Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1942 — Page 2

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JAPS DRIVEN BACK

JAPS REPULSED, KEEP ATTU HOLD

‘Foggy, Barren Aleutians

ON ALEUTIAN ISLE

61 Nipponese Warships | Sunk Since Pacific War Started.

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had “obtained firm control of the Pacific.” It seemed more likely that failure of the Midway attack and loss of probably four Japanese aircraft carriers there, following the smashing American victory in the battle of the Coral sea crippled Japanese striking power at sea so severely that the Aleutian island operations may have been disrupted, and become purely defensive. The Japanese have now lost 19 or | 20 ships sunk and 31 to 34 damaged | for a total of more than 50 casual-| ties in the Midway and Coral sea | battles. In addition, they lost 350 planes and probably a great many more, compared to our losses of one| carrier sunk and one damaged as so far announced. |

U. 8. Skill to Be Needed These losses, it was emphasized | at Pearl Harbor, have not by any| means knocked out the Japanese | fleet. They have not necessarily | turned the tide of war in the Pa-|

cific. But they have derinitety | Capt. Salzarulo Graduated broken up the enemy plans and | From I. U. in 1937;

brought our forces much nearer | equality. . Piloted Fortress. (Continued from Page One)

Tinker Missing

Gen. Clarence Tinker

HOOSIER FLYING

The Japanese must now reorganize their offensive sea forces and protect their dangerously extended supply lines, and in the meantime went through the Pearl Harbor they wWust face the growing all hombing attack. They visited Capt.

power as well as sea power of thelq,j,o1 10's brother here last sum-|

American forces whose effective-| ... ness was fully disclosed today IN| gq prother here said that word dispatches describing torpedo and oc received by the flier's wife in other air attacks on the enemy. | West Virginia ‘that he apparently All of the skill and courage of had been lost in action. His wife is American pilots, gunners and others expecting the birth of their first involved in the Pacific battles may [child in August. well be needed against new a Had Word Two Months Age nese thrusts if the enemy SUCCEEGR{ ou.o jot word received by his in reorganizing his still powertul | Tie | here from the pilot was

naval striking force in a short time. | ia ; The enemy troops landed on the | about two months age. He wrote

WITH HIM LOST

Are Battle Ground for U. S. and Japan.

WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. PJ). —Army and navy airmen are trying today to blast the Japanese out of the Aleutian islands where they have established their first footholds in the Western Hemisphere. So far, the enemy is known to have landed on only one island— Attu, westernmost of the Aleutian chain which stretches 1500 miles from the Alaska mainland toward Japan. But enemy vessels — their type not designated—have been observed in Kiska harbor, about 100 miles east of Attu. “Japanese operations in the Aleutian area are still in progress,” the navy announced last night. American airmen already have succeeded in driving the enemy from the populated regions of the islands and the navy indicated that with good weather, air attacks on the invader would increase. American air patrols apparently did not discover the Japanese landings, because of weather conditions, {until Thursday, at the earliest. {Dense sub-arctic fogs probably concealed enemy operations.

Close to Asia

Last Wednesday, Tokyo claimed that Japanese troops had landed in the Aleutians. Those claims were denied that day by an American naval spokesman here who said: “None of our inhabited areas, island or rocks are troubled with uninvited visitors up to this time.” The landings in the Aleutians are a sequel to the bombing on Dutch Harbor a week ago Wednesday and also seem to have been timed to | coincide with the attempt to invade Midway. Lacking definite information on the enemy's major objectives, observers believed that for the present the Japanese moves against Attu and Kiska are primarily defensive—not steps toward large-scale invasion. They may be intended to forestall air attacks on Japan by way of the Aleutians. Although geographically the moves

rocky Aleutian islands seem—on the map—to be far away and perhaps unimportant to defense of America. Their progress toward Dutch Harbor is over the most difficult route and they face heavy counter-attacks by U. S ships. Japs Not Unprepared

But the Japanese have not yet in this war gone into any campaign blindly, When they landed in the jungles of upper Malaya the British took the attitude that the jungle was impenetrable and that it was

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to Capt. Salzarulo just last Monday. |place the enemy in the Western Capt. Salzarulo has a brother, | Hemisphere, the islands invaded acMark, in his third year in high tually are much closer to Asia and school at Richmond, who is planning (hundreds of miles from Alaska and to take up aviation after graduation [several thousands of miles from the 'and according to his brother here, |Pacific coast of the United States “is now even more determined.” proper. Other members of his family are] Attu island, westernmost outpost | three other brothers, Second Lieut./of the United States in the north Robert L. Salzarulo, flight instruc-|Pacific, is 769 miles west of Dutch tor at Craig field, Ala.; Albert C./|Harbor and is known to Alaskans Salzarulo, an electrical engineer at as the “lonesomest spot this side of Wright field, Dayton, O., and Wil- hell” {liam Salzarulo, Richmond, and two| Fog Is the Drawback sisters, Mrs. Marion Godsey and| giska island is in the Rat island | Miss Anna Salzarulo, both of Rich-| o1oup—so called because the first

sufficient barrier to protect Singapore. But the Japanese knew exactly what they were doing and they pjeut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, compenetrated the jungle to Singapore. manger of United States army There is no reason to suppose that | forces in Hawaii, issued a state-| the Japanese had failed to study the iment last night in which he an-| Aleutian island chain, the many nounced “the entire Hawaiian de-| days of fog and the weather gen- partment mourns the loss of Maj. | erally in great detail to weigh care- (Gen. C. L. Tinker and his gallant! fully their chances before approach- crew.” ing Attu and Kiska. The important| “Tinker did not ask his subordithing that they could not reckon | nates to undertake risks,” Gen. | accurately—as at Midway—was what | Emmons said. “He undertook them) the U. S. would do about it. himself, selecting himself as flight | On other world fronts, the fiow|leader on an important combat : : | mission requiring great courage, ag eet a] kil and experience. He dled know. | of another A. E. F. contingent in|In8 he had had an important part northern Ireland to join the forces|'™ wine a greal air victory. massing for an eventual second European front. When and where the CAPT. MILLER SENT i second front may be opened continued a military mystery. i i { Capt. Clifford S. Miller, public re15 Miles from Tobruk lations officer at Ft. Herron Aid November, 1940, has been trans- |

ferred to Camp Atterbury near Co-

In Libya, the axis forces massed south of Tobruk struck out again and were heavily engaged and re- lumbus. pulsed by the British—especially| A resident of this city since leavthe R. A. F—in the El Adem and ing the service at the close of World Acroma areas, only 15 miles south | War I, his wife and daughter, Joan, and southwest or Tobruk. Nazi Col. [will remain here. He is a member Gen. Erwin Rommel evidently had of the Mystic Tie lodge and the Mereturned to his original plan of Elvaine-Kothe post 153, American encircling and taking Tobruk after Legion. breaking through the British mine! field and defense line with capture! of Bir Hacheim. In Russia, the axis attack on the Crimean naval base of Sevastopol continued relentlessly but the Soviet|she stooped to pass beneath gates

WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN HAMMOND, Ind, June 13 (U. {P).—Mrs. Rolla Smith, 32, Hammond, was killed yesterday when

HONOLULU, June 13 (U. P).—|

been bent sharply for 10 degrees

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| mond. Russian explorers there found only rodents. The two islands are so close to Asia compared with North America that the international date line has

of longitude to keep them nominally in the western hemisphere. It is this nearness to Sibéria that has made the islands strategically important.

ISAAC F. LEVENTHAL, ILL TWO YEARS, DIES

Isaac Fred Leventhal, father of Louis Leventhal, president of the Mid-State Auto Co. Inc, died today in his home, 432 E. Fall Creek blvd, after an illness of two years. Hej - if

Mr. Leventhal had been a resident of Indianapolis one year, coming here from Terre Haute where he had lived 49 years. He was a members of B'nai B'rith, the Knights of Pythias and the United Temple of Terre Haute. Survivors besides his son are his wife, Sarah; three other sons, Dave, Dayton, O.; Jack, Terra Haute, and Martin, Bowling Green, Ky.; four daughters, Helen, Indianapolis; Mrs. Jack Goldfarb, Louisville, Ky.; | Mrs. Sidney James, Salem, Ill, and {Mrs. Bert Goldberg, Indianapolis; a brother, Meyer, Denver, Colo., and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Mundlin, Franklin, O.

armies reported they were counter-/lowered at a railroad crossing, lost attacking in the Kharkov sector of her balance, and fell beneath the the Ukraine in an effort to break! wheels of a passenger train. up enemy preparations for a sum- |

Burial will be in Terre Haute, ‘but the time of the service has not

Jimmie

And Cain

a charming manner.

stir up the atmosphere. Jimmie Weghorst, of Nashville, Ind., rural route 4, writes, as follows: “I thought maby you would like to hear about a new game I play while working in the garden with my mother. I call mother Major and the weeds we hoe down are Germans, the potatoes bugs and bean beetles are

then is when I use poison gas.

of them down. my work a lot of fun. see a Jap or German hanging around your tomatoe plant, be sure to get him like I do. ” on

War Down on the Farm

“MAJOR SAID our line of duty tomorrow will be to station another thousand T. P. Yankies in our north field. So you see even if I am only eleven and a half years old, I am fighting Germans and Japps. If you know some boys that don't like to hoe or work in the garden, tell them to play my game. Even you can play it. “Major says it’s fun, too. We wear cold cloths under paper hats and on the back of our necks if the sun gets too hot for us. We have lived in the country three years and we like it more each year. My Dad works for the State so Major and I farm playing war. “I hope this doesn’t bore you too much. But since you have a nice tomatoe plant, I thought you might like to play my game, too. “P, S. I have tryed planting two plants like you said. are the tree tomatoes plants.”

A Salute for Major

WELL JIMMIE, I think you've got something there, this fighting the enemy in the tomato patches. Hanged if I don't think maybe I'll commission the city editor a sergeant (and myself colonel) and send the old boy charging out to hoe my Yankie. Give my regards to the Major, Jimmie, and don’t ever be late to

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” EJ More Power to You!

MRS. J. C. POWER, of Milroy, Ind, rural route 1, writes that The Times tomato plant method “incited my husband to ‘go out and do likewise.’ “He has just now come to the

(ken set.

mer offensive toward the Caucasus! Midway and

oil fields. Black Sea Drive Hinted Ttaly’s communique claimed that | Fascist torpedo boats were operat- | ing in the Black sea off Sevasto- Pacific coast except from the repol, having sunk two ships, and re-|mote Aleutians, it was said. ports persisted that Hitler was| Further, by destroying a strong massing small naval units and U- segment of Japanese air power, inboats on the Bulgarian and Ru- | formants asserted, the victories will manian coasts in preparation for a|permit a freer American cffensive Black sea ofiensive toward the expansion westward toward Asia. Caucasus when and if Sevastopol] Many details of the Midway and falls, |Coral sea battles must even now reAmerican operations of a mysteri- main secret for strategic reasons. ous nature also were reported in the | But informants said here that the Black sea area. Four American air- results could be read from the box

planes landed in Turkey and were | score of losses and from develop-

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seized under international law after ments which will soon be forthcom- |

reportedly “completing” a mission. |ing. The Midway island and Coral sea Chinese Gain On Kan River | battles were revealed now as havThe mission was unexplained but|ing constituted one grand scale acvarious reports said the planes had | tion, ranging over 3000 miles of flown from Sevastopol or some other | ocean from Midway to the Solomon Russian area and the German radio | islands, starting with a navy plane said they had been dropping propa- | attack on a Japanese fleet in Tulagi ganda leaflets over Turkey. One was harbor in the Solomons 1000 miles said to have been chased by a Ger-|off Australia May 4 and ending with man fighter plane as far as the the flight of a Japanese armada Turkish border. | from the Midway zone one month In China, Generalissimo Chiang|later. Kai-shek's forces advanced along| In these battles Japan lost at the east bank of the Kan river and least 19 or 20 ships sunk, including renewed attacks in Nanchang sec-|at least four and possibly five airtor, but the Japanese, led by strong craft carriers, 31 to 34 ships damalr bomber squadrons, continued|aged, including one or two carriers ding at railroad defenses in!damaged. the Chekiang province. Japan hag lost far upwards of 2i 250 planes. REAL VALUES! { Against this score, the United

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| States lost one aircraft carrier sunk which one-third were downed. Their | and one damaged. Two destroyers bombers joined the navy and army and a fleet auxiliary sunk, and an air force planes in attacking the

Coral Sea—a

It is now revealed that the United States forces, navy, air force, ma- | rines and army, shattered two separate Japanese fleets which attacked ! Midway island.

included four carriers, tiwree battleships and numerous cruisers and destroyers. The second was an occupation fleet including 11 large ships crowded with troops and supplies and protected by numerous cruisers and destroyers, and, probably, battleships.

Marines Drive Off Planes

The striking force was supposed to knock out Midway's defenses so the invasion fieet, which followed, could occupy it at leisure. But the American forces struck first. They June 3. Next morning, apparently from a point about 200 miles away, the Japanese launched their planes against Midway while the fleet steamed straight for the island. It got within 125 miles.

Bad Blunder by Jape

The marines added a glorious {chapter to their proud history in {their defense of Midway against an {estimated 200 enemy planes, of

attacked the carrier fleet

Single Action

sources said the turning point in the Pacific war had now been reached.

The Japanese met such unex-

One was a striking force which |pectedly strong United States forces |

in the Coral sea that they believed the United States had left the

Hawaiian zone unguarded. Hence they quickly organized their main fleet for an attack on Midway, intending it as the spearhead for an invasion thrust against Hawaii.

It was evident, experts said, that the Japanese command had made a

terrible blunder. Offensive Seems Nearer

- THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Here's Proof, Skeptics

Raises Tomatoes

Japps. When we spray them, |

“Our plants are Yankies so I ! am very careful not to cut any | This game makes | So if you |

Mine |

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It is now too late to retrieve this blunder. Informants here, in unofficial comment, agreed that undoubtedly, after the battle of the Coral sea, United States reinforcements were sent to island bases in the Pacific in anticipation of the Japanese Midway attack. They said that now reinforcements possibly will be sent even more extensively to such far away bases as the South sea islands and Free French New Caledonia off Australia. There would bea double purpose —to protect present united nations bases and to prepare for the united nations offensive, now measurably nearer. ¢ It was agreed that the Midway victory probably saved Hawaii from becoming a second Malta, exposed

The Times’ tomato . . . Wednesday it measured 14 inches. Yesterday, 13.

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With Axis, Too

By FREMONT POWER Times Tomato Editor HOW TO MAKE the care and feeding of a tomato patch a thing of joy and excitement has just been reported to this department in

By this method, you fight the Japs and Germans on a single front, launch counter-offensives, release poison gas and in general

door, in this very warm morning in June, saying, ‘when I first planted that plant, I was a proud American farmer but now, I find myself just a water packing peasant.’ “But, Mr. Power, my Mr. Power is still ambitious to beat you!” ; ” ”n on

Is Zeke A. W. 0. L.?

MRS. POWER, the battle is on. And by the way, what ever happened to old Uncle Zeke, who had his wooden leg made short so he could walk down a furrow just as smooth-like as a city man walks down the sidewalk? Zeke was a card. ” ”

Let’s Have Faith

J. A. WEST of Columbus, Ind. reports that he has set out a “tomato plant as you directed. So far so good. I will write later as the plant grows or—" Why, Mr. West, don't you think it'll grow? Mrs. David Beasley of Mitchell, Ind, says “today I'm starting Vitamin-B” on her plant. I'll be expecting that snapshot of the plant like you promised, Mrs. Beasley.

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Times’ tomato is in very healthy condition. No Japps reported.

PEDESTRIAN AND BOY DEAD IN ACCIDENTS

A struck in W, night apolis

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54-year-old pedestrian was and killed by an automobile 16th st., 500 block, late last and a T-year-old Indianyouth died yesterday in a Terre Haute hospital of injuries received in an accident near Farmersburg. Police said a man identified through his fingerprints as William Slayton was struck and killed by a car driven by Robert W. Walker, 2220 N. Talbot st, in W. 16th st. Police reported his last address as 1116 N. Senate ave. Jackie Lee Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Denzil Turner, Indianapolis, was injured in an intersection crash Thursday near Farmersburg while riding in a car driven by his uncle, Harold Turner, 19. He died late yesterday at Union hospital in Terre Haute.

IT'S 2% TIME FOR CITY HALL WORKERS

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butions and the dates on which they were made. He said that no disciplinary aec-)| tion of any kind will befall employees who refuse to pay.

Suits One, Not Another

“This is no more compulsory than the pledges we solicited for contributions to the infantile paralysis fund or the Red Cross,” he declared. One employee said she thought it was little enough to contribute for the privilege of holding her job. Another said it seemed kind of “tough” with the higher cost of living and the drive to buy war bonds.

STRIKE ENDS VITAL NAVY PRODUCTION

COATESVILLE, Pa. June 13 (U. P.) —Ernest Chapman, president of Lukenwald, Inc, subsidiary of Lukens Steel Co., called on C. I. O. chief Philip Murray today to order nearly 1000 striking steel workers back to work immediately. The day-old strike, he said, virtually halted production on vital parts for the navy. The navy, he told Mr. Murray, ‘cannot wait.” The men struck last night in protest against a bonus plan, accordto a company spokesman. The

MAP 8-POINT TRANSIT PLAN

Program in Effect July 7; Stores to Close at 5:30; Shifts Staggered.

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ing without change. (See individual store announcements at a later date of Monday and Saturday hours.) 2. Downtown offices, both public and private, which close now at 5 p. m,, will cut 15 minutes off lunch periods, and close 15 minutes earlier. 3. Public high schools to open and close one-half hour later beginning next fall. 4, Industries to stagger their shifts or to change the hours of their shifts or both, depending on the needs of the particular car or bus lines affected. 5. Industrial employees to double up in the use of private automobiles. Different Payroll Dates

Industries to change tneir payroll dates so the preponderance will not be on Thursday and Fridays as now, in order to spread the shopping load during the entire week instead of concentrating it on Fridays and Saturdays. 7. Indianapolis Railways to institute “selective stops” and the most effective use of existing equipment. 8. Shoppers, housewives and nonemployed persons not to ride during the rush hours, but to do their riding during the quiet hours of the day, that is, between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. and after 7 p. m. in the evening. Club groups to hold their meetings so that convening and adjournment will not be near the rush hours. Mr. Zink said that the increasing demands on the city’s public transit facilities due to the expanding employment in war industries may impede the city’s war effort unless steps are taken to remedy the situation. 60,000 in Industrial Work

Industrial employment in Indianapolis today is over 60,000, he pointed out. This is 25 per cent greater than the boom days of 1929. The recent opening of the Bridgeport Brass Works and the Naval Ordance Plant, along with the continued expansion of present plants and the projected construction of a new Allison plant and a new army ordnance plant to be operated by E. C. Atkins & Co. will call for an additional 30,000 workers by the end of 1943. Additional demands have been made on the public transit system through the rationing of automobiles, tires and replacement parts. Further additional demands will be made if gasoline is rationed. New Transit Vehicles Bought Indianapolis railways carried 76,657,636 passengers in 1941, an increase of 5.205,616, or 7.6 per cent, over 1940. Already this year, gains are shown over corresponding months of last year, with May showing 24 per cent. Through a ruling of the ODT, no city can acquire any additional transportation equipment unless it has taken steps to operate peak loads, stagger working hours and otherwise make the most economical use of the equipment on hand. The transit company in the last year has purchased 65 new vehicles, 40 of which have been placed in service. When all deliveries have been made the company’s fleet will total 447 vehicles. Company officials said, however, that priorities and other wartime restrictions make it doubtful if any other vehicles can be obtained during the war, Two Months’ Study Ends Last month, the company announced the “selective stop” plan and has made other changes, including the turn-back service on several lines to outlying districts. ‘The eight-point program was adopted after two-months’ study by the Chamber of Commerce, with the co-operation of the transit company, Merchants association, industrial plant executives, school officials and other groups.

SCOUTS TO AID IN STATE RUBBER DRIVE

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the ways the scouts are to help with the program. Here's the way it works: If you have scrap rubber, take it to the nearest gasoline station where you can contribute it to the nation’s rubber war chést or collect one cent a pound. The gasoline stations will deposit their accumulated rubber at petroleum bulk plants. The oil industry then will sell the rubber to the Rub-

| ber Reserve Co., a subsidiary of the

Reconstruction Finance Corp. Any receipts in excess of the purchase price will be turned over to the USO, army and navy relief and the Red Cross.

Remove Metal and Wood

All kinds of rubber will be acceptable except battery boxes and parts and tire beads. Metal, wood and leather should be removed before turning the rubber in for salvage. The meeting last night was led by J. G. Sinclair of the Shell Oil Co. who said: “There is enough scrap rubber in this country to make gasoline rationing unnecessary. It is the job of every one to see that scarp rubber is salvaged. It only takes two ounces of raw rubber to rebuild an automobile tire.” Members of the petroleum industry meeting today with Mr. Wilson include George W. Hofmayer, Russell Williams, J. Ivan Harris, L. E. Kincannon, A. H. Jensen, A. W. Roth and Leland Fishback.

FIDELITY GROUP TO MEET

Fidelity review 140, Women's benefit association, will hold a business meeting at 2:15 m.

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers .

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something like this: “America, Britain, Russia, may be able to lick Germany and Italy, but not us—at least not without terrible losses, Give us East Asia and do what you like with the rest.” PURPOSE: To frighten China. It won’t succeed.

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Do Finns Want A. E. F.?

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TALK NOW is of an A. E. F. or Anglo-American expeditionary force to Murmansk, Russia. If it develops, Finland may stop fighting She'd feel safe from attack; might get a guarantee of her frontiers

under Atlantic Charter.

Since Hitler's unexpected visit to Marshal

Mannerheim, Finnish spokesmen have taken pains to insist Finland

is not a Nazi ally.

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ISSUE OF UNIFIED army-navy command, hot after Pearl Hare

bor, is beginning to boil again,

Some senators believe Midway battle

communique indicated rivalry as to who sank what; asked pointed questions of Secretary Knox when he was before senate naval affairs

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NOTICE TO ANY axis nation considering use of poison gas! U. S. chemical warfare service is getting some $2,000,000,000 in appro priations over two-year period. It's ready for business.

Will Latins Fight Hitler?

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ANTI-NAZI LATIN BLOC? It's a possibility under certain cir-

cumstances, say observers just back from Europe.

France, Italy, Spain, Portugal.

Bloe would include

First condition is a bad Nazi setback,

Purpose would be to get a better helping at the peace table. Even Hitler doesn't trust Laval; suspects he's still a Germanehating Frenchman at heart, stalling for time and a chance to oute

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LATEST CONGRESSIONAL BEEF: The $5 automobile use tax due in a few days. Rep. Raymond S. Springer (R. Ind.) wants it abolished when and if citizens are no longer able to use their cars,

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o BIGGEST POLITICAL QUESTION MARK: Will F. D. R. try to stop nomination of John J. Bennett for governor by New York Demo

crats?

Those who should know say he'd like to, but probably won't

try. Reason, Jim Farley, Bennett backer, who hasn't forgotten how

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Army or Judgeship?

His man’s way out in front,

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FIRST LIEUT. BEN C. CONNALLY, air corps, son of Senator Tom Connally of Texas, may be ordered out of the army, onto the bench. There's a vacant district judgeship in Texas, left by Jimmy Allred, who quit to run for the senate against “Pass the Biscuits Pappy” O’Daniel, Connally can have it if he wants it.

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GAME-OF-THE-DAY IN WPB: Guessing how much scrap rube ber the president’s campaign will turn up. WPB’S industrial conservation branch, criticized frequently for slowness in salvage program, plans drive of its own to follow—for rub=

ber, tin cans, rags, fats and oils. after the first big drive. ” n

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Wants ‘One-Man Draft’

House military affairs committee may institut® one-man draft of its own to keep Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres in active service. It's heard that war department will permit Gen. Ayres (famed Cleveland statistician) to retire June 30 for age. He has been holding semi-monthly meetings with select group of congressmen, filling them in on war production program. He's in good health, fully capable of continuing job, and members don’t want to lose him. Cemmittee next week will consider asking war department to ree

call Gen. Ayres.

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WEEK-OLD LULL in hostilities between John L. Lewis and Philip

Murray is no armistice or truce.

Labor men say Lewis is getting set

for summer campaign against Murray, will attempt numerous forays

into C. I. O. ranks.

Lewis complaint: That C. I. O. is paying $300,000 for Washington offices while refusing to return—on Lewis terms—the $1,665,000 that Lewis as head of the mine workers handed himself when he was

head of C. I. O.

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AND FURTHER: Don’t expect Lewis to try to stop the Indiana deep-shaft coal mine walkout, now in its 17th week, though U. M. W. A,

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Joint Returns Believed Beaten

COMMUNITY-PROPERTY states think they can beat mandatory joint income-tax returns again this year, though they had President Roosevelt's help last year, and Mrs. R., at least, has changed sides.

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on CHEESE you want, Secretary Wickard says. Las$

year he said to cut down, save cheese for Britain, Co-operation worked so well—with increased production—that now there's plenty for all.

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NEW 39-BILLION WAR-FUNDS bill will sail through congress: appropriations committees will ask some questions about how the war's going, but won't do much sharpshooting.

Nominee to Fete

His 68 Backers

NEW ALBANY, Ind, June 13 (U, P.)—Kenneth Miller of New Albany is a politician who believes in rewarding his constituents with more than promises. Mr. Miller, who received 68 votes in his attempt to gain the Democratic nomination for mayor, will entertain his “faithful” with a banquet June 24. He said he would “depend upon the honesty of those who followed me” to insure his constituents place at the banquet table. But, just in case, Miller made arrangements for 100 plates.

CHORAL COMMITTEE HAS MEETING TODAY

The music selection committee of the Indiana State Choral Festival association is holding an all-day meeting today at the home of Misg Melva Shull, 355 N. Hamilton ave, Other members of the committee are Mrs. Zola Ingersoll, Hillshoro; Glenn Stepleton, Muncie; Harold Manor, Winchester, and Fred Koehrn, Southport.

TREASON TO BOOTLEG WASHINGTON, June 13 (U, P.)—= War Production Board Director Donald M. Nelson said last night that it is “close to treason” to deal with bootleggers for tires, gasoline and other civilian goods.

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