Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1942 — Page 11

WPB FOR

WORLD

MAY UNIFY ALLIES

United Command for Economic Front Is Considered; U. S. May Junk Two-Thirds of Plans for

New War Plants in

‘Win Quickly’ Move.

WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P.).—High government

officials today are studyi international war producti the economic front.

plans for establishment of an

board to unify command of

The proposed agency, to mobilize the economic resources

of all the united nations, would reinforce decisions made by the supreme military commands. Joint and interlocking committees and boards now keep all the 26 united nations advised regarding

developments, but there has been a growing feeling that an overall unit is needed to co-ordinate production and supply efforts. The tentative plans being discussed would designate one man or 2 small group—comparable to WPB Chairman Donald Nelson and the - hihe-man WPB—to have th2 final word on all united nations economic problems. * Chief responsibility for economic mobilization, however, still would rest with Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union and China.

"Manufacture in U. S. or Britain?

* Such a unified economic command would decide, for example, whether to send raw materials to Britain for manufacture into war materials to ke sent to the Soviet Union, or to ship the finished goods directly from the United States. Impending shortages of vital war materials, the menace of axis submarines and the desire to bring the greatest fighting pressure against the enemy in the shortest possible time were understood to be major forces working in favor of creation of such an international agency.

Plant Contracts Re-examined

" A WPB spokesman revealed that all outstanding contracts for war plant expansion were being re-ex-amined to see if the materials could not be. better used — in existing plants—to make guns, ships, tanks, planes and munitions for fighting men who will be meeting the enemy in the next few months. Eventually it may be necessary to junk as many as two-thirds of the outstanding authorizations for new plants. They would be those which would not come into production until late 1943 or 1944, Officials aiso indicated that all future factories would be of a temporary nature. So great are the demands for vital rdaterials that for the first time in history there is more industrial capacity than there are materials to keep it operating full blast. Scores of limitation and stoppage orders have been issued by the WPB and the “fat” has been stripped from civilian economy,

A converted to military uses. That means, officials pointed out, that hereafter decisions will have to be made between various military needs and essential civilian requirements.

cles that all the united nations are gathering their forces for all-out pressure on the enemy at the earliest possible moment, possibly this summer, so that the war can be won with the minimum losses of both men and materials.

T0 WELD UNITY

Returns to Yonkers Home; Radio Rome Says Russia

Forced Release.

-NEW YORK, May 18 (U, P.).— Earl Browder, leader of the Communist party in the United States, released from Atlanta Federal prison by President Roosevelt, returned to free living today in search of something to do “to weld unbroken national unity under the commander-in-chief for victory in the war.” Browder arrived yesterday afternoon from Atlanta, where he was released late Saturday after Mr. Roosevelt had commuted his fouryear prison term for passport fraud to time served—14 months. A large crowd of Communists, their sympathizers, and liberals, identified with a campaign to obtain his freedom which got under way soon after he was sentenced, were at a railroad station here to give him a noisy welcome. But he left the train at Newark, N. J. and motored quietly with a few friends to his home in suburban Yonkers. President = Roosevelt's clemency was received calmly, generally, by newspapers and political leaders. That the axis intended to use the commutation .in its propaganda efforts to divide the American people, was shown yesterday when Radio’ Rome, in a broadcast beamed at this country alleged that Soviet Russia had put strong pressure upon Mr. Roosevelt to bring about Browder’s release and that the president had, reluctantly, finally

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during gunnery practice.

ABOARD U.S. S. DOVER, Lake Michigan, May 18 (U. P.).—Farm boys and factory workers who have yet to see their first submarine are pumping four-inch shells into targets on Lake Michigan and learning to deal with the undersea menace to ‘America’s shipping lanes. A week from today, under the navy’s intensive training schedule, they may be blazing away at the

real thing from the deck of a threatened merchantman. The navy revealed today that it is sending hundreds of sailors and officers drawn from the Midwest and other parts of the nation into armed guard service—gun crews aboard merchantmen.. It will be their task to see that the cargo gets through. If they sink a sub or two along the way, the boys will be just that much happier.

U. S. Indicates

Time Is Near

For Waging Big Offensive

WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P.)

~—There were increasing indications

today that the United States is nearing the time when it will be ready

to wage a major offensive, especially

against the Japanese in the Pacific.

One clue was given in the week-end army-navy joint communique

reviewing the war in which it was asserted that the American “concept of waging a war has always been and will continue to be offensive in

YOUTH FELLOWSHIP AREA HEADS NAMED

The Indianapolis district Methodist Youth Fellowship installed Orville Lee as president at a meeting yesterday in tha North Methodist church. Other officers include the Rev.

A. J. Coble, vice president; Miss Marilyn Samson, secretary, and Robert Thurston, treasurer.

New commission chairmen are Miss Katherine Chearer, evangelism; Miss Barbara Patterson, world friendshipe Anne Lytle, community service, and George Hunt, recreation. Miss Catherine McBurney is the new life work counselor. The junior intermediate superintendent is Miss Lucile Perry. Miss Ruth Nordberg will head the young people's department. Subdistrict presidents elected include Miss Betty Crossland, north; Miss Mary McIniyre, east, and Byron Bastin, south. Charies

counselor. The award for the oustanding youth program of the year was given the East Park church while Broadway ehurch was cited for the best missionary program. A plaque for the church contributing the most to the Methodist hospital was presented to North Methodist.

Penalty Severe In Cycle Theft

IN TIMES like these, bicycle thefts are akin to horse stealing. Consider the case of Herschell McCurdy: He took Marcella Chandler's cycle, Saturday morning from her home at 1527 N. Olney ave. He rode it to Mooresville and tried to He was arrested and brought back here where he faced Judge John McNelis in municipal court today. The fine—$200 and casts. The sentence—six months on the state farm. McCurdy, by the way, was released from the farm just last week where he had been since last summer. That offense—he had stolen a bicycle.

KNOX MAN NAMED BY 157TH REGIMENT

ANGOLA, Ind, May 18 (U.P.) — Harry Davidson, Knox, was elected president of the 157th regiment of the Veterans of the Spanish-Amer-ican War yesterday as 300 Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio veterans convened in the annual convention. Charles Hohse, Knox, was named vice president and H. Lyle Shank, Angola, permanent secretary. The 1943 convention will be held at Knox.

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nature.” It said engagements so far were merely the “preparatory phase for offensive action.” Another clue was the decision of the war production board to review all plant expansion plans with a view to directing materials into the manufacture of articles of war instead of to new production facilities. WPB is said to be planning to hold up- construction of plants which would not be able to produce for a year or so, and thus relieve material shortages in plants producing war materiel now. “Sound military policy,” it said, “requires the concentration of all available resources on a main effort, with the maximum economy of forces in secondary theaters. This situation may result in apparent reverses which are, within the large strategic picture, actually successes.” ‘The army and navy said that the first five months of war had demonstrated that the Japanese are not so tough as individual fighters.

Epic of Philippines

“The defense -of the Philippines will stand as an epic of the fortitude and tenacity of the American soldier and his Filipino brother-in-arms,” the review said. “From a practical viewpoint, it demonstrated the comparative weakness of the Japanese as an individual fighter. This feature alone forebodes disaster for the enemy when the battle is met on terms approaching equality.” It revealed for the first time that the weary and sick defenders. of the Philippines. were forced to subsist on “15 ounces of food per day for several weeks.” The normal daily ration is between 5%; and 6 pounds. The review was optimistic about the eventual outcome of the war.

STAMBAUGH SAYS U. S.

MARION, Ind., May 18 (U. P.).— Lynn U. Stambaugh, national commander of the American Legion, said yesterday that the United States has created a fighting force comparable to one which Japan spent more than 10 years in building. Speaking before a hospital day audience at the U. S. Veterans’ hospital, Mr. Stambaugh asserted that the U. S. will be established as a “world fighting force” by the end of the year. : He said “we are in better shape now to win the ultimate victory in this war than we were in 1917.”

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Anti-Infiation Drive.

CHICAGO, May 18 (U. P.).—The first ‘major wage. agreement negotiated under the government's antiinflation program was sent to 550,000. shipyard workers for approval today. It reduced scheduled wage increases and made them payable in

scale in the history of the shipbuilding industry.® Under the ‘agreement, shipyard workers will receive an average wage increase of about 7 per cent ‘or 8 cents an hour. Existing pacts, under which wage scales were tied to the cost of living, would have granted increases averaging 13 per cent. The. agreement answered President Roosevelt's request that shipyard’ workers give up full-scale raises because they would be irreconcilable with his‘ seven-point anti-inflation program. The President outlined his views to the conhference in a telegram May 4.

750,000 Are Affected

Representatives of shipyard management, the navy, the maritime commission, the war production board, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the American Federation of Labor participated in the 21-day negotiations. If ratified by local unions, shipyard owners: and the government, the agreement will affect a total of 750,000 workers in the expanding shipbuilding industry by the end of 1942, Acceptance of the pact was expected to be a mere formality. Unofficial estimates put the total wage increase under the new agreement at between $125,000,000 and $150,000,000 annually compared with a total of approximately $225,000,000 under the old pacts.

3 KILLED, 2 HURT IN W. VA. MINE BLAST

BENWOOD, W, Va. May 18 (U. P.).—Three men were killed and two critically burned today in an explosion inside the Hitchman mine of the Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. here. Ten other men, part of a force of 15, sent into the mine last night to clean up a rock and slate fall, escaped, making their way to safety past the scene of the blast, which occurred about 500 feet from the sloping entrance to the workings. Company officials said the 10 who escaped were not aware that an explosion had occurred until they came out of the mine after the power. had failed due to the blast. They were working about two miles

closes off the mine into sections. The explosion was the second within a week in the West Virginia soft coal fields. Fifty-six men were killed in a blast last Tuesday at the Christopher Coal Co. No. 3 mine at Osage, W. Va., near Morgantown.

JOHN RAWLEY DIES; EX-JUDGE AT BRAZIL

BRAZIL, Ind., May 18 (U. P.).— John M. Rawley, 80, Clay county’s oldest practicing attorney and former circuit court judge, died last night. ;

politics. and one-time member of the state committee, was vice president of the Brazil Trust .Co. and a Y. M. C. A. director. Survivors include a brother, Judge

one daughter.

CIVIL PATROL UNITS TO HOLD MEETINGS

will hold military drill and receive instructions in military discipline and courtesy at 7 o'clock tonight at the Municipal gardens.

operators’ license class will meet The advanced first-aid class will gardens. MOTHER OF JUSTICE DIES

P.).—Mrs. Calvin H. Stickle, ciate justice of the U. S. Supreme court, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ella Springer. She had been in ill health for sev-

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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The prospect of an early united nations offensive in Europe is again held out, this time by an important

British government, Sir Stafford

Cripps, lord privy seal.

ourselves to take

ot the war.” In his speech at: Leeds on saturday, Prime Minister Churchill voiced something of the same thought when he said that while we

have not yet actually “topped the ridge” and started down the road to victory, the ridge is now in sight. Sir Stafford said he naturally cannot discuss allied plans publicly, thus giving information to the enemy. The where and when of an allied offensive is as much a secret as

ever, but there is a convinction |among a large section of the British ‘public that it will be this summer,

while Russia is, engaged in what may be the dicisive struggle against Hitler. Keep Hitler Worried

Recent London distpatches indicate a growing distaste among the British for any idea of “Lef Russia do it.” They are strong for the fullest possible aid to Russia, as is Washington. Military commenators on both sides of the water deplore any suggestion that Russia alone can do the job of beating Hitler. Sir Stafford’s speech could not be construed in any way as a definite promise of an offensive this summer. ' He did not say when. There prob-

Sir Stafford said in a speech at Bristol last night that “the time is at hand when we must prepare

the offensive in the decisive stages

ably were two definite motives behind his statement. One was to keep the Germans worried about allied preparations, part of the “war of nerves.”

' Mollify Churchill Critics

The other was to mollify critics of the Churchill’ government's war policy, who are impatient with what they regard as its purely negative and defensive nature. The government is expected to have to answer these critics in parliament, probably this week. In his preliminary remarks last night, Sir Stafford insisted that the government is as “keen and anxious” as the people to create a new front. These warlike verbal gestures are well calculated to worry Hitler. The success of Marshal Timoshenko’s Kharkov drive is evidence of the military task Hitler is up against this summer. - His key point in the whole Ukraine is threatened and his Crimean drive in danger of being outflanked.

sefves of men an planes i he hopes to crush Russian resistance. He cannot very well draw" many 3 more from western’ Europe. The British R. A. F', has ‘compelled him to maintain a “big air force in western Germany, France, the low. countries and Norway. Cruisers like the Prinz Eugen, just hit by British torpedo planes, require strong air protection, Hitler undoubtedly has thinned out his holding forces in western Europe, although probably not to the extent suggested by the Soviet newspaper Pravda today. Pravda quoted a captured German corporal as saying he had just been with-

‘|drawn from the Paris region and that “very few Germans remain in

France.” That is unlikely. Hitler knows the danger of an. allied attack, coupled with a uprising among the subjugated peoples.

OLD HARDWOOD MILL AT SUNMAN BURNED

SUNMAN, May 18 (U.P.).—A hot bearing on a line shaft was given as the reason for the $25,000 blaze which destroyed the Galbraith & Sons lumber mill Saturday, according to officials. For a time, the entire lumber

yard, large gasoline storage tanks and several homes were threatened by the fire. The mill was said to have been the oldest and largest hardwood mill remaining in south-

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