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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 175

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1940

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WAR TO GO INTO 2D WINTER’--NAZI

LUDLOW HOLDS ADVANTAGE IN 12TH DISTRICT

Willkie May Change the Picture, Analysts Point Out.

(This is the first of a series of articles on present political trends in each of the state's 12 Congressional Districts.) ; By NOBLE REED An analysis today of politi-| cal sentiment in the 12th, Congressional District— which comprises the western two-thirds of Marion County —indicates -another victory for Rep. Louis Ludlow on Nov. 5, There are, however, other factors in the situation which may change the outlook before election day. Chief of these is the possibility that: Wendell Willkie may run such a strong race in the Twelfth District that he may carry the rest of the Republican . ticket ' along with him, First Elected in 1928 At this moment, though, this is not a major consideration in the Twelfth District. Mr, Ludlow has run strongly ever since his election and despite the fact that thousands of independent voters have shifted from the Democratic to the Republican side of the fence since 1936, many neutral analysists contend that the change is not enough to elect a Republican congressman this year. The big question is: How many voters will “scratch” their tickets on the voting machines this year? The Democrats first elected Rep. Louis Ludlow to Congress in 1928, when hé survived the heavy Hoover majorities. The 12th District has piled up some decisive majorities for Mr. Ludlow ever since. Opposing Mr. Ludlow this year is James A. Collins, whom Republican leaders claim will make the best showing of any G. O. P. Congressional c¢andidate in that district since 1926. | 8000 Edge in 1938 Two years ago when Republicans | made gains all over the state, Rep. Ludlow was re-elected over Charles Jewett, Republican, 65,000 to 56,000, one of the smallest “Democratic margins in 12 years. In the 1936 Roosevelt landslide, Rep. Ludlow defeated Homer Elliott by 22,000. In 1934, Delbert O. Wilmeth lost to Mr. Ludlow, 60,000 to 47.000 and in 1932, Rep. Ludlow defeated William H. Harrison, 70,000 to 61,000. - Leaders in both parties agree that the Presidential vote will determine, | to a great degree, the status of both | Mr. Ludlow and Mr. Collins this] year. The rise of Mr. Ludlow’s; majorities in Presidential elections and their fall in other years is; proof of the Presidential influence | on Congressional candidates’ ballot | totals. ‘Scratching’ Not Decisive “Scratching” of votes from one party ticket to. the other is seldom a deciding factor for any candidate in Marion County. Statistics on vote “scratching” in Marion County show that all but about 3 per cent of the voters pull (Continued on Page Three)

NEW PENNSYLVANIA ~ ROAD OPENS TODAY

"HARRISBURG, Pa. Oct. 1 (U. Pp.) —Pennsylvania’s $70,050,000 super highway, its four-lane pavement stretching 161 ‘miles between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, opened to traffic today. The moderate-grade toll route, with east-west traffic separated by a 10-foot center parkway, utilizes seven tunnels pierced through the Appalachian Mountain range. Nineteen workmen were Killed during the 23 months of ils construction. President Roosevelt will dedicate the highway, state authorities said, probably on Oct. 12.

EINSTEIN BECOMES CITIZEN TRENTON, N. J, Oct. 1 (U. P.). — Dr. Albert Einstein became a citizen of the United States today. Also inducted were Margot Einstein, daughter of the famed exile, and Helene Dukas, his secretary.

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November Foes

Rep. Louis Ludlow . .. piles up successive majorities.

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TATCALLS' AS | WILLKIE TALKS

Those Who Jeer at Opposi-

tion Disgrace to Democracy, Nominee Says. (Another Story, Page Five)

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, EN ROUTE THROUGH MICHIGAN, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie warned industrial Michigan today that “if we continue down the road we are going this democracy will disappear.” He asserted to 20,000 persons whom he addressed from the Pontiac, Mich., Court House lawn that the New Deal had attempted to solve every problem that arose either by appropriation of more money or “grabbing more power.” There were scattered “boos” as well as cheers and once two eggs were hurled at the candicate as his automobile rode through Pontiac streets. One egg struck Mr. Willkie's open car and spattered on Mrs. Willkie’s legs and shoes. The nomi-

nee frowned. Another spattered photographers on a truck in front

BY of the Willkie car.

Mr, Willkie said concentration of power in the hands of the Chief Executive and piling up of Feceral

£8 debt endangers democracy.

JAmes A. Collins , . active in county politics 25 years,

REGISTRATION IN CLOSING SPURT

Next Monday Is Deadline With November Vote of 250,000 Foreseen.

Registration of voters will reach its peak rush in Marion County to-| night and tomorrow, the last day for filings in branch offices. After tomorrow night, registration | will continue at the Court House

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midnight. Clerks said a total of 2886 voters! jammed through five. registration branch offices yesterday in addi-| tion to many hundreds nore who filed at the Court House. : Officers yesterday estimated that | total registrations will run close to 300,000. Leaders of both parties predict | that the total vote in the county this year may approximate 330.000, | In the 1936 Presidential elopsion, | the county's total vote was 212,000. !

EXCESS PROFITS TAX | REPORT IS APPROVED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—! The House today approved the con-! ference report on the $1,000,000,000/ excess profits tax drafted to prevent creation of “war mullionaires.” The Senate has yet to approve the . report before the bill is sent! to President Roosevelt for his signature. The tax measure is the last major piece of controversial legislation on the Administration's Congressional

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‘WARMER, CONTINUED

FAIR, BUREAU SAYS

LOCAL. TEMPERATURES 6a.m. ..5.47 1la.m..... 63 7a.m..... 48 12 (noon) .. 65 8a. m. .... 51 1pm... .. 67 9a. m. ..., 55 2p.m, .... 70 10a. m. .... 58

Indianapolis skies will remain fair tonight and tomorrow, and temperatures will return closer to normal tomorrow, the Weather Bureau predicted today. Temperatures for the last several days have been below normal for this time of the year.

6 Days Left To. Register

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

Today and Tomorrow

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 tomorrow night, registration will continue at the Court House until next Monday night, the deadline.

Where there is great concentration - of power in the [Federal Government. he said, the rights of men to or-

ganize, to have labor unions and to} lead a free life rapidly disappear.’

Stops Later at Flint “It is one of the great tragedies,” Mr. Willkie said, “that this Administration has been able to misrepresent itself and has been able to delude some people into believing that it is the friend of working people and the common man, whereas no Administration is likely to be more dangerous to those people in the long run.” Mr. Willkie, met evidences . of audience hostility with a forthright assértion that persons who refuse to listen to opposition arguments have become “non-functioning - members of society and a menace to the democratic way of life.” Mr. Willkie | continued his tour with scheduled stops at Flint, Lansing and Grand Rapids ahead. Last. night he appealed to the women of the nation to remove from government “cynics whom we did not elect and who have no faith (Continued on Page Three)

100 INCREASE SHOWN BY LOCAL SCHOOLS

Reverses Downward Trend Of Past Few Years.

The Indianapolis public school enrollment reversed its former trend to list more than 100 pupils this vear over last, School Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan announced today. He said 57,205 children enrolled in 85 grade and seven high schools last month as compared to 57,093 last year. The largest gain was in the first grade, where 3420 pupils, 547 more than last year, enrolled. This increase, however, was offset by decreases in other grades, resulting in a net decrease in the elementary schools of 123 pupils. High school enrollment, however, increased 235, Mr. Morgan said. He pointed out] that the first grade enrollment, largest in several years, may mean a general reversal of the downward trend in school population. The total high school enrollment this year is 18.062, while 389,143 are enrolled schools. {

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Doris Larue . . arrested in girl’s injury.

| DETROIT, Oct. 1 (U. P.), — | Betty Wilson, 19-year-old auto- | graph seeker, was in: “temporary serious” condition today after being struck on the head by a 5-pound waste “basket thrown from an 18th floor hotel room during a celebration over the arrival of Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie. : * Police arrested Doris Larue, 31, who admitted flinging the waste basket, two rolls of paper, a desk pad and a lamp shade from the window 3 Miss Larue has been an employe in the local RFC office for several years. Physicians said Miss Wilson's skull was fractured and that she probably would have been killed if her “up” style coiffure had not protected her head.

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RELIEF AND FEE SETUPS RAPPED

County Tax Board Calls for Revision of Laws in Its Final Report.

| township poor relief financing and {fee system “evils” and to abolish statutory limits of public salaries, was urged today by the Tax Adjustment Board in its final report. Four recommendations were made on the confused poor relief syste They were: : \ 1. That the public, through crystallizing “its | opinion, “crack jdown” on township trustees to con(fine relief “doles” to those in actual ineed, and to use good business methods in relief administration,

| Change Relief Boundaries 2. That legislation be passed to place poor relief expenditures under budget control similar to other govrernmental units. 3. That trustees inaugurate a “reasonable” work-relief program. 4. That poor relief tax boundaries {be readjusted to spread the tax load throughout the county. The load {is borne now by Center, Wayne and | Perry Townships. { The Board also formally reiter‘ated a previous recommendation that Mayor Sullivan refuse to grant | proposed Civil City salary increases | as cne means toward “adjusting” an |estimated $250,000 general fund | deficit brought about by a $1.000,000 bookkeeping error in the budget.

County Council Lauded | In proposing that Mayor Sullivan [cut city budget increases, the Board | report criticized “city officials who | failed to assist the Board in taking jcut between $250,000 and $300,000 |in the city budget.” | ‘The.Board felt, the report stated {that it “could not competently” make the cuts to adjust the deficit fand balance the budget. The report added that the “un(Continued on Page Three)

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Revision of State laws to correct

EXPECT 31.000 FOR OCTOBER'S CONVENTIONS

34 Organizations to Bring 3000 More Than In 1939. month |

Indianapolis this | will be the ‘‘convention city” for 81,000 persons.

No less than 34 organizations will

{convene here during October for lone, two and three-day meetings. | Two will meet for five days.

Three thousand persons more than attended conventions during October, 1939, are expected. The largest group will be the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, ! bringing 15,000 members here Oct. 24 and 25. Fifteen organizations are holding their conventions here for the first time.

Termed ‘Lead-Off’ Month

Religious organizations will attract 2000 persons for their meetings. They are the Indiana Gideon Association, the Christian Churches of North America and the Wamen'’s Missionary Union of Friends in America. The Indianapolis = Convention Bureau considers October the {leadoff” month. May are the best months, apparently because vacations are just over in October: January marks the be-| ginning of the year and the weather | usually is nicest in May, according, to the Bureau. : Organizations, convention dates! and expected attendance are:

1000 Rebekahs Awaited Pythian Sisters of Indiana, Oct. 1-

Fire Fighters, Oct. 3-4 (60); Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Oct. 4-5 (175); Indiana White Shrines of) Jerusalem, Oct. 5 (100); Indiana Conference of Short Story Writers, Oct. 5 (50); Indiana Gideon Association, Qct. 5-6 (100): Townsend Party of Indiana, Oct. 6 (2500); Indiana Retail Clothiers and Men's Apparel Club, Oct. 6-7 (125), Rebekah State Assembly, Oct. 6-7 (1000); Indiana Baraca-Philathea | Union, Oct. 9 (250); Indiana In-| dependent Petroleum Association, Oct. 9-10 (250); Christian Churches of North America, Oct. 9-13 (1200); Women's Missionary Union of] Friends, Oct. 9-13 (600); Indiana In(Continued on Page Three)

FARM BUREAU BUYS

FIRST SKYSCRAPER

Majestic Building Price Is - Reported $150,000.

~ Back in 1895, residents of Indianapolis craned their necks to admire the city’s first skyscraper—the new 10-story Majestic Building at Maryland and Pennsylvania Sts. It was the show place of the Middle West and thousands of persons viewed the city from its roof. It was built before the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument and thus was the highest structure in the city. Today the Indiana Farm Bureau paid a reported $150,000 in cash for the building to house its offices sometime after March 1. The Citizens Gas & Coke Utility will continue to occupy half the basement and the first, second and third floors. The Farm Bureau eventually: will occupy the upper seven floors. The Farm Bureau now is housed in the Old Trails Building, Senate Ave. and Washington St. The Bureau has a membership of 120,000. The sale was negotiated by Albert E. Uhl of the Albert E. Uhl Co, realtors. Hassil E. Schenck, Lebanon, Bureau president, represented the Bureau, and the building was sold by the Majestic Building Co. Louis B. Ewbank is company president, Lawrence V. Sheridan, vice president, and Hiram W. McKee, secretary-treasurer. They, with Frank Shellhouse, form the board

of directors.

- By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.—The World Series opens here tomorrow (exclusive) and the only thing. more certain about it than that Judge Landis will arrive needing a haircut, is that the Cincinnati Reds will win. -The Detroit Tigers have been made the betting favorites at 7°to 5 but those odds are jas phoney as an umpire’s smile. And I'll prove it. In the first place, the Reds have the pitching, and if that doesn't give them "an edge then every baseball authority from Abner Doubleday down to Tallulah Bankhead is a liar. The first thing that a baby in this country is told is that pitching is 75 per cent of winning baseball. The Reds have Derringer, Walters, Thompson, Turner and Beggs to toss against the Tigers, and all the Tigers

Master-Mind McLemore Selects Reds, And Even Gives Score for All Games

. BULLETIN CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 1 (U. P.). —Big Buck Newsom, who pitches about as good a game as he talks, was chosen by Manager Del Baker of the Detroit Tigers as his starting pitcher against the Cincinnati Reds tomorrow in the first game of the 1940 World Series.

som and Bridges. After these three are used up, Detroit will have to appeal to the stands for help. The National League just can’t go on losing World Series to the American League forever. The Nationals have lost five straight and it's a long worm that has no turning. Ernie Lombardi, titanic. Reds catcher, has a sprained ankle that is hurting him something terrible. It is hurting him so badly that he

have to answer with are Rowe, New=-lhas found it impossible to get a

wink of sleep. And a wide awake Lombardi, one unable to take a snooze at home plate, gives the Reds a big edge. The Reds will be the inspired team this series. And their inspiration will come from a fear of what the hometown customers are likely to do to them if they take another licking. Cincinnati's citizens have not forgotten that four-straight banging the Yankees handed their heroes a year ago. The series should go six games with Cincinnati winning the first one, 5 to 4. The Tigers will take the second 8 to 3, but the Reds will take the next two, 3 to 1 and 4 to 2. The Tigers will pull up to 2-3 by winning the fifth, but the series will end with the next game when ‘the Reds do their only real hitting in

October, January id FE Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi |

the series and win 9 to 2.

REPORT BERLINERS FLEE AFTER 5-HOUR BOMBING; SUB TOLL SETS RECORD

« « « “The people of Japan do not want war with the United States.”

JAPAN'S ENVOY

BACKS HOWARD

Believes Nippon in Favor of Far East Commission To Ease Friction. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

‘Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The |ap-|

pointment of a commission to |explore the Far Eastern situation and, if possible, find an acceptable formula for a Japanese-American understanding would be welcomed by |Japan, Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi indicated today. The Ambassador stated his views in connection with a proposal made vesterday by Roy W. Howard | for the elimination of the dangerously developing friction between Japan and the ‘United States. Mr. Howard proposed that a commission: composed of Americans with some understanding and respect for Oriental psychology should be appointed at once with instructions to survey and report to Congress and

the President on the broad aspects! of the entire Far Eastern problem.

“The mere appoiniment of such a commission,” he said in an article appearing under his name, ‘should Japan prove agreeable to receiving it, would ease temporarily the mouitting tension.” { “I agree with Mr. Howard,” said the Japanese Ambassador. “The people of Japan do not want war with the United States and I am cqually convinced that the people of America do not want war with Japan. | “So anything that will tend to diminish the existing tension and allow time for a calm, dispassionate examination of the tundamentals along the line suggested at least could do no harm. On the copntrary, it might! do much good. | In times like these the important thing is to keep our teet on the ground. “I feel sure that should such a commission be appointed it would

{be welcomed in my country, where

I am confident it .would be atfordea every facility for carrying out its mission.” | Japan, the Ambassador went on, (Continued on Page Three)

ALMAZAN GENERAL SLAIN IN MONTERREY

Mexican Troops Quell Attempted Coup.

MONTERREY, Oct. 1 (U, P.).— Federal troops and local. police, acting on a tip that an attempt was to be made to seize the city and start a revolution, routed armed supporters of Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan early today in a brief bat< tle in which Gen. Andres Zarzosa and one soldier were killed. . Zarzosa was a supporter of Almazan. ; The attack by Mexican troops and police was made after they had been tipped by a private soldier that Almazan’s followers were meeting secretly and were preparing a coup. / : The battle between the Administration forces and the Almazanistas lasted 10-minutes. The clash was the most serious since sporadic | uprisings started about a month ago. Soldiers were unable to estimate the exact number of Alamazan supporters involved

BULLETINS - BERLIN, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—An authorized German spokesman of the economic section of the High Command tacitly admitted tonight that the war would go into a second winter. He sain however, that instead of Germany going hungry, that Xngland would feel the effects of the continued Nazi blockade.

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—The Stockholm Tidningen reported from Berlin today that large-scale evacuation of aged persons, women and children had been started in Berlin. ~ WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today told visiting chiefs of staff of Central and South American nations that they and the United States must defend this hemisphere on the principle of “one for all and all for one.” ;

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor ; The Axis powers and Great Britain struggled to sway the vast power of Soviet Russia and the United States today, as world-wide conflict mounted toward a new peak on military and diplomatic fronts. | .On the air and sea battlefields, Germany stepped.up airplane and U-boat attacks designed to starve Great Britain; the Royal Air Force staged a record five-hour raid over Berlin and battled Nazi warcraft over London; and Fascist air squadrons traded blows with the British in North Africa. The British Air Ministry reported that their bombers had seriously damaged the large West power station in Berlin as five waves of planes flew over the German capital,

Claims Docks Also Attacked

The Berlin attack was one of a, series on the roots of German war power which included extensive bombing of ‘objectives in the Netherlands. Attacks also were claimed on the docks at Cuxbaven and Amsterdam, the Channel ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Le Havre as well as German airdromes. | There were unofficial estimates in London that 5000 persons had been killed and 8000 injured in September bombings. © : But despite the steadily mounting tempo of aerial warfare there were develspments of still greater potential importance on the diplomatic front, including: 1. Efforts by Javan to improve relations with Soviet Russia, thus strengtnening the new German-ltalian-Jap-anese alliance, were predicted in| Moscow, where the Soviet press indirectly agreed with Nazis that relations between Russia and Germany were good and charged that the United States actually was engaged in military co-operation with Britain. 2. The German newspaper Hamhurger Fremdenblat called upon the Soviets and the United States to make known definitely which side they favor in the war.

Report Tokyo Cautions Britain

3. Premier Benito Mussolini was reported to have discussed with Spanish interior Minister Ramon Serrano Suner the claims of Spain on Gibraltar and French Morocco and to have talked over possibility of raising the Arab world in opposition to Britain. The Fascist press seemed less certain that Spain, which would be vulnerable to heavy British air and sea attack and which needs food coming through the British blockade, would enter the war until later. 4. Japan was reported in a. Tokyo news broadcast to be “cautioning” Britain against proposed reopening of the Burma Road for military supplies to China but British retaliation against Japan already appeared in progress at Cairo, where cotton shipments destined for Japan were held up. | : 5. A new German-Russian railroad agreement, it was reliably reported, will be signed in Berlin this afternoon, pro-

viding for regular raiiroad passenger traffic between Berlin (Continued on Page Three)

War Moves Today

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

Reports from Rome of plans to incite an Arab revolt against Great Britain, under Italo-Spanish leadership, bear evidence of serving as concealment of Hitler's and Mussolini's failure to inveigle Spain into the European war. . Negotiations of the Spanish envoy, Serrano Suner, at Berlin and Rome apparently have held up Mr. Mason totalitarian pressure on Spain “and have forced : Germany and Italy to recognize Spain's total lack of preparedness for warfare. : When Suner arrived in Germany, there were intimations from Berlin and Rome that plans were being discussed for capture of Gibraltar, Now, on the eve of|~ Suner’s return to Madrid comes the [war rather than to arrange for anti-climax, with Spain designated {Spanish participation. ! to urge Arabs in Asia Minor to fight | Suner is Spain's Minister of the the British. . bo Interior, which means he has charge It seems probable that the real of the internal administration of purpose of Suner’s conference with [the country and supposedly is better the European dictators was to pre- {informed than any other official of vent Spain being forced intp the (Continued on Pagg Three)

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