Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1942 — Page 1

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 202

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ment Stores to Open Later.

(List of candidates and

where to vote, Page 3)

5 By DANIEL M. KIDNEY £4 Men and women workers in the vast new war industries

“in Indianapolis will determine tomorrow who is to be the|g

est mayor and the odds in this instance favor the Demoeratic candidate, Judge Dewey E. Myers. : A plant by plant checkup today revealed that manage-

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ng if they cannot fit the pn. to 6 p. m. voting hours nto their work shifts. aat ‘all who are registered and ble to vote will do so is the mous opinion at all plants. so-called “apathy” which has ported stems largely from st that the war workers have n too busy to talk politics, it is explained. ; * Allison Posts Notices ©. Kroeger, general manager of ’s which covers acres and ys thousands, has posted nothroughout the plants calling attention to the important part they play in war production and urging

losing time if possible. But if dividuals find such a schedule impossible of fulfillment they may arrange with their superintendents to 2 time off to vote, the notice

they will pry $0 seems ata ing to Allison spokesmen,

n questions regarding the jue of voting and have indiid that they do not intend to is the opportunity. the Curtiss-Wright propeller

's to go to the polls and g the slogan ‘that “ballots Those unable

estimated that “90 per cent eligible voters in the plant”

, plant officials pointed out. oe srs are from 7 a. m. to 3

Ey vingion for workers vottween 7 a. m. and 9 a. m., ed they have arranged to do

pan. The proposal is posted tin boards throughout the

; department stores and have served notice that penn at 10 a. m. instead

p and vote en route to work. blanket estimate can be ding the workers in war , it is conceded that many ‘the highest wages they had and likely will vote ic as they credit the na‘administration with their prosperity. Expects Volunteers

of them haven't been tapped 5: yet and will pay next year present income. pbert H. Tyndall, the Reyoralty candidate, can a great deal of “volunteer ' of the type which put in the primary, much to P. organization’s surprise. n that 700 workers have ) sacrifice their tires and voters to the polls to-

S FEATURES SIDE PAGES

8) Inside Indpls. 13 Jane Jordan.. 17 Men in Service 15 rMillett Sees 17 Movies ccesses 8 Obituaries ... ‘5 ‘Pegler cessees 14 Pyle sss rencs 13 ‘Questions .... 14 Radio ..ce0ee0 21 ‘Mrs. Roosevelt 3 ‘Side Glances.. i Society kes 16, 3 0/ Sports .. , 19

We obeyed the presidential mandate of last week and “definite plans to let the workers ke time out for bal-

LIGHT NATIONAL VOTE FORESEEN

Congress Control Is at . Stake But Public’s

Interest Is Low.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The general elections campaign ends today and the Democratic party is expected ‘in tomorrow’s polling to suffer senate, house and gubernatorial losses but to retain control of congress. The members of the house and senate elected tomorrow with those

first session of the 78th congress. Maine elected a governor, senator and three members of the house, all Republicans, Sept. 14. The remaining 47 states tomorrow will elect 31 full term and four short term senators, 432 full terms and two short term representatives and 32 governors. Voters Apathetic There are literally thousands of lesser state and local officers to be filled tomorrow after a campaign .jovershadowed by war and marked ,{ by considerable public indifference. It is estimated that upwards of 30,000,000 citizens will vote tomorrow compared with nearly 50,000,000 in 1940 when the presidency was at stake. Estimates of probable Republican senate gains range. variously from two to half a dozen and there are reports from Nebraska that the veteran independent Senator George W. Norris may lose his seat to a Republican, Kenneth S. Wherry. Foster May is the Democratic candidate in a three-way race. . Frank E. Gannett, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, estimated Republican house gains would be from a minimum of 35 up. Democrats do not concede so much as half of Gannett’s minimum figure. The G. O. P. even more confidently hopes to win some governors from the Democrats, notably in California, where Earl Warren is reported to be a favorite over the incumbent, Culbert L. Olson, and in New York where one-time Dis(Continued on Page Four)

42,000 WORKERS ARE NEEDED HERE

Demand Grows for Labor During Coming Year.

By WILLIAM CRABB Indianapolis is headed for a real manpower shortage — about next July. Before the end of 1943, we will have required 42,000 more workers than are now employed in addition

who will enter the armed services in the next few months, This was revealed today by R. Edward Hays, manager of the local U. S. Employment. service office. The 42,000-plus workers will have to come from Indianapolis and the seven adjoining counties because: 1. The housing; problem here is acute. - : 2. Transportation already is becoming overloaded. 3.. Educational facilities are overcrowded.

workers. The “reservoir” which the city can draw upon is: 1. Negroes. 2. Elderly persons. 3. Handicapped: persons,

hold-over senators whose eas do

the first week of January for the

to the replacement of war workers|

4. Other communities’ can’t spare

‘Frozen!’

Joan Donna Has a Quarter She Can’t Spend Herself.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1942

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Pustcffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

MNUTT MAPS LABOR REPORT FOR PRESIDENT

All Plants Will be Told to Schedule Manpower as They Do Materials.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P).— Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the

ft {war manpower commission an-j.

f (nounced that he will send to the

Joan Donna Kinnick

JOAN DONNA KINNICK, 11, had a quarter today that nobody could take away from her, the trouble being that she can't even spend it herself. She swallowed it. Last evening ai the Kinnick home, 1615 E. Minnesota st., Joan Donna’ went upstairs to call her sister, Beverly Ann, 4. Beverly Ann doesn’t like milk and so they give her ice cream—that is, if she takes her afternoon nap. She was taking it all right and so she and her sister were going to the drug store for that ice cream, ” ” ” BEVERLY ANN woke up talking and Joan Donna was about to make a reply as she reached overhead for the electric light string. And that was when, it

dropped the quarter. Plop, right into her own.mouth. . Joan Donna told her sister, Jeanive, 14, and Jeanive advised her to tell her father, Glen. Mr. Kinnick told Mrs. XKinnick and Mrs. Kinnick got in touch with City hospital. With the aid of a: fluoroscope, the family all got a look at the “frozen” quarter.

PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY HIT-RUN DRIVER

Motorist Injured Critically In Similar Accident.

One Indianapolis resident was dead and another in a critical condition today, both the victims of hit-run drivers, police said. Aaron L. Schaffer, 68, of 1001 S. New Jersey st., was struck yesterday morning -at Madison. ave. and Sanders st. and left lying in the street. Found by a passing motorist, Raymond Smith, 1023 Gale st.,- Mr. Schaffer “died yesterday afternoon at City hospital. In a critical condition today from hit-run injuries was Mrs. Grace Harmon, 56, of 1201 S. Bates st. She was a passenger in a car yesterday struck by a hit-run driver at Central ave. and Westfield nlvd. Mr. Schaffer is survived by his wife and three sons, Joe and John, of Evansville, Ind., and Ben, of Indianapolis, and a stepson, John

{Faust, of Indianapolis.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES : 6am ...39 10am ...3 7am. ...38 11a. m.... 40

8a. m ... 38 12 (noon) .. 41 39. m 3 1pm ... 41

It's Official: At Pearl Harbor Sky Pilot

White House today a report on the nation’s manpower situation which he described as ‘equal in scope to the Baruch rubber report. He told a press conference that the report, which was drawn up by the WMC labor-management committee, was “quite satisfactory.” including a section discussing feasibility of a labor “draft” law. Plans for seeking such a new law are understood to have been put off indefinitely. McNutt declined to disclose contents of the report until it has been reviewed by Mr, Roosevelt. Deputy WMC Chairman Fowler V. Harper said it probably will be released to the press “within two or three days.” ~ Harper, calling the report “magnificent,” said “it represents a

situation.” approved by Presidents Philip Murray. of the C. I. O. and William Green of the A. F. of L. McNutt ' disclosed ‘Bernard M.

I industries board, has “given some thought” to the manpower problem, but Harper said he knew of no plans for an independent study of the manpower situation by Baruch. McNutt also disclosed that within a week or 10 days all major war production plants will be required to schedule their manpower re-

iquirements. .in..the..§

they now must schedule needs for scarce raw materials. ° He said federal labor inspectors will be assigned to the plants “to see that labor is being utilized properly.” Plants failing to co-operate would be subject to “whatever sanctions there are available,” he added. McNutt said plants required to prepare “manaing tables” would include those plants devoting 75 per cent or more of their personnel and facilities to war production, public utilities and other essential activities.

Directs Draft Ease

He said establishment of this program will be- of primary value in “justifying cccupational defer-

. |ments” from the armed forces and

that it also will enable the selective service system to direct “orderly withdrawals” of men now deferred unjustifiably., He said “manning tables” also would be of use in obtaining ‘more realistic inventories” of the nation’s manpower resources. He said (Continued on Page Four)

DECLARES JEWS ARE IN ‘STATE OF WAR’

NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (U. P.)— United States Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah). last night. called for establishment of a “Jewish commonwealth in Palestine” that would be granted recognition as a member of the united nations. Speaking at a meeting marking the 25th anniversary of the Balfour declaration under which Britain is pledged to restoration of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Senator Thomas declared: “This should be one -of our war aims and ‘peace aims.” He said that Hitler's - extermination - policy had created a state of war_for the Jews 10 years

ago.

united stand of labor and man-! agement on the entire manpower; Harper said it had been

Baruch, chairman of the world War

today by radio.

A German Tank Bows t0 the British

Seen in silhouette through the smoke and dust of the Egyptian desert battle, a survivor of a smashed

German tank surrenders to charging British infanirymen, The photo was flashed to New York from Cairo

FILLS HER DAY

ers and. Visits Queen

Mother, Princess Royal.

SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt watched a demonstration by U..S. parachute troops at their stations

Queen, Mother Mary and th the Prin-| cess Royal. At the paratroop base, Mrs. Roosevelt walked down the line of men with Lieut. Col. Edson Raff of New York, asking the men’s names and chatting with them. She discovered that most of them were, from the South. Col. Raff told the president’s wife that “there is no question about it. we are the best equipped paratroops in this theater.”

Talks to Soldiers

Mis. Roosevelt asked Pvt. Ocko Leonard of Lexington, N. C., about the treatment the men were receiving in Britain. “I've heard there is some grum{bling by our troops,” she said. “Do you find that the people here try to be nice to you?” Leonard replied affirmatively. In their demonstration for Mrs. Roosevelt, the paratroopers simulated jumps from an airplane,

He Never Counted Them

Sergt. Varna Shrewsberry - of Winding Gulf, W. Va., showed her how he removed his equipment. “How many pieces are there?” Mrs. Roosevelt asked. «I never stopped to count them, ma’am,” the sergeant replied. At breakfast Mrs. Roosevelt was offered two eggs, but declined them. She remarked she was an ideal customer for a wartime breakfast because she uses neither cream nor sugar, Concerning her visit with the royal family last night, Mrs. Roose=velt said Queen Mary gave her “two wonderful pictures of herself sawing wood.” The queen, ‘Mrs. Roosevelt explained, said that she had heard the president is. interested in reforestation and wanted “him to know that I also am interested.” Mrs. Roosevelt sent a message of sympathy. to the citizens of bombed Canterbury.

'Praised the Lord,’ Passed Ammunition

- HADDONFIELD, N. J. Nov. 2 (U. P)~—The Family of Lieut. Howell Forgy, 34-year-old navy chaplain, was thrilled but not surprised to learn that he spoke. the words which inspired the war

song that is sweeping the coun- -

try, “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”

“He was always one to turn a poetic phrase,” his gray-haired mother, Clara Forgey, said after dispatches from Pearl Harbor quoted Forgy: as admitting that

he and not Father William Ma-, guire, navy chaplain, uttered the

now-historic battle phrase aboard a “cruiser that was tied ‘up the > day the Japanese struck.

“That phrase is just like Howey,

isn’t it, Ruth?” she added.

The chaplain’s sister, - Ruth

Forgy, a graduate of the Univer-

sity of Pennsylvania, - heartily

seminary,” Mrs. Forgy said. “The boys used to take up a collection to send him to New York to see some of the hit shows. Then he’d come back and act out all the parts for them. ‘High Tor’ was his favorite. He loved to act that.” The neighbors were even more excited than the family, remembering the six-foot-two, 220-pound Lieut. Forgy as quite a football players before he became a “sky pilot.” He was - All-Ohio state

tackle in 1932 ‘while a student at

muskingum-: college, Ohto. Forgy’s father, Maurice, took exceptions to ‘a. statement that his son used unchaplain-like language during the attack. “Howell never father said. « The Rev. Forgy said at Honolu-

cussed,” the

munition by hand to the deck, he nioved along the line, encouraging the passers and repeating, “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.” -A little later, he said, he saw a’ Jap plane explode and muttered something about the boys getting “another of the so-and-sos.” After being ordained a Presby=terian minister, - Lieut. Forgy served a: pastorate -in ‘Colorado and then went to Murray, Ky., when he founded a-church and met: his wife, the ‘former Louise Morgan, Princeton, Ky. His wife and 2-weeks-old son, | Michael, are. in Berkeley, ‘Cal, awaiting Forgy’s next furlough. The’ story is not without an

"ironic twist for Rev. Forgy's fam~

ily. They have yet.to hear the

4 electro-

lu that when general quarters feres

agreed, Focalling that “he was £o-

today after a visit last night with, 4 %

hit tune—a: nearby Eslelants i therapy

Solomons

VARIED ACTIVITY U. S. Subs Sink 7 Jap Ships: Fighting in Lull

! Heavy Blows ‘Dealt Nippon Supply Lines; Another

American Carrier Lost. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—U. S. submarines, adding to damage

wrought ‘by American -aircraft and

surface vessels in the Pacific, have

sunk seven more Japanese ships and damaged three others—including a converted aircraft carrier—the navy announced today. “The new havoc inflicted upon the enemy, the navy made clear, was in addition to that announced after the great air and sea battle in the

WAR, TURKS WARNED

Policy of World Domination By One Nation Hit By Inonu.

ANKARA, Nov. 2 (U. P.).—Turkey must keep her “armed forces in readiness,” President Ismet Inonu told the Turkish parliament yesterday, because “at this moment our contry is nearer to. war than she was at the opening of hostilities.” The government is finding it increasingly difficult to adhere to its policy of neutrality since emmity between the belligerents constantly has grown more bitter, Inonu said at the opening fall session of parliament. He declared, however, that Turkey would “observe her obligations” in the coming year which, he said, might see even more violent conflicts than those to date.

Strikes at Aggression

.The president boldly attacked the spirit of aggression by declaring

{that “a policy based on domination

of the world by one nation is impossible.” “Events in the future will show more clearly,” he continued, “that small nations as well as great ones have the right of freedom and existence.” Asserting that Turkey “might be attacked from an unknown direction,” the president said it was parliament’s duty to meet that threat and that the nation must work “as if we were already at war.”

WAR MATERIALS = FLOW TO MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 2 (U. P.)— War materials sufficient to equip a modern fighting force of 400,000 men have already flowed into Mex-

‘lico from" the Uniled States and

more is on the way, semi-official sources said today. . The sources said the flow of materials is so heavy—bet'veen two and eight freight cars a day—that there is a lack of skilled labor to handle it. .

{On the War Brands

—NOV. 2—.

CAIRO— British forces advance on : Mediterranean end of Al Amein line, pocketing axis defenders.

U. S. SOUTH PACIFIC “HQS.~Two big Japanese fleets revealed. to} ‘have been , forced to withdraw from southern" ‘Solomons ‘waters ia week. ago after heavy ‘fighting;

mm a

. Anierican . aircraft

Solomons area Oct. 26 in which seven Japanese ships were battered

|and more than 100 enemy planes

destroyed, ~ Ranging across Japanese supply routes in the Far East, presumably striking betwéén =the enemy's home bases and such advanced operational areas as the Solomons, the American submarines brought their bag since Pearl Harbor to 86 ships sunk and 47 probably sunk or damaged—a total of 133.

. Carrier Set Afire

The navy communique said that the converted carrier, listed among ships damaged, had been set afire by the submarine attack. ‘The ships sunk were: Two large tankers, one large passenger-cargo ship, two medium-sized cargo ships and two small cargo ships. In ‘addition to the converted carrier, ships damaged were: One destroyer and one medium = sized tanker. It was the first report of .submarine activity since a communique of Oct. 14 listed five ships sunk, including a heavy cruiser, one. probably sunk and two damaged. The communique said specifically . {that the new submarine actions “have not been announced in any previous navy department communique.” Meanwhile, American forces continued. offensive thrusts on enemy positions in the Solomons while the battered Japanese fleet sought to reassemble its units in the north for another battle. The first detailed report of the naval air battle fought Oct. 26 (Solomons time) was received here yesterday. It revealed what had * (Continued on Page Four)

JAPAN LISTS ONLY 2600 U. S. PRISONERS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (U. P.).— Japan so far has reported the names of only 1155 United States prisoners of war and 1539 American civillian internees, the office of war information disclosed today. Officials considered the number of prisoners’ reported to be far out of proportion to the actual number

DRIVE PLACES NAZIS ENTIRE

Imperials Hammer Ax ¢ Unit in Trap; Rommel

Fails in Rescue,

By HARRISON. SALISBURY. United Press Staff Correspondent

Britain's imperial 8th army was making a bold challenge today for supremacy in Africa which, if achieved, would provide a Mediterranean path for ‘invasion of Europe by:

way of Italy. Berlin candidly admitted that the imperials had marched forward 25 miles along the road to Matruh. London suggested officially that: the present offensive may be the opening gambit in an all-out: drive to eliminate the axis from Africa.

Axis Troops insPocket

Dispatches from the desert re-= vealed that a hard-hitting force of Australians has driven forward at the Mediterranean end of the Alamein line, slashing the Alex-andria-Matruh railroad and pocketing the axis forces defending the northern anchor of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s defense line. : The lightning thrust trapped. an important force of German-Italian troops and it appeared that if the imperials are able to follow up their success they may be able to un= hinge the whole Alamein defense system and force. Rommel to ‘meet the British armored forces in a wide-swinging desert battle. : The German radio indicated that the imperials have driven forward nearly 25 miles along the Alexan dria-Matruh railroad, reporting’ they are “attacking “inthe vicis of Bidi Abd El Rahman, well hentnd: the deep defenses erected ih the desert.

Rommel Leads Attack

A dispatch by Richard D. MeMillan from the desert fighting area reported that the imperial drive had pocketed an Afrika Korps force on three sides in a three-mile. stretch of territory. - Repeated forts were being made by the: troops to break out and they.

aided in their attempts by a Nazi’

tank force, apparently diverted their assistance by Rommel. ‘Rommel himself, according Berlin reports, led a counter-attack on the center of the Alamein front, reportedly forcing the imperials back. It was the first time since the start of the new offensive that the axis radio had specifically placed Rommel on the battle front. The battle, McMillan reported, has been going on without let-up for 30 hours. It appeared yesterday evening) when the British’ blocked the only remaining exit from the that the axis forces would soon. faced with the decision of di or surrendering. :

Nazis Open Salient

But a heavy barrage of morfar fire from the German 080th light artillery succeeded in opening the western tip of the salient on the shining white sands of the seashore. That was the corridor through which imperial troops previously had sliced in an all-night attack which carried them through the lines. - Having closed the door ‘on Ie salient, the British were bolting’ by throwing artillery, tanks ahd anti-tank guns into the corridor, but before the operation could completed, the Germans pried entrance open slightly again. Today the imperials in the cor< ridor were beating off the desper= ate German counter-attacks, strik ing at the enemy from inside and

believed to be held.

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 .(U. P.).—The Germans inside Stalingrad retreated farther today before powerful Soviet counter-attacks, but battlefront dispatches.said the Nazis were rushing more men, planes and tanks to the Nalchik area ofthe eastern Caucasus. for a supreme effort to drive to the Georgian military high- | way. The Soviet noon communique said four German tanks were blown up} by| and. 12 ‘trucks loaded with troops oland supplies ‘destroyed if the Nal2 chik area, and acknowledged no new enemy advance. “The . Germans, however, diove a

wedge into defense ¢ positions around"

outside the salient. From the south, (Continued on Page Four)

Nazis Shift Battering Ram From Stalingrad to Nalchi

on almost | all sectors—inside city, northiest of it and of it. Ferocious : attacks that last had threatened to rip northern industrial section of ingrad to the Volga had: dw to nothing, and the Russians, t advantage of the Serksting mans, have been Suunter-ay a for ‘two days. . “With winter not. far away Germans w trying to d the Nalchik area to Ordz {30 miles Rosi ay,