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tation is' supposed to have come from some one in Philadelphia having no connection with the national

Mr, Roosevelt said the New York Times had reported that a ‘prominent leader of the Philadelphia bar,” speaking for the Republican candidates, had declared:| “The President’s only supporters are Paupers, those who earn less than $1200 a year and aren’t worth that, and members of the Roosevelt fam-

“ “I could as well condemn the whole New Deal party for the irresponssible act of his own secretary in icking in the stomach a Negro oliceman who was only doing his duty,” Mr. Willkie continued. “I utterly condemn the alleged) utterance of that| Philadelphia lawyer, just as the third term ‘candidate should condemn the act of his secretary. | “The whole purpose was to stir ple. : <“That was the tactic of |[Lenin, the strategy ' of Hitler and the preaching of Trotsky.”

Argument Termed Shallow

He said Mr. Roosevelt “attempted to defend his record of continually unbalanced budgets and -astronomjcal expenditures by citing the abnormally low interest rate at|which a recent issue of short term government notes were sold. * “The shallowness of this argument must be turbing to anyone with .the slightest understanding of economics. There is an abvious reason why Government securities find a market at such low interest rates. It is because the policies of

in productive private enterprise| that makes jobs, that money has been driven out of productive employ,Jnent and into the bomh-proof shelters of tax-exempt Government bonds. “The third-term candidate pretended that the policies of his Administration had been beneficial to the little businessman of America. As a matter of fact, small business has suffered under the New Deal far more than big business. Small business, as a whole, has not made a profit in any single year under the New Deal.

Takes Issue on Planes

Mr. Willkie broadcast last] night from his special train a charge that Mr. Roosevelt was feeding the nation . “deceptive optimism” in outlining his objective of any produc-

He said New Deal “negledt and abuse” had so stagnated the aviation industry that it would be years before this country could reach that military goal or send to Great Brit‘gin’s aid the 26,000 planes that beleaguered nation seeks. | “Once again the third-term cafididate has given us a speech| about “defenses that are not on hand— but just on order,” he said in taking issue with the Presidents Bos-

ton speech. He charged that Mr. Roosevelt

did not show any indication| of an interest in airplanes and airplane production until eight months after the fall of Poland. Citing William S.. Knudseh | to the effect that the country would not reach a production goal of| 36,000 planes a year until the spring of 1942, Mr. Willkie continued: “If we

which we are not doing at this time, we will still be far short of the goal of 50,000 planes toward whieh the making such rapid progress. | “And when the’ third-term|candi-date talks about 26,000 planes for Britain, let's not fool the [British people. We must arm Britain with planes, not disarm her with political speeches. It will still take fears to fill their ogders. “It is time to turn our backs on

F. D. R. Tours Upstate New York,’ Pennsylvania on Way to Cleveland.

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with a dictatorial form Of government. “I am fighting against the revival of government by special privilege; government by lobbyists—government vested in'the hands of those who favor and would have us imitate the foreign dictatorships,” was the battle ery on which Mr. Roosevelt launched his final drive for a third term. He has one more speech after tonight, a radio talk from his Hyde Park home Manday night, election eve. He will make a rear platform speech in Erie, Pa., this afternoon.

Charges Fear Campaign

Mr. Roosevelt said last night that an “ominous combination” was forming within the ‘Republican Party between “the extreme reactionary and the ,extreme radical elements of the country.” “Something evil is happening . . when a full page advertisement against this Administration, paid for by Republican supporters, appears— where, of all places?—in the Daily Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party.” He said his opponents were spreading a campaign of fear, “as an example . . . certain insurance companies are now sending letters to their policy holders, warning them that if this Administration is retained in office, their policies will shrink in value.” § “1f there were a vestige of truth in these dangerous forebodings, the bonds of the United States would be selling very low in price instead of well above par,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “Why, it is only last week that the Government of the United, States sold one-year bonds for public housing—$100,000,000 worth of them at an interest rate of only onequarter of one per cent. They were oversubscribed 18 times.” He said that Commonwealth and Southern Corp. has bought $21,000,000 worth of Government bonds.

Farley Appears on Stage

For Mr. Roosevelt's final plea for the tremendous vote of metropolitan New York, his former chief political lieutenant, James. A. Farley, appeared with him on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. With a big grin on his face, Mr. Farley .stood for four minutes while the audience roared forth its approval. Three former heavyweight champions sat om the stage—Jack Dempsey, James J. Braddock and Maxie Baer. The present champion, Joe Louis, is supporting Wendell L. Willkie. Lashing at “monopolistic finance” and the men who, he said, would turn “the whole economic system back to Wall Street,” Mr. Roosevelt restated his belief in private property and of private enterprise. “Our program for the past, our program for the future, is equality of economic opportunity,” he said.

“« Shall Not Stop i

Quoting from the New Times, he said that a leader x Philadelphia bar, had said that the only supporters of.the New Deal are “paupers—those who earn less than $1200 a year and arern’t worth that, and the Roosevelt family.” “Can the Republican leaders deny that this is all too prevailing Republican sentiment is a direct, vicious appeal to class hatred, to class contempt?” he asked. He asserted that he is fighting to prevent this trend—“fighting for a free America—for a country in| which all men and women have equal right to liberty and justice. “1 am fighting to keep this nation prosperous and at peace. I em fighting to keep our peoplé out of foreign wars and to keep foreign conceptions of government out of our own United States. “I am fighting for these great and good causes. I am fighting to defend them against the power and might of those who now rise up to challenge them. “And I shall not, stop fighting.” »

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2 (U.P) — Robert T. McCracken, Philadelphia lawyer, -said in a statement today that he had been “misquoted,” and

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FORGOTTEN MAN | OF ‘32 BROUGHT BACK BY F.D.R

President Fights Against ‘Unholy Alliance’ and . ‘Selfish Interests.’

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The forgotten ° man—the same forgotten man Franklin Roosevelt gave the country in 1932 as the inspiration for ‘the vast social revolution known as the New Deal—is back in the political wars. He came back last night in Brooklyn as the President made a fighting bid to check the tide that has been running—hére in his home state as elsewhere—toward Wendell Willkie. , Not by name did this legendary figure in American political history return, but he was plainly there.| He it was for whom the President pleaded, and he it was that the President said, in effect, he seeks to safeguard for another four years from the “selfish interests.” The President threw back at the

‘| Republicans their charges of dicta-

torship, he upbraided them for the “unholy alliance” of reactionary and radical, and he struck pointedly at racial and religious divisions which—so the reports have shown— are threatening his own political strength. Objectives Restated

But underlying all of this was a restatement of the social reform objectives which have been the keystone of the New Deal. ‘ It was a speech that brought repeated cheering from his audience of 3000 in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There were no wisecracks, no gags like “Martin, Barton and Fish.” It was a sober and earnest President, perhaps by now truly disturbed by reports of mounting Republican gains, who sought to define and emphasize all the New Deal has stood for in its relation to this forgotten man.

Turns Scorn on Oppenents

Bluntly Mr. Roosevelt, recalling the battle that had been made for this forgotten man, demanded to know whether it was the wish of the.. country sto abandon these advances ective bargaining, oldage pensions and unemployment insurance, slum clearance and rehousing, the farm' program, the production of people’s savings from fraudulent manipulators, the curbing of giant holding companies. Again, as he has so many times ‘before, he turned his scorn on those who would oppose these reforms: “We understand the philosophy of those who offer resistance and counter-offensive against the American people’s march of social progress. It is not an opposition which comes necessarily from wickedness —it is an opposition which comes from subconscious resistance to any measure which disturbs thie position of privilege.” The President’s attack bristled.” Paragraph after paragraph began: “I am fighting—" And so he was.

earn $1200 a year and aren’t worth that, and the Roosevelt family.” The reputed statement was utilized by President Roosevelt in his" Brooklyn speech last night. “What I did say was that-in view of the tremendgus jssues in this campaign . . . I could not understand any thinking American voting for a continuance of the present Administration except those included in three classes—first, those unfortunates who saw no way of obtaining tomorrow’s breakfast except by going to an office and drawing down $11, $13 or $15 per week relief funds, which they believe came from the Administration’s beneficiency,” Mr. McCracken said. “The second group I referred to were Federal employees and the third the President and the members of his family. “Every one knows that mililons of Americans, rich and poor, old and young, men and women, are going to vote the Democratic ticket on Tuesday.” Mr. McCracken said the speech in which the “pauper” statement was attributed to him had been “distorted” by the newspapers. “I have no copy of the address,” he said, “but an audience of at least 300 Republican women of Penn-

sylvania heard it and I know that they will confirm what I have said.”

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A law clerk searches the bomb-damaged ruins of London’s historic Middle Temple Hall (background), where Sir Walter Raleigh danced with Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare acted in his own plays.

KEEP NEW DEAL IS HULL'S PLEA

Save Democracy, Hoover Urges as\WPA Pickets White House.

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to control our public opinion with mass propaganda and slogans, and finally to demand a third term. “They have driven our economy on fear, not upon faith; upon tied men, not free men. The end result was to fix depression as a chronic way of American life This munitions boom may obscure it momentarily, but the consequences are inevitable.”s A platoon of WPA pickets, meantime, paraded around the White House, placarding protests against what they termed efforts in New

York to frighten relief workers!

into voting the Democratic ticket. In Pittsburgh Socialist Norman Thomas ‘said both the Republican and Democratic campaigns were phoney.

Ickes Points at Germany

From Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said the’ @erman Government was directi a campaign from Berlin to prevent Mr. Roosevelt's re-election which, the Secretary said, was reason enough to keep him in office. Returning from a Midwestern campaign swing in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York expressed his unhappiness over the statement of his good friend, Samuel Seabury in support of Mr. Willkie’'s candidacy and denied that the recall of former Mayor James J. Walker from political oblivion to a $20,000- Year appointive non-political job! been a move to gain votes for hy Roosevelt. Mr. Seabury was the investigator who brought Walker before Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 on charges which caused him to resign his municipal office. “Judge Seabury is on one side and I am onthe other,” Mayor La Guardia said. “I am motivated solely by my love fof my country. Judge Seabury is motivated by an obsessed hatred for President Roosevelt.”

Wallace Goes to Delaware

Henry A. Wallace sped across Pennsylvania to conclude a 25,000mile campaign tonight in Milford, Del. :

Speaking last night at Steubenville, O., Mr. Wallace attacked what he termed a “dastardly campaign of fear” of Republican leaders. “If we should drug ourselves with the quack remedies that the Republican leaders are trying to sell us, we could easily be taken like Denmark and Norway, Holland, Belgium and France,” he said.

Senator James F. Byrnes (D. S. C.) assailed Mr. Willkie as .an “alarmist” who seeks election on a platform of fear. Appearing with him in a Democratic rally at Pittsburgh was David McDonald, secre-tary-treasurer of the Steel Workers .|Organizing Committee, who declared again the support of Philip .|Murray, S, W, O. C. chairman, for President Roosevelt despite the fact that John L. Lewis, C. I. O. president, has indorsed the Republican nominee. Alexander Woollcott said in New York he would vote for President Roosevelt because Mr. Willkie’s record, in his opinion, consisted of “a blank, a blank, my Lord.” Mr. Woollcott said he held the Republicans to blame for offering the nation a choice of Mr. Roosevelt as against “nothing.” .

STUNT DRIVER ASKS $100,000 IN SUIT

Earl L. Simon, of 1231 8S. Richland 8t., stunt driver known as “Wild Bill” Simon, has sued the Universal Film Exchange, Inc. for $100,000 because he says they used pictures of him crashing without his permission. The pictures, according to the

np. suit filled yesterday in Superior|

Court . Room 5, were incorporated “Death on Wheels,” with Richard Arlen and Andy Devine, which had a‘ dedicatory preface to “Lucky” Teter, another stunt racer. . Simon says he made the crashes, which include an upset and a head-on crash, at the Studebaker proving grounds in 1935 and that movies Were taken there without his knowledge or permission, * als at the local office of the

film exchange company said they had contacted their main office for

All in G. O. P. To Talk Monday

THERE WILL be more political talk (if possible) than ever on Monday, for it has ‘been designated as National Conversation Day by Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. On this day Republicans have pledged themselves to “ry to convert at least one vote.” According to Mr, Bobbitt, “Our workers are displaying great enthusiasm and they are not going to stop «after obtaining one vote. They are going to see that Indiana plays a leading role in sending its native son to the White House,”

MILK DELIVERY HOURS CHANGED

Drivers to Start Routes About 5 a. m., End At Noon.

Starting tomorrow, Indianapolis’ milkmen will start leading a more normal life. Daylight deliveries will start then and continue until April 1. Milkmen will start on their routes about 5 a. m. and finish about noon. During the summer the milkmen rolled out of bed about 11 p. m. and finished about 7 a. m. According to C. Winfield Hunt, secretary of the Milk Foundaiton o? Indianapolis, daylight deliveries do. the following things, which are good: 1. It allows deliverymen to lead lives. like you and us, most important in Mr. Hunt's estimation. 2. Curtails freezing of milk, which tends to separate the fat from the ad | rest of the product—and that’s bad for its food value. 3. Gets away from a 40-year-old schedule of deliveries. And Mr. Hunt thinks it’s about time. Back in the early 1900s, Mr. Hunt explained, it was a daily race to get the milk from the cow to the home in the city before the product soured. But today, with farm cooling systems and pasteurization, there’s no use getting up in the middle of the night to hustle the milk around.

HURJA FORECASTS WILLKIE LANDSLIDE

CHICAGO, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—Emil Hurja, publisher of Pathfinder magazine, predicted in his final pre-election forecast today that Republican nominee Wendell Willkie will be elected President by a “landslide” electoral college vote and a popular majority of more than four million. He told a press conference in Republican National Committee offices that Mr. Willkie will receive a majority of 900,000 to 1,000,000 in upstate New York against a majority of 525,000 for President Roosevelt in New York City. Mr. Hurja’s prediction of electoral votes showed 353 for Mr. Willkie and 178 for Mr. Roosevelt. The Willkie total included 22 California votes. The Roosevelt column included Missouri's 15. Mr. Hurja predicted Tlinois in the Willkie column with a Republican downstate majority of 400,000 and the Democrats carrying Chicago by an undetermined amount. Pennsylvania will go for Mr. Willkie, he said, even though Mr. Roosevelt carries both Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties. He predicted Michigan for Mr. Willkie, although it probably will elect a Democratic Governor.

JOBS UP 650,000 DURING SEPTEMBER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P.).— American Federation of Labor estimated today that unemployment decreased by 650,000 persons during September, largely because of the national defense - program, war orders from abroad, and customary fall business improvement. The reduction, it said, was the largest in any single month since April, 1936, when unemployed rolls were decreased by 663,000 persons. The nation’s unemployed totaled 8,544,000 during September, compared with 9,194,000 in August, it said.

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IGREEKS MARCH INTO ALBANIA: BERLIN RAIDED

Krupp Arms Works Bombed; New British Flights Over Italy Indicated. (Continued from Page One)

mountains while other. columns attempted to encircle the town from other points. '\ The Italian communique also reported widespread aerial activity and left little or ng doubt that British troops had landed at the Island of Crete.

Fascist planes bombed troops disembarking on Crete, the Rome communique said, but it did not definitely admit that they were British troops.

Italian airplanes’ again bombed Salonica today after raids on a score of points in Greece, including the sea and air ports of Athens, killed or wounded about. 300 Greeks in the last 24 hours. Corfu also was bombed again.

Royal Air Force bombers roared over the German capital early In the evening, catching tens of thousands of Berliners on the streets or in places of entertainment, and smashed at railroad centers, arms factories, airdromes and other objectives in many parts of Germany. The Krupp Arms Works was a principal target. Berlin admitted a “number” ot casualties, ‘adding ‘that at least 26 others were killed in another raid on Amsterdam.

Oil Plants Attacked

British fliers reported they attacked 15 airdromes at some of which German planes were said to be just taking off attack Britain. Among other targets, were synthetic oil plants at Magdeburg and Gelsenkirchen, an industrial factory near Gelsenkirchen and the railroad junction at Osnabruck

In retaliation for the British raiders, both German and Italian planes renewed attacks on the British Isles, striking from the south coast over a ‘wide area as far as Scotland, where harbors and industrial plants were bombed. German pilots reported direct hits on a Portsmouth power station and Woolwich, site of the Royal arsenal. Numerous “new fires and explosions” were reported in the London area. London said nine German planes were destroyed without loss of any British fighters.

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man bombs had wrecked parts of Kensington Palace, residence of the Earl of Athlone (present Governor General of Canada) and birthplace of dowager Queen Mary.

Raids on Italy Indicated

But London dispatches said that squadrons both German and Italian craft—counted in the hundreds— had been turned back in air battles over the south coast. It was indicated strongly that British planes had made raids on Italy for the second straight night. There were two air alarms at Berne, Switzerland. Such alarms in the past have invariably meant a British raid on Italy. In New York the Columbia Broadcasting System heard a British Broadcasting Co. report that a German attempt to seize a ‘meteorological observation station in Greenland had failed. BBC said that the German expedition of 50 men was captured by the Norwegian patrol boat Fritjof Nansen.

Repercussion Expected

The radio station said “it is natural that such a foothold ‘of the Germans in Greenland would have the strongest repercussions in America.” Evidence was accumulating that the British Navy, “the silent service,” was preparing a big Mediterranean offensive. Newspapers displayed under big headlines reports that British naval officers had arrived at Athens and at unidentified Greek islands to organize Britain’s aid to Greece. Diplomatic quarters.in Bucharest reported that Turkey might be offered guarantees by several powers to keep her out of the war. Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to rkey, was understood to be behind the plan and some observers believed it was the purpose of his return to Berlin.

SOVIET LEASES 10 TANKERS FROM U. 3.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U, P.)— The Maratime Commission since July 25 has approved charters of 10 United States tankers to Russian interests despite its announced policy of disapproving charters of American tankers for voyages outside the Western Hemisphere, Commission records disclosed today. During this same period, the records showed, the commission has rejected six applications for charter of tankers to Japanese interests as well as informal requests for charters to Spain. The Commission’s policy of keeping this country’s tankers within the Western Hemisphere was announced early in July.

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‘Defends Greece

Heading Greece’s Third Army Corps, defending the area around Salonica, is Gen. George Tsolakoglou. Greece has five army corps, of three divisions each, in the field.

War Moves Today—

GRECIAN DRIVE GOSTLY TO AXIS

Gives England ‘Legal’ Right’ To Move Into Strategic Naval Bases.

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Greece and the Dardanelles and Asiatic Turkey. Whatever may be the eventual outcome of the Italian invasion of Greece, no military development on the Greek mainland can compel the British to evacuate Crete, once they are established there in force. It would seem that for the duration of the European war the Axis must henceforth regard Crete as a British base of Mediterranean operations, to the detriment of totalitarian plans to gain’ control of this vital water area. By invading Greece, Mussolini appears thus to have let down his Mediterranean guard. A few days before the Italian drive into Greece began demands were being made in unofficial quarters in London that the British Government take the initiative in occupying the Greek islands to forestall an Axis blow.

Duce Trips Himself

While the logic of “total war” proclaimed by the Axis might have been used to justify such action, nevertheless, it would have necessitated British disregard of Greek neutrality. Italy's quick ultimatum to the Athens Government, however, played into British hands in this

respect by legalizing British military movements in Greek territory, under the terms of the Anglo-Greek defense treaty. A further satisfactory development to Great Britain of events in southeastern Europe must be read into yesterday’s statement by President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. His declaration that the Anglo-Turkish military alliance is “unbreakable,” coupled with his affirmation that Turkish territory would be forbidden to any belligerent, implies that the Turks will not offer free passage for an Axis march through the Near East to Suez and Egypt. A turning point in the war thus may be taking place now in the Balkans. The strategic strengthening of British sea power in the Mediterranean, the resistance of Greece and the warning by Turkey must be considered as a unified factor in the war of great potential importance.

Hitler Dislikes Winter

Reports are recurrent from German sources that the German High Command does not relish a winter campaign in the Southeast and prefers to wait until spring before considering any new major offensive. If that be true, time is thus being given for the British to establish themselves firmly on the Greek islands and for the Turks to increase their defensive power. At the same time by next spring British air strength will have increased to the point where large contingents can be. sent to the Middle East. These considerations are not advantageous to the Axis, and they may compel Hitler to strike before he is fully prepared. If so, one more perplexity is added to the reasons why Italy invaded Greece at this disadvantageous season.

14 AWAIT TRIAL DEARBORN, Mich, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—Fourteen of the members of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) arrested for distributing handbills at the Ford River Rouge plant today awaited trial on charges of violating a city ordinance which has been declared unconstitutional. V

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COUNTY RACES

HINGE ON VOTE. OF UNDECIDED

State Races Are So Close That Both Parties Have litters. ? (Continued from Page One)

100,000 margin of safety,” he said. However, if the Gallup poll for Indiana proves to be within the 4 per cent margin of accuracy, Mr. Willkie would carry the state.

53-47 for Willkie The Gallup figures show a 53-47 per cent advantage for Mr, Willkie and if this percentage should hold

true in the actual election results,

the G. O. P. Presidential nominee would win by 120,000, on the basis of a 6 per cent majority. The percentage of popular votes is based upon predictions that close to 2,000,000 Hoosiers will go to the polls. The total vote in the 1936 Presidential election was more than 1,600,000. President Roosevelt carried Ine diana four years ago by a 243,000 majority and Republican victories during the 20s ranged close to that figure. In Marion. County, Democratic analysts reported that their house« to-house poll of votes just come pleted showed about 128,000 Democrats and 105,000 Republicans with 53,000 recorded as “doubtful.”

Claim 8000 Margin Heré

Democratic leaders said they are conceding about half of the doubte ful voters to the Republicans and claiming only about a fourth of them will vote Democratic. After deductions for disgruntled Democrats who may not go to the polls, Democratic leaders said their majority will be between 8000 and 15,000 in the county. The Republican County Commits tee is not taking a house-to-house poll this year but Chairman James L. Bradford said party leaders are basing their predictions for a Ree publican victory in Marion County by 10,000 on sampling polls and percentages. He said party workers have found that the Republican Party will take about 10 per cent of the 1936 Dem= ocratic voters away from President Roosevelt, “That’s what our sampling polls have been showing,” Mr. Bradford said. 10,000, Say Republicans

* “There is every reason to believe that we will carry Marion County by at least 10,000,” he said. In the 1936 election President Roosevelt carried the county by a majority of 37,000, but in 1938 the Democratic organization slipped down to majorities ranging from 7000 to 13,000 for county candidates, Democratic leaders claim, howe ever, that their organization, feeling too’ confident in 1938, failed to get out to the polls all the Democratic voters listed on their books. "County Chairman Ira Haymaker said that every effort will be made to avoid that mistake next Tuese day. Election officials are predicting that the total vote in Marion Couns ty will be close to 250,000, compared to 216,000 in 1936. In 1938 the county vote was 196,000.

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Tromsoe harbor and her German *

crew was interned first in Norway,

and then later transported to Enge

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