Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1943 — Page 2
RUSS CAPTURE GERMAN LINE
2000 Nazis Killed in Futile Counter-Attacks Near ~~ Orel.
MOSCOW, June 19 (U. P).— Russian: troops, hammering at an . exposed German salient southwest of Moscow, broke through German defenses in an advance above Orel today and captured a new offensive line.
: More than 100 Germans were killed in the thrust, launched from the new Soviet bridgehead northwest of Mtsensk, 30 miles north east of Orel, the mid-day communique said. a ~ Only 12 hours earlier the Soviets had announced the wiping out of 2000 Germans in several days of fruitless axis dounter-attacks aimed at ‘dislodging the Russians from four newly-captured towns in the - area. 18 Tanks Pisabled
In their latest advance Red army units captured three mortars, five machineguns and several score rifles and tommy guns. Eighteen German tanks were disabled in previous fighting in this sector. Continued aerial operations which cost the: enemy at least 53 planes in 24 hours were reported . in the communique. Artillery duels were reported along various sections of the long front. A large number of enemy planes Was © reported destroyed on the ground at key enemy airdromes by the Soviet long-range bomber force, which . includes a high percentage of American Boston and Mitchell medium bombers manned by Red army fiiers. : Scouts Wiped Out
Rifle and machinegun fire accounted for a German scout detachment which attempted to cross the Donets in a reconnaissance effort that may have been in prepa- . ration for general otfensive operations. ' To the north in the Leningrad sector, the Russians dispersed Nazi soldiers constructing defense barriers. In the Lisichansk sector of the Ukraine Red army patrols pierced the German lines, killing 140 Germans in a reconnaissance raid. Twenty-four German planes were shot down during two attempts to raid Volhov, on the northern front.
BLAMES WAGE RULE FOR PEA CROP DROP
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offer wages high enough to attract workers to the canneries. We are
- allowed now only .to pay. those
wages we paid last year , , , and they. aren't high enough. = None of the statg’s 1656 canneries is idle, he explained, but operators are unable to contract for large acreage in advance because they know they cannot handle the crops
“unless they can boost the wages. As}
a result, production has been re‘duced. The pea season opened about 10 days ago and will close at the end of the week. It was only 60 per _ cent of last year's crop, and “now ‘we've had to lose 10 per cent of that small crop,” Mr. Coddington added. Because of the wet spring, the ‘corn and tomato crops will be late. ‘Since more hand work is needed ‘with ‘these crops than with peas, even larger losses are expected. The tomato crops, Indiana's biggest for canneries, probably will start Aug. 45 to 20, and corn will begin on Aug. 5toT.
‘Canners Can’t Cont ,
Mr. Coddington also blamed the administration for failing to set definite prices in advance because ,‘‘canners can't contract for acreage if they don't know how to estimate Prices.” Between 35,000 and 40,000 work- © ers, mostly transient help, is needed “ for the corn and tomato crops, and canneries will fall short of those figures by 20 to 25 per cent, he said. “In Elwood recently they had a registration for cannery employees, and 400 signed up. Elwood needs 6400 workers, at: least.” The canneries could get the help, he believes, if the government would allow them to’ advance their last year’s prices. Even the experienced « permanent help has been tempted “away because of more attractive wages offered in other industries. ‘© Smaller cities in the state, where “the majority of canneries are loricated, are especially affected by a labor shortage anyway, and so it is . doubly difficult for the canneries to get help, Mr. Coddington said.
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sons: Party leaders in the south, who gave Taft much of his 1940 con-
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White Denies He Admitted
A Weekly Sizeup by .the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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FULBRIGHT RESOLUTION, calling for U. S. collaboration in post-war affairs, won't get out of tha rules committee right away. Republicans want time to do missionary work among their own before it’s brought to floor. It may never come out: of a sizable vote against it is indicated. But chances are Republicans will go along,
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Argument being used on the doubtful ones runs like this: We Republicans do stand for something, don’t we? Well, if we don’t stand for this, what do we stand for? Name your objections to making a try for a lasting peace. : Another talking point: Passage of the resolution would advance the long fight to give the house real importance in foreign relations. Senate now has exclusive authority to ratify treaties, by two-thirds vote. Most senators will resist any change; most house members would like to see treaties ratified by a majority of both bodies. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, chairman of senate foreign relations, sneered at the Fulbright resolution; in.reply house members point out that Texas got into:the union by a house concurrent resolution after the senate had stalled on ratifying. a treaty bringing Texas in. ®. 8 8 ; . s = = NATIONAL GOVERNORS' conference at Columbus next week will be a sort of preliminary Republican presidential sweepstakes. For the first time, Washington political correspondents will go out to cover it and clock presidential possibilities, particularly Dewey of New York, Bricker of Ohio, Warren of California, Saltonstall of Massachusetts. Missing from the»sweepstakes: Willkie and. Gen. MacArthur. Note. Gov. Bricker was responsible for cancellation of plans to have a side conference of Republican governors. who are members of the G. O. P. post-war advisory council. He told National Chairman Spangler it would violate non-partisan spirit of the general conference. (Washington politicians suspect he didn’t want to be put in a corner himself on post-war policies.) #2 = = ‘® = 8
MEANWHILE, BRICKER loses ground, politicoes here say. Rea-
vention strength, are lukewarm about this other Ohioan; and Bricker apparently failed to sell himself to party moneybags in New York, on hig recent visit east. : ” ”
Chicago Tribune Goes for Dewey
CHICAGO TRIBUNE inspired the recent poll of house Republicans on their presidential preferences, in which. Dewey led with 54 votes and Willkie was a poor fourth with only 13. : The paper’s been looking for someone to stop Willkie. For a time it plugged MacArthur, who ran second in the poll with 32 votes. Now it’s reported switching to Dewey. New York Republicans talk up a Dewey-and-Warren-of-California ticket. 3 » » » i » # INDUSTRIALISTS FIGHTING war “contract renegotiation act” will be satisfied if law is amended to provide for readjusting contracts after taxes. Some still demand exemption for standard commercial products—Items sold in peacetime as well as for war. Ways and means subcommittee headed by Rep. Disney (D. Okla.) will begin study of amendments soon. i : Ha > » ” » # » LOOK FOR reduced meat rations béfore years is over, for the average civilian. Those doing manual labor in war jobs may get more than the rest. : # #o ” » # HOUSE DEMOCRATIC leaders earlier this week gaye their whips another stern talking to, warned them that Republicans “have the gutting. knife” out for war-agency appropriations. But whips failed to keep Democrats on the floor yesetrday to vote, and Republican knives slashed. ” ” » » ”» INDUSTRY RETREATS from pay-as-you-go, as government edvanes... Sonde large utilities-now Silkfheir eustomers every twp months,
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: i I Yim ad oF iad IN WHAT MAY be ofust-atcll feel) boost valu as an inflation. éurb, admihistration soon will advertise ‘ individuals may attain by putting money into postal savings, life insurance, building and loah associations. And, of course, it will continue pushing voluntary purchase of war bonds. 2 5 = ss = WARNINGS TO KEEP board of economic warfare secrets out of debate over its appropriations reached house members. Milo Perkins talked frankly in closed committee sessions about various strategems to hurt the axis; got a war department caution himself, which he passed on to the men who heard him. tJ ” ” # » # Look for announcement next week from Senator George on plans for his senate post-war committee. : He'll name an expert to head his staff, make it clear that committee will concentrate on economic and financial, rather than political, phases of post-war policy. Committee is weighted heavily on conservative side. »
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floor begging for mercy he shot her a second time fatally. ; Defense Attorney Edward Brennan objected to introduction of the statement to the jury. : Asked if the signature on the police statement was his, White said; “It is my name, but I don’t think it is my signature.” White denied that he was ever asked by police to make any statement. Meanwhile, Prosecutor Sherwood Blue displayed to the jury a bloodsoaked house dress Mrs. White wore at the time she was shot to death. Detective Auls said two bullet holes in the dress corresponded with two fatal bullet holes in Mrs. White's body. The detective said White seemed to be “perfectly sober and normal” when he was questioned at the police station.
“He told me he had shot his wife
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in ‘love with another man,” Detective Auls said. . The jury previously had heard the story of White's own extra-marital
love affair with Mrs. Dorothy Beanblossom. ‘ She testified about their affair for two days, telling of how White had invited her to his home and held her captive at the point of the gun in the same room where his wife lay dead. She denied defense inferences that she had -an arrangement for a fake love affair with White in order to make Mrs. White jealous. “He told me he loved me,” she testified. , T. Ernest Maholm, defense attorney, said that he will prove that White was suffering from a form of insanity at the time of the murder.
NEW U. S. HOUSES TO BE FOR WOMEN
WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P). —The 70,000 war housing units tentatively scheduled to be built during the next 12 months will house mostly women war workers, fhe natiopal housing agency said today. Half of the total number of dormitories - built “during the last six months were projects for wom en, and in view of a recruitment plan calling for 220,000 women to go into war work between July,
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53,000 MINERS JOIN WALKOUT
‘Operators and Union _ Open Parley.
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survey showed. Approximately 13,950 of the state’s 205,000 hard and soft coal miners were idle. states reporting gave these figures for miners on strike—Alabama, 8000; Indiana, 7000; Illinois, 3000; Ohio, 2000; Kentucky, 10,000, and West Virginia, 500. y Union leaders predicted that the stoppages. would increase hourly through the region.
Rejection Expected
There appeared little doubt that Lewis and the U. M. W. would reject the WLB decision, just as they have rejected every previous order of the board. Lewis said last winter that the board had prejudged the case and he repeatedly has attempted to sidestep it. The WLB order denied the union demand for portal-to-portal pay-— and left the miners with only small wage gains totaling about 20 cents a day. * Some observers believed that the ultimate solution of the coal crisis would result in the government retaining control of the mines and the miners working under a contract between the U. M. W. and the - government. Several operators have expressed Operator sources said Lewis told the bargaining conference early this month that : the miners would work for the government for: whatever wage the government decrees, but would not work for private operators unless their wage demands are met.
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ters of the fifth service command at Ft. Hayes, O.,, and recently to Ft. Custer. : The Ragsdale family’s hopes for the safety of Lt. John were raised this week when Mrs. Ragsdale received a letter from the wife of the pilot of the Flying Fortress reported lost on a raid. The pilot’s wife said she had been informed that the bombardier of the crew was a prisoner of the Germans. : Missing since May 21, Lt. John was a navigator on the bomber and had already been commended for expert navigating in bringing the fortress through a severe storm over the English channel on ‘its return from a previous bombing ‘mission. The 23-year-old lieutenant was sworn into service March 20, 1942, and received his commission and wings at Mather field, Sacramento, Cal. He had attended the
Navy in 1918, Army Now
IN 1918, WHEN Maj. Joseph G. Wood of Indianapolis was only 20, the U. S. declared war on. Germany. Maj. Wood left his studies at the .Indiana law school and joined the navy. This spring his 19-year-old son, Pfc. Joseph G. Wood Jr. put aside his books at the University of Notre Dame and went to fight in world war II, joining his father who already had started his world
University of Michigan for two and one-half years. The second of the three Ragsdale sons, Cadet Edward, 20, is following up at Parks air college more than five years of military training received in high school and college. At Shortridge Cadet Edward was a captain in R. O. T. C. He had one year of R. O. .'T. C. at Indiana university and a course in civilian military training corps at Ft. Harrison. Sworn into the air forces on May 27, 1942, he left for his fight training on Nov. 2, 1942. Eighteen-year-old Robert Ragsdale followed his brother and father into service in February. He enlisted the day after he reached his 18th birthday and received his diploma from Shortridge high school in absentia this June. Both Capt. and Mrs. Ragsdale and their three sons are graduates of Shortridge and have lived here most of their lives.
Father's Day to Be Observed Though
war II service with the army. Now Maj. Wood is in charge _ When the armistice was signed, he returned to Indianapolis, received his diploma from law school, and started practicing law. Subsequently, he became dean of the Indiana law school, a wellknown Indianapolis attorney, and at one time president of the city council. . His son was graduated - from Cathedral high school and had one year at Notre Dame. Maj. and Mrs. Wood, with two younger sons, Billy and Jackie, live at 618 E. 46th st.
cér procurement here and Pfc. Wood is with an automatic weapon battalion of anti-aircraft artillery at Camp Haan, Cal. In the first world conflict Maj. Wood received his naval radio operating course at Harvard university and served the rest of the war on detached duty at Arlington, Va., primarily in connection with trans-Atlantic communications.
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CAPT. FRED M. SELLERS of the army recruiting service in Indianapolis and his son, T. Sgt. T. M. Sellers will spend Father's :
day together at Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt. where Sgt. Sellers is a parachute
instructor.
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the army and navy. After doing a “hitch” in the navy from 1908 to
1912, Capt. Sellers enlisted in the army in 1917, receiving the rank of first sergeant during the first world war. Since 1921 he has been in the national guard where he was promoted to captain. He was recalled to active duty on Jan. 17, 1941, and has been in " o
Father and Daughter
Indianapolis since Dec. 18, 1941. His 23-year-old son already has four years of army service to. his credit and plans to make the army his career. Capt. and Mrs. Sellers live at 3539 College ave.: . ” 8
INDIANAPOLIS’ father and daughter combination in the armed forces is ‘Capt. Arthur I. Kunze, with the infantry at Ft. Thomas, Ky., and his daughter, Phyllis, who has been sworn into the WAVES. A world war I veteran, Capt. Kunze re-entered the army in April, 1942. Prior to that, he was attached to the war department here. Miss Kunze expects to leave about the first of July for her
JOHN FEHSENFELD JR. IN BASIC TRAINING
John E. Fehsenfeld Jr. former superintendent for the Crystal Flash Petroleum Corp., and student at the University of Michigan, received primary flight training at Stamford, Tex. and will take basic flight training at Arledge field, Enid, Okla. his present station. His wife, Mrs. Adele V. Fehsenfeld, lives at 3630 N. Meridian st. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fehsenfeld Sr. 3074 N. Pennsylvania st. Seven Indianapolis men have
been selected for training in the
armored force replacement training center, Ft. Knox, Ky. The men are: Pvts. Robert Martin, 445 S. Keystone; Morris Simon, 508 E. 21st st.; Carl H. Happersberger, 1150 Churchman; Paul E. Dolzall, 3109 Broadway; Daniel Sellers, 1444 Fruitdale; Howard D. Perkins, 1138 Broadway; Charles J. Salisbury, 630 W. 40th st.
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boet training at Hunter college, N. Y. She was a stenographer at the navy signal school at Bute ler until it was moved out. She signed up for the WAVES on; June 10. With her mother, Mrs. fh Arthur Kunze, she lives at 5143" College ave. :
OREGON GOVERNOR TELLS OF JAP RAIDS
COLUMBUS, O., June 19 (U.PX —Gov. Earl D. Snell of Oregon, first of the chief executives of 40 states to arrive for the 35th annual gove ernors’ conference beginning to morrow, said today he hoped to re ceive from the conference sugges tions on protection of his state from Japanese bombing. ; “We are the only state in the union over which enemy planes have
flown and on which enemy bombs have been dropped,” he said upon arrival. “And we don’t like it.”
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