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VOLUME 53 NUMBER 166

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942

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Married Men Soon May Fill Bulk of Calls

SOME of these men that were “being processed” were called affer the passage of this act because the board could not get others to fill the call, but many of them who had been placed in 1-A were reclassified and placed back

rai By EARL RICHERT : ‘THE MANPOWER situation in Marion county is such that most of the local draft boards will be filling their

‘calls almost entirely with married by mid-December.

A few already are.at the point where they are having thout children. And all of them

to call married men will be down to this group of men b This is the general situation as survey, completed Saturday, of local boards.

Here are other general conclusions drawn from te

survey: 1. All available remaining 1-As

first of November, with but few exceptions. 2. Most single men with collateral dependents will be called in November; some, of course, are being called

now by the boards hard-pressed to

3. ALL. BOARDS are following selective service instruc-

HEADON CRASH OF CARS KILLS THREE

Lewis Skinner, Sports Official, Dies; Had dg oined Navy,

Friends of Lewis B. Skinner, wellknown business man, athlete and football referee, had completed all arrangenients for a farewell party Wednesday night because he was to leave for the navy Thursday. Instead they will attend his fu neral Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Skinner was one of three persons killed in what appeared to be a 'headon collision of two automobiles in the 5200 block E. 38th st. ‘about 11 o'clock last night. The: other dead are: { ‘MISS BERNICE EILEN WISE, 2 daughter of Mr. and: Mrs, HB Wise of Lawrence, . MRS. RUTH L. mason, 2 of 1217 N. New Jersey. st., & ¢ “ ‘ment manager 4% the Miller-W.

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Refereed Here Saturday :

Mr. Skinner, who was 43, had told ‘his family that the Butler-Xavier game he refereed Saturday was to his last. He had enlisted in the mh 2 a petty officer. friends had completed the

reservations and bought the pres-|§

ents for the party: honoring Mr. Skinner to have been held in the *Graylynn Hotel. The funeral will be at 2 p Wednesday in the Flanner og ‘Bu chanan mortuary with burial in Washington Park. . , Officials Hoek Details

Deputy sheriffs said preliminary investigation failed to reveal details of the accident and that no witnesses could be found. Occupants of both cars were either dead or unconscious when found by passing motorists. Mrs. Hamilton apparently was killed instantly, Mr. Skinner ‘died in the receiving room of City hospital and Miss Wise died a 5am today. The motors of both cars were jammed back through to the front seats, crushing the occupants. The condition of both machines indi- : that they collided headon in| middle of the street. |

Two Thrown From Car

Miss Wise apparently was driving east toward Lawrence alone. Mr. Skinner and Mrs. Hamilton were in the other car apparently driving west toward Indianapolis. Both of Miss Wise’s legs were . erushed, one arm was broken and she received several internal inJuries. ‘Both Mr. Skinner ‘and Mrs. Hamilton were thrown out of their ear, landing scveral yards from the wreckage.

Mr.’ skinner had officiated at many football games in Indiana during the last five years. | In his youth, Mr. Skinner had played football for the Mapleton and Marion club teams, semi-pro outfits. Prominent As Bowler s ‘Then he played with Gabby’s Hammond A. C. which was in a

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Munich experienced any of thé new British 4-ton “jumbo” bombs, but

Basel, Switzerland, 200 miles away.

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men ‘without children

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fill their quotas.

Mrs. Hamilton Miss Wise

"ARE ‘SPLIT-RAIDS' NEW RAF POLICY?

Munich and - Saar Basin Attacked at Once.

. LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force appeared embarked today on a policy of “split-raids”

tack. Saturday night at least 200 planes struck not only deep into southern

Germany to hit at Munich, but at the Saar basin and occupied France

It was not definitely stated that

Swiss newspaper reports said that the blasts at Munch were felt in

The Daily Express asserted the R. A. F. now has a Spitfire model in service outgunning the latest German Focke-Wulf 190. The new Spitfire; it said, carries four 20millimeter cannon, compared to the two cannon and four machine guns of the earlier Spitfires. The FW-190 has four cunnon but of smaller caliber. ' An Italian communique reported that allied planes bombed and ma-chine-gunned Agrigento, Province, Sicily, yesterday.

HIT-SKIP - DRIVER SOUGHT LEBANON, Sept. 21 (U. P).—

City police today were searching for an unidentified . - motorist who

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tions to send their remaining 1-Bs to the army at the rate of 25 per cent a month with all 1-Bs to be gone by Jan. 1. 4. The boards do not have any set policy pertaining to the call of married men without children. However, most of them plan to take those with working wives first, The few that intend to begin at the beginning of the order number list and go on through taking married men without children regardless of the dependency of their wives say they do not have enough married men with working wives “to make any: difference.” : 5. Two boards are calling men with children who mar- ~ ried since passage of the draft act in September, 1940. This is being done in accordance with their interpretation of the selective service regulation authorizing boards to call men who married “when induction was imminent. 6. Several boards called men with families not dependent on them before passage of the servicemen’s dependents allowance act removing financial dependency as the chief grounds for deferment.

HINT NAZI SHIP IS TORPEDOED

British Hope Sub Scored On Tirpitz, Deny Berlin Convoy Claims.

LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—Unconfirmed reports said today that Germany's giant battleship Tirpitz had failed in an attempt to break

‘ |out to sea from Norway to attack

an allied convoy and may have been torpedoed. : The reports were circulated in naval quarters after Germany had claimed that 28 ships had been sunk

and nine damaged in attacks on an] §

allied convoy bound through the

Arctic for Russia.

j| It was said that the Tirpitz, of- : ficially’ rated at 35,000 tons but be-

lieved to be of more than 40,000 had /tried to slip with an escort from its shelter at Trondheim, Nor-

British forces were there, prepared to block it. Escort vessels warned the Tirpitz

of its danger, according to the re-

ports, and it made at full steam

back into Trondheim fjord.

According to the reports, a British

submarine was believed to have © [closed to “effective attack range” before the battleship escaped.

Ridicule Nazi Claims It was believed here that jubilant

‘| German ‘claims to the sinking of|S ships in the Arctic convoy were intended to cover Nazi frustration by

Russia’s magnificent defense of Stalingrad. German newspapers hailed the alleged sinkings as “equaling the es on the

“grave defeat for Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.” ; : Responsible British quarters disclaims as ridiculous. The allied convoy had

apparently reached its Russian ports by now.

Germany Saturday promised an important communique within the

next 48 hours.

Announced by Trumpets

It was indicated at that time that the high’ command had hoped to be able to announce a big success at Stalingrad. Yesterday, with circus-like fanfares of trumpets, German radios quoted the German high command as making the convoy claim. It was said that out of an escorted convoy of 45 merchantmen, the largest sent to Arctic Russia by the allies, German planes and submarines sank 25 merchantmen totaling 177,000 tons, damaged eight others totaling 64,000 tons so severely that “they must be considered as Jost,” sank a destroyer and two vscort vessels and set a second destroyer afire,

TAX RATE IN STATE ‘GUT TO 12 GENTS $18,000,000 in Treasury

‘Makes Slash Possible. The state board of finance today

: Amusements , -G)Jane Jordan. 12 ,

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Wives at Sales School.

whine ap) the aio and fiom weap” Miss Frances Yearick instructs

Mrs. P. B. Denning,

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wstomers Get Other Side" | Of Picture i in Classes Here

. Last week she was ‘an “always right” Sustomer,

of the. department store counter.

Next week, she may be behind it, saying “thank you'—with a smile. She is an Indianapolis housewife. school and learning what it is like to be on “the other side of the fence:

She may be. doing -it , for one money. . She. hasn’t enough to keep her busy at home and wants to do| something worthwhile. She sees it as a chance to do “her bit” in the war effort. But whatever the personal reasons behind it, she, and hundreds of other housewives, are going to help the employee shortage in the department stores.

First Class Is Held

She attended her first class today and learned how to operate a cash register. She will go back to a room in the Hotel Lincoln for two hours every day this week. There will be 20 others in her particular class, getting basic training and help over the hump of inexperience. The training she will receive will be equivalent to two week’s actual selling experience in a store. When she has satisfactorily completed her work, she will be awarded a certificate qualifying her to obtain employment as sales person in local stores and to be interviewed for a position by a personnel department. Local stores will be employing several hundred salespeople within the next few weeks. Sixty-five of them are co-operating in the training program and providing instructors from their’ training staffs. Classes are being held both at the Hotel Lincoln and Crispus Attucks high school. They are under the auspices of the Indianapolis public schools and Indiana university. A fee of $1 is charged fo help cover the cost of instruction.

Gives Basic Training

The course doesn’t replace store training but gives the basic training on: which 10: teach systems of the various stores. AL types of sais procedure wil be taught, including the out of saies slips and the sch (Continued amr Page THY)

7. The problem of deferment for occupational reasons is the biggest one confronting the local boards. ° Practically all hoard “have to be convinced” before they will defer as & vital worker any 20 or 21-year-old youth. One board, generally, is refusing to defer men under the age of 25 on the grounds that they cannot be vital workers and another board is refusing to defer men who have not worked at defense plants for six months or more on the same grounds. 8. Practically all board chairmen say that the drafting of 18 and 19-year-olds would ease only temporarily the manpower situation here, since large numbers of youths of these ages have enlisted. (Continued on Page Two)

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NELSON URGES UNITY IN LONG AND HARD WAR

60 Per Cent of Output Must Go for Fighting, . He Tells Legion.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 21 (U. P.).—Donald Nelson, chairman of the war production board, told American Legion convention delegates here today that America faces a long and horrible war, and that “two things are chiefly demanded of us—unity and endurance.” Nelson demanded a combination with unity and endurance of “two other qualities—a deep, terrible and unrelenting hatred of everything out enemies are and stand for, and a clear and steadfast vision of the eternal values we are fighting for.” The once congenial and affable Nelson was stern and unsmiling today when he told the Legion and the nation that “right now, approximately 40 per cent of our entire production is going for war.”

Predicts New Sacrifices

“By the middle of next year,” he said, “that proportion has got to {be around 60 per cent.” an reminded his listeners t erica has been “living on our fat so far in this war.” “Believe me,” he shouted, “we arent going to have an ounce of fat left in another year. We'll be down to bone'and muscle, because we have to get down to hone and muscle in order to win.” Nelson demanded an end to consideration of what he termed “our own pet interests—the amount of money we make, the comfort or ease with which ‘we're able to live, the advantages we want to win or hold

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group interests.” Nation’s Needs Put First

more,” he said. “Of course, it is

She stood in front,

we have if we lose this war. “I would like to emphasize that point as hard as-I possibly can—to farmers, to labor, to ness, to professional men—the needs of your country come first, now, and the needs of your group come second,” Nelson said. Nelson concluded his address to nods of agreement from the soberfaced veterans who yesterday heard a grim prediction that the country’s casualties “may be a million, or two million, or conceivably three million

This. week she is. going to of three.reasons: She needs the

HOOVER FEARS NEW ERA OF GANGSTERS

FBI Chief Warns Crime May Grow After War.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U. P.).— Director J. Edgar Hoover of - the federal bureau of investigation| warned today that crime is on the increase and that “unless we all do our jobs better, we can expect another era of lawlessness such as swept the country after the last war. ” In a speech prepared for delivery before the International Police Chiefs’ association, Mr. Hoover said that in handling wartime duties, enforcement officials must never lose sight of domestic problems. The speech was read by Hugh H. Clegg, assistant FBI director. “By constantly enlisting the intelligent aid of the citizens, we can build up a barrier against the lawless,” Mr. ‘Hoover's message said. “The wartime spirit of abandon should not, cause people to assume a paternal, tolerant attitude toward criminals. The greatest crime of our age is tolerance and compromise with indecency.”

membership: to the American {soldiers fighting today. The Legion, which voted to “get tough” with Japanese internees and “misfits and incompetents” in the drive for victory, today elects its national commander to succeed Lynn U, Stambaugh, Fargo, N. D,, and awards its distinguished service medal, in absentia, to Gen. Douglas (Continued on Page Twa)

It's a Little Late To Fire Up Now:-

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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FOR THOSE struggling with th» problem of whether they

FIFE IN SPARTA, TENN.

SPARTA, Tenn. Sept. 21 (U. P).|’ +~Flames destroyed two buildings

damage ; tion and all fire-fighting equipment.

masse Gain i in Fight to Include: or Costs i in Farm Parity]

for ourselves or for our Business or

“None of thosé things count any!’

our right, as free Ame to stand up for those interests of —but remember, we lose ev

‘bombs. Their accuracy is amazing

men” and who have opened Legion,

|108s of the Ottawa “with the long-

| marine war were an American mer-

Praises His CAP

Maj. Johnson . . . Germany fears him

CIVILIAN PLANES), = TURN BACK SUBS

National Commander Here Tells of Patrol Duty;

Hoosiers Serve.

Maj. Earle L. Johnson, national commander for the civilian air patrol, is a commander-in a big way. He is a 6 foot 4% inch ex-guard for Ohio State university back in the days of their first western conference championship in 1916.

the CAP for a recent German broadcast, not intended for American ears, proclaimed that ‘The German people must expect less and less news of allied craft being sunk off America’s East coast. Our submarines are being hampered by a great number of small civilian planes.” Quizzed in a press interview yesterday at Municipal airport where he reviewed maneuvers of the Indiana wing of the CAP; Maj. Johnson‘sdid;4 “The ' United States is" the only country in the world at war where civilian flying continues. If it were not for the CAP all civilian planes would be grounded for the duration.” Boon to Aviation

“And it is a good thing we can continue for the CAP will contribute greatly to the war effort as well as to peacetime. aviation,” he added. “Over the country members of our organization are carrying out simulated bombings with flour-sack

and part of the accuracy is due to bomb-sights they have invented. I wouldn’t be surprised if something big should come from one of these CAP inventions.” He shifted his tremendous frame, (Continued on Page Two)

CANADIAN WARSHIP SUNK, FEAR 112 DEAD

2 Allied Craft Also Go Down.With Toll of 44.

By UNITED PRESS The sinking of three more allied ships, including the Canadian destroyer Ottawa, by submarines, was announced today. The commander of the Ottawa, Lieut. Comm. Clarke Anderson Rutherford, was killed and four other officers and 107 ratings were missing and believed lost, Canadian Navy Minister Angus MacDonald said.

The Canadian navy said that the

est casualty list which yet has been issued, is the heaviest single hlow which the navy has suffered in more than three years of war.” The destroyer was on escort duty with a ‘convoy in the Atlantic. The two other victims of the sub-

,. vessel and a British* mer-

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Moscow Claims Important i Victory in Battle for : Caucasus Oil.

MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (U. Pp.) —Dispatches from blazing Stalingrad today .said that = Nazi cannon and fleets of bombing aircraft have started the greatest bombardment. of the war against the “Red Vers

dun” of the Volga river. The Red army thundered back its answer with long-range railroad ars tillery and armored trains, which concentrated on points hastily fortis fied by the slowly advancing Gers mans, Attacking by the thousand under cover of the pulverizing bombards ment, the Nazis were reported to pressing the Stalingrad defen back, yard by yard, often over ruins and streets slippery with the blood of dying defenders and attackers. Nazi casualties were said to be mounting, especially in the rubble= heaped northwestern sector of Stal ingrad where a battle was in progs

of broken brick and mortar which ou be transformed into a pill

Earth Trembles

The crash of heavy shells and steady rain of bomhs, reports to tk cemmunist party newspaper Pravi

under the feet of the Red ward battalions. At night the rk from burning buildings could: i

seen for miles away. id The Nazis were said to have moved up heavy, long-rangs cannon which were pourin 35 igh explosive: nia. the Pravda described the bombardment as the heaviest of war, surpassing even the te punishment’ which turned Sev pol into a gigantic ruin.

Some Streets Regained

The Soviet noon communique mitted no German advance, and ported the wiping out of two e ph regiments (perhaps 10,000 men), 13 ©} tanks and 89 trucks and two artils © lery and eight mortar batteries. The midnight communique reported that counter-attacks had driven the Germans from some sec= tors in northwestern Stalingrad. and regaineg some streets. As summer officially gave way to autumn, the Russians reported a

where Nazis were said to have fered heavily in being rep Moscow" claimed the German commander, Field Marshal F von Kleist, had been killed and si that many other Nazi officers shot by their own men or had co mitted suicide. (German sa flatly denied these reports claimed the capture of Terek, miles from the Gronzy oilfields an Vladimirovsk:)

Voronezh Offensive Continues

Pravda reported exception heavy fighting south of Voron 350 miles northwest of Si

where the Russians several days a

opened an offensive. f: Yesterday the Germans coun attacked eight times without gest On other . sectors, the F pushed ahead, overcoming d ungarians.

The Soviet air force pou steadily at en reinforc pouring toward the Voronezh | It was expected to become a mo§ important area this fall and ae On the Sinyavino, sector of 1 Volkhov front, the Russians st initiative, opened an offensive several wel ago to widen the land besieged Leniigrad, passage

On the War F

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RUSSIA: Sopiet forces tall

ress for every house and every heap §

said, caused the ground to tremble 1