Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1942 — Page 3

Allied Planes Also Bom | Lae Airdrome and Foe's

Troops at Kokoda.

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADe QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 3 (U, P).—Allled planes have made ‘a

|neavy attack on the ‘Japanese ale base in Buka island, at the northe ern end of the Solomons roughly

* Four Passengers to Every Car Is Campaign Goal; ~ Every Empty Seat Is Called a Jap; Plan |

Reduces Traffic, Saves Tires.

By WILLIAM CRABB : Indianapolis defense plants aren’t waiting for gasoline ‘rationing or for many tires to wear out before solving their - transportation problems. ; Share-the-ride is now an institution among war workers.

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ports that since January 32 per cent less cars are on the highways. Some of this de-

* crease is due to normal con-|.

servation. among motorists, but part of it is the result of “doubling up” by war work-

ers. ~All the large defense plants have set up clearing offices which help arrange rides among employees. : They keep indexes of who lives - where and How they get to work. _ They match riders with empty seats : and are filling up cars and reducing the number of drivers.

Drive to Be Pushed

Their campaigns thus far have been more or less educational and “polite.” But they have a goal of © four persons to every car, on the average, and they are prepared to make their drive more stringent. RCA, for example, is going to do this: Every empty seat in every car coming into the plant will be called a “Jap.” If a worker drives a sedan into the parking lot with .the back seat empty, a card will be placed under the windshield wiper reminding the driver he has carried three “Japs” to work.

- Plants Also Co-operate

- RCA got its share-the-ride office in operation just a month ago, but already the average number of persons per car has been increased from 1.5 .to 2. Allison's started their program a few months ago and have increased their average to more than three persons per car. And the plants sometimes work together, For instance, one man at RCA lives at Shelbyville. He drives his to work and carries three Allison men who work the same shift. The Allison men let him out at the RCA plant and they drive the car on out to Speedway City. At Curtiss-Wright, 64 per cent of. all drivers share rides with each car having an average of 3.04 occupants. A total of over 60 per cent / of the employees participate either "as drivers or passengers.

Allison’s Plan Survey

In a few days Allison’s is going to start a survey which will involve interviewing every driver and every passenger who arrives for work. The interviewers will get the name and address of the drivers and passengers; how many miles on the car and how many miles on the tires; how many of the passengers have cars at home and if - 80, how many miles on their cars and tires. The- rationing of tires has become so stringent that a defense worker cannot get tires unless he is carrying at least two passengers in a coupe or three passengers in a sedan. ©. The RCA share-the-ride system . has the city divided into half-mile areas and drivers of cars , are provided with a list of all em- ' ployees in his area who need rides.

Follow 'Up Process

After about a week the share--the-ride office follows up with inquirries to the “transportation wardens” in each department who help adjust any situation that hasn't worked out by itself. Plant officials expect that the time will come when a central committee representing all the war “plants will pool the transportation ‘resources of the workers. But right now, most of the plants have one goal: “An: average of four workers to every car.” $ DIE IN SHIP SINKING © A GULP COAST PORT, Sept. 3 (U. P.)~—The navy said today that ‘three seamen who stuck to their , posts when a torpedo crashed into * their medium-sized British cargo ~ vessel were killed in the first Carib-

COUNTY BUDGET CUT $400,000

Means 6-Cent Reduction in Tax Rate if Slash Is Approved.

County councilmen have requests, thus effecting a reduction of about 6 cenis in the tax levy for next year. If all tentative budget cuts are approved in final adoption of the budget, the county tax rate for all purposes will be about 46 cents compared to 45 cenis this year. Budgets as submitted to the council called for a rate of 52 cents. The big reduction was made possible by elimination of the proposed $280,000 for reassessment of real estate next year. This in itself took 4 cents off the rate.

Cut Commisison Fund

The other major reduction was in the county commisisoners’ $306,000 budget which was reviewed yesterday. Between $30,000 and $40,000 will be lopped off the commisisoners’ requests before it is finally adopted. Reductions totaling more than $40,000 have been made in other departmental requests.” : The only increases permitted in the budgets are those for wage increases for county employees. Increases averaging 10 per cent have been allowed for most county workers in the lower wage brackets.

Sheriff’s Budget Up

The personnel budget for the sheriff was increased several thousand dollars to provide for three eight-hour shifts of deputies. Before final approval of the deputy increase, however, councilmen asked the two candidates for sheriff to volunteer their agreement

cut nearly $400,000 off the 1943 budget.

ways’ training program. All but one of the men on the other is the instructor.

Men Get Thorough Course Before Car Assignments

By HAMLIN WELLING When a streetcar with just three or four men on it refuses to stop

By the time they get out on the streets with the cars, however, they are pretty far along in the month-long course.

ULSTER SEIZES

Effort to Put Down

Irish Unrest.

BELFAST, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Determined to prevent the outlawed Irish Republican army from fomenting an anti-British uprising in Northern Ireland, police began a large-scale round-up of its members

to use the money specifically to set| toda.

‘up the ihifee three shifts.

REVISE BUS RUNS TO MUNCIE, FT. WAYNE

Effective Sunday, the Indiana Railroad will change its operating bus schedules between here and Muncie and Ft. Wayne to bring its savings to 21,000 miles per month, 3500 gallons of gasoline monthly and 25 heavy-duty tires per year. The economy move follows suggestions of the ODT. On Aug. 1, the company made similar cuts on its Terre Haute runs. Under the new schedules, the running time between Indianapolis and Muncie will be about five minutes longer while the time between here and Ft. Wayne will be lengthened as much as 30 minutes. Several trips between Muncie and Ft. Wayne will be discontinued. Ray Garrett, president, saiq that the company will continue to honor other bus lines’ tickets between common points. He asked nonbusiness patrons to travel between 9 a. m, and 3 p. m. and during the week as much as possible.

27 HOOSIERS TAKE WAAC EXAMINATION

Twenty-seven Indiana women, including two Negro volunteers, took their physical examinations for the women’s army auxiliary corps today,” and army recruiting officers said most of them, boosting the total number of auxiliaries from Indiana to at least 120, would be accepted. Indiana has a quota of 260 auxiliaries—a rank conforming to that of a private in the regular army— to meet by Nov. 1. Officers said the quota would be met since they sre examining an average of 30 volunteers each week. Since the recruiting drive began five weeks ago, 25 women have been

bean sinking officially announced

called into training at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa.

Fifty-six. known I. A. A. leaders were arrested as police began searching ‘houses, particularly in the nationalist districts, at dawn, Some of those seized were roused from sleep, others were arrested as they prepared to leave fo rwork. Tearful mothers, wives and sisters shook hands with the suspects as police loaded them into trucks. Some women became hysterical and accused police of “taking our bread‘winners.” Others berated Ulster authorities for staging the raids “as propaganda to convince the United States army of the evil intentions of the whole nationalist population of Northern Ireland.” Unrest in both Northern Ireland and Eire, highlighted by-anti-Brit-ish and anti-American demonstrations, gun battles, .riots and strikes, was precipitated by the hanging of a young I. R. A. member yesterday. Thomas Williams, 19-year-old

{murderer of a Belfast constable, was

the first I. R. A. member hanged in Northern Ireland. since its separation from Eire 20 years ago. In the second anti-American demonstration since the disorders broke out, unidentified assailants last night stoned a U. S. army automobile. None of the occupants was hit as the driver stepped on the accelerator and dodged the missiles. Earlier Ulster women demonstrators taunted some American soldiers in Belfast with Nazi salutes.

35 to Graduate As Air Wardens

A CLASS OF 35 air raid wardens in the 45th district will be graduated at 8 p. m. today at the Northeast community Senter, 3306 E. 30th st. : C. Harvey Bradley, connty defense director, will be chairman and Milt D. Campbell, American Legion national defense director, will speak. Virgil H.’ Quinn is the district air raid warden and Alex L. Asch

[ is instructor. «

IRA MEMBERS,

Hundreds Taken to Jail in transters, copy their schedules and

ly lets the student assigned to him

‘work, with the regular motorman

‘examinations. Of course, they never ot take Sis Sop 1 Sell une of

‘I'm Just prackiciing and can't take any passengers.” Student Motorman James Heneghan explains to Miss Betty Griffin, 842 N. Riley ave., "he ants a ride downtown.

car are student motormen and the

The training program is under the direction of Clarence Moxley, chief instructor. Usually 10 ‘men are assigned to a group and they first spend about 10 days in classrooms. = - They are instructed in the layout of the various lines, how to collect fares, issue and accept

how to keep track of “run” times. Train in “Register Cage” Part of their classroom instruction time is spent in the dummy “register cage.” It is a wooden structure erected in the classroom and built to streetcar specifications. Through with classroom work after 10 days, the students—usually four to a group—are sent out to the car barn yards where an instructor teaches: them the fundamentals of car operations. The students spend one’ full day operating a car up and down a straight track in the: yards. When the instructor feels that they can start and stop the: cars quickly, he takes them out on the tracks which circle the parking lot. The students then pilot the cars through three parts of the yards and one part on W. Washington st., giving them experience in operation

in tratfic. » Learn All Lines -

Following that, the. . students spent seven days piloting the cars on all city lines to familiarize themselves with operation and the lines. There stil] are four men and an instructor during this period. = The students then are gssigned to “revenue” service, which means to regular runs with experienced motormen. They spend about 16 days on this and during the first day do very little operation themselves. The experienced motorman usual-

drive during quiet periods. Toward the end of the 16 days, however, the student is doing most of the

just sitting behind him, watching

closely. - ; Must Know Routes

At the end of that period, the students must take their “final”

know what's coming, The instructor

them he wants to go to, say, 5600 College ave. ‘Then it’s up to the student to take his car out of the barn, go through town correctly and stop at the right block. The | group spends one full day on which the" instructor orders the students) gry to take him to various spots in the city. ‘e The company is having a hard time obtaining enough men, what with the draft and lucrative defense jobs. But you can be sure that those they do train are trained th They've got a record of 16 years

| against Germany.

Louis Baiike, assistant {nstruetor (left), watches as Student Charles Daniel registers a fare,

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Explaining the finer points of .streetcar operation is Chief In-

structor Clarence Moxley (right).

and standing Mr. Daniel, Mr. Heneghan and Eugene Stearns.

{enemy invasion attempt on New

Guinea. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's come munique today said allied’ bombers

bombs into their target area in a raid on Buka island, at the extreme

"| miles northwest of the marine base

Seated is Student Paul Kearney

IARMY-NAVY MEN COOL TO KAISER:

[He'll

for you, don’t get peeved about it. It’s & part of the Indianapolis Rall:

Marshall, King and Leahy, Says Nelson.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — When Henry J. Kaiser returns hele Monday to resume negotiations on his cargo-plane proposal, he will be directed first to a joint conference with high military and haval officials. He will see Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the army, Admiral Ernest J. King, command-‘er-in-chief of the fleet, and Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the president as commander-in-chief. Donald Nelson, wen chairman, arranged this procedure on the theory that Mr. Kaiser first must prove his case to the military officials, who frowned ‘on the Kaiser idea when the Pacific coast builder was here a few weeks ago.

‘Competitors’ Unconvinced

Mr. Kaiser, it is learned, has not fared so well with representatives of the aviation industry with whom he has been conferring on the coast. They repeatedly raised the question whether he planned to go into the airplane business permanently, and also pumped technical inquiries at him with which he was not familiar. His position was that all: he wants to do is to put the planes together on a mass-production basis, which his engineers have found feasible and practicable, just as he is building ships and breaking. all records. He was not a technical expert in shipbuilding, either, when he undertook that job.

REPORTS RUSS SAID NO’ T0 U, S. TROOPS:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. PJ). ~Congressional sources said today that the Soviet Union had declined a United States. offer to reinforce the Red army. with American troops. Russia advised the American representatives, these ‘sources said, that it was suffering no severe shortage of manpower, notwithstanding the ferocity of the struggle The Soviet government added that it believed available shipping could be employed more effectively to carry planes and tanks and other war materials to the Russian front. Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) of the house military affairs committee said he had been advised of the Soviet reply to the American Ste of manpower and regarded 3 22 4m, outstanding example of the and heroism of the .Red

A Aodstait ‘Secretary of War John J. McCloy, speaking at Cincinnati yesterday, disclosed that the United States now has more than 500,000 men in stations beyond its continental limits. Those troops are scattered from Australia and India on one side of the world to Green-

Without » passenger Tatality,

land, Iceland and the British isles

lon the other.

“IN INDIANAPOLIS ~- MEETINGS VITAL Si TISTICS

Bere Is the Traffic Record “FATALITIES County City Total 46 51 96 . sense cesscsons 21 58 85 w==Sept. 2— 6 | Arrests esses 322 3] Dead S0scesen 0

Bs. 2000000000000

| Hotel. Washington. 7:38". m. Communications Assoctation, |

Oil club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. Retired Big F Employees, meeting, Union Rom 1730 P. Boy = Delaware st., Deon,

Advertising C) of edianspons. s, luncheon, - NE aD Athletic club, noon. Indianapolis Camera club, m meeting, 1

8. De, rt Agriculture luncheon, Board. oF To od Trade, noon. ota, assgiation,

La rn Mipha Alumni noon

Indianapolis Motor Trans riatio clu ngiandpets Steak hous oon, b,

Sigma Nu, luncheon, Columbia club, nop.

MEETINGS TOMORROW United Furniture Workers of America, Hotels ‘Washington, 8 p. ac Xchange club, cn Claypool hotel, a Optimist lub, luncheon, Cotumbis club, Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Canary cottage,

Knights of Columbus, luncheon, 1305 N.| 7

Fi Datta luncheon, Theta, ‘Canary cot- ly,

Indiana Motor Rate and Tariff nd 1: Rute meeting, Eset: and Twine club, Hotel Severin,

p Empieyient Secu Security Division, luncheon, Indiana State Eg Egg Board, Hotel Severin,

11 a Sima’ Chi, lucheon, Board of Trade,

BIRTHS © Girls George, Ottie Hubbard, at St. Francis. - Dewey, Eleanor Marshall, at St. Francis. Vernie, Mildred Brunson, at St. Franeis. Ray, Dorothy Sisk, at ‘St. Vincent's. Myron, Eleanor Rees, at St. Vincent's: Russell, Helen Hayes, at St. Vincent's.

t's. William,

cent’s. » Harold, th Miller, thodist. Ruih at Me!

Dui Tue Date, Tuscon Cinary cot-|

, ‘Clarence, Gertrude Moore, at St. Vin- i; . Ida Wright, at St. Vincent's. |: Sober Jackson, at st. Vin | * TEN

Isaac, GIdrs Orn at St. Francis. Leonard, Grace Eck, at St. Francis. Hugh, Lillian Braughton, st St. Prancis, | Sereiote : Marvin, LaVonne Doyle, at St. Francis. |

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MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from. sffictal records

in the county court fhieeites le o30 Ea

Jame Oliver 1 wells, 33, 33, of 1408 Pleasant; Eleanor Palmer, a1, ol 1934 Broad-

Brooks Cralle, Browns’ TR Sekodah

dog, W, Om gi ’.

EL hy of 254 Dorman; Ethel I. , 48, of

Russell Bellinger 33. of 1421 |B hee Bi, 1 of ] nd “Tucker, 323

‘Have to Convince

jfor ' only three months and on

Bang flac), 3 a, ¢ o 00 ture in , Atlanta a El * 5 ston |... «

completed by Oct. 1.

Jersey st.; Harold E. Schenk, 606 Somerset .ave.; Walter J. Carter, 1530 E. 12th st. Charles O. McDaniel, Rushville; Maurice B. Durham and Russell H. Coulter, Richmond; Bayard R. Quick, Brookville; Robert S. Mosler, Bedford; Harold D. Whitmore, Frankfort; William Lambert, Connersville, and Bob Flynn, Hymera.

Enlistments announced yesterday at the army recruiting office here

st.; William H. Herman, 1414 Ewing st.; William J. Blakenship, 1451 Central ave.; Calvin E. Eastwood, 3460 Garden ave.

COUNTY BEHIND IN

Somebody fell down on the job of buying bonds in Marion county during August, .and for -the first time we didn’t meet our quota. .

ties in the state who made up our

quota of $19,000,000. This is the way James F. Frenzel,

sums it up:

county, put forth every effort to meet the August quota. But there are some who, after nine months of war, still don’t realize that mini-

income every month in war bonds

ers in industry. “When the middle income group, consisting of professional men, business people and salesmen know that their 10 per cent is needed and invest it along with everyone else, Marion county's quotas will be met without ‘difficulty every month.” Marion county’s August goal was $4,337,000, the same quota the county oversubscribed by nearly a half million dollars in July. But the August sales ‘totaled $4,157,572.74, under the quota by. $179,427.26.

MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE FOR LEPERS

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (U. P).— The world’s largest lepar colony, on the island of Culion, 200 miles south of Manila, is receiving large

and food, the Leonard Wood memorial reported today. The American Red Cross advised the memorial, founded to aid lepers, that it had received from the International Red Cross committee at ‘Geneva a cable “advising that Culion is receiving large consignments of medical supplies, food and other necessities,” despite the Pacific war. Previously Dr. H. W. Wade, medical director at Culion, had reported on Jan. 11 that the colony had food

March 27 a radiogram reported that stroyed.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

tation 24 hrs. din Jia m. precibitation sin Excess since Jan.

The following table shows the tempera~ . other ties: ST ’

astseessssnsssssacs cussessssseses 88

Ft. Wayne Kansas CI fe Mo, <estesseennns +159

sedssasessesagef §

Robert B. Dressen, captain of the Butler university cross-country team and two-mile run conference champion, has set the pace for the third “Indianapolis Own” naval aviation cadet unit. The unit will be

The 14 recruits yesterday also included: James E. Tolle, 1422 Grant ave.; Robert D. Hohn, 2225 Broadway; Gerald R. Metzger, 5423 N. : New

were: James B. Henry, 322 E. 31st |1

AUGUST BOND SALES x:

But with the help of other coun- yi

deficit, Indiana once more met its|Nc:

county war savings administrator, |§;

“Volunteer workers in Marion 1% €

mum investment of 10 per cent of B00

applies to them as well as to work-|

consignments of medical supplies|

two boats of supplies had been de-|

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3 Boards Induct

Inducted in the army here were: : 13—Ernest S. Mitchell, 1042 8.

BOARD Capitol st. BOAR! 3—OhEne Peabody, 263 Parkview pL; Raph = Bettric, 145 Detroit st.; . Michigan Shs Datiias Hatten, 250 Ss. ate “st. James "Blackwell, 537 8. Keystone ‘ave.; Robe EB Huebner, 1432 College ave.; Vincent J. Hart, 2602 E. Wash ngton st.; Mack M. Hopper, 411 Dorman st.; Earl R. Warrenburg, 224 Trowbridge st.; Bernard J. Taylor, 1326 Carrollton ave.: "Theodore M. dice State st.; i Jomer Pr ig

N. Keystone ave.; Cecil A. Herrick, 931 a St. Clair st.; Chester L. Nuckols, 2325 E. Michigan st.; James F. Buhr, 961 West drive, Woodruff plL BOARD 10—Orvil V. Skiles, 2323 Beecher st.; Edward D. MacKinnon, 1156 Dawson st. Horace Pagaron, 3162 E. grigne. sota st.: Giles A. payze,. 108 Keystone ave.; : Raymond B. Car! 916 Hervey st.; Francis H Hinderliter, 1233 Hoyt ave.; Carl G. Fackler, 2721 Napoleon st.; Jack S. Miller, 1417 "olive st.; Orville R. Harpod, 1131 Hoyt st.; Robert. F. Stahlhut, E. Raymond st. Charles L. 1 Shelby i G. den” st. Manker st.; El e, Shi vel on H. Burst 1010 S. Webber, 5599 N. on R. Wade, 2520 Union st.; ‘Roehm, JoI5 Shuichman ave.; Herbert Ee. 1915 .E. Minnesota st.; Cs rd, 1028 St. Peter st.3 Carl W. Calvert, 2132 W 3 y Hicks, 1204 hs ave.; Fred Johnson, 1863 : Harold L. Broadstreet, 1730

Russell W. Richardson, 1 23 S. Nob

hurchman ave.; Farl dwe 2531 Prospect st.; Kenneth E. Clafk, 638 Bees SL TO pot Bridge st.; Harold R. Clark, jatl App ate st.; Norman L. Merrifield, To. Madera 20 Vandeman st.; Tiss 2 Randolph st. . 0. 8 » 2 Two Indianapolis attorneys have been assigned to the army air forces training school at Chanute field, Illinois. They are: First Lieut. Isadore Newman, 3219 Sutherland ave., and Capt. Joseph O. Carson, II, 3660 Watson rd.

E.|ing your attic, basement; garage and

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on Guadalcanal island and 450

{miles northeast of Milne bay at the

southeast ‘tip of New Guinea. Results Are Uncertain

known results. It was believed that.the attack

of indications that, thrown out: of the southern part of the islands by the marines, the Japanese were strengthening their air bases on Buka and ‘on big Bougainville island, immediately to the south.

ishing attack on the enemy aire

the north shore of New Gunes, 550 miles west of Baku, and %gsin’

area. ; Lull Around Kokoda They met no interception from Japanese fighters which have been

strangely inactive for days. There was a lull in ground fight

rtling in the Kokoda area, on the

north side of the Owen Stanley mountains 55 miles from Por Moresby, the allied base on the south of New Guinea coast, but ale .|lied planes made four separate ate

tinued their rounding up of isos lated enemy detachments which had fled into the jungle.

E5715 TONS SOUGHT IN STATE ‘SCRAP DRIVE

Remember when you were searche

yard for rubber? Start searching again today—and

PI wai: |add scrap metal to the list.

For Indiana needs 715 tons of

Williams |Scrap metal and rubber by De-

cember. In Marion county, more than 700

\ filling stations, automobile dealers, IL [rubber companies and farm imple

ment dealers became the official -|salvage depots, W. H. Trimble, -|chairman of the collection commite tee, announced. If your individual collection is small, take it to the nearest salvage depot. They'll take care of it. If your accumulation is too large to be taken to the salvage depot, call MA. 3321 and it will be picked

organized to assist in ‘the campaign, Plans for participation of school

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children are being made.

"STRAUSS

LOO The bony :

Netura chual Shade! " : Toot re es c which ‘indicates a order of lailoting, Sizes 12 to 2.

northern end of the Solomons, 480

The planes rained bombs in: the airdrome runway and installations ¥& and in addition attacked an enemy destroyer in the harbor with ule

Allied medium bombers, in addie tion to the Baku raid, made a puns |

up. Boy scout troops are berg’

in a night attack put five tons of

marked the opening of an offensive | against enemy bases at the northe ern end of the Solomons hecause

drome and installations at Lae, on a

put all their bombs in -the target 3

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