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QUESTIONNAIRES TO BE SENT FOR LOCAL CLANSIFICATION

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Taxicabs Take Greek Sol- |

diers to North; British. Fleet, R. A. F. to Help.

(Today's War Moves, Page Four)

| » BULLETIN ROME, Oct. 29 (U. P.)—Italian troops, after 30 hours of fighting at the southeastern tip of Albania, cracked a hole in Greek defense lines at noon today and swarmed across the border inte Greece, dis-

. patchés from Tirana, Albania’s

capital, reported. |

By JOE ALEX MORRIS f United Press Foreign | News Editor

Germany reportedly massed a million’ men on the Balkan front today to back up Italy’s offensive against Greece and presumably to participate in a long-range offensive against the British Empire in the Mediterranean

zone. Reports that the Nazis have 70

- divisions—which might total any-

where from 750,000 to 1,100,000 men available for use in| the southeast came from British sources which sought to suggest that the Axis

forces were massed for protection |

against Soviet Russia. Greek King Cheered

The British, rushing to aid Greece, have been seeking ® win full support of Turkey in the Near East, but so far without success.: Turkey’s action probably will depend largely on Moscow and the British sought to suggest that the Soviets are likely to oppose the Axis drive into the Balkans. No other advices supported that suggestion today. Greeks, meanwhile, rallied with wild ‘enthusiasm for| the war, commandeering trucks and taxicabs to hurry troops to the northérn front gathered in Athens to cheer Greek King George. A wave of wild rumors came irom the Balkans as a result of secrecy surrounding ’ British and Italian operations in the Greek zone, but all reliable evidence pointed to a slow start in the new Balkan conflict. | Seizure of Islands Denied

It was suggested| in both Jugoglavia and Britain that the Italian offensive against Greece was merely, the preliminary stage of a much bigger operation and designed to draw the British off base in the Eastern Mediterranean. Britain's plans of _operations—now put into effect—have been drawn up long ago, it was stated, and the British naval command does not intend to caught off guard. be goth sides officially denied many reports of military and naval moves, such as British occupation of Crete or Corfu ands, and London sources described them as Nazi propaganda d igned to cause confusion and disappointment in Greece. The British operations were in progress, however, and it was believed that Salonika as well as a number of island bases from which British bombers could attack Italy

"and the Rumanian oil fields were

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Clapper ..... Crossword ... Editorials .... Fashions .... Financial ....

1, Secretary of War Henry Stim-

in today’s draft lottery. . 2. Newton D. Baker, then Secretary of War, drawing the first number in the 1917 draft.

3. The same equipment used in the World War draft was used today. Lieut. Col. Charles Morris, retired, who tied the blindfold on

the same for Mr. Stimson today, practices his job on Brig. Gen. Lewis Hershey, assistant draft director. In the foreground are the bowl that will hold the capsules and the rod used for stirring them. Incidentally, Col. Morris recently explained that both the round fish bowi and the jar-like bowl were used in the 1917-18 drafts.

4. These are a few sample capsules and numbered cards to be used. The number 258, used here for sample purposes, was the first nmber to be drawn in the 1917 lottery.

JOIN ‘GRUSADE, WILLKIE PLEADS

Republican Leaders Pleased By Huge Crowd as Nominee ‘Comes Home.’

By SAM TYNDALL Wendell L. Willkie, who has seen a lot of the United States in the last two months, came back home to Indiana yesterday to greet his fellow Hoosiers and ask them to “join this crusade to save great, free America.” The presidential nominee, hoarse from his whirlwind campaigning, was greeted on his one-hour stopover here by one of the greatest political throngs in the City’s his-

tory. Betimates of the cheering crowds which packed the line of march and Monument Circle, where he spoke, ranged from 15,000 (by a Democratic policeman) to 125,000 (by Republican Party leaders.) Police officials estimated it at from 65,000 to 100,000. Republican leaders ‘hailed Mr. Willkie's extemporaneous but stirring talk as certain to swing thousands of doubtful voters here into the G.O.P. columns a week from today. . Democratic workers, after surveying the huge throng, appeared little concerned. They commented that a “bigger crowd cheered Alf

|Landon” here in 1936 “and look

what happened to him.” When the Willkie train pulled to a stop at Union Station promptly at 4:10 p. m. the;candidate was greeted by a group of Republican (Continued on Page Three)

STOCK RISE HALTED NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (U. P)— Stock prices were steady this afternoon after a morning rise ranging

from fractions to more than $1.

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son, who drew out the first capsule |

Secretary Baker and who will do |.

F.D.

President Declares G. 0. P. Played Politics With U. S. Security.

(F. D. R. Text, Page 20)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—President Roosevelt, moving from his “nonpolitical” inspection trips into avowed campaigning, is proving again that he can barnstorm with the best of them, Wendell Willkie included.

Yesterday » made eight speeches, ranging frog rt talks to a fighting, full-dreS@ attack in a jammed and roaring Madison - Square Garden on Republican “falsification” of the record.. > Swinging both fists in an arena where many a boxing championship has been decided, he charged the (Continued on Page Four)

Empire State Swings Into Republican Column in Past Week.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion . PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 29.—That President Roosevelt may win in popular votes, but Wendell Willkie in electoral votes, is becoming daily more of a possibility with the continuation of the Willkie trend. The past week has witnessed a continued G. O. P. trend in New York. That state shifts out of the Democratic column into Willkie's column by a small margin, It has more electoral votes (47) than the six New England states combined

Lor the eight Rodky Mountain states.

The Gallup Poll

Willkie Continges Gain in New York

R. Swings Both Fists; Willkie Returns to Ohio

Norhinee Repeats Comparison of War Chance and Pledge on. Platform.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. 29 (U. P.).—Wendell L. Willkie, speaking at Jackson, O., today repeated his declaration that “the boys

had better get ready to get on some

troop transport to go to a foreign war” if President Roosevelt does not keep his pledge to uphold the 1940 Democratic platform any better than he did the 1932 platform. __ Addressing tens of thousands of Ohioans at an open air rally in a meadow setting, the Republican Presidential nominee struck back at Mr. Roosevelt's speech last night in which the President accused Republicans of sabotaging Administra-

I, S. NEUTRALITY ACTION DELAYED

Hull and Welles Called to White House for Second ‘Talk in 7 Hours.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P). President Roosevelt today called Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Undersecretary. Sumner Welles back to the White House for a second conference in less than seven hours on the critical European situation.

Mr. Hull and Mr. Welles, who reviewed all phases of the new ItaloGreek war in an hour’s conference with Mr. Roosevelt this morning, will return to the White House for their second conference at 4 p. m. Documents by which the Grecian credits would be immobilized in this country and by which the United. States formally would proclaim its neutrality in the new extension of the European conflict have been prepared. The President, however, decided not to .issue them immediately. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said that Mr. Hull and ‘Mr. Welles told the President “that in

their opinion the State Department |

still lacked official confirmation and until they received it, the documents on neutrality and credits should

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not be acted upon.”

Whereas New York was in Roosevelt’s column in two previous Institute polls in October, today’s vote, covering the period Oct. 22-28, 1s as follows: NEW YORK STATE Today

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Willkie cesses 51% Roosevelt Seren BERR

Oct. 27 Poll

The roporti votes for the state in today’s survey is 6 per cent.

President Roosevelt's visits to New York ‘this week and his Jhroadcast

Change of 300,000 in Five States Could Bring , G. 0. P. Victory.

addreses may, of course, halt the Willkie trend in the state and turn the tide. In the Dewey-Lehman campaign for Governor in 1938, a

speech by the President in Madison Square Garden just before the election is generally credited with tip-

ping the scales in favor of Governor

n in that extremely close race. A sharp trend toward Mr. Willkie is also revealed in Delware. Whereas President Roosevelt had a fairly comfortable lead in the state last week—57 ‘per cent--today Delaware is in the doubtful column, that is,

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U.S. MUSTERS ITS MANPOWER

Chance Alone - Decides Order; Mother of 1st Draftee Screams at Drawing.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

DEPARTMENTAL AUDITORIUM, Washington, Oct. 29.— America chose today by the free democracy of lottery: the order in which young men shall be called to the colors so that, in the words of President Roosevelt, a strong na= tion “may continue to live in freedom and in peace.” - The first number drawn was 158. The fate of seventeen million young men from 21 to 35 rode in 9000 blue pellets in an ancient goldfish bowl on the stage of a Washington government auditorium. | Chance and chance alone governed the order in which those capsules—each containing a number —were ladled from the bowl, thus determining the - progression in which conscription registrants shall be called for a year’s army service. The first number was pulled from the bowl by War Secretary Henry L. Stimson—his eyes blindfolded with an old strip. of linen—at 11:18 p. m. (Indianapolis Time),

Boy’s Mother Screams

Mr. Stimson handed the lottery slip bearing the number 158 to President Roosevelt to be announced to the crowd in the blue, gold and white auditorium. Mr. Roosevelt read it to the throng in a strong clear voice. A scream burst from the rear of the auditorium. Chance—that rode in the goldfish bowl—had struck home for the first time. The scream was that of Mrs. Mildred C. Bell of Washington, D. C., there. to see whether the number of - hef son Robert, 21, should be drawn. It 'was. Robert’s number was 158, (Continued on Page Three) .

THE WEATHER GETS THE TOTAL BLAME

It Caused the Prank Which Caused the Wreck.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES i 61 10a. m :

The early Indiana Railroad traction car from Columbus. wasshalf an hour late this morning. It seems that just north of Franklin the car hit an automobile tire and received a bent cow-ecatcher. Investigation by the motorman and the 10 passengers revealed a tfuck parked by the side of Road 31, its left rear tire missing and its driver asleep in the seat. The driver blamed Halloween pranksters. A wooden block and an iron bar borrowed from the nearest farmhouse, : straightened the cowcatcher and the traction car continued on way. hr» Weatherman Armington said this story—which 10 commuters told their bosses when they finally arrived for work—is very plausible because temperatures last night were 10 or 12 degrees above normal, conducive to sleep along the side of the road and just about the right temperature for Halloween pranksters to be on the loose. - He warned against further forays by pranksters because fair weather

All of Sfates 393,000 Registrants to Get Numbers Today; Officials Expect 20 In Every 100 to Be in Class 1-A.

aoa BS Jumhets drawn so far, Page Four; text of Roosevelt lottery By EARL RICHERT No. 158 was first out of the draft bowl in Washington today, and 15 Marion County young men received Order No. 1 for classification for military service. After the first 50 numbers had been drawn, only 131 men here had received order numbers. Highest number on any local draft board list was 4887. Several of the early numbers topped that figure. ' However, the order numbers will be changed later in many cases. Local board members will classify their registrants in the order drawn. For example, the holder of serial number 850 in a board area having only 2500 registrants might be the 8000th to come out of the bowl in Washingten. However, his order number would be close to 2000 after his:board had revised its list. : me : Here’s the Honor Roll

Ten of the 15 local No. 1 men were contacted. Four of them are unmarried. One of the single men enlisted ‘in the National Guard last night. Another is’ employed at the Allison Engineering Co., a third is 26 years old, another 33. Two men who drew No. 1 are the fathers of four children. Three others have two children, one is the father of 8. The 15 members of Marion County’s “honor roll” are:

WALTER MITCHELL SCHULLER. He is 22 and not married. He works as a gear-shaper operator at the Allison Engineering Co. and rooms at 2959 N. Delaware St. He came to Indianapolis six months ago from Auburn, Ind., where he was employed by $he Warner Gear Co. Asked what he thought of the news, Mr. Schuller said: “Golly, I thought I would be lucky enough not to be called first. Boy, what a shock!”

WILLIAM HENRY WINTERS. Unmarried and 26 years old, he enlisted last night in the 150th Field Artillery of the Indiana National Guard and will go to Camp Shelby with the Indiana Guard shortly after the first of the year. A plasterer, he has been out of work for about two weeks. He lives with his parents at 3410 E. 20th St.

FORREST WILBUR JOHNSON. He is 28, married and the father of three children. He is employed at the Indianapolis Bleaching Co., and lives at 1209 Hoyt Ave.

ROBERT LEE PALMER. He is 29, married and the father of four children ranging in age from 5 months to 7 years. He has been employed at the Overbrook Poultry Farm for 11 years, and lives at 4705 Vernon Ave., Lawrence. He was born at North Vernon and educated in the Lawrence school.

GEORGE ANDREW KINSER. He'is 26 and unmarried. He is employed by a local contractor and lives with his mother, Mrs. Cora Alice Hamilton at 780 Mozart Ave. He was éducated in Beech Brove afd Indianapolis schools.

Toolmaker at Allison’s

FRED JOHN HIBERNICK. Married and the father of two children, he is 29. He has been employed as a. toolmaker at Allison’s Engineering Co. since July. He lives at 604 S. Edgehill Road. !

JOHN EMERALD KRAMER. He is 33 and unmarried. He is a stock man at Van Camp Hardware Co. where he : has been employed fqr 14 years. He served in the National Guard from 1925 to 1929. He owns his own home at 57 S. Rural St. His comment on being drawn first was simply: “I'm willing.” : i MADISON EDWARDS. He is 35, married and has four children. He is employed as a laborer at St. Rita's

is to continue tonight and tomer:

Catholic Church of which he is a member. . His home is at