Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1942 — Page 1

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Patera services will be held Sat-, urday: for Carolyn Sue West, 11-

months-old | daughter of Mr. and MS Wet, 90 Goodlet

X son, and choked| : to ndeath.” Mrs. * West and’ two . mefghbors tried to remove . it, but + the: shaft of ‘the drumstick pulled loose: from" the knob and ‘efforts of! ¥ : emergency squad to save the ild’s life were to no avail. Mr; ‘West, a fireman on the B.' & So 1 ilroad, id not learn of .the| io ; he Tetuined “home| wn 3 ! The. services will be. at 10a. m.

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"| STATE ‘CHEESE MEN “GET EXPERT HELP

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 20.(U.-P.). ~The: Purdue: uhiversity: husbandry rdepartment - announced today that Federal Cheese = Specialist H. R. | Lochry - of Washington: ‘will ‘advise ‘Indiana’s 43 ‘cheese’ ‘factories in a series ‘of Uires-day- visits to’ each Lochry will: provide ‘technieal as{sistance to plants: ‘striving t0 -produce 35,000,000 pounds. of cheese for {war needs. Indiana ranks’ third

4 Ipationslly n Sesser production.

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! Artist Who Never Forgot, Heeds. Center Plea in Times

By. VICTOR PETERSON

’ wpve vesn living ¢ -on- borrowed ‘blood fer: the past two’ years and 1 won't: feel my. debt: is even partially paid until I give’ 10 more times,” said

Yesterday he gave: a fourth pint of the Chamber of ‘Commerce ‘building.

Two years ago Mr. Brockway, an artist, was. ‘engraving. a: policeman’s: gun in Akron. He forgot to remove the, bullet ‘clip. While working on

1 the: trigger guard: ‘his ‘etching knife slipped, hit the trigger and sent a slug into his left knee. #1 ‘Fourteen persons gave their; blood | to help - saver his. life. One of his legs was amputated. Yesterday he was in Indianapolis on ‘business. and’ saw ‘the Center's appeal in The Indianapolis Times. “I've given blood in Baltimore, Akron and the Chicago. district and I do give a damn about our fighting men. : I was in the navy. 20

around "I was: registered for: the draft in bed.” : ‘Wants: to Do More

“With just one: leg left, the least I. can do is. give my blood. Those

J boys ‘out there® are ‘going’ to’ need

lit a lot more’ ‘than. I “do.”

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in’ the Havy.,

AIL”, ‘he said, in the front lines.’ The enemy

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years: ago, but’ ‘when this war rolled |,

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[] TO RULE ON SALARIES

Machinery Is Set Up to ‘Enforce Government Regulations. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U.P). — Machinery for nation-wide enforce-

ment of sweeping wartime salary and wage regulations, promulgated

(this week, was set up today by the

treasury and war labor board. "As the WLB met. with directors of the 13. wage-hour administration

part of the program info effect, the treasury announced establishment of a salary stabilization unit to control ‘salaries not under WLB jurisdiction. Assistant Secretary of the TreasSullivan. said that seven regional offices of the unit

{would be opened “within a week” in: New York, Philadelphia, Detroit,

Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Four to seven more such offices probably will be established later. Davis: Calls Meeting The regional wage-hour. directors

| were summoned here by WLB Chair-

man William H. Davis to arrange for handling employer queries on

$5000 a year through the more than 100 wage-hour offices scattered throughout the country. Davis expected the necessary ma-

i chinery to be ol up for operation

Sullivan said the new . salary

* | stabilization - unit will be under - | supervision of ‘a deputy commis- -{ sioner: of internal revenue. The

unit, he said; “shall be independent of all other units of the bureau of

| internal revenye.”

* “Sullivan was asked about a pro-

| vision of the regulations providing

at “any determination” of the war labor: board: and :the commissioner of internal revenue in ‘' respect’ to wages or salaries “shall be final and shall not be subject to review by

- jceedings.” He said this language did not mean that an individual was precluded .from challenging the legality - -of the anti-inflation act. Cites Precedent He ‘said it meant that there

“{would' be no appeal from ‘finding

the facts” by the WLB or the commissioner of internal revenue. He said there was precedent in a .supreme court case for this ruling. He said..that the top. limitation on net salaries, fixed at $25,000, would permit gross salaries of at least $67,200 next year. The gross ‘could be larger since the wage reg‘ulations also permit the deduction ‘of - life insurance premiums, fixed obligations: and certain . charitable contributions, as well as federal waxes, before artival at the $25,000 ne |

COFFEE SELLERS CAN PUNCTURE THE CAN WASHINGTON, oct. 2 ©. P)— The office -of price administration said today that coffee rationing \officials are preparing a statement, of practices by which retailers may prevent hoarding by consumers before rationing begins Nov. 28. ‘Among other things, this will authorize dealers to puncture vacuumpacked coffee cans at time: of sale during the Tterim period, a1 official} sald.

regions to formulate. plans to put!

all wages and salaries of less than}

{the tax court of the United States} “lor by any court in ‘any civil pro-

Man Power :

FDR Opposes: “Draft, ? But Favors Tighten ing Federal Control.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U.P). President Roosevelt has decided against labor “draft” legislation at this time, but is expected soon to issue an executive order tightening federal control over manpower distribution, it was reported reliably today. The order will be designed fo channel workers into activities where they can contribute most effectively to the war effort and keep them there, it was understood. However, existing indirect powers, instead of new law, will be used in an effort to accomplish this purpose. ” ® 8

"MR. ROOSEVELT’S decision followed weeks of debate over this issue with War Manpower Chief ‘Paul V. McNutt favoring early enactment of national service legislation authorizing the gov--ernment to draft workers for the jobs where they are needed. Other governmental circles have been divided on the question. Organized labor has vigorously opposed ’ new legislation of the type sug-. gested by Mr. McNutt. The forthcoming order probably will ‘seek to require that

. hiring be done through the U.

S. employment service, a branch of the WMC, thus -preventing “pirating” and “hoarding” of workers and enabling ‘the government to assign .workers to war jobs on a priority basis:

WAR TIDES HAVE

‘Observer Says.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY ‘Turning tides of war may have|Tres a direct effect: on the’ election ‘of

the moment it looks as though they were running in favor of the Republicans. In addition to what finally is an-|, nounced coficerning the: fighting in the Solomons, the hundred and one war tensions and irritants: may cause many persons to vote against the party in national power. Governor Henry: L. Schricker ‘and other Democratic stump speakers have suggested that the* election be predicated on support of the president through their party. The other side of that argument is the slogan used by some Republican congressmen: “Let us win the house to. win the war.” Senator Raymond E. Willis, who has been speaking in southern Indiana, has been censured for saying our Pacific fleet is practically lost. But so many Hoosier sailors were on the ill-fated carrier Wasp when she was sunk that people in ¢ (Continued on Page Six)

RUGBY - HEADMASTER RAPS BRITISH CREED

LONDON, Oct. 29 (U. P.) —Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon, headmaster of Rugby, said today. that whatever might. be: thought of the Nazi creed, it has had the power to “claim allegiance as no other faith’ in ‘Europe for 100 years.” Mr. Lyons said in a speech that while. naziism has inspired millions with endurance, loyalty, courage and self-sacrifice, Britain has been content with a “milk and honey Chris‘tanity which led us ‘straight down the road. of. Appeasement and be-

“That is not Christianity” ‘he said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U. P) == 2 War Secretary ‘Henry L. Stimson ‘today that the Alaskan

‘| highway is now open, ‘to: ‘truck + Htrafiic, for: its entire length. of 1671}

miles. from ‘Dawson Creek to Fair-| banks,

Mr) ‘Stinson told & press conference trucks started carrying mu-} + nitions’ anf miterial to "troops in| : te] Alaska this week. : Fs “Formal ‘opening “of the highway | ; _ will" probably take lace _ Sunday, |.

Alaskan Highway Now Open » Way to Army Trucks

“They pushed forward ot the rate of eight miles a ‘day, bridged 200 streams, laid a roadway 24 feet between ditches, and at ‘the highest

EFFECT ON VOTE

s Tension. and. irritants Aid enublicant “Ans State; pak

the state ticket in Indiana and ab]

Japs Believed to Have Most Of Fleet There; Stimson Rebukes Critics. =~

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -(U. BP). —American land, air and sea forces

| fought against heavy odds today to

break ‘the strength o: a huge ‘Japanese assault on the southern Solomons. The U. S. forces were outnumbered on land and on sea, and their air control was being worn down by constant Japanese plane and artillery bombardment of Henderson airfield, the strategic Americanheld base on Guadalcanal, A Pearl Harbor dispatch suggested that Japan has massed ail the naval units which she can spare from home: defense duties’ in an effort to deal a ‘death blow to the Americans in the Solomons. The exact size of the U. S. naval task forces in the area has not been revealed but it was apparent that the Japanese had sent a numerically superior fleet in against them.

15,000 to 20,000 Japs

.On land the Japanese numbers ‘were greater than the Americans but the difference was not believed so marked. The Japanese were ¢€stimated to have landed between 15,000 and 20,000 men on Guadalcanal island. The American marine and army force was said at Pearl Harbor fo be somewhat smaller than this. The Sydney Daily Telegraph reported today that Australian offi- ; |cials’ were “not: so pessimistic about “1 the outcome of the Solomons battle as some overseas -quarters.” I{ added, “Neither side has iin

E War Secretary y Henty Lt Si in his “press ‘eonifétence today, ane

|swered criticism of ‘the Solomons

ini: as by saying that it was the t of plans agreed to by the joint army and navy chiefs of- staff.

Pilots Ask Reinforcements:

Shortly after the attack, it was referred to by Gen. Douglas MacArthur .as a “navy show.” Gen. MacArthur techincally has no control over the fighting in the Solomons; although they are near Australia, they are under naval control from Pearl Harbor. ‘Two weeks ago Rep. John M. Costello (D. Cal.) charged that the navy had tried to make a “grand-’ stand play” and had not called for army help early enough in the battle. The decisive hours in the struggle, it was believed in Pearl Harbor, are at hand. Marine pilots, arriving in Hawail, reported that Guadalcanal needed not only .more planes but more pilots because of (Continued on Page Six)

SAVINGS SEEN FOR ELECTRICITY USERS

P. S.C Orders Reduction In’ Utility Investment.

An eventual savings to electricity users -may result from the state public . service ‘commission’s order that the. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. remove a $9,500,000 Hem from its books. The commission also directed he company to submit a plan for disposing of another account amounting to more than $14,000,000. After a satisfactory plan is submitted to the commission. by the company, studies of the rate structure will get under way on the basis| downlof :$23,000,00 reduction in- the company’s total investment of $76, 000,000, commission’ officers said. - Frederick “PF. Eichhorn, commission chairman, said the %9,500,000 item was listed by the company as the “utility plapt adjustment account.” He said the $14,000,000 entry was the difference between the original’ cost ‘of ‘the utility and the price paid by the present ownership in 192%,

Uu. S. PAPERS RAPED

LONDON, Oct. 29 (U.P. —David

BY CART OONIST LOW]

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; (Oct. » 1940)

Solomons battle seems gt hand, "with Japanese in ‘supetior force both on land and sea, despite “very heavy losses” inflicted by American land forces.

EGYPT— Germans thrown “back in new battle, but major engagement of tanks is still awaited.

RUSSIA-—Nazis make small gainsy: i

inside Stalingrad; Soviet relief column reported only 35 miles rom _ city. - ‘Blizzards ‘sweep aucasus, but Russians withdraw at Nalchik. :

FAR EAST—American boinbers raid Lashio, Burma; Japanese revealed to have used 128 bombers in rald on U. S. ferry plane base ‘at Dibrugarh that cost 10 American

STALINGRAD'S RESCUE NEARER

Report - Timoshenko Only’ 35 Miles ‘Away; Some Nazis Die. of Cold. - By UNITED PRESS : The Nazis drove deeper into Stalingrad today, making some progress in a northern industrial center, but Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's relief column, according to British reports, had reachea a point only 35 miles from the city. The Moscow press was in.a jubf-| lant mood, crediting’ the defenders of Stalingrad with inflicting “the greatest Gérman defeat sine last winter's Sefeat: at Moscow.”

os EL Asis.

In the Caucasus, both sides said: the battle was proceeding in heavy snow and blizzards. Ski troops were in action and Russian ‘units were said to be fighting in; heavy 2 fur garments. 3

Avalasiches Hampers. Fighting

A Russian attack northeast of Taupse was said to have uncovered) largely numbers of thinly-clad Ger-| mans who had frozen to death: in the cold, ‘described as Mar below zero.” These were said by Mascow to be the first Nazis in Hitler's big 1942 offensive to perish in the dread Russian winter. Soviet dispatches said the Ger-

man ski troops and sled detach-|"

ments were ‘making frantic. efforts to get the Nazi army to the warmer Black sea coast: before the’ blizzard froze them or made the mountains’ completely impassable. Snow already filled the passes: and deep gorges, Moscow said, and avalanches periodically thundered down - the mountain’ sides.

Moscow admitted, however, that cla Russian troops had again Tfallen| °

back in the vicinity of ‘Nalchik, 50 miles southwest of Mozdok, and the {German communique reported. capture of the ‘town. i

CRITICIZE PROHIBITION TALK NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (U. P.)— The Churchman, Protestant Episco-

pal journal, today deplored editorially “the effort being made by

godly people with short® meémories| .

and shorter judgment to plunge thig iP country again into We black epi te of prohibition.” Gap

ENVOY'S SON IN PRISON

LONDON, Oct. 29. (U. P.) Tord] Howard of Pentith, 37, son of the

late ambassador to” ‘the United|

States, is a prisoner of war in Ger= many, , today. barrister.’

SOUTH PACIFIC—Decisive nour in| JAN

Tank Clash So Far.

(War Moves, Page 17)

‘By HARRISON SON SALISBUR "United Press Staff Correspondent.

American and Bri planes hammered cont j ; ly at ‘axis concentrations - on the Egyptian. desert, today after Field Marshal Erwin: Rommel’s: tank forces had been thrown back in the most severe armored clash of the. new imperial offensive.

. U.S. planes shot down four more. Messerschmitt 109 fighters and = joined the British in dealing severe punishment to German and Italian concentrations of trucks, froops and '| tanks. Other air squadrons ranged over the Mediterranean and sank. another tanker heading for Tobruk,: the fifth axis supply ship in five days sunk en route to that port. The fact that the Germans are risking allied air supremacy to. send, tankers. andl freighters to Tobruk instead. of to Benghazi was regard as most significant. It might in=48 dicate that Rommel is in desperate need of oil and othér supplies and §° the losses may play an important. § role {in ‘the next phase of the engagement. Both sides were still’ displaying caution, both in the reports of the battle ‘and ‘in the actual ‘military maneuvers. : :

. iowa on south Flank.

deployment of armored a on od more: extensive scale. :

that 37 British tanks Fess in. yesterday's fighting

“Brisk fighting was in progréss ia Rommel’s forward lines a ish infantrymen were, picking ‘theis

way through & maze of mines and: © v

fortifications and mopping up

breaches they had already created) in the well-prepared axis defenses,

Nine More Axis Planes Down

An. enemy counter-attack against British pesitions within the mine fields was beaten off Tuesday the: Cairo communique said, yesterday further tank

ported that nine more of F planes ‘had been shot down’ British’ losses—including

Malta—of: only four planes. Tuesday night, :

sent ta North Africa in big

it was Tevealed officially! oy In. peace. time he "was ‘al. 8

Ls ers Sweet Show, Say .

“Local. Me an of Lorient

LONDON; Oct. 29 (U. P)—~Two pilots were needed to keep a battered flying fortress with ‘sevén of its guns knocked out by enemy

back to England.

eased. ovee ths Proms somata attacked by flocks of Focke-Wulf! fighter ‘planes; fighting began, led by Maj

Plack of Los.

U-boat: ‘base and : fought. its way}: And

“Several of the: crew. ‘were we and-|