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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 194

Vote New Deal for Liberty'—F. D HITLER EXPECTED TO

LINCOLN TALK CITY EXTENDS {TS WELCOME

QUOTED AS HE DEFINES AIMS T0 TEACHERS

Stops at Wilmington on Way To Philadelphia for Due for 87th Institute; Hotels Filled.

Speech Tonight. ABOARD ROOSEVELT The Program TOMORROW

TRAIN AT WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 23 (U. P.).—Presi- i dent Roosevelt, opening his ont home-stretch drive for a third to Order—K. V. Ammerman, Interm, said today that a vote QisRBpolls, Fetiing president: for the New Deal on Nov. 5 Inaugural

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: Willkie Heads East

MEET FRANCO

NAZIS INDICATE CLIMACTIC BLOW AT BRITISH NEAR

BULLETINS : LONDON, Oct. 23 (U. P.).—Details of German prepa rations to jnvade the British Isles were disclosed by the Air Ministry today. The ministry said that Germany had concentrated hundreds of self-propelled barges, each 150 feet long and capable of carrying two trainloads of men or materials, at invasion ports.

Goodby!

Sees Victory

Taft Confident

GOP CANDIDATE BRUISED, WIFE STRUCK BY EGS

President Is Challenged to. Show Where Record Was ‘Falsified.’

By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer

ABOARD WILLKIE] TRAIN, Oct. 23.—A defiant Wendell Willkie carrying a bruise on his temple where he was struck by a missile on, leaving Chicago, rode into the

Address — Margaret

will be a vote for “liberty.”

Mr. Roosevelt spoke from the rear platform of his special train while en route to Philadelphia where he will deliver a major political address tonight. He recalled that his victory in Delaware in 1936 caused surprise, and expressed confidence | that the state will remain in the] Democratic column this year. Mr. Roosevelt used a definition of “liberty” expressed by Abraham Lincoln to define the objectives toward which he is directing the New Deal. First Political Sally

The President left Washington at noon for the Philadelphia trip and this was the only scheduled stop en route. Once in Philadelphia he will inspect defense projects at Camden, N. J., Frankfort, Pa., and Philadelphia itself prior to his political address at 8:15 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). He will speak at a Democratic rally at Convention Hall. His address will be titled, “Amerjea Looks to the Future.” It will be broadcast on the major networks. The trip is the President's “first political sally, as such, in the current campaign. The expenses, including payment for ihe 45-minute radio talk tonight, will be borne by the Democratic National Committee. The President was accompanied by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Lewis Compton, Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and Senator ~ Joseph F. Guffey (D. Pa.).

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“Four years ago Wilmington was the home town of the famous Liberty League,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “It was created for several purposes, but its major objective was to defeat the New Deal and drive it from office. “In view of that fact I thought ‘that Wilmington was a good place to read from a speech made by President Abraham Lincoln, the definition which he gave to the word ‘liberty.’ : . «This year that definition is of even greater significance. This is what “President Lincoln said: « The world -has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declared for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with ‘others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with (Continued on Page Three)

THUGS FIND BAKERY TOO TOUGH TO CRACK

The DeLuxe Cake and Pastry Shop, 658 E. 38th St., is apparently impregnable. Early yesterday, two men entered it, bound an employee, Richard Everett, and spent several hours trying to drill open a safe, without success. Early ®oflay Mr. Everett heard a noise at the front door and .saw a man flee as he investigated. The man had been attempting to cut the screen door to open it, but he ha had no success. ———————————

"FIRE DAMAGE AT MILLION

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark, Oct. 23 (U. p)—A million-dollar fire that started ab midnight in the huge No. 1 plant of the Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. destroyed 15,000 pales of cotton and four of the plant’s 16 huge compartments. Cause of the blaze had not been determined.

ieee STOCKS TURN IRREGULAR NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (U, P.).— Stocks turned irregular this afternoon after an early advance which was led by steel shares.

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Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. “The people want Roosevelt to save us.”

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WALKER NOTES

TREND TOF. D.A.

Americans Not ~Misled by Attacks on Foreign Policy.

By NOBLE REED Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, a former Hoosier, declared here today that the “American people will not be misled by recent criticism of President Roosevelt's

foreign policies.” “The American people are , fairminded and theyre not going to be swayed by these attacks against the President,” Mr. Walker said in an interview befcre he started on a tour of the city to make seven speeches this afternoon and tonight. ; Mr. Walker, a graduate of Notre Dame University and now one of its officials, said that reports on political trends in Indiana “are encouraging for the Democratic ticket.” Sees 1936 Trend

He said indications are that “Indiana will go Democratic by a substantial majority—the trend seems as strong as it was in 1936.” Discussing the prospects in the eastern states, Mr. Walker said he was informed in Ohio yesterday that the state would go Democratic by 300,000. He also said Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut “are certain to go Democratic.” “I sincerely regret the bitterness that has developed in this campaign and I certainly will not resort to any vilifications in any of my speeches,” he said. “It is unfortunate that such things are happening in the campaign.”

Says Roosevelt “Forced”

The Postmaster General said he was ‘a little confused” over the issues of the campaign because “the opposition appears to be in accord with President "Roosevelt on all domestic and foreign policies.” Discussing the third-term issue, Mr. Wuolker said that ‘President Roosevelt didn’t want a third term but he was forced into it by the present world crisis.” “Back in 1932 the people were almost unanimous for Mr. Roosevelt's election in order to save the nation from an economic crisis—we have a world crisis now and the people (Continued on Page Six)

{ WORKMAN KILLED, FIVE HURT IN RIOT

Trouble Blamed on Hiring of Non-Union Men.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23 (U. P.).—One man was killed and five others injured when bullets and bricks flew today in what was described as a riot between several hundred union and non-union men at a subdivision under construction in suburban St. Louis County. /

Hills, a development of the Schuerman Building & Realty Co. St. Louis. Fred Schuerman, a member of the firm, said both union and non-union labor was employed there and that a business agent had demanded only union men workers be employed, but was given no answer. Elmer Bennis, 55, who said he was a member of Local 42 of the Ameri® can Federation of Labor Building Laborers’ Union, said he and about 100 other fellow unionists arrived at

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/the subdivision this morning and 6 | were met: by “a big mob of men, a! {couple of hundred, who came at us

from'all sides.” “There were several shots. We didn’t have any guns, so we turned and ran.” Bennis was among those taken to

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East today.

He carried double-dare-you challenge for President Roosevelt, who takes to the air in Philadelphia tonight to show where the Republican candidate has “falsified” the record. Mr. Willkie stood before a cheering, tumultuous audience of 25,000 in Chicago Stadium last night and, reciting instance after instance in which he charged that New Deal performance had not matched New ‘Deal promise, he shouted his defi:

Points to 1932 Promises

“Mr. Third-Term Candidate, I'd like you to tell the American people whether Wendell Willkie is falsifying that part of the record.” . Time and again he hurled his challenge. : The address was widely regarded as Mr. Willkie’s most effective to date. Again and again he struck hard at the man he mentions only as “the third-term candidate”—at his “disastrous” currency policy, his failure to reduce taxes as .the 1932 Democratic platform promised, his failure to end unemployment, his scuttling of the London economic conference. “Falsification?” asked Mr. Willkie. “Why,” he shouted, “any misstatement -of the facts would be a ‘charitable act.”

Has His Tough Moments

And then he charged: “If his promises to keep our boys out of war are no better than his promise to balance the budget, they are already on the transports.” It was a confident as well as defiant candidate who headed for a “one-night stand” in New York City. He scheduled a dinner conference with Alfred E. Smith, Democratic Presidential whom President Roosevelt “twice (Continued on Page Three)

FUND WORKERS ASK PLEDGES BY PHONE

Emergency Service Set Up For Last Two Days.

Community Fund workers today

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wounds,

reported pledges totaling $118,085.89, bringing the total pledges thus far to $600,863.13, or 87.3 per cent of the goal.

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If you want to give to the Indianapolis Community Fund and have not been visited by a campaign worker, call MArket 2401. A worker will be dispatched immeute to receive your pledge. This emergency service has been set for the last two days of the drive and is an indication of the tremendous job the 3000 workers have before them. Between now and tomorrow night they must raise 29.9 per cent of the $688,500 goal if the campaign is to follow the successful pattern of the score or more in the country that already have been finished. Workers®' hope that the report meeting at noon today will bring the amount given and pledged to $600,000 or better, leaving them only $88,500 to raise during the next 24 hours—no small task in itself. The drive opened Oct. 7 and so far $482,777.24 has been . given or pledged.

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Senator Robert A. Taft . . . “Republicans gaining.

PREDICTS 6. 0. P, TO CARRY STATE

Midwest Swings to Willkie, Ohioan Reports; Here For Addresses.

By RICHARD LEWIS Nowhere are Republicans so confident of election victory as they are in Indiana, Senator Robert A. Taft (R., 0), said in an interview here today. Trace The Ohio Senator, who has just completed a speaking tour in Eastern and Middle Western states in behalf of Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, said that both Indiana and Ohio are expected to roll up “safe Republican majorities.” Also in the Middle West,” the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois are definitely leaning into the Republican column; he saids In Missouri, where Senator Taft made several addresses, he added, Presidential race appears to be “even.” ® Senator Taft was scheduled to address Republicans at the Columbia

nation-wide radio Marion tonight. | He said he will shortly join Mr. | Willkie’s entourage and probably |will remain with the Presidential | candidate for the balance of the campaign, The tall, gray-haired Senator, who lost the Presidential nomination to Mr. Willkie, said he found conditions improving in the eastern | states for .the Republicans. : In this critical area, the two states with the largest electoral vote, | New York and Pennsylvania, are i becoming predominantly Republican in sentiment, he said, and in Connecticut and West Virginia, campaign sentiment .is evenly divided. Senator Taft also predicted that (Continued on Page Six)

PHILIPPINES MAY GET | NEW DIVE BOMBER

FARMINGDALE, N. Y., Oct. 23 (U. P.) —The 110 combination dive bombing-fighting planes built by the Republic Aircraft Corp. here for Sweden and commandeered by the United States Government, were being loaded today onto railway flat cars, reportedly destined for the Philippine Islands. : The planes can carry 1350 pounds of bombs and discharge them while diving at 370 miles an hour. A special mechanism releases the bombs while the plane is in an almost vertical dive. Each plane has two machine guns synchronized to fire through the three-blade propellor, and a machine gun in the rear cockpit mounted on ja turret so it can be swung in any direction. Relieved of its bombs, the plane becomes a pursuit-interceptor and can attack other bombers.

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Education Association. “America and Her Boys”—Judge J. M. Braude, Chicago Boys’ Court. Officers’ Reception and Ball—10 p. m.,, Murat Theater,

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_ By EARL HOFF Indianapolis becomes the

hub of Indiana’s teaching pro-

fession tomorrow. From every corner of the state, 117,000 teachers will come here for ithe Indiana State Teachers Asso|ciation’s 87th annual Institute. A large number of their officials already were in Indianapolis for the meetings today of the County Superintendents’ Association, the City and Town Superintendents’ Association and the Indiana Schoolmen’s Club. All hotel reservations have been filled and many teachers have sought lodging in private homes, Robert H. Wyatt, executive secre-

{tary of the association, said.

War Casts Shadow

The two-day institute will be one of the most serious in the association’s history. For the first time since 1918, policy will be shaped under the shadow of a world war. The teachers will be asked to consider resolutions seeking to protect rights of their members who might be drafted for Army duty, urging greater stress on the value of institutions of democracy and proposing a “tightening up” of administration of State aid. But not all of the teachers’ time will be taken up with weighty mat- | ters. There'll be time for numerous alumni gatherings and “extracurricular” meetings and dinners. There'll also be time for shopping trips and theater parties. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, Indiana University president emeritus, was to speak to the County superintendents at 2 p. m. today at the Hotel Lincoln. McMurray on Program

Also on the program were to be Floyd I. McMurray, State superintendent of public instruction, speaking on “The County Superintendent and National Defense”; Dr. Raymond A. Kent, University of Louisville, and. Superintendent Clyde A. Mitchell of Vermillion County, who was to speak on “The NYA Program.” At the same time in the Claypool Hotel this afternoon, Superintendent Carroll R. Reed of the Minneapolis, Minn., schools was to address City and Town superintendents on “Education and the Defense of American Democracy.” Other speakers were to be Donald DuShane of Columbus, Ind., president of the National Education Association, and Dr. H. Lester Smith of Indiana University, past NEA president. : Sections fo Meet DeWitt S. Morgan, Indianapolis schools superintendent, was to preside. . : Superintendents were to be guests of the Indiana Schoolmen’s Club at a 6 p. m. dinner today at the Claypool Hotel. The speaker will be Dr. Arthur B. Moehlman, University of Michigan. Before the general meeting gets underway tomorrow evening, teachers will spend the day in departmental meetings. Using nearly every school, hotel, department store, church and public auditorium meeting place available, they will consider educational problems and developments and elect new section officers.

Mrs. Anna Yoh, a policewoman, was on duty at the headquarters switchboard today, as usual. Oscar G. Mueller, 64, of 3301 Park Ave., was on his way to work at the Vonnegut Hardware Co. . Sergt. Kent. Yoh, husband of Mrs. Yoh, and the police emergency wagon crew, including Patrolman George Mueller, cousin of Oscar Mueller, were on their way to 36th St. and Boulevard Place, siren screaming. At Illinois St. and Fall Creek Blvd. the car driven by Oscar Mueller struck the rear end of the emergency wagon, overturning it and injuring Patrolman Mueller seriously. Sergt. Yoh and Patrolmen Thomas Kegeris

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and William Haugh were less seriously hurt. Patrolman Haugh, a little dazed found a telephone as soon as possible and called headquarters. Mrs. Yoh took the call and heard of the accident. Like a good policewoman in an emergency, Mrs. Yoh remained calm. She sat ‘down in the captain’s office and waited for details about injuries to Sergt. Yoh. When she discovered he was not critically hurt, she got in her own car and drove to the scene of the crash. Meanwhile, nurses and doctors from nearby St. Vincent's Hospital rushed to the aid of the two worst injured of the Policemen, Patrolmen

Policewoman at Switchboard Takes Report

of Police Car Crash in Which Mate Is Hurt

Mueller and Kegeris were in the rear seat of the wagon and were thrown to the pavement. Sergt. Yoh and Patrolman Haugh were in the enclosed front seat and were less seriously injured.

Patrolman Mueller, who received a compound fracture of the right

leg and possible internal injuries, was taken to Methodist Hospital where his condition was reported as serious. The others were taken to City Hospital with bruises. Oscar Mueller was uninjured but his wife, Mrs. Margaret, Mueller, riding with him, received a slight injury to her elbow which was treated by her own physician.

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Ensign Day . . . it's goodby “for the duration” to his wife, Virginia, and little Sandra Day.

ENSIGN HARL DAY CALLED BY NAVY

‘You've Got to Expect This,’ Wife Says as He Leaves To Captain: YP26.

By SAM TYNDALL Virginia Day stood in the living

Ave. this morning and watched her

husband pack his trunk locker. Her two little girls, 18 months and 4 years old, raced around the room. They thought packing was {great fun—and their father wasn’t often at home at 9 a. m.—he usually was at work. A neighbor pushed through the front door. “I want to wish this nice young boy goodby,” she said and then to Mrs. Day: “What do you think of your husband just up and leaving you like this?”—an obvious effort to cheer the 26-year-old wife. “If youre in the Naval Reserve you've got to expect it,” Mrs. Day replied. Harl S. Day, 29, a sales engineer at the Diamond Chain Co., got his orders yesterday and today he is off to sail away with Uncle Sam’s Navy. Ensign Day first goes to Michigan. City where he takes over as captain of YP26—a 75-foot wooden-hulled submarine chaser of World War vintage. Long ago it was “retired” from the high seas for lighter work as a summer and week-end training ship for n embers of the Indianapolis Naval Reserve battalion. The first thing Ensign Day will do (Continued on Page Six)

MERCURY 12 POINTS OUT OF BOUNDS

But Weatherman Says It’s Not for Long.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

.. 5% 10a. mm..." 58 a.m... MH 8am. ... 62 12 (Noon) , 76 9am ...69 1pm. ...78

Today started off like a typical July day in Juneau, Alaska. Likewise, today was 12 degrees warmer than the typical October dav in Indianapolis. That, cautions Weatherman Armington, doesn’t mean shirtsleeve weather is just around the corher. Rather, he says, it will be cooler tonight and tomorrow.

BOY, 4, HIT BY AUTO; CONDITION SERIOUS

Four-year-old Dallas Mauert, 721 Perry St., was in a serious condition in City Hospital today with injuries received when he was struck by an automobile last night in Evison St., 1200 block. Physicians said he received head injuries and a broken leg.

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nois St., was injured today when a car in which he was riding skidded at Keystone Ave. and 62d St. and struck a utility pole. He was cut on

room of her home at 3854 Byram|

VICHY, France, Oct. 23 (U. P.).—Vice Premier Pierre Laval returned today from an interview with Adolf Hitler, conferred with Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and left again for Paris. The brief interview with Petain indicated that Laval had come here from Paris to seek a decision on some issue of negotiations,in progress with the German Fuehrer and had returned to Paris with the answer.

(Today’s War Moves, Page Six) By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Mysterious but persistent reports of imminent developments in Spain’s relations with the Axis powers hinted today at an important meeting between Adolf Hitler and Spanish General Francisco Franco. Military censorship in both Berlin and Madrid concealed movements of the two dictators but it was reported that they were likely to meet—or had already met—in France. The possibility that the German Fuehrer would discuss closer war collaboration with Franco following his discussions yesterday with French Vice Premiere Pierre Laval intensified Nazi reports that “big developments” were to be expected. Britain Lists Bombing Damage : The reports circulated as Britain's Air Ministry issued a statement in which foreign -industrialists estimated that 20 per cent of Germany's war production capacity had been destroyed by R. A. F. bombing raids which hit at oil and gas centers, industries and communications lines. ~The Air Ministry said large oil refifjeries in the Neuhof district of Hamburg had been forced to close; that grain elevators near the Hamburg docks holding 10,000 tons of wheat had been “completely destroyed”; that damage had been inflicted on a gasometer at Gelsenkirchen, one of the largest in Europe; and that railways and intra-city transport systems had been hit. Germany denied serious damage at Hamburg. : The mystery surrounding the reported conferences and the Nazi hints of impending developments (a customary tactic of the Axis propaganda ministries) added to recent indications that Hitler was mapping a climactic blow, possibly against the British fleet in the Mediterranean.

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Ribbentrop’s Whereabouts Is Mystery That the Nazis could bring both France and Spain into sueh an offensive, however, was repeatedly and vigorously denied by the Vichy Government, which emphasized that it did not intend to re-enter the war. : : The German wireless followed up reports that the German and Italian Foreign Ministers would meet in Spain by broadcasting a Madrid report that Gen. Franco, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner and the German Ambassador to Spain had left for San Sebastian.

Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop’s (Continued on Page Three)

How Short of War? Denny: Congress Gets No Answer When It Asks:

To What Extent Are We Aiding Britain?

By LUDWELL DENNY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—More of our Navy and of our Air Force will be turned over to Britain, according to Congressional reports, Senators, who failed to prevent the President from disposing of 50 destroyers, are now frantically seeking means to stop the reported new deals. : Many are convinced that some of our precious Army Flying Fortresses and comparable Navy giant bombers already have gone the way of the destroyers. There is no way to get the truth.

White House de= nials of the destroyer plan did not prevent that deal. Now the Administration is. not talking. Gen, George C. Marshall, when asked recently if more Army equipmeut was on the way to Britain and Canada, replied: “Not at this

release is believed to be contrary to the public interest.” . From other “authoritative sources” the congressman learned that in the first year of the war the President * |released to the Allies: Two thousand two hundred planes from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps; 500,000 rifles and 150,000,000 rounds of ammunition; 70,000. ma=" chine guns; 6000 field-artillery guns, Since then the President has provided Canada with 250 of our World War tanks for training purposes. According to the William Allen White committee for more help to Britain, one out of every four of the troops in England is outfitted with U. S. Army equipment. On top of Army and Navy sup-

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time.” Congress cannot get an answer. The Lodge resolution points out that the British note on the destroyer deal implies that additional Army and Navy material is to follow. The Administration even refuses to tell Congress the amount of such equipment already turned over to Britain. Gen. Marshall refused to give this information to Rep. James

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plies, ranging from destroyers, planes and tanks to small-arms ammuni= tion, and despite the fact that Brits ain gets priority over our Army and Navy in many American aviation factories, London is demanding more. First she wants as many a8 possible of the 300 planes built here for Sweden, and the 100 for France now in Martinique.

E. Van Zandt (R. Pa.) Doras its)

Sir Walter Leighton, after talking (Continued on Page Three)

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