Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1943 — Page 1

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 48

THURSDAY, MAY-6, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

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Tank Chief Well Qualified As Andrews Successor,

Stimson Says.

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WASHINGTON, May 68 (U. P.O. ~Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers, chief of the armored force, has been desighated new commander of U. S. forces in the European theater, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson! announced today. He succeeds Lt. | Gen. Prank M. Andrews, who was Killed in a plane crash in Iceland. Stimson said Devers’ arrival in England would be announced from | London. ‘I consider Gen. Devers especially fitted to succeed Lt. Gen. Frank M. | Andrews as commander of the Eu-| ropean theater,” Stimson said. “His capacity for organization and administration was thoroughly established while he was head of the armored force.

Familiar With

“He has been especially prepared | for this assignment as a result of _ an extensive trip which IW made |

Plans

recently through the Buropean, African and Middie Fastern the-!| aters.

“He is thoroughly conversant with! present and future plans.” In commenting on Andrews death, Stimson said the effedtive- | ness of his leadership had been dem- | Yonstrated by the success of Amer-| jcan aerial operations over conti-| nental Europe. Andrews was an air officer—one of the topmost men in his field.

Took Command at Knox

Officers considered it noteworthy that the new commander, on the other hand, is from the armored force. Devers’ appointment, some sources believed, is in line with preparations for a land invasion of Europe, possibly from Britain, Devers became chief of the armored force at Ft. Knox, Ky., on Aug. 1, 1941. He was made a lieutenant general Sept. 21, 1942, He is 55—| comparatively young for a soldier of his rank and experience. He is a native of York, Pa. An expert in mathematics, he! gerved with various field artillery tuinits from 1909, when he was graduated from West Point, through the! last world war, In that conflict he| ‘served as an instructor in the United States and in France. Meanwhile, American headquarters in London announced that the American Liberator bomber in| which Gen. Andrews and 13 others were killed crashed in a remote area of Iceland in bad weather—probably with Gen, Andrews himself at the controls. i

|this war, Dr. Robert Phillips, Pur{due university political science pro-

A warm sun and green grass bring Butler coeds out on the campus.

| Books are forgotten with the onslaught of spring fever. | of a giant tree lounge (left to right) are Ruth Recktenwall and Jane

Lewis.

In the shade

Awards Given | Top Students On Honor Day

look for epoch-making changes in {our school systems as a result of

‘New Republican

Disillusionment faces those who |

CITY PATRONAGE

SHAKEUP LOOMS:

Victory Organization to Take Over, Say Reports.

By SHERLEY UHL

fessor,- said this morning -at Butler university's 23d annual honor day. He spoke on “The Dilemma of American Education” at a meeting of faculty, students and friends in|

Butler, warning ‘that: “with the coming of peace, the most serious social after-effects will beset the American people. “They will pose for us such prob- | lems that we will forget our dreams’ of the coming millenium,” he stated. Three full tuition senior scholar-| ships were awarded to Mary Chap-| pell, Helen Noffke and Christina] Cherpas, first students to achieve straight A records at the university. Jone Coliigan, was presented the Scarlet Quill scholarship given to!

the sophomore woman having the

highest average during the first three semesters at Butler. Other general awards presented by Dr. M. O. Ross, president, given by the freshman Y. M. C. A. council for scholarship, character and| campus activity to Donald P. Mor-! (Continued on Page Six)

Vacancies on Own Staff 1st Problem Facing Smith

By EARL RICHERT

\ One of the first problems con“Wronting Dudley Smith, the new]

state personnel director whose task it is to find qualified employees for!

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Amusements . 12/In the Service 8! Ash .....ie +. 22) Jane Jordan . 19 Comics ...... 26 Millett ....... 18 Crossword «.. 10 Movies «..veoe 12] Editorials .... 16 Obituaries ... 4| Edson ....... 16 Pegler ....eis 16) Fashions :.19, 20 Pyle ..cievenn B Financial .... 27/Radio ....... Forum ....... 16 Mrs. Roosevelt 15. Freckles ..... 25 Side Glances. 16 Gardens ..... 3|Simms ....... 15 Health «tvs 3) Society ....18, 21 Hold" Ev'thing 15 Sports ..... 22, 23 Homemaking . 19 State Deaths. 4] dn Indpls. ... 3 Stokes ....... 16] Inside Indpls. 15! War Living .. 3

| applicants but after this week-end | there will only be one.

cites the time he was head of the |governor’s commission on unem-

state departments under the merit system, is to find enough people to | keep his own office going, The department needs four ex- | aminers to give examinations to job

The new personnel board did not re-employ H. R. Rice, the chief] examiner who leaves Friday, and two of the other three have been] {inducted into the army. The de- | partment has lost six employees! within the last few weeks, now hav-| ing only 28. Mr. Smith, who got the direc-! {tor’s post after the legislature {ousted the old personnel board and director, is aware, he says, that he! is on “a hot spot.” But, he adds, he has been in {those sort of places before. He

ployment relief when his agency had the duty of certifying needy applicants for WPA and when “any (Continued on Page Five)

On the War Fronts

(May 6,

\ AFRICA: Allied air artillery bombardments set fire to harbor areas of Tunis and Bizerte, toward which armies advance with Americans scoring new successes hear | Bizerte and British ® 1st army] capturing last big hill west of Tunisian capital,

RUSSIA: Red army bre

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advances eight miles, capturing 11 towns, kills more than 7000 troops in first major offensive since its winter campaign.

| EUROPE: London reports Royal Air Force has new planes involving revolutionary developments and capable of performances hereto-

PLEADS FOR HELP

The man who has “handed out” hundreds of city jobs to “worthy Republicans” is now looking for a city job himself.

Reportedly relieved of his duties! the College of Religion chapel at ag secretary of the city administra- |

tion patronage committee, Harry! Ray today was rumored to be headed for a new post; just what it | will be was a matter of speculation. This much, however, was authen-! ticated by sources close to the mayor | and the new city hall patronage | committee under the chairmanship | of Lee Emmelman: Mr. Ray is “out” of the patronage picture,

Office to Be Moved

His place is to be taken by As-| Glenn Funk, | who said he would handle the job-|

Ex-Mayor Shank Inspired ‘White Market’

Mayor F. H. La Guardia started a “white market”

i f y this week, but h his i | . duce in New York City this twee e got his idea from a PI | Meridian and north to St. Clair.

sistant City Attorney

filling task “in my spare time.” Corporation Counsel Sidney Miller, a key man in the “hall” pa- | tronage committee, said municipal (Continued on Page Five)

T0 NEW VETERANS

Hospitals Need Manpower, Legion Official Reports.

By THEO WILSON

The rehabilitation of disabled veterans of the present war is becoming the greatest task of the veterans administration, Brig. Gen. (Frank ' T. Hines, director, told {the national executive committee of the American Legion here today. “It is the young veterans of the | present conflict whose number is

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TOWARD TUNIS

DOCKS FIRED BY HAMMERING OF U.S. ARTILLERY

1st Army Captures Djebel Bou Aoukaz, Last Large Hill West of Tunisian Capital;

French Gain.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 6.—— American infantry and armor launched an offensive against the shell-pitted naval base of Bizerte early today after

the British 1st army bayonets captured the key hill of ' Bou Aoukaz in the last range of hills fringing the plain west of Tunis. At the same time, the British 1st army started a full-

Last spring it would have been bov and girl, hand-in-hand. Today the college men are taking their | gcale attack northeast of Medjez- El-Bab this morning, batcourses from Uncle Sam. With no boy friends around because of the war, Maryellen Kirk and Ruth Hynes |

(left to right) are wishing Hitler

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their worst,

Dr. A. Dale Beeler (left), Butler university faculty member and | president of Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary fraternity,

pauses with honor students prior

College of Religion building this morning. With him (left to right) |

to the Honor day exercises in the

are Mildred Reimer, winner of the Phi Kappa Phi fellowship of $500; Gwendolyn Hayes, recipient of the Butler literary prize for the best

short story; Martha Hostetter,

honored with the University Merit

trophy for outstanding organization work on the campus, and Marlyn Brock, winner of a graduate scholarship in chemistry to the University

of Illinois.

La Guardia's

Indianapolis mayor, Lew Shank.

retailers and wholesalers. Mayor La Guardia's market” got underway this week, with the “Little Flower” inviting potato growers from all sections of the country to send their produce to New York. “I will buy and import any produce from any one, anywhere, who will get food into my market,” he said. New York is faced with a serious potato shortage. In his world war I campaign,

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increasing and will increase with | ever greater rapidity who demand a | greater measure of our attention,” he said. | “While the . administration willl continue to accord every consid- | eration to older veterans and main-| tain service to them in every re-! spect, they do not constitute a major problem at this time.”

Urges Study The general said that a major problem is that of manpower for the 93 veterans’ hospitals. and urged that the federal Hoard of hospitals study the problems of new veterans. He pleaded that young disabled veterans be given proper guidance and advice ‘to help them obtain suitable occupations. John H. Walsh, Massachusetis department, rehabilitation committee chairman, also called for assistance to world war II Vv in that committee's report. The report recommended the appointment of five more active field directorst to the present staff of seven and another member to the

Hoosier Heroes

Homer H argis

Is Missing in North Africa

MISSING

MRS. RAYMOND SANDERS, 318 N. Elder st, has been notified that her cousin, Pfc. Homer Hargis, formerly of Totianapolis, is

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missing in action in North Africa. Pfe. Hargis had been overseas abcut six months. Before entering the “he had worked for two years in the

medical council of four to study

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for garden pro-

Back in 1914 Mayor Shank had potatoes shipped in by the carload | from Michigan to break down out-of-bounds prices being charged by |.

FOR JAP FARMHANDS

U. S. Figures Under Fire In Washington.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 6 — Al- | though the agricuiture department | reports that the average farm wage {with board is $20.14 in the east

south central states, Uncle Sam is

| suggesting $120 a month as, appro- | priate pay for a Japanese couple in| | the same area, Rep. John Jennings Jr. (R. Tenn.), revealed today. “Under these circumstances nobody but gentleman farmers like Secretary Ickes will ever be able to employ Japs,” the congressman commented. “As of April 1, the average farm wage per month with board in Tennessee was $2050. Paying man and wife alike, that would be only $59.

=m But I guess that’s just for Americans.”

Mr. Jennings based his remarks

lon correspondence received from

Lucien L. Bailey, Knoxville bond who had sought to obtain Japanese «- help on his Tennessee farm. In reply to a letter sent to the commarmnding officer of the Rohwer relocation center where Japhiehe are interned at McGehee, Ark, M Bailey received jhe Jollowing “Tt is the

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WARING SPARKS RALLY TONIGHT

Legion Chief to to Launch Bond Drive, Tell of African Visit.

A capacity crowd of 17,000 is ex=pected at the Coliseum tonight when National Commander Roane Waring of the American Legion will |

give the “go” sign to Indiana's May campaign to sell $19,500,000 in war

| bonds,

The No. 1 member of the Legion, which will play a lead ‘role in the

"| May drive, will report on his recent

tour of the North African front. What he will reveal is expected to give the campaign a strong impetus. | | All available free tickets for re- | served seats have been distributed { but seats unoccupied at 8:15 o'clock | | will be open to the public. There] | is no admission charge and no war| bonds will be sold at the rally. Mr. | Waring's speech will be at 9:30 p. m.| and the program will start at 8 o'clock. | Tonght's rally will be followed [Sunday by the biggest parade In|dianapolis has yet seen during this war. Plans were completed today by James C. Ahern, marshal. The parade will move at 2 p. m, from Pennsylvania and St. Clair The route will be: South to washington st.; west on Washington to Illinois; north on Illinois to Market; east on Market to the Circle; around the Circle to

The reviewing stand will be on {the west steps of the Federal buildIng. Right divisions will include Ft. Harrison troops; a Camp Atterbury (Continued on Page Five)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

tering the axis defenses in the Tebourba sector with a 400« A barrage while American troops slightly to the north pushed from Eddekhila to within less than six miles of Tebourba. There were increasing indications that the Bizerte de fenses were crumbling as the Americans took Djebel Cheniti and Djebel Achkel and threw armor against the junction of Ferryville. May Stand at Tunis

Front dispatches said the Germans appeared to be fall ing back in the direction of Tunis and Cape Bon, suggesting that théy would make their last big stand there rather than at Bizerte, which now is threatened with isolation. American aviators reported that fires set by U, S. long ‘range artillery and by aerial bombs were burning in the | Bizerte harbor area—about nine miles from the allied ad- | vance lines—and front reports said the Germans were being forced back so rapidly that in some sectors they did not have time to lay big mine fields. A dispatch from C. R. Cunningham, United Press cor« respondent with the Americans, said the American and French advances in the Cheniti hills, north or Lake Achkel, ‘had broken through the last formidable barriers to Bizerte lon the north. The British artillery attack softened up the first objec ‘tives for the 1st army infantry. The attack hinged on Peter's Corners, a strong German point east of Medjez, and on the road ae toward Massicault and thence northeastward toward Tunis. The British at one point were less than 20 miles from: Tunis but, there were still several German-held hills domi« nating their entry to the Tunis plain. ; A dispatch from: Edward. W. Beattie, United Press core’ respondent with the British" 1st army, said that the Gere mans apparently did not ine tend to make'a long stand at Bizerte and seemed to be con« centrating in the Tunis area.

Tunisian Fight 'In Final Phase’

WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. P.).—Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that the Tunisian battle apparently “is

entering the final phase” but Beattie’s dispatch said that that German and Italian forces French residents reported the ree at bay there probably wili fight | | tiring enemy” columns were in

straggling groups, looking beaten ag they fell back from the Mateur® (Continued on Page Five)

DAVIS HOLDS EARLY

to the bitter end. “The noose is tightening around the axis army and apparently the North African campaign is entering the final

? - m n . n phase,” Stimson said at a press a. m, i , m., : 8am ...7 12 (noon) . 81 conference, 9am + 6% 1pm ...82

INVASION POSSIBLE

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The Indianapolis Times’ Ernie

| Pyle cigaret fund today topped the one-million-cigaret mark, Shipments are on their way to soldiers at far-flung battle fronts. Major cigaret companies making shipments for The Times fund donated 100,000 cigarets, having agreed to contribute that amount for each million -cigarets donated by Times readers. The million mark was reached within a week of the time .the cigaret fund was started. Ernie Pyle wrote from Africa citing the need for cigarets in the battle areas. Readers demanded that some action be taken, so The Times co-op= erated. Contributions began pouring into the office last Thursday. Heading the list of today's donors are departments 373, 372 and 318 of the assembly area, 12 midnight to 8 a. m. shift, at Allison division, | General Motors Corp. The depart-

Cigaret Firms Add 100,000

Smokes for Ernie's Boys

Says Allies Need Not Wait

For Tunisian Climax.

WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. War Information Director Davis today sald it was possible allied - armies might launch invasion of the European cont without waiting for the end battle of Tunisia. “It would appear to be.

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Other large donors were Allison's plant No. 5, third shift employees, 20,300 cigarets with $50.75, and Suns nyside guild, 20,000 cigarets with $50. Here is how the plan works: The Times has arranged with

major cigaret companies to purchase cigarets for shipment overseas—at 5

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