Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1943 — Page 1

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THURSDAY, APRIL

2, 1948

Zoerdl Hundred , Workers ;

COMPANY SAYS PLANE ENGINE WORK INPEDED

Wildoat Strike Charged; 2 Spokesman for Idle Men Blames Labor Policy.

“Several hundred” idle at Allison's Speedway City plant today in what the company ‘charged was a “wildcat strike” which is seriously impeding production of vitally needed warplane en-

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A company - statement charged that the walkout was for the pur‘pose of discrediting the certified aining union, the United Air“craft Engine Workers, Inc. (inde-

pendent).

The union recently defeated the].

United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers £C. I. 0.) in an NLRB election. Powers Hapgood, C. I. O. regional director, was absent from his

office and could not be contacted

for a statement. * Denies: Company Charge

4 J. H. Piconke, Detroit, interna- ¢

Tes of the United on sdenied thé pany’s ch “The U. A. W. hasn't had a thing

do with the Allison plant since] the last national labor Felationsi A ry ny We

iboard election,” he said. ‘accusations the company may make om false.” ; Robert Bennett, a machinist of}. ~ 628 Linwood ave., spokesmen for a of about 45 idle workers who he said belonged to no union said the stoppage was due to “discontent with Allison’s labor policy, particularly as regards to Negroes.” He said that ordinarily employees - in the burr room, where machine parts are finished, should be pro- ‘ moted, but some have been left there and Negroes placed directly on machine jobs. ; Bennett's group gathered in the plant cafeteria and when told to leave by company military police went to a W. 16th st. tavern to continue discussions. Ray Kremer, assistant personnel manager at the plant, was in conference with representatives of the . independent union. Company’s Statement

It was learned that 20 per cent of the factory workers on yesterday’s 4 p. m. to midnight shift and 10 per cent of those on today’s 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. shift refused to work. : No workers on the midnight to 8 a. m. shift were involved. The company issued this statement: - “An unauthorized wildcat strike, fomented by the minority group, be- - late last night at Allison division, General Motors Corp., afi fecting several hundred employees and seriously impeding production -of vitally needed aircraft engines. “The group which was defeated fn the recent national labor relations board election influenced the walkout for the purpose of discrediting the recertly-certified union,

United Aircraft Engine Workers,

Inc.” ..“The statement is confirmed by both the ‘United Aircraft Engine Workers, Inc., which is the certified union representing the majority of ‘Allison. hourly-waged employees, ~ and a spokesman for Allison man-

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Stout Field Gitls WAACs

YANKS GAIN IN BITTER FIGHT; SALEM SEIZED

Nazi Counter-Attack. Stalls 1st Army 21 Miles From Tunis.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 29.—American infantry gained important ground in savage fighting against prepared German positions in North Tunisia, a communique disclosed today, but two flerce axis counter-attacks checked the British 1st army’s drive into the final range of hills guard-

ing the Tunis plain.

The bitterest fighting centered around Djebel Bou Aoukaz, northeast of Medjez-El-Bab and approxi-

| mately 21 miles from Tunis, as the

1st ‘army beat off one Nazi tank and - ‘infantry counter-attack yes-

_|terday afternoon, but was forced to

{give ground slightly during a second

Mary Antich (above), Gary, Ind., carried her barracks bags into quar-

ters, but she just smiled and toted

her own. She’s the only Hoosier

in the new WAAC detachment Which arrived today.

One Hooder Is Who Arriv

‘Stéut- fleld’s first contingent of

Among 155 e From Florida

WAACs was supposed to arrive at

7:30 a. m. today from Daytona Beach, Fla, and a lot of curious soldiers expected to be on hand to give them the “once-over” when

they got there.

But the soldiers woke up this morning and found the WAACs already established and starting their duties—they had come in at 2:30

PYLE'S CIGARET FUND NOW $150

Yanks Assured 60,000 Smokes Already; Send Your Gift Today.

The Yanks on the fighting fronts were assured 60,000 cigarets today as contributions continued to come in for “The Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund.” Two $50 gifts today, one from the

Haag Drug Co, Inc., 544 S. Meridian |

st.; and Rogers & Co., jewelers, 5 N. Illinois st., swelled the fund to a total of $150. Every $50 means 20,000 cigarets that will be shipped overseas to

members of the army, navy, marines :

and coast guard. The cigaret fund started after Ernie told in one of his columns of the urgent desire for cigarets at the fronts. Letters to the editor asked that something be done about it. Here's how the plan works:

agement. “A few hundred - employees left work during the 4 to 12 shift last night. The shift. working from 12 to 8 did not participate in the strike, but when the 8 to 4 shift came to work a small number refused to take up their jol

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The Times has arranged with chase cigarets for" shipment over-

be sent to any theater of war outside continental United States.

there will be a sticker on each package reading “The Times Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund.” If any firm, group, or group of

sticker. If you desire to contribute, anything from a nickel on up, mail or bring your contributions to “The Movi Dn Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle ovies ...... t Fund,” 214 W. land. Obituaries ... 10 Gigars Mary

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| Pyle cssnasens 15 Radio secseses 26 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Side Glances. 16 Society ....17,18 5| Sports .....22,23 | State Deaths, 10 ;

Times plblished a picture purporting to . show American bombing damage to Antwérp. Today the| Swiss ‘agency which ‘handled the

major cigaret companies to pur-|:

seas—at 5 cents a pack. They will]

In place of the federal :stamp,| Indianapolis |

Yesterday The Indianapolis}

a, m. The 155 auxiliaries have been in service from four weeks to five months, training as radio operators, weather observers, teletype operators, radio mechanics, and in administrative work. More than half will do office work; releasing soldiers for field duty. : Red-headed Priscilla Pattison, 23 Wellesley college graduate, captain of the detachment, enlisted last Aug. 17 and was’ commissioned on Sept. 27, She has two brothers in the navy. Acting first sergeant is Mrs. Jane G. Ezekial, Alpine, Tex., who has been in service since Dec. 18, 1942, The WAACs come from all over the country.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m, ...45 10a. m, . 7a.m. ...46 1ll a. m. ... 58 8§a.m, ,,. 48 12 (noon) . 61

enemy onslaught. Br ish tanks ane} infantry recaptured the axis strong

- {point of Salem.

The British have stormed to with-

: A .|in 400 feet of the crest of Djebel ’ Stout field soldiers were more than glad to offer their help when

Bou Aoukaz, the last big barrier to the Tunis plain, before the first counter-attack by about 500 infantrymen and 30 tanks stopped them some nine miles southwest of Tebourba.

First Blow Repulsed The Germans, whose key defenses

on the front from Kedjez to Pont|. Du Fahs in the south were threat-|

ened with collapse, suffered heavy casualties in their first counterattack which was repulsed. An hour later, however, they made a second attack and this time their infantry and tanks succeeded in forcing the British back down the slopes. Again the axis suffered severe casualties. On the Pont du Fahs sector, where the French had advanced close to that important junction and threatened the German flank on the whole southern front, allied troops made only local gains or engaged in active patrolling. Only local gains were reported from the northern front, too, but in that area the American 2d corps (Continued on Page Four)

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE LOOK TO VICTORY ALGIERS, April 29 (U. P)— Gen. Honore Giraud and Gen. Charles de Gaulle expect to hold a “victory - conference” somewhere in Algeria within 48 hours after the allies have crushed axis resistance in Tunisia, highly reliable sources

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reported today.

On the War

Fronts

(April 29, 1942)

AFRICA—Americans gain important ground southwest of Bizerte and British advance in some sec-

tors west of Tunis, though sus-|.

taining slight reverses in German counter-attack at one point, in drive against last axis positions in the mountains.

EUROPE—Allies resume three-way air offensive against Europe with royal air force smashing heavily at Wilhelmshaven, American bombers from Africa . raiding Naples and Messina, Sicily, and planes presumed. to be Russian attacking East Prussia.

RUSSIA—Red air force pounds German air bases and together with Soviet anti-aircraft gunners destroys 42 enemy planes in mounting aerial warfare over eastern front.

AUSTRALIA—Allied bombers score direct hit on Japanese ship in Arafura sea north of Australia in second attack on enemy shipping there within two days.

NAZI NAVY Bask

E. Prussia Also Raided by Aircraft, Presumably!

Russian.

LONDON, April 29 (U. P.).— Britain’s biggest bombers struck in force at the northwestern Germany naval base of Wilhelmshaven last night while other planes—presumably Russian—raided East Prussia. R. A. F. planes returned to the attack today, crossing the channel this afternoon. After they had disappeared, faint explosions could be heard from the direction of France. The ‘royal air force also engaged in “very large - scale” mine-laying operations, particularly in the Baltic sea, last night, the air ministry sald. Twenty-three British bombers were lost in all operations. A German broadcast told of the raid on East Prussia, where the Red air force has been bombing German concentration points in an attempt to delay axis preparations for a summer offensive. The broadcast said demolition and fire bombs were dropped. The intensified mining of the Baltic by the R. A. PF. also was designed to hamper axis offensive operations against Russia. Neutral sources have reported numerous sinkings by mines of German ships ferrying supplies and reinforcements through the Baltic toward Prussian, Lithuanian, Latvia and Esthonian ports. The raid on Wilhelmshaven, site of submarine-building yards as well as naval installations, was the 77th of the war and the first since the

American daylight attack March 22.

Circus Still F Has Old ‘Drawing’ Power

employees contributes $50 or more| El the name also will be placed on the

Students frum;the Job Hanon Art Insitute Sound sumthing Wilforots ta ie way. of molols: today, They skelohed. the sebras, camels and bulaloes that. arrived this marning wilh the Cols Bros. cirous at

the show grounds.

By HELEN RUEGAMER It was almost a one-man show ‘ at the circus grounds this morning as the Cole Bros. “big top,” sideshow tents, menagerie cages

dle-aged, weatper-beaten man on crutches “Cap” Curtis, the cirousg’ general superintendent. He broke a couple of bones in one foot while working on, his

ktoday, he was far from handi-

‘capped. A wave of his crutch, a pointed direction here and there, .and the “work. was as good we - done.

ok of learly today, but Hs dhe first at- oars. I-00 sine an.

FOR RETURNS, ASKS TRAINING OF ALL YOUTH

.1 Year to U. S.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 29.—President Roosevelt returned today from

a 17-day war inspection trip prepared to explore the: possibility of having every young American contribute a year of service to the government in peace, as well as in war. The chief executive was greatly impressed by the physical and mental improvement of the country he saw during his 7677-mile trip which included Indiana. He attributed this to the ‘war training programs in industry and the armed services. So he now intends to examine the question of whether this training should be. continued after the emergency. The president’ went into 20 states, as far west as Colorado, and into i| Mexico for a meeting with Presi- | dont Avila Camacho during his “began -on--April 13

12 army posts, a marine training base, a naval air station and four war plants. He met and talked with the governors of 12 states and numerous industrial officials. Saw Growing Army

He saw the nation’s growing army being trained under actual fire with live ammunition. He saw combat planes and bullets for them coming from the production lines. And all put together, the prestdent found evidence that the nation’s total war effort has improved greatly since he covered 8754 miles on a coast-to-coast trip last fall. The first half of the new trip was made public after the president swung down through the southeast into Texas and on to Mexico. The final phase, which was “off the record” until today, began at Corpus Christi, Tex., where he bade Avila Camacho farewell on April 21, ‘Then Mr, Roosevelt stopped in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky.

No Definite Plan

In a press conference with the three press association reporters who accompanied him on the last phase of the trip, Mr. Roosevelt said this trip had raised in his mind the question of what to do with the widespread and more or less permanent installations that have been (Continued on Page Four)

SCHRICKER MEETS FDR AT EVANSVILLE

Executives Have 2-Hour Visit, Inspect Planes.

Governor Schricker spent two hours with President Roosevelt when the president was in Evansville Tuesday afternoon and the highlight of the visit, according to the governor, was watching three of the army’s crack new pursuit planes, the Thunderbolts, in action. The governor went to Evansville at the president’s invitation.

makes the Thunderbolts, and spent 10 minutes alone chatting with the chief executive before the president’s train left for the east. This chat delayed the presidential train's departure by nine minutes. “He, asked me,” the governor said, “why I didn’t come to see him more, I told him I was busy here in Indiana.” The governor also reported that the president shid he was “very proud” of the record Indiana is - (Cofitmued on Page Four)

REPORT. RUSS OFFENSE

LONDON, April 29 (U. P.).—The ‘Berlin radio, quoting an official news agency dispatch, said today that a large-scale Russian offensive against the Nazis Kuban’ bridgehead in the Caucasus started

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ih ended this morning. He visited |

to recommend a person for appointment to the panel charged with investigating the facts.

board then appointed Mr. David B. Robertson of the Brotherhood of

He rode with the president on an inspection trip through the Republic Aviation Corp. plant, the firm that

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PRENIDE SEND SOLDIER?

73,000 Miners Given Until 10 A. M. Saturdag; §

To Return; Walkout Held ‘Strike Against U. S. Itself.

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt in a strongly-worded telegram to President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers warned today that “if work -

at the mines is not resumed at 10 o'clock Saturday morning,*

he will use his powers as commander in chief to prevent in tereference with prosecution of the war. : The actions the president has in mind were believed include dispatch of troops to the coal fields, government ope ation of the miners, or cancellation of strikers’ draft deferments—or perhaps all three. Lewis was attending a wage negotiation meeting of anthracite miners and operators in New York when word of the White House message was received. He informed

itself.”

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prosecution of the war.”

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“The strikes are a direct interference with the

‘Highlights of FDR Telegram

“These are not mere strikes against employers of this industry to enforce collective bargaining demands. They are strikes against the United States government

“The continuance and spread of these strikes would have the.same effect on the course of the war as a crippling defeat in the field.”

porters he could not comment undl he actually had me

a copy of the order.

As the president acted, more than 73,000 soft coal ers were on strike in the Middle West, East and South. walkout of the entire 450,000 bituminous miners is thre

ened for tomorrow midnight.

The president declared that “these are not mere strik against employers of this industry to enforce collective

bargaining demands. States government itself.”

They are strikes against the Uniti

He announced also that since the U. M. W. has charged that OPA regulations have been disregarded and the cost of living gone up disproportionately in the mining areas, h had directed OPA immediately to investigate the facts & (Continued on Page. Sia)

Text of Roosevelt Order Demanding End of Strike

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.-P.).—The text of President Roose telegrams to John'L. Lewis and Thomas Kennedy of the United

Workers follows:

The controversy between the United Mine Workers of America the operators of the coal mines has been certified to the national

labor board for settlement.

The officials of the United Mine Workers were invited by the board

They ignored the invitation. The

Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to represent the employees; Mr. Walter White to represent the operators, and Mr. Morris L. Cooke to represent the public, The personnel of this panel assures an impartial investigation of ‘the facts to be used by the board in its determination of the contro-

The officials of the .United Mine Workers of America have ignored the request of the board that they present their case to the national war labor board panel and likewise have ignored the request of the board that the strikers be urged to return to their work. I am advised that many thousands of miners are out on strike and strikes are threatened at many other mines which now are in operation. The procedure that has been followed in this case by the board is, I am assured, in exact accord with that followed in all other controversies of this character. In view of the statements made

versy, in accordance with’ the law.|"

FDR May Order Troops to Mines

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.).—In the event of a gene al

believed here today that Presi dent Roosevelt will have little alternative to ordering troope to the pits. Soldiers would safeguard the rights of n agement and protect wo who wanted to return to wo - Reports continue of movements into import: coal-mining sections. But th movements are officially cribed ‘to purposes other tk the breaking of mine st; There is no denial, hov that troops thus transfe ed might be left indefinitely # their new locations. The office of censorship that under the voluntary. es sorship code newspapers 8 asked not to publish the moy ments of federal that after the troops cated there is no obje publication of the facts it ey are engaged on looat § lice: uty. ue a ?