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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 222
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942
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SOVIETS SPLINTER NAZI LINES ON DO
As American Troops Arrive in an Algerian City—lIt's Probably Oran
From a “jeep” flying the American flag, a Yankee waves to Algerians In native and European cos-
tumes as American forces enter their city.
» State's Crazy-Quilt Penal System Takes
A business of 20 institut
b.
~ books.-
, ‘Nelson has asked workers to “pass
ba Pounds unds of Flesh
Picks Pockets of Taxpayers While Failing to Help Prisoners
To Become Useful Members of Society. ‘ y By NORMAN E. ISAACS A man crosses society’s borderline and commits a crime. He is 81 years of age so the state of Indiana sends him to its state prison at Michigan City. It will cost the people of Indiana at least $300 for each year of that man’ s stay in
prison.
If, let us say, he has a wife and two children, his family - becomes eligible for assistance ent-children program. The people of Indiana may pay another $600 to that family for a year’s sustenance. In prison, the man can find little way of training himself
to become a useful member of
find little way of helping him, because Indiana has made it NOT a correctional institution, but a penalizing institution,
You and I Pay the Bills
The prisoner may have to plod next to a dangerous psychotic—who He becomes embittered and tense and hostile. becomes an ideal victim of “prison break psychology.”
may be a repeater.
The state of Indiana is exacting
One from the man it is punishing—the other from the taxpayer.
The state prison asked the last tional program. The legislature pr
saved the people of Indiana.
BUT, if only 16 men had been aided by such a program—aided to the extent that they might have been made ready for probation—the
state would have had its $5000 back.
PLUS, perhaps, the several thousands of dollars more spent by the people through the aid-to-dependent-children program. This is typical of a state which insists jon operating a crazy-quilt ions—20 institutions operating on different sys(Continued on Page Two)
And taxpayers’ groups boasted of how much money had been
by the state’s aid-to-depend-
society. And the prison can
He not one pound of ‘flesh—but TWO!
legislature for $5000 for an educaomptly crossed the figure off the
Pass the Ammunition—and
The Turkey—Holiday Theme
i street cars and the garages.)
/ By UNITED PRESS ° @ nation celebrates its first
wartime Thanksgiving in 25 years tomorrow with the holiday theme “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” President Roosevelt will lead the people in prayer services to , be broadcast from the White House over all three major networks and War Production Chief Donald M.
the ammunition” by producing war goods as usual on Thanksgiving day. ' The president will be assisted in - the observance in the historic east
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5 |Inside Indpls. 9 Jane Jordan.. 11 Kidney ...... 10
LUCeY «iver: 9
Amusements . Ash Se sbgpnne 6
Clapper esses # Comics ...... 15
room of the White House by members of his cabinet, Supreme court justices and heads of the armed
The city was unnamed, but it is probably Oran.
TRANSIT UNIONS HERE IN DISPUTE
Parley Called to Prevent Possible Walkout of 100 on Dec. 1.
A union jurisdictional dispute today threatened to disrupt the city’s bus transportation on Dec. 1, the day gasoline rationing goes into effect. The dispute is among employees of the Indianapolis Railways which operates both the street cars and busses. A conference of company officials, members of the two union factions, an officer of the international union and Mayor Sullivan will be held at 10 a. m, Saturday in an effort to settle the dispute. Notice of the impending walkout was sent company officials by! Arnold Nahand, president of the Associations of Transit Employees which was formed by 100 bus drivers following a disagreement over seniority with the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of Amepica to which they formerly had belonged.
Demands Understanding
In a letter, Mr. Nahand said the members of his organization “do not not desire to continue work beyond Dec. 1 without an understanding upon the matter in dispute.” James F. Greene, president of} local 1070 of the Amalgamated As-| sociation, said, however, that the 900 members of his union would report for duty Dec. 1 and he charged members of the newly formed Transit association with “bad faith.” (The amalgamated association’s members operate trackless trolleys,
Situation Explained The situation is this:
services (who will join him in song and prayer. War Secretary Henry L. Stason has ordered military and civilian | personnel of the war department to observe Thanksgiving day by work-| ing as usual. The navy department issued similar orders. All states join in celebration of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November for the first time in three years. For the two years previous, the holiday has been celebrated in many states a week earlier, at the request of President Roosevelt. A survey indicated service men
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STATE PAROLES 8; DENIES PLEAS OF 11
Ethel Speer Lyster, Marion county
» Crossword ... 16 Men in Serv.. Curious World 16 Denny ...... 10 Editorials ... 10: Edson ....... 10 Fashions .... 11 Mrs. Ferguson 11 Financial .... Forum Simms Freckles ... . 14 Society .. . Hold Evithing 9 Sports ..... Homemaking. 12' State Death
Movies :Obituaries. . Pegler ..... Radio
1. 6,
+10) She was sentenced June 3, 1938.
7| woman serving a 10-year term in
Millett ...... 10, the woman’s prison for robbery, was
5 among ‘eight persons paroled by the 8 state clemency commission today.
The clemency commission denied
Mrs. Roosevelt 9 the parole pleas of 11 inmates of Side Glances. 10 the state reformatory. Among them
9 were Hubert Arthur, serving a 10-
12 year term from Marion county for
i robbery, and Charles Dunigan, serv-
The busses formerly were operated { by the Peoples Motor Coach Co. and the street cars and traekless trol|leys by the Indianapolis Railways. | 2% e motor »coach employees (bus {drivers) were members of division | |955 of the Amalgamated association and the Indianapolis Railways employees belonged to division 1070. Each division had a separate contract with the management and the contract provided there would be no walkouts nor lockouts for the duration of the contracts which expire May 1, 1943. On June 1 the Peoples Motor Coach Co. was absorbed by the Indianapolis Railways. The international office of the amalgamated association has a policy that there shall not be more than one division (Continued on Page Two)
FDR STATEMENT ON OUTPUT PREDICTED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (U. P.).
- | —War Production Chief Donald M.
Nelson, emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, said today a statement would be forthcoming soon about the nation’s production situation — presumably concerning his moves to take from the army
8 ing a five-year term from Marion
lican Hagerstown legislator, who lost his fight yesterday to be re-elected speaker of the house of representatives, today was appointed by Governor Schricker as a member of the state budget committee.
committee the man who beat him for the speakership, Hobart Creighton of Warsaw. Mr, Creighton resigned from the budget committee ‘after he was elected speaker by a {Republican caucus of house members here yesterday.
{ Democratic lggislators.
and nayy more control over Sup
With Old Glery and the French tri-color side by side, a French officer and a native official in the foreground, American troops, present arms at a ceremony before a French memorial in the same city.
Cold and Rain
You had better fire up good tomorrow if you want to keep | your Thanksgiving dinner guests | warm. The weather bugeau came up 4 with some cold facts today, warning that it would turn colder late tonight and “considerably colder tomorrow forenoon.” Rain was forecast for tonight. Residents of the northern and west central sections of the state ‘can look forward to a “white” holiday. The bureau predicted rain, turning to snow for those areas tomorrow morning.
KNAPP IS NAMED TO BUDGET COMMITTEE
Thanksgiving: | |
Veteran Legislator Takes Creighton’s Place.
James M. Knapp, veteran Repub-
Mr. Knapp succeeds on the budget
The governor said Mr. Creighton had been “a very valuable member of the committee” and that Mr. Knapp also was “possessed of all the qualifications necessary for this high position.” Membership on the budget committee is for a two-year term. The committee draws up the state budgets to be presented to the legis-
lature and acts on budgetary prob-| lems that come up between sessions|,
of the general assembly. It is composed of two Republican and two
Biblical Note Increases Baby Kidnaping Mystery
WAUKEGAN, Ill, Nov. 25 (U, P.). —The federal bureau of investigation sought an explanation today for a note, bearing a biblical reference to the burning of children as sacrifice, which entered mysteriously into the kidnaping of Gary Bots-] ford, four months old.
The note, written in a precise hand, apparently was slipped under the door of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Botsford, parents’ of the child who was taken from his buggy outside a store late yesterday. The note, written on carefully folded pink paper, said: “Jephthah “Judges Chapt. 11 “29. 30. ” The parents said the note was found just inside their door last night. There were indications that the note migh! have been a hoax,
| farmers, ‘delegation expressed the view that
FORECAST MILK
SHORTAGE HERE
Indiana Delegation Asking Higher Ceiling Price; Subs"
.sidy for Dairy Farms.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—Indianapolis and other large Indiana cities will face an acute milk shortage shortly unless drastic steps are taken immediately to remedy the production situation, agriculture and war agency officials were told here today. A delegation from the state, after hours of conferences, agreed that two steps are essential: 1. Puncture the OPA ceiling prices to iron out area inequities. 2. Pay a federal subsidy to dairy Members of the Indiana
these things will be done before the state undergoes a milk famine,
“Grave As Rubber Problem”
“Indiana and other large war production centers are facing a|~ milk shortage which constitutes as grave a problem as that of rubber,” Oscar Swank, acting chairman of the Indiana milk control board and spokesman for the group, declared. Others attending the conference are E, Curtis White, state board member; C. W. Humbrickhouse, executive secretary of the board; William Wilson, administrator of the Indianapolis milk market area, and A. S. Thomas, representing the Indiana Farm bureau. They met with Grover B. Hill, assistant secretary of agriculture and 10 other officials from war agencies, including: the office of price administration and office of defense transportation. The meeting had been arranged by former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, now head of the agricultural adjustment administration. Joseph Reed, Mr, Townsend's assistant, attended.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Jephthah, called to lead the Israelites into battle, made these pledges in Judges, 11:30: “And Jeplithah vowed a vow unto the Lord and said, if Thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, “31. Then it shall come to be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace, shall surely be the Lord’s and -I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” Then, according to the Bible, when Japhthah returned he found his own daughter and “did with her according to his vow.” Meanwhile, the search for the baby and the woman who bystanders saw lift him from his buggy centered in the religious community of Zion, north of here. Tne com-|
munity until recently was led by : Vi
and inve sought, its rela-
Times-Acme Telephotos.
On the War
Fronts
Nov. 25, 1942 MOSCOW — Germans lose 160,000
men _since_Saturday as Russians). hammer their way through Ger-|
. man communication centers more than hundred miles west of Stalingrad.
LONDON—Hitler rushes planes : to Tunisia from Russian front and strengthens Tunisian east coast
defenses as African battle increases in fury.
CAIRO — British 8th proaches El Agheila.
PEARL HARBOR—Admiral Nimitz says America holds initiative in Guadalcanal with marines pushing Japanese back; says knows nothing of Japanese reports of another naval battle,
army ap-
NEW GUINEA — Americans and Australians in hand to hand fighting as they silence Japanese machine gun posts with aid of heavily superior air support.
WAR FUND DIRECTOR GETS NATIONAL JOB
Virgil Martin Resigns,
Successor Sought.
Indianapolis Community ‘Fund officials today were seeking a new executive secretary to take the place
ment;
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AXIS BUILDS UP
AFRICAN FORGES
Allies Admit ments Land; Italian Fleet _May Join Battle.
By EDWARD Ww. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 25.—Adolf Hitler is rushing airplanes from the Russian front to Sardinia and Sicily in a desperate attempt to get supremacy of the air and sea in the Tunisian zone, it was said authoritatively today. It was admitted that the reinforcements were heavy and that the axis air forces were making big raids on allied ports and shipping. The informant suggested that the Italian battle fleet might take to sea to join in the attack, but said a strong allied naval covering force would bé waiting for it.
Huge Transport Downed
The R. A. F. in Cairo revealed today that long-range fighters: had shot down one of Germany's latest type transport planes, a huge sixengined Bloehm-Voss 222 built to carry £0 soldiers. The big transport, flying north, was intercepted off Linosa island between Tunisia and Sicily in R. A. F. activity yesterday.” It was believed here to be the first of its type destroyed by British planes. Two other German planes were shot down north of Linosa. One, a Junkers transport, evidently was ferrying troops, since 10 soldiers were seen struggling in the water after it went down. Allied medium and heavy bomb-
of Virgil Martin who has resigned, effective Jan. 1 to become admin-
istrative director of .the national community chests. Mr. Martin was director of the, community. fund here for three, years and last spring when the United War Fund was organized, he assumed directorship of that. Under his leadership both funds went over the.top in Marion county last October, “Although we regret the loss of Mr. Martin's services in this community, we realize that his services are needed natibnally,” declared Harold 'B. Tharp, fund president. “In fact, it is because of his success here that he has been ‘drafted’ for the larger post. He will be performing the same type of work nationally as he so ably carried out here.” As administrative director of the National Community Chests, the central clearing and co-ordinating office for 600 Community Chests throughout the United States and Canada, Mr. Martin will be succeeding Ralph H. Blanchard, who held the post for several years. Mr. Blanchard is being named executive vice president of the national organization, succeeding Ailen T. Burns who has retired.
BULLETIN
OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 25 (U. P.)~Four German military prisoners, formerly of Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, dived through the windows of a darkened train last night and fled despite a hail of. bullets, ‘but were recaptured guards,
ers continued to concentrate attention on landing fields in Crete. It was revealed that on Monday night heavy raids were staged, with airdromes at Heraklion, Hastelli anc Pediada as the targets. Dispatches from Africa reported (Continued on Page Two)
THRILL-KILLER’S
HUSBAND CAUGHT
LAKE CHARLES, La., Nov. 25 (U. P.).—Another chapter in the story of Toni Jo Henry, the sloe-eyed girl who killed for a thrill, ended today when her convict husband who broke out of a Texas jail in an attempt to free her from her death cell, was captured 60 miles away from the prison in which she will be electrocuted Saturday. Her husband, Claude (Cowboy) Henry, also a murderer, was arrested as he lay exhausted in a Beaumont, Tex., hotel room after a twoday chase through Texas by state troopers and volunteer seanchers.
YOU CAN STILL GET RATION BOOK NO. 1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.). —The office of price administration said today that persons who do not have war ration book No. 1 (the sugar book) needed to buy coffee beginning next Sunday, must file applications with their local rationing board by Dec. 15. Not only is possession of the book necessary to purchase coffee, OPA warned, but it must be presented to local boards soon after
Reinforce-
LIBERATION OF STALINGRAD IS FORECANT SOON
Reich Siege Army of 350,000 Faces Encircle« Casualties Reach 160,000; Berlin Concedes Losses.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
Germany's grip on South Russia and the Nazi foothold # in the Caucasus were threatened today by a Soviet offensive that was splintering the whole web of German defense posts and communications from Stalingrad to the great bend of the Don river 100 miles to the west. Three separate Red army columns were knifing through the area, disrupting both rail and highway connections be« tween the Don and the Nazi force before Stalingrad. & German casualties were ess
timated at more than 160,000 men and the army of 350,000 on the Stalingrad siege lines was threatened with encire clement. , Twin Russian columns were cone verging at the Don river bend abou$ 100 miles west of Stalingrad in a position from which they could
strike southwest toward Rostov im of the Caucasus. See Stalingrad's Freedom The beleaguered defenders
barricades - in buildings and shate
back at several points while from
bank of the Volga and contacted the city’s defenders. The Russian press said the Red army was driving for the exters mination of the whole German force
Stalingrad, besieged, for 93 days, would soon be free.
credited the allied offensive im North Africa with opening the way for the sudden Soviet blow. London reported that transfers of Nazi planes from Ruse
were underway, aiding the Russian
ing ground troops. Attack Well Timed
for a retreat.
forced west is now said to be filled with blocks oi wreck pontoon bridges.
mitted in a communique today tha# the Russians several fronts of the Stalingrad salient, including the city itself.) Pravda, organ of the Communis§
of Stalingrad is due soon,” adding
Is broken.”
Seize Rail Station
The Russians who surged across the Don “directly west of Stalingrad at Kalach, drove 30 miles yesterday and took the town and railway stae tion of Surovikino, front-line dis« patches said, and was hurrying westward, to close a trap about axis forces on the Stalingrad front. * Advanced Soviet units had al ready cut off the Germans and Rus manians from escape at many points northwest of Stalingrad, Red Star said, reporting that axis forces were retreating in disorder south of Stalingrad, too. : The Russians were on the he of the enemy, wiping out the guard detachments trying to tect retreating main forces. Red Star said the Russians (Continued on Page Two)
Jan. 1 in order receive war ra-| i, oy
tered streets and thrusting the Nazig
heavy
ice which would
that“ “the enemy’s encircling ring ;
an efidrt to isolate the Nasi i pA
of Stalingrad were storming from theif
the north a Russian column broke through the Germans on the west
in South Russia and declared tha
Both Russian and British sources =
sia to the threatened Mediterranean
air force in protecting the advance ia
London observers said the Sovie§ 2 attack was timed to trap the Gere mans at the worst possible moment, i
The Don river which the Nazis EN at Stalingrad must cross if they are
(The German high command ads
were attacking om E
party, said that “complete liberation