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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Former President Herbert Hoover observes with regret that every principal nation in this war has a war cabinet or a war council except the United States, and suggests that this lack be remedied. Mr. Hoover went even further, in his r address to the National Associa- ; tion of Manufacturers in New York. He said the United States should have head administrators of food, labor, fuel, transportation and finance, as well as secretaries of war and navy, and that these should comprise a war council sitting directly with the president. What Mr. Hoover did nof say was that there also should be a “head administrator” or co-ordi-nator of peacemaking, or peace strategy, and that the importance of the job warrants the nomination of a man of cabihet caliber—even of the ex-president himself. For winning the peace is no less important than winning the war. It is pretty generally agreed that the coming peace will be even more difficult to negotiate: than that Then it was largely a matter of reparations and what to do with the territorial possessions of the defeated powers. Most everything else was left either in the air or to be settled through the good offices of the league of nations and the world court.

Look at the Problems

THIS TIME, Washington and London are saying, the peace must be different. It must really’ settle things. They tre promising a new world order based on the four freedoms for every man, everywhere. World trade barriers are to be taken down. Raw materials are {o> be made available to all. Imperialism is to go for good, and peoples everywhere are to have governments of their own choosing. But all this is still just talk. True, it is the talk of presidents, vice presidents, premiers, foreign ministers and high-ranking statesmen, but it is still talk.

¢ = ~The Next Peace By Wm. Philip Simms

There are no real plans, no blueprints ready to go to work on.

. When this war ends, half the population of the globe will be underfed. Hundreds of millions will

either be starving or close to it. Somebody is going to have to feed them. Who is going to do it and how? Who is to foot the bill? How are we to start France going again? What form will her. government take, even temporarily? Leftist? Rightist? Or a national committee? And what about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? And the puppet governments of Rumania and Hungary? Who is to take over Austria?

The Man to Finish the Job

BILLS TO GIVE "43 ASSEMBLY

Increase in Salaries of Trustees to Be Among Measures ‘Asked.

THEN THERE IS the question of armament reduction and a world police force. How is such a force to be organized? Who will furnish the ships, the planes, the money and the men? Who will give the order to march, if need be, against an outlaw nation, and who will determine whether or not the nation is an outlaw? Is there to be a new and different league or society of nations to manage such things? If so, how is it to be organized and where will it sit? These and an endless number of associated problems will have to be solved. To wait until victory

. means that an armistice would find us in chaos, and

in spots even anarchy. And the kind of peace we make will determine hew long it will be before we have another war. The time to get busy on a working drawing of the peace job ahead is now. And there are those who believe Mr. Hoover is the best man in the United States for co-ordinator. He knows Europe, Asia and the two Americas from long personal contact. His prestige is high throughout the world. None save President Roosevelt himself is better acquainted with the difficulties ahead, at home and abroad. Already

he and former Ambassador Hugh Gibson have out-;

lined a plan in their book, “The Problems of a Lasting Peace.” Many are convinced he is the man to finish the job.

Ernie Pyle’s column was not received today.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: David Michael Klausmeyer, the encrgetic, hardworking plant manager of the big Chevrolet commercial body division plant here, who is ths town’s No. 1 sucker for chocolate He can't resist them—nor can he resist following the sports page fortunes of his favorite teams, Notre Dame and Michigan. At 40, Dave . Klausmeyer is a trim, peppy, well built man, about 5 feet, 11 and 165 pounds. He has very expressive eyes and lively eyebrows, a roundish forehead, a badly receded forehead, an incipient double chin and a tricky little mustache. His hair is light brown and thin, and there's usually a stray lock sticking out from his crown. He's very precise about everything, insists that things must be done just right— “and right now.” Pretty serious about his work, he sees the lighter side of life when he’s away from ork, and has a lively sense of humor. He enjoys parties, 'gets-a kick out of talking to people.

Thinks On His Feet

HE PACES the floor a lot—says he does his best thinking while “touring” his office or the plant. He gestures freely in talking, and when he’s trying to explain something, he oftens grabs a pencil and sketches it ‘for yo. . When he’s excited, he sometimes pounds his fist on a desk and speaks right out. He has a good memory for details. And he's a doodler—draws geo-

Mr. Klausmeyer

metrical designs v hile he’s talking at his desk.

Born in Cincir jati, he was reared in Kalamazoo, attended Detroit; university and Notre Dame. He joined Chevrolet :1 1924 as a body designer. Before that he had don: body designing for such cars as Roamer, Jordan, Chrysler, Packard, Franklin and Dodge. He came here in January, 1931, as a body engineer, became plant manager in 1936 when the new Chevrolet plant was built.

Washington

DETROIT, Dec. 5—The change in the war, the fact that the allies are on the offensive, is- clearly showing up in imjortant changes in war production here. » Emphasis is beiag taken off the purely defensive weapons. The drive is going into offensive weapons and into means of getting tnose weapons to the fighting front. Gone completely is the concern about defending ‘he shores of the .United States. That is all taken care of. We are soncerned now only with delivring the punch against the enemy overseas. That is why a substantial cut s being made in the 98-millimeter .nti-aircraft gun, for instance, at one plapt I visited here. This lant is geared up t» produce far more guns than are ie - now. The army has decided that the materials—10 tons to a gun—can be used to more advantage in other weapons than. these, which are mainly useful for protecting our cities.

We Have Plenty of Tanks!

I WISITED the °normous Chrysler tank arsenal. Although large numbers of General Sherman tanks— the M-4 medium tank—were rolling out and were ‘to be seen rattling around the testing track, the plant is not going vo to the capacity that would be possible if a few r.achine- tools were added. The reason is that we lave plenty of tanks coming off and the tools can be used to more advantage in other work. t Emphasis is going primarily into aircraft and into the machinery for driving cargo ships and escort vessels to protect cargo ships. For instance, the

My Day

_ NEW YORK, Friday.—Yesterday morning I attended a little ceremony. The Brooklyn Goodwill Welfare league, a group of women who have really done a remarkable pic ce of work in raising money and

. helping various war snd local charities since the he-

gi ning of the war, named an ambulance they bought in memory of my mother-in-law. They: would have liked to present it to the president, but it was not possible for him to give up the time, so he ask2d me to receive it. The ambulance, meets all the sta;idard army and navy require- * ments and will serve shortly in some place where it can be ofuse to our armed forces. Prom there I went to the Col+1 . lege of the City of New York and spoke to a gathering of students. At City college they ‘have the largest R. O. T' C. of any college in the country. Tt certainly was an impressive sight looking down on all of these boys in uniform. They are so

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Eleanor Annoys Him A RED HOT sports fan, he's partial to football, follows every play from heginning to end, and even anticipates what the team’s going to do. He can give you a fill-in on most every important game in

the last 10 or 20 years. He doesn’t like the movies—hasn’'t seen one since “Gone With the Wind”"—but does enjoy stage shows at English’'s. He enjoys music on the radio, but can’t stand radio commentators; says they're too hard on his nerves. When he’s been under strain at the plant, he finds great relaxation in going home and reading. He usually finishes a book in a night. And he reads the Saturday Evening Post from cover. to cover. Fond of Raymond Clapper’s articles, he enjoys most of the other newspaper columnists, too—all but Eleanor. He likes music of all types, has a nice library of both classical and modern recordings. He plays a serious game of bridge. It's been one of his favorite diversions ror years.

Never Buttons His Coat

PROBABLY HIS greatest hobby is his drawing board, down in the basement of his home:in Williams Creek. He likes to design houses—designed the one he’s living in, in fact. 2 The apple of his eye is his 8-year-old son, David Michael Jr. Little David is interested in flowers and gardening, so his father helps him. Dave Klausmeyer almost never takes a vacation; too busy. To placate his family, he takes them along on business trips sometimes. He isn’t fussy about his clothing, and almost never buttons his overcoat. ' - He smokes cigars, and occasionally a pipe. And he also chews tobacco surreptitiously. Sometimes he borrows a chew from one of the men in the plant. Other times he just clips the end off a cigar and chews it. Oh, yes; he’s publicity shy, too. He probably won't like this business at all.

By Raymond Clapper

Packard airplane engine plant here is, not only running to capacity but the management is being asked to double its production. At other plants I visited airplane work is being added: So you get a picture of some plants tapering off, laying off workers, greasing machines to. stand for a while, and at the same time you see other plants bursting at the seams, hauling in more machines, and

preparing to send their output up above anything|$

previously contemplated.

The Story of One Year

IT IS DIFFICULT to picture the speed with which ‘the automobile industry has changed over since the end of last January, when I was here before and saw the last automobiles going off the assembly lines. Most of those lines were torn up, although you still see fragments of overhead conveyors around the ceilings in some places. Many in the industry and at Washington opposed full conversion to war work, but today the conversion is complete. "In fact, the changeover was so complete and so effectively done that it is fortunately possible to slow down on less essential weapons because an ample supply has been produced. Whereas defensive anti-aircraft guns are tapering off, other anti-aircraft guns used on ships, such as the Oerlikon and the Bofors anti-aircraft used with troops, are driving ahead. These changes, ordered from Washington, reflect the judgment there that the defensive stage of war is over and that from here on we want chiefly whatever will help us deliver our blows directly against the enemy—wherever, as President Roosevelt said in his war message a year ago, we can find him. That is the change that has taken place within a year of Pearl Harbor.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

young and their responsibilities are so heavy.

The chairman of the meeting said to me that he felt it was not fair to say that the future lay in the

hands of youth alone, that all of us together have to}

carry the burden. I agree with him, of course, and I think we older people have the obligation to look at the future realistically, but it is much harder for us not to be tied to the past. Perhaps our best function is to evaluate the past and try to point out what things seem to us to have proved themselves valuable.

There was a small item in the paper this morning which filled me with horror. I had noticed yesterday that in many parts of the country work had stopped for afew minutes while people prayed for the Jewish victims of Hitler's cruelty. This morning I saw that in Poland it was reported that more than two-thirds of the Jewish population had been massacred. There seems little use in voicing a protest, but somehow one can not keep still when such horrors are going on.. One can only pray that it will dawn upon Hitler that the Lord is not patient forever, and that he who puts other people to death by the sword, is often meted out the same fate. o 1g

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One of the largest batches of bills for the 1943 legislature is expected to come from the Indiana County 'and Township Officials association, | which ended a three-dav conven-

tion here yesterday. All 12 groups in the association lappointed committees yesterday to draft measures for presentation to the general assembly, mostly centering on home rule measures to protect the powers of county and township officials. | Clarence Baxter of Lafayette, Tippecanoe county treasurer, was elected president of the association, [succeeding Donald O’Neill of Lo- | gansoprt. { John H. Duff of Geneva and Wil{liam T. Ayres, president ¢f the Mar‘ion. county commissioners, were | elected vice presidents and Mr. {O'Neill was named secretary-treas-|urer, succeeding Dr. Odell Archer of Clinton, Ind.

Seek Salary Increase

The Indiana Trustee association, which elected Mr. Duff as it president, succeeding John M. Doan of Decatur, adopted resolutions proposing: 1. A campaign of cpposition to any attempt of the federal government to give financial aid to state schools and thereby encroach upon the administration of them.

power over distribution of federal surplus commodities to the poor. 3. A law authorizing an increase in trustees’ salaries and more pay for deputy assessors. 4. A law authorizing townships to change their boundary lines and consolidate some townships where the federal government has taken over much of the land. The County Commissioners association elected William Dorsey of Leesburg, president, and Mr. Ayres, Indianapolis, as secretary and treasurer. . The County Attorneys association named Mr. O'Neill president and Victor Rose Jr. Indianapolis, sec-retary-treasurer.

FIDELITY REVIEW TO NOTE BIRTHDAY

Fidelity Review . 150, Women’s Benefit association, will have a quarterly birthday covered dish luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday in Castle Hall building, 230 E. Ohio st. A public card party will follow the luncheon at 2:15 p. m. Mrs. Ella Morgan, Mrs. Josephine Coibion and Mrs. Nettie Lotz have charge of the event.

AUXILIARY TO MEET Golden Rule auxiliary, O. E. S., will meet Monday noon at the home of Mrs. Hazel Kaehn, 617 W. 32d st., for a covered dish luncheon. Officers for 1943 will be elected.

Camp Atterbury show. “We Did It

Camp Atterbury this week.

duction into the army. .

Did It Before,” the division's benefit show scheduled for 8 p. m. Monday at the Illinois street branch of the service men’s center, many of his friends, who are entertainers at the Cocoanut Grove, were escaping the flames which cost hundreds of lives. With 21 years of show business behind him, Pvt. Gambon is a real veteran at the age of 26. He comes from a family of former vaudeville stars and at the age of five joined his parent's act. 2 ‘Gambon has been connected with four different acis which centered most of their activity along the Eastern seaboard. In the last five years, he has been billed as “The Yankee Doodle Boy,” through his hero worship and admiration of th late George M. Cohan. :

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Pvt. Sandy MacPherson (left), Scotch comediansinger who will be master of ceremonies for the

few. tips on how it’s done from Vera Vague, comedienne with Bob Hope’s show which performed at

He's taken the ups and the downs : once

Here’s one of the reasons why none of the fighting men of Rommel’'s once-great army runs loose in Egypt today.

OFFICIALS MAP New Zealanders Seize Remnants of Rommel’s Army

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landers are rounding up some of the tens of thousands of prisoners snarled in the “mopping up” detail on the desert. .

Wreckage of landing stages, store buildings and ‘even hulks of ships partly under water greeted Gen. Montgomery's 8th British army when they recaptured Tobruk. But the damage wasn’t the result of Rommel’s hurry to get out... it was from aerial poundings of the allies.

WPA'S LIQUIDATION WILL BEGIN FEB, |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— The curtain was coming down today on the greatest government relief program ever undertaken — a program which gave jobs on public works to millions of Americans at a total cost since 1933 of nearly $15,000,000,000. The works projects administration—lineal descendant of the de-pression-born federal = emergency relief, civil works, and works: progress administrations — is being liquidated.

President Roosevelt gave the or-|! der yesterday ina letter to federal ] works administrator Philip B. Flem- |; ing, whose agency operates WPA.||

He said war work finally had solved the unemployment: problem left over from the depression. . In directing its “prompt liquidation,” he said all projects in niany states would be concluded by Feb. 1 and those in. others would be stopped as soon thereafter as feasible.

Atterbury Boys Give Show Here Monday

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Pvt. Tommy Gambon of the 83d infantry divisioh at Camp Atterbury, was sad when he read of Boston's night club tragedy last weekend. He had performed frequently at the Cocoanut Grove as.a master of ceremonies and was there just several months ago prior to -his in-

Last Saturday night while Gambon was busy rehearsing for “We

playing a two-hour show with a troupe of .22 before an audience of six—and several years later he played before 8000. : Monday night, Pvt. Gambon is going to bring back the act which made hima favorite at the Cocoanut Grove. "' .. hi _ Others on 'the, program include: Pvt. Sandy MacPherson, Scottish comedian-singer who will be master of ceremonies. : Pvt. Russ Slagle, former Broadway star who was appearing in “The Chocolate Soldier” with Allan: Jones in Carnegie Hall, New York City, shortly before his indyction. Pvt. Martin Gruen, pianist, formerly with Les Brown's orchestra. Sergt. Charles Wood, a tenor with the National Broadcasting Co.,- before he entered the army...

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“I know it’s raining, but you won't need an umbrella.”

PENSION GROUP TO MEET Indiana old-age pension group 4 will meet Monday at 302 Holliday building. Supper will be served from 5:30 to 7 p. m.

, radio and movie comedian who

also entertained Atterbury doughboys this week, gives one of his ear-splitting yells for the benefit of Pvt. MacPherson. The big army show will be presented at the Illinois st. branch of the service men's center with Fabien Sevitzky leading the band.

The Quintette, Negro swing singers. Sergt. Norman Atkins, who sng in “Lady in the Dark.” “Sergt. Paul Krauss, Indianapolis singer. The 331st Infantry Regiment Glee club. : Sergt. Robert R. Pratt and his “83d Cannoneers” orchestra, which will be “conducted” by Fabien Sevitsky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. Pvt. Rudolph Vereen, eccentric dancer. Corp. Joe Pvt. Homer Yeoman, professional fire and glass eater. Lig Pvts, Peter Farrachio and Frank Domitrovitch, - vaudeville acrobats.’ Sergt. Bill Hamilton, impersofiator. « ’ Pvt. Anthony DedJoseph, ‘popular Philadelphia crooner. mE Tickets for “We Did It Before” are on sale at all downtown Hooks’ drugstores and will be sold at the

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Willis Resolution Requires

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Jeffers Report Every 60 Days.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Progress reports to be made every 60 days to the senate by Rubber Administrator William Jeffers “should aid

cessity for continued gas rationing to save rubber” Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) declared today. The Willis resolution “requesting” such reports was unanimously adopted by the senate, when a vote was asked by Senator Charles McNary (R. Ore.), minority leader. Senator « Willis introduced the measure Sept. 28 and it was reported favorably by the agriculture committee Oct. 15. The Indiana senator is a member of the committee. Information Sought Commenting on the adoption of the resolution, Senator Willis said: “Passage of the resolution will, I believe, enable the senate to keep

formed in detail of the progress of all efforts to implement the Baruch

rubber industry. : “Congressional efforts to get this done were vetoed hy President

administrator was adopted by him. We want to know what progress is being made s0 we can explain it to our people, who are making considerable sacrifice through the nationwide gas rationing to save rubber.”

‘LEAK’ IN RATIONING

BARBERTON, O., Dec. 5 (U. P.). —An elderly motorist, to prove he needed an extra 20 gallons of gasoline each month, showed a ration board worker where his gas tank leaked. Told to have the leak repaired, he said: “All right, but I don’t think it's necessary.”

WILSON’S FRIEND DIES LINCOLN, IIl., Dec. 5 (U. P).— Lawrence B. Stringer, 78, friend of the late President Woodrow Wilson, and for the last 20 years - county judge of Logan county, died here today of a heart attack. He was a candidate for governor in 1904 and

Charged With Kidnaping Kin

HAVANA, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Police arrested Sixto Ramos today on charges of kidnaping his aged uncle and aunt and their 27-year-old daughter in July, 1937, and imprisoning them for five and one-half years in an attempt to gain possession of their property. Police charged Ramos locked Domingo Prieto Avalos, . 77; his wife, 67, and their daugger Gregoria in a building in Mariano, a suburb, and deprived them of all their clothing. A confederate acted as caretaker of the house and helped Ramos guard them, police said. The plight of the prisoners was discovered by Jose Rodriguez a young man who became attracted to Gregoria when he saw her looking through a high window. He returned each day to carry on a flirtation, and finally became aware of the situation when Gregoria signalled for clothing for herself and her parents.

GOVERNOR TO BE AT.

MORTGAGE BURNING

Governor and Mrs. Schricker will attend the mortgage burning ceremony of the Shelby Street Methodist church tomorrow morning. Governor Schricker will speak in the morning and a basket dinner will be served at 1 p. m. Dr. Guy O. Carpenter, district superintendent, will preach at 2:30 p. m., after which the mortgage will be burried by the church pastor, Rev. Bennie T. Morgan, and other officials. ’ The Rev. Floyd Cook, a former pastor, will deliver the evening address.

0.E.S. AT BRIGHTWOOD TO MARK 26TH YEAR

Brightwood chapter 339, O. E. 8, will celebrate its 26th birthday by entertaining past matrons and pa-

trons and charter members at a.

dinner at 6:30 p. m. Monday at the Veritas Masonic temple. A stated meeting will follow. Mrs. Helen Reddick is worthy matron and Herbert Reddick, worthy

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