Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1942 — Page 5
SAMUEL BACKS FUND
Legion Adjutant Joined by Wayne Coy and Willkie
In Lauding Purpose. (Continued from Page One)
chairman of the president’s war eliet control board. two statements, coming as the state convention of the American ion opened here, climaxed more than three weeks’ of protests by United War Pund officials here and in New York. Mr. Chsillaux made his statements in a speech before the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce. He declared he would “not give a dollar” to the war fund, because it included Russian war relief, an agency he said was Communist influenced. He. also labeled as Communist-inspired the demands for a second front. Mr. Baxter, Virgil Martin, manager of the war fund, and other fund executives immediately protested and Mr. Samuel at that time issued a prompt and concise statemeat divorcing Mr. Chaillaux’ remarks from American Legion policy and terming them purely personal opinion. Phas Refer fo .Chaillanx™ : Complaints came from New York from leaders of Russian War Relief, Inc. and this week came the series of telegrams to the war fund offices from distinguished Americans. Mr. Smith and Mr. Young referred direcily to Mr. Chaillaux in their messages. Mr. McNutt, former national commander of the Legion, did so indirectly, but issued a forceful and point-blank indorsement of Russian relief. Others who messaged the fund were William L. Batt, vice echairman of WPB; Henry C. Alexander, vice president of J. P. Morgan & Co. and Clark H. Minor, president of International General Electric, Mr. Samuel's Letter Mr. Samuel's letter to Mr. Baxter, as released by the war fund, read: “As a resident of Indianapolis, it is a pleasure to commend, in principle, the United War and Community Fund of Indianapolis campaign which is to be conducted next ‘October under your leadership. “It is only by achieving a decent and secure world for all mankind that we can be assured of banishing the curse of war from the lives of those who are to come after us for all time to come. Toward that end we are fighting to put an end forever everywhere in the world to concentration camps, firing squads, gestapns and to the warped belief that might makes right. "Task For Americans “This is the task to which all Americans are pledged today. To carry it out successfully will require a tremendous expenditure of our
physical and financial resources. It| between the ages of 18 and 27 may obtain full details about enlistment at the recruiting station in the federal building.
means that every American must .sidetrack all personal considerations, submerge all| selfish desires, sacrifice without end, and contribute every ounce of his individual ‘energy to the common effort. That is all-out participation in this war. “Tremendous as our nation’s sacrifices must be to win this fight, what true American can. shrink from the cost? “After we, as Indianapolis residents, have contributed our physical resources, paid our taxes and purchased war bonds, there remains the one high privilege of contribut-
CAMPAIGN
1lems. Theological students may be
“Indianapolis . Own” squadron being organized this week will be permitted to enter training with the rating of aviation cadet. Heretofore, those who qualified for flight training were enlisted as seamen, second class, and continued in: that rating throughout their flight training, a period of three months.
for men in flight training during this period,” Comm. Mathews said. The new congressional act provides that student aviators will be enrolled as aviation cadets at the outset and will remain in that designation until qualifying for commissions as officers in the naval reserve or marine corps.
made, third class.
Lakes naval training station, Chi-
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Practicing clergymen may obtain commissions as lieutenants, junior grade, or 8s full lieutenants with the United Stateg’havy. Men of all faiths are wanted and they will be eligible for commissions as chaplains. ‘Four hundred of them are needed, Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, officer in charge of recruiting in the Indiana ares, ssid today. They not only will conduct religious services but help enlisted men with personal prob-
Paul Davis LaHue, 28, husband of Mrs. Lorena J. LaHue, 941 N. Belle Vieu pl, is assigned to the record office of the medical depariment at Great Lakes naval training station, Chicago. He recently was advanced from hospital apprentice, first class, to pharmacist’s mate, second class. Before enlisting in_ the navy, Pharmacist’s Mate LaHue was employed in chemical processing work ‘by the R. C. A. .
30 Get 9-Day Leave
Thirty Indianapolis men are enjoying & nine-day leave before being assigned to active duty with the U. 8. fleet. They recently com-
pleted their recruit training at the Great Lakes naval training station, Chicago.
They include:
Arthur O. Akers, 4625 Vandalia ave.; 9. Bauman, 1810 W. Morris st.;
‘ Bobby 8. . i: Pvi. Vespo Sergl.. Neuhaus [pli fiterspaugh, 2305 Parker ave: N. Swan; Garrett J. Vanblaricum,
LEFT: Pvt. Freddy Vespo, Sa 2488 Colisge ave. William c, LaFollette of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Vespo, 171 3d 3a jects, 38) i Flojener we, 1 stafions) win & ror, 1308 Folk oi Wikies Norris ‘the T8th fighting squadron in Ha- Hes. Fremont oy Lester Loyd Breedon, ho eu |B rer 2 Donald Jus Sly 2 RIGHT: Sergt. George 8. Neu- |wiiis August Long, 3317 E. New York st. haus, son of Mr. and Mrs, J. F. t B. G 93
rubb, 1932 College ave.; Bus Neuhaus, 1129 S. Sheffield ave. -and husband of Mrs. Lillian Callahan Neuhaus, 1218 Union st, ; Jo ig has returned to Blythe air base, |yich i: A Wiliam price oo Blythe, Cal. He is a ground me- r : ed, , We chanic with the 87th bomber |ovi Tuell “Wiliam Bepull 1133" Vite squadron and has been in Indi- [37 Bobert Be Scheels, bio N, Dela anapolis on a 10-day furlough. 1118 W. 18th st. Sergt. Neuhaus was graduated from Washington high school and
8 " » Corp. Leroy Harmon Jr, son of worked at the American Aggregates Corp. for four years before
Mr, and Mrs, Leroy Harmon Sr. joining the service over a year
ago.
appointed probationary ensigns during the completion of their religious training and then be called to active duty as lieutenants, junior grade, Candidates must be less than 44 years old, college graduates and with at least three additional years’ ecclesiastical training in an secredited theological institution, They must also be indorsed by the authorities of their respective denominations.
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Young men enlisting in the third naval air
Pedro, Cal., after § spending his furlough with his parents. He is with the headquarter's battery personnel office B at the fort. g Corp. Harmon w a s graduated Corp. Harmon from ‘Technical high school and was employed by the Rytex printing company before joining the service.
“The stepup in rating will mean a $21' per month -increase in pay ® 8 8 LEFT: Pvt. Harry 8. Broglin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Broglin, 531 Bell st., has been transferred: from - Ft. Harrison, but he isn’t going very far away. He has taken up his new duties with the medical corps at Camp Atterbury. He is a former employee of Eli Lilly & Co. and his wife, Mrs. Jean Broglin, lives at 2538 N, Brookside pkwy. RIGHT: “Everything’s fine,” Pvt. Earl Brown recently wrote to his wife here. Stationed at Camp Pickett, Va., the last two weeks, Pvt. Brown's home in Indianapolis is 1910 Madison ave.
Unmarried high school graduates
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Cecil Toole Advanced
Cecil Wilbur Toole, 19, recently was advanced from hospital apprentice, first class, to pharmacist’s
- 8 8 =» Pvt. Ralph F. Burns, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Burns, 340 S. Spencer ave. has been graduated from the armored force school motorcycle department at Ft. Knox, Ky.
He is stationed at the Great
cago. His assignment is as a dental technician at the dispensary. His wife lives at 247 N. Oakland ave.
ing to the United War and Com-
munity Fund of this city. Forecasts Fund Success
“Those of us who have believed in the principle of the Indianapolis Community Fund, wherein all our obligations, aside from the obligation due-the American Red Cross next spring, can be disposed of for "a full year. It means expanding and gearing the principles of the earlier campaign to conditions of war. It means approximately tripling t ancial obligations of the past for the average resident. “Indianapolis * a great capital city composed of just the kind of fine, patriotie citizens who can and will play a tremendous part in the winning of this war. “She will, in my opinion, actively testify to such determination on the part of her citizens by proudly oversubscribing the full quota of the United War and Community Fund next October. “Toward this most worthy objective, you, as president, have my . pest wishes for deserved and un- . pounding success.” Mr. Taft's Message
Mr. Taft's message, from New York, said: : «In order to reassure the contributing ‘ public regarding the activities of foreign war relief agencies, the president's war relief control board is making & thorough examination of the accounts and disbursements of all stich agencies. The accounts of Russian War Relief, Inc, among others, have already been examined and the board finds that all funds received from the public: by that organization have been and are being expended solely for medical and other urgently needed relief in Russia, which is so valiantly aiding the allied cause, The board is convinced, as a result of its: examination, that Russian War Relief, Inc, is entitled to and should receive the fullest possible support of the American public.” 2500 Workers Enlisted Fund executives today expressed . gratitude for-the support they “had received in their protests to the _Chaillaux challenge and Mr. Baxter announced that 2500 of the necessary 5000 workers are already en-
listed. “The campaign dates of the fund ‘drive are Oct. 5 through 23. Stanley 'W. Shipnes is serving as general chairman. The goal has been set at $1,500,000, . ) “The fund includes such groups as the USO, the Navy Relief Society, Relief, Community F
Fund agencies) addition to
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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DON'T EXPECT unemployment to fall much below the present 2,800,000. This figure, constant since April despite labor shortages, looks like the irreducible minimum. The unemployables. 2 8 = . ‘2 8 = NOTE: If you think farm labor is short now, wait till next year, Secretary Wickard warns, Anticipated shortage may ‘cut severely into food and other crops in 43. :
. # # » » o 2 . : HOUSING MESS is still——a mess. Bickering continues among officials of federal housing administration and other agencies, despite crying needs of war-boom areas, and despite supposed streamlining based on Rosenman study. ” » o 8 8 8 CHILE AND ARGENTINA are the only American countries that have not broken with axis. Hence the significance of impending visit of Chilean president ‘0 Washington.
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WASHINGTON’S HOPE: To swing Chile into line with the rest of us, leave Argentina in scary isolation.
Warship Production Is Brightest Spot .
NAVAL AUTHORITIES say progress of warship building is just about brightest spot en production front. Nothing yet like world war record of turning out a destroyer in 45% days. But today's destroyers take 2% to 3 times the 500,000. man=days required by their forerunners in 1918. # u 8 2 8 8
PRESIDENT FARISH of Jersey Standard may get next week his long-sought chance to testify before senate patents committee—which has piled up an ugly record on Standard’s deals with the Nazi I. G. Farben trust. Eo (But the committee has ended its cartel inquiries. Its young chief counsel, Creekmore Fath, has moved to board of econotiic welfare.) »
Railroads Deny They're Jammed ©.
RAILROADS DENY theyre “jammed,” say they're willing to take on more war freight. ‘Car loadings in first half of ’42 were up only 4.3 per cent over first half of '41 (though cars are being loaded more heavily, and loads car- - ried further, so ton-miles are up a steep 35.8 per cent). Rivermen had complained that their boats and barges were lying idle while rails were glutted. :
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“Same old story,” says a rail spokesman. “Congress: spends big |
money to set up water competition to the raliroads, but in an emerSeucy the army an yay Suen do Where Shy can get Sent and planty : ie ® ® = * oR . AS FOR RAIL passenger traffic, hardship may discourage civilian ‘travel to & point where priorities won't be needed. Travelers say they
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Activity by Japanese Agents Hinted After ~ Fight on Avenue. (Continued from Page One) He said he saw a fight start across the street from his home and as he
stepped out from behind a car to see what the trouble was, he was shot :
Search Police Records : Police records revealed that Patrolmen Cavender and Kieifgen had arrested two women on statutory charges and one man for associating with prostitutes and vagrancy earlier in the evening. They had returned to the vicinity after that. Patrolman Kliefgen identified the gun police took from Sloan as one he carried but said that he had not fired it. He said that eight shells were in the gun when he hed it but at the time police confiscated it, they found six loaded shells and one empty one. 5 . 8hook told police he was riding by the Cotton club in a taxicab when he saw a fight start. He ran down the street calling for help when he was struck and knocked down, he sgid. Police said he was
i:| badly bruised and his clothes were 2d | born.
Blue Seeks Padlock
Prosecutor Sherwood Blue sent the following letter to Chief Morrissey today: “Please present to our office as quickly as you can all records and
2 evidence you may have or that may
be available for use in a nuisance and abatement of a nuisance action which we think should be immedi~ ately filed against Sea Ferguson and the Cotton club if the evidence warrants, “We will insist that the nuisance be removed if a conviction is had under Section 10-2501. “We sincerely trust that you will give this matter immediate and aggressive attention.” i Held in $5000 Bail Sergt. Yoh placed Shook under a technical charge and charged Sloan with violation of the 1935 firearms act and vagrancy. Both are held under $5000 bond. Several hundred persons were attracted to the scene and it was necessary for police to send extra details to keep order. Police officials said today that the two injured patrolmen were working under special orders police
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from the inspector's office at headquarters.
-Bond Goal Near At French Lick
FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 15 (U: P.). ~The nation’s first “million dollar” party will get under way tonight at Tom Taggart’s French Lick Springs hotel. with the price of admission per person set at $1000 or more in war bonds. Many of the Hoosier guests arrived yesterday and spent the day playing golf and riding the wooded trails of the nearby hill country. Early arriving guests already had given: $473,690 in war bond orders, according to J. Dwight Peterson, Indianapolis, who is supervising volunteer workers in taking the orders. : le : ". The million bond dollars for the “million dollar party” was “plainly in sight,” he said. : ~ Bud Abbott and Lou Costello arrived today ' after : yesterday in Vincennes and last night in Evansville. The Hollywood comedians are the fea-
program. :
BULLITT IN DUBLIN DUBLIN, Aug. 15 (U. P.).—William C. Bullitt, special aide to Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, arrived today. He went to the home of U.S. Minister David Gray.
‘tured guests on tonight's dinner ;
(Continued from Page Onc) forces were gaining in the 3 mons were strengthened span began fishing for info: tion in a tactic confession ti: did not know exactly what fleet was doing, wh: power was and what it wes : to do: 3 : It complained that the mained almost completely i: Nooisss Japan had made 8 |
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‘Progress Satisfactory’ This transparent t i ph Senspatent Loonie attempts to induce the British : the American navies to give ii: information which they needs: Previous to today’s axis re «i the Japanese had tried to ma:
appear that the United States ' | er t of o total of i lenging enemy planes. Not a sin-
was. sighted far from the Solo and suffered heavy losses befc:: reached the islands.
A navy communique issued 's . ‘Washington, information from the , Solomons still is meager for rea-
yesterday at Washington, re): ing that consolidation of mi
shore positions was progre:i {satisfactorily, that naval units «
protecting supply lines and es ing supply vessels to “our occ. p ing forces” and that army anc : lied planes were attacking e:«: air and harbor bases was f:: at Gen. MacArthur's headqusa to mean: mh
Break Up Reinforoements
1. That the marine hold on t Tulagi grea of the Solomons cluding the harbor, the seal: base and probably the Kukum drome and harbor base on Gu: « canal island was now firm. ‘2, That enemy naval units i: been dispersed so that supply : i were able to move up under € i to the marine positions. 3. That allied planes were t:!i the attack to the enemy in (.¢ to break up reinforcing flee!:
ships and planes and that sc 1
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Legion Speal:: Nation's I’:
when the administration is hare ;
to finance the direct war effort ”
Dr. Smith estimated it might {: two years or 20 years to win the ~'it all depends on whether A 1 ica really makes war in an ele: : year.” : Meanwhile, major offices «¢ uncontested for the first tim: the history of the Indiana de; :: ment of the American Legio the 24th annual convention op here today. * The some 750 official deleg: who opened their first sessio: 9 a. m. on the eighth floor of ¢ Claypool hotel, were prepare: : elect Clarence U. Gramelspack: : Jasper as department comma il and W. E, Brown of omingt southern vice commander. F. Dean Bechtol of Garrett an
Porte was being heralded as 2 tential bidder for the office. The TOW. The women’s auxiliary, wh: opened its business session morning at the War Mem: shrine, will elect tomorrow ea noon with northern vice presi: the only contested office.
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‘force had | | Solomons.
{ tack on : Solomons from Rabaul—s small : convoy, MacArthur reported,
. promising its
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iwas apparent that no big enemy arrived in the southern the convoy bound for
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U. §. Fliers Take Big Toll
| In three heavy attacks on a con{voy off New Guinea the day be-
_ fore, threes enemy zeros had been
This brought a three-day score
\ this New Guinea-New Britain I
gle allied bomber was lost in the three days. Actually, it was pointed out in
the diffcul-
cation. It was shan that Japanese interception of naval messages might prove disastrous since it might give the enemy a picture of our forces, their disposition, extent and possible plans.
Why News Is Lagging Other factors in the communi-
_ cation problem are:
Men in battle are simply too busy to report details. Aerial reconnaissance reports go only to the immediate commander involved. The navy would not risk comcode by sending lengthy messages which can be ‘broken down more easily than short messages. Specific reports of damage to our forces would tell the Japs exactly how much reinforcements to send in.
+ Attacks yceful Attitudelj
rom Page One)
Up for election are: President, Mrs. Helen Walthall of Clinton;
northern vice president, Mrs. Ber-|(§ nice Solliday of Knox, and Mrs. Lu- || cille Bayman of South Bend; south- ||
ern vice president, Mrs. Ruth ‘Walls, ‘Knightstown; secretary, Helen Kun-
drat, Ft. Wayne; treasurer, Mrs. |} Esther Jay, Indianapolis; chaplain, | Mrs. Charles E. Combs, Bloomfield; |[§ historian, Mrs. Jean Randall, In-|f
dianapolis. The convention wag stripped of ‘many social functions because of
the war and the Legionnaires were
devoting their time to- discussions
on national defense. However, some |} jammed many |
5000 cenventipneers
local hotels. The Legion’s part in rational de-
fense was to be outlined during the |}
afternoon session by Lynn U. Stambaugh of Fargo, N. D., national com-
nmander, who was to arrive here by |
‘plane from Washington.
able of sending long-range mes
_ Radio equipment on ships caps-
heedauiriers, are. ursensy neoded for receiving short-range battle reports and for issuing orders. Except for extremely short-range, directed broadcasts, radio silence is usually maintained during all battles. Blinkers are used chiefly for fay ang night intra-ship communica
Radio use would give the Japs a constant check on the position of fleet units. : United Press dispatches from Pearl Harbor indicated that no more doubt was held there that the Marines wars 1 Whe Solomong
Pearl Harbor Confident There was already talk there of the way the marines were expected to push northward through the Solomons and probably to continue to New Britain island, northwest of the Solomons and east of New Guinea, to take the great base of Rabaul. py The loss of Rabaul would make the Japanese position in all New Guinea untenable, and MacArthur's forges would be able to push Japanese troops at the Lae-Salamaua and Buna-Gona bases into the sea. Japanese admissions of “surprise” landings in the Solomons. came through a German Transocean News Agency dispatch from Tokyo which said: Admit Marines Still’There
“The two powers, the United States and Great Britain, obviously intended to snatch out of Japanese hands the chain of Solomon islands,” the dispatch said. y “ ... This plan has already failed today and it is of no importance whatever whether United States marines were able to gain a footing on two of the isles of the Solomon group and to push back the weak Japanese garrison there.” This was the most revealing report yet from the axis side on the Solomon islands battle and it confirmed United States navy reports
BASE WORK | Award Two. Conat C Contracts for New 2000-Acre Field.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Aug. 15 P.)~Two contracts have awarded for construction work
the newly authorized army
force support base for Camp A ~ Kranp & Koch of Milwaukee ceived a contract for road. struction and the Farnell Blair company of Decatur, Ga. already doing work at the camp,
buildings at the air base. The 2000-acre fleld will be los cated at the north edge of Colum= bus. Announcement that the war department had authorized con= struction of the base was ma yesterday in Washington. BIG SCALE RIOTING RAGES IN CALCUTT BOMBAY, Aug. 15 (U. P). Wholesale rioting has broken on in Calcutta, India's largest city an biggest war industry center, police have fired on demonstrato: dispatches said today. Police fired 25 rounds into crowd. :
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Transient Fluorescent Lamp Agents . . . Are Using Deceptive Methods Here
Inquiries to the Better Business Bureau indicate the presence in our community of transient salesmen of fluores--cent light tubes' and fluorescent starters, who represent that they have a specially made tube with extremely long
life.
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According to local businessmen who have been called "upon by such salesmen, these fluorescent tubes have been’ - “guaranteed” by these salesmen for extremely long service, - : . in some instances for as high as 12,000. hours burning. We: are advised that such guarantees are false and impossible.. * They are sold for a higher price than standard well-known = | tubes are sold. Literature or other written or printed “ § matter of the company does not substantiate the repre-
sentations of the sales agents.
One merchant advised us that
he had been shown carbon
copies of alleged orders by other prominent local business
On checking with two of these, whose names
- appeared on such orders, they advised us they had not
‘made such purchases.
The company whose name is used by these agents has in the past been the subject of a cease and desist order by the
Federal Trade Commission to
discontinue misrepresenting
the wattage measurement of the lamps sold, and to cease placing a false watt measurement on lamps in such a mane. ner that the printing or mdrking may be easily eradicated: .
by ordinary handling.
It was found in this case that respondent’s lamps in nearly
every instance were of a greater wattage
by the markings.
If you are called upon by such Bureau. .
than indicated
solicitors, please notify the ~~}
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