Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1943 — Page 3

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* Until Contracts Signed, | Says Administrator. |

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U, P. ~Federal Coal’ Administrator Harold L Ickes said today that “the coal situation is getting

Workers and coal operators sign & wage contract,” : 7 Although he defended the miners’

not work at maximum efficiency until they had a new agreement. ‘ “The miners are used to working under a contract,” he said. “They Just don't feel like working at top efficiency because of the uncertainty over hours and wages.” : An agreement between the UMC and Illinois coal operators, providing for substantial wage increases, now is before the war labor board. The agreement, if approved, might result in a blanket nation-wide agreement along similar lines,

Miners’ Record Good

Ickes also said that the fuel oil situation for the coming winter is not encouraging, even though the supply on hand is increasing slowly. Ickes said coal production had increased over last year's level despite serious manpower losses and that

“|“we can't cavil with the miners’

record.” “All things considered the miners have done a damn good job for which they are not getting any credit,” he said. [ ‘He said coal output was lagging behind production ‘goals by~500.000 toris a week. He reported present bituminous coal stocks at 75,000,000 tons and sald there were no anthracite reserves. , He expressed belief the proposed UMW wage contract with INlinois operators would be accepted by other- operators if approved by the war labor board. He also believed that the contract's 8':-hour day, including travel time, would result in increased production. “And if we don't get it (increased production), there's trouble ahead,” he added.

South Will Object Meanwhile, Edward R. Burke,

spokesman for Southern Appalach-|

jan operators, said that his group would present objections to the Illinois contract if and when the WLB

holds a hearing on it. Neither the!

Illinois operators nor the UMW has asked for a hearing. . As for oil, Ickes said , products stocks are still 43 per cent

of normal, as compared with 59.6

per cent last year. Tank car move-

ments to the eastern seaboard are |

he added, and during the last week showed an increase of 53,238 barrels over the previous week. Ickes refused to discuss recent reports to the effect that MidWestern “A” card motorists would be cut from three to two gallons weekly, saying that he “knows nothing” about the basis for such reports. ‘

He sald, however, that within the |

next day or-twe, the petroleum administration for War will certify to the office of price administration the amount of gasoline which will be made available for civilian use during the fourth ‘quarter of the year

HUNDRED BURGLARIES SOLVED BY ARRESTS

The arrest of two Indianapolis men yesterday solved more than 100 burglaries in local rooming houses. The men, Patrick H. Hamilton, 604 E. Market st., and Edward Johnson, 220 E. Ninth st, were charged with vagrancy and each placed under $3000 bond. Detective Chief Jesse P. McMurty said both men have previous criminal records. Hamilton, who confessed 100 burglaries, said he served 18 months

Harold Custer of Charleston, W. Va., said he was allergic to pretty girls at U. 8. 0. in St. Louis and preferred to talk to "somebody like my Mom, who weighs 272 pounds,” jovial Mrs. William Carr, above, was called on to fill the unusual order.

REJECTIONS RUN HIGH IN DRAFT

Nearly Fourth of | Youths; Negroes Half, - | “Turned Down.

By DAVID DIETZ Times Special Wriler | CLEVELAND, Sept. 30. — Nearly | cne-fourth of the white 18 and 19- | year-old boys called under selective service have been rejected for gen- { eral military service and nearly one[half of the Negro boys in the same {age groups have : | been rejected. “The exact figwes given in aN preliminary {analysis conduct {ed by Col. Leon~ {ard G. Rowntree fof the selective service system are 238 and 455 per cent, respectively. These figures nr Diets are only slightly :

Jjower ‘than -those-for-the-older age.

| groups but Col. Rowntree cautions | against drawing too hasty conclu-

i sions from them.

{| The state of health in the young{er group may actually be better than these figures indicate for three reasons. The first is that ngany bo in these age groups enlisted voluntarily before a han was placed on enlistments. The second is that many in these groups are engaged in courses of training where examination and in- | duction are postponed for the time being. The third is employment in war industry or agriculture, It is apparent that all three of these programs are likely to attract an extremely high proportion of physically fit individuals and a small portion of those who are not. Consequently, most of the unfit would show up in the draft figures.

Rejection Causes

The ten leading causes of rejection among white 18 and 19-year-old selective service. registrants, according to Col. Rowntree, were, in order of importance, eye defects, mental disease, musculoskeletal defects, cardiovascular defects, ear defects, hernia, neurologic defects, educational deficiency, underweight and mental deficiency. ) For Negro boys the fen leading causes for rejection, in their order of frequency, were educational deficiency, syphilis, cardiovascular defects, mental disease, musculoskeletal defects, hernia, eye defects, neurologic defects, mental deficiency and tuberculosis. The causes for rejection as shown

Al in these two lists are very similar

t|to those obtained by examining the

statistics for registrants who are 20 years of age or older.

[Marion Levy Cut

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From Proposed Levy; Above Last Year.

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| {should not be included in the city

budget. The board, however, held

- to {ts original decision to grant the

entire sum asked. At a public debate on the dispute yesterday, opponents of the symsphony measure charged that: Financial backing of the musical arts should continue to bé provided by independent interests willing to shoulder the expense of advancing cultural projects. : That imposing a public levy for upkeep of the symphony would set & precedent which might lead to subsidization of other private ventures such as the Speedway and the Indianapolis Indians. Proponents of the proposal answered by pointing out that main. tenance of - the symphony was essential as a morale builder and stabilizer influence in the city's development, , Harry E. Yockey, . Indianapolis OCD director, asked the board for a reconsideration of its action in eliminating wages of a secretary, two stenographers and a publicity director from the civil defense budget. “We simply can't continue to op- | erate efficiently without a modicum {of paid help,” Mr. Yockey said. “1 tried once to recruit voluntary secretarial assistance, but my efforts {fell flat. “I sincerely believe the board's action seriously imperils the morale of thousands of local civil defense volunteers, -and perhaps endangers the entire local OCD structure. The board's decision to erase OCD salaries came soon after Mayor { Tyndall’ had expressed hope that {the civil defense budget would be {maintained as set forth in the original expense estimate,

MODERN POMPEII NOW LIES IN RUINS

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less than 50 yards away, but the forum, museum and the most recent excavations had been damaged in the fighting, The houses of prostitution, where guides always conducted men tourists fora small extra charge, escaped damage. : "The tourist gate thtough which thousands.

passed was battle-scarred and the | administration office entrance had {been smashed hy bombs. Poriraits of Benito Mussolini had been removed from the office, but there was

slashed bia bit of shrapnel. The German Vesuvius line broke yesterday évening after the Nazis had suffered thousands of casualties in a futile attempt to halt the 5th army short of the Naples plain. Though they still were making a rear guard stand on the side of Mt. Vesuvius when we entered Pompeii, the Germans had withdrawn most of their heavy artillery and were depending almost exclusively on tank guns, which they were using as artillery, and some mortars. They also were blowing up bridges wherever possible and mining roads. The Italians donned their best clothes and stood in broken doorways and lopsided windows, waving and cheering’ as the Tommies marched by in a drenching rain and hail storm. It was a pathetic sight because the Italian girls had only old, torn clothes and their bare legs and arms were bruised. Many used lipstick, which only added to their grotuesque appearance, since they had no soap with which to wash the dust of battle from their faces. The German dead were buried hastily. Crosses made out of ame munition cases marked their graves.

‘YANK SUB GETS CITATION WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U. P)). —A presidential unit citation has been awarded the submarine Gud-

totalling 133,957 tons and three. others totaling 13,944 tons, the navy announced today.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

_|HERE IS THE TRAFFIC RECORD FATALITIES

County City Total

Beau anen rans ane +17 Sept. 20 7 | Arrests 2

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inh R Seater, 20, of a0 Yr New rk; Betty Vera Foddr N. Richland.

George Prederick Werner, 23, of 1414 8.

5229 Guill Edward John Zalot, 30, Pt. Benning. Ga; Dorothy Elisabeth Lovell, 39, Plainfield,

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berculosis men ubn lewis. os, at 845 W. 28th, coronary

thrombosis, “Henry Patton, 53, at City, chronic nephritis, Tony Jones, 60, at 622 W. 12th, hronchoJulia Reed. 56, at 1035 Bellefontaine, arte rosis. Allen Reitenhour, 53, at Long, pneumonia. OFFICIAL WEATHER U. 8. Weather Bureas

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's, | Precipitation 34 hrs. end'g 7:30 a. m. .00

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~ In their first announced thrust beyond the east bank Dnieper, the Russians yesterday seized Trukhanov island opposite Kiev following the smashing of the last enemy resistance to the east with the capture of Darnitsa.

of the : & Deprived of their strongest bridgeheads on the east bank, the Germans were reported-fighting des. perately to extricate the remainder of their battered forces from foot-

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