Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1943 — Page 1
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This is the Marion county detention home at 538 W, New York ‘st.
It was condemned almost two years ago.
| WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, April 3.—Big-league fighting weath-
er is at hand in Western Europe as well as Africa. While youre watching Tunisia, keep an eye also far.
ther north—as far north as Norway. _ And don’t ( ) C : : Weel vp : dod pra 4 Sicily fs seethingly pro-Ameriean. The aie ears he the moment ‘allies step ashore. Reports are that Rommel, the hotsands expert, is slated to defend Sicily’s equally hot mountains. = = # x # And Brigadier General-to-be Fiorello. La Guardia—rumor says he may become military governor of Sicily. ® =» of # ” x U. S.-British bombings of the continent is causing huge inroads in Nazi war production, but full effect is months away. Bombing ship-plate or machine-tool plants, for instance, doesn't translate at once into fewer planes or tanks, but means crippled production lines
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Labor Out to ‘Get’ Byrnes
LABOR IS organizing to “get” Jimmy Byrnes, director of economic
stabilization. It thinks he is the last real barrier to unrestricted wage
increases. Labor leaders believe they were potent in terminating Leon Henderson’s career, think they can do the same to Byrnes. But congress’ feeling about Jimmy is very different from its view of Leon. Same is true of White House. Meanwhile Paul McNutt’s tenure is secure for a while. He succeeded, where Wickard failed, in convincing the president's kitchen cabinet that he was doing as good a job as possible under the circum-
Stamess, t Boal Nelson is losing ground.
£ Showdown Near on Food
FARM-FOOD SITUATION is far from stabilized; showdown is due next week on whether farm bloc gets control of prices as well as production and distribution of food. . Some advisers told F. DD. R. months ago he'd have to turn back con- | over agriculture to the farm groups whose power was kept at a minimum through triple-A days, if he was to get the food that’s needed this year. That's what he did in appointing Davis and salling in farmbloc leaders for series of conferences. Davis, once head of AAA, was before that an associate of Earl Smith, powerful Illinois farm bureau official. And he’s calling back into government the men who left when triple-A policies changed. » » » 2 » » But officials of the farm groups are demanding “unconditional surrender” before they'll take over—and that means higher farm prices by one method or another. Decision, whatevér it is, will figure importantly in current wage disputes. If Roosevelt wins on Bankhead bill veto, he may move decisively to freeze everything, adjust pressure through subsidies.
Why the administration worries about inflation: Income og
to individuals are expected to reach $135,000,000,000 this year. If price stay around present levels, the American people will spend about $7, - (Continued on Page Two)
watch.
Labor Stabilization Has
Teeth, Workers Discover,
NY A May Share N.
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facilities at the home. Without
proper equipment for storage, the top of the ice box is used.
TROLLEY THUGS
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Operators “Slashed. Clubbed In New Attack on Indiana Line.
A ‘trackless trolley operator was slashed on’ the throat with a knife and a rookie operator was clubbed on the head last night as bandits continued to defy police by robbing Indianapolis Railways operators. Railways officials had threatened to discontinue night service unless the holdups were stopped. The latest in a series of trolley holdups came only a few hours after Police Chief Beeker told Indianapolis Railways officials he would assign additional men to the Colum-~ bia and Indiana ave. lines to prevent these holdups. Three Negro youths jumped on the trolley as it was parked at N.| West and 14th sts. Elva Crowe, the regular operator, was cut with the knife as he sat counting his cash and tokens. The bandits took $30, 40 tokens and Mr. Crowe's
Another of the youths swung a club over the head of Franklin
Pierce, who is learning how to run trolley, and took his watch,
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IGNORE WARNING,
Gardens ..... 3| State
By ROGER BUDROW Indianapolis workers are discovering that the labor stabilization plan adopted here about a menth ago kas teeth in it. In the first two weeks of its oper-
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ation, 38 workers whose employers refused to release them appealed to the U.. 8. employment service's review unit." In a majority of these cases, the review unit turned the workers down also. In most ‘cases, however, employers did not object to letting the workers get another job. In the
releases and went to the U. 8. emgood many more, probably, were given releases and found gp on their own. Although Indianapolis got off to there
The possibility of using the county’s property on N. Keystone ave. for both an NYA center and a juvenile detention home was studied today. Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court last night received a telegram from Senator VanNuys advising him that ‘the national youth administration. will resurvey the property it is renting from the county at $1 a year with a view toward sharing it with the juvenile court.
Charges that the NYA is attempting “to perpetuate itself” were made yesterday hy the Marion county
‘council 4s it took steps to sue the
government for repossession of the property. Judge Rhoads characterized ‘the center as a playhouse. “Although we would like to have the buildings at 2401 N. Keystone exclusively. for our needs, the plan of sharing the ‘property might work out satisfactorily,” declared Addison
'z Zoamek Has No More Right
To Be Army
WASHINGTON, April 3 (U. P
Mo.) of the senate war investigating committee, asserted today that Col. Darryl F. Zanuck, of the Hollywood Zanucks, has no more right to be an army colonel than Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York “has
a! to be a brigadier general.”
Truman erticaed Zanuck — who has completed » training fim mis
sion for the signal corps—ior asking the war department to place
| him in inactive status.
Addressing Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, who appeared on his own Foduest at a committee hearing on the subject or Hellywoea colonels,” Truman
: a: don’t believe in’ these fellows
Keysione Ave. Center
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HINT GERMANY MAY BE FORCED | T0 MOVE SHOPS
RAF Loss Is Fractional but Damage at St. Nazaire,
Lorient Is Heavy.
LONDON, April 3 (U. P.).—British four-engined bombers struck in force last night at Lorient and St. Nazaire, Germany's two largest submarine bases on the French Atlantic coast. The double blow ended a fournight, weather-inforced lull in the Anglo-American aerial offensive following the heavy attacks Monday night on Berlin and Bochum, the latter a steel and railway center in Germany’s Ruhr, Only two planes were lost in last
| 3 night's raids and in R Subsidiary mine-
blo¢k busters to two-pound incen-
“| diaries was unloaded on the subma-
J.” Parry, council president, . after: Judge ‘Rhoads advised him of Senator VanNuys'’: telegram. “The property is.now being used by: the federal agency as a training center for war .industry. + -The county has been attempting to repossess the property as a site for a juvenile detention home to take the place of the present quarters at 538 W. New York st., which have been condemned,
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Colonel Than-'
)—~Chairmen Harry S. Truman (D.
YANKS BOMB KISK
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FOUR TIES IN DAY
Army Withholds Cause of Explosion at Evansville Plant.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 3 (U P.).—~An explosion in the experimental laboratory ‘of Servel, Inc. injured 10 persons today. Army authorities withheld the cause of the blast, but said only one worker, Clarence O'Bryan of Evansville," was ‘hurt seriously. ~ Reports said 122 persons were working in the plant when the explosion occurred. Those injured were lacerated hy shattered glass from partitions and lighting fixtures. They were taken to an Evansville hospital. First aid was administered to several at 'the plant. Servel is engaged in war work. An army spokesman said, however, that work would not be interrupted. The explosion tore away a section of the laboratory's walls.
On the War Fronts
(April 3, 1943)
NORTH AFRICA— British press toward Bizerte in North Tunisia; Americans repulsé German tanks on central front, launch tank and infantry attack near El Guettar.
AIR WAR--R.'A. P. attacks St. Nazaire and Lorient U-boat bases with strong bomber force.
RUSSIA—Red army presses fight to clean out German bridgehead in Caucasus.
PACIFIC—U. S. heavy bombers attack 13. Japanese ships off Kavieng, New Ireland island; Kiska, raided four times in single day: + Jap ship set afire in Solomons.
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rine pens, repair shops and other U-boat facilities of St. Nazaire and Lorient, both of which already have been so badly battered by AngloAmerican planes. that the Germans are believed to be on the point of moving the bases farther south in France, The raid on Lorient was the 69th of the war and that on St. Nazaire, the 47th. Lorient last was attacked in daylight by the 8th U. S. air force March 6. Other allied planes took over the resumed aerial offensive in daylight today. Bombers and fighters swept over the southeast coast in relays and bomb explosions were heard from the direction of the
“| northeast coast of France or south-
ern corner of Belgiun).
Wreck Terrific Damage The night raids against the submarine bases were timed to coincide with the intensification of Germany’s U-boat warfare against allied sea lanes in an attempt to throw the impending invasion of Europe off schedule. Meantime, reports continued to reach London of the terrific havoc wrought by the British and American bombers in their continuing offensive against Germany and occupied territory. The Berlin radio said that 200,000 persons had been killed, wounded or rendered homeless by allied raids on France, while an Ankara broadcast asserted that Slovakia has agreed to house 35,000 German children exavuated from bombed areas.
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British Aes in North Pushes Closer to
Mateur.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff, Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 3, —American tanks and infane try attacked the main Gere man ‘positions near the Kebili road junction southeast of El Guettar. this morning in an ate tempt to break through to the coastal plain. There was no immediate indicas tion how successful the attack had been. Front dispatches also dise closed that the Americans had with drawn slightly in the Fondouk ares to strength their flank.
Meanwhile, in the north, the Brite ish ‘1st ‘army pushed closer to Ma« teur, which is only 18 miles from Bizerte. - | Despite bad weather, the great = Anglo-American aerial armada ga the harried axis forces no pot al n
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port north of. Gag in ria | enemy airfleld at Fauconnerie was bombed twice and raging fires were left burning, and fighters maintained constant patrols,
Bomb Messina Harbor
Six enemy fighters were sent crashing to the earth and four allied planes were lost. A United States 9th air force communique today said Liberator bombers attacked San Giovanni and Messina harbor (Sicily) at low ale titude on the night of April L Ferry terminal points were dew stroyed. The communique said it was bee lieved one ferry boat at Messina and another at San Giovanni were sunk and one enemy aircraft dee stroyed and another damaged.
Patrols in Clash
No details of the latest advance of Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's 1st army in Northern Tunisia were given in the communique, but dise patches indicated that the troops already were less than 30 miles from Bizerte. First army patrols “successfully engaged and inflicted ~asualties on an enemy patrol,” the communique said. Elsewhere, it reported only patrol activity. Thirty-two German tanks ate tacked the American positions some 15 miles east of El Guettar yestere day, but a Hurricane barrage: knocked out three of them and the other 29 turned back, dispatchés said. Hear Fighting Resumes
Meantime, the British 8th army
to break throagh last natural fense line above Sousse nearly 140 miles to the north. The German Afrika Korps now was entrenched along the
north rim of the deep, water-filled
Troop Carrier
Officers Back
From the Turmoil in Africa
By EARL RICHERT Ten officers of the 1st troop caf’rier command who have been in the thick of things in North Africa arrived at Stout field yesterday looking as if they had spent the winter at Miami Beach. | Three of them, interviewed by the press, told of their experiences in a matter-of-fact manner. Capt. John Evans, 26, of Seattle,
,|said that his most thrilling experilence of the war was in finding a
“Say,” interrupted Maj. Alexane der Couch, the third member of
you landed that plane ap 160 miles an hour.” right,” answered Capt
“That's Evans. . Capt. Hansen, a slender, 25-years
turkey dinner waliing for him when attack.
he returned from a “tough job” on
was massing strehgth for an assaulf...
the trio being interviewed, “I heard *