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"NATIONAL RACE DEADENS DININ HOOSIER SCRAP

Schricker, Hillis Campaign In Small Towns and Here's What They’re Saying.

By NOBLE REED

The campaign issues of Indiana’s two candidates for Governor have been virtually buried under the avalanche of

national political fireworks. They have been making nightly speeches up and down the state for many weeks but there is evidence that the general voting public has little conception of the policies pledged for the next State administration. The candidates have centered their campaigning in the smaller communities in the far-cor-ners of the state, leaving metropolitan centers mostly uniformed. Summing up the things they have been saying, it is apparent that they are very nearly “together” on some issues but are blasting at each other on partisan matters and methods of administration. : Pledge Tax Reform Following their party platforms, Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, the Democratic candidate, and Glen R. Hillis, the G. O. P. nominee, both have pledged to work for: . 1. Elimination of inequalities in the Gross Income Tax Law, lightening the burden on the small retailers. 2. New laws for free textbooks in public schools. * 3. Expansion of industry to “make Indiana the greatest industrial state in the natiopy’ 4, General protection of labor. The candidates have developed some contrasting, individual philosophies along with blistering charges of misrule during both Republican .and Democratic administrations. Mr. Schricker has been saying in his speeches that: 1. He will promote a broader plan for old age assistance in Indiana. 2. His party will expand the present State Labor Division, which he describes as one of the ‘“‘greatest achievements of the Democratic Administration for the benefit of both industry and labor.”

Avoids Obligating Help 3. The Democratic party will not “go into the gutter” for campaign material and he will refuse to accept campaigns funds that carry an obligations, charging that ‘the oppositicn is using big money in the campaign.” 4. There will be no patronage secretary in the Governor's office. 5. None of those who ‘‘vote for me will ever be ashamed of any official act of mine or regret that , they entrusted me with the responsibility of the high cffice of Governor.” 6. Property taxes during the last two Democratic Administrations (Continued on Page Three)

ANNUAL AUTO SHOW OPENS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (U. P).—The|

41st annual National Automobile Show opens today at Grand Central Falace with 26 makes of automobiles, light trucks and commercial cars and dozens of accessories on exhibit. Ford, Mercury and Lincoln automobiles were exhibited for the first time in many years. General Motors Corp. staged a separate show of its fige passenger cars and household appliances at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and the ‘Chrysler Corp. presented its four lines of automobiles and air-condi-tioning units additionally at the Chrysler Building. :

CAPT. JIMMY DOES FIRST MILITARY TASK

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— Capt. James Roosevelt, son of the President, today had taken a Marine corporal into court to face intoxication charges. It was his first military duty since he was called from his movie studio to active service with the 22d Artillery Marine battalion two days ago. He appeared hefore Municipal Judge Joseph Cdll as the company commander of Torp. Donald E. Lewis, who pleaded guilty. The corporal’s sentence was suspended on his captain's assurance that he would be dealt with in “fitting military manner.”

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Brothers

One Is Dead, the Other In Jail Following Shooting.

TWO BROTHERS started out to play cards at a neighbor’s home last night. Today, one of them is dead, the other in jail. According to police, this is what happened: They figured they'd stop for a drink at a South Side tavern. There, Frank VanCleave, 25, decided to play some lottery tickets —the kind that are pulled out of the big jar. Brother Milton, 27, told Frank he shoudn’t spend his money. They started to argue.

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THEY DROVE OFF together around midnight they had forgotten the card game. A+ Virginia Ave. and East St. a fight started. Frank didn’t like the “big brother” stuff and he hit Milton, police said. Separately they went to their homes, Milton to 4212 E. New York St., Frank to 1321 Spruce St. Frank started to undress. He heard the doorbell ring. He got out his shotgun, told Milton to go home. He told police, they said, that he shot when Milton started through the door. Seriously wounded, Milton was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where he died today. At police station, Frank wept. “I don’t know why I did it,” police quoted him as saying. After taking his statement, they held him on $2000 bond.

DOCTORS NAMED AS DRAFT AIDS

Townsend Appoints 152, Appeal Agents; Rocsevelt Approval Waited.

The 152 physicians who will determine the physical fitness of Indiana men whose names are drawn from the draft hopper were named! today by Governor Townsend. He also named 152 other men who will serve as government appeal agents and sit in on draft board hearings. The names of the 304 men have been forwarded to President Roosevelt for approval. Meanwhile, County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger, in charge .of registering eligibles in Marion County, asked more than 1500 chief registrars and registrars to meet in Tomlinson Hail tomorrow night at seven! o'clock for instructions. i His staff completed the mailing of notices of appointments to the volunteers early today. Places of registration in each o the County's 341 precincts will be announced by the Clerk Monday. Some precincts will be combined, he said, and there -will not be 341 places| of registration. : Mr. Ettinger urged every regis(Continued on Page Three)

THE WEATHERMAN GIVES FAIR ADVICE

Outdoors Should Berkon to Hoosiers Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

..m,.., 56 10 a. m.... 69 eM... 57 11 a. m.... 73 . m..., 60 12 (noon) .. 75 m.... 66 1 po m...75

The outdoors will beckon Hoosiers tomorrow because— The Weather Bureau repeated its. forecast of the last few days: Fair with not much change in the temperatures. It will be about 70 at the highest. And because Brown County people expect the autumn coloring there. to

FOUR STUDENTS ARE AMONG SIX AUTO VICTIMS

3 Die as Car Hits Bridge Abutment; Local Woman Also Killed.

Six more people, three of them high school pupils and another a normal college student, died on Indiana highways last night and today. Joe Ann Sparks, 14-year-old Warsaw High School pupil, was Killed early today when the car in which she was riding was sideswiped by a truck on Road 30, six miles west of Columbia City. She and seven. other pupils were returning from the HuntingtonWarsaw football game at Huntington at the time. None of the others was injured seriously. Three young people died when an automobile struck a bridge abut-

ment. on the old Lebanon Road near Danville last night.

Fourth Is Injured

They were John Walter, 17, and Leo Gephart, 17, both high school pupils, and Frances Walter, a

Central Normal College sophomore,

all of Pittsboro. . Miss Roberta Walter, 19, a Central Normal senior who was riding with them, was injured seriously and was

brought to Methodist Hospital here.

She is a sister of John and a cousin of the dead girl. The high school boys were taking the normal students home for the week-end and all four planned to attend the junior class play at Pittshoro High School last night. When word of the crash was received, the play was canceled.

Killed Near North Vernon

Thelma Montgomery, R. R. 3, Box 180, Indianapolis, was killed last night when her car left Road 3 near North Vernon and overturned. She had been rooming at the rural route home and was on the way to Austin to visit relatives. Louis Bartell, 54, of Holland, died in an Evansville hospital yesterday shortly after he fell from a truck. Officials of the company which owns the truck said he was sitting in the rear of the vehicle and fell off when he attempted to retrieve a watch he had dropped .

N. D. HOST T0 TECH;

PURDUE, I. U, AWAY

Butler Plays Host to Strong Xavier Team.

Hoosier football teams shifted into a spread formation tdday to fill their dates with conference, nonconference and intersectional foes. The state focal point was at South Bend where the razzle-dazzling Georgia Tech club hoped to work its pigskin magic against Elmer Layden’s Notre Dame team. Other members of the Big Three were beyond state bounds, Indiana seeking to rebound into the critics’ favor against Nebraska and Purdue risking its .500 record against Michigan State. Here at home Butler was to venture outside the Indiana College Conference again in its meeting with Xavier of Cincinnati at 2 p.m. in the North Side bowl. DePauw and Rose Poly, tied with Butler for the state conference leadership, were to risk their records against Franklin and Evansville, respectively. Other games scheduled were: Earlham at Wabash, Manchester at Central Normal, Hanover at Illinois College, Louisville at St. Joseph's, Valpo at Luther, Iowa, and Illinois Normal at In-

be at its best this week-end.

Uncle Sam is determined that the) tiny Indiana hamlets of Charlestown and Union Center shall not

The Government's plan of action was revealed to local authorities at

an informal meeting yesterday -in

grow into ugly, sprawling towns un-|industry has been der their defense industry’ booms,| Population at the time the town {but into neat small cities.

diana State.

Charlestown, Union Center to Be Model Cities as Defense Plans Put Them on Map

Charlestown a model city since it is the first small village in the nation in which a huge defense located. Its

was chosen as a site for the $25,000,000 powder plant was 910. Also making the town’s planning even more important is the pros-

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A Dictator Wouldn't Stand for This

Vern Vaughn, 6, 85612 S. Meridian St . , . has his day in a School

President Visits Ohio Capital, Goes on to Dayton Air Field.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN, Oct. 12.—President Roosevelt converted his inspection swing through | Ohio into a national rearmament speed-up campaign today. It will culminate tonight in his world-wide radio discussion of Western Hemisphere defense. Literally hundreds of thousands of persons cheered him through the great industrial centers of -Pittsburgh, Pa.; Youngstown, O.; Akron, 0., and Columbus, O., and in smaller cities where the Presidential special merely slowed a hit to acknowledge that the crowds were there,

25,000 Hear Him

“God Bless America” was the theme of this journey. Speed and more speed, the President told mill workers, mill superintendents and train-side crowds, is the immediate na‘ional defense necessity. The best way to avoid attack, he said last night in Akron, is to be prepared to meet it. But he was confident that the United States would escape war. Police estimated that 25,000 persons were packed tight around the Pennsylvania Station area in Akron where the President took a full 60 seconds of cheers and then said: “You and I know the difficulties and the dangers of these times in the world. For many years we In the United States have managed to keep out of trouble in other continents and I am confident that in the future we shall be able to avoid

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|the Governor's office by Hubert R.|pect, according to reliable reports, Gallagher, assistant director of the|that the size of the plant may be state and local division of the Na-|So enlarged (as has been done at tional Defense Council. Allison’s) that the Charlestown

No announcement of the plans|Plant may eventually be the larg-

11are to be made until Governor|est smokeless powder factory in the 8 | Townsend confers with the State] world. 7] 9|- The plans also are contingent|of whom undoubtedly will commute Mrs. Roosevelt 7 iupon the approval of 14 | quthorities 8 .4-5 ... 10, 11 {Roosevelt himself has State Deaths. 11 ithat special care be taken to make|even more desirakle,

- The plant at its present size will employ some 6000 workers, some

Emergency Defense Council, probably sometime next week.

the town|from nearby Louisville, Ky. EnCharlestown ' and|largement of the plant would ne- | Union Center. cessitate even a further building deIt was reported that 'President; velopment at Charlestown, thus requested | making a planned building program

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being brought intp war through at(Continued on Page Three)

Plans that are worked out for Charlestown are also to be used for Union Center, site of a shell

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State authorities have asked the National Defense Council for a coordinator and a housing consultant to work on the housing and zoning problems of the two towns, and the government will probably make provisions for them in its plans. : At yesterday’s meeting were John K. Jennings, state WPA administrator; Prof. George Lommel, of Purdue University, head of the State Planning Board; Lawrence V. Sheridan, regional counselor of the National Resources Planning Board; Walter Stanton, State Housing Board director; George Wright, land plan consultant of the FHA,

F.D.R. to Talk on Defense; Willkie Raps 'Stagnation’ —— he i

G. 0. P. Nominee Again Hits At ‘Defeatism’ as He Leaves New England. By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer ABOARD WILLKIE SPECIAL, Oct. 12—One month to the day after leaving Indiana on his hard-

{driving “crusade” for the Presidency,

Wendell Willkie concluded a New England tour which has left local leaders almost jubilant in their conviction of November victory. He made his parting speeches today at Lawrence, Haverhill, Springfield and Pittsfield, Mass., en route to Troy, N. Y., where he will make a major speech tonight. In his Lawrence speech this morning, talking to small businessmen and industrial workers, he asserted that “a Government which preaches defeat can never win any battle against: unemployment or against any foreign foe. “New Dealers do not learn. In an attempt to cover up their own failures they keep telling us that the era of expansion in America is over. Just a few days ago, the Democratic National Committee issued a state(Continued on Page Three)

CLERICS TO ASK AID FOR FUND GAMPAIGN

309, of Goal Is Raised; $206,586 Pledged.

Community Fund goal—$688,500.

Amount pledged to date—8$206, 586.83.

Next report — Monday noon, Claypool Hotel. Drive ends—Oct. 24.

Indianapolis churches of all denominations will observe Community Fund Sunday tomorrow and pastors will ask for the united support of Christian citizenry for the 25th annual Community Fund drive. The total pledged to date, as reported at yesterday's noon meeting, is $206,586.83, which is about 30 per cent of the goal, set at $688,500. The next report will be made Monday noon. The workers were inspired by reports of generous gifts from several Indianapolis firms, executives and employees.

$16,273 compared to $13,640 last year to top the day’s reports. The Indianapolis Water Co. gave (Continued on Page Three)

TRIOMPHE DE ROME

ROME, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—It was asserted officially today that an Italian patrol column captured two abandoned British tanks in North

and Henry Steeg, member of the State Planning Board. 4

Africa.

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Japan Start Home; Nazis Renew Furious Raids

EAR AXIS, TURN TO RUSSIA

INTRIGUE FILLS AIR IN BALKANS; MOSCOW IS KEY

German Troops Occupy Balkan Oil Fields; U. S. May Send Gunboats Up Yangtze; Berlin Hints Churchill-U. S. Plot.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign

Democracy in City Schools Is Lusty and Pulls No Punches.

By EARL HOFF O dictator would stand for the things that go on in Indianapclis schools. From the opening exercises every morning in grade schools until the final bell rings in the afternoon, it’s Justy democracy, U. S. brand, in action. The very basis of American education, the premise that children are competent to think for themselves, would make a dictator shudder. ” ” ”

E'D chill at the thought of pupils being encouraged in independent thinking, free discussion of class topics, democratic election of club and class officers. What might be a dictator's reaction if he knew that: A group of girls at School 84 has been organized to supervise home room opening exercises when a teacher is tardy or before a substitute can be called when a teacher is ill. The pupil council at School 54 took a juvenile Gallup poll of the community to find the neighbors were upset because children ran across lawns. The council issued a bulletin on the poll and the neighbors’ lawns were saved. The pupils at School 39 were allowed to raise cain in their school paper because the School Board wasn’t- fast enough to suit them in erecting a fire escape for which an appropriation was:

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THER signs of democracy in action would be classes where pupils are allowed to discuss attributes of people in other countries, a Safety Patrol system of 2400 boys, pupil tours of industrial plants and mock hational elections where children practice for adulthood. A one-man government also wouldn’t like a school system. in which all seven high schools and 45 of the 85 grade schools have newspapers in which pupils are free to express their views. It wouldn't care, either, for a system which hires its teachers on a merit basis instead of party affiliation. ‘There'd be a hasty order shot out of a dictator’s headquarters if he discovered in his country that school children were allowed to have discussion : groups -after school hours and that high schools had debate teams. : £3 ” ” DICTATOR would be horrified to learn that teachers in grade schools were leading children each morning in a pledge of allegiance to a nation—not a man—and that they were allowed free choice in patriotic songs for children to sing. = . All those things would add up to what a dictator probably would decide too big a job to tackle and he’d leave that kind of a country to suffer along in freedom.

They Called the Salesman Back

PEORIA, Ill, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— St. Francis Hospital doctors said Mrs. John Rosa's new-born daughter wouldn't live. Then someone remembered that C. S. Baer, Chicago salesman, had tried unsuccessfully to sell the hospital a new type portable respirator recently. He was called and the baby was put in the “lung.” After 90 minutes artificial respiration, the baby breathed normally. > The hospital bought the respirator. °

VANDER MEER WEDS GIRL FROM SCRANTON

SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 12 (U. P.). —Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, the only hurler in major league history to turn in two ‘consecutive no-hit games, and Lois Stewart of Scranton were married today. . The ceremony climaxed a romance which began when Johnny pitched for Scranton; he was farmed out to Indianapolis most of the past season. They will live

al Midland, N. J. 1

Great Britain and Germany traded aerial,

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naval and

artillery blows today as Axis expansion into the Balkans

‘alarmed Turkey and speeded

mania.

British evacuation from Ru-

At’the same time in the Far East, both Britain and the United States hurried their efforts to evacuate civilians. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia sailed from Yokohama filled to capacity, largely with wives and children of Americans in Japan.

90, S. LINERS 70.60 T0 JAPAN

Evacuation of Citizens Is Scheduled as Soon As Possible.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— The liners Manhattan and Washington will be dispatched to the Far East to evacuate Americans as soon as detailed arrangements are completed, it was learned today. This tentative decision was reached at conferences here between representatives of the State Depart-

ment, Maritime Commission, and the United States Lines, owners of the vessels. Aside from the liner America, this country’s newest passenger vessel, the Manhattan and Washington are the largest merchant ships flying the American flag. Formerly in the trans-Atlantic service, they have been in intercoastal trade since the war started. The conferees decided not to use the America in the repatriation work. The conference, held yesterday at the State Department, was concerned largely with operating details, such as cost of the evacuation and time for carrying it out. No definite decisions ' were reached and another meeting was called for Monday when conferees hoped to complete details. There were 16,883 U, §. citizens in the Far East on Jan. 1; 7064 were in China, 128 in French Indo-China; 1547 in Hongkong and 8145 in Japan.

DYKSTRA ACCEPTS CONSCRIPTION JOB

‘Loaned’ by Wisconsin U. As Draft Director.

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 12 (U. P.) — President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin today accepted the post of director of conscription after the board of regents of the university agreed to “loan” him to the Federal Government. Mr. Dykstra said that he did not want to leave the university's service. The regents in a special meeting today unanimously agreed that “the university will loan its president to the Federal Government for whatever period seems necessary to do what has to be done in connection with the position” of draft director. : : Mr. Dykstra said he did not know how long he would remain as administrator of the selective service act but that he would stay ‘as long as I'm needed.”

A Japanese news agency reported that U. S. gunboats were being sent from Hankow to evacuate Americans in the Nanking area, up the Yangtze River. Washington made plans to send two American luxury liners on the evacuation mission and the Hong kong Government requisitioned a. British ship to take British subjects from Hongkong to Australia. German submarines and British torpedo boats fought off the Isle of Wight, German big guns duelled with British artillery across the Strait of Dover, British bombing planes defied bad weather to strike at Kiel, Hamburg, Bremerhaven and many other Nazi bases and the German air fleet continued to bat<. ter London and Britain in the most severe offensive of recent days. But both in the Balkans and in the Far East, where plans were in

| operation for evacuation of Ameri-

cans from danger zones, the Axis expansionist operations continued to throw the spotlight on Soviet Rus sia. ; : Turkey Asks Russian Aid

The Ambassador to Turkey, Haidar - Aktay, suddenly returned to Moscow and was reported to be inquiring as to the Soviet attitude in - event of an Axis drive into the Near East." . : The Turkish Premier at Ankara also held a long talk with the Soviet Ambassador, presumably in an effort to determine whether Soviet, expressions of friendship for Germany would prevent aid to Turkey in resisting an Axis thrust at the Dardanelles. The Soviets always have held a special interest in the Dardanelles and Russian sup- . port would be essential to any Turkish defense of that gateway. Japan, apparently concerned by the stand of the United States and by warnings to Americans to leave the Far Eastern danger zones, also was looking toward Moscow. The Tokyo newspapers emphasized Japan’s desire for good relations with - the Soviets and predicted an early improvement as a result of new negotiations to be undertaken at Moscow. Japanese Press Alarmed

At the same time, the Tokyo press assailed the United States and Britain and charged that big supplies of tanks, guns, trucks, munie tions and bombing planes had been piled up at Manila. and Singapore for shipment to China as soon as the Burma Road is reopened on Oct. 117. - Premier Prince Konoye appealed to the Japanese people to stand firmly united in what he called a great turning point in the nation’s 2600 years of history. He urged them to further the Japanese “new order in East Asia.” Seventy U. S. Navy reservists in - Shanghai were given physical examinations today and order to ree port for duty Monday on the flag= ship of the Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser. Augusta. Rumors persisted that the (Continued on Page Three)

War Moves Today

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

The return today to Moscow of Turkish Ambase sador Haidar Aktay to discuss. Russia's attitude toward new German and Italian threats in the Balkans and Asia Minor will determine the future

course of the war in its eastern theater.

Turkey

now is prepared to fight but can do so only with the open or implied consent of Russia.

Mr. Mason

The situation thus confronting Stalin is the most

serious he ‘has faced since the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. Germany and Italy know that Turkey's potential belligerency is dependent on Stalin's decision and if the Turks resist axis pressure

Russia will be responsible, Thus, relations between Russia and the totalitarian dictators are approaching a critical stage. If Stalin uses the Turks as his agents to check Hitler and Mussolini, Russia will have taken the first indirect step toward entering the war with the possibility of simultaneous in-

volvement in the Orient as well as in Europe. If Stalin were to halt ‘Turkey, however, the axis powers would complete their Suzerain control over the Balkans and would become (Continued on Page Three)