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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940

From a London Mother's Album:

“ . . Then there was that terrible day when bomb on our lawn. . ter, we saw a huge erater where the children afternoon. , . . their Teddy Bear—hardly harmed.”

Rn . Afterward, when we came out of the air raid shel-

Junior and Sister went over

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MID-OCTOBER REGISTRATION | 1S PROBABLE

President Asks Security Act Changes to Guard Draftees’ Benefits.

(“How Conscription Affects You,’ Page Seven)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. P.). — Congress today completed history - making legislation to conscript the © nation’s manpower and com- * pel industrial co-operation in

the rearmament drive.

President Roosevelt immediately asked Congress for $1,733,886,976 in cash and $207.000,000 in contract authorizations, largely to finance the ¥ | conscription program. The draft votes in House came barely an hour apart They were—Senate: 47 to 25; House: 232 to 124. Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.), voted for the bill and Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind), against, President

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Roosevelt's signature

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: will make the bill effective. Then the President will proclaim a registration day, expected to be in mid-October. With few exceptions, all men from 21 to 35, inclusive, rei | gardless of race or color whether citizen or alien, will be re-

quired to register for possible peace- |

time military training. Million a Year For 5 Years

From among these 16,500,000 men, 400.000 will be chosen by selection and lot to go into the Army late this fall. pected to follow in the next five vears to be trained as reservoir of manpower for the nation’s land and naval forces, The Senate and House approved a revised conference report on the measure in rapid-fire order today after the Senate's insistence on tightening up the industrial pro- § Visions prevented final action last t night, As finally approved, the measure jcontains a rigid provision com- : |pelling industry to co-operate in SS ' supplying the nation’s defense needs a German plane DID drop a |It gives the President power to [commandeer immediately, on a “just (rental” basis, any plant whose owner refuses to accept “at a reasonable (price as determined by the Secre[tary of War or the Secretary of the Navy” any national | tract,

had been playing that very and found their toys—and

Yanks Facing A Tough Day

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$688,500 COAL IN FUND DRIVE

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| Community Campaign to | New York Yankees’ western trip | was near the disaster stage toOpen Oct. 1. day as they squared off against Detroit's American League leadA coal of $688,500 has been set for| IS in the final game of their > | series. the annual Community Fund cam- | Lui loss today, and the paign which will open Oct. 7, Har-| world champions would be four old B. Tharp, general chairman, an-| games off the pace, with a slim i chance of catching either the Tigers or Cleveland in the few games remaining. Determined to sweep the series, Manager Del Baker of the Tigers was to send Buck Newsom, winner of 18 games, against the Yanks. Cleveland's Indians, who have matched the Tigers with straight victories over the Boston Red Sox, remained a half-game out of the lead. A victory for them today over the Red Sox, coupled with a Detroit loss, would give them a half-game advantage.

rounced today. Mr. Tharp also announced that Al W. Metzger, general manager of the | Kroger Grocery and Baking Co, and | }. T. Pritchard, president of *™e In-| dianapolis Power & Light Co., have| peen chosen associate chairmen of | the drive. | The goal represents $8400 more | than the $680.100 raised a year ago.| “Be Thankful” is the campaign slogan i «Every dollar is needed. We are | hoping for increased gifts «1 the | part of many contributors and wej|

are asking for assistance from those | thd te SSE RIDE WITH FRIEND Tharp said.

Last year there were 70,000 contributors. Falls From Truck Cab in 6100 Block on Road 67.

Mr. Metzger and Mr. Pritchard (Continued on Page Three) The desire to accompany a truck-

HOUSE BACKS LOAN BILL WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. PJ). ~The House today approved the conference report on the EXportImport Bank Bill providing for $500000,000 for loans to combat

totalitarian economic penetration of lyn to Anderson “just for the ride”

The Teeth in the Bill

Anyone failing to comply with this provision shall be deemed guilty

SCORES ‘SAVED’

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Final Congressional action on the [bill came as Mr. Roosevelt asked

Democrat State Committee Congress to protect the status of : | National Guardsmen and conscripts Acts After Ruling From [under the Social Security Act so Attorney General.

they will remain eligible for benefits when they return to civil life after service in the Army. (Photos Page Two) There was no discussion in the Senate before its final vote, but in Bv NOBLE REED the House Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. Times Staff Writer N. Y.), leader of the House forces FRENCH LICK, Ind. Sept 14 — | opposed to the conscription bill, asi ? : |sailed the conference report for | Several hundred precinct commit- leaving out his amendment, which |teemen, county chairmen and a would have delayed the actual

| district chairman will be “rescued” drafting of men 60 days while the | houses are in the construction pro-| volunteer method was tried. cess than there were then.” Mr. Fish said he was sorry that | |the 207 House members who orig-|tate transactions filed at the Reinally put his amendment in the |corder’s office.

from provisions of the Hatch Clean |

| Politics Act, the State Democratic | Committee decided in executive session here this morning. Scores of party officials who, until this week, had been slated for the ax because of the possible [connection their State salaries might have with Federal appropriations, will be retained under a recent ruling of the Attorney General. The State Committee meeting | [was part of the two-day Demo- | | cratic convention sponsored by the] re | Indiana Democratic Editorial Asso-| gp apaABELL OPERATED UPON

ciation, of which E. C. Gorrell, of | i Winamac, is president. Municipal Court Judge Charles

During conferences last night, | Karabell was operated on at the party leaders indicated they will | Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, | “bring out into the open” charges |Vvesterday. Friends were advised to[that Republicans are planning to|day that he is resting easily. The |use some “big money” in the cam- | judge went to the clinic earlier in (Continued on Page Three) | the week for a checkup.

bill were deprived of a chance to vote on that issue directly. As adopted, the measure—technically known as the Burke-Wads-

between the Senate and House versions. Adoption came on th e86th day (Continued on Page Three)

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{punishable by a fine not exceeding $50,000 and three years’ imprison-| ment.

worth Selective Service and Train- | period still to come. ing Bill—represents a compromise of previous years, offici

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

~ Congress Passes Revised Draft Bill, Sends It to Roosevel

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Maureen O'Hara . .. “It's horrible what has been done.”

Bol% a Hollywood starlet is no bed of roses. In fact, for Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball it more often than not has been a cot or airport office bench for the past two and a half weeks. The Misses Ball and O'Hara arrived about dawn today at Municipal Airport for stage appearances at the Circle Theater. After four hours’ sleep they were up again for a press breakfast = n n

HIS has been going on in a more hardy fashion for over a fortnight. The pace has just about caught up with them now that the final day of their tour is here. Tomorrow they both leave for Holly=(Continued on Page Three)

REALTY SALES

NEAR 29 PEAK

‘Year May Set Record: Local Conditions Are Called ‘Sound.’

This may prove a better year for Marion County than the boom period of 1929. | Basis for the prediction is the

real estate business

defense con-| volume of deeds and mortgages be-

ing handled by the County Record-

ers’ office, considered by many real | estate men the best single barometer of their business conditions, Supporting this are the opinions of builders and real estate brokers. “Conditions are on a par with 1929 except they are on a sounder | basis—we sold then by contract and now we are selling for cash,” said one builder.

House Sales Good

“Sales are as good now as they {were in 29 and it looks like the | year’s total will either equal or exceed the boom period,” was anoth- | er’'s comment. A house broker said: “Sales on both new and old houses are exceptionally good and this year may top 1929.” “Conditions right now may not be up to 1929, but I do know that more

In 1929 there were 56.000 real es-

38,000 This Year

So far this year, the transactions total 38,000 with the biggest filing On the basis als sav the | year’s total is bound to exceed 61,000 There were something over 12.000 deeds filed in 29. During the first eight months of this year more than 10.000 have been recorded. Building permit valuations, which {are influenced by fluctuations in | prices of material and labor costs, | were $15,608,000 in 1929. George Popp, City Building Commissioner, | prediets the 1940 total will cxceed ( $13,000,000, pointing out that the {a number of large apartment houses being built in that year.

| 1929 total was at its peak because of |{nqay with the award of contracts

IRSODOUT [TALIANS CROSS

AMT EGYPT BORDER: FORT OCCUPIED

British Bomb German ‘Invasion’ Bases; Westminster Abbey Window Broken By Fragments of Missile.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press

President Promoted Munich Pact, Hoosier Charges as He Heads West.

BULLETIN PEORIA, IIL, Sept. 14 (U. P.) — Wendell Willkie's voice began to signs of giving out today after a whirlwind start of his Western campaign trip, and his party sent for a throat specialist.

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Foreign News Editor seen Great Britain replied to Germany's ‘‘surrender or die” ABOARD WILLKIE warning today by blasting at German “invasion bases” on TRAIN EN ROUTE TO the continent with tons of bombs, but revealed that Italian KANSAS CITY, Sept. 14 (U. forces had invaded Egypt and had occupied a British post P.).—Republican Presidential five miles inside the border. | Nominee Wendell L. Willkie! It had been generally presumed that the Italian attack, charged today that President which had been rumored all around the Mediterranean for Roosevelt “promoted” the two days, would coincide with the expected German atMunich Pact and “asked tempt to invade the British Isles but the Nazi raids on France and England to sell, London today were sporadic. Czechoslovakia the! British bombers battered German supply ships, barge Iriver.” ‘concentrations, docks and harbor installations on the Dutch Mr. Willkie spoke to several thou- and French coasts through the night and military sources |sand persons from the rear plat- reported that vast Royal Air Force and troop concentrations form of his campaign tren at eye on guard in the British Isles against the possibility of Joliet, Ill, and in commenting on : >. ts y a surprise attack. British naval units also were reported to

the third term issue said: - “We now have a man who says ‘I have attacked French ports.

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Law Courts Heavily Damaged

am indispensable because of my ex- | traordinary skill.” Was it skill When | oo he promoted the Munich Confer-| In defiance of a Nazi demand from Berlin that London ence? Was it skill when he tele-|ci1yp . pr ; : : 4 'S NC : struc as § . - Ol Esler. oct. asolinl eng Surrende; or face destruction it was said that British de asked France and England to sell fenses now were as strong or stronger than prior to the Czechoslovakia down the river?” start of this week's almost uninterrupted bombardment, ‘Where Is This Skill?’ ‘centering around London. » » ! & REDE Sale JPeSeny The toll of damaged buildings of historical importance 0S t S proci: $ -1s . i . dispensable, like Hitler, Mussolini in London continued to mount and now include Buckingham and Stalin.” Palace, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Law Courts “I expect to tell the people that heavily d : ribvw hic : i . ‘ the doctrine of indispensability is| (heavily damaged today by high explosives falling in midjust plain, ordinary bunk,” he said. London) and South Africa House of Trafalgar Square. “We have existed for 160 years under the tradition that two terms are Paris or Warsaw—Which? enough for any man.” . sus CL : | Referring then to Munich, Mr. But British sources ridiculed Nazi suggestions that Willkie demanded: [London sl ™ se | ' nT rials f otsded 4 | “Where is this extraordinary| lon should choose etween the fate of Paris (which sur- | knowledge of foreign affairs?” rendered) or Warsaw (which was destroyed). He criticized failure to arm the “London now has a chai y save its ”" : Bis United States adequately when Misia fr ; thance te Save its elf, said a spokes er was building up his mechanized Man in Germany, dencuncing the Churchill Government. forces and the “sinking” of the| Britain, described in London disp - London Economic Conference, : ! : 4 d patches as united, an “Instead of being skilled in inter- gered and prepared as never before, was replying with a national affairs,” Mr. Willkie went|yast barrage of shrapnel against four Nazi air rai on, “Franklin Roosevelt has handled | . ‘8 . 8 ir <vazl an raids. For foreign affairs in a fumbling way. the first time in a week no fires could be seen in London. |One day he is an interventionist. The Nazi statement, which asser ai the next he is an isolationist—it|{ ob : ) asserted that fog and rain depends on which crowd he is talk-| Were now w orking in favor of the German air force, was ing so! iet Chioratice was tHElcAN credited in Berlin dispatches to “well informed sources,” 1e Joliet utter: " ! an- oo. ’ . oe . . |didate’s second for today—the be-|Which meant that it represented the official viewpoint. ginning of his westward campaign | swing.

2 Million Pounds of Bombs Dropped German radio stations today announced that in two , Ab the taliead Sisiion ih Clizage days 2,200,000 pounds of bombs had heen dropped on the Democratic Kelly-Nash political or- London harbor and industrial area and that “things are |sanization End Dirsaisney to send imoving rapidly toward a decision.” Joliet “re ST his attack At one time today, 61 German planes could be seen over lupon Kelly, who he said had com-| London at once. Berlin said they had been “unhindered” by promised an income tax case with | : g the Government. ‘coast defense squadrons. He renewed his challenge to None of this morning's air raid alarms in London, Presien; Roosevelt to debate 1sSues|, over, lasted more than an hour and a quarter, following “I know,” he said. “The President a]l-night bombardment, of considerable intensity which was Is BIE Pui A a made comparatively ineffective by London's new type baryou notice how frantically he rushed rage. antimuca on Page Three) tay Time bombs dropped by the German raiders were still going off occasionally and one exploded at the gates of ‘Buckingham Palace, smashing an iron grille. Twenty tons of debris fell into the palace basement.

RECORD ARMAMENT ct debris sel into the yalace bx le ~ AWARDS BRE MADE, Br em ar ar Shey

Calls for Planes, engines, TOday's War Moves

Guns and Clothing.

By J. W. T. MASON WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U.P.).] United Press War Expert | The War Department's rearma- | For the past 48 hours British bombers have been couacentrating : sped to record heights their attacks against possible German preparations for an invasion. |ment program Sp There have been no retaliatory raids over Berlin, despite the provoca= hi tion of German air assaults on Buckingham Palace, because the British [totaling $241722,438 for mass pur- High Command is now giving major attention to the primary military chases of fighting planes and en- objective of disrupting invasion plans.

Renews Kelly Attack At the railroad station in Chicago

Latin America.

vesterday cost Richard Minton his life.

'The Hope of Our Country’

{gines, machine guns and immense Railway junctions, concentration '

points and Channel ports along the United Press today that the Ger-

The 20-year-old Brooklyn youth was riding in the cab of the truck driven by Lester Bayliff, also of | Brooklyn. | In the 6100 block on Road 67, the {driver turned his head to the left to {look into the rear-vision mirror. Ferguson 8! When he turned around his friend : 6 was not in the seat and the cab g | door was open. He stopped and found Mr. Minton Questions . 7!lying in the road, dead. He was Radio .. 9 killed instantly when his head Mrs. Roosevelt 7 struck the concrete highway. Serial Story ..14| Neither the driver nor authorities Side Glances.. 8|said how the door came open. Society The youth’s death was the 92d in

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Mrs. Obituaries Pegler “etuiee Pyle ow ¥

Churches «... Clapper Comics Crossword Fditorials “hes

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Flynn Forum Gallup Poll In Indpis.

5 7 3 2 8 Financial «... 9 8 8 2 3 7

Inside Indpls.. 7 Sports ....10-11 Marion County traffic this year, 32

Johnson a«svee 8

Movies seven 14 1ago.

State Deaths. , 6 | more than at the same time a year| sistant fire chief rushed to Ve [of a | scene. *

Destroyed in Mystery Blaze

The big “The Hope of Our] But it was four minutes from the Country” banner over the entrance time the alarm was sounded that to the Willkie-For-President Head- | they arrived .and the cheesecloth

ers sign was in ruins. quarters here is gone. Authorities don’t think a Willkie

It was 6 a. m. today when some- booster started the fire. one saw smoke curling from the| And they don’t think that at 6 banner over the door at 205 N.'a. m. anyone was dropping lighted Pennsylvania St. |cigarets from the upper floors. And He punched the fire alarm box on they don’t think there was any the corner. In a few minutes five spontaneous combustion or any of downtown fire companies and the the other things which cause fires Police and Fire Department rescue of undetermined origin. squads and a battalion and an as- | ‘run” costs heavy and the sign cost only $3.»

They'd like to know, for that kind | “Cloudy” in Weather Bureau par-| parts. It money— lance doesn't {won't shine either.

TOMORROW WILL BE quantities of clothing for the Na-| SWELL DAY FOR TRIP; ues Guard and conscripts.

The largest order went to Gen|eral Motors Corp. totaling $81.{398.872 for equipping four plants

land producing machine guns. | The second largest order today went to the Packard Motor Car Co, Detroit, Mich., for the manufacture What with the foliage just be-|of Rolls-Royce airplane engines at ginning to take on its golden autumn an estimated cost of $62,448,000. tint, tomorrow should be a swell day, The next largest amounts went to for a drive to Indiana's show cases Bell Aircraft Corp. Buffalo, N. Y,, of nature. | for $19,896,668, and to Republic | The Weather Bureau said it will| Aviation Corp. Farmingdale, IL. 1. saults, dispatchbe cloudy tomorrow, but promised New York, $56,499,924, for the pur-| es from Berlin yesterday in the Berlin Roersen (that there would be no rain./chase of pursuit planes and spare are beginning to say that an In-| Zeitung, a newspaper of high finanwas believed that the vasion must await further prepara- cial authority, he asserted that the mean that the sun|contracts probably called for at tion by Germany. | German strategy consisted first of least 2000 fighting ships A Berlin informant told the; (Continued on Page Three)

mans now are seeing how air power can be decisive in wartare. Once British air defenses and factory production of planes have been demolished, this informant added, then invasion becomes only a secondary technical affair. Judged by its face value, this statement seeins to mean that invasion should await annihilation of the British air arm, which as yet is far from having | taken place. Still further delay of an invasion 1s suggested by Gen. Paul Hasse, & German military critic. Writing

German - occupizd coast have been heavily attacked. To what extent serious dislocation and damage have re-| sulted is dithcult to determine. Nevertheless, it may be significant that simultaneously | with thess as-

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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