Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1943 — Page 3
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MONDAY, JULY 5, 1948
LABOR DRAFT BILL IS GAINING FAVOR
3,600,000 Needed for Essential Industries by July, 1944, So Administration May Throw Support to Wadsworth-Austin Measure.
WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.).—Faced with a need to recruit 3,600,000 men and women for essential industries in the next 12 months, the administration today was said to look more favorably upon a national service act which
WASHINGTON, July 5—The recommendations on special food
At present invalids are able
coffee or milk.
War-Time Living
New OPA Regulations Seen On Rationing for Invalids
By BETTY MacDONALD Times Special Writer
by the best medical minds in the country, has drawn up a series of submitted to OPA and the department of agriculture for study.
through a physician's prescription. differ, however, and the recommendations now being studied call for national standards to be followed by all doctors. It is expected that government agencies will probably pass on the regulations which specify the amount of food to be rationed for every type of disease, down to the last ounce of meat, sugar,
National Research Council, aided rationing for invalids soon to be
to obtain special rationed foods Individual prescriptions may
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
would permit labor drafts.
Responsible officials said the Wadsworth-Austin bill
to permit drafting of men and women for war work may be backed by President Roosevelt when congress returns from its summer recess. War manpower commission officials, estimating that 3,600,000 persons must take or be shifted to war jobs by July, 1944, said that the problem of recruiting “is becoming increasingly difficult now that the more readily available persons have already becn absorbed.” War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt, who believes that a labor draft act is “inevitable,” has been pleading for time in which to exhaust all voluntary measures. He believes that the passage of legislation should be delayed until the voluntary program fails. Conferred With FDR
Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R. N.
Y.), co-author of the proposed la-|
bor draft act, conferrea recently
with Mr. Roosevelt concerning the |
bill. From Wadsworth and from sources close to Mr. Roosevelt came reports that the president was giving considerable attention to manpower needs and programs designed to solve them, and more particularly to a national service act. One administration official said that it had been decided to start pressing for passage of a labor draft act as soon as the congress’ recess ends. The 3,600,000 needed workers, WMC officials said, must be obtained by encouraging the transfer of 2,300,000 persons from the non-es-sential activities to the essential industries. The “work-or-fight’ order of MecNutt issued in February which denied deferments, even for dependency reasons, to draft-age men failed to drive appreciable numbers from the shoe shine parlors, tailor shops, or factories manufacturing baubles.
A The 48-hour week order also failed
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i "Gen. A. R. Glancy,
to make many people available for plants short of manpower because employers adopting the schedule retained surpluses of labor.
GLANCY RESIGNS POST
DETROIT, July 5 (U. P.).—Brig. formre vice president of General Motors Corp., today announced his resignation as deputy chief of ordnance and director of the army's tank-auto-motive center here.
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NOW EVERY DAY 1S BLUE MONDAY
Bundles Stacked High as Laundries Face Acute Labor Shortage.
By HELEN RUEGAMER Indianapolis laundrymen are sing- | ing the wash-day blues, not just lon Monday but every day. Their unglamorous task of keeping the city clean is becoming more | netve-racking day by day. Not | that they're on the verge of striking or shutting down, but with bundles of dirty clothes stacked on all sides, half of their old employees in service or war work, and | wages, prices, equipment and sup-
| plies frozen, they're shaking their | heads in despair. | Last week the war manpower com- | mission announced that the nation’s laundries would be considered “es- | sential” if they would cut out their | deluxe service. Indianapolis laun{dries were given essential status | some months ago, which provides | only for the orderly transfer of | employees. It doesn't solve their { problem which is labor.
Hire Young, Old
| Anyone who opens the door to a laundry office now is greeted with open arms and an application blank. | Men or women from 16 to 70 are | being hired. At the Sterling laundry, one of Indianapolis’ larger | establishments, several deaf per- | sons are employed and H. T. Shane- | berger, manager, says he'd use more [if he could get them. The labor turnover {is terrific. Some workers will stay half a day, others only two days, and a few travelers from Kentucky and Ten|nessee will work two or three weeks and then go home, The laundry managers have to handle their workers with kid gloves. If they see someone doing something wrong, they look the other way. And if back work calls for overtime, theyre afraid to request it.
Cut Production
The lack of operators has cut down production tremendously. However, the laundries are still managing to take care of their regular customers, although it takes from a week to 10 days to finish the washing, In one week the Sterling laundry
Urge Renting Extra Rooms
Influx of thousands of servicemen and war workers has taxed the city’s housing facilities to the limit, To provide quarters for wives and families of our men in uniform who come to the city and the workers in our war plants it is necessary that all living quarters in the city be made available for use. The Homes Registry Bureau, which is financed by the United War and Community Fund and staffed by civilian defense volunteers, is serving as a clearing house to help meet this problem. You may have rooms in your home that have never been let before. If so, it is urgent that you make them available now. List your rooms by calling at the bureau's office, 114 W. washington st., Claypool hotel, or telephoning Riley 5060, or Riley 5818. The office is open daily, including Sundays and holidays, from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.
[turns out over 46,000 pounds of | family work and frequently as many las 5000 bundles of all kinds. | As a result of the inexperienced (help, the claims for damage to laundered articles and mixups in sorting the bundles are “just terrible,” according to one laundry manager. Once more he's behind the eight ball. All he can do is pay. Right now most of the local businesses are announcing that they will accept no socks or stockings, silks or woolens, rayons or acetates or colored handkerchiefs in the family washing. No one realizes better than the laundrymen that the laundries are in a jam. But theyre plugging along, and if your clothes come back with a piece or two missing or a sleeve out of one of your best shirts, don’t say a word. Just be glad you're not a laundryman.
SPONGE IRON MILL OPEN
WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.).— Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D. Cal.) said today a firm in Inglewood, Cal., was prepared to make sponge iron from low-grade iron ore and would contribute “materially” to increased] steel production despite the fact it! had been denied priorities for construction.
< Don Lane's Thanks Thrills Banquet Co. Cigaret Donors
When Donald L. Lane, engineers corps, was aboard ship en route overseas not long ago, the Red Cross gave him and every other soldier aboard a bag with little things they needed. About the first thing Don pulled out was a package of cigarets. Free cigarets caught his eye. Not only that, there was inscribed on the package the name of the group that made them possible — employees of the Banquet Ice Cream & Milk Co. right back in the home town—Indianapolis. Don wrote to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lane, 1124 Tacoma ave, and told them about it. Don recalled that when he was home, the milk he drank was delivered by the Banquet.
Parents Are Grateful
His parents are customers, So when they received Don's letter
_ they called the Banquet people
and told them how grateful he was —how grateful they were. The cigarets Don and other men aboard ship received were made possible because the Banquet employees contribited about $140 to % previous Times Overseas Cigaret
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ment with major cigaret companies they are furnished fighting men en route to and overseas at only five cents a package. Previous drives have furnished men in uniform on far-flung battle
46,000 cigarets because by arrange-| jo
fronts with nearly seven million cigarets. This month's fund goal is at least another million. It'll top that figure no doubt. The drive is well on its way and you can bet a cigaret or two that those folks at the Banquet will help again.
Note Is a Thrill
They don't have to. They've done their bit. But that note from Don gives them a thrill. That's almost like sending cigarets to the boy next door. The name of any individual or group contributing $50 or more is
cigarets and the men know who made them possible. And when Hoosier smokers get smokes from Hoosier donors—what a thrill! ” ” ”
(P. 8.) Forgot to tell you swell donors that Donald Lane's sister,
put right on the consignment of|A
Ruth, is a WAVE stationed at
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Potato Plethora
Now that early potatoes are on the market in quantity, department of Agriculture nutritionists are urging housewives to work spuds into breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. The potatoes on the summer market are not suitable for dehydration because of their high water content, but are rich in vitamin C. and should be eaten immediately while they are available. They are not good
for storage. ”
Substitute Game Bird
With hunting seasons “shot” for the duration, hotels and swank restaurants are turning more to the guinea fowl as a substitute , for such game birds as quail, pheasant, grouse and partridge. Department of agriculture husbandrymen point out that the guinea fowl is a handy addition to the barnyard, especially because of their policing habits. The fowl will shriek on the slightest provocation and give warning of approaching marauders. If correctly slaughtered, their feathers are loosened and can
A HANDY ADDITION TO THE BARNYARD
be easily removed. & & &
Odds and Ends
Expect an increase of about 25,000,000 pounds of canned tuna on the markets, following a war food administration announcement that the entire production of canned tuna and tunalike fishes packed after June 27 will be available for the U. S. civilians. . Pacific coast peaches and pears will come under an OPA-WFA program establishing ceiling prices and regulating marketing. . . . Despite rumors, Price Administrator Prentiss M. Bown reiterates that there will be no reduction in the value of A, B or C gasoline coupons at the present time.
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; Your Health in War-Time Destroy Mosquitoes and Prevent Malaria Spread
By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS
Malaria is probably the most common of all tropical diseases, and war has increased its incidence among both military personnel and civilians who have moved into malarial districts or who are forced to live in crowded and often temporary and unhygienic places. In practically all tropical and subtropical areas, malaria is the chief medical problem. And occasionally, in a year of increased precipitation such as this one, it extends well up into the temperate zones. Malaria is an acute infectious disease, caused by the parasite known as plasmodium, and conveyed to man {a TE by the bite of certain mosquitoes who are infected with the parasite. The disease in man is characterized by intermittent chills and fever. It tends to become chronic, and re- Sid currences are Dr. Masters frequent. Anemia, exhaustion and enlargement of the spleen are usually associated with it. Although there are three distinct types of parasite and they produce somewhat varying symptoms, the episodes of chill and fever are remarkably constant,
main until the mosquito bites a susceptible human being, when the whole process repeats itself. This extremely complicated and elaborate course of development offers numerous points of attack on the disease. The breeding places of the mosquite should be eliminated by draining stagnant pools, by covering others with oil and Kkerosene. Access to man by the mosquito can be prevented by the liberal use of sprays shown to be effective against mosquitoes, and by the screening of buildings and the use of bed nets. The mosquito is inactive during the day, and precautions must be established from dusk to daylight only. Those who must be about at night should wear such clothing, headnets and gloves that the mosquito cannot reach the skin.
DUCE SAYS FASCIST PARTY IS ‘PURGED’
By UNITED PRESS Premier Benito Mussolini, in a recent speech before the Fascist party directorate, admitted the party had been purged of dissident elements and warned that loss of the war would turn Italy into a fourth or fifth-rate power, axis broadcasts said today. The reports of the speech indicated the party had to use strong measures to stamp out unrest in the face of threatened invasion,
APPROVE FLOOD RELIEF WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.).— The senate has aprpoved a conference report on legislation authorizing appropriation of $10,000,000 for repair, restoration and strengthening of levees and other flood control works damaged by recent Midwestern floods. The legislation now goes to the White House.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD laity, Bub at City. e, Bertha Turner, at City. FATALITIES | Paul, Helen Hubbell, at St. Vincent's. County City Total Leslie, Dora Johnkey, at St. Vincent's. 18 i 8 William, Margaret Nelson, at St, Vin. 3
From Insect to Man
The malarial parasite undergoes two phases of development,
one in man and the other in the mosquito. When the parasite is introduced into the blood of man by the mosquito, it attaches itself to the red cell of the blood and, after a few days, enters the cell and begins to multiply. Finally, the red cell ruptures and discharges the small daughter parasites, which again attach themselves to other red blood cells, where the process is repeated. The release of the parasites from the red cells precedes the paroxysm of chill and fever. The second phase begins when the female mosquito feeds on an infected man and ingests the parasite. The parasites then reproduce in the stomach wall of the mosquito, and the offspring make their way to the insect’s salivary gland, where they re-
Summers,
cent’s, | pack. Helen Frank, at Coleman, {Izri, Ruth McCart, at Methodist. 10 Rex, Dorothy Mc , at Methodist. njured 14 | Dead 3| Louis, Rosemary 4 ) ¥, 3% Aiethodist. RDAY . am, Haze ewby, at Methodist. SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT | iia Martha Shelton, at Methodist,
Cases Convic- Fines | v Ted tony Parg | C1aud: Vera Tracy, at Methodist. U.S. Weather Burean
OFFICIAL WEATHER
—July 3 and 4 Accidents 34 | Arrests
Violations Speeding Reckless driving Failure to stop at through stree Failure to stop Drunken driving All others
Totals
EVENTS TOMORROW Indianapolis Newsboys Band Alumni, luncheon meetine, Hotel Washington, noon, Indiana Automobile Insurers Association, luncheon meeting, Hotel Washington,
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(All Data in Central War Time) Sunrise 5:22 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —July 5, 1942
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since
a | a. Tad an, . Excess since Jan. .
MIDWEST WEATHER—Showers in extreme southwest portion this forenoon; scattered thundershowers tonight; slightly warmer in extreme north portion; continued warm today and tonight.
noon, Garfield Park concert auditions, George Newton studios, 8 p. m,
BIRTHS
Robert, June Barrett, at St. Francis, Arlis, Frances Blakey, at St. Francis. Edward, Geneva Pierson, at St. Francis. at St. Vincent's.
The following table shows th - ture in other Rites: ig a
llie , Bertha Stott, at George, Ina Armour, at Methodist. Richard, Roselene Higgins, at Methodist. Paul, Lelia Jaynes, at thodist. Otto, Dorothy Moehlau, a Methodist, John, Bertha Mott, at Methodist. Claréiice, Katherine Pennington, at Meth-
ist. Robert, Lilllan Smith, at Methodist. Elmo, Amanda Wallen, at Methodist. Robert, Sarah Wolfe, at Methodist,
Boys ces Bell, at 8 Fl
eman,
Ft. Wayne Ind.anapolis (city Kansas City, Mo.
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NAVY BLIMPS LOSE NO SHIPS TO SUBS
WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P).— Navy blimps are so effective that not one of the thousands of transports and supply vessels they have escorted has been lost to submarine attack, the navy reported today. Revealing that 12 non-rigid squadrons, designed for escort duty, are already in commission, the navy said: “Operating in the Atlantic, the Pacific and the gulf of Mexico, the navy's new blimps have proved their worth as guardians of Ameri-
can shipping, both on convoy pro-
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tection and on anti-submarine patrol, even though their coverage extends only a limited distance from the coast.” Seven Atlantic-Gulf and three Pacific main air ship bases are now functioning. Five bases are in operation outside the continental limits of the United States and more are planned. Since June, 1940, congress has authorized the construction of 200 non-rigid airships for the navy.
MURRAY TO SPEAK HERE
Officials of district 30 of the United Steelworkers of America saidg today Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, will speak at the district's
annual convention here July 24-25.
STRAUSS SAYS:—
"IT'S ONE DAY
VICTORY"
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(500) WHITE SHIRTS—Soft Collar attached
the Strauss Special order of a
fine-count broadcloth.
(700) MEN'S NECKTIES—mainly 1.00 and 1.50
a straight one-third off
(clearance)—
67c and $1
(1,800) MEN'S SOCKS—fresh new arrivals— pull ups and regular lengths—light and medium shades—cottons and rayons—fancies and plains—Some are reduced from higher ranges —others (the great majority of them)—are fresh brand new—Exceptional at
SPORT SHIRTS—a swell selection—and
marvelous values—spun rayons, Teca blends, Irelin (a rayon with a linen like texture}—American Grosgrain, Cotton Gabardine (long or short sleeves)
$3 and 3.50 and $4
RATIONING DATES
Canned Goods Blue Stamps K, L and M good through July 7. Blue stamps N, P and Q good through Aug. 7. Meat Red Stamp P and @Q are good; R, July 11, and 8, July 18. All expire July 31. Shoes Stamp 18 good for through Oct. 31.
Sugar Stamp 13 is good for five pounds through Aug. 15. Stamps 15 and 16 good for five pounds for home canning through Oct. 31.
one pair
It's Fresh—Some of it almost as New as this July!
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Coffee Stamp 21 good for one pound through July 21. Stamp 22 becomes good for one pound July 22 through Aug. 11.
Gasoline Stamp 6 in A book expires July 21, Tires Second Inspection Deadline: A book vehicles by Sept. 30; commer cial vehicles every six months op 5000 miles, whichever is first, Fuel Oil
Stamp 5 expires Sept. 30. Period one coupons for 1943-44 season are good until Jan. 4.
“COME AND GET IT"—Maybe it would be more to the POINT to say—"Come and BRING It With You!"
It's a grand and apelin affair whichever way you look at it! It's Not a Sale—although earances here and there to add a bit of zest and excitement—
piping hot in taste—it has savor, and the flavor of quality — the reward of good ients prepared with skilled hands.
It's served in the coolness—the invigorating AIR-CONDITIONED COMFORT of the Store— And no matter what you partake of—of this you may be sure—the best at YOUR price— no matter what the price!
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(1,000) BRUXTON WHITE SHIRTS, broadcloth, fine quality Fused Collar These are really REMARKABLE values. (will not wilt or collapse). Sizes 14 to
17%—132 to 35 sleeve—featured at $9
CLEARANCE— SPORTS SHIRTS, about 200
of them—were $2.50 to $10—while they last,
ONE-THIRD
OFF
TEE SHIRTS-—with special emphasis on threes
groupings at $|—are plain and ribbed weaves—
ribbings. These
soft cotton combed yarns—at |.65—panel-stitch, 2 tone yarns—At 3.00 are cables—special 2 tone
Tee Shirts certainly are a boon
to the bosom—soft, absorbent, need no ironing—= and the Man's Store has them plentifully— "Come and Get it."
1.00 and 1
65 and $3
SLACK SUITS—Rayon Poplin—~made with a
8.95
man's wear outlook—and a Man's Store experience —special emphasis on sizes 32 and 34—At
MEN'S THIN PAJAMAS— white handkerchief
cloth—Just in! Collarless coat—or middy style= Sizes A to D While they last,
2.95
6 for $I
MEN'S WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS— Full size—so!: cotton—While 100 dozen last