Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1942 — Page 1
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* SELECTION OF RUBBER CHIEF DUE. MONDAY
Hopes to Put Bulk of Baruch Plan in Effect Then, FDR Says. ; (Another Story, Page 24)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U.. P.). President Roosevelt said today he hoped to put into effect virtually all of . the Baruch rubber committee's « recommendations by Monday, at which time a rubber administrator to serve under War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson will be ap~pointed. Mr. Roosevelt said that while he hoped to put most of the committee recommendations into effect by Monday, it would take time to set up the machinery for nation-wide rationing of ‘gasoline. Mr. Roosevelt said he does not like the term *‘national gas rationing” because it is inaccurate. He said the recommendation of the Baruch committee was for mileage rationing and that the restrictions of gasoline sales would be only one of many methods for restriction mileage. The president opened his press conference by saying that he expected to: announce the name of a rubber administrator on Monday and cautioned reporters ° against speculation over the name of the administrator.
Local Boards in Charge
Does that mean you will appoint the administrator?” a reporter -agked, referring to the committee recommendation that the } trator be appointed by. Mr."
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 158
Buggy
Insects Swarm Trees And Get Their Fill Of Chlorophyll.
MANBRACIDAE, or something
like that, is what the common
bug observer calls “leaf hoppers.” These insects travel about in hordes and upon order apparently from squadron commanders, Swoop down on trees and suck out the
chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is what makes a green leaf green. Keep this in mind, for it's necessary to understand fully what went on in the Indianapolis bug world last night. $8 = =
Not Too Particular
. THOUSANDS OF these leaf hoppers hopped about in the, city, ‘gaily sucking their fill of chlorophyll, some even trying to get the stuff out of plate glass windows downtown. Unsuccessfully, however, Frank Wallace, state entomologist whom newspapers immediately call in situations like this, said he was rather sure that these bugs were leaf hoppers, all right, although he stayed at home last night and didn’t see any, personally. _ “One woman : called me this morning,” said Mr, Wallace, calmly, “and she described them as ‘little green things about threeeights of an inch long or longer’ ~—you know a woman doesn’t get it right always—and it seetns to
{ me like they must be leaf hopRA | pers” i ‘
tion uray he and. agree on hee]
lection of such an administrator. *
Sally He local rationing boards. He ‘said that one ‘idea of controlling mileage—by periodic reading of speedometers—had been discarded bécause there were too many people in the country who knew how to turn back their mileage ‘gauges.
Doubts Need of Law
Mr. Roosevelt said he did not]
think any legislation was necessary to put the committee's recommendations into effect, He said that enforcement of the nationwide 35-mile-an-hour: speed limit recommended hy the committee is essential and that the method _ of stricter enforcement would be decilied by ‘the rubber administrator, Mr. Roosevelt added that too many motorists are not living up to the requests of their state governments and the chief executive > himself in the’ observance of low speed limits,
Minced No Words
Meanwhile, - America’s 27,000,000 motorists at least had the assurance for the first time that there probably would ‘be enough rubber tires for minimum essential use of their ‘ automobiles despite Japanese control of 97 per cent of normal American rubber sources. But the committee, composed of Baruch, President Karl T. Compton of the Massachusetts institute of technology, and President James B. Conant of Harvard . university, minced no words on the seriousness of the problem. ; The report was expected to end the bickering on the subject in congress, and among administration officials and the public. It criti. cized past “procrastinations, indecisions, conflict of authority, of personalities, lagk of understand-
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an, he related, said they were particularly bad ‘at Illinois and Ohio sts. Although the hoppers reported last night were green, Mr. Wallace said. they also come in brown, reddish brown and even. reddish ‘green models. “They both hop and fly, often using the. hop to take off on a flight, much’ as planes are catapulted from a ship. Leaf "hoppers don’t do ‘a tree any good, Mr. Wallace admitted, but most trees and plants are able to overcome the normal attack nicely. Really nothing to get. worried ‘about, he said.
FINES 22 DRIVERS WITHOUT USE STAMP
Judge Baltzell Acts After
Recent Roundup.
Twenty-two motorists, arrested recently in the roundup of drivers who failed to buy federal auto use stamps, were fined by Jucige Robert Baltaeh in federal district court toy. Twenty-one of them were assessed fines of $10 each and one driver, ‘Leonard Hanger, was fined
he failed to buy the first use stamp issued ‘last February. In the other cases, only the July 1 stamp was missing.
One case was disinissed and two raolori:ts failed to appear. ; SETS 35-MILE PARK LIMIT WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U.P). —Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes today ordered a ‘ 35-mile-per-hour
-|speed ' limit, effective Immediately,
in all national ‘parks.
{defenders have no choice now except a fight to the death -of thej.
"The same is true today.”
‘at University park, for’ the wom-
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ORDER BATTLE
Volga Bridges and Boats| - Reported Destroyed to
Prevent Retreat.
MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (U, P.).—~The Soviet army's organ, Red Star, indicated today that every bridge across the Volga river at Stalingrad has been blown up and every boat destroyed, meaning that the
last man. The Soviet noon communique acknowledged that the Germans had forced the Russians back on the southwest approach of Stalingrad, after a gallant stand that had laste! ed a week. On the western approach, ‘the Russians had been forced to yield five villages and hamlets in three days, and the noon communique said German automatic riflemen had infiltrated Soviet positions. “The defenders of Stalingrad have no choice except a bitter fight to the last man, because there no longer, is any road for retreat,” Red Star said.
Recall Stalin’s 1918 Order “The defenders in 1918 (in the Russian civil war) Lad no choice when Stalin ordered all means of crossing the Volga removed. The army knew this and grimly approved. “The road back from Stalingrad no longer exists. “The defenders must hold the city. “In 1918 there was only one iy —attack the enemy,” Red Star said.
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Stalingrad was the “Soviet Verdun,” and ‘cowards and panic mongers could expect no mercy. In the .nidst of Stalingrad’s greatest peril, the Russians acknowledged that they had been forced back into Novorossisk, - the Black sea naval base city, where street fighting raged. . ‘The situation in the eastern Caucasus continued to ' develop favorably for the Russians, who forced the remnants of German forces who had broken across the Terek river in the Mozdok region: steadily back to the.south bank of the river. The Germans there had tried to drive on the Grozny oilfields. On one sector of the front before Moscow, the Russians, on the offensive there, broke through mineflelds and heavy German fire and drove into the outskirts of a city.
FDR Leads, Others Follow af 35 M.P.H.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P.) ~—President Roosevelt disclosed at his press conference today how he forced 22 other motorists to follow his example in observing & 35-mile-an-hour speed limit while driving to his home in Hyde Park, N. Y.; recently. He explained that when he is . motoring, secret service men and state troopers in heavily armed cars prohibit any other vehicle from passing the presidential party. Consequently a long of automobiles usually trails him. Mr. Roosevelt said that while driving the 12-mile distance from Rhinebeck, M.. Y., to his Hyde: Park estate he ordered his chauffeur to maintain a steady speed. of 35 miles an hour.” By the time he reached the estate entrance, the president said, 22 other cars that had been: forced to reduce speed to stay behind, were bring-
ing up the rear.
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serious difficulties in obtaining
Gliders, huge motorless aircraft to tow men into battles from the air, soon will be a familiar sight in Indianapolis. From an undisclosed hase; the huge glider above was towed into - Stout field yesterday and several
INDIANA TOMATO CROP IMPERILED
Help of Women Sought to Save Record Yield for War Needs.
By FREMONT POWER ; Greatest tomato-growing state in America, Indiana fought today to . {keep much of the crop from going to rot.
The reason: Labor shortage.
officers and men of the troop transport command got their first - ride in such a craft. Sailing smoothly along behind
one of Stout field's transport ships, the glider made several en-
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
While British troops struck rapidly down both coasts of Madagascar today, French Premier Pierre Laval charged that the United States shared equal responsibility for the attack on the island. He said that Vichy would defend the parts of the island it still holds “to the limit of French resources,” but admitted the Vichy forces were ‘too small to make mueh of a stand: Laval made public ‘a message + general of Mad~
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Farmers, 100, are eferientigg
| pickers, but the labor situation is not so acute on' the f 3 the canneries. At.7 cents a hamper, a : good picks er can make $7 to $8 a day. ' . Urged 25% Increase 3 Before the crop was put in, the. government exhorted growers to increase production 25 per cent to feed the armed forces—and now ‘the
problem 'is what to do with the
greater yield. Marshall L. Vogler, chairman. of the Indiana agricultural war board, estimated that 115,000 acres of Indiana soil have been devoted to tomatoes. Figuring 512 tons to the acre, last year’s average, this means that the state will produce more than 200,000 tons of toes—if they're all picked and am led while
i Efolgl area and casualties on both Lg {sides are heavy.
Experts . og lea. aid Be Tested First: og (See Thomas L. Stokes, * 19) WASHINGTON, Sept. at (U.P). —War Production (Chief M. Nelson's aviation advisers have 1 .réc~ ommended that Henry J. } be given government appr terials and facilities to
sanple mamnioth cargo . Shane, it was. learned today. ges
be contingent upon for a flying boat—rep seven engines and two
The tesa in yuestion codeeivably would be conducted by the armed| services and thus, if the p
stronghold | the south coast, Gen. Douglas Mac-
ie that the Japanese had
ans (conference that the armed services| ei Were now taking in about as many g| men as they can actually train with |present facilities. =
anes per- :
or control missions on the island. ‘The ‘British version of the back-
of the Diego Suarez naval base on| Madagascar in. May, the British
{undertook - by peaceful negotiation to secure the. a of Vichy!
Japs Halted i in
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 11 (U. P)— Australian troops under Lieut. Gen. Sidney Rowell have halted the Japanese advance through the Owen Stanley ‘mountains toward Port Moresby, the allied on
Arthur dnnounced today. Fierce fighting continues in the}
Dispatches from advanced bases:
advanced several miles from Efolgi, | Where they had outflanked the AusWednesday, and that they were now about 40 airline miles from Port Moresby. Though they had phsed the most
Sifieul pars-of She meunigins, they |
F. D. R Doubls
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (w. P). —President Roosevelt said today ‘he did’ not think it would be necessary to to call up 18 and 19-year-old youths for service in the armed forces before the first of next year. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press
He said sous detision ion the-draft ably would be made during the fall
of 18 and 19-year-old youths: prob- |
future. 3 Erin tonics te cal of
circling trips about the fleld yesterday, cutting off in midair and gracefully swooping in: for landings. Capable of carrying 15 fighting men, the glider has a crew of a
U.S. Shares Madagascar Attack Blame, Says Laval
authorities in the rest of the island. London said this was not obtained, but did not reveal ghe exact terms of the demands: While negotiations were in progress, London discovered that Japanese submarines had been supplied from Madagascar bases, that Japanese reconnaissance planes had ‘flown over the island and German agents had been harbored by French authorities there, London
said. The British niopup maneuver on the island appeared to fit into alAfrica. to
aligns: of ‘Lieut. Gen. ‘Sir ‘William s| ground of the new attack was given | Platt. He reported “steady progress” {in London. Following the capture/toward a third’ port, Ambanjs, cap-
ture of which was reported by Prime Minister ‘Winston’ Churchill. Other British troops were striking (Gentinued; on Page Seven) 2 <
Ne ew Guinea:
Fierce Fighting Continues
were still. faced by several difficult ridges on the western slopes. Prime Minister’ John Curtin, asked for a statement by worried)" members of the house of representatives at Canberra, said that the allied commana had prepared plans to stabilize the position. “I can make no further announcement until a clearer picture is available,” he said. It was noticeable that there seemed to be no anxiety at headquarters over the Japanese advance. : Allied planes are concentrating their attack un the Japanese supply lines, which must become. a bigger problem with every mile of the enemy advance, MacArthur's ‘com= munique -e
1 8-Year-Olds
Will Face Call Before Jan. 1
The president said {that the govgrommet has under discussion plans \t enlistments for the armed services to permit the selective service system to exercise a more complete direction over the filling of the needs of the various services. He reported that the enlisted personnel of the navy for which volun-
pilot and co-pilot. ‘Several are to be sent here soon for training purposes. In" the air, the glider looks
practically as lage. » * the twomotored transport shi
Draft Board No. g— .
HAS SINGLE MEN FOR ONE MONTH
Be Called Then.
“This is another of a series of articles on Marion county's 15 draft boards. These articles will ll wist tie Sunpowsr siufulion ©
financially independent wives. There are comparatively few single men with collateral dependents in the board area, which covers downtown Indianapolis, so the manpower situation as it pertains to married men will be eased very lit-
tle by reclassifying this group,
Had Little Trouble
Because . of the large number of single men in the board area, many of them transients, the board, up to date, has had ao trouble whatsoever in meeting its eglls, Mr. Burkett said, It has taken no married men with
because of its heretofore adequate supply of single men it has granted requests of defense plants for deferments for occupational reasons without question.
fill calls from men in this “for some time” when they up down to them—which probaly will] be: before the first of the year. The board has been regarding as “single” those: men married since Pearl Harbor and Mr. Burkett. said that the board members were now going into the cases of men married since the passage of the draft act. ; Rules Clearly Defined - , Unlike the. experiences of many local draft board members, Mr. Burkett said that insofar as. he knew no threats had been made by | disgruntled registrants or their rel-
selective service rules wers now clearly defined. There had been some charges by local draft board members recently that the ara;
teering has been particularly heavy Daniel
recently, Is now up to about 700,000
18 and 19-year-old Tegistrants to} active duty. i. . :
VICHY JUDGE SLAIN;
financially independent wives and}
There are many childless couples | in the Board 8 area and board members ‘believe they will be able to:
atives against members of the board, {and He said tha! in his opinion the caus
“PATRIOTS: BLAMED: =
Germans Admit Damage is Large in Heaviest - LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.).
|—A fleet of British bombers
described by an air ministry communique ‘as a “powerful force” and believed not fam short of the 1000-plane level, struck last night for the 50th time at the important Gere man industrial center D
Duesseldorf. Thirty-one bombers were missing from the attack on Duesseldorf a
{other western Germany objec
the air ministry said. The coms munique added: that fighters ha carried out offensive patrols: over
occupied territory during the night The Germans admitted the ers inflicted great damage, : larly to the “civilian population,” according to the Berlin radio. The raid was the largest ; on Germany since that on. burg July 28.
with a population of ph 000, | not been raided. since July 31.
Then, board epbars Say, they 5 will have to start calling men with |; oo
-cendiaries were unloaded on PD seldorf in 50 minutes of col trated attack, and daylight r naigsance subsequently reve heavy destruction. £ The: lapse of more than a between visits underlined an appa ent R.AF. policy of leaving the big industrial targets alone until cone ditions permit sending an overs whelming force. ‘Bremen Damage Photographed Loss of 31 planes was not ‘unuse ually’ high. Losses have been runs ning comfortably below 5 per cen of the planes involved. :
Reconnaissance photographs after the R. A. F.'s 99th raid on]
p | harbor facilities, the air announced.