Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1943 — Page 1

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 261

OPA Will Urge

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PLAN MAPPED AS BiG BLOW

TO INFLATION fa

Sponsors Say Move Would Keep Billions Out of

Circulation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).~—

Price Administrator Leon Hender=|

son is expected soon to indorse pub

licly a revolutionary anti-inflation|:

plan calling for investment of bil

lions of dollars annually in con-| sumers goods to be delivered aifter|:

the war.

The plan, prepared alter months |; of study by special OPA Adviser|}

_ Rolf Nugent, is opposed by Secre

tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-|: genthau Jr. and by some portions: President Roosevelt's | §

of industry. attitude is not known. At the outset the plan would apply to automobiles, refrigerators, pianos, oil burners and automatic stokers. If successful, Nugent believes it would take out of circulation $1,500,000,000 the first year $4,500,000,000 the second year and $6,000,000,000 . the third year.

Under the plan a person would |] buy a certificate which would be ac-|; cepted in payment for a specified|;

article. Certificates would be sold

on installment terms to encourage|:

payment out of current income,

Could Be Adjusted They would apply toward purchase of any make or model in a specified price-class, If the postwar prices differed from the certificate’s value, the differences could be adjusted in cash or in credits. Payment schedules would be re-

lated to certificate values, ranging; &

from 12 monthly payments for $100 certificates to 25 monthly payments for $2000 certificates, Persons in A the armed forces would be- permit

ted to buy on longer Feyment]

_ Schedules. 5 . “Installment payhen

made to local utilities and other} agencies readily available to PU 8

chasers. To prevent speculafors from mes quiring claims to large quantities of goods for resale, the number of

certificates would be limited, They|-

would be non-transferable except in such cases as inheritance or bequest, execution in satisfaction of judgment, and distribution of assets in bankruptcy. Offer Two Incentives | The plan would offer consumers two incentives for purchasing certificaes: A prior claim to goods subject to sale and a discount from the established post-war price. Priority numbers would be determined by the month in which the purchaser signed his installment contract. The price discount would be accomplished by giving the post-war certificate a “merchandise” value greater than its purchase price. Nugent proposed a 10 per cent differential to be made at the time of delivery, The dealer completing the sale would sacrifice part of his normal gross profit and obtain a rebate from the manufacturer,

NYE DEMANDS PROBE OF FOOD SHIPMENTS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).— Sepator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.), administration critic and newlyappointed member of the agriculture committee, said today he would ask the committee for an immediate investigation of the food shortage and lend-lease food shipments, “Commitments have been made that can’t begin to be filled without tremendous sacrifices on the part of American consumers,” he said.

"NEW YORK SCHOOLS TO CLOSE FOR WEEK

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—An order closing all public schools for a week to save fuel oil was followed today by a city official's warning that mary other public buildings . may have fo be shut. A million students and 40,000 teachers’ will have ito make up for this vacation by not having the usual one-week Easter vacation.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Like a Jig-Saw Puzzle

E [beaches at Lae today, starting fires {and killing many Japanese afier

Fitting together as neatly as two parts of a jigsaw puzzle, the bow, cut from the decommissioned U, S. S. Taylor, is fitted to the U. S. S. Blakely, her sister ship. The Blakely, an old four-stacker destroyer, was badly damaged by an enemy torpedo last May. Grafting parts of her sister ship to the damaged destroyer, navy workmen have turned the hardy vessel back to sea, good as new, with a greater Srepower and cruising radius than she had before.

A Weekly Si by the

do of the'S As

point; Jeffers m Jeffers wants a in making synthetic rubber.

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fits—and a fund to pay for them.

combat inflation. Proposed new fax would be a

security load. # ” ”

Wagner to Offer Bill

It will provide:

than eight employees.

workers and their families.

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Though the Russian front is

went over the road. goods from Britain. But: will move Soon, by air

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To other taxes-in-the-making add 10 per cent for social security. That would-be 5 per cent from the worker, 5 per cent from employer. It’s part of the “American Beveridge plan.” it soon, despite soft-pedaling in president’s message to congress. F. D. R. sides with Social Security Chairman Altmeyer (and against some congressional leaders) in feeling that now’s the time to provide for post-war unemployment, other social dislocations, with wider bene-

You'll hear more of

Biggse taxes now would help

4 per ® sont increase for workers, 1

per cent increase for employers, who now bear the heavy end of social |

LOOK FOR SENATOR WAGNER to offer the ‘administration bill,

Old-age insurance—larger annuities; extension of coverage to 25,000,000 agricultural workers, domestics, public employees, others; extra benefits for war workers of retirement age who stay at their jobs; lower retirement age for women (probably 60): Unemployment insurance—Federal system instead of present state systems; uniform and larger benefits; shorter waiting period; extra allowances for dependents; extension of system to firms with fewer

New provisions—Lifetime payments to permanently disabled workers and their dependents regardless of age; hospitali

ion for covered

Republicans will draft their own substitute, probably a pay-as-you-

» os 8 ’ still a closed book—even to allied

leaders—betting here is that the Germans will end the winter right back where they started last June—along a line from Rostov to Leningrad. And that’s a crushing—possibly decisive—defeat Tor Hitler.

CHINESE—and others here—wonder about the president’s statement that we are flying as much lend-lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma road. Point is that little lend-lease ever It carried goods the Chinese bought here: and

Indications are that more help for China is in the offing;

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Men in Service 5 Millett ...... 10 Movies ...... 4 Obituaries ... 5 14| Politics ....... 3 14|PV1e c.encees 9 10, Radio .:...... Je 10| Real Estate . 10 Mrs. Roosevelt . 10

Amusements .{ 4 8 7 9

Churches seve Clapper esse Comics eecnne Crossword ... Denny scene Editorials ase Edson FETE Ellis sss ssneen _ Pinancial ..,, 12 Forum .,.... 10 Freckles waive 238

Simms ...... 10 Society .... 8, 7 | tate Deaths. 5

For 14 months, a bingo game has been operated at 1901 Fruitdale ave., Ben Davis; the alleged proprietress, Miss Thelma Coz, told police. After the new administration came in, tHe setup was moved to 1637 S. 1|Meridian st. That was Jan. 3. Another game was played last Wednes-

Side Glances. 10/day.

Last night, police got a call reporting a fight at 1633 S. Meridian. They couldn't find a fight; they an + find. he number.

Police Break Up 14-Month Bingo Game on South Side

front door said “Go to the side

structions and interrupted a game being played by 28 persons. Ten of them slid out. Only the names of the others were taken. Miss Cox, who is 41, and Mrs. Florence Fisher, 50, of 1009 Joann ts Mickleyville, were charged ' with keeping a gambling house and operating a lottery and gift enterprise.

All the bingo equipment was con-|

ony us

| ing or damaging 73 enemy planes in

p | tralian headquarters after person- | ally directing the victorious Papuan

the" cam; 5 lof his DE Pacific ‘campaign, { [for “extraordinary courage, masked

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Look for a blow-up in the ‘rubber-gasoline sector. Conflict between Rubber Director Jeffers and other top officials has reached the boiling y ‘take it to the people.” ore liberal civilian-driving program, more speed Other officials say high-octane gasoline, explosives, naval escort vessels, must come first: lag in synthetic program must be made up by more cuts in civilian use of rubber. Still

another school says materials could be found: for pushing both programs now if officials stopped talking, tried hard Snough. It’s been dumped in the lap of stabilizer “Byrnes,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1943

FORECAST: Warmer tonight and tomorrow forenoon, with occasional light snow or drizzle this afternoon.

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ON LAE BEACH

Big Fires Are Started; 3d Nipponese Transport Sunk,

73 Planes Downed.

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HE ADQUARTERS, Australia, Jan. 9, (U. P.).—Allied planes attacked ' the

sinking the third of four transports in a Lae-bound Japanese convoy, damaging the fourth and destroy-

a three-day battle. ~ Fighter and attack bomber planes led the ead attack against the one crippled transport, twol' cruisers and four destroyers which had reached Lae after suffering one of the biggest aerial attacks of uhe war. “Such “troop elements as were landed by the enemy are believed to have been fragmentary,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said, 12 Officers Are Cited

MacArthur, returning to his Aus-

said: dead of Bataan should rest a easier tonight.” oi Beg an order campaign citing 13 high

six Americans and six Australians,

efficiency and precise execution of operations” and awarding them the United States army distinguished service cross, “the highest decoration at my disposal.” ©. Eichelberger in Charge The order revealed that Lieut. Gen. Robert Eichelberger commanded the United States ground forces in the ‘campaign. He was until recently superintendent of the military academy at West. Point. MacArthur's communique = reported increased patrol - activities around Sanananda Point, 24 miles | from Buna on the north New Guinea coast, where the last tiny remnant of a Japanese army of 15,000 picked men holds out, and said that 32 enemy troops had been killed yesterday.

JAPAN'S SOLOMON BASES RAIDED AGAIN

Fortresses Down 2 Zeros On Bougainville.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).— The navy announced today that U. S. heavy and medium bombers have attacked enemy areas and installations on Bougainville island and Rekata bay on the island of Santa Isabel in the Solomons. Twelve Japanese zero fighters attacked flying fortresses over Bougainville and two were shot down, a navy communique said. No U. 8. planes were lost in this attack. The communique said that fires were started by the attack at Rekata| bay and that two enemy float-type planes were dathaged. Two U. S. planes were shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire in this action. Both attacks were carried out on} the morning of Jan. 7 (island time.) In the North Pacific area, liberator heavy bombers have dropped bombs on enemy positions at Kiska, but results were not observed. This action also occurred on Jan. 7.

SNOW OR DRIZZLE SEEN FOR TONIGHT

It thay be light snow or a drizzle late today. : The weather bureau’s prediction was warmer for t and tomorrow forenoon, with occasional light snow or drizzle this afternoon. The state highway department reported packed snow or ice on roads north of Logansport and Huntington, and as far south as Columbus and BI Six roads in the state remain under high water. They are 56, between Madison and. Vevay; 66, between Cannelton and Derby; south of Mt. Vernon; 111, south of New Albany; 166, north of Tobinsport, and 245, south: south of Lamar.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8am... 38 10am...

William R. Hunter’s Auto

surance company” was killed £ today when a west=bound Penn | vania passenger topin struck his car at the railroad crossing on 8S. Audubon. rd.

about one mile past the crossing,| and authorities said the car, was still entangled. with the cowecatcher.

in the Methodist hospital recovering from an operation. Her surgeon and the family physician were notified. She was to have gone home today.

Boyle, 65, of Columbus, O., and the conductor was George ‘Bailey, 64, of Amlin, O.

2625 N. Alabama st. He had been in the real estate business for many years, with offices on Delaware st., for the last 27. He was a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. He was born in Rising Sun and came here when a young man.

vived by a sister, Miss Mary L. Hunter of Texas.

Priorities Stars

‘radio broadcast over WISH ema-

as police questioned I lup in the 1300 b. | Police said he answers the deserip-|Goodin and Miss Dorothy Ver: (on tion given by women whom he had {were aroused from their slesv hy frightened. In his pockets he carried {the burglar. Upon asking who 69,|% So a quiet Shes bursiar told, them fe

eral bureau or 24 hours, there : anapolis.

That figure avesn't include civilian employees =

military posts or those engaged in ordnance Q , but it is based

nose-by~nose count of every man and woman on the government payroll who is not classified as a mili-

tary secret. Only about half of the payroll

city’s federal contingent were available; but onthe

basis of these, the government pays

the Hoosier capital at the rate of about $7,870,665 a

; impression -that such figures were a matter. of | tblic record forgot to men-

year. Whoever gave out ;

tion that to obtain them exactly it

say to go to Washingten with & siaff of aceount-

REALTY

HEAD KILLED

Struck by - Train; Wife in Hospital.

The train did not stop until it was

‘Mr. Hunter's wife, Marie W., is

Engineer of the train was Sam

‘Mr. Hunter was 52 and lived at

In addition to his wife, he is sur-

Broadcast Here

Stellar members of the cast of “Priorities of 1942,” winding up its stay at English’s today, will appear on a special one hour

nating from a special USO service men’s show at the Kirshbaum center from 7:15 to 8:15 t. ‘Lou Holtz, Bert Wheeler, ik Ladd; Willie Howard, Gene Sheldon and Luba Malina will join the cast of the service men’s show put on by the 73d general hospital unit at Camp Atterbury. The audience will be limited to service men. Feature aftraction of the hos= pital unit's’ revue is the Gable swing band, named for Col. Linwood M. Gable, commanding officer of the unit. !

A suspect in the recent burglaries

DY has organized a new fed- %. i an old one within the last" 1: federal employees in 30d»

the war, and then amortize i

acomplishing the desired objec! it he said.

ference

pay-as-you-go plan—embodisc bills already before the hous: senate—would cancel taxes on 1942

ubtes if anger ain. Of tutal the cit) involves paid w rationiv partme: ‘norma Cons federal toundin business of perso: “Fewe entire federal working Wayne :

currently secret heanrds.

on a k-long,

figures for the

its employees in

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would be neces- (

A Fresh Ide

Walter F. George

POSTPONE '42 TA (68 UNTIL WAR IS WON?

Pay-as-You-Go Projosal

Brings New Theor:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. Chairman Walter F. Georg (D. Ga.) of the senate finance co nnittee suggested today that 1942 : be postponed until after thi: var if President Roosevelt and co gress are unwilling to cancel a ful! r:ar's collections in order to put ta: :vers on a pay-as-you-go basis, “We might postpone payni 1942 taxes until three years

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ower a four or five year period,” Co-oige told, reporters. - “That would be a simple Ww. of

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Mr. Roosevelt told his press coilfavored pay-aseyou.-{0

tax collection but was worried = baud

adoption of any plan which would involve forgiving taxes owed. Such a plan, hé said, vc

glrezany uid

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result in ultimate loss to the t:¢

ury.

ned in and

The most frequently meni

George : admitted such a »lin

would mean a “theoretical” 19:s of one year's taxes, longer would die owing the givern-

since taxpay:s [io

Les;

r.;hen, at the present rate of flux, it is they could be Smpiled before they

number of smployess counted in

{4ses and agencies, only 538 are directly 1 ae emergency war effort, including the cts on all the local draft boards and

All the rest are working in de-

‘4ihich presumably constitute the cogs of zo'ernmental machinery. rng the size of Indianapolis, the overall loyment figure is not particularly asJit the 4073 engaged: in the government's pre is just twice as great as it takes to run the entire city a —. Jen 12,000 are engaged in running the e ‘of Indiana, and the recent survey of

did not count federal employees

‘arre Haute, Evansville, South Bend, Ft. 0 + ther cities in the state, or the countless | (Continyed on Page Two)

RUSSIANS PUSH

Drive Also [Imperils the German-Held Key City ot Salsk.

A armies, their 'tnomfiéntimn. and strike ‘| ing impact increasing steadily, drove

throughout the night foward Rostov and Salsk and closed in on two key railroad centers in the Caucasus, dispatches and the noon comrhunique reported today. re In the area of the southefn Don bend and below it, the Russians captured three towns and villages during the night in fights to the death against desperate German resistance and in the Caucasus they drove through the Germans to storm and capture a new inhabited place. Seize 40 Trenches

Northwest of Stalingrad, in a new flare-up of offensive operations, Red army assault troops captured 40 German trenches in a night fight and threw back a counter-attack by 6000 Germans, supported by 20 tanks. In the lower Don area there was attle of many hours around two = abited places before the Red army men stormed them both, killing 400 sacrificz troops and captured their objectives and impor-

after!

ment a year’s taxes.

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Chester McCoy, 933 Park av:

which have terrorized North side ported that his daughter, Josephine, women in the past few weeks was |awakened early foday to find & nad seized by police today a few hours standing by her bed. He had tr after seven more burglaries hadlon the lights, but when he

been ed with turned them - off . and esc The suspect, char, vagrancy a n, was picked through the. wind ow.

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vas 28

ROE FOpOrt carte from W Am ; Broadway. Mr. 1 loth

tant spoils. Dispatches said the Russians were advancing through dense fog and ‘heavy slusk.

Advarc€ Through Fog

Red Star, the army newspaper, reported German resistance had been broken on all important lines in the Georgievsk railroad center area and the Germans were falling back everywhere, leaving sacrifice troops to make a stand and even to|attempt counter-attacks in hope of slowing the Russian pace. On the central front, the Russians during the night consolidated new gains and killed 200 Germans in repelling counter-attacks west of Velikie Luki. -They shot down five German planes. The noon communique noted that in the Leningrad area snipers within three days had killed up to 400 Germans while anti-aircraft guns shot down two fighter planes.

Police Capture Suspect in North Side Epidemic of Burglar

and Terrorism

door with a dollar in change missing. Mrs. Grace Metcalf, 1221 College ve, heard the burglar when he lmoved a lamp table. She screamed and the man fled without. speaking. |

} 8 (Calls reporting attempted

also came from 946 College ave. and| 368 E. 11th st., Apt. F. After police picked up the suspect, now being held on a $3000 bond, Masil Row, 909 Edison st., reported that a ‘burglar had entered h home through thx '{13e said that the man fi

NEARER ROSTOV

re; YANKEES RAI

Five of Our Craft Missing§ Rommel Remnants Flee | Into Tripoli.

LONDON; Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Allied | pilots stepped up their offensive: today against axis armies in Libya and Tunisia. : In one of their busiest days sino# the staré of the Tunisian war, American bombers delivered & heavy attack on Bizerte yesterday, struck at an axis-held railroad in eastern Tunisia and downed eight enemy planes. Five Americal planes ars missing. The British eighth ‘army ane

nounced that planes penetrated te a point only 35 miles east of Tripoli and strafed the retreating Afrika

offensive coincided with the an= nouncement by Lieut. Gen. Dwigh 'D. Eisenhower, : allied commanders in-chief, that Maj. Gen. Carl Spaats had been appointed chief of a new

i allied air force in North Africa.

Includes French Units The. force commanded by &

| comprises . the eastern air

mand of the roysl air force, Ast American 12th air force under Maj. Gen, James H. Doolittle and some, French units. A dispatch from (Cairo said allied fighters at dawn Thursday mas chine-gunned axis land transport as close to Tripoli as Castelver 35 miles to the east. The road was packed for 45 miles, from Castel= verde to -Zlitn, with German ai Italian vehicles. By now, it seemed certain that Marshal Erwin Rommel had mans: aged to get what was left of his Afrika Korps into Tripoli, a axis base. / | Sfax, Tunis Bombed

Easte command at Cairo ane nounced that allied heavy bombers had delivered more heavy blows enemy shipping and military ins lations at Sfax and Tunis, in Tunisia. Targets near Sfax and Tunis were attacked with “good results” Thurse day night and allied planes prow ing over Sicily shot down an enemy aircraft over Ceiniso, a communique said. Allied heavy bombers returned Tunis during the day yesterday and

serschmitt 109 tried to interfere and. was shot down. The allies lost ne planes.

Down 3 Enemy Fighters

The communique noted an in crease of air activity over the battl area in Tunisia. Transport ; the road between Zlitn, 85 miles east of Tripoli, and Homs, 65 miles t0 the east, was attacked yesterday. At least three enemy fighter plane were shot down and anti-g guns brought down a fourth. French headquarters reported tha axis forces trying to encircle F units around Fondouk, on the ern Tunisian sector, had suffe heavy losses and a severe setback. A Fighting French mobile columi advancing northward through Libyan desert under Gen. Jacque le Clerc has captured the Ital outpost at El Gatrua, 550 Jnl south of Tripoli, taking 177 priso: ers and much spoils, a

communique from Le Clerc said, » 2

On the War Fron

(Jan. 9, 1043)

NORTH AFRICA — Allies ntens| aerial warfare. ;

RUSSIA—Red army usar clos

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Reports of the increased aerial “iy

The| royal air force and Middle ;