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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940

VITT T0 STAKE ALL ON FELLER * INGAME TODAY

Two Victories and Tigers! Are In; Baker May Save " Rowe for Tomorrow.

TODAY'S STANDING Games Games W. L. Behind to play Detroit .... 89 62 3 Cleveland .. 87 64 New York.. 86 64

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By GEORGE KIRKSEY

United Press Staff Correspondent

CLEVELAND, Sept. 27.— The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians plunge into their pennant-deciding three-game series at the huge lake-front

stadium this afternoon.

Manager Oscar Vitt will stake Cleveland's all on the mighty right arm of “Bullet” Bob Feller. Despite Feller's shoddy record against the Tigers in previous games, he is a 7-5 favorite in local circles to stem the Detroit pennant-parade. But Manager Del Baker of the Tigers gave strong indications that he would do a bit of master-minding

The season’s first smog enveloped the World War Plaza and downtown Indianapolis early today.

and change from his original pitch-| ing selection of “Schoolboy”. Rowe,! who tamed the Indians thrice this season without losing to them, and| gamble with Hal Newhouser, rookie southpaw, or Floyd Giebell, righthander recently up from Buffalo. | Baker May Save Rowe |

Rowe is ready but Baker has thrown out hints that he will save!

him for tomorrow's game against Stoker and Machine Mak-!

Mel Harder. = Baker apparently, doesn’t want to run the risk of hav- “ing Firm to Add Million- | Dollar Payroll. |

ing Rowe catch Feller on one of his better days. The Tigers have beaten Feller four times and lost to him three times but Baker still] pypansion of the Schwitzer-Cum-| recognizes the Iowa farm, boy as! mins Co. was disclosed today with | tough to beat on any given .day. the purchase of the old National Motor Car Co. plant at 22d and Yandes Sts. . At the same time, it. was an-

With a 2-game lead, the Tigers nounced by the War Department in!

need only one victory to clinch a tie for the pennant with the Yanks Washington that the company had| ‘been awarded a $1,596,659 contract |

who must win all their four remaining games to gain a deadlock. Two for the manufacture of artillery ammunition components.

victories and the Tigers are in. Louis Schwitzer, company presi-|

Cleveland's plight is desperate. The Indians must win all three dent, declared that the firm plans to move into the plant as soon as

games to insure a tie with the. possible and that it will mean an

SCHWITZER GO. BUYS OLD PLANT

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Yanks, providing New York wins its four remaining games. The only way the Indians can win the pennant without a playoff is to sweep the series and have the Yanks lose at least one game.

Who Cares, Anyway? Almost everybody in Cleveland

additional annual payroll of $1,000, | 000 to the company. Approximately 350 employees willy | be placed at the new plant, he said. Mr. Schwitzer said the new plant has given up on the Indians except| will handle some of the defense

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the Indians themselves. They still business that the company has rethink they can do it—with Feller|ceived from the War Department,

today, Harder tomorrow and Milnar,|in addition to some of the regular)

assisted by Feller, if necessary, Sun-| business. day. Most of the fans in this town| The sale price was not disclosed have assumed a “who cares, any-| and the deal was handled by Klein way?” attitude toward the Indians{and Kuhn. in the last few days. The plant will be. in full proAs soon as the pennant-race is/ duction by next spring, Mr. over, new outbursts are due in the/Schwitzer said. oe Vitt vs. Indians -clash. The dope| The motor company property is that Vitt is going to resign if|jwas purchased from the receiver, the Cleveland club is eliminated. {the 22d Street Realty Co.

re Another bidder was Sam SPECIAL ATTORNEY IS ‘Schwartz, Cincinnati, who repreDUE IN RUNYON CASE soniemvisied moring is production

A special prosecutor will be &p-| The Schwitzer-Cummins Co. man-

- i , |ufactures fans, stokers, pumps and pointed to present the state's case; chine products.

against Mrs. Mary Runyon, State so Board of Health clerk, charged with CHILD SHOWS UP AS

failure to stop after a tatal accident near Bridgeport in 1937. The special prosecutor will be named by Judge Dewey E. Myears at the request of Prosecutor David M. Lewis who represented Mrs. Runyon, who lives in Plainfield, he“fore he was elected. t

Two-Hour Absence Brough

'HEDY 1S DIVORCED Beech Grove Search. | Four-year-old Darlene Paugh is

> FROM GENE MARKEY 5 home after an absence of more

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27 (U. P.).! than two hours, but she didn’t show — Hedy Lamarr, brunet movie star, UP until after her alarmed mother obtained a divorce today from Gene: had a squad of deputy sheriffs Markey, writer and producer, after €arch the countryside for her. testifying that during 14 months of! Darlene Yas Slaying in front of marriage Mr. Markey spent only Det home at 2440 S. Emerson Ave. 4 ras usual. When her mother, Mrs.

Jour yea alone with her at! Robert Paugh, looked out to see if

Mr. Markey did not contest or an-| Sh€ Was all right, Darlene wasn't swer his wife's charge of cruelty, [ze hen Tne didn t Jolin in The filnt star. who first rose to}> 1°W minutes the mother calied her ; husband at the Beech Grove shops, fame for her role as a nude in the | .qjatives and neighbors who sumViennese picture, “Ecstacy.” com- za i Mr. Markey appeared bored foned the deputies : plained Mr. ig PR re While the search was in progress and indifferent to her. Darlene reappeared in front of the { home. Questioned, she became ex- | cited. She said she'd been in a car and then that she hadn't, that she'd been in Beech Grove and then that she hadn't. Her final answer was that she was playing in the berry patch in the rear of the house.

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Mrs. Ferguson. 20 Obituaries ....29

pes! 0 LOST ARMY PLANE tions IS REPORTED SAFE

Radio Real Estate .. 22] DAYTON, O., Sept. 27 (U. P).— Mrs. Roosevelt 19! Lt. Col. L. T. Miller, commanding Serial Story...34!| officer at Wright Field, said he had Side Glances. .20| received word from the Sacramento, Inside Indpls..19| Society ....26-27| Cal, Air Depot today that an army Jane Jordan. ,.25| Sports bombing plane reported missing on Johnson ......20 State Deaths..28|a f¥=ht from Seattle, Wash. had 5 Movies sevens 2d : }1an ed safely.

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Tries to Date Mrs. Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. P.). Somewhere in Princeton University’s hallowed halls there dwells a youth who tried to date Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thé First Lady. told the Women's National Democratic Club about it last night. . She said she encountered the youth while on a New York to Philadelphia train last week. Near Princeton, the youth asked: “Have you a date tonight?” Mrs, Roosevelt said she was a “little startled—and wondered if I had so aged that'a'bby thought he could pick me up without trouble.” She told him she had a date in New York. “That's too bad,” he replied. “I wanted you to see the difference between Princeton and Harvard.” Mrs. Roosevelt's four sons, and

‘Warmer Week-End Weath-'

First Smog of Smokiest Winter?

BREEZE FINALLY DRIVES IT AWAY

less delay in his

sented as facing the dread specter

DRENCHING OF ENGLAND WITH POISON FEARED

Hitler, Dreading a Long War, May Unleash Gases, - Simms Learns. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Times Foreign Editor 5 WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. —There is reason to believe, according to qualified sources here, that Germany may now be on the point of drenching London and other vital Brit-! ish areas with poison gas. Hitler, according to my informant, is angry because of the endinvasion ' plans and because of the constant bombing to which the Royal Air Force has subjected his troop concentrations and reserves of materials in Germany and along the Channel coast.

Finally, I am informed, the failure of the Nazi air force to score an early knockout against London and spread panic among the population is forcing the German General Staff to sek a decision by some other and quicker means. Already short of high-octane fuel and essential lubricants for their warplanes, the Nazis are now’ repre-

of a long war. There is evidence, according. to the above sources, that the Ger-

er Expected to Reduce Furnace Firing.

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mans have been turning out gas at maximum capacity for several months. The types of gas appear to be pasically the same 3s those used in the last war. But:there have been “improvements” in the method of use. : Phosgene Is Deadly

Probably the commonest and, at the same time, one of the most deadly, is phosgene, or carbonyl| chloride. It is a respiratory irritant,

The first smog of the season hung! over Indianapolis early today as-the!

City headed into what may be its! smokiest winter. i

readily lending itself to cloud attacks or use in bombs and shells. It is the more lethal because its symptoms appear only hours after exposure. A somewhat newer and different, ut equally potent, instrument of

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ADJUSTMENT BOARD |

REPORT IS DRAFTED

Relief and Fee System May Be Criticized.

The County Tax Adjustment Board went into executive session today to prepare its final report on its three-week study of local budgets and tax rates. Before going into their huddle, the board members decided to meet {the second Monday of each month (during the year in informal sesslons to advise with public officials, on financial problems. In this connection, they asked the Auditor to notify them whenever (any township | trustee's expendii tures, particularly poor relief, were ‘such as to indicate they would exceed their budgets. The board spent an hour formally approving minor adjustments in tax ‘levies recommended by Pabian Biemer, chief deputy Auditor. | Through adjustments, the Auditor {eliminated fractions of a cent in | the total rates for Indianapolis in

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that township, the total rate (inside) was left at $2.825. | The Center Township (outside) rate was reduced 1 cent, from $2.36 {to $2.35, when Mr. Biemer said this |could be done, through an adjust(Continued on Page Five)

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DIES VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. 27 { (U. P.).—As the pupils in her class

at the Liberty Center High School

: : i Fak 0 Alijionch residential firing - has| jeath is represented by a 21-letter barely begun, a typical mid-winter word (trichlortriethylamine) — a bank of listless black smoke en-| kind of powder or dust which, in veloped the downtown area for more | addition 0 hs more ordimaty ways, : : : ican be distribute vy low-flyi thon an hour unui a light breeze anes such as are used in the South dispersed it. (for. “dusting” boll-weevils. Domestic firing | probably will! Disphosgene, chloropicrin and

slacken over the week-end, when |arsin are among the other gases

{looked on, Mrs. Hazel Bockelmann, 150, high school | principal, dropped ‘dead today of a heart attack.

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slightly warmer temperatures are predicted. Record May Be Broken It is predicted by officials who concern themselves with the City’s air pollution problems that indus-

trial boilers and domestic furnaces will burn a record amount of fuel this winter. For one thing, industrial activity will be at an estimated high and some of the boilers which will be pressed into action will not be in the best of shape. For another, home occupancy is at a near high and each home will have its furnace, for the most part unscientifically fired and therefore smoke producing. : . Railroads Promise Aid

These conclusions, reached yesterday at a meeting of the Railroad Smoke Control Board at the Severin Hotel, where City officials were guests, prompted the railroad men to renew pledges of close co-opera-tion in abating the smoke evil and prompted City officials to urge householders to do their part to help solve the community problems. At least 70 per cent of the smoke which, on winter mornings, drifts listlessly over the City and even(Continued on Page Five)

TWO TRAINMEN KILLED

TRAFFORD, Pa., Sept. 27 (U. P.). —Two trainmen were killed today when a Pennsylvania railroad express train ploughed through a switch near here, turning over the locomotive and several cars. The dead were: Engineer F. F. Smith of South Greensburg, Pa., and William S. McConnell of Pittsburgh.

mentioned. Buildup Scented

Any use of gas by the Germans, it was suggested, would likely be preceded by a propaganda build-up of the sort. made familiar by Dr. Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda—something that might call for “reprisals.” Early in the Polish campaign, for instance, correspondents with the German Army were taken to the town of Jaslo and shown a cache of gas containers allegedly bearing British markings. At once observers abroad scented a build-up for a Nazi “retaliation.” But the invasion was over 50 quickly that nothing hapened. In fact, thus far neither side has resorted to gas. This, to many, has seemed strange in view of the fact (Continued on Page Three)

MARKET RALLIES AFTER EARLY DIP

Slump Blamed on 3-Power -Military Alliance.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (U, P).— The stock market rallied slightly today after an early slump attribu-| ted to Japan’s move to join up with the Axis powers. Steel shares held about $1 lower than yesterday. The industry apparently ignored thet ban against export of steel scrap to all but Western Hemisphere countries and Britain.

A BRITISH PORT, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Thirty-nine men, one woman and six children, mourned as dead all week, returned alive today from refugee ship City of Benares, which | was torpedoed without warning in mid-Atlantic during a storm on the night of Sept. 7. They had spent eight days and {nights in an open lifeboat, subsisting on iron rations, crammed for space, without hope of rescue. : But a British long-range patrol flying boat found them 600 miles at sea. Theipifood and water were gone and they were so hungry and

"We Prayed'—Food, Water Gone, 46 From Torpedoed Ship Were Too Weak to Signal

cold not one could (stand on his feet when the dot on the far horizon, first sighted by 13-year-old Kenneth Sparks, signaled approaching rescue. . Then, the hoy said, they all started praying: “Please, God, make the plane bring us help.” When they came ashore this morning, 20 Lascars and the City of Benares crew had to be carried on stretchers. Their feet were frozen. The children’s impressions centered mostly on the food—or lack of it. Kenneth reckomed the days

quarter glasses of water dispensed on the first six days, supplemented by a few swallows of canned milk| “thickened our saliva and made us|; thirstier,” and, the last two days, by the few drops of juice from a tin of peaches, rationed after the water was gone. The only woman in the little boat was Mary Cornish, 21, a teacher who spent most of the time massaging the children’s limbs, making up exercises for them to counteract the cramping and cold, leading them

'by the sardines, ship’s biscuits and

in songs and telling stories, includ(Continued on Page Three),

tered regular government departments; and cotton. of Iowa, testing farmer reaction to that stand. t

Iowa, he told an audience of 500:

Entered as Second-Class at Postoifice,

Indianapolis,

Matter Ind.

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BRITISH SCOFF AS RAF.

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PLANES;

HINT NEW AMERICAN AID

No Isolation

U. S. Cannot Avoid Role in Pacific Affairs.

The following is the last of five articles bv Roy W Howard of the Scripps-How-on observations gathered in a 30-day, 30,000-mile air tour of the Far East.

By ROY W. HOWARD

N preceding articles an attempt has been made to picture in broad outline the Far Eastern and South Pacific situations with which our national future seems inescapably involved. The fall or the survival of England, the ultimate disposition of the British fleet, and the future of the British dominions overseas are all events correlated with the status of the Far East. The repercussions in ‘the East of history - making events in Europe will be

such that, as a Mr. Howard

'Spain’s Entry Into Alliance Is Indicated}

Blitzkrieg Has Gone Down ‘Lightning Rod,” Is London’s Reaction to Move. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press. Foreign News kditor Japan joined the Axis powers today in a 10-year milie tary alliance designed to balk United States aid to Great Britain, but British armed forces -replied with powerful

‘blows that smasned at Nazi war bases and brought down 1122 German planes ih aerial battles over England.

The Air Ministry admitted the loss of 25 British fighte ers in the terrific combat, but added that 10 of the pilots were safe. Berlin said 31 British planes were shot down. The triple alliance among Japan, Germany and’ Italy was signed at Berlin with a statement that it was in dee fense of the world-wide “new order” projected by the three totalitarian powers and that the United States or any other nation entering the ‘war against one of the three would become a common foe. : Spain, it was hinted, will sign next week, and other na« tions are invited to adhere. =~ In Washington, indications developed that the United States’ answer may take the form of increased aid to Great Britain. | : Axis Desperate, British Claim All statements from the totalitarian capitals were de-

willing or unwilling element in Pacific affairs, our ewn interests and poli= cies are certain to be involved. So long as the Pacific washes our West Coast, Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, no policy of isolation, however popular or desirable, can remove the United States from the considerations and strategies which are roughly grouped as Pacific policies. - No first-hand survey of the Far East and the South Seas can leave anyone in doubt that, regardless of our own wishes, these colonial territories and dominions, deliberately and with faith in America, (Continued on Page Nine)

WILLKIF TESTS FARM REACTION

Pledges to Improve on Pres- | ent Methods of Soil Conservation.

(Partial Text of Willkie Speech, Page Six)

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ABOARD WILLKIE SPECIAL TRAIN, Sept. 27.—~Wendell L. Willkie took another leaf from the New Deal book in adopting at Omaha, until a better plan is devised, the basic points in the agricultural program which is largely the creation of the Democratic vice presi-

dential candidate, tormer Secretary of Agriculture. Henry A. Wallace. He pledged to continue and improve the soil conservation program; to continue commodity loans; to enlarge the present rural electrification system; tc develop an adequate farm credit system with low interest rates, adminisindependent of politics or

to give “special treatment” to exportable surpluses—such as wheat

Today he was crossing the prairies Illinois and Wisconsin,

At his first stop in Estes Park,

“I believe I can lead you to an (Continred on Page Three)

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signed to show that “he pact was a warning to the United States to keep out of the war and to keep out of Japan's way, iin the Far East, alttough an official spokesman at Tokyo linsisted that it still was hoped to adjust relations with Washington. ; In London, however, there was a different view of the reasons for the agreement and for the efforts of the Axis powers to present it as a tremendous accomplishment in their campaign to destroy the British Empire. The German and italian offensive against Britain is not making much progress, Britons said. Even as the pact was being signed the Royal Air Force was hurling back the heaviest daylight raid of the war with tremendous losses for the Nazis, and Germans at home were sweeping up the debris of tremendous British bombing raids on bases from the French Coast to the Kiel naval base and the Baltic Coast, Fires still raged in Le Havre and there were bombe

‘battered ships in the Kiel harbor. Berlin has suffered great

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1Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, and

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Increased Aid to Britain Indicated

WASHINGTON Sept. 27 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today schede uled important conferences with defense officials and British diplomats, which provided opportunities to review implications of the new Germans

: Italian-Japanese military alliance.-

Mr. Roosevelt declined at a press conference. to discuss the alliance but indications developed that the United States answer may take the

form of increased aid to Britain.

A “flying squadron” of advocates

of such immediate help at once conferred with the President and described themselves as ‘“enthusiasticallyr encouraged” after the meeting. Lord Lothian, British Ambassador, and Sid Walter Layton, editor of the London Economist, conferred 15 minutes with the President. Lothian said he told Mr. Roosevelt Britain “needs more of everything— and quickly.” Layton reported that he had added his own plea to Lothian’s. Congressional circles received news of the pact with mixed reaction. | Senator Sherman Minton (D., Ind.), Democratic whip, said that “it looks like ‘democracy is cornered.

This is all the more reason. why we

should speed up our preparations for defense.” The President arranged to meet with his defense advisers following his conferences with the British leaders. ; Called to the defense meeting were Secretary of War Henry L., Stimson, Assistant Secretary Rober P. Patterson, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and Undersecretary James Forestal; William C. Knude sen, production chief of the Dee fense Advisory Commission; Ade miral Harold R. Stark, chiet of naval operations, and .Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. Army Chief of Staff. T° The President also will meet with his full Cabinet later. It was presumed that the Cabinet cone (Continued on Page Three)

In Berlin:

Pact Signed in 2 Minutes; Hitler Grim as Ciano Talks

BERLIN, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—It took two minutes today to sign a pact

which links the three most militaristic powers—of.

populations totaling 225,000;000.

It was signed in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery at 1:13

Indianapolis Time).

modern times, with

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Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Count Galeazzo

Saburo Kurusu, Japanese Ambassador, were the signatories. Before the signature Ribbentrop announced: | “This is an important occasion. Germany, Italy and Japan have decided to enter a solemn pact. They have agreed to support the -new order in the Far East and Europe in order to foster peace and prosperity.” : Then, in the ambassadors’ room of the Chancellery, the pact was signed. Adolf Hitler entered the room and Ribbentrop announced: “The three-power pact is a military alliance of three of the most powerful states on earth. “Any state interfering with the new order in Europe or tl} Far

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three powers, will be confronted with "the strength of more than 250,000,000 people. “The three-power pact is not directed against any nation, but against irresponsible war mongers who desire to spread war.” Authorized German quarters later said that a large proportion of “war-mongers” referred to “can be found in the United States.” Hitler appeared grim as he lise tened to the speeches of Ciano, Kurusu and Ribbentrop. He ine. termittently stared at the ceiling or straight ahead at the audience. He sat with his elbows resting on the arms of his chair and his hands clasped in front of his chest. He gazed intently “at during the Fascist envoy’s speech, iin,

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