Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1942 — Page 2

WORKERS’ FEES| “U.S. Indicts Union Men in Alleged Collections for Right to Job.

ALBANY, N. Y, June 1§ (U. P). ~The federal government brought - its first war fraud prosecution to court today, charging four local officials and employees of the International Union of Operating Engineers (A. F. of L) with collecting $50,000 in “kickbacks™ from workers on the army supply station at nearby Voorheesville.

Indictments were handed up to

- The grand jury announced it was continuing investigations into other alleged violations and that additional witnesses would be heard. Federal District Attorney Ralph L. Emmons indicated these investigations might be concerned with other matters at the $10,000,000 army supply depot. Claim Fees Up $2 Daily

The - indictments were the first secured by the war frauds unit of the department of justice. The defendants, all connected with Union Local 108, were listed gs: Thomas McGraw, business agent; John McGraw, allegedly authorized to collect fees for the " union; George J. Mannl, assistant business agent and financial secretary, and Jacob Beiar, union steward. The indictment alleges that certain of the persons hired on the job were obliged to pay to the defendants $2 for each working day * for the privilege of working, while others were charged $1 per day.

Charge Statute Vielated

The indictment further alleged - that the defendants conspired to violate the statute by instituting a so-called “permit card” system for furnishing operating engineers in the building of the regulating station. The arrangements between contractors and the local labor union provided for a closed shop upon the - assurance of the labor union that they could furnish skilled help from within the union. Contrary to this agreement, it was alleged, the defendants furnished non-union men after exhausting their local union rolls. These non-union men were not permitted to join the union, it was charged, but were forced to pay for the privilege of working on the Job.

FBI DENIES FAVORING COLLEGE ALIEN BAN

WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P). —The University of Missouri was disregarding, rather than acting in accord with justice department policies, when it voted to bar aliens from entrance fo the university, according to Aterney General Francis

at the bank, as a messenger, years ago following his graduation from Manual high school. later promoted to clerk. For the last severai months he had been unable to work due to ill health.

The growing strength of the U. S. army in England is work and at play in London. These off-duty mem

evidenced bers of the A. E. F. unit stationed in the British legend on a U. S. army truck in London. It was put there by the driver who certainly needn't be afraid

by the large number of Yanks at

capital are on a shopping expedition. Some are in fatigue suits while others are in uniform.

JOHN KORN DIES: Routine Naval Patrol Plane

CLERK AT BANK Spotted Jap Fleet af Midway

Took Job as Messenger

At Indiana National 17 Years Ago.

John W. Korn, clerk in the In-

diana National bank, died this morning at his home, Dearborn ave. following a long illness. He was 36.

1517 N.

Mr. Korn began his employment 17

He was

A member of the Second Evan-

gelical and Reformed church, Mr. Korn was born in this city.

Surviving are his wife, Emma;

his father, E. Edward, and two sons, Paul R. and John D., all of Indianapolis.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Friday in the Evangelical and Reformed church. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

REDUCTION IS URGED IN HONORARY DEGREE

WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. PJ.

—Dean Stephen Epler of the Southern Oregon college of education today urged American colleges and universities to revise their system of conferring honorary degrees and

Corbett, 28, Philadelphia, observer,

Biddle.

The university’s president, Frederick A Middlebush, announced - yesterday that the board of curators had adopted a resolution to bar ‘aliens and said that the policy was in accord with a policy of the FBI. “No such policy has been suggested by the FBI or any other division of the justice department,” Mr. Biddle said. “On the contrary, the frequently stated policy of the department opposed discrimination against aliens in all walks of life.”

confer them only on such men as

Newton, Darwin or Einstein.

In a report released by the Amer-

ican council on public affairs, Dean Epler criticized the present method of awarding degrees “primarily to advertise a college” or for “pecuniary motives,” and called for an “entirely new set of honorifics.”

He said that more than 75 per

cent of the 241 college and university presidents who had been polled agreed that fewer honorary degrees

DEPORT RUMANIAN JEWS ANKARA Turkey, June 16 (U. P.).—Advices from Bucharest said today that 100,000 Rumanian Jews had been transported to the Rusgian Ukraine and that hundreds were dying of malnutrition and disease.

should be granted, and that 11 per cent, believed the system should be

abolished.

He said more than 50,000 persons

have received nearly 200 varieties of honorary degrees since 1870, with former President Herbert Hoover leading the list with 52. President Roosevelt has collected 26. :

By FRANK TREMAINE

{ United Press Staff Correspondent i

PEARL HARBOR, June 16.—A navy ensign spotted the Japanese!

invasion fleet and, after flying over it three times undetected, sent the report which led to the American victory in the Midway island battle, it was announced today. The navy revealed the story, in its first account of its own part in the victory, only after its long range consolidated PBY patrol bombers which had played a memorable part, picked up 27 airmen,

wounded, in a 10-day segrch of the infested waters, on which had been floating in bulletrubber rafts. the many heroes of the battle, navy added: Ensign Jewel Reid, 28, Paducah, Ky., whi part was described as “an instance of an officer whose reports may have influenced an entire action.” He spotted the Japanese invasion force while on a routine pajrol in mid-morning June 3, having taken off at dawn.

Slept Two Hours Daily Lieut. Howard P. Ady, 24 San Antonio, Tex, and his co-pilot Lieut. Maurice Snuffy Smith, 29, Lodi, Cal. They spotted the Japanese striking force at 5:30 a. m.,

June 4. . Lieut. William A. Chase, 30, Altoona, Pa., pilot, and Ensign W. C.

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whose plane intercepted Ady’s report on the striking force and then sighted 150 miles off Midway the enemy plane fleet heading for the island :

The navy’s PBY planes which spotted the Japanese, joined in the torpedo attacks on them,

Made Daring Torpedo Attack

This was what the patrol planes, “eyes of the fleet,” call their normal work. But in addition, and on a volunteer basis, they made a daring night torpedo attack the first on record by psanes of their type. Lieut. william Richards, 31, Collingswood, N. J, was selected to lead the four PBY planes, with crews totaling about 40. They scored a hit on an 8000-ton troop transport and another ship which they could not identify but attacked because it was the biggest they saw in the darkness. The navy revealed that in. the

Midway battle, the first in which

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units of the navy, marines and army ever operated under a single command, the directing man was Capt. Cyril T. Simard of California, commander of the naval air station and senior officer on Midway.

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Simard, Capt. Logan C. Ramsey, Philadelphia, a native of *Washington, D. C, who directed the operations of the patrol planes; Comm. Massie Hughes, Selma, Ala.,

on Midway was made by two plane groups, totalling about 100 planes, Ramsay said.

Ramsey said that 48 of the enemy planes were downed. He added that he believed the Japanese lost several hundred plenes from their carriers, and more on seaplane tenders. :

Attacked by Three Planes

Aviation ordnance man Philip L. Fulghum, 20, Portland, Ore. said the plane on which he was bombardier was attacked by three Japanese fighters. “I started aft from my position in the nose of the ship,” Fulghim said. “Then I remembered I had bombs hanging from the wings. I went back and released them. “As I started aft again the ammunition in the plane started exploding from the intense heat. I ducked until it had gone off and went aft. As I got there the plane hit the water at a 45 degree angle, going 140 knots. “Everything became sort of confused then. Both rear gunners were dead. The commander was wounded in the stomach. Aviation Machinist John Weeks, Falbrook, Cal, was hit in the thigh. Three other men were dead. On the third day Lieut. Norman K. Brady, 27, Sanborn, Ia., and his co-pilot Lieut. William O'Dowd, 24, Monticello, Ind., picked up the party despite heavy swells and a heavy load of fuel.

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NAVY SCHOOL TO GET FIELDHOUSE

Butler to Officially Turn Over Building During Public Ceremony.

Butler university officially will turn over its fieldhouse to the navy at public ceremonies at 11 a. m, tomorrow in the Butler bowl. Taking part in the program will be naval, state and city officials. Dr. M. O. Ross, acting president of the university, will present the fieldhouse to the navy in behalf of the university. Comm. O. F. Heslar, representing the commandant of the ninth naval district, will accept for the navy and place the school in commission. Governor Schricker and Mayor Sullivan will take part in the program and Evan B. Walker, member of the university's board of trustees, will preside. School Tour Arranged

The Butler band will furnish music, and in collaboration with an honor company from the Butler naval school, will participate in a flag raising ceremony during the program. The invocation will be given by Dean Frederick D. Kershner, of the Butler school of religion. Following the program, Governor Schricker, Mayor Sullivan, Dr. Ross and other Butler officials will make a tour of the new school in company with Comm. Heslar and a navy party. The school opened June 1 to train navy signalmen and approximately 200 men are now in training. At noon, Butler and naval officials will attend a luncheon at the Columbia club. Comm. Heslar, whose home is in this city, was commanding officer of the naval training school at the naval armory when it opened Oct. 1, 1940.

CUBAN EXECUTIVE DIES HAVANA, June 16 (U. P.).—Jose Piedra, 60, Cuban industrialist and owner of the Piedra Tobacco Co., died yesterday. He had been ill

more than a year.

List Exemptions

On Tube Turn-ins

WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P.)—Retallers may sell existing stocks of gift toilet kits, containing tooth paste and shaving cream without requiring a turnin of an old tin tube, if the box is sent directly by the seller to a member of the armed forces, the war production board announced today. The WPB amendment to its collapsible tube order, also exsmpts from the turn-in requirement sales or distribution of tooth paste or shaving cream made through army exchanges, ship service stores, ship stores, and marine exchanges at certain locations to newly inducted selectees or newly enlisted men, or to war casualties in army or navy hose pitals.

VIGTORY GARDENS URGED ON FARMS

CLEVELAND, 'O., June 16. — Farmers, too, should grow “victory gardens,” P. O. Davis of Auburn, Ala., chairman of the Kiwanis agriculture committee, told the organizations 27th international convention here today. About 500 delegates from the United States and Canada are attending. “Many millions of non-farming people are now growing victory gardens,” Mr. Davis said in urging an expansion of the practice to farmers. “There is no better antidote for the war jitters and people are getting a lot of healthy satisfaction growing things with their own hands.” Yesterday, Leonard W. Brockington, Ottawa, Ont. former assistant toc Premier MacKenzie King, told the delegates that this war is a conflict of “the order of the new world against the world order as Hitler desires it. “Free men are marching and there are many at our side,” he said.

ARMY CALLS WILL ROGERS LOS ANGELES, June 18 (U, P.). Will Rogers Jr. son of the late cowboy humorist, and candidate for congress, reports for induction into

the army Thursday.

CHURCH OF 60D ELECTIONS HELD

Members of Five Governing Boards Are Selected at

Anderson Assembly.

ANDERSON, Ind., June 16 (U. P).—The election of members to five governing boards of the Church

of God by the ministerial assembly

highlighted yesterday’s business ses-|

sion of the church's 44th annual international convention. Church leaders named to the boards were:

MISSIONARY—Miss Archie Bolitho Anderson, Ind.; Dr. C. E. Byers, Springfield, O.;- the Rev. J. D. Smoot, Detroit, and the Rev. W. T. Wallace, Louisville, Ky.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION-—Miss Irene Smith, Anderson, Ind.; Dr. O. F. Linn, Dundalk, Md.; and the Rev. W. D. Oldham, Dayton, O.

ANDERSON COLLEGE—Dr. J. T. Wilson, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. S. P. Dunn, Chicago, and Dr. Caudill, Anderson.

GOSPEL TRUMPET—Dr. C. E. Byers, Springfield, O.; the Rev. M. A. Monday, Coffeyville, Kas.; the Rev. R. L. Berdy, Mountain Grove, Mo., and the Rev. W. D. Oldham, Dayton, O.

CHURCH EXTENSION — The Rev. W. B. Crowell, New York, N. Y.; the Rev. W. H. Hunt, Hamilton, O.;. the Rev. Dr. Elver Adcock, Anderson; the Rev. Ross Minkler, Indianapolis, and the Rev. M. M. Caldwell, Long Beach, Cal. The assembly also ratified Dr. C. E. Brown of Anderson as editor of the Trumpet and Dr. Adcock as registrar of clergy. Approximately 20,000 delegates from throughout the nation are attending the week-long camp meeting of the organization.

NEW STAMP JULY 4 WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. PJ. —The maritime commission announced today that a new 3-cent postage stamp, bearing the mari-

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.|Cargo Ship Vanished Soon

After Sailing From: Haiti Feb. 14.

NEW ORLEANS, June 16 (U. P), —The disappearance of the little freighter Miraflores four months ago may equal the 24-year-old mystery of the U. 8S. S. Cyclops which vanished in March of 1918. Both were last seen in the waters off the West Indies. The sea still noius their secret. The navy collier Cyclops left Bare bados in the West Indies March 4, 1918, with 309 aboard. The big ship of 19,300 tons displacement and her crew were never seen or heard from again, a The 2158-ton Miraflores of the Standard Fruit and Steamship Co. sailed from New Orleans last Feb. 6 with a crew of 34 for Haiti. Capt. Robert Thompson of New Orleans expected to return Feb. 19 from the “routine” trip.

Last Seen Feb. 13

Enemy submarines had shown only minor activity around the Caribbean back in early February, and the Gulf of Mexico sinkings hadn’t started. At Haiti, Capt. Thompson received a change in orders and sailed Feb. 14—Valentine Day-—for New York. The Mirafiores was seen the following day at sea, Still near Haiti but on her course. That was the last that was seen or heard of the freighter that spent years in the banana trade between New Orleans and Central America. She was 270 feet long, built in England in 1921. Her owners have sought in vain for some clue to the mystery of the Miraflores and her crew that sailed

‘off into oblivion. Queries to official | quarters, interviews with seamen of

other ships which traveled the same course, have brought no hint of the little freighter’s fate. But the wives of the missing crewmen wait patiently, certain they will return. ’ “I know he is alive,” said the wife of First Assistant Engineer Robert Keenan at her home here. “If only I could get word to him that I am still waiting and the light is still burning.” Mr. Keenan, a native of Belfast, Ireland, had sailed the seven seas for 45 years. His wife knows that he had been going to sea too many years to take chances. Mrs. Thompson also refuses to believe that the ship and the entire crew were lost.

AXIS MISJUDGED OUR POWER, NELSON SAYS

CHICAGO, June 16 (U. P).— Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board, said last night that the axis powers never would have thrust war upon the United States had they not miscalculated the ability of the nation “to smother” its foes with war production. “But it grows clearer every day that they did miscalculate,” Mr. Nelson said in an address at a banquet dedicating the new technological institute of Northwestern university. “We are getting the complete mobilization and utilization of our resources and our energies which they thought impossible for us,”

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