Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1943 — Page 5

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fos since the. Democratic windfall in the depression period faces se-

and: unadvoidable economy

idicaps stemming from war conMayor Tyndall reported. contended that close to gino of next year’s increase uld be attributed to legislative acts which made it mandatory for

e city to raise salaries or appro-|} ate funds for war .or post-war | These. statutory boosts]

S. would account for approximately 19 ts of the total tax rate hike, he

' Largest Expenditure

The largest war-borne expendire will be registered in the safety artment where some 1200 police id. firemen will receive’ annual ie increases averaging $275. To Wide for these, an additional 1380 has been earmarked for the safety department. This will also help bear the cost of adding 59 patrolmen to the war-strained police force. Another war emergency account chalked up to the venereal isohospital which will require $15 ,728 in 1944. Nothing was budgeted: for this department in

1943. | . APost-war planning will demand budgeted appropriations aggregating $190,000. Of this, $165,000 will be used under the thoroughfare plan law, which allows the city to set aside funds for highway and inter‘section improvements. The remaining $25,000 will go to finance activities of the city plan commission which will activate the post-war planning program.

LAUNCH 8. 8. VICTOR LAWSON WILMINGTON, Cal, Aug. 18.

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| Shoots Killer

Joan Kiger, 16-year-old Covington, Ky., girl, aroused by an intruder who broke into the Kiger home and shot her mother, father and brother, grabbed a gun and fired several shots at the assassin before he escaped. Carl C. Kiger, 49-year-old vicemayor of Covington, and Jerry, 6, were killed by bullet wounds, while Mrs. Jenny Kiger was seriously wounded.

0STROM OUSTER MOVE IS PUSHED

May Get Huse or McCoy to Replace G. 0. P. Commit-

tee Chairman.

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tions with a statement that maneuvers for a new chairman are coming from anti-organization sources. He described the negotiations as “merely an attempt to get control of the party.” Mr. Ostrom repeatedly has said he would not resign the chairmgnship. “I might get kicked out,” but I won’f, resign,” Mr. Ostrom said.

obtain an agreement on a new chairman is through Mr. Bradford's willingness to go along on a compromise proposition, Co-operation Needed

If he refuses, harmony-makers admitted that their plan would fall through, Mr. Beckett and those working

that following a series of conferences with leaders of all factions, a list of possible compromise candidates for chairmanship was reduced to two men—Frank Husé, Republican.. county treasurer-elect, and Daily McCoy, Julietta, jufirmay superintendent.. Both Mr. Huse ond Mr. McCoy have been “playing” both factions in the. Republican party recently, and one of them might be agreed upon if the ouster of Mr. Ostrom is

J| effected.’

The only hope of negotiators to

with . him on the compromise said

COML RA MOVE OPPOSED

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problem that worries them is in ‘getting sufficient manpower to insure deliveries. Some companies reportedly are running weeks behind now in their deliveries and the situation undoubtedly will grow worse this winter.

B and C Changeover

Senator VanNuys asked that the B and C gasoline coupons be allowed to be valid until their expiration dates after representatives of a number of rationing boards and plant transportation committees called upon him. These people told him, the senator said, that it would be practically impossible for the rationing officials to exchange the preseps B and C coupons for new ones by Sept. 1, as ordered by the new regulations, They also said, the senator reported, that the changeover would result in the loss of hundreds of man-hours because the holders of the old B and C coupons will have to spend so much time getting the new coupons.

Wouldn't Hamper Plan

He pointed out that the retention of the present coupons would in no way interfere with the government’s program to cut gasoline consumption by reducing the values ‘of the coupons in the Midwest. Meanwhile, William Aitchison, district OPA mileage rationing officer, said a program is being prepared to simplify the exchange of the old coupons for the new ones and that it would be announced within a few days. Tomorrow's discussion of the gasoline situation at the Severin hotel is the first of its kind in the nation. The meeting was called by Mr. Vandermeer for the purpose of learning first-hand the problems of the local oil men. . P. H. Logan, general manager of the Hoosier Petroleum Co., Ine, sald that the independent oil operators expected to protest certain regulations which they felt to be discriminatory but they would advance no arguments against gasoline rationing itself,

Oppose Selling Hours

He said the independents were opposed to the regulation which provides that a filling station can be open only 72 hours a week—or 12 hours a day on the average. He sald this war unfair because the major companies with a number of stations could stagger the hotirs of their various ' stations while the

¥!independefits cannot.

“That ‘something = definitely is wrong is shown by the fact that the majors are off. only 20 per cent in volume from pre-rationing total sales while the independents are off

57 per cent,” he said,

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VanNuys Says Dealers Fage{!emons are getting nice and figs

Robert Davis, 5035 Spring Mill road. He attended Cathedral high school and prior to en the armed forces he was chauffeur for five years for the late william L. Fortune, nationally known as a leader in Red Cross work, While employed by Mr. Fortune, he drove him “to Florida several times and made frequent trips with him in the states. The sergeant has been in the air forces since Sept. 30, 1941. He left this country on July 29, 1942, and has been in New Guinea ever since. The last letter received from him by relatives here was dated Aug. 1. Besides his mother, relatives here are a brother, Norman, 4061 Boulevard pl, and a sister, Mrs. Stewart Higgins, 7373 N. Illinois st. Another sister, Mrs. Evan' Laughlin, lives in Sullivan, Ind. The story of the great raid was described in a dispatch today by Harold Guard, United Press correspondent, who witnessed it from an acompanying Liberator. He wrote: Alied planes turned the Wewak airdromes into flame-swept graveyards for a huge Japanese air fleet, destroying nearly 80 per cent of the planes based upon them.

Drop 150 Tons

More than 200 allied planes roared over for & surprise attack under a haze-covered moon. From a Liber- , I saw enemy bombers and ters packed wing-tip to wingon the ground. berators, Flying Fortresses and hells, escorted by Lightning fighters, laid down nearly 150 fons of bombs and some of the planes swept down to low level for ma-chine-gun strafing. The big bombers laid the groundwork starting before midnight and I went along fo watch the final phase of the heavy assault from the flight deck of the Liberator piloted by Lt. Everett Eisenberg of Long Island City, N. Y. On the Wewak airdrome, the main field near the Japanese north-

FR. 1020

'The Conquest

mated so that our troops are still ‘able to go ahead. Although the war as a whole may not be over for quite some time parts of it may end suddenly, No one wants to sponsor unjustified optimism. As James F. Byrnes, director of the office of war mobilization warns us, we must be prepared for hard battles yet. We could well make a distinction. It is as dangerous to make all plans in anticipation of a long war as it is to make them all in expectation of a short one, On the military side we must be prepared for long resistance by Germany. That is the only safe policy. But on the political ae we must be prepared for a sudden collapse

jof the axis. We cannot afford to | be caught so ludicrously unprepared

politically as we were when Mussolini resigned. His retirement was 80 unexpected that high allied officials refused to believe the first reports, thinking possibly our own psychological warfare broadcasts were echoing back out of Italy, Our unconcealed fumbling was humiliating. Jie , So the wise rule militarily is:

| Prepare as if the war would last

forever, and politically: Prepare as if it were ending tomorrow.

When War Ends?

Everywhere I have been in: the last four months abroad, I have been asked what America is going to do When the war ends. They wonder whether our fore policy will be overturned in the Sen presi. dential election. It worries ‘everyone in Europe, although Gen. De Gaulle asked me in Algiers if it were true as it appeared that Willkie was adopting Roosevelt's foreign policy while Roosevelt was swinging over to Willkie’s domestic

with Swedish foreign office officials saying the allies heeded to know

certain matters such as the shutting oft of German troop traffio through

policies, : Some Americans I know argued! what Sweden intended to do about|

the country. The Swedes replied

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that Sweden could be more certain of its future policies if Americans could say what their own future policy would be. War May Not Wait In Britain one of the chief topics of conversation is speculation as to what foreign policy wiil develop in America out of the presidential campaign, I return from four months abroad strongly convinced of several things about our future. Above all, I don’t believe we can wait until after the presidential election to settle a number of points about our relations’ with the rest of the world. There is danger the war will nat wait that long for us. Congress has been in recess. Most of its members are home talking with their constituents. They will

what their districts are thinking. I hope congress comes back to work ready to consider seriously and to act on numerous recommendations that will set the course of American foreign policy. We want foreign policy to have a stronger footing than it can have it it rests only upon presidential rhetoric. This time it must have congressional sanction.

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east coastal base, three big fires al-

ready were burning plus numerous smaller ones.

Wewak 'Show'

Ahead of us Liberators were pass-

ing over the target with searchlight beams on them and flak bursting so steadily it looked like a giant Roman candle, But the shells fell short and before we left the target, the anti-aircraft positions were silent.

I saw a single Japanese fighter

hovering in the searchlight beams around the silvered Liberators. ' Eisenberg’s bombardier,

Lt. W. H. Kerner of Rochester, N. Y., unloaded a full cargo of fire bombs as our

Liberator held its course although

lighted up by the ground lights. In the glow of those searchlights, we could see at least 50 enemy fighters parked down below and bombers lined along both sides of the runway. On Dagua sitdrome our raiders

caught grounded zeros with their engines running prior to a take-off but only one got in the air, and S. Sgt. Robert Emminger of Indianapolis, Ind., gunner in a B-25 piloted by Capt. Garret Middlebrook of Springtown, Tex. shot it down.

Baby 'Bunky's’ Quite an Athlete

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will lift himself up and half walk, half drag himself around. o 2.8 AND HE IS built like a future athlete with a barrel chest and slim waist. But then he may come by it all naturally, His father was lightweight runner-up in the 1936 Golden Gloves and from -1938-'40 he held the state lightweight championship in weight lifting. Entering military service last Saturday, Pvt. Boughton formerly was employed by the Wallace Tool

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The Army’ Terrific Success in Premiere.

he appears in the film to sing his 1917 hit “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.” Songs, Cast Excellent

P The Berlin songs and a precision performing soldier cast to put them over make “This Is the Army” one of the best, if not the best, musicals ever. to come out of Hollywood, The pace of the film and its standard for excellence make it difficult to single out any certain

depends on what the customer ‘prefers. For the nostalgic American Legion member, “Poor Little Me, I'm on K. P.” and the bugle song from Berlin's “Yip Yip Yaphank” might be favorites. Selections with plenty of pep and humor include “Mandy,” a minstrel number; “Ladies of the Chorus,” “That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear” and the title song. For sentimentalists, there’s “I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep,” “I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen” and “With My Head in the Clouds.” Martial airs are “How About a Cheer for the Navy,” “American Eagles” and “This Time Is the Last Time.”

Plot Added

Highlights are the inter-marching and singing numbers by the entire company and the extraordinary rhythm and dancing in. the ‘Negro specialty on Harlem. Sgt. Joe Louis is certainly no actor, but ably

.|demonstrates that the war hasn't

affected his punching ability in the latler act. . Tumblers, a juggler, unicyclist and magician provide the talent for a real military vaudeville show. Pvt. James MacColl with his impersonations of Alfred Lunt, Charles Boyer and Herbert Marshall giving dissertations on a hamburger would have stopped the show, had it been on the stage. Hollywood stars are used in the film version to supply a plot and tie up the army shows of both wars. George Murphy. is cast as the producer of both of them. His friends and fellow fighters in the first war are Sgt, Alan Hale, George Tobias and George Butterworth. Their sons and daughters, includ-

number as the best in the show. It] !

tors, Langford and - Gertrude Niessen who do song specialties in the film, have donated their services to aid

son and Capt. Claude Binyon, who wrote the screen play; likewise deserve bouquets for donating their work. ‘ Warner Bros. studio should be commended first for creating goodwill for: the movie industry by giving all proceeds from the film to the army fund,

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