Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1943 — Page 7

parachute and hop into the plane go ng their way.

No Parachutes Lost They must sign for the parachute and agree io return it, express prepaid, at the trip's end. No, they haven't lost any ‘chutes at Stout

. field. Every. one has been returned.

The number of planes coming and

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only to army officers out there. And they aren't telling. It's up to pilots whether they take the hitchhikers along. Maj. Walz said he didn't recall any pilot ever turning down a rider.

“One day a few weeks ago, Col.

W. B. Whitacre ‘was ready to take off in a cargo plane,” Maj. Walz said. “The colonel was at the end of the runway, waiting for the goehead from the control tower when we received a call from one of our soldiers here. He asked if he could ride east in the ship.

It’s a Handy Service

“I telephoned the radio tower and asked them to ask the colonel if it would be all right. ‘Sure’ he replied, ‘hurry him out here in a Jeep.’ a

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the waiting plane and a minute later he was on his way to New York.” Such aerial transportation is pretty handy for service men. There's a soldier out there who had a three-day pass and wanted to.go to his home at Los Angeles. He got a ride out and back and spent a day and a half of his three days at home in California.

Getting Too Good

The troop carrier command maintains regular shuttle service between its bases. But those are the only regular runs. Other flights going through there are pilots on operational flights who stop to refuel. And with Indianapolis being so centrally located, there are quite a number who stop here, making the nitchhiking business pretty good. The operations office is a little bit afraid it’s getting too good. They have begun to receive wires from fliers who ask for. “reservations” on the shuttle service. Ld Some, in fact, even ask for telegraphic confirmation. But the operations office draws the line there. After all, it's still the army.

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FARM MEASURE

Inflationary, He Tells Senate; Says All Must Lower Standards.

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“wholly inconsistent with our stabilization program and, therefore, dangerous alike t6 our constructive farm policy and to our whole war effort.” Obviously mindful {hat an- attempt will be made ta override his veto, the president in| his message to the senate appealed “to the considered judgment of the congress” to reject the measure. | The president forefast a runaway inflation spiral i! the administration’s present anti-inflation line is broken down. The Bankhead bill vas aimed at a portion of Mr. Roosevelt's price stabilization order ins{ructing that payments to farmers under the soil conservation and domestic allotment act, the agricultural adjustment act or incentive, subsidies shall be deducted in-/computing the parity price below which ceilir| 8 prices cannot be set.

. Claim Order Illegal

Farm leaders pushed the bill through both houses! of congress with the argument that the price stabilization act, on which the or-

4ider was based, did not grant any-

one the right to dedudt such benefit payments from either parity or maximum prices. “If by this bill,” Mr. Roosevelt said in his veto message, “you force an increase in the cost of the basic food stuffs, and as a result the national war labor board increases wages, no, one can tell where increases will start or what those increased wages will ullimately cost the farmers and all Ieople of the nation.” He said the Bankheid bill would

“| not help the farmer {vith his im-

mediate war difficulties and would make “the winning of {he war more difficult and gravely imperil our chances of winning thie peace.” Mr. Roosevelt said | farmers already enjoy a “relatively favorable position” in the natipn’s wartime economic structure and said he did not, believe the American farmer wanted inflation.

Departs from Practical

Pointing out that tlie war labor board has said that al break in its “little steel” formuld, for wage stabilization now will f'start an inevitable inflationary |spiral, ». Mr, Roosevelt said: “It will become jmpojssible to hold this line if the cost of |living is still further increased—not from imperative war needs, but by the action of the congress in departing from its declared policy to| stabilize all prices and wages.” He said the Bankhpad bill departed from the only practical basis

‘fon which any sound | stabilization

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Slushy Singers Dropped By BBC

LONDON, April 2 (U, P.).—) The austere British Broadcasting Co., waging war on “slushy, debilitated” singers and songs, today took five more crooners off the air and out of the ears of the British public. 4 They not only went after the. mooing chest singers but also banned some more of their songs. The tune “Miss You” joined such throaty popular numbers as “So Deep in. the Night” and “Concerto for Two” in the official BBC ash can. “We consider singing and songs quite important,” said a BBC spokesman. “We do not like slushy and debilitated sing- | ers or songs and our stand is quite tlear—we are not going to have them.”

NYA IS CALLED ‘A PLAYHOUSE

Rhoads Links Agency to Crime Rise as County Threatens Suit.

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clause was not included as far as the county is concerned. “The lease is plainly so unfair to the county that, in our opinion, it is not valid. There was certainly no meeting of two minds on such a lease; if there was, one of the minds was incompetent. “Marion “county needs the property and needs it badly. There is no other practical place the county can go to take care of the children now in the detention home. It is a well-known fact that there has been a large increase—more than 25 per cent—in juvenile delinquency due to war conditions.

Recalls Jury Comment

“This compels Marion county to increase its facilities for juvenile detention. The present detention home is regarded as a fire trap and, owing to its damp and gloomy rcoms and lack of playground facilities, it is a menace to the health of the children confined. “A recent grand jury gave a clear statement of its opinion of the present detention home; my only fault with the grand jury report is that it is too restrained. “If any citizen will visit the detention home as I have recently done, he will come away from that institution ashamed that he is living in a community that is so inadequately taking care of its future citizens. This situation can be quickly remedied if we can again obtain possession of our own property.”

Rhoads Writes Capital

Judge Rhoads, in his letter to Washington, asked that a release on the county-owned property be obtained. In his challenge, Mr. Shields said: “We are engaged in training youth for war industry. If Judge Rhoads feels that contributes to delinquency then we must surely be contributing to delinquency in his estimation.” He declared that during wartime, juvenile ' delinquency increased in all cities, not only in Indianapolis, and at that point made his statement that “by the same token” he might say it had increased since Judge Rhoads had been judge. Lieut. Kurrasch said there had been several cases of under 18-year-old offenders from the center and that Judge John Niblack had had some cases of those over 18. Girls as well as boys, he said, had been picked up as delinquents.

Says Some Run Away

He said that the youths were brought here from out of town and paidy to learn a trade. Some of them, he said, stay awhile and then sneak away to be picked up later as delinquents. “1f we were rid of them, it would cut the delinquency rate that much,” the lieutenant added. In his defense of the NYA project, Mr. Shields said that “NYA is making & direct contribution to the war effort by training Negro youth in this locality and therefore is not only preventing juvenile delinquency but is supplying the labor market with many needed employees. Since September we have

trained 233 youths for war indus-|.

try.” ¥ The job of training the Negro youth so that they can make their contribution to the war effort is done with difficulty and under numerous handicaps. I don’t think that is fully realized by all. We are doing it regardless of handicaps.” He said it was his feeling that since the center had been on the East side that there had been less disturbance since the youths “have tried to create a spirit of understanding and good will.” “If Judge ‘Rhoads would be kind enough to report any youngsters

who are violators we could be only]

too happy to work with him in trying to arrive at an intelligent solution,” he said. The center is one of the few places Negroes can get training. They resent the attempt to break the lease. ‘It was entered into in good faith and runs until 1945. It relieved the county of a great financial responsibility at the time it was signed.”

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INTIMIDATION

Charges Army Is Sending Agents to Mine Areas As Implied Threat.

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point of bayonets through quartering of troops in coal mining communities.” ’ Lewis said that the activities of the war department’s military intelligence were “confirmed” by Drew Pearson in his syndicated column, “Washington Merry-go-Round” yesterday. Pearson’s column said in part: “Fearing possible outbreaks in coal mining states, the war department made secret preparations to use troops if necessary. But Ed MecGrady, labor adviser to the undersecretary of war, feels the best way to keep order is to talk to the miners in their language. Formerly assistant secretary of labor, he suggested that, instead of using troops, he be commissioned a one-man army to keep order. “McGrady has left for the coal areas, to keep his finger on the pulse of the miners—and to keep that pulse down.”

Agreement Temporary

The miners now are working under a temporary wage agreement which extended the old contract for 30 days from April 1, while negotiations for a new contract could be carried on here. Prior to adoption of the temporary agreement, Lewis declared that the miners would not “trespass” on the operators’ property without a contract. Adoption of the extension prevented a shutdown of the mines yesterday. Discussions have since continued on the U, M. W.’s demands for a $2-a-day pay increase. The’ southern Appalachian ‘wage conference went inte session today with no comment from the conferees.

ELECTRIC GROUP TO MEET

The Indiana Municipal Electric Association, Inc., will meet at the Claypool hotel at 3 p. m. Wednes- | day. An OPA representative will explain new priorities affecting electric utilities and Otto K. Jensen will explain new laws affecting municipal utilities.

Where Is Sars Origine? I's Where Soldiers Write From,

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going. The mother spent days in the library reading through copies of Life trying to figure out what particular copy and what particular story he might have meant. It was like hunting for a needle in a haystack but like most of the patrons who come in on such quests, they will carry on the search long after the librarians have admitted they can’t find an answer,

* Patrons ‘Cagey’

Some call up — others come in. The mother or father, the wife or sweetheart, may be rathér “cagey” when they first approach the librarian but usually confess what they are really after. The librarians in the reference room answer the questions, of course, and try to be helpful as always because the questions are, in them-

selves, legitimate reference questions. Generally, the little ‘messages

meant ‘to be “keys” to a man’s location are pretty vague and the librarians sometimes: suspect that really a man after all just made a passing comment and didn’t intend it for a code message. But try to tell that to someone who has a son or husband in the service! : Sometimes the indications are specific. One mother wanted to know in what country there is four months of daylight. It was at the time our troops moved into Iceland.

living on an island where there was a memorial chapel to a certain individual. = The librarian figured that surely could be traced. But the place is still a ‘mystery. Of course, there 1s story after story of “code” ‘Which the library doesn’t get. ‘Code’ Hasn't Fit There are those husbands and wives who fix up neat little codes so that the man can get across his destination to his wife. We heard one the other day of a couple which fixed up a fancy one in which certain words or phrases would indicate certain locations. They covered every place the couple could imagine the husband might be sent. There have been letters since the man arrived at his destination but none of the code has been use Obviously, he wasn’t sent any place they had provided a code for. One young woman arranged to have her husband use such phrases as “I miss you,” “How are you” and the simpler sentences he might naturally use in writing. He’s been writing that he misses her terribly but what has her worried is whether he really means it or whether he’s using the code. Another mother instructed her son to write “I had green beans for supper” if she went to Hawaii, He wrote home that he did. Guess you would call it out-cen-

Another wrote home that he was! soring the censors.

Sailor ‘Roped’ By Own Cousin

LONDON, April 2 (U. P.).— Francis Quinn, 23, wasn't so amazed at his experiences aboard a torpedoed vessel but when he hauled himself aboard a rescue ship and found cousin Jim Quinn on the other end of the rope, the shock nearly smacked him back overboard. “Surprised?” said Francis, “Why, I was so surprised I couldn't say a word.”

Francis Quinn of Charleston, Mass,, was one of 24 young American navy gun crew members aboard a merchantman sunk recently in the North Atlantic.

GEISEL TO ADDRESS LINK-BELT FOREMEN

Members and guests at the beef stew dinner given by the Link-Belt Foreman's club Monday will hear a talk by Harry Geisel, Indianapolis’ nationally-known baseball umpire. The dinner will be held at 6:30 p. m. in the American Legion Wayne Post 64 hall at 6566 w. Washington st. Other features will be the film, “News Review of ’42” to be shown by Ken Bayne, editor of the LinkBelt Productioneer; and short talks by Col. Martin H. Ray, and Warren Maxwell, superintendent of the Link-Bealt positive drive division. Dave Morgan is chairman of arrangements. Robert Fiedler is the

club president.

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Take Biggest Blows of Desert War. (Continued from Page One)

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Guettar toward Gabes. (Radio Algiers broadcast an ap-'

parently erroneous report today that, "8 the British and American forces, A

had made a junction in southern} Tunisia.) \ Nazis HOI Fortified Hill A dispatch from United Press| Correspondent Phil Ault, with Gen.’ Patton's advance forces, sald crack’ German troops were holding a well

d fortified hillside about 15 miles east

of El Guettar, stalling. the American «

advance. The allied aerial offensive from: Wednesday night until Thursday night—when nine enemy aircraft’ were destroyed and four allied ships were listed as missing—was a varia=

tion of Wednesday's damaging raid

by nearly 100 flying fortresses on Sardinia, which the enemy has used as a main supply base for Tunisia. On Wednesday night the docks at Bizerte, main port for entry of axis supplies, Thursday the center of attack by the desert. air force was shifted to southern Tunisia, where the weather

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of conditions in the north, 8 Air Fields Attacked

A large force of light and medium. bombers attacked El Maou airdrome’ and the Sfax area on Thursday and light bombers hammered the aif fields at La Fauconnerie and Ef Djem, starting fires. The allied planes also renewed: their sweeps over the central fighte. ing sector from Fondouk to El Guets. » | tar, battering vehicles and positions. in support of the ground forces. Today’s communique described

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