Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1941 — Page 13

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WHAT WILL A NICE 200 pound hog sell for the day before Christmas? Someone out at the Stockyards asked OC. L. (Doc) Farrington of the Sedwick ~Commission Co. that question a couple of weeks ago. «He gave his opinion. Someone else in the office disi ' agreed, and soon argument was r . A pool was gotten up, with + guesses costing $1 each. Buyers, sellers, packers, farmers, stockyards operators joined and it grew until 56 were in it. Two 8t. Louis buyers heard about the pool, sent in their guesses, Three Chicago buyers heard about it, too, but sent their entries in too late. ‘Guesses ranged from $8.15 per 100 pounds to $14.80. The ‘average was $10.78. Side bets are being ? made now that the $10.78 average : will not be more than 50 cents away from the

for the Rock at a mere 105, y behind a poky old flivver that slowed almost to (a stop for every corner, : She couldn't get around it beca in the opposite direction.’ Naturally, and so was the motorist following her. ing his horn every time Miss Gran was forced to slow up. Finally, she stopped her car, forcing him to stop, too, and walked back to ask him tol quit tooting at her, He made a wisecrack, and she returned to her car. Then he began bumping her car with his bumper. That went on for a while, and Miss Granger's wrath yeally was aroused. -

of heavy traffic the was annoyed, He began blow-

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

Stopping .again, she walked back to the other car. The smart aleck young driver stuck his head out of the window but before he could say “Jack Robinson,” the 105-pound Miss Granger belted him one in the face, knocking his hat off. She returned to her car without saying a word, and drove on. The very much abashed y smartie turned off Central at the next intersection. We would have, too. ge

Around the Town

FIRST OF THE HOCKEY club to arrive from Canada for the season was winger Billy Thompson, one of the two bespectacled players in the American League. Billy got here yesterday a few hours ahead of his boss, Herbie "Lewis. Before he got out of Canada, his car struck and injured a young deer, he reported. .

know how. . . . Paul Sparks, the City Schools’ psychologist, is getting fidgety, waiting for Nov. 19. That’s the date he and Miss Jean Case, of the Butler U. secretarial staff, are scheduled to wed. . . . The physical

education instructor of one of our North Side schools

had a class scheduled during one of the World Series games. Undaunted, the instructor, who alsp is a baseball fan, took a radio to his classroom and told the class they would listen to the game as an example of the effect of physical exercise on health, Bright guy, that teacher. . . . Miss Maude McVicker, chief clerk at the School Board offices, is back on the job after a several days’ siege with the flu or a bad cold. She isn't sure which.

This Priorities Business

“I don’t know where our Government's heading,” remarked a local manufacturer to the representative of a pharmaceutical concern during a discussion of priorities. “Why, I understand they've bought up enough toilet paper to give each soldier 100 rolls.” Replied hjs companion: “It'll all come out even. I yndersiand they’ve bought up a five years’ supply of salts.”

Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness of his wife.

Washington Ee WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Every informed official

What we are doing mnd the program we have laid down are now considered inadequate. In the immediate period now beginning, the principal effort will be to find ways of expanding this program and the necessary readjustments to make this enlarged production possible.

Sacrifices will be asked beyond those which already have been in-

dicated. ‘Therefore, it becomes more to the point than ever to give the American people ‘some Justification for it. If all of this effort is only to beat Hitler and stop there, and turn gur backs and allow another : major war to breed as the last pne did, then the isolationists would have a good case. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson pointed out the other day the ironical fact that we who would not commit ourselves to support world peace were now

: making contributions a thousand-fold greater to sup- « port a war. He said that we who would not agree to

even economic sanctions to discourage infractions of the peace are now: imposing these sanctions against half of the world in an effort to turn the fortunes of

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If all of this is merely to end one war so that preptions ‘can’ begin for anotfier one, then we have a opeless situation and it would be difficult to prevent the onset of a devastating mood of national despair.

A Practical Map From Knox

| IT HAS REMAINED for Secretary of Navy Knox

to hand us a practical road map. His speech before the American Bar Association last week in Indianapolis put constructive meaning in our war effort because we showed how we have at hand the practical means of making a start toward a saner world order. It is no fancy blueprint but a rough working schedule. His point simply is that the American and British Navies, together with the air power of the two countries, ' be strong enough, when the war is won, to

The Axis ‘Purge’

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.—Axis propag ing that the executed and imprisoned opponents of Hitler's new order are ’'“Communists,” but no one acquainted. with the background of {the condemned Czech premier, Gen. Elias, or with the acter of the retired generals, mayors, profesother Czech

da keeps imply-

boration with pre-Munich

period of his premiership and in January 1940 - denounced the : Czechoslovak National Committee in a radio broadcast. Why ‘has | y condemned to death his once trusted collaborator and executed at least 144 prominent Czechs since a week ago Sunday? Why has the second most im nt Gestapo official, Richard Reinhard Heydrich, resumed charge of the Bohemia-Moravia protectorate and instituted puch a severe blood purge? : We know comparatively little of what is taking place in central Europe, where no American newspaper correspondents are allowed to travel. Apparently, Gen. Elias and the other condemned or executed Czechs were serving what they deemed to be Czech : 48 opposed to Nazi interests. :

Probably Lured Into Open

IT 18 PROBABLE that Gestapo agents have been fomenting revolt in the protectorate with a view to luring into the open those audacious Czechs whose love of liberty would cause trouble for Germany if tindetected and unsuppressed,

WASHINGTON, Monday.—T did not spend s, very time yesterday in _— Zhe try. We

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By Raymond Clapper

enforce peace, and to keep the world arteries open. He would continue to do this by superior force until there was .time for organization of a world system of international law and even that would be backed up by force. : Secretary Knox faces frankly the fact that this means for a period combined rule of the world by Anglo-American co-operation. But somebody will have to take charge and that had better be our side. He recognizes that so much power in the hands of any one group might be subject to abuse at times. But better that risk than to go back to anarchy. If gradually other nations could be brought into co-operation with this system, then the outlines of a new world society would begin to take shape. This is no more than we have done in Latin America. We have dominating force over the Western Hemisphere but with occasional exceptions this force has not been abused.

The Alternative Is Appalling

FROM ANY POINT of view the small nation is in a difficult position in modern times. War can be made successfully now only by the large industrial nation, or by those who have the support of the large industrial nations. With Germany disarmed, the problem becomes manageable, and particularly because of the combination of sea and-air power that can be mustered by the United States and Great Britain. You can raise a number of objections to this but none that are nearly as appslling as the alternative which is to allow the situation to run riot again after this war so that in time we are caught again in the enormous preparations such as those we now find necessary. The United States is in a position to provide the dominant power and the dominant leadership. With this power and this leadership, economic measures

. probably will be sufficient in most cases to prevent

new aggression, It would be only a continuation of the methods we are-now using to beat Hitler. Anyway we have the choice of exercising that power os that we have a world arranged better to our liking, or of again refusing to do it and having another period of chaos and eventual aggression with its backfire biting us as it has twice before within this generaion,

By Carroll Binder

Do_ these hardships and these evidences of discontent and opposition in Norway, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands foreshadow an early breakdown and defeat of ‘the German war machine. © Personally, I cannot attach that much significance to the developments to date. It will be wiser for the United States, Great Britain, Russia and other opponents of Naziism ta, proceed on the assumption that, for some time to come, the ruthless Gestapo and industrial experts of the Nazi regime will find means of suppressing serious outward resistance and compeling the terrorized and hungry workers of the conquered territories to produce what the Nazi war machine most urgently requires.

More Worried About Russia ‘

THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND probably is much more worried by the news emanating from Moscow than by any news it received from occupied territory. For the agreements reached between the American, British and Russian governments in the Kremlin last week must have dispelled the last Nazi hope of an early Russian collapse and separate peace. As the main German effort at present is directed against Russia, Britain and the United States have agreed to strip themselves of everything they can Spare to enable Russia to continue to wage effective resistance. The Russians seem to have overcome much of their customary suspicion and secretiveness and to have adopted a highly co-operative mood throughout the parleys. Unfortunately, neither the British nor ourselves have as much war material to spare as the hardpressed Russians require and delivery of what we have is difficult. ; But there is goodwill on all three sides and Germany has reason to deplore the decisions taken,

(Copyright, 1941, by The In 1; Pyrigi PL Daily Polis Times and the

_ By Eleanor Roosevelt

older people might find it rather difficult, but for young people it would be perfectly easy to take this as part of their athletic program. I held my first staff meeting this morning at the Office ‘of Civilian Defense and I think it cleared up certain difficulties of procedure which are not yet organized within the office itself. : I came back at 11 to the White House for my usual personal press conference. I had asked Dr. Harriet Elliott, the commissioner of the Division of Consumer Protection, to attend, so as really to stimulate a Siss cos of living. : : There is no question in my mind that must have some method which is legal to control rise in prices. ' It cannot be done by voluntary participation alone, nor by the action of community groups, because it is too difficult for people in the communities to get information on which they can act. I am happy to know that represents sumer interests will be appointed on defense ppointed. More than this is ‘needed, however, particularly when you realize that the snowball of rising prices has rolled up very rapidly in the four months, and in some cases this increase i

. it was during the last World War. We must pofit by

‘our former experience and realize that prices

which go

up must eventually come down, and the

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... Judge Dewey Myers, sporting a cane and a limp, is back on the Criminal Court bench. Youll remember he cracked a bone in his foot and doesn’t

According fo the caption accompanying this German-censored picture, the barefooted woman, posing so placidly, is a captured Russian flier. She's shown with male captives (background) in a German prison camp.

Maybe he hadn’t reckoned on the hostile glare of the woman. i

; Captured troops’ of the Red Army assist wounded comrades at a prisoners-of-war camp, They were taken near Uman, where the Germans reported taking 80,000,

; A German photographer attached to an Army unit thought this shot of two Ukrainian peasants crouching low in a dugout would be a good one to send back,

Their faces reflecting strain, these Russians are leaving their home town, now occupied by German troops.

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DEBATE CERTAIN ON MANPOWER

Parliament Session Waits Report of Beveridge Committee.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Co na he lg ope mes LONDON, Oct. T7—The first major debate in Parliament will take place shortly when the Beveridge committee’s report on man-

power is ready. The Government has not yet decided whether the debate shall be public or secret. Manpower, the principal question which has been occupying the attention of Government experts and press during recent months, has reacted a point where the Parliament wishes a complete clarification of Government policy. If the debate is limited to discussion of the use of skilled manpower, it will probably be possible to hold it in public. If, however, it tackles the question in its entirety —which means the relation between the size of the Army and industrial manpower — then it will have to be held in secret for it will mean that the Government will be revealing the tasks that it plans for the Army.

R. A. F. Shows Up Well

The committee, under, Sir William Beveridge, has been studying the use of skilled manpower in the armed services. Preliminary reports have dealt with the Royal Air Force and findings, as yet inconclusive, tend to show that the R. A. F. has made the best use of skill of any of the three services. This’ has been done by a large dilution of skilled manpower and the use of semi-skilled. Beveridge apparently, however, questions whether the R. A. F. maintenance under this system is sufficient to safeguard the lives of the airmen.

Army Measures Down

- The first impressions of the investigations into the use of skilled men in the Navy and Army indicate that the Navy is the more efficient. The Army. shows up badly, apparently because to the war office organization which does not: make full use of information obtain by recruiting interviewers. Skilled engineers, for example, have been found in infantry ranks. If the Beveridge reports presents evidence that the Army has misused or has -not properely made use of skilled men, the and of the trade u nions will beb strengthened. They are arguing that a further callup of skilled men will seriously impair Britain's productive capacity. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor, on the other hand, continues to maintain that men needed by the Army must be released from industry. The arguments between Bevin and the Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, Sir Walter Citrine, dally more acrimonious and the

grow London Times today - scolds them

both. : MOTHER HURT FATALL

VINCENNES, Ind. Oct. 7 (U.P). ~-Mrs. Margaret Skinner Snyder, 24, of near tchton, was injured farday when the auto sh

Bombers Can't Be Completed Because of 'Prop’ Shortage; Labor Dispute Harasses Production at Big Eastern Plant

(This is the fifth of six articles on the status of American aircraft production.) $

By WALTER LECKRONE ‘WHEN THE DUKE of Kent visited the Glenn L. Martin factories at Baltimore not long ago, newsreel cameras followed him across the field. Next day they flashed on Washington screens—for Government production men to see, as well as anybody else—motion pictures of the Duke being led past long rows of sleek new bombing planes. Not one of those planes had a propeller, It was no longer a secret that propellers were a bottleneck of war planes. One, in fact, of several bottlenecks. From 100 to 200 of the newest model Martin bomb-

ers are visible from Washington- ,

New York passenger trains, staked down - outside the Middle River plants—waiting for propellers. Bell Airacobras — the Army's crack new P39 pursuit plane— stand in rows at Niagara Falls, probably 100 or more of them by now, possibly one-third of all the planes of this model so far manufactured—waiting. for propellers. Bell officials will admit that this picture is creating a morale problem among their own employes. Why, these workmen ask each other, should we strain ourselves to make airplanes when they can’t fly?

# # 8 PROPELLER MANUFACTURERS were caught unprepared by the sudden demand for a titanic sky fleet to defend America. They faced the same problem of expansion as was faced by the makers of engines and radios and airplanes themselves. There is no technical problem in the manufacture of a propeller greater than the problems which confronted = manufacturers of

other parts. There should have been no greater dicfiulty in expanding. The propeller industry did, in fact, expand. Why, then, does its production lag so far behind the production of airplanes that the planes must wait by hundreds for propellers? Why must a manufacturer fly his planes away for delivery one by one—and then bring back the propellers to put on other planes? Here is one reason: The Curtiss-Wright Corp. is the largest Eastern maker of propellers. It quickly enlarged existing plants, rapidly built new ones. One of the new ones is at Beaver, Pa. outside Pittsburgh, designed to employ 2000 men and to turn out propellers enough, perhaps, to break the bottleneck. It is not, as this is written, in production. Its completion has been delayed, and is likely to be delayed more, because two rival labor unions at Beaver would rather see war planes sitting helpless on U. 8. factory grounds than see another union leader win a minor tactical victory.

THE BEAVER PLANT was built by a contractor who employed only A. F. of L. mechanics. He had no labor trouble, his relations with his employes, with whom he Jas a closed-shop contract, were of the best. The only possible source of electric power for the Beaver plant is the Duquesne Power & Light Co.,

which employs the members of an.

independent union—not affiliated either with A, F. of L. or C. I. O. The Duquesne Power & Light Co. has no choice in the matter. The independent union of its employes recently won a National Labor Relations Board election, and the company is required by law to deal with them.

But— A. F. of L, crafts on the job

HOLD EVERYTHING

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struck when A. F, of L. electricians demanded the right to install transformers—work which had always previously been done by the Duquesne Light Co. The independent union: refused -to give up the work for fear its action would serve as a precedent under which it would lose similar work on a number of non -defense jobs, which are also struck. After an appeal by the Defense Mediation Board, however, the independents said they would allow the work to be done by the rival electricians, as a means of speeding defense, provided this action was not construed as a precedent in other cases. But, through one excuse or another, the A. F. of L. crafts remained on strike two days longer. They said the Duquesne Light Co. must notify them of the decision—in an apparent effort to set up a precedent for other cases. The total work involved in the dispute amounted to only $350, according to the president of the independent union, while the chairman of the strike committee values it at $850. In either event, a jurisidctional dispute over a few hundreds of dollars’ worth of work tied up this vital propeller plant for three weeks.

o FJ 8 MEANWHILE ' PLANES were

waiting for propellers. The - Curtiss-Wright Co. has

been harassed by other strikes of

similar character—almost invariably quarrels between rival unions rather than differences between employer and employee—which have delayed production at their Caldwell and Clifton plants. An inter-union quarrel in the new Columbus, O. plane factory— this between a ‘C. I. O. union that wanted , in and an independent union that won the NLRB voting —has caused delay and inconvenience. : Labor is not the only cause, and propellers are not the only bottle~ neck. There are no guns for the Alracobras—and especially there are no 37-mm. guns. The Lockheeds, , are short of 37-mm. guns and so will the newest Curtiss be short.. Guns simply are not being produced. rapidly enough. The Airacobras today, when they get propellers, are flown away for

delivery with a 240-pound iron

pipe stuck in thé nose to compensate for the weight of the gun that isn’t there.

OPM OFFICIALS have blamed a shortage of radio equipment, in éxplanation of plane production figures which during the past summer fell short of expectations. Senator Harry 8. Truman, chair man of a Senate committee investigating defense, not long ago ‘turned ‘over to his committee a letter from a small manufacturer of aviation supplies. This manufact

to share its profits for the refusal, The SPAB recently got a new executive, Floyd Odlum, to extend

the practice of subcontracting, of big contractors farniing out orders

dangers, too—especially labor dangers, ‘Many of these little plants are still unorganized, still have the period of conflict and delay ahead which most of the - bigger firms have passed. Not all are able to do the fine precision work required. They will cite a: shipment of pins for landing carriages, specified to have a test’ «strength up to 2500 pounds, which snapped at 1000. Airplanes themselves have gone into production ahead of acces= sories for airplanes. The bottle= neck today is in what aviation men call “G. F. E.”—Government= furnished equipment. That means propellers and engines and radios and a score of other items.

Next—War Plane Critics.

HIGH COURT TO HEAR HEIL CRUM' OCT. 21

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Oct. 21 on the appeal of Dr. Heil E. Crum, drugless physie cian, from the Superior Court court order upholding the revocation of his licenses to practice by the State Medical Board. .. Dr. Heil Crum’s licenses were ree voked following a public hearing be= fore the Medical Board in which testimony was offered that Dr. Heil Crum used an ‘“etherator” an elece trical device, in treatment of pae tients. ?

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