Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1942 — Page 2

Keep Tab-on Japs With Own Flags

WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 3. (U.P). ‘~The assembly and repair depart- - ment of the naval air station’ at San Diego, Cali, has devised. a neat little time saver for U. S. aircraft ‘jvadrons in the Pacific. Each plane that goes out to the fleet from the air station is supplied with a packet containing 12 - decalcomanias of Japan’s Tising sun ins The flags are: used to keep the score. of each planes... récord against: enemy planes, one being pasted -on the fusilage for each cnemy: shot down. The flags formerly were painted on thé: vic torious pilot’s. plane by ‘hand. It was gratifying labor, but took a lot of time. "

ILIGHTEST VOTE {IN DECADE Seek

: Jamming of Machines i Early Hours Angers The Democrats. (Continued from Page. One)

workers attempted to slow up the | voting in the early morning hours | when war industries members were lined up at the polls before: they went to work.” °° “fhe Democrats charged that 90) per cent of the ‘jammed machines were in _précincts which normally

PECT LIGHT VOTE IN STATE Only 1,250,000 Will Turn| ' Out, Leaders Say; Con-

gress Races Feature. (Continued from Page One)

my the is of Mid withdraw northw: canal.

NIPPON 1 LOSSES = a Toe sy Col. “Knox > Renaals Sinking atte of the Solomons; Of Two Additional Jap Cruisers.

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the Japanese will be able quer the strategic island gre

equipment. Airplanes and sentials have been pouring Solomons to relieve the aiff for the battle-scarred mari army veterans on Guads But the Japanese undo willing to slug it out with th icans.” The light by no over. 2 :

cnired that one = heavy enemy cruiser, four, destroyers and -one transport had been sunk and two cruisers damaged. ‘The battle, which lasted 30 min-| utes and was fought with guns and tropedoes, frustrated. an enemy landing attempt.

war “workers were sticking to their

Readers of both parties reported that the voting was fairly heavy at Greenfield and a heavier Deéemo-| crati¢ vote than usual was reported in Tippecanoe county.

Fight for Congress Seats

Principal interest centered - on the election of congressmen. The Democrats are driving to. wrest away several of the eight seats

go heavily Democratic. - Mr. Ettinger threatened the removal of elestion officials in at least three precincts because of what he described as “inexcusable and perhaps deliberate negligence

The assembly and repair department pronlises to replace any packet that is used ip.

Knox's disclosures followed navy announcements” yesterday that ‘ma-

rines on Guadalcanal had driven

NEW YORK,. Nov. 3 (U..

the enemy in slow retreat back tWo The collision of two army

miles from.positions near. the west- planes in mid-air durin MEAT CUTTER FOUND ex limits of the island's airport. | near Pie R. IL; i yesterday afternoon was announced dy BEATEN SERIOUSLY command, which said one \ command, which said one pilot was A 60-year-old meat cutter was able tp land his Signuy IVa Toston seriously in the back plans ity 3 pt RE seat of his automobile parked in the 3 2000 block of Alvord st. today. rescued from Narragansft bay: He is A. N. White who moved to; 3135 Northwestern ave. a month ago

from -Milanh,- Tenn. - Relatives said he had not been home last night and he still was unconscious when police took him to City hospital. Detectives are investigating the

held by the Republicans. (The ' Democrats already had lost one of their four seats by the reapportionment of 1941, which reduced the number of congressional districts in the state from 12 to 11).

Two races featured the congtesgional contests, that in the ninth district between Capt. Roy "Huckle peiry, a Democrat, and- Republican Rep. Ear] Wilson and the 10th district fight between Democratic Rep. William H. Larrabee and Republican Congressman Raymond Springer. | Rep. Larrabee lost his old district in thé reapportionment. Little interest was shown by the voters, according to officials of both

in handling the machines.”

Commenting -.on the machine breakdown, Republican County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom said that “most of the trouble I've heard about occurred in strong Republican wards. It hurt us worse than it did the Democrats.”

Denies Deliberate Acts

“William H ‘Remy, Republican member of the election board, said that “so far as I have observed personally, there have beén no delib-

{ ; 1ted in ed . erate acts that resulted in jammed| o.iiev that Mr. White had been

machines. __. lrobbed. His bank book was found “I have been to several precinctsS|sn the floor of the car.

where machines were reported

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Pacific Routes

By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent

HEADQUARTERS, U. 8S. Forces! in the South Pacific, Oct, 28 (de-| CONVERT GOSHEN AIRP oT layed).—One of the most powerful] GOSHEN, Ind., Nov. 3(U, BJ fleets the United States ever has Goshen’s. municipal airport ..soon put to sea is operating in the Solo-|will become a training station for mons and the entire area has been army: and navy: cadets. reinforced by a. flood of new, es-i tion of shops, offices an sential equipment. quarters already has begun ‘This is no secret to the Japanese. | initial contingent of -trainess They found it out two days agoiarrive Dec. 10. “4

U. S. chiefs of staff talk grand strategy at their weekly luncheon in Washington. Reading clockwise are Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to President Roosevelt; Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, army air forces chief; Admiral Ernest J. King, head of naval operations, and Gen. George C. Marshall, army

chief of staff. | Co

National Voting Trend Light: [EXPECT WOMEN | It May Tip Off War Feeling T0 FILL ROLES

(Continued from Page .Oneé) Curtiss - Wright Personnel

érs before the people and to start party’s Vice Chairman Frank E, the G. O. P. on the come back trail. Gannett says the Republicans. will}: The world is watching. An un-|gain a minimum of 35 seats ane -

jammed and I found that in all . -

parties, in the races for state offices. Topping the state ticket contests weré those between Winfield K. Denton, Democrat, and Rue Alexander, Republican, for secretary. of state, and between E. Curtis White and Richard T. James, Republican, for state auditor. As the voters went to the polls, both state chairmen were - still claiming victory by substantial margins.

Gates Claims Vietory

Republican State Chairman Ralph ‘Giates said that “the victory in In-

foreseen Republican landslide would pe interpreted in some degreé as a vote of no confidence in Mr. Roosevelt’s conduct of the war. But candidates of all parties uniformly are pledged to continue the fight until the axis is licked. The Democratic party is expected to lose some senate and house seats, put to retain control of thé congress. There also is a scattered weakening of Democratic state bulwarks and the Republican party is expected to add to its list of governors, notably in New York state

probably do better. Some other Re-

publicans privately expréss the opin= a ion that they have 19 to 2° newj|.

seats in the bag. The World Watches : The extent of Reépublican gains

lin the housé will be accepted here

and abroad as & measure of American judgment o6f thé war policies of the Roosevelt administration. But it also is a fa¢t that the majority party in eongress usually loses seats in an off-year election. Top billing among the states goes to the New York contest for gover-

Now 18% Female May Go to 58% Soon.

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commented Mr. Kertis. “We will just go aléng, week to weéek, meeting our problems as we conie to them.” Thé personnél manager said that he had no difficulty whatsoever with _ local draft boards over thé matter of défermént of vital workers and had received excellent cooperation from “the boards at all times.

instances the machines were out of operation because of the inexperience of thé inspectors.

“Théy just didn’t know how to.

préparé thé machinés for voting. Many of the jammed machines weéré restored to operation by inspectors themselves within a few minutés after they were reported Someé of thé failure of the mac¢hinés was blamed by the Democrats on inexperience of Republican

inspectors who were on these jobs|}

for the first time in moré than 12 years. The G. O. P. majority for

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DOWNSTAIRS 2 AYRE!

where Democrats have been in power 20 years. In addition to thousands of local officers, the electorate will choose Dewey tock the New York. nomi-

31 full term and four short term| ... “over the ) opposition of Wensenators, 432 full term and two short| on 1, willkie, 1940 Republican

term members of the house and 32 esidential nominee, and may come governors. Maine elected a governor, up two years from now with the

a senator and three members of the ,.eqidential nomination in his own house—all Republicans—Sept. 14. |yjght if he wins today. His backers The newly elected senators and are claiming a plurality of around representatives with those members| 600,000.

He said that the only deferments|secretary of state in 1940 gave the asked were for men in highly-skilled) Republicans the right to name the positions and that these requests|inspectors. had béen for men in théir early 30s| Deputy election commissioners % or older. who toured many of the precincts'} J " Many Are Enlisting in the on his reparisd voting ‘ , A rw was unusually light in the outlying “I can’t remember,” he said, “ask- | residential districts, but that voting, ng for a deférment for & man Un- |, the qowntown precincts, especial-| er 25.” He said that enlistents “were| roc With many Negro voters,

SE “br xt; ”» hurting” the plant more than the| ©oF Cxtremely heavy.

nor in which Dewey looks like a sure winner over Bennett and Dean Alfange, American Laborite.

diana probably will be 100 per cent. By that, I mean that your efficient state officials of the past two yéars will be returned to office for the customary second term on thei records of achievement and the state assembly will retain its-Re-publican majority. “The people of Indiana realize * that due to the accident of a New Deal governor slipping in with an otherwise Republican victory -..in

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1940, they were blocked in -their mandate to correct completely. the McNutt dictatorship laws. This they will éxpect us to do in the 1943 legislature.” Democratic State Chairman Fred Bays asserted that “a flood of Republican money was reported to- _ day in a number of counties” but predicted that “this method will not win this year for thé people are not taking any chances of having isolationists Republican obstructionists handicap the war program and sabotage the peace.”

BELGIANS USE INDIAN FIRE ARROW TRICKS

LONDON, Nov. 3.—(U. P.).—Belgian - patriots are using American Indian war tactics in their arson campaign to prevent Nazis from using the food they produce, a Belgian = government spokesman reported today. The patriots, he said, are setting fire to barns and other farm buildings by shooting flaming arrows at them over the heads of Nazi guards.

FRANKFORT SERGEANT DIES

FRANKFORT, Ind, Nov. 3— (U.- P.) —~Frankfort relatives were Informed yesterday of the death of Staff Sergt. Thomas L. Downs, 23, Frankfort, of the U. 8. transport command.

of the senate whose terms hold over beyond this year will comprise the 78th congress which will convene in the first week of January.’ . The senate will. remain. Demo|eratic regardless of how far the political pendulum may swing today. The existing Democratic. ‘majority is so large that the Republicans would bé unablé to take over in the’ upper house éveén if they woh every seat for which they are giv n chance at all. xs 5

8 Senators Unopposed %

are in the South whe! nominees are A The pulse feelers variously predict Republican gains of from two to six seats and the G.O.P. claims that it will take eight. In the house, the Republicans now hold .165 seats, short of the 218 required for a baré majority over all parties. The Democrats have 258 seats. There are five minor party representatives and seven vacancies. Unless some of the minor’ party representatives would join with them, the G.O.P. would require 53

house when it meets in January and to supplant Speaker Sam Rayburn with Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.) who presently is the Republican floor leader. Republican spokesmen generally have not claimed that they would

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missing n’the Pacific,

“The usual ‘New Deal-Democratic

alignment in this staté is sorely

divided. The left wing, organized as the American Labor Party with considerabl following in. the . city of New York, bolted Bennett in protest against- the fact that he was nominated over the active opposition of Mr. Roosevelt.

Farley Bucked FDR James A. Farley put Bennett over

ras the party’s nomineé in’ thé first |formal move since the 1940 elec......./tion to block a fourth. term RooseOf the seats at issue, { i S1welt nomination or-to- prevént the Feient from hand picking &-160

per cent New Dealer to succeed him. If Bennett is elected, he and Farley and not Mr. Roosevelt will control the New York state delegation to the 1944 presidential nomination convention.

NAZIS MENACE TWO RUSS OIL CENTERS

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additional seats to organize the|

trench mortars wiped out a company—200. Dispatches from the Nalehik front “Irevealed - that the * Germans - had withdrawn most of their. forces from around Mozdok, 50 ‘miles to the northeast, and -had - thrown them into an’ effort to out-flank impenetrable Soviet defenses in the Terek valley.

~ Oil Centers Threatened

The Germans advanced over low ground southeast of Nalchik, fairly well suited to tanks, at the foot of the snow-capped Caucasus mountains. ‘Their objectives were Ordzhonikidze, 50 miles to the southeast, and Grozny, about, 80 miles due east. From Ordzhonikidze, the Georgian military highway ledds through a 6000-foot, gorge to Tiflis, in the southern Caucasus. From - Ordzhonikidze also leads the Ossetic military highway, over the mountains to Kutanis, in the: southern Caucasus.

. It is 280 miles from Tiflis to Baku,

Russia's principal oil district, snd 70 miles from Kutanis to the important port of Batum on the Tuyrkish border. The weather permits operations all year in the southern Caucasus.

HONORS RICKENBACKER

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Nov. 3— (U. P.)—Mayor William Dress said yesterday he would propose -that Evansville’s municipal airport, now being improved under federal grant, be named Rickenbacker field in honor of the World War I ace now

Dp ‘a REDTAPES

‘Last month, 60 employees, including some skilled workers, énlisted in various branchés of the armed forces. No effort is made by plant officials to stop -the énlistmeént of these men “although” it hurts in many in-

stances,” Mr. Kértis said.

‘Many elderly men 8 shave draft age

iN are: ‘being hired.

Women Do Good Job

“In commenting on the plant’s experience with women employees, Mf. Kertis said that they “are doing. a

the: heat treat, inspection and assembly departments and on grinders and screw machines. |

Most of the women employees have taken the required 90 hours “training within industry” course offered in the public schools or col-}-leges. When they start work at Curtiss-Wright they ' go through what is known as a “learners” program. Curtiss-Wright does not hire a man from another defense plant who asks for a job unless he has a releasé from his previous defense job and the release has cleared

ice. All Are Investigated

_ Each job applicant is thoroughly investigated - and every - effort is

who quit jobs in other defense plants to: seek: a ‘job ‘at - CurtissWright, perhaps because they hope to get more money. “Naturally, a few -men, particularly those from shops in small towns, slip by us,” Mr. Kertis said. He. said that the company has never yet stopped a man with a chance for a better :job from resigning nor has it failed to recommend him. As things stand today, said Mr. Kertis, “we have ample manpower to maintain production and as for

problems as they came along.”

DOWNED PILOT LEAPS

INTO 'RESCUER’S LAP

: CAIRO, Nov. 3.—-{(U.. P.)~Pilot Officer Brian Terry of New South Wales, an Australian serving with

‘the royal air force, said today he

was returning to his base .after a sweep over the German lines when he saw another -member of his squadron crash and two German trucks race toward him. “I landed near the wreckage,” Terry: said, “and the pilot ran: toward me and hopped into my lap. I gunned up my engines and managed to take off us ahead of the Jerries.” : :

FEDER COURT woves

SOUTH BEND., Ind., Nov. 3 (U.

..|P.)~Northern district federal court activity will be shifted tomorrow

from South Bend to Hammond. The court Iater will shift to Ft. Wayne and resume in South Bend in Feb‘rary J hy

HOOSIER SOLDIER KILLED ' "RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. 3 (U. P)~~M. E. Hawk was wrapping & Christmas. gift. for his- son, Denzil,

§ 4 member of the royal Canadian air

‘force, when he was interrupted to receive a telegram. The message told him that his son had died in action on Oct, al.

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BRITISH HERO DIES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U. P.).

<@acietary of the Treasury Henry §

Morgenthau Jr. was advised today that Sergt. Donald M. Huntley, one of the British war heroes who toured the United States last summer on behalf of the war bond campaign, had beén killed in action during an R. A. F. raid on the German naval base of Wilhelmshave. 1°

Se isi FRENCH ACE IN, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—The fighting French air force ace who shot, down two Focke-Wulf 190 raiders. during the German attack on : Canterbury on Oct. 31, was Capt. Jean Morlaix, it was disclosed today. Morlaix’ bag of enemy planes now totals 21.

CODY KIN JOINS MARINES . SOUTH BEND, IND. Nov. 3.—

(U. BP). William Frederick Cody,|

18, Niles, Mich., who said he was a cousin -of William “Buffalo Bill” Cody of wild west fame, joined the marines ‘here yesterday. >

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