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FORECAST: Cloudy tonight followed by occasional light rain tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 168

KING VISIONS VICTORY ‘WITH U.S. AID’

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1940

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,

A Nazi Bomb

From top to bottom,

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110 floors with no stopovers—a Nazi aerial bomb knifed this clean-cut channel in a London apartment house.

Acme Photo.

F.D. R, LAUDS LEGION FOR DEFENSE STAND

‘Entire World Threatened, He

Tells Convention.

BOSTON, Sept. 23 (U. P.) —Presjdent Roosevelt told the American Legion ‘in a message read at the opening of its 22d national convention today that the spiritual resources which the Legion fosters are “imperative factors in the strength and peace of our nation.” As the Legion took over Boston for its four-day conclave, the President’s message praised its campaign to strengthen national defenses. The President warned that the conflict abroad, “whether we like it or not . . . constitutes a threat against the peace of the entire (Continued on Page Three)

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State Deaths,, 4

FIRST RAIN SINCE SEPT. 13 PREDICTED

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m. ...; 64 10a. m..... 74 7Ta.m ....67 1lla.m..... 78 8a.m..... 70 12 (noon) .. 82 9a.m..... 73 1pm, .... 8

If the Weatherman’s prediction comes true, Indianapolis will get its first rain in a long time tomorrow. The last time there was even a trace of rain here was Sept. 13. The last - time there was enough rain to measure was on Sept. 9 when 48 of an inch fell. Farmers need the rain, too, for yellowing pasture lands. There won't be much change in the temperature.

14 Days Left To Register

Only 14 more days remain for voters to register for the Nov. 5 election. Branch registration offices are:

Today and Tomorrow

School buildings at McCarty and West Sts.; Carson St. and Troy Ave.; 307 Lincoln St.; North and Agnes Sts.; fire stations at 2918 E. 10th St.; and 128 W, 15th St.

Wednesday and Thursday

School buildings at 4715 E. 10th St.; 714 Buchanan St.; 5111 Baltimore St.; 21st and Illinois St,; Blackford and Michigan St.; 13th St. and Carrollton Ave.

peared before the board to explain

ERROR HUMILIATING MAYOR TELLS BOARD

Opposes Any Cuts in Budget Requests.

City officials are going to have to find their own way out of the difficulty resulting from their million dollar budget error, members of the

County Tax Adjustment Board indicated today. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and City Controller James E. Deery ap-

the error, which resulted from failure to list temporary loans as liabilities as well as assets in computing the tax rate required to finance next year’s budget. The Mayor said the error is “humiliating and embarrassing” but that it does not relieve the city of its obligations to provide adequate governmental functions. He opposed any budget reductions being made by the Adjustment Board even though the $1.26 tax rate will not raise enough to meet the estimate. “I don’t see any great emergency in the error,” Mayor Sullivan said. “We can work it out. The serious question is not to cripple governmental departments.” William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, commented that: “the heavens aren't going to fall on account of this mistake,” and predicted the City officials will be able to work their way out of the difficulty. It was estimated that by strict economy next year and utilization

eight other children aboard, were saved. Seven of the nine

East which may more vitally affect our national future than any development of the battle of Britain. On any basis of cold reason er simple logic, the possibility of a clash between Japan and the United States, with their many common material interests; appears too fantastic for serious consideration. But neither reason nor logic (at least of a‘ type any American can understand) is motivating the army oligarchy which today dominates the political government of Japan. Close students of Japanese-American relations, who have long ridiculed the possibility of serious trouble, are today revising their judgments.

Such a break can, in their opinion, still be avoided. It will not be avoided, however, unless and until the American Government publicly clarifies our national policy in respect to the Far East, and until the press and public adopt a mere understanding and realistic attitude toward our inéscapable role in the Pacific. In Asia, as certainly as in Europe, immunity from war is not insured by aversion to it. There,

weakness.

HEROISM RIDES REFUGEE LINER

Survivors Tell of Horror as Sub Strikes to Kill 294 On British Ship.

AT A NORTHERN BRITISH PORT, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Twentyfour hours of horror were described today oy survivors of a child refugee liner which was torpedoed without warning in a stormy sea at 10 o’clock.at night 600 miles from land. The ship sank within 20 minutes. Some of those aboard were killed by the torpedo. Some went. overboard trying to get on lifeboats. Some drowned when boats they had taken were swamped by heavy waves. Many died of exposure in the boats before a warship arrived. In all 112 persons were saved out of 406 aboard. Out of 90 refugee children, seven were .saved. Of six

women who were caring for the children perished. -Of the total of 191 passengers, 16 women and men were saved; of the id of 215, 36 were saved. Saw Babies’ Bodies Survivors told how, in the moonlight which prevailed at first after the torpedoing, they could see the bodies of dead babies thrown about by the angry sea. They told how their lifeboats capsized and they clung to the upturned boats. They told how women and children died as the hoats fought through the storm, and how of the 32 people in one boat, eight were living when the s rescue warship arrived. Four of these were children, of which two died aboard the warship. A London publisher held a dead baby girl in his arms for hours and pretended to feed it from its nursing bottle, so its mother would think it living. She and her son of 14 died in the lifeboat and like scores of others their bodies were put overboard, after a brief muttered prayer, with that of the baby. Of eight persons who clung to the keel of one overturned boat, six, numbed by cold and exposure, slipped off to drown as the hours passed. A young sailor and a 19-year-old girl remained. Twice the sailor managed to drag the girl back when she slipped off. The third time the waves washed her too far for the exhausted seaman to reach her.

Two Listed as Main Heroes >

There were two outstanding heroes—Francis Raskay, a Hungarian newspaper man, and E. A. Dowling, an Australian. Before he left the ship, with which the captain remained to the last, . Dowling ran down into sisi Gin to bring women and children to deck. Then, diving from life oats again and again, he and Mr. Raskay saved many children who had been thrown into the water. When the survivors arrived here yesterday most of them were in night clothing. All were at the point . of exhaustion and needed medical care, In at least one boat men, women and children, some of them later to die of exposure, sang “Rule, Brittania.” “Everybody aboard was magnificent,” said W. B. Forsyth of London. “The children obeyed every order. The boats were tossed about (Continued on Page Three)

There's a Point To This Story

BOSTON, Sept. 23 (U. P.).— Barred from participation in political campaighs by the Hatch Act, employees at the Federal Building appeared today with blank, white buttons in their lapels, Asked what these signified, a telephone operator said:

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even more likely to be interpreted as an indication of Weakness is an invitation to disaster.

Pacific Peace Depends on Role of U. S.—Roy W. Howard

By ROY W. HOWARD HILE America’s attention is centered on Europe, events are shaping steadily in the Ber

NY first-hand survey will reveal that peace in the Pacific is no longer for the peaceful. Peace is guaranteed only to those able to command it. White peoples of the Orient are drawing a deadly parallel between Japan today and Germany in the spring of 1936, when Hitler defied France and England and reoccupied the Rhineland. No one doubts - Hitler could have’ been stopped then by firmness and a minimum show of force. Europeans in the East say Japan could be similarly stopped now. Few in Europe foresaw what weakness in dealing with Hitler in 1936 was to cost in carnage, destruction and world chaos by 1940. Practically everyone in the Far East foresees inevitable compounding of the present world trouble unless Japan’s threatened southward march against Europeancontrolled dominions, colonies and outposts is dealt with firmly now. As seems inevitable in every such international problem today, all eyes in the East are turned questioningly on the United States. Inevitably the arguments are designed to show that, despite our national passion for isolation and avoidance of international brawls, we have a stake in this situation. There are developments in the Far East on which America cannot, (Continued on Page Nine) °

FOOD IS AMPLE, WALLACE SAYS

Arrives Here for Major Talk Tonight; Wickard Is Optimistic.

By NOBLE REED The nation has ample food supplies to “meet any possible emergency that might result from the war,” Henry A. Wallace, Democratic candidate for Vice President, said in an interview here today. The candidate came here to make

one of his major Midwestern campaign adresses in behalf of President Roosevelt and himself at Cadle Tabernacle at 8 o'clock tonight.

Here is the first of a short series of interpretive articles written by: Roy W. Howard of the ScrippsHoward Newspapers. They are based on observations gathered in a 30-day trip by air, starting from California, over the newly inaugurated Pan - American service to New Zealand. The articles were written in Honolulu with the advantage of a long range perspective. They are interesting in the light of developments touching on reported discussions between the United States and Britain about defense probiems in the Pacific.

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Huxleys Have More Bad Luck

‘Bad luck struck again today at the Huxley family—this time catching Mrs. Clara Huxley and her 18-year-old son Warren. Warren was changing a tire on the family auto at home, 332 S. Rural St., when the jack slipped and the car came down on his right hand, smashing the bones. When Mrs. Huxley and her husband, Charles, atempted to lift the car off the youth’s hand, Mrs. Huxley is believed to have ‘broken her back. She is at City Hospital, the youth at .St. Francis Hospital. Several weeks ago the chicken house at the Huxley home burned down. Nearly a year ago tne home of another branch of the family burned at 3015 St. Paul St, and 1l-year-old Betty Ann was burned so severely she was in St. Francis Hospital for 24 weeks. Her aunt died of her

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burns.

GOURT TO HEAR LUX TOMORROW

Failure to Stop Charge Is!

Left After 2 Others Are Dismissed.

Leland Peter Lux, 24, held in the hit-run death of 18-year-old Betty Jane Dawson last June, will be arrainged tomorrow before Criminal

Court Judge Dewey Myers on a charge of failing to stop after an accident. Two other indictments against Lux, member of a prominent Shelby County family, were dismissed Saturday by Judge Myers. These charged him with involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. In his ruling the judge said he considers the Reckless Homicide Act,-passed by the 1939 Legislature, to be unconstitutional because it presents “too indefinite a cause of action.” He has held Seniiarly in two previous cases. In regard to the involuntary men. slaughter charge, the judge explained, it is necessary to prove the accident occurred as the result of some law violation by the defendant. In this case, the defendant was charged with driving with two wheels off the pavement, but the court was of the opinion that this was inadequate to sustain the charge. Lux is being defended by Russell Dean and C. W. Baldwin. Deputy Attorney General James K. Northam, who participated in the hearing Saturday on the invitation of Prosecutor David M. (Continued on Page Three)

‘our hogs because we were

Indiana Democratic leaders took Mr. Wallace's appearance here as a signal for a day of political festivities that started with a noon banquet at the Claypool Hotel at which Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, Indiana “dirt farmer,” was the principal speaker.

Says “New D Dawned

Declaring that the years between 1920 and 1933 were the darkest in the nation’s agricultural history, Mr. Wickard said the “dawn of a new day for the farmers came in 1933 when the New Deal agencies rescued ‘thousands of farmers from bankruptcy and ruin.” “If it were not for the present farm program, economists say that corn would be 30 cents a bushel instead. of 60 cents. Wheat would be 45 cents instead of 70 cents. Hogs would be 4 cents instead of 6 cents and cotton would be 6 cents instead of 9 cents.” Mr. Wickard said that during the Republican Administrations between 1920 and 1933, “thousands of farmers and small town businessmen went bankrupt.” “Farmers went to our state legislatures .and to our Washington Government for help, but we were told there was no farm problem.

‘Told to Ga Home’

“Our successes in Congress were blasted with Presidential vetoes and we were told to go home and slop ‘too dumb to understand.’ “In Indiana the dawn of a new day for farmers was the action of the 1933 Legislature. Under the leadership of Paul V. McNutt, then

‘Governor, and Clifford Townsend,

effective legislation was enacted to meet the serious situation and cure inequalities of long standing.” The Secretary of Agriculture, who owns and operates a large farm near Delphi, Ind. said hundreds of Indiana farm homes were saved ‘through mortgage moratoriums and widening of the tax (Continued on Page Three) 8 4 =

Henry A. Wallace chats with Democratic leaders upon his arrival

for a campaign address here tonight. Left to right:

Frank McHale,

Democratic national commitiseian; State Chairman Fred F. Bays

and Mr. Wallace,

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Matter

NEW NAZI RAIDS ONLONDON FAIL; R. A. F. ACTIVE

German Press Indignant as British Airmen Carry Out Intense Attacks on Long

Range Guns and Ports.

BULLETIN : VICHY. Sept. 23 (U. P.).—A British fleet opened fire on the French West African port of Dakar, today, it was reported here tonight. The French colony declined an ultimatum by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of “free Frenchmen,” to suriender.

"By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor King George VI.told the people of Great Britain today that, despite grim times and grimmer yet to come, Britain, with the aid of America, would emerge from the war a victorious symbol and citadel of freedom. He spoke by radio from an underground air raid shelter in bomb-scarred Buckingham Palace as German raiders, beaten back from London repeatedly during the day, again were reported approaching the metropolitan area. ‘The walls.of London may be battered,” he said, “but the spirit of the Londoners stands resolute and undismayed.” A special appeal was addressed by the King to workers on the home front to keep up production of arms for the fighting forces with the enemy now at the “very doors” of Britain. : He recognized the war had come home to British civilians by announcing creation of a new award for valor —second only to the famed Victoria Cross—to be known as the George Cross, and to be given to civilians who perform feats of gallantry which in military life would be honored with the Victoria Cross.

| German Press Indignant

As the King spoke, the German press was fulminating against raids by the ‘Royal Air Force into Germany and promising that the British Isles would be annihilated” in retaliation with high explosives. While Britain's Royal Air Force drove Nazi air squadrons in disorder from the London area Berlin reported powerful new bombing attacks on southwest England. The coastal town of Eastbourne and especially its industrial section was subject to two severe air raids during the morning, with Nazi planes inflicting considerable damage and some casualties. One of the big four-motored German bombers which have been. used frequently in recent raids participated in the attack. British Bombard Long Range Guns British bombers meanwhile were reported to have carried out intense attacks on objectives in Germany and on German-held ports, including the positions of long-range guns which have been firing from near Boulogne on Dover. In Berlin the press touched an all-time peak of denunciation of Great Britain for the Royal Air Force raids while D. N. B. reported 17 British planes had been shot down and that four German plares were missing. ~The aerial warfare over Europe coincided with a growing belief in Britain that Adolf Hitler had missed his best chances for invading the British Isles, and with movement of Japanese forces into French Indo-China. The sun crossed the equinox, traditional harbinger of autumn storms and foul English Channel weather at 5 a. m. (10 p. m. Indianapolis Time). -Wind, rains and heavy seas were reported from the coast. : U. S. Keeps Anxious Watch Dispatches from Hanoi said that fighting in Indo-China had ceased after frontier clashes between Japanese and French troops—probably ‘due to a misunderstanding—and Tokyo reported that French forces which had been resisting had surrendered. The entry of Japanese forces into IndoChina by way of Haiphong was delayed temporarily however, for reasons not fully explained. London reported officially that at least 15 German planes had been shot down in a series of five savage fights. The Vichy Government of France said that an agreement had been signed giving the Japanese Army and Navy “special facilities in French Indo-China.” Reports said that Japan had permission to land 6000 troops and set up three air bases. It was not made clear what naval facilities had been provided.

It appeared that Indo-China might soon become an open (Continued on Page Three)

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON Unite Press War Expert

Today's autumn equinox brings to an end the traditional six months of smooth water in the English Channel, seriously increasing the transport difficulties of any German force seeking to invade Great Britain. For the coming six months, until the vernal equinox next March, storms and gales, at unpredictable intervals, will threaten shipwreck for the flat bottom fleet of barges on which Hitler must rely for ferrying troops to England. : Fogs, however, will not. be as prevalent over the Channel, since they are dissipated by the. winds. . There are two kinds of fog over the British Isles, land and sea. The Channel fogs are most intense in June. They conceal the Channel passage least in November, Over Britain. The Channel will be norland the reverse is true. June mally rough, hampering transporta=usually is clear on shore and No-|tion, while fog and mist will prevail vember dark and foreboding; on shore, interfering with landing The coming autumn and winter operations. The zodiacal sign of the seasons, therefore, doubly assure{autumn equinox is Libra, or the

Mr. Mason

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