Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1943 — Page 2
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; of Commerce ¢ Red Cross disttee, lined up in p steps of one car state policemen Down - the steps pved 8 line o hopeless people. pme moved slowly. They paused the lower step, stared uncomprey about, and. then were ted to move down the little corr of humans and then given a ing hand up the steps of an- . car—and on to Richmond. While t on, others sjust le c caches and waited— oie until they| pos ii be led down through Union station and out to waiting busses, | One man was lifted off and his stcher placed up on a baggage dolly until it could be carried on. ~The Richmond train loaded, Red canteen workers—some with misty eyes—boarded with baskets of food. Some faces lighted up: for the first time when coffee’ and doughnuts and sandwiches were handed out. _ All night long | the Red Cross workers had waited. They stood on the tracks and watched the train come in. Many of them had been there all night just waiting. Some had left war production jobs to help out, They'd simply answered a call ‘when the Red C committee sent| ft out “You're needed” about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ~ Nurses Go Into Action It was almost afull moment beany of them could bring themes inte action. And then it of the ge tlest kind. Dr. es Myers of City hospital, 256 ors and 25 nurses were there went into action—just as they i been trained, But these Red 0 workers, these OCD. auxil5, these Jaycees were seeing action for the first time, As: this is written, they are still Hsmoving those “living dead” from train. They were being handled a tender, | sympathetic ap-
ach. They were on their way to instions already crowded, already pxed to the limit to care for those y have now. | It seemed a certainty that anyone who partici ted in this evacu-
“No ons could . .|. who bas a heart.
IRGENTINE OFFICIAL ESCAPES ASSASSIN
BUENOS , Feb. 10 (U. P). i unknown rson fired six re-| er shots at ister of Justice llermo Rothe as he was leaving ‘home today. None of the bulstryes Rothe and his assailant
been mentioned edidential possitember’s elections. present post since as national sen-
-: HENRY METL JR,
Friend of Father Discovers Body After 7-Week Search.
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boy fell into the water on his way home from school Dec. 18.
william S. Dunagan, elderly carpenter, 27362 Roosevelt ave. He said that he had received a “message” as to where the body would be foungl. Prays for. Information Mr. Dunagan said that he had been worried about the plight of the ‘Metz family and that he had prayed for information as to where the boy was. He awakened with the number 3000 in his mind and said that he believed this to mean the body would be discovered about 3000 feet south of the place where the boy disappeared. This information, Mr. Dunagan took to police headquarters where an inspector told him that the police also thought this would be approximately ‘where the body was lodged. Mr. Dunagan sald that he went to the Metz home yesterday and told ‘Mrs. Metz’ mother his opinion which she in turn referred to her son-in-law when he returned to his home yesterday evening. As a result the search was started near Roache st., about 3000 feet south of 29th st.
Discounts Foul Play
Dr. Hubert L. Collins, deputy
5 coroner, said an autopsy showed
that death was due to drowning, discounting. many of the theories advanced that the boy had met with foul play and was thrown into the canal. ‘Suspicion of foul play grew daily during the search because at no time did the body come to the surface as occurs in most all drowning cases. Dr. Collins - explained that the constant low temperature of the water caused the body to stay on the bottom of the canal which was about 10 feet deep at that point. "During the search, in which scores of auxiliary police, civilian defense volunteers and friends of the family participated, the family
received hundreds of telephone calls
and letters, about. their dreams, visions and “hunches” for finding the body. One woman had called, saying she had a dream that the body would be found in the canal in the vicinity of a gray barn. : Catholic Emblem Near “There was a gray barn near the place where we found him,” the father commented today. Also the spot where the body was recoverqd was near the place in the canal where a scapular, a holy emblem of the Catholic church had stopped affer it had been placed into the wate®on New Year's day. The scapular had been given to the Metz family by. Holy Angels Catholic church and friends had suggested that Mr. and Mrs. Metz place it in the canal. against a rock opposite where the body was found. The RE. Rev. Henry F. Dugan, chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese, said Jast night that the scap-~ ular, a holy medal dedicated to the mother of Jesus, was placed in the water as an act of prayer to the Virgin Mary asking intercession for the family in their sorrow. Dozens of other persons had of-
The search at that particular spot] § last night was on thé suggestion of
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Bridgins, clerk in the coroner’s office,
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The boy’s father, Henry Sr., and John Turk, friend of Mr. Metz, who found the body, testified this morning at the coroner's inquest at the equrthouse. Left to right are Mr. Turk, Mr. Metz, Walter H. deputy coroner and investigator, and Mrs, Marjorie A, Larr,
fered suggestions, provided special
family and police for seven weeks. Several weeks ago,’ city officials ordered the level of the water in the canal lowered to aid in the search, but this, too, failed as had all other efforts. However, the father insisted on searching every day. When he and Mr. Turk went out last night they had little hope of recovering the body at that particular + spot because they had
dragged the aréa dozens of times.
“But our hunches told us to search there again,” the {father said.
patients reach the other hospitals to get all of them reidentified. State police, Red Cross disaster workers, and state officials, aided in the transfer of the patients to the busses and the Richmond train and there were no mishaps,
Patients Are Quiet Hospital attendants and state police rode in each car and they reported that the patients were very quiet, for the most part, dusing the trip. The evacuation was directed by State Welfare Director Thurman A. Gottschalk and the Red Cross disaster workers were directed by William H. Book and Virgil Sheppard. All of the 1180 patients had been accounted for last night. ' One woman employee was known to have been burned to death and another was missing in the fire which swept through most ef the hospital buildings early yesterday morning. “If there ever was a miracle in Indiana, that was it,” Governor Schricker said last night in describing the rescue on his return by plane from a firsthand view. He and Don Stiver, state safety director, flew early yesterday to the scene to make arrangements for evacuating the patients.
Red Cross Assists While most of Indianapolis slept last night, the disaster committee of the local Red Cross and volunteer assistants were making prepara-
Union station here. The committee heard yesterday afternoon that many of the patients would be brought here and within an hour the committee was
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‘lat work. _ Workers stood by all night long
for the special train from Evans-
ville, The Red Cross canteen corps here served milk, coffee, doughnuts, toast and oatmeal to the patients. Police, firemen, civilian defense workers and other volunteers worked in teams all day yesterday rounding up patients who were released when the blaze was discovered. Most of the patients were found within a short radius of the hospital but a few had wandered several miles
afield. Ruing Are Searched
‘Workers today continued to sift the mass of twisted debris and}
equipment and worked with the;
The first thing they got was a bicycle wheel and some other trash, but after repeated drags, the hooks caught on the boy's shoe. The body apparently had been lodged under some debris. The body was taken to the Feeney & Feeney funeral home, 2339 N. Meridian st., pending funeral arrangements. Surviving besides the parents, are a sister, Norma, 3; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Forcier, Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. Mary Metz. An aunt, Miss Lillian Metz, was reported flying: here by airplane
tions to receive the patients at the
from Florida today.
WPB Gives 'Go Sign’ for New Evansville Hospital
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building like . spokes to a wheel. Seven fire companies and all available auxiliaries were rushed. to the hospital, but forced to depend on water from ponds on the Hospital grounds and had difficulty in keeping up pressure in hose lines.” Police, state guardsmen and military police from Camp Breckenridge helped to round up’ patients led from the flaming structure,
8 LIVES IMPERILED IN DRUGSTORE FIRE
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the family. She carried “the ‘child to safety down the firé escape. The cause of the ‘blaze was not determined, but it originated underneath the drugstore. It melted gas pipes and the escaping gas caught fire to add to the intensity of the flames. The stock in the drug store was a total. loss, ‘estimated at $6000. The drug store floor burned through and fell into the basement. Extra fire companies were ordered out and trafic was tied up for some time at the corner. There-was little damage throughout the rest of the building except from the smoke. Mrs. Glenn said she believed the loss to the building ‘was fully covered. by insurance.
APPROVE CHEESE bE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.). —The OPA today approved a threecent a pound increase in prices of so-called foreign types of domestic cheese. The increase primarily affects manufacturers of brick, mun-
ster, swiss, Hmbarger. cream and Nalin type cheese
"AUTHOR DIES IN. CRASH
DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Feb. 10 . P.) —Frederick Blair Jaekel, 60,
per cent above wages
cost of date to May, 1042.
Swift & Co., Armour & Co., Cudahy
|& Co., and Wilson & Co, all of Chi-
cago, had demanded wage increases ranging from 1 Oto 25 cents an hour —far in excess of the formula ceiling. ©
average 45.7-hour work week and that if all persons working over 30 and under 48 hours were moved up
released for the war effort. "He said the 48-hour order weuld apply in designated areas to all employment, even where an enterprise employed only one person. He
‘| though employers would have to
report to the war manpower coms mission the number of hours each employee worked weekly. He pointed out that. current production schedules called for the addition of 6,500,000 persons to the nation’s labor force this year.
Seek Parallel Jobs
No assurance could be given, he explained, that in changing jobs as employers adjust to the 48-hour week, workers will receive the same wages they now receive. But the commission will make an effort to place a worker in a job
{ with wages as nearly as possible ap-
proximating those he now receives. If the order produces a labor surplus in any given area, the commission hopes to place men thus released on farms in nearby areas. The commission under which the selective service system operates—also will encourage former farm workers to leave their factory jobs and return to the farms, Mr. Harper said. Revelation of this far reaching program - to deal with manpower problems was accompanied by seme evidence that enforcement plans are not complete and that officials are uncertain both as to how far they desire to go or can go without legislation in establishing a 48-hour-week for “all employment” nationally or regionally. - Revealed in Parts If any confusion does exist regarding the precise scope of the program and intention of the administration, it probably is attributable to the fact that the program was revealed in parts and sections and more or less independently by three different individuals and explained separately by two of them. Immediate congressional reaction to the 48-hour-work week program generally was favorable. But wheth: er it and other manpower proposals will ease pressure for draft-labor legislation will depend largely on their effectiveness and the completeness of enforcement. There were some demands, too, for revision of the wage-hours act to make overtime payments start after 48 hours. The program was made public in three pronouncements, a presidential executive order, a directive by Mr. McNutt putting the 48-hour-work week into effect in the 32
| areas, and a radio address by Mr.
Byrnes who explained the objectives of the order and manpower, wage, and anti-inflation policies, generally. In the absence of McNutt, Mr. Harper explained the commission’s plans. Objectives of the new manpower policies, however, were firmly stated; To enable industry and agriculture. to obtain workers for essential production without, compelling the war and navy departments to curtail their plans for 11,000,000 men and women i, the armed services.
Drops Word ‘Compel’
Mr. Byrnes took some of the compulsory flavor out of the program by a last-minute and unannounced change of a single word in his broadcast. For the word ‘‘com-~ pel,” in his distributed text, he substituted the word “induce” in the
velt had signed the 48-hour order. “Many war industries,” he said, ‘“are already working 48 hours or more a week but, the order will induce <compel) other industries to go on a ‘minimum 3 hour wepk wherever Teasible.” : He explained that the war . effort cannot be effective without “a high degree of regimentation in our civilian as ‘well as our military life” but was confident that it largely could be self-regimentation. If that fails, Mr. Byrnes evidently is willing to go for compulsion. Byrnes’ speeches do ‘not have the force of law, but ‘his ideas that
are needed and that every civilian
author and world traveler, was killed last night on Dublin pike when his automobile crashed through an iron fence, struck a tree and Phsged into a small creek.
" CHURCHILL PLANS TALK “LONDON, Feb, 10 w. ‘P).—Prime
day to be considering a world-wide broadopst of the war situation.
Minister Churchill was reported to-| '
The little steel formula - limits | | B)- - | wage increases to a maximum of 15|
Jan. 1,1941, oar stmt Tate ine living increase from. that| | steel’
Unions representing cnployast of|
Deputy War Manpower Chair>|] man Fowler W. Harper said war| industries now were working an
to the higher figure, there would] be an additional 1,500,000 workers|
paragraph in his speech in which |} he announced that President Roose- | |
| workers be put or kept where they | must go where he-can do the great-{]
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Means 30% Pay. |
| Raise for Some | |b
* But the new 48-hour work week | order will bring bigger weekly pay checks to many
His ho address proved fo be} the most far-reaching of the three manpower pronouncements last night. The others were: 1. The executive order making McNutt responsible for administering a national policy that no place of employment shall be deemed to be making the most effective utiliza~ tion of tis manpower if the maximum work week is less than 48 hours. 2, McNutt's directive making the 48-hour order effective for “all employment” in 32 critical labor shortage areas. ‘« Those areas are: Bath, Me.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Hartford, Conn.; New Britain, Conn.; Portsmouth, N. H.; Springfield, Mass.; Waterbury, Conn.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Somerville, N. J.; Baltimore, Md.; Elkton, Md.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Akron, O.; Dayton, O.; Detroit; = Manitowoc, Wis.; Sterling, Ill.; Brunswick, ‘Ga.; Charleston, 8. C.; Macon, Ga.; Mobile, Ala.; Panama - City, Fla.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Wichita, Kas.; Beaumont, (Tex.; Cheyenne, Wyo; Ogden, Utah; Las Vegas, Nev.; Portland, Ore.; San /Diego, Cal.; Seattle, Wash. :
Curtail Employer Rights So far only the 32 are affected, but Mr, McNutt has been empowered to expand or contract the areas and to increase or decrease the hours of work per week, Mr. McNutt’s order drastically curtailed the right of employers in the shortage areas to hire and fire during the change-over to a 48-hour week. It orders recruiting of new employees to stop at once and forbids any discharges until March 31 when manpower commission authorities will authorize releases in terms
nnd si was obvious that firms dealing directly with the government could bound by contract and Mr.
Fooseyelb's ander
Others could be effec-
a tively by draft boards which might| ‘{deny deférment to any man work«fing fewer than 48 hours a week, but {the draft boards could not reach
women.
‘the government to exercise priority ‘powers to compel an employer: of women to release some of his workers by going on the 48-hour week.
~ Although Mr. Byrnes thought; busi ness not directly reached by w contracts or otherwise merely merely might be “induced” to adopt the 48-hour week, the war manpower commission. made no such qualification. In his directive naming the 32 cities where the 48-hour order was to be - | effective, Mr. McNutt said: “In I'| those areas i applies 1a od all employment.”
McNutt Gets Wide Power
\ The enormous discretion and powers ‘given McNutt described by Mr. Roosevelt's executive order this way: “The chairman of the manpower commission shall determine ali questions of interpretation and applications arising under this order and shall formulate and issue such policies, directives and regulations as he determines to be necessary to carry out this order and to effectuate its purposes. “The chairman of the war manpower commission is authorized to establish a minimum work week greater or less than that established in section one of this order or take any other action with respect to any case or type of case in which he determines that such different minimum work week or other action would, more effectively contribute to the war effort and promote the purposes of this order.”
R. A. F. POUNDS RAIL LINE NEAR MANDALAY
NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (U. P.).— Royal air force Wellington bombers raided the jetty and railroad sidings at Sagaing, on the Irrawaddy river five miles southwest‘of Mandalay, starting large fires and caus-
quarters communique said today. Twice yesterday Blenheim bombers raided the Japanese supply base at Magyichaung, approximately 14 miles northwest of Akyab on the southern tip of the Mayu peninsula, the‘communique said. Fighter patrols carried out attacks on the Akyab area; and Monday night bombers raided Prome, approximately 150 milés northwest of Rangoon, capital of Burma. All
order instructed all gov-| ernment officials so to bind them— y |1n-any area prescribed by Mr. Me-
It might be: possible, however, for!
nl23; Irving Freeman, 65;
ing many explosions, a British head
Mac Day:Is Governor, Jack Hoehn, Mayor, i in Annual "Observance.
Boy Scouts of Indianapolis took control of governmental offices ‘in the city from 11' a. m. until noon today. The procedure has been in = force many years and is an honor accorded to boy scouts for ing the eagle rank during the preceding year. Today the boys took over their offices armed with certificates given to them at hoy scout headquarters. For the first time, headquartery gave them certificates as a momens .10 be signed BY He Men yon ar | positions they filled. _ Velick Police Chief The scouts and their offices té= day. included Mac Day of troop 67, governor; Jack Hoehn, 123, mayor; James Stephens, 56, postmaster; Rista Velick, 48, chief "of polices Von Vallew, 72, fire chief; Robert Dunn, 90, gamewell operator; Tony George, 48, city librarian, and Eugene Crum, 14; Lollector of internal revenue. Others were . Richard Braun, troop. 6, superintendent of schools, and James Zervas, 69, sheriff. Filling the positions of judges here were James Rice, 80; Harry Branson, 48; Elmer Smith, 64; Paul Johnson Jr., 14; Lynn Carmichael, Charles Brockman, 66; Tom Woerner, 913 Sam Glazier, 50; George Keller, 48; Bill. Thomas, 75; Don Goodwin, 91, and Stanley Nooe, 95. Ed Norris of troop 31 was colored court referee.
0. K. CHINESE TREATY WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.), —The senate foreign affairs come mittee today unanimously approved a new treaty with China which reiinquisheés this country’s territorial rights in China dating back to 1844,
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planes returned.
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