Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1940 — Page 3

TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1940

MILLION NAZIS

fms Greek Troops Go to Front in Taxis, British Navy And R. A. F. Help.

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the chief objectives of the British forces, ’ The Axis plan was envisaged in London as much broader in scope than the mere seizure of Greece. British sources ' ‘believed that the ‘Axis powers planned eventually to strike through Bulgaria to Turkey in an effort to seize the Near East oil fields and attack Suez from both sides, Czech Arms Works Bombed

‘Britons believed, too, that the opbortunity for a British foothold on the continent in Greece might yet prove the turning point in the war. The Royal Air Force, extending its operations steadily over German territory,’ followed up the bombing of the huge Skoda works in Czechoslovakia with raids last night that started fires and did much damage at Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Emden, Cuxhaven and other Nazi ship centers. The British [said that they dropped bombs of heavy caliber on docks, barracks and unfinished warships and that they had started fires visible for 40 miles. They said the attacks lasted about an hour and were accomplished in spite of heavy ground fire,

London, Liverpool Raided

In the battle of Britain, defending fighter planes hurled back three waves of fighter-bombers attempting to reach London a chased one raider away from Liverpool. Although it was said that a few planes penetrated to London and there were dog-fights over London, the British claimed to have broken up enemy formations totaling 160 planes. Last night was comparatively quiet, although several civilians taking refuge in a church crypt after a dance were killed. Germans said Liverpool docks were heavily bombed. It was believed that the Axis powers might be planning a number of simultaneous thrusts against the British empire with the invasion of Greece merely one phase of the general action. | Such a general offensive might include: 1. An intensified onslaught against British shipping, which last week (according to British figures) suffered its biggest losses of the war to German submarine attack. Forty-five British or neutral ships were sunk and the total loss was approximately 200,000 tons — a furious pace for the U-boats. This brought total British losses for the war to more than two million tons. 2. A renewal of the Italian offen- . sive, now aided by a German military mission, gainst Egypt with the Suez Canal as the main goal. A British communique today on the Egyptian fighting said that Italian reconnaissance parties on the left bank of the Blue Nile in Sudan pad been driven back and were being pursued. Reporis Confused

3. A move in collaboration with Spain to take the Britishr fortress of Gibraltar: 4, A continued, steady, relentless aerial pounding at the British Isles —and perhaps an invasion thrust when it is least | expected. 5. A quick thrust through Bulgaria against Turkey in order to attack the British in ‘the Middle East from both sides. If the Italian attack on Greece is taken as merely a part of the bigger offensive which would go into operation slowly over a period of days, the lack of fighting in Greece is more easily understood. A nimber of confusing reports regarding the Fascist operations in Greece were partly cleared up this morning. Fighting on Small Scale

On the first day, fighting along the frontier was on a very small gcale with the Italians apparently engaged in patrol operations while their. airplanes bombed Greek communications lines.

SS IN BALKANS

tactics seemed to ‘be designed to draw the British navy into a trap where big warships might be vulnerable * to surprise U-boat and aerial attack. Reports that the Italians had knifed into Greece for big gains or seized Corfu were denied in Rome, where . the Fascist press said that Italy had been holding back to give the Greeks a chance to agree to Fascist occupation of certain bases for duration of the war.

Censorship Very Tight

Now, the Fascists said, the big drive is starting, parachute troops will descend from clouds of transport planes and the war will soon be ended. Nevertheless, despite the threats of the Rome newspapers and the demands of the London newspapers for quick, sensational action, it was apparent that the conflict was getting underway with the usual caution of engagements that are predominately naval. The Greek communique, issued last night, said the Greeks were holding firm and that 50 had been killed and 100 wounded in yesterday’s Fascist air raids on Patras, where 5000 of the 64,000 people are Italians. : The censorship surrounding the movements of the belligerents in the Balkans was even tighter than has been usual in this war. The British Government would not announce what precise steps it had taken. This was said to be because such information would aid the enemies of Britain and Greece, now allies, but the London newspapers feared it meant no real military help was being given and clamored for spectacular action.

Now the Italians Know

The ordinary Italian people only learned at 5 a. m. today that their nation had been at war with Greece for 31 hours. The Germans did not learn until three hours after that, when special newspaper editions appeared on the street with headlines “Italians March Into Greece.” Earlier the press and radio had made no reference to the ItaloGreek war, although Goering's newspaper said that Germany and Italy were “about to move” against Europe's “last hangers-on to the out-moded system embodied by Great Britain.” The Boersen Zietung said that “Greece had the examples of Norway, Holland and Belgium before its eyes” but that it had allowed itself to “be misused as a pawn in the chess game of London warmongers” and would be “another victim of British’ guarantees.”

Russia Poses Question

The Rome press spoke of an ext tension of “the general house-clean-ing on the European continent” as a result of the Hitler-Mussolini meeting at Florence yesterday. The * wishful thinking of some Greek and British circles regarding the position of Turkey—or even of Soviet Russia—became more evident today. There still appeared to be a possibility that Turkey would eventually aid Greece, but so far the diplomatic negotiations between Ankara and Athens, with London exerting its influence} too, have failed to give any definite sign that Turkey will act. One reason for Turkey’s hesitation was that Soviet Russia has so far failed to offer any opposition to the Axis expansion into the Balkans. And if Turkey went to the aid of Greece, German troops almost certainly would thrust fiom Rumania to the Dardanelles. So far all the signs have pointed toward an agreement between Germany and Russia to restrain the Turks.

HARRISON'S WIDOW FORMS WILLKIE CLUB

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (U. P.), — The Associated Willkie Clubs of America announced today that Mrs, Benjamin Harrison, widow of the 23d President of the United States, was active in organizing grand-

.| mothers to support the candidacy of

To some experts in London, these

Wendell L. Willkie,

Get No. 1

Kentucky five years ago.

Buchanan St.

She said he pointed out that

and is 25. is employed at the. International Harvester truck engine plant as a chipper. He was born at French Lick, Ind., and attended grade and high

schools at Hoopeston, Ill. Others who could not be lotated this afternoon were: JESS LOGAN MULLINS, 704 W. 25th St. LOWELL ODELL SMITH, 901 Locke St. JOHN WILLIAM HYDE, 2349 N. Capitol Ave. BYRON FRANK HOFFMAN, 1247 Bellefontaine. FRED ONERBEY, New Augusta.

Will Be Classified First

Drawing Order No.'1 means only that the holder of that number will be classified first by his local draft hoard. The classification will be made on the basis of questionnaires which are to be mailed to the holders of the low order numbers within the next week. . If the draft board finds that a holder of Order No. 1is a single man, without dependents or a position necessary to the national defense, and if he passes the physical examination, that individual will be placed in Class 1-A and will be the first tc be called.

All to Get Numbers

Selective Service officials expect to find only about 20 men falling into Class 1-A out of every 100 classified. The state's 393,000 registrants were all to receive order numbers in today’s lottery. Photostatic copies of the master order list are to be mailed to the local draft boards within the next three days, and from these the local boards will make up their order number lists. Radios were turned on in shops

and stores as the drawing started

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total 132 43 PL]

39 19 112

1940

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‘ Injured veses.10 | Accidents .....18 Dead 0Arrests ....... 5 MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Violations Tried Hons pais ing 11 Sven driving 5 19 Failure to stop at | through street 2 Disobeying traffic | signal . 5 Prunken All others ,

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5 2 4 6 0 0 © $93

Totals . 50

MEETINGS TODAY Exchange Club Board, Hotel Severin, 1

P ierican Chemical Society, Hotel Sev-

erin, noon. _ . : ) , Hotel Severin, 1:30 pgm. Just al Co., Hotel Severin, 7 pr m. Holded Promotion, D. of C., Hotel Severin, 9° = : Indiana Unemployment Compensation Hotel Severin, 9 a. m. ational Greehskeppery Association, Ola . 8 ay. { aypoal Hohe Administration, Hotel , 9 a. vi Boiary Cink, claypgol Hotel, Zoom Alpha “Tau Omega, Board of Trade, noon. ! Gyro Club, Sp nk-Arms Hotel, noon, | Mercator Club, Lincoln Hotel, x ub, y vo universal, of Michigan Club, Board of rade. nis of Columbia, K. of C. clubhouse, no diheran Service Club, Canary Cottage, noon. 7 ' Credit Group, men’s grille, Fine Paper e ,

0., noon. National Pest Control Assocciation, Clay-

1 day. pool Hotel sociation of Insurance Agents,

Indianapolis Athletic Club, all day.

MEETINGS TOMORROW ¥. M. C. A. Camera Club, Central “Y,”

“ions Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. Hotel ey War Mothers, Indiana Chaptor, Hove i 2 smnzton. Siovel” Washington, 6 nied ‘Promotion, D. of C., Hotel Beverin, Odential Fife Insurance Co. Hotel 3:30 employment Compensation

»] Severin, 7:30 p. m. int No. 1, Claypool Hotel,

n Legion, Board o|

REMC, Hotel Severin, 9 a. m. |p

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade, noon. Delta Theta Tau, Co-operative Clu Columbia Club, noon. Indiana Motor Traffic Asociation, Hotel Antlers, noon. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary Cottage, noon. . 40-Plus Club, Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p. m, ° Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, noon. National Pest Control Association, Claypool Hotel, all day. Indiana Association of Insurance Agents, Indianapolis Athletic Club, all day. ndiana Manufacturers’ Association, Columbia Club, afternoon and night,

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are trom vficial records in the County Court House, The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

William 8. Dixon, 20. of 123 Douglas; Helen Tarrants, 23, of 523 W. 14th. Delbert Southerland, 23, R. R. 17. Box 350-4; Dorothy L. Barnes, 21, of 1210 W,

noon.

Severin, b of Indianapolis,

John M. Wiltermood, 28. of 628 Divsion; Flossie M. Hendrickson, 25. of 612 Arbor,

Wallace E. Miner, 21, of (316 N. Gladstone; Marjorie D. McAtee, 18, of 101 N. Drexel. 3 Leon O. Smith, 24, of 205 Division; Cathrine V, Kyle, 17, of 2056 Davidson. . Oakley R. Adamson, 33, of 713 N. Alabama; Velma Walker, 31, of 713 N. Ala-

ama. . Ralph L. Lytle. 20, of 5040 E. 21st: Goldie V. Prickett, 20, of 5227 Southeastern. William W. Keller, 32, of 3302 Park; Bertha M. Pursel, 33. of 1226 College. Crawford Donnelly, 26. of 1304 N. Delaware: Helen B. Dieterich, 24, of 2066 N. Delaware.

Harold F. Arthur, 23, of Solsberry, Ind.; Mary PF. Knauer, 22, of 1203 N. Gale, Frank E. Lane, 34, Sunnyside; Iris E. Boyd, 23, Sunnyside. : Marion J: in, 36, of 202 N. Gray: Helen C. Huckleberry, 29, of 1243 Sheperd. rian

, Supher. 32, of 3816 N. New Jersey; Mary M, Topmiiler, 28, of 404 N. Walcott. -

FIRE ALARMS TODAY

6:46 A. M.—52 8. Rural, residence, gasoline stove explosion, $5.

BIRTHS Girls

James, Helen Wareham, at Coleman. William, Marie Partlow, at y. Alden, Mary Overbeck, at St. Vincent's. . Sidney, Mildred Sebastian, at St. Vinent's. Gerald, Leona Jones. at Methodist. Hitrry, Maxine Gordon, at Methodist. James, Lillian Brown, at 1548 Colum-

a. oiaartin, Florence Anderson, at 120 Concordia. x Leo, Dorothy Bolin, at 223 Fulton. Walter, Orpha Atwell, at 1606 Gimber. Boys Melvin, Cleo Stone, at Colema Herbert, Mary ' Colette

rancis, Ernest Mildred Woods, at City. ° Ishmael, Pen Anne Robertson, at Meth-

odist. Kenneth; Merle Tate, at Methodist.

aul,

n, Guntz, at St.

DEATHS

Harriet Matheson, 77, at stone, carcinoma. James F. True, 67, at Veterans’, speticaemia. Jess B. Higgins, 62, at Veterans’, coronary occlusion, : Grover C. Miller, 51, at Veterans’, carci-

oma. : . Earl G. Williams, 51, at St. Vincent's, coronary occlusion, . Homer Bass, 65, at City, carcinoma. Apminelia Milligan, 34, at City, arterjosis. spiohn’ A. Brown 78, at City, cerebral rombosis. on ie Eimore, 79, at 523 E. Morris, obar pneumonia. Gertrude Ritter, 33, at City, brain tumor.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Becoming fair this afternoon; fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight. : Sunrise 6:11 Sunset TEMPERATURE —Qct. 29, 1939—

BAROMETER

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a. m... Total .precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight. Illinois—Fai cooler tonight. Lower Michigan—Cloudy, rain in north and east portions tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, rain in morning near Lake Huron; not much cHange in temperature. Ohio—Rain, slightly warmer in northeast, slightly cooler in southwest portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair pressded by showers in east portion, slightly cooler in - west portion. Kentucky—Showers, cooler in west and central portions tonight; erally fair, preceded > showers in extreme east portion; cooler in central and east portions.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Weather Bar. Temb. Amarillo, Tex. r 290.98 34 Bismarck, N. D. . Boston Chicago os Cincinnati ... Cleveland ....

nver , Dodge City, Kas. .... Jacksonville, Fla,

tonight and tomorrow;

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Fifteen in Marion County

in Draft Draw

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\ 2039 Columbia Ave. He brought his family here from

GUY BALDWIN JACKSON. He is 34, married and the father of two girls, three and one years of age. a worker on the assembly line at the P. R. Mallory Co., Mr. Jackson has been unemployed since June. hunting when his number was drawn.

Formerly

He was job He lives at 516

Mrs. Jackson said today that she and Mr. Jackson had talked frequently about the draft and that her husband had, said he would be willing to serve if he had no dependents.

“a fellow wouldn't have any-

thing to lose and a lot to ggin.” . EUGENE J. SMITH. He lives at 1301 W. Troy Ave.,

He is married and has two children.

Mr. Smith

today so that the male employees could learn their order numbers. Wives and mothers listened for their husbands and sons who are

working and cannot listen to the radio. Since the drawing in Washington may go on for 16 hours, many “numper” parties were planned for tonight. Hundreds of draft registrants visited the 15 local draft board offices early today, in a last-minute rush to learn their serial numbers. All draft boards completed the listing of names of registrants and their serial numbers last night, and complete lists were posted at board offices today. Several of the boards in the Knights" of Pythias Building stacked their lists on desks in the auditorium on the 10th floor of the building, while others tacked theirs on cardhoards in their offices.

Score Has Volunteered

Draft Board 8, which has its office in Room 230 of the Federal Building, posted its list in the east lobby of the building. Draft board officials reported that approximately a score of youths have already volunteered for a year’s training. These youths, if they .pass the physical examination, will be placed at the top of the list, regardless. of their order numbers, and will be called first. Selected Service officials estimate that enough youths may volunteer s0 that no one will be drafted from Marion County by the first call, to come in the middle of November. The estimated quota for the county for that call is 98. The county's single men probably will be affected however, by the second call, scheduled for Dec. 2, officials say. The estimated county quota for that date is 195.

F. D. R. AID KNEES POLICE WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.)— White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said today that he was “shoved around” by a squad of New York City policemen last night and in the fracas kneed one of the officers who was pushing him shortly before President Roosevelt's train left for Washington.

TRY TO SETTLE FILM CASE NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (U. P.)—A consent degree intended to settle the Government's anti-trust suit against five motion picture producing and exhibiting companies was filed in Federal Court here today.

POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON AIR TONIGHT

Political broadcasts scheduled for tonight and the stations over which they can be heard are as follows: 5:45 p. m.—(WIRE)—Raymond E. Willis, Indianapolis. 6:30 — (NBC-Blue) Norman Thomas, Detroit. . 17:30—(WKDZ)—Paul V. McNutt, ‘Richmond. 8:15 — (WHBU) — Senator James J. Byrnes, Elwood. 8:00 — (WFBM) — Ambassador Kennedy. 8:30— (WIRE) — Al Smith Philadelphia. ; 8:30 — (WFBM) — Senator Wagner. 8:30 — WTRC, WBOW, WEOA, WLBC, WSBT) Indiana network, Glen R. Hillis. 8:30 — (WIND) — Senator Burke, Chicago. 9:00—(WENR) — Mayor LaGuardia, Melvyn Douglas, Van Bittner. 9:20— (WBBM) — Secretary - Wickard transcription on WFBM at 10:15.) 9:30 — (WIRE) — Wendell Willkie, Charleston, W. Va. 10:15— (WFBM) —Raymond E. Willis, Indianapolis. 10:30—(WIRE)—C. Wayland

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Chance Alone - Decides Order; Mother of 1st Draftee Screams at Drawing. (Continued from Page One) first to be plucked from the great

parent collar, Robert goes to St. John’s School in Baltimore. He couldn't get off for the day so his mother came down. And if Robert is healthy and free of dependents, as presumably he is, he will be putting on olive drab and joining the army ' next June when his school year is up. Said Clarence Dykstra, Draft Director to a neighbor on the platform as Robert’s number turned up: “Isn’t that an interesting coincidence?” : Before the day has ended there will be-a whole sequence of coincidences. All afternoon and into the night— possibly until the early hours of morning—chance will ride in that goldfish bowl until the 9000th number has been drawn and the fate of 17,000,000 Young Americans has been spelled out. : What this ceremony signifies, what it means in a time when the world is aflame with, the spreading, fiery tendrils of war that creep from the continent was told’ by President Roosevelt as he started the ceremony.

‘Inheritors of Proud History’

“you who will enter this peace time army,” said the President, “will be the inheritors of a proud history and an honorable tradition. i “you will be members of an army

independence and to establish certain fundamental rights for all'men. “Ever since that first muster, our democratic ‘army has existed for one purpose only: The defense of our freedom.” «It is for that one purpose and that one purpose only that you have been asked to answer the call to training. . “You have answered that call, as Americans always have, and as Americans always will, until the day when war is forever banished from this earth.” In these times, said the President, “only the strong may continue to live in freedom and in peace” and America miust muster “all our resources, manhood and industry ¢2d health to make our nation strong in defense.”

History Repeats; Cast Different

Today was a day when American history repeated itself. The actors were different, the machinery was stream-lined but the scenario was the same as has been unrolled three times in 1917 when from the very same goldfish bowl—then without its high collar of a transparent plas-, tic not yet invented by the genius of American industry—were drawn the numbers which spoke the order in which the men of the three World War drafts were called to service. There was spectacle in today’s ceremony, and drama. Klieg lights cast their white glare on the platform, coast-to-coast radio hookups proadcast the ceremony, complex photo-mechanical equipiuent recorded each number, its time and sequences. Off to Slow Start

These were innovations from the 1917-18 days. But the goldfish bowl, the linen blindfold, the table on which the powl rested, the ladle with which the pellets were scooped out—these were the same. The draw got off to a slow start. Fifteen minutes after Mr. Stimson pulled the first capsule from the heaping bowl only 18 numbers had been drawn and a line of dignitaries still was: forming on the right to be blindfolded by Col. Charles "R. Morris, U. S. A, Ret, for their moment under the Kkleig lights. The guests drew thé numbers but they were read into’ the microphone by a reading clerk who also announced the name of the person who had produced the num. ber. The crowd began to thin after Mr. Roosevelt had spoken and read the first five numbers. Taking the slips selected by five of his Cabinet officers. Mr. Roosevelt figuratively summoned for classification men in each of the 6177 draft districts with these five numbers: 158, 192, 8239, 6620 and 6685.

Draw Stopped for While

Those numbers were drawn in sequence by Mr, Stimson, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones. At 11:36 p. -m. (Indianapolis Time) the entire operation was stopped while a new board was set up to record nufhbers on the stage. Mr. Dykstra took advantage of the interlude to go to a microphone and talls with Mrs. Bell who still was

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Willkie Asks Hoosiers to Join 'Crusade’; Republican Leaders Cheered by Huge Crowd

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dignitaries. Al: in the crowd was his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cora Wilk, of Rushville. The nominee and his party hurried from the station platform into cars and . went immediately to Monument - Circle where he spoke

from a platforia in front of the Hotel English. The parade route—Illinois St. to Ohio St. to Meridian St. to the Circle—was crowded clear out to the car tracks. The three segments of the Circle from which the platform could be seen, and even the Monument steps, were packed almost to capacity long before the train arrived. : Additional .thousands craned their necks out of windows along the parade route and on and near the Cixcle. Building roofs and even the Fletcher Trust Building fire escapes were packed. The crowd was handled beautifully by a large cetail of police and there were no egg-throwing or other incidents such as have occurred in some other cities. In his address, the’ nominee attacked the New Deal for “squandering the substance of our people” and declared ~ the Administration was leading the country to “bankruptcy, chaos, failure and overthrow.”

Recalls Departure 21 Years Ago His eyes moist, he recalled that

when he left Indiana 21 years ago! ‘there was no crowd to see me off.” |

“I am moved by this overwhelming reception when I come back,” he added. : “You must understand that every sacred thing thai has happened i my life has happened to me here. And so, if I am a bit halting in anything I have to say about the issues of this campaign, I hope that with warm-hearted Hoosier hospitality you will understand it is just an Indiana boy back crying once again on the shoulders of the mothers of Indiana.

“The campaign and the crusade

that I have been carrying on involves issues very, very simple. They are as simple as the things that I learned and you learned in school and Sunday schools.” ‘Same Rule Applies to Nations’ He said that in our youth “we all SAW what happened to people who squandered their substance. to the end of the road” and learned that “if you meddled in the affairs of other people without any reason whatsoever, you would eventually become involved in trouble that might be disastrous to you.” And that, he added, “is the same ruie that applies to nations.” America, he said, must become strong not only in military equipnrent, but strong also in her domestic economy, “or she will fail.” The nation must put those in charge of government, he said, who “know how to build for her defense program, not on order but on hand,” and that can’t he done by people who “think of defense in terms of politics that will use even the defense program as & politica: manipulation even to such a small extent as having imaginary military inspection trips.”

Wants ‘Spirit of Unity’

The democracies of Europe failed because they became weak from within, he said, “and I shall feel satisfied if I can once again draw the American people back into a great spirit of unity and love for this land of ours.” Mr. Willkie promised’ that he would “remove from Washington those cynics anc those unbelievers who disbelieve the simple virtues

PRATHER ADMITS GUILT, POLICE SAY

A few hours after family and friends attended the funeral of his slain estranged wife yesterday, James Prather hitch-hiked back to the City and almitted to police he

had killed her, they said.

Services for 24-year-old Mrs. Rosalind Prather were held in St. Patrick’s Church. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. At 9:30 last night, the 26-year-old fugitive husband entered Police Headquarters in company with two friends and signed a statement admitting the killing and assigning jealousy as a motive, police said. Mrs. Prather was killed Friday morning in a N. Illinois St. restaurant after she and her husband had had a 30-minute conversation, apparently about reconciliation. They had been married for four years and separaled for about three weeks. . Police said Prather hitch-hiked from Indianapolis to Baltimore, Md. where ‘a priest acy vi

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and verities that you and I learned here in Indiana.”

“I wish I had the gift of tongues,” he concluded, “to tell you how pre|cious, how precious is this free way |of life we live. Here, here, look at [the thousands of us engaged in the (functioning of a {ree democracy and 'in all the world we are the only people who have this right untouched.

- Asks Support for Ticket

“Save it. Help me save it, colored man, white man, Protestant, Jew, Catholic. “On this soil of Indiana, sacred to me, I plead with you, join this crusade to save great, free. America.” A few moments after he left the microphone, he returned to ‘“commend to you my associates on this ticket, Glen Hillis ~ for Governor, Ray Willis for United States Senator and the candidates for Congress.” “I know each of them,” he said. “I know their characters and their abilities. Please, if you vote for me, help them too, and thank you.” For two hours before the speech was scheduled, a musical program, consisting largely of songs boosting Willkie and taking the hide off the Roosevelt family, roared over the loudspeakers, As the open car bearing Mr. Will-

Hotel English, a group of men and women in front of the microphone began a vigorous arrangement of “On the Banks of the Wabash.”

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kie swung into the alley back of the

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the crowded hotel and they had to be relieved by a Negro quartet in order to keep the song going until Mr. Willkie reached the platform. As he stepped, bareheaded, toward the front of the platform, a great roar broke from thousands of throats: “We Want Willkie” pennants waved over the heads of the crowd, and several tohs of confetti and wastebasket gleanings floated down from windows. Mr. Willkie stood on a chair smiling broadly and holding aloft first one ‘arm, then the other, and then both.

The introductions were brief— . among the briefest «in political his= -

tory. Ralph Hamill, the general chairman_ in something ' like 15 words presented County Chairman James L. Bradford. Presented By Hillis Mr. Bradford almost as briefly presented Mrs. Willkie, who, carry=ing a huge hougyet of roses, bowed and smiled. Next he presented Mr. Hillis. When Mr. Hillis introduced Mr. Willkie as “my friend and your friend,” there was another ovation which subsided as Mr. Willkie stepped to the microphone. As the speaking ended, most of the crowd on the Circle swarmed out to Ohio or Illinois St. to get another close-up glimpse of the nominee as his car passed. \

Mr. Willkie made a brief stop at.

Columbus. on his way to Louisville where he spoke last night. Aboard the special train when it left here was a group of party leaders, including State Chairman rch N. Bobbitt, Will Irwin of Co-

| lumbus, former national committee- | man, and Ernest M. Morris, present took the nominee to walk through | committeeman.

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