Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1942 — Page 1
FORECAST: Not mich change in temperature this afternoon. through tomorrov-
MONDAY, AUGUST
17, 1942
Jimmy Doolittle In London; Solo:
Here's One of Northern Alkan Hardshi pS
Sudden snow storms are added handicaps to flying in the northern Alaskan and Aleutian areas. Here, a navy patrol hambher and a “pillbox” of sandbags are almost obscured by a snow flurry. This picture describes more graphically than any words the difitulty encountered in migiutatning the shy Jateols in part of Alaska.
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Municipal Property Levy of $1 .29 Proposed by Officials; Council to Get Budget for Study at
Tonight’s
By NOBLE REED
City officials ‘today proposed a municipal property tax rate of $1.29 for 1943, # reduction of 1414 cents below the]
1942 levy. The decrease in “the rate was proposed despite 1943 budget requests ' totaling $8,632,000, an increase of $85,000 over appropriations
this year. City controller James E. Deery,
who will submit the budget to the
city council tonight, explained that four factors. make the reduced rate possible, They are: ] 1. A balance of $1,500,000 in the treasury on July 1, 1942. 2. An increase of approximately $200,000 in the estimated revenues for the remainder of this year and next. 3. An increase of $14,000,000 in property valuations within the city limits. - 4, A decrease of $500,000 in the portion of the city budget to be raised directly from taxes. (A portion of the budget is financed by miscellaneous reevnues.)
The Major Increases
Of the $8,632,000 total city budgets, $6,932,000 is to be raised] ftom ‘taxes compared to $7,485,000 rai 2d by taxes in the 1942 appropriations. The major. increases in city biidgets were $61,000 additional
money for City hospital operating
Meeting.
MOTORIST ACCUSED IN FATAL AGGIDENT
Faces Manslaughter Charge
As Pedestrian - Dies.
A 44-year-old motorist . was. to face manslaughter and drunken driving charges in Municipal court today, the result of an accident yesterday in which his car allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian and seriously injured another. - The dead pedestrian was Harley McCoy, 52, of 710 E. New York st. His injured companion is Walter
Burdine, 28,. of Beech Grove, whol”
WOMAN ARRESTED
was taken to City hospital. Held by police in connection with the accident is Arthur Salmon, 44 of 1326 Finley ave. The accident was in the 900 block of W. Washington st. Seven others died in Indiana trafic during the week-end. They were:
20th st., -struck by an automobile Saturday at 16th st. and Boulevard place. Frank W. Kain, 56, and his wife, Pearl, of Summerville, killed yesterday on Road 41 three miles south of Carlisle when their car went out of control and plunged into a creek.
costs, mostly for wage increases and $30,000 increase in the city health department for expanded health protection work necessitated by war-time conditions. The only wage increase requested in the city budget beside City hospial employes was in the sanitation (Continued on Page Five)
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| Sebe Cane, 72, of 1713 Naomi st.,
comme oy bulcing spetas 44 7| hazard.
Joseph Franklin Baize Jr., 7, and his grandfather, Joseph Smith, 52, both of Evansville, injured fatally near their home when Mr. Smith’s car crashed into an Illinois Central train. Clarence Hoppell, 34, of Evansville, and Daniel F. Hildebrand, 65, of Stengall, killed in a truck-auto collision near Evansville.
was injured critically last night .when struck by a car in the 1600 block of Churchman ave.
STUDY REMOVAL OF COURTHOUSE DOME
The county council today took der advisement a request by ty commissioners for $10,000 to pay for emoving the dome froth The dome ‘was con-
Wesley, Jackson, 70, of 222. ‘W.
Prepared! ;
Psion Ariz, Man Relieved of Arsenal In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (U.. P).— Chicago, police held Ernest J. Crouse, 41, whom they described as “a bad man from the bad lands,” for further investigation today. | Crouse’ was arrested yeseterday when Patrolmen George Green and Orville Berkey saw g shotgun in his parked 1930 automobile as Crouse; in a cowboy hat and high boots, sat writing a letter. A search of the car revealed: ' The 12-gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle, a 38 caliber pistol, a toy: revolver, two jars of scorpians, several rattlesnake skins, gold washing pans, cooking utensils, a cot, an ounce of gold dust and $24 ‘in ‘cash. ® # 8 } CROUSE SAID he was from Tombstone, Ariz, and just in Chicago for a good time. - “I need these guns for. protection,” he explained; but the officers. checked his record. Crouse had served two years in Pontiac reformatory, they found, had’ been re-sentenced for parole violation and had been sought ‘since 1929 for jumping bond.
IN PROBE OF FIGHT
improvement Shown by 2
Injured Policemen.
While two policemen hadly beaten near the Cotton club early Saturday were reported “slightly improved,” police detectives today were compiling scraps of evidence to learn the details of the riot. The officers, Patrolmen Charles M: Cavender and Casper J. Kleifgen, members of the vice squad, re¢eived critical head and chest injuries. Three Negroes were wounded In the riot. "Officers held a 28-year-old Negro woman on vagrancy charges after reports indicated she had been present when the riot started. She told officers a white man had dragged her into his auto and then struck her when she jumped out. The white man shot a man across the street during the scuffle, she said. The woman, who has been arrested. seven times on prostitution charges, said she ran home and did not see anything more. "An: aftermath of the affray was the voluntary closing of the Cotton club "and an establishment
diana ave. at the request of Prosecutor Sherwood Blue pending an investigation.
‘While extra squads of police pa-| trolled ‘ the area early yesterday, | | ‘Luca, 21, of Speedway City, |: d from his automobile
Rationing. iso. Considered To Assure: More Fair
Distribution.
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (OU P)— Meatless days and meat ratiohing are a “probability” in the United States to assure a more equitable distribution of supplies insufficient to meet maximum military and civilian needs, Roy F Hendrickson, administrator of the agricultural marketing administration, + gaid today.” ; se, He' made this statement in a press conference before ‘detailing to the National‘ Association’ of Retail Meat Dealers:the: causes of ‘a ‘meat shortage: which already “has: been felt sharply in: the eastern: states.
Military Gets Supply.
Pointing out the billions of pounds of meat being shipped to our.army and allies ‘during the year: starting July 1, 1942, Mr. Hendrickson added: “There will ‘be a :shoitage -of 3,000,000,000 pounds of meat in relation to the quantity | of meat civilian consumers would buy at ceiling prices.” A spokesman for Price Administrator Leon Henderson said federal allocation’ of -livestock ‘to meat packers, giving each a proportionate share of the total supply | is’ considered. The crisis has been precipitated by a: rise in’ consumers’ purchasing power ‘together with’ growing military requirements for meat. Officials ‘said the food requirements ‘committee will discuss the
SEA CONTROL
{A MAJOR GOAL
INS. S. PACIFIC
Australia Believes Big Nava!
Battles Raging; Step Up Air Drive.
MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR: TERS, Australia, Aug. 17 (U. P.).--The battle of the Solomon island ; continued today with heavy fightin: and the outcome-both of land ac
the seas off northeast Australia stil uncertain. | Plaucity of official reports ani: bi conflicting unofficial opinions tend i ed to obscure the actual status o' the first offensive action launche: | by the United States in the south . |
: east Pacific. i
Reports by correspondents at | tached to Gen. Douglas MacAr thur’s headquarters laid ' majo stress on naval aspects of the en: counter, They believed a series ¢' heavy naval: engagements’ wer
ol ! | continuing. |
Must Win Sea Control They took. the view that a clean
cut allied victory at sea might riva
in ‘importance the: successes eo! Coral sea or Midway Control of the sea yi from aw. tralia to the En it a | noted, is essential to . cause. : With control: of the ses lanes th ii
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Naval engagements were tough P at the: time of the initial America; ‘landings nine days ago, but: it wa : ‘|not believed that there were de ‘| cisive . results since. the. Japanese, with the advantage ‘of interio communications lines, are in a po: sition to bring up fresh: ‘Warships.
Auckland Scouts Big Sea Action
London reports, probably of high ly speculative origin, were pub lished in the London Evening Sta:
their “greatest victory yet” agains ; the Japanese. However, no evidence to back u this report was cited. The Sta: said it was believed two main se: (Continued on Page; Five)
1 DEAD, 1 INJURED AS TRAINS COLLIDI
Adrian, Mich., Crash.
ADRIAN, Mich., Aug. 17 (U.P) .~- One trainman was killed and another injured critically today whe 1 a Wabash railroad passenger trai: and a New York Central freigk : train collided - at an intersectio : near here. Coroner Ed M. Braun of Lens - wee county said the passenger trai engineer, J. O. Hemrick, Peru, Ind , was kiiled instantly. and his fire. man, whose last name was Altmat also of Peru, was taken .to a ho: « pital in critical condition. He WE: not expected to live. = None ‘of the passengers nor th:
issue at a Inveiis tomorrow.
freight train crew was injured
1 Youth Slain, 2 Captured as | Sef Trap and Foil Plo
Two youthful ‘burglars will face charges today in Municipal court following" their capture early yes-
terday during an attempted bur-
glary at the City Ice Cream Co. 3137 E, 10th st. in which a com-
panion was killed ‘as the trio walked into a. trap st by. the Sherif andl;
police.
The dain man. was Pied Mills] Shelvus. 19,: of 318. N. Reisner st.| Oscar Leroy Schwartz, 22, of the| Reisner st. address and a broth-|.
in-law of Shelburn, and James Alfred Rose, 23,1552. W. Washington
st., were captured es after they
had made a getaway
by smashing] : the plate its window i the firm's operated by Joe Mitchell at 408 In- |
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tion and the struggle for control ¢®
asserting that the allies have wo:
No Passengers Are Hurt il
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Meet in Moscow
‘he critical hour of Gerniany’s ‘imer offensive into’ southeast
nd at the Relsner street address
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4 as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice,
apolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
Prime Minister Churchill
| Stalin
USS STRENGTH ROWS IN CRISIS
vrsionary Drive ‘Step
At Stalingrad, By UNITED PRESS
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sia ‘appeared to be at hand to- * with the outcome possibly dedent’ u ‘increasingly powerful iet counter-attacks all along the at north of the Don'basin. he Nazi “high ‘command adted that the Russians are put2 more and more power back of ir - diversionary - drives ‘which e 'béen ‘launched at: strategic ats along the front from the northern area above Leningrad ‘he south as far as the Voronezh
ge. lowever, - in : the rich: industrial | agricultural area of the Don in ‘Berlin’ today claimed that i forees were in full control. Fight for Stalingrad = tazi’ troops ‘were. said - to- have ched the line of the® Don at ually all points’ in- the” great d ares and there was no doubt t the: German high command i pressing every effort to smash
ough to Stalingrad and cut the|.
il ‘Volga’ river communications ween ‘north and south Russia. Toscow reports - indicated = that iet troops still are falling back a dogged fighting retreat toward : foothills of the Caucasus. But y indicated that the defense of Stalingrad ‘approaches “is stif‘he Germans were said to be aging up fresh reserve troops- for nighty effort to break ‘the Rusa lines. ‘he Soviet high comniand, which |: i-night announced the abandonnt of Maikep and its demolished wells, spoke more hopefully of « situation’ around Kotelnikovski, miles southwest - of ' Stalingrad 1 the Volga river line, than it}, lin days. © .
’fficers
fo Steal Safe
ter flashed his flastlight in ir faces. Sergt. Kruse ordered m to hold up their hands and slburn ' reached for his hip két. Sergt. Kruse fired, the bulpiercing Shelburn’s heart. schwartz and Rose said’ they were rching for keys to the | company ck they were planning to use haul . the safe away, according police.
opened—if one
non Fighting Hea
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announced today, and British
There was no hint as to
ing point of the war.”
crisis.
BELIEVE ALLIES REACH DECISIO
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Premier and High British Military Leaders Confer With Stalin, Harriman to
Agree on Victory Program.
LONDON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin have conferred in Moscow, it was
circles believed a decision wm
a second front has been reached.
when a second front may be
been ordered—and the official announce= ment said merely that “a number of decisions were reached.” ‘However, a British official was quoted by the Exchanga telegraph. agency as declaring that the Churchill-Stalin conference “is an epoch-making event marking the turn-
London observers also saw the arrival in London today of Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, leader of the American bombing raid on Tokyo, as another sign of the imminence of the opening of a second front in Europe.
Left Moscow Sunday Morning
It was understood in London that a primary motive in Churchill's visit to Moscow—his first was to asses at first hand the exact seriousness of the Soviet. rit
Churchill's. estimate, it: was. believed here, is the" n |vital factor in determining the moment when Britain. the United States invade western -Europs.” - Churchill. arrived in Moscow by plane Wednesday. . : left on the return trip Sunday morning. He was accompanied by his top military aides, ‘he by Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the British imperial staff.
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Participation in’ the discussions by Gen. Sir Archibald
Wavell,
TOKYO RAID HERO MEETS GEN. SPAATZ
U. S. Participation in Air Attacks Seem Nearer.
LONDON, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—The moment of full American participation in an air front ' against Germany in Europe is drawing closer, reports here indicated today. Brig. Gen, James H. Doolittle, hero of .the American bombing of Tokyo, was revealed to be in London conferring with Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of American air forces in the European theater. The nature of their consultations was not revealed. ‘However, there ‘was additional ac~ tivity by American fighter squadrons, which are getting their first taste of actual combat by joining in R. A. P. operations. . Conferences on the best use of American heavy bombers in the coming offensive were sdid to be| under .way. The British, it was said, feel that the American flying
| fortresses and Consolidated bombers
lack - the bomb-load capacity and speed to engage in" might attacks against the tough German defenses. : Criticize U. S. Bombers
The British, it appeared, favor using the heavy American planes for patroling sea lanes around the British .isles- and placing American crews 0 ihe heavier and faster
detectives said ‘a ‘revolver: was at
commander in India, was regarded as possible significant since it would - be Wavell’'s task to lead any British army sent north through Iran to aid the faltering Soviet forces in the Caucasus.
Harriman Attends.Conferences
American representatives ‘participated in the Moscow sessions adhered to the joint announcement of agreement to carryton “this just war of liberation with all their power
and energy” until final vi
tory. The official announcement did not indicate whether Ch has yet returned to: Britain : speculation as to his present w abouts was banned pending further official announcement. : While the communique care avoided any hint of the war’s No. 1 military secret—the question of when a second front will be open: —it was widely believed .in Bri that Churchill and the Americ representative, W. Averill mann, laid before Stalin every d tail of the Anglo-American plans.
MOSCOW, Aug. 17 (U. P.) An’ American Airways pilot, liam Verderklout of Sa: Fla., flew Prime Minister Ck ill to Moscow for his pl war with Soviet leaders, it was revealed today. - .
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It also was thought certain the Russians were advised of An American ability to fulfill often repeated pledges to do ‘thing to divert the growing pressure on: Russia. %
On the War Fre
Aug: 117, 1942
MOSCOW: Russian lines Stalingrad stiffen; ; - up fresh reserves for supr fort to cut Volga river |