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ALLIED COUNCIL MEETS IN AFRICA,

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 74

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1943

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

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MAPS "WORST BLOW YET AT AXI

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When the Camp Atterbury bus crashed into the rear of the Edgewood bus on. Road 31 this morning ; #8 2 =n

Quick Stop’ of One Vehicle|

Causes ‘Second to Crash Ahead.

Two Camp Atterbury soldiers and four other persons, three of them women, were injured today when

two busses collided on road 3 near| j

the Powell rd. The injured are:

ELLEN WILLIS, 41, of 5457 ' Manker st., head injuries’ believed to be serious, brought to Method1st hospital. INEZ STECK, 39, of 5250 Singleton st, arms cut, Methodist hospital

. HELEN ELLIS; 21, of R. R. 6, . Box 767, cuts, Methodist Wsspital.

PVT. SKELTON KING, 36, cuts ' and bruises, City hospital,

PVT. CARLISLE WEBSTER, 24, cuts and bruises, City hospital.

AN UNIDENTIFIED YOUTH, “who refused hospitalization, Both busses were operated by the Hoosier Transit Lines, and were northbound. The crash oecurred when the Edgewood bus, operated by F. H. Wilhite, 4463 Madison ave., stopped to pick up Miss: Eliis, who boards it daily. The second, that from Camp Atterbury, was driven by Raymond Cruise, 2639 E. 18th st.

Careens Into Field

He said that.he did not notice the carrier in front of him in time to stop and swerved to the left. It struck the rear of the first bus, spinning it around, then it careened into a field about eight feet below the roadbed level. Miss Ellis had just stepped on the bus and was hurled off by the impact. The two other injured women were the only other passengers. The unidentified injured youth and soldiers were on the second bus with 13 other passengers who were uninjured. - Occurring on the newly prove highway on which traffic is heavy, the accident attracted a crowd of between 300 and 400 onlookers, \

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The Atterbury bus, after the crash, swerved to the left and came to rest upright in a nearby field.

UNION TRUST NOTES

50TH ANNIVERSARY

Harrison and. Riley Signed

Bank’s Original Charter.

Fifty years ago today Benjamin Harrison, who had finished one term as president of the United States and had been defeatell for re-elec-tion, signed his name (“Benj. Harrison”) to. a paper which founded the. Union Trust Co. of Indianapolis. Four days later—the original “birthday’’—the bank received - its charter, A number of other distinguished men were present at that meeting and. affixed their signatures to the articles of incorporation below Mr. Harrison’s ‘name. Among these were James Whitcomb Riley, the famed Hoosier poet; Albert G. Porter and Winfield T. Durbin, former governors of Indiana; John H. Holiday, founder of the Indianapolis News; Arthur V. (Continued on Page Two)

Hoosier Heroes City Sailor Is Missing

In Atlantic

Missing MRS. OLA R. GRAHAM, 1204

S. Emerson ave. received word yesterday that her son, Roy Eu-

gene Graham, was missing in the

Atlantic. He was serving with the merchant marine. Graham served a year with the navy, and was one of the first men to leave Indianapolis for service. He was given a medical (Continued on Page Two)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...71 10am... 7 7a.m.,..71 11 a.m ...80 8am ..7 12 (noon).. 83

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

Churchill-Stalin meeting soon. Guesses as to the site range from Alaska to Cairo. They help to baffle the enemy. Meeting might have taken place already except

for the coal crisis. Stalin never flies? One hears that, but it’s nonsense. over Soviet. territory when the need arises. wn ® ns » F. D. R. WILL KEEP HIS hand on the home-front throttle despite creation of office of war mobilization; best-informed sources say now. He wants competent help with domestic problems, but saves the last word for himself. His leading role in the coal crisis is tip-off. OWM Director Byrnes was much concerned with John L. Lewis’ showdown, but worked behind scenes. Smart congressional guessers now dope it this way: Prentiss Brown is almost through at OPA. He's tired, frustrated, unhappy. When he does go, Judge Vinson, new economic stabilization director, will take over OPA in fact, if not in name. Vinson is preparing now for the shake-up. Net result of the double play: OPA, now a fighting word everywhere, could be wiped out, forgotten; Vinson would have power to tie in prices and rationing more closely with food, financial policies; Byrnes would remain over-all co-ordinator. ” ” »

Byrnes Takes“Cohen Along 2 as Adviser

BYRNES IS TAKING Ben Cohen with him from OES to OWM, as adviser on taxes and fiscal policy. Latest tax talk has to do with imposition of personal excess-profits taxes, It's brewing in senate. Some senators argue it this way: Inflationary threat is not created by white-collar workers and others on fixed salaries, but comes from defense workers and their new and higher wages. These, so runs the argument, should be subject to special tax treatment, to sop up inflationary spending power. It would cause a bigger squawk than the $25,000 salary limit. Treasury will ask new corporation taxes; congress doesn’t like the thought.

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# ” » 8 » # REPUBLICAN QUARREL over how to attack the Roosevelt fourth term. National Chairman Spangler recently advised senate party leaders to sound off against a fourth term, using the “shocked and surprised” motif. Senate Republican Leader McNary put his foot down, called this fear psychology. Instead he recommended that Republicans accept Roosevelt nomination as inevitable, welcome the contest, fight his election. Country probably will get a mixture of both techniques. ” s » # -» »

NAVY'S LOWERING of physical standards, forecast here a few

weeks ago, means that army will agreg to take increased numbers of on LW SA ey lly

1 Probed by Government,

‘WASHINGTON, June 5.—You’ll hear of a Roosevelt--

The rear end of the Edgewood bus was badly damaged by the unexpected impact.

STOOPS RENEWS RATIONING FIGHT

Rubber Committee, Once

Clamors Again. By SHERLEY UHL

Todd Stoops and his Midwest Rubber Conservation committee ride again. Characterized as “That Man From Indiana” in Washington last year when he fought gasoline rationing in the Midwest, the dynamic secretary of the Hoosier Motor club announced plans today to get more gasoline for the nation’s motorists. “The brighter picture on rubber supply now makes it possible to ease off some of the restraint previously placed upon automobile operation,” Mr. Stoops declared. The committee which he heads was probed by government investigators last year who sought to find out its financial backers.

Fight ‘Trial Balloons’

Now the committee is provoked by the “recent trial balloons sent up on the eastern seaboards pertaining to possible nation-wide extension of rationing restrictions now in force there.” Eastern administrators and legislators, Mr. Stoops contends, are “ready to exert all the pressure at their command” in favor of the inland adoption of lowered gas coupon values and rigid enforcement of the weekly “A” gas allotment here from four to two and a half gallons. The committee press releases, Mr. Stoops declares, will “counteract” this pressure by pointing out: 1. That rubber czar Jeffers has promised “12 million passenger car tires for 1943 and 30 million for 1944, 2. That Jeffers further states there is enough scrap rubber for use in recapping to “carry us: to mid-1945.” Shortage in East 3. That crude and refined gasoline shortages exist only in the eastern states where lack of transportation facilities is hamstringing shipment of oil from fields and re-

1fineries to distributing points.

4. That “adequate gasoline is available in the Midwest, serviced directly by pipe lines and Sufficient trucking facilities. Mr. Stoops, ‘while warning that the committee does not assume “we’ll have rubber to burn,” indicated that it would stump for ‘a slight increase in weekly allocations (Continued on Page Two)

SCION RUNS AD FOR HIS LAWN MOWER

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del, June 5 (U. P.).—Daniel G. Anderson, scion of a wealthy Delaware family, today ran the following ad in a local newspaper: “Who borrowed my lawn mower? I'd like to borrow it back, please. Some of my neighbors, who include Washington legislators and diplomats and a plethora of du Ponts, have it. I need it. My grass is getting so tall that Ill have to organize a safari when

‘union and its membership”

22 Soldiers, 4 Others Injured In Road 31 Bus Collision MINE WORKERS

MAY WALK OUT AGAIN JUNE 20

Set New Deadline as They Prepare to Return to Pits Monday.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. P.). —The United Mine Workers today threatened to strike again two weeks from Monday if a satisfactory wage-hour agreement has not been negotiated by that time with hard and soft coal operators. The union disclosed that in ordering its 430,000 members back to

MUNCIE, Ind. June 5 (U. P.). —An unauthorized strike by 3000 members of the United Automobile Workers union (C. IL O.) ended today at the Warner Gear Co., when a crew of 250 men reported to their jobs. Ben Weeks, president of U. A. W. Local 287, said that full production on war contracts at the company’s four plants would be resumed by Sunday midnight.

the pits on Monday, it had set June 20 as the deadline for another walkout if the contract issue has not been settled. The U. M. W. policy committee telegraphed all local unions in the nation’s coal fields that “this action was taken ta protect your and added: “Let each member cooperate with this policy.”

Follow Usual Policy

In setting a time limit on the period during which coal will be produced under government management under extension of the expired contract, the policy committee followed traditional policy. Three times previously, since contract negotiations, bogged down in March, the union has set a specific date to which the old agreement would be extended. Twice thus far the miners have walked out when the period expired. Presumably they will strike again if their controversy with the operators remains unresolved. The U. M. W. announcement was released as union officials and northern and southern soft coal operators reconvened. their wage-hour conference. There was no positive indication that negotiations would be resumed immediatély.because the war labor board order suspending them Wednesday said they could not be resumed until the miners returned to work. The -union policy committee declared that the miners recognized (Continued on Page Two)

MINERS IN INDIANA ARE ORDERED BACK

District UMW Adheres to National Union Action.

Times Special

TERRE "HAUTE, Ind. June 5.— Louis Austin, president of district 11, United Mine Workers, today instructed all local unions in the district to order miners back to work Monday. Telegrams sent the unions by Mr.

Austin informed them that “in con-

formity with the action of the international policy committee, the mines will resume work Monday, June ¥7, 1943.”

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CASTILLO ENDS HIS RESISTANGE

Surrenders to Authorities At Naval Base; Argentina Ruled by Army.

BUENOS AIRES, June § (U. P). —Ramon 8S. Castillo, ousted presi-

dent of Argeniina, surrendered to authorities af the La Plata naval base today after a vain 24-hour attempt to maintain his government aboard a 450-ton minesweeper despite establishment of a revolutionary military regime in Buenos Aires. Dispatches from La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province, said that Castillo and. Rear Admiral Mario Fincatti, minister of marine, disembarked from the minesweeper Drummond and surrendered to the local military commandant. They were reported under strong escort there. ‘Meantime, five other members of the. Castillo cabinet were landed from the Drummond at Montevideo after. a reportedly violent controversy with Castillo. They later arranged to return to Buenos Aires by airplane or boat. Martial © law was proclaimed throughout the country last night, but this appeared little more than a formality, since the minor resistance encountered in the initial stages of the revolt had been put down quickly and calm prevailed everywhere, Castillo made one last desperate attempt to rally his supporters early last night when he sent. a message to the Argentind supreme court, (Continued on Page Two)

CHINESE RETAKE VITAL JAP BASE

CHUNGKING, June 5 (U, P.).— Chinese forces recaptured the important Japanese base at Kungan. in central China, wiping out more than half of the enemy forces and| driving the remainder northeastward, today’s communique disclosed. The communique said also that other Chinese forces smashed into the outer defenses of Ichang, the chief Japanese base on the Yangtse in western Hupeh, and recaptured the town of Meltseya, a high suburb of Ichang. Several hundred enemy soldiers

were killed and ‘'much-booty taken.

Folks Back Home Continue To Buy ‘Smokes’ for Yanks

(List of Donations, Page Three)

' In France before the war, a package of American cigarets cost 35 cents.” Now, well, they'd be worth their weight in gold. . But American soldiers on the fronts of the world can have cigarets, the American brands, if the folks back home see to it. The Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund provides the way. You send any amouht from a nickel on up to the fund at 214 W. Maryland st. and we send the cigarets overseas to fighting Americans. By arrangement with the cigaret companies, a nickel buys a package. A dollar buys 20 packages, Five dol-

buys 100 packages—2000 cis

Indianapolis citizens. have been generous. . Through the Ernie Pyle Fuhd, they have contributed more than half a million cigarets to the boys -overseas. Yesterday, employees of the Universal Gear Corp. collected $67 which sends 26,800 cigarets. Wheeler's Lunch employees, at Indianapolis and Richmond, are sending 20,600 through their donation of $51.50. American cigarets have always been a luxury abroad. In wartime, they have become more of a luxury than ever before . . . a gift that you can send to your countryman for a nickel a pack.

You send us the money. We send

TROOPS

Prime Minister Returns to London After ‘Eluding’ Nazi Gunners; Invasion Zero Hour Believed Nearer.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 5 wr P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Army Staff Gen. George C. Marshall, British Chief of Staff Sir Alan Brooke and other high allied military leaders at war conference in the North African theater have worked plans for striking the “worst blow yet” against the axis. . Virtually every high allied military leader as well . as British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden attended the wag

U. S. Chief “of

Churchill on a two-day visit

to British and American troops in Tunisia.

eld later, with Churchill and:

Marshall among those discussing the general situation but;

without permitting corres spondents to quote them 0 rectly. 2 Marshall Confident

It can -be said, however, thas Churchill and Marshall appeared

pleased with developments and were in a confident mood. Churchill expressed satisfaction with improvement in the Battle. 4 the Atlantic against the Nagi ! bfats and belief that the new agreement among the French ers, Gen. Henri Giraud ‘and Charles de Gaulle, would be ting,

(It was understood that Eden's visit to North Africa was to help

bring about the new French agree ment, which threatened at one to result in a serious new crisis. - London’ officially said. that t. Bde did not take part in the French talks, but it was known that: Kis ‘visit was to smooth out certain problems.)

‘ “Atmosphere Aggressive’

The whole atmosphere of the talks among military leaders had

an aggressive tone and put theems~

phasis on the coming stroke at the axis. In that connection Marshall a plained that the meeting here #¢=~ tually was an extension of the Churchill-Roosevelt meetings in Washington and was aimed , af working out details and co-ordinats ing the next move.

Marshall, Churchill

Inspect Troops

LONDON, June 5 United States Chief of Staff George C. Marshall visited can and British troops in rat for two days in company with

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Minister Winston Churchill, it was.

disclosed today. The announcement of Gen. Mars shall’s presence in Africa was

shortly after Mr. Churchill’s to London in a plane that edly circumvented Nazi warplanes i

in wait to shoot it down. Ha Speculation ran high here todsy

that the allies were moving closer

to the zero ‘hour for invasion. “Final Orders” Given . . ' Churchill, it was revealed flew

Gibraltar after his Washington cot §

ference with President and then to North Africa, pre

ably to give final orders to allied

armies for the supreme moment. It was assumed here that he ga the instructions directly to Dwight. D. Eisenhower, (Continued on Page Two) ® x =a

(June 5, 1943)

EUROPE—Churchill back in. land from Washington. . North African stop-over, .p ‘ sumably to deliyer invasionp to Eisenhower; Nazi. Planes scattered raids, causing alert London.

MEDITERRANEAN — Libe drop nearly 250,000 gE bombs on Italy’s Grottaglie. drome; raids on Sicily and telléria continue.

RUSSIA—Soviets thiow biggest 4 fleet mustered in war—520 pia —at Orel; Red army gains in tacks in Smolensk area. f

PACIFIC—Chinese armies trate Ichang, killing 500, suburb and setting fin fliers drop 18 tons Wewak, New G

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