Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1943 — Page 24

LEWIS ATTACKS FEDERAL POLICY ; we! aids i tre to

Help Worker. WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P). «President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers told the senate war investigating committee to-~ day that the government will not able to restrain inflation “as ng as the government has two policies on the matter.” Lewis said the government on one hand induces inflation by ‘excessive rewards to industry for the production of essential war ma4 teria) add On the other hand, he said, it seeks to fight inflation by “saying to 50,000,000 Americans, largely employed in industry, ‘we can't do anything for you’.” Defends Patriotism

Lewis currently is forcing a showdown on administration wage policies with his demands for a $2-a-day wage increase for 450,000 miners _=—an increase far in excess of the maximum they could receive under the war labor board’s little steel wage formula. Lewis told the committee that the government . policy is one which puts the individual who seeks a wage increase in an unpatriotic light. “As ga citizen one must make crifices,” Lewis asserted. “He is patriotic if he asks for a wage inorease to cover the increased cost of living. ”» Lewis Quotes

Committee Chairman Harry 8S. " Truman (D. Mo.) commented that e committee hoped that the “rich jll not get richer” as the result of the war. “Hope deferred fuakethh the heart sick,” Lewis replied. “I assert that all those profits of industry are inescapably inflationary.” He said the government was basically at fault for the inflation spiral because it is paying excessively high profits for the cost of war. “No war was ever fought at any time, by any country without bringing some degree of inflation,” he said. “War is a destroyer of valuable things. It makes for scarcity, and scarcity brings competition for the things peaple want to buy.”

Hits 10% Profit

American industry, he said, has received $48,978,000,000 in government contracts. Of this amount, he’ added, 10 per cent is profit to industry—‘“if it is only 10 per cent.” The government, Lewis declared, has - “not forced renegotiation of any cost plus contracts” to date. Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. ~ Me.) said war contracts contained negotiation clause, so that some : & these profits might be recaptured by the government. Lewis asked whether “war industry had to be guaranteed exorbitant profits” before it began all-out war production. Brewster reported that he was “grievously wrong.” _ “Mr. Hitler would have been on ur shores if we had not made war contracts as soon as possible,” Brewster said. Lewis smiled and said, “I believe the government gave corporations the benefit of the doubt.” . Senator Truman nodded agreement to Lewis’ statement. Warming up to his verbal contest with Lewis, Brewster said, “I believe, Mr. Lewis, you have always been a disciple of discontent of things as they are throughout your life.” Brewster said many people are looking to a “new deal” after the war. ; “I thought we already had one,” Lewis replied. Brewster asked Lewis whether he would be willing to “help hold the dike against inflation.” Lewis replied that he would be glad to do anything he personally could in “the fight against inflation.” “The country feels you have a big hand in holding the dike,” the senator said.

0Y H. M’CORMICK UNERAL TOMORROW

Funeral services for Roy H. Mc--Cormick will be at the G. H. Herrmann funeral home, 1505 S. East st.,, at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. The Rev. G. D. Billeisen, pastor of the River Avenue Baptist church, of hich Mr. McCormick was a mem- , will be in charge. Burial will _ be in Floral Park. Mr. McCormick, who was 37, resided at 3016 E. Meredith ave. and was a press operator at the Chevrolet Commercial Body division of General Motors Corp. He died Wednesday in City hospital. He is survived by his wife, Vena 1, two sons, Roy E. and Michel; two daughters, Annetta and Dolores; four brothers, Emmet of Indianapolis, Wayne of St. Louis, and Charles and Frank of the army; four sisters, Mrs. Geneva Taylor, Mrs. Anna Walton, Mrs. Helen Blessing and Mrs. Janette Counor, all of Indianapolis, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick of ~ Bloomington, Ind.

HOLDS NEGLECT OF CHURCH AIDS ENEMY

The Very Rev. Elwood Haines, dean of Christ church cathedral, e, Ky, made an appeal for ‘and: fellowship among Christians in his noonday sermon today at Christ church on dhe cirele. : Concerning the war-torn world and the way to meet its problems, Dean Haines said: “Whoever fails toy ve his moral and material supto the church’is unwittingly 5 encouragement to the

LONDON, March 26 (U. Pu). =

Organized labor has pledged its wholehearted support to the second war loan drive in which Hoosiers will invest at least $300,000,-

000.in war bonds in April. Union organizations have been asked to put all available surplus funds

),000

into war bonds. i Members of the labor committee of the Indiana war finance committee are (left to right) Carl

F. Schesky, Muncie, representing

the Typographical union; Powers Hapgood, C. I. O.; Roy Boles,

state division of labor; Eugene C. Pulliam, state chairman of the state war finance committee; Alex Gordon, representing rail-

way brotherhoods; Carl Mullen, representing the state A. F. of L. membership, and Warren McAfee,

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B(] FLOOD PERIL

{Wabash Is Rising at Mt.

Carmel; White Going Up ; At Hazleton.

Rain forecast for today may agthe flood conditions in southern Indiana where streams are still rising at some points while

{receding at others.

labor director of the war savings staff. Other members of the commit tee are Walter Frisbee, C. I. O.; Louis Austin, Terre Haute, representing the United Mine Works= ers, and Thomas A. Hutson, state labor commissioner.

SENATE DELAYS FARM BILL VOTE

Administration Victorious As Pace Measure Is

Recommitted.

WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P.). —The senate today by voice vote recommitted the Pace bill, which would include farm labor costs in the farm parity fomula, to its agriculture committee for further study. The action was a victory for the administration, which felt that the Pace bill would be a threat to its economic stabilization program. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown had warned congressional leaders yesterday that enactment of the bill and the Bankhead measure forbidding reduction of federal benefit payments in computing parity, would add more than $3,750,000,000 to the nation’s annual food bill and invite destruction of the “little steel” wage ceiling formula.

None Dissents Although the house - approved Pace bill had commanded extensive support among senators earlier, there wasn’t a dissenting vote on the motion to send it back to committee. The action was taken after Committee Chairman Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith said he was willing to hold detailed hearings on its merits. ‘ Smith’s statement followed pleas by Senators Sheridan Downey (D. Cal.) ; Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.), and James J. Davis (R. Pa.) for further study of the measure. Downey, how=ever, described as “silly” Brown's estimate of the cost-increasing effect of the bill. One of the prime objections voiced to the bill yesterday by opponents was that the senate agriculture committee sent it to the senate floor without hearings to determine what impact it would have on the national economy. Possible Solution Seen Meanwhile, administration: leaders saw in President Raosevelt’s appointment of Chester C. Davis as food administrator a possible solution of the farm price controversy. The senate has a chance to seize the solution immediately in its disposal of the Pace and Bankhead bills. Both bills are supported by determined farm bloc members who contend that farm income hasn't kept pace with production costs and industrial wages. An executive order outlining Davis’ powers was issued today by President Roosevelt. It empowers Davis to correct the inequalities the farm bloc complains of. As a result, even some farm state senators who otherwise would support the two farm bills are counselling delay. Others believe that in any event they should delay action until after the demand of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers for a $2-a-day increase for bituminous coal miners is settled. Farm bloc senators realize that passage of either or both the Page and Bankhead bills would give Lewis a powerful weapon in his fight for wages above the “little Stee ” formula. :

TULSA, Okla., March 26 (U. P.). —Mrs. T. K. Simmons, society woman, wife of a millionaire oil man, gnown nationally as an exhibitor of fine horses, waited in the lobby of a hotel for a woman last night, followed her to her room, and, soon afterward, was shot to death.

Mrs. E. B. Howard, a society matron of Ft. Worth, Tex., who, police said, had known Mrs. Simmons “for years,” said she and Mrs. Simmons had struggled for possession of a pistol with which Mrs. Simmons had threatened her life, and that Mrs. Simmons was shot in the scuffle. Mrs. Simmons was shot three times in the heart, the shoulder, and the head. Mrs. Howard was arrested and lodged in county jail

murder today. Bellhops Find Body The shooting occurred in Mrs.

of a fashionable hotel. The shots

that from 1

and probably will be charged with

Capture in Desert Vexed 72-Year-Old Commando

By GEORGE PALMER United Press Staff Correspondent ALEXANDRIA, March 26.—Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, a commando at 72, got annoyed during the axis drive on El Alamein—because his revolver bullets played out and because his four axis enemies, armed with a machine-gun, were still afraid to come an take him. The retired British sea dog, Wit asked for action in this war and got it despite his age, and 834 others who had been made prisoner by the axis, were exchanged for a similar number of Germans and Italians. - He was captured May 27, 1942, during the start of the axis push toward El Alamein. Admiral] Cowan, attached to the commandos with the rank of commander “to help teach men how to behave in boats,” was with an outfit at the first point of ' contact between the axis and British armies.

Chases Four Men Back

That was at El Hachim, about 40 miles south of Tobruk. The enemy came over at dawn. “The enemy shelled and ma-chine-gunned us,” he said. “The first wave of tanks came in pairs and they lost 59 of them. I was not far from regimental head-

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quarters standing by a Bren gun carrier when the tanks rolled past. “After the second ‘wave came a pair of armored cars, one German and one Italian. The latter stopped about 40 yards from me and four men got out. They came toward me and I let drive with my revolver. They dashed back to the car.

‘~So I Walked to the Car’ “Then they signaled me to surrender but I wasn’t inclined to put up my hands so I ‘did nothing. Their first burst of machine gun fire missed me, They ordered me to surrender again and I refused. I stood by the carrier with nothing

‘but an empty revolver.

“The enemy fired again but missed me. Finally I felt he'd had his chance and I certainly wasn’t going to stand there all morning and be shot at. So I walked to the car. They took me to Benghazi.” Two weeks later, Admiral Cowan said, he was taken to Rome and later was placed in a prison camp with 190 other British officers. His imprisonment of nearly a year apparently had left him unaffected. He still looked fit. Asked what he now planned to do, the veteran of 59 years of navy service, including the battle of Jutland in world war I, replied: “I don’t. know—I just live from day to day.”

s War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Marshal Erwin Rommel has shown such unexpected strength in the defense of his Mareth line positions that a different aspect is being put on the question of how long it will take to drive the axis out

of Tunisia. Rommel had

not been expected to wake 8 real

stand on the Mareth line because of the grave danger of encirclement which might cost him the cream of his Afrika Korps. He appears to have weighed and discounted this danger for the time

being. It would be wide of the mark to make his final stand at Mareth.

He is facing a superior British eighth army, has inadequate air support and is threatened by allied columns from the west and northwest. If he persists in fighting to a decision at Mareth, a crushing defeat probably would result and the backbone of axis resistance in Tunisia would be broken. The operation of cleaning out the BizerteTunis corner and driving the axis out of Africa would be simplified. Rommel obviously has no intention of risking any such outcome. He had been expected to make an orderly retreat along the coast to Gabes and Sfax soon after the full offensive of the eighth army started to avoid the danger of being cut 'off by American thrusts :towards the coast from south-central Tunisia. Instead, he elected to fight a strong delaying action from positions which the allies are finding it extremely difficult to crack. ‘The length of his stand at Mareth may depend to a great extent on the progiess wnich the Americans are able to make in their push seaward from beyond Maknassy and El Guettar, and on the sirength of the desert column which has pushed to

Noted Horsewoman Slain in Tulsa Hotel:

Police Hold Ft. Worth Society Matron

to suppose that Rommel has elected

his rear to reach the El MatmataEl Hamma heights west of Gabes. Rommel presumably has disposed his forces so that he is confident of being able to hold the Americans in check long enough for him to withdraw his main forces northward along the coast when it becomes necessary to pull out.

'Y' to Aid USO Open House Fete

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER will speak at 4-p. m. Sunday at the Central Y. M. C. A. when the branch joins 1200 other U. S. O. units of the nation in an “open house.” The public will be received from 2 to 6 p. m. and the Shortridge high school band will play at 3:15 p. m. Mrs. Henry E. Ostrom, mother of one of the “Y” members in service, will receive an honor plaque bearing the names of more than 400 members in the armed forces. Archer C. Sinclair, “Y” president, will make the presentation. Will Remy, a member of the board of directors, will preside and the Indianapolis Male chorus will sing.

The gun, a 25-caliber pistol, was lying on a dresser.

“Were you the one who did that

| in room 9262” a deputy sheriff

‘Mrs. T. K, Simmons

Police were summoned to the hotel by the night clerk. They |

the floor of room 926. Mrs. How-

: atfeasied oillen, gussts And Holo ard BE Le at Em, and Had)

‘was fired six times.

asked. “I did,” she replied. ‘Mrs. Howard told police the The first two shots, she said, were fired by.Mrs, Simmons, and the other four were

fired during the struggle for the

Gives Few Details - At the sheriff's office she gave authorities a statement, which was disclosed in part by assistant County

‘Attorney M. S. Simms.

Beyond claiming that Mrs. Sim-|

‘mons had threatened her life and|

she had struggled with her In self:

County Attorney O. Cc. Lassiter said | he had been unable to find any motive for an attack. - ‘Mrs, Simmons’ husband refused to discuss the shooting. :

Four-Point ; Program of

Harvesting and Growing Is Outlined.

There'll be no food shortage in Marion county if Indianapolis Boy Scout executives, scouters and scouts can do anything about it. In line with the national program recently outlined by Dr. E. K. Fretwell, the local organization is setting up a four-point program to alleviate a possible shortage. 1, Victory gardens at home. 2. A victory garden at- Camp Chank-tun-un-gi. . 3. Harvesting of crops in Marion county. 4, Working on farms in Marion county. To start the program, leaflets urging every scout and cub to have victory gardens at home will be distributed at scout meetings. IndiYidlual gardens are being suggested for boys who plan to attend camp only at short intervals during the summer. ! Large Garden at Camp At Camp Chank-tun-un-gi, a large garden will be planted to provide food for messes. Last year, scouts planted a garden under the direction of Earl Kealing, scout master and first aid director. With this year’s garden planned on a much larger scale, Mr. Kealing will devote his full time to supervising the ‘project beginning next Thursday. Arrangements for plowing have been made by Alex Tuchinski, member of the camping committee who will provide a tractor for the work. From planting time until camp periods are started in the summer, Mr. Kealing will do the work ‘with the aid of scouts from individual troops slated to work on week-ends. When camp opens, scouts will be signed up to work half days in the garden. Those who participate in the project will receive their room and board as payment and at the same time all the advantages of scout craft. Help County Harvest The third part of the program concerns harvesting of crops in Marion county. Scout headquarters will recruit older boys to harvest tomatoes and other crops in places where farm labor shortages are reported. A leader will be sent out with each group of boys and camps will be set up near the farms. Scouts will work half days and will be paid the same rates as other workers. Scout headquarters also will cooperate with the Lions club by recruiting scouts to form the Lions’ volunteer legion. As members of the legion, scouts from 14 to 18 years of age wil work on Marion county farms this summer at the prevailing wage scale for various types of work undertaken. : Ralph Hook Director Contracts between the legion and

county agricultural agent’s office, 445 N. Pennsylvania st. Farmers needing aid are ‘urged to contact the clearing house. Scouts aren't taking the food

.|shortage - lying down. Theyre be-

coming victory gardeners and “farmers.” There will be scouts in their own victory gardens, scouts in.

crops and scouts working on farms. All projects are being directed by Ralph Hook, chairman of the scouts’ war service committee, and: C. Otto Janus, president of the Indianapolis council of boy scouts. Del-

executive,

PYTHIANS TO FETE. SERVICE MEN TODAY

The Marion County Pythian Service organization will entertain

at 8 p. m. today in the lodge rooms of Indianapolis lodge 56, K. of P,, in Castle Hall building. hostesses. ‘William Hall and Maude Sears

Sisters, are co-sponsors.

L. PIWar produetion at the

The Simmons own the Smmons op : ‘have |near

Howard's room on the ninth floor found Mrs. Simmons’ body lying on stables here

SCOUTS TO SPUR OUTPUT OF FOOD

farmers will be made at the Marion {

a camp garden, scouts harvesting ||

mer H. Wilson is the local scout :

service men at a party and dance}

Cadettes and Service Belles will be

are in charge. Capitol City lodge|l 197, K. of P, and Myrtle Temple 7, g Pythian

HOOSIER STRIKERS RETURN|| PT. WAYNE, Ind, March 28]

The Wabash river at Mt. Carmel, Ind, and the White ‘river at Hazelton, Ind. were reported Tising slowly this morning. The White river at Vincennes was reported receding. The Ohio

{river along most of the Indiana

ports was still rising with prospects of a crest within 24 hours. The weather bureau forecast cooler weather will follow the rains this afternoon and tonight.

AIR FORCES GROUNDED LONDON, March 26 (U. P).— Bad weather grounded both the British and German air forces in

To Fly Over Land for Charge

HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DEFENSE COMMAND, March 26 (U. P.) ~-Lieut. Col. Jack Chennault, en route to the states for a new assignment, said he hopes to serve where there is “plenty of dry land and sunshine—China for instance” with his father, Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault. Young Chennault, who has been directing activities of fighter planes as a group leader on the Aleutian front, said in his opinion the area was “probably the worst in the world for combat pilots.” “The tough resistance from Jap planes, the uniformly heavy ack ack and the long overwater missions combine to make life tenuous for airmen,” he said. “Flights of 1200 miles over the sea are just ordinary daily assighments.” *

14 Months in Alaska

Chennault hopes, for this reason, that his new assignment will have him winging over land instead of stormy seas. He has been in Alaska 14 months, stationed at the secret base on Unmak island when

the European theater last night.

the Japs attacked Dutch Harbor,

He said the opposition of P-40 fighter planes stationed at Unmak en|prevented the Japs learning of ‘the existence of the base. Only one zero flew over the strip during the Dutch Harbor raids, Chennault said. It swooped out of the clouds on the tail of a P-40 piloted’ by Capt. Jehn 8S. Davis, Malden, Mo., who led the enemy over a battery of automatic antiaircraft guns. The Jap was blasted full of holes and swung out to sea where, Chen- . nault said, he probably crashed. Chennault said he agreed with his fighter pilots that Jap airmen in the Aleutians now are not as competent as those in earlier campaigns. They seem good enough as pilots, he said, bus lack combat judgment. ;

BELGIANS ARE HOSTAGES LONDON, March 26 (U. P.).— In an effort to end sabotage along railways, the Germans are locking Belgian hostages in military trains passing through occupied Belgium, the Belgian news agency said you terday.

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