Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1942 — Page 2

GIVEN WARNING

State Police to’ Continue Crackdown; If You Must ". Drink—Walk.

Indiana. stale police ate prepared

to- crack down relentlessly on driv-

ers who imbibe too much liquid

cheer this New Year's eve, State Police ‘Superintendent Don F. Stiver sdid today. ‘Troopers at the 11 state posts ~ have been ordered to be of the lookout for. drunken drivers as the ~ lew year arrives. “If you are going to drink this New Year’ s, don’t drive,” Mr. Stiver warned car owners. “Our country - cannot, afford the loss of a single life, automobile or tire in a traffic accident caused by a driver who celebrates to excess.” The pressure of war has. resulted in a greatly increased percentage of the persons using intoxicants, according to statistics compiled by state police. Drunken driving ar‘rests are up 53 per cent over a ybar ago and there has been no apparent let-down in the number of drivers who drink, the records reveal,

* ! Expect 942 Deaths

‘The state police superintendent asserted that the war ‘against intoxicatéd motorists operates on a continuous basis. and that the “crackdown” order is not effective for the holiday season only. ‘Meanwhile, the governor's co-or-dinating safety committee estimat- ~ ed that motor vehicle fatalities in the state will be approximately onethird less than last year. -A total of 942 traffic deaths are anticipated this year. This is 536 fewer fatalities than occurred last! year. At the end of November, 897 fatalities had been recorded. Com- _, mittee statisticians estimate 45 persons will be killed in December, which would give an unofficial total of 942 for the year. ~The drop in fatalities is attributed generally to driving trends resulting from the war. : >

BOP COMMITTEE MEETS WEDNESDAY

Republican State Chairman Ralph - Gates today announced that a meeting of the G. O. P. state committee ~ will be held here next Wednesday, the day before the opening of the 1943 Legislature. He said that the committee mem- ~ bers will discuss party policy and = . that following a luncheon: meeting there will be separate caucuses of the senate and ~ house bers ~ which will complete their organiza4 One position yet to te filled in the - house is that of chief clerk. Dale

| elaborate in the city.

Final “pay off” of 40 slet machines - destraro. yesterday in the.s sheriff’s offices was to the nation’s scrap pile, where they'll finally end up after going through regular junk-dealer channels. Deputy sheriffs make plums, pears and cherries spin in all directions as they sledge-hammer several of the “one armed bandits” into scrap metal and wood -splinters, Included in the assorted collection of: illegal devices, accumulated in raids over a period of a year, were slots ranging in 3ise from a penny to a half-dollar,

WALLACE FINDS FAVOR IN ITALY

Fascist Paper Publishes Extracts From Speech On Equality.

By PAUL GHALI Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. BERN, Dec. 30.—Vice President Henry A. Wallace's broadcast, yon the anniversary of Woodrow Wil-

son’s birthday, appears to have caused a deep and even favorable impression in Italy, where, for once, reactions are devoid of the usual polemics hurled by the axis at allied spokesmen, The. authoritative Fascist newspaper Giornale d’Italia publishes long extracts from the speech, singling out the most important pas-

‘sage of the vice president's remarks

on post-war economic problems. With most of these, the writer— presumably Virginio Gayda—seems in full agreement. In order to avoid economic warfare, he asserts, every nation must feel .economically secure. It is essential, the writer continues, that countries with large

wn, Indianapolis, reading clerk Ppopulations and a talent for organ-

the senate during the last session, is reportedly a candidate. Mr. Gates said that from all ihe dications there will be little controversial legislation introduced inf the session.

CHARLES S. KRITZ, ; EDUCATOR, DEAD

+ CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Dec. 30 (U, P.) —CharlesS. Kritz, former superintendent of Crawfordsville schools, died last night at his home in Waveland at the age of 85 years. Prof. Kritz taught school in Mont- . gomery and Parke counties. Sur~vivors include the widow, two brothers and four sisters. Funeral serv- ; ices ‘will be held at Waveland to-

No Appointment ecessary

izing and producing, but poor in gconomic’-resources—meaning Italy naturally—should have the chance to work.

Unwittingly Back Charter

In brief and doubtless unwittingly, the paper appears as a strong advocate of the . Atlantic charter and President Roosevelt's “freedom from want” principle. . Long before the days of Fascism, Italy was the foremost - champion of fairer distribution of the world’s resources. - When a league of nations was discassed in Paris at the end of world war I, the Italian delegation’ put forward a scheme for pooling raw- materials. The

The vice president’s words have given Italian advocates of economic equality new hopes and undermined one of the main causes for which the Italians constantly have been told that they are fighting:

RITES FRIDAY FOR

PHILIP PETERCHEFF

Funeral services for Philip M. Petercheff, who died yesterday at his home, 952 N. Arnolda ave., after a long illness, will be held at 1 p. m. Friday in the Bulgarian Orthodox church, * A native of Macedonia, Mr. Petercheff had lived in Indianapolis 33

proposal was then turned down.

Moderated by FRED G. CLARK General. Chairman American Ecomomie -. Foundation

citizens on current problems

HARRY A. OVERSTREET

Professor Emeritus, College of the City of New York

MR. OVERSTREET OPENS: Obviously there cannot be freedom from fears created by man-made institutions and attitudes. War and a misbegotten economics have produced the ugliest fears in our life.

fear of war's brutal violence. By eliminating the blunders of a too selfishly ‘motivated economic system, we can remove the fears of undeserved distress. ) To say we can't eliminate war and

our economic system is to stand defeated before life's challenge moral decency and ingenuity.

dropping bombs on them is plain stupid. To spur them on to economic initiative by threatening them with unemployment when such unemployment may come whether they have initiative or not is again plain stupid. Fears that come from anti-human arrangements and attitudes neither dignify nor advance life. They merely degrade and obstruct it. When we speak of eliminating fears from life, we mean the fears that should not be there. Since we humans have put them there, we humans can remove them.

MR. SMITH CHALLENGES: My opponent admits that freedom from all fear cannot be eliminated. But to lessen the number of them or do away with some of them; he would destroy our “selfishly motivated economic system.” What would he substitute for it? Ke does not say. Does he not know that most of us are fighting, to preserve it, anxious for an opportunity to correct its blunders, to reduce unemployment —in brief, to improve it? Has he already forgotten that but for it, with all its shortcomings, England might haVe collapsed, Russia might have succumbed; and that the captive peoples of the world could hold little hope for liberation? Our free enterprise system has built the gigantic industrial machine which will spell victory! MR. OVERSTREET REPLIES: England and Russia were not saved by what my epponent calls our “free enterprise system.” In the war emergency, we changed our do-as-you-please system into a work-to-

By eliminating war, we can cast out

cand correct the tragic blunders of

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It: may be urged that fear is| needed to spur men on. But to spur men on to muscular initiative by

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Is Freedom From

All Fear Possible?

This is one of a series of debates by outstanding U. S.

affecting all Americans,

As Debated by CARLETON SMITH

Economist, Jisturel, ide on Foreign

MR. SMITH OPENS: Fear is too deep-rooted in human nature to be totally eliminated. In one sense

good men—a condition under which free men fear and resist every encroachment on their liberties. The relatively peaceful era of the 19th century was possible because of growing international prosperity resulting, among other things, from liberal British free trade agreements. Trade benefits both buyer and seller and by spreading prosperity and entrenching ideas re-

and freedom from fear through a

resulting - bureaucratic inefficiency will bring about more conflict, less living everywhere. I have visited every ‘occidental country. firmly convinced that most people there want an opportunity to develop .their initiative, to increase their well-being and to live as free men in a post-war world. They are afraid of fear. They do not wish\ to be coddled. They are more afraid of restricted economy. MR.\OVERSTREET CHALLENGES;: We, too, want ‘“opportunity to\ develop initiative , . ,” However, economics which is a combination\ of unrestricted do-as-you - please and monopoly — misnamed “free ernterprise”—has largely removed opportunity. Internationally, it has pitted nation against nation and plunged us into monstrous wars. When a lazy carpenter puts up shaky scaffolding, the fear everyone has of being killed is not good fear. ' It is stupid and demoralizing fear, because unnecessary. Life today is made up largely of such unneccessary, demoralizing fear. Instead of rejoicing in them, we should be ashamed of them. Our job is to get rid of them, MR. SMITH REPLIES: That free enterprise necessarily pits nation against nation is untrue. Government controlled economics have caused this war, Witness Germany and Japan! International free enterprise — while not perfect—is the best peacebridge yet devised—certainly strong-

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fear is a condition of lasting peace— a condition under which evil men quite rightly fear the strength of

moves many causes for conflict. Those who hope for a lasting peace:

world economy based on government controls are chasing a rainbew. The|-

freedom and a lower standard of I am 28 was caused in other commun-

R Other Valuable Woodwork, cross Damaged at Home on North Side. For years the woodwork of the’

Mike Clune home at 1121 N. Pennsylvania st. was known as the most

When electricity came in, Mr. Clune could not get lights installed by any American company which would guarantee to replace the woodwork. ” a He sent to Italy for wood carvers. Especially valued were two solid walnut dragons on each side of the mantel in the guest dining room. Today the dragons were badly damaged by fire and $6000 worth of the woodwork was destroyed. “Irreplaceable,” is the way Emil Rahke, the present owner, described it, Mr. Rahke said the building is occupied by eight companies including his “Silent Salesmen” concern which, he said, prints “tickets.”

tinued manufacture of brea: for religious ritual purposes.

: practices becomes effective J:

ly will not be will be restricted to a certain ber of kinds each week. Secr Wickard indicated that the | would be able to choose .the and that varieties peculiar region would not suffer. different in formula, type, wr ir iat, shape or topping of bread or 1c | considered to be a differen: variety. The order does not : poly to baking in connection with service of meals hotels or restaurants and rc strictions will be placed on raised sweet rolls, cakes, pies cuits and crackers.

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cross-panning of bread. : Limited wrappings ito one {1ick-

ness of ‘paper.

Made special provisions for cone . sed Mr. Wickard’s order on hh :ing 18. Ordinary types of bread app: 'ntbanned, but ers Me ry cep a | a

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he at institut ic as, o itm tise

Mr. Wickard admitted that : ome

housewives would be inconvenie «ed by the qrder eliminating sal sliced bread but was confident hey

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will be glad to cut their own bread if it will contribute toward prevent

the war effort.

Bakers’ representatives said, however, that the prohibited practices were not the chief cause. of the pressure for higher bread prices They asserted privately that whatever savings are achieved by them would be negated by the steady | ing increase in the price of edible fats @nd other products. The flour increase, effective on Jan. 4, 1943. was ordered by the office of price administration in the establishment of specific dollar-and-cenf; ceilings to replace temporary tops based on peak sales by | sellers during the Sept. 28-Oct. 2: ‘period. Millers and secondary processors of flour from wheat, semolina and farina will benefit. Officials estimated that the cost of family flour would be raised from 40 to 75 cents a barrel in the 19 areas blanketing the country. This will raise the retail price of a 24-pound sack of flour about 10 cents.

ut Mr. Rahke has’ been trying restore the woodwork to its orig-! inal beauty and had installed a. wood-working shop in the basement. The fire started, firemen said, from: an overheated furnace boiler and it spread to the coal bin and then up through the wall to the guest dining room. One of the dragans was destroyed while the other might be salvaged, said Mr. Rahke. A huge mirror hetween the two dragons ‘was shattered by the heat.

FLOODS WILL HIT STATE IN SOUTH

High Waters Expected to Reach Evansville This Week-End. (Continued from Page One)

chants were removing stock from basements to ‘upper floors. All business was expected to be suspended by tonight. 5 -Flood stage of 52 feet was expected to be reached Friday night or Saturday morning at Cincinnati. The supply of natural gas to Akron, Youngstown and approximately 50 other nartheastern Ohio communities was threatened when a landslide, caused by flooding streams, broke a main pipeline supplying gas to thé area from West Virginia: wells. Road repair crews evacuated 200 families from Empire, O., and about 150 families from Stratton, O. About 100 homes were flooded at Freeport, Pa, by the Allegheny river, and the Monogahela flogded between 30 and 40 homes in Monessen, Pa. Thousands of ‘dollars.dam-

ities around Pittsburgh.

GRAND JURY URGES VOTE LAW REPEAL

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misconstructions' of the present law.” The jury asked that recommendation on this be forwarded to both houses of the 1943 legislature. The recommendations were based on the grand jury’s recent investigations of numerous- reports of irregularities in registrations and voting during the 1942 election. * The jury reported that buildings at the Julietta county infirmary and the county jail were in good condition. Regarding the police station, the jury recommended: that no more money should be spent trying to repair it and that a new headquarters should be established along with a new county government| building. The jury also criticized the location of the juvenile aid division of police headquarters on Alabama st. next to the jail and .recommended that it possibly should be moved to the Children’s Guardian home until a. proper court house can be built.

rangement” of serving 3.2 per « ut beer in camps, the report saic.

dry,” it said. leggers did a thriving business.”

the report said, provides sold -'s with mild hard liquor drinking, is easily c trolled and keeps troops oul trouble. tion that beer sales lower the | number of abstainers since soda still is the most popular army di 1.

talked to army officers, chapia and civilian authorities and visi all major troop areas except Flori blamed “tall stories and sensatio I gossip” for the mistaken idea tis) the among soldiers is high.

the report said, tinue to be drinking in the &rr. ’ he approach -of the military : .-| h

hibition but control. a country; it would ‘be discriminaic v to deny the same right to the “| dier who already relinquished ma 7 privileges the civilian considers I s/| rights.”

in some areas, especially in south and southwest where cam and posts for tens of thousands men were thrown up almost ove night far from large cities. ‘But it praised: the work of bo army and civilian‘ authorities - 1 meeting the: situation, particular | | the military police who during 4° last war were considered by fl : soldiers as enemies, but have fou: now that “there is more in persu: sion. than in the butt-end of billyclub.”

friend ‘in strange communities an the intelligent soldier knows it,” th | report added. |

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“In the last war camps were © re “As a result, boi Sale of 3.2 beer by post éxchan

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relaxation, minim -

But there was no inc.

The OWI investigators, vo]

percentage of drunkenn 3

Control, Not Prohibition

“There is drinking in the arm “there will <c

orities to the problem is not 1: | It 1s legal r civilian to take a drink in tl

The report found ‘conditions wore |

“The M. P. is the soldier's be

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The report noted that “the

and west where no lars

Soldiers Fill Clubs “The result is that pay-days ar

week-ends see thousands of libert troops descend on small commu ties which are ill-equipped to tak care of them. streets and the railroad station and the public parks.

Soldiers fill &h

“But, despite these conditions, th

investigators found that the bes selling beverages around camps ar coffee, milk, malted milk and sof drinks; that approximately 57 ou of every 100 soldiers drink no alco holic beverages even on payday that another 34 drink nothin; stronger than beer.

“This is a civilian army, as a s¢-

Survey Revels Soldiers

Than Dads Did

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Between Oct. 26 and Nov. 11, 4318 men rode to and from New York en trains policed by M. P.s with none arrested; 5138 rode to and from Boston: with one arrest. Ft. Benning, Ga.—Phenix City, Ala., 15,000 population, was a wideopen town, with a high rate of venereal infections. Early last year the army intervened and got. city officials to agree to clean up houses of prostitution, gambling joints and

"| taverns that were notorious dives.

Now venereal disease infections are only three a week, fap to a high of 34. .

ing a bread price increase and to}

Models and New | ! > Costing $2500.

WASHINGTON, Déc. 30 (U. PJ, —The office of price administration

ing regulations to permit persons

engaged in any gainful occupation

who can show need to buy new 1941 or earlier model cars which have gone less than 1000 ‘miles or new 1042 cars with a list price of $2500

or more. Effective Jan. 5, 1943, applicants for ration certificates to purchase such models only have to show a need for a car in traveling to and from their work or in doing such work. The present restricted occus pational eligibility classifications no longer will apply. It is hoped that this not only will improve the transportation of persons buying these automobiles, OPA said, but that additional cars will be brought into the used car mar. ket. Reserve Fool Tapped

At the same time OPA announced the release from the government reserve pool of all new cars with a list price of $2500 or more? Convertibles and soft top cars.also were released for sale to rationing certificate holders. : The stock pile of new passenger automobiles available for military” needs and rationing totaled 275,000 at the end of November, OPA said. This included 139,468 cars in the government pool set aside for miiitary needs and rationing in 1943 and after, plus 135,871 remaining from 381,325 scheduled for ratione ing in the 12 months ending Feb.

28, 1943. Releases from this latter linventory totaled 245464 at the end of November.

“Tyndall Will Take Office

In Simple Ceremony Friday

Simple - ceremonies are being planned for the: inaugural at high

"| noon Friday of Mayor-elect Robert

" H. Tyndall anq his official family. The new mayor will take his oath of office on a platform erected in the rotunda of the city hall. The oath will be administered by Municipal Judge Dan. V, White, who will become probate judge Friday. Gen. Tyndall will make only a ‘brief address apd there are to be no other speeches. Following the ad- | ministering of the oath of office to

.| the mayor, the city clerk and city A council members will be sworn into -| office,

City Clerk Frank Noll later. will administer the oath of office to , members of various board and department heads appointed by. Gen, Tyndall. ais Following the inaugural -cere= monies, a reception will be held in the mayor’s office. : No invitations are being sent. to the affair, which is open to, the public. Before the Inaugural ceremonies commence, City Attorney Arch N.

(Bobbitt will formally present a

marble elephant to the new raayor, The Slephant is the gift of M.: Berg

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Carved Wedding Rings

+ Diamond Wedding Rings

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: Rings of cor style and at every price—from simple bands of '10-kt. gold to the most precious styles in platinum, set with diamonds.

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today liberalized automobile ration= .

er and more lasting than a bridge of rainbows conceived in hopeful emotionalism, dependent on bureaucracy and administered by totalitarians. This can be done, however,

gether-under-a-common-plan-for-a-common-cause system. Had we not done so; had businesses fought businesses and workers fought em-

lective service army must be,” tiv report said.: “If they found thei fun in tawdry places as civilians they will hunt out the tawdry plage:

Recalling several . instances in which - prisoners of the jail had died, some from acute alcoholism, the jury recommended that all

, years. He was 49, He was employed at one time. at the National Malleable Steel Castings Co. and was in the restaurant

| TRU-GURL Permanent - Wave

business at the time of his death He was a member. of the Bulgarian Orthodox church and the Macedonian P, O. organization. “Survivors include “his wife, Mrs. Slava P. Petercheff; three sons, Pvt. Mitchell Petercheff, Carl Petercheff and James Petercheff; two brothers,

ployers—and also one another—we

‘| should today be at Hitler's mercy.

Our biggest job is to eliminate those economic, political and moral blunderings that have brought “unnatural” fears into life. There will be plenty of good and natural fears

by education, by understanding, by improving ‘human . nature rather than’ by overthrowing the economic system. Blunders. causing “unnatural fears should certainly be avoided. Stupid and ‘unnecessary fears ought to be eliminated.

should be taken to City hospital

persons - charged with drunkenness should be given an immediate physical examination and if found suffering from illness or injury

instead of being required to remain

as soldiers.”

List Specific Areas The investigators gave these ex-

amples in specific areas:

Camp Crowder, Mo.—About $1,-

left over to keep us on the jump.

in. Jail without medical attention.

000,000 was paid out to troops on

$950

WONDER WAVE

the Oct. 31 payday. That night onl 16 were arrested for drunkenness in Joplin, the nearest town—less than one arrest for every 000 soldiers. Reesler Field, Miss.—Only - five soldiers were arrested for drunkenness at Biloxi the night after payday. “Army paynight is rarely the Klondyke brawl and blowout

Boris P. Petercheff of Indianapolis and Glagor Petercheff of Bulgaria, and two sisters, Shena and Grava ‘Petercheff, both of Bulgaria.

SERVICES TOMORROW FOR GEORGE E. MANN

Services for George Fdward Mann, 511 Alton st., Beech Grove, who died Monday after an illness of a year, will be held at the Little

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& Sons funeral home, Beech Grove, at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Burial will be in New Crown cemetery Born in Shelby county in 1870, Mr. Mann came to Beech Grove in 1918." He was a retired employee of the New York Central railroad and a member of the Beech Grove Baptist church. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Esther Surber of Indianapolis and Mrs. Arrella Shinliver of Columbus, Ind.; -one son, Edgar V. Mann of Beech Grove; nine grandchildren, and. one great-grandchild.

HAPPY NEW YEAR * We Have Plenty of ~ . CHICKENS DUCKS ® GEESE

Lowest Prices._Highest Quality |

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Dec. 28 (Delayed) (U. P.)—It’s always good hunting for Lieut. James J. Crawford and the bomber crew of “The Yanks From Hell.” . , To the envy of more veteran pilots, Crawford, of Taylorville, Ili. destroyed an + 8000-ton Japanese freighter in St. George channel at Rabaul, in New Britain, last Saturday and today led another attack that broke the back of a “Japanese heavy cruiser-at Rabaul, Describing the action, Crawford said, “we arrived in the Rabaul area before dawn and hung around for a long time awaiting daylight. Finally we made a run across the harbor at a medium altitude. That's where Smitty (the: bombardier) took over for the bomb run. -

f “The skipper gave me the prettiest

“We hit the cruiser the first time!

and unloaded our _ whole Batch.

because both ship and shore batteries' were sending up plenty of stuff, hot and heavy. . Slow talking Staff Sergt. Yerger Smith of Atlanta, Ga, the one called “Smitty,” took up the story.

40 seconds of steady run you ever saw,” .he said. “I spotted a- cluster of ships, including the cruiser, I tagged three bombs for the big

baby and let the others scatter H

around the rest of the ships. “All three landed amidships. We | saw smoke ‘squirting from the cruiser. A few seconds later, 1 caught] another glimpse from a different angle and she was apparently burn-

that rumor makes it.”

Randolph _ Field, Tex. — Flying

‘cadets, who “can’t take chances or. benders,” get 30 days’ imprisonmen and lose two-thirds of a month’: pay for drunkenness. Only four re. peated after the first court-martial | and courts-martial for intoxication, at the field are only 1 per cent of the military personnel.|

one-sixth of!

Only 15 Arrested. | Mass. Belweer:

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