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Report Hitler and Duce on Way to Brenner Pass
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WALTERS AND ROWE DUEL IN SECOND GAME
Cincinnati’s Hopes Rest on Bucky’s Dipsy-doodle Sinker Ball.
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CROSLEY FIELD, CINCINNATI, Oct. 3.—It was Bucky Walters and his sinker ball against Schoolboy Rowe, the rejuvenated veteran, in today’s World Series battle. All the Cincinnati hopes rode with Walters. If his sinker ball didn’t sink, then it was generally conceded that the Reds would. Bucky had a bad start, walking the first two men to face him. And even though big Hank Greenberg * hit into a double play, the Tigers wound up with two runs. Cincinnati rallied to tie up the count in the second inning, but Indianapolis’ Mike McCormick ended the threat when he flied out with the bases full. Warm, sunny weather was the order again today and. Cincinnati fans were pulling for the Reds to avenge yesterday's 7 to 2 setback. Yesterday it looked as though the drama had been written from the same script that was used last year when the New York Yankees defeated the Reds four straight games in the series. Once agdin the whack of base hits resounded in the ears of the Reds as they scampered after
hard-hit balls. Detail play today:
- First Inning
TIGERS—Bartell walked. MecCosky walked. Walter came up. to the plate to protest to Umpire Ormsby. Gehringer singled to right, scoring Bartell and sending MecCosky to third. Greenberg hit into a double play, Werber to Joost to F. McCormick. McCosky scoring on the play. York fanned. TWO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. REDS—Werber hounced out, Bartell to York. M. McCormick fanned. Gehringer tossed out Goodman. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS.
Second Inning
TIGERS — Campbell fouled to Werber. Higgins grounded out, Myers to F. McCormick. Tebbetts popped to Myers. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. REDS—F. McCormick singled to left and gave the Reds fans one of their first chances of the series to cheer. Ripple popped to Bartell, F. McCormick holding first. Wilson singled to right, F. McCormick stopping at second. Joost slashed a single to center, scoring F. McCormick and sending Wilson to second. The crowd let loose a deafening roar. Myers singled past Higgins, scoring Wilson and sending Joost to second. Joost was trapped off second “but Tebbetis threw wildly into centerfield and Joost raced to third and Myers ads second. It was an error for Tebbetts. Walters flied to MecCosky in short center and the runners held their bases. Werber walked, filling the bases. Mike McCormick popped to Bartell in short left. TWO RUNS. FOUR HITS. ONE ERROR.
Newsom's Dad Sees Win, Dies
CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 3 (U.P.. —G. L. Newsom, father of Louis (Buck) Newsom, Detroit pitcher, died today of a heart attack in his hotel suite near the room of his son who won. the first World Series game yesterday. The elder Newsom, who was 68, had come" from his home in Hartsville, S. C.,, to watch Buck pitch against the Cincinnati Reds. It was the second major league ‘game he had seen hi$ son pitch. The father had been in ill health for several years. Earlier this season he was stricken with a heart attack while visiting in Washington to see Buck pitch against Washington. Buck said he intended to’ stay with the Detroit club for the duration of the series “because that would be the way Dad wanted it.”
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Walters . . . his sinker works, or Reds sink.
SCHULTE ‘SAFE’ IN 1ST DISTRICT
Re-election of Halleck 2d Predicted; Opposed By James 0. Cox. (This is the third of a series of articles, on: present political trends
in each of the State’s 12 Congres: sional districts.)
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By NOBLE REED
Unless Presidential
FOR DRAFT SET|
LATE IN MONTH
F. D. R. May Draw First |
Number From Bowl Between Oct. 21 and 26.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U. P.). — Maj. Ben Howell, di-
sion of Selective Service Headquarters, said today that the
ably would be held here be-
tween Oct. 21 and Oct. 26. The lottery | will determine the
called up for services. Mr. Howell said that after lottery it will require about five
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lists of order numbers to be re turned to local draft boards. . It is believed that the prchably will take place in the Sen
|ate, with President Roosevelt reach
(ing into the famous
| fishbowl for the first number.
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Mr. Howell reiterated that mem
fers of the National Guard—whether |;
active in state or Federal service— ‘need not register.
1 sentiment |
Conscription officials said persons |i
who interfere with the law on Regis-
changes radically in the next four tration Day, or at any other time,
weeks, the First District
(Lake! ‘will be dealt with
“effectively” by
County) is expected -to re-elect its the Government.
Demeccratic Congressman a n d another G. O. P. victory is pr dicted in the Second District. The re-election of Rep. Charies | A. Halleck, Republican, to his third terin in Congress irom the Second District appears almost a certainty in view of his past strength and his prominent connection with the Willkie campaign. Even most Democrats concede privately that any gains they make| in the Second District will not be enough to win, despite the possibility of any Willkie slump in that area. For four years, Rep. Halleck was the only Republican member ot Congress from Indiana and his clistrict was the only one in the State thet went Republican during the Democratic landslide in 1936. Opposing him is James O. Cox, a Valparaiso business man, who has heen campaigning principally for support of the Townsend old age pension groups. Democrats are basing their main hopes for gains in the Second on taking the pension support away trom Rep. Halleck who voted against the Townsend plan in Congress. The fact that Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Democratic ‘Governor (Continued on Page Five)
| BELONG TO THE NEW DEAL’--MINTON
Senator Declares Pensions! Are Inadequate.
Times Special SULLIVAN, Ind. Oct. 3.—0ld age pensions today became the major issue in U. S. Senator Sherman Minton's campaign for re-election. In his opening campaign speech at a Democratic mass meeting here last night, Senator Minton said present old age benefits were inadequate. He pledged his support to the Downey old-age pension bill which has been approved by the Townsend organization. “The Federal Government, for the sake of uniformity, should assume the burden of these pensions and | levy a tax to pay the costs as we go along,” he said. Describing his opponent, Raymond E. Willis, G. O. P. Senatorial candidate, as “belonging to the old deal,” Senator Minton said, “I belong to the New Deal.” “Ask my opponent if he will vote for the Downey bill. I challenge him to say what he will do.” The Senator said he “pleads
lis 400,000 "by Jan.
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Draft officials have received re-
demonstrations to induce conscientious objectors to refuse to register.
‘There’s No Rush,” Young
‘Hoosiers Are Informed
Young Hoosiers who have resigned themselves to conscription upon the first call, might as well keep their
tshirts on. Selective Service staff of-
ficials said today. They said that under -the draft set-up, with volunteer enlistments being credited to the state's quota, very few, and possibly none, would be drafted in Indiana before the first of the year. Some officers estimated that at least 5000 young men would volun-
teer for one-year training in Indiana| -
between registration day, Oct. 16, and Jan. 1. Although the states quota has not been computed officially, they said this number would probably meet the requirements up to the first of 1941.
Indiana’s Share 1800
Others estimated the numbers nf volunteers during this period I at 2500. But, it was explained, velunteer enlistments in the Regular Army and National Guard will reduce the quota even more. The Selective Service Act calls for 75,000 men to be in training by midNovember. According to the popula‘tion ratio, Indiana would provide a Jue more than 1800 of this numer. Additional men are to be called for training every 20 days. The goal J 15 and 900,000 within a . year. Indiana's yearly quota is expected to be approximately 22,500, with some 3000 coming from Marion County. Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, (Continued on Page Three’,
‘EXILES’ IN LONDON. ASK SERIES SCORES
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—In the midst of the 27th day of German bombing of London, the ftollowing message was received from members of the United Press s§Aff in the British capital: “Beleaguered exiles would greatly appreciate daily. World Series scores and batteries.”
BETHLEHEM STEEL ACCUSED
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3 (U, P.). — Philip Murray, chairman of the C. I. O. Steel. Workers Organizing Committee, today charged that Bethlehem Steel Corp. is cutting wages instead of raising wages as intended by an‘ order under the Walsh-Healey Act providing minimum pay rates on Government contracts. 1
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national draft lottery prob- .
sequence in which registrants will be |§ classification and |} possible induction inte: the armed §
e more |§ days to compile the official master |}
drawing
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e- | POrts that some persons and groups | opposed to the law are planning |
U. S. Forms Parachute Unit
A U. S. Army parachutist . , . in tower training.
Battalion of 500 Formed; Stimson Points Out Value
WASHTHCPION, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—War Secretary’ Henry L. Stimson announced teday that an initial battalion of 500 parachute troops, pat‘erned along the lines of Germany's sky soldiers, is being formed at Ft. Benning, Ga. “They were very successful against the French Army,” Mr. Stimson said. “In one or two instances they even captured the commander him-
WILLKIE PUTS WAR AT a ISSUE T0 FOREFRONT
which were more or less suicide squadrons. In Rotterdam they Declares He’s for Peace, FDR for Involvement.
actually seized the airport and captured a most important bridge along (Partial Text of Willkie Address, Page Sik)
the Zuider Zee.” Mr. Stimson said that such incidents show that parachute troops have thus “become an element of modern army equipment” and for thsi reason the U. S. Army is creating the new force. 5
Others Planned
The new uni, will be commanded by Maj. M. Miley and will be known as the 501st Parachute Battalion. The 48 enlisted men and two officers who recently underwent experimental training on 125-foot-high towers at Highstown, N, J., will form the nucleus of the battalion. Mr. Stimson said that the: initia hattalion, when trained, will provide the basis for the subsequent organization of additional parachute units. Besides the trained nucleus, the first battalion will be made up
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ABOARD WILLKIE SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct. 3.-—With broad strokes, Wendell IL. Willkie has painted across the political sky: “I am a man of peace.” And underneath: “Roosevelt is a man of war.” This was the significant theme in
his Cleveland speech, for it turned his campaign for the Presidency into a new channel and drew him closer to the course which the Republican Party had charted before the Phila-
_|delphia convention—itself as the
peace party, the Democrats as the war. party. And the biting arraignment of the President's foreign policy, the ine€
sinuations which ran through his bristling address, seemed to forecast a fight without gloves fro
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now until November along this line Since the start of the campaign Republican leaders in Congre (Continued on Page Five)
Bungling Bernard Is In Again, This Time
For Stealing a Mere Yacht and Sinking It
DOBBS FERRY, N. Y,, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Bernard Byrne, a 15-year-old adventurer, who has stolen two airplanes he couldn't fly and crashed them both, was in new trouble today for stealing a yacht he couldn’t sail and sinking it. He was back in the children’s detention home here, where he was being confined for his aerial escapades when he escaped to try the sea. Police planned to charge him with the boat theft, and the earlier plan to give him mechanical training at the detention home now was in jeopardy. Before he became interested in bigger things, Byrne had been arrested for stealing an automobile,
radio parts and a camera lens. Early >
last July he and Donald Blood, 14, decided to enlist in the Canadian branch of the Royal Air Force. All they knew about airplanes they had learned from watching pilots take off and land {at an airport near Byrne's - home. They slipped into a plane there, got it into the air, cruised over the neighborheod and came down just short of disaster in a field, damaging the plane. A week later they stole a plane from Hicksville, N. Y., and started for Canada. Fifty miles away, near Peekskill, they ran out of gasoline and landed without damage in a field. On the take-off, after refueling, .they- crashed. The plane was wrecked, but neither boy was hurt. Blood was paroled to his pary
ents, but Byrne was put in the detention Dy On the night of Sept. 25, Byrne and Nicholas Fippinger, 16, escaped. They went to a yacht club at Has-tings-On-Hudson, took a dinghy at the pier and rowed out to the $4000 vacht Bubs, owned by Charles E. Gerhart, which rode at anchor. Byre said they crossed the ignition” wires around a lock, started the engine and moved down the Hudson, bound for Florida, this time in hopes of joining the United States Army Air Force. At Kill Van Kill they knocked the bottom, out, of the boat on rocks and swam to shore. The boat later was salvaged. Byrne's mother surrendered: him to police
when hunger drove him Rome.
of selected volunteers from the various Regular Army infantry regiments within the continental United States. Disrupt Morale
“The consensus of evidence is that Germany used these units very effectively for certain specific purposes,” Mr, Stimson said. ‘They cere useful in disorganizing the headquarters of opposing lines. Parachute troops were ‘sent over pertain areas after the opposing orces had been located through an espionage system.”
ference that these parachutists would land in the neighborhood of enemy headquarters disrupting headquarters and morale.
WILLKIE TO INVADE FOES’ N. Y. CITADEL
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—As police searched for hoodlums who wrecked a New York Wendell Willkie Club headquarters, injuring one club official, Republican Party officials announced today that their candidate would take his campaign into the metropolitan area's most stanchly anti-Republican districts—Union Square and the garment center. Authorities sought six youths who made three attacks on a Willkie Club in Queens last week during which Stephen A. Edelman suffered an injured leg. Show windows in ‘the ‘club building were broken, literature destroyed and picturés of ‘Willkie were smeared with mud, authorities said.
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BRITISH FATE 5 LINKED WITH U.S. CONGRESS
Defeat Looms Unless Credit Is Given for War Goods, Simms Declares.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.— The fate of the British Empire will shortly be placed in the hands of the Congress of the United States. The only thing that can prevent it is an early termination of the war. But a simple “yes” or “no’— which it will have to pronounce whether it wants to or not — the American Congress will make a victory for Bwitain possible or doom her to almost certain defeat. It is a matter of supplies. Without planes and other vital war ma-
terials from this country, Britain's chances will bécome increasingly
{| slim. But when she runs out of cash
—as she may before long—all sup-
[plies from this country will auto-
matically cease. That is the law. Only Congress can head off that particular disaster. We have a “neutrality” law. This law has a cash-and-carry provision. Britain can buy whatever [she wants over here as long as she has the money with which to pay cash on the bar-
«| rel head and the ships in which to
haul it away. | Cash Not Inexhaustible But Britain's cash is not inexnaustible. At §he beginning of the
A conflict, it is estimated that she had
anywhere from three to five billion dollars on this side of the Atlantic
LABORITES GIVEN EXTRA POWER; FASCISTS MASS
Italians Reported On Greek Frontier: London Claims Dakar Tense Again; Germans Bomb Trains in England.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Great Britain hoosted Laborite foes of naziism to greater governmenta! power today, Fascist troops were re< ported massing on the Greek frontier and ‘Rome and Berlin reported that Adolf Hitler might meet Benito Mussolini tomorrow at Brenner Pass to plan new war moves by the Axis powers. The retirement of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who championed appeasement, but later sternly prosecuted the war against Germany, was viewed as symbolic of the determination of Britain to fight on relent lessly against Hitlerism and of the increasing power of labor in the British Government, The Cabinet changes came against a background of British air activity that appeared to exceed that of Germany and Italy. British planes ranged from Scandinavia to East Africa, blasting at German and Italian bases with heavy loads of bombs. Attack Great Krupp Works
One of the most important objectives was the great Krupp works at Essen, where much of Germany's heavy arms and munitions are produced. The British claimed to have started fires and explosions. =~
in gold, securities, and other investments readily convertible into dollars. A large part of ‘this reserve has already been spent. And wars have a way of costing more and more as time goes on. The World War cost Britain 38 billion dollars, of which about four billions were spent the first year, eight the second, 10 the third and about 16 billions the fourth. The first half of the 1940-41 fiscal |: year, British war spending resulted in a deficit of more than $4,600,000,000, according to Treasury figures. No Credit, Law Says Pretty soon, according to the experts, Britain will have to quit buying in the United States or begin buying on credit. As matters stand, however, Britain cannot buy on credit in this country—not even if her existence depends on it. In addition to the “neutrality” law there is the Johnson Act which bans loans to Governments whose war debts to the United States are in default. Britain is in default to the tune of nearly five billion dollars. So if Britain is| to continue her purchases in the United States after her cash gives out, Congress will have to act. Congress.can do one of two things: It can amend or repeal the Johnson Act insofar as Britain is concerned, or it can appropriate funds to pay for supplies and make Britain a present of them.
F.D.R. TO REPORT ON REARMAMENT OCT. 12
Dayton Speech Will Go on Air to Latin America.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt will give the United States and the entire West- | ern Hemisphere a report on America’s rearmament in a radio speech on the night of Oct. 12 from Dayton, O. Secretary Stephen T. Early said it will be non-political. Accordingly, he said, it will be transmitted free by the National Broadcasting Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System
Mr. Stimson told his press con-|and the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-
tem. He said the address will be rebroadcast in Canada and will be “beamed” America. The theme of the address, said Mr. Early, will follow the line of Mr. Roosevelt's remarks earlier this week to Latin-America chiefs of staff who called on him—that hem-
SUN SHINES TODAY, CLOUDS ARE ON WAY
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Autumn sparkled on Indianapolis again today, sunny and near normal in temperature. Temperatures. will remain. about the same tonight and A tomorrow, but the skies will be partly cloudy tomorrow, ‘the * Weather’ Bureau pre-
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Other British bomber squadrons Blasted at the French Coast invasion ports, and at Stettin, Hamburg, Bottrop, Cologne, Hamm, Wilhelmshaven, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend and Calais. In fast Africa, British squadrons attacked Italian positions at Gura, El Uak, Buna, and Assab with a loss of two planes, according to the Italian report. German warplanes dodged through heavy rain clouds in scattered, but severe, attacks by lone raiders that escaped heavy anti-aircraft fire and defense fighters in the London area and many scattered regions of England.
Main Line Train Is Bomber An attack on a main line train from Euston station in London to the midiands resulted in minor casualties inflicted by machine-gun buliets, and a Nazi bomber—Ilater shot down-—caused a number of deaths and other casualties as it bombed and machine-gunned a town in the London region, Damage and casualties were reported from the Thames Valley, Essex, Kent, Cornwall and.the Midlands, but the raids were comparatively light. A famous boys’ school in southeast England/ was bombed, however. Berlin had a 90-minute air raid alarm. Stockholm reported British planes bombed objectives in Copenhagen, including an airfield, sowed mines in the waters of the Oeresund, and dropped bombs on Mima, Sweden—the last presumably by accident.
Rumor Mulntoy May Attend In Rome, there were persistent, but unconfirmed reports, not denied in Berlin, that Mussolini and Hitler might already be en route to Brenner Pass. These reports indicated that important plans were to be discussed, especially in relation to the position of Russia in view of the new
by shortwave to Latin|g@
isphere defense is a common task.
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dicted,
German-Japanese-italian alliance. There were some suggestions that Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov would attend, but these were doubted because of repeated Nazi-Fascist réports in the past that Molotov would join in such a conference—all of them un-
fulfilled.
The possibility of a Brenner Pass cont aronch was given added significance as a result of dispatches trickling through
the Greek censorship from Athen
i stringent mili-
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War Moves Today
‘By J. W. T. MASON
United Press War Expert
German air bombings over Great Britain have shown decreasing intensity this week, while at the | same time the number of visiting planes. at times,
has approximated 1000.
Instead of continuously
raining bombs or challenging British fighters to combat, much of the German flying time seems to be concerned with evasion tactics.
Mr. Mason
This curious action seems to imply that many
new German aviators are being sent over Britain not to participate in the air offensive, but rather to gain practice and
accustom themselves to British air methods.
It is as if mock battles
were being fought and training maneuvers were being conducted with
the enemy. The Germans repeatedly evade
damage and spotting new land-
actual battle, dodging about through marks. But, when reports from Lonthe clouds and keeping at a safe|don indicate that hundreds of enemy
distance from the British fighters. Also’ they fly high in the sky, beyond range of the British anti-air-craft guns. If only a few German planes were engaged in such performances, it would be legitimate to conclude that|e they were on reconnaissance missions, seeking information Fou
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aircraft are operating evasively, ans other reason must be found. The most obvious conclusion is that the German air force has been. losing: too many aviators in the ate tacks on Great Britain and greater operating skill has become neces= sary. American official military ob= (Continued on Page
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