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VOLUME 54
NUMBER 96
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943
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Grand Jury Acts in Sunnyside Case, Recom-| mends Further Investigation; Witness in |
White Trial Charged With Perjury.
By
NOBLE REED
Two Indianapolis wholesale food dealers were indicted!
by the grand jury today on ch
arges of filing false and fraud-
ulent claims against the county on contracts awarded by
the county commissioners.
The jury's report criticized county commissioners for their methods of handling contracts. Those indicted were Harold E. Vogel, produce dealer at
944 S. Meridian st, and Louis J. Seyffert, owner of Kuhn's Market, 407 W. Michigan st, which recently went out of business. Vogel was charged with delivering 240 dozen eggs of a grade below that specified by contract to the Sunnyside Sanatorium last Jan, 23 and 26, Seyffert was charged with filing a false claim for $604 for meat livered to Sunnyside below the grade specified by contract.
Indict White Witness
As a result of the investigation of coutity contracts, the jury recommended passage of new laws providing for the election of a county purchasing agent to handle purchasing for all county institutions. Other actions of the grand jury fheluded:
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nection with alleged false testimony he gave in the trial of Bernard L
tment of Glenn H. BIS
White, convicted in criminal court] last week of the first degree murder |
of his wife
Recommendation that county commissioners act at once to teinove children from the present “fre trap’ detention home building
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yeh 5 hao Ny. 5) Condentiiation of the" prétent location of juvenile court in the bacemient of the court house, ree ommending that the court be moved to a better location at once,
Recommendation that mission be appointed now to gtart post-war plannihg toward erection of a modern new court house as soon as possible after the war. Recommendation that a mod«7 ern building be erected to house the police department. ("We do not believe the present police headquarters building and the present atmosphere there creates respect for law,” the jury's
report stated.) 6 Recommendation that steps he taken at once to provide adequate fire escapes from the fourth floor of the court house, declaring that part of the building to be a fire hazard. The jury's report stated that its investigation of county contracts and various business transactions negotiated by county commissioners could not be completed before adJournment of its term, “This particular investigation should be resumed by the incoming new grand jury next week,” the report urged, Needs “Overhauling”
“The grand jury feels that the gystem used by the Marion county commissioners, is antiquated, out: moded and inh need of a complete pverhauling which will probably necessitate enacting of some new laws. “However, under the present system, some improvements can be fade. Under a contract which calls for a ‘strictly fresh eggs’ to be defivered to Sunnyside, the delivety slip contained only the word ‘eggs’ (Continued on Page Five)
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Times Opens July Campaign To Send Cigarets Overseas
Keep 'em in smokes! Yes, you've already sent nearly geven million cigarets to Yanks at the fronts with contributions of from a nickel up. Now you have thie opportunity to continue to keep ‘em in smokes, The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund campaign for July opens today. fh co-operation with major cigaret companies, one nickel buys a kage of 20 cigarets, That means 1 buys 400 cigarets, $100 buys 40,000. Individuals, clubs, organizations
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ROW MAY COST “JONES HIS POST
“Back Home in Indiana’
Billy play with the gadgets. Fo"
Washington Believes FDR Favors Wallace in Dispute.
By LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 1 —New de- |’ velopments in the latest intra-New Deal row caused speculation today whether President Roosevelt can keep Secretary of Commerce Jesse ___ as H. Jones in the cabinet if Vice, President Henry A. Wallace remains as chairman of the beard of economic warfare White House efforts to compose their differences backfired last night in new bitterness and Jones’ insistent demand for a congres-| {sional investigation. Wallace had | leharged Jones, as head of the re-| jeonstriction finanee corporation, | [with obstructing the BEW'S war leffort, i Peace efforts failed after War {MO don Decor James ¥ By es SWE the ted men to {gether at the White House. The (alternative to a congressional injvestigation appears to be personal intervention by President Roosevelt and the elimination of one or the: iother of the disputants from cirect| war responsibility. | But there may be another effort | A con-|
By VICTOR
and Mrs. James R. Bullock a Hoosier baby.
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Hoosier Heroes
Sweazey's Bayonet Is Put to Use
SGT. OWEN SWEAZREY, son of Mr. and Mrs, Gilbert Sweasey 1840. WW, New. York st, has redaived the Sten STAT Loy gallantiy in ection with ; an American Ranger battalfon in Tunisia. Sgt. Sweazey sent the medal to his parents for safekeeping about a month ago, but this week they re- | ceived the notification from the war department. Made at the command of Maj. Gen, George Patton, then commander of the 2d army corps in Africa, the award states that (Continued on Page Four)
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ito get the pair together, (Continued on Page Five) | CHURCHILL ENJOYS | CHURCHILL SPEECH ! LONDON, July 1 (U, P) —Prime Minister Churchill told a questioner in commons today that he hadn' | seen an article in the Daily Herald | which said the French North Afei-| can set-up is a “sure blueprint” for civil war in France. STALIN LAUDS FRENCH | As a matter of fact, Churchill] ALGIERS, July 1 (U. P).-Pre-(sald with a smile, he was too busy mier Josef Stalin exnressed ‘‘pro- | reading an “excellent leading found sympathy for the courageous article” in the Herald to see the struggle undertaken by the French | story. | people against the Hitlerian yoke" The leading article was Churehill's| in a message to French leaders here, speech at Guild hall yesterday, | it was revealed today.
‘One World’
By Wendell L. Willkie
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CHAPTER FOUR
RUSSIA'S FARMS, just as much as its factories, have been mobilized for total war, and their capacity to support a fighting nation has been one of Iitler's most profound miscalculations and one of the world's surprises, Day after day we flew over these farms, all the way from the front itself, at Rzhev, to the farthest limits of cultivation in cen. tral Asia and Siberia. For Russia's farming lands streteh nearly 6000 miles behind the front. On the Volga near Kuibishev, I had a chance to see some of Rus sia’s collective farms at close range. I had been told in Kuibishev of plans to dam a great bend in the Volga river for the production of electric power; and on this trip we went over the part of the Volga concerned in the proposed develop- - ment, I am not one to be easily surprised by vast governmental power developments, but when it became clear that this one development, if completed, would produce twice as much power as all the TVA, the Grand Coulee, and the Bonneville de - velopments combined; I began to realize that the Russlans dream and neo wwiitkie plan on a scale E to fit their vast forests and plains. We left the Volga bend to drive inland to a collective farm which
Sgt. Sweazrey
sent across so far may seem like a lot of cigarets,. No, The supply {has to flow continuously. In some {lands they are a rarity. One soldier (wrote that a native would polish his heavy shoes for two cigarets, | ‘The June drive quota was 1,000,000 cigarets, same as this month's. You made possible the shipping of 1.801876 with donations .of $3356.32. |The total to date is 6,900,044 with contributions of $14,951.74. | And don't think the Yanks don't jappreciate them, Many of them write back, Some of the thank-you
trol board of the WFBM studio with his son, Billy. here looking for a Hoosier child to adopt.
Liken Love of State fo That Of Brooklyn for Dodgers
PETERSON of Brooklyn want to adopt a baby
They are advertising for one today on page 18 of The Times Now it might seem curious to some that they should come all the | way from Brooklyn to adopt a child. But it is a story of love of Hoosierdom
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bullock are (natives of Indiana, They grew up here and made Indianapolis their home until 10 vears ago. Said Mr. Bullock this Indiana blood is to us what | Dodgers are to Brooklynites™
Adopt ‘Brooklyn Hoosier
morning
“We already have one child by {adoption . [years old now,” said Mrs, Bullock. | “There's a funny story back of [that, too, We found him in Brookfen, but he is of mdizna blood, It tee Just By cheno po
Hoeser By New York wha ad
Bullock, | "Now we want another baby: that's why we came back here for jour vacation ' he said. “We would like a girl this time.” put in the mother, sister, too.” But | boy,
they'll adopt
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RATE QUIZ SEEN
the vestigations | Power & Light Co. and the Indian- garding Martinique.
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‘give up his child” commented Mt and the scope of the heating Which funited Wn fotte, nighy he fhe oadme
| petition of Public Counsellor Howe
That's the way James R. Bullock of Brooklyn feels as he sits at the conMr. and Mrs. Bullock are spending their vacation | Billy, tho ugh adopted in the East, comes from Indiana stock, | Mr. Bullock formerly sang over the radio and is now in the mechanics of the profession,
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LIGHT, WATER
Public Service Commission Meets With Transit Officials Today.
By EARL RICHERT was reliably the statehouse
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reported that rate the Indianapolis
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of
apolis Water Co. by the Public Service Commission will be started
a boy Billy who is 4|#8 soon as the Indianapolis Rail
ways, Inc, fare case is completed. Officials of the railways company
met today with Public Service vous) Notth African military mission in 1--The
mission members in an informal
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NAVY STUDIES
TERMS’ OFFER
Admiral Robert Radios Plan to Avoid Any ‘Bloodshed.’
WASHINGTON, July 1 (U.P). Secretary of State Cordell Hull
ment will be the deciding factor in handling the situation at Mar|tinique, where Admiral Georges | Robert has asked for terms for a change of French authority. French circles here meanwhile «aid that the French committee for {National Liberation, recently formed in Algiers, would be the body which ‘would decide the question of Robe lert's succession, Hull said the navy and state de[partment both probably
tallized, He was asked if there was any necessity for consultation with the (other Latin American republics re-
That question hag not yet come up, he said, and there appears to be no immediate
[reason for its coming up. Waited for Unity
It was believed that Admiral Rob- |
ert Battet, associated with the
nn advocate of with
Washington and collaboration tn Robert ae commissions Martinique Unofficial quarters
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here said ib
ard T. Batman lor a fare reduction. | gppeared Robert had capitulated in
“Billy wants a {they would file an answer a Batman's petition on July 15 and
officials indicated that to Mr,
Company
ask for a continuance in the date
Mr. and Mrs. Bullock prefer to | of hearing because of a war labor
deal directly with parents who find board case involving the company |themselves in such a position that which is scheduled for July 18.
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PENNSY MINERS BALK BUT OTHERS RETURN
Back-to-Work Trend Alabama Reported.
Ry UNITED PRESS More miners went back to work fin Alabama and in the anthracite (fields of Pennsylvania today, but continued revolt against orders of | United Mine Workers leaders kept 52,000 of Pennsylvania's soft coal miners out of the pits. The strike situation in Aiabama, where produ don of war-vital steel wae seriously threatened improved slightly as yesterday's total of 25 mines in operation increased to ine | elude at least six steel company { mines which had “token crews” this | morning. | Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad | Co., which banked two blast fur | haces last night at a loss of between {1400 and 1600 tons of pig iron a day, announced about 400 men came to work in its four big pits, while |a few miners showed up at two {mines of the Republic Steel Co,
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| which also hag taken out two fur-!
naces to lose 1100 tons of iron daily because of the coal shortage. Despite the reluctance of Penne sylvania soft coal miners to return some of the state's steel mills partially resumed operations. Coal Administrator Ickes estimated that 83 per cent of the nation's soft coal miners had ended thelr strike and returned to the mines.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
22 21 Bale. Empire. 156 Clapper 15 Comics 26 | Millett Crossword ... 27) Movies Editorials ... 16| Obituaries ... 10 | Edson 16! Pegler ....... 18 | Fashions . 19 Pyle
Inside Indpls. 15 Jane Jordan. 10 Lucey 16 Men in Serv. 12,18
Amusements. Ash
Plan Conference
Mr. Batman said that another conference would be held to decide how broad the case would be after both he and company officials have a chance to confer ants and engineers. He it seeking to
have transfer
in fees eliminated and all fares cut to|
a flat seven cents a ride or four tokens for a quarter, The investigation of the power and light company rate reportedly will involve only rates charged lo commercial users and the water company investigation will hinge upon a check by PSC accountants of an original cross report filed by the company with the commission on April 28.
May Start in August
Allen B. Fisk, chief accountant for the PSC, said that the check of the water company's report would probably be started in Aue gust or September. The water company stated (hat the original cost of the utility was 25 million, Representing the Railways at today's
were Harry Reid, president, and
Arthur Gilliom, Albert Campbell pledged allegiance to French forces’
and Will H. Thompson, attorneys,
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{the face of a revolt against his | regime in the islands. His broadcast by the Martinique radio and recorded last night by the federal communications commission, did not expand the phrase “to pvold hloodshed between the french” he used as his reason for the request. | The United | matie relations | maintained a
| Martinique, Three Warships Held
(Tt was not clear from the broad- | cast whether Robert would step out completely and let a successor take charge of fighting forces stationed in Martinique for use against Germany and Italy. Three French warships have been immobilized in the Antilles, the 22. 146-ton aircraft carrier Bearn and the 5886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin at Martinique and the 6406-<ton training cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Cluadalotipe. The broadcast, which the OWI said was marred by poor reception, stressed that Robert wanted a renewal of the U. 8. guarantee of French control of the islands. The islands represent the noxt-to-last portion of the French colonial empire under axis or Vichy control. ‘The only other territory lis French Indo-China, Mench Guiana, a part of the
States broke diplowith Robert but naval attache on
in a local administration that
joined to the allies.
Hero in Last War, Now Father
Of Another, Dies of Slugging
William Frederick Lowenstein, rétited marine hero of world war No. 1, whgse son Is missing in ace tion in this war and whose adopted son is in overseas service, Is dead today—the victim of a slugging. Mr. Lowenstein, 54, who roomed at 2653 Brookside ave, was assaulted early June 26 outside the Omar Baking Co. 901 E. 16th st, where he was employed as a watchman, A short time before he had routed a gang of boys from the company’s parking lot nearby. As he was standing in a doorway he turned around just in time to see a man approach. The man struck
g!him on the back of the head with
an iron bar, knocking him semiconscious.
He was taken to Methodist hos- | «vo 15 pital and later regained conscious26 ness. He sald he could recognize
or employee groups can do their notes natirally are BSL but just bit. Any group contributing $50 or te the point, more-—and just think $50 means One said: “Thanks just a helluva 20,000 cigarets for fighting men who lot.” And anothér wrote: “A simple
otherwise might want for a “smoke” thanks from a ‘smokeless’ soldier." in & tough spot—gets its name on Remember, a “smokeless” soldier the consignment, ‘is a lonesome soldier. So--The nearly seven million already! Keep 'em in smokes!
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had formerly been a hunting estate of a member of the lesser nobility, It had some 8000 acres. with 55 families living on it, a ratio of about 140 acres pér family, which
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Mrs, Ferguson 18 Radio : {Financial .... 27 Ration Dates. 3|his assailant, but because of his [Forum ...... 18 Mrs, Roosevelt 15 condition, police did not take (wo | Freckles 2 Side Olances. 18 suspects before him. | Health Column 3 Society. ... 18,10] Mr. Lowenstein joined the ma(Hold Ev'thing 15 & ... 20, 21|fines after graduation from the | Homemaking. 19/8tate Deaths 10 University of Illinois and served 30, In Indpls..., 8 Wartime Livig 3 years before retiring as a captain,
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He served in Nicaragua and in many major battles of the last war. He was wounded and gassed and was awarded the distinguished | sorvice medal, the gold star and the purple heart. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. | After his discharge, he worked as an accountant for three years, then retired from that occupation because of temporary blindness. He worked for a short time as a house detective at a downtown hotel then became watchman at the bakery. His son, Capt. William Frederick Lowenstein Jr, of the army air forces, has been missing since the Jap attack on Wake island. Mr. Lowenstein's adopted
son,
the son of hig wife's sister, is ‘somewhere overseas and recently wrote his foster father for a picture. The second Lowenstein hoy and were adopted by Mr. Lowenstein when they were small children after their parents had been killed in an automobile accldent, The adopted daughter is in Michigan, where Mr. Lowenstein's widow is a patient in a hospital
his sister
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would | [have to await further developments | [before the Martinique affair crys]
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YANK TROOPS WIN NEW GEORGIA BAY; AIR BATTLE RAGES
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U. S. Transport Sunk After Landings on Ren-
dova Island Without Loss of Life; 65
of 110 Jap Planes Downed.
By UNITED PRESS Allied combined forces striking into a 700-mile defen |give are toward Japan's main South Pacific base at Rabaul fought furious air, land and sea battles Tuesday and yesterday when they seized Viru harbor on New Georgia island and shot down 65 of 110 opposing enemy planes. The offensive under supreme command of Gen, Douglas MacArthur appeared to be making satisfactory progress, according to the war department, but heavy fighting still was in progress following occupation of Trobriand and Wood lark islands and landings on New Georgia and Rendova
~~~ |said today that the navy's judg- jslands and at Nassau bay, just below Japanese-held Sala-
jmaua on the north New Guinea coast, The U. S, army transport McCawley was sunk by enemy air and submarine attack after the 7712-ton ship had un
[loaded all personnel at Rendova, while 17 American naval
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planes were lost in battle against all of the aerial strength the Japs could muster to oppose the offensive operations. eu. i The most intensive fight ing was at the eastern end of the offensive are, where Ren-‘END-TO-END’ islands, in the Solomons, northwest of Guadaleanal, 9 . were strongly defended by the Jape : anese, Bern Sources Hint Isle Tokyo broadcasts admitted the landings but claimed that six al lied transports, three cruisers and Soon a destroyer were sunk or damaged * By REYNOLDS PACKARD decided. United Press Staff Correspondent | Weather Stormy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, July | Allied reports told of successful Northwest African ai landings despite stormy weather | /orees, continuing an offensive ‘0 and high surf that tossed the small Hy 1m outer detelisosy WOdivg orale and, hudicated that Whois FRC Tg initial objectives hind heen . AW 24 hours of devastating night and Duteh alr forces, as well 48 Amer day raids, a communique announced jcan warships, strongly supported today, [the operations, smashing the Jap (A dispatch from Bern, Switzer. | defenses in the Munda area of the land, sald that the allied softening-| central Solomons and striking at up offensive against Sioily appeared |'€8T bases as far away as Rabaul, to be nearing completion and an in| These latest developments inland could be expected soon. Ger. two-pronged allied offensive in the man broadeasts reported that an. southwest Pacific were announced other allied invasion fleet has sailed [shortly after Secretary of War eastward from Gibraltar under Henry 1. Stimson told newsmen strong naval escort) (that the drive appeared to be | R. A. FP. Wellington bombers making satisfactory progress and latinched the latest series or raids proceeding according to plan. with the fifth allied assault in six, The 7712<ton MecCawley was the line terminus in the northeastern before it was sunk, The navy said corner of Sieilly, and American no loss of life was reported. The bombers followed through in day< ship was commanded by Cmdr light yesterday with heavy at-| Robert H. Rodgers, 41, a native of tacks on the port of Palermo and] (Continued on Page Five) on scattered airfields. | # nn Two Planes Shot Down Oo n the War Fr Two enemy planes were shot down onts destroyed the previous night, the go... ewpep pACIFIC: General communique said, Two allied planes MacArthur's combined # were lost in all operations. fr s on net: Jr ses The Wellingtons hit Messina OCCUPY robriand and Woodlark | Tuesday night and covered the islands, seize Nassau bay south of railway yards and ferry terminal] Salamaua in New Guinea, land on | with bombs. Italy moves most of, Nev Georgia and Rendova islands [he supplies and reinforcement for| 1 Solomons to battle Japanese.
dova and New Georgia | | May Be Invaded and that the battle was still un{botnbed seized, American; Ausiraling sod vasion of the 9935-square-mile is VOIVing the Solomons phase of the days on Messina, battered ferry former Grace liner Santa Barbara, in daylight yesterday and three were | (July 1, 1043) Sicily over the ferry line running MEDITERRANEAN: American and
between Messing and Reggio Cala-| guitish bombers team in heavy bela and Se qe nm on the| plows at key Sicilian harbors and alian mainland, . ‘ i . American Mying Fortresses paved | Re Feports Ayasion ‘the daylight offensive with twin at<| Gineaiar, (tacks on Palermo, on the north-|
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