Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1942 — Page 1

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STATE'S TOTAL

15138 370 TONS | IN SCRAP DRIVE

Average of Donations in Indiana Is 79 Pounds For Each Person.

Every man, woman and child in Indiana contributed an average of 719 pounds of scrap metal during the

three-week newspaper scrap metal}

campaign which ended today. According to Dudley Smith, state salvage director, a total of 138,370 tons of scrap metal was sent to the steel mills by Hoosiers. Of this amount, 99,422 was industrial scrap and the remainder was from farms and city homes.

25,141 Tons Given Here

Marion county contributed 25,141 tons, or 109 pounds per capita. More than 6500 tons was from homes and farms and the rest from industries. Hammond led the state with 210 pounds per capita while Hancock county residents contributed an average. of more than 200 pounds each. Other leading counties, per capita, were Hendricks, 165; Elkhart, 151, and Howard, 102. _ In Indianapolis, the volunteer trucks yesterday completed the gathering of all the scrap in the school yards with the exception of 10 tons at school 84 and about 15 tons at two parochial schools.

State Policemen Aid

‘One war worker Who spent Thursday night on his job, reported to the salvage committee yesterday morning as a volunteer driver. A truck driver who drove in from - Cleveland Thursday night . also spent. yesterday hauling ‘scrap and| one trucking company whose trucks| were tied up hired an ghd driver to do tHE TOD.” : william A. Evans, ac 4 direc tor of the schools, said the cooperation of the teamsters’ union helped make the drive a. success. Indiana State policemen, mean(while, were enlisted as “spotters” for scrap metal as they made their rounds through the state. They will seek: particularly old automobiles ‘and accumulated scrap metal along fences.

PEPPER ASKS CENSUS IN MANPOWER CRISIS

3 WASHINGTON, Oct, 17 (U, P.).— Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla), opening a drive to keep manpower machinery out of the hands of army and selective service officials, today called for a nation-wide census to learn “what and where our manpower supplies are.” “The present confusion springs in large part from the lack of adequate information,” he said. *“Consider the enormous migration of workers that has occurred in the past two years. It makes the 1940 census almost out of date.” : Pepper, chairman of an education and labor ‘subcommittee investigating the current labor shortage, contended the problem should be handled by a “central civilian agency.”

3 ‘BRITONS XILLED; . NAZI RAIDER DOWNED

LONDON, Oct. 17 (U. P)—A single German raiding plane was shot down over the southeast coast today. Three persons were known killed and several were wounded during the night in a raid on an East coast town, and rescuers, were digging for: others buried in debris. One raider was shot down in the sea ‘aflame. Three other towns were raided ~ lightly. : Radio Berlin, describing the attack on the East coast town, called it an important one and said all planes returned. | REPORT 40 SHOT AT LYONS NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (U. Rls The British radio, quoting. Jhon

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Tough Combat Troops to Display War Tactics at

WHEN— Preliminary demonstration at 8 o'clock, show starting at 8:30 «o'clock tomorrow night and running nightly through Thursday. Show will start promptly, rain or shine. WHERE—Butler Bowl ADMISSION—$2.20 (boxes), $1.10 (reserved) and 55 cents (general admission). Tickets available at war show headquarters, 25 N. Pennsylvania st., downtown stores, traffic policemen and fire stations. WHO—2300 American soldiers. WHY~—Army Emergency relief,

Indiana will be given a 50-yard seat on the battlefield at 8 o'clock tomorrow night when the Army War show opens in' Butler Bowl. Composed of 2300 men taken from

the ranks, the show is the largest entertainment extravaganza on the American roads. When John Ringling North, owner of the Barnum-Bailey-Ringling Bros. circus saw it: in Baltimore, he said: “I give you our title as the great(Continued on Page Two)

WAR FUND WORKERS ON ‘HOME ME STRETCH’

Nearly Half of of . Goal

Reached in Drive. WAR FUND FACTS

Goal .... $1,500,000.00 Reported yesterday..... 121,730.86 Reported to date....... 713,114.46 Per cent of goal... e000

415 Amount needed ....... 786,885.54

With nearly half of the $1,500,000 goal. of the United War FPund achieved, many of the volunteer workers planned to remain in the field today and tomorrow. They prepared for a record start on the “home stretch” of the three- _| week drive when they e their sixth report Monday noon in the others| Claypool hotel. The campaign ends

next Friday. : At yesterday's luncheon, the

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$713,11446. This represented 47.5

per cent of the goal, The railroad division, first major

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case, but it’s far from enactment. Baruch counsels against it; thinks drafting of men {or prot making private enterprise won't work. “And no one knows the answers to these questions: What happens ‘to. pensions and seniority rights if you -start forcibly shifting workers.about? ‘What happens to labor unions? Do you force a’ nifinh to accept smaller wages? - Or, to prevent this, raise all rates In a lowpay but essential industry? It looks now as if these will be tried first: ; 1. Work-or-fight will become work-in-the-job-where-the govern-ment-wants-you-or-fight. Nobody would be drafted to work for wages; would be drafted for service to the country. 2. Manpower shortages will ‘be fought by drastic curtailment of nonessential civilian production, and simplification of essential civilian products to a few standard types requiring less skill to make. ® 8 =» i ‘sas = =»

McNutt Adds Complication

ANOTHER COMPLICATION: McNutt wants ‘to add selective service to his manpower commission; equally determined school of thought wants to add McNutt’s outfit to selective service. nn.» : 8 8 =u It’s a good bet now that President Rios of Chile will be a White House guest some time this winter after all. \ = ¥ H » » #

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Cotton bloc” sees little hope of stopping switch to rayon for synthetic tire fabric, sees market for 250,000 bales of cotton ‘vanishing. Du Pont and viscose get the rayon business. Cotton bloc charges that WPB technical consultant on program comes from a company that benefits from use of rayon, and will keep on asking questions about it. Consultant is Bradley Dewey of Dewey & Alemite Chemical Co., manufacturers of latex, which is used in preparation of rayon. Three consultants under him work for Tayonusing tire companies. » ” tJ

Treaty Cities May Be Gifts to China

WILL CHINA “buy” Hongkong, Shanghai, Tientsin, other foreign strongholds and treaty-ports now that extraterritoriality is on the way out, or will she get them as a.gift? Despite fact that Shanghai, once a mudfiat on the Whangpoo, was built entirely with foreign capital, chances are China will gnt it and other citits back free for her part in beating Japan. : ® ” ” ” - ” New dynamic leadership by Speaker Sam Rayburn boosts stock of congress, may pull it’ out of doghouse. Rayburn ordered action on the ‘teen-age draft bill; was prepared to call it up under suspension of rules if military affairs committee, where some recalcitrance threatened, hadn't reported it. Result was what the country had been clamoring for—proof that legislative branch can function fast.on a tough problem ' despite approaching elections. Note: Demonstration boosted Rayburn stock, too; puts him in line for place in history as one of the great speakers, if he will follow through. : ” 2 8 t

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WAITS SALARY CONTROL PLAN

Byrnes Receives Treasury

Proposal Today; Calls for

WASHIN GTON, oct. 17 w. Py — Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes today receives one of the most sweeping proposals ‘in U. 8. history—a treasury recommendation for rigid- government control of all salaries. ‘To be submitted for Byrnes’ approval, the plan calls for regulation of all salaries below $5000, limitations on those over $5000 and prohibitions against any net income above $25,000 annually. The wide scope of Byrnes’ activities became increasingly evident yesterday as he disclosed requests for reports on farm - labor wages, compulsory savings, future rationing and prospective subsidies.

Asks Wickard For Program

He sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard giving the agriculture department jurisdiction over farm wages and calling on Wickard to submit “your = pro-

‘| posals for the establishment of an

organization to deal with thg wages of farm workers.” -He said it was “urgent that machinery be set up immediately” to exercise - jurisdiction :. over farm labor wages. : The letter went out immediately following the first meeting of the 14-member economic stabilization board. ; Declaring that the nation is only “half and half” into a “fully-con-trolled wartime economy” which

must come, Byrnes, told board mem-'gq.ct motorist in the nation to lose

bers that “all es” would be brought under control of the war labor board and the treasury. Salaries under $3000 and those (Continued on Page Two)

BOND BUYING BEHIND PACE: FOR OCTOBER

Spurt Needed i it County

Meets Goal. ;

At the end of the first eight days of October, falling slightly behind its schedule in purchase of war bonds. The Marion county war savings

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FOR 4TH TINE IN STALINGRAD

Nazi Gain Is Slight and Foe Pays Heavy Loss, ~ Moscow Says.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

The Soviet ‘defense of Stalingrad appeared to have taken a turn for the worse today with .more Nazi gains against the fortress-like factories which have been the bulwark of the Red army stand. Moscow reported that for the fourth time in two days Soviet forces have fallen back under the intense pressure: of German tanks and ground troops directed against a narrow front where the Nazi objective is the banks of the Volga The Moscow radio tonight, how-

fering staggering losses and report-

ed fierce air battles raging over the!

city. The Russians, on the 54th day of the siege, said they had retired only a short distance and in good order and that the Germans had not reached the banks of the stream. Nazis Losses Heavy

German claims, however, said the Volga was reached on a broadening front. The Russians admitted there was acute danger that the Nazi wedge would ‘divide the Stalingrad defense army. The Germans were said to be suffering heavy losses. One Russian report said 6000 Germans had been killed . mn » Dor on ong part &

sad an et Sari of two remaining Soviet strong] points in Stalingrad. The other was the “Red October” works which was said to be swrrounded. Russian troops northwest of Stalingrad were said to have been isolated.

Kalinin Is Optimistic

Despite the Stalingrad development, President Mihail Kalinin in a review of the war said that the situation generally was more favorable for Russia than a year ago. He reported that Russian industry, which the Germans boasted they had captured, was expanding daily and increasing production. On individual sectors, Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s counter - offensive above Stalingrad progressed, firmly and persistently deepening a wedge in the German left. flank, dispatches said. The Russians continued to hammer back, with big enemy losses, German attacks on the Mozdok area of the ‘eastern Caucasus, aimed at

DRIVER LOSES ‘C’ CARD FOR SPEEDING

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 (U. P). —Lawrence J. Moses, a Frankford

arsenal worker, today became the

his gasoline rationing book for violation of the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit. His “C” ration book was lifted after his arrest for driving 50 miles an hour in South Carolina while en route to his father’s funeral. The announcement! was made by Francis A, Silver, assistant general counsel of the office of defense transportation, who came to- Philadelphia to study violations of the wartime speed limit. Philadelphia is the first city to report actual convictions and fines in enforcement of the ruling.

. FIRE SWEEPS WAR PLANT

HICKMAN, Ky., Oct. 17 (U. PJ). —Officials of the Mengel Co. plywood plant . today estimated at $350,000 damage wrought by a fire that swept their 100 per cent warworking mill last night, tempoarly delaying production of ply-

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17

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DAKAR ‘BATTLE IS NAZI DREAM

Propaganda Reports Telling of Fighting Denied By Vichy.

By UNITED PRESS The Nazi propaganda machine today stirred up great excitement with reports that “fighting” had started at Dakar, however, the Ger‘man rumor barrage finally boiled down to an isolated incident in-

miles from Dakar. . . The Germans obviously were attempting to utilize the incident to trouble the waters and probably to increase pressure on France to allow the Germans to participate in “defense” of Dakar. The Nazis were

thought to be seeking to force France to agree to join the war on the axis side in event of an allied attack on Dakar or any other French possession. Vichy Denies Dakar Clash

The Vichy government itself issued a brief denial of any clash at Dakar. Berlin, however, insisted that the biggest manuevers of the war were in progress at Gibraltar. The Nazi propaganda drive was in line with its campaign of recent weeks claiming that allied action against French possessions in Africa is imminent. In connection with indications of winter campaigns in Africa reports came from Istanbul that Adolf Hitler was preparing to take over full charge of all operations in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Balkans, relegating Italy even further

These reports suggested that the first Nazi move would be to take control of Trieste and Flume. The Hitler move was said to be motivated by a desire ‘to end wrangling and bungling by Italy-in these spheres in view of the growing threat of allied offensive action.

Report ‘Anti-Slave’ Strikes

Meanwhile reports from the French frontier said that so far Laval had been able to get a total of only 22,000 men. of the 150,000 skilled workers sought by Germany. Vichy announced in a communique last night that anti-labor draft strikes had broken out in the important Lyons railroad repair and terminal shops Thursday but said they had been settled yesterday “without grave incidents.” Sit down strikes or walkouts af fecting more 'than 10,000 men had been reported in Lyons, Grenoble, Chambery, Annecy, Longwy, Tou-

officials posted lists of men drafted for German slavery. Frontier dispatches reported yesterday that Laval might be forced out of office by the Nazis because

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of his failure to find the men.

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JAPS CONTINUE

BY AIR,

SEA AND LAND

|Navy Silent on Guadalcanal Fighting Bu Reveals 2 Enemy Destroyers Were Hit By U. S. Bombers in Aleutians.

(U. P.).—The fate of Ame

ican positions in the Solomon islands hung in the balan today with marine and army forces fighting against a larg scale Japanese land, sea and air attack.

ued by the navy department the Solomons battle. It to

of the success of army medium bombers in the Kiska 2

of the Aleutians, but noth of the progress at Gus

canal. In the Aleutians army mediun bombers probably sank one Jap nese destroyer, and damaged other destroyer and a cargo ship’ the Kiska area of the Aleutians, | navy announced. Martin B-26 two-engined bombe: known as the Marauder, were in the attacks on Kiska. This the first time that medium bomb have been used in the Aleutians.

Cargo Ship Set Afire

The two Japanese destroyers were intercepted northeast of Kiska, sole Japanese base in the ‘Aleutia One destroyer was hit by bombs and was probably sunk, navy said. The other was hit, too but was listed as merely dam The" cargo ship was cal our bombers in “Gertrude 8 ‘the south coast of Kiska. Ohe | rect hit set fire to the ship, was observed burning many hd later, Our losses were only one tp which was downed by anti-aircra fire. Again there was no report ¢ any aircraft opposition from Japanese in that area.

Raises Ship Toll to 42

The new Japanese ship cas raised to 42 the total of ships hit since they began Aleutians venture in ‘early ne, These included 13 sunk, five prob« ably sunk, and 24 damaged. i The navy department has silent since yesterday on the ress of the fighting in the So mons. To date, navy department coms muniques have vevealed sev landings of Japanese troops Gaudalcanal, the latest, repo yesterday, along with artillery, the presence of a huge enemy § including battleships. But the communiques have very little to say about the ities of American ships. The American naval vessels 'ackn edged by the department to be ticipating in the battle were th little PT torpedo boats which to such a conspicuous part in the d fense of the Philippines.

Silent on Marines

Nothing at all has been said the marines, recently reinfo: with army units. Very little bh keen reported of the activity American war planes ° cpera : from the air base on Guads nal which the Japanese built hefore they were ousted in August. But it was pointed out that (Continued on Page Two)

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MOSCOW--Russians fall back @ Stalingrad for fourth time in tw ‘days; German casualties mated at 6000 in 60 hours; dent Mihail Kalinin Soviet position generally than year ago.

LONDON—Nazis believed trying f

force Vichy into war against lies in event of attack on Dal