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ol soos | 10 COLLECT VITAL SCRAP

: Sakaivon as ‘Commandos’ |

Thursday Night at ~ Cadle Rally.

The vital “Salvage for Victory” drive will open here Monday with 6000 Boy Scouts pledged to gather

| every ounce of scrap metal from all |’

the homes in Marion county.

The drive, necessary to keep the

steel mills of war production run-

ning at full capacity this winter,|

will continue for the duration. From cubs to eagles, the. boy scouts will be sworn in as “commandos” Thursday night at a rally in Cadle Tabernacle. They will

wear arm bands—when they've

earned them. Chevron With First 10 Pounds The band will be given each boy as he turns in scrap of some form. When he gathers 10 pounds he will become a “first class private” with a chevron denoting his rank.

‘He ‘will become a corporal with |#

the gathering of 50 pounds more.

Two hundred additional pounds |- will promote him to sergeant, 500

more to lieutenant, 750 additional to captain, and 1000 pounds more to major, the highest rank. Meanwhile, plans for making the

donation or sale of scrap by resi=|

of every filling station, and placed in a centrally located place in ea

district.. Thus, residents of eachij

district can see their own scrap pile

city. This scrap then will go to the dealers and the mills.

Salvage Depots Planned

Or a person can give his Scrap).

to ‘a charitable organization Which i 1:

in turn sells it to the dealers. | MA-3321, the central salvage clear-

ing house, and they will notify the|

charity.

Salvage depots soon will be estab-}-lished at school houses in the town-} hips outside the city limits. They}

Mike Mownship-Consolidated school at W. 71st st. and the Zionsville road, about one miles west of New Augusta.

lawrence Township—Grade

- schools in Castleton and Oaklandon. Sen Township—Warren Cen10th st.; Shadeland school, Shadeland road and 30th st, and the Township Ho House, Road © and the: Franklin road I in Doubt Call Market 3321 /

‘Franklin Township—Bunker Hill school, Lower Shelbyville and Southport roads.

Perry Township—Towhship’ High/ ‘School building, west ‘edge of Home|

Croft ‘addition. Decatur’ Township—Grade school building in West Newton and high school in Valley Mills. 3 - ‘Wayne Township—Township high ‘school, Ww. Morris st. and the High

any question regarding

fora. 3 Just call Market 3321—| they have the answers. o : J - . : ;

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" _ Hoosiers must be sersp ‘cdnselons=-Unelé Shan mast ‘have 52 pounis of metal from each of us. Much ‘of it is processed. at the American Compressed Steel Corp., 1200 E.' Maryland: 5%; Where a huge maguet (above) lifts it’ tothe, compressor. Pd C0

Lave, whi poses o snp rs snipped lk 40 much. pes by . - giant soissors.

* Rabbi s Plea to Buy Bonds _ Brings Pledges of $52,000

AL the. time of one of this. coun~{ ' THe Congregation Sharah Tefilla at

5 in the state having been char-

| Hero's How NOT | To.Kill a Snake

{| “THIRD ARMY HEAD-

; ns we will have to have

{would be burdened with a tremen-|

‘tin such a hole that it would take

- | reduction of the works budget be-

.1$1.20 municipal tax rate for next

120, 8, SHIPS SUNK

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1042

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HAYOR WARN AGAINST CUTS IN'43 BUDGETS

Fears Financial Crisis if ‘War Gets Any Closer’;

Defends Requests.

By NOBLE REED An economy-minded tax adjustment board has been warned by Mayor Sullivan that “if the war gets any closer to Indianapolis” the cfty might face a financial crisis. The mayor outlined some of the grim possibilities that might be faced by the city government next year in urging the bodrd not to Teduce the municipal budgets any further. The tax adjustment board began reviewing the city’s proposed $8600,000 budgets by criticizing officials for clinging to the “business-as-usual theory.”

Whelden Voices Criticism

“I can’t understand why some city officials think they can conduct business as usual and spend money as they have in other years when we know many departmental activities will have to be curtailed,” declared George Whelden, a board member. Mayor Sullivan had some answers to that one. ‘ “First, if the war gets closer to

ve air raid headquarters instead [ only one and that will cost a

that the proposed

Wants Money Available ;

“No one here is smart enough to tell what is going to happen here next year and we had better have enough money dvailable to handle emergencies,” he warned. He declared that if there should be. any kind of emergency, an air raid or other disaster, the city

dous financial responsibilty.

the need for $1,113,000 in the works| board budget when construction will be ‘curtailed. We can’t afford to let Indianapolis’ streets go to pot because, there} is a war on,” retorted the mayor. “If the city stops repairing streets for one year, it would put the city.

years to get the streets back to normal.” ’ Defends Works Budget

He also warned the board against

cause of the sewer situation. He said some of them ate very old and that a breakdown would cause a serious emergency. “We have reduced the budgets in all departments to the lowest level we think is safe,” the mayor said. | “In the event of some disaster, the ‘present budgets might not be large enough to prevent a crisis, so I reccommend that no further cuts be made.” He pointed out that the proposed

year is 1 cent lower than when his administration took office: four years ago, despite an increase .of $260,000 in the police and: fire department pension ‘funds made necessary by new laws. The proposed rate .is 14% cents lower than the 1942 rate for municipal purposes.

IN MEDITERRANEAN

Part of Convoy Taking Supplies to Malta.

: Je of money,” said ‘the| Wi

Tax board members gquestioned|

campus,

Muzzled

Canada Bars Dreiser For Objectionable Remarks.

OTTAWA, Sept. 22 (U. P). — Hoosier Novelist Theodore Dreiser, forbidden to make speeches in Canada ‘because he had said in an interview that he “would rather see the Germans in England than those . damned, aristocratic, horseriding snobs there now,” wag believed en route back to the United States today. Dreiser, T1-year-old native of Terre Haute, Ind, was to = . have spoken to- Mr. Dreiser night in Toronto at a forum. After ‘his’. remarks concerning “snobs,” ° Minister of Justice Louis S. St. Laurent invoked the Defense of Canada act, forbidding him to make speeches, public appearances or statements for publication. He checked out of his Toronto hotel last night. He had said his speech would have been along the general theme of his statement about the “snobs.”

IN TORONTO, he had said that he hopes the Germans would invade England if they beat Russia, because, he said, the British bave done nothing except borrow money, planes and men from the United States. Dreiser spoke of the ‘“unbelievable gall and brass of the Bugiifh.® ahd rs Prime nm

working; balance not be cut! -

FOR NORTH SIDE

Lights Go Out at 9:30 for Half Hour After Sirens Scream.

> North Indianapolis will douse its

lights “at 9:30 o'clock ‘tonight in a dimout covering the largest area yet attempted by. the city in preparing for possible enemy action.

Virtually’ the entire Notth side

‘will be in semi-darkness for a half hour after police and fire sirens, accompanied By Udell, Monon and Water Co. whistles, make their initial screaming signals. .

Defense districts 34, 35, 36, 39, 40

and 41 will be included in the practice dimouf, covering an area bounded, roughly, by Fall creek, White river, Keystone ave. and the Monon railroad to the Meridian Hills south of Fall creek to 16th st., between Capitol and Northwestern aves.

district, and also the area

Few Infractions Meantime, defense officials were studying the results of a dimout last night covering ‘all of Perry township outside Indianapolis except that part of Beech Grove lying within the township. C. Harvey

Bradley, county. defense chief, pronounced it “very successful.”

Only minor infractions were re-

ported.

The city’s third -dimout ‘of the

week will be held Thursday night in district 7 and 7A, bounided by the east side of Technical high school’s Belt railroad, the| north side of E. Michigan st. and the south side of E. 10th st.

the

A city-wide dimout will be held between Oct. 1. and 15.

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RUSSIANS GAIN

Tm BUILDS WINTER LINES

Abandons ‘Hope of Crushing Russia and Digs In,

Writer Claims.

By HUBERT UXKULL f United Press Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22—Adolf Hitler, abandoning hope that Germany can crush Russia, has started building defenses to hold his eastern gains so the hulk of his army will be free to meet the threat of a sec-

: jond front in the west, unusually

well informed sources said today. The same sources expressed belief that Hitler might start a peace oifensive this winter and tell the German people that a separate peace with Russia was necessary without the total victory he had Promised them. Informants said the new Gertnan defenses in the East would not be along a continuous: line, like the west wall opposite France or the old French Maginot line, but a chain of hedgehog-like citadels designed to permit a relatively few men, garrison troops, to hold the Russians while the main German armies moved to western Europe.

Position Is Secret The position of the new eastern defense line naturally was secret but informants reported that in parts of northern and central Russia it had already been defined, and that construction of actual defenses had been started. In the south, it was said, the GerEE to make further gains en oriént their defénse line as far as possiblé on the Volga river. The hedgehogs or citadels would be as much as 35 miles apart, informants reported. Each would be provided with big underground magazines for food and ammunition. Each garrison would consist of about one division of between 15,000. and 20,000 men and each would have its own airdrome.

would be aimed at solving a supply problem which took the Germans to the verge of disaster last winter. The new east wall fortification line would be the third which Hitler had built since the start of the war. The first, rushed to completion early in 1939, was a thin line along the German-Polish frontier,

Built 2d East Wall Immediately after the conquest of Poland, Hitler ordered construction of a second east wall facing the new Russian frontier. This line consisted of a series of powerful fortresses, bunkers and pill boxes, at points 30 miles deep. The western extremity of the line was only a few miles outside Warsaw, Few Germans know where ths third east wall is being built. But observers saw signs of a moral preparation for it in German propaganda. German propaganda against Russia has subsided recently and the “anti-Bolshevist” slogans have almost disappeared. If was suggested that this might have been ordered in preparation for a peace offensive. It was noted’that the Nazi newspaper. organ, Voelkischer Beobacter; said recently that Britain, net Russia, was now Germany’s No. 1 enemy.

OFFERS LEGION RESOLUTION WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Rep. Raymond 8. Spfinger (R. Ind.) today introduced a resolution in congress empowering the congressionally incorparated American Legion to extend its membership privileges to veterans of the present war. This carries out the stand taken at the Legion convention in Kan-

sas. City yesterday.

Ay ASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. BP).

Recovers From

Amnesia,

Finds Self Wed to Stranger

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22 (U. P).

tor, tend 1p Sein ame at Atascd |

TMi Gta Weller ler, tor|det0, Cul, Homilies Som Holly:

Mrs. Henry Miller, wife of

eT a SRE ert Ar itil (ile of a man who is a total stranger to| “Look at me,” Eo ‘Miller ex-| {her, although he has

SUBTERRANEAN

The underground magazines :

IST INITIATIVE

AT STALINGRAD

700 German Planes Downed, Moscow Claims$ Soviet Troops in Blazing City Fight From Room to Room Against Foe.

MOSCOW, Sept. 22 (U. P.).—Soviet guard troops to« day. were reported to have smashed Nazi positions in one district of Stalingrad and to have driven them back a mile and a quarter in a fierce charge through the city streets. For the first time in days Soviet dispatches from the embattled Volga city indicated that the Russians were re

gaining, in part and possibly several portions of the front.

temporarily, the initiative on

Russian inféntrymen: dash up to 3 smoke-flled | the Germans. Thosé who have not been smoked" out. w

or killed.

Radio Moscow announced that 700 Germans planes ava been shot down along the Russian front in the ‘past two

weeks,

most of them at Stalingrad, where 55 group dog

fights costing the Nazis 65 planes were reported in the past

three days.

Smash Through Barriers

The army newspaper Red Star said that crack guard detachmepts of the army smashed through barriers set-up |

by the Germans within Stalingrad. + The guard detachments then drove forward, exposing the flank of an enepy infantry units, the report’said. The attack was one of several in various sectors of the Stalingrad front in which Soviet forces pushed back the

Nazis.

Red Star singled out a Soviet tank unit commanded by

Lieut. Col. Bubnev for special mention, reporting the detache ment had destroyed 233 German tanks, 68 cannon and

“thousands” of Nazi troops Aug. 4.

in continuous izing since.

Vicious Fighting at Every Point

machipes.

BERGER PUT AT HEAD OF ORDNANGE PLANT

Promoted as “as Bierbach Is Recalled to N. Y.

Paul H. Berger was named ‘in charge-of the naval ordnance plant here today... He succeeds G. P. Bierbach, who has been recalled to the New York headquarters of Carl L. Norden, Inc. nationally famous precision instrument manufacturers. The local ordnance plant is operated by the Lukas-Harold Corp., a division of the Norden Co. / Mr, Berger, who bas been production superintendent since he came here from the New York office when the ordnance plant was created s year ago, is’ now the managing director. A native of Illinois,

‘the was educated in: the east.

Mr. Bierbach; executive vice president and chief engineer of the Norden firm, was recalled to New York because of the nation-wide expansion of his company’s pro-

duction in -the war industry. He|p

ved here the last nine ‘months at the Marott hotel.

2 FLIERS KILLED IN | COLLISION OF PLANES

MIAMI, Fla,, Sept. 22 . P)— en a transport plane

Red Star reported that bloody fighting was in prog="

ress at every point wherd =

Nazi forces have penetrated the outskirts of Stalipgrad.

Frequently, it said, the Russiang

occupy one portion of a house d the Nazis the other and battle.fo possession with rifles, bayon hand grenades and flaming ben: bottles. : Reinforced by Plane

The Germans were said to be bringing up a steady stream of reins forcements by transport plane, The newspaper Bolshevik reports ed that Soviet armored ° sieam along the front, blasting } Mad positions. losses “were reported poe) t whole regiments virtually disappeared, front repo said. The battle was being fo the: Soviet youth newspaper Kor (Continued on Page Five) eu. ®

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