Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1942 — Page 1

~ ACTION ASKED TO FORESTALL ‘POLL FRAUDS

“Hazardous Buildings.’

“Repeal of the Indiana Voters’ registration law, replacing it. with an entirely new statute to prevent mass] illegal voting, was recommended by the Marion County grand gy, to- . day. :

The Jury also warned county com-|

missioners that they may face charges of “criminal negligence if

something isn't done immediately to eofrect the hazardous and ‘unhealthful condition of some dilapidated county buildings.” Failure of county commissioners ‘to follow = recommendations of previous grand juries to abandon the present juvenile detention home - on West New York st. was described in the jury's report as “an insult $0 the intelligence of grand. juries “and. makes for general disrespect for the laws.” . Recommend Probe Immediate investigation by the January term grand jury of the

géasons why previous grand jury ‘recommendations have not been fol-

lowed was recommended in the] .

"by thie ury for action as VEE

as; the war is over. A ithe “dangerous econdi-| ! the court house fourth: floor, )erand jurors'said “we feel that it will ‘be criminal negligence to allow “this condition to: continue.”

Demand Action Now

he report demanded that steps be_taken immediately to e woe of the “danger of: general collapse ©: the building. ; “If. no action is taken, some succeeding. grand jury may find there was ‘criminal negligence in allowing this coridition ‘to continue,” the report stated. “We find that the juvenile detention home is not only a fire trap but : filthy and actually unfit for human habitation,” the jurors stated. “We . urgently insist that this building be abandoned now and that ‘the chil‘dren confined there be "sent immediately to the children’s guardian Jome in Irvington, where there .is ample room for their accommoda-

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About Voters’ Law

the voters’ registration

2 -Regarding _ Jaw, the jury stated: “The registration law is so writs ten that unlawful and illegal registrations can be made in wholesale numbers without the violation eof any criminal law and, in its present form, the registration law can be ‘interpreted so as to have the effect of legalizing floating voters. ~. “A new law should be proposed ‘wh will assure all citizens a fair equal chance to exercise ‘their franchise without the inequities and {Continued on Page Two)

TODAY'S WEATHER: - MORE. OF THE SAME

You can count on today’s weather ‘being. just wbout like yesterday's. The weather bureau this morning light rain or drizzle. - ‘be somewhat colder to- : and probaly put serious Coan’ to tne rain for a time. There's still no cold wave in ‘sight.

mark about nine feet under the rec-

flood-stage in Greene - county, Mr

swollen’ tributaries, fed -by flash-

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Rushing. Rivers - in. East 0 Strike Evansville This ‘Week-End.

. Indiana's southersi boundary will] - be flooded by this'iweek‘end, with the Ohio river at Evansville expect‘led: to climb ‘to: 4 feet. by. Jan. 8, a

ord: 1937. inundation there. Flood stage at Evansville is 37 feet. The downstate prediction - was made by J. H. Armington, local weatherman, - following ' reports of widespread floods in Pennsylvania and (Ohio .areas, the worst in five years; caused by recent heavy rains in the East. 3 Mr. "Armington said that high-wa-ters in. the Wabash, now slightly above: flood-stage at Lafayette, are ~to cover only a couple of feet in lowland areas down to Terre Haute. White River’ Falling

The White river is. falling here, but has msen to within a foot of

Armington said. In : Ohio, press dispatches said,

floods, poured water in lowland areas, forced 350 families to evacuate homes, threatened hundreds of. others and inundated sections of at least 20 highways in central and southeastern Ohio. ‘In Pennsylvania, as the swirling Allegheny -and Monongahela rivers

.| weather bureau predicted a crest of between 34 ang 35 feet for Pittsburgh by midnight tonight, ; Rising waters were withirf six inches of closing a ‘plant of the Republic Steel Corp. at ‘Youngstown, O.. hut officials believed that the city’s flood wall, which will contain & €Test of 83: faut, would prevent damage in that city. Marietta, O., reported ‘that mer{Continued on Page Two)

I Alphonse Juin ' has been named

slayer of golf star Marion Miley and her mother, Mrs, Elsie Ego Miley, today hung in ‘the balance as. ‘co-

defense attorneys prepared ‘to namie].

a fourth person in the case. “Governor Keen Johnson last night granted a 22-day stay of execution for Anderson, a Louisville night club owner. = He is scheduled -for ‘execution along with Thomas Penney and Raymond Baxter. Defense Counsels 8S. Rush Nicholson and Frank R. Cahill Jr., revealed they had “startling new evidence which showed that Anderson had no part in the slaying.”

JUIN IS COMMANDER OF FRENCH FORGES

Takes Highest Military Post Under Giraud.

LONDON, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—Gen.

commander-in-chef of the French forces in Africa under Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, new high commissioner, French African radios an-. ‘nounced today. Gen. Juin, 53, commanded the French forces in Africa _at the time of the allied occupation in November: and had since been collaborating with the po-aliied French. regime. Broadcasts hy French radios, in‘cluding the Fighting French Brazzaville station, and dispatches from Algiers indicated that there was every prospect of an early agreement uniting Giraud and Gen. Charles de ‘Gaulle, Fighting French leader, to insure full world-wide cooperation of all ‘French leaders not captives of the axis “in the allied

{east of Tripoli.

war effort.

RUSS UNHINGE |

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= Kotelnokovski and large amounts of

GERMAN LINE,

Roll On Yoward "Rostov; Offensive Hinted Near Leningrad.

(Today's War Moves, Page Seven)

By UNITED PRESS

The Russians rolled across snowy steppes toward Rostov today and there were reports that the Red army might be getting ready to go on the offensive at the northern end of the long, snowy battle line. Reports to Stockholm said Soviet trucks were moving across frozen Lake Ladoga, restoring land communication with besieged Leningrad. The Vichy radio, axis controlled, broadcast a report that troop - movements indicated new Russian offensives. Capture by the Red army of Kotelnokovski, 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad, unhinged the German defense line and a big pincer movement was being closed on Rostov, “which guards the approaches to the Caucasus. Should Rostov fall, the whole of Col. Gen. Hermann von: Hoth’s sixth German army would be trapped.

17 Planes Seized Undamaged

Increasing numbers of axis prisoners were straggling back from

‘booty were captured in the city including 17 undamaged German planes and a ‘trainlead of trucks. There. y a id halt lo the.

‘Mud: Bogs. Fighting i in

, Tunisia.

LONDON, -Dec.: 30 (U. P.) ~The British eighth army massed armor and artillery west of “Sirte today, and ‘with both “sides bogged down in the Tunisian mud, it appeared that the next allied blow in Africa would fall on Marshal ‘Erwin Rommel's weary, . Felreating Afrika Korps. British pails ‘broke across Wadi Bei El Chebir, 185 miles east of Tripoli, a Cairo communique announced, and the ' Afrika Korps yielded ‘one of the three possible

remaining defense positions on the

Libyan coast. Hint Flight to Tunisia

Front dispatches reported a heavy flow of German and ‘Italian supply columns from Tripoli into Tunisia, hinting strongly that the axis would not. ‘attempt a defense :of Tripoli, which already has been smashed up; by allied air attacks. The Wadi Bei El Chebir is 55 miles west of Sirte and 185 miles It was believed by numerous military experts. that. if Rommel tried even a delaying stand. it would be based on this-wadi, or dried river bed. There are, however, two other wadis farther west, Zemzem and Sofeggin, at which he might make some sort of a stand.

Tunisian Fight See:Saws

At the other end of the. North African battle line, the tide of the Tunisian hatile swung back ‘and forth with neither. ‘side . making significant gains because of the heavy rains. Allied forces withdrew from a hill northeast of Medjez-El-Bab taken on Christmas eve, but this: was ‘more: as a tactical move than as a defeat.

Camp Atterbury Is Due for a Hot Time 1f Rep. Earl (Curfew) Wilson Is Right

‘Earl Wilsdn, ‘the ‘congressman. of curfew fame who is home over the holidays, , has picked up a story con-

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20-pound boxes ‘shipped — 100,000 pounds of black pepper. “The compsny insisted this was too much pepper and sent a sales-.

verified and signed, which the captain did. So the company shipped 5000 20-pound boxes in cartons to Camp Atterbury. This’ amounted to

Congressman: ain. said ‘that of the “lack of intelligent buying”

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| British Slash Across Wadi,

Ito the Red army. - The Russians cut

| other sector southwest of StalinEY grad 15 field guns and four large

| communique reported.

“| back their positions.

Tanks léd the wey in night iad {ing and’ ath towns and villages fell

their way: through two German divisions * (30,000 men), while in an-

ammunition dumps were seized. vo 82 Block Houses Smashed

“In a third southwest Stalingrad sector, a ‘shivering battalion comcander came voluntarily into the Red army lines to ‘surrender. The Russian sector commander invited him to return to his unit and bring back his men. He did so and ‘surrendered about 1000 men with all their arms and supplies, the ‘noon

In the northern factory area of Stalingrad, where the new Russian offensive was assuming proportions almost eas important as that to the southwest, the Russians during the night smashed 82 block houses and dugouts, making their biggest gains since Nov. 19. Over: Stalingrad, the Red air force and the anti-aircraft gunners in the single day shot down 31 giant Ger‘man transport ‘planes which sought to drop food and supplies. :

Nazi Reserves Thrown In

On the middle Don front, the noon communique reported, the Russians during the night stormed a big inhabited place and against ferocious resistance drove into its suburbs. In other middie Don sectors they threw back a succession of counterattacks by shock troops the German high. command was throwing in steadily from diminishing reserves. In only one attack did the Germans regain lost ground. There the Russians attacked : again ad got

In the - Caucasus, soutiieast of Nalchik, ‘the Russian artillery spent the night bombarding ‘enemy positions in preparation for the new attacks oday, the noon commu-

On the War Fronts

(Dec. 30, 1942)

TIGHTEN TRAP

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and. the Shout | World"

Bakers Can't

= Leaders of the baking indu: mile| privately today that the | ment’s order prohinifing

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Drsula Parrott

U, S. ACCUSE

MISS PARR.TT

toffice, Junday.

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rand Jury Urges Re; al of Voter Reg aon Law

HE'S INELIGIB EL:

“MERIT

SYSTEL

Inspector Jesse McMurtry or Beconle ete ing Chief; New Administration May. - \ Ask Change in Law.

The Indianapolis Times learned authoritatively this. ath ernoon that Clifford Beeker, police chief designate, will be: unable to take office on Friday, Jan. 1st, and possibly may not, become chief for at least a month. : * 1t is understood that Inspector Jesse: McMurtry. will be-

come aeting chief for the time The reason for this unusu

being. al situation is that Mr. Bosker

is not eligible to become chief, under the provisions of the

state law setting up ‘the mer

‘Ex-Wife’ Author Ch: With Smuggling So From Stockade.

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. 30 (lJ Ursula Parrott, 40, noted: » and agazine writer, tod: ordered held for the Dade federal grand jury on charg: she. smuggled ‘a soldier ou: military ‘stockade in the bac

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Miss: «Parrott pleaded fe i "to the charges in- a prelir hearing and her hond .wa: $1000. Thé grand jury co Jan. 4. The writer was taken it tody by federal autharitics night and charged with aic. ‘| soldier, Pvt. Michael Neel: 22, of Germantown, Tenn., to from: a military stockade - at Beach. )

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cus=~ last zg the Jiryan, scape diami ‘She’s a Witness ~The FBI reported that E: wanted in New. York on & charge. Miss Parrott’s said that she was an import. ness in thé case. If convicted, Miss Parroft be sent to prison for a maxi three years and fined not. ri: $2000. Special Agent Robert S. Ao 0: the FBI said Capt. Henry 1 - provost marshal of the Miarr 32ach army air forces technical 'uining: command, notified the 1 I that Byran-had escaped Mond: | afternoon “in a car driven by Mrs Uisula Parrott.” “Later . yesterday, our ofl © notified that Mrs. Parrott : ing to turn Pvt. Bryan ir

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was go-| so She Vioore! said. “Af approximately 4: p.m, Mrs. Parrott did turn Brya: in .at the federal building to feci¢ al officers.”

‘Not Bryant's Faull’

The defendant, who said ferred to be known as Miss talked freely with reporters left the building. 4 “I want to say that none is Pvt, Bryan's fault,” she s: was afraid to stop the car vii °1. the guard ordered me to halt.: V: were only going to dinner. We roeant: to get back sooner.” Before he went into he .rmy, Pvt. Bryan was a guitar plo yer in Benny : Goodman's orchesti |, aj once played in Artie Shav'. a Miss Parrott said. : Miss ‘Parrott has been rried four times. Shortly. after : divorced her first husband, @ indsay rman, Irife.”

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Parrott, a New York newsp:; she wrote her first novel, “E: It sold 100,000 copies. Subsequently she wrote * ‘man’s Fate,” “Love Gogy “Strangers May Kiss,” “The en “Road . * “Rim

yentles] Past,” mult Ming Somewhere” . and

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{ Favors Appointment; Power

"| appoint. the Marion county welfare

boards: expressed the opinion that

police and fire departments.

ARMY. DRINKING AT RECORD LOW

OWI Survey Shows Soldiers Consume : Much Less Than Fathers Did. =

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 wu, PJ. | ~The. Amyétican. Army drinks,

and whisky conservatively and : the béstbehved army in the world, the Office of War Information said today in a comprehensive report on drinking conditions in and around training camps and posts.’ The 15-page report, based on detailed surveys of drinking habits in practically all areas where there are large troop concentrations, drawn up by OWI investigators and was immediately interpreted in many quarters as a.rebuke to drys who have raised. : the prohibition question. “The American soldier behaves: well, he trains well, and in the farflung places of the earth he is fighting well.” Not only is the PI army more orderly than any other present army, but it also drinks vastly less than the army of 1917, due mainly to the “healthy and sensible ar(Continued on Page Two)

SCHRICKER TO URGE WELFARE CHANGE

For County.

Following a meeting with the Marion county and state welfare boards today, Governor Schricker announced that he will recommend to the coming session of the legislature that it return the power to

director to the county. board. A: long feud between the : two boards reached a climax last week when Thomas Neal, the county: welfare board director, resigned. Marion county is the only’ county in the state where the welfare director is appointed by the state board instead of by the county board. The governor said following the! meeting thai each member of both

the appointing power should be returned to the county board. The governor said that nothing the had been done about the appoint-

: wit 61 4 Dew director,

But Price

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (1

bakers’ practices—includi; 0

“Shi ice Bread, May Rise Anyway

R. Wickard is confident will reduce baking cosis and Prevent: increased bread prices. The order: : j Placed definite restrictions on the ‘number of varieties of bread and rolls any baker may make or sell in a given week.’

Ordered the siiie of bread for|

was’

it system in the Indianapolis

The law provides that: the ii cannot he “taken - or chosen from the ranks: below; lieutenant.”

Holds Patrolman Rank

Mr. Beeker holds the rank’ ot patrolman. In order to Yecuiie: a Sisutenaity: the law provides that the ‘Dolice’ | promotion board, consisting by. law- ; of the chief and four captains, shall, | conde a promotion school.;:

The law specifically states:

tion | board shall establish: and conduct a. promotion school which all officers of thé force or mem- 1k bers -of “the. force applying. or’ designated for promotion niust at. tend for not less than two weeks, or such longer time as the may prescribe, and wherein nr :

struction will be given upon ‘all matters relating to the duties, ob~; ligations, powers and res ov ties of such members; together: with : mental and physical: tests: and competitive examinations gt: the! conclusion of the course. The grades in such school and the : merit record of each such officer or member shall be considered by the board. in selecting him or her y for promotion, and all. promotions . A shall be determined and. made by such board by the vote of not: less ‘than a. . majority ’ of its members. . ..” It ‘was “learned today - -that. the police department, since the inception of the merit law, has. never deviated from this procedure, The promotion” board has oper ated under rules which have’ pro- a vided that a policeman must be a member of the force for three’

‘years before taking a se

examination, and a t for two years, with five years’ service on the force, before taking » lieytenant's ‘examination,’

Took Sergeant's Exam i

Mr. Beeker at one time’ examination _ for sergeant b under the law that eligibility Ji has expired and Mr. Beeker:is-i eligible for a sergeants rating... There is. some. specylat the incoming ; city admis may ask the legislature to the law to permit. the appe of Mr. Beeker, along with lation that the open a school for: “Her order to qualify ME. the law. :

a adminis

WAAC IS AMONG SIX ON MISSING. BOMB TAMPA, Fla., Dec. Six persons, including a member of the’ WAACs missing aboard 8