Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1943 — Page 2

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HERE'S WHAT business can expect from house ways and means committee in the way of revisions in the contract renegotiation law: from renegotiation for contracts made after Dec. 31, higher Jevies to take up the slack, exemption of contracts under $500,000 (present minimum is $100,000), formulas to restrict , discretionary powers of price adjustment boards, provision court review of boards’ orders. fo Congress may try to attach provisions wiping out cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts. But war department is following navy’s lead in trying down on these contracts, modify terms,

to avoid having them

AY another recess.. Senate Republica vors it, has conferred with house Republican leaders. little business for either house after

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L. Lewis, even though he

YOU'LL HEAR little more of Prentiss Brown as OPA administra- . Chester Bowles, on trial since his arrival to be general manager, ~~" is satisfying many groups, is likely to get the top title soon. A Con-

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; PATRICK (D. Ala), whose radio clown out of congress, will try a comeback at BirmingDemocratic opponent, Rep. John P. New- | the radio to play back a transcription of a Patrick didn’t matter whether or not he was on the house understood the bill up for discussion, anyway.

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HAIRMAN McNUTT was given a stiff political heat trealstate of Indiana and from powerful Texans here ort to keep Indianapolis and Dallas from being listed shortage areas. The listing precludes further war conin,

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turn loose on domestic affairs, home-front has a blast in a forthcoming magazine.

Farm implements may not be plentiful next year after all. Makers got their allotments so late they're having diffieulty finding places 10 book their steel. And their rating for component parts for tractors, k combines, reapers, is only AA-2—not high enough to do much good.

More Bobby Pins For '44—Maybe

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P). —Pin curls for lanky locks in 1944? The girls still don’t know. The war production board today | issued an order authorizing double the production of bobby and hair pins next year but attached a

BANKRUPTCY SEEN AS POST-WAR ISSUE

C , Oct. 2 (U. P)— through its vast

apply. sufficient pres-

Namely—actual production is to

“be dependent upon quarterly allocation of materials for the pure

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air bases,

within 10 days or a fortnight. largest, Capodichino and PomilTwo smaller airfields, Cesaro-Con-nearby lake,

Admits Evacuation (Radio Berlin did not acknewl-

last night. Then it broadcast a

that war labor board will o. k. proposed: | dispatch sa that the port had | ‘between Illinois coal operators and U, MW. Study has bers that they can't approve with consist. tion within the board to “appeasement” of has dropped his defiant attitude. Meantors in Appalachian region, where most of the produc- , Are preparing data to show Illinois proposal can't be to their territories—and that if it could, it would boost the coal, be inflationary.

been evacuated after German troops destroyed installations in the town

aid. harbor which might be useful

to the allies.) ; French troops, American rangers and Corsican patriots continued to hanimer the remnants of the German garrison on Corsica back onto

the eastern shore - beaches from which - they were trying frantically to reach the Italian mainland under a ruin of allied aerial bombs. French Spitfire pilots, operating from newly-established air bases on

t, Mr: Bowles may pacify Capitol Hill with some |r. ‘before appropriation time. Former Senator it to Brown, probably will 89, too, y

Ritments Likely

+DEPENDENTS OF servicemen will get more liberal allowances far short of levels demanded by OC. I. O.'s Phil Murray. house military affairs committee probably will emerge and two children $79 instead of present $72. Bill also will cover top three grades of enlist ineligible, and will carry more liberal benefits for “class B” are total dependents,

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DUKE OF WELLINGTON IS KILLED IN ACTION

LONDON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—The

sixth duke of Wellington, Lord

Henry V. G., Wellesley, was killed in action in the recent Sicilian campaign while serving as a captain of British commandos, it was an-

nounced today. He was 31 years old

A soldier since he left school, the duke was killed while serving with a raiding party which landed on the northwestern torner of Sicily, near the end of the 38-day cam-

His uncle, Lord Gerald Wellesley, 58, succeeds lo the title, which

lington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo,

GOL. KELLY RESUMES POSITION AT FORT

Lt. Col. Michael J. Kelly of the finance replacement training center at Ft. Harrison, has reassumed command of the group, succeeding Col. Alfred J. Maxwell, who was retired :

. Col. Kelly was originally commander of the unit when it was transferred to the fort Jan. 13, 1042, from Baltimore, Md. Col

Maxwell took over when the triple expansion -of -the center was effected. Col. Kelly has been serving as supervisor of technical training.

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harbor south of Genoa on the north coast and a network of all-weather

Though the Germans left Naples harbor clogged with scuttled Ships and its installations in ruins,” com.|petent authorities reported the allies could clear -it sufficiently to ’ begin the supply of ground forces!’

The airfields probably can be used almost immediately. The two

giano, have tarmac or concrete runways more than a mile long.

sole and Misida, lie outside Naples and there is a seaplane base on a

edge the Joss of Naples until late

the northeastern port of Bastia and

began with the first duke of Wel-|3aY

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VT. PAUL KESTLER

ON WAR DEATH LIST)

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\ Gr. Peter M. Berkowicz, son of Mrs. Victorias Berkowics, 5012 Baring ave, East Chicago; 1st Sgt. Ralph H. Darling, nephew of William Dawson, New Castle; Pvt. Hubert P. Everding, son of Mrs. Lizzie -M. Everding, Richmond; Pvt. Harold L. Greider, son of Core B. Greider, Pierceton: Ple. Arthur R. Hendrix, son. of Mrs, Eulah Hendrix, New Albany; 2d Lt. Pred L. Johnson Jr. son of Fred L. Johnson, Logansport; Pvt. Edward L. Keppen, son of Mts, Florence H. Keppen, 1008 Chicago st., Michigan City; Pvt.

Franklin N. Smith, son of Mrs. |

Oleva G. Fink, Cambridge City; Pfc. Raymond D. Sporleder, husband of Mrs. Jane Sporleder, North Vernon, and in the Pacific

area—S. Sgt. Charles J. Sottong,|

son of Mrs. Francis F. Sottong, Brookville. .

WOUNDED GUNNER HOPES FOR ACTION

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Then he was taken by hospital boat to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and later to Ft. Devens, Mass., and the Percy Jones hospital at Battle Creek, Mich. He finally came home Sept. 9 and will report back to duty next Pri-

“The country over there is all right,” he said, “but it's a lot different from here, What I missed most was ice cream. The first thing I asked for at the Percy Jones hospital was a malted milk.”

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Italian Family of 8 100% Behind War Effort. . GUADALCANAL, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Italian -born, with five

Outside of Pat, the family lineup is: ; . Pat's wife—helping to make parachutes,

Mama Felichiani—making clothing for marines. Miss Lucy Pelichiani, the ‘daughter—training to become a navy nurse at Temple university hospital, Philadelphia. Sgt. John Felichiani~marine aboard a navy cruiser. Alfred Felichiani--airplane factory foreman. . Pvt. James Felichiani—at the Parris Island, 8. C., marine base.

BEAUFIGHTERS BOMB VESSELS. IN AEGEAN

CAIRO, Oct. 2 (U., P.).—~Beaufighters of the Middle East come

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neither the - force of the attacks V tee nor the weapons were considered : exceptional. : :

|ing direct hits on four vessels, One | merchantman burst into flames and sank after a heavy explosion had

over and sank. An escorting de-

headquarters said the rest of the HERMAN WILLKIE’ convoy was believed to have turned to run for shelter. .

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Two ladies who lost their young

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dicates Attempts to | *°d then got lost themselves, fia “Halt Invasion.

Snd Supplies to the Mediterranean while police searched for the

c +. | niece, 20-year-old Lillian Lane. - "Most speculation in recent weeks on the date for the allied invasion] They were found sitting on -a of western Europe has centered in| park bench during a storm, lost

! : William J. Wright, a bank clerk, .~ Though survivors who reached found the wallet, containing Miss Canada said the submarines used | ranyg life savings, on a sidewalk

reuse wen ono WITH MURDER The. Germans were - known to |

early this year, some 200 of which! Confesses Throwing Newthelr mcotss last spring. During Born Child From e

River. Bridge. and the new offensive may exceed . the previous one. - A charge of murder was placed Survivors of the North Atlantic against George Lowe, 18, 520 Mills attack said that upward of 30 U- ave. today, following a confession

number probably was increased

ever, by devastating three-quarters river south of the city Sept. 19." of Hamburg; the major Nazi sub-| Lowe was held to the grand jury marine building center and base, in | in municipal court this morning. a series of unparalleled air, rejds, |The 16-year-old mother is charged and. by -bombing the important: At- | with vagrancy. lantic bases of Nantes, La.Pallice] Lowe said he had beén keeping and others on the French coast. [company with the girl, who was-to a. become the mother of his child, for to

83 a} " g ’ two years. . He. had intended YANKS SINK 3 SHIPS |=aco be soon. ~~ ee “The girl, in a t to juveIN JAPANESE CONVOY" “on rrcer sem : (Continued from Page One) . He said “it can be assumed the enemy suffered heavy loss of life.” |34 Liberator pilots said they saw only one ship sunk, although both headquarters officially credited the bombers with destruction of at least two of these enemy vessels. For more than an hour the bombers harried the enemy flotilla, scor-

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Mitchell, ., today was granted outla Irish Republican - a divorce in Kenton county circuit Sutlaved 1 arrest today a8 arin)

court from Herman PF. Willkie, squads, armed machine successful 1040 Republican presi-| yong] ~ suspects. In the holdup

: dential candidate. The case Was-not/ murder of 4 Belfast policeman.

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The Nazis, the notes said, 1 everything ‘they could lay hands upon in the city and “fact: the lower elements of the popula

-|tion” to complete their

of people queued up before the f shops, killing and wounding and children, _ “Then began the work of German dynamiters and fire rais ers,” he wrote, “The port mined jetty by jetty and dock dock . . . The German Hatred was turned upon buildings w!

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operations.” Of the Fascists left in Naples, wrote tersely “they are not worth talking about.”

man patrol fired over the leads of the crowd “to save him. from public. wrath.” @ bee

One passage disclosed that the people of Naples demonstrated jue

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30 UNDER ARREST IN BELFAST KILLING

BELFAST, Ireland, Oct. 2 (U. P.. alleged

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