Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1943 — Page 2

AR MATERIALS AT NEW HAVEN

apermen Tour Miles

Of Warehouses at Allen County Depot.

By DON CARLSON United Press Staff Correspondent

New Haven ordnance depot is

e unaware of this elaborate miliinstallation which is the storg center of war material valued

more than $45,000,000.

The ordnance depot, commanded

39 Col.-C. L. McKnight, is located miles east of Ft. Wayne in = Allen county. It has been lessblicized than any army activity

“state, but actually plays an important role in the serious drama diana-at-war. lewspapermen permitted to in0 the premises of this 646-acre prage center for the first time escorted through miles of | arehouses where equipment of almost every type and description Bas been housed.

Much Ready for Russia

Guns, projectiles, machine $ools, LC and automotive parts, d anti-aircraft guns—everything food and clothing which is han2d by the quartermaster corps— 5 stored at New Haven from gre it will be dispatched through s agencies, such as ports of

use of the nature of its destin is several million dollars th of industrial equipment for

18 More anti-aircraft guns than reat Britain had at the time of the big blitz, and twice as many as 8 city’ of London had during that orucial period, stand in readiness New Haven.

Most Employees Civilians

The depot is largely civilian despite the fact it is basically an army operation. Except for the men who come from the 728th if allway operating battalion at opamp Scott to be trained as rail- : engineers and workers, pracall of the. persons who work at New Haven are civilains. Only | officials are army officers. = KAbout 750 civilian workers are ployed at the present time. ~ They assist in the task that ‘makes New Haven a vital link in the chain of supply that reaches om factories to the soldiers in hes. Hundreds of the dyees, here as in war plants, are . They are assigned as mecal and hand equipment operators, crane operators, truck drivers, laborers, clerks, storekeepers and

SHLEAN CONGRESS "10 HEAR WALLACE

A SANTIAGO, Chile, March 27

@. P) —Vice President Henry A. e of the United States, tourf Central and South American tries, addresses congress this ing at the start of his 10-day in Chile. Arriving by air yesterday afterfrom Lima, Wallace held a press conference. A Chilean reporter asked him if it were true that he would be a candidate for president of the United States in 1944. “How would I know, since I am fot a politician?” Wallace asked.

UL WETTER HEADS - CIVIC CLUBS AGAIN

Paul C. Wetter has been re-elected t. of the Indianapolis Fedon of Community Civic clubs. Other officers re-elected at a ting at the Washington hotel night were Mrs. William H. we second ‘vice president; Charles H. Strouse, secretary; Oscar Smith, treasurer; George Bruce, mon A. Campbell and Mrs. Owen ctors. Carl T. Payne was electfirst vice president, succeeding mas A. Dailey.

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It is the belief of the management of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance. Company that never has there been a time when the policyholders were as well protected as they are now. There have been times when .gome one factor in the company’s operation has shown to greater alvsnugesiuc during 1942; but never has the combination of factors +. been 30 advantageous to all around protection.

Serve the U.S.

Corp. Shuey Pfc. Cordrey

husband of Mrs. Rose Marie Shuey,

Center, Ft. Knox, Ky.

RIGHT: Pfc. Donald D. Cordrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cordrey, 1807 ‘Shadeland dr. is stationed with the fourth weather squadron, MacDill field, Fla. He enlisted in the army the week after the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. He's home now on furlough.

FIRST BLACKOUT WILL TEST 0CD

20,000 Workers to Take Part in ‘Emergency’ at 9:30 Tomorrow.

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blackout will be broadcast by station WIBC, in co-operation with the OCD. : ; Reports of simulated casualties and the actual operations of the control center will be described during the broadcast between 9:15

and 10 p. m. One announcer will have his microphone placed in the 22d st. control center and aflother in the beacon tower atop the Merchant's bank building. Mr. Yockey will supervise operations at the city air raid control center, 152 E. 22d st. He'll be as-

‘| sisted by Maj. Herbert R. Fletcher,

chief air raid warden for Indianapolis _ Mr. Munk will be on duty at the county control center in the War Memorial shrine. Assisting him will be Carl G. Winter and Lawrence H. Bowers.

Plan 2 Incidents

Efficiency of protective units and control center personnel will be tested by two “surprise” incidents, one each in the city and county. The blackout is to be under the authority of the fifth defense command of the U. 8S. army with Col. Manford G. Henley as its representative. Violators of blackout regulations will be tried in municipal court under a city civilian defense ordinance. |

Centers Are Listed

Control centers in townships and other units outside the city will be in charge of the respective directors. Following is a list of the directors and the control centers: Decatur township, Joe Rand Beckett, Decatur Central high school; Franklin township, Omar J. Smith, New Bethel school; Lawrence township, Ernest E. Lefforge, Lawrence Central high school; Perry township, Jack Williams, Edgewood school; Pike township, Russell Furr, Pike township school; Warren township, B. L. Curry, Warren Central high school; Washington township, T. V. Corbin, State School for the Blind; Wayne township, Paul V. Goss, residence of Virgil Hughes, 6068 W. Washington st.; Speedway City, Floyd F. Farley, Speedway town hall, and Beech Grove, H. W. Britton, Bosch Grove school.

RITA ALUMNI LUNCH IS SET FOR THURSDAY

The: alumni association of Beta Theta Pi will meet for luncheon at 12 o'clock noon each Thursday in the dining room on the %th floor of the Board of Trade building. Newly elected officers of the association are Charles W. Jones, president; Howard Meeker and J. Perry Meek, vice presidents; Warren D: Oakes, secretary, and Volney M. Brown, treasurer.

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NAZIS TIGHTE

| Five Quit Laval Cabinet; De Gaulle, Giraud May Meet Next Week.

LONDON, March 27 U. P). — Chief of Government Pierre Laval] clamped a tighter Nazi-bossed dic-

today in a move believed aimed at} assuring Germany her deliveries of slave labor. Five members of the Vichy cabinet quit, the size of the cabinet was reduced by merging duties and Laval submitted to Chief of State Henri Phillipe Petain a séries of decrees which Vichy radio described as necessary for “a greater concentration of power.” It was believed here that Gen. Charles de Gaulle probably will [leave next week for a conference at Algiers with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud that not only will unite their respective followers, but also may lay the groundwork for a temporary French provisional government, it was understood today.

Petain Power Wanes

The reshuffle of the Vichy cabinet is considered by French observ=

shal Petain’s influence in Vichy affairs will be even less than before, Reports from Madrid indicated that the few remaining vestiges oi a French government by Frenchmen were rapidly being erased. These reports pointed out that the shake-up followed resignations by French embassy staffs in Spain anc Portugal in protests against the Reich demands for French labor. to staff her war factories. Radio Algiers, which is controlled by the allies, reported that M. Pierre Baraduc, charge d'affaires at| Lisbon, had broken off with Vichy

S/had gone over to Giraud.’ The Vichy labor secretariat was raised to the status of a full ministry under Hubert Lagardelle. His chief job is supplying the workers wanted by Germany. Madrid dispatches said the quota of workers for April will be 150,000 plus 9000 to make up a March deficit.

Five Quit Vichy Cabinet

The cabinet members who quit were Joseph Barthaelemy, justice; Admiral Jean Marie Abrial, navy; Gen. Jean Francois Jannekey, tion; Jules Brevie, colonies, and Rear Admiral Charles Platon, secretary of state attached to Laval. The colonial and navy jobs were merged under M. Blehaut and the war and air ministries were concentrated under the present war secretary, Gen. Eugene Bridoux.

CITY TURNS DOWN GRANT: FOR AIRPORT

The federal government today was offering the city $230,000 worth of improvements on Municipal airport—without success. City fathers aren’t accepting a CAA grant because they would have to accept responsibility for any contracts broken if the government assumed control of the field. They said they were reluctant to assume liability for “potential damages.” An ordinance approving the grant, but not containing either the liability or “emergency” clauses, was adopted by the city council several weeks ago and sent to Washington for CAA approval. The CAA rejected the contract because of absence of the liability clause.

INJURIES ARE FATAL TO PEDESTRIAN, 82

George OCriffith, 82, of 534 E. North st.; died in City hospital today of injuries received when struck by a taxi—the 16th traffic victim of the year in Indianapolis. Mr. Griffith and his son, Donald, 42, walked into the path of a cab driven by Loren Sims, 2237 Central ave, at Massachusetts and Park aves. last night, police said. The son was knocked down but was uninjured. The driver was not

"HOLD ON VICHY

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and that he and the legation staff|

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A Weelly Sizsup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

(Continued from Page One) “union on equal partnership. "We are ging fo be cold-blooded and ‘hardhearted about it.” 8 8 =» ss 8 8 1 Better freight rates for the South; long asked, are now demanded. TVA takes chips in this game. Watch for more of the same, with governors generally the flame-fanners. - : # ” » o 8 8 SENATE SPONSORS of united nations collaboration resolution have established headquarters (in charge of Mrs. Joseph H. Ball, wife of Minnesota senator) and plan campaign to win support of nationally. known leaders. Their report of conference this week with Secretary Hull: “Satisfactory.” ~~ But: When the eight-man subcommittee of foreign relations finishes its study of this and other win-the-peace resolutions, it won't . "be the Ball-Burton-Hill-Hatch measure that gets a favorable report. Committee will report something new, bearing the name of Senator Tom: Connally, committee chairman—and general in character.

Grade Labeling Opposed

BETTING HERE is that canners will win their fight against gradelabeling. House agriculture committee has put on the pressure for them. It will be settled next week. Meanwhile less than half the crops that should go into the cans ‘have been planted. Canners haven't contracted for them, are BWaliing relief from grade-labeling, assurance on prices. 8 ” ” » # 8

Odds are that there will “be no public release of ‘that Kitchen cabinet manpower report, ‘prepared by Baruch, Byrnes, Hopkins, Leahy, Rosenman. It will be officially scored as too hot to: handle. But it’s already had one result—the Chester Davis appointment. Note: Don’t be surprised if M. Clifford Townsend, who has headed food production administration under Wickard, returns to Indians soon, gets ready to run for governor in 44, «< # 8 8 s = = : : * Ambassador Winant will return to London. He came to Washington for the Eden conversations, not io take any new post. os ” ” » ” # " Quiet effort by Donald Nelson to reconvene Baruch rubber committee ended when William Jeffers heard of it and threatened—once more—a noisy departure. . Jeffers is still co-ordinator of rubber, ” “ ® 888

More Oil Increases Due

INCREASE IN West coast crude-oil prices may be followed by selective increase in other areas. Petroleum industry war council has recommended general increase of 25 cents a barrel, but Ickes has not yet approved and OPA has never retracted statement (during Henderson regime) opposing it. Selective increases, if numerous enough, might meet the problem and spur wildcatting, which administration feels is urgently needed to bring in more oil reserves—and which industry says will never. start on a big scale al iss. g0 up. , 2 8 8 1044 AOD: Republican congressmen talk more and more of MacArthur as their presidential nominee. Their reasoning: Roosevelt is sure to run, GOP will have to do something dramatic to beat him. Meanwhile Wendell Willkie—whose strength is going up in his home state—tries to win over congressmen; invites groups of them to visit him in New York, talk things over. And that hardy plant, the Joe-Martin-for-president-boom, isn’t dead yet. 2 ” # 2 Global junket is ‘a prospect for members of Truman committee investigating the war effort. Original plans for sending some members to England is being expanded to include trips to Africa, Australia, ete,

Russians Gain af Belgorod: - Drive for Smolensk Slowed,

MOSCOW, ‘March 27 (U. P.).—Russian troops, swinging over “to ‘the attack, broke into German trenches in the Belgorod area today, killed 200 of the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting and captured the positions. The Soviet mid-day eommiunique also reported new Russian gains south of Lake Ilmen on the northwestern front and in the northwest Caucasus, but said Red armies on the central front had paused to consolidate their positions deep in the outer defenses of Smolensk before

lunging forward in a new atfack. (A Stockholm: report published in London said Russian tanks had broken into Dorogobuzh, German stronghold 50 miles east northeast of Smolensk.) (The Rome radio quoted a German propaganda ministry spokesman as announcing that the Russians lost 1,500,000 men killed, 12,000 tanks destroyed or disabled and 3763 planes shot down during their winter offensives. between Nov. 2 and, March 20.) The ‘midnight communique said Russian forces captured two enemy, strongholds and several hamlets on’ the Smolensk front, but field dispatches acknowledged that stiffening German resistance and counterattacks, as well as spring: floods, were slowing ‘the pace of the advance. : ; ;

HOLD CARD PARTY TONIGHT Mayme Eichel is chairman of the card party to be sponsored by Pocahontas council 350 at 8:30 p.m. today in Red Men’s hall, 137 W.

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N. RAF FERTY, GENERAL ‘AGENT, AND ASSOCIATES |

|NAZIS CLEAR 800,000

DUTCH FROM GOAST

LONDON, March 27 (U. P.) —The Germans have evacuated at least 800,000 persons from Dutch coastal towns in a campaign to strengthen all western Europe against an allied invasion, European reports said today. : The Dutch underground issued an appeal to the Dutch people to “close ranks” for a last-ditch struggle against German labor conscription measures with a warning that “if we do not resist, we die.” The 800,000 Netherlands evac-

uated from Dutch coastal towns re-

portedly were sent to concentration camps—presumably for eventual deportation to Germany.

|H. C. Beck, Former

Resident, Dead

Harry C. Beck, former Indianapo-

‘|lis photographer, died yesterday in

San Francisco. He was 76. Mr. Beck was born near Worth-

about 50 years before going to Cali~ fornia about five years ago to make his home with ‘a daughter, Mrs. W. F. Dixon at Millbrae. He had

- |operated studios both here and at

Worthington. Besides Mrs. Dixon, survivors are two other daughters, Mrs. Oral C. Stewart and Mrs. Edgar E. West; a

‘Ison Homer C., all of Indianapolis;

11 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Puneral services and cremation

3 will be held in San Francisco today.

Ward F. Landis

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday in the Harry W. Moore peace chapel for Ward F. Landis, 606 N. Keystone ave.

ington, Ind, and lived here for|

British Secretary Later to

Confer With Hull And. Welles.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.P.). —Presiderft Roosevelt and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden met today in what apparently was one of the most important tonferences scheduled during Eden's visit here. Eden was the president's lunch-

White House tonight and tomorrow.

with top-flight advisers of both Mr. Roosevelt and Eden participating. These, the White House announced, included Secretary of

. | State Hull, Undersecretary of State

Welles, Henry L. Hopkins, John G. Winant, U, 8. Ambassador to Britain; Lord Halifax, British ambassador; ‘and William Strang, British undersecretary for foreign affairs. It was presumed the conferees would undertake a thorough review of accomplishments to date in Eden’s talks here—talks which he said in an address last night had resulted in a “meeting of minds.” In the same speech, before the Maryland legislature, Eden cautioned the public not to expéct any “sudden and sensational developments.” Eden ‘also tried in his address to dispell’ Chinese fears that Britain might consider the Pacific war unimportant. These fears arose from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's ommission of China in his speech last Sunday. British sources here sald this ommission had been mis-

sumption. Churchill was criticized by ‘Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, among others, for omitting China in his call for immediate conferences of American, British and Russian representatives to plan a post-war “world organization” to maintain peace.

Assigns Rule to China In his address last night, Eden

‘|said that China, Russia, the United

States, Great Britain and other united nations must create an “international authority” or they will “not have deserved victory.” Repeatedly Eden stressed the necessity for co-operation not only with Russia but also with China. And to the nations fighting against Japan, he said: “We shall be with you in this to the end.” Pointing out that the British commonwealth is a voluntary union of free nations, Eden said it was. “capable of containing development” and that the principles on which it was founded “are not of limited application.” “We haye the idea of a. close:

he said.

this that the individual can rise to the full height of his powers and call his soul his own.

Must Be Strong

* “And we believe that it has been the world’s failure to create such a framework which has twice led to war in our time. This at least is certain: common ground on which to build this time, we shall not have deserved victory. “The work will take all that America and Britain, Russia and China, and the united nations can offer. Eden said that Britain was committed not only to unconditional

in Asia. - “We, no less than you, and our partner, China,” he said, “have

that evil growth in the Pacific: has been cut back... We shall be with you in this to the end.”

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understood—that Churchill's speech |

was designed for domestic con-| tage of th

SOME REPUBLICANS are crying “politics” in ‘the

Detective and Mrs. Fred Fosler from! the state police department and ' .

in the promotion of Detective E. E. Mullins to a lieutenant. As fa ras the department records go on the Fosler mater, they

| show’ only that the couple resigned.

And Democratic Police Superintendent Don F. Stiver, who is very

close-mouthed on controversial

departmental matters, will’ not

comment further than to say that the couple resigned. But, the Fosler side of the story is that only a few hours after the legislature adjourned, Mr.

Following the - luncheon, . more! tive m personally notified Detec

formal discussions weer in order}

tive Fosler, a Republican, that he was being demoted to the rank

~of' a patrolman and transferred

to the Jasper post and told Mrs. Fosler,

division, that her services were

no longer needed.

Mrs. Fosler says that Mr. Stiver told her he blamed her husband for the legislative hullabaloo over whether the police department was being maintainéd on a 50-50 political basis as provided by law and whether Republican members of the department were : being given their share of promotions. (A resolution to investigate the police department on this matter was introduced early in the session by Senator Samuel Johnson (R. Anderson) but it never got

“out of the senate judiciary A com-

mittee. ' But while no formal ac-

tion was taken, there was con-.

siderable discussion among Republican legislators about the

situation throughout the session.)

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Refused Jasper Post

MR. FOSLER resigned rather than to leave his home here and

‘go to’ Jasper at a reduced salary

and Mrs. Fosler also took advanprivilege offered her by Mr. Stivér of resigning. Both have been in the department since 1935. Mrs. Fosler, appointed as a Democrat, had married Detective Fosler after she

‘went to work in the department.

They live at 6456 Broadway. Mr. Fosler recently ‘authored a book on ju-jitsu. i! No sooner had the Fosler story gone the rounds in G..O.P. circles than it was learned that Detective Mullins, a Democrat. who had been detailed by Mr. Stiver as his “contact” man in the legislature had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Mr. Stiver says that it is his usual custom to detail a man to the legislature. Lieut. Mullins, who is -in ill

' health, is to be sent to Mayo’s

clinic at Rochester, Minn, for a checkup, the expenses to be

a clerk-stenographer in. the records and communications

‘paid from the police pension fund.

‘Other police officers have received

similar benefits from the fund. While ‘Mr. Stiver himself will not comment on the matter, his friends say that Mr. Fosler should have been fired for “insubordination” and that Lieut. Mullins’ record was one that justified: pro-: motion. = But regardless of who is right’ or wrong, the whole business is now in the political mill and more may be heard of it later. GisliLeaie

Critical of Judges |

WHEN, AND IF, the Republicans start shouting about their economy record during the next campaign, the Democrats intend to mention .the “doings” of the _six-member, Republican appellate “court to the voters. The appellate court passed into complete Republican control for the first time in many. years.on. Jan. 1, and, about the first thing the six Republican judges decided was that -they should wear robes to add to the dignity of the court. (In the court's half century of. existence, the judges never had worn robes.) : So six robes were purchased at a ‘net cost of $66.50 apiece. - - Then the judges: decided that the cour@oom needed a little:Yefurbishing, so $200 was spent ‘for new tables and chairs: for the lawyers. ‘Now, each: of the judges is hav-

ing a private: telephone: installed :

in his office. - For the past sev- - eral years, the entire court had

been operating with but one tele-:

phone. It’s two-bit campaign material, of ‘course, but the. Democrats: think it's the kind that will sink : home. They also intend to mention the action of the Republican legisla= ture in increasing the 3 salaries of ithe secretaries of the supreme: ‘and appellate court judges from $150 to $175 a month, making them the highest paid secretaries in the state house considering the three months’ vacation they get during the summer. Of the 11 judges on both courts,

only three now are Democrats _

and hence most of the pay increase benefits Republican secretaries.- :

knit framework of free nations,”| “We believe that it is] only within such a framework as|

If we do not find the!

surrender of the axis in Europe,| but also to destruction of the axis

& score to settle with the Japanese; | nor shall we cease fighting until}

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