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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 178

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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HITLER, DUCE WEIGH NEXT BLOW |

" Japan Prepared to Meet U. S. Challenge, Premier

JIM TURNER IS SURPRISE REDS SLAB STARTER

Ex-Tribe Hurler Opposed by Tommy Bridges in Detroit Opener.

Cincinnati... 100 Detroit % BRIGGS STADIUM, DETROIT, Oct. 4.—A couple of Tennessee neighbors held the world series spotlight today

Tiger Fans Fill B

REGISTRATIONS BREAK RECORD: I'S A MYSTERY

‘Defense Jobs, Democrats Claim; Protest Vote, Says G. 0. P.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM The heavy registration of voters for the Nov. 5 election is giving the party organizations, both Republican and Democratic, cause for some pretty vigorous head scratch-

leachers

WHISTLE BOMB BARELY BRITAI

Nazis Strike at Londor American Aid to Br: Topic at Bre

By JOE ALE}

MISSES

S KING

After Quiet Nights iin Believed One ner Pass.

IORRIS

United Press Forei; | News Editor

as the rivals renewed their| 8 warfare here. : Old Jim Turner, who won 14 and * lost T games for Cincinnati this seafon, | was operating on the Red's mound. Opposing him was Tommy kd Bridges, the veteran little curve-ball| star, on the Detroit mound. ! It (was the third game of the se-| ries, with the count standing at one] game each.

Adolf Hitler and Benito | 'ssolini weighed new Axis war blows at a Brenner Pass = ceting today, while in the Far East Japanese leaders mis || a warning to the United States with talk of the need fo. American “understanding.” Coincident with diplomati developments, war in the air went on relentlessly, with Bi ish bombers attacking German ships and continental bas¢ in daylight raids and Nazi war planes endangering King © ‘orge by a “whistle” bomb

ing. Neither group is sure just what it means. . The Democratic leaders say it means a heavy Democratic vote, At Republican headquarters, you'll hear that it means a heavy Republican vote. The Democrats explain it as the

Manager Bill McKechnie of the Reds decided 45 minutes before i game time to send the veteran Turner, former Indianapolis star, out in an attempt to put Cincin-| nati out in front, Del Baker, man- | Ra ager of the Tigers, already had id & $n nounced Bridges would be his starting pitcher and added that if Turner pitched, Bruce Campbell] * would start in right field for De-| troit. Otherwise, he would start] Petz Fox. Lombardi in Action McKechnie called on the crippled | Ern:e Lombardi as his catcher to-| iis day.

Bleacherites at Briggs Stadinm for the third World Series game.

result of superior organization and more intensive efforts to get Demo- | cratic voters registered. Too, they say, thousands of new voters have

moved into the county to take jobs here.

program contracts. Sees ‘Ins’ Going Out

The Republicans see in the heavy registration a fremendous protest vote. Si George Johnson, in charge of G. 2 O. P. registration activity, said “there’s an old rule that when a lot of people get ready to vote, the ‘ins’

The big fellow has a sprained .right ankle and will be working under a serious handicap, but the |

APPEAL AGENTS

Reds need his powerful bat «nd! Lom said hé was ready to go. The Reds didn't waste any time. Bill Werber slapped the first ball pitched to the left field corner for

had better look out.” “We've registered a lot of elderly people, women especially,” he said, “who never voted before. They're opposed to conscription and don’t (like the way the Administration has been handling the neutrality situation.”

Firemen Spray Neon Display

RICE LAKE, Wis, Oct. 4 (U,

Many of these jobs are the % result of the New Deal's defense

later.

a double. He galloped home on Ival Goodman's single a few minutes

Fans Greenberg, York

Turner got a big hand in the second inning. He made big Hank Greenberg swing at a wide third strike and then sneaked a third strike past York. ] A half hour before the game the reserved seats began to fill up and | indications. were that a near ca-!

LIST SUBMITTED

15.0ut of 30 Selected by Cox Will Serve on County Draft Boards.

Circuit Court Judge Earl Cox to-| day announced the names of 30) Marion County ‘lawyers, 15 Repub-|

P.).—Firemen who answered an alarm in the business district played four streams of water at a red glow visible through the billows of smoke pouring from the first floor of a store building. A puff of wind cleared away the smoke and revealed that the fire was upstairs. The red glow they had been dousing with water was

[tration offices which closed Wednes-

Meanwhile, with only three days left before the registration deadline Monday night, William Flanary, chief registration clerk, estimated total registrations will reach or exceed 305,000. The highest previous peak was 286,000. in 1938. : Mr. Flanary said there have been 39,376 new registrations and 36,408 transfers, er changes of address, thus far. Of these, the branch regis-

pacity crowd of around-54,000 would !licans and 15 Democrats, which he

a neon tube around a clock. day accounted for 21,436 new regis-

A German supply ship of about 2500 tons is struck on the stern by a British bomb during an aerial shower on it while at a pier in Haugesund, Norway. The same British raiders also struck at oil tanks, transports and encampments along the Norwegian Coast. .

WILLKIE'S TRIP AXIS ‘ENMITY' BECOMES EPIC NOTEDBYF.D.R.

It's Democracy in Action; Points to Rome Dispatch Pittsburgh Hears Pledge Saying His Defeat at To Keep Labor Gains. Polls Is Desired.

attack on London during scatie

4 but steady raids through

heavy “clouds over British obiei ves.

The meeting’ of the Nazi armored car at Brenner Pass Ww ginio Gayda as designed to sr British Empire, presumably in| as covering political subjects & Russia and American aid to B1

Military Probler The presence of German:

at Brenner Pass emphasized ©

an important part in the dis

asserted that nothing would tL trophic” consequences of the m One Londonn newspaper, | meeting might foreshadow ar

said that it showed that Hitles

of Britain. i In the Far East, the new diplomatically, but official st: Fumimaro Konoye and by {I were a mixture of defiance of

(Partial Text of Willkie’s Speech, WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).— : Page 22.) President Roosevelt today took offimem S cial notice of assertions that GerBy THOMAS L. STOKES many and Italy ate working to deTimes Special Writer feat him in the November election. Roosevelt read to a press

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4—An epic! Mr.

attend.

| | recommended to Governor Town-|

trations and 25,047 transfers.

of democracy was played out in this!

conference a New York Times dis-|

| send as appeal agents to serve with

2 INDUSTRIES HERE

While Mr. Flanary expects to dusky city which squats at the have the names of 305000 voters .onfiuence of three great rivers properly registered by Monday just like a giant cat, toying with the

{patch from Rome which asserted | {that the Axis “is out to beat Pres|ident, Roosevelt.” The President said he was merely

. box,

Two Indianapolis industries have ‘been issued permits to erect addi[tions to their plants which will cost |

need more

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|south of the present plant and will next month's election would be 270,-

“About every | i" County Health Boards and

000 to 275,000. Insane Can't Vote

Among those registered but ineligible to vote are persons committed to insane and penal institutions. The registration office receives daily a list of deaths from the City

these names are removed from the files immediately. Whenever a voter moves to another county and registers to vote there, the local office is notified and removes his name, but if he fails

First Inning REDS — Werber lined the first; the local draft boards. pitch to the left field corner for ,a| Fifteen of the 30 will be selected, double. M. McCormick failed to one for each draft board in the] bunt twice and then struck out, county. Lieut.-Col. Robinson Hitch- T0 BUILD ADDITIONS swinging. Goodman singled sharply | ! or os to center. scoring Werber. F. Me- | ¢ocK, head of the Selective Se Cormick flied to Campbell, Goodman | staff, said that the appointments] holding first. Ripple was called out | would not be announced until they Dj mond Chain and Furnas! on strikes, ONE RUN. TWO HITS. had been sent to President Roose- a : NO ERRORS. {velt by Governor Townsend. Plan Expansion. TIGERS—Myers tossed out Bar-| | ; . : o | Judge Cox said he could not see] tell. McCosky rolled out, Joost to F. why he necessarily was asked to McCormick. Turner threw out, comm BRN Tn, es : . . i end persons on the basis of Gehringer. NO RUNS. NO HITS.| olitical affiliations NO ERRORS. p Hagnions. : The Marion County appeal agents Second Inning {are expected to be Republicans un- 2 total of $88,000. : 7 ‘der the Selective Service staff's plan{ The Diamond Chain Mfg. Co. EDS—Lombardi doubled to right. : Le An 3 was © out on a 0: Dame two Demosyas ahd a Re will erect a $40,000 addition to its Myers popped to Bartell behind the | board ana a Bemoiiioey coe draft Kentucky Ave. plant and the Furnas, bardi holding second. Pu ha 85 APPA. Ice Cream Co. a $48,000 addition to| | Lom Cosky. i agent. in counties where the clerk | am - a JU n u Turner flied Cy Shel Democratic. Judge Cox's selec- its plant at 131 N. Alabama St.| center. Jo ’ 2 jtions were: . ‘The Furnas addition will be to the | ERRORS. | REPUBLICANS—Samyel M. Dow- | TIGERS -— Greenberg fanned, den, Thomas D. Stevengon, William | | swinging at an outside pitch. York|P. Evans, William H. Thompson, Al-|be 32 by 200 feet. was called out on strikes, Camp- bert E. Ward, James Noel. Taylor; Guy A. Wainwright, Diamond bell doubled to deep left center for E. Gronninger, Frank A. Symmes, | Chain president, said the new onethe first hit off Turner. Higgins Jesse Martin, Harvey Elam. Mark story structure on the south side | grounded out, Werber to F. McCor-! Miller. Arthur Gilliom, Paul Y. Da- of the main building will be built mick. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO Vis, James Lamkin and William R. {chiefly of glass block. ERRORS. Higgins. . "| The 15,000 square-foot addition is so . DEMOCRATS — Oren 8. Hack, the latest since 1929. Third Inning Ammon Abbott, Mark Archer, 10 years we find we REDS—Bartell made a great play Joseph Williams, James Deery, Ed- | space;” Mr. Wainwright said, “and | on a hopper near second and threw ward Knight, Floyd Mattice. Clar- [we need this addition for some of | out, Werber. M. McCormick ground- | nce Merrill, Thomas E. Garvin, our heavy, ground floor operations : : Walter Clarke, John McNutt, L. Ert [like stamping. ed out, Bridges to York. Goodman . . . 3 | : S Slack. Alto W. Cox, E. O. Snethen| Mr. Wainwright said the national lined to McCosky. NO RUNS. NO and Albert Stump defense business was not the cause | HITS. NO ERRORS. ID. REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich. 40-year-old German barber, today

14 HURT BY BLAST IN FT. WAYNE BANK

was sentenced to life imprisonment, exactly two weeks after he kidnapped 3-year-old Marc de Tristan Jr.. for $100,000 ransom. He was! taken immediately to San Quentin prison.

Report Fumes From Melted Gas Pipes Ignite. |

(Seven firemen were among the in-| BiRadio ... ....- 35]|jured. ‘Real Estate.. 26 = Firemen were called to the bank Mrs. Roosevelt 19! to extinguish a rubbish fire. It was Serial Story.. 34! believed that heat from the blaze Side Glanccs. 20! melted gas pipes and that the gas Society ... 24-25 fumes ignited and caused the exSports... 28-29-30 | plosion. State Deaths 31| « Damage was estimated at between $3500 and $5000. ~

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Crossword ... © Editorials .. Financial Flynn Forum ... Gallup Poll. In Indpls....: Inside Indpls. Johnson . Jane Jordan.. Movies ......

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Fourteen persons were injured, public life and Hollywood will

of the expansion inasmuch as Dia- | tO register in the new county, or mond Chain doesn’t receive war or- | moves outside the state, the local ders directly, but makes chains of |Office has no way of knowing he all kinds for manufacturers who do | 10 longer lives here. : : get War Department business. The lineup of voters at the regisAugust Bohlen is architect for | tration office in the Court House the building and the W. P. Jung- started early today. The office will claus Co. is constructing it. The |be open daily from 8 a. m. to 9 addition is expected to be completed Pp. m. through Sunday, and will be

by the end of the year. open until midnight Monday.

Celebrities Throng SouthBend

To See Rockne Film Premiere

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 4 (U.| President Roosevelt sent greetings | P.).—Leaders of the sports world, 0 Mrs. Bonnie Skiles Rockne see | through his. son Franklin Jr. and ? . . praised the inspirational influence the premiere” of the film “Knute exerted on youth by her husband's! Rockne—All American” at this city's | teachings. four largest theaters tonight. | At a banquet last night 11000 of Gathered for. the premiere and the distinguished visitors paid trib-| other events of national Knute ute to the memory of the Notre Rockne Week are Hollywood Stars Dame football coach killed in a Pat O'Brien, who depicted Rockne Kansas plane crash nine years ago. {In the film, Gail Patrick, Anita| Following the premiere tonight | Louise, Rosemary Lane and Bob a municipal hall will be held for! | Hope, Fostmaster General Frank C. the thousands crowding the town. | Walker, Chicago's Mayor Edward J.| The observance will be climaxed | | Kelly, and about 100,000 plain citi- tomorrow by Notre Dame's football zens, . game with College of the Pacific. | x

night, actually the qualified num-|jives of men, spawning those offber of voters will be considerably | less. :

Deaths Cut Total

This is because the files still contain the names of persons who have died in other counties or moved out of Marion County in the last two years. A few months after each election, the registration office removes the names of persons who have failed to vote in the last two general elections. ? Last year’s “purge” of the files eliminated 28,000 names.- In 1937, the number removed was 36,000. Mr. Flanary estimates the number of “dead” names in the files now at from 30,000 to 35,000. On this basis, the maximum possible vote in

[calling this newspaper story to the springs of steel which make the attention of the correspondents. He] United States the greatest indus- refused to conjecture on its accur-| trial nation on earth. acy. He read from the dispatch There was a man, a man who when he was asked if he had any wants to be President. His name is! reason to believe that Germany and Wendell L. Willkie, {Italy are working for his defeat. And there were the multitudes | Mr. Roosevelt read two of the who stand by the fires and tend the most pertinent paragraphs to the machines and add the figures and nearly 200 correspondents. file the papers. | “So far as the United States is It was one man against many. concerned,” the dispatch said, “the The drama was played out against | Axis is primarily interested in keepthe backdrop of this valley of steel ing her out of the war, and trying along the Monongahela, where long to prevent or minimize] her help to buildings nestle under the gaunt | Britain. The three-power alliance hills that rise from the dirty stream |was intended to be one step in this into which the steel giant dumps his direction. It well may be that anrefuse. {other step will be taken. Into this grim valley Wendell] “Moreover, the Axis is out to beat

| | i

Willkie went, to plead his cause, an President Roosevelt, not as a meas-

evangelist in a wilderness. {ure of interference in American inThe multitudes saw ~ him and ternal politics, but because of the heard. him, the multitudes who President's foreign policy and bework at steel, and they booed him cause of everything for which he and shouted at him and called out stands in the eyes of Italians and to him—many, many times—the Germans. | name of a man who is in the White| ~~ This election is realized to be of House, a man to whom they have (Continued on Page Five) learned to look to as their cham-| pion.

Some sew were witter, out most GEORGE'S GALM AMID of them were gay and good-natured. | BOMBS WINS PRAISE

Some were children, standing in “E’s With Us,” East End

(Continued on Page Five) RAIN, THEN CLOUDS London Woman Cries. LONDON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—King

NOT GRID WEATHER George narrowly escaped a Ger-

LOCAL TEMPERATURES man “whistle bomb” today as Nazi

6am. ....53 10am..... a.m. ....55 lam... vibes 2 (noon) .. 1 : | Sam 53. 1 moan) air raiders dived through cloudy skies in steady attacks on- London Not a minute before the King ar-

9a. m..... 67 lpm .... TN

The weatherman’s word to football fans was none too encouraging today. a In the first place, he predicted showers for tonight. He said they ably. Then it is supposed to be cloudy.

a great bomb hurtled from the clouds.

out, the King entered tHe building and, later quietly continued inspecting raid shelters despite the occasional crump of bombs. “E's with us, ’E is!” cried one woman in an East End shelter, astonished that the King should be {out while Nazi planes droned over- | head. | “It's a pity the Queen ain't with eles him. She must be busy somewhere | Indiana coal— ielse,” one woman whispered to an-| i {other as the King inspected a baseSays John T. Flynn | ment reserved. for women with . L :.~ || babies in arms. commenting on ine pros | A flustered stenographer sudincrease ordered by the | denly recognized the King and Biturhinous Commission. | clapped her hands to her mouth in

| astonishment. Turn to: Page 20.

That Indiana Coal Situation—

"Helizappoppin

over

“Cor!” she exclaimed, “I could collapse. And he comes out during

rived at a hall in central London |:

Almost before the sound had died §:

|air raids too!”

direct overtures for a reconc Both the Premier and the: clared that Japan, jcined to.

the new order in fast Asia and

Premier Talks of | But while the spokesma

against the danger of greater

Premier was quoted ky the o

that Japan was prepared to 2 United States and Soviet Rus Konoye said that “mutu: were necessary for peace in | ever that the United Stat order” Japan seeks to create The statements from th trast to the strict official sile ner Pass conference of Hitlg as well as war problems we} cluded Field Marshal Wilh Supreme Command.

Raids on The Italian and Ger azzo Ciano and Joachim vj, chiefs to Brenner and he 3 Possible subjects tou: the Balkans. But there wi be taken in these direction§ ¢ the war immediately at 4 | recently. : In Belgrade increasin; political circles that the } minate in definite action i; After a night during {

relaxed and not a bomb Ik ' (Continue,

Today's ¢ at Brenner. Italo-Germ differences) 9

for miscdr: | | winter. tide Ribbeni Mussolini followed by Ciano’s c| |i must have revealed divergent have been necessary to have bri" for a private examination of ev Their last previous meeting! for their jubilant June discussig | .t Munich following the surrend¢ France, which was {o lead to a ‘ contest of the British Empire.! today as they grected each o Hitler has had to report failui his invasion plans and his air k krieg over Britain, while Muss

Mr. Mason

nd Fascist dictators in an : described at Rome by Vir‘d up the war against the i.e Mediterranean area, and ‘1 as the position of Soviet ain. - Emphasized nd Italian military leaders 't military problems played “sions, but officially it was ‘disclosed until the “catasfing were felt by Britain. 2 Star, suggested that the Axis “peace offensive” and .ad failed to win the battle

xis ally, Japan, was active iments by Premier Prince . Foreign Office - spokesman United States, and of in“ion. : oreign Office spokesman de-

| 2 Axis in a new defensive alliance, was prepared to accep

-any American challenge to o fight to the finish. otter Relations . Yakichiro Suma, warned ‘merican aid to Britain, the

cial news agency as saying ust relations with both the

sespect and understanding” , Pacific, emphasizing howaust understand the “new

Last Asia.

ipanese leaders was in conmaintained about the Bren« d Mussolini, where political ussed by a group that ine .eitel, chief of the German

Resumed : gn ministers, &ount Gale bentrop, accompanied their

« harate consultation

today included Spain and adication what action might

- nion that Spain would enter % le of the Axis has waned

» ety was expressed in some | + Pass meeting might culi iz Jugoslavia. 1 (zerman air raids Had been

en: on central London, five

£ se Three)

\ oves Today

7. W. T. MASON

i Press War Expert

tir . between Hitler and Mussolint

the culmination of a series of srences which may mean that

Jl 't on have arisen between the two dictators. | ils a: !war has bf mei

‘ to explain to the other how the adlocked and who ‘is to blame ‘2lans to end the conflict before

¥ ent conferences at Rome with 1¢ = in Berlin for talks with Hitler,

41% admit he has not gained con-

1en the confident plans of allied gerors receive such major

Xplanations of the other. What (Continued on Page Five)