Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1941 — Page 11

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NO END OF GOSSIE is. sw

the: ‘mysterious “ night's ‘Bill. Shirer- lecture. The story : passed from mouth {o mouth" ‘is’ this: afternoon ; a. woman representing official of the ‘League of Women

Oaleb: Mills Hall and w stations please announce it. Then, on top of that, the story

Police Headthanks, anyescort for

: goes, the voice called ~.quarters to say that, way, but the - police Shires wouldn’t . be

2 > Well, we started to lend some “eredence to the story when we heard some people say they’d heard the broadcast ehange

‘agk where in the name of heaven the escort was. “80 we started prying. .. “Qh gosh!” said the well-known radio man we ‘talked to. “Is everybody talking about that? Why, it was just my bonehead. The cops were a little late you know, that’s all. I. wanted to give the lecture a plug and I'couldn’t find my copy of The Times and .1 ‘was. sure, from [ that -it was Caleb Mills, “I found out a few minutes later I'd-pulled one and eorrected it on the 6:25 broadcast. Help me scotch that yam, won't you?” - Well, haven't we?

Bug Bitten

‘THE POLITICAL BUG has bitten so so: many of “Shettt 4 Al Feeney's deputies that it has the office in . Half ‘a dozen or more deputies have been iE on up their candidacies, and every time a ‘change

-in. assignment is made, each candidate figures out

Inside Indianapoli lis

coping’ fe tow about © he ous “attempt to’ “sabotage” | last Tuesday it is being ate: Tuesday “to. be an ;

needed after Ri

and when: one "League ‘official said, yes, they'd had to call up and

the. latne ‘Vas; but, that didn’t stop

are not true.” He added that any changes “office were made solely to improve the

ought to scotch a few more rumors.

RPETUAL remodeling program rs: is getting awfully close to’ Chief Mor- ' there ‘at_times because of the hammering. |

former site of the captain’s, and the “All-American” (anti-sab i squad) offices. Completing the circle, the ‘cap s office is going where ‘the registration |

and information desk has been. We Got One, Too

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER isn’t Joking. for more than’ Hoosiers to aceept ‘his invitation to attend g of the U.S. S. Indiana at Newport News, him from gladdening the hearts of another 4700 by sending them neatly en‘invitations for their scrapbooks—and their s nih vy. Nobody's fool, that Henry Schricker. The| C. of C. bulletin reports the Commitmittees will meet at 6 this evening. Sounds ommittee to end all committees. . ... The torists and pedestrians alike ignore those new

St. and Ke ntucky Ave, just goes to show that: Hoosiers don’t believe in signs, . . . Sign on the window of a yland St. restaurant: “Tender lion, 10 cents.”

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of ‘the ilness of his wife.

Waskmaion ‘Nov. 11—The ralway brothers hoods are. threaten ing to go through with their strike : becalise they are dissatisfied with the. recommenda-

PeTsesnt pay hohus

ressure .maneuver because | the edly know that a railroad strike ht this time would be intelerable. Ao Here is strong public confidence

“which insures ‘a full hearing and

‘& fair consideration of wage ‘con-

‘{roversies. There is also strong

. “work which is essential to defense, and railroad operation is basic be-

“In 1016, the

: way brotherhoods won a victory in. Congress by threat of a general railroad strike which resulted in shotgun enactment of the Adamson Eight-Hour Law. It} was lorig: overdue. In those days railroad employees did not have the benefit of Federal ; Jedintion machinery 10: ovest them. The strike was

wl ar would

x “tion an exas : An, e=unme measures. An attempted railroad strike

: ay and of the Bi oi

jevised os by Donald. Richberg,

I that time i for the a In gui, of

AN ATTEMPT

restrictive legislatior ‘bea dubious iter nt because it would be an attempt

2 il country will back Congress

Labor

prrremtRGE, ‘Nov. 11.—This ¢ of giant steel, now | transformed into an arsenal of war, offers a “dramatic exhibit of the boiling Industry-Labor con‘flict which has become the chief co: of the coun-

Two major sources of trouble

continuous, all-out production for

wat: - 1. “Hitand-run” strikes, Tedurring far too frequently in key operations, which of themselves involve few workers but hold up . production all along the line. 3: Jurisdictions] disputes. between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. whi¢h have become Ana troublesome as the bitterness be__tween the rival labor organizations is intensified in the fight for dom-

F mation to sam to invade. each other's terri-

“labor men concede readily that there too many “silly strikes,” unjustified and Er in normal times, certainly more so e than here who devotes his’ full time’ to the * tonpies of labor and industry said there has been J mong the workers a consciousness of the war since the President's declaration of a national emergency any in the summer, but that it might take an actual declaration of war to produce that concentrated, allout effort that would eliminate strikes.

LD. R.s Intervention Needed

‘ORGANIZATIONAL DISPUTES comprise the | HaJority Sous bet before Mediation agencies here, and they

tory.

i are on: For a time, Philip Murray, GL OF prin, ‘had. a facts Snderstanding: wi I t esterday -brought

: This probably is enly another : therhoods themselves undaubt- *

shind the Railway Mediation Act

‘public insistence upon continued

“gause it affects the entire indus-

1 is! 2 alters: are using this a§ an excuse. Jor his foreign policy. They ask. in return that he t affairs, especially in the matter of defense. strikes,

- about How we must work longer hours and how we

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the necessity of

. sented by those familiar with it as a natural out- . growth of two understandable desires—that of ‘labor ' leaders to entrench themselves at this time with

“Among * points ‘out; the-cry of “national defense” to To stop a - strike is not im pressive..

—T

ent Roosevelt refused the dihhe day to com- | suggestions that he follow the World War } and adopt a labor policy that would freeze hn shop question. for the duration of the

Er 18, the policy ‘was made clear. ‘Open shops would remain open shops and closed shops would remain (closed shops. Neither side was to use the ney as an excuse for extending itself, - Roosevelt has not chosen to. do that. He ‘his National Defense Mediation Board without 3 any guiding policy other than the obvious

he NDMB is at this time wrestling with the captive [coal mine issue in which John L . Lewis is

i tea precedent. But if it Ta been ane! under fixed ‘policy in. this regard, a general rule laid down before Secific cases began to come to it,

nfidence in the 4 ion.

no answer to say that only traditional Tabor Senators who! rily do not follow the President are fighting

show the same firm, decisive leadership: in demestic

that he shows in foreign policy. “Mr; Roosevelt gives voice to general statements

mist “keep the: assembly lines ‘and the coal mines going. But these generalities evaporate in newspaper headlines... And when he is asked if the war over the “closed shop should not go under an’ armistice until the emergency is over, the bold general statements shrink. down into the answer: No comment.

By Thomas L. Stokes

, “of I ‘leaders in this region which. kept down jurisdictional rows, but that has come unseal 1t is suggested by an official Here who is. familiar with the labor situation that Mr, Roosevelt might | accomplish much if he would call the leaders of the two organizations to Washington and lay down the aw, calling for. an end of the strife, at least for the

TEency. t, it. was: argued; would send to Strengthen. the de bl local Federal agencies which have to deal with {hese difficulties. The present ‘disturbing situation here is repre-

strong unions, that of workers to get what wage increases they can when they see industry amassing larger profits.

Straw Bosses’ at Fault

RESPONSIBLE . FOR THE “hit-and-run” . strikes in many instances, it is said, is the failure of -foremen and bosses in the lower grades to consider promptly grievances of the men, until bad feeling grows from delay in’a situation’ that might easily be adjusted by prompt attention. Such things go on without the knowledge of higher industrial officials, who in most cases would not pernit these little troubles to develop into big ones. ‘This indicates failure by some “straw bosses” recognize the union status which has been Rapin in good faith ‘at the top, and is one of the natural stages in new unions. - part-time workers, ‘our labor man “here

The worker finds it: difficult to believe: that two or three days on strike will make any: great. difference, | to Sine hie smployer Eives ith Work ig do only two or} three: Says: every week anyway, - i ]

By Eleanor Roosevelt

UB te She 8 Io pt e ect that he isn’t trying to control the Sent Ae : te Affairs, but “I have not told any deputy]. that I will or will not support him. either now or in| «J INJ J "the future of that I favor his candidacy over that| - of any other deputy, and any remarks made to the

‘the office, and for no other reason. So|

at: ‘Police | ce—s0 close in fact that it’s’ hard to con-| he yepistraiion and information desk is] -

ss I Eaaoved Whore de =

of dealing ‘with labor problems hos dampened =

"LAND BE USED]

Government to Get Title

set-up there. ‘Then: ie rs sin he |

“THE PARTY IS OVER, Yolks. Now #1

the American nation to get up, ‘got

simplify, substitute and spend ing in Washington, D. QF Te! Ion ee This is the Office of Price Administration sealing. in 2

_ the newspapers, on the radio, i in the ‘magazines,’ at ‘women's clubs, auxiliary Juncheohs, churches, schools. and union or

halls. It is only beginning now, today, - This is Civilian De‘fense Week. -It: begins to-

day, Armistice Day; which

is dedicated to total preparedness. Tomorrow is “War: Against

‘Waste Day.” And Thursday, le day, Saturday and Sunday. jare . special: defense days,’ too.

The week has a purpose. a

‘| ‘marks the transition of the nation

‘from -a peacetime to a near-war ‘economy, officially. : ‘What this means Indianapolis i only beginning to'find out. And { from Washington this week to the ‘nation’s cross roads came. Miss “Dorothy I. Cline, regional direc‘tor. of the ‘Consumers Division, Office of Price Administration, to ‘explain what it’s all about. From here on in, she said, we save waste paper, scraps of metal,

"tin cans. But, she added, there is

no need to get panicky and hoard. ® 8 8 Worse—Then Better

FOR THINGS will get: worse frem the civilian consumer’s point

of view. And. then, suddenly, they

will get better, but it may take a few years for that to happen. It becomes, for the United States, a’ question of guns and butter. Guns are planes, tanks, -anti-aircraft, Jeeps and ships. Butter means ' shoes, raincoats, tires, auto parts, radios, gasoline, ‘washing machines, refrigerators and inside plumbing. In these terms the following is

what is expected to happen, ac‘cording to Price. Administration and Consumers’ experts in Washington: ara

To Farms Taken Over During War. By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

by The Ihdianabalis 1 Times icago Daily News, Inc.

TONBON. Nov. 11.—Great Bri-

tain radical agricultural program will be carried several stages further this week when thc Government is empowered to acquire title to farm lands which have been taken over during the war.

A -bill, which will authorize the

Government to take over permanently farms from which their owners have been evicted, is expected fo pass the House of Lords and become a law. It is believed that the Government will follow this up by additional legislation to check - land speculati become increasingly.

which has erious.: Already, in an unspectacular

fashion, local agricultural commit= tees have evicted those farmers|! from their land who have refused to fall in with the Government's production plans and plow up the required . percentage of pasture.

Hunting Land Plowed Up

Thousands of acres are being cul-|Si tivated by local committees or. efficient farmers whom they have} placed on seized land. famous hunting: country RE TE I es ofp acres of. hunting land has been | | plowed. up. As a result of this policy: Britain's up, acreage has been increased nearly |very: 50 per cent over peacetime levels! shoud and most of this has ‘gone: intol; wheat, barley and oats. The Gov=| ernment mainly encourages wheat | . although it is recognized that post-|ueoLD wap production will have to switch| ther crops in order to prevent | wheat surplus; from LiF a

ln thie mos the

‘werld’s owing even greater.

Postwar Progrant Urged:

The Sunday Observer calls’ at-| oe tention to the necessity | for United States ‘and Britain to

- putrition

to. lay plans to insure that

© sv re to ow Sk ly, ui a | $8 tn ping smi = Imme-. appointment there at: 4.0'clock with a gentleman who Ft Soon mein . ay 1 ¥F has to spend the Winter in Florida and wishes $o| trition. } Se . volunteer his services ta work in the civilian defense An: Anglo-Amg

2 used 10: be we had: puter,

lett of it. a few suns. ne Sie

“Since "under ‘wi Plenty, and ‘a few more guns.

‘America. is now entering . the : : phase. of less butter,’ not: yetictoo ha

ttle,’ and many; ‘more: guns.

iter

‘wiy ‘we had butter, not

fof ‘lets and lens 5 ‘more’ and more guns.

‘It will get: worse, from the con- = * sumer’s. standpoint,” before it: gets

better. There will be guns and butter, too, .

But: it. will ‘get’ better. =

: but that is ote; x Wh, three'or four Ls 3

can protect Shemselves. during Be

loss and less butter period. : Buy. caref By. She advised. There is no. to steck: up at

=" When, you buy shoes, buy good shoes, ‘Plgure on ‘having them re‘soled not “once, but ‘twice. Buy good socks and stockings because you may have to darn them. & ” » od ir

Darning in Style.

. DARNING SOCKS willbe fash- -

ionable on both sides of the tracks,

‘So. will half-soled shoes. So will .

second-season ‘hats, third- -season

Jopooats. otohiiee without th : righ work an shirts with # =: what has been happening and : urned 8 Sten out; for poor quality. Eo :

“won't

told his ] power had seen: broken never to: Today, the’ German armies after desperate - efforts are down ‘before Moscow and’ Leningrad | and Rostov, with only Kharkov and |, the ‘penetration of the

ing and moun casualty lists. "Against outing So no. forensic ‘eloquence can hope to

thing: befall. rig The effect of militacy fs tatture ‘upon, such ‘a regime as Hitler is yet to - determined. We ought not.

ii goesrerid feat in Africa -and Greece. German

sibility of redeeming bility

results obtain

| = Hn Division «+ + propheless

‘he jusit hates to buy for himself). ‘only a goods are needed. gs

Bropdclot "$1.65 a piece,

ple that’ the Russian war vas mopping up ‘operations to be perf Retinal still bogged |:

Orimea to| show for a month of terrible fight-|

prevail; Goebbels accepts this. in’ his appeal Pom cht ys oaviDe. fo Corman {0 fight an lest'a: worse] 1 posi ~undis

Foes impact: of de.

people are not the: ali : Moreover, there is slwars: re the mie

“But up, to this potas, the actual WAT

his hurry to get he goods out on The looms én ‘which: i the market. might ‘have cut down . woven could have been use the bleaching time of cloth by us- - military ort In a short ti ‘ing much ° stronger chemicaly ) ; : which weakened the already - ducti weaker. cloth. = Last year’s shirts’ ‘didn’t shrink, but. ‘this year; sitice pre-shrinking costs money, maybe the: manufac- | turer skipped that entirely. all these things happened, she ‘got a very. expensive shirt, accord- = "ing to the Consumers Division. It : shrank and SPL: across: the shoul[dps t in. no: ‘time. :

- ”, ”

Cut out Waste

Juncheon’ in to on in jown w Rith Se (Which

bout a year and a half ago, ght him a couple of white h shirts for Sunday at They lasted, but after constant laundering, began ; ray; at, ‘the. collars ng cufts, |

ne foe St pinelb

at $1. 68, “But t instead of be~ |

ould ve made of a

: : times over.” = RE BUT. THA ‘SHIRT used: labor, = “Indiana hs 1s is going "| ranagement, cotton, rates about, Shap things. this. ‘week’ § achipes, railroads ds fieiest of the weeks the 10

em. a “and ships. ll by Jookeute. 8% . the ti

ithe suckonsive’ Gama ‘attacks on : | the ‘Moscow front ‘have ‘each been fet

: ; y weeks. ago" ‘I ated. out. the, d ger of the. ReE- |

“can. reo ow tant | Anno eshrves to a counter-aftack 10 ene Deis 68 euingiad ‘railway, Wh i Crimea Is. Key in South Pe n JErest German effort tof is sel possible, but it] ¢ Which diminishes

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