Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1943 — Page 2

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_. Mr. Byrnes announced that in 1943 Americans bought more shoes than ever before—450,000,000 pairs. That reflected the fact that civil {ans had more money to spend than ‘ever before and also probably re‘flected considerable hoarding by persons who suspected that shoe stationing was on the horizon. At 8 recent shoe sale in Washington, ‘women waited for hours in a line . that extended half the length of the “block. Mr. Byrnes said that rationing ‘was ordered by the war production board. Price Administrator Pren- * tiss M. Brown put the order into effect immediately.

OPA officials said that shoe ra-|

tioning does not indicate that clothing rationing will follow; that : are being made to ration sthes either now or at any time near future.

Seek ‘War Model’ Shoes

Pour other actions will be taken soon to support shoe rationing and assure civilians of adequate footwear: 1. WPB will issue an order elim{nating wasteful shoe practices— unnecessary styles and colors. On the prohibited list will be formal ‘evening slippers, men’s patent leather shoes, hard-soled slippers, men’s sandals and many sport shoes. That order will make possible: the produc‘tion of an estimated 15,000,000 additional pairs of essential shoes, It also will ‘reduce heel heights of women’s shoes. 3. WPB will prohibit manufacturers from increasing production ‘of higher-priced shoes at the expense of low and medium-priced lines. That will protect persons * with low incomes. 3. WPB and OPA will ask manufacturers in the near future to develop “war model” or utility types of shoes at reasonable prices. 4, Manufacturers will be ento develop “ersatz” shoes, types using little or no leather and which may be offered ration-free.

Four Points to Remember

~, Mr. Brown explained the shoe.

rationing ' m as “simple, with only four main points for the pub--40 vemember: 1. Stamp 17 in war ration book No. 1 is good for one pair of shoes between Feb. 9 and June 15, in any store that sells shoes. If you buy by mail, inclose the stamp : with 2. Stamp 17 is transferrable among members of a family living "in a same household and related by blood, marriage or adoption. For example, fathers and mothers can use their stamps to provide extra ‘ ghoes for their children’ if ‘necesgary. (Women and children, ac- - cording to shoe dealers, generally use more shoes than men, Whose models are sturdier.) 8 Persons who do not possess war ration book 1 may apply for this . book at a local war price and ra- ~ tioning board. “4 If asperson needs to buy shoes “and has no stamp 17 in his imme- " diate family which he can use, he “may apply to his local war price - and rationing board for a shoe purchase certificate.”

Here Are the Lists

Here is the definition of what Is fationed: = “All unused shoes, including all types of boots and shoes made in whole or in part of leather, and all

types, and such types as special work shoes, hard-soled mocassins and casual and play shoes, fall within this ‘definition and are rationed. Here is what is not rationed:

Pers and boudoir ‘slippers, infants’ soft-soled shoes, ballet slippers, or~dinary waterproof rubber footwear, : arctios, gaiters, work,

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to be the best shod people in the world, in spite of rationing. Rationing will limit the pur chase. of shoes to about three pairs & year—more tHan tke average purchased by Americans in any year until 1936. The National Shoe Retailers association sald the American citizen averaged about 3.7 pair of shoes per year during the past five years. The. thrée-pair ration will leave Americans far better off than inhabitants of most other belligerent countries. The average Briton cannot buy more than two palrs of shoes a year. In Germany, shoes can be bought only by a special permit—now rarely given. Before even considering an application, a member of the ration board must visit the applicant's home and search the closets to ascertain whether he possesses ‘more than the maximum number of shoes allowed — two pairs. Permits for leather shoes are seldom given. The majority of German women now wear shoes with hard wooden soles and cloth or canvas uppers.

quiring shoes other than those issued by the government can get special certificates from their commanding officers. Special purchase provisions will be made for employers, charitable institutions, schools, etc, which furnish — not sell — shoes to their workers or residents. The Red Cross, for example, will be able to continue mass purchases for victims in stricken ‘areas; workers who have been receiving special safety shoes from employers will continue to-do so. Special purchase certificates will also be issued to meet such conditions as: A person not having more than one pair of wearable shoes; where shoes have been lost in a flood, fire or by theft; for persons with jobs particularly hard on shoes, like mail carriers and policemen; where a change of job requires’ a new pair of shoes; for expectant mothers who need ma-

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John A. Hook

JOHN A. HOOK RITES ARE SET

Head of Drug Drug Store Chain ‘Had Been Hl for Several Months.

(Continued from Page One) Louisville came under the operation of the Walgreen Drug Co. of Chicago and the Walgreen stores here became the property of the Hook company. Mr. Hook attributed the success of the company to “quality merchandise, money-saving prices and customer satisfaction.” Bonuses fre<

‘| quently were given employees and

from 1938 to 1940, there was an extensive modernization of the stores. Mr. Hook was born Dec. 17, 1880, in Cincinnati, the son of August and Margaret Hook. He came to Indianapoiis when he was a small boy, attended the public schools here and was graduated from the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy in 1800. ‘He was active in civic affairs and especially in the Boy Scout move= ment. He served as & member and was a past president of the Central Indiana Scout council and in 939 was given the silver beaver award for, his service. He was a member of the Athenaeum. The survivors include the widow, Florence V. Hook; two sons, August F. Hook and Ralph W. Hook, both of Indianapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Carlisle of Louisville, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Henry J. Langsenkamp and Mrs. Katherine Crush, both 6f Indianapolis; a brother, Ferd J. Hook of Miami,

ternity shoes.

barefoot joy may be dampened somewhat by “Mom’s” continual cautioning about being “careful with what you've got.” / Of course, mothers fave one temporary solution to the problem of | keeping “feet off the ground” in the! government’s provision that - the family’s shoe coupons may be pooled. Ge ‘Dad’ May Sacrifice Fathers wear only three pair of shoes a year on the average. And local “Dads” think it’s a gobd average. Most of 'em say they can manage easily on two pairs. Sc “Mom” may be able to wrangle an extra gair for Johnny by more or less appropriating “Dad's” extra coupon. ’ Taking one of her own coupons for Johnny's little sister, Mary, may be something more of a problem. Women, on the average, buy five pairs of shoes a year. Local women questioned don’t seem much worried at the three-pair limit, but a mother having to give up one. of

find it took some “managing” to do, Women Follow Style

The women’s average is up two over the men because many women’s shoes are bought for style rather than because their old shoes are worn out. Now, women will just have to wear their shoes instead of throwing them away when they grow tired of them or when

The first reaction of local women though is one .of not particularly! minding. ‘All in Same Boat’ “We'll allghe the same boat,” one commented. And that, gentleman, as you. know, is mighty important to a womsu. The limitation order among other * | things reduces the number of col-

Toe-Kicking Boys Here Look To Return of Barefoot Era

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of supply in their shoe bags and feel that the three-pair limit will be ample to keep them “restocked.” Women on lower budgets comment philosophically: “I never could afford more than three pair anyway.” One young lady wasn’t much worried about the prospect of going barefoot. She quipped: a “Look what going without shoes has done for Daisy May.” (Daisy May is the comely heroine of the comic strip, “Li'l Abner.”) Police Use 3 Pair Special provision is made for policemen and firemen who walk a lot. They can get extra coupons. Bui a check this morning at the police station revealed that the average patrolmen wouldn't use more than three pairs anyway. Our police reporter stuck his head in the door and asked Sergt. Jack O'Neill: “What are you going to do on three pairs of shoes?” “Walk .on ’‘em,” was the quick rejoiner. ; And that seems to sum up pretty much the calmness with which the

shoe rationing situation has “been accepted here.

PLEDGE ACTION

Commissioners to Ascertain Sum Needed to Finish Work on.Building.

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and Addison y Parry, council president, and work was subsequently stopped. Blue Scans Contracts

are being scrutinized by the county tind office, Prosecutor Sherwood ‘Blue said.

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“When that ‘begins mighty few members of congress will defy their farm constituents by resisting higher agricultural : prices, no matter what the president says. tainly won’t, though I did last year. “But Lewis also is likely to bring ‘lon a coal strike, with strikes in| other war industries following it. If the administration doesn’t yield promptly to new wage demands. It’s foolish to damn him for what he is doing.: He's only using. the weapons that the administration and congress have handed to labor bosses. ¢ “The country, as every opinion | poll shows, wants congress to correct its labor mistakes. I believe a ne with the unions will make that public opinion so vocaj that even the senate won't dare to resist it.” Mr. Smith has reason to kriow the effect of aroused public opinion. In June, 1940, the national labor relations board then being under national fire for maladministration of the Wagner act, he put farreaching amendments to that new deal law through the house by a 258-t0-129 vote, over the bitter opposition of Mr. Roosevelt and the C. 1. O. The amendments died in the senate, where fewer members faced an imminent re-election campaign. Sees Workers Imperiled

On Dec. 4, 1941—three days before Pearl Harbor, and with the country aroused by strikes in the coal mines and many other defense industries—a Smith anti-strike bill passed the house, 252 t0 136. The administration later smothered it in the senate, Mr. Smith has reintroduced his Wagner act amendments, and is “watching Lewis to see whether it becomes worthwhile to put the antistrike bill in again.” Mr. Ramspeck, who has never seen eye to eye with Mr, Smith on labor matters—he was absent when the Wagner act amendments passed the house, but voted against the anti-strike bill—agreed as to the growing likelihood of restrictive legislation. “Between those who oppose doing anythfhg at all and those who want to do far too much, the best interests of workers are endangered,” he said. “Friends of labor see the need for constructive improvement of present laws, but have feared to undertake it, knowing that antilabor forces would fry to use it as an opportunity to cripple unions.

Favors Committee Study

“But unless the pressure for reforms finds some means of release

structive effect. I think the house labor committee (he is its ranking Democrat) should make a comprehensive study of the whole subject, with special attention to absenteeism in war industries, which is now doing far more than strikes to slow down production. “Labor’s friends are in a difficul} position. Last year I offered what I thought a ‘very mild but useful amendment to wage-hour act, merely proposing’ that unions, by agreement with employers, might let their members work more than 40 hours a week without time-and-a-half pay for the overtime. Union officials denounced me as a traitor, and industrialists said I was trying to put over a phony half-measure. I hesitated to try that bill again.” Senator Ball, ally of Minnesota's progressive Governor Stassen, also believes labor and many of its friends risk eventual crippling legislation by blocking laws “to protect the public and individual workers against abuses of the great power which government has helpéd unionism. to build up.”

Hits at Racketeering

“For years business fought needed regulatory legislation,” he said: “Its reward was restrictive legislation written and enforced by men hostile to business. The same thing can happen to labor. “Some $ime the country must labor-relations code to substitute the bargaining table for strikes and lockouts, but I don’t favor trying to write it in the midst of a war. I do favor imcgiase laws to stop racketeering under the cloak of unionism, to require responsibility and democratic procedure in unions, and to help

|civilian industries now being dis-

astrously pinched between manpower shortages and wage ceilings and the. 40-hour week. “Unless such laws come I'm afraid

by laws written by its the country’s sake, and for labor's, I hope the Kind of laws T advocate will come soon.”

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SEES BIE GAINS

Organization of 5 Million Likely if War Lasts, . He Predicts.

Robert T. Merrill, national com}. mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, here for the mid-winter conference of the Indiana sees his organization as the Jarges of its kind ever known in this ¢ try if the war continues at any length,

“We will have five million members if the war lasts long enough, but we would rather get along with less. In fact, we can get along without wars. We know, we've been through them,” he said in an in<] terview this morning. “This war is much more horrible than world war I and for that reason we want to do everything we can for the men in se

Posts All Over Globe

“Already we have expanded. As our troops have moved overseas our posts haVe followed. Today we have posts in nearly every country where our men are stationed.” But, he declared, the V. PF. W: is hamstrung by Washington bureau-|. crats. “We have turned our entire or‘ganization over to the army and navy for war work and then those knot-headed bureaucrats make it impossible for us to function,” he said. : “We have gone out to recruit men

from us for non-essential driving,

raise $150,000 within our organiza

mary flight training,” he said. Cites Food Danger

definite on the manpower problem. “If we were taking care of ourself alone in this war we could follow

But we aren't. We have to leave

food and necessary war materials.

do a thing unless we can supply them and get them to where they are needed.”

looking to a post-war America. A

serviceman on the payroll for six months after he is discharged.

Officer in Last War

the man, get him back into civilian clothes and tide him over until he can go to work. We don't want a repetition of the last war,” he said. Mr. Merrill served in world war 1! from 1917 to 1919 in the air service and attained the rank of first lieutenant. Pollowing his discharge he

Havre, Mont.

road constantly. A good deal of his time is spent in Washington.

FLAYS PROSECUTORS

Berge today criticized prosecutors who play politics with criminal cases and shape their : cases “for newspaper headlines first and for justice afterwa Writing in the American Bar As-

cutors must share the blame with some trials of war crime.

"'ATTERBURY SOLDIER KILLED WINCHESTER, Feb. 8 (U. P).— The body was.Henry E. Kwiecien, 21, Camp Atterbury soldier, was found on the New York Central

Officials said Kwiecien apparently fell from a train while en route to spend a two-day furlough with his wife, Mrs. Josephine Kwiecien, of Cleveland, O.

IN MEMBERSHIP

for the services and were told that|s our gas cards would be taken away |:

And Commander Merrill is quite

Mr. McNutt’s dictates on manpower.

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former president of the : Alabama

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The American Legion announced that it would join forces with the citizens’ Sommities in Suivocsling the bill. ~~ War Everyone's Busiess Maurice F. Devine, chairman of the Legion's national legislative committee, said: “Universal service in war has been advocated by the American Legion for more than 20 years. This policy contemplates war is the business of every citizen and that those who are unable to serve in the armed forces have an equal obligation to the soldier’s, an Ghiigation to serve behind the lines.” It is unusual for so important a measure to come before a Democratic congress under Republican

t, auspices, but that strategy worked

well on the selective service act in 1940. Wadsworth sponsored that bill in the house and in the senate it was offered by a notable anti-

New Dealer, former Senator Edward | The

R. Burke (D. Neb.). The BurkeWadsworth combination may have been a factor in causing the administration to hesitate before indorsing| a peacetime draft. The sponsors of today’s measure explain that much of the objective probably would be accomplished on a volunteer basis by calling for volunteers before resorting to compulsion. They emphasize that no distant officials would select civilians for war work but that the job would be done by the local board’ of neighbors who now pick men for the armed services.

Bargaining Not Affected

“The bill provides that it shall not affect collective bargaining, the laws relating to maximum hours, minimum wages, settlement of disputes and the like,” the committee adds, “and thus carefully safeguards legitimate rights and privileges of organized labor. “It contains, however, no express

“But we did get by enough to|S

tion. With that we presented the|= army with 15 planes to use in pri-|%

We lost Bataan and Corregidor 8 because there wasn't food. The big-{= geést army in the world isn’t going to |&

Meanwhile the organization is|= bill is now in Congress to keep every |:

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practiced law in his home town of |=

He was elected to his present post |= last September and has been on the |=

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CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (U. P.).—As-|E sistant Attorney General Wendell |S

sociation Journal, Berge said prose- |S [ newspapers for prejudicing the pub-|

railroad tracks near here yesterday.|

Stickney took over village offices

yesterday. Scout Robert Rezabek, 15, entering the police station to take charge, slipped and fell on the icy irk .

When he had been installed; he glowered at the man he had replaced, Lieut. Frank Rihs, and said sternly, “That driveway is a disgrace. Clean it off.” ‘

TRAIN HITS WOMAN AT CROSSING HERE

Mrs. Lucille Richardson, 20, of 311% E. Walnut st, was in critical condition in City hospital today from injuries received when struck by a locomotive at the E. St. Clair st. crossing last night. Members of the train crew said |they did not see Mrs. Richardson at {the time of the accident, but saw her lying beside the tracks later.

ni —————— At tt CRASH KILLS MOTORIST

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 8 (U. P).— James Stephenson, 26, of Madison county, was killed yesterday when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed into a steel bridge.

provision to safeguard the rights of the individual assigned to war work to join a labor union if he or she desires. Nor, on the other hand, does it expressly state that the individual shall not be forced to join a union if he or she does not choose to do so. It may have been thought that these American rights are so fundamental that it was unnecessary to mention them. committee believes, however, that to prevent misunderstanding, a provision expressly covering these points should be included by amendment.” "There will be considerable dispute over the latter provision gushing a drafted war worker to ‘make his owh decision on joining a union. .War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt told a congressional committee last fall that the studies of his commission showed that a national service act was necessary, but since his powers were broadened by executive order in Decembér he has carefully sidestepped discussion of the issue. Sources close to McNutt have said that his mind is “unchanged” concerning the need of such legislation if the manpower problem is to be solved. They said reluctance on his part to discuss it is a fear that advance notice of the possibility. of such a law would break down the voluntary measures taken to solve the problem.

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delay that concurrent resolution. I'd rather stop Roosevelt than stop the war. : “FORMER SENATOR JAMES WATSON—T'm riding Senator Biddinger to pigeon-hole that concurrent’ resolution. Three terms for Roosevelt is better than one term for Willkie.’ : *“G. O. P. CHAIRMAN RALPH GATES—Sorry we had to take the Roosevelt resolution out of the pigeon-hole to make room for the local option bill” ; “MAYOR TYNDALL~—'Stop monkeying with that three-term president stuff and arrange it so that I can be mayor for one term I was elected to’ ‘ : “GEORGE ON (the

senator's nephew is fighting in N, Africa)-—~'Words cannot describe the

will come back to Inc wounded, crippled, blind, aT in health and spirit. I pray God this session of the general assembly is devoting its entire time to the matter of our future ators n

Sen. Lucius Somers (R. Hoagland), author of the resolution, said ‘that he had a mandate fr "she phople : of Indiana, especially from my home his | county, to urge passage of this Tesolution. “whe American people have grown to be a great people of our leadership has alwas been unselfish in its statesmanship and because of the sovereignty of the people of our great country.” { Senator Somers then récited what the past statesmen of the country had to say about a third term. He quoted from the § s of Thom-~ as Jefferson, George | Washington, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Abraham Lincoln, He pointed out “that the people of Indiana have spoke their views on a third term for a dent by a reversal of 300,000 vo in the 1940 election over the vote [of 1936 and an additional 100,000 vptes in 1942.

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