinued on Page Three {of a decline in quality despite this nas a more than 61 per cent of the vote rer trey & defeat for the Bengals [",."s radually lost ‘Some ‘con- [quiring all men between 21°'and 45—| '(C ey MN = HO Rn P Marshal Hermann Goering, sought first to throw the British Be Fh Log J'€1 today will drop them out of first trol in ti tat achirie ‘as result | approximately 24 million—to regis- {rapa expansion. , : A " ’ i b oe OS = TL place and restore idle Cleveland 00 tio iL Setar party leaders | ter for possible military service. The ith a as LIS, oi {hat ‘defenses (primarily the R. A. ¥.) back from the southeast ne Tate I DY ernor, Sumner iyi. ifoHer position, | 3 DS : me | ; ve T we can build up and go still further, | . 0, 3 She sisi i Sewall (R.) led Fulton J. Redman gjnee AR is the Yankees Over his domination of thousands of (Continued on Page Three) |Everybody agrees that American | 08st by heavy attacks on air bases. To a certain extent (D.). 160.743 to 91.856, an almost 64 1. gay in'Cleveland, it will be nec- | 10S: planes are the best in the world. I this objective was achieved, because of the British desire

Dea vote for the Republicans. | essary for them to meet the Vittmen| He was ready to resign as execu- 3 PUPILS KILLED. 268 GASOLINE PROMISED believe now that we can build the 4, (oneantrate on defense of London, bit in ‘an ‘emergency

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Brewster Leading Brann

These results brought immediate in ‘a double-header. tive secretary to the Governor Jast most planes as well.” ; : . so | the coastal aerial defenses probably could go into action on a

response from Wendell L. Willkie's Co January, but something happened | INJURED SINCE JAN. 1

campaign assistants in Rushville, = — = at the last minute and he stayed. | Ind.. who said they indicated a trend Mr. Heller gambled all his polit- : Wr. JKniudsen ‘asserted ‘tl ory greater scale than ever. ‘hich ‘would - Wi ; : | ; , f rg school ! sserted that every ~ ; Ee Fa put Mr. Willkie in the ‘COOLER TONIGHT, |ical stakes on the State Democratic | aoe. hate been kitled ly oie 40-55 Per Cent More Miles place he and Gen. Arnold had gone A second phase ct the German offensive has been de« Ne | Convention in which he swung all {soo 5 pn Aimy] : : lin their tour, which B 10 Weeks |; tie Rha . Po. : Wilk fovea eat seu ' {Gomvention Jn which he Swing al five In trafic acetenis nce Jn To (Gailon Predicted. | hel tou which Been twoweek signed to destroy air bases, stores and especially communis ow ET win BUREAU'S WARNING -ominee Prosecutor David M. Lewis cident Prevention Bureau, reported DETROIT, Sept. 10 (U. P) received from manufacturers “the cations in the London area. This phase of the “Battle of oul waiting FU € er tS i ) | J . ’ To J Joma : : " | . 5 N 7 Se Trav Eiths {of Marion County for Governor. | , : : » finest kind of co-operation. Atta? Siw. REEL 33 2 : In Hyde Park, N. Y., a friend said | rn | He managed to deliver only a fow | any tv of {he iniuted ‘Were hurt Chemistry today offered motorists a | wr. Knudsen oD tite planed ox. | Britain” ‘is still in progress and its outcome will depend on (Continued on ‘Page Three) 1 AS hme roti : £1100 octane gasoline which would | , ag (Continued on Page Three) : . (scattered delegates to Mr. Lewis'|while riding bicycles and one was . ; : : pansion for airplane plants alone, | EE Em —_ It Will Be Fair, Through forces and those were reported ob- killed. The other two deaths re- Dring new economy and an 2AVANCe |aycluding those for producing en- | JAP-FRENCH ACCORD |ligated to him through patronage sulted from crossing in the middle I automotive engineering. lgines, was 12,000,000 square feet

Tomorrow, Too. favors. of the block and running from Experiments with the high octane | : t plant T d : WwW ON INDO-CHINA HINTED "Yin lat to get out of politics Between parked ears gas “compared with the T oetane “lyr, pehiasen na Gen. wemota| 1 OCIAY S ar Moves

LOCAL TEMPERATURES land get started in business,” he said.| “This year's injury total is 43 less | NOW in general use were described | oo coo mo. Ton ll deroplane | 4 BERLIN, Sept. 10 (U. P.) —The| | His business plans were not made than for the same period last year,” by T. A. Boyd of the research lab-| .. At tcc XTi By J. W. T. MASON Mm. ....%53 Youn. .... 59 : ; . v division plant of the Curtiss-Wright, * official news agency D. N. B. re-| 55 41%. tn 00 known. Capt. Troutman said. | oratories division of General MOLOrs | ovorp in Bulfalo, "Where ‘tev ‘found United Press War Expert ported in a Geneva dispatch today “m. ...56 12 (noon) .. 59 Corp, Defore Members of thie Amer- “1 (Conitivuell ‘on Page "Fliree) Intensity Of tife Gernin ‘air attacks on London deereased last hight, ican Chemical Society. | = the British estimating that not more than 150 enemy planes were over

that France and Japan had signed, ‘9a. wm. 58 1%.%m.... 59 ? ah — wag and agreement regarding French mm ? Desert Arm Burned U b “It begins to appear that from | the capital. This decline is understandable, for not all German pilots Indo-China. The y y now on the car users may prefer 3 BROTHERS MEET | have received special training in night operations,

agency, quoting . to take the benefits of further im- There being only a limited number of aviators with sufficient skill to

well informed quarters wat Vichy, If you didn't get out that extra | ’ i . i [ A A tf provements in fuels and of advances : in the dark. thev st b lowed periods of Q y S Ol S Sun Ba h Quip in engineering in terms of more AF | ER 26 YEARS Ns safely in the ark, they must be allowed p s

France, said that an official an-|plahket last night, you'd better do nouncement on the agreement was ii tonic . p | ai ? ght, the Weather Bureau ad- : : | I 3 {miles per gallon,” Mr. Bovd said. En erefore, | Creat Britain allows the world to MILWAUKEE, Sebt. 10 (U. P)= MF {0 Be gxpecred, titerefore.|, ... tite cufifaise ‘one By Sie (Gore

‘expected to go even lower than last el *Y ! 2 wiper gallon at 20 miles an hour is|,_ _. °' : : i TIM night's goose pimplish 53. Other- United Press Staff Correspondent farts oN on bathing in BEYDL" (7p jabie with 100 octane fuel, the terdas : brought together three | Bi oh De 0 pressure by foreign corresES FEATURES wise, the forecast is for fair weath-| CAIRO, Egypt, “Sept. 10.—Eng- While the homeland faced the mor-| yom ict reported. The increase 1s |Orothers Who had not ‘met for 26 | iderable pe- Pondents. Little has been permitted ler both tonight and tomorrow. {lish Hussars guarding the desert Ya danger oI a ord of MOre than 40 per cent at higher Years. | ei hy vigor 10 become known regarding deve ON INSIDE PAGES a |wastes of Egypt were boiling mad my, or ae %a oo Yd biti cor. | SDEeds, with important gains in| The last time the Cato brothers | of the attacks @stations of German cities, Hence A S Rn: Bo + | performance, he added. (had seen each other was in 1914, will fluctuate. there is emotional concentration

| today—but not at the Italians. |diers everywhere were raging about | . boxe ; STOCKS IRREGULAR, | The object of their fury is the letter. One soldier in the far| The high octane, or Kknock-free, Sa > el iis gn 10s : The -British|on the damage and civilian case gasoline ‘makes possible an engine Angeles policeman, Was married. His (ig | night Faids over Ualties suffered by the British, while

Clapper ..... 8 Mrs. Ferguson American-born Lady Astor. {desert outpost of Ft. Maddalena 4 > Comics : 5 !Obituaries ... 5] VOLUME IS LIGHT During a tour of more than agave me per of his composition Of much smaller displacement. brother, Asher, was best man ‘and ET Germany main-| destruction in Germany can be

Crossword Pegler ....... FiakRy x7 {hundred miles of desert front I voicing the Hussar's resentment. | —_—— . [brother Gilbert congratulated him 1 er tain a m ore | measured only by the bitter exe Editorials ... Pyle . rod Ne a, IT tre [Hear many vivid descriptions of One stanza: | HOOSIER DIES AT 102 at a family celebration at Hunting- ps consistent level, Pressions of German anger. Financial ... Questions ... 9 ot or a Ba : MB | her—in sulphuric soldiers’ language. “And when the sandstorms blow burg, Ind. - but that is be-| For the first tinte, however, Ger Flynn ; Radio afternoon trading today. Volume '' gay copies of the London Daily] and get in body and kit, | VALPARAISO, Ind.. Sept. 10 (U.| Raymond, now chief of the Cali- oly cause the Brit- many today lifts somewhat the veil , Forum Mrs. Roosevelt NN SAA his Mirror had reached these outposts, And you start to cough your lungs P.) —Thaddeus K. Whitlock, 102 fornia State Highway Patrol, in- LP ish use much that hitherto has concealed air raid v! Indpls. 3 Serial Story . I : ony eading og receded from iy ore than 1000 miles from home by, up and then begin to spit, | vears old, who cast his first vote for [formed his brothers he would attend | Mir. Mason fewer planes/ casualties, by announcing that bee Inside Indpls. 9 'Side Glances ‘early highs that were a point and lair to Cairo and 600 miles over Just think of Lady Astor, who says Abraham Lincoln for President in |the police chief's convention here. | : than the Ger-| tween May 10 and Aug. 31, British Jane Jordan Society ... 6, 7 more above yesterday's close. Atltwe burning desert on trucks or you are not fit 1869, died at his home seven miles Gilbert came from Detroit and ‘mans and so have more pilots, pro- bombings killed 78 children und

Johnson 0 Sports 12, 13 Chicago wheat and corn were frac- camel. In that issue was an open [To fight for king and gountry and from here today. His wife and Asher from Monroe City, Ind, for portionately, for their limiged of- wounded 51. British figures show Movies ...... 4/State Deaths. 5 tionally higher. letter from Lady Astor to the editor| do your ‘little bit” | three ‘children ‘survive him. | the reunion, {fensives. ‘on Page )

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