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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 176

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940

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TROIT ROUTS ERRINGER IN SECOND INNING

Bobo Hewson Tiger Hurler; 33,000 Jam Stands; Weather Perfect.

Detroit |............. 050 Cincinnati

CROSLEY FIELD, CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.—Paul Derringer, Cincinnati's ace righthander, failed to last out the second inning as the Reds opened the World Series with Detroit here today.

The Tigers drove. him off the mound |with| a five-hit, five-run barrage after he had retired them in

order in the first frame. Whitey Moore took over for him. Big Bobo Newsom, who blustered that he |would “blow ’em down with my fast| one,”. was serving them up Detroit. Thirty-three thousand persons were in the stands under perfect Indian summer skies. A warm sun heat down |on the. field as Al Schacht], the baseball comedian, sent the crowd into roars with his antics around third base.

Lombardi, Frey on Bench

The Reds went into the first game § ippled and underdogs in the |} regular second g baseman is out with an injured toe |}

badly ci betting.|I.onnie Frey, and his Joost. Ernie| Lombardi, hard-hitting catcher, also was on the bench with a sprained ankle and his place was taken by Jimmy Wilson, 40-year-old

place was taken by Eddie

Favorites in the betting at 3 to 2, boasting ‘four 300 hitters and a line-up | loaded with enough power to break down the walls at Crosley Field, the Tigers were the Gollaths of this struggle. Against that awesome array the Reds sent a cunning, fast-thinking ball club, weak on hitting but with more good pitchers than a crockery merchant. City in Carnival Spirit Cincinnati's half million residents made every hour a carnival time as the series op2ning approached. All of the 33,000 seats in Crosley Field were sold and grandstands were built: on roofs. Window space in apartments overlooking the park sold for 81 a square

vard and flags brightened the streets. First Inning TIGERS—Bartell fanned, swing-

ing. McCosky flied to Ripple in short left. Gehringer grounded out, Derringer to F. McCormick. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. REDS — Werber grounded out, Higgins to York. M. McCormick doubled to right. Goodman rolled out, Higgins to York. McCosky backed against the centerfield fence and made a spectacular one-handed NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS.

Second Inning

TIGERS — Greenberg singled to left. York singled to right, GreenCampbell (Continued on Page Three)

GUARDSMEN TO HELP GUIDE ROCKNE CROWD

SOUTH BEND, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— City officials today announced utili-

zation of National Guard companies to aid in policing an expected crowd | of 100,000 for final events of a week-| long program honoring the memory of Knute Kockne, famed University of Notre Dame football coach., Two companies of the 113th Indiana Engineers will co-operate with local police in directing crowds attending the world premiere of the movie “Knute Rockne—All-Ameri-can” on Friday and the College of the Pacific-Notre Dame football game on Saturday.

SAME PREDICTION: FAIR AND WARMER

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ... 48 19 a. m. . 68 wa. me ...5 11am. ...7 8 a.m . 56 12 (noon).. 71 Ya.m .... 00 1pm ...7%2

‘More ideal autumn weather was promised Indianapolis for at. least through tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. Under sunny .skies the mercury will go into the 70s today and tomorrow it will be several degrees warmer.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

On the Mound

a Paul Derringer . . . his control against Tiger. power.

Buck Newsom . . . “I'll mow ‘em down.”

DRAFT LISTING

11TH DISTRICT S VULNERABLE

Willkie Birthplace Included; Larrabee Is Facing Factional Fight. (This is the second of a series of articles on present political

trends in each of the State's 12 Congressional Districts.)

By NOBLE REED For 10 years the Eleventh Congressional District—com-

{prising the eastern one-third

of Marjon County and all of Hancock and Madison Counties—has been a Democratic stronghold in Indiana.

But this year neutral observers are regarding it as the most vul-

| nerable of any Democratic district

in the State. } Republicans are basing hopes upon continuation of the party's smashing gains there in 1938, when they came within a bare 4000 votes of winning the Congres-

their

‘| sional race.

Analysts point out that Elwood, the “home town” of Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie is in the Eleventh District and that. the Willkie. “native son” influence may turn Madison County over to the

4| Republican column by a substan-

tion majority. (Madison County went Democratic by only 1000 in 1938.) | “Need Only Few Thousand”

“It would take only a few thou-

ANALYSTS SAY §

Willkie Dodges Eggs in Pontiac

WILLKIE SCORES U.S. BUMBLING

sand extra Willkie voters to swing the district away from another] Democratic majority,” one observer | said. Since most of the voting in the

DUE BY NOV. 16

Classification to to Be First Board Action; Rules Are Qutlined.

You'll know within a month after registration for the draft whether you're likely to he called. All draft boards are to notify registrants of their classifications as soon as the classifications are made. Persons in Class I will be subject to call while those in Classes II, IIT and IV will not be. The notification is designed, according to officials, to eliminate needless worry on the part of those in the latter classes and to acquaint those in Class I with their exact situation.

Pamphlet to Go to Each

“All registrants will be handed a pamphlet: containing complete instructions concerning the draft at the time they register. A complete text of the pamphlet was issued in Washington today. The pamphlet is written in the second person and opens with a letter from President Roosevelt in which he says, “I wish I could personally talk to each of you about our country’s pressing need for a stronger defense, and its vital meaning to you, your family and the whole nation.

‘Task Is Compelling’ “I would tell you that the task before us today is as compelling as! any that ever confronted our peo- | ple, and I uld add that each of us must willingly do his bit if we are to hold fast our heritage of freedom and our American way. of | life—our national existence itself. “And whether or not you are to be among those selected, I welcome you as one whose name has been inscribed on the roll of honor of those Americans ready, if need be, (Continued on jon Page e Five)

GOAL ACT RAISES CITY'S FUEL COST

$25,000 a Year Added to Sanitation Bill.

The City will pay about $25,000 a year more for coal as the result of the National Bituminous Coal Act which became effective yesterday, Sanitation Plant Superintendent Don E. Bloodgood, told the Works Board today. ” The cost of coal to the City has risen 70 cents a ton. However, there are 2000 tons in storage at the plant, which will carry operations until Nov. 1.

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20 (plant would be short about $2800 14! when coal purchases for November

|000 annually to pay its coal bill,

Mr. Bloodgood estimated that the budgeted amount for coal at the

and December are made under the new price. The sanitation plant budgets $70,-

Mr. Bloodgood said. Board members, discussing the. price rise, con'sidered the possibility of waiting ll the Act has been tested in the

restine,

women alike, are taking their right

“| friends were mostly neighborhood

district is on machines, “scratch” voting from the Republican national ticket to Democratic candidates is not expected to be a major factor. Republicans are placing high hopes in their Congressional candidate, . Maurice G. (Red) Robinson, young Anderson attorney, whom they say is making a “whirlwind campaign” through the district. Rep. William H. Larrabee of Palthe Democratic incumbent who has been in Congress for 10 vears, defeated William O. Nelson by a scant 65,000 to 61,000 two years, ago after winning in 1936 by an| overwhelming 27.000 majority. Democratic leaders, none of whom will admit there is a chance of their losing the district this year, hasten to explain that the 1938 (Continued on Page Five)

VOTE REGISTRATION NEAR RECORD HERE

Hundreds Wait in Line to Be On Poll Lists.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM

If there isn't a record breaking vote cast in the Nov. 5 election, it won't be because. of any shortage in registered voters. A tour of the voter registration branches, which are making their last stand today, indicates that Indianapolis’ adults, both men and

|to vote pretty seriously this year, more seriously than for many years ast. Hundreds, ranging from first voters to gray-haired grandparents, stood patiently in line, some of them more than an hour, at the branches last night and today, determined not to miss the boat on election day. It was a pretty quiet crowd. For the most part they weren't saying much — just standing in line and inching slowly forward. conversations among neighbors or

gossip, or talk of the war. The political discussions were left

Sporadic | ge

Fears Military Weakness as Triple Alliance Thinks In Terms of War.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN EN ROUTE TO CLEVELAND, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Japan, Germany and Italy are “thinking about the United States in terms of war,” Wendell L. Willkie said today at Adrian, Mich. Commenting on the German-1talian-Japanese pact, Mr. Willkie said the “obvious ‘purpose of the alliance was an antagonistic attitude toward the United States.”

He said that with powers” arrayed against us, United States has only 75,000 adequately. equipped troops and is weak economically,

Criticizes Foreign Policy

“Nobody in .this country wants war,” Mr. Willkie said. “We want peace, yet here we are in the year 1940 © with three. of the most

belligerent powers in the world thinking of us in terms of war.” He criticized Mr. Roosevelt's conduct of foreign affairs and said that as a result of bumbling” the United States has “little influence in the world today.” “Our only danger of war is if we remain weak,” he asserted. Mr. Willkie asserted it is “time to retire a Roosevelt who promoted the Munich pact.”

Warns Ohio Workers

After his swing into the automobile and manufacturing centers of Michigan, Mr. Willkie carried his campaign into. Ohio, warning industrial workers of the East they

security in their old age unless they remove President Roosevelt from oi-

fice. He traveled through the steel and rubber manufacturing centers telling factory workers that “paying social security premiums to a Federal Government that is year after year increasing its indebtedness and continuing | an unbalanced budget is like paying a premium into an insurance company that you know is going into bankruptcy before you he principal.” r. Willkie was en route to Cleveland to deliver a major address ‘on foreign affairs in the public auditorium at 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis

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ROME, Oct. 2 (U., P.).—Van Dyck’s famous painting “Christ on the Cross” has at last been returned to the Termonde Cathedral in Belgium after being used for four months as an improvised screen against wind and rain by a Belgian refugee family, The adventures of the 17th Century Flemish painter's masterpiece were detailed in a dispatch to the newspaper Il Messaggero today. On May 16 “Christ on the Cross” and a number of other works in the Cathedral were packed in to a large truck along with all the municipal art objects. The Thermonde Bugomaster then placed 23 members of his family in the trick and fled before the German advance. The Burgomaster originally planned to leave the master-piece and other art pleces for safe- keep-

Sfumems Court before paying The néw price. woh

ing in the Ghent Cathedral, but in

Famous Painting of Christ

reen Off Wind

their haste to leave the country the family did not even pause in Ghent. During their dismal trek southward through France the refugee family used the large canvas of “Christ on the Cross” as an impovised roof and wind-break. When comparatively normal life was resumed in Belgium, a commission was appointed to seek the missing canvas. After several months’ search it was found in a refuge® camp, still serving as a roof for a refugee hut. Tne painting was carefully packad and returned to the Termonde Cathedral. There it was found that rain, wind, sun and the exigencies of camp life had resulted in serious damage to the head of the figure, although the rest of the painting was unmarked. The damage was sald to be not Beyohd

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“three war-like the |

may be unable to collect ‘social!

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Wendell Willkie, standing in his car in Poatiac, Mich., ducked as eggs were thrown at him yesterday. He was not hit, hut several eggs broke on the car a nd one splattered the dress of Mrs. Willkie.

Gone 3 Months,

ArmyW ants Him

A MAN WEARING a soldier's uniform from which all insignia had been stripped entered Police Headquarters today and told the desk lieutenant that he didn’t know who he was or where he came from. “I was sitting in a coffee shop,” he said, “and I realized T really didn't know anything about myself so I came here.” - A search revealed a pass from Ft. Harrison good for July 4 and 5,’an identification tag bearing the name of James W. Calico. Army officers said a James W. Calico had been missing since July 5 and said they would take the man into mpinte.custodys | -

ROOSEVELT MAPS NEW DEFENSE TOUR

Promises to to Build Plants Inland When Possible.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. Pl

1 d today | Presidenti Rooseveli prepare ay) | States send a survey commission to!

for another inspection tour of de-|

may have a bearing on his programj to locate new defense plants’ inland! whenever possible: i

He ‘told governors of three Mid- | frained from h

western states yesterday that the rule will- be to establish new industries in the area between ‘the Rockies and the Alleghanies when that objective can be »ealized without a sacrifice of time. Mr. Roosevelt will visit his Hyde Park, N. Y., hame this week-end and, on Monday, inspect the Army's arsenal at Watervliet, N. Y., one of the major producers of big guns. The President indicated he would study accessibility of the arsenal! from the seaboard. Mr. Roosevelt already has given the 28 Southern and Central states assurance that aviation expansion in the future will be in their areas.

VESSEL INDICATES SUBMARINE NEARBY

NEW YORK, Oct, 2 (U.P) .— Mackay Radio reported today that it had intercepted a distress signal from the steamship Kayeson indicating that a submarine was in its vicinity. The Kayeson gave its position as about 400 miles due west of southern Ireland. Lloyd's register lists the Kayeson as a 4606-ton British ship, registered out of London, owned by the Coolham Steamship Co. and managed by Kaye, Son & Co. i

5 Days Left To Register

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

Today Only School buildings at 2411 Indianapolis Ave.; 23 N. Rural St.; Walnut and Delaware Sts.. 1240 W. Ray St.; 2425 E. 25th De and 30th St. and College ve.

Branch registration offices will close tonight but registration will continue at the Court House until next Monday night, the deadline.

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President of Nippon Press

HELP GUIDE U, S.. HOWARD ASKED

Urges Campaijgn for Peace in Pacific.

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BRITISH

ERLIN

EXPECT

DRIVE ON SUEZ, PLAN SHAKEUP

Lloyd ‘George May Be Asked Into Cabinet: Germany to Control Italian Army;

Sunken Ships

Clog Le Havre.

\ By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

Groat Britain ana Germany battered each other with aerial bombs at an ever-increasing tempo today, but London military experts believed a new Axis offensive against the Suez Canal might open soon under direction of the Nazis. Meanwhile, another drastic Government shakeup was reported in the offing, involving the resignation of Neville Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council and Conservative Party leader, and another invitation to David Lloyd

George to join the Cabinet.

Reports said the shakeup might include the resigna-

the Exchequer Kingsiey Wo

tions of Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of

od and Viscount Beaverbrook,

‘Minister of Aircraft Production.

The aerial war—apparently destined to go. on through the winter regardless ot. other attacks on the British Empire

—raged fiercely over Britain,

and Germany, with both Ber=

lin and London suffering new onslaughts.

Report Sunken Ships Clog Le Havre

British bombing pilots ‘r

eported they had caused four

great explosions in the northwest suburbs of Berlin while attacking heavy macainery factories and that vast damage

‘was dore in bombing of munitions factories, electric stations,

oil supplies, ports and other objectives from the French

Coast to the Ruhr valley. “Dispatches from Vichy,

TOKYO, Oct. 2 (U. P).—The

message today to Roy Ww. Howard of | the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, | urging him to help guide Aericon) public opinion so that peace could

be preserved in the Pacific. “At no time has the crisis on the Pacific been so acute as at present.” the message said.

might be prevented “if America

STOCKS, BONDS RISE

abandons its fortifications at Pearl Harbor * (Hawaii), Midway Islands. gives up its support | of (Chinese Generalissimo) Chiang

Kai- shek, , and restores trade ? 1 normalcy. “Otherwise,” Mitsunaga said, “an |

armed clash is inevitable in the near | future.” Mr. Howard had recommended | Monday in an article in ScrippsHoward newspapers that the United | the Far East to study conditions| lations with Japan. Newspapers here devoted.

tie) space to the- suggestion [and

re- | Yakichiro Suma, Foreign Office

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RESTAURANT BANDIT -

IS CHASED 4 MILES

'Eludes Police in ice. in Valiy of

Gunfire. |

An armed bandit who early to- |

in a North Side restaurant eluded

police under a volley ot gunfire dur- | ing a four-mile pursuit. | “All right, hand over the money | to me,” the bandit demanded of] Elmer Talbert, the clerk in a Toddle House at 714 E. Maple Road. When the clerk failed to obey the command, the bandit reached over the counter, opened the cash

an alley to an automobile. Keeping watch at College: Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd, in a cruiser, Patrolmen Harry Hammond and | Noel Stark saw the bandit’s car and started in pursuit west on the boulevard.

turned south on Senate Ave. then west on 16th St. and outdistanced the police car. The officers abandoned the chase west of Perry Stadium.

IN ‘RELIEF’ OVER TAX|

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 U. P.. Stocks and bonds opened firm in moderately active trading today reflecting relief over passage of the] excess profits tax. Du Pont gained a point to 179 on the first sale but in most instances changes were fractional. U. S. Steel opened 1000 shares at 597 up ls. New York Central on 1500 shares opened.at 15 up !4 and Southern Pacific had a 1000- hate block at

drawer, took about $15 and fled into |:

Patrolman Stark fired several] times at the car, but the bandit |}

that British bombing raids

‘great damage.

the French capital, reported on the French Channel ports,

president of the Nippon Press As- -eSpecialiy Le Havre, had inflicted many casualties on French sociation, Hoshio Mitsunaga, sent a civilians as well as German military forces and had done

Le Havre harbor was reported clogged with sunken

‘ships. . Ninety-four civilians ‘wounded at that port alone. An Air Ministry comm bombers

were reported killed and 200

unique said that the British

attacked freight yards at Hamm, Soest, Westerholt, It said that the impending crisis (sreenberg and Coblerz, the railway junctions at Sterkrade

and Holten, cana! docks in the Ruhr, an aircraft factory at

Guam and the Rotterdam and ‘several enemy airdromes.”

Germans Attack With New Fury

“The ports of Rotterdam, Flushing, Dunkirk, Bouloore. Calais and Le Havre and gun emplacements near Cap Gris ‘Nez also were neavily bombed,” the communique -said. “Three of our aircraft have not reported to their base.” While the British bombers were raiding Berlin, other points in Germany and German bases in France and Holland fense projects early next week that! i; cio with a view to improving re- | the attacks on Channel ports, possible invasion bases, were

‘seen from English shores."

In return, stronger and

more furious German attacks

eitorial comment, [wets made on Great Britain, where Royal Air Force fighters spokesman, said that “as an idea it in- diving. “surprise” attacks broke up big formations but

tailed to prevent .enemy raiders from getting through io

mb London, Manchester, Li

verpool and other objectives.

Six Alarms Sound in London

Six air raid alarms soun

ded in London, where the Air

‘Ministry said nine German planes were brought down in air

| battles.

The German attacks again were scattered over a wide area in England as tne Nazis continued their attempts to break up harbor facilities and communications centers. The German High Command reported that Nazi bomb-

more tes wnd

‘tary objectives, settin plants, airplane facto

day held up and robbed the clerk ing planes had continued pulverizing raids on British mili-

fires and damaging munitions other war production centers,

Continuation and probably intensification of the aerial

‘war throughout the winter

that threatens Europe with

‘hunger and perhaps pestilence appeared to be expected by

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German

present bad w

eral Staff now

Mr. Mason

‘There is no evidence, however, shipping lanes continue open and

expectation of military Europe seems to be giving way to hope ‘of the economic overthrow of the British Empire as the

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert

victory in

eather season hegins to affect the

intensity of the Nazi. air attacks. The new economics section of the Garman Gen-

is gaining its first attention in the

war with predictions that hunger will overtake Britain this winter, bringing the conflict.to an end.

to support this conclusion. British American correspondents in Great

Britain report no interruption of food supplies reaching the British ports.

Though for one week in September the sinkings of British cargo ships were greater ‘than for any other week of the war, there is no indication in London that counter-

measures to reduce shipping losses |

‘cannot be taken. The 50 new American - destroyers transferred to Britainn would seem - able to strengthen the convoy system sufficiently to curb any fresh submarine menace. Rather than giving encouragement to Hitler, the fundamental conclusions of the economics sec-

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tion of the German High Command concerning international trade in war time should have disheartening effect. The German Army's economic | bureau was established after the last World War following the High Command’s conviction that Germany’s defeat was not due to mili= [tary reasons but to the nation’s economic collapse, which again threatens the Naz regime. The economics section is under (Continved on Page 7 Five)

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