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is Unaware of "Any Violations.
indictment with conspiracy to
defraud through willful sale- of inferior war equipment to the nation’s 3 forces were expected to post bond today. | Frank Hart, manager of the Mar-
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y posted $1000 bond with U. 8. Commissioner William Remmel yesgerday.
Defendants schedlled to appear today - are: Chalmer Bishop, Ft. . s Wayne, chief’ inspector and plant engineer; Thor S. Johnson, Hast2 ings-on-Hudson, New York, general Manager of all Anaconda Wire & ©able -Co. mills; Frank Kunkle, assistant chief inspector at the Marfon ‘factory, and Don Carpenter, Marion plant superintendent.
Arraignment in April
U. S. District Attorney _ Alex Campbell granted the defendants until midnight tomorrow to post bond or be taken into custody. He "said they probably would be a}raigned during the spring term of federal court in Ft. Wayne next - Meanwhile, President H. D. Kere- - sey of Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., ~ said in New York that employees Zesponsitie for alleged circumven“tion of government tests of wire : had béen discharged. ; “Several weeks ago,” Keresey Wy “It came to the knowledge of the executives of the company that & charge was made that the 'inspection specifications upon a cer- - tain product produced for the army " gignal corps had not been fully ‘complied with. This product. répresents approximately 5 per cent + of the output of all mills of the company.
Says Workers Discharged
“None of the responsible officers Or executives of the company had any knowledge of failure to comply, as instructions had been given to comply in detail with every pre- . scribed specification: for all products. “Investigation was at once instituted by the company and every effort made to correct any deviation
Frank E. Hart
ployees at fault have been discharged. “The company has never received a complaint of failure of the product ih service and has no knowledge of any such ocurrence.” Keresey did not say how many employees had been discharged. Hart and the other defendants here declined to comment, except to point out that the company is engaged in 95 to 100 per cent war work and received the navy “E” for excellence in production last August.
It']] Be Turkey For Every Sailor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P). —The navy gaid today that the traditional American® Christmas dinner—turkey, and all the trimmin’s—will be served on Dec. 25 to bluejackets ashore or afloat, in this country or thousands of miles away. i The navy expects they will consume 1,250,000 pounds of turkey, 600,000 pounds of ham, 1,300,000 pounds’ of potatoes, 1,225,000 pounds of other vegetables and tons of celery, cranberry sauce and ice cream in their holiday dinners. Here is the navy’s menu for Christmas dinner: Pickles, Stuffed Celery Oyster Cocktail Crackers . Baked Spiced Ham
Giblet Gravy -Apple Dressing Candied Sweet Mashed Irish Potatoes Potatoes Cranberry Sauc Creamed Caulifiower Buttered Peas Lettuce and Tomato Salad Fruit Cake
Olives
Roast Turkey
Mince Pie
Pumpkin Pie ot Rolls, Butter
Mixed Nuts
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Traffic Engineers Scarce; Safety Group Insists Job Be Kept.
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cost the city $5000 a year, at least, to obtain a good traffic engineer. ‘Loer was hired for the job at $3800. Other estimates ranged as high as $10,000 a year, but C. of C. spokesmen agreed that the city could well afford the expense in view of Mr. Loer’s accomplishments. The story of the traffic engineer goes back to 1940 when Indianapolis earned the doubtful distinction of having the worst traffic fatality record for any city of comparable size in the country.
Kets Under Pressure :
Early in 1941, under continued pressure from the Chamber of\Commerce ‘and the National Safety council; ‘Mayor -Sullivan appointed a spegial citizens’ advisory committee on safety to investigate the situation and recommend steps for needed improvement. After investigating the problems of other cities, particularly Kansas City, which had the best traffic record, the committee recommended, among other things, the appointment of a traffic engineer and establishment = of the cafeteria traffic court. Later the city council created the office of traffic engineer and appropriated money for salaries. Mayor Sullivan appointed Mr. Loer, then “head of the streets division of the city engineering department.
Designed New System
Mr. Loer already had been doing some unofficial work on ‘the city’s traffic problem and had designed the channeling system now in use at 38th and Northwestern. Since taking over the job on a full time basis, he has been credited with such developments as the safety islands at the triple intersections ‘where Kentucky and Virginia aves. merge with Washington st.; the safety island at 16th and Capitol, lighting of safety islands, syn-t chronization of traffic lights on Since. effecting the system of lighting the islands, the city has had only one death resulting from crashing into
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. By HENRY (Copyright, 1942,
yo —For hundreds of square
" Burial squads have been burying the bodies of men which, along with | those of hotses and the wreckage of machines, lie in the snowdrifts, prey to carrion crows-and wild cats. Military police are rounding up, tens of thousands of German and Rumanian prisoners. The moment I crossed the, north bank of the Don to enter the territory wrested from Germans and begin a tour ard the east bank, where Gen. I1.'N. Cirhstiankov’s 21st Red army is steadily pressing the Germans toward the Volga, it became evident that the axis had suffered an immense rout.
German Losses Heaviest
The axis losses already surpass those of last winter when. the Red army made its first historic and crushing winter offensive. My observation confirms reports that the Germans bore the brunt of casualties in the battle which .is estimated to have ‘cost the axis so far 400,000 men. killed, wounded: or captured. But the Rumanians, in their segment of the line, have suffered perhaps the greatest military disaster in their modern history, one which may prove . catastrophic ‘to Rumanian home morale. Rumania had lost enormously in previous operations, probably more than any other axis vassal. Rumanians were put in.the front line from the very start. They lost heavily at Odessa and at Sevastopol. This time they were crushed. “When the people at home learn the real extent of our tragedy there will be hell to pay,” a Rumanian infantry colonel told me. “It may mark the beginning of the end of Antonescu.” (Marshal Ton Antonescu is the pro-axis Rumanian dictator.) I met .-my first batch of Rumanians at a railroad junction northwest ‘of Stalingrad not far from the front. . General Awaits “Pullman”
A whole trainload of assortedraxis prisoners were being shipped to prison camps. The Russians had seen so many German and Rumanian prisoners, that they paid little attention to this batch. An elderly Rumanian general, in a gaudy comic opera uniform, escorted by a Red army lieutenant, was pacing up and down the railroad platform, chewing sun flower seeds. ; The general was awaiting the Russian equivalent of a Pullman car, allghted by the Red army to high axis officers though many Rus-
For." day. after day, thereafter, I saw théusands of Rumanians captured in this sector alone, weird apparitions in green uniforms with cone shaped fur caps drawn over their ears, choking the snow clad roads and village streets. The prisoners replied eagerly. to my: questions when they learned I
One clear impression emerged: Rumanians, from generals to private, feel nod only that they have
been misled by the Germans and their own leaders, and that their country .and the axis is doomed.
‘Hitler Kaput—’ Russian Brigade Comniissar Al-
Rumanians had given the Red army valuable military information,
has become a universal greeting phrase of these prisoners, who always try to start conversations
proceed to tell tales of woe and misery, to proclaim the existence of open enmity between themselves and the Germans. Their, first com‘plaint usually is of mistreatment by the Nazis. (Kaput, in rough translation means through—Hitler and Antonescu are through.) I talked to five Rumanian peasants from the Jassy district, in the Bessarabian area. These peasants bitterly denounced the Germans for their supérior airs, for. underfeeding them—they said they were given the leavings from
them as cannon fodder ‘while Hitler despoiled: Rumania.
Rumanians Bewildered
Rumanians professed themselves bewildered to find themselves fighting Russians, with whom for a century they had been allied against the Turks, and in the last world war against the Germans. A divisional commander, a general who admitted that ‘he, admired Antonescu, told me: “It was a great mistake for us to enter the war against the Russians. They have always been our allies.
may be our ruin. We came on orders from above. Rumanians as a whole oppose the alliance with the Germans, whose only supporters are the
WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE ST
miles around this battle ground in! the Don river bend, there stretches a mammoth ‘axis graveyard. {that so many filthy strangers hs.
Red army salvage squads have been working day and night for weeks, removing war materials of all sorts to base points in the rear, whence they will be thrown into action against the enemy soon.
was an American rewspaperman.
“Hitler kaput—Antonescu kaput,”’}
with the Russians they meet. They}
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We have no hatred for them. This
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the behavior of my ny. orderly. He picked the pocket of the Soviet negotiator and stole his watch.” There is an air ‘of suspicion at the front regarding the loud protests of the Rumanians that they really like the Russians, because of the Rumanians’ conduct before their surrender. Villages which they occupied along the south arm of the Don bend present the same. picture of ruin and desolation as those held by Germans and Italians. Every peasant hut and barnyard has been stripped bare. Not a single chicken was. left in any village I visited. Scores -of ruined peasants testified to a brutality and plundering equaling if not surpassing that of the Germans.
a village where prisoners were being interviewed were still plastered or-
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on whom soldiers are billeted are held responsible for their security. Any attempt on a Rumanian socldier will be punished’ by shooting the chief of the household, the family and neighbors.”
Treat Prisoners Namandy It might have been expected that the Russian people ‘in liberated villages would show little charity to now helpless individual prisoners.
The contrary is’ true.. Groups of prisoners are fed by the Red army
intervals along the road to the rear. The prisoners receive the same rations as Russian soldiers. The
than those of their own armies.
manely. Repeatedly I saw prisoners, some still wrapped in plundered Russian shawls and blankets, enter peasant huts arg plously intone: “Antonescu and Hitler kaput. Give me some bread.” Faced by starved, half frozen men, the Russians appeared unable to show them the door.
She Lost . Two Sons
I asked a peasant woman why she was feeding two Rumanians who had .entered her house late one evening. She had lost two sons at the front. Her daughter had been carried off to Germany. “It’s not their fault,” she said.
On the roofless walls of huts in|
ders by the Rumanian command-|
“It is hereby ordered: Inhabitants|
at feeding points set up at regular|
prisoners say the rations are better!
It is the official Russian govern-| ment policy to treat prisoners hu-!
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have occupied . our sermitony & rurdered. and tortured. and rohi But we are not like that.” This woman's big annoyance Ww: :
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A discharged Cossack caval - man, who had escaped from a Cre: man prison camp after 29 of his comrades had been coldly machine - gunned, offered the same justific: - tion for his kindness to, prisoner —*“we aren't like that.” My traveling companion, Lieut. Col. Anatoli Tarantseve, said: “It is incurable. It is’ the §0called Russian soul. What we need is more fierce hatred of our implacable, inhuman enemy.”
TRAIN KILLS WAR WORKER NEW CASTLE, Ind. Dec. 22 (U. P.).—Paul E. Melton, 37,“war worker at the Chrysler Corp., was killed instantly yesterday when a Pennsylvania train struck his automobile.
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(Continued from. Page One). P. high command has been hoping
Ralph Gates, state chairman, and other party leaders feel “that it would be detrimental to party chances in 1944 to. get a dry label attached: to it in this’ session, and] they know that if a dry bill ever reaches the| floor of the house it probably pass. For the Republican house mempership is studded with drys. And, ishes of party leaders, these members probably would vote “aye” on a roll call because of their constituents | back home. Many of the G. O. PB. houSe members were
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ary in. its keup. the house. Mr. Creighton said “no one would know who the chairman of the committee would be until the opening . day of the session (Jan. 7), when he would announce the house committees. He admitted that he had been approached by a number of “interested “parties” concerning the chairmanship. © The wets’ program is to leave the
perhaps some ‘minor technical changes. : There are a number of different - proposals coming from the drys, however. Bills are being drawn now for introduction which would provide ‘for county and township local option, respectively. Meanwhile, bills were being drawn by sub-committees of the G..O. P. . ksteering committee for introduction on the opening day of the session which cover the various planks in the Republican platform. The platform planks included pledges for an adequate civilian defense program with sufficient appropriations, amendment of - the primary election law to strengthen the central count and codification
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