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A Soldier Plays With the Symphony
A soldier wandered into the Murat theater this morning as the Indianapolis symphony orchestra was
rehearsing for tomorrow night. Conductor Fabien Sevitzky spotted him, beckoned him to the stage, gave him a violin and seated him beside Fritz Siegal, new concert master.
And Corp. Leon Zawisza, former concert master of the orchestra, grinned and took up the violin.
“Please, play,” said Mr. Sevitzky. He is
back on furlough pending a transfer to the army, ban dmaster’ $s school at Washington, D. C.
SEEKS TO KEEP “HOSPITAL HELP
il Save He He Plans No ‘Radical Changes; Staff Already Limited.
By NOBLE REED A statement ‘désigned to halt the threatened exodus of vital tech-
nicians at City hospital and veteran employees of other key city governmenial agencies resulting from the G. O. P. victory at the polls Tuesday was issued today by Mayor-élect Robert H. Tyndall. “I understand,” Gen. Tyndall said, “there is some unwarranted concern among employees of City hospital and other essential agencies arising from false reports that the new administration intends to bring about immediate wholesale changes in personnel in these agencies and institutions. “Nothing is farther from my own ideas concerning these agencies. I well realize that certain essential services must go forward ‘without interruption. Radical changes that would cause any disruption of welfare, health or other essential services are certainly not contemplated by me. “I hope key men in these organizations and institutions, interested in the services, will keep this announcement in mind throughout the ' next several months. Whatever programs I have in mind, when dealing with essential agencies, are (Continued on Page Four)
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Cleaner Falls Hard For His New Son
DENVER, Nov, 6 «v. P.).— Eugene Grabbe, 7; washed windows on the side of an office building and wished he could be with his wife who was at a hospital expecting a baby. His safety belt broke and he fell three floors. } He was taken to Denver general hospital; where doctors found he had suffered only a bone fracture in his foot and reported his wife had just given birth to a son.
3 GERMAN FUGITIVES | NABBED. IN KENTUCKY
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Nov. 6 (U. P.).—The three Nazi prisoners who escaped from military ‘guards while en route to Tullahoma, Tenn., for internment yesterday were captured and jailed here early today, Warren County Sheriff Boyd Downing reported. The three Germans—two -prisoners of war and one enemy alien internee—were placed in custody of the FBI. The two war prisoners—Hans Richard Jonat, 27, and Karl Luft, 19—along with alien Paul Theodore Hitzegrad, were still dressed in the green=dyed army uniforms issued them when interned. But Sheriff Downing said they had attempted to conceal their identity by wearing heavy overalls.
They had three knives and a!
small amount of currency. The source of the overalls, the knives and the money was unknown, the sheriff. said.
Violations of Rent Ceiling
Regulations
Some Indianapolis landlords are attempting to evade government rent regulations by inserting new clauses in leases, it was charged today. “We have received copies of leases
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containing new clauses definitely devised to permit landlords to collect more than ceiling rents by making extra charges now for certain services which in the past were furnished with the house,” said Robert Orbison, Indanspolis rént area attorney for the OPA.
“I want to make it clear that no new clause of this kind in any type of lease can be enforced today if such a clause was not a part of the lease arrangement on the maximum rent date.” Maximum rent date for Indianapolis was July 1, 1941. Mr. Orbison also cited one of the new clauses wherein the tenant agrees to vacate upon 15 days written notice by the landlord. Mr. Orbison said this clause,was illegal and cannot be entoreedd No tenant can agree to waive benefit of OPA’s eviction ‘controls: Other instances of illegal causes included: 1. Deposit of a sum of money to
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F. D. RB. RETAINS CONGRESS VIEW
Sees No Reason Why Election Should Change It; Lauds Africa Victory.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt said today he saw no reason why the large Republican victory in the election should cause any digerence in his attitude toward congress. He was asked at a press con-
ference—his first since the election
—whether the big*Republican gains in congress - would change his |attitude toward the legislative body. The president asked in return: Why should it? He added that he assumed that congress wanted to win the war as much as he did. He -was asked whether he would not confer henceforth with Republican ‘as well as Democratic leaders of the house and senate since the party alignment in congress will be more nearly equal. The president replied that he had been meeting with congressmen from both parties. Turning to the war the president described the battle of North Africa as a victory of major importance. At the same time he disclosed that recent intelligence reports from Germany show that Nazi war production has fallen off sharply in recent months due to a steadily extended work week for laborers.
URGES COMPULSORY
Nelson Sees Early Need at
Senate Hearing.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U.P.).— War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson told a senate committee today that “sooner or later” congress should enact legislation -giving the government “compulsory authority” over manpower. Mr. Nelson gave his views to the senate military affairs committee at a time when it was believed in administration circles that President Roosevelt did not intend to ask for manpower legislation. The president has been represented as feeling that the problem can be met by an executive order, which he is
expected to issue soon. The WPB chairman also emphasized the need for efficient utilization of manpower and as-
en the work week.” At the White House in the meantime, the president was telling a press conference that lengthening the work week to 70 to 80 hburs in Germany had, according to intelli
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HIGHER WAGES URGED TO HELP MERIT SYSTEM
State Workers Put Needs Before Conference of Welfare Group.
By ROSEMARY REDDING The one hig major hurdle remaining to clinch the establishment of the Indiana merit system is an adequate wage scale, a panel at the state social work conference was told today by scores of state workers. The workers, speaking from the floor in an cverflow meeting, made these points: 1. More adequate pay schedules are needed. 2. Pay inequities have hampered the merit service (Leonard Johnson, state personnel director, made this point personally). .3. Immediate pay raises are snecessary to prevent wholesale resigna-
tions from state institutions by in(dividuals going
to higher paying war industries.
Rowland Allen, ‘a member of the
8 | state personnel board, declared that
the “merit system is here to stick” and that it will be improved constantly. Workers Feel Dignity
He said that “on paper” it looked as if the state personnel had had quite~a turnover but that in his surveys it did not equal that of general industry’s, despite the at‘tractiveness of « industry’s wage scales. He-added that “.state-.employees
+ felt a ‘eertain dignity in getting
their job on merit and welcomed the security it offered, especially at the close of the war. Mr. Johnson said the state had been hard hit by the war's effect upon the personnel under the merit system with 325 employees (6 per cent) under the merit system leaving the state service in one month alone. Forty per cent .of those under the merit system now have less than one year’s service, he said.
System to Be Attacked
However, he outlined as one of the system’s future challenges, the retaining of high standards of personnel while making use of personnel with lower standards. It was evident that the merit system leaders anticipate a struggle in the coming session of the legislature to retain their gains as well (Continued on Page Four)
Tropical Storm
Heads for Cuba
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 6 (U. P.).— The federal hurricane system in an "advisory today said that a tropical storm “of hur-
rican, or near hurricane” force will strike Cuba this afternoon and the Florida straits north of Cuba tonight. Strong winds will continue along the southeast Florida coast, reaching gale force along the Florida Keys, the federal bulletin said. Storm warnings remain displayed from Melbourne to Key West, Fla., the worning system announced. Meanwhile, Miami Beach hotels were being boarded up by soldiers while store windows in Miami also were being protected as a result of the first advisory when the storm was reported mving directly at Miami from the Bahamas.
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NUTRITION HELD
Federal Agency Deputy Calls for Betier Health And Higher Morale.
Dr. W. H. Sebrell, deputy assistant director of the nutrition division of the office of defense, health and welfare services, Washington, urged nutrition groups to redouble their efforts as he spoke today to the Indiana State Nutrition council. Interested primarily in industrial nutrition, Dr. Sebrell stated “by the first of the year we will have our
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“To industrial feeding, there are three aspects—the midshift meal, the worker's home and the community effort. It is our aim to care for the dietary adequacy of the industrial worker to promote his health, his morale and his greater efficiency,” Dr. Sebrell said. The national organiaztion which functions under Paul V. McNutt, will act as an advisory and coordinating agency for state nutrition councils and the various offices of civilian defense. Miss Helen Walsh, Chicago, is the regional nutritionist for Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
TIN CAN COLLECTION SCHEDULED MONDAY
Trucks Tour Homes Early; City Quota Lags.
The next tin can collection’ day for Indianapolis homes will be. on Monday, Russell E. Campbell, chairman of the tin salvage committee, announced today. ‘City trucks will pick up tin cans that have already been washed, cut and flattened and transport them to railroad yards, where they will be shipped to the nearest detinning plant. Last month’s collection netted 100
war production board for Indianapolis. Other cities throtghout the nation have been meeting their quotas almost without exception. Cans are to be placed in a basket or box at the regular trash and garbage collection point at Indianapolis homes. It is important that cans be set out by 8 a. m. on Mon-
day.
Stout Field Lacks Gable, But Lands Film Star D'Arcy
Stout Field, headquarters of the first troop carrier command, may not have Lieut. Clark Gable, but it does have Alexander D’Arcy, 33-year-old movie star who has appeared in more than 100 pictures. Pvt. D’Arcy volunteered in June and was to have been assigned to overseas duty. However, he now has been assighed to Stout Field in special services. His duties will be to visit the various basic air fields and assist in promotion of shows for those posts too far away from “civilization.” - Barn in Cairo, Egypt, of a French mother and an Egyptian father, Pvt. D’Arcy speaks four languages, French, Italian, Egyptian and English. - . Said Pvt. D'Arcy, “and now a fifth —army lingo.” Leaving Egypt, when he Pvt. D
in Switzerland and France and entered pictures when he was 18. Pvt. D’Arcy cocked his head and with .an amused look in his. eye, said: “Picture business is something like the army. In England, I had the leading role in ‘The Romance of Seville,” assisted by Ray Milland and Anna Neagle. “When I got to the states, the tables were turned and I supported Mr. Milland and Miss Neagle in the picture ‘Irene.’ ” Married for more than two years to Arlene Whelan, also a film star, Pvt. D’Arcy squelched ‘a recent. rumor. “Winchell had us divorced two weeks ago, but that’s all wrong. My wife is now in New York awaiting the opening of rehearsals for the new Max Gordon production, “Doughgirl’,” he said.
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Ship Concentration Gives Berlin and Rome Jitters.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. invasion fears today appeared to be reaching the acute stage, spurred by reports of a hug: concentration of naval strength, transports and planes at Gibraltar and the
Jgrowing magnitude of the
British victory in Egypt. A Stockholm report from Madrid said that “vast quantities of tanks and planes” have been massed at Gibraltar, presumably for the intenuion of “opening - a second front in Europe with Gibraltar as the base.” Reports from La Linea, Spain, today said the greatest air and naval activity of the war were observed! at Gibraltar, approximating 150 war vessels of all types. More Ships Arrive Additional allied ships and planes were said to be arriving frequently at the fortress guarding the western entrance of the Mediterranean. Observers across the bay at La
Linea said the Gibraltar air field was jammed with fighter planes and that numbers of large bombers, including "American . flying fortresses, were constantly arriving and departing ‘in the direction of the Mediterranean. The naval concentration at Gibraltar was said to now include one battleship, three aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 34 destroyers, 22 corvettes, a monitor, 35 motor torpedo boats, 22 mine sweepers and about 25 auxiliary ships. Tankers and transports were said to be loading and unloading war material,
Axis Capitals Nervous
Radio stations of Berlin, Rome and Vichy were circulating almost hourly- reports and rumors of possible allied moves at the western end of the Mediterranean or northwest Africa, obviously with a view to drawing out London on any plans for offensive action. . These reports cited both Casablanca in French Morocco and Dakar, the great West African base, both in control of Vichy France, as danger spots for a possible AngloAmerican drive. Radio Rome went so far as to speculate on the possible invasion of Italy when and if the axis is completely cleared out of Africa. Axis fears that an allied blow may strike at any moment far behind Marshal Erwin Rommel’s battle lines in the desert were: not lessened by the increasing scope of the British victory. ‘
ALL FIGHTING IS AT END IN MADAGASCAR
British in Full Control
After Armistice.
LONDON, Nov. 6 British military nounced today that fighting on the island of Madagu.car ceased at 2 p. m. Madagascar time yesterday after Vichy officials asked for an armistice. The French sought a truce after British imperial forces had almost completed occupation of the island. The British first landed on Madagascar last May, but only occupied the big northern naval base of Diego Suarez and adjacent territory.
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I Occupation of the entire island
began ‘Sept. 10 when British land, 'sea and air forces attacked at three points on the west coast—Nosy-be island, anding Ambanja, 124 miles of Diego Suarez; MaJjunga, : largest west -coast port, 320 miles SSuthwes of Diego Suarez ; 340
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CAIRO—Remnants of Rommel’s 15th and 21st divisions fleeing down coastal road, abandoning Italians to own fate.
ERLIN—AXis radio speculates on - possibility _ that allies are about “to attempt opening a new fighting front; reports 125 allied warships assembled at Gibraltar.
Rommel Is Believed
Cut Off From Gasoline.
By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent
CAIRO, Nov. 6.—The ims= perial 8th army drove the
battered Afrika Korps back
toward Libya today, knocking =
out one-half or more of the Nazi armored strength and threatening six Italian divi= sions with complete encircles,
MOSCOW—Stalin sees second front “sooner or later.”
WASHINGTON — American forces on Guadalcanal maintain pressure on reinforced Japanese.
LONDON-—Fighting on Madagascar reported concluded.
STALIN ‘SURE’
‘Coming Sooner or Later,’ He Tells Russ; Nazis
Lose on All Sectors.
MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (U. P.).—While his valiant! Soviet army was repulsing German attacks on all fronts, Premier Josef Stalin asserted in a speech tonight that “there will be a second front sooner or later.” Stalin made the statement after telling a 25th Red revolution- anniversary gathering that Germany’s success on the eastern front this
year was due to the absence of a second frent in Europe. “Bul there will be a second front sooner or later,” he said. “Not because we want it but because the allies understand it is vital to them.”
Revolution 25 Years Old
To a cheering communist party rally on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Russian revolution, Stalingrad said that Germany “took advantage of the -absence of a second front in Europe” to collect powerful forces which had brokén through the Russian southwestern lines to ‘a depth of 500 miles at some points. The Soviet army routed German forces around a Stalingrad factory today, while slowly bleeding the pinned-down ' Nazis southeast of Nalchik in the Caucasus. The - defenders :of Stalingrad smashed every German attack, and, on the limited sector where they routed the Germans, advanced. Soviet bombers streaked out and bombed German positions and troop concentrations. “Inthe. Stalingrad area, Soviet troops repelled infantry and tanks, the noon communique said. “In a factory ‘area, they smashed and routed two companies (Continued on _Page 13)
By WILLLIAM F, TYREE United Press Staff Cotrespondent
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 6. —American positions in the South Pacific are stronger today than they ever
in that theater of war depends upon the outcome of the batile at Guadalcanal. This correspondent has just returned from United. {States South Pacific headquarters. | American troops haye been placed in a. strategic chain pf islands extending across the Pgcific. For instance, they are en ped in the Fiji islands, which thby have trans- , tropical spot "center. One | of the largest of il
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ment and capture. ; There were indications that wides swinging British desert columns als
that the harassed Fascist troops would be able to escape the trap. : The imperials drove relentlessly forward, - cheered by the words of Lieut. Gen. Bernard Montgomery that “complete and absolute viciory?! is being achieved. “The Boche is finished,” Montgome ery told his men.
Battle Near Border
Already ‘the ‘fighting front h swept west of Sidi Haneish and the imperials were believed to be in acs tion against retreating Nazi columng about 100 miles west of the Alamé&in positions, with the battle sweeping rapidly toward Halfaya pass on the Egyptian-Libyan border. Nazi, Marshal Rommel was report=
ed to have exhausted gasoline sup- YE
plies for his tanks. The British bag of prisoners was close to 14,000—possibly more since the German and Italians were
streaming back too rapidly for & .
quick count. And Axis casualties in
dead and wounded were believed ito
have been exceedingly high.
Today’s British middle east head=
quarters communique disclosed that Gen. Francisco Scotti,
his chief of staff and 4000 privet
had joined two high German gen=
erals captured by the eighth army. German Marshal Erwin. Rommel entered the battle with 130,000 to 140,000 front line fighters, It was
idoubted that he had as many ‘as
100,000 left. Of this group five or six Italian divisions which had held the south=
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have been abandoned by the Ger mans to fight their way out across. the desert as best they could—with= out water, ammunition and oil upg plies. Rommel’s Supplies Cut :
Allied planes and submarines had hamstrung Rommel’s supply route across the Mediterranean and there were reports that the axis had not been able to put a single tanker across the sea since the ‘battle started. (London reported that in desperd . tion the Italian fleet might be called out to try to protect shipment of reinforcements ard supplies to Africa, axis radio reports persist~ ently emphasized the difficulty of supplying the Afrika Korps.) The communique disclosed that the remnants of the German Italian axis forces that had held (Continued on Page 13)
Guadalcanal Holds the Key In South Pacific, Writer Says
Americans also are adequately trenched on the bigger islands—New Zealand, New donia and the New Hebrides, rea to carry out offensive operations. Britdin’s governor general of Western Pacific, Sir Philip Mi
was greater confidence in the’ ai since the Americans moved in. Guadalcanal, where the hold an area roughly seven long on the beach facing I with lines extending two and ak miles inland toward the ju crested mountains beyond the L river, is the key fo the’