Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 128
KAISER GIVEN A ‘60 SIGN ON CARGO PLANES
He'll Build 100 to Start With; 400 to Follow if Plan Works.
(Kalser, the “Wizard,” Page 13)
/° WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P).—
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson said today that the WPB has approved the proposal of Henry J. Kaiser, West coast shipbuilder, to build 500 70-ton cargo-carrying flying boats. Nelson said Kaiser first will build 100 of the huge planes; 400 more will follow if Kaiser's building plan proves successful. The planes will be patterned after the flying-boat Mars built for the navy by the Glenn L. Martin Co.
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planes will be constructed. The WPB chairman made it clear that thé program was “contingent
on our being able to do it without.
interfering with the present combat plane program.”
Nelson Is Hopeful
Asked if this could be done, Nelson replied: “I have hopes. At least we can try.” The plan to build huge cargocarrying planes to defeat the axis submarine menace was pushed strongly by Kaiser, who has shipyards in Oregon and California, where he said he could build 5000 cargo planes. “Kaiser will come back and tell us what materials and facilities he needs and where he is going to -da| it and when_he is going to get started,” Neisén said. i First indication Kaiser"had won his fight for permission to build the huge planes came yesterday when Nelson conferred with President Roosevelt and then said plans be, worked.out “in a shert. WPB spokesman later said Nelson was “anxious to get Mr. Kaiser into business.”
Scoffs at Difficulties
Kaiser, informed of the WPB's action, enyisaged the approval as “the beginning of a great cargo plane program.” Concerning the number of planes the WPB authorized, he said, “well, we began with only 30 Liberty ships
a year ago last January and we've] : delivered over a hundred 10-000-| :
.tonners already with only two cities working. We have a- back log of several hundred orders.” - The shipbuilder said he expected no difficulty in obtaining materials for the 500 planes. Asked if the plane construction would curtail or halt the building of ships in his shipyards, he said: “I've never been known to stop anything. 'I want to keep building. The army, the navy, the WPB and all of us—that’s what we're all interested in.” |
THAT DOWNPOUR WAS
‘JUST A BEGINNING’
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ... 68 10am... 74 72am ...68 1la.m.... 76 8a. m, ... 68 12 (noon) ., 7 ‘9am ...6 1p m . 18
It’s only the beginning, folks! That's the word from the weather bureau today following the deluge this morning which sent thousands of office workers scurrying to cover and slowed down traffic considerablygiie. The bureau forecast showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight, with not much change in temperature. That downpour this morning hit around 7:30 a. m. just in time to catch workers. and many motorists were held down to a snail's pace.
NEED WOMEN FIREWATCHERS
LONDON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison
' announced plans lodavye conscript
British women from to 45 years of age to serve as. firewatchers, a job made more important by disclosure yesterday that German rgid-
ers gre dropping a new type of
phosphorus fire -bomb.
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ASHER T0 SURRENDER HERE NEXT MONDAY
Him Out of Own District.
PORTLAND, Ind. Aug. 7 (U. PJ). —Morton 8S. Hawkins, co-counsel for Court Asher, Muncie publisher, who was indicted recently with 27 other persons on sedition charges, said today Asher would be surrendered at Indianapolis Monday when proceedings would get under way to test the government's right to try a publisher outside his home district. Asher is scheduled to go to Washington to face charges that he conspired to undermine the morale of the nation’s armed forces by writ-
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X-ray. Hawkins also announced that a special committee was being formed to aid Asher “who does not have a dime to pay expenses.” The committee will be known as the “com-
mittee to op trial of publishers out of tel home distriet.” . ©
EMPLOYMENT ‘ROLLS UP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U, P).— ‘Acting Work Projects Commission-
nounced that employment rolls rose: 18,18: by 700,000 persons ‘between June
and — but the number ‘of .un3 emp) remained - unchanged" at
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1. Statue of Governor James Whitcomb. of Mexican war days with cannon-chain fence and metal lamp posts at monument circle.
2..“Y”? gun at courthouse which threw . dept charges in first
3. Statue of ‘Governor Colfax at east entrance to University park. 4. Captured German field guns of first world war vintage at war
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Assessed Valuation Rise May Lower County Taxes
The coufity a ditor’s office estimated today, for budget making purthatthe coynty's assessed valuation next year will be about 27 million dollars “hig r than the estimate on which this year’s Bw was
school cities is up about 16 milion
This increase will mean several cents'savings in the total tax
rate adopted for next year. With the higher valuation, every cent in the county levy will raise an additional $2700, every cent in the city and school city rates raising an additional $1600.
Welfare Will Benefit
First taxing ‘unit to figure the benefits of the higher valuation is the county welfare department, Director Thomas L. Neal announced the welfare budget will be $3,742,000," which is $229,800 higher than this year’s expenditures. Of this arnount, $1,144,000 must be raised by local property taxes, compared - to $1,039,000 this year. The remainder is paid from federal and state funds. To finance the county’s share of the budget, a 1943 welfare tax rate of 17.5 cents will be required. This is 1 cent higher than the current rate. Mr, Neal said that on the basis of this year’s valuation, next year’s rate would have had to be 18 cents.
Pensions Boost Budget The largest item in the welfare
budget requested for 1943 is $2,-
206,000 for old-age assistance payments, an increase of $201,000 over
this . year’s appropriations. The} number of old-age recipients has]
increased to 7758, compared to 7350 a. year ago. . Offsetting the increase in old-age payments is’ a. drop in: the' budget request for care of indigent children in private homes. The 1943 request for - this. welfare -service is $228,000 compared to $250,000 being spent this year. . ~The budget also shows a drop in
personal expense, listing $233,340 for. that item; compared to $237900 ap-
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ALLIES’ FRIEND,
GANDHI CLAIMS
India. Congress to Give British ‘a Few Days To Melt.
BOMBAY, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—Mohandas K. Gandhi. told the :AllIndia nationalist . congress today that “I am Britain's friend” and that he has no desire to stab the British in the back although he insists upon mass passive resistance unless India is granted immediate independence. ‘Gandhi addressed the full ‘committee of the congress party as it met to approve his call for a nation-wide campaign of nonviolent resistance to British rule. “The British may laugh but. I am their friend,” he said.
“I do not want to stab them when |
they are in difficulty and are going down.’ 2
Hopes ‘Hearts Melt’
Gandhi paid . tribute to British bravery and intimated that a week will be allowed for “British hearts to melt” before - the non-violence: campaign is launched in hopes of sonte. British capitulation: “ It was statéd that, if India is given ‘independence now, she will conclude an immediate treaty with Britain for a joint struggle against the axis in which every Indian will be ready to “pay with his life on the battlefield against’ aggression.” Gandhi's statement: of his friendship for Britain,. whose rule in In-
dia he has fought for 20 years was |-
made, appdrently in reply to _ (Continued on Page Two).
T™ AMOS: PINCHOT IN CRITICAL CONDITION
WESTPORT, ‘Conn., Aug. 7 (U.|" P.).—Amos R. E. Pinchot, brother wt
of former Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and outspoken . New
Deal critic, was in serious condition}
today from ute, , Police said Belf-inflje :
Claim Axis Uses Sub-Hauling Sub
PRETORIA, South Africa Aug. 7 (U, -P).~Enemy submarines, so large they carry midget submarines, have ‘been: operating off the Soi African ‘coast; and in ‘the Indiah .ocean, it was: reported officially today. H. G, La Wrence, minister o? interior, of Transvaal, - reported the presence of the suobmersibles and ‘said permanent. blackouis ‘now’ were being enforced in all’ coastal areas by naval authorities. :
RUHR ATTACKED FOR
iD STRAIGHT NIGHT
British Lose. Sik. ‘Six Planes in
Raid on Duisberg.
LONDON, Aug. 7.(U. BP) British heavy ‘bombing planes. in strong force attacked the German Ruhr for the third time in 73. hours, during the night while lighter planes raided airdromes throughout ‘Holland aad Belgium, it was announced. toclay. Six of the planes engaged were lost, and on the basis of average losses of less than 5 per cent ii was estimated officially that more than 120 planes attacked. * Duisberg, one of the key towns of the Ruhr-Rhineland indusirial area, oné of the greatest. hniand ports in Europe and a center of many war plants, ;including : chemicals, was the’ chief target.
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though small scale attack on -iwo British areas.
(Germany said Cambridge, ans
* cient university town and ore of
the world’s great cultural centers, and Edinburgh, second city of Scotland, were attacked.) -
ADDIE FINDS $7000
1.08 ANGELES, Aug. 7 (U. B).—] ' Roy Bryan, who founi a
The, Germans made a ssvagel
JAPAN CAPTURES 3 MORE ISLANDS
New Conquests Cut Off Last Easy Route for - Allied Drive North.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 7 (U, P.).—Japanese ' forces have established. themselves astride the last route remaining open for an allied gounter-offensive in the southwest Pacific and have increased the bombing and invasion menace to Australia, it was acknowledged today. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur admitted that the Japanese ‘had occupied the islands of Kae, Tanimbar and Aroe in .the Arafura sea only 225 miles from Australia and within 100 miles of nowthwestern New -Guinea.
The occupation of the islands meant that the Japanese had forged the final links in‘a chain of island invasion bases which now flank all of northern Australia from Bali to the Solomon islands, forming a 4000-mile’ crescent. The latest Japanese success, coming at a time when attacks were
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STILL READING SPY. CASE-FOR
Early Report of Verdict Is!
Not - Confirmed. by "White House.
WASHINGTON, Aug: 7 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt said today that not yet completed reading testimony in the {rial of eight Nazi ‘saboteurs. here-and could not say when he would finish the re-
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view.
His statement came after publication of an unconfirmed report that six of the saboteurs would be electrocuted at the district jail here
within 24 hours.
It had been widely expected that the president would reveal the verdict and sentences at his 9:30 His statement did net appear to eliminate
a. m. press conference.
the possibility that an announcement might be forthcoming sometime today.
: © Verdict Received Monday Mr. Roosevelt late Monday re-
ceived the verdict and sentences
recommended by the military commission which heard the evidence.
He has spent much of his time since.
studying the recommendations and record of the 18-day trial. It was generally - believed, however, that probably. one, or more, of the Nazis would escape death. If all were convicted as charged of espionage, sabotage and conspiracy, the death penalty would be mandatory under the’ articles of war unless the president chose to commute their sentences.
OHIO PHONE STRIKE ENDS IN 46TH ‘HOUR
CLEVELAND, Aug. 7 (U, P).—
Employees of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. returned to work today after a 46-hour strike that halted
installation and repair work and
slowed - up long distance service throughout northeastern Ohio. The plant council of the Ohio
Federation of Telephone Workers
ordered its 1900 members—including installation, maintenance and construction men—to go back to their jobs after the war laber board agreed to conduct a panel hearing Aug. 17 on wage negotiations between the council and ‘the Ohio Bell Co.
RUSSIA—Soviet \dotdier.aitarhe stem, but fail to stop, German drives southwest of ‘Stalingrad and along 70-mile front in western. Caucasus; Germans report Soviet diversion drives .on Rzhev and “Volkhov fronts.
AUSTRALIA—Japs seize thes key island groups near New Guinea and Australia; Gona-Buna sector ‘quiet.
INDIA—Nationalist congress. meets| $000 in: Jemec and) to vote passive. résistance;
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ence demands “before it is too late.”
WESTERN EUROPE—R. A. F. at-
tacks Rulir ‘for third straight
night with Duisburg as chief target; Cambridge and Edinburgh.
CHINA--U, S. filers raid Japanese-
held Tienho ‘airdrome; destroy at
least 10 Ja se planes; Chen-
“nault says best Japanese planes and fliers thrown into “suicidal effort” to drive U, S. alr forces
out of China. EGYPT — American’ and allied lanes
‘big fire in. ald oy
- German raiders strike at
GERMAN DRIVE FOR CAUCASUS IS UNCHECKED
Russians Holding in Only . One Sector; Nazis Lose Up to 40 Per Cent.
By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Cable Editor
The Red army was reports ed today to have unloosed strong drives on the longs quiet - Rzhev and Volkhow front, 700 to 1000 miles north of the Don, in an effort to force a diversion of German streggth that i steadily crumbling the Soviet des nse in the Caucasus.
the Nazis’ Rzhev salient about 150 miles west of Moscow and around
.| Volkhov, which lies between Lake
Ilmen and Leningrad, was acknowls edged in German official broadcasts but Russian communiques thus far have made no mention of such a diversion offensive.
Zhukov, Says London
Allied observers in London, howe ever, believed that Gen. Gregori Zhukov was striking in force in both | northern sectors where German manpower, tanks and planes have been reduced to a dangerous minie
| mum so Hat Adolf Hitler might go
all out in his now-or-never offensive to seize the Caucasus and its oil and
and United States’ aid to the Soviet, *
‘LONDON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).~Lord Beaverbrook’s Evening Standard today carried a headline, “Allied diplomats reported gathering -in - Moscow,” over a dispatch based on axis-originated reports from Ankara. and Stockholm. Any meeting of united nations diplo< * mats and special envoys in Mos cow presumably would be for discussion of Russia’s need for aid and the second front question.
What progress the Russians were making around Rzhev and Volkhov remained obscure, inasmuch as the only information came from the ‘Nazi propagandists who said that in fierce “defensive fighting” Ruse sian attacks had been broken at both points.
“Counter-Attacks Savage
The Russian drives, if actually underway in strong force, represent a new desperate attempt on the part of the Soviet high command to draw off the German forces which today struck deeper into the Caucasus and tightened the souths ern claw ‘of = their pincers upon Stalingrad. For three weeks the Russians have been striking at the exposed northern flank of the Gere mans around Voronezh, but for a week there has been little Soviet headway. Moscow reported a dozen savage Russian t+counter-attacks in the northern Caucasus, but the Red lines buckled and bent back under the . sheer weight of the German masses of - tanks, infantry and planes at all points except in the Kletskaya sector 70 miles northe west of Stalingrad.
Tank Drive Not Stopped
Sacrifice units were thrown against the Germans armored tide in an effort ‘to save Stalingrad, the Maikop oil fields, the oil pipeline terminus of Krasnobar, Kropotkin and Vorossisk naval base on the Caucasus Black sea coast. . “At some points the German tani drives were stemmed temporarily and.up to 40 per cent of the ade vancing waves of troops were ane : nihiliated, But in each case waves of dive-bombers cleared the way for the Nazis. One Moscow dispatch declared: “It is evident that the Germans are not only maintaining but accelerating their drive.” : The fiercest fighting still raged along a T0-mile front, between Bee laya Glina and Kuschevka in the western Caucasus and around Kae telnikovsk, 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad where Russians and. Germans were reported battling for the city’s railroad station.
Nazis Claim 3 Towns
Moscow dispatches told of dese peraté fighting in an effort to pree vent the fall of Kropotkin and, since Kropotkin lies 35 miles south east of the important railroad junce tion of Titkoretsk, this tended
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capture of Titkoretsk. The Germans claimed the
ters—Jeisk on an arm of the of Azov, Timaskevskaya north & Krasnobar and Armavir, vital | road Joint and junction of ell p ipes
The new Russian attacks against
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