Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1941 — Page 3
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IN STATE POLITICS
Ch Robles Club Heads Meet Tonight; Democrats Of State Rally Wednesday; G. O. P. Editors Go to French Lick. By VERN BOXELL Politically speaking, this will be a busy week in the City and State, with Republican and Democratic leaders slated for a series of important conferences. ‘ Leading off the parade is a dinner meeting of Marion ‘County Republican Club. presidents at the Hotel Washington
tonight.
On Weilnesday; the Democrats swing into action with a State-wide rally to be addressed by National Chairman
Edward Flynn of New York. The Republicans wind up the series with the annual editorial rally at French Lick beginning Friday, which will attract officials and party leaders from all over the State.
I= Precinct Meetings Called "Also on the schedule are a-series ot precinct and ward meetings in ‘both parties as the 1942 campaign .gathers steam for the winter
Appellate Judge Dan C. Flannagan of Ft. Wayne, who as county “chairman set up the strong Alien County G. O, P. organization, will be principal speaker at tonight's Ainner. County Chairman James “Bradford, who called the meeting as ‘another step in: his drive for a united party, said representatives of 40 clubs would attend. , In outlining’ the purpose of the _,gession, he said: “It is hoped that "these club executives will adopt a general program for presentation of the fundamentals of organization 40 their individual members during the fall and winter months.”
Boys Predicts Large Crowd On the Democratic side, State
trict and county chairman and _other party leaders would draw one “of the largest political crowds in history. Activities were to get under way today with the arrival of Wayne Coy, yo okly of Franklin, who now is assistant to President Roosevelt. Mr, Coy was to confer with party leaders and will be joined tomorrow by National Chairman Flynn, Assistant National chairman Oscar Ewing, formerly of Greensburg, and Richard Reynolds, National Democratic Committee treasurer.
Outline 1942 Issues
Sharing speaking honors with Mr. Flynn at Wednesday dinner will be Governor Schricker. They will outline state and national issues for the 1942 campaign. Preceding the
dinner, to be held at the Claypool}
Hotel, will be a State Committee meeting, called by Mr, Bays. » Meanwhile, reservations for the State Republican editors’ three-day pow-wow- continue to roll in, according to officials here, with State officials and Congressmen heading the list. | Highlighting the political activities will be the address of State Chairman Ralph Gates at a luncheon Saturday. Main speaker at Saturday night’s banquet will be Peter Grant, radio commeritator.
LONDON, Oct. 21 (U. P.) —Brit-
ish bombers, in widespread raids|;
from Western France to southern , Norway during the night, struck at ' Nantes, France, presumably in reprisal for the mass execution of French hostages there by German occupation authorities. The Air Ministry said, however,
MEET TO PLAN PENSION DRIVE
G. 0. P. Leaders of Six Districts, Townsend Chiefs Confer.
Indiana Republican leaders from six districts and State leaders from the Townsend National Recovery ‘Plan conferred at the Hotel Washington today on plans for the 1942
campaign. Two Congressmen, Representative Noble Johnson, Terre Haute, Rep. Gerald Landis, Linton and ‘more than 20 county chairmen attended a luncheon, caiced by B. J. Brown, Indiana National representative of the Townsend plan. Mr. Brown said the meeting was preliminary to the pre-primary conference of all Indiana Townsend clubs here Saturday. Among its topics to be discussed today, according to Mr. Brown, was the attitude of the Republican Party’s leadership toward the Townsend organization. “We want to know whether they will co-operate with us or subject us to the same indifference accorded us. by the G. O. P. leaders during the 1938 and 1940 campaigns and since,” he said. The possibility of withholding indorsement of candidate until after the primary elections and of indorsing and supporting candidates on both the Republican and Democratic tickets also was to be discussed. Both Rep. Johnson and Rep. Landis were supported by the Townsendites in their successful sampaigns last November. Other G, O. P. congressmen who were indorsed by his group were Reps. Robert Grant, Forrest Harness, Earl Wilson and Raymond Springer. Represented at the luncheon were the third, fifth, sixth seventh, ninth and tenth congression districts.
“OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Clearing late this afternoon followed by fair and much colder tonight and tomorrow; temperature frovsing or slightly below by morning.
6:00
PERATURE ot. 27, 1940 ceond BB
: BAROMETER TODAY 6:30. a. m...29.53 Precipitation M4 hrs. Snding
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MIDWES't WEATHER
Indiana—Clearing tonight, preceded b: drizzle in extreme northeast 4 igh hes, wmotrew fair; } ps } ] reezing temperature mornin, n north and Renteal portions. ¥ 2 Illinois—Clearing tonight; fair tomorrow: much colder yonigh t, freezing temperature north ‘and central and Beavy frost in extreme south portion.
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that the Nantes raid had no con-|Bo%
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four times previously.
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ish bombers carry out a large-scale| ro raid, inflicting the heaviest pos-|Miami, Fila. sible damage and casualties for the| Mobile German military. occupants of the New
Nantes area.
Chief objective of the British raids Eiapeh Neb. last night was Hamburg, Germany's Bo
second city and largest port, which the air ministry said was blasted by waves of bombers.
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U. S. AID LINKED T0 DONETS AREA
Loss of Basin’s Industries Will Make Russia Lean More on America.
KUIBYSHEV, U. 8. 8. R,, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—A Red Army counter-at-tack regained ground on the central front defending Moscow, dispatches reported today, but it was acknowledged that fierce Axis pressure continued against the Donets Basin. Adequate British and American aid to Russia has become more and more urgent because the German offensive is now in a decisive stage in the industrial heart of the Ukraine, Soviet official sources said. On the Moscow front, the enemy offensive continued to pound at the Red Army lines but all thrusts were said to have been checked in the vital sectors, while counter-blows regained some ground in the Mozhaisk area. Many villages changed hands re-
| peatedly after severe street fighting,
the dispatches said. . In the Ukraine the Red Army continued to fight off enemy attacks in the direction of Kharkov, Taganrog, Mozhaisk and Maloyaroslavets during the night, the Russian war communique said, indicating no important changes in positions. Russia has poured uncounted millions in money and years of hu-
-1man labor into making the Donets
Valley a grea’ industrial region. Today it was a oattle zone and it was said freely that the loss of
tories, its power plants and its coal
y imines would prove a hard blow at
a time when Marshals Klementi Voroshilov and' Semyon Budenny have been removed from the front to organize and equip new armies. German persistence in driving into this area at frightful cost in casualties was regarded as clear in-
.|dication of the importance which 4
the Nazi High Command attaches to it, as calculated to deprive Russia of a great war-production re-
are counter-attacking but it is admitted that the situation is increasingly alarming. Plant machinery is being moved to safer areas to the east and newspapers say that when the factories have been re-established they will provide sufficient equipment for the great new armies to be organized. Well informed sources said that the Russians undoubtedly would make a supreme attempt to increase
production in the Ural Mountains.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record): County City Total 1940 . SO 0B BN 48 65 113 1941 S000 PNB 52 56 108
~=Oct. 25—
Accidents ... 65 | Injured ...... Arrests 553 | Dead
SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT |
; MEETINGS TODAY Navy Day Dinner, Claypool Hotel, 6:30 philip Carey Co, Hotel Severin, 12:30 ang lentech, Ci “Hengbiins. oe 54467 E. “Side fe Realtors, Canary Cottage,
Worth nogn. Board of Trade, noon. Notre Dame wovstty Club, Columbia Club;
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darion, Jac, Mier, st JL Shetty. Joputo rd. Ruth Boruc, at 1549 "New
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New Deal Criticized Most On Labor Policy, Poll Shows
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J. Oct. 28.—While the Republicans in Congress have focused their attacks on New Deal foreign policy, actually one of the greatest criticisms which the American people have against the
Roosevelt Administration today is
not its handling of foreign policy
but its handling of strikes and the labor situation. During the last year the New Deal labor policy has, in fact, been farther out of line with public opinion than any other major New Deal policy.
Such is the evidence from a series of nation-wide Institute polls of public opinion on the issue. of labor and labor unions— polls which have covered a crosssection of the American population from coast to coast, including labor union members, and which are to be reported in a series of articles. Today’s study shows that organized labor has lost substantial public sympathy in recent years. It has fewer friends today than it had five years ago; fewer even than during the period of the Highly Snpopulaz sit-down strikes
2 8 =» SINCE MAY OF 1940—a period during which there have been many strikes and stoppages in key defense industries—more than three million . voters have turned against labor unions as they are presently administered, although in the last four months the vote of disapproval has not increased. The six-year trend, as measured in periodic Institute surveys, is as follows: “Are you in favor of labor unions: Yes
76% 76 70
No 24% 24 30 . 30 26
August, 1936 .c.o0vcees August, 1937 ...ece000e June, 1939 .....cc0000s December, 1939 .i..es. 70 May, 1940 .......ic... 74 June, 1941 ......coves. 67 33 TODAY ....cc00000000. 07 33
In carrying these issues to the public, the Institute interviewed a cross-section of the population scientifically selected in such a way that the views of the crosssection should reflect the views of the total voting population of 50 million with a margin of error of less than 4 per cent.
AS A FACT-FINDING organization, the Institute is concerned
only with discovering what attitudes actually exist in the public mind, and not whether those attitudes are right or wrong. No student of social trends in the past can escape the conclusion that labor unions face a serious public relations problem today. More than a score of national public opinion surveys by the Institute in recent years show that the public holds many unflattering . judgments about the way labor unions have conducted themselves. While the public would not «deny workers the right to join unions, it has been highly critical of the
methods used by unions in industry, particularly those of the more militant unions. : Public opinion has gone through three distinct phases in relation to labor unions, each phase marked by a stiffening attitude. : 8 os » FIRST PHASE: In the early days of tHe New Deal, business was subjected to stringent Government regulation, while labor unions were_ protected and their growth fostered by New Deal legislation. In that period it was business, not labor, which had a public relations problem on its hands. ” » » SECOND PHASE: Anti-union sentiment developed strongly, the record shows, at the time of the sit-down strikes in 1937. Those - strikes were opposed by an overwhelming majority of voters in all parts of the country, particularly by the great middle class. The voters were in favor of using force to eject sit-down strikers, and in favor of calling out the. militia to deal with them. Whereas the counfry had previously favored more Government regulation of business, the situation soon changed to the point where, for every voter who wanted more regulation of business, two wanted more regulation of labor unions. Growing majorities favored compulsory mediation of labor disputes, and thought unions should be required to incorporate. In the past three years a majority of persons with opinions on the Wagner Labor Act have favored its revision or repeal During that period an average of only about one-third, polls show, have wanted the Act left unchanged. ” ” ” THIRD PHASE: The third and present phase began roughly with the war crisis in 1940, when labor union demands collided head-on with the national defense produc- - tion program. , The public is not satisfied with .the present rate of defense production, and a majority of those dissatisfied blame “strikes and labor disputes” as the chief cause. The public also thinks, as the Institute repcrted in March of this year, that labor union leaders are not helping the national defense production program as much as they should. By contrast, it thinks that business and industrial leaders are
ing to a much greater extent.
Berlin Admits Bad Weather,
But Claims Gains Continue
BERLIN, .Oct. 27 (U. P.)—A High Command communique admitted to-| mans. day that bad weather was impeding the German and other Axis forces on the Eastern vem but, 83~
which might be of use to the Ger-
ay sald every ‘houss. in" Mos cow was being fortified and as-|dyanmite, ‘gasoline, straw matches - already had been to special destruction squads Sider halt ‘the: Giip be de-
necessary. Authorized
its evacuation became |
a ll
shows the extent to which public sympathy for organized labor has declined in recent years. The figures represent the affirmative vote to the question in the Gallup Poll: “Are you in favor of labor unions?”
RED-JAPANESE CLASH RUMORED:
Russian News Agency Is Source of Report as Nervousness Grows.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27 (U, P.)—A Russian official news agency dispatch reported today that more than 20 Japanese soldiers crossed the Siberian frontier last Thursday and attacked a Russian frontier patrol. No report of casualties was made. The dispatch said the Russians were guarding a hill and the Japanese Be had hoped to seize them and take them back to Japanese territory. (The Japanese War Office in Tokyo denied the report. Chinese Foreign Minister Quo 'Tai-chi, in Chungkind, said, “It is a small incident and I would not attach much importance to it.”) The Russian report came ‘as foreign military quarters showed increasing anxiety over Japanese fleet activities, and speculated on the possibility that the Japanese might try to seize Russia’s half of Saghalien Island, off the Siberian coast, or make a big scale attack on Ckina’s Burma Road from French Indo-China. Experts - said the Japanese Navy had abandoned its important strategic base off Foochow, China; that 5000 more Japanese troops had been landed at Haiphong, Indo-China, last week; that Japanese were recruiting Chinese here for service on Hainan Island, off the southeast China coast, promising them insurance and high wages, and that there had been a sudden increase in Japanese cargo and 1a tanker ship movements off the coast
yy FRENCH SINGER DEAD VICHY, Oct. 27 (U. P.).—Felix Mayol, French music hall star who achieved fame between the turn c% the century and the start of the
He was 170.
American Ships Superior in
WASHINGTON, Oct. : 7, or even if she goes to war with Hitlei’s benefit. ,
of Russia, but those forces and supplies would very prob-
ably crush her before Hitler
‘could cross Siberia to her aid. That seems to be the sum of the factors in a war that would probably be decided at sea. Narrowing it down to the naval odds as between this country and Japan, they seem to be 2 to 1 against er If her Navy is, as a spokesman has just said, “itehing for a | fight,” then the -% ailment is of re- | cent origin; for her Admirals who get around more than her Generals, know that * they are very apt to emergefrom such a fight quite literally burning with ‘defeat. .
Difficulties for Japan How that defeat came about would depend upon where the war was fought. If Japan goes north-
ward against Siberia, she hits terrible weather, two tough Armies
jaided by many submarines operat-
ing from Vladivostok against Japanese supply routs and hombers Blasting Japanese cities within
y range. x only to protect the Vladivostok entry-port for supplies for Russia, President Roosevelt conceivably would - risk some opposition here and send the Pacific Fleet the shorter way from Hawaii to engage the Japanese, before the Nazis could
- fight their way the tremendous dis-
tance from Europe. If ‘Japan goes southward, she aids Hitler less but herself more directly. For southward are the raw materials she craves. And yet attacking British Singapore means difficult jungle fighting and brings in the Dutch East Indies and Russia surely, and perhaps this country, to protect our rubber, tin and the Singapore naval base and the Philippines. And from the Philippines, American forces could attack the exposed sea routes for ,a Japanese army pressing southward.
Fighting Plan for U, S.
One of two American naval congephions of a war against Japan has envisaged our attacking supply ships and transports down the coast of China—plus a long-range blockade of trade routes leading to Japan itself, for the purpose of starving Japan’s war industries. It could be done largely from Manila with cruisers, submarines, destroyers and planes, heavier ships and some lighter for the Battle of the Atlantic. ‘But the Japanese have some reserves, and if Hitler approached Siberia, the time factor might well force the United States to more aggressive action. Then the Pacific Fleet, with every battleship and heavy cruiser that could be spared, would rush from Hawaii westward. It is 3300 miles to Japan from our only major Pacific fleet base. But almost unnoticed is the fact that, since the Navy recently built up its “train” of supply and repair Ls, it has almost a “float-
planes,
World War, died today at Toulon.|ing base
This, ‘with the fleet's
leaving | that
Armor While Air Arm
tributes What Experts Say Would Be the Deciding Factor.
By THOMAS M. M. JOHNSON
"=I Japan goes to war with the
United States, Britain, Russia and the Dutch East Indies—e
the United States alone—them
Japan stands an excellent chance of committing hari- kari fon
She would draw off some totes and supplies that would otherwise hinder his conquest
means that the U. 8. Navy has greatly reduced the handicap of Sea aiiles in choosing the scene of
Jap Ships Faster i Prom Admiral to bluejacket, our Navy believes that even though the Pacific Fleet has been weakened, chances are 2 to 1 they could beat the Japanese in a stand-up fight. Politely agreeing, the Japanese
|| have prepared to run away or fight E| at extreme ranges.
Japanese battleships average
| faster and perhaps slightly safes.
than ours, and are newer; but their :
armor, like the ill-fated Italians’
is thin (12-14 inches hal 18) espec=
L | ially in the turrets. Our
big guns could crack them at nine to 10 miles, but they must close to sik to crack ours. Our new 16-inch guns are’ bete ter than theirs, our total gun-powse er would probably be near 50 per cent greater. Our: heavy cruisers outgun theirs, though on light cruisers, destroyers and submarines terms would be nearer equal—des pending on how many American warships were kept in the Atlantic, Both Navies Fold Trumps Both navies hold trumps. The Japs’ trumps arg fwo tp four myse terious new “supeg-cruisers” of 12,« 000 tons and 12-inch guns. But our Navy asks: “Remember the Graf Spee?” and points out that these pocket battleships could be attacked with a new 8-inch armor-piercing shell, fired from our heavy cruisers. The American trump recalls another German naval disaster, the Bismarck, which succumbed to air power. Naval authorities believe we have the finest naval aviation in the world, sending up from carriers bigger and better planes than the Japanese navy boats—planeg better enough, with crews better enough, to maintain that 2-1 superiority. That includes superior spotting for our superior gunners, plus dives bombing against Japanese ships, Air Force Augmented
The American trump can take two tricks. Navy heavy patrol bombers (range, 3000 to 5000 miles), could operate 1000 to 2000 miles offshore, against Japanese ships, oF attack Japanese cities. They can reach thém fromthe Philippines or even more easily from Viadivoss k, where the Russians also have any heavy bombers, The United States has - ned its Far East air force, espe= ially since the naval war has shown within certain limits bombers can replace surface vessels which were sent to the Atlantic when we occupied Iceland, . ; And all this American air sea powar would be seiniforced bf
the 75-0odd Russian submarines East Indies, and by British cap= ital ‘ships now in the Pacific. Japan’s present sea now, when Tokyo will Dace in commission new capital ships now are nearer completion would swing back in the U. 8's’ faw vor, And in three years the Uni States will have, to all intents,
considerate. va less than it will hed ours. In two years, the bala: long-projected two-ocean Navy,
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