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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1942
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Preference for Veterans Urged
Aviation was Teresenivd at the American Legion executive committee meeting today. Attending were (left to right) R. E. Elwell, CAA general counsel; C. R. Mooney, secretary of the national aviation training association, and Col. T. A. Sims, representing Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of the army air
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BENEFITS ASKED
FOR WAR Il MEN
Legion Committee Backs Waring’s Attack on Bridges’ Speech.
The national legislative commit tee of the American Legion today recommended to the executive committee that it adopt a policy incorporating “a separate and preferred status” for veterans of world war II as well as world war I. “Any benefits obtained by them
should be given them as veterans,” Maurice F. Devine, the legislative
He recommended that the Legion oppose ‘all legislation tending to jeopardize the identity of a veteran as a veteran aiid asked that all benefits accruing to veterans of both wars be administered. solely through the veterans administration.
Oppose Bridges Speech
~The Americanism committee in its report commended the national ‘commander, Roane Waring, for his attack on Harvard university for permitting Harry Bridges, C. I. O. organizer, to speak on Armistice day at exercises on the campus. Mr. Waring’ s reference to the talk was made’ in’ an address’ Monday before the Chamber of Commerce here, in which he said that “such tion by Harvard university is a slap id tHe face to every man who wears the uniform of America in
. this war.”
Arthur J. Connell, a vice commander’ of ‘the Légion from Middletown, Conn., pointed out that (Continued on Page Six)
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IN COLLECTING TAXES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P.).
~—Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John L. Sullivan today predicted that the government would have no difficulty collecting in 1943 from the millions of persons who, for the first time, will be paying income taxes. “I believe that the people want to help pay for the war and that the idea that there will be a large number who will not be able to make
payment when due is greatly ex-
aggerated,” he said. He pointed to the fact that in 21 years the government had been collecting income taxes it had collected an aggregate of $82,000,000,000 and that on the average it was unable to collect only $11,600,000 a
year.
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But not the lady cabinét“thember. No, sir, she went right on into battle at a national labor legislation conference—and as fresh as a daisy, I might add. It all began two days ago when Miss Pefkins came flying into a press conference and gave reporters who had been waiting two hours, about a two and a half minute
.| dust-off for an interview.
Piqued, I wrote a story about it. My reward was to be invited to accompany her on what started out to be a tour of local war plants. At 11 o'clock we were seated in a labor legislation conference where Miss Perkins was guiding a debate over the phraseology of a resolution on retention of the basic 40-hour
week, time and a half for overtime
and a recommendation of 48 hours as the maximum for efficiency,
She’s Very Punctual
She's as punctual as naval observatory time. She was due tc start on her tour. So she just named a committee to do the rephrasing, and left. There were six of us—Mrs. Perkins, her special assistant, Mary LaDame; Thomas R. Hutson, Indiana’s labor commissioner, Murray Summers Jr., labor conciliator, and Murray Rimsay of Chicago, who was handling public relations for the conference. Miss Perkins led the way into Mr. Summers’ car and we sped out to Curtiss-Wright. We had to sidestep some puddles in the parking lot. Miss Perkins
{looked down at Miss LaDame’s
feminine footwear. “She once went down in a coal mine with me in high heels,” the (Continued on Page Eight)
JAPS STRENGTHEN NEW GUINEA FORGE
Fleet of Eight Destroyers Seen Off Buna.
GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HQDS., SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—The appearance of a flotilla of eight Japanese destroyers off Buna indicated today
{that the enemy might attempt to
reinforce forces being driven back on their New Guinea northeast coastal base by allied troops closing in on two sides. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, directing
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operations from field headquarters in New Guinea, reported that the destroyers, divided into two groups when sighted yesterday, were maneuvering off the coast “apparently to support enemy ground forces.” (The Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo report today that General MacArthur was at Guadalcanal, important American base in the southern Solomon islands). Allied heavy bombers were attempting to strike the warships, In the light of previous Japanese || tactics, it was believed the enemy .would attempt to land fresh troops 3j and
Frankly, I was oe in the Knees,
Secretary of Labor Visits Curtiss-Wright Plant Here
By ROSEMARY REDDING My day with Madame Perkins. . . . And if her friend, Eleanor Roosevelt, has anything on Frances Perkins, I'm sure I'd never manage to keep up with her. My day with the secretary of labor consisted of just three hours
as any I've ever spent.
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Planning Together to Meet Current Food Needs, Says Townsend.
Farmers of America have finally learned how to plan together and to produce according to the actual needs of the people, M. Clifford Townsend, administrator of the agricultural conservation and adjustment administration and former governor of Indiana, said today. Mr. Townsend spoke before delegates at the close of a two-day session of the 24th annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. in the Murat theater. The convention will end this afternoon with business sessions and election of officers. One of the resolutions to be introduced will oppose gasoline rationing at present. The resolution states that at least a 90day postponement of the measure should be made in order to allow a more adequate study of the problem. + “Conservation farming is one of
our foremost war weapons,” he said. “It enables us to produce .for the duration, whether this war lasts a year, two years or 10.” Mr. Townsend said that with the help of the 150,000 committeemen and alternates of the Triple-A, American farmers are meeting or exceeding their production goals for (Continued on Page Five)
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EARLY ATTACK ON EUROPE VIA [TALY IS SEEN
British 8th Army Passes Benghazi in Chase After Rommel. By EDWARD W. BEATTIE
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 19.—An allied army estimated at 300,000 men moved on Tunisia today with strong indications the climax of the drive may be reached by this week-end.
Axis positions in Africa were beset by a three-way allied offensive.
Radio Algiers reported that British paratroops have seized additional airdromes in Tunisia. The-British 8th army was clashing with Marshal Erwin Rommel’s rear guards south of Benghazi and from the Lake Chad region, 1300 miles south of Tripoli, an American and Fighting French force was reported racing north across the almost trackless desert. London observers believed the allies were bending every effort to bring the African campaign to a stunning conclusion and open the way for attacking Nazi Europe and particularly the axis weak spot, Italy.
Italy Believed Wilting
The Nazi radio in Paris reported from North Africa that the British and American expeditionary. force lready was engaged in battles with advatice
troops in Tunisia. There was growing belief here that Italy’s war-making ability was wilting and ‘this factor was expected to play an important role in the final drive to break Rommel’s power in Tripolitania. The bulk of troops available for the axis last stand in Africa were said to be Italian. Italian losses in the war were estimated already to be running close to 1,000,000 men. Including divisions in which casualties have been estimated at 75 per cent or hetter, the British break down Fascist losses in this manner:
Italan Losses Boosted
Lost in Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's first African offensive: Four regular Italian divisions, four blackshirt divisions, two Libyan divisions; lost in Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck’s second African offensive, two regular Italian divisions; lost in the current offensive, eight regular divisions; lost in the East African mopup, about 12 regular and blackshirt divisions and 25 native divisions; lost in the Greek campaign, 11 divisons. Italian losses in Russia and in (Continued on Page Six)
U. S. FILES ACTION AGAINST BENDIX
NEWARK, N. J, Nov. 19 (U, P.). —United States Attorney Charles M. Phillips filed a complaint in equity today against the Bendix aviation corporation of South Bend, Ind., and others, charging violations of the anti-trust laws through the creation of and participation in a number of alleged illegal international agreements in the aircraft accessory and instrument industry.
Thomas Taggart Young of Canadian Air Force Killed
Thomas Taggart Young of Indianapolis, flight sergeant in the Royal Canadian air force and attached to the Royal air force overseas, died last Sunday of injuries received during flying operations, according to word received today by his mother, Mrs. William J. Young, 35 W. 59th st.
Mr. Young enlisted in Canada when 19 in September, 1940. In May, 1941, he left for England and had his final training at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire. After some months in Wales in the 79th squadron he was made section leader. He then volunteered for service in the far east, leaving England in December, 1941, for Egypt en route to India, where he has been ever since. Mr. Young was born in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 14, 1920, the son of the late Dr. William J. Young and Irene Taggart Young. His grandfather was the late Senator Thomas Taggart, for whom he was named. He attended Episcopal high school al Alexandria, Va., and later was graduated from Park school here. He entered the oy of Vir-
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air force without two years of college, he enlisted in Canada. He is the nephew of Miss Lucy Taggart, ‘Mrs. D. L. Chambers and Mrs. W. R. Sinclair of Indianapolis
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300,000 Allies Drive On Tunisia, Seize More Bases
How Allies Close 3-Way Trap on Nazis
6.0.7. LEADERS MAP STRATEGY
Assembly Has Has Free Rein In Selecting Officers, Gates Says.
By EARL RICHERT As Republican party leaders met here today to map strategy for the coming legislative session, State Chairman Ralph Gates announced that a “hands off” policy would be followed by the state committee in the election of legislative officers. “It shall not be the purpose of the Republican state committee to dictate as to who may be placed in the positions of leadership in the house of representatives and the state senate,” he said.
Speaker Fight Spirited
“We have absolute confidence in the Republicans who have been elected as members of this all-im-portant session of the general assembly, and we know that they will select from their own membership those members most competent to have the responsibility of ° this leadership.” - Interest is running high in Republican circles over the contests for speaker of the house and president pro tem of the senate, positions that will be filled at caucuses here next Monday and Tuesday. Two veteran legislators, Reps. James Knapp of Hagerstown and Hobart Creighton of Warsaw, are conducting active campaigns for the coveted speakership post, and a (Continued on Page Six)
EARLY REGISTRATION FOR WOMEN SEEN
Green Predicts Statement Within Two Weeks.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P.). —Steps toward national registration of women for war work will be taken before the end of the year, members of the C. I. O.-A. F. L. labor war board said today after a conference with President Roosevelt. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said he expected some ' announcement within two weeks about the registration of women. He said no decision had been reached on whether the registration would be compulsory or voluntary. “The matter is becoming pressing and will have to be dealt with very soon,” Green said.
LEAVES CHINA FOR U. S.
CHUNGKING, Nov. 19 (U. P.).— Owen Lattimore, American. adviser
Poisoned ee. Kill ai in Salem, Ore., State Hospital
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 19 (U. P.).—More than 400 inmates of the state mental hospital shrieked and writhed in agonizing pain all night and
by dawn today 41 were dead.
They had been served scrambled eggs for dinner last night and
these were believed to have poisoned
them. The eggs were egg yolk con-
tributed to the hospital by the federal government six months ago and
preserved since in cans by refrigeration. Physicians believed that the remainder of the approximately 460 inmates who ate the eggs would recover. Staff Is Mobilized The scrambled eggs were served to ward patients and no svoner had they been distributed when the big rooms and the corridors echoed with the shrieks of the stricken and the floors were filled with men and women writhing with the pain of acute stomach cramps.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P.). ~The agriculture department today ordered an immediate investigation into the handling of eggs believed responsible for the death of at least 41 persons in the Salem, Ore., hospital for the insane.
Dr. John C. Evans, superintendent, mobilized his complete staff of doctors and nurses and. throughout
the night they waged a grim fight}
against death. So successful was the medical battalion that Dr. Evans believed that all alive at dawn would recover. At midnight, he had feared that almost all were doomed. Diagnosis Uncertain
The egg yolk came to the haspital as part of a federal surplus, food allotment, All the allotment had been under sub-zero refrigeration since it arrived, Dr. Evans said. He could give no explanation of what had happened to make that used -last night poisonous. The physicians were uncertain in their diagnosis of .the poisoning. Some of them said it had acted too quickly to be diagnosed as ptomaine. Governor Charlies A. Sprague spent a sleepless night investigating. “We'll simply have to make a thorough investigation,” he said. “I am terribly - shocked and grieved over this terrible tragedy. We must take prompt action.” State police were called. in by District Attorney Miller Hayden to assist in an independent investigation.
ARBUCKLE COFFEE FAMILY HEIR DEAD
NEW PALTZ, N. Y., Nov. 18 (U. P)—Funeral arrangements for Margaret A. Jamison, surviving heir
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On the War Fronts
(Nov. 19, 1942)
LONDON: Allies drive on Tunisia and Tripolitania from three sides with climatic battle indicated by week-end, paving way for European invasion; R. A. F. raids Turin, Italy, bombing big Fiat airplane plant.
CAIRO: British by-pass Benghazi in one-day, 70-mile advance; axis stand at El Agheila.
VICHY: Petain designates Laval as political successor.
MacARTHUR’S HQS.: Japanese destroyers appear off New Guinea, indicating enemy reinforcement or evacuation.
MOSCOW: Russians report sharp gain on southern Stalingrad front.
CHUNGKINZ;: Japanese reported ready for drive into China with 30,000 troops and 300 planes.
BERLIN: Gobbels admits war not going too well.
2 KILLED AS ENGINE RAMS STREETCAR
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19 (U. P.). —Two persons were killed and five others injured today when a Louisville’ & Nashville switch engine struck a street car.
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UNDER ARREST IN GERMANY, ROME REVEALS
Hint Laval Is al Is Negotiating France Into Full Axis Partnership.
LONDON, Nov. 19 (U. P.). —The axis radio reported today that Gen. Maxime Wey=gand has been arrested and taken to Germany and hinted that Pierre Laval may al« ready have negotiations in progress to bring France into
the war as a full axis partner. The reports left little doubt that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain remains a virtual puppet—willing or unwilling—in the hands of Laval and the Nazis. Rome radio revealed Weygand’s arrest, saying that the general— France's No. 1 military leader—had been taken into custody by the Germans because “one Giraud is. quite enough. ”
Giraud Heads French Army
then from France to place himself at the head of French allied filitary forces in North Africa. Weygand’s arrest followed quickly, according to Fighting French sources, his refusal of a request by | Pefain to. assume command. of "French armed forces ‘after Admiral Jean Francois Darlan opened ne-
-| gotiations -with the Americans in
North Africa. Meanwhile, the axis radio strong= ly hinted that Laval, newly clothed with virtually dictatorial powers granted him by Petain, was proceeding ruthlessly to link France even more tightly to the axis chairot. Laval Has Full Powers
A German DNB report asserted that Laval now has full powers to make decisions “dictated by the sit= uation without being hampered by bureaucratic or formal considerations.” It added that the Wilhelmstrasse declined to comment on what negotiations Laval is undertaking with “his newly received full powers.” “Behind Laval and his forthcoming decisions there is the authority and the moral and traditional strength of the marshal, i said the Nazi radio. It was believed that Laval may move the Vichy government back to Paris as cone of his first acts.
May Sign Nazi Treaty
Laval has been spending half or more of his time in Paris and a good many govermanent departments already have been transe ferred there but Petain had refused to allow the actual seat of government to be transferred either to Paris or Versailles. A Bern dispatch to the Evening Standard said Laval’s political supporters were hinting that he might: use his new power to sign a peace treaty and a military alliance with Germany. There were indications that he would make a strong effort to force a French declaration of war against Britain and the United States.
FINED FOR ‘FAILURE TO IMMOBILIZE CAR
LONDON, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—Lady Diana Duff Cooper was fined for the: second time today for failure to: immobilize her automobile. For the first offense she was fined one pound, but the judge made the second fine only 10 shillings because, he said, she had shown a desire to
comply with the law.
Report Russ Massing at 7 Points for Winter Offensive
LONDON, Nov. 19 (U. P.) —British newspapers featured axis reports today that Russia was massing troops -at seven key points between Lake Ladoga and the Caspian sea in massive preparations for a largescale winter offensive. Almost all the concentrations were along the banks of rivers and lakes which will freeze sufficiently to permit offensive operations. The Red army. was reported mass-
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At the railroad junction of Chudovo, 70 miles southeast of Lenin‘grad, on the rail line to Kalinin and Moscow; at Staraya Russa, 125 uth. I on Lake
Staraya: Russa; between the apes reaches of the Volga and the Mos= cow-Rzhev railroad in the vicinity of Rzhev, 125 miles southwest of Moscow; at Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow on the road to Smolen along the Don river, especially be tween Boguchar and Yelandsk, below Stalingrad, particularly tween Leninsk, 35 miles east of th steel city and Vladimirovka, 556 m southeast of Leninsk.
MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (U. P)— While heavy fog deprived the Ger mans of air support in Stalings
The reference was to the French « {war hero, Gen. Henri Giraud, who |escaped- first from Germany and