Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 40
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1942
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
'F.D.R. ASKS $25,000 INCOME LIMIT, STABILIZED
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With Pleasure—
“I'll be glad to do whatever they want me to do,” commented
COURT RECORD
OF CANDIDATE IS MUTILATED
Grand Jury to Investigate; Two Pages Cut From Official Book.
The Indianapolis Times today learned that one of the candidates for sheriff in the Democratic party primary has a police record and that court files bearing this information have been tampered with. Mutilation of the court records was discovered two months ago. Criminal Court Judge Dewey E.
Myers (unopposed candidate for mayor in the Democratic primary) immediately advised County Clerk
RICES, WAGES,
Taxes to keep personal low level.” after payment of taxes.
taken in taxes.
among consumers and not
to be ‘rationed. The office issue the rationing orders,
“should be subject at least to surtaxes.” program requires new legislation.
financial ability to pay high prices for them.” velt was confident not many basic necessities would have
60-year-old John B. Gandolfo, a native of Genoa, Italy, as he registered for the manpower survey today at 1431 E. Washington. Mr. Gandolfo, who lives at 1216 E. Vermont st., told the registrar, Mrs. Francis P. Griffin, 1616 E. Vermont. st., that he was not working at
Charles E. Ettinger to place the files in a lockbox for safekeeping. ® Prosecutor Sherwood Blue told The Times this afternoon that he
in bear-
Taxes
and corporate profits “at a
A $25,000 ceiling on personal net incomes Congress to decide what constitutes a fair corporation profit, and all excess to be Income from all government securities
This part of the
: Rationing
“We must ration all essential commodities of which « there is a scarcity, so that they may be distributed fairly
merely in accordance with Mr. Roose-
of price administration will adding as necessary to the
present orders for rationing of sugar and gasoline.
Credit Ale
Credit and installment buying must be discouraged.
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. !I \p « ¢ / The President's ‘Design for War Living WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P.) .—Here is President
‘Roosevelt’s program for “equality of privilege” ing the costs of war and preventing inflation:
Wages
“We must stabilize the remuneration received by individuals for their work.” The war labor board, however, “will . . . continue to give due consideration to inequalities and the elimination of substandards of living” in deciding wage controversies. No legislation needed, as the president will instruct the WLB as to the policy to be followed.
Prices
Ceilings will be fixed on prices paid by consumers, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers for the things they buy; and ceilings will be fixed on rents “in all areas affected by war industries.” The OPA is expected to issue this order Tuesday night.
Farm Prices
The 110 per cent of parity limitation inored by existing law on ceilings for agricultural product prices should be lowered to a flat 100 per cent of parity. Farm price ceilings then should be set at parity. Requires
legislation.
: War Bonds
. present.
SERVIC ROLLS ADD
= 339,000
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HOONERS
Men From 45 to 64 Register as U. S. Seeks Complete Inventory of Manpower; Continue : Until 9 Tonight.
By EARL
RICHERT
Indiana’s fathers and grandfathers, many of them vet~erans of other U. S. conflicts, willingly placed their names
on Uncle Sam’s selective service rolls today alongside the
. names of sons and grandsons. An estimated 339,000 Hoosier men
between the ages of 45 and 64, inclusive, registered at their local "draft board officers to make possible a comprehensive inventory of the nation’s manpower for war Produetion. Today's registrants, unlike those of the three previous registrations in World War II, will not be liable for military service.
Occupational Data Sought
. They will later be required to fill out an occupational questionnaire, " but that will be merely for the purpose of obtaining information, Col. - Robinson Hitchcock, state selective ‘service director, said. Those whose questionnaires show them to have special skills may - be asked later by the U. S. employment service to get into war pro- - duction work, This, if it is done, will be on a purely voluntary basis, however, draft officials said. Registration today for the man- _ power survey recalled memories for ‘ thousands of the Hoosiers of other services performed for the nation.
_ Million Hoosiers on Rolls
Some of them served their country in the Spanish-American war; others were the doughboys who shing into Mexico to avenge Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, N. M., and othres were the doughboys who eracked the German lines in the battle of Meuse-Argonne in France in 1918. Today’s registration brought to the total list of Hoosier names on the selective service rolls to approximdtely 1,000,000—about onethird of Indiana’s total population. More than 600,000 Hoosiers between the ages of 20° and 45 are registered for military service and - many of them have already been called to the colors: Among those registering today (Continued on Page Five)
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
14 John Love ... 10 Movies Obituaries ..7, ‘Organizations Pattern 13 Pegler . 10 Pyle .72....... 9 | Radio 13 Mrs. Roosevelt ‘9 Serial Story . 17 Side Glances. 10 Society ....12, 13 Sports 15 State Deaths . 18 Voice in Bal... 4 War Quiz, 1
Al Williams . 10
- Business .... Clapper 18
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CARRY CAMP WAGE DISPUTE TO CAPITAL
Company, Union Officials to Consult Somervell.
Company and union officials will confer with Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell army supply chief, in
Washington tomorrow in an effort
to iron out the dispute over wages being paid carpenters working on
Camp Atterbury, new army camp being built near Columbus. P. L. Tracy and I. C. Bissell of the A. Farnell Blair Co. and P. H. Grove of O'Driscoll & Grove left today for Washington to represent the coniractors at the conference. George Strange, business agent for the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners, said his union would have a representative there. Company officials said that a few of the 271 carpenters who had “walked off the job” last week because -they thought they should be paid $1.42% an hour instead of the $1.30 they were getting had returned to work, but “otherwise the situation .remains the same.”
YORK" SIGNS AGAIN; ‘THIS IS DIFFERENT’
PALL MALL, Tenn., April 27 (U. P.).—Most things have changed little here at the junction of the three forks of the Wolf river during the last quarter of a century. But there were differences today. Srgt. Alvin C. York, who entered the first world war as a conscientious objector and came out of the war as the No. 1 American hero, signed up again for service to his country. The same Parson Pile who registered him on June 5, 1917, officiated. “This war is different,” York said. “This time it’s we who have been attacked,”
. PORTUGAL FEELS QUAKE OPORTO, Portugal, April 27 (U. P.).—An earthquake jarred this city for a few seconds today, followed by a strange underground noise. No serious damage was immediately reported. The shock was so severe that the serra pilar seismograph needles were broken. Several other north Portugal towns reported earth shocks.
WALL STREET CALM NEW YORK, April 27 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt's message to congress today had little effect on Wall Street. Prices barely changed. Traders described his recommenda-
tions as “too. general,”
will promptly subpena county officials to bring the mutilated records before the grand jury. The candidate is Thomas J. Sullivan, who is now serving as a deputy sheriff,
The Candidate’s Background
On July 15, 1924, Thomas J. Sullivan, 214 McKim ave. was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. On July 24, 1924, he was fined $40 and costs. On July 19, 1927, Thomas J. Sullivan, 214 McKim ave., was arrested on a charge of vagrancy; on July 20, reslated on a charge of entering a house to commit a felony. This charge was dismissed on July 21, 1927. : On Dec. 12, 1927, Thomas J. Sullivan, 549 Parker ave. was arrested on a charge of petit larceny and on Dec. 14, 1927, he was fined $1 and costs in criminal court and sentenced to six months on the Indiana state farm, the sentence being suspended. On Jan. *23, 1929, Thomas J. Sullivan, 549 Parker ave. was arrested for parking an automobile by a fire plug. On Jan. 24, 1929, he was fined $5 and costs, the costs being suspended. :
Sought Post on Police Force
On July 28, 1937, Thomas J: Sullivan, 549 Parker ave. filed an application with the Safety Board for appointment to the police force. He listed on this application previous addresses of 1416 Bates st., 214 McKim ave., and 549 Parker ave. To the question if he had ever been arrested, Mr. Sullivan listed: “Yes, in 1924, for assault and battery. $40 and costs was disposition of the case.” In this application for appointment to the police force, he had (Continued on Page Five)
CHINESE VICTORY REPORTED IN BURMA
Recapture Entire Sector in Effort to Block Trap.
CHUNGKING, China, April 27 (U. P.).—Chinese forces under Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell recaptured the entire TaunggyiHopong sector of the eastern Burma front and American volunteer pilots shot down all of a flight of five Japanese planes, a communique said today. The Chinese counter-attacks on the Taunggyi .sector came at a time when the Japanes€ were striking with strong columns toward the important railroad junction of Thazi, in an effort to outflank the allied defense front in central Burma, south of Mandalay. It is not yet entirely whether -the danger to Thazi had been eliminated.
“The pay off of debts, mortgages and other obligations”
All Americans should buy so many war bonds that
promote purchases of war
regulations. .
must be encouraged to retard excessive buying and
bonds. The federal reserve
will issue the necessary orders, tightening present credit
the purchases will “mean rigid self-denial, a substantial reduction for most of us in the 3cale of expenditure that is comfortable and easy for us.” Purchases to remain on a voluntary basis “as long as possible.’
JAIL MOTORMAN IN TUBE CRAS
Police Say He Was Drunk; Five Killed, Injured Are Put at 263.
P.) —Louis, Vierbuchen, 48-year-old
jury action on charges of manslaughter and “operating a train under the influence of liquor” in connection with the wreck of a Hudson & Manhattan tube train
last night. The train was wrecked when it
leaped the tracks while entering a station at high speed. Five persons were killed and 263 injured. Vierbuchen pleaded innocent and was held in Hudson county jail in absence of bail. Police Chief Harry W. Walsh filed . the drunkenness charge immediately after the motorman’s manslaughter arraignment. Chief Walsh said that when he arrived at the wreck"scene and saw Vierbuchen, “I concluded he warranted examination as to his sobriety.” He said he turned him over to Dr. James Norton for examination. The doctor issued a letter saying Vierbuchen had beens drinking, but,
blood test. Chief Walsh said other witnesses corroborated his opinion of Vierbuchen'’s sobriety.
Inquiries Are Pushed
Chief Walsh also read a statement which he said was taken from the motorman in which Vierbuchen admitted having had “about five beers.” Investigations into the cause of the wreck were being conducted by the state board of public utility commissioners, police and the district attorney’s office. Traffic still was tied up on the main line and thousands of commuteers were forced to use other means of getting to work. The tube serves metropolitan New Jersey as far as Newark, Hoboken, Harrison and Jersey City. It runs into midtown and downtown New York City.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 27 (U.
motorman, was held today for grand
that final verdict must await a}
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plosion was caused by a torpedo or}: a mine, s It was considered likely the Stur-
|tevant struck a mine which had
broken looose from its moorings. ‘The Sturtevant was the 31st American naval vessel lost since the present war began. So far the United States has lost 11 destroyers, four in the Atlantic and seven in the Pacific.
World War I Type
The Sturtevant was one of the old World War I type of destroyers,
with four stacks and a flush deck—|
the same class of which 50 were sent to Britain a year and a half ago. It was commissioned Sept. 21, no.
+ It was 314 feet long, had a top
speed of 35 knots, was equipped with four-inch 50 caliber guns, and carried a normal complement of 122 officers and men. Two destroyers were torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic—the Reuben James, sunk off Iceland last Oct. 30 with loss of 100 lives, and the Jacob Jones, sunk off
Cape May, N. J., Feb. 2 with the
loss of 115 to 125 lives. The destroyer Truxton was lost when it smashed into the rocky coast of Newfoundland in a raging gale in February.
Sunk Off Florida Coast
U. S. Destroyer Sturdevant
Undsrwater Blast Blamed For Loss of U. S. Destroyer
WASHINGTON, April 27 (U.: P.).—The 1190-ton U. S. destroyer Sturtevant has been sunk off the coast of Florida by an underwater explosion, the navy announced today. Most of the crew reached port safely. The loss of life was small.’ The action occurred during the past 24 hours, a navy spokesman said. The navy’s communique did not say whether the underwater ex-
ROSTOCK LEFT MASS OF RUINS
Civilians Flee in Terror Of R. A. F. Bombings
From Baltic Port.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Civilians are fleeing from burning Rostock, Germany’s Baltic port and armament center, to escape the R.A. F’s air attacks which have heaped 800 tons of bombs upon the city in the last four nights, the British air ministry reported late today. While the R.A.F. continued to carry its ever-increasing ‘second front” offensive across northern France in daylight attacks, an air ministry statement said that aerial reconnaissance had revealed the chaotic results of the Rostock "| bombings, concentrated last night
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on the big Heinkel airplane works. Aerial photographs of the main railroad station were said to have shown crowds waiting for the next train—“any train that would take them away” from the bombwracked city of 115,000 population. Great fires are raging in the city.
Port a Mass of Ruins
There seemed no doubt that the great Heinkel factories and the harbor area, from which men and supplies are sent to Russia, was now a masy of ruins. ied war planes in steadily increasing numbers pressed home offensives from France to the Baltic ‘coast and the distant southwestern Pacific in a world-wide bid for aerial superiority over the axis. Britain’s spring offensive in Eu(Continued on Page Five)
GIRAUD’S ESCAPE
The Strangest Speech of All
By UNITED PRESS . Adolf Hitler made one of the | strangest speeches of his career . before his rubber-stamp reichstag in Berlin Sunday — a speech significant for two admissions: 1. He revealed that there are troubles within the reich and that, to cope with it, he is taking in his own nands the power of life and death over every German. 2. The war will go through “next winter’—a revérsal of his previous boasts that 1942 will be year of a final Nazi victory. (Details of Speech, Page 11)
CORREGIDOR'S GUNS DISPERSE JAP FORCE
American Commander for
BUOYS FREE FRENCH
LONDON, April 27 (CDN).—The escape of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud from Koenigstein Fortress near Dresden has caused the greatest excitement among the Free French in London and among those Britons who knew the general. No one dares to express hope for
Caledonia Named. or to forecast the possible plans
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“BORROWED” BABY, WOMAN EXPLAINS
LOS ANGELES, April 27 (U. PJ).
10a. m. ... 11a. m. ... 12 (Noonm).. 1p m.
“Yep. ” “Supper time, Grandpa.” “Yep.” “Hain’t you hungry?” a" ‘Yep. ”
“Nope. ” “Why ain’t ye?” “Standin’ in a-b’ar trap.”
His Grandpappy Done Tol' Him
WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P.).—Rep. Wilburn Cartwright (D. Okla.) says Adolf Hitler's address to the German people on’ the Russian campaign remjnded him of this story: Grandpappy Morgan, hillbilly of the Ozarks, had wandered into the woods and failed to return for supper. was sent to look for him; found him standing in the bushes.
“Gettin’ dark, Grandpa,” the tot Yentured.
“Wal, ain’t you comin’ home?”
—Mrs. Florence Post, 29, “borrowed” a five-day-old baby from a maternity cottage apparently because she wanted a child of her own so badly, police said teday. Authorities held Mrs. Post for further questioning today and said they intended to seek a complaint charging her with kidnaping Louis Francone Jr., who was stolen from his crib in a maternity cottage Friday night. : Mrs. Post was taken into custody 24 hours later after police received an anonymous telephone tip and found the baby, one of twin boys {born . April 18, at her home. She had taken the child after chatting with several mothers at the cottage. 2
Young Tolliver
WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P.). —The war department announced that Corregidor’s big guns broke up a Japanese troop concentration on Bataan peninsula and set a truck park on fire. A departmental communique, the first issued here on the Philippine situation since April 22, said today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had reported from his headquarters in Australia that Corregidor had undergone its 250th air raid alarm since Dec. 7, and that the beleaguered fortress was being shelled heavily from Japanese batteries in Bataan and on the Sout shore of Manila bay. At the same time, the department announced that Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch Jr., 52-year-old infantry officer, has been placed in command of American troops on the Free French Pacific island of
New Caledonia. *
which might be laid if Gen. Giraud escaped here, but everyone is praying that he will be able to reach England. It is certain, say all Frenchmen who know him, that he will not go anywhere near Vichy.
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OFFERS PLAN
T0 HALT RISING LIVING COSTS
Seeks New Legislation on Farm Product Costs and
Profit Taxes. |
(Text of message, Page Three)
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 27 —President Roosevelt today laid down a seven-point pro« gram to check rising living costs with drastic curbs on profits, prices and wages, including a proposal to limit the net income of any American individual to $25,000 a year. “Our standard of living will hava to come down,” he said in a ial message to congress in which he described his program as one of “equality of privilege” for all Amer= icans in bearing the burdens of total war. His program was the forerunner to forthcoming action—probably to= morrow—to fix overall price ceilings on most American goods. Rents in war industry areas also will be| fixed,
Favors Profit Limit |
» The President proposed high taxes on corporate profits as well as on incomes of more than $25,000 & year, He explained that “wages in gene eral can and should be kept A o% exe isting scales” through the in ; sion of the war iabor board ral passes on union demands for pay increases in all disputed cases. He asked that congress take no action to suspend present provisions of law requiring overtime pay for work in excess of 40 hours a week, “Most workers ‘in munitions ine dustries are working far more | than 40 hours a week, and should | cone tinue to be paid at time and a half for overtime,” he said. “Othe their weekly pay envelopes would be reduced.” EH
Favors Voluntary Savings
Rejecting the pleas of some of his advisers for compulsory purchases of war savings bonds, Mr. Roose= velt said he wanted to keep |such sales on a voluntary basis “as|iong as possible.” Mr. Roosevelt told congress | that so far as he knew legislation would be necessary only to achieve tax objectives and to keep prices of farm products at parity instead of 110 per cent of parity as provided in the present price control law. The president said that he had issued the necessary orders for the price regulations which Price Ade ministrator Leon Henderson | will promulgate later, probably tomorrow night. He added that as various shortages of consumer goods devel= op, general rationing of scare items would be necessary. |
On Stabilizing Wages
Rationing” of sugar will go into effect throughout the nation ‘next week. Gasoline for civilian motor ists on the East coast will rae tioned on May 15. . In discussing the general stabilization of wages, he said that the “existing machinery for labor dise putes will, of course, continue to give due consideration to inequali= ties and the elimination of substan« dards of living.” The president did not Specify the tax rates which he thought should levy on corporatiih and in« (Continued on Page Five)
3500 AMERICANS IN INDIA CALCUTTA, India, April 26 (De= layed) —At least 3500 American civilians remain in India, 1300 of them in northeastern provinces along the Burma frontier, Lester L. Schnare, United States consul Eo eral, revealed today. He said effort was being made to tra
them to the United States.
On the War
PACIFIC: Air war spreads to French island of New Caledonia where Japanese reconnaissance planes are beaten off by U. S. air forces; Vichy protests U. S. oc-
cupation of island; allied bombers|
attack Lae in New Guinea and
Bougainville in Solomons; beat off Jap attack on Port Moresby.
BURMA: British say positions have “deteriorated” in last 48 hours as strong Japanese forces press toward Thazi, 70 miles from Mandalay; Chinese recapture
Fronts:
RUSSIA: Red air force Ade luftwaffe’s mass attacks on grad, shooting down 65 raiders.
BRITAIN: RAF starts ¢ in fourth attack on Ros Baltic; bombs Skoda arms at Pilsen; Germans prisal attacks on British towns. -
GERMANY: Hitler in reichst speech stays war will go another winter; reveals inte troubles and takes power o