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STATE GROUPS RULE AGAINST ‘NEAL PAY CUT
Welfare and Personnel! * Officials Decide County
Action | IHegal.
The county welfare board has no|‘ legal authority to reduce the salary of Thomas L. Neal, county welfare| director, officials of the state wel-{ fare and personnel boards concluded after a conference today. The conference of state officials was = called today following the county welfare board’$ formal demand yesterday to make public a ‘year-old federal report on operations of the county welfare de-
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PACIFIC—U, 8S. .submarinés sink five Jap ships, probably sink two more, damage another. Army planes down six zeros and damage four Jap ships in Aleutians. Nipponese fall back further in .New Guinea.
RUSSIA—German tanks smash at Stalingrad in waves of 50; Soviets acknowlege Nazi advance; Berlin claims capture of industrial sub“urb of Orlovka.
WESTERN EUROPE--R. A. FP. resumes night raiding after eightday lull; U-boat yards at Flensburg are target of 300-400 planes.
AFRICA—British lines in preparation for “future general offensive,” then repulse Axis counter-attacks. U, S. planes
FACTORY AREA IN STALINGRAD
Russians Say Second Nazi All-Out Assault Is Making Headway. (Today's War Moves, Page 18) By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent ) ‘The Nazi assault crashed deeper i into Stalingrad today and the German high command .claimed the capture of Orlovka, an industrial suburb nine miles due north of the city and close to the banks of the Volga.
Japs Now Haves Lost 13 ; Vessels Off Alaska; | 74 to Subs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UW. P.).—Heavy army bombers and U. S. submarines have sunk or damaged 12 more Japanese + ships in the fare ranging battle of the Pacific, navy communiques disclosed
today. Army bombers hit two transports.
improve desert
partment,
Frank A. Symmes, chairman of the county board, had indicated that contents of the federal re-
port would explain why the county| earlier this week reduced
board
Mr. Neal's ‘salary from $5000 to] #= $3000 a year ostensibly to force the
directer to resign.
Gottschalk Cites Law
Thurman Gottschalk, state welfare director, said that after a study of the laws that attorneys and officials concluded unanimously that control of Mr. Neal's salary is held
exclusively by.the state.
He pointed out that the 1941 merit system personnel board act superseded the original state welfare act which gave the county welfare hoards power to Ax directors’
salaries.
However, the personnel act: gives the power to fix salaries to the ap-
pointing authorities.
Under a 1937
law, the state welfare board was given authority to appoint Marion ycounty’s welfare director, taking it ' out of the hands of the county board in this county only.
Says Report ‘Available
“The «state welfare board has fixed $5000 as the salary and it cannot be changed by the county board,” Mr. Gottschalk said. y Under. the law the personnel board must approve the payment of _ all salaries and 'Earl Beck, nember | of the personnel board, said his ‘board’ “probably would continue to approve paying $5000 salary for Mr.
Neal.”
: Discussing the county welfare board's demand that the federal re-{ port be made public,” Mr, Gottschalk today said “that report is here and available to anyone who
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wants to see it at any time.” ‘The report, submitted in April, 1941, was filed by the national so-
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HERRIOT REPORTED ARRESTED" BY VICHY
ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER, Oct. . 2. (U. P.). — Former Premier Edouard Herriott was reported ar- ~ tested today and interned at his chateau near Lyons following his refusal to’ sign a written promise
not to leave France.
Herriot, president of the defunct
chamber of . deputies,
and Jules
Jeanneney, president of the former
_J¥rench senate;
recently sent a
“ ‘warning letter to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, hinting at revoluetion if the Laval regime attempted to take France into the war on the axis side “against our. allies.”
PRESIDENT LOOKS FIT WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U.P.).— President Roosevelt appeared fresh and ‘energetic after his lengthy
trans-continental tour.
’ Reporters. who crowded into his press conference late yesterday received the impression of a leader who had been stimulated by his experiences and was physically fit to tackle the problems ‘he found upon
his return.
LATEST NEWS OF VICHY
. VICHY, Oct. 1 (U. P.) —(Delayed)
~The American embassy
sored).
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STOP WHISKY PRODUCTION WASHIN » Oct. 2 (U. P)—
TINY ‘SOLDIERS AID SCRAP DRIVE
50 Kindergarten Children Give Prized Possessions ‘To Help Win War.
.No combination of enemy powers
five-year-olds go oft to War. a And that is just. whakdds lagoons ing out at. the Brookside kinder-
garten of the Indianapolis” Freel” Kindergarten society; 3509 Brookside parkway, 8. drive. Yesterday, the 50, . youngsters | trudged off ‘to school ‘carrying some of their: battered but prized old toys. At 10:30 a. m. théy paired off and went hand «in hand carrying their precious scrap metal in. paper bags, baskets . and pulling it in coaster wagons. The scrap was deposited in the depot at school 54. : The group was in charge of Miss Margaret Ellen Shockney, teacher. : ® 8 8 i ‘Pickups Due Sunday - A special collection of scrap will be made Sunday for small pick-ups at’ homes throughout the city, it was announced today by Robert D. Johnson, chairman of the auto dealers’ and garage men’s section of the, drive. Those! with material to donate should call MArket 3321 and have the scrap ready between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m, If donors will not be home they should leave the scrap outside where it can be easily collected. At least 40 members of the Indianapolis - Auto Trades association will donate one truck each for the
collection. ® 8 =
Cemetery Gives Benches
Raymond E. Siebert, Crown Hill cemetery superintendent, said iron benches on many of the burial plots would be moved to the war scrap heap by the Indianapolis Good Will Industries. He said about three tons of wire [from floral designs also was being contributed.
CAIRO ANNOUNCES ‘LIMITED ATTACK’
U. S. Planes Bomb Axis
Ship i in Grecian Bay. CAIRO, Oct. 2 (U. P.) —British
will ever be able to send § a Azhiing :
4 Amfirican adit 4
Perhaps this is what the president meant when he said thai American people were far ahead of congress in their determination to prosecute the war. Five-year-old children of the Brookside kindergarten fall into a column of twos, and march away to the scrap heap with the toys, prized and battered, es a march of sacrifice.
Lauds People,
FDR Jacks Up Capital Spirit:
Raps Congress
(Diary of Roosevelt's trip, Page 9; photos, other stories, Pages 9 and 32)
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
nation,
WASHINGTON, Oct. -2.—Inspired by two weeks of direct contact with the American people, President Roosevelt today set himself the job of jacking up’ the war spirit of Washington to the tempo of ie
A: series of important presidential conferences were in prospect as »
Roosevelt, deeply impressed by his 8754-mile Consi-to-roagt tour of the
fidence that the people of the coun-
iy. are behind him and not in sym- :
pathy ‘with his crities. In: an ‘informal talk aboard - his trail before reaching Washington with ‘the three press association correspondents. . who accompanied him, and. later at: a full dress White ‘House’ press conference attended by some 200 correspondents, Mr. Roosevelt: showed clearly the: fighting spirit’ he had absorbed during his swing around the: country. -So_pleased was he with the trip that he hoped to make another next spring, touring the central part of the country and seeing such things as .the Tennessee vidlley authority
+|and other war activities not in-
cluded in this trip. The president came back with the conviction that the war produc-
an 22s umuation ¥ %
GREY
The dt evidenced full: coi -
out ate ot picdutiag)
he requested in Jandary was being! achieved within 94 or 95 per cent,| and he hoped for complete: achievement by: the end of the year and possibly better - in some classifcations. But the big news that he wrotight back ‘to the capital was his ‘belief that ‘war spirit and morale were!
good ‘everywhere—except in Wash- | -
ington, D. C.” 7 He attributed Washington's poor showing to three principal reasons: 1. Congress, in -an historically natural effort to share in the war effort, delves into subjects, particu(Continued on Page Five)
Capitol Hill Divided Over
Need for Tour Censorship
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. (U. P.).—Congréssmen and newspapers’ dif-
fered over the censorship. imposed
in connection with the president's
war inspection tour and certain: senators and representatives charged that the trip was made for purely political purposes.
“It seems a little strarge,” he said on the house‘floor, “that these alleged inspection trips of the
- | president always seem to occur just
before the elections come along.” Senator John ‘Thomas (RR. Ida.) said the president's tour “smacks of playing politics in the rnidst of war” and Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.) declared “it was purely a campaign trip, nothing else.” For those who charged politics, the president had an answer. He said he had seen no candidates for national office, no state party’ chairmen, and no state Democratic committeemen. - He did see 11 governors —seven Democratic and four Republican—but not all’ of them, he said, are up for re-election. Meanwhile, Washington corre-
spondefits, .representing newspapers
or news bureaus, Diviegied Srmally
Rep. Charles A. Halleck: (R. Ind.) fired the first shot on capitol hill with the assertion that the journey had “political implications.”
to the president against his etusal to take them on the journey.
News men ‘accompanying the
| president ‘were limited to one repre-
sentative each of the United Press, Associated Press and International Néws Service. They were not permitted to dispatch any stor
about the trip, however, until after)
Mr. - Roosevelt had returned to Washington and ‘held a general press conference at which he described the tour ‘to the newspaper men who had been left behind. A letter addressed pe to the chief executive was su tted to the White House by a mini tee of five, including Roscoe Drummond of the Christian & Science Monitor, Richard L. Wilson of the (Continued on Page Five)
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WILLKIE LANDS AT GHUNGKING
Delay His Arrival at
Chinese Capital.
- CHUNGKING, China, <0ct. 2 (U. P) ~Wendell L. Willkie, President
3 0
: here, one at Tihua, ‘capital of re-
in ay aie today. at the Chung-
Japanese Fighter Planes.
Soviet reports agreed that the Germans were making some headway—at a heavy cost—in what was described by the Russians as a second all-out attempt to swamp the defenders of Stalingrad by sheer weight of men, planes, tanks and artillery. Moscow said that the climax of the battle appeared to be at hand with ‘the northwestern sector of Stalingrad and the region just north of the city the scene of the most critical Nazi drives.
Nazis Make New Gains Today
The Russians said the Nazi advance had carried across a workers’ settlement (a possible reference to Orlovka) and was thrusting toward the heart of the city. Six big German attacks were said to have been launched in this area within 24 hours. Five were repulsed but the. sixth made some headway. Today, Moscow reported, the Germans were returning to the assault, sending forward spearheads of: 50 or more tanks which nosed their way across the rubble-strewn streets and won new ground in the northhb “sector. battle “was In “its “39th day
5.5 lana. the. Gira of the. new. ces
- Shortly’ after is ° arrival in an American air © a ‘plane,
Though Ee BA he dliy ‘was due 40 Japanese pursuit planes, he commented that the enemy craft, based on ‘airdromes perilously close to: his course, did not attack his plane. “I was in more danger of being killed by the overwhelming kindness of the Chinese people than by Japanese bullets,” he added. “I am proud to be here to meet Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who is truly a great: man of our age. - 3 . “Given . Noisy ‘Reception “I am:on- a fact finding mission here. “My judgment of the Chinese people undoubtedly will ‘be impaired |an because I am already in love with them.” From . the airport Mr. Willkie drove through ‘the gaily decorated streets of war torn Chungking, victim of innumerable Japanese bombing raids, in a half-hour triumphal procession to the salute of millions of exploding fire crackers. Mr, -Willkie said he had spent three days. in China before he came
mote Sinkiang province: one at Lanchow ‘and one at Chengtu. Mr. ‘Willkie was to dine with the American ambassador this evening and to pay official calls tomorrow
SERIES EVEN, BOTH TEAMS CONFIDENT
Cards: to Use a: Southpaw In 1st N. Y. Game.
man “offensive.
Exchange - Telegraph report, the Nazis were attacking under an or-
‘Ider of the day calling tpon them
'to'make good Adolf Hitler’s promise that Stalingrad would be taken. “The nation awaits the fall of Stalingrad in the near future,” the order was quoted ‘as saying.
4-Day Battle for 15 Houses
Indication of the intensity of the fighting was one Russian communique which reported that. a battle had raged for four days over a small area which contained only 15 houses, three of them stone. Into another area .about the same size, according to the government newspaper Izvestia, the Germans threw 3000 artillery shells in one day. The Russian pincer counter-at-tacks made some further progress. Capture of several strategic hills and ravines widened the wedge in the German left flank along the Don river near Kletskaya, some 50 miles northwest of Stalingrad. Another village—the fourth in two days—was recaptured on the enenemy’s right flank, south of the city.
Caucasus Attack Checked
In the Caucasus, the Russians claimed to have checked an attack by 30,000 to 45,000 Nazis apd 250 tanks in the Mosdok area ‘guarding the Grozny oil fields. The Russians held the initiative south of Novorossisk and had killed 2000 Germdns and Rumanians in the past 24 to the communiques. In the Baltic, Soviet warships Were credited - with - sinking two German transports. Continued operation of Russian ships in the Baltic is a mystery, since the naval bases are supposedly in German hands.
According to ok
raid Greece.
R. A. F. BOMBS U-BOAT YARDS
‘300 to 400 Planes Break
Eight-Day Lull in
Night Raiding.
- LONDON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Royal air force bombers in large numbers blasted the German U-boat yards. at Flensburg and objectives on the Baltic coast last night to break an eight-day lull in’ night raids on Germany, the uir ministry
announced today. The air ministry’s announcement that 17 bombers were missing indi
craft participated in the raids. Planes of the coastal command similliansously Attacked ‘German
of British coast toward France.
Nazis Admit Heavy Attack
Flensburg, near the Danish fronHet, also was the target of the R. A, P. in its last attack on Germany Sept. 23. The official German news agency, which first attempted to play down the raids by saying a ‘few bombs were: dropped ' on non-military objectives,” admitted later a ‘heavy attack.” The Germans claimed 20 planes were downed.
Many Factories Attacked
Flensburg’s ship building yards and - wharves were the principal objectives of the bombers, but the city’s numerous copper and iron works, glass and paper factories also offered tempting targets. ; Unfavorable weather had kept the R. A. F. from raiding Germany by night the past eight days. German ‘broadcasts today repeated their warnings to fhe populace against incendary' balloons which British planes were said to be dropping over the reich. The Germans said the balloons, three to nine feet in diameter, carried bottles of inflammable liquids suspended on wires designed: to set fire to crops and forests.
WON! WIN! WIN?
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 2 (U. P).— The newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, commenting on speeches made by German leaders in the three Octobers of the war, said today: “In 1940 ‘Germany considered she was ‘victorious. In 1941 she considered she would be victorious. In
1942 she considers she musi: be vietorious.”
Edwin C. Hill Broadcasts
cated that between 300 and 400 air-
near Kiska, Japanese base in the Aleutians; damaged and ' probably sank a submarine, and bombed and strafed a cargo ship. One of the transports was listed as “probably sunk.” ! In Far Eastern waters, Subme rines sent to the bottom a large seaplane tender, a large cargo-pass senger ship, a large freighter and two medium-sized cargo ships. They also damaged and. probably sank two medium-sized cargo ships and a large tanker.
Four Raids Reported Disclosing that army Liberatop
solidated B-24’s—are now operating in the Aleutian. area, the navy the army craft carried out four raids on Sept. 27 and 28 on the Kiska area and a fifth attack on Attu, another of the western Aleu tian islands. The enemy now has suffered these {
tians alone: 13 sunk, 3 probably sunk and 21 damaged for a total of 37 ships. : First of the Aleutian attacks ported today was on Sept. Nn when: the army’ liberators bomb
Kiska, One. seep down. 1t was" Timpdssible, to to terminate d to objectives.
that ‘engagement. Force Transport fo Halt
On the same day, three army. bombers caught a transport es+ corted by a destroyer near A Near misses damaged the trans. TE port, the navy reported, and aps 8 parently forced the ship to stop. ~~ Early on the following m a strong force of army Fr bombers, protected by fighters, again attacked enemy ships and buildings at Kiska. Zero fighters and anti-aircraft batteries both ashore and afloat sought to drive the Americans off. Nevertheless, transport dnd a submarine were: damaged and probably sunk and five enemy fighters were shot down. It was in this engagement that the pursuit plane was lost.
.Cargo Ship strated That aftern bombers returned to the attack Kiska, strafing and bombing and shore facilities, but the re of this attack Were not disce: During the same afternoon planes bombed: and strafed . enemy cargo ship northwest Kiska.
The newest submarine brought to 115 the total number Japanese ‘vessels sunk, pro sunk or damaged by U. 8. sub rines. Of these, 74 were listed Sunk, 19 probably sunk and 23 dan aged.
ROOSEVELT CONFER WITH WAR ADVISE
bombers—huge four-motored Cone
» House Clears Decks for
The - war production board today ordered all production of whisky Stopped *Rective Oct. ‘8. :
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