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GOP NOMINEE SAYS HE COULD SPEED OUTPUT

Asks Five. New Questions Including: ‘Why Is Third ~ Term Necessary?’ (Partial Text, Page Eight)

ABOARD WILLKIE, TRAIN, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— Wendell L. Willkie asserted today that he could gear up| U. S. production of airplanes and other war materials to strengthen defense and aid Great Britain better than

President Roosevelt. He added that in his Administration a request for 12,000 more planes

for Britain “wotldn’ t even be News le spoke at Wilmington, Del, a cheering crowd estimated at Th toa 10,000. ferring to |Mr. Roosevelt's anpe cement at Boston last night that he was recommending that the priorities board give sympathetic consideration to -a British request So 12,000 more| airplanes, Mr. Willkie said: “Well, who wouldn't?”

Produgtion Stressed

He said that Democrats now agree with him that the key to U. 8. survival and to aiding Britain, is “production,” and asked if any doubted that he could do more to increase production . nah “the third term candidate.” He said he could step up plane production so fo the nation would “turn out 100 planes where now we turn out one.” | Barlier, Mr, {Willkie asked Mr. Roosevelt to answer before election day five questions about unemployment, economic depression, alleged failure to produce adequate defense, the third term, and “corrupt political machines,”

Charges Trend fo War

The questions| came after his Baltimore speech last night where he declared: “You may expect war in April, 1941” if President Roosevelt is re-elected. Referring to other sections of Mr. Roosevelt's Boston ' speech, Mr. Willkie said that he would be glad to have the nation choose which side had the better campaign manager, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr, Republican Natjonal Chairman, or Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn. He said a vote, if taken, would result 99 to 1 for Martin.

Renews Victory Prediction

Moving on toward New Jersey, Mr. Willkie made his last bid for Pennsylvania's 36 electoral votes at Chester, Pa., and renewed his victory prediction. He speaks at [7:30 p. m. (Indian- . apolis Time) at Camden, N. J. The address will be broadcast by the Columbia network. It is his final ' ,evening speech before the Madison Square Garden talk in New York Saturday night. He said he was “amused that the New Dealers are even wasting (Continued on Page Three) A ——— A SP —

3 IN BEAUTY SHOP OVERCOME BY GAS

Three women were overcome by gas today in a Belch Grove beauty shop and were taken to St. Francis Hospital for treatment. Their conditions were not immediately determined. Mrs. Katherine Small, 32, and Miss Thelma Schmarr, 24, both of Beech Grows at work in.the shop, 519 Main St., and Miss Ruth Swartz, 18, of. Beech Grove, a patron, were overcome, Miss Swartz was able to summon help before losing consciousness. Police Chief Frank J. Miller of Beech Grove said he believed the , gas leaked from a water heater.

PRANK BACKFIRES ON 4 PENDLETON GIRLS

PENDLETON, Ind. Oct. 31 (U, P.). -—A Halloween prank backfired on four young girls here last night and their faces probably are still red today. While a large crowd enjoyed their discomfiture, Town Marshal Garland Brookbank personally supervised them as they used a hand pump to refill automobile tires they had deflated on the main street.

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Questions .. Radio

Charge ‘War Talk Is Unpatriotic.’

By NOBLE REED Thousands of Ingianapolis Democrats plunged info the atirring windup of the campaign today with

the roar of their biggest demonstration still echoing in their ears.

out of their seats, cheered and threw their hats into the air at

1Cadle Tabernacle last night when

| white-haired Paul V. McNutt shoutled that President Roosevelt is “fighting the cause of the common man.”

A crowd of about 11,000 leaped

The cheering vivke into a deafen-

ing roar when the Federal Security §

Administrator,

gesturing dramat-

ically, accused the Republicans of .' °

using the “old @ war-mongering wheeze for vote getting purposes.”

War Talk ‘Unpatriotic’

“Our opponents are trying scare the mothers of the nation with war talk—that’s unpatriotic,” he shouted. The former Indiana Governor, spurred to new oratory technique by an audience that wanted the spectacular, abandoned his prepared speech most of the time and talked extemporanepusly, injecting some burning sarcasm. Before his speech was half over, several women in the front row stopped applauding. They complained that the palms of their hands were black and blue. 8 The whole crowd appeared to be in a fighting mood_long before Mr. McNutt started his address. They were out of their seats several times during the introductory speech delivered by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox,

Charges Blundering Statesmanship

“Democracy is on the march, not only to defend President Roosevelt but to defend America,” he said. “The United States is the last bulwark of freedom in the world.” A demonstration that lasted nearly two minutes followed a remark by Judge Cox that “we have a right to have our side presented fairly in the public press—we grant the right of the editors to give their views on one page but the other pages belong to you and me.” After outlining President Roosevelt’s policy of peace through preparedness, Mr. McNutt pounced upon the Republican leadership and Wendell L. Willkie with both fists flying. “The Republican Party is displaying the same blundering statesmanship that has characterized it (Continued on Page Three)

{COLDER--SMOKIER’ FORMULA IS UPSET

Soot Goes Straight Up, Comes Straight Down.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 1

6am. .... 46 10 a. m. a.m. ....48 11 a.m 8am. .... 52 12 (noon) . 9a. m. .... 55 1pm. ....67

The formula—“the colder the smokier’—went out the window today. When the weatherman looks at his instrument and sees the pressufe lines 100K 1IKE tHIiS there's generally a breeze and it takes some little smoke to make us cough and sneeze in the morning. Today, however, the line “looked like this (—) and as a result the wind velocity was a mere two miles an hour at the Airport and less|S than one mile an hour downtown. + So the fire you built this morning sent its smoke straight up and the smoke in turn came straight down. And when the house warmed up and the fire smouldered, the smoke was still hanging around oufside. . November will start with shows ers tomorrow morning, but the Weatherman said it will become fair again tomorrow gileTnoon.

By RICHARD LEWIS The first official warning against|l sabotage, a handbook outlining the precautions which defense industrialists should take in safeguarding their plants, has been issued by the Indianapolis Police Department. _

. Prepared by Police Chief Michael PF. Morrissey and other officials, the mimeographed; anti-sabotage handbook is the result of more than a year’s study of sabotage methods. It covers precautionary measures from persertnel to bombs in the matter-of-fact style of a police report’ The handbook urges factory owners to have employees fingerprinted and to assemble all possible information on new employees. The employer is advised specifically to de-

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Paul V. McNutt . . burning sarcasm leveled at Republicans.

24,000-PLANE ORBER IS SEEN

™ S._ Army, , England Each Want 12,000, Defense Sources Reveal.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U, PJ. —America’s aircraft industry soon may be called upon to shoulder pro-

duction orders for 24,000 more warplanes as a result of Army plans for 12,000 additional bombers and a new British request for the same number of aircraft, defense sources revealed today. British officials told the United Press that Britain would have to provide comparatively little capital for plant expansion to take care of their new needs here. They indicated that they have been assured that the plant enlargement program contemplated by this Government would be sufficient to handle both the British and American orders. The Administration program contemplates the construction of 16 or 17 additional aircraft plants. President Roosevelt revealed last night in his Boston campaign address that the British had asked for permission to order 12,000 more planes here and that he had recommended that the Priorities Board give the request “sympathetic consideration.” Most of the new planes sought by the British, officials said, will be long-range heavy bombers. Reports persisted that the British soon would be sold some of the Army's four-engined “Flying Fortresses.” Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau revealed that the British Government has placed orders for ‘a large number” of new ireight ships with American shipyards.

U. S. STEEL COMMON UP $3.37 FOR ’40 HIGH

NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—The common stock of U. S. Steel Corp. spurted - $3.37'2 today to sell at KX 621%, the highest this year. It $s the feature of fhe stock market a all types of stocks joined the advance. The upsurge was attributed to a has rise in industrial production, Britain’s request for more planes and ships, strong technical position of the market and Willkie strength.

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WIMBELDON COURTS BOMBED

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Three German high explosive bombs crashed into the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon

plicants in the war yeats of 191418.

A rigid system of personnel identification is advocated to keep “unauthorized” persons out of the plant zone. Men should be identified by badges or other insignia, supplemented by an identification card with the employee's picture and signature. A man entering or leaving a plant would have to pass a guard with the identification to get in or out. If the employee loses his badge, he may be fined. If he forgets it, he is sent home after it. While at work, the employee may not receive personal calls, except in extreme emergencies. Calls of any kind should be discouraged, accord-

ivg to the handbook, and family

Sell British More Planes—Willk

McNutt Rouses 11,000 With Burning Attack on G. O. P.

Brings Crowd to Feet at |

PROMISE MADE NOT TO ORDER

President Attacks Martin Bitterly in His Pelitical Speech at Boston. (Partial text of speech, Page 10)

BOSTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt told a crowd of 19,000 at Boston Garden last night that he had asked the defense priorities board to give ‘sympathetic consideration” to Great Britain's request for 12,000 more airplanes, In addition to the 14,000 already on order. “Also,” he said, “large additional (British) orders are being negotiated for artillery, rifles and tanks with equipment and ammunition. The plant capacity necessary to produce all this military equipment is and will be available to serve the needs of the United States in any emergency.” In his third political speech of the campaign, Mr. Roosevelt outlined the progress made by the New Deal in rearming the country and reiterated his promise to parents that “your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.” He said this country’s machine would be used “for defense alone.”

Crowd Receptive

Mr. Roosevelt came here after a one-day tour of the Connecticut Valley in a bid for the 25 electoral votes of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Before his speech, he visited the apartment of his youngest son, John, and heard catcalls and shouts: “We want Willkie” trom Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in an adjoining ‘building. The crowd was receptive to his speech, however, and when Mr. Roosevelt criticized the farm policy of Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican National Chairman, the gallery chanted with Mr. Roosevelt: “Martin, Barton and Fish.” Centers Attack on Martin The references were to Rep. Bruce Barton and Rep. Hamilton Fish, New York Republican leaders. Mr. Roosevelt had introduced the alliteration in a speech in New York Monday night. President Roosevelt returned to Washington before opening his final bid for a third term tomorrow—a speaking swing into New York state and Ohio. He speaks again this aftegnoon at Bethesda, Md. on the outskirts (Continued on Page Three)

HATGH AND BARKLEY T0 SPEAK IN STATE

New Mexito Senator Urges Minton Re-election.

United States Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico and Alben Barkley of Kentucky came to Indiana today to lend a hand with the Democratic campaign. Senator Hatch said his chief interest is to help re-zlect Senator Sherman Mintcn, who was one of the most bitter foes of the Hatch clean politics bill. “I have a deep personal interest in Senator Minton, despite the fact we have fought each other more than any other two men in the Senate,” Senator Hatch said. Senator Barkley said “all evidence points to a Democratic victory in Indiana next Tuesday,” and he denounced the third term criticism as a “bogus issue.” He is scheduled to speak at Elkhart tonight. Senator Hatch is to speak at Vevay tonight and at Aurora tomorrow night.

AND STILL CREASED

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P). — A bomb blast last night hurled a bed from a wrecked building over an adjoining house and deposited it upright with the bedcovers in place. A pair of trousers folded over the head piece were not disturbed.

Police Issue Handbook on Sabotage for Guidance of Plants Tuned to Defense

messages should be transmitted in writing by a plant guard. The plant should hire its own private police guard, the pamphlet says. Guards should be posted at every possible entrance or exit, day and’night. Under no circumstances, should any doubtful person be admitted to the plant -and visitors should be accompanied by guards. Vulnerable * areas—where. explosives or inflammable material may be stored—should be restricted to key and trusted employees. All explosives should be stored underground, according to the handbook. Officials don’t believe the handbook should alarm ‘anybody. Its tone is matter-of-fact. Its enly Jurnose is to keep lives and property €q

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LIAN DRIVE FALTERS, GREECE SAY

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‘Halloween Some Pumpkins to Jackie

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Seven-year- -old Jackie Eads, quite apparently, has set himself up as a one-hoy Halloween celebration;

and a one-boy jack-o-lantern factory If you can trust this picture, is one of the most ardent Halloween fans.

12th St.,

Anyway, Jackie, who lives at 515 E.

RATE 750 HERE FOR CALL NO. 1

But Draft Officials Say Volunteers May. Fill All-State Quota.

By EARL RICHERT Approximately 750 men in Marion County will receive questionnaires and be classified for military training before the first draft call be-

tween Nov. 19-25, Selective Service officials said today. These 750 men will be the holders of the 50 low order numbers in each of the County’s 15 local draft board areas. Selective Service officials are ordering all boards ‘to classify enough registrants to have 10 men in Class 1-A before the first call. On the basis of previous experience, it is expected that only one man in five classified will be eligible for Class 1-A. Thus, it is predicted that 50 men will have to be classified in each local board area to find 10 men for Class 1-A, or 7600 men will have to be classified in Indiana to find the 1520 Class 1-A men for the State's 152 draft boards. The order to hdve 10 Class 1-A men in each local draft board area by the time of the first call is largely precautionary. Draft officials predict that there will be enough volunteers to fill the State's first quota, announced officially yesterday as 395 men. Marion County will probably furnish about 50 of these. However, if there should not be enough volunteers, the State’s qucta will be filled from the Class 1-A men, in order of their numbers. Too, Selective Service officials point out, getting 10 Class 1-A men in each draft area by the time of the first call will leave the State “all set” for the second call which is scheduled for Dec. 2. State quotas have not been announced for the second call, but it is believed that Indiana may then be asked for 1500 men. If this number is asked, Marion County's share will probably be 175 men. The. method of apportioning the first call of 395 men among the (Continued on Page Three)

POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON AIR TONIGHT

Political addresses on the radio tonight and the stations "over which they may be heard are as follows: 5:15 — (WFBM) — Robert A. Adams, No Third-Term Com-=-mittee, 6:15 — (WIRE) — James Tucker, Indianapolis. 6:30 — (NBC-Blue) — Henry Wallace, New York. 7:00 — (WIRE) — James Robb. 7:30 — (WFBM) — Wendell Willkie, Camden, N. J. 8:00 — (NBC-Blue)—Herbert Hoover, Lincoln, Neb. — (NBC-Blue)—Thomas E. Dewey, Caldwell, Ida. ; 9:15 — (WFBM) — Judge James A. Emmert, Indianapolis. : 9:30 — (WIRE) — Daniel 9:30 — (WFBM) — Dorothy Lamour, Groucho Marx, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart and other film actors for Roosevelt, ; Hollywood. 10—(NBC-Red)—Gen. Johnson, New York.

10:30—(WIRE)—Al' Smith, Boston,

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The Spooky Creatures Haunt Circle Tonight.

By JOE COLLIER

IF YOU are in the Circle tonight, and havent studied your Halloween lately, you may have trouble knowing which witch is which. Since the Druids discovered and popularized Halloween centuries and centuries ago, things have gotten pretty mixed up. At first it was rather simple, ’

* A demon was a demon, a haunt a haunt and there were no policemen to speak of. Now there are myriads of policemen, most of whom will be on duty tonight, and a demon is apt to be any male child above the age of five-and be low 70. #" » ” IF ALL the energy the police anticipate will be spent tonight in carrying porch furniture from where it belongs to where it doesn’t belong were harnessed economically, it would aid the defense program immensely,

And if all the energy the police expect to expend stopping Halloween creatures from carrying porch furniture from where it belongs to/ where it doesn’t belong, could be harnessed, it would, they figure, aid the defense program even more immensely. The Druids, when they patrolled the World on Halloween, had no such problem. They were absolute masters, and no haunt haunted and no witch witched unless they wished it. Since then there have entered into the Halloween picture all manner. of goblins and hobgoblins, gnomes, elves, sprites, fairies, and plain devils. ” ” ” THUS, IN a given case where, for instance, a gate has been unhinged from where 3 Sus ang taken to where it doesn't fit and there’s no need for a gate anyway, the police have a great deal of trouble, first (Continued on Page Three)

BRIDGE TO BE BUILT ON SHERMAN DRIVE

560-Foot Span Over Big 4 To Cost $170,000.

A 13-span bridge on Sherman Drive over the Big Four railroad yards north of Beech Grove will be built early next year by the State Highway Commission, it. was announced today. The bridge, "560 feet long and with two 14-foot lanes, will provide a through route to St. Francis Hospital,

tr: train highway. The right of way for the bridge is under option by the County Commissioners. The bridge will cost an estimated $170,000, according to the Highway Commission. Bids are to be received Dec. 17. The project will be financed through Federal grade crossing funds. The State will pay the engineering costs and the County will maintain the road.

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MISSOURI GETS ARMS PLANT WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).— The War Department has approved a site at Lake City, Mo. near Independence, for construction of a small arms ammunition plant, it was learned authoritatively today. The plant, to be operated by the Remington Arms Co. will cost about $12,000,000, 4 ¥

Highway Commission engineers §8 said the highway has been closed to| §

in the yards blocking the]

CALL 237-LOCAL NAVY RESERVES

Main Body of Contingent Here to Sail Monday for Pacific Duty. By SAM TYNDALL

The main body of Indianapolis

naval reservists—12 officers and 225 ¥hen—received tneir sailing orders today. The orders are to man the U, 8S. S. Sacramento, .a gunboat veteran of Oriental waters, now at Michigan City, and to sail for Hawaii to join Uncle Sam’s Pacific Fleet. . The local reservists, who got their training in the largest inland city in the country, will leave Monday morning. They belong to the 16th and 18th divisions of the Fourth

Naval Reserve Battalion and their

mobilization ¢all, first received last night, will represent the largest single movement of naval reservists yet. called to the colors in the present emergency. The order was expected. All reservists in the divisions had received “stand by” orders several weeks ago. The crew and “command” of the Sacramento will board the gunboat at Michigan City, where the vessel has been used for the past year as the principal training ship for Indiana’s naval reservists. \ The U. S. S. Sacramento will joie (Continued on Page Thee)

. Italian Troops . * . 4 Riding Bicycles ¢ ROME, Oct. 31 (U., P.).—~The Italian infantry has unleashed a secret: weapon against Greece— a bicycle built for two. The “driver” sits on the front saddle with a rifle dangling over the handle bars. On a saddle behind rides a light machine gunner, his weapon fixed in a stand. The “bikes” were designed for Greece's narrow roads. They have two-wheel brakes, three-speed gears to facilitate travel over hilly country, and can be folded like an accordion and carried on the back up steep paths. The tires are solid rubber. The bi~ cyclists follow special mountainclimbing motorcyclists into the attack and are said to be faster than cavalry.

GETS REMC CONTRACT WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—EdensMarson Co., Lebanon, Ind., has been awarded a $44,365.63 contract to build 64.5 miles of line to serve 180 members of the Kosciusko County Rural Electric Membership Corp., Warsaw, the Rural ectrification Adminisiration annol ced today.

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AXIS REPORTED SEEKING AID OF FIFTH COLUMN

As Rome Claims Advance Of 12 to 17 Miles.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Italy’s big-scale offensive into Greece today met stiff resistance that, reports said, slowed down ,or halted the Fascists on important sectors of the mountain fighting front. The Axis powers, meanwhile, appeared to be attempting to foster a diplomatic settlement of the war in | Greece, possibly with the aid of Fifth Columnists, against whom the Athens Government is taking exe tensive precautions. Telephonic. communication from Athens to Berlin was cut off and Greek relations with Germany were described as extremely delicate. Dispatches from Athens and from the Jugoslav frontier said that Greek air forces (possibly aided by the British) were striking back at the talian columns advancing southward from Albania toward the town of Janina and that Greek defense forces along the main road had twice halted the Fascists in battles

that cost more than 100 Italian casualties.

Fascists Continue Bombings

Fascist bomber planes, however, continued to hammer at Greek objectives, including Patras and Avpaktos, and’ Rome dispatches re« ported that the campaign was pee ressing as scheduled despite heavy rain and muddy roads’ in the mountains. It was reported by Fascists that the Italians might soon announce seizure of the islands of Levkas, Cepgalonia and Zante, off the west coast of Greece. The Italian troops were reported by the High Confmand to have advanced through heavy weather about 12 to 17 miles into Greece on: the Kalamos River front yesterday

against the retiring Greeks. Main Drive Is on Janina

This general statement was not necessarily in conflict with the Greek High Command communique, which said the defenders were holding firm after a brief retirement, or .with other dispatches reporting that the Italians had been set back at specific points. The main Italian thrust appeared to be toward Janina, about 30 miles inside Greece and in the western sector roughly parallel with the three islands which Fascists expected their forces to seize. These islands are south of Corfu, which apparently would be encircled if the Fascist strategy is carried through. In Moscow, Red Star, official organ of the Russian Army, said that British naval aid to Greece prevented Italian landings on the islands of Corfu and Crete. It pre dicted an early Fascist attempt to seize Corfu. Athens denied rumors circulated abroad that Russian airplanes des. tined for Greece had arrived in Salonika. There were indications that Ger< many mays be working behind the (Continued on Page Three)

COLONIES INCLUDED IN PACT, LAVAL SAYS

VICHY, Oct. 31 (U. P..—Vice Premier ‘Pierre Laval told newspapermhen at Paris tonight ' that France and Germany will collab~ orate in colonial as well as economic matters but said such collaboration “excludes all ideas of aggression.” (Neutral reports repeatedly have suggested that France might grant the Axis powers bases in French. African colonies and agree to share administration of Tunisia with . Italy and of Morocco with Germany and Spain.) i

War Moves Today |

By J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert

The Italian

campaign in Greece shows evidence

of becoming.confused with uncertainties prevailing in the High Command regarding major Sbjectives, Mussolini seems reluctant to order a grand

offensive, as if

restraint were part of the oe

strategy, at least for the present. Two possible reasons exist for the initial

Mr. Mason

ness of the Italiar attack, apart from the fact that

the mountainous terrain makes speedy infantry action difficult. The first reason apparently is a belief in Rome that the Athens

Government will make only a show

of resisting to save its face and then

will capitulate. There is no present evidence to justify this conviction. :

The second reason is that the Axis does not want to risk a major campaign in Greece because of the possibility of inflaming the Balkans. If that be the true explanation of Italy's failure to start the Greek war with "Wide scale operations, it

would mean that Hitler is

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pared for operations at this time mn the Middle East. : Uncertainties Tegurding Riba and Turkéy may be having a restraining influence on Berlin. In

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Lines Holding, Athens Says,

and to be continuing their advance:

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