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VOLUME 52—NUMBER 203

Greeks Push 7 Miles Into Albania; RAF Starts Fires in Berlin

BRITISH BOMB

“RAIL CENTERS, ARMS FACTORY

"Fascists Raid Salonica and Corfu Again but Land Attack Bogs Down.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Little Greece and Great Britain today reported their armed forces battering at both ends of the Axis in intense land and air offensives

into Albania and shook the heart of Berlin with British

bomb explosions. a

The British attacks on Berlin, according to the air ministry, were the heaviest yet made against the Reich ,capital. It claimed three main railway centers repeatedly were hit by heavy caliber bombs and later by incendiary missiles,

"which started “some: of the great-

est fires yet seen by British raiders over Germany.” Greek soldiers fighting through snow and rain on a mountainous

battlefront were said officially to}

have halted or slowed down the Italian offensive on both the Florina front in the north and the Janina front in the south. Claim 160 Italian Prisoners But of greater importance, it was reported, crack units of six-foot Evzones mountaineers counter-at-tacked the disorganized Fascist forces in the north and drove seven miles into Albanian territory near Kargca, thus setting back the Italian thrust toward Salonica. The Greeks now were reported astride tHe Korca-Florina highway in the rear of Italians who advanced from Korca down the road to Florina, which is in Greece. About 160 Italian prisoners were taken and Mt. Pissoderi also was captured from the Fascists in a bayonet and hand grenade battle, according to Greek reports, which also said that Greek planes had bombed Italian bases, including Koritza, and that the Fascist advance on the southwestern front

. toward Janina had been making only

. slow progress at a high cost in ‘ casualties, The Greek successes, reported not only from London and Belgrade but ‘also in a communique issued at Athens, were regarded as extremely encouraging to the defenders, but it was pointed out that the weather had been of great aid to the Greeks.

Janina Expected to Fall

Even the war correspondent of the Rome newspaper Messagero admitted that the Italians were facing great difficulties and that the Greeks were putting up a strong battle. But the Fascist High Command reported renewal of the drive

toward Janina—which appeared tol

be the chief immediate objective of the entire campaign—and Jugoslav messages said that Italians were at Dobra, only about 11 miles from Janina. The Greeks were said to be retiring from Janina, which appeared likely to fall today td the invaders. One Italian column, according to Rome, already has circled beyond Janina on the east and was reported fighting the Greeks in the Pindo (Continued on Page Three)

8 U. S. DESTROYERS "NOW IN CARIBBEAN

WASHINGTON, Nov, 2 (U. P.).— The Navy said today that eight destroyers and six patrol planes which suddenly left Key West, Fla., earlier in the week are engaged ‘in “scheduled exercises” in the Caribbean. Usually well-informed sources be- . lieved that at least some of these ships had or would call at the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. The Navy declined to comment in any way on this report, Unofficial quarters pointed out that naval vessels engaged in exercises or patrol in ¢he Caribbean frequently pay “courtesy calls” at various islands.

LET MOTORS CONTRACT WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P).— * The War Department today awarded a $119,870,920 contract for airplane engines for both the Army and Navy to the Wright Aeronautical Corp., Paterson, N., J.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1940

She's Ready to Strut.

Baton in hand, chin up and ready to start strutting, Magnolia

DeHart, New Augusta, Ind, junior,

is one of the two leaders who will

precede the color guard, drum majorettes and Butler band this afternoon at the Butler-DePauw football game. Miss DeHart has been with

the band three years.

LEAP FATAL TO DRIVER'S WIFE

Mrs. Mary Vollmer Killed As She Tries to Escape Colliding Autos.

When Mrs. Mary Vollmer, 40, saw that the car her husband was driving was going to collide with another at 23d St. and College Ave, this morning, she attempted to leap tb safety. She was crushed between the two cars and died at the scene. With Mrs. Vollmer’s death and that of Alexander Laks, 60, of 737 Union St., Indianapolis’ 1940 traffic toll went to 72 today, 29 more than on the same day of last year.

. Struck Tuesday

Mr. Laks was struck by a tari| Tuesday in the 600 block of Madison Ave. He dled today in City Hospital. A wife and six children of Cleveland, O., survive. In today’s accident, Emory H. Vollmer was driving west on 23d St.. Mrs. Vollmer saw that the car was going to hit one being driven south on Broadway by Guy H. Williams, 41, of 4934 Broadway. Mrs. Vollmer attempted to get: out, and after the two cars nosed into each other, they collided side-to-side, trapping Mrs: Vollmer. Neither driver was seriously hurt. The Vollmers live at 2630 College Ave. Operated Nursing Home

Besides her husband, Mis. Vollmer, who operated a nursing home at the College Ave. address, is survived by a son, Donald, of Indianapolis; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cain, McCordsville, Ind.; four brothers, Lawrence and Corwon’ Cain of Oaklandon, Ind. and Roy and Lloyd Cain’ of McCords-

ville, and four sisters, Mrs. Bessie|&

Gray of Akron O., Mrs. Emma Hay-

don and Mrs. Marjorie Edmondson, | both of Indianapolis, and Miss Fay |

Cain of McCordsville. Mrs. Vollmer was a member of the Centenary Christian Church here and of the Daughters of Amerca. ;

LOAN FIRM OFFICIAL FIGHTS OFF BANDITS

One was armed with a hammer and the other with >a gun but Robert Stolkin, 47, loan company executive, fought off two bandits who attacked him last night at his

As Mr. Stolkin was putting his car into the garage, the men demanded a diamond ring he was wearing. He refused and after one had hit nim with the hammer he struck the gun-wielding bandit. Both fled. Mr. Stolkin was not seriously injured, police said. He said the

Grid Accent on Grudge Battles

This was grudge Saturday in Indiana college football circles, with virtually every state team having a little more than, usual at stake. Here in Indianapolis, Butler's Bulldogs believed they could prove to a home-coming crowd that they were still supreme in the Indiana Conference despite a poor out-of-league record. On the other hand, DePauw, the Bulldogs’ foe, was calling this “the year.” Notre Dame met the Army in their traditional New York scrap. Indiana squared off against surly Ohio State at Columbus. At Iowa City, Purdue met Iowa.

DAY STARTS COOLER BUT WARMS RAPIDLY

Fair Weather Due Tonight And Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

42 44 46 53

10a. m.... 59 11a. m.... 63 12 (noon) .. 65 1pm. .... 67

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Don’t let anyone tell you times aren’t getting better. In 1911 on this same day, the mercury went down to 22. Was it that cold when you came to work this morning? It was eight degrees cooler than yesterday at 6 a. m., to be sure, but by 9 o'clock, it was 53, same as yesterday. Things will get even better tonight and tomorrow. The Weather Bureau said it would be fair tonight and tomorrow and slightly warmer tomorrow. Who's complaining now?

United Press War Expert Announcement from have bombed troops refers (o' a British expeditionary force arriving a this highly important strategic island, 75 Niza of ie Greek coast. If that be so, the British have greatly strengthened their naval tio Eastern Mediterranean. preition: in the The importance of Crete for guarding the ern Mediterranean has been { Bast.

dawn of European civilization. The

or government by sea power is attributed to the King Minos, son of Seus and Europa, who after

judge of human beings condemned to the underworld for earthly crimes. Crete has one of the finest natural harbors for warships in the world, situated at- Suda on the northwestern island coast. It is protected by a rocky peninsula and is safe from sea attack and easily

bandits were masked.

defended against air bombing. From fase the British fleet

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON

COUNTY RACES HINGE ON VOTE OF ‘UNDECIDED

State Contests So Close That Both Parties Have litters.

By NOBLE REED

These are uneasy hours both for Republicans and Democrats in Marion County

and Indiana. For, as the campaign moves into its closing hours, it is now evident that: 1. The Marion County election will be one of the closest in many years, with a surprisingly large group of undecided voters holding the margin of victory. 2. The state races are so close that workers in both camps have the jumping jitters. It is conceded that Lieut. Gov. Henry Schnricker is running ahead of his ticket., 3. Indiana will give a ‘favorite son’ majority to Wendell Willkie by a comfortable, if not decisive margin. Marion County's outcome appears to be hinging upon the lastminute decision of some 50,000 “doubtful” voters.

Thousands Plan to ‘Scratch’

This big question mark, coupled with indications that thousands of other voters are planning to “scratch” their voting trom one party to the other, had led leaders to believe that the results in Indianapolis may be the closest in 25 years. Predictions that Mr. Schricker may be elected despite a Willkie victory in Indiana are based upon the belief that many anti-third-term Democrats who vote for Mr. Willkie will “scratch” for the Lieu~ tenant Governor. Leaders of neither party are predicting any landslide voting in the state. : .

G. O. P. Expects 100,000 Edge

Officials of the State Republican Committee are predicting a Willkie majority ranging betweén 100,000 and 150,000. On the other hand, Democratic pool workers, who have made reports from all of the 3898 precincts in the state, claim their figures show a majority ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 for President Roosevelt after conceding, they said, that half the doubtful voters will vote Republican.

The number of doubtful voters in|.

the state has been estimated variously by leaders of both parties from 150,000 to 300,000. Frank M. McHale, Democratic National Committeeman, who has charge of vote quotas for county chairmen, said that their guess of around 100,000 for President Roosevelt “is ar conservative as we pos sibly can make it after allowances for doubtful voters.” : He said that poll takers in Allen County showed a 3000 Democratic majority “but we're going to concede that county to the Republicans by as much as 6000.” “Even with such deliberate con-

cessions as that we have close to a|.

(Continued on Page Three)

SEEKS TO BETTER HUGHES’ AIR MARK

DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 2 (U. P.) — G. T. Baker, president of National Airlines, 1anded here at 10:28 a. m. (Indiamapolis Time) today on his attempted record-breaking transcontinental flight in a transport Plane. Four passengers were with

Mr. Baker, flying a twin-motored Lockheed-Lodestar monoplane took off from Burbank, Cal., at 1:03 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and took off at 10:41 a. m. for Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Baker trying to better the transcontinental mark = set two years ago by Howard Hughes, was flying a transport slightly larger and more powerful than the ILockheed 14 in which Mr, Hughes established a coast-to-coast record of 10 hours, 34 minutes in 1938.

Rome that Italian aviators landing at Crete presumably

since the “Thalassocracy” mythological Cretan his death became a

first Mediterranean

can operate much more advantageously than before by flank attack against Italian ships conveying supplies to Mussolini's army in North Africa. At the same -time Crete lies athwart the southern entrance of the Aegean Sea and gives the British control of that

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Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

G. O. P. Has Formed ‘Unholy Alliance,’

President Says.

ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL, Nov. 2 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt, opening a drive to capture upstate New York, reiterated today his pledge to keep America out of war and asserted that the New Deal record shows he does not have his finger on the trigger.

En route to Cleeland where he makes his final major political address at 8 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), Mr. Roosevelt spoke before a rain-swept crowd of about 25,000 people jammed into the! railroad station square at Rochester, N. Y. “Your Government down in Washington is a Government of peace, a Government that intends to retain peace for the American people,” he said. Recalling that during his service as Governor of New York he never called out the National Guard to put down riots, Mr. Roosevelt said that same rule: has applied in his Presidential service. The Army and Navy never have been called into action during the New Deal except for humanitarian purposes, he said.

Feet on Ground, He Says

¢ “It seemd to me that a fellow with that kind of a record must ve his feet on tHe ground and I don’t believe he has his finger on the trigger,” the President said. He charged that an official in charge of the Republican campaign, in an “off. the record” statement at a press conference, had asserted that the U. S. fleet is en route west from Hawaii and will be sent to Manila after election. He flatly denied that statement, and again reiterated that this country is not going to war. Included in the crowd were dozens of labor delegations, representing both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. affiliates. The delegations bore banners proclaiming labor’s support for the third term. The Presidential train halted at Batavia, N. Y. for a one-minute rear platform speech in which Mr. Roosevelt said:

Raps “Unholy Alliance”

“You know that your Administration is seeing, as it has seen for many years, the ways of peace and you know that our Administration intends to keep you out of war.” In his trip to Ohio by way of upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, Mr. Roosevelt was bidding for the 109 electoral votes of the three states—almost onehalf of the 266 total necessary for re-election. Rochester was his first stop. Last night in Brooklyn he proclaimed a battle against an “unholy alliance” of radicals and reactionaries. He asserted that his was a fight for equality of opportunity for all America, against elements that would replace American democracy (Continued on Page Three)

CONDUCTOR KILLED * INTRAIN ACCIDENT

Head Apparently Struck Girder of Bridge.

Conductor Harry Webb took up the tickets on the fast CincinnatiChicago passenger train last night. Brakemen saw him walking toward the rear of the train. When the train made its first

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Save Democracy, Hoover Urges as WPA Pickets White House.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press | Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The 1940 Presidential campaign is roaring toward tonight's climax in Cleveland and New York, where the opening candidates make their last major bids for votes.

President Roosevelt is swinging through upstate New York and western Pennsylvania en route to Cleveland. Wendell L. Willkie prepares to speak tonight! in Madison Square Garden, wher: Mr. Roosevelt has been accustomed to ending his campagns with a Saturday night rally.

Hull Issues Warning

Secretary of State Cordell Hull, from Washington, rephrased the warning against a midstream thange of horses to read: “This is no time for the country to make a change from experience to inexperience—a change which would involve two and one-half months of confusion and uncertainty.” He meant that a newly elected President would not take office until Jan. 20, 1941,

Save Democracy, Hoover Plea

On the western campaign front, Herbert C. Hoover told his audience in Salt Lake City that the campagin issue was preservation of democracy. He said the Roosevelt administration began with three economic ideas from which arose “the odor of totalitarianism.”

stop,-at Greensburg, Ind., Mr. Webb could not be found. - The train was searched hurriedly. Still he could not be found, and the New York Central Railroad detective department, was informed. The detectives walked the tracks from Greensburg back to Cincin-

This morning about sunrise, they

Water at the Indiana-Ohio state line. According: to an investigation conducted by Capt. E. F. Kline of the railroad’s detective service here, the accident apparently happened in this way: As the train neared the White Water bridge, Mr. Webb leaned out of a vestibule between two cars and his head struck a bridge girder. He was swept off the train and fell near the bridge. * Mr. Webb was born Aug. 12, 1886, in: Alpine, Ind, and started with New York Central as a brakeman in 1907. After service in the World War, he returned to the railroad.

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He lived in Cleves, a suburb of

“You will find every one of these economic ideas,” he said, “somewhere along the Berlin-Rome-Mos-cow axis, and to force these ideas on America you have seen attempts to control our cousts, to control our Congress, to control our elections, (Continued on Page Three)

FLYING SCHOOL HEAD DIES IN AIR COLLISION

GRANITE CITY, Ill, Nov. 2 (U. P.).~Raymond Graham Reess, 43-year-old operator of the Luscombe Flying School at Lakeside Airport, near here, was killed today when two light airplanes collided at about 200 feet over the airport. Two other men were injured. Robert Worrick, of East St. Louis, Ill, instructor for the Midwest Flying School, was in a critical condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital, August C. Stuckenberg, Jennings, Mo., a passenger in Worrick’s plane,

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Willkie Gains in 3

States, Loses in One

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion ,

RINCETON, N. J., Nov. 2.—A gain for Wendell Wilikie in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Maryland is revealed in the latest returns of the American Institute of Public Opinion survey. - In Michigan, however, the recent trend of sentiment toward Mr. Willkie has been halted, and President Roosevelt g

s back 1 full

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they bring Minnesota withinprovided the Republican trend is not halted there as it was in Michi-

the danger zone for the Democrats,

Maryland, despite the Republican

gain there, is interesting in view of Maryland's past record as a barome-

since 1900 Maryland has been on

the winning side and the median deviation between the Maryland * results and the results for the\nation has been 3.3 per cent.

today, the national vote based on be 54.7 per cent for Roosevelt, or

(Copyright, 1940, by American Institute of Public Opinion)

Is No Time to Change To Inexperience,” Hull Says

POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON RADIO TONIGHT

Political speeches tonight and the stations gqver which they can be heard are as follows: '6:15— (WIRE) —Paul Y. Davis, Indianapolis. 6:15 — (WFBM) — Arthur L. Gilliom, Indianapolis. 7:30 — (WIRE) — Democratic rally. 8:00— (WIRE and WFBM)— President Roosevelt, Cleveland. 8:45— (WFBM)—Senator Norris. 8:45—(WIRE)—Senator. Clark, Columbia, Mo. 8:45—(Mutual)—Bruce Bare ton. 9:00— (WIRE) — William L. Hutcheson, Indianapolis. 9:15—(WFBM) — Wendell Willkie, New ‘York; also on WIRE starting at 9:30. 10:00—(WIRE)—Gen Johnson. 10:15—~(WFBM) — Dorothy Thompson, New York. - | 10:30— (WIRE) —~Thomas E. Dewey, Kansas City.

MILLION SET ASIDE FOR FT, WAYNE POST

Air Corps Station to Get Temporary Buildings.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U, P.).— The War Department announced today that approximately $1,300,000 has been allocated for temporary construction at the Ft, Wayne, Ind., air corps station. Construction will consist of 27 barracks, seven day rooms, four enlisted men’s messes, one cafeteria, four officers’ quarters, seven organization supply rooms, six administration buildings, station, one guard house, 100-man hospital, infirmary, motor repair shop, recreation building, telephone building, theater, two quartermaster warehouses, post exchange, five operations buildings, Link trainer build-

ing, parachute building, school building, “hangar, radio station building, six storage buildings and magazines. When facilities are completed, the 31st Pursuit Squadron, the 40th Pursuit Squadron, the 46th Air Base group, and the 41st Pursuit

WILLKIE: LENIN TACTICS

Issues of 1940 Not Discussed,

Hoosier Adds.

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, Nov. 2 (U. P.).— Wendell L. Willkie charged today that President Roose velt in his Brooklyn speech last night employed “the tactics of Lenin, the strategy of Hitler, and the preaching of

‘| Trosky . . . to stir up class

hatred and divide our people.” Replying to Mr. Roosevelt .he sgid: “To date the third term candidate has not discussed any of the real issues of 1940.” He asked him “for the benefit of the Amer~ ican people,” to answer these questions: “l. In the past seven and a half years the New Deal has spent more than 60 billion dollars and more than doubled the national debt, Tell us, Mr. Third-Term Candidate, how long we can continue with an unbalanced budget? How long can we continue to pile up the nae tional debt without bringing about bankruptcy or the chaos of ine flation?

Points Again to Jobless

“2. There are more than nine million men unemployed today, as many as were unemployed when the ‘third term candidate ran for his second term. Mr. Third-Term Candidate, tell the American peo ple how it is that we have made no net gains in employment under your latest Administration? What 1s your program for providing our people with jobs? Do you sube scribe to the statement of your campaign manager that there can never be jobs in private industry for all our people? “3. Mr. Third-Term Candidate, tell the American people what are gument you have that has not ale ready been advanced by the dice tators of Europe as a pretext for continued power, for.offering youre self to the American people as an indispensable man?

Talks in New York Tonight

“4. Mr. Third-Term Candidate, the campaign of 1932 is eight years behind us. When will you begin to discuss the issues of 1940?” Mr. Willkie issued his statement after listening $0 Mr. Roosevelt's Brooklyn speech by radio on his private car parked between -Keare ney and Harrison, N. J. where he rested yesterday and today in prepe aration for his campaign finale in Madison Square Garden in New York City tonight. He speaks over all radio networks from 9:15 to ‘10 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). The Republican nominee said that Mr. Roosevelt complained that “the Republican ticket has the support of many different elements of our populations. “The answer to that is obvious,” he continued. “It is’ because our party is today the only one which offers unity to the country. People who differ about details can and do unite on a patriotic principle. They are united in upholding the princie ple against the third term and in keeping out of war. “In a desperate attempt to block this movement of unity, the third term candidate stooped to the use (Continved on Page Three)

CONNALLY TALKS FOR STATE DEMOCRATS

NORTH; VERNON, Ind. Nov. 3 (U. P.).—Failure to re-elect Presi= dent Roosevelt for a third term would amount to repudiation of the United States foreign policy, national defense and preparedness, Senator - Tom Connally '(D. Tex.) last night told '‘a Democratic ral here. : “The United States today faces the most critical emergency which has confronted her in 100 vears,” he asserted. “Democracy is on trial before the modern world. It .is threatened by brute strength und military mighf. To preserve democ=~ racy he (President Roosevelt) ought to have the support of a united country and a united people.”

MARKET IRREGULAR Bs NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Trading in ' stocks today was heavier than usual for a Saturday as traders evened their commitments because of war and election uncertainties. were irregular.

- DIES AFTER CRASH

FT. WAYNE, Ind., No. 2 AT, PJ. —L. M. Gimmell, 23, Topeka, Ind, died of a skull fracture at St. Joseph

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Hospital early today following an

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