Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1943 — Page 5

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Fathers Facing

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| essential industries but will start on those in war plants. \ Board 6—January and February calls have taken all but a half dozen of the 18 and 19-year-olds. = At - present the board has 250 childless married men in 1-A with 300-4G0 yet to reclassify. They will fill the calls for probably the next four months.

Few Teen Agers Left

Board 7—The supply of married men without children will be ex-

hausted with the March call. Only a few 18 and 19-year-olds remain and they are deferred largely because of school terms. Officials said, “If congress passes the bill prohibiting the induction of fathers our manpower will be exhausted by the end of next month.” * Board 8—The largest board in Marion county and drawing from downtown Indianapolis, fathers are comparatively few and far between. Because of an unusual supply of single men, hardly a married man has yet been taken. Board 9—No married men have been taken since' December and none probably will be taken until the April call. The 18 and 19-year-olds have filled the gap and will hold out through March. Board 10—Married men are the only registrants left in the board with the exception of a few single men deferred on occupational grounds. Approximately a three month’s supply. Board 11—Officials described conditions here as “awfully tough.” They have 140 married men without children to send in March, but this will not fill the call. June and July quotas will be filled with high school and college youths deferred for the present term. Basically, fathers are all that remain. Board 12—The first men married before Dec. 8, 1941, will be sent into service next week by the board. They are childless. There are 900 such registrants to begin with, but subsequent reclassifications have dwindled the number.

200 in Childless Group

Board 13—The supply of childless married men will probably last for two or three months. There are between 200-300 men with wives only who will be called from their non-essential jobs in March and

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Draft Call

April. Then come those from war industries. : Board 14—All single men are gone except those deferred in essential positions. The same holds true for childless men . . . the list is exhausted except for those in war industries. ‘There are 100 ’teen age youths left for call. Board officials said, however, “if congress bans the taking of fathers we will have to break into war industries for manpower.” Board 15—Youths under 20 will fill most of the March call with childless married men plugging the gdp. The board has gone through about half the men with wives only who are in 3-A. The next step is childless men in essential positions.

PLAN GUT IN MILK TRUCKS’ MILEAGE

A plan designed to cut about onefourth off the mileage of trucks hauling milk into Indianapolis and vicinity has been adopted by the transportation committee of the Indianapolis fluid milk marketing area. The agreement provides for country milk trucks to increase their pounds hauled per mile or lessen the miles traveled per producer. E. H. Matzen and V. C. Manhart of Purdue university worked out the schedule, and according to George F. Burnett, regional director of the ODT, the local committee is one of the first in the nation to complete an approved plan for conserving milk truck equipment. It hes the unanimous approval of the industry transportation committee, composed of Dale E. Long, J. D. Littleton, Carl L. Hedges, Guy Stewart, Clarence Harris, C. C. Perry, W. Henry Roberts, H. T. Perry and C. J. Harrison.

GETS PUBLICITY POST

Barton M. Swope, senior journalism major, has been named student assistant in the Butler university publicity office. He succeeds Earl

Miller, Michigan City junior, who, has heen called to active duty in| the army air forces reserve.

31 MORE BILLS BECOME LAWS

Governor’s Veto: Overridden “As Legislature Gives

Emmert Power.

Thirty-one more bills passed by this session of the legislature became laws during the past week. Twenty-nine of these bills were signed by the governor, one he permitted to become a law without his signature and the other became a law by the legislature passing it over his veto. The bill permitted to become a law without his signature was one requiring counties from which cases are venued to pay judges $5 a day, and the bill becoming a law over his veto was the G. O. P. platform measure giving Republican Attorney General James Emmert the power to appoint all attorneys employed by the state. The new laws follow:

ARMED SERVICES—S. B. 93—(Aldridge) —Provides burial allowances for members of armed forces in present war, the same as were granted during world war 1 H. B. 63—(Claspell)—Permits members of armed forces to operate a motor vehicle notwithstanding the expiration of their licenses. BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS—S. B. 70 —(Pell)—Clarifies law on collection of costs for the care of patients in state mental institutions. H. B. 166— (Morgan, Harvey)—Authorizes board of trustees of the Indiana Village of Epileptics to purchase certain property for the use of the institution, and appropriates $2203 for the purchase, CITIES AND TOWNS—S. B. 2— (Stemle)—Permits Huntingburg to transfer funds to the school city. S. B. 140—(Black)—Provides for election of Hammond school board; members now appointed by mayor. CORPORATIONS—H. B. 159—(G. Copeland)—Extends dead line for holding meetings of corporation shareholders from four to five months after expiration of fiscal year. COUNTIES—S. B. 42 — (Pell) — Permits counties to adjust quotas of feeoleminded persons when one county has more than the quota and another has less.

S. B. 52—(Shull, Vermillion)—Repeals 1923 law authorizing counties to bond themselves for roads. : §. B. 60—(H. Johnson)—Concerns disposition of surplus special assessment itunds arising irom drainage improvements, turning them back into ditch maintenance funds. H. B. 75—(Herr)—Gives boards of county commissioners right to discontinue asylums or farms provided by them for the poor, without reference to the number

J of inmates; board may contract with ad-

joining county for the future residence of the inmates. COURTS—S. B. 38 — (Lucas) — Amends adoption law to give county judge full discretionary power to set the period of supervision of children in adoption pro=ceedings; providés that written consent of parents shall not be necessary to adoption if parents have been legally deprived of their parental rights for reasons other than economic. S. B. 46— (Miller, Vermillion) —Requires counties from which court cases are

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his signature. 8. B. 57—(Miller)—Prohibits anyone not a member of Indiana bar from soliciting employment as an attorney. S. B. 83—(Coblentz)—Uniform “bill of lading” law. HUNTING AND FISHING—S. B. 91—(H. Johnson)—Removes from game law restrictions on the sale of fish from private ponds. H. B. 20—(Mayhill)—Prohibits ‘‘D-net” fishing from Lafayette to the state line on the Wabash. H. B. 70—(Murray)—Amends fish and game law to shorten open season on furbearing animals 15 days and lengthens seasons on commercial fishing in the Wabash and seine fishing; prescribes aew restrictions and specifications. INDIANAPOLIS—S. .B. .106—(Chamberlin)—Permits Indianapolis police officers to serve municipal court warrants instead of deputy sheriffs. LABOR—H. B. 180—(Kendall)—Permits girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to work until 10 p. m. in any occupation except that which the commissioner of labor determines to be dangerous to health and morals. > PROPERTY—S. B. 64— (Vermillion, Biddinger)—Extends from two to four years

the time in which the county auditor may:

list property upon which tax has been delinquent for five years.

PUBLIC HEALTH—S. B. 94—(Batterton) Permits persons under 21 to qualify for pharmacy licenses if they t other requirements.

PUBLIC SAFETY—S. B. 71—(Phelps, Lane)—Prohibits policemen and firemen from retiring on pensions during present emergency. SALARIES—S. B. 89—(Beardsley)—Authorizes 3d class cities to pay park board members from $60 to $120 a year. SCHOOLS—S. B. 96—(Ferris, Garrott)— Provides for the re-registration and licensing of school busses. STATE—S. B. 97 — (Garrott) — Permits state purchasing agent, with the approval of the governor, to make purchases for institutions on open market without advertising for bids, until April 1, 1945. H. B. 61— (Henley, Slenker)—Gives attorney general power to appoint his own deputies; fixes their salaries at a minimum of $3000 and a maximum of $5000. Governor vetoed bill Feb. 19; house passed over veto, 65 ayes, 14 noes; senate passed over veto, 34 ayes, 11 hoes. TAXATION—H. B. 65 — (Thompson) — Provides for legalization of the sale of intangibles on which tax was not paid at the time of sale if taxes and penalties are fully paid up. H. B. 69—(Richards)—Increases property tax levy for the state forestry fund from 2 to 3 mills; effective in 1943. H. B. 173—(Teckemeyer, Colbert) —Permits building and loan associations to deduct from excise taxes due the amount of gross income tax paid. VOTING—H. B. 4—(Henley, Hoover)— Amends primary election central counting law affecting counties with 1st and 2d class cities to provide that minimum qualifications for counting bureau workers be two Jeans high school education and at least 17 years old; sets pay limit of 75 cents per hour.

RESOLUTION

8. C. R. 8—(Phelps)—Creates commission to study fees and salaries of county officials with view toward making them uniform throughout the state; report to be made to 1945 legislature.

Says Women Hold War Labor Key

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—War Manpower Chief Paul ,V. McNutt said yesterday that the manpower problem, daily becoming more serious as the armed forces drain men from civilian life, must be solved with womenpower.

He spoke at the opéning of an .

exhibition on “women in war work” at Franklin institute. When normal labor markets are exhausted and all the employable men are absorbed in a specific area, McNutt said in a prepared address, women must be sought to fill the jobs. “By the end of 1943,” McNutt said, “we shall have 18,000,000 women in jobs in all industries. We shall need the housewife, the schoolgirl, the college graduate— every woman whose family can possibly spare her. The more. women we have at work, the sooner we shall win the war.”

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deadlock over the merit system issue was Joseph J. Daniels, 11th dis-

trict G. O. P. chairman.

Party leaders were about ready to throw up their hands on the whole matter when Mr. Daniels came along with his plan. They grabbed it like a child grabs an ice cream cone on a hot summer day.

It was the perfect solution to the whole business, from their standpoint. By wiping out the present personnel board and recreating a new one and retaining the merit system law in addition, they felt they could keep everybody happy whom they wished to keep happy —the merit system people who want the system maintained and the Republican legislators who above all wanted to get Rowland Allen and W. Leonard Johnson kicked out of the personnel board setup. These Republicans even feel, too, that they are doing: Governor Schricker a good turn by legislating the present personnel setup, particularly in respect to Mr. Allen, out of existence. This was shown by the statements issued by House Speaker Hobart Creighton and Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson following the house action yesterday. Said Mr. Creighton: “Governor Schricker was unable to remove the two men on whom the heat seems to have fallen for apparent failure of the merit system in its troublesome two years. My conversations with him on the subject in the past assure me that he will be very happy to be able to name new directing heads and give merit a chance. It will correct an intolerable situation.”

Said Mr. Dawson: “The governor has expressed himself as dissatisfied with administration of the merit system, and not with its removal of employees from political control. We are correcting the wrong conditions that grew up in the first two years to save the merit system. I have already been congratulated by citizens’ organizations who favor the merit system on the adoption of this method of house-cleaning.”

Governor Sehricker is expected to sign the bill which carries an emergency clause. And observers do not believe he will reappoint Mr. Allen to the board.

It will be recalled that Mr. Allen, a Democratic appointee of the governor’s, several months ago wrote an open letter to the governor in which he charged officials high in the Schricker administration with apparent attempts to sabotage the merit system. The governor and Mr. Allen

have not been on good terms since.

Something to Gossip About

THE STATEHOUSE crowd, which likes nothing better than to chew over a choice political tid-bit, is having a field day over the fact that Republican State Chairman Ralph Gates was the only one of the party scheduled to inspect the Trimble mansion that did not make the trip. To this group, this is just another cinch sign that Mr. Gates is a candidate for governor. - “It might have proven embarrassing later,” one of his friends commented. “People ycould talk if he went along and approved purchase of the mansion and then later moved in as an occupant.” Mr. Gates said he did not make the trip because of “a luncheon engagement.” ‘ But his Republican colleagues evidently didn’t know of this engagement for they waited on him for several minutes before leaving the statehouse in state police cars.

Schroeder Coming Here

THE ANTI-WILLKIE Republicans who have been getting “snowed under” with internationalist speeches here of late will have their day in the sun tomorrow when Col. Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the country’s leading isolationist, speaks here. Col. McCormick talks before the banquet of the Indiana Republican Editorial association and is to discuss newspaper problems. But that some politics at least is involved in the visit is shown by. the fact that he is being accompanied by Werner Schroeder, Republican national committeeman from Illinois. Mr. Schroeder was the man whom the anti-Willkie forces tried unsuccessfully to elect national chairman at the recent national committee meeting "at St. Louis. Mr. Schroeder was supported by Ernest Morris of South Bend, Republican national committeeman from Indiana, but was bitterly opposed by Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Indiana national committeewoman who is an ardent Willkieite.

Movie Stars Disagree Over

: "Slacks Only for Slim’ Issue

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canteen in slacks, she wouldn’t have to worry about being a wallflower.” Several of the ladies asked in passing how Dean Power, herself, looked in slacks, They added that they didn’t want to be quoted on that because maybe the dean was a movie fan—and it doesn’t pay to go insulting the customers. “Who’s going to say when a girl’s fat and when she’s just pleasingly plump?” ask Betty Grable, who is regarded generally as being pleasingly plump. “Women dress for men and it seems to me they're the jury—not the deans of women.” Alice Faye, who seldom wears pants herself, said she believed slacks were here to stay, no matter who issued edicts against them. “With millions of women in defense plants wearing slacks, they'll always be worn,” she said. “And if any girl does decide that slacks deglamourize her, it won’t be necessary to get a dean’s order to make her put her slacks in moth balls.” Claudette Colbert said she liked slacks on everybody, except genuinely fat women. ; “I like to see girls in slacks,” che said. “Properly cut, a pair of slacks looks well on almost any woman except those decidedly overweight. College girls almost never are. Perhaps if the plump girls

wore their coats long enough, the dean wouldn't object.” Veronica Lake, who had to promise last week she’d set a good example fol war workers by keeping both eyes free of her peek-a-boo bangs, said she hoped the girls at Louisiana State wore slacks whenever they pleased. “Slacks are a badge of patriotism,” she said. “Theyre comfortable, neat, and inexpensive. I wear slacks and love them and I defy anybody to deny me the right to wear what I please.” ; Dorothy Lamour, who’s remade all her old clothes into the newest styles, agreed with Miss Lake. “Women in war work have proven that skirts are a handicap,” . she said. “Slacks make work easier. Besides they make the worker look trimmer. So why shouldn't the college girl have the privilege of wearing them?”

CHAPTERS TO ELECT

North Park chapter 404, O. E. S,, will elect officers during a meeting at 7:45 p. m. Tuesday in the Masonic temple, 30th and Clifton sts. Southport chapter 442, O. E. S, will elect officers at 8 p. m. next Wednesday in the Southport Masonic temple.

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WAR PROBLEMS TOPIC OF PRESS

State Association Hears lowa Editor; Dinner - Session Tonight.

H. W. Barnes, editor of the Eagle Grove, Iowa, Eagle . delivered the opening address as the Hoosier State Press association met far its 10th annual session at the Claypool hotel today. A study of the problems and the role of both daily and weekly newspapers in wartime will highlight the sessions, which will continue through tomorrow, Following this afternoon’s business meeting a dinner will be held at 6:30 p. m. The principal address will be delivered by Alvin J. Stenkopf, war correspcndent and a news analyst for the Columbia Broadcasting System. The sessions are in charge'of J. Frank McDermond Jr., president, of the Attica Ledger-Tribune, General sessions will close tomorrow morning to be followed by separate luncneon meetings of the Republican and Democratic Edi-

torial associations.

Plane Plant Closing Looms

In Union Dispute With WLB

By WILLARD D. EBERHART United Press Staff Correspondent SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 26 (U. P.). —An implied threat of creeping paralysis in the vital airplane industry was held over the national war labor board today by the local union of flying fortress workers. The union, industrial district lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists (A. F. of L.), has demonstrated its ability to close the two big local plants of the Boeing company in which flying fortresses are made. It closed both of them yesterday afternoon and kept them closed for three hours and only today was production again approaching normal, according to company officials. Unless the war labor board issues a directive *‘on aircraft wages, based on common sense and the condition under which it was asked,” before midnight Sunday, the flying fortress workers will start “a 24 hour mass meeting” at one minute after midnight, the union threatened. If, the union ultimatum continued, the directive is not forth-

coming by Monday midnight, it will]

ask Burbank, Cal., airplane workers, another vast center of warplane production, to “call a similar meeting.” And if the directive doesn’t come by Tuesday midnight, the

San Diego workers. 28 “If no action is forthcoming by Wednesday midnight,” the resolu= tion adopted at the mass meeting of the flying fortress workers, con= tinued, “we will ask that our ine ternational union call a general meeting of all aircraft locals.” In Washington, George W. Taylor, vice chairman of the war labor

issue of aircraft wages this week. He wouldn’t say if the ultimatum would speed broad action. The aeronautical mechanics union

effort to force the war labor board to act quickly to settle the dispute or surrender jurisdiction. Officials of the local said their action wouldn’t be a strike nor would they indicate whether the “24 hour mass meeting” beginning at 12:05 a. m. Monday would again close the Boeing plants here and at nearby Renton, Wash. Officials of the Boeing company said the local had promised them, prior to yesterday's mass meeting, thai it would be attended only by workers off duty. Instead, they said, 97 per cent of the workers who were

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