Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1942 — Page 17

INTENSIFIES IN N.Y.

They're Battling Over the Governorship Now but 1944

Presidential Delegates Are the Real Prizes In the Background.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 23.—A political feud bebwernt President Roosevelt and James A. Farley is blazing today with New York’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination a

preliminary prize.

The real contest is for control of the state’s delegates to the 1944 presidential nominating convention. If Attorney General John J. Bennett, Farley's candidate, is nominated and elected, it may be assumed that Farley will expect to control the 1944 New York convention

AXIS SUB TOLL MOUNTS TO 418

35 Dead or Missing in Three Mare Sinkings Revealed by Navy.

By UNITED PRESS . Thirty-five men were reported missing or dead today in three more sinkings announced by the navy, bringing to 413 the total of merchant ships lost in western Atlantic submarine warfare since mid-Jan-uary. Most of the ships were united nations vessels, but the unofficial total included several ships of neutral nations. An axis submarine machinegunned survivors of a Norwegian ship when they refused to divulge their vessel’s identity, but only the captain was injured, the crew disclosed at a gulf coast port. The vessel was hit by three torpedoes off the northern coast of South America June 3. Its crew of 39 put out in two lifeboats and a dinghy. Captain Shot in Arm

The submarine surfaced and questioned the captain, Finn Ager Madsen, and when he refused to answer, fired on his boat. He was wounded in the arm. Nineteen men were missing from a medium-sized American vessel sunk in the Atlantic “several weeks ago.” Eighteen others drifted 19 - days on two life rafts, drinking rain water, eating fish clubbed with their oars and gaining shelter from a shack built from floating wreckage. . Sixteen men were killed aboard a small British cargo ship torpedoed in the Caribbean May 28. Thirtytwo survivors landed at a gulf coast port.

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delegation and to have considerable influence in nomination of a Democratic presidential ticket. Farley would oppose renomination for Mr. Roosevelt and also object loudly to giving top place on the ticket to Vice President Henry A. Wallace who generally is regarded

las the New Deal heir-presumptive.

If Senator James M. Mead, an upstate Democrat from Buffalo, is nominated and elected, New York's 1944 convention delegates will be

controlled by Mr. Roosevelt who has indorsed Mead for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Mead is rated as a 100 per cent New Dealer.

Farley Bucks New Deal

The New York state nominating convention will meet next month. Months ago, Farley, who has retained his job as chairman of the New York state Democratic committee, decided to buck the New Deal for control of the state organization and to that end obtained commitments from well more than a majority of the state’s county organizations for the gubernatorial nomination of Bennett. Governor Herbert H. Lehman, after four terms, had announced he would not run again. Farley let it be known that he was for Bennett regardless of whom Mr. Roosevelt and Edward J. Flynn, chairman of the Democratic national committee and boss of the Democratic machine in New York’s borough of the Bronx, might put up. Mr. Roosevelt moved directly yesterday to stop the Farley candidate with an indorsement of Mead. The indorsement was made to Mead who announced it on emerging from the president’s office. That announcement ended a period of uncertainty in which Mr. Roosevelt protested that he was too busy to be considering political matters although he was conferring in turn with all New York state political leaders, including Farley.

Some Men Proscribed?

In the course of these conferences, Flynn emerged from Mr. Roosevelt's office recently to announce that the president would support any candidates who were both likeral and had supported his foreign policies prior to Pearl Harbor. There has been some criticism of that stipulation on the ground that it would proscribe men who always had been all-out for Mr. Roosevelt's war effort but who had opposed him on domestic policies. It is just 10 years and one month since Farley maneuvered Mr. Roosevelt to his first nomination in the Chicago stadium. Farley, who had lined up the delegates and kept Mr. Roosevelt in the running at that bitter 1932 convention, became chairman of the Democratic national committee and on March 4, 1933, he entered the cabinet as postmaster general.

Farley Was Benched

He remained to conduct the spectacularly successful 1936 new deal campaign but the political firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. was falling apart long before 1936. And thereafter the two men moved in different directions. Farley opposed Mr. Roosevelt's third-term nomination and was benched, politically, prior to the 1940 convention in Chicago.

NEW YORK, July 23 (U. P.).— James A. Farley charged last night that Senator James M, Mead (D. N. Y.) had “a record of inconsistency, vacilation and . . , plain and unadulterated deceit.” “On the basis of old-time friend-

ship and for the good of the party,| |

the people of the state and Senator Mead himself, I ask him before it

is too late, to recognize the truth e

and withdraw his name,” Farley said in a five-page, typewritten and single-spaced statement. * He quoted numerous newspapers which had published statements by Mead that he would not run for governor. :

FREIGHT DRIVERS END STRIKE

ST. LOUIS, July 23 (U. P).— Trucks leaded witn war supplies rolled to and from war plants today, signaling the end of a two-day strike of 3000 A. F. of L. union treight drivers. The drivers, who left their jobs Tuesday morning after wage negotiations with 110 trucking companies bogged down, voted late yesterday to return, after the WLB in Washington demanded

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Mrs. Gregory C. Davison of New York sponsors, with much vigor, the destroyer U. S. S. Ii named in honor of her late husband, a lieutenant commander in the navy. U. S. S. Saufley and U. S. S. Edwards, the ship was. launched at the Federal Shipbuilding and 13 rdock Co. yards in Kearney, N. J.» July 19. All three were launched within 35 minutes, to form the navy’s newest triple threat to enemy. subs.

UNITY PLEDGED IN WAR EFFORT

Management and Labor Promise FDR They Will.

Co-operate.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P). —Spokesmen for management and labor conferred with President Roosevelt today and pledged “unity of purpose and action” in the war effort. President William Green of the A. PF. of L., one of the conferees, was asked whether the manage-ment-labor pledge: of co-operation applied to forthccming administration steps to combat inflation, including new wage and price controls. “That is a matter each side is dealing with apart,” Green replied. The conferees said in a joint statement that they had gone to the White House to jointly reaffirm their “whole-hearted co-operation for uninterrupted war production, and to give a demonstration to our own country and to the whole world

of American management labor.”

Murray at Conference

Besides .Green, other conferees included C. I. O. President Philip Murray, President William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers and Eric A. Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Meantime President Roosevelt was reported to have told his congessional leaders that the United States faces the most disastrous economic upset in history unless the present price control system is scrapped for an ironclad prohibition against wage and price increases that are “inimical to the public interest.”

Drastic Action Needed

The president indicated at a conference with the leaders, it was

and

necessity of drastic action in the battle against inflation. The only question is whether the action requires legislation or whether the president's war powers are sufficient. The leaders urged him, it was learned, to act by executive order

BETHLEHEM “ACCEPTS” NEW YORK, July 23 (U. P.).— Bethlehem Steel Corp. has accepted under protest the war labor board’s “little steel” decision, it was disclosed today. The National Asscciation of Manufacturers warned, meanwhile, that blanket wage increases would have ‘disastrous inflationary effects” unless they follow the WLB’s recommendation that they should be adjusted to the cost of living.

reports that at present they are on the defensive from Murmansk to Voronezh and have concenfrated all their forces in a supreme bid on the southern sector. Ehrenburg says Russian military intelligence indicates more German divisions may be expected from western Europe. In listing those already arrived, he includes only those he has verified by talks with prisoners. The known reinforcements so far are as follows:

Urges Second Front

In May, the Germans transferred the T7ist infantry division from Rheims, the 365th infantry division also from France and the 82d infantry division from Holland. In June came the 383d infantry division from the English channel re-

gion and the 24th tank division from France. At the start of July the 370th infantry division was transferred from France; the 336th infantry division

from ‘Angers on July 7; the 377th

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Fillmore, Author Of Songs, Is 82

CHARLES M. FILLMORE, author -of evangelistic songs, will celebrate his 82d birthday. this afternoon and tonight at a party given by his wife and daughters at his home, 1914 Commerce ave. In 1896 he wrote “Tell Mother I'll Be There” which is still sung in many languages. Two years ago he published “Thank God for America,” which is in its fifth edition. His latest song, “Coronate the Prince of Peace,” has just been published.

MORE EXAMINED FOR AIR SQUAD

Officers Confident Goal of 100 for ‘City’s Own’ Will Be Reached.

Examinations continued today for the second “Indianapolis Own” naval aviation unit which will be inducted at public ceremonies at 11:45 a. m. tomorrow on the southwest corner of the federal building lawn. ’ Although confident the goal of 100 men would be enlisted, Lieut. Don E. Oren, in charge of organizing the unit, said it would not be possible for all of them to complete examinations in time for the public induction.

Enlistment Record Set

Governor Schricker and Mayor Sullivan will participate in the ceremony and Comm. R. H. G. Mathews will administer the oath. The future pilots will be addressed by the Rev. Joseph V. Somes, pastor of Christ the King church and chaplain of the Indiana wing of the civil air patrol. An all-time single day record of 171 enlistments was made yesterday at the local navy ‘recruiting station. The station, where all enlistments for the Indiana area are completed, reported 1607 recruits in the 2000 goal for July by last midnight. More than 100 of yesterday's recruits completed enlistments after 5 p. m. The 1500th man was Albert Eldon the 1600th was Claudie Bernard Lee, of near Muncie, and the last recruit yesterday was William Maurice Duffey, 45-year-old navy veteran from World War I, who resides at Burnettsville.

CUT DIPHTHERIA TOLL

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. PJ). —The census bureau reported today that only 1457 people died from diphtheria in 1940, cutting the death rate to 1.1 per 100,000 population, the lowest in history.

Today's War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE =~ United Press War Analyst , The Germans have transferred at least eight infantry divisions (about 120,000 men) and one tank division to the southern Russian front from France and Holland, reports Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet author and war correspondent. Ehrenburg, who enjoys semi-official status, finds the Russian situation very grave, before has ‘such danger menaced the common cause against Hitler.” Although the Germans, according to United Press advices, are expected shortly to start an Arctic drive toward Murmensk, Ehrenburg

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infantry division from France on July 11, and the 340th infantry division from Calais on July 13, Ehrenburg presents a plea for the opening of a second front, reporting that strong hope for allied aid exists among the embattled Russians. Reporting on his talks with German prisoners, Ehrenburg writes: , “The prisoners were found in possession of fresh issues of the Paris Zeitung and still unsmoked pack ages of French ‘Blue’ cigarets. “One prisoner, Kurt Winkler of the 340th infantry division, told me that only three weeks ago he was enjoying the sea air in the dunes between Calais and Boulogne. He said that ‘reduction of the forces of occupation’ is proceeding and added with an insolént grin: “ “The French can be held in subjection by small garrisons armed with automatic rifles. And as to the English, or rather their news-

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ducing a huge fleet of carg; k with load capacities ranging: three.to 13 tons and their Ic: pacities can be doubled and i» if “tow” gliders are develoei, informed aviation sources tid toay. a #A cargo plane without & gli train is like a tugboat barges,” one expert said. The ability of the aviatls 0 dustry to produce 11 existin 3 Ir of cargo planes and other mo the blueprint stage, these io said, is limited only by the ling ness of the war production i the army and navy to mai is able the strategic materigls 1:e The discussion was preci

Kaiser, Oregon’s shipbuildit pert, to produce 5000 cargo. annually to beat the stb campaign. Some aviation '¢ criticized Kaiser's proposals |: The senate committee invel tigating the war effort will beg investigation next week wn) include a study of Kaiser's posals. i

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Meanwhile, two house mz marine = subcommittees a introduction of a resolutic structing the maritime com to stay execution of its ods: celing contracts with the [Higgins Corp. of New Orleans frof 2(1' Liberty ships, until they nav: completed an investigation. i Andrew J. Higgins, presi the company, told the comp that cancellation of his org “either gross stupidity or son ts er motive.” Pi Higgins disputed. the clain a shortage of steel necessit ate! cancellalion of his contract. » said the Uinted. States Steel ¢

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100 ships a month, His first ship could be coir; in November, Higgins said, 2 though the contract called For 14 ships a month, he could Dihild 32 and “under pressure” 44 wi ugust,

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PETER ON SECRET F

NEW YORK, July 2% King Peter of Jugoslavia the white uniform of a Ju; corps major, left LaGua: in an army transport ple for an undisclosed destinatizn. paper articles, not even tomatic rifles are needed against t . “Another prisoner |

quiet but here it is hell. | not afraid of the English

will continue to sit therc.: you frankly, these wretch: garians and Rumanians 't. are playing a bigger part ta1:n your allies - because they are Bi least fighting.” ” ‘Risk, Sacrifice Needs: Ehrenburg sums up his | follows: .. “I would like to see thes. | stupid slanders of Hitler's ruffians| refuted by our allies’ artillery and 1 achine guns. i “We have the right to Bo) e that Russian courage will reid the German tanks in the Don | ‘eppes. However, our allies must fear in mind not only the courag: od the Russians but the inexorzo » laws

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cannot win a war without risk and sacrifice. De Gaulle’s Fraiiz calls itself ‘Fighting France. ..l:s, the France of Daladier and Eo) et was only ‘France belligerent.’ the real cause of her deiiit. “The hour has come for ii: nations to make a decisive whether to be only bellige:: a state of war or fighting; to suffer defeat because af procrastination or to win ceri¢ n vic-

ing the fierce assault of the « nemy.”

U.S. ASSAILED

| Taft Leads Attack on Plan

To Raise War Revenue;

‘Privileges’ Scored.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.) — Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) today assailed administration tax proposals as “completely inadequate” and said that the borrowing poli-

| cies of the treasury would “nullify

everything Price Administrator Leon

.| Henderson is doing.”

He was supported by other Republican members of the senate finance committee in criticizing administration plans for financing the war. They voiced their displeasure in questioning Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. opening witness in the administration’s fight for enactment of its $8,700,000,000 war revenue program.

would be called upon for too much of the $53,000,000,000 which the treasury plans to borrow during the coming year, Senator Taft said such borrowing creates: additional purchasing power that “necessarily will break down price control.”

Admits Inflation Danger » Undersecretary of the Treasury

Along with the dest: ond una W. Bell denied that big bor-

rowings from commercial banks necessarily would break down price control but conceded that “it does lay the foundation for inflation.” In the discussion of treasury borrowing policies, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.), frequently sided with Senator Taft. Senator Vandenberg = suggested that with less than 30 per cent of expenditures to be raised by taxes under the new revenue bill, the emphasis shifts to borrowing.

Denies “Forced” Sales

“I would prefer to put it this way,” Mr. Morgenthau said. “It is even more important that congress vote every dollar possible for taxes.

‘|What Is left over does make our

borrowing more difficult.” Senator Vandenberg said that on the basis of a $12,000,000,000 bond sales program, and the expected borrowing of $2,000,000,000 from insurance companies, it looked as though the remaining $39,000,000,000 of the $53,000,000,000 to be borrowed would have to come from ‘forced sales” to commercial banks. “That word ‘forced’ is unfortunate,” Mr. Morgenthau said. “Wjat we have to do with the banks is damn serious business. We have to look to the banks in the final | analysis to finance this war. “Up to now the banks have been grand. There has not been any

question of force.”

Urges Full Program

Mr. Morgenthau urged enactment of the treasury’s $8,700,000,000 program instead of the $6,270,900,000 bill passed by the house. He emphasized the need for elimination from the revenue structure of three “special privileges’—tax exemption for state and municipal securities, exemptions from taxation of 27% per cent of income from oil wells and mines, and the privilege of separate income tax re-

Contending that'commercial banks | .

Bond Buying Spurred

Leaders of the Victory .Fund ‘committee for war bond sales heard Francis F. Patton (center), executive manager of the committee of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, discuss war borrowing today. Edwin

J. Wuensch, Marion country chairmansis at the left, and J. Dwight Peterson, state chairman, is at the right.

State Just Ahead of Pace

. Indianapolis and Marion county today had a “safety margin”. of only 1 per cent in the campaign to raise $4,337,000 in war bonds this month. } The last sales report covering the first 18 days showed that 59 per cent of the quota had been raised. And 18 days is 58 per cent of the month. “This 1 per cent margin is far from comfortable, far from indicating that we will ‘go over the top’ again in July,” said James F. Frenzel, Marion county administrator. He pointed out that the sales for the first three days were almost $1,000,000. During the week from July 5 through 11, the buying total dropped to $817,245. Sales last

.|wepgk were only $755,880, making

the 18-day total $2,579,906.50. Meanwhile Indiana investment and commercial bankers yesterday heard the part they are to play in financing the cost of the war when Francis F, Patton of Chicago ad-

dressed district chairmen of the re-

Needed to Meet July Goal

cently formed Victory Fund come mittee. Mr. Patton is executive manager of the Victory Fund committee of the Seventh District Federal Reserve bank. He explained the necessity of monthly government borrowing: of between $4,000,000,000 and $4,= 500,000,000 and said that war bonds could take care of only about onefourth. “With the billion dollars in war bonds’ deducted fram the required monthly amount, there remains to be raised some $3,000,000,000 to $3, 500,000,000, exclusive of revenue from taxes,” he explained. “The easy way to finance the war would be to dump all bonds into banks, raising all bank deposits and putting into circulation a large amount. of check money. But this is highly infiationary. ; “The government has chosen the hard way—to sell bonds to people who are now enjoying larger ine comes with a dminishing amount of goods to buy. This method of selling bonds, if successful, will mean the survival of free enterprise in America.”

Scotty's Back Is Broken in 3 Places, but His Spirit Isn't

is broken in three places.

That went on for months. that they may have been wrong, but they aren't too optimistic. Scotty is as determined as ever.

Scotty, 33, is one of 19 who paid their own way from the United States to Great Britain to fight with the R. A. PF. and he’s the only one left., He lies between electric blankets day and night and there isn’t a moment when he isn’t in pain, but he says he hasn't a complaint. He became a gunner on a Wellington bomber, but now he’s fighting a tougher battle than any he ran into on 50 trips over enemy territory. His sister, Mrs. Barbara Lambert lives in Berkeley, Cal., and

turns by married couples.

Scotty says of her:

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The doctors said Scotty was going to die.

ROYAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL, Eastern England, July 23 (U. P.). —Alex (Scotty” Cooke, ‘former Los Angeles movie script writer, has been arguing with the ‘doctors for nine months about his back, which

He said he wasn't.

Today the doctors are a little hopeful

“She’s been prepared for me to snuff out but I've fooled her so many times that I think I can do it again.” . Talking about the 19 who bought their own tickets to fight the axis, he ‘said: “We thought we would have a little fun, see some action and do some good before the United States came into the war. We got what we came for. We knew it would be dangerous and that some of those tickets would lead into a prison camp. I'm the only one left and I'm gonna stick around. Someone’s gotta represent that bunch.”

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