Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1942 — Page 5
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By ROBERT MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES PACIFIC , PEARL
HARBOR, Sept. 30 (U. P).—The
United States invasion of the Solo-|: mon islands and the severe air and|: naval losses inflicted on Japan in|: the South Pacific have started to|:
show their effect on Japanese of
.fensive power, well informed sources said
It was believed to be increasingly
™ unlikely that Japan was eager
attack Russia, as & had almost or planned to do when the German offensive reached its climax. It was suggested also that any Japanese plans to drive against Alaska through the Aleutian islands might have been thwarted because of the necessity of diverting naval and marine forces to the Solomons to fight against a threatened united nations move northward. The Japanese: have been compelled to concentrate large aerial and naval forces at their bases at Rabaul in New Britain island, east of New Guinea and just north of the Solomons, and at Truk island in the Carolines, north of Rabaul. These forces Japan apparently regards as necessary to guard against a big united nations offensive.
LONDON, Sept. 30 U. P.).—Well|
informed diplomatic quarters said , today that a series of talks between ' Russian and Japanese representatives in Moscow had failed to ease tension. Russian quarters expressed belief
. that relations would remain in the
present state so long as Russia maintained its powerful far eastern
‘army in Siberia.
These sources said they knew nothing of a report current here that Naotake Sato, Japanese ambassador.. at Moscow, in talks with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and other Russian leaders, had sought in vain to get Russia to co-operate with Japan in a program intended to allay feats of war in Siberia.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE T0 BEGIN MEETINGS
The first of a series of city-wide organization meetings under sponsorship of the Citizens School committee will be held at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Rhodius park community house. : (Citizens school . committee workers of ‘the 12th, 14th, 24th and 19th wards will attend as will the committee’s candidates who ‘are being sponsored for electibn to ‘the ‘étiool board next month: Candidates on the citizens’ ticket | are Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, Howard 8. Young, Clarence Farrington, Edgar A, Perkins and Dr. Harry G. Mayer. School committee ward leaders who are arranging the opening campaign meeting are Mrs. John Bell, Mrs. Leon Thompson, Mrs. Robert Goodlet, Mrs. Albert Suhr, Rev. Leon Weatherman, Paul Fischer, Fred Farquar and John Farley,
FIRST LADY VISITS SON, JOHN, IN WEST
CORONADO, Cal, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president, today visited her’ youngest son, Lieut. Gg) John Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt planned to visit naval hospitals in the San Diego
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has been visiting friends and relatives here and at Paoli. :
ON 35-HR. WEEK
Postpones Answer to U. S. Plea to*Mine Workers
Until Convention.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.~John L. Lewis, who ordered last fall’s “captive” coal-mine strike against the repeated pleas of President Roosevelt, has blocked an immediate answer to the government's request that the nation’s 500,000 bituminous
coal miners work more than 35 hours a week. Aided by disagreement among mine operators’ who sat in a daylong conference called by Interior Secretary Ickes, acfing’ as national solid fuels co-ordinator, Mr. Lewis postponed the answer until after the convention of the United Mine Workers, which will open in Cincinnati Oet. 6. Mr. Lewis insisted at one point that he would have to get instructions from the cenvention. At another point he said, “we’ll be glad to work six days a week, as the government asks, if we can negotiate the terms with the operators.” He made clear that one of his requirements will be that the operators pay time-and-a=half for hours above the weekly 35 now prescribed in contracts. 3
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VanNuys Says | Congress Can't Run War; Pledges
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Times Special : WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. — Congress has delegated much power to
the president and may have to} | | delegate more to win the war Sen-
ator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) told a rederal bar banquet here last
night. As chairman of the senate judiclary committee, Senator VanNuys was an honor guest. The banquet was for the annual judicial conference of senior circuit judges in session here. Giving an intimate picture of the| functioning of his committee, the| Indiana senator cited the many| statutes they have been approved) conferring extraordinary powers onl President Roosevelt during wartime. | Calls Congress Unwieldly “We have delegated much power to the executive department and may be compelled to delegate more before we win this war,” Senator VanNuys said. “Congress cannot run. this or any other war. It couldn’t do. it under Woodrow Wilson in the first world
‘war. If, couldn't do it under Abra-
bam Lincoln in the war between the states. ; “Congress is ‘an unwieldly, argumentative body of over 500 members, lt cannot make quick deecisions, change plans and policies and strategy as the daily situation presents itself. That power of necessity Has to be centralized.” Freedom Not Jeopardized + Pointing out that all the wartime powers statutes contain clauses cancelling their continuance after the war, Senator VanNuys declared that so long as congress and the courts continue to function properly these wartime extensions of power need not Jeopardize free government. “In my opinion, the préservation of the constitutional functions of congress can safely be intrusted to the congress itself,” he concluded. “One other more intimate assurance in conclusion. “Knowing every member of the senate judiciary cornmittee intimately and well and into the hands of federal Juciges largely is committed, I can assure you that the independence and integrity of our judiciary will be preserved as the foundation of our constitutional democracy.”
merits it ai MORE WOMEN TO TRAIN - GREAT LAKES, Ill, Sept. 30 (U. P.) —Rear Admiral John Downs, ninth naval district commandant, announced today that the fourth naval training school for women reserves will open Dec. 15 at Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, Ia. Four months of specialized training will be offered.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—Five American en-
Japanese landing on an island in the northeastern sector of this battle area and then played hide and seek with the Japanese for 15 days are safe after many hair-breadth escapes. Lanky, modest Staff Sergt. George Heap Jr. of Davenport, Ia., who is 17 pounds lighter now than on the day when his group first saw the Japanese approaching, told the story. . He commanded a lookout party that included Corp. Clayton Evans, Wales, Wis.; Pvt. Joseph ‘Kiranak, home address unavailable; Pvt. Richard Prossed, Seward, Alaske, and Pvt. Paddy O'Neil, Matoon, IIL. The quintet was stationed at a remote island lookout post atop a mountain when early in the morning of Aug. 25 they sighted a small spot on the water.
Ordered to Get Going
Soon other spots appeared, and presently the Americans saw that they were seven large launches, each containing about 30 Japanese.
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Yanks Win i in 15-Day Game Of Hide and Seek With Japs
Carrying a supply of hand grenades, rifles and tle else, the Americans began their flight. By this time the enemy had landed a few miles away and was headed toward the lookout station. “We went seven miles through the jungles before we halted that night,” Heap related. : During the days that followed, the quintet had a grandstand view of an allied air raid on Japanese warships—possibly a direct result of the tip the party had radioed to headquarters. The morning following the raid the Americans found wreckage on the beach, testifying that the bombing had been successful.
Allied Planes Dive at Boat
Once a Japanese ' patrol passed within 100 yards of the lookout party. On a later occasion, allied planes dived at their small boat while they were attempting to reach the mainland. Picking up the story after the first seven-mile dash into the) jungle, Heap said that the next morning the party came to an isolated spot on the beach and discovered two abandoned canoes. “We took the one that looked best to us and started paddling like hell for the mainland,” he said. “But we'd gotten only about half a mile when the canoe started to sink, so we turmed around. We had almost succeeded in reaching the shore when the canoe sank. We swam Lthe rest of the way.
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“We then aqecided to go to the opposite side of the island, We rested one day in the mountains, and then at dawn made our way to another island where we spent five days walking around and eating yams, pawpaws and bananas.
lan abundance of fresh water, «= “I ordered the men on double quinine —20 grains daily—because we couldn't risk anyone getting ta-
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Selection Delayed, but VanNuys Disagrees. By DANIEL McKIDNEY Times Staff Writer ‘ : WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Ser tor Frederick VanNuys and Rep. William H. Larrabee, both Democrats, launched a little war of their own here today involving the capture of the Muncie postoffice—or rather postmastership. Because Muncie is in the new 10th district in which he is opposing Republican Rep. Raymond 8S.
handed, killed two Japanese: gunners, and turned the gun on the enemy lines. “When the ammunition ran out, Oberg picked up the gun, hurled it at the Japanese, and stalked back to his own lines. “I was just mad,” ‘he ex- | plained. That was one reason why the ambitious enemy attempt to recapture Guadalcanal on Sept.
12 failed. rabee wants the postmaster ap-
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But Senator VanNuys said today that he has ne intention of postponing action on it and expected the man he has chosen to be named “shortly, perhaps this week.”
3 Mentioned for Post
The VanNuys’ choice is said to be Fred W. Mullin, Muncie contractor. Others on the three-man list (second tc be announced) are the incumbent postmaster, Lewis H. Acker, and his first assistant, Merrill Jones. William (Red) McClellan, Muncie attorney, oncé was slated for the job by Senator VanNuys, but now
Opened During W World War I, It Offers Books to Help Win World War I.
Central Library, which opened its
will round out a quarter of a century of service next Wednesday in the midst of a program designed to aid in winning world war II. The library was dedicated Oct. 7, 1917, on the birthday anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley, during a city-wide Liberty bond drive. Commenting on the library’s part in the present war, L. L. Dickerson, librarian, said that 60,000 library books have been borrowed for war work in the last year.
Offer Industrial Beoks
“We are doing everything possible,” he said, “to provide local war industries with the books and information they need to keep their machines humming. Duplicate copies of the latest and best shop manuals, books on blue-print Teading, textbooks on précision instruments, electrodynamics, radio, metallurgy and the like have been purchased for the men on the job. We feel that we are contributing in a small way to the big job that lies ahead.” Highlights of the library's 25 years of service in the present building at Meridian and E. St. Clair sts., include:
140,000 Borrow Books
The circulation of the 70,000,006th book on June 21, 1042. The registration of the 140,000th borrower on Oct. 14, 1941. The ranking of fourth in the nation among libraries in cities of over 200,000 population in the percentage of borrowers and in circulation per capita.’ More than one-third of the city’s readers have library cards and over seven books were read per person last year.i . The library building itself, designed by Paul Crete and associates of Philadelphia, is recognized as one of the finest examples of classical architecture in’ America.
1-Leggéd Driver Pays $130 Fines
A ONE-LEGGED man chatged with three traffic offenses, including driving while drunk, paid $130 in fines today in municipal court after he was found guilty by John John L. McNelis. A 180«day sentence on the state farm was! suspended. The man, Harry Williams, 8. Summit st., received the following fines: Drunkenness, $25 and costs, fine suspended; driving while drunk, $100 and costs and 180 days on the state farm, days suspended, and reckless driving, $25 and costs, fine suspended. His drivers’ license was suspended for a year. Williams told Judge McNelis that he had never been. arrested before and that he had driven a car for 25 years without having an accident. He was arrested following an accident last July in which a woman was slightly injured.
TOSSES IN HIS SAFE ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 30 (U. P). be 500-pound safe is the scrap-| collection donation of James Corrigan, a garage owner. “I ‘used to keep the safe to put money in,” said Corrigan today, “put now I'm using my funds to buy war bonds and there's no more need for the strongbox.” hr Ab RS A tn OHIO CITY BANS “BEEFS” . "ASHLAND, O,, Sept. 30 (U. P.).— Every Thursday is going to be “beefless day” here for the duration, and this doesn’t refer to the meat shortage. From now, it will be against the aw to beef, grumble or
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friend. Because the controversy has kicked up ‘such a fuss among the Delaware county Democrats, Rep. Larrabee would like to see it put off and may confer with departmental officials to see if that can be done. Senator YanNuys has all postmaster patronage in the Republican districts. He says that it is his concern and not that of Rep. Larrabee, who now represents the 11th district in which Muncie is not included.
ADD TO MUSIC UNITS AT WARREN CENTRAL
Twenty new members have been added to the senior band and orchestra of Warren Central high school. They replace graduates of last year.’ The new members in the senior band are Constance Acree, Helen Johnson, Ruth. Middleton, drums; Jo Ann Butler, cia Free, Victor Free, Mabel Ping; clarinets; Jim Curry, Robert Day, Harry Kuper, Leland Reich, cornets; Merlin Featherstone, Robert Johnson, trombones; Marilyn Gleason, flute; Buddy Phillips and Ernest Sanders, saxaphones. New members of the senior orchestra are Harold Askren, Jacquelyn Bernhart, piano; Jo Ellen Rodewald, bass viol, and Charles Suite, Yiola, :
WARD 19 DEMOCRATS HOLD RALLY TONIGHT
Activities for ward and precinct workers of the 19th ward Democratic club will begin at 8:30 tonight with a get-together and rally at King ave. and W, 10th st. Ira Haymaker and Mrs. Minnie McGrew, ward chairman and vice chairman, announce that entertainment will include motion pictures, a hill-billy band, community singing and Uncle Sid Jerome of radio station WLW. Charles Boswell will be master of ceremonies at the public rally. Members of the arrangements committee are: Mrs. Naomi Baskerville, Mrs. Johanna Copeland, Ada Guteman, Mrs. Bernice Williams, Mrs. Lillian wilburn, ‘Mrs. Una Jordan, Mrs. Gladys McHugh, Mrs. Helen Bonestel and Miss Mary Ann Shea.
NAVY AIR CANDIDATES TO BE’ INTERVIEWED
Ensign W. A. “Ad” Vance, former Logansport high school and Northwestern university basketball star, will interview young men for navy flight trailing tomorrow noon at the Federal building. Now assigned to naval aviation cadet procurement, Ensign Vance announced that if enough men in the Indianapolis area become cadets a special Indianapolis squadron of “Lexington Avengers” will = be formed. = High school graduates between 18 and 27, Supartion, are eligible.
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ANKARA, Sept. 30, (U. P.).—Italian planes have leaflets over Beirut in which Benito Mussolini promised to “liberate” the Arabs soon, it was learned today. Il
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Sentenced. 22 Days After - Killing Two Women Welfare Workers.
SPARTA, Wis, Sept. 30 (U. P.). —Robert Taylor Bailey, 20, an army deserter and confessed rapistslayer of two women welfare workers, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday to “ponder for the rest of his life on the crimes he has committed.” ‘The sentencing of Bailey was merely a formality by Circuit Judge Robert 8S. Cowie who came from his home in La Crosse to accept | Bailey’s plea of guilty and assess ‘| the supreme penalty under Wi sin law.. The state has no: dea penalty. “This is the most terrible crime in the 50 years of my acquaintance with Wisconsin law,” Judge Cowie
BEST IN"WORLD : ! said. “The value of the Wisconsin principle of not inflicting capital
unishment is proved here. The Headmaster of Of Texas. Ajp{mishitent is pre en School Says U. S. Army
be to ponder for the rest of his life Keeps Up With Times.
FT. WORTH, Tex. Sept..30 (U. P.) —Many a youth of 21 who was piloting a $50 jalopy around a college campus last year now is at the controls of a $300,000 army bomber, handling it on a perilous battle mission with the same assurance that he had in 1941 when he wheeled around to the sorority house for his Saturday night date. The story behind that transition is the story of the U. S. air forces flying éraining command—the air force branch which teaches cadets in a little more than a year solutions to the thousands of problems concerned with aircraft mechanism, bomb velocities, navigation and gunnery technique. “f I~. Map. Gen. Barton K. Yeunt is the headmaster in this tremendous academy where the students’ lives and perhaps the life of the nation itself depends on lessons ‘welllearned and .upon correct assignment of men to duties which they are psychologically fitted to perform.
Flew in World War I
The white-haired, 58-year-old general, whose headquarters, are here, near the geographical center of the nation’s training activities, is a West Pointer and was a flier himself in the first world war. In an interview today he said: 1. That American pilots ‘are the best trained in the world. 2. That the training program is keeping abreast of army air force demands. 3. That the flying training establishment is the biggest in the world and is growing all the time. He said that graduates bf the country’s air ‘schools are the best trained of any airmen in the world because. the gir. schools take; the time to give our men “the works.” Rather than streamlining courses and rushing students through to meet pressing war needs the air forces have enough training facilities so they ¢an and do constantly expand their training course to include lessons learned in actual combat.
Maj. Gen. Barton K. Yount . ” »
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“Man for man our pilots are bets ter trained than those of any other country,” the general said.’ “Our training courses are never static since we are constantly bringing men back from combat zones to keep us up to the minute on latest battle requirements.” The’ general himself studied the air battle of Britain on the ground two years ago and Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, hero of the April bombing of the Philippines, is in charge of the ,southeastern training center. On the staff of Maj. Gen. Ralph P. Cousins at the West Coast center is Brig. Gen. M. PF. (Mike) Scanlon, former air forces commander in New - Quine, :
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