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1000-MILE AERIAL WAR RAGE
Roy W. Howard Says:
United States- Japanese Crisis Can Be Solved Without War
By ROY Ww. HOWARD
‘AN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.—There is little reason to believe that the columns of befuddling conjecture emanating from Axis chancelleries since the signing in Beriin Friday of the Berlin-Tokyo-Rome pact are of any great importance to
. America.
The Hollywood ballyhoo incidental to the signing, and the studied effort to tell the world that the agreement was permanently designed to check American activities in the Pacific, can be accepted as a diplomatic red herring. There is
Mr. Howard ation given
ample reason ta believe that any consider-
to America was merely inci-
In the accompanying article discussing the recently enacted pact of Berlin, Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers proposes a method for the elimination of the dangerously developing friction between Japan and the United States. The suggestion is ‘made on the basis of ideas developed during the course of a 30,000-mile trip through the Far East by air, just concluded by Mr. Howard, and on the basis of a long time acquaintance with both Japan and China, and with most of the leading figures in the Governments of both nations.
change anything in the Japanese-American picture. Neither Germany nor Italy is presently in a position. to assist Japan decisively in any of her present or prospective troubles. Inversely, except to the extent of possibly turning loose a few commerce raiders in Asiatic and southern Pacific waters, there is little that Japan could
INCE time alone will reveal the true purpose of the pact, ccnjecture is running high, wide and handsome. Out of the mass of speculation the most logical theory to emerge is that the pact is largely designed for home consumption and for the bolstering of morale in the Axis
nations.
is no bed of roses.
In the last war Germans boasted of standing against the world. In this war Hitler has played up and magnified
the number and impertance
is being pictured to the German people as an asset.
Hitler's promisad subjugation of England by fall has fizzled. England is neither Poland nor France. has publicized the beating: she has taken from the bombs. Germany has not, but it is obvious that life in the Reich
England
Japan OpinThe Italian people, never in
of Germany's allies.
BRITISH CLAIM VITAL SUPPLY ~ AREAS BOMBED
Berlin Makes Plans to Evacuate Childrens Big Berthas Boom in Channel Duel; Japanese Beat U. S. Sailor.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
1 United Press Foreign News Editor |
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: ips changed or can materially change anything in the Pa
ific. Least of all does it tensified war in the ai» today as Great Britain and Germany
do to serve her Axis partners. battled over a 1000-mile front from Scotland to the River
REGISTRATION
RECORD SEEN
Total Number of Voters Is.
Likely to Reach 300,000 For November Election. (Additional Political News, Page 7) of
The total number registered
voters for the Nov. 5 election in|
Marion County is expected to reach nearly 300,000, an all-time high
mark, registration officials estimated ||
today. The previous registration peak was 286,000 in the 1938 general election. This dropped to 275,000 for the primary election last May. However, during the concentrated registration ‘drive during the last month, about 24,000 new .registra-
tions have been recorded and sev-||
eral thousand more persons are expected to file their names before the deadline next Monday midnight. Total Number Unknown
The exact number of proper registrations on file cannot be tabulated, owever, until after the deadline because many hundreds of cancellations will not be recorded until the| registration rush is over according to William Flanary, chief registration clerk. The cancellations or withdrawals comprise the voters who have died since the. last election and those who have moved out of the county. Also scores of others are expected | to be disfranchised by their failure] to file a transfer of their residence | upon moving from one precinct to another. New registrations at the branch offices over the county have bheen| averaging about 2000 a day duringj the last two weeks. Activities at 3 the branch offices will close |
Wednesday night, but registrations 3
will continue at the Court House until the deadline. Statistics of the last two general | elections show that only about 70: per cent of the registered voters go to the polls on election day.
List Qualifications
The. two principal qualifications | for voting are residence and regis-! tration. Six months residence in| "the state, 60 days in the township and 30 days in the precinct are required. While everyone must be registered to wote, it is not necessary to register for every election, under the permanent registration | law. Those who have been registered in the past need not transfer (reregister) unless they have moved
since registering or have failed to vote in two successive general elec-| |
tions. Those who move after the Oct. 7 deadline are barred from voting in the Nov. 5 election, unless they have moved to another address in| the same precinct.
GALE WARNINGS FLY
ON ATLANTIC COAST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U, P..| The Weather Bureau today ordered storm warnings displayed from Cape Hatteras, N. C., to Sandy |
Hook, N. J. predicting northeast
winds of moderate gale force.
Days Left To Register
Only seven more days remain for voters to register for the Nov. 5 election. Branch registration offices are:
Today
Fire stations at 24th St. and Carrollton Ave.; 19th and Dexter Ave.; 30th St. and Kenwood Ave.; 1030 E. Washington St.; Tibbs Ave. and Washington St.
Tomorrow and Wednesday School buildings at 2411 Indianapolis Ave.; 23 N. Rural St.; Walnut and Delaware Sts.; 1240 W. Ray St.; 2425 E. 25th St, and 30th’ St. and College Ave.
Although branch registration offices will close Wednesday night, - registration will continue at the Court ‘House until next Monday night, the deadline.
Richard @}. Shirley . . . once served on City Works Board.
SHIRLEY JOINS LIQUOR DEALERS
Becomes Foie Secretary as Doyle Succeeds .To State Vacancy.
' Richard A. Shirley resigned today as a member of the Alcoholic {Beverage Commission to become executive secretary of the Indiana | Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association. Bernard Doyle, Hebron, a district | epresentative of the Commission, vas named by Governor Townsend | o succeeed Mr. Shirley. The po- | gition pays $4390 a year. Mr. Doyle will be replaced by Ben | Tillepaugh, Chesterton, a member f the Gross Income Tax Division. Mr. Shirley has been a commission member since 1935 and Mr. oyle has been a district representaive since 1933. Mr. Shirley has een a life-long Democrat and erved as member of the Indianpolis Works Board during the Norld War. After that he was conrected with a heating and ventilatng and power plant. equipment | ompany.
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ABERDEEN PROVING FROUNDS, ABERDEEN, Md., Sept. 30 (U, P.).—President Roosevelt toay saw one of the Army's new | anti-tank gun units bog down in a! !mudhole during a field demonstra{ion of new mechanized weapons. { | The gun, towed behind a truck nounting a .50-caliber anti- aircraft |
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Nn machine gun, was stuck for neariy | 0 minutes in a position which ould have made it an ideal target under actual war conditions. | | Mr. Roosevelt, making an inspec{tion of Maryland defense establishments, dismissed the incident as inconsequential. Maj. Gen. G. M. Wesson, Army chief of ordnance who
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ON ‘HOME LOT
Hits Perpetuation * Philosophy of Politics in Talk at South Bend.
(Another Story, Page Seven)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 30. (U. P.).—Wendell L. Willkie, back
home in Indiana for a few hours on a seven-state tour of the Midwest and East, drew an Indiana parallel here today to illustrate his opposition to a third term for President Roosevelt. Addressing several thousand persons around his train on a siding near St. Mary's College, he said the early settlers of Indiana ‘knew that too long a continuation in| office for any man was hazardous to their liberties.” As a result, he said, the Indiana Constitution contained a provision limiting any Governor to one term. :
Students Applaud
“In view of some of the Zovernors you've had, was that a good pro-|ki3 vision?” Mr. Willkie asked the/|g crowd. He got a laugh. _ “Surely you in Indiana who believe no man should be Governor for two terms are not going to vote for any indispensable man,” he said. On his arrival here, Mr. Willkie was confronted with two huge, “We Want Roosevelt” signs. They hung from the windows of the Studebaker body plant. The C. I. O. United Auto Workers Union, which has] many members in the plant has indorsed the Roosevelt third term. The Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, presi‘dent of Notre Dame University, introduced Mr. Willkie to students on the steps’ of the administration building. The candidate won applause when he said he was glad the students were at school instead of in the “shambles of trenches” as millions of European youths are. He added: “Pray God you never will be.” Recalling that it was at Notre Dame the late Father Bernard Niewland discovered synthetic rubber (duprene), he said “this may be our salvation if war breaks out in the Far East.” Most U. S. rubber comes from the Dutch East Indies.
Streets Decked With Banners
Mr. Willkie rode through streets decked with banners for the celebration of national Knute Rockne week, commemorating the late Notre Dame football coach whose life has been made into a motion picture which will have its premier at South | Bend Saturday.
Malone Breaks
MALONE; N. Y., Sept. 30 (U. P.) —Ice formed on water pails during the night at nearby Owl's Head, “icebox of northern New York,” when the temperature dropped to 26. the coldest September 30 in many years. The Malone temperature was 30. i
REPORT ON TAX GETS ITS FOURTH REVISION
Adjustment Board Hopes to Present It Tomorrow.
The Tax Adjustment Board hopes to make its final report on its three-
morrow. ni x hich is ex Continuing north from South) ey b Ni »
Bend into Michigan, Mr. Willkie] making procedure and criticize told a crowd at Niles that he €X- certain public financing practices,
pects to get the Presidential vote! ‘is now bein oliched & of 90 per cent of the men Mr. fourth er p after its
Roosevelt has brought to Washing- | Today Board members are schedton to “run production” of the de-|yled to affix their signatures to fense industries. > | the report on the new governmental He promised the same Army “but tax rates which goes to the State
{better run and with more officials | Tax Board.
and the same Navy and air force, if elected. Reiterating his arguments against ‘AIR SHAR ES FEATURE" a third term, Mr. Willkie asked his | audience if it didn’t believe England was wise to change its government from Chamberlain to Churchill. He
ment in favor of the third term ex- stocks were strong today but the
accompanied the President, exlained that it was rot the gun it{self which got stuck—but the truck |that was towing it. | | He added with a grin that the it uck was not one produced by the of mpany formerly headed by William S. Knudsen, production chief of the National Defense Commissjon, who was also in the President's arty.
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New Fighter Plane Ready For Service, British Claim
LONDON, Sept. 30. (U. P.).—The British Press said today that the Royal Air Force has placed in night operation a crack new fighter plane
which with other unproved types almost ready for service will shift the air battleground back to France by spring. It was the first public reference to employment of a new model fighter plane in the battle against the bombers which the German air force sends over London each night. (London dispatches for several days have hinted that new methods of coping with the night bombing menace were being tried.) The press stories predicted that the familiar sight of air dogfights
when the new British planes come into service. There was no description of the new night fighter plane or the other types which, it was indicated; already have gone into production. In sharp contrast with the London Sunday Dispatch, which took a gloomy view of British aircraft production, the Daily Mail, also owned by Lord Rothermere, predicted toay: “When fine weather comes again to Europe the Royal Air Force will be so strong in numbers and new types of aircraft, not to mention personnel, that the now familiar sight of dogfights over England will have almost disappeared. France will again be the aerial battle-
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Outs ASC est 1} IF BACK | Motors by the Thousand [ALL SIDES WO
British representatives E. W. Edwards (left) and P. W. Lambell . . , inspect parts of the Allison liquid-cooled engine.
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ALLISON WHIPS ITS BOTTLENECK
\U. S., British Officials Help
Celebrate Start of Real Mass Production.
The Allison Airplane. motor division is entering the second phase of its brief industrial career, a phase in which the nation will see its motors come off production lines in thousands instead of dozens. The beginning of real mass production was celebrated by more than 300 Allison officials at a dinner Saturday night at the Indianapolis Ath-
|letic Club.
Guests at the “get together” party were representatives of the U. S. and British Governments, two governments that are depending so largely on the Indianapolis developed machine. F. C. Kroeger, Allison general manager, told the executives that. more than 200 motors have come off the lines in September, and revealed plans for a “tremendous ihcrease” in daily quotas. O. T. Kreusser, Allison training director, “now on we should not think of production in terms of hundreds of engines but in terms of tens of thou-
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. ry]
id h - | said he hadn't heard a single argu-| Aviation shares and a few ie history of Allison, recalling experi-
sands.” Mr. Kreusser revealed that the plant 9000 people.
Plant officials see no end to the
expansion. He traced the brief but eventful
ments with Liberty motors in 1915 in the old Allison plant, and citing the experiments of the past seven years which produced the liquidcooled motor. The European war was chiefly responsible for development of the liquid cooled engine, Mr. Kreusser said, adding that Allison “is producing a motor that the world is going to depend on greatly in the future.” During the dinner, officials received a congratulatory telegram from William S. Knudsen, produc(Continued on Page Three)
MORE OF THE SAME, WEATHERMAN SAYS
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am. .... 48 Tam ....
10a. m, ....
More of the same. That's the word from the Weather Bureau today about Indianapolis weather. It
over Britain almost would disappear] ground.
Iwill be fair tonight and tomorrow.
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THE WILY REDS
Stalin Plays Old Game of Waiting—to Pick Bones Of the Fallen.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—What is regarded here as one of the most amazing developments in the recent history of international relations—
namely, a contest between the dictators and the democracies for the doubtful favors of MoscOw—now appears in the making. What makes Moscow's ‘favors doubtful is the Kremlin's avowed | aim, by hook or crook, to destroy] j De despised ‘bourgeois democragies” i¢h ‘now court her. | As for the) > 's powers, they are known to hate | and distrust Russia as much ever. |
Hopeful British Pull Strings |
Yet each side is reported to be, seeking her support, active or yl sive. There have been talks here between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other State Department officials and Soviet Ambassador Con- | stantine Oumansky, while London] is still patiently, if not hopefully,| pulling strings in Moscow. But the new German-Japanese-Italian alliance appears] to have the inside track. And not without reason. ' Apparently Germany and Italy plan to share between them all of | Western Europe, the Near and Middle East and Africa. To Japan goes China proper, Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, the East Indies and] Australia. To Russia, therefore, the |{ triple alliance seems to he offering the whole of Central |Asia—Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang, Afghanistan and India.
U. S. Policy Is Clear
The British. Empire and United States, of course, have! nothing comparable to offer. In fact, they have only two talking points. One is the danger to Russia from an all-powerful Rome-Ber-lin-Tokyo Axis; the other is an Anglo-American policy in China which, on the surface, is in harmony with Russia's. American policy in China is clearly expressed in the Nine Power Treaty. That treaty formally pledges all parties to respect the sovereignty, the independence and {Continued on Page Th Three)
FOUR DENY GUILT ON WPA FRAUD CHARGES
Fifth Defendant [lll and, Unable to Appear. |
Pleas of not guilty were entered |
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now employs ‘approximately | il Federal Court today by four of |
A year ago slightly ore than 2000 were employed. |
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the five defendants indicted last Jan. 31 on charges of defrauding | the Government through illegal diversion of WPA funds and labor. The fifth defendant, Arthur Brown, Indianapolis banker, still is too ill to appear in court, his attorney, Frank Dailey, told Judge | Robert C. Baltzell. |
The four entering pleas were] Arthur F. Eickhoff, real estate op-| erator and banker; Charles E. Jef- | ferson; contractor and former Marion County Flood Control Board member; Carl F. Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-ordi- | nator, and Miss Elizabeth C. Clay- | pool, 1734 N. Penpsylvania St. District Attorney Val Nolan had asked Mr. Dailey to have his client in court today in order to set a date for a hearing on Mr. Brown plea in abatement to | the hr ment. Similar pleas by the othe four defendants have been overruled by the court. Because of Mr. Brown's illness, the court, at Mr. Nolan's request, | delayed setting a trial date for the four others. | “I consider Mr. Brown the most | important person in this case and | wish to try him before the -others,” Mr. Nolan said. Mr. Brown underwent an operation several months ago and re- | cently was removed to his home to recuperate, it was said. | Statements (Continued on Page Three)
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Royal Air Force bombers concentrated on vital supply centers of the Nazi armed forces—oil refineries and electrical works—in bombing. raids from the French Atlantic coast to the Reich, while German raiders ranged over all of England, Wales and Scotland to blast at London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and other objectives. The British Air Ministry reported heavy attacks on the Fokker aircraft factory near Amstérdam, saying great fires were started. .. A dozen Nazi plai:es were reported shot down over Eng land when hundreds ct German warcraft engaged in battles ‘with British defenders. Most of the raiders were turned back but others got through improved British defenses to bomb the London subiirbs and south coast towns. Nazi and Fascist Press Raps U. S. Rome and Berlin, with the aid of Spain and Japan, continued to try to build up their diplomatic offensive through the Nazi and Fascist press, repeating assertions that Spain (alr eady co-operating to the limit with the Axis) soon would join in the war in order to get Gibraltar. The Fascist newspapers followed the lead of Germany \in assailing the United States with the purpose of discour-
S| aging American aid: to Britain or China. The newspaper
Corriere Della Sera of Milan described the trading of American destroyers and tie sale of American planes to Britain as “an act of war” on the part of the United States. In Washington, Piesident Roosevelt prepared the United States answer to the three-power pact among Germany, Japan and Italy by arr anging conferences with military mis‘sions from Latin-Ame=rican republics, now en route by air to (Washington. - Tie With Russia Strong, Berlin Says In Berlin, authorized Nazi spokesmen insisted that the new triple alliance had in no way weakened German ties of friendship with Soviet Russia—a claim that seemed well supported by editorial comment in the Commuhist Party newspaper Pravda at Moscow. Pravda said that the pact would spread the war, as had been predicted by Premier Viachesiav Molotov, but that Russia knew about it in advance. ; Nazis denied reports circulated abroad that Foreign Minister Joachim ven Hibbentrop soon might go to Moscow to check up on Russia’ s attitude, attributing the report to - a British news agency.” : New efforts to emphasize the dislomatic offensive seemed likely, however, as a result of continued and ize creasingly severe British air raids on Germany, which caused Berlin for the first time to start plans for removal of children from the Nazi capital. Indicates German Life Upset This was the first public indication that the systematie relentless counter-bombing by the Royal Air Force had begun to damage the normal fabric of German life, No general evacuation was planned, it was saft, but the German refugee organization started machinery in opera-
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‘tion for voluntary evacuations of children, both rich and
poor, whose parents fear for their safety. The British pressed home their bombings in line with a warning from naval authorities that German invasion
preparations are continuing and appear to be on too large a (Continued on Page Three)
War Moves Today
By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Confident with the return of Count Ciano te Rome after having signed the German-Italian-Jape anese military. alliance. an Italian press campaign began today to get. Japan. quickly into the war by interpreting America’s aid to Britain as an act of hostilities. The Tokyo Gov ernment stated on Saturday that no belligerency was yet discerned in Washington's activities on behalf of Great Britain, so that a possi= ble wrangle among the signatories to the new pact looms as the ink on | the document is scarcely dry. Italy needs naval reinforcements in the Mediterranean where the | British fleet holds such control that
Mr. Mason
lan entente with Germany and Italy, - It must be assumed that they have
no more desire today scue Italy in the Mediterrangan. Any such enterprise would réquire the send
ing of so large a war fleet to Europe that Japan's home defenses would be wide open for attack.
The Japanese have been placed lin a delicate position by the triple The negotiations were broken at alliance. Germany and Italy would that time because of the Russo- sacrifice them without compunétion German non-aggression pact, but to the war in Europe if Tokyo were with the new alliance now signed, to allow itself to be fooled inte Italy's hope for naval help from making a major misplay. | Japan is rising again. In no other, The significant reaction to the way can the Ifalians have any ex- triple alliance has occurred on the
| Egypt pass unmolested through the strait of Gibraltar to Alexandria and Suez. When Germany and ! Italy were pressing Japan for an lalliance last year, it was specially emphgsized that Rome was counting ok Japanese naval aid in the | Mediterranean in the event of a
|pectation of, trying to force some New York stock exchange where
relaxation of Britain's domination German bonds have risen and Japof the Mediterranean. anese bonds have fallen following Last year the Japanese naval au-|the news of the pact. The eat thorities resisted the Moy for (Continued on Page Three
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