Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1942 — Page 5

! Churchill Appears Certain of ra Support After New | Cabinet Shakeup,

JON, Feb. 23 (U, P)— | Minister Winston Churchill red today to face the house of ons'in a two-day war debate “after his second cabinet reorganizatio since the fall of Singapore, and political quarters predicted that he was sure of full support for his continued prosecution of the war, Five men had been dropped out |the cabinet in Mr. Churchill's | reorganization, in a gesture

increasingly vocal critics who. ded the elimination of wegk-{

and men tarred with the brush |

ents. Grigg Named War Chief |

Air Greenwood, an outstanding || ‘party leader, was dropped as

without portfolio. dismissed were:

H. D. R. Margesson, long}

. Col. J. T. C. Er production minister, Lord

James Grigg was named wer |f

Col. J. J. Llewellin airproduction minister, Lord

Criticized Men Dropped

Dalton was transferred from |

try of economic warfare

. presidency of the board of

take the place of Llewellin, rd Wolmer was named to ’s former post. oving Margesson, Moore-

had jettisoned the three ost criticized in the stormy

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8 understood that Lord , & toal magnate, who has been serving as a raw materials expert in ministry of supply, would absorb most of Greenwood’s duties, to consider post-war problems. . Somet, of a sensation was caused the promotion of Sir James gg to the war portfolio. , He had spent 29 of his 51 years in the civil service and had risen to the post of permanent undersecretary for war. It was believed to be the first {time a civil servant had been appointed direct, without an interlude in politics, to such a post. Grigg has won a name for forcefulness and for defiance of : “brass hats” in he war office.

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their reports indicated that | | river. In London a military

cut to Pegu.

Authoritive United States military sources at Chungking today said that telegraph communications with Rangoon had been severed and urma’s capital might fall, but British sources said that imperial for s were still holding east of the Sittang id there was no foundation to the Jap- | anese claim that the rival from Rangoon to Mandalat has been

know that the statements of President Roosevelt, including his popular ‘fireside chats’ and the announcements of the followers of FDR are all got-up stories or tricks, cunningly set up by them in order to conceal the facts and the truth.” Mr. Roosevelt is not expected to coddle the public nor tb promise the ‘impossible. The situation admittedly 1s discouraging and dangerous. But hope and expectation of victory are pegged on the fighting and tremendous producing power of American men and American machines. ; In 11 weeks of war, the United States has gone to one-man control of production with Donald M.

]| Nelson in charge.

what you do your job ant to National De. nd since this is so you (need good vision. Faulty vision . ‘can slow you down and make your work inaccurate. Bs sure you are doing your part by having your

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Voluntary censorship has been imposed on press, radio and communications. Astronomical war appropriations have been voted. The total defensewar budget since June, 1940, exceeds $145,000,000,000. But spending is lagging behind . appropriations

Roosevelt to y' Speak Tonight: Keep That War Map Handy

(Continued from Page One)

despite a disbursement rate now approaching $2,000,000,000 a month. As Mr. Roosevelt goes to the microphone, the position of the united nations is bad. None here disputes that. But it is not as bad as was the position of the continental army at Valley Forge nor as desperate as the allied cause seemed in 1914 when Germans fought their - way almost to the suburbs of Paris. Nor do the united nations yet actually have their “backs to the wall” as did French, British and American forces in 1917 on the western front. Mr. - Roosevelt has invited his listeners tonight to hear him with world maps or globes by their sides so that they may understand his explanation of what is going on. He said he was pleased over the fact many newspapers yesterday and today printed iarge maps to enable the public to follow his explanations of anti-axis strategy. He hopes they will be used.

It'was a gay and confident holiday, which found Moscow, only a few weeks ago threatened by the enemy at its gates, proud and awaiting details of the which was now driving ahead scores of miles west of the capital. As messages of congratulation poured in from leaders all over the

and said the German army had proved no match for Russia's and promised: : “The day is not distant when the Red army will drive out the enemy from Leningrad, clear out the towns and villages of White Russia, the

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and Karelia and free the Soviet Crimea, and when the Red banner will once spain wave on all Soviet lands.” : Answers Appeasets 3 Then, in an implicit answer to the most insistent and most important charge of anti-bolshevists,

“lincluding appeasers in all foreign

lands, Stalin Said that all reports that the Red army's object was the destruction of the German nation and the German state, were “foollish lies and stupid libels.”

its of its ‘army|-

world, Stalin taunted Adolf Hitler |;

Stalin Promises to Drive Germans Out of Russia

(Continued from Page One)

“The Red army aim is driving the invaders from our home 'land and freeing Soviet soil of the German, fascist invaders. “It is likely that this will involve driving out Hitler's clique from power. We would welcome such a development. ~ “But it would be absurd to identify Hitler's clique with the German nation and the German state. History shows that Hitlers come and go and that the German nation and state remain.” The Red army, he said, was fighting a war of liberation, for the freedom . and independence of its country. That was why, he said, the Russian soldfer faced death proudly. He emphasized again that the Red army was out to free Russia, not to enslave other peoples and that it could not have any such“idiotic” aim as to destroy Germany.

REICH INVITES BOYS OF 17 T0 JOIN ARMY

BY UNITED PRESS The German radio was busy today frying to offset Russia’s Red army celebration by reviewing al-

‘lleged Nazi successes, but an invitation was broadcast to boys of 17}

years of age to join the armed forces. It was a new low age limit. Nazi propagandists said the Russians had attackéd regardless of high losses, and that they had won only positions which the Germans “had previously relinquished vol= untarily. ”

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IN PAYNE TRIAL

One Woman Is Included; State Calls Accused ‘Aggressor. 4 (Continued from Page One)

Defense Attorney Regester asked:

such a nature that it might be changed by. the evidence in this court?” “Well, I should say that ti? he replied. : Special Judge Charles B. Stag called an immediate recess and at its conclusion defense and prosecu-

mutually acceptable. ! State Opens Case | Deputy Prosecutor McCrea then delivered the state's opening salvo in its case by which it hopes to send Mrs. Payne to prison for life in the killing of Mattingly. The handsome attorney-examiner

cission was mortally wounded last July 5 by five bullets fired into his back as he sat by an open kitchen window at a friend's home here where he and his wife were being entertained at a dutch supper. Mr. McCrea briefly sketched Mr. Mattingly’s early life in Bloomington and described the industry with which he applied himself to odd jobs to earn his support while studying law at Indiana university. It was while handling a route for a local newspaper, Mr. McCrea said, that Mr. Mattingly met Mrs. Payne, “a prominent business woman and

.|one of the leading citizens of the

town.”

Calls Defendant Aggressor “We will prove to you,” Mr. Mc-

' | Crea told the jury, “that Mrs. Payne

then the wife of a prominent state senator, took a far greater interest in Mr. Mattingly than their business relations required. The affair that developed thereafter was in no

will show that Caroline Payne was the aggressor.” At this point, Mr. McCrea pictured Mr. Mattingly as a “green country boy, caught in the web of glamour spun by the leading woman citizen of the town, who lavished upon him -not only her money but her fierce and selfish affection in such a manner that it became the talk of the town.” Defense Attorney Q. Austin East in his opening statement pictured Mrs. Payne as a woman who had given the best years of her life to a man who deserted her after accepting money, clothes and even an automobile from her. On the night of the shooting, Mr. East said, Mr. Mattingly drove past Mrs. Payne's home ‘with his wife to “flaunt” his love, causing Mrs. Payne to suffer “unspeakable agony.”

Claims Victim Proposed

In respect to Mr. Mattingly’s appointment to the Public Service commission in 1936, Mr. McCrea emphatically denied that it had been brought about by Mrs. Payne’s political influence. It was an appointment in which Paul V. McNutt, then governor, acted on his own initiative, the attorney said. Mr. McCrea assekted that Mattingly had made “decent offers to marry Caroline Payne” but added that she, “in selfishly avoiding the inconveniences of household direction, had spurned his proposals.”

Exhibits Love Notes

Those written notes of endearment which she exchanged so. freely with Mr. Mattingly when they were sweethearts will confront Mrs. Payne in her trial. Prosecutor Tackitt disclosed he would submit as evidence not only Mr. Mattingly’s love letters to Mrs. Payne but also hers to him. With actual testimony not far off, Bloomington was keyed to a high pitch today. The courtroom was overflowing as the fourth day of the proceedings opened. Mr. Tackitt revealed that one of || his exhibits at Mrs. Payne's trial will be a certified copy of a marriage license issued tb the couple at Waukegan, Ill, in 1928, two years after Mr. Mattingly’s graduation from Indiana university. Mr. Tackitt announced that Mrs. Payne’s love letters to Mr. Mattingly has been turned over to him by Lurayne Oberholtzer Mattingly, the slain man’s widow.

Fights Castoff Claim

Mr. Tackitt’'s strategy will be to use the letters in combating the defense contention that Mrs. Payne was cast off by Mattingly with such subsequent shock to her nervous system that she became of unsound mind. The jury follows: BEN PELLEY, Benton township farmer. OMER YOUNG, Unionville furniture factory employee. KNIGHT, Washington township farmer. JESS BARR, Bean Blossom township farmer. ; ELMER PARKS, Bloomington ;MRS. LEE ACUFF, farmwife, of Richland COMMODORE LANAM, Bloomington carpenter. DEWEY HUDSON, Bloomington merchant. JAMES EADS, Polk. township farmer.

There was a long pause before!|

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tion announced that the jury was|;

for the Indiana Public Service com-|:

respect a healthy one. But evidence!

Euloh Nelson

Dortha Bockius Donald P. Morgan

Galvy Gordon Jr. Jack C. Garden . 8 =

The winner from each of the seven high schools participating in the eighth annual Hayward<Barcus post American legion constitutional essay contest have heen announced by Russell V. Sigler, chairman of the school contest committee, The final winner will be selected by DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools, and Frank Y. Hardy, post commander, This winner's name will be announced over station WIRE Wednesday at 4:45 p. m. A sterling legion medal will go to the winner in each school, and the school producing the final winner will be awarded a large silver loving cup. List of Winners

The winners in the seven competing schools are: George Washington high school, Euloh Nelson; Thomas Carr Howe, Mary Louise Ellis; Broad Ripple, Millicent Gemmer; Manual Traine ing, Dortha Bockius; Technical, Donald P. Morgan; ‘Shortridge, Galvy Gordon Jr., and Crispus Ate tucks, Jack Clinton Garden. Joseph F. Lutes, chairman of the Americanism committee of the post, is in charge of this year’s contest. Subjects this year were: “What the Constitution Means to Me;” Colonial Origins of the Constitution” and “The United States Supreme Co!

Edwards Rites Are Conducted

FUNERAL services were conducted today by the Rev. Jean 8. Milner in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for Charles A. Edwards, attorney, who died Saturday in his home; 4156 N. Meridian st.

Mr. Edwards

der Governor Ralston in 1913-14: He was born in Rochester, Ind, and had been the president of the Huntington Trust Co. in Huntington several years. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Meyer, Indianapolis, two sisters in Rochester and three grandchildren.

TORPEDOED* VESSEL FIRES AT 2 U-BOATS

SAN JUAN, P. R., Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Survivors of the armed, 5127-ton

[FACE ARMY LIFE

‘| Hundreds Without Children |g '| or Dependent Wives Needed

_ As 1-A’s Diminish. (Continued from Page One)

| | tionnaires showed that their wives | are not dependent on them for | support.

Other" ‘boards are going over the entire list of married men in their area who do not have children, reof their wives. Many Without Children ~The boards are paying particular

jattention to those cases in which

the wife has quit her job recently, possibly in" an attempt to keep her husband from being called. : Local boards report that there are “a surprisingly - large number” of

. {married men without children. One s |board with 4100 registrants esti-

mated that it had between 600 and 800 men in this class. The boards still using original 1- H and 1-B men for Class 1-A are mostly those who have been following .g fairly strict policy on married men, taking those with financially independent wives as they came to them. It is those boards which, at the outset of the draft, automatically placed all married men in Class 111-A regardless of dependencies that are now re-classifying that group. (One board already has completed its re-classification of the 111-A group.)

How It Works

Here's the way re-classification works: A registrant is notified by mail that he is being considered for re-classification. Some boards give him five and others give him 10 days to submit any evidence he may wish to regarding his status. Many boards are granting hearings to the registrants. After considering the evidence, the board either places the regis-

{trant in 1-A or leaves him in class

IIL. “The fact that the new registrants will not be taken until early summer means there will: be a tightening up on all draft deferments,” Maj. Bayard Shumate, assistant director of the state selective. service, said. In addition to studying the status of married men with financially independent wives, the Qoards undoubtedly will look over the “doubtful” cases in 2-A, deferred because of occupation, he said.

CONTROL URGED FOR MANPOWER AT HOME

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —RBrig. Gen. Lewis B, Hershey, national selective service director, told the house agriculture committee today that the nation will “have to have more controls over the placement of men” to meet the war manpower problem. Discussing depletion of the farm labor supply by the draft and by industry, Mr. Hershey conceded that some local draft boards— “especially where they are particularly patriotic”—have been “rather severe” in classifying registrants. But of the total of men taken away from farms, he said, the draft has accounted for only 15

cent have been attracted to indus] trial centers by the lure of higher wages.

ure that the first wartime draft lottery in 24 years will take place March 17—8t. Patrick’s day.

gardless of the dependency status p

per cent whi'e the remaining 85 per -

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‘United Press War Analyst Josef Stalin's message to the Red army on its

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is a hopeful one from the al

contained the implied Jeo. Hitler's great spring “offensive is going to run up

against a stone wall.

Only the course of events beginning about ‘the middle of May will indicate how good a prophet Stalin

is. He warned the Soviet people not to delude themselves into thinking

that Hitler already is beaten.

‘While unable to present the people with announcement of any im

portant, concrete victory on the an-] niversary, Stalin pledged that the enemy would be forced eventually from Russian soil. Realistic examination of the prospects, ‘however, does not encourage the belief that it can be accomed this spring. What Russia may do is to halt Hitler’s drive and keep the larger part of the German land and air forces tied up on the eastern front through 1942.

Must Keep Supplies Flowing

The time gained would be of immeasurable benefit to the allies. good deal may depend on the ability of the latter to keep supplies flowing into Russia in sufficient quantities. Just as the Japanese are striking af the Burma road to hamstring China, so is Hitler likely to attempt blows at Russia's line of supply. One line is the arctic route around Norway to Murmansk and Archangel, the other through the Indian ocean and the Persian gulf.

Base Fleet in Norway

The escape of an important part of the German fleet from Brest has caused speculation in London over whether Hitler is planning to base a fleet at Trondjheim in Norway and start a new war on north Atlantic shipping, including the Russian supply ‘route. On the southern railway route to Russia, the Japanese are in a position to collaborate with their Nazi

partner. The Indian ocean is open

to them for submarine raids on vital supply lines, both to 'the Middle East and Russia. Hitler may try to drive through to Suez to join forces with them.

Mediterranean Danger

If Vichy can be coerced into! turning over the not inconsiderable'

French fleet to the Axis, the British position in ‘the Mediterranean would be menaced gravely. The combined ‘Italian and French fleets might make the British lines in Libya utenable, opening the way to Egypt and Suez, Aden would be the next step. Thus three possible danger points shape up for the summer—the north Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Near East, and Russia. In Russia, as Stalin pointed out, Hitler has lost the advantages of

surprise and massed weight which he had last sumer. It is not impossible, however, that Hitler will conduct a holding action on the north and . central fronts, and concentrate his full power in the Ukraine and Crimea towards the Caucasus oil fields,

MURRAY TO ATTEND LOCAL CONVENTION

The district steel convention March.7 and 8 will be attended by 600 state steel worker delegates, Leaders of the steel workers organizing committee and Philip I. Mure ray, chairman of the C. I. O,, will speak. James Robb, district director of the 8. W. O. C., announced that Van A. Bittner, regional director of the 8. W. O. C.; David J McDone« ald, secretary treasurer of the S. W, 0. C., and John Doherty, assistant regional director of the 8. W. O. C,, will address the delegates at the two-day meeting in the Claypool hotel. A banquet will be held on the last night of the convention to honor Mr, Bittner.

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