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MRS. R. HOME BRITISH TOUR
President Meets Her at|.
Airport; 1st Lady to " Report Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U.P.) — Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt returned today from her war inspection trip to Great Britain, ; The White House disclosed that the . president went to an airport near Washington to greet his wife this morning. She began her trip on Oct. 21, Mrs. Roosevelt will tell women reporters about her trip at a press conference tomorrow morning. - While in England, Mrs. Roosevelt ‘was entertained by the king and queen of England, saw Prime Minister Winston Churchill and visited with American troops in Ireland and other parts of the British Isles. The White House did not reveal any details of Mrs. Roosevelt's return journey, but the fact that the president met her at an airport indicated that she returned by airplane.
Mrs. R. Seeks Added Effort by Women
LONDON, Nov. 17 (U. P.).—It. Eleanor Roosevelt hopes to be able
Committee Executive Insists
mittee” today.
The committee is the outfit wh
over the gasoline rationing question. The committee secures pledges miles an hour if the government days to give voluntary rationing a presses will roll off the second batch of 250,000 pledge cards ad‘dressed to six officials—Mr. Jef- ° fers, Petroleum Co ~- ordinator Ickes, Econome¢ Director Byrnes, Senators VanNuys and Willis and . Governor Schricker. Last. aweek Mr, Jeffers’ spokesman told Washington newspapermen to “hold off” on a story about the Indiana delay-rationing movement until he investigated the
“guy on the letter head,” who is Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor club and chairman of the Midwest rubber conservation committee. Then part of the Indiana delegation in congress and Governor Schricker indorsed the committee’s program. But, on the other hand, eight
to rally American ‘women to doo
of ‘wome!
Ce the first lady with many :
immediate problems, which she has discussed with both officials ‘and “the woman-in-the-street.” Her impressions are said to be three-fold: 1. More American women will he
- needed in auxiliary posts of the
armed forces, including a number. of these abroad. : 2. Many more women are needed in industry and a greater variety of jobs mist be open-to them. 3. Some type of domestic social service is needed among the lines of the women’s voluntary service in safeguarding the welfare of children and homes affected by war conditions.
Greater Sacrifices
Mrs. Roosevelt is vitally interested in post-war co-operation, which she discussed at the international youth conference. She emphasized the need to prepare for greater material sacrifices and she believes that peoples must understand each other to realize what is needed to build the post-war world. “British and American women,” She said, “will have a big job in al the war in feeding and tending the health of populations. More American women trained for the job will be needed.” One of the things which impressed Mrs. Roosevelt during her tour was the prospect of much women in ‘American munitions factories. “Very shortly factories will be asking for them,” she said. “They will have to make their own choice, but what has impressed me here is the way married women, many with children, can adapt their domestic lives to work in the factories.”
Impressed by Nurseries
' Mrs. Roosevelt's visits to nursery schools impressed her with the need for similar arrangements in the very near future/in industrial areas of the United States. “It 18 useless,” she said, “to expect women to go into the factories overnight. Preparations must be made long beforehand.” She said thta one of the purposes of her visit was to see how to avoid the mistakes Britain made in drafting women. Mrs. Roosevelt also is. seeking answers to the problem of women’s place in the* post-war economy. That is why she spent 4 great part . of her tour studying social services. “We shall have to do everything for our children and the youth of nation,” she said. “They must t suffer through this war.” _ The first lady liked the way boys’ and girls’ clubs sprang up in war-
"* *time Britain and hoped they would
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be expanded after the war. “We must supply our children with the things they want, to do «the things that interest them,” she said. “There already is the problem of young boys of 16 and 17 going dinto industry. They would cease going to night clubs if we provided things Shines 3
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-0f/10 persons I questioned at ranGb , said they thought the, comought to be investigated i$ some dis friotism.” So.I ask Meridian st.
livery.) . Q—What's in it for you? |
‘Q—Printing half a million cards and. saahing th thent mist ‘ost soi- : thing; where's the money coming from? = = : A—From associations, industries and Individuals taroughont. the
Middle West who are opposed to regimentation by Wj showed me a stack of checks which he said representSil
‘Come and Investigate! Challenges Stoops, Head Of Anti-Gas Ration Unit
Move Is Not Unpatriotic;
Says Industries and Associations in State
Give Financial Backing.
By WILLIAM CRABB I pried into the affairs of the “Midwest rubber conservation com-
Like oe Administrator Jeffers, I wanted a long talk with the “guy whose name’s on the letter-head.”
ich in a few weeks has emerged as
a first-rate pressure group and has got a lot of goats in Washington
from motorisic to drive under 35 will delay coupon rationing for 90 trial is week the committee's
Todd Stoops
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ging remarks about the committee's “pa~ . Stoops some questions in; his. office; M0. N, a 45
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SIGN TOMORROW FOR GAS CARDS
~ 140,000 in County Are Affected; Registration Lasts 3 Days.
Owners of approximately 140,000]
passenger , automobiles and 1000 motorcycles will apply for A books during’ county-wide registration: for gasoline rationing tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, Alex.L. Taggart, county, rationing administrator, estimated today. Eighty-three public grade school buildings in the city and 35 in the county outside the city will be ‘used for registration. About 2500 school teachers and other Yoluieers will be in charge. = Car Is the Unit
“It is my belief that everything will run smoothly,” Mr. Taggart said today. “All supplies are in the hands
of the county board and will be at the school buildings in adequate time. I do not think there will be difficulties. with this registration such as we had when we were] handling fuel oil and failed to get our supplies on time.” He pointed out that in the A eard rationing the car is the unit. Each passenger car, no matter even if more than one car is owned by the
the same car there is only one A card. The application for the A card (Continued on Page Eight)
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Amusements... 15 ASH ....c00... 16 BOOKS .cecoeee 10 Clapper ceeeee 9 Comics ...o0s0 19 Crossword -... 13 Curious World 14 Editorials ave 10 Edson ese ptene 10 Fashions .... 12 Mrs, Rergusan 12 Financial . - 14
Inside Indpls. 9 Jane Jordan., 12 Lucey ....cceo 9 Men in Service 13 Millett ....... 10 ‘Movies seseene 15 Obituaries ... 13 Pegler ..ceese 10 Pyle cosevebes 9 Radio cccosses 19
Side Glances.. 10
same person, is entitled to an A|§ card. If two or more persons own|§
Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Society ... 11,12}
Time and Place -
TIME: Tomorrow, Topsisy and Friday. -
HOURS: 1 p.m. to 8 p. m.
PLACE: Public grade school buildings in city and county."
MANNER: All persons whose family name begins with letters from A to E, inclusive, will register tomorrow; between PF and M, inclusive, Thursday, and between N and Z, incluh sive, Friday.
3000 MORE NAZIS DIE AT STALINGRAD
MOSCOW, Nov. 17 (U.P.).—The defenders of Stalingrad have improved their positions and killed an additional 3000 Germans, with the initiative alternating between the Russians and the Nazis, battlefront dispatches said today. These dispatches suggested that the ‘defenders, having smashed the latest German offensive, probably soon would have the initiative entirely in their hands. Attacking yesterday, Red army forces in Stalingrad had dislodged the Germans from positions they occupied three days ago, killed up to 1500 troops and destroyed two tanks, six guns and three planes.
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HOPE TO CLASH WITH NAZIS AT GULF OF SIRTE
Slice Through South Tunisia; Report Chutists Bat-
tle at Bizerte.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 17.—The allied pincers clamped tighter today on axis forces in Tunisia and Libya with British and American forces driving in from east and west. British dispatches reported that an allied column, possibly paced by mobile American units, was driving
Gulf of Gabes, only 100 miles from the western border of Tripolitania. Reports, largely of axis origin, asserted that American and possibly British paratroops were clashing with Nazi paratroop units in the Biezerte and Tunis area. Close in From East A similar allied maneuver was closing in from the east where a hard-driving British desert. column thrust across the hump of Libya from Mekiki, hoping to cut off Marshal Erwin Rommel’s battered remnants along the Gulf of Sirte. The Mekiki column was taking a short cut across the rugged desert highlands along a 130-mile ‘route which would bring: them. 40. the seq. ‘well Below Benghazi. Romimel’s main forces have been located in the El Aghelia-Agedabia
area along the gulf and it was hoped by the British that they
‘could cut off these troops before ‘| they could retreat into Tripolitania.
Lieut. Gen. Kenneth A. N. Anderson, with the British 1st army and strong American army support, in-
~ |cluding mobile units, was reported
to be pushing a powerful force from the Tebessa area of Algeria, near the Tunisian border, toward Gabes, on the gulf of the same name on the southeastern Tunisian coast only 100 miles from Libya and 190 miles from Tripoli, capital of Libya.
Leaves Main Army Free
It is 157 miles from Tebessa to Gabes. In a march on that route
narrow gauge railroads which would aid them in moving supplies. Axis forces landed by air and sea to defend northern Tunisia would be left isolated, to be disposed of at will, and the sole German hope (Continued on Page Six)
Fawn 'Talks' to Baby, Draws Fine
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (U. PJ). —Beéth Pitt, a former Follies dancer, was explaining to the: judge why her pet fawn nuzzled a baby in Centra] park. She said the fawn was only talking to the baby. : “In what language?” the judge asked. “In the language of kindness, That’s all the fawn has to offer, * Miss Pitt replied. The judge said that did not excuse her from letting an ani-’ _mal.run st large and fined her $2.
By ROSEMARY REDDING
THE PRESS began its vigil at 9:15 a. m. in the Empire room at the Claypool hotel. We were waiting for Secretary of Labor Irances Perkins. She was to headline the national conference on labor legislation here today and tomorrow. We had a lot of questions on our minds. She was the logical per- . son to answer them. Reporters waited, press photographers waited. City desks and news bureaus were impatient. Finally a little after 11 o'clock she came in. “Would she pose for a Pleture?” . No, all of the photographers could take it as she was seated. It didn’t matter that we had many pictures like that already in our files.
questio “I can’t talk while the picture
4s being taken,” she said turtly.
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“Well,” he drawled, “we’re not so close
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Admiral Nimitz: "Well, We're Not So Close to the 8 Ball as We Were’
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
S. PACIFIC Nov. 16 (De-
layed) —The man seated at the mahogany table with that humorous twinkle in his
grin playing
across his bronzed, weather-beaten face was Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. He was pleased, like a boy who's just pulled off an “A” report card in school.
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He had called newspaper correspondents into his cabin to give them the inside stuff on’the battle of Guadalcanal. A reporter reminded him that when he took command after Pearl Harbor he said the United States navy was “behind
Nimitz’ grin deepened and he played a
of reports on
We certainly
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz . . . “Everybody was’ swinging from the floor.”
23 OF ENEMY'S SHIPS SUNK IN: 3DAY BA
Rear Admiral Norm Scott, Native of Indians
apolis, Among Dead. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.) ~The navy announced toaspt . that Rear’ Admiral Norman § 53, and Capt. Cassin Yousig, were killed during the range battle with Japanese fc in the Solomons in the ° morning of Nov. 13. Scott was born in In Aug, 10, 1889, but his most recent address was Kirkwood, Mo,
By HARRISON 8. SALISBURY.
over the Japanese fleet today bulwarked allied positions | the Solomons and New Gui while ‘Anglo-American arn were tightening a strangli loop about the axis forces the African war theater. "A stubblm Soviet. army. and freezing blizzards compounded: Hite ler’s woes in Russia, |
JUDGE NIBLACK —REAPP
Renamed for 4 Years In Room 4. = (Photo, Page Eight)
a Republican, was reappointed today by Governor Schricker for a four-year term on the room four bench.
late Judge Charles Karabell. Judge Nibldack’s new term will begin Jan. 1. The governor said he had reappointed the 45-year-old lawyer because he was “convinced he’s done a good job.” : : Persons close to the governor said that the only complaints they had heard on the judge during the year he has presided over the police court
|was that he “is too’ tough.”
The governor's action ended rumors current in Republican circles that Judge Niblack would be shifted
Dan V. White, which handles civil matters, and that a new police court judge would be named. The governor said that he had no announcement to make on a successor to Judge White, also a Republican, who was elected probate court judge in the general election. More than a dozen Republican lawyers are seeking Judge White's post. The four municipal judgeships, which pay $5000 a year, are evenly divided by law between Democrats
and Republicans.
Miss Perkins Limits Press to 2v5-Minute Interview
She picked up her manila fold--er as if to arise and.then said:
“What can I answer for you in
the two and one-half minutes I have?” There were Six reporters. They
knew that there wouldn’t even be
time to get an answer to more than a couple of questions. She was already fingering her manila folder. Every one made
a dash mentally to pick out his
most important question. “The national American Legion commander said: here yesterday
that strikes should be outlawed
for the duration and that he considered them treason during the emergency——"" The Fepoeter. didn’t get’ his sen-
“Do you think that a proposal for a 48-hour week and a waiver 2] ‘of time and a half up to 48 hours 3 "is justified, even as a wartime
rane HARBOR SAdutial Ches-
Municipal . Court Jurist Is| 4
Municipal Judge John IL. Niblack,|
The reappointment came on the| anniversary of. his appointment to fill out the unexpired term of the]
to the municipal court bench of]
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On the War Fronts
Nov. 17, 19427
"ter W. Nimitz hails U. S. naval victory in Solomons one of most deplsive of the war, estimates
cruisers’ and six destroyers sunk and ‘unrevealed damage; threeday sea battle may "mean. expulsion of Japanese from Guadalcanal,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA—Gen. Douglas MacArthur at advanced headquarters in New Guinea as AmericanAustralian pincers closes in on Buna, major Japanese. base,
LONDON—Allied drive for Tunis, Bizerte and Gulf of Gabes progresses rapidly; Paris radio reports “fighting slong Tunisian frontier
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA—U, 8S. consul at Tunis, escaped from Tunisia, estimates that Germans there are outnumbered by allied forces.
CAIRO—DBritish eighth army reported less than 630 miles from Tunisia 1n 1ts westward pursuit of Marshal Rommel.
MOSCOW — Soviet defenders of Stalingrad kill 3000 more Germans; fighting subsides as winter grips Russia.
F. D. R. ON AIR TONIGHT
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 .(U. P.).— President Roosevelt’s address to the Herald Tribune forum on current problems willbe. broadcast at 9:30 o'clock (Indianapolis time) . tonight
correctly. She took 30 seconds more to say that some people were now work. ing longer than that. Well, how dii she fesl about it? That's one of the things she was here to ‘discuss at ‘the con= ference, she replied.
C8 n » 2 SHE WASN'T “prepared to. aii. swer” and: that was “an ‘unfair
her reply. ‘What was the reaction to her of the working age from
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DELCO STRIKE. “PERILS 0 :
Andéreon Plant Holiday Hurts Allison Work, Executive Says.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U. P.). —The war labor board today telegraphed officials of the United Automobile Workers (C. I 0.) at Anderson, Ind., demanding that a strike affecting 800 employees of the Delco-Remy plant of General Motors Corp. be called off.
. The strike of 400 tool, die and maintenance workers at General Motors’ Delco-Remy. plant in Anderson is seriously faterfering with vital war production of Allison aviation and diesel engines, company officials charged today in a letter to R. J. Thomas, president of the U. A. W.-C. I. O. H. W. Anderson, G. M. vice president in charge of the plant, described the strike as a “disgrace” and said if it continues, “the war efforts of approximately 16,000 other employees, are jeopardized.” The workers stopped work Saturday in a dispute over union charges that the"¢ompany had not compiled fully with a war labor board directive ordering retroactive wage increases. Union headquarters referred to the stoppage as a “holi-
,jday” and said the. workers were
within their contractual rights to refrain from reporting to work. Claim Agreement Broken Mr. Anderson, in his message to Mr. Thomas, charged the strike is in violation of the agreement between the union and the company and also in violation of the {directive “order of the war labor He said the employees are disdirective order “even though y were given preferred treatment as the board directed that ther be given 10 cents an hour increas: and other employees 4 cents an hour. “Among ‘other things, the union
; is demanding - these employees be “Well. What: was she going to |, :
Full Train Fails
ROBINSON, 1, ‘Nov. 17 *(U. P.) —Thirty-eight selective service draftees marched to the railrcad
there was no room for them. The Pabive soldiers
ma Italy and Japan ling under the most stun ing yet delivered by the
great armada put to rout, 8 of Navy Frank Knox said:
Round 3 Coming Up “American forces hive now round two of the Solomons and are in complete control of # area.” - “However,” Knox warned, battle was not decisive. The . will come back and we how can pect round three.” “I cannot :praise the na / highly on this action,” Ja : “Great credit is due to Admin Chester W. Nimitz, William F. sey, and Daniel J. Callaghan and others. They not only drove superior force from the field bu they employed a most daring of action to accomplish this. result Knox said that both sides wi risking a great deal for the contro of Guadalcanal because the ¢ were near allied lines o tie cation. - : f commu He declined comment ag/ whether. American forces had obtained naval supremacy in Pacific. He said that would be. matter of speculation. Lo “We don't know theirl ts» strength,” he said. “All we ki is that they were driven from field.” ‘We Will Lick Em’ “We can lick ‘em again. We wi eventually defeat them. I ; say in what action or when, : we will.” Knox said the two-ocean navy is “coming along beautifully.” He the speed of delivery of ships most gratifying and cited the § that inasmuch as four dest: were launched on Armistice day 1 would not be a difficult feat to plenish our fleet's losses. 2 He declined to comment on many aircraft carriers were built, but he said there was a cone siderable number. Despite Knox's sonservatism, s naval observers believed it: that tive Solomons battle wey have given this country dan edge over th Japanese fleet in the southwest Pacific. ; sorigel
To Balk Draftees |
depot for a train to the induction | center at Chicago and were told |