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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 193

Report Ribbentrop on Way to Spain to Seek Help for Axis

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1940

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FRANCE DENIES PLANS TO ENTER WAR

VISIT INDIANA, F.D. R. BEGGED BY DEMOCRATS

Appeal Taken Straight -to’ White House Over Long Distance Phone. By NOBLE REED

The big question worrying Indiana Democrats right now is whether they can induce President Roosevelt to visit

Indiana. It was learned today that party leaders and candidates have kept the wires “hot” between Indianapolis and the White House In an effort to persuade the President to include Indiana-in his final cam-| paign effort. The sudden activity among Democratic leaders for White House help is attributed to the receipt of a few short reports that were not too encouraging for the state ticket. The decision to appeal directly to, the White House, so the story goes, was a spur-of-the-moment idea by | a prominent Democrat during a huddle at the Claypool Hotel.

Telephoned President

In the middle of the discussion, he grabbed the telephone and put in a person-tg-person call for the President. It is known that he talked for several minutes with the President himself. What was said is, of course, not known. : All that the party leaders will say is that “we're not sure about it yet.” Every Democrat with a working acquaintance in Washington who can pull strings in the White House or at the Democratic National Committee headquarters has been enlisted in the effort. Report Tracks Inspected Following these efforts, it was re-| ported that railroad detectives have been instructed to inspect tracks leading to the Allison Engineering Co. plant—track inspection is a move always taken before any Presidential train rolls over them. In view of the apparent nip-and-tuck contest in Indiana, Democratic leaders feel that a visit to Indiana by the President himself would pro-

vide the necessary lift to put the party over on the winning side at] the polls in Indiana two weeks from today.

0. K. REMOVAL OF 9 SAFETY ISLANDS

The Safety Board today approved the removal of nine downtown safety islands to step up the flow of traffic. The islands are used only by trackless trolleys and Indianapolis Railway, Inc., officials said overhead wiring will be altered so that the trolleys can swing clear to the curb to pick up passengers. The islands to be removed are at Capitol Ave., north and south of Washington St.; Capitol Ave., north and south of Market St.; Ohio St. east and west of Meridian St.; the southwest corner of Ohio and Penn-| svlvania Sts.; the northwest garner) of Pennsylvania and Market Sts, and the northwest corner of Penns sylvania and Washington Sts. The proposal was made last week| and there was no public protest.

CUT CLASS TO HEAR YOUNG ROOSEVELT

DES MOINES, Ia., Oct. 22 (U. P.). —Approximately 500 Drake University students braved faculty displeasure today to hear Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. President D. W. Morehouse refused Mr. Roosevelt permission to ~ speak on the campus so the talk - was made in a motion picture theater across the street. “It is a long established policy at Drake that no controversial issues are discussed on the campus,” Dr. .Morehouse explained.

63,000 BALLOTS FOR COUNTY ORDERED

A contract for printing 63,000 ballots for the Nov. 5 election was] awarded by the County Election Board today to the Indianapolis Printing Co. on a low bid of $751. Some of the ballots will be used for absent voting. The remainder will be available in case of a voting machine breakdown.

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How Short of War?

Materiel for Britain ~ Slows U.S. Arming

Theory That ‘England Is Fighting Our Battle’ Ad-

Roosevelt Policy.

articles by Ludwell Denny explain-

ing the President’s policy of assistance to Great Britain.

By LUDWELL DENNY

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, Oct. 22

planes, tanks and munitions remain largely

order” instead of ‘on hand,” because Britain gets most

of them.

Arming Britain is placed ahead of arming ourselves. a Congressional policy but is dictated by President Roosevelt.

dell Willkie has underwritten it in to support it.

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general. Public-opinion polls seem

The justification is that “Britain: is fighting our

battle”

This theory is rejected or only partly ac-

cepted by many military officers and congressmen, who think the Western Hemisphere is a large enough frontier without adding England and the Far Pacific—at least until we are armed. But the:

{nounced today that President John 'L. Lewis of the C. I. O. would de-|

President is commander-in-chief.

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HESE objectors admit, however, that what the United States is losing in preparedness today

it may gain a year or two hence.

Then, when we

are scheduled to begin full production for ourselves instead ‘of Britain, we may have the largest pro-

ductive capacity

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in the world, plus the latest

Meanwhile, under the new Anglo-American alliance, we are making the grave sacrifice of allowing another to take

our needed arms.

That may sound strange to those accustomed to think of sacrifice

in terms only of sending our men to fight.

But it is a fact that our

men would be a useless burden to Britain, while our arms have saved (Continued on Page Three)

LEWIS TURN TO WILLKIE HINTED

C. I. 0. Head on Air Friday; Roosevelt Talks Tomorrow | In Philadelphia.

By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U. P.).— Labor's Non-Partisan League an-

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liver a national broadcast Friday! night to express his views on the] Presidential election. It was reported on apparently] good authority that Mr. Lewis would indorse Wendell L. Willkie. But! neither Mr. Lewis, the League nor C. I. O. headquarters would comment, Mr. Lewis will speak from 8 to 8:30 p. m, (Indianapolis Time) over the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Red network of the National Broadcasting Co. In New York it was reported that broadcast weuld cost $65,000 if the labor leader is successful in buying all the . time for which he has applied.

Supported F.D.R. in 1936

Mr. Lewis and President Roosevelt, to whose 1936 campaign he advanced almost $500,000, have been falling apart for a couple of years. He said publicly this year that Mr. Roosevelt would be ignominiously defeated if he sought re-election. He has not pot-shotted Mr. Willkie in this campaign but is on record in most complimentary language regarding the Republican Party. In 1928, however, he suported Herbert C. Hoover against Alfred E. Smith. Indorsement of the Republican Presidential candidate might jar Mr. Lewis’ political organization. Some of his most important lieutenants and subsidiary unions already have indorsed Mr. Roosevelt for a third term.

President Speaks Tomorrow

The political judgment here is that Mr. Lewis will not be able to carry his army with him although there will be some, unquestionably, who would follow his election advice and they might be enough to determine the result in such states as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where the labor vote is big and the contest appears to be close. Meanwhile, it was announced that President Roosevelt's political address at Philadelphia tomorrow night will be titled “America Looks to the Future.” The speech will be made before a Democratic rally at Philadelhpia’s Convention Hall and will be broadcast over the NBC-RED network and the Columbia Broadcasting System from 8:15 to 9 p. m. (Indianapolis Time).

ISSUES BORDER PERMITS OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. 22 (U.P).

—The Canadian Foreign Exchange Control Board announced today

that it .will grant special “border

permits” for residents of Canada who are required to make frequent trips into the United States. These permits will enable holders to carry a stated amount of U. S. and Canadian funds. :

STOCKS SLIP UP NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (U. P.).— Stocks moved irregularly higher today. led by steel shares. Stop-loss

orders and buying by mills aided wheaf prices at Chicago,

‘Odds on Willkie

Wendell Willkie is a 7 to 5 favorite to carry Indiana in betting odds published today by the C. Woodruff Valentine Co., Wall Street betting commissioners. : The Valentine odds favor Roosevelt in 29 states, Willkie in 16 while three—enough to win the election for Willkie— are-listed as “4 to 5 and take your pick.” Turn to page 19 for details.

WILLKIE BACK IN KELLY-NASH REAL

Warns Against Fallacy of Defense Prosperity. By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, IN ILLINOIS, Oct. 22.—~Wendell Willkie came back to enemy territory today, back to the citadel of Kelly and Nash and the smoky Lake Michigan industrial empire that has long been a Roosevelt stronghold. It was cgain, like his first Chicago invasion six weeks ago, a challenging test. He came back into miles of mills and factories whose stacks are black with the smoke of the defense program. : Talks were Hammond, Indiana” Harbor and Whiting during the afternoon. At 8:30 he will speak in Chicago bhefore heading back tomorrow for New York. Mr. Willkie told a boisterous erowd of 40,000 to 50,000 in Rockford, Ill, that his opposition is “developing a deep sense of fear” and is “getting desperate.” “I know how the opposition feels,” he said. “They have bought this Government with the people's money and they feel it going away from them and they don’t want to lose it.” Here he saw a new flood of dollars into the pockets of thousands of workers; here, as in other areas, it (Continued on Page Three)

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SPEED SORTING

By Week-End.

By EARL RICHERT With only a week remain-, ing before the national lottery | in Washington, local draft boards throughout Indiana today speeded the sorting and

numbering of the cards filed

by the state’s 414,000 regis-| trants. | Marion County's 15 local draft boards have almost completed the |sorting of cards of registrants who {belong in other areas, and most of | [them are expected to begin number- | ing the county’s 60,000 registration | cards tomorrow. Numbers will be as signed after the cards are shuffled thoroughly. | Lieut.

predicted ail cards would be numhered by this week-end. |

Numbers to Be Posted The local draft boards are to post complete lists of the registrants in their areas together with their serial numbers outside their office doors as soon as the numbering is finished. i The number given the individual by the local draft board is his “serial” number. The order in

in the Washington lottery will determine his turn to be considered for military training. - Meanwhile, it was learned at Se- | lective Service headquarters here {that Capt. Gareth N. Brainerd of | the National Selective Service staff at Washington would visit here this week to assist in local draft work. Capt. Brainerd is a member of a “flying squadron” of. selective serv- | ice officials who are visiting all state | draft organizations this week to coordinate. draft machinery and iron out some of the difficulties that have arisen. Richmond Doctor Named Col. Hitchcock said he had re-

ceived a copy of a letter sent to commanders of the various Army

| diers over draftees. The personnal of the Selective Service staff tn administer the draft in Indiana was

appointed Dr. Glen W. Lee, Richmond, as medical assistant. . Dr. Lee, a captain in the National Guard, will assume duty as a regular Army officer with the Selective Service staff at once. He will serve as an advisor for the medical examiners who have heen appointed to (Continued on Page Three)

War May Offer 'Flu Serum Test

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (U. P.), — Rockefeller Foundation scientists were preparing 1,000,000 doses of a new anti-influenza serum today for shipment to any of Europe's warring nations willing to test it. Raymond B. Fosdick, Foundation president, said that Great Britain already had indicated it would ask for the serum to prevent possible epidemics this winter. The serum, discovered only last spring, has been tested on more than 100 volunteers at the Foundation but no conclusive results | have yet heen obtained.

WARSHIP HIT, BRITISH CLAIM LONDON, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—The | Air Ministry reported tonight that a | British bomber scored a direct hit today on a 2000-ton German mer- | chant vessel off the Hook of Hol- | 1and.

Widow, 80, Signs 1st Movie Contract for $500 a Week

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22 (U. P.).— Adeline Reynolds, the San Francisco widow who sent her four children through college before she was graduated herself at the age of 70, celebrated her 80th birthday today by signing a contract as a $500-a-week movie star. Tomorrow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer makeup artists will smear her face with yellow paint and she will go into one of 1940’s big movies as an actress, co-starring with Hedy Lamarr and James Stewart. Mrs. Reynolds never has done any movie work before, but her studio is not worried about that. She learned ahout acting in a postgraduate dramatics course she began at the University of California, her alma mater, when she was 78. Soon after Mrs. Reynolds’ fourth child” was born, her husband died. She opened a public stenography office in San Francisco. A month later the earthquake and fire of 1906 leveled that. e borrowed enough

to open another office and put an inheritance into real estate to put her children through college. Then she started herself, graduating with honors at 70. “Two years ago I finally talked myself into the dramatics course,” she said. “1 had to persuade the professor that a woman 78 had as much right to learn acting as a girl, but I finally wore him down.” One of the campus plays in which she appeared was “Trojan Women,” in which Blanche Yurka had starred on Broadway. Mrs. Reynolds wrote Mrs. Yurka for advice on how to play the part. The latter obtained for Mrs. Reynold$ an agent who found her a part last week in a Little Theater production, where talent scouts saw her. Mrs. Reynolds made a test, and got a job, long-term contract included. Anybody who says anything about life beginning at 40 makes her a little tired. 4

Col. “Robinson Hitchcock, | {head of the State Selective Service, #

which that serial number is drawn |

{units stating that no partiality was |to be shown regularly enlisted sol-|

nearly completed | yesterday when Governor Townsend |

DRAFT BOARDS | 17 Draft Pattern for ‘40

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OF CARDS HERE

Local Groups Expected to Have Them Numbered |

draft slips are strung on the chain.

Using World War I as a precedent, elaborate ceremonies will mark the national draft lottery Oct. 29 in Washington. D. Morris will blindfold Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson for drawing the first number, using the same properties (with which Col. Morris is shown above) as he used 23 years ago. a chair used at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the ladle is made from an original beam in Independence Hall.

Lieut. Col. Charles The linen blindfold is from

The 1917

Only Milkmen Cry 'Unfair

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.. 50 + 55 INDIAN SUMMER is just peachie for us, but the milkman wishes the Indians still had it. Not that the milkman doesn’t appreciate the nice weather we've been having and the fair and warmer forecast that Weatherman Arminglon just gave us for today and tomorrow. “But,” says he, “this time of vear makes me feel like a cave dweller.”

his route at midnight in the summertime and the last couple of hours are spent in growing daylight. And in the winter, he starts at 5 o'clock and the last few hours are spent in daylight. But the latter part of October— which is now—the milkman starts in the dark and finishes in the dark. He goes on his winter schedule Nov. 3.

TRAFFIC KILLS 2; GOUNTY TOLL 110

Driver Faces Indictment in Hit-Run Death.

As two more Indianapolis men |died of traffic injuries to bring the ‘year’s city-county total to 110, the [Marion County Grand Jury today {returned four indictments against a man accused of two hit-and-run deaths Oct. 5. George Widby, 75, of 461 W. 12th St., who was struck yesterday in the 1400 block of N. West St., died in City Hospital last night. Herman C. Frank, 43; of 1826 Comg merce Ave, who was injured Thursday in a crash on E. Washington St., died today at City Hospital. The indictments were returned against Eugene Swope, who is accused of having driven the car which struck and killed Nichols Santieu, 39, of 1707 Lafayette Road, and William Cox, 41, of 359 W. Ray St., in Massachusetts Ave. : Swope was charged in two indictments with involuntary manslaughter and in two with leaving the scene of an accident. He is held in jail under a total of $7000 bond.

LINDY CALLS FOR PEACE MOVES NOW

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U. P.). —Those opposed to United States involvement in the European war were urged by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh last night to make a cooperative effort for peace. In a speech at a meeting of the emergency peace conference, Col. Lindbergh warned that unless “we organize against the propaganda and agitation tor war, it may be too late.” Representatives of 20 national peace organizations, attended the conference, which was called by O. K. Armstrong of Springfield, Mo., a member of the American Legion's Foreign Affairs Committee,

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RUMANIA QUAKE PERILS OIL AREA

Thousands Leave Homes in Bucharest; Mass in Public Square.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Tens of thousands of men and women, frightened by one. of the most violent earthquake shocks in many years, fled from their homes today and massed in the public square when a false radio report predicted a second quake. | It was feared that the quake may] {have cone. heavy damage in the |Ploesti oil field area. Bucharest suffered some damage. Seismologists said the quake centered near Busau, in the Carpathian foothills of Moldavia Province, about 100 miles north of Bucharest. First reports said that numerous persons had been injured including school children, by falling plaster. The prefecture, two churches, a chapel and a school were damaged and the people were panic stricken. Fragmentary dispatches from the oil fields said that smoke stacks of refineries were whipped about. Bucharest residents ran from their homes when the first of two great shocks rocked the city. Then came the radio broadcast that a second quake was expected. Bricks fell from the roof of the apartment house in which the| United = Press correspondent lives and a crack appeared in the wall of his apartment. The seismologist of Bucharest Observatory told the United Press: “The earthquake was registered as between forces six and seven. This is considered extraordinary, and serious, in this region.”

NO LETUP' IS VOW OF FUND WORKERS

Must Raise $205,723 in 3 Days to Reach Goal.

Amount Pledged $482,777.24 Community Fund Goal... $688,500.00 Next Report Meeting—Tomorrow Noon, Claypool. Drive Ends Thursday.

“There will be no let-up.” That was the vow of the Community Fund's volunteer army of 3000 as it entered the last three days of the 1941 campaign. Nearly 30 per cent of the $688,500 | goal remains to be raised. A total] of $68,736.43 was reported at a| luncheon meeting yesterday in the | Claypool Hotel. i The seventh report meeting 1s scheduled for tomorrow noon and the final report will be made Thursday night at a dinner meeting in the Claypool. :

BUT IT’S A MAN'S ARMY

DENVER, Colo., Oct. 22 (U. P.).—| State Selective Service headquarters] sent one of its men around to Mrs. Mattie Iler’s house today to tell her] that she had registered for the] Army 10 times. Mrs” Iler, who was! a registrar last Wednesday, signed! 10 registration cards in the space provided for the signature of registrants. *

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BRITISH BOMBS AIMED AT RUHR AND WARSHIPS

Turks Say Pressure on Balkans Continues; Americans Leave Japan-Controlled Areas; London Drives Off Raiders.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Fcreign News Editor Axis diplomatic maneuvers involving Spain, F rance and the Far East were reported today as British bombing planes again hammered heavily at Nazi warships in the Hamburg yards, at Dusseldorf and the great Ruhr industrial centers. In connection with the spreading rumor that France might join the Axis in fighting Great Britain, official Vichy

sources said that the nation’s sole intention is to defend the French Empire and that the Government does not plan to participate in a war against any nation.

Churchill’s Plea Is Recalled

The United Press was advised by reliable sources that Germany’s Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, is expected in Spain within 48 hours, and that he may be joined there by a spokesman for Italy. Diplomatic action bringing Spain into closer collaboration with the Axis powers was expected by the Nazis, it was indicated. Some neutral sources reported belief that Ribbentrop would meet with Italian Foreign Minister Count Caleazzo Ciano and the new Spanish Foreign Minister, Ramon Serrano Suner, pro-Nazi Falangist leader. : ; Despite the denials, France also was believed to be involved in the diplomatic offensive. Indirect reports hinted that French Vice Premier Pierre Laval might be negotiating . for permanent peace terms that some sources have believed - would be a preliminary to Nazi efforts to bring unoccupied France into the war against Britain. : The fact that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill only yesterday appealed to France by radio against such a move seemed to lend support to the reported maneuvers.

Pressure on Balkans Continues

In the Near East, the Turkish official radio reported that the Axis Powers continued to exert pressure on the Balkans and at London the authoritative Times urged that Britain take over strategic Greek islands to protect the Navy’s position in the eastern Mediterranean before the Axis Powers move into the scutheast. The newspaper put emphasis on the importance of the eastern Mediterranean—the Suez Canal, the Mosul oil wells —and pointed out that defeat in that area might well be ruinous to Britain. In the Far East British subjects were leaving Japanesecontrolled areas, as were Americans, and Japan reported that it was still continuing negotiations—with prospects for some success—Ifor a share of oil from the Dutch East Indies. One report was that Japan had assured the Dutch colonies that they were regarded as outside the Japanese sphere. Japan's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chuichi Ohashi, declared in a radio speech that American and European “imperialistic powers” which support Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Government at Chungking are Japan’s real enemies.

France and Spain Watched

Greatest immediate interest centered on the possibility of Axis moves in France and Spain. The ousting of Britain from Gibraltar presumably would be one of the chief objectives of closer Spanish war collaboration with the Axis, but Germany also would probably get submarine bases on the Spanish Atlantic Coast and France would be surrounded by belligerents. Thus the Foreign Ministers of the Axis Powers might take advantage of Spain’s position to turn the present French regime definitely against their former ally, Britain. : Heinrich Himmler, chief of Adolf Hitler's gestapo, is

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War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert British occupation of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, which was suggested in London today as a possibility, would go far toward toiling any Axis offensive through the middle east toward Suez. Though there is no question of the great advantage Britain would obtain by this move, it involves the problem of whether the British should wait for. Germany to strike first. or should boldly take the initiative, despite Greek neutrality. ; If the Aegean archipelego were in British hands, the islands could be used as: temporary air and naval bases for devastating assaults on any German effort to cross the Dardanelles and invade Turkey. At the same time, effective aid could be given to the Greeks in resisting an Italian march into Greek territory. Several of the Greek islands are within 40 miles of the Dardanelles and within 200 miles of the Turkish main railway, which the Germans would want to utilize for any advance. toward Syria, Palestine and Suez. From these bases the Ger-

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ject to British bombings that might well be of decisive assistance to the Turks in repelling a Nazi invasion. The largest of the Greek islands, Crete, is within 400 miles of the great British naval base at Alexe andria. If it were to fall into Gere man hands, the Nazi aviation force might be able to subject Alexandria (Continued on Page jXhree)