Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1942 — Page 15
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Rehabilitation Program to Help Bring Peace, , Lehman Says. Bev Br Seton ior oor
eign rehabilitation and relief, said today that he believed active and
‘vigorous relief work in occupied |
countries would go a long way toward shortening the war and bringing a just peace. The former governor of New York, holding his first press conference in his new position, disclosed that he
eventually plans to ‘visit personally |.
the places where relief is administered.
He said discusvionis are now in progress toward creation of a united nations organization for relief and rehabilitation, on a joint basis, in territory wrested from. axis control.
Help Them Help Selves
Lehman said he believed it to be of great importance to the entire world to restore economic life abroad. just as quickly as possible. He emphasized that one of the most important aspects of his organization’s_ work will be to help the people of reoccupied countries to help themselves. By that, he explained, he meant to help them reestablish their own interndl economy and to give. them a new start in foreign trade. If we can give assurance to the people of occupied countries that they are going to be helped immediately after reoccupation, Lehman said, it will boster morale and encourage the people to help the United nations war effort. That in turn, he continued, should assist in shortening the war and bringing a stable economy upon which a just peace could be, founded.
With the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack decorating its
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AN EAST Corse PORT, Dec. 5,
WLB 0. K.S PAY RAISE |
IN 2 HOOSIER PLANTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. PJ. ~The war labor board today approved two wage increase for Indiana workers. Both were designed to eliminate inequalities. . Employees of Allis-Chalmers Co., including those at La Porte, Ind. received an increase of 5 cents an hour. The board approved an agreement between the Liggett Spring & Axle Co, Gary, Ind, and the United Steel Workers (C. I. O.), providing for a 5%-cent increase retroactive to June 15, voluuntary maintenance of membership and checkoff and a minimum daily wage guarantee.
REPORT COMMANDO
ATTACK ON NORWAY
LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—A British commando unit which landed recently near Bodoe, in Gérmanheld Norway, succeeded in blowing up a power station at Glomfjord, Radio Moscow said last night, quoting advices from Stockholm. The members of the British unit escaped on the ships which has carried them to the Norwegian coast, it was said.
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ver, R. A. F,, of Shrewsbury, England, today told the story of a torpedoing of a British ship in which approximately 2000 lives were lost; of two months imprisonment by the French in Africa, and of his escape and a 40-mile walk to the welcoming arms of an American division. “We were in a transport, about 3300 of us—1500 English people and 1800 Italian prisoners,” Oliver said. “The ship was not escorted, why I don't know, but we wére on our way home from Egypt.” There were 50 women and children aboard, wives and youngsters of officers in the British armed forces. Most of them were saved. The women were reasonably calm, as were the British troops, but the Italians were in wild panic, the officer said, and many drowned when they overturned crowded lifeboats.
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Ship Sunk—Two Months in
French Prison—Then Escape
The ship was sunk about 800 miles
(Delayed) .—Flight Lieut. J. R. Oli- | south of Freetown, Africa.
The attacking subs, five German and one Italian, surfaced and took many of the survivors aboard to feed them and give them wine and cigarets. Oliver's lifeboat was picked up by the French cruiser Gloire, which landed the party at Casablanca, where they were interned. “Our chance came later,” he said, “when word came that the Americans were about to attack. The French decided to take us inland and it was at the railroad station that we made our break.” They slowly made their way to American forces, who sent them here for trans-shipment to England.
First Lady Keeps Parleys Closed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.). —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's press conferences will continue to be for women reporters only— at Mrs. Roosevelt's request. The all-woman organization known as “Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association” was challenged on the issue last week by Gordon Cole, of the New York newspaper PM. The association took the question to Mrs. Roosevelt. Mary Hornaday of the *Christian Science Monitor, chairman of the association’s membership committee, said today Mrs. Roosevelt felt men reporters had no place at her meetings with the press. So Cole’s application—first ever made by a man—was rejected on the grounds that the president's wife “considers this a women’s conference, dealing with questions of interest to women from a woman's point of view.”
PROSPECT MASONS TO SEAT OFFICERS
New officers of Prospect lodge No. 714, P. and A. M., will be installed at 7:30 p. m. Saturday at the lodge, Prospect st. and State ave. They are: Lawrence R. Fix, worshipful master; William W. Johnson, senior warden; Millard Kinder, junior ‘warden; Raymond F, Lane, secretary; Frank B. Meyer, treasurer; Frank X. Haupt, senior deacon; James IL. Morris, junior deacon; Ralph M. Howery, senior steward; Amos Brown, junior steward, and John C. Hoover, tyler. A Christmas party will follow the
DE IN
As Axis Attacks Ship off Africa.
AN EAST COAST PORT, Dec. § (Delayed) (U., P.).—Six axis submarines sent torpedoes crashing
West African coast last September, killing an estimated 1500 Italian war prisoners and 500 other persons
‘|for “possibly the greatest torpedo
death toll in marine history, survivors said today. The ship was returning to Britain from Egypt when it was attacked
|by an Italian and five German sub- , | marines, I parently knew that the prisoners
whose commanders ap-
were aboard. One German captain told a survivor: “If you had had half the Italian nation on her, we would have still fired.” 1040 Rescued About 1040 persons were rescued from lifeboats by a French cruiser and taken tn Casablanca, French Morocco, where they were interned until American forces occupied the area last month. Only some 300 Italians were saved out of a force of 1800 captured in Africa. The rest of the passenger list was mostly British, including 50 women and children—wives and children of British officers—most of whom were saved. The death toll far exceeded pre-
‘vious warship disasters—the torpe-
doing of the Lusitania in 1915, when 1198 lives were lost, and the sinking of the Athenia in 1939 with a loss of 1104. The two torpedoes which mortally wounded the transport struck on the side where the Italians were quartered, and many of them were killed outright. The others were thrown into a panic.
ght of Horror’
Survivors told of a night of horror as the Italians drowned. by scores, leaping over the side and overturning lifeboats. Screams pierced the darkness as sharks dragged off persons who clung to the overcrowded boats. Some who came through the night alive were horribly mangled by sharp- toothed barracuda. Soon after the attack the Bubmarines came to the surface and picked up many survivors, including hundreds of the Italians, who later were transfered to lifeboats. One German officer apologized “for having to put Italians into the lifeboats with you Britishers.” Ship’s officers and royal air force men were taken prisoner by the Germans, but other survivors were released after a short period on the submarines, during which they were given wine and cigarets. ABout 35
on a submarine, One woman was given a pair of panties and bunch of cloth forget-me-nots by a submarine commander.
plane appeared and the submarine was forced to crash dive and lie far below the surface as depth charges explodad nearby. The next day the woman was brought back to her lifeboat. Survivors recalled most vividly the panic of the Italians. “It was ghastly to behold,” one of them satd, “Their guards had to keep them from rushing the lifeboats. Some were beaten off as they tried to force their way into boats being readied for women and chil-
Victims of own Torpedoes
into a British transport off the;
women and children spent the night|
While she was aboard, an allied |
legal adviser to the governor.
necessary to employ a battery of seven lawyers. Now- the Republicans will have the services of the state’s attorney and his legal staff and it is the Democrats who will have to dig into their own pockets to pay for legal advice. There is nothing novel about this situation. In many states where the attorney general is elected, even though he belong to. the same political party as the governor, the chief executive feels it necessary to retain a lawyer of his own choice to advise him on political matters. : The situation hasn’t been duplicated here in many years, however, because for the past several years the attorney general has been appointed by the governor and before that he usually was a political ally of the governor. (The ‘41 legislature made the attorney general’s office elective.) Mr. Beamer’s salary, Democratic leaders make it clear, will be paid from party funds. And some party leaders even think that Mr. Beamer should be retained in an unofficial capacity for the remaining two years of the governor's term. Buf it seems unlikely that this will be done. # » ”
Differ on Wartime Bill
THE HULLABOO in some Republican circles over the proposed legislation to give the governor vast wartime powers is "sort of amusing, considering the background of the bill drawn by the council of state governments. Main sponsor of the proposed legislation. at. the council meeting where it was approved was Governor Stassen of Minnesota, a Republican.
DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL George be succeeded by Republican’ James Emmert on Jan. 11, will remain at the state house during the coming legislative session to serve as \ This is a reversal of the situation two years ago when, with Mr. Beamer in the attorney general's office, the Republicans deemed it
And the chairman of the board
Members of the Woodrow Davison family, 3604 N. LaSalle st., will have turkey for Christmas.
like they wouldn't and that John Shore, 3310 E. 36th st., would. It all happened today as Mr. Shore was reading his newspaper. He heard the gobble, gobble, gopble of furkeys and looking out in the
Army Wants No
Women Doctors
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) —Are women persons? The war department, according to Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. N. Y.) ruled that they are not in holding that women doctors are not eligible for commissions in the United States army. Mr. Celler said today he would introduce a bill to change the wording of the law governing temporary appointment of officers from “persons” to “men and women.” “Indeed, accomplishment and not sex should be the measuring
rod,” he said.
But for a while today it looked:
Beamer, “who will
of managers of the council is Thurman Biddinger, state senate president pro tem-elect, the first Hoosier Republican to speak out against it.
| —Coffee lovers who hoped for a
"Republican State Chairman
Ralph Gates himself has reserved |
his opinion on the measure, pending completion of a study by a
special G. O. P, legislative com- |
mittee, but he admits there are many protests. It’s a good bet that the bill, as it is drawn now, will never get past the introduction stage, if I gets that far. For. the, guvernor ds. too. 200d: a politician to come out and ask for passage of the measure, reBardless of its merits, when there wouldn't be a chance of .it get ting by the top-heavy G. O. P. assembly and when it would immediately give his political opponents a chance to cry “dictator.” His attitude on the proposed measure will be that the responsibility is In the hands of the legislature, ” os s
No Ward Changes
ODDS AND ENDS: * Despite all rumors to the contrary, County G. O. P. Chairman Henry E. Ostrom will make no ward chairmen changes for several months. . . . Reorganization of the Indiana Democratic club, scheduled for last Saturday, has been postponed until Jan. 11 because it was discovered that the club by-laws provide for election of officers on the second Monday in January. . . Newest of the many names in the G. O. P. gossip pot as probable candidates for the Republican U. S. senatorial nomination in. ‘44 is that of State Senator Biddinger of Marion.
Runaway Gobblers Home; Holiday Feasts Awaited
back yard, he could hardly believe finest turkey hens he had ¢. . scen. He called police and ra; find and then penned them up.
the Davison home. mother had recently moved here from the country. She had brought along five turkeys to provide the piece de resistance during the holidays for the Davison table. One of the turkeys already had been the choice morsel on the Thanksgiving dinner table and the Davisons already had tHeir mouths watering for those hens on Christmas.
them up but when he came home this morning from his work his disturbed little daughter, Mary Edith, 5, met him at the door.
The turkeys were gone. Flown the coop. The search began, It was a thankful moment for the Davison’s when they knocked at the door of the John Shore home. “I'm going to have to build that fence higher, that’s all,” said Mr. Davison, heaving a Pig sigh of
relief.
installation.
SOUTHPORT MASONS
TO INSTALL OFFICERS
Burleigh L. Parham of Southport will be installed as master of South- | port lodge 270, F. and A. M,, at 7:30, p: m. Saturday at the lodge hall.
Leon H. Roquet Sr. is retiring master. Other officers include William Pp. Talbert, senior warden; Carl A.
Stone, junior warden: Leonard Mo- | Alpin, treasurer; Howard C. Smith,:
secretary. Mr. Roquet was named | trustee for three years.
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The Southport Craft club will
elect officers at a special meeting’
preceding the installation.
McNutt Will Seek Control Of NYA Training Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.. —Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt will ask the new congress to put the National Youth Administration into the war manpower commission. He wants the training of all new and prospective war industry workers under his control. WMC already is superintending other phases of the training program, including that of training-within-industry. Senator Harry F, Byrd (D. Va.) and other members of congress recently criticized NYA on grounds that it used 12,000 supervisors and other workers to train 53,000 youths. NYA is operating under a $60,000,000 appropriation, of which $51,provided
Fun Shop— 3 or
200,800 ee | specifically for
lated by congress, those funds would become available to WMC. By transferring NYA to WMC, Mr, McNutt told his press conference yesterday, limitations cn ages would be removed from that essential phase of training. NYA now is limited to the training of youths, while the transfer could be so effectuated as to provide for use of NYA facilities to train young and old alike. Meanwhile, WMC is planning to send 250,000 members of the armed services to universities and colleges to study medicine and other sciences. Mr. McNutt said he would announce the plan as soon as it was in the hands of all universities
Paobably by Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Dec*15 (U. PJ).
“bonus” during the second rationing ‘period beginning Jan. '¢ are doomed to disappointment, responsible officials said today. They described the condition of coffee stocks as “tight” and said November imports, which had been!
counted upon heavily to ease the situation, were disappointing. Although exact figures were not avail-
SEYMOUR MAYOR. Is LOSER IN RECOUNT
SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. 15 (U. Py—A recount of the Nov. 3 mayoralty contest, requested by’ incumbent Stanley O. Switzer, resulted in his losing the election by 12 more votes than in. the ‘original count. The first count gave Democrat Charles.
Burkhart a 3T-vote majority end the second showed him to be 49 votes ahead of Switzer.
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