Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1942 — Page 14

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Vessel on Coast. RICHMOND, Sal, Nov. 13 (U. PJ).

ship ‘assembly was set yesterday at the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards when the cargo vessel Robert E: Peary

and 15% hours after hep | keel was laid. - A second. record was established by the Peary being 91 per. ‘cent complete when she struck the water.’ The Peary thus broke the 10-day construction record set by workers

on the Liberty freighter Joseph N, Teal at Kaiser's Portland, Ore., ship-| yards. The Teal was only 87 per cent complete at the time ot her launching. Officig}s said there was possibility that a third record would be set if the. Peary, as planned,!

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ready for her dock trial within two, days. The Peary was towed from; the ways immediately after the launching to the ‘outfitting dock where: ‘workers awaited with her equipment. - : The Pealy’s. Keel was aid. one minute after midnight last Sunday. A 10,500-ton ship, the Peary was built by new and speedier methods of pre-fabrication without sacrifice of manpower or working time from adjacent yards.

U. S. RESTS TODAY IN TREASON TRIAL

CHICAGO, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—The government plans to.rest its case today against six naturalized Germans charged with treason for allegedly aiding and sheltering Her-

bert Hans Haupt, 22, executed Nazi

saboteur. After three weeks of tegiimony, the prosecution climaxed its case

23-page statement taken July 2 from Haupt's father, Hans Max Haupt, one of the defendants. Federal attorneys considered it their most damaging. piece of evidence. In the statement, the elder Haupt said that all of the defendants knew Herbert and seven accomplices had been sent to the United States on a sabotage mission. “The other defendants are Herbert's mother, Erna, his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Froehling, and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wergin,

NATIONAL headquarters of the American Legion contributed its first feminine recruit to the armed services today.

Miss Ethel Frances Lux has been accepted for service in the

WAAC and is being congratulated

by Milt D. Campbell, executive director of defense for the American Legion, and Lieut. Gertrude - V. Pratt, Indiana’s WAAC recruiting officer. Miss Lux has been chief billing

clerk in the emblem division: of - the Legion for 12 years and is a member of Wayne unit 84 of the Legion auxiliary. She is waiting to be assigned to the training school at Daytona Beach, Fla., or Des Moines, Ia.

Traffic Deaths

Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 13—Snow or no snow, it's going to be a white Christmas in New York. Faced with an alarming increase in the number of fatal traffic accidents at night since the start of the dimout, after-dark pedestrians are being urged by the .Greater New York. Safety council to wear or carry something white.

Despite the decrease in the number of cars due to gas and tire rationing, night traffic fatalities in

the metropolitan area have in-

Increase

In New York City Dimout

creased 19 per cent over the past year. Since fatal daylight accidents have been cut 12 per cent during the same period, no Sherlock Holmes has been needed to point a finger at the dimout as the new killer. } The dimout has made the city really gloomy. Street lighting has been .cut off entirely. above’ the

horizontal, reduced about 50 per cent below it. The reduction has ‘been considerably greater along the famous main thoroughfares,

once many times as brilliantly

lighted as the side streets, for they have now been cut down to the reduced, side-street illumination. It is not only the street lighting which has been dimmed. The elimination of “spili light” from apartments, stores and advertising signs has darkened the street sceme and cut the sky glow to a mere two per cent of -what it was when the city was in all" its incandescent glory.

“Add to this the fact'that auto lights “have been reduced to park-ing-light intensity and you'll get an idea of the sort of blind-man’s buff autoists are playing in Manhattan. Night traffic . police had hazardous duty until they were is-

sued glistening: white Sam: «Brown |

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RAYBURN RILE

A Sam Rayburn will be confronted “}with the real test of his leadership in the new house of representatives.

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Edge In Favorable Voting Is

Reduced; Must Keep the

Democrats In Check.

Times “Special . WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Speaker

How succgssfully he meets it may be a controlling factor in the congressional elections in '44, and important in the presidential contest of the same year. Whereas he has had a large, though not always comfortable, majority behind him in the present house, that edge was reduced in last week’s elections to 13. The latest count gives Democrats 222 seats and Republicans 209. This is enough for Democrats to retain control of the machinery of the house, although it is remotely possible that deaths among members between now and January might shift the-balance. (It was a series of deaths between November,

mitted Democrats to win control of the house and, under Mr. Rayburn’'s management, «elect John Garner as speaker).

' Vision Better Laws

Some of Mr. Rayburn’s colleagues believe that one result of the more even division in the house will be better legislation. ‘Whether this occurs, and whether a. more - cohesive Democratic party results, will depend ‘largely on the amiable Texan, who has had his share of troubles as speaker heretofore. - " In the past he has had difficulty saying “no” -at. the White House. Having behind him a large Democratic majority, he was expected to make that majority count. With his majority cut to a shadow of ifs former size, he should now be able to say “no,” when necessary, and make it stick. Some foresee more careful consultation by the White House with various Democratic blocs, as well as with the increased Republican minority. The anti-New Deal Democrats —such conservative southerners as Reps. Cok of Georgia, Smith of Virginia, Sumners of Texas, Woodrum of Virginia and Fulmer of South Carolina, to mention a few —are expected to become much more potent fdctors in the house.

- Faces New Leadership Mr. Rayburn’s task will require

friends of ihe Haupt family. Enter

strate in the past. Individualistic {is ‘the name for Democrats. They

.-jthemselves.. The speaker’s job will “ibe to weld them into a cohesive

type of. leadership he has not often been called upon to demon-

make. a habit of fighting among

whole. He won't fbrget that Republican control would mean relinquishment

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| will seek reforms within the party|

IRENEWED JAP DRIVE

| match over Guadalcanal and 17 out

{have used’ dive bombers, indicating

father’s business, enlisted.

proud; and he- probably won’t let his colleagues forget that intraparty bickering would bring in its train loss of control of the house, with its fat chairmanships and patronage, and perhaps of the White House as well. Mr. Rayburn, who has no committee standing or seniority, might revert to mere rank-and-file membership in the house ke Republicans were to win control: of ‘that body. “While the bald, even-tempered, ambitious speaker. is back home on his ranch ‘putside Bonham, Tex., the post-mortem discussions of his colleagues in congress indicate they!

leadership.

REACHES ‘SOLOMON

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.). —The tempo of the battle of the Solomons is increasing again today after a lull of nearly three weeks and there are signs that the Japanese ‘have. reorganized and reinforced to some extent the forces which were badly battered last month. Enemy - dive bombers have _returned to the battle of Guadalcanal. . Crowded transports are in :the vicinity: of Bougainville island, some 300 miles north of Guadalcanal. But the dive bombers met their

of 52 raiders were destroyed and five! more probably destroyed. It was the first time in weeks the Japanese

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: By Science Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Can | Vichy count on the loyaity of Senegalese natives around Dakar? Two conflicting ‘reports have recently been received from Dakar. One says the Senegalese (particularly the native troops are unques~ tionably loyal to the Vichy regime, due to the wise administration of Pierre Boisson, governor general of French West Africa, with his headquarters in the capital city of Dakar, in Senegal. The other report says the acute transportation shortage around Dakar has made it impossible - to pay native labor with the usual im-

ported gewgaws, and that French planters feared the natives would lose interest in working for the white men. : This - report, if true, may benefit the allied campaign in West Africa. This same shortage of fuel for transport vehicles has made it hard to feed Dakar's huge influx of people. The military garrison, ships’ crews and French civilians have upped the normal population of 75,000 to an estimated .150,000, also causing an acute housing shortage. There is plenty of food available, however, outside the gay, busy, civilized seaport of Dakar. This

year's crops, rotting on the ground

“Dakar Natives Loyalty fo Vichy Wobbly

for lack of trucks to bring them: to market, have been record-break

ing in size. American soldiers will also nnd. Dakar’s water supply good and its climate pleasant and healthy, par ticularly in the dry winter se approaching. The tropical rains will not begin until April ; is a well-kept city full of im government buildings and public: gardens, where Moors, Arabs and Mohammedans “of all shades of color jostle the native Senegalese: in the thronging streets. There are many Berbers there, those hand~ some, copper-skinned “white” peo= ples from North Africa. y

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LAWYER SENTENCED | IN DRAFT BOARD-CASE, NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U.P.).— Attorney’ Charles | Kaufman's first case ‘before a draft board was the worst ~failure; of his career. His client, Abner. Schacht, seeing that Kaufman was: failing to convince the board futitie wes viial to His

Kaufman ‘was ‘sentenced to ‘an 18 months to three-year term in prison yesterday for failing to: return “half of the $500 fee he charged Schacht, and Judge Louis. Goldstein lectured him for, ,Ysabotaging the war effort” by trying to get ‘ground; the draft board's: ruling.

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