Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 3
Babies Bon After Sept. 8,
1942, Not fo Be Regarded
As Dependents, Indiana Board Members Advised at Meeting Here.
By EARL
Babies born after Sept. 8, 1942, are not to be cotidered | as dependents, state draft headquarters has advised all In-
diana local draft boards. Capt. Robert W. Platte,
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director of selective service
classification, told local draft board members at a state-wide meeting yesterday at the World War memorial that state
headquarters had had many ‘pendency status of children|™ born after the declaration of war, Dec. 8, 1941, and said: “It is our position that a registrant who married at a time when selection was not imminent should be ‘given the full benefit of the Additional dependency of a child, if the child was born on ‘or before Sept. 8, 1942. “This deadline is based on the ‘Teasoning that a child conceived on br after Dec. 8, should not be considered as a dependent.”
Appeal Board Policy
While there has been no national order on this matter, Capt. Platte ‘said that state headquarters had
‘been advised that this was the pol-|’ o.
icy being followed by the presidential appeal board. Capt. Platte in his talk to the local board members on dependency deferments also cleared up to a considerable exfent the most con-
“4 troversial question pertaining to the
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draft in the state today—that pertaining to the question of when | selection was imminent. (Men who married, under a local draft board's interpretation, when selection was ‘imminent may be Placed in 1-A regardless of children or the dependency of their families.) The classification director said that according to a ruling from national headquarters selection cannot be considered to have been imminent ‘for an individual before he actually registered for the draft.
. Boards Revise Ruling This ‘necessitates a revision in the policy of many draft boards of considering selection to have been imminent for those men in the first registration, the . 21to-35 group, after passage of the draft act on Sept. 16, 1040. Under this ruling, the men in this group are not to be’ considered as having marired when selection was imminent unless they married on or after the date they - actually registered for the draft, Oct. 16, 1940. He said he believed most marriages fmade between passage of the draft act and th first registration were marriages that had been planned for some time. Capt. Platte also said that men who married when they were
‘ classified in 4-F (under the old
physical standards), 4-A or 1-H also
* are not to be considered as having
married when selection was imminent. . Emergency Date Used "He said that draft boards might use as an additional factor in judging borderline cases of this kind the date of May, 27, 1941— the date the president declared a state of unlimited national emergency. All men who ‘married after the declaration of war, of course, are considered as single men by their local draft boards. Yesterday's meeting was for the purpose of refreshing local board members on various draft regulations, pertaining to dependency, oceupational deferments and appeals.
- Size of Army Discussed Maj. George A. Irvin of national
- gelective service headquarters told
the board members that he didn’t know what size our army will eventually reach but that it “will be big enough to do the job.” “If we go to an army of 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 men,’ he said, “it” will mean that we will take out of this
country practically every mak able, |
physically and mentally, to do the Job required of the modern soldier. - %The businesses at home will be run by those who can’t do the spe-
. eialized job required of modern sol-
diers. and those very few persons whose jobs here are so specialized and highly skilled that they can’t be taken away from them. “That’s the we've got to ook forward fo.” Maj. Irvin said That it must be remembered that time of war the. men belong to their country. “If you defer & man to work on a farm or in an industry, you must
‘ | Station st. this afternoon.
requests concerning the de-
remember you're just loaning him,” the major told the board members, “The test today is where can the man serve best.” Maj. Hall Park of the fifth service headquarters at Ft. Hayes, O, told the board members that they can expect draft calls “to get bigger and bigger.” “Remember, when you don’t meet
our armed forces isn't going to get the number of men required and that might mean losing a battle some day,” he said. Board Members Lauded Governor Schricker praised the draft board members for the long hours spent on their jobs for no
“I have often wondered,” he remarked, “how you have. taken all the punishment you have. But the job must be done and you are doing it faithfully.” He said he knew the draft boards were doing their job well because very few complaints had come into his office. The governor praised the selective service setup and asserted that if it had not been nut into effect long before Pearl Harbor “Hitler might be eating breakfast in New York today.”
200,000 Hoosiers Drafted
He estimated that around 200,000 men already had been taken into the armed forces from Indiana and said that figure might rise to 400,000 or 600,000 before this war is over, Discussing occupational classifications, Lieut. S. 8. Springer told board members that it must be realized that. both agriculture and industry must prepare to give a good portion of their physically fit, military-age men to: the armed forces within the next two years. “Generally speaking,” he said, “we now believe that there ‘is little excuse for occupational deferment of a farmer or farmhand who does not have management status.
Labor Shift Studied
“However, where skill is required and it is coupled with management responsibility, we must in many cases defer ‘those registrants who are real farm producers regardless of age or marital status because at the present time we know that replacements are -not immediately available.” He said that a system of re-locat-ing the labor supply must and will he worked out but that that is not the problem of selective service, “The important point to consider,” Lieut. Springer told the board members, “is whether a man can be replaced, It is conceivable to believe that a man might have such a highly specialized type of job that he will be deferred for the duration.”
DEMOCRATS LIST 3 MEETINGS TODAY
Three Democratic ward organizations were to conduct rally meetings in various parts of the city this afternoon and tonight. The 23d ward Democrats.will hold a “victory rally” mass meeting tonight at 1416 E. 16th st. First ward Democratic women were to meet in Brightwood at 2300 Third ward Democratic women were to meet at the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility building]
REPORTS CHINA HAS OFFENSIVE SPIRIT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— China is imbued with the offensive spirit and, given weapons, is ready not only to attack the Japanese armies in China but also to bomb the cities of Japan itself, according to Dr. Wei Tao-ming, the new Chinese ambassador here. Noo Receiving reporters at his first general press interview yesterday, | the 43-year-old ambassador said the
“spirit of the offensive is at its height right now.” x
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Sumner Welles
REBUKES CHILE
AND ARGENTINA
Hull Aid Says They Permit Axis Agents to Stab
Neighbors in Back.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U, P.).— Declaration by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles that Argentina and Chile are permitting axis agents to stab the united nations in the back provoked widespread speculation today on future relations of those countries: with the axis. They are the only American republics which still maintain diplomatic re-
lations with axis powers. Mr. Welles himself, in a speech last night at the world trade dinner of the 20th National Foreign Trade Convention in Boston, expressed belief that Chile and Argentina soon would expel the axis agents, who he said now are using the two countries
“as a base for hostile activities
against their neighbors.” In some other quarters there was a feeling that Mr. Welles’ statements might be resented in Chile and Argentina and might strengthen the position of leaders who have | been “advocating continued neutrality. “I can not believe,” Mr. Welles said, “that these two republics will continue long to permit their brothers and neighbors of. the Americas, engaged as they are in a life and death struggle to preserve the liberties and integrity of the new world, to be stabbed in the back by axis emissaries operating in the territory, and under the free institutions, of these two republics of the Western hemisphere.”
PROMISES STUDY OF NEW 3. SIDE SCHOOL
An investigation of the possibilities for establishing a high school on the South side of the city was promised last night by Dr. Harry G. Mayer if elected to the school board, ara Dr. Mayer is a candidate of the Citizens School committee. He spoke to ward workers in the Garfield park community house, . He pointed out that the committee’s candidates had pledged to “maintain and add to the physical equipment of our schools as needed, so as to provide for the safety, health and general welfare of all our children.” Other candidates of the committee who spoke were Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, Clarence Farrington, Howard 8S. Young and Edgar A. Perkins. The committee’s candidates will be introduced Tuesday at a meeting of ward workers in the Rauh Memorial library.
BEN DAVIS FESTIVAL COMMITTEES NAMED
Mrs. Clyde Barker, president of the Ben Davis Parent-Teacher association, and Charles H. Vance, school principal, have named committees for the annual fall festivai to be held next Friday in the senior high school gymnasium. They include: Herman Hinshaw, basketball; Mrs. Roy Jay, popcorn stand; Miss Harriet Wilkinson and home economics department, sandwiches and coffee; Miss Nina Martin and junior high ‘school math department, lemon tree; s. Helen Gaddie, cake walk; Raymond Sproat and agriculture department, ring and duck; Mrs. Fay Heath, ice cream; Mrs. william Baugh, novelty
booth; Mrs. Lucy King Lego, Spanish novelty booth; Gordon Brankie, soft
drinks; Mrs. Elsie Ball, stage show; Mrs. ”
william Wise, home made: articles; ‘Mrs. Faye Nelson, flowers; Mrs. Arthur Marksbury, photography; Mr. and Mrs, * Dale Diefendorfer, tickets; Hi-Y club, throwing; commercial de; epaximent, dance;
Latin club, doughnuts and cider, and: #unshine Society, sending telegrams.
owners Urge to Bar Stes
To Intoxicated Service : Men.
. Marion county tavern owners had their “orders from headquarters” today concerning the soldier and sailor trade. " «If you sell to: soldier who is n= toxicated or AWOL or to a prostitute, you are no better than any agent who Hitler has sent here,” Lieut. George Stewart” told them. The lieutenant is provost marshal
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"lof Ft. Harrison and in charge of
the military police who patrol Indianapolis. “If you allow 10 men to get into) a fight in your tavern, you take 10 men out of active service, for those men go to the guard House,” he said.
750 Hear Discussion
“If you allow prostitutes to frequent your establis| t, I hope you get: what you deserve.” Invited by the state alcoholic beverages commission to attend a meeting at Tomlinson hall yesterday afternoon, the tavern owners heard a general discussion of the liquor problem as it pertains to servicemen and prostitution. Of 800 licensed liquor retailers in the county about 750 attended. Lieut. Stewart told of a call that his military police made in the city last Saturday night. An intoxicated soldier had engaged a liquor store operator in a fight because he would not sell him whisky.
Expects Co-operation
“I wish I could tell you that dealer's name,” Lieut. Stewart declared. 3 “I hope I can get the same kind of co-operation from you. “I know you all have said. ‘What can I do besides buying war bonds?’ We are giving you that opportunity. “I'm asking you to help keep the most soldiers possible in active service. I know you will help us.” Among other speakers were: Dr. George Bowman, director of the venereal disease bureau of the state health board—“Our boys are clean when they're taken into the army and we must help to keep them, clean.” He warned that the army reports to the ABC instances of law violations.
Majority Well Behaved
Mayor Sullivan: “We have thousands of soldiers coming here every week-end and most of them are very well behaved. The soldier who wants to kick over the traces is the exception rather than the rule.” Meredith Stewart, state police detective: “In most cases the prostitution houses over the state have been closed. Buf there are still girls and women who have no ambition higher than to be a prostitute. Kick them out as you would a bum.” Bernard E. Doyle, ABC chairman: “As I see it, a great deal depends upon you and the manner in which you conduct your business as to whether you are going to be permitted to continue to sell alcoholic beverages during: this war.”
Democrat War Veterans Elect
ELECTION OF Democratic congressmen was urged today by Fred K. Myles following his election as commander of the Indiana Democratic Veterans, Ine. “War veterans surely will not want a political party in power which dashed the hopes of a permanent world peace at the close of world war I,” he said. *Other officers of Democratic Veterans elected were: Bernard Martin, vice commander; William C. Middlesworth, secretarytreasurer; James Cross, Patrick Shea and Victor L. Rigot, trustees.
PRESIDENT DECREES TRIBUTE TO PULASKI
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt has proclaimed Oct. 11 as Gen. Pulaski memorial day, commemorating the 163d anniversary of the death of Casimir
Pulaski, the Polish leader who gave his life as an American ally during the revolution. “The countrymen of Gen. Pulaski are today among our allies in.global conflict the outcome of which will mean freedom or slavery for milions of human beings on al] the continents,” the president said. Pulaski was fatally wounded while engaged in the siege of Sa-
vannah, Ga., in October, 1779.
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS
EVENTS TODAY
* United War Jund, soond report luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, Indiana Library er aiation and Indians Xsustess assecistion, annual Hote! coln, ay. coming football “Tech vs. at Tech,
Indiana Real Real Estate tion, Hotel Severin, all day
board, state conven-|
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DIMOUT TODAY
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Minerv. Harold: "Eiwood Stewart, 19, of 522 Somerast Helen Eileen Edwards, 18, R. R. 3,
66. James Albert Deckert, a1, 1341 Edgefon ; Evelyn Quinn, a1, 4 1914 Mans-
34, Lockett,
BIRTHS : . Girls is (Edward, ary Hoary, at St. Francis. in| George, Margaret Clemmens, , 8t. Fran
‘Hagel Phillips, at St. , t, at St. Vincent's.
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Dr. Norman Beatty of the city health department testified the arrest was asked on information from
was held under: $1000 bond & vagrancy charge Monday and
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with any en diseases and Sessifien that in jail she was forced to sleep on a small cot in direct contact with other women, most of whom, she said, were visibly suffer-
k ling from venereal diseases. ,
Questioned about the crowded conditions in the women’s quarantine. section of the jail, Sheriff Al Feeney testified that the capacity of that section is 36 prisoners, but said 71 are being held there now “because there is no other place avaialble for them.” Ira Holmes, at ey for the girl, demanded that she released immediately on the ground that she was being held illegally. Judge Spencer asked Dr. Beatty
Five minutes later the Boaltl de-
i “The Republican party is not attempting to co-operate in working ;
partment reported that the tests|qyui
showed no evidence that the girl had any venereal.infection. Judge Spencer: gprdered the girl
released from jail- immediately but
instructed her to report to Dr. Beatty next week.
CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET The E. 21st St. Civic league will
meet at 8 p. m. today at School 68,|
Riley ave. and BE. 21st st. E. W.
over control of the party. ' “We have the continuous struggle be
‘will rule,” he sic “While those
Black, president, will be Eo charge of the Meeuing:
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