Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1943 — Page 1

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ENDS CONTROL OF 53 MINES

Ickes - says Production Efficiency Has Been Restored. - WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P).

“Termination of government con-

trol of the coal mines of 53 companies was announced today by Harold L. Ickes, coal mines adMministrator. . Among the mines turned back today were some where production had been interrupted by strikes, as well as some where there had been no work stoppages. The orders for the return of the mines whose production had been impaired stated that the federal operating managers submitted evidence to Ickes showing that productive efficiency prevailing prior to May 1, when the government took possession of the mines, had ‘been restored. ; Production Maintained - In the case of the other mines Which were released, Iekes said the managers submitted evidence showing that production had not been interrupted by work stoppages ®ince April 30. The return of some of the mines which had been struck will force

~./ ‘the United Mine Workers to decide

whether to adhere to the position . proclaimed by U, 'M, W. President John L. Lewis that’ the miners would work only for the government. Smith-Connally Provisions Since Lewis stated that position, congress has enacted the SmithConnally labor disputes act which provides for a secret vote and a

g waiting period before ‘strikes can

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be effected in privately-owned war plants or mines, If a strike were called the government could again take over the. mines. ; The Smith-Connally act requires that war plants or mines which have been taken :over by the gov-

Y ernment becatise of the threat of a

strike must be returned to their private owners “within 60 ‘days of

the restogatisn of the Tevel of pro-} 1. priof to

ductive . efMciency which - prevailed seizure. | ,. Om. Pridsy Ickes released from

{government control five unorgan-

‘ized, mines after a showing ‘was made that they had not suffered from strikes since May 1. ‘Th addition, a group of A. F. of L. mines were returned to private owners shortly after the ming were seized on May 1.

Hoosier Heroes: Pfc.A.Armel {Is Killed in | Sicily Action

PFC. ALBERT A. ARMEL, son of Mrs. Myrtle Armel, 1219 Laurel st. has been killed in action in the Sicilian campaign, according to a telegram received by his mother Baturday. - Pvt. Armel of the military police jad been reported: missing in action on July 11. He was said to have been killed on July 14. The 29-year-old private was a graduate of Tech high school and was employed at the Burford Print-

ing Co. here. He entered: the army

‘in Pebruary, 1942, and was sent overseas last November, ‘His last letter, received July 7, said he had just been given his : Hbbons for the North African cam-

Irene Giamerdinger, 8. sisip AL ter “I hope to see peace soon and set

foot back on United States soil.”

os 8 # Mi * . /SBCOND LT. JAMES G. PITTARD, 21 W. 28th ‘st, has been

missing in action: in the Middle (Continued on Page Three)

63 MILLION WORK IN U, §. NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P.)— rhe National Industrial Confer-

"ence board said today that em-

) in the United States totaled 63,500,000 at the end of dune.

i e—— / LOCAL TEMPERATURES.

"TIMES FEATURES ‘ON INSIDE PAGES

In a semi-circle about Mrs.

violence. Only Mrs. Miller's husband, Joseph, 27, a war worker at the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. was absent today from the pathetic and prayerful group at the hospital. » »

Husband in Jail MILLER, TIGHT-LIPPED and refusing a lie-detector, test, remained in a cell at city prison where he has been detained since Friday night shortly after Mrs. Miller was hideously scalded by acid thrown into her face by an unidentified youth at the corner of Laurel and Prospect sts. Police explained that Miller has been charged only with vagrancy while an investigation is being made of the: acid throwing which conceivably may disfigure Mrs. Miller more seriously than she was in June, 1939, when she was shot during a holdup faked by her husband and staged with a companion by the name of Harry Graves. In the robbery, which occurred at a darkened spot near the Sarah Shank golf course where the ‘Millers were discussing proposals for a ‘reconciliation following a short separation, a shotgun fired by Graves blew away Mrs. Miller's left forearm. Amputation was completed the same night at the hospital to which Miller rushed his wife. ® x = Won Mate’s Parole POLICE SUBSEQUENTLY accused Miller of engineering the |. holdup in order to .regain his wife's affections and he and Graves. both received prison terms. Miller was released on parole in June, 1942. More than any one person; Ms. Miller herself was responsible for her husband’s parole. To the - astonishment of - friends, she: tinned every possible stone to’ effect her husigand’s release from (Continu n Page Two)

ONLY RUSS ABSENT

Australia Delegate Due;

Study Litvinov Ouster.

QUEBEC, Aug. 23 (U. P.)—Announcement that Australian repre- ‘| sentation was being added to the Quebec conferences. today focused new attention on the ‘absence of Russia, now the only one of the big allied fighting powers: without some representative in the war talks led - by - President Roosevelt ‘and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Sir William Glasgow, high commissioner for Australia in Canada, was due from Ottawa. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox arrived by plane from Washington. ‘And there was some indication that Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, absent

‘called into the conference. Represented now by top men in the Quebec conferences approaching: a conclusion were the United States, Great Britain, Canada,

. | China and Australia.

Official: sources still denied any connection _betweéen: the Quebec conferences and the Russian withdrawal of Ambassador Maxim Litvinov from Washington. But they admitted that the timing of the an(Continued on Page Two)

| Mrs. Miller She'll Not Not Be Blind

Badly Burned by Acid vv Ackd Thawh in Hot Face, Wife Patiently Waits for Verdict, Hopes to See Again.

By JOHN L. BOWEN

OUT OF THE blackness behind two acid-scarred and bandaged eyes, attractive and 24-year-old Mrs. Rose Miller today sent up a timorous prayer that medical science would spare her the supreme tragedy of life-timé blindness.

hospital in Beech Grove were the solemn-faced mother, father, brother, sister, son and nephew of the stricken young wife who, for the second time within four years, has been struck down by sudden and disfiguring

AT QUEBEC PARLEY

from’ Washington, might have been

Prays

Miller's bed at the St. Francis

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; Mrs. Rose Marie Miller

COUNTY BUDGET IS COMPLETED

Would Up y Tax. | Rate - 100; Calls for Expenditures es Of $2 ,295,436:

“The proposed: county budget ® 1944, which if adopted: wonld Te quire a 10-cent, increase in the tax rate for: county governmental: aperations,. was completed today ‘by County : Auditor Ralph Moaqre and will be . submitted .to ‘the. county council tomorrow, ag The * proposed. budget . would up the county levy from. 425. to 5258. The total estimated “ gxpenditures| for 1044 are $2,295,435. .. Biggest. single . increase in requested appropriations. was by the county commissioners who asked for a total of $816,894 for the next year as compared’ with $284,611 last year. The ‘requested increase, is due chiefly to the 1944 election, for. which. $176,000 iwas asked, and to an item of $300,000 fo pay the state for expenses. of county.inmates in state institutions. Only $62,000 was provided; fori this purpose -last year and the county now owes the state $200,000 for inmate care, the county auditor said.

, Higher Than Original

« In discussing the’ proposed budget Mr. ‘Moore pointed out that it would call for a rate only .43 of a cent higher than the budget origindlly’ provosed last year.

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‘MONDAY, AUGUST 51 1943

YANKS SEIZE ANOTHER ISLE IN ALEUTIANS

ing Segula; No Japanese Troops Found.

+» WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P.). —United States and: Canadian troops have landed on the island of Segula;, about 20 miles east of Kiska as they continued to occupy

adjacent areas, the navy announced today. "A communique said that no Japanese were found on Segula, which is a rocky island about five miles square. ; The navy also announced that three midget Japanese submarines, similar to those captured at Pearl

railway at the submarine base on Kiska. The undersea craft had apparently been damaged by demolition bombs." :

Tokyo Alibis for Kiska Loss

By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio propagandists offered the Japanese people windy explanations today of the loss of Kiska, describing in one breath the garrison flight to escape a trap and claiming in another that they never meant to hold the Aleutians. To these claims Tokyo added the boast. that ‘withdrawal from Kiska without loss was held by Japanese military commentators to be “without a parallel in world military history,” the office of war information said. OWI pointed out Berlin said the same thing last Tuesday about the retreat of the axis from Sicily. Broadcasts recorded by U. 8. monitors said the island was seized originally to cover fortification of the Kuriles, on the northern approaches to Japan proper. Forgetting previous boasts that: the Aleutians were the road to an attack on Alaska, the broadcaster ‘| said -the Kurile chain had been de- | eloped. and that Kiska had ‘been i cording to Rog 2

ut saw Signs | that ‘the garrison’s flight had been recent. Tokyo said it’ pulled out aboard warships during a \providential break in the fog.” °

POLIO DELAYS } I OPENING ONE WEEK| Five Cases Discovered in Contingent of Army.

: Times. Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 23.— Notices were mailed today to approximately. 3000 Indiana university students not to report for the fall semester until a week after schedule because of discovery of infantile paralysis in an army ‘unit on the campus. University officials sald that while they were assured. by state health authorities that there was little danger. of spread of the disease by contact, the action was taken as a precautionary measure to “calm any public hysteria.”

Appropriations requested by (Continued on Page Three)

A-36 HERALDED. AS VERSATILE FIGHTER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa; Aug. 23 (U.P. —The A-36, versatile American’ fighter, fighterbomber and. glider-bomber, has doubled the. fighting distance record for single-engined planes, it was -announced at headquarters today. ‘In yesterday's raid on: Salerno, | Italy, the A-36, nicknamed the “invader,” were used as escort planes for the first time and flew a total distance of 400 miles. from their base to Salerno and back. The previous range was less than 200 miles

Garden in Country Isn't o | Victory Garden, Reader Says!

scribed as: being + in the . Rogers’ garden in a back lot, incl sun-

The delayed opening was ordered by President Herman B Wells upon recommendation of Dr. Thurman B. |Rice,. state health commissioner, and with the approval of Judge Ora L. Wildermuth, Gary, president of the board of trustees. Training. for about 1200 soldiers and nearly 1000 WAVES and mem(Continued on Page Three)

CHUNGKING RAIDED 1ST TIME IN 2:YEARS | CHUNGKING, Aug. 23 (U. P).— Japanese : aircraft raided the Chungking area for the first time in two years today, striking 48 hours hours after American fliers

reportedly destroyed . 3¢ enemy Planes in heavy assaults on Han-

it of good weather to the Chinese front marked a new outburst: of aerial activity, with the

NO OCTOBER CALL FOR: FATHERS HERE

Canadians Help ir Help in" Occupy- |-

Harbor, were found on the marine|

Indiana Quota Remains in|

Bntered as Second-Class Matter ‘af Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. . Issued

daily except Bunday

Discharged ‘veterans of the present war are receiving extensive co-operation in seeking vé-caploy;

to local employment offices.

SOME DOUBTFUL

Officials = Are, Skeptical; Quis: War Aims

i for & separate pedce ‘with the Soviet Uhion were recéived ‘by governemnt' officials -here today with - corisiderable skepticism. ‘Week-end developnients may: have improved the chances for Ss withdrawal from the war But there were ‘no indications an immediate freak ‘was expdsten,

ot LONDON, Aug: ; 23 (UU. [P,) v= ~The London Daily: re- ~ ported from Stockholm today: that Finland attempted over the weekend to enlist Britain as an intermedijary in making a separate peace with Russia,

The action of a delegation demanding , an: investigation of peace possibilities was similar to previous demonstrations which have ‘had no effect on the Finnish government. A forerunner of any official peace feeler probably would’ be alteration of : Finland’s proclaimed war aims, which stand now unchanged from a year: ago. At (that time: Finland, expecting ‘a - German : victory, .was demanding a, “strategic - frontier” which would extend Finnish ‘térritory: well “into the Soviet Union. Finland ‘wanted the Karelian peninsula and ‘all of east Karelia, far 10: the eastward: of We boundary dram in’ 1940. Moscow obviously would not now entertain’ peace offers based on ‘any such proposal. ©

GONYOYED TNS LAND IN’ ENGLAND

Jittery Nazis Step . Up

Rate of Executions. :

LONDON, Aug. 28 (U. P)~ Thousands of additions] American troops have arrived in England to swell ‘the allied invasion armieés, it was ‘revealed Ay as reports of new assassinations and executions reached London from jittery Eu-

rope. The American vesllorsemienits,

OF FINN PEACE|

that Finland king alate pe a guar-

. fhome.

| who contacts him.

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By VICTOR The war's end might well be

1 . . . an angel with so many branches that its roots are tound in nearly every American

Re-employment System Here is how it works:

Discharge records from all camps and hospitals flow into the re-em-ployment division of the selective

referred to the employment committeeman of his loca] ‘draft board

If he already is employed the case is dropped. If unemployed the cause is ascertained. Steps are then taken to eliminate the causative factor and to secure the man a position, Example Given

For example: assume a veteran has been so disabled that he no longer can perform his- peacetime task and is in need of money. to tide "him over a rough period. The ‘local chapter of the, American Red Cross could be contacted [to lend financial aid and the rehabilitation and vocational training division of the’ state department of education, operating under the federal security agency, could train the ‘man in new skills, The next step would be for the local office of the United. States employment service to seek a position for the. rehabilitated. and trained veteran. The USES: seeks positions, ‘acts ‘upon requests from industry end business .and cooperates with the civil service commission. 4 More Co-operation Other agencies - co-operating’ in veteran placement include churches, the local press and all civie: organizations. A ‘double check, so ‘that no serv(Continued on ‘Page Three)

Hoosier Employers Keep Faith With Returned Men

service system state headquarters. | The veteran's case history is then |

ment as they become civilians once again. Here is W. D: Sherfick, registration interviewer of ‘the. locdl United States employment office (left), interviews Cpl. Joseph L. Lemire, who will be discharged from Billings General hospital soon. Interviews are held every Friday and the individual cases tarwarded

PETERSON a long way off, but already the

“Johnnies are. marching. home again.” And ‘Hoosier employers apparently are keeping faith with the men who went off to war for Indiana discharged veterans of world war II pre Judie their old jobs venly for them. Others: are being placed

PRICE FOUR CENTS

Germans Admit Loss; Russian Statement | Expected Soon.

BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 23 (U. PJ). -t Premier Josef Stalin announced | tonight in an order of the day that the Red army had captured ; Kharkov by storm.

LONDON, Aug Aug. 23 (U. P.). —German troops have evac= uated Kharkov, Russia's fourth largest city, a Nazi broadcast said today, throws ing open the Ukraine for a Russian thrust to the Dnieper: (An. official DNB . news agency broadcast quoted the international information bureau, a Nazi propas= ganda agency, that axis forces had withdrawn from Kharkov "accords ing to plan after destroying. war-important installations.”

The evacuation was completed last night, it said.

Minimize Loss

Though the Russians have been engaged in some of ‘the fiercest fighting of the whole summer cams+ paign in the’ northern and north eastern outskirts of Jharkov dur= ing- the past 10 days, the German broadcast asserted that the evac= uating forces were "nok pressed by the Soviets.” “Since the city several times nob changed hands, it no longer is & | center of trafic and supply in its present condition,” the broadcast continued in an effort to minimize the loss of the most important axis | base between Bryansk. and the sea of Azov. “By this disengaging movement German: positions’ have been con~ siderably’ shortened and improved.”

LANDRITIN SKY OFFENSIVE,

Allied Bombers Plaster Nazi Center for War Gas.

BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 23 (U.P.).—The air war ministry announced that Mitchell medium bombers attacked the St. Omer ‘railway yards in northern France today, encountering no German fighter opposition.

LONDON, Aug. 1g. 23 . P.) —Brit-

Germany’s torn Rhineland for the first time sin two weeks last night and more allied planes put the renewed offensive ‘on a continuous basis with assaults on the: continent by daylight today. Plunging through bad weather that had kept them grounded four nights, the bombers ' centered their heavy block-buster explosives on the chemical works at Leverkusen, four miles north of Cologne, where war.gas components are made. Five planes were missing. The stormy weather obscured results of the Rhineland raids. Two enemy fighters . were shot down by -the bombers, which had hit at Leverkusen twice since the war started although Cologne has’ been raided 120 times. The warning of impending raids against Czechoslovakia was addressed to Czechs and Slovaks working in - factories, such as Skoda, turning out arms and amsmunition for the German war mabine. Leave Nazi war factories or _{(Continued on Page Three)

SALERNO JS TARGET OF DAY-NIGHT RAIDS

Shoot Down 33 Interceptor Fighter Planes.. ‘By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North

Low. Bracket.

*licosed 8 huticane: dy snd night

the (and shot down 33 more intercepting

Africa, Aug. 28 (U.P.).—Allied planes

miles southeast of Naples, r yesterday to boost their four-day bag

: {any possibility of alteration in the|

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 .(U. P.). —Reaction to the change in Soviet ambassadors to the United States today - revealed again the uneasiness with which this capital. views]

Soviet Union’s. foreign policy. Some sources pointed out, however, that the ambassadorial shift here and in London could -have been dictated by the Soviet’s uneasiness ‘about Anglo -American military and diplomatic policies. It was the latest of a series of Soviet moves this i and sumper which inspired unofficial

some sources fear that make a separate peace

ish four-motored bombers attacked |

Expect ‘Moscow Word

It was expected that Russia would announce the recapture of Khar’ ror in # special communique tonight. The German, evacuation camé only a little more than two weeks after the start of the Soviet sums § mer offensive in this sector and = ' | héld promise of an intensified drive gly toward the:Dnieper river, the ni big natural defense line to the Soviet flanking columns have reached 70 miles to the w to within 24 miles of Poltava, rails road junction 55 miles northeast: ! the Dnieper. Russian forces southeast of xian kov already have begun a com panion drive to wipe out a Ger salient anchored on the Donets ‘an Mius rivers and reaching the ses of Azov at Taganrog; west of Re

300 Nazis Killed

After seizing bridgehéads on the west banks of both the Donets and the Mius, the Soviet army smashe ahead yesterday in a new: attack southwest of Voroshilovgrad, 170 miles southwest of . Kharkov, caps tured several villages, killed German infantrymen, destroyed tariks and shot down 21 axis plan in aerial combat. - . The fall of Kharkov ranks wi the capture of Orel as the greate victory of the Russian st offensive, which already has cg the Germans 1,000,000 men in. de and wounded and enormous amoun of tanks, planes and guns. Sa The Soviet. army captured Khare kov last Feb. after a 300-m march from Stalingrad, but ‘lost f to a German counter-offensive month later.’ : ‘The Russians probably will vance as far as Poltava, 80 mile southwest of Kharkov, with: little difficulty, then encaunt steadily stiffening resistance as thi near the Dnieper river line. Occupation of Kharkov wiil. giv

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Russian Diplomatic Shifts 4 Add to Allied Uneasines

world, had been replaced with . young, unknown—Andrei A. Grom ko, formerly an interim cha d’affaires at the Soviet ‘emby here. : Authoritative sources

change in policy and leaned Moscow explanation that P Josef Stalin recalled both Litvi and Ivan Maisky, for 11 Years s bassador to Great Britain, to the advice of two of his diplomats while planning pc policies. But, the timing of the . .ment—at the peak of the

| velt-Churchill conference. at ¢

bec at which Russia hi not. = resented — widely ini

otherwise, Sor At buke for Anglo-American invade. Europe or that it Stalin's retaliation for not being ine | vited to Bucnee. } 5%