Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1942 — Page 2

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“Stirred People So Deeply ‘at Got Down in Their ~Shoes,’ Newspaperman- + Tells Publishers; It Was the People’s Party.

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OMAHA, he Sept. 23.—In Nebraska, a drive tor seroh, produced 27.000 tons in 18 dave, Here is how it was

; 3 was like a cross between a ‘horse ace and a Billy : , said J. H. Harding of The Omaha World-

y reéviv.

By CHARLES T, LUCEY N Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Thels

' fighting quality of the army will go

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down if there 1s too great delay]. .

in bringing men of 18 and 19 under the. selective service act, Rep. James Wadgnoren (R. N.: ¥) charged toy Mr. Wadsworth, co-author of the first, draft act and sponsor Now of legislation to riove the minimum

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a , telling - about the Nebraska drive at a meeting of oDADer publishers in Washington, :

‘Before the had fellows coming to my

drive was’ over,” Mr. Harding rind]

office and weeping about it—

women, mind you, but men. It stirred them so deeply,

ot clear down to the botms of their shoes. That's t it did to everybody, all ov the state. , woman gave. the shell casing husband brought home from un. He died a year after he home {rom wounds he got there. The shell casing was hat she had to remember the #st war by. And when she handed to the truck driver and told } what i was, the ‘truck driver

“a what the drive. did to

‘Stuck Out Chests

2 *Take the ‘WPA . fellows who .on the collection trucks and ported the scrap. They stuck their jests ‘out as they never had beon s WPA job, gentlemen.

hey aren't young men on the "WPA, but they pitched in and hanoy this heavy stuff’ and got hurt worked like Teolane and Toved

landed in a. ‘Tve' got ee boys in the service. I'm doJust as much for this country

I'm proud of the work we're down here.’ Fortis whole thing, gentlemen, is Somcthing that was done. by the in people, not the big shots. We 't use any of the fellows who're 3 to death with jobs like you've in your towns, the men whose nes are well known and who're i to do everything. We didn’t ‘them and we didn’t have to Bave them.

Get Scrap Together

“The Red Cross and other organ3 came in and said; ‘What we do to help?’ We found a Jor them. Red Cross block men saw everybody in their and said: ‘Get: yeur scrap il together, because on such / | such a day they're coming’ in $ to get it. ” day before the truck hit district, the Boy Scouts came hg and rang doorbells and said: your. scrap metal out on the o so the truck can pick it

i people’s party.

'sador Laurence A. Steinhardt plans

again. They blared that to every | home. “Fhe truck driver would. come | i

‘lalong with a WPA helper to pick

up the load. ‘It sounds like a pretty | thorough job, but my ‘gosh, there! was a lot of stuff left. We had a’ lot of complaints afterward that we hadn't come for the scrap and we wrote an editorial and: said: ‘Listen, Omaha citizens, this isn’t our job, this is yours; this is all donated labor, and ‘if they missed you, we're sorry. Get it in your wagon and bring it in.’ Metal Blocks Street “Yet on the last day of the drive, when we told Omaha kids that all theaters 'in town would give a free movie on Saturday morning and the admission would be five pounds|

of scrap, 12,000 kids laid 150,000 E

pounds in front of the theaters, blocking the streets. “One woman called up a coal man and told him slie wanted a ton of coal. As he was finishing delivering it she said: ‘Would you mind doing me a little favor? I've got an old icebox here, and the kids want to go to the show, and that’s all the scrap we've got. You just load it up and take it over there with the kids’. And he did. “A couple of little boys found an old rail and that was all the scrap

they had to get to the show. They 3

couldn't move the rail and they stood there erying, and a truck driver saw them. He drove his

{truck eight miles to bring the rail |E

into town so those kids could go to the show. “I repeat some of these things, gentlemen, because they show you how the people felt. It was the

“I get so ‘darned worked up, gen-

tlemen, ‘that I could talk all night about it."

VANNUYS BACKS BILL

. T0 SPEED UP JUSTICE |

: Times Special WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. — His experiences as U. 8. district attorney in Indianapelis during the first

they are. I'm proud of. them ‘world war caused Senator Fredericks

VanNuys (D. Ind.) to favor a bill'to speed up felony cases in federal courts, he said today, As chairman of the senate judiclary committee, Senator VanNuys brought forth a favorable report on

such a measure which has the back. |?

ing of the justice department and the judicial council. Under its terms trial can proceed at once in all federal felony, cases, except the capital offenses of treason

and murder, upon the filing of in-

formation by the district attorney.

Rather than ‘ remain in jail, 2 through failure to make bond before |=

fighting qualities of the army,” neia said. “Gen. Hershey (director of selective service) has made 1v perfectly plain that the Army. 18 Now|! taking in NUnATeds of thousands. of older men. :

“Thess wii are good ntetect-| :

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