Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1942 — Page 1

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Red Choos Says . «4% A Dictator? In America? Congress, You Are

| WASHIN GTON, Sept. 26. —This i is 8 something I never

expected to write. i. or the first time since 1 Have been foporting in ‘Washington, I believe we are in danger of going over to dictatorship. J don’t mean the temporary, quasi-dictator-ship that war always brings to a brief life. I mean dictatorship—period. "There can be no immediate return to : ‘normal’ when the fighting stops. If congress cannot recover its sense of responsibility and its independence from pressure groups like the ravenous farm lobby, it ~ will be no more capable of dealing with re- ~ “construction than it is Sapable of dealing EY Mr Citbper . with’ war problems. ‘week the breakdown of legislative government. Congress

is not legislating, it is carrying out the orders of a handful

of farm lobbyists who hover around the halls at the capitol and give their orders.. They are the congress—people you

We are seeing before our eyes this.

.w IT HAS BEEN going on a long time. Now it has reached defiance of an urgent need to hold. the economy of ' the country in balance. To see this thing happening at a critical time like this is an appalling event which sends #4 shudder through your frame if you want to keep this a democracy. Time and again I have said that dictatorships rise up ‘out of the decayed ruins of parliamentary government. Time and again I have said that those- who accused President Roosevelt of trying to become a dictator were silly. They were silly so long as we had a strong, health y congress which did not have to eat, out of the hand of one lobby. # “ » . # 8 » ~.1 HAVE NEVER seen any danger in delegating power so long as the agency delegating it is in good health. Modern government requires quick decisions and flexibility not easily provided by the legislative process. But strong executive power must be kept in a framework of pelicy set up by the legislative branch.

CONGRESS IS daring President Roosevelt to put his war powers to the test in a way that will mean White House defiance of congress on a question in which the public interest is so overwhelmingly on the president’s side that he is the likely winner—and democratic machinery the likely loser. Congress is risking destruction of its prestige and influence to a fatal degree. : ' "Weeks ago when 1 wrote rather bitterly about congress and its demagoguery, some of my friends in congress went into pouts. I understand some of the congressional ladies took out their hatchets also. Well, maybe I was a little rough, and I piped down, because coming from Baptist parents, I always figure that a fellow ought to have a chance to repent. But do we have to wait forever? I doubt if the country will wait forever. No. other country has been able to wait forever. One fine morning after parliamentary government has failed, some. loudmounthed fellow in a uniform gets up and announces he is boss and that you can call him Il Duce or Der Fuehrer and like it, by God.

sking For It’ THE ODD THING which every one of us ought to keep in mind is that the people like it—at first, certainly. These Germans and Russians fighting at Stalingrad believe in. Hitler and in Uncle Joe. They believe the strong man knows how to lead them to victory. They are glad that unbelievers were jailed or shot. When government breaks down, people turn to the man they think is strong enough : to put them right side up again. You know how this country turned to Mr. Roosevelt: that morning in March, 1933. He looked like the man whe could save the country from chaos. He's still around,’ Some things have occurred recently that suggest he ‘is: getting into the mood. Congress, you had better watch this. The people ‘won't save you. They’ll let you down the drain if that’s where you insist on going, and they'll : 13 tie to. Mr. Roosevelt as they did in 1938. Congress, you are asking for it, and it will be a sarry day for the United States of America if you get it.

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SOVIET TANKS KNIFING INTO

NAZIS’ FLANK]

Reich's Stalingrad Losses Reported Up to 70% “In Some Units.

‘By HARRISON, SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent ’ Soviet tank reserves today were reported knifing deeper ‘into vital Nazi positions on a range of hills northwest of Stalingrad while inside the 8it§ the Germans were being driven back with casualties as high as 70 per cent for some units. ‘Soviet dispatches and Nazi propaganda left: no doubt that: thé: Rus-

sians had thwarted immedixte Ger<|"

ts hope hopes of capturing Stalingrad.

ger to the still Brave while’ -qlerman reporis ) more and more the theory wat the capture -of Stalingrad itself was not necessarily vital to ' Nazi strategic plans, 1500 Slain in 12 Hours, Inside the key Volga city the Germans were reported stalled or fall ing back with terrific losses at most points. ' Their losses were estimated

at 1500 men, 20 tanks and 12 can-|

fon in’ the last. 12° hours. x ‘The Red! army organ, Red Star, warning that Russia would face new and possibly more dangerous threats if the Nazl armies succeeded .in capturing Stalingrad, said that the Germans planned to attack in the north, presumably on the Moscow front, as soon as their armies were, released at Stalingrad.

‘Report Supply Line Cut ‘Referring to the Caucasus drive Red Star said: “The Germans will not ) the oil. Moreover, they will be obliged to spend a second winter on the bleak Don steppes where there are fio forests.” ' Stockholm reports said that Swedish correspondents in Berlin now ‘are convinced that the Nazis do not believe Stalingrad will fall. They heard that the Russian counter--*(Continved on Page Two)

Pegler Tosses } In His Bumpers

{ : Times Special RIDGEFIELD, Conn. Sept. 26. —~Residents of this community held a bumper party in the center of main street this week and contributed 22 automobile bumpers to the nation’s scrap pile. The bumpers weighed from 15 to © pounds each. , One of those who added bumpers to the pile was Westbrook -Howard columnist, who suggested. “the bumpers be “contributed ‘to the scrap ple in: one of his recent ¢ ] i bod b maien that 00,000 tons"

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| WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Look for drastic cuts in civilian economy as a result of WPB’s recent reorganiza-

tion. ‘ . . Army-navy views on production, flow of materials, now dominate WPB. Indications are services will get all the steel, other scarce materials, they say they need. Rest, if any, will be available. for civilians. Ferdinand Eberstadt, new WPB vice chairman, who will determine’ programs, schedules, flow of materials, has been chairman of army and navy munitions board, sees eye to eye with its other members; favors steel quota plan and contract production control plan, . Under. them, holders of war contracts will get steel to fill those contracts, regardless. And Vice Chairman Charles BE, Wilson, in charge of checking on and expediting flow of finished goods, works through, a board on which he's the only civilian, Tog supply officidls of army, ndyy, army air forces and maritime commission ean outvote him four {6 one. ‘Donald Nelson, still titular head of WPB,.no longer quarrels’ ‘with agmy-navy plans for production epntrol, according to indications; himi predicts our civilian economy: must he out even mare Seeply than tains, t

as a stg ge " ey Change Due in Savage Situp

| New salvage division will be sef up soon in WPB to clean up mis‘managed scrap collections. Lessing J. Rosénwald will stay. on as

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Watch for & speedup of allied war efforts, Dissatisfaction clear around the globe with our defensive stance is piling up. 7 Suneehing ‘will have to be done—and the dope is thut something will 8 5 =» s x = It’s a good bet that senate militdty affairs eubeotigitios, just voted power to study défense matters throughout western hemisphere,

‘ will concentrate on need for unified command. Many of its’ members

visited Alaska recently, were dissatisfied with division of authority thére between army and navy. New study will include Panama and island bases. Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, one of the army’s ablest airmen, has nominal overall command at Panama but private word is that navy balks at oper-

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Even if Stalingrad falls—as eventually it must, because failure would be taken the world over at beginning of Hitler's end—competent

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be able to advance much farther.

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“the ‘Red Verdun.” This wéek’s fighting illustrated At Verdun in 1916, from army used up 431% of its. were 426,519 Germsns dead, The Germans. gaited a few square miles of territory between February and June, but never captured Verdun itself, though the fortress was shattered by as many as 100,000 shells a day. From the attack in February until the end of March, Verdun seemed to the world a German: vies tory, but France made the ruined fortress a symbol of her national honor and poured in her men unstintingly, just as Rusia has done

Volga. ‘Three Frenchmen were killed or wounded for every German casualty, {But the cost to France and Ger-

.Germany’s divisions were

French Stand at Verdun i in 16

By SEXSON HUMPHREYS For Wo weeks the Soviet army newspaper has called Stalingrad

Givisions. The official eastialty figures

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the significance of that name. / te December, the imperial German

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army. French casualties were replaced by the increasing strength of the British army and, a year later, by American doughboys. “The British relieved the strain on Verdun with the Somme offensive of: July, 1916. The last German attack on the salient was made early in: September. A largely British atfack late in October drove the Germans back to their old lines by December, So. far the battle of Stalingrad,

briefer ‘than the battle of Ve but the death toll in seven may have exceeded the terrific 11month bloodbath of Verdun. A total of 57,000. Germans died in the first

never replaced ‘in the imperiall

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\Boy Scout Commandos Here | Launch Scrap Drive Monday

(hadtons scrap. news, Page 9) ~ THE BOY QUT “commandos”

“the metals are too heavy to be to the deposit centers, em-

drive committee to make arrange-

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NEW TROUBLES PLAGUE LAVAL: OFFICIAL FIRED

Overthrow , Plot Feared; ‘Axis Expects Attack on

VICHY, pic 26 (wo. BP) Premier Pierre Laval fonight issued a formal denial that his government was about fo fall. “I am firmly decided to go through to the end,” he. said, adding that his government “has decided not to cede its place to another.” This' statement was the first . intimation that the French premier had been considering quitting his office. By UNITED PRESS Behind the war lines of Nazi Europe new troubles plagued the shaky regime of Vichy France today while the axis propaganda alleged that an allied attack on Dakar was im minent. i + Dispatches from Vichy and the French frontier indicated increasing difficulties for Premier Pierre Laval. Laval ousted his special secretary of state for relations with Germany, Jacques Benoist-Mechin, when he found him intriguing with the Nazis in Peris to displace Laval and set up a new regime headed by BenoistMechin, Jacques Doriot, the most radical of pro-Nazi Frenchmen, and Vice Admiral Charles Platon. Escape Plot Feared Laval also was reported to have broken with another close collaborator, Jacques Guerard, ostensibly because Guerard “talked out of turn” in Paris. Frontier dispatches told of a heavy guard placed around the Portalet fortress to thwart any attenipts- by Paul’ Reynaud and George Mandel, former premier and interior minister, respectively, to escape over the border to Spain. They. also reported widening riots, ‘demonstrations -and bombings in protest against Laval's yo-lad

himself Benoist-Mechin’s functions in the Cabinet and direction of the

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NEW QUERIES G0 T0 SOME IN 3-4

It You Get One, You're Being Studied for Possi- ~ ble Reclassification.

If you're a 3-A man and you get another questionnaire from your local draft board, here's why: Your Ibcal board is considering you for possible reclassification into 1-A and it feels it needs more up-to-date and: complete information on you and your dependents, if any, than it ‘obtained from the’ original questionnaire, ! The new supplemental questionnaires have been received by local draft boards within the past week and are to be used by the board when ‘they feel additional information is necessary. - “Many boards throughout the state already have started sending these questionnaires out but some, especially in the rural areas, are so well acquainted with the registrants that they do not feel it necessary (Continued on Page Two)

NEW LEXINGTON LAUNCHED IN EAST

Carrer Takes Ways | Year

Ahead of Schedule.

QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 26 (U. P.). —The new ‘aireraft carrier Lexington, named, for the ship sunk in the battle 1. the ' Coral * sea, © unch today more than a year ahead of schedule, with. heroes. of ihe ose Tady, Lex

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Little Guy in the Bantam Laughs at ‘Mr. 16-Cylinder’

into your total miles. And there you have it. Look: Say you live at 30th and Meridian. You are three miles from the Circle. That's a total round trip of six miles. Well, if you drive a Buick, perhaps, and average 15 miles to the gallon, your four gallons gives you a total maximum mileage of 60 miles. Four times 15. See? Now, let's go from there. You have to drive 6 miles ‘to get to the Circle and back. Six into sixty; Ten. Ten round f{rips. Lucky guy! But brother, if you own a midget car, how the girls will love you, A Banfam, you'll note,

By ROSEMARY REDDING They drove up to the stoplight —the little’ guy in his Bantam and the big chap in his 16-cyl-inder Cadillac. Six months ago, the little guy

Today, the big guy looked down with green eyes at the haughty little fellow in his “civilian peep.” Oh, man, what a change that little old four gallons of gas is going to make: Why, the little chappie with the Bantie is looking forward to about 120 miles ef driving every week if the powers-that-be say the ration is to be four gallons. That's right—30 miles to the gallon any day—four gallons—120 miles. And the 16-cylinder mister who considers himself lucky to percolate along on eight miles to the galion—why, he’s got a headache. What would you do with a big hunk of shiny automobile—and 32 miles a week? But you can figure your own motoring destiny for yourself. 1. How many miles do you get to the gallon? ‘2. How far are you from where you work? (Count an average of 10 blocks to the mile and make it double for the round trip.) 3. Take your gas mileage and multiply it by four (the possible ration figure). 4. Divide the round. trip figure

60 miles of joy-riding left. .But those big 16-cylinder jobs? You figure it out. Six miles into his 32 miles a week and he'll be out of gas right smack in the middle of the sixth trip. He'll’ have to ride the bus that last day! Now, mind you, this is all paper work and you can't blame me for the way our stop-and-go lights work. If you have to pull up and burn that “liquid gold” while you frét and fume for the light to change, just cut our ‘mileage down and refigure. Don’t you remember that adage *now?: The bigger they are, the “harder they fall.” ® 8» ’ oN 7 Round Trip LOCATION OF RESIDENCE Mise

Circle Meridian at 16 38th at Cen

(Average Mileage Per Gallo Bantam “Ford 1 Balok . 5

==Number of Round Trips— . 24. 18.7 10. 8 7. 3.8 9.1 56 32° 53 41 22 9.7 3 41 6. an 25

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Ss RUSSIA--Nazis squeezed between radio says German-controied port increased resistance r blockade.

within Stal-| ingrad and Russian offensive from northwest; forced to divert

HOOSIERS ASKED TO REDUCE DRIVING TO 60 MILES WEEKL

GAS RATIONING ON VOLUNTEER :

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ministration rushed plans for

- national gasoline rationing,

State’ OPA ' Director J

|Strickland today asked Hoos k: |sier motorists to cut down’ : non-essential driving - volun=.

tarily to 60 miles a week until the rationing program can be

set up.

He also appealed for ohservinion of a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit His statement followed the ans nouncement by Rubber A tor William Jeffers that the ing would be necessary to keep pos country’s economic life “rom break ing down. Mr. Jeffers did not specify sate for starting the program, but the unofficial’ guess was either Nov.: 1 or Nov, 15. eae

Follows Eastern Pattern

The 60 miles & week driving limit asked by Mr. Strickland: conforms" with the “A” book schedule of the eastern states rationing now in: fect. He asked salesmen to their sales efforts to use the t phone and mails and to k driving under 140 miles a . forming to. the “B” back of eastern states. Mr, Strickland sppesied to fense workers to form all the sharing clubs they can and if | are driving alone to try to use: other method of transportation. In his statement from Washi ton, Mr. Jeffers implied that drastic curbs will be necessary motorists fail to co-operate voll tarily. . “I want to avoid the n ty any additiopal curtailment of eit the speed limit or the gasoline tioning programs that are now posed, ” he said. “This is a game in whith An tl I Restricts Annual Driving The rationing, on a coupon ba: will follow the program. which h been in operation since last in 17 East coast states and the Di trict of Columbia. It restricts n

year. Supplemental allowances provided for more espential ¥

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