Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1942 — Page 9
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1942
Washington
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Both propaganda -and real business are involved in the appearance of a group of high American officers in London. On the business end of it, they } in London to ~work out countless details involved nn the vast air operations over Germany which are scheduled to increase steadily through the summer as American air strength piles up in England. The British have about reached the peak of their own air production and operation. From now on the stepup will come from America’s participation. That involves much dovetailing of flying and ground forces, signaling devices, and all kinds of joint staff work. Details involved in heavy air operations are incredibly complicated. They are even more so when two air forces are working together, with different equipment, and different training. Thus, as we begin to operate in England it is necessary that our top-side officers go there to clear many details in direct conferences on the scene. On the propaganda end of it, we are out to capitalize this event for the maximum effect on the continent. Evidently the censors have been tipped off to open up and let the story roll through. For London dispatches are telling all about it. The whole mission could have been kept secret if that had been thought desirable.
God Have Pity on Germany!
LONDON IS TELLING the world all about some new and bigger bombs that will knock out a whole block of houses. The Germans dropped some terrific ones on London a year ago. Not much was said about it but they were extremely destructive and terrifying.
By Raymond Clapper
If the British have something worse than them, then God have pity on Germany because it will be a rough summer in the fatherland. Our side is doing some terrorizing now, after having been on the receiving end of Hitler's strategy of terror for so long. What is likely to make this propaganda effective is that the stuff is there to back it up.
The Goose Is in the Oven
THE GERMANS know that the air attack on Germany has barely begun and that it is soon to constitute a real second front—a front in the air the like of which has not been seen before. That situation may give real bite to the propaganda which London now is building up out of the visit of the American officers. Because the facts are there to back it up. it is worth pounding in, so that the German high command can't keep it from the German public. Even in a totalitarian country the muttering of the people can have its effect. Hitler
_ cannot be immune to it
We are taking a beating in some other aspects of the war. The submarine blockade which Germany is trying to impose along the Atlantic coast is a real challenge to us. We are not doing much against Japan. If as the British suspect, Rommel is trying to open up a major offensive against Suez and the Middle East, it may not be so good for our side. We were in poor shape to meet it a few months ago when I was there. The allied side is stronger now—whether strong enough, I don’t know. But we are keeping our eye on the ball and are refusing to. be diverted by trouble elsewhere. The first task is te knock Hitler out. We are heading straight toward that as fast as we can. This is the first stage now opening up, the air attack. That will be followed by land attack, sooner or later, Hitler's goose is in the oven and it is only a matter of time until it is eooked.
Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. However, he is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
JACK GEHRING of the IE A. C. staff is just an ordinary golf duffer—glad to crack 100. At Pleasant Run the other day, he and a couple of friends were on the 16th hole—par 4. When he landed on the green in two—and then putted out for a par, he remarked: “Golly. that ought to be in Inside Indianapolis.” And here it is. . . Tom Roche of Flying magazine was in town this week and told a friend that the life of a brief case these days is pretty short, what with all the openings and closings it gets to satisfy the curiosity of guards at defense plants on which Tom calls. . . . Thurman A. Gottschalk, state welfare department director, has been in Methodist hospital for several days with a kidney ailment, He is reported getting along all right. . . . Our item the other day about the traveling salesman reporting he had to stand on the bus all the way here from Frankfort, brought sniffs from Ruth Hicks, whe lives in Franklin and commutes here to her job in the Community Fund offices. She reported that she has had to stand on the bus most every day tor a month or two—while all the traveling Selesihen occupied the seats.
Noisy, Those Cavaliers
A LITTLE AFTER midnight the other night, a loud noise somewhere in the house awakened Mr. and Mrs. C. M. (Moke) Davis. Mrs. Davis hurried into the baby's room. but found everything okay there. Then she awoke her husband again, told him to get up and see if the noise didn’t come from downstairs. Aw, let ‘em come up here,” protested Moke. After much prompting, he paddled downstairs in his bare feet, flipped on the light and discovered the cause of the noise. A large oil painting, “The Smiling Cavalier,” had pulled loose from the wall and had fallen, breaking a mantel clock, smashing a vase of flowers, spilling its water, and damaging a coffee table. “Why does everything have to happen to me?” muttered Moke as he paddled back to bed. And quiet reigned once more. . . . You can find most everything but
Leon’s Army
May federal officials, who will have help and co-operation
WASHINGTON, 28.—A of
veritable army
from thousands of local war price and boards, is being assembled to administer control act.
rationing the price
Price Administrator Leon Henderson estimated before the House appropriations committee that some 90,000 federal employees would be needed, in addition to 7300 now on the OPA payrolls, with the justification that this is the largest single economic undertaking the world has ever seen. Presumably anticipating reaction against creation of such a bureaucratic army, both in congress and in the states where the OPA already has begun to set up federal machinery, Mr. Henderson is emphasizing over the radio and elsewhere that local rationing boards, operated by local citizens on a volunteer ' basis, will continue to be the keystone of the whole price control structure. They are now to be called war price and rationing boards. Because of their ever-increasing duties, Mr. Henderson says, each board will need permanent clerical help which the government will provide.
$210,000,00 Is Recommended
THESE CLERICAL EMPLOYEES, paid to be on hand constantly in local rationing boards, are the privates in the new army. Over them there will be a superstructure of officers, beginning at the top
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thurscay.—T did not have space yesterday to tell you of the very beautiful pageant they are giving every night this week at the Muhlenberg college celebration. It records the contribution of the whole Muhlenberg family and is also historically interesting. Since Tuesday was woman's day, I was particularly interested in the contribution which women of the early days brought to the country. I doubt very much whether any of the men could have accomplished what they did without the backing of their stanch and courageous women. These women were 3 very capable and managed a i household on a businesslike basis which met the needs of their day. We have new needs and different situations to cope with today, but we would do well to study the standards and methods of these successful pioneer women. I went to the appellate court in New York City yesterday morning to see our son, Franklin Jr
autos In auto agencies these days—everything from egg beaters to bicycles. But O. A. Chillson, proprietor of Meridian Pontiac, Inc, 923 N. Meridian, is getting ready to go the others one better. He's painting up his speedboat and is going to put it in his show window. It's replete with its own trailer. And the trailer has two dandy tires on it, boys.
One Way to Find Out
MR. AND MRS. Glen L. Campbell, the printers, read in Readers’ Digest that most people don’t know whether the green light or red light is at the top ih the standard stop and go signals. He thought it was the red light; she said the green. So they started out to see for themselves. Thus far, they've found the green at the top in all except one signal. That’s the one at the intersection of State highways 431 and new 31 on Madison ave. That signal intrigues motorists who ean’t figure out how it works. It gives preference to traffic going straight north and south, letting traffic from the new road onto the old route only as it comes along and actuates an electric eye, or something. . . . On a big white card, pushed into a crevice between a couple of limestone blocks in the entrance of the Chamber of Commerce building Wednesday afternoon. was written: “Zaring, we have gone on inside, $econd floor.” It was unsigned.
Mercey in Washington
ARCH MERCEY, Tech graduate and former United Press reporter, has a good job in Washington now. Friends report that he’s one of the right-hand men to Lowell Mellett: head of the office of government reports. Arch’s job as deputy film co-ordinator, we understand, is to serve as a contact man between the government and the film industry in Hollywood, teiling them what ideas the government might like to get across in films. . . . When Niles Trammell, NBC president, and Kenneth Hogate, Wall Street Journal publisher, appear as guests at the WIRE annual appreciation dinner Monday night, it will be “Dr. Trammell this” and “Dr. Hogate that.” The two, it’s reported, are to receive honorary degrees at DePauw Sunday. and that gives a hint of the ribbing they can expect at the gridiron session Monday.
By Thomas L. Stokes
with Mr. Henderson and his some 7000 aids here. There will be administrators of the eight regions into which the country is divided, with a ninth for the territories and possessions; directors for every state, and 300 district managers within the states. Each of these supervisory officials will have staffs. | clerical help, and the like. All will be paid federal employees. . An appropriation of $210.000,000 is recommended by the budget bureau for the organization. Officials of OPA concede that this will hire a lot of people, but contend it is essential for a job of such magnitude on which Washington necessarily must keep its fingers. Engiand, they said, has 60,000 employees in her price-controi organization.
No Political Wire-Pulling
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS already nave been appointed and about 30 state directors have been selected, but only a few district managers have been named. Mr. Henderson says that. in reorganizing the existing local setup for additional duties, there will be mergers of some existing boards for greater efficiency, while other new ones may be created. Each board hereafter will be larger, and will use a panel system, so that there may be experts on each commodity rationed—and more and more are to be added to the ration list. “If we have depended upon the local boards in the past, we are going to have to depend on them more in the future,” Mr. Henderson said. But Washington is going to run the show. clear,
I'hat’s
By Eleanor Roosevelt!
two other young men take the oath as lawyers.
cessfully ovet and do pot have to be taken at the end of the war Then I went to the Navy Relief society headquarters and was photographed with Miss Alice Mar-
bie, who is helping to distribute the little banks, throughout the city in which people can put small
coins for the benefit of the Navy Relief society.
From there I went to the Mark Twain foundation, where the sculptor, Walter Russell, has a studio. He! has done a most interesting head of the president, but
never has had the opportunity to sit before him for 10 minutes and to watch him in action. Then I returned to my apartment to hold a committee meeting over the luncheon table. After lunch. I walked over to the Judson health center, which is on Thompson st. just south of Washington square. Later, at my apartment, we held a small afternoon meeting to discuss what could be done to assist the progressive schools committee. It has been caring for refugee students, whose parents. one or both, are
in this country, but not as yet sufficiently well estab- |
THREE TYPES OF SALES TAX ARE ANALYZED
Boehne Believes One Form Or Another Is Certain
To Come.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 29. — Three
ing to Rep. John W. Boehne Jr. (D. Ind.), committee member. They are a manufacturer’s sales tax, wholesaler’s sales tax and re-| tailer’s sales tax. Two treasury department experts have surveyed the states in which sales taxes are in effect. They reported their ‘findings to the ways and means committee this week. They estimated that a manufacturer’s sales tax would be paid by! 157,000 taxpayers; 305,800, and retailer's by 2,656,450. These estimates are based on a $5000 gross sales exemption for both manufacturers and wholesalers Rep. Boehne explained.
Taxpayer Defined “The word ‘taxpayers’ used in this
forward the money to the collector's office,” he said. “We were told that a very large staff would be required to properly enforce a tax of this kind. It was estimated that 1000 to 1200 additional personnel would be needed for the manufacturer's sales tax; 1500 to 1800 for the wholesaler’s. and between 15,000 to 18,000 to administer a retail sales tax. “These persons would be principally auditors and accountants.” Rep. Boehne said that a 5 per cent manufacturer's sales tax, exclusive of purchdses by the federal government which would be exempt, was estimated to yield $1,875,000,000. But another $50,000,000 would have to be subtracted should sales to state and local governments be exempted. Sooner or Later
Writing to an Indiana constituent regarding his own reaction in the matter, the Hoosier congressman said: “Please understand that I am not giving any arguments against this type of taxation. Personally, I be-|_ lieve it will have to come sooner or later, because there are not enough dollars in the upper income brackets to pay the bill. I merely give the figures to show you the task that would be ahead of us were this kind of tax enacted.” In his letter, Rep. Boehne decried
comes from the administration and
ways and means committee intends to draft its own tax measure. “We have developed a Frankenstein in the bureaucracy of our government to the point where that bureaucracy is considerably larger,
than its creator.” he concluded. Rocking the Boat
“This is definitely a bad thing in a democratic republic. We are feeling the effects of it in the preparation of this new tax bill in that we permitted the treasury department to propose an entire tax program to us. “Whenever our committee refuses to toe the mark on a single item, we are being accused of ‘rocking the boat,’ in not following implicitly the word and dictum of the! afministration™ >
I must say I am glad that these examinations are suc-'
b MEMBERS ADDED | T0 LOYAL LEGION
Six candidates were admitted to membership last night in the Indiana commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, holding its spring meeting at Foster hall, College ave. and 7Ist st, as the guests of Josiah K. Lilly Sr. New members are Stephen C. Noland, Theodore Layman, Robert E. Ensminger, Dr. Fletcher Hodges, Robert S. Foster and Fred I. Willis. Composed of descendants of union army officers in the Civil war, the Loyal Legion is to hold its annual national meeting here next fall. At the meeting last night, James Vernor of Detroit, com-mander-in-chief, discussed plans for the national meeting and also complimented the Indiana commandery on its growth in recent years. Dr. K. K. Chen, director of the pharmacological research at the Lilly research laboratories, spoke on conditions in his native China and on medical advancements now proving their worth to the allied fighting forces.
HOLD EVERYTHING
types of sales taxes now are being] given serious study by the house} ways and means committee, accord-|
wholesaler’s by |
assured his constituent that the
and in effect wields more power!
By FREMONT POWER IF THE DOWNTOWN Memorial day parade doesn’t start off on time tomorrow morning, it won't | be the fault of Oscar N. Wilmington. Chances are hell be on hand long before starting time — 9:30 a. m. Mr. Wilmington, a civil war veteran, believes in getting places on time. ’ Fact is, he arrived very early in Muncie last year for a G. A. R. encampment. When he walked up to the hotel desk, the clerk asked: “Oscar, "what are you dding here?
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Good Laugh at Himself
MR. WILMINGTON explained he liked to get to conventions early so he'd get a good room. “Well, you sure got here early for this one. About a week early,” said the clerk. | Mr. Wilmington thinks that’s a | pretty good joke on himself. | He had insisted to his son, Elmer E. Wilmington, with whom he lives at 1516 Brookside ave., that the convention was about to start. And so the Wilmingtons drove to Muncie, only to return and go back next week.
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Goes Downtown Daily
MR. WILMINGTON is 96, but he seldom if ever misses a G. A. R. affair. “I dont parade any more, though,” Mr. Wilmington said. “I quit it earlier than most of them. Most of them get in just to say they marched.” When Mr. Wilmington goes to a parade, he rides in a car. A first lieutenant in the 57th Indiana volunteer regiment, Mr. Wilmington has not retired to an arm chair to contemplate the past. Every day he goes downtown, either to the Knights of Pythias clubrooms or the G. A. R. headquarters in the statehouse. Most of the time: he rides down on a trackless trolley.
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Good Fighters Today, Too
YESTERDAY Mr. Wilmington said he felt about “like a man who's a century old.” “Of course,” replied the veteran when asked if he thought America's soldiers are as good fighters
FLACK REFUSES T0 END RECOUNT,
Ralston Going § Six Votes In Recheck of First 11 Precincts.
An attempt to settle the vote contest between Toney Flack and Glenn B. Ralston for the auditor nomination without recounting ballots had failed today after three days of conferences.
instance means those who would! be obliged to make the returns and!
o 4
the dictation in tax matters which!
jcandidates most of yesterday in an offort to get Mr. Flack to withdraw nis contest petition but he refused. Mr. Ralston was declared nominated | {by 821 votes. Recounting of ballots in this contest was started late yesterday and fa recheck of eleven precincts gave r Ralston a net gain of six votes.
Carter Drops Contest
Earlier, Clyde Carter dropped his |recount contest against William D. |Bain for the Republican criminal (court nomination after 41 precincts had been counted. It ended with Mr. Carter gaining only 10 votes. Recounting in the contest brought by Jesse Hutsell against Otto Petit for the Republican sheriff nomination was resumed today with only small margins of differences found in more than 38 precincts. Mr. Hutsell showed a net gain of nine votes. In one precinct the recount board found a mistake of 16 votes, which accounted for most of Mr. Hutsell's gain. The fourth recount contest between Dr. Walter Hemphill and Jack Tilson for the G. O. P. county clerk nomination has not been started.
PHOEBE LAGRANGE DEAD
FRANKLIN, Ind., May 29 (U. P)). | --Mrs. Phoebe Crowell Lagrange, '73. head of the women’s dormitory at Hanover college from 1919 until her retirement several years ago, died at her home near Madison vesterday. Funeral services and Burial will be held at Franklin today.
A bridegroom of only seven weeks, Lieut. Lawrence R. Abram, was killed in a bomber crash Wednesday night at Lakeland, Fla., his mother-in-law here has been | informed. Five others were killed |in the crash. | Lieut. Abram also was married on a Wednesday—last April 8—at | Alexandria, La. His bride was Norma Emmerling Schloot, daugh|ter of Mrs. John E. Evans of 1619 E. 73d st., in Ravenswood. . Reports said the ship, a B-24, {crashed at the edge of a phosphate | pit in the course of a forced landing. Nearby residents said it sounded as if the plane, which was on a routine training flight from . Droits
Democratic
Party leaders conferred with both |
Hoosier Bridegroom of Seven
Weeks Dies in Bomber Crash
The Indianapolis Times
Oscar N. Wilmington .
now as they used to be. “They're kind of slow about getting started,” Mr. Wilmington said, but as far as that goes, they were the same way in the civil war, He told a story of how his infantry regiment got a report from its scout that a unit of Confederate soldiers was in a town about 20 miles away. So Lieut. Wilmington’s outfit spent the night creeping up on the place. “We weren't even talk to the man next us, plained.
allowed to ” he ex-
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2 ” A Pooh Pooh for Cavalry THEY CREPT and crept and finally arrived about daybreak. “We found out they'd left town
Culver to Honor
11 Killed in War
Times Special CULVER, Ind.,, May 29.—Eleven gold stars, representing alumni who have been reported killed in the war, will be added to the Culver Military academy service flag tomorrow noon at the annual gold star ceremony marking Memorial day services. A total of 106 alumni who have died in the service of their nation will be honored as the roll is called, a wreath is placed on the gold star flag, and the artillery, infantry and cavalry units pass in review. Cadet and faculty members will be joined on the parade grounds by Indiana state police recruits, Spanish-American war veterans and the boy scouts.
. « waves to a trackless trolley.
FIRMS EVADING
COUPLE AT BLOCHER | MARRIED 64 YEAR
Mr. and Mrs. of Blocher, Ind., will celebrate their, 64th wedding anniversary Sunday. They were married at Mechanicsburg, Ind. Before moving to the southern part of the state, they lived in Henry county where Mr. Ellison owned a general store. The Ellisons have three children: Lestie R.,, of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Dennis Fadely, of Austin, Ind. and Laurel C., of Blocher. They also have three grandchildren: Cecil C. Ellison, Gerald E. Ellison and H. E. Fadely, all of Indianapolis. There also are four great-grandchildren, all from Indianapolis, except the oldest, Walter Howard Ellison, who is in the navy and now at the Great Lakes training station.
James M. Ellison, |
PURDUE EX-ATHLETE DIES
LAYAYETTE, Ind, May 29 (U. P.). — Purdue university officials were informed today of the death of Elwood S. White, 55, president of the United States Radiator Corp. and other industrial concerns which occurred at Washington, D. C. Mr. White, a one-time resident of Michigan City, Ind, was a prominent track star at Purdue university. He was graduated from Purdue in 1909.
Lieut. Abram, co-pilot of the | plane, was the son of Opha Abram, of Solsberry, Ind., and enlisted in the air corps last August. Prior to that Lieut. Abram had been principle of the Lowell grade school, Raymond st. and Hunter road, teaching the fifth and sixth grades. He was a graduate of Solsberry high school and obtained his teaching license at Central Normal college, Danville, Ind. The pilot received his training at Thunderbird field, Ariz.; Bakers,
commissioned a second lieutenant at Mather field, Cal. Surviving him are his wife, of|
Ann Schloot, two sisters and a step-
field, Cal, and on March 16 was | their salaries from $12000 and $15,000 lin 1919 to $72,000 and $90,000 in 11941. The royalty rate on the patent
Lakeland; a stepdaughter, Judith|so that royalties paid to themselves rose from $87,000 in 1939 to
SECOND SECTION
Eyes Front, Oscar Wilmington, 96, Will Observe Another Memorial Day OR FIGHT, KEY
TAKE WAR J0B WORKERS TOLD
‘McNutt Says ave Drait Status Of All Who Refuse Will Be Studied.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.). —A virtual “work or fight” order was sent out by the government today as the war manpower commis= sion warned essential workers that they must either accept war jobs or join the armed forces. WMC Chairman Paul V. McNutt told of the new policy in these words: “If a worker refused to accept
| [suitable employment in a war ine
dustry without reasonable cause, it would of course be the duly of the United States employment service to report the circumstances to the
" |selective service system for consid
eration in connection with any re= quest for deferment on occupational grounds.” Another
manpower commission
spokesman said it would be ‘a clear=
(sential | jobs
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. | the evening before. They were | cavalry,” said Mr. Wilmington in | disgust.. Mr. Wilmington said this was | poor work on Gen. Grant's part. Mr. Wilmington went out in | front of the house to pose for a | picture and when that was done, the photographer said: “Well, | we’ll see you next year, Mr. Wilmington.” “I don't know about that,” the veteran replied. “I may not be here next year.” “Why, Pap, you know better than that. You're going to live to be a hundred,” Mr. Wilmington’s daughter-in-law reprimanded him. And Mr. Wilmington turned and gave the photographer a sly wink,
TAXES RAPPED
‘House Group Backs Treas-
ury in Fighting Loophole 5
Of Excessive Salaries. |
WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.). —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. today had congressional support for his campaign against corporations that try to] avoid war taxation by paying oe} cessive salaries. | Mr. Morgenthau explained his| program for disallowing tax deductions to corporations which pay ‘un- | reasonably high” salaries and unearned bonuses at a meeting of the joint congressional committee on internal revenue taxation last night. He cited seven cases of “particularly unpardonable attempts to es‘cape wartime taxation.” He said {most corporations were “too pa-| jtriotic to consider such practices” {but that he thought it would have
‘a wholesome effect if the commit-|
tee decided to publish the names of
those he cited.
No Legislation Needed
Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the ways and means! committee announced that the| group had “unanimously voiced its| approval and appreciation” of the work being done to combat the problem. He indicated the names of | seven companies might be made public later. Members said Mr. Morgenthau, who does not need legislation tol carry out the program, apparzntly | sought to publicize the fact that the treasury already has started investigation of 1941 corporation tax returns—earlier than ever before—in the face of congressional committee disclosures of large saiariés and bonuses being paid officers of companies with war contracts Giving Some Examples
Three of the cases Morgenthau outlawed were: One company, making an important airplane part, is owned by one man who hired himself as its sales representative. His compensation in 1941 was $1,656,000 and by consolidating his earnings with those of his corporation, the treasury “blocked this obvious attempt to divert profits” and increased the corporation's income tax by $1,117,000. Family on Payroll
Another concern, making vital equipment for airplane pilots, paid $31,104 in rent to the wife of its president for property which cost her $45412. A brother of the principal stockholder, lacking special training or ability, drew an annual salary of $1500 while a son and daughter, just out of school, got $7500 a year each. One company, maker of an important aviation device, is owned almost by one man, his wife and his brother. The two men increased
held jointly by them was increased
war production areas | situation has become particularly | serious.”
cut matter.” Draft boards, he said, will reconsider deferments of ese workers who won't take where and when they are needed. Scope Limited at First The “work or fight” development came as the commission prepared to issue a policy statement designed “pirating” of war workers. Such an order was discussed at a meeting of the come mission Wednesday night. After ward commission members gave {various versions of what had been decided and implied that it contemplated “freezing” workers in all war industries as well as some ese | sential farm workers.
Mr. McNutt’'s statement last
night was a denial of the reported
scope of the plan. The policy, he said, will apply at first to only a
{few critical occupations in a few
“where the
The freezing plan's restrictions, he
explained, will apply only to ems=
ployers—not to workers. Employers will be forbidden to hire skilled men
{away from other war plants in the specified areas, and all hiring will
be done through the U. E. employ= ment service. Industries Warned to Comply
Mr. McNutt hinted at retaliation if industries fail to ‘comply. Violations, he said, will be reported by the employment service to the manpower commission, the war pro= duction board, war and navy de= partments, “and other authorita= tive agencies so that appropriate
traction could be taken.”
Mr. McNutt conceded there would be some instances where workers would be justified in changing jobs employers justified in hiring men, even though such men already { are working in a war industry. To help decide those cases and other problems a local committee of labor and management representatives will be set up in each critical area to make recommendations.
Allison's to Get War Bond Award
Employees of Allison's will gather in front of the plant at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow to receive the Treasury flag for their 100 per cent participation in the war bond drive. The award will be made by Eugene Pulliam, state war bond chairman. F. C. Kroeger, Allison's general manager, and Col. Walter Drysdale, commandant of Ft. Harrison, also will speak. The plant will be shut down for one hour during the ceremonies and the program will be broadcast over WIRE for the benefit of employees not on duty at the time. Music will be provided by the Speedway high school band. All employees have enrolled in the payroll deduction plan for the war bond drive.
What You Beg Wilh WAR BONDS
The 75-millimeter gun is a divi= sional weapon used by the artillery as an anti-tank gun. It has been replaced to some extent by tine more modern “105,” known as the heaviest of divisional weapons,
The 75-mm. gun costs $12,000 and has been converted by our orde nance into a “blaster” twice as efficient as in the first world war,
rhis gun gets maximum power for minimum weight and cost, and the American people are providing the finance through the purchase of war bonds. If you do your share and invest 10 per cent of your ine come in war bonds, adequate supe ply of this efficient gun can be as-
sured our fighting forces. Buy war