Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1943 — Page 4

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“the optimistic farm memof he senate military affairs jtee, which approved the bill} y, were surprised at. the 1 vote. The bill had been de2d by Acting Secretary of Robert P. Patterson as a poi areal to mgrale, both and military. > origins] farm deferment bill, ed by Senator John H. thead (D. Ala.) would have ded all farmers for the duration. the approved substitute, sponed by freshman Senator George Wilson (R. Iowa) would: End farm deferments at midb, Dec. 31, 1943, by which time presumably -will have. enchanges in the selective servact to halt the inroads into farm made by the armed } and industries flush with, nment contracts.

Does Not Alter Freezing

. Issue certificates to recipients of farm deferments. By putting jo writing the board’s opinion of -essentiality of the deferred workproponents of the plan argue, ds will be careful not to place mselves on record in favor of in‘dividuals whose sole farming activiies consist of growing foodstuffs for ‘pelasure or mere self-sufficiency. * 8. Specify that the work entitling he worker to deferment must be done on a farm. Otherwise, some ‘committee members contended, men ‘engaged merely in the processing of |- foodstuffs might be considered eligible for similar preferment. “The Wilson version of the bill does not alter the provision freezing * farmers in their present occupations “unless they can convince local draft

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useful in war vy. or in the Lmilitary-naval force. This proviso caused Senator Joseph ' C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) to denounce the bill as fostering “involuntary servitude.” O'Mahoney, of the seven commitiee members opposing it, said he would sponsor floor amendments to insure that farmers eligible for deferments ‘produce a volume: of crops large enough or perform services important enough to warrant preferential treatment. He charged that the bill would lure a fantastic number of draft dodgers to farms.

Only Stop Gap

Wilson conceded that the bill is only “stop gap” legislation. “But it will provide labor for harvesting this year’s cPops,” said. “Meanwhile congress can get to work and produce legislation to take care of the situation next year.” Bankhead said the measure would be considered by the full senate next Monday.

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ANKARA, March 3 (U.P) ~—Cancellation of the appointment of Augusto Rosso as Italian ambassador to Turkey was understood today to have resulted from a protest by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. ; It was pointed out that ‘Rosso's wife was American born and had two sons in the. American forces. Rosso’s friendship with U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt also was said to have affected his appointment.’ RT a TI. ———— TELLS OPA TO HIRE WOMEN WASHINGTON, March 3 (U. F). —Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown yesterday instructed Lis subordinates to hire women for OPA jobs where possible rather than

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walking west in front of Ayres when she heard someone yell, “Watch out for that car.” «1 started running towards the entrance to Ayres,” she. testified. “The car hit me, I guess. I remember seeing the car and the women lying the broken window. I don’t think I was unconscious. There was someone lying on top of me and I yelled for someone to get that person off of me.

Kept Asking for Boy

“I was injured from head to foot. There were cuts and bruises on my face, arms, legs and body.” She exhibited a scarred elbow to the jury. : “A policeman bandaged my elbow and thumb at the scene of the accident,” Mrs. Hall continued, “and they took me to the Methodist hospital. “I didn’t see my little boy immediately. I kept asking people where he was. They told me he was all right. Thewmext day they told me.”

she told of the death of the child, Long Under Doctor's Care

She said she was under a doctor’ S care until December. “I was pregnant at the time of the accident,” Mrs. Hall said, “and I lost another boy.” Fred Wellman, 6414 Central ave., said his wife was unable to appear in court because of a physical and mental collapse Resviting from the accident. She received a fractured right leg and a portion of her other leg was severed, he testified. Her right forearm was mutilated, pelvic bone broken and she lost considerable blood, he ‘said.

Collapse in Store Told

Dr. Willis Dorman said that he attended Lee at his hdme on June 15, 1940, hut Judge Samuel E. Garrison sustained defense objections

treatment he gave Lee. Sanford Hanks, an employee of a

1lgrocery at 919 N. Delaware ‘st, de-

scribed seeing Lee collapse there |- last June ‘10. “I asked Mr. Lee what he sold and he looked af the ceiling and said ‘oh’ and fell back,” the witness testified, He said Lee’s face was pale, his body rigid and his eyes rolled to the back: of his head. :

Other Victims Testify

Mr. Hanks said Lee was unconscious for about ‘10 minutes and was taken to City hospital in an

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in the accident described the. scene.

y were Mr. and Mrs. Berl B. mb, '5528 S. Manker st. and Marjorie Pueteney, Mooresville. Mrs. Lillian L. Johnson, 1819 N. : New Jersey st., an eye-witness, also | described the accident. Dr. Roy B. Storms, Marion county coroner, told the jury yesterday afternoon that in the death of the Hall ckild he returned a verdict of accidental death resulting when Lee lost control of his automobile while suffering an epileptic seizure.

Tavern Proprietor Heard

Another‘ witness ‘was Everett Stoelting, proprietor of a tavern at 5221 E. Washington st., who said that the - defendant “had = bought beer from him almost daily for more than five years. “Mr. Lee would come in around 3:30 or 4 almost every afternoon,” Mr. Stoelting said. “He would usually drink two or three 12-ounce beers and occasionally four or five. He usually stayed until 4:30 or 5 o’clock. As a rule he came back in the evening and would drink the same amount. Once in a great while he would take two or three bottles home {in the evening.” On ‘cross-examination, Mr. Stoelting explained that he had never seen Lee drunk. : Lee’s physician, Dr. John K. Kingsbury, 5776 E. Michigan st. stated that he had attended Lee ten | times between 1937 and June 10, 11942. Lee is said to have collapsed in.a grocery store on June 10.

» Objection Sustained.

Judge Garrison sustained the obJections of the ‘defense attorneys when - Prosecutor Sherwood Bie asked Dr. Kingsbury for wha had treated Lee. The judge d Fn that such testimony was a matter of privacy-betwees, the doctor and the patient: Herbert Jackson, a mechanic at E. C. Atkins Co. testified yesterday that he was the first person to reach | Lee after his car had-crashed into Ayres and stopped at a fire hydrant at the corner of Meridian and Washington sts. Mr. Jackson said that as he opened the car door, “Lee's head was on the back of the driver's seat and he was frothing at the mouth. His eyes were rolling, his face was pale and distorted, and his body was rigid. 1 put my hand on him to keep from falling to the pavement.” He ‘stated that Lee “seemed to

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and pointed out that before the fail of Hongkong twice to three times as much “war material was being smuggled to China from that area than was sent across the Burma

road. : He believes that any bridgehead in this area could soon provide the Chinese enough supplies to retake

the outskirts of that great metropolis. Then a land offensive toward

Shanghai and by sea toward For-

There is little possibility of Russian participation in the Far Eastern war until Hitler is definitely on the downgrade, Dr. Bates believes. “If in the future, the Germans are pretty well shoved back and the Russians don’t have to carry the whole load in Europe as they do now, the U, S. 8S. R. might be inclined to come into the war against Japan. But there is no reaseh to. count on it.” \ Blueprint of Attack Dr. Bates also saw the possibility that Japan might attack Russia if the imperial government should “feel that was the only way to keep Hitler in the war.” A Japanese attack would come, he believed in a land, air and amphib-

in two or three places to cut the trans-Siberian railway and a flank attack from the railway of north China into Oyuger Mongolia. Dr. Bates was professor of history at the University of Nanking when the Japanese attack came and he was left in Nanking to maintain its properties and hospital and high school after the rest of the university was moved to Chengtu in the interior. He found in the Japanese army at Nanking a “professional clique of officers whose sole purpose in life is to defeat Russia.” He praised the Chinese for their five years and eight months of resistance against Japan, saying that some of the obstacles they have overcome have been stupendous. The propellor for one 200-foot Yangtze river steamer was chiseled irom a block of iron by hand, he said. The Chinese are “practicalminded,” he said, and realize that

the South China coast,” he asserted,}

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axis partner. But they do not go along with the “western tendency

to just let the Pacific go until the!

European war is finished.” China feels that more supplies should be sent to the Far East, but Dr. Bates believes “we have a long year ahead before we can get any real supplies to China.” He disagrees with . Brig. Gen. Claire M. Chennault, commanding American air forces in China, who said this week that if the “necessary supplies” could be delivered to

feated “in a short time,” perhaps this year.

Insist Japan Disarm

He declares that China does not wish to cripple Jaran following the war, though it will insist upon full Nipponese disarmament and. will consider the need for garrisoning the Japanese islands. The Chinese expect Japan to lose all she has gained since Pearl Harbor and expect in addition that the mandated islands will go either to the United States or to the United States and Australia. China herself expects the return of Manchuria and Formosa. She foresees an independent Korea or one under international tutelage. So far as southeastern Asia is

nese are interested in the “gradual liquidation of western imperialism,” and want better treatment of the people of those areassthan has been the rule in the past. Likewise he said China has a “deep sympathy” for Indian and Burmese dreams of independence but is not likely to insist ‘that any. of these changes take place suddenly. China at

the defeat of Hitler is as important as the defeat of the Far Fastern

hie the responsibility for selection to, the -discrétion of confused and directionless draft boards. 2..To raise the quota on farm machinery to at least 50 per cent of 1941 production. 3. To achieve some orderly and logical b for price ceilings, so that the armer, who must plan a year ahead, may have some idea where he stangs. 8 =»

Morale Needs a Lift

4. TO PROVIDE, through ad“justment of prices, and not “subsidies,” a possibility for the farmer to see some hope of a reasonable profit. §. To bring back, either by demobilization or less permanent furlough, at least 500,000 selected skilled farm workers out of the army to the land. A larger number may be necessary. 6. Above all, to raise the morale of the farmer by some more tangible means than speeches, so

one in the administration fighting for him. - I realize that many of these proposals gre not within the power of the secretary of agriculture himself. The primary fault lies, not with him, but with the general administration’s failure to achieve any over-all, organized program for fbod production. But it seems to me that Mr. Wickard could fight for" these things, even to the point of going before the ‘country, as did Mr. Jeffers, the rubber administrator, in another vital field of war production ‘which remained for so long in a similar state of confusion and divided Tespansibility. 82 =

Only Harvest Counts

MR. WICKARD'S course has been to announce quotas, make speeches, and waver between .the demands of the administration on

the other. “Expressing the need for more food production is not

ing new quotas does not mean that more food will be raised. : In the statement of production figures, it is not the amount of

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present has “no idea” of taking over French Indo-China, he Believes,

Spe if the abot’ of tood id “sur‘pass ‘all previous: 1 in 1942, it still was not enough in view of the tremendously increased - demands ‘of army and navy, lendlease, starving nations abroad and the higher purchasing power of a large percentage of our own Ropulation. : SECs ee a Painting a Rosy Picture THE PUBLIC. does not understand: many facts of the food situation, especially this one: The statistics compiled on the whole situation are gathered by federal employees of the department of agriculture. Their agencies are threatened with curtailment or extinction by congressional action. It is only human and natural that these federal employees : should present as rosy a picture as possible, both for their own good and for that of the department. " Most of the statistics have come from the AAA agencies, and on many farms in the Middle West the AAA agencies are so disliked that signs have been posted on" farms warning their representatives to “keep off!” Over-all national reports on the food situation are available only to the de‘partment of agriculture, and -can be obtained only from it. -Any of the recent surveys made independently by newspapers in the Middle West reveal a situation seriously at variance with the food administration’s figures. If -the farmer is producing, if he is getting rich, why are so many farms simply being closed down? Why has the price of land decreased rather than increased?

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tracts, had’ been awarded one him= self on I'eb. 15. Judge Bain said he would ake every effort to investigate the background and personal connections of every person selected for the new J -" ,

“This is merely a continuation of the court's policy in selection of al

L | juries,” Judge Bain said.

. “Each new selected will be examined closely as to his.connections with — city or state governments and whether he has any connection with litigation in any court.” Mr. Hellenberger, following dismissal of the grand jury yesterday, explained that he was asked about his business connections with the ' county and that he had none at the time he was selected on the jury. “The judge did hot say anything about fufure contracts with the county,” Mr. Helfenberger said.

Pick Panel by Lottery

The panel of 25 to 50 names will be picked entirely by lottery, County Clerk Jack Tilson said. Names of prospective jurors, taken off township property assessment books at the rate-of several hundred a month, are kept in a locked box at the county clerk's office. “When @& call is made for a jury panel of any kind, jury commissioners pull the names out of the box in lottery fashion,” Mr. Tilson explained. Under the law the only qualification for a grand jury is that prospective jurors either own real estate or have status of being the head of a household...

STATE MERIT BOARD IS OUT OF OFFIGE

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legislated cut of office, were Rowland Allen, William C. Birthright, Edmond: Foust and Earl Beck. The measure abolishing the present merit system law and re-creat-ing the sanie law, thus outsing the top personnel in the merit system setup, was passed by the Republican controlled legislature as a compromise move. It satisfied both the Republican legislators who were determined to oust Mr. Allen and Mr. Johnson

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to be abolished entirely and the Republican party leaders who wanted fo retain the merit system law on the statute books.

TRAIN COAST GUARD WASHINGTON, March 3 (U. P.). —Men not subject to selective service who have enrolled with the coast guard volunteer security force will reecive instruction in the coast guards training institute at the University of Pennsylvania, the navy announced yesterday. The course will include small arms practice and instruction in port sécurity

even if the merit system law had

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day in thrusts that menaced the

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had been driven in retreat at start of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s offensive in south-central Tunisia.

‘Fheir victory over the axis at

Kasserine pass became all the more

that Rommel, “the desert fox,” had been in personal command: of the German-Italian forces in that engagement. : United Press Correspondent Phil Ault reported from the front that Rommel personally had commanded the enemy at the battle of the Kasserine pass and that he had spent two aays at the home of a Frenchman four miles west of the town of Kasserne. In the north, the first army turned back three small enemy attacks against Beja and Medjez El Bab. Flying forces, supporting ground troops with attacks on communication lines, delivered a twowave attack against Tunis and La

Goulette, scoring hits on quays, in-

dustrial areas and warehouses. Three enemy planes were destroyed;

The royal air force made a series of savage attacks yesterday, particularly along the Mateur-Beja and Beja-Medjez El Bab roads. Bombers;

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four miles northeast of Sed 3 The enemy withdrew after f his armored cars were knoe There was no activity other patrolling by the British - atmy to the south. ; In all, five enemy fighters ) destroyed yesterday and a ‘bor was shot down on the nig March 1-2. Reports confirmed destruction of two other enem planes not previously reported. allied plane was missing. Tra

PEDESTRIAN BILL KILLED IN SENAT! ‘The state senate today killed bill to give pedestrians crossing the green light the night of over motorists making ses Senator Harry Chamberlin Indianapolis} motion for a definite postpone stating organizations interested t ure would “mj traffic situation), The bill is posed by public ‘carriers, who it would tie up street cars

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