Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1942 — Page 1

VOLUME sb NUMBER 18

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The next great controversial issue in- congress will concern man-

power. drafted, i forecast.

Here, in the first of a series of dispatches om this subject, the sweeping extent of the Proposed “national service act,” now being -

By BEN ‘WILLIAMSON Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Before this week is, out, ifs present’ ‘plans mature, Comp will have before it a bill

for mobilizing the nation

total "manpower—and that

means total womanpower and total ‘teen-age power as

well.

Sa———

JOE MITCHELL ISACQUITTED IN

NUISANCE CASE

‘Judge Raps Policemen for|

‘Hear-Say’ Evidence on Cafe, Poolroom.

Several police officers have indi‘cated an unwillingness to testify about the conditions on Indiana

ave., Special Judge Charles W. Cook 4 Jr. declared today in finding Joe|| Mitchell not guilty of a public}

nuisance charge. Explaining that the evidence produced by police officers was limited, Judge Cook said he would have-to dissolve a temporary restraining order which has kept Mitchell's cafe

and pool room closed for about a

. ‘month. Mitchell went on trial two weeks ago in criminal court under padlock proceedings started by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, who sought to close the ‘establishments permanently.

30 Policemen Testified

More than 30 police officers were ‘called by the state to testify about conditions at the Mitchell places. All of them testified that the reputation of the Mitchell places was bad but none of them told of any specific crime conditions. : “It is inconsistent, to put: it ails ly, that police officers who are supposed to know about all crime con-

ditions could testify only ‘about the]

reputation of the places,” Judge Cook said. Judge Cook declared there was reason to believe that at least two witnesses called by the state testified falsely. = He suggested that Prosecutor Blue submit some evidence to the grand jury concern- ' ing these two witnesses’ testimony.

, Riot Led to Proceedings

“I think the state .presented the best case possible under the circumstances but under the rules of law and evidence as it got into the record, I will have to find the de+ fendant noy guilty,” Judge Cook said. Padlock prosecdingy designed to close the Mitchell establishments started following a riot on Indiana ave. last August in which three police officers were ‘badly wounded and three other persons injured in a shooting and knifing affray. Similar proceedings to close the Cotton club, operated by Sea Ferguson, in ‘the Indiana’ avenue district, and the Elite Saddle club, operated by Harry “Goosie” Lee, northeast of the city, also aré pending in criminal court.

URGES 18-YEAR-OLDS TO VOLUNTEER NOW

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U.P.)— Maj. Gén, James A. Ulio, adjutant general of the war department, yesterday broadcast a strong appeal ~ for 18 and 19-year-olds to volunteer for the army, = “Is there any justification for , withholding from or denying any youth military training 1g when ; important. decisions are about to be, made?” he ey “Who knows what service . these young men may be called upon to perform? We must be prepared for any eventuali

SEIZE EX-RULER'S GOLD

CANNES, France, Oct. 5 (U. P.). ~The former khedive of Egypt, Abbas Hilmi Pasha II Who has lives on the Riviera since was dethroned by the British n 1914, lost his personal fortune today when French frontier police caught him trying to flee the country with 20,000,000 francs ($400,000) in gold ingots. The gold was confiscated.

TIMES FEATURES ‘ON INSIDE PAGES

YY ies 6; Inside Indpls.. 9 Ash iia Men in Service 5 i (come 11 vir. re ubiad 1 -{Comics sssesen svconroe 6 Crossword . Da veony 4 Curious World. 3lpegs sierreell Editorials ssss.dl e.. senses 9 Questions ,

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{lable to cast a. yote in the Nov. 3

1lin Marion county nefore, those who

That measure, a proposed “national service act,” is

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942

in the making now behind the scenes. When it i is brought

out into the open, it is expected to become the biggest

political issue of all the war measures. For in one long step the government plans hiriy to move into control over the lives and hopes and plans of

~ every family.

This single measure would put all the nation’s supply of manpower and womanpower uhder the control of one

agency, bossed by one man.

It would end voluntary enlistments in the armed

services.

Sing, America! Sing!

“Sing . .. America!” And Lawrence Tibbett pract

building advice under an umbrella club during today’s showers.

his morale-

Tz outside the Indianapolis Athletic

A Singing Nation will Win, ‘Lawrence Tibbett Declares

Gt na GR Sri

America was called: upon here today to “Sing its way to victory. ” For Lawrence Tibbetf, Metropolitan opera baritone and move star, feels that a singing nation won't be defeated. “Singing has been largely responsible for the admirable showing of

the Russians,” he said.peak of any nation.” Mr. Tibbett sd#id that: when - he visited Russia in 1937 ‘he found armies.’ singing almost constantly while marching—that they ‘‘never let five or 10 minutes pass without bursting into song.” : Mr. Tibbett feels “there is a great] need” for an enthusiastic Program of community sings to strengthen morale on the home front and in army camps. “When people sing,” he said, “they don’t have time to .worry, they work more efficiently, and they just won't be beaten.” And Mr. Tibbett says it isn’t the quality of singing that .counts—it’s the “healthful spirit” it creates.

FDR to Open Chest Drives

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.).—President Roosevglt opens the nation’s war chest and community chest campaign throughout the country tonight with a short radio state« ment. The program, scheditled for 9: 30 p. m. (Indianapolis time), will ‘be carried on all the major networks. Mr. Roosevelt will be precedéd on the air by the Philadelphia symphony orchestra. Mr. Roosevelt will speak at 9:50,

TONIGHT DEADLINE - FOR. REGISTRATION

Court House Office Open Until 12°P. M.

The registration office in the courthouse will be open. until midnight tonight to accommodate voters who have not registered or those who must transfer their names from one precinct to. another, If you fail to get registered properly by midnight you will not be

election, Voters who have never registered

have become temporarily disfran-

chised by failure to exercise their|House

vote in either of the last two. general elections and those who have moved since the last election must have registered before midnight,

Branch offices for registration in addition to the court house ‘office SAL be one AHEJY PW. ak the

“Singing has kept i mor the greatest ging hag. sep ther ale a6 | officials hoved swiftly to:

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RALLY Te FUND CAMPAION

$1,500,000 County’s Goal; Tibbett, Sevitzky to Feature Meeting.

Indianapolis and Marion county will be called upon this week to prove that the good-neighbor creed of Hoosiers has survived" the turmoil of war. It’s going to take $1.500,000. But officials of the United War Fuad campaign were “confident” this county goal, would be attained by Oct. 23. That's the closing day of the drive. which opens tonight with a rally in. Cadle tabernacle . . . an all entertainment program featuring Lawrence = Tibbett, Hollywood

star and Metropolitan opera bari-

tone, and Fabien 8evitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra. Program Is Free Pledges will not be sought until tomorrow, however. And tonight’s free program at the tabernacle will be “without admission charge, col#|lections or pledges for contributions. » ‘The Cadle doors will open at 6:30 o'clock gnd the rally will start at 8:30 p. m, Mr. Tibbett, who arrived early today from New York, said he would sing numbers ‘that proved popular during a recent tour of army camps. Mr. Sevitzky will direct the 75-plece Arthur Jordan, conservatory of music orchestra which will be aug-

CUTS IN PRICES

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OF SOME BASIC FOODS LIKELY

Officials Impose Economic Controls; Extend Rule

Over Rents.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.).— Housewives may expect small cuts soon in some basic food prices, notably butter and cheese, government officials said todey as they imposed the first of a. series of new economic controls which will regulate the lives and habits of civilians for the duration. Wages and salaries will- be. stabilized. Profits are to be controlled. Food prices will be pegged. No individual will be permitted to earn

more than $25,000 a yeur after taxes. |

Rents are to be controlled and security of tenure assured,

Sei Fool Price Oéllings

This gargantuan operation was ordered over the week-end , by President Roosevelt, with the approval and consent of congress, and

Only 4 Kinds of Food Exempt

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.) —The only important foodstuffs now exempt from price control are: Fresh fruits (except Stirus fruits). : Fresh vegetables (except 0 tatoes and dry onions). Fresh fish,

Peanuts. a

Set 60-day emergency price ceilings over virtually all food items hitherto exempt from . control. These are effective today. Extend to the entire continental United States rent §ontrols now in force in 396 defense-rental areas. OPA Administrator l.eon Henderson signs the orders. today, Former Supreme Court Justice James J. Byrnes, who was selected by President Roosevelt to be director of ‘the new office of economic stabilization—OES, prepared to set

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RAPS ‘NAZIS EAT IF OTHERS STARVE’ EDICT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.). [~~Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said today that Hermann Goering’s statement that Germany would be fed this winter at the expense of the rest of Europe would show the people of occupied counfries just what they can expect under the Nazi ‘heel. If the: situation were not so inherently tragic, Welles said, it could be pointed out that tlaere is hardly an individual in all Germany who could make’ such a statement with less grace than the fat and wellfed Goering.

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Savings Interest Reduced To 1 Per Cent by City Banks

A reduction in the interest paid on savings deposits was annotmced

association and the Marion Cousity Bankers association. The new rate is 1 per cent annually, payable semi-annually. Indianapolis banks have been paying 1% per cent. The néw rates will go into

effect Nov. 1 in several banks and|

on Dec..1 and Jan. 1 in others. Similar. reductions have been

made recently in the larger cities|Indiana of the country ‘and in a number |ar

less than in former years and that there has been a decrease in bank loans. : :

Arch C. Voris, president of the Indiana Bankers association, noted that bank loans and discounts have declined, that government and other high-grade securities pay a very low rate of interest and that banks’ operating ‘costs have increased sub-

‘A. special factor opera banks is that the banks

FORECAST! Cooler tonight and tomorrow forencon.

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fered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind, Issued dally except Sunday.

PRICE THREE CENTS

lear If M’Nutt Has Way

Who will that one man be? This is a McNutt measure—now being written by men

It would take. fiom the

selective service system the

drafting of men for the armed services, and place that power under a new direction in which farm and industry needs might Zot Priority Jn sore-spot Bpeas.

IT WOULD ‘GRANT to this: single git the power to draft labor—mnien and women—and to move them about, as armies are moved about, to meet gritical situations on

the manpower home front.

It-would place under this one agency, dominated by one man, the whole tremendous power to decide which of . the nation’s citizens shall do what—and when and where.

100 GERMAN TANKS STORMING RUSSIA'S ‘STREET OF DEATH

500 CALL FOR SCRAP PICKUP

12 Trucks and Crews Will Make Collection Here Tomorrow.

5 Five hundred calls already have been received at Market\ 3321 for trucks to pick up large piles of scrap metal during the second citywide collection tomorrow. Twelve trucks and crews will be placed at the disposal of the county salvage committee by the Tocal unions of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. The trucks will start at 8 a. m. to add to the scrap pile at the central salvage depot, 11th and Meridian sts. Any calls received today and up until 8 a. m. tomorrow will be included in the collection.

8 ” * / Blodgett Brennan, county salvage director, estimated that the scrap

|pile at the central salvage depot al-

ready weighs 300 tons. This estimate does not include the donations now in’ scrap bins throughout the city. Thirty trucks and crews donated by the: Indianapolis Auto Trade Association, Inc., yesterday unloaded 100 tons of scrap at the cenfral depot. “ #” ” ” School children throughout Marion county today joined in the drive to roll tons of scrap to the nation’s steel mills. It is estimated that 75,000 pupils will participate in the campaign in the county.

SIBERIA NEXT FOR JAPS, SOME ARGUE Cold Aid to Mechanized Troops, Experts Say.

BOMBAY, India, Oct. 5 (U. 2.) .—

day that Siberia is Japan’s most likely next objective. These experts sharply challenged the theory that winter war is unfeasible in Siberia. They suggested

"| instead that winter is a more favorin}

able time for maneuvers, singe

War | Tanks Go Back Into Battle

win wore

“They Were Ripple post of ‘the American Rte oy fo the scrap metal drive. "Along with six canton from the War Memeorial plaza, they are on their way today to the Continental Steel mill af Kokomo, L. A. Milner and Meryle Byers (atop one of the "tangs) are smong those Supervising their remmval

~ within the office of War Manpower Commissioner McNutt. ‘That one man, if Commissioner

McNutt has his say,

and he says it vehemently, must not be'a military man. That one man, if Commissioner MeNutt has his way, obviously would be Paul Vories McNutt. ‘What is this measure and what would it do?

Some of its details are

still shrouded in efforts to

soft-pedal the compulsion phases of it. But, clearly, it is the compulsory draft-labor measure

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ihe oar cashed new and. savage attacks, . hig

On the War: Fronts

(Oct. 5, 1942)

RUSSIA—Soviets yield some ground in northwest sector of Stalingrad; Stalin issues statement listing second front as paramount requirement from allies.

; » PACIFIC—American troops move closer to Kiska by occupying Andreanof group of Aleutians, staging nine air raids in week on Japs; Australians® advance past Efogi on New Guinea mountain trail,

INDIA—Military observers express belief that Siberia is Japan's most likely next objective.

NAYY REPORTS SUB IS LOST IN PAGIFIC

New-Type Grunion Is ‘5th

Undersea Victim of War.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.) — The navy announced today the 1526-ton submarine Grunion has been overdue in the Pacific fon some

time and “must be presumed to be lost.” This was the fifth U. S. submarine lost® # the war began. Submarines class normally carry a complement, of 65 officers and men. The Grunion, one of our newest types, was authorized by congress in 1934 and launched last Dec. 22, Of the five submarines lost so far, three, the Sark, Perch and Grunion, were listed as missing and presumed lost; the Sea Lion was blown up in dry dock at Cavite, P. I,, to prevent it from falling into Japanese hands; the S-26 was lost in a collision off Panama.

Stalin Says Russia Can Hold, But Renews 2d Front Plea

,LONDON, Oct. 5 (U.P.).—Growing confidence in Russia’s ability to hold the Germans, as well as a demand for the opening of a second

front in western Europe, was im-|

plied in a statement by Premier Josef Stalin on allied aid, diplomatic quarters held today. At the same time a new axis propaganda campaign, in which false reports of all sorts were broadcast in an attempt to sow doubt and distrust among allied nations, was taken as Indic: clearly growing German over the general war situation. Stalin in a statement which the Russian radios sent throughout the

a quug age avin the

RIZZUTO RPS HOMER IN FIRST

Dazed New Yorkers. Face Johnny Beazley Who

Beat Them: Once.

The lineups: YANKEES Rizguto, 58

DiMaggio, cf Keller, if Gordon, 2b Kurowski, 3b Dickey, ¢ Marion, ss Priddy, 1b Beazley, p Ruffing, p

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U. P.).—The New York Yankees, dazed by three successive defeats, pinned their hopes of keeping the 1942 world series alive today on the greatest spot pitcher in : baseball, ' big: = Charles (Red) Ruffing. He was opposed by Johnny Beazley, the St. Louis Cardinals’ rookie star, who won the second game, FIRST INNING

CARDINALS—-Brown walked on four straight pitches. T. Moore struck out. Slaughter hit into a double play, Gordon to Rizzuto to Priddy. NO RUNS. NO HITS. YANKEES--Rizzuto hit a home run into the left field stands. Rolfe grounded out. Cullenbine was out, Hopp unassisted. DiMaggio lifted a fly to T. Moore. ONE RUN, ONE HIT. SECOND INNING CARDINALS--Musial popped to Rizzuto.© W. Cooper singléd through the box. Hopp popped to Rizzuto. Kurowski popped to Gordon. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. YANKEES -- Brown: threw oul Keller... Gordon grounded out. Dickey out, Brown to Hopp. NO RUNS. NO HITS.

front occupy in the Soviet estimate of the current situation. A—A very important place, one might say a place of first rate.

f Q—To what extent is allied aid

to the Soviet Union proving effective and what could be done to amplify and improve this aid? A—As compared with the aid the Soviet Union is giving to the allies, by « drawing upon itself the main forces of the Gierman Fascist armies, the aid of the allies to the Union has so far been little

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SOVIETS YIELD GROUND IN ONE RUNED AREA

Nazi Attack in Caucasus Diverted; Leningrad In New Peril.

MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (U. P.) .— A terrific German drive, using’ more than 100 tanks and hundreds of planes, stormed at the narrowest parts of Stalingrad’s defenses today,

‘|seeking to blast a path into

the heart of the city for reinforced ground troops. The Voiga metropolis was ablaze ‘again as German planes, determined to pulverize its remnants, un-

Front dispatches said the Rus sians’ heroic resistance. repelled more ‘than 12 attacks and yielded only at one point. In the northwestern section of Stalingrad, over« whelming German forces drove the Soviets back in a factory district.

Counter-Attack Still Gains

“4But inside the great bend of the Don river, 60 to 70 miles northwest of Stalingrad, poweérful Soviet forces stabbed deeper and deeper into the German left flank, rolling over heavy German defenses. ‘Although sizable’ Nazi gains in this region would imperial the whole German position, the threat so far did not seem to have been great enough to force the Germans to res lax their attack at Stalingrad. The unslackening Russian re= sistance ,at Stalingrad ‘was taking the heaviest casualties from the enemy's assault troops, front advices said, According to German prisoners taken by the steel city’s defenders, the enemy had designated the broad boulevard leading into the center of Stalingrad as “the road of death.” It was cluttered with Hundreds of unburied corpses and the smouldering wreckage of scores of German tanks. \

Urges Stubborn Stand

“Amidst’ the blazing ruins,” the Communist organ Pravda said, “Russian hearts are stronger than German steel.” Ib urged the Soviet deferiders to | your sacred duty —. ‘hol ;

“4 Stal Reduction of the city, it ids

would release the immense German

strength concentrated there for an offensive on the Baku oil fields and

+ | possibly a new thrust against Mos-

t ‘Stalingrad so far had ttered Aclolf Hitler's 1942 plans, =

Canioasis Drive Fails Reports from the Caucasus indicated that the Germans had abaridoned i j the Mozdok

trying to crash 1 ge Se

Ty ¥ravda said the gallant

A week ago, it was reported, the ' |

Germans threw 260. tanks into ac~ tion in the Mozdok area. Russian mines, artillery and‘anti-tank guns. wrecked scores of their tanks and held their advance to almost

nothing. i) Around ‘Voronezh, 350 wiles]