Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1943 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 125
TYNDALL MAPS EXPANSION FOR CITY'S POLICE
Plans Reassignment Deputy Inspectors, 59
New Patrolmen.
By SHERLEY UHL A Expansion of the Indianapclis police department and a readjusiment of rankings is provided for in the proposed 1944 police budget. The principle changes are: 1. Reassignment of four deputy 7 inspectors to the rank of captain. 2. Addition of 39 patroimen to the uniform division. 3. Reassignment of 40 detective gas to detective sergeanes
4. Appointment of 15 new investigators. Seek Military Basis
Mayor Tyndall spent some time this morning discounting city hall reports that the police department reorganization had been recommended by Patronage Committee-
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You'll See ‘Em at the Fair
Entered in the rabbit exhibit of the 12th annual Marion county fair at New Bethel is this black, checkered, giant buck held by H. A. Reasner, R. R. 10, Box 166. Mr. Reasner has entered 15 rabbits in the
man Charles W. Jewett and City] show.
Controller Roy Hickman. “This plan is strictly my own and is intended to increase efficiency by placing the department on & more military basis,” said Mayor Tyndall ¥ He pointed out that he desires captains to have autonomous power in the absence of Chief Beeker, whether they be stationed in police headquarters or out in the field. Under the new policy, he said, subordinate officers will have more independence. Three of the reassigned captains, the mayor said. will be given speCy ratings which will boost 7 Their salaries.
Mr. Jewett Sets In Remarking that he had heard he was to be “blasted” for allegedly granting Patronage Dispenser Jewett a say-so in running the poice department, Mayor Tyndall iterated that he himself had originated the budget change, 4lthough Mr. Jewett and Mr. Hickman have “sat in” on a number of pues: conferences. The mayor's secretary, Harry Ealkins, obviously perturbed, asked 'ho’s been spreading those Jewett umors anyway?” The proposed changes came as a surprise to safety board members and Police Chief Beeker, none of whom had been consulted beforehand on the reshuffling of original budget plans. Yesterday, two safety commissioners met with Mayor Tyndall and Mr. Jewett in an effort to acquaint
themselves with the change in their!
departmental budget. See Political Ramifications
Although no formal protests have | been presented to the mayor, consid- | erable administrative surprise has: been registered at the usurpation
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of budget-fixing powers ordinarily wielded by departmental heads. Police personnel changes were interrupted by some city hall officials as having far-reaching political ramifications from the patronage standpoint, thus reaffirming the strength of the Jewett Republican
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The 4-H club girls hold the dresses they have made and entered in the exhibit before themselves and compare ncies. They are (left to right) Joan Hurley, 11, of R. R. 10, Box 272, and Peggy Sexson, 14, of R. R. 10, Box 314.
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Honored
For “unmatchable American skill and daring” exhibited in y- transporting hundreds of American paratroopers to Sicily, six Hoosier airmen two from Indianapolis, are among 223 members of the army air forces troop carjer command to be commended Yby their commanding officer. Participating in
troops behind the enemy lines
without loss of a single transport plane were 1st Lt. William L. Is-
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Mrs. Della Willsey (left), R. R. 10, Box 240, superintendent of the quilt and fancy work department at the fair, inspects the work of Mrs. George Stephenson, R. R. 10, Box 143.
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‘Rhythmic’ Bovingdon Fired As OEW Economic Analyst
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4 (U.P) —Director Leo T. Crowley of the office of economic warfare today dismissed John Bovingdon, 52-year-old protagonist of rhythmic dancing for health, from his post as $5600-a-year economic analyst in the OEW's enemy branch. Crowley informed Bovingdon of his dismissal “as of the close of business on this date” after Bovingdon, in a letter released to newspapers,
CIGARETS CHEERED cing rg ners “sugges FIGHTERS IN INDIA
Crowley's action followed publicaGrateful Letter Says They A Came When Needed.
(List of Denors, Page Three)
Shipments of “smokes” from The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund have been labeled “typical of the real|® home front in which we take so much. pride” by the fighting boys over in India. With the drive well under way for August, contributions including yesterday's donations of $121 95. now total $778.80. hs A letter received yesterday from|’
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1943
ALLIES CRUSHING MT. ETNA LINE; NTIC NAZI ARMY FLEES OREL
GAS ‘EQUALITY
Filet OPA
Who Coughed Up 11,000 Points for
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MOVE ANGERS MIDWEST BLOC
Clark Committee Plans New Fight; Report Sept. 1 as OPA’s Date.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Bitter over a Washington report that national “equality” in gasoline rationing would become effective Sept. 1, members of the Clark senatorial committee fired blast after blast at “Washington bureaucrats” in winding up a twoday hearing today and announced they would fight for an amendment | of the order. Senator Bennett C. Clark, (D. Mo.) chairman of the committee which currently was hearing mid- | western governors, state officials and oil men discuss the gasoline and petroleum problems, announced that the entire committee would
a meeting to which they previously had been invited by Secretary Harold ; Ickes to discuss gasoline rationing. Senator Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb.) taking time off from the] hearing, declared sarcastically when he learned of the “equalization” re-| port: Omer Precedes Meeting “That's sweet, brother; he-: they invite us to a meeting and thon issue an order before it even is hela. “That's just the way this whole ew Deal works. Why the hell didn’t they wait until we got there, anyway? “I see no other way. On the basis
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pleasure driving ban in the East. That's going to burt west of the ppl, where farmers are until midnight and not at all about pleasure drives
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P).— Eastern motorists can expect action eorly next week on the question of lifting of the pleasure driving ban, Price Administrator Brown said
While Brown would not say so directly, it was indicated that the] action would be announcement that the ban would be lifted in the reasonably near future.
RECOVER 2 BODIES AFTER TRAIN WRECK
3d Man, Believed Dead,
Found Alive.
ALBANY, Ind, Aug. 4 (U. P)— The bodies of two crewmen, Louis J. Eilerman and Robert R. Denny, both of Lima, O, killed in a collision of two Nickel Flate freight trains, were recovered today from the flaming wreckage.
Nelson Banquet?
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4 (U. P). —Donald Nelson, chairman of the war production board, and more than 900 other guests at a recent labor-management banquet here dined on filet mignon—but district OPA officiais today denied a published report that they “coughed up” 11,600 meat ration points for the affair. The report was contained in an account of the dinner in Iron Age, steel trade journal, which read in part: “WPB management and labor dined some 900 strong at the William Penn hotel on filet mignon. . The 11,000 points involved would have wrecked the hotel, so the OPA coughed up.” » ” = BOTH OPA officials and hotel officials denied that there was any special grant of ration points to provide the main course for the dinner, which climaxed Nelson's visit to Pittsburgh district steel mills in behalf of the WPB ‘steel for victory” campaign. The dinner was sponsored by U. S. Steel Corp. “We believe that the Iron Age should definitely retract the statement,” OPA Regional Director Aivin J. Williams told two superior OPA officials who had requested a report on the banquet.
WELFARE COST GUT $250,000
Will Reduce Property Tax
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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffies Indianapolis Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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ENEMY FACES SLAUGHTER IN
Loss of Bastion Would Cave in Hitler's Entire
South-Central Line. (Map on Page 13)
MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Some 250,000 Germans began a general retreat from the Orel bulge today in a frantic effort to escape encirclement by converging Soviet armies that had narrowed the axis corridor of withdrawal to less than 13 miles. German defenses were crumbling all around the semi-circular Orel front and front dispatches said the pace of the Russian advances from the north, south and east was so rapid the enemy was abandoning heavy equipment in his haste to avert another “Stalingrad” trap. Red armies already have cut or brought under heavy artillery fire all railroads and main highways radiating from Orel and the Germans were reported clogging secondary roads and forest trails in| their withdrawals from hedgehog defenses in the city’s outskirts.
Russ Smash Through
German rear guards deployed behind the retreating armies in a desperate effort to stem the Soviet advances, but time and again Russian storm detachments smashed through, encircled the holding forces and ambushed the retreating troops. With clearing skies drying the
FINAL HOME
PRICE FOUR CENTS
Allied Pile Driver Blows Hammering Center Of Axis Defenses; Warships Shell Foe on Messina Road.
: By UNITED PRESS A terrific allied land, air and sea bombardment was
leveled today against the receding axis defenses on the northwestern tip of Sicily as American doughboys captured Caronia on the northern coast and drove six miles beyond it to within 55 miles of Messina. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s 7th army advanced six miles on the north flank, capturing Caronia, while American warships shelled axis forces falling back toward Messina. Gen. Sir Edward L. Montgomery's 8th army moved up several miles. Using Mt. Etna ag an anvil, the Americans, Britons and Canadians pounded at axis defenses before Adrano, the main pivot of the Etna line. When the pivot is crushed, the whole . line was expected to collapse. Naples Bombed Again American and British planes supported the ground fighting in Sicily, delivered a cargo of blockbusters to Naples for the second straight night, and blasted Reggio Calabria, on the toe of Italy. As prospects dwindled for the capitulation of Italy, the London Daily Express said the allies might invade that troubled country at “‘any time.” Perhaps even before the Sicilian campaign is completed. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden again made it clear that unconditional surrender was Italy’s only way out, and there would be no “negotiations” or “terms” in the sense of easing the fall of Germany’s junior partner. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters reported “very satisfactory progress” in the general offensive to complete the conquest of Sicily. London military sources clarified the situation somewhat with the explanation that though the allied advance at the moment was no landslide, the axis defense was expected to go to pieces all at once
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the pursuit. One armored unit ipuncturéd German defenses and A reduction of $250,000 in the P vanced 3% miles. Marion county welfare budget for| rhe Germans, as in North Africa 1944, reducing the property tax r 8% |spread vast mine fields behind them on that unit from 16.3 gents to las they retreated, front dispatches cents, was announced by welfare qaijq Russian sappers were clearofficials today. ‘ ing them in record time. The total budget as submitted to| The army organ Red Star said the county auditor's office today |that the German command was atcalls for 1944 expenditures of $3,-/tempting to slow the Russian ad266,550, of which $910,000 must be vance south of Orel along a range Juised wy eos pd a i bills Tor Soviet troops were ion. e unty share o e| ‘'ontinued or. Page Four) welfare expenses this year was $1.150.000.
DELINQUENT CASES
Welfare officials explained that! the reduction in next year’s budget was made possible by a 50 per cent decrease in the number of children receiving welfare assistance
sistance. ‘This is the first proposed welfare budget showing a decrease in expenditures since the department was organized in 1936. The proposed welfare expense is expected to be the only local government budget showing a reduction.
RATION CITRIC ACID Citric acid, used extensively in pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages, is now allocated by the government; it is obtained from citrus
F. G. Barber, Lima, who was be lieved killed in the accident last | night. left the train at Muncie be- | fore the crash, authorities said. He was aiding in track clearing work today. | Five additional men were reported | injured in the crash which derailed 15 freight cars. | The injured, treated at Ball Me-| {morial hospital, Muncie, were BE. L.| Phillippo, Frankfort, Ind.; W. Con-| je 48. engineer on one of the { trains, Lima; Charles E. Plougher, ‘brakeman, Lima; D. Gordon, 50, the other engineer, Lima; und F. B. | Minor, 50, brakeman, Lima. { According to witnesses, including | Walter St. Clair of Indianapolis, the two trains, one a fast freight and the other a local, smashed ‘head-on at full speed and caught | fire almost immediately.
HINTS LAND ACTION AGAINST NAZIS SOON
OTTAWA, Aug. 4 (U. P.) —British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald hinted today at a possible new land offensive against
overlooking but that the military might they are now using in the European theater will Japan.
FRENCH READY TO FIGHT
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fruits and the fermentation of molasses.
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INCREASE—RHOADS
Despite all efforts of the courts, police and social agencies, juvenile delinquency in Indianapolis continues to increase, declared Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile couy in a speech before the Carrie Nation Anti-Liquor League, Inc, at the Wheeler City Rescue mission yesterday. “One of the biggest [actors contributing to the delinquency oroblem is that of the employment of mothers in industry, leaving no adequate supervision of children at home,” Judge Rhoads said. “This has resulted in a breaking down of the home ties on which our American way of life is based. It has resulted in unsupervised children becoming restless and roaming the streets in gangs.” :
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SICILY: Americans advance six miles on north eoast, capture Caronia; U. S. cruisers and destroyers shell axis coastal posi tions: drive against western slope of Mt. Etna threatens to split axis defenses wide open.
ITAY: British bombers drop blockbusters on Naples and other forces from Middle East command patter Reggio Calabria on the toe of boot.
RUSSIA: Moscow reports Germans | general retreat from Orel as Rus~ | sians drive from all sides.
EUROPE: Weather keeps British bombers aground. |
PACIFIC: Japanese resistance at Munda stiffens as Americans pound main defenses of central Solomons base.
OPA TO FIX PRICES ON USED CARS SOON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P)— The office of price administration will put ceiling prices on used automobiles at an early date, it was reliably reported today. Price officials and trade representatives discussed the matter yesterday. The new regulation will impose specific dollars and cents ceilings by models, it was said.
Squirrels Stage North Side Crime Wave
Among Victory Gardens, but Doom Looms
Residents in the 4000 block on Broadway are quietly tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth while two frolicking vandals tear up their victory gardens, eat their apples and threaten to destroy the oncoming crop of peaches. Atop a lofty apple tree in the backvard of the home of Mrs. B. D. Aufderheide, 3012 Broadway, & pair of mischievous squirrels have set up their headquarters and embarked on selfstyled crime careers. Scampering gaily through the neighborhood the brave, bold partners in crime have already nibbled on victory gardeners’ ripening tomatoes and pimentoes and chewed up more than a bushel of ‘Aufderheide apples.
And unless the culprits are thwarted soon Mrs. Aufderheide sadly visualizes a similar fate for the luscious Alberta peaches just beginning to ripen on her peach tree
Shouted scoldings and raucous yells, sticks and stones are of no avail. The clever animals go merrily on their way. ! But their day of doom is ap-
western slope of Mt. Etna, to-
ward which the allies were driving in fierce fighting. Once the axis lines through Adrana are cut, Catania will be outflanked and the whole southern end of the line should fall apart.
American cruisers and destroyers, moving in to support Patton's land forces moving along the north coast, bombarded axis positions along the coastal road. | To the south, gratifying results {were reported in the push by Brit|ish and Canadian forces from Agira {and Catenanuova toward the slopes of Mt. Etna. “Bitter fighting has taken place {in this sector, and the enemy has {had heavy casualties inflicted on it,” an allied communique said. British Wellington bombers of the northwest African air forces blast ed Naples anew Monday night, while Liberators and Halifaxes of the Middle East command started big fires at Reggio Calabria.
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' German tanks from the Hermann Goering division lashed out in a counter-attack a few miles southeast of Catenanouva, but were repulsed by British infantry who de stroyed three of them, including one 60-ton “Tiger.” ‘ Agira, 11 miles northwest of Catenanouva, changed hands sev=eral times in ding-dong fighting yesterday before the Canadians finally consolidated their positions in the city and pushed on well be~ yond it.
RECRUITER FOR CIO ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 4 (U, P.) .— Otis G. Nations, president of the Florida Citrus and Allied Workers Union (C. I. 0.) was arrested today in connection with the recruiting of Florida citrus workers for employment at the Campbell Soup company plant in Camden, N. J. The warrant, served by Sheriff James Black, specifically charged the union leader with “doing busi~ ness without a license.”
Supply of Soap Called Ample
Despite reports of shortages of leading brands of soaps, Charles E. Johnston, senior price specialist of the Indianapolis OPA office, said today that there is no prospect of soap rationing. He said depleted stocks on grocery shelves were due to increased demand following the } high rate of employment. Also humid weather is occasioning much more bathing, he said. | “Representatives of several of the largest national sdap | companies advise us there is ample supply,” Mr. Johnson said. “Only a panicky run on the market could bring rationing.” :
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