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By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Curt Davis, Brooklyn's skinny right hander who looks like a strong wind would blow him over, was entrusted with the tremendous task of halting the New York Yankees in the opening game of the world series today before a record-

breaking through of 70,000.

Waiting until the last minute, Manager Leo Durocher finally selected Davis, a 35-year-old veteran of the baseball wars, as the Dodger pitcher

For the Yanks, it was big Red Ruffing, grizzled veteran of five World Series, and there never was any doubt about it.

The batting order: DODGERS— Walker, rf Herman, 2b

ri Camilli, 1b faggio, cf Medwick, If ler, Lavagetto, 3b Dickey,’ € Reese, 8S Gordon, 2b Owen, ¢ Rizzuto, ss Davis, p Raffing, p inom es—McGowan and Grieve, Ameri Tis doe, Pinelli and Goetz, National

League.

About 28,000 fans, many of whom st in line all night, quickly snapped up the 14,000 bleacher and 14000 upper tier unreserved seats when they were placed on sale. All tickets were exhaustec before noontime, an hour and a half before time for the game to commence. The World Series record .for a single game is 66,669 set at a wvankee-Giant game Oct. 4, 1936 in this park. a The weather was muggy and sticky after morning showers. The sun went behind the clouds and a few drops of rain fell while the wanks were engaging in batting drill, but it stopped a few moments later. : The diamond was in good condihaving been covered with a tarpaulin until the Yanks started their batting drill. Ruffing, with 17 years of Amer-

hind him, was named yesterday by Manager Joe McCarthy to pitch the first game. Manager Leo Durocher of the Dodgers apparently tryto worry the Yanks kept his starting pitcher in doukt until the last minute. ae The play by play follows: FIRST INNING

DODGERS—Walker walked on four straight pitches. Herman rolled out to Rolfe, Walker advancing. Reiser flied to DiMaggio on the first pitch, Walker holding sec-

RUNS, NO HITS. ~ YANKEES—Sturm slashed a single to left. Rolfe forced Sturm at second, Camilli to Reese. Henrich forced Rolfe at second, Herman to Reese. DiMaggio, who was given a tremendous ovation when he came to bat, raised a high fly to Medwick near the left field foul line. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. SECOND INNING

DODGERS—The sun went behind the clouds as Medwick came to bat. Medwick took a tremendous cut, fouled off one and then fanned swinging. Lavagetto grounded out, Rizzuto to Sturm. Reese worked the count to.two and two and then flied to Keller, who barely had to move to make the catch. NO RUNS. NO HITS. YANKEES—Keller flied to Reiser. Dickey popped in front of Herman, who threw him out to Camlili. Gor~ don fouled off four pitches and then, on a two and two count, hit a mighty home run into the lower left field boxes about 415 feet from home plate. The crowd gave Gor_don a lusty ovation as he circled the ‘bases. Rissuto flied to Medwick in deep left near the box seats. He misjudged the ball but untracked himself at the last moment. ONE RUN, ONE HIT.

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IT'S DAFFY DAY IN THE BIG CITY

Shower Dampens Bleachers Thousands, but Throng . Only Grows Noisijer.

YANKEE STADIUM, New York, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —The potentially daffiest world series of history began today with 28,000 seat-weary holders of unreserved bleacher and upper grand stand positions haggard but happy—and loud. Those in bleachers were slightly damp from a shower which came down shortly after they packed the uncovered stands at 9 a. m., 30 minutes after the gates were opened. The bleacherites had their first chance to try out their lung power when the Yankees took the field for batting practice shortly before 11:30. The band in front of the centerfield bleachers struck up “The Yanks Are Coming” and Yankee fans went wild, cheering their heroes against a strong obbligato of of Brooklyn boos. : 7 ! When the Brooklyns trotted out a little later the situation was reversed and the Dodger fans had their chance and took it. Wacky Fans Spurn Game During the early hours of the morning a battered Boston taxicab pulled up to the stadium and a crowd of 25,000 waiting for the gates to open cheered four men who stepped unsteadily out, surveyed the line encircling the park and walked off with a casual “To hell with it.” The cab driver, Bill Canton, said

‘his fares paid the $50 for the 230-

mile trip but he wouldn't do it again for $100. Two of the passengers were Dodger fans and two were Yankee rooters and “they fought all the way down,” he related wearily. No. 2899 in the bleacher line was a soldier who identified himself as “Just plain Bill, A. W. O. L. from Camp Dix.” : “I don’t care as long as those Bums win,” he said and picked four straight Dodger victories. Betting commissioners quoted the Yanks 12-5 to win the series and 8-5 to win the opener. The Dodgers are 1-2 for the series and 5-7 for the first game.

RED PILOTS TRAINED AT DAYTON FIELD

DAYTON, O, Oct. 1 (U. P)—A group of 36 Russian pilots and flight technicians are receiving instruction at Patterson field in the operation and maintenance of U. S. Army warplanes. . Presence of the Soviet airmen at the Army air field was disclosed by John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary

The Russian group has been here for more than a week. Mr. Cloy said ‘a school had been set up at the field to train the Russian mission which flew from Russia to the United States, arriving in Seattle, Wash., Sept. 6.

STRIKE IN DEFENSE PLANT SANDUSKY, O., Oct. 1 (U. P.).— More than 600 workers at the Government’s partially completed Plumbrook ordnance plant near here were made idle today by a strike

of the Office Workers Union (A. F. of L.), who demanded higher pay and adjustment of other grievances.

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GERMAN GAINS PERIL DONETS

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

A German offensive threat to the Donets industrial basin gained momentum today but both the Red Army and the Royal Air Force struck back at the Axis military machine. ; ; The German progress was described by London as a grave threat to Donets factories, but dispatches from Moscow told of new gains in a 200-mile central front drive and estimated that the Germans had lost 260,000 casualties in fighting around Leningrad and Odessa. The Axis armies took Poltava, the Russians admitted, and advanced eastward to threaten Kharkov and the Crimean peninusula below Perekop while the Finns reported they had captured the important railroad town of Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, northeast of Leningrad. Heavy Casualties Reported But Moscow and London reported that: : The Germans had suffered 100,000 casualties and loss of 400 tanks, 200 big guns and 846 planes on the Leningrad front and 160,000 casualties in the Odessa fighting. The Red Army was ‘attacking on a 200-mile central front in a sweep that seemed to be developing into a counter-offensive.

1800 Germans in a single attack on the Central Front, which now is reported active from Yartsevo to a point south of Gomel. An army of some 500,000 Russians has been specially trained for offensive winter operations in the far north. Berlin Orders Silence Berlin made few claims in regard to the Eastern Front, asserting that a period of silence had been ordered by the High Command during current operations. It was stated, however, that the Luftwaffe bombed Moscow and that a surprise attack in the Ukraine—where offensive operations continue—had destroyed 45 to 80 Russian tanks east of Dniepropetrovsk. The Nazis also reported that they had reached Lokhvitsa, which is 29 miles southwest of Romny, on the road to Kkharkov, key city of the Donets basin. That meant the Germans were pushing a pincers attack on Kharkov, with one thrust through’ the Romny sector in a southeasterly direction and the other through the Poltava area. Hamburg Fires Started 29. The Royal Air: Force struck with large bomber squadrons at German continental targets again today after making its 11th raid on Stettin and its 79th raid on Hamburg, where big fires were started by heavy explosives. The Germans admitted that the night attacks were by “great numbers” of planes; it. was apparently the first time Berlin had made this admission. Stettin is the chief German base on the Baltic for supplies to Russia and last night was the second in succession in which heavy raids had been made on that city. The Germans also reported that the Luftwaffe had resumed severe attacks on English targets, chiefly Newcastle and other coastal areas.

3 INJURED IN MELEE AT DETROIT SCHOOL

Police Summoned to Stop Fight Between Pupils.

DETROIT, Oct. 1 (U. P.)—Three students of Lincoln High School at Ferndale were injured today, one badly stabbed, in fighting between white and Negro youths. Ferndale police reported that one white boy was cut so seriously that hospitalization was necessary. Two others, they said, were painfully mauled. : The _ trouble started yesterday, police said, when two white and two Negro boys scuffled after school. The Negro boys returned today supported by a larger group of their

When seven Ferndale patrolmen on hand were unable to stop the fight they summoned aid from the Sherift’s office, the Royal Oak and State Police headquarters. Approximately 20 officers remained at the school several hours after the fighting broke out. «= 3

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Sally to Wed

.Sally Rand COVINGTON, Ky. Oct. 1 (U.

fan-clad in theaters and night clubs from coast to coast, revealed today that she will marry Thurkel (Turk) Greenough, 36-year-old Montana bronco buster, “sometime around the first of the year.” “But the fan dance will go on,” Miss Rand said. “And I'll be leading it. ] “We're going to live on Turk’s ranch at Red Lodge, Mont., but I'll go on with my fans and bubbles.”

INCREASE URGED IN PENSION TAX

Social Security Payroll Levy May Be Raised to 6 Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P).— Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor-

genthau Jr. was understood today in Congressional quarters to be urging immediate increase of the Social Security payroll tax from 2 to 6 per cent. Mr. Morgenthau may have made the recommendation to President Roosevelt . at yesterday's White House conference on Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt told a press conference later that he would send Congress a message on the subject soon and that some increase in the payroll tax might be necessary. The move is designed to help deter inflation and absorb some of the post-war economic shock.

More to Get Benefits

Mr. Roosevelt indicated that the social security system of old-age pensions might be doubled by the addition of some 40,000,000 persons not now covered by the act. The Social Security Board later estimated .that only 30,000,000 probably would be affected—2,500,000 domestic servants, 4,500,000 farm laborers, 4,500,000 or 5,000,000 “selfemployed,” 1,000,000 or 3,000,000 part -time or “casual” workers, 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 public employees, 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 charitable workers or WPA employees, and 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 farm operators. Under present law workers and employers now covered by the act pay a 1 per cent payroll tax on ihe worker's salary up to $3000 a

year. Under the original Social Security Law, which contemplated the building ‘up of a vast reserve, the payroll tax was to be increased gradually until it reached a total of 6 per cent, 3 per cent each on the worker and the employer. : Under a revision of the however, the full reserve principle was abandoned and the tax kept temporarily at 1 per cent on each. While Social Security taxes are earmarked for a special fund, they are borrowed by the Government.

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BALKANS GROW MORE UNEASY: GESTAPO GRIN

Nazis Threaten to Bomb Belgrade if Guerrillas Keep Up Fight.

‘By UNITED PRESS Spreading unrest in Axis-occupied

new Gestapo roundups in the Balkans and of a threat to bomb the

city of Belgrade. Travelers from Rumania reported

- | that pro-Nazi dictator Gen. Ion An-

tonescu had surrendered part of his power because of opposition to continuing the war against Russia and that German secret police were busy directing repressive measures against sabotage, strikes and disgruntled elements. The British Exchange Telegraph news agency reported that guerrilla resistance had become so great in western Serbia that the Nazis had threatened to renew bombardment of Belgrade and dispatches from Vichy told of new police raids in Paris, where seven alleged terrorists and a cache of arms and explosives were seized.

Varna Feels Gestapo

Police round-ups also were reported in Bulgaria. A broadcast of Vichy Radio heard in London reported as from Sofia that police had made a close search of Varna, Bulgaria's chief port, and had. arrested 844 persons. The importance of the raid was emphasized by the fact that Varna, Bulgaria's third city, is.a pain base for ships which Germany is mobilizing, apparently for land, sea and air operations against the Crimea and the Caucasus in Russia. Gen. Antonescu Steps Down It was from Istanbul that the reports came that Gen. Antonescu had relinquished the Rumanian Prime Ministry and command of all Rumanian troops outside his country’s borders and had named himself Defense Minister. Turks heard that Gen. Ion Antonescu had relinquished the Rumanian Prime Ministry and command of all Rumanian troops outside Rumanian territory and had named himself Defense Minister. His attitude is apparently similar ‘ (Continued on Page Four)

FLOOD DAMAGE IN 3 STATES MOUNTS

Huge Farm Area Inundated; Fatalities Avoided.

By UNITED PRESS The second flood within a week in three southwest states today left damage running into the millions of dollars. In New Mexico alone highway damage in floods this year was brought to $8,000,000. Thousands of acres of Gila Valley farmland in New Mexico and. Arizona remained flooded with crop loss estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. At least 1000 head of livestock was lost and 70 per cent of the potato, lettuce and cotton crops were ruined. Cotton and feed crops in Texas were inundated. No fatalities were recorded. Two persons believed lost were found. Red Cross workers moved into Duncan, Ariz, where 300 homeless persons were housed at the high school. The Hondo River inundated 200 city blocks in Roswell, N. M. Mrs. Chase McReynolds, 40, of Silver City, N. M., spent 12 hours in a tree with three rattlesnakes before heing rescued. She knocked two of them into the flooded Gila River but they returned to the tree. :

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. By SAM TYNDALL

The Secretary of the Navy today personally brought word to Indianapolis that the Battleship Indiana, now a-building at Newpo

News, Va., “is a mighty fine ship.”

next month, one of the capital ships of the new two-ocean Navy. Declaring that “the battle of the Atlantic is rather quiescent now,” Secretary Knox said ‘hat he knew of .no further incidents such as. a submarine following one of our battleships reported some time ago by President Roosevelt. Queried on Pacific

He reported that the two-ocean navy building program is “considerably ahead of schedule” and that the battleship Massachusetts “will be eight months ahead of schedule when she slides down the ways.” The Navy’s air program, which is intended to put 15,000 planes in the air, is ahead in some phases and behing in some, he said. He said some delays were caused by strikes and some by a shortage of propellers. Asked if the U. S. Navy was convoying in the Pacific, Secretary Knox replied: “The Navy is providing protection of whatever kind, wherever needed.” He arrived here an hour and ten minutes late and when he stepped from his train at the Union Station (Continued on Page Four) EE ——— I ———

Hedy Is Inventor Of War Device

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1—Hedy Lamar has invented a remote control device for use in warfare that is considered “of potential value” by the Government, it was disclosed today. Col. L. B. Lent, chief engineer of the National Inventors Council, said that of some 30,000 inventions submitted to the Department of Commerce, about 100 had been turned over to the Army and Navy. i Of these, about a dozen are “red hot,” he said, and the screen actress’ invention is one of them. It is of a highly secret nature.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —Funeral preparations today for the world’s first woman typist— forerunner of a million Kitty Foyles working at modern typewriters—recalled the struggle for acceptance of a new-fangled contraption 68 years ago. : Mrs. Lillian Sholes Fortier, th last immediate descendant of the inventor of the typewriter and generally recognized as the first woman ever to write on one, died on her 84th birthday. She will be buried tomerrow. : ‘ At 16, soon after the Civil War ended, Lillian tapped out a message on a huge, basket-like machine that was to spell emancipation from domestic drudgery for millions of women all over the world. : Her first experience with the

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Death of First Woman Typist Recalls Early Fight to Sell Noisy Contraptions

minute—came in the tool-cluttered room where her inventor father, Christopher Latham Sholes, was trying to perfect the mechanical Yaiting device he had conceived in 1867. She pecked out correspondence for her father, in capital letters only and on paper that was hidden from view by a bulky carriage, even before Mr. Sholes, with two other inventors, patented the first practical models in 1868. She became a competent typist, but never practiced professionally. . Before her death, she often recalled early objections to the first typewriters by business executives who didn’t want the noisy clack-ety-clack of the new device in their offices. She told how business men sent testy replies to typewritten mail, asserting they were per-

Carl Dietz of Milwaukee, who has the most complete known collection of early typewriters, still exhibits angry letters from some of the objecting business men. Mr. Dietz believes that the marketing of .the first shift-key model, providing small as well as capital letters, was the turning point in the battle to put across the typewriter.

+ Friends of the Sholes family said Mr. Sholes received only a modest financial return on his invention be‘tause he sold his interest in the patent before it became highly profitable. : Mrs. Fortier was last honored as the first woman typist in 1939 by the National Federation of Business & Professional Women’s Clubs at a New York dinner commemorating the anniversary of her father’s invention. :

Col. Frank Knox, here to address the convention of the American Bar Association, said in a press conference that he personally had inspected’ the 35;000-ton vessel yesterday. The battleship is to be launched

‘a reception by the association

. When Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (left) arrived in Indiapapolis today he was met by Brig. Gen. Nathan McChesney (center), Chicago attorney and personal advisor to the Secretary, and Comm. R. H. Mathews, Indiana naval recruiting chief.

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100-YEAR PACT WITH BRITAIN TO POLICE SEAS ASKED IN TALK T

Calls for More Aid To Help Defeat

Aggressors. By WILLIAM CRABB ‘ The United States and Great . Britain should join forces for 100 years, at least, to produce “by force if need be” an effec« tive system of international law, Secretary of the Navy,

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ican Bar Association’s 64th

annual meeting here today. The United States, Mr. Knox de« clared, must give up the “fatuousg

invaded. Intimates of Secretary Knox said

terpretation of the Roosevelt Churchill conferences on the eas.” approved by the President and gave the impression that it had been dis< cussed in a Cabinet meeting. “The Seven Seas must be cone trolled for many years to come by"

CONNALLY CITES NAZI CHALLENGE

Tells Lawyers Spy Trials, Latin Troubles Reflect ‘Hitler’s Designs.

By JOE COLLIER Citing the Nazi spy trials in this country and Nazi infiltration into South American republics as evidence that Hitler has marked the

Western Hemisphere for conquest, Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.) today called for all the Americas to fight any aggression from Europe or Asia. Senator Connally, addressing the American Bar Association at the Murat Temple on ‘Hemispheric Solidarity,” said that “it is the lawyer’s responsibility to arouse the citizenry of the nations of this hemisphere to the menace of totalitarianism, whether arising from within or without.” “The people have spoken through their constitutional -representatives. Let the Republics of the Americas defend the corollary to the Monroe Doctrine which has been extended by President Roosevelt, to wit: That no foreign dictator shall weaken the security of this hemisphere. “We shall defend this hemisphere (Continued on Page Four)

PUBLIC. INVITED TO SIR NORMAN'S TALK

England’s Great ‘Lawyer to Speak at Murat.

Sir Norman Birkett, England's greatest trial lawyer, will speak at a meeting of the American Bar Association, open to the public, at 8:30 p. m. today in the Murat Theater. His subject will be “The Ties That Bind.” Here especially for the annual association convention, Sir Norman is expected to summarize the war situation. After the address, there will be

president at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Tomorrow morning, there will be a presentation of awards of merit to a State bar association and a local bar association; a presentation of a prize award to William Bunce Cowles, Washington, D. C.; an open forum on the report of the Resolutions Committee and other association business. Tomorrow night, Sir Norman: and

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Cites 3 Factors

Secretary Knox said our safety and prosperity in the world of the future depends on three factors: 1. Stern insistence upon the prine ciple of the freedom of the seas. 2. The assurance of equal oppors tunity for world trade.

3. The proviso that sea power shall not be made the instrument of selfish aggression. “To put it bluntly,” he said, “we must join our force, our power to that of Great Britain, another great * peace-loving nation, to stop new aggression, which might lead to & world disturbance, at its beginning. “We will come to this, I am cone vinced, by the sheer logic of events . .. by a gradual recognition of its inevitability. . «

Keeping War Away

“We shall have to provide an interregnum in which we shall not only devote ourselves to the pure suit of peaceful aims, but provide the essential might to enforce such a peace on those who are not voluntarily to pursue such a Other highlights of Secretary Knox’ speech: 3 There will not be for many years a time when we may not have to fight—*“let @s determine that we will fight elsewhere than on our own soil; far better a distant war than one at home.” The British and American navies are sweeping the “German pirates” from the North Atlantic—“eventuals ly we shall lock Nazi Germany up in an iron ring, and within that ring of sea power she shall perish.”

Foresees Nazi Defeat The defeat of the totalitarian

I have no doubt.” We are now contributing only & part of our share to defeat the Axis

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the two great nations which pos= sess that power, the U. S. and Great Britain. You may say it is a dans gerous power when controlled by so few, and there is truth in that re= flection. 3 “But, feeble and inadequate as may be the impulses in American and British hearts for the common good, and the advancement of cive jlization, and likely as it may be tha this power will sometimes be rg it is far safer thus, than if power should be permitted to 5 into the nands of aggressive na who seek their own selfish : dizement. 3 “This is not a perfect world and to argue for perfection is foolish but we must strive, when the life of the world itself is at stake, for the peace that is available. = this, for the immediate future, questionably means that domin sea power will be more justly equitably employed through joint efforts of the United St

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