Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1942 — Page 3

DRAFT QUESTION

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BLANKS RUSHED

20-44 Group to Get Two, First of Which Seeks Data on Job Skills.

If youre one of the new draft registrants in the 20-44 age group, don’t get excited because you haven't got a questionnaire of any kind yet. All of you will get two questionnaires within the next month and some of you, the holders of the low order numbers, will get yours within the next few days, selective service officials said today. Local draft boards throughout the state are beginning to send out the

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FIRM PLATFORM

War Support, Strong Labor Stand Urged; State

Convention June 18.

By VERN BOXELL A platform calling for all-out war support, slashing of non-defense expenses, a strong labor stand and selection of the best men for top government jobs regardless of politics will carry the victory hopes of Indiana Republicans in next November’s election, it was indicated today. Looking forward to the 1942 state nominating convention here June 18, State Chairman Ralph Gates is to name a platform advisory committee today to draw up the party's

FIndiana Politics =

By Vern Boxell

ALTHOUGH it probably wasn't discussed officially at the state committee-congressional delegation conference, one of the subjects uppermost in the minds of all Republicans at yesterday's session here was the May reorganization of the state com-

mittee.

It’s not news to repeat that a major battle now is underway in the 11 districts for control of the state committee. It is merely a continuation of a struggle that has been going on for years and which got a fresh start when Secretary of State James

Tucker, Ralph Gates, Ewing Emison and Burrell Wright got together last year and Kicked out State Chairman Arch Bobbitt in favor of Mr. Gates. : Tied in with the reorganization is the prize state office on the ballot, this year—secretary of state, which Mr. Tucker vacates after serving two terms, and the auto license patronage which is the foundation for a strong or-

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a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, is out in front of Rep. William Larrabee, the Democrat who supported every one of President Roosevelt's defense measures but lost his district under the 1941 reapportionment act.

STRAUSS SAYS:

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Home Defense Bulletin

From Marion county and Indianapolis offices of civilian defense, World War memorial, 431 N. Meridian st.

How do I get warning of an air attack at night? Trained crews of watchers are on duty every minute — every night, searching the skies for any attack on your home.

These watchcers are working sO you may sleep in peace. You will have warning in time to take care of yourself and family.

Don’t let “rumors” panic-stricken — be when the time comes.

get you ready

The question whether all mem-

‘bers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect

are ministers and therefore exempt from military service will be argued in U. S. district court May 19. Assignment of three members of

the sect to camps for conscientious objectors raised the question. The U. §S. district attorney's office charges that they refused to appesr at the camps. The young men are Anton Ervin Kleine and Emil Edward Spencer of Indianapolis and Herschel Jewell of Martinsville. When arraigned be-

STORE HOURS

fore Judge Robert C. Baltzell, they

SATURDAY 9 AM

Cot ir fo Ly if Jehovah's Are Exempt From Service

pleaded not guilty to charges of vio= lating the selective service act. It was said at the district attore ney’s office that exemption from military service can be properly claimed only by persons whose names appear on a list of ministers supplied by the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses shortly after the outbreak of hostilities.

OFFICERS DIE IN FIRE

CAMP GRANT, Ill, April 10 (U. P.). — Military authorities today sought the cause of a fire that de= . stroyed the officers’ quarters here

and burned two officers w death.

TILL 6 P.M.

new four-page occupational questionnaire and they will follow the occupational questionnaire within two or three days with the regular draft questionnaire. Registrant Gets 10 Days

By this procedure, the draft board will have a registrant's occu-| pational questionnaire before it studies his draft questionnaire for classification purposes. Then, for example, if the board sees from the occupational questionnaire that a skilled tool and die maker is driving a taxicab, the board probably will advise the registrant to get a job as a tool and die maker where he can do the most good for the defense program. IH he should refuse, the board will then be apt to put the taxicab driver in 1-A, according to selective service officials. Present plans are to have both the occupational and regular draft questionnaires mailed out to the 226,000 registrants and back in the local board offices within a month. The registrant will be given 10 days to have his occupational questionnaire filled out and returned to his local board. The occupational questionnaires will later be sent to men of the first and second registrations. Job Inventory Is Goal

Purpose of the special questionnaire is to take an inventory of the present employment activities of registrants and of their skills and abilities. Data obtained through the occupational questionnaire will be forwarded through state headquarters to the national roster of scientific and specialized personnel and to the offices of the U. S. employment service. These federal agencies will use this data to locate persons with special qualifications for assignments in critical or essential occupations in the war program. The employment service will keep local selective service boards advised on those trades in which there may be labor shortages. Those who refuse to take the war production jobs for which they are fitted will be placed in 1-A by their local draft boards, draft officials said.

program as outlined at a meeting of the state committee and congressional delegation yesterday. It will be submitted to the convention for adoption.

Willis Urges Strong Platform

Senator Raymond E. Willis, who made a flying trip from Washington to attend the party pow-wow at the Claypool hotel, took a leading role in urging a strong platform. “To the support of this platform can be rallied the greatest longings of every citizens,” he asserted. “Never before in all our history have the people of America been so united in the common purpose to win this war.” After urging that his party select the best candidates for all offices in both the primary and convention, the senator declared: “There is a feeling that. there is a lack of firmness in the policies of the government. A feeling that the leadership of this heroic adventure is still kept within the limits of political favorites—that vigor is lacking in the prosecution of the war.

STEPS ASIDE IN 1342 CAMPAIGN

Secretary of State Waits Until Time Is Right to

Run for U. S. Senate.

By EARL RICHERT

It’s almost man-bites-dog news for a young, healthy state official who is used to a $6500 income and who never lost a political campaign to announce, as his term draws to a close, that he isn't going to run for any office. . That's the kind of news James M. Tucker, Indiana's 33-year-old Republican secretary of state, made today when he stated that he “definitely” would not be a candidate for anything in the coming G. O. P. state convention. Mr. Tucker cannot seek the post of secretary of state again because of the constitutional two-term limit (he has served two terms) and there are no other offices up at this election that interest him, he says |Wiom the people have lost conSome of his friends have urged | fidence, such as Ickes, Hopkins, him to seek the G. O. P. nomina- Stimson and Perkins, be replaced tion for the attorney generalship and we ask that men whose ability (a job that pays $7500), but Mr. has been proven, such as Hoover, Tucker says he is not interested. (Farley, Landon, Smith, Willkie, No Interest in Trade Hughes and Baruch, shall be Others have suggested that hejused.” try the time-honored political cus-| Of the proposed labor policy, he tom of trading offices, pointing out|said: “A more definite labor policy, that he might get his former deputy, |dictated by men who have the in- | State Auditor Richard T. James, to|terest of the whole country at heart, run for his office while he would is what the nation needs.” run for the auditorship. But Mr. “The American people realize,” he Tucker has not given these sug-!continued, “that planes are more gestions even ear space. important that parity; that weapons Jim is one of those one-track are more important than wages; kind of fellows. |that powder is of greater concern He has had his eye on the U. S.!than profit; that ships are more senate ever since he started in poli- necessary that social security; that tics and in 1944, when the next sen- | |guns and guts are wanted more atorship is up, he hopes to do than gab and gush.” something about it. Six of the eight Hoosier RepubMuch Can Happen lican congressmen — only Robert But 1944 is a long way off, Jim |Grant and Ear] Wilson were unable says, and a lot of things can hap- to attend—took part in an execupen between now and then to tive meeting to discuss campaign ehange Shines. plans. Is plans for the immediate future are indefinite. He says that All Agree on June Date

A" Question Mark

LATEST REPORTS say that the anti-Gates group is making headway in at least six districts. And, of course the 11th district, Marion county, is a question mark depending upon the outcome of the struggle for control of the local organization. If County Chairman James Bradford is the primary winner, then Joseph Daniels, his political backer, is reported to be the district chairman choice—another vote for the Gates group. The secretary of state race, as one Republican leader put it, is now “up in the air.” One of the reports gaining wide circulation is that the Gates faction stays in control, Glenn R. Slenker, state representative and Monticello attorney, is a favorite for the nomination. : For many months, Maurice Robinson of Anderson, Mr. Tucker’s chief deputy, has been the favorite. But Mr. Robinson is reported to be more interested in making the race for supreme court judge than in the secretaryship. In this connection, Mr. Tucker says that he will not try to dictate his successor. He is interested, naturally, in having someone friendly to him as his successor. The young secretary still hasn’t forgotten his 1944 senatorial ambitions and he has built up a strong organization in his post.

Definite Labor Policy Asked “We must demand that those in

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Pressure on Robinson

REPUBLICAN leaders other than Mr. Tucker, however, still are bringing pressure on Mr. Robinson to become a candidate for secretary of state. Mr. Tucker says he will not ask his deputy to. run if he does not want the job. . As things stand now, Mr. Robinson indicates he is willing to go before the state convention in June and let the Republican party decide whether it wants - him for secretary of state or supreme court judge. - Then there is the group which still is trying to get State Sen-

today.

Today's Rumor

This Times series is designed to help you. If you hear a rumor don’t pass it on. Call us or write us and we'll check it for you. If it's true, we'll tell you so. If mot, we'll give you the facts.

The Gossip Is . . .

That sweaters knitted and given to the Red Cross free are being sold to soldiers for about $5 each. That if a soldier wants to keep warm he has to pay for it.

after he goes out of office Dec. 1, he will either go into the practice! of law with his father, James L. Tucker, at Paoli, or will join the’ U. S. army. And, of course, if 1944 finds him in the army the U. S. senate race will just have to wait.

ILLINOIS TO HOLD PRIMARY TUESDAY

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P). —The 1942 political season opens officially Tuesday in Illinois, when voters will select party nominees for congress, one senate seat, two state offices and numerous state

legislature and county positions. National interest centers chiefly on the contest for the senate seat now held by C. Wayland Brooks, Republican. Mr. Brooks, a prominent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has opposition in the primary on the foreign policy issue. Since both Democratic senatorial candidates were pre-war supporters of Roosevelt foreign policy, if Mr. Brooks wins renomination he is assured of onposition on that score in November. ‘Mr. Brooks’ Republican opponent is Warren Wright, state treasurer. Shortly before Pearl Harbor, Mr. Wright, nounced . formally his full support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy. State polls show Mr. Brooks running far ahead of Mr. Wright. The polls, howevér, indicate a close contest in the Democratic fight for the senatorial nomination between Rep. Raymond S. Mec-

The Facts Are . ..

That this rumor hasn’t even the slightest basis of fact. Mrs. Frank Hoke, Red Cross production chairman here, explains that sweaters knitted here are sent to military destinations on orders of the ‘Red Cross area headquarters and that it doesn’t cost any soldier a single -cent to get one of them.

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BACK KOREAN ANTI-JAP RULE CHUNGKING. April 10 (U. P.).— China soon is expected to recognize the provisional (anti-Japanese) government of Korea and similar reccognition by the United States and Great Britain may follow, Korean Foreign Minister Joso Wang said

Douglas, University of Chicago professor.

Keough and Chicago Alderman Paul |9™

The committee agreed unanimously on the June 18 convention date after Mr. Gates said that organization work cannot go forward | “until after we have our convention. It is my feeling that because of the tire and automobile situation a late convention would work a hardship on the party.” District conventions, to be held May 12, will be att First, Crown Point; second, Winamac; third, {South Bend; fourth, Ft. Wayne; fifth, Marion; sixth, Crawfordsville; seventh, Spencer; eighth, Huntingburg; ninth, North Vernon; 10th, Richmond, and 11th, Indianapolis. District chairmen and vice chairmen elected at these sessions will meet here May 13 to organize the

state committee.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S, Weather Bureau

i ( Centya), Pgh pine) Sunrise

ERATOR —April 10, 1941— 19 Zp.m. ....... 65 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7: 3 a. m. 53 11.95

Total precipitation since Jan. Excess since Jan

Indiana—Not much change in temperature; cool tonight with local frost.

The following table shows temperatures in other cities

already a candidate, an- Boston

Cincinnati Cleveland nver Evansville yne

a. Minneapolis-St. New Qtjeans cere vunhnluenie New

ator William Jenner to seek the secretary of state nomination, but he is reported not interested. Others who have been mentioned are Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne city attorney and Allen county chairman; Hobart Creighton, Warsaw poultry farmer and state representative, and George Fate of Renssalear.

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Little Open Talk

SO FAR AS THE congressional races are concerned, there wasn’t a great deal of open talk yesterday about sweeping all 11 races. But there was extreme confidence that all eight G. O. P. congressmen would be re-elected and there were some who said a sweep isn’t outside the realm of possibility. The Republican representatives have been back home for the last few days checking up on their standing and all of them who could be reached seemed pretty happy about the situation. Most discussed races were the fifth district, where his friends say Rep. Forest Harness of Kokomo is not in as much trouble as some people would have you believe; and in the 10th, where the dopesters in- - sist that Rep. Raymond Springer,

NO CONTESTS, NO POLL

VINCENNES, April 10 (U. P).— With the candidates for Vincennes city offices nicely squatted off at one each from the two major parties, the Knox county board of election commissioners has decided that voters needn't even be bothered with a city primary. It’s the first time since passage of the city primary law that the instance has occurred.

IN INDIANAPOLIS—VI ITAL STATISTICS

Here Is the Traffic Record: 5 ss Seems meeting ¥. MC. A

i Al iati FATALITIES | Wenner - and Measures. pg “Cut County City Total

pool hotel, all d 24 47 steak Sinner, club, Country C1 26| Tri Psi, Delta Delta | Delta, luncheon, 608 Hampton drive, 1 p . mreling Scott Harish Chapter, DAR, eeting. chapter house, 11 a. 144 Meta Tau pha, n “Brovinee, con1 vention, Columbia all ot “Casteton P.-T. A,

cation ame THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Rue 0 I Oruiative AS. Cases Convic- Fines. sociation meeting, Hotel Washington, Tried tions Paid | Exchange Club, luncheon, Severin hotel, ; 3 | noo: Speeding “es : 3 } noiegaphers Union, meeting, Severin Reckless driving Indian ’s Thien Ne. 17,

Failure to stop at Wx Een 7:30 p through street 1 0 itionin Council inner meet-

| Optimist Giub, Club, Tunchoon, ‘Columbia club, | Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Canary oot-

ES Sigma, luncheon, Canary cottage,

ub, annual beet-

| noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapelis and Marion co of. Chiakch. Women scout dav. investiture services, uy AT

Mmcheon. Governor Schricker (aE. | Gite a 1 eon vernor cker Central Avenue Methodist church, neon. | EL kite tournament, Christian park.

Association of tors and measures, o omnpectors Qasr

MEETINGS TODAY

Field Army for the Control of a the At Art Alliance

benefit artists’ demonstration, ns”

en 34th st. night.

Tri-State Association a Operatye Hers, convention, Hotel Severin, all Indiana ‘Seciety of X Ravi Technicians, convention Lincoln, all day. Woman's Rotary club, ‘meeting, "Propy-

laeum, 6:30 p. m Hotel Severin, 3 soring dinner, dance, Columbia club, 6:30 p.

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in

6 bames and addresses.

Donald Fain, 24, Brazil Ind.: Ura A. Hudson. 21, of 1548 Central

Leroy Penick. 24, of 632 Maxwell; DoroWy las Carlisle, 19, of 43 illi G. Mabin, Ell len, P. Tete het W. Cole, 31

of 2720 N. Pe Clarence M. M. W James Elmore, 53, of arie

24, of 929 Divi of 28 Di of 528 Arbor; Edna

Allen 18 ob } Elmore ‘Joseph E. of 1124 Pleasant; Her a1 Leona 232 N. New " a 4 : . of 1555 IY de E. Crow. 24, of 71 W. 2d, Peru, . Sni 27, Carmel, In aranoff, 5. of 101 W. Market: Viola Smith. 31. of 633 Arbo!

Girls Robert, Elizabeth Southerland, at St.

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| James,

; 89, i acute cardiac dilatation.

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Boys Eleanor Lockwood, at Coleman. Heimut, Audrey Brandmaier, at St. Francis. Chris, Esther Greiner, at St. Francis. Clarence, June Ax, at St. Francis. George, Mary y Swift, at St. Francis.

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DEATHS

Elizabeth W. Callen, 80, at 955 N. Campbell, chronic myocarditis. Clara B. Ellison, 78, at 1012 E. 46th, pernicious anemia. Harry C. Page, 55, at 401 N. Illinois, coronary thrombosis. Sarah Hall Maish, 79, 2 3245 N. Ii-

; |nois, hypostatic pneumoni

Henry H. Schilling, 57, at 1136 Prospect, mitral stenosis. Hulda Webb,

at 814 E. Wyoming,

Nellie Cramer, 67, at City, cerebral thrombosis. Nancy Lee Higgins, 1, at St. Vincent's, eh S-phoumo a. mas Nathan Tomlinson, 73, at Cenrh chronic myocarditis. Eldora Beard, 71, at Long, Edward Blake Walker, 54, at itr oi

80, at 1702 Hall place, _ Sardio yagtlar renal. J Adams, 78, at 217 E. Vermont, SOUte I Oats. Sothelius Ww. Hendricks, 42 at 2214 W. Morris, © ary embolism, William entry Kirkham. 80, at 1808 W. orris, m ditis

Critte 58, at 1502 N.

Soman |

, at 1329 Olive,

1008 N. Sheffield,

A Strauss Charge Account

is a nice thing to have (and youll find your application for an account will be surrounded with every . courtesy) . . . Particularly newsworthy is the JUNIOR CHARGE ACCOUNT— _. that permits - moderate weekly payments. No carrying charges— (Balcony)

suits for Spring — are so fine at their prices — that men are buying them right and left!

It has become almost a legend—that, "You'll be better satisfied with a Wearington!"

And these for Spring—will add satisfaction

on top of satisfactior |

The styles have a cosmopolitan expression— The fabrics have long wear—{and eye-pleasure) in them. The tailoring is done with honesty and skill.

They are surrounded with all the services that come from a store that handles only the best.

Highlights are WEARINGTON

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SHETLAND SUITS,

of a special sort

Jacket, Vest, Trousers and an Extra Pair of

Gabardine Slacks—29.75 WORSTED SUITS Single

29.75 & $35

GABARDINE SUITS

3-piece

and Double Breasted

29.75 & $35

2-piece

32.50

single breasted double breasted

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