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MOON: WILLKIE |
Nominee Tells Cowpunchers In Chicago He’s Worked As Hard as Any Guy.
CHICAGO, 13 (U. P.).—Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie among stock handlers, steel puddlers and factory hands today to lash Roosevelt administration’s
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defense and to promise security from dictators and unemployment if he elected President in November.
The
iS formal schedule of four speeches and short personal turned into a relay of oraneous talks as Mr back his hat ana the crowd suryelled “speech,
candidate's
ances extempx pushed whenever and
appeal
Willkie talked i him Willkie hammered home his in the language of his tossed in slang and
points ers an profanit;
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mild
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conscription.
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| Carl Dortch “where did the City get those balances?”
DORTCH TOSSED “WAY TO DEFICIT
Nash Democratic organization which Expert’ Ss Questions to Him-.
rumored planning to, He declared he would organization from poli-
had been heckle him. banish the tics At up on and
the stockvards he green and vellow hay wagon frequently “damns”’ an audience of to 7000 cow handle farmers anc stock buvers he would make America too strong for any dictator to attack, never would send American
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troops abroad to fight in a foreign]
war and would produce jobs for the unemployed At the Western Electric Co Mr. Willkie made his charge politics in national defense timated 25,000
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ing to the appointment of LaGuardia of New York to anadian-American Defense and Mr. LaGuardia's subsequent espousal of President Roosevelt’s third term aspirations, Mr. Willkie demanded: “Do any of you doubt defense program will be hands of politicians?” Appealing directly breroed cow hands empty tle pens wagon, Willkie worked crowd.” he would the mess
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Board
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that in
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said “clea SEVONR It will said Describing himself as ordinary raiser of hogs, President Roosevelt's Wednesday night which was “promises and more Is there anvone so dumb,” Willkie demanded, “who does realize that tax burden be paid out your wages?”
shovels,” he “Just an he turned radio talk he said promises.” Mr not must
to
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the of Foresees Great Debt that if Franklin -elected, the public next four vears will £75.000.000.000 and
I predict
Roosevelt is re debt after the he het ween £100.000.000 000 ‘If I am elected 1 jobs promise honest honest wages. The only jobs now are made by the defense program “Hitler is requiring us to do that. Why has Hitler struck France and England? Because they were weak and economically unsound.” “1 stand lor the doctrine private industry and will find for I not promise moon Jobs They 1 couldn't se of Chicago. You have worked as hard guy in this crowd 1 will much work with my hands damned one of vou. to aid in building a and free America.” where the candidate stopped (Continued on Page Five)
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Willkie: 'l Hope | Keep on Slipping’
AGO, Sept. 13 AL. P) Driving through the loop today, Wendell Willkie was given a gigantic demonstration from packed sidewalks and skyscraper win-dows-—the greatest since Col. Charles A. Lindbergh rode down La Salle St. 13 years ago after his solo flight to Paris The candidate had moisture in his eves as he grinned to newspapermen and cracked: a “I hope I keep on slipptg like is,”
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self Brought Flash of Understanding. RICHARD LEWIS
behind the City’s $1,000.000 has unbalanced its be told. It's the story expert's insomnia. Carl Dortch, Chamber of Commerce tax expert, just couldn't go to sleep. He tossed and turned.| After a day's work on budgets, millions of dollars were still parading! in his mind Most people
By
storv discovery mistake budget! of
The the which can now one tax
situation | But not began to count halances, Could City actually can next year on a
in that Dortch. He liabilities, assets, it that the spend more money lower rate? | It Seems Funny , . .
he
Funny thing, that . where did the City get all those balances? The | rate last year was lower than the preceding vear, too unusually large balances . . . revenues off , vet more money appropriated. Y Then, in one of those flashes of] clarity which sometime come on! the dark border of sleep, Mr. Dortch | saw the whole thing. Suddenly, he| was wide awake, Sure! The City has miscalculated its balances somewhere, That would explain it. Keeping mistake Early next morning, Mr. Dortch breezed down to City Hall. It didn’( | take him long to spot how that tax anticipation loan which had been added as a balance, instead of as a liability Mr. Dortch added and re-added the budget. It was short, all right. It Was a Close Call City officials and tax experts now shudder to think what might hav happened if Mr. Dortch had | dropped right off to sleep that Gi as he usually does. Chances are say, the error wouldn't shown up for a year or two. Then the City would have been in a worse jam than it is now, Why. | that might have been right wi |
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municipal election time in 1942 Whew! ‘It's a funny thing.” commented. “I don't those things suddenly come to vou just when you're half asleep. You | can figure out problems sometimes vou couldn't begin to tackle when | you're wide awake. “Usually, IT guess, you just fall asleep and the whole things slips’ your mind, Next morning, vou know you had something, but you can't recall it.” This time, Mr. Dortch didn't fall asleep. He didn't forget. And that combination of circumstances, officials feel, is a break. But they're wondering what's RO= | ing to happen if Mr. Dortch lies awake some more nights.
Mr. Dorteh | know why
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HUGE NAVY GUN' LOCATED HERE
Considering City in Defense Program.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.! —Indianapolis may be chosen | ‘as the site of a 10-million-dol-| lar nava! ordnance plant to in the near it was reported here!
today. The plant, which would cover ap-| proximately 20 acres and be devoted to the manufacture of one or more types of naval guns, would em-| 2000 men and, in addi-| would give jobs to several building trades craftsmen | lin its construction. Meanwhile, it was announced in| that defense orders | placed in Indiana by the Govern- | iment between June 13 and Aug. 31 add up to the staggering sum of more than 66 million dollars. In-| orders for the 48-day] totaled $825,000 Several | sizable orders placed since! 31 are not included in the
HUNT SABOTAGE:
One of 3 Major Industries
The naval ordnance plant is one
of three major defense industries for | at May Reach 50 | which Indianapolis is being given | Explosions at Plant ote
Iserious consideration,
The City stands an excelient| ing U. S. Orders.
chance of receiving an $8,500,000 Federal Aeronautical Engine Lab Another photo and stories, Page 1 | | N
the site for which probably | be selected within the next 13 (U. P).= toll in the Hercules disaster rose steadily
separate
KENVIL, J., Sept | The death Powder Co. today as eight sought evidence of nection with the explosion and fire which one rescue official said may
It also is being considered for plant to produce lenses all types for the Navy. In testifying before priations Committee, Admiral W. Furlong, chief of the Bureau of pave taken nearly 100 lives Ordnance, stressed the necessity of pHamage was estimated locating these five plants in inland |go0 000. cities. He listed Indiana, Ohio.| By noon 35 bodies, [linois and Pennsylvania as prop-|ypjdentified, had been extricatod erly situated states with the neces- fiom the still-smouldering ruins of | sary skilled labor supply. what had been, up to 1:30 p. m. Site Studies Completed | yesterday, one of the most productive munitions plants in the
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Congress already has authorized the expenditure of 50 million dollars country.
on the five plants and site studies, Sherif Henry ol
Sperling
including a careful study of Indian- is County emerged from the plant be no suc h word as the Brounds after a visit of inspection, means to yell doo at. A hoo without |,
apolis, have been completed, Department reported, of the Government exJune 13 were the 25-million-dollar power plant at Charlestown, to be oper-| ©f the company, ated by du Pont, and an $18,587 yp /Setvative, however, Federal loan to the Bendix Avia-| Ply four or five” tion Corp. South Bend, for plant | |W construction, Awards for the period included | \ ; the following for Indianapolis firms: Poli“e, the Dies Commitee, Marmon Herrington Co., 24 tele-| Police, the Federal Bureau phone trucks, $99.678.22; trucks and vestigation and the New spare parts, $15,348; trucks. $15.00: Deparment of Labor and the New
Stewart-Warner Corp. fire units for |Jersey
gestured at the scene of devastation and remarked: “There must he 60 more in there.” W, ‘C. Hunt,
Largest
was more
services, the Hercules Co.
of
Inquiries Open in Munitions Blast
Smoldering ruins of powder
3) KNOWN uy And It's Just as Well,
agencies | sabotage in con=- is
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five of them |in the sense of calamity doesn’t ap- ¢
Mor=- yell doo at because there appears to
operations director | Sists and all accidents which happen con- on Friday the 13th are attributed to He said “prob- non-existent hexes and dooless hoo- | more bodies still doos. ere buried in the wreckage, The Army and Navy intelligence [wily about days like today, except State | those local had In- merical curses, Jersey |
Legislature were conducting! ters, who attend School 13 or live in |
field ranges, $237.480; B. C. Atkins OF Preparing to start investigations. |
h= | a steam! hospitals still
More than 200 men were sear: ing for bodies, shovel. In two nearby 83 persons, some near death,
& Co, parts for field ranges. $2910; | Electronic Laboratories, Inc., vibrator inverters, $50,500; P. R. Mallory | & Co. Inc, bomb shackle releases, > F& ; : $340,020; Ermst Products Co, ean- | WEIE FeCeIvIng treatment. vas folding cots, $51,870: C. B, Cones| Ihe Red Cross in Med & Son Manufacturing Co.. one-piece said that four disaster relief work- | working suits, $12,269.25, ers and at least 30 nurses are al i. Dover, N. J, aiding in emergency care for the victims,
The whole smokeless powder secFAR AND WARME tion, where work was being speed-
[ed on a $2,000,000 Government de- |
fense order, was leveled. A dyna- | a making unit escaped damage, (C Sv on pa Three) u's Sure v of Prediction os OVER LONDON SLOW STOCK TRADES NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (U. P.).— German air raids over London kept
aided by
Burea Tonight, Tomorrow.
TEMPERATURES . 50 54 57 . 63
LOCAL
11 a. m, 12 (noon) 1pm
o except for one hour today, delaying | 73 joe, hegan, me | Consequently, dealings at New| As temperatures became halmier York were virtually paralyzed as today than during the past few days, many traders feared a Cierman inthe Weather Bureau hung out the vasion attempt was imminent, When | ‘fair and warmer sign” for tonight later reports indicated that the! and tomorrow. official about Sunday's weather, but the Bureau said there are pretty |
good indications th that ha will be fair,
Big Board here became more active | and prices developed a firmer un- | dertone.
Williams, Recalling Those Model T Tigers In Spring, Now Asks Mr. Baker 'How Come?’
By JOE WILLIAMS and Times Special Writer
DETROIT, Sept.
Rowe, they hit the ball far often. And they had poise,
13 —~We may be | fidence and hustle. We have al
coming back here the first week in| 'hunch they are going to be tough |erybody said.
[October to see the Detroit Tigers to take. | play the Cincinnati Reds for the | world's championship. The Reds | ishing. are already as good as in and the last year,
The Tigers finished MHith They didn't figure to get |
test team in the American League, thing, they figured to get worse. They have won seven out of the For one thing they had a G. A. R.| last eight. infield. Old Charley Gehringer had | They champions | slowed up to a crawl
played like
were on top of the ball all the time. 'a Model T flivver. Imagine
by now bewhigkered “Schoolboy” (a second base SOMBIE!
{
[matical chance for that championBritish brokers in air-raid shelters, |
opening for the first time since the |
There was nothing | Nazi raids were being repulsed, the |
con- was going to play first base,
|
All this is at least mildly aston dian could powdér the ball but that
22 | Tigers, at the moment, are the hot- | [any better this year, Indeed, if any- | except the front office
and Dick | it 21] {against the Yankees yesterday. They | Bartell had more body squeaks than { Greenberg off the bag and shift] getting | ‘him to the outfield. Greenberg had |were filed hv They got good pitching from the anywhere with those two birds for! been playing first base as a profes-
plant after catastrophic explosions,
Hoodoo Hex TAX RATES CUT IN 5 TOWNSHIPS
More Reductions, Including Center, Promised by County Board.
Today’s Friday The 13th.
JOE COLLIER
once in a while—oftener, 4 in fact, than is prudent—a Fri-| day falls on the 13th of a month or the 13th of a month happens to be a Friday. On such days, up pops hexes and hoodoos, Today is Friday and the 13th supposed to be unlucky for all, particularly persons who otherwise associated with the 13 or who are celebrating anniversaries, the word “hex”
For
By AVERY Tax
rates it
The County Board clipped tax of six townships and then indicated thal drastic reductions would later in the day when rates of the other three township: including Center, are reviewed. Board members did not reduce appropriations in lowering levies but confined their cuits to reduction halances They estimates of revenue, At the end of the morning sion, the board member: believed that if they could pare relief rate to this vear's levels, an cent reduction in the present tax rates could be accomplished This figure 1s hased on the the county levy already a doo is generally regarded as heen reduced 5 cents under the trivial. . rent rate, while the Civil City Nevertheless, the superstition per s 3 conis under this yeal Board members withheld final approval of the adjusted Perry Towns ship levy pending a report on (he [legality of a school bus purchase last year which members questioned Perry Township officials, the Board was informed, bought school busses with borrowed money aftel the Tax Adjustment Board last yea: had removed the bus from the budget The Perry (outside) | Hvely was $2.10 reduction the quest and undet
of five ol the more Tt one and are number
As a mater of facet,
the dictionary, and “hoo= to Webster, comes which mean:
pear in [doo,” acoording from the word “hoo” to yell hoo at, “Doo,” however, from a word “doo.”
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pretty
All persons seem to be especially
to have galloping nu-
most luck due
apt to compounded
These persons--those who are 13 today, whose names contain 13 letf-
rate ten'‘aa Trustee's re
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rent : ate
OCT. 2 OPENING DAY FOR WORLD SERS ~~
| Franklin (outside) Tawrence (outside) Perry (oniside) Warren (outside) Washington (outside) “Tentative
The Pike
501 under 4 cents
at
by the Board this
111 1010 request $1.85 $1845 1.9% 2.02 2148 "a4 210 1.44 1.355 *|.14 1.0% 111 1.0%
101 ap proved
First Two Gunes Either in Cincinnati or Brooklyn.
13 U. P) Kennesaw the Oct,
Township levy wag aft intact. Later in the day planned to act on the Center
catur and Wayne levies
OR. HIEL E. CRUM'S LICENSES REVOKED
Plans to Appeal Conviction On Gross Immorality.
State Board of Medical Reg and Examination today revoked and canceled the licenses of Dr. Hiel Eugene Crum, drugless phivsician, to practice chiropractic naturopathy and electrotherapy William H. Faust, attorney fot Dr. Hiel Crum, announced that he [will appeal to the Marion County [ Superior Court | The Board | effective today [The decision unanimous Board members declined to com- | ment on the ruling, pointing oul | that they sat as a jury, They said, And there was Rudy York who |however, that they had found Dr This Hiel Crum guilty of gross immoralwas a move born of desperation, evThe four-fifths, or marked down, hargain basement In-
CHICAGO, Sept, a.
Baseball Commissioner Landis today announced World Series will open Cincinnati or Brooklyn, Mr. Landis sald the first two games will be played in the home | park of the team winning the Na- | tional League pennant, Only Cin cinnati and Brooklyn have a mathe- |
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ship. The next two games, and another, if the world championship is not | yet decided, will bg played in the | park of the American League win[ner, which could he either the Chiloago White Sox, New York Yankees Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox or [the Cleveland Indians, If the full seven games are re quired before one team wins four | RAMesS, the last two will be played [in _the National League city.
The istration
decision, sion
reached its in a closed ses was reported to
ity on the basis during the hearing last week “I don't see how they reached this decision, but that's what I expected,” Mr, Faust said
[let him out. The Tigers had ex- | “It's the old fight between the
| perimented With him RG every piace medical doctor and the drugless CASE | gootor, We are going to carry this ‘he could hit they strung along with [boy's fight to the limit because his him, R | ‘etherator’ 1s not a fraud and he 0 make a spot for him at first .. practicing a system for which was necessary to take Hank he had a license.” The charges Dr. Crum M. Overley,
against Toner
(Continued on Page Three) Business Bureau,
PALACE
Adjustment |
considered work,
also increased [Slizabeth were in
average 7 into Downing Street
purchase item!
26-cent orders to his Luftwafle
£1.81 | 1.54 |
the hoard |
untruth”
FLEE
RAIDED; ROYAL FAMILY SAFE IN CELLAR
Government Denies Plan to Move Capital;
Germans Seem to Wish Evacuation to Clog Roads, Make Invasion Easy,
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor
Sharp-shooting German airmen dive-bombed and fires
‘bombed the most famous targets in the world today-=the
House of Lords, Buckingham Palace and Downing Street =in an apparent but unsuccessful attempt to drive king George and the British Government from London. Normal life in London virtually was suspended as Ger man bombers blasted at famous buildings and structures in the heart of the great metropolis of eight million people, But the Information Ministry branded “absolute rumors that the court and Government were about leave London, ministry said the reports were started as German propaganda “to convince the world that London's morale is cracking.”
as
to I'he
The new daylight assault coincided with reports that Italy's offensive against Egypt had begun, This report was not confirmed by the Italian High Command, It has long been expected that the invasions of Egypt and Britain
‘would occur simultaneously.
Dive-Bomber Aims at Palace The attacks
They
started before many Londoners got te went on with little surcease most of the day.
follow One of them was the iongest daylight raid alarm of the war,
This time the targets of the German airmen did not appear to be the docks, factories or railroads. Instead one German dive-bomber plumped five bombs in and about Buckingham Palace. King George and Queen cellar shelter and were unharmed but three plumbers working in a palace wing were wounded, They spattered where the office-residence of Prime Minister Churchill the street from the Treasury and down the block from the Foreign Office,
Fire bombs rained around the Palace,
is located across
bomb struck the west wing of the
the House of Lords,
Changed Method Detected
Then an incendiary Parliament, which houses
Others splintered the Bank of England and the Royal loxchange, Damage to Buckingham fire-bombs in Downing Street tinguished quickly, But Britons thought they detected a new pattern in the German attacks. They believed that Hitler now had given to try to make London uninhabitable as a seat of government and if possible, te drive the King ‘rom the capital as the first step in a process of demoraliza« tion that would be preliminary to invasion,
‘alace was not severe and the and Parliament were exe
Workless Days, Sleepless Nights Fremdenblatt, were recalled.
one of the Two
The words of the Hamburger hest-informed newspapers in Germany, days ago the paper said: hi such as have already ocs continuation normal
I'wo more weeks of attacks curred in London will make the life and work in the city impossible,
of
“In other words, the evacuation of London's eight mil lions is an immediately threatening danger. Germany will then have attained the maximum objective, namely clogging all highways and other cities of England with homeless With evacuation of the capital by the symbolise (Continued on Page Three)
refugees, . . .
Today's War Moves
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of testimony offered |
[Rome that the starting order may toward Great
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manager of the Indianapolis Better | Power but also might have dec’ Iinfluence upon the wavering |
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Is preparing for offensive operations directed Suez Canal are modified by intimations from he delayed until Germany's intentions results
Italy the
that and
Reports against Egyrt
Britain are more definitely determined, and their
made plain,
Mussolini will show good military
judgment if he does not commit colonies himsel{ to a major campaign in The Italian High Command must
North Afriea 'ake these pesibilities into consid while the out. eration in estimating the possibile come of Hitler's ie success in their desert came preset ng Tn. Warfare on a large scale in Afriea a 3 would be difficult for Italy at best, He oa ib The sandy terrain and the lack of — Ts ol water require special means of Zeriath transport eonsiderably harder to op= A serious check | CTRte than the maintenance of lines HVS of communication in Europe. Mars to Germany, Il g.a1 Graziani is Europe's most an Invasion of .amaatent military master of desert Britain were at- onnditions. As eommander-inschief tempted, or Ven of (he Italian African forces, he is abandonment of wall aware of the uncertainties the project Nol ahead of him strengthen British Should Germany obtain part ve mastery of the air over Britain an W i=)
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"tude of the French North African C
Mr. Mason
would