Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1942 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JUNE 23,

BRITISH ANGER ON LIBYA RISES

Lack of Confidence Action Begun in Commons On War Strategy.

LONDON, June 23 (U. P.).—The government assured an angry house “of commons today that reinforcements were reaching the British

army in Egypt for a strong fight against an expected axis offensive but one parliamentary group drew up a motion declaring lack of confidence in the central direction of war strategy. The lack of confidence motion fn the broad strategy of war did not mention Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who also is minister of defense, but as head of the war cabinet he is responsible for conduct of the war.

Barage of Questions

Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee previously had spoken for the government in commons, stating that Mr. Churchill was aware of the need of his early return from conferences in Amerjca and promising a fuil debate on the Libva defeat and the re-| port which the prime minister willl make on his talks with President Roosevelt. Mr. Attlee, after discussing the! battle of Libya and telling of the] loss in the recent Mediterranean

battle of one British light cruiser,

four destrovers, two escort vessels' Decatur residents took an unwel-

and 30 airplanes, faced a barrage]

ing British reverses and lack of striking power in North Africa. He read a telegram from Gen.| Sir Claude Auchinleck, commander in chief, attributing the fall of]

Gen. Auchinleck said that at one point the Germans had feught thémselves out, but it was impossible for his exhausted eighth army to press that potential advantage.

Charges Poor Equipment

Earl Winterton, conserv a cabinet minister in pre-war days, | opened criticism of Churchill. | He implied that armored divisions based in Britain were poorly] equipped and said: “Some of us are in possession of | unimpeachable information that the prime minister and Sir James Grigg (war secretary) need to inquire most closely into armament and hit- | ting power of armored divisions at| home.

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H. C. Schildmeier (left) and Benjamin H. Murphy . . . at 68, Mr.

Once Unwelcome ‘Plus 45

Murphy works for Mr. Schildmeier 12 hours a day.

DECATUR POWER

Single Turbine Takes Care

. . come of questions in commons regard- |. wer rationing today, budgeting ihome and business activities to a | crippled municipal power plant out-

on 7 c .__... more than six hours yesterday when Tobruk to an “impossible situation. la turbine in the power plant ex-! |ploded, engineers restored partial! {service before nightfall, assuring | enough power to war industries in! the city for night shift operations. !

| tomorrow.

BEING RATIONED

Of City After Other One Explodes.

DECATUR, Ind, June 23 (U. P.).

dose of enforced electric

With the entire city paralyzed for

Authorities said additional elec-!

tric power would be brought in from | ative an alan Indiana Service Corp. line skirt-| |ing the west edge of the town, but) [full service was not expected before |

Meanwhile, what power “left

over” from the single turbine now operating to supply the city’s indus- | tries will be doled out to the re-| mainder of the community, officials|

said.

BABY DRINKS COAL OIL

One-year-old Nancy Lahr, 217

“If British and American divis- | Dixon st, was in serious condition| fons are sent overseas without arm- | at City hospital today after she)

ament equality it will be one of the | drank a quantity of coal oil. greatest catastrophes in our his-|is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Howard Lahr, |

tory.”

L. S.

She |

1941 Blitz will be

Men’ Prove Their Value on

George B. McCreary (left) and his son, Walter + « + the father is 81, Alonzo O. Knotts . . + he is 73—and the doctors said “yes” his son 52.

» » »

Survey of Factories Shows

Vigorous Role in War Task

By VICTOR PETERSON IT WASN'T VERY LONG ago that men over the country were turned away from office employment windows with a courteous—sometimes otherwise, “Sorry, we're taking on only those under 45.”

out than rust out,” say Benjamin H. Murphy, George B. McCreary

and Alonzo O. Knotts.

Collectively they are 222 years old.

Mr. Murphy, at 68, is an employee of the H. C. Schildmeier Co.

and a resident of Greenfield.

Mr. McCreary, at 81, is an employee of Hetherington & Berner

Co. and lives at 830 W. 30th st.

Mr. Knotts, at 73, is a civil service employee and lives at 6133

Rosslyn ave.

All are industrial soldiers, serving for the duration at least. Mr. Murphy and Mr. Knotts answered their country’s call from retire-

ment. half a century.

= ” » Three Men Prove Their Value

Mr. McCreary has been with Hetherington & Berner for

” » =

THE THREE MEN ARE PRIME examples of older men in in=dustry—men back at work after once being “too old.” Daily those over 45 are swelling the ranks on the industrial front as youth advances on Berlin and Tokyo via North Ireland and Australia. Chosen at random, the three were not selected to provide a point. But their records do prove that men over 45 are not too old for industry. Nor are men over 50, over 60, over 70 or even over 80.

Figures from the local U. S. Employment bureau show 1497 men over 45 sent into industry from January 1 through May 31 of this year, 20.4 per cent of all those placed. Every month the number of

| older men in industry is steadily

increasing. Of all placements made, they totaled in January 15.6 per cent; February, 159 per cent; March, 18.8 per cent; April, 20.5 per cent and May, 26.7 per cent.

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timers step in,” he said.

WHAT, THEN, is the calibre of these men? : In the nine months he has been with the H. C. Schildmeier Co., Mr. Murphy has changed half the tools in the shop. Where his improvements have been used, a 50 per cent speed-up in production has resulted. In some cases the shortened production time is even more amazing. Everything is war work, and one job required the drilling of 7000 holes at five minutes each. Total job time, three weeks. Mr. Murphy took some steel, shaped it and tempered it, and, with the new tool, turned out the finished product in TWO DAYS. Another time he saved the company approximately $200 by making a machine for which they would have had to wait eight months on delivery. The job was completed two weeks before schedule. Every day Mr. Murphy rides

the bus 42 miles to and from |

work for it makes his Irish temper rise to see “these young whippersnappers burn up the rubber the government needs.” He had retired to farm life when he heard the rumble of the chariot of Mars last September. Wanting to do his part, he now labors 12 hours a day and wonders, “There must be something more I can do?” » = »

Built Weapons Used

In Three of Our Wars MR. McCREARY was a defense worker during the American war, World War I and now today. Five weeks ago his wife died. They had agreed that should she die first, he would retire. “But I couldn’t quit during these times. I've got work to do,” he said from behind his lathe. “The only thing that bothers me now,” he continued, “is that all I can work is 40 hours a week. I guess I'm just too old for more.” Shop officials of the war plant say that Mr. McCreary is the best mechanic they have. Moving slowly, but with pattern-perfec-tion, he does the work of a 30-year-old man. But Mr. McCreary is giving more - than the closing years of his life to the war effort. Both his sons, Walter and Earl, also are with the company. Walter is 52, Earl, 46. Combined the three have served the company for 121 years. “I'll try to keep going for the duration, and then I think I'd better quit,” he said.

Holds Same Job He Had Back in ’17 and ’18

LAST MONDAY MR. KNOTTS, | retired since 1930, packed his in- | spectors’ tools and went to work |

for the government in virtually the same position he held in °’17 and ’18—inspector of military materials. Three years ago he was too old for civil service. Today he is three years older and back in harness. Physically fit? Beyond a doubt. With a note of satisfaction in his voice, he said, “There were 65 questions on the medical examination, and every one was answered favorably by the doctors.” A student of mechanical and electrical engineering for four and a half years, Mr. Knotts has had 40 years’ experience with the tools of his trade. According to Mr. Knotts, it takes years to make an inspector. Today the field is invaded by what old-timers call

course to qualify them as inspectors. “It’s all right if they never run up against a problem they haven't been trained for, but on the tough ones, well—that's where we old-

Spanish- | again during |

on all counts,

Today's War

Sevastopol, serious crisis at home.

That crisis is in the war factories and on the farms. The war is being fought on such a vast and But Methuselah was a d man, and “We would rather wear |Wwasteful scale that it is a question whether Hitler would have been > Ro (able to continue it this long had he not drafted labor by the millions rom all over subjugated Europe to keep his military machine function-

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

While Germany's ablest General, Marshal Erwin Rommel, is driving the British back into Egypt and Nazi forces are’ steadily reducing the defenses of Adolf Hitler is facing an increasingly

already have been drafted into the German labor army. A few months ago, the number was conservatively estimated at

5,000,000. At that time, the office of facts and figures in Washington included in that total 1,110,000 Poles, 400,000 Italians, 390,000 French, 250,000 Belgians and 200,000 Dutch. There also are many Norwegians, Danes, Rumanians, Hungarians, Greeks and others. Reports from Europe today are that Hitler not only is reaching out into France, but recruiting skilled

Moves

ing. The Russian campaign, with its tremendous rate of casualties, has caused a further heavy drain on German skilled laborers, who have been taken from their work to fight at the front. Now Hitler finds he is dangerously short and is taking desperate measures to replenish the supply by virtual slave labor from the subjugated countries. Hitler's need is clearly shown by the cynical appeal of Pierre Laval, his tool at the head of the French government, to French labor to go

tory.

after two years

to Germany and toil for a Nazi vic-

Laval’s specious plea was accom-

panied by a vague promise that an equal number of French war prisoners in Germany would be released and permitted to return home. is a safe bet that any so released,

camps, would not be among the most able-bodied. It is difficult to tell how many men from the occupied countries

labor by force or under pressure in the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Greece, Poland and elsewhere. A typical report is one from London saying that Norwegian industries have been ordered to dismiss 30 per cent of their workers to free 60,000 workers for service in Germany. Hitler's ruthless scramble for labor suggests a realization that he will not be able to carry through in 1943 and has to win the war this year. Falling production and the lack of oil are his big problems.

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CHINESE KEEP KEY RAILROAD

Defenders Continue to

Balk Japs’ Efforts

At Seizure.

CHUNGKING, June 23 (U. P.).— Chinese troops still hold a 62-mile stretch of the vital NanchangHangchow railway in eastern China and are frustrating violent Japanese attacks, a military spokesman said today. He said the Chinese-held territory was between the cities of Shangjao and Kweiki, both in Japanese hands. A previous Chungking communique confirmed that the Japanese occupied Kweiki last week, one day after a spearhead driving westward along the railway gained control of Shangjao. A new threat was reported developing in the Kweiki area, toward which fresh enemy forces were believed moving eastward from the south shore of Lake Poyang, where they landed early last week. Wang Shih-Chieh, Chinese information minister, warned that the Chinese must press resistance along the Nanchang-Hangchow railway to prevent the Japanese from establishing an overland transportation route from Korea to Malaya.

ROPE CAUSES DEATH

RUSHVILLE, Ind, June 23 (U. P.) —Thomas W. Rowland, 57, was injured fatally yesterday when he was thrown to the pavement by a hay rope drawn behind a car. His son, Calvin, was driving the car and was attempting to straighten a twisted rope when it looped, caught Rowland and threw him to the ground,

CHALLENGE LEWIS

WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P.. —The C. I. O.-sponsored national council of gas, coke and chemical workers today challenged John L. Lewis to battle for control of 40,000 district 50 members of the United Mine Workers.

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