Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1942 — Page 1

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VOLUME song 168

| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1942

Parity

A Yor it’s: everybody's’ ‘Aght! , The scrap metal drive, requested by: the ‘war production: board: and’ led by tke nation's hewspapers in every ‘eity and community, is a vital campaign affecting the chances for success next year of allied forces on every battlefront. To give them ade-’ Youngsters such as these determined young scrappers will play especially Important roles by: pl i ol in vacant: lots and ‘other neglected salvage spots -for- Precious fron, steel'and other metals.

quate -arms, every American can and must help.

en and Duck: Yield After Vain ‘Efforts to Trim City: Spending.

By: NOBLE REED. 3 More ‘than $10,000,000 of : city: and ‘county appropriations for next. year have been approved “sight unseen by. the-county tax, adjusunent boar board without formal examination of any

Hearings on the. city’s 800000

board ' that has the final au-|

thortty over all local budgets. + Wrangle for. Four Hours The board was split wide open on

wm | the 3 public for the Marion county | ah

x If You Have Any Question: Call MA-3321 for Answer

‘(Another Story, Page Two)

The combination for unlocking the vault of Marion county's scrap . | metal is MARKET 3-3-2-1. . Between now and the time ‘the axis is whipped, every Tesiqent should | have this number at the tap. of his telephone pad. It’s the number. we €¢all for: disposing of our scrap metal if the metal r}is too bulky to carry:to.one:of the 700 depots throughout the county.

(And it’s the number where . a pleasant-voiced young’ Jady.. ‘will answer any of ‘the individual ques- »| tions regarding the campaign which

opens Monday and where any com- |.

plaint ean be satisfied. WE Questions Answered

What is Market 33217. . It is two rooms in the Banker's Trust . building.

women, each at a switchboard. If a“ householder calls in‘ and wants

.|to; donate ‘scrap to charity, the op-

erator.who answers the phone. asks the caller which charity. he wants to have the scrap. . Then the operator ‘notifies | the charity .which

"| sends its truck to the ‘home;

“Or if the householder: wants to sell ‘the scrap, the operator ‘notifies

a ‘scrap ‘metal dealer who calls at

the home. If the householder wishes : to donate the scrap directly to the government, than the operator calls a. dealer who comes to the home armed with a “letter of authority”

from the government.

' McCracken Co-ordinator

Occasionally there is a question].

which * the ' operator can’t answer. Then she switches the call to the other ‘room where L. B, McCracken, manager of the telephone answering service, knows the answer. : - Mr. STsOrachen is ;alda-ithe .codealer and

civilian defense council.

“A ae war podiion” Yous pam i

In one room are three young|’

® .

Filling Stations. Serve as Depots.

How you can dispose of the! scrap mesial: 1. Place it in one of the 00 depots in front of every filling station in the county. 2.'Sell“ it ‘to a scrap’ metal dealer. 3. Donate it to a charity. Call Market 3321 and theyll take care of it.

U. 3.-BRITISH CONVOY|

ARRIVES IN RUSSIA

Losses Suffered but Most Of Ships Reach Port.

LONDON, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—The admiralty reported today that “the great majority”. of British and

RULING IS NEAR

J ROSS, members of the: saféty board | which .early ‘this month obtained a

‘ON MORRISEY

Draft Board 9 to Give Decision Tonight on: Deferment.

Draft board 9 will decide tonight whethér to defer until Jan. 1 the drafi. induction date of. Police Chief Morrissey, at present scheduled to report for induction Oct. 3. ~~ Donald 8.‘ Morris: and Frank B.

30-day postponement of induction

‘|for the chief, are to appear before|

the draft board to ask for a deferment until Jan. 1—the date the Sullivan city administration goes out of uffice. i Edward J. Hinton, board chairman, said the: board would study thoroughly “all angles of the Morrissey case.

Calls Chief Essential

# £ &

‘Showers this afternoon and’ tonight; temperature Shightly higher this afternoon and cons

ADVOCATES OF

House Approves Section Letting President Fix

Prices and Wages.

. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U.P). Ean administration poll revealed

[today that farm interests at pres.|ent have more than enough votes [in the senate to override President

Roosevelt and write into the antiinflation bill an amendment increasing by 12 per cent the parity price at which ceilings may be im-

| posed on farm products.

Although senate leaders declined to reveal the exact results of the overnight poll, it was learned from other sources that it ‘showed the

# farm fight would go against the

tration. Senator Prentiss Brown (D. Mich), manager of the bill, forecast a presidential veto of the measure if the farm amendment—requiring the inclusion of all labor costs in computing parity—is kept in the bill. The amendment would force Hv-

ing costs up an estimated $400,-|

000,000 a year. Brown warned that if farm groups want stabilization ef industrial wages, their last chance is to follow the administration line on the pending ‘price stabilization measure.. Bill Debated Third Day

PACE Ld

erent: 11S OF TO the opening oul

Rhe third. day of senate debate,

The administration - opposed amendment is sponsored by Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.). It was originally urged on the farm bloc by leaders of large farm organizations. Thomas estimated the other day that about 250 farm “lobbyists” were in Washington seeking to put through the amendment. After the leaders’ conference, Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley ‘of Kentucky conceded that the tontest between the administration and the farm bloc looked “pretty close.” .

Be Logical, Brown Pleads Brown described administration

prospects as “pretty tough,” but. he and Barkley were trying to swing

.| votes back to their side.

Brown said that if the farm group would “listen to logic instead of to pressure” it would realize that if labor costs are included in the cost of farm commodities, it would also have to be considered, in the cost * (Continued on Page Five)

‘Dead’ Seaman Reported Alive

THEY THOUGHT that Paul Raymond Sharkey was dead. That’s what his grandmother here thought and that’s what his par-’ ents’ in ‘Elmhurst, N. Y., believed. - Then today the navy announced in Washington. that Paul is reported safe. = Nine others likewise thought to be. missing also were reported safe. “Thank the Lord. We all rejoice,” the grandmother, Mrs. Lucy McIntire, of 849 Eugene st.

+ I will write to his par-

3 were. tald the results of

‘ colder tomorrow forenoon.

Entered ai Second-Class Mat Indianapolis,

Matter st Sosiotive

Ind. Issued \

Lost Glory

Forgot She Married: Why the Fuss? ~_ Mate Asks.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent “| HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 23.—Henry Miller, the Hollywood stationer

whese bgautiful blond wife forgot}. .

she’d married him, couldn't un-\ derstand today what the fuss was about. ) “So she lost her memary,” said the portly, 42-yehr-old Miller, who'd been: interviewed and photographed until he felt a little dizzy. “It could happen to anybody. All I:hope is that Glory and I can start all over again.” The dazzlingly blue-eyed Glory Caroline Weller Miller, 25, and curvesome, wasn’t so certain. She couldn’t. get used to a husband, when all she thought she had was amnesia. She didn't even Know she was a blond until she looked in a mirror. Her hair used to be red. “I must have bleached it,” she said. “I don’t like it. There are a lot of things I don’t like.”

Mrs. Glory Weller Miller

os » » THERE ALSO are a lot of things she can’t remember, such. as the name of the bank where she has her money—and how muth money. ‘And how she ever happened to:marry Miller in Las Vegas, Nev., last May 1. All she can remember is that her husband, H. Pierce Weller, was’ a retired newspaper :publisher from Binghampton, N. ¥, He died in Atascadero, Cal., last November. . “I'm going to take her to a psychiatrist,” Mr. Miller said. As for Mrs. Miller, she said the man who said he was her -husband had been kind. He'd even offered her a divorce if she insisted. But he did have & double chin and she couldn't imagine herself marrying a ‘man so equipped. All that is trouble enough, Mrs. Miller - said, without some old meaniés hinting in print that maybe she was anxious to get in the movies and that maybe, just’ maybe, mind you, a story like this one might help. Anyway, she’s’ already been offered a movie job. “Only I don’t quite remerhber which studio it was,” Mrs. Miller said. Honest. That's what she said.

TIME FLIES TO NAVY Tempus Fugit enlisted in the navy today. ‘He told recruiting officers that his parents gave him the name at the suggestion of the doctor who attended his birth.

REPORT FALL OF TANANARIVE NEW: YORK, Sept. 23 (U. P)—

The British radio reported today that British forces have captured

city recorded here by CBS.

'CHUTIST SCARE SOLVED HARTFORD, Conn,, Sept. 23 (U. P.) ~The parachutist scare at Rocky Hill Monday was caused by an army plane which lost a 24-foot sleeve target, state police announced

today. The target was made of ‘fine wire mesh covered with canvas.

Nazis Level Entire Blocks to Make Gains of 100 Yards

units blsat: the Germans. from the cellars and rubble where they have dug in. bia Combats for street comers are

ight, Senate Poll

VITAL

Plane Sorties Daily

dee-saw aspect.

few blocks Sistant, they were

BRITISH REVEAL 3 DESERT RAIDS

Miles . Behind Rommel Lines at Ports, Oasis.

‘By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent British headquarters in Cairo revealed today that imperial commandos had struck in a wide offensive behind Marshal Erwin Rommel’s lines. Picked raiders struck 550 miles behind the Alamein lines to attack Benghdzi and Barce simultaneous with the previously reyealed British commando attack on Tobruk. Another desert column surprised Gialo, the axis-held oasis only 135 miles from the Gulf of Sirte and held the spot for nearly a week, wrecking all the supplies and installations at the spot. : Cairo believed that the aggressive tactics of the imperial forces had dealt a heavy blow to Gen. Rommel’'s attempts, to reorganize his forces after the failure of his attack on Alamein.

Raiders Return

The attacks on Benghazi and Barce apparently were one-night hit-and-run affairs by small bodies of picked men a week Sunday. They appeared to have de-

”

.| signed particularly to destroy air-

fields, aircraft on the ground and aviation facilities The yoyal air force co-operated in the attacks, engaging axis planes attempted to attack the imperial raiding parties. The communique reported that

The raiding parties at Benghazi and Barce may have been landed either by sea or air,

CRISIS IMPROVES

Is Churchill's Plea.

yi Red_Star rene northwest sector

But Keep Building Them,|

SOVIETS REGAIN: HILL IN SEE-SAW FIGH

Nazis Push On in Qther Sectors, Sending

to Blast Forward;

Rain Sweeps Ruins for Sixth Day.

MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (U. P.) .—Front dispatches today re ported a Red army counter-attack has smashed’ through Nazi lines in northwestern Stalingrad, regaining a domi nating height, but in other sectors, German pressure dros the Russians out of positions along several battered stmee With the tide of battle flowing indecisively in the tered ruins of what had once been Russia's model indust: city, the army newspaper Red Star proclaimed that the resu of street fighting thus far disclosed that: “Stalingrad can and will be held.” Front reports indicated that the fighting had taken on § Soviet forces were bombing and blasting their way forward, particularly ini the critical notthweste portion of the city. But at other points, sometimes only;

falling back before masses Nazi tanks, attacking in clos order. : bas BR (The German high col mand , communique:

that’ the. fighting was now “in: center of ‘the city” and -that

day's Russian oun ata

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ments of Red army men smash their way through the Germ fortified front line positions stormed a hill which a ide ares. A special dispatch to the | y newspaper Red Star said that the new Russian gains northwest | Stalingrad might thregien the G man left flank. While ground forces fought utmost bitterness, one of the grea est air displays of the was bel staged in the skies over S The Communist party ne Pravda reported that the lu was throwing unprecedented bers of planes into the support o the ground attack.

Nazis Complain of Rain

German air sorties were said be averaging as high as 2000 a | with = the Nazi” planes app aiming for the complete des of Stalingrad. (German complaints about weather conditions at were increasing and London the Stalingrad battlefield had t swept by rain for the last six days to overcome the hi storie efense, the Germans st: ed to concentrate attacks on or four blocks at once, trying § level them by a combined be bardment by field guns, J and airplane bombs. ¢ Thousands of men perished un the debris of Wirned buildings - dispatches said that the street: sidewalks were strewn with kb © 3000 Die in 2 Streets The midnight communique t lined this terrific death toll we ing that the capture of two sti had cost the®Nagzis 3000 killed 30 4 tanks destroyed. : In the Mozdok area of the casus, where the Germans are ing - for the Grozny oil fields, t noon communique reported that 8 enemy attack supported by 40 t bearing special sub-machine ners was broken and that ef tanks and more than 100 to gunners were destroyed.

On the War Fro

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