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WEDNESDAY,

~‘KNOCKOU

NEAR, AXIS HINTS

London Resists Hail of

Bombs but Nazis Report Defense Is Weaker.

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rubble of jack straw ruins this morning had died out. Two of the bodies recovered from the ruins were believed to be those of small children but identification was next to impossible. German claims that 1000 planes |

dropped more than 2,200,000 pounds

of bombs on th: metropolis were ridiculed.

Italy Says British Sub Sunk

British bombers,. meanwhile, were reported hitting chiefly at the hears of German military strength, seeking to destroy the oil supplies of the Reich and thus to stall the Nazi aerial armada. The big naval base at Kiel, the Hamburg docks and similar German targets again were attacked heavily during the night, the London Air Ministry said. The British claimed heavy dam-| age in a naval bombardment of the, French port of Dunkirk. The Admiralty said fires were started. The German aerial onslaught against Britain, however, seemed | more than ever to he an immediate preliminary to a general offensive which the Axis powers reportedly have decided to launch in an effort to win the war by starting the dis- ) «integration of the British Empire

F-ljon many fronts.

td In the Mediterranean area, where | leak Italy reported sinking a British sub- | stoy marine in a duel with a Fascist boy undersea craft following the naval 1iki clash of last week during which,

Sch sank three destroyers,

the British said, the cruiser Ajax there were

hoy new reports of impending action.

tony prumouthpiece, reported in the Gior-|

Virginio Gayda, the Fascist!

——nale D’'Italia that ‘new thrusts” axe

being prepared in North Africa and that the Italians already have pushed about 20 miles past the captured British base of Sidi Barrani in Egypt. Reds Admit Activity

Further uncertainty as to the Balkan situation came with a statement in the Istanbul newspaper, Son-Posta, which declared that Soviet Russia will refuse to tolerate Axis blows against. the Dardanelles Straits or the Near East. Soviet sources in Bucharest admitted that Red Army troops were building “defensive fortifications” on the Russian-Rumanian frontier, but a high ranking -Soviet legation official denied reports abroad that Russia had concentrated 12 divisions on the border,

For days the surge of German troops into Rumania and the known readiness of both Italy and Germany for military operations in the Balkans have created extreme! nervousness in Jugoslavia, Greece and Bulgaria and have caused Turkey to check on the outlook for aid | from Soviet Russia. The Soviets have never worked] harder to create a surface impres-|

sion that they are in a position to Britain's major task was to win the |

jump in any direction or to stay | put indefinitely. Reports that Mos-!

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ee is negotiating with Turkey or receiving Turkish inquiries as to defense of the Dardanelles are met with icy silence at the Kremlin. A denial by the official Tass agency of a specific report that Ger-

Soviets that German troops would be sent to Rumania and as to why the troops would be sent might seem on the surface to indicate a possibility of trouble between Berlin and Moscow. Actually, however, the denial was sO limited in scope and so indirect that tomorrow the Soviets can make it mean anything they please. Adolf Hitler's newspaper, Voelkischer 'Beobachter, reaffirmed the friendliness of Germany and ,Russia. - “Since the conclusion of the German-Russian pact, nothing has occurred to affect the principles of the newly regulated relations of both states,” the newspaper said.

Four-Power Parley Hinted

Only positive statements from Moscow in recent days have concerned defense preparations and these, it was insisted, have been!

pushed steadily on all fronts includ- |

"Looks Like Standing Army,’

Draftee Says as Line Grows

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ling the Balkan area. | On the other hand, the Japanese | newspaper Hochi published a sensasonal, report in connection with Japan’s vigorous efforts to achieve | friendly relations with Russia and thus to free the Japanese war machine for action in the South Seas. Joself - Stalin, according to the Tokyo newspaper, plans to sponsor la conference at Moscow in which | Germany, Italy and Japan will participate, probably early in Novem(ber. The conference will be called!

and to “meet the international situ-! ation,” it added.

China Gets Trucks Ready

In Washington, President Roosevelt conferred with Australian Min{ister Richard G. Casey, presumably on the Far Eastern situation and the matter of increased co-operation between the United States and Australia in that area. Mr. Casey declined to say whether the conversation had touched upon the possi-

Singapore by the United States. The Thai Rasdr Daily News, important Siamese newspaper, advocated an immediate declaration of war on French Indo-China because of refusal of the French Govern-

territories to Thailand. Chinese technicians overhauled an estimated 2000 American-made trucks at Lashio, Burma, preparatory to the reopening Friday of the Burma Road, main -supply route to China. said, Chingse trucks would be rolling over the road with material for Chinese fighting troops. Great Britain

lit became apparent that the Balkan loil state was under German eco[nomic ‘domination, R. A. Butler, | Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs told the House of Com- | mons. At the same time in the House of Lords, Lord Snell declared that

air “with the support of the United | |states.”

many had “timely informed” the

to decide Soviet diplomatic policy |

ble use of the British naval base at |

ment to cede important Indo-China |

Within a week, observers

ceased normal! trade relations with Rumania since |

“If T am called, I hope it’s to mented I. J. “Nish” Dienhart, 34,

some duty in the air force,” commanager of she Municipal Airport,

as he registered at 30th and Meridian Sts.

why I know? Well I passed the government physical examinations once before, that’s how I know.”

At one corner, the schoolboy patrol members were kidding the traific policeman who was helping them with their work. They were on the sidewalk, he was in the middle of | the intersection. | “Oh, boy,” they called, “as soon as school takes up, what'll you he doing?” The policeman smiled. “Youll be registering, they called, and all concerned laughed.

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As school time approached, the | School Boy Patrol members had a double duty where registration also was in progress. They protected the children from traffic and directed the men to the registration room. All was orderly. A principal of a West Side school said the registration was the quietest assembly of adults he could remember ever’ being in his school building.

La For Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitch~ cock, State Selective Service director, the get-away this morning was

He sat quietly in his office at 711 N. Pennsylvania St., and read a paper! | After all, he'd completed his work several hours before—in fact he'd been working on the project for more than two years.

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Two men were standing in lines. One of them turned and asked a neighbor: “What do you really think of this —this registration and all. Do you think it's really necessary?”

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE

County City Total | 43 71 65 105

1939 1340

srsestavresives oF

—Oct. 15— Injured Dead ........ 0 | Arrests .... TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 10 $41 6 56

Violations Speeding ........ 11 Reckless driving.. 7 Failure to stop at : through street.. § Disobeying traffic signal Drunken driving., 6 All others ....... 42

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6 0 14

{ Total coeeaneess $194

MEETINGS TODAY

Ph Xily & Co., Hotel Severin, 11: ad a.m. 1 Oil Co., Hotel Severin, m, i Farm Milling Co., Hotel Pseverin,

Biinity Club, Hotel Washington, 12:15 . M, Dairy Council, Hotel Washington, 12:15 Flee ctrie and Appliance Hotel ton Community Pang, & Claypool Hotel, noon, ublican State Committee, Claypool Hotel noon ~ Pocahontas, Claypool Hotel, all day. Indiana Bankers’ Association, Indianpolis Country Club, 7 p. m. American Etectroplateis Hotel

Riley. 7:30 Strauss

Corp.,

Society,

Lookut! CAPS with FUR on them—including a RACCOON TAIL— that is detachable! They're fun— and they're protection—

they even have ear-muffs!

—and they're only

Brown, Wine, Green. Sizes 6% to TV.

L. STRAUSS & CO. i.

(Boys’ Floor—Second.)

| veeses 8 | Accidents ,..., 23]

Lions’ Club, cape 4 Travel Study Clu

* peita Wheta Tau, Claypool Hotel, 6:30 | | Young Men's Discussion Club, ¥. M. C. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade, pur Hotel 8ev-

ol Hotel, noon,

Purdue Alumni Association, erin, noon

i I Opirdtive Club of Indianapolis, Columbia Club, noon. Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Hotel | Antlers, noo Hi Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary Cottage. noon. Siwanis Club, Columbia Club. noo Y. M. . Camera Club, Central ¥. M.

A; ‘Nati onal Association of Cost Accountants, Hotel Antlers, 6 p.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Sigma Nu, Hotel Washington, 12:15 B m. Federal Business Men, Hotel Washington, 12:15 p. Indianapolis Monterense of Bank Auditors, Hotel Washington, 6 p. m. Purdue Alumni, Hotel Severin, evening. Eli Lilly & Co., Hotel Severin, 8:15 a. m. Indisnipalis Teachers Union, Hotel Severin, 8 p. n Executive Py eadership Forum, olis Athletic Club, 7:30 p. m. Consumers’ Institute, i Wm, H. Block €o. auditorium, 10 a. American Weldin World War Memoria Indianapolis Real Washington, noon. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, anapoNy Atlishic Club, noon, Chi, Stegemeier's Stratford Hctel, noon. * Caravan Club, Murat Temple, noon. Oil Cub, Hotel Severin, noon Construction League of Indianapolis, Spink-Arms Hotel, noo Indianapolis Camera "Cub, 110 E. Ninth

St. Beta ¥ beta Pi,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records fn the County Court House. The Times therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Indianap-

Wsoniety, Indians Shrine, 8 p.

Estate Board, ™, fotel Indi-

restaurant,

Canary Cottage, noon,

Joseph Kennedy, "22, of 1503 Asbury; Comaleitha Hurt, 19, of 931 Hosbrook. Glenn Ellsworth Dooley, 25, of 4928 E. Nes York; Julin May, 21, 4928 E.

ok Ofto Breidenbach, 24, R. R. Box 409; Chariotte L. Schmink, 22, R. 17. Box 278 James W. Burse. 22 3° 922 N. Tepiioh Dorothy L. Grim of 320 W. 28th. Frank R. Re.) T of 1328 aere; 28, of 2918 Meridian. Clay Richardson, 23, of 1441 Wilcox; Alice Marie Wampler, 20, of 2623 N. Delaware. Arthur C. Hutto, 23, of 5541 Broadway; Mary Marjorie Weaver, 27, of 1332 W. 28th. Lowell R. Gano, 22, of 1716 N. Rural; Mary Elizabeth Myers, 20, of 2241 College. Charles R. Myers, 36, of 617 N. Temple; Marie Ruth Weatherholt, 21, of 902 N. Pennsylvania. Raymond E. Riche, 22, of 802 Prospect; Dorothy May Vaughn, 18, of 1606 Olive. Gilbert E. McCallie, 24, city; Dorothy Ann Young, 22, city. Frank J. Niehaus, 24, R. R. Box 258 Rosemary E. Weber, 24, of EY 'Shrition. Harry J. Jordan, 24, R. R. 20, Box 857; Ruth E. Cordray, 22, of 2401 Jackson. Robert E. Sparrow, 19, 301 N. Pine; Mildred E. Williams, 19, of 5730 E. Washington. Harry E. Smith, 35, of 410 N. Colorado; Agnes L. Cooling, 25, of 3318 Graceland Raymond Pearcy, 44, Barton Hotel; Florence Taylor, 37, Barton Hotel. James M. McCal be, 42, Lafayette, Ind.; Margaret M. Donovan, 37, Otterbein, Ind. Harry L. Chapman, 27, of 4810 Winihiop; Pearl F. Roberts, 24, R. R. 16, Box

2 om mas P. Snyder, 22, of 809 N. East; Ethel Theresa Hudak, 19, of 3025 W. 10th. Robert E. Shaefer, 25, qf 1816 E. Michigan; Otha M. Hancock, '20, Southport, Ind. William Tarrants, 32, of 2053 Boulevard; Virginia Valentine, 32, of 905 Torbett.

BIRTHS

Girls

John, Bernice Schultz, at Coleman, George, Betty Clark, at’Coleman. Edward, Thelma Mock, at Coleman. Wilbur, Vivian Martin, ‘at City. David, Lilla Alexander, at City. George, Doris Ross, at Methodist. Arthur, Elizabeth Brady, at Methodist. Boys Ernest, Lillian Bruder, at Methodist, James, Georgia Bailey, at 962 N. pershing.

2, R.

Julia Veronica Spitzer,

DEATHS Harry R. Kemp, 55, at 1954 Lewis, acute ILA dilatatio Frank D. Olsen, 38, at 322 N. Audubon T: Rd., Sorsnary occlusion. i

! Clay ‘pool Hotel, 10:30

Property Management Division, Indi ian- | . 251 }apalis Real Estate Board, Canary Cottage,

New |

Mary Elizabeth Young, 78, at 939 N. Kealing, chronic myocarditis. Luella Limpkins, 66, at 1009 arteriosclerosis. Amanda Victor Berry, 82, at 2258 Ken- { "oud, arteriosclerosis. {- William A. Zumpfe, 76, Methodist, '| coronary 61, Methodist,

thrombosis. Alletta = Rudolph,

| peritonitis.

TRANSPORTATION SCHEDULES RAILROAD AND BUS

To Chicago—Big Four: 12:10 a, m. (except Mondays). 1:55 and 10:20 a 1:20 and 4:35 p. m. Greyiiound; 1% 15. i 38, 3:45, 6:45. 9:30 and 11:30 15. 3:30 2s and oon i Me Br Ji and | 5 b. aly soo psvivania: 2:33 and 10:45 : p

To. Cincinnati, & O43 5:05 Poi 20. 4:20, 7: »

4 p. 4 Ei, 1:28, 3: is 5: is, lla. m 12:45, 3. 5:15. 8:40. 11:45

To Cierelondhl ours v} boy a, m.; 1:45, 4: 130. 4 Pp. m, Pennsylvania! | 1 P 3 oe i “To Columbus, Pittsburgh, Phtisdeiphiy and New York—Greyhound: 3:25, 9 1, 7:30, 11 p. ‘m. Pennsylvania: 8:40. a. m.; 1:45. 4:21 4:31, 3:32. 10:45 p. m, a. m.; 3:15, 5:30 7:30. 11:59 p. m. Penn|sylvania: 4:35, 9 a. m.; 5735) 5:10 p. m

To St. Lous—Bir Four: 12:30, 2:45, 7:40 10:20 a. m.; 12:02, 5:45 p. m. Gre hound: 12:01, 7,10 a. m * 4:55, 12:5 Ey x 17. 7:10, 8:53 a. m.; .3 Ha: 10; 5:30. 10:58 pn. To Toledo and. Dro re pong; 3: =. 7:30, a, nd p.m. Big Four: 4:35 xs hs ea . m. n xcept Sun-

av), 7:30 a. m. (Sunday only), 10 and 10:50 p.

. m, Big :45 5:40

"6:50

Airlines

Sin Chicago—American: 7:38 p. m. Eastern: a a and 7:25 p. m.

To Louisville, Nashville and Miami— Eastern: 9:35 a. m (to Birmingham), 11:20 a. m.; 2:20 and 8:05 p. m,

' To Cincinnati, Washington, Plfadqeinlis and New York—American: 10:1 1:01 and 3:16. To St. Louis and Bansas. Se y nd Dat TWa: 4:25, a. m.; 3: i 8:14, 9:04 p. To oTqmmue, JFittsburgh aid New Se —TWA: 12:57, 11:58 a. m.; 3:43, 5:13 p.\m

11:45 a.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

eee United States Weather Bureamn

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair with possibly light frost tonight; tomorrow, fair and warmer,

Sunrise 5:57 Sunset

TEMPERATURE —0ct. 16, 1939—

’

BARCMETER 6:30 a. m.....30.79 | Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a. m....

Total precipitation since Jan. Deficiency since Jan. 1°

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana — Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer in northwest and extreme north portions, light frost in southeast and extreme south portions tonight; warmer tomorrow. Illinois -— Fair tonight and tomorow; warmer in north and central portions, light frost in extreme south tonight; warmer tomorrow,

Lower Michigan—Fair in south, partly cloudy in north portion, warmer tonight except in extreme southeast portion; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer, Ohio—Fair and continued eold; Jrost tonight; tomorrow fair and war Kentucky—Fair and Sate cold; frost tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, N. D Boston

Cincinnati Cleveland ... Denver Dodge City, Ras, Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. Los Angeles ... Miami,

New Orleans .. New York Bhs, hii ‘Okla.

Om Eh Portland. Ore. San Antonio. Tex. San Francisco - St. Louis

k 1 Wd

D. 0 . Cloudy

just like shooting fish in a bucket. |

Coiton, |

4:50 a. m.; 2:35 |

| was politics.

The other thought a moment. “Well,” he said, “I think it's a good bluff. And since so many of

are bluffs, I guess it's all right.” A young fellow, dressed in overalls and a railroadman’s cap, stepped into one registering place, put down his dinner bucket, and furnished the information neccssary for registration, Then they gave him his card - and the little pamphlet that each person who registered got. He left the table, started to read the pamphlet, suddenly looked at the clock. He saw the time, folded the pamphlet, and left hurriedly. Behind in the room was his dinner bucket, He’d forgotten it. ” tJ ” “Not much excitement here,” one fellow said as several of them waited in line. S “Well,” his friend said, “you might start some by tripping up one of those guys,” pointing to the workers. “That might be a little too much excitement,” the other replied. “Go ahead,” a third laughed, “you've got the Army behind you.”

E- » un At draft headquarters, there were six telephone girls on the switchboard and two ready at all times to relieve them. They were answer{ing two principal questions: “Do 'I have to register?” “Where do I register?” Before the girls came on at 7 a. m., the janitor, who admits he’s no wizard with telephone equipment, said the noard was lighted like a Christmas tree with incoming calls. ks started to blaze at 6 o'clock, he saich.

and

2 = If some one shows up at a registration place today who can speak only Spanish, German, "Italian, French, Portuguese, low German or Yiddish, the. County Clerk’s office will be ready for him. Byron Y. Reavis, 918. Morgan Drive, who can speak all these languages, has volunteered his services as an interpreter for the day and will be stationed at the County Clerk's office. He will be sent out to the registration places to act as an interpreter if some one appears who can speak only one of the above languages.

» ” ” County Clerk Charles Ettinger

‘began early in the day to try to

get police to waive the no-double parking rule on the Washington St. side of the Court House to facilii| tate the work. . With the rule waived, officials could drive up, double park, and dash into and out of the building

m.: | with supplies for the various reg-

istration places. The head man of each precinct registering team arrived with a bulging brief case which contained, -i besides the cards, pen holders and ‘brand new pen points, bottles of link, blotters stapled together, large facsimilies of the cards filled in by the workers, and a stack of the pamphlets {fo be given those registering.

2 = 8 Once in a while, as one drove about town today, one saw a householder who had put out the American flag. Not very often—but "mce every mile or so in any direction. Other evidence of excitement, or tension, or whatever it is that is felt ‘without being seen when extraordinary proceedings are afoot, could .| be picked up in the blocks that contained registering places. There were knots of people; wives were driving husbands to the places ‘and then driving away; school children tarried on the way to -class; little traffic jams developed; taxis occasionally swung in and out. It was subdued and not too easily detected, but excitement was there, all right,

” » 8 Twenty-five dentists showed up at the Indiana University Dental School at 8 a. m. to register and found no one to register them.

0 Headquarters had understood they

were to have appeared at 9 a. m. instead of 8 a. m., and would have een ready for them an hour later. A couple of men were rushed out from headquarters to fill the cavity.

= n = Some of the addresses of the registering places were a little vague. Some of the entrances, maybe, were around the corner of ‘the building, sort of hard to find. As a result, these places had slack business during the early hours. But these in charge of most of them found a way to appropriately mark the entrances and guide those intending to register. They obtained the largest American flag available and put it at the entrance. Business promptly picked up.

At 3215 Clifton st. the registration office was an empty grocery store. There was not much’ registration 'business, either. So the registrars got to talking. First, it There were two Democrats and four Republicans. This got ‘into -a snarl. They decided to quit talking politics. Then a registrant appeared, and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIVES Prefers Air Force

the international moves these days.

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IT’S ZERO HOUR FOR 16,000,000 YOUNG CITIZENS

High and Low, Rich and Poor Respond to Begin A New Era.

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are open in New England. are giving their names, addresses ages, in school houses in New York The Atlantic seaboard is signing up. and this first segment of the registration extends instantaneously south and westward to the flat lands of Indiana. Some Dissent

There are little blobs of dissent. A teacher here, a parson there cannot reconcile conscience to assist the draft. Some young students—so young—feel that they cannot conscientiously give their names despite assured. deferment.

job will be done. Seven a. m, to 9 p. m, is the span and the Pacific Coast will be marching for three hours after all is finished in the East. Military service is the destination of the fit. Intelligent leadership, comfortable clothing, geod food and adequate arms is Government’s part of the bargain... Acceptance of a fundamental obligation of citizenship is the registrant's contribution. “America,” says President Roosevelt, “stands *at the cross roads of its destiny.” To Protect the Nation

The class of Oct. 16, 1940, is signing on to protect her there, “The method,” says the President of the draft, “is fair, it is sure, it| is democratic—it is the will of the] people.” That is in the President's proclamation of the draft. Today he is up early—he usually is a late riser—and the impact of national selective service breaks! routine in a nation’s homes from the lowest to the highest. “On this day more than 16,000, 000 | young Americans are reviving the 300-year-old American custom of the muster” — the President is broadcasting from the White {House to the nation’s young manhood just and hour after registration begins. He tells them we are long on men but short on army, that we are mobilizing the citizenship, and not {just men and are calling on men and women and property and money to help make our defense effective. Defensive preparations and defensive preparation only is what we undertake, he tells them.

“We Live Under Threats”

“Democracy is your cause—the cause of youth.” “Those who have threaten the whole war—2 “Today we live under threats, threats of aggression from abroad,” he tells them. Johnny get your gun! And the guns are in the making, the planes, the tanks and the ships, he tells them.

dared world.

to with

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Seventeen hours overall and the | ™®

“We are mobilizing our citizenship—" all males 21-36 today, and| the money, the property, the women | and the elder men as they are, needed. Wendell L. Willkie talks, too. That | was last night but they may read today, and he tells them: “To every man in the course of his life come a few—a very few— impressively solemn moments. Such a moment comes when a man puts his life at the service of his country.” . “We Still Have Freedom”

This is not for war, we must avoid that if we can, Mr. Willkie says. “What I would ask of you is that you form yourselves into an army— the best and most efficient army on earth.” “Here in America we still have freedom,” he tells them. “It is here and here alone. And if we do not guard it—with our lives if necessary—it will perish from the earth.” . No dispute at the top over this registration. Both of those men are for it. ? “Have you registered yet?” A million times and millions more comes that question. It is the universal - password appropriate alike to banking house and stable and it passes from man fo man to man,

“Hang Onto That Card”

Ten a. m., New York Time; 9 a. m., Indianapolis Time; 8 a. m., Denver Time; 7 a. m., Los Angeles Time—the draft is sweeping westward beyond the plains states and through the mountains to the Pacific. There are hundreds of thousands in line now. Eleven questions. Name? First, second and middle. Age? Place of birth? “Okay, buddy, hang onto that card. That's your registration certificate. Any cop cah ask you for that now and if you run a red light or are curbed for speeding he’s sure to. Hang onto that card.”

NEW FARMERS’ DEAL ASKED BY M'NARY

HUTCHINSON, Ka., Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Senator Charles L. McNary accused the Roosevelt Administration today of treating the country’s 6,500,000 farm families as ‘“guinea pigs for experiments toward the perfect, regimented state.” “The farmers—all the people— are entitled to a better deal than the New Deal,” the Republican vice presidential nominee told a gathering of farmers here in the: heart of the wheat belt.

Mr. McNary, making a campaign swing through Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, charged that the administration “has dodged the farm problem” since 1933, and that instead of trying to solve it, “evaded, theorized and finally—wrote a check.” “The New Deal has tried to buy its way out of trouble,” he said.

they all went to their seats like barbers ready” for business. The registrant registered and left. | The registrars went back to talking. This time it was about the foreign situation: and pretty soon, sure enough, they were in a conversational snarl again. They decided not to talk about THAT either. Another registrant appeared, and they went to their places. That's the way it went almost all ‘day.

BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THOUSANDS

OF REGISTRANTS

Custodians Find ’Em Line; Usual Chairs a Bit Too Small.

Custodians at many schools had

not yet placed the signs which di-

rected men to the registering rooms

by the time the first of them had

arrived. As a result, there was a

{good deal of tramping about school

& | buildings by men who had not been lin them for so long that they were

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easily lost and confused. With the patience they exercise

1 daily with the youngsters in their

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care, the custodians directed these ly comers to the proper room, invited them to make themselves comfortable, and hastily stuck up

the directing signs. a2. 0 =n

At some schools, registrants filled

“The dull season isn't so dull after all,” remarked Catcher John [Out their cards standing up, even

Riddle of the Kansas City Blues,

before registering at the Northwood Christian Church,

as he studied a registration poster

20,000 Register by Noon As County Answers R-Day

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move the trucks out into the street to make more room,

At the Federal Building, a heavy | flow of transients exceeded the ex- |

pectations - of officials and a long {line formed. : It was the same story all over town. In one place, officials started their work at 6:35, after more than] a dozen young men had lined up. At another North Side fire station, more than 50 registrants were in line by 7:30. For the typical young man, here is the procedure: He goes to his registration site and waits in line, Seven clerks are taking the information. At the desk the registrar has two cards and a piece of paper in front of him, He

asks the young man's name, then!

writes it on the paper. Name Is Checked

“Is this right?” he asks. If correct, cards—one tlie size of a post card, the other of wallet size. Then he asks the 11 required questions— name, address, telephone: number, age and date of birth, place of birth, country of citizenship, name of person who will always know your address, relationship of that person, address of that person, employer’s name and place of employment or business.

The registrar fills in the answers. | When he has finished, the young man checks the answers and signs! the darger card, which is kept by the| registrar. He also signs the other]. card and is warned to carry it with him at all times to prove that he has registered, The young man then is given a] bulletin of intormation—five pages, lof instructions, ipcluding a » MEssage {rom President Roosevelt,

Draft Numbers Later Many of the young men expressed

surprise that they did not receive

draft, numbers today. + This comes later, The registration cards will be turned over tomorrow to the local boards (there are 15 in Marion County). then stamped serially. About Oct. 29, the national lottery will be held in Washington, when the President and other officials will draw the serial numbers from a big bowl to determine order numbers. For instance, if a. man holds serial number 1128 and that number is the fifth drawn from the fish bowl, his order number will be No. 5. After the order numbers have been determined, each registrant will receive an eight-page questionnaire, the answers to which will aid in determining his classificaton—available for service at once or deferred.

60,000 Forms Distributed

Before the opening of registration piaces today, 60,000 forms were distributed in Marion County. At noon, Col. Frank Boatman, assisting Mr. Ettinger, said 10,000 more had been ordered and delivered and that 5000 more were on hand. However, he said he did not expect the regisiration to reach 70,000.

State officials - received one jolt early.

Charlestown, the boom town down on the Chio River where the new Government powder plant is to

be located, sent a rush order for

3000 more forms. They had run short down there. Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state: director, dispatched the order by airplane, piloted by Lieut. Wilired E. Brown of Stout Field. At - state headquarters, 711 N. Pennsylvania St., official clearing house for all questions, eight telephone operators reported at 7 a. m, They were to work in relays of six. Calls came pouring in at the rate of 300 an hour. At 11:30, Col. Hitchcock sent over to the State Empioyment Agency for three more operators. : “Register in Own Precinct”

Most of the early confusion was caused by the attempts of some msn to register at places other than their own precincts. They were accepted in some, rejected in others. Finally, Mr. Ettinger ruled that the vrecinct boards “have a right to reiuse to register persons from otner wards or townships. You must register at the registration place designated for your precinct.” Col. Hitchcock supplemented this order by an explanation. that the precinct boards must register a pe:rson “if that person can offer satisfactory reasons why he is unable to return to his own precinct for ragistration. “We have to have some sort of restrictions on the place of registration or it would cause no end of congestion,” Col. Hitchcock said. Mr. Ettinger pointed out that if

‘a person registered outside his draft

board area (usually composed of about three wards), it would involve a certain amount of risk of error and require the hiring of additional clerical help because the cards would have to be transferred. Several factories asked that their \

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workers be allowed to register in the neighborhood of the plant, but Mr. Ettinger said he was unable to] grant the request. Meanwhile, a special committee representing the 15 Marion County | draft boards sought a centrally located suite of offices to house all the] boards. Each board will have a separate office. The committee, composed of Williapx H. Book, John Ferree and Al-| ber; Hockensmith, ‘is to report at a Ineeting of the draft board at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the World War| | Mernorial. . Mr. Book said the committee was | considering - the World War Me-

morial basement, the Lemcke Build-| ing, the Knights of Pythias Build- |

ing and the Kresge Building as pos-| sible sites. Approximately 9000 feet! of space will be needed for the 15 boards. Many of the boards have com-! {pleted the organization work of) electing one of the members as) chairman and another as secretary. | Some already have hired their] clerks. Lisut.-Col. Hitchcock appointed (five supervisors to tour the State] ‘and advise and assist local selec- | tive service boards: They were J, G. Cummins, 3733 Kenwood Ave.; Shirley A. Rogers, | 3707: Boulevard Pl.; Lester H. Rich, 11449, N. Pennsylvania St.; | Trimble, Morristown; and Fred R.| Donaldson, Lebanon. The Surplus Commodities Corp. in Indiana loaned L. B. Shackelford | |of its educational division, to the ie service board to travel the

state. and assist in advising local |

boards. 2 8-8 All} elementary and five high schools served as registration headquarters here today. At three high | |schocls, Technical, Washington and | | Shoriridge, young R. O. T. C. mem-|

| was a funeral parlor.

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though there were chairs and tables in the rooms. That situation, of course, developed early in the day and subsequently was remedied. It came about because of the fun ny and unaccountable lapse in judgment of the custodians. They set the rooms with chairs and tables for small school children—not for adult “soldiers.”

Many of the registering workers wore American Legion caps. Some of the stations were staffed almost exclusively with women— some of them old enough to have had sons in the last war. Although in many instances the registering staffs were late in getting set up for business, either because of confusion or late arrivals, there was very little eriticism heard from the men waiting. # % = It may have been—it certainly was—just a mistake on the part of officials. But one registering place: A funeral parlor, you non-combatants, is no place for a man to join the Army.

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