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FORECAST: Fair and slightly cooler tonight with frost in low or exposed places; tomorrow, fair and pontinied cool.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940

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SALARY RAISES BRING BATTLE ON TAX BOARD

Members Split Sharply as 4 Suggest All Increases Be Eliminated.

The County Tax Adjustment Board ‘split into two sharply defined factions today over allowing salary and personnel increases in the Civil City budget. * After more than an hour of hitter wrangling behind closed doors, four members emerged with a majority resolution suggesting that all increases be eliminated, but putting responsibility of eliminating the increases onto Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, The other three members, in a minority report, criticized the majority report as “weak,” and urged the Board either to make the budget changes itself, or approve the budget as it stands. Board members’ hopes of completing their session today were dimmed by the time spent in the wrangle. Recreation Addition Asked

The closed session was started after Board members heard a spirited defense of the City Recreation Department's request for a $30,000 budget increase to hire additional park and playground supervisors and boost pay of some present employees. Township trustees met with the Board, at its request, this afternoon to attempt to work out a program of co-operation in the trustees’ poor relief expenditures. The Board yesterday decided to hold monthly meetings throughout the year to advise with governmental officials on financial problems. While no formal action has been taken yet in approving any local budgets or tax rates, Board members agree on most of these.

Schools Seek $78,000 The only remaining major controversy is the $78,000 sought by the School Board to increase salaries of teachers in the lower salary group. This issue is expected to produce another wrangle. The difficulty over the Civil City budget results from the million dollar bookkeeping error in computing the tax rate necessary to finance its budget. Officials neglected to allow for repayment of temporary loans. Thus the $1.26 tax rate set by thé City—2 cents under the -current rate —won’t produce enough money to cover the budget. Mayor Sullivan, in appearing before the board, asked (Continued on Page Three)

CHARGE DEMOCRATS FORMING WPA CLUBS

The State Republican Committee today reported that several county chairmen, meeting inthe Claypool Hotel, charged that the Demo» crats were organizing political clubs among WPA workers in their counties in violation of the Hatch Act. The Republican county chairman reported that Democratic leaders were soliciting memberships. among the Government workers and “asking them to wear Roosevelt badges.” The Hatch. Act bans from active participation in politics any employee of the Federal Government.

LEGION URGES DRAFT BE MADE PERMANENT

(Earlier Story, Page Two)

BOSTON, Sept. 25 (U. P.).—The American Legion today urged that military conscription -be made a permanent system in the United States. A demand that (“we give all possible aid” to Great Britain now also was among resolutions adopted on presentation by the committee on national defense at the Legion's 22d national convention. |

DOCTOR IS KILLED

Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind. Sept. 25.—Dr. Maurice C. McKain, prominent surgeon, was killed instantly in an auto-truck crash here today. He was thrown from his car its crash with a truck driven Jack Meyers.

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Mother Suds for Burglar Tools

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 25 (U. P.).—A mother sued today to recover her son’s burglar tools. Mrs. Stella Bukowiecki told Civil Judge A. J. Hedding that her son, Joseph Dzioba, now serving an 1ll-year term in Waupun State Prison for safecracking gave her a bill of sale for the tools in pay- i ment for when she financed his defense in ‘a previous court action. The Police Department had confiscated the tools. Attorney Edward Couzens argued for Mrs. Bukowiecki that the tools could be ve in lawful GE

CLEAN FURNACE: FROST IS LIKELY

Cover Up Potted Plants and Get Out Blankets For Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

.. 43 10 a. m. . 53 . ... 45 11 a. m. . 54 . ... 48 12 (noon) . 57 v.01 1p. m ... 58

Better get a little heat in the house, keep the blankets handy and cover plant life because it’s going to be cooler tonight and the season's first frost will cover low or exposed areas. Cool weather is going to continue tomorrow, * Today’s temperatures, which dived to a low of 43 degrees at 6 a. m. will be below the normal average of 64 for this date, the: Bureau said. Rainfall © here yesterday and through the night measured .57 of an inch.. The downpour loosened yellowing foliage and there was a deluge of leaves in all parts of the city and clearing them became a major project. . As for winter, Mark Purcell, the Rushville weather prophet, made his 23d annual prediction: a hard winter.

Basing his forecast on a study of the wind directions during the fall equinox Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Mr. Purcell said the first twothirds of winter will be extremely cool, but the latter third milder.

FORMER FILM STAR DIES NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P.).— Marguerite Clark, star of the silent screen, died at Leroy Sanitarium

6 WEEKS FROM LOT TO PLANT

Parking Area to Become AirConditioned Building By Dec. 1.

Day by day, in every way, the Allison Engineering Co. plant is getting larger and larger. A parking Iot yesterday is a staked-off plot today. Tomorrow they'll start hauling in steel girders. Before the girders are all up the brick masons will be swarming over the sides. The masons won't be through before the cement men will be working on the floor. And the floor will hardly be solid before the machinery to turn out more liquid-cooled airpiane engines for the United States government will be rolled in. All this in less than two months! Expansion at this Speedway City factory has been a continuous thing since last year. Walls are barely completed ‘before they're knocked out to permit another wing to be added. One section was completed in one week. A larger division is nearing completion — and it hasn’t been under construction a month. A parking lot several acres large has been cleared in (he last few days. It has been staked off in sections. A modern, air-conditioned building will spring up in about six weeks. By that time another park(Continued on Page Three)

35,700 GUARDSMEN GALLED FOR SERVICE

Indiana Troops Not Affected By Oct. 15 Order.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P). —President Rodsevelt today called up 35,700 additional National Guardsmen, including Hawaiian

active service beginning Oct. 15. The executive order, affecting three full divisions and 12 lesser units, brings to 96,200 the number of National Guardsmen mobilized to date. "Units affected in the Oct. 15 call are from New York, Ohio, Michigan,

and Hawaii. The units affected in today’s order comprise three full divisions and three aviation squadrons of corttinental troops, plus the territorial regiments, brigades, battalions and companies of Hawaii

today. She was admitted five days ago suffering from pneumonia.

Puerto Rico.

and Puerto Rican units for. a year’s’

Wisconsin, Mississippi, Puerto Rico!

Speedway City. two months to complete.

masons and electricians work side before the other is finished.

der way.

< 3. This is the side of the above building. moved in while. construction work on the building itself is still un-

1. The Allison Engineering Division of General Motors announced today that an air-conditioned, windowless building, 500 by 554 feet, will be constructed on this parking lot behind the present plant in The entire exterior construction will take less than

2. This right. wing to the present building is nearing completion although it was only started a few weeks ago.

Steel workers, brick by side as one operation is begun

Machinery will be

New Deal Methods i Butte Address.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO FARGO, N. D., Sept. 25 (U. P.).—Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell 1L., Willkie worked

campaign today as his train rolled east out of Montana's range country

into the wheat lands of North Dakota. Mr. Willkie fired another shot in his drive for labor votes in Butte last night when he charged that a statement made by President Roosevelt in 1937 caused wages of the copper miners to drop. More than 25,000 persons from the “richest hill in the world” heard the Republican candidate not only blast at Mr. Roosevelt but also snipe at Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who had referred to Mr. Willkie as “a barefoot boy from Wall Street.” He noted that the public land problem’ in Montana ‘was being administered from Washington by a man “who grew up in Chicago.” If elected, Mr. Willkie said, he would choose a Secretary of the Interior from the western country ‘who grew up in this country and understands your problems.” The throng in the Butte high school gave Mr. Willkie a. noisy welcome, but the crowd on the streets,

and

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"Just Looking Around, | Didn't Run Away, Says 11-Year-Old, Lost on First Day Here

Red-haired Jimmy Williamson, aged 11, moved to Indianapolis yesterday with his family and the first thing he did was get lost and re-

main lost for more than 12 hours. It was shortly before noon when Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson arrived in Indianapolis from Cin-

cinnati with Jimmy and their three’

other children. Mr. Williamson has a new job here. Before they started hunting for a furnished apartment, they drove to the Postoffice to inquire at the 3 |general delivery window about their

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Parking on Meridian St., the parents went into the Federal Building, leaving in the car Jimmy; John, 7; Jeanette, 4, and Isaac 4.

Jimmy took one look at the

Monument and he just couldn't resist the lure. Without sweater or ‘eap, he left the car and headed for the’ Circle and didn't come back. The parents began a search of the Circle, but there was no trace of Jimmy. Then it began to rain and their worry over him increased. They had to find an apartment and drove around looking for one, every ‘so often returning to the Circle to look for the missing boy. They didn’t think it much use to report his disappearance until they could give police. a home address. It was 5 o'clock when the parents found an apartment at 816 N. Illinois St. Then they appealed to police. :

Xt was after |] midhight when

Jimmy, sleepy and hungry, walked into a parking inn at Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts. after around downtown all day slipping into doorways to keep out of the rain. The boys at the garage got him something to eat, then-called police and Jimmy spent the night at the Detention home. Mr. Williamson waited outside in the car while Mrs. Williamson went into the home this morning to get Jimmy. “What do you mean by running away and worrying me to death?” she asked him. “I didn’t run away, mom. I was just looking around,” he said, and his eyes filled. . Mother and Jimmy hugged and

kissed each other and went home. p A

on the major farm speech of his

wandering

Willkie Maps Farm Speech; Roosevelt Will Limit Travel

G. 0. P. Nominee Wii 400-Mile Area Which FDR! In his proclamation, Governor a Minister of the Interior

Townsend called upon every male | citizen and male alien between the

Will Cover Is Fat With Electoral Votes.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—President Roosevelt's campaign year travel is limited today to approximately a 400-mile-overnight-radius, but the area is fat with electoral votes. He will appear in not more than 15 states before election. An address which was to have keen delivered this afternoon at the cornerstone laying of the terminal building at the Washington national airport was postponed because of rain. The White House = announced that the ceremonies, expected to stress preparedness, would be held this Saturday. The $13,500,000 airport, will be completed by Dec. 17—37th anniversary of the Wright Broth-

|ers’ first airplane flight at Kitty

Hawk, N. C.—will outrank the world’s most famous airports in up-to-date facilitiey) although not in size. Few other speeches are on the Roosevelt schedule. Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati, O., Detroit, Mich., are on the periphery of the circle within which Mr. Roosevelt is expected to confine his (Continued on Page Five)

12 Days Left To Register

Only 12 more days remain for voters to register for the Nov. 5 election. Branch registration offices are:

Today and Tomorrow

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. ’

Friday and Saturday

Fire stations at 1575 Roosevelt ‘Ave.; 2101 English Ave.; 535 N.. Bell Vieu Pl; 352 N. Beville Ave.; 512 Maple Road: 332 S. New Jersey St,

|proclamation by Governor Town-

which

FLAGS TO FLY ON DRAFT DAY

Governor Orders Employers To Let Workers Have Time to Register.

Registration day, Oct. 16, for the draft will have a holiday atmosphere throughout Hoosierland. Flags will be flown on all public buildings and most business establishments. Parade, complete with bands and floats, will be held by various veterans’ organizations, according to present plans. The suggestion that registration day, although not a legal holiday, be celebrated with flying flags and marching bands was made in

send today, and quickly approved by leaders of various veterans’ groups. The Governor's proclamation, issued by his secretary, formally set Oct. 16 as the day for registration for the draft in Indiana. The proclamation was made in accordance with a request of President Roosevelt that all Governors issue proclamations in line with his.

ages of 21 and 36 residing in Indiana to register for military training. He asked that all employers give them adequate time in which to register. | “Since ‘hundreds of the young men of Indiana will be required to leave their homes for a year of military training, I further call upon private citizens and public officials to bear their just share of the task by performing the necessary functions of the Selective Service and Training Act in a fair, Just and conscientious manner,” the Governor said. Le

S, SIDE PUBLISHER

KILLED IN TRAFFIC

Joseph Doerr Jr. Struck by,

Car in Meridian St.

Traffic in Marion County today claimed its 95th victim of the year. Joseph Doerr Jr., 36, of 114 E. Sumner Ave. died in St. Francis Hospital of injuries received last night when struck by an auto in S. Meridian St., 3500 block. The driver of the car, Harold Beinike, R. R. 20, Box 920, stopped and waited until an ambulance and deputy sheriffs arrived. He said he did not see Mr. Doerr in time to stop. Mr. Doerr published the South Side Gazette, a neighborhood newspaper. His brother, the Rey. Fr. Herman Doerr, O. F. M., will preach the sermon during the requiem mass at Sacred Heart Church at 9° a. m. Saturday. Mr. Doerr is survived also by his father, Joseph Sr.; his mother, Mrs. Helen M. Doerr; two sisters, Mrs. Marie Phillips and Mrs. Helen Sanders, both of Indianapolis. Miss Irma Abrosimi, 21, of 1544 Villa Ave., was hurt seriously in an auto-truck crash at Leonard and Morris Sts. last night and is. in Methodist Hospital. Miss Olive Hoyt, 22, of 1306 Woodlawn Ave, with whom she was riding, also was hurled from the car, but escaped with minor injuries. Bertram Kellermeyer, 34, of 1317 Calhoun St., the truck driver, escaped injury when it overturned

after the collision,

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VICLLY, Sept. 25 (U.

hara,

Empire.

rocked to the “super bomb”

along the French Coast.

great damage.

Hitler for an hour.

co-operating.

ments stood out:

the United States and Great

think that Tokyo and Berlin

Eighteen German planes were day, London announced. Meanwhile, the war of the air continued in other areas. A new bombardment of Gibraltar this afternoon was reported by the Mencaeta News Agency in Madrid. Earlier, it had said in La Linea dispatches that cannon fire was heard from the Mediterranean end of the Straits. The agency said that in this afternoon’s raid five or six planes bombed arsenal docks at Point Europe and British naval vessels, which steamed out into the Straits. One of the planes, believed French, was reported shot down. Great Britain's great 32,000-ton battle cruiser, Renown,.was hit during yesterday’s raid and obliged to

quit port, it was announced: at Vichy. The Renown, built in 1916.

TOKYO

DEFENSE TIEUP WITH GERMANS

Conflict Surges Closer to U. S. Interests; Battle for Dakar Continues;

Spain’s Entry Hinted. BULLETIN

P.).—The Foreign Ministry

officially announced today that Maj.-Gen. Issaku Nishichief negotiater in Hanoi, had negotiated successfully the termination of Japanese aggression at Dong Dang, ending border fighting between French and Japanese forces north of Hanoi.

(Third of a series by Roy W. Howard, Page 20)

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor A powerful and relentless Royal Air Force Ponine offensive against Germany, spurred the Axis powers to new efforts today to organize world-wide attacks on the British

British bombers, striking while London and Liverpool

explosions of a terrific night

raid, were said officially to have blasted linés and other objectives in and arcund Berlin and Nazi invasion bases

The effect of the British raids in damaging the Nazi war machine was discounted of attack which has blasted at the German capital for three successive nights and the increased tempo of Nazi bombardment of Britain indicated that both- sides were inflicting Sporadic raids on Britain continued today. Nazi War Machine Hurt, British Say :

A two and one-half hours raid on “the heart” of Berlin last night was said by the London. Air Ministry to have blasted the great Siemens and Halske electrical equipment factories, the power station at Friedrichsfelds and other ob#|jectives vital to Nazi war production. . Both Berlin and Rome for several days have declared repeatedly through the controlled press that the Axis was preparing sensationai developments, that Spain was ready, to join in the fight and that the battle would be fought to the end without compromise. Ani the talk of new allies for the Axis, the German agency D. N. B. said that Ramon Serano Suner, Span-

by -Berlin, but the regularity

conferred today with Adolf

Conflict Surges Closer to U. S. With the conflict surging closer to United States inter‘ests in South America and in the Pacific, Germany and Italy appeared to be attempting to rally Japan and Spain to aid in their assault or at least to give the world the impression that both th: Tokyo and Madrid governments were

Insa day of frenzied action on all fronts, these develop-

1. Japan was repcrted to have agreed in principle on a defensive alliance with Germany, to become effective if

Britain should collaborate on

defense bases, such as Singapore, in the Far East. The indirect nature of advices concerning this “provisional” agreement lett uncertain the extent to which Gere many had been able to swing Japan toward such an agreement, but emphasized at least a desire to make the world

were co-operating closely. In.

Berlin, officials said tliey had no knowledge of the agreement,

2. Japan, seeking to take advantage of every war de"(Continued on Page Three)

English Cruiser Renown Hit In Attack on Famous Rock

" By UNITED PRESS

The heart of London was strewn with wreckage today after a mercie less all-night Nazi air ‘assault while Royal Air Force bombers reported “successful” smashes at military objectives in the center of Berlin. The R. A. F. also continued to touch off a terrific series of explosions at . German “invasion’ basés on the French coast.

shot down over Britain during the

had a normal complement of about 1200 officers and men. : “The British warship, Barnham and Resolution also were reported damaged, in ‘a naval engagement with French vessels at Dakar. British bombing planes struck hard at Italian Marshal Rodolfe Graziani's main Libyan bases for his offensive against Egypt yester= day, killing 15 persons, wounding 70 and causing widespread damage. The British Air Ministry said that heavy bombers of the R. A. F. had attacked a number of military objectives in “the heart of Berlin” in a raid that lasted more than two and one-half hours. The Potsdam railroad station, the Anhalter railroad station, anti-air= craft guns in the Tiergarten and the German Government buildings, (Continued on Page Three)