Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 221
Clermont ‘Trains’ Girls for Jobs .. .
The Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont is operated by the sovereign stale of Indiana as a school of correction and rehabilitation. Here, the people of Indiana purport to train girls how to get jobs after they
leave—and how to hold them.
This is typical of the “tools of rehabilitation” provided by the state of
Indiana—a coal burning stove which the girls must fire and bake with, You can get an idea of how old this stove must be by just studying the picture.
2 GROUPS SEEK SPEAKERSHIP
Backers of Creighton and Knapp Will Settle
Issue Today.
“swt » BULLETIN Rep. Hobart Creighton, Warsaw ‘hatchery man, was designated speaker of the 1943 house of rep- , resentatives at a caucus of Republican house members here this afternoon. He received 53 votes to 24 votes for his opponent, James Knapp of Hagerstown.
By EARL RICHERT The second round of a bitter fight between two G.O.P. factions was raging today as Republican members of the state house of) representatives met here to name # speaker—the most important pubNe position to be filled between now
and the ’44 elections. There are two chief contenders for the position, Rep. James Knapp of Hagerstown and Rep. Hobart Creighton of Warsaw, with Rep. Creighton apparently having the ‘edge. * And supporting Mr. Knapp is the
group that fought unsuccessfully to
win the secretary of state nomination for him in the state convention Jast summer. Backing Mr. Creighton is the fgroup that beat Mr, Knapp in the convention fight and nominated Rue Alexander, the “gecretary of state-elect.
Henley May Withdraw
A third contender for the speakership, George Henley of Bloomington, who entered the fight only last Sat- " ‘urday, indicated as the time for balloting drew near that he might not allow his name to be placed in nomination for the speakership. Both the Knapp and Creighton forces reportedly have pledged to support Mr. Henley for majority floor leader, the No. 2 position in the house. Mr. Henley said that while‘he might decline.to enter the speakership race” he would not indorse either of the other two candidates. The fight over the speakership had all the earmarks of the state convention fight. Poiltical huddles went on at thesClaypool hotel most . ‘of the night, with most of the poli(Continued on Page Eight)
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An Editorial Cy 1 We're All to Blame HE conditions in Indiana's state instisutlons revealed in
this newspaper this week by Norman E. Isaacs are not
pleasant to contemplate: —A thousand insane men and women, locked up, night
with. only FOUR attendants on duty to unlock a thousand doors in case of fire. . , . —An 80-year-old man working 8 hours a week as a prison guard because the state of Indiana has not paid him enough for 53 years of loyal service to provide for his old age... —State welfare and correctional institutions danger-
trained employees who today are quitting their posts vital to
the state’s security faster than they can be replaced. .. .|
® ” » ” » ® ON’T blame the heads of these institutions. Most of them are doing a superb job with what they have to work with—with what YOU gave them to work with. Don’t blame the governor. He has chosen the best people he could get to undertake the hopeléss job we have all given them. Don’t blame the workers. Certainly men and women will not work 12 hours a day for WPA wages in times like these. Certainly they should not be asked to work such hours, and for such wages in any times. It is OUR fault—the neglect and indifference of every one of us—that they are asked to do so. ” " 8 # » : INDIANA'S archaic system of dealing with criminals and unfortunates needs an overhauling—and NOW is the time to do it. New buildings and new equipment, it is true, cannot be provided until the war ends, but they can at least be planned. Right now, at this coming legislative session, we CAN provide: Decent hours, decent wages, decent working conditions for the state’s employees: * A retirement pension system for those who have Spent their lives in our service; A fair opportunity for promotion as a réward for capable service. To make such a program effective there should be a state director of welfare, appointed by the governor, and responsible to him, with supervision over all these institutions, with authority to plan and recommend improvements to the legislature, and with power to direct and co-ordinate the entire system. The legislature can do all this, at the session: which begins in January. 1t should have the support of every thinking citizen of this state in doing it.
168 Policemen, Fratnen Face Early Induction
Selective service officials notified the safety board .today that 168 policemen and firemen will be inducted into the army within the next four months, in addition to more than 190 men who have left the department in the last year. At the same time, Police Chief Morrissey announced that the police department has 84 vacancies in police work and 22 vacancies in civilian work. Faced with a total of 252 potential vacancies in the next four the safety board in an
He said his board would prepare a list of simple questions and provide for a nominal physical examination, enabling the board to
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emergency order instructed Rowland Allen, head of the police merit board, to prepare short cut plans to process additional men into the police department immediately. Mr. Allen said his board would eliminate most of the proceedings
i usually followed in merit board
selections and telescope the whole operation into a high peed 8 selec.
process 200 applicants in one afternoon.
20 SHIPS SUNK IN NORTH OTTAWA, Nov. 24 (VU. P.. Twenty united nations merchant ships have been sunk since Jan. 1 in the St. Lawrence river and gulf and in adjacent waters, Navy Minis-
ter Angus L. MacDonald revealed
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942
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With ‘Modern’ Flatirons
And here are the “tools of rehabilitation” in the girls’ school
laundry—an old-fashioned stove and antiquated flatirons! all day to do a laundry which should take two hours. at the school are supposedly being given “vocational training.”
It takes And the girls’ No
Indiana business establishments have equipment like this!
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
AZI SABOTEU
PRICE THREE CENTS
And ‘Up-to-Date’ Scrubbing Boards.
Clothes washed on the scrubbing board—and wrung out by the old hand wringer method. After
years of pleading with the legislature, the
—afld now priorities stand in the
way.
girls school finally got a $2800 grant for laundry equipment But while all this has been going on at the girls’ school, brand
new equipment sat idle at the Muscatatuck colony for the feeble minded because the state of Indiana
“forgot” to install floor plugs!
BIZERTE UNDER AERIAL ATTACK
Allies Also Blast Tripoli; Defeat German Column At Jalo.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE . United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 24.—Allied colums advancing toward the Tunisian promontory along the valley of the Mejerda river, which «runs northeasternly to the Mediteranean between Tunis and Bizerte, defeated a German column at Jalo, reports from Algiers said today. Also it became evident today that the allies were intensifying their sawhge aerial bombardment of axis positions at - Bizerte, Tunis and Tripoli. : Other African reports said miral Jean Francois Darlan had ordered all French warships and merchant vessels at Dakar to. remain there while he dispatches a special staff to Dakar to organize the port for full cooperdtion with the allies. Richelieu at Dakar?
Among French naval forces at Dakar were said to be the damaged French battleship Richelieu, ‘a cruiser and 21 submarines.
Ad-
(The French news agency Havas|
reported from La Linea, Spain, today that a British convoy of 28 merchant ships escorted by warships, bombers and fighters had passed ' through the Strait of Gibraltar toward the Atlantic. Two American destroyers were said to have entered Gibraltar harbor this afternoon. The harbor already contained three battleships, two aircraft carriers, several British destroyers and 35 merchantment, including several American cargo vessels, the dispatch said. Bizerte, Tripoli Bombed
Algerian reports said the axis forces were landing detachments of parachutists along the eastern coast of Tunisia. Isolated French groups were said to have ceased opposition in some areas because of failure of allied reinforcements to arrive. Allied planes based on Northeast Africa ferociously bombed Bizerte and the vital axis West Libyan base of Tripoli, radio Morocco reported. Long range allied bombers of the (Continued on Page Eight)
|PROPOSE TO MINT
THREE-CENT PIECE
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 2¢ (U. P.. —Coining of a second wartime nickel, a three-cent piece, and a new one-cent piece—all of =zinccoated steel—was indicated today by mint officials working to overcome the shortage of strategic metals. ; This disclosure followed the passage by the senate yesterday of a bill which would authorize the secretary of the treasury to order the minting of any coins of present and new denominations out of nonstrategic materials, including plage tics.»
ORDER GAS INVENTORY WASHINGTON; Nov. 24 (U. P.).— The . office of price administration
—|today warned gasoline: dealers and
distributors that investigators will make a thorough check of stocks on hand when nation-wide rationing starts Dec. 1 “to frustrate any atsepts to create. a black
On the War
‘member of the Communist party of
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Fronts
(Nov. 24, 1942)
MOSCOW—Soviets drive into German defenses at Chernyshevskaya, 110 miles west of Stalingrad; begin encircling 350,000 axis troops.
LONDON — Allied planes pound _.. Tunis, Bizerte and Tripoli as land troops ‘ineréase pressure in Tunisia; position bolstered by Dakar’s swing to united nations.
CAIRO—DBritish imperials stream through Agedabia en route to El Agheila defile.
BERLIN—Germans admit - Russian penetration southwest of Stalingrad and on Don bend; claim control of bulk of Tunisian coast.
MacARTHUR’S HQS. — Australians enter Gona; Americans within 1200 yards of Buna.
ARREST JAN VALTIN FOR DEPORTATION
Author to Be. Interned for
Duration.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P.). —Attorney General Francis Biddle announced the arrest of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who under the name of Jan Valtin. wrote “Out of the Night,” for deportation to his native Germany. The deportation warrant was served on Krebs in Bethel, Conn. He will be interned for the duration of the war. The board of immigration appeals found Krebs had entered the United States illegally after once having been arrested and deported following a prison term. It said he had visited the .United States in 1921, 1923 and 1924. From 1923 to 1937, the board said, Krebs “was a
Germany, a section of the Communist International.” : The board said its records showed that “on orders from Communist (Continued on Page Two)
Typical Turkey
To Cost About $6 |
- WASHINGTON, Nov, 24 (U. P.)—The typical Thanksgiving turkey this year will be a top quality, grade A, 12-pound young bird and will probably cost just over $6, the office of price administration estimated today. Because of OPA -ceilings, max‘imum turkey prices are likely r be more uniform in range throughout the nation than they have been in many years, officials said. An OPA survey of ceiling prices for top quality dressed turkey in 11 major cities disclosed a range of from 46 cents a pound in Houston Tex., to 55 cents in Miami, Fla. depending upon the location and type of store. MOLOTOV IS CONFIDENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 2¢ (U. P).
—Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov of the Soviet union said
NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT RUSS
3 Soviet Armies on March; One Spearhead 110 Miles
West of Stalingrad. MOSCOW, Nov, 24 (U.P). —A
great and possibly decisive tank battle raged in the area west of,
Stalingrad today as battered Ger-| man forces, foreseeing entrapment!
counter-attack. The Soviet offensive gained mo-
reported deep in Nazi defenses at Chernyshevskava, 110 miles west of] Stalingrad. One army pushing | southward teached the village of|
' | Pogodinsky, well inside the bend
of the River Don, in a drive to! achieve a junction with Russian forces hammering their way westward from Kalach. A third army, advancing from ‘southern sectors, cut the railroad! to Rostov and rolled on to the! southeast.
Nazis Admit Loss
(The German high command admitted today that the Russians penetrated defenses southwest of Stalingrad and on the Don river bend, but said Nazi counter measures were in progress. The communique complained of unfavorable weather, but said “several hundred enemy tanks were destroyed.”) The German attempt at a counter-| attack was having little success. One entire German division was re-| ported exterminated in a single! brief operation when it tried to cut! off the Soviet wedge northwest of Stalingrad. The Russians beat off the counterassault while other rorces struck the enemy flanks and encircled the division. Another German division met a similar fate. Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth, commander of the Germans in the Stalingrad area, hastened to develop | a couhter-offensive powerful enough to. break the Russian drive before (Continued on Page Eight)
FRANCO NAMES NEW COUNCIL FOR PARTY
MADRID, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Gen. Francisco Franco dissolved the National Council of the Spanish Falangé at the expiration of its term yesterflay and formed a new one including Ramon Serrano Suner, recently ousted foreign minister. The council is the governing body of - the Falange, the only recognized political entity in Spain. The new council, the third of the Franco
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ECUADOR PRESIDENT VISITS WHITE HOUSE
" WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P.) — President Carlos Arroyo del Rio of Ecuador today began a heavy schedule of «official entertainment after spending the night at the White House where he was the honored guest at a state dinner. oyo was scheduled to visit con~| gress at noon, then attend a lhincheon given by the Pan American union.
‘holy list of crimes,”
regime, will assume power on Dec. 8.|
WIVES GIVEN 25 YEARS IN PRISON
Chicago Judge Says
Says Six Sentences Should
Warn fAll Who Would Treasonably Traffic With Enemies of the U. S.’ CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Federal Judge William J.
in. an iron ring forged by three Campbell today sentenced three German-American Red armies, sought to rally for a death and their wives to 25 years in prison for tr
to “as a
timely and solemn warning to all who would treasonably
mentum and one spearhead was traffic with the enemies of the United States.”
Judge Campbell condemned the men to die in the 'electric chair Jan. 22, and with the remark that the women, while not less guilty, only had followed their husband’s
leads, sentenced them to pr $10,000. The defendants, all found
ison and individual fines of
guilty of treason, which Judge
Campbell termed “the most iniquitous offense on the un-
were stoical.
They sat at a table in the
tiny federal court room and stared into space as their
sentences were intoned.
The defendants, all naturalized citizens convicted on Nov. 14 of treasonably aiding Herbert Haupt, one the six executed members of the eight-man Nazi sabotage mission
SYMPHONY GANCELS ITS EASTERN TOUR
Railroads Unable to Give Trip Guarantee.
The Indianapolis symphony orchestra has been forced to cancel its Eastern tour this year because of transportation difficulties, Howard Harrington, orchestra manager, announced today. The orchestra was scheduled to appear at New Bedford and Springfield, Mass., and at Niagara Falls, Elmira and Corning, N. Y. Railroads would not guarantee transportation to the East, the business manager asserted. i : Tour engagements throughout the Midwest, however, will be kept, he said. These includes all scheduled appearances in Indiana, Milwaukee and Manitowoc, Wis, and Burlington, Iowa. Virtually every major American orcnestra has been forced to cancel tours becayse of lack of transportation guarantees. Mr. Harrington said difficulties were anticipated last spring when the itinerary was laid out. For that reason, a number of offers were turned down.
DAYS LEFT TO GET A BOX OF GIGARS
Lg FOR. DAD
which landed on the east const last June, were: Max Hans Haupt, 09, fa-
ther of Herbert, a German soldier in the first world war, who came to the United States in 1923 and became a bricklayer, painter and building contractor. His wife, Erna, 43, who was naturalized only last year. The government - stressed that it was at her fireside that Herbert was inculated with the Nazi philosophy. Walter Otto Froehling, 40, brother of Mrs. Haupt and -uncle of Herbert, a truck driver and musician whose home was on the Gestapo list as a possible headquarters for the sub-marine-borne saboteurs. Neighbors Care for Children His wife, Lucille Froehling, 32, the mother of two children, Gordon, 6, and Esther, 8. The children have been cared for by a neighbor since their parents were arrested last June 28. Otto Richard Wergin, 46, a world war sailor in the German navy, who the government charged offered to help Herbert by ging undercover, work. His wife; Kate, 43, mother of two children, Irene," 19, and Wolfgang, 21, ‘who fled the United States with young Haupt in 1941 and now isa member of the German army.
Need No Smelling Salts
The government proved to satisfaction of a jury of eight wom en and four men that all the de fendants aided Haupt in full knowl edge that he was back in his ov country from Germany to blow
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otherwise wreck the American effort. The women dabbed at their e
Secretary of State Cordell ull|
with handkerchiefs and loo helplessly at their husbands. navy doctors snd special ‘dept with smelling salts standing bx the defendants ready for an gency proved unneces The fifty spectators _ {into the courtroom,