Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1943 — Page 5

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ALTER VACATIONS

# o0T Director Believes Busy Trains and Busses wil & Force Split-Week Holidays and Many

_ cation travel.

Other Changes.

By JOSEPH B, EASTMAN

Director of Defense Transportation (Written for the United Press)

_ WASHINGTON, March 81.—War transportation de-|. hy which already have caused the American people to

curb their natural fondness for travel, will require tremendous changes in vacation customs.

Staggering of vacations throughout the year, and commencement and termination of vacations in mid-week, will

be necessary if railroads and| bus lines are to accommodate the anticipated volume of va-

Further curtailment of relatively nonessential travel also will be necessary. It is estimated that the travel of approximately 25 per cent of the passengers on trains and busses today is comparatively nonessential. - week-end trips by

. civilians to the

- by those who nor-

city or the country, trips for the = purpose of mak- : ing social visits, - and 4 the like, The transportation lines cannot carry, in addition, thousands of vacation travelers—

the total swelled Mr. Eastman

- mally would use their automobiles

for vacation trips—unless there is & reduction of this nonessential civilian travel, and unless the vacation travelers avoid peak traffic days. Up 83 Per Cent Passenger traffic on the railroads increased 83 per cent last year, and a further rise of 20 per cent is expected this year. Intercity bus traf-

~ fic has been showing like increases.

More troop movements, more fiir lough travel, more war-connected

. business travel are mainly respon-

sible for this growth. The railroads are getting no new passenger equipment, and few new intercity busses have become available. ; In these circumstances, the nonessential and the less essential passenger traffic must give right of way to the essential traffic. Since

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vacations, particularly for persons working under wartime strains, are important to health and morale, the travel involved may be considered desirable, but it can be han-|. dled only under favorable conditions, and it must be held to as low a minimum as possible.

Little Space Seen

The prospect is that there will be little space on trains or busses during the coming summer for persons wanting to take week-end trips to the shore or the mountains or long tours around the country. Vacationers should plan to use public transportation facilities only to go to, and return from, the place where the annual vacation is spent.

: |And it will be necessary for them

to spend their vacations at places near home,

Heavy war passenger and freight trafic, as well as lack of new paasenger equipment, limits the ability of the railroads to provide passenger service, The railroads are now performing more than one and onehalf times as much freight service as in the last war. This traffic results not only from the magnitude of current war production, but from diversion to the rails of a large volume of: traffic that formerly moved by water between the coasts or along the coasts, and from shifting of part of the highway truck traffic to the railroads. There has been, as well, a large shift in the pattern of traffic flow.

See Further Change

While every effort is being made to keep as many trucks running in essential operations as possible, some further shifting of truck traffic to the rails is likely this year. ; The rising output of war plants will account for most of the rest of an anticipated increase of about 10 per cent in railroad freight traffic. Such traffic last year was already 34 per cent above the previous all-time record established in 1941, The load on all type of transportation will ‘be so” heavy," from now until the end of the war, that there will be continuous need to avoid wasteful and inefficient use of carrier facilities and to conserve equipment in every possible way. Any civilian demands that would interfere with smooth functioning of the transportation systems will have to give way to the necessity of keeping war traffic moving.

PLANS VICTORY PARTY Banner Temple No. 37, Pythian Sisters, will give a victory party at the Food Craft shop at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Katherine Perry

will be hostess.

WAR WORKERS : “Keep Feeling Fit...Keep Production Up”

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AMAZED AT RELIEF FROM RETONGA, SAYS KY. NERCHANT-FARMER

Laat Forty Pounds, Felt Weakened Almost to Point Of Exhaustion, States Mr. Faulkner. Eats Plenty Now, Gains Fifteen Pounds, Thanks Retonga.

Happy and grateful praise for Retonga and the welcome relief it brings is told in thousands of volun-

tary statements of well-known men

and women in the public press and on the radio. Among the latest to come forward with his strong endorsement of Retonga .is Mr. John L. Faulkner, well-known farm owner, stock raiser and merchant of ‘Route 2, Mt. Sterling, Ky. Mr ‘Faulkner declares: “I don’t believe anyone in Kentucky has suffered more than I have ‘with indigestion. It looked as if I ‘would never be able to eat solid food

aan and I was forced to diet on|relieved and I don’t have to take soft foods. What food I}strong laxatives. I have gained fif-

and force

filled my stomach with gas like

gra praise ‘ and| Montgomery County's prominent .the| citizens speaks for itself. Retonga | ,

| [tion credit business during nearly a decade, F. L. Kerr}

MR. JOHN L. FAULKNER

8 AUDREY CLINTON

coming off the production line Brooklyn. H. M. Brundage (right) one.

Housewives may expect fo see fiber coffee cans soon.

They're at the American Can Co. plant, of war production board, examines

OWI BOOKLET HITS INFLATION

Peace Impossible if Rising Costs Upset Economy,

Pamphlet Says.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.). —The office of war information today made public its handbook, “Battle Stations for All” describing the government's program to fight inflation and control living costs. The booklet, based on explana-

tions of policy by President Roosevelt and Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes and other agency heads, emphasizes the need to hold wage increases within the “little steel” ceiling formula. Excess spending power, it said, should be drawn off through higher taxes ‘and compulsory saving and people guaranteed minimum essentials of food and other necessities. : Pointing out that the longer it takes to mobilize the home front, the longer the war will last, the book says that inflation “makes winning the war. difficult and makes peace impossible.” Reduction in living standards, it continues, is our first contribution toward paying for the war. “Higher wages, higher profits, higher farm prices—any improvement in the position. of any group would add to the costs of the war.” The level at which the halt has been called to prices and wages is described as ‘not unfavorable” to either farmers or workers. The “ever normal pocketbook” is presented as a concept of keeping prices from going too high now so that they“will- not fall so far efter the war. “All of us know that a family which saves wisely in easy money years can cushion iisslt against hard money days.” The booklet defends overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 as “a proven® incentive to labor morale and increased efficiency” and as a postwar advantage.

FARM CREDIT AT NEW HIGH, PARLEY TOLD

Increasing production costs com-

food for freedom goals have brought ‘about the biggest producin Indiana

of Louisville, Ky., told Hoosier yesterday. ‘Mr, Kerr, president of the Production Credit Corp. of Louisville, spoke before a one-day conference of Indiana production credit men. Attending the session at the- Lincoln hotel: were representatives of 10 production credit associations in the state. During March, the biggest farm loan month in nine years, Mr. Kerr said, the Indiana associations have loaned farmers more than $1,500,000, “helping them to produce the maximum amount of food with the greatest efficency.”

"WILL HEAD LODGE

Mrs. Audrey Clinton will be ine stalled as high priestess of the Ladies Shrine of North America tomorrow evening in the Travertine room of the Lincoln hotel. Installing officer will be Mrs. Roy L. Craig, grand recorder. Others-to

princess; Mrs, B. G. Crowley, as-

bined with farmers’ efforts to meet ;

credit association representatives|

be installed are Mrs. Harry Halter, |

[ow PARTY” SET ~ BY'Y. W. AND Y. M.

Another in the series of “owl parties” for war workers will: be held at the Y. W. C. A. from tomorrow midnight until 3 a. m. Friday. The feature of the party, sponsored by the Y, W. and the ¥Y. M. C. A, will be a waltz contest. Arrangements are. directed by Miss Lucy Schulte, Mrs. Hugh Dillon, J. H. Miller and R. C. Alford.

REPORT POPE RECOVERED

LONDON, March 31 (U. P.).— Pope Pius XII has recovered: completely from influenza and is holding his reguar audiences today, Radio Vichy reported.

Employees in Industry. WASHINGTON, March 30—

|_| Evansville today was cited as a city

which has changed from “rags to riches” through conversion of its industrial plants to war work.

is contained in a report to the commerce department from Robert H. Perry, regional business consultant for the départment in St. Louis.

of the War Effort Upon Business in the St. Louis Region.” It says: “Evansville, as one “citizen expressed it, was changed almost overnight, from ‘rags to riches.’ “The city’s main industry in peacetime has been refrigerator production, but it boasts a considerable variety of manufacturing establishments. It is a transportation cross roads, with shipping facilities by water, rail, and air. It has less than 2 per cent foreign born, only about 7 per cent Negro population, and has been remarkably free from labor disturbances. - “Normally the city employs approximately. 18,000 industrial work= ers of all types. Today 40,000 people are employed in war work alone and approximately 13,000 more are expected to be added to payrolls by June. “This astonishing increase came about largely through recruitment of the labor force from surrounding counties, which has naturally placed a terrific ' burden on the city’s

housing facilities.

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‘| War Production Doubles

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The report. is entitled “The Impact| §

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Girl war workers will wear masks if they're becoming and the trend now is with that idea. This lumarith mask fits comfortably over eyeglasses and keeps eyes uninjured from fiying particles. Wide-

SEEK BODY TRACES IN HOSPITAL ASHES

EVANSVILLE, March 31.—Evidence has been found to indicate that Mrs. Maud Maxwell, a missing employee, died in the blaze that destroyed the Evansville state hospital on Feb. 9. Ashes have been found in the basement immediately below the third floor room occupied by Mrs. Maxwell and a flashlight known to have belonged to Mrs. Maxwell was discovered nearby. A sample of the ashes has been sent to Purdue - university for analysis, The fire took the life of one other elderly woman attendant.

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LE MASTER HEADS ‘YY MEN’S CLUB

New officers of the “Y” Men's club, elected yesterday, will be installed April 6 at. the Y. M. C. A.

Officers are W. :L. LeMaster, president; Dr. Francis Smith, reelected vice president; Howard Wil-

|Mams, secretary, and Carl Douglas,

treasurer.

SUBMIT POULTRY PLAN CLEVELAND, March 31 (U. P.).— Poultry dealers of Chicago, Detroit and three northern Ohio cities today submitted a plan to the regional office of price administration de-

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Only 1600 Killed in’ Nati During February, Council Says. 4)

CHICAGO; March 31 (U. PD. Traffic accidents caused . deaths in February than in month in the last 16 years, th national safety council announc today. a The February, death toll was 160 a 32 per cent drop from the same month last year and a 38 per cent drop from the all-time igh ¢ of 270 in February, 1941. ' “There is little basis for "hope, however,” the, council said, “that

figures indicate a stabilizing of the traffic toll at levels from 40 to 50 per cent below those of 1941, the last pre-war year, when 39,969 per sons were killed.” The cumulative toll for: the first two months this year was 40 per cent below last year or 3330 deaths against 5500. Five states--Minne« sota, South Dakota, Georgia, Virginia and Montana—had drops of 60 per cent or more for the first two months of 1943. The largest city with, a perfec record for January and February was Springfield, Mass. Second and third largest were Trenton, N. Jo and Spokane, Wash. In cities over 500,000 population Milwaukee, - Wis., had the lowest death rate in February, per popus lation with 6.1 per cent. St. Louis,

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