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Today's Gallup Poll

(Roosevelt: 453 Willkie: 78

F. D. R. Gains in 46 States as Tidiana i Margin for Native Son Declines By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institutes of Public Ovinien

RINCETON, x. J.,. Sept. 20.—The third state-by-state survey of the American Institute of Public Opinion—-. conducted in the month between Wendell L. Willkie's acceptance speech at Elwood and the start of his active campaign this week—reveals striking nation-wide gains in the strength of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not only has President Roosevelt taken the lead away from Mr. Willkie at this stage of the race, but the President’s majority would likely be of landslide parportions if an election were held today, the Institute survey indicates. Completed returns from. every state in the Union show President Roosevelt ahead in 38 states with a combined total of 453 votes in the electoral college. : 2 In Indiana the survey found 51 per cent for Mr. Willkie, with 49 per cent for Mr. Roosevelt. This is a 9 per cent rise for the President since the Aug. 25 poll. The survey offers an teresting measurement of the progress of the Democratic and Republican campaigns to date. As in the past, President Roosevelt has gained with the voters following an intense flareup in the European war. The survey ald covers the period in which President Roosevelt announced the transfer of 50 over-age destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for naval ‘bases, Meanwhile the campaign of Mr. Republican strategisis—in a state of comparative quiet. (Continued on Page 1, Second Section)

iF. D.R. AND WILLKIE ~ DISCUSS BUSINESS

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President Warns Against G. 0. P. Nominee Gives

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Willkie has been—purposely, say The Republi-

A Government ‘By 4 Steps, Also Fires at i the Few.’ Air Program. PL® (Text of address, Page 23) (Text of Los Angeles Address,

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ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN EN {ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO. | CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- oo (uy, P).—Wendell'L. Willkie DELPHIA, Sept. 20 (U. P).—Re- (yrned his fire today on the alleged turn of government control of per-| (failure of the New Deal to, develop sons supposed to be a touch above the aviation industry in peace time

y : [sa it would be ready ta meet any

the average: because of 15iness omnxcience | we ar eniergency.

By LYLE WILSON

United Press Staft Correspondent

ability or economic would jeopardize the nation’s free-| In a speech prepared for delivery | dom oF even lead to abolitign oflin Bakerstield, Cal, the Repub- | ° free elections, President Roosevelt lican Presidential candidate said said today i An address accepting "that the present national emergency

could have heen avoided “to some |extent” if the workers of the aviation industry had been working in it on a full time basis for the last ‘three years.

the Doctorate of aws from the; University of Pennsylvania. The President spoke in’ the hall} where whooping Democrats four 8 animously renominated a The ad- ; “War planes? Yes! We must have 4 dress was held by the White House | {hem,” Mr. . Willkie's prepared . and the hroadcasting companies to Speech said. “We should have hac be non-political although there them years ago. But great as is were passages which might have] that need, the need of {future heen aimed at Wendell L. Willkie, | peace-time aviation will be even | his campaign year Republican op- | greater. For it is the permanence] ponent. of peace-time aviation—not the Mr. Roosevelt went back to the|temporary emergency of prepared-| conflict, between Alexander Hamil- | ness—that will bring this nation ton and Thomas Jefferson for the into its rightful position of leadertext of JQiis warning against ‘the re-| {ship in world aviation. turn of Government to control of | Gives Four-Point Program the few. “As this campaign ' continues’ Defends Reliefers’ Vole throughout the coming weeks I will, «mven today,” he said, “there are, [have more to say—and in detail— * T regret to say, demands for a re- | concerning the failure of the New, turn of Government to the control {Deal in aviation—and I will outline | of those few, who, because of busi- la program the steps of which! ness ability or economic omniscience, should have been taken and which, ¥ are suppnsed to be just a touch | beginning, January next, will be!

erag taken,” aBove the average of our citizens. “As in the days of milton, we! Mr. Willkie was en route to San

of our own a give | ‘Francisco from Los Angeles where them all ‘credit. for pure intention | (Continued on Page Five) and high ideals. Nevertheless, this | fresno —

(Continued on Page Five) ‘OVERALL BANDIT’ ROBS BANK OF $3000

Slugs Two Ep Employees of

BETTER BUSINESS, WAR NEWS CLASH

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U. Ph] Stocks failed to develop a definite trend today. prices showing boti small gains and losses in quiet mid-| Wakarusa Institution. session trading. Favorable business news aided | WAKARUSA, Ind. Sept. 20 (U. sentiment but the possibility of a;p) A masked overall-clad bandit | change in the: foreign scene over | the week-end restricted dealings.| Bank of Wakarusa, slugged® two Bonds were irregular. Wheat and employees on the head and escaped corn sold fractionally higher at | with cash estimated at about $3000. Chicago. He entered the bank a few minutes before noon wearing a white i handkerchief over his face and (waved a blue-barreléd, .38-ealiber revolver at the two employees.

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‘and then he slugged them with the revolver butt. Scooping up the loose icash; he fled through the door and

Movies Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries ... Simms Pyle Questions ... Radio ‘Real Estate. . Mrs. Rosevelt Serial Story.

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Autos Clapper ..... Comics ..... Crossword .. Editorials ... Fashions Financial ... Flynn Forum Gallup Poll .. In Indpls..... | Inside Indpls.

920 a large black car. The bandit was, 18 about 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed ! 90 about 180 pounds. He wore blue 19 bib overalls and a slouch hat. pulled 19 low over the forehead.

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CATHEDRAL ALMOST HIT 19! LONDON, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—A low | 25 | flying German plane came within > a few score feet of wrecking the Side Glances 20g 0,0,5 Westminster Cathedral, seat 19 Society ... 26-27 of Cardinal Hinsley, during a reJane Jordan. 27 Sports ...: 30-31 cent air raid on London, it was disJohnson .... 20 State Deaths. 13] {closed today.

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‘hotel the crowd

| today held up the Exchange State

He forced them to lie on the floor

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WILD DETROIT | 'ROOTERS PELT ITT INVADERS

Tomatoes Greet Cleveland As Crucial Series Starts.

DETROIT, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Baseball fever ran at its wildest pitch in this ballcrazy city today as the Cleveland Vittmen arrived to open a three-game series with the Detroit Tigers which possibly will nominate a successor to the world champion New York Yankees. A Before’ the sun sinks behind] Briggs - Stadium, either Detroit or| Cleveland will hold a onesganie/ lead, and a full sweep of the series]

for a three-game margin is not im-| possible, Both clubs now -

The invaders .were greeted last night with a barrage of tomatoes | and shouts of derision when they arrived at their hotel. Approxi- | (mately 100 youths outside, pegged, tomatoes with amazing accuracy as]

are tied| : at 85 victories and 61 losses. { x

Plane Fires London Home

the players ran from taxis to the 2S

lentrance. Several Cleveland play-

ers said they were hit. i “We Want the Cry-Babies” | After the team had entered the! started to chant:| |“We want Trosky, Feller and Heath. {We want the cry babies.” Hotel guests showered the youths with | water-filled paper bags and police eventually airtved to disperse the] | STOUP. . There was no sign in the Cleveland camp of the former strife be- | tween players and Manager Oscar! [Vitt, All players have pledged to take the pennant, and their biggest | stumbling block is the Tigers, whom they meet six times in the final 10] days of the season. Manager Del Baker of the Tigers | was not, optimistic over the chance of sweeping the series, as Detroit did against Cleveland in their last three-game meeting here the first week in September. “If we do, though,” Baker said, “you can say | we have an awfully swell chance of | taking the pennant.” Three Pitchers’ Battles Due Baker has saved his best three i pitchers—Buck Newsom, Schoolboy | Rowe and Tommy Bridges—for the | cruciai spot. Newsom goes into the |

opener with a record of 19 vic- | tories and 4 losses againsy Mel | Harder, who has 11 and 11. Al} Milnar hurls tor Cleveland tomoi- | row and Fiuebhall Bob Feller Sunjay.

Nearly all reserved seats for the entire series here have heen sold. Throughout the week queues of ticket-purchasers three blocks. long have stood in front of stadium pox

offices, waiting for the prized lducats. Walter O. (Spike) Briggs Jr., secresarv-treasurer of the club,

|estimated 150,000 fans wouid see tle series. |

WILLKIE PUTS LIMIT ON CLUB SPENDING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U.P —QOren Root Jr. chairman of i 2000 Associated Willkie-for-Presi-dent Clubs, told the Senate Campaign- Investigation Committee today that the Republican Presidential nominee had restricted their] campaign spending to $1,000,000. Mr. Root, a 29-year-old political; novice, told the committée that he| ! assumed Wendell L, Willkie also had set a limit on the expenditures of the Republican National Committee] land the Willkie Democratic Clubs. “If they live up to his directions] |'—which, of course, they will—the]| aggregate for the campaign will be!

less than $3,000,000,” he said. |

By JOE COLLIER

| A horde of mosquitoes, estimated in such waters as Fall Creek, White | quitoes might have ¢g

at a billion or so strong, has de- | !scended on Indianapolis and environs in the last few days against seasonal form and to the consterination of leading bug men. Ask a bug man why there are so ‘many and he will hold up his hands in begilder ment. Ask him why they are here and he will slap his ankle in indignation. There has been less than a half ‘inch of rainfall this month, none of | 5 within the last 10 days. Mosquies. bug men have always supposed, ! foe water for breeding purposes. Not only that, they need consider- | able water so that it will stand] [during the 10 to 16 day development, |stage. The normal life of a mos- | quito, in fact, is from puddle to |slap. I But there has been on such standing natural water, all

Fee

a 18.2 per cent gain for the three.

‘he center of population has | been in Indiana since the 1890 census,

the clerk's $4800

| doubted if the fees exceeded $5000.

Going up in flames with the wreckage it caused, a German plane

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WM Roosevelt will issue when he signs

blazes after falling on and destroying a London house, according to the .caption which accompanied this photo passed by British censors

_and cabled from the capital today.

State May Keep Census Center

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Indiana may know on Monday whether it is still the center of the nation’s population. Census Bureau officials, an{nouncing today that final population figures will be released Sunday, said that the westward population trend has been continued, with a slight southerly swing. The population center is now at Linton; Ind., and could go about 20 miles southwest before entering Illinois. The westward pull results from

Pac Cox states, and the southerly _tyfnd comes from a gain of 12.5 per cent in the South Atlantic states and an increase of ~600,000 in Texas alone. New Enzland gained only 3.2 per cent,

SEIBERT MINIMIZES ESTIMATES ON FEES

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Doubts That Ettinger’s Exceed $5000 Yearly.

A dispute over the amount of fees | legally pocketed by the County Clerk featured the County Tax Ad-| 'justment, Board's session today. Board ‘members previously: had been told that these fees would total about $20,000 a year over and above salary and $1000 pay as registration officer. Cletus Seibert, Chief Deputy | Clerk, told the board today that he

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He appeared in the absence of Clerk IChatles' R. Ettinger, who was said to be busy with draft registration

plans. Meanwhile, after studying the county highway budget, financed by gasoline . tax funds, the Board

planned to recess late today until Monday when they will begin a study of the Civil City budget request. Final action on the school and county budgets was expected to be taken Tuesday and Wednesday, with the board completing its work

by Wednesday evening. The dead- |

line for the board's report is Oct. 1. The fee system discussion before (Continued on Page Five)

Bzz-Bzz! Yessir, It's a Mosquito! No! Not Just One! There's a Billion! Where

Maybe they were all reared, then,

River, Lake Sullivan and so forth?

{That sounds reasonable, except that a high wind. But there

inormally these mosquitoes fly no'any high wind, so that’

w hundred yards {from their birthplace during their entire life time. And mosquitoes 'seem to have blanketed the town. Many of them are reported far more [than a mosquito’s -normal cruising | distance from open water. Mosquitoes spend from 10 to 16 ‘days as harmless wigglers in water. If during that time their native | puddle dries up, the mosquitoes die. One very prominent bug man, | whose home has recently been bombarded by the insects, set out last night, to find the offending puddle. He found none, Even the bird bath was exonerated, He is in confused conference with himself about the matter today and will see no one, ¥ 3

more than a

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PLANT T0 OFFER 1000 NEW JOBS =

Eastern Firm Is

| Acyuiring

Site Here; Will| Open | In 6 Months.

Plans for a new indu dianapolis to employ ap 1000 persons were annou by the Chamber of Commerce.

Within six months,

firm contemplates esta local branch at the Nat

Car Co. building at 22d Sts., according to the Ct dustrial Commission.

Steps to acquire the b

are being taken by Sam Cincinnati (realtor, Mr. Schwartz, who s J the sale of industrial pr his clients are engaged processing business,

He said the name of t

tcannot he announced matters pertaining to t

tion's future activities c¢

pleted.

The National plant c 240,000 square feet of space and is located on five Extensive be required to rehabilita by the Tw

floor acres of land.

erty, owned Street Realty Co. Legal details are be

by John G. Rauch, atto ‘| receiver Samuel J. Mantel, repre

of the Schwartz. Myron R. Green, secr Industrial Commission

‘Chamber has been in g interests proposing to establish the industry for more than Most of the labor suppl a type that the city car}

ply. he said. The company will st

property,

try in In-| proximately | | nced today |

an "Eastern | blishing a onal Motor | | and Yandes 1amber’s In-|

lilding now X. Schwartz,

pecializes in! perties, said in a metal 1e company until legal 1é corpora-! an be com-

pntains ap-

repairs will e the prop-| enty-second |

ing handled | 'ney for the! I and senting Mr.

etary of the said the ontact with | two vears.! y will be of | easily sup- |

rt its local

operations with a payroll of approx- |

imately $1,000,000 a year,

said,

THIRD-TERM MOV

MARION, Ind. Sept.|

—A resolution indorsin

Mr. Green | E LOSES

20 (U.P). g President

Roosevelt for a third term was de-

feated by delegates attending the state convention of the American

Federation of Labor. Presented by Max

ciliator in the State La

ment, the resolution los of 209 to 9L.

There is one other Ww

They might have been

Normally these mosq have attacked in greate ing the early summer, they have been partic tive until now. Norm time of the year the few of them. - Otherwise, the mosqu to be normal in every I whine at night when

sleep. They ambush ¥ grass. They .comma front porch. And the

mal feeding habits—i arms, faces, legs and o parts of the anatomy. Also, there's nothing slap, because you can't a mosquito,

Shafer,

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conbor Depart-| t by a vote

ay the mosotten here. blown in by hasn't been

5 out. litoes would st force durput this year! ularly inac-| ally at this | e would be itoes appear espect. They you fry to pu from the ndeer your | y have nore., ankles, ther exposed |

to do but | argue with

scription during peace time ‘hit a snag today with discovery of a provision in the law

‘lective

of horns late at: might and early jin the morning and the playing of |

HOTTEST SEPT. 20

,the Sept. 19 mark set in 1891.

cury’s

|SOME MARRIED MEN MAY FACE CALL IN DRAFT

Close Study Reveals Snag; Local Boards to Decide Who Will Serve. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (U. P.). — Administration

plans for blanket exemption of married men from con-

TIME LIMIT SET ON INDO-CHINA; U. S. WATCHING

Hitler Confers. With Duce on |Next Move While R. A. F..Turns Back Nazi : Aerial Blasts at Britain, :

By JOE ALEX MORRIS’

5 United Press Foreign News Editor which may send some Europe’s Axis powers—aided by a reported Japanese ‘them to Army camps. ultimatum to French Indo-China—threatened new stabs at Discovery of the clause by se- the British Empire today to offset successes of the Royal service committee lawyers Air Force in turnin back Nazi aerial blast caused a revision of the proof sheets Brit g blagts against Great of regulations which, President ri ain. 2 3 ; h While Adolf Hitler eonsulted telephont ally through his 1€¢ executive oraer givin le rega g foreign minister with Premier Benito Mussolini at Rome in The provision is among the defi- regard to the next move, a major crisis arising from Jap< ‘nitions in the law and reads: d 'anese demands for naval and air bases in Indo-China if

“The term ‘dependent’ when used | with respect to a person registered peared likely to facilitate Axis plans and perhaps to affec

under the provisions of this act) yg ees ls et he) United States defense positions in the Pacific. |

is dependent in fact on such per-| From London ‘came authoritative reports that Britain son for support in a reasonable and the United States were discussing Pacific defense plans

manner, and (2) whose support in| ; , such manner depends on income '—possibly as a deterrent to Japan—and an American t these plans in-

sand by Sieh person jn a bist source in ‘the British capital reported tha ness, occupation, or employmen . ‘Planned to Defer a men | volv ed proposals for joint use by Britain|-and the United The definition of a dependent was | ‘States of British naval and air bases, indluding the great formulated under plans for a draft base at Si . law to be used in war time. But in| ngapore. | this draft, because of the disrup-| tion of homes and family life even where the "wife is not financially

Singapore Symbol of British Restraint

er oe J on ens - Following leasing of British bases in the Atlantic Ocean 'pay envelope, it had been planned (0 the United States, any action for joint use of bases in the bo Soe all married men auto-| Pacific would be regarded as of most importance and might e law authorizes the Président 2€ Viewed by the Axis powers and Japan ag tantamount to a to dete hats men in a status ‘military understanding. ; ih iin oe ot Ta on Singapore is the core’of British restraint on Japanese (ders their. deferment advisable.” Naval power in Asia, especially\in the East| Indies, and if an Toe: derinition Bane a p- | arrangement for joint use of/that base were made it pre« of married men. sumably would be open to”American forces regardless of Final Yerition i will he ap the outcome of the battle”of Britain. men may be called upan to prove] In Rome, where Kazi Foreign Minister Joachim von to ose Yonas, i har aie sa) Ribbentrop was in telephonic consultation with Hitler be« pressed the’ opinion, however, thas fore resuming talks vith Mussolini, the Axis powers wers Jas Sep Mori defor farsi) using all means to/build up the conferences as of major Gon. Vioorio. o Marina Fa importance, possibly affecting Gibraltar, 3 jue of Sirs fo revealed the the Italian. offensive toward the Suez Canal. oly Doers Shs os I ei) Every Axis propagandist took pains to point out great decisions and important actions. usually followed such con-

(c entinied § on Ni Pagel t Threp) ferences, which are being prolonged far beyond the original

EAST SIDE DRIVERS schedule, ARE GIVEN WARNING ,_ with Axis propaganda plans—that the next big struggle imight come at points other than Great Britain-and that the

Police Continue Drive to Nazis would -forego an attempt to invade |the British Isles Control Laggards. in favor of an attack on some point such ordinated with steady bombardment of: London and other The police campaign to keep slow itie | automobile drivers out of the left Cries, onset or Ci lanes was concentrated | But the battle of Britain still was 19 oday o 1 on eavity aveldd sireels 10 Agliting planes reported that a German Twenty-five motorcycle officers "hundred craft was driven back in conft cruised on E. New York and E, 10th! ar tna. 1x attacks this morning, when a few bombs lane nearest the curb is the driving the London area. Jiine and fhe tue ane on ine left | In Berlin it was adinitied that the German air fleets miie- anhour speeds outside of the congest- ‘met “strong resistance” by the British fighter planes but it ed areass : [was claimed that the. fighter planes took advantage of the Officers last night patrolled main f b h , thoroughfares to the North and [Avorable weather to bomb railroad netws rks southeast of West Sides. About 200 drivers were London. (stopped and warned about ariving | ‘regulations, according to Capt. Leo Troutman of the Accident Preven- a Nazi invasion landing should be attempled on the sont

tion Bureau. No warning stickers were issued. east coast. “The officers received 100 per cent

Japan Fixes Time Limit co-operation from the drivers,” toil 141 min NR yore Coincident with the alarming turn we will be able to correct this par- Far East, it’ was announced in London that Secretary of (ticular driving evil and avert ac- Stale Cordell Huil of the United States, British Ambassador cidents.” | Officers were instructed - today to Ord Lothian and Australian Minister Richard G. Casey crack dows on arivgrs for the un- have opened “defense” conversations in {Washington with ‘necessary blowing of horns. . Capt. Troutman branded as. zi DM ticular reference to matters in the Pagific. nuisance the uncalled for 'tooting A responsible. American informant shid the conversations envisage arrangements under which [the United States would “police” the Pacific area where the |U. S. fleet is concentrated while Britain undertook to be responsible for the Atlantic.

Japan, according to reports reaching Shanghai, has set (Continued on Page Three) 3

Battle of Britain Still Rages Lan These developments increased indications—perhaps in

ging and British fleet of several sion- during new were dropped on

of events in the

horns with four and five tones.

IS POSSIBLE TODAY

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6 a. ni MW sas Su tf hal War Moves Today 8a.m.....% 12 (noon) ,. 93 9a. m. .... 83 1pm .... 92 By J. W.T . MASON :

United Press War Expert

Today stands a good chance to be | 8 the hottest Sept. 20 on record here. | Yesterday's 93 at 2 p. m. equaled At {9 a. m. yesterday it was Vis-touny at that time it was 83. Today's record is also 93 and, with clear skies ahead, the weatherman 'could see nothing to stop the merequaling or topping that figure this afternoon. Normal aver{ages for this time of year is down

Berlin's estimate that’ the| war. is costing Germany $66,000,000 daily means that the Germans are paying approximately twice as much as the British to carry on the conflict. Figures.announced in London last July, when the budget was intra= duced in the House of Commadns show the war exe penditures for Great Britain] had then risen to $32,000,000 per day. Germany's population, how ly twice as large as Great Britain's, so that the is about the same for each belligerent. The Brit in the 60's, cent of their funds by taxation and 65 per cen The Sept. 20 record was ‘gol in| The Germans have been getting] 1895. There seemed little chance, |about 40 per cent of their war costs many can continue these enormous { however, that the month of Sep-| by taxation and somewhat less than! expenses will] have a bearing on temher mark of 100 degrees would {the remaining 60 per cent by loans./ the eventual [outcome of the war, be equaled today. The balance has come mostly from |The limit of costs has not yet baen The abnormally high tempera-|profits of state enterprises and pen- reached for |either side Great tures are to continue tomorrow and |alties imposed ont Jews. Bram: active warfare in Egypt Sunday, the Weather Bureau said. ow long GreatgBritain and Ggg- (Continued on Page Three) # ¢ —— ; a : Sil TEN ch

Mr. Mason

ever, is approximateper capita war cost sh are raising 35 per t by domestic loans.

in, Greece and _

as Gibraltar, co-

. These FIRILE, lines: are vital to troop movements if

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