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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 195

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940

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U.S. Needs Defense Against Panic, Willkie Replies to F. D. R. |

FRANCE SWINGING CLOSER TO AXIS FEARS INFLATION: TEACHERS FIL REPORT PETAIN ROOSEVELT DENIES CTY AS 81TH TO SEE HITLER; ARMING FOR WAR SNPH SPAIN YIELDING

Go to Work With Classroom Executive Promises to i

Efficiency Soon After Continue Work

Their Arrival. (Additional photos and convention For Peace. (Text of Speech, Page 19)

Just to Give You an Idea of the Crowd

: President’s Speech in Philadelphia Held [ ‘Obsolete.’

(Text ef Reply, Page 20)

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct. 24 (U. P.)— Wendell L. Willkie, replying to President Roosevelt's Philadelphia speech last night, charged today that “one of] the greatest panics in history” will follow completion of America’s defense program unless private domestic

economy is stimulated. Speaking to a nation-wide radio

news, Pabes 3, 6 and 13.)

By EARL HOFF Swarming through downtown streets and filling every available meeting place in the city, 17,000 teachers 24. — President ‘Roosevelt's 20k over Indianapolis today,

] 3 : "for the 87th annual conven- : ] hid for the vital mid Atlantic}. © of the Indiana State states is based today on a!

: haveing his: 2 Teachers Association. campaign 5 Srgmg 1s oph 0 Incoming highways were flooded, nents with deliberate falsifi-!with traffic as the teachers poured i : : .+_ in from every corner of the State. cation and denyin g the CX ist | Department stores and theaters ence of secret International were doing a land office business. ti ? i involvi Hotel lobbies were packed as the fren fog of any kind My olving visiting teachers formed in long audience from his special train the United States in any way. lines at, the reservation desks. All parked. on a siding in the little , Fifteen thousand partisans | available rooms were occupied or “Pennsylvania town of Harbor Creek, (cheered enthusiastically in Conven- reserved. Many teachers sought Pa. Mr. Willkie asserted that, un- |tion Hall here last night as Mr. lodging in private homes. less the President. fulfilled his 1940|Roosevelt began his whirlwind cam-| But amid all the confusion the platform pledges better ‘than those paign. He delivers another political | BrouD got to work with teacher-like of 1932, “our boys soon will be sail-|speech Monday night in New Yori jefciency. studying new aspects of

i 5 2% art in a City. their profession. The first of more ne ike) | than 40 department meetings started

Mr. Willkie charged that the Work for an Promised at 9:30 a, m. Others were held at President was taking undue credit! He limited himself last night to a noon and at 2:30 p. m. for employment remitting from thejrecapinulation of New Deal achieve Meet by District nation's defense preparations. ments, sharply sarcastic counters to] ay 1.30 p. m. the teachers met

New Bases Believed Goal; Rusfo-. | Japan Pact Believed Near. iE By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct.

(Today's War Moves, Page Three)

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United "Press Foreign News Editor|

Adolf Hitler's lightning "diplomatic offensive today swiftly consolidated the Axis lineup in eastern and western Europe as a prelude to mustering ‘any new strength for, war against the British Empire. ; Sen Defeated France swung toward co-operation when Pre« mier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was reliably reported to. : have gone from Vichy to Paris, presumably to discuss with : Hitler a final or interim peace arrangement which would give the Nazis new bases or facilities for blows against Britain, Spain under Gen. Francisco Franco, with whom Hitler conferred yesterday, indicated intention to join more firmly than ever with the Axis war effort and military sources spece ulated on a Nazi blow .(presumably from Spanish bases)): against the British fortress of Gibraltar and the British Navy in the Mediterranean.

Indiana teachers are in town again, Have a. look at the Claypool Hotel lobby. Others were just as crowded.

War and Domestic Politics [FUND IS WITHIN

Russo-Japanese Pact Indicated |

. : Republican charges and a reiteraHopes to Avoid Inflation

«On another occasion,” Mr, Willkie said, “the third term candidate told us that recovery which comes from armament is a false goal. I agree with him, And yet he tried to justify his Administration on the basis of re-employment due to armament. “Now, I intend to build armaments too, if you elect me President of the United States. That js exactly what I have been talking about from one end of the nation to the other . . ., but at the same time 1 want to stimulate our domestic economy, so when" the defense program is completed there will not be inflation and unemployment of hundreds of thousands of men and financial chaos.” . The President’s speech, according , to Mr. Willkie was “strikingly simjlar to the defense system . either obsolete or on order.” “It was obsolete,” he continued, «pecause it discussed the issues of the 1932 campaign.” : It was “on order,” he added, because it “promised you jobs and the right to work.” . Points to Third-Term

Mr. Willkie said that there was no issue between him and the President on social legislation, that he simply desired to preserve the social -gains made since 1932.- - “But the only way to keep those gains is to keep the country financially solvent,” he added. Mr. Willkie criticized Mr. Roose- . yelt for his failure to offer “even one reason’ why he should be permitted to violate the American tradition against a third term for any President—"a tradition that is 50] years old.” Preferring to the President's state- | ment that Mr. Willkie's assertion, which was revised soon after it was made, that he had telephoned to Adolf Hitler and urged him to agree to the Munich Pact by which he took. over part of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Willkie said: «1 revised that statement as soon as it was called to my attention. That is more than the third term candidate ever has done. He never revises any misstatement.” As a matter of fact, Mr. Willkie said, the President did not telephone Hitler, but did telegraph him, urging him to carry through the Munich Pact, and telling ‘him. that hundreds of millions of people would (Continued on Page Three)

MEXICO TIGHTENS JAPANESE EMBARGO

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24 (U. P.),— | Rigid restrictions putting a virtual | embargo on vital war metals being! * shipped ‘to Japan were being en- | forced today by the Mexican Gov-| ernment. - . | It was reported reliably that’some - $400,000 worth of mercury awaiting shipment and under contract to the Japanese Government had been wfrozen” . since Monday

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Books esse Clapper. essen ‘Comics ese crossword ee Editorials .... Financial .... Flynn FOrum «coeoee * Gallup Poll... 9! Homemaking., 23 Indpls. ... 3 Inside Indpls. 17

17| Movies 29! Mrs. Ferguson 18 28! Obituaries 18| Pyle cveveeees 17 21 Rddi® ..0.... 20

Side Glances. 18!

Sports. .24, 25, 26 Radio ....... 16

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18| Mrs. Roosevelt 17 years. 18 Serial Story.. 291his five cronies at the Atlanta Con-

tion that we are not arming for |

, Pledges to Labor for Peace

False—false—false, - Mr. Roosevelt said last night in answering Republican charges that he had urged the Axis powers to “sell

that he had negotiated: secret agreements with foreign = governments, that he is committed to involve this country in war. Not just false, but “deliberately false” he branded some Republican

“It is the very simple technique,” he said, “of repeating and repeating falsehoods, with the idea that by constant repetition and with no contradiction, the misstatement will finally come to be believed.” But, he said, in a democracy (Continued on Page Three)

LEADERS PLEAD WITH

FOR TO VISIT STATE,

Express Little Hope That He Will Do So.

Indiana Democratic leaders today renewed their efforts to get President Roosevelt to visit Indiana before the election. J More letters and telegrams were sent to the .White House by local party leaders, stressing the “importance of a Presidential tour | through Indiana.” But party leaders expressed little hope that the President will be able to. get to Indiana next week. Governor Townsend said he re- | ceived information today .that sif | President Roosevelt goes to Chi- | cago next week, he will stop at | ‘Indianapolis en route, | In Washington, White House Sec- | retary Stephen T. Early said today | that the President would like to] visit Indiana, ?llinois and Michigan | but that his travel plans are con-| ditioned ‘on his rule of not travel- | ing more than 12 hours from Wash-

| ington at this time. |

according to the 12 “congressional districts, each to choose a member of the nominating committee, a vice president and one delegate to the National Education Association convention in 1941. The ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th districts also chose members of the executive committee. While the main parf of the session = was educational, politicalminded groups campaigned among the delegates for candidates for president, vice president and treasurer of the association. The nominating committee will announce its selections after a meeting at. association headquarters at 6:30 p. m, today. At 17:30 o'clock this evening the first general session will be held at the Cadlé Tabernacle when Judge J. M. :Braude of the Chicago Boys’

Court will speak on “America and

Her Boys.” Also on the program will be the inaugural address of the Association president, Miss Margaret Sweeney, of Jeffersonville; a talk by Donald DuShane, Columbus, president of the National Education Association,

land a talk by K. V. Ammerman, {Broad . Ripple High School, retiring |-

Association head. Warden on Program

The Officers Reception Ball fis scheduled for 10 p. m..at the Murat Theater. ; The teachers will open their business meeting at 9 a. m. tomorrow in the Cadle Tabernacle where committee reports will be heard, resolutions passed and new officers elected. At 2 p. m. at Cadle Tabernacle James Johnston, warden of Alcatraz Prison, and Dr. Edwin Lee, University of California School of Education dean, will speak. At the Murat Theater, Actress (Continued on Page Three)

Weatherman Is Teachers’ Pet

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ....55 10am ....67 7 a. m. 11a.m. .... 71 8$a.m..... 58 12 (noon) .. 72 9a.m. .... 63 ip.m.... 76

“IF BALMY BREEZES” were apples.” said the Weatherman today, “I'd sure be teachers’ pet.” “Not very many men in my position would be able to promise 70 degree temperatures for the school marms when they wait till the last of October for their annual get-together. « “A resolution on seems not at all out of place on this occasion. “Shucks!

Maybe I'm just weather vain.” .

~ Put Teacher ‘on the Spot’

. # The Program TODAY

Department meetings, all day. CADLE TABERNACLE, 7:30 P. M., Call to Order—K. V. Ammerman, Indianapolis, retiring president. Invocation. Inaugural Address— Margaret Sweeney, Jeffersonville, association president. Greetings—Donald DuShane, Columbus, president of the National Education Association.

“America and Her Boys’—dJudge J. M. Braude, Chicago Boys’ Court. MURAT THEATER, 10 P. M— Officers reception and ball.

TOMORROW

CADLE TABERNACLE, 9 A. M.— Association business session. 2 p. m.,, Vance Curtis, vice president of association,. presiding. Address—James Johnston, Warden of U. S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island. - “Education for Conservation of Human Resources”—Dr. Edwin Lee, University of’ California. MURAT THEATER, 2 P. M.—Miss Margaret Sweeney, president of association, presiding. ' A dramatic program by Cornelia Otis Skinner. CADLE TABERNACLE, 7:30 P.M. —Music by Indiana State Choral Festival Association, Harold Rothert of Madison in charge.

ROOSEVELT CALLS HULL FOR TALKS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt called Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House today for consultation atter receiving voluminous dispatches bearing ‘on international developments. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said Mr. Roosevelt had called the conference with Mr.-Hull as result of the large number ot

|up on {swing in Pennsylvania, Delaware

the weather |

official dispatches which had piled his desk during his campaign

land New Jersey. He indicated the |dispatches had bearing on the | Asiatic situation as well as developments in Europe.

30 HELD AS SPIES BUCHAREST, Oct. 24 (U. P.).— |Rumanian police said today that 30 ‘persons accused of espionage had ‘been arrested in Bucharest in the | past 24 hours. .

‘General’ Jones Looks Over the Yanks of 1940, Wishes He'd Had 'One of Them Rifles’ in 1864

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 24 (U. P.).— “General” James Reid Jones, a courier in Gen. Wade Hampton's confederate cavalry of 1864, today looked over the mechanized “Yankee” army of -1940 and “wished to hell I'd had one of them automatic rifles when Sherman was {marching through Georgia.” : Ninety+six years old, bent and

the aid of a cane, “General” Jones’ martial ardor is unimpaired by his Discussitg war daily with

federate Veterans home, he got a

Society ....22, 23 yen to see the new weapons and a

new army and went to Ft. McPherson.

He was received there with the military courtesies due the rank of general. To Maj. Joseph W. Harper, he said: ‘I wouldn’t mind joining up‘again, even with some Yankees.” A Garand automatic rifle was

brought forward and fired for his|

benefit. The old man’s eyes popped and he asked to fire it. : “But, General,” objected a captain, “that gun’s heavy and has quite a kick.” “General” Jones leaned on his cane and laughed until the medals on the chest of his gray uniform rattled.

“Boy, did you ever shoot a muzzle loader? It kicked like a damn mule.” A = He was deterred by the arrival of a 45 caliber automatic pistol for demonstration firing. Maj. Harper took the clip out and let him handle it. : “I'd sure have loved to have had a gun like this,” he said. “You say she shoots seven times without loading? The Yanks shot at me from No'th Carolina to Georgia and all I had was my muzzle loader and a pistol that didn’t shoot half. the time.” - _ “General” Jones was 20 years old when the Civil War Sand

Inquisitive Pupils Ask Questions Unanswered in Textbooks.

By 'SAM TYNDALL The thunder of war and the confusion of domestic politics has put the Hoosier school teacher “dn the spot” with his students—as never] before. This is because all history, they say—economic, political ‘and social —is being questioned in light of present, events and the text books for present events are the news-

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This is evident from casual, informal interviews with dozens of teachers. The teacher—he or she—is asked questions that aren't “in the book” and he—or she—is having a tough time answering them. One young high school boy with an “I'm from Missouri attitude” recently asked - Irving Heath, a Terre Haute history teacher: “Wouldn't we be armed adequately by now if we had had a dictator instead of a democracy?”

Answer: ‘Yes; but—’

Mr. Heath said he said “yes—but consider how it would have been done.” “But dictators do get things done,” the youth maintained.

Mr, Heath said the average high |

school student is against the dictators—some are violently pro British and others are just supporters of democracy in’ general—but all of them frequently stop to question what’s told them at home and by public officials. “There is no use telling them they are wrong,” Mr. Heath said. “They'll say they agree, but go off unconvinced.” Because of this, teachers are spending more and more time in informal talks with their .students. This is how democracy is being taught now, Mr. Heath said. George L. Russell, Gary school principal, said the teachers are placing the emphasis today on teaching the student to :try and think his way through the confusion—even to try and pierce it a little—rather than dogmatically declaring “this is right and that is wrong.”

Teaching Is Objective

Unlike the last war when teachers ange the top” for. America's war policy and preached it openly, teachers are now trying to remain objective. “But objective teaching in these times with events so impressed upon all of us, is nearly impossible,” Mr. Heath said. The impact of world shaking events is forcing the teacher to sharpen his own thinking processes —to keep up with events by reading newspapers and to more and more —do his real teaching without textbooks and in informal chats.

VICE AIR MARSHAL OF ENGLAND IS KILLED

LONDON, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—Vice Air Marshal C. H. B. Blount was burned to death when his plane crashed in a takeoff, it was announced today. Blount had commanded the Royal Air Force division in sérvice with the British Expeditionary Force in France and had been regarded as one of the ablest air fighters in the

country. :

13% OF ITS GOAL

‘Let’s Pass It,’ Leaders Beg; Annual Drive Will End Tonight.

Amount_pledged. ......... $600,157.00 Fund goal ........... or +. $688,500.00 Pledged yesterday ,......$117,379,76 Per cent of goal .......:

With hours to go, the Indianapolis Community Fund needs $88,343. ‘If; the workers have time to go and get it between now and tonight, the money is waiting for an over-the-top subscription to the Indianapolis Community Fund. That's what the experienced leaders of the campaign, which closes with a report meeting to-

night, believe. What they don’t know is whether the 3000 workers | can make enough calls to collect. the | remaining amount in the time left.| The leaders, experienced in ‘the | trends of giving, say they know that the money could be raised. with more time, but the campaign will end tonight, goal qr no goal. The fund took a big jump yesterday as a result of some large and much-needed contributions. Heading yesterday's list was L. 8. Ayres & Co. executives and employees, who handed over $20,327. This was 3 boos over last year’s gift of $19, 237. Two of the 12 major divisions hit their quotas yesterday. The utility division, under H. S. Morse, subscribed $74,125, and ‘the philanthropic group, directed by Eugene C. Foster, gave $8850. Eli Lilly & Co. employees also increased their gifts dver last year. They gave $13,125 to the Fun yesterday; last year’s contribution was $12,574. ~ The Lilly’ Varnish Co. went * to $2206 as compared to an even $2000 last year; the A. Burdsal Co. in-, creased last year’s - $4556 to $532; United Laundries, Inc., deubled the 1939 gift of $75; P. R. Mallory & Co. gave $4200 this year as compared to $3878 in 1939. A new gift of $291 came from the firm, executives and employees of the Ballard Ice Cream: Co.

CITY-COUNTY AUTO

“TOLL RISES TO 110

Woman, 77, Dies of Injuries After West St., Crash.

Indianapolis’ 1940 (traffic stood at 68 today, following the death of Mrs. Mary Zoller, a T7-year-old gardener of :2256 Bluff Road. The city-county toll reached 110, compared to 74 last year. Mrs. Zoller died yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital of injuries suffered Oct. 8. She was driving a horse and wagon south on S. West St. near the Belt Railroad when the wagon and a car driven by Howard Wollman, 23, of 1629. Cottage Ave. collided. Mrs. Zoller was thrown to the pavement and both her legs were broken. She was the mother of Mrs. Mary Moriarty, a City policewoman, and Mrs. Anna Palmer, Indianapolis.

STOCK PRICES DIP

NEW YQRK, Oct. 24 (U. P.)» Profit-taking cut stock prices somewhat today but selling declined on

the reaction.

Soviet: Russia, indicating lack of opposition to the Gers. -

man military move into Rumania, permitted dispatéhes fo .- pass through the Moscow censorship predicting an early nons aggression pact with Japan as a result of negotiations to be

lopened by the new Japanese Ambassador. »

In Washington President Roosevelt summoned Secree

tary of State Cordell Hull'to a White House conference . after reading dispatches concerning international develops .

ments.

Strict military censorship that (prob influence) extended even to unoccupied France maintained .

a cloak of secrecy around” the ultimate Axis objectives in

regard to France, which has vigorously and officially gone on

record as determined not to enter into war against Britain or to permit use of the French warships. ony

Vichy Appears Yielding to Nazis «= += But the departure of Petajn for Paris, following upon

conferences between Hitler and French Vice Premier Pierre Laval, would indicate that the Vichy Government at least was responding to the Nazi's Fuehrer’s invitation to discuss arrangements for a more permanent peace and collaboration == with Germany in post-war Europe, ne

. Greatest interest centered on whether Germany and

Italy would get new bases, especially in the French African ¢olonies, for the climactic drive they haverpromised against

the British Navy in the Mediterranean. Hitler's talk with Franco, in addition to Axis press °

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comment, indicated that arrangements were being made for Spain to get a share in the spoils and thus such Mediter=

ranean bases as Bizerte, or South Atlantic ports as Dakar.

might be made more available for use by. the Axis powers

in attacking British warships and merchant vessels.

plan

Meanwhile, the Nazis returned to their aerial blitzkrieg .

lon the British Empire, and claimed to have started big fires

on the east coast of Scotland, where some of the big naval

The British A

How Short of War?

Denny:

Way

Pilots as Well as Financial Aid

4 bases, including the Firth of Forth, are located. ib ir Ministry reported widespread raids on (Continued on Page Three) =. :

Open for Britain to Get U. S,

This is the fourth in a series<of articles by Ludwell Denny on the

toll

growing belief in Washington. Just as the Administration

Willkie probably will be able time comes. The ‘fact that the White House has not yet supported publicly the King bill to re=

peal , the Neutrality Act and Johnson Act pans on credit to Britain is a matter of timing. And Britain is in no hurry.

As for men,

Britain. has more than she can use and has reduced the flow from her dominions.

Mr. Denny

Unless and until there is

an attempted British invasion of

the continent—impossible until England obtains air superiority — her manpower need will be in the flying service. : Even that need has not yet developed. Gen. Strong, after investigating on the spot, reported to the - 4 : ™

U. S. policy of assistance to Great Britain.

By LUDWELL DENNY . Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—When American credits and needed, Britain will get them. And probably men, too.

ships, are

wad able to deneutralize the Neue ° trality Act by erasing the arms embargo, so Mr. Roosevelt or Mr, to kick out “cash and carry” when the

President that Britain’s pilot supe ply equaled her plane supply. AS her American plane supply ine

This is the

ow?

ably under Nazi =

creases, so will her prot supply. |

from her Dominion training camps. British civilians can train on our Southern: air fields if Canada gets

too cold, under the White House ,

plan. : If Britain needs American pilots, the President has opened the way, Several hundred crack American

fliers: already are fighting in Enge

land or training men ..in Cane ada. The Presidént has approved

this so long as they do not take: -

an oath of’ allegiance to George, and His Majesty has agreed.’ Nothing . prevents several hundred -

or thousand more from going, when

they are wanted. . Nothing, that is, except that there are few left here. Our Army’

does not know where to get the .

instructors for that mighty “on paper” Air:Gorps of our own. The (Continued on Page Six)