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WASHINGTON, - May 12—Not only because of

his importance in the administration but because

he may have a Hand in the conduct of the t-war world, the views of Vice President Wallace ve a social Bearing on the future policy of the United States. “For that reason . his address before the Free World ‘Associa~ tion becomes more than just another speech by a vice president. Mr. Wallace does not regard . this as merely another imperialistic war. He does not regard it as only a war to smash aggressors, although that is the first necessity. : This war, as Mr, Wallace sees it, is an interruption in a long 2 march of freedom for the common man, a threat to the continuation of that march and for that reason a people’s war that must be won so that what he calls the people’s revolution may continue. - Mr. Wallace therefore considers a complete victory as only a necessary prelude to a resumption of a long-drawn-out people’s revolution which he considers as having been in progress for 150 years, dating roughly from the American revolution.

It's a World Revolution

HE REGARDS THIS revolutionary movement as world-wide, and as part of it he lists the French revolution, the Latin-American revolutions of the Bolivarian era, the German revolution of 1848 and * the Russian revolution of 1918. Each of these, Mr. Wallace says, spoke for the common man in. terms of blood on the battlefield. Some went to excess. But the peoplé were groping

By Raymond Clapper their way and more and more of them learned to think and act together. The Nazi regime has attempted to interfere with that advance of human freedom, and it must be

defeated along with its allies. But Mr. Wallace says the people’s revolution aims at peace and not

at violence. He considers that the four freedoms

enunciated by President Roosevelt “are the very core of the revolution for which the united nations have taken their stand.” To realize these freedoms, Mr. Wallace believes

we have a duty to produce to the limit, to transport

as rapidly as possible to the battlefield, to fight with all that is in us, and to boll a just, charitable and enduring peace.

He Is Presenting the Challenge

PUTTING IT HALF in fun and half seriously, Mr. Wallace says the object of this war is to make sure that everybody in the world has the privilege of drinking a quart of milk a day.

As yet Mr. Wallace has not speeled it out, but

the implications are clear. After this war imperialism as it has been practiced by western nations must go. Industrialization must spread. Colonial areas must not be exploited without regard to their own development. What we have seen in Russia.in one generation, the industrialization of a peasant country, must be repeated in other places. Out of it must come freer exchange of goods and tools, for a common and world-wide increase of production that will bring about a higher standard of living everywhere. Mr. Wallace phrases his ideas in general language.

But inside the generalities are wrapped up many

concrete ideas which are destined, if they come into effect, to work Qesp changes in many parts of the world. He is laying down a challenge of which a great deal more may be heard as time goes on.

Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, h as been forced to take a rest. However, he is expected to resume his dail y column within a short time.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE PHONE RANG so much Sunday that Gen. Tyndall finally hopped in his car and ran away from all the congratulations. He hid out on his farm near Zionsville, getting acquainted again with his small grandson, looking over | the scenery and catching up a bit on lost sleep.

During the "day, the phone rang °

an average of every five minutes at his home. The calls started Saturday evening, and there was one at the uneatthly hour of 4 a. m. Several dozen telegrams and long distance calls were received from ‘friengs in the army, too. Yesterday and today he was back at work in the county civilian defense headquarters. ... His - late opponent for the G. O. P. mayoralty nomidation, Henry Ostrom, is back at work, too—checking over’ the new houses he’s building in North Kessler Manor and elsewhere. A resident of the section reports having seen Henry, just a couple of nights before the primary, wandering through the partially completed - houses, looking them over with a flashlight.

I's a Boy. at the Birrs.

JIM - BIRR, vice president of the O. A. Birr Motors, had a hectic week-end. Jim has received a naval commission as an ensign and is trying to wind up his business affairs preparatory to reporting Monday at Annapolis for the physical education school. Sunday he was waiting to show his home in Williams Creek to prospective tenants when he got word of the stork’s impending arrival. He threw the keys for . his home to a neighbor, bundled Mrs. Birr off to the - hospital’ and shortly became the proud father of a 7-pound heir named James O. Birr II ... Wesley R. Bunker, in charge of the T. W. A. ‘offices here for several years, left Sunday to report at Eglin field, Florida, as a second lieutenant in the air corps. He went by plane, of course, but it was by Eastern Air

Price Control

TORONTO, Ont, May 12.—Canadians are happy to kriow the United States is going in for general price control, both because of its implied indorsement of Canada’s great experiment (after long skepticism) and its promise greatly to ease Canadian difficulties. The neighbor to the south already has put 4 ceiling on the things Canada buys there, and this is expected to stop much of the growth of the subsidies Canada has been paying its importers for price stability. If England would do the same thing now, the Canadians would be even happier. General price control is still an experiment in Canada and has yet to meet its most severe test, that of the oncoming shortages of consumer goods. So involved are the problems of shortages that some of the price administrators are not yet sure how long prices can be kept stable here. Because of Toronto’s control of so much wholesale and retail business and its geographical position, the wholesale and retail administrations under the’wartime prices and trade- board are here instead of in Ottawa, as are a good many of the commodity administrations. od

Businessmen Are Consulted

THOUGH POLICIES are made in Ottawa, the Toronto officers usually are consulted and Toronto businessmen have a large share in the direction of the program. To a considerably greater degree than in the United States, business and industrial men carry the official responsibilities of price control.

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Monday. —I heard four young American artists last night, Maurice Wilk, violinist; Miss Virginia Lewis, mezzo-soprano; Emanuel Vardi, viola, and Miss Vivian Rivkin, pianist, in a concert at Town Hall, : ‘and conducted by Dean Dixon . ail th the New York Chamber orchestra. . All the artists were excellent and the program was delightful. We should be thankful that, in our country, we can still give young artists an opportunity to be -heard. The arts are the one ave“nue not blocked by the hate which 3 with war. p weather the last ‘two days 88 been perfectly delightful. The ces of the children playing in

4 Lines—not T. W. A. They don’t go that directions. : . Ensign Hal Benham Jr. is home on leave from the navy. Primary Memories DURING THE PRIMARY campaign, Paul Osten-

dorf of the U. 8. agriculture marketing administration , got into a discussion with C. L.

(Doc) Farringtoh, prominent commission man, as to who would be the Republican nominee for mayor. Mr. Ostendorf bet $5 that Gen. Tyndall would be nominated. A couple of days after the primary, when it looked like the General had been defeated, Mr. OStendorf paid off. Yesterday there was another little financial transaction, with Doc Farrington forking over that $5, and then another. Moral: Don’t discount: your chickens, etc. . . . A friend reports that a man with a famous name—Edgar A. Poe—runs a filling station at 256 N. Capitol ave. We looked him up in the city directory, and found three others with the same name. Three guesses as to the middle name in each case.

Around the Pricii

ROBERT TAYLOR (not the movie star) is on a leave of absence as research director of the Indiahapolis council of social agencies and is’ working with the agricultural marketing administration. . . . The library reports that one of its volumes was loaned out yesterday for the first time since 1911. Yep, that's right. It's been on the shelves 31 straight years without being borrowed-—until yesterday. The book is entitled: “What the Public Wants.” what’s in a name? . .. It didn’t look like a rubber shortage Sunday, what with most everybody and his dog out for an auto ride. of the roads near the city were pretty well filled with pleasure seekers who just couldn’t resist the afternoon sunshine. Not many of them were speeding, not even on the state roads. In fact, the fastest

"thing we saw on the road was one of those overland

busses and it wasn’t going much over 50.

By John W. Love

Both in policy and administration, as in so many other Canadian affairs, the program is linked more closely with the business community than it is in the States. Price control wouldn't work anyway if the public didn’t support it almost 100 per cent, its officers say here, and that goes for the retail merchants who have to carry its greatest burden, No organized opposition has appeared in the five months of the plan’s operations, and there have been no prosecutions in the Toronto administrative region

save for violations of restrictions on tires, gasoline,

sugar and rents.

A Nas Saving of Effort

. MILTON CORK, president of Loblaw GroceWoy Inc, Canada’s largest food chain, may have been expressing the feeling of “big” business when he said to me: “You are talking to a man who believes price control is a good thing for the country,- Its advantages greatly outweigh its disadvantages.” Diligent inquiry in Toronto fails to turn up any opinion that Canada’s system of price control particularly has increased the costs of running a retail ‘business. Many of the smaller merchants have more paper work to do, but an officer of one of .the larger “departmeiital” stores said the system had ielieved his company of so much other work as to amount to a net saving of effort. A number of people had to be moved over to accounting and statistical job$, but the knowledge of what competitors were going to charge and the release from worry -over the future costs of goods had made up for this expense in reducing other work in store management. These worries have all been shoved over on the government.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We listened to Winston Churchill's speech. One hopes that his solemn warning to the Germans against the use of gas in Russia will have an effect, for to add this horror to the horrors that aerial warfare has already brought, would be sad indeed. :

deeply grateful for the safety which the air patrols bring us. he time nd the Susll paral planes sight many a submarine. One by one, as they them off, it is safer for the ships to go in and and there is less likelihood that our Std towns wake up to find themselves being shelled. This morning I looked at the photograph of new air raid warden’s coverall, as shown in the n papers, and it certainly seems practical and easy identify, I still pray that we shall not be put to thi test of a severe air raid, and yet I am sure that if the day comes, we shall take it. calmly. I have two appointments here this morning and ‘must do one or two errands.. Then 1 speak st the

. forum on “The Rytaure ‘World forums

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The streets and some

Transportatio

Plane or

ties to prosecute the war$

motoring.

At home, you will not ride a bus if a trolley is available, or drive your car to work if a streetcar or

‘bus will take you there. If you ‘work in industry, you may find yourself on some such drastic shift as 4 a. -m. to noon, in order to help toward maximum use of transportation facilities.

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War Traffic First

ON THE BRIGHTER side, talk of the government actually “ra-

your auto or tires is “entirely premature.” This is the civilian traffic outlook as summed up by the man who knows most about it—Joseph B. Eastman, director of the office of defense transportation, boss of all forms of travel and transportation, wartime supervisor of all rubber-borne vehicles. Severity of restrictions on the average citizen, ' Mr. Eastman pointed out, will depend upon the degree to which his non-essential activities interfere with war transportation, and to a great extent upon his voluntary efforts to end wasteful and unnecessary travel. Here’s the current situation: Diversion of auto-borne traffic has increased the load on public carriers more than 50 per cent. A complete switch of auto traffic to trolleys, busses and railroads would break down transportation facilities in most cities. No railroad passenger equipment is being added; few new busses and street cars will be

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available. a? Teplace Tail of

services are being eiminated. There will be:no more holiday excursions, no chartered trips, no catering to resorts.

No Cry of “Wolf”

A TEST CHECK of company parking lots in Pennsylvania showed that one passenger car in 10 will be laid up within three to four months for lack of tires. If the same ratio applies through‘out the country, about three million autos will be off the road by fall.

tioning” travel or commandeering

All non-essential train and bus :

U.S. to Frown on All Needless Travel by Bus,

Private Auto.

By DALE McFEATTERS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May. 12.-~You won't move an unnecessary mile by train, plane, bus, streetcar, taxi or priv- . ate auto if it interferes with use of transportation facili-

If you drive your car needlessly, it will be at the risk. of bringing on nation-wide gasoline rationing to curb.

You will give up your train berth or seat if a man on war business needs it—as is now the rule on airlines. You will take a traveling vacation against the wishes of your government and with a chance of inconvenience

somewhere along your route.

This is the first of several stories on the nation's wartime transportation problems, particularly as they affect civilian travel. Others will discuss the outlook for rail-. roads, airlines, street cars, busses and private autos.

“It is clear,” Mr. Eastman said, “that everything .possible must be - done to provide transportation for the people who must travel.” While his primary job is to see that facilities for shipment of war materials are adequate, Mr. Eastman is particularly concerned at the moment with passenger traffic—especially rubber-borne traffic. “The rubber shortage is no cry of ‘wolf,’ ” he asserted. “In fact, every time I look into the situation it seems worse. “In spite.of repeated warnings; most people still seem unaware of the desperate need to conserve their tires. They must understand that the tires on passenger cars constitute the country’s largest rubber stockpile.” Approximately 173 million tires now in the possession of Ameri can motorists are estimated to represent - about 1,200,000 tons of: rubber. ; If motorists persist in using their cars for non-essential trips, Mr. Eastman warned, “gasoline rationing throughout the country will be an effective way to curtail driving. I'm not saying we're going to do this, but-it’s a possibility.” me Ea

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Em na Requisitioning to Wait

ALTHOUGH A BILL before congress will authorize the president to requisition autos, the ODT chief said that such a move would not be made until it is found necessary to transfer cars from unnecessary occupations to vitally necessary uses. “In any évent, nothing will be seized,” he added. “People will be paid for their cars and tires, if the government takes them. And we certainly won't buy just the tires and leave the cars for the owners to worry about.” ‘Rationing of train and bus

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Joseph B. Eastman:

travel also is very indefinite, he said. “It would be much easier and more logical to see that people whose duties are important to the war effort are given preference on railroads, just as ‘on planes,” he asserted.” “Those not engaged in necessary travel would have to _ give way. Accommodations remaining after priority travelers ‘Were taken care of would be offered on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. ; “I understand the passenger priorities system is working very well on the eairlines.” ,

Study Rationed Travel

MR. EASTMAN SAID the oDT is studying travel rationing possibilities, but that England and Germany, although at war much longer than this country, apparently have done no more about travel. Possibly, he said, the rail problem will solve: itself ta. some .ex~.« tent the sheer Miscmity travel ‘may discour all’ but those who absolutely must make trips. - Questioned about vacation travel, in view of the U. S. travel bureau's recent assurance that vacationists were free to go, Mr. Eastman said: “We are trying to discourage unnecessary vacation trips. It's * hard to draw a line between the necessary -and the unnecessary, but we are warning all who plan trips that they will risk inconvenience in getting travel accommodations. “We're also asking business

houses stagger their vacation plans, spreading them over a longer period, so there won't be the usual tremendous peaks.” As to local transportation, Mr. Eastman said his office is determined to eliminate duplicating services and insure maximum use of each facility.

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0. K.’s Staggered Hours

UNDER A STATE and municipal program now being carried out, he is urging communities to discontinue bus service on routes served by streetcars and to stagger business, plant and school hours. Told that some cities are suggesting drastic changes in industrial working hours—for example, a three-shift day from 4 a. m. to noon, noon to 8 p. m. and 8 to 4 a. m.—Mr. Eastman said: “I understand some big war plants are doing practically that now. It is wasteful to operate transit facilities at capacity twice “a day and have about half the equipment ide the” rest of the time.” F Asked dlodat organized labor’s attitude toward potentially severe curtailments of transportation and changes in working conditions, Mr. Eastman said: “I think, when the unions realize that curtailment of non-es-sential transportation is absolutely necessary to successful prosecution of the war, and when it affects everybody, theyll be willing to go along with the program,”

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Travel priorities.

JAPS DIE AS SUB DIVES IN HURRY

Several Seen in Water After Fliers Frighten It Off Surface.

ALLIED BASE, Australia, May 12 (U. P.).~—United States bombing planes which damaged two Japanese submarines off the Australian coast Sunday, caught one of them on the surface and it dived for life so precipitately that several of its crew drowned. Participating aviators ‘told the story today and left no doubt that both submarines were destroyed. One plane was returning from a reconnaissance mission when it spotted an enemy submarine on the surface with its conning tower open and several men on its deck. Scramble for Tower

Apparently the submarine was charging its batteries and its motors drowned the sound of the bomber’s powerful engines. Bombs started showering down on it. “Those in the plane saw the crew

_|scrambling wildly for the conning

tower. Within a few seconds the tower had been shut and the submarine had started a crash dive. Several men could be seen struggling in the water as the submarine! startéd beneath: the surface.

Oil Slick. Appears

Bombs dropped submarine as it submerged. A few minutes later, those in the plane saw the tell-tale oil slick."

around it.

over the sea. |

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have been dropped on the island.

The ‘rocket bombs ‘have been generally well received by the Maltese, who, at night, prefer to see wnat is coming so as te act accordingly.

"Real Estate

A gradual shifting of the population is in progress from the old historic homes of Malta's capital, Valetta, . to its modern “built in” residences—homes built into Malta rock. The owners of newly blownup houses may be ‘seen staking claims against the rock cliffs where, after careful inspection of the geological toughness of the rock, they intend to tackle the thrill of beginning to tunnel themselves new

homes. The ethical code regarding the

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The second submarine was spot- | [Ff ted by a bombing plane with its||f conning tower above water. Theft | bomber dived to within a few. hun- || dred feet, and dropped bombsi| The submarine disap- || peared and an’ oil slick spread ||

19 - TOKYO, May 12 (U. P.)—A dissaid :

HOLD EVERYTHING

all round. the

Nazis Testing Rocket Bombs; Maltese Watch 'Em Coming

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1942, by Te Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ALEXANDRIA, May 12. —Malta newsletter, received via submarine: It is estimated by naval officers stationed in Malta that, since the beginning, in December, of the axis offensive against it, 10,000 bombs

| The Germans have been testing rocket bombs on Malta—bombs propelled by a sizzling rocket, presumably with the purpose of greater accuracy of aim and greater penetration velocity.

staking of claims is such that a man may safely put up a sign with his name on it at the point where he wishes to dig, and nothing but a bomb will interfere with. it. The air raid situation is excellent. It enables the people to achieve a maximum amount of work between raids. Whereas persons viorking several hundred yards from & shelter will hasten to it at the first alarm, those who have a shelter 50 or 100 yards away will keep working until the ack-ack guns begin to shoot. Night Life

Despite raids “Captain Caruna’s bar” in Valetta is doing ‘well and Sonducting ‘usiness on the hundar~

bombing is purely optional. 2 Society The tail feathers of Lady Strick-

I land’s prize peacock -are growing in

again following the blast of a land mine, dropped on the Strickland estate. Lady Strickland (the widow

lof Lord: Strickland), whois very ‘|deaf, was herself blown off her feet

by the same blast that blew away the peacock’s tail feathers, but she

[calmly remarked as she got up;

"At Jat, Ive heard somehing

Baroness Blank, whose ancestors!

|lived in Malta for the past 600

years, and her neighbor, Mrs. Dash, {had not been on speaking terms for ri Ain Biller

LIGHTS DIMMED ON WEST COAST

700-Mile Central Section Affected by Order to

Combat Subs.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (U.P. —The 700-mile central section of the Pacific coast shoreline joined the Atlantic coast today in dimming its lights to combat the submarine menace. The dim-out became effective last night. A spokesman. for the 12th naval district said it probably would be several days before authorities would be satisfied with the dim-out. Several experiments will be made. He said weather conditions would affect control of shore lights. Fog, which hlankets the central California coast from May through July or August, provides a perfect reflector for inland lights. Thus, San Francisco could provide sufficient light to silhouette a ship at sea, even though the’lights on the ocean side were dimmed.

May Forego Night Baseball casual observer saw little

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Ind, May 12 troit; was killed yesterday when his

|PRICE CURB TOPIC

VEEDERSBURG, (U. P.)—Graves Meacham, 40, De-|

MACHINE TOOL PLANTS MEET NEEDS OF WAR

Conversion of Cincinnati ~ Firms Is Completed:

Work Long Hours.

CINCINNATI, May 12 (U. P.).— The machine tool industry has met the challenge of war by expanding plants and personnel, subcontract= ing parts and working longer hours. Judging by the performance of

the R. K. Leblond machine tool Co.,.

whose officials said produces the biggest part of machinery in this country for boring rifling and turning artillery up to 156 mm., the industry has met the challenge well. The Leblond plant, having swung over completely from making tools for automobile production to tools for making weapons, turns out as much work in a week now as it did in the entire year of 1932. Its volume in 1941 was 75 per cent greater than it was ih 1940, and it will ‘be 100 per cent more this year than it was in 1941.

Batteries of Equipment -

Newspaperimen, touring the Leblond plant and the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. works—believed to be ihe largest producer of machine tools in the world—under the sponsorship of the National Association of Manufacturers, found vast batteries of ‘grinding, turning, planing and boring tools. Frederick C. Geier, president’ of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., said the load on the machine tool industry depended on the military situation. “Every time the united nations lose something, the United States gets a fresh industrial load to bear for which the machine tool industry has to take up,” he said.

Replaces Machinery

Mr. Geier said the machine tool industry entered the war under a handicap. Industry had been : through a decade of malnutrition and had not replaced equipment, so when the United States began to rearm, : the machine too] industry had to replace obsolescent equipment. Mr. Leblond said his company was facing a labor shortage, al though his men were working 58 ‘hours weekly, and top men are making $75 to $100 a week. He said there was no difficulty in getting materials,

GOODRICH OFFICIAL AIDS RUBBER HUNT

AKRON, 0, May 13 (0. BJ. =" John L. Collyer, president of the B. F. Goodrich" Co., announced today that his ¢ompany is providing financial aid and technical help to = Cornell university in seeking a long-term solution to the rubber problem through ' possible new botanical sources of rubber in the. Western hémisphere. Mr. Collyer said that.“an intensive study has been undertaken to find materials to meet our rubber requirements.” He said that while approximately 1000 plants contain rubber, efforts will be made to find other rubber-bearing plants, and that guayule. the source of some industrial rubber, will undergo studies to increase its yield.

AT BUTLER FORUM:

Issues of “Price Control and Rationing” will be discussed at the third panel of the Butler university war forum series tomorrow in Jore. dan hall. : Members. of the panel include Dr. Charles C. Josey. head of the psychology department, chairman; Dr. Merwyn G. Bridenstine, professor of economics; Miss Kathryn Journey, professor of home econom=ics; Prof. R. M. VanMetre, economics department; © Mrs. Frances Strieghtoff, chairman of’ Marion county consumers’ council 1935-36; William T. Burnes, deputy state rationing administrator, and S. B. Walker, Wm. H. Block Co.

SUIT HELPS DEFENSE MISHAWAKA, Ind, May 12 (U. P). — A $2000 court judgment awarded 18-year-old Eugene Emmons for a broken neck sustained . in an auto accident, swelled Uncle Sam'’s war chest, today. Young Emmons handed the money over to the high school principal yesterday for purchase of war savings bonds.

boat, a i Ta pel itself in this war against the axis. These boats are an important ad=-_