Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1941 — Page 5

SEPARATE AIR CORPS PUSHED

Randolph. Calls Strategy - Meeting; Sentiment in ; House Gains.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY . Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 12.—The effort to obtain a hearing on bills

for the creation of an independent department of military aviation moved forward today as Rep. Jennings Randolph (D. W. Va.) announced plans for a strategy meet ing within 10 days of House supporters of such legislation. . Rep. Randolph sponsored an in- ' dependent-air-force bill in the last Congress and reintroduced it this year. He has been joined by other members, including Reps. Frank C. Csmers Jr. (R. N. J.) and Alfred F. Beiter (D., N. Y.). All these bills have been referred to the committee on expenditures dn the executive departments. The committee’s last report was that it had referred the bills to the War and Navy Departments for comment. . House cloakroom conversation shows a steady gain in sentiment for an independent air force, according to proponents.

Many In Favor

Returning from Louisville, where he addressed the National Aeronautic Association, Rep. Randolph reported finding widespread favor for an independent air force. He dsted many national aviation figures in support of the proposal,. including Col. Roscoe Turner, Maj. James Doolittle and Maj. Al Williams. Sen. Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.), sponsor of independent-air-force legislation in the Senate, said today that Germany's air invasion of Crete was an example of the effecttveness of a unified air command. But the Sendgtor saw little hope for his bill, tied up in the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, because of opposition by the War and Navy Departments, Both departments have written that they see no advantage in such legislation at this e.

Charges Each of Training

Failure of the Army and Navy to place proper emphasis on aviation under the present system was charged today by Rep. Melvin Maas (R. Minn.), ranking minority member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. He pointed out that aviation training has no part in the courses at West Point and Annapolis. “The answer of the Army and Navy to this,” Rep. Maas said, “is that the aviation training may come later at Randolph Field and Pensacola. But that is only after they have been schooled in the traditions of the older services.” He said he believed that aviation should be given an entirely new status in the defense organization, but he proposed special air corps establishments in both Army and Navy rather than an independent air department at this time.

ITALIANS NEAR ATHENS ROME, June 12 (U. P.).—Radio Rome said today that Italian troops already were marching towards . Athens to complete their occupation of Greece, as promised in a speech by Benito. Mussolini. Mussolini said that Germany had agreed that most of Greece, including Athens, should be occupied by the Italian army.

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HEALTH STATUS BARS 400,000

Percentage Rejected Draft About Same as In 1917.

By Science Service CLEVELAND, June 12.—On the eve of the drawing of the next 750,000 selectees for America’s defense army, complete data on the health status of the first 1,000,000 men called for army training were announced by the Selective Service System for the first time at the meeting here of the American Medical Association. Of the 1,000,000 whose numbers were drawn last fall, local boards and Army boards rejected a total of 400,000 for medical and health defects. This is about the same percentage as were rejected in the World War draft. Rejection and causes were as follows: 75,000 for defective teeth; 45,000 for defective eyes; 37,000 for diseases of heart and blood vessels; 31,000 for mus-culo-sketal defects ranging from paralysis and crippling to loss of the index and next finger on the right hand; 28,000 for mental and nervous disease; 22,000 for defective hearing; 18,000 for hernia; 16,000 for diseases of the lungs including tuberculosis; 15,000 for veneral diseases, 13,000 for defects of the feet. . Of the 400,000 rejected, 200,000 were totally disqualified for health reasons for army service. Another 100,000 with non-remediable defects such as poor eyesight or hearing could be assigned if necessary to limited service. The remaining 100,000 had defects or diseases which could be remedied. Selective Service System authorities are considering

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TAXES PAY ALL DEFENSE WAGES

Pay Raises Met by Every Taxpayer; Contracts Protect Employer.

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 12—When

‘| workers in aviation plants and other

defense industries ask for and get wage increases, it is the Federal taxpayer who foots the biil. Practically every defense contract now in effect carries a provision of some sort protecting the manufacturer against increased labor costs. In aircraft manufacturing nearly

all defense contracts carry an escalator clause of one sort or another. Under these it is possible for an individual manufacturer to lose if wage increases in his plant have been exceptionally large. It also is possible for him to increase

plant have been less than average. But the Federal taxpayer bears the burden when it is all averaged up. Contracts held by the North American Aviation Co. plant at Inglewood, Cal.—totaling approximately $80,000,000—all carry escalator clauses.

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These provide for a lump sum to be paid by the Government. They also provide that the Government shall make an additional payment increasing the contract’s labor cost

by a percentage equal to- the average increase of labor costs in the aircraft manufacturing industry during the life or the contract. For instance: If wages have risen 20 per cent in the aircraft industry while North American is filling a contract, North American gets its original estimate of labor costs plus 20 per cent. If, during that time, North American’s own labor -costs have actually increased 25 per cent, it loses on the transaction. If its labor costs have increased only 15 per cent, it gains. A similar provision covers in-

|creased costs of materials.

In All Air Contracts This is the War Department version of the escalator clause and it is in all of the department's aircraft contracts and some others where construction covers a considerable period of time. Contracts for trucks and some other materials which can ke produced rapidly, and with little danger of a drastic shift in costs, are still on a competitive basis. A few War Department contracts are on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Where the Government has constructed the plant and owns it—as it does most of the explosive-manu-facturing plants—a private company operates it for cost plus fixed fee. In such cases, a wage increase comes entirely out of the taxpayer's pocket. The Navy Department has let approximately 15 per cent of its aircraft manufacturing contracts on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Of the remainder practically all the major ones have an escalator clause which operates somewhat differently from the Army’s. Average Increase Basis The Navy makes its additional payments to contractors on the basis of the average increase in the prevailing wage of all durable-goods industries as shown by Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Additional payments on materials are based on the bureau’s index of increases in the costs of metals and metal products. Oontracts for the Navy's Bureau of Ships have been let on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis, and so have most of the large contracts let by the Bureau of Yards and Docks for shore stations. In the cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, the manufacturer's fee is the same no matter what the work costs. Any increase in costs, due to wage or price rises, is paid by the taxpayer.

RIPPLE HIGH LISTS 104 HONOR PUPILS

High School for the second semester now ended, was announced today by school authorities. : More than 104 pupils were included, all of whom averaged 87% per cent or better in their studies.

The honor list: ; R Applegate, Margaret Augustine, Doris Jean Ayers, Kenneth Barker, Betty Marylee hy Blakeslee, Nancy Boerner, Joan Bookwalter, Oatherine Bray, Neil Burnside, Ruth Burrows, Edward Burt, Jack Caylor, Walter Clark, Wilburta Coffey, Mary. J. Coleman, Virginia Conrad, Juanita Cork. ‘ Ma ueline Crist, Martha man, Mirriam Dutobert Dunn, RonDuvall, Vernon

, Ja unter, Wally : . Cyrus Jordan, Blanche Kelly, Joan Alma Leaman, John Lee, Doris] iis Lovell, ry Louise McClain, cia McClamrock, Rhea McGoldrick, Betty McKinley. Maryann Mc. ughitn, Betty tricia McMillan, Richard alott, rian Markle, Joan Mawson, Ma. axwell, Marilynn Meckling Ralph Meckling, Maty ller, Willian Mi -

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Louise Miles, Mariiyn : usgrave, Richard Nelson, Robert Newby, James Overbey, Betty Parkjurss, Donald Perry, Evelyn Pickard, BarEl

Quackenbush. izabeth Ramsey, Glenna Reid, Betty Rickert, Ben Roberts, John Roberts, Adri Robinson, Helen Ross, Merrald Schrareiber, Howard A. Smith

John Snyder, Sterling, Marian Sumner, Richard Tem-

pleton. Helen rie. Emmett Waits, - Nad Wann, Betty Waters, Kathr Westp! iy Whicker, Betty Joyce Bile, Ta

Joseph Wood, Jane Yount and James STOLEN—DETECTIVE’S HAT LONDON (U. P.) —In peacetime a London hotel had only one trouble. ‘The guests would steal the crockery, so a detective was employed. Stealing declined in war time. During the last three months only one article has been stolen at jue hotel. That was the detective’s at.

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Intense heat during May caused state highways to “blow up” in 25 places, -engineers reported to the State Highway Commission today. Most of the breaks occurred in pavement that had been laid many years ago. Engineers said present construction methods, using expansion joints and steel mesh reinforcements, practically eliminates pavement breaks due to temperature. The Commission yesterday awarded four contracts for the construction of eight new highway bridges. Contract prices of all the bridges totaled $187,372. Two bridges in Marshall and Fulton Counties will be constructed by

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Intense May Heat Causes 25 State Road ‘Explosions’

A. M. Goodwin of Danville on a bid of $21,275.- Contracts for two other spans in Decatur were awarded to DuVall & Patton, Indianapolis, on a bid of $28,779, and R. P. Olinger, Huntingburg, was awarded a contract for three large bridges in Washington, Scott and Johnson Counties on a bid of $126,741. The Mulzer Construction Co., Martinsville, was awarded the contract for

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SELECT JURY FOR TEXAS DEATH TRIAL

SPEARMAN, Tex. June 12 (U. P.) —Selection of a. jury was expected today in the trizl of Orrin J. Brown, Chicago, alias Kobert E. Lawrence, on a charge of murdering Mrs. Leota Murphy, Marion, Ind, poetess. i Seven farmers, a grocer and a rancher were selected late yesterday after 30 veniremen nad been disqualified for cause, nite challenged and two excused by the state’s attorney. i Held in Spearman’s two-gell county jail, Brown faced a [echnical

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 12 (U. P.).—Jeanne Virginia Kitenplon of Aurora, Ill, won a doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her professor said her thesis was on “Studies of Compounds Related to Those Which Gave Off Cold Light.” The thesis was entitled, “Synthesis of Aminobenzoyleneureas and of Dihydroxquinoxalines Isomeric with ‘Luminol;”

SRR EE MAP U. S.-TURKEY ROUTE ISTANBUL, June 12 (U. P)~— Newspapers reported today that a direct sea route between Turkey and the United States would be opened soon with trafic in Turkish bottoms operating from Istanbul by

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