Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1942 — Page 15

SAVES 7 FROM BURNING HOME Unknown Passerby Rouses

. Sleeping Children, Then Turns in Alarm.

. A passer-by who left before his| name could be obtained awakened| ~Soven Shaun sisepihe 30 & Madiug |

, Home near the city last night, ried the youngest ones to ry alarm.

, residence of Mr. and d Smith, R” R. 20 box and the fire department estimated the’ Joss, at $1700.

Mrs. Smith said she thought the.

blaze started from defective wiring. Complete school outfits for the children were lost and also an estimated $250 worth of furniture, accprding=-to the-parents.

Oldest Child in Charge Located on the Kerr road near the Holt road, the house was en-

veloped in flames when the alarm;

was turned in. Sleeping there were the following ghildren: Rosalie, 15, who was left

by her mother in charge of the| i§

children; James, 13; Paul, 12; Joseph, 10; Colleen, 8; Mary, 6, and Jerry, 9 months. James, Paul and Joseph spent the night at the juvenile detention home and were happily playing with the other children there this morning. The rest of the Smith family went to the homes of neighbors.

PALESTINE DEFENSES TO BE STRENGTHENED

LONDON, Aug. 8 (U.P). — A three-part pro to strengthen Palestine ‘defenses was announced in commons today by Sir James Grigg, secretary of state for war. The main part of the program will be creation of-a' Palestine regiment consisting of separate batalions of Jewish and Arabian infantry. Sir James said the regiment normally will be employed in Palestine or adjacent countries. He also revealed plans for a special Jewish rural police force.

CORPORAL IS BURIED

Corp. William Hersthell ' Armstrong, 27-year-old soldier who drowned July 30 at Florence, Ariz, was buried here today in Oaklandon cemetery, The Rev. R. H. Benting, pastor of St. Marks Lutheran church, was in charge of rites at the J. C. Wilson funeral home. Corp. Armstrong's home was at 530 Trowbridge st. 3

letters. On leave now, Mr. Sellers

flowing in his veins.

Today, at 55, the government finds him too old for military service, but that isn’t stopping him or his family. Two of the 1917 deferments are now ih active. service. Donald is an electrician’s mate second class and stationed at Dutch Harbor while his younger brother, Daniel, is on army duty in California,

Sails Aboard Tanker

And Mr. Sellers—well, last November he applied for his seaman’s | papers and shipped with the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey aboard the tankers plying the sub-menaced Atlantic waters.

“We found those Nazi wolf packs, too. Or, maybe I should say, they

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At 55, He's Not too old fo for Sea Service—And Torpedoings

Paul M. Sellers of 1110 W. 34th st. is not an “old salt.” He is an “elderly salt” with young blood and a dash of sea water

In world war I the government found no place for Mr. Sellers as he was married and Lad three little deferments to boot.

he leaned back in cornfort on the family davenport.

“None of us care for war, but, as we have to be in, I'm awfully glad I can play a small part now. “I made three trips across the equator and part of a fourth one. You see we didn’t quite make our destination. The Nazis caught us off the North Carolina coast and pasted us proper. . - Travel in Convoy “Going down we carry dry stores to bases in the West Indies, but coming back it’s oil—end plenty of it. “The first trip T made was just after Dec. 7 and we traveled alone in a zig-zag course. We didn’t see any subs on that trip but the air patrol dumped = some sticks all around us. And I don’t think they were practicing. : “The next two times we traveled in convoy, anywhere from eight to 17 ships plus the escort. Each time vessels were sunk. Guess we couldn’t have missed it: by more than an hour either time. -

Recalls Explosion

“It was the third trip in convoy that we got it. We were the lead or commodore ship and our ‘captain acted under orders of a navy man who directed all movements. “We were just off.” and he paused, “well, we were 103 miles off’ the coast of North Carolina and 33 miles from some islands and I had gone on deck to rest. “But I didn't have more than about 10 minutes for suddenly there was, a terrible explosion on our pert side and one of the ships began to list. “Well, I figured in case of an attack the safest place would be the poop deck which is aft. So I ran back on the port side and then for some reason ran over to starboard. “And it was a good thing,” put in Mrs. Sellers. “I was a little lucky,” he admitted. “About three seconds after’ TI’ left the port side, a torpedo struck right ! where I-had been standing. I don’t remember Low many men were on deck but I know I was the puly one not injured. “I've never heard such a noise. It’s deafening and the concussion: knocked me flat. The torpedo ripped into the hull and just missed our magazine by two feet. “But lots of funny things happen. For instance, 1 always kept my cot ‘made on deck with my sweater under the pillow. After the torpedoing I went back to get the sweater but it wasn’t there. The cot was in perfect order, the pillow in place, but the sweater had been blown out from under.

Took to Lifeboats

“We held up under that torpedoing and made for the islands. We were about 11 miles lout when we got hit again and the other ship, hit in the first attack, got it twice more. “Then we took to our lifeboats and luckily made land in about five and a half hours. | But we had |another scare for the motor Was dead and we had fo rig ‘a sail Meanwhile, those who hadn’t abandoned ship thought they saw the sub and opened fire with tracer

|| bullets from a 50 caliber. machine

gun. If there was a sub tHere, 0. k., but they almost got us in the | process. . “But shucks, I didn’t dos dnything, I just got a | bump. on the back of the neck. The real heroes are those who were all ‘torn up but Rept on grinning, And they did,

“Just a Bump”

But Paul M. Sellers, who went down to the sea at 55 must have done something, for, Le has been notified that he soon will* receive the newly created government medal for merchant seamen ‘torpedoed at sea. | He's on vacation and leave now until Aug. 16. As for going “to ‘Sea: “Sure, we've got a fight on our hands. Besides, it sort of gets in your blood,” and Searhan Sellers grinned like a guilty kid as he

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FOR GETS PAY

CONTROL PLAN

Proposal Would Compel w,

Submit All Raises to

U.S. Review.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. Py— The public members of the war labor board have sent to the White

House a plan to compell all em-|i

ployers to submit to government. review and control of all wage increases, it was learned today. =n Chairman William H. Davis said

an executive order by President|¥

Roosevelt would be necessary to make the plan compulsory. The

public members held it was neces-|

sary to prevent voluntary wage increases from impeding operation of the “little steel” wage stabilization formula—to limit wage increases to

: |15 per cent since Jan. 1, 1941. 1; The proposal was understood to |} : | have at least the tacit approval of! : Imost of the employer and labor

members. Davis said it had been discussed “rather generally” among board members for some time, Studied by Rosenman The proposal would provide that government agencies be forbidden from récognizing wage increases not approved by the ‘war labor board or

another government agency set up|:

to review wages. . The proposal was understood to

be under study by Justice Samuel id | I. Rosenman of New York, closé ad-

making a new study of anti-infla tion measures. Meant ten by public member Wayne L. Morse and concurred in by six other of the nine members voting, said the “little steel” formfila would be powerless to prevent wage inflation

unless it was applied to voluntary]

wage increases as well as to those granted by the board. | The opinion came in a denial of 4 general wage increase for 2750 workers in the General Cable Co. plants at Bayonne and Perth Amboy, N. J. Morse invoked the “little steel” formula, which he -said® was widely misunderstood, in denying the requested increases.

A Significant Opinion

“Of course, it should be recognized by all concerned,” Morse said, “that the wage formula adopted by the board will not and cannot result in wage stabilization if it is limited in its application te wage disputes which come before - the war labor board for final / determination.” The opinion was regarded as particularly significant in view of pe] ports “that President Roose preparing a general wage a. oY a policy and expects to announce if soon. Some officials expect that Mr. Roosevelt. either will give the war

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labor board powers to control all

wages, or that he will set up a wage czar to pass on all proposals for wage increases. The “little steel” formula provides a three-way yardstick for measuring wage demands, but is based mainly on a 15 per cent rise in living costs between January, 1941, and May, 1942, If workers fave sifonty received raises to counteract the increased living costs, however, the hoard will study their demands to determine whether their wages are substandard, or unequal to wages in the same plant, in other plants in the same industry, or to .other industries in the same locality

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. Aug. 6 (U. P.) —The first maitenance of membership agreement in “little steel”

was in effect foday under terms of |.

a contract signed by the Inland Steel Co. with the United Steel Workers union (C. I. O.).

WAYNE WILL TEST AIR RAID SIRENS

Wayne township defense organization will test its air raid warning sirens tomorrow between 7 and p. m. J : Nine sirens will be used, one affixed to the Republic Creosoting Co. plant on S. Tibbs ave. and eight others belonging to the township volunteer fire department. Paul Goss, township defense director, and Virgil Hughes, air raid warden of the district, said the test would be run to determine the spots

e, a board ‘opinion’ writ<]

Robert E. Ensminger :

By THOMAS L. STOKES : Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Thomas G. Corcoran, one-time high-placed New Dealer, is proudly wearing ‘another feather in his cap in the role of super-lobbyist which” he practices through friends in the administration. ; The young man who once was famous for starting congressional investigations has now succeeded in stopping one—one that was due to produce sensational ' revelations about a big corporation with former German connections. This was the scheduled investigation by \the Senate Patents comitte Sterling Products, Inc., e big jirug combine, and its contra d relations with Germany’s giant I. G. Farbenindustrie, These relations involved patent restrictions, price fixing, division of world markets—similar to the arrangements between Standard Oil of New Jersey and I. G. Farbenindustrie, which have been investigated now for weeks by two senate committees.

Bone’s Protest Futile

Over the protest of Senator Bone (D. Wash.), its chairman, the. patents committee decided to cut short its current investigations into cartels which have hampered ine war program, and so Sterling Products escapes the long-promised inquiry. Subpenas had been issued for officials of Sterling Products. Likewise, the committee had obtained from the justice department 30,000 documents seized from files of the company in connection with the anti-trust case last year, with sensational evidence never made public. The committee decision came after two rather turbulent sessions in which Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust prosecutions, who has been so hot after Standard Oil, General Electric and others, took a very different position as regards Sterling Products. This time he favored dropping the investigation.

Corcoran Not Present

So did Undersecretary of War Patterson, who sat in with the committee, along with. Leo Crowley, alien property custodian. y Mr. Corcoran, of codrse, was not

strings outside for weeks. But he had an agent present in Senator Pepper (D. Fla.) a committze mem-~ ber, who was most insistent in op-

in the township where the sirens cannot be heard.

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Pathof A.F.of L.-C. 1. O. Unity

CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—Several obstacles developed today to complicate the intricate process of patching the seven-year rift between the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor. However, C. I. O. and A. F. of L. leaders, assembled at important meetings of their own organizations, |* agreed that joint conferences on labor peace virtually were assured. The new hurdles in the way of “organic unity” developed from the statements of Presidents William Green of the A. F. of L. and Philip Murray of the C. I. O. Mr. Green and Mr. Murray, while expressing a mutual desire for a successful merger, emphasized the difficulties ahead. The concensus among deleinies and officials at the. C. 1. O. United Automobile Workers convention held that Mr. ‘Murray's speech yesterday provided a new source of conflicts, Mr. Murray criticized an agreement negotiated recently between the A. P. of L. and the British Trade Union council for failure to include the C. I. O. in discussions directed towapd co-operation be-| tween British and American labor in the war effort, ;

“unity conferences”

it chooses, C. I. O. delegates and representatives of unaffiliated unions to participate in British American labor conferer.ces. Mr. Murray mentioned ’specifical-

ly the failure of the A. F of L. to

invite officials of the independent railroad brotherhoods to participate in the negotiations with: British labor. While the part of the brotherhoods and other poweriul independent unions in the C. I. -O.-A. F. of L. peace negotiations has been given secondary consideration, Mr. Gieen at a press conference, said he peélieved no specific invitation Would be - extended the brotherhoods to participate in the in view of their repeated refusals to affiliate with the A: P. of L. A. F. of L. leaders, attending the organization’s © executive council mesng,: ‘said the proposal for a united labor movement, depriving the ASF: of L. the C. I. O. the brotherhoods and ‘other independents of sutonomy, first sprung from suggestions of the Daily Worker, a left-wing labor paper, and the Communist party. At U. A. W. convention headquarters, another source of confliet was seen in the A. F. of L's

present. He has been pulling the{a

Robert W. Boze

Four Indianapolis'mén and one from Shelbyville have received their wings at the Gulf Coast -army air forces™fraining center at Randolph field, Tex., and row are ready for combat. They were graduated yesterday from the intensive, 27 weeks’ course. : ‘The men “are Lieuts. Robert K. Berry, 820 E. 51st st.; Robert W. - Boze, 1450 College ave.; Arthur

\-v. Sprowl, 1247 N. King ave:; Rob- - ert E. Ensminger, 1321 N. Merid-

ian st. and Frederick B. Smith, Shelbyville. . The men were members of the.

_ largest class yet graduated by the

training ‘center from its seven advanced flying schools.

Tommy Coreoitn Credited | With Halting Drug Co. Probe

some time that the senator was active on Mr, Corcoran’s behalf to squelch the inquiry. Senator Pepper is under obligation to Mr. Corcoran for favors when the latter was high in administration councils, including help in his 1938 election campaign.

g “Inside ‘Baseball”

nd of the Sterling investigation is the climax of one of the most amazing examples of “inside baseball” ever seen here. Suspicions were aroused that high administration officials were trying to duck the inquiry when Mr. Crowley was asked some weeks ago to testify about Sterling, with particular reference to the synthetic-quinine monopoly which one of its subsidiaries, the ‘Winthrop Co.—still owned 50 per cent by I. G. Farbenindustrie—possesses by virtue of its control of German patents. Synthetic quinine had suddenly become most. important, for the same Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies which shut off rubber also shut off quinine, new so

|vital in protecting the health -of

American troops fighting in tropical climates.

appearance. Despite earlier assurances that he was going to take over the substitute. quinine patents and release them generally for manufacture as had been’ done in the case of synthetic rubber patents, he never did this—never has, in fact, done it yet.

Fought Patent Release

Mr. Corcoran was very active in preventing release of the patents, except to one firm, Merck & Co. which now has g contract to manufacture atabrine, the quinine substitute, for Winthrop. Officials of the state department, commerce department .and board of economic warfare pleaded in vain for release of the patents. Circumstances, some of which he hhelped to create, played into Mr. Corcoran’s hands in stopping the Sterling investigation. Attorney General Biddle does not want another rehash of Mr. Corcoran’t activity in connection with the consent decree of last year, a decree severely criticized within the justice department. Mr. Corcoran, hung his hat in Mr. Biddle’s office and used high-pressure tactics and great show of his influence with lawyers and experts in the antitrust division, which those individuals deeply.resented, some to the point of threatening to resign.

Brother Company Official

Mr. Corcoran’s ‘brother, David Corcoran, is an official of a sterling subsidiary which handles Latin American business. ‘Mr. Arnold does not want it told again how he refused to sign the press release on the Sterling consent decree, characterized by justice department lawyers as “a whitewash,” which Mr. Corcoran helped to write. Mr. Arnold privately deplored the press release. It is a subject he does not like to recall.” In the committee session, the argument used by Mr. Aronld and Mr. Patterson for suppressing the Sterling investigation was that it might upset harmonious relations with Latin American countries. Sterling Products is now taking over the Latin American market formerly controlled by the Germans.

FALL INJURY FATAL TO JOHN HENDRICKS

Injured in a fall, John 2. Hendricks, 1923 N. Meridian st., died yesterday- in Methodist hospital, Dr. James Leffel, deputy coroner, said the 50<year-old carpenter died of a head injury received Tuesday. Surviving are a son, Orlando, of New Augusta; a daughter, Mrs. Violet Blubaum, Vincennes; two brothers, Louis, of Stratford, Wis., and Cleve, of Stendal, Ind., and a grandchild. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at Shirley Brothers. central chapel. Burial will be in

Mr. 2 kept postponing his.

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I MacArthur’ Ss

Replies to Bungling Charge.

; QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 6 @.

Frederick B. Smith

Arthur V. Sprowl

HOLD LUNCHEON TOMORROW The DeMclay Mothers’ club will have a covered dish luncheon tomorrow noon in Brookside park.

| Japanese advances had not ene]

dangered New Ginea and added that if the allies took the offen sive the enemy at the new Gonae Buna base would find themselves “in a most exposed position.” It was the first official statement in detail on the thrust which had given the Japanese a new base on

: {the north New Guinea coast and

had permitted: enemy combat patrols to take Kokoda, with its air field, only 55 miles from the allied base of Port Moresby. : The statement was both an ime plicit reply to an angry statement by Australian opposition leader William M. Hughes that the allied command had bungled the situation and a warning to Japan that it would ‘not be permitted to remain in MacArthur’s zone indefinitely. . It was also a reminder to the folks at home that the Japanese navy almost unchallenged except by a relatively small allied plane force rules the seas vhroughout the ‘Auss tralian theater. ' - Hughes had asked why the Japa~nese had been “allowed” to take the Buna-GOna area and had demanded that Mac ur move “without a day's delay] to get it back. : : Gen, MacArthur's spokesman made : it plan that he did not intend to sacrifice any American or othep allied troops as a gestiire of political prestige and that he would move

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