Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1943 — Page 4

Heavy Miltary Draft Ex- Gd

er Diversional Attacks Possible NORWAY-Difcult for Germany to reinforce

ny SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS but allies would have a big supply problem. Extreme

~~ United Press Staft Correspondent

north would seem logical point as remainder of coast is strongly fortified. Would facilitate aid to Russia. DENMARK—Would open Baltic, cut off German forces in Norway and facilitate Russian aid. ‘ HOLLAND-—Shortest route into Germany proper. Long coast line, presumably strongly defended, of=-. fers many possible landing points. Sea crossing would call for big shipping reserves. ° : NORTHERN FRANCE—Shortest route to continent, but is probably most heavily defended of. all occupied coasts. Many believe an Invasion ate tempt here might be suicidal. :

NORTHWESTERN FRANCE — Another short © ~ crossing, but to a formidably. Gefgnded coast. Might be a diversional point, ~ ITALY-—Coastline offers Badng: points, | Population disaffected, army smarting under defeats. Destruction or neutralization of nearly 250,000 ‘axis troops in Tunisia would be prerequisite to invasion, GREECE AND CRETE—Good fighting ground ‘but supply problem would be immense. Most ob=-

papi DON, Feb. 12. — President Roosevelt and | Prime Minister Winston Churchill have tentatively selected points at which the allies will invade Europe and are now, with their staffs, blueprinting : strategy for what bids to be the biggest and most difficult offensive ever * essayed, military observers ‘believed today. Mr. Churchill's revelation n ‘his House of commons speech yesterday that nearly half a million allied troops had been landed in Africa, together with his. emphasis on the No. 1 priority position - tem ‘of the fight against submarines, was taken as « | indicating the size and difficulty of the plans which, he said, the ‘allies had charted for the next nine months... "Military observers belicved that the nine-month | program probably included a continental Invasion: plan.

“Most. observers expected the allies to strike. at

several points, perhaps concentrating on the two main areas and using others as diversions.

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pected to Offset Some Advantages.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 2(U. ym indica-|

and tions today that the 48-hour work| ‘week order will do little more than ease temporarily the manpower situation in non-war businesses.’ |

granted an additional 0, and ¥ the county council approved an appropriation of $6500, It is a fact] that these WPA grants were only| extended after a thorough study of ; the situation by this federal agency.| “This . construction involved af tremendous amount of work and] labor. Our original estimate of the time required to complete the job was two years. Many elements impossible of anticipation, at the start, entered into the progress of the|. work. At one juncture ‘the WPA withdrew that class of labor over 65- years old on the premise that they were eligible for social security benefits. This class comprised about 98 per cent of the bricklayers and the county was forced to buy labor on the open market at the

; 3 it Says. uss. "Agency Too Low on Estites, Changed Rules.

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: ed to report to Norfolk, qver the week-end, 38 collected by the architect Fk “scrutinized by Mr. Blue, said that some.of them were plainable.” He has in his on a photostatic copy of the contract between the com- # ; most optimistic eimetes ‘of Fine Bi rs

] .! detailed

commissioners for materials for uncompleted wing - have not

Blue said that John PF. Linho was ‘county attorney ‘when | expected pplementary agreement for .a plant at - Julietta was mede Mr, :Brown Dec. 26, 1940, later nted ‘the architect in court

Mr. ‘Brown's Statement _ Brown’s statement, first to since the situation ‘was ed last Saturday, follows: | * the past several’ days} ve been published in the polis newspapers, : articles ling to contain the true facts g the. construction ‘of the hospital additions. Some statements in these articles | true, some others were erron- - By implication, it ‘has been efully suggested that the EverI. Brown company architects ed unfairly and received ex-

a contract entered into with n Marion county commisto draw plans for and ge. the construction of an or improvement to the} hospital. From a memo- . encompassing the desired lion and improvement, we had sg. drawn and we transcribed d specifications for the conpn. Our original estimate} the construction deemed by the county, through 3 | representatives, the county m ssioners, was in the sum of At ‘this point, facts, data ’ specifications, were mitted to the WPA, a Federal , in order to obtain a WPA

prevailing private employment wage

“This action on the part of a

federal agency necessitated an un-

expected expenditure for labor by|

the county of betwéen $30,000 and $40,000. could not have ‘been anticipated: by us'or the county at the time of the entering of- contract.

It was an exigency that

“At one time no action was taken

looking to the completion of the Julietta project for a period of more: ‘than one year,

‘Tells of Repair Work _ “After-the construction of the ad-

dition was well under way certain extensive repair work was done to preserve ‘the old - building. : This was not within our contemplation upon entering ‘the original contract. Through a mechanical break-down of the boilers:an emergency arose demanding the installation of new]|leve in Communism because it is boilers.

“The fees of the Everett I. Brown

“The company entered into cer-

As an offshoot of ‘the Julietta-

Sunnyside -investigations yesterday, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Saul Rabb{tion of the - Indianapolis Repubsaid that contracts for rock as-{lican Women’s club, was his first phalt awarded in 1941 ‘showed al-|/major utterance on domestic probterations in the price clauses.

He said a’ paragraph in a conalt at $14.50 . a ton was

Cadet E. J. McGuire, a barber turned bombardier, takes a playful

swipe at Der Fuehrer’'s mustache.

demanstration bombs with the caricatures.

Willkie's Call for Crusade

Hints at

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part of ‘his talk that he did not be-

against freedom but said that there is a great misconception of Russia

So, a8 satared in the. standard fon which must be overcome because the tract appro y s board of accounts and the attorney U. S. will have to work with her. general of Indiana were comparable to the fees paid for similar work|they could not “go along” with Mr. under contract by the state of In-|willkie on his viewpoint on Russia. diana.

Several Republican leaders said

Comparatively little enthusiasm was shown for Mr. Willkie’s -pre-

tain written contracts with the duly|pared radio talk in which he urged authorized . representatives of Mar-{the Republican party to take the ion county and performed all pro-|jeadership in renewing the reciprovisions ‘required under those con-|cal trade treaties and lend-lease. tracts to in best of its ability.”

Claims Asphalt Price In Contract Altered

In fact, when he got to the words|

“high tariff” scattered applause started and Mr. Willkie had to hurry on to get to the point that he felt high tariffs to be a thing of the past. The address, made at the invita-

lems in many months. “He stressed repeatedly the neces-

ii which ‘called for 200 tons of sity of free trade between nations TOCK as

as the only hope for future pros-

“our specifications’ and figmodified the estimate

rtly : thereafter,

marked out and the figure “$18.50” perity and predicted that before the was substituted. war ends our national debt may Today, Otto Keeler, Indiana rep- reach; $300,000,000, resentative of the.Kentucky Rock tite possible size of the Asphalt Co., said no rock asphalt|ngtional debt, he said: - was ever sold to the county under| «1 think it is a fair guess that,

any of the contracts being investi- 3 Satetl by lie. proscoulor’s office, before the war is over, our national

; WASHINGTON; Feb. 12 (U. P.).

Military. observers discussing invasion possibili-

servers agree any front would have to be a small ties suggested the following theaters: Fie fi w

one. JAP BURMA RAIDS FAIL be against las vais — Mg poe Rohatnune failed. yesterday and ons in: 0 rep with heavy losses, an NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 (U. P). — 20 miles northwest|allied headquarters communique A series of sharp enemy counter- 2 Akyab in western Burma, and|said today. :

The war manpower yesterday listed Indianapolis as’ one of 102 “labor stringency” areas in which the 48-hour week ultimately may have to be established. Other Indiana cities included :

San Angelo, Tex, cadets, decorated

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'44 C did mond and South Bend. Tian an f acy All major war industries already have attained schedules approximating or exceeding the 48-hour “For the fact is that, until it level, so the full impact of the orwent into war production, this ad-|der will be felt only by non-war ministration was never able to gen-|pusinesses. : ; erate a national income of eyen a| The war manpower commission hundred billion ‘dollars. It produced |is still being flooded with inquiries instead ‘mounting debts and un-|whether the 48-hour work week oremployment. And if it-could not|der “concerns me.” The answer: solve our economic problems: in the| “Yes, if you are in the 32 specirelatively easy conditions preceding|fied shortage areas, and it will conthe war, there is little chance that|tinue to apply to all employers unit will be able to solve those prob-|til they are expressly exempted.” lems in the exceedingly difficult . conditions that will follow. Class 1-A Fool Low “It is a foregone conclusion that| The order becomes effective an administration whose principal(simultaneously with the edict isrecourse before the war was to in-|sued last week by WMC Chairman crease the debt, will find an even{Paul.V. McNutt which provides that greater increase of the debt its|men employed in specified nonrecourse after the” war.” : essential . ipdustries or occupations would not be granted draft deferNo ‘Lady Bountiful ments, regardless of. dependents, Mt. Willkie said that the real] That order becomes effective solution does not lie in continuously April 1 as does the 48-hour week mounting deficits ‘and the doctrine edict. /It has caused a clamoring for or economic scarcity but in expan-|war jobs in labor surplus areas, but sion. and development within and|virtually no rush in war industry without our borders and in the|centers where fathers already had, marshalling. of all our economic|in most cdses, sought essential jobs forces in harmony and | co-opera-|to escape the draft. tion. -« The pool of men in class 1-A Mr. Willkie took another slap at|already is rock bottom. Only 1,090,Vice President ‘Wallace: in his|000 single men have been deferred

speech by saying that the country’s economic problems must be solved realistically “not by fuzzy thinking, not by foolish talk of subsidizing the world, or of policing its gram-

because of occupation and 150,000 of those .are agricultural workers who virtually are frozen in their jobs.

id to furnish $115,000 for labor ‘the county .commissioners is-| bonds: totalling $148,000 for the of the addition, Work d on the addition, using labor. As the work progressed ame apparent that the origestimate as’ arrived at by the was deficient. Upon submitthe existing conditions to the , a further grant in the sum of 000 was extended by the WPA. later Marion county approad $44,000 and the WPA, again “of the status of the work,

He said a representative of Grady|.

Bros. asked him in 1941 if the company. , ‘would supply “the rock asphalt on ‘a bid to the

county. “I told them to go ahead and bid,

but we did not swant anything to do with it, because the county never used rock ‘asphalt and COU hx we/ this burden and at the same time never bid,” Mr. Keeler declared. expand our ecenomy beyond our

Two bids were submitted, one for

debt may reach $300,000,000. That is a figure too astronomical for any of us:-to grasp. It becomes real, however, . when we know. that: it amounts to nearly $10,000 tor every to | family in the whole land. “Now, how are we going to meet

fundamental social obligations? I

rock asphalt to. be delivered at the have not heard many practical lower’ price on the railroad siding; suggestions from ' the administraand- the other at the higher price tion, and I do not think we are

at roadside, he said.

apt to hear many.

mar schools, not by daydreaming of suddenly making every one a member of the middle class, What ever that means.” : He said the people of other countries “do not expect us to be a Lady Bountiful. They are neither so foolish nor so faint hearted. They do ask that we eco-cperate with them politically and .economically; that we trade with them: that we show them the methods for their own development.” In calling for the Republicans Yo

FIGHT LOOMING ON LABOR DRAFT

High Officials iclals Back Bil, Non-Government Oppo-

sition Is Strong. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P)).

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take the lead in pushing renewal of reciprocal treaties, Mr. Willkie said that the principle of reciprocity had been developed and advocated by James G. Blaine and William Howard Taft,

‘Throw Away Stencils’ ,

He said that the Hull trade treaties are an adaptation of the principle developed by Mr. Blaine and Mr. Taft and that the Republicans should “ight now Treappropriate some of the policies that have been appropriated from us.” “Let’s reappropriate our. own, and use it as a base from which to move forward,” he said. “Our opponents are trying to create the impression that we lack vision though we first developed the principle of reciprocity and though lend-lease was passed only with the help of millions of Republican citizens.” He asked the Republican party to throw away “thé old stencils” and adopt “a far-seeing attitude.” “There can be no doubt,” he said, “concerning our responsibilities toward, the great social aims of our times. But we must take the leadership in converting these aims into

“There must never again be any question ‘of the right of workers to bargain collectively through representatives : of their own choosing, or of the fundamental ‘right, of all citizens to be free of racial discriminations. And we must not listen to ‘the strident voices: that

BE | would ‘argue otheiwise seeking to

divide us into groups ana to sepa-

—There is strong sentiment within the administration for drafting labor to meet the manpower emergency, the United Press was informed on good authority today. Labor, management and agricultural interests generally are ceunted against a labor draft. In the current issue of Harper's magazine, Bernard M. Baruch is quoted this way: “To attempt to draft labor is impossible .and dangerous.” The question of meeting the manpower emergency on the selective service principle arose in an

early winter meeting of the eco-|}

nomic stabilization board of which James F. Bynes is director. It was not in the concrete form of the Wadsworth-Austin bill ' introduced in congress this week to use the selective service machinery to draw upon women from 18 to 50 ang men from 18 to 65.

Committee Meets Today

It was learned that of those present, all but one of the govern=

ment methbers indorsed the selec- |}

tive service method and all the non-government members opposed it. : The government members include f o ur cabinet officers—treasury, agriculture, commerce and labor— and four other top non-cabinet officials. The private members represented labor, agriculture and management. ‘A report unconfirmed but well supported was «that the adminis-

tration was preparing some kind of

labor-draft bill when the Wads-worth-Austin measure was introduced this week. He

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The war man commission’s “And we must recognize that ‘we,! management he advisory through" our government, have a|committee is scheduled to meet toduty toward every citizen in this|day with Chairman Paul V. McNutt. land to protect him. or her .against| The committee is committed to

zen owes to every other citizen|on a voluntary basis but some ‘of its basic protection against the hazards| members are convinced that strong of unemployment, old age, accident administration elements are equally and ill health.” committed to compulsion, although _ He said, however, that these aims President Roosevelt still hag to be were only minimum goals—that the heard from.

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