Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1940 — Page 11

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The State House—.

HIGHWAY OFFICE CAUTIOUS NOW ABOUT POLITICS

I's the Hatch Act—and Aids Bend Backward To Observe It.

By EARL RICHERT The Highway Commission offices in the State House annex have much in common with the City of

" Paris.

The former, once a hub of political activity, has assumed a church-like quiet under the Hatch Act much as the latter, once a center of gayety, has attired itself in drab gray under the Germans. ~ Highway Commission officials are “falling over backwards” to avoid violation. of the Hatch law, which prevents nearly half of the employees and all of the executives from participating in politics. Immediately after the act was passed, Chairman T. A. Dicus sent out a question-and-answer list prepared by Attorney General Samuel D. Jackson showing what employees were affected and what they could and could not do under the act.

Questions and Answers

' This question-and-answer list has become “the gospel” for department workers who continually check their copies to see if they are “doing right.” .Highway Commission officials say

they are well satisfied with the {

manner in which employees have followed Hatch Act rules. The few who have infringed upon them have been reprimanded quickly. There was, for example, one stenographer who brought a large box of Roosevelt buttons to her desk and started giving them out to fellow workers. Her boss called her in within five minutes after she had started giving out the buttons and told her to get rid of the buttons or give up her job. She chose the former, it Charts Drawn Up

" Maintenance department officials have drawn up charts showing the employees who come under the Hatch Act and those who do not. These charts have been sent to all district engineers. “We intend that the department shall be kept so exemplary that no charges of Hatch Act violations can be thrown at us. And we think it is significant that with the

campaign so far along, there has |}

been none,” said one official.

Road Program Slowed

Last May, WPA authorities in Washington approved a $10,500,000 road building program for Indiana for the coming fiscal year. Today, four months later, the program is behind -schedule with only 46 projects underway. The cause: Shortage of men. Highway Commission officials say they could have 68 projects underway right now, if they had the men. They say that 4000 men could be employed on the 46 projects where gPorommalely| 2500 are now workng. | John K. Jennings, state WPA administrator,| says that the 44,000 men allowed under the state quota are all at work, most of them on county WPA projects. He says it is “healthy” to have more projects than there are men. He recalls that last winter the situation was reversed in Marion County. At the present rate, it appears that the program will go well over into next year. The program calls for all types of road repair work.

PASSPORTS OF SINGLE MEN HELD UP BY U.S,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).— The State Department is holding up passport applications of draftage men who are unable to give

* yalid reasons for leaving the country.

Conscription officials said they understood that many appliactions for passports had been presented to the State Department by single, independent young men and that the Department was delaying action on questionable ones until after Registration Day, Oct. 16. These officials said that they had asked the State Department not to hold up the passports of men being sent abroad by their employers on bona fide business missions. If questionable passport requests are held up until after Oct. 16, registrants then will have to apply to their local boards before applying for a passport. The passports would not be granted without specific authorization from the local draft boards. :

CLAIMS GOOD WILL HELPS AMERICAS

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (U. P).— Henry C. Wolfe, author of “The German Octopus” and “The Imperial Soviets,” said yesterday on his return from South America that only the “constant evidence of good

will” on the part of the United

States prevented Germany from dominating Latin - American countries. «The whole Nazi approach in South America is economic,” he said. “The South Americans are worried. They are on the fence today because they don’t know what to do with their surplus export products. That is where the Germans come up and whisper in their ears, ‘don’t worry, we'll take it all just as soon as the war is over.”

RAIL WORKERS’ JOB BENEFITS ARE HIKED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).— The House today amended and returned to the Senate a bill authorizing a 33 per cent’ increase. in maximum unemployment compensation payments to railroad workers. Sponsors of the legislation said the current tax on railroads is ample to carry the cost of increased bene-

ts. ; A The maximum daily unemployment payment would be raised from $3 to $4 per day. Workers could receive unemployment compensa-

tion for 100 instead of 80 days out

of a year. The payments would be started within seven days after the loss of the job, instead of the cur-

rent 15-day waiting period,

" TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 1040

They'll Try It Again, Wising Up the Home Guard, No Doubt

LONDON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).—The trouble was that «nobody told the home guard trooper about the mock attack on a certain key airdrome. That's why Pall Mall clubs are laughing today and one unfortunate officer of a swank guards’ regiment is nursing a sore thumb. A battalion of blue - blooded guards was told to defend the airdrome against a mock night attack by another guards battalion. All went well until the attackers, slogging through a marsh in utter darkness, came to a small bridge at which a home guard, armed with rifle and bayonet, was stationed. In mock battle style a titled guards officer ~ crept forward, stuck his

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thumb in the home guard’s back and said: “You are now dead.” Bit the home guard didn’t know it was just a game. It looked like the real thing to him. Instead of falling to the ground, he shouted: “To arms! To arms! They're upon us.” The officer clapped his hand over the home guard’s mouth to muffle his bellowing. The home guard, fighting for all he was worth, bit the officer's finger to the bone. When the officer got through swearing, the mock attack was called off for the night. They are going to try the maneuvers again soon. This time the home guard will be notified.

4 TAKE UP WORK ON WABASH FACULTY

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Oct. 1 —Four new members of the Wabash College teaching staff have assumed duties here for the academic year. Dr. J. F. Charles, formerly of Alfred University, Jamestown, N. Y.,

is associate professor of classics; Dr. H. H. Vogle, who has completed

graduate work at Harvard University, is associate professor of zoology. Prof. Edward Gullion, who taught recently in an endowed school in Honolulu, has joined the Depart-

ment of Speech; Prof. Walter L. Fertig, is faculty adviser to musical organizations.

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Evelyn Knows Now Where Her Daddy Is— She Can Write Him in Nazi Prison Camp

By TIM TIPPETT

Little Evelyn Allard of -Christopher, Ill, hasn’t seen her daddy for four years, but now she knows where he is and at least can write him. : 3 The address will be F4044, Stalag 11B, Germany. F4044 is Robespierre Allard, her

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tion camp many.” Until yesterday, when Evelyn's uncle, Jerry Allard, 4023 N. New Jersey St. received a letter from his brother, Robespierre, the family thought that he had escaped into England. Writing to his “Dear Brothers and Family” he said in part:

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Te race 3 BROADER DISABILITY ACT GOES TO SENATE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (U. P.).— The House yesterday passed and sent to the Senate a bill to guarantee more adequate benefits for disabled overseas veterans, Under current law “all veterans drawing disability allowances are required to prove that their disabilities are connected with their service. The bill passed yesterday would establish the presumption that. overseas veterans’ ‘disabilities were serv-ice-connected, and place upon the Veterans | Administration the burden of proving otherwise. No estimate was made of the probable increase of payments in conformance with the new policy.

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