Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1943 — Page 7
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‘Intervening Stop’ After Casablanca Revealed By White House.
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velt and Vargas had met on Brazilian soil. In 1936, Mr. Roosevelt
. stopped in Rio de Janeiro on his
way home from an Inter-American peace conference at Buenos Aires.
Subs Believed Topic
It was taken for granted here that all phases of the war, especially those directly concerning the were disHigh on the list of important subjects probably was the relentless campaign against German submarines in the Atlantic. In Liberia, President Roosevelt paid his respects to President Edwin Barclay of that tiny Negro republic which was founded by freed slaves from the United States. in 1822 and now has about 20,000 American Negroes among the population. Mr. Roosevelt also ate in the mess of American army officers
stationed there, .rode in a jeep toi,
review troops, and inspected the huge and expanding Firestone rub-, ber plantation near Monrovia. The president and his party flew from Marrakech to Monrovia in two four-motored ‘army planes. With the president were his close friend Harry L. Hopkins; surgeon general of the navy and White House physician, Ross T. McIntire, and Capt. John L. McCrea, naval aide fo the president. _
First Word Since Sunday
The Casablanca conference aloie was enough to make the president’s first “flight since he entered the ‘White House in 1933 one of the spectacular events of this war. But now with his other stops, it became more apparent that it would outrank any other grand tour of a high ranking government official in ‘recent years. v The only comparable trip was Churchill’s visit to™ Moscow last year. There had been no news of Mr. Roosevelt since he and Churchill met war correspondents on the lawn of a Moroccan villa last Sunday and startled the world with the announcement that they had been conferring there since Jan. 14 and had decided that the only terms upon which the axis could hope to end the war would be “uncondi-
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two trombones, two trumpets, two saxophones, two clarinets, one baritone, and one french horn, which will turn Stout Field’s present aggregation of 14 or 15 from a nucleus into the 367th army air forces band. Although Trigger has been in the army more than a year and a half, he didn’t get his monicker through any ballistic accomplishments. He had it long before he ever heard of the army. In fact it was presented to him as his given middie name by his parents when he first saw the light of day 26 years ago. His father, a former singer, and his mother, a former dancer, who reside at 4013 Boulevard place, claim that long before Trigger could walk he was swinging rattles to a boogie beat.
| violin as a youngster, but arpeggios didn’t harmonize with his penchant for rhythm, so he switched to string bass. His first musical break .came| when he was a music student at Indiana university, and was playing with a campus orchestra. Frankie Trumbauer, saxophone ace, chanced to hear Trigger’s capers on the catgut and hired him. Trigger left Trumbauer when he found the opportunity to study under Fred Zimmerman, bass violinist with the New York Philharmonic. Explaining the apparent contradiction of his obsession for jive and his decision to study under a “long hair,” Alpert said: “You have to have a good classical education to play good jazz.” His next engagement was with Alvin Rey, the electric guitar vir-
Coming from a theatrical background, Trigger started playing the
Today’
blanca.
SALVATION ARMY IN FRANCE DISSOLVED
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (U. P.).— The German-controlled Paris radio said today that the Salvation Army in France had been dissolved by a decree published in the official French gazette. The radio said that the decree was issued on the grounds that the Salvation Army no longer is needed because the French official relief organization is carrying on the same work.
CLIP THAT BEARD JERSEY CITY, N. J, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—The army quartermaster corps revealed today that it was shipping beard clippers to American soldiers in Arctic regions. Shaving is difficult and sometimes dangerous in extremely low temperatures, the corps revealed, but beards must be
tional surrender.”
‘cut, lest ice form in them,
Stout Loses Bull Fiddler Trigger Alpert Who Goes Back to Miller in 10-for-1 Deal
Goodman happened to hear Trigger and recommended him to Glenn Miller. Trigger remained with Glenn for more than a year, winding up his tour of duty in the Chicago theater on a Saturday, and reporting for induction on: June 18, 1941. Since coming into the army, Trigger has continued his bull fiddling but has doubled in brass as a trumpet player in the ¥¢. Harrison reception center band. He transferred to Stout Field recently. Since exchanging tuxedos for olive drab, Alpert has found some time to do a little creative work. With
Corp. Don Ewell, a piano player and |
also of Stout Field, he has written a bass concerto entitled “Trigger Fantasy.” Already published by Mutual Music, Inc, it’s a jazz duet with the piano player providing
tuoso who had an orchestra at New York’s Hotel Biltmore. Benny
s War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Pgess War Analyst Things. are moving swiftly to a climax in North Africa, which is slated to be the scene of the first major action in the 1943 allied offensive promised at the “unconditional surrender”.
conference in Casa-
The course has been charted and all that remains is to put the carefully-made plans into effect. After the Casablanca conference, the highest ranking British and American army, naval and air chiefs met at Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters in North Africa to plot the immediate details of the
campaign. Broad allied strategy, ‘however, goes a long way back of this conference. The. allied . expedition to [Africa ‘was planned : last summer
—|and months of preparation followed.
It was agreed that there must be no mistake, no fumbling of the ball. When it came, the invasion went like clockwork. ; Then there» had to be a period ‘of organization of. supply and communications, the building of - air fields and bases,and a thousand other details essential to a major military campaign. That explains the comparatively minor nature of
|the fighting in Tunisia in recent “| weeks, even mo,
than the unfavorable weather. The allies apparently are ready now. That is the word from allied North African headquarters, and it is being nervously emphasized by axis sources. This coming phase is designed to destroy the axis hold in Africa. It is only part of a broader. campaign aimed at the continent of Europe and the heart of Germany.
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REPORT G. 0. P. NEAR SPLIT WITH TYNDALL:
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last summer ‘in a compromise move to help close the breach between factions and that is what I am still trying to do.” Mr. Ostrom took the chairmanship last June when James L. Bradford stepped out in a compromise move engineered by Mr. Tyndall, who had promised his supporters in the primary that he would get Mr. Bradford ousted. ; However, Chairman Ostrom kept most of the Bradford machine intact as part of the compromise. Just to test the power of his machine, Mr. Bradford asked for appointment as temporary county auditor two weeks before ‘the election and won it despite all the opposition Mayor Tyndall could muster at that time. The Bradford ward chairmen put it over by threatening to scuttle the Tyndall campaign and the latter backed down as a temporary campaign expediency. Mayor Tyndall thinks many of the ward chairmen did thorw a few roses at his campaign and has indicated he feels justified in leaving them out on a limb now. “Before the election I had io fight the Democrats—now I have to fight the Republicans,” said the mayor in a recent talk before the Kiwanis club,
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POWER OF WLB_ IS WEAKENING
Board Has Scant Prospects Of Congress Aid in Labor Attack .on Formula. (Continued from Page One) |
of wage and salary raises are coming from employers. However, the demands ‘by union, while less numerous, affect a great many more workers. Te And a conspicuous breach of the “little steel” formula has already come, with four employer rhembers of the WLB joining the four labor members to award a wage boost which the public members vigorously opposed. The case affected only 20 employees, who had negotiated the raise with a Long Island City (N. Y.) factory, but it is regarded as an important precedent by some union officials. | Chairman Davis today denied a published report that he had con-, ceded doubt of the board’s ability to hold the “little steel” formula in the face of attacks by John L. Lewis and his United Mine Works; ers, Philip Murray and the C. I.| 0., the 20 railway brotherhoods with their 1,150,000 members, the 85,000 members of the A. F. of L. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, and other labor organizations. Other public members of the WLB have deniéd they are considering adjusting the formula upward to permit wage increases of 20 per cent (instead of the present 15 per cent) above the level of January, 1941.
-Rep. Gore Aroused
Several WLB members are known to feel that there is merit in the contention of C. I. O. President Murray that the “little steel” percentage formula is unfair to workers in the lower wage brackets, “because the dollar-an-hour worker gets a much larger increase than the 50-cents-an-hour man.” Special concessions to lower-paid employees have been suggested. One congressman definitely not complacent about the prospect of new and widespread wage increases is Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.), who predicts it would mean overwhelming passage of legislation to raise farm-price ceilings despite any threat of a presidential veto. “If wage stabilization fails, one whole section of the inadequate dam against uncontrollable price infidtion will be gone,” Mr. Gore said today.
Need Specific Ceilings
“A fatal mistake was made when the task of stabilizing’ wages was assigned to the war labor board, which has no statutory authority and no power to make its decisions hold. Ceilings on wages, salaries and prices, including farm prices, should have been written into specific law.” Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. 'Ga.), known as a firm friend ,of labor, said that he was uncertain whether the “little steel” formula was one that could be continuously applied but said “we must have some formula and stick to it if we are to
35 MPH Speed Limit Bill Killed in Ser
(Continued from Page One) fended on. the floor by Senator Thurman Biddinger (R. Marion), the Republican floor leader: Democratic. Senator Von Eichhorn of Uniondale - who - charged that this. bill would make state police the ‘gestapo” of the federal government. He® said that if a person was arrested by the state police for going 38 miles an hour, he could be penalized in ‘a local court and then have the federal agents turn around and take away his driving privileges also. “All we're doing in this bill is to place our rights under the czars in Washingion,” Senator Eichhorn said. Senator Biddinger replied that
“Some people may get hurt in the process,” he added, “but fewer will be hurt if you keep the lid on than if you take it off—and government should serve the best interests of the greatest number.”
- Toughest Problems
“This is our toughest domestic problem.” Senator Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis.) said he had “questioned the wisdom of freezing, or establishing fixed, arbitrary levels on prices and wages, because it might freeze inequities into a more or less permanent structure.”
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Davis Says WLB
Follows Mandate
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (U. P.).— The “little steel” formula, limiting ‘wage increases to 15 per cent of the levels of January, 1941, was defended ay by Chairman W. L.
board, which devised it. Mr, Davis said the board’s policy followed a “clear mandate” from congress and the , president. His statement: “In the Scripps-Howard newspapers of Jan. 28 there appear certain remarks made by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. “Mr. Lewis states that the national war labor board’s wage policy {is ‘an outrageous breach and violation of the no-strike agreement between labor, industry and government, made in December, 1941. Cites 3 Provisions “That agreement provided for the following three things: 1. That
there will be no strikes or lockouts for the duration of the war , 2.
That all disputes will be settled by
peaceful means. 3. That a national war labor board be established for the peaceful adjustment of such disputes. “In accordance with that agree-
well as the public and industry, is
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represented, was established on Jan. 12, 1941, The wage policy under which the board is now operating was adopted by the unanimous vote
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Sees Public Support “This policy follows the clear}
mandate given by the congress of(f
the United States on Oct. 2, 1942,
when it declared that wages andl}
salaries should be stabilized ‘so far as practicable on the basis of the levels which existed on Sept. 15, 1942’ and of the official instruc-
tions of the president of the United|] =
States contained in executive order
No. 9250 of Oct. 3, 1042, issued pur-{|
suant to that-act of congress.
} “The most recent figures show(] J|that 71 per cent of the decisions |
rendered by the NWLB have, been | animous concurred in by
Davis of the national war labor
ment the NWLB, on which labor, as
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he was “no more mn the Washington hureaucrats than anybody else—in fact, a little less SO. :
age. politicians in Washington can't decide whether we should make rubber from oil or rubber from corn.
rubber is in sight. If we have people in Indiana so foolish as to destroy that which is so necessary to keep the state’s transportation from breaking down, then they should be subject to the most severe penalty.”
villé) asked the senators to consider “only the war.”
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“U.S. CUTS PRINTING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. —The government is trying to el nate excessive wasteful printing. additional 230 government puk tions will be eliminated and 84 ers will be curtailed as the of recommendations of a fiveoffice of war iriformation com: organized last fall. To date the committee has nated 469 publications and
368 others.
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