Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1943 — Page 1
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there. He didn’t strike out.
He knocked a home run, clear over the dripping chandelier of what is called “the Red Lacquer room.” He brought to their feet, like raving bleacherites, the theretofore placid ladies.and gentlemen of the committee, who had been sitting
demurely like s0 many Republicans.
5 BELOW SEEN BY MORNING
Mercury Dips to 2 Above After Snow and Wind Storm Hits City.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES Yesterday «32 10pm... .32 lpm... ve 30° 12 (m)
Today vee 24 §a.m. ... wee 19 9a m. ... eee 12 10 2a. m. . 8 11 a m. . 6 12 (noon) . 4 1pm. 3
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A snow storm. of blizzard proportions swept into Indianapolis early today, sending the mercury down to 2 above zero, the coldest weather #0 far this winter, And the worst is yet to come. ‘The Weather Bureau. forecast continued
Hot Somewhere BUENOS AIRES, Jan, 19 (U, P.) ~City dwellers swarmed to seaside resorts today to escape the hottest weather in seven years as thermometers soared fo almost 104 degrees.
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dropping temperatures with a low of 8 below by tomorrow morning. The storm, sweeping in from the northwest with’ high winds and heavy snow, struck Indianapolis about’ midnight and the mercury tumbled 22 degrees in seven hours.
Traffic Periled
The swirling snow on the already ice-coated streets sent automobiles and busses skidding crazily in all directions, forcing the city’s transit system to "Tun behind schedules. Seven more persons were. taken
to hospitals today with serious in-|
juries from falls on the ice, some of them receiving broken legs and Hundreds of share - the - ride motorists - under gasoline rationing ‘were “grounded,” sending additional thousands to the already heavily burdened transit vehicles. Motorists who did venture out during the morning hours crept along at 10 to 15 miles an hour. Many Vehicles Frozen The sudden drop in temperatures froze many busses and trolleys, some of them getting stalled on their routes. Railways officials estimated that the passenger load ‘this morning probably reached an all-time high with every, available vehicle pressed into service. Emergency crews of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. were watching power lines closely, fear(Continued on Page Two)
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Casey Goes fo Bat “Anonymous Assistant to F. Democratic Committee, Then Hit a Homer
That Won_Everyone's ‘Cheers.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
| CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—A fellow named Casey went to .. bat before the Democratic national committee meeting
D. R. Just 'Dropped In' on
He released their long suppressed indignation at the bureaucrats in Washington. He rallied Hien behind their retiring chairman, Edward J. Flynn, as a paragon of all the virtues. He led them to protest that the attack: cn the erstwhile boss of the Bronx, now i nominated as 1 minister to Aus- ; tralia, was in Mr. Stokes reality an attack on the president and the Democratic party by scheming Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats and the wicked press. And it was all in the nature of an accident. } The Casey of this story is Eugene B. Casey, who happens to be one of those half-dozen “anonymous” executive assistants of President Roosevelt. - He was in Chicago “on his way to St. Louis to make a speech.” He dropped into the Red Lacquer room of the Palmer house, where the committee had assembled. He was not a member of this ball club. He was not a member of the committee, and did not even carry a proxy of the Virgin islands, or Puerto Rico, or glaska, or the PhilipIr Spit “In short, he had no business at the meeting. 2 x =
“HE DID have the grace to take a seat over at the side, unobtrusively. . Then, suddenly, he was the man of the hour—this slender gentleman with the new deal gleam and the close-cropped gray hair, who first popped up prominently about Washington when, in the role of a Maryland farmer, he joined in the = unsuccessful Roosevelt attempt to “purge” Senator ings of Maryland in 1938. He came to be called “Farmer” Casey. He lifted himself by his bootstraps, only seldom tinged with Maryland loam, right into the White House. The . bursting of the bonds of anonymity, here in the Red Lacquer room, involves another gentleman ‘and a nice little plot. This all started, before the committee met, in a huddle in one corner of the room of a number
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WILLKIE TO SPEAK AT LINCOLN DINNER
Address to Be Broadcast
From Columbia Club.
‘Wendel L. Willkie, 1940 G. O. P. presidential candidate, will address the Lincoln day dinner of Indiana Republicans here Feb. 11, the Women’s Republican Club of Indianapolis announced today. ~The annual dinner will be held at the Columbia club. Mrs.-Grace B.. Reynolds, Cambridge City, national commitieewoman, said ‘arrangements are being made to broadcast Mr. Willkie’s speech over
; opponents were se wv large Indiana cities and officers of RnR
‘YUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1948 +
MANAGER PLAN
KEPT ALIVE IN INDIANA HOUSE
Committee Majority Is
Repudiated; Minority: Report Accepted.
By WILLIAM CRABB The house of representative today repudiated a majority of its
kept alive the proposed “city man-
stitution. Following a sharp debate, the house voted, 62 to 33, to substitute the favorable report of the com-
(An editorial, “Let the People Decide,” Page 10).
mittee’s minority for the indefinite postponement recommendation of the 7-6 majority. If the majority report had been accepted, the city manager resolution which was passed by the last session of the legislature with only two dissenting votes, would have been killed for the remainder of this session. :
Home Rule Resolution
The resolution is, in reality, a “home rule” proposal which would pérmit ‘any municipality to select its own form of city government— mayor-council, city manager, or commission, ‘The proposal is sponsored by several large .eivic organizations including the Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana League of Women Voters, the Home Rule league, and the Indiana Federation of Womens’ clubs. :
ure did not appear at the 1941 sesyesterday afternoon at She cities’ mayore of Se
the Indiana Municipal league. Rep. John Kendall (R. Danville), chairman of the committee, headed the minority report and led the debate on the floor of the house today. Defends People’s Right
He said that “the people should have as much right to vote upon whatever form of local government they desire as théy do on which legislators they wish to send to the general assembly.” He reminded them of the home rule campaign pledges of both parties for several years. “If you kill this measure sumsmarily, you have no right ever to mention home rule again in political speeches,” he said. Opposition to the measure was led by Rep. Ned Lowry (R. Logansport), ranking member of the committee. He said: “We talk of home rule. What is
1home rule but the policy which per{mits citizens. of a community fo
vote directly for - their own chief executive?” “Explaining why he voted for the same resolution in 1941, he said: “I guess F was just asleep.
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STATE WILL GET 2 NEW WAR PLANTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (U. P)). —Defense Plant® Corp. has authorized : construction of two new plants. in Indiana, Secretary of ‘Commerce Jesse ‘Jones announced today. General = Motors Corp., Detroit, was awarded one contract. for a plant and equipment in Indiana at a cost of approximately $4,000,000. The other was awarded General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.
a national network, |
Y., for plant equipment in Indians, amount undisclosed.
WMC Soon May Announce Plans for Drafting Fathers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (U. P.. —Selective service soon will announce plans to lift the ban on the of married men with chil-
day. : It was learned that fe tbiaary Spins ol a natica-wide survey: by draft officials on the number of single men and childless married men available for call to the armed servces showed that it would be neces0 call married men with ehil-
now a bureau in his commission, will take this step. He insisted that it still was “uncertain” when married men: with children must be called.
situation:
1. Disclosure by the war department that boys who have reached the age of 17 can enlist in the army enlisted reserve corps and air corps enlisted reserve. to be called to active duty within six months |after their 18th birthday. a
2. Instructions to local draft
cities and towns’ committee and|
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Other developments in the draft|
‘price: clown against rising flour costs.
With sharpened knife, solution of iodine and roll of aotion, Otha Dobbs of 20 N. Kitley ave. was “repired or he loaf of bread that came to his house this morning, unsliced by OPA decree. The: OPA says that by slicing their own bread, citizens will keep the It appears that Mr. Dobbs has sustained ‘only minor injuries somparad to what has happened to the loa of bread. Wonder what happened to those: old-fashioned bread knives?
Report = Confession in
Slaying of Patrolman Clinton - Osthimer.
WABASH, Ind. Jan. 19 (U.:P.). —Police said: today that a confession had been obtained from Mosie Alfred Harriell, 28, Marion, in connection with the slaying early today of Clinton Osthimer, 34-year-old Wabash police officer. Osthimer was slain as he and Zenno Malott, assistant police chief,
returned Harriell to the police station after having arrested the Marion - man on. charges of drunken driving. Police Chief: Frank Gertner and Prosecutor : John Beauchamp said Harriell: admitted he: was an army deserter, had stolen the. automobile which he was driving when he was arrested, purchased the fatal revolver three days ago in Toledo, and had been’ “drinking for a week.”
Call Jury Tomorrow
Beauchamp said a county grand jury will be convened tomorrow to consider charges against Harrjell, who now is being held on an affidavit ‘of assault and: battery. The shooting occurred in the back seat of the. police .car.. Malott said Harriell threatened him after shooting Osthimer and that he lost control “of the ‘automobile “when: he knocked the gun from the man’s hand... The car careened down a hill Officers said Harriell fled across an open lot. “Malott. said he fired three times and missed but finally caught and knocked. Harriell down. Osthimer was found a short distance from the police car on the court house lawn. ‘He died en route to a hospital. ;
RED CROSS CALLS FOR MORE BLOOD City Asked 10: Hl to Help Reach 4-Million Pint’ Goal.
Officials “of the ‘American Red Cross hlood: ‘donor service sounded| a call to Indianapolis today to do
the amount obtained last year.
its share in contributing four mil-| tional goal, more than three times|m
0S British | Less Than 50 Miles Tripoli Base
American fying fortresses out off
LONDON, Jan. 19 (U. P.).—The
{ British eighth army drove up from
the southeast to within less than
tary observers here ‘predicted that the axis would ‘abandon Libya and retreat into Tunisia along “the
" | wreckage-strewn road to Gabes.
Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the once-mighty Afrika Korps, was said in Algerian reports, already to have abandoned his Libyan army and retired * to Mendenines, 68 miles inside Tunisia. Plumes of smoke rose all along the..road from Tripoli to Gabes today where axis military equipment was wrecked and ablaze. ' Allied planes, taking a leaf from the book of German operations in France in the early days of the war, were harassing ‘the axis forces every step of the retreat. . hr
Yanks, Aussies
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MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Jan. 19 (U..P.).— United States and Australian troops have: taken Sanananda point and
nese strongholds :in: Papuan New ‘Guinea; Gen. :Douglas MacArthur announced today in a special Som-. munique. Japanese remnants, all who were left of the enemy’s Papuan army of 15,000" shock troops including naval landing parties and marines, were sliced: into four isolated pockets, two on the north New Guinea shore, two inland, and their position was hopeless.
(How Leningrad siege ‘was lifted, Page 14; War Moves Today, Page 3) idigan
long siege of a: is recap:
50 miles of Tripoli ‘today, and mili-
Tunisia lent air support to .the eighth army with an attack on Cas-
of Tripoli.- Allied _ air : Superiority was heavy and appeared to . be ‘growing. The eighth army thrust out two main’ columns in quick bid for the rich prize of Tripoli, last big axis base in Libya. One reached Zliten, 82 miles east of Tripoli on the Tripoli on the coastal road, having passed through the important city of Misurata and the town of Garibaldi. “The other was farther inland and met the enemy in the region of Tarhuna, a road junction less than 50. miles southeast of Tripoli. This second: column also had made contact with Brig. Gen. Jacques Le-
Jap Stronghold in Papud
‘Sangnanda village, “the ‘ldst. Japa-]
A Sra, Herald special - corre- :
All Nazis i in North Russia May Be Forced fo Retreat
= far as East Prussia and, Poland.
: put the Russians on the south bank _|of the Donets with nothing between
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spondent at the front reported that . the ‘Japanese were groggy, in: appalling physical condition, wearing tattered: uniforms and ribbons. of boots : which had rotted: from their feet. . Opening their drive Sunday, the] allied. troops ‘cut the main: road, Jeading inland, in the Japanese rear, with the aid of - airplanes which attacked the enemy positions with bomb and machine gun. - Following up this success, the allies drove on to take Cape Killerton, 4% the northwestern side of the enemy beachhead, and Wye point, ''100.yards. to the southeast. a . The Japanese were left: with. a (Continued on Page Two)
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into’ a _general retreat perhaps as ‘Kamensk is important _because it them and Rostov but fertile plains. "The ‘capture of Rostov would trap all the German forces. in the north
Caucasus. “The German position In’ Russia
tel Benito: airdrome, 10 miles’ south}
.S SUBS SIN
Destroyer and Transport Among Victims; Two
Vessels ‘Damaged.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (U. P.). —Three United .States submarines, striking at enemy shipping in the Pacific and Far East. areas, have sunk five more enemy ships “and damaged two. others, the navy announced today. Ships. sunk included: One destroyer. One large cargo ship. One medium sized transport. One medium-size cargo ship. One small patrol vessel. Damaged. were one large tanker and one small cargo ship. _ Today's = announcement = brought the total of enemy ships sunk as a result of U. S. submarine operations in the Pacific since ‘Pearl ‘Harbor to 112. Twenty-two ‘others have been probably sunk and 29° ‘have been damaged,
FATHER ASKS THAT
Metz’ Seeks City Mandate; ; Request Studied.
~ A city mandate requiring « “partial or total drainage of the canal to recover the body of Henry ‘I. Metz Jie, believed to have drowned in the stream Dec. 18, was sought from the safety board by the boy's father today. William H. Rely, board . chairman, referred the request to the city legal department to determine whether the safety board has jurisdiction in such matters. Mr. Remy said that the matter probably would : have to. be. considered by the city engineering department before any definite action could be taken. Belief that the _ canal’ ‘could ‘hel: drained completely ‘on a Sunday without impairing the efficiency of
with ' rescue efforts of ‘the police department and: he agencies,
a |. Fire Chief
was “willing tot
| draining. the can
the event of a:
LavavETIE, Ind “Jan. ‘19 (U.
CANAL BE DRAINED
Government Seiure As Next Move; Injury To Nation Cited.
WASHIN GTON, Jan. | (U. P.).—President Rooses today directed striking anth cite coal miners to go back work within 48 hours or fae the consequénces of : “nec sary steps” by the : ‘20 ment to protect the na tio The presiden’ sai the was doing the Bounty “8 rious” jury. ”» Mr. Roosevelt's din sotiv nounced by th¢ Whie Eure contained in teclegrains s:nt to national and lical ¢fMciais of United Mine workers. } More than 1¢,000 miner: are out in a strike which !egan days ago because of a dispute aril ing from wage {demands and a crease in dues jevied by tae un The president, acing ‘as mander-in-chiei of the armed forces; issued his order after thé ‘war la board yesterda: hac advised of its inability 0 stop thi strike.
Text of Order :
The full texi of the Presi telegram: “On Friday, Jan. 15, 194), th tional war labo: board issied a rective order cailing upon 311 mine on strike in the santhricite fields to return io work imiedia I have been informed that se thousand miner; refuse tc obey order of the wir labor board | are still out on striks. I: the terest of the wer effo:t, al. din orders of the naticnal board must be. complied %
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femployers and ill employe is.
“Therefore, as comniander chief of the armed forces I all miners in the anthr ei fields who are :iow out or: return at once to their joh of ducing vitally needed coal for tl country. “If this order 1s not. compiled if in 48 hours, ycur giverniient take necessary steps to protect security of the nation ¢ gainst strike which is doing sericus to the war effort.”
Seizure Is. Hinted
The White House did not say these necessary steps wouil be, it was a natural assumpion the president was referrini to sible government seizure of mines if the strike continiies. One copy of the telegrar: weit John L. Lewis, international ; dent of the Urited Mine We who had told the strikers to to work. The st:ikers, how:ver refused to obey his oider 3 w that of the war labor boai:l. George W. Taylor, actiig @ man of the WL3, in a letter : president made public by |: House, declare¢ the wali:isut violating the Jabor-indy: fry. strike agreemer.t.
WLB lakes Move: ;
The WLB dicided ung! yesterday to rtify the n “of the serious situation” and ommend that h: proceed vith action as he diemed proj¢r, The board pointe oul to president that ivhen the sirike b gan, the striker; gave as their son for leaving work an iincres their dues levicd by the const tional convention of the urion 1 fall. Then, the koard said, ne strike continuscd demancls made for an inirease of $i in wages despite the fact that strikers were covered by a which does not not expire unti’
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On the War Fre
(Jan, 19, 1943)
RUSSIA—Red :rmies con vances on sll front: aft: the siege of l.eningrad ; turing Kamen:k.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—| ~ and | Australian troops |e center of last Japanzsse Test in Papua.
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INORTH AFRIGA—Bitish
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