Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1940 — Page 1

. sbnpcasT: Partly cloudy and slightly cooler: tonight followed by fair tomorrow.

“FINAL HOME

y DR. GEORGE H. GALLUP Direc] 24 American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., Nov.’ 1.—Missouri and Kentucky, border states along the top rim of the Solid South,

both show a gain for Wendell Willkie, as does the south- . west state of Oklahoma, in the latest sampling by the

American Institute of Public Opinion covering the period

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940

27, which was based on interviewing between Oct. 14 and 23, is as follows: ~ Missouri today: Roosevelt 49 per cent, Willkie 51 per cent. Missouri Oct. 27: Roosevelt 51 per cent, Willkie 49 per cent.

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PECIAL interest attaches to Missouri and Connecticut shifts because they are two of the six states which, if carried by Willkie, would give him victory. These six states are New - York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Missouri and Connecticut, with 149 electoral votes, which

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Willkie’s Column been on the side of the winner in every presidential year | since 1912, In fact, in the extremely. close Wilson-Hughes election ’ of 1916—an election which today’s race resembles—Ken- |

tucky was exactly 1 per cent from the national figure, | showing 52.7 per cent for Wilson, as compared to 51.7 per

of Oct. 28-29. Two of these states, Kentucky and Okla-

TE —— . velt’s column,

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homa, continue to be in President Roose-

but Missouri shifts over into

the Willkie column for the first time in the . campaign, although by a small margin. Connecticut also shifted into the G. O. P. column with 51 per cent for Mr. Willkie and 49:per cent for. Mr. Roosevelt. The Oc Lt.

27 poll showed 46 per cent for Mr. Willkie and 54 per cent

for the President.

The trend since the Institute's Hrevions report Oct.

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CAPAGH HITS BOILING STAGE

Mid-East Is Battleground With New York Neéded . For G. 0. P.'to Win.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. l.—President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie are fighting with every ' political weapon available today for the decisive middle. eastern states. They are the Presidential battleground. Mr. Roosevelt returns to New

York City tonight to make another||

bid for New York state's 47 electoral votes in the great urban area where he must pile up a whopping election day lead if he is to get them.

Mr. Willkie continues his cam-]

paign in New Jersey after a whirlwind invasion of Pennsylvania and Delaware} If ‘either candidate can line up New York, Be eTivanie and

New Jersey, the. one probably x lose, ~ New lis" a Willkie Her if he is to' win, « Surveys Indicate Close Race

‘This election will be close, the Ils report. Close in New York, : lose in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, inois. The margin of electoral ofe victory probably lies among hose states buf the no-quarter cont extends far beyond to Massausets, where Mr. Rd0sevelt sud-|-enly decided to deliver. a major adess this week, and to. the upper ississippi Valley states where ace campaigners are carrying the gospel for ‘both sides. Mr. Roosevelt had a- tremendous Ye#d-and Mr. Willkie reduced it— but by much or little is a question the voters themselves will determine. There has not been another contest like this since 191€¢ and for spectac--ular political turbulence 1940 probably will be all*American for some _ time to come. Hoover, Smith Partners Now

“True it is,” wrote Charles Dudley ‘Warner, “that politics makes strange pedféllows”—and it is considerably truer today than when! he wrote it pefore the turn of the century. ‘Party lines and personal political ties are broken and tangled. In ! this campaign a former Democrat is the Republican candidate in ,opposition to a Po ete] whose Vice ‘Presidential running juste is .a er Republican. Bers Te. ' Hoover and Alfred E. Smith, who fought the Presidential ‘pattle of 1928, are on the same side now, speaking for Mr. Willkie, while Henry L. Stimson, who was Mr. ' Hoover's Secretary of State, is Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of War.

POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON AIR TODAY

Political broadcasts tonight and the stations over which they may be heard are as follows: 6:15— (WIRE) Indiknapolis. 6:15 — (NBC-Blue)—=Sinclair Lewis, Madison, Wis. 7:15 — (WHBU) — Paul McNutt, Anderson. 7:30 (WIRE) —-Wendell Willkie, from campaign train somewhere in New Jersey. x 8:00 — (WIRE) — President Roosevelt, Brooklyn. : 8:15 — (NBC-Blue)—Fannie Hurst, New York. 8:30 — (WOWO) — Senator Wagner, Ft. Wayne. 8:30 — (WFBM) — Orville Kincaid, Indianapolis. 8:30 — (Indiana network, (WBOW, WGL, WIND, WEOA, WSBT, WHBU) — Raymond Willis. 8:456—( WIRE) —Cordell Hull. 9:00— (MBS) —Herbert =. Hoover, Salt Lake City, - - 9:30 — (CBS) — Alexander - Woollcott, New York. 10:00 — (WIRE) — Irvin S. Cobb, San Francisco.

He SCORES FOREIGN POLICY

Charges President ‘Leading Us to War for Which We Are Unready.’

(Partial text of Camden speech, Page 17) -

— Glen Hillis,

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Nov. 1 (U.P.)—Wendell L Willkie asserted today that President Roosevelt’s foreign policies “are leading us straight to a war for which ‘we are. totally unready” and his domestic policies “are leading to complete collapse.” “We need effectiveness by prudence rather than swashbuckling conduct abroad,” his statement said. “We need realistic national defense at home. We have neither. The fact is now ‘clear that the third-term candidate is just as incompetent in national defense as he has been in the solution of every great domestic problem. “The sooner our people realize that his foreign policies are lead-

Kentucky today: Roosevelt 54 per cent, Willkie 46

per cent.

Kentucky Oct. 2% Roosevelt 57 per cent, Willkie 43 .

per cent.

Oklahoma today: Roosevelt 55 per cent, Willkie 45

per cent.

Oklahoma Oct. 27: Roosevelt 62 per cent, Willkie

38 per cent.

The proportion of voters still undecided in the three states is: Missouri, 7 per cent; Kentucky, 7 per cent;

Oklahoma, 10 per cent.

if added to Willkie’s 121 electoral votes in the Institute's Oct. 27 report, would give him 270, 4 more than enough

to win,

So far Willkie is leading by a small margin in

three of these six states, New York, Connecitcut and

Missouri.

Whether President Roosevelt's radio speeches

in the coming days will alter the trend, only later sam-

pling will indicate.

In spite of the Willkie gains, the Democratic forces can take heart from the Roosevelt lead in Kentucky, This state has been a good barometer of national sentiment in

recent presidential elections.

With one exception it has

cent for the nation.

Returns have been tabulated and reported this week to date for New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Indiana, | New York and Connecticut have shifted into the Repubs:, lican column, each voting 51 per cent for Willkie, 49 per | cent for Roosevelt. Willkie has shown a sharp gain in Delaware, although that state still remains on the Demo-’ cratic side with 53 per cent. In Indiana the situation was | shown unchanged with Willkie at 53 per cent to 47 per | | cent for Roosevelt. i

As reported two days ago, the Willkie trend through, (Continued on Page Three)

NAPLES, BOMBS OIL TAN

F.D. R. STICKS ‘TOVOTE GUESS

Sealed and Put Away in Envelope Month Ago; Goes to Brooklyn.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (U. P.. —President Roosevelt, preparing to carry his: third term campaign into New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, said today that the election prediction he made more than a month ago still stands. When he made that prediction, he called it “conservative” and sealed it in an envelope. He said he looked at it again jus’ the other

day, felt again that it was a safe||

one and said to himself that there was no change. :

Silent on Willkie Criticism

Before leaving on his final campaign swing, Mr. Roosevelt revised the plans which would ‘have brought. him to his Hyde Park home Stindgy forenoon. he said, he will return to Wasnington after he speaks in Cleveland Saturday night, remaining here until midnight Sunday or early Monday before departing for Hyde Park where he casts his vote on election day.

He said. events in Europe and elsewhere are bringing a steady stream of reports to his desk and it seemed wise to keep pretty close to Washington. The President refused comment

pn Wendell L. Wilkie’s criticism

of his reference to Joseph P. Kennedy as “my Ambassador.” He indicated that he may have something to say on the subject in his speech at Brooklyn tonight.

Goes Upstate First Time

He said his speech tonight will have no title. It will be known only as “No. 4"-—+the fourth of five major addresses which he scheduled after charging that his Republican opposition was falsifying fact in the Presidential campaign. Tonight's speech before a Brooklyn Democratic rally will be broad(Continued on Page Three)

TODAY'S FORECAST ENCOURAGES ALUMNI

Fair Weather Predicted for

Instead; {

‘Cincinnati—We're Ready’

Max Emery . .. gets a plahe clearance call.

City Linked to Controlling

Airport Here to Provide Data

U. S. System Airway Traffic

by Which Hourly Course Can

Be Plotted for All Planes in 250-Mile Radius.

By SAM TYNDALL . The first thing that Max Emery did this morning when he ne down to work at the Municipal Airport control tower was to pick up a phone at his elbow and push a button. “Hello, Cincinnati—this is Indianapolis—we're ready to go.” With that brief greeting, Indianapolis today officially became a link in the Federal Government's new centralized airway traffic control sys-

4TH RADIO STATION

tem. It means that from now on Mr. Emery will talk to Cincinnati more than 200 times a day. It means that India apapolis is a spoke in a huge control ‘circle with a radius of 250 miles which stretches to beyond Columbus, O., beyond Elkins, W. Va., to within 25 miles of Terre Haute and 50 miles: southwest of Ft. Wayne. It means that every scheduled plane that passes over or through Indianapolis will be plotted hourly

DRAFT QUOTAS ARE UNKNOWN

Boards, Nonetheless, Speed Preparations for First Call in State,

By EARL RICHERT By next Feb. 1, according to the present War Department schedule, 240,000 young men. who are now only draft registrants will \be wearing the uniforms of Uncle Sam's Army or Navy. These men are to be called on the following schedule: 30,000 between Nov. 19-25; 60,000 Dec. 2; 60,000, Jan. 3, and 90,000, Jan. 15. It is not known how Indiana’s share of the first few calls will be determined, but the later calls will be based on the state’s number of Class 1-A registrants with credit allowed for those men from the state mow serving in the armed

‘forces. |

6000 Likely State Quota

It is believed, however, that the state’s share of the first few calls will approximate roughly the state's population in ratio to the national population—or 2.5 per cent. Thus, of the first 240,000 men called in the nation, Indiana will probably furnish 6000. These 6000 most likely will be taken from the local board areas in proportion of each board's total number of registrants to the state’s total. The larger boards will thus furnish more men than the smaller boards. The number of volunteers, ,of course, will cut down the number’ of draftees. And selective service officials expect a large number of volunteers at first:

FASCIST FLIERS ATTACK ATHENS

BULLETIN : LONDON, Nov. 1 (U: P.).—The naval correspondent of the authoritative Press Association, which often is regarded as speaking for cial sources, today wrote that “the moment appears to be approaching” for a big scale British naval offensive in the Mediterranean,

tr By JOE ‘ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

War planes of Great Britain, Italy and Greece e battled in the Mediterranean area today, Greeksmountain troops fought grimly against” g<Fascist land offensive snd: an Italian spokesman charged that President Roosevelt planned to take America into the conflict against the Axis powers. Naples, the famous port at the base of Mt. Vesuvius, ‘was “the tatget of British bombers, “appavéntly. ‘operating from Greece, but. Fascist planes: in: retaliation. roared over Athens this afternoon and bombed the. “nearby seaport of ° Piraeus and the airport at Tatoi. ‘Greek ‘planes and anti~ aircraft guns vainly opposed the raiders. Salonika also was bombed for the first time. At least 35 were Teporttd killed

FOR HINTS NEW [me ite i son PLANE PLANTS

don said the R. A. F. attacked Naples for three-quarters of ° Declares He May Ask Con-

an hour, bombing oil refiners ies, storage tanks and a rail: way junction’ The Italian offensive from

Volunteers Expected

State officials expect volunteers to fill completely the state’s first quota of 395 men this month. Of the 395 to be called this month, 75 will be taken the 19th, 100 on the 20th, and 110 each on the 22d and the 25th.

Transmitter to Be at Post

The State Selective Servide headquarters here still is figuring the number to be taken from each local board. Those taken will be sent to F't. Harrison for a physical examination Ir the draftee fails to pass the examination, he will be sent home and the board will be asked to provide another man. For this reason, each board will be required to maintain reserve lists to fill such vacancies. But, perhaps on the first call and for sure on the second call a number

ASSURED FOR CITY

Road, English Ave.

The transmitting unit for Indian-

gress to 0. K. Enlarged ‘Production Plan.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (U, P).— President Roosevelt said today that he may ask’ Congress to approve a new and enlarged program of airplane production for American defense. He indicated at a press conference that the program would envisage construction of new plane manufacturing plants to help reach the goal of an American production capacity of 50,000 fighting planes annually. The program has not yet reached the draft stage, said Mr. Roosevelt, but it is obvious that some such development will be necessary. Present production facilities are overtaxed by American and British orders placed

the Albanian border was res ported by Rome to be making steady progress, pushing over muddy mountain roads to thd Junction of Kalibaki, about 14 miles into Greek territory

ton the route to the important

town of Janina.

Turkey Seeks to Avoid War B Rome made no owever, regarding the e sector facing toward Salonic pis the Greeks claimed that they had broken up strong attacks by both tanks and infantry on the Epirus front, where Fascist prisoners were n.

Dispatches to the Jugoslav frone

official claims,

ing us straight to a war for which we are totally unready, and that his domestic policies are leading to complete collapse, the quicker will (Continued on Pagc Three)

Plug Voter Is Man | lof Hour

MR. CLAPPER GIVES THE LOW-DOWN—

Any predictién about

d the brain trust jis scattered $ and divided. with Raymond Moley Gen. Hugh Johnson notable 1 mons New Deal advisers in Mr. Roosevelt's first term, warning against a third. And in the elec2’ Hon : stretch President John L. Lewis of the C. 1.:O. bolted the New Deal hich he helped make secure four

Bs 0 frees corners are blaring

on a huge chart before 15 Government Civil Aeronautics Authority employees in an office at the airport in Cincinnati. It means that now there is a cen-

Butler Home-Coming.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a. m .... 50 10a. m..... a.m. ....52 11am. ....54 8a.m..... 52 12 (noon) .. 54 9a. m. .... 53 sie 8

Butler University grads and members of the Indiana Astronomecal Society received the most encouragement from today’s weather bulletin, The Fairview alumni will find fair weather on tap for their homecoming program and football game tomorrow. The Astronomical So-

the highways. .

which planes must. fly.

er.

tralized traffic control over the airways—and better control over air traffic than there is over traffic on

The traffic control chief in Cincinnati establishes the altitudes at He warns them of essential traffic in his vicinity and tells them to land or prevents them taking off in bad weath-

Mr. Emery’s job is to get information via radio from all pilots of

| «With speakers and loud speakers for Sean, and the plain ordi- ’ nary voter is the man-of-the-year ar. week and next—through Tuesod

as the popular vote promrua on Page Three) ——————————————————— DUE STUDENT HURT CD Nov. 1 (U. P.).—Melvin Myron, 20, a Purdue University student from Port Huron, Mich, was struck by an elevated train early today. He suffered minor cuts ‘and bruises to the body and face. i Mr. Oe said he was visiting

w ‘friends at Chicago.

TIMES FEATURES ‘ON INSIDE PAGES

Movies .... an iaB Mrs. Ferguson 22 Music 18 | Obituaries ... Pegler Pyle ;...... Radiqg ;..,... 13 Real Estate... 16 Mrs. velt 2 Serial] Story. . Side Glances. 4 Society .. 24, 25 Spor}s ay

9 | 3¢ minutes and 8 seconds, but mem-

Amore time. It was, as one observer

the election outcome is a guess, says Raymond Clapper. And the best guesses are—well, read Mr. Clapper's column on Page 21.

ciety will welcome the end of the cloudy spell so it can greet Jupiter and Saturn who are in “opposition” Sunday night and the best observed of any time in the year. Tongiht’s forecast is for partly cloudy and slightly lower temperatures.

planes which enter into the Cincinnati control area from another area, and relay the information to Cincinnati through the inter-phone. Cincinnat makes a fast check by looking at a huge board which shows ‘at a glance every air move(Continued on Page Six)

Park Board Finds It's No Waste of Time Resolving to End Endless Waste of Time

By RICHARD LEWIS Park Board members have ordered themselves to stop wasting each other’s time. Assembled in solemn session in their pale green chamber at City Hall yesterday, Board members agreed to stop wasting time at precisely 11:52 a. m. It was unanimous. Discussion on the resolution lasted

bers agreed that it was time well wasted if it prevents wasting any

put it, a waste of time to end all 0 | wastes of time, or vice versa. Behind the Board's unprecedented move, members said, are years of

ord digressions, reminiscences, casual conversation and occasional little spats. “We ought to be able to get out of here by noon, instead of sitting around until 1 p. ws ’ commented Albert H. Gisler, ard vice. president. *“We have businesses to attend to.” “There is no reason,” said Paul Rathert, Board member, “why we should waste time talking about unimportant things and keeping people waiting.” Mr. Gisler noted that the Board, in wasting its own time, had wasted the time of others as well. He re-

called how John Cooper, assistant

City attorney assigned to the Board, had sat hour after hour at meeting

meetings in which time was wasted

after meeting waiting to get a word

“It's a shame to keep people like that waiting,” he said. “Mr. Cooper handles the work of several boards at the Hall.” Board member Gertrude V. Brown agreed that things could be handled with more dispatch. She pointed out that a contributing factor to time wasting was the Board's lack of an order of agenda.: Officials who want to see the board on official business ought to have an official time to appear, she said. “Mr. Cooper,” she added to make her point,” usually comes up here at the wrong time.”

From now on, they agreed,

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apolis’ fourth radio broadcasting station, licensed By the Federal Government yesterday, is to be located at English Ave. and the Post Road. The station, to be operated by the newly incorporated Capital Broadcasting -Co., will cost more than $100,000 and will broadcast on 1280 kilocycles. C. Bruce McConnell, 5669 N. Pennsylvania St., president of the new company, said plans are being speeded for the construction of downtown studios. He said the studio location has not yet been established. Mr. McConnell said he hoped the station would start operations in about two months, buf that con(Continued on Page Three)

INJURIES ARE FATAL TO LOCAL SKATER

Times Spetial KANSAS CITY, Nov. 1.—Steve Irwin, - 22-year-old roller derby skater whose home is at 4320 Manlove Ave., Indianapolis, died in a hospital heré at noon today of injuries he received in a roller derby session Saturday night. Mr. Irwin, who had been a member of the roller derby organization for two years, is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Irwin; a brother, Robert, and a sister, Mary Ellen, all of Indianapolis.

MARKET GOES HIGHER NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (U. P.).— Profit-taking came into the stock market this afternoon. But before the reaction set in steel shares had led the market higher for the second consecutive time. Trading quieter after a : lvity.

will be different. No more digres~ ;

Other members nodded solemnly, ¥

of persons will be drafted. These draftees «in the first two calls will come, it is believed, from the first 75 order numbers in each local board area. Officials estimate that five persons will be have to be classified to find one Class 1-A registrant. Thus 1115 persons will have to be (Continued on Page Six)

DEMOCRATS APPLY HEAT FOR ‘GIFTS

Sanitation” Workers Forced

To Sign Slips for Check.

Pressure to get City employees to make contributions to the Democratic campaign fund was disclosed at City Hall today. About. 150 employees of the City Sanitation Department received with their pay checks this week two slips of paper—one read: "I wish to contribute $—— to the Democratic. Committee”; the other read: “I do, not wish to contribute to the Democratic Committee.”

one of them in order to get their checks, according to several. workers who said they refused to sign either. Leo F.. Welch, Democratic member of the Board of Works and Sanitation, said eight employees refused to sign either slip but said that they may get ‘their checks at City Hall any time they ask for them. The pressure also was evident at City Hall where employees were receiving statements of “contributions due” to the Two Per Cent Club before next Tuesday. Democratic workers said most of

the employees who Refused to con-

since last spring. tier said that the Italians had met

The President’s discussion of the plane production problem followed disclosure yesterday that Army officials are talking of requesting funds and authorizations for the purchase of 12,000 additional light apd heavy bombers. The Army and Navy together already have 25,000 aireraft on order. The President revealed in Boston Wednesday night that the British also have asked permission to order 12,000 planes in addition to 14,000 previously ordered. He said, however, that the National Defense Advisory Commission, has not yet acted on his request to give the new British order “sym-

SUT resistance about 21 miles from Janina, but had made advances of two or three miles in several other border sectors. “With the Greeks, backed by Brit« ish air and sea power, apparently holding up strongly for the time being, Turkey re-emphasized her desire to keep out of the conflict. Belligerents Warned President General Ismet Inonu told the National Assembly’ that Turkey would not now enter the war and that her territory. seas and skies ig be forbidden to any belligeren In his address, however, he re~ ferred to Great Britain as an ally

Employees were required [to sign 3 &

pathetic consideration.”

13 OF FAMILY IN DRAFT

COLDWATER, Mich., Nov. 1 (U. P.).—Thirteen of the 22 children of Mr. and Mrs.’ - Harvey Price, North Adams, Mich. “are registered for selective service.

and Greece as a friend. Inonu said that Turkish relations with Russia were excellent and. he said that Turkey now would have to re-examine her entire situation in the light of extension of the war to the Balkans. At Rome the Fascist newspaper (Continued on Page Six):

War. Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

Announcement today that Naples had been ~ bombed presumably indicates the British air force, co-operating with the Greeks, has carried the wae into southern Italy for the first time. The Neapols itans and inhabitants of other southern Halisn, military areas hitherto have considered th safe from attack;because of their distant: sepa Mr. Mason from British air bases. ’ Now, however, Mussolini's aggression Greece seems probably to have opened the southern part of the I boot to a short-distance British air offensive at a time when weather conditions are interrupting bombing attacks against the other Axis parte ner. This extension-of the air war suggests the establishment of Brit-| Italian waters. Here is 2 far ish bases in Greece, probably in the Mussolini of much Se southern Peloponnesus area The Greek invasion has | The acquisition of airplane posi- sidered a preliminary n tions in this neighborhood adds to eventual expulsion of Si Brie control of the eastern Medi - {power from the Mediterrs

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