Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1942 — Page 17
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2248 Pop Queries at New| Mellett Office on Its Opening Day.
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By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 7.—A gawky lad in ankle-length trousers and a
pork-pie hat strode up to. one of |
‘the girls at the 75-foot long formation counter, suppressed an adolescent giggle and said:
“Say, babe, how long is a. piece of string?” g . What “Babe” replied has not been recorded, but it may be disclosed that most questions put at the ‘U. 8. information service's new $530,000 building in downtown Washington are serious. Most of them are answered to the asker’s satisfaction. The USIS, a section of Lowell Mellett’s office of government reports, opened for business in its new quarters on May 4. On opening day, 2248 persons called with questions about everything from the price of single rooms| in the wartime capital to price ceilings on cellophane capes. Seventyfive personal queries was the aver-| age in the USIS’s old quarters. To the public, the main feature of Mr, Mellett’s new headquarters is a high-ceilinged room, 120 feet by 45, in the center of which is the long, two-sided counter at which the “information girls” hold forth. JLhes are 18 places at the counter. ree are occupied by the Dis-|-trict of Columbia defense council, _ whose representatives supply information for service men about Y food, lodging and free entertainment. Two are devoted to the sale of defense stamps and bonds, and
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RAILROAD LOSS
CALLED NAZI FOE
Sabotaging Will Cost Hitler Loss of War, Indiana
Loan League Told.
When Hitler loses the war, he can blame a good share of his troubles
on the transportation system he has .|devised, Dr. Melchior Palyi, Chicago
investment councillor, told the Indiana Savings & Loan league today. Dr. Palyi discussed and Finance Win the War” at the second day session of the three-day
“Economics
: meeting in the Hotel Severin,
Sabotaged Railroads
“Hitler has definitely ruined the possibility of winning the war by sabotaging his railroads,” Dr. Palyi said. .“He did not believe in them. He thought he could win by a web of roads and by a highly mechan-
ized trucking institution.”
He listed three reasons why the road and truck system is failing— the roads never were finished, the
|trucki nbgusiness was not built up
and Germany lacks gasoline due to
.{the blockade.
“For proof of this, stated Dr. Palyi, “oné has only to turn to the failure of the Geramn mechanized army on Russian territory this winter. ”» : Conldn’t Handle Potatoes
He cited two examples as proof that the German transportation system is not all that it could be.
.jLast year Germany harvested a
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‘one to the vending of government publications of all sorts. That leaves 12 places for ‘information clerks, on duty from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.,, Question-askers have ranged from’ a vice president and treasurer of @& big rubber company to a woman who wanted to find a day nursery for her 3-year-old child. Daniel Roper, former secretary of commerce, viisted the USIS on the first day and got some information about
price ceilings.
AUTO NIGHT BLINDS - PHILADELPHIA (U. P.). — Tiny Venetian blinds for automobije headlights, Philadelphia defense council officials ‘believe, is the an- - swer : to one small blackout prob-
LEPKE TRIGGER MAN DRAWS 20 TO LIFE
NEW YORK, May 7 (U. P.).— Sam Turtletaub, trigger man for the Louis (Lepke) Buchalter gang, was sentenced yesterday to from 20 years to life in Sing Sing prison for the murder of Mannie Birdie, a fellow gang member. Police said Birdie was killed by mistake during a clash between fur workers and racketeers when
Buchalter attempted to move into the industry. The gangster was arrested on a ranch in Phoenix, Ariz, where: -he had gone to live after jumping $10,000 bail in 1933,
A Rollers | To Free Worker
FELLOW WORKERS of Carl Fuqua, 17, of 302 E. Walnut st., worked frantically for more than 15 minutes, yesterday to release the youth’s hand, caught: in tworollers. at the National Mattress Co., 806 N. Senate ave. Mr. Fuqua was attempting to
clean the huge rollers while they
were in. motion, police said, and his right hand was caught and drawn into the machine. The rollers stopped automatically but workers had to force the machine into reverse with wrenches before
record crop of potatoes, but today they are rationed. The cause of the rationing is that the potatoes froze before they could be moved. ' The second example was the cry of Sweden, Denmark end Italy that they were receiving no coal from the reich. Berlin was suffering the same shortage . while only 10 hours by railroad from the capital were mountainous piles of coal.
2 DUTCHMEN TO DIE FOR TELLING RUMORS
LONDON, May 7 (U. P.).—A Japanese military court at Batavia, Java, has sentenced two Dutchmen to death for repeating rumors based on foreign radio reports, the Dutch news agency Aneta reported today. This is the first imposition of the death penalty in the Netherlands East Indies for listening to foreign
Mr. Fuqua could be released.
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By UNITED PRESS
3 French H vil ¢ Erecuted For Slaying of Nazi Soldier
Three more French hostages were executed today at Romorantin, in occupied France, in reprisal for an attack on a single German soldier. Dispatches said that Gen. Oberg, leader of the Storm Troopers, had been installed as head of police for
Departing from "its usual trend, Radio Berlin admitfed that these Dutchmen were “not Communists nor anti-social.” Instead, they were former officers and reserve officers of the Dutch army, and the Germans were indignant that they had “broken their word of honor,”
all of the French occupied zone, presumably in a redoubled campaign to end anti-Nazi terrorism. Rheinhardt Heydrich, known as one of the most ruthless leaders of
lin Paris yesterday, presumably for the same purpose. He previously
the German secret police, arrived] they ought to withdraw their word
of honor and notified the German
pledged when the armistice was concluded, that they would not oppose the German armed forces.
More Sabotage in Belgium “Some of thesé officers thought
had been in Czechoslovakia.
Romorantin.
Forty Frenchmen were shot in reprisal executions in occupied France yesterday. Thirty were executed at Caen and the others at
authorities of their intentions, the broadcast said. “They were placed in a prisoners war camp. The German authorities recognized this attitude as frank and sincere, con trasting it with the attitude of those Dutch officers who not only
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‘| the distinguished service cross,
| YORK AND. WOODFILL
Sabotage of a German munitions train at Vire, south of Cherbourg, disclosed that French civilians were being forced to ride on such trains as hostages. Twenty-one Frenchmen were killed when the train exploded after being derailed. There was no indication how many Germans died. Three parachutists ‘who landed at Vire shortly before the train was wrecked escaped the Germans who conducted a house-to-house search. It was possible that they might have dropped from ‘British planes which have been raging over occupied France.
7. P. M. Curfew Ordered
In western Normandy, occupation authorities ordered a general 7 p. m. curfew, hoping to check terrorism by keeping the French indoors. A Radio Berlin broadcast said 79 members of a clandestine Netherlands organization had been sentenced to death for “aiding and abetting enemy espionage, illegal possession of arms and explosives, or breach of officers’ parole.”
WINNING NAVY ¥ EXPENSIVE
Some Firms Shell Out as Much as $5000 in Staging Proper Party.
By DALE McFEATTERS Business Editor, The Pittsburgh Press
PITTSBURGH, May 7. — War plants naturally are proud to win the navy “E”—but they pay for it. They pay for it in money, in pro-
duction time lost and in shattered nerves of executives entangled for the first time in navy protocol. Protocol is a word describing navy etiquet, no doubt having merit but somewhat dismaying to the uninitiated. ; By the time the blue flag with the big white “E”’-—meaning a production - job well done is hoisted up- the flagpole to the strains of “Anchors Aweigh,” the average recipient has shelled out about $5000. Some of the larger companies, welcoming the “BE” with elaborate ceremony, have spent considerably more, possibly as much as $8000. The navy makes it plain that no winner of the flag is obligated in any way to stage a ceremony, .but a manufacturer who didn’t probably would be considered ungra-
GETS FLYING CROSS
WASHINGTON, May 7 (U.P.).—
A distinguished flying cross was awarded today to Capt. Patrick W.
violated the most rudimentary of international rules but did not shrink from breaking their word of honor.”
Sabotage was on the increase in
Belgium, too. A transformer station was wrecked at the important Krupp armament works near Brussels and several cranes were damaged at the locks of the Antwerp]: canal,
In Germany, Adolf Hitler ap-
pointed an “armament council” to speed production of material for his forces. The powers of the council were not specified. : Observers recalled that only last fall Hitler said, “I was able to order]: suspension of further production|: because there is no enemy in the|: world we could not beat with our|: present stock of ammunition.” In Italy, pointed himself “lord chief justice of Italy” and received a new codification of Italian law, which he said would be called the “Mussolini laws” and would be the “forerunner and guarantee of our victory.”
Benito Mussolini ap-
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James Finds One in State Junk; Gets $52,000.
IT WOULD take practically a Squad of plainclothes men to locate any junk on state institution property today. For, ever since the last legislature authorized him to sell all obsolete equipment owned by the state, State Auditor Richard T. James virtually has beer going over institution grounds with a fine-toothed comb looking for junk. And up to date he has sold more than $52,000 worth of obsolete equipment of all types, the money going into the state treasury. : J
+ INCLUDED IN the junk sold ‘are 150 old ‘automobiles, ranging
as far back as the "20s, and several tons of scrap iron. Prior to the passage of the 1941 law, no one, except the highway commission, had the power to sell obsolete equipment owned by the state. . The only way such equipment could be disposed of was to trade it in on new equipment. If the junk couldn’t be traded in, 1t was just placed in some out-of-the-way corner on the state property and left there to detioriate or to be carried off by some institution employee, Much of this old equipment was carried off in years past by state
employees, according to Deputy State Auditor Ross Teckemeyer.
LACK NEW WORD GN CORREGIDOR
Some U. s. offi Officials Fear 10,000 on Island When It Fell to Japs.
WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P)— The Japanese war machine’ which
insula and Corregidor island was expected today to clean up secattered resistance in some of the southern Philippine islands and turn toward America’s South Pacific supply route. : Experts believed that the Jap-
con» anese, with the thousands of men|'
and vast supplies relieved from duty in the Manila bay area, might attempt an invasion of New Zealand and possibly northern Australia. Air bases in those two places would make it possible for bombers to operate against the American supply line and the populous centers of southern Australia.
was used to capture Bataan pen-|
| Sophia Durdel ?
Is Dead at
MRS. SOPHIA MARIE DURDEL, a resident’ of Indianapolis for three-quarters of a century and the -oldest member ‘of the Immanuel Evangelical and ' formed church, died ‘today in h home ‘after a long illness. : Mrs. Durdel was 88 and lived 519 E. Minnesota st. A meta ‘of the ladies’ aid society of church, she was born in Germ hi .and came to Indianapolis-76 years. ago. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs, Amelia Neesen, and a grandson, Alfred Neesen, both of Indianape
' MONTPELIER, Vt. (U. P.).—The War of 1812 still is costing the United States money. ‘The Vermont state treasury recently received & federal check for $90,015.15 in pays ment for supplies and equi given the government Ying War of 1812,
Empire
McIntyre of West Lafayette, Ind., who was among a group of army Officers honored for their heroism in the battle of the Pacific. Capt. McIntyre was with Major Cecil E. Combs of Dallas, Tex. when their plane bombed a “bales ship Jan. 9. Honored posthumously was Maj. Stanley K. Robinson of Morgantown, W. Va., who was killed while carrying out his fifth air raid in nine days against the Japanese in the Philippines. He received both the distinguished flying cross and
NOW ARMY MAJORS
WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P.).— Two of the outstanding heroes of the A. E. F. of World War I— Sergt. Alvin C. York of Tennessee and Sergt: Samuel Woodfill, formerly of Madison, Ind., have been commissioned majors ‘in the army. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said they will be assigned to the ground forces for infantry work. They carried on their daring exploits in the last war as members of the infantry. Sergt. York is 54 and Sergt. Woodfill is 59. Sergt. York led a platoon of seven men to capture four officers and 128 men in a German machine gun nest. Single-handed, Sergt. WoodAill attacked a series of German machine gun nests, killing the crews of each in turn until he was reduced to the necessity of assaulting the last enemy detachment with a pick.
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