Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1943 — Page 3
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Big Fires AES Started i ‘Enemy-Held Areas i in . | Australia Zone. GEN, _ MacARTHUR 'S HEADRQUAR' , Australia, Feb. 6 (U.| «Py Allied planes including a new LJULCH ‘squadron sank or damaged six | Japanese ships and started fires
visible 100 miles in a series of shatng attacks on an 1800-mile front|
Stout Field Fighti
GUT 31% IN "42 Even So, Indianapolis Toll ‘Led All Cities, County ‘Took 1st Place. Nl
A 31 per cent decrease in Indiana traffic fatalities for 1942 in comparison with: 1941 was announced today by Don F. Stiver, Indiana [state police superintendent. Official tabulations of state police records. show a total of 1016 persons covering. the entire Australian zone,| killed on! Hovsier wa and ee Gen. ‘Douglas MacArthur announced fatalities in 1941, against :
FROM THE TYPE of leglation predominating this sesin: the legislature might well be termed the “salary grab” session. 3 For approximately one out of every 12 bills introduced during first half, which ended yesterddy, pertained to raising the salaries public officials. This is by far the greatest single bloc of legisa: introduced up: to date. This, of course, was to be ex- ‘of the same board under iti old pected.” Other salaries have been going up-in recent years while those of the public officials, fixed by law, have remained - un-
‘A great portion of these proposed ‘raises are justified, too, in view : of current conditions. But some are not. Too, most of the officials: ‘who are justifying these raises because of increased living costs are putting no clauses in the bills ‘causing’ them to expire after the war when living costs presumably will go down. Such a provisicn was proposed by Rep. Earl Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis) for the bill raising all policemen and firemen salaries but it was rejected.
United States air force B-24 1ib- : state police and other authorities, erator heavy bombers left a 10, gasoline rationing and reduced trafoni ship ablaze from end to end A fic cut the total of persons killed and seriously damaged two shipsof|. in motor accidents to 57 in“Decem5000 tons each in an attack on the ‘ber ‘Mr. Stiver pointed out. enemy-held Netherlands Indies : anuary naval base of Ambon and shot down J Toll Highest without loss five and probably six The highest fatality month last of | the planes which challenged year was January, during which 119 iy ‘persons lost: their lives. - | - Indianapolis led 35 Indiana cities of over 10,000 population with 88 traffic fatalities. Gary was second with 32. Marion county with 117 deaths and Lake county with 97
measures pending are these: Raise salary of secretary of state from $6500 to $7500. Raise pay: of -all state, county and township officers, with but few exceptions, a flat 20 per cents Png pay of legislators: $10: a
- Raise pay of - legislators from’
Flying fortresses sank one. me-dium-sized 'ship and damaged anJ off the Admiralty islands northeast of New Guinea and a tor sank a 1000-ton enemy
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in the same area. Rabaul Pounded Heavily
n the Ambon raid ‘the liberators
started great fires throughout the to n and harbor area.
g fortresse made one of the!
most punishing raids since the war started on Rabaul, in New Britain biggest Japanese base in the Australian-Solomons island. ‘For three hours the giant planes ide harassing attacks on. the base, thich has been ‘attacked each day for a week, dropping incendiary and demolition bombs, and then came the main raid. : The first fortress on the spot found lights on at the big Vuna- _ kanau airdrome and planted bombs which started fires. These fires
a lighted targets for the planes which
followed formation by formation. ‘Fires were started all over the Japanese-occupjed town and flames at the airdrome were visible 100 miles away.
: . Raid: Gasmata Airport
In addition B-24 consolidated and C-1 Catalina patrol bombers, flying its, made three attacks on the dronie as Gasmata, on the south t of New Britain island, and rted fires visible almost as far away as those at Rabaul. -25 Mitchell medium bombers, 1anned by pilots of the Nether: nds East Indies air force, made biggest raid on the Japanese upied Dutch Aroe- islands off je south New Guinea coast. ‘ “Attacking the enemy base at bo, they scoréd bomb hits on ldings and wharves, blew up mmunition and supply dumps and fires. They returned with-
ATV. F.W. SESSION
Governor Schricker, Brig. Gen. ed Borum of Stout field and Col. alter Drysdale of Ft. Harrison .speak tonight at a banquet of Veterans of Foreign Wars at the >olumbia.- club.
The national commander of the iv F. W., Robert T. Merrill, Havre, nt., will be the featured speaker. is to discuss peace aims and what he believes are the jhings men service will want in the way of world peace when the war is over. Mr. Merrill is to arrive here this orning, He ‘will announce the ornization’s gift of 15 training 8 es to the army air forges by the ational organization. | The regular mid-winter conferce of the Indiana department of tion will bé held in the orld War - Memorial this' afterJohn H. Strange of ~Evanse, state commander, will “préMrs. Ruby Tindle, head .of women’s. auxiliary, will be in of a meeting of that group
{U. P.).—Sergt. Carl e; Ind., memfortress crew, has ' for destroying an
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4 . F190. foe Boskey, Ca; vs, Hershey, Coliseum, : key, Cape a ey.
northeast of New Guinea,
All' aboard for. Berlin! port by air.
Thirty-eight American soldiers and 10 bicycles, with room remaining for field guns and jeeps, practice troop transThe plane is a new type operated by the troop transport command, which has its headquarters-at Stout field. The TCC is transporting troops and supplies by planes and gliders and evacuating wounded in many theaters of war.
SALARY LIMIT
Promises Vics on Its Merit If House Committee
Insists on Change.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today expressed hope that a bill increasing the public debt limit to : $210,000,000,000 would be passed without a proposed amendment abolishing the $25,000 net limitation on salaries. : In a letter to Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the house ways ‘and means commitiee, the president said: “It is my earnest hope that the public debt bill can be passed without the addition of amendments not related to the subject of the bill. I believe it is of importance that this should be done. However, should: the committee think otherwise, -1 will lager, in response to your invitation, submit my views as to the merits of the proposal.”
House Delays Action
The ways and means committee after hearing Doughton read the note, voted to postpone consideration of the public debt extension and the proposed amendment. The amendment would annul the salary limit that was put /intp effect by a presidential executive order, Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R. Cal), sponsor of the proposed amendment, predicted that the committee later would approve it by a wide margin. He said “we're getting more votes every day.” The executive order does not apply to income other than that received as salaries.
. Salaries Now Limited At present salaries are’ limited to
ductions for taxes, life insurance premiums and other previously contracted fixed obligations. “I havesbeen informed by experts of the joint committee on’ internal revenue that after a careful threeweeks study of the $25,000 limit, they are convinced it costs the treasury $110,000,000 in‘ revenue losses per year,” Gearhart Said. } “This limitation is un-American| it is an invasion of the congress d is clearly un-
and’ ill-advised. of the ‘prerogativi by the executive, constitutional.” | : With seven pay-as-yousgo schemes already before it, the committee ex-
pects to hear another when hearings resume: Monday.
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At the City Hall—
Tyndall Wins First Round In Dispute Over Patronage
By SHERLEY UHL
was definitely lost last week by
county chairman.
porters. There still was some speculation as to whether Mayor Tyndall’s solid little city hall clique would be successful in taking over ultimate control of party-line Republicans here. The fact that Republican committeemen and vice committeemen from the Ninth, 20th and 21st wards and Washington township resolved to support Mr. Ostrom and | organization forces in the patronage fight indicated no quarter had been given, Also significant was a bill introduced in the legislature designed to give the organization-controlled city council the privilege of selecting a successor ‘to the mayor should a vacancy occur in that office. Aft present, the city controller would take over. But despite these counter moves by machine politicos, Mayor Tyndall’s forces were laying the foundation for a renovated Republican setup, with each political job filled serving as a brick in that foundation. - Without influence in the dispensation of jobs to party workers, ward chairmen and precinct committeemen are politically impotent, Mr. Ostrom officially surrendered his patronage rights yesterday in a letter in which he appealed for “parfy unity.” He ‘also returned more than a 1000 application blanks to disgruritled job-seekers, Gen. Tyndall disavows any intention of building his own Republican organization here, but some say that consciously or unconsciously, that's what he’s doing. He’s often insisted that as far as (he’s concerned polities will have to ‘take a back seat to efficient administration, Last week he acknowl-| edged that “politics as usual is out for the duration.” But chances are that in the very near future he’ll see hore politics than he’ s bargained for, #
Crime Decreases
Police department statistics show that crime in Inidanapolis. from Jan. 1 to 22 decreased considerably under the same period for last year. In the 22 days, 475 major offenses were committeed as compared with
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First round in the battle for control of the Republican organization
James Bradford, who unofficially
had sat in the G. O. P. driver's seat, and Henry Ostrom, the partys
This was the round which saw Mayor Tyndall's brand new pa- : tronage committee distribute more than 100 politieal jobs to loyal sup-
larcenies. Aggravated asasults showed -the biggest slump with only five recorded as against 25 in January of last year. Will Remy, safety board president, points out that a noticeable lull in crime activity followed a strenuous anti-vice campaign waged by police during the’ third week of last month. Reports are current, however, that vice may attempt a comeback in the near future. Some of the ‘boys supposedly possessing plenty of gaming “savvy,” said yesterday that the “lid is off” as of this week. Failure to obtain gaming convictions in many cases is cited as responsible for a rumored police department lay-off. ® o 8
Cleanup for Taverns
If and when" he obtains enough money to hire four more food inspectors and three additional sanitary inspectors, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, will inaugurate: a’ vigorous “cleanup” drive aimed at enforcing. observance of sanitary and food .grading regulations in city taverns. Recently, he states, many tavern owners have used the shortage of help as an excuse to flaunt sanitation requirements. ~ Presently, however, the same manpower shortage, 'is’ seriously handicapping’ the health board in its investigation of such violations. The board has two féod inspectors and about a half dozen sanitary Tepesiar:
SCHOOLS ‘OF GARY TO REOPEN MONDAY
GARY, Ind, Feb. 6 (U, P). — Gary's 22,000 school children: will return: to school Monday, assured that classrooms will be warm. One hundred striking janitors agreed today to return to work while the school board considers their demands for more pay, shorter ‘hours and overtime. The janitors struck ‘Wednesday,
| homes.
636 in January, 1943. There were
45 fewer burglaries. and 50 fower
Ernest M. Minor, “, of 1222 Prospect; Agnes G. Collins, 49, Arlington, Ind. John IL. Mitchell, 24, Pt. Harrison; Barbara Ruth Richey, 18, of Cy Benvooa. Daniel John Quinn Jr., 23, U. 8. Arm : Fatgrounds, City; Anna a Stemple, a1, of 1645 N. Alabama,
. | Thomas Michael Spillman, 24, of 340 East-
‘ern; Marie Eilzabeth Seal, 23, of 581 N. Oxford. Hiawatha Barnes, 23, Joliet, n.; Virginia “Sherron, 22, of 1906 Cornell. Arnold Curtis, 26, of 4435 Evans.ton; Evelyn Frances Bocox, 25, of 510 Laclede.
= Thoodbre R. Frederick, 42 S. Army, untsville, Texas; Phyllis’ ~ Thorpe, 28, m 2847 Central. Pras Harold Sinderiter O'Reilly ‘Gen. Hospital, Springfield k a. ; Elnora Shirley, 22, of 1428 Nelson.
Anna Fran k, 55, of 123 N. Colora Georg! Pegg, 24, of 2426 N. Alabama; Phyllis HR 18, of 2614% Central. - | James J. Watts, 22, of 340° N. Miley; Cheeks, 22 ?
"23, of 1516,
,- Lero Alabama; Yjanet. Eileen
2169 N. Charles RA
‘Runyan, 18, of}
Evelyn Cc Fred H. Meyer, 61, i 947 Ewing; Bessie
: Harrison: Kathryn |; N. .penn-|
Wallen. 21, of 1m1 N. Ene
Harding. William Welsh, 19, of 314 W.| - ‘Rose McDade, 19, R.|
leaving only skeleton crews bo keep pipes from freeing.
IS—MEET INGS—VI TAL S TATISTICS
James, Estella Rooney: at 1144 Lexington. E1arence, Chris Phillips, at 656 N. Bla,
ord. John, Sarah Greeson, at 2039 Tipton. John, Arthella Otter, at 422 S. Eri Rufus, Mary Walker, - 2747 Columbia. Harold, Ruth Dove, at 1532 N. Hamilton. Harry, Ollie Keys, at 1217 Herbert. Leroy, Virginia ‘Ricketts, at 2137 Shriver, : Boys Leonard, Lucille Avolay, aL St. Francis. Paul, Jean Hauze, at St. John, Evelyn Cosgrove, St. Re rancts. Horace, Mary Richter, at St. Francis. Clarence, Geraldine Ragor, at City. ‘Ora, Mabsl Clacker, at. 8t. Vincent's Paul, La ura Harmon, at Coleman. John, Erne: stine Funk, at Coleman. Wilbur, Arebelle Atwell, 7 Methodist, Wendell, Irma Sawyer, at Methodist.
ord, nald, Faye e Crecelius, a thodist. Leonard ris Sarai Kionett, hg 2 Nob oble.
ymond, Dorothy: Walker, at 817 E. 19th.
p RT ‘followin table ie? the tempers- : in other cities:
NURSING HOME BILL ADVANGED
Senate Unanimously Sends Balz Reform Measure To House.
Licensing and regulation . of nursing homes for aged ‘ persons would * be provided under a bill passed by the state senate unanimously today. Ds The measure was intfoduced by Senator Arcada Balz (R. Indianapolis), the only woman member of the senate, who delivered ‘her maiden speech on the floor in support of the measure. She said the conditions in many nursing -homes in ‘Indianapolis and oiher Indiana. cities were deplora‘ble. : : «Conditions Deplorable” “Regulation is needed to correct
overcrowded conditions and lack of |
adequate medical care for hundreds of patients in these homes,” Sen-, ator Balz said. She referred to a report of an investigating committee which probed conditions in Indianapolis nursing That report; made more than six months: ago, charged that deplorable conditions existed in some of the homes here and that steps should be taken to correct them. The measure would place supervision of the homes under the county and state welfare departments.
DE GAULLE-GIRAUD PACT THOUGHT NEAR
LONDON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Radio Morocco indicated today that Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and Gen.
Charles de Gaulle were near an agreement over the government of Franch Africa.
Giraud, Radio Morocco said, had
abolished the imperial council es-
tablished by the late Admiral Jeanj
Francois Darlan and set up a war committee in its place. He’ specified that he would appoint new members to the war committee as he wished, ‘opening the way for de Gaulle’s Fighting French to enter the government. Moreover, Giraud had assumed the title. “French civil and . military commander-in-chief,” Radio. . Morocco said. .That presumably replaced the title, high commissioner of French Africa.
John Bo Boicourt, 8, “at 1245 Deloss, carcinom: John Pickard, 85, at City, pneumonia. : 45, at - City,
Mont T. Rolin, hemorrhage. | Harlie M. Graham, 52, at Methodist, puling smbolism. i rvey Reed at 401 West, corona thrombosis. > James J. ‘McOloskey, 73, at 2011 N. Pennsylvania, chronic myocarditis.
hypostatic cerebral
OFFICIAL WEATHER ; rin 1 S. Weather Bureau :
All Data in Central War Time Sunrise. ..... 7:49 | Sunset.......
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 30 a Total precipitation Since Jan. 1..... Drecipiiat) Jan pe 3
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deaths led county traffic fatality totals. Brown, Crawford, Harrison, Ohio, Owen and Perry counties re-
.| ported no deaths.
Mr. Stiver’s statistics showed a 36 per cent decline in rural fatalities and a 19 per cent drop in cities and towns. In 1942, there were 671 rural fatalities and 345 urban deaths, while in the previous 12month, period the rural total reached 1051 and the urban total, 427 deaths.
BRITISH RUN OUT OF SUBMARINE NAMES
LONDON. Feb. 6 (U. P.)—The royal navy is having difficulty in finding names for its submarines, it was disclosed today. The undersea craft will be given names to replace their numbers, and the. shortage of names is hindering the rechristenings. Names beginning . with “U” already have been exhausted for submarines of the “U-class” and some will have to take names starting with “v.” . Prime Minister Winston Churchill advocated names instead of numbers and the submarine crews. supported him, declaring that names had personality.
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A funny thing happened here the other Jacob Schneider, who runs a
was opening up at 6 a.
_ room,’
« $1.25 on the counter - coffee sells for. .
. The chewing gum shortage ‘has some of the local folks running around From one store to another. . . . Lots of folks that never chewed it before are real gum fans now. . ..
saw his shadow and scurried right back into his hole to. dodge another six weeks of . Smart, these groundhogs.
A 22-YEAR-OLD fellow who failed three
court he mislaid his induction papers and’
. the. court just put kim. in jail until next Saturday, his new induction date. .« + . Lots of kids around
the three-day kind. . They used to be known as German measles, * became liberty measles during ‘world ‘war I, and now they're Victory measles. , .:, Kids hate them just as bad as the German type, - . Lester C. Nagley Sr., the Brown county artist, sent a couple of his color etch-
- 2 Constitution Forgotten present $10 a flay tor the Susy
THERE 1S one other thing that most of these salary-conscious officials are forgetting, according to lawyers. That is that the state constitution prohibits an increase in salary during an officer’s term. They say that this - pertains to those bills that increase salaries because of added duties. There are a number of these bills, two of which involve Marion County Assessor Sam Montgomery and City Clerk Frank Noll. The assessor’s bill, as it is to be amended, would give him the job of being inheritance tax collector for the county and add to his present $2880 salary enough of the $3600 now paid to the inheritance tax collector to make him draw $6000 annually. The other bill would give the city clerk an additional $1000 to $1200 a year for compiling city ordinances. Some of these bills, however, recognize the constitutional amendment. The state .tax board bill to raise salaries of the three board members from $4500 to $6000. a year seeks to evade it by’ providing for the abolition of the present board and the re-creation
for feeding prisoners. Raises pay of Indianapolis mute nicipal court judges from $5000 to
$7500. he £
Raises salary of county sors $400 annually. Raises minimum salary of. school attendance officers. from $3 to $4 a day. .Ete., ete.
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Ahead of Last Session
AT ADJOURNMENT yesterday, the 43 session was ahead of - record-breaking ’41 session in the total number of bills introduced— 672 having. been introduced as compared with 644 introduced ir both houses at the same time two. years ago. But with introduction of bil now practically shut off .in house, 15 days earlier than years ago, this session will come, close to the ‘41 record of introducing over 970 ‘bills. The senate, which still has one. day for introduction of bills p riod, is 13 bills behind two ago, having introduced only 195 as compared with 208.
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_ Feb. 6,1943 ‘to’ School 14 to finish the 8th grade... . He's in Manual now... . A blind man is helping produce war goods out at the P. R. Mallory plant. , . . He is Howard Sellers, 531 Alton ave. - And his bosses say he’s doing. & mighty fine job. . .. Electronic Labor had a big ceremony here week when received the army-navy | pennant for war production. . . . Business note: Postal réceipts in January were up almost 8 per cent over a year ago.
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Need 40,000 Workers— .
THE 'CITY’S garbage reduction plant ! to shut down this week. . . . The boilers of its 32 cookers were declared in dange: condition. . . It may take six ‘months. or longer to Tepiace the is now virtually, extinct in this x ‘Hoosier state. "Vv . ..There is ‘nothing left but’ a skeleton force to wind up its affairs. . . . Edward Green, director of war production classes, sayswelll S be needing 40,000 workers here 1943. . Half of them will be women. Tyan . The Kingan Rifle and Pistol club. sponsoring classes in rifie shooting. . . . newly formed committee will seek reduce farm accidents ‘which Hight nte; with a bumper crop production. Wi Barbour is chairman. . . When Theod Eugene Westervelt, 20, of 733 W. 44 reported for voluntary induction as. a me the. sergeant - taking his: fi discovered the print of = Westervelt’s index finger showed a perfect im of the Marine Corps emblem—globe, eagle and all.
Saturday
and Eastern ave. m. when a .man walked © in right behind him, ordered him into the rear ‘and ' then made off with three pounds. of coffee. . The funniest thing about it is that the man left
—more than the
rationing CoRpons.
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A A Legionnaire at 18— A VETERAN of the present’ war at