Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1942 — Page 2
, 8 ACCUSES | "9 COMPANIES
; Navy Contracts Charged : In Indictment.
of insula today by ‘Attorney General Francis
Biddle. :
A federal grand jury at Newark,
AN. J., bringing the largest war fraud
charges disclosed to date, returned
the indictment last Monday but it . Was held sealed until today.
Maximum penalties on convictions - would be two years’ imprisonment,
~ $10,000. fine, or both.
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Charge 70 Per Cent Profit
Mr. Biddle said cost studies showed that the defendants realized profits ranging from 35 per cent to 70 per
‘cent on ‘the navy purchases: The
indictment covered the period since January; 1033, but the charges were based particularly on the past three
: years when navy purchases of cable
: 00st. between $50, 000,000 and $55,- ~ 000,000. - Named as defendants were: Rockbestos Products Corp, New Haven, Conn., and Arthur G. New-
ton, president. General Electric Co., Schenecta-
- N.Y. ." The Okonite Co., Passaic, N. J,
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and Frank C. Jones, president. - Collyer Insulated Wire Co., Pawtucket, R. I, and Robert C. Moeller, gecretary-treasurer. Steel Firm Accused
The American Steel & Wire Co. of New Jersey, with principal offices at Cleveland. General Cable Co., New York City, and Dwight R. G. Palmer, president. National Electric Products Corp. of Pittsburgh, and William C. Robfnson Sr., president, ' Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. Hastings-on-Hudson, N. J., and W. L. Sprackling, executive vice president. -Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp.; New. York City. Mr. Biddle said one defendant— General Electric—had returned to the navy department $250,000 on cable contracts aggregating about $2,000,000. He said this represented a recovery of about 13 per cent and that proportionate recovery was anticipated by the government on Other contracts. .
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- Gets New Post
MR. AND MRS. William C. Frye, 811 Grant ave, have received word of the appointment of their son, the Rev, G. Shubert Frye, to the post of field supervisor among
- rural and town churches in the
y
New York synod of the Presbyte-
rian church.
The Rev. Mr. Frye will assume his duties Sept. 1. He and Mrs. Frye will be at home in Syra-
~ “guse, N. Y.
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The Rev. Mr. Frye was .graduated from Southport highschool and attended the Auburn Theo logical seminary, Aubuin, N. Y: , He has been pastor df the church * at King Ferry, N.Y, for the past seven years and was one of the founders of the Caspar Gregory religious -camp near there,
SHOT AT LA PORTE
LA PORTE, Ind, Aug. 24 (U. P). «~Lavern Howell, 36, of East Chi--¢ago, Ind.,, who escaped from Neimer prison farm in La Porte coun-
“ty, Aug. 21, was shot critically early
today after he attempted to evade capture by state police. Howell, who was serving a four-
~ ‘year term for second-degree burg-
lary, had been picked up by a motorist and was in the car when police stopped it for inspection. Howell jumped out of the automobile and upon failing to obey -an officer's commands to halt was .ghot, authorities said.
Purse Snatcher Draws 10 fo 25
- BROUGHT «= INTO criminal court. on ‘a stretcher, a Negro purse snatcher was sentenced to 10 to 25 years by Judge Dewey E. Meyers today. : The prisoner, Roosevelt Phil}ips, 21, was shot in the shoulder and permanently crippled by police who caught him in the act of robbing Mrs. Helen Kennedy, 1220 N. Illinois st., last May 10. Mrs. Kennedy testified that the defendant struck her, grabbed ther purse and fled. A police -eruiser happened along at the '_gime and Phillips’ was captured after bullets fired by patrolmen
VEN 2 YEARS FOR PART, IN NAZI PLOT
fined the Pioneer Imwhich von Clemm
BUDGET PLAN
ted cable was announced].
‘with other: members of the crew,
Inferno. Blazes on Steppes;
Smoke of Battle Hides Sun
.
SYDNEY, Aug. 24 (U. P)— American girls who are worried
-|about the wandering affections of
their soldier boy friends in Australia must remember that “all's fair in love and war,” Sydney girls said today. They - were replying to Miss Marilyn Renner of Iowa, who wrote the Sydney Daily Telegraph that marriages between American soldiers and Australian girls’ would doom “thousands of American girls to spinsterhood and lives of loneliness. ”» “She sounds like one ‘of those old maids with roses around the door, a black cat and a pet parrot,” declared Miss Jean Bagshaw, fiance of Pvt. Charles German, also of
Johr A. Ramsey of Vincennes, was installed as seventh district American Legion commander here a week ago. And until the ceremony was over, Mrs. Ramsey didn’t tell her husband that one of their five sons in are army had been reported missing in action. But today they had received the happy news that. .Sergt. Baul L.
a Sora AS ‘and well in Port Moresby, New Guinea. His plane had crashed in a: storm off the New Guinea: coast Aug. 11 and, along
MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (U. P).—This was the seventh day. of an all-out German offensive by - 800,000 to 1,000,000 Germans to break through to Stalingrad and cut the Volga from the center of the Don bend and the Kotelnikovski area.
At least 500,000 of them were believed engaged in non-stop assaults in the bend of the Don. Some observers believed the battle for the approaches to Stalingrad equaled in size and ferocity the battle of Verdun. A correspondent of Pravda, the Communist party's official organ, said fighting northeast of Kotelnikovski raged in the blazing heat of the late summer sun, which ‘had baked the steppes and dried up rivers and wells. The sun itself looked like a red ball, glimpsed occasionally through thick clouds of smoke from bursting shells, and burning wheat fields
Aussie Girls, Altar Bound, Tell U. S. All's Fair in War|
Iowa. “Apparently she hasn't heard that men and women marry for love and not just to avoid frustration.”
Added Miss Celia Stowe, who is!
engaged to marry U. S. air corps Sergt. L. N. Poole: “All the American women in the world won't stop me from marrying an American.” Pvt. Silas Barnett, an Iowa native, sided with the Australian girls. “Jowa womanfolk sure seem anxious to get themselves husbands,” he, said. “They weren't so anxious to marry us back in the depression when we were. out of work. Maybe a bit of competition from the Australian girls will wake them up.”
New Legion Post Head's Son, Reported Missing, Is Safe
Paul parachuted into the New Guinea jungle. He landed in a tree where he spent the first night. The next-day he found a native village where he obtained a guide who accompanied him to the coast. There a small steamer picked him up and brought him to Port Moresby. The plane’s gunner, George T. Richman, Hopewell, Va. was less lucky. He wandered for five days without food, except for a rotten potato he found in a clearing, before he came on a native village. The natives directed him to the coast and he eventually reached Port Moresby in a plane.
and patches of flaming wormwood, feathergrass and peachwort. Flame swept over Soviet trenches, setting - fire to the clothes of tired Russian forces. Water was so scarce they drank from their canteens only when thirst became unbearable. The Germans, the Pravda correspondent reported, fought in boots and shorts. German losses were exorbitant; battlefields were thick with their corpses and the living didn't take time to bury the dead. Russian artillery bore the brunt of the defense in the bend of the Don. Russian infantry on the west bank had little ground left in which to maneuver. Time and again the Germans threw pontoon bridges across the Don. The Russians waited until they were loaded with tanks and motorized infantry, then their artillery opened and tanks, infantry and
bridges went to the bottom.
James E. Gentry, 838 College ave., ts learned that his son, Pvt. Roy . Gentry, is “missing in acti hy the Philippines. The war department returned a letter written by Perry, 2001 Brdadway, Pvt.: Gentry's
missing since May 7, 1942. The war department added that it had tried to advise Mr. Gentry about his son
turned. ' Pvt. Gentry enlisted in July, 193), and within one week was on his
sister, and said that he had been:
Pvt. James Gentry Missing In Philippines, Father Told
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but that its letter had been re- §
Pvt. Gentry
CHRISTIAN PARK ENDS
SEASON TOMORROW
~ ceremonies in|
1. This group of officers is shown at battalion headquarters near San Diego making final plans early on the day the marines shoved off for the mission which took them on a raid of Makin island in the Gilbert group. Left to right, kneeling, are Lieut. Col. Evans F. Carlson, leader of the group; Lieut. M. C. Plumley and Maj. James Roosevelt, second in command. Looking on are special marine assault troops.
2. The Reising submachine gun, newly adopted by the marines and reportedly used in their attack on the Solomon islands, is shewn in use. The model was developed especially for paratroops. The pistol grip and steel framework fold out of the way when not in use,
3. These herves df the Selomuis battle ars showit at 3 port with a heavy bomber used in the battle. Left ner Sergt. Paul Tulley of Evansville, Ind, who got one
Kermit Messerschmitt, Ft. Collins,
southeast to right are Gunzero; Capt. Colo., a pilot, and Corp. Warren
Morse, Middletown, Mass., who also got a zero.
ARRANGE T0 QUIZ SHIP PASSENGERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2¢ (U. P).
—Arrangements for questioning of
all persons arriving tomorrow in New York on the exchange ship Gripsholm returning from Japan have been completed, Attorney General Francis Biddle stated today. He said the investigations by various federal agencies would be co-ordinated to avoid duplication of effort and unnecessary delays. That was expected to cut down the length of time required, contrasted with the
more than a week spent in investi-|
gating the passengers who returned from Germany aboard the Drottningholm. The long search of that ship’s passengers led to the apprehension of Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, alleged gestapo agent now being tried in Newark, N. J. Agents of the FBI, state department, army and navy intelligence, customs and immigration will search the Gripsholm. - “Every precaution must be taken in time of war to prevent enemy agents slipping across our borders,” Mr. Biddle said. “We have already had experience with them, and we know them to be well trained and dlever. “Such investigation inevitably takes time. I ask the patience and understanding - of those whose defrom the vessel will be de-
layed by this procedure.”
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$3000 Antelope
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 24 (U. P)—A
Soldier Radios From England
. THERE'S GOING to be a party tonight at the James P. Mullane residence at 5939 Washington blvd.—and the purpose of it is to hear 2d Lieut. James P. Mullane in a broadcast from England. He participated last night in the Mutual system’s, “Stars and Stripes in Britain” broadcast. It was transcribed by WIBEC and will be rebroadcast from 8:05 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. Lieut. Mullane hs a nephew of James P. Mullane and is the son of Mrs. Marie Mullane, He enlisted in the National Guard as a private and worked his way up to a lieutenancy. He is with an M. P. unit.
6 ON WAY TO CAMP MEETING INJURED
BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 24 (U. P).— Six Danville, Ill, persons were injured seriously today when the driver of the car in which they were riding lost control and the car crashed on road 59 south of Brazil. :d were Mr. and Mrs. RusBonnett, their daughter Peggy, 4; Mr. and Mrs. William Techow and Mrs. Anna Huddleston. The
{child's condition was described by
Hospital attendants here as “critiState police quoted the victims as saying they were on their way to a Free ;Methodist camp meeting near Clay City.
urchased | JOHN E. HUNOT DIES
AFTER 20-FOOT FALL
A 20-foot Yall from an apple tree
J [HAIL PAY RATE AS
VICTORY FOR WOMEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2¢ (U. PJ).
| —Director Mary Anderson of the
women's bureau of the labor departegn; today called a war labor panel recommendation reDa the same wage rate for women as men when doing the same work a victory for women workers and advocates of fair wage policies. Miss Anderson said millions ‘of women should profit from the recommendation, and described it as a “significant milestone” in women’s struggle for the principle of “equal -pay for equal work.” The panel's recommendation . was made after hearings in the case involving the General Motors Corp. and the unitéd electrical, radio, an: machine workers of America an the united automobile, aircraft and agricultural implement workers of America.
QUESTION ALIEN ON ~ _TRAVELING PERMIT
PADUCAH, Ky., Aug. 2¢ (U. P). —Federal bureau of investigation agents arrived today te question a man who identified himself as Louis Carol Ruppert, a German-
guard on the Paducah-Brookport highway bridge for failure to have a traveling permit required of all enemy aliens. He said he resided in the United; States for the past 35 years but had never taken out naturalization papers.
ENVOY LEAVES MOSCOW
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (U.P).— The British radio reported today that American Ambassador to Russia Admiral William Standley has left Moscow for Kuibmyshev by plane. The report said that Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley remained in Moscow to confer with the Russians regarding supplies.
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cut the army of the Caucasus completely off from the armies of the north.
Second Front Is Possibility
Such an outcome would put the 5
Germans in a position to strike past the Grozny oil fields of the Caucasus toward Baku and, the Middle East. Bvidently with this prospect in mind, the British have created a new army command in Iran and
| Iraq, south of the Caucasus, under
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.
The possibilities of a second front |
in the Baku region are latent. in this British move. If the Germans make the challenge, the British are bound to meet it. : Much depends on what Hitler's planned strategy for the winter is. Hitler is expending every ounce of energy to get in a favorable stable
‘ |position before winter. He is ex-
pending men and material at a lavish rate, with utter disregard of the cost.
Winter Rest Is Hinted If Hitler achieves his objectives,
_|it is quite possible that he hopes to
hold in Russia for the winter and ease the strain on his war production, Zi Such a lull would give him about six months to replenish his depleted reserves and build for another mighty offensive next spring. "Rather than Russia, Hitler's main effort next year probably would be in western Europe, where the allies most probably would open a second front, if they do not do so before then. This does not preclude winter activity in Egypt and the Middle East. A drive there would not call
able to push back. If Hi to withdraw any considerable 1
PACIFIC MESSAGE--‘OUR WEAPONS BEST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P). *
—American ordnance plant workers last night were advised by Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, chief of the bureau of ordnance, that American naval weapons—“like the fighting men who use them”—have been shown in battle to be superior to any possessed by other world powers. ; In a radio broadcast (Blue network) . direct from the “Pacific theater of naval operations,” Blandy | emphasized the need for: increased production. # “This war is going to require everything that we can put on the *
ball,” he said. “We” are up against {*
the toughest enemy in history— well-equipped, ruthless, fanatic and consumed with an unholy ambition to conquer and c control the world.”
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