Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1943 — Page 1

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VOLUME 54—~NUMBER 143

; WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Two men with the politfcal spark of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill once could “have produced something more electrifying than the list- - less “Declaration of Quebec.” Something more certainly was needed. Politically the war is going stale. In England people are turning their thoughts more - and more: toward resumption of peacetime normal

activities.

| Doorstep Baby Enjoys Life

: RL NE I erles in His crib at the Cds Guardian home. A note left with him ssid, “He is » 500d Taby, Please

; owt give him up.”

WB OPPOSES PORTAL’ PAY

Gestion Their: Legal Right .~.To- Pass - on Issues While: in Court.

WASHINGTON, "Aug. 25 @. P). =-The, war Jabor board today -was

reported | to have disapproved - the $1.35 a day portal-to-portal pay provided ‘in ‘the ‘ proposed contract between: the - United » Mine Workers of, America and the Illinois Coal Operators association. ‘Reliable sources sald that during a session’ yesterday afternoon, the board ‘voted 8 to 4 to. reject the portal-to-portal provision. A formal decision may be announced soon. ~ Illinois operators and the U. M. WW. presented the contract to’ the hoard for approval on Aug. 3. U. M. W. President’ John L. Lewis personally appeared before the board “to tirge acceptance of the contract. The Illinois contract proposes that mirers be paid for 54 minutes ‘of travel time daily. The operators, ‘however, conceded that this pay was due” from the. time the wage-hour _ law was enacted in 1938, and agreed to ‘adjust’ the travel time pay to $1.26 daily to cover the intervening years on a retroactive basis. : "Jt was understood that one of the board's main’ reasons for rejecting the clause was its contention that , (Continued on Page Four)

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Isearch Made for Mother Who Abandoned Infant Son

A haby boy of a little more than five months laughed and: cried in a crib at the Children’s. Guardian home today while officials sought

the mother who abandoned him. Billy is his name. and pretty.

When Mrs. W.:C. Ritcher, 432° Buckingham drive, and ‘her: daughter, Mrs. Herbert Murnan, whose husband is.‘a major,, went to a -screened back porch last night to obtain soft drinks ‘from a refrigera-

tor, they found Billy.

He ‘had been left in a basket, neatly clad, 2 ‘fresh. bottle of milk

by his side..

There was a note which said his name Was William Patrick. Pranklin, that he was born on March 26. “Please give Billy a home,” the note pleaded, and you will never be sorry. Please do. not: ‘giye: him up: Please.”

He’s healthy, well dressed,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1943

Everybody was taking a vacation this year.

paign, thus far unsuccessful, the ‘blackout.

has been carried on against

Here in America you find people, more every day,

who think the war is almost

over,

Manufacturers are going to the war department ask. Air raid precautions were being relaxed and a caming to be relieved .of war contracts so they can resume

making baby buggies.

“|roads in

2... today he laughs and

a'lad termed sweet

“He is a good baby

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Hoosier Heroe

Butlers Get

Word Second Son Missing

Missing | WITH ONE SON lost in action at sea this spring, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Butler, 1207 Gale st., this week were notified. that their second son, 2d Lt. Morris E, Butler, was missing in action over Cologne, Germany. i Lt. Butler, a ‘bombardier on a Flying: Fortress with the 8th army air force in England, has bean missing since Aug. 12. His brother, William, 1-c gunner in the navy, was: reported missing

March 3. en The Hoosier airman has par- |

ticipated in raids over Kassell,

and ‘one described as

Germany, “deep mio the heart of the Reich.” . He Jett. Nebraska June 26 to

fy ‘with. other : crew: members to

the new air corps station in - land. He his a

sore Butler, 3 5 Tow sw.

QUARTERLY REPORT MADE ON LEND-LEASE

July- Supplies in- Excess ‘of $1,000,000,000.

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (Us PB). President Roosevelt, in reporting that lend-lease aid "to our: allies through July 31 had totalled $13,973,339,000 today declared that “except for - the responsible ‘Fascist leaders the people of the axis need not. fear unconditional surrender to the United Nations.” “Lend-lease supplies are hastening the day of final victory,” the president said in his Jetter to.congress transmitting the ly lend-lease. report.

RUSS THRUST PINGER ARMS | ABOUT DONETS|

| Soviet Spearheads Push

South From the Izyum Area. MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (U.P.).—The Russ army today was reported smashing through one German defense 'line after another in a developing pincers drive aimed at enveloping the dense network of railthe heart of the Donets basin.

progress by Russian spearheads

- {thrusting south from the Izyum area 75 miles southeast of Kharkov and] - |northwest: from a Mius river bridge~

head above Taganrog. Tf the Russ ‘ariny can close the

miles apart in the initial phase of the maneuver, tens of thousands of

and south of the city. Northwest of Kharkov, other Soviet forces captured several towns in oto on th toward Sumy and KonOtop on the road ta Kiev, e Germans since the Ly wv) he War.

FAVORS TAKING WHAT WE NEED

Kelland Proposes Defensive Alliance for U. S. and

Great Britain.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (U. P.J— Clarence Buddington Kelland, national ‘Republican committeeman for “Arizona, today ‘demanded that Great Britain and the United States sign a permanent defensive alliance and that the United States “take what we must have’—including Dakar and Casablanca—for national - defense. - Addressing the National Republican club, Kelland divided his “blueprint for foreign policy” into five “Zones of safety.” d The five “zones” were: < 1. The United States, Great Britain, ‘China and Russia act as trus-

tees to administer, police and pro(Continued on Page Five)

CHAS. BALES, STATE EXAMINER, DIES|

Charles Bales, 66, field examiner for the state accounts board since 1922, died today at Richmond where {he ‘was on assignment. Mr. Bales, a native of Rushville, served as a deputy auditor in Rush county PHior'® Joining the assunts

Front dispatches reported steady]

jaws of the pincers, now about 100}

.Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftice Tetanapuiin. J Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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e War Is Goin, Stale’

WOMEN ‘WAR, workers, their first enthusiasm gone, are e dropping: out. Yet Paul McNutt wants two million more war. workers by ‘the end of the year. ; , + Draft Director Hershey wants 446,000 fathers for draftees by Dec. 1 and people of America are about to be -asked for 15 billion dollars for the third war loan.

If we are going to raise that much money, if those fathers are to be taken from their families without leav-

WIL

ing a trail of burnifig resentment, if the two million ha workers volunteer to do hard manual work after

: well-paid easier jobs, everybody has to feel deeply that: a

hard war is yet to.be finished and that victory and a new automobile are not just around the corner. X They won’t ‘do ‘it eagerly for a cause that has sole.

stale.

War requires not only military leadership but

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ANGSTERISM' IN WORLD

END, F.D.R. PLEDGE

Maestro. Sued

| "| DAVID RUBINOFF * JOHICAGO, Aug. 25 (U. P)— DAVID - RUBINOFF, radio and - concert violinist, was sued for $50,000. today-- by. -a - Chicago - taxi driver ‘who charged that Rubinoff “wilfully : and: maliciously” alien= ated the . affections of his wife. The driver, John. Ganek, 41, said ‘Rubinoff met his wife, Margaret, in 1035 when she was 24. She left him .at that time, Ganek said, and was seen with Rubinoff : in various parts of the couhtry until July 1, 1939 when she died of pneumonia. Rubinoff, who is currently appearing in the stage show at the Circle theater,” could not be reached ‘for comment. Ar

Mis. Litvinoff ‘Expected Change

: NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (U. P.).— The New York World-Telegram ina ‘copyrighted interview today quoted Mrs. Maxim Litvinov as saying she saw nothing significant of the ‘recall of her husband as Russian ambassador to the United States. i “P'ye-been expecting this,” Mrs Litvinov was quoted in an interview with Helen Worden at Lake ‘Mafippac, N. Y. “There’s nothing extraordinary or unusual about the shift. “Wherever we go, people ask me how long we are staying and 1 always say, ‘diplomats never know.’ ‘Ambassadors of other countries "are. moved around and no. one thinks anything about it. Why ‘should. they: read anything . in it now? ‘Another Russian‘ ambassador is taking my husband's place.

The. government hasn't Shapged.”

SINK - JAP SUPPLY SHIPS

‘NEW DELHI, Aug. 25 (U. P.)— Thirteen enemy supply sampans were destroyed and many others damaged in fighter attacks on Japadese supply lines-in Burma yesterday, while a ‘bombers “hit: the enemy supply: depot sat Bagunu, south , of Buthidanug. a ‘British

‘Hoosier Patrietfes’ A . Sworn Into WAVES Tonight

RAF BOMBS | BERLIN SECOND NIGHT IN ROW

Nazi Capital Found Aflame After Previous Record Attack.

LONDON, Aug. 256 (U. P.).—Swift Mosquito bombers attacked Berlin last night through clouds of smoke from fires still raging in the German capital 24 hours after its heaviest bombardment of the war. The air ministry said pilots of the twin-engined wooden planes

{could see flames leaping from the - | ground ‘ through a thick haze and ) searchlight glare when they struck | ila About. 11 p. m,, but exact observation was difficult. <j Mosquitoes was: Jost, 2 radio identifymng

None of the

left homeless in the Berlin raid Monday night.

Electrical Plants Damaged

The broadcast, heard in Sweden, said two big electrical plants were

badly damaged and two power sta-

stroyed. The west-central part of the city was hardest hit, it added. The Mosquitoes gave bomb-wary Berliners a second night of alarm by hitting at selected targets on a pattern “similar to the Hamburg devastation attacks when they took over while heavier bombers were idle. With Berlin-now the objective of the air offensive, Maj. Gen. Harold L. George, commanding general of the U. 8. air transport command, predicted today that trip-hammer around-the-clock blows continuing at a rising pace would knock out Germany's wartime economic structure by the end of the year. The German command had betrayed its fear of the allied air onslaught by concentrating 60 per cent (Continued on Page Four)

OVERSEA VETERANS TO REST AT HOTELS

Miami Beach Redistribution

Centers Now Ready.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Aug. 25 (U. P.) —Final preparations for reception ‘of large numbers of returning overseas. veterans in a new personnel - redistribution center here were made today in what was described as “directly in line” with President Roosevelt's recently decldred plan of demobilization. The redistribution center, one of three, to be set up for army air force members who have seen

fashionable ocean-front hotels on Miami Beach from which the boys y swim, Play golf and “be made live again.” ‘would be brought here system. Then they 8 14-day ' furlough examination, and if} all right for farther active “will be reassigned to other

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URGES STAY-HOME WEEK-END ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P).

tions and two gas plants were de-'

Foot Race?

Ford Challenges Write To an Athletic Contest.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P.). Government and diplomatic circles whose activities columnist Drew Pearson has reported for many years. hoped today that nothing would prevent him from accepting Henry Ford’s challenge fo a foot race, bicycle race or jumping contest. Pearson was not available for comment on 6 Ford's challenge which was precipitated by Pearson’s radio remarks last Sunday that the government might have

action, will consist of 10 of the most |

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P.). Columnist - Drew Pearson, who is 46, today accepted 80-year-old Henry Ford’s challenge to a foot race, bicycle race or a jumping contest to determine who is the better man=-physically.

to take over the Ford Motor Co. because of Ford's failing health. Ford, once retired, assumed direction of the company after the recent death of his son, Edsel. There was no authoritative opinion here .on how: Pearson would stack up against Ford in any of the athletic contests suggested. Ford just celebrated his 80th birthday; Pearson is ‘46. : Ford, at his summer home in

the ' Huron - mountains, ‘said last . night:

“I don’t know how old or young this Pearson is, or what shape he’s in, or what he has ever done in the way of athletics, but I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better physically in my life.”

ITALY CALLS TROOPS," TTLE INVASION

| ment buildings and

{Japan that' they would learn

‘the united nations that o

‘Outlaws Would Surrender If They Had Been at .

Quebec Parley.’

(Text of F. D. R's Speech, Page Seven) i

OTTAWA, Aug. 25 (U. P.)s —President Roosevelt pledged today in a world-wide radi broadcast that the united na+ tions will, in this war, break up “once and for all,” inters national “gangsterism,” Speaking on the first occasion . an American president's visit

Ottawa, the cliief executive stood’ the entrance of the towering parlias

“absciuie victory” by ihe. sill

would, bring the world well Song the road to “freedom from want.” He warned Germany, Italy ud

“secret” decision reached ‘at his Quebec conferences with Prime Minister Winston Churchill in “the only language their twisted minds seem capable of understanding.” He ‘said that if the axis generals knew what had been planned af Quebec they would realize that “surrender would pay them bette now than later.” : Called Out “Posse”

Condemning the, Nazis for theis “evil , , . inability” to.under the rights of their fellowmen the “fanatical militarists of Japan for similar brutal qualities, Roosevelt told an audience which included 200 members of = the Canadian parliament and some 25.& 000 citizens of Ottama: “We have been forced to call ou the sheriff's posse to break up the gang in order that gangsterism be eliminated in the community nations. “We are making sure—absol irrevocably ‘sure—that this time lesson is driven home to them once and for all. We are going to be rig of outlaws this time.” Citing unanimous belief amon “a e and lasting peace” could justify th sacrifices of the present war, th chief executive said the post-w: world was discussed in Quebec, b he-offered no details of the. pris ions except to say they probably were duplicated in dozens of nations and hundreds of cities all over the wotld. )

President Optimistic

Mr." Roosevelt . was optim about the movement of the war 1 the Pacific, turning his scorn those Americans and Canad who wanted to withdraw our fo from the Atlantic and ranean when the Japanese first ins" vaded “a few rocky specks in% Aleautians.” 0 He supported his scorn by calling the recent elimination Japanese forces from Kisks a

1 Attu.

“We have been told,” he “that Joe never surrender;

On the War Fron

(Aug. 25, 1943) EUROPE— British light Planes

} Berlin for the second.

night; American . Somers German air installations ' France.

EAN. i;

shi and Jegiroy lian siping wad southern Italy.

"| RUSSIA—Red armies fan I

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