Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1942 — Page 1
The Inc janapolis Time
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 279
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CITY PREPARES! T0 ELECT IN "42,
Political Chiefs Spurred By Ruling of State
Supreme Court.
By VERN BOXELL Indianapolis politicians settled down to their business in earnest’ today after a Supreme Court ing that this city, as well as oth-| ers in the State, nicipal elections this year.
An unanimous opinion yesterday, ®
tossing out the controversial skipelection law passed by the 1941 Legislature, ended a long period of| uncertainty and shot political ma-| chinery into high gear. Prospective candidates for county and city offices in both parties have been holding off final decisions pending this verdict. It also meant that 73 Repubijeans and 28 Democratic mayors who ha expected a fifth-year on terms as a gift from the Legisla{ure must get out and work for
re-election this fall, one year earlier;
than they had anticipated. Figure City Is Democratic
For the most part, local political feaders appeared to be pleased with the decision. Particularly happy were the Court House leaders of the Democratic party, who were pressing for an election this year. They reason that the city is Dem-
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Chief The United States Salutes the
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26 BILLIONS FOR A United Nation Sends
NAVY APPROVED
Senate Group _r K.'s Plan
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For Greatest Fleet Air Arm in World.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 (U. P) —
A Senate Appropriations subcom-|
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a $26,404 265.474 naval appr opriation | bill—largest in any nation’s history |
Kind, Hopeful Thoughts
The President Can Take It, and He Gives the People Credit for the Ability to Take It.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The nation sends its thoughts today to the man in the White House on his 60th birthday. They are kind thoughts, hopeful thoughts. They betoken the fact that his popularity is greater than at any
ocratic, with the precincts and carrying nearly $6.000,000,000 to be, time since that drear March day in 1933 when he took the oath of spent in the next 18 months tor | office in front of the Capitol, which in itsélf is a mighty tribute.
townships outside giving the Re-' publican an over-all edge in the] County. This was proven in the 1940 election. i The Court House group naturally] wanted anh election this year to bring out the Democratic vote inside the city limits, and wants a mayor candidate strong enough te pull in the entire county ticket. They feared that city precinct officials. many of whom are emploved at the City Hall would not give their] best efforts if their jobs were not at stake.
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Although Mavor Sullivan has heen quoted as saving that he personally favored an election this vear, several members of his official family and other City Hall employee have favored a delav. As a result of the courts ruling the battle between the Court House and City Hall groups to land the mavoral nomination probably will be intensified. There were no new developments in the three-cornered situation today, with Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers and Sheriff Al Feeney still the most logical candidates and the City Hall crowd maneuvering to land a compromise candidate fa-, vorable to them.
County Chairman James Brad-|
ford and other Republican leaders (Continued on Page Four)
HOG PRICES HERE SET 4-YEAR HIGH
The highest prices in more than | four years were paid for i at) the Indianapolis stockvards tod A 25-cent advance over ges] day's prices pushed the top quotation to $12.30 per 100 Pounds, highest here since Sept. 1937.
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VICHY, Jan. 30 (U. P) —Thirtyeight American diplomats and members of the former American
cology in Bucharest passed through Nice today on their way to Lisbon. |
where they will await transport to the United States. The party was headed bv J. Webb Benton, who was U. S. Charge d'Affaires in Bucharest.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES . 32 am i 33 11am vs 31 12 (nben).. . 3% 1pm.
F.D.R. on Radio
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt will make a brief speech during an: hour-long radio program starting at 10:15 p. m. tonight (Indianapolis Time) in connection with his birthday and the nation-wide ‘march of dimes” campaign to raise funds to fight infantile paralysis. The program will be brosdcast over the four major broadcasting networks. Exact tine of Mr. Roosevelt's speech was not disclosed.
building the greatest fleet air arm in the world.
The subcommittee action came! faced by a President of the Unit- | ed States. Criticism from official
shortly after President Roosevelt had signed a $12,555,000,000 appro-| priation bill carrying funds for 33.{000 Army planes, of which 23,000 | would be combat craft and the re-| mainder trainers. This measure] is authorized assignment of $4.-| 000,000 worth of planes PE abroad under the lease program.
Closer to Domination
Mr. Roosevelt also signed a bill authorizing expenditure of $775.000.000 for equipment and facilities needed by private or Government shiprards for building, equipping and repairing naval vessels. The $26000.000000 naval appropriation, designed to bring this nation one step nearer to domination {of the worlds seaways and airways, carries funds for fiscal 1943 and supplemental grants for the balance ‘of this fiscal year expiring June 30.
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the to the House-approved version of the measure $6026300000 for {strengthening the naval air arm; {and boosting warship construction | UUEAg Boch) oY uf fiscal 1942 and 1943.
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But { and full of fight. | is the same buoyant leader. ! work days are longer than ever.
| the troubles that surround him.
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For he finds himself in as difficult a situation as any ever It is a tribute to him that he does not try to still that voice, as do the dictators we are fight<" ing, but, on the contrary, invites it. He did not raise a hand to tone down or hold back the Truman committee's indictment of the defense program, and immediately after that he ordered full publication of the Roberts Commission report which minced no words about the Pearl Harbor disaster. He can take it. He gives the people credit for ability to take it.
guarters just now is net sparing of the administration of affairs, as the nation buckles down to its
His day is spent pondering the problems of a whole world in
It is a tribute to the democracy he seeks to save that the nation is united behind him and yet, at the same time, does not hesitate
in the interest of doing the job “all the better.
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The American People Trust Him
TODAY. 60 YEARS OLD. he sits in the White House with powers bevond those ever granted to any other President. The people trust him to use these powers wisely and return them after the war is all over, That is what democracy means to them, Being a revolutionary figure in revolutionary times takes its toll
of Franklin D. Roosevelt. His gray hair shows it. The deep lines in his show it. Figuratively, it has been much nine years since a man of 51 stood on the steps of the Capitol to take charge of the wreckage left by depression. at 60 the President is fit Spiritually, he His
Taking the oath of office in 1933, he could not foresee the mad world of today. The world he found here at home was problem enough. Since then he has been in the thick of two revolutions. The domestic revolution known as the New Deal still demanded his attention when the other revolution began to sweep across Europe and Asia. Now he has become involved in that world revolution, as have all of us everywhere.
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But his energy never flags, and he comes up fresh every day to
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DIPLOMATS EN ROUTE TO U. 8.
THE PRESIDENTS INFLUENCE is felt today in the jungles
the wildernesses, the waste places of the world, where even his name
! was not known before. even though he sits cloistered in the White
House behind the barriers necessarily thrown up by war, with soldiers
Payments can be made until 8 guarding all thé entrances, with an enlarged and ever-alert Secret
p. m. today and tomorrow at idl S.| garvice on watch 24 hours a day.
Meridian St. or at license branch | bureaus. Returns can also be] ! mailed out but must be posted in | time to be marked before midnight tomorrow night. That is the final deadline and one minute after is | too late, according to C. A. Klinger, | head of the Gross Income Tax Department. | The division staff has been work- | ing at top speed this month and despite this there are more than 25 | bags of mail remaining unopened. | Bach bag contains 6000 to 7000 re- | turns. The total amount collected, as of | last night, was $2908000. Returns
| amounted to 132835. On tne same;
| date and hour last year the amount was $2442000 and the returns | 102,242.
| 180 DAYS IN ASSAULT CASE | Jessie Pdwards. 1930 Cornell Ave, was fined $521 and sentenced to 180 days on the Indiana State Farm today by Municipal Judge John Me-
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A paradox it is that the man who now is a war leader once regarded himself as an apostle of peace. It was only so short a time ago as 1938 that he shouted, “I hate war,” as he recalled in a speech at Chautauqua the horrors he saw on the front lines pf the last war when he was Assistant Secretary of Navy. As recently as the 1%40 campaign he pledged himself to keep the United States out of war, unless attacked.
The attack came. Bad news there has been aplenty. We are warned there will be more. . Pearl Harbor hangs like an angry cloud that must be lifted. General MacArthur clings valiantly to a foothold in the Philippines, and the ground lost there must be recovered. The American empire that we never quite aceepted, in fact, is in peril
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Guam, the Philippines Must Be Ours
THE GAY AND AMATEURISH manner in which we enbavked upon our imperialism. out of which this all comes, may be recalled to« ew at the White House when the President; as usual on his birth av
the Navy a quarter-century ago. Perhaps Kirke Simpson, the veteran newspaperman, will recall the morning, back in the SpanishAmerican War, when they let him out of the brig, where he was
That's the way empires begin. Guam and Wake and the Philip« pines must be ours again. These are some of the thoughts that come to a President as he
bugle for raising the Stars and turns 60.
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EXPECT 10,000 AT FIELDHOUSE
Available for Big Show, Committee Says.
Indianapolis today was saying “Happy birthday, Mr. President!” The capital of Hoosierdom was saying it with dollars for the campaign against paralysis. More than $5000 has already been raised here for that purpose. ht the people of Indianapolis eldhouse, and to several dance halls throughout the city and with gayety in their hearts they again will say: “Happy birthday, Mr, President!™ : More than 10,000 are expected to attend the President's Birthday Party at the Butler Fieldhouse. Although the sale of tickets for the event has been Heavy, the Anti-In-fantile Paralysis Committee of Marion County announced that good seats still ean be obtained tonight at the Field House,
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Many celebrities will be the attractions at. the Fieldhouse. The limelight will be shared by the Quiz Kids, whose multiple-cylinder brains will compete with five Indianapolis a battle of wits: by two from Hollywood especially for this occasion, and by Governor Schricker, who will act as master of ceremonies. Sergt. Alvin C. York, hero of the First World War, was compelled by illness to cancel his plans to speak at the President's Birthday Party in Indianapolis. He sent word from his bome in Tennessee that he is down with a bad cold. Garry Moore, radio master of ceremonies heard cver WISH, will assist Governor Schricker as master (Continued on Page Four)
JOBS, NELSON URGES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P) — War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson's orders to American businessmen today were “to hell with stopping to count the cost” of getting war contracts rushed through to completion. Speaking before 250 businessmen in New
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the need for war materials was now. He said that each weapon turned out today would be worth two in 1943 and 10 in 1044,
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'Sighted Sub; Sank Same’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (U. P.) — Sighted sub; sank same.” That's the way American airmen are reporting the ‘“retaliatory action” against enemy submarines that have been preying on Allied shipping off the Atlantic Coast. And there were plenty of signs here that counter measures, although not announced, are being effective. The Navy relaxed its rule about not revealing individual submarine sinkings to release the “sighted sub; sank same” message from an unidentified naval plane pilot. It did not reveal the locale of the action or the time, but hinted that it was in the Atlantic.
QUIZ KIDS ROMP AT HOTEL HERE
Ready for Show Tonight; Gerard's Aunt Bessie Calls I. Q. Bunk.
newspaper executives and writers in| Hoagy OCar-| michael, who is bringing a song or|
By LESTER POSVAR
Four of the five Quiz Kids aie smart, their mothers wil assure you, because they have high intelligence quotients. The aunt who has reared the fifth Quiz Kid will likewise assure you that all this I. Q. business is the bunk, that her favorite nephew hasn't a high I. Q., but that he is smart as the other four because he has a good memory. While Gerard Darrow's Aunt Bessie and the mothers of Jean MacMahon, Harve Fischman, Richard Williams end Ruth Duskin sat pin the lobby of the Marott Hotel today and talked about their children's intelligence, the quintet of radio stars turned the whole hotel
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| that her son is a Hoosier. last | thet. night, Mr. Nelson pointed out that
|into a playground. They slid down {the bannisters from the mezzanine floor, they played hide-and-seek in the ballroom, they inspected the heating plant and they gave the elevator operators a helping hand. The Quiz Kids came to Indianapolis froin Chicago to take part in the President's Birthdaw Party at Butler Fieldhouse tonight. The mother of 12-year-old Richard Williams proudly announced His faDavid Williams, an East Chicago, Ind. engineer, is a graduate of Purdue. Mrs. Williams herself had taken an ‘Indiana University extension course. Although the (Continued on Page Four)
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The five Quiz Kids see themselves in A — they are: Jean MacMahon, 15; Harve Fischman, 11; Duskin, 7. The quintet will appear at the President’s (Bi
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NAZIS GET FOOD
SENT TO FRANCE
Diverted From American
Relief Groups, High Authority Says.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 30 (U, P). Some of the American food shipped to France from this country on the assumption that it would be given to American relief organizations for distribution, has found its way into Germany, it was learned on high authority today. One particular cargo of American food was loaded on a train at Marseilles and started into unoccupied France buf kept on going into Germany. Most of the other similar cases have involved smaller shipments of food and clothing. Secretary of State Cordell Hull told a press conference, however, that he had no information on American food having been thus diverted. Gd Vly ev.» Meantime President Roosevelt told a press conference that citizens of this country should con= tinue to send warm clothing and necessary food to foreign countries. We have all got to give, the President said, and at the same time keep up.our own domestic charities. He said this country must be careful, however, to see that none of its foreign relief reaches enemy countries.
U, S. ARMORY FIRE L0SS 1S $200,000
Fails to Halt Garand Rifle Flow at Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, Mugs, Jan. 30 (U. P).—A general alarm fire destroyed one building and damaged a second at the historic United States Armory today but failed to interrupt all-out production of the Garand automatic rifle used by the nation’s armed forces. The loss was estimated at $200,000. Six firemen and workmen were felled by the dense smoke and intense heat. Guard John Tessier told Fire Chief Herbert C. Root that a smudge pot near the field service building had ignited a tarpaulin,
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President on 60th Birthday GERMAN CHIEF
SAYS U-BOATS 10 BLAST U.S.
Malayan. Defenders Fight Fiercely as Siege of Big Base Begins.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Japan's armies met strong Allied resistance only 18 miles from Singapore Island and in the Philippines today as Adolf Hitler acknowledged in Berlin that he no longer knew when the war would end. Hitler's speech on the ninth ane niversary of the Nazi rise to power was in contrast to his previous ane niversary declarations, as he ace cepted full responsibility for defeats in Russia, but indicated that Jae pans attack on the United States had released the German U-boat
fleet. lo strike against American vessels.
Waiting for Spring
Much of the speech was devoted to personal attacks on President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but he prome ised that when spring comes the German air fleet and armies would recapture much more than they nave lost in winter fighting in Ruse sia. Hitler acknowledged that fighting on the Eastern Front was inflicting extreme hardships on the German armies and said that things would be beiter in the future, . Even his that the Gere man U-boats wotild fiow be freer to act, however, were confined to a statement that the Pacific war had forced removal of some American naval strength from the Atlantie and that “we shall see what our U-boals may achieve.”
Reds Driving On
Dispatches from the Russian fighting front provided a backs ground for Hitler's speech by ree porting that the Red Army driving forward in the Ukraine had taken Lozovaya, less than 70 miles from the big bend of the Dnieper, and was threatening to cut the Axis communications lines to the sea of Azov front and the Crimea. News from other fronts, however, still was unfavorable from the Ale lied viewpoint: LIBYA: The Germans held Bene ghaezi and a line 16 miles to the east—possibly cutting off some Brite ish forces in the city. Await New Onslaught PHILIPPINES: The American and Filipino forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur were preparing for new onslaughts by reinforced Japanese. MALAYA: The Japanese had hammered to within 18 miles of Singapore island where the British imperials were fighting to keep them beyond artillery range of the naval base. British Imperials, fighting furie ously and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, were holding lines in the Kulai sector on the central front north of the causeway that runs from Johore Bahru to the naval base and near the Puntian
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AIR DEFENSES USED IN NORTHERN IRELAND
BELFAST, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Air defenses in northern Ireland went into action today when “some slight enemy air activity” was reported,
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Obituaries . Pegler Photography. . Pyle Questions. 19, 20 Radio Real Estafe... Mrs. Roosevelt 18 Schools ..: 9 Serial Story.. 28 Side Glances 2 Society ...
Clapper Comics
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