Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1942 — Page 2

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BRIDGES OUSTER

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PROVES PUZZLE

Congressmen Generally Applaud Biddle’s Order, but

Can’t Reconcile It With Browder’s Release; C. I. 0. Leaders Protest Action.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.).—Congressmen today were puzzled by the order for deportation of Harry R. Bridges, Pacific coast C. I. O. leader, and several admitted that they were unable to reconcile it with President Roosevelt’s recent commutation of the sentence of Earl Browder, American Communist leader, in the interest of “national

unity.”

Generally they favored the order.

and one congressman, Rep. Laborite, N. Y., denounced it as a blow to national unity and the war effort.

Party Is Accused

The United Press could find no congressman who would comment on the possible effect the action might have on relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, now allied against the axis. Attorney General Francis Biddle's order ruled that Bridges should be deported because he had been affiliated with the Communist party and further stated that the Communist party in this country had advocated since its inception until the present time the violent overthrow of the American government.

Appeal to Courts

Mr. Biddle's order closes to Bridges all further appeals in administrative channels. Bridges may, however, appeal through the courts on a habeas corpus writ when and if he is taken into custody. Mr. Biddle said he expected Bridges to do so. But it will take at least a year to get it to the supreme court. If the court upholds Mr. Biddle, there will be no certainty that he can be deported until Australia decides whether to accept him. Meanwhile Congress of Industrial Organizations leaders charged that the Bridges order was “a blow not only at all concepts of American justice but even more a blow at national unity and morale necessary for victory in the war against the axis.”

Reynolds Is Released

But labor leaders Vito Marcantonio, American-

ACTION PRAISED BY STAMBAUGH

Bridges Openly Disregarded Our Government, Says Legion Chief.

The ordered deportation of Harry Bridges, West coast C. I. O. leader, today was commended by Lynn U. Stambaugh, American Legion national commander, as “a justified action following extremely exhaustive hearings.” From his home in Fargo, N. D,, Commander Stambaugh sent to the national headquarters here his statement that the Australian alien “has shown open disregard and contempt for our form of government and has advocated its overthrow.

Studied Since 1938

“Since May, 1938, the national organization . . . has been actively engaged in the effort to secure the deportation . . .,” the Legion chief said. “Naturally our organization is pleased to learn the decision that has been reached by the federal government after extremely exhaustive hearings on ail phases of the case. So far as the Legion is advised, there is no country on

N. C) hoped that it would add sup- | port for his bill which is penging: in the senate and would outlaw the] Communist party, the German-| American bund and other organizations advocating violent overthrow! of the government. But puzzlement over their inability to see what they thought should be a logical relationship between the Bridges and Browder cases was the most apparent reaction in Congress. “This ought to cancel out the Browder releasg,” Senator John A. Danaher (R. Conn,), said. “It’s all in the interest of national unity.” Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), couldn't “quite understand” Biddle’s decision. Senator Gerald P. Nye | (R. N. D), thought it was “well that | the long-delayed decision comes now.” Approved by Hoosiers

Both Indiana senators approved the ruling. “I heartily indorse Mr. Biddle’s action in the Bridges case,” Senator Frederick VanNuys chairman of the

Senator Robert R. Reynolds (D.|S*rot where an alien of Bridges’

type would have received equally fair consideration of the charges on which the decision to deport was based.”

Full Consideration Given

Mr. Stambaugh declared that time for full judicial consideration had been given. “We regard this as a case where a proper decision has been reached after the accused was given every legal right to prove his innocence. “We feel that the American's regard for citizenship will be enhanced. . . . ” Deportation of Bridges usually was the subject matter of a resolution at each of the Legion's gatherings for the last several years.

Renews Support

Of War Effort

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (U.P). —Harry Bridges awaited arrest for deportation today, but pledged his continued, whole-hearted support of the war effort.

LABOR SUPPORT ‘GIVEN MURRAY

Growing Sympathy Factor In Direct Action by

Lewis, Is Belief.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 29.—While John ‘Lewis was firing Philip Murray yesterday from the vice presidency of the United Mine Workers, the latter was in the private office of the president of the United States discussing mobilization of national and international labor to help win the war.

support for Mr. Murray in the Lewis-Murray split were reaching

'union. Surprisingly, some of these |came from locals of District 50, the |U. M. W. division of extremely wide | jurisdiction, which is a personal |creation of Mr. Lewis and has been {described as a Lewis “puppet state.”

Got Tired of Show

Either or both of these develop- ||

ments may have influenced Mr. Lewis to drop the show he was putting on of building up a foundation for formal charges against Mr. Murray, and to move in typically Lewis manner to accomplish what has obviously been his aim for several weeks or months. A third probability is that the dramatic-minded head of the mine workers got tired of the performance and decided to call it a day, incidentally showing beyond anybody's peradventure that there is only one boss in this union. The name being Lewis.

Inside Stories Vary

Grapevine reports from the closed meeting room differ. Some say that it was one Nicholas Fontecchio, Baltimore regional director of District 50, or a miner named Ghiz-

vice presidential office was vacant. Some say also thai it was John Mates, a Pennsylvania hard-coal official, who nominated the new occupants of the office, John O'Leary of Pittsburgh. Others say that Mr. Lewis made both the motion and the nomination, and Fontecchio or Ghizzoni and mates were the seconders or supporters. The essential fact was that in about 15 minutes beyond “the hour” Mr. Murray was indubitably fired. Mr. Murray, calm and poised as usual, and with his Scoteh burr showing no tremolo, talked to reporters in his new C. I. O. head-

Meanwhile, expressions of union|

the high commander of the miners’|:

zoni, who made the motion that the |

Rotary club members will entertain their ladies Tuesday noon at the Claypool hotel with a program featuring the “Singing Marines,” a Chicago theater ensemble. Featuring Alice Bradley, the singers made their debut in 1938 at the College Inn in Chicago. Edward Stack, baritone “captain”

THE INDIANAPOLIS arines Sing for Rotary

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Alice Bradley and the “Singing Marines” . . . they sing symphony style.

of the group, has completed his fourth season with the Chicago Civic Opera Co. The personnel of the ensemble was recruited from civic opera contests in Chicago, conservatory scholarship winners and winners of Chicagoland Festival contests. They are presently engaged at Keith's theater here.

NAVY PROTESTS STATE BARRIERS

Forrestal Says Materials Are Delayed by Lack of

Uniform Laws.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P) .— The navy reported to congressional leaders today that state laws and their enforcement by state officials are in many instances seriously hin-

dering the war effort. ! In reply to a query by House

Democratic Leader John W. Mec-| Cormack of Massachusetts, Under-|

secretary of the Navy James V.|

quarters, which are not so luxurious as the red-leather upholstery he had ingthe half-million dollar building of the mine workers.

Forces No Resentment

He voiced no open resentment against the man whose close associate and ally he had been for 22 years; said “I cannot question the decision of the board in this mat-

Forrestal said in a letter that mer-|

‘chant vessels hugging the Atlantic

coast line to escape submarines are delayed by state boundaries await-| ing and changing pilots as required |

‘by state laws, and trucks carrying |

materials vital to the war effort are being delayed because of the lack of uniformity in state highway laws. | “There is no doubt,” Mr. For-

ter”; but added, “the justice or in-| justice of the action will be eventu- |

America.” The new vice-president, Mr. O'Leary, presided at the afternoon | session, which Mr. Lewis left to at-| tend to personal matters. He de-!

restal said, “that any action that may be taken to eliminate and re-

complishment in expediting the successful prosecution of the war.” Following a recent Washington conference called by President Roo-

clined public statements of policies gsevelt, the states have begun to and at an earlier session with re- revise their statutes and regulations porters Mr. O'Leary had been re- to prevent interference with move- | minded by his chief that he was so|ment of war materials and other new on the job it was not fitting | phases of the war effort. | that he speak for the union. “I'd prefer for Mr. Lewis to do the

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Dodge's Widow

Seeking Divorce

DETROIT, May 29 (U. P.).— Mrs. Annie Laurine ge Lange, the tugboat captain's daughter who married an heir to the Dodge automobile millions and lost him in a fatal accident on their honeymoon, has filed suit for divorce against her second husband. The suit was filed April 18 against Dr. William A. Lange, plastic surgeon to whom she was secretly married Jan. 30, 1941, Mrs. Lange was married to Daniel G. Dodge in August, 1938. She was 19, and a telephone operator in an obscure Canadian village. Thirteen days later, while the couple was honeymooning on Manitoulin island, Mr. Dodge was injured by a dynamite explosion and drowned after falling out of a boat on the way to a doctor. Litigation over the Dodge fortune was climaxed by a court decision declaring her Dodge's legal heir and making her eligible to a sum which then amounted to $10,000,000 and may now reach $8,000,000 minus tax deductions.

DAYTON YIELDS WASHINGTON, May 29

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|ally passed on by the membership duce delays that hamper transpor-| _The city of Dayton, O., today volof the United Mine Workers of tation of materials required for de- yntarily abandoned a $90,000 fed\fense purposes would be a real ac- e;a] works project for new schools

to allow vital materials to go into the war effort.

GAN SAVE TIRES’

WPB. Rubber Chief Defends Motor Fuel Rationing Despite Protests.

opposition to nation-wide gasoline rationing as a rubber conservation measure with the assertion that it

is the easiest. and most equitable way to save valuable tires. Arthur B. Newhall, WPB rubber co-ordinator, repeated an earlier WPB warning that most of the tires on the nation’s automobiles must last for the duration of the war. “I don’t believe a voluntary program of rationing would be quick

|enough and effective enough to save

our present supply of rubber,” he said. “It all goes gack to the question of how badly you want to save rubber.”

Rayburn Leads Opposition

gressmen in the unrationed section of the country protested against plans for limiting the amount of gasoline in sections where abundant supplies are available, President Roosevelt told a press conference, meantime, that he had not yet conferred with Price Ad-

matter of nation-wide gas rationing but indicated that he would see the price chief soon. Any such rationing would be administered by Mr. Henderson's office. The opposition was led by speaker Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.), who said none of the reasons given for rationing gasoline on a national basis appealed to him. “The people in the areas where gasoline is unrationed will conserve rubber themselves,” Mr. Rayburn said. “They know that when their tires are gone they will get no more.” Midwestern senators said gasoline rationing in their states would slow down agricultural production. Those from north central states said it would ruin their summer tourist business.

‘Situation Is Critical’

But Mr. Newhall stuck to his earlier contentions—that the rubber situation is so critical that drastic steps must be taken to preserve the tires now in use for essential duty such as transporting people to and

{from work: that the only effective way of doing that is by rationing

gasoline so that pleasure driving will be eliminated. He said administrative problems would prevent gasoline rationing for the whole nation being put into effect by July 1, when the temporary program now in force in 17 eastern states ends and a permanent system will be set up. —————————— 4 QUITO REBELS SEIZED

QUITO, Ecuador, May 29 (U. P). —A former minister of defense, a prominent army officer and more than 100 civilians were held in Garcia prison today for invading the government palace and Killing

one carabinero and wounding three

in an attempt to start a revolution.

ONLY GAS CURB

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U, P.).—|§ The war production board’s rubber |§ chief today answered congressional |}

His statement came after con-|

ministrator Leon Henderson on the

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1. U. Secretary ~ Takes New Job

: Times Special * BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 29. —Miss Forba McDaniel, executive secretary to Herman B. Wells, Indiana university president, has resigned to accept a similar post with the Chicago district bankers’ association. Miss McDaniel is a past president of the Indiana federation of business. and professional women. ForMiss McDaniel merly secretary of the Indiana bankers’ association and founder of the Hoosier Banker, magazine, she came to the I. U. staff in 1938. She served as secretary to Ward G. Biddle, university controller, and for more than three years has been executive secretary of the office of Mr. Wells. Miss McDaniel, a native of Russiaville, Ind., was the only woman to hold the post of secretary of the Indiana bankers’ association.

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TRUCKING LIMIT ORDER DELAYED Requiring 75% Load on

Return Trips Put Off Until July 1.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. PJ), ~The office of defense transporta= ' tion today postponed from June 1 to July 1 the effective date of or= ders requiring long-distance trucks to load to 75 per cent of capacity on return trips. : The restriction, along with cure tailment of local truck deliveries, had been ordered as a rubber-save ing plan. Director Joseph B. Eastman of the ODT, who said that the poste

ponement would give industry more time to work out plans before the orders became effective, also announced relaxation of the locale delivery restrictions. :

Alternate Plan for Press

Newspapers, which had been -or= dered to cut deliveries to one a day to each delivery point and also ree

MWARTHUR MEN

duce mileage, were given an alternate plan whereby deliveries could be maintained at the present rate but only if use of rubber-tired

STAB JAP BASES

Blast Rabaul Again; Repulse Raid on Port Moresby.

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 29 (U. P.).—American and Australian fliers downed or damaged at least 11 enemy planes in raids on the Japanese northeastern bases of Rabaul and Lae and in beating off an enemy raid on Port Moresby,

| Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. In a heavy night attack on Rabaul, New Britain island, allied planes started large fires. At Lae, northern New Guinea allied planes bombed airdromes. Twenty Japanese zeros made a determined attempt to raid Port Moresby, allied base in southern New Guinea, but were driven off. One allied plane was missing from Lae and two were shot down in the Port Moreshy, for a score of 11 or more Japanese planes downed or damaged to three allied planes lost. Advices from advanced areas said allied planes dropped both demolition and incendiary bombs in their raids on Rabaul and Lae, and that over Lae they observed the ruins of buildings apparently burned out as the result of previous bombings.

FIND HOSE SUBSTITUTE

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. PJ). —Experiments to find a substitute for rubber hose on a governmentdesigned stirrup pump to combat fire bombs have proved successful, the office of civilian defense announced today. Specifications of the new hose, to be made of plastics, will be released to manufacturers soon.

and Lae,

vehicles was cut still more .drase{tically. The order becomes .effece tive Monday. i : Mr. Eastman also extended .jurise | diction of. general local delivery ore ders so that trucks may make calls 25 miles beyond the corporate lime its of municipalities. The first plan was to restrict them to a flat 25 miles from the store.

Other Changes Listed in the rubbers

Other changes saving program: 1—Exemption of trucks engaged exclusively in the pick-up or deliv ery of telegraphic, radio and cable communications and the United States mails from provisions of the one delivery a day order. ' 2—Relaxation of the order on coal trucks and extension to July 1 of the effective date of the mileage reduction program for such vehicles, : 3—Extension to July 1 of the ef= fective date of the order with re= spect to trucks primarily equipped for transporting bulk liquids.

HIGHER ROAD REPAIR STANDARDS URGED

GREENFIELD, Ind, May 29 (U, P.).—8. C. Hadden, chairman of the state highway commission, warned Indiana road supervisors last night that they must ‘set high standards in maintenance to offset the threat presented by war-time ban on nonmilitary road construction and reduced revenues.” Mr, Hadden, addressing a confers ence of supervisors here to organize highway maintenance work in event of emergency, said reduction in gasoline tax revenue last month was sufficient to deprive the state of enough money to build 200 miles of highways. Even greater losses of revenue are anticipated in coming months, Mr, Hadden said.

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senate judiciary committee, declared. “Since his arrival on our | tion Director Donald Nelson that he shores, Harry Bridges has been would oppose any demonstration of nothing but a trouble-maker whose sympathy on the part of his folinterest was in communism and not |lowers or organized labor generally

Bridges telegraphed War Produc- |

the American labor movement.” “Good for Biddle!” Senator Willis said. “His decision is a victory

for real Americanism on the home front. Being an avowed Communist, | |

Bridges’ purpose was merely to disorganize and confuse people regarding our democratic way of life.”

Assailed by Murray

C. I. O. President Philip Murray said in a formal statement that the C. I. O. had defended Bridges since the first attempt to deport him were made in 1938 and praised his service to the country in facilitating shipment of war supplies to the war front. “It would be a grave disservice to our country and to the cause of the democratic nations fighting Hitlerism to undermine this contribution by carrying out an order that is based neither on the facts nor on plain commonsense,” Mr. Murray said. Bjorne Halling, executive secretary of the C. I. O. maritime committee, said the order was “the first major victory of Hilers spring

COUNTRY AHEAD OF 50,000-PLANE GOA

NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P.).— Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said President Roosevelt's goal of 60,000 warplanes by the end of the year would be surpassed “by a substantial margin” and that tank and ammunitibn production was keeping pace. “We are no longer counting our tanks by the tens or the hundreds, but by the thousands,” he said at a dinner honoring Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson, retiring chief of army ordnance. “We measure our weekly production of ammunition by the hundreds of millions of rounds.

“Tank for tank and gun for gun, | | the weapons produced by the ord-| nance department are holding their|

own against the best the Nazis and

offensive.

the Japanese can produce.”

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CITY BUSINESS FIRMS GIVE SCRAP TUESDAY

Business and industrial establishments will give up their scrap ma-

H. C. ARTERBURN, 39, LINE FOREMAN, DIES

Herbert C. Arterburn, a line foreman for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., died yesterday at Meth-

last night that

terial Tuesday, a special day set for them in the Junior Chamber of Commerce's “get in the scrap” campaign here next week. Business firms are being contacted by telephone this week-end to make definite arrangements for pickup of the available scrap material. Firms with salvage donations too large for regular coilection routes have been requested to call MA-8677. The campaign begins Monday and ends Saturday. Collections in residential areas will be made on the last regular garbage collection day of the week.

odist hospital after a brief illness. | He was 59 and lived at 1052% Virginia ave. | Mr. Arterburn had been employed] by the light company for 30 years, | He was born in Plainville. | Surviving are his wife, Grace L.;| two daughters, Mrs. Harold Botkins| and Mrs. Earl Cromley, three sons, Ora, Dale S. and Herbert C. Jr, all| of Indianapolis, and three brothers, | Clay and Roy, both of Bicknell, and! William of Chicago. Services will be at 2 p. m. Monday | at the W. D. Beanblossom mortuary. | Burial will be in Floral Park ceme-! | tery.

Today's War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst |

The war effort of the united nations, engaged on| every continent and on all the oceans, has been given | a lift by Mexico's decision to declare war on the axis! and by Brazil's warfare on enemy submarines. The moral effect of these two developments on western hemisphere solidarity is great, and there will be important tangible benefits. Mexico is not as well equipped as Brazil to combat the submarine menace, but can provide valuable bases on both the east and west coasts for American | planes and ships. Mexico's west coast. which has been methodically | |charted by Japanese “fishermen,” | = ‘has real strategic importance and in Brazilian waters, both to interMexico's entrace into the war will rupt the important flow of supplies | facilitate its defense. ‘to the United States and to strike | Brazil has not declared war but at united nations ships heading takes the atttitude that axis sub- down the south Atlantic to round! marines have made war on Her he Cape of Good Hope. shipping and hence she is bound to Gets American Planes

lattack the marauders. | | Brazil is well equipped for the| Already Bragilian planes have de‘task in the air. No mention has stroyed one axis submarine and |vet been made of the navy going attacked two others, with un‘into action, although Brazil has a determined results. Because of the 'small but good navy which should operation of the lend-lease agree'be able to co-operate with the air ment, the planes at Gen. Gomes’ arm. |disposal are efficient, modern Ameriican types. The Brazilian navy, topped by Gen. Gomes recently returned to two battleships, includes cruisers, Brazil from the United States, destroyers, torpedo boats, subma- Where he obtained several hundred irines and mine layers. |American-made bombers and pursuit | It is the air force that has gone blanes now operating from Natal ‘into action, headed by the brilliant | and other bases on the bulge of the ‘Brig. Gen. Eduardo Gomes, who has eontinent. a long record as a man of action! While in the United States, Gen. ‘and a bitter foe of fascism. {Gomes ‘consulted at length with | | The menace to Brazil's commerce high-ranking American aviation ‘and to the supply route for strategic officials and the result was a visit to /materials to the United States is|Brazil of a mission of American air great. Already Brazil has lost six officers who helped get the Brazilian ships, totaling about 40,000 tons.

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emorial Day...

dignity of the individual.

A day set avart by the peoples of this nation to honor the memory of those whe in

past conflicts have given their lives in the cause of freedon.

M cmorial Day, 1942, becomes a more significant day to America, engaaed in a

world struggle with those forces which are opposed to the ideal of the freedom and

Kl 1 order that those who have perished for our ideals may not have given their lives in vain let those of us who can not march with our fighting men on far flung world

fronts today, back them to the utmost with War Savings Bonds and Stamps.

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