Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1942 — Page 1

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THURS AY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942

Recommend 35-M. P H Speed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P.).—President Roose-

5-Point Rubber Program © Attention motorists! Here are the five points of President Roosevelt's rubber committee report directly affecting civilian driving! .

mileage.

annual average mileage of 5000 miles compared with the present average mileage per car of 6700 miles. 3. A national speed limit of 35 miles an hour for all passenger cars and trucks. : 4. Compulsory periodic tire: inspections, : 5. “That more rubber than is now given” fo the public be released to fully maintain, by recapping or

1. Nation-wide restrictions, ‘on gasoline. and i

2. A new gasoline ‘rationing system based on an |

velb's rubber investigating committee,’ ‘headed by Bernard M. Baruch, today recommended national gasoline rationing

as a means of conserving rubber. gr The committee also recommended “a complete re-

_ ‘organization and consolidation of the government agencies

“concerned with the rubber program.” : ; The report, prepared at the request of Mr, Roosevelt, : was sharply critical of government handling of the nation’s rubber supply, saying that “consistency, ‘co-operation between governmental agencies and ‘adequate management have been lacking.” ‘The president mediately transmitted the ‘report to ‘congress and said that “recommendations made by the special’ committee will be put into effect as rapidly as - arrangements can. be made.” :

new tires, necessary civilian driving.

FOR MAY PUT LINIT ON WAR

PAY INCREASES

Qutlawing of All Raises Exceeding ‘Little Steel’ Formula Seen. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. PB).

—Members of the house banking} committee were informed that

+ President Roosevelt may ol

war industries all wage and: increases that exceed * ;

cut statement of the administration’s wage control. plans before agreeing to allow ceilings on farm products below 110 per cent of parity. s

Banking committeemen have been |

told, however, that Mr. Roosevelt

tary or under pressure—beyond 15 per cent more than the job paid on Jan. 1, 1941,

Exempts Non-War Plants | Unless - there is a subsequent change, the president’s far-reaching| wage edict will not apply to wages and salaries in industries not working on government war SoRteacts Thus, a department store clerk, street car conductor or a worker - a plant making civilian products would not be subject to wage “freezing,” the banking committee were told. An order outlawing raises in war industries beyond the cost-of-living increase since January, 1941, would impose the first wage ceiling in American history. It would be enforced by the government's power to withhold funds from war contractors or sub-contractors to pay the outlawed wage increases. The administration’s program is based on the premise that the great increase’ in purchasing. power—the increase which is threatening disastrous war inflation—lies with the ~ workers in industries which are the direct recipients of war spending expected to reach $100,000,000,000 annually, : ; Wage OrdersSeen Soon Congressional leaders who conferred with Chairman Henry B. Steagall (D. Ala) and other mem‘bers of the banking committee after a White House conference yesterday were reported to have stated that Mr. Roosevelt plans to issue a wage order as soon as congress acts on his request for revision of. the farm price standards from an average of 116 per cent of parity to 100 per cent of parity. If congress fails to act, the hanking ‘committeemen believed, the president plans to couple his wage order with a companion order banning further Increases in farm prices.

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Charles Giimsley. defies death perched on the olty’s loftiest bulldings soe yet he thinks women

“It is an excellent report,” the president said.

“The

~ government. owes a debt of gratitude to the committee

‘Window Washers Defy Death Daily

are “too careless” with their window washing,

MILK SCARCITY HERE UNLIKELY

Producers in Area Able to Fill Needs at Atterbury, Officials Say.

Milk producers and distributors in this area are assuming an ‘increasingly - important role :in supplying Camp Atterbury, but they are confident that there will be no shortage or rationing in Indianapolis this winter. 2 Carl Hedges, manager of the Indianapolis Dairymen’s Co-operative, said that 15 per cent of the present

milk supply goes for cottage cheese,

chocolate milk and buttermilk. -Before any shortage of bottled milk would be permitted to. develop, these products would be cut down or_ eliminated, he" ‘explained. - According to estimates available, Camp Atterbury may take 9000 quarts of milk a day from this area. The distributors believe they can meet’ this demand. A shortage might have developed a couple of weeks ago if Camp Atterbury had been in its peak then. August, it was explained, always has been the worst month for milk supply because of the pasture situation.

bring increased volume of milk production,

‘One producer said the most seri-

‘But -the fall and winter|:

By ARTHUR WRIGHT - Take it from the man who ‘“cat«

walks” on the ledge of Indianapolis office buildings-—a dozen floors up: Housewives are too careless with their window washing . . . when they get their feet off the floor. Charles Grimsley, 730. S. Mount st, can talk with authority on the hazards of window washing. He's made it a profession at high alti-

pedestrians, and even “tied up” traffic a time or two, as he perched himself on the outside of the city's tallest buildings. He has even fallen “a couple of times.” But he holds no fear of his vocation. Mistakes Costly “When you fall it’s because you made a mistake,” he counseled. “And you can’t make many of them in this business.” His first “mistake” back in 1992

‘when he had ‘been in the business

four years—taught Mr. Grimsley to test his ladders the few times they are used. He was up 20 fect. when the" ladder broite. For his failure to heed the safety rules, the 25-year-old beginner was “grounded” several ‘weeks, : | Mr, Grimsley also is certain to fasten his safety belt. no matter how low he.might be working, ever since that day he fell from the state office building, Ogura and Meridian sts. “I didn’t think I needed my belt because I was on the first floor. My|¢ foot slipped on ‘the wet sill and

Awe Pedestrians as s They '‘Catwalk’ on Those Ledges

tudes, For 22 year§ he has awed|.

down I went. on. my. back. - I was|

Mr. Grimsley admits Lady Luck has been holding him onto the lofty floors—so far. For he remembers the day “a fellow by the name of Saltino” fell to his death from the 10th floor of the building now housing the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. on the Circle. He admits he shudders at the thought of the day a window washer was, injured and another killed in falls from the statehouse. What happens under the strain of such. experiences? “You. go. back up, even higher than you were before, so you don't lose your nerve,” Mr. Grimsley said. Those “close shaves” have created only one superstition in the window washer's mind: “Go: home if you get 8 rough start.” A “rough start,” he said, was| anything -that might indicate “you won't get through the day in _one piece.” An interesting business, this win. dow washing. “But we can'{ talk about the things we: see!” ‘

2 DIE AS TORPEDO

SINKS MERCHANTMAN :

A GULF COAST PORT, ‘Sept. 10 (U. P) ~The. ‘engineer and oiler of & medium-sized British ‘merchant- : man died at their posts when a torpedo from an axis submarine

SLASH SURTAX RATE ON LOWER

Senate Group Boosts Levy

~The senate finance committee to= day changed house-approved surtax|. rates in the new revenue bill to lighten ‘the burden on lowest-|

000, 000 in revenue.

‘|gle persons earning up to $2000 a year the new surtax rates—which start at 10 per cent instead of 13 per cent on the first dollar of taxa- |. | ble income-~will mean lower surtaxes than under the house bill.

.|about $2500 would benefit from the new senate rates, and married persons with two dependents would benefit up to about the $3000-a-year income level.

would - pay greater surtaxes than under house rates.

treasury general counsel, Randolph Paul. committee completed action on inividus) income tax rates in the tax

of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said at a press conference that “forced savings” will be necessary to ‘supplement; voluntary purchases of war bonds. yesterday adopted a resolution calling a joint committee study of the problem with Mr. Morgenthau and submission of a report by Jan. 11. The treasury heretofore has been opposed to forced savings and relied on a voluntary bond purchase program.

ing law are $1500 for married couples, $750 for single persons, and!

Draft Board No. 7—

MUST BUILD A NEW POOL OF SINGLE 1-A'S

Men - With Collateral De-

Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

members for the time, labor and efficient handling of this most important work.” The committee recommended. a substantial increase

in the annual synthetic rubber production capacity, but said that there should be “no further substitutions” in the plans for synthetic processes already laid down.

Fa ie IT ALSO recommended that Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board appoint a national rubber administrator who would have “full responsibility and authority for all aspects of the rubber program.” Directly affecting civilian motorists, the committee recommended a national speed limit of 85 miles an hour for all passenger cars and trucks, a new gasoline rationing system based on an annual average mileage of 5000 miles compared with the present average mileage per car of 6700 miles, nation-wide restrictions on gasoline and mileage, compulsory periodic tire inspection, and “that more rubber than is now given” to the public be released to fully maintain, by recapping or new tires, necessary

On Other; Morgenthau Sees Forced Savings. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P,).

Hold Stalingrad Line; [Poviets Raia Berlin * And Budapest.

By HARRISON SALISBURY % United Press Staff ‘Correspondent

an forces—aided by the first Treasury experts said that for sin- [fore Stalingrad today and Russian planes again swept over Nazi Europe

to attack Budapest, Berlin and points. in eastern Hungary and Germany, Moscow dispatches reporfed the rain set in as the Nazis started another massive attack against the western and southwestern approaches to the key Volga river tank and communications center. Whether the rains had come in time and were heavy enough to influence the oufcome of the battle was not yet known. The Nazi high command reported that its forces had driven deeper into the fortifications system defending Stalingrad and the Russians admitted thta . two populated points—small towns or villages—had been yielded west of the city.

Secret Russ Bombers Hinted

"It was obvious, however, that the weeks of good fighting weather on the Russian front are rapidly vanishing and that the weather will come increasingly into play as a factor aiding the Russian defense by turning the hundreds of miles of German supply routes leading up to the front into a quagmire. The Russian situation at Stalingrad also seemed to be improved by the fact that the Red air force, apparently reinforced there, was once more able to interfere with German dive-bombing attacks. The Berlin radio announced that “some Soviet bombers” had attacked the Berlin metropolitan area but had dropped no bombs “on the inner town.” : The damage at Budapest was greater, although Hungary claimed only “residential sections” . were

Married persons earning up to

Propose Surtax Boost -

Taxpayers above these levels

The changes were proposed by the In adopting them, the senate

The committee acted as Secretary

The senate group

Income tax exemptions of exist-

for each dependent. Above (Continued on Page Five)

From Behind the Urals

Both: Budapest and Berlin are 1000 (niles from the nearest Russian air b:ses and it was believed that the "Russians were using a secret] new four-motored bomber fiow in (full production at factories somewhere behind the Ural mountains. The British also tested out a new plane—the Westland Whirlwind

pendents Face Call. This is another of a seties of

* Stare ws aa Busaid-Class Matter at Postoftics,

PRICE THREE CENTS

civilian driving.

The bluntly-phrased and voluminous

document was prepared by Chairman Baruch and members James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, and Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

THE COMMITTEE suggested that a voluntary ti

conservation program be put into effect until gasoline

rationing can be established throughout the country. v “The limitation in the use of gasoline is not due to any shortage of that commodity,” the committee said, “It is wholly a measure of rubber saving. That is why the restriction is to be nation-wide. Any localized measure would be unfair and futile.” ~ The committee proposed a seven-point synthitie

rubber program: 1. “That there be no further substitutions in th

of: ‘the. ‘autumn rains—stiffened be-1"

a direct road to Port Moreshy.

tell what the manpower situation |. ‘and prospects are in each board. ; ‘By EABL RICHERT : Within the next 30 to 60 days,

draft board 7 will begin calling

two-motored fighter bomber, armed

with four cannon and capable of

more than 400 miles an hour. In

its debut yesterday it sank two Ger-|

man armed trawlers off the French

: plans now laid down.”

. “The immediate authorization of an additional _ (Continued on Page Five)

On the War Fronts

(Sept. 10, 1042) WESTERN EUROPE: Crisis grows in Vichy as British make new attacks on Madagascar and Hitler is reported demanding French fleet. 3

RUSSIA: Moscow concedes. new withdrawals on-'Stalingr: front, as first autumn rains fall. storm’ into Nov hig repulsed. Soviet : bers Berlin and. Budapest.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: outflank * vance within 44 miles of allied base at Port Moresby. -

CAIRO: British patrols harass} Rommel’s still retreating army.

JAPS STILL GAIN IN NEW GUINEA Enemy Now 44 Miles From Port Moresby, After Flanking Aussies. GEN. MacARTHUR'S. HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 10 (U.,

P.).—Japanese forces in their biggest land operation of the war in

raid|

Japan

miles from Port Moresby, the allied advance base on the south coast, and are still advancing after flanking defending Australians at two points, it was announced today. At the moment the enemy troops, using their favorite infiltration and envelopment tactics, are driving southward through: the remainder of the Owen Stanley mountains after crossing the highest pass. Immediately before them—if they have not already reached it on the mountain trail—is the terminus of

Gen. Rowell Outfianked : Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in a communique that the ‘enemy was still making progress in a drive which appeared now to have} committed them to a frontal attack

which is only 375. miles trom the

are;

. Australians twice, ad=]

New Guinea are only 44 airline}:

.S. BACKS NEW BRITISH

Another Nazi Deman For French Flee Is Reported.

By UNITED PRESS Vichy drew desperately ‘near 8 showdown today in its tangled tions with the United States, C Britain and Germany. ‘The British, with the announ approval of the United States,

{ince rene and in he. oan

‘ocean. 8 The British Press association 1 ported a new. German demand the French fleet—this time in personal message from Adolf to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. A London ‘report of ungerf: origin claimed that the Unit States had reached an agreemet with French naval Authorities 1 ‘Martinique ‘to prevent further of that West Indian island as a k for spies or submarines. Such an agreement, it possible, might further upset Amer jcan relations with the Laval go ernment. © A dispatch from Mad! reported that the Germans pressuring JFrench Chief of Sta Pierre Laval to sever diplomatic r lations with the United States b Ge cause of the increasing attacks bj American flying fortresses on mi tary objectives in the Nazi-held tions of France. Pledge Return After War The British occupied Diego Sua the French naval base in Mad car last May, but left the nain of the island—which is about same size as Texas—in p hands, The American state dep ment today announced that E had found it “absolutely nece to ‘make further attacks on island to prevent axis penetra The United States repeated

| foint pledge of last spring

Madagascar will be France after the war. :

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