Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1942 — Page 1
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STATE'S MERIT BY SCHRICKER
‘To Improve Act and Not Destroy It.
Governor Schricker today called off the public hearing scheduled for tomorrow night on the merit system controversy and indorsed the merit system in principle in a lengthy statement issued to the press. : He explained that he felt the statements and charges made by Rowland Allen, Democratic member of the personnel board, in his open letter to the governor had been “cleared up” at the joint meeting of the personnel board and budget committee last week and that nothing could be added by the public hearing. “I have long been in sympathy with the need of an honest merit system in our state institutions,” the governor said, and added that he would “frown upon any move to destroy it before we had an opportunity to prove its worth under normal conditions.” Favors Improvement “I ,am determined,” he said, “to improve our present law and not to destroy it.”
The governor said that the per-{.
gonnel division had been hampered in its efforts by the action of the Republican-controlled = 41 legislaure in setting, up the ‘merit system without providing “sufficient
employees.” The - governor's “statements was
letter from Mr. Allen. This letter called attention to the “great progress” made during the week in clearing up many of the points of conflict between the personnel board and the budget committee. Mr. Allen attacked efforts to make the issue ‘a political one and also attacked “persons who have tried to read an inference of corruption into my open letter. Any
individual who insists I did. simply]. ‘cannot read plain English.”
Plot Charge Stirred Fight The fight over ‘the merit law flared last week when Mr. Allen sent an open letter to the governor charging that a political plot to destroy the merit law existed and charging non-co-operation on the part of the budget director. The governor immediately called public hearing but continual conerences have been held during the week by all interested officials, climaxed by the governor's statement today. After the governor issued his statement, Mr. Allen commented: “I am very happy and proud as I read the governor's unequivocal and forthright indorsement of this state’s merit system law. The personnel board will take renewed courage in serving a governor with such vision.” The governor's statement follows: “After a two-day conference (Continued on Page Eight)
U. S. PILOTS HELP RAID FRENCH COAST
LO N, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—A big force of allied fighter planes including United States army pilots flying British spitfires darted across the Dover strait today to continue a daylight offensive against enemy occupied territory in which Ameri-
Watchers on the coast saw
occupied France and miles above them were other plane forces crossing to the attack, - Bursts of gun fire were soon beard inland fgom the 20-mile BoulogneCalais stretch of the coast’ nearest England.
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Young Voices Thrill Him
“Hello, Mr. Easton!” That childish greeting sang on the ears of the veleran Susiodian of school 52 for the i year wollay,
Greets Pupils for 42d Time As Custodian of School 52
By ARTHUR WRIGHT ‘ Liem BEGAN anew today for WV. 31. Eston.
“His children” came back™ 0:3
army of 58,000 pupils who answered "rooms in every section of Indianapolis. It was the 42d year this veteran building custodian felt his temples pound and his voice quiver under the thrill of young voices
again resounding through the halls of the school at King ave and Walnut st. “H'ya, Mr. Easton!—I'm in No. 4 this year!—Look, Mary’s startin’ in with me!—See my ‘war stamp book—almost fulll—Dad’s maybe gonna be a soldier. ... !” » More War Conscious
UNIMPORTANT morsels of comment to the average listener, perhaps. But to Mr. Easton they're the life blood of the af-
fection that has keep him at |
school 52 Jonger than any other public school custodian in the city. ‘Dad’s maybe gonna be a 801 dier . . .!1” It was a different attitude in the schoels today than in the first world war. “The children are extremely conscious of this war,” Mr. Easton said, and with a note of pride added: “Even during their vacations this summer they gathered scrap for the government.”
Recalls Armistice
HE REMEMBERED the armistice of world war I as vividly as of it were yesterday, although that was 24 years ago and Mr. Easton is now 68. “The children didn’t hardly know there was a war until it was over . . , but on the day of the armistice, . we all left the building and paraded over the streets.” Then he added, wistfully: “Maybe something will happen —just dike it did in the last war —and the kiddies can have an-
‘other armistice parade.
He longs to return to the peaceful work-a-day . atmosphere of pre-war years.
A.” a, The Good Old Days
DAYS THAT were disrupted only by the good-neighbor problems. The term he helped that little girl ‘across icy streets. as she hobbled to school on crutches —and the days he administered first aid to minor hurts received en route to and from the building. This close association with childish problems has formulated Mr. Easton’s creed: * “You either learn to like chilen, or you become ‘an old Mr. Easton ' says He's “glad” another school year is in full swing! .
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58,000 Pupils Back in School
School opened today for 58,000 public school pupils who will report for classes at 8:45 a. m. throughout the year in order to relieve congestion in the city’s transportation system. Grade and high school ‘upperclassmen registered this - morning, High school freshmen were to report this afternoon.
OPEN NIGHT SCHOOL FOR WAR WORKERS
Classes to o Release Pupils For Daytime Jobs.
A night high school will be established here Sept. 21 to permit release of students for day work in local war industry. DeWitt 8. Morgan, superintendent, said he would recommend to the school board tonight that the extension school was necessary to meet the “acute employment shortage.” The night classes will be held at Manual ' Training and at Crispus Attucks high schools from 5 p. m. until 10 p. m., Monday through Friday. Registration will begin at the two schools next Monday night and will be open each day through Friday from 5 p. m. to 10 p. m, Students of high school age must have certificates from. their employers to permit enrollment in the night classes. There will be no charge, Mr. Morgan said. : Employed students will be 'restricted to a maximum of three subJects “because, of limitations in study work outside of school,” Mr Morgan said. Four subjects are permitted for full-time day students.
pupils
The night classes will provide for|
adult study, also without charge. Additional teachers probably will be employed for some of the night teaching,” Mr. Morgan predicted.
LARGER TANK CARS FOR EAST ORDERED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. PB).
) FOR SENATE STUDY
| George Asks Extra 5%
Levy on All Income Above $624 Annually.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U, P.) — The senate finance committee today unanimously rejected the treasury’s $6,500,000,000 spendings tax program, defeated a “stamp assessment” plan for postwar credits, and “began consideration of a $3,650,000,000 “victory
| tax” that would impose a new 5 per
cent levy 8n incomes. The “victory tax” proposal was offered by Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.) as a substitute for a 5 per cent sales tax sponsored by Senator Joseph F. Guffey (D. Pa.). Senator George said that if his “victory tax” is adopted—a vote may come this afternoon—the sales tax would be “out.”
$624 Yearly Exempted
The “victory tax” would be imposed on all income in excess of $62¢ a year—equivalent to $52 a month or $12 a week—received by individuals from salaries, wages, dividends, interest, rents and royalties, annuities, net profits from businesses or professions, and from partnerships. Except in the case of members of the armed forces, domestic servants and agricultural: labor, the new tax would be withheld at the source and would be levied in addi-
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ving { {part of the tax after the v war. Credits Are Listed These post-war credits would be allowed against the new tax: 1. In the case of single persons, 25 per cent of the victory tax or $500, which ever is smaller. 2. In the case of married persons, 40 per cent of the victory tax or $1000, which ever is smaller. 3. For each dependent, two per cent of the victory tax or $100, whichever is smaller. The taxpayer, however, would be permitted to absorb the post-war refund to pay life ' insurance premiums or to purchase bonds.
Payable Jan. 15
Such expenditures, up to the amount of the postswar credit, would be allowed as a credit in computation of the tax. The plan also provides that tax retums would be filed on Jan. 15 instead of March 15. Senator George said he offered the plan with the intention of applying it as of Jan. 1, 1943, but that the committee could make it retroactive for 1942—except for the “checkoff” collection feature—if it desired. He said that if it were adopted he would seek to eliminate the withholding or “checkoff” feature now in the bill, under which individual income taxpayers “would pay in advance on regular 1943 income taxes.
ENVOY TO U. S. NAMED
CHUNGKING, Sept. 8 (U. P.)—
ed Dr. Wei Tao Ming, prominent Chinese jurist and diplomat, as ambassador to the United States, succeeding Dr; Hu Shih. Dr. Wei was removed: as: ambas-~ sador to Vichy to receive: the new appointment. He formerly was: sine of justice and secretary to.the general executive Yuan, which virtually con-
Guerrero ann need last night be)
. |transport communication between the mainland and the islands.
The executive Yuan today appoint-|-
On the Warp Fronts
(Sept. 8, 1942)
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC - Japanese break through Owen Stanley ‘mountain pass at Kokoda to within 50 miles of Port Moresby. American marines strengthen offensive bases in Solomons.
WESTERN EUROPE — Churchill and Koosevelt warn full-scale offensive will strike at Germany. Daylight air offensive against Nazi bases continues.
RUSSIA—Nazis unable to gain in 96 hours at Salingrad and lose 3000 men in new drive from west, ‘Russian planes bomb Breslau.
EGYPT—CGermans completing withdrawal in western desert under strong rear guard; allies bomb Mediterranean shipping.
EASTERN PACIFIC—United States forces occupy Ecuador’s Galapagos islanfis, protecting Panama canal.
U.S. GETS BASE OFF ECUADOR
Galapagos Islands Occupied With Consent of ‘Good Neighbor.’
QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 8 (U. P.).
—United States forces have occu-|.
pied the Galapagos islands and Santa Elena: on the Ecuador coast to bolster hemisphere defense and establish a oti Dastion /
fore a plenary secret ‘sessions of congress. The American forces established an advance base, with Ecuador's approval, in the vitally important Ecuadorean islands 600 miles off the coast and 1010 miles southwest of the Pacific entrance to Panama. At the same time 2 were-con-ceded by Ecuador, in the interest of Pan-American defense, a base at Santa Elena the westernmost point on the Ecuadorean coast at the northwest corner of the South American continent.
Affords Easy Access This will permit easy plane and
During the cne-hour secret session, Col. Guerrero made his formal announcement that by arrangement with him and President Arroyo del Rio, the United: States forces had occupied the islands and Santa Elena. Thus the United States now had off. the Pacific coast a base of potentially great strength which corresponds exactly to those Great Britain, the Netherlands West Indies and other governments granted it ‘off the Atlantic side of the Panama canal. The Galapagos were so named for the Spanish, Galapago, or Tortoise, because of the great turtles for whiéh they are noted.
[UNITED PRESS MAN “WOUNDED IN PACIFIC
HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET, Sept. 5 (U. P).— (Delayed) — Joe James Custer, United Press war correspondent, was wounded while covering the battle of Solomon islands from the deck of a ‘United. States warship, it was announced today. JA’ shell: fragment lodged behind his left éye, which may be blinded. He was sent to a hospital somewhere
stituted the Chinese cabinet.
in the southwest Pacific.
Draft Board No. 5—
This is the fifth of a series of articles on Marion county's 15 draft boards. These articles will
By FARL RICHERT : Draft Board 5, one of the largest
in the city, has enough single men left to meet its calls for the next 60
These men are in the 20-year-old
|Has Enough Single Men Left To Last for Next 60 Days)’
tell what the manpower situation |
mother who has no other person to
PORT MORESBY
IN DANGER, FOE 50 MILES AWAY,
Jap Tactios of Malaya, Are|
Effective Again; Allied : Base Strong.
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. § (U. P.).—Japanese forces have broken through the Owen Stanley mountain pass in New Guinea, and are advancing down ‘the southern slopes foward Port Moresby, thee great allied advance base on the south coast, less than 50 miles away, united nations official quarters reported today.
narrow mountain gap have been enveloped and are falling back on
in which it was believed, the larges Japanese forces so far engaged in New Guinea are operating.
to Port Morssby, which is 375 miles from Cape York at the northeast
| tip of the Australian continent, was
combined with the first enemy air attack on Port Moresby since Aug. 17 and the shelling of Australian troops in the Milne bay area at the southeast end of New Guinea who had driven Japanese landing parties into the Jungle,
Fighting To Be Intensified It was indicated that the bitter-
seen in New Guinea was in pros-
“The enemy tind moved’ 8b 3] inland from their base at Buna and the Gona mission on the north New Guinea coast, occupied July 21, to the Kokoda area just on the other side of the mountains from Port Moresby. Despite criticism by Australian
Jpoiiticians, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
had regarded the north: coastal area as not defensible.
Japs Reinforced
improvised flying field, the Japanese met strong Australian combat patrols. trained in jungle fighting. Skirmishes had gone on for weeks there, but despite the effective support of allied planes, which have bombed and machinegunned the Japanese at low level almost every day, the enemy had maintained their grip. In recent days, it was indicated, they had been reinforced and it was apparent that they had now essayed an advance in force, which had cost them about 10000 men killed or wounded, but had put them through the mountain gap. No Head-On Clash Yet So far the enemy had succeeded in advancing by use of the jungle tactics they first demonstrated in Malaya, seeking to sneak past the small advanced Australian patrols and to envelop them without risking a frontal fight even agamst inferior numbers. Naturally Australians were anxfous ‘over the new situation. But Gen.. MacArthur has outsmarted the Japanese more than once, and his recent references to Port Moresby as a citadel defending Australia indicated his confidence in the Strength of his forces there.
3 LOCAL WORKERS WIN WPB CITATIONS
Woman Among Trio Honored for Time Savers.
The national spotlight of achievement in war production today singled out an Indianapolis woman and two men in local industry. The war production board at Washington awarded certificates of individual production merit, second aighes recognition of outstanding by war industries workers, Bonnie Lee Smith Lewis,
D- 21-year-old employee of R. C. A,
Allied advance troops holding the: the main defense lines under the
weight of a persistent enemy attack]:
¢+ The most serious -threat to date ;
est and most important fighting yet|
indicating early opening of a .sec-
At Kokoda, which has a small}
Drafted Policy
Gen. George C. Marshall
TIME FOR BLOW STILL SECRET
White
Harry Hopkins 8
House Statement
(Text of Fireside Chat, Page 3)
“By LYLE C. F. C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—The White House today revealed a secret conference among British and American military and political figures in London under circumstances
ond front against Germany. “Certain vital military decisions have been made,” the president told the public last night in a fireside chat about 10 hours before announcement of the London conference. “In due time you will know what these decisions are—and so will our enemies. I can say now that all of these decisions are directed toward taking the offensive.” .
ig Early Sees Bracken
Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of naval operations, and Henry L. Hopkins, representing Mr. Roosevelt, conferred in July in London with British chiefs of staff and with. Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Stephen E. Early, Mr, Roosevelt's secretary, was a member of the party but only to meet
ister of public information. Second front speculation bloomed early because of ‘this sentence’ in the announcement: “At these conferences the whole conduct ‘of the war was thoroughly | f canvassed, and, with the approval of the president, the necessary deci~ sions regarding military operations were made.” The American conferees returned
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Japs Break Through New Guinea Mountain Pass VICTORY TAX
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CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT IN
|Russia Not Satisfied With
U. S.-British Aid but Outlook Is Better.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
. The menace of two-front war confronted Hitler today, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill made plain in parallel statements that the land attack
|on Europe is coming—possi=
bly sooner than had been gen~ ) erally anticipated. A dispatch by Lyle C. Wilson, chief of the United Press Washinge ton bureau, hinted strongly that the
front may be opened this year re= gardless of the higher cost in casual=
| |ties which such action would entail.
Churchill offered no clue to the: crucial second front question of when, where, and how. He said he would let Hitler worry about that. But he emphasized that the means for victory lay in the hands of America and Britain if they throw: the full force of their united strength into the conflict. ;
Sees Progress in War
The parallel British and American statements revealed that a full plan, covering not gly European
| operations .but. the
‘fearly as July in an epic
joint conferences. : The product of those decisions; Churchill indicated, already has been felt in a generally more favors. able turn of the war, improvement in the battle of the seas and ape parently growing indications tha major British ' success has been scored in the desert battle Marshal Erwin Rommel. The tone of the prime minister's references to ' his conferences Moscow left the impression, ever, that the Russians obtained more of second-front assurance than that Great Britain and the United States would act as soon as they could make a definite contri: bution to victory.
Russians Dissatisfied
op can say frankly,” Churchill declared, “that the Russians do not think that we or the Ameri have done enough to take weight off them. Their feeling if not surprising in view of the
Churchill made clear his belief that offensive actions to come will
fought through the summer a that her armies still were in the field resisting fiercely at Stalingr and along the mountain ranges the Caucasus. ;
First in 10 Weeks
It was Mr. Churchill’s first of the war situation in 10 w and contrasted with most of
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MOSCOW, - Sept. 8. (U. P) ~The Russians have checked a frontal
river line, killing 3000 Germans, Despite the wildest efforts, the
t0:| Germans have not budged south-|
drive on Stalingrad and the Volga i
(Continued on
Nazis Stalled for 96 Hours In Attacks on Stalingre