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Writers Protest to F. D. R.; Politics in Tour. (Continued from Page One) : Des Moines Register and Tribune,
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columnist; Ernest K. Lindley of Newsweek Magazine, and Alexander PF, Jones of the Washington Post. The letter, signed by 35 newspaper men In all, asserted that no explanation had been given for the White House refusal to permit accredited correspondents to make the trip and contended that suppression of news of the tour during “Mr. Roosevelt's absence was neither necessary nor wise, inasmuch as thousands of persons knew the president’s whereabouts. The committee of five said the letter was prepared after inquiries to White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, Censor Byron Price and War Information Director Elmer Davis failed to elicit what the newspaper men considered a satisfactory explanation of the restrictions imposed. Although the letter was not mentioned, President Roosevelt said at his press conference yesterday that one reason no more newspaper men,
~ were taken- along was that to do so would have required two or three trains to accommodate them.
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Today's major newspapers generally were critical of the censorship fmposed on the trip. The New York Herald-Tribune said “the country now faces the most outrageous suppression of news in its history.” The Washington Post felt “a solemn obligation to protest a policy that is (1) unnecessary and inadvisable; (2) stimulating to malicious rumor and distrust, and (3) a step vhat can easily lead to abuse . . . of our bill of rights.” The Scripps-Howard newspapers praised the “complete effectiveness” of voluntary censorship and were of the opinion that the silence imposed during the trip “was both necessary and desirable.” The Los Angeles Times said it was “bombarded” with inquiries about the president and accused of suppressing the news. It “did not and does not agree with such arbitrary restrictions” but “deplores intemperate and thoughtless - criticism of the action.” Some Democratic congressmen Joined in criticism of the censorship phase of the trip.
Rep. Joe Starnes (D. Ala.) felt that “the press should have been permitted to publish the fact that
provided that every possible precaution taken to assure his safety.”
Rep. John M. Coffee (D. Wash.) said “they went to some extremes in this matter of censorship.”
Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) said he could not “understand the reason’ for Keeping it secret so long.” : Other congressional comment:
. REP. EARL WILSON (R. Ind.)— “You mean the president has been gone while we've been sitting here trying. to curb inflation? That's alarming. I thought he was here trying to win the war.”
REP. CLARE HOFFMAN (R. Mich.)—“If he wants to use the trains that way with the shortages of transportation facilities now, I have nothing to say about it.”
SENATOR CLYDE M. REED (R. Kas)—If the president made that swing around the country to check the loss of confidence in his administration, he will have to make two or three more to do any good.”
SENATOR GERALD P. NYE (R. N. D.), was too interested in watching a news ticker on the world series to make any comment when
he was approached yesterday after-|
noon. “Don’t bother me now,” he said.
“Cooper has just doubled to right center.”
KUHN COMMISSIONED AS ORDNANCE MAJOR
Willis (Bill) E. Kuhn, president of North Side Chevrolet, Inc., Broad Ripple, has been commissioned a major in the ordnance department
with orders to proceed to Aberdeen|’
Proving Grounds in Maryland, Oct. 10. \ Mr. Kuhn took over North Side Chevrolet in 1932 and became president of East Side Chevrolet, in 1938. In February, 1941, he purchased Central Chevrolet, Marion, Ind. - Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn reside at 3840 E. 62d st. John Hedges, will take over general management of North Side Chevrolet, the only dealership Mr. Kuhn will operate for the duration.
executive commitee, Mr. Tibbett
Lawrence Tibbett Fabien Sevitzky
Songs that thrilled soldiers in a'recent tour of army camps will be presented by Lawrence Tibbett, movie star and Metropolitan opera baritone, when he sings at the United War Fund rally Monday hight in Cadle tabernacle. The starting time is 8:30. : Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of the ‘Indianapolis symphony orchestra, will direct the 75-piece Arthur Jordan Conservatory of
Music orchestra. The group will be augmented by members of the symphony. Officials of the fund campaign have issued a general invitation to war workers and other citizens, have promised that no admission charge will be made and that there will be “no collections or pledges of any kind” taken Monday night. The United War Fund's responsibility in war time will be sounded in the principal address by Prescott S. Bush of New York city, chairman of the national U. S. O. campaigns, one’ of the organizations supported by the $1,500,000 goal of the local campaign. Governor Schricker, Mayor Sullivan and military leaders will be present. ! As a member of the U. S. O.
for men in service. He also entertained Service men in world war 1, ‘but then they were fellow “gobs” for he served on the S. S.
coast.
Mr. Sevitzky has cut short his vacation to return here for the rally.
The. campaign, which opens with ‘Monday night's rally and closes Oct. 23 will provide funds for 15 agencies dedicated to men in the armed forces, to the civilian needs and to wartime relief activities'in allied nations. Among the organizations ‘are: U.'S. O., Indianapolis ‘Service Men's center, Navy Relief ‘society, Marion county ‘Civilian defense council, community fund, Russian war relief, -Greek war relief, Polish war relief, United China relief, British war relief.
has arranged scores of concerts:
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| GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 2 (U. P.) .—Australian troops neared Menari, chief Japanese base on the Port Moresby side of the Owen Stanley mountains, today in the biggest allied offensive operation in the New Guinea zone. The Australian veterans of the Middle East, newly trained in jungle fighting, continued a deliberate advance in which wide-sweeping flanking parties kept pace with the central force in a movement intended to. insure that no enemy forces were overlooked. Striking out from Nauro village, the second Japanese defense line they had taken, the Australians moved up the face of a 3500 foot razorback ridge. Dispatches indicated that they now were moving down the northern slope on Menari, 1500 feet beneath them and four miles to the north. =~ : » Douglas A-20 attack bombers and Allison-motored Bell Airacobra fighters made four big bombing and machine gunning sweeps yesterday over the enemy supply line through the mountains. All planes returned. Boeing flying fortresses and the Airacobras in a new series of coordinated attacks on the important Wairopi bridge, a Japanese commuhications bottleneck, destroyed a big section of the span and set other sections of the bridge afire. The Japanese had made temporary repairs only a few hours before.
URGES INCOME CEILINGS GREENWICH, Conn. Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Clare Boothe Luce, Republican candidate for congress in the fourth district, went on record -today for drastic ceilings on incomes,
even $2000 if necessary.
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vestigating committees, beyond its full understanding because of lacking information and technicalities not understood by laymen. He inferred that such technical problems should - be left to the military leaders. \ ;
2. Certain elements of the press and radio, . with emphasis on certain columnists and commentators, play up minor difficulties in the war program, as the rule rather than - the exception, thus doing great harm to the war effort. They report in local terms or print storfies that plainly are not accurate, he said, and which do infinite harm throughout the country. 3. Subordinate, down-the-line administration officials talk out. of turn, jumping into print sometimes in speeches seeking to be picturesque or in an effort to get personal publicity. These men, he said, often do not have rounded views of the whole picture. Questioned about a recent series of speeches asserting that “we are losing the war,” the president said that he would not have made such statements.. Mr. Roosevelt shed new light on the gigantic American war production program. He mentioned airplanes as a specific example of the swelling rate of production. A reporter, mindful that last January the president asked for immediate steps “to increase our production rate of airplanes so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 60,000 airplanes,” asked the president: “Didn’t - you. ask for 60,000 planes this year?” A The president replied Tegativlly, saying that he had asked for a production at the rate of 60,000 planes annually by the end of 1942. His
program calls for a hike to 125,000
planes in 1943. ; : Mr. Roosevelt also was convin that the people of the country are
jittery about rising living costs and
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CUINER 5 Praises the People, Takes Rap at Congress
want something done about them. The population, he said, is ready for greater’ war sacrifice than any yet offered by Washington, and he indicated that his future actions would be governed by that belief. He was inferentially but plainly critical of congress for delaying enactment of new cost-of-living controls, recalling that in 1933 when the country was on its back and American pocketbooks were taking a beating, emergency economic legislation was passed within a day, four days or a week.
What Will He Do?
He gave no indication what he would do as a result of congressional failure to complete action on the anti-inflation deadline of Oct. 1 set by the president in a Labor day message, but he conferred last night with undisclosed officials and probably will continue similar conferences today. Mr, Roosevelt left Washington Sept. 17 and by the time he returned had visited 24 states, nine of the nation’s largest war plants, two record-smashing shipyards, seven naval stations, eight army camps and two marine training centers. He inspected: The Chrysler tank arsenal and Ford’s Willow Run bomber plant at Detroit, the Great Lakes naval training station, the Allis-Chalmers plant at Milwaukee, the Federal Cartridge Co. plant between Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Farragut naval training station in the Rockles at Athol, Ida.; Ft. Lewis, the Bremerton navy yard and the Boeing aircraft plant at Seattle; the Aluminum Co. plant at Vancouver, Wash., and the Kaiser Co.’s shipbuilding yards at Portland, Oreg the Mare island navy yard at San Francisco, the navy supply depot at Oakland, the Douglas aircraft plant at Long Beach, the new marine station at Camp Pendleton, and the Consolidated aircraft plant and navy
John Nance Garner; army air force -stations at Ft. Sam Houston and San Antonio, Tex.; the Consolidated bomber assembly plant at Ft. Worth; the Higgins shipbuilding plant at New Orleans; Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss., an Ft. Jackson, S. C. > In his two weeks’ swing Mr. Roosevelt was accompanied by one representative each of the United Press, the Associated Press and the International News Service. From start to finish the trip was cloaked in deepest secrecy and neither the press nor the radio even so much as mentioned it until the conclusion. The president personally read the stories prepared during the trip by the three reporters who accompanied him but made no changes in their copy except to add what he called several interesting touches. Mr. Roosevelt returned from his trip obviously lifted by what he had seen. He was especially impressed by the fighting spirit of war workers and others with whom he came in contact. He said both workers and management were working magnificently toward war production goals. Official members of his party said they were unable to estimate the number of persons who saw him this time, but it can be said that, because there was no advance publicity, they were comparatively few outside war workers, soldiers and sailors. The president told reporters that the working people with whom he talked were wholeheartedly in favor of his program for stabilizing living costs. One foreman told him, he said, that workers could “get by”. if living costs were held at their present levels. The president was especially impressed by the war preparations he saw on the Pacific coast where civilians as well as the military are on the alert for whatever may come.
‘|fare board, submitted a written
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cial security board after feds f agents had investigated the local welfare office for several weeks. Most of the 39: pages of the res port deal with routine operation ‘of i} case work and benefit payments. Reference to. Mr. Neal personally is made in only two. instances. One paragraph in the report criticizes the director for “showing a’ harsh attitude” toward some welfare ree cipients. , co Another paragraph of the repor$ criticizes Mr. Neal for allowing benefit’ payments in some cases lower than the prevailing allow
the state and country. No Charges, Is Ruling More than a year ago George IL, Divan, attorney for the state wele
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opinion in which he declared that there were no charges made in the
federal repor}, sufficient to base pro= 3
ceedings to oust Mr. Neal. : “I think county welfare board members have confused. contents of the report with a memorandum that was submitted to me by one ; of my staff members, regarding Mr, Neal’s conduct in office,” Mr. Gottse chalk said.
. Merely an Opinion
“That memorandum was merely an opinion by my staff member who did recommend that Neal should be removed.” Mr. Gottschalk said that in the final analysis, the state board has no grounds on which to start any proceedings against Mr. Neal undes
and marine bases at San Diego; Uvalde, Tex., where he chatted with
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What he saw, the president said, made him very proud.
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