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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 197 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 217, 1943

NON-FATHE STIR BOARDS

RUSSIAN TRAP | One Way Vandalism Helps the Japs {IS CLOSING. ON dons { 900,000 NAZIS) Three-Prong Soviet Drive

Threatens Big Mining

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MOSCOW, Oct. 27--Russian armies in the Dnieper bend were moving in on Krivoi Rog from three sides, today, apparent sealing the doom of the big mining center, and have encircle a big German force in its environs, front dispatches said. The Gérmans hurled hundreds of tanks and planes into a desperate battle to save Krivol Rog, northern prop of the escape gap through

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‘Full Allied Might to Move| To Pacific When We Win in Europe.’ Adm. Ernest J. King, here for a

Navy day address, said today that} the allies have completed the blue-

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‘Listen While We Talk’ Is Ultimatum Issued by | 10 County Boards.

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United States fleet said at a press conference preceding his luncheon] address at the Indianapolis Athletic

Pressure Will Increase

By EARL RICHERT Angry because they must call fathers while non-fathers are protected in their war plant jobs, representatives of 10 of Marion county's draft boards decided last night to “summon” state draft officials

The act of vandalism which left the four tires flat on Arthur Halberstadt's ear, 407 S. Hamilton ave., lost the nation's war effort six. man hours, Mr, Halberstadt and his five riders are war workers.

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which upward of 500,000 fleeing axis troops in the hoped- to reach safety. (Possibly preparing the German public for the loss of Krivol Rog, the official German news agency said the “ever-recurring ‘elastic defense’ of the German command” would frustrate the Soviét attack.

Seize Rail Stations Battling their way through the

Adm, Ernest J. King . . . “We propose to follow the Japs very closely on their return trip to Japan.” .

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streets of Krivol Rog, which lies half way across’ the Dnieper bend, the Russians captured all suburban railway stations and cut all railway lines except a southern spur line. The army organ Red Star said the German command was fleefs of transport planes through a Russian aerial gantlet to parachute

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—This could signal the end of a long, long|S8soline drums and supplies to the ail in the country’s biggest wartime labor disturbance if John L.|encircled force in Krivol Rog's outLewis, president of the United Mine Workers, would say okay to) Firs:

At the same time, groups. of 50 to compromise wage settlement offered him by the war labor board. 0 bomi bombed ‘and. strated

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Compromise Mine Pay Plan Awaits Decision by Lewis

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

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would : erect Vinson’s Denial of Wage believed to be considers on, .

He ere was no confirmation that Increases Results in Keivol Rog itself had yet been enPoll Degision.

coal production last spring and sum- WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U. P).|panzer division from Italy, were —Officials of 15 non-operating rail-| counter-attacking as many as. 10 times daily, but were being pushed back steadily through the streets of 1,100,000 members on whether pa. wn they are willing to strike for the| Prisoners reported that several of ed its compromise offer with| wage increases denied them by|their units had reached the front telegram stating that if the coal Economic Stabilisation Director|from Germany only a month ago, . not: cease. by tomorrow | Fred M. Vinson. while other detachments were sta“the board will immediately strik tioned jn France up to last Septemrefer: the matter to the president ne Ee ro. erable Nov, ber. Germans said reserves for appropriate action.” According|,ic.. of .the unions to Pr oy were thrown into battle immedito precedents, the president ‘would t* of the|8tely after alighting from trains. be |. The government newspaper Izvesworkers . resul transferril 000 |other war tn unauthor.| is eid the Russians already have “{ized strikes. _ Officials op

Force Is Smaller These tactics were reminiscent of the abortive German attempt to rescue their encircled army of 340,000 at Stalingrad. The size of the force encircled at Krivol Rog was What Mr, Lewis says have a profound

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were lost this morning as the result of vandalism on the East side. When Arthur R. Halberstadt, 407 S. Hamilton ave, started for work about 11:30 p. m. yesterday, he found four flat tires on his car which was parked in front of his home. Someone had taken an ice pick and punctured holes in each tire, So,

Six-man hours in a war pat Ms. Halberstadt went

to work pumping. By 11:50 p. m. he had the four tires pumped up with a hand air pump but when the fourth one was filled with air, the first one was going down, Due at work at Allison plant § at midnight, Mr. Halberstadt then had to notify five of his riders whom he takes to work that the tires were

flat. All six of the men were an hour late. A neighbor of the Halberstadts, Mrs. Clarence Hedges, said that she had seen someone leaning against the car about 10 p. m. Bhe described him as short, dirty and wearing a cap, dirty sweater and overalls, When she passed the

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RAY NEARLY OUT

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Post-War Planners Demand His Ouster When He

Loawsmaniiig gn Wig ua Harry Ray, city hall politician, today was on the verge of losing another city job. He has ‘relinquished two others already. Mr. "Ray, whose city hall activities have earned for him the nickname of “administration handy man” turned up yesterday as secretary of the Indianapolis post-war planniiig committee, much to the amazemeht of the planners themselves. 4 s Post-war committeemen who had specifically expressed a desire to keep their committee free of political influence, described his ap-~ pointment as “dynamite from a publicity standpoint” and besieged Post-war Chairman C. A, Huff to remove Mr. Ray “as soon as possible.”

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One post-war committeeman said Mr. Huff had replied that “it’s up to committeemen to remove him themselves.” The committee, said the post-war planner, intends to do just that at a subsequent meeting. ‘Mr. Ray is thie city hall politician who, while receiving $216 a month

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should ‘be available to all who serve recommended that this period be six months, “This is a good time not merely to be thinking about the subject, but actually to do something About it,” Mr. Roosevelt told congress. “While ‘ the successful conclusion of this great war is by no means within our sight, yet it may well be sald that the time to prepare for peace is at the height of war.”

Sends Repopt

With the president's message was transmitted a report by the armed forces committee on post-war educational opportunities for service personnel, set up by the president last November. The broad plan worked out by the committee was the basis for Mr. Roosevelt's message and was heartily endorsed by the chief executive, In addition to the one year of free schooling, - Mr, Roosevelt recommended that “a limited number of ex-service men and women selected for their special aptitudes” should be funds to continue their education “for a further period of one, two or three years” He told congress that there might

the program, but that the commit

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U, P.). mended that congress: set up a $1,000,000,000 post-war educational program offering a year's vocational or academic training to ex-service men

FDR Asks Education Program For Service Men After War

~President Roosevelt today recom-

Mr, Roosevelt, in a special message to congress, sald the schooling

a “minimum period” in the armed

NORMANDIE IS NAVY DAY GIFT

Salvage Job Complete, Big Ship Will Sail Again as Troop Transport.

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (U. P) ~~ The $4,500,000 salvage job on the former luxury liner Normandie was completed today and the ship, on an even keel, was turned over to the navy. In brief ceremonies which coincided with the observance of Navy day, Capt. B, E. Manseau, superintendent of salvage, presented the ship to Capt. H. V. McKittrick of the New York navy yard. The ship burned and capsized in her Hudson river pier February 9, 1942, Salvage was begun two months later, under the direction of the bureau of ships and the Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp. Approxi=

to a meeting next Tuesday night “to listen while we talk.” This action was decided upon ab a meeting—a meeting in which several draft board members said they would resign before they would order a father up for induction when they still had non-fathers left ~called by John Ferree, Board § chairman, for a general discussion of the boards’ problems. It was held in the Board 6 office, The meeting with Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, and his aides is scheduled for 8 p. m. Tuesday in Room 939, Knights of Pythias building. '

Approve House Bill

The 25 draft board members who attended last night's meeting agreed that the:bill passed Acrwiy the house of representa 4 ning the induction of fathers until all non-fathers had been oa would do what they wanted . But, they pointed out, it a long way to go before law and until it does members have to act under the placement schedule system virtually permits the ing in conjunction wi headquarters, to fix duction of his eligible em “It is these replacement schede ules that caused all said Mr, Ferree,

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and even if we put him in 1-A the case is carried on up to \presidential appeal board, board always upholds state quarters which agreed to the placement schedule,”

Board Going to Balk

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and cons ive polit of d Sire moved before the ship righted itin the working out of a practical] for the meeting of this tion.” Provide Tuition

The committee’s report proposed that veterans choosing to take advantage of the one-year schooling program be provided with tuition and some living allowances, perhaps $50 a month. for single persons and $75 for married. It proposed that

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LOSS OF SUBMARINE

RUNNER ANNOUNCED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U, P.). ~The navy today announced the loss of the submarine Runner, prein the Pacific. The : . commissioned last ww 14th U. 8. this war, The normal complement was 65 men.

Army Officials May Attend Safety Board - Meetings, Help Solve Vice Control Problems

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