Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1942 — Page 11

+ War Plants Are Exempted; Plans Ready for Perry Test Next Week.

Ee ons een completed. by air raid wardens | in those iistricts. : - Paul Goss, civilian . defense ditector in Wayne township, announced that a dimout will be conducted in that township at 9:30 p. m. tomorrow except at Speed-| i way City, airports and. war plants located in that area. : Virgil Hughes, the township raid warden chief, Said during the dimout several simulated fires and casualties will be staged to test the efficiency of the townships fire fighting organizations, raid wardens and first aid corps. ;

Sirens fo Sound Alarm

Nine electric sirens in various parts of the township will sound the dimout alarm with a ‘series of short blasts. Speedway City was among the first to have a practice dimout in the county last Aug. 4 and residents in that area will be excused from|" the operation tomorrow night. Also automobile traffic will be permitted to continue without dimming headlights. In Perry township, Jack Williams, defense director, has called for a practice dimout next Monday night, between 8 and 10 p. m. 5 “I am not announcing the exact time of the dimout and will ask residents and store proprietors to turn out their lights at the sound of sirens,” Mr. Williams said. :

Keach Given Raid Post

LeRoy Keach, safety board president, has been appointed assistant commander of the air raid control headquarters at 22d st. and Talbot ave. by C. Harvey Bradley, county defense director.

|1ast night when she also received a| Named Corporal

Slogan from the war department. te Bn “wot

Father Sums Up Attitude : lived at 2265 New Jersey st. has

The fiyer's father voiced the fam- |been raised to the grade of corporal {ily’s patriotic attitude toward the at Camp Grant, Ill. ‘He is connected tragedy of war: with Co. D, 37th Division, a medical} t - “We're waiting—we haven't: given battalion. Up hope yet . , . they didn’t tell us. he was killed.” . Capt. Robert Harding Richards is a hero of this war. He was decorated recently for “gallantry in action.” He received the silver star ‘because he piloted his flying fortess to safety and saved the lives of injured crew members during the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, GE Enlisted in 1938 Only two weeks ago the Richards family received word from their son that he had taken part in every major battle in the Pacific .since the start of the war. Capt. Richards enlisted in the army air force in 1938 after he graduated from the American Television school at Chicago. The day he received his wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1940 at Randolph field, Tex, he married Miss Anchutz. Born in Indianapolis, Capt. Rich-

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» : Ee JAPANESE USE VICHY ORDERS By FREMONT POWER To Develop ‘Materials sky when I started out to do my trick in a tomato cannery. Aimed at Aiding Nazis my mind got to wandering. ' At that time in the morning your mind is a series on the Japanese people by Rich- cas lying to Sow OU France was mobilized to work for Frenchmen and colonials ‘from 18

Coitral Library Gardener SLAVE LABOR LABOR RAFT For War Machine. Blanding there shivering under hat Iona tr m Breed i Takes Effect. liable to do anything. ard C. Wilson, manager of the former Germany today under a decree of sending me out on a story at this MORE HOOSIERS

The tomato editor sorts and peels " Van Camps: cannery. Be pute em In the conveyor-—the Inst step frst (typical), Lends a Hand af Van Camp s Force Conquered ‘Peoples! ., uy moring sm wes just beginning .redden” the: castern| Troe! Alert as Decree Standing there shivering under that lonely tree in Broad Ripple, | ; : " LONDON, Sept. ‘14° (U. P)), — This is the third and final dispatch in Mostly, I was trying to figure out Manila bureau of the United Press. the Vichy government requiring all} hour, or was I really doing a patrio-

Mayor Sullivan, as city civilian defense director, the headquarters. Col. Norman Nicolai, of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. was appointed acting communications officer of the center.

Mr. charge

in the event of an air raid or other war time emergency.

will be

sengers in county civilian defense work have been appointed by Ralph W. Hook, chief messenger. -They are Lloyd Byrne, 2755 Na--poleon Capitol ave.; Glenn Findley, 5914 N. New Jersey st., and Ralph Swingley, 1130 N, Butler ave. They will recruit and train 800 men and women and 2400 boys and [Sikhs are employed in Hong Kong girls for service as messéngers for the county civilian defense .organ=

ization.

FIRST AID POPULAR WITH I. C. WORKERS

Every branch of railway service is represented in the rost?r of 534 Illinois Central railroad empléees who have just completed the course in first aid offered over the entire

system.

In addition to those who finished the course, there are 87 currently _ enrolled and new classes are being organized.

By RICHARD C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept." 14—Japan has put thousands of the conquered peoples of East Asia to work in her efforts to speed the development of raw materialis needed by the Japanese’ war machine. Jap leaders fully realize . they must obtain substantial amounts of the needed products of the Phil-

is commander of

Keach will have complete of the city defense facilities

“Thailand and French Indo-China, quickly—before the air and naval strength of the United States makes transport difficult. . In China, Hong Kong, the 'Phillippines, Java and other conquered areas, the Japanese are employing natives of those regions wherever possible to conserve Japanese manpower. For example, Chinese and. British

in charge of Boy Scout mes-

st.; Grant Hayes, 2848 N.

for police duty and as clerks in|" various Jap administrative offices. Groups of them work under direct supervision of Japanese to prevent sabotage or subversive activities.

Win Raw Materials

Japan obtained access to tremendous stores of raw materials in southeast Aisa—chrome, manganese, iron ore and copra in the Philippines; quinine, tin, rubber, kapok and oil in the Dutch East Indies: tin, rubber and iron ore in British Malaya. Although the demolition work of retreating British, American and Dutch forces was extensive, Japan wasted no time in salvaging all “left overs” and rushing them to

i lippines, the Dutch East Indies,| 4 to Train Messengers ~~ British Malaya,

Four zone messenger chiefs who

tic act, going to work in a cannery. It was a matter I never got unraveled. Too sleepy.

He Gets the Job

But presently the bus came along and I was on my way. Me, the guy who raised one tomato plant on the lawn of Central Library, going to work at one of the biggest canneries in the state. At VanCamp’s factory, 2002 S. East st., I tottered slowly into the employment office, trying to be inconspicuous. “You looking for a job?” a man

+ in charge asked. “Who, me? Why, uh, yeh. Yeh,|re

I guess so?”

there.” In a couple of minutes I had my|a ‘badge and was on my way to the tomato building.

He Gets His Orders

Not bad, this. Stepping ‘right along with the working man . . . speeding’ up production . . . got to get this stuff out right away, you

‘|know.. , « nice-looking place they

got here. . . . “Hey, you. foreman. 2 “Grab one of those ‘trucks and help unload those seed tomatoes.” This is it. This is when I start to work. The idea was, you put eight hampers of tomatoes on this truck, push it up to a conveyor belt and wait while the man pours them out. Then back to the loading platform for eight more hampers.

Too Much Machine

Over here,” said a

: ell “Okay, step right in that room M &

ENLIST IN ARMY

Thirty-Five From Al Parts Of Indiana Sign Up

In Armed Forces.

Thirty-five more Hoosiers have

enlisted in the army. They are:

Albert Harold Alexander, son of Me. Harry Alexander, R. R.: Dean Richard Glancy, son of Mr. and TS, Leo Wi R. R. 1, Poland; Irvin Luther Hendricks, son of Mr. . Luther Hendricks, Jaco

an t "> of nq Mrs. Clarence Vetter Sr., 725 Franklin » Columbus; Maurice Elden Kepner, son of” Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kepner, 201 E. 11th st., Urbana, ; James Pete Petta son of Mrs. Effie Petias, 208 N. Black St. na : Martin

Koeppen, so! Mrs. Minnie E. Iowa st., Indianapolis; Joseph Brady Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Nosenn T. i. sr. 4932 Broadway ave. Indianpels

Hen Lightfoot, oh of Mr. and Mee I htfoot, echanic st., Shelbyville; Taylor ie a eeha son ‘of Mrs. Vanessa Melson, 2317 Kenwood ave., X Robert Jackson, son of

a Waldron; Jack Edward Bridgewater, son of Mr. an Mrs, Samuel Bridgewater, 400 S. Walnut st., Bloom on; las Leslie Page, son of Mr. and Mrs, ‘Orpheus Page, R. R. 3, Bloomfield; Carl oydon en, son of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Franzen, North Fee Lane, Bloomiigton: Jack Carter Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Nelson, New-

port; ;

Indianapolis; Ha ry Herbert Hk kis ois a apo! 7 T ckison, son of Mr, and Mrs. John W. Di town; and Mrs. Edw: ‘Clyde

to 50 and all unmarried Frenchwomen from 21 to: 35 to work “to facilitate the execution’ of any task the government judges necessary in the superior interests of the nation.” The Vichy government admitted the decree was intended to provide workers for German war industry| under an agreement which sends home one French prisoner of war for every three specialists sent to work in the Reich. Despite every effort of the Vichy government, Frenchmen have been most reluctant to volunteer, :

Troops on Guard It was understood here that

ell, | “measures had been taken” to avoid

disturbances which might arise over

sis. | the new decree, with police troops .| mounting guard over government

buildings. In Vichy, Berlin broadcasts said a new decree in the offi-

| cial gazette had brought all miliDona-| tary police under the control of r:| Pierre Laval, chief of the. govern-

ment. The decree was signed by Marshal Petain, Laval, Labor Secretary Hubert Lagardelle,, and the entire cabinet. It ranks as one of the basic measures of French collaboration with Germany and, like compulsory military service, applies to French nations outside France. Under the decree those who are idle but judged physically fit for

work may be drafted for any work]

designated by the secretary of labor. Recalls Recent Roundup The Vichy government recently

staged a roundup in Paris bars and movies of the “cafe public,” send-

.|ing any idle who could not prove | they are bona fide students into

He was active in athletics and In the band at Shortridge.

HOOSIER IN EGYPT WINS BRITISH MEDAL

Capt. John W. Smothers, former

editorial staff, was among nine U. 8S. army officers decorated with the British Empire medal by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander of the British army in Africa yesterday, according to Cairo news dispatches. Capt. Smothers, a native of Princeton, Ind., was a reserve offi-, cer in the Indiana field artillery and was called into active duty more than a year ago. He was one of the American officers who made arrangements for participation of American tanks in the recent Egyptian encounters. Capt. Smothers is the son of Mrs.

the Gibson county Hospital at Princeton.

Wooden Leg and $500 in It Safe

LONDON, Sept. 14 (U, P)— The: most popular true story in British naval circles today concerns the 65-year-old captain of a torpedoed American merchant vessel, : A British corvette operating in the cold waters off the coast of

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: Campus Make-Up

Indianapolis; Louis of Mr. George Alexander, 1305 Ba | farm work. The new decree, howIndianiapo al ever aims far beyond any mere John Po Kesterson, son of Mr. 3 Mrs. William Kesterson, 1045 S. Tiinol purge of parasites, with penalties Si Tndlanspelis; Chanes (S=man +f running from one week to five years

quarters as “pasty face.” 3909 EB Soin Push ’em out. Push ‘em back. Indians polis; Frank Minardo, son of M¢.|in jail and from 16 to 30,000 francs $: Pred Pal Cramton on of Aalanab- | for evasion of the new labor code.

Nice, : Paul C son. of Mr. Then came along the foreman, : W. Dayton st.| The wording provides for extension of “analogous measures” tol

Se name of John Nolan, and said for|of Mr ndon Shaw. 1140 Mea me to come along, he was going to} ford st. nel bert ot Vonliam Wil foreigners - in unoccupied France, Morgan but, for the time being at least, the

y f M put me on the “cyclone.” No more|s. al 5. Totem at 10 E.

ra ts In ad 8 decus ao of this easy job. A Ie oouned, Well, ‘this startled me a bit, hut {Meeker pareais “scensed, aba sre lcans and British in the unoccupied R. So

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Greenland found the aged sailor clinging alone to a raft, One of the sailors tapped his leg and found it rigid: iy “Blimey, he’s frozen stiff.” . “It’s all right, son. It’s only a wooden leg,” said the captain. He removed his leg and a sailor hurried it off to be dried out-in the engine room. ab ecree |. “Be careful,” the cap called d will not be applied to Amer- ‘after him, “there's $500 in 1"

' CANTEENS AID WORKERS

This was nice. Nothing hard|o about this, not even for a puny little reporter known in some

According to C. R. Young, manager of personnel, men and women in all departments accepted the, invitation to learn the Red Cross first aid course in form modified to meet the requirements of the office of civilian defense. : * The railroad system announces that the course generally has turned the students into ardent accident prevention advocates and many hazards which might cause accidents have been removed through

Japan to feed her war industries. ‘Methods similar to those employed by Germany in: the conquered nations of Europe have been used by the Japanese to “induce” natives to work for Japan. Severe food rationing is enforced in all occupied areas. Trained native workers who refuse jobs offered them by the Japanese find it difficult to obtain food rations. “In cities like Manila and Hong-

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YOUNG MARRIED CLUB ENTERTAINS TONIGHT

Members of the young married

kong, even machinery was dis-

mantled and shipped to Japan. Some machines could be used; others were broken up for scrap.

Lacks Technicians

Production experts doubt that Japan will in the immediate future

club at Bethany Christian church {obtain oil from Borneo, rubber and

will entertain the young married peoples federation of the Christian churches of Marion county at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the church. at Quill and Minnesota sts. The Indiana Conservatory of Music will provide entertainment and there will be a short business meet-

ing.

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tin from British Malaya and Java, and iron ore from the Philippines and Malaya in satisfying amounts. Months will be required to repair the systematic destruction carried out, by technicians of the united nations. And Japan is confronted with an admitted shortage of technicians.

“This is a cyclone,” said Mr. Noland, pointing to a mass of machinery. As I later found out, when it developed that I wasn’t going to make a cyclone operator, this machine shoots juice out this pipe, peelings out another, runs seeds into this tank and . . . - Well, it was automatic, you know, except I couldn't seem to get the hang of it. He Sure Geis Around

Next, I was one of the guys who carry tomatoes away after the white-dressed women have peeled them. A woman peels a bucketful, you yank it away, put an empty ‘bucket on the shelf and punch a long ticket the lady has hanging on

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REMY 1S APPOINTED T0 ELECTION BOARD

William H. Remy, former county prosecutor, today formally was appointed & Republican member of the Marion county election board by County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger.. Mr. Remy was nominated for the post recently by county ‘Re=

RESUME ea ONS

Regular weekly: noon luncheons will he resumed by the Construction league of Indianapolis Thursday at 231 N. Pennsylvania st. Alex L. Taggart, county rationing adminisSater will address the members at their meeting Thursday. His sub-| ject will be “Rationing, Why and

Canteens, under direction. of, eX=

follow recommendations of Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt. Many workers, he points out, are not eating proper foods because

How.” A discussion will follow.

of the rush of getting to work. on

|time from distant points:

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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The first meeting of the reor-

—By Wiliam Ferguson

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Ayres’ Will Be Open Peight ve 3:15

* Store Open Today at 12:15 (noon)

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