Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1943 — Page 5
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GITY PATRONAGE SHAKEUP LOOMS
New Republican Victory Organization to Take
Over, Say Reports. (Continued from Page One)
patronage headquarters would soon be removed from city hail altogether, and would be financed by funds of the new Republican Vietory Organization. It was understood that such a move was designed to “take the heat off” the city hall patronags set-up which saw Mr. Ray devoting his entire time to city patronage problems while listed on the municipal payroll as a ‘“‘sewer superintendent.” The city hall grapevine today had Mr. Ray slated for the position of | secretary-engineer of the city plan commission, a post now held by
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Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, above, has been appointed commander
Otto Ferger. One high-ranking city politico, however, branded the |
that “Mr. Ray has set his sights on| several big hall jobs since receiving notice of his impending dismissal from the patronage office.” . ‘Weeds Out’ Regulars | He said Mr. Ray at one time was] supposedly slated for the works board secretaryship now held by
The proposed change in the city plan commission secretaryship was criticized yesterday by two public officials. City Council President John Schumacher said he believed the Job, which calls for a ‘‘secretaryengineer” should be filled with “a competent engineer in view of the fact that the commission will play an Important role in post-war planning.” engineer.
mission, commented: “We more engineers in this type of work, and fewer secretaries.” Mr. Ferger's dismissal as secre-tarv-engineer of the plan commission would be the first step by
the regular Republican organization, | one official stated.
Republican Veterans, Ine. wound- | ed in action in world war I, he| was a founder of the Indianapolis chapter of the Order of the Purple Heart.
6 ATTERBURY MEN INJURED IN CRASH
FRANKLIN, Ind, May 6 (U. P). —Six Camp Atterbury officers and men were in the camp hospital today with injuries received last night in a bus-truck collision on highway 31 south of Franklin. Sgt. Harry Duckworth, 53, attached to a military police unit, was reported in critical condition. Attendants said the others suffered Jess serious injuries. Twenty-nine othérs soldiers riding in the bus were shaken up.
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of U. S. forces in the European theater to succeed Lt. Gen, Frank M. Andrews who was killed
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$120 FARM PAY.
YANKS OPEN
BIZERTE PUSH
All-Out Offensive Aimed at
Driving Enemy From Port.
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area. Walking wounded were sent Mr. Ray is not an|on foot from the town of Michaud, three miles west of Mateur, to County Survevor Paul R. Brown, | Ferryville, the allied soldiers were an ex-officio member of the com-| told. It was said the Bizerte and agree with me that 90 per cent of need | Perryville garrisons were not large. |the farmers of Tennessee would be In addition, large streams of exceedingly glad to have themselves transport recently were observed and their wives relocated if they carrying war supplies from Bigerte Were assured of being paid $120 per
toward Tunis.
A French column moving along fact, When my secretary saw this Mayor Tyndall's administration to/the coast, meantime, pushed on to | letter, her comment was to the ef“weed out” city hall employees who|the rim of the plains stretching |fect that she would like me to apsupposedly are sympathetic with! northwest to Bizerte, about nine PIy for her relocation.
miles away.
French troops thrusting westward manhood in this country is being Mr. Ferger, a member of the Southeast of Pont Du Fahs neared [inducted into our armed forces at Marion county central committee, is| 4000-foot Djebel Zaghouan, highest a rate of pay below that which the also active in the Marion County! peak in Tunisia dominating the War relocation authority is proposwhole area westward to the sea [ing be paid to a ‘Jap’ I cannot while the British 8th army pounded | help but wonder just where the forward in a local advance above Enfidaville, 50 miles south of Tunis. | is going to lead us. Eighth army patrols penetrated deep behind enemy positions in
heavily-mined country.
With the first clear weather in & upon to give their lives in the defortnight, allied fliers had a field fense of their country, and the day. Flying fortresses sank a large hours that they serve are unlimited merchant vessel in the Sicilian | and under the most difficult and straits and medium bombers sank extreme hardships, but yet to think another and scored hits on three | that, incident to trying to produce others. Still another large ship was| food for these soldiers by the emhit in a flying fortress raid on
Tunis and La Goulette harbors.
Fighter-bombers scored hits on three vessels in the Gulf of Tunis. Bombers and fighters hammered enemy airdromes, trop concentrations and ground positions and shot down two enemy planes over the
battlefront.
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Slight extra charge for replacement of extra pelts or lining, Ho needed.
FOR JAPS ASKED
Figures Set by U. S. for Agriculture Work Draw Fire. (Continued from Page One)
very glad to try to fill your needs, providing you give us more detailed information relative to employment conditions, especially the wages you are willing to pay, the hours of work required, living conditions, and so forth. The average salary offered by couples up to the present time has been $120 per month plus board and room.” This letter was signed by Ray D. Johnson, project director, and H. L. Abbott, leave officer.
Offered “Reasonable” Pay
mm his inquiry, Mr, Bailey had said that his farm was 12 miles from Knoxville and that he wanted a man and wife for general farm and house work and would furnish them with a house, heat, light, water and food. He also was willing to pay ‘reasonable wages, by the week or by the month.” When he received the reply with the $120-a-month suggestion, Mr. Bailey sent the whole correspond- | ence to Rep. Jennings and added in |a letter: “By virtue of various and sundry orders heretofore issued by the different governmental alphabetical agencies, I thought myself to be completely immunized against further shocks and surprises by their actions, but I must say that when I read the reply to my letter, my reaction was such as to convince me that I had not been completely vaccinated.
Secretary Wanted Job “I am quite sure that you will
month, plus room and board. In
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slip” would have subjected the director to a long jail sentence and a heavy fine. Mr. Smith says he thinks the merit system is here to stay. He believes that as time goes on polit ical leaders in both parties will welcome particularly merit system control of the personnel in the state institutions because it will take the vast job of filling comparatively minor positions from their shoulders. Most party workers who want jobs want better paying positions than the majority of those available in the institutions anyway, he says. Reduce ‘Red Tape’ Mr. Smith has some definite plans for what he regards as an improvement of the merit system operations. Among the first’ things he intends to do is to simply reduce the number of forms used in the personnel operations. He says that there are at least 18 forms in use now and that he believes this number can well be cut to one third. He also intends later on to combine some of the 375 or so classifications of employees, combining, for example, various classes of farmers, One of the major tasks is to vevise the salary ranges for the various classifications of employees in connection with the pay raises that are to go invo effect on July 1 or soon thereafver. The last legislature fnereased the personal service appropriations for the institutions about 13 per cent, thus allowing
Seventy-four pay range maximums already have been increased to provide pay raises effective on April 1. This was done to stop the flood of resignations of persons in various types of jobs, particularly prison guards. Taking cognizance of the fact that the institution superintendents are the ones who started the flood of protests that finally resulted in the ouster of the old personnel setup, Mr. Smith has written them all letters asking for frank commont and criticism. He also has asked them for a complete survey of job vacancies as of May 1 so that the personnel department will know just how many Jobs it has to fill.
‘Situation Will Ease’
As for the seemingly impossible task of finding people for the comparatively low paying state jobs, Mr. Smith believes that the situation | will be eased somewhat within the! next few months as more and more disabled men are discharged from | the army and as the army elimi- | nates more men found to be physi-| cally unfit for military service. He thinks that the personnel board will be able to supply the highly essential people to ‘the institutions and the state departments under the merit system although it may not be able to fill all vacancles. “The merit system,” he says, “can | be made to work like the civil serve | fce has for the postoffice. And the) people and politicians will come to| regard it as a permanent branch of
for increases.
petitioned to provide adequate hospital services and equipment and
mothers of the disabled be made equal to that paid to wives, Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, Alameda, Cal, national auxiliary president, presented National Commander Roane Waring with a check for
road which this country is traveling
Appeals for Help “Our soldiers are being called
ployment of a ‘Jap,’ my government inquires as to the hours of work and conditions of employment, and | in addition suggests that these Japs’ be paid at a rate greatly in| excess of that which is paid {hroughout the South to native farmers and farm laborers.” He appealed to Rep. Jennings to aid in stopping such “unjust discrimination against cur own loyal American farmers.” The latest agriculture department report lists the average farm wage rates with board throughout the country at $5684 per man per month.
WARING SPEAKS AT BOND RALLY TONIGHT
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armored battalion; bands and drum corps of military and Legion posts; marines; WAVES, WAACSs; naval units; state guard; high’ school R.O.T.C. corps with bands and war workers. The next scheduled event will be | a Legion-sponsored showing of the movie, “Ravaged Earth,” at the Murat theater for four days starting May 13. It depicts the Japanese attacks on defenseless cities in China. Tickets are obtainable at a booth staffed by the Legion auxiliary at L. S. Ayres & Co. Fred Hasselbring, 11th district Legion commander, said the drive will be conducted “for an early vietory in Europe and to avenge Japanese atrocities.” Mayor Robert H. Tyndall, in proclaiming May as Legion war bond month, said: “Throughout the month, veterans of the last world war are going to put forth valiant efforts to finance the war effort. I bespeak for them the co-operation of every citizen in Indianapolis.”
Danes Amused ' . ' + By 'Boring' Nazis By UNITED PRESS The office of war information reported this story today from the Swedish newspaper Arbetaren disclosing that the Nazis are building big underground headquarters near Copenhagen: One Dane went by and watched workers digging furiously. “What are they actually doing?” he asked a neighbor. “Don’t you know?” said the other Dane, “They're on the way to attack Chiang Kai-shek from the rear.”
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$35,000 of which $25,000 is earmarked for rehabilitation and $10,000 for child welfare work.
Rockefeller to Speak
A sub-resolution committee was named. It includes Isadore A. Levine, La Porte, Ind, chairman; James Doyle, New Hampshire, and H. V. Higley, Wisconsin, Nelson A. Rockefeller, co-ordinator of inter-American affairs, is scheduled to address the committee tomorrow, Committee reports were to continue this afternoon. Among proposals to be made to the national executive committee is appointment of a committee study advisability of creating a huge endownment fund to preserve the “American way of life” and to fight all foreign isms. This is advocated by the Americanism commission headed by James F. O'Neil, Manchester, N. H., which met yesterday. The commission recommends that Cmdr, Waring be empowered to appoint this study committee, which could then report to the national convention in September. The fund, if approved, would be obtained from “all classes and groups” with between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 annually proposed. According ts Chairman O'Neil, the money would be used for an education program, youth training, and through expansion of the projects now sponsored by the Americanism commission, which spends between $75,000 and $100,000 annually, being aided financially by state and local Legion organizations.
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Another report prepared for the national executive committee is, that the foreign relations commit-| tee, which met yesterday with Robin | 8. Kirby, Charlotte, N. C, serving, as chairman in the absence of Harry A. Sullivan, Colorado, who is ill. This group recommends that post- | | war planning be made secondary to [winning the war, because if "the ‘American people are over-enthu-| siastic in drafting a post-war pro-| gram now, they will be lulled into, a false notion that victory is close at hand and become oblivious to, the grave problem of global war confronting this and other countries allied with America.”
SHANK ‘INSPIRED’ WHITE MARKET
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| Mayor Shank brought several car(loads of potatoes from Michigan | land then sold the potatoes at cost | to local citizens by the bushel. The | (sales were carried on at the rail-|
|road cars and a bushel was often
|sold for only 98 cents. Mr. Shank who was mayor from 1010 to 1914 posted placards all over town warning retailers and wholesalers to “bring down the cost of living or I will” Today, Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, wife of the Mr. Shank, who died in 1927, recalled that her husband's | project was written up in most of | the magazines and newspapers in the country. She said that after hie completed his term of office in 1914, he toured the country explaining his plan. He made almost 100 lectures in New Yorks Town Hall, she said. “If he was living today, he would do the same thing right this min-
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