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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1943

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 65

Forgotten Flood Victims Shift Alone In Muck, Slime

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Residents of Ravenswoood complain bitterly because no cleanup work has been done in the area following last week's floods. They're afraid disease may be lurking in a spot like this.

DEBRIS IS PILED |

SHOULDER-HIGH

Contaminated Wells Peril

Health; Children Sleep

In Autos. By SHERLEY UHL

Flood-harassed families in the WN

city and county today are moving back into slime-coated, mud-en- | crusted homes, virtually unprotected | against disease-breeding potentialfties lurking in the high-water

Some are scouring their property on their own initiative. But others]

are occupying damp, water-logged|g

structures with the odor of flood scum and decomposition, Investigation reveeled that to date neither eity nor county health

unsanitary conditions left by receding waters, although many citizens in the stricken areas are literally crying for rehabilitation aid.

Debris Shoulder-High

None of those districts investigated had received assistance in their clean-up efforts and in many places, flood debris, piled shoulderhigh in empty lots and roadway ditches, gave evidence of becoming permanent blots on the city-county landscape. Stagnant green waters remaining in low-lying areas lapped at the foundations of many reoccupied homes: but worse than that, hundreds of basements are overflowing with the same germ-laden scum that poured over dumps and outhouses, inundated rat nets and sifted through all the surface filth. Vegetation in those areas which had been under water is likewise bogged down with post-flood muck and streets and roads are littered with slime and debris.

Drink Unboiled Water

In some places, careless persons fre drinking from “wells that are possibly contaminated, without boiling the water beforehand. Persons in one of the hardest-hit areas, located in the lowlands lying between S. West st. and the White

west side, were vehement in their eriticism of laxity on the part of city health authorities. Failure of the county to provide health inspection was attacked by residents of Ravenswood and Sunthine Gardens who were left to shift for themselves in alleviating unsanitary post-flood conditions.

Backwash in Gardens

In the riverside section adjoining 8. West st, and including S. California and Dakota sts, the maledorous presence of decomposition and rot in stagnant pools and debris there stamps the strip as a potential breeding-ground of disease and infection and a serious health menace to the entire city. Basements and truck gardens are filled with backwash from the White river, which broke through a railroad embankment, washed over the dump of the John Wachtel rendering plant on Southern ave, then drained through another (Continued on Page Four)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Amusements 8, 8 In the Service 6 18 Inside Indpls. 11 11 | Jane Jordan.. 15 20! Millett + 20; Movies . 12) Obituaries ... 12 Pegler . 14| Pyle .. 21 Radio 20 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 19 Side Glances. 20 Gardens ..... 3|Society ... 1§ 15 Health 3|{Sports ....18, 17 Hold Ev'thing 11|State Deaths. 10

~ Editorials Edson .. Fashions Financial .. Forum Freckles .....

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Water washed over this dump off 8. West st. and flooded homes.

Stagnant water carries a scum on it two inches thick.

Hoosier Heroes

2 Privates

Are Dead in N. Africa

Killed PFC. MILES M. BROWN of Rushville was killed in action in North Africa on May 5, the day before fighting ceased in that area, the war department has announced. ® » . ALSO REPORTED killed in action in North Africa is Pvt Forrest Hayden of near Shirley. ® = =

Missing

AMONG THE MISSING is 2d Lt. Robert V. Ostheimer of Lafayette. A former Purdue university student, Lt. Ostheimer is a bombardier with the army air forces.

“8 4 S. SGT. HARRISON E. KFEGG

Homemaking. 15] War Living.. 3 In Indpls. .. Al Williams,. 38

of Anderson has been reported

State Bankers Told 'Jobs For All' Means Inflation

By EARL RICHERT Post-war planning by governmental agencies which has full employment as its goal was criticized severely today by Dr. Melchior Palyi, Hungarian-born economist, in a luncheon address before the annual meeting of the Indiana Bankers association.

“Full employment can only be maintained under conditions of fullfledged inflation,” Dr. Palyi declared.

“We canont go on with an unbalanced financial structure. We must forego the ideal of full employment as a foolish mirage which cannot be attained except by wrecking the financial system on the ruins of which thrives the red flower of social revolution.”

Cites American Responsibility

Dr. Payli, who formerly was a professor of economics at Wisconsin university and is now a consulting economist in Chicago, said that inflation should be stopped by higher taxes, a balanced federal budget and higher interest rates. “Our international responsibility,” he said, “lies in the stabilization of American economy for a firm base of foreign economies. “If American economy collapses, so will others. We cannot afford to experiment. The first condition of guaranteeing the four freedoms for mankind is to free America from the danger of a runaway inflation and its devastating consequences.” The economist said that the principal fault he found with postwar planning groups was that they merely set up an ideal, not taking into- account the various situations, (Continued on Page Four)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Gam ... 5 Tam . 55

Sam ... 60

3 whole Italian military machine is

deteriorating i | heavy allied aerial

ALLIED APPEL T0 SURRENDER UPSETS NAZIS

Duce’s Military Machine Is Rapidly Falling Apart, Madrid Hears.

MADRID, May 26 (U. P).—The

rapidly under the bombardment

and Germany is concerned over the effect of Anglo-American propa-| ganda designed to take Italy out of |

the war, reports from France said |

] today.

The reports reached Madrid from neutral diplomatic circles in Vichy as the allied command in North Africa stepped up its aerial offensive against Italy and her island outposts and Prime Minister Churchill launched a new propaganda barrage with a blunt suggestion that Italy give up the struggle. Allied air raids were said to be destroying ports, railways, airfields and fortifications in Ttaly, Sieily and Sardinia at such a swift pace that the country’s military strength was declining rapidly.

Fear Allied Invasion

Great as is the effect of the air raids, however, the Italians were said to fear even more an allied invasion. Reinforcements have been rushed to Sardinia and Sicily because of the belief that the fall of either would make difficult, if not impossible, the defense of the mainland. German Luftwaffe squadrons also have been sent to both islands, informants said. Information in possession of the Italian general staff was said to point to massive allied preparations for an invasion of axis Mediterranean bases, including both Sicily and Sardinia. (The German transocean agency reported that the Sardinian port of Cagliari has been evacuated and a Morocco broadcast said that Italian civilians also were being removed from the rest of the island, as well as from Sicily and Italian mainland coastal towns, including muchbombed Reggio Calabria.) (Yesterday the German Transocean news service admitted in a Berlin broadcast that a purge of “tepid elements” of the Nazi party was under consideration in Germany. The agency said the discussions had been in progress since the recent Italian Fascist party shakeup.)

Air Defenses Weak

Another report broadcast by the British radio, said that the Italian government had issued a decree authorizing the evacuation of the “tribunals” from Rome if necessary “as result of military operations.”) (The Italian newspaper Messagero was quoted by the British radio as telling the Italian people that no defenses, however strong, could avert the allied air attacks.) German concern over the effect of allied propaganda aimed at Italy was reflected in a recent statement by a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman that it was “well known that the mass of the Italian people are not so passionately keen over fighting a war against England and the United States as Germany.”

EDGERTON FUNERAL T0 BE TOMORROW

Lodge to Conduct Rites for

Well-Known Decorator.

Funeral services for Ralph H. Edgerton will be held at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the Fanner & Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. Thomas R. Thrasher of the Church of the Advent, and the Mystic Tie Masonic lodge will conduct the services, and burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Edgerton, president of Edgerton & Co, nationally known deecorating firm, died last night at his home, 5693 N. Meridian st, of a heart attack, He was 55. Mr, Edgerton also was head of

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Report Italy Cracking Up

Edsel Ford Dies

FORGIVES 73%

FOR OVER $50

Pay-as-You-Go Compropromise Expected to Be 0. K.d by Congress.

(Table of Deductions and Other Tax Stories, Page 13)

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.).

| —Senate-house tax conferees, agreed

upon a compromise 75 per cent forgiveness pay-as-you-go tax plan for most taxpayers and 100 per cent forgiveness for the little taxpayer, were

| confident today of congressional ap~-

Edsel Ford

AUTO MAGNATE FEVER VICTIM

Sole Heir to Far-Flung Industrial Empire Was ll a Week.

DETROIT, May 26 (U. P.)— Edsel Bryant Ford, head of the Ford Motor Co., one of the world’s greatest industrial empires, died early today of undulant fever, He was 49, At his bedside when he succumbed was his father, Henry Ford, | who founded the company nearly a| half century ago and introduced to the world the “tin lizzie.” Ford was stricken critically ill about a week ago and death came at 1:30 a. m. Also at bedside were his wife, Eleanor; his mother: two of his three sons, Benson, a student in the army administration officers’ school, and William Clay, 18, and his daughter, Eleanor, 20,

Earned $30 a Week

Ford was born into the automobile business, grew up in it and lived to become the president and sole heir to the far-flung empire. When Ford was born Nov. 6, 1893, in a two-story brick house in what is now the heart of Detroit's business section, his father was tinkering with “a horseless carriage” while not working as a $30-a-week obscure mechanic for the DetroitEdison Co. , Ten years later Henry Ford organized the Ford Motor Co., which later produced half the world's cars and now is contributing a good portion of allied fighting equipment. Ford, the only son of the inventor, became interested in his father’s work early in life. He gave wp schooling after attending Detroit public schools and the Detroit university school to “go into business right away” because “further schooling would be a waste of time.” Under Edsel's leadership, the company expanded continually, building plants throughout the

proval but declined to guess whether President Roosevelt would sign such a bill, Best guesses were that the president would not veto it, but Chairman Robert L. Doughton, (D. N. C.) of the house group, most vigorous foe of the Ruml complete forgiveness plan, said: “We're not going to lose any sleep about that. We hope it will be acceptable.”

Adopted 11 to 3

The new tax plan was adopted by a vote of 11 to 3 by the conferees latq yesterday. It would divide taxpayers into two groups— those who owe more than $50 tax on 1042 income and those who owe $50 or less. For those who owe more than $50, | it provides 75 per cent forgiveness and collection of the remaining 25 per cent in two years. For those who owe not more than $50, it provides complete forgiveness, or for all practical purposes, the Ruml plan. The agreement ends a week of discussions by seven senators and seven representatives who, at times, had appeared hopelessly deadlocked, and appears to presage an end of months of bickering in both the senate and house over a plan for putting taxpayers on & pay-as-you-go basis. House leaders said on Tuesday, the new plan will be offered for a vote in the house which once failed by a vote of 206 to 202 to adopt the Ruml plan and later passed a bill embodying forgiveness of aporoximately 75 per cent of one year's taxes on a graduated scale according to total income of the individual.

House May Vote Friday

If the house approves the conference report, it then goes to the senate which adopted a modified Ruml plan May 14 by a vote of 49 to 30. Conference leaders apparently held little doubt that their efforts would be accepted by both the house and senate. But they declined to anticipate its reception by President Roosevelt, who strongly opposed the senate-approved measure on the grounds that it would relieve the 1942 tax liability of those who were well able to pay a premium to get on a pay-as-you-go basis. One of the president's main ob-

world.

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Rail Workers Raise OK'd; Coal Negotiations Resumed

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P). —A general wage increase of 8 cents an hour for more than 1,000,000 non-operating railroad employees was recommended to President Roosevelt today by an emergency board of the national railway labor panel. Fifteen non-operating railroad unions had asked for a union shop and a wage raise of 20 cents an hour, The board turned down the union shop request. The recommendations of the board become effective in 30 days unless changes are ordered by Beonomic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes. Although the increase approved by the board would add about $204,000,000 to the payroll costs of the nation's railroads, the board said its considered judgment was that the increase would not ‘under

t & Awning

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 26.-John L. Lewis has won a token victory equal to at least half of the $2-a-day wage boost he started out five months ago to get for more than half a million coal miners, Today he begins battling in renewed conferences with bituminous operators to get the rest of it. Whether he will win a complete victory depends on how far the operators feel willing and able to stretch a set of flexible standards given them yesterday by the national war labor board. It depends also on that board's approval of the results and on whether Mr, Lewis can successfully swing his strike weapon to bring both the operators and the board into line, The strike that might have come next Monday at expiration of the

NEW TAX BILL | ‘se That Sigh

Patrolman Dunwoody. , . . “Send the wagon; got a man smoking on & bus.”

COP TO UPHOLD SMOKING RULE

Dunwoody Makes Second Arrest in 2 Weeks for Infraction on Bus.

Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody, who admits he likes a smoke as well as anyone, vows that he will enforce the new anti-smoking law on streetcars and busses, He made the first arrest for that offense two weeks ago, He made his second last night. And a 33-year-old railroader is held in jail for a municipal court trial this afternoon for his puffs. “I didn’t make the ordinance, but I will enforce it,” said the patrolman of 21 years service, who adopted Hoosierland after he left his northern Ireland birthplace. He boarded a bus at Emerson and English aves, and said he spotted a man with a cigaret in his hand. The man was Elmer Goad. “Ordinarily I get off the bus at the schoolhouse at Bosart and English aves.” Patrolman Dunwoody said today. “But I leaned over and told the operator to keep going until he came to the first box (police call box). “I believe Goad thought I'd gotten off the bus at the schoolhouse, but he took a couple of puffs from the cigaret and I walked back and with my club I pointed to the sign (a no-smoking warning posted by the street railways). “You're a railroad man who looks out for signals and I think you can read English. See that sign?” “Yes, sir, I read it,” he quoted Goad as replying. “Well, youre under arrest for smoking on a bus,” the officer said. And at the Belt railroad and English ave, the officer got off with his prisoner, called headquarters and the patrol wagon arrived shortly to take Mr. Goad to jail. At the jail he was registered alongside Fred Kruse, 4020 E. 26th st.,, who was arrested a few hours earlier on a streetcar at Meridian (Continued on Page Three)

On the War Fronts

(May 26, 1043)

AIR WAR: Estimated 500 planes blast vital factories at Dusseldorf; Flying Fortresses head big raid on Messina, Sicilian port, as allied " planes keep up continuous attacks on Italian islands.

RUSSIA: Soviet troops capture four villages on Kalinin front.

PACIFIC: Chinese stiffen resistance in western Hupeh; Americans wipe out one pocket of resistance on Attu,

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PRE-INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE I$ STEPPED UP

Yank Bombers Spearhead Attack Against Key Italian Bases.

LONDON, May 26 (U. P.). ——Allied aerial fleets about 900 planes strong boosted the pre-invasion offensive against axis Europe to a new pitch in the last 24 hours when more

| ‘than 500 R. A. F. block-buster

bombers struck at the Nazi arms city of Dusseldorf and almost 400 aircraft hammered Messina and other Italian outposts on Sicily, Sardinia and

Pantelleria. Allied planes in strong formation

carried on the assault in daylight

forays across the English channel this afternoon. The R. A. F. last night was start. ing on its second 100,000 tons of explosives for Hitler's stronghold. Twenty-seven planes were lost in the raid, while other craft went out to harry objectives elsewhere on the contnient. Admit Heavy Damage The attack on Dusseldorf--only 50 miles from Dortmund, scene of the biggest raid of the war 48 hours before—was described as a ‘‘saturation” raid and at Messina, key port on Sicily, an estimated 400 American bombers handled their share of the air offensive in a heavy blow. The Italians admitted heavy damage to Messina and allied reports from both Cairo and allied headquarters in North Africa told of fires and explosions, one of which appeared to be in the naval base. i Messina, a regular target of allied bombers, lies on the northeast Sicilian coast just across from the toe of. the Italian boot and would be vital for sending reinforcements to protect Sicily from invasion, Other Bases Pounded Other allied planes hammered Sardinia, Pantelleria and the rest of Sicily, hitting airfields and ports, and bringing the toll of axis aire craft destroyed in a week to 357, compared with allied losses of 33 in the African theater for the same period. British long-range fighters also swept across the Ionian sea to hit the seaplane base at Preveza on the west coast of Greece. While Britain's big bombers were concentrating on Dusseldorf in the 52d raid of the war on that city, fighter planes carried out intruder operations over Holland, Belgium and France. One was lost.

Clouds Hide Results

At least three-quarters of the raiding force over Dusseldorf “were understood to have been fourengined Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes, capable of carrying the world’s largest bombloads. Clouds prevented the raiders from observing the full results of their bombing, however,

JUST CALL HIM ‘LEO’

DENVER, May 26 (U, P.).—The Brown Palace hotel has a new cook from Siam. His name is Lleiusszuieussazas Zes

Willihiminississteizzii Hurrississteizs

zil, which means “Great Mountain,® “Wonderful Strength,” and “The Bear of the Mountain.” His friends call him Leo. :

MARK ANGLO-SOVIET PACT : LONDON, May 26 (U. P) Soviet leaders marked the first an-

niversary of the Russo-British 20-

year pact today with messages pre- * dicting post-war collaboration tween the two countries.

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