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sows} VOLUME 52—~NUMBER 196

2 NOWNATED “BY INSURGENT TEACHER BLOC

Local Instructor's Name Put}:

Before Convention For Presidency.

(Additional photos and stories, [Pages 6 and 29)

By EARL HOFF An insurgent bloc of classroom teachers today bid for leadership of the Indiana State Teachers Association with two floor nominations at the Cadle Tabernacle mass meeting. Declaring that “thefe never has been a man classroom teacher as president,” Harvey Poling, Bloomington, hominated Marvin Dale williams, Washington High School, Indianapolis, teacher, for the presidency. Mr. Poling said “only school executives” have received the office. Mr. Williams thus became an opponent of the nominating committee's choice, J. Fred Hull, Fowler, Benton County Schools superin- . tendent, /'who had been unopposed. Gerald Alexander, Parke County superintendent, previously had withdrawn his candidacy. Shortridge Teacher Nominated

Following .floor -discussion for and against the oppdsition to the nominating committee’s selections, Russell Sigler, Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, teacher, was nominated for the office of treasurer. Previously, .L. B. Hargrave, Washington High School vice principal, had béen unopposed. Unopposed when = nominations were closed was the nominating committee’s choice for vice president, Miss Bertha Nelson, Ft. Wayne. Balloting began immediately after the no ations were closed and was to after which the ballots were to be counted | at headquarters in the Hotel Lincoln,

Unanimous in Defense Stand

_ Divided in their own politics, the teachers showed only unanimity when they pledged themselves to develop'a [first line of defense against invading alien philosophies and to inquire into the reasons for certain deficiencies revealed in the recent national defense mobilization, . They also commended the .Congress and the President for “the adoption and prosecution of the national defense program.” They | adopted a resolution that affirmed all present and future programs for the perpetuation of the government and its defense, calling attention to its opinion that “the defense| against all philosophies alien to the American way of living, defense against any possible military invasion, and for the establishment of national security and prosperity . for the [days of peace which will follow days of world strife and disorder must rest on foundations laid now in the ducatfon and training of our citizenship.” Another resolution called for a joint investigation by political and educational leaders to discover the basic reasons for the deficiency of | mechanical skill in the state as revealed by the national defense program, Gon for “determining the de-

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THE GALLUP POLL SCORECARD

a The Indianapolis Times’ i Page 2! today pub- : + lishes a Gallup Poli score- | c&d which you will want | to clip out and keep up- | to-date. In addition, you will find on the same page the latest Gallup Poll on New York state. The next biy 48-state poll comes on Monday.

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Slain, at Cafe

Virgil Disher . . . 21 persons questioned in fatal brawl

10220 CHARGED WITH MURDER

Youth, 16, Dies of Wound in Back; Dominic lozzo Hurt Seriously. (Another Photo, Page 16)

Fred Iozzo, proprietor of the Iozzo Cafe, -36 S. Illinois St., was charged with the murder of a 16-year-old patron during a brawl early today in which his son was wounded. Virgil Disher Jr. 249 N. Beville Ave., died in City Hospital a short time after a bullet entered his back. Dominic Iozzo, 25, who was Shot in -the abdomen, is charged with vagrancy and held in City Hospital under $5000 bond. His condition is regarded as serious. Both Fred and Deminic told police that{ Dominic: shot the Disher boy: after.-the:I3ish®r hoy had: shot Dominic; Police said that chemical tests showed that neither Dominic nor the:Dishér boy had fired a gun recently but that Fred had.

'3 Held Under Bond

Three men foulid by, police in the tavern when they ‘arrived fo investigate the shooting were held on vagrancy chatges under $3000 bond, Police said that the three were reported (to have been nearest the scene of the .shooting when it occured, but that:all three denied having ‘seen or heard anything.

or ‘questioned by police. The story police now have is the version of the Iozzo family, whose members said the brawl occurred when young} Disher and several other persons invaded the kitchen, Mary lozzo said she ordered them out, and when they refused to go, called her father, She said Dominic was first on. the scene and was struck. Then Fred Iozzo arrived. He told police, they said, that a 38-caliber revolver dropped to the floor from his pocket.

‘Dominic Reports Fight

Dominic said, police reported, that the Disher boy picked up the gun and shot him, and that he (Dominic), though wounded, then gained possession of the gun and shot young Disher. The Disher boy was in a party which ineluded his: brother, David, 21, and his sister and brother-in-faw, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Smith, R. R. 11 Box 304.

OMRYMEN REQUEST “HIGHER MILK PRICE

Food Costs Up, They Tell State Board.

A petition to raise the price of raw milk paid by distributors to dairymen in the Indianapolis area from $2.18 to $2.54 a hundredweight was filed today with the State Milk Control Board. The price increase was asked by local dairymen to cover increased feed costs of winter milk production. The Milk Control Board will set a date for a public hearing at its

| meeting next Tuesday. If the Board

grants the price increase, it probably will mean an increase of one cent a quart to the Indianapolis consumer. The petition was filed by the Indianapolis Dairymen’s Co-operative, the Indianapolis Dairy Producers’ Council and ‘the -Indepgpdent Milk Producers’ Association. The increase asked is the same as was in. effect last winter. The 2.18 figure was established last spring

1by the Board because of lower Pro-

duction costs during the summer months.

AIRLINE ISSUES STRONG NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (U, P). — Features in today’s irregularly lower stock market were airlines issues, which were strong, and food shares,

which slumped. . Several food issues

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Twenty-one witnesses were held!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940

F.D.R- WILLKIE RACE LIKENED 10°16 CONTEST

Political Managers as Well As Voters Confused, . Stokes Says.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct. 25.—Uncertainindecision prevail among a larger percentage of voters in the final stages of this Presidential campaign than in any of recent years. That circumstance, disclosed by the polls, is attested by political managers.

You probably would have to go back to 1916 to find anything comparable. And that campaign, like this, was fought out in a mad and confused world, with the smoke and cinders of a European war darkening

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Atlantic, and the American people fearful that we might be drawn in. Running then for re-election—but for a second, not a third term—was a Democratic Presiden? who had

regardless of party, for a domestic reform program that he, Woodrow Wilson, called “the new freedom.” President Roosevelt, ‘similarly, has won ‘wide acclaim among the rank and file for his “New Deal.’

Voters Were Confused

The voters were confused in 1916. And in 1940 confusion is plaguing political managers of both parties, particularly the Democratic, if the industrial Middle West is any sample. They are particularly plagued Because on their shoulders is the responsibility of delivering the electoral votes that probably will de¢ide this election. There’s something in the air that is perplexing them. It has developed almost overnight. Three weeks ago, experts put the election “in the bag” for Mr. Roosevelt. Democrats were supremely confident. Then, presto, they were rudely awakened to find that something was going on under the surface, particularly in the Middle West. That I found to be true on a recent survey,

Willkie Talks Impromptu

Then I rejoined this campaign train at Erie, Pa., and putting two and two together—what I had observed traveling through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and ‘what I found when I got back on the train—I began to piece things into a sort of theory. The train was due at Erie at noon for Mr. Willkie to reply over a national hookup to the President's first (Continued on Page Three)

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Strawberries Welcome Rain

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m..... 56. 10 a.m. 7T7am.....5 lam Sam. .... 58 9a. m. .... 61 1p. BR INDIANAPOLIS strawberry crop (some 30 plants that we know about) welcomed .3 of an inch of rain last night. Indiana’s school teachers (some 17,0000 when interviewed today, said they were glad the rain is over. ; Indiana's football fans (some 100,000 or more) could not be reached for. comment, but it is unders they will welcome the fair skies forecast for tomorrow. Indiana’s football players (some ? times 11) said they don’t think they're going to like the 75 to 80 degree temperatures which Weatherman Armington is cooking up for the week-end.

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won favor with the rank and file;

Dayton Fog Stops Fortresses Here

One of the Flying Fortresses ... a Dayton, O., fog set it down in Indianapolis.

Aviation enthusiasts, the kind who have to restrict their activities to| the week-ends, missed a big treat today at Municipal Airport. Two of the Army’s Flying Fortresses, bristling with machine guns and reportedly carrying the secret bomb sight, landed this morning. The ships are four-motored and are known as the B17 bomber. On their way to Langley Field,

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Va., from March Field, Cal, they {put down first at Albuquerque, N. M., |last night. Shortly before reaching Indianapolis, their radio men learned there was a land fog at Patterson Field in Dayton, O., their second scheduled stop. And so they {pulled in at Indianapolis. Seven Fortresses were in the orig{inal flight but since each ship was {making an “individual flight” officers of the two here said they didn't |‘

FDR—'I'll Serve the 4 Years’; Willkie—' How Many Te Terms?’

President Denies | Rumor He Might Resign in Favor Of Wallace.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U. P).— President Roosevelt declared today that if he is ‘re-elected for a third term, “of course” he would servé out the full four-year term. He made. the statement in ‘response to a press coriference question about rumors that if re-elected, he

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Experience No Reason for Keeping. Roosevelt, Says G. 0. P. Nominee.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Oct. 25 (U.P.).—Wendell L. Willkie demanded today that President Roosevelt tell’ the nation his views -on fourth and fifth Presidential terms “because there is no argument tht can be advanced for a man serving three terms that I cannot make more persuasive for a fourth term? and still more persuasive for a fifth

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might withdraw from the Presidency | term

in favor of Henry A. Wallace if the

present = international emergency should abate. _ To emphasize his point, Mr. Roosevelt permitted direct quotation of the “of course” with which he answered the question. The inquiry was made by a reporter who asked:

“Of Course,” Says F. D. R.

“In your Philadelphia address you said ‘we are determined during.the next four years to make our objective a job for ‘every young man and woman in the United States a living fact’ Does this mean that if re-elected you will, God willing, serve out a full four-year term?” “Of course,”, the President replied, _He sat silent and serious for a few seconds and then said that he was glad | the reporter inserted the clause “God willing” in his inquiry.

Earlier, his campaign aids announced that Mr. Willkie would debate the President—not from the same platform as Mr. Willkie would preféer—but by radio, 24 to 48 hours after Mr. Roosevelt delivers each of his four scheduled political addresses. The Republican nominee told a Jamestown, N. Y., crowd estimated at 12,000 persons, that if one accepted the argument that experience in office was qualification for a third term then 12 or 16 years in office would make a President even more qualified.

Asks Reasons for Third Term

“And | carrying that to its logical conclusion,” he continued, “Louis XIV, one of thc worst despots in history, will turn out to be one of the best rulers in the world.” Mr. Willkie, concentrated. his exteporaseons remarks on the rea-

Mr. Roosevelt indicated very definitely that the present international situation will prevent him making any pre-election swing as! far west as Chicago, or any other place farther than 12 hours rail | travel from the White House.

Urges Renewed Faith

& He pointed out that he has -reiterated the 12-hour rule some 10 or 20 times, and indicated that he was at a loss to explain a misunderstanding in Illinois which prompted statements from Springfield that he would visit that state before Nov. 5. The President indicated, however, that if the foreign situation quiets down in the future he might visit defense establishments in the Middle West and he would like to spend Thanksgiving at Warm Springs, Ga. But, he said, the international situation has not quieted down. , Mr. Roosevelt “declared yesterday ‘that the multi-billion-dollar total defense program is America’s answer to foreign propaganda that

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sons why Mr. Roosevelt sought a {third term. He said that if the | President assumed to. seek re-elec-ition because of the critical inter{national situation he (Willkie) wondered why Mr. Roosevelt did not prefer Secretary of State Cordell Hull as the Democratic nominee. “If the President “desired some candidate sympathetic to social legislation, why didn’t he permit the nomination of your fellow townsman, Bob Jackson?” Mr. Willkie asked. 2 Why Not Jackson? He Asks

Jamestown is the home of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. If experience is the test, he continued, why did Mr. Roosevelt fail to support the candidacy of James A. Farley, former Postmaster General and veteran politician? “He wanted the job himself,” Mr. Willkie concluded. He said that Mr. Roosevelt had claimed to have seen the war loom(Continued on Page Six)

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NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (U. P.).— Elvira Schwear, the 17-year-old corn queen of Tipton County, Indiana, meant to get up at 6 a. m. today, just as she does back home on the farm, but she didn’t. She has succumbed to the ways of her first big. city.

whirl of pleasure. She whizzed through the streets in a sightseeing hus, sailed around Manhattan in a special ‘boat, had a rhumba lesson from a Cuban dancing teacher, took in a show and wound up in a night club celebrating with two glasses of orange juice, straight.' ' Today she’ll be wined and dined, as they say, at the Worlgrs Fair. It's Corn Queen Day ther Schwear will be guest of honor. “But I'll take Indiana,” she said. “It’s real fine here, I guess. But

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Tipton's Corn Queen, Who Wants to Marry A Farmer, Terms N. Y. 'Nice Place to Visit’

taking stenographic lessons, just in case, but her heart isn’t in a career. A ‘real farmer’s daughter” and proud of it, she never thought much hasnt much use for the movies except as entertainment, and the only celeb-

rity she would “kind of” like to meet

is Gene Autry, the singing cowboy. Tall, curly-haired and blue-eyed, Miss | Schwear said she wasn’t one for the “big city” life. She hardly ever dances, she said, doesn’t drink or smoke and her favorite recreation jis roller-skating. “I |don’t suppose you ever get to Joi} Skate here,” she said. “That's

en she is not reller-skating or h school, where she is a senior, the elps on the farm. She conssed she wasn’t a very good milker.

know the whereabouts of the other five. They expected to reach their destination, Langley Field, today. On a training fight, there were seven men to a ship. Besides missing the planes, the week-end Airport enthusiasts missed seeing the men. A woman employee of the Airport restaurant reported they were ‘plenty good looking.”

SEVERAL DIE IN RAID ON LONDON

Busses, Street Cars Struck; “Italians Join Air Attack; Berlin Bombed.

LONDON, Oct. 25 (U. P)e— The Royal Air| Force has sent into action a “souped up” Hurricane fighter that mounts 12 guns and outspeeds the crack Spitfire fighters, it was revealed today.

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British and German air fiéets intensified their attacks on enemy Capitals today. Hundreds of 4 German planes swarmed over Great Britain “following raids last night on Berlin, and caused severe damage and many casualties. The mass daylight terror raid on London was the figst since Sept. 17. Bombs crashed on street cars, busses and business buildings. The British claimed to have shot down 12 of the invaders while admitting that eight British planes were lost. Four |British pilots were reported safe. | German sources said that wave

“exceptionally heavy” attacks on British cities, including London. The Nazi offensive followed the revelation earlier in the day that Italian planes for the first time had participated in the attack on Britain vesterday. Berlin claimed 14 British | planes were shot down in severe | battles over Britain, and admitted the loss of four.| The British said their bombers in a three-hour |attack on Berlin smashed at vital railroad and other targets in the center of the capital at the climax of a general attack on Germany's European bases. The 23d British bombing raid on | Berlin began about midnight and (Continued on Page Three) en

COMMUNITY FUND 1S $215 ‘OVER TOP

8 Years; Workers Cheer.

A ti workefs today chalked up a real victory in a race well won. ' They reached their goal of $688,500 at the deadline last night and |: eased over the top by $215.27—the first time in eight years that the Fund has reached its quota of gifts, which, in the next few weeks will be budgeted qui to the Indianapolis needy. | The victory margin of $215.27 was expected to be even further increased today by pérhaps as much as $100—small contributions through newspaper subscription. blanks. . In the closing the last report meeting at the Claypool last night, W. C. Griffith, Fund president, said “We are deeply grateful to the donors and volunteer workers for this splended victory.” Fund workers attributed the quota smashi victory to a last day “push” in which $88,558.27 was brought in.

When Harold B. Tharp, general chairman, announced the final audit, 600 tired (but happy workers burst into applause. “The workers in this great campaign are mighty happy and appreciative and I am sure that this is shared by every one of the approximdtely 80,000 subscribers who made possible this fine accomplishment of raising the amount for the 37 Community nd agencies,” Mr.

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PRICE THREE CENTS

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[itler Believed Eager to F orestall U.S. Aid to Britain

"NAZI MOVES MAY MEAN PEACE OFFER

sented to Britain—

a new President on Nov. 5

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requests to ‘enter the war)

age American aid to Britain. that Germany was seeking to

Spain and Germany.

Such colonial concessions

London.

ALL-EUROPEAN LINEUP AGAINST LONDON SOUGHT

Forced Settlement With Empire Believed Goal in Demands for New Bases From France and Spain.

(Today's War ‘Moves, Page Six)

~ By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Adolf Hitler's furious diplomatic offensive began to emerge today as a drive to consolidate a massive Nazidirected European bloc against: Great Britain and perhaps to launch a new bid for peace on German terms before American’ materials can affect the war. While the Nazis struck at Britain with a daylight raid and the R. A. F, bombed Berlin, dispatches from defeated France suggested that the Fuehrer might be paying special ‘attention to the United States Presidential elections in time ing his campaign against the British Empire. Some unofficial sources at Vichy and London believed that a new demand for a general settlement might be preith the alternative of a big-scale offensive in which Spanish or French bases would be available to the Axis military Maching-—belore Americans choose

Britain Suspects Concern Over U. S. /Berlin, Rome and Madrid emphasized that Hitler's conferences with the heads of the Spanish and French states esigned to form a European bloc aimed against eporting that Spain had rejected Nazi

expressed belief that Hitler

political and military operations up to a climax before the United States elections in order to discour=

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A simliar belief was current at Vichy, where it was said

persuade France to share con-

trol of Tunisia with Italy and to turn over part of Morocco to

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Important New Bases Believed Aim

would be expected to give the

Axis powers important new bases for a climactic offensive against Britain if, as expected, any plany for a general European settlement on llitler’s terms were rejected by

The realization came to American capitals that if France, Spain and their African colonies lent themselves to the Axis powers, the South Atlantic shipping lanes would

become a. battleground and strategic French possessions in

the Western Hemisphere would become disputed ‘territory.

Another factor was the psychological effect that might

the shift of attention away

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with the Axis Powers.

No longer does President Roosevelt: limit our aid to Britain to methods “short of war.” He now warns the Axis that we will fight if it tries to stop our war aid fo Britain. Although this policy was inherent in our new military alliance with Britain at war, it was not formally stated by the President until Oct. 12 at Dayton. He said: “No combina-, tion of dictator countries of EuIope and, Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy. No combination of dictator countries of Kurope and Asia will

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How Short of War? Already We Héve Been Carried Into a

be produced in Latin America if Spain, the mother country, took an active part In the war. :

_ Russian Shows Interest in Balkans The Axis diplomatic maneuvers coincided with intensified Italian: military operations indicating an imminent ‘general offensive in North Africa. ¢ The Balkan states, for the momént, were relieved by

from the southeast but they

continued alert to the possibility that Axis diplomatic activ-

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Potential War With Axis

( This is the last of a series of articles by Ludwell Denny on the U. 8. policy of assistance to England.)

By LUDWELL DENNY

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—As Britain's military ally in this hemisphere, and in the Atlantic and Pacific, we are in a state of potential war

We are officia)ly- defending Canada and seven other British posses= sions at war with Germany. We are supplying U. S. Army and Navy equipment to belligerent Britain, ysually considered participation in war.

almost the last free people now fighting to hold them at bay. Our course is clear. Our decision is made.” He added that the United States’ ‘commitment is not limited to this hemisphere: “And when we speak of defending this Western Hemisphere, we are speaking not only of the territory of North and Central and South America and the immediately adjacent islands. We include the right to the . peaceful use of the Atlantic Ocean and of fhe Pacific Ocean.” Peaceful use pf the oceans means: 1) Use as defined by the British Navy at war, under which American . cargoes and mails now are subject to rigid British control; (2) Amer ican challenge of any Axis curtail ment of British control of the Atlantie or Pacific. : The Anglo-American military ale liance also includes joint piltasy x

and naval staff activity, sharing mil(Continued Page