Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1943 — Page 13

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. Workers to find a. place to eat and

.70 miles round trip daily. As a

run steadily at its originally esti-

+ ~Jabor turnover that ‘hampers effi- : giency,

happens when the R. A. F. sends a

_or almost any British industrial city . by a sightseer.

"single bomb had hit the docks them-

- mans have little or no reserves of

dishes, ‘clothes—all necessities for persons

hs ve 1oet | eve thin, i bombed gional director of the WPB; R. Edwho have Iyibing ward Hays, RCA personnel director;

- there will have a hard time running

‘tually is delivering a triple blow to ‘most German cities: Blasting out

- impossible to work in many dam-

COST JAPS 18 TANKS

Japs enabled the Americans to de-

, the night and started unloading

* had the range on that bar to per-

and we knocked them out,” "he said.

ana man came out of battle without.

COURT REFUSES NEW ew: STAY: FOR STEPHAN

.. which would have delayed fixing of

JSE- NO

WORK AT ESSEN

Raids on Nazi Intensify the Laborer’s Difficulties.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Cofrespondent

LONDON, April ‘13—If a ‘man|. ~ hasn't a house to live in, if his cor-|-ner grocery has been burned down,|, if there’s no gas, electricity, water

or street cars und if he has been up all. night fighting fires—he is not going to be much help getting the blitzed Essen steel works going again, That is one of the secondary— ‘but highly important—effects of the allied air offensive against Germany which may be overlooked in -the United States. It is not forgotten by the British who have been through the same thing themselves. Possibly the closest parallel to this type of situation in the United States is at Willow Run, Ford's giant plane plant. - Willow Run's experience has shown a specific correlation between the ability of

sleep and live and the production capacity.

Workmen Must Be Available

Willow Run didn’t have enough houses so workers were forced to travel by automobile as much as

result, Willow Run never has been rable to obtain enough workmen to

mated capacity and has a constant

This is the same thing on a smaller, and less drastic, scale that

pulverizing raid over Essen. A more graphic idea of secondary bombing effects also can be found in London

All you have to do is see acre after acre, mile after mile of burned out and battered houses, apartments, stores, - shops—buildings of every description—which run alongside the London dock area, coms mercial road and East India dock area. You can realize that if not a

selves it would have been a hard job to keep them running because there no longer would be any place where dock labor could live,

Nazis: Lack Reserves’

The problems which authorities of German blitzed towns face in handling refugees and essential services are believed to be many times those of Britain. The Ger-

civilian supplies such as blankets, cutlery, pots, pans and

houses. They also proissbily have no spare

stocks of wood, bricks, nails, mortar, | Davy representatives;

Centers |

$1500 AWARDED! | AT DINNER HERE!|

Louis Dawson and 23 Other Employees Honored by Officials.

Ideas pay at the RCA Manufacturing Co., and today 24 employees have proof of it. At a dinner last night in the Washington hotel these war workers received approximately $1500 in war bonds for suggestions on ways to speed up production and save man hours and material. The top prize of $300 in" war bonds went to Louis Dawson, 6 2614 Broadway, for his idea of electrical check charts. Since the charts went into use last November, an estimated 9000 man-hours have been saved.*

Idea for WPB

Ollie Willoughby, R. R. 20, Box 853, received the second prize of $200. His winning suggestion involved the replacement of brass casting on electrical speakers, thus saving the vital war materials. Mr. Dawson’s award was made in connection with a special ShangriLa suggestion contest conducted at the plant and his suggestion will be submitted to the WPB for national recognition.

. Other Winners

The other war workers whose ideas paid off are Woodrow Williams, Walter Dolk, George Cates, Lester Haller, C. M. Purdy, Mrs. Bonnie Lewis, Clyde Hardin, Hyeries Handle, Robert Featherstone, Hugh Trowbridge, Richard McGaughey, Robert - Groce, Ray Strong, Jack Harris, Russell Christenberry, Max Kerr, Michael Rae, Paul Allen, Robert Hollingsworth, Edward O’Donnell," John Porter and Ralph Hemming. Attending the dinner were Governor Schricker; Frank Hoke, re-

C. N. Riefsteck, plant manager;

and the materials needed to repair|the suggestion and war production d

damaged residences. Figures on the evacuation of Essen range from 90,000 to 350,000 of the normal population of 670,000. These show that the Krupp works

full blast even if the damage to the plant itself is repaired. One estimate said production had been cut 35 to 40 per cent. ; Factories are no good without men and women to run them. Therefore e royal air force ac-

the means of production, making it

aged plants and placing a heavy strain on the already. hard pressed Nazi war economy by forcing on it the whole job of ering for Tefuges civilians.

‘ONE-TRACK’ MINDS

SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 13 (U. P.).—Marine Pfc. Eugene Stanley Smith, 21, Syracuse, Ind. said today the one-track minds of the

stroy 18 enemy tanks on Guadal-’ canal. Smith told his story at a naval hospital near San Diego where he is recovering from a hip infection. “Jap transports had put in during

‘troops, supplies and those 18 tanks,” Pvt. Smith recounted. “We were

helpless to do anything about ti. A| heavy offshore bombardment kept|- . us pinned to our foxholes.

“Later in the day they sent out one of their tanks to a spot on the Matanikau ‘river where the only crossing was at a sand bar. We

fection and we opened with artillery mortars and everything else. When the smoke cleared, the tank was on its side. ““That didn’t convince them. They obligingly sent every one of those 18' tanks atross gt the same spot

The Hoosier marine hit the beach on Guadalcanal with the .third wave of a mortar outfit. After four months of fierce action, the Indi-

a scratch.

CINCINNATI, O. April 13 (U. BJ). ~The sixth U. 8. cireuit court of appeals today refused a petition

‘date of execution of Max Stephan, Detroit restaurateur, sentenced to hanged for treason. appellate ~ court decision that Stephan, convicted of aid. to Lieut. Hans Peter Nazi aviator who escaped from» Gunadian prion ca, wil brought ‘before Federal Judge

rive committees and labor and Management, of officials of the Rcials of the plant.

4 KNOWN DEAD IN ALABAMA TORNADO

HACKLEBURG, Ala. April. 13 (U. P.)—Residents of a wide strip through: northwest Alabama, devastated by a tornado which did thousands of dollars of damage, claimed at least four lives and injured two-score persons, today surveyed their losses and planned recovery. The death toll, at first believed to be nine, was reduced to four in the Hackleburg area where the worst damage was done and possibly two more near Vinemont, Ala.,

.| 70 miles east of here. More than

40 buildings or homes were leveled here." Red Cross, telephone and construction crews were busy over the area today as communications gradually were restored and homeless families found shelter with friends and relatives. ] The list of known dead at Hackleburg was reduced to include the names of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mann and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Powell, according to Stone Crane, Red Cross field representative. Damage here was estimated at $250,000.

BOMBER CREWMAN BELIEVED DROWNED

WALLA ‘WALLA, Wash., April 13 (U.P). —Staff Sergt. H. C. Van Slager .of South Bend, Ind. ninth crew member of parachute from a ‘bomber in:the remote Salmon river country of Central Idaho 10 days ago, apparently was drowned when he attempted to reach safety aboard a raft, Major Harry BE. Gilmore, Walla Walla air base com-

| mander, said today."

He said searchers had found s raft built by Van Slager but failed to find any trace of his body. They found tracks in the snow leading to a cabin where Van Slager stayed for a few days. The raft was about 300 yards downstream from where he launched if. other eight orew members have returned to their base. i Major Gilmore also reported there was still no trace of three men in a plane from Hill Field, Utah, who set out last Monday to search for the bomber’s crew. .

MINER IS KILLED SULLIVAN, April 13 (U. P)— John Gardner, 57, of Sullivan, was killed in a slate fall at the Templeton mine 4 yesterday. He was an ‘employee #t the mine, located near Dugger.

INJURED FATALLY AT WORK LAFAYETTE, April 13 (U. P).~—

Tuitle at Detioi; tomor-|at

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Berets B, Jessup, 31, an assembler |

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Left to right: Louis Dawson, top prize winner; Frank Hoke, regional director of the WPB; Governor Schricker; Ollie Willoughby, second place . winner; C. N. Riefstack, RCA plant manager and R. Edward Hays, personnel director at RCA.

Orators Might Forget That Jefferson Was a Real Guy

By- PETER EDSON. Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 13.—This Thomas Jefferson was spparently

quite a guy. In all the welter of words that

200th anniversary of his birth, come April 13, the heavy oratory barrage will lay down emphasis on his abilities as a statesman, architect,

diplomat, president, drafter of the

Thomas Jefferson the human being, chances are, will be pretty much lost sight of, which is a pity. Tom Jefferson was alive, the way old

Ben Franklin was. Tom was interested in everything. He liked to dance. He liked to talk, he liked his glass and a half of wine. "And he had a sense of humor... He approached the problem of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, the bones of a mammoth discovered by Lewis and Clark and reconstructed in one room of the presidential mansion, or the purchase in Paris of a pair of corsets for John Adams’ daughter—all. with equal gusto. He got a big kick out of life, and he should be remembered for that.

A Good Correspondent

TOM JEFFERSON also was a good correspondent. He wrote: thousands of letters. Bernard Mayo at the University of Virginia, has gone through all of Jefferson's letters and writings that he could find, and in a recently published book, “Jefferson Himself,” he has selected a few

| hundred passages to reveal the

character and personality of this third U. S. president, in his own words. Here are just a few samples, reprinted by permission of the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Co., to give you a thumbnail portrait- of Whattaman Jefferson, the way he told it himself: “When I recollect that at 14 years of age the whole care and direction of myself was thrown on myself entirely '. .. and recollect the various sorts of bad company with which I was associated from time to time, I am astonished I did not. turn off with some of them and become. as worthless to society as they were.”

» ” ” “IF THERE is any news stirring in town or country, such as deaths, courtships or marriages, in the circle of my acquaintanceship, let me know it. Remember me | affectionately to all the young ladies of my acquaintanceship, particularly the Miss Burwells, and Miss Potters, and tell them that though that heavy earthly part of me, my body, is absent, the better half of me, my soul, is even with them. . . . “How did Nancy Page look at you when you danced with her? ... When you see Patsy Dandridge, tell her ‘God bless her.” I do not like the ups and downs of a country life; today you are frolicking with a fine girl, and tomorrow you are moping by youre self.” “The chance that in marriage she will draw a blockhead, I calculate at about 14 to one.” “Timothy Pickering’s observations and Mr. John Adams’ in addition, ‘that it (the Declaration of Independence) contained no new ideas, that it is a commonplace compilation, its sentiments hackneyed by. congress for two years before, and its essence tontained in Otis’ pamphlet, may all be true. Of that I am not to be the judge. Richard Henry Lee charged

- it as copied from Locke’s treatise

on government. Otis’ pamphlet I never saw, and whether I had gathered my ideas from reading or reflection, I do not know.

Sent Corsets

“I KNOW only that I turned to neither book nor pamphlet while writing it. I did not consider it as part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether and to offer no sentiment which had ever been expressed before.” “Mr. Jefferson has.-the honor to present his compliments to: Mrs. Smith (John Adams’ daughter, who was back in America) and to send her the two pairs of corsets she desired. He wishes they may be suitable, as Mrs. Smith

will be spilled to commemorate the

Declaration of Independence. But

omitted. to send her measure. Times are-altered since Mademoi- - selle de Sanson had the honor of knowing her; should they be too small, however,- she will be so good as to lay them by a while. There are ebbs and flows in this world. “ ..8& more tranquil and unoffending station could not have .been found for me... . . It will give me’ philosophical evenings in the winter, and rural days in summer. The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.” ; L “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” “I have compared notes with Mr. (John) Adams on the score of progeny and I find I am ahead of him and think I am in a fair way to keep so. I have ten and one-half grandchildren, and two and three-fourths great-grand-children, and these fractions will ere long become units.”

Routine at 76

“I HAVE lived temperately, ats ing little animal food. double, however, the doctor’s fi and a half of wine, and even treble it with a friend. . . . Malt liquors and ciders are my table drinks. . . . I have been blest with organs of digestion which accept and concoct, without ever murmuring, whatever the palate chooses to consign to them, and I have not yet lost a tooth by age. “I am not so regular in my sleep . . . devoting to it from five to eight hours, according as my company or the book I am reading interests me. . . . But whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. “I may end these egotisms ., . . by saying that my life has been much like that of other people.” “I was taken in by Mrs. Browere. He said his (life mask) operation would be of about 20 minutes. I submitted without enquiry. But it was a bold experiment on his' part on the health of an octogenary worn down by sickness as well as age. Successive coats of grout plastered on the naked head and kept there an hour would have been a severe trial of a young and hale man. He suffered the plaster also to get so dry that separation became difficult and even dangerous. He was obliged to use freely the mallet and chisel to break it *into pieces and get off a piece at a time. . | The strokes of the mallet would have been sensiblc. almost to a loggerhead. The family became alarmed and he confused till ‘I was quite exhausted, and there became real danger that the ears would tear from the head sooner than the plaster. I now bid adieu forever to busts and even portraits.” “Could the dead feel any interests in monuments or other remembrances of them . . . the . following would be . . . most gratifying: on the grave a plane die or cube of three feet without any mouldings, surmounted by an obelisk six feet high, each of a single stone; on the face of the obelisk the following inscription, and not a word more: Here was buried Thomas ' Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia, because by these testimonials that I have lived I wish most to be remembered.”

ARRESTS HIS WIFE,

MACON, Ga., April 13 (U. P.) — Family ties and the household budget do not keep James Johnson, a negro auxiliary policeman, ‘from impartially enforcing the law, Saturday night while Officer Johnson was on duty, a disturbance was reported at his house. ' Arriving there he found his wife and another woman engaged in a fight. Johnson arrested both women!

land sent them off to jail in a police

patrol car. Yesterday each. woman

AUTHORIZE CHURGH

PAYS HER $11 FINE

ON N. TACOMA AVE.

The Christian. Church Union of Indianapolis was authorized to in stitute a church in a structure at

3848 N. Tdcoma ave. by the board of zoning appeals yesterday. .Other petitions for variances granted by he. hoary wes: ; The Brightwood Free Methodist church for enlargement of the present building at 4133 E. 31st st. Alma Violak, for operation of a beauty salon at 3526 N. Capitol ave.

WEDS MARINE HERO

‘Iwarned yesterday that China was

4TH MAN DEAD IN RAIL WRECK

Rexroat; Find Belt

Fireman’s Body.

The death toll in the New York Central-Belt railroad crash near Harding st. yesterday stood at four today. One of three injured men in St. Vincent’s hospital remained in a serious condition, but the two others ‘were believed out of danger. The fourth victim was John L. Rexroat, 34, New York Central fireman of Mattoon, Ill, who died late yesterday afternoon. Just about the time he died, the body of another victim, Floyd C. Scarlett Sr., 43, Belt fireman of 3549 Brookside pkwy., south drive, was found beneath the wreckage of the Big Four engine.

Two Killed Outright.

The two others who were killed outright were George Wilson, 52, of 346 Harlan st. Belt brakeman, and

Perry Jarvis, 53, of 1505 Reisner st., Belt engineer. Chris Weigle, 2002 W. Morris st., Belt conductor, remained in a serious condition. The condition of Delbert O. Watson, 2346 N. Adams st, Big Four engineer, was deseribed as “fair.” That of Fred Forbes, 2910 Winthrop ave. Belt brakeman, was termed “good.” Dr. Roy D. Storms, coroner, said he would begin questioning of witnesses today or tomorrow in an effort to determine the cause of the crash. Call Tower Operator

The firet witness will be Ed Greeson, 840 Denison st., signal tower operator who saw both trains approaching and quickly gave the Belt engine ‘a stop signal. Railroad crews today expected to complete clearing the wreckage and replace ripped-up tracks. Funeral services for Mr. Wilson will be conducted at 3 p..m. tomorrow from the Shirley Brothers Central -chapel. Burial will be in Memorjal park. Services for Mr. Jarvis will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at tke

will be in Washington patk. Wife Is Survivor

“Mr. Scarlett is survived by his wife, Sarah H.; 4 son, Floyd C. Jr.; his father, Charles D. Scarlett, and his mother, Mrs. Elmer Johnson. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m.- Thursday in the Broadway Baptist church. Burial will be in Washington park. The body of Mr. Rexroat will be sent to Mattoon today for services and burial,

BY PROXY IN RENO

RENO, Nev. April 13 (U. P.).— An obstinate state law stood in the way, but June Adams, daughter of Nevada's busiest “marrying parson,” .resorted to the power of attorney to wed her marine hero “somewhere in the Pacific” while she stayed in Reno. She disclosed that she was married March 23 to Capt. Clifford T. Quilici in Nevada’s first such proxy marriage. The wedding took six months, in sharp contrast to the few minutes required by the average Nevada marriage. A similar attempt in which Miss Jeanne Scroggy, pretty Sacramento, Cal, redhead, sought to marry her fiance in North Africa, was thwarted when the county clerk refused to issue a license, But Miss Adams overcame the difficulty through the power of attorney, which made her the legal bride while a school chum of her flance, Capt. Theodore Demosthenes, sald “I-do.” ef ————————————————————————

CHINA FACES DARK HOUR, SAYS CHIANG

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

facing its most critical moment of the war as Chinese troops continued to ‘battle fiercely against the Japanese invaders ‘on widespread sectors of the front. The generalissimo did not describe the specific nature of Chnia’s

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CHUNGKING, April 13 (U. P.)—||

JURIES |

(FACING A CRISIS

Appeal for Co-operation Issued by Local

Officials.

The problem ‘of getting enough eligible citizens to serve on juries of Marion county’s 13 courts is becoming so critical that jury commissioners have issued an appeal to the: citizenry ‘for general co-opera-

. |tion. ,

Because - of wartime conditions, jury commissioners are finding that about 90 per cent of persons drawn for court duty are unable to serve for one reason or another. The list of names from which jury panels are drawn are made up from property tax lists in the assessors’ offices. Recently of 100 names listed from tax books, 42 of the persons had entered the armed services and were in war plants which auto matically excuses them from jury duty. This left only 14 eligible for service and eight of these were over 60 years of age, exempting ‘them from court duty. Saved Much Time

In order to eliminate the waste of time in calling war plant workers and other ineligibles for court duty, jury commissioners have established a new system of pre. drawing questionnaires. AH persons whose names are drawn on the original lists for jury duty are mailed cards upon which they are asked to give their employment status, age, and ability to serve. Frank Young, secretary of the commissioners, said this pre-draw-ing questionnaire system has saved thousands of useless runs by the sheriff’s deputies to serve the jury summons. “It also has been estimated that it has saved 250,000 man-hours work in war plants by avoiding calling men who are in war plants,” he said. V. V. Smith, one of the jury commissioners, pointed out that jury duty is a patriotic service that every citizen should try to perform if possible. He urged that every citizen whose name is drawn for court duty make

Ordnance Depot Name Changed

FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 13 (U. P.)—~The New Haven ordnance depot henceforth from today will be known as the Casad ordnance depot, according to Col. Charles McKnight, commanding officer. The depot, Col. McKnight announced, was named in honor of Col. Adam PF. Casad of Kansas, who received the dis : service medal for meritorious’ service as an officer of the U. 8. army ordnance department during world war I.

SAFETY BOARD RAPS INSPECTOR FIRINGS

The safety board today criticized Building Commissicner Ray M. Howard for his wholesale discharge of 40 deputy elevator inspectors. Board member Paul Robertson said he doubted that chief elevator inspectof’ John MacGregor could check all elevators in the city himself. “I feel that you're not now equipped to proceed with elevator inspection in accordance with the law,” said Mr. Robertson. Mr. Howard yesterday said he had dismissed the inspectors in a move to correct what he termed “dangerous and loosely-operated” elevator inspection policy. The assistant inspectors were deputized by the last administration but were paid $3 inspection fees by insurance companies utilizing their services. They: did not draw city salaries. Mr. Howard said he would not replace them. Decision to release the deputies, he said, came after one building owner had been ordered by Mr. MacGregor to repair an elevator which a month before had been approved as “safe” by one of the deputies. Cost of the repairs to this elevator was $1200, Mr. Howard said.

every effort to serve regardless of personal inconveniences. “No one wants to take time off from their work to serve on juries but it is a vital function of government that every citizen should regard as his personal responsibility,” Mr. Smith said. Nearly 4000 persons will have to be called for various jury duties during 1943 and commissioners fear that unless more people lend cooperation, there might be a serious breakdown in court functions,

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COUNTY TO SUE FOR NYA'S SIT

‘Badly Needed,’ S: -Says Pa Sees Loopholes in Lease Held by U. S.

The county will take legal ste immediately to regain possession the county-owned buildings at Key stone ave. and 25th st, from th national youth administration, Ad dison Parry, county council pre dent, said today. 3 Plans to start court action were pushed by Mr. Parry following res fusal of NYA officials to reling any part of the buildings which they hold under a Hve-Year lease at $1 a year. “These buildings belong to the county, they are needed badly by the county and we are going to get possession of part of them.” Parry sald. “There are ] legal loopholes to cancel the leases and we are going to bring suit, probably in some federal court.”

NYA Resists

Chatles T. Browning of the NYA Washington staff said every square foot of the buildings is being utile ized in the NYA industrial training program and that none of the buildings could be released. County officials have been seek= ing the buildings, or part of them, to house the juvenile detention home now located in a condemned building in W. New York st. County commissioners pointed out yesterday that because of was priorities they could not construct a new building for the detention

buildings that could be leased to = house children. iy

POSTPONE REVIEW AT FT. HARRISO

The review of Ft. Harrison troops by Col. James M. Churchill, new commanding officer, scheduled fo® tomorrow afternoon, has been cane celed because of the muddy condi: tion of the parade grounds. The presentation of battalion colors to the 798th military police battalion, also scheduled. tomorrow,

has been postponed for about ‘two weeks.

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" |are known to be suffering from

serious lack of supplies as result of Tor Tas of the Borman oat Too, the country’s economic situation is

occupation of vital ‘and

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