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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1942

“Thank You,” Said A Little Old Lady As Yankees Parade In London

eg LONDON, Sept. 2 (U. ~ waved from rooftops and an

P.).—The Stars and Stripes estimated 300,000 Londoners

* cheered as American troops swung through London today

‘in their first official parade eome to Great Britain.

to receive a ceremonial wel-

> Detachment after detachment of air corps men, infantry, marines and engineers marched briskly through

3 the ancient streets.

London's spirit was exemplified by an old lady who

LAW CHARGED

Rowland Allen’s Letter Asks Governor’s Aid in

Saving System.

Text of Allen letter, page 4; Editorial, page 12.

"Rowland Allen, a member of the| i

four-man state persdbnnel board, brought into the open today the - Jong-standing feud between Indiana _ political leaders and merit system

supporters by making public an open letter to Governor Schricker. © Mr, Allen's letter called attention "to the rumors concerning the merit system operation and challenged them as “a conspiracy on the part

"of certain public officials to destroy

merit law.” His statement constituted an apto the chief executive to. “aid of us who are determined to the merit law.” In it he said hoped. that his letter would bring Vetnor “widespread support” e fight for merit operation,

Accuses Budget Chief

“One of the principal targets of letter was C. Anderson Ket- , State budget director, named by title by Mr. Allen. The charged: “That the budget director has our operations by illegalchallenging the right of the personnel board to operate ly under the law.” 2. “That the budget director by ‘written reference to ‘current unrest controversy’ is indicating his of sympathy with the princi4 ] . « and indicating ‘sympathy for the political patronage seekers.” “That certain state institution“superintendents have a private pgreement—a conspiracy, in effect 0 keep employees from bettering elves by transfer and/or pron.” ‘4 “That in some of the state inations, employees are forced to rk as much as 96 hours a week hours a day!” “That . . . there are some in-

‘to allow the personnel board's t of regulations to be posted. They

10,000 MONTHLY

SHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.). war production board today manufacture to 10,000 a and concentrated entire on in two plants, freeing remainder ‘of the industry for work. ‘Westfield Manufacturing Co., d, Mass, may produce 6000

ng Co, Dayton, O., 4000. army, navy, maritime com- , War shipping administra-

nts do not amount to 10,month, -the remainder will Le ed among civilians under ‘office of price administration’s rationing system,

"FEATURES

Men in Serv.. 9 Millett ...... 18 Movies nae il Obituaries. vee 21 Pattern 13

approached a doughbioy on leave standing among the Spectators and said: “Thank you so much for'coming over.” Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander of the American forces, was unable to be present during the ' parade because of ‘urgent matters of the greatest im-

portance.”

Speaking to the troops at Guild hall, Maj. J. C. H. Lee told them that they had not come to Britain for defense but to join the British “in sustained offensive operations.”

Research Here Saves Soldiers’ Lives

U.S. pp LOYAL BIDDLE

Inquiries Show: Charges of Dies and Others Not

True, He Says.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.). —Attorney General Francis Biddle

reported - to congress today that|

“sweeping charges of disloyalty in the federal service” were unsub-

stantiated by federal bureau of investigation inquiries in 2095 cases of federal employees accused of being members of subversive organizations. Such charges made by Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex), of the house committee on un-American activities resulted in an appropriation of $100,000 last year for an FBI investigation. Mr. Biddle said it is evident that a large proportion of the complaints were “clearly unfounded.”

Dies Reported 1121

There had been 4579 complaints, including 1121 names furnished by Rep. Dies personally. As result of investigations, 36 persons were fired -from government service and disciplinary : action was taken against 13 others. ‘Concerning Rep. Dies own list, Mr. Biddle reported that 767 investigations were ordered after elimination of duplications and others found ‘not within the scope of the project. Investigations has been completed in‘ 601 cases. Ninety-seven were found to involve persons no longer employed by the government, and 69 still were under inquiry. Action has been taken in 501 cases. There were two dismissals, one instance of other administrative action and 408 cases in ‘which it had decided further action was unwarranted. A total of 3458 complaints were received from other sources. In these cases there were 34 dismissals and 12 cases of disciplinary action.

DISCUSS JAP PLANS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P). —Members of the Pacific war council discussed with President Roosevelt today the possibility of a Japanese attack on Siberia—an ate tack which one member of ‘the council said was “purely a matter of time.” x

Lh ARI CARDENAS DUE AT POST.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2 (U. P). ~=oFOrmer President Lazaro Car-

and bristling

{approaches Stal } : peared, however,” that they were|

Blood Injections Perfocted

“In Methodist Hospital Clinic

This war is the first in history

in which the wounded can live with

any degree of certainty and much of the credit goes to Methodist hos-

pital and its clinical laboratory head,

Dr. Horace M. Bai

The Red Cross has kept us’constantly informed of the importance of dried blood plasma in saving lives on the battle front. : But up to nirie years ago injeghions in the veins were hazardous. The

patient had a ehance of living, but an even greater danger of dying because of the fever reaction which so often followed.

Death Rate Was High

In 1930 Methodist ard other hos- | pitals . were going through an unexplained cycle in ‘which increasingly numerous patients were being lost as an aftermath of intravenous injections. Several theories on the cause of the reaction were that injections were made too fast, too slow, too hot, too cold, that there was lint or other matter in the tubing, that fibers from filtration remained in the solution, that sulphur particles from new equipment were present or that the liquid was too acid or too alkaline,

The first task of Dr. Banks and his staff assistants was fo disprove

all these theories. They experi-

mented on no less than 937 rabbits, which required almost three years. After this phase of the work was completed, the conclusion on what] (Continued on Page Three)

KINHWA RECAPTURE CALLED IMMINENT

CHUNGEKING, Sept. 2 (U. P.).— Recapture of ‘Kinhwa, Japaneseoccupied airport city within bomber range of Tokyo, is “imminent,” a Chinese ¢ommunique said today. = The communique said that combined Chinese attacks by troops pressing east from the ChekiangKiangsi railway and units previously placed behind the Japanese lines had reached the approaches of Kinhwa. The Chinese attacks were described as “violent.” and the Japanese inside fhe ' walled town were said to be “panie stricken.”

4 OVERCOME IN

PAINT GO. FIRE

Varnish Furnes Explode; Loss Estimated at More Than $25,000.

Four firemen were overcome this afternoon following a varnish explosion and fire in the Advance Paint & Color Co. plant at 545

Abbott st. Loss was estimated at more than $25,000. The explosion appakently was caused when varnish fumes contacted heat emitted from a nearby section of the plan Overcome by. “the fumes when fighting the fire were Capt. Joe Hancock of pumper company No. 4, Gene Stamm, Lieut. Charles Bevis and Glenn Willis, all of No. 13. They were treated by a City hospital ambulance doctor. The blaze was confined to the reducing room where the explosion occurred. Three men working there escaped uninjured. They were Charles Waterbury, George Easter and Ralph Herrington. :

'GOODYEAR STRIKE ENDS AKRON, O., Sept. 2 (U. P).—A

Tfour-day strike which halted pro-| duction of military truck tires at]

the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Oo.,

to return to work pending settle-| ‘ment of a “misun

derstanding” the length of the working: gay.

AT STALINGRAD

: appeared today to be gaining dan-

. land said that the peril to the city

ended today when the strikers voted |

“NONE OF US WANTS

shall have crowned our united efforts,”

until then we have much to

to return home until victory Lee said, “and do together.”

The troops, wearing full dress uniforms, pushed off at 11:30 a. m. for Grosvenor Square, then marched through

West End streets past Hyde City.

Park, winding on to London

London’s bachelor lord mayor, Sir John Laurie, in the

first ceremonial function held in Guild hall since it was

RUSS IN PERIL AND ON VOLGA

London Hears Nazis Are 15 Miles From City; Moscow Gloomy.

By UNITED' PRESS The Nazi drive to sever ‘Russia’s

Volga river war artery and capture the southern bastion of Stalingrad

gerous momentum, A Nazi war communique claimed that German advance guards have cut their way through to the banks

of the Volga north of Stalingrad. Moscow dispatches reported the fourth withdrawal within 48 hours

is growing hourly on both the northwest - and southwest fronts.

Volga Is Vital Line

The Germans had been slowed or’ halted when they reached the deep

beginning to blast paths through the defense system and hack. tieir way closer to the steel city, which is about the size of Indianapolis. The Nazi claim that their forces have reached the Volga was news

ance of rail routes leading north from Stalingrad the Russians have| been ‘employing the Volga as their: chief transport route for moving supplies north and south.

Danger Grows N. W. of City

If German troops have reached the Volga and can bring transport on “Russia’s Mississippi” to a halt, oo defense of Stalingrad will be greatly handicapped and the Russian task of moving vital oil, gasoline and food supplies north from the Caspian will become much more difficult. Large German tank forces broke through the ‘ sector nearest the Volga southwest of Stalingrad and London believed that about 80 tanks had dashed to within 15 miles of Stalingrad. : Northwest of Stalingrad, where the Russians were reported yesterday to have control of the situation and to have fought back across the Don river, the Germans and the Italians had resumed their offensive. There was great danger of an axis breakthrough there.

Closer to Novorossisk

Moscow also admitted a sharp worsening of Russia's position in the north Caucasus, where a further withdrawal south of Krasnodar was reported to have put the Nazis closer to the Black sea naval base of Novorossisk. The battle .for .the Grozny oil fields also had begun in earnest, with the Germans smashing vigorously against a water barrier at Terek, near Mozhdok. Moscow claimed no specific gains] on the central front offensive around Rzhev, but said several more inhabited localities had been occupied and that Soviet artillery was inflicting heavy losses on the Ger-

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Sirens Scream and Lights Are Doused— |

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By FREMONT POWER

Downtown Dimout Is a Success

‘1the 12 blocks bounded by Delaware] |

The pale pallor of war qit nish. and Capital ave, and Obits ) downtown Indianapolis for 20 min- atylas sts :

utes last night as the i peered]

for that day when ‘hell may fall out}e

of the skies.

| apolis held. ita a downtown, “dimout.”

“Bu. they

a

of equal gravity. With the sever-|.

i furbances ‘today,

On the War Fronts

(Sept. 2, 1942)

RUSSIA—Red army battles new Nazi wedge southwest of Stalingrad; situaiion critical. Germans claim to have reached the Volga.

EGYPT—Allies prepare for epic battle; U. S. planes and tanks reinforce British; fighting so far seems on equal. terms. ;

WESTERN EUROPE—R. A. F. attacks Saarbrucken; Russians bomb Warsaw and East Prussia; Canadian convoy arrives.

AUSTRALIA—Allied planes bomb Japanese troops in Kokoda area of New Guinea, where enemy pressure increases. out

IRELAND—Disorder breaks

with Ulster’s execution of Irish|-

Republican army member for killing policeman.

CHINA—Recapture of “bomb Tokyo” city of Kinhwa “imminent,” Chungking Somputique says.

HANGING CAUSES

U.S. Solgiers Mocked After Republican Army Mem-

ber Is Executed.

BELFAST, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—Execution of Thomas Williams, member of the outlawed Irish republican army, touched off riots and disincluding the ‘mocking of American soldiers by women demonstrators who gave them the Nazi salute. A small number of American soldiers were in the city, although it had been¥ declared out of bounds for American troops stationed in North Ireland. ; The women demonstrators hurled bottles at a policeman who warned them to disperse. During the ensuing scuffle the officer was knocked down by a bicyclist. Two men were sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting ‘the policeman. Police witnesses, describing the riot around the city hall, said that two women walked past a group of American soldiers and deliberately

stopped and gave the Nazi salute.

General disturbances broke out immediately after Williams, 19, was hanged for murdering a Belfast constable last Easter.

Although Williams’ last wish re-|

portedly was that his death should not have a stormy aftermath, tension was heightened hourly. Williams went to the gallows calmly. - He received communion and - then walked ‘to the death chamber, accompanied by the executioner. An English hangman; had to be imported because no Irishman could be found to spring the trap.

CANADIAN . FORCES IN ENGLAND BOLSTERED

LONDON, Sept. 2 (U.P) —Strong

| reinforcements, including an ar-

mored formation, airmen and

| medical personnel for the Canadian | forces: in England have arrived in

a large convoy at a British port,

; it now can be revealed.

Hundreds of tank troops wearing black berets hung from the ships’ : the decks|® when the convoy steamed into port.

| With them were hundreds of royal

Canadian air force and R. A. F. personnel, as ‘well as a complete

i pe h 1

damaged in the December, 1940, blitz, welcomed the troops

at 12:45 p. m. : Twenty marines and 300 regular army troops were selected to represent the entire force at a luncheon in the hall given by the lord mayor. Guests at a Guild hall luncheon included Maj. Clement Attlee, U. S. Ambassador John G. Winant, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin and ! ] other British officials and members of the armed services. Hi A

Both Sides Cautious in Claims but Fight Spreads to 20-Mile Front; First Big Battle for Americans.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

A new battle of Egypt raged in the. western desert’ fod day. Initial reports indicated that British armored fo and American and British planes were pounding hard at forces of Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was trying. to et. desert machine rolling. : It was the first big combat operation: for: American forces in the Middle East. U. S. bombers and fighters were carrying out'agtack after attack on axis concentrations and tank uiits stood on e line’ready ime atime vores Africh, | ter oa Nazi thrust in their| . The Cairo i, ne direction. 4 British belief that Rommel

The first impact of the battle was| ually embarked upon Bie | felt at the southern end of the te

take him to contact with Ge: Alamein line where armored col-| troops in the Caucasus region umns of both sides were engaged )

Russia. around Himeimat peak. It spread Both Sides Cautious today to the Ruweisat ridge area in British reports of the f the center, where the British earlier | we had repulsed an Italian attack. In the rolling, rocky area between

the two ridges the slightest movement of armored vehicles raised

clouds of dust. . : | undercurrent. of optimism in It was believed that Rommel’s| It seemed clear that F powerful tank forces had now| trying to roll up the Britis clashed directly with the armored| flank, at the southern end corps of Gen. Harold R. L. G. Alex-| line, so he could strike ne ander after two days in which the| to hit the main El Alameinaxis advanced elements had probed| dria highway and follow it out the imperial defense line and| ward to Alexandria and the the British had cushioned the shock | est triumph of his of the %ttalk by giving ground] career, slightly. ‘Axis sources had little to: At stake in the desert combat about the desert battle. Their were great; prizes of war. Rommel’s| ports claimed that 30 Brit objective is the Nile and the Suez: armored vehicles had ‘been The allies, if they beat off Rommel's| stroyed and 55 British planes s challenge, may open up an all-out down. :

RAF Raid on Suarbrucken: ut One of Most Effective So Fa

LONDON, Sept. 2 (U. P.) —A strong force of 200 royal force bombers carried out an outstandingly successful attack on Nazi coal-iron-steel center of Saarbrucken during the night, the A ministry reported today as American and British Aghier Squadrons » sweeps over northern France. The air ministry, which seldom employs superlatives, called the bombardment was the most.

BAHR, GERMAN SPY, bombardment was ihe most IS GIVEN 30 YEARS ® Urged to Tell What ~He Knows of Other Agents.

NEWARK, N. J, Sept. 2 U. P..

eral terms. It was suggested due to military

several jays. However, there was a