Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1942 — Page 1

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 205

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942

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

‘BROKEN AXI

Cohan Is Dead

HOOSIER GROUP,

~~ ASKS DELAY IN GAS RATIONING

Voluntary Allotment and Strict Speed Limit Is Urged as Compromise.

A last-minute attempt to delay

gasoline rationing for 90 days is |

being made by the Mid-West Rubber Conservation committee, com- , posed of executive officers of a number of state associations-represent-ing various industries, Todd Stoops, secretary- manager

of the Hoosier Motor ciub, is chair- |

man of the committee which isurging a “compromise” to the ‘:oupon rationing scheduled to zo into ¢f- ~ fect throughout the nation Nov, 22. This comproraise is voluntary rationing of tire use plus “strict” enforcement of the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit. The committee printed 50,000 folders explaining the plan and requesting that pressure be brought on congressmen. In a short time the committee had received . requests for 15,000 more, Mr, Stoops said. Praise Baruch Report

“This committee,” said the folder, “firmly believes in the necessity of conserving rubber. We believe that the Baruch report is. thoroughly honest an dthat Mr. Jeffers is the proper man for the job assigned to him. ; “We only differ with the proposed * plan of. conserving rubber. ' We think that honest Hoosiers will resent regimentation. We believe that our plan of 35 miles an hour will have the same effect of conserving our rubber supply that rationing, by the coupon system, will accomplish.” The committee pointed to the “black market” on gasoline that has developed in the eastern states and

declared that it will he even worse]

in the Middle West which is “swimming” in gasoline. Fears Labor Shortage

Mr. Stoops said that almost al:

. Quarter of a million persons will be required fo ration gasoline on a nation-wide scale. “This only can add to the labor shortage,” he declared. Mr. Stoops said that the Baruch report recommended the reduction of mileage by an average of 44 per cent. In some sections of Indiana, outside defense areas, the consumption of gasoline is down 50 per. cent, he pointed out.

ALLIED TROOPS MAKE GAINS IN NEW GUINEA

: GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- . QUARTERS, Australia, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—Allied ground troops, advancing rapidly through the foothills of New Guinea’s Owen Stanley mountains, have routed the Japanese from their prepared positions near the - village of Oivi, Gen. Douglas Mac- _ Arthur announced today. It was the first actual contact between the fast-moving Australians - Jungle fighters and the Japanese /'since the enemy was defeated in a ‘hand-to-hand encounter at Alola, Oct. -28. MacArthur's troops, attacking positions three miles west of Oivi, which still: has not been occupied, wiped out four machine gun posts and continued their advance..

‘OTHER -OFENSIVES TO START’—CRIPPS

LONDON, Nov. 5 (U. P.). — Sir Stafford Cripps, government leader in the house of commons, said today that the British offensive in Egypt " is “not the only diversion we can or shall make to help our Russian allies.” Cripps, speaking at a war factory, said that as British and allied strength grows “other offensives will be started in other areas.” - The Egyptian victory, he said, is destroying axis forces which might otherwise have been thrown Sgaing) Russia.

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SONG AND DANCE CAREER AT END

Veteran Showman Wrote Immortal Song ‘Over There’ In World War |.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U.,P).— George M. Cohan, the Yankee doodle dandy, who wrote the best war song since “Dixie,” died today in. the midst of a new wori¢ war for which “Over There” might mean any part of the globe.

He died at 5 a. m. in his Fifth ave. apartment, surrounded:, : by his wife, his son, George Jr. and his daughters, Mary and Helen. Cohan, 64, succumbed to an intestinal ailment which forced him to undergo an operation a yzar ago

(Oct. 19, 1941) and from which he

never fully recovered. “The song and dance mati—his own choice as the most fitting summation of his 54 years in the theater—still was enfeebled from the long, eventually fatal illness when Japan struck at Pearl Harbor. He wrote another war song. The tune was sprightly, with the old Cohan lilt, and the words rang true, but it was not the perfect wedding of lyrics and music which made “Over There” the marching song of a million Yanks. On the eve of publication it was decided to- let the song rest on the shelf. That decision fulfilled his own intuition, expressed two years ago, when he said: “I hope America will never need another war song. But if we do need one, it will have to be written by some young fellow.” Cohan lived through the heyday of the American theater and (Continued on Page Five)

BRITISH WAR UNITS MASS AT GIBRALTAR

Vichy Reports Concentration of Ships, Planes.

* "By UNITED PRESS Heavy concentrations of British naval and air forces at Gibraltar and new military moves by the Vichy Prench authorities to'defend France's North and West African possessions were reported today by the German Trans-Ocean News Agency. The ‘reports followed warnings by Pierre Boisson, governor general of Vichy-controlled French West Africa, and Yves Chatel, governor general of Algeria, that the Vichy government will take all possible steps to defend French possessions. According to Transocean, the French reported that warships in Gibraltar “harbor yesterday included .the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carriers Argus and Furious, four heavy cruisers, numerous destroyers and auxiliary cruisers, 25 torpedo boats,. eight Corvettes and four submarines. A further convoy of 14 merchantmen also arrived at Gibraltar yesterday afternoon, Transocean said. About 40 four-engined and twinengined bombers have landed on the Gibraltar airfield and ‘taken off again in the direction of the Mediterranean during the past two days, the German agency claimed,

PLAN FILIPINO TRIBUTE WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U.P) — President Roosevelt, President Manuel L. Quezon of -the Philippines ‘and President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico will participate in a radio program Nov. 15 honoring the seventh Suniversary. ¢ of the, Philippine commonwealth.

* SET UP.N. Y. AIR SCHOOL WASHINGTON, Nov.-5 (U. P). —A school for training army ofcers in the operational practices of 21 {air transportation has been -estab-

‘by Republicans”

PARTIES FEAR A BREAKDOWN IN PERSONNEL

Political Change Aggravates Manpower Crisis in Government.

Fears of a general collapse in city and county government operation due to a serious personnel disrup--tion in changing administrations were expressed today by both Republicans and Democrats. Already seriously cripped by personnel shortages, Deniocratic city and county officials warned newly elected Republicans that operation of some vital departments may be paralyzed temporarily. Democratic employees, some of them handling vital jobs, were reported preparing to leave for better jobs. even before Republicans take over.

Hospital at Danger Point

One of the most serious personnel situations is at City hospital where the staff has been depleted to the danger point by heavy demands for doctors and ‘nurses by the ‘@rmed forces. Albert Walsman, City hospital business manager, said the hospital management has been waging a losing fight to keep key employees on the job. “We have managed to hold several Democratic employees on the job through their personal loyalty to the city and to the administration, but with a new administration coming in, I am afraid some of

them may not stay,” Mr. Walsman said.

Many May Resign

Most Democratic appointees in court house offices said they would not. “wait until we are kicked out.

They ‘were talking up and. down the corridors all day about plans to move to better paying jobs without waiting until the Republican officials take over. Most of the key jobs in the county and city governments are technical and would require a period of training for new Republican appoiniees before they could take over operations,

Training Is Problem

It is possible that on Jan. 2 the personnel in some offices may be so depleted that newly elected Republican officials could not replace key workers immediately and get them trained in time to keep the operation going. Sheriff Feeney expressed grave concern over the disruption in the sheriff's office when his successor, Otto Petit, Republican, takes over Jan. 1. “I have 32 deputies and all of them are prepared to leave for new jobs at any time,” Mr. Feeney said. He asked Mr. Petit to call at his office immediately to attempt to work out a solution.

Deferments Near End

“Six of my deputies will go into the army immediately on Jan. 1 ending a period of -deferments I got for them to hold my staff intact and I have obtained good jobs for the other 26 deputies,” Mr. Feeney said. “However, I am going to give Mr. Petit all the co-operation I can and (Continued on Page Five)

A Coat of Tan And a Citation

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U. P.)— Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Edelstein’s son, Leonard, aviation radioman

in the navy, came home in September ‘with badly blistered body and legs. Sunburn, he explained. They revealed today that he - had been able to better explain ~his sunburn in a letter, just received. Vice Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, cited him and two companions “for superhuman efforts” in freeing life rafts from a sinking patrol bomber and sav= ing the lives of 13 persons. He was sunburned during the 39 hours he floated in a life raft

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MEYER ADMITS LUDLOW VICTORY

Telegraphs Congratulations From Hospital Bed; Margin | ls 609.

lawyer who almost unseated the veteran - Democratic Congressman Louis Ludlow, today conceded defeat with Mr. Ludlow leading by 609 votes .and two precincts. yet to be

counted. Mr. Meyer, who is in the Veterans’ hospital recovering from an attack of. pneumonia, sent the following telegram to Rep. Ludlow: “My sincere congratulations upon your election "and my best wishes for a successful term.” Rep. Ludlow ‘then issued the follow statement: “I want to express my deep appreciation of Mr. Meyer’s courtesy’ and of the high degree of mutual respect which made it possible for the congressional campaign to be conducted on a high ‘plane from beginning to end.” By winning, Rep. Ludlow became the only - Hoosier Democratic congressman to win re-election. Two of -his colleagues, - Reps. John W. Boehne“Jr. and William H. Larrabee, were. defeated in the 8th and 10th districts, respectively. Another Democrat, Ray Madden, veteran Lake county treasurer, was elected to congress in the first district. He defeated Democratic Congressman William T. Schulte in the primary, Mr. Madden and Charles M. LaFollette, red - headed Republican lawyer of ‘Evansville, who defeated Rep. Boehne, will be the only new faces in.the Hoosier delegation. All eight Republican congressmen won re-election easily. , Congressman Larrabee who lost his district in the 1941 reapportionment was defeated when he attempted’ to gain the 10th district seat long held by Republican Congressman Raymond Springer.

ARMY FROWNS ON ANONYMOUS NOTES

WASHINGTON, Nov.'5 (U.P). — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that the war department was discouraging exchanges of letters between soldiers and wunknown correspondents because spies could use this method for obtaining military information. Many persons apparently have not understood the army’s attitude, he

that many clubs had been formed

before he was pickea up.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U. P)— New Republican governors in four key states and nine additional G. O. P. senators assured important minority: influence on the “conduct of the war today and put the party within striking distance of national dominance two years hence. Tuesday's: gubernatorial contests

orale) The Republican consin to “the Pr state governorship; doubt—Wyoming, ¥ow Republican, and Idaho, now Democratic. : Republican candidates were elected to replace. nine senators who, with only one exception, were Strang SUDpORters of ‘the |

airjin 32 Slates gave Republicans’ eon-~|

cvs 35. vers, naps [TALY. HINTS ALLIED

.|BERLIN—German radio reports

said at a press conference, adding]

in good faith with the = laudable| - {object of writing to lonely soldiers.

New Deal's Control Over _ Congress Put in Jeopardy

- |MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS

‘Take the War Without a Fuss’

Dr. Sara G. Geiger of the Milwaukee county guidance clinic was to be among the headliners on the afternoon’s program of the State Conference on Social Work at the Claypool hotel. She was to discuss the mental hygiene problems of children in wartime,

Mothers Told Their Work In Emergency Is at Home

If you take this business of the war without a lot of fuss, mother He will follow the example you set.

and dad, so will littée Johnny. That's the advice that Dr, Sara

guidance clinic offers. She’s in Indianapolis today to speak at the State Conference of Social Workers in. the Claypool hotel. What's more, she is definite dbout mother’s role in this war.

INVASION OF EUROPE

Fear Own Country Target Of New Offensive.

LONDON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—British military observers today suggested the turning paint of the African war may have arrived and the London press quoted Italian reports that the allies were in the initial phase of, preparations for an attack on the European mainland through Italy.

The London Evening Star r gute the Rome radio as asserting the offensive of the imperial 8th army was designed as the first move of a grand attack on the axis. The Italians suggested that the allies hoped to oust the Germans and Italians from all of North Africa and then concentrate for a drive across the Mediterranean into Europe. The most likely target of such an offensive, said radio Rome, was Italy. Military - observers pointed out that the Afrika Korps had wilted under the most concentrated attack (Continued on Page Nine) . 7 ” 2

On the War Fronts

. (Nov. 5; 1942)

CAIRO—Marshal Erwin Rommel’s desert army in retreat along coastal road west of Sidi Abd El Rahmen after losing half its tank strength, 9000 prisoners, 270 guns and 300 planes; Germans lose two top commanders, Gen. Georg Von Stumme, killed, and Gen. Ritter Von Thoma, captured.

powerful allied fleet assembled at Gibraltar, possibly - intended for landing operations in western Africd,

LONDON—Unconfirmed reports say Rommel may not be on battle scene and that Germans are rushing reinforcements to Afrika Korps from Russian front,

MOSCOW—Russians reported ready to strike great blows on revolution anniversary tomorrow; hold Nazis at Mozdok and southeast of Nalchik; German attacks ai Stalingrad reported weaker.

—Australians advance in - Oivi area of New Guinea; allied bombers attack Timor, Salamaura and Buna and Oivi,

WASHINGTON—-U, S. land forces make slight gains on Guadalcanal

JAPANESE MASS ~ FORCES IN CHINA

CHUNGKING, Nov: 5 (U. P).—

A military spokesman said today |

land _womanpower, Wickard revealed

G. Geiger of the Milwaukee. county

“Tf mothers. are. going: to keep. the ‘mental “health of their “children,

job—not go looking for one elseWhere,” - -She ‘is emphatic about that. Although the impressionable age is from babyhood to six, a child needs his mother’s guidance even until he’s drafted at 18, she said.

Harm in Panic

Now about ‘this business of the war and the child. Dr. Geiger points out that the children who get upset are generally the ones who are. predisposed to upsets anyway. They generally come from families in which one or both parents tend to grow “panicky” about the war. However, she ‘advises, there are some things that will help

to live normally. “Go ahead and talk about the war before children, if it is necessary,” she said. “Just talk about it sanely. . Then the child will accept it that way, too.” If ‘the child is: frightened about bombings, etc., she advises the parent to sit down and point-out that such .a thing is a long way off. Further, the mother or dad should assure the youngster that in case of} such an event, they will know about: it beforehand and. urge the child trust them to make any arrangement necessary for their protection.

Keep Radios Going

She doesn’t think it is necessary to turn off the radio or hide the newspaper when the °child comes into the room. Secretiveness would only heighten any fear the youngster might harbor. She cites cases where children have gotten complexes about bombings, etc., and wake up in the night and cry out. Those cases should be attended to right at the first. “The child is quick to recognize that he can use a thing like his {Continued on on: Page Fi Five)

DEFER ALL FARM WORKERS,’ WIGKARD

Asks Senate to Keep Them Out of Industry.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).— Secretary” of Agriculture Claude R. ‘Wickard today recommended before. the senate military affairs commit-

occupational draft deferments and that war plants having government | contracts be: prevented from hiring such persons. Appearing. before the committee, ‘which is co ering ‘four bills designed to t President Roosevelt broad powers over ‘the nation’s man

that during the last year more than 1,600,000 “workers have left the farms and that further depletions, would cut. Suisiderably | the Agricul.

that the Japanese were concen troops

they had better stay at home on thei. -

even in the families who are trying|.

tee that all farm workers be given|

Diverts Troops

LONDON, Nov. 5 (U. P. source said tonight that the Rommel is “desperate,” and

of a few days.”

CAIRO, Nov.

mel himself.

mand during Rommel’s long been killed in action.

GREAT SOVIET BLOWS WAITED

Russ Believed Ready for Offensives on Birthday + Of Revolution,

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Nov. 5.—Reports from all Soviet fighting fronts on the eve of the big Nov. 7 celebration of the anniversary of the Russian revolution disclosed today that red army forces have brought the Nazi offensive to a virtual halt. (A Stockholm report from Berlin said that Josef Stalin plans to launch a big-scale offensive on the central front on the revolution anniversary. German reconnaisance was said to have spotted long columns of troops and material moving up to the fronts in the Rhzev, Kalinin and Volkhov areas.) Front dispatches said that only small-scale attacks were being directed against the battered Stalingrad lines and that the heavy allout Nazi attempt to capture the city before the 25th revolution anniversary had failed. The situation southeast of Nalchik was said to have improved somewhat with Soviet artillery dispersing Nazi armored and ijanuy concentrations, The German drive in the Caucasus was regarded as definitely slowed and at some points halted: _ Soviet forces southeast of Nalchik—defending the approaches to the Grozny oil fields and Ordhonikidze, terminus of two military (Continued on Page Nine)

AUTO CRASH FATAL TO ANDERSON GIRL

An 18-year-old Anderson, Ind. girl died in City hospital today from injuries she received in an unusual traffic accident last night. She was Miss Betty Manis. About 6:30 she was riding with Donald Brinson, 19, of Anderson, when the tres of their automobile caught in the street car tracks av Sheffield ave. and Washington st., throwing the car into a safety zone guard.

he was eating a sandwich while he was driving. Miss Manis was

Police said Mr. Brinson told them |-

thrown against the windshield and her throat was cut.

: WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P.)— American marines, supported by army and navy airmen, are pushing their admittedly small offensive on Guadalcanal . island vigorously enough so that the Japanese have been forced to abandon valuable equipment. : Twenty machine : guns and two small

night’s comm During the

first day of the offensive west. orl

ROMMEL LOSES HALF OF TAN POWER INROU

Commanding General of Afrika Korps Is : Killed, Another Captured; Hitler

From Russia.

).—An authoritative British position of Marshal Erwin predicted the destruction of

the Nazi Afrika Korps will be accomplished “in a matter

. By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent

5.—The British imperial 8th army was pursuing a fleeing axis army toward Libya today behin

an unprecedented screen of dive bombing planes and artile lery fire calculated to annihilate the enemy’s rear columns command, and perhaps without Field Marshal Erwin Rom

Gen. George von Stumme, senior officer who held com:

absence from the front, had

Gen. Ritter von Thoma, commander

of the Afrika Korps and one: of Germany's leading tank experts, was one of the 9000: prisoners the imperials had already taken, including many other German and Italian

seniro officers.

It was not known definitely whether Rommel, who was in Bers lin several weeks ago, had returned to his troops. The British continued their . Ate

“vance along the éntire desert front,

today’s joint communique of the royal air force and the Middle East command declared. Lieut, Gen. B. L. Montgomery’s eighth army and troops were smashing at axis rear while a convoy of allied planes, including many manned Americans, blasted at the fleeing axis forces, disorganizing them further. Rommel’s ‘army had lost half its tanks.

Axis Casualties Heavy

The communique was phrased i conservative terms. : “In the north,” it said, *th enemy screen of anti-tank guns : tanks is withdrawing before our ad= vancing forces. In the south, the enemy still is holding out in a few isolated positions. Allied bombers, fighter bombers and fighters yester day throughout the day harassed the enemy withdrawing along the coastal road.” - But it was known that the ground and air forces were adding to the terrific toll already taken from Rommel’s retreating . army, Yesterday's special comm said thgt more than 260 tanks, at least 270 guns and more than 600 planes had been captured, dest or damaged, and that the axis h suffered “exceptionally heavy” ¢ ualties, Allied casualties were com= paratively light. In addition, allied planes and British naval units had sunk 50,000 tons and damaged “as much

a ¥

|of enemy shipping bearing supp

for the hard-pressed Afrika (Reports reaching London Adolf Hitler was rushing four ' visions from the Russian front Egypt. According to telephone sages to Istanbul from Greece, i troops passed through Athens Mt day. - It was recalled that Russ dispatches recently had reported the withdrawal of German planes to be. sent to Egypt. Other reports (Continued on Page Nine)

‘CONGRATULATIONS!® LONDON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—~Mr Eleanor Roosevelt telegraphed gratulations to King George on “the brilliant victory of Bi arms in Egypt.” ;

Japs Abandon Equipment "To Marines in Solomon:

have avoided any mention oy Hy order in the enemy retreat their- advance positions near Matanikau river. But the last communique’ tion of machine guns and

artillery pleces were reported |® captured by the Americans in taste

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