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MONDAY, OCT. 7, 1940

DEMOCRATS EYE TTH HOPEFULLY. FAVORED IN 8TH

Landis ’38 Victory Blamed On Party Strife, Not Evident Now. BEE ee

each of the State's 12 Congres- : sional districts.)

+ By NOBLE REED . The one district in the state where

Democrats appear to have a good|

chance to recapture some of the Congressional ground they lost two years ago is the Seventh—compris-

ing 11 counties south and east of

Terre Haute. For 16 years, during many Republican state victories, the Seventh District went consistently Demotratic, electing Arthur Greenwood

io eight consecutive terms in Con-|.

-8ress. Two years ago, however, Rep. Gerald W, Landis, Republican of ‘Linton, who campaigned chiefly 4s a Townsend old-age pension sup‘porter, was elected by a majority of 4800 votes.

Blame Factional Strife

~ Mr. Greenwood had carried the district by majorities ranging up +0 18,000. Democratis leaders claim they lost the district in 1938 because {if factional strife over patronage troubles that had accumulated for 18 years. " - Rep. Landis, who ran against Mr. Greenwood twice before he was elected, is opposing State Senator ©harles H, Bedwell of Sullivan, this year. The picture in the Seventh as to party strife is reversed now, obhservers claim. This time, Rep. Landis has stirred up some factional Warfare in his district and is said #0 have incurred disfavor of some of the district leaders in connection with Governor contest at the State Convention last May.

Bedwell Is Popular

Democratic leaders, who for three months have said they “can’t lose the district,” are basing their optimism on the personal popularity of Mr. Bedwell, who has been an outstanding member of the State Senate for six years. ~ Prior to his cdreer in| the State Senate, Mr. Bedwell was a member of the Indiana House and was speaker for one term. “We are not worrying about losing the Seventh this year.” a member of the Democratic high command said. At the same time, Republicans will not admit any weakness in that district. Base Hopes on Willkie

They declare that Willkie sentiJnent will carry Rep. Landis to vicTory and they predict that the Presidential nominee will carry the district. . In the Eighth District—comprising 10 counties bordering on the Ohio River in the southwestern corner of the state, Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., Evansville Democrat, is given the edge for re-election over! . Xharles W. Werner, Evansville attorney and real estate operator. > Rep. Boehne has been in Congress for 10 years, carrying his district bv majorities ranging as high as 35.000 votes, one of the biggest leads held by any Congressman in the state. He survived the Republican upsets two years ago with a ‘majority of 17,000.

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- The incumbent is a conservative ‘Democrat and votes independently most of the time, | supporting .the Administration only when he thinks | 1t -is right. . Mr. Werner has| been the Re“publican nominee in the Eighth for the last three elections and neutral =nalysts claim his support this year is no greater than two years ago. His only chance of election rests in the possibility of a sweeping upturn in sentiment for Mr. Willkie.

DAWSON HONORED “AT BIRTHDAY PARTY

A birthday party in honor of Charles M. Dawson, G. O. P. nominee for Lieutenant Governor, will be given by Washington Township Republicans tomorrow night at the Riviera Club. State and County committee members and candidates will be guests. The principal i to be given by State Senator William E. Jenner of Shoals and William D. Bain. ".. The committee in| charge includes william R. Higgins, 12th District chairman; Mrs. Roy Stebbing. district vice chairman: Paul Dunn, Mr. Bain, Wilbur A. Royse, Alexander G. Cavins., Mrs. Arthur Krager, Mrs.

Paul Pegg, Mrs. Wolf Sussman, Mrs. |

Harold Geisel, Mrs. Claude Mathews and Miss Hilda Buddenbaum.

MOTORCYCLE RACER KILLED

SOMERSET, Pa. Oct. 7 (U. P) — when his motorcycle collided with two others in the third event of the American Motorcycle, Association raes here, Amos Deems, 40, of Fairmont, W. Va., was killed yesterday.

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School News—

Training High School freshman,

PARENTS JUDGE WORK AT HOME

120 Enrolled in Manual’s ‘How to Do It’ Class For Freshmen.

By EARL HOFF

One hundred twenty Manual Training High School freshmen are being taught in class how to build window screens, sharpen lawn mowers, repair garden hose and fix their mothers’ electric irons. They're also getting an introduction to eight fields of industrial activity: Woodwork, sheet metal, electricity, cold metal, plumbing, print-| ing, foundry and cement work. But the homework comes first. The Industrial Laboratory course. conducted by A. Leslie Carey and] N. H. Poole, is plotted in six-week | cycles with each boy required to] complete projects in each of the] fields during the period or do an| equal number of home projects.

Permit Work at Home

. At all times he is permitted to] know his grade on projects and his

standing in relation to the rest of the class.

The boys may take home Kits of tools to do work. In this case, their parents are the judges and] their word of the excellence of the| work is taken by the instructors for the boy's class grades. | There are no restrictions on the; type of projects the boys may undertake during class time as long as the work involves certain principles. A library of technical and explanatory hooks and magazines, supervised by a different pup each week, is available. The tool room also is managed by pupils. Even part of the shop instruction is conducted by boys. These, who, apply for the job at the end of their introductory semester, are called foremen and receive advanced credit.

Tour Industrial Plants

Before the Industrial Laboratory Course was launched two years ago. at Manual Training. freshmen enrolled for six weeks in one industrial course, then six weeks in another. With the present course, the in-| structors feel, the boys receive a better knowledge of the various fields to which they are introduced. Besides the | classroom and home work, they are| taken on tours of industrial plants. By stressing work that can be done at their homes, boys are “taught to do better what they're going to do anyway,” Mr. Carey said. But E. H. Kemper McComb, principal, puts a different slant on the home repair work. “By encouraging the boys to do things at home, we hope to develop a better father and son relation. We| hope the fathers will become inter-| ested in working at home with their sons and thus build up a closer companionship. That will make us feel the course is a real success,” he said.

CHRISTIAN SERVICE SOCIETY TO ELECT

The, election of officers for the Indiana Conference Woman's Society of Christian Service is not to be a colorless, cut-and-dried affair with only one candidate running for each office. . The election will be at a meeting Friday from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. in the Roberts Park Methodist Chureh, Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indianapolis Area is to preside and speak. Presidents of the new charter societies organized last month in the southern half of the state will be official] delegates and vote for conference officers. There are to be three candidates for each office and | a total of 16 elected. It is expected | that 600 women from Indianapolis and the state will attend, although | only 300 are entitled to vote.

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“This is the way it’s done” , , . student foreman Donald Wiebke (left) tells Howard Davis, Manual

Chief Speakers

DEMOCRATS

TODAY—Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker at Elwood; Clarence J. Donovan at Vincennes; Judge William Fitzgerald at New Washington; Mrs. Inez M. Scholl at Washington; Atty. Gen. Samuel D. Jackson at Rushville; Mrs. Hettie Dunkin at Lebanon; Mrs. Samuel Ralston at Madison. TOMORROW--Mr. Schricker at Winchester: Mr. Donovan at Michigan City; C. Anderson Ketchum at Lawrence Township, Marion County; Frank G. Thompson and Mrs. Dunkin at Randolph County, all day tour; Louis L. Needler at St. Louis Crossing; Earl Crawford at Dover: Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis at Noblesville, afternoon; Ralph Hanna at Clearspring.

REPUBLICANS

TODAY—Richard T. James at Elkhart; George N. Craig at New Castle; Glen R. Hillis at Huntington; Raymond E. Willis at Tipton; James M. Tucker at Akron; Charles M. Dawson and Russell I. Richardson at Bedford; Clarence Schlegel at Solsberry; William E. Jenner at Boonville. TOMORROW-—Mr. Hillis at Greenfield, afternoon a n d night; Mr. Willis at Danville and Hendricks County, afternoon, Williamsport at night; Mr. Dawson and Mr. Jenner at Riviera Club, Indianapolis; Mr. Tucker at Greensburg; Mrs. Mary E. Benadum at Washington.

71 DEMOCRATIC TALKS OUTLINED

Biddle to Speak Three Times During Week; Minton Expected Home.

The heaviest speaking schedule the Democrats have had so far in the campaign has been arranged for this week. Three of the 71 major speeches will be delivered by Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, former U. 8. Ambassador to Poland, who was forced to flee from the U. 8. Embassy in Warsaw under fire of the invading German army. He will speak twice at Michigan City Thursday and at East Chicago Friday night. speak at Michigan City. . Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) is expected to return here Thursday from Washington to spend the remainder of the campaign in the state, making speeches. He is scheduled to be at South Bend Thursday, at Delphi Friday and at Shelbyville Saturday. Lieutenant Governor Henry F. Schricker; Democratic Governor nominee, is scheduled for a speech every night this week, traveling the entire length of the state.

Pleased by Gallup Poll

Democratic leaders hailed today's Gallup Poll as the “final hand writing on the wall” and revised their earlier estimates on their chances of carrying Indiana. Three months. ago party leaders were frankly worized over the tremendous sentime#t for Presidential Nominee Wendell Willkie. But today State Democratic -Chairman Fred F. Bays said “we're going to carry Indiana by a bigger majority than we figured a month ago.” Democratic speakers have been velling from every platform that the “Willkie campaign is slowing up.” Attorney General - Samuel D. Jackson, in a speech .at Shelbyville, said the Willkie campaign “has bogged down in the morass of contradictory and" irresponsible statements.”

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ROBINSON RALLY OPENS PROGRAM

G. 0. P. Schedules Long List Of Meetings for Next Few Days.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Intensive campaigning for votes iin the Nov. 5 election was started itoday by the Republican County organization with the end of the registration drive. 3 The G. O. P. speakers bureau has arranged an imposing list of meetings for the week, starting with a tri-county 11th District rally to[night in honor-of the party's 11th | District = congressional nominee, | Maurice G. Robinson. The rally is to be in a huge tent lin the 4400 block of E. 10th St. Re\publicans from Marion, Madison and Hancock Counties will take part. Picked squads of volunteer speakjers, including the local candidates, ‘will turn loose a barrage of ora(tory at precinct meetings in 10 of 'the City’s 24 wards the remainder lof the week. p | For | tomorrow night, Ralph {Hamill, chairman of the speakers | bureau, has scheduled 14 precinct {meetings in the 15th Ward and 13 lin the Eighth Ward. | Meanwhile, the State Republican {speakers bureau, which began its | campaign several weeks ago, had (a full list of speaking engagements for the week. | High point of the schedule is to be the address by Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota at Ft. Wayne

“I Thursday night.

The county organization, Chairman James L. Bradford said, has scheduled 500 meetings, including at least one in each precinct in the city and county, between now and election day. From 18 to 25 meetings in the precincts are on schedule nightly except Sunday and Monday. The schedule calls for 13 precinct meetings in the Sixth Ward and 12 in the 19th Ward Wednesday night; 11 in the Fifth Ward and 14 in the Third Tuesday night; 16 in the 13th and eight in the {14th Friday night and 11 in the 123d and seven in the First Saturday night.

Teas for Robinson

A series of teas honoring Mr. | Robinson will be held in East Side wards and townships this week and at a meeting sponsored by the Lawrence Township Women's Club Wednesday night. The Lawrence Township rally will [he at 7:30 p. m. with Mrs. Alberta Harper as chairman, assisted by Lola Ellenberger and Hiram Gardner. Amateur movies of the Elwood Willkie notification ceremony will be shown. . The schedule for the other teas |includes: Wednesday—Clark Hall, {25th and Station Sts., home of Mrs. {John Askren, 211 Shadeland Drive. | Thursday—Home of Mrs. Robert [Moorehead on German Church | Road; home of Mrs. Nettie Messerismith, 402 N. Drexel Ave., and Mc- | Kinley Club. Friday—Home of Mrs. ‘Paul Anderson; 2632 Southeastern {Ave.; home of Mrs. Clarence Lepter, 1631 Pleasant St., and at 3501 Prospect St.

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RULING IS NEAR ON COMMUNIST ELECTION SLATE

Party Secretary Announces Drive ‘to Unite Opposition to War.

By EARL RICHERT

The State Election Board today was to decide whether the Communist Party should be allowed a place on the Nov. 5 election ballot. The board has been requested through petitions presented by members of several organizations to bar the Communist Party's candidates on the grounds that the party stands for the overthrow of the present form of government. Officers of the Daughters of the American Revolution, leaders in the fight to bar the Communists, said they would file additional protesting petitions bearing the names of some

27,000 persons with the board today.

Communists Plan Drive

In a statement issued Saturday when he filed the party's slate of candidates, Philip Bart, state secretary of the Communist Party, declared: “The Communist Party has complied with the election laws of our state. We plan a state-wide campaign in this crucial election year to unite the solid opposition of the majority of the people, who are opposed to our country being dragged into war. “The vile slanders in the press against our party are inspired hy the organized war forces who want to stifle the only consistent peace party in the United States.” The Communist Party's ticket is {headed by Earl Browder for Presi|dent and James W. Ford for Vice President. Earl C. Reno, Gary, is the candidate for United States

mond, is the candidate for Governor. Seek Legislative Post

Petitions were filed with the clerk of the Marion Circuit Court to place Imogene Poston, 42 W. 11th St, on the ticket as the candidate for State Representative from Marion County. The party, complying with the 1935 law, filed an affidavit with the State flection Board which declared that it was opposed to overthrow of “any or all institutions of American democracy whereby the majority of the American people have obtained power to determine their own destiny in any degree.” The Socialist Party also filed its slates of .candidates Saturday. They are Norman Thomas for president; Prof. Maynard C. Krueger, Chicago, vice president; John Kingsbury, 1128 E. Ohio St., United States Senator; Mrs. Mary Donovan Hapgood, R. R. 4, Box 538, for Governor; Eugene Cole, Vincennes, Lieutenant Gover-

Secretary of State; Lee Halvorsen, Evansville, State Treasurer; Russell Johnson, Gary, State Auditor, and Lois Newlund, 215 N. Rural St, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. . Legion Joins Fight

Some of the organizations whose various units have joined the D. A. R. in obtaining signatures to petitions protesting against the allowance of a place on the ticket to the

gion and Auxiliary; the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Sons of Veterans, Sons of the American Revolution, Disabled Veterans, Spanish War Veterans. Service Star Legion, Sons of Union Veterans, Ladies of the G. A R., the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Federation of Women's Clubs, Council of Women, and the Lions Clubs. Daughters of the American Revolution say that in all, more than 160 different groups

have sponsored the petitions.

A check of the records in the Secretary of State’s office revealed that the Communist Farty polled 2187 votes in 1932; 1090 in 1936, and 984 in 1938.

OFFICE IS OPENED BY YOUNG NEGROES

The Young Negro Association of Marion County, organized “to obtain, better jobs and living conditions for voung Negroes,” has opened headquarters at 778 Indiana Ave., it was announced today at county headquarters. : Nathaniel Madden, president, said 5000 young Negroes already have pledged to support the work and aims of the organization. Membership is open to young Negroes between 21 and 35. Harry Harrison is office manager and Mrs. Ruth Showers is secretary. :

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Admiral Richardson Confers

With Knox on Far East

Fleet Head to See F. D. R.; May Debate Moving Ships Closer to Japan.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U. P.).— Admiral James O. Richardson, com-

mander of the fleet now stationed at Hawaii, arrived today for important conferences on Far Eastern problems with Navy Secretary Frank Knox and President Roosevelt. Mr. Richardson conferred immediately with Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations. Later he met with Mri Knox, Mr. Stark, Undersecretary | James V. Forrestal and Assistant Secretary Lewis Compton. | It was assamed that he would confer with the President after the latter’s return tomorrow, There was considerable speculation on the purpose of Admiral Richardson's trip east from the Pasific Coast where his flagship is undergoing repairs, especially since Mr. Knox only recently returned here from an inspection of the fleet. At a press conference last week, Mr. Knox, when asked about the possibility of detaching units of the fleet for a visit to Australia, replied that it “might not be a bad idea.” It was believed that Mr. Richardson’s views would be sought on such 3 proposal. - A series of conferences at the State Department led to speculation that there may be discussion of plans for moving part of the fleet further west in the Pacific. At one conference | were Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Siaff; Admiral Stark and Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. After that Mr. Welles conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull who later saw the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, and the Aus-

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tralian minister, Richard G. Casey. Meanwhile, reports: that Great Britain has decided to reopen the Burma Road into China were received favorably here inh Administration circles. It was recalled that the Government announced its opposition to closing the only important route for arms traffic to China three months ago when Britain agreed to Japanese demands for such action. ; Rear Admiral Yatés Stirling Jr., retired, told a radio debate audience last night that the United States

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npaign Layoff Likely to Begin Tomorrow or Wednesday.

By LYLE C. WILSON nited Press Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The 1 session of the 76th Congress— national defense Congress—is for its campaign lay-off and

smocratic leaders propose a re= until Nov..18. Republicans want ries of three-day recesses beyond ¢ tion day during which a skele< { crew would go through momene< noon-time motions of meeting recessing a couple of times a

Aid to Britain Big Issue

7 he decision will be taken by the ts of both Houses. Either way ‘ business of Congress would be sended until after the Nov. 3 ing, barring unforeseen emers

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‘ ‘ter the elections one of the ite” questions before Congress ‘be that of financial aid to Great :ain, according to Senator Wal/F. George (D. Ga.). Legislation ending the Johnson Act to als | loans to Britain has been ine iuced by Senator William H. gz (D. Utah). Gets What He Wants 1 efore taking a vacation, the ¢ (se must act on a conference re[7 on the Ramspeck Civil Serve | Bill which would allow the sident to extend civil service us to several thousand Federal Lers. ‘his session has given Mr. Roose , substantially what he wanted, Iwas able to protect the NationRelations Act and the ze-Hours Act from amendments.

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