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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940

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WARNED FROM 30 MPH LANES

Police Educational Cam-. paign Starts on N. Merid- | ian This Afternoon.

An educational campaign] to keep slow automobile drivers out of the left hand, or fast lanes, on main thorough-| fares was ordered today by the Police Department. | Starting at 4:30 p. m. today a! score of motorcycle policemen will | concentrate on N. Meridian St. and | warn the slow drivers to use the lane | nearest the curb and not block] motorists who want to drive the] legal 30 miles an hour. ! During the next few days the! campaign will be extended to other main arteries to the North Side and | other parts of the city. Warning Comes First Starting tomorrcw morning. a squad of 12 cycle officers will extend the campaign to other streets between 7:30 and 9 o'clock when traffic is heaviest. “Motorists will be waved to the curb and warned that the curb lane the driving lane and that the; other 1s for those who want to go faster.” Police Chief Michael F Morrissey said. “Warning stickers will be issued the same driver gets several stickers a warrant may be issued.’ Capt. Leon Troutman of the Accident Prevention Bureau said that slow drivers in fast lanes are as) dangerous as speeders and cause as much traffic trouble.” : He said they cause the faster driv- Inspection ers to cross the center line when passing another car, increasing the possibility of collision, ! No Downtown Problem | Accident Prevention Bureau offi-| cials said that the slow driver is not | a problem in the 20-mile-an-hour|{—

The Douglas B-19 . . almost as broad as the Merchants Bank is high,

level to the top of Miss Victory) is only 74 feet longer! Four years of work have gone into this plane at the Douglas Aircraft Co. in Santa Monica, Cal. and thev took the scaffolding down just yesterday.

line to the other on the playing field. Tilted sidewise, it would reach from Washington St. to within 10 feet of the top of the Merchants National Bank Building. Why, even the Monument (from street

Stretching 210 feet from wingtip to wingtip, here's your first unobstructed view of the world’s largest bombing plane. If vou could set it down in Butler Bow! (and of course you can’t) it would stretch from one 15-vard

Taxes to Centralize Power

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‘MAJOR SPEECH’

of Defense Plants and Trip to

Hyde Park Planned. Geert awoirs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P.).| KOKOMO, Ind. Sept. 19.—Warnings against “the evils of perpetuaPresident Roosevelt leaves tonight tion of power in the State House and centralization of government’ today : $Y inw $ | for i “tH : stab- | » rallying iss f the Republican campaign in Indiana. 01 t le square which is re- for an inspection of defense estab-| became the rallying issue of the R : Ind iy um hin ! {lishments at Philadelphia and a They were outlined in blistering detail by Glen R. Hillis, Republican On streets in this area. because of major address tomorrow afternoon | Governor candidate, in his keynote speech here last night.

lights and congestion. traffic moves |at the University of Pennsylvania. | "ns Ww | A crowd that overflowed the large Militant Drive Opens

’ y : ,| Mr. Roosevelt will speak from 2 { high school gymnasium cheered as evenly in both lanes, $n Most of the state Republican lead-

faintly to 2:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). It |the candidate hurled charge after Greets Movie and Labor ers and candidates were here for the

said. : . " ; Yo sti 4 ++. was understood the speech may be| charge against wnat he termed Che problem, officers said, is nOrth {;* go0onq major address of the| “waste and racketeering” by the : opening blast that was described by Leaders in Far West. party chiefs as the start of the most LOS ANGELES. Sept

Gubernatorial Candidate Opens Campaign With Demands For Repudiation of Theory of Perpetuation. By NOBLE REED

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of With =. On tioTousitany leading | 1). term campaign. The White] state administration. to th2 North Side, east of the 700) ye refused to discuss whether it block on E. New York St. and east was to be political or non-political. | of 1600 on E. Washington St. It will be broadcast over the Mutual REI ET Broadcasting System and possibly STILL OVER NORMAL— the other chains. . White House Secretary Stephen) - HAT S FAIR ENOUGH FRY wi ihe nares 3 not yer {militant drive the Republicans ever completed and it will be 27': min- | : | utes long. { ¢ iS, | 19 { U. P.).|staged in Indiana. |” Mr. Roosevelt will be awarded sh -W endell L. Willkie campaigns for| Mr. Hillis declared that: honorary degree of doctor of laws in the votes of airplane workers and, 1. More than two million dollars connection with the university's Hollywood movie people today and of the taxpayers’ money for state 200th anniversary celebration. The G€liVers a major speech on domestic payrolls has gone into the Demo\ceremony will be held in Philadel- fairs tonight before a crowd Re- cratic Two Per Cent Club for purely phia’s huge Convention Hall, where Publicans predicted would reach pglitical purposes in the last eight The Weather Bureau still has the the- Republicans in June nominated 150.000 persons. | years. “fair” sign out. Fine weather was Wendell L. Willkie to oppose the, He left his special train at 11:13)" 9 The concentration of power in promised for tonight and tomorrow. President. (a. m. (Indianapolis Time) for an There won't be much change in the| The President will conduct a! automobile drive along crowd-lined io New Deal party in Indiana to be temperatures which are running a whirlwind inspection of progress of Jizlays from Santa Ana to this a party dedicated solely to the selflittle above normal. The average for the defense program in Philadelphia |¢'}Y. : ove By . lexalted ide i yesterday should have been 66 de- Friday morning. He will look over| The Republican nominee's partici- (Salo ie) 1 EWEN. WX grees but it was ithe Quartermaster Depot where pation in the christening of an ad-| . : ia {service uniforms are made, the|vanced trainer airplane, described as {Naval Hospital and the Philadelphia | the first delivered under.the d>fense| 3 he New Deal Party in Indians Navy Yard, where work is in prog- program, may give him opportunity! * p rk ress on two battleships. [to again criticize the progress ot | 112s bestowed special privileges upon | |the strong and oppressed the weak

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Hints at Rackets

LEWIS OPENS DRIVE T0 ORGANIZE FORD After his address he will reboard President R It's defens - the Soi train ro his Hyde Park, | alin cve: Pes “ind oy jad He Shponanity of youth has

BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 19 (U. P.).|N. Y., home, where Saturday he will | FT on st Auf tive. Wri vant —Opening of a C. I. O. campaign to celebrate the 86th birthday of his . siness o e ma organize Ford Motor Co. employees mother, Mrs. Sara Delano roose- DEMOCRACY GROUP 'has been shackled and the whole was announced here today lv John|velt. He plans to return to the] structure has been erected upon the 1. Lewis, C. I. O. president, and R. J. White House on Monday or Tuesday. | IS FORMED IN EAST

pillars of waste and extravagance. Thomas, president of the United NTE att 5. The presiding officers of the Automobile Workers of America. CHILD BRIDE GUILTY NEW YORK, Sept.

19 (U. P.).— State Senate (Lieut. Gov. Henry F C. 1.0. |

The announcement came in a letter IN MATE'S KILLI NG { commentator, and C. D. Jackson, |

; ew oo vice 281d 7 | made public here which said that] NEw MARTINSVILLE, W. Va. hie Drgsiaent or ie, Yuna) the national C. I. O. organization Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Violet : ET eaqaers ol the Council

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Déturer ooorion he Jes ouncil| KIDNAPER GETS 19 YEARS and the union had appropriated a Long, former child bride, was con- | ot wip rw. haiomal Ciigac00, Sept. 1 3 fund of $100,000 to finance the or-|victed todav of involuntarv (group designed to “define and re- Oliver Lawrence Dressler, alias Jack ti al icted togay of InvoluntalV Man-|yjts)ize the concept of democracy{Russell escaped Oklahoma convict ganization drive slaughter in the slaying of her hus- . s ?

Ee as band, Okey, last February. to the American people." DRIVER'S QUASH PLEA

ivy v int) n . given a suspended Jail sentence. general manager of the magazine, sentenced today to 199 years in Judge James Shipman sentenced jife to be president. prison on a kidnaping charge.

! The master

| Attlee, labor leader and Lord Privy

‘the hands of a few men has caused!

Raymond Gram Swing, radio news Schricker, Democratic Governor

(U. P).—|

Mr. Jack- who killed a young Kansas sales-|

CONTY NAMES [TALIAN BASES aeons ION SUDA "70 SOMALILAND

‘Senate Committees Back Measure Calling for Home Defense Units.

By EARL RICHERT The names of 90 Repub-| licans and Democrats from | which the personnel of the 15] Marion County draft boards will be selected were sent to! Governor Townsend today by| United Press Foreign News Editor County Clerk Charles R.! Lone German warplanes dodged through low clouds Ettinger. /in isolated, but almost continual, attacks on Great Britain Forty-five of the persons recom- today after a smashing counter-attack by British naval mended will be chosen for draft and air forces on the Axis war machine from Germany to board service by the Governor's spe- | North Africa.

cial committee of the National De- | : fense Council which already has Damage to London was admittedly vast in the last 24

completed the selection of personnel hours, with many stores and Government buildings among of more than half of the state's 154 the wrecked or damaged structures in the center of the draft boards. v Work to prepare the state and capa the nation for the draft progressed in other quarters today.

‘Worst to Come,” German Press Threatens After Deaths in Children’s Hospital: New Sensation Hinted at Rome.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

There are four motors winding | up 8000 horsepower. Loaded with 56,000 pounds of bombs and a crew of 10, the ship can travel 6000 miles nonstop Quite a plane, anvway vou look at it!

Night-time raiders caused greatest destruction—thae (Germans using a new type bomb that exploded with comete In Washington, the Senate and!|]ilk ashes—I . WF T ra He ae re Senate aud like flashes—but throughout the day the Nazi warplanes

|approved legislation authorizing the continued to dive through clouds to strike and run away, states to create home defense units : to supplant National Guard units! ordered into active Federal service. | |

Draft Forms Mailed

Nazis Promise Retaliation

BRITISH TALK OF AMERICAN UNION

Of perhaps greater importance, however, were the British counter-blows against Italy and Ger y ludi The War Department meanwhile _ . a ns} al End Germany, Icluding announced that Nov. 18 and Nov, 25 1'81ds on the Reich, which Nazis said had wrecked a chile have been set tentatively for in- dren’s hos ital, a ve Id res ‘estric 4 re” duction of the third and fourth! __. : p , nd oy result une: tricked punitive increments of the National Guard aerial warfare against Britain in retaliation. linto active service. The controlled Ger ‘ess sald Brit: ) BI a a OLHNEOIT Aon od : : rerman pres: said Britain would pay completion of adequate shelter. “in English blood, in English misery, in English tears,” and Master copies of the forms to be indicated that Germany no longer would limit her bombing

used in registering 16,500,000 men oy . . wom Ym for the draft throughout the nation| © Purely military objectives. I'he Nazis charged seven eriously injured in the bombe-

Full Discussion Pledged in

' Case of Plan to Join Two

Nations Is Pushed. were airmailed from Washington to| children were killed and two s |the 48 states where the forms will].

LONDON. Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Prime | Pe Printed by the ton. Ing of the institution.

inister Wins chill is pre- forms were for the British sources took th eat ci r T Minister Winston Churchill is pre | registration cards which each wa] e threat calmly on the grounds

pared to give full opportunity for, from 21 through 35 must fill out on| that the Nazis already were doing their worst against the discussion of any far-reaching Oct. 16, certificates which the men| British Isles. scheme for union between Great| Will be given to show they have| Tog . : Nazi losses for yesterday and last night were put by

| Britain and the United States, the| registered, and placards explaining| ’ Their own losses were placed at 12, There was no indication | The promise of full discussion if YeSterday. began work today on a Attlee, British Labor leader, told the House of Commons | Oct. 16 Registration Day | Attlee told a questioner that | States—such as was proposed be- !iVe service procedure before the France will employ all force it. { before they go into service

louse OF Commons ‘was told votiay ex iricatics of registration. (the British at 48 planes. 0 : oe resident Roosevelt was expected! NJ; : ere 1 ? : : in the| to name a national director of selec-| Nine of the pilots were reported safe. |commons discussion, however, that| tive service today or tomorrow. | Britons Dream of Union With U. S. {any such scheme had been put for- The Indiana Selective Service| : ty . : aed. | staff, named by Governor Tove! During London's comparative calm, Major Clement | Ses } 2 schedule of activities whic - . 3. x ’ - such a plan is advanced was given fCVF 0 2 ich, Ines that Prime Minister Winston Churchill is prepared to give to Commons by Major Clement R Monday “full opportunity for Jiscussio v ry Favoramp o'r pp ) ion of any far-reaching scheme (Seal in the Churchill cabinet for union between England and the United States. There Churchill is prepared to give assur-| The schedule tentatively calls for Was no indication in the Commons discussion, however, that ance that if any plan for union oo Sane wile meelng of county any such scheme had been put forward. ‘between Britain and the United |C'®TKs to acquaint them with selec- In Vichy, France, Foreign Minister Paul Baud told y, ’ ‘eign J ster Ie audouin to |tween Britain and France—is put registration date, Oct. 16. Educa- American correspondents that | forward, the Government will give tional meetings also are planned ‘mitted her under t! ‘mistic . assure i Ti | Commons fulf opportunity to discuss for the various draft board members PEITNItled her under the armistice terms to assure integrity, A : 5 gion : } of her colonial empire against provocations to dissidence. The plan for union between | adquarters for the selective] ut wale 2 : Ect Britain and France was put for- service staff will be established in| M. Baudouin's warning coincided with a new British

we by Britain ol about the time the Nation! Guard Armory at 711 radio offensive in the Arab language, said to be aimed at of the French military collapse, but|N. Pennsylvania St. > { . . “ ; : p R Telephones are, ).oyoking trouble in French Morocco.

| was rejected by the French Govern- being installed now and the offices ed : ‘ i . ment. are expected to be ready for oc-| The British Navy went into action with a bombarde

| eee cubancy next week. | Tr - snwaeibol wa arts Qn | Lieut. Co! Robinson Hitchcock, | 1°11 along the Medite rranean coastal road leading to Sollum state selective service executive, to-|and Sidi Barrani against Italian forces driving some 75

| The Bomb Was day announced the following as- miles into Egypt.

A Mi D i | signments for his staff: nor efai | Maj. Bayard Shumate, assistant Italians Shelled at Close Range |executive; Lieut. Col. John D. Fri- | ss : Ty LONDON, Sept. 19 (U. P.).—A |day, purchasing and procurement! The British Air Force also bombarded 1talian bases and : | : { . . ~ . . . . . | member of a bomb-disposal squad (Continued on Page Three) concentrations in the Egyptian-Libyan frontier area, in the | was lowered carefully today into —————— : sizes , | the crater of an unexploded Ger- | Dodecanese Islands off Turkey, and all the way from the Sudan to Somaliland. The British Admiralty report on naval bombardment

Li BOMB EXPLODES | the | on the Egyptian coast said that invading Italian forces

| He sat bomb and began removing its fuse, | were shelled at close range and that an Italian destroyer

| Suddenly he yelled: NEAR DUKE OF KENT | “Get me out of here! Pull me | had been bombed and sunk by British planes.

| up!” His colleagues hauled him up in Rubble Spatters on His Car The British counter-blows were believed aimed at offsetting whatever Axis plan may be decided upon at Rome

| record time and ran for shelter. The man, however, remained at 80 Yawmds Away. | Te A : : i ‘by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Pre-

the edge of the crater, pointing | down | 1 ONDON, Sept. 19 (U. P).—A oe : tar r OEP, Sd SL J—Aimier Benito Mussolini, who were reported conferring on

down calmly on

e 17-year-old mother of two chil-| — ‘en to one year in jail and fined

She Was | gon is taking a leave of absence as man in his flight from prison, was IS STUDIED BY MYERS

A ti to quash counts charg-'her $5 and costs, but immediately | fQ J ith » f Ci 5 o WwW f 5 4 T ing te ate and suspended sentence because of the | e S, wi ennan INC e I qQ Cc eagms {

In See-Saw Fight for 2d World Series Berth

reckless homicide against Leland children, one only a month old. Peter Lux were under advisement | today by Judge Dewey E. Myers, !

Criminal Court 18 Days Left

Judge Myers yesterday refused to ° To Register

quash counts of an indictment against Lux that charge him with | failure to stop after an accident. He was arrested in connection Only 18 more days remain with the hit-and-run death of Betty || for registration of voters for the Nov. 5 election. Branch registration offices are: Today and Tomorrow

Jane Dawson on June 6. School buildings at 17th St. and Park Ave.; 1001 E. Palmer St.; S. Meridian and Kansas Sts.; 13th and Missouri Sts.; 338 S. Arlington Ave.; and Miley and E. Washington Sts.

Saturday and Sunday

Fire stations at 636 E. Eleventh St.; Russell and Merrill Sts.; 1134 Prospect St.; 341 N. Sherman Drive; 2320 N. Olney St.; Community House at Rhodius Park. All branches are open from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m.

Cincinnati's Reds, with the Na- | tional League championship safely | [tucked away, sat back today to] (watch the ding-dong,

four-team | American League battle. | | Of course, the Reds will play out their string of thirteen more games, |but even if they lose them all, they ‘stay in first place. Right now, the experts agree that | {either Cleveland or Detroit will |scramble through the hectic junior (loop struggle to tangle with Cin-| cinnati in the World Series. But {New York's Yankees and the Chi{cago White sox are still close {enough to sneak in if either falters. | It's a good guess that the race will | |sizzle on down to the last couple of | days. Cleveland is on top by half |a game, a gift from the Tigers, who close the gap by knocking off Phila[blew a 2-run lead over Philadelphia! delphia in both games of a double/in the ninth-inning yesterday to fall header, | from the top. | The big pay-off struggle starts in Detroit has a chance to pull up Detroit tomorrow when Cleveland {even today. Even if Cleveland wins moves in for three games in two lover Washington, the Tigers could, days. ®

How They Stand

Games To Ww. . 34 .W%61 ‘ 61 1

Cleveland Detroit . 83 New York . 76 64 4 Chicago . 36 66 5

Games Remaining

Cleveland—Against: Detroit 86, St. Louis 2, Washington 1. Detroit—Against: Cleveland 6, Chicago 2, Philadelphia 2. New York— Against: Boston 2, Washington 5, Philadelphia 3, Chicago 1. Chicago—Against: Detroit 2, St. Louis 6, New York 1.

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Obituaries ... Williams .... Pyle Questions Radio .. : Mrs. Roosevelt Serial Story. 22 Side Glances 14 Society 10-11 Sports 18-19 State Deaths. 20 i

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials Financial Flynn Forum In Indpls... Inside Indpls. Jonnson 14 Movies . 16-17 Mrs. Ferguson 14;

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L. Behind Play

And the Tigers wind up the few minutes later,

downward and exclaiming: i “Look at that big rat there. German time-bomb exploded today. a Ls ; ; : |within 80 yards of an automobile Important territoricl and political questions—possibly ine in which the Duke of Kent was volvi 1tali: against Greece—in t Ralkan IN El fe oof as ving an anger against Gre n he Balkans. The | London. Axis press hinted ctrongly at sensational developments, One guess was that Spain would come into the war on (Continued on Page Three)

War Moves Today

at a barrier where the notice had By J. W. T. MASON

{been put up: Times Special Writer

| “Danger, unexploded bomb.” campaign in Cleveland with another, A moment later the bomb exDevelopments in North Africa rather than plans to attack Gibraltar seem the more probable reason

| two-day series of three games. Plott, ig mo ie a 3 p . ‘shower of rubble which pattere | Bullet Bob Feller, who racked UP | down ‘on ‘the Duke's car and ‘tiie fm for discussions which Serrano Suner, Spanish Min ister of the Interior, has opened with German and Italian leaders. Spain's formal entrance into the

(his 26th victory yesterday, gives mediate vicinity. (Cleveland a slight bulge in the The Duke stepped out of the autowar is not to be expected, but Germany and lialy might well desire Spanish forces in North Africa io

| battle. He's pitching now with only mobile when the shower subsided. |two days of rest and should be Nearby persons rushed up, and sevrestrain any revolt against the Vichy Government by French North African colonials.

{ready for action against the Tigers eral women shook his hand. | Saturday. “As Feller goes, so goes| The Duke, smiling, walked over Negotiations along this line probably are now under way, with Senor Suner bargaining for territorial payment to Spain if North African

|Cleveland” is more than a mere /and inspected the crater left by the Mr. Mason Spanish help is needed. News of growing insurgency among French

|axiom, and if the husky 21-year-old | explosive and chatted with the squad {Towa farm boy can stand the gruel-|oi Royal engineers who had taken ling pace he may lift the Ohioans precautions to prevent damage when 'into their first pennant since 1920. the bomb went off. | And speaking of pitching, it a ————————— Johnny Vander Meer, the forgotten man of no-hit fame, who pitched | STEELS LEAD MARKET and batted Cincinnati to the pen-/ NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (U. P).— nant-clinching victory yesterday. High-grade steel stocks were bought North Africans is increasing, with | Recalled from Indianapolis only re- today for investment purposes Spain being the point of origin of many and Italy if a major French (cently, Johnny went 12 innings with which lifted their prices to the /the reports. The disturbances are colonial uprising were to occur in {good control against Philadelphia. highest this year. Otherwise the spreading from Moroccan to Al-|North Africa. Properly organized, | He opened the 13th Inning with a stock market advanced cautiously.|gerian cities as the German air at-|such a movement could constitute a [rousing double and scampered across Bonds were higher. At Chicago,|tacks against Great Britain fail to|serious threat from Algeria ints {the plate with the winning run a wheat prices were mixed and c¢orn/show annihilating effect. Libya, compromising the rear of was slightly lower, | It would be disturbing to, Ger) (Continued on Page Three)