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TRANSIT FARE 5 REQUESTED

Public Counsellor of P.S.C. Also Asks Elimination of Transfer Fee.

A move to bring about a reduction in the fares charged by the Indianapolis Railway, Inc, and the elimination of transfer fees was launched today by Howard T. Bat-

, man, public counsellor,

He filed a petition asking the

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vestigate and take action on the utility's rate structure and the commission immediately ordered company officials to appear before it at 10 a. m. July 15 to show cause why such action should not be taken.

Mr. Batman said in his petition]

that he was asking for the lowering of the fare structure because he was convinced from an examination of the company’s books that the utility “is earning more than a fair rate of return on its used and useful property devoted to the service of the public.” ;

Wants 7-Cent Charge

He said the company’s latest annual report showed an increase of $393,000 in its 1942 operating income over 1941. Officials of the utility declined to comment. Mr. Batman is an appointee of the governor's, charged with repr = senting the public in utility matters. While his office is in the section of the state house occupied by the public service commission, he legally is not connected with the commission. Although the petition contained no figures, it is known that Mr. Batman is seeking to have an order issued permitting the railways company to charge only a Tat seven cents a ride, or four tokens for a quarter, on all its vehicles as well

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Discrimination ‘Illegal’

The seven cents a ride, or four tokens for a quarter, is the charge now on streetcars and trackless; trolleys. Patrons of the gasolineoperated busses must pay 10 cents a ride. Mr, Batman declared in his peti-’ tion that “the difference charged for the same or similar service constitutes an unlawful discrimination " and that such discrimination should be eliminated and uniformity in fares established.” The transfer fee system is based on transferring from high fare vehicles or low fare and vice versa— patrons transferring from a bus to a streetcar getting the transfer free and those going from a streetcar to a bus having to pay 4 cents for a transfer, Investigation 0. K.'d

Mr. Batman contended that this gystem is “diseriminatory and therefore unlawful in that in certain instances free transfers are provided while in other situations a varying fee is charged for the transfers.” He said that the elimination of fees for transfers would eliminate such discrimination. : In its order, the public service commission stated that it had investigated Mr. Batman's petition and determined that “an investigation of the earnings and practices of the utility should be instituted.” The present fare structure has been in effect since May, 1924. Case Is Second

Members of the public service commission who will hear the case are George Beamer, William Stuckey and George Barnard. This is the second rate case involving a local utility to be brought before the commission recently by Mr. Batman. The other involved the Indiana Bell Telephone Co, which, after a long series of conferences, agreed to eliminate its toll eharges on long distance intra-state calls.

Axis Reports Huge Invasion

Fleet Massing Off Africa

LONDON, June 29 (U. P.) —Axis reports said today that a mammoth allied invasion fleet has been concentrated in harbors along a 1200mile stretch of the North African coastline opposite France and Italy and speculated that it would strike next Saturday, the day before American Independence day.

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[seaires “sowaRpl VOLUME 54—NUMBER 94

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Millions in Middle East Awakening

CHAPTER TWO Everywhere I went in the Middle East I found a kind of technological backwardness along with pov-

erty and squalor. Four things, it seemed to me, these peoples need, in . varying degree and in different ways. They need more education. They need more public-health work. They need more modern industry. And they need more of the social dignity and selfconfidence which come from freedom and self-rule, a.» #

‘No Compromise’ I SHALL, however, never forget my visit with Gen, Charles de Gaulle. : I was met at the airport at Beirut (Syria), received by an elaborately uniformed color guard and band, and whisked several miles to the house where the general was living. : Frequently the general, in describing his -struggle of the moment with the British as to ‘whether he or they should dominate Syria and the Lebanon, would declare dramatically, “I cannot sacrifice or compromise my principles.”

» » ” Fighting French “LIKE ‘JOAN OF ARC/) aide added. When I referred to my great interest in the Fighting French movement, he corrected me sharply. “The Fighting French are not a movement. The Fighting French are France itself. We are the residuary legatees of all of France and its possessions. , . .”

» » 2 Republic of Turkey ONE'S FEELING that the Middle East is stirring and chang-

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orld” By Wendell L. Willkie

Willkie had coffee with Gen. Charles de Gaulle, 1eader of the Fighting French (left), and Maj. Gen. Edward Louis Spears, British minister (right), in Syria. Refusing army compromise, de Gaulle said, “In no place in this world can I yield a single French right.” Willkie (alked with them about the future of

Syria and the Lebanon.

ing finds conviction in Turkey. For the republic of Turkey has in one .generation offered a possible prototype for what is happening to all the vast area that used to be the Ottoman empire. In spite of being young, and comparatively weak and small, Turkey looked good to me. It looked good because it was quite clearly determined to defend its neutrality with every resource at its command. It lovked good because it had set its face toward the modern world and was building, hard and fast. ; It looked good because I saw a great many tough: and honest faces, some in uniform and some not, on people who quite obviously had a future to fight for. Finally, it looked good to me because I thought I saw, in Turkey, a nation which had found it-

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1943

self—a sign that the ideas of increasing health, education, freedom and democracy are as valid in the oldest portions of the world as they are in the newest. » » n

Industry

I SAW AS much of Turkish industry as I could in a short stay. I saw airfields and mechanized army equipment, and railroads, and the most advanced type of building construction. I saw all of these and more, and I convinced myself again that the industrial revolution is not the monopoly of any one nation or of any one race. The combustion engine has awakened millions of people in the Middle East—-awakened and disturbed them. To these Turks, it has already (Continued on Page Six)

BIG BOMBERS HIT COLOGNE

Hamburg Also Raided by RAF in 10th Night of

~ Offensive.

LONDON, June 29 (U.P.).—Britin great strength dropped upwards of 2000 tons of explosives on Cologne, industrial capital of the Rhineland, last night and a smaller force simultaneously hit Hamburg, Germany’s biggest port, to send the record-shattering allied air offensive through its 10th night. ; The attack on Cologne, Germany’s most bombed city, came while the Nazis were making strenuous efforts to rebuild its devastated industries.

More than 600 acres of Cologne had been destroyed in previous raids, | including a 1000-plane assault last | year, Through last night's raid exceeded the 1000-planer in weight, fewer bombers participated. Twenty-five bombers were lost in the two-pronged attack, which followed by only a few hourse American daylight raids on the big German U-boat base of St. Nazaire, on the French Atlantic coast, and an important Nazi fighter base at Beaumont Le Roger, 70 miles northwest of Paris. R.A. FP. fighters and Albacores of the fleet air arm joined in last night’s offensive with an attack on an ‘enemy convoy trying to slip through Dover. strait

Only yesterday, the Nazi-con-trolled Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported that American battleships had entered the Mediterranean to reinforce British naval squadrons waiting to escort landing craft to the shores of southern Europe. Several American men-of-war entered Gibraltar last night, the Nazi Paris radio said. Axis broadcasts continued to center upon Sicily as the most likely objective of an allied landing and the Daily Sketcn said Premier Mussolini already has begun printing an order of the day—for release when Italy, Sicily or Sardinia is irvaded— calling on his countrymen to resist “to the end.” : Latest reports on movements of the Italian fleet indicated that warships based at Spezia have put to sea to join the other half of the fleet in the gulf of Taranto in southeastern Italy, a dispatch from Madrid said. - If - this proves true, allied planes from either the Northwest’African or middle easterm command, or both, may intercept the warships off the Italian or Sicilian coasts or in Messing strait

Urge Schools to Help in ~ Fighting Youth Delinquency

By HELEN RUEGAMER : Resolutions urging the schools to co-operate in counteracting juvehile delinquency and advocating that the United States take part in an “International effort to establish peace and order under law” were introduced at the National Education association's representative as-

sembly this afternoon. The comumittee on resoultions,

100 FLYING FORTS SMASH AT LEGHORN

Fly 1800 Miles in Raid on Italian : Port.

ALLIED "HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 29 (U., P.).— One hundred American Flying Fortresses loosed a nine-minute Thunderbolt raid on the Italian port of Leghorn, 200 miles north of Rome, yesterday, damaging a light cruiser and four supply ships and firing oil refineries, it was announced today.

Authorities believed the cruiser.

was being used as a training ship. , The raid came just one month to the day after a similar force of Flying Fortresses hit Leghorn, which lies 50 miles south of Spezia on the Ligurian sea, and damaged four ships, a large oil refinery and frailway installations. . The round-trip flight of 1800 miles - topped a night “and” day in which other planes from the northwest African air forces raked .axis airfields the length and breadth of Sardinia and blasted San Giovanni at the toe of the Malian boot. *

Hoosier Heroes Pvt. Morgan Is Killed in North Africa

Killed

PVT. MURRAY W. MORGAN died on June 7 of wounds received in North Africa, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Morgan, 76 Whittic: pl.,, were hotified by the war department today. Pvt. Morgan, who was 20, had been in tHe army since last Aug. 24. He was a graduate of Technical high school and attended the (Continued on Page Eight) ——————————

JEAN WALLACE IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, June 29 (U. P.). —Six hundred students from the United States, including Jean Wallace, daughter. of . Vice President Henry A. Wallace, today attended ceremonies inaugurating the summer session at the national univer-

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making its report before the 1500 delegates at the Murat temple, recommended that the teachers:

1. Help enforce laws designed tol

protect, the interests of youth, and 2. Guide the youth in serving the country in the capacities for which they are best qualified. The delegate assembly today sent telegrams to members of the senate steering committee and to Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, demanding immediate passage of the N. E. A’s bill providing for federal aid to the public schools. The message stated that unless the bill is passed before the senate recesses, thousands of school children will be without teachers and educational facilities next fall.

Approve U. S. Aid

The resolution proposing participation in international peace also stated that education must be granted an important place in the establishment and maintenance of international justice. Presented by Miss Cecile M. Dacey -of Detroit, Mich,, chairman (Continued on Page Eight)

It Will Be Cool - All Day and Night

THE. BEST PART about it is that . this turnoff of the heat is going to continue through tomorrow morning. “Slightly cooler,” the weather bureau said. The, relief from the long torrid stretch began during. yesterday's rain and electrical storm. The sudden downpour brought

WILLKIE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN EXPECTED

Publishers Luce, Cowles, Reid Back Candidate.

By THOMAS L. STOKES ‘ “Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 29.—Plans are being discussed for a largescale promotion campaign—through the publications of Henry Luce of Time - Life - Fortune; the Cowles brothers of Des Moines, publishers of Look and of newspapers in Des Moines and Minneapolis, -and Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald - Tribune — for the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie as 1944 Republican presidential candidate. - This broadside df Willkie publi{Continued on Page Eight)

ONE WORLD by Wendell L. Willkie 1s breaking all sales records as a book and more copies have already been sold than any book in history over a similar period of time.

We are proud to be able ta present to our readers this version of ONE WORLD, carefully condensed into 10 installments from the book of 60,000 words, to be followed by a mew and exclusive article by Mr. Willkie as the final installment.

EDUCATORS RAP THEORY OF NYA

Believe Training Belongs in - Schools Instead of ‘Outside Agency.’

By HELEN RUEGAMER

Disapproval of the National Youth administration as a federally-con-trolled educational agency was eXxpressed today by several prominent educators as they voiced the hope that the granting of federal aid to the public schools would bring about the liquidation of the NYA. The educators, here to attend the representative assembly of the National Education association, stated that the NYA had fulfilled its purpose of assisting the nation’s youth during the depression years and that the job of training young people could be handled by the schools if they received federal aid. A bill, sponsored by the N, E. A, is now in congress providing for $300,000,000 to be distributed among the state school systems to maintain educational standards, raise teachers salaries, and provide equal educational opportunity for all.

‘Definitely Opposed’ to NYA

The NYA is fighting for its life in Congress where both the senate and house appropriations committees have knocked out its wartime request and given it $3,000,000 ‘to liquidate. . S. D. Shankland, executive secretary for the American Association for School Administrators, stated he was “definitely opposed” to the NYA. Although hesitant to express an opinion for the N. E. A,, both'A. C. Flora, association - president, and Willard E. Givens, executive secretary, said the association approved only of “locally and state administered schools.” Mr. Givens said he personally was opposed to the NYA. H. M. Ivy of Meridian, Miss, chairman of the N. E. A. legislative commission, pointed -out that the

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WALLACE A JONES IN BE CONGRESS

Meat Shortage Is Laid To Legislators by

OPA Officials.

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U. P.).—Charles M. Elking-! ton, office of price administration meat price executive, today blamed congress for the consumer meat shortage and proposed price controls from the farm: to the home to break the jam. Elkington said livestock raisers are refusing to sell their stock because they hope they will get higher prices through congressional prohibition of the subsidy program. “I have come to the reluctant belief that it will be impossible to control prices unless they are controlled at all levels,” Elkington

added. Senator Dissents

Elkington told a senate. agriculture subcommittee that he would favor putting a floor and a ceiling on all livestock prices, including on-the-hoof livestock which now is not under price control.

a fair return. should be regulated through the

continued. Senator Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo.) said that such a program

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the ultimate degree and wouldn't set well with the livestock raisers who ‘wouldn't be in that business if they weren't individualists.” Millikin insisted that present meat prices should be allowed to rise to encourage farmers to sell their li kK. Feed May Be Included

“I say we can do the same thing by giving definite congressional and executive assurance that the present price is not going up within a certain period—say six mont fi Elkington replied. “At the same ‘time we would thus avoid compensating price rises.” Elkington said his theory of floor and ceiling prices would necessarily extend to feed prices too. Senator George D. Aiken (R. Vt), reject®d Elkington’s claim that congress was responsible for confusion in marketing of livestock. He charged that in the case of Lutter the executive department has failed to live up to its promise of 46 cents per pound on 92-score butter at the Chicago market and said farmers could not depend upon executive promises.

Deadline Nears For Auto Stamp

WITH TOMORROW midnight the deadline for state motorists to buy federal automobile use stamps, Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector for Indiana, today reported the sales “very low” so far. The $5 stamps, good for one year, are sold at all post offices and branch offices of internal revenue. Deputy collectors will be on duty to round up violators, Mr. Smith said. A $25 fine is the penalty for violation.

WARNS TRIPS OVER 4TH MAY BE RISKY

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U. P). —Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman today warned persons planning Fourth of July junkets that they may find themselves stranded temporarily. and unable to get transportation home at the time planned. The only patriotic way to spend the Fourth of July holiday week-

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 29.—Having won a three-vote victory in the senate, the national youth administration today faces a final hurdle —the house—in its fight for $48.000,000 with which to carry on after June 30. The house two weeks ago trimmed the NYA fund to $3,000,000 and ordered it to liquidate. But the senate, after six hours’ debate yesterday, overruled its own appropriations ‘committee, which had favored liquidation’ of NYA. Two “conservative Democrats” are

largely credited with the senate vic-

end, he said, is to stay at home.

NYA Must Get House O. K. Of Senate 48-Million Grant

tory of NYA Administrator Aubrey Williams. They are Senator Harry 'S. Truman of Missouri and Walter P. George of Georgia. Senator Truman offered the $48,000,000 amendment, and Senator George spoke in favor of it shortly before the. vote was taken. Senator Truman, chairman of a special committee investigating war expenditures, rnd Senator George, chairman of the senate finance committee, have been great advocates of thrift. Mit Senator George even injected the thrift note into his defense of NYA. He said the agency had many mil-

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The floor, Le said, should take|’ into consideration the cost of food|: and labor and assure the producer The price then|:

packer, distributor and retailer for: the protection of the consumer, he a

PRICE FOUR CENTS

Henry A. Wallace . . . “Obstructionist,” he says of Jesse Jones.

Jesse Jones . . . His reply must wait reading of 28-page statement. 2 Bras

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Jones Sworn In, Says Nation Is Assured: ofHealthful ‘Diet.

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U. P.). —Marvin Jones, taking office as war food administrator declared today that the nation will “certainly have enough food to assure a healthful diet.” Jones became the third war food administrator ‘in three months, taking over to carry out -administration policies which led to the resignation of Chester C. Davis and subsequent resignation of other officials. * Jones was sworn in by Chief Justice Richard Smith Whaley of the U. S. court of claims, on which he formerly served. “There is talk about food shortages,” Jones said in a formal statement. “This has created fear on the part of some of our people that they and their children may go hungry. “We may not throughout the war have all we want and everything we prefer, but we will certainly (Continued on Page Eight)

UNITED FUND DRIVE T0 START OCT, 25

'43 Goal to Be Announced Within Two Weeks.

The second .annual United War and Community Fund campaign is scheduled for Oct. 25 through Nov. 9 with business, labor and civic leaders serving on the campaign executive committee, Harry S. Hanna, general chairman, announced today. The goal will be announced within two weeks. A. E. Baker will head the special gifts division of the campaign with Eugene C. Foster serving as chairman of the organizations division (Continued on Page Eight)

~ HINT SOVIET DRIVES

LONDON, June 29 (U. P.).—The German news agency said today that the Red army .is stabbing at the German lines all along the Eastern front, naming a number of sectors in which it said brisk fighting was going on. :

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Vice President Asks Agency Control Its

Own Funds. WASHINGTON, June 29

struction finance corporation in the purchase of imported: strategic materials. :

Jones is a member. The vice president detailed nu=

of vitally needed for war purposes.

the BEW before congress and of failing “dismally” to carry out pres ‘Pearl Harbor orders of congress to purchase various drugs and ores from which this country later was cut off by the war. “Battle of Washington”

Wallace’s statement, 28 = pages. long, was the latest offensive in the

administrators as Undersecretary

Production Chief Donald M. Nel« son on the one hand and Pattersott

and Undersecretary of Navy James

F. Forrestal on the other, and fore mer War Food Administrator Ches= ter C. Davis and the White Houses Jones declined comment immes diately. His office said he expected to issue a statement after he had read Wallace's statement.

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velt last year to issue a directive ordering administrators to come pose their differences .in private, He also authorized War Informa tion Director Elmer Davis to

agency heads to submit speeches

with a view of weeding out fusing conflicts.

Asked End of Friction

Mr. Roosevelt on Aug. 21, 1942, sent a letter to the head of each government department saying that the “raw material of discord” was being provided for “opponents of our war effort . . . by men who

Then on May 28, when the president made James F. Byrnes war mobilization director, he said “we are entering a phase of th war effort when we must ; eliminate inter-departmental frice tion. . . 2 Wallace in proposing that J

and in asking that BEW officers

plaining of Mr, Jones,” was in recommending a surgical

"RFC Finances Purchases

for the financing of its pi program — although not, as pointed out, for the payment BEW salaries and admin

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(U. P.).—Vice President, Henry A. Wallace in a blast- | ing statement today accused Secretary of Commerce Jesse = | Jones of protracted “obstruc-’ § tionist tactics” against the | board of economic warfare. He proposed that congress.

make the BEW financially in« 1

dependent of Jones’ recons,

Wallace is chairman of the BEWji

merous instances in which he de= clared that the RFC, “as our banker,” stalled the board's emers . gency efforts to lay up stockpiles do scarce materials and drugs

He accused Jones personally of. making misrepresentations about. |

“Battle of Washington” which has. seen locked in combat such leading. '| War Robert P. Patterson and Rubs |* ber Director William Jeffers: &

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ought to be making trouble for the enemy and not for one another.”

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expenses. Membership of the board in Nelson, ‘the secretaries of § treasury, war, navy, agriculture commerce, the attorney ra Lend-Lease Administrator R. Stettinius Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, co-ordinator of o American affairs. 8 Under the executive direc of Milo Perkins, the BEW's 1 function is to direct the flow commodities in export and ir channels in such a way that power of supply can be 1 positive economic weapon.”

FUNDS GRANTED CHILD-CARE CENT

Times Special WASHINGTON, June child-care centers in

The centers are for children and are under the of the Indianapolis school.city: funds will cover the period July 1 to Dec. 31.

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