Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1942 — Page 2
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sn’t” Believe Congress |
Too Cowardly to Pass ' __ Pre-election Bill.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
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John W. Boehne Jr. (D. Ind), who will be one of the house conferees , the tax bill when it comes from the senate, today predicted that con
ness will pass the measure “before
pate committees will start. “I am not one who atieves that congress is too cowardly pass this drastic tax bill before November,” Rep. Boehne declared. 3 » o 8 " John W. Boehne ITI has been sworn in as a member of the TU. S. naval reserve. A graduate in chemical enginee at Indiana university, Mr. Boehne will begin at once a course of study to win a commission as
yo eusign. in he navy’ ordnance
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Eharges ‘Politics’ ~That the Democratis delayed con- _ struction of the ordnance plant in . Vermillion county over a year be- ~ cause they were “playing politics” with the site selection was charged today by Rep. Noble ‘J. Johnson RE (R. Ind. ). ~The plant finally was located in * his district, the Terre Haute con- ~ gressman said,» but not until; an effort=hmd been made by the politicians to put it out in Oklahoma or in the seventh Indiana district . instead of ‘the ‘sixth. He also charged that workmen are being imported from the South and that the Democrats are brag- _ ging that they will swing the dis- _ trict with these votes. . Charging that defeat of antiadministration congressmen is being urged because they have obtained ' no defense plants for their districts, Rep. Johnson also alleged that southern Democrats are being employed’ in Indiana ‘war plants ‘for _ the purpose. of carrying the election in November. “Information comes to me that pressure is being put upon these "imported workers to register and vote,” he asserted. “Even Mr. Flynn, Democratic national chairman, has publicly stated gat ithe new deal would carry Indiana on this Sesount »
Visits in Capital : Maj. Vincenti¥, Harrington, wito with the air transport’ command at Stout field, Indianapolis, is in * Washington calling on his former _ congressional colleagues. Before taking an air corps com- _ mission, Maj. Harrington was serving his third term in the house as representative from Sioux City, Ia. He is a Notre Dame graduate and played as linesman on the famous team which produced the Four ‘Horsemen. . Maj. Harrington had high praise
for the Hoosier hospitality toward |
. service men which prevails in Indianapolis.
RUSS DUPLICATE - FRENGH AT VERDUN
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months at Verdun; the Rusyesterday estimated that Nazis had died at Stalingrad
- Russ Casualties Unknown
The Russians have not announced |
gir casualties at Stalingrad. Even ‘like the French at Verdun, they #2 more blood than the attacking 1 ns, it may be that the battle il prove a victory for the allies. By next year, the British and the pericans fnay be able to throw western Europe more fresh ps than the Russians have lost
Verdun did not end the first rid war, costly as it was to the and the crown prince who the imperial troops There were two years “of y battle before Nov. 11, 1918. lier will, a victory at Stalin-
aged
0 Hitler's headquarters on Don. There will still be bloody ahead. when the. history of world II is written, Stalingrad may
‘become just what the Russians |’
» called it—the Red Verdun.
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Reich’s Stalingrad Losses| Reported Up to 70%
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cut the north-south road and railroad which the Germans were employing to supply their forces at Stalingrad.
Military experts. in London Believed that the Red army would still have sufficient strength to wage a winter war against the Germans
‘|and pin down a major portion of
. |the: Nazi armies in Russia during ‘ |the cold months.
Dorothy Lamour. yesterday hung the first “Buy War Bonds” pennant on a trackless trolley here. To the right is Harry Reid, president of Indianapolis Railways, Inc.
More than 6500 persons bought more than $800,000 in war, bonds to get a first-hand glance of the
glamour which made Dorothy Lamour an outstanding’ Hollywood personality at Cadle Tabernacle last night. « The actress who skyrocketed to film fame by virtue of a sarong brought cheers from the huge throng again and again in her address. In addition to the sum raised for seats at last night's rally, county war bond officials reported that another $265,112 had been pledged previously and Indtanapolis industrial leaders gave Miss Lamour a pledge of $5/500,000 at a dinner preceeding her appearance in Cadle Tabernacle. Miss Lamour told. the crowd that “we didn’t’ start this war but we are going :t0 finish it. We can’t fight the war with bare fists. Buying bonds saves arms, eyes, legs and even the lives of our: boys.” She said this was her third tour of the country in the war bond drive and from what she has seen in the factories the only way to Jeep the
tanks and guns pouring from them was to buy more and more bonds. Miss Lamour was introduced by Governor Schricker and her appearance was sponsored by the war savings staff and the motion picture theaters’ activities committee. She already had raised $1,000,000 in bonds at rallies in Kokomo, La Porte and Lafayette Thurgday. Van Orman Acts as M. C. FP. Harold Van:Orman, Evansville, former lieutenant governor of Indiana, was master of ceremonies at the rally. He introduced various performers, including the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. chorus, Art Berry's orchestra, the Haymakers, Jack Hilliard, ‘Cookie Bowers, Catherine Westfield and her puppets, Frank Parrish, Harry Bason, Pat Henning of the Woody Herman show and Senar Pope Janderos, Mexico's musical ambassador. The welcome was given by Marc J. Wolf, state chairman of the. war activities committee. Members of the armed forces and the nurses’ corps entered the tabernacle to the accompaniment of their own marching music. Miss Lamour Teft Indianapolis last night for Chicago.
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Secripps-Howard Newspapers
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Perhaps to Astiaithan’ and Daghestan in the Caucasus. Then look for an axis flare-up in North Africa. Meanwhile observers here ask why allies do nothing in Egypt; whether they are waiting for Rommel to recuperate from whatever setback he suffered recently.
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House will accept inflation compromise on farm labor after senate does, pass fairly acceptable bill by president’s deadline, quiet polls indicate.” There'll be another fight—later—to liberalize basis of parity. Meanwhile farm-block leaders have made their record, are frightened by public reaction.
NOTE: Almost unnoticed in the furore ovér including farm labor tosis, another amendment went into the bill providing that price ceilings shall take account of profit margins of small packers. It was adopted without dissent. Smaller packing concerns. have contended for months they pay more for live pork than the selling price after processing.
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Manpower Review Indicated
- Influential house members talk of a reviéw of the whole manpower situation before they“decide whether to lower the draft age to 18. Some believe an army and navy of 13,000,000 couldn’t be supported adequately with man (and woman) power left at home.
+ Meanwhile, stalling on 18-19 draft threatens to boomerang. Congressmen bave wanted to ‘keep issue out of November elections; now find that current draft calls are so heavy selective service must start taking married men. Members fear uproar from country on this score may be worse than draft of boys would have produced. 8 =» =» 2 son Washington, on the one hand, and London and Moscow on the other, don't see eye to eye on treatment of axis victims. London and Moscow want to play tough. Washington holds that people of France, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland, even Italy, are hostile to Hitler, will help overthrow him when time comes. .. Along this line, reports from Europe say the situation is increasingly tense in Hitler-dominated ccuntries, with food riots- growing more frequent, and Hitler planning another meeting soon with Mussolini and other satellites to discuss ways of holding down lid.
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Myron Taylor’s secret mission to Vatiean, insiders say, was to lay before the Pope In some detail President Roosevelt's plans for a post-
worship. And to point out that an axis victory would doom the Catholic church as a free institution. 8 » »
Isolation Tag Worries G. 0. P.
State Republican organizations are being urged by party leaders here to adopt platforms based on the 10-point policy statement drafted by G. O. P. congressmen, pledging support tc F. D. R. in war program. It will help overcome handicap of ire-Pearl Harbor isolationism, they
‘Meanwhile Republican Chairman Joe Martin has invited senate and house members of his party to a dipner here next week to meet the new vice chairman, Frank Gannett, and the new finance chairman, Samuel Pettingill, both avowed isclationists. Note: House members who backed the ali-out-for-victory statement secretly rejoice that # was done while Wille was out of the
__ country, ‘so he can’t grab credit for it.”
war world based on the four freedoms—with accent on freedom of .
.'Believes Both Sides to Fight on These experts believed that the heavy losses suffered by both the Germans and Russians have not yet been so severe as to impair the major fighting strength of either
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After a bitter battle over one hill, northwest of Stalingrad the Germans retreated and left the wrecks of 17 tanks. ‘Three. thousand Germans were killed {in attacks on another hill. The: Germans failed to advance in
intersections. Soviet anti-tank
German armor, knocking out every tank directly hit. The Russians supplemented the fire of their anti-tank guns and artillery with hand grenade and benzine bottle throwers, and many Germans were roasted inside their tanks.
Naval Units Join Battle
Red Star said a “checkerboard” defense system was proving unusu‘ally successful inside Stalingrad. Cannon are set up to cover every approach, and when tanks try to advance, Red Star said, they ‘are met by a concentrated stream of fire from every angle that brings them to a standstill. New armored naval units, principally high-speed motor boats, joined the battle of Stalingrad. Coursing up and down the Volga, they attacked German artillery and tasks at short range and helped monitors to protect crossings against - dive bombers.
DISPLAY PRODUCTS OF VICTORY GARDENS
The results of the efforts on the home food production front will go on display at the fairgrounds eoliseum when the Victory Garden Harvest show opens at 4 o’clock today
Many of the exhibits in the 200
" |classes provided for growers and
canners were placed in exhibition,
| |[rows yesterday and all arrangements § |were scheduled to be com eted by.
noon today. Tickets bought in adv will sell for 30.cenfs and the a n price at the gate will be 50 cents. Grade and high school pupils will be admitted today for 11 cents and the proceeds of the show will go for the benefit of the emergency relief funds of the armed services. Governor Schricker, Lieut. Governor Dawson and Mayor Sullivan will
-|officially welcome visitors. Music
will be provided by the Ft. Harrison reception center band, the Tropical Sweethearts, an all-girl band, the Indiana Music Co, brass and accordion band directed by Herman H. Renne afid the Jordan-But-ler Philharmonic choir. Frankie Parrish, radio singer, will be the master of ceremonies tonight. Members of boy scout troop No. 6 will assist state police in handling trfffic and senior girl scouts will act as ushers,
Urban Wilde Gets Navy Commission
URBAN WILDE, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Real Estate bcard since 1937, has been commissioned a lieutenant in the navy. He will report Thursday at Cornell university for six months training as a naval communications officer. During his absence, Mrs. Mary H. Binford, who has n employed by the board since 1936, will be acting executive secretary.
MEN IN UNIFORM TO DANCE AT TEA
The Indianapolis service men’s centers . announce: A tea dance for men in uniform will be held from 3:30 to 7 p. m. tomorrow at the Claypool hotel. - Through the service men’s center, men also may arrange for passes to the Indiana roof. The Clothing Workers of America, local 145, is bringing an all-girl orchestra to the Illinois street branch of the service men’s club to play for dancing from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. tonight. The culiural aciivities cluo of this organization has a Sunday evening dinner every month for 30 service men.
TWO HELD IN KILLING
: held two men under $10,000 bond on vagrancy charges today following the fatal Shocking. vs a 32- -0ld Negro at 15th st. Senate ave. last t. ; The desd man, 'Torbet st, was
men, police said.
frenzied efforts to take vital street|’
weapons, firing from behind bar-|: ricades, were proving superior to|§
heart following « quarrel with two
| Curtiss-Wright E m - ployee Joins 2 Broth- . ers in Services.
Miss Margaret Maxwell THERE'S GOING to be another member of the Maxwell family in the army soon. The new member will be Margaret Maxwell, who will change from ‘the blue uniform she now wears as an employee
at Curtiss-Wright ‘to the khaki of the WAAC.
,o 08 OTHER MEMBERS of her family in army service include two brothers and a cousin. One brother, Maj. Howard H., Maxwell, is stationed~in Newfoundland. ‘He was a pilot in world war I and flew for 25 years in the Indiana National Guard. The second brother is Capt. Allison Maxwell, a Kelly field graduate now stationed at Waycross, Ga. Her cousin is Col. Warren H, Maxwell who is stationed at Panama City, Fla. He, too, was a pilot in the last war. Miss Maxwell will enter the WAACs in the next few weeks as a private but may be selected for officer’s fraining.
PRATHER NEW HEAD OF EXCHANGE CLUB
Clinton C. Prather was named president qf the Exchange. club. at the organizgtion’s- -annual dinner-and election of officers ;in the Olaypoel hotel last night:
Other officers chosen were William A. Claybaugh, first vice president; Allen O, Hershberger, second vice president; Charles A, Clark, third vice president, and G. A. Owen, Warren S. Gibson and Kenneth E. Lancet, members of the board of control. Tom S. Elrod and Walter H. Eggert were re-elected secretary and treasurer, respectively., A wrist watch was presented by the club to its retiring president, Frank L. Thomas.
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{blame by Coroner J. L. Denaut.
It You Get One, Youre Being ‘Studied for Possible Reclassification.
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to obtain the additional information to determine whether the registrant should be reclassified into 1-A. - State draft officials expect that
with most of the registrants. - The Agron A used by the local boards to: determine if a 3-A man should, be placed in 3-B. .
Asks About Income
' The questionnaire is a large, one=page affair which asks detailed
.|questions concerning* the regis- | £igh
trant’s family and the earning power of the various members. It eyen requires the listing of the wife's social security number, if she has ever had one. rants must specify«the total amount of money which their dependents receive from sources other than employment, stocks, efc. If a man’s wife has quit her job, he must state the date she did so and the reason for her action. Her last employer must be named and her last job explained in detail. The wife's social security number will offer FBI agents an opportunity to check in cases where the draft boards are not convinced a man is telling the truth about his wife and her job or former job.
Check Reconcilliations
The questionnaire also demands to know how long a husband and wife have been living together “continously,” a- change from the information previously asked. This apparently is designed as a means of finding out whether some separated couples “made up” and went back to housekeeping when the recent marriage-deferment law was enacted. Also, the government wants to know whether a man’s children are his own or adopted and how many of them, under 18, are living at home. The questionnaire shows that men with children over the age of 18 will not be considered “fathers” under the draft regulations. This will affect a large number . of men in the higher-age brackets. The questionnaire asks for de-
type of job held by the registrant.
LEGAL GROUP HONORS LOCAL ATTORNEY
» George W. Eggleston, general counsel for the Indianapolis Legal Aid society, was named to the executive committee of the .national association at the convention in Milwaukee yesterday.
lution urging congress to speed. -action on the soldiers and sailors civil reliéf bill. Mr. Eggleston said the bill would protect men in the armed forces against foreclosure and repossession of purchases contracted prior to Oct. 17, 1940,
KILLED IN TRUCK CRASH
LA PORTE, Ind. Sept. 26 (U. P.).—Henry S. Garland, 55, of Wauconda, Ill, was killed instantly yesterday when a truck he was driving collided with a semi-trailer driven by Frank Corder, Chicago Heights, I1i., at the intersection of Roads 30 and 35. Corder was absolved of
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A stratoliner trip across the Atlantic was so- uneventful for Corp. Charles E: Mosiman, 339 N. Bolton ave., that he slept most of the way
- Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mosiman, he had been stationed in an {administrative section of a bomber command in England, Last Tuesday, he received orders to be ready
the next morning for departure from London by stratoliner to ate
school at Miami, Fla. Twenty hours after leaving London, the plane landed in New York. “It was pretty smooth sailing all the way across until we neared the United States,” Corp. Mosiman said. “Then we ran into a storm and it] was. a, little bumpy. “The first part of the trip was so smocth and the bunks so comfortable that the six enlisted men and t officers carried as passengers slept most of the way.” The balance of the time, he said, was spent in trying to see ships on
IGE TO SPEAK AT BUTLER BONFIRE
Harry T. Ice, president of the Butler Alumni association, will speak Oct. 13 at the annual freshman bonfire to be held at the Butler university campus ovens. The event is) being sponsored by the Butler chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, national, service fraternity, and is open to all men of the freshmen class. \ Delmer (Skipper) Wilson, H. T.
Vitz, George Coffin and Stanley | Norton, executives of the Central Indiana Council of the Boy Scouts, also will be introduced. Jack DPemlow and Dan Orewiler, co-chairmen of the affair, have announced the following ‘committees: Correspondence, Earl Miller, chair. man, Martin Seidell and Harry Monroe; activities, Jack Patterson, chairman, William Witt and Robert Knowles; food, Don Helm, chairman, Harry Evard and Don Cutsinger; firewood, Ross Richards, chairman, Joe Church, Jim Nau and George Browne; cleanup, Alan Chab, chairman, Raphael Galer-
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from that altitude.
Anierican troops in feeling “pretty good and are aching to see action against the Nazis,” he said. Te Corp. Mosiman was graddated from Purdue university in 1941 and from Technical high school here in 1936. He worked for his father who operates the L. B. Mosiman Furniture Co., 1621 E. New York st., before being called to service in Oct., 1941, Right now, Corp. Mosiman is visiting his parents and friends:and awaiting orders’ as to when he should leave for school at Miami,
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