Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1943 — Page 1
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‘Government By Frankenstein’
New Deal Develops Giant Bureaucracy to Dominate The States
"DEWEY WINS
A SCHRICKER QUIP IN OHIO
Hoosier ‘Takes Sides’ With Bricker in Case of
‘Show Down.’
By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer
COLUMBUS, O, June 21.—Indiana was represented at the annual governors’ conference Which opened here today. by its Democratic governor, Henry F. Schricker, “and its Republican Lt. Gov. Charles
M. Dawson. Neither is scheduled for addresses
_ during the three-day session and
both said that they expected to keep still and listen to the remarks of the other governors and Washington officials who are scheduled to speak.
COLUMBUS, O. June 21 (U. P.).—~Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s advice to corn belt states to “kill their little pigs and eat them immediately” provoked a sharp exchange today between Dewey and G Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, a Democrat. “I would advocate immediately
ykilling of the little pigs so East-
ern cows can have feed,” Dewey said, “but eat the pigs—don't plow them under.” : When the New York governor. suggested that Eastern states would turn to other sources such as Canada if the Midwestern
oP states could not supply feed, Kerr
to
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+ Wendell Willkie
said that the Midwest also would find new trade routes, “to get the industrial products for which we" have paid tribute to the Eastern states all the years of our history.”
The governors’ conference is supposed to be non-political but there was a lot of talk among Republi;cans about Governors Dewey and Bricker. A good sized picture of Gov. Bricker hung in the lobby of the Deshler-Wallick hotel where the governors are staying and Gov. Dewey stirred up a lot of comment by holding a press conference in which he talked about the G. O. P. program in 1944 while reinterating his previous statement that he was not a candidate. His holding of a press conference brought the comment generally that he was acting like a candidate. Quipped Gov. Schricker on this situation: “Well, I guess if a fight Dewey and Bricker, we'll have to support Bricker since he’s our neighbor.” Mt. Dawson had no comment, There was very little talk about and the Democratic governors were too busy
during the early stages of the con-
i
ference to talk about 1944. : 1 Approximately 50 newspapermen
- from throughout the nation were * here to cover the conference, many
of them for the purpose of meeting the potential presidential and vice presidential candidates. Included among the Democratic governors regarded as vice presidential timber ‘next year is Gov. Schricker, the only Demdbratic chief executive in the Midwest. Several of the Southern Democratic governors are: (Continyed on Page Four)
Not Responsible to People, Flouts Their Will, Wastes Money, Extends Power, Senator Byrd, of Virginia, Declares.
By HARRY F. BYRD (U. S. Senator from Virginia) ik Copyrighted by The Indianapolis Times and the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
THE GOVERNOR of Ohio, John Bricker, recently pointed out that the government of his state manages to get along with 25,000 employees. But the federal government in Ohio has 90,000 employees.
In Massachusetts there
Federal employees there total 129,000. In Pennsylvania there are 44,500 state employees;
215,000 federal employees.
In January, 1943, there were 31,036 federal employees in Indiana and by March 32,600. The state payroll for
January was 15,040.
The state government of Wyoming employs 1100 people. The federal government’s payroll in Wyoming is 6200. With over three million civilian employees—exclusive of the army and navy—our federal government now has more persons on the taxpayer's payroll than the combined total of all the employees of all the 48 states plus all the employees of all the country’s county
and municipal governments. In the last war the ratio was
to five soldiers. The ratio now is one civilian employee to 2% soldiers.
Fifty-five per cent of those persons are not directly engaged in the war effort. Since July, 1939, more than two years before Pearl Harbor, the federal government has increased the number of its new employees almost 50 per cent every six months. Despite repeated recommendations to the contrary from congress, the peak is nowhere in sight. ‘These representatives of accumulated executive power have now set up shop in every state and in every nook and corner of the country. Bureaucracy, rabbit wise, is self-multiplying. The consequences of its fecundity are everywhere apparent. This bureaucracy is not elected by the people. It is not responsible to the people. It does not answer for its acts at the polls. Yet it wastes the people’s money, flouts the will of the people's elected representatives and—down to the last crossroads, village and (Continued on Page Four)
YANK PLANES BLAST JAP. STRONGHOLDS
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —American - airmen - in the southwest Pacific have blasted Japanese (Gilbert island) strongholds at Nauru and Tawara on the invasion route to Truk, the enemy's major south Pacific fleet base, the navy disclosed today. The attacks, both staged Friday
night, indicated that recently reinforced U. 8. airpower in that the-
‘later may be employed to soften up
the Gilberts, reduce their threat to American supply lines from Hawaii, and eventually open the way for thrusts into enemy areas.
WPA WHEELBARROW SALE WILL BE HELD
Victory gardeners here have been invited to buy any part of 6000
wheelbarrows discarded by the defunct WPA. The carriers, idle since abandonment of the WPA early this year, are being offered for sale at the organization's ‘warehouse, 1741 8. West st., by the U. S, treasury department. Various sizes and qualities, they are to be sold for four, three and a dollar apiece. What's left after gardeners have taken their ‘choice, will be sold on bids to ' be opened in Chicago Thursday.
Armored Vests
Saving Lives
Of Yankee Bomber Crews
LONDON, June 21 (U. P)—An armored vest—the modern version of the suit of mail of ancient knights—is being used by American airmen in the battle for control of Europé’s skies. a ‘headquarters | announcement
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today disclosed that the vests made of small overlapping squares of manganese steel built into. heavy canvas covers shaped something like a baseball catcher’s chest protector had already saved the lives of several fliers. The vest is pulled on over the head and is laced up the sides. It protects both the front and the back of the torso. First Lt. Jack Fisher of Freno, Cal, wearing the vest during the May 21 raid on Wilhelmshaven and Emden survived the expl
tryside.
are 21,000 state employes.
one civilian government employee
R.A.F. SMASHES AT NAZI ENGINE CENTER
Bombs ~ Cause Explosions
At Friedrichshaven.
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 21 (U. P.) —British bombers heavily attacked a town near Lake Constance (apparently the Nazi airplane engine center of Friedrichshafen) early this morning, causing terrific explosions that shook the Swiss lake shore and lighted the whole coun-
BULLETIN ; AN ENGLISH COASTAL TOWN, June 21 (U, P.).—~Waves of British planes believed to include bombers crossed the southeast coast this afternoon. The roar of their engines was heard continuously for half an hour.
Two major fires could be seen by Swiss eye-witnesses until dawn, “The sirens sounded shortly before 1 a. m. and then the first bomber formations arrived,” Swiss eye-wit-nesses said. “Tiley continuously increased, while about 15 searchlights probed the skies. Shortly after 1 a. m. the whole countryside was . clearly visible. One bomber apparently was hit. “Suddenly the concentrated bombing of a selected objective began. Incendiaries and explosives were dropped. Strong houses on the Swiss lake shore shook. The raid suddenly ceased at 2 a. m. and a reconnaissance plane flew over the area at 2:30 a. m.” (Friedrichshafen was the German zeppelin center before the war, but is now a big ‘producer of seaplanes, flying boats and gliders. Many experiments are conducted there.)
On the War Fronts
(June 21, 1943) .
EUROPE—Swiss sources report heavy bombing attack on Friedrichshafen, German Zeppelin base and war ceriter.
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FORECAST: Slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow morning. :
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943
DRAFT ITALIAN WOMEN, 16:24, FOR WAR JOBS
2,000,000 Are Affected by Drastic Decrees as
Invasion ‘Impends.’ LONDON, June 21 (U. P.).—Both
allied and axis radios heavily ac-
cented invasion preparations today with special attention to the eastern Mediterranean and the Italian peninsula, where 2,000,000 women and several hundred thousand more men were ordered into defense work. (The Nazi news agency D. N. B.
potential bases for invasion of Greece or axis islands in the eastern Mediterranean, had been declared a restricted war zone and allied troops were massing there. Previously, the axis had reported allied warships concentrating in the eastern Mediterranean.)
that north Syria and Lebanon had been declared a war zone were “old stuff.” The districts have been military zones since 1940 and their status is unchanged.)
Belgians 'Are Warned
Increasing trouble inside Europe also was reported as the war of nerves, sabotage and propaganda was intensified by both sides. The German high command—probably for propaganda purposes—said Jugoslav nerves, sabotage and propaganda was intensified by both sides. The German high command-—probably for propaganda purposes—sajd Jugoslay guerrillas were putting up “desperate resistance” in Montenegro but large groups had been wiped out by axis troops and planes. The refugee Belgian governments news agency said urgent warnings of systematic allied bombing of Belgian war factories held by the Nazis had been broadcast to Belgium, ad-
tories to move. Measure Is ‘Radical’
Radio Algiers again warned the
11talians that big-scale air raids {were being prepared against the
interior of their country. The broadeast. asked | She Italian people pi
The y SCIST Mm wiille, Italian ‘women between the ages of 18 and 24 and additional men between 18 and 35 into war work. Axis dispatches described the order as “the most radical measure of this kind in Italy.” A Transocean (German) dispatch from Rome, broadcast by Berlin, said the call up would put between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 of Italy’s 45,300,000 population into war production or military service. Locomotives Destroyed
The number of men involved was not definite. Transocean said Italy had 6,800,000 between the affected ages but that “several million” were in the armed forces and many other already working in industry. The Daily Telegraph reported from Stockholm that Italy's transportation system was being sabotaged by its workers who were leaving for the country to seek safety from air raids. The dispatch said that 40 locomotives and 350 cars were destroyed in recent air attacks. Reports that Italian peace envoys had reached North Africa were described in Algiers as “bazaar gossip” and flatly denied by French, British and American quarters. i 16 Planes Shot Down The Daily Mail said in a Swiss dispatch that large German troop movements were taking place off France with convoys “streaming to the coast.” It did not say which coast. . Meanwhile, allied bombers attacked airdromes, wrecking parked aircraft and ground installations, and shot down 16 more enemy planes in a series of new blows at axis air strength on the stepping stone island of Sicily yesteraay, a communique announced today. The day attacks followed a blockbuster night assault Saturday by British Wellington bombers at Messina at the northeastern tip of Sicily, opposite the toe of the Italian boot.
Hoosier Heroes
Sgt. Donahue Wounded in
Sicilian | Raid
SEA el | is. sion over Sicily in which S. Sgt. Francis E. Donahue, 19 N. .Oriental st, was wounded and
said northern Syria and Lebanon,|-
(British sources said axis reports|
vising persons living near the fac-|
Mrs. Emma Shadinger .
LORD HALIFAX
British = Ambassador to
U. S. Is-Concerned With Crops.
(Photo, Page Three)
Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States and a farmer most of his life, arrived in Indianapolis this morning. Typically British in appearance, his tall figure towered over members of the reception committee. Typically democratic in demeanor, he joked and talked with the press as he was escorted hurriedly to car which was to take him to Purdue university where he was scheduled to make an address at 2 p. m. ] E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue university, said that in cdrrespondence with Lord Halifax he had expressed a particular desire to see some of rural Indiana.
Interested in Crops
“I am very interested in seeing your crops, your way of farming, the results and the problems Indiana farmers face,” Lord Halifax said. “You see, I've been a farmer myself nearly all my life. One farmer is always. interested in another.” Very concerned over the floods which recently inundated thousands of acres of rich Hoosier farm land, the lord queried reception committee members on the ‘extent of the damage. : With one son dead in the battles ( on Page Four)
TOMORROW FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
it Will Be Longest Day of Year—and Hot. TEMPERATURES
cesses 14 12 (Noon)... 86 1p.m..... 87
Summer begins at 2:13 a. m. (In-| dianapolis time) tomorrow — the longest day of the year. Indications were that the season would get a pretty hot: welcome here. The weather bureau said it would be slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow morning, Tempera-
Fate, The high yesterday was 90 at p.m The sun has been moving steadily northward and at the early hour tomorrow will reach the farthest
{northern point. This is the sum-
mer solstice, so.called because the sun apparently stands still in its
course. & The ypartiodat period when the
sun its. travel
ofa at
toward rs
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Gold Star Mother at Work
+ « & Gold Star mother. She's a war worker who makes other war workers’ problems her own.
She's Making the Problems Of Others Her Responsibility
A Gold Star mother who has joined the army of Indianapolis’ women war workers is Mrs. Emma Shadinger, 302 Buckingham dr., wife of Guy H. Shadinger, Butler university chemistry department professor.
| inorder. to.contact. all women. Works
tures were climbing at yesterday's|
s Matter at Postoffice daily except Sunday.
it should be needed.”
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PRICE FOUR CENTS | 4g
U. 8. ACTION
IMMINENT IN
COAL
CRISE
Ickes and Aides Consider Permanent Agency, |
To Operate Mines as 530,000 Strike Third Time in Two Months.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, June 21. |L. Ickes and other government officials are consideri establishment of a “permanent” federal organization to operate the nation’s coal mines for the duration of the war, it. was disclosed today. U. S. action appeared imminent.
\
A spokesman for Ickes
Mrs. Shadinger is counselor for women of the U. S. Rubber Company’s local plant. She applied for work on the assembly line, but was assigned to her present Position because of her interest in industrial
and home problems of women. The Shadingers’ son, Ted, a marine aviator, recently lost his life in an air crash.
. Mrs, Shadinger works a ‘split shift
"ing" on all shifts. This is her first] job in an industry, and ‘it is -described as one requiring an enormous. amount. of energy, since she must walk miles each day in the plant, talking with women employees about child care, absenteeism, health and other problems they may have. Local war plants are in need for women who are willing to work, with many positions requiring little skill. What is needed, plant officials say, is “just energy and a willingness to serve during these critical times.”
FIVE ARE KILLED IN
RIOTING AT DETROIT
3500 Policemen Mobilized For Emergency Duty.
DETROIT, June 21 (U. P.).—Five persons were dead today as 3500 police were called out to quell rioting between Negroes and white people and 2500 home guard troops,
auxiliary police and state police |
were ordered to “stand by” for possible emergency duty. All of the dead were Negroes, but an unidentified white doctor was near death and two police officers were in serious condition at Receiving hospital. Police Sgt. Floyd C. Noot and Patrolman - Ernest J, Hartwick Jr. were wounded while attempting to halt a race riot: in the heart of the Négro distriéts. = Nine other policemen were among" more than 200 persons reported injured. Latest reports said more than 330 persons were ‘arrested in ‘fighting, which began last night at Belle Isle park, south of the city, and raged today along a two-mile strip on Negro business and residential prop-
erty east: of Woodward ave., the
city’s main thoroughfare. ‘ Mobilization of state troops and auxiliary ‘police was ordered by Gov. Harry F. Kelly.
PRICE IS DOWN, MEAT SCARCE
Butchered Suly Drops As Fight Continues On Subsidies. By E. A. EVANS
‘ Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 21.—Meat
is cheaper today—if you can find
any meat. An OPA ordér “rolled back” the retail ceiling prices of fresh or frozen beef, pork, mutton, veal and lamb about 10 per cent, an average of 3 cents a pound, this morning, But city after city, from coast to coast, reports serious shortages of all meats and an almost total short-
age of beet in legitimate Tetall Fmnieets
The trouble is aot due to Yack of meat “on the Hoof.” There are more beef animals on American farms and ranges than ever before. Its roots run back into the government’s price policies.
Prices Rose
Its present severe manifestations result from preparations to use the very devices — namely, the “roll back” subsidy—by which the administration hopes to save its price policies and, at the same time, undo their damage. Months ago the OPA clamped cents-per-pound price ceilings on meats at the packing-house, wholesale and retail levels. There are no ceilings on live animals; they would be impossibly difficult to enforce, the OPA has contended. ‘So, taking beef as an example, cattle rose in response to a recordsmashing wartime demand for meat, and kept rising until—so the packers assert—all profits . were squeezed out of their operations and every animal - slaughtered meant money lost.
Small packing houses here and "(Continued on Page Four)
HIGH COURT UPSETS COMMUNIST RULING
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —The supreme court, in a 5 to 3 split, ruled today that membership in the Communist party is not sufficient reason for revoking a person’s American citizenship. The - decision came when the tribunal set aside lower court orders taking away the citizenship of William Schneiderman, Russianborn California Communist leader who admitted he belonged to the Communist party when he received his citizenship papers in 1927. The government contended the party sought violent overthrow of this government and therefore his oath of allegiance was fraudulent. Wendell Willkie twice appeared before the high tribunal to argue that it should reverse the lower courts.
‘Tell Truth,’ White Yells At Witness in Slaying Trial
During dramatic testimony by a state witness about his wife's love affair, Bernard L.- White, 29, charged with murder, leaped from his chair in criminal court today and Ehallenged a witness “to” tell the tru White showed his‘ first emotion
since the beginning of his trial for the slaying of his wife, Mary, at
their home; 605 N. Grant st., last
Oct, 2.
On the stand was William Shaw, 39, proprietor of a cafe at 820 E. Washington st., who told about his love affair with Mrs. White for more than a month before her death.
| When Shaw denied defense in-|p
defendant sitting with his attorneys, jumped up and, pointing his finger at the witness, siad: “Why don’t you tell the truth about these things?” ? Attorneys grabbed White by the arm and persuaded him to be seated. Shaw testified he had several dates with Mrs. White last September and that she “stayed all night 3 IY Home five ov sie smese:
—Coal Administrator Haro
said discussion of “a proper
organization for permanent operation of the mines” —seized by the government last May 1—was started “jn the ev The discussion was started even be=
fore today’s general strike of 530,000 hard and soft coal | operators—the third coal
rire in two months. The spokesman indicated no decis ision has yet been reached. It had. | been hoped that a settlement could be reached which would permit the government to turn the mines back to the operators. This now seems. unlikely. The spokesman also indicated that Mr. Ickes, in his role of gov: ernment manager of the mines, i awaiting a signal from the Whi House or the war labor board bes fore he acts in the present crisis,
Ickes Consults Aids
In the past the WLB, which on Friday rejected United Mine Work= ers’ demands for pay increases, has referred stalemated’ labor disputes directly to President Roosevelt. The spokesman said there was nothin to indicate the board would vary its procedure this time. UMW President John L. Le and..the union's, international . p icy se sald in rejecting WLB settlement of. the monthswage controversy between min and operators that the U. M. membership would “work and con= tinue the production of coal for thi government. ” "Ickes, meanwhile, conferred with his coal administration aid Undersecretary of Interior Abe tas and Assistant - Secretary Mis chael Strauss were closeted some time with William Warn public relations official. ?
Coal Reserves Low
It appeared probably that announcement might be forthcom= ing during the day—probably from Ickes, possibly from the White House. Meanwhile, Deputy Coal Adminis trator Harold A. Gray told house ways and means committee that interruption of fuel prod tion for even a few weeks would imperil operation of many rails roads, public utilities, and war in dustries. Reports from the major coal-pros= ducing states indicated the stop page in organized mines was come plete.
Wary of Strike Bill
Another factor might come in i President Roosevelt should use. signature to make a law out of Connally-Smith bill. This con some stiff penalties that might timidate even Mr, Lewis. The min worker leader shows some sympto of being wary that the legislatic ] is aimed at him as being responsible for the repeated mine strikes. Mr. Ickes late yesterday called
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INDIANA, KENTUCKY, MINES ARE IDLE
7400 Hoosiers Back Prote On WLB Ruling.
By UNITED PRESS
« 1 mines throughout Ind - and Kentucky were closed todas by a strike of more than 62,00 members of the United Milla" vorks. ers of America and UMW officials said that the stoppage was complete. Indiana strikers =n bered about 7400. More than 250 Kentucky. sh
Indiana were idle because UMW men refused to work a contract with operators, Most union leaders said th members would stay away from ti pits until the union receives