Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1941 — Page 12

“DRAFT IS OVER

Oath as Selectees; Only 3 ‘Dodgers.’

Today starts the second. year of ; 8 most serious era in the lives of 2 Hooster youth. * Yesterday ended the first year of

"the Natiod’s peace-time draft. { On Oct. 16, 1940, 439,000 young men from the Dunes fo the Ohio .-trooped fo the “polls” to give their names and addresses and’ tell that they were between the ages of 21 “and 35. . Thirty-four days later a slim, dark-haired Irishman stepped from a group of 14 at Pt. Harrison to © pledge his allegiance to the armed ‘forces of the United States. Thus Horace Francis Kelley of Indianapolis. became Indiana’s first draftee. Since then 22,683 ‘have taken the oath as selectees- National Guardsmen, and Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps enlistments have brought the total to nearly 50,000. But there's a: discouraging side. Of the 45366 : registrants ex- ‘ amined, 50 per cent ere turned away as physically But out, of nearly half a million men, only three were draft dodgers. They were convicted and sentenced fo two years each in Federal penitentiaries. More than 300,000 of the Hoosier

5 pr Hoosiers Received|’

Brrr and Boo!"

No pre- Halloween im is this. It’s just a photographer for Dauglas Aireraft at Santa Monica, Cal, emerging from the ‘plant's cold room, where temperattres have fallen fo 104 below zero during tests of men and materials.

ber have been deferred because of dependents. And the State. is wor king rapidly on plans to help the men returning from service to obtain jobs.

registrants have been classified.

CALLS D. . DEBT

LIMIT TOO LOW|

‘| Morgenthau Says It Must

‘Be Raised Considerably Above 65 Billion.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.) ~~ Secretary’ of Treasury Henry Morgentbau Said ‘today. there was. “no question” that the Federal debt limit would have to be raised con‘siderably above the present limit of

+ |$65,000,000,000.. The debt now is $51,654,045,436. | Mr, Morgenthau said the present|: Government

borrowing program necessitated by defense preparations was “so huge, so immense”

“that: the Federal debt would in-

crease even more rapidly, particularly if the Treasury carries through a plan now. “under - study %0 do 'all the borrowing for all Federal .agencies. He said the Treasury was studying a plan whereby individual Government ‘agencies would . borrow from the Treasury instead of going into the ‘open money market for loans. He cited as' a specific’ example $112,000,000 in United States Housing Authority securities which

*| come .due next month. Seventy-one per cent of this num-|

STAMP CLUB TO MEET Thes Indiana Stamp Club will meet at 7:45 p. m. at the Antlers Hotel tomorrow to sell, show and

trade stamps.

18 THE

TIME

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YOUR TOPCOAT

‘Richman Brot hers

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It will be a long time before you see a selection as attractive, or values as great as they are now at Richman Brothers.

Our prices are still at bottom. Our standard of quality remains unchanged. Fabrics, patterns. -and styles are handsome than ever. -

| a We repeat! Now is the time to buy the topcoat | you will need for: seasons to come. Be smart, wi hen d take fall advantage of the opportunity.

UR STAND ARD QUALITY LINE is sail only $22. 50 | R SUPER QUALITY LINE is stm only $27.5 50

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of his hand and asked, much?” “One million dollars,”

Winston- said. .; “we'll talk about it some more,”

radius of a five-minute walk a woman ran her fingers through a plating fox. pelt and ordered a fur coat for $10,000; Dr. A. S. Wam: Rosenbach thumbed through inquiries for a collection of naval documents worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; a: movie director Bought the diamond spray pin of Marie Antoinette.

Clerks at Gimbel’s rushed the job of cataloging a $5,000,000 collection of old masters and rare porcelains. . 1 & 2 # i . “THERE ARE 30,000 new collectors,”. Dr. Armand Hammer said, examining the rare pieces and the swiftly diminishing items of the fabulous Hearst collection

which he is selling. New -York is beginning to stir with the tide of the boom that has gained more momentum else-

| chunk of ‘crystallized carbon is

the Jonkheer Diamond. Mr. Win« ston bought it, had it cut and shaped into one of the great stones of world ‘history, priced it Ab $1,000,000. That's big money,

$125,000 and so amon, ot business been recently that BE a a teas from the President Vargas, one of the largest diamonds ever It is being shaped now into one 50-karat stone and 28

each. “Definitely an increase in® this type of custom,” Dp

sald. “It may be for investment inflation’

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Jewelry is good.” Dr. Hammer is astounded at the way the expensive pieces of = William Randolph Hearst :collection have been going. He sold also the $5,000,000 Clarence Mackay collection and the brisk trade led

Call of St. Louis, “I would say: there 1s etiotigh in the

world—outside of a museum. And lately, said one of his associates, “There has been: great interest many of our items apparently men who want to give them

Listen To

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6:00 o’Clock

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IND = Defense Brings Golden Erato New York: 48 Folding Money Available Again for Luxuries| nie

“How !

n't sell |

Interest in these—and there has thin Leahy a heartening

‘Comanche Council 47 of Pocahontas, will sponsor a card. party at 8:30 p..m. tomorrow in the Red

[TAKE PRIVATE 1088, WPAN WORKERS TOLD i's £m

employees of thes

|ers from accepting private employ-| # ment are subject to immediate dis-|E

|under ‘reasonable working condi-

| private employment ‘would have ‘lasted,

| project bulletin boards. Mr. Jen-

WPA who gg Ain WPA work-

missal, State Administrator ‘John | 1 K, Jennings warned today. ' Mr. Jennings also warned that|™ any project worker refusing private employment for which he ‘is qualified, at prevailing wage rates and:

tions, will be released from the WPA for the length of time the

The wamings were posted on

nings said that several supervisors, apparently . through misguided belief that they are Ss their own jobs, have discouraged project workers: from accepting’ private jobs of either a Permanent or tem-

Men's Hall, Morris and Lee Sts.

porary nature.” :

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