Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1942 — Page 1
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 247
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. * Heavy ‘holiday: traffic is. jamming stations and trains. Here is'a portion of the crowds at Union station. The soldier looks as though he can't “figure | gut the large timetable in the lobby.
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: With- his. bag in his: “hand, 8 Time on their hands—and :a soldier hurries ‘down the “steps ~ group of soldiers spend’ their time from tain at the Union station in: a game . of shooting’ ‘down “Nazi” planes.
Crowds: mtd 4 ticket windows, impatient: to be on their way. : “officials said only about 10 per cent of the soldiers were granted : furloughs over the holidays. Railroad and government officials’ liad
.| checks for Kingan and Co. ‘em-
"| Reed’s automobile.
| to the curb on Maryland st. beside
| bandit stepped up to the" drivers
‘| plated 38-caliber revolver in his ribs ‘| ang ordered him to “move over.”
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UNFURNISHED? Latest Word— - LONDON, - ig (@. ial Snow, Mayb be ‘What's' this? F ¥Mfayiie snow for: Christmas? Hurrah! That's
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: * official” “forecast 157 voc" sign. rain or. Snow tonight -
GUNMAN RoBS CHECK CASHER OF 5600, CAR
Holdup Victim ‘Abducted as He Handles Money for
Kingan Workers. Photo, Page Eight)
An armed bandit held up Homer Reed, 35, as he was | cashing pay
ployees at the corner of Maryland and Blackstone sts. today, and-es-caped with $600 in cash and Mr.
Mr. Reed told police he pulled: upip
the Kingan restaurant, shortly ‘before 10 a. m. to cash checks for workers coming on a 10 o'clock lunch period. He cashes checks regularly for Kingan workers, using his car for an office; Move Over
About 10:10, Mr. Reed said, the
side of the car, poked a nickels
e described the bandit as being abqut 35 years old, 5 feet 8 inches
| “purveyor of good will:to. children.”
d weighing about 200 pounds. ‘I The holdup man WAS wearing agrey| -
gverconl,. tan shoes aid a felt hat. : Jodi , Mr.
Unable to Locate Car
| “Youll find your car within & : couple ,of squares of here,” Mr. | Reed ‘quoted the bandit as- saying. He then disappeared, driving east {on Michigan st. ]
Police were unable] to locate the!!
| car, . described as a 1940 Chevrolet] “|coach bearing license plate 32802] ‘buf took ‘Mt, Reed on a quick tour {of the vicinity in a police radio car. . |in “an “effort to “spot” the holdup
man. Mr. Reed lives ag 708 Loot st.
NEARLY HYERVODY |, WILL TAKE HOLIDAY|" 0 Draft Boards
~ Observe Christmas. Christmas day will -be the most
| general holiday in| - Indianapolis|,
since Pearl Harbor—even- the. draft boards and the war workers of the city will ‘take the. day off. Store employees, rationing boards, city, county and state employees and most of the city’s beleaguered postmen, too; will be able to spend the day with their families. ‘The only’ postal employees who will be on ‘the job Christmas day, according: to Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker, will be a few volunteers who will try .to complete the picture for as many families as possible by delivering tardy gift packages. The regular postmen will ‘bel
‘| back on the’ job Saturday.
War Plants | Close .
--In ordering suspension of : war production’ fos the day, plaht’ offices | were following the suggestion of’ War | production board chief’ Donald M. Nelson that industries which had ‘worked through the other holidays this year knack off for Christmas: | Most of the plants here will fry to arrange shifts so that as many( "0 “0% workers ‘as possible will: be able to] Presents
. | have Christmas eve, {0o, at home.
Plants which have announced day-long shitdown include:those af General Motors , R.C.A, Man- -{ ufacturing Co, propeller ‘division ‘of
the = “official | Co.
Fithid County Board fo. hy it el gins
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‘KALISPELL, Mont. Dec. 2 ©. P. )+—Thie Flathead county. rationing board called a special meeting today. to Tole
on an emergency. application for gasoline. Bl . The application was ‘made ona ‘regulation: form, but: it: asked: for an undetermined quantity of: - gasoline sufficient to’ tour ue entire United! States in one night. : {= It was signed by S. Claus; who! | scoffed ab" the’ siiggestion: that the gave his address as. the. “North application night ‘have : been filed Pole” and’ listed his: occupation as by. ‘a’ zealous promuter to Publicize thatifact. on svi Mr.: Claus explained ‘he - intended * “It: appears to ‘be: a ‘bona fide apto travel along the new Alcan high- | plication,” the hoard announced, but way from Alaska ‘this year for the{it added that itididn't’*quite underfirst time and said. he woiild' stop|stand; why: ‘Santa’ shauli' exchange at Kalispell to ‘comply. with ration- his; reindeer -and sleigh :for ‘a “gasing regulations. “7 [purning’ buggy a this Stage. of the - Kalispell is: the first: ity. in>the ! game”! United . States: to: be reached by .The board. is .exposied to t8sué southbound travelers : ‘on: the Alcan: ‘the applicant ‘a HO ‘card, FEApiNing highway. ‘The rationing -Noazd} of. dew Thee 5 : a
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. Copyright, 1043. by: The. indianapolis’ Times’ and “The ; higago. Datty News, ne.’ = LONDON, Déc.- 24~No, wife or mother: bagk In’ the - “United States need worry. about Great. Britain's so-called” austerity. Christm dull or lonesome for the Arferican, troops ststigheg in, Englane,. 'Seotiand
or northern’ Ireland. = - They have had: 50 many invitations to eat Christmas: dinner in
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ALLIED, NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS Die w. Po (Delayed)—The. adjutant* general's“ department ’ Hiekidi collection today to answer the following letter, write; “To the American Santa: Claus, if you please: ° “ “I have been told that the Prench Santa Clans’ will atumables come: this year- because ‘of ‘ bombardments. 80.1 am willing“te-you’ to tell you that I : would like a real] American-made: higysle anda. little Germans, “oar. Sy forgot: to th ye tht my see “I suppose... yoi’ll ‘come as far as ter is a segut in Medes.
Boghati. 1t ‘isn't “far. My name Ll Maryse Delzangles.’ 1 am 10 and gate ¢
Heinrette, ands. brother, 15; whosefea name is Paul. “He. is {nthe army. the Americabs in 1914 faint the ing ‘you. 0 mich.”
I: s Alrea J Christmas I on a Fo or Yanks inM i
American. oops stationed in ‘the. Pui ‘islands: is : ]
private homes that they cannot accept. them sll. - But this'is not the real) .
a. President
2000 $0. ML RECAPTUREL BY RED ARN Y
New Gains. Tiroaten ‘Cut. German Forces _ Two; General Seized.
: By UNITED PRESS The Red army, advancing so that it has captured a Germar visional general and 1000 of men, has. taken the town of Su sky, 20 :miles north of the St: grad-Kharkov railroad, virt cutting ' the northern half of Don valley in two. - Suliensky, about midway bet ‘Kamensk and Surovkino, was t
by “a’ Red ‘army coluinn mc |
southward. "Front" dispatches said the army’s rapid advance had ma | impossible for the Germans to their intermediate defense line many points, The newspaper Pr reported. that 17 German Dp) were captured intact at one air The famous Russian tanks— Vordshilovs they are called—lec g| way’ “in battering the demors Germans ‘who have the remman 22 divisions trapped in front of ; ingrad. - Nazis: Throw Gung Away
e’ Russians apparently y to lay siege to Millerovo
A the Germans were throwing 1 their ‘guns as they fled.
A" German divisional gener:
“| of *his High officers and 1000 ¢
men’: were captured, -the ‘Mi
- “I noon . communique saic wher 2 Russians. cracked his unit, sent “Jof it fleeing’ ‘and took prisoner
around 'divisional headquarters
.| were: slow ‘on the getaway:
This. was thé second’ Germs
3 vision overwhelmed in 24 -hou I' the. middle Don offensive.
* London estimated that in
“| offénsive so far the Russians h:
gained ‘about 2000 square mi
tertiiony.
<~Axis ‘Preparing Public’
* London interpreted current speeches, statements and com: ques as becoming more ‘and- . | blunt,, preparing -the enemy p for bad news. “A Madrid dispatch. credits =| Vichy ‘military experts said the
.| mean commarid had been sur | by Russia’s offensive power an: | prepared now to shorteri its lir s «
| tive ‘southern : front. Open Ge .| discussion. of a Russia plan 1 off ‘the. German Caucasus arm recover ‘the -Donets river : basir thie best part of the Ukraint
.|ximed at prepa¥ing. the G¢ "| people : familiar “better winter lines.”
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Later in Day.
. “WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U.
% President Roosevelt officially gn | celebrate ‘Christmas will ‘be those these ‘other spots around; the world hd
- Christinas season this afte n, he addrésses the natic jo ‘at a’ national Christma: ceremony in front of the | House. . ‘The. program to be ‘broadca: begin'at 3 p.m. (Indianapolis ” When the president reads
i, ens’ Christmas Carol to. two
this evening, i
ye mark ‘the ‘10th’ “Christmas the
‘Roose evelt family . has spent: 1 1
va ‘a gold:cmbossed Teather n ‘3 ‘war saving stam ans, one’ 25:cent’ ‘stamp.
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COUNTY BOARD INTERFERENCE
PROMPTS MOV
Director to Leave Post Dec. 31 After Long
Feud; Dudley Smith Among Those Considered as Successor.
By NORMAN E. ISAACS Thomas L. Neal this afternoon resigned as director of the Marion county public Welfare department, effective
Dec. 31.
His resignation caps the several years’-long conflict bes tween the county’s welfare board and the state ‘welfare board, which appointed Mr. Neal. The federal government recently ordeal the state to
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Thomas L. Neal . . , “If has been my ‘endeavor to give an honest and efficient administration.’ »
GOAL OF POPE:
“FREE CHOICE’
E Pointiff Hits Communism | And Nationalism, Calls .
World Peace Possible.
LONDON, Dec.. 24 (U. P.).—His Holiness Pope Pius XII denounced godless authoritarian government and “Marxist socialism” today in a Christmas message to the world. He condemned racial and national discrimination, deplored the bombing of civilians and called for a new world in which all men would
{have free choice of government and
religion.
“We are tied impartially to all people and are willing to collaborate in any new order which will bring ‘a .just peace,” he said in a
.| 40-minute speech broadcast ' from
Vatican City. The pope predicted that the way
to world peace would be long but|
he said that with the goodwill and collaboration of. all it would be at-| tained. ‘After the message he gave his “urbi and orbi” blessing to ‘the world. -. Tens of thousands of per(Continued on Page Eight) ———————————————————
GALLAGHER TRIPLETS ‘ARE ‘DOING NICELY’
x “The * Gallagher triplets, = born Tuesday morning ,at St. Francis
.| hospital, were reported in: the best
of health today and: looking for-
| ward to their first Christmas eve. The babies are the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Gallagher. Known at first: as “A,” “B” and “C;” the triplets have been: named Thomas “Paul, Joseph Edward and
tion from the county,
clean up the Marion county
situation, under the implied [threat of depriving the state of some $11,000,000 in federal
welfare funds. This . action was disclosed last
iweek by The Indianapolis Times,
in an article which pointed out that the county board, in refusing to approve the director's recom= mendations, had permitted the county department to fall under
‘Iminimum personnel requirements.
This failure to meet requirements
{has already resulted in the state
withholding some $60,000 compensn
Charges Hamipering The text of Mr. Neal's letter |
|| Fred Hoke, president of the. staté
board of public welfare follows: “Dear .Mr. Hoke:e “I hereby tender my resignation i as director of the Marion county = department of public . welfare - to take effect as of Dec. 31, 1942, “This action is prompted due to .|the fact that the present county board under the influence that cons trols it is hampering every ‘effort - for ‘sane and efficient administra ticn, Neither am I in sympathy with the demands by: the federal authorities to liberalize and feder alize the welfare program. - 3 “It has been my endeavor to give an honest and efficient administras tion with service to the recipients and due regard to ‘he taxpayers. I
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_|regret that I cannot continue,
“Sincerely, “THOMAS L. NEAL?
Dudley Smith in Line
There was no statement forthe coming immediately from the state welfare department. ‘However, the state recently coms pleted examinations of applicants for the post of county welfare dis rector and it is understood that: Dudley Smith, at present salvage director ‘for the county, was ranked : among the first eligibles. It is con= sidered probable that the state des partment will appoint Mr. Smith. The crux of the Marion county feud rests in this power of aps
[pointment.
The county board is appointed by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox. The board originally had the power to appoint the director. . The county went through a ‘grave scandal at the time when the late Ji Baker was director.
Slugging Recalled
Politics played the major role in the selection of employees - and when state officials attempted to pass a law providing for merit pointments violence broke out, Wayne Coy, now an tive assistant to President velt, was slugged in the: House by Peter Cancilla, one of Baker’s associates. The legislature ordered a and spectacular trial. Mr, was ousted and the county was deprived of its power fo
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* Clothe~A-Child - workers toad were finishing. up business, all’ remaining needy children available, preparatory to ending T: anapolis Times’ annual Christmas charity tonight. ! It was: estimated -that: the total number of children clothe exceed 1850. All children clothed must bear a “clearance” either the social service ‘department of the public schools, or’ ‘from ‘one’
agencies. connected" with the ‘ComCine Old cone amspine
as long. as they continue to.
donations. - The famous Mile-Of-