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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 235

Up GOING HIGHER

Manpower Shortage One of Most Acute Prob-

_ lems, but Reserve Equipment May Not Be ” Adequate; Changes i in Seating Possible.

* THE INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAYS system is very

near its “saturation point” and if the passenger load continues to increase drastic steps may be necessary to assure

“adequate transportation for industrial workers.

‘Already, every trackless trolley except six are in use during rush hours and these six are badly needed, but are undergoing major repairs. To complicate the situation, the railways system is in the throes of a manpower shortage and as of today, the company “urgently needs” 50 additional operators. The street railways company puts its passenger load increase at from 13 to 15 per cent, but is unable to project the possible additional increase, Outside observers believe this figure will increase materially as the original

“full gas tanks” are used up. ® » ; » » »

Christmas Shopping Complicates Analysis

THE STREET RAILWAYS admits that it does mot know if its normal 10 per cent reserve equipment will be sufficient to meet the demands of increasing traffic. “Frankly, we do not know,” said a company official “We cannot tell even yet just what percentage of our ine ased traffic is due to gasoline rationing. , . s uch of the increase is due to Christmas shopping anf ba sWeather. These last two factors are making it ifiieult to determine the rationing load. We HOPE er cent reserve will do the job. > “Right mow, the system is near the saturation point

Buring rh hours as far as trackless tyifeys arg cons |

i to meet extra financial bur-|

cerned, with all ‘but six vehicles in service. - These are undergoing major repairs in. the shops. . “Roughly: about 10 per cent of our busses and streetears are not in service duripg rush hours due largely to a shortage in manpower. = ni» : - 2 Ny 8 =

It Takes Times to Train Operators

. “EVEN IF WE HAD more vehicles, it would be difficult to operate them because of the lack of operators. The recent newspaper ads brought in some additional men to become operators, but it will be some time before they are available to us. We are recruiting women, but it will take considerable time to train them for the job.” The company is considering the possibility of changing the seating arrangement of the vehicles to carry more passengers, but this phase will not be decided until after Christmas, when the actual requirements. become apparent. The company has 422 pieces of rolling stock—130 Yiotoe coaches, 130 streetcars and 162 trackless trolleys. is equipment covers a metropolitan area which has been mounting steadily in population. (The census bureau recently estimated the Indianapolis metropolitan area population at:492,000.) vm

8 8 = ® x = May Have to Appeal to McNutt

‘FOR THE LAST SEVERAL months, the company was carrying approximately 300,000 passengers. a week. On the day gasoline rationing began, transit riding jumped to 847,970—41,131 passengers more than were carried on the same day in the previous week—an increase of 13.4 per cent. On Friday, Dec. 4, the passenger jos moved up to 875,688, an increase of 14.09 per cent over the same day ‘of the previous week. Because of heavy Christmas shopping and bad weather, the company has been uncertain what its new, true ‘load is. - If the load continues to grow, the streetcar company not only will have to remodel its seating arrangements, appeal for further staggering of hours in stores, factories and schools but request Paul V. MeNutt to exercise some of his sweeping powers and draft men for street railway, operation. The big problem now is to ‘keep em rolling.”

TWO FAMILIES FLEE

TIMES FEATURES |uomMES DURING FIRES

"ON INSIDE PAGES

cold last night by fires in their

Amusements. , .

homes.

Flames from an overheated furnace burned through the kitchen and dining room floors of the Charles Surber residence, 6524 Carrollton ave., last night. i Mrs. Surber and their ughter were forced to flee in their night clothes. Carlo, a fox terrier, asleep in the kitchen, was overcome hy smoke, but was revived later. The ‘roof. of the Howard Daniels home, 34 Tuxedo st st, was chimney sparks, forcing the family » he street. Damage. was. ‘estimated a

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, . Indianapolis, Ind. 1ssued daily. except Sunday.

STATE MAYORS

Two families swere.routed into the|.

ited by

DODGE ISSUE OF MERIT SYSTEM

Reyenues Because of + Rationing. (Photo, -Page 21)

By NOBLE REED

Mayor's of Indiana’s 500 ‘cities and towns, will dodge the! merit system issue at: their 43d annual convention at the Claypool hotel today through Saturday. Fred Parker, Michigan City mayor and president of the Indiana Municipal league, said: the resolutions comnjittee will not: consider the civil ‘service status. of city workers “unless the subject is injected into the convention later.” Of the state’ 500 cities and towns

and Gary. Study Bond Policies

the city officials include:

ges) 1e tag’ revenues, Sr icles. for emergeficy “bond

dens resulting from wartime condi tions. : 3. Renewal of the league's fight to protect municipally owned utilities from state tax levies. 4. Plans to carry the Jeague’ s campaign for a larger a 4. state excise taxes,to.the le Mr. Parker said that df the jegislature changes the gasoline tax distribution law to a percentage basis for instead of continuing the present flat rate distribution “we will oppose it.” : Realize Revenue Drop. This is just the reverse of: the league’s stand when the matter was before the legislature two years ago. At that time the mayors figured their share of the revenues would be greater because gasoline tax revenues were on the upturn. However, next year gasoline rationing will result in a drastic reduction in gasoline revenues. Under the present law the legislature fixes the flat sum of three million dollars for distribution to cities on a population basis, “Now we are‘going to insist that (Continued on Page 12)

NORTH AFRICA DRIVE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

Lack. of ‘Resistance: Saves “Allies 25 Days.

LONDON, .Dec. 10 (CDN).—It was revealed here today that Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is 25 days ahead of his original schedule in North Africa. Allied plans: had necessarily been made on the supposition that there would be continued French resistance after the landings, Advance estimates had been that there would be 18,000 Anglo-American casualties in the conquest of Morocco, Algeria and .Tunisia. These considerations were believed to have played a prominent part in the secret explanation in the house of commons by Prime Minister|c Winston Churchill as to the reasons for circumstances which led Gen. Eisenhower to enter into agreements with Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, former Vichy vice premier.

her children. And the mother who came to the rule. a week or two. ‘blood

But this moth ~cher children

Reverse Stand on Gasoline

only two have the merit system for} police and firemen—Indianapolis!

Other subjects to be considered by: :

1. Chaotic. budget conditiods-that may result from possible curtailment | of cities’ possessive share of state]

An Actress

- Bovple re a ein

Hardboiled Marjorie | Main

"Winds Up’

Admits She's 'A Big Baby’

“By ROSEMARY REDDING “Yep, you're soon going to see Wallace. Beery spitting tobacco. lee

in technicolor.”

Well, bust my britches, .as Marjorie. Main: would say.

Only’ Marjorie “ain’t.agonna say-it” this time. She’s too INE

ing around. the country selling war

‘bonds. , Some. one else will hye.

browbeat Wally in pictures, for-a:change.

How this ‘mild-mannered ‘woman ever works up to those hard-boiled parts is a wonder, But she:can. She doesn’t need any lines to do] it, ‘either. She just starts winding up on the count of “one,” goes into emotional. high gear on her own count of “two” and what comes out at “three” you can see for yourself in the accompanying picture. . Of course, what she “really -is “emoting” is her version of the poem, “Light on the Range.” = Except that she: counted, when’ she, couldn’t remember the worls. After all, it was with “Light . on «the Range” she really. made her debut good many years ago.. She was graduating “from "the eighth grade. “I remember it quite well: except for, the words. A Light was death and came and struck Pard- dead. - Then Rough stood over him and said a (Continued on Page Nine)

IT’S AN INJUSTICE TO ‘HALLS ‘OF JUSTICE’

The “halls of justice” of the court house proved no deterrent to burglars last night. When employees of the county commissioner’s office. came to. work this morning they found that the place had been ransacked and $51 in cash taken, Fred Nordseik, Besretary’ of the mission, said that it was a mystery how the burglars got into the safe, since the lock had not been broken and the door had not-been| pried open. The lock was found opeR but undamaged.

ANY MOTHER would spend the last ounce of her endurance for

Clothe-A-Child office today proved

HBr husband is ill. . She 15 expecting another child, her. ninth, in

a week ago. But: the blood. transfusions cost: money ‘and a family of 10, with no income can’t even buy food. : : , with all her troubles, was bothered by one thought d have no Christmas. Ss 80 she arose eatly, walked a mile.to the bus line and: came to the : Clothe-A-Child office. Se. Wautet Safle nev. Elles for her children’s ~ Inv

BLUE KEY 0 HONOR. SCHRICKER, HINKLE |:

‘| rest—a possible

NORTH AFRICAN

AUTCRACKER IS READY TO SHUT

Two Allied Armies Wait Good Weather to Open 2-Edged Drive.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent The allied campaign in Africa moved today toward a new phase while air pressure on Italy was increased steadily. Fighting on the Tunisian front

-|wa8 slowed by heavy rains which

bogged down movement of troops and transport and made many of the winding mountain roads of the advanced fighting area impassable to armored forces. However, allied reinforcements both in land and air forces were building up rapidly and indications appeared that the allies would hold their strategic hill positions to the

* |réar of Tebourbs until they are in a | position to move forward in a Major . jattack “on the - some 30,000 troops

Maj. Gen, Walter Nehring

s at his disposal for the défense

of ‘the Bizerte-Tunis triangle;

Montgomery About. to Strike it |

“1 A Berlin repert to a Stockholm} Pr newspaper with Nazi

leanings that German armored ‘captured ! Tabarka on the :north const only 58 miles the Algerian frontier. How-

. ever;; there: was nothing from allied

soifrces or from previous axis claims to’ ‘indicate any basis for the claim. ‘At the'eastern end of the African

front there was every indication) .| that the ‘British. Eighth army is about ready to close in on Marshal.

Erwin ~Rommel's bs El Agheila. The Cairo communique reported that British skirmishers and artillery ‘are giving the axis forces no -indication that «|Lieut. Gen. Bernard Montgomery may have opened up.on El Agheila with the same.type of shattering ar- ‘| tillery. bombardment which preceded his: breakthrough at El Alamein.

Supply Lines ‘Hold Key

Raido ‘Morocco . reported that the allies already had resumed the initiative in the .Tunisian triangle

defenses at

after a 24-hour lull, but observers

did not expect a full-scale attack

Tonight's - Affair to Fete!from the aliled forces spearheaded

Butler Athletes.

Governor Schricker and Lieuf. Paul D. (Tony) "Hinkle, former Butler university athletic coach, will head the list of honor guests at the annual Blue Key foothall : banquet at 6:30 p.m. today in the” Jordan’ hall ‘cafeteria. = - a

The affair will honor football and cross-country track men. Varsity letters and freshman numerals will pe: awarded.

Motion’ pictures of the Great Lakes football squad in action will be shown by Lieut. Hinkle and Governor Schricker will speak, William F, Fox, sports editor of the Indianapolis News, will be master of ceremonies. - Other guests include Mayor Sullivan, Blaine Patton, sports editor of the Indianapolis Star, and Eddie Ash, sports editor of The Indiagapolis Times. -- : The reception committee of Blue Key alumni includes Wallace O. thes, Lew Hill, Hilton U. Brown, Ji Atherton, Judge Henry Goett, Walker, J. I. Holcomb, Dr. M:- O. Ross, Kenneth Woolling and William Trimble, Butler's. coaches Prank *(Pop)

Hedden, Walter Floyd and Harold | {Massey will be present,

Clothe-A-Child Eases Grief for Heroic Mother

(List of Donors, Page Nine)

by: Lieut. Gen. Kenneth A. N. An-|

derson and his British First army

‘ {until after the Eighth army's attack.

Montgomery's supply "lines were better developed than’ Anderson's, © (Continued on Page 12)

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On the War Fronts

NORTH AFRICA: Both allies and axis move up reinforcements for showdown fight in Tebourba «Tunis and. Bizerte areas; weather slows fighting. British Eighth . army gives Rommel “no. rest” at El Agheila.

AIR FRONT: R. A. F. showers block-buster bombs .on Turin for second Successive night.

RUSSIA: Soviets annihilate 1200 Germans in two.days’ fighting at Rzhev; Soviets advance steadily in Stalingrad area despite snow and blizzard.

SOUTH PACIFIC: Gen. MacArthur's forces smash ‘Japanese resistance: and occupy Gona and north New Guinea shore, then). turn offensiye rd Jap position at ‘Buns, :/ i LON e— (Details of Fighting, Page 6; U. S, Communiques and War Moves - Today Page 12.) ;

It took her last bit of strength to open. the door. She collapsed.. A doctor from city hospital said her condition was serious and

took fer away. in an ambulance. . time.

‘She'll still be in:bed at Christmas

‘But Clothé-A-Child will relieve har of one ‘burden—to. her the’

most important.

Her children will be clothed. They. will have. brand

mew outfits to wear when they visither at the hospital

her pregnancy, she is anemic. Si ‘thohla Raves hada + . nlm oi

CLOTHE.A-GEILD. depends on. your het Its work is possible

Tou cash Lo hcl your a xprenod Thos

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660, 000 DETROIT o ER FROZEN IN VITAL

REGIONAL WMC

ISSUES DRASTIC -NO-SHIFT RULE

Two-Thirds of Those

The order, approved by a

No Freeze Here

Yet, Says WMC

War manpower commission.

for Indianapolis.. No discussions have been held regard‘ifg such a move here, it was said. ‘The Detroit area had: been: designated previously by the WMC as’ a’ “labor - shortage” area. Indianapolis’ has been ‘placed in the’category of those where .labor shortages are éx‘pected to develop in the’ future. This action, . however, has aroused vigorous dissent from biisiness concerns ‘and’ organizations which: declare that ‘firms here have been denied war contracts on’ the basis of the WMC's prediction.

BERLIN: ‘CONFIRMS’ OUSTER OF HALDER

It Months Ago.

LONDON, Dec. 10 (U. P.)..— The German public belatedly learned today that Adolf Hitler has’ sacked the chief of staff of the German army, Gen. Franz Halder, and replaced him with Gen. Wilhelm Zeitzler, an infantry staff officer. The .ouster of . Halder and. his replacement by Zeitzler. was first 'reported more ‘than’ a month ago in United Press dispatches ‘from Stockholm. At the time there:had been ne public annotincement of the: shift in Germany... - - (Today, the change. was ‘revealed to the German public,: a German radio bulletin revealed,, through publication of a h in’ the Berlin newspaper : Nachtausgabe. : ‘Hitler has long been reported at odds with Halder, particularly over plans for :the Nazi campaign in Russia. Halder is believed to have urged a. more. tious. course,. par-. ticularly last year when he is said to have opvosed the final Nazi offensive . on - Moscow - in October--which, bogged down so badly. in the face of Russian cold and Russian resistance. . Today's Nazi report, in a, manner

typical of German propaganda, did

not. even mention: Halder. Nachtausgabe merely published 4 photograph.showing: Zeitzler in con-| versation. ‘with Hitler: with: a group of other officers in: the. background] It was captioned: ban at mil-

:|itary demonstration in conversation . with chief’ of general staff of army, : . | Infantry General Zeitzler.. In back-

.| ground Field Marshal (Wilhlem) Keitel and Minister for Armament and ‘Munitions (Albert) Speer.” 2 DIE IN PLANE. CRASH TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 10 (U.

P.) —Two army fliers were killed today when an AT10 beach craft twinmotored training: } George

Rest of World Had Hints of |

Employed. in ‘Former

Automobile Capital Affected by Sweeping New Regulations.

DETROIT, Dec. 10 (U. P.).—Almost two-thirds of the workers in the Detroit area were frozen to their jobs. to-

day in a drastic order announced: by Montague A. Clark, Michigan director of the war manpower commission.

local WMC labor-management

advisory committee, covered an estimated B80; 000 essential war workers in 34 categories of jobs.

None of them may ledve their jobs without specific

government authorization. Included in the order are workers & huge w Run. bomber . p tank’ arsenal, the Hudson. | and other plants

vehi labor “pirating” and production dislocations caused by shifting of workers to. high-paying jobs. . Specifically, the order directs ployers to “refuse to hire or so t workers from other essential indys-

lease ‘from his former employer,‘ or from: the review unit of the U."S. employment service.” -Ib-. provides - -both.- employee -. and employer with power to appeal: any decisions of the USES. .

Some Changes Justified The WMC: listed the following as

ing of jobs: 3 1 Capability of the worker to perform higher skilled work than

employer. 2." Present employment of the

hours a week. : , 3. Existence of too great a tance between the worker's h and the plant where he is emp 4. Personal and “compélling” reasons for wishing to change ES Joh. 5. Employment of the worker %at wages or under working conditions substantially less favorable those prevailing in the comm

is employed.” Ask “Job Dilution” :

The order ; also called for “an aggressive program : . . ., for the

zation of: training programs, 'prenticeship programs, and necessary : job . dilution.” |

labor to eliminate all contract proment of these objectives. ‘a

Washington that the WMC . soon to’ freeze some 110,000 mpr+ ‘chant seamen snd train AGES he present status. The plan ‘und consideration for these men defer them from induction

selective service. The: Desay fler: diy io; mention that fentintey ——————————

SHACKLES TO BE REMOVED

been shackled since Oct, 10, will

ment, Prime Minister Mackengie King announced today. PoE

dP SHOPPING 3]

county and parts of ¢ Washtenaw,

7 tomorrow. nigh in response | to the appedl”of the Swiss govern-

| tries. within the ares unless: the ap- _ plicant presents.a certificate of ‘re- *

illustrative Justifications for charg *

he is is doing under his present 5

for the kind of work on which ‘he

reduction of absenteeism, full utfli- =

It directed both management and “| visions wiscih prohibit accomplish- i

Meanwhile ii -was ..learned Hn

# OTTAWA, Dec. 10 (U. P).~Gére. :