Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1943 — Page 8

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LOCAL 0CD AIDS WAIT ZERO HOUR

One Night Passes Without Blackout Scheduled for This Week.

Suspense thickened as the minutes ticked away last night, but the “zero hour” of 10 o'clock passed without an alarm, so some 20,000 OCD volunteers here heaved sighs of relief and settled back to normaley. Reason for the relieved tension was the fact that the night had not brought Marion county's first surprise blackout, an event scheduled for any night this week up to, and including, Saturday. Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, assistant eitv OCD director, said all civil defense protective forces are congidered “alerted” between 7:30 an 10 p. m. every night this week. All have been instructed either to remain near their telephones or give official notice of their whereabouts between those hours. At anv rate, the surprise blackout may occure tonight or any other night this week. OCD officials warned volunteers that its coming was a thing certain as death and taxes.” All citizens are reminded tc comply with blackout regulations by extinguishing illumiration in buildings and homes when sirens and) whistles sound their steady two minute blasts. The all-clear will be indicated by resumption of street lighting. The original warning will be forwarded to the county control center by the fifth corps area command. | BROWN WASTE PAPER SHORTAGE IS CRITICAL A serious waste paper shortage exists, due to heavy war demands for paper products. WPB officials are urging the public to help relieve the shortage by saving all forms of brown waste paper—brown bags and containers, old brown wrapping paper — for conversion into necessary military equipment. Your used brown paper will help make blasting kegs, airplane parts, and other war weapons. Flatten out boxes, stack loose brown paper into bundles. To sell to a dealer or to give your accumulation to charitable or other crganizations, call a

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"That Man in the White House' Isn't —It's Harry L. Hopkins, the Frail, Invisible DRAF

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 13. — The phrase “that man in the White House” is taking on a different meaning these days. To many in Washington it refers to Harry L. Hopkins, not to President Roosevelt. For Mr. Hopkins, who lives in the White House, is becoming a target | for varied discontents which spring out of the tension of war in a harried bureaucracy and in a worried congress burdened with problems it can't entirely understand, nor ever settle finally. The vendettas measure the heights of power scaled by the one-time Iowan and long-time social worker. Frail Hairy is feared, even in high places, because of his close and confidential relationship with the president and the power and influence that relationship embodies. Remember “Purge” Harry LL. Hapkins

Senators and congressmen Sit! about the luncheon table and beef about Harry Hopkins. They blame him for things that go wrong on the domestic front and bounce back! upon them. They are incensed because they can’t reach him. He has become a svmbol of invisible government over which they have no control, of the so-called “hidden bureaucracy.” i Still burning, too, in the souls of Democratic conservaties is the 1938 “purge” when the WPA, then under command of Harry Hopkins, was/| swung against them in the effort to drive them from public office.

hostility. But then he must also feel a warm and pleasant glow as he stands of a morning before the mirror in his room at the White House to tie his tie and sees himself as he is—not a prepossessing fellow, with his gaunt face and sad eves—and reflects on the high position he has achieved. He's come a long way since his bovhood stub-toed boots plodded with suckling sounds through the

long road back, too, to the campus at Grinnell college and a stringbean student who burned with They recite, too. the many letters humanitarian impulses and, too. no from constituents who complain|doubt, with a zest for advancement

about Mr. Hopkins and his wife liv-|in the world. ing in the White House off the tax-| Know Confidences

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dozen years in time, for the welMilitary and naval people fret 2 : om en bith . “1a. | fare worker who had reached a Ove a IO has|, ieh point in his career as director

se much to say about the distribu-| : My y Kk 4 relief prounitions through _ lof New York's emergency re tion om muniti through lend leram in the depression years when, suddenly, he was catapulted here

lease as chairman of the munitions|® cssignmentboard, one of his num-| : : * ’ ~ {by his friend President Roosevelt to direct the world's greatest relief

erous jobs. In this capacity he, a civilian, is in a position to infiuence program. He knows how far he has come

military strategv. when he looks around him as he

Democratic politicians of the|goes familiarly about the White 1 He is a member of the

orthodox breed complain that Mr. | House. Hopkins, in directing the fourth president's household. That term campaign, pays ho attention |Something—but others have to the party regulars but is trving|joved that privilege. to build up his own organization, He is more, the confidant of the

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possible to tell. behind this screen, | how many of President Roosevelt's decisions are influenced by Harry, Hopkins, both on the domestic and | foreign front. In brief, it is diffi- | cult to separate Mr. Hopkins from the president. A congressman put it in homely fashion: “When one fellow has another fellow sit before the fire with him every evening and talk, you know he is influenced by him, or else he wouldn't have him around.” Harry Hopkins also has a voice in appointments, another important factor, and it is said that he has his key figures in every department and agency to watch developments for him.

| consideration of a program which would materially reduce the monthly induction schedule. A major factor was the role the United States must play as an “arsenal of democracy,” not only in supplying united nations | with munitions and other goods, but in making certain supplies available to those in occupied countries as the areas are liberated. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) recently revealed that the] army had decided to cut the July induction quota almost in half. From other sources here it was suggested that inductions might be reduced to around 100,000 a month. No decision, however, has been made.

Guards His Power

He jealously guards his position of power, which necessarily makes | enemies. You can hear it said, too, that on occasion, he can move ruthlessly to strike at anyone who tries to come between him and the president. Some people have ascribed large | influence to him in the office of war | mobilization, the new top command. He is a member of the war mobilization committee. He was blamed in some quarters, without any concrete evidence, for food policies. | Likewise, it was reported that he

Manpower Has Developed

The chief power pools

united nations manare China and the Soviet Union. The United States originally undertook to raise an armed force of approximately 11.000,000 men. It appears that figure! now is in process of re-examination! ‘handicapped Chester Davis, war largely because of the necessity of (food administrator who resigned. |maintaining United States producYet others, within OWM, mini- tion. But it also appears that poimize his influence there, and claim | tential French and other manpower the didn’t know, until it was an- in North Africa did not figure in (nounced, that he was to be a mem- original calculations, ber of the war mobilization com-| Members of the house military mittee, that it was sort of a sur- | affairs committee went home for the |prise package prepared for him. |congressional recess convinced that | One member of congress had an| the need for drafting fathers would {experience that may or may not be hot arise before their return on (typical. He had an amendment to a | Sept. 14, if at all. bill relating to food which he sub-| Chairman Andrew J. May (D. [mitted to officials of OWM—James| Ky.) hopes that the committee will |F. Byrnes, Fred Vinson and others | have specific information on the |—and was told that it was a good future status of draft-age fathers idea. The next day Marvin Jones, |by mid-September. He tried before |in charge of the food program, tele- | the recess to get an official indiphoned him up, “buttered him up,” | cation of the prospective date when and, speaking of his amendment, the army expects to begin drafting !said: | fathers. But letters written to War “I'll take it up with Harry.” Manpower Commission Chairman i ; Paul V. McNutt and Selective ServConcerned With War ice Director Lewis B. Hershey proHowever Mr. Hopkins may in- duced little definite information. trude in the domestic picture—he

was active in the early days of the coal strike—it is the consensus that

Confusion Arose

“But I understand,” May said. “that the army has established a

Rank of Major Awarded Peacock

RELATIVES HERE have been notified that John E. Peacock of the marine corps, who was wounded on Guadalcanal. has been

promoted from captain to the rank of major. Maj. and Mrs. Peacock, who was

| Miss Sylvia Griffith, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Griffith, | 940 W. 42nd st, are on a wedding |

trip east. They were married June 26 in Christ church. Maj. Peacock has been hospitalized in this country after receiving wounds in action. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peacock of Long Meadow, Mass., and a graduate of Berkshire school and Dartmouth college. INDICT DRY DOCK OFFICERS NEW YORK, July 13 (U, P.).—

The Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair |

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ployees were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and submit false claims in the construction and repair of ships for the navy and the U. S. maritime commission.

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POPULATION OF CITY IS 416,000

Increase Over Census Figure Of Approximately 30,000 Shown by Survey.

Overcrowded quarters, bulging [from a steady inflow of war workers, were reflected today in a cen[sus estimate placing the 1943 In|dianapolis population at 416,000. | Charles Murphy, local manager of |R. L. Polk Co. publishers of city

|directories, said recent surveys by |

(his firm indicated a population |growth of 20,028 persons over the 1941 figure of 386972. The 1943 directory will be published Aug. 20.

Other Cities Increase

Another population canvass, made (by Arno H. Johnson, director of |media and research for the J. Wal|ter Thompson Co, credited the met|ropolitan market area with an in- | influx of 24,422 since 1940. Labor migrations also were held responsible for an increase of 7223 persons at South Bend, 12,896 at

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president, always close by for frank and intimate exchange of ideas. He knows the talk over coffee and cigarets after dinner. In the study before bedtime he knows the quiet hour of confidences between men who are warm friends. But he is still more. He has a | share in the decisions of the presi{dent at one of the crucial stages {in the world’s history. Harry Hopkins has a hand In | world affairs. He is familiar with | world figures. He knows the gossip of courts and the chit-chat in the palaces of dictators. He knows how they like their drinks and what they like to eat. He knows their little prejudices and their secret fears, big and little.

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lof the war; he has a part in fram- | ing domestic policy.

has been a director behind the scenes in the last two presidential | elections and managed—or misman- | age

| ident Roosevelt in Chicago. He was {then a semi-invalid, keeping close [to a darkened room, and directing affairs part of the time from a

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He exhibited a knowledge for practical politics in the 1938 election when the WPA was exploited in the effort to put over Democratic friends of the New Deal and defeat Democrats not entirely satisfactory. That maneuver backfired in a seandal that probably would have eliminated from public life forever another figure lacking Mr. Hopkins’ versatility and resilience. He staved | to be promoted, first to secretary of | commerce, then to the right hand of

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he president as an assistant and | general utility man. It is difficult to get a clear pic: ture of the extent of Harry Hopkin's activities, or just into what fields he moves and what he does beyond his assigned jobs, because he works behind the screen of the White House, now practically opaque due to the war. It is hard, too, because it is im-

WITH GLIDER TROOPS IN SICILY, July 12 (Delayed) (U. P.). —A force of less than 100 glider troops captured a position in Sieily in a bloody, night-long battle Friday, defended it for 14 hours and

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‘he now devotes most of his time to! the war. One official report, in this] |connection, that several persons n-| [terested in social welfare agencies] went to Mr. Hopkins to get his help! in straightening out some tangles. He told them he could do nothing about it, that those things should | be dropped now and that people! running them should get into the] war, Such a reaction is wholly in| character. | He is, however, keeping his hand in the fourth -term campaign through Lt. David K. Niles, who is| one of the president's “anonymous” secretaries. Mr. Hopkins is charged with] ignoring the regular party leaders,! land with trying to set up his own| |organization of Simon Pure New|

He knows the innermost secrets Dealers so as to get delegations of |2:348,000 of whom enlisted.

[that complexion at the convention| | next year. One far western congressman] (went to the president recently to {complain on behalf of the regular, jout that Mr. Hopkins will wreck

Thus far the president does not | seem to be disturbed by this situa- | tion. | It would appear that Harry Hop- | kins can do little wrong, as far as| {the other man in the White House!

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CITY RULES AGAINST USING CASTLE HALL

| City officials today dispelled | rumors that Castle hall, 230 E. Ohén | st, would be annexed to city hall. | They rejected a new sale price opin | the structure, reduced from $100.000 to £75.000. | This move, made by the works |board, led the county, which had ‘hopes of sharing the building with |the city, to intensify its search for a building needed to relieve con{gestion at the courthouse. County commissioners are how | considering three structures as pos- | sible courthouse auxiliaries. They are the Holliday bldg, Ohio and

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time before which they do not intend to call bona fide fathers.” There has been much confusion about manpower and the induction rate, some of which was attributable to the fact that changing conditions presented changing problems. In mid-April McNutt and Hershey explained new regulations which seemed fo mean that all registrants between 18 and 38, except 3,200,000 in especially deferred classifications, would be inducted by Jan. 1, 1944, At that time the armed forces were planning to have 10,800.000 men in uniform by the vear end. As of April 30, Hershev told a congressional subcommitier that 7.805924 men had been inducted, 5,457,924 of whom were drafted and There were about 200000 men in the armed forces when selective service was set up. That made an aggregate of approximately 8,000,000 men in the armed services on April 30. It was estimated then that the

d as some critics would put it— the Democratic party if he persists. armed services would require 2,800.-

000 men to meet their Jan, 1, 1944, goals,

DR. MATHER APPOINTED

GREENCASTLE, July 13 (U. P.). —President Clyde E. Wildman of DePauw university today announced appointment of Dr. William G. Mather of Franklin college to succeed the late Dr. Francis Vreeland as associate professor of sociology effective Aug. 30.

FREE SAILOR IN SHOOTING

PERU. July 13 (U. P.).—kvestigating officers said today the shooting of Mrs. Louise Owens, 18, Sun-

day afternoon was accidental and | released an 18-year-old sailor. Rov

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NAVY COMMUNIQUE 440 (Tesued July 13, 1943) NORTH PACIFIC: 1. On July 12, army Liberator (Consoliated B-24) heavy bombers and Mitchell {North American B-25) medium bomh~rs escorted by Ventura (Vega B-34) medium bombers, carried out three attacks un | Japanese installations at North Head and the main camp areas at Kiska. Poor weather conditions precluded observation of the results of the bombing.

NAVY COMMUNIQUE 139 (Issued July 12, 1943)

NORTH PACIFIC: 1. On July 10, Army Liberators (Con-

[noon Saturday when all but 30 of (their number had been killed or | wounded, and their ammunition ex-

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They escaped within an hour when a British reconnaissance unit opened fire on their guards.

Roderick MacDonald, an American correspondent representing the | combined United States press, said the position wag taken initially by 14 men, who then defended it with | some 70 others.

Italian opposition increased stead- | ily through the night and into! Saturday, finally forcing the little] band to surrender. |

“The full story is one of the most magnificent episodes of this war,” MacDonald said. “When we surren= dered we had been under concentrated fire from four-inch mortars and heavy machine guns for some hours. “For 15 hours we had fought with almost no cover. But we left a considerable number of enemy dead. “Then, less than an hour after we were captured, the British unit opened up on our guards and we escaped.”

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solidated B-24) heavy bombers and Mitchell (North American B-25) medium bomb- | ere with navy Catalina (Consolidated PBY) patrol bombers attacked four Japa- | nese cargo vessels 280 miles southwest of | Holtz bay, Attu island One vessel was | sunk. another was left in a sinking condition and the remaining two were damaged. j 2.0n July 11, a U. 8 light surface | unit bombarded Japanese position at Gertrude cove, Kiska, and Little Kiska island during the gh 3. On July 11, an additional four Japa- | nese soldiers were captured on Attu is-

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TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1943

Evansville and 5916 at Ft. Wayne. Terre Haute gave evidence of having “lost out” in the general war boom by registering a population drop $f 1267. Mr. Murphy of the Polk Co. sat his canvassers had not limited their [survey to the city proper, but on the other hand had not checked the entire county. ordinarily considered {the metropolitan district. He de scribed the population trend as “ex[tremely mobile at this time,” and | said many persons had moven from the city, but had been replaced byy newcomers.

WOULD-BE BURGLAR BELIEVED WOUNDED

Deputy sheriffs, city police and state police are on the lookout for a man believed to have been shot while attempting to burglarize a ga= rage owned by Albert A. Swallows, | 3865 Farnsworth ave, Two ror three men were seen toe day by William T. White, 2810 Lock« burn st, trying to force their way | through a side window. Mr. White (fired several shots and is believed [to have hit one of them before [they escaped in a car. The garage was entered twice this week and $80 in merchandise, including gasoline, was taken.

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