Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1942 — Page 13
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SPENDING UNDER| Savings Adviser M'NUTT SCORED
Cited as Main Defender Of Agencies Whose War Value Is Doubtful.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
a SEEK TO ASSURE) WATER SERVICE
Jefense Council and Health” Board Also Guard Against | Sewage Sabotage.
If sabotage or enemy action dam-
9 ARE KILLED IN BLAZING PLANE
Two Others Parachute to ‘Safety Before Bomber
Crashes in Desert.
TUCSON, Ariz, April 7 (U. P)— Army authorities said today that
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE Onited Press War Analyst
Japan is reaching out a clutching hand for India with two weapons, armed force and propaganda. The attacks on Ceylon and the east coast of India would seem at first glance to be ill-timed and more likely to drive the Indians, through fear of invasion, into compromising with Britain for their cwn protection. The Japanese evidently hope they will have the opposite effect. The nature of the raids on Vizagapatam and Cocanada seem to have been without actual military purpose, but intended to impress the Indian people and their leaders at a time when the
ages or destroys water or sewage plants in Indiana, the superintendents of these type plants will aid each other in making repairs under
a plan developed by the state defense council and the state board of health.
An emergency water and sewage
negotiations with Sir Stafford)™ Cripps are at their most critical stage. The Japanese would have the Indians belieye that Japan is their friend; that nqw is the time for India to free herself from the domination of Britain and become a free part of the ‘new order” in
committee has been created by these two groups to supervise and co-ordinate the maintenance of water and sewage service throughout Indiana in event of an emergency. M. H. Schwartz, Vincennes water works superintendent, has been named chairman of the committee, and B. A. Poole, chief sanitary engineer of the state board of health, has been appointed secretary. The plan divides the state into 21 zones with zone co-ordinators functioning as representatives of the emergency water and sewage committee. Each co-ordinator is making a survey of supplies of water
Asia. India Warned by Japs
Otherwise, the Japanese warn India will have to undergo the horrors of war because while Japan has only “love and friendship” for the Indians, she is determined to drive the British out of Asia ard will attack them in India if the Cripps proposal is not rejected. This line of reasoning was set forth by Premier Tojo in his latest declaration, in which he said: “The moment has come (for the people of India) to take advantage of the best opportunity to free themselves from the British bandits who
and sewage facilities in his area. E. F. Kinney, 2204 E. Kessler blvd. has been named co-ordinator for the Marion county zone. When, and if, a disaster strikes, water and sewage plant superin-| tendents working in co-operation with their zone co-ordinator will] aid the damaged plant and secure needed materials to make necessary | fepmse Mr, Poole said.
have so long oppressed them and thus enforce their longed-for liberation.” Deluge of Propaganda
India has been subjected to a deluge of propaganda along these lines, in which the other axis partners, Germany and Italy, have joined. According to a correspondent of
tions with Hindu announcers broadcast to India, purporting to be secret “freedom stations” within India, whereas they are actually in Tokyo, Berlin and Rome. Regardless of whether this propaganda succeeds in its purpose, it seems clear that the Japanese military machine is headed for India and for control of the Indian ocean. It is a squeeze play to be worked
lin conjunction with Germany and
Italy, who presumably will try to drive down through the Caucasus and the Near East to effect a junction with Japan.
CALIFORNIA REPAIRS MOCK RAID ‘DAMAGE’
SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 7 (U. P). —Southern California “dug its way out” of imaginary wreckage from a 45-minute mock air raid today and officials reported that “damage” was heavy. The imaginary attack by enemy bombers, described as an “incident drill,” sent thousands of civilian defense workers into action from San Diego to the fashionable La Jolla
area 15 miles north last night.
The drill included all incidents
which might occur during an actual bombing. Umpires with stop watches timed the work of rescue, first aid
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WASHINGTON, April 7.—Federal
Nutt is being pointed out here as the administration’s leading defender of New Deal agencies whose value in wartime has become doubtful. In aqdition to testifying in favor of keeping both the NYA and CCC, the former Hoosier governcr also inherited from OCD the so-called “physical fitness division” and has added it to his wartime health and welfare work. As a result, he has repeatedly been castigated by Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.), chairman of the joint committee on reduction of nonessential federal expenditures.
Public Protest Cited
“The physical fitness division of the office of civilian defense—the division which employed Miss Mayris Chaney at a salary of $4600 to teach dancing as an integral part of the preparations for national defense—has been transferred to the Federal Security (McNutt) Agency,” Senator Byrd said. “This transfer was made because of the public protest against the physical fitness division becoming a part of OCD. This is simply another run-around, to which we are
That is to say, when an agency becomes discredited in one department of government, it is transferred to another, “In this instance, the very funds which will be used to pay the expenses of this activity in FSA will come, by diversion, from appropriations already made for OCD. It seems to me, therefore, that the activity will be paid from the funds already appropriated for national defense.
Would Let Congress Say
“The head of the physical fitness division is Jack Kelly of Philadel-
phia, who is a prominent politician of that city. He is known as the national co-ordinator of physical fitness. I have already called the attention of the senate to the fact that he has appointed 61 co-ordina-tors of different sports, ranging from badminton to weight lifting. “It seems to me that the continuation of this agency of government, which has aroused such public resentment, should be left to congress for a direct appropriation for its continuance. “Instead of doing so, it appears that it will be continued by executive order and by the transfer of funds from lump-sum appropriations.” Office Well Staffed
Mr. McNutt seems to have no end of lump sums to spend, for he has
one of the most spacious and well offices in wartime Wash-
ous and well paid full time assistants, he employs per diem professors such as Fowler Harper, who commutes here weekly from the Indiana university law school at Bloomington. Virgil M. Simmons, former head of the Indiana state conservation department, also commutes between here and Ft. Wayne. He has been studying the merger of NYA and CCC, but the latest McNutt proposal follows that of President Roosevelt to retain both outfits. So far the federal bureaucracy here has sacrificed exactly nothing.
TRAIN ‘MINUTE MEN’ FOR BOND CAMPAIGN
“Minute men” to canvass Indianapolis house-to-house for defense bond pledges were being organized today under the direction of Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, county director for the drive. The campaign, designated “MacArthur Week,” will be conducted from April 27 through May 2. Mrs. Arnholter and Eugene C. Pulliam, state defense stamp director, have given instructions to the following “minute men” organizers: Mrs. Clayton H. Ridge, Mrs. Brandt C. Downey, Mrs. Harry J. Daniels, Mrs. Robert F. Mannfeld, Mrs. Glenn W. Parrish, Mrs. Frank E. Lentz and Mrs. Irvin R. Yeagy. Decatur Central is the first township to be fully organized for the campaign. Organization there was in charge of Mrs. Charles Etris and Glenn Gray.
Security Administrator Paul V. Me-| *
Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, daughter of former President Woodrow Wilson, is shown at her desk in New York as she accepted the post of West Coast regional adviser of the women’s division of the defense savings staff. She will go to the coast in a few days.
FELLOWSHIP" WON BY TAXI DRIVER
NEW YORK, April 7 (U. P.).— George Zebriskie of Caldwell, N. J,
a poetic taxi driver who was denied a college degree because he refused to attend physical education classes, became a Guggenheim fellow yesterday. He received one of the 82 grants totaling $196,000 to assist research and creative work by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Zebriskie, who became a cab driver after he left Duke university, recently published his first book of
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KIWANIANS TO HEAR
Dr. Harry C. Sauvain, director of the Indiana university investment research bureau, wil address the Kiwanis club at noon tomorrow in the Columbia club on “The Economic State of the War.” Thé speaker is director of the Citizens Loan and Trust Co. of Bloomington, Ind. and the editor of Investment Bulletin and Seminar Bulletin, both published at I. U. He received the Ph. D. degree in 1935 at New York university.
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flames spurted from one engine of a four-motored bomber shortly be-
desert 20 miles southwest of here, killing five crew members. .Two of their crewmates parachuted to safety just before the big plane crashed 11 miles east of the Davis-Monthan army air base while on a routine flight late yesterday. Blame Motor Trouble While an army board of inquiry began an investigation, officers said unofficially that motor trouble was believed responsible. Flames seen spurting from one of the motors
apparently were extinguished before}
the crash, officers said, but the plane burned after it struck the desert. The bodies of four of the five victims were recovered from the charred wreckage. They apparently had been trapped inside the cabin, officers said. The body of the pilot was thrown clear of the plane, but his arms and legs were badly burned.
FEAR FORTRESS CREW DEAD HONOLULU, April 7 (U. P)— The entire crew of a United States flying fortress was believed today to have perished when the huge plane crashed Sunday night on the coastal slopes of Oahu island. An army announcement said four bodies had been recovered and “it is believed the entire crew nfay have
been killed.”
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An Unusual Collection of
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Among the 200 examples are a great number of those from World War No. | . . . many bearing messages which are equally valid today. Army and Navy recruiting posters; "Don't Talk" posters; Liberty Loan, War Savings Stamps, Relief Agencies, etc. Here's history and current events made
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‘COURSE IS ARRANGED IN SCOUT LEADERSHIP
Prospective boy scout council leaders will be trained in a central In- | diana council conference here April | 19 at the tt hotel. According to A. F. Hook, leader-
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