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~’ (Continued from Page One) and ord drivers, to merge into division 1070, tthe street car operators. : In a statement, Indianapolis Railways officials said that the: order from the international office of amalgamated provided that the senjority of members of the old division

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998 would be merged into the sen2 Jority list or division 1070.

“This meant,” the company said, at many members of division 995, Mo held the most desirable runs among bus drivers, would lose out by. having their seniority reduced. This would happen because the men An"division 1070 had, in the malin, been with the company more years on-the average than had members of division 995.

Company Cites Objection

“Many members of division 995 objected to this arrangement, feeling that a merger should be effected that would protect their seniority. There was discussion between the members of division 1070 and of .diyision 995, and an international officer of the union came to Indianapolis fo aid in reaching an agreement. Many members of division 995 refused to pay dues to division 1070 which, if carried to its conclusion, would result in division 1070 asking Indianapolis Railways, Inc. in accordance with its closed shop contract with division 1070, to discharge all former division 995 members who refused to pay these dues. | “In the face of the present war ‘situation, with greatly increased use being made of public transportation by vital war workers, and the fact that the transit system was already facing an acute manpower shortage, the management of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., decided it was necessary that the company do what it could to obtain an early and equitable solution of the dispute, because the public interest and the war effort might shortly become effected if the breach between the two locals was allowed to continue and perhaps expand. ~ Suggests Seniority Freezing

up ccordingly, it was suggested by the management that the seniority lists of Division 1070 and the former Division 995 should be frozen for the duration of the war, and for 60 days thereafter. This, it was pointed out, would protect the senjority of both parties to the agreement. It was further provided that all new men employed would have seniority throughout the entire system. “On Nov. 6, 1942, an agreement zing the seniority of tHe members of both locals was signed by the officials of Division 1070, the former officials of Division 995, and representatives of the management of this company. On the same date, ‘a copy of this agreement was sent to the international office of the Amalgamated for its approval, which must be secured before the agreement is final. “To date, no decision has been ‘received from the international office regarding the compromise agreement freezing seniority. However, in the meantime, approximately 100 members of the former division 985 have organized a new local union, known as the Association of Transit Employees, as a protest against the merger ordered by the international office.” . Division 1070 charged the newly former transit union with “bad faith” because its members had been parties to the “no strike” contract. Mr. Nahand could not be reached for comment.

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Soldiers at Camp Atterbury now are going to have enough hangers on which to hang their clothes, thanks to Indianapolis school pupils who gathered them from their homes. Today 15 trucks from Camp Atterbury made the rounds of the schools and picked up many thousands of Chaplain Thomas S. Clarkson, 331st Infantry, 83d division, who was in charge of John Kern; Aileen Allee, 8B pupil at school Eight, 520 Virginia ave, and Robert Amos, 8A pupil. The

children are turning in the 200 hangers gathered at the school.

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The Turkey—Holiday Theme

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in cities acrdss the nation were swamped with more. invitations to holiday dinners than possibly could be filled. [Army posts, naval bases and united service organization headquarters were flooded with offers to feed soldiers, sailors and marines in private homes. Whenever soldiers are serving abroad as well as in the continental United States, the U. S. army quartermaster corps will provide them with an evening meal of turkey and all the fixin’s.

11,000 Pies at Great Lakes

Supplies of frozen turkeys have been shipped to men stationed in Britain, Ireland, Iceland and other fronts for several months, Officers of the quartérmaster corps said men in the battle lines in Africa and the South Pacific probably will have to eat emergency field rations, but behind the lines the traditional feast will be prepared in field kitchens over the globe. The navy made similar plans. At Great Lakes naval training station, largest in the nation, 3000 pounds of turkey, 11,000 pumpkin pies and 15,000 pounds of ham will be served, along with 2000 gallons of ice cream, 2000 pounds of coffee, 3000 gallons of tomato soup and 10,000 pounds of stuffed celery. Special feasts for the WAVES and WAACs, navy and army women’s auxiliary corps, were planned. . The New York City USO events

\ for 10,000 guests: at dinner at 60 hotels and 180 restaurants—first come first served. The list included exclusive night clubs. The stage door canteen of the American theater wing will serve 4500 turkey dinners. San Prancisco planned a civic auditorium show and dance for T7000 service men. : The American housewife discovered when she went to market that turkeys were priced higher than at any time since 1919, but this was offset by - higher average family earnings.

Prices Are Higher

The office of price administration estimated the typical turkey dinner would include a 12-pound young bird costing just over $6. The price of the “fixin’s” also ran higher than last year, ranging from a 2-cent per quart increase on the price of cranberries to an increase from two packages for 19 cents to 13 cents per package for mince meat. Olives were up 2 cents for a 6%ounce bottle. Market experts said the price of turkey dinners was up 20 per cent more than last year and 60 per cent more than two years ago.

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BOSTON, Nov. 25 (U.. P)—A Dorchester grocery store today posted this sign: “Please be kind to our employees.

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tems, different methods, - different standards, different techniques. This is no wild-eyed dream. On the desk of every member of the last legislature sat a blue-covered book entitled “A Report of Four Years’ Public Welfare Administra-

tion in Indiana, 1936-1940.” It was prepared by the administrative personnel of the state of Indiana! Whether the legislators read this book or not, nobody knows. But here’s what it said Indiana needed:

“1. Indiana has no reformatory except in name. The Indiana reformatory is in reality a junior prison, both in plant and program. First offenders are mixed in with those convicted of two, three, four and even five previous felonies. Almost two-thirds of the inmates are recidivists (previous offenders). It is probable that many of the young offenders who are sent to such an environment become worse instead of better during their period of incarceration. Indiana needs a new inst#ution of the type New Jersey has at Annandale, or the federal government has at Chillicothe, O., which would offer good education and training facilities for the younger and more hopeful type of prisoner. “2. The Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals, which is within the walls of the state prison at Michigan City has a maximum capacity of 270 inmates and now has a total of 292. In addition, there are perhaps as many as 100 inmates of the prison who are actually psychotic and who need the care and treatment which an adequate hospital could give. The prison itself is crowded having a total of 2651 prisoners, when actually it can accommodate comfortably not more than 2100. The tubercular, the syphilitics and others having diseases of a contagious nature are placed in the institution hospitals at both the prison and the reformatory., Indiana needs a hospital-type institution, or perhaps a separate building on the grounds of one of the state mental hospitals, for its psychotic, psychopathic, tubercular and syphilitic prisoners. “3. The criminal code in this state is such a patchwork of conflicting laws that many of the judges who have criminal jurisdiction have difficulty in determining what the statutes mean. . + » To date, more than a thousand sentences have been ‘corrected’ by the governor upon the recommendation of the state commission on clemency. . . . The blame cannot entirely be placed on the courts. . . . A complete new criminal code is the only

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possible solution to the situation which now exists... . “4, A small beginning has been made on an educational program for inmates in penal and correctional institutions in this state. For many years the Indiana reformatory has had what might be termed ‘a school of letters.’ Most of the teaching has been done by guard officers when they were excused from their tour of guard duty, and the books used have been those prescribed for children in the public schools. No school of any kind existed at the Indiana stafe prison until recently, when classes for illiterates were organized and taught by employees of the state department of public welfare. An art class organized and taught by Prof. Harry Engle of Indiana university, who has contributed his time and effort without compensation, has attracted wide attention. . . . Such vocational training as exists results from employment in the institution industries, and heretofore no effort has been made to give these workers theory as well as practice in such industries nor to teach them allied subjects they must know if they are to continue successfully the kind of work they are doing after they are released. It is true that some men have learned enough in the institution industries to make a living at the same trade after their release, but this has not been true of the great majority of them. There is no money available for the instructors that would be required in a vocational training program. . . .

An Amazing Story

“5, Since much of the inmates’ contact with the institutions is with the guard officers, qualified guard personnel becomes a vital factor. . . . A number of states have excellent guard training programs. . ., . Indiana should have a merit system for the recruitment of its employees. . ... Even if a merit ,system were to be placed in effect, there would still be little opportunity for guard training under conditions as they exist at present. Guards work from sun to sun, the night men being on duty as long as 14 hours a night in the winter-time. The state budget committee and legislature have thus far been unwilling to authorize more than the minimum . number of guards needed to cover the necessary posts at the institutions. Thus, the present system permits little

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12 TESTIFY AT PAYNE TRIAL

Associates of Mattingly Are Called to Take Stand Today.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 25 (U. P.).—Associates of Charles O. Mattingly, former secretary of the Indiana public service commission, will ‘be called to the stand today in the second murder trial of Mrs, Caroline Payne. Charles Swaim, attorney for the state highway department; John

Conley and Moie Cook, associates of Mattingly on the commission, and Harold Mull, Mattingly’s successor as secretary of the commission, will testify. The state called 12 more witnesses to the stand yesterday in its attempt to prove Mrs. Payne was of sound mind when the shooting occurred and that she murdered Mattingly because she was jealous over his marriage. i

Tells of Gun Sale

Mrs. George Heitzer, whose late husband owned a hardware store in Bedford, said that her husband sold a .380 colt automatic pistol to a Bedford man, who later moved to Bloomington and roomed in the Payne home. Robert. Borkenstein, ballistics expert, said the bullets which killed Mattingly came from a .380 colt automatic.

enough time for recreation, and guard officers could not be expect-

hours to training activities. . . . Neither are there enough of them so that any reasonable number could be spared from their posts during the time they are on duty in order that they might take further training. It must follow, then, that proper guard personnel and proper guard training can be had only when guards come under a merit system or some other, form of civil service and when hours of work, rate of pay, and possibility of pension and retirement are such that a reasonably good grade of men will be attracted to the service. ...” That some of the conditions related by the state have become worse, rather than better, is amply demonstrated by the simple fact that the state prison’s hospital for insane criminals—with a capacity of 270—has now pushed 314 men into that hospital! : And add to that the fact that there .are at least 25 other inmates of the prison NOT in the hospital, but who have been adjudged insane by lunacy commissions!

Save a Nickel—=Waste Dollar

And ponder on the fact that qualified experts in mental illness estimate that there must be another

100 inmates who are insane, but who have not been legally adjudged so! And add to all these facts, the amazing story that in 1940, there were 43 counties in Indiana in which not a single person was

And that, according to Indiana's official state yearbook for 1941, there are 26 counties which have no probation officér listed! That, of the remaining 66 counties, 33 have parole officers attached to the state’s department of public welfare officers, and the 33 others have parole officers unconnected with the public welfare division. © What haphazard planning! How accurate are the cost figures? Well, the state reformatory listed in its annual report a per capita inmate cost for 1940 of $272.01— NOT COUNTING the state's investment in physical property, equipment, fixed charges, or depreciation. The people and taxpayers of Int diana may be saving a nickel out of the left hand pocket. But they're wasting a dollar out of the other.

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that allied and axis armies had clashed in widely separated zones of Tunisia and that battles on land and in the air, increasing steadily in ferocity and size, portended an early decisive test of strength.

Allies Move Eastward

Allied headquarters reported that all was going well as the main forces moved steadily eastward toward the Germans massing along the east Tunisian coast. A communique had reported the throwing back of German advanced units only 24 miles southwest of Tunis by American troops supported by French detachments. The British 1st army, advancing along the north coast, had forced back German advanced elements only a little west of Bizerte and in the south parachute troops, still active many days after they had been landed in enemy infested zones, had broken up German armored columns and captured prisoners. In Libya the British 8th army was driving hard, still pressing the retreating German Afrika Korps, in the %70-mile stretch between Agedabia and El Agheila, trying to keep the Germans from organizing a line for a stand.

Germans Reinforced

But it was said authoritatively here that the German and Italian air forces in Sdfdinia and Sicily, 135 and 100 miles respectively from Tunisia, had been heavily reinforced and were making big raids on allied ports and shipping in North Africa. : Informants said the planes had been withdrawn from Russia, indicating that Hitler was willing to take risks there to hold a defense zone in Africa. German broadcasts asserted that axis reinforcements including tanks, assault guns, motorized units, antitank units, infantry and engineers were. being moved rapidly toward the Algerian frontier and deployed along the coast to defend the communications between the BizerteTunis zone ‘and Libya.

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-A German official news agency dispatch broadcast by Berlin asserted. that . along the Algerian frontier the Germans had ambushed a British spearhead and destroyed tanks, scout cars and transport vehicles, and had taken prisoners. It was said that engineers blew up roads behind advanced allied elements. An authoritative .informant, discussing the axis efforts to get reinforcements to Africa, said: “The axis efforts indicate that Hitler realizes all too well what command of the sea means. Because of the short distance between Sardinia and Sicily on one hand and Tunis and Bizerte on the other, because of the present bad weather which is due to last through November and December, because of the axis fighter cover and because of the long hours of darkness the allies will have a difficult task to intercept axis shipping. “As there is a very definite Italian fleet in being, probably with six battleships in commission, there seems no reason why the Italian

moving so swiftly northwest of Stalingrad that the enemy could not entrench and frequently didnt’ have time to destroy his equipment and supplies. : The Russians drove into one village so quickly that the Germans fled without destroying one of the largest gasoline dumps-on the front. Russian tanks drove up, filled up

the pursuit. ; South of Stalingrad the Germans ordered cavalry and infantry attacks on the Soviet flanks. But Soviet tanks struck before the attacks were launched, dispersed the Germans on the steppes and crushed many as they fled.

Wipe Out Several Units

> . Several units were completely wiped out and two infantry regimental commanders and one artillery regimental commander captured. After such fiascos as this, Red Star said, the Germans were in disorderly retreat in several directions. Soviet tommy-gunners, carried by tank, penetrated the enemy’s rear south of Stalingrad and cut his communications. Tanks were roaring forward over the frozen ground, harassing the Germans, while Stormovik bombers machine - gunned and bombed them. A Soviet column, driving down from the northwest, had taken Chernyshevskaya, 110 miles west of Stalingrad. This army and the spearhead which took the station of Surovikino after crossing the Don directly west of Stalingrad had only to close a gap of less than 40 miles in order to trap the German army on the Stalingrad front. Obviously, the jaws of the trap

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were much closer tegether than that, because the noon communique reported the Red forces west of the Don pushing rapidly ahead. They captured a strongly fortified point, routed a regiment (3000 men) of Germans and took some prisoners. This revelation put a new complexion on Russian tactics. It earlier had been supposed that the drive from the northwest had taken Surovikino,

On the northwestern sector, the Russians were reported driving across the Don in many places, constantly strengthening their offensive and advancing their plan to wipe out every German, Italian and Rumanian at Stalingrad. The offensive advanced on all fronts across the frozen, snowcovered steppes. The defenders of a northern industrial section of Stalingrad, who Joined hands with a column that drove down the west bank of the Volga from the north yesterday, to relieve the siege, were driving back the Germans.

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Front-line dispatches said they had captured 60 blockhouses in the last 24 hours. Thousands of German corpses were sprawled on the snow northwest of Stalingrad. Red Star described long columns of shabby, hungry, half-frozen Germans and Rumanians plodding north to prison camps, some without any kind of escort. German prisoners were particularly depressed by their sudden, crushing defeat. Three divisions which surrendered in the Don bend yesterday were all Germans.

navy should not make a sortie, for instance, and bomb Algiers. “The allies are maintaining heavy naval covering forces.” The informant said that it was not yet known what use the allies would ‘be able to make of Dakar and that there was still doubt regarding the number of French warships there and whether they would join with the allies.

Paratiroops Land - Reports in Madrid were that the Germans continued to land many small parties of parachute troops along the east coast of Tunisia and

it was indicated that the Germans and Italians held effective control of the entire east coast from the Bizerte-Tunis northeast corner to the Libyan border. : Gallant bands of French troops, who had oppcsed the Germans and Italians at many points in hope of holding out until the main allied forces arrived, were being overwhelmed gradually by the axis forces, according to the Madrid reports. Despite indications that the Germans were succeeding in strengthening their hold in Tunisia, there was no reason to doubt statements from the allied front that all was going well so far as the larger aspect of the campaign was concerned.

PARTY FOR PARENTS CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, Nov. 25 (U. P.).—Officers at Ft. Francis E. Warren, fearing that parents of men in the armed services may be lonely tomorrow, invited them to attend a Thanksgiving feast as

guests of the army post.

Home of Fire Chief Burned

BEDFORD VILLAGE, N. Y. Nov. 25 (U.P.).—It was fortunate that Chief John Kinkel left the volunteer fire department’s annual - pre-Thanksgiving dinner early. His house was on fire. The diners at first laughed at his frantic appeals for help, then decided that he might be serious after all. They put the fire out,

10 LOSE APPEALS

DETROIT, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—The Michigan supreme court today afe firmed the convictions of Duncan C, McCrea and Thomas C. Wilcox, fore mer prosecutor and sheriff, respece tively, of Wayne county (Detroit) and eight others on vice conspiracy charges. McCrea. and Wilcox and the others, including former suburban village officials and alleged vice and gambling operators, were convicted

by a Wayne circuit court jury April 28, 1941, and have been free under bond pending their appeal. The law enforcement officers were accused of accepting bribes from vice interests taking in more than $3,000,000 a year. - Sentences in the case range from 41 to 5 years for McCrea, Wilcox and two others down to 1 to 5 years for lesser defendants.

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